GeorgeFloydOverdosed said: I've managed it manually myself in testing successfully. It can be a bit tricky, but it's definitely doable, although I played with Man City which have a lot of fixtures. I had to schedule some friendlies during the times when there were 2 week gaps, and I suggest you do the same to maintain match sharpness (you could do it as reserve matches as well).
I would caution against simply adding more training sessions in, as I found it worsens training results in most cases, I would guess because you're replacing a rest session (high distribution to pace/acc) with a training session (distributes more to technicals/mentals) rather than simply 'adding' the training session on top. Expand
yeah, been scheduling some friendlies here and there in international breaks. i manage a second league team and all the players are available in these international breaks. what i did find is that i need to choose carefully the opposing team in a friendly to not be such an easy match. i found that in matches against team that i demolish match sharpness doesn't improve. thank you and keep up the good work! P.S. i'm hoping to soon find a guide you create based on your findings to essentially assemble and manage a great team
Bogdan said: yeah, been scheduling some friendlies here and there in international breaks. i manage a second league team and all the players are available in these international breaks. what i did find is that i need to choose carefully the opposing team in a friendly to not be such an easy match. i found that in matches against team that i demolish match sharpness doesn't improve. thank you and keep up the good work! P.S. i'm hoping to soon find a guide you create based on your findings to essentially assemble and manage a great team Expand I may be wrong, but I believe that opposing team quality/play doesn't affect match sharpness gain. I suspect what you are observing is the fact that friendlies only increase match sharpness by 60% of competitive matches (if I remember correctly). As match sharpness gain slows the higher it is, friendlies become less useful but still usable at match sharpness >90%. I've actually noticed that playing against minnows is best because it boosts morale, which is beneficial to future performance.
GeorgeFloydOverdosed said: I may be wrong, but I believe that opposing team quality/play doesn't affect match sharpness gain. I suspect what you are observing is the fact that friendlies only increase match sharpness by 60% of competitive matches (if I remember correctly). As match sharpness gain slows the higher it is, friendlies become less useful but still usable at match sharpness >90%. I've actually noticed that playing against minnows is best because it boosts morale, which is beneficial to future performance. Expand
in previous versions of fm i used to do the same thing but in fm26 i had a friendly after which almost no match sharpness was gained... most of the players, if not all, where still on green condition at the end of the match. i won by 14-0 or something like that. i now realized that your screenshots are from fm24
GeorgeFloydOverdosed said: I may be wrong, but I believe that opposing team quality/play doesn't affect match sharpness gain. I suspect what you are observing is the fact that friendlies only increase match sharpness by 60% of competitive matches (if I remember correctly). As match sharpness gain slows the higher it is, friendlies become less useful but still usable at match sharpness >90%. I've actually noticed that playing against minnows is best because it boosts morale, which is beneficial to future performance. Expand
Random question, what age do we stop training pace and acc, I've noticed in older players they start to decline.
GeorgeFloydOverdosed said: I've managed it manually myself in testing successfully. It can be a bit tricky, but it's definitely doable, although I played with Man City which have a lot of fixtures. I had to schedule some friendlies during the times when there were 2 week gaps, and I suggest you do the same to maintain match sharpness (you could do it as reserve matches as well).
I would caution against simply adding more training sessions in, as I found it worsens training results in most cases, I would guess because you're replacing a rest session (high distribution to pace/acc) with a training session (distributes more to technicals/mentals) rather than simply 'adding' the training session on top.
yeah, been scheduling some friendlies here and there in international breaks. i manage a second league team and all the players are available in these international breaks.
what i did find is that i need to choose carefully the opposing team in a friendly to not be such an easy match. i found that in matches against team that i demolish match sharpness doesn't improve.
thank you and keep up the good work!
P.S. i'm hoping to soon find a guide you create based on your findings to essentially assemble and manage a great team
Bogdan said: yeah, been scheduling some friendlies here and there in international breaks. i manage a second league team and all the players are available in these international breaks.
what i did find is that i need to choose carefully the opposing team in a friendly to not be such an easy match. i found that in matches against team that i demolish match sharpness doesn't improve.
thank you and keep up the good work!
P.S. i'm hoping to soon find a guide you create based on your findings to essentially assemble and manage a great team
I may be wrong, but I believe that opposing team quality/play doesn't affect match sharpness gain. I suspect what you are observing is the fact that friendlies only increase match sharpness by 60% of competitive matches (if I remember correctly). As match sharpness gain slows the higher it is, friendlies become less useful but still usable at match sharpness >90%. I've actually noticed that playing against minnows is best because it boosts morale, which is beneficial to future performance.
GeorgeFloydOverdosed said: I may be wrong, but I believe that opposing team quality/play doesn't affect match sharpness gain. I suspect what you are observing is the fact that friendlies only increase match sharpness by 60% of competitive matches (if I remember correctly). As match sharpness gain slows the higher it is, friendlies become less useful but still usable at match sharpness >90%. I've actually noticed that playing against minnows is best because it boosts morale, which is beneficial to future performance.
in previous versions of fm i used to do the same thing but in fm26 i had a friendly after which almost no match sharpness was gained... most of the players, if not all, where still on green condition at the end of the match. i won by 14-0 or something like that.
i now realized that your screenshots are from fm24
GeorgeFloydOverdosed said: I may be wrong, but I believe that opposing team quality/play doesn't affect match sharpness gain. I suspect what you are observing is the fact that friendlies only increase match sharpness by 60% of competitive matches (if I remember correctly). As match sharpness gain slows the higher it is, friendlies become less useful but still usable at match sharpness >90%. I've actually noticed that playing against minnows is best because it boosts morale, which is beneficial to future performance.
Random question, what age do we stop training pace and acc, I've noticed in older players they start to decline.