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Other than the actual birth certificate
. A legit site, like SFA, UEFA. Club website (but even then, they can be wrong on occassion). But aye, we need the clubs to start offering the info up again.
It's frustrating, but we legally cannot leave ourselves open to any sort of comeback entering 2007s early before the "school start." We might get away with it 99 times out of 100. 1 time we won't. Our database itself, doesn't let you add a DoB after 31/8/200(7), which is why we need definitive proof when adding a YoB. We can't go violating a kids privacy for a computer game.
That's why as I say, we know players have to be 16 to play in competitions, so we can work out who is eligible and can definitely be added with out a DoB. And again if theres' 05's, 06's missing, great, we'll get them added.0 -
Sorry for the big ramble of txt there. I hope it's made a bit more understandable. But aye, any help with DoBs for the 2007s and if there's any missing 2006ers that should be in the game, the help is appreciated. But it definitely isn't the case of us not trying.
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I don't think you realise the hoops we need to jump and depths we need to plunge to get the academy players added. The main thing is DoB and PROOF of DoB. Not transfermarkt DoB or any other 'stat' website. Said last year on one of the English threads, that site's going to cause us hunners of issues in the future when folk come in and say "this DoB is wrong, transfermarkt says this" and we then can't remember the source for the real DoB. Absolutely convinced they use the FM random generarted DoB for youth players sometimes.
I can understand the frustration that these players aren't in, I get it. I play the game too. It's annoying. But I'm sitting here with 18 U18 players for Falkirk. I've got 6 names from the U16s. I think it's 5 I've actually got in the database/game from the 2007s? They need to be 16 before 31st of August 2007 (2008 next year and so on). Normally it's don't know a DoB? No bother, add the YoB. We can't do that with the kids. Yeah, I can add 2007 to one of them, but that could get us in trouble if he's not 16 by the cut off date. I dunno how old you are, but back in my day when I first started this 23 years ago, we had the SFL Review at the start of every season, brilliant book! DoBs. PoBs. Heights. Weights. Contract date for every contracted player/youth. Club websites carried alot of that information too. That's all but gone now, SFL Review for 18 years now
. Scottish clubs like to keep that info hidden, understandably in this privacy era.
We got back in December 1st there, I went to the SFA website to get the teamsheets for the last Scottish Youth Cup matches to add the Stirling Albion 18s. I went onto Peoples Register Scotland to look up the YoB. 1st 5 players. 2007. 2007. 2007. 2007. 2007. You've then got to go down rabbit holes to try and find the real birthday. So these guys arent in yet.
So aye, we know these players exist that arent in the db. We know the sites to look at. SFA website is brillaint for DoBs for players capped in the youth teams. It's brilliant when the Premiership B teams enter the SPFL Trust trophy, as the first round usually starts before the August cut off, so anybody that plays in that (or the League Cup summer group stages), we know are 16, so can enter "Yob 2007" and tick box 16 before 31st August.1 -
13 hours ago, c0nn0r said:
I find it difficult to believe that after over a year those discussions did not lead to anyone mentioning that Callum McGregor has played DMC for over a year comfortably, Kyogo has played one game on the left wing and players like Greg Taylor and Kevin Nisbet are pretty significantly underrated. I can only assume that some changes were held back until the final Winter patch but if this is what we're left with until the next game then it's pretty disappointing. Another issue is managers preferred formations and play style, they seriously need looked at.
Which McGregor can easily do in game, given that even with the 16, he's still rated as the best DM CA in the league. Granted, he could probably be pushed up to 18 for DM rating, so he'll play their more regularly for AI Celtic, but again, it doesn't change the fact he can already do what you're asking, as the change doesn't significantly alter his DM position CA.
Nisbet and Taylor, with the greatest respect, is just shouting in the wind. There's nothing for us to go on there other than you think they should be higher, your opinion, not factual data error, where as our team has a different opinion. What attributes do we up? What do we lower?
