burfoot5

Has anyone else found that the game does not create new players, who are physically good on the game. All the new regenerated players who are technically and mentally sound all get destroyed with stupidly low physical stats!. Has anyone else encoutered this problem and is there any way this will be fixed in the january update

Cheers

Cheg

16 year olds with low pyhsical stats, who'd have thought...

something less annoying

The problem is that they never develop physically.

isuckatfm

That's not necessarily true. Here's a few examples from my current game:-

Tony King Age 16 2008 CA 71
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/663...008ca71xz5.jpg

Tony King Age 20 2012 CA 147
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/6...12ca147nb9.jpg

Joseph Osborne Age 16 2008 CA 70
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/332...008ca70cn8.jpg

Joseph Osborne Age 20 2008 CA 152
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/8...12ca152mq4.jpg

Steve Flaherty Age 16 2008 CA 69
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7...80802caoy5.jpg

Steve Flaherty Age 20 2012 CA 165
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/1...12ca165di2.jpg

Key Things:-

1. Room to improve i.e. large difference between CA and PA when generated.
2. Playing time is crucial to physical attribute development. I find having them playing regularly for the reserves team as soon as they hit 17 is highly beneficial. After a couple of seasons of that try to send them out on loan.
3. The less injuries the better. Actually one serious injury lasting 6 months does more damage than cumulative 6 months worth of injury depending on how they happen.
4. Hidden mental attributes seem to have a huge bearing on how youngsters develop in FM 2008. Low ambition and low professionalism with the few youngsters I've had not reach their potential have been the common factors.

That's my theory on it from playing the game so others may disagree. If you have used the same techniques as me and they haven't developed then I don't know what to tell you.