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FM23 Barbados YAC: Road View FC 2071 Season 49 – BFA Digicel Premier League League Performance: Cup Performance: North American Champions League: Caribbean Zone: We had our worst performance in the NACL in decades as we failed to advance out of our group. Completely manager error as I didn't properly see out a game and we got blown out with final minute goals. What happens when you play too late and don't pay attention... NACL Tournament Tree: Monterrey actually lost a final! NACL Standings: Squad: CA Player List: Excel Graphs: CA & RA Tables: Player Highlights: Transfers: Best XI: Excel Tables: Head Coach: No Change Club Improvements: No Change Youth Academy: HOYD: No Change Youth Intake Preview: Youth Intake: Top 3 Players: Excel Tables & Graphs: Part I Excel Tables & Graphs: Part II Excel Tables & Graphs: Future Analysis Barbados National Team: A year of friendlies, so nothing exciting to report. Road View Internationals: Barbados Main: Barbados Youth: Summary I'm losing steam in Barbados especially after such a boring season without NACL matches. I used all that holiday time between matches to work towards getting the excel file ready for the next Caribbean adventure. This next season will be my final attempt at the NACL title with Road View (at least for the time being). The team is very good right now as long as my Goalkeeper just keeps on trucking. Yes, his Speed/Agility are dead but he can still jump and has okay balance, so isn't a liability in goal. I plan to play till I get eliminated from the continental competition and then do a 50-year roundup of my Caribbean World. I want to establish how good/bad the leagues I have loaded developed into here to set the bar high for Martinique.

Fantastic first year sale!

FM23 Barbados YAC: Road View FC 2070 Season 48 – BFA Digicel Premier League League Performance: Cup Performance: No mistake this season North American Champions League: Caribbean Zone: I was worried we weren't going to advance this season after a shock loss away in Haiti 1-0 to Arcahaie. Lucky for us this was a tight group this year and two draws latter and we advance. Caribbean Playoff: Clean sheets see us on to the main event. NACL 2nd Round 1st Leg: 2nd Leg: NACL Tournament Tree: Not a shock but Monterrey won their 6th title in the past 7 seasons: Squad: CA Player List: Excel Graphs: CA & RA Tables: Formation: With two clear Attacking Midfielders arriving in our past two intakes it was a no-brainer to switch to the 4-2-3-1. It is relatively standard with the lone exception of Rhys Jackson. For Barbados Jackson has played exclusively as the AMR support second striker in a 4-2-3-1 system. So much so he gained Natural Ability in that position just form national team play. When I select him my AsMan suggests to play him as a "Raumdeuter", a role I have never used in FM. Having experimented it seems to suit him very well as it gives him better matchups on FBs instead of CBs and he gets to use his 16 Off the Ball to find spaces. Since my strongest player is my RB in Goodridge he can handle the added defensive responsibilities. Player Highlights: Shockingly Sheran Goodridge stopped wanting to leave and I pounced with a new deal. 4+2 years at 15k p/w makes him the 3rd highest paid player at the club. Well worth that moderate cost. In a theme this spring Rhys Jackson also stopped asking to leave, so of course I went and signed a new deal. This one will cost the club: 4+1 Year deal at $85k p/w base salary, with a significant number of bonuses adding up to a total value of $17.25 Million USD. Dude is making English money now so hopefully that will shut him up about wanting to leave for greener pastures and finally be happy and perform for us. He makes almost double the other star Barbados striker who plays for QPR in the Championship earing 49k p/w. Transfers: Totally forgot about this poached GK. Scunthrope are in the Vanarama National, so I expect a domestic Barbados club to bring him back someday. Lots of loans this year and still selling off / letting go older depth. Best XI: Excel Tables: I reorganized the tables now that I've added Team's 10 Highest Players by Role Ability. Head Coach: No Change Club Improvements: I mean, if you're willing to give me more affiliates now Mr. Chairman I'm not going to say no. Martinique is now added to the stable. If I was going to play long-term this would be great in a development perspective. Better facilities than BRB clubs, and the chance for NACL early round matches as well as lots of good ratings if you can win games. Youth Academy: HOYD: No Change Youth Intake Preview: Well the Golden Generation had to end sometime… Youth Intake: ... or "technically" not, Hola South America! Top 3 Players: Excel Tables: Regardless of what my HOYD thinks, the data shows this is clearly not at the level of the previous 3 Golden Generation intakes. Youth Nationalities: I've been lazy of collecting the youth nationalities since Barbados is pretty uniform in what you get. With the added affiliates I updated the export to start tracking our foreign players again. In just 3 years of affiliates Chillie and Jamaica are already #4 & #5 Nationalities. Can you see why I've been frustrated not getting affiliates for so long? [I'll convert to full names next season, that takes more work] Barbados National Team: A big year for Barbados as we went to the World Cup! Sadly, it was a bloodbath with Ukraine and Argentina as matchups. 3 World Cups now and Barbados has yet to register a goal let alone a point. Still an accomplishment to make it to the WC and doing so saw a new peak World Rank of Road View Internationals: Barbados Main: Fitzgerald Atkins: In what is a first for me without managing the national team my goalkeeper had his 200th International Cap during the World Cup window. For two decades he has been the man between the sticks for Barbados. I'm assuming he will be retiring form the national team in the next year or so. All my field players retire at 31/32 from the national team. Barbados Youth: Caribbean International Performance: World Cup: Haiti Fell to Romania & South Africa at the group stage. Jamaica had a tough group with Spain & Japan and bombed out as well. All 3 countries failed to earn even a point in the group stage. World Cup history will be made when either Croatia or Switzerland claim the best nation in 2070! Summary Without NACL matches I was able to properly train this year and work to quickly develop my young talents ahead of schedule and I think it worked. While most are decent, both Aiden Cassidy and Renaldo Morris have become real stars in our attacking midfield. Question will be if they can perform on the big stage at such a young age. Clock is ticking on my GK...

Seems there's an extra Trinidad File. I know you said you were working on T&T, so thought I'd let you know. Should be fine for my game.

Perfect timing @V50! Excited to start the next great Caribbean adventure.

