Aggression vs Injury Risk

In my previous post, I mentioned that you should always keep an eye on the referee's strictness levels before deciding to play aggressive. However, that doesn't mean that you have to always play aggressively when a lenient referee is in charge. The more aggressive you play, the higher is the risk that one of your players gets injured.

I found the following figures from Leftblank's strategy guide, The Art of Xpert Eleven. C, N and B on the leftmost column indicate your aggression settings (careful, normal or bruise) and those on the horizontal row on top indicate your opponent's settings. The numbers show the percentage chance that any of your players will not get injured for the given settings. (The figures with the question marks are only guesses, and not confirmed.)

	C	N	B
C	95	60 (?)	85
N	60 (?)	80	60 (?)
B	80	60 (?)	40

This shows that playing bruise has the highest likelihood of causing injuries, not to mention that your players might also get booked and concede free kicks. I usually avoid using bruise settings even for very lenient referees. I prefer playing normal aggression for lenient referees (H = 1 to 3) and careful for others.

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