Player Levels.

### **Overview**

   Every player is rated through the game assigning them a Player Level (PL). This PL has a number of effects within the game — it affects their base market price and their contract demands.

What PL does not do is impact how a player actually performs. How they perform is down to their skills and attributes, not their PL. The PL is really just a measure of how good the rugby world views the player, and how good the player views himself.

### **Calculating Player Level**

The game will determine a player’s PL for every position group and the player’s actual PL will be equal to the highest position group PL. This position group will become the player’s best position (which can be seen on the squad and player screens),. The position groups the game uses are: Goalkeeper, Fullback, Centre Back, Wide Midfielder, Center Midfielder, Winger, and Striker.

To work out a position group PL the game will add together all attributes and skills of the player and take an average. Each position group weighs the attributes and skills differently, by sorting them into category groups, with the attributes and skill having a multiplier applied depending on the category they fall within. The category modifiers are as follows:

* **Cat 1**: x20
* **Cat 2**: x10
* **Cat 3**: x5
* **Cat 4**: x1

e.g. The Center Back positional group has the Marking and Positioning skills in category 1. That means these will be multiplied by 20 and then added to the total, before the position group average is calculated.

Category 1 always contains two skills.

Category 2 always contains two skills and one physical attribute

Category 3 will always contain six skills (these can repeat, or even by the same as skills in cat 1 or 2), one physcial attribute and one mental attribute.

Category 4 will contain all the physcial and mental attributes that are not in category 1 through 3, excluding Leadership.

#### **Height**

Height can be found in some of the position group categories. These are converted to an approximated skill level based on the position. For example, if height is important for a position, a high height will convert to a high level, and a low height will convert to a low level, no lower than level 15.

### **Best Position**

The best position a player is assigned is based upon which position group generates the highest PL. The best position is an indication as to which position the game thinks they are most suited too. However, you may well want a player to play in a position with different skills and attributes than the best position is based upon, depending on your tactics and how you want your team to operate. Best position is just a suggestion, rather than a hard rule, and your squad situation may well mean that a better player with a different best position may be the best player to play in a position

e.g. suppose your best Centre Back has a PL of 20, but you have a Central Midfielder with a PL of 30. Perhaps that central midfielder might make a more effective centre back for your team — you would have to look at the skills and attributes of the central midfielder to see if they could cut it as a centere back, so would need to see what their marking and positioning skills were like, as well as an y otyther skills and attributes that may be relevant, like Tackling, Juimping,. Stength and so on, to make a decision on it. If you click on the best position it will bring up a list of all the position types with the player's PL in each of them, and this can be a quick way of seeing how well suited a player may be to a position that is not their best position.

So don’t get too blinded by a player’s best position. It is a good indication of where to play them, but it may be better to play some players out of their best position.

#### **Category Groups**

Below are the position groups and which skills and attributes are included in that group's categories: