I find that I have never been comfortable with 2 midfielder formations. I have never been able to stomach playing a 442 or 424 for more than a season or so. I just don't like the style of play offensively or defensively.
Thank God there're many good tactics that uses these positions to choose from - AM(RL) tactics Expand
Oh I know, I've been using Spurs/Universal home/away for a couple of seasons with good success, I'm just a tinkerer and I feel like you can't go very far down the list of am(rl) formations before you sacrifice a bit too much quality for my tastes.
Was reading through the early thread and just had a couple of general pointers for things that I've noticed.
For attacking corners, if you want the correct taker, you can go into the corner setup once the match starts, and drag the player in the "tk" position to the actual corner. And you will have to do this if you sub that player out.
The biggest effect on injuries and fitness that I have seen is playing a player who already has "Heavy" on their match load. They get tired much faster in the match and get injured much more in training following the game. I no longer play any player in my team with a heavy match load. I have to pay really close attention to team rotation in order to get my best team out there for the most important matches. But I kind of like that to be honest. A "heavy" match load occurs when the player has made 3 appearances in the last 14 days. it doesn't appear to affect GK and the amount of minutes they played also doesn't seem to matter.
What I tend to do for team rotation is rotate in backups with "light" match load, in for players with "heavy" match load, and leave the "heavy" players out of the team entirely so I don't accidentally sub them in.
In my experience, players with heavy match load ALWAYS end up with the last sliver on their heart during the match. Players with less than heavy load rarely go down to that last sliver of fitness.
Again it's a lot of effort to manage your rotation and you'll need a deep, gelled squad to keep your results up. I don't particularly think it's realistic to have to rotate quite this much, but it has a huge impact on injuries so I can't pull myself away from it.
Yeah I saw that test. Part of the blocker is just that I'm heavily invested in my save with a mature team that's setup for 4231/433 DM Wide, and I have almost nobody in the club who can play MR/ML at all.
I have considered using the editor to sort of rearrange my senior squad's positions a little just to clear that blocker. I would give them competent or accomplished in the equivalent position as they're playing in my current tactics, and drop their current position ratings as well to avoid messing up their CA, then train them up from there. Just to clear the initial hurdle that's blocking me from dropping the lead line of my attack down that one stratum (ST to AMC and AM(RL) to M(RL))
I think I'm more hesitant to play MR/ML. I am a sucker for those players who can play ST/AM(RLC), but finding players who play MR/ML seems to be more difficult, due to prevalence of 4231 in the game I suspect.
I find that I have never been comfortable with 2 midfielder formations. I have never been able to stomach playing a 442 or 424 for more than a season or so. I just don't like the style of play offensively or defensively.
Thank God there're many good tactics that uses these positions to choose from - AM(RL) tactics
Oh I know, I've been using Spurs/Universal home/away for a couple of seasons with good success, I'm just a tinkerer and I feel like you can't go very far down the list of am(rl) formations before you sacrifice a bit too much quality for my tastes.
For attacking corners, if you want the correct taker, you can go into the corner setup once the match starts, and drag the player in the "tk" position to the actual corner. And you will have to do this if you sub that player out.
The biggest effect on injuries and fitness that I have seen is playing a player who already has "Heavy" on their match load. They get tired much faster in the match and get injured much more in training following the game. I no longer play any player in my team with a heavy match load. I have to pay really close attention to team rotation in order to get my best team out there for the most important matches. But I kind of like that to be honest. A "heavy" match load occurs when the player has made 3 appearances in the last 14 days. it doesn't appear to affect GK and the amount of minutes they played also doesn't seem to matter.
What I tend to do for team rotation is rotate in backups with "light" match load, in for players with "heavy" match load, and leave the "heavy" players out of the team entirely so I don't accidentally sub them in.
In my experience, players with heavy match load ALWAYS end up with the last sliver on their heart during the match. Players with less than heavy load rarely go down to that last sliver of fitness.
Again it's a lot of effort to manage your rotation and you'll need a deep, gelled squad to keep your results up. I don't particularly think it's realistic to have to rotate quite this much, but it has a huge impact on injuries so I can't pull myself away from it.
Btw, fm-arena did a quite interesting test to see the difference between the ratings - https://fm-arena.com/thread/1087-the-position-rating-and-its-impact-on-the-performance/
Yeah I saw that test. Part of the blocker is just that I'm heavily invested in my save with a mature team that's setup for 4231/433 DM Wide, and I have almost nobody in the club who can play MR/ML at all.
I have considered using the editor to sort of rearrange my senior squad's positions a little just to clear that blocker. I would give them competent or accomplished in the equivalent position as they're playing in my current tactics, and drop their current position ratings as well to avoid messing up their CA, then train them up from there. Just to clear the initial hurdle that's blocking me from dropping the lead line of my attack down that one stratum (ST to AMC and AM(RL) to M(RL))