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I know it will be a bit late for you two, but I've added a thread in Dynasty Stories where I go through the key things I consider in the first year of a play through in Prestige mode, with posts on things such as Practice setup, recruitment strategy, identifying appropriate recruits, tweaking the depth chart and players I would target to red shirt and why. I'm sure it won't cover everything (especially play design and play calling during games especially), but I hope it might be useful to some. A word of warning, this has been developed by a player, based on my own experience of the game. If you follow it, you may end up replicating bad habits / sub-optimal strategies I've use!

What is up y'all! It's nice to meet you guys. I just joined the forum coming from CT Football Manager, and I'm pleasantly surprised with how well this is run here. I'm literally brand new to the game now. Any tips for a newcomer like me that you wish you knew when you first started? Thanks!

In this series of posts I'll be setting out what the key aspects that I undertake when starting with a new game / with a new team, starting with a low ranked team in the simulation version. It is based in part on watching the excellent video introductions available in this same section of the forum (in the post titled Lets Play Series), which I would encourage you to watch. These experiences are based on version 0.8.5. I hope they are helpful to people just starting out, or contain a few extra bits that people didn't spot straight away (for me new roles and assigning training packages to new recruits passed me by!). They are based upon my experience and as such may not optimal nor do I suggest this is the only or best way to play. Similarly, if you want the experience of learning for yourself and the thrill of figuring out for yourself, please look away now. What follows is a series of things I do over the first year of a season and the main screens and decisions that have to be made. I have focussed more on the mangement-side, so have not covered in-game play calling or designing plays (I generally leave that to my co-ordinators – that's what they are paid for!). As I'm writing this while creating a new season, I'll reserve some slots and will come back and edit those pages, when I get to that part of the series. July In the first month I focus on the following areas (each will be subject to a separate follow on post): Delegations Setting initial recruitment targets Setting & assigning training schemes (I'll include completing pre-season here which is set in late July buy impacts August) Evaluating walk ons Changing positions (optional) Just before first game Reviewing depth chart Red-shirting players Strategy - co-ordinators play calling tendancies During season Review and amend depth charts Reviewing recruitment & interacting with potential recruits Post-season Simming the bowl games Considering changes to coaches Requesting new fixtures (can be done any time or left to coaching staff)

Wow, really cool to see people still play this game. I spent countless hours on it back in the day with custom leagues using classic teams.

Hi We are now ready with our newest version where the focus has been on implementing the inputs we have gotten from the users like transfer portal and improvements of existing features The newest version can be downloaded at https://ct-games.itch.io/ct-football-manager/purchase The newest devlog can be found here: https://ct-games.itch.io/ct-football-manager/devlog/209525/release-086 If you wish to get more updates about the game please check out our Twitter account: https://twitter.com/CTGames6 Please use our forum for any feedback: http://forums.gmgames.org/forum/408-ct-football-manager/ or on discord: https://discord.com/invite/BFeYXsT Best Regards The DevTeam

FIFA Manager, used to spend hours engulfed in trying to get my CAFC team to the EPL.

End of year review So how did my team get on following the approach outlined in the steps above. Well we finished rank #10, having gone undefeated all season (albeit not playing any high ranked teams and being in a relatively low status division). Or overall recruiting was sucessful with the following showing the overall results: The only real worry and gap is at Centre - where we will only have 3 seniors, all of whom will be final year Seniors next year(assuming none declare early and are picked in the NFL draft). This will be a real focus for recruiting next year and I already have a lead for a junior 3* centre that I targeted half way through the year. My overall recruiting class for this first year is as follows: Plus a 2* FB on the bottom, which I couldn't quite fit on screen, but was a contingency if my prime 4* FB didn't commit). My bonus was getting Harlan Stamper a 5* CB, who I managed to recruit almost uncontested. From those that rejected you'll see the number of running backs that turned my side down through the year - I really struggled to find RBs that would commit to my team, so ended thankfully with a 4* (Robert Murray) and a 3* JUCO transfer (Jack Frakes); hopefully with solid training I will be able to establish some form of running game next year, rather than being so one-dimensionally pass heavy. I managed what I think is a good balance of 12 Seniors, focussed on filling immediate needs and 7 mostly 4* Juniors which will take some of the immediate pressure off recruiting next year). Some final highlights after the first season: 9 players drafted, including the 9th overall draft pick. The records show how pass heavy the offense was that first year with nearly 6,000 yards in the air and less than 1,000 on the ground. The teams overall reputation rating increased to 72 and the presetige sky-rocketed with the 9 players drafted by the NFL. All in all, a season way above expectation for a smaller college with limited football legacy. As a final bonus I'll finish on the main thing I wished I'd known the first time I played this through (and a call back to earlier). At the start of the second year, remember to set training patterns for all your new recruits (and the walk-ons once they arrive). This was something that totally passed me by on my first playthough. I assumed that as I only had a single default training pattern, all the new players would slot in. They don't and I wondered why all the new recruits didn't live up to their hype. Several seasons in I found the players tab of the training menu and realised all the post-year 1 players had empty training assignments: So thats it from me. If you are reading this you've made it all the way to the end of this guide/walkthrough. Thank you, I hope this was helpful as an overview of the main actions and decisions needed for the first season of prestige. Good luck in your own path as Head Coaches.

Newby here and thank you for everyone involved in producing the NBA mods.

Thanks for the report and we have fixed that issue for the next release

I started with Championchip Manager then Football Manager and now i love nearly every Sports management game

I'm also new to CT FM! I would also like if any more veteran players gave some tips or information i have no idea what I'm doing

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