[FM24][SKIN] Statman24 - Updated 28/02/24

[_Ben_]

STATMAN24

https://www.mediafire.com/file/vlv6214e0156du5/Statman24+v1.6.rar/file

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Built for best results when viewed at 85% or 95%  at 1920x1080 resolution with sidebar icons only.

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"It´s a skin for data fans, not for football managers" 

"looks like a complete mess,shame because i like this type of stat , never mind, back to wannachup instant result skin lol"

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Spurred on by some high quality feedback, above, (yes - it's real) - I would like to introduce my skin for this year. Statman24 is my attempt at creating a skin fit for the fast moving pace of football analytics - offering built in metrics for team and player. Built to encompass three main profile areas for a player, as modelled by the lovely Romelu Lukaku, above, you can dig into their performances, attributes and their statistical outputs. With different screens available for players that you own, players that you don't and players without a club, I've tried to use the space as sensibly as possible, this time out opting for far more room across the skin. Explore the hidden buttons on the profile (look for the change in cursor around the personal information!) and compare attributes and outputs with other players. Staff profiles follow a similar methodology.

The biggest change for this version is the bar charts for combined attributes that are directly measured against a similar statistical output - for example, compare the three attributes that are trained on 'Shooting' - Finishing, Long Shots and Technique - with a player's Shooting output - goals/90, shots on target % and conversion rate. Whilst there may not always be a direct comparison - my ideology behind this is a base level comparison of whether the player may be outperforming their attributes, leaving it up to you, the manager, to dig deeper into the stats and performance data provided.

 

Team stats are everywhere, with new panels and amendments to competition stats, allowing you - the manager - to really get a deeper understanding of how your team is matching up, especially against your next opponent, which is part of a re-modelled tactical area. N.B. With the tactical area, you're currently unable to create a new tactic through the setup wizard - instead you'll have to load a preset (or an existing one) and amend from there. This is a continued task to re-implement...

Across the rest of the skin, many panels have been developed to match the theme and include new, important information.

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I've put hundreds, if not thousands of hours into this work and I feel at a point now where I can release this feeling pretty confident that it's somewhere close to its final form. However, if you spot any bugs or issues, please can you let me know. I am more than happy to take ideas and brainstorm things with you but I won't be responding to 'show me how to change x to y' for example: as 90% of these will be about returning to numerical attribute values, which won't happen at all. Likewise, the skin is built around older code in which I was unaware of the necessity of TranslationIDs and, as such, the skin is almost unusable in any language that isn't English. Again, I apologise for this but won't be offering translations nor will be allowing other people to translate and release any panels found within my skin created by me.

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I'd like to offer special thanks to @TCSSkin, @snowofman and @GIMN for their assistance in the development of this skin. Any panels that have been directly transferred from the members mentioned, or any others, are credited in game. 

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Coffee?

Of course, this skin is free, but, if you wish to donate me the caffeine I crave to do this work, you can do so - here:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/statman

Edited February 28 by _Ben_

[adam_otbfm]

@_Ben_ can't wait to get stuck into having a good look around the skin and starting my main save with it! 

[casederik]

O, fricken, YEAHHHHH

[Chris_ANZFM]

What an absolute superstar you are, sir. Thanks for all your time developing this one, looks incredible at first glance. This might be the year I finally make the jump attribute less. 

[rootcoors]

Fantastic work as always.

[James M]

I get this error when trying to unzip...any ideas?!

[James M]

29 minutes ago, James M said:

I get this error when trying to unzip...any ideas?!

ah, managed to fix it by using 7zip! cant wait to use to skin!

[milenec11]

the only thing that i can say is WOOOOWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[milenec11]

this year will be attributes only with dots and with numerical as last year?

[mhad33]

Apologies if this is an easy fix on my part, but does anyone know why the player pictures are cut off (I've attached an image below)? The tactics screen is also cut short.

