The Rating Engine
Every grade this game hands out is the output of systems you can reason about. This page opens the hood.
From eight picks to one ceiling
The six numeric attributes on your drafted card are combined through position-specific weights: a striker's formula leans hardest on shooting, a centre-back's on defending, a central midfielder's on passing, and so on across all eight positions. Skill moves and weak foot sit outside the weighted core and contribute a capped bonus worth a few points at most. The output is your overall β a ceiling, not a starting value, since your rookie begins well below it and spends the career converging toward it.
This is why identical draft picks produce different ceilings under different position declarations. The declaration is effectively your first pick: it decides which columns of the legend database are worth anything to you at all.
The league coefficient
Each of the 59 modelled leagues carries a strength value, and every simulated season starts by comparing your current rating against it. That comparison generates the season line: appearances, goals and assists scaled by position, plus an average match rating. A rating that towers over its league produces monster statistics; the same rating in a top competition produces honest, human numbers β the engine deliberately prices the difficulty of the environment into every stat it prints.
Team outcomes blend squad quality with your individual contribution, so a spectacular personal season can drag an ordinary club up the table. But the honours system applies a filter: championships only register as legacy-relevant when won in top-tier competitions, and continental silverware realistically flows only from champions of strong leagues.
The age curve
Development follows a fixed arc β rapid gains into the early twenties, steady progress to the mid-twenties, a plateau toward thirty, then accelerating decline after the early thirties, with strong or weak seasons nudging the rate in either direction. Market value multiplies current rating by an age discount, which is why a rising 24-year-old commands several times the fee of a declining veteran at the same number, and the engine forces retirement by 38 at the latest.
The legacy score
The final audit folds the entire career into one number: cumulative output, international caps, domestic titles, continental trophies, World Cups and Ballon d'Ors, each multiplied by rarity weights that make the top honours dominate the sum. Six fixed thresholds on that score produce the verdict β Prospect, Squad Regular, Fan Favourite, Elite, Icon, THE PHENOMENON β and the highest grade carries an extra gate of multiple Ballon d'Or wins, because a single golden year has never been enough to define an era.