Remember when attributes reflected what you watched your players doing on the pitch ?
Remember when attributes other than jumping, pace, acceleration made players good ?
Remember when technical attributes had a reason to actually be there?
Remember when tactics worked ? Remember when tactical changes made a difference to what happened on the pitch ?
Remember when it was possible for the best team to dominate a game without equal chances all round ?
Remember when all youth teams played like youth teams ?
Remember when 15 year olds didn't score 50 yard long shot winners ?
Remember when the long shot attribute had some bearing on how likely a player was to score a long shot ?
Remember when morale used to change in game which had at least some basis in reality so if you were winning your players got complacent instead of just "furious!" or "angry"
Remember when every single goal didn't come from an horrific error/corner/longshot/45º angle ?
Remember when players with good attributes used to score beautiful goals instead of carbon copies?
Remember when you could win games away from home ?
Remember when you watched football games instead of a collection of unrelated highlights ?
Remember when your team didn't take 14 knocks per match ?
Remember when the only problems with the ME was that the only games you lost was when the opposition GK got MOTM and you got 1swed ?
Remember when results made sense ?
Good times.
Long gone but never forgotten.
We miss you x
Friday, 7 May 2010
Thursday, 6 May 2010
The Decision
Thought i'd play a few games while deciding what to do.
Drew 1-1 with an all youth team.
Winning 1-0 against an all youth team, 93rd minute they equalise.
Playing bottom of league, i've had 68% possession, 23 shots on goal, they score with an unreal longshot and win 1-0 from an injured player with their second shot of the game. Away from home of course.
Playing another all youth team winning 2-0 after multiple cccs and total domination, then suddenly the 15 year olds come at me like their lives depend on it, wave after wave before winning a penalty in the 93rd minute.
Playing in the cup, away from home, against a team which only has 15 players in their squad, 2 of whom are injured. They are down to 10 men, game goes to ET, they are down to 9 men, they have had 1 shot the entire game. Guess who got MOTM, guess who lost ?
Complete and utter fucking joke of a game. I think I could shit a better ME out of my arse, all I would need to do would be to swallow a dice first.
The problem is I really want to play the game, but it's just pointless as the ME is so awful. If we went back to the old ME the game would be pretty much near perfect. Sure it had some flaws but it wasn't so bad and results made sense.
Think I will sell my team tomorrow and go all youth, should have done enough to make top tier of round 3 qualifiers so i'll be pretty rich. Either that or i'll just give up all together, i'm leaning towards the latter.
Drew 1-1 with an all youth team.
Winning 1-0 against an all youth team, 93rd minute they equalise.
Playing bottom of league, i've had 68% possession, 23 shots on goal, they score with an unreal longshot and win 1-0 from an injured player with their second shot of the game. Away from home of course.
Playing another all youth team winning 2-0 after multiple cccs and total domination, then suddenly the 15 year olds come at me like their lives depend on it, wave after wave before winning a penalty in the 93rd minute.
Playing in the cup, away from home, against a team which only has 15 players in their squad, 2 of whom are injured. They are down to 10 men, game goes to ET, they are down to 9 men, they have had 1 shot the entire game. Guess who got MOTM, guess who lost ?
Complete and utter fucking joke of a game. I think I could shit a better ME out of my arse, all I would need to do would be to swallow a dice first.
The problem is I really want to play the game, but it's just pointless as the ME is so awful. If we went back to the old ME the game would be pretty much near perfect. Sure it had some flaws but it wasn't so bad and results made sense.
Think I will sell my team tomorrow and go all youth, should have done enough to make top tier of round 3 qualifiers so i'll be pretty rich. Either that or i'll just give up all together, i'm leaning towards the latter.
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
I'm So Tired
Think this is it.
Normally I get mad and want to quit but it's different this time, now i'm just bored.
I'm sure everyone knows the main reason, being the ME is fucking shit. Secondly all my AI lands at 10pm meaning I have about 30 games to play when I want to go to bed and if I don't play them I lose them all. Thirdly my GW sucks.
Might go all youth or something, i'll probably end up winning league if I play 15 year olds like.
Dunno, i'll sleep on it, but really can't be arsed any more.
