10 Weirdest Things People Have Done With Football Manager
2. To Scout For Players
That said, Sky Sports aren't the only people who should know better, and yet treat Football Manager as if its a real-life tool that can applied to the actual sport, despite frequently featuring completely unrealistic scenarios like David Moyes being hired as Liverpool manager. The former Everton boss could've had it worse, of course. In fact in 2008 the Toffees were the first to sign up to use the FM database professionally. In a press release, Sports Interactive say the database includes more than 550,000 players (including 245,811 currently active and contracted footballers), with up to 250 individual pieces of information being stored about each person. It's all this data which Everton, and teams like them, have relied on when scouting new players as much as they do actual scouts. Which feels pretty lazy, possibly an excuse for them playing so much Football Manager, and is also patently insane. You're trusting what a simulated player can do more than one you can go and actually watch?
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