kireby said: Yes, thank you, we already almost the best in Russia in all areas. What about your save? Or you don't play that much? Expand
Started with the worst team in Sweden, predicted last in the lowest division and worst facilities, including a 500 people stadium. Got promoted to the elite and finally became professional. I thought I would need to stay two years in the second division, but managed to get promoted in the playoffs. Now I want to win the Allsvenskan (first division) before moving to the lowest division of Brazil.
Just remember to upgrade your youth facilities, increase youth coaching and get a good head of youth development, to make sure your youth players are the best. That plus hiring the promising youth from other teams is what makes a team become a force in development, as well as top training facilities and coaching staff.
kireby said: My results for last season. I think we became a force in Russia, even dominant i would say. Now, my goal is to become a force in Europe. I wonder if we ever could win UCL. Next season i have to prepare my squad for new players incoming, so i must say goodbye to Sessegnon, Demjanov, Zainutdinov and Rosier. I would like to sell Ndongo and Riquelme also but they don't want to left us.
I also expect Matvey Safonov help us next season. He is a prospective goalkeeper IRL (i hope he'll be signed this summer) and now he is adult and experienced goalkeeper in FM. We bought him at winter but he got injured for 4 months and we left with 19 y.o. keeper. Expand
Is that the team you support? Since I never heard of Baltika, I assume it's from a lower division. It's really satisfying to become an elite team coming from below.
kireby said: Haha, i think he manages them his whole life
First of all, i'm sorry, if i reply so much here, but i hope that i help some people here. I haven't seen so equal stats before, Dinamo is a powerful team in Russia 7 years later
Look at this Cup Final match.. what a penalty shootout we had Expand
It's fine, it's nice to see you becoming a force in Russia despite having weak players and low budget. Too bad tactics alone isn't enough to win against Liverpool, Barcelona and Bayern Munich yet.
kireby said: I have another shocking holiday test (at least for me). Elche - 20th pred. took 4th place. There was a big losing streak during March-April (7 matches lost including Real, Barca and Valencia). Expand
If Atlético finished behind Elche in real life, we would finally see Simeone losing his job.
kireby said: I had an offensive draw vs Brondby which didn't allow me to made in Round of 16 in UCL Won Porto and Brondby and 2 draws with Chelsea and Brondby. Also, 1 lost match vs Rostov left me without invincible status in first half of the season and again, they had 0.5 xG while we had 1.4 xG so it's a bit of FM in that match. Forgot to mention, we 7th pred.
It's interesting to see how team will play without Riquelme because he's a beast in my save. I signed him free from Atletico B, this summer many EPL clubs wanted to sign him and were ready to pay 15 millions for him, but he rejected them all Expand
Can't be helped. Your team has a budget 100 times smaller than most teams from UCL and you are developing youth, which takes time. To be honest, can't imagine even the best russian team succeeding in a group with Chelsea and Porto. Keep improving and it will come.
Not up to me. They will only test if people assert them this is an improvement over Blue, else they will think it's too similar to test. I think they should allow testing new versions of good tactics, even if they limited to once a week or less, so we can try small optimizations.
kireby said: I can't even buy a real player, i think i have a phychological issue as i want to develop players only. Sold my grown player to Spartak Moscow for 20 millions (which idiot bought him??). Now he costs only 4 million after 2 seasons and played only 7 games. I think i can try to buy him once again and maybe sell after 1 successful season again Expand
My team in real life does that all time, buying bad players for high price then reselling cheap a couple of seasons later. Football Manager mimics real life.
My team just got promoted to the elite from Sweden and finally became professional. I can finally pay more than minimum wage to my players, since I have a rule to never spend more money than I received in the previous year, including staff, so I never go negative on finances.
kireby said: Blue 2.0, buddy And yes, it's very consistent. Even if we don't win, we have 1,3+ xG when opposition have below 1 xG. And in these cases i blame either weak defense/GK or attack. But i met this kind of cases only in few games like game vs Akhmat. Even vs Spartak we had 1.5 xG or smth like this when they had 0.8 xG Expand
It can't be helped. I like to play in lower leagues, like the last division from Sweden, England or Brazil, then bring a semi-amateur team to the elite. The players are usually in the level of grey players, with the star from the team having a couple of 11 or 12. It really hurts to see how many goals they lose for being incompetent. If you run this with the likes of Liverpool, I doubt you can make less than 3 goals per match and not get over 100 points in the league, as well as winning all cups. Gonna run a couple of holiday tests with Liverpool just to show the results.
kireby said: I finished another season, and... it's a treble! What a season Rodrigo Riquelme have spent, with rating of 7.46. He is one of the 3 best goalscorers with 20 goals and the best assistant with 16 assists (2nd place is my player too). But we got smashed in UCL, but bookmakers odds were 10001.00, so we underdogs there. And last word, look at my GK and we conceded only 29 goals in 34 games. Expand
This tactic is very consistent, as you can see by the best Goal Difference in the table. Are you testing basic Blue or 2.0? I think 2.0 is even better, too bad it didn't get picked for tests here. In healmuth's test, it proved really strong for underdog teams.
