Inexperienced FIFA players and momentum?

I have been noting the Date of every player I have faced in FIFA 20 and the result of the game. The results are in the two tables below. The date of the team relates to when the Fifa profile was started and the continuous years of playing. For example a team date of 2016 …

An Analysis of the best Goal Keepers in FIFA 20

Having played almost 2000 games I have been keeping track of which was the hardest Goal Keepers to score against. The results are below. The best goalkeepers in FIFA I have faced are; Leno (84), Ederson (88), Areola (82) and Van der Sar (89). How can the best Goal Keepers be so low rated. Part …

Are higher rated GK’s better?

Do highly rated Goal Keepers perform better in game? When I played against goalkeepers rated 92 or higher. The same for Goalkeepers less than 92 When Compared for the whole match the higher rated Goalkeepers performed slighlty worse than the lower rated. However this is not at a level which is significant. This is interesting …

Responce regarding more Shots lead leads to fewer shots scored.

Apologies had some health issues. I seem to be on the mend so have time and energy to respond. u/coldspur wrote "It is not clear to me what numbers you used when you calculated the Z-scores. But based on the way your data are presented on your blog, I presume you used the number of shots …

3 – 2 is a dangerous score in FIFA 20

In my previous post I produced a flow chart showing how the game progressed from each score line. https://futingfeefa.com/2020/02/20/does-rubber-banding-exist-in-fifa20/ I noticed something very interesting at 3 -2. The number of goals scored was different depending on the previous results. In the 102 games where the score had been 2 - 2 both teams scored the …

More Shots on Target = fewer of those shots scored in FIFA 20

Anyone who has played FIFA has had one of those games where they pepper the goal and cannot score and the opponent has one or two shots on target and scored them all. I wanted to see if shooting accuracy changes when a player has more shots on target for a sample of 1141 games …

My Latest Youtube video. Showing how momentum works in FIFA 20

https://youtu.be/KJmG6Bct5hA This short video shows how momentum works in FIFA 20. This is from 2 player kick off where I controlled both teams. However this same AI behaviour is in all form of the game. I scored an own goal so the scores are uneven and then just watched what happens when I did nothing... …

Does Rubber banding exist in #FIFA20?

For each game I looked at when the score changed and who scored. I then produced a flow diagram showing the number of games were the score changed. The score is at each stage and underneath in brackets the number of games. The arrows show the number of times the scored changed to the next …

Does bronze benching give a benefit in FIFA 20?

I posted on this almost 2 years ago about bronze benching. https://www.reddit.com/r/FutingFeefa/comments/f5pfpb/bronze_benching_works/ This showed a slight shift downwards for when I used a bronze bench over when I did not. There was an argument that this did not work and that your skill rating / elo is used for match making not the team rank. …

In Fifa 20. Having 0 shots in the first half improves shooting performance in the second half.

I have seen it mentioned that players of FIFA feel the game turns and they can totally dominate one half and be dominated in the second half. For example game 891 in my data set. At half time I had 58% possession. 5 Shots, 3 shots on target and not scored. My opponent had 2 …