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The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
I was too stunned to throw the laptop, small victories I guess. I initially thought he kicked it off someone's back and it then reversed and went in our goal. I had to watch that replay multiple times for the sheer stupidity of that clearance to sink in. If it was a sub youngster I'd have accepted it as the risks of substitutions with such a thin squad. However, that was the thought process of a 26 year-old Driven player with 16 concentration, 15 Decisions and 14 vision who is one of our top 5 players and a seasoned international... -
The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
I'm fuming at this being the goal that did us in just before the ET Halftime: Imgur: The magic of the Internet. If the NACL played the final at a neutral venue this would have been different. We lost every game in Mexico to then come back to bring level or win in Barbados as our home stadium boost is that significant. This game comes 2/3 of the way through the Barbados regular season, so it will be a while till I get to a proper update. Just couldn't leave ya'll hanging. Edit: this is the penalty I get for using SI's default NACL instead of @V50's. Theirs isn't correct for 2023. In real life it was a 2-legged final like all the earlier rounds 2023 CONCACAF Champions League final - Wikipedia -
The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
FANTASTIC WORK! I might even be ready to buy FM24 and dig in before Christmas. I've got an update for your post, we've made our first NACL FINAL!!! This will be a tall order, but we've slain 3 Giants to get here Monterrey, Tigres & America. Hilariously this will be the easiest of the Liga Mx Clubs we have to face. Brutal how it's a single game final not at a neutral venue. Going to be a wild 2059 Update: -
The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
GREEN KITS!?!?! They've been my 'boys in blue' this save. I may have to bust out the kit generator to remedy this inaccuracy. Thanks for the link and bummer about the FA site. Would totally poke around there if it was up. -
The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
Sorry I missed your comment without a tag or quote. V50 makes fully accurate files for the entire carribean. Anything different is do to game limitations, as they are the Caribbean region researcher. They posted recently that they are currently working on the fm24 version of the carrribean megapack, but the FM23 version is on here in the editors section. I'd recommend waiting for the new one over convetting an fm23 save with this as there are two major updates coming: fix of a league reputation bug and updated Caribbean Shield and Cup for more dynamic team qualifications. Enjoy building up your nation! Out of curiosity, do you know anything about Road View? I couldn't find even a fb page for them. -
The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
FM23 Barbados YAC: Road View FC 2058 Season 36 – BFA Digicel Premier League League Performance: CHAMPION Still extending our unbeaten streak. Cup Performance: CHAMPION BDFSP need to really work on their defense. North American Champions League: Caribbean Zone: We started off with a draw to Mount Pleasant 2-2, and then took the rest of the teams in the group to comfortably advance. Caribbean Playoff: We got our old friend Humble Lion and this time dispatched them. NACL 2nd Round We drew Santos Laguna. Not the easiest, but certainly not the hardest Mexican opposition. NACL Tournament Tree: Considering Santos Laguna only lost the final in a penalty shootout against Monterrey I guess I am less disappointed in our performance. They had a crazy hard path playing the other top 4 teams (IMO) of America and Chivas. Squad: CA Player List: Excel Graphs: It's very clear the current stars are on decline as we see the top ability average clearly descending, but that's to be expected with thin intakes the past few years. Player Highlights: Arantes Lloyd has mostly topped out at a very skilled Wingback. Wish he had better acceleration, but other than that he's a great player for North America. Renaldo Holder: on the other flank is less defensively competent, but quicker wingback who still has potential left to improve slightly. Tre Croney: Rounds out our 3rd young player highlight, as he has developed pretty well for us at CB. He's still only 17 so I expect to see a couple more points of mental development, which will then make him a decent enough CB for us. Transfers: Didn't bother to loan anyone this year and had already sold the unnecessary extra players. Best XI: FM Screenshots: Excel Tables: Head Coach: 1100 Games Club Improvements: Finished our youth facility upgrade up to "Excellent". Option hasn't reappeared to upgrade, but I'm not surprised. Guess we have another decade to wait... Youth Academy: HOYD: Youth Intake Preview: Finished the YF upgrade before the Youth Preview, and what do you know we might have a Golden Generation. At least they aren’t D rated. Youth Intake: Well Okay I’d say that is a golden generation. Getting 2 Youth Facility upgrades since our last intake seems to have already made a massive difference. This is our first Elite Talent in years! Top 3 Players: Excel Tables: I'm testing out 3 year Moving Averages on the charts rather than direct point-to-point lines. Not sure I'm sold on it. Data-wise you can see that this year was indeed