Millie Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Our final teaser before release looks at the new analysis pages which are available in the new match screens. This is the last teaser you will get before the big launch on October 30! You can, as always, find the guide and the fully refurbished FM-Britain.co.uk. Tactical Theorems '10 will be available to download from this link. The Analysis Page New to Football Manager 2010 is the analysis page, found in the stats tab of the classic match view. It is a brilliant tool for dissecting your side’s performances and working out where the holes are in your tactical plan. A lot of the information is more subjective than the raw statistical data, and so can be more useful in pinpointing the specific areas in the side that need improvement or explaining statistical anomalies in the match stats. In conjunction with watching a game’s highlights, it is now easier than ever to fix problems that occur during the course of a game or a season. Clicking on a “blob” in the analysis screen shows a replay of the incident – so there are plenty of opportunities to see where things have gone right, and where they’ve gone wrong. Shots The shots page can tell you quite a bit about why you are or aren’t scoring (and the same about the opposition). The little blobs on the screen can let you know which shots were on target, which were blocked, which went wide, which were saved and, most importantly, which went in. You can tell which individuals contributed most (and least) to your SoT count, long shot count and goal count. It is best to try to keep shots from range to a minimum for players who are regularly missing the target. You can individually set their “try long shots” slider, or generally tell the team to work the ball into the box if it seems to be a general problem. Consider also removing players who fail to live up to these instructions, lowering their creative freedom or training them using PPMs to stop taking so many long shots. For the opposition, using this page can help analyse your weak points with regard to conceding shots. If most are from long range then this is probably a good thing, but if too many of these long range shots are on target you may need to put more pressure on the opposition by pushing higher up and closing down certain individuals more often. If the shots are from close range, establish how the team were able to get into those positions and make tactical changes to either cut off the supply or more effectively neutralise the shooters. Passes Through showing the length and outcome of each pass, it can be easier to decide which players are making too many long passes or which simply are rubbish at passing. Ideally, you want lots of green blobs here. If you don’t, look at what types of pass are being missed. If there is a general problem, try changing passing systems or using shouts to make the team more cautious in possession. Using the replays, you can also see if the problem is being caused by isolation; make sure that all your players have a passing option. If they don’t, consider role, duty and formation changes to add more balance to the attacking shape of the side. A by-product of the passing chart is that it shows player movement. A midfielder who runs from end to end will have a wide spread of blobs; a centre back holding his position will only have a few blobs concentrated in his own half. Depending on how you want your players to perform, you can adjust roles and duties to make players move around more or less: and work out which players are seeing a lot of the ball and which are not getting involved in the game enough. This is a very useful tool for showing the coverage of your players, and highlighting potential areas for improvement with regard to the balance of the side. Similarly, you can check which areas of the field the opposition is best exploiting you in. Use opposition instructions on players who see most of the ball, and consider formation, duty or role changes to cover areas of the pitch where the opposition are getting too much space. Tackles, Fouls and Interceptions This shows the players on your team making a good defensive contribution. Check where the “green” and “red” tackles are being made, and adjust setting accordingly. A lot of red tackles suggests a player who is poor at making challenges or a player being caught out of position too much. Try reducing tackling intensity or making changes to stop him having to chase back and make risky tackles. A lot of interceptions suggests good team and player positioning. A lack of them, combined with a lot of missed tackles suggests that the team needs to work harder on retaining its defensive shape. Consider playing more defensively, maybe playing with a more rigid philosophy and reducing tackling intensity and/or closing down. As for fouls, this goes hand-in-hand with tackles. Bear in mind that the position of the foul can make a difference in the colour of card shown, as can the amount of fouls made by the player during the game. Hovering the mouse over the blob tells you the time of the foul and may enlighten the situation. In professional football, most referees will caution after the third or fourth foul – use this to try to reduce the tackling intensity of repeat offenders or pull them off the pitch before they get themselves in trouble. Crosses and headers These two are good for tweaking tactics. Some teams don’t like the crossing game and will get few crosses. If you are getting too many, consider reducing wing play by playing narrower or playing with fewer wide players: or change individual crossing settings to “rarely”. If you aren’t completing enough, ask whether this may be due to poor crossing or poor positioning on the part of the central forwards. This is where heading can come in. A lot of missed attacking headers may suggest that the team needs to play more crosses and passes on the ground, or that the team needs taller and stronger players. A lot of missed defensive headers suggests an aerial weakness which will need to be addressed, either in the transfer market or by cutting off the aerial supply to the opposition target men. Tactically, you can lower the defensive line, to provide cover behind the opposition target men, or using OIs to mark less tightly the taller players. If you cannot win a direct aerial confrontation, it makes sense to make any potential flick-ons or headers less effective. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
baseline9 Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Excellent read, def going to use the Analysis page more going forward. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
quantez3 Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Good read! Certainly an overlooked (by me) new feature. Only: when i'm playing against a strong Target man, i tend to raise my D-line in order not to get him too close to the goal. So i am not an expert at FM, but this makes more sense to me than lowering the D-line. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millie Posted October 27, 2009 Author Share Posted October 27, 2009 It's one way of dealing with it - but you're also allowing the possibility for him to flick the ball into the space left behind the d-line for someone else to exploit. It all depends on the match situation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayahr Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 I'm not sure if a guide as brilliant as TT&F needs teasers as if it needed to sell to anyone. Makes it look more about personal marketing for the authors than get people excited of what they know will be great. