![]() Take the example of a player whose form has picked up: you now get an email pointing out that they’ve been playing well and suggesting it might be worth praising the player. ![]() Things that you couldn’t be bothered to do, or would just forget about, now get done by virtue of the fact that you don’t have to go out of your way to do them. Lest you wonder why I am getting so excited about a new report style, let me assure you that it makes a big difference to the way you play the game. Paying attention to fluctuations in form and changing your team selection, or making a tactical tweak to exploit a weakness you have identified in an opponent are the kinds of details that are rewarded with success, and it is incredibly satisfying to have the time you spend drilling down into stats to inform those decisions pay off. These stories are given their power by virtue of the fact that your decisions matter. The game continues to create the compulsion to share the kinds of stories that experienced football managers will be familiar with-about the inspired tactical tweak that turned around a two goal deficit and delivered an extra time winner, about the rough diamond that you picked from obscurity and turned into a star, or about the non-league non-entity that you transformed into a force to be reckoned with. ![]() That remains the case in Football Manager 2017. The game comes to life through the tales we tell ourselves and our fellow managers about our successes and failures-indeed, you can find entire forums dedicated to just such a purpose. Though often described (not entirely without merit) as a glorified spreadsheet, Football Manager’s bedrock of stats and attribute numbers has proven to be fertile ground for the imagination.
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