Jervaj

Yes. B teams also have to register their players. In fact they need to be registered to be able to play with the main team. I've made some digging, as Im not that proficient on the exact rules myself, as Im not a heavy fotball follower to be honest and its not something that its often commented about. It seems that the mobility between affiliated teams only works upwards. Meaning you can only play in teams above the one you are registered on. And then you can only go back if you havent played more than 10 matches with the first team or are under a certain age. So, yeah. That explains it. I have everyone registered with the main team. I guess I should have registered the younger prospects in the B team and then move them up, but I didnt do it because the B team itself was quite full too and I had more slots available in the main team. I only wonder now why could I do it in FM21 though. Maybe the rules werent correctly implemented. Because its not something that has changed recently. Does encourage keeping the squad a bit shorter, specially only very young players dont need to be registered in Spain (unlike Italy for example). Its difficult to keep 25 players in match shape unless injuries are hitting you hard.

Yes, indeed. Of coruse its not perfect and a player will always have advantages, specially with other parts of management (squad building and morale/fatigue management) if you know what you are doing as I said. But I find that at least you cant achieve outrageous results with tactics that shouldn't be working, specially if your players aren't that good. And there is indeed at least some need to adapt that before was mostly inexistant. The only thing you had to adapt to before was teams playing more defensively after they started to fear you due to your unexpected good results.

Greetings everyone! So, in FM21 when playing in Spain, I used to often times make first team players available for the B team to increase their match sharpness when needed. Or to give playing time to youngsters which were good enough to give depth to my first team but if the starters were in shape may not see much play some stretches of the season. However this year Im finding the option to make players available for B team quirky. In the menu, the option to make them available for the B team doesnt appear at all, while it still appears for the U-19. Sometimes it appears but only for some players. What its weirder, its that sometimes there are players which are suggested by the staff through the inbox to make available for the B team and it allows me to make it so do it through that, but it wont appear in the player menu itself to do it manually. Is there any reason for this? Like are there more restrtictions to allow players to play for the B team or is it a bug? I thought at first it may be a rule thing, due to a warning that appears when registering players, but my last few matches for example I was able to make availabke if I wanted only 1 player (always the same) from my main squad and he is registered like all the others, so Im not sure what the criteria is. Given the staff wasnt suggesting anyone I couldnt have a workaround. Thanks in advance for any possible help!

Coming from 2021 I would say its notably harder. Of coruse overachieving its very possible, likely if you now what you are doing. But when I started in F2M2021 in all the saves I did with my favortie teamin the Spanish second division was able to get crazy streaks of victories and while that was decent for the league it wasnt oustanding. I was always ending first or at best second very close because there was often another team also dominating, both of us ending around the record points for the league. And I did this at first with tactics I learned were very unbalanced and shouldnt have worked with the players I had (the famous OP Gegenpressing). Now in FM23 I feel that both the engine its much better and balanced and that the AI also reacts better tactically. I was able to promote directly but it was close never changelled the title and it didnt seemed like I was going to until well into the season when I hit a good streak of form that made me rise up. I had to adapt my tactic after the first few matches as I wanted to go with a high LOD for example playing with anything above a standard LOD proved very dangerous and I noticed my CBs werent fast enough to pull it off despite good overall quality, when before it was easy to make it work. In my experience beating superior teams its possible but would see you playing more like a inferior team would in those cases and still it will be hard most of the time when before you could still go all out agressive agaisnt then and get pretty consistent results.

Above 8 training rating I have never had a player complaining about been praised for training even if its every week. Between 7 and 8 it depends. In that case it can work if you havent praised them recently and depending on the players personality. A playing that its very exigent with himself (professional, ambitious...) tend to react more negatively towards less deserved praise. A player that has lower standards or confidence due to recent events does appreciate it more. Of coruse the higher the rating the safer it is, I would avoid it below 7.5. When you praise recent development you have to be mroe careful though. EVen when the staff report says it has improved check if its been noticeable. If its too small it can easilly cause rejection too. From my experience the staff recomendation to praise them tends to be right 50-60% of the time only.