Some numbers on two-footed Passing

Following my last blog, and the heavy, but interesting FM thread about player attributes linked by T-Bag, I decided to take a look at impact of two-footedness in the current GWs.

This data is taken from 2000 players in Vald.
The means of the passing attribute (passing between 8 and 17):
One Foot Only: 12.5
One Foot: 12.7
Either Foot: 12.2

Completed passes:
One Foot Only: 70.0%
One Foot: 71.7%
Either Foot: 71.5%

Even though Either Footed players have 0.3 points less in passing they complete 1.5% more of their passes compared to One Foot Only.

An interesting observation is that it the difference between One Foot Only and One Foot seems to be bigger than the difference between One Foot and Either Foot.

But let's compare apples and apples. As described in the thread from the FM forums, attributes will most likely be lower when a player is two-footed, and that is also why the mean from my test sample is lower for two-footed players.  So how does a player with One Foot compare to a player with Either Foot when they have the same attribute points for passing?

I'd say One Foot has about 1.5 % higher percentage of passes completed than One Foot Only when the passing attribute is equal. And Either Foot has around 0.5% higher than One Foot.

So how much do 2% translate to in terms of the Passing attribute? Well, that is the interesting thing. It seems like there is a clear threshold when reaching Passing 15 and Decisions 14, independent of footedness.

Below Passing 12 the passes completed rise very slowly, then there is a big jump of 5% up to Passing 15 before it again reaches a plateau. The same is true for Decisions, from 12 to 14 the passes completed jump up by 4%.

So to summarize, I started investigating two-footedness under the assumption that it impacts passing a lot. I've found that it improves around 2% of passes completed, but that getting a player who is not One Footed Only is probably a better bet. I've also found that having a total sum of Passing + Decisions above 28 is very important for completing passes, more so than how many feet they use...

So my next midfielder will probably be a one-footed player competent with his other foot, with Passing 15 and Decicions 14!

Sorry if this post didn't make too much sense, I just wrote down stuff as I found them so it might have ended up a bit unorganised.. :)