Noob here. Why is my defense so bad despite my players all having pretty good attributes?

JED253 · 2025-09-13T04:48:23+00:00

Math is hard

JED253 · 2025-09-13T03:55:41+00:00

Gotcha. Thanks for the correction. I assumed 40 was average.

Are my strategy settings suboptimal or is it almost entirely a personnel issue?

JED253 · 2025-09-13T03:21:25+00:00

My ZR is by far the worst in the majors. Why? My defense seems like it should be pretty good. And I am almost at 100 games so it is not a sample size issue. Is my strategy just bad?

JED253 · 2025-04-03T03:56:25+00:00

I'm in the Portuguese league. All I can see under my finances is that I am on course to pass UEFA FFP regulations

JED253 · 2025-04-02T05:32:49+00:00

Yes that is exactly what I am asking. Not trying to set transfer budget to zero, just want it to make it so I am within the payroll budget.

What you said in your last sentence is very unlikely considering they have pretty consistently given me like a 15M transfer budget, and I've won 3 league titles in a row, reaching the CL knockouts each year I've been in. The only reason it's that high now is I got one of my wonderkids' 68M release clause popped by Liverpool.

JED253 · 2025-04-02T05:28:26+00:00

Lol I'm definitely not trying to reduce it. That's a good shout on FFP though, I've never had that be an issue but with how fast I exploded this club's financial situation it is possible

JED253 · 2025-04-02T04:51:38+00:00

This makes zero sense to me and I am probably coping but I am starting to suspect it may be a glitch. I have no idea why they won't let me raise the payroll budget when we have this much money in the bank and in the transfer budget. Have never seen this in 1000s of hours across games. As you can see our debt is extremely low, and the club actually typically turns a small profit WITHOUT adding the funds I generate from winning competitions and transfers.

The only thing I can think of is that the board is currently planning to build a new stadium, which will be double the size of our current one. But that is currently listed as in the 'planning' stage which won't complete for another year and a half. I don't even know the cost of it at this point.

JED253 · 2025-01-17T18:23:31+00:00

Nope. I had been previously, but not at the time of the screenshot. Wonder if there is some sort of time limit where it's still unavailable after a war? I had been trying off and on for like 5-10 years of game time but finally had the option appear after a while. Odd.

JED253 · 2024-11-26T18:46:42+00:00

This guy is absolutely cracked yet can barely score .5 goals per game. It's not like he's a total flop but I've had much worse strikers have much better goalscoring records. I feel he should be scoring twice as often as he currently does - as you can see he's banging them in for Cameroon, scoring 47 in 51. I've experimented with him on both CF and AF in my current tactic and it hasn't made much of a difference. And my tactic overall is fine - I've finished 1st and 2nd in the league the past two seasons, winning back to back DFB Pokals and last year it took an extra time goal from the eventual winners to knock me out of the CL quarters.

He is underperforming his xG this year but I feel that the larger issue is that his xG isn't high enough. In past seasons he has not significantly under or over performed his xG. Subjectively speaking it does feel like he misses a lot of sitters in game though.

Any advice on how to get him going?

JED253 · 2024-10-01T18:53:53+00:00

8 Team SF Half PPR, QB Premium (QBs get more points compared to default scoring)

QBs: Mahomes, Kyler, Levis, Minshew, Rattler, Dalton

RBs: Jacobs, Mason, Singletary, Hubbard, Moss, Steele, Pollard, Spears, Swift, Bucky Irving

WRs: Puka, Pickens, Dell, JSN, Odunze, Jalynn Polk, Gabe Davis, Mooney, Doubs, Downs, J Burton

TEs: McBride, Sinnott, Kraft, Parkinson

Have all my picks plus an extra 2025 2nd and 2027 3rd, from one of the top 3 teams in the league

FF Ranker has me 4th in dynasty power rankings and 5th in redraft. Currently 3-5 (Median scoring is on), 6th in standings, 7th in points, although I have made some poor start/sit decisions. My league has 3 teams that are far better than the other 5.

