Newgens with low flair?

I just got the game a few weeks ago and being a first time player, I'm loving it, but I have an issue with newgens having very low flair.

For example, I bought a young striker with great potential and stats like 17 technique, 15 passing, 16 finishing etc but he only has 6 flair (and 8 creativity if that also matters). Is there any way to boost a players flair quite a bit over a long period of time? I read tutoring is a good way but are there any others?

I may be wrong but I've never seen flair go up naturally or by tutoring, also should be noted that the only visible attribute that tutoring increases is determination, it's often a misconception that tutoring raises other mental attributes.

Lots of people have reported it, it seems to be a bug at the moment.

Its a known issue and I am certain the next patch will resolve this. In the meanwhile though. Feel free to fix it yourself year by year with FMRTE. It lets you search regens only. Then you can create your own version of what you think is fair by adding something similar to this formula :

Strikers +2 Flair

Midfielders +2 Flair

Defenders +1 Flair

Since you can mass edit, you should create a more balanced version of your footballing world easily and efficiently. You can then do this every two years, by filtering Regens only under the age of 18, since the older regens will be around 19-20 by this point and wont be affected by your formula.

Year 2022

My new C Ronaldo 17 Flair

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/8812/reynoso2.png

Barca's young striker 17 flair

http://img96.imageshack.us/i/wamba.png/

And I made a search on 15+ flair with $10M+ value.

Zaragoza's AMC.. 15 flair

http://img17.imageshack.us/i/rojas.png/

Looks like there's hope left but only a handful of good players have decent flair.

There are about 20 of them above 15 flair, but compare to the beginning of the game, it's somewhat low though.

Searched all 15+ flair player at the beginning of the game. 3140 found. Searched at year 2022.. 2264 found... It dropped but not by a bunch though, except a lot of those good flair players can't play football.

But I doubt flair would affect much on your performance...

Look at this guy. 4 flair and look how many goals he scored.

http://img145.imageshack.us/i/gaunitz.png/

Its a known issue and I am certain the next patch will resolve this. In the meanwhile though. Feel free to fix it yourself year by year with FMRTE. It lets you search regens only. Then you can create your own version of what you think is fair by adding something similar to this formula :

Strikers +2 Flair

Midfielders +2 Flair

Defenders +1 Flair

Since you can mass edit, you should create a more balanced version of your footballing world easily and efficiently. You can then do this every two years, by filtering Regens only under the age of 18, since the older regens will be around 19-20 by this point and wont be affected by your formula.

Is there any odd chance there'd be a version that works for Mac?

that i cant answer you'd have to check on their forums

I've always had the feeling that this has been a problem over the years in FM and this year seems a bit worse. I did a little experiment to see the average flair of the top 50 midfielders and strikers at the start of the game and then in 2025 when they were all regens, at the start it was 14.7 and went down to 9.4, which is obviously a big change which affects creativity. Flair used to go up naturally by 2 or 3 points on FM10 but now it seems firmly stuck at whatever the player starts at.

Hope they're ready to fix it in the next patch then. I'm assuming I'll have to start a new game but Flair's a fairly important stat. I'd love to see my awesome youth players scoring super goals or playing super balls in 2015+.