FM23 Barbados YAC: Road View FC 2069 Season 47 – BFA Digicel Premier League League Performance: Cup Performance: We flopped the final North American Champions League: Caribbean Zone: Was a tough group this time around and got to face-off against both of our Caribbean affiliates! We were carried ahead of Cibao due to our strong defensive performances. Caribbean Playoff: Defense didn't show up against Mount Pleasant, but our strikers woke up and were able to keep us just ahead on aggregate to advance (even if we had a disappointing loss at home in the second leg). NACL 2nd Round: Cincinnati MLS 1st Leg: 2nd Leg: NACL Quarter Final: Monterrey Liga MX 1st Leg: 2nd Leg: NACL Tournament Tree: With their 5th trophy in 6 years the dynasty of Monterrey is real in North America Comp History Squad: CA Player List: Excel Graphs: CA & RA Average Tables: Player Highlights: Transfers: Best XI: Excel Tables: Head Coach: Club Improvements: It was teased in the NACL results, but we got our 4th affiliate in Jamaica this year! Pretty sure this will be the end of affiliates and that's fine. Youth Academy: HOYD: No Change Youth Intake Preview: Youth Intake: Two Elite Talents is great to finally be getting the potential in our intakes. Again more attacking minded players with an overload of wingers unfortunately this year. Means we might switch to a more standard 4-3-3 in the coming seasons. Interesting our first affiliate players actually are coming from our 4th affiliate picked up just 6 months before the intake. They of course are awful, but I didn’t expect good ones right away. Top 3 Players: Excel Tables: Barbados National Team: It is the time of the officially best ever Barbadian National Team ranked #81 in the world! I know its still super low, but considering this is a 150+ nation at the start this is massive. Right now Barbados has not only qualified for the Gold Cup proper, but is doing fantastic in their World Cup Qualifying group. Barbados got very lucky in the draw avoiding all of the highest difficulty opponents. A second world cup should be incoming. Road View Internationals: Barbados Main: Barbados Youth: Summary With @V50 final update for the FM24 version of the Caribbean the countdown clock has started on this save. It is fitting as well considering we have 3 star defensive players that are 31 (LB), 31 (RB) & 35 (GK). I see 3 years left for the save to take our final shot at glory. With that in mind next year is the rebuild year where I will be bringing up all of the high potential youngsters and shipping off the middling 20-year-olds. Focus will be the cup to secure qualification for 2072. Then seasons 2 & 3 will be only about NACL. Our young talents: A seriously offensive bunch we get 1 natural striker, 3 CM/AMC, Both an AML & AMR and then 2 CDs one of whom has been given a broader training. What is perfect is the top 3 potential fit perfectly as the attackers around our star striker for the top of a 4-2-3-1. Go for broke eh?

@V50 shame he didn't credit your awesome work! Before I picked Road View back up, I was looking at finally starting a FM24 save with Martinique utilizing that patch for the French Cup and finally getting to play the Caribbean Shield & Cup. My thought is Martinique should be a lot easier to boost the domestic league with trialing French free agents assuming all French Nationals count for domestic players. Also, lots of cups to win for club rep. I've probably only got another 2-3 seasons in me for Road View, so tag me when you post the update and I'll be happy to christen v3! Barbados' Other 3 Top Clubs The 6 foreign player limit + 5 year naturalization in Barbados has meant slow domestic league strengthening in this save. Finally, it is at the point now that the domestic competition is actually difficult due to heavy congestion & required rotation. The top 3 have built solid squads with older naturalized foreigners, new foreigners, retiring British-Barbadians & my rejects for strong starting XIs. Currently I've developed 89 players in the top-flight. Since my first team has 27 players that's 62 of my rejects playing in Barbados T1. With 11 other teams with ~20 players per team I've produced 28% of the opposing players in my domestic league. Going off @mpm2342 conveniently placed graph above I can say the domestic league is roughly up to League 2 level strength. And while my clubs CA average for Regular Starters is higher (102), judging by Role ability we are actually on fairly equal footing (61.5) Weymouth Wales: CA Avg: 84 | RA Avg: 59 Always in the mix Weymouth, have just finished rebuilding the squad and have secured a solid Mexican striker to lead the line with 98 goals in 119 games coming directly from the MLS. Even as the historic 2nd best club they've hardly improved the infrastructure over the decades. Waterford Compton: CA Avg: 87 | RA Avg: 60 Having recently poached my Reserve Head Coach, Compton have been built into a great relatively young team that threatens to become more dominant than BDFSP as my main competition. Their strength is in the midfield with Padilla & 70 RA playmaker Velasquez. The latter is a successfully naturalized Mexican player who is crucial to the national teams current form. Of their first team all but 1 are foreign or came out of my academy. Even though he has a lower CA American Ortiz is a dangerous attacker with 15/16 speeds & dribbling Very meh level of club infrastructure development with still a tiny 5k stadium. BDFSP: CA Avg: 96 | RA Avg: 63 The OG team has become the old-man retirement destination for the English generated Barbadians and my old men. Team is extremely skilled, but lacks pace compared to Compton. Will be interesting to see how they rebuild the team and if their money can keep them above Compton. Paraguan Gavilan has lost his speed but is still one of the best players in Barbados. Guy is a legend at BDFSP having played 270 matches over 12 seasons. There lone two young talents are a Dominican DM and American CAM. They also have the lone quality Barbadian talent to emerge from a lower league club Kemar Yarde, who they poached immediately and he's become a solid poacher. This is the only club that has developed its infrastructure passed basic levels with a good sized 13.8k stadium and Adequate Training & Youth Facilities.

For some nations it helps to use advance options to directly select adding players to the league(s) below you that send up promotion teams. With that said, having just a starting 11 isn't unheard of. A reason why there are a lot of first season failures, especially in highly congested leagues.

Congrats @djsterry! Fun choice for your next ride. If it doesn't pan out I can highly recommend V50's modpack for the Caribbean if you want an experience completely off the normal path.

