retired_kswansonwoolf

We scout. Read the stickies for further information.

retired_donnahdez2381

im new too. i think lowering your standard would help, top leagues will look towards stats near 20. you catch my drift ? i dont wanna upset any of the locals tho :S

retired_tinkfaeree

Just check what players you have available, determine strengths and weaknesses of your squad, pick a playing style and formation, then send your scouts out to spot better players either for vacant places in your team (oh, I need a DL...), or anyone. Read Scout-Where-You-Can-Tour or Scout-Your-Borders guidelines for that.

Other possibility is to pick up free players in your country on a trial. Test them out in some friendlies, maybe let your coaches assess them. Sign them if they're any good.

Another way is not to sign anyone and wait until you get fresh players from your youth squad.

Another way is to use the job center. Look for coaches, and if they're young enough, maybe they sign as player-coach for a year or two.

Lots of ways to sign players. Invalid ways are though: to sign unscouted players who used to work out well in a previous game, to sign players who were recommended to you on some forum or webpage, to use the "find" option to search for specific guys...well, you get the idea.

Otherwise, whatever the Kfool said.

retired_tinkfaeree

oh, and filtering through stats is definitely not what we do here.

retired_nekh_20

We don't do tipping here, nor player naming. Like the others said, we prefer to use our scouts to find us players.

Have a read of the sticky topics at the top of the forum.

retired_sara maria

Except when scouts start finding 0 players. :explode:

retired_tinkfaeree

that only happens when you mess up with your savegame, for example by being a yankee.

retired_raistlin1979

We don't tip on how to find the best players - but we *do* tip on how to find players in an LLM fashion.

Here's a detailed description on how I find players. Experienced LLMs are welcome to critique my methods.

1) Find players.

a) Scout. A lot. Got it? Okay, now scout more. Invest in scouts, if you can. Put 'em to work, preferably scouting a realistic locale. In my Northampton game, I've scouted Youth players, specific clubs in the league, and England. I've dabbled in Scotland & Ireland, too at this point.

b) "Newspaper scouting." Any manager worth their salt reads the daily league news. Anytime a player receives an award or is mentioned in trade talks, I see just who it is they're talking about. Also, about twice a season I'll scan entire divisions. Let me clarify this - it's nothing extensive. But I'll send a scout to Division Three (or whatever) and see who were the leading goalscorers, who had the most clean sheets, see if any midfielders or defenders had very high average ratings. I view this as equiavalent to reading the newspaper regularly.

c) Use player search for "expiring" or "expired" contracts in the off-season. I'm not really sure how I feel about this. Some knowledge of contracts must exist out there. But the player search feels a little too good for really obscure divisions, meticulously putting every poof up there. I've largely stopped using this.

2) Decide Which Players to Persue We should come up with some sort of rules before hand though.

a) Get Scouting Reports. Now that my club is doing better and I have multiple scouts, I keep one at home just to "get scouting reports." As much as possible, I make sure any acquisitions have favorable scouting reports.

b) Performance - I'll check basic stats over the last couple years. How did this guy do with his past teams? Bonus if I've seen their performance in my own division.

c) Atributes - I give a quick glance at attributes. I'll often check pace, get a general idea if a player is technically adept or mentally strong. I try to avoid making detailed, direct comparisons.

3) Negotiate for a Player

a) Fail utterly and completely.

retired_raistlin1979

Bah, I say! Silly Infopop bolding.

retired_pmetzger1

I say silly you with the tags