OK i have been patiently watching how this project unfolds and have no doubt it has great potential in the future. However i think the scoring system is a little flawed. As a fantasy football game player for over 15 years i have to say the scoring system is a little flawed and lacks trust from a user perspective as it manipulates a players true performance. Such as scores for own goals score higher for strikers, Goals through penalty, Fouls committed and was fouled needs to be removed due to diving and sticking with simple yellow/red card rules, Goal line clearance is too vague does the player have to be on the line or just behind the keeper for it to count? passes long short or medium is just vague what is the actual distance to merit short/mid/long passes which also conflicts with crosses and so how are points actually attributed or are they given points twice one for mid/long pass and also for a cross? passes should be scored on total pass completion in a match only, Also getting points for shots on/off/blocked goal makes no sense to have along with duels as it just complicates the scoring even more and all this makes it seem that scoring could be manipulated.
Overall my point is that its so easy to get performance stats and score on so many factors thus complicating the points system and picking players, and scoring based on a more simpler and fairer model should be used otherwise real football fans will just see through this. The best model i know is the Barclays Premiere League fantasy football which scores as the following:
Points
For playing up to 60 minutes 1
For playing 60 minutes or more (excluding injury time) 2
For each goal scored by a goalkeeper or defender 6
For each goal scored by a midfielder 5
For each goal scored by a forward 4
For each goal assist 3
For a clean sheet by a goalkeeper or defender 4
For a clean sheet by a midfielder 1
For every 3 shot saves by a goalkeeper 1
For each penalty save 5
For each penalty miss -2
Bonus points for the best players in a match 1-3
For every 2 goals conceded by a goalkeeper or defender -1
For each yellow card -1
For each red card -3
For each own goal -2
It really is that simple easy to understand for players and transparent with no doubt of manipulation. I hope you guys take this on board as your current scoring system seems to have come from a tech guy with lots of emphasis on stats. the best example is some teams play for possession with many square passes but end up loosing 3-0 possession does not translate to winning and football is not as simple as just stats otherwise every tech geek would end up being football managers. Football is more than stats and so please try to translate that into your scoring system by making it simple and easy to understand otherwise it will never be successful as all it takes is for a leading existing fanatsy football game to adopt blockchain tech and blow xfc out of the water...
Please don't get my post twisted i have invested a little into XFC and hope it does well, and if we get the game play and usability right than all it takes is sponsoring a young footballer who has a bright future or if you want to go big sponsor a messi,ronaldo, or even a dele ali harry kane figure and we will go global and us investors to the moon. But at this moment in time i am 50/50 as to how well this project will actually do and how serious the developers are in wanting this to be huge.
Also adding a slack channel for devs and players to come together as a community would be ideal for a project like this, but after the ICO the communication has been terrible and i understand how and why others a getting frustrated. All these little improvements costs very little if anything and would benefit the project immensely especially after how much was raised in the ICO this should just be a minimum requirement in my view.
Thank you for the feedback and for taking the time to detail this.
We will look into this and, if needed, try to adapt the scoring system so that it responds to the need of the users and game.
Btw, I really like your comment about "football being more than just stats, otherwise, every stats geek would be a football manager". I believe you are very correct. It is one for the reasons why we have two modes of calculating scores: Easy and Pro.
Yes. We are looking into a way to better improve the communication between you (users) and ourselves.
Thanks once more!
and lots managers who 'Rank: 0' in game .
not my game!!