FM23 Barbados YAC: Road View FC 2068 Season 46 – BFA Digicel Premier League League Performance: Cup Performance: North American Champions League: League & Cup were a breeze this year because we significantly underwhelmed in the NACL. I was right to be worried about the grumbling players at the end of last season. Unhappy stars resulted in us underscoring in the NACL 2nd round. Shame too as we had a great draw. Caribbean Zone: Caribbean Playoff: NACL 2nd Round 1st Leg: Missing 2 clear cut chances with 6 offsides that easily could have led to a goal was brutal to watch. 2nd Leg: Pushing at home didn't help as they got one on us to have the away goal advantage. As you can see my strikers were abysmal at hitting the target. NACL Tournament Tree: NACL Leaderboard: Reserve & U18s: Won their leagues Squad: Inspired by @mpm2342 I've added more tracking of "Role Ability" in my spreadsheet. While maxing CA feels good, I see the value in tracking how well your players are mastering the exact roles they are playing on the pitch. While mpm has their useful European baselines I may have to do a large data-dump this summer to build out levels for North America. (MLS, Liga MX, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Barbados). CA Player List: On the main screen I have added "Playable Position Best Role" to show how they could be maximized. We have a number of starters in the Mid to upper 60's and then there is Rhys Jackson almost to 70. Excel Graphs: CA Average Tables: Role Average Tables: New to this season I created a duplicate of the CA Tables for the Role Ability Player Highlights: Transfers: Most of the activity appears on the end of last seasons transfer page. You can see all the loans and us unloading 1) Old players 2) middling middle-aged players & 3) useless youngsters. Then this year I was more aggressive loaning out players around Barbados. Will evaluate how it helped/hurt development to see if I continue. Everyone except BDFSP have trash facilities so its questionable if loans are beneficial. Best XI: Excel Tables: Still haven't built the Best XI spreadsheet. I really like what @mpm2342 has to show his formation and calculate based on best players there. I want to set one that automatically cancels out duplicates. This will be my project for next season (maybe). Head Coach: No updates Club Improvements: WE HAVE AFFILIATES!! I couldn't hold back my excitement and had to post our first in November. 5 months later the option returned, and we now have 2 South American youth-focused affiliates: Danubio of Uruguay and Deportes La Serena of Chile. Board won't negotiate loan deals sadly (would be great leagues to play in), but we got the important bit. Now to find our South American wonderkid! Youth Academy: HOYD: Sometime this year Craig Mighty moved up to 3* Reputation, which is awesome! Hopefully I have another 10 years before he wants to retire as he’s getting up there in age now. Youth Intake Preview: Youth Intake: No foreigners, but this is a fantastic intake for Barbados. I like seeing the high potential even if the personalities could be better. Top 3 Players: Excel Tables: Data! Sheran Goodridge: After a year of mentoring Sheran has gained +1.5 Determination (intake showed 5 but joined with 6) without any mentions of gaining Ambition or Professionalism. My guess is he has over 10+ for both and is closer to 15. If that is the case, Goodridge would be a Model Citizen if his determination wasn't terrible. His mentors have 15-18 for Ambition & Professionalism (Driven -> Professional), so worth the risk to keep them as mentors. So how has he developed? Fantastic! He's improving consistently and is our first player in a long while who has a hope of being on the NxGn list. Learned two moves and has added LB as fully competent so he is in a 3-man rotation at FB for us. Best part is he doesn't have English 2nd Nationality so is already playing for Barbados. Chance he could be a 200 CAP international. Our 34-year-old GK is close at 185. I didn't wait till 18 to sign him on another deal so he's on a 3+3 right now w/o a release clause. I have faint hope at 18 I'll be able to trigger and sign him on a 5+3, but if he keeps developing like this it could become impossible to keep off the release clause. Barbados National Team: Nations League ended in heartbreak of a narrow relegation down to B. This Fall WCQ begin with an easy first opponent of the British Virgin Islands. Road View Internationals: Barbados Main: Barbados Youth: Caribbean International Performance: Haiti almost pulled off an upset in the Gold Cup to advance to a first final, but USA proved too much in extra time: Summary I'd like to claim that this year was a purposeful rebuilding year, but we did under perform in Continental competitions. I'm not worried with the two great intakes and the two affiliates I'm optimistic that a measurable increase in academy product quality is beginning. From my understanding of what goes into the formula we have multiple positive improvements right now: Team Reputation ; HOYD Reputation ; Affiliate Clubs from nations with high Youth Ratings & Club Youth Recruitments ; League Reputation. As the seasons tick on I'm going to have an older and older defense, but thus far we are holding ability and speed at acceptable levels. The Wishlist right now is for any of the 4 defender positions, especially with an either-footed "wonderkid" developing splendidly.

If only they kept the youth facility option available... still salty about that "improvement"

It only took 44 years but we have our first foreign Affiliate, and its actually an awesome one! I have tried in vain for years to get one and the board have spat in my face never agreeing to anything outside of Barbados. It's just this year after our NACL final the "foreign youth affiliate" option appeared, and after begging 3 times the chairman finally agreed. The reputation bar must just be stupidly high in the way the North America is set up considering we are a top 5 club currently. Having no affiliates has been the biggest drag for this save as affiliate youngsters is one of my favorite mechanics in the game.

FM23 Barbados YAC: Road View FC 2067 Season 45 Part II – BFA Digicel Premier League League Performance: Cup Performance: North American Champions League: See Previous Post for Breakdown. Here are some awards my players won in our fantastic (but not victorious) campaign: Matches: We were the NACL title away from an undefeated season in all competitions, shame I lost that friendly against Antwerp or I could say friendlies as well! With the weird schedule in Barbados we play a ton of games each year with almost half being friendlies to keep the team fresh (and get some hard games under our belt). Reserve & U18s: Both won their leagues again. Squad: CA Player List: Excel Graphs: CA Average Tables: Player Highlights: Transfers: Head Coach: Club Improvements: Road view has hit what seems to be the reputation ceiling for North America. It is us and the best Mexico Clubs. Then Alajuelense of Costa Rica with the top MLS clubs. A month before the season we completed the stadium upgrade so we got to host our opening game of the season in our expanded stadium! People flocked to the game with us netting our first greater than $1M league gate receipts. NACL games earned us a little more around 1.3M. We sold out a bunch of our games and averaged 37,580 Attendances so we are getting plenty of fans into the games. Like everyone, there hasn't been an option to upgrade youth facilities and I highly doubt it will ever return. Youth Academy: HOYD: Craig Mighty was generated at the start of the save as a newgen in LL-Jamaica and played a full career till 2045. We hired him right then and by 2047 he was our HOYD making this his 20th season running our academy! Youth Intake Preview: Youth Intake: Our HOYD delivered, but not at all how I expected. Top 3 Players: Excel Tables: Standard Graphs: Barbados National Team: 2066 - I already covered the World Cup smashing. BRB returned to a very difficult Nations League A group with #5 WR Mexico & Haiti. Barbdos got crushed by Mexico, but put the pain on Haiti to record a 2/3 finish to remain in the top Nations League, which is all you can ask for. 2067 - This year it was Gold Cup that messed with the Domestic Cup Final and sadly yet again Barbados got blanked on the big stage. Looking ahead there is some hope with the Nations League group as Barbados already beat Guatemala 1-0 this year. Unless things go sideways a repeat 2/3 finish seems likely. Road View Internationals: Main: 24 Barbados ; 1 Guyana Youth: 12 Barbados Barbadian’s Around the World: English Academy Players: Chelsea & WEst Ham just generated Barbadian players. Of these UK based players only Curtis Croney at the very bottom has declared for Barbados and been in the national team since the World Cup. MLS Academy Players: Basically no one in the US or Canada, which is odd. Caribbean Academy Players: Jamaica generates a lot of Barbados players, but rarely are they impactful for the national side. Other Nations: No other nations generated Barbadians. Caribbean International Performance: Gold Cup: Jamaica and Haiti advanced out of the Group Stage, but unsurprisingly it's still a USA vs Mexico Final. Have to say Haiti almost did it though, makes me wonder what's changed between their Gold Cup and Nations League squads. Summary After the NACL it was just a matter of playing out the season to reach the inevitable victories. The amazing intake has me revitalized for the next 3 years of the challenge. I can say this intake solves our CM depth issues. With 4 CM/CAM options at least 1 should develop. That RB sets us up fantastic to keep our defense strong with now 3 of 5 players being young (U-23). We will see about GK, I have been getting good development out of a 20-year-old and have an adequate 25 year old backup so our 33 Yr Atkins physical decline isn't mission critical. Going into 2068 we bring back the entire starting XI at the same or better ability now with a bench carrying full defensive cover. I have a couple young strikers who will be taking over for rotation squad players, so if they can perform there's no reason we can't repeat this year's campaign. Only hiccup is I got the dumb 'old men want to leave because they accomplished everything' for 3 of my star players. Hopefully they'll get over themselves and get back at another stab at greatness!

