mattskelding

I second this. I get that, for example, Man Utd would have less A or B graded players suggested to the manager, however that would then mean there are 100's if not thousands (depending on the number of recruitment focuses etc) that are graded E, D or C. This article from The Athletic - The reality of football scouting in 2023: ‘You do it for love – not money’ - The Athletic - showcases their reporter watching 4 matches with a scout. My assumption is from previous FM versions and logical extrapolation for the FM world, is that the scout would generate a report on ALL the players featured in those matches. So a scout assigned, for example, to The Championship, should be delivering a report on every player they watch in that recruitment focus and assigning that report a grade, be that A through to E against the quality of your club. The purpose of the scouting/recruitment centre is then to filter out the unwanted gradings of players So the scenario would play out like this. I'm Man Utd. I've set a recruitment focus as minimum current ability at the very bottom (1 star youth potential) and minimum 3 star (senior) potential. No age restrictions. Recruitment focus is England. My expectation is that the scout I allocate should be providing me a report of all of those players who meet the criteria (in theory 100's of players) and then assigning them a grade of report against man utd's squad. So I'll still get 100's of reports but mainly B's/C's. The same scenario with the same scout but as (for example) Solihull Moors, would generate the same NUMBER of reports but classed as A or B potential reports. Does that make sense?

Thanks buddy! It was driving me insane and I feel so stupid for not checking the individual rounds now!

I'm attempting to edit the database so that for the Premier League, FA cup and Carabao Cup, the substitution rules are 5 from 12 (max 3 stoppages) Its working fine in the Premier League no issues. I've attempted to replicate this for the cup completions, setting the substitution rules under "Round Defaults" to "5 from 12 in 3 stops" as I have done in the League but for some reason its not activating and still saying its a max of 9 subs Anyone know why? I had it working in FM23 and have copied all the settings across so i'm really stuck

I read that as "its a game we're expected to win so give some fringe players/youth prospects a run-out"?

See this thread of mine - there is a workaround provided by SI on there

I can confirm that this work around does indeed verify the files. You kind of have to ignore whatever the screen says and keep track of what leagues you have manually verified (rather than doing them as a batch) but doing it does allow you to load a custom database

I've just loaded a previously saved & verified database, made some changes and saved it as a new name and this error has occurred again

There is - I've downloaded it. It wasnt released until 1600 GMT

Thank You Zak, but thats also what you said pre the Winter Update for FM23

Still an issue it would appear

Right at the end. I drag the file into the cloud upload area (or search for it - same results occur), the upload bar progress bar finishes and then I get a message saying “myfilename is locked, please try again later” done it 5 times now and same results. Tried it with a different save running on FM23 (so I can still play) and without FM running - same result. File isn’t set to read-only either.

I have tried, but every time I says the file is locked - tried 3 or 4 times now

For those who mainly play a 4-3-3 DM Wide ( Which appears most are) - do you ever change tactics depending on who you play or do you stick with that all the time? I saw someone say they played a 4-3-3 when the opposition was playing 4-2-3-1 but in all other cases would play 4-2-3-1 themselves

Rashford looks phenomenal on that! What was your final Goals for an Goals Against?