Jellico73

April 14

13 minutes ago, jamesh123 said:

I haven't got a screenshot to hand at the moment, but am i doing something wrong in installing? Near enough every panel / page i view doesn't fit the screen in full view. Play on 85% zoom, aswell as trying out on other zoom's too but can't seem to figure out why it doesn't fit.

Check your Windows display settings?

April 14

Hi @_Ben_

Am starting a save in 2050, and was looking at the histories of some players, and every one that has retired has this cyan box over the area?

https://gyazo.com/f8f4b5c5f1c4318b981a61ba8fd39cbd

Thanks for taking a look, I appreciate it.

Jellico

March 8

Well, the first season was definitely interesting...

We had no money, heck we had a negative transfer balance, and our salary for personnel signings was also capped. That said, I managed to replace a couple of bad coaches with....less bad ones.

The one transfer move we did make was for this guy:

Yes, he hates big games, but Physically speaking he's one of the better players on the club, and he plays CWB fairly well. He's an upgrade to our defensive back line, that's for sure. I let a bunch of older and younger player with no potential leave on a free, and while individually speaking their salaries were not that high, in total they helped alleviate some of the pain.

Preseason training went well, the friendlies went well, and when the season started, I was hoping for an upper table finish. In terms of the save the worst would be finishing 2nd, because that would be getting promoted without winning,

We absolutely got lucky against Wil, and I am not that upset losing to Sion, they have a better roster than we do, and they played like it. It was slightly worrying when Neftali Manzambi wasn't scoring as often as he was in the friendlies, but Balaj was doing a stellar job from the right AM position. We would have lost the Thun game, we really deserved to, but and 86th minute Manzambi goal allowed us to equalize. The win at Vaduz was also nice, they have a pretty strong squad as well. The draw at Stade Nyonnais should have been a loss as well, if not for some stellar performances by Enzler and D(C) Lurvink they would have. 3 shots on goal and they has a .9 XG, meanwhile our offense consisted ofd trying to blast it in from distance...

The year ended on a decent note:

Losing at St. Gallen was...galling...but they were more clinical with the ball and made the most of their opportunities, while our 1 clear cut chance from 19 shots did us no favors and we were knocked out of the Schweizer Cup...Willy Vogt clawed the draw back for us against Thun, thankfully. We stomped a mediocre Baden team, pipped Vaduz again, and drew at Xamax, who frankly are a team that fits the "Which version is going to show up today" designation quite well. I didn't realize until the break we had only lost 2 games in the League, both to Sion, but I did realize how many games we drew when I saw we were in 3rd place on 32 points, with 8 draws and 2 losses to go with out 8 wins.

With no money in the transfer budget, and noone willing to come in on loan for the salaries we were able to play, I didn't sign anyone. Could I have signed a few players? Yes. Would they have improved the team? Well, they wouldn't have made it worse, but why buy more financial difficulties when you don't need to.

Simon Enzler went out for a few weeks with an injury, and our midfield rotation also decided that at least one of them would be out for a couple of weeks at a time as well, so come the winter break, I switch from the 4-3-3- to a 4-1DM-1- 4 Assymetric, bring 31 y/o Perdo Martin in as a striker up top.

I should have done it sooner.

Martin as a PF consistently pulled multiple defenders away, allowing Balaj and Manzambi more opportunities, and when the defense moved to cover one of the others, it left Pedro open, and as a result, we went on an absolute tear:

We weren't just winning, but dominating in possession Shots, shots on target...except against Baden.

I do not know what happened in that game. I know we should have lost...

The Youth Intake also happened, it was nothing to write home about, our best prospect is a 1/4 CA/PA D(C) who might have a future as a squad player for a lower league club...

I have no idea whats going on with their heat map. I do know I cursed so loud when Wiskemann scored in the 93rd minute I woke my dog up, and when Martin clawed the draw back in the 96th minute I yelled so loud I woke my wife up...so there's that. The best result was the 5-0 at Sion. IIRC this brought us close to or even with them on point, we battered them. Properly. We were already winning 2-0 after 56, but the we scored 3 more in 8 minutes, the only 'bad' thing about this match was Manzambi missing a PK...

