Thread: Assigning Roles
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Old 12-18-2017, 12:49 AM   #3
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With the only aim being "score more goals", it's better to put him in the Sniper role. The team's tactical score will be slightly weaker, but the increases to the player's offensive abilities from being in the Sniper role will likely offset the small movement towards lower tactical bonuses. Particularly when it's Backchecker, a defence-oriented role, that's the alternative - putting him in that will give him defensive bonuses and offensive penalties.

The role effects on individual players aren't absolute; he'll be a little worse defensively and better offensively as a Sniper, but not completely useless when checking, and it won't turn a second-liner into Ovechkin offensively.

And this all assumes he's the only one you're changing like that - if you force every player into offence-first roles despite poor fit scores, it'll wreck your tactical execution and do a lot more harm than good.
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