a golden generation even without any star pupils. Still the WB-R's make it into our top 10 and you can see the top 5 CA. Barbados National Team: Just friendlies after the Gold Cup defeat and failure at WCQ. Next year is Nations League Div A in a nasty group with both Mexico and Jamaica. Road View Internationals: Barbados Main: Barbados Youth: Caribbean International Performance: This year was WCQ for North America. Was a decent performance for the Caribbean with Trinidad & Tobago as well as Jamaica qualifying for the World Cup. Looks better for Barbados to loose in prelims to an eventual World Cup bound nation. Summary Well that was an aptly timed high potential intake as we need to push our generational shift into high gear. I expect to have a few more seasons of early exits in the NACL until we can mature this next generation. At least we have more players with potential now to work with. The Journey Continues! -
The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
Look whose back! It's "only" been 9 years since it disappeared at "Great". Get ready world for the Barbadian Invasion! Almost 4 Mil to go up one tier is pricier than I anticipated, but we have 18M in the bank so it's no skin off my back. I am unsure of what exactly happened in the background to tick us over the bar so the option re-appeared. My guess is the last Title/Cup pushed us just over the threshold, or maybe it is the general Barbados reputation has increased enough. Whatever it was I'll take it! @V50 I figured me being in the NACL was a fluke rather than intended behavior. Of course, I crashed out anyways. Awesome news on the progress with the new Modfile and my favorite Dynamic Rep. That qualification for the Caribbean Cup sounds awesome! Those two combined should really make for some interesting developments in a long term save especially for the random Tycoon takeovers in small nations. I know when I'm ready for FM24 & a new save I'll be looking at developing a British/Dutch Territory with the added difficulty of the parent nation active. -
The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
Congrats on European Qualification! Did Colwyn Bay get a takeover, or has Wales somehow become way more competitive in FM24? I see you got a Barbadian in your intake -
The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
FM23 Barbados YAC: Road View FC 2057 Season 35 – BFA Digicel Premier League League Performance: We have broken the 200 games undefeated mark! However, the easy-days will soon be ending as BDFSP are finally recruiting some actually talented foreigners to join their ranks as well as have done their first facility improvements due to having a solid 1-2M in the bank due to Gate Receipts. With Weymouth and Notre Dame new stadiums coming on line this summer, Barbados should finally get some other competitive teams who might develop more than 1 national team player every 10 years. Cup Performance: We had a Semi-Final scare when the Notre Dame GK had the match of his career making massive saves including a penalty during regular and extra time to send us to the spot. Things started off with our first kick getting blocked. However, our GK Atkins came up big with 2 stops out of 4 kicks so we came back to win 4-3. North American Champions League: Caribbean Zone: In what was our most disappointing NACL performance to date, we crashed out hard in the Carribean group stage. Nurse was uncharacteristically goalless, and the rest of the team couldn't fill his void. Granted, we did get drawn into one of the hardest groups of recent memory. What is fascinating here, is that we entered the NACL not through the Barbados qualification spot as you can see Notre Dame in "Group A". Instead, I think we got our spot based on being one of the highest reputation clubs in the Caribbean, and thus have stolen it from the regular 2nd Jamaican team who would normally be entered into the competition. @V50 would know better (though this isn't the way you have it set up). NACL Tournament Tree: In a rare year we see a MLS team of San Jose making it to the final. The real downside of the MLS is the AI is terrible at transfers into the league. You'll see many instances of them spending 1M+ on a player just to immediately release them due to salary cap registration and then these players just burning their large transfer budgets. Squad: CA Player List: Young Prospects I finally have a CD to be excited about, as well an actual natural WB-R who started Fickle but has dropped down to Balanced. I have 2 Driven WB-R's so I've made a new mentor group to hopefully bump his Ambition back up. The benefit of the WB Holder is now I can move my wide playmaker R Hoyte back into the middle to have a very solid midfield 4. Additionally, we've converted a few more players to Perfectionist with one AM developing really well even if he has low potential and a slower poacher who is beginning to get gametime here after a questionable loan in T&T. Mentor Groups: I will be adding players to the Left & Right wing groups shortly, but just built each base up as we have a nice Resolute left and Driven right. Excel Graphs: Unfortunately, we are seeing a dip in our "Top 5" CA trend. We are finally seeing a leveling out in the 15 or Greater numbers as my squad rebuild is taking shape. One graph I'm considering adding is a minutes restricted personality graph to show what the 1st team players look like as the data for all of these charts is full