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Comparing Traits of the top ten goalscorers last season - ReadySalted - 2026-02-20
Morning All
No Face here again with a bit of a more boring but potentially useful article here... We all know that Paccell is where the money is alongside other stats but traits are one of the last few bits of the engine we don't seem to be 100% on
So just for context everyone starts with 2 traits and you can buy a total of 5 extra traits to have 7 traits in total, each trait costs 3 Million and the general consesus is that buying the seasonal 18 TPE is far more important each season (I'm fully in this camp) so the majority of players will have 2 or 3 traits throughout their careers, however the players that do go mad money wise have between 5-7 traits so it will be intresting to see what correlations we can find, however I feel like anyone with 7 traits is going to get a little bit freaky deaky after 4 or 5 traits, I'm expecting things like takes long distance free kicks etc.
Now for those who are slighty newer the general meta in standard FM is PI (player instructions) to get every player behave how you want however these are banned in the SSL and the instructions are based off of the role they are given (For example a no nonsence CB will stay back at all times because of their role, but we can't choose to make a Ball Playing Defender to stay back)
One of the main ways we are able to mitigate this is by traits, certain traits line up with play instructions (Moves into channels ect) so I thought it would be intresting to check my position (Striker) to see what traits are the most dominate between the top scorers
Now I do fully understand this will be correlation instead of causeation but should be fun regardless
Before I check (You're just gonna have to take my word on this) I feel the top 2 traits will be
1) Places Shots - I'll be honest I haven't done any testing on this but my understanding is that this trait is pretty cracked for Strikers
2) Beats Offside Trap - The whole league plays an incredibly high line I don't know about you but I'm tryna beat offside traps
Now lets look at the top scorers from last season
1) Julian Rubio - USP - 26 Goals in 22 Apps
Likes To Try To Beat Offside Trap
Likes To Round Keeper
2) Mikko Rashford II - Reky - 24 Goals in 22 Apps
Gets Forward Whenever Possible
Places Shots
3) Predrag Dobric - Romana - 21 Goals in 22 Apps
Gets Forward Whenever Possible
Likes To Try To Beat Offside Trap
Moves Into Channels
Hits Free Kicks With Power
Places Shots
Tries Long Range Free Kicks
Curls Ball
4) Pete Martell - Hollywood - 19 Goals in 22 Apps
Dictates Tempo
Shoots With Power
5) Tre Qartista - Reky (Catalyuna last season?) - 17 Goals in 22 Apps
Likes To Try To Beat Offside Trap
Moves Into Channels
Plays One-Twos
Places Shots
Tries Tricks
6) Carolien Miedema - Liffeyside - 16 Goals in 22 Apps
Gets Forward Whenever Possible
Moves Into Channels
Places Shots
7) Sterling Scott - CABA - 15 Goals in 22 Apps
Hits Free Kicks With Power
Likes To Round Keeper
Places Shots
Shoots From Distance
Tries First Time Shots
Tries Long Range Free Kicks
Curls Ball
8) Thomas Hohenhahn - Shanghai - 14 Goals in 22 Apps
Gets Forward Whenever Possible
Gets Into Opposition Area
Likes To Try To Beat Offside Trap
Attempts Overhead Kicks
Shoots With Power
Tries First Time Shots
9) Juozas Kupinas - Hollywood (Kaapstad last season?) - 14 Goals in 22 Apps
Gets Forward Whenever Possible
Gets Into Opposition Area
Places Shots
10) George Shaheen- Liffeyside - 14 Goals in 22 Apps
Gets Forward Whenever Possible
Curls Ball
Honestly this was a bigger spread than I expected, before totalling these up I'm not actually sure what will come out on top, but I think my guesses should be pretty close to the top, now lets tally these all up
Likes To Try To Beat Offside Trap - 4 players
Likes To Round Keeper - 2 players
Gets Forward Whenever Possible - 6 Players
Places Shots - 6 Players
Moves Into Channel - 3 Players
Hits Free Kicks With Power - 2 Players
Tries Long Range Free Kicks - 2 Players
Curls Ball - 3 Players
Dictates Tempo - 1 Player
Shoots With Power - 2 Players
Plays One-Twos - 1 Player
Tries Tricks - 1 Player
Shoots From Distance - 1 Player
Tries First Time Shots - 2 Players
Gets Into Opposition Area - 2 Players
Attempts Overhead Kicks - 1 Player
So from this date we can conclude Gets Forward Whenever Possible and Places Shots seems to be the key traits to get those goals, with Likes To Try To Beat Offside Trap a solid 3rd choice, it seems after that it gets into dealers choice and tough to find too strong of a correlation
Annoyingly enough I'm missing one of the 3 key traits, if only I had an article coming in to fund another one.......
Until next time <3