I was really pleased with the result during long-term saves in FM19 and FM20.
The feedback for the file in FM20 was quite good and I enjoyed the work on it to try to make FM even more realistic (IMO)
Maybe some of you have as much fun as I do with the file!
What can you expect from the files:
- Less newgens with worldclass talent
- More worldwide diversification of talent
- Easier to improve smaller nations where football is popular in longterm-saves
- Fight for the biggest talents, so the AI tries to keep their talents at the club, because there are less of them
My ratings is based among other things:
- HDI (Human Development Index)
- Population of a Country
- How popular football is in the country
- Worldwide success national team
- Continental success national team
- Success U-natioal team
- Which Confederation they are in (ex. UEFA, CONCACAF)
- Value National Team
- Record attendance National Team
- Average league attendance from top league (as far as I could find them)
It generally gives more power to several Nations and reduces the current dominace of some.
Please keep in mind that the whole rating system is very complex, so it's not really worth to discuss why Nation A has a much lower rating as Nation B. It took me about 300 hours of adjusting, testing, research and comparing. My goal was, replicate the current situation as good as possible, with some little speculation into the future, which I took from analyzing my personal excel-db-file.
HOW TO INSTALL:
Place the file in:
Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2021/editor data
NEW SAVEGAME IS REQUIRED
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Discussion: FM21 Alternative Youth Rating + Game Importance and others v.1.1 by Daveincid (Updated 13.12.2020)
26 comments have been posted so far.
Complete overhaul to give you a more realistic database in the future!
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Because honestly, based on SI's track record of fixing bugs, I don't have much confidence in a fix being shipped anytime soon :-P
Aah now I understand! Thanks for the feedback! The "hard mode" is actually ready for release. Results are amazing IMO. In my test-save in year 2023 there was no "Future Messi" yet. No newgen has a PA over 190 yet, but quantity in the range 150-180 is excellent. In another test I had 1 player above a PA 195 after 15 years. This is exaclty what I want to achieve.
I can't test it properly due the "newgens-bug", so I wait with the release to be 100% sure it works.
I need to think about how to explain it to people that the highest rating would be 125 and they will get more realism with it. I already see the ****storm coming^^
In short no, I don't think there's an issue. The dominance of Spansih players is probably just due to leagues loaded, and I probably just notice the Brazilian's more because they often have unique names, perhaps? Drawing more attention... I would still like a version with the number tuned even further down though ;-)
What's with the new one? So you think there is a problem or not?^^
30/4/2028 - 170 newgens over 160+ PA, 15 are Brazilian, 30 spanish
start anew - 524 players over 160+ PA, 69 are brazilian, 63 are spanish
So if anything, it's Spain that's overtuned, at least in my one anecdotal piece of evidence lol. I'd love a "hard mode" version though!
There is no dominance of Brazilians at all. 79 newgens with a PA over 170 (Which is still too high IMO in total, but I work on a "hard version"):
Brazil:11
Spain: 9
England: 7
Germany: 3
France: 5
And a lot of other Nations.
PA 184+ are:
Brazil: 1
England: 2
Guinea: 1
Argentina: 1
Like I said, Brazil has a wide spread of players with high quality/quantity, but they won't dominate world football (At least in my scenario)
Is this what you think it happends with the file or is it actually happend? If that's the case please upload a screenshot of newgens with PA 160+. If there are mostly brazilians, then I need to tweak it, it just didn't happend in my scenarios.
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It´s not about how many pro footballers coming from a country, its about how good they are... And brazil is not much better then netherlands, england, germany, spain, portugal, france and so on... they are almost all on the same level.
ATM there is only one "world" class player from brazil = Neymar.... After a couple of years brazil players are dominating the world, which is not even close to real life.
I don't think its possible to influence positions. This is down to the AI to hold the balance.
Yes, there will be less Messis and CR7 in this file;) But keep in mind, value of a player is not directly connected to PA.
Thank you!
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Daveincid
And do you know how the position dustribution is? In last fm games there were tons of strikers with huge potential, so even e.g. Brighton had a striker with 80m value. Are there less annoying talented strikers in this fm? Or does your file maybe fix it?
But your file sounds great, will try yours out!
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