club thus including reserve and youth players who make up a larger share of the poor personalities. Transfers: Due to our early departure from the NACL I decided a squad purge was in order to free up space for fresh youngsters to shine. I've included both last year and this year as the reset in Barbados is October 20th thus splitting the transfers across both seasons. Most of the players leaving are either 29+ squad players, or 18-20 year old failed developments. Best XI: FM Screenshots: Excel Tables: Head Coach: Club Improvements: Over the summer our Youth Facilities were downgraded. Unfortunately, this new board is proving problematic to deal with and it took till January for my 4th attempt at getting it re-improved to be accepted. Thus, this year's intake was on just "Good" facilities instead of the usual "Great", which is anything but... Youth Academy: HOYD: Craig mighty got his final coaching badge, but it didn't change any attributes that matter. Still a very solid HOYD who is still young at 48 and has completed his 10th intake for us now, so is fully emersed in the club. Youth Intake Preview: Dire Youth Intake: Top 3 Players: Only 2 have decent Current Ability, sadly they are both horrific physically, so it will be tough for them to be viable for continental play, but I guess they could be cover domestically. Unfortunately, we don’t need striker cover, but a playmaker is helpful if he can bump up that potential. Excel Charts: Unfortunately, there is a noticeable 3-year decline in CA right now, hopefully the bump back up in facilities will reverse this trend. Barbados National Team: 2056 World Cup Qualifying: While Bahamas were easily overcome, the second opponent Trinidad & Tobago led to penalty-heartbreak in Barbados, when the 3-3 Tie was decided by spot-kicks. Considering 90% of the team are my players, it was sadly one of mine who failed to convert. 2057 Gold Cup Getting paired with Mexico in the group stage meant an early exit was inevitable. Road View Internationals: Barbados Main: Barbados Youth: Caribbean International Performance: World Cup Qualifying Groups The first two matches have been played in the group stages and it seems Jamaica and Cuba are on track to make it to the World Cup. Gold Cup Jamaica, Haiti & Cuba advanced out of the Group Stage, but all were eliminated immediately afterwards. Summary This was a pretty boring season to play as it was really a 'throw youngsters in and see who sinks or swims' season. Thankfully we found more swimmers than drowners even with the lack of quality in the intakes here. We are ending an era here at Road View of the two dominant Perfectionist Pressing Forwards Carrillo & Nurse who have carried our offense since the mid 2030's. 20+ seasons of offense out of just 2 quality intake players is a fantastic return especially considering Carrillo arrive while we were still Semi-Professional. Our new HOYD is not generating the 'big bully' type players that they have been, so the squad is changing to more quick-technical players, which might require some tweaks to the formation in the coming seasons when I have more players under 5'5" than over 6'0". -
The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
Well done @Makoto Nakamura, you blitzed through Brazil! -
The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
This is the part of the challenge i miss the most playing in the Caribbean. No mater what you do, the board will never allow foreign affiliates -
The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
FM23 Barbados YAC: Road View FC 2056 Season 34 – BFA Digicel Premier League League Performance: BDFSP are getting better and better. Additionally, both Weymouth Wales and Notre Dame are in the process of building 6-8k capacity stadiums, which will finally get them the gate receipts required to begin upgrading facilities and then will be able to actually develop young talent. Even with extreme rotation in the league this year (as it happens simultaneously with the NACL knockouts) we only had a couple of draws. Weirdly in Barbados the league doesn't really matter, as the Cup qualifies you for the NACL, so these matches are where I play youngsters most often. Cup Performance: No international windows to mess with our success. North American Champions League: Caribbean Zone: We were dominant again this year in the Group Phase Caribbean Playoff: A comprehensive 3-0 2-Leg Victory over Humble Lion NACL 2nd Round For the first time in the save we face off against a MLS side in the NACL! I play at least 1-2 friendlies in the summer against MLS sides and we tend to win, so there is a lot of optimism heading into this tie: NACL Quarter Final Then, in another miracle of draw we get another non-Mexican side in Costa Rican powerhouse Club Deportivo Saprissa. They usually do well in North American saves, but are at another level in my universe as Costa Rica has been loaded as playable all save. NACL Semi-Final Our first Semi-Final, and its against last year’s runner up, but that’s to be expected in a semi-final! NACL Final Did we make it? NACL Tournament Tree: Squad: CA Player List Excel Graphs Transfers: Moved on 3 squad players this year, all with large %Profit clauses, as there is a tendency for BDFSP to bring back Barbadian players due to the strict foreign player rules (Max 5) in the League fixtures. Best XI: FM Screenshots: Excel Tables: Head Coach: Nothing new for us, but we hired our old GK as the Reserve