[*Official* Football Manager 2022 Feedback Thread]

12 minutes ago, Sunstrikuuu said:

That's really interesting, because I usually see my central midfielders having great ratings and my wingers having terrible ones.

I do have to admit that, they too get awful ratings a lot... but over the course of the entire season, their average levels out. They can either get a 6.2, or they get an 8.00+ for scoring a brace and/or assisting. But since I've moved to Dortmund, that has become less commonplace, especially with Moukoko out wide.

[*Official* Football Manager 2022 Feedback Thread]

My issue with FM22: Midfielder ratings!

It's probably been mentioned several times, but I feel the need to vent a bit of frustration when it comes to midfielder ratings.

I've recently made the jump from FM20 to FM22, and after 10 seasons and various tweaks to tactics, I can't get my midfield performing well in terms of ratings.

But I know they are actually doing well because I've had great success in my journeyman save, and it seems unlikely that my midfield is underperforming.

So far, I've won promotion in the VNL South, won the Championship, won La Liga twice, won the Bundesliga and got the World Cup final with England. I would've won more cups in Spain if it wasn't for Real Madrid and Barcelona, but I can't complain. I can't imagine doing this without a proper functioning midfield.

Every season ends up with something like this:

Everyone except the central midfielders, are with an average season rating above 7.00. This is a mid-season image of my Dortmund team after only losing one single game this season so far. I'm top of the Bundesliga and topped my CL group, but apparently my midfield is not worthy of getting a 7 or higher. Even my goalkeeper is having a better season, and he barely faces any shots on target. He gets praise for just existing on the pitch!

You have to remember that this is a team doing really well.  The midfield ratings in any lost matches can get really bad compared to the rest of the team. When I was fighting relegation with my Premier League promoted Swansea side, the midfielders were getting truly shocking ratings, whereas my defenders and wingbacks were still getting decent ratings despite us losing every match.

Is there any hope to see this change a bit?

[Coaching assignment issues with B Teams - Missing and invisible staff members and other inconsistencies]

Hello, I'm only on FM20... but, unless these issues have been specifically fixed for FM21, I'm assuming they may still exist as I'm having trouble finding reports of it on google. So here's the problem:

Note: This pertains to B-Teams only that appear as affiliates to the parent club (not Reserves/u23/u18/etc).

1) First-team coaches that exist at the start of the save do not appear in the B-team's coaching assignment screen.

However, any newly hired first-team coaches will appear in the B-team's coaching assignment screen.

I'm unusure if the intention is for them to appear or not, but the above behaviour is at least what's true.

2) B-team coaches that exist at the start of the save are the only coaches that appear in the B-team's coaching assignments screen.

As a result, any newly hired B-team coaches will not appear in the B-team's coaching assignment screen.

3) The manager of the B-team never appears in the B-team's coaching assignment screen.

It doesn't matter if the manager was there at the start of the save or if you hire a new one. The B-team manager is never available to be assigned to B-team coaching assignments.

4) If the B-team has maximum amount of staff and you are given the 'transfer blocked' screen where you can choose to replace a member of staff, the button confirming your decision doesn't work for the B-team. You have to manually terminate or mutually terminate the staff member's contract, otherwise the new transfer in will forever stay in your 'transfers in' page.

Sometimes, even when terminating the contracts yourself, the 'confirmation' screen refuses to show up and you are forced to cancel the transfer via the Transfers page. You can easily check this by hiring a new B-team manager without terminating the existing manager's contract beforehand.

 

You can easily test all this on a new save:

Just load the Bundesliga only and start as Bayern. Choose a late pre-season start date so that the B-team isn't on holiday, then delegate your staff hiring duties to yourself and hire a first-team coach. He will then appear in the B-team's coaching assignment.

Then hire a B-team coach and watch as he doesn't appear at all in the B-team's coaching assignment.

The issue isn't specific to generic coaches only, it happens to assistant managers, fitness coaches and goalkeeping coaches too.

 

Here's a small example:

Hiring a new senior squad coach with no secondary job (Michael Adam): https://i.imgur.com/nLV2iT8.png

He's clearly part of the senior squad: https://i.imgur.com/GCS1eju.png

Yet he appears in the B-team coaching assignments despite none of the other senior coaches doing so: https://i.imgur.com/mZ09JEh.png

 

Once again, I'd just like to point out that this is an issue for B-teams only, not regular reserves or u23. B-teams are listed as affiliates in your affiliate page and are usually named something like Bayern II, Dortmund II, Barcelona B, etc...

 

I've already confirmed this in FM20, I just don't know if it happens in FM21.