Kevin Nisbet, 115, rated the best striker in Scotland outside of the Old Firm (along with Shankland) in game, with already 15 finishing, 14 heading, 14 composure, anticipation 14, 12 off the ball. They're already very good attributes for a striker in Scotland, so what else do we up? We don't just force up his poorer attributes, to try and justify a higher CA. Millwall were in for him in the last window there, if he moved to Millwall with his current CA, he'd be in amongst their strikers who are also rated in the 114 to 118 bracket, which imo, is the level he'd be at if he went down south. He's got the PA to make him a fairly good Old Firm player and a star for a playoff to mid table English Championship side.
Greg Taylor 125CA (though attributes are 126) so 126 makes him the joint second best left back in Scotland (Yilmaz at 130 is currently an anomaly, as we don't just decimate another research teams work after 6 months, when we've not had a decent chance to see the player on the park ourselves). So he's already highly rated, what attributes do we up, without over powering him? What do we lower? Every attribute change has a knock on effect. Like ATW said, he's already a very good, overall package, left back in game, with a better consistency attribute than the two 126s beside him. Again it comes back to us saying play the game, see how players perform, don't just look at numbers in the editor.0 -
14 hours ago, LaytonBhoy said:
I sometimes think that the "Scottish researchers" get their information from The Daily Record.
Anyone who has watched Ryan Kent and Liel Abada knows who the better footballer is, although some might not want to acknowledge the fact. I have never seen, and doubt I will ever see, a more hyped player than Kent for the rest of my life.
You canny not love the irony of calling us clueless, while going on to demonstrate you don't know how the process works yourself.
Abada is the better footballer in the database, not by much, but he is. (And now the other side will come in to moan). There's two very important physical attributes that automatically mean Kent's CA is going to be high (and funnily enough, it's the same two that boosted Maeda's CA and caused a big rammy between us all). Pace and acceleration. Those who don't like CA discussion, look away now. Give Abada Kent's 16/16 and he becomes a 139 player, better than Kent. Give Kent Abada's 15/14 and Kent becomes a 128 player, making Abada better.
Now, you can argue if you want about Kent's 16/16 or Abada's 15/14, that's fair enough but it still doesn't change the fact that Abada is currently the better footballer in the database.
I'm not trying to be a smart-arse (despite my opening), I'm just trying to explain that its not just as simple anymore as to load up the editor as soon as the games out, look up CAs and get mad about them. The final CA is just a small final piece of the puzzle, what with every attribute weighted, every position now with a CA and weighting. It's why we every year, we constantly bang on about play a season first, see how things play out, as just going into the editor and pointing out numbers, is useless.0 -
East Kilbride, again, adds to what I'm saying about this issue in the alpha forum, as they have an U20 team (as they do irl), in the database.
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On 25/10/2022 at 02:22, Kyle Brown said:
Could you provide a save file please so we could investigate a little further?
I'm not sure if this will have anything to do with it, or if its the same issue, but having a look at the loan rules at the start, there's a problem with "maximum of 4 domestic players allowed on loan in a season." That rule shouldn't be there and goes against the correct "maximum of 5 domestic players allowed on loan at one time" which we've got correctly in.
Need to remove the maximum of "4 domestic players allowed" entry (for all 4 divisions) altogether.
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23 minutes ago, Dehxy said:
I know the quality is low but not sure what else I can do to make it more clear. Circled in blue is Ginnelly.
See, maybe it's my eyes, the screenie, but I'm seeing tanned there?
Like I say, the appearance data hasn't been changed since he arrived in the Scottish db but JamboJapp will look at it. Database has been locked for a wee while now though.
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44 minutes ago, Dehxy said:
Not sure if anyone has raised this:
Josh Ginnelly in FM23 is white which is not the case.
He shouldn't be? He's mixed race / skin tone 12, in the database and looking back, it's not been changed from previous versions.
