Finally Revealed - The Anatomy Of World Class Players In Football Manager!

Bold headlines rock, and it got your attention didn't it? Anyway, today I decided I would try to find out what attributes most world class players share in FM. To do that I did a player search and sorted the players by value. Then I created an Excel sheet and recorded every attribute over 15 for every player valued higher than £10 million.

Took me about an hour so hopefully you'll get a kick out of it. Here are the final graphs.

Technical Attributes:

Mental Attributes:

Physical Attributes:

You probably have to click on the images to get a good view, but let's go through them for a minute.

From the technical group First Touch and Technique are by far the most interesting attributes. They are the only attributes with a rank above 25. Dribbling is pretty high as well, but not as high as those two. It seems Technique and First Touch indicate the classiness (not sure that's an actual word) of a player. Many of the other attributes are important to specific positions and therefore don't appear as often.

Mentally the game prefers players who works hard and reads the game well. This is indicated by the fact that Anticipation, Determination, Off The Ball and Work Rate appear more than 25 times in this little experiment. Determination seems particularly important being the only attribute that appears more than 35 times!

Physically Stamina is the key to success. The player needs to be able to last all game to become a truly world class player. No other physical attribute appear more than 25 times.

Going by this limited study you should be looking for players with high First Touch, Technique, Anticipation, Determination, Off The Ball, Work Rate and Stamina. In addition it seems it would be a good idea to look for position specific attributes as well.

That's it for today, hope you find it useful.