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I was using the search already, but I couldn't find the exact question, so I hope someone can clarify my issues. I started a save using a custom db. I started in Germany's fourth division, when asked I created a reserve team which started as quoted in the lowest league, which should be 2 or three tiers below the first playable league. 1) Is there any chance that they will someday see the lights of a playable league? I don't mind the chances being very low, as long as there is any. As I imagine, after couple of years, they potentially would (by chance and reputation) move up the ranks, but I have no idea if my reserves are only one league shy of being 'playable' or have never been promoted at all. I can totally live with that scenario. However, if they will never get promoted in those unviewable leagues, it'd take a lot of the immersion away, imagining I might be a CL team some day and my reserves still play in some local sunday league. This leads to following questions: 2) Does the lack of high quality first team football damage the development of youngsters? Will it matter then, if they play in the unviewable 8th tier or in the unviewable 6th tier? 3) As there is an option to create a reserve team, is there a way to remove it? If it points out that they will remain unviewable forever, I would search for an appropriate affiliate club instead. I am aware that I raise a lot of questions, but if there's any spare time I'd appreciate it a lot if somebody is willing to help. Maybe these issues remain the same in other countries, too. Thanks a lot in advance, if somebody can even help partly I'd be extremely pleased. I'm loving my safe so much, but this is bugging me

All NHL / NBA / NFL / MLB Franchises added to the USA & CANADA (inc. new MLS Franchises (LA/Miami) and the Vegas Golden Warriors) USA Info in BLUE / CANADA Info in Red / BLACK=BOTH SETTING UP A GAME All 3 files MUST be loadad1) Make sure you tick - 'add players to playable teams'2) Make sure you un-tick - 'Do not add Key Staff'3) Using the advanced rules to add all Canadian and US players is advised NATION INFOSeason dates - Are inline with the European League. (10th Aug - 15th May) Season End Date - 20th June Season rules - as per England - No draft, No Designated player etc.Canadian Players are no longer classed as Foreign in USABoth have been slightly boosted in youth rating/nation terms to match England (USA) /Scotland (Canada) TEAM INFOAll created teams should have the correct Name - City - Stadium - Nickname - Some Clubs Legends - Derby Matches - Rivalries - Feeder Team All teams are Main Squad & u23's (All B/II/Reserve/teams are now extinct) DIVISION LAYOUT / REP / MONEY NOTE: Level 8 is made up of the 'Academy and Soccer School teams' Signing age limit <18 yr old. - This level is playable but not sure how it pans out, for those who wanna be an Under 18's coach. League rules are as the olympics under 3 over 24 players in the match side. CUPS Super Bowl - NFL Teams only - Groups into Knockout style cup Stanley Cup - NHL Teams only - Groups into Knockout style cupWorld Series - MLB Teams only - Groups into Knockout style cupNBA Finals - NBA Teams only - Groups into Knockout style cup MLS CUP - MLS Teams only Groups into a Knockout style cupUS Open Cup - All USA teams in an FA Cup style knockout Main teams are fed into the draw at later stages. Open Canada Cup - All Canada teams in an FA Cup style knockout Main teams are fed into the draw at later stages. Tier 6-8 will have a CUP & ACADEMY Division also have their own knockout cups. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=834567031 All additional graphics for default can be found at sortitoutsi or fm-view

I have problem, i have 4 matches to end league and i have notification about i can talk to my team about promotion. But if i talk anyone to them more than 50% of team has angry. They are not super profesional players, we were before season as last team to promo, but if we have chance, why they are not happy if i talk about it? save: 097 Billericay wazna rozmowa.fm

I think that promotion to better league from play off should be in PLUS for this match.

Next error in my save. I sent you the "XXX Billericay yellow line" file for another topic,. It happened a few days later in the game (July 24, 2020). Can you look at it?

Hi all. I want to create a new US Pyramid with PRO/REL. 1) MLS ---> 32 teams, 2 conferences/groups; 2) USL Championship ---> 32 teams, 2 conferences/groups; 3) USL League 1 ---> 32 teams, 2 conferences/groups; 4) USL League 2 ---> 32 teams, 2 conferences/groups; 5) NPSL ---> 32 teams, 2 conferences/groups; 6) 6th Tier (I don't know this) ---> 32 teams, 2 conferences/groups; 7) 7th Tier (I don't know this) ---> 64 teams, 2 conferences/groups - NOT PLAYABLE. Last year, I did this but PRO/REL didn't work well between MLS and USL Championship (former USL): infact, USL team affiliated with MLS team couldn't promote to MLS (or qualify to Playoff to MLS), in all other tiers PRO/REL worked perfectly. Anyone was able to fix it in the past?

