Re: Synchronated Updates

I did some templates which I think are pretty good and would give the right amount of focus to the 3 best attributes (which are of course displayed in SWOS). Sheet attached (this is not finished or anything but I think these give pretty good player attributes when allied to the 1-7 attributes in testing).

Bear in mind that
0 = 8
1 = 9
2 = 10
3 = 11
4 = 12
5 = 13
6 = 14
7 = 15

I have added 8 to the three prominent attributes so that players will be searchable by them in SWOS (it remains to be seen whether values over 7 can be imported into SWOS automatically anyway).

These can be changed at any time before the actual import into SWOS so there s nothing urgent about them.
Changing the reputation to be the number of SWOS points is an excellent idea and removes my main reservation about the previous method (ie that some values weren t possible).

However I have some proposal - maybe weakest players should have less values from 8-15, e.g. players worth 1M or less will have two such attributes, and so on, and best players could have even 6 these attributes (in original SWOS, George Weah has: 15 15 15 7 15 15 15.

Yeah maybe, would just require a little change to the templates.

Don t want to give Messi a 15 for heading though. So maybe not six of them!

He doesn t want maxed out tackling either really... if anything his heading is better than his defensive/tackling quality (witness: Champions League final 2009).
At the moment and on all my recent updates he s been RW and 7 7 7 6 7 7 7 or 7 7 7 6 15 15 15. Where the 6 is tackling.
He is always RW so he displays SCP or something very similar, no H.
I think £15m is a fair price really. I think only he, Ronaldo and Xavi will be 5-star players by the looks of it at the moment.
It s pretty moot, as no matter what you do SWOS attribute system isn t very useful for the very top players - they all have to be great at everything pretty much.
I d be all for having Messi be the only five-star player at £12m (7766777) and Ronaldo and Xavi be £10m.

Have you seen Rooney or Torres this season?
Ciaran Clark and Seamus Coleman have more league goals than Rooney, and all but one of his were penalties.
Those players (apart from perhaps Iniesta) are really nowhere near the level of Messi or Ronaldo with any consistency.
I m not sure there were more than 3 or 4 5-star players in the original SWOS (94-95).

The problem with elevating lots of 4.5-star players to 5-star is that you then have to elevate lots of 4-star players to 4.5-stars and so forth. And then there are far too many players with what are essentially perfect attributes. Like there were in my old updates.

I ideally would like to follow the balancing of Sensible Software and approximately equal the numbers of great players in the original 94-95 DB so I d be interested to see that data if anyone has it.
Any adjustment in this regard could be applied right across all the reputation values, so the DB is also flexible in that regard.

It has to be balanced to old SWOS and old values, yes. That s why Messi is £15m standard and not Michael Carrick
Values have risen so much that the game is a farce if you use current values.
I will have a look at 94-95 data later!