[FM21] Realistic Transfer Preferences and *NEW* League Reputations - by Daveincid and majesticeterni 2020-12-13

Intro:
The real life transfer market is extremely complex, and every nation has their own tendencies. These tendencies vary greatly.
For example, Northern Ireland may get their players mostly from within their own nation, or from Ireland, and never from South America.
Whereas Scotland may get more players from England than their own nation, and randomly in small numbers from all over the European continent.
This "transfer flow" for each nation is poorly represented in FM.
In the default database, there are 3 sections regarding transfers, yet England has nation preferences set for only 2 out of 228 nations, and the continent and region sections are completely empty.
This file changes that.
We have compiled huge amounts of research/data/charts/etc and combined our work, to create the largest and most realistic set of transfer preferences ever created for FM.

Features:
Increased number of transfers within the same nation, for all 228 nations
Reduced overall number of transfers
Reduced China's strength in buying too many good players
Removed every nation's ability to scout everywhere at any time
Applied data for incoming transfers and loans for past 2 decades(if possible) to top 35 nations
Top 35 Nations have individual transfer preferences applied for 65-70 nations
Top 35 Nations have individual transfer preferences applied for all 21 regions
Top 35 Nations have individual transfer preferences applied for all continents
Added age restrictions for a few nations (USA, China, Japan, Turkey, Ireland, Serbia, Switzerland)
Minor increase in Scotland/Ireland to encourage English transfers to those countries
Affiliations increased within the same nation
Affiliation tendencies applied to top 20 nations

Guides for a Realistic Setup:
Any nations not loaded as playable are hardly used for transfers. This means your save setup could be unrealistic.
For example, you want to manage in Portugal, and load England, Spain, Italy, and France also. This means Brazil is left out, the nation that Portugal most often gets players.
So, here is a list of basic guides by nation, to help you set up a decent save.
The most important nations are listed first, then gradually less important, followed by optional ones.

England: France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal. Optional - Belgium, Norway, Greece, Ireland, Argentina, Denmark
Spain: England, Italy, Portugal, France, Argentina. Optional - Germany, Netherlands, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, Russia
Germany: England, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Spain, Austria, Italy. Optional - Poland, Belgium, Turkey, Greece, Norway
Italy: Spain, England, France, Argentina. Optional - Germany, Brazil, Portugal, Nigeria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Senegal
France: England, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Senegal, Cameroon, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland. Optional - Argentina, Netherlands, Mali, Ivory Coast, Algeria
Portugal: Brazil, Spain, France, Italy, England. Optional - Argentina, Romania, Greece, Russia, Belgium, Nigeria, Senegal
Argentina: Uruguay, Mexico, Chile, Colombia. Optional - Italy, Spain, Brazil, USA, Portugal, Ecuador
Australia: England, New Zealand. Optional - Netherlands, Germany, Japan, China, Scotland, South Korea
Austria: Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, Czech. Optional - Belgium, France, Norway, Greece, Turkey, Russia
Belgium: France, Netherlands, England, Italy, Portugal. Optional - Germany, Spain, Norway, Senegal, Turkey, Greece, Serbia, Croatia
Brazil: Portugal, Mexico, Argentina, Japan, Spain, Italy. Optional - Uruguay, Germany, Ukraine, France, Turkey, Russia, Colombia
Chile: Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, Venezuela, Peru. Optional - USA, Colombia, Brazil
China - Brazil, South Korea, Portugal, England, Australia, Serbia, Germany. Optional - Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Bulgaria
Colombia - Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Uruguay. Optional - Chile, USA, Brazil, Ecuador
Croatia - Bosnia, Italy, Slovenia, Belgium, Austria. Optional - Germany, Portugal, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine, Greece
Czech - Slovakia, Russia, Germany, Turkey, Italy. Optional - Poland, Belgium, Austria, Greece, Hungary, Slovenia, Serbia
Denmark - Norway, Sweden, Germany, England, Netherlands. Optional - Belgium, France, Italy
Greece - Spain, France, Argentina, Italy, Portugal, Germany, England, Cyprus. Optional - Serbia, Poland
Hong Kong - China, Spain, South Korea. Optional - Serbia, Bosnia, Australia, Indonesia, Japan
Ireland: England, Scotland, Northern Ireland. Optional - USA
Japan: Brazil, South Korea. Optional - Germany, Portugal, Thailand, Australia, China
Malta: Cyprus, Italy, Serbia, Brazil. Optional/Recommended - Nigeria, Austria, Bosnia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Slovenia, Australia, Argentina, Montenegro.
Mexico: Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil. Optional - USA, Spain, Peru, Ecuador
Netherlands: England, Belgium, Germany. Optional - France, Italy, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, Japan
Northern Ireland: Ireland, England, Scotland
Norway: Denmark, England, Sweden. Optional - Iceland, Germany, USA, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria
Poland - Germany, Slovakia, Portugal, Greece, Russia, Czech. Optional - Spain, Serbia, Netherlands
Russia - Georgia, Belarus. Optional - Portugal, Germany, Czech, France, Italy, Romania, Poland, Brazil, Belgium
Scotland - England. Optional - Netherlands, France, Lithuania, Italy
Serbia - Bosnia, Greece, Montenegro. Optional - Russia, Hungary, Portugal, North Macedonia, Romania, Spain, Cyprus, Kazakhstan, Slovenia
South Africa - Ghana, Israel. Optional - Netherlands, Nigeria, Belgium, Germany
Sweden - Norway, Denmark, England, Finland, Netherlands. Optional - Iceland, Turkey, Belgium, Brazil, USA
Switzerland - Germany, France, Italy. Optional - Spain, Austria, England, Netherlands
Turkey - Germany, France, England, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Italy. Optional - Netherlands, Brazil, Russia
Ukraine - Belarus, Brazil, Georgia, Russia. Optional - Romania, Poland, Serbia, Croatia, Belgium, Italy
Uruguay - Argentina, Mexico. Optional - Chile, Peru, Italy, Spain, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil
USA - Mexico, England, Colombia, Argentina, Costa Rica. Optional - Spain, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Norway, Switzerland, France, Netherlands
Wales - England, Scotland. Optional - New Zealand

League Reputations
This is a new file, that attempts to complement the above file, and improve the game further.
It lowers the gap slightly between the top nations and the weak nations.
It uses information from various mods(such as Transfer Preferences, Youth Ratings) combined with statistics(such as attendances, viewers, population, etc)
Currently, the changes are minor, and effect only 1st divisions. Even a 1 or 2 difference can have big effect on many things, especially later on in saves.
So we are testing this and gradually changing.
Please report any feedback, so we can make this better!

Place in Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2021\editor data folder. Start a new save. When selecting the database(before Advanced Setup), be sure to select the checkbox to enable the files.