Dafuge & Data: Season Summary 11 – The Premier Promised Land

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 […]
Read moreAs 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 […]
Read moreWe’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 […]
Read moreWhen it comes to tactics I don’t want to rehash too much of my earlier violence and pragmatism post from FM20. But to be honest, a lot of it still applies. What is maybe a little different for Football Manager 2021 is the way I’ll be assessing it. The stats in the game are a little (a lot) bugged but […]
Read moreDafuge and Data, that’s the plan. You might have seen me mention it on twitter or when I was kindly allowed onto GrassNGear with my doppelganger. I’ll be taking over a team as per the rules of the famous Dafuge’s challenge in FM21 and attempting to lead them to glory. But I’ll be using the power of data and statistics […]
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