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**McLumberjack**

During testing I came across an inconsistancy in football manager.

namely that if even if you use the in game editor and "Maximise Existing tactical Familiarity" it does not seem to maximise all of it.

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It works very sporadically, however there is one the bars it never seems to fill.

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Position/Role/Duty, the button seems to have 0 effect on this bar. So I did some digging, appearantly this bar only seems to fill when a player is training the same position and role as they are playing.
Because the individual training is set by the AI there are some teams where this is set incorrectly, especially teams that switch formations often.

ALL SCREENSHOTS TAKEN AFTER MAXIMISING TACTICAL FAMILIARITY

Take Dunkler Sowerwine, a Segundo Volante on attack

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who is currently training to be a defensive midfielder on support.

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And how about Kiziltas, an Advanced Forwards who is training as a LAM Winger on support.

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All in all, something smelled fishy and it was my job to get to the bottom of this.

So I set up an experiment, I just used USP and Hollywood for this.

What I did was, I gave every single player on both teams (minus goalkeepers) the ability to play anywhere on the pitch perfectly. I gave both teams the exact same formation and tactics and I made sure every single player had never played the role/position so they would have the lowest tactical familiarity.

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I then simmed 2 months untill the cup match, this would be my control test. I made sure both teams had perfect morale and everything else, making sure to maximise the tactical familiarity one last time and I simmed the match 100 times.

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(Ignore the goals/shots/xG here they are not accurate only winrate is important)
It resulted in about an 85% win rate for the home team.

Then the actual test, I went back to the old save and I changed all the individual training for the hollywood team to be their current correct position.

I simmed 2 months in advance once again and wouldnt you know it, they all (except 3 players who for some reason kept going back to training a wrong position even when I took back control of all individual training no idea why) had perfect position/role/duty familiarity.
While USP still had the worst familiarity, the perfect test, something that would never happen naturally, there must be some effect right????

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So with bated breath I started testing AND.......

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(Ignore the goals/shots/xG here they are not accurate only winrate is important)

Virtually no difference at all, nothing statistically significant. It seems like the familiarity exists.... but does not impact the game at all.

wasted a whole day on this.

thank you for listening to my ted talk.

**roquefort** · 2025-12-17, 11:14 AM - Word count:

Incredible work. Our finest minds for our greatest puzzles

**OTK** · 2025-12-17, 04:03 PM - Word count:

You better get the max payout for wasting a day of your life

**DivogoJota** · 2025-12-27, 02:18 PM - Word count:

Would like to retroactively award this bonuses whenever we update the article grading system to allow for graders to give extra incentive to people to write high-quality articles like this. Great insights and an impressive dedication to the question at-hand.

5/5