Good start then fall to bits...

[Forder22]

My past 3 saves i have started really well, being top in all 3 of them! then October comes and i can't win a game to save my life!!

Anyone else had this and how do i get out of it:?

 

[Bakestar]

I had this, it seems that the AI get used to the way you play, i rotate 3 different tactics.

 

[Dihenzo]

Rotating tactics is just a myth not a proven fact that will work. AI does not get used to how you play because you play different teams every week not the same team over & over. We had this issue in FM 13. I used a single tactic that works well with the match engine to minimize these occasions of results you cannot explain. In FM 14 its more scripted than ever that despite having the best form, quality players, high motivation & fitness your team will hit an unexplained slump. I do not find that an interesting element in the game & is by no means realistic. How you get out of this slump still remains a mystery & is about luck

 

[craiigman]

I had this, it seems that the AI get used to the way you play, i rotate 3 different tactics.

Yeah but according to FM teams know you inside out just by using the same formation during the pre-season. It makes having a tactic fully trained completely pointless. The way tactics/formations are done needs a major overhaul if we are expected to change for every single game.

 

[Dynamo_ZahnZee]

My past 3 saves i have started really well, being top in all 3 of them! then October comes and i can't win a game to save my life!!

Anyone else had this and how do i get out of it:?

Are you not expecting too much of yourself, it's pretty **** hard to stay top in September and go win it. Most times, the team that's top in Feburary goes on to win it and it'll change hands a few times until then.

Keeping a run going is very hard and 1-2 games slumps happen if playres don't play as well as they can. It's not a conspiracy as other might try to tell you, that's just the way this games (real life football) goes. Not every players can play on top of their games every game. Pick a team based on form, not stats or value, and play to your strengths.

Remember, you'll play 19 different teams every year in the league meaning that your players will be tested in 19 different ways. No two games will every be played out the same way so don't lump results together. It's a series of individual results and you've to get a result form every team. I.e. playing well against one team means next to nothing for the next fixture, different opposition means you've to start from the beginning each games.

In FM 14 its more scripted than ever that despite having the best form, quality players, high motivation & fitness your team will hit an unexplained slump. I do not find that an interesting element in the game & is by no means realistic. How you get out of this slump still remains a mystery & is about luck

That's just pure speculation mate. I had to opposite personally: a bad start and hit a great vein of form in October so there is not scripting! Also, if there was scripting, every team would be having this problem, unless it was random teams, in which case it wouldn't always happen to your teams.

The ME may be a bit buggy but it's a great representation of real world football and if you don't think so, I say you're not watching/playing enough football. The game is chaotic and pretty much anything can, and dose happen.