gooster

When starting the save, there was an option to arrange a friendly between my first XI and second XI. I'm wondering if I can arrrange this again during season time?

Totally agree. That's the magic of football. Still curious about that when the match engine calculate the right options, does it also consider the tactical instructions? Or just a neutral result based on player's attributes/forms and positions at that time?

Thank you for your reply! What I'm curious about is how the 'right choice' in the real football wisdom is reflected in the match engine. Like in Scenario A, how does the match engine identify that recycling possession is the 'right choice'? It is based on a calculation of the successful rates between 'recycling possession' and 'dribbling'? Also, does the tactical instructions and PPMs affect the ground-truth of 'right choice'? For example, in Scenario A, is it possible that in a higher mentality, 'dribbing' can also be the 'right choice'? This matters because it determines the effect mechanism of the Decision attribute on player's performance. If the 'right choice' is consistent with tactical instructions, maybe a player with high Decision would make more negative perfomances given a wrong tactical instruction. Second question: In this scenario, you mentioned the estimation of the ability of opposing players. Is it true that a player with higher Decision can better estimate the ability of the opposing players?

In the manual of almost every Footmall Manager version, i noticed this statement: "Players make thousands of mental calculations in every match based around the best option available to them at any given moment, and those are based off their attributes and their all-round competency. They aren’t always right in their decision (the specific Decisions attribute itself plays a big role here), nor is the right decision always the successful one." I'm curious about the difference between the so-called "right choice" and "successful choice": 1. How is a choice seen as a "right choice"? When a player is on the ball, he can choose to pass (with different passing targets), dribble, shoot, etc. Maybe the final choice of the player is made based on his calculation combining the following aspects: 1) the successful rate of each choice, 2) the tactical instructions, 3) his PPMs, 4) the potential benefits of each choice (not sure this can be calculated). So can I interpret that, for example, if a player was tactically instructed to dribble more or has a PPM of dribble more, even if the dribble may not be successful, his "right choice" could still be dribbling after weighing the above aspects? 2. How is the Decision (also Anticipation) attribute affect the choices? Based on the assumptions above, can I interpret that the Decision attribute exert influence only on the calculation accuracy of different choices, e.g. players with low Decisions would bear more errors when calculating the "scores" of every choices? Since the "right choice" does not always mean a "successful choice", a higher Decision attributes (higher possibility towards the right choice) seems not necessarily mean that the player would contribute more for the success of the game.