FM23 Barbados YAC: Road View FC 2067 Season 45 Part I – NACL Performance Since I teased the NACL Final I'm going to post our continental performance in this half update with Current Team Current Ability analysis. Part II will happen when I finish the season & have the youth intake in July (3 in game months, so will be a bit). But first I want to do an overview of just how strong / weak our team is so the feat of our performance this season is evident. Road View Team Current Ability: Philosophy The day after the NACL Final I exported the CA of my squad as well as all the knockout opponents. To be clear, I waited till after the games were over to export the data so I had to rely on the in-game level of analysis to set up my tactics for these games. The logic I hold is over the summer Road View, like all top teams in North America, are subscribed to the data service that sends out these spreadsheets of retroactive ratings and performances. This provides benchmarks to analyze season performances and make plans for future seasons. Trying to play it realistic as much as possible. Full First Team With the crazy congestion during the NACL I brought up the entire reserve squad into my first team to play the league and domestic cup matches. I also activated the U18s for selection, but haven't included them in this export as they remained in the youth squad and were only a couple were used. Table Terms: Couple clarifications on the spreadsheet as its been a minute: CA This is the a CA calculation with WF=1 to evaluate the actual ability-level of the player. I find this useful when wf isn't important, as well as tracking the actual skill of the intakes. CA-WF This is the calculation that includes the boost for the weak footedness of the player. Attribute Category Ratings: These are separate calculations for each of the4 columns of Attributes that a player has. (Field players have GK values). This shows the average value a player has for all attributes in that column standardized to 100. Thus, a value of 50 denotes an average Attribute value of 10 in that column. You'll see my star players tend to have values in the low 60's denoting an average of between 12-13 for Attributes in that column. Average Position Ratings (Flat Values): For each position and each role I do the same standardized average only selecting Attributes that are highlighted for that. As you can imagine there are a ton of these. For each position type, I then average the scores of all possible roles available to create this value. The reason it's called "Flat Values" is I have the ability to do weighted sums based on the color of highlighted attribute, but I never implemented it. Ideal Role (Flat Values): This finds the highest Position + Role sum generated for the player and displays it. Where this is useful is for youth intakes when I am considering retraining a player. It doesn't take into account what positions the player can actually play. High Position & Best Role: What it sounds like: what was the position where that max value occurred & what exact role was selected. This includes the D/S/A element as well as these are all calculated individually. Table Analysis You'll notice on the entire team there are only 5 players that I rate over 100 CA-WF. Luckily, they are all in unique positions that are key for establishing a strong team. I have star: GK, RB, LB, DLP (DM/CM) & ST (AMC/STC). Like all YAC squads these guys aren't "Perfect" players and have some big flaws that I have to take into consideration when building the team. Quickly list them in the spoiler screenshots: Team Ability Table: Using the above CA calculations, and the minutes played in the season I'm able to create conditional averages of players ability in each position based on both any position they can play (repeat players) as well as the Recommended position (Unique Players). The minute thresholds I generally use are 1M (played at all) 500M (Rotation & Starters) & 1200M (Starters). As this is a partial season we have to rely on the 500M. You'll notice the Best XI is blank in red. Again this is another part of the spreadsheet I haven't completed, but plan to. It's a lot harder to set up than you'd expect... To show how big of a drag the squad players are, I did a secondary reduced export only including the players selected for the final game in Mexico: This is our baseline to compare how strong my team is vs the opponents faced in the NACL. You can see that our starting squad players are in the 80-90 Range and then the star players are the 5 over 100s to bring averages up. The team is very clearly weakest in the midfield, and that is why I'm focusing on narrow formations with an overload of CMs to makeup for the lower skill-value there. Road View Formations: Original Formation: 3 - 5 -2 In the previous play of this save I was exclusively using variants of 3-5-2 formations. This formation relies on having great WBs to dominate the flanks (check) and a rock-solid back 3 to hold off opposition (not-so-check). This formation is countered heavily by a classic 4-3-3 as the wide attackers match up on CD instead of the WBs, who they can easily out-pace and beat 1v1. Looking back at last year's performance against Monterrey this is clearly what happened when they beat us 3-3 at home. 2067 Continental Formation: 4-4-2 Dimond In what is actually a more conservative version of the same philosophy of play I essentially dropped back the starting position of the WBs and pushed up a stopper. Then the DLP sits on the side with the better and more offensive FB, while the Mezzala is on the side I had to be more careful on due to weaker FB options. What this allows then is for me to play 3 Strikers, 5 Defenders and just 2 Midfield players in an effort to field to my strength & depth. North American Champions League: Caribbean Zone: We absolutely dominated our group. Very happy to see BDFSP got to experience some NACL action in what turned out to be a very hotly contested group with all strong teams. Caribbean Playoff: vs Arcahie [Haiti] Playoff wasn't too difficult. I got lax managing the team and we let in 2 late goals when we were in Haiti. NACL 2nd Round: vs St Louis City [MLS] By far our easiest opponent of the knockouts, STLC was a good warmup for what was to come. While they are better in most positions, their squad actually has a few weaknesses. They played a 4-3-3 (like basically all the teams we faced) so those strong AM wide roles were utilized to great effect. Due to it being an average, their decent 117 CA GK is brought down by bad backups. Their star player is a very good 140 CA striker, who they actually liked playing as a wide attacker. Strong CD at 131 & 2 in the 120s give them a manageable number of stars to deal with. 1st Leg - Away St. Louis We did enough on a rainy day in St Louis to come away with a 1-1 draw. We had more of the chances and gifted them the goal with a major error in the buildup. Since I played my Moneyball save at STLC I really want to get the win when we bring them down to the island. Second Leg - Home Bridgeview Not even 3 minutes in and Rhys Jackson finds the back of the net! Let’s Go Boys! Hardings has a couple offsides call back some great moves, but it doesn’t take long for him to stay on and feed Jackson a perfect ball to make it 2-0 in the first 15min. We dominated the rest of the game, but couldn’t extend the lead. 3-1 Agg is plenty. NACL Quarter Final: vs Austin FC [MLS] Austin have a more balanced squad then STLC and one that has more speed (which isn't evident in these screenshots). Still key point is that our star players are at the same level or slightly better than their average player. Their star player is a CD at 134. They then have a 123 Winger, with the remainder of the players involved in any given game between 100-110. 