retired_saxgurl08

My tempo bar is all the way to the left...I fielded Maldini (41) the whole season, Cafu and Serginho on the bench... we like it nice and slow :-)

Except for the four defenders (medium-low), everyone else I keep on medium and Kaka on high creativity.
For shots, everyone on rarely but Seedorf and Kaka on often.

Depends on the style I guess. I like to have control of the game, keep the ball. Domination to me is allowing the opponent a minimum number of clear chances. 12% vs 9% means 25% more frequently, which is quite a lot a anyways.
Also, I field only one striker, and three defensive midfielders, thus my "finishing" skills are not that high overall.
The point was to prove that the "If I have 20 chances and the AI has 1, they win" motto is pure fantasy.

That has happened to me only once in the season: I lost 2-1 to Juventus away, they had 6 chances, I had 8. One of their goals was offside (Juventus, after all), I screamed "I was robbed" and the FA shut up...

Again, I am not a fanboy, there are some serious bugs (Maldini morale! Ronaldo hates AC Milan! Too few penalties! Stadium expansion), some useless features (team talk, media interaction, board happiness), but that bias doesn't exists to me.

retired_jenjen

would barça have won the champs without ronaldinho 2 years ago????? dont think so. would manU have won the league without CR amazing season??? dont think so. would milan have won champs without kaka amazing season in champs??? dont think so. in FM2008 its all about tactics. i've played a couple of seasons and i never saw any GK making an amazing game, neither have saw anyone making a 10 and hardly making a 9. it's impossible for any player to have the influence they have in real life... at least i never saw it... </BLOCKQUOTE>



I've had stand out players. This season Lennon has scored 18 goals or so from the wing, and is doing a 'Ronaldo' for the team.

retired_saxgurl08

I beg to differ.
It's the stats of the team I manage vs. all the AI teams I faced. My decisions impact the AI results. What AI does vs AI is none of my concern.

retired_dysart147

I don't think there is a bias against the human user. I do think there is a match engine bias against certain kinds of chances, and this might be in order to keep scores from getting blown out of proportion.

Thus, certain play styles that are often adopted by human players that generate a lot of chacnes that look great in the match engine result in lots of misses, which is enourmously frustrating.

The AI tends to play styles that result in the 'right' kind of shots as deemed by the match engine, resulting in a much higher percentage of scores.

I have learned to accept this after dozens and dozens of seasons where I overwhelm my oppoennet with seemling great opportunities and yet scores are routinely closer than you would think they should be. But SI would go a long way to defusing this by adjusting the engine so that good and bad opportunities are more clearly discernable in the match engine.

One way might be via the play by play commentary, which I feel has lost some of its insight in recent years. I remember it used to clearly point out that a player was tightly marked or really being squeezed by defender 'x'. This was useful in not only finding out why your guy was missing but also who was playing well on defense.

DBrown87

Arsenal dominating play but not scoring isn't unheard of in real life

retired_cycleman88

would barça have won the champs without ronaldinho 2 years ago????? dont think so. would manU have won the league without CR amazing season??? dont think so. would milan have won champs without kaka amazing season in champs??? dont think so. in FM2008 its all about tactics. i've played a couple of seasons and i never saw any GK making an amazing game, neither have saw anyone making a 10 and hardly making a 9. it's impossible for any player to have the influence they have in real life... at least i never saw it... </BLOCKQUOTE>

which of course makes the game less real </BLOCKQUOTE>

I've had Rooney/Aguero single-handedly win/salvage games for me over the course of two seasons, games I can quite safely say I was soundly outclassed tactically (damn you Capello!)

KryptonSean

The only time I've ever thought that there might have been a conspiracy going on is when I signed Igor Akinfeev for Reading in the second season. I hadn't signed any players at all and had sold my reserves, so I had quite a pot of money saved up. (In case your wondering, I used the senior youth players as back-up- James Henry, Scott golbourne, etc). Marcus Hahnemann needed replacing, Adam Federici had looked shaky when I called upon him, and Mikkel Andersen didn't seem able to keep going for a whole season. Whenever I'd played against Akinfeev on my other saves, either in the CL or for Russia against England, he'd been amazing. Granted, he'd concede an average of 2.5 goals a game, but he'd nearly always get a 9 or even a 10 and look like a portable brick wall.
The scouts told me not to do it, and that I'd be better off recalling Graham Stack from loan- as if! I bought him, for nearly 5 times the club record transfer fee of 2.5 million, and I became 12 million pounds worse off.
The scouts were proved correct. Igor didn't keep a single clean sheet in 6 months! I used him, Hahnmann, Federici and Andersen in rotation for the rest of the season (2 games, switch, 2 games, switch) and used Ben Hamer (youth team keeper) in the cup, and only played 1 more Cup match! Andersen ended up standing out, so I sold Hahnmann, Stack and Hamer and kept the other three- Andersen first choice, Akinfeev second and Federici cups/reserves.

KryptonSean

And BTW, I am also of the opinion that there is no bias in the game, it was proberbly my tactics