Good evening everyone,
I’m wondering if anything has changed regarding how red cards are awarded?
For the past two seasons, I’ve been picking up red cards very frequently – often straight away – even though I’m playing without aggression and in a part of the pitch where I’m clearly dominating. I don’t understand it, and I don’t want to believe it’s just down to chance.
Bad luck does happen, but not for a while now.

Hello. Looking at your current match, I can see that your possession is very low. I think that’s one of the factors increasing the risk of cards.

This reinforces the idea that dominating the midfield in the style of Spain or Barça is virtually unbeatable. I find it hard to believe that the probability is based solely on that.

The frequency of fouls seems to have increased recently. Mechanically, this leads to more red cards. According to my data set, we’re now seeing one straight red card every eight matches, compared to one every ten previously.

Mind you, that doesn’t explain why my bloody best player seems to love getting sent off. ^^

We’ll use 20 per cent possession as the threshold for calling fouls.

However, the number of red cards per match still seems to me to be rather lower than the actual figure,
but what, then, are we to make of the number of yellow cards, which is far, far lower than the actual figure (perhaps four or five times lower)?

On the other hand, it would be normal for a player to be suspended only after receiving their third yellow card of the season, rather than their second.

Furthermore, why is the goalkeeper spared any red or yellow cards?
And what about the forwards? (I get the impression that it’s only if they play in midfield that they’re likely to receive one).

It’s certainly true that theawarding of red and yellow cards is not purely random, and that aggression is a factor in increasing their frequency, but it’s impossible to work out even an approximate algorithm for how they’re awarded, as it doesn’t seem to be based on observations of reality.

I get taken out much more easily when I’m playing in ‘normal’ mode than in ‘aggressive’ mode.
Why is that?

myforsans: Pourtant, le nombre de cartons rouges par match me semble toujours plutôt inférieur à la réalité,
Mais alors que dire du nombre de cartons jaunes qui lui est très très inférieur à la réalité (peut être 4 ou 5 fois moins).

Par contre ce qui serait normal c'est que la suspension d'un joueur n'arrive qu'au 3eme jaune dans la saison et pas au deuxième.

Par ailleurs pourquoi le gardien est épargné de tout rouge ou jaune ?
Et les attaquants également ? (j'ai l'impression que c'est uniquement si ...

I don’t recall ever seeing a goalkeeper get injured during a match either.

On the other hand, a striker can get a red card just for playing as a striker!

Perhaps it’s the same probability as scoring goals.
Ragen -> If it works with possession, then you often need to have far more possession than your opponent to avoid picking up cards when playing aggressively

Given that almost all managers in the game have just one goalkeeper, such a change would require major adjustments.

In my opinion, it’s virtually impossible to do; goalkeepers need to play every day to be properly trained, and there wouldn’t be enough trained goalkeepers in the game to meet the demand.