Recent content by doctornowt

How about Peter Crouch, I know a lot of people don't like him, but setting aside our prejudices for a minute, surely his technique and passing stats should be better?

I picked Yashin up as a free agent, and he's been top class for me. There was also a guy called Wolf who I tried (and failed) to sign, his stats looked pretty good.

Prosinecki is in, he's in the shop. What about jimmy Greaves, I thought he was a pretty glaring omission from the classic England squad.

It varies a bit from player to player, but most of the legends I've signed (I've got Pele, Zico, Zidane, Platini, Garrincha, Rivelino and Michael Laudrup) seem to get up to the 80s mark at around 19/20, some do it a bit faster some a bit slower. You might have a bit of a problem on your other...

I've just won it this season, I think the most likely way of winning it is with a centre forward who has a good season and scores a lot of goals. Seeing as goalscoring appears to be the major driving force behind the player ratings.

Sorry, completely missed the point there didn't I!

The thicker green bar at the top is to show how much "energy" your player will start the game with (there is an option in the game settings to turn it on during the match so you can keep an eye on a players energy level's as the game progresses), if this energy bar gets down to the bottom during...

There a type of growth curve in the game called "early peak", so I would assume that a player with that growth curve would develop to his peak early on then decline for the rest of his career. So I guess it is possible that you may have been unlucky enough to buy such a player. I have read...

I'm finding that really frustrating as well, it seems that the ratings system only rewards scoring goals ad getting assists, which is fine for the strikers and midfielders, but really its only reflecting half of football. Cos its equally important not to concede goals as it is to score them.

Looks like thats the way I'll have to go if I want a top class keeper. Its a shame though, I hope they improve the ratings/development system for the next one.

Looks like thats the way I'll have to go if I want a top class keeper. Its a shame though, I hope they improve the ratings/development system for the next one.

Hmm sounds like I might be on to a loser with young Yashin, although he has played pretty well. Maybe If I look at one aged around 27-28 with the stats already pretty well developed, he might last 6-7 seasons at a high level. I think that player rating thing needs looking at for the next...

On player development curves, when a player gets to 95 for any given ability category, he then seems to have to get a much higher match rating in order to get the development points for that category at the end of a match. Which brings me to the issue of goalkeepers, I've got to the point now...