Many thanks TT, answers just about everything I was after.
You could be right about Top Player tbh. Games can tend to become a bit pinball-like as every team tends to take at most one touch then pass, even when it wouldn't make sense to do that.
It definitely is difficult to strike that balance. I tweaked Celtic to an average ranking of 71 (up from 69) and then played Rangers. I ran out 5-1 winners but it just felt too easy, which takes away any satisfaction. And that was only upgrading them 2% so it's a toughie.
It's weird aswell though (if you use FM databse) as, for example, in your PES2010 OF, Koki Mizuno is by far and away our squads best player. Surely that couldn't be the case in FM? Not asking you to answer this though (or we'd be here all day), but I actually tweaked his stats majorly down or he would need to be in my starting XI every time.
It's interesting though...
I might repeat my exercise (average rankings) but do it for each full squad, not just the first team and see how the results differ.
Could be going down the Rabbit hole a bit too much though!
In other thoughts:
How far do people go to re-create the typical Scottish Season? First of all, I simply done an ML with Div 1 featuring all the SPL teams and the best of the English teams. Div 2 had SFL teams, Celtic (me) and some lower EPL clubs. kindas lke a best of Britain.
This was good but, after a while, I inevitably had to start buying/selling players and I felt I didn't get enough play with the Celtic players I know today.
Then I thought "use community mode." This is better (only 22 games in a league though) but at least you have no need/chance to buy new players, which gives you a true experience.
But you have no Cup. Or CL. Or Europa.
I then went to Community mode and started a community for:
- SPL
- CIS Cup
- FA Cup
I planned to start my SPL as normal, then after about 5 games, switch over to my CIS Cup, then after another 2 SPL games or so, switch over to the FA Cup.
If I won the SPL, I even planned to do the same type of thing to incorporate the CL the following season.
It's just so difficult to keep so many plates spinning. This is your fault! You have made a casual "play with your mates game" into an all consuming obsession!!

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My god (whispers), I am even thinking about drawing up a "season" in excel, so I can map out which games I should be switching over to and when. The only thing I think you would sacrifice from playing this way is you won't get goal tallys over the whole season like you do in ML etc. And of course you can't buy players, but you'll keep our qsuads updated anyway won't you, so it's still like playing the real thing.
How do you play the game personally?
PS - excuse the long winded rambling post, so many possibilities to use this great OF!!
