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That's a provocative statement, I know, but hear me out. Each player at each moment generally has 4 possible plays: dribble, pass, cross or shoot. If you look at success percentages, it is obvious that crossing and long shots are both the least optimal choices. Yes, you can get an occasional assist from a cross or a goal from a long-range effort. However, just like Frederic Bastiat said, it's important what you canNOT see. And that is the wasted chance of a different, alternative choice. Real life also shows clearly that ball played to feet is the most efficient way of building up play. The evidence for it is of course the spread of tiki taka and its mutations across the world and the massive success it brought to teams like Barcelona and recently City. If you want to play efficient and optimal football - you should limit crosses and long shots. The disadvantages and wasted chances outweigh the occasional points you win. Whenever I create a new tactic, I set all individual instructions to "shoot less often", apart from the striker. Now I also started adding "cross less often" for everyone. And it works. Instead of mindlessly crossing with a conversion rate of 10-20%, my full backs prefer to send low diagonal passes with an 80% efficiency. Try it yourself and keep the ball on the ground.

About the first thing, fbref.com had this stat (unsuccessful dribbles), before they changed the source of stats. Now I don't think they have it anymore. About the other one - that doesn't help me determine if my players perform better at dribbling than e.g. at passing relatively. The way I approach building tactics and giving PIs is to tell my players to do something they're good at more and something they're bad at less. For example, if I see that my midfielder has 90% pass completion, I would tell him to take more risks. If I see it drop to let's say 70%, I would tell him to take fewer risks. For dribbling I don't have this possibility.

Hey guys, So when I analyse the team's performance after the season comes to an end, I can clearly see the pattern: attempted / successful / percentage for all major stats (passing, heading, tackling, etc.). However, for dribbles I can only see dribbles per game, but no distinction between attempted and successful dribbles. Of course, there is "possession lost" stat, but that isn't - correct me if I'm wrong - limited to unsuccessful dribbles. Because, as I understand it, an unsuccessful pass is also possession lost, isn't it? So - is there any way to determine not how many times my player had dribbled an opponent, but how many times he had tried and what the success rate had been? What I'm trying to achieve is to be able to fine-tune player instructions (dribble more / dribble less) in relation to that stat. Please help tactical gurus ;)

So probably I'm not the only one who spotted some of the newgens that reappear across many saves and even game versions. Research sometimes shows those name popping up as far back as FM 2015. Now - I know that some people won some awards in the past to be in the game, and I also know of at least one club researcher that had the possibility to be added as a newgen. The problem is that some of these guys have never been researchers and usually researchers generate as quite crappy players. These in turn always turn out to be amazing. So, let's make a list. Let me start with two names. ARIAN KALANTARI Now, I don't know if the LADBible creator had anything to do with Football Manager (a silent investor?), or if it's a coincidence, or maybe an easter egg, but he's been around at least since 2018. If you google Arian Kalantari football manager, you will see that many people had him in their games and he always was an amazing goal scorer. In my journeyman save, he partnered Haaland in Manchester City and won a couple of Ballon d'Ors. GIOVANNI TERESI Now this guy goes waaaaaaaaaay back. I in fact found him - born in Palermo, Milan fan. For obvious reasons I will not share his personal social media. He always generates as an attacking midfielder and was a part of my Real Madrid Champions League winning team. Then there is supposedly a goalkeeper called WALLY JONCK, who also is a recurring newgen, but I've never seen if he's any good. Reddit claims he is. Now let me make it clear. Those guys are always good in the game, unlike my club researcher friend who is also a recurring newgen, but rarely exceeds lower league level. So - has anybody else found such names? Let's share and work on a list together.