Scripting, handicapping and momentum: Myth or fact?
It’s a widespread belief among FIFA players that EA secretly manipulates our matches. But is this pure imagination or is
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Fact check: Are players with a new account helped by handicapping?
Arlington69’s latest article claims to deliver evidence of patterns “consistent with momentum favouring inexperienced players”. In this article, we check
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Fact check: Do high rated keepers perform worse than low rated keepers?
Our good friend Arlington69 has published yet another statistic. This time, he claims to have evidence that high rated keepers
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Fact check: 45th / 90th minute momentum
All FIFA players recognize the frustration of conceding goals in the 45th and 90th minute. But do EA actually script
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More evidence that the 2-0 momentum is a myth?
In a recent Reddit post, redditor TapeTen presents evidence allegedly rejecting artificial momentum swings at 2-0. Although the post is
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Fact check: Does the game create momentum swings around 3-2?
Arlington69 has written yet another post here he claim to have evidence supporting the presence of a momentum feature. The
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Fact check: Does having more shots on target reduce your chance of scoring?
A new FUT-blog has seen daylight: Under the strange name of futingfeefa.com, an old “aquaintance”, Arlington69, is looking for “proof”
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Factcheck: Does lower rated squads play more aggressively?
A Reddit user called Dennisisspiderman recently claimed that AI-controlled players act more aggressively against superior squads. The claim, if true,
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Fact check: Does FIFA create passing accuracy swings in your matches?
Arlington69 has come up with yet another alleged piece of evidence with relation to momentum. In his latest post, he
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Fact check: Does a Reddit post prove that a 2-0 lead in the first 10 mins is particularly dangerous?
In a new post, Arlington69 claims to have evidence “possibly suggesting” that FIFA has build in game mechanics making it
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Peer reviewed: Arlington69’s momentum experiments
In recent weeks, we have reviewed a series of articles written by a user called Arlington69 on Reddit. In this article,
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