The last two months of the season, the only cause for concern was injuries, and Manzambi going out for 4-6 weeks with a hernia would have been bad, if we didn't have Pedro martin. Switching back to the 4-3-3 he filled in quite well up top:

We got our revenge on Baden, stumbled against Xamax, but the good news is that while we stumbled, Sion was falling off a cliff, losing 3 of their last 4 games. In fact, since March they went 4-2-6. That helped us win the league somewhat comfortably.

On the whole, it was a well rounded performance from the squad:

But we are in trouble going into the next season. With a transfer budget of €848K, and a payroll of €1,945,000 p/a for our season in the top flight, our big issues isn't going to be replacing the 42 goals and 12 assists that Manzambi and Balaj gave us (as neither parent clubs want to loan them again to us), but finding capable replacements for them. We are going to hit the loan market as best as we can, and I'll try and scout outside of Switzerland, see what the intermediaries and my GM can do, but we are in a relegation fight next season.

That said, the toughest part of this challenge is probably over, until the next toughest one.

Progress so far:

Thanks for Reading!

Jellico

March 1

If you are looking for other files in which a certain piece of code might appear, there's a program called AstroGrep, it's basically a string search tool.

Set your path, select your options, click search, a list of files the string appears in will show up, highlight the file and it will show you what line of code the string is in. you can also double click on the file in the results table and it will open up in your preferred editor.

https://gyazo.com/21d0a755c75d36711872b7144a343d1a

Came in Handy when I was trying to use that Korean FM skin in FM22. :-) And when you have to change the same attribute across multiple files.

Jellico

March 1

I am at that phase where my team is doing well in country, but our club and country rep is still low enough that when a good team comes calling for my start youth players, they go.

"I'd love to stay here in Romania gaffer, but it's PSG!"

Sigh...

March 1

5 hours ago, zeza said:

No need to call out names, Jef.

In my opinion if I put 0 stars (5 gray ones) it should return basically every player available in the area of my scouting range, that's why Recommendation Focuses exist, to make custom searches automatically.

If I'm trying to find a 1 CA, 3 PA player, it should have a good pool of players being found. but somehow this year's game simply doesn't find the players at ALL.
If I try to find a 5 grey star CA, 1 PA player, it should return 90% of the players of the database, but I can bet I won't get near 20 recs.

It's a recruitment focus. How many different game/practice sessions do you think a scout can attend in a week, and then how many reports are you going to get back in two weeks? Even a geographically "small" country getting a 90% return on players is next to impossible.

That said, if you want to build up your player pool size even in countries you aren't scouting use screenflow. Works at any level, regardless of what team you are. Just invest in a wrist brace though. :-)

March 1

10 hours ago, NineCloudNine said:

It’s interesting how often people use what the graphics highlight shows as evidence of weaknesses in the match engine. They aren’t the same thing.

Player sprites do weird stuff and the selection of “highlights” can be eccentric, but then I go into the data centre and see that my players are doing pretty much what I asked of them.

I wonder also if the positive reaction to positional play is partly because we can see it happen right before our eyes, whereas pressing and defensive actions are poorly depicted by the graphics engine, even if they obviously are happening.

I think that's some of it, but not all of it, if that makes sense.

February 26

Season 1 of the challenge, at Fussballclub Schaffhausen.

Remarkably, because it is late and I am a bit tired, I have not been able to find a lot of information about the club online. Heck, the team history on Football Manager is more expansive than their entry on Wikipedia.

That said, I chose to start the challenge with this club for a reason: By the rules of the challenge I need to win the Brack.ch Challenge League, and this is the only team I can do that with. The league is currently 44th in the Rankings, for comparison purposes 3. Liga is 53rd, the Keuken Kampioen Divisie is 38th, the 2. Bundesliga is 27th, the Raiffeisen Super League 11th, the Eredivisie 6th, and the Bundesliga 4th. But there are more teams to play in the German and Dutch Divisions. Starting with one of them, then tryin to move to Schaffhausen? Not improbable, but unlikely.

The Club itself was predicted to finish 8th, but that's at 25-1 odds, with recently relegated Sion picked to go back up. And, truth be told, the squad isn't actually that bad. Yes, it has some deadweight, yes the club isn't as financially strong as it could be (And we are being honest, Swiss football finances as a whole are just...strange...), and while it doesn't have any world class player's on the squad, it has a lot of very good players for this level of football.

