themodelcitizen

Probably too obvious, but is the semifinal set up under "requirements" for the final? If they're separate stages, the final may be trying to set itself up before the semi winners are crowned

Can you DM me the save file if possible, I wouldn't mind poking around. That $14.5K figure sounds familiar from past saves, I was usually able to up it by moving money around or selling players and would suddenly be able to offer $80K to $110K but there might be something preventing you now. Not a problem to raise this stuff, I need the feedback, only way to improve these files. Might be something in contract types or Board/chairman settings that actually makes a difference in FM24 and never worked before

Just occurred to me there might be a way to "use playoff rankings" in Wales and use flexible ranking places for everyone under 1st, so that 1st gets the title but the teams in the playoff can steal 2nd or 3rd (thereby taking the second-best European spot). Would need a bit of testing though

Thanks for the feedback. Which club? I wonder if we need to adjust overall finances down there, maybe if they don't see enough money coming in they won't free up any for signings. The CBS deal IRL means we might be able to keep it realistic in the process. I've coached in the lower divisions before and it was a struggle but not to that extent. FYI salary cap space may not correspond to the board's understanding of how much they can spare - is there a separate wage budget anywhere under finances? That would be a more realistic look at room for new signings. But still, they shouldn't be stonewalling you with 900K of cap room. Once I hear more details I'll start brainstorming and testing

What about this, in the main teams list - get teams from team pool, sort by seeding (can't remember if it will be ascending or descending), seed by reputation (I think that's an option?) In the team pool - set an entry with "best teams in division" (or "get best teams in competition" if you want current standings from a season that hasn't ticked over yet) and maximum teams to 4, with division set to EPL. Repeat for each division you want (all 52 European nations). This should work by drawing the 4 teams as separate entries each? And then the "get teams from team pool" should sort them all by that seeding by reputation with no regard to nationality. Try it and see

I was about to post something but would just be repeating myself from 3 and a half years ago, lol, if it's every 2nd season then it sounds a lot like something isn't finishing in time and is pushing into the next year. Transfer window, league fixtures, cup dates, something like that. If the league can't finish or there are other hanging threads like that when season update day hits, it just won't schedule the new season. By the time another year rolls around, though, it's fine and can schedule again. Triple check every single date in there, for that matter they might have used 2020/2021 instead of 2000/2001 by accident somewhere (assuming "base year for dates" is 2000). Or maybe they put a cup final on, say, May 31 and made season update day June 1, not realizing that one is a weekday (so will change every year) and the other is a hard date. If it's not a date issue, try posting it up and maybe someone can take a look

There's a simple way where you can also just tell it to ignore the 38 (or 32 before the format change) "best teams in competition" for the CL, and then tell it to grab the [amount of teams] "best teams in competition", only problem is that the Board/media won't know that they're getting in a back door

Just seen the Vancouver thing, do you live around here? Might actually hit the Caps game tomorrow if my buddy is into it I do wonder if there's a way to keep dynamic reputation by leaving all the CLs etc intact as much as possible, without fixtures, and just using them for seeding/coefficients etc, but that's a massive project I don't know if I'll have the energy for (especially with BC summer fast approaching)

Yeah mate, people should be following your account and rushing to answer basic questions that you should be able to figure out in 2 minutes on your own. This type of ungrateful response is why people get burned from posting replies more often

I think you can add different stages that will each only run if there are a certain amount of teams, which should be achievable with "ignore teams" set to the world cup host?

Before CanPL was in the game I'd thought about trying to just use MLS wholesale, keeping the unique IDs but renaming and moving all the teams to Canada. Fix up their rosters and maybe remove the salary rules but the cap and everything would still exist (could change USL2 to USports). Like a 29-team CanPL. I think @Al Clark might have done something similar but 10-15 years ago or so when it would have been a much smaller project

What do they do in the meantime? Sign players to just train and do nothing? Play friendlies? I suppose you could put a transfer embargo on them until a certain date but you don't want them to join with a bare-bones roster either

I believe it does, at least when I was fiddling with Russia and also the NISA cup in my US file. I think the Japanese mod-makers had a similar issue

Sounds like you have 16 set somewhere, but yeah it would be easier to follow if you kept most of this stuff in one thread. Anyway "ignore teams" does exactly what it says

Take teams from the existing ACL with "get best teams in competition" and "nation" set to, say, Qatar. As long as the setup date is shortly after the ACL draws, that should piggyback off the ACL coefficients. As for implementing your own, not sure that's possible, or beyond me at least