Testing Football Manager Conspiracy Theories

There was big news in the Football Manager space that demanded I take action. Well, not really, but I kinda wanted to see if it was true or not because I wanted to see just how broken the match engine actually was. If it’s true, then the match engine has some ISSUES.

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[benwoodburn]

To be fair, the insane part isn’t the team doing well as physical monsters. The part I was most shocked by is the 180-190CA team with 10 in the meta attributes and 20 in everything else coming bottom

[zinstincthd]

The fact that a team that can’t kick the ball and has 1 stamina picked up 29 points in the premier league is ridiculous

[darioabbece]

"Players like this don't exist"
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[JSlvr]

A team with no technicals what so ever got 70 points in the Prem? That's completely crazy. Phisical is king in this FM.

[TheRoonie]

I mean, I get the setting of stamina and natural fitness to be above one. I feel like the test would become somewhat irrelevant if a player got tired by walking onto the field and takes three weeks to recover from such a harrowing journey.

[melodic_ez]

For me the weird part is the first test from the reddit post where he had the 9 meta attributes at 10 and the others at 20 resulting into a 180~190 players and the fact that they got relegated, when a team like that should walk the prem.

[Bobertron]

You literally ran a test with 1s on every single technical attribute and the team managed 70 points! That's completely broken! A team of freakish heptathletes with worse than Sunday league football ability is not finishing ahead of Aston Villa in the Prem.

[caiowasem]

This gotta be some SI's PR. Zeeland saying that the test isn't really a problem, when everyone else can see it really is...

[Bobertron]

Still completely agree with the main thrust of the original test. The idea that perfect athletes, lacking any technical/mental ability whatsoever, can finish 6th in the prem is broken. The match engine doesn't work

[williamjt]

I think it’s pretty bad that Zealand just decided to hyperfocus on what happened because he didn’t even read the original post properly, then basically accuse the poster of being disingenuous. The post was not disingenuous, those endurance related attributes were always included, and are included in any test just to make sure the players used don’t die of exhaustion.
He then proceeds to run the same test and gets the same results, all the while talking to viewers in a condescending manner. He takes dribbling out (dribbling was flagged as one of the meta attributes) and immediately does worse. He then adds a couple mental attributes and does no better. If anything he’s just proved the original poster right, while looking absolutely stubborn, condescending, and out to prove that FM has a good engine as opposed to just doing the experiment honestly-as advertised.

[ultrazazzon]

so after proving that you need ZERO technical footballing ability to win the premier league, we conclude that the match engine isn't broken?

[Jack-ppeg]

Bro is trying to say the match engine isn’t broken 😂

[stein]

Don't know why Zealand didn't test the 10 in 9 attributes, 20 in everything else as I am very curious in knowing why this team in the Reddit post got relegated.

[cltmck]

This seems to suggest, at least to me, that physicals are the most important thing for defending by far. Attacking is a little more nuanced where they need at least one complimentary technical and mental attribute. Defending it just seems to be jump high, be strong, don't get beat for pace, you'll be fine.

[tajj]

One key thing I noticed, in all the tests, not a single Liverpool player was in the top goal scorers, so whilst people will be like oh finishing doesn't matter, it clearly does because a team winning the league with 95 points, yet no one is getting more than 18 goals shows it clearly does. Same with like assists etc. that team was basically doing well because it had 11 super athletes on the pitch, so eventually through brute force, speed, jumping reach and dribbling ability it would score goals, particular players won't stand out or excel that much.

[zekasbazooka]

You completely ignored the other part of the test where a team full of 180-190 CA where relegated

[aethelstan]

IT's wild how many times Z called the original post dishonest because he didn't read the bloody thing properly

[dario]

Most important video Zealand made this year. Tbh the fact that technique is valued so low by the match engine is sad.

[Barbaryotaku]

Running damage control for the game that funds his channel.

[Pakinov]

Everytime something gets deeply tested in fm, it just come to show how big of a fraud most if its mechanics are.