My Attributes are pretty pedestrian:

And the club itself doesn't have anything out of the ordinary when it comes to rules, signings and the like:

The finances aren't...horrible, there's a little bit of wiggle room:

Especially when we let some player go. But holy heck, IS it a large roster.

Senior Squad, U21, U19, and U18, 72 players, it adds up.

Annoyingly, the scouting budget for Europe would cost us 140K, so I am not going to be using the full package right away, may cheese it for a couple of weeks in December though.

We're going to be using a 4-3-3 Positive Fluid Counterattack formation, at least initially:

I am not going to highlight all 11 starters, but the ones I think are going to have the most impact on the season.

Also, as a note, as you may be able to tell, I am using the Mustermann Attributeless Skin. I've also tweaked the Attribute Ranges to my own liking, as follows:

RED: 1-7

ORANGE: 8-12

BLUE: 13-16

GREEN: 17-20

Simon Enzler is the First Team Goalkeeper. And the depth behind him is OK, but could be better.

Simone Stroscio is a loan player from Grasshoppers, who can play either the DM or M(C) position.

Agustín González is one of our Foreign Players. We only get to have 3 Non EU players in the starting 11, but he is probably our most well rounded midfield player.

Liridon Balaj is a loan player from Deinze who is also taking up a foreign slot. I suspect thats because he's originally from Kosovo. Great Physicals and flair, I expect him to be a key creator in the squad.

Neftali Manzambi is a loan player from our Senior Affiliate, Winterthur. He's probably the best option we have up top. Pedro Martin is 31, and a slightly better shooter, but Neftali's Composure, Quickness, Final Third and Aerial make him my first choice striker

Martin is still a good striker, and if forced to play a 2 striker formation, or if Neftali goes out with injury, Pedro is a quality backup.

The one position I am not happy with is D(L). My only option at the moment is a physically good, technically below average 20 y/o whose 2 Star CA / 4 Star PA, and then a group of youth players who average age is 15.3. I had set up my scouting to look at youth players in Switzerland, 1 scout at the Swiss Super League and our League, the other scoput to look at the U21, U19 and U18 competitions, and the players who were willing to come here just weren't that good, and the players I wanted to bring in from good teams all had monthly fee's and salary expectations attached, which we just can't afford. So I went to my GM, and said "Hey, do you know of any D(L)'s who would be willing to come here on a loan?

One of his options was a young Brazilian on the Chapecoense Reserve squad named Mancha. They were desperate enough to get him first team playing time anywhere they didn't ask for any salary contributions or anything, and he was so desperate to get first team playing time he showed up the next day.

After that, it was the usual preseason duties: Setting responsibilities. Moving coaches out, bringing coaches in. I released 5 players who have no future here (and if we're being honest nowhere really), and other than Mancha, I didn't have an incoming transfers. I had 5 players go out on loan.

Our biggest move of the preseason was to probably hire a Set Piece coach and new HOYD:

I don't know how many Youth Intakes I'll be around for, but I like to leave at least a good foundation for those who follow, which is why I also filled in every Staff vacancy we had. At the end of the preseason, we had improved the teams overall coaching drastically,

I think we can win the league, in looking at the other teams the only ones I am really worried about are Thun and Sion, whose rosters are quite comparable to ours.

Of course, the kicker would be finishing 2nd and winning in the promotion playoff...Hey Ma!, I go t promoted and didn't win the division!

This save idea seemed interesting at the time...but I am looking forward to it!

Thanks for reading!

Jellico

February 19

5 minutes ago, mr_palo said:

Thank you very much, unfortunately don´t work ...

If you play in the base skin does it still error out. If so may need to do an integrity check. If not Check the other forums, I don't remember which one though. There have been others who have had this issue.

February 19

1 hour ago, mr_palo said:

A few days ago my FM started crashing during a game. After clicking on tactics.

Anyone have a similar problem? Could it be related to the skin change? I didn't have this problem in the first version of this skin.

It happens mostly in the second half, during the second/third substitution of players.