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RT-- Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 This is why the analysis tool really needs to include an 'all players' option for things like shots, so we don't have to click on every individual player. And highlighting key passes would be extremely useful, as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grimness Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 I'm not sure if a guide as brilliant as TT&F needs teasers as if it needed to sell to anyone. Makes it look more about personal marketing for the authors than get people excited of what they know will be great. I view it as a good opportunity for people to try doing something on their own and trying to take deeper look into the game. With full guide served on the plate lots of them will try to implement given advices without bothering to understand why they are doing something. Sort of plug-n-play This way it's educational and makes take a deeper look into the wealth of options. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millie Posted October 27, 2009 Author Share Posted October 27, 2009 I'm not sure if a guide as brilliant as TT&F needs teasers as if it needed to sell to anyone. Makes it look more about personal marketing for the authors than get people excited of what they know will be great. We're sorry for trying to help people while we were in the process of getting the guide ready. Yes, of course we're promoting the guide as much as we can - why wouldn't we? But the whole point of it is to help people out in the process. Everyone knows who writes the guide, and what it's about. There's much better ways of stroking our e-penises. Trust me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grimness Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 You should advice the use of certain flix sites for real deal I personally don't see any personal marketing here. All this things would end up spread in various topics and then linked in some Tactic bible thread. This way it's convenient for every user of this board looking for some help. KUTGW! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayahr Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 We're sorry for trying to help people while we were in the process of getting the guide ready.Yes, of course we're promoting the guide as much as we can - why wouldn't we? But the whole point of it is to help people out in the process. Everyone knows who writes the guide, and what it's about. There's much better ways of stroking our e-penises. Trust me. You mean even stickying it, for instance? No worries. I love your guide. It's a good read on top of being helpful. I just had the impression that the FM blogs might have caused you to get carried away a little in your promotional effort Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwfan Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 We get a lot of input from SI and SEGA to TT&F nowadays, which is why it gets stickied. It's by no means just us any more. Actually, it's barely me at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gulsenas Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Can you release full TTF10 guide today? Some of us already got the game... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReclaimTheKop Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 How u got the game? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartreligion Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 How u got the game? it's been in some stores since wednesday Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NPINOLT Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 where do we get the tactics and training guide. Just got the game and want skim through that guide before starting up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwfan Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Millie is in charge of uploading it, not me, and he's unlikely to be awake for a while, being a lazy student. It's also likely it will be posted at FM-Britain prior to these forums, as all the authors are involved with managing that site. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMister Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Go throw a bucket of cold water over him WWF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
batata169 Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Is it up yet? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millie Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 You'll know as soon as it's up if you follow either of these links: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fmbritain http://www.twitter.com/FMBritain We're in the process of uploading it and updating the site code to accommodate it. Should be ready by the afternoon. Our apologies for the wait. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abaddon879 Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Just to let you guys know, the new subscription system is a bit buggy. The email I got has very poor html script and the link does not work without editing. You might need to look into it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacvad Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 I've recieved the link. What needs editing to make it work? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abaddon879 Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 It may work for you but what I recieved was: Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1From: FM-Britain <support@fm-britain.co.uk> Reply-To: FM-Britain <support@fm-britain.co.uk> X-Mailer: WOMsend 1.0-current Sender: gameworldone@womsend.com Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:56:52 +0200 Return-Path: root@dsa.womsend.com X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Oct 2009 10:56:52.0848 (UTC) FILETIME=[b04B1700:01CA594F] Please click the following link to confirm your subscription: <a href="http://womsend.com/emd/c/23/6/0/0/0/MHLCDP0FNBJLU/1">http://womsend.com/emd/c/23/6/0/0/0/MHLCDP0FNBJLU/1</a> When I clicked the link however it sent me to: http://womsend.com/emd/c/23/6/0/0/0/MHLCDP0FNBJLU/1%22%3Ehttp://womsend.com/emd/c/23/6/0/0/0/MHLCDP0FNBJLU/1%3C/a I'm not sure whether it was just mine, but I had to edit the url to make it work so it was only http://womsend.com/emd/c/23/6/0/0/0/MHLCDP0FNBJLU/1%22%3 If you notice, the closing </a> tag seems to have got mixed up in the link url. Not sure if this was a one off with Hotmail, or whether it was a issue with the subscription software Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibernian Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 my one worked fine without editing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abaddon879 Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 May have been an issue with my email software then or I was just unlucky. Hopefully all is fine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JordanC Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 I apologize if any of you are having problems downloading the guide... Millie & I are working here together non-stop to make sure that every single person who wants TT10 gets it as easily and quickly as possible. I've looked into the confirmation e-mail that is sent out... I believe there is just a minor issue that some e-mail clients set to display HTML formatting are mixing up the link tag with the actual URL. The URL itself *should* be valid and I suggest if you are having problems, please cut & paste the full URL (which ends like this: /emd/c/186/6/0/0/0/1MDNTCM6SJHVM/1) into your browser window. This should pull up the download link properly. I'm aware that this may be an inconvenience and is just a work-around for now. I am currently diving into our opt-in scripting software that handles this and correcting the issue so no further people will have a problem in this regard. Hopefully, this can be resolved within the next few hours, but if not, please e-mail us at support@fm-britain.co.uk and we will try to help you as best as we can. We're absolutely amazed at all the support the community has given us and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts! Really! :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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