At this point it would be more interesting to test position rating systems to see if it can consistently produce winners against a + 2 or + 4 acc/pac team with the secondary meta attributes + stamina/wr set to 10 & the rest of the worthless attributes set to 1. ie A team with of 14 acc/pac with anything goes vs 16/16 acc/pac or 18 acc/pac team.
Like often times you are picking between a 15/15 AMRL that has 16 dribbling or 15 jumping reach, and a 17/17 player that has 3 jumping reach & 10 dribbling.
In the control group did you lower their technique? By default nearly all the Man City players have over 10 technique so you wouldn't be able to raise it by 10.
In the Machine Learning weights technique was only moderately weighted high on DM(RPM), AMC, ST. One theory is it's bad to have defenders with high technique/flair. The attribute table from 2022 is basically the same as today.
Or another is technique (decisions/vision/passing?) is related to the success of certain traits like tries killer passes/curls ball/round the keeper/shoots with power/places shots/etc. And you would need said traits to get any benefit. But that doesn't explain why it's negative as you would expect it to be neutral. In the Man City example Haaland only has "tries first time shots" related to technique. This is the only thing I can think of.
The most likely scenario is technique was good at some point in previous editions but other changes made in the engine over the years has unintentionally made it bad.
Like often times you are picking between a 15/15 AMRL that has 16 dribbling or 15 jumping reach, and a 17/17 player that has 3 jumping reach & 10 dribbling.
In the Machine Learning weights technique was only moderately weighted high on DM(RPM), AMC, ST. One theory is it's bad to have defenders with high technique/flair. The attribute table from 2022 is basically the same as today.
Or another is technique (decisions/vision/passing?) is related to the success of certain traits like tries killer passes/curls ball/round the keeper/shoots with power/places shots/etc. And you would need said traits to get any benefit. But that doesn't explain why it's negative as you would expect it to be neutral. In the Man City example Haaland only has "tries first time shots" related to technique. This is the only thing I can think of.
The most likely scenario is technique was good at some point in previous editions but other changes made in the engine over the years has unintentionally made it bad.