Miles Jacobson: FM17 includes a total of 1,300 new features

As most people know, Miles Jacobson is a Watford fan and this has been the key to developing the relationship between the Hornets and Sports Interactive.

Watford are one of two Premier League clubs to have their kits and badge licensed (the other one is Everton).

Ron Walker from the Watford Observer had the chance to talk to Miles during the "FM17 Big Reveal" live event.

Here are some key quotes from the interview.

The access we have at Watford is probably unparalleled with any other club in the game, or any other game in the world.

Watford were definitely an influence for the sports scientist and data analyst roles in the game, because I was able to talk directly to those members of staff, and learn more about what they do and talk to other people in the game as well.

For other teams, we'd love to have a licence for all of the Premier League - but EA have it on a long-term deal, and they sell about 20 times as many games as we do.

The features video covered around 200 of the new features, but there are some 1,300 in total.

Including social media is a big innovation, but so is doubling the amount of decisions which are made in the match engine. In 2017 players are making decisions between every one seventh and eight of a second, the computational power needed for that is huge.

I’m proud the average play time is more than 200 hours a year.

You can read the full interview at the Watford Observer.

FM 2017 Features Video Announcement The official features announcement video of Football Manager 2017 with a full properly edited transcript!