Zippo said: Honestly, everything is really simple.
Let's say, you're trying to create a good tactic and you're testing your ideas in English Premier League.
If we take the 1st season ( the default database ) in English Premier League then we see that the league is heavily dominated by 4-2-3-1 and 4-3-3 formations, also, the AI managers in EPL have some specific sets of tactical settings ( Mentality, D-Line, Roles and so on ):
Let's assume that you found a tactic that works very well in EPL ( the 1st season ) so you might think that the job is done but the next season a lot of different AI managers come to the EPL or you move to a different league and now you've got a league that is heavily dominated by 4-4-2, 5-2-1-2 or 5-3-2 formations and also, the tactical settings of the AI managers have changes significantly:
And your tactic that worked very well in EPL ( the 1st season ) might stopped working at all due to a very different environment. Just look at the results under the new database, obviously, the environment(AI formations/tactical settings) makes a huge difference.
Our new database has a better set of AI formations/tactical settings than the old database has, also, we left only the most successful AI tactical settings so we don't waste time on testing against weak AI tactical settings.
Please note, it might be that some of the top tactics from our testing work slight better against 4-2-3-1/4-3-3 formations and some work slight better against 4-4-2/5-3-2/5-2-1-2 formations but you can be sure that all the tactics from the top are well-rounded tactics and you can rely on them in any environment.
Alexis said: Thanks CBP87! So it's what I thought. They believe they have found a better way to test, but it hasn"t been proven yet? For example, we don't know for sure that the tactic that is currently top with a 5.8 rating will yield better results than the one that was top of the 'old' table with a 6.0 rating? Am I right? Expand
To be honest, I don't there is any point in comparing the new results with the old ones, Zippo and the team have refined the test so its a different environment for both tests, plus the old ones were tested twice whilst the new table is testing 3 times. It's a difficult one and I don't really fully understand it myself yet
Pretty sure increasing his wage will help, if you go to renew his contract there might be some pointers on the screen which will help you secure a work permit, well there was last year
I bring to you all a 41311 (some inspiration has come from the revelation tactic by Zealot).
I have tested it with numerous teams and each team has done better than predicted. The tactic scores a lot of goals, as you can see below each team tested scored over 100 goals in all comps with PSG scoring 245 goals in all comps. This tactic will get your strikers scoring. This tactic is also very aggressive so expect yellows (I haven't tested it with tackle harder removed) NO EDITORS USED!!!
All my tests are holiday tests with the AM in charges of team selection and general training. Individual training is left as I found that the AM was training players in the wrong roles which was impact familiarity.
One thing I did do is input my own training under the rest tab, see below (I've been doing this in my saves the last few years, dont know why though) -
PSG Won the treble scoring 245 goals across all comps, Mbappe scoring 83 goals.
Bayern Bayern won the league comfortably, undefeated, 30 wins 4 draws. Won the treble, unfortunately lost out to Milan in the SF of the CL. The old man was on fire, scoring 78 goals.
Dortmund Predicted 2nd and finished 2nd, little disappointing as there were 2 defeats in the last 5 games which ultimately cost us the league but Bayern are really OP in the Bundesliga this year but still ran them very close. BVB scored 167 across all competitions with Haaland scoring 72.
Villa Villa predicted 8th, finished 2nd. Scoring 123 goals across all comps. Danny Ings top scoring with 33 goals which I think is still a pretty good achievement for a mid table team.
Celta Celta predicted 10th, finished 2nd. 106 goals scored across all comps with Aspas scoring 23, however Santi Mina was sold to United in January for £43m and he was already on 31 goals in all comps. Bit of a weird test to be honest though as Real Madrid won the league with 83 points with Barcelona finishing 8th.
Newcastle Predicted 10th, finished 5th with Callum Wilson scoring 52 goals in all comps. Team scored 105 goals in all comps so Wilson fell just short of scoring 50% of all of Newcastle's goals.
