How important is player condition when selecting the team?

[vdave]

Hi guys,

Im currently in 2020 with Spurs, and am lucky enough to be doing consistently well in the league and three cup competitons, as well as the club world championship. This means that i'm playing 2-3 games per week and I find myself changing quite a few players for every match due to their condition.

What id like to know is whether this is necessary or not. I usually think about changing a player that has a condition around 90% for somebody between 96-100. Perhaps 90% is fine though and it would be better to stick with a more consistent starting 11 for longer? What condition do you usually consider to be too low to start a match?

Cheers for any help

 

[Alcaraz]

I would consider anything below 80 poor and would usually sub the player off,sometimes even when they are below 85,as if there condition is por you cant notice their performance slowly dipping and how they are missing chances more etc.

 

[Irish Scouse]

I usually swap it up if the player has below 80%. Seems to be fine for me.

 

[Eliteg]

I like to have my players at 90%+ in the starting 11. Gving key players a 1 or 2 day rest before a big match keep them fresh and fit and i would recommed this

 

[willow1293]

i always change players with below 90 and swap for anythin 90+

 

[Mike]

I never start a player with less than around 92% initial condition. I also sub a player if he falls below 70%. If I have more than one person with less than that I sub off the least-rated player on the day.

 

[Kriztofa]

Anything below 90 is a big no for me, usually I bring in youth players even if their stats are horrible, if you end up playing players who have a 80% rating it means taking them off early, or if not, ruining their chances of getting fit later on.

 

[Zebedee]

Wouldn't worry too much about 'condition' until it falls below 75% (or whenever you're advised that a player looks exhausted) - that's the time when it starts impacting on how a player performs on the pitch and at some level below that (65%?) it starts to make injuries more likely.

What's perhaps a bit more important is whether a player is reported as being 'tired' (or worse) in his profile. That really plays havoc with how a player will perform, no matter his condition, and that's really when you do need to think about whether you can drop the player until he's less jaded. Resting players before they hit that point (eg in matches earlier in the season) may mean you don't enter the business end of the season with a load of knackered players.

Hope that makes sense.

edit: btw rest has no impact upon 'condition' unless some major changes slipped through in 10.3