Teamtalks.

[Customice]

First thread on the forums. Woohoo!

Oh well, on a more serious matter.. I've been using Wolfsong's Teamtalks ever since I read them.. I can thank them for much of my succes..

However.. All good comes to an end.. Probably..

In the team talks guide, Wolfsong describes the *** Manager Feedback as most important, however, none of my players seem to lack any kind of motivation problems.. I know that this might be "Working as intended" - However I would just like to clarify if anyone else uses the *** Managers Feedback and have noticed players being complacent or anything else related..

TL;DR - Just to make it more clear, the feature of which showes who are complacent or not, seems to be gone, anyone else noticed?

Thanks in advance.

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[Skacemzokna]

well you can find out who is playing complacent by checking the "***(Name of your team) Motivation" from the Match day Info menu during a match.

 

[Tharros]

My AssMan reports my players as complacent all the time so it is indeed working.

well you can find out who is playing complacent by checking the "***(Name of your team) Motivation" from the Match day Info menu during a match.

No, you shouldn't use that screen to judge what you should say to your players. To quote Wolfsong:

(As a side note, some believe that the abovementioned information on complacency/nervous level is sometimes reflected in the "Motivation" screen available during a match. I do not look at that screen for the following reasons:

1. It does not address motivation only - it can easily mislead a game player as it attempts to mix 3 factors into 1 description. The 3 factors are morale, player rating and complacency/nervous levels.

E.g. A player noted as "Looking motivated" really ONLY means that he has Very Good - Superb morale, if you trust that description you would think nothing needs to be said/done to that player; but such a player may be getting a 6.2 rating and really deserves a fire-up teamtalk or substitute off, or he may be complacent at the same time and you really need to cure complacency via your teamtalks.

Another example is the description of "having an OK game", players with this description generally have a below 6.7 rating, they deserve a fire-up or substitute off, they are NOT having an OK game by teamtalks standard.

The third example is players described as "playing with confidence" or "having a good game" or better, these are typically players with above 7 rating and good morale, if you read that and think "Ok I should say nothing to him" then you miss the opportunity to increase his match ratings to 8 or 9 by saying "you have faith" or "you can make the difference" to players with 7.5 or higher rating and/or players who have scored.

2. It is not accurate as the description could change every 2 seconds. A player with a varying match rating between 5.5 and 6.6 in one match can have his "motivation" reported as changing from "looking nervous" to "playing with confidence" and back and forth every 2 seconds if you monitor the motivation feedback while you run the match on "key". What do you do with such a player at half time if you trust the motivation feedback only? .... All you have to do is to ignore the motivation feedback, look at his match rating, look at his morale, look at whether he is named by your *** Man in the abovementioned *** Man Feedback as having complacency/nervous problems and decide your teamtalk/action on him purely relying on the above 3 pieces of information.

3. It is not available prior to you confirming your pre-match teamtalks hence even if it is accurate, it does not help your pre-match teamtalks at all.

Therefore I rather look at the abovementioned 3 primary factors myself instead of reading/relying on the description in the "Motivation" feedback for both pre-match and half time teamtalks.)

 

[Customice]

My AssMan reports my players as complacent all the time so it is indeed working.



No, you shouldn't use that screen to judge what you should say to your players. To quote Wolfsong:

I am. -However, they are NEVER, complacent, and I find that kinda awkward, having played half a year now in-game.. I'll try changing the language from my native to English, see if that helps.