It's a skin issue, it's trying to pull from panels/menu and isn't finding what it thinks it supposed to find. Couple of reasons for this, I ran into a lot on 22 and not so much in 23, what fixed it for me was:

Exit the game.

Delete every skin you are not using out of the skins folder. Going forward only keep the ski you are suing in the skins folder.

Go to AppData\Local\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2024 and delete all the folders inside.

Restart the game. You may have to re enter a few things.

That *should* fix it.

Jellico

February 18

King of The Rhine Challenge

Create a coach, I suggest with a minimum of a Continental B and Professional experience.

At a minimum you must have Both Swiss Leagues, both Netherlands Leagues, and All 3 German Leagues Playable, and Prevent the use of the in-game editor in the database you use.

Start the game as the Head FC Schauffhausen, in the Swiss 2nd League, with the Early Preseason (6/19/2023) Start Date. There is an optional rule for this below.

The object of this challenge is to win the following leagues and trophies:

Germany:

Bundesliga

2. Bundesliga

3. Bundesliga

DFB Pokal

Netherlands:

Eredivisie

Eerste Divisie

Dutch Cup

Switzerland:

Raiffeisen Super League

Brack.ch Challenge League

Swiss Cup

Continental:

Europa Conference League

Europa League

Champions League

But you can only coach teams that are located on or near (~25KM) the Rhine River.

Those Teams (and where they start in 23/24) are:

Team	League	Team	League	Team	League
Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Bundesliga	NEC Nijmegen	Eredivisie	Basel	Super League
Mainz 05	Bundesliga	Feyenoord	Eredivisie	FC Schaffhausen	Swiss Challenge League
1. FC Köln	Bundesliga	Sparta Rotterdam	Eredivisie
Darmstadt 98	Bundesliga	Excelsior	Eredivisie
Fortuna Düsseldorf	2. Bundesliga	SBV Vitesse	Eredivisie
Karlsruher SC	2. Bundesliga	FC Dordrecht	Eerste Divisie
SV Wehen Wiesbaden	2. Bundesliga	Top Oss	Eerste Divisie
SV Waldhof Mannheim	3. Liga	FC Den Bosch	Eerste Divisie
Viktoria Köln	3. Liga
MSV Duisburg	3. Liga
SV Sandhausen	3. Liga

If I am missing a team, let me know, as long as its ~25KM away from the river. Tribuatraies do not count. The Geographer in me will cry, but I will add it to the list. It must be a base database playable team though.

Other Game Rules:

None, really. Play to your style and preference. If you want to use a DOF at each club, or let the Chief Scout handle everything scouting related, thats fine. Whatever you are comfortable with.

Coaching Movement Rules:

The only restriction I have is that they must be logical.

Lateral Promotions within the League you are in are fine. If you take the bottom of the Eredivisie table Vitesse job and Feyenoord asks you to interview, go for it. Likewise, if you just took Fortuna Dusseldorf to the top of 2.Liga and top half of the table Bayer comes calling, moving there would make sense. This is why I am starting this challenge with everyone at FC Schauffhausen, as the only Swiss 2nd Team club I do not see very many paths ending up there, and it makes a good starting point. OPTIONAL RULE: Start at a 3.Liga club of your choice, but the path to the HC at FC Schauffhausen must be logical, IE a 3. Liga Club to Schauffhausen.

As the teams will move, depending on your path, it may be possible you did not want to sit and wait for a 3. Liga job to open, and took a job at a recently demoted Mainz Club, won 2. Liga, are now in the Bundesliga, and the Viktoria Koln job is open. Could you resign and take the Viktoria Job? Sure. Should you? That's a judgment call. I have no problems with taking a club in 3. Liga all the way to the top, but an additional OPTIONAL RULE is:

You must win the Dutch and German LEAGUE competitions with different teams.

If you are fired, you must find a job with another team on the list. This is why I am starting the Challenge with FC Schauffhausen. As the only Swiss Lower League Team available, success there means you don't have to worry about it. If you win at a club, and want to resign and 'job hunt' for a "Better" team on the list, that is fine as well.

As for what to post, your progress, coaching moves, reasons why you are leaving/taking a job, favorite players, wild scores, title game results, things like that. A good Youth player is fine, the entire youth Intake, not so much.

