[How to make a new reserve team enter the league system?]

Yeah, the title is a bit weirdly phrased, in lack of a better wording.

So the case is, I am managing VFL Osnabrück, and have gotten them to the Bundesliga. All good. If I recall correctly, I was asked whether or not to start a reserve team, once I got promoted to 2. Bundes. I accepted, and fast forward 10 seasons, I am wondering if it is possible at all, to get a "newly" created reserve team into the league system? I have not had players in the team at all up to now, but since it is quite an investment to get all the staff and players for an entire new team, I was wondering if this is at all possible in the first place? 

I'm fine with it taking some time, if they have to win promotion in lower leagues behind the scenes, as long as i know something is happening in time. 

[How is this tactic so bad in defence ?]

To me it seems that there might be some imbalance on your team, with three players up front on attack duties, probably being too far focused on forward runs to help out defensively (at least initially) and then the two central midfielders both roaming around the pitch. So I would probably go through a few of the games and pay attention to how this dynamic is turning out. 

[No tactic* and lots of experimental shouting]

On 30/06/2019 at 23:41, Hovis Dexter said:

Green or red circles or anything in between. Ideally I’d like them to give me a 100% accurate indication as to how an individual player will perform in a given position and role. They don’t and I can understand that because a player’s performance doesn’t depend on his personal attributes alone. They also depend upon how the player reacts to his surrounding team mates and the opposition. In the game I tend to regard the circles as training wheels on a bike ... take notice of them and you probably won’t fall off the bike. When you become more experienced you can take the training wheels off and try a bunny hop over uneven ground ... you may fall off or on the other hand you may overtake everybody else.

I find it much more interesting, that they only reflect a players familiarity with a given role. It's much more realistic this way (or at least that's how I see it). I find it so interesting and inspiring to closely examine each players attributes and let them explore new (maybe better fitting) roles. 

In real life there are so many examples of this as well. Di Maria was utilized as a central playmaker after being a winger for many many years. Ramos from right back to central defender. Pirlo from a second striker/offensive playmaker to a deeplying playmaker. 

In the danish Superligaen, the manager of AC Horsens has used Rune Frantsen as both a right back and a striker. Same goes for Mikkel Qvist, but as a left wingback and a striker. I'm pretty sure that some of these examples would have had a "red or orange dot" in the newly given position, were they to ask their assistant manager in real life :-)

I see all these visuals in the game as the same as different opinions from a real life managers personnel. I'm sure a lot of them would be both destructive and confusing to an inexperienced managager outside of the game as well. This is, to me, just part of the realism. 

[Tactics Gymnastics - Lyon]

On 21/06/2019 at 12:27, westy8chimp said:

 

I have never noticed reports having their roles and team mentality on. Is this just in a standard team scouting report? Or is it some custom skin? 

[Everything TOTAL Football (From Cruyff's 343 to Guardiola's Overloads) - UPDATED Feb 28, 2023]

14 hours ago, Experienced Defender said:

Okay, let's assume I want to build attacks on the left before switching play to the right for my players attacking the space(s) there. One possible way can be:

4-4-2

DLFsu    PO

 

WMsu    DLPsu    CMde     Wat

 

FBsu       CD      C  D      WBde

I find this setup quite interesting. Now I actually just watched BTN video on Overloads.
 

Spoiler

 

So the theory here, is that the overloading side is on attack in order to draw defenders and midfielders out of position in order to make room for the right side attacking the empty space. Now this is done with midfielders on attack duty. So im curious to see how well supporting roles can/will do the same thing. Are defenders really going to be threatened and leave their position against a DLP and WM on support?

Have you actually tried this, or is it just theory crafting? If you haven't I might do the experiment when i get home. 

BONUS INFO: I am currently managing FC Nordsjælland (as they are pretty much a danish discount version of Ajax) trying out almost the exact 4-4-1-1 shown in the video with great success as they really have great players for this.

[FM18 Midsomer Flat 442 Knap]

How are these tactics getting tested? Are you actually playing out the season, or is it a simulation?