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Originally posted by Brend:
Certain PPMs are better-suited than others to certain styles of play. I like my wingers to cut inside, especially if they're somewhat good with their weaker foot, so "Cuts Inside" goes quite well with my play style. I also like the central midfielders to play short-mixed passing, so the PPM for preferring to make short passes also fits in well. As for "Shoots Long" I've found it's more of a hassle than anything else-- no one below 15 or 16 in Long Shots should really be trying to tee up a shot from outside the box, so when you have players with <10 Long Shots that have that PPM, it's never a good thing.
Certain PPMs will make a player more likely to try to dribble past a player-- runs down left/middle/right, and "Tries Tricks" generally result in players making more runs.
<BLOCKQUOTE>There's some I steer clear of (dwells on ball, of course), but I generally don't find they make a huge amount of difference.
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I'm fairly sure that of the two similar PPMs, "Stops Play" and "Dwells on Ball," the former is the more negative one, while the latter is the more positive one you might expect to find in a playmaker. I'd definitely steer clear of "Stops Play" though. </BLOCKQUOTE>
Generally I seem to find that defenders are more likely to have 'dwells on ball', which I really *don't* want. I always assumed that 'stops play' would be a case of your creative midfielder putting his foot on the ball, looking up, and spotting a killer pass, whereas 'dwells on ball' would be somebody not offloading it quickly due to indecision.
I could be wrong of course.
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