***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[jesmith29]

Re: ***The Official Football Manager Thread***

4 games into my 2021/22 season and I've lost 2 key players already.

Chamberlain went to Spurs. They offered 30M, which activated his release clause, and he went running, yellling and cheering, out the door before the inked had even dried! He was making 90K p/w with us and settled for 99K p/w with Spurs. Thanks Ox.

El Shaarawy tore his hamstring and is out 2-3 months. Of course this happens after the window closed.

Time for some youngsters to earn their stripes!

[jmaj315]

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Well, I applied for the USA olympic manager position, we'll see what happens with that.
As I type this we are in 12th position and up 3-0 in the 36th minute on 1st placed Burnley in what appears to be a home fixture, but I would love if it weren't.
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We played poorly in the 2nd half, ended up winning 3-2 though. One goal was on a rebound, not much you can do there. The other was just a great effort from their striker.
We'll gladly take the 3 points.

[Jukeman]

When is the last patch scheduled to release?

Has there been any price drops lately? I may upgrade from 12 soon.


-Juke

[ImTellinTim]

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When is the last patch scheduled to release?

Has there been any price drops lately? I may upgrade from 12 soon.


-Juke

It came in early March last year I think.

[jasontoddwhitt]

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So disappointed right now. Lost in the quarterfinals of the Second Stage of Serie C to Macae 2-1 on aggregate. Both of their goals were flukey as crap. Had three goals disallowed for various reasons across both legs. So its back to Serie C next year.

Curse you FM GODS!!!!

EDIT: Pretty sad, my players finished 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in POTY voting. Just couldn't advance one flipping round.

[jvalverde88]

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Started a save with Spurs (why not since AVB always gets sacked) I have a 30 game unbeaten streak and who do I finally lose to.......Derby County in a 3rd round FA Cup replay.

The hell with you FM Gods!

[Suntan Superman]

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I just made the single most questionable signing of my FM career. I used most of my available wage budget, and all of my transfer funds to bring in Per Mertesacker from Arsenal. First, I can't believe he signed. Second, I feel stupid for using all of my available funding. Third, if this doesn't work out, I hope I can sell him for more than the 1.8M I bought him for.

[Suntan Superman]

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Perhaps it's because I'm afraid I'm going to regret Mertesacker, but I'm messing around in FM Editor, and I'm working diligently on a Four Tier US System, what I would like to do, is if anyone around here would like to be added to this database as a coach/player for any of the NASL and below teams, just shoot me a message with a coaching/playing profile. Also, if anyone wants to help me test the database for likeness problems(same teams getting promoted/relegated each year, player shortage, etc). I've obviously got kinks to work out. One of them is creating the four divisions, I've already got them where they will be MLS-NASL-USPRO1-USPRO2. I've "promoted" the Minnesota Stars from NASL to MLS to make an even 20, otherwise, I'm just scouring for "unique" (read: Not reserve teams or vicinity teams[note: I'm failing]) teams to fill out 20 teams in each division. 3 relegated, 3 promoted except USPRO where it's 4 up, 4 down. For anyone who is curious, this is what the leagues look like right now.

MLS: Current + Minnesota Stars

NASL:
Atlanta Silverbacks
Carolina Railhawks
FC Edmonton
Fort Lauderdale Strikers
New York Cosmos
San Antonio Scorpions
Tampa Bay Rowdies
Ottawa Fury(will be using the extinct version to replicate the expansion plans of the NASL in 2013)
Virginia Beach Mariners(Virginia slated to get a team, using an extinct team
Indianapolis Braves(see above)
Charleston Battery
Charlotte Eagles
Dayton Dutch Lions
Harrisburg City Islanders
Los Angeles Blues
Orlando City
Pittsburgh Riverhounds
Phoenix FC
Richmond Kickers
Wilmington Hammerheads

USPRO1: (incomplete, need 4 teams)
FC Tampa Bay
Rochester Rhinos
Rhode Island Reds
Brooklyn Italians
FC Tulsa
Jacksonville United
Milwaukee Bavarians
Detroit City FC
San Diego Flash
Sacramento Gold
Fullerton Rangers
AFC Cleveland
Quad City Eagles
Georgia Revolution
Mississippi Storm
FC Sonic

USPRO2 [no teams selected yet ]

I'll be editing the CONACAF Cup to select teams correctly(it will be top 4 MLS)

There will also be an FA Cup, containing every team(much like England's version)

The Lamar Hunt will remain as is.

The season's been changed to accommodate FIFA rules.

[Suntan Superman]

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Triple Post: I'm shelving this for the night so I can hopefully get some input from you guys but right now, here are the divisions, any input(positive or negative) is welcome!

