[FM22 Winter update] Caribbean Megapack

[V50]

It's been many years since I released one of these, but I've quite enjoyed FM22! 

Attached is the Caribbean megapack, which has leagues for all Caribbean nations, and some secondary leagues for some.

It also has an NACL rebuild (optional), which expands the Champions League to 32 teams, has a modified Leagues Cup, a central american club cup, and most importantly a rebuilt Caribbean Cup that integrates all nations.

I have also made a transfer preferences file, which encourages larger nations to transfer players from the region. Without this, the best players retire around 23, as they are too good/reputable for clubs in their nation but not reputable enough to transfer abroad to bigger clubs (See below about awards too).

Unlike other league packs, I have tested these leagues up until 2030, including sustainable finances for clubs and player/coach awards for each league. I particularly dislike leagues without awards, as awards can play a significant role in raising a player's reputation, which influences things like national team selection, which clubs are interested in transferring them, and team selection domestically. 

Suggestion;

If you are playing in Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, or Trinidad, you can ignore the rebuild if you like - you always have a fully-fledged chance of qualifying for the NACL.

If you are playing elsewhere, or want a proper Caribbean Club Championship, then activate it. Teams outside those 4 nations get a totally random chance of qualifying for the NACL, so it can be quite depressing. The reason I had to rebuild the entire thing was that I couldn't pull the top 3 teams from the Leagues Cup without rebuilding everything, for a semi-proper qualification process, This is because the winners, runners up, and third place are almost certainly already qualifying from somewhere else, so you need to go quite far down. 

Club Championship group stage (after two qualifying rounds for the second-placed clubs in their nation and the winners of the smallest 16 nations)

 

Revamped NACL with a big group stage instead of the current system. 

Edit: V1.1 updates Caribbean Championship group stage with accurate tiebreakers. 

V1.2 - Antigua back to normal number of games

 

Caribbean megapackv1.2.zip

[Daveincid]

looks great!

[JAwtunes]

Nice work 

[themodelcitizen]

Could you use a hidden stage in the Leagues Cup to have a third place team? Or does the qualifying get thrown off anyway?

If you're managing one of the smaller Caribbean teams, you'll probably get a kick out of my second nationalities file. If you load everyone based in, say, England, then you can try to lure more players to join St. Lucia, Dominica, etc like in real life

[Mediocre_Jake]

Holy crap, I've been waiting for someone to fix the Caribbean system as I want to try and play in Antigua. Appreciate the work put into this!

I have only really checked the Antiguan league, but is there supposed to be 45 games? Some of these league schedules seem brutal.

Edited May 2, 2022 by Mediocre_Jake

[V50]

6 hours ago, Mediocre_Jake said:

Holy crap, I've been waiting for someone to fix the Caribbean system as I want to try and play in Antigua. Appreciate the work put into this!

I have only really checked the Antiguan league, but is there supposed to be 45 games? Some of these league schedules seem brutal.

Yup that was an oversight lol. Initially I was going to go for a 10-man division like previous years, but I thought it would be more interesting to expand it. 

[V50]

18 hours ago, themodelcitizen said:

Could you use a hidden stage in the Leagues Cup to have a third place team? Or does the qualifying get thrown off anyway?

If you're managing one of the smaller Caribbean teams, you'll probably get a kick out of my second nationalities file. If you load everyone based in, say, England, then you can try to lure more players to join St. Lucia, Dominica, etc like in real life

I thought about a hidden stage, but I figured since I was already editing it, I might as well add a playoff - that's what is planned in real life, although there's no released info on what form it might take. Honestly it ends up redundant a lot of the time, as the top 3 in the Leagues cup almost certainly qualified through their leagues anyway lol. That's why there are so many redundant entries if you load it up in the editor (there's like 6 extra lines adding teams from the USA and Mexico if not enough teams have been added due to the Leagues Cup people having already been entered)

If you let the FM Researchers know who is missing second nationalities we can get it updated for the next game  Research is under the "bugs" section of the forum I think

[Mediocre_Jake]

2 minutes ago, V50 said:

Yup that was an oversight lol. Initially I was going to go for a 10-man division like previous years, but I thought it would be more interesting to expand it. 

No problem, appreciate the quick fix!

[Bartrcm]

Hello @V50,

Thanks a lot for this great database. I've started a save in St. Lucia, and it seems that the teams and logo's doesn't match. One question: are all the teams in your database real teams? Just asking because to be honest, I don't know anything about those countries, but I do like to start in a real obscure country, and try to build something.

[V50]

29 minutes ago, Bartrcm said:

Hello @V50,

Thanks a lot for this great database. I've started a save in St. Lucia, and it seems that the teams and logo's doesn't match. One question: are all the teams in your database real teams? Just asking because to be honest, I don't know anything about those countries, but I do like to start in a real obscure country, and try to build something.

All teams are real - logos would be an external add on you've installed as there are no licensed teams in the Caribbean. I added some new teams for the official release so if you're using last year's logos it might not match.

[anitamui]

The League Registeration on Suriname is bugged
Maybe you could disable them on every files?

[Bartrcm]

19 hours ago, V50 said:

All teams are real - logos would be an external add on you've installed as there are no licensed teams in the Caribbean. I added some new teams for the official release so if you're using last year's logos it might not match.

Thanks for the reply, and yes I use the logo's from last year.

[Ehhhh.Naldo]

Sorry for random late bump but most leagues in this db have a registration bug after 2 seasons has anyone ever found a fix for this ?