The Hand of God

Recently I started loaning out a few youths and did notice an improvement in stats, as a result we've reached a tentative agreement with Zubin's Zee FC to cover his subs bench with kids. They should gain experience and rep I get a second opinion on the kids and we'll come to a first refusal policy on sales and he gets some free subs.

In the meantime I'm now faced with another dilemma... I've been bringing on Montero as a sub so far this season and he's been an handful for the opposition. Handed him a full debut the other day and a hat trick followed. Thiago was suspended for a Premier League game and Heffernan started and is now getting a goal a game.

I know these players so well I would swear that Marchiso and Thiago could leave the club and be replaced with these two kids. I know from bitter memory though the likely course of events that will follow.

The match engine is great and it generally works as you'd expect it to except when you have BF. I have long speculated on what starts BF and why does it end. The other day in a forum post Ackter posted that when his team got to a certain rank they seemed to hit BF.

It sounds ridiculous and was met with a measure of disgust by many on the forums. Those defending the game or the match engine always have the killer point, 'good form bad form / hactics tactics the bottom line is that overall the teams with the best players are at the top'.

Case closed you'd think, that's a killer argument. Hang on a sec though, you mean to say that no one has ever managed to assemble of squad of great unknown players perfectly balanced and with great tactics.

Isn't this a bit odd? Is it possible that whilst you can get great runs of form and runs of bad form that maybe the game gently nudges the occurrences of form so that your kept in line with the rank that you should be. I've checked GW6 pretty much the top 6 have more high Rep players than the rest.

From experience my rank has almost tied in exactly with swings in the number of high rep players I have.