@JohnConnor I read your article, good work mate. I have been a fool and always wondered why my Brazil newgens were so bad in quantity and quality. Turn out that I only chose top clubs from Brazil when I started.
Could you please kindly share your "16 leagues + custom" set up? I believe the setup in fm can be saved in a file. I tried to follow your article but always end up in a 80k database, which is too large for my computer to process.
You should still be getting good newgens from Brazil with just the top clubs loaded.. here is the raw Brazil data:
Brazil Div 1 - Palmeiras 127-131 PA, Flamengo 135 PA, Gremio 109-124 PA, Corinthians 123-126 PA, Sao Paulo 142-149 PA, Santos 105 PA, Cruzeiro 138-140 PA, Internacional 114 PA, Atletico Mineiro 115 PA, Botafogo 104-105 PA, Athletico Paranaense 121 PA, Fluminense 120 PA, Vasco 126 PA, Sport 110-112 PA, Chapecoense 85, Bahia 104-113 PA, Goias 90-109 PA, Coritiba 99-123 PA, Ponte Preta 77 PA, Criciuma 111 PA
Brazil Div 2 - Coritiba 122-127 PA, Chapecoense 113 PA, Avai 97-102 PA, America (MG) 108 PA, Ceara 110 PA, CSA 93 PA, Figueirense 112 PA, Criciuma 85 PA, Guarani 81-84 PA, Parana 99 PA, Atletico Goianiense 110-122 PA, Paysandu 101-111 PA, Juventude 118 PA, Oeste 83-103 PA, Brasil de Pelotas 112-120 PA, Operario (PR) 53-102 PA, Sao Bento (SP) 125 PA, Botafogo (PB) 104 PA, Cuiaba 108-113 PA, Tombense 104 PA
Where two figures are given, add and divide by 2 to give the median. You'll notice there's some overlap in clubs, don't know if this is because relegation/promotion happened or a quirk of how the Brazilian system works, but presumably the former. Note also that individual clubs can be -/+ ~10-15 PA off their real average.. need at least 5 samples to get a good idea of a club's real average median PA. Taken all together though, it gives you a pretty solid idea of how good the division itself is.
As for my custom setup, that's actually an edited DB, where I've meticulously edited it down to ~78,000 players. I plan on releasing the complete list of steps to creating this sometime, but it's very time consuming process to follow anyway.. plus it negates the use of a 'custom setup'. I recommend loading just the key leagues such as Germany, France, Portugal, etc. for transfers and general immersion, while using custom setup to load in all international players + players from top division in nations such as Serbia, Czech Republic and whatnot. This gives you newgens from these countries with minimal extra processing time, which is all one would want to load these nations for in most cases. You still only want to do this for a few select nations, because more players loaded will still increase processing time and bloat your filesize.
