HINT SHEET #1
Ratings & Skills
Understanding the numbers, master the players – Rating knowledge is manager power
⭐ Ratings & Skills Explained
Every player in Soccer Supremos has an Overall Rating and eleven individual Skills. These two numbers drive almost every decision you’ll make – from transfers and training to contract negotiations and squad selection. Understanding how they work together is one of the most valuable things you can do as a manager.
🎯 1. The Basics
Each player has an Overall Rating (0–100%) and eleven individual Skills, each also rated 0–100%. Higher is better in both cases.
Those eleven skills are split into two categories:
- Primary Skills – the ones that feed directly into a player’s Overall Rating.
- Secondary Skills – they don’t affect Rating, but they still influence what happens on the pitch.
💡 Which skills are Primary depends on position – and the game doesn’t tell you outright. That’s something you have to work out for yourself.
📌 2. How Ratings Are Calculated
The formula behind a player’s Overall Rating is straightforward once you know it:
| Step | Description |
|---|---|
| 1️⃣ | Each position (GK, DEF, MID, ATT) has its own specific set of Primary Skills |
| 2️⃣ | The number of Primary Skills per position is not shown – managers have to discover it |
| 3️⃣ | Overall Rating = sum of Primary Skill values ÷ number of Primary Skills |
| 4️⃣ | The result is rounded to the nearest whole number (e.g. 46.49% → 46%; 46.99% → 47%) |
💡 This means even a small improvement to a key Primary Skill can tip a player over to the next Rating point.
🧩 3. Primary vs Secondary Skills
| Feature | Primary Skills 🏆 | Secondary Skills 🛠️ |
|---|---|---|
| Affect Overall Rating? | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Position-specific? | ✅ Yes | ⚠️ Can be |
| Important for match performance? | ✅ Very | ✅ Still important |
| Visible or hidden? | ❓ Must be discovered | ✅ All visible |
📉 4. What Rating Affects
A player’s Rating isn’t just a number on a page – it has real consequences across your club:
- 💷 Market Value – higher Rating means higher price tag
- 💰 Salary Demands – unless his contract is already fixed
- ⚽ On-field ability – the headline summary of how good he is
- 📈 Career Progression – tracking how a player is developing over time
Ratings go up or down over time – but only because Primary Skills have improved or declined. Secondary Skills have no effect on that number.
🔍 5. Why Knowing Your Primary Skills Matters
Once you know which skills are Primary for a given position, you can start making much sharper decisions:
- Plan training and camp sessions around the skills that actually move the Rating needle
- Use one-on-one coaching more precisely
- Anticipate when the next Rating increase might arrive
- Time transfers to maximise or minimise market value
- Get a clearer picture of a player’s true long-term potential
Without that knowledge, you’re essentially training in the dark and hoping for the best.
🕵️ 6. How to Work Out Which Skills Are Primary
The game doesn’t hand you a list – but it gives you everything you need to figure it out. Here’s the method:
- Track a player’s skills week by week, paying attention to when his Rating changes.
- Open your Manager’s Report at Squad Report: Part 4 and note which skills changed alongside the Rating shift – and which ones stayed the same.
- Skills that didn’t move when the Rating changed are almost certainly not Primary.
- Build a shortlist of the skills that do seem to correlate with Rating movement.
- Add those candidate skills together, divide by the count, and round to the nearest whole number.
- If the result matches his current Rating – you’re on the right track.
- Test the same logic across other players in the same position to confirm the pattern.
🔍 Some managers share what they’ve worked out, some keep it close to their chest. You can always ask around – or enjoy figuring it out yourself. Either way, once you know it, you’ve got a genuine edge.