sam22

I have noticed that choosing the player bonuses for winning leagues, cups etc makes no difference at all to performance..

For example i could offer my squad the lowest bonuses for winning league etc, and they will still win every game...

I won the champions league, winning every game. However, in the league cup playing my strongest side I was beaten in the quarter finals by a championship side

Have other people noticed this?

Its coming up to the time when I need to offer my bonuses for the season, and i'm thinking of offering the minimum lowest amounts possible.

Do you think this will make me less likely to do well, and my players to perform as well?

At the moment i don't think this decision is even factored into the game, the decision is simply used to calculate how much you pay at the end of the season. It dosen't effect the players morale, dertermination, performance in big games etc

Thanks for your comments and thoughts guys
Alternatively, I have offered maximum bonuses for all competitions only to lose and play poorly.

I am talking about managing the same team.

Has anyone else noticed this? You might as well just offer your squad the minimum bonus for all competitions entered as this decision has no effect on the performance whatsoever.

I hace read that offering higher season bonuses for certain competitions makes you more likely to perform better. This is simply not true.

Simiarly, it dosen't work in priorotising which trophy you want to win most. I tried as an experiment to offer the minimum bonus for champions league, and the maximum bonus for the league cup

sam22

Just to add that in the above example I set bonuses for champions league to lowest and won every game.

I set bonuses for league cup to highest maximum amount, and was beaten by a lower divison team, of far less ability in the quarter final.

The league cup, according to my bonuses set was meant to be my priority.

asshole182

ask in the experiments thread to check it out for you

sten_super

It often gives several of my players a morale boost when it is initially announced, so it is worth it for that alone. On their personal screen it says "is inspired by the prospect of large collective bonuses" or something like that. Whether they actually then try harder in the actual games, I'm afraid I have no idea.

stevehafc

I upped one of my bonuses and towards the end of the season we were on target to win that competition and a couple of players became motivated because of the financial bonus on offer. Some other players got hacked off with those guys and started moaning about them.

sam22

Thanks for the input.

I am using the responses to help me decide whether to simply setting season bonuses to lowest as possible.

It seems, other than an initial morale boost it has very little if any effect.

Just like when you are asked before every game a question by the media, and your response will effect 3 or 4 players on there personal screen with something like "is really fired up for the game against Bolton".

Only to disappear after the game has been played, or replaced by another comment when you answer the next media question.

DeathSpawn

i usually use normal bonuses, but i also think it doesnt make any difference because when i used the higher bonuses some players would say they were motivated by the money however they're performances were nothing special and some of them werent even able to get 1st team place. my players moral is always good because i keep winning games so i dont even know if the money affected player moral.

sam22

Thanks DeathSpawn,

Call me a cheapskate if you like, but its got to the stage where the huge bonuses I am paying is more money than I have earnt in prize money and revenue in winning the competitions.

I think i'll take my chances of being tight with money, and hoping that it won'e effect the effort my players put in. As I have said I don't think it will.

fatboyjohnmulhern

i put max for league and normal for cup, league is always most important for lower league teams so they can get promoted more money etc

asshole182

for the cup games they'll have got over the initial disappointment by the time you meet a big team anyway.