[[FM20] Ethnic Enclaves or exclaves?]

On 02/06/2020 at 19:00, Blah_1123 said:

There's a few teams in the Swedish leagues who are formed by refugees from Iraq and Syria. Can't remember all of them but the names stand out pretty well. Think one is called Syrianska FC.

There are a lot of Swedish clubs that are formed by people of Assyrian and/or Aramean background (not to be confused with citizens of the country Syria). So these clubs are not to my knowledge set up in the database to spawn newgens with Syria as a second nationality.

Of course there may be Assyrians with a Syrian passport (or Turkish or Iraqi) but I'm not sure it can be set up so that Syrianska FC for example spawn newgens with previously named second nationalities AND an Assyrian ethnicity, because that ethnicity parameter does not exist in the database.

[Accuracy of Data]

Well, facilities are probably ranked accurately enough in relative terms but it is very simplified.

[Squad numbers]

On 28/04/2020 at 09:36, Grifty said:

I have an obsession with buying players 6'4"+. Currently my 6'5" striker is number 65 and my 6'8" striker is number 68. I also normally give special players out of my youth system a number like 77, 88 or 99.

This isn't ice hockey, have some class

[Squad numbers]

That video explains it beautifully. I always get a calming sense of order thinking about properly numbered lineups or players. I am equally furious about the fact that my club gave number 2 to a left back for the second season in a row and number 8 to a centre back.

I guess it is hard to interpret these varying shirt numbering evolutions into the code of the game. If an English defensive midfielder (a number 4) moves to a German club, where number 6 is more associated with defensive midfielders, which squad number should the AI assign to the player? This also ignores if the numbers in question are available, if other players in the team have 4 or 6 as preferred squad numbers and the different players reputations in addition to the fact that some managers and players completely disregard numbering conventions completely as in my example above. As said, that is probably very hard to code.

[Am I loaning too many players out??]

I'll never get why clubs should have more players under contract than they intend to use, but then again some clubs have nearly 200 players contracted. If you have 20-25 players that you don't need in your own first team I think that you should sell them as quickly as you get a reasonable offer. Why spend time and energy managing them instead of the players you actually need?

If you have more than 25 players in the club too old for the youth team you haven't planned your squad well enough.

[Either footed player]

Players who switch foot depending on which side a set piece is taken from are very rare. Only Jaroslav Plasil comes to mind for me. Perhaps it should be a PPM.

[Cult Heroes...Tonton Zola]

Not a player, but anyone else recognize the club RUOR from Belarus? If I remember correctly they had perfect youth facilities set in the database and if you loaded belarusian players you could pick up a few good regens from there.

[Scouting Regions]

The number of countries in the respective scouting regions is also differing a lot. I don't play the game much now but several years ago I remember that sending a scout to "eastern Europe" (15+ countries if I'm not wrong) meant a lot more work than sending a scout to "Scandinavia" (6 countries).