Best position for I. Smith
54Overall
Overall of I. Smith in every position. In his own position it is EA’s real rating; the rest are estimated from the individual attributes with a per-position weight vector calibrated over 13785 players, anchored to that real value.
Reconversion: I. Smith would rate higher at LB (55) than at CB (54) — +1.
Natural position
CB54
Best estimated
LB55
Rating in every position
LB
+2 → 57 55
CB
natural
+2 → 56 54
CDM
+2 → 55 53
CM
+2 → 49 47
LM
+2 → 49 47
CAM
+2 → 46 44
LW
44
ST
+2 → 46 44
Method: the rating in the player’s own position is EA’s real value (exact). For every other position we apply, on top of that anchor, each position’s weights — derived by linear regression (OLS) over our ~18k players, so they self-calibrate every edition.