MLS: Current + Minnesota Stars (3 relegated, 4 CONCACAF)

NASL: (3 promoted, 3 relegated)
Atlanta Silverbacks
Carolina Railhawks
FC Edmonton
Fort Lauderdale Strikers
New York Cosmos
San Antonio Scorpions
Tampa Bay Rowdies
Ottawa Fury
Virginia Beach Mariners
Indianapolis Braves
Charleston Battery
Charlotte Eagles
Dayton Dutch Lions
Harrisburg City Islanders
Los Angeles Blues
Orlando City
Pittsburgh Riverhounds
Phoenix FC
Richmond Kickers
Wilmington Hammerheads

USPRO1: (3 promoted, 4 relegated)
FC Tampa Bay
Rochester Rhinos
Rhode Island Reds
Brooklyn Italians
FC Tulsa
Jacksonville United
Milwaukee Bavarians
Detroit City FC
San Diego Flash
Sacramento Gold
Fullerton Rangers
AFC Cleveland
Quad City Eagles
Georgia Revolution
Mississippi Storm
FC Sonic
Pocono Snow
Knoxville Force
FC Buffalo
San Fransisco S

USPRO2: (4 promoted)
Michigan Bucks
Forest City London
Thunder Bay Chill
Des Moines
Reading United
Connecticut FC Azul
Vermont Voltage
West Virginia Chaos
West Texas United Shockers
Victoria Highlanders
Fresno Fuego
Ventura City Fusion
Springfield Demize
St. Louis Lions
River City Rovers
Central Jersey Spartans
Northern Virginia Royals
El Paso Patriots
FC Tuscon
Eau Claire Aris

[ImTellinTim]

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Started a save with Spurs (why not since AVB always gets sacked) I have a 30 game unbeaten streak and who do I finally lose to.......Derby County in a 3rd round FA Cup replay.

The hell with you FM Gods!

Spurs won the EPL in the first season of my current save.

[ImTellinTim]

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Suntan - I'd suggest switching the Cosmos with the MN Stars.

How is it coming along, have you done any testing yet?

[Suntan Superman]

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Suntan - I'd suggest switching the Cosmos with the MN Stars.

How is it coming along, have you done any testing yet?

The Cosmos were my original plan for the 20th team, but their FM Editor Data is messed up beyond my knowledge of repair. FC New York has effectively replaced them.

Also FC Tuscon wasn't in the Data files, so I just took the Madison 56ers(logo/stadium, etc was all set, so less work)
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Yes, I've done testing, this is what I have so far

All four leagues work, play 38 games, 2 against each other team home/away

US Cup works for first year(US Teams only)
Toyota League Cup works in first year
NACL works in first year


What I still need to do:
Add missing logos(working on)
Make sure NACL works in the second year(Also, checking if I can't change a qualifying place to the TLC Winner)
Creating a Super Cup between US Cup winner, and Canadian Championship winner, possibly holding a NACL qualifying spot

Beyond all of that, I'm open to suggestions as well.

EDIT:
I will make the logo pack separate from the logo pack I currently use in case anyone actually does want to download this.

[Suntan Superman]

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First Crash happened around the closing of the first mid-season transfer window after adding the US Cup and Toyota Cup.

One thing that's great is that FM crash dumps in a folder, not in secret.

The stored exception information can be accessed via .ecxr.
(136c.1f0): Access violation - code c0000005 (first/second chance not available)
eax=00000000 ebx=02f4f208 ecx=00000127 edx=00000000 esi=00000f40 edi=02f4f09c
eip=77b00c22 esp=02f4e63c ebp=02f4e64c iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc
cs=0023 ss=002b ds=002b es=002b fs=0053 gs=002b efl=00000246
ntdll!NtGetContextThread+0x12:
77b00c22 83c404 add esp,4

[Suntan Superman]

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Fixed the Crash Dump, right now after three first seasons of simulating, I've decided that Rochester, Jacksonville and Tampa Bay will be placed in NASL, while Ottawa, FC Phoenix and Indianapolis will be moved down to USPRO1.

Got the competition logos done(changed MLS logo, added USPRO2 logo, added Toyota Cup logo)
Working on getting all four versions of team logos done, and going to be doing year 2 testing.
By tomorrow I hope to be testing coaching the teams, I envision the lowers will be incredibly hard, but they're meant to be.

[thedudedominick]

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Fixed the Crash Dump, right now after three first seasons of simulating, I've decided that Rochester, Jacksonville and Tampa Bay will be placed in NASL, while Ottawa, FC Phoenix and Indianapolis will be moved down to USPRO1.

Got the competition logos done(changed MLS logo, added USPRO2 logo, added Toyota Cup logo)
Working on getting all four versions of team logos done, and going to be doing year 2 testing.
By tomorrow I hope to be testing coaching the teams, I envision the lowers will be incredibly hard, but they're meant to be.

I"m looking forward to see what you end up with after all of that.