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Hi there, I hope someone can help me with my problem. I'm creating the lower divisions of Bavaria, Germany. In the relegation-playoffs between the 9th division (Kreisklasse or KK) and the 10th division (A-Klasse or AK) I have some problems with fates. So for understanding... there are 4 Divisions of Kreisklasse and 6 Divisions of A-Klasse. Each Kreisklasse has 2 directly relegated teams and 1 relegation-playoff team. Each Champion of the A-Klasses is promoted directly and the 6 second placed teams are qualified to promotion playoffs. In the first round of the playoffs the 4 qualified Kreisklasse teams are playing against another Kreisklasse team, for example: KK 1 vs. KK 2 and KK 3 vs. KK 4 So the winners of this 2 games are staying in the Kreisklasse, the 2 losers are qualified to the second round, where they face up against one of the 6 A-Klasse teams. another example: First Round... KK 1 vs. KK 2 = Winner KK1, Loser KK2, so KK1 avoid Relegation and KK2 must go through the second round. KK 3 vs. KK 4 = Winner KK3, Loser KK4, so KK3 avoid Relegation and KK4 must go through the second round. Second Round... KK2 vs. AK1, KK4 vs. AK2, AK3 vs. AK4 and AK5 vs. AK6 The winners of the second round are promoted/avoid relegation and the losers are relegated/failed promotion. Fate Actions are set for every possibility. So far everything seems fine. But ingame the next season won't start and in the pre-game editor test i see that one winner of first round is always relegated too and in the second round it seems messed up too... mostly 2 teams from AK, who's playing against are both promoted, obviously one of them shouldn't. Is it important in which order the Fate Actions are?

This is a purely fictional mod, there are no real current American or Canadian teams present in the database. Also full disclosure, I'm British, so forgive any cultural mistakes. The italic text below is fictional background story to give some context to the database. It's a bit far-fetched, but given it's describing something that never happened I figured it kind of had to be. Read it or don't, that's up to you. Makes it more interesting though The year is 1869. The era of the steam train is well under way, cutting journey times into tiny fractions of what they were only decades earlier, and a new import has made its way across the Atlantic: football. British immigrants with fond memories of watching and playing organised, semi-professional football under the authority of the newly-formed English Football Association start their own, new teams in the cities and townships of America. Unlike our own universe, the sport takes off immediately, with American audiences quickly forming loyal and intense attachments to teams representing their local areas and businesses. Football quickly becomes the most popular sport in America, and by the turn of the century there are over 200 clubs playing the professional game across 14 large and varying regions. The number of professional and semi-professional clubs continues to grow well into the 20th century, despite two years pause between 1916 and 1918, and in 1932 a record attendance of 174,883 is set for the final of the US Cup between Manhatten Borough and Cleveland United at Hammond Road, Chicago IL, with a whopping $400,000 up for grabs. Cleveland come out on top in a narrow 2-1 win, with captain Harry Biggs scoring a dramatic 88th minute winner in front of the 70,000 ecstatic United fans. The invasion of Pearl Harbour in 1941 and the subsequent entry of the United States into World War Two grounds the professional game until 1946. After the war, football continues to grow, and a number of official regions begin to merge due to shorter travel times. On June 5th, 1958, the AFA holds a vote in Milwaukee, WI, on the matter of forming America's first national league, with advancements in air travel over the course of the previous two decades allowing teams to make much longer trips. Two of the ten board members vote against the motion, citing jet lag concerns and low numbers of travelling fans, but the majority vote to go ahead, and the National Division 1 is formed. The move proves to be a great success, with millions upon millions of expectant fans tuning into their wireless each Saturday afternoon to listen to their teams playing far-off cities in the hopes of a win. The average attendance to a Division 1 game in 1960 is 84,233. The radio advertising industry swells, and within 5 years a second national division is formed. The explosion of television expands the market yet further, and by 1980 there are four major national divisions, with a tree of increasingly regional professional and semi-professional leagues below them. Further alterations to the football pyramid in 1989, 1996 and most recently in 2009, have now left us with 7 national divisions, with a competitive and complex pyramid of regional divisions beneath these, and a wealth of major and minor cups and shields. The US National Team are the favourites for the 2018 World Cup, and the 2016-17 domestic season saw yet another record average attendance of 112,988. Sound interesting? This is the plan: This is not a simple database edit, it is to be a fully-packaged mod containing a comprehensive custom database and a set of fictional kits and logos to be put into your graphics folder. It is my aim to give each fictional team a real identity, with real depth. It is to be a long-term project which I can hopefully port over to future iterations of FM. No fields will be left blank, so here are some of the things you can expect to have been covered: All the usual data - rep, morale, status, ownership, rivals, attendance, season tickets, finances etc Home/Away/Third Kit Logo Last 5 years league history Records Bespoke stadium with location/local-culture-based name and unique capacity/expansion capacity I plan to add roughly 1,200 teams over 50-60 leagues with full promotion and relegation. The top 7 will be national (might lower this to 6), with a regional pyramid below. Clubs will be almost all professional from levels 1-8, and largely semi-professional with the ocassional amataeur team below. Each division will have at least 2 automatic promotions spots, with four more teams qualifying for an English-style playoff. Relegation will be decided by a combination of automatic relegation and relegation playoffs. Given the larger population of the US compared to England, there will be a less significant gap in attendance, finance, ability etc between tiers. Tier 2 for example will still have huge teams from major cities with 80k+ attendances. Tier 4 roughly 30k attendances, Tier 7 perhaps 10k. I plan to create a team for every city in this list (and major cities will have multiple): https://www.biggestuscities.com/ If your hometown/city is not on this list and you'd like it to have a team in the database, feel free to comment below and I'll add it in. Beware though, if it's a very small town you'll be stuck with a poor amateur club in the lowest reaches Edit: I can add you as a player too. If there is sufficient interest in this I'll aim to have a playable 'BETA' of just the top division by December 10th, with the rest being rolled out in stages/updates.

