["The future of football manager" discussion]

12 hours ago, (sic) said:

 

 

Miles has confirmed that they would act as any other league, meaning you can choose to load women's leagues or not. See my screenshot above on this page.

In current FM we select a country and then the lowest league in that country we want to be playable, so any league above (in the pyramid) is also set to playable. I'm wondering if SI is planning to add the WSL at a similar selection level as the Premier League (I can't imagine they would place the WSL below Vanarama North/South, mainly for the bad optics) or if SI will separate the country selection into something like England - Men and England - Women? Of course they could also design the country/league selection in a way I haven't considered.

["The future of football manager" discussion]

I'm sure it's way too early to know, but something I've been wondering about the inclusion of the women's game. When setting up a new game will they be treated separately or included when you select certain countries? For example, if you select England Vanarama National and above as playable would it automatically include the Women's Super League as playable as well?

[The reason why I think the current attributes system needs to change.]

16 hours ago, santy001 said:

The scale of 1-20 is solely for judging players by a professional football standard so a 1 is meant to be quite a bit beyond what a pubs team player is capable of. I've never looked at them too closely as that level doesn't interest me, but accurately representing those players is always going to pose a challenge because of the nature of football at that level and the fact the attributes weren't really designed with that in mind.

Thanks, I asked a similar question about ten years ago and received a similar answer. I wasn't sure if FM might have been updated to handle it better, since I've been seeing people create those much lower level league databases. The addition of women's leagues piqued my interest, since I've been wondering if that might lead to some changes with the existing attributes system.  Of course I guess the women could just get their own 1-20 rating system and have it be completely separate from the men's game.

[The reason why I think the current attributes system needs to change.]

How far down the pyramid does the 1-20 attribute scale allow you go while still having somewhat accurate gameplay modeling? I've seen downloads of custom databases down to level 11 or so, but I don't know if they're able to differentiate (in gameplay, quality of players, etc.) from say level 8 and level 11.