Husnain Mehmood - Comments

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Questions that need answering

The following potential issues will need investigating and this feature will not be released unless they can be resolved:

 

• We will need to create ID's for each person which are unique. These IDs will have to not clash with people added via the Data Update so that they can be used together.

1-Using old FM data bases (2006,07,08, etc), many legendary players were still active or were coaches/staff. Therefore, we use their original ID. For those that didn't really exist, we had to create a new ID.

 

• There will likely be some arguments about what version of each player should be made e.g. Ronaldo at Man Utd or Real Madrid? I think we should allow the creation of an unlimited number of variations of each legend, so that people can choose which version they want.

2- Only ONE version of each legend was created and we placed it in the club that he most played for, or he most identified. For example, Zidane was a legend at Bordeaux, Juventus and Real Madrid, but in Real Madrid he is most idol, not least because he was also an idol as a coach. Thus, Zidane is initially at Real Madrid, in our OF.

 

• When creating legendary squads I don't know what we should do with the existing squads e.g. with Arsenal's invincibles should we delete Arsenal's existing squad, release them or something else?

3- This was our most difficult and controversial point. First, ALL legendary players created were aged between 23 and 26 years old, depending on the century they played. For example, Sindelar (AUT), played in the years 1934 and we put it at 26 years old. Garrincha (BRA), played in 1962, we put it at 25 years old. Scirea (ITA), played in 1982, aged 24. And Zidane (FRA) in 2002, 23 years old.
For all other existing players in the club's current base, who are over 22 years old, we put them at age 22 or under. Also puting them in to the club he came from, in case he is not a legend of a specific club.

 

• It might be worthwhile expanding this to allow the creation of any fantasy person/team rather than just legends that way people can use it to create their friends, classmates, colleagues or favourite marvel characters. We could use the same underlying code, while having the site hide “personal” creations away from the main legends database.

4-We do not create non-existent players in real life.

 

I hope it helped you.