Af the end of a season and especially after achieving promotion the options for telling your team your expectations for next season are very limiting. In all the seasons that I've played I've never had the option to tell them that we'll be challenging for promotion or winning the league. The nearest option was mid-table finish but the players all thought this was aiming too low and got upset with the choice.

Hello, everyone! I am looking at creating a database with no pro/rel for Europe's top 5 leagues (England, Spain, Germany, Italy, France). I got bored of the typical teams in the typical leagues and therefore I have put different teams into different leagues. I would like to get rid of pro/rel to keep the keeps in the division they are assigned too instead of having 3 Championship teams enter into my new Prem. I am hoping to do this without creating five new leagues. Let me know if anyone has any ideas! Thanks

Hi there, As the 16/17 season has/is coming to a close, I was wondering if it would be possible to somehow start a new save (beginning summer 2016) and use the editor to set who will get promoted and relegated in the first season. Reasoning behind this is so that for the 17/18 season, Newcastle, Brighton etc. will be in the EPL. I am aware i can just change the teams around in the editor, but that would then mean every players contract in the game would be a year out as I'm bringing the game forward by a year and the ages of the players would be incorrect. In a nut shell, I want to set pre-game who will get promoted and relegated from each division. Cheers.

Hi, I would like to replicate the Italian "Eccellenza" promotion system: Every season, 36 teams get promoted from Eccellenza to Serie D, they are: -28 groups winners -7 playoff winners -the winner of Coppa Italia Dilettanti (Italian Amateurs National Cup) If Coppa Italia Dilettanti winner has won its group, the runner up gets promoted. If runner up also has won its group, the winner of a match between semifinalists gets promoted. If only one of the 4 semifinalists didn't win its championship, it gets promoted. If all of the semifinalists won their championships, spot keeps vacant. How to: 1) Implement the "repechage" system? 2) Avoid the Coppa Italia Dilettanti promotion spot owner to play playoffs if he qualifies?

