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October 15th, 2007 in Strategy
Sliders and the Ambiguity of Management. Having leant towards the positivist theories of Sir Karl Popper earlier in the thread/article, I hope you'll forgive my taking a sharp U-turn into the realms of critical management theory. This is the area of management in which I earn my real-life... Read more
October 14th, 2007 in Strategy
Making Decisions As I iterated earlier, quality decision-making is the absolute key to succeeding at Football Manager. Management is all about making decisions. If you consistently make good decisions you will more often than not do well. If you regularly make bad ones you are likely to fail.... Read more
October 11th, 2007 in Strategy
Designing and Adjusting Tactics Before writing this section, I’d like to tip a nod to Kristianohr and Googen who took the ’07 theories to their logical extreme. They advocated designing 14 different tactics and alternating between them until you found one that matched the situation you were... Read more
October 7th, 2007 in Strategy
Theories and Falsification. ‘And thirdly, the code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules. Welcome aboard the Black Pearl, Miss Turner.’ Captain Barbossa, 2003 Without trying to be too polymath in writing TT&F, having already borrowed from market theory and Pirates of the... Read more
October 5th, 2007 in Strategy
The Evolution of FM and the TT&F Mindset. As recently as 2004, FM was in the grip of a very effective tactic. It was called Diablo and its premise was very simple. The game engine could not cope with a long forward arrow on the central midfielder in a three-man midfield, leaving him consistently... Read more
August 15th, 2007 in Strategy
Special thanks to those who made it possible Now that FM-Britain’s Tactical Bible ’07 is almost finished and only very small topics may be added, it is time to say thank you to so many people who have been involved into this project or gave us massive support. Needless to say that the team... Read more
June 30th, 2007 in Strategy
Overloading Overloading, Chase and Desperation formations The overloading approach can be applied to break down the nasty 3-3-2-1-1 formations, 10 men opponents, ‘normal’ ultra-defensive formations of hopelessly inferior teams as well as a ‘desperation formation’ if in urgent need of... Read more
June 16th, 2007 in Strategy
Top Teams Tactical Guidance How to win when everybody plays ultra-defensively against you Playing as a top team is not always the easy task it seems to be. You expect your team to win almost every game, the board, the fans and the players expect the same. But unfortunately, the opposition has... Read more
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