It’s not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog. Hands down one of the most stupid sayings ever. It doesn’t matter how angry a Pomeranian gets, an XL Bully can and will eat it without breaking a sweat. I know it’s meant to refer to fighting spirit, passion, being strong-willed […]
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Let’s get the important stuff out the way first for anyone who can’t be bothered to read too much. I have tweeted about my issues with using usage percentages to set priorities and omissions. One of the things I also mentioned was about weight. And I have two issues here. One a little petty and one just practical. Petty – […]
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After a long FM24 hiatus which was spent mainly working, surviving, nappy changing and occasionally playing Star Trek Online, the urge to break legs came back. It peaked when my son came home from pre-school with an enthusiasm for football and explained the most important parts of football to me. In his words: In this list my son gave me, […]
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The Reducer. Letting them know you are there. Putting your mark on the game and the other player’s shins. We’re not strangers to that here at FMTahiti. But it’s something we’re going to revisit and check out with a few stats. That’s right, violence and numbers. What a combination. It does get stats heavy towards the end but there’s also […]
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I am a big fan of set pieces in Football Manager, but have often looked at the attacking opportunities rather than spending much time on the defensive options. There’s a lot of exceptional guidance on how to get the most out of your attacking set pieces. Whether they are corners, free kicks or the impressively powerful throw in. Like a […]
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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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I mentioned in a previous post that one of the things I’m interested in is getting PPDA into the game. I’m not the only one and recently it has been mentioned by Football Manager Therapy in their podcast, and by FMStag in their recent thread on stats in Football Manager. I’m sure there are plenty of other people who want […]
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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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As the sun sets on Scarboroughs first season it’s time for an end of season summary. I don’t really want to do too much of a standard season update. There are plenty of other blogs out there that do it and will do it better. I want to focus on the statistics and what I’ve learnt. So I’ll try to […]
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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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