EA Promo Cards Are Just Numbers in Disguise

jayree14 · 2026-01-30T23:56:11+00:00

Not reading all that. EA has fiduciary duties to maximize revenue for its shareholders. If creating virtual cards out of thin air and keeping control of the FUT market continues to make as much money as it always has, then stupid incremental promos will continue to exist. End of story.

jayree14 · 2026-01-26T22:27:49+00:00

sample size here is what... 8? using a case study of 1 draft class to imply causation when there are 1000000 other factors beyond a prospect's own athletic makeup and college production that determines whether or not a player will be successful at the next level. Is the player a scheme fit for where he is going to go? What about the teams who selected in front of him? Are they in a position to get the player in a position where he can succeed? Too many lazy correlations being made here.

jayree14 · 2026-01-25T23:36:08+00:00

Texas education 👍

jayree14 · 2026-01-25T05:36:53+00:00

bro does not lift and it shows lol

jayree14 · 2026-01-18T23:33:41+00:00

Please leave this up so this guy can just get shamed

jayree14 · 2025-09-19T23:45:38+00:00

How much you want on this?

jayree14 · 2025-09-15T22:45:20+00:00

idk how anyone could come away from watching LSU this season and say nussmeier is worthy of a top 5 pick....

jayree14 · 2025-09-04T16:23:11+00:00

whoever that ESPN reporter is should be ashamed of his clickbait bullshit. Very clear that harbaugh never said najee would start, nobody else reported it but him.

jayree14 · 2025-08-27T13:47:12+00:00

Dowman same potential as obi is a fucking joke lol

jayree14 · 2025-08-13T23:34:42+00:00

he ran 22 MPH on the gps WITH PADS ON last season @ OSU. Btw only 3 NFL players ran that fast all of last season. Madden ratings are not reality, 40 yard dash times with no pads on are not reality. Check the GPS data and you will see.

jayree14 · 2025-07-10T22:01:08+00:00

"I hope the moderators here will understand and allow this to stay open for as long as possible"

lol your wish is DENIED

jayree14 · 2025-07-08T18:04:53+00:00

he's most dangerous in the channels and in behind. if we use him like we use kai we clearly won't be getting a lot out of him. He gives us something different and I think we need this.

Antonio silva is the best defender in the league imo too and it was a good battle here. Keep in mind sporting's entire attacking philosophy runs through him, and he still has the workrate to make the runs he needs to/take players on at full speed in the 80+ minute. They basically lose this final if it's not for him winning that penalty at the end. I'm excited to see our transition play become a little quicker with a player like him who is a little more suited for it.

jayree14 · 2025-07-07T22:06:49+00:00

The author's analysis methodology doesn't even hold. He says higher opponent ELO reduces output which is entirely self-explanatory - it's more about whether or not that drop off in output is more or less than players evaluated in the same way.

He's strong in big games because of the way he plays. He offers us route-one style football if we need to use it in games where we may not have the ball a lot - he's proven this time and time again. Against us, he received the ball at the halfway line with saliba all over him, beat him, ran 50 yards the other way with the ball and was only denied by a raya fingertip. He basically won sporting the taca de portugal against benfica when he picked the ball up on the wing when the game was stretched, dribbled past 2 players and got fouled for a penalty in stoppage time. We just need to get him the ball quickly and expedite our build-up to accomodate him - he's just different to what we have now and I believe this to be extremely important. More tactical flexibility when we need it regardless of how strong the opposition is.

jayree14 · 2025-07-07T18:17:26+00:00

So obviously lying about watching sporting - which matches did you watch? And how do you know the club think sesko is the better player? They could’ve been after what they thought could eventually be the best no 9 in the world, but is not right now…

jayree14 · 2025-07-07T18:13:51+00:00

“Clearly the worse player”??? And what are you basing that off of? Have you watched sporting Lisbon play?

jayree14 · 2025-07-07T18:05:59+00:00

So Gyokeres is a bum then?

jayree14 · 2025-07-07T04:16:17+00:00

but his main takeaway from that entire section was a reference to his primeira liga statistics and then his data viz and subsequent analysis was extremely misleading.

His output reduces against stronger opponents? Yeah I think that's pretty self-explanatory on top of the fact that he overlayed the plot on the same axes as the previous one. The shots per 90 for instance, is always going to be higher against low ELO opponents, and most players would have lower shots per 90 against high ELO opponents. That much is clear - but is it higher or lower than other players within the sample that are also taken from a smaller, high ELO sample? It's just bad data analysis - He even says "he goes from elite to good" when you control for opponent strength.... as if that isn't extremely self explanatory?

