Brother Ben

Not wanting to sound rude but neither of those threads would fall under the remit of this thread. (sorry)

As soon as the full game is out yes

its to do with the size and speed of saving. I agree with you the option should be there

I'm pretty sure the less leagues you run the further back you can go

Just for a bit of trivia, you can manage in this league out of the box but you would need to be relegated into it and somehow keep your job.

Swansea did it twice

I've not yet loaded up FM23 but I do wonder what this means in terms of LLM guidelines for those of us that play that way?

Think Sociedad have 3 teams in the pyramid out of the box iirc

Sounds like a great idea to be fair. Don't worry though folks i'm more than happy to run this thread until that time

A valid point. Depends on what you want from a chip I suppose. Will be great to see the two go head to head in the FM23 benchmarks

Doubtful. In most use cases the sheer single core power of the Intel is likely to be better for FM in most use cases. We will see though. I'll update the spreadsheet for the final time this week and then the FM23 thread will go live on full release day, 8th November.

This question is like catnip to this forum

The following teams are amateur in the lowest playable leagues on the vanilla game 'Herlev - Denmark 3. division ', 'Karlslunde - Denmark 3. division ', 'Lyseng - Denmark 3. division ', 'Vanløse IF - Denmark 3. division ', 'HKFC - Hong Kong Premier League ', 'Fløya - Norway 2. divisjon Group 1', 'Ferreira de Aves - Portugal Campeonato Serie C', 'Forjães - Portugal Campeonato Serie A', 'Gouveia - Portugal Campeonato Serie C', 'Macedo de Cavaleiros - Portugal Campeonato Serie B', 'O Elvas - Portugal Campeonato Serie E', 'Operário Lagoa - Portugal Campeonato Serie E', 'Santa Marta - Portugal Campeonato Serie B', 'Serpa - Portugal Campeonato Serie F', 'União de Montemor - Portugal Campeonato Serie F', 'Swansea Uni - Wales Cymru South', I always start as semi-Pro myself for the reasons outlined by @DementedHammer above

I think the other thing is with Brazil is that you have so many state leagues (27?) with multiple tiers. So with a decent league add on its pretty much its own footballing world.

Yeah i'm going to say the National League is the most challenging too. So tough to get out of.

Trouble is though Benchmark A is by far the most likely real world scenario. For C & D you would have to really dig down and add the full detail to the leagues which (and only SI will really know) I doubt pretty much anyone does. Personally I only ever add full detail to the leagues immediately above and below me and any leagues I loan players out to. I obviously don't want to argue against my own benchmark thread but I actually quite like that the percentages are quite low on the A & B tests as it proves you don't have to have a mega PC to play the game. That said i'm really encouraged by the C & D results lately which hopefully soon means that chucking on full detail for a load of leagues will be a viable setup

My assertion was that people would less likely game the system if they have to put more effort in. Hence why i'm against blanket praising players. It then becomes a morale boost button for everyone all at once. You are less likely to do it if it becomes a pain in the arse. Like it would be for a real manager calling every player into his office. Maybe add a blanket praise button but make it less effective?

Surely FM is great in that it scales depending on your specs? Got a crap computer? Just run one league. Got a top of the range rig? Run an entire continent.

Maybe but I still stand by my comment

Is praising in bulk a bit gamey though? Making the effort individually should reward just that. Making the effort.

Yep I'll be doing it next week In the meantime spread the word as we are only a dozen shy of beating last years total !

Well at the moment in the Desktop market Intel is absolutely smashing it as far as FM goes. That said the single core performance of these new Ryzens looks amazing

Yeah i'd delete anything that would conflict but then you would do that if you were copying over. I assumed everyone just renamed it to be honest, it must take hours to copy everything to a new folder.

Its called "Football Manager 2022" but yeah

1 save this year mate, I believe in you!