retired_cathylynn820

This is something that's been bothering me for a while. B-Teams are supposed to be your reserves right? However, it seems to me that everytime I play B-Teams in competitions there are an unusually high amount of first team players on the team. The best example is the fact that I've played against the player who irl became the top goalscorer of the Premier Division this season.

Now that may just be a coincidence or database errors, but the names that pop up are those of players who have been regulars in the Premier Division this season more often and in greater numbers than I like.

Is this because the Danish league is slightly obscure or is this a general phenomenon?

retired_davek

I haven't really played in a league with B teams in 07, but it was certainly the case in Spain on 06, bacon poof.

retired_lohse55

I think the AI just puts any player that isn't in his selection in the reserves. So maybe said striker was getting rested from the first team, or recovering from injuries.

retired_gliver

I once went to a RL reserves match between Liverpool and Manchester United. There were about eight then-current full internationals playing - mostly recovering from injuries etc, and several promising youngsters who have now become full internationals.

so, it happens in RL as well

retired_mrsjb

Much as we like to pretend it is, FM isn't real life. The player ratings/ability/potential ability often means that real life first choice players aren't FM first choice players. On the odd occasion I come across a side I know reasonably well early in the game, I'm often surprised by what the AI considers the best XI. By extension, that means the AI is going to put some players in the reserves/B-Teams that in real life wouldn't be there, in my opinion.