Gaming Football Manager 2015

PedroMendez said:
I really appreciate your help. What I am trying to do is to maximize my scouting knowledge (at least to a reasonable degree). So I picked for each scout ~3-5 countries (depending on his pre-existing knowledge) and cycle through them. They always go to the same few countries one after the other. When the knowledge-bar is high, they only need very short time to finish the assignment and this way it is possible to maintain 3+ countries at 100% knowledge for each scout. For 24 scouts means, that you can easily have 70-90 countries at around 100%, which makes it possible to have full scouting knowledge in all important countries. It works really well, but it is a nightmare to manage, because almost every day some assignments finish. It takes only few kicks to restart them, but it is extremely tedious over the course of a whole season. It is okay to do that with 10-12 scouts, but everything above is killing the joy of the game; at least for me. I guess the programmers simply forgot to implement a box/button, that would say "loop assignments".
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I set my scouts to do regions rather than individual countries. I'm not sure if it's more effective but it certainly cuts down the amount of reassigning I have to do. I have Europe and the Americas on constantly, then I cycle between two or three of Oceania, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean every year. I only tend to look for hot prospects though.
 
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Januzaj got a 9.9 rating despite being taken off after 29 minutes. :lol:
 
PedroMendez said:
I really appreciate your help. What I am trying to do is to maximize my scouting knowledge (at least to a reasonable degree). So I picked for each scout ~3-5 countries (depending on his pre-existing knowledge) and cycle through them. They always go to the same few countries one after the other. When the knowledge-bar is high, they only need very short time to finish the assignment and this way it is possible to maintain 3+ countries at 100% knowledge for each scout. For 24 scouts means, that you can easily have 70-90 countries at around 100%, which makes it possible to have full scouting knowledge in all important countries. It works really well, but it is a nightmare to manage, because almost every day some assignments finish. It takes only few kicks to restart them, but it is extremely tedious over the course of a whole season. It is okay to do that with 10-12 scouts, but everything above is killing the joy of the game; at least for me. I guess the programmers simply forgot to implement a box/button, that would say "loop assignments".
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Don't forget, for maximizing knowledge like that, you can add feeder clubs in countries and gain increased knowledge of their country and access to their scouting network.

Also, you can sign staff who have knowledge in countries as coaches to help too.
 
Earthquake said:
How are his playmaking skills? Perhaps at DM as a Regista or Roaming Playmaker?

EDIT: Or as a BWM(s), if you can set another mid to hold the fort, a good BWM can smash all round and get goals too, love Wanyama for it.
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His passing and vision are all decent, but he's more of a physical player than technical. Good speed, dribbling and has monster strength. He can play the ball well, but I have better deep playmakers than him.

Essentially, I'm trying to emulate the Bielsa 3-3-3-1, which is supposedly based on a 'Libero' in the back three, a 'Regista' in the second bank of three, and an 'Enganche' in the attacking midfield three:

Striker

Attacking Mid Enganche Attacking Mid

Wing Back --------- Regista --------- Wing Back

Centre Back Libero Centre Back​


Seemed a fun experiment, as I've never used any of those 3 roles before. My go-to tactics are pretty vanilla. I rarely stray from 4-3-3/4-4-2. The rest of the formation is working great, but I'm probably going to have to accept that the Libero won't work the same way. I could possibly compromise it a little, scrap the Libero and put him next to the Regista as a ball winner, and he can just launch around and Van Bommel anyone who has the ball. Even his own team mates.
 
CF (a) - CF (s)
AP (A)
Def winger(s) - RPM - Def winger (s)
regista
BPD (s) - BPD (c) - BPD (s)

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I usually play like that.The def wingers get additional instructions.
Overall it works really well and I can tweak it in various ways. My def Wingers can become winger, the register can become a defensive midfielder and the RPM can play in DM to add cover. I can also change the front three in various ways (AM+AP+CF; 3xCF). Overall my impression is, that most tactics work as long as you use players in their natural position.
 
OnlyTwoDaSilvas said:
His passing and vision are all decent, but he's more of a physical player than technical. Good speed, dribbling and has monster strength. He can play the ball well, but I have better deep playmakers than him.

