tf is morale and does it effect anything

[Red 499]

After watching some weird Australian dude's podcast I noticed he mentioned that some junior teams have higher morale's then others. Not only that but the teams with the higher morale's tend to be higher in the standings which is noteworthy because all of the bots have the same attributes except for morale. This had me wondering if morale had an affect on the VHLM and not just the juniors. I also checked the STHS manual thing to see what it says about morale and found that your able to change the effect morale has on the teams performance. So, this article is basically a question to whoever runs this league or whoever knows enough to answer. Does morale have any effect on the games. If it does are you able adjust it so that it is has no effect. If you are able to turn it off and haven't yet...... why not????

[Beketov 9,142]

1 hour ago, RedSus said:

If you are able to turn it off and haven't yet...... why not????

In our testing it’s effect is incredibly little unless you really crank the slider for it which we don’t. We could completely turn it off, it’s true, but it does so little that IMO it adds a tiny extra bit of realism to keep it on. People like to think that they want “totally realistic” results, by which they mean the better team winning, but no one would actually want that and that’s the opposite of realism. If the better team on paper won every single time the league would be incredibly predictable and boring.

 

The bots in juniors actually make the effect appear more pronounced because they are all the same which means only their morale and random luck has any effect on the outcome. This definitely makes it seem like morale does a ton but in reality having constantly shifting attributes and, more importantly, attributes that vary from player to player means that basically every other stat does more.

 

TLDR; it does very very little, like I don’t think you’d even be able to plot it’s effect with any degree of certainty, but stays on because it’s minor effect adds a bit of realism and an extra element. Juniors just make it look more important than it is.