Head coach. He isn't very good, but is Professional w/ high det and WwY as well as I like bringing back key players. Club Improvements: Big news this year - you can now buy Road View Stock! After 12+ years of failed takeovers, we finally had a successful one for 20 Million Dollars, by a Barbadian High Net worth person who decided to consolidate our debt and float the club on a Stock Exchange. The debt is actually notable, as we have used lots of debt to build our stadium so refinancing was in order. Unfortunately, there is still no option to improve youth facilities or to get a foreign affiliate. I have a feeling that neither will come to fruition... Youth Academy: HOYD: Youth Intake Preview: You know you’re in a tiny nation when you get excited with a bunch of C rated players who should be a golden generation. Youth Intake: Solid intake with a lot of fast wide players with high potential and decent personalities. A golden generation for such a small island, and even more important WE FINALLY GOT A CD PROSPECT. Still not a world-beater, but we are desperate. Top Players: Nation Tracking: In what was probably way more work than it was worth (especially for a non-foreign nation like Barbados), I fully automated the Nation tracking. I didn't do the sort by count yet, but will for next year. Excel Tables: Barbados National Team: It was a nothing year of only friendlies as World Cup Qualifiers are in October. Will update next year with how things go, can Barbados make it to their 3rd World Cup!?! Road View Internationals: I did some backend work on these tables, so they finally are sorted by CAPs and the Youth table will automatically exclude all players who have at least 1 Main Cap. You'll notice we have our first foreign international with our 17 Year Old DM H Copeland opting to go with his native Guyana, who are a very minor national team. Barbados Main: Barbados Youth: Summary This year we really had a chance at our first final, and just couldn't get it over the line. Still, we are hitting above our weight, which I guess is all I can ask for until we finally develop a high-quality defensive line. Next year will be our final best year to complete the challenge with this generation, as in 2057 we will not be entered into the NACL due to losing the cup. I have a number of 30-year-old players right now and more at 28 with I'd say 50% of my starters in that older age bracket. -
The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
He's got ambitions like his father! Look forward to following his development -
The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
I've never played with wide center backs but seems like he would be fantastic at that role. Sometimes for this challenge its a blessing in disguise when these fully formed players have a bad personality, specifically unambitious as you will have a better chance holding onto them. IRC unambitious has high loyalty, which combined with minimal Ambition should help you keep them on long contracts w/o a release clause. -
Just means there's more room for you to develop the nation
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Meteoric rise to the top! Nice that your board has covered the deficit this year and you'll get a shot at Europe money next year. What is the state of professionalism in Luxembourg for FM24? When I played there in FM23 I want to say it was mostly semipro until I built up the nation.
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The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
There's a great editor part on these forums and that's where I tend to get my databases like Carribbean and Luxembourg. https://community.sigames.com/forums/forum/860-editors-hideaway-download-forum-fm23/ -
The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
You're welcome, happy to share it! I'm away from the computer for the next few days (thanksgiving holiday here in the US), so what follows is from memory. I started something like that with the idea of building a starting XI in your chosen formation by best player who has played above a minimum number of minutes and is able to play the position. It just wasn't something I needed in Barbados and I wanted more longitudinal tracking, so I paused on it and removed it from this posted version. Parts of its calculations are still in the sheet, specifically rank ordering CA players by position. That's what the minutes Selector is for on the "Summary" page. You change that and it will alter the threshold. I'm pretty sure in the playing stats and international performance calculating page the listing of starters vs reserves is still in the sheet and working. It lists UID and CA in order per position splitting players into the two groups above and below the threshold. With regards to part time: From my experience the way to get any physical development from part time is to choose training roles that highlight the max number of atteibutes. This is why I train all my strikers as pressing forwards and midfilders as box2box/segundo volante when we are part time. Once you are full time then you can specialize into more technical players. -
The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
Bummer to lose him, that's the rub playing in the Caribbean in these early years. Are either of the other dominant clubs professional? I don't remember if they start professional. If he gets transfered outside of Barmuda you will get a small percentage of the transfer as the development club, like 2-5%. A pittance I know, especially with how valuable each dollar is in the Caribbean. -
