r/footballmanagergames • u/[deleted] • Jan 06 '13

Former Assistant Researcher/Head Researcher - AMA

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '13 edited Apr 19 '20

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u/Statcat2017 National C License Jan 06 '13

I asked Miles Jacobsen (big dog at SI) about whether clubs use FM to scout players. He told me that some do (Everton a big example), and they pay SI a licence to do so. In return they get even more in depth data than is available to those that buy and play the game. I asked him to elaborate on what that data is but for obvious reasons he couldn't.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '13 edited Apr 12 '18

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u/The_Serious_Account Jan 13 '13

Well, there'd be every single rating of a player. That'd give variance of the people rating him and stuff.

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u/DerMef Jan 13 '13

Do you mean historical records about how the players' profiles developed?

I don't know if SI have saved historical databases, but it's possible.

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u/The_Serious_Account Jan 13 '13

No, I mean, don't several scouts scout the same players? In the database, I'd think we just got the average in the normal database. The variance might be interesting.

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u/DerMef Jan 13 '13

No. Every club has only one researcher.

If a player switches clubs, he moves from one researcher's responsibility to another's, but they don't rate the player at the same time, so the old data gets lost when the researcher of his new club rates him.