Thanks in advance, 

 

[_Ben_]

14 minutes ago, mhad33 said:

Apologies if this is an easy fix on my part, but does anyone know why the player pictures are cut off (I've attached an image below)? The tactics screen is also cut short.

Thanks in advance, 

 

Change the sidebar to icon only and/or zoom out .

Also - clear the cache, close and restart the game - the colours are off from not loading the settings, I think. 

Edited November 8, 2023 by _Ben_

[johnwalker]

Excellent work as always Ben!

Hope you don't mind me pointing this out but I noticed your Manager Archetype on your "header manager snapshot opposition report" is pulling through preferred job rather than their current job. On the one I was looking at it was saying the Manager was an Assistant Manager!

I think if you change it to "get_property="PcJj" it should fix that  

[Kapizak1 PL]

Awesome work, can't wait to test this one out!

 

Few issues that I noticed:

- the position familiarity dot on multiple panels is black (I actually had the same issue with your skin in FM 23, not sure if there's a fix since I only previewed it):

 

- the player instruction panel on tactics screen is cut off, it only works with 85% zoom (1920x1080, both with and without sidebar):

 

- not sure if this one is a bug but the highlighted player is season preview seems off:

 

Lastly, not a bug but a suggestion to maybe change the city/stadium photo and club honours/favourite personnel so that it can be switched with arrows, and not automatically?

[mhad33]

54 minutes ago, _Ben_ said:

Change the sidebar to icon only and/or zoom out .

Also - clear the cache, close and restart the game - the colours are off from not loading the settings, I think. 

Thanks mate, appreciate the help !

[danielgear]

6 minutes ago, Kapizak1 PL said:

the position familiarity dot on multiple panels is black (I actually had the same issue with your skin in FM 23, not sure if there's a fix since I only previewed it):

You can fix this yourself under skin colours 

[SPE3D]

Firstly great work. Trying a stat-based skin for the first time. This is going to take some getting used to. 

Managing Hereford United at the start of the season. Advertising for new staff. When I click on those who have replied I get one coloured blue dot on the skill eg physio. Also when looking at staff rolls eg physio, coach etc there are various yellow dots in various sizes. Do the dots for staff vary in size and colour and if so can someone explain what the different sizes and colours mean.

 

[danielgear]

8 hours ago, SPE3D said:

Also when looking at staff rolls eg physio, coach etc there are various yellow dots in various sizes. Do the dots for staff vary in size and colour and if so can someone explain what the different sizes and colours mean

Colours are on a scale from:

Worse to best transparent, grey, light blue, dark blue, gold

 

Edited November 9, 2023 by danielgear

[Kapizak1 PL]

3 minutes ago, danielgear said:

You can fix this yourself under skin colours 

Thank you! Mine are all set as black by default but it's good there's an easy fix.

[SPE3D]

23 minutes ago, Kapizak1 PL said:

Lastly, not a bug but a suggestion to maybe change the city/stadium photo and club honours/favourite personnel so that it can be switched with arrows, and not automatically?

I also agree with the above point. Would prefer it didnt automatically rotate. I know this is Bens skin for Ben but just my viewpoint.

[milenec11]

@_Ben_

amazing work master but last year was a button on player profil which change the dots to attributes ( what was prefferable for everyone)

is possible to add or to share with us how to add it by own?

in any way thank you very much for your work once more

[micha1334]

This is an absolutely brilliant skin !!! WOW WOW WOW

I have one Question: My FM runs in german language. Is it a problem for me to translate your own work? Or are these parts in so many different panels, so that it is to much and to difficult to change the language?

[_Ben_]

6 hours ago, Kapizak1 PL said:

- the player instruction panel on tactics screen is cut off, it only works with 85% zoom (1920x1080, both with and without sidebar):

Will have a look at this, thanks. 

6 hours ago, Kapizak1 PL said:

not sure if this one is a bug but the highlighted player is season preview seems off:

And this!