The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
CA Calculator Spreadsheet If anyone wants to play around with a newer version of my CA Calculator spreadsheet I've attached it with the FM23 view. I do not know if FM23 views will work in FM24. If they don't, I'll need a kind soul to go through the tedium of recreating it as I haven't gotten FM24 yet. Completed General Features: Calculate Current Ability of players in: 1) Team, 2) Youth Intake & 3) Opposition Squads Display a rough average of the Hidden Attributes for Players. Automatically generate tables of player general stats for Season, Career & International With a very simple export create Charts for Team and Youth Player personalities & CA Incomplete Feature: Nation Tracking Since I started playing the YAC I've been using the format @XaW's Nation tracking spreadsheet. Since in this data there is all the nation data for youth players it is possible to automatically generate this sheet. However, SI decided to not use the full proper ISO Alpha-3 abbreviations, and instead create some of their own codes as well as split out some nations differently. In my quick searches at night I haven't found an easy to copy list of Codes - Nation Name to build a lookup table. If someone has this table I can quickly finish this. It's not in my view, but adding in City of Birth wouldn't be too complicated and then producing a Graph/table with the sums. Warnings That I Haven't Fixed: The external link warning is due to Wiki-Links for each country in the nation section. I know bad practice leaving them in, I noticed after I posted and will fix when I'm back on the computer. Circular Reference Warning is due to how I'm pulling the "Current Season" data for the Team. I'll fix this in the next version as it means moving around some calculations. It's annoying I know... Data Limits: Due to needing to use the volatile INDIRECT fn I had to put some player & year limits to keep the spreadsheet snappy. Player Max per Export = 80. This means that if your Main+Reserve+Youth Squad has more than that number of players the bottom of your list will not get calculated. I always pre-sort my export by the AssMan's Star Rating. if you do that, the dropped players will be the worst and thus least important. Last Year Available = 2075. This gives you 50 years of data. For most of us this should be more than sufficient. Max Opposition Squads=20. this can be changed easily, as its just a Data Verification limitation. If you want 100 go for it. How to Use: Part 1: Adding View, Exporting Team & Importing into Excel Note on Opposition Squads: If you want to have Opposition squads in the spreadsheet I'd highly recommended the trick of using "Add a Manager" to see any teams players fully. I really don't use this part often, just wanted it available as its useful once in a while to have a reference to your competition. Export Data for Team & Youth While the "Summary" screen is fully automatic, to build the charts I use for Team & Youth tracking you have to manually copy and paste data. You could easily build a macro for this but I wanted this spreadsheet to be macro-free & all Excel compatible. That's all to get everything going. I've tried to make it fairly painless. Summary Screen Overview: This is the original screen that I built the CA Calculator for it contains 3 Major tables: Current & Role Ability Table + Hidden Personalities [Starts C6] International Players Main [Starts AJ18] and Youth [Starts AJ67] Career & Season Top 10/5 Tables [Starts BE6] I get this is a mess, and eventually I'll clean it up when I'm done adding features, but for now you'll have to hunt and zoom around. Team Output: I have 7 graphs here that are primarily focused on Personality & Current Ability: Four Professionalism, Ambition & Determination Graphs at the >10 & 15> thresholds. One Determination Averages Graph 3 Graphs of Current Ability One Graph of Most Recent Season Personality Distribution Youth Output: I have 7 graphs and 2 tables that cover everything that the Team Output does, with a couple additional summaries: Four Professionalism, Ambition & Determination Graphs at the >10 & 15> thresholds. One Determination Averages Graph Two Current Ability Graphs - 1) Tracking Top 5 Players in each intake ; 2) Total players produced within 15 CA Ranges. One graph of the top 10 Personalities generated by the Academy. Two Tables: 1) List of Top 10 Players by CA ; 2) Top 10 Positive Personalities List. An Abomination of a Pie Chart - The labels will be all screwed up here, and you'll have to "best fit" them or manually adjust as your data changes. So yeah, that's my CA Calculator. For more detailed shots of my tables you can see them in action in my season reviews above. Hope this is helpful for those who enjoy maximal data about their club #SpreadsheetManager CA Calculations v6 - BLANK.zip -
The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
