FIFA 20 - Realistic Career Save - Ideas
I have encountered a lot of posts on building and trying to build a realistic manager career mode save in erstwhile FIFA versions and in at present in FIFA 20. Personally, I have implemented some ideas of mine regarding the same (using PC mods in certains cases - *I play on PC with mods*) and have some in my find to try out in future. I just wanted to use the forum to share those experiences and ideas for a wider community. Some of these can also be found from other posts/threads in this community/similar communities across this platform and others (which have inspired/influenced me).With new transfer window in action and update squads, a new career mode awaits.Here it goes.
a) Manager selection for a career mode
Journeyman manager: Manage across globe. Maybe start as a Scottish manager with a team from Scotland and then move to lower leagues in England and then ultimately to the Premier league. The same can be traced with a Dutch manager starting from Dutch Eredivisie moving to Spain OR someone starting out with a Swiss Super League club or the Austrian Bundesliga to move to German Bundesliga OR start with a lower league team in England/France/Germany/Spain/Italy and move to a top division club in that country after impressing them with your performances. The PC mods come into play in these as you can change the manager face to reflect a real face rather a generic one by importing head models for a real player (like Steven Naismith , Scottish manager managing a Scottish team). For selecting the player to be the manager. you can search in sites like [sofifa.com](
https://sofifa.com) to find players with real faces, specific nationality and above age of a certain age whose head models you can use to override the existing generic face (like search for scottish nationality players above age of 34 with real faces - Steven Naismith is one search result returns).
Road to Glory/One Club only/Sporting Director mode: Manage at only one club ever. Use the Live Editor tool in PC to get a permanent manager rating of 99 always. You can start by selecting a manager of choice using PC mods like above (like legend Alan Shearer or any British ex-player/old player available with a real face managing Blackburn Rovers in England Championship) and lead the club to glory days of top division and European football. In between if you want to change the manager face, change it like before using the PC mods again and again. The story looks as if the underachieving manager was sacked or overachieving manager left for greener pastures or the manager just retired/moved on at end of contract for a new rookie to step up/step in.
b) Transfer market activities
Transferring players in and out is a big part of career mode. To get it as close to real as of the actual club you are managing rather than using [sofifa.com](
https://sofifa.com) in this case (which kills the fun exposing all potentials and rest all), use [transfermarkt.com](
https://transfermarkt.com) to get to know all past transfers of the club - to understand the club's philosophy and strategy with regards to transfers. This helps to understand what sort of players the club goes for be it age group they target (experienced ones
to younger ones), quality of players (star players to good players to okayish squad players), nationalities ( major nations to that one nation where they had a breakout star from ). For scouting purpose, you can use [transfermarkt.com](https://transfermarkt.com) to find a list of players for positions and age groups you are looking for - minus the actual potential ratings. From there use your best judgement and GTN scouting to sort and filter your targets. I would suggest to look back into last decade of transfer activity to get a feel of the type ,scale of transfers and leagues being looked into. A good way to plan your transfers can be devised by looking at this YouTube video : [https://www.youtube.com/watchv=UxaDY...Zh2_sD&index=2)
* Track the real life transfer rumours for the club you are managing and see if you can actually afford those players and whether they fit into your playing style/philosophy.
* While scouting players, look at the ratings for specific attributes where you want to use the player - like look at FK Accuracy, Curve,Shot Power, Long Shots etc. for player you are looking to be your primary Free Kick taker. Do not get swayed by the overall rating of the player - he's there to do one or two specific jobs within the playing XI - not be a one man army.
* Transfer player contract/Contract renewal negotiations also offer a good opportunity to tailor a realistic experience.
1. Getting realistic player market values in sync with real world - use of so called Realism mods for PC, trying to get players within your stipulated budget.
2. Use the free signings options with a self-imposed restriction which can be curated based on free signing history of the club you are managing (again refer to [transfermarkt.com](https://transfermarkt.com) ) - looking at how many free signings in a season, quality and market value of players etc. Again for this I would suggest to look back into last decade of transfer activity to get a feel of the type ,scale of transfers and leagues being looked into.
3. Offering contracts during negotiations within means, trying to stay within a self-imposed salary cap (which can be increased/decreased based on team progress), offering roles which you know you will be actually offering (like do not offer important role to a young high potential player just for sake of getting him, when you are really not going to play him much that season).
* Transfer Budget handling \- Mainly for a One club management/Road to Glory using PC mods as discussed above, you can use the Live Editor tool and Cheat Engine to modify the budget as you wish - make it reflect real life budget OR change it to reflect an increase after a Club Ownership change or promotion to the top division or an upgrade in stadium size ( which again is achievable using Cheat Engine PC tool) etc. The same can be used for Journeyman Career Mode also, but to what extent is up to the user.
c) Youth Academy
1. Use (again) [transfermarkt.com](https://transfermarkt.com) to find out the countries from where most of the academy players are from now and in the past at the club you are managing (under the History>Miscellaneous>Youth Academy) - these will be the countries where you focus your youth scouting on.
2. For scouting youth players use a short window (3 months) if you are from the higher-mid-to-lower division sides or longer window (6 months) if you are a high-to-mid-lower division team. These spans from the fact that lower sides primarily feed on the growth and sporting success of youth players compared to high end teams, who rather will buy ready-made first team talent or a near finished young player.
3. For scouting youth player type, try searching for a specific type (like technically gifted, strong etc.) rather than searching for default "any" type of player.
d) Training activities
1. Train youth players in groups (like strikers/attackers together etc.) and have 3/4 training preset groups which you can rotate/change after every 2 weeks.
2. Impose a training overall attribute limit of 70 for all youth players. Once they reach an overall of 70, they should be removed from training schedule and grow naturally and as they get game time. (If the PC Realism Mod is used, it constrains growth and player growth is a lot slower like real life than in actual game where training is a bit overpowered.)
3. Training senior players to be done for 2-4 weeks for some specific attributes, if you see them performing badly in games (like a striker missing target very frequently in last 3/4 matches, can be trained for next 2-3 weeks on his shooting skills).
e) Press interviews and Player interactions
1. Give genuine reactions - DO NOT hide your emotions to manipulate the game to improve player and team morale. A 6-0 loss to rivals or a 2-1 narrow loss in cup against minnows, should not prompt a response like "we played well/ our confidence is solid "etc. - these need the typical hair-dryer responses.
2. Player interactions mainly deal with appeasing players playing time and morale massaging - be blunt and truthful. A rotation player needs to understand he will not play every week or an important player playing mostly every week, coming and asking to quit if not played regularly needs a dressing down or tactful handling based on his importance in your plans.
f) Gameplay and tactics
1. If you are following the Road to Glory/One Club idea, stick to a core playing style (like Barcelona or Arsenal) and try to achieve it by tailoring different formations (like 4-3-3,4-4-2 etc.) to reflect that playing style - as if different managers are coming in and out as seasons progress and keep the club playing the same style of football.
2. If you are following a Journeyman career mode, try to devise a playing philosophy (like Pep Guardiola's tiki-taka or Jose Mourinho's park-the-bus) and tune your formations to reflect the same using custom team tactics.
3. For any Custom tactics set (i.e. Ultra Defensive, Defensive, Balanced, Attacking ,Ultra Attacking), use the balanced, attacking and defensive ones to use a variety of formations with similar playing style without the extreme aggressions, maybe of balanced intent; the other two i.e. Ultra Defensive and Ultra Attacking to be used as the extreme defensive and attacking options. This helps to imitate the real life in game formation switch, without the actual change in attacking or defensive intensity with each formation change.
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06-20-2020, 04:43 PM
