Ability VS Attributes - confused!?

[funkcanna]

Hi All,

So over the years I have often wondered about this - what is more important CA (lets forget PA for the moment) or attributes?

Lets say we have 2 players and for arguments sake they are as follows:

PLAYER A - ALL attributes are 10 but he has a CA of 170
PLAYER B - ALL attributes are 20 but he has a CA of 100

Which one would be better? Lets say I am buying one of them so I dont know how they play and my scouts are all asleep. So all I have to base my decision on is the above. Who can make a better impact?

I often wondered about this relationship. Previously I have ignored the attributes and picked people with higher CA for my teams but I dont think this is the right way to do it, I mean the attributes MUST have an impact right?

Does anyone know anything about the relationship (or lack of) between CA and attributes?

 

[Raikan007]

stats talk and CA walks, that has been my philosophy for years now!

 

[funkcanna]

Hi Raikan - so you would choose player B?

 

[Raikan007]

yes I would! the game operates on stats through the game engine so CA does not really help much however having a CA of 170 should mean that the player should have good-great stats on most of his important area's for his position if you know what I mean?

but as I said, stats talk and CA/PA walk when it comes down to match day!

 

[Boozad]

I always go by stats, CA has **** all bearing on how a player will perform game to game, it's just an indicator of his level as a player relative to the level he could end up at. If you're signing a player to go straight into your first team, go by stats every time.

 

[funkcanna]

Great, thanks guys