I had posted that on the official forum but I thought that given the amount of testings that some of your guys doing you might have an answer.
I was wondering what are your tricks to sign the really good young players.
You can scout like crazy but the issue is that you then end up with hundreds of potential 5 stars players like 3 yellow + 2 white or 4 yellow + 1 white. But given that the players are so young it basically doesn't mean anything. I had players ending up 190 PA and some others 130 PA.
Of course I have 100% knowledge of these players and good scouts so the result is as accurate as it can be for a 15-17 years old.
What kills me is that it still feels like a lottery and buying these players can still be expensive. A young Brazilian can easily cost 5-10m so it's not like I can sign 50 and see what comes of it.
I have been playing FM for ages but I feel that this version is very random in that respect.
So in a nutshell, once you have scouted the whole of Brazil and Argentina and you only keep the 5 stars potential, how do you separate the good from the bad?
(I even tried uploading all the stats of the scouted players to excel to build models to find predictable patterns but to no avail.)
If you don't have any hardcore sorting way, how do you usually proceed?
Don't trust in your scouts for potential. As a basic rule, good players at young age usually have more potential than bad players at young age. If you find a kid with 15-16 years old and 13+ pace and agility, sign him.
This is what I thought as well but it didn't work after testing. I downloaded into excel 300 5 stars potential regen from my save all aged 15-17. I ch9different patterns such as sum of all attributes / really high attributes /combinaisons of attributes to search for patterns. I then checked them all using fm scout to see what was the reality. Nothing that I checked worked. You have some kids with low attributes poor scout rating but a 190 potential vs a kid same age that has really high starting attributes but max PA 130.
Hello
I had posted that on the official forum but I thought that given the amount of testings that some of your guys doing you might have an answer.
I was wondering what are your tricks to sign the really good young players.
You can scout like crazy but the issue is that you then end up with hundreds of potential 5 stars players like 3 yellow + 2 white or 4 yellow + 1 white. But given that the players are so young it basically doesn't mean anything. I had players ending up 190 PA and some others 130 PA.
Of course I have 100% knowledge of these players and good scouts so the result is as accurate as it can be for a 15-17 years old.
What kills me is that it still feels like a lottery and buying these players can still be expensive. A young Brazilian can easily cost 5-10m so it's not like I can sign 50 and see what comes of it.
I have been playing FM for ages but I feel that this version is very random in that respect.
So in a nutshell, once you have scouted the whole of Brazil and Argentina and you only keep the 5 stars potential, how do you separate the good from the bad?
(I even tried uploading all the stats of the scouted players to excel to build models to find predictable patterns but to no avail.)
If you don't have any hardcore sorting way, how do you usually proceed?
Thanks for your help
Don't trust in your scouts for potential. As a basic rule, good players at young age usually have more potential than bad players at young age. If you find a kid with 15-16 years old and 13+ pace and agility, sign him.
This is what I thought as well but it didn't work after testing. I downloaded into excel 300 5 stars potential regen from my save all aged 15-17. I ch9different patterns such as sum of all attributes / really high attributes /combinaisons of attributes to search for patterns. I then checked them all using fm scout to see what was the reality.
Nothing that I checked worked. You have some kids with low attributes poor scout rating but a 190 potential vs a kid same age that has really high starting attributes but max PA 130.
They all appear as 5 stars potential btw.
Hello,
well youngsters is always a theme for itself , someone like it this or that way.
I would Suggest you to Load Columbian league and buy a lot of cheap (but great) young Players.
But i would suggest to look out this Video off Luke (Omega Luke).
He is doing good tutorials on Youtube.
Cheers.