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How to make FM19 interesting, with FM20 just around the corner

How to make FM19 interesting, with FM20 just around the corner

Every summer, we usually find ourselves asking the same question; this year it is ‘How to make FM19 interesting?’ Each year, there comes a time when many Football Manager fans find the game growing a little tiresome. Usually after having sunk hundreds of hours into the annual title. This year, I’ve racked up around 400 hours on FM19 across various versions. I have found myself in that slump more than once. Therefore, my only have been taking a little break…

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How many player instructions to set in FM19?

How many player instructions to set in FM19?

The tactical depth in FM19 is simply phenomenal. You can get so immersed in the new roles and sorting out your defensive width, while forgetting about all the other parts of your tactic. Don’t forget player instructions in FM19! When it doesn’t work, some people will go straight to Miles Jacobson to lament how the new features don’t work.However, we’re not like that. These issues test all of our patience, though; no one’s more than mine. You want to know…

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Dictate the Game Podcast 14 | Transfer Deadline Day + New Roles in FM 20

Dictate the Game Podcast 14 | Transfer Deadline Day + New Roles in FM 20

Your hosts this week, Eric and Pelham (FM Tahiti) are back with another DtG Podcast! CLICK HERE TO WATCH We’ll be wrapping up the English transfer window! As a result, we’ll give you the top five teams in terms of transfer window success according to Dictate The Game and where we think the top six will pan out based on new additions. Plus, what are you looking for in terms of role tweaks in FM 20? Eric and Pelham will…

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Running with the Wolves #2: Making sensible signings in FM19

Running with the Wolves #2: Making sensible signings in FM19

Continuing my AS Roma series, I start second season with some clear tactic and transfer goals. Winning the Italian Cup, finishing 2nd in the league and qualifying for another season in Champions League (unlike our real life counterpart) are definite highlights. However here are some things that I am not happy with. Our chance to goal conversation rate is something that needs improvement and I will be doing tactical adjustments with that in mind. This article will serve as a…

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The importance of decision-making in FM19: FM Statistics Lab

The importance of decision-making in FM19: FM Statistics Lab

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…

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Professionalism in FM19: Welcome to the FM Stats Lab!

Professionalism in FM19: Welcome to the FM Stats Lab!

Statistics and myth-busting are the aim of the game in our FM Lab. We have set up a database and league to let us test what impact changing certain variables have on the actual game, to gather lots of data, and then test it statistically at the end. Specifically Professionalism in this first post. If like me you like seeing simulations and experiments, but also like me you want more hard figures then this is the experiment series for you….

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Wide players in FM19: How to harness them in your ball-hogging side

Wide players in FM19: How to harness them in your ball-hogging side

Like watching your wingers and wide players bomb up and down the touchline, getting crosses in? Or your full-back beguiling the entire opposition, manoeuvring his way into the box unmarked? Well stop reading right here. Wide players in FM19. We’re looking for passing and moving, people. No player can move without passing first. That’s how I developed this spectacular tactical system My tactic with wide players Did you think any of that was true? It couldn’t have been further. If…

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Moneyball in FM19: Part 2

Moneyball in FM19: Part 2

First I want to start out by saying thank you to everyone who read Moneyball Part 1. The response was really overwhelming and while I tried to respond to most comments, there are undoubtedly a few I missed. As promised, in this post we will be looking at my January Transfer Window activity, the stats for the players I signed, and a closer look at my KPIs and statistical setup. Moneyball in FM19.

Finding young players in FM19: Lucky Leipzig’s Golden Generation

Finding young players in FM19: Lucky Leipzig’s Golden Generation

To add a bit of context to this piece, I’m currently managing RB Leipzig and I’m in my second season. After finishing a respectable 4th place in the league and reaching the Europa league final (but losing to PSG) I made some good additions to the squad including a transfer listed Reuben Loftus-Cheek, Benjamin Henrichs from Monaco and Donny Van de Beek from Ajax. Finding young players in FM19. After the summer we set out on another season in the…

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