Essentially, I'm trying to emulate the Bielsa 3-3-3-1, which is supposedly based on a 'Libero' in the back three, a 'Regista' in the second bank of three, and an 'Enganche' in the attacking midfield three:

Striker

Attacking Mid Enganche Attacking Mid

Wing Back --------- Regista --------- Wing Back

Centre Back Libero Centre Back​


Seemed a fun experiment, as I've never used any of those 3 roles before. My go-to tactics are pretty vanilla. I rarely stray from 4-3-3/4-4-2. The rest of the formation is working great, but I'm probably going to have to accept that the Libero won't work the same way. I could possibly compromise it a little, scrap the Libero and put him next to the Regista as a ball winner, and he can just launch around and Van Bommel anyone who has the ball. Even his own team mates.
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To get the Bielsa system to work, shouldn't the wing backs be inside wing backs? Another role that doesn't work right, bah!

PedroMendez said:
CF (a) - CF (s)
AP (A)
Def winger(s) - RPM - Def winger (s)
regista
BPD (s) - BPD (c) - BPD (s)

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I usually play like that.The def wingers get additional instructions.
Overall it works really well and I can tweak it in various ways. My def Wingers can become winger, the register can become a defensive midfielder and the RPM can play in DM to add cover. I can also change the front three in various ways (AM+AP+CF; 3xCF). Overall my impression is, that most tactics work as long as you use players in their natural position.
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On the other side, if the players have the right attributes, they can work perfectly well in positions they've never played before.

The only attribute that's negatively affected by positional unfamiliarity is the Decisions attribute.
 
Earthquake said:
To get the Bielsa system to work, shouldn't the wing backs be inside wing backs? Another role that doesn't work right, bah!
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Yeah. I've kept them as just automatic wing backs and they've done well, as I've never managed to get the inverted wing backs to work too well. I instruct them to play quite narrow and run inside with the ball, so that compensates the inverted wing backs a little, and the attacking mids run wide/into the channels. It's working well so far. Just underwhelmed with the Libero :lol:
 
OnlyTwoDaSilvas said:
Yeah. I've kept them as just automatic wing backs and they've done well, as I've never managed to get the inverted wing backs to work too well. I instruct them to play quite narrow and run inside with the ball, so that compensates the inverted wing backs a little, and the attacking mids run wide/into the channels. It's working well so far. Just underwhelmed with the Libero :lol:
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Sounds fun! I love trying out weird formations, though I'm using a plain 4-2-3-1 with Man Utd now. Well, that's odd for me, it's a formation a rarely use.
 
What do people think of the instructions "move into channels" and "roam from position"?

Is one more effective than the other, can/should they be used together?
 
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Finished up my first season with Man Utd, and what a season! Won the league, both domestic cups, and the Europa. All without a single loss. 62 wins and 3 draws in 65 games.

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Breaking Chelsea's points record, which they also beat themselves this season. That 134 goals for also breaks an Aston Villa record from the 30's.

Our 11-0 win breaks Man Utd's record win too, and my star striker netted 47 times in all competitions, breaking Law's 46 goals record.

Just a few games off breaking Arsenal's 49 games unbeaten record, too.

Total of 229 goals in 65 games.

EDIT: Spurs will hate me, 16-4 in 4 games, beating them in FA Cup and Europa finals.
 
Typical Real Madrid. I get a message from them askibg how much i want for De Gea, who had just recently signed a new contract with me. Usually i just reject it but i thought feck it and told them £60 mil. 2 days later they comeback with a bid if £19 mil haha he has 5 years left on his comtract and is valued at £24 mil and classed as world class.
 
In late Oct of my 2nd season at Man Utd, still unbeaten somehow, and just broke Arsenal's record.

Incredibly injury blighted so far, very much like last year IRL. Brandt just added to the list with a torn hamstring, and for a while I had my 3 best CB's out, and all my no 10's. Lad came up from the academy and made that no 10 spot his own for a month and a half, has a bright future, and a lad named Edwards at Man Utd will be nice.

Probably going to sell Januzaj, if any big bids come in, magical player, but picks up knocks all the damn time.

De Gea went to Arsenal in the end for 22.5m(age 30), and has been shit for them.
 
So after a miracle season with Darmstadt, my fourth season in the Bundesliga I actually managed the treble in my second CL season after winning the EL before. I won the league 4 points ahead of Bayern, won the DFB-Cup on penalties against Bayern and the CL on penalties against Chelsea. Fecking amazing. Couldn't believe it especially because my team is still fairly shit, a couple of talented youngsters in it and a lot of very average Bundesliga caliber players.

