Chelsea in Fifa 10

[ace]

Just a little friendly game for the FIFA players here to try and come up with potential ratings of our boys for the next installment of the game.

- Will Lamps be criminally underrated again? (Every year it seems they're waiting for him to grow too old and stop being good)

- How will Anelka winning the golden boot affect his rating?

- Same with Malouda's form under Hiddink

Tentative:

Cech - 88

Cole - 86

Terry - 88

Alex - 84

Bosingwa - 83

Riccy C - 81 (Pains me to write that)

Ivanovic - 79

Essien - 86

Mikel - 82

Belletti - 77

Lampard - 87

Ballack - 83

J. Cole - 82

Deco - 82

Malouda - 84

Zhirkov - 83

Sturridge - 76

Drogba - 87

Anelka - 85

Kalou - 81

No idea about Mancienne, Franco, etc.

I probably overestimated too many of them, but oh well. It'll be interesting to see if some of our bigger name players who don't always perform continue to get good ratings (Ballack, Deco).

[Maksimov]

- Will Lamps be criminally underrated again? (Every year it seems they're waiting for him to grow too old and stop being good)

I know this is off topic, but I seem to recall that Lampard at least used to be great in Pro Evo. It's been a few years since I've played it, though.

[Eggy McMuffin]

Cech - 86

Cole - 87

Terry - 86

Alex - 82

Bosingwa - 81

Riccy C - 81

Ivanovic - 80

Essien - 89

Mikel - 84

Belletti - 77

Lampard - 88

Ballack - 81

J. Cole - 83

Deco - 79

Malouda - 84

Zhirkov - 82

Sturridge - 78

Drogba - 88

Anelka - 84

Kalou - 81

Hilario - 76

Turnbull - 77

That's my tentative guess, although if I had it my way Essien would be at about 99 and Drogba, Lampard, Terry and Cole would be close... but that's just me being biased. I don't think that will be too far away though, maybe Lampard a little lower, but yeah. I think that's about it.

[ace]

I know this is off topic, but I seem to recall that Lampard at least used to be great in Pro Evo. It's been a few years since I've played it, though.

I haven't played Pro Evo in awhile, but in FIFA this last year using the live online update every week, Lamps was a straight beast. A good portion of the season had him at 92-95 rating, so it was almost unfair being able to hit shots from so far out.

[ace]

In reply to Maksimov, I feel like your Ballack and Deco ratings are spot on but I feel like FIFA overrates players of their magnitude (see coverboy Ronaldinho). I also feel like I underrated Essien, I'd guess maybe 88 and take Cech down to 87 I guess, not sure if we'd have three 88s.

[Maksimov]

In reply to Maksimov

I'm sure you mean Eggy...

[Eggy McMuffin]

In reply to Maksimov, I feel like your Ballack and Deco ratings are spot on but I feel like FIFA overrates players of their magnitude (see coverboy Ronaldinho). I also feel like I underrated Essien, I'd guess maybe 88 and take Cech down to 87 I guess, not sure if we'd have three 88s.

I'm not Maksimov, but I'll assume it's aimed at me. I probably did over rate Drogba really, but yeah, I'm a big fan of his.

As for Deco and Ballack, I know they're big names, but surely even EA can see that they've not been up to much... well hopefully, but I guess you can't expect too much from them.

[ace]

I'm not Maksimov, but I'll assume it's aimed at me. I probably did over rate Drogba really, but yeah, I'm a big fan of his.

As for Deco and Ballack, I know they're big names, but surely even EA can see that they've not been up to much... well hopefully, but I guess you can't expect too much from them.

Haha sorry Eggy, scrolled up and saw Mak's name I guess.

And yeah, maybe it'll be like Sheva, who was a 79 last year I think...can't keep overrating him forever.

As for Drogba, I feel that as a 5 star team, FIFA has to have a star striker on all of those teams, so Drogba will likely have a pretty nice rating, unless they want to make it more of a package deal and give Anelka-Drogba 85-86 and Malouda 84-85.

Edited July 16, 2009 by ace

[Gem]

Stop talking about Eggy, I'm hungry!

[Maksimov]

Did someone say "Eggy"...?

Sorry... :Whistle: ...carry on!

Edited July 16, 2009 by Maksimov

[PloKoon13]

I don't play Fifa, so I can't really comment on the stats.

However, I always got annoyed that Lampard's stats weren't as high on Gerrard's on Pro Evo, so I 'altered' them somewhat. :Whistle:

[dkw]

I don't play Fifa, so I can't really comment on the stats.

However, I always got annoyed that Lampard's stats weren't as high on Gerrard's on Pro Evo, so I 'altered' them somewhat. :Whistle:

i once played Football manager when we were having big ructions with the dippers and took them over, sold all their best players for bugger all and made sure they lost every game about 20-0 to get relegated. i had an overwhelming sense of joy.

[ace]

Anymore I just assume that Stevie G will always be +1 OVR on Lamps in games. Sucks but it's what happens. What is annoying in FIFA is that when you change a player's stats, the announcer no longer says their names. '06 used to let you do that and I always liked editing players (not just CFC) to reflect how they were doing. When I played 06 a year later (before I bought 07) I'm pretty sure I switched Drogba and Sheva's overalls to make it more accurate for that season.

