How do you judge your midfielders performance?

At the end of the season.

How do you determine whether they've had a good season or not? Average rating? Assists? Goals? Pass Completion?

I personally, use the stats as a guideline, but mainly judge based on what I am expecting from their role, and whether they fulfil that when watching them.

I have a tempo setting midfielder, he rarely gets any assists or goals, wins very few headers, but has a good pass completion rate and my team falls apart without him in the side.

Speaking to a few people about the game and they seem to think that unless your midfielder is blasting in the ball from 40yards every other game, that they should be replaced.

It depends on their role. I expect my DM to have numerous interceptions and tackles, my winger needs to have assists and chip in with the odd goal as do my attacking midfielders.

I use a DM and an AMC, so for the DM I want to see good average ratings, anything else is a bonus. I'd expect the AMC to be contributing to the goals and assists, if he's doing neither then I would think about replacing him, rather like I would with a striker.

I use a DM and an AMC, so for the DM I want to see good average ratings, anything else is a bonus. I'd expect the AMC to be contributing to the goals and assists, if he's doing neither then I would think about replacing him, rather like I would with a striker.

Im probably more lenient with my DM when it comes to ratings than anyone else in the team, mainly because I think it's harder to get a good rating in that position in FM.

I'd expect the AMC to be contributing to the goals and assists, if he's doing neither then I would think about replacing him, rather like I would with a striker.

So you wouldn't look at anything other than just the assists and goals for him?

So you wouldn't look at anything other than just the assists and goals for him?

Not really, no. My AMC in my tactic has had a history of scoring a lot, he's pretty much like a 3rd striker.

i rarely pay notice to average ratings when it comes to certain roles in my team..

if my dmc is getting the tackles in and passing accurately but only getting 6.5 ratings.. im still a happy bunny...

basically , if my midfielder is doing what he's there , im happy

I pay a lot more attention to tackles/headers/passes than I used to, I rarely look at goals or assists really, for any position...

I pay attention to my wins/losses. I just play whichever guys are winning me games.

Personally I only use the stats to back up my thoughts from watching the matches, its fairly rare that they differ but occasionally a player that I think has done well has poor stats and I take more notice the following season.

If it's an AM, it's whether he's scoring or assisting. He needs to be doing one

If it's a CM, he needs high pass completion, preferably assists.

If it's a DM, he needs to have a high tackle and interception stat.

I will look at average rating though.

how they play usaly the average rating makes no sense at times players will do really well in assists and goals but are playing poor apperntly

Depends on role, I expect my AM to score, my playmaking central mid to assist and pass well, my ball winning central mid and DM to have a lot of tackles and pass percentage.

As someone said, I'm forgiving of my DM rating as well...when I had Mikel and Sandro they averaged the worst of any first team players (around a 6.95) and it seemed never had any games where they rated above 7.2 or so. I realized that because they rarely score, and have kinda a 'backup' role, it's hard to rate them effectively. I did notice they had a lot of tackles a game, and a good pass percentage, with few errors..which seemed good enough for me.

Ratings seem too dependent on one play. A mistake leading to a goal seems to drop them 2 points instantly. I realize these are awful mistakes, but if a mistakes leads to a goal or not is not always a great indicator of how bad of a mistake it actually was, there is a lot of chance in this. Also it seems impossible for forwards to have ratings lower than 6.2 or so, and one goal gives them nearly a point and a half on the rating. Once again, goals are great..but making a penalty or falling into the ball and getting a lucky goal doesn't make you have performed any better overall, just on the stat sheet..

I generally tend to just look at the average rating they get for most of the team. the only position i use the stats for really are the strikers and goals scored.

I might actualy start looking at the stats rather than the average rating now though to see if they are playing bettr/worse that the average rating suggests.

Average rating seems to like winning headers far too much