 Hey guys, it's MJ the student act tree and in this video I want to talk about my FIFA 17 wishlist and how I think the game should introduce stochastic statistics Now I love this game. I mean I've been playing FIFA since 98. I mean that's that is back in the day and I mean my brother and I we would get the game every year And we love to check out the new features and how they've tweaked the game And so in this video, I just want to talk about two of my Or two items that would be on my wish list for the upcoming game Okay The first one is to have the PSL in the career mode now the PSL is the South African soccer league Please FIFA, please include this. I mean, it would be awesome to have a manager mode on them I mean currently FIFA does have a land of pirates and Kazachis, but as you can see there are so many more teams and I really thought this was gonna, you know be introduced in FIFA 2010, you know when we had the the World Cup and everything but alas that still hasn't happened but now to move on to the main item of my wishlist and This is something that I think is gonna have a big and positive impact on the game and that is stochastic Statistics, okay, let me let me just give a little bit of background and explain what I mean by this Okay in FIFA You have a bunch of players and they each have their own set of stats, you know They tell you how well the player can kick how well he can pass and so forth like that Now these stats are fixed or to use a more actuarial term. They are deterministic Okay, and this means that team selection becomes quite a bit boring because you could use, you know a mathematical process You simply, you know, optimize your starting line up by maximizing the stats that match your game play style So for example, I like to go with just the fastest wingers You know who know how to cross throw in a striker who's tall good at headering throw a little bit of midfielders who have a high passing stat and That's my team. I'm ready to win the league. Okay, and currently I mean the stats look like this These are the deterministic stats And I find them quite boring you've got player a and you've got player b now Let's assume that everything else about these players is exactly the same except for this one key stat Now when it comes to this, it's a very simple choice to just choose player a now what I'm recommending is stochastic stats and This is what it would look like So player a would have let's say sees dribbling skill. It's not fixed It's a stack between 73 and 77 and it only gets determined after the manager has selected his team and started the game and Let's say we've got player B. Well, he's dribbling status also a random number and Now it becomes a little bit of an interesting choice because his has got a larger variance I mean, who would you choose player a or player B? You know, we're introducing a little bit of a risk element, you know Would you would you take a chance and choose player B? You know, he's probably a young unknown player or would you play it safe and choose player a who is probably a more mature and experienced player and then as you play career mode the The player can get more experience and as he gets older He evolves and the variance of these statistics decrease and it becomes more of a certain number to what we have So, you know propose this as an alternative to, you know, just the player stats increasing as they currently have Okay, so what are some of the advantages of using stochastic statistics? Well for one, I mean it would be very easy to code and very easy to implement because already if we look at scout mode and FIFA They had they doing just this. I mean here we go. Here's the scouting screen and What I like about this is the more time you spend scouting a player the narrower that limit becomes and All I'm suggesting is that we move this feature into the core game. You know, it's gonna be so easy to to introduce this Okay, second advantage is we're gonna introduce another talking point I mean when people ask who is the best player in the world, you know, who's the best FIFA player in the game? You know, you can just look at the stats and you can quickly determine if one plays better than another But with the stochastic stats, you know, there's another dimension to consider, you know, who's better player a or player B? Again another another advantage is that I feel it would make the game more realistic You know, we all know that in real life soccer players are nowhere near as consistent as their virtual counterparts in FIFA For example, here are just a few players who play like absolute legends some games and then in others They're just drip, you know, sorry, they're just dreadful. It's terrible to see them But then the following game they back to being brilliant. So there is a lot of inconsistency in real life Another advantage is that stochastic statistics will make the game more fun, you know And I mean FIFA is the game and games are meant to be fun So adding in this random element will bring about, you know, some more excitement And we know this because I mean casinos are successful because they, you know, revolve around this whole randomness and uncertain results And we're just bringing in a little bit of a risk factor into the game And then the final advantage is that it will make the game more educational, you know Already, I mean I play FIFA and I learned so much about the various European towns and you know, you learn a lot of geography And games are an incredible education tool So now imagine if people could start learning the fundamentals of statistics while playing FIFA and getting a sense of randomness And how to calculate that Now, I mean, we could always amp it up, you know We could give each player their own unique distribution And you know with their own unique parameters and you know, we could set that models each player accurately and how they play under various conditions Providing the most realistic experience ever But I do feel maybe Maybe, you know, that's that's something we can introduce later, you know, for now I'll be much happy I will be very happy if we just have a simple uniform distribution for all the players And we just introduce this idea of stochastic statistics And you know, we can bring on those extreme unique distributions Made for a later stage like say for FIFA 18 But yeah, that is that's my wishlist for FIFA 17 Let me know what yours are in the comment section below And yeah, would you like to see this feature in the game? Let me know And yeah, let me know what your ideas are Cheers guys