[Young player with low stats doing brillianty]

This is one of those players you just embrace. Which In my opinion, makes games football manager and OOTP so much fun. I will say that ratings typically matter. The long shot rating is one I’ve always questioned however. But I’ve had Many players I’ve brought up because of injuries or played in games to rest a starter and they end up earning PT despite their rating because of their performance on the pitch. I wouldn’t look to figure out why this player is performing better than expected, I would believe my squad had better depth after the performance and the supporting cast mask his deficiencies. I’ve tinkered with my tactics for guys like the one you have explained in emergency Injury situations and have completely screwed things up or found a guy who has a chance to be a solid depth guy I can count on. 

[Early faves to manage FM20?]

I really want to do a journeyman challenge or pick a team for me. I have tried this in the past but have yet to make it stick. Any tips would be appreciated 

[Developing my 4123DM Wide ("Tiki-Taka")]

Another season another promotion thanks to this thread! I’ve found out the smallest tweaks can be the difference. The second season was more difficult in the vanarama National for me and learned more about my tactic. Small changes  like changing one of my fullbacks to attack (usually have both in support) would be enough to make the difference. I see work ball into the box works for some of you guys but my guys don’t have the passing/vision/anticipation/and off ball to do so. First season I would change my mentality from positive to attacking when down and my tactic was just crap on attacking. 

I have two if’s one on attack and one on support) the one on attack scored way more goals then my support one on my first season but that was the opposite come second season. 

One thing I started doing was head into each game with a positive mentality and once I got a lead I would ride out the game on a cautious mentality with some tweaks. This was my biggest mid season adjustment that help me solidify my title imo. I think it could be in my head but for some reason I scored a lot more from corners with a cautious mentality. Also you have to adjust to your players traits. Dm with a get forward whenever possible trait was not cutting it for me. 

 

Best fm save ever. For everyone asking people in the thread how they have their tactic set up, and what their pi’s are. Don’t. (Jk but seriously) Make the tactic yourself and you will feel 80 times better about yourself. And most importantly I guarantee you will have more success as everyone has different players up against different competition.

 

Going into my third pre season and  I’m going to try to incorporate a mezzela into my tactic and I’m pumped.

Highly doubt I get three straight promotions so I’ll be asking for help here shortly.

 

[Developing my 4123DM Wide ("Tiki-Taka")]

I just want to say that this thread helped me out a ton. I finally got bored of downloading tactics and this opened my eyes on a lot of things. I used the whole preseason testing things with York City and it wasn't until the very end of preseason where i finally found a tactic that worked for me. No badges and sunday league player and i ended up going 33-8-1. The one lose was the last game of the season (still pissed about that). But i scored 96 goals and only allowed 27. I averaged 61% possession. I have done other saves with downloaded tactics but was never this dominant. And that was because i finally figured out something that was good for my team. I played 8 preseason games, and some people try to make the change for a couple of games and immediately ask for help on what to do despite not testing long enough. Utilize the preseason! And utilize games you are winning(also crucial for me) to test new things out.

All of Hernes suggestions to increase possession are awesome, but when he says watch the first ten minutes to figure out how the tactic is working was extremely helpful.  Using all of the tips he suggested, lead me to having high possession numbers, but we weren't creating goals and making the decisions i wanted the players to make. But by slowly watching the game play out, helped me figure out what changes i needed to make. I am not going to say what worked and what didn't for me, but it was the whole testing phase of the preseason, and making small changes, and seeing how my team reacted to those changes here and there and adding more changes.  I beat Coventry city in the second round of the FA cup, and lost to huddersfield 3-2 in the third round by simply watching what was happening and adjusting.

Also, the other people who posted in this thread contributed to helping my knowledge as well so I want to thank everyone. My goal was to understand the game better and quit using broken downloadable tactics, and this thread did just that. Cheers!