Lord Rowell

The highest expectation I allow in my teams is "regular starter". When I lower the expected playing time, I try to convince them with a friendly chat, usually on line of competion for places. Sometimes they throw their toys out of the pram, but later, as in the words of the late great Brian Clough, "we then agree that I was right all along".

I DID POST THIS IN THE SPECULATION THREAD. I HOPE PEOPLE DON'T MIND ME POSTING HERE AS WELL AS ITS APPROPRIATE TO THIS THREAD. Just on this, quoted from Miles' blog post. "The same is true of crafting a design that’s platform agnostic, enabling ease of play whether you’ve got a mouse and keyboard, a controller, or even a touch screen. " Enabling ease of play with different devices is especially important for people with disabilities e.g. motor-control issues. I suspect going down this route might make FM more accessible to some people? I know Miles / SI (I think) are supporters of https://www.specialeffect.org.uk/ - a charity that enable gamers with disabilities to be more easily able to access games. In this discussion on this issue, I'd ask everyone to give this at least a little thought. I hope this is part of the motivation for this route and it would be good to get a response from someone from SI about this.

Just on this, quoted from Miles' blog post. "The same is true of crafting a design that’s platform agnostic, enabling ease of play whether you’ve got a mouse and keyboard, a controller, or even a touch screen. " Enabling ease of play with different devices is especially important for people with disabilities e.g. motor-control issues. I suspect going down this route might make FM more accessible to some people? I know Miles / SI (I think) are supporters of https://www.specialeffect.org.uk/ - a charity that enable gamers with disabilities to be more easily able to access games. In this discussion on this issue, I'd ask everyone to give this at least a little thought. I hope this is part of the motivation for this route and it would be good to get a response from someone from SI about this.

But if they're Model Citizens, they're going to be exemplary at taking care of their own fitness and professional development. Hence the need for coach-led training will be diminished.

Yes, its effectively 1-200 in terms of individual data points. Each attribute is ranged from .0 to .9. @Spalloon the player profile screen, menu bar, when you go to "development" and look at player progress, you'll be able to see that in decimals e.g. 15.1, 15.2 etc. @NineCloudNinethere are many little nuggets of info like these that people don't know. Even as an experienced player, I still learn new things

I have watched the video. I would just gently suggest that watching the video, and watching / reading anything before comment, is pretty important, especially in our age of disinformation, clickbait and fake-news. People should know better. Its actually not Zealand's experiment, its from someone else. Zealand then tried to replicate it. Zealand has replicated similar tests in the past, and debunked them so I think he's getting some unfair comment here on start point, and methodology. FWIW I have my own views on the wider issue, that actually even with the results I don't think the ME / FM is broken at all, I put my own thoughts earlier in the thread. In short, even IRL, you give one team (or a person in an individual sport) one or two excessive advantages, it'll overpower everything else.

Pretty certain this already exists... check FM Scout. Many 90s onwards DBs have now been done. So if I had to pick a season, fully appreciating colossal level of research, it would be 1973-74. - Man Utd relegated - would take a lot of honesty to do the right attributes for formerly great players there - Sunderland (my team) have won the FA Cup and have some fantastic players (selfish reason) - Interesting World Cup with the great Total Football Netherlands side, Brazil in decline and a strong Scotland side - Ajax at peak, also Liverpool well on the way

I'm not convinced this is a particularly significant issue. If one team, or individual, has a small number of characteristics that are far in excess of the opponent, they're going to have a disproportionate effect on the outcome. Say you have two teams IRL. One womens, one mens. Assume the women's team are better technically, mentally, and tacticaly. The men would still win due to their physical power i.e. pace and strength. To a lesser degree, I suspect this is what's happened in this simulation. It would be interesting to do this with other attributes in the same way though e.g. decisions & composure, workrate & stamina, and so on, to see if there were any similar effects.

You've done well to get Stockport to the top of English football so quickly and really glad you are enjoying the save. When its run its course, or you've achieved all you want to achieve and want an even bigger challenge, consider managing s smaller club that isn't in the big European leagues, so for example Eastern Europe or Scandinavia. As well as trying to get to the top of the country you choose, you'll have the added challenge of trying to compete in European competion, but without the big TV revenues that the top leagues get.

I think it would be fun. Agree with others that those clubs will recover, but it does create a bit of short-term chaos.

Your transfer budget is low because Man Utd are loaded with over £600m of short-term debt in the game. Repayments of that debt start in season 1. If you go to your finance page, then under "debt & loans" you'll see total debt and the repayment schedule. IIRC you're paying out approx £13m per month to service the debt. Once you get to about 2027, most of the debt is cleared and you'll start to get more financial resources. I think the final repayment for all loans is August 2029.

I can't post links to other sites here, but its possible other, independent fan forums have created, using things like in-game editors, time-lapsing etc., save files where you are straight at the tournament. But SI have never done this.

I just interpret this as a reflection of the individual player's personality, the kind that is never happy and always finds something to complain about. Its pretty much always the same players in my experience.

My instinct, given the change to the Unity engine, is that we'll get some info a little earlier than usual and I'm specifically thinking about the specs needed to run FM25. Other than that, I guess just be patient

I think the text commentary needs a lot of love and new lines, old lines removing / editing and so on.