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Dean Gripton

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  1. Thank you to everyone who has posted in this thread up and until Release. As explained earlier, the database for the Release was locked on 18th October. That is, before you saw Early Access. That date was out of our hands. Since the 18th we have only been able to update major data issues that can be both easily changed in our 'dbc files', and also can be tested easily on all formats. So, we apologise for any issues that you have brought up that are still evident in the Release database. We aim to fix as many issues as we can in a formal data update as soon as we can. That will include any issues already raised, and any that may be raised after Release. In the meantime, your feedback continues to help us hugely. Thank you.
  2. Thank you to everyone who has posted in here up until Release. As explained earlier, the database for the Release was locked on 18th October. That is, before you saw Early Access. That date was out of our hands. Since the 18th we have only been able to update major data issues that can be both easily changed in our 'dbc files', and also can be tested easily on all formats. So, we apologise for any issues that you have brought up that are still evident in the Release database. We aim to fix as many issues as we can in a formal data update as soon as we can. That will include any issues already raised, and any that may be raised after Release. In the meantime, your feedback continues to help us hugely. Thank you.
  3. Looking into the kit issue for a future update. Dixon's footedness does need to be corrected. Grey - that's one for the researcher.
  4. The database has already entered 12 months for that injury, from 26/08/2023 to 26/08/2024.
  5. Thank you for those comments. I have alerted the Head Researcher for the Southern League of this post. It contains some helpful info, though it is too late to amend any of those details for the Release version of the database. Those amendments will be included in a future official data update. Please add dates for any personnel movement, as the database needs dates to function, especially with the new gamemode worlds in FM24. Individuals who are coaches at playable clubs (in FM) and players at a non-playable level (out of the box in FM) - they will be set as the job at the higher-ranked club. eg Henry as a coach at Stevenage. There is not the functionality in the game to allow someone to work at one club and play for another.
  6. Thank you Steve. We'll have a look at your email once the game is out and we have more time. The database for the Release is already locked, so we cannot add new staff for the Release database. We'll assess your messaging and get in touch. Should your validity as a scout check out, then you will be added for a future data update.
  7. The 'Rothmans' (yes it is still going, different sponsor) has Edwards as 5'11". So does Wyscout. We found that transfermarkt, whilst a useful source, is not always reliable, so we always need a second source to back up anything there.
  8. The board expectations error was down to the original ambition now having been updated. That was fixed after the deadline for the Early access database, though happily before the release for the release database! So will be fixed for 6th Nov release.
  9. Dreyfus' Board Confidence was not set. That is now fixed for a future update. Thank you for reporting that.
  10. Our injury module is always open to suggestions of how to improve how we record injuries and player absences from the game. That said, we do not detail every single possible illness or ailment that a human being can have. In some cases we have to select an "injury" which fits closest to the "injury" reported for a player. That is what we have done in this case, where the club have clearly protected the player's privacy with their vague statement of his precise health problem. We cannot know how his illness will affect his recovery and return to the sport. All we can do is assume that he will return, fit and healthy, and then we try to predict a return date based on news reports which can regularly be vague or sometimes non-existent.
  11. The terms of any such licence mean that, if the club do not list Trevor Francis as a club legend, then he doesn't get included in the game as a legend! Of course that's an extreme example, but with 72 clubs in the EFL, we explain what the three club favoured personnel panels means, and what we mean by a 'derby', and the clubs could see what we previously had set in the game for that data. Then they decide how they want their club to be represented at the Club Overview home screen. I don't think that the timing of any takeover had anything to do with the info provided by the club.
  12. That's a temporary move isn't it? For training grounds, we don't include temporary moves, as there is no impact in the game about the name of the training ground really. What we are interested in are the level of facilities there.
  13. Tranmere Rovers sent their own list of rivals to us, which we have to include for licensing reasons.
  14. We are still waiting confirmation from the club and the EFL of the dates for the capacity changes. We have the capacity starting at 19400 (figure given to us by EFL in August) and have estimated a return to full capacity by 31/12/2023, a reasonable estimate at this time. My understanding is that SCL own St Andrew's. SCL are a different entity to BCFC. Therefore, the stadium is privately owned.
  15. The club themselves completed all of the info on that page as part of our licensing agreement with the EFL. Therefore, it is the opinion of the club that is represented in the rivalries and preferred staff lists in the game this year.
  16. When Foster was moved in the database to Saudi, his national contract was not cleared in the database despite his non-playing history being updated. That was my error, I apologise for it and have fixed it for a future data update now.
  17. There was an error in the database where a 'date departed' was added in both 2022/23 and the 2023/24 player history for this player, resulting in what is a cosmetic issue. Thank you for identifying it. That errant extra entry will be deleted for the next official data update. We'll put a query in place in the database to check where this may have happened elsewhere and look to fix those too. This will not affect how Caicedo performs in your save game.
  18. Well yes, he's barely played any senior football at all. His attributes are set to generate based on his role, so that should make them generally fit his style.
  19. My email is in my profile. My first name dot second name at sigames dot com.
  20. - Injuries are not covered the same way as transfers in RW mode. - The Whitley short-term loan should not have been set. The Whitley loan will be deleted form the player's move history for the first official data update. The workaround should be to get a short-term loan gk in for the first month of the season.
  21. This literally happened today. So, Powell not being at Sheffield Wednesday in Early Access is not a data issue, as it had not happened when the data was locked for the Early Access. Powell will be set at Sheffield Wednesday for the next official data update.
  22. Mikey Moore isn't 15. He is 16. Moore was 15 in July 2023, when your new season save starts, but he turns 16 before the end of the 2022/23 academic year. We only include people who are first-year scholars. ie they left school in summer 2023 and started full-time scholarships at the start of 2023/24 football season. They will be the cohort whose birthdays were between 1st September 2006 and 31st August 2007. Anyone born on 1st September 2007 and later is still at school. Therefore, they are still a schoolchild. No child of that age will be on a scholarship at any football club because they are still attending full-time education in the UK. And that is the cut-off we use. Edit: Matt Neil beat me to it! Thanks Matt!!
  23. As explained in the thread. you can contact any researcher by posting those staff list issues in here, with proof. We do not give our researcher's personal emails, and never will. This forum is for people to discuss the research with each one.
  24. The person who responded to you was simply looking to see where the previous reference may have been found. Do you know the reason his preferred club not been changed for a long time? It will be because, until now, we were not aware of the error. When we are made aware of an error, we amend it (if appropriate) for the next official data update or next version of the game.
  25. Lofthouse's loan is ineligible as it is a short-term loan. We have only included window-to-window loans from EFL clubs. I'm sure you can sign him on loan if you need to.
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