The Match Engine in Football Manager Live often comes under fire for various strange outcomes and events.
I think what some of the gamers playing FML often forget is Football is a great game driven by the fact that just anything can happen and often can.
Can you imagine the uproar we would have on FML if a top ranked team with loads of rep who season after season were competeting for the Premiership title with loads of finances were to spend £50,0000,000 on signing arguably one of the best strikers in the world someone like Torres and then he didnt score for 8 games!!!
The guy would probably rage quit and moan like a bitch on the forums. Si would ignore this moan and FML would lose a subscriber.
Its things like this that make football what it is unpredictable.
Not everything can be determined by stats and code sometimes things just pop up and get in the way, like a beach ball on the pitch ala Liverpool V Sunderland.
This brings me to my next point.
FML March Goal of the Month as voted by the managers of FML.
The winning entry was a cracking goal :-
and you get someone comment on the voting thread that this is a Match Engine bug!!!
Well view this goal and tell me they arent similar ?
My point is stop blaming everything on Si and the match engine and step up and take the fact that its often a managers tactics or management that are at fault not the game.
In respect of tactics I would just like to say how refreshing it has been reading some of the comments from FML Super Tactics Guru WWFan on this thread
Richards take on things have really given a nice insight to some of the mechanics behind the game.
I was the one who said it was a match engine bug :D
ReplyDeleteAnd I stand by that assertion since a keeper would never put himself in that position - they would either have a defender take the freekick or he would boot it far enough upfield that the player wouldn't be able to take a shot into an empty net from there!
I do agree with your main point though - people need to take responsibility for their own teams and tactics rather than blaming all of their failings on the ME while taking credit for all of their successes.
Besides that Goal F was much better IMO :)
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