No creativity freedom

DEmeant0r

Ok i've created a new game with Fulham to test out how effective giving your players no creative freedom. I bought one player, other than that it's the default team from the start... I've played 6 games so far and here are the results:

Fulham 2 - 1 West Ham
Bolton 1 - 3 Fulham
Portsmouth 3 - 1 Fulham (Dunno what happened there, players just lost it )
Newcastle 2 - 3 Fulham
Fulham 1 - 1 Everton
Arsenal 1 - 3 Fulham

So that's 4 wins 1 draw 1 loss, I'm sitting pretty at 3rd, 2 points behind Newcastle with one game on hand... I'll do more experimenting tomorrow and let you know how effective little CF can be... ciao!

[EDIT] Oh, and I also gave the player with most Creativity full Creative Freedom, the rest have none [/EDIT]

besty

Demeant0r wrote:

[EDIT] Oh, and I also gave the player with most Creativity full Creative Freedom, the rest have none [/EDIT]

Interesting. Who's the creative player? Malbranque maybe?
Also, what do the goals look like with no creative freedom? Long balls and the like?

DEmeant0r

Yeah, its malbranque. The goals for me are normally passes into the wingers who cross it and then I score with a header. But it can sometimes be very neat short passes into the area and score with the foot. I'll update the progress later along with the tactic I use.

DEmeant0r

Ok here's a report on how I did 2/3 of the way through the season:

Please bear in mind that I have had 4-5 injuries CONSTANTLY throughout these games so this does not truly reflect how well this 'no creative freedom' tactic works.

Fulham 0 - 0 Birmingham
Fulham 0 - 1 Man U
Fulham 1 - 1 Blackburn
Middlesbrough 1 - 2 Fulham
Wigan 1 - 2 Fulham
Man City 2 - 2 Fulham
Charlton 0 - 0 Fulham
Fulham 0 - 2 Chelsea
Sunderland 2 - 2 Fulham
Tottenham 0 - 2 Fulham
Fulham 1 - 1 Aston Villa
West Brom 1 - 0 Fulham
Man U 4 - 1 Fulham (Dunno how I managed to lose by so much )
Fulham 1 - 1 Portsmouth
Fulham 2 - 2 Liverpool (I came back from 0 - 2 down to draw 2 - 2 so I was happy with that )
Fulham 1 - 1 Newcastle
Everton 3 - 2 Fulham (I had been leading 0 - 2 at half time, but then Everton somehow rampaged back to beat me 3 - 2 )
Fulham 2 - 3 Arsenal (Same as the Everton game except I got Boa Morte sent off, and this was right after he gave me his transfer request, bastard!)

Right now I am sitting at 8th 2 points behind 6th spot UEFA place...

This 'no creative freedom' setting is working very well, in my other games I usually end up ~10th with most of season spent in bottom half of the league, I've never slipped out from top 10 using this setting. This setting would work like a treat if you can prevent your key players from being injured, which I couldn't do...