The BEST Game Setup For Football Manager (Works For FM24)

In this Football Manager 2023 video I show you the optimal set up to get the most out of your FM save.

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FAQ

Where did you get the name SecondYellowCard?
It's the name of a football blog i used to run

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[CzarDePalmaFarr]

The ability to add in the national team players mid save would be game changing, I messed up the start to my save but I am not ready to quit it just yet.

[jackstark]

I did what you did at the end. Italian Legacy save starting in Serie C with only Italy playable. I added all the leagues on the main page as viewable, with 2nd league for top 5, and included 5 African teams, Japan and Serie D. Gave me roughly 80k players, but after 1st year I totally see the difference in scouting. My typical was top 5 1st and 2nd league playable about 40k. Saw zero difference in performance when going to twice as many players. Thanks so much for the video, I feel FM just got alot better for legacy saves.

[OrangeBananaPear]

As someone who runs on an older laptop but only plays long term saves this is really interesting. Thanks.

[eXistenZ]

I cant for certain say this is because of the settings, but with a large amount of players available and a limited amount of leagues loaded, transfer activity, especially for selling players seems to be a lot harder as there is an oversupply on players and a shortage on active clubs

[Draddar]

Great timing 😃 I've been thinking about starting a new save recently and also what setup to use. Seems like it's more important to load the players than actual leagues, especially since I'm more of a 1 club guy.

[Jimmys_TheBestCop]

Remember the only long term problem is managers and staff. FM needs an option to load staff from countries as well. You could load every player in the database but if you only have 1 league playable no other teams will replace staff as they retire or leave from expired contracts.

Example say you manage in Spain imagine Champions league matches against England and German teams while they have 100% players but like 2 staff members and often no managers. This happens pretty quickly even like 5 years into the future and you can see the difference.

The other problem i if you manager in a lesser Country/Division all the staff you will be able to hire will be awful long term . Not a problem if you are doing an English save. But imagine say doing a Denmark or worst nation, save and even 20 years into the future your scouts will probably have 10 scouting.

So unfortunately if you are managing in Europe in a long term save you need custom database and top 5 leagues as playable to allow them to replenish their staff. And maybe even the top 5 North/South American top divisions playable again for their staff. Their staff will be superior to any nation outside of top 5 Europe and as a small nation/team you will actually be able to afford these staff members.

English Prem is a lot easier to win against in the future when they have 0 staff even with world class players. I hope SI is aware of the issue and solves it with the Unity Engine in FM25.

[lukaszmalinowski]

One thing you not taking into account is those things affect your playing experience. Basically the more leagues you have the better chance for transfers to them . And since transfers to better leagues are bread and butter for crap leagues, this changes playing experince.

[elmasmiller]

the problem with not siming leagues is the clubs beeing mostly inactive afaik, like if you want to sell or loan out a player the more leagues are loaded, the more offers will come. this was especially the case with china in my experience. another point to mention is that when adding leagues midsave, the game will create regens for those teams, so i remember addin a league when i was 2-3 seasons in a save and now there was like a new 27 year old regen at PSV who was just as good as messi and german, i mean its kinda weird i guess

[healthhazardx]

i normally play 1 save per year so im so annoyed at learning this when im 12 years into my save because i love having players generated worldwide and i noticed this issue a week or two ago. I noticed in my beta save and current save that Senegal particularly had some solid newgens in the first couple years but could never find any afterwards. I checked Senegals youth intake every year on the 'World transfers' tab and they literally had like 8 years of 0 player intakes. Without loading in a bunch of extra Senegalese players to begin with who then retire in a smooth spread over the years, the game isn't triggering generation of newgens consistently - only a handful once every 5 years or so.

[seanpoole]

The only issue I have with having only one playable nation is lack of competition when it comes to transfers. With multiple nations loaded, players seems to have more interest in them and are sometimes harder to sign with additional interest. Do you know how view only leagues impact on the interest of players?

[Jdkieddj]

I needed this desperately. I started losing my mind last night when I noticed how often I was staring at a spinning continue screen. I really need some game speed in my life.

[magicaces]

I do a mixture of this. The league I play in plus the top 5 or 10 European leagues. This also affects staff appointments.
I used to do view only for all leagues but realised its rather pointless.
There are so many setups but it depends on your cpu.

Oh and match detail! Uses multi core a lot using full detail so you can turn it to minimum in the menu.

[scottkim]

hugely helpful. glad the algorithm pushed this. maybe worth a revisit for fm24?

[AdamFitzJKD]

This has improved my game immersion so much, thank you

[harryjohnson]

Great video I found out about doing this method from you in FM22 and have done it since thank you for saving my Laptop from exploding! Do you think in the future you’ll do a follow up to the loading in players from leagues where they are view only alongside the original db setup to see if it is a viable option when making a save would be super intrigued about having that when starting up a new save😃

[seromg]

what is bugging me with a low amount of leagues is the lack of realism and the decomposition of teams in unplayable leagues. Teams don't change their manager, are less active on the transfer market and the squads age and shrink. The one dream about fm that I have is selecting everything plus custom leagues while everthing runs smoothly (I know, I know but a man can dream)

[giovanigoncalves]

Thw problem with view-only is the staff... Teams tend not to replace them so a lot of teams in the future have no manager

[Kipcab]

What about transfers? If you have loads of players but not many playable leagues won’t that mean less transfer activity?

[westerb]

Really good video. But I wondered why I felt a bit dizzy and nauseous, then I noticed the camera movement when you touch you desk. Just wanted to share that, doesn't take away from the quality of the information, explanation and all.

[YoiAmGucci]

Very nice video Matt! View Only/Loading players from the those view only leagues definitely has my attention. Next save I'll trial this for sure.