6 hours ago, SPE3D said:

Firstly great work. Trying a stat-based skin for the first time. This is going to take some getting used to. 

Managing Hereford United at the start of the season. Advertising for new staff. When I click on those who have replied I get one coloured blue dot on the skill eg physio. Also when looking at staff rolls eg physio, coach etc there are various yellow dots in various sizes. Do the dots for staff vary in size and colour and if so can someone explain what the different sizes and colours mean.

 

Where space allows, attributes are shown on a scale of 1-5 circles, going up in half increments - meaning you have one ‘value’ that could be two attributes. If space does not allow, a single circle is shown that increases in size and changes colour (transparent, grey, light blue, dark blue, gold) as that value increases. You can see that if you add attributes to the player search or, as you’ve seen, on staff job interest panels. 
 

6 hours ago, SPE3D said:

I also agree with the above point. Would prefer it didnt automatically rotate. I know this is Bens skin for Ben but just my viewpoint.

A good suggestion! Will have a look - it’s just creating a new button and that’s an easy job. 
 

6 hours ago, milenec11 said:

amazing work master but last year was a button on player profil which change the dots to attributes ( what was prefferable for everyone)

Not this year. Skin is completely attribute free! I won’t be offering support on changes as there are at least 15 panels that have been remade to get this far. 
 

 

41 minutes ago, micha1334 said:

This is an absolutely brilliant skin !!! WOW WOW WOW

I have one Question: My FM runs in german language. Is it a problem for me to translate your own work? Or are these parts in so many different panels, so that it is to much and to difficult to change the language?

I’m sorry. When I started skinning, I threw out all of the translations as I came to them. Because this year wasn’t a ‘new build’ - I have used code from FM22 and FM23 and, as such, I think 80%+ of the panels are just in English. It’s been a big learning curve for me and something I know I’ll consider for future releases. 

If you wanted to have a go - I’d suggest using Notepad++ or similar and searching for all the widget types of “text” or “label” but, as I said, I’m expecting thousands of results!

[_Ben_]

I am overwhelmed by the feedback so far but I've seen several screenshots that look like this:

To change the colours of the position icons, use the in game preferences.

However - I am concerned that these boxes should not be primary and secondary colours.

If you have cleared the cache, restarted the game and still have this - please can drop the file below into skins > Statman > graphics > TCS > boxes > main > outline > paper and overwrite what is already there. If you then still see this issue, please can you reply to this message or drop me a DM with a screenshot. Thanks!

paper.xml

Edited November 9, 2023 by _Ben_

[fecaldaemon666]

Hi Ben, first of all thank you so much for your amazing work!
I have an issue - my screen resolution is 3440 x 1440 and panel with list of players is small in tactics and, especially, team selection view.
Is it possible to somehow make it bigger?

[milenec11]

10 hours ago, milenec11 said:

@_Ben_

amazing work master but last year was a button on player profil which change the dots to attributes ( what was prefferable for everyone)

is possible to add or to share with us how to add it by own?

in any way thank you very much for your work once more

@_Ben_

ok I understand your point 

but may I ask this panel as a panel what is his name ? ( or where to find it ?) 

if you believe that the answer compromised your master piece then ignore it .

in any case I apologize if I offended you.

[Cleon]

Brilliant skin as usual Ben, thanks. 

I have found one issue though and that's that a lot of Icelandic players names don't fit into the profile box;

[jamiemca123]

3 hours ago, fecaldaemon666 said:

Hi Ben, first of all thank you so much for your amazing work!
I have an issue - my screen resolution is 3440 x 1440 and panel with list of players is small in tactics and, especially, team selection view.
Is it possible to somehow make it bigger?

I noticed this on last years version. From the Mustermann skin there was one specific file that could be copied over to make the team selection panel auto adjust to size. The reason it hasn’t adjusted here is due to the skin being made on 1920x1080! I will have a look for the file I used and get back to you! @_Ben_ I hope you don’t mind! 