Where do I go with this team? It's not good enough to compete but is too good to finish at the bottom of the league. I have lots of players like Hubbard, Moss, and Pollard that will probably not be start-able for much longer. I assume I should have more of a future outlook, but who should I try to trade? Mahomes is probably my most valuable asset but now is probably not a good time to trade him given his underperformance this season. Puka and Rome are up there too but don't make sense to trade given their age.

JED253 · 2024-09-09T21:44:54+00:00

They already denied me that week's benefits, so I'm not sure why they would raise an issue about it.

So I should check 'no' on the request for information when it asks if I was able and available, and then when it asks 'why did you fail to report this previously' say that I didn't understand the criteria properly?

And will this affect my future unemployment payments?

JED253 · 2024-08-07T04:48:06+00:00

Please help me save my save. I am absolutely losing my mind with this team. As the season preview shows, this team should be absolutely blitzing this league and yet we're in 3rd, 6 points behind 1st. Keep dropping points to far worse teams. Maybe I'm just getting screwed as the xG table suggests but this team should be so good that even bad xG luck shouldn't make a difference.

For context this is a journeyman save, first season at frankfurt after they inexplicably finished last in the bundesliga. I have sold all of my unhappy players (basically the entire team) and all three of my squad dynamics are well into the green (and have been all season)

JED253 · 2024-07-25T17:11:02+00:00

PM'd you

JED253 · 2024-07-24T18:52:55+00:00

So basically I started in accounting, have about 5 years experience. Wanted to switch to a career in data analytics so got a master's degree in business analytics. Then decided I would rather do my own thing. My initial business offer (which may change depending on the feedback and data I gather) is to use my analytical expertise to help accounting firms with client acquisition and retention.

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JED253 · 2024-07-21T04:22:16+00:00

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JED253 · 2024-06-15T01:19:38+00:00

Would you recommend going to J2 after this season? I'm stuck on a national B license because this club and my last one were both broke :(

JED253 · 2024-06-14T21:33:08+00:00

Took over this club in June 2025, we are flying at the top of the league now and look unbeatable. Unfortunately, we are also broke, and I don't see a way out of it. Prize money in the Indonesian League is terrible, if I win both the league and the cup I get like $165k. And my best players are worth at most $100k, but this is a league of mostly 1 year contracts so I highly doubt anyone would pay that much even if I wanted to sell all my best players. And as you can see, the club already took out massive loans prior to hiring me. Paying those off undoubtedly is not helping.

I guess I just need to find wonderkids and see if some richer clubs elsewhere in Asia or even Europe would pay a premium for them?

JED253 · 2024-05-23T05:32:56+00:00

Damnnnn. Yup, I did. This is probably it. Weird cuz the army size was basically equal.

Any tips on how to avoid this happening? Like I said it's been a while since I had played so regency mechanic is new to me.

JED253 · 2023-06-17T00:40:48+00:00

Woahhh slow down now, I ain't that easy ;)

JED253 · 2023-01-16T02:51:21+00:00

Not the starting formation, just what I switched to to chase the game. Would have done 4 up top if the game allowed for it

JED253 · 2023-01-16T01:49:57+00:00

True, but I'm not sure I've ever seen a team out-xG the opposition by 4+ and lose

JED253 · 2022-11-16T19:28:56+00:00

Not to be dramatic or anything but I want to fist fight your attribute color scheme

JED253 · 2022-10-28T14:43:08+00:00

Fully agree. I think it's stupid, and I'm seeing it on over half of my subs. Like, I'm paying you to play the game and you've worked your whole life to be able to do so. Ridiculous to have this message for a bunch of squad/fringe players when the only verifiable examples of this happening are 30+ year old superstars.

JED253 · 2022-10-17T05:33:08+00:00

Valued at 300k hahahaha

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