Your Best 11

[Boot Room]

Hello

First post here, and it's a question.

I used to play FM way back when it first came out. Obviously it was a simpler game then. Fast Forward and the game has grown in nearly all aspects. This for me is good and bad. Good because it gives players a lot more options, bad because, it gives players a lot more options.

My question, is there a preferred way of choosing your best 11? I ask because for some reason, I always find it difficult trying to pick out all those player attributes. My eyes glaze over and my mind goes into meltdown. I know there's a player comparison you can do, but it somehow feels incomplete, and I'm regularly trying to click back through various pages to remind myself of certain attributes. I was thinking of writing things down on paper but it feels like too much work.

Any tips, am I missing something?

Thanks all

 

[ashvin]

A player's attributes doesn't necessarily mean he will actually form part of your best 11 or even perform. You need to play them, and their performances will shape your team and let you know what will your best line-up.

 

[FMPro1]

You just need to know certain attributes for certain positions and it is literally just practice makes perfect. After hours of searching for the same position you will know what your looking for and will know when you've found it.

 

[Boot Room]

Thanks for the info.

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A player's attributes doesn't necessarily mean he will actually form part of your best 11 or even perform. You need to play them, and their performances will shape your team and let you know what will your best line-up.

But surely they are an important factor, else why have them? I mean, sure there's moral, age, fitness, and stuff to take on board, but for me, I'd have thought the main and most important criteria would have been the player's attributes.

 

[TJD07]

If you don't like to look over the attributes and take note of what does what and how it changes their game etc.
I'd suggest you pick what you feel would be your best 11 then play them a few times as you normally would, then every now and then clear the team and ask your *** man to pick for you.
I find the *** man takes into account form, fitness and moral more often than I do so it can help to point out players that might be underachieving in your formantion and ones that do well in it.

 

[ashvin]

Thanks for the info.

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But surely they are an important factor, else why have them? I mean, sure there's moral, age, fitness, and stuff to take on board, but for me, I'd have thought the main and most important criteria would have been the player's attributes.

Yes, they're important and they do enable you to assess a player's capabilities, but you should never rely on them exclusively. Like I said, your best way to know your best 11 is through match performances.

 

[W4FC B3N]

What I have been doing recently is playing a lot of friendlies against big teams. I start off with the formation I would like and ask my Assistant to pick the team for me and then go from there. The players who play bad, I'll change their role or swap them for another player who plays that position and by the time the season has come around, a lot of the team has gelled and my formation/line-up works a treat.

If when you're on your tactics screen and you press on a player (shirt w/ number) their attributes appear next to the formation. For that specific role you have chosen, then best attributes you are looking for will be highlighted in green, it's all trial and error but you will get there. Also helps massively to look at these preferred attributes when buying a better player for that position.

 

[Boot Room]

Ok thanks all for the advice