After my first full season in the Premier League, we are back with another instalment of Moneyball. Last season we finished 15th, with data driven signings making a bit of an impact. This time around we’ll be taking a quick look at my scouting process, as well as all the ins and outs this summer, and preview the upcoming season. Moneyball in FM19.
In Football Manager 2019, I’ve predominantly focused on creating guides, instead of a story or tactical recreations. However, this article will be a combination of guides and tactics; a guide on tactics. Finding the right tactic in FM19. Now in my previous article on training (that can be found here:) FOOTBALL MANAGER 2019 GUIDES | TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION In Step 1, I talk about building your tactic first, and then your training. I decided to link a few articles from…
I have been playing Football Manager since 2013. Year after year I see the same questions pop up regarding Player Preferred Moves (PPMs or Player Traits). Why do they not work how they should? My player has “Plays with back to the goal” trait but I never see him holding up the ball? How come my centreback with “Brings Ball out of Defence” does not dribble more? The game engine must be broken right? Wrong, in case like this there…
With transfers already happening all over the World and databases being created daily, it’s time we discussed teams to try on Football Manager using TheFMEditor’s database. We take you through five teams to manage in FM19. I have seen a lot of tweets recently saying they are bored of this years FM and can’t really get in to a save, I hope this article can reignite that spark with Football Manager and you can enjoy the game before the new…
Scoring from corners and set pieces has always been one of my club’s philosophies in FM19. Why not tick that box? It can give you extra credit and doesn’t come in the place of another philosophy. Surely, banging in loads of set pieces is doable if you spend a bit of time on your tactic? It can be hard in some circumstances. You might like to buy younger players. You might prefer more technical or creative players than meatheads who…
In my recent post about my Golden Generation at Red Bull Leipzig, I’m still churning through seasons at the club. I’m trying to make some progress but as a result of my endeavors, I’ve started to get to grips with the new training system implemented in this year’s Football Manager. Training guide FM19. After winning the league in my second season, we’re looking confident to challenge for the title again. After losing Marcel Sabitzer and Péter Gulácsi we signed Jadon…
Welcome back to the third post in my Moneyball FM19 series. If you’re new you can check out Part 1 Here. My first full season at Crystal Palace draws to a close, and with the end in sight, there’s time to reflect on a successful season in the Premier League. We’re going to take a look at how my signings performed in the second half of the season compared with other players in the squad, my results as a whole…
Welcome back to the FM Statistics Lab. What’s the importance of decision-making in FM19? In our first post we covered how we set up our lab environment to give is as much control as possible over our variables, and we also dipped our toes into the statistical water by investigating what sort of impact the professionalism attribute can have on overall team performance. If you’ve not had a chance to read it you can find it here – spoiler alert…
Last year I started to cover the more exotic player roles of Football Manager. Some of the roles I highlighted, like Raumdeuter, Regista and Trequartista, have been the staples of the game for years. While Pressing Forward and Wide Targetman have only been added in the recent entries. In that respect the Shadow Striker role is not new. It was one of the original roles from 2013. Then FM did its biggest tactical revamp by dropping the old sliders and…
There seem to exist many misconceptions out there about what exactly it means to overload in football and how to create overloads within football manager tactical engine. This article will present a step-by-step guide on on successfully creating overloads in FM19 with any team and at any level. It does not present an exploit win-all plug-in tactic. But it should hopefully make scoring goals, and winning, more consistent for your club.