[jamiemca123]

@fecaldaemon666 Here is the file that auto adjusts to size of monitor - tactics with embedded section tabs panel.xml It should be placed in panels/match. The pre game screen should then auto adjust to size. Im not sure how to adjust the tactics panel as you mentioned also!

[Lord Rowell]

I'm getting this from Avast.

I'm certain your file is fine - I've had this before when loading a retro DB from a known content creator - he was able to adjust something so this doesn't happen?

Skin looks great - so excited to try it!

[Lord Rowell]

Ok I disabled AVAST to download it - some finance pop-up arrived - might be the cause?

 

[fecaldaemon666]

1 hour ago, jamiemca123 said:

@fecaldaemon666 Here is the file that auto adjusts to size of monitor - tactics with embedded section tabs panel.xml It should be placed in panels/match. The pre game screen should then auto adjust to size. Im not sure how to adjust the tactics panel as you mentioned also!

Thank you so much! Works perfectly.

[milenec11]

@_Ben_

does is this a bug or am i doing something wrong?

i can't see in chart the player's place 

should be his position on chart visible?

[nielsvg99]

@_Ben_ First of all, thanks for this amazing work! It looks awesome.

 

I have a few small issues, after zooming out, clearing cache and restarting the game most screens are still not displaying accurately, cutting of the edges (see picture))

 

Is there any fix for this?

 

Thank you in advance.

[SPE3D]

49 minutes ago, fecaldaemon666 said:

Thank you so much! Works perfectly.

I had the same problem with the 2560 Resolution. Will give it a try 

[milenec11]

@_Ben_

secondly

on this screen when i press preference

the screen became darker without anything else............

[milenec11]

@_Ben_

i though that in tactic pop up plyer info it will be like the first image instead of the second image do i doing something wrong?

 

[_Ben_]

4 hours ago, milenec11 said:

@_Ben_

ok I understand your point 

but may I ask this panel as a panel what is his name ? ( or where to find it ?) 

if you believe that the answer compromised your master piece then ignore it .

in any case I apologize if I offended you.

Player attributes panel.xml but it’s nested within other containers. 
 

6 hours ago, fecaldaemon666 said:

Hi Ben, first of all thank you so much for your amazing work!
I have an issue - my screen resolution is 3440 x 1440 and panel with list of players is small in tactics and, especially, team selection view.
Is it possible to somehow make it bigger?

Thanks for this! It’s so hard to test at larger resolutions than I already have. Try the file linked in this thread and I will have a look into it!

1 hour ago, Lord Rowell said:

Ok I disabled AVAST to download it - some finance pop-up arrived - might be the cause?

 

I have no idea, sorry!

41 minutes ago, nielsvg99 said:

@_Ben_ First of all, thanks for this amazing work! It looks awesome.

 

I have a few small issues, after zooming out, clearing cache and restarting the game most screens are still not displaying accurately, cutting of the edges (see picture))

 

Is there any fix for this?

 

Thank you in advance.

Yeah - I found that it was actually my error. Download the paper file that I uploaded and drop it into the path I listed then let me know how it goes! Sorry. 

 

21 minutes ago, milenec11 said:

@_Ben_

secondly

on this screen when i press preference

the screen became darker without anything else............

I don’t know, sorry!

6 minutes ago, milenec11 said:

@_Ben_

i though that in tactic pop up plyer info it will be like the first image instead of the second image do i doing something wrong?

 

Wrong thing. Hover over their face and that top image should pop up. 
 

 

4 hours ago, Cleon said:

Brilliant skin as usual Ben, thanks. 

I have found one issue though and that's that a lot of Icelandic players names don't fit into the profile box;

I need to revisit the scaling on this! Fortunately, I rebuilt it not long before I released so editing only one place will amend it everywhere. I can see a hotfix coming soon!!

