How It's Calculated
The engine keeps no secrets. This is everything it counts, from your first steal to the last headline.
The overall rating
Six numeric attributes go in, weighted for your role — shooting rules a striker's card, defending a defender's, passing a midfielder's. Skill moves and weak foot sprinkle up to roughly three bonus points on top. What comes out is your ceiling: the young player begins some 17–20 points beneath it and climbs toward it year after year.
Change the role and the identical eight steals tell a different story — a 90+ card in one position can shrink to the mid-80s in another. In this game, the draft and the role are one decision, not two.
Leagues push back
Each year the engine measures your rating against your league's strength, and that gap writes the season: appearances, goals and assists (all scaled by role), plus a season rating between roughly 5.8 and 9.4. Thirty goals in a soft division impress nobody upstairs — difficulty is priced into everything.
Your club's finish blends squad quality with your personal year: one huge season can drag an ordinary side into a title race. Only top-flight championships count as real crowns, and continental trophies realistically follow only the champions of strong leagues.
Age, growth, price tag
The age curve runs hot before 21, steady to 26, flat to 29, then bends downward — sharply after 33. Big seasons speed your growth; bad ones drag it. Market value multiplies the rating curve by youth: an 85-rated kid of 24 costs several times an 85-rated veteran of 32. The story closes by 38 at the very latest, sooner if the level falls away.
The legacy score
Retirement folds everything into a single legacy score — goals, assists, appearances, caps, league crowns, continental trophies, World Cups and Ballon d'Ors, with the rarest honours weighing most. Fixed thresholds on that score map to the tiers: Peladeiro, Profissional, Craque, Estrela Mundial, Lenda, and at the summit O FENÔMENO — which also demands multiple Ballon d'Ors, because one golden season has never made a fenômeno.