In some aspects FM does a good job mimicking real football, but I do agree that one of the most essential parts of FM, the attributes overview, is a bit unrealistic. In fact, even the potential ability overview provided by scouts and assistants is a thousand times more information than a real manager has and this might make the game too easy (which it is in my opinion!). I understand that people don't want to invest lots of time in a game to then see everything go wrong, however I think there should be options to make that game more challenging for those who seek it.
Maybe it could be considered to add a feature when you start a game, to have a less detailed overview of your players. An Idea could be to scale the attributes down from 1-20 to 1-5, or simply use the star-system that is already implemented in many features of the game. Another way is to give a 95%-confidence range for each attribute that tells the manager that there is a 95% chance that the player's real attribute value is within the range. This range can then decrease over time, once the player has played for your team longer or your scout has followed the player long enough.
Additionally, I would rather see much less information about youngsters' potentials so you have to focus more on analyzing their current performance.
Maybe it could be considered to add a feature when you start a game, to have a less detailed overview of your players. An Idea could be to scale the attributes down from 1-20 to 1-5, or simply use the star-system that is already implemented in many features of the game. Another way is to give a 95%-confidence range for each attribute that tells the manager that there is a 95% chance that the player's real attribute value is within the range. This range can then decrease over time, once the player has played for your team longer or your scout has followed the player long enough.
Additionally, I would rather see much less information about youngsters' potentials so you have to focus more on analyzing their current performance.