Anyways, what I hope for this season of FIFA is that some of our youngsters are "Hidden gems", I was a little disappointed in this year's version to still be loaning Mancienne, Stoch, Kakuta out after 3 seasons because they still weren't making big enough improvement. I do remember being able to start using Ivanovic a lot, as well as Franco....now that I think about it, the most important thing EA can do is making it so manager modes stop freezing at a certain point haha.

[sals]

football manager 2009 has some ridiculous stats for lamps. Got 11 for corners and 13 or something for free kicks. Gerrard does have 11 for penalties though i think which was funny

[jordanl5182]

Cech - 87

Cole - 86

Terry - 86

Alex - 83

Bosingwa - 82

Riccy C - 82

Mancienne - 75

Ivanovic - 80

Essien - 89

Mikel - 83

Belletti - 78

Lampard - 88

Ballack - 85

J. Cole - 82

Deco - 83

Malouda - 84

Zhirkov - 82

Sturridge - 77

Drogba - 85

Anelka - 85

Kalou - 80

Hilario - 76

Turnbull - 77

Wonder if Zhirkov will be faster than Malouda?!

[ace]

So I was playing FIFA 08 on PS2 the other day (at my cabin, not my house) and wow, Ashley was a 78? I guess I didn't notice as much because I used to go through my seasons playing 3 CB's since JT, Alex, and Riccy are all so highly rated. Sure, Ash's first season for us wasn't as brilliant as this year, but man, 78 seems a tad harsh, especially when Ballack was still an 85 and Sheva was still an 84.

[Maksimov]

Wonder if Zhirkov will be faster than Malouda?!

I don't see why he wouldn't be, unless they're absolutely clueless at EA.

[jordanl5182]

He's currently rated 82 for acceleration I think...not sure about sprint though...I think Malouda's similar

[Virosh]

Just saw this thread, giving it my take :

Cech - 89

Cole - 84

Terry - 89

Alex - 85

Bosingwa - 83

Riccy C - 83

Mancienne - 75 (and growing fast)

Ivanovic - 80 (and growing fast)

Essien - 87

Mikel - 83

Belletti - 78

Lampard - 86

Ballack - 83

J. Cole - 86

Deco - 81

Malouda - 85

Zhirkov - 84

Sturridge - 78 (and growing fast)

Drogba - 88

Anelka - 85

Kalou - 80

Hilario - 72

Turnbull - 75

[moi]

How delicious! I'm going to have to go and make myself a late-night slice of toast.

(and I may have to search for a picture of Eggy in a kilt!)

PS In case there's any doubt, my comment was in response to maksimov's lovely picture of an eggy muffin

Edited July 26, 2009 by moi

[ChelseaYankee]

All I have to say is they don't know how to rate players at all. If I remember correctly, they made Messi one of the faster players in the game. Even faster than Kaka. That midget isn't that fast, sorry. I feel like they low ball us anyway.

Cech - 85

A Cole - 82

Terry - 84

Alex - 85

Bosingwa - 80

Riccy C - 82

Ivanovic - 78

Essien - 85

Mikel - 81

Belletti - 77

Lampard - 84

Ballack - 81

J. Cole - 81

Deco - 82

Malouda - 83

Zhirkov - 82

Sturridge - 78

Drogba - 86

Anelka - 84

Kalou - 81

Hilario - 76

Turnbull - 77

Di Santo - 78

Sheva - 80

EDIT: Messi smelling Kaka farts as Kaka goes coast to coast for a score on Argentina:

Edited July 26, 2009 by ChelseaYankee

[Ridiculous]

CECH 88

HILARIO 71

TURNBULL 72

BOSINGWA 83

BELETTI 75

ALEX 82

CARVALHO 83

TERRY 87

IVANOVIC 79

A. COLE 84

FERREIRA 76

MIKEL 83

BALLACK 83

ESSIEN 86

J. COLE 84

ZHIRKOV 83

MALOUDA 83

LAMPARD 86

DECO 80

DROGBA 86

ANELKA 83

STURRIDGE 77

KALOU 78

SHEVCHECNKO 78

[Mikstaw]

football manager 2009 has some ridiculous stats for lamps. Got 11 for corners and 13 or something for free kicks. Gerrard does have 11 for penalties though i think which was funny

Yes... Lampard has got low corners and free kicks... Ballack has better penalties than Lampard... :P

Btw.

CECH 88

HILARIO 72

TURNBULL 77

BOSINGWA 85

BELETTI 72

ALEX 85

CARVALHO 86

TERRY 90

IVANOVIC 80

A. COLE 85

FERREIRA 71

MIKEL 85 (and growing fast)

BALLACK 83

ESSIEN 89

J. COLE 86

ZHIRKOV 85

MALOUDA 84

LAMPARD 90

DECO 81

DROGBA 88

ANELKA 86

STURRIDGE 79

KALOU 85

SHEVCHECNKO 81

[ace]

It appears that Lamps has replaced Ronaldinho as EA's golden boy, Amazon's graphic for FIFA 10 has Super Frank on the cover.

[Morpheus]

i was disappointed in kakuta's improvement levels and the level they had given him in the first place.

hopefully next year they will make him better.