Check the tactics that score more from corner. If you want a better measure, get the one that score the most divided by number of goals. More offensive tactics will have more corners and therefore more goals from corner, even if their set pieces are not the best.
I did a final change to Blue 2.0, setting passing directness to neutral (I left the direct passing to Phoenix, since they are already too similar). with Blue 2.0 and Red 2.0, I will only try to make new tactics or improvements in the next patch. Please, test and tell me what you think.
This is the best player in my team. He has been with me since the lowest division, but now he won't renew because my team is not good enough.
Started with the worst team in Sweden, predicted last in the lowest division and worst facilities, including a 500 people stadium. Got promoted to the elite and finally became professional. I thought I would need to stay two years in the second division, but managed to get promoted in the playoffs. Now I want to win the Allsvenskan (first division) before moving to the lowest division of Brazil.
Next season i have to prepare my squad for new players incoming, so i must say goodbye to Sessegnon, Demjanov, Zainutdinov and Rosier. I would like to sell Ndongo and Riquelme also but they don't want to left us.
I also expect Matvey Safonov help us next season. He is a prospective goalkeeper IRL (i hope he'll be signed this summer) and now he is adult and experienced goalkeeper in FM. We bought him at winter but he got injured for 4 months and we left with 19 y.o. keeper.
Is that the team you support? Since I never heard of Baltika, I assume it's from a lower division. It's really satisfying to become an elite team coming from below.
First of all, i'm sorry, if i reply so much here, but i hope that i help some people here.
I haven't seen so equal stats before, Dinamo is a powerful team in Russia 7 years later
Look at this Cup Final match.. what a penalty shootout we had
It's fine, it's nice to see you becoming a force in Russia despite having weak players and low budget. Too bad tactics alone isn't enough to win against Liverpool, Barcelona and Bayern Munich yet.
Elche - 20th pred. took 4th place. There was a big losing streak during March-April (7 matches lost including Real, Barca and Valencia).
If Atlético finished behind Elche in real life, we would finally see Simeone losing his job.
I tried. Never got sacked so fast.
Won Porto and Brondby and 2 draws with Chelsea and Brondby.
Also, 1 lost match vs Rostov left me without invincible status in first half of the season and again, they had 0.5 xG while we had 1.4 xG so it's a bit of FM in that match.
Forgot to mention, we 7th pred.
It's interesting to see how team will play without Riquelme because he's a beast in my save. I signed him free from Atletico B, this summer many EPL clubs wanted to sign him and were ready to pay 15 millions for him, but he rejected them all
Can't be helped. Your team has a budget 100 times smaller than most teams from UCL and you are developing youth, which takes time. To be honest, can't imagine even the best russian team succeeding in a group with Chelsea and Porto. Keep improving and it will come.
And once again, @ZaZ, well done, thanks!
Thank you for the tests! Let me know how your UCL unfolds.
OpticFawn said: Hopefully!!
You should get this tested, thanks a lot.
Not up to me. They will only test if people assert them this is an improvement over Blue, else they will think it's too similar to test. I think they should allow testing new versions of good tactics, even if they limited to once a week or less, so we can try small optimizations.
I used your tactic on a test with Leicester, 1st season 6th 1 loss but many draws but won Carabao cup and Euro cup
Next season made the right cheap transfers finished 1st prem, semi-final in champions league, won fa cup, won carabao cup, and won super cup
Next season you will win UCL!
My team in real life does that all time, buying bad players for high price then reselling cheap a couple of seasons later. Football Manager mimics real life.
It can't be helped. I like to play in lower leagues, like the last division from Sweden, England or Brazil, then bring a semi-amateur team to the elite. The players are usually in the level of grey players, with the star from the team having a couple of 11 or 12. It really hurts to see how many goals they lose for being incompetent. If you run this with the likes of Liverpool, I doubt you can make less than 3 goals per match and not get over 100 points in the league, as well as winning all cups. Gonna run a couple of holiday tests with Liverpool just to show the results.
What a season Rodrigo Riquelme have spent, with rating of 7.46. He is one of the 3 best goalscorers with 20 goals and the best assistant with 16 assists (2nd place is my player too).
But we got smashed in UCL, but bookmakers odds were 10001.00, so we underdogs there.
And last word, look at my GK and we conceded only 29 goals in 34 games.
This tactic is very consistent, as you can see by the best Goal Difference in the table. Are you testing basic Blue or 2.0? I think 2.0 is even better, too bad it didn't get picked for tests here. In healmuth's test, it proved really strong for underdog teams.
Try Red 2.0 later. It's looking really good.
Not really, but I would only put Shoot More Often if I had a good shooter. Did it work well for you?