[milenec11]

@_Ben_

first of all thanks for giving answers in such short time

now regarding this....Wrong thing. Hover over their face and that top image should pop up. 

i did not manage to work. didn't pop up anything

but this is minor issue you make everything according your own preference , if you try to give any "demand" or vision of each one of us then you gone need make the day had 30 hours not 24

 

[milenec11]

@_Ben_

  5 hours ago, milenec11 said:

@_Ben_

ok I understand your point 

but may I ask this panel as a panel what is his name ? ( or where to find it ?) 

if you believe that the answer compromised your master piece then ignore it .

in any case I apologize if I offended you.

Player attributes panel.xml but it’s nested within other containers. 

i was believing that was an easy paste copy method from your FM23v5 statman but i found no values in that panel

thanks in advance

[milenec11]

@_Ben_

and something weird as idea not a bug (i believe)

in the first image we see that a have in my squad konstantelias and larios this the squad panel

in second image which is the tactic panel the player is not listed, which means that i have to go to the squad panel to give a place in my tactic 26 for frindle game for exp and afterwards to go and give a role in tactic at tactic panel 

why is this ?

what the perpose on that?

[Kapizak1 PL]

I've been testing the skin today and I'm very impressed by how it looks, can't imagine the amount of work you put into it, it's awesome!

 

I found some more minor errors, all tested at 100% in 1920x1080:

 

- Match Tactics panel on home page doesn't work:

 

- Opposition Instructions button on home page is blank:

 

- You can see staff attributes during the staff meeting:

 

- Reserve team availability screen is cut off in few places:

 

- Danger of Possession text in match stats looks weird:

 

- Player stats in competitions overview are cut off:

 

- Squad list in match tactics is cut off - you need to change it to another view ang go back to Condition to see the rest:

 

- Info about subs is cut off:

 

Lastly, another suggestion is to maybe change the attributes analysis in the coach report to something else? The reason why I use the attribute-less skins is because I don't want to see the attribute numbers, or their graphical representation. It's great I can see those panels in the players' profiles if I want to, but I don't have to do that if I want more realistic way of playing.

[PatrickReynolds]

This is tempting me to try attribute-less! 

Wondering if it's possible to change the colours of the 'attribute' circles. I adjusted the threshold colours in the preferences, but doesn't seem to carry through to the 'attribute' page. Is this a cache issue or are they not adjustable. I just want some more contrast than different shades of blue .

Great work!

[_Ben_]

3 hours ago, milenec11 said:

i did not manage to work. didn't pop up anything

but this is minor issue you make everything according your own preference , if you try to give any "demand" or vision of each one of us then you gone need make the day had 30 hours not 24

 

It's only for the opposition! You can't get it on own players.

2 hours ago, milenec11 said:

in the first image we see that a have in my squad konstantelias and larios this the squad panel

There is a line of code that I'd clearly not returned to the original on the tactic panel:

        <string id="include_starting_xi" value="true" />
        <string id="include_starting_subs" value="true" />
        <string id="include_unpicked" value="false" />

Changing the false to true puts all players there.

2 hours ago, Kapizak1 PL said:

I found some more minor errors, all tested at 100% in 1920x1080:

Appreciate this. Some of these are things that fit fine on 85% but have zoomed in too far and have missed on my test, whereas others are little things that I haven't found. The only one that is an issue is the strange vertical writing but that is weirdly how the font goes. I'll look into it...

The last one is about attribute development panel and that it is numbered. That is staying for now. But that is because this skin is made for me. I know that feels selfish but that is my first thought and it's the only way I've thought to track growth now the line graphs aren't infitting with the theme! I can show you how to hide it if you'd want?

1 hour ago, PatrickReynolds said:

Wondering if it's possible to change the colours of the 'attribute' circles. I adjusted the threshold colours in the preferences, but doesn't seem to carry through to the 'attribute' page. Is this a cache issue or are they not adjustable. I just want some more contrast than different shades of blue .

