Description of issue
You might know me as I often post about the staff side of things in FM. I always like to track what high potential new staff (freshly retired players) do in the game and I keep them shortlisted across my saves. I often complained that the game auto-retires any staff member that doesn't get a job in 2-or-so years, regardless of their PA (next Guardiola with 190 PA is probably retired at 36 because no club will sign them)
This time I'd like to talk about two topics: The scouts and the DOFs
Firsly, i've noticed that the DOFs do not increase their stats at all in time. their CA and attributes will remain the same in 10 years. More so, the AI clubs will never renew their contracts if they are moved by the player with the editor. So I kept track of some of these players retired as DOFs with high potential and moved them to clubs using the ingame editor so they can develop in time. In less than 3 years, most of them were fired and retired in less than a year after. Only one remained active, which is Krzysztof Piatek. And 10 years later, he is stuck at his initial CA of 114, with a PA of 173, his Judging CA and PA attributes remaining the same. Unfortunately I don't have more examples to show at this time, but it's happened to the rest of those i've tracked. (screenshots attached). I am running my custom league editor data hence the weird teams in history, but that shouldn't influence any staff development mechanics.
Second, I'd like to talk about scouts. I've also been tracking scouts, and unfortunately, there is a huge lack of them in longer saves. They do develop their attributes in time, however that being incredibly slowly. Thankfully, in FM24 we get staff attribute green arrows so I could finally see when that happens - and I've noticed that the only time scouts get stats increase is a tick at the end of the season, around June. And it's very likely that it's less than a bump of 1 whole point per year. The game very rarely turns a player into a staff member with more than 12 judging CA/PA attributes, and by keeping track of loads of these new scouts with high PAs, I have concluded that it takes more than 15 years for a scout to get decent stats for the top teams. There are plenty of real life scouts that start with very high stats (scouts in their 30's with 18+ JCA/JPA) but the scouts that the game generates will reach these numbers in their 50s and 60s. Combine this with the issue that teams very rarely hire freshly retired players and those staff members retire if not hired in 2 years, and all of this leads to one thing - a severe lack of good scouts in longer term saves.
Take the screenshots - there are 238 scouts of +16 JCA/JPA in my save in 2040 and only a single one is a staff member that didn't start the game (retired player). There are 54 of +18 JCA/JPA and not a single one is a new addition (retired player or freshly generated). Obviously t's not a bad number at this stage, might be even higher than the start of the save (can't check now) but we need to consider that the pool for staff that could reach this JCA/JPA number has most likely dried at this point so the rate will only go down as most of these +60 years old scouts will retire soon.
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