Man United Man United predicted 4th, finished 1st. Winning the Champions league and scoring 200 goals in all comps. The old man top scored with 66 goals. Liverpool was definitely the nemesis team, beat me in the FA Cup and Carabao but I got the last laugh knocking them out of the CLs. One result really stood out.
As I said, expect yellows. But I genuinely believe this tactic under human direction will work wonders for you. For playing saves I would recommend using this https://fm-arena.com/thread/1520-tactic-familiarity/ to get your players tactically familiarly as quickly as possible.
As always, hope it works for you, all feedback welcome
Great work as always @Zippo and the other admins. I agree with cptdoggo, I would test all those that achieved a score of 5.0 or more. You already do enough in all fairness, so only testing them top tactics would prove beneficial in my opinion
Tweaked this tactic once again (Sorry). Took some inspiration from some of the tactics that sit at the top of the table.
I have increased mentality to very attacking DW > W on attack duty with the additional attacking duties the fluidity is not structured removed work ball into box and force opp outside
As always holiday tested the tweaks, AM in charge of team selection and training. NO EDITORS USED!
Fulham
Fulham are predicted 1st and we finished 1st, won the league quite comfortably, scored the most goals with 139 goals and conceding less than 1 per game.
Villa
Villa predicted 8th, finished 3rd on 81 points scoring 120 goals in the league, bookings were also quite high particular for both FBs who got 14 yellows each. Some of the results achieved were astonishing, beat Chelsea 6 - 0, United and Liverpool 5 - 1 (Although away from home, they had our pants down) but hopefully you'll be able to see some of the brilliant results in the screenshots
PSG
PSG predicted 1st, won the treble, narrowly missing out on the CL. 174 goals scored in the league with only 26 conceded. Some crazy results again and on a few occasions came close to double figures in a league game.
Overall, I think this is a very good tactic which will get you lots of goals, you will lose the possession battle as tactic is setup to get the ball up top as quickly as possible
Zealot said: Wow! Obviously, that guys is a tactical genius!
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I commented mate but he has deleted it, its your tactic with 1 role change. He has an habit of doing this, He did it last year with a few of Knaps tactics
Looks like they've removed the option for standard passing and width on very attacking
Let's say, you're trying to create a good tactic and you're testing your ideas in English Premier League.
If we take the 1st season ( the default database ) in English Premier League then we see that the league is heavily dominated by 4-2-3-1 and 4-3-3 formations, also, the AI managers in EPL have some specific sets of tactical settings ( Mentality, D-Line, Roles and so on ):
Let's assume that you found a tactic that works very well in EPL ( the 1st season ) so you might think that the job is done but the next season a lot of different AI managers come to the EPL or you move to a different league and now you've got a league that is heavily dominated by 4-4-2, 5-2-1-2 or 5-3-2 formations and also, the tactical settings of the AI managers have changes significantly:
And your tactic that worked very well in EPL ( the 1st season ) might stopped working at all due to a very different environment. Just look at the results under the new database, obviously, the environment(AI formations/tactical settings) makes a huge difference.
Our new database has a better set of AI formations/tactical settings than the old database has, also, we left only the most successful AI tactical settings so we don't waste time on testing against weak AI tactical settings.
Please note, it might be that some of the top tactics from our testing work slight better against 4-2-3-1/4-3-3 formations and some work slight better against 4-4-2/5-3-2/5-2-1-2 formations but you can be sure that all the tactics from the top are well-rounded tactics and you can rely on them in any environment.
I hope that helps.
Cheers.
Lovely stuff, thanks for the explanation
You're probably best deleting the other thread you've created pal, any chance you can share you end of season results when you've finished?
To be honest, I don't there is any point in comparing the new results with the old ones, Zippo and the team have refined the test so its a different environment for both tests, plus the old ones were tested twice whilst the new table is testing 3 times. It's a difficult one and I don't really fully understand it myself yet
They've done quite a bit of research and believe they've found a better way to test which will give the community more accurate results
Cheers pal
Cheers pal, try and provide as much info as I can from my own testing
Thanks pal, appreciate the feedback
I bring to you all a 41311 (some inspiration has come from the revelation tactic by Zealot).
