Player Roles: Sliders

[Montanaro]

Something I've always wanted to know was, does changing a players role effect what he does on the field?

Let me explain. I customize and tweak the sliders of my players to the point that they hardly resemble the default for that role. For instance, with a poacher, I may drop his mentality and change his through balls (thusly, making him not quite a poacher).

My question is, do roles have any effect on the players duties outside of what is shown on the sliders?

I play with wingbacks, but if I customized all the sliders and switched his role to fullback, (and sliders shown don't move since I've check marked them) would anything about that players behavior change?

I've noted that sometimes when I switch the roles of my strike partners, they will seem to act different. If I switch poacher to advanced forward, he seems to play wider, and when I change my deep lying forward to target man he tends to look for space more without dropping off as much (despite sliders not changing)

My hypothesis is that some of the classic sliders are still in effect and that changing roles changes those (since the new tactic system was suppose to be simpler)

Any ideas?

 

[TheBetterHalf]

If you by sliders mean all individual instructions that can be tweaked/fixed then Nope, nothing changes at all. of course, If you change a player from one role into a target man and actually use hims as one, he will be more involved in the build up, resulting in you actually seeing him looking for space more often in the highlights but as said, that's only down to him being fed with more balls.

 

[Dazron]

Those sliders are what affect the players behaviour. The pre-set roles just move the sliders about into an approximation of what that role's silders would need to be. Hope that makes sense.