Not a fan of PPDA? Even though the base stats are in FM21 are you finding it just too much fuss to extract the numbers at the end of every match to fit into the wondrous spreadsheet? I hear you. I’ve been using PPDA for about three seasons now in my Dafuge save and I’m honestly tiring of entering the […]
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Choose Life. Choose Long Throws. Choose Hard Tackles. Choose Stats. Choose Directed and Purposeful Violence. Just when you thought football at Scarborough couldn’t get anymore thuggish! We’ve managed to escalate the level of grievous bodily harm found on the pitch, home and away. But it’s not mindless thuggery and violence. Oh no. It’s targeted and informed by statistics. We have […]
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This one might be a little longer than you are used to. The season summary too. Alongside a recap of our first season in League 2 as part of the Dafuge challenge, I’ll also be covering a preliminary analysis of my team’s DNA. We already know it’s partially made of chips, rock (the eating kind), and violence. The blood of […]
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The Football Manager and Star Trek crossover that no one asked for. We’ve had to make a change in our tactics to turn around a bit of a dip in form. We’ve gone from hoofball to brutality-ball. The last two and half seasons have been spent using a tame version of the longball that whilst aggressive probably stopped short of […]
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It’s time for a striker health check. In previous posts I’ve covered our longball approach, fixing our right-back problems and end of season one recap. Now it’s time to check whether our strikers in season two are firing on all cylinders. We’re about 40 games into season two, so it’s almost over. But it’s not too late to check and […]
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We’ve got a problem. And I’ve kind of telegraphed it in the title. It’s like a whodunnit where they reveal it at the start and then work backwards. Except instead of a butler who has committed a crime we have a situation where decent football has died at the hands of my terrible right back. First signs of a problem […]
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