retired_tslagle1

Now don't get me wrong - I love FM and I love the LLM approach to the game. But from reading other people's updates on here, it seems I'm not the only one following a rather predictable pattern with my saves.

Season 1 - finish higher than expected, but just miss out on playoffs.
Season 2 - finish in playoffs, but lose in final.
Season 3 - win the league at a canter.
Season 4 - the board expects a 'relegation battle' Instead, you finish in the playoffs and lose in the final.
Season 5 - you win the league easily again.

etc. etc. etc.

My hope for FM 2006 is that such a pattern does not form and that the game offers the kind of unpredictability of 'real' football...

retired_stelutaivan

Have you seen the pattern that quite a few teams promoted from the lower league seem to be following over the last few years.

retired_skinner3

Is there a punch line here? I'll bite.

retired_duncan

Yeah, you're right Stevie. FFS what have we all been doing wasting our time playing this rather predictable and poorly programmed game.

Now we can all go and lead 'normal' lives and stop wasting our employer's time by posting in this forum all day...

retired_acondelo

This game is all about moving in the right direction season after season…. Form and momentum. That applies to the Premiership and the Conference. A good manager brings that out and a pattern emerges.

For not so good managers it doesn’t work like that…. Crap managers perhaps. It’s called “Not meeting expectations”. Then sometimes you get the sack. And sometimes you turn things around and move forward and move in the right direction for an unspecified and unpredictable period of time. And then things turn bad. You never know what’s gonna happen if you’re a crap manager.

retired_cathylynn820

Sometimes you do know though. You might not want to think about it, but you know.

retired_davek

It's true! We all work in the same place, but at different times

retired_rymar

What is this "promotion" of which you speak?

I know nothing about it.

retired_mrsjb

It's a bit like amateurmotion, but...


I'll get my coat.

retired_trainer

I wish i could find that pattern...

Currently Carlshaton, 7th season, 2010/11, Conf National. Mid/Lower table obscurity for the past 4 seasons.