Normally I get mad and want to quit but it's different this time, now i'm just bored.
I'm sure everyone knows the main reason, being the ME is fucking shit. Secondly all my AI lands at 10pm meaning I have about 30 games to play when I want to go to bed and if I don't play them I lose them all. Thirdly my GW sucks.
Might go all youth or something, i'll probably end up winning league if I play 15 year olds like.
Dunno, i'll sleep on it, but really can't be arsed any more.
Monday, 3 May 2010
You Know I'm No Good
After the remainder of the auto resolves went through I ended up rather disappointing finishing 4th in the first run of the EFA. I can't see the table now but I think there was only about 5 points separating 1st from 4th. So trying to analyse what went wrong, I look at my results to see where it was lost. Was it because I lost to better teams ? Nope, was it because I had a bad run of form ? Nope, was it before I had no injury cover ? Nope. It was simply because of poor results against the worse teams in the division down at the bottom of the table. Just a couple of wins in those games I absolutely dominated where I lost to some freak event would have won me the league. Yet oddly, I beat most of the top teams without too much hassle.
But looking at my squad, I probably actually have one of the worse teams in the division. If you had said to me I would finish top 6 before the season started I would have been delighted. So I guess I shouldn't be too disappointed ? But it's just the way it happens. If I had lost games I deserved to lose, if the better teams had beat me I wouldn't be bothered. But it never goes down like that!
So now I find myself in the same situation I always seem to be in. All of my players appear to be terrible, no one wants to buy them, yet as usual i'm still doing better than most.
I accidentally sold 2 of my DCs (don't ask, I do stuff like this a lot) the other day, so my second choice DC is pretty awful. According to FM10 database he has 100CA 119PA yet he is averaging 7.05, never does anything wrong and chips in with some goals.
So check out these, badly formatted, pictures. The bottom one is the AF of my team and the others are of other teams in my qualifying. Oddly the one with the highest average finished 15th. Mine is by far the worse yet it seems to make no difference at all.
This always happens to me, I refuse to pay silly prices so I end up with no players but somehow in loads of debt. I've been banging on about this for ages, but you don't need good players, you just need the right players. The DC I mentioned earlier has 18 jumping, thus he averages and plays well. My 2nd top scorer who is a striker has an AF of 35k yet he has the pace and acceleration. My DR is averaging 7.10 yet he's actually a winger and has 8 tackling with an AF of 16k?! Again he has the key attributes, being able to tackle or mark not being either of those ;)
I've been looking for a new DC for ages without any luck but i've just picked one up this morning for £25k and i'm certain this is going to be an awesome signing and he's actually got decent potential!
People must go mad when they are playing me, looking at how much they have spent and how awful my players are yet watching my guys play like they are champions of the world. Pretty much been in top 25 of rankings most of the time too.
I've not even done anything with tactics in all honesty. I just made one in the tactics creator then turned off long shots. I only ever use about 3-4 shouts which I have mentioned previously.
So to conclude, i'm either a genius or the ME is broken.
But looking at my squad, I probably actually have one of the worse teams in the division. If you had said to me I would finish top 6 before the season started I would have been delighted. So I guess I shouldn't be too disappointed ? But it's just the way it happens. If I had lost games I deserved to lose, if the better teams had beat me I wouldn't be bothered. But it never goes down like that!
So now I find myself in the same situation I always seem to be in. All of my players appear to be terrible, no one wants to buy them, yet as usual i'm still doing better than most.
I accidentally sold 2 of my DCs (don't ask, I do stuff like this a lot) the other day, so my second choice DC is pretty awful. According to FM10 database he has 100CA 119PA yet he is averaging 7.05, never does anything wrong and chips in with some goals.
So check out these, badly formatted, pictures. The bottom one is the AF of my team and the others are of other teams in my qualifying. Oddly the one with the highest average finished 15th. Mine is by far the worse yet it seems to make no difference at all.
This always happens to me, I refuse to pay silly prices so I end up with no players but somehow in loads of debt. I've been banging on about this for ages, but you don't need good players, you just need the right players. The DC I mentioned earlier has 18 jumping, thus he averages and plays well. My 2nd top scorer who is a striker has an AF of 35k yet he has the pace and acceleration. My DR is averaging 7.10 yet he's actually a winger and has 8 tackling with an AF of 16k?! Again he has the key attributes, being able to tackle or mark not being either of those ;)
I've been looking for a new DC for ages without any luck but i've just picked one up this morning for £25k and i'm certain this is going to be an awesome signing and he's actually got decent potential!