1st Leg - Home Bridgeview I tried a change of formation to a 4-4-2 Diamond and it seems to have paid off handsomely defensively. Pushing the wb back into a back 4 shored up the defense. Changing between CWB, WB-A & FB-S/A allows to vary the aggressiveness of the wingers better as well as set their starting positions. Utilizing 3 strikers became very difficult for their back line to deal with. Dropping Jackson deeper into the AMC-SS slot also makes him harder to get marked out by the CD as he is running forward into attack to recieve lay-offs from the strikers or balls over the top form midfield. Formation worked so much better (had a late injury so dropped to strikerless to see out the game) 2nd Leg - Away Austin When we went to Austin we didn’t take any risks and played as boring of a possession game as possible. I liked keeping 3 strikers for the majority of the game to keep them honest up top, to see out the game I pulled a striker for a BWM to clog up the middle and it worked. Good defensive ratings with my GK actually not succumbing to his bad big match tendencies! NACL Semi-Final: vs America [Liga Mx] Mexican teams have massive squads compared to MLS teams and their depth is staggering. This is a 40 man roster and its averaging close to our best player across all that can play in each position. If America can start their best XI you are looking at a mostly 125 - 135 CA squad with a couple outliers above and below. I believe this is comparable to a lower-level Premier League squad, vs the MLS teams that are at best mid-table Championship teams. 1st Leg - Home Bridgeview We started off on fire with an unbelievable 23 second goal. Welcome to Barbados! 20’ in we got lucky that their chip over the keeper bounced off the crossbar and out. Things got golden when in the 23’ Jackson, whose loving life in the deep 3rd striker turns his opponent on the edge of the box and slots it home for a 2-0 lead. Dreamland! Their lethal striker Fernandez brings one back quickly in the 31’ beating both our cbs to a cross. They repeat the process in the 43’ to level us going into halftime. Story of the season: 2 defensive lapses lead to 2 goals. Even with the FBs back further and marking up on the wide players we don't have the skill, speed or size to match-up properly 1v1. Second half in the 57’ we get gifted an own goal when a clearance rickochets off a defender and into the back of the net. Then we held on during a brutal second half. I had to move a CB into RB because that’s where their two goals came from and 18-year-old Marquez shut them down completely! Might have to play him there in Mexico to try in vain to defend a 1 goal lead. We will additionally be down our best CM Vickers, who picks up a yellow card suspension sadly. Will mean using old tiny Hoyte who is 34, 5'3" with 1 jumping reach and 4 strength. At least he's skilled smart and Professional! 2nd Leg - Away Mexico City Now we go to the biggest stadium in North America, which is notoriously hard to play at. We basically have to shut them out or win on Aggregate as their 2 away goals give them a serious edge. Tweaked to a more defensive version of the formation to try and accomplish the herculean feat. Good start sees us holding possession well enough and keeping them from having true chances. My worry is getting hit on the counter or due to a mistake in the buildup (due to our low skill) so I try to keep more men back with instructions and tactics. We end the first half keeping them to a single SOT with only .2 xG and we held 56% possession which is fantastic. I expect them to up the pressure in the second half. 49’ I thought we were done for as their main man Fernandez got behind, but Atkins came up with a big stop. 67’ I change to a 4-1-3-2 and begin packing in more. 82’ we are still ahead and I bring on my smaller FB hoping his speed will be in our advantage. They have two new wingers so its badly needed. I also switch to a 4-1-3-1-1 or 4-5-1 narrow. We still haven’t recorded a single shot this game but have held 55% possession. OMFG we did it!! Literally 0 xG for us but it doesn’t matter, we advance!! NACL Final: Away @ Monterrey While Monterrey squad is much smaller than America, the talent level is pretty nuts and there is a reason they are dominating North America. Their average ability per-position is at the level of our best player on the whole team. For most positions we are looking at a 40-50 CA gap, which is extreme. There is no weakness in this team, period. This is the final hurdle for Road View to overcome, our boogeyman team. Could we do it in 2067?? Sadly, it didn't take them long to show us their skill; 15 min and they are in the back of the net. What has become a trend for the team, a breakdown in our buildup caught us flat footed and their left winger beats my injured FBR 1v1 to open the scoring. I end up doing two defensive changes in the first half for a complacent CB and then the injured RB as we are in shambles after they score a 2nd in the 29', again due to bad marking and coordination on the back line. At that point it looks like this will be a blow out but somehow manage to find a goal right before halftime to bring it back to 2-1. Was completely against the run of play and was down to the heroics of our star striker. We go into the locker room in high spirits dreaming: Perhaps there's a chance!?! Goal 1 Rhys Jackson Team comes out pumped for the Second half and it’s a beautiful start with our old man Clark feeding the young star Jackson in the 47’ to find us an equalizer! He's flying with the best middle performance of his career. I'm cheering: We’re back in it baby!! Goal 2 Rhys Jackson Unfortunately, at the 55’ they bring us back down to reality pulling us every which way and getting a 3rd goal. We pushed but by this point in the game our legs were giving out and we couldn’t make lightning strike a third time. My Goalkeeper really let us down today with a 6.1 rating. ****ing hates big matches, I swear it's the worst!! While we were lucky to do as well as we did, weren't quite lucky enough to bring it home yet again. 3 Finals and 3 defeats. Also, the 3rd time in the past 4 years the NACL champions Monterrey forced our exit. NACL Tournament Tree: Road View NACL Competition History: While we initially entered the NACL in 2031, we weren't able to exit the Caribbean group stage till 2041. Our next milestone was our first Quarter Final in 2048, which we reached a couple of times before in 2056 we had heartbreak to be eliminated in our first Semi-Final on away goals. That era ended in 2059 with the absurd Extra Time added time gifted goal to the opposition just missing out on a penalty shoutout. I still consider this campaign the one we should have completed the challenge. It took a few years, but right now we are in what is our best sustained continental performance just falling short to two Liga Mx sides: Toluca & Monterrey, who have both beat us in a Final and Second Round matchups. Summary Man, that final was a rollercoaster. FM showing its true ups and downs from numbers on a spreadsheet. It will probably be a few days till I finish out the season and start planning the final few years of this Golden Era for Road View. I wager we have 3 good campaigns left in all but Richard Hoyte, who is pretty much done after this year and urgently needs replacement. Craig Mighty has given me a promise to fill this gap in our star lineup this Summer, stay tuned to see if he delivers:

