Why playing against CPU teams is important
To Madeira would be asking : “Why do you want to play again the mighty Buckton Titans?”
Buckton Titans are one of FML’s elite, level 20 CPU clubs. Like all CPU clubs in FML, they have a nickname – Buckton’s is ‘The Invincibles’. They play at the Adelfin Road Stadium, and normally turn out in their trademark 4-5-1 formation, identical with the system Pep Quartiola is using in Barcelona. But that’s another story we will cover in next days.
Cpu clubs are the best way to test a tactic, see where your team might have difficulties, compare match stats and see if loaned-in or trial signings they are worth to stay.
When you starting in a new gameworld or you have a new season ahead of you is the ideal time to play against the Cpu.
In that case, seemed that the team played good, really good stats but for some reason, due to the fact that players didn’t know each other and the tactic was premature result was more even. Take a note of the distance covered, plays a big part on the game result. Few games after and tactic tweaking and players blending together results are better, like: 
The team is now ready for some real games versus human managers, Cpu games help having the team ready for next season, players know each other now. Early results have shown that this has helped the team doing a better start than expected:
I advise all to try this, after a new signing, trial-in, loan-in, new or start in a gameworld, you will see the difference this will make to the start and during your gameplay.
Filed Under: Hints and Tips • Strategies
Very good point Manos. I think using the CPU teams to benchmark where you are and where you are improving (or not) is much more useful than people think.
that is a good point i have to agree, allthough i dont really use the cpu teams for that reason i can see why it would work and how it would benefit us il have to start using it to my advantage
Is there any concrete evidence that play this thes CPU teams helps your team 'to settle' and 'get to know one another'? As far as I was aware it was simply a way to get rid of the green arrow and test out a few tactics. Would be great if it helps the squad to gell together but I doubt that is true.
I have to disagree. I have played Cpu teams that were of about the same reputation and beat them 8-1 6-0 and 9-0 at times. Then I play a human and lose 2-1 or 3-1..I prefer to play vs human players as a result. But perhaps you can add more to this to correct me?
Hey Steven nice one.
Mustang – personally I am not aware of any concrete evidence but I do find that the combination of not being on green boot and if I change tactics I tend to only play CPU teams until it feels right, which I consider to be when it settled. It could just be superstition :p
Tommy, the thing is that your human opposition will change. Even if you play exactly the same human opponent there could be an injury, slight change in formation/role/instruction, a new signing, a player less than before, or they could be on a form high or low. So baselining yourself against a CPU team is exactly that – you can play the same team again and again and see how you are improving or if something isn't working.
Hope that helps.
Nice article Manos. It’s important for managers to understand how useful CPU teams can be in tweaking tactics.
Tommy, have you tried what i did though?
My results clearly show that after some games it helps your team… Not just one game. 5-10-20 until you are pleased with your teams performance.
See the match stats, clearly showing an improvement on most areas. Try the Cpu Challenges. I am sure that will help you.
+1 Manos. I was trying to have a decent tactic since the "rebirth" of FML and i had many games against CPU. It's also important to have a tactic that "fits" to the atts of your players, but that's another story…
personally as a level 4 team i need to play a cpu team rep 13+ to even test my team (not to mean my team win all the time), but the tactics they use are poor and contain no 'oddities' like human managers have. I had about 6/7 of my first team out at the beginning of the season so i bought/ loaned/ trialled a number of players and used the cpu's to see where they fit in, got them playing in the positions and roles they performed best at, yet it had no relevance at all to major comp matches. The challenges are fun when you're bored and its good to get to know which roles and positions new players prefer but i have seen no benefit to major competitions fitness or form by playing the cpu.
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Mano!! pu xa8ikes? Nice article !! thanks