Re: SWOS 16/17 - The official unofficial Update

Nice, Gorzo. It was fun looking through the national teams

On a side note: your Croatia is a bit drunk

P.S. Probably would ve been better to do this after EURO when the exact teams could be known

P.P.S. Some older players really suffering because of their lower price which translates to lower skill in SWOS.

I have just googled up a nice statistic of how player values change with age, just for fun
It seems prices peak at about 26-27 on average and start dropping for players under 23 and over 30.

So for example in Gorzo s national teams file Buffon is worth 1M, while Sirigu on the bench is worth 2M.
So it seems strange that Sirigu s on the bench.
But if we account for the price drop with age, it would seem 38yo Buffon is at least 4 or 5 times the player Sirigu is!

Also in Spanish national team Casillas is worth 1,3M while De Gea on the bench is worth 5M - talk about strange decisions!
However, seeing Casillas is 10 years older, with adjusted price he comes to being just around 20% better than De Gea.

Interesting

Thx Sida In determing the players I looked at the minutes on the pitch in qualifiyng for Euro 2016 what about Spain or Italy do not look at it because these are my old prices someone else update other teams

someone else update other teams

Sorry, I phrased that sentence wrong

On a side note, I ve found a way to additionally randomize the skills of unknown midfielders. Since transfermarkt counts how many times they played each position, for example if they played 60% of the time as an AM and 40% as DM I use that info to slightly boost their AM and cut their DM skills (starting from middle ground ). Along with other factors, makes for lots of combinations!

Of course, but I wasn t talking about their prime... nor was I suggesting we abandon the price scheme.

The issue is that in real life price represents both skill and age while in SWOS it only represents skill, since SWOS players don t age.
It s only an issue in SWOS since there are great and cheap old players in all games where players age.
If I remember the players you named were still decent in SWOS, so the price probably reflects their post-serious-career skills

I m sticking to the rules for this update, but I ve seen that issue many times when I would do croatian league updates every year.
When a once-top player retires to such a weak league, he s often godlike in comparison to other players.
IRL his price will be the same as of his teammates or even much lower, simply because for players in their prime their price reflects skill, while for 35 year olds price represents but a fraction of their skill so in SWOS you may be forced to turn what is a really bad team with one quite decent player into a really bad team with one player that s even worse than the rest.