Easiest way is changing the colour scheme in Settings > Colour Settings. These lines here control what low, normal, good and excellent are:

    <!-- Profile attribute colours -->
    <colour name="low attribute"                             value="rgba(35,40,52,0)"/>
    <colour name="normal attribute"                         value="rgba(135,206,250,50)"/>
    <colour name="good attribute"                             value="rgba(25,118,210,120)" />
    <colour name="excellent attribute"                         value="rgba(251,192,45,255)" />
 

[milenec11]

@_Ben_

in what panel is this?

There is a line of code that I'd clearly not returned to the original on the tactic panel:

        <string id="include_starting_xi" value="true" />
        <string id="include_starting_subs" value="true" />
        <string id="include_unpicked" value="false" />

Changing the false to true puts all players there.

[_Ben_]

1 minute ago, milenec11 said:

@_Ben_

in what panel is this?

There is a line of code that I'd clearly not returned to the original on the tactic panel:

        <string id="include_starting_xi" value="true" />
        <string id="include_starting_subs" value="true" />
        <string id="include_unpicked" value="false" />

Changing the false to true puts all players there.

Tactics overview side panel.xml

Please allow me the time to fix the panels and upload a hotfix rather than constantly asking for ways to fix them!

[PatrickReynolds]

23 minutes ago, _Ben_ said:

Easiest way is changing the colour scheme in Settings > Colour Settings. These lines here control what low, normal, good and excellent are:

    <!-- Profile attribute colours -->
    <colour name="low attribute"                             value="rgba(35,40,52,0)"/>
    <colour name="normal attribute"                         value="rgba(135,206,250,50)"/>
    <colour name="good attribute"                             value="rgba(25,118,210,120)" />
    <colour name="excellent attribute"                         value="rgba(251,192,45,255)" />
 

Appreciated! Does it need to be changed in each of the Cyan, Lime, Orange, Pink and Teal files, or is one of them the 'master'?

[_Ben_]

1 minute ago, PatrickReynolds said:

Appreciated! Does it need to be changed in each of the Cyan, Lime, Orange, Pink and Teal files, or is one of them the 'master'?

No. They are different options for the headline colour as it were. However, if you wanted to change the Gold, just change the colour in that actual file. For the next release, I'll remove all of those others ones!

[milenec11]

14 minutes ago, _Ben_ said:

Tactics overview side panel.xml

Please allow me the time to fix the panels and upload a hotfix rather than constantly asking for ways to fix them!

i am sorry my bad

[SugitoElSalvador]

Absolutely loving the skin! I only have a major-ish issue with the tactics screen: I can't create a new tactic, not with the plus sign nor via pushing "Create A New Tactic" in the drop down menu. If I click them nothing happens. Also I can move my players around the tactics board only sporadically and can't figure out why it every now and then works but mostly doesn't. I'm using 1920 x 1080 resolution and 85 % Zoom. Tried clearing cache and restarting FM, also re-installed skin once, but didn't help.

 

[_Ben_]

1 minute ago, SugitoElSalvador said:

Absolutely loving the skin! I only have a major-ish issue with the tactics screen: I can't create a new tactic, not with the plus sign nor via pushing "Create A New Tactic" in the drop down menu. If I click them nothing happens. Also I can move my players around the tactics board only sporadically and can't figure out why it every now and then works but mostly doesn't. I'm using 1920 x 1080 resolution and 85 % Zoom. Tried clearing cache and restarting FM, also re-installed skin once, but didn't help.

 

You can’t use the tactic creator, no. It’s something I should have put in the main post. I broke it but the only way I can fix it is to not have the extra analysis tab. The workaround is to load a tactic and amend it from there. Sorry!

In terms of moving - you can. You need to line the name up with the place it should be. It was fiddly at first but I’m used to it now. All borne out of the fact it’s an odd shape compared to what was once there.