Questions, Criticisms, Comments, let me know. I'll start posting my own save here after I get a couple of seasons played.

Thanks!

February 10

On 08/02/2024 at 17:15, Socerer 01 said:

So I’ve managed to replicate the graphical bug with the attributes I had earlier by switching to another regular skin (SAS in this instance) and then switching back to Statman again. Weirdly enough I did reset the cache and restart the game before switching.

Has anyone else encountered a similar issue?

Yes, in FM23.

I found if you have a bunch of skins in the skins folder, even if you delete/remove/move one out, it can still cause Issues. The reason I am sure of this is I found a skin from a user in Korea that I liked last year, but a lot of the added text was in Hangul, and after deleting it and moving to a new skin, I think it was Tato, therte was Hangul showing up in that skin. Likewise, when I would switch to a skin, I would get an error saying 'font XYZ123 not found' or something similar, and that font wasn't part of the skin.

I finally started deleting C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Local\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2024 and that seemed to fix the problems. Not sure if that would work for FM24 as I have not encountered that yet, but after last year I only keep one skin in the skins folder.

February 4

what panel(s) do I need to add that too? Appreciate the help!

February 4

@JustHowie Thanks. Where did you find it under? I'd blame my bifocals but...

February 4

I get the feeling I've asked a similar question before, but is 'World Knowledge' from the Recruitment Focus 'Assign a Scout' screen a column that can be added to a view and I am just not seeing it? Would come in handy during Staff Recruitment?

Thanks for the help!

January 31

Season 2, we try and get promoted, and to not lose a lot of money, while trying to improve the club behind the scenes as well, while dealing with a Youth Intake I can only classify as "Proper Weird".

The Kids Are Alright - Season 2

January 24

9 hours ago, Johann said:
Can someone explain why is this happens? There's nothing in the rules about it.

LNZ Cherkasy has 32 pts at Group Stage, and at the Promotion Stage has only 5 pts.

Obolon got 23 pts at Group Stage and 19 pts at Relegation Stage.

All Groups

Promotion Stage

Relegation Stage

It doesnt make any sense, and its very annoying.
 

Looks like the Top half teams qualify for the promotion group and the bottom half don't, and once in the relegation group you stay there even if you have more points than teams in the Promotion group. Are you using a custom database?

January 23

Well, my first attempt at a Youth Only saved crashed and burned after 4 years. However, I am stubborn so we are trying again, and the new one has gotten off to a good start.

We've taken over SSU Politehnica Timişoara, in the Romanian Liga 2 Casa Pariurilor Division.

They are affiliated with one of the best Technical College in South Eastern Europe, which is why they have some pretty good facilities:

The first part is up on my blog at https://fmjellico.com/2024/01/15/the-kids-are-alright-season-0/

but I will post abbreviated end of the years recaps here as well.

Thanks for reading!

Jellico

January 1

Working for me, but I also play at 2560*1440, which is why there's more space on either side. If you take your scale down does it show up?

December 27, 2023

you don't need to change the scouting package for trials. My current save I am not doing any scouting but can bring in as many players as I know on trial.

Scouting package should just limits where you can scout. Has nothing to do with trials etc.

December 27, 2023

On 25/12/2023 at 19:07, silentjay said:

Update your drivers.

If that doesn't work, then we're talking about ancient sorcery.

It's a display issue of some sort. I'd go as far as making sure this is the only skin in your skins folder and deleting everything in the \AppData\Local\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2024 folder. Restart the game. Also double check you aren't using something like 1920x2000 or something similar. Your windows display scale and layout should be at 100% as well.

December 25, 2023

10 hours ago, bitzu_rock said:

I cannot find that checkbox/

It's in the shortlist section

December 23, 2023

Is there a way to change the contrast on the tactics screen so the positions stand out a bit more?

https://gyazo.com/8a064a2ea7e7c62a622053fd1422b44d

I am using the Claret and Blue color scheme, and they are just very hard to see.

Thanks for looking!

December 22, 2023

@ GIMN,

I've made some changes to the Iconic/classes xml's, any issues with the update if overwrite them to the new version?

Thanks

December 22, 2023

17 hours ago, naufal husain said:

full screen 85%

what are your windows settings?

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