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I think he's signed for Queen's Park in your game, as I'm sure he starts off on a free in the beta as he was moved over to Queen of the South late on in the research cycle and missed the beta data cutoff. He's definitely at QotS in our db and will be in the main release.
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14 minutes ago, kane_richards said:
I'm not sure what is used to calculate Legends, Icons and Favoured Personnel but Celtic's list seems........ packed. Is Ange an Icon on the same level as Kenny Dalglish? Hatate played like a dozen games last season and he's in the same group as Martin O'Neill.
I mean, I'm not one to say who is and isn't but when compared to other teams it seems the only reason there's not more people there is because they ran out of space.
Celtic themselves. Normally we get to choose and then its run by the SPFL for approval due to licensing. This year, the clubs took control and oooooh boy...
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Not going to question any of your stuff @joe5p as I'm stuck down in the seaside leagues, but its just to say 'eccentricity' from what the researcher guidline is, is an off the field trait, not an on field.
In which case 'McSha... Likes to have fun' should probably still have higher than 41 -
7 hours ago, markmeatsix91 said:
It shows Aberdeen have a reserve team along with the U18s but they just have the U18s
Its been designed this way to prevent U21 teams being magically created for teams in this version, once they enter the SPFL Trust Trophy.
Premiership teams whose reserve team compete in the reserve league/Cup irl (not Aberdeen) should be able to do stuff with their reserve team from the off. The rest, it'll only be available for SPFL Trust games.
This is how it's supposed to work in theory anyway. It's not perfect but it's the only thing we can really do just now, so the users not hit with '*teams' all over the shop.
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1 hour ago, markmeatsix91 said:
I've got this written down and I cant find where I seen it now but I believe Graham Ellis might be a scout at Aberdeen now. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong
Aye, its sorted in our database and he'll be there come release. We got it confirmed by the man himself earlier in the week, as we couldn't get the 100% confirmation that it was the same guy in the db (even though it seemed obvious it was him) that we needed, to move him.
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Aye, cheers, we've asked for it to get fixed elsewhere. You're right, there's not a domestic loan limit per season and the number of domestic loans allowed at one time is 5, not 4.
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On 11/01/2022 at 12:11, NUFC_Thanet said:
I have uploaded a file with this issue. File name is SI Forums u21 squad issue - Edinburgh City.fm
My board gave me a u21 squad upon request after my first season but I have not been able to appoint staff to it or move any players to it at any time.
The U21 team having no functionality isn't a bug as such, as you shouldn't be able to do anything with it, unless you're managing a Premiership side in the Challenge Cup (SPFL Trust Trophy), as that's the squads only function. It's a holding squad page for that competition. That's why they suddenly appear early August, as Premiership teams don't have U21 teams irl, so it's the games way of representing them in that competition.
In previous years, it was setup in FM for the Reserve side to take part in it the competition, with age limits in place, but now we have no reserve teams currently, so ideally it would be good if it was setup for Celtic/Rangers B to take part (as its not very user-friendly that they get an U21 team thrust upon them, as well as B & 18s) and the Premiership U18s, this time with an overage limit in place.
It's not a very good implementation the now and it annoys us too, especially if the player doesn't know and hasn't been told, why the side has appeared.
If you're being asked or if you're able to request an U21 team from the board, then that itself is a bug, as again, Scottish teams don't carry one.0
. A legit site, like SFA, UEFA. Club website (but even then, they can be wrong on occassion). But aye, we need the clubs to start offering the info up again.
. Scottish clubs like to keep that info hidden, understandably in this privacy era.
Scottish Premiership Data [Discussion]
in Scotland Data Issues
Posted · Edited by Giro
We've had no March deadline bud, Scottish deadline was early - mid February, for the data update that was released a few week back. The March deadline, literally was just to update the Chinese/MLS leagues (I think it was those leagues) as a finality/part 2, for that update.
Everything you mention has already been picked up in ORDB though.