People must go mad when they are playing me, looking at how much they have spent and how awful my players are yet watching my guys play like they are champions of the world. Pretty much been in top 25 of rankings most of the time too.
I've not even done anything with tactics in all honesty. I just made one in the tactics creator then turned off long shots. I only ever use about 3-4 shouts which I have mentioned previously.
So to conclude, i'm either a genius or the ME is broken.
Sunday, 2 May 2010
Side
Okay this is actually driving me insane now. I hadn't even noticed this until someone mentioned it to me the other day.
But just about every frigging goal comes from the side/edge of the area on a 45º angle.
It's doing my head in massively, about 75% of goals are identical.
ME fails once again.
Oh and, I drew with a team playing 4-1-5 earlier.
That is all.
But just about every frigging goal comes from the side/edge of the area on a 45º angle.
It's doing my head in massively, about 75% of goals are identical.
ME fails once again.
Oh and, I drew with a team playing 4-1-5 earlier.
That is all.
Shoot to Thrill
Football is pretty boring you know, most matches are actually quite dull with not much happening in them. When I had a season ticket I used to get so bored some games I would almost stop concentrating on what's happening and start day dreaming or wondering if there was going to be any balti pies left at half time.
Just having a quick look over the Premiership stats from the weekend (just from the paper) the average shots a home team had was 11 and 8 for the away team. Looking over my recent FML games the average shots a home team has is 18 and 14 for the away team. Not enough data to prove anything at all, but as I have been moaning about lately, FML is just non stop kamikaze football. I play "standard" strategy and i'm not sure I follow the logic that every manager players super attacking. It's just annoying, I want boring games without idiotic things happening!
I finished my first qualifying run, 44 games in 5 days. Crazy stuff, not sure who set this thing up, why my division has 23 teams in or why it's lasting 5 days. Still a few fixtures elsewhere to go through but I should have 3rd hopefully.
Meanwhile the transfer market is entering silly season once again, my deflation prediction is looking a bit off the mark, or at least early.
I'm all for creative adverts when selling, but for gods sake I wish the buyers would exercise some common sense.
Pictures speak better than words for this one:
-6 = 90-120PA
Look at his AF ! He's clearly not high potential, he's clearly NEVER going to be a HHN, the fact all his atts are above 10 is a DISADVANTAGE, he's not going to get much better!!! His PA is all used up.
There's shit like this all over the place at the moment.
Sigh
Just having a quick look over the Premiership stats from the weekend (just from the paper) the average shots a home team had was 11 and 8 for the away team. Looking over my recent FML games the average shots a home team has is 18 and 14 for the away team. Not enough data to prove anything at all, but as I have been moaning about lately, FML is just non stop kamikaze football. I play "standard" strategy and i'm not sure I follow the logic that every manager players super attacking. It's just annoying, I want boring games without idiotic things happening!
I finished my first qualifying run, 44 games in 5 days. Crazy stuff, not sure who set this thing up, why my division has 23 teams in or why it's lasting 5 days. Still a few fixtures elsewhere to go through but I should have 3rd hopefully.
Meanwhile the transfer market is entering silly season once again, my deflation prediction is looking a bit off the mark, or at least early.
I'm all for creative adverts when selling, but for gods sake I wish the buyers would exercise some common sense.
Pictures speak better than words for this one:
-6 = 90-120PA
Look at his AF ! He's clearly not high potential, he's clearly NEVER going to be a HHN, the fact all his atts are above 10 is a DISADVANTAGE, he's not going to get much better!!! His PA is all used up.
There's shit like this all over the place at the moment.
Sigh
Saturday, 1 May 2010
Video Killed the Radio Star
Greetings, I thought I would have a go at recording a video of my day on FML.
Might want to use the direct link as the embedding seems to have gone a bit funny.
Video link
Might want to use the direct link as the embedding seems to have gone a bit funny.
Video link
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