Mason Bradshaw | Mega Project | #5
Mason Bradshaw has never played football professionally, and at just the tender age of 24, he’s shocked the world by announcing he is to become a football manager. Follow his journey in ‘Mega Project’
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Mason Bradshaw | Mega Project | #2
Mason Bradshaw has never played football professionally, and at just the tender age of 24, he’s shocked the world by announcing he is to become a football manager. Follow his journey in ‘Mega Project’
Mason Bradshaw | Mega Project | #1
Mason Bradshaw has never played football professionally, and at just the tender age of 24, he’s shocked the world by announcing he is to become a football manager. Follow his journey in ‘Mega Project’
Alternative / Lower League teams to Manage
With the Football Manager winter update approaching in the coming weeks, and some saves going a little stale, I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to suggest some ‘alternative teams to manage on Football Manager’. In this particular list I have chosen teams that aren’t in the biggest leagues, and more lower league standard. Every club has a unique selling point, some for their history, some for the decline in recent years and other clubs for many different reasons.
Finding the right tactic 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…
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….
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…
Moneyball in FM19: Part 1
I start a Masters Degree in Data Analytics this September, and recently I’ve been looking at how I can use Analytics to impact my favourite game, Football Manager. Cleon recently tweeted about Moneyball, and how no one has replicated it correctly when it comes to FM. Moneyball in FM19. Now, I had heard of Moneyball, and knew it involved using Analytics to scout players, but I didn’t know the true extent of Moneyball, or where the definition came from. So,…