Jokerace

Ok I got this game on Friday after reading some threads about poeples dynasties on another board, and thinking this game would be fun.

Well I know NOTHING about soccer in RL. However, I am a sports fan and have been able to pick up other sports games, so I figured I could do the same with this game no problem. Boy was I wrong.

So anyways here is a few things I need help with (that I haven't been able to find answers to looking over this board)


1) "Free" Players. I hear people talking about getting players for "free". however, when I look for players in the game all I see are layers with "loan", "ctr", "Yth" & "inj", next to their names. Where are the "free" players?

2) I am using St. Albans (I figured why not start at the bottom and try to work my way up). However my team CANNOT score. I have started over 4 times with St. Albans and have never scored a goal in 8 friendlies. 6 of the 8 games were against teams that the game said I should beat, and I never lost by less than 0-4. And then the other 2 games were against my own U18s team , which I am guessing should be easy wins, and I lost 0-6 & 0-5. I have tried EVERY tactic post I could find and nothing seems to help.


Aside form those two main things I could really use some good background info on how to get an understadning on the game. Aside form this board I have not been able to find many sites wiht info to help.

joshpea4

well...

1) players for free mean that they are not contracted by another cluband therefore you can sign them without needing to pay a transfer fee.

2) this would be a combination of team selection and tatics, i'd recommend starting out with default tatic settings and letting your assistant manager choose your match-day team.

hope this helps

sposfan

Jokerace, I was in your exact same predicament earlier this year and the forum was extremely helpful.

Here's My Newbie Thread about it


Good luck!

Amaroq

Woo-hoo!! And now sposfan is on the helping side of the ledger! My work here is done!

Seriously:

In addition to sposfan's thread, the thread More newbie questions will probably also be helpful to you for wrapping your head around the game.

1.) First, read Couple newbie questions... for my brief overview of "FM contract law", you'll want to be familiar with it all anyways.

To find players who are currently free agents, you can use Search | Filter | Contract Status | Unattached to find players without a club.

Later, when you want to sign a Bosman transfer "on a free" before his current contract has quite expired, you'll use Search | Filter | Contract Status | Expiring

(I think, or maybe its "Unprotected")

2.) Scoring.. yeah, now that is the challenge.

As a not-familiar-with-the-game thing, the key attributes for your strikers (SC) are going to be Finishing and Composure ... but a bunch of other things will help: Off The Ball, Anticipation, Acceleration, Technique. High Morale is pretty important, too.

For your wingers (ML, MR) you'll want Pace, Dribbling, and Crossing .. with a bit of Passing and Decisions.

For your midfielders (AMC, MC, DM), you'll want Passing, Creativity, and Team Work for offense .. but I always like to get a lot of Stamina, Work Rate, and Tackling, too.

Flair, Technique, Creativity, and Passing will be important to most attacking situations.

Now that we've covered who you want to play, in general, the key question to ask yourself is "Why am I not scoring?"

Answers may range from

"I never get the ball past the halfway line" to
"My strikers can't seem to score from the 6-yard-line," with about a dozen variations in between... and each of those problems is going to have its own solution.

Ideally, you want to get to the point where the reason suggests a solution to you.