I have tested it with numerous teams and each team has done better than predicted. The tactic scores a lot of goals, as you can see below each team tested scored over 100 goals in all comps with PSG scoring 245 goals in all comps. This tactic will get your strikers scoring. This tactic is also very aggressive so expect yellows (I haven't tested it with tackle harder removed) NO EDITORS USED!!!
All my tests are holiday tests with the AM in charges of team selection and general training. Individual training is left as I found that the AM was training players in the wrong roles which was impact familiarity.
One thing I did do is input my own training under the rest tab, see below (I've been doing this in my saves the last few years, dont know why though) -
PSG
Won the treble scoring 245 goals across all comps, Mbappe scoring 83 goals.
Bayern
Bayern won the league comfortably, undefeated, 30 wins 4 draws. Won the treble, unfortunately lost out to Milan in the SF of the CL. The old man was on fire, scoring 78 goals.
Dortmund
Predicted 2nd and finished 2nd, little disappointing as there were 2 defeats in the last 5 games which ultimately cost us the league but Bayern are really OP in the Bundesliga this year but still ran them very close. BVB scored 167 across all competitions with Haaland scoring 72.
Villa
Villa predicted 8th, finished 2nd. Scoring 123 goals across all comps. Danny Ings top scoring with 33 goals which I think is still a pretty good achievement for a mid table team.
Celta
Celta predicted 10th, finished 2nd. 106 goals scored across all comps with Aspas scoring 23, however Santi Mina was sold to United in January for £43m and he was already on 31 goals in all comps. Bit of a weird test to be honest though as Real Madrid won the league with 83 points with Barcelona finishing 8th.
Newcastle
Predicted 10th, finished 5th with Callum Wilson scoring 52 goals in all comps. Team scored 105 goals in all comps so Wilson fell just short of scoring 50% of all of Newcastle's goals.
Man United
Man United predicted 4th, finished 1st. Winning the Champions league and scoring 200 goals in all comps. The old man top scored with 66 goals. Liverpool was definitely the nemesis team, beat me in the FA Cup and Carabao but I got the last laugh knocking them out of the CLs. One result really stood out.
As I said, expect yellows. But I genuinely believe this tactic under human direction will work wonders for you. For playing saves I would recommend using this https://fm-arena.com/thread/1520-tactic-familiarity/ to get your players tactically familiarly as quickly as possible.
As always, hope it works for you, all feedback welcome
I have increased mentality to very attacking
DW > W on attack duty
with the additional attacking duties the fluidity is not structured
removed work ball into box and force opp outside
As always holiday tested the tweaks, AM in charge of team selection and training. NO EDITORS USED!
Fulham
Fulham are predicted 1st and we finished 1st, won the league quite comfortably, scored the most goals with 139 goals and conceding less than 1 per game.
Villa
Villa predicted 8th, finished 3rd on 81 points scoring 120 goals in the league, bookings were also quite high particular for both FBs who got 14 yellows each. Some of the results achieved were astonishing, beat Chelsea 6 - 0, United and Liverpool 5 - 1 (Although away from home, they had our pants down) but hopefully you'll be able to see some of the brilliant results in the screenshots
PSG
PSG predicted 1st, won the treble, narrowly missing out on the CL. 174 goals scored in the league with only 26 conceded. Some crazy results again and on a few occasions came close to double figures in a league game.
Overall, I think this is a very good tactic which will get you lots of goals, you will lose the possession battle as tactic is setup to get the ball up top as quickly as possible
Start the stopwatch mate, because he will delete it, my comment didnt survive 1 minute
I commented mate but he has deleted it, its your tactic with 1 role change. He has an habit of doing this, He did it last year with a few of Knaps tactics