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That sounds like it negates the "High Creativity as culprit" theory, at least in your case..
I tend to link high Creativity with lots of Through Balls, and I like giving it to my AMC/playmaker, definitely.
In past versions, I would also give a higher-than-normal Creativity to my most Creative/Decisions/Passing/Team Work strikers and wingers, but would keep it low for my less-than-superstar players.
I don't think I can advise you further, on FM'08; I just don't have sufficient experience to take you further than you've already taken yourself.
Those are the tactics I play - the only player that has "long shots" set to often is my AMC and that's only even if I'm playing Riquelme or Bresciano there. If I'm playing Jimenez then I have it set to low, like everyone else in my team bar Farfan who has it set to much. I think the mix is vital as getting it correct wins you games really.
Therefore I shouldn't theoretically have the superkeeper problem because my game is a slow one too - only two notches above the slowest setting and the passing metre is set to the same setting.
Your theory is a good one by the way. It's just that I think that with my short range shots, my striker (Kiessling in this game) who has finishing 17 and composure 15 should be finishing them off anyway... The superkeeper, I believe, just has to stick his oar in every now and then even when it's not your tactics because my tactics don't encourage long range, rushed shots.
I took so long writing my previous post that I missed your one at 22:11!
Yeah I agree with you - definitely I have my player with the most creativity as my best passer who has his setting of playing through balls set to "much" (two players have thorugh balls set to much in my team and thats my AMC and SS).
Something I noticed since FM06, I seem to have a problem trying to win when I am top of the league. It just seems whatever I do, I can't score and the opposition almost always nicks a goal against the run of play.
Yet when I am not top and chasing, it is much easier to win and the players bang in goals left, right and center.
Is it the pressure of expectation? When you dominate possession, create 15-20 chances a game and your top goalscorers, who have been free scoring all season all of a sudden can't hit a cows arse with a banjo then it is questionable.
Also, I'm absolutely convinced at certain times that the AI stops you pulling away at the top by more than 3-4 points in the second half of the season. It seems the negative results of the chasing pack more or less determines what you do i.e. if second place loses then you will not win if you are already clear of them by more than a point.
The only time I have experienced being able to pull away at the top and win the league early is the season after I win a Championship for the first time. For example, when manager of Genk in the first season I experienced what I said, couldn't pull clear of Mouscron at all. After I won the league though, the next season I had the title won by mid-March with the same side as the previous season.
I usually find that the million shots/no goals games come in batches during a season. Therefore it could be a low morale/bad form problem. I might be completely wrong but i think that a more pronounced decrease in finishing ability compared to other parts of the game might be programmed to reflect this lack of form, resulting in loads of shots/no goals. Now obviously if a team was going through a bad patch. they would very likely be suffering from a lack of confidence infront of goal but so would all aspects of their game.
Sometimes when I'm playing a game and before it I was on top of the table, I'll keep switching to the latest scores tab to see how the team placed second are doing. If I'm winning say 2-0 or whatever, they might be drawing 0-0. But then once my game finishes... more often than not, they have scored a goal in the last minute - that's all too common for me so I can see where you're coming from with your problem.
Originally posted by azeri4life:
I took so long writing my previous post that I missed your one at 22:11!
Yeah I agree with you - definitely I have my player with the most creativity as my best passer who has his setting of playing through balls set to "much" (two players have thorugh balls set to much in my team and thats my AMC and SS).
(Dumb American moment: what's SS?)
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Originally posted by Tubzinho:
Something I noticed since FM06, I seem to have a problem trying to win when I am top of the league. It just seems whatever I do, I can't score and the opposition almost always nicks a goal against the run of play.
Yet when I am not top and chasing, it is much easier to win and the players bang in goals left, right and center.
Is it the pressure of expectation? When you dominate possession, create 15-20 chances a game and your top goalscorers, who have been free scoring all season all of a sudden can't hit a cows arse with a banjo then it is questionable.
Also, I'm absolutely convinced at certain times that the AI stops you pulling away at the top by more than 3-4 points in the second half of the season. It seems the negative results of the chasing pack more or less determines what you do i.e. if second place loses then you will not win if you are already clear of them by more than a point.
The only time I have experienced being able to pull away at the top and win the league early is the season after I win a Championship for the first time. For example, when manager of Genk in the first season I experienced what I said, couldn't pull clear of Mouscron at all. After I won the league though, the next season I had the title won by mid-March with the same side as the previous season.
There's definitely a "pressure of expectation" motif - that's been built in for quite a while. I think you're more likely to avoid it with a team full of experienced, professional veterans, especially ones who "have been there before"; that might explain your second season phenomenon: having won it all the previous year, there's more confidence. The pressure is on the chasing pack, not the defending champs, as it were.
Sorry Amaroq - SS is apparently "second striker" or "support striker" and it's the role that Rooney rather than Saha would play, if you get the drift. For example while the ST (Saha) would sit right in front of the defenders, using his strength and prowess in the air, the SS drops deeper and is more creative, getting involved in the action and passing the ball around.
I've just experienced what I said earlier right now. Am starting a new career game with Bury and after 6-7 games, have found myself top by a point. Now I thought to myself before hand, I will lose the next game reagrdless, which was a home tie against MK Dons.
And what do you know? Despite dominating possession, having 15-17 shots at goal, reducing MK DOns to very little, MK DOns nick it 1-0 in the 88th minute. And after that I am third. Next tie, away to Morecambe. I won 2-1. Am now sitting second.
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