I would absolutely use your HOYD he's totally fine. 18 WwY, & 15 for both JPA & JPP. He's still studying coaching badges so he easily could go higher reputation considering he's so young. Awesome to find a reasonably CAP international, even if its a lower-ranked country! Not sure if this still works, but it used to be possible to boost your HOYDs reputation if you put him in charge of Reserve / U18 matches. If they won the league he would get the credit and it would slowly build his rep as well as possibly his attributes. Your U18 guy is actually a coach and not a Manager so I'm not surprised he's not doing as well. Something you could consider though is using this opportunity to search for actual HOYDs who are Professional / Model Professional. If you can get a coach like that with that level of reputation there's a chance your HOYD hiring options could get you an upgrade. I'll be doing an update shortly, so I can go into detail of the differences I saw when i made the switch from Fairly Professional to Model Citizen with my HOYDs in this save.

Post screenshots of both. If the U18 Manager has bad WwY that could be affecting things as well as possibly if he's bad at being a HOYD as I think that still impacts how well he finds players for your intakes. Also remember you won't see any of the players the U18 manager finds for at least 3 years, though the personality spread should be impacted by the switch. Just if you're going off quality of players not just personalities you can only really judge that from seasons 4 - 8 after the switch. Hidden Ability Comment in Spoiler:

You could say we're having a good season, but this will be a true miracle story if we pull this off in Mexico. 3rd time is . . . To make things even more interesting here is our bonkers April schedule leading up to the championship bout: I'll be bringing up all the youngsters for rotation.

Please copy away! I'm glad to share with a likeminded player. If you want to take a look directly, I put all files up on MediaFire this winter: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/z6k77x3z9wj9z/WhiteCatStats. I'm using an updated version of the "Road-View CA Calculations" file for the YAC. The WhiteCatStats spreadsheet I developed when doing an attributeless moneyball-style save in the MLS is also in there. For the HOYD my priority ranking is: 1) Personality + Media-Handling, 2) Preferred Staff Role, 3) Working with Youngsters, 4) Style of Play 5) Reputation, 6) Judging Ability & Potential, 7) Formation 8) Scouting Knowledge + Adaptability. I'll share my reasoning, which is all IMO and from my experience so please prove me wrong if yours (or others) contradicts me. 1) Duh Personality, but its more the HA levels not the specific personality per-se. People overlook the Media Handling, which can give you very big indicators of how professional a staff member is. In the spreadsheet go to the "Personality+MH" sheet to see all the ranges I pulled from online. If you have updated ranges please let me know as these are old and I don't have the editor. The two I always look for are Evasive and Reserved as they set your minimum Prof. to 15, which is the #1 thing you want from your HOYD. For Determination really 10 or better is all that matters, I will always choose Professionalism over determination. 2) I put a lot of weight in the staff role, specifically if they are 100% a HOYD and not a Head Coach you've pulled in. In early games of small nations usually this gets sacrificed to hit good numbers in the other spots because your pool of staff available is low and they are unskilled. Endgame there shouldn't be a reason to not have a HOYD in the role that fulfills these requirements. 3) I think Working with Youngsters is more important than is given credit for. If I was to change HOYDs in my save this would be the reason why as I don't like how he only has a 15 WwY. Finding a 20 here I think makes a big difference especially for the first HOYD who will have trash in JCA/JPA. I haven't done analysis on this, just my experience playing. 4) The style of play (Fluid-Counter-Attack, Geggenpress etc) is very impactful as it sets the archetype of player the HOYD looks for. IMO you want to avoid the defensive ones even if the HOYD is stellar in every other point. 5) Reputation maters somewhat both of your club and the HOYD, and as I move up as a club and look for a new man to find my youngsters I always look to upgrade this at least half a star. 6) Might seem strange I rate JCA/JPA so low, but honestly as long as its 13+ I'm content if I'm getting everything else I want. Bigger countries you can be more selective, but small nations this is the easiest thing to concede on to get what I consider the more important elements of a good HOYD. Better Personality always trumps better potential. We've all been there when you get what would be a perfect youngster but he's "Slack" and just is a glaring disapointment. 7) Formation effects the number of each position you're likely to get. It's nice if they match, but really isn't a big deal if they don't as you might just have to retrain more. Again, losing some efficiency thus lost potential to prioritize better personality/fit. 8) Scouting knowledge only matters if they know your country perfectly or not, as far as I know the nationality & foreign knowledge of your HOYD doesn't impact intake nationalities. If you bring in someone who knows nothing of your country with low adaptability expect at least 3 years before they start properly finding players in your country. Then you have to wait 3-4 years till you see those players in intakes. With high adaptability within a year the HOYD will fully learn your nation so you cut down that delay. A lot of smaller nations will almost exclusively generate their nationality unless hard-coded to do otherwise. Here is my save: Barbados, as an ex-English colony, will generate a handful of dual-nationals each year. Its possible the USA players are impacted by my nationality in the game, but really I think its just a likelihood from the region. I have a ton of Jamaican and other Caribbean coaches both in the youth team and one of my old HOYDs was Jamaican, not a single one in 40+ years. Hope that helps!

