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This suggestion is to break up the Team Report screen by having an option to focus on the defensive, midfield or attacking third players. FM would have the overall Team Report (like now) as default, then new row on top with buttons to select which section of the team you wish to focus on: Team | Defence | Midfield | Attack. The Overall Team report is sometime just a wall of information, having the choice to narrow it down further and also introducing more specific information for those team thirds, would make the team report much more useful. Even the possibility of melding the information from the Team Report with the Squad Depth would be a much welcomed addition to FM.

As the title says, can the extra row height Overview style view available under Scouting > Players > Player Search please be added to the Squad view screen? After years of using the spreadsheet like standard table view, I like how this view uses double information in columns (i.e. Name, Club, Position). I find the format much easier to look at from a large screen perspective (34" ultrawide) and wish I could use it for my squad. It would also allow for greater ability to include more graphical representation of information in future updates to the game.

I don't think it would be realistic to limit the managers options. I have a whole bookshelf of football tactics books written to educate coaches of all levels on systems of play for their football team. A coach might be tactical genius but not have skilled players at his resource to implement his ideas and strategies. I think if you limit a manager/coaches options then you limit their progression/learning/coaching.

I came across this while browsing the TransferMarkt site: I think something similar would be a great addition to FM as there is currently no encompassing view like it to track how or where your players have been throughout the season as match days comes and go. At a quick glance we can see the following: Player used in first IX Player used as a substitute Player on the bench Player not selected Player absent due to injury Player absent due to yellow card ban Player absent due to red card ban Player at another club (through loan or transfer) You could have filters to show all games (including pre-season), just league competition or cup competitions. Such a view is a great way to track how your players have been utilised as the season progresses.

I re-did my tests for my i7-6700K build after confirming patch has been applied: Original Test / Re-test Benchmark A: 03:29 / 03:28 Benchmark B: 04:14 / 04:19 Benchmark C: 06:09 / 06:18 Can also confirm my PC reports PCID optimisation. I think the variances in the results is just pure differences inside the save between the tests.

Thanks guys, I've updated the table with all the results I have missed the last couple of weeks. Thanks also to the guys who have been testing on slower rigs and submitting results for all three tests, really appreciated you sticking through and timing the results.

Thanks @tedescooo, table updated with your results.

How many seasons do you want to run for? On my own tests, simulating into the 4th season and beyond with all leagues and nations loaded on a large database, the game was becoming extremely slow taking hours just to process several weeks and this wasn’t even playing the game as a manager. Maybe look at a new Coffee-Lake 8700K if you are looking for a new upgrade to give yourself the best fighting start.

Thanks @Dic and @heinouskismet, I added your results. I've rearranged the table too so PC and Laptop results are organised separately for easier viewing.

Thanks all, results table is updated again. @jwchriste 7700K rig has taken top honours again.

Thanks all for the testing, I've updated the table again. @Carsten 75: How much RAM does your 1080 ti have? 8GB? @Septimius: How much RAM does your R9 Fury have, 4GB? Are you able to provide what star rating FM gives for your PC and Graphics too please? @Xterno50: Is your SSD a mSATA or M.2 version do you know? Thanks

Should be fixed now, must of had a brain-fart while entering info.

Thanks @roykela, a new table of results has been added to the first post in the thread now. I will continue to update it as more people test. I will add a graph for the results once more people post up their tests.

Thanks @jckc221013jamie, I've added your results to my table and should have it up soon. I'll keep an eye out for your i7-7700 results.

The FM18 Performance Benchmarking thread is now up all.