Staff Search

One thing that has always confused me, is the star rating for staff searches.

Do people always include the DDM (Level of Discipline, Discipline, Motivation) in all searches for staff. Or just the important ones like for Goalkeepers the Goalkeeping stat only?

I never did before ... but they have a rather big effect on the star rating, so now I do

I never did before ... but they have a rather big effect on the star rating, so now I do

Yes its weird. I have a Fitness Coach with 20 for fitness and above 10 for the other stats apart from motivation which is only 6 but still comes out as 4.5 stars

Why is that weird? There's a formula for calculating the stars.

Yes its weird. I have a Fitness Coach with 20 for fitness and above 10 for the other stats apart from motivation which is only 6 but still comes out as 4.5 stars

It's not that weird at all. For a strength & aerobics coach the fitness coaching attribute is weighted more heavily than with any other discipline. It doesn't matter much if one of the DDM attributes isn't all that great.

To answer the OP yes I always include DDM attributes in some manner as they affect the ability of any coach. They are not the primary concern but a good way to filter out the riff raff in most cases.

I didn't mean weird in that sense. All I meant was that in most cases the DDM can be as low as that to get a good coach

I see. By the way I was wrong in my post above *ahem*. Strength/aerobics coaches need a combined ddm of 45 to reach 5 stars if the fitness coaching attr is 20. A tactics coach only needs a combined ddm of 30 to do so when the tactical coaching attr is 20. Thats what I get for trying to be clever I suppose.

Thanks for that. I always used to put in what league I was in so if League 1 all atributes would be 11 and then take it from there. But now I use the Primary attribute as a starting point.

I use this excellent tool:

FM10 coach calculator by BonzoLLM - online

Created by someone on this forum.