[All Japanese goalkeepers given huge boost in Winter Update]

Hey there! thanks for this.

while the CA/PA boosts were intentional due to there being a sizable and realistic gap between foreign and top level Japanese keepers.

Japan has notably had a problem producing top level keepers except for the few consistent outliers above, The number of attributes at 15 or above was imported somewhat incorrectly and has been rectified for the next update. There will be keepers with gk attributes of 15 or above, but they have been reduced to the realistic level as suggested by data provided from multiple sources.

Likewise mental and physical attributes were already updated in November, and due to the season ending there, there is no new data to determine whether any changes are needed. GK attributes were the only major variable that needed to be researched extensively to faithfully introduce them into the FM series. 

You are welcome to point out anything else that that needs to be looked at and I will take a look

[Ola Selvaag Solbakken is missing after the 24.3 patch.]

This is due to licensing, therefore he is removed from the database. 

[24.3 Omiya Ardija players can see into the future (End of 2023 season milestones and transfer history at the start of 2023)]

I am presuming this could be due to the licensing stuff, paired with real transfer dates. I will have to get someone to take a look, but thanks for bringing it up

[J1 league club do not buy more foreign players when club have 5 foreign players]

I will fiddle with the pre game editor and see if signing players on first team quality instead of star quality has any impact on this.

[Players in Japan are not becoming home-grown]

I have been adding youth team history to all players and should fix the homegrown issues for current players in the game. hopefully this should resolve most issues.

[J League Cup]

raised on another thread, is being looked at. thanks

[league cup match rules]

@Zachary WhyteHes right with the trialists issue

[Japan and Gibraltar not added to list of existing countries in editor]

just going to bump this so its not forgotten for the winter update

[Juan Mata missing from game]

I would say probably, i don:t do licensing

[League cup awards duplicate]

should be fixed, if not then its the editor being strange

[Nation Weekly Wages Value]

sorry was a typo, will update

[Tochigi SC Stadium]

cheers will update

[Incorrect stadium name]

unfortunately even if it is correct Licensing has full control over stadium names, and these names come directly from J.League themselves so unless they want us to change the name of the stadium, I doubt it will get updated. 

[Kyoto Sanga home stadium relocation]

Thanks for this, I did update the location, must not have saved properly. will update

[Oldest Player - Japan National Team]

was a data issue, being looked at thanks

[Fatal Rule Mistakes in the J-League]

6 hours ago, jonin said:

Is it possible to get that editor file if not part of the Japanese community? Would an update fix the issue for existing saves or would a new save be required?

it is on the editor hideaway, would require a new save since it changes competition rules. 

[Juan Mata missing from game]

I honestly do not have any Idea. either they are within the cutoff period and are licensed, outside it and not licensed or inside it and for some other reason not licensed. could be a dual nationality thing, could be the player does not want to be licensed. could be any reason for something to not happen.

[Asia Nation Coefficients]

same issue for me too

[Fatal Rule Mistakes in the J-League]

@MarcPTFC it is on the top of the priority list and in the meantime I have reached out to the Japanese community with a editor file that corrects this issue for the folks on PC, until the update is out. the second issue you mentioned are youth players. also added to the priority list is the U22 player rule and when that gets tested and added I would presume will also come through an update

[Kawasaki Frontale - data]

Looking at this, I can say that player statistics were based on the start of the season due to having to find a middle ground where all of the data could be replicated as accurately as possible across the whole of Japan so that we did not have instances of one team being updated and one not. These will all be updated for the 2024 season with a lot of those points being made make sense for that. 

Languages thing is also a work in progress that is currently being fixed.

Club culture is something I can update, game gets iffy when you add cultures like sign high reputation players and develop youth together and based off Frontale's recent streak I decided to prioritize the former. 

Player positions were based at the start of the season so with a lot of players it is really the whole of last season and some early parts of this season, hence why the brazilian has his old position. again these will be updated. 

Kengo, yeah enough said. however Licensing pretty much dictates literally everything to do with the image of the club and how it is perceived here so we are gonna have to wait until they either want it in or not. 

We will get there in the end so i am gonna include this in one of the many updates I need to do lol.

[Staff changes for teams in Japan seems not updated since end of 2021]

Yeah, Licensing at work here and still being sorted

[Juan Mata missing from game]

There was news about certain cut off dates that prevent players from being included due to licensing.

[Can only sign some staff to part-time contracts in the J3 League despite being professional]

J3 is not technically a fully processional league despite the naming.

Example 1, only at least  3 players in the team are required to be on either a Pro A or Pro B contract. 

In J2 this is set to at least 5  and has to be Pro A/B which is is at least 48,000$ish.

J1 is 15 and all 3 have a maximum of 25 (27 in ACL).

 

Now most clubs in J2 and a lot in J3 go way past the minimums, but certainly not all staff are full time. A lot of  J3 players actually work as well. If there was an option to either hire them as FT or PT then that would be ideal.

[Illegible team promoted to J.League]

both Nara and Osaka FC have over exagerated numbers, both  of Osakas 12,000 attendaces and Naras 5000 lots were mostly all free given tickets to boost the numbers to get to the threshhold. Imabari and Hachinohe did the same. without the outliers then the numbers are nothing special. Iwata, sure but Shizuoka generates the best quality youth intake players in Japan by quite a margin. The amount of Quality in Shizuoka alone would be enough for multiple teams, Osaka has 3 and even more coming through regional. and with the amount of money now being chucked at the regional teams there will be a lot more quality teams in the future too.

[Low Determination on J3 League players]

12 hours ago, Dax_ said:

I can't remember right now but isn't it possible somewhere to put the average determination for the RNG of a specific country? If so, it definietly should be raised.

I will take a look