The most amazing part though was my road to the CL final where I had to beat Manchester City, Real Madrid and again Bayern. Before that season I had btw never even won a single game against Bayern and only drew and lost against them in the league but I beat them when it mattered the most.

Unfortunately this has also taken the air a bit out of my Darmstadt save and that already after 6 seasons. So I decided to start a new project. I'm currently creating a European Super League with 6 levels and a cup. I'm currently testing if it's working correctly but this is a project I was planning to do for a long time and so far it looks good. I'll report back here if it's working as planned or is totally shit. :D
 
Hmm, very next game, a CL game against Beskitas, six minutes in Januzaj picks up the ball on the half way line, dribbles and skins the entire team and nutmegs their goalkeeper, ends up running the show with 2 goals, 2 assists in a 7-1 humbling.

OM, you can keep your 70m.
 
What's the furthest you guys have been into a save? I'm now in 2022 in my FM14 save. I always just make one save and just stick with it. Sometimes I add managers to fix other teams and make them competitive again. My rule is to not spend any money and only buy 16-18 year olds. I have a budget of like half a billion now

Edit - Also my scouting system is me going to small leagues like Scandinavia and the czech republic and individually checking players out...it has served me very well. Not sure if its skill or luck
 
Earthquake said:
2026, IIRC.
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What version was that for? They need to fix the long term stuff. Clubs stop buying big players because the fee's go too high and can end up stagnating. I had to add myself to Man City to sort out their entire squad...shouldn't be like that
 
My best signing...random find which makes it the best. Was a very slow striker originally but I trained him up into a semi-fast inside forward

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His acceleration and pace were 9 when I bought him
 
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In my save in 2020, it seems that Hibernian have a sugar daddy, and have turned into the QPR of Scotland, acting as a graveyard for big names way, way past their best on stupid contracts. They've currently got Ronaldo (35), Iniesta (36), Schweinsteiger (36) Pato (only 29, but is pretty shite!) and have just signed Darren Fletcher on a free.

They've just sacked Dougie Freedman as manager. Vacant. Strangely tempting. I could certainly carry on the tradition of signing washed up big names and throw money at them to potter about at sub-zero temperatures in the SPL. Sounds like a good gig. I'm at the point where nearly every club has ridiculous regens. Regens are boring.

Think I'll put in an application.
 
Found something else to do, as that Man Utd save went ridiculous, won every game in every comp of my 2nd season.

So I found an old save game, where I had an offer on the table in Dec. 2016 from a relegation battling Lazio. I chucked some players, stretched the hell out of my funds, and brought in 72m worth of players. Admittedly most went in two large deadline day deals, after Real Madrid came in for Candreva and re-upped my coffers.

Cristian Tello for 4m, Nicola Murru for 170k, Chris Smalling on loan(from Arsenal), Jeronimo Rulli for 14.5m, José Mária Giménez for 30m, and Grzegorz Krychowiak for 17.25m were the main deals, but I took 5 prospects from my old club(Stabaek), for a grand total of 5.8m, maybe they won't be Serie A level, but most should be good.

What was odd, was they asked me to make mid table, and a few weeks later when I went to check the competition screen, it had changed to reach an Europa spot. This is what made me splurge rather than play it safe.

Starting 11 looks like this now, in Feb 2017.

Klose
Keita------------------------Tello
Sosa--------Parolo
Krychowiak
Ghoulam---Giménez---Smalling---Henrique
Rulli​

Next summer will be fun, with limited funds due to my splurging, Klose retiring(real shame, still good), Sosa and Parolo quite old(still fine if they don't decline quickly), and no proper right back.

I do have Ravel Morrison, which leaves me with options. Keita can be trained as striker(he scored 4 up front for me already in one game), and have Ravel take his wing spot. If I get a striker, Ravel can take Sosa's spot.
 
All my strikers pick up knocks in Feb, right before a big CL game with Man City, still we snatch an away goal, a creditable 1-1 draw, we have a chance in the return leg.
 
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:wenger:

"Moyes could be considered quite a coup for a club of Liverpool's standing" :lol:
 
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