Ta. Am gonna be spending hours on this tonight with the footie on the other screen
Gaming FM Owner Experiment | Season 6 done
- Thread starter Solius
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He did come up
Who cares, you said yourself it is a 10 year experiment. I'd be surprised if you make it to mid table PL in that time.
And what a story that would be!
I’d genuinely rather go for two promotions to the PL in 10 seasons and see if we can get a European spot too.
I'd expect the League 1 sides to be in the PL within 5 seasons, maybe 3 or 4 with good business and the Championship sides to do it within 2.
Obviously depends how badly the AI fecks with our money.
Obviously depends how badly the AI fecks with our money.
If we reach 10 seasons and everyone still has the energy we'll continue. Just thought it sensible to set a timeline as they usually fade out otherwise.
Getting in excuses already
I've figured out how to make a shortlist based on the CA range you all have. So I will do that and send you all the top 10 of your range based on transfer value.
Remember you would still have to pay the median of that transfer value plus their wages.
Remember you would still have to pay the median of that transfer value plus their wages.
Legend
Genius
I also think there should be a set budget to use each window, so that we could potentially hand pick 2 or 3 players.
Na stick with 1 for now
In three seasons you could hand-pick a world class spine. I think 1 is good. Your manager will make other signings for you.
It would be so boring so quickly.
Right watching the CL now. I'll say around 11am tomorrow I'll prob be looking to start the sim. Will do any other manager/player checks in the morning.
We're planning to be in the championship within 5 seasons.
Season 1 - July 3rd 2023
New
Ok let's begin!
As if the Taylor Swift stuff wasn't bad enough, Samid has buggered off for this so I won't be continuing with Ipswich unless he lets me know he wants back in.
So four clubs have been taken over.
Sheffield Utd - @BD & @sebsheep
Sunderland - @altodevil
Derby - @The Cat & @BenitoSTARR
Bolton - @SilentWitness
There have been some big injections of cash already. First some manager news!
Some major player transfers:
I am now going to sim just past the transfer window and update you on that. Then we'll go to Christmas.
As if the Taylor Swift stuff wasn't bad enough, Samid has buggered off for this so I won't be continuing with Ipswich unless he lets me know he wants back in.
So four clubs have been taken over.
Sheffield Utd - @BD & @sebsheep
Sunderland - @altodevil
Derby - @The Cat & @BenitoSTARR
Bolton - @SilentWitness
There have been some big injections of cash already. First some manager news!
Some major player transfers:
| S1-1 | Player | Price |
| Sheffield Utd | Yeremy Pino | 68.5m |
| Sunderland | Benjamin Sesko | £42.5m |
| Derby | Estevao | £1.2m |
| Bolton | Helder Costa | Free (20k wages) |
| S1-1 | Player | Price | Bank Balance | Transfer Budget | Wage Budget | Manager | Training Fac | Youth Facilities | Junior Coaching | Youth Recruitment | Total spent | Money left |
| Sheffield Utd | Pino | 68.5m | Added 50m | Thomas Frank (71.8m) | 13>14 (25m) | 12>13 (5m) | N/A | N/A | £220,300,000 | £1,631,700,000 | ||
| Sunderland | Sesko | £42.5m | N/A | Added 43m | Adding 700k p/w (£36.4m) | N/A | 17>18 (40m) | 14>16 (40m) | 14>16 (60m) | £261,900,000 | £1,420,860,000 | |
| Derby | Estevao | £1.2m | N/A | Added 50m | Added 800k p/w (£41.6m) | N/A | 15>17 (35m) | 15>17 (50m) | 15>17 (55m) | £232.800,000 | £1,696,100,000 | |
| Bolton | Helder Costa | Free (20k wages) | Added 10m | N/A | Added 20k p/w (£1m) | Naismith (£10.25m) | N/A | 13>14 (20m) | 13>14 (20m) | 13>14 (20m) | £90,250,000 | £1,904,250,000 |
| Owner | Club | Division | Reputation | Stadium Size | Avg Attendance | Bank Balance | Transfer Budget | Wage Budget | Training Facilities | Youth Facilities | Junior Coaching | Youth Recruitment | Owner Cash left |
| BD & sebsheep | Sheffield Utd | Prem | 6200 | 32,609 | 28,654 | £8,113,358 | £50,500,000 | £709,393 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 15 | £1,631,700,000 |
| altodevil | Sunderland | Championship | 5900 | 48,707 | 38,915 | £6,810,288 | £50,000,000 | £1M | 18 | 18 | 16 | 16 | £1,420,860,000 |
| The Cat & Benito | Derby | League One | 5400 | 33,597 | 27,259 | £7,349,212 | £50,000,000 | £1M | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | £1,696,100,000 |
| SilentWitness | Bolton | League One | 5250 | 28,723 | 18,814 | £13,210,854 | £0 | £174,999 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 14 | £1,904,250,000 |
I am now going to sim just past the transfer window and update you on that. Then we'll go to Christmas.