FM23 Barbados YAC: Road View FC 2055 Season 33 – BFA Digicel Premier League League Performance: Cup Performance: I hate the Gold Cup. The game let me move the Cup final for the preliminary matches, but it didn't realize there were also the regular matches in the extended window and still had the cup final during the tournament + U21/20 Championships so my 23 best players were out on international duty. Resulted in me playing a full U18 defense with my retiring 36 year old 2nd backup GK and they were awful while our offense underscored. This means no NACL in 2057. North American Champions League: Caribbean Zone: Caribbean Playoff: We were shooting bricks in Jamaica and couldn’t win the game outright so it went to the dreaded penalties where we fell short. First year in a long time we didn’t advance out of the Caribbean Group stage. NACL Tournament Tree: Squad: Excel Players: With the early drop out of the NACL I sent my older squad players out on loan and did my best to give youth playing time to get some development out of severely mediocre talents. Maybe it helped? Positive note is we are slowly improving our starting XI so that more are getting over 100. We of course have no depth (and never will in Barbados), but if we are fit we are starting to have a good team. Excel Charts: Transfers: Summary: Nurse Saga: Last year it was a Martinique Tycoon, and this year it was one in Trinidad & Tobago. Nurse was a legend and turned down the contract offer. The surprise came, when Real Salt Lake of the MLS activated his clause. And here @V50 is where having dynamic league reputations due to forgetting your NACL file saved me, as Nurse REJECTED going to the MLS to stay playing in Barbados! Though I think the Costa Rica database I added is overpowered because this is the state of North American League reputations: Best XI: FM Screenshot: Excel Tables: Head Coach: I hit 1000! In England this would have taken 1/3 the amount of years. Club Improvements: We have State of the Art Facilities and a 20,000 Capacity Stadium! Of course, the board won't even take a meeting about improving our youth facilities from Great. One piece of good news is the board finally added the option of finding "Scouting Affiliates", yet 4 attempts this season and I failed to convince them to add one. Someday we will get foreign talents... HOYD: No change here Youth Intake Preview: Youth Intake: Top 3 Players: #1 A welcome DM prospect who will go into the first team immediately and is about as good as my rotation options there right now. #2 Yet another striker who has a bad personality unfortunately. Good thing I have a strong mentoring group. #3 Bad personality and probably low potential means this CAM will probably not feature for us Excel Tables: This is still my legacy spreadsheet tracking nationalities as I haven't finished the new one yet. You'll notice some of the chart data is already repeated in my new graphs/tables. Good looking top 5 CA_WF, though really only the top 2 seem good enough to start getting minutes in the first team. With State of the Art facilities I am actually seeing good development of players in the youth squad, so there is hope for the other better players. Excel Charts & Graphs: I've got so many now it needs a Spoiler. I might be going overboard in Excel with this save.., Barbados National Team: Blasted Gold Cup took my players and then they didn't even end up doing well. Because of the poor performance my Captain and Star strike Nurse as well as one of DM Sargent retired from international play. This fall the nation is back into Nations League B and will face off against Guadeloupe, St Lucia and Antigua & Barbuda. I expect them to promote back up. Road View Internationals: Barbados Main: Barbados Youth: Since Lloyd has England U21 CAPs now he is in the spreadsheet. Summary Honestly a disappointing season performance in both the NACL & the Cup, but we are in the midst of a rebuild right now, so I'm not super surprised. I still hate the Gold Cup scheduling... -
The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
This has been a personal goal of mine for this save: We made the NxGn List from Barbados!! He's still under 18 so not an "official" Wonderkid, thankfully he has no release clause in his contract and has a 3 year extension ontop of this. -
The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
My nighttime project right now is automating the Intake Country portion, so I know exactly how you feel #Spreadsheet_Manager -
The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
Nice, that's the same one I used to build the personality part of my sheet, I just didn't implement the complicated case situations that arise as I just wanted a rough idea in my outputs. -
The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge
WhiteCat33 replied to darren1983's topic in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
I'm assuming you're working off my spreadsheet? Here are all my 32 seasons of Team & Youth player exports. I also popped out just the Personlity+MH guide part of the spreadsheet. I have the link at the top of the page to the googlesheet that this all comes from as none of this is my work, I just use it to build the ranges. From my intakes I have generated 3/4 of the personalities. This pie chart is hideous, but it shows the percentages of all the personalities I've gotten in 30 years of intakes. I'm missing 10 out of 40. As you can see I've been working on my spreadsheet as well and will probably have a new version to share this week if anyone is interested. One thing i don't have is a FM24 version of the views as I didn't buy the new game [knew it would stop me playing in Barbados even with the export fn they added]. So if anyone has rebuilt it for FM24, lmk and I'll share it with the group. RoadView-Ability.zip Personality+MH.xlsx WhiteCatStats - CA Calculator_v2.fmf