2026-11-11, 02:42 AM - Word count:
Have I mentioned how much I hate the mystery black box that is FM?
The SSL runs all of its games on a neutral venue to mitigate the home field advantage problem that Football Manager has. In the last couple of seasons it was also discovered that the "home/away" attendance split for the teams in the neutral venue has an effect on the results and subsequently implemented a "setting" to force the game to split the attendance perfectly even between the two teams.
Even though the Major and Minor FM file was set up as we usually do in regards to forcing 50/50 % attendance, we discovered post recording of MD1 that the Major and Minor files were not working properly. We believe it had to do with the date the attendance values were set up in FM, resulting in FM resetting the values to the "real" in-game ones.
The Cup file was not affected for some reason that is not understood at the moment and will continue as regularly scheduled.
We've found a stable fix and will revert back to the start of the week file (post updates) and resim the MD1 games for new and correct results. They will be shown on Youtube at some point in the coming days. Since the Minors MD1 is scheduled for today, those premieres will most likely be delayed as we await the proper recording of the games.
The SSL runs all of its games on a neutral venue to mitigate the home field advantage problem that Football Manager has. In the last couple of seasons it was also discovered that the "home/away" attendance split for the teams in the neutral venue has an effect on the results and subsequently implemented a "setting" to force the game to split the attendance perfectly even between the two teams.
Even though the Major and Minor FM file was set up as we usually do in regards to forcing 50/50 % attendance, we discovered post recording of MD1 that the Major and Minor files were not working properly. We believe it had to do with the date the attendance values were set up in FM, resulting in FM resetting the values to the "real" in-game ones.
The Cup file was not affected for some reason that is not understood at the moment and will continue as regularly scheduled.
We've found a stable fix and will revert back to the start of the week file (post updates) and resim the MD1 games for new and correct results. They will be shown on Youtube at some point in the coming days. Since the Minors MD1 is scheduled for today, those premieres will most likely be delayed as we await the proper recording of the games.
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