[SirFozzie]

(Note: This is a test game of my American Premier League edit file for FM13, available in the FM13 thread. I've run a decade into the future, and the game sees stable, so I'm going to see how it plays as a manager. Just a heads up on the league format:

Divisions
American Premier League (20 teams, 19 MLS Teams + NASL Champion Tampa Bay)
American First Division (20 teams from USL Pro, NASL)
American Challenge Division (24 teams from PDL)
American Wonders Division (20 Academy teams and 4 PDL teams)

Cup:
US Open Cup: 88 Team knockout, the Challenge and Wonders divsion play in the first round, 24 winners join the first division and the APL in the second round)
US Super Cup: Preseason Super Cup between APL and USOC winners)

The Atlanta Silverbacks have had a bit of a yoyo decade.

They were invited into the American First Division of the newly revamped American Soccer Pyramid in 2012.

They spent three years from 2012-2014 in mid table anonymity (10th, 6th, 14th) before winning promotion to the American Premier League in 2015, by finishing second in the First Division. However, it wasn't happy times, as they barely avoided relegation the first year (15th), and suffered direct relegation back to the first division in 2017 by finishing 19th.

They had a decent first year back in the first division, missing out on immediate repromotion by finishing 6th, but in 2019 they won the first division, and made it back to the APL.

However, it was a re-run of their previous trip to the top division of American Football, as they finished 14th in 2020, and then dead last 20th in 2021, falling back through the trap door to the First division.

They looked to be running a familiar pattern in 2022, 4th place, which was good, but not good enough (only the top 3 get promoted), but in 2023, the year they were predicted to win the league and make it back to the top division, they stumbled badly, and with two games left in the regular season, it looks like they are goiing to be finishing in mid table obscurity at 10th.

At that point, the management of the Silverbacks had had enough. They managed to hire Alex Donovan, a former American international, and set the goal of restoring the Silverbacks to prosperity, and a permanent stay in the APL!