So some of you may have read my past threads, where, for the life of me, cannot do well with Birmingham City. A championship club who nearly suffered relegation to league 1 a few seasons ago, who have pittiful amounts of cash and a board that expects wonders. Well, now I am into my third season with them and we're finally in the prem. You'll see from the coming updates that we're at the back end of the season and we're in a relegation scrap, but as it looks like it's going to be an exciting one with seven games left, I thought I'd share it with you. The laegue table currently looks like this: All three promoted teams from last season are in relegation positions. It looks like Sheff Wed and Preston are gone though, so it's up to us to change that. We also have a much better run in than West Brom as they have to play all top 4 teams, and we only have to play one, Arsenal away on the last day. I really hope it doesn't come down to the wire D:

Hi! With my current save, my MK Dons side has hit form at the perfect time and it looks like we could potentially make the automatic promotion spots to the holy land that is the Premier League (PL). However, the average age of my squad is 24 and solely made up of Championship quality players and youngsters with high potential. In case we get promoted, I need to have a shortlist of experienced PL players to look at to help boost the experience levels for the PL. Is there a way to filter player searches by Competition Appearances? So far all I can find is the option to filter Domestic competition appearances such as FA Cup, League Cup etc... but no Domestic Leagues. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hello Everyone! I've been playing Football Manager for years, think since 2007 if my memory is correct. From all these different versions i have been able to adapt to the changes which were made to have a fun playing experience. Until now, I started a season with Bury and my aim was to make the play off's. I had a fantastic season and was 2nd for around 38 of the 46 games. In the final stretch to the end of the season i lost form and ended up slipping into the play off's (I lost against Gillingham). I just couldn't overturn the loss of form! i tried everything and it just didn't work. My second season i went to Middlesbrough who were relegated from the Premier League. I had a fantastic pre season, bought all the correct players, set up my tactics, won all my friendly's against better opposition. Then when the league started i couldn't buy a win for the life of me and was sacked in October with the team in 23rd place! in all honesty my team should have walked the league! So, questions 1. Why does a team lose form, what could be the cause and how do i fix it? 2. Any other useful tips you fellow managers can give me? Thank you very much and i appreciate your help. Ryan F

So I started playing as the manager of Hercules in the Segunda Division (Spanish 3rd Division) and on my 3rd year I promoted on the La Liga. My issue is that Hercules B (Hercules B team) is inactive. It has not promoted and still participates on the same Valenciana (or something) amateur (inactive) league as when I started. There is no B team manager and I cannot hire one (or any other staff) once when I offer someone the job I can't select a wage. The team is full of generated "grey" players and whenever I move someone in it he gains no match fitness (so that means he doesn't play). It really throws me off once when a player misses for a long time or is a new signing, there is no way I can increase his match fitness. So I have to take the risk and play him on an official match costing on my team's performance. Is there any way I can make it active and be able to use it?

Hello everybody, I do not know if I am posting this in the correct place - let me know if I am not. I have started a FM17 game with Wrexham and need tips and advice. I wanted to take charge of a North Wales Club and had thought of creating my own club on Anglesey as there are none of note in a high league. However I decided, for now, to keep it authentic (I may make an Anglesey Club in the future). I was looking at Bangor City but from FM16 I learned that the Welsh league is fine as a challenge to make a Welsh League Club actually strong enough to qualify for the Champions League group stages, but is really difficult. The league itself is a challenge but you start craving more. AND SO I went for Wrexham, a North Wales Club with a lot of history and rivalries and also in the English league system. The long term goal is obvious - get to the Premiership! This post is to ask for help and tips/hints on progressing to that goal. I have just finished my first season and managed to get to the English FA Trophy Cup for the league and also WON the Vanarama National on the last day of the season after 1) an incredible run of 23 games unbeaten (many last minute goals to earn draws, and a total of 30 games unbeaten with the Cup games), and .... 2) a catastrophic collapse by Lincoln in the last three months of the season. Before that run I was just inside the playoff places. I have bought players in and later thought they were not as good as I thought, and everything is rosy except for my handling of Club finances with has the board confidence in that at 36% approximately. The club is making losses because of the spending on players and in an attempt to address this I sold the clause I had for Swansea's Neil Taylor. We had a 10% sell on fee but with his value at £7.4million and with Wrexham needing money I sold the clause to receive approximately £650,000. SO, now I am in pre season before the Sky Bet League 2 starts, and I need advice on which tactics to use to get into promotion places, how to handle my finances, where to find players of quality to help me gain promotion and any other help you can think of. Much appreciated - thanks guys!