Thanks! Last cycle I really got into exporting data out of FM and slowly built-up my analysis. Shame I flubbed the Youth Export (and was tired) so you didn't see the most relevant part of my YAC spreadsheet in the update. I love tracking my academy's progress, and having data helps me from making snap judgments on HOYDs / Youth Staff that I feel are failing at finding youngsters. All those team-graphs in the Team section of my update were originally designed for the intakes to track the + / - movement of the 3 key player attributes (Professionalism, Ambition & Determination). Check out this FM.Stats if you're interested in a long read. TLDR in Spoiler: Utilizing hidden attribute ranges based on the Personality + Media Handling I am able to set range-values for Prof. and Amb. (the average of which I show in the team-sheet). Using yearly conditional sums of these average-values I can then chart over time the changes in the mentality of my intakes to evaluate the efficacy of my HOYD in finding not just high potential but also "smart" kids. As I tend to play long saves in small nations (St. Vincent, Malta & Luxembourg in FM22 & 23) I really care about the top 5 CA players each intake as that is 90% of my long-term players. Here for Barbados you can see my average top-talent peaked quite early and has been maintained an average in the 40-60 range since the 2030s. Of course I rely on those outlier 1% players who blast up above 60. It's with depth of intake that the recent progress of club reputation becomes evident. Its only in the past 10 years that more than half the intake has been 36 CA or better, which opens up more opportunities for developing reasonable squad players. I will be relying on 4 of these guys in the coming season. Determination is straightforward, but the Top 10 personalities is important. Combined with the table below you'll see I switched from Fairly Professional to Model citizen in 2047, so naturally Fairly Professional is the top good attribute. What has risen is Mercenary, Fickle & Light-Hearted, which are all linked to higher Ambition HA. Still even with focus on good attribute staff you can see with the Positive Personality %s how low it really ends up being and how many players are just Balanced/Unambitious. This is why holding onto those few great personality mentors / old men who improve to Professionals is critical to fix these flawed youngsters. (IMO this is a great realistic mechanic in the game, as we shouldn't be able to generate gobs of professional players). Something I've wanted to add but didn't is to track the progress of the facilities and reputation of the club. This would then set ranges in the data to look at how the facilities have improved intakes (or not). On the list to finish before I start a new save. You can see that Barbados has been generous with Goalkeepers. This also doesn't include 2 poached GK, one of whom is the 3rd GK for England currently. What has been interesting is many of my best players (strikers especially) aren't on this list. All 3 strike legends for the club developed from a lower part of the top 5 intake players. Ugly but I like seeing the full piechart of what 40+ intakes has generated for us with player personalities. Thanks for indulging my nerding out on data!

FM23 Barbados YAC: Road View FC 2066 Season 44 – BFA Digicel Premier League Post History: League Performance: Luckily for us losing our whole first team didn't impact us winning the league... Cup Performance: ...however, it resulted in a defensive disaster of a cup final. The second WC Group Stage game was 2 days before the cup final and between the travel and getting demolished 4-0 by Norway my defenders were not ready for a fully fit and 3-week rested BDFSP. FM truly wanted to crush me giving me hope of taking it to extra time with our 33-year-old striker Christian Clark coming off the bench to equalize in the 90'. They turned around and got their 4th in the 93' to win 4-3. This means in 2068 we won't play in the NACL. There is an outside chance that we will get the bonus Caribbean slot (happened once before). North American Champions League: Caribbean Zone: No problem here as we held a fully clean sheet against 3 decent and 1 easy opposition. Caribbean Playoff: We leveraged our sizeable home advantage to go up 3-0 in the first leg and then coasted in Martinique against New-Club. [Traditionally, MTQ isn't your biggest threat but they got a Tycoon takeover 10+ years ago and have built one of the best teams in the Caribbean] NACL 2nd Round The draw was cruel pitting us against the back-to-back reigning champion Monterrey right away in the knockouts. They handled us easily in Mexico winning 3-0 with 5 shots on target showing how lethal their strikers are and how much work defensively we have to do. I opened up and went for it in Barbados and we had a thrilling 3-3 second leg. Same story of any chance they got 1v1 with my center backs it resulted in a goal. NACL Final 3-Peat for Monterrey and 17th NACL title during the save. They are the dominant team in North America right now. NACL Tournament Tree: Guess we can feel good about scoring the most goals against Monterrey? They only gave up 1 more goal the rest of the tournament. Reserve & U18s: Both win titles without trying that hard. Squad: CA Player List: I have a spreadsheet that calculates Current Ability and Role Ability (though this is less accurate). Team has some stars and lots of chaff that I've been clearing out this Spring / Summer to bring up any 17/18 year old with an ounce of potential in him. Excel Graphs: The clearing out of the team is very obvious when you see the big drop-offs in the player counts. It will be a few seasons till these are meaningful again. Also the excel file could use some work, so they'll look better in a few seasons. Current Team Tables: I pull basic stats with my CA export to show some Top 5/10 lists that I find interesting. Player Highlights: Transfers: The big deal this summer was renegotiating the deal for my star striker Rhys Jackson. The English U20 Striker is very good for Barbados and he knows it. He spent the entire season angry at me for having a bad team and miraculously got happy just before the transfer window started. I pounced (and using the GM to remove release clauses) gave him a ludicrous contract for Barbados. While he was considering signing to his new 5+1 Year, $11.5M deal Everton and Newcastle put out 8.5M & 10.5M bids to pry him away. Thankfully, he didn't moan when I rejected the transfers and he resigned! Other transfers out are all squad players that don't have the speed to compete in the NACL or are old and not good mentors. More will leave over the summer as we prepare for the NACL qualifiers. Head Coach: Club Improvements: We are renting our old stadium 20k cap. stadium while we do a major renovation to our new stadium adding 50% capacity to reach 45k seater status! Bridgeview Barbados has a 110k population, so almost up to half the city fitting into our stadium. We are rich for the Caribbean with 43M in the bank, so it was very easy to accommodate this upgrade with a mix of cash on hand and a 12M loan. Youth Academy: I'm so rusty I screwed up the screenshots and importing of data for the youth team. It was a bad intake so not a loss. HOYD: Youth Intake Preview: Youth Intake: Top 3 Players: Excel Tables: Barbados National Team: I spoiled it a little above, but the WC did not go well for Barbados. There is a lot of work to do to build up the nation for the biggest stage. Qualification wasn't too pretty, but the 1-0 win at home against Haiti is what sealed the 2nd place finish in their qualifying group. Road View Internationals: Main: Youth: Caribbean International Performance: WC Group Stage Jamaica got the RNG luck to go top of their group of Draws with DR Congo and Belgium. No other Caribbean teams qualified. from NA Mexico, Costa Rica, & USA advanced WC Knockouts: Jamaica won their 2nd round game against Cameroon 3-0 to then get knocked out by Mexico 3-0 in the 3rd Round. Mexico's run was to the semi-final where they lost 2-1 to Argentina. It was then a South America final of Brazil vs Argentina that went all the way to penalties crowning Brazil Champions. Summary Certainly, was a first-season back where I made some major mistakes that cost me the Cup (rest those players!). Nothing I can do with the NACL draw pitting me against the hardest team. Tactically I did okay, I just need better CDs to match up against them. Luckily, I have 2 "high" potential 17-year-old CDs who are moving into the first team for next year! On average they are shorter than the players they replaced but are quicker. Obviously, both have a lot of improving required, but they have the potential to hopefully make it. I don't expect them to be ready next year, but in 3 years I should be hitting a good peak with only an old GK (35). Back to the Grind

Woohoo Barbados is in the World Cup! F*** Barbados is in the World Cup... And Yup its of course against the only other competent team on the island Ahh Barbados almost forgot what fun I've been missing with your shenanigans. Beating them in this league game isn't super important as NACL qualification is through the cup. That game has a 50/50 chance of being after the WC. Feels bad rooting for Barbados to not do well...

