Substitutions in Player Career Mode
My favourite mode in the game is player career so I always set up a save as myself. I created a new save and played right through until January. Only once or twice I was subbed out of the game – the majority of the time I played the full 90 minutes. I got a bit bored with this save as I was already on 30 league goals and 10 Champions League goals (playing for Celtic, by the way, so that's incredibly unrealistic) and I didn't like how easy it had become.
I decided to go for a fresh start so I created a new save with the same player at the same team and played. In my first four league games I get substituted out before the 60th minute. I had this problem on FIFA 16 and it's incredibly frustrating. My stamina is 84 so it's not really like I need to improve that and I've scored in every game. The worst part of it is I keep getting taken off for a striker lower rated than me and with lower stamina, and he hasn't scored or assisted once. Tomorrow I'm going to make a test save to see what happens on that one.
Anyone else experiencing this?
I decided to go for a fresh start so I created a new save with the same player at the same team and played. In my first four league games I get substituted out before the 60th minute. I had this problem on FIFA 16 and it's incredibly frustrating. My stamina is 84 so it's not really like I need to improve that and I've scored in every game. The worst part of it is I keep getting taken off for a striker lower rated than me and with lower stamina, and he hasn't scored or assisted once. Tomorrow I'm going to make a test save to see what happens on that one.
Anyone else experiencing this?
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I did give it a bit of thought and it first played it down to the ratings. In my first save, my player was 75 rated by the time the pre-season tournament was over, which meant he was the joint highest rated striker at the club. Celtic play a 4-4-2 and I noticed that around the 60th/70th minute mark, Griffiths (the other striker) would make way for the lower rated Dembélé or Çiftçi while my player would continue for the rest of the game.
In my latest save, my player was 72 rated by the end of pre-season, meaning he was third highest rated striker in the team. Going by the first save I didn't expect my player to be taken off 4 games in a row, but when I saw him walk off I expected Dembélé (73 OVR) to replace him. However, in 3 of the 4 games I've played it's been Çiftçi (71 OVR) who's come on instead of Dembélé (73 OVR), which really doesn't make sense to me.
- if your stamina gets low
- if your rating is lower than others in the team
- early in your career for EVERY important match (cup, CL). You might not even get picked at times
- every second game as an international (when you even get picked)
I never get to see my stamina in game but I have 84 stamina and I don't think I'd be all that low after 50/60 minutes.
I'm higher rated than one of the strikers on the bench and the same rating as the other on the bench. The striker that plays up front with me is the highest rated in the team.
I've only played league games so far.
In the first league game I tried my best and managed to reach a 9.3 rating. I didn't get substituted. In his game, however, Griffiths (my striker partner, 75 OVR) got taken off. In the second game I tried to play poor/average and got a 7.2 rating. Again, I didn't get substituted.
In the UCL game I got to a 6.9 rating and got substituted off in the 55th minute for Çiftçi (71 OVR).
Your points are obviously right, SACanuckinOz. I'm higher rated than all but one of the strikers in the team and don't get substituted in the league but do in the UCL, which would constitute an important game.
I'll now start from where I left off in the career and see if the same thing still stands. Thanks for your help!