You’ve known them for years, though: No.6 scored a free-kick against you in that crucial semi-final in 2019, and you signed No.10 in Football Manager 2013, back when he was a promising youngster. Learn about the education and preparation needed to become a sports manager. Get a quick view of the requirements as well as details about job duties and salary to find out if this is the career.
Football Manager 2018[a] is a 2017 footballmanagementsimulationvideo game developed by Sports Interactive and published by Sega which was released worldwide on 10 November 2017 for Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux. The Nintendo Switch version was released later, on 13 April 2018.[4][1] For the first time in the series, all three versions of the game, FM 18 for PC, Mac and Linux, FM Touch 2018 for PC, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android, and Football Manager Mobile 2018 for iOS and Android were all released on the same day.[5][6]
Gameplay[edit]
FM18 features similar gameplay to that of the Football Manager series. Gameplay consists of taking charge of a professional[b]association football team, as the team manager. Players can sign football players to contracts, manage finances for the club, and give team talks to players. FM18 is a simulation of real world management, with the player being judged on various factors by the club's AI owners and board.[7]
Development[edit]
FM 18 was developed by Sports Interactive and published by Sega. The first details of new features and upgrades in Football Manager 2018 would not be announced until late September, with FM Touch additions following in October via the games official website and social media channels.[8] New editions of the football game included updated squads and kits, and improvements to the match engine, among other features.
Players who pre-purchased Football Manager 2018 through a SEGA approved digital retailer will be able to start pre-season at least two weeks prior to the official street date through a fully playable beta version.[1] Single-player careers started in the Beta can be also continued in the full game.[2]
A screenshot from the beta-build of the game confirmed that the possibility for players to come out as homosexual was added for FM 18. Only computer-generated players can possibly come out, not already existing ones. Such an occurrence results in a small news report and a boost in revenue.[9]
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Football Manager 2018 contained the same playable leagues as Football Manager 2017[c] during release but Indonesian League is reduced from 3 playable levels to 2 playable levels. English League has the most playable levels (up to 6) while Swedish League has the most playable divisions (up to 10). The total number of playable divisions is 147 (116 levels, 52 countries), with over 2,500 clubs available.[citation needed]
Release[edit]
The management simulation video game was launched for PC, Mac, and Linux on 10 November. For the first time, the mobile and tablet versions Football Manager Mobile 2018 and Football Manager Touch 2018 were all launched simultaneously with the desktop version, as they also arrived on 10 November.[8] Players who had previous versions of the series (Football Manager 2017, Football Manager 2016 etc.) could get up to a 25% discount on the game on pre-ordering. Football Manager Touch 2018 was later released for the Nintendo Switch on 13 April 2018.[10]
Reception[edit]
Media review aggregator website Metacritic, Football Manager 2018 received a score of 82 out of 100, based on 33 critics indicating 'generally favorable reviews', when reviewing the PC version.[11]PC Gamer gave the game a score of 89/100, saying the game is the most ambitious instalment yet from the previous versions.[14]GameSpot gave the game a 9/10, talking about how the dynamics broadens with the ways you interact with your team, more information about how and why your players are injured allows you to adjust, the increased scouting makes unearthing hidden gems more rewarding and also a slew of new player animations and increased intelligence improves the 3D match engine.[13]
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Football Manager is one of the most popular sports video games in the world. The 2019 version was a chart-topping hit in the UK, where the game is most widely played. Previous versions of the game have consistently sold more than a million copies each.
Football Manager allows fans to simulate the experience of managing a professional soccer team at a level of extreme detail, with hundreds of thousands of players from clubs in more than 100 leagues from 50 countries coded into the game. In addition to choosing your squad and strategy, you also have to deal with the media and the emotions of players. Unlike in most sports games, gamers don’t actually play the matches, though they can watch them and make strategic adjustments during the game. Football Manager is considered so realistic that it has been used by English Premier League teams for scouting, and by managers to improve their skills.
The game appears to have a racism problem.
In addition to rating players for physical skills like agility, dribbling, and strength, players and team staff are scored on non-physical attributes like sportsmanship and loyalty. Ratings are given on a 1-20 scale, with 20 being best. The game uses a huge network of scouts to generate these ratings for hundreds of thousands of players and staff across the world, but the final ratings are approved by the game’s approximately 100 head researchers, according to the Telegraph.
Among the many physical attributes assigned to players and staff, including things like hair color and length, one measures the darkness of their skin, with 1 being the lightest and 20 the darkest. For example, Russian forward Alexandr Kokorin is a 1 and Senegalese midfielder Badou Ndiaye is a 20.
A Quartz analysis of Football Manager’s data found that players and staff with darker skin tend to have worse ratings on non-physical attributes. Using data found in the Football Manager Editor database for 2019, we examined the share of players and staff with each skin color number who received a rating of 10 or above on sportsmanship, temperament, professionalism, and loyalty—that is, those who rank in the top half of scores for these non-physical attributes. Only players and staff who had been with their national team for at least 25 matches were included in the analysis, to assure that it was based on prominent people. The data include about 4,800 players and coaches.
As the chart below shows, on each attribute, players and staff with lighter skin are more likely to receive a score of 10 or better. (The relationship was first pointed out by Football Manager player Evan McFarlane on Twitter.)
To test whether this wasn’t just inter-country differences, or specific to team staff, we also analyzed the professionalism ratings of more than 900 players on English Premier League team rosters who are currently making more than £1,000 ($1,270) per week (thereby excluding young academy players who are unlikely to appear in a Premier League match). Again, we find that lighter skin players tend to receive higher scores on non-physical attributes: 72% of players assigned a skin tone of 1-5 received a professionalism score of 10 or better, compared with just 55% of players assigned a skin tone of 16-20.
The results of this analysis won’t come as a surprise to black players like English forward Raheem Sterling, who has spoken out about the way black players are treated by the media and fans. Sterling recently called for tougher penalties against teams whose fans shout racist abuse at players, a regular occurrence, suggesting it should impact that team’s place in the standings. In this context, it is perhaps not surprising that racist attitudes seem to have bled into soccer’s most popular management simulation game.
Quartz contacted Sports Interactive, the company that develops Football Manager, for comment and received no response.
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