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They paid a transfer fee for him in February only to cut him on the roster deadline day one month later. Spent $1.2M for a player only to let him go because the AI has no idea what the salary cap is until roster submission day. edit: and look at the home and away fixtures. Happens every year, some team will go on the road for a whole month. If you’re challenging for a supporters shield, that’ll really dampen your chances as your opponents won’t have the same issue or it doesn’t happen in the middle of the season, for instance.

We MLS managers deserve much better than this.

Which competition? MLS EC and WC are empty, and MLS clubs as a whole aren't separated into conferences.

anyone know how to move an MLS team in the Eastern Conference into the Western?

Does anyone know how to move teams b/n conferences using the editor?

Good spot! Will update this for a future release.

I am sharing an editor file I created for my MLS save that helped me with immersion. I fixed St. Louis City's home and away kits, D.C. United's keeper kit clashing with outfield players for the home set, and a few other minor things. I added this year's Twitter hashtags for each team. You should see them in the socials timeline page. I removed Bayern's link with FC Dallas and updated it to their newly formed one with LAFC. I also updated LAFC's nickname. There's probably a few other things I missed. I don't expect this to be popular, but I spent so much time tweaking the stuff I felt I had to share it with the community. MLS - League & Data Updates 1.0.fmf

Thank you for the detailed reply!

Do better motivators gets more out of players? Does having a disciplined fitness coach matter? Do personalities of staff impact players or the club atmosphere at all? Should you take the time to build your back room staff or just leave it?

TIL people aren't tweaking their tactics during preseason friendlies

I play almost exclusively on extended. I don’t know how anyone can do less. I feel so disconnected from the match on key. I like to set player-for-player marking and I adapt in match a lot. I rarely “set it and forget it” when it comes to tactics.

Full disclosure, I just want a conversation, I don’t have a strong opinion either way about how anyone plays their game. However, I personally have never been able to use asymmetric tactics because the AI never do (unless they’re down a player, and even then) and it feels like I am playing with a sort of unfair advantage. What does the community think? I expect quite a few don’t care, and that’s fine. When do you use asymmetrical tactics? Do you think they give you an advantage? Should the AI managers incorporate them more in the game?

This is my current dilemma with a save going in MLS. The amount of time it takes to build a contender-level roster in the league under the cap that can play the style of football you want... but, then again, isn't that the fun of it all?

I don't mind the staleness of the press conferences, but I do wish certain answers resulted in more consequences, i.e. a player expecting to start, a player being unsettled, etc. Granted, this happens to a small extent sometimes, but it can definitely be expanded.

I’m thinking more of a “wide halfback”

How’s it play with two covering CBs? i’ve wanted to experiment with this myself.

any suggestions as to where I might find them in the FM preferences? I loaded up the game and went through the preferences menu but see nothing related to scale to fit. Resolution doesn't do it, switching to windowed and back again doesn't do it... am I the only one here unable to figure this out? How did you do it @Smurf?

Only available for back four systems, this new role would finally bring to FM what has been present at the highest level of football for years now, a fullback who tucks in to form a back three. Available with defend and support duties only, the new role allows managers to buildup from deep positions through numerical superiority while maintaining the flexibility of a back four. On support, the fullback will play more like an outside ball playing defender who looks for key passes and steps forward just a bit to support moves while the defend duty keeps them inline with their fellow center backs. the defensive line shift will allow more space for the opposite-side fullback to push up in attack.

this horse is already dead.

does youth recruitment factor into this at all?

thank you for that! cheers edit: for some reason, the scale to fit option isn't available for my FM23 file. any ideas?

hey i’m sorry if this is the wrong spot, but my macbook pro (2021) notch is visible on FM23 again. it wasn’t when I first loaded the game, not entirely sure what happened. any ideas?

I am playing FM23 with 22’s kits! I know it’s a legal thing, but you gotta fix this for future releases, especially given the fact that you have a planned update that comes around this time and MLS is a fully licensed league.

They can help players get more consistent, comfortable in big games, change personality types, make players more determined or better team players, and more depending on their 1-20 skill level. The more you have on staff, the less likely your squad morale will drop according to form. A single good psych or a team of them can help save seasons or end losing streaks. The manager can send players to the psyche if their form is bad or whatever the reason, but that player will not be available for first team training (or some sort of tradeoff). A good team of squad psychs in the youth team will also yield more professional and less fickle/mercenary types. Ideally, this position would emerge in tandem with better in-game psychology, meaning better interactions with players, more robust media events and questions, and more in-match mood swings (i.e. low rep squads will be nervous ahead of matches against high rep opponents while high rep squads may become complacent against low rep teams).

Reading an article this morning, I realized how useful a graph that displays xG +/- over time would be to an FM save, even if only over a 5-match span. Something like this could be useful for inbox items from the analysts or as a standalone piece in the data hub. It doesn't seem as though it would require new data to be created since it uses xG figures already placed in-game. If you could have it for the entire season, that's even better. I'd also request that the lines have a color accompanying them as they do here to make them easy to read.