Something that In have certainly been guilty of in various issues of FM is assuming that how things worked in 1 issue of the game, is how they would work in subsequent issues of the game. This is aged group players who are at the club but who haven't yet come through the intake. Interested in poaching the best Heads of Youth Development the game has to offer? Use these tips to bag yourself a bargain future superstar. Also, if there is anything that you think I have done wrong, or if you think I'm drawing the wrong conclusions from something then just let me know. 17. Did you know that you can track the Youth Intake worldwide? FM 2021 Regen Youth Intake Guide - Find The Best Wonderkids I think you might really get something out of having a little look at my thread and looking at the comparisons between the PPA ratings (the stars), and the actual PA, (the number). 3. What caught my eye previously, but especially in the last results, was how many times the CA or PA ended in a 0, (so 10, 20, 30, 40 etc etc etc). Highest CA 103. It doesn't matter which club I select because I'm going to use the Editor to change things in order to see how they impact on the Youth Intake. 13. This is of course, added on top of your own modifiers such as Junior Coaching and Youth Facilities. Hopefully this will save you the countless hours of browsing it took me to find all that information. Something that's important to remember at all times when talking about Youth Intake previews and Youth Intakes themselves is that everything is relative. Initially I was going to pick a small Nation (to reduce processing time), and then I was going to select a commonly used structure, (England) & a well known club, (Man Utd), (that more people could relate to), but in the end decided to go with the Brazilian structure because quite simply they produce the best Newgens, (due to their high Nation Youth rating and Game Importance). owners. Is it hard work? Giggs, Scholes, Butt and both Neville's never did. RIght? It should be mentioned at this stage that there is a point after which some if the player info is hard-coded, (the Youth Intake preview), and first of all I'm going to see what is decided then and what is decided at a much later date. @Parmie I was always personally a bit skeptical about this, but if SI make the game then surely they are going to know more than some old bloke who can't even be bothered to run an experiment to prove if what he things is true, is actually true? Best position/role. Personalities. I have maxed them out completely and given them State of the Art Training Facilities, (and left the others all at 1). 3 players at 150+ CA. Your club gets a fresh pack of Newgens and every year you have the hope that at least one of those virtual kids has the potential to become one of your star players. Before I get into the Control Group though, I have some news. I recently saw a Youtube video from [Name redacted], (because this isn't about them), about Youth Intakes and I was absolutely astonished by some of the rubbish that was being spouted. Honestly, it makes me flippin angry when people in the FM Community make a video about something that they know very little about, and then pass it off as if they are some sort of expert or have some sort of insider knowledge that the rest of us don't have access to. In your example above, the highest PA moved between the 160-180 range. Total CA/PA for the whole intake is definitely something I will add. Facilities results 33.01 to 31.74. Why do low rep clubs often seem to get players from Secondary Nations in their Intakes with high PA relative to the rest of the intake? The problem then is the level of facilities at the club and if the player will play and if so how often will he play and in what position/role. Clubs with high youth recruitment ratings are often the clubs that get the best youth intakes. I have a little trick that I use and it involves putting a "." I know I certainly am. What happens if I reduce/increase the Youth Recruitment/Junior Coaching both before preview and after? A HoYD with Technical as his playing style will produce players with high Technical attributes. The last true golden generation for Dynamo Kyiv was incidentally also a class of 92-93. Deciding who goes in what squad and making sure that there aren't too many players in their position in that squad and that they aren't either too good or not good enough for that squad is tough when you have so many players. From your first post regarding intake depth. 7 players at 120+ PA. Don't get me wrong, he turned out ok, but he was well short of his PA in the end, (CA 123 PA 158 right now). It's relative to the players you have at your club already. As a helpful guide, here's the youth intake date (or date ranges) for every top nation in the game: Click here for everything we know about FM22. One is called Game Importance and the other one is Youth Rating. This is what I "think" rather than what I "know" though. There will of course be players who jump the queue though. This potential group of players is distributed throughout all clubs in the country, with every club getting a chance to produce any combination of the aforementioned players. The PA result was a little better, coming out on top of both minimum facilities and maximum training groups. Newgens are completely unique players, rather than replicas of retired players. Also, other factors like facilities in the club, injuries, game time and personality of the players will come into play and influence whether the players realize their potential. "Players by preferred positions" means the position that the player prefers to play in doesn't it? Place of birth. A 10% chance. 8 players at 120+ PA. Will be reading this with great interest. What happens if I edit the personality of all staff both before the preview and after? and what seemed strange to me is that the preview with the highest rating of B was still a golden generation, but Preview (with just 1 A rating), wasn't classed as a golden generation. (Basically it's been done to death by people better at it than me and the other thing is I'm just too lazy). This should help to show something like lowering the youth facilities reducing the PA of individual players but if your Youth Recruitment is high, you're still getting the same volume of players coming through, and vice versa, do we care about youth recruitment if we're still getting high individual PA players coming through with regularity. Highest PA 177. Football Manager 2022 - Youth Intake Guide - Neoseeker Where to start? 8 players at 120+ PA. But I've got two players. I appreciate someone doing the research on this though, enjoying the work so far. 1. (Perceived CA. What happens if I edit the Nationality of all staff both before the preview and after? What you can have an impact on. I'm showing more than my usual interest. Feel free to comment if you have any predictions on experiments you think I might don in the future or if you were surprised by anything you have seen so far. Highest CA 118. As a second point, but also an addendum, when we refer to top clubs, we dont necessarily mean so in terms of quality or reputation, but in terms of Youth Recruitment. One of the clubs had intake Mid-November. FM Mythbusting: Youth Intakes Published on 10 April 2020 One of the most exciting days in the Football Manager calendar is the day when your club's youth intake arrives. If your squad already has the likes of Mbapp and Haaland, do not expect many 4 or 5 star potential youngsters. I'm managing in Portugal and playing Youth Only and now have a B Team playing in the 2nd tier in Portugal. Height. 15. We have total CA and PA for each intake at the bottom, (and average CA and PA too). When you purchase A Head of Youth Development will affect new players in two ways. 18. Tips to improve your youth intake - Football Manager 2023 - FM22 Today, Jake. Allow me to introduce Ricardo to you, and his 9 alter-ego's. 5 Ways to Connect Wireless Headphones to TV. Feel free to suggest others, (but no promise that I will get to them). 15. I "think"* what happens now is that the player rates your player against the player at your club best able to play in that position, (and how good he is in that position rather than how good he is in his best position). FM Mythbusting: Youth Intakes - Fuller FM I could do 100 or 1,000 but I just don't have the ability/knowledge to automate the reports that this would require. Henrique Simal. 5. Name. Though to me it seems to have an air of self fulfilling prophecy about it. FM22 Youth Intake Tips | Increase Your Chances of a Golden Generation This attribute affects the Potential Ability of every new player generated in the country. 7. (I must admit that I had to work out how to sum every 2nd column just for this thread, so every day's a school day as they say). First intakes are sometimes Golden Gens because the player takes it over and starts making massive improvements, so the new players coming are better. It's only 14 mins long and he deals with 4 slightly different topics and even came up with a conclusion that surprised him, so rather than ignoring it or just blindly accepting it, (he was using quite a small sample size), he actually created a test to work out if the experiment was correct or if his initial assumption had been correct all along. Henrique Honorato. Highest CA 108. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. Improve Youth Intake & Regens Guide | Football Manager This one will be particularly interesting for me. I "think" it's too simplistic to say that there is a cut-off like that, but without running an experiment it's hard to quantify, and I would expect the results of any experiment in this area to be open to significant amounts of interpretation, (which is not really the idea).