Evening all.

Just a heads up that I've made a Coach Calculator, thought some of you might be interested. It's taken 3 days but it's here, pretty much as I envisioned it lacking a feature or two that may get added in the next couple of weeks.

Seems to be working, although it is in Beta stage so let me know if there's any problems.

Feel free to link to it on other sites, the more exposure the better :checkit:



When FM2010 comes out if the formula for the coaches is released I'll probably update the formula and add a new post linking to the new version.

Cheers.

what is it about?

i have a couple of questions:

i am putting 14 in attacking and 13 in defending. and 10 in determination, level of discipline and motivating.

here are the results:
"Best Suited as a Defensive Coach"

why is he best suited as a defensive coach if he has higher attributes in attacking???

Defending Coach: <5 194 280 320 360
Attacking Coach: <5 144 210 240 270

Also why do the attacking attributes have lower standards for a coach? and id he actually has higher attacking attributes how can he have 144 points in attacking but 194 in defending???

ok cheers andy

Cheers for the kind comments.

quote Vangelis21

i have a couple of questions:

i am putting 14 in attacking and 13 in defending. and 10 in determination, level of discipline and motivating.

here are the results:
"Best Suited as a Defensive Coach"

why is he best suited as a defensive coach if he has higher attributes in attacking???

Defending Coach: <5 194 280 320 360
Attacking Coach: <5 144 210 240 270

Also why do the attacking attributes have lower standards for a coach? and id he actually has higher attacking attributes how can he have 144 points in attacking but 194 in defending???

Hi Vangelis, interesting questions. I may add a Q&A into the Coach Calc at the bottom, although I'll think about it.

Regarding your questions: To make a good attacking coach, FM uses this formula: 'att * 6 + tac * 3 + ddm * 2'. That's attacking * 6, tactical * 3 and determination, discipline and motivation * 2.

For example, in your example it would be:
Attacking, 14 * 6 = 84
Tactical, 0 * 3 = 0
Determination, 10
+
Discipline, 10
+
Motivation, 10 = 30 * 2 = 60

84+60 = 144.

With the defensive side, Defending is taken to account more so than attacking in the attacking coach.

The formula for that is: 'def * 8 + (tac + ddm) * 3'

In your example, it comes to 194. Now, the way I've made it judge which the coach is better at is taking the score and dividing is by the total possible points when you have 20 for everything (in the attacking case that's 300, in defensive that's 400).

So in this example, you've got Attacking being 144 out of a possible 300 (144/300), whilst Attacking is on 194 out of 400 (194/400).

144/300 is 0.48, whilst 194/400 is 0.485, so he's slightly better at training Defensively. Marginal, probably wont have any effect, but if you had to choose between the two I'd go for Defensive.

Hope that helps, anymore questions just ask, I'll reply when I can.

This message was edited by Fredheim_Holm on Sep 11 2009.

now it makes more sense. if you are 100% sure that you included the proper formulas then i have no reason to doubt you!

The formula's are widely accessible and accepted, and from what I've seen are accurate every time

i have to say one thing. with the formulasthat some people have shown on the forums it is very easy to calculate how good a coach will be as all the formulas have only additions and multiplications.

BUT your calculator make things even better AND it is not a cheating because it is something you could do on your own.

well done. nice gift to the community

Yeah, nothing new, just a time saving gizmo

Glad it's of some use

I'm bumping this because this is awesome and I'm using it a lot right now for my comp.

Great work, mate.

Cheers CP

Let me know if you have any tips for improvements or general feedback.

You *bleep*ing genius!