I know it's been a minute since I've been active in the challenge, but I've also felt the Caribbean itch and have picked back up my Barbados save. Team actually has some promising young talent so who knows maybe the 3rd trip to the NACL final won't end in heartbreak.

As far as I know yes Reputation is the main influence on team promotions from unplayable leagues. For the reserves question it depends on the league/nation & what exactly you loaded in the advanced rules. The bigger the nation you're playing in, the more likely the game will simulate enough to give your players the much needed game time. I'm pretty sure if you selected to add players to unplayable leagues below your league in the pregame setup the game will simulate more stats than it would otherwise (and will fill the teams you're playing against more). If the reserves are mixed into the standard pyramid (like Germany for example) for unplayable leagues you should get full match ratings as the game needs to generate sufficient data to determine who gets promoted into playable divisions. As an example I loaded up my Eintracht Frankfurt Save and you can see that players are playing League Matches for the 2nd team and also have form data even though when you go to the 2nd team there are no matches and the game doesn't even say its loaded into a league. This has lots of added North American databases but uses Vanilla Germany: Edit: Well I looked a little more into what those matches are my players are getting match ratings for and its completely bizarre. If you look closer at those clubs our II club league played teams from Luxembourg, Malta, San Marino & Spain. While I get Spain reserve teams (for the same logic as German ones) I really don't understand why we play the tiny league teams as well as not just German teams. Here are the leagues loaded:

FC Elazig Spor Hamburg Season 18 2040-41 Regional Division: North (Tier 4) Competitions League: 8 of 19 [Preview – 17/19 (50-1)] This finish is more realistic to the team ability right now. I have to say that there was a distinct difference in results in the front half compared to the back half and I put that completely on the transfer out of our GK Tunahan Senol. Cup: 1st Round Exit Game was mean and matched me up with Hamm United (who knocked us out last year) in the First Round. Literally 1 of 2 hard teams out of the over 100 in the cup. Anyways, we did well to hold them to a 1-1 draw to force ET where nothing happened. Then in the shootout it was our current captain Mehmet Can who missed the final penalty to send us packing. Squad: The team still lacks a competent striker. Feridun Altintas may look like he did reasonably well with a 12 goal return, but 7 of those goals came in the final 4 matches so for the majority of the campaign he was all but useless. His awful decisions & Composure just ruin what could be a decent striker. Ozkan Vural had two injuries this year so struggled with fitness, but started to look better at the end of the year once he learned "Round Keeper" to make up for his abysmal shooting. Mehmet Can infuriated me this year. He turned down 6 great loan offers and 3 transfers to stay at the club and then went on to score literally 1 goal for us in over 20 appearances. At least he is a decent mentor for youngsters, but both the forwards above are Professional w/ 14+ Determination and better "Big Match" ratings so they trump him. CA & Overview: Team Data: Statistics Excel: I'll come back to this going to be painful for the offense. Goalkeepers: I forgot to do a mid-season export of data so I don't have Senol's performance. I Did however screenshot the "season stats" blurb right when I transferred him because he was doing fantastic keeping our club up in the mid-table fight Compare this to how Levent Kuru performed when he returned to the club. Yes, other clubs made some transfers but at this level if anything the II teams will get worse when players get pulled up / loaned out. Then our team was essentially the same in every other position after the winter holiday, so this is IMO objectively inferior performance. And again, like 2 seasons ago, I have a situation where the younger keeper out on loan Adam Seman did fantastic in the Oberliga guiding Ottensen to the Hamburg Championship and into the dreaded Promotion Playoff. So I'll probably do another keeper swap. I got Seman onto a 2+3 deal so I'll at least have him till he's 28, which means most likely Kuru will spend the rest of his career with us out on loan in Turkey so he doesn't get frustrated at no gametime. Transfers: Well this was the final year for my GK and I took the risk of losing him on a free in the summer as at this level I am not expecting large payoffs from transfers. However, come December I was able to make one of the best $1 transfers ever when I got Barcelona to bite and agree to a 20% sell-on! I'm sure he was happy to go from $100 p/w to $81k p/w and move right in as the starting GK for Barcelona B. Other than him it was a bunch of loans to develop extra youngsters and ditching some poor players on frees. Only exception is Bora Gulec who I messed up and let get a non-contract after he turned 17, and before I could renegotiate it Juventus came in to take him into their U18 team. Was our 4th or 5th AML so not really an issue. Youth Academy Youth Intake Preview: Youth Intake: 3 Foreign nationalities is fun with an American, French & Armenian Player! I'm happy to get 2 Quality FBs that are actually naturals for each of the positions. Not the best personalities, but not horrible. YI Player Highlights: Academy Data: Professional-Ambition-Determination Graphs: Current Ability Tracking & Total Personality: Full Personality Pie-Chart: Academy Overview: International Players: Just holidaying through the summer right after posting the season update and my rotation LB/CD/DM Adrian Brito got called up to the Dominican Republic National Team! And unsurprisingly our new Armenian youngster will get to join his nations U19 squad. Hovsepyan got to play and unfortunately Brito remained an unused substitute. HOYD: No change. Head Coach Nothing of note. Club Finances: I thought the board takeover would be a nothing event but the new chairman is investing significant money into the club. 170k last year and his over 500k this year is actually matching our debt payments so for the first time in recent memory the club is cash flow positive! They've also stepped up their fundraising game significantly almost matching our Gate Reciepts with their fundraising. On the negative side the board significantly cut funding to the academy 2 years ago now so I expect to see a measurable drop in player quality soon. Luckily the last few intakes have been good so hopefully we can weather the storm. "Just" 7 more years till we pay off the loan... And of course the good times couldn't last: Manager Thoughts Looking forward to next season with the next GK and to have 4 young high potential defenders to finally start rotating into the starting lineup to have defensive depth. I have little hope on any of our strike prospects becoming finally good, but we have a great CAM developing. He can play striker as well, so he might actually move higher up if I can't get any of the natural strikers to play well. Competition History:

Oh its a way of doing the Advanced Database settings. That should be fine. I thought it was a custom player/league database he created, which wouldn't necessarily be allowed.