We all know that when it comes to scoring goals the most important attribute is shooting and the mental attributes that goes with that are movement and decision.
To prove this I did an experiment, I picked a player, added him to the scrapbook then started a my club save and added him to the team twice.
I didn't go for three different players because I think for the results to be as accurate as possible I needed to consider the hidden attributes and since for now I don't have the tools to do that I went for the same player son I'm sure the attributes are the same. I named the first player "Movement Decision" because I changed both stats to 20. The second player had 20 for pace and movement so I named him "Pace Movement" and the last player "Pace Decision".
I decided to consider pace because I feel it's also important even if sometimes it's overlooked. So I simulated 3 seasons to see who would perform better if all three players had the same finishing attribute.
Result
After 3 seasons Movement Decision played more than the other two players and he scored 62 goals and 14 assists in 115 matches and his goal ratio was 0.54
Pace Decision played 52 times and scored 5 goals with 3 assist having a goal ratio of 0.10
Pace Movement played 80 times and he scored 24 goals with 1 assist and his goal ratio was 0.30.
The best performer is clearly Movement Decision but as much as I wanted to make the results more realistic I have to take into account that the other players were backups so to get everything right I needed to consider goals per minute played but sadly it's impossible.
The question now is what would be the result if you consider the three attributes separately?
This time I named the players "Movement", "Decision" and "Pace" then I simulated 2 seasons and the result was interesting.
Result
In the first season Pace played 19 times and scored 7 goals and his goal ratio was 0.37. On the other hand movement played 30 games and scored 12 goals in the first season with a ratio of 0.40.
So in the first season Pace wasn't that far from movement considering he wasn't the one starting.
In 2 seasons pace played 51 times and scored 20 goals (0.39 goal ratio)
Movement played 69 times and scored 33 goals (0.48 goal ratio)
And finally Decision played 16 times and did not score a single goal.
Conclusion
Movement is unquestionably the most important attribute for a goalscorer after shooting but decision doesn't seem that important as people may think, rather pace stands out more as we can see from the second experiment. All depend also on the role you are playing such players and as said previously these experiments are not 100% accurate so the results may be different if you were to play the game's yourself.
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We all know that when it comes to scoring goals the most important attribute is shooting and the mental attributes that goes with that are movement and decision.
To prove this I did an experiment, I picked a player, added him to the scrapbook then started a my club save and added him to the team twice.
I didn't go for three different players because I think for the results to be as accurate as possible I needed to consider the hidden attributes and since for now I don't have the tools to do that I went for the same player son I'm sure the attributes are the same. I named the first player "Movement Decision" because I changed both stats to 20. The second player had 20 for pace and movement so I named him "Pace Movement" and the last player "Pace Decision".
I decided to consider pace because I feel it's also important even if sometimes it's overlooked. So I simulated 3 seasons to see who would perform better if all three players had the same finishing attribute.
Result
After 3 seasons Movement Decision played more than the other two players and he scored 62 goals and 14 assists in 115 matches and his goal ratio was 0.54
Pace Decision played 52 times and scored 5 goals with 3 assist having a goal ratio of 0.10
Pace Movement played 80 times and he scored 24 goals with 1 assist and his goal ratio was 0.30.
The best performer is clearly Movement Decision but as much as I wanted to make the results more realistic I have to take into account that the other players were backups so to get everything right I needed to consider goals per minute played but sadly it's impossible.
The question now is what would be the result if you consider the three attributes separately?
This time I named the players "Movement", "Decision" and "Pace" then I simulated 2 seasons and the result was interesting.
Result
In the first season Pace played 19 times and scored 7 goals and his goal ratio was 0.37. On the other hand movement played 30 games and scored 12 goals in the first season with a ratio of 0.40.
So in the first season Pace wasn't that far from movement considering he wasn't the one starting.
In 2 seasons pace played 51 times and scored 20 goals (0.39 goal ratio)
Movement played 69 times and scored 33 goals (0.48 goal ratio)
And finally Decision played 16 times and did not score a single goal.
Conclusion
Movement is unquestionably the most important attribute for a goalscorer after shooting but decision doesn't seem that important as people may think, rather pace stands out more as we can see from the second experiment. All depend also on the role you are playing such players and as said previously these experiments are not 100% accurate so the results may be different if you were to play the game's yourself.
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