rytm2323

You should try to be mature enough not to be "provoced" (sic) by other people.

Listen, people don't like being given abuse for no reason. I didn't even disagree with what you were saying, and I got accused by you of talking BS (just because I had the audacity to ask if the figures you'd quoted were guesses or if you'd actually gone through and done the number crunching).

I've no time for people who act idiotic and can't make their points - however valid - without being abusive. :thdn:

retired_STRIDER

Sounds to me like you're just reaching for things to complain about, because this point is stretching it.

If you yourself saw the performance and think it was only worthy of a 2, then why are you believing the 7 that the game gave out? Aren't you capable of avoiding deception by siding with your own judgments?

retired_dalcar

To answer a couple of points on the front page, the reason we don't answer posts like this is firstly because it's a duplicate of something mentioned often, and secondly because we have answered on others on the same subject.

As for the person who mentioned last weeks FA Cup stats, I haven't seen those, so can't comment on them. However, and somewhat ironically, the game that I watched live on TV last week was the Real Madrid v Real Zaragoza game, a game where Zaragoza had 20 odd shots, and didn't score, whereas Madrid had only a few shots, and scored 2.

retired_dego72

What a ridiculous post.

Why as somebody who isnt even playing FM08 you feel you can be so condescending to somebody regarding a known and very annoying issue that you obviously are unaware of (or just do not even want to consider may exist) is beyond me.

rytm2323

Actually, GN was right - FM stats do broadly mirror IRL stats. There seems to be a misconception on this forum among many that there aren't that many shots in football matches, or that the percentage of shots on target to goals is higher IRL than it actually is.

Having looked at a number of IRL games and compared them to AI controlled matches in the game they are about right (with the right proportion of 'crazy' matches too, IMO).

The difficult comes when looking at human teams - now, I'm not the best FM manager in the world by any means, I'm normally rubbish. However, by assessing the match engine I've created a tactic which suits my Gillingham team very well. I'm not experiencing any of the problems reported in this post - sometimes I dominate matches and the other team wins, sometimes the other team dominates and I win, that's football.

The point is, I'm not alone in this so at least some of this widely reported issue *has* to be down to user error in not fully understanding the game, or using the wrong tactics and/or personnel. Well, that's my opinion anyway.

retired_shannon9392

And as i have stated earlier this is one game in 40 odd league games. In FM it happens every single match !!!

rytm2323

NO IT DOESN'T!!!!! It really, really doesn't happen in every match.