Squad and Team Report
You’ll spend much of your time poring over the Squad screen as you look to develop and mould a group of individual players into a finely tuned machine capable of success.
Overview
The Overview screen presents an immediate and detailed look at the team.
Report
The Report tab is the best way to take both an at-a-glance look and a detailed study of the players available to you.
Stats
This section presents a breakdown of team statistics across a wide range of areas and also highlights the best and worst performers accordingly.
Comparison
This section takes a number of statistics from your squad and compares them across the rest of the league to see how your players stack up. The ‘General’ tab takes miscellaneous information such as height and weight, whereas the positional breakdowns take an average of relevant attributes to show strengths and weaknesses in your squad.
Assistant Report
The Assistant report presents key players, positional depth and quality from the squad as a whole and suggests a Best XI based on the chosen tactic.
Squad Depth
Your squad is broken down into formation and position, with each position box then displaying every player who can feature there with, plus their competency in that position represented in the form of a star rating. Scroll up and down the page to view the full length of the pitch and the depth available in every position.
Select on the numbered person icon to the top right of each positional box to bring up a dialog presenting the information in more detail. Each position has a hierarchy of capability and suitability as well as any information regarding players you are currently scouting to play there, for ease of comparison. Should you not already be scouting, a handily placed button exists at the top right of this pop-up dialog to enable you to do just that.
The ‘Filters’ button allows you to streamline or increase the number of players who appear in these lists (for example, you can include youth and reserve team players). The ‘Customisations’ toggle allows you to manually remove players from a position (if you would rather not consider a player in a certain area of the team, for example) while the ‘Roles’ menu has four different options for the information being presented to you.
To change the member of staff who compiles this part of the report, navigate to the ‘Opinion of’ drop-down menu and select accordingly from the list of available staff.
How can I make best use of the information available to me?
With such a deluge of information at your disposal, it might be easy to feel overwhelmed, and to not know how best to identify the real strengths and weaknesses of your squad.
- The Overview screen is by far the best place to start, as it distils everything into a succinct Strength or Weakness. The words used in each item are also instructive of what, if any, action you should take next; the scale below is used to display just how good a player is:
Star, Excellent, Superb, Very Good, Good, Fairly Good, Decent, Useful, Low, Unsuitable
- Tailor the Squad Depth view to your own circumstances. Ensure it’s based off your primary tactic and defined roles, and that the filters are set to include or exclude players in your youth teams and/or out on loan. It then displays the most pertinent ratings to you (be it Current Ability, Best XI, etc.). If you configure this part of the report to your own specific needs, you’ll find it serves you a lot better.
- Use all of the screens frequently. Players develop and teams change over time, and whenever something new happens, the data you’ve previously reviewed runs the risk of becoming outdated. Make a check of the Team Report a regular part of your managerial planning to reap long-term rewards.
Report Record