Interesting read. Thanks for the link.
I'm still curious to see if anyone has really tried to turn this into an advantage and bolster it by training certain skills. Whether it would work or not is another question.
Problem with those players is, that you won't get the necessary minutes to train the core skills. Plus it is very debateable if they draw more fouls than they commit - or if there is any positive effect at all.
I had a trainee that probably had the maximum in aggressiveness (I quit the game, out of sheer frustration, because of this guy), I had no chance to get him a full 48 minutes in one game and thus was useless in any long term perspective for my team.
One guy could singlehandedly need three games a week to get to 48 minutes on one position, basically using 2 training slots instead of one. You would waste valuable training for a player you know will produce for very limited minutes. And you have to consider that players injured by that guy (if those physical players injure more often is still unclear!), would miss the following games, thus you'd help your opponents more than yourself.
All in all, those "physical" guys are pure trash, a waste of database and server capacity and should be avoided at all cost.
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