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: Are pack weights changed secretly over time?
A hot topic on Reddit recently has been pack weights. The term pack weight refers to the probability of packing a particular
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Fact check: Does EA apply losing streaks on purpose?
Losing streaks are a fact of life as a FIFA player, but are they also part of a sinister plan
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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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Why the better player sometimes loses
It’s an indisputable fact that you sometimes lose a match that you dominated. Our data confirms that in around 8
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Fact check: Do better players lose too often?
A recurring source of complaint in the scripting, handicapping and momentum (SHM) debate is the indisputable fact that you sometimes
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Believing in scripting may derive from a poor understanding of football
Why do people believe in scripting and it’s two buddies, handicapping and momentum? It’s fair to assume that the same
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Handicapping: Doesn’t exist in FUT 17 either
If you ever thought that using informs came with a handicap, this post is going to rock your boat. A
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Fact check: Does FUT have an unnatural amount of even results?
It’s a widespread belief that FUT uses a rubber banding mechanism in online matches, which for some reason has been
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Peer reviewed: Silvio Teixeira’s handicapping article on FIFAUTEAM.com
Now and then, small, home brewed experiments designed to prove scripting or handicapping pop up. We decided to do a small series
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