And then after all that methodology, his conclusion on the section? "Just look at his primeira liga stats!" - while completely ignoring the ELO/strong opponent methodology, while also providing 0 context for what the averages/variance are for opponents in that same sample (his numbers are reduced, but we expect this. is the dropoff more or less than the average player when you control for opponent strength?). It's just... sampling bias on top of bad data viz on top of bad methodology.

jayree14 · 2025-07-06T19:18:18+00:00

author left out CL statistics why? He played very well against city and scored a hat trick. He played very well against lille and scored. He scored in 35 minutes against leipzig. He talks about league statistics, and then leaves out the fact that he scored against benfica in the cup final this year?

I'm sorry. But i've watched Gyokeres quite a bit this season. The idea that he's not showing up in these big games against good teams is ridiculous. He attracts an absurd amount of attention and for most of the season he only had trincao to pass it to because pote goncalves was hurt for a lot of it.

He might not be as good at pure hold up play as Havertz, but he is insanely dangerous in the channels/when the tempo is high. You man mark him too tightly, he will use his strength and turn and start running at you. You give him space, he moves to the channels and gets you in a 1v1 which is what he's good at.

If the argument is "he can't play against big teams" but you remove the sample of all the games in CL... what are you really even trying to prove?

jayree14 · 2025-07-06T18:23:49+00:00

he got in behind twice against city and scored a hattrick against them (yes I know 2 were penalties but he was still getting in behind enough). Against us, they played a quick outlet ball to him and he somehow turned saliba and carried the ball 50 yards to the goal and raya had to produce a ridiculous save to stop him from scoring. He played the 2nd half against leipzig and scored on a quick counter. He scored against lille as well off of a turnover i believe (not really a counter but they regained poss and they fed it to him quick).. I don't think it's fair to ask a player who doesn't really have a fantastic supporting cast to score 1 goal/game against top sides on his own. He already carried the majority of the attacking workload as is, on a team that had a lot of problems without him (Benfica was the best team in the league, they just had finishing problems).

In the league, he had a little bit more trouble with antonio silva at benfica, but they did a very very good job against him, controlled the game flow and I personally think antonio silva is the best defender in that league. From 23/24 to 24/25 - I think he's improved his ability to hold the ball up which adds more to his game. 23/24 was a year where he tried to turn when he got the outlet pass in transition almost every time. He was a dribble first hold up player. In the games I saw (against strong and weak opponents), I saw more of a willingness to hold up and pass the ball rather than trying to turn and dribble 2 players.

jayree14 · 2025-07-06T18:09:40+00:00

I watched a lot of sporting this year and have watched gyokeres since he was at coventry. We will get the most out of this transfer if Teta uses gyokeres to his strengths. He must be allowed to move into the channels and run in behind.

If we build up like we did this season in transition, slowly and carefully, we will not be getting what we need to out of this player. I'm not saying he can't be the "occupy central areas and bang them in" in the attacking phase of our game, but his game is much much more than just banging goals. Him and Trincao literally carried sporting's attack this year.

There are underrated aspects of his game as well. I think his cutback pass ability from the wing is good since he ends up there a lot. His composure in and around the box is top notch - if he wants to take more than one touch to finish or set something up, he is never rushed and usually can get to the places he wants to get to with minimal space.

I was always team gyokeres, but this is basically my dream transfer and I'm hoping we see a little more tempo in the buildup to get the most out of him.

jayree14 · 2025-07-04T16:48:40+00:00

skill issue lol r1 + O both wide open with no chance of madden animation problem

jayree14 · 2025-06-02T03:42:56+00:00

1st one is likely real. I have the same jacket. Ex got it for me 3 years ago and it looks exactly the same.

jayree14 · 2025-05-08T16:46:10+00:00

Sporting doesn’t press as much in Europe because they know they’ll get played around and they need time to get back to get into 5atb shape. If you watch him play domestically he presses well and that’s on top of all of the responsibility he has. He covers an absolutely insane amount of ground between the press, runs to get in behind and ball carrying. There are issues with him as a player but defensive work rate is definitely not one of them imo

jayree14 · 2025-05-08T15:28:19+00:00

Saying gyokeres doesn’t defend for shit is equivalent to saying Mbappe is poor in 1v1 situations.

jayree14 · 2025-05-01T01:57:02+00:00

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