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Once upon a time, I did an analysis of how TPE is spent by outfielders in the SSL in the aggregate: Market Prices for Pace and Acceleration. There was too much data to keep things down to normal article length, so I mostly tried to keep my focus to Pace and Acceleration, and ended up recommending the league switch to having the most spent-on attributes cost more TPE to improve.
It's finally time to go back to that and answer a couple more questions. The general question we focus on here is this: how to strikers spend differently?
I picked strikers because it's a position almost all teams use, and one that intuitively should be skewed toward spending on a narrow range of offensive attributes, possibly more so than any other offensive position.
Let's start with the one everyone and their dog sees coming:
Strikers spend 2.66 times as much TPE on Finishing than outfielders at large.
Your job is ball in net. It makes sense strikers spend more on their core function.
Strikers spend 2.92 times as much TPE on Penalty Taking than outfielders at large.
Again, fairly intuitive. If a penalty happens, what position is always, always, always, up for consideration to take it? Striker.
Strikers spend 1.81 times as much TPE on Headers than outfielders at large.
The aerial game is intuitively about those trying to get the ball in the net from up close and those trying to defend against them doing so. It would not surprise me much to see center defenders being the position with the next-most heading.
Strikers spend 1.76 times as much TPE on Off the Ball than outfielders at large.
This one's a little more interesting. Getting open is about doing the shifty things. It's a little interesting that Off the Ball should be very nearly as much a Striker thing as Headers.
Corners, Crossing, Tackling, Marking? All 0.2 times or less of what outfielders spend.
Strikers spend on Pace exactly as much as other outfielders, though they put a tiny fraction more into Acceleration (1.02).
Composure is mildly a Striker thing (1.32x), while Positioning is somewhat surprisingly not (0.29x).
From the previous article, making Paccel more expensive would seemingly not have any disproportionate effect on Strikers (though it's possible they'd benefit from Penalty Taking and Headers getting cheaper).
Next step, for the eventual third article in this series: making a pivot table to compare all positions at a glance.
It's finally time to go back to that and answer a couple more questions. The general question we focus on here is this: how to strikers spend differently?
I picked strikers because it's a position almost all teams use, and one that intuitively should be skewed toward spending on a narrow range of offensive attributes, possibly more so than any other offensive position.
Let's start with the one everyone and their dog sees coming:
Strikers spend 2.66 times as much TPE on Finishing than outfielders at large.
Your job is ball in net. It makes sense strikers spend more on their core function.
Strikers spend 2.92 times as much TPE on Penalty Taking than outfielders at large.
Again, fairly intuitive. If a penalty happens, what position is always, always, always, up for consideration to take it? Striker.
Strikers spend 1.81 times as much TPE on Headers than outfielders at large.
The aerial game is intuitively about those trying to get the ball in the net from up close and those trying to defend against them doing so. It would not surprise me much to see center defenders being the position with the next-most heading.
Strikers spend 1.76 times as much TPE on Off the Ball than outfielders at large.
This one's a little more interesting. Getting open is about doing the shifty things. It's a little interesting that Off the Ball should be very nearly as much a Striker thing as Headers.
Corners, Crossing, Tackling, Marking? All 0.2 times or less of what outfielders spend.
Strikers spend on Pace exactly as much as other outfielders, though they put a tiny fraction more into Acceleration (1.02).
Composure is mildly a Striker thing (1.32x), while Positioning is somewhat surprisingly not (0.29x).
From the previous article, making Paccel more expensive would seemingly not have any disproportionate effect on Strikers (though it's possible they'd benefit from Penalty Taking and Headers getting cheaper).
Next step, for the eventual third article in this series: making a pivot table to compare all positions at a glance.
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