We don't need no big budget to do bits, just a wee Scot and an Angolan.
Ok nobody actually made any more signings so full speed ahead to the Christmas period.
How can they have 50m transfer budgets but a club balance of 1/10th of that?
I wasn't sure how to math it. Should I be adding any injected wage/transfer money to the balance?How can they have 50m transfer budgets but a club balance of 1/10th of that?
Are we relying on AI to sign players to new contracts and stuff btw?
Yeah pretty much.
I'm not sure how it works really, but in my head if your club balance is 7m and then you spend 50m of that transfer budget you're going to be in the shit quite quickly.I wasn't sure how to math it. Should I be adding any injected wage/transfer money to the balance?
Ok I've just added what was added to transfer budgets to the balance, as technically it gets drawn from that anyway so it's not extra.
Nice one. Shouldn't have said anything and let everyone plummet.
Yeah maybe that's why the weren't spending anything. Financially prudent managers and financially unsound owners.
I forgot about Estevao, but I was looking for someone to make an immediate impact. I don't think we have especially high odds for promotion, but PL money is needed.
In December I'd like to increase my transfer budget to 10m, wage budget to 300k and club balance to 20m please. 
Me too in regards to impact. I was always scared that the AI would spend a massive budget on League 1 crap that I'd need to get rid of in a season or two.
Season 1 - Dec 27th 2023
New
Ok, it's December. Let's see how good these decisions you made as owners were.
Notable sackings/hirings
Valerien Ismael sacked by Watford
Ten Hag sacked by Man Utd
Man Utd hire Conte
Hodgson sacked by Palace
Silva sacked by Fulham
Rohl sacked by Sheffield Weds
Eustace sacked by Blackburn
De Zerbi sacked by Brighton
Dyche sacked by Everton
Let me know if you want to see anything else.
If not lemme know if you wanna either:
Notable sackings/hirings
Valerien Ismael sacked by Watford
Ten Hag sacked by Man Utd
Man Utd hire Conte
Hodgson sacked by Palace
Silva sacked by Fulham
Rohl sacked by Sheffield Weds
Eustace sacked by Blackburn
De Zerbi sacked by Brighton
Dyche sacked by Everton
Let me know if you want to see anything else.
If not lemme know if you wanna either:
- Sack the manager & hire a new one.
- Inject any funds into the transfer/wage budget.
- Take money out of the club bank balance (to add back to your personal one)
Ok noted!In December I'd like to increase my transfer budget to 10m, wage budget to 300k and club balance to 20m please.
Can I see the tactics screen, squad screen sorted by picked position showing stats
Can we get that view for our team as well please?
Me too. I will keep Naismith for now.
Same for Derby please whenever you get chance.
Super, thanks Solius. Happy to go ahead with the changes I mentioned and nothing else.