xythos46 - Comments

Howdy, just curious if this has promotion / relegation? Having a hard time finding a good pro/rel database this year. Your database looks like the most accurate representation of the lower leagues.

Would it be possible to get more matchdays in the seasons and u18/u19 exemptions? Looking for something like Zealand USA FM22 Database

Hello, my namm is Matt, long time fm enjoyer here but very little editor experience. Looking for someone who would be willing to help teach me how to recreate Zealands FM22 USA pro/rel database for FM24 or possibly even accept payment to recreate it? There's some decent db's for fm24 but none of them are as fun as Zealands DB - 40 match days, german/english style transfer rules, pro/rel, it was a good time. I've tried to teach myself but I am having a hard time.  Thank you.

I'd love to help man, just let me know what I can do. Shoot me a message sometime!

I have not asked anywhere and am not asking for you to implement regions, I am not sure why you think I am. I am letting you now what regions are encompassed in each division so you know what the correct clubs would be for each division.. i.e. Rio Grande Valley Toros being in the wrong league + not having any players..

There is a lot of information in the links I provided you, it is straight from the leagues themselves which have directories to most of the clubs! Just take a peak lol. 

USSF League 1

MLS

(east/west)

USSF League 2

NASL

USSF League 3

USL Championship

(east/west)

US Soccer Fed classifies these three leagues as official divisions. Amateur organizations are recognized by USSF but the inidivual leagues are not. So, after MLS → NASL → USL Championship it goes…

USL League 1

(central/eastern/southern/western)

USL League 2

(central/eastern/southern/western)

NPSL

(northeast/south/midwest/west)

Then, after that it is;

United States Adult Soccer Association State Leagues

USASA Regions I II III & IV

and finally

US Club Soccer 

USCS

(east/midwest/south/west)

This is to my best knowledge. I think this is how it would be set up if it was pro/rel. These links have a lot more useful information for you thank wikipedia will have. Let me know if I can help. Cheers

https://football.fandom.com/wiki/United_States_soccer_league_system

https://usadultsoccer.com/

https://www.uslchampionship.com/

https://www.uslleagueone.com/

https://www.uslleaguetwo.com/

https://usclubsoccer.org/

https://www.npsl.com/

I see your reasoning, personally I really don't mind. I actually prefer to start in FM24 season start since the database is still on the default FM24 database as far as age, potential, ability, who is available, etc. Plus I get one more year with the players I like old and young. If I was concerned about it I would use a database update to current season if one was compatible - probably super likely with the delay of FM25

Okay, that kinda stinks cause the whole point of playing an expanded US database like this one is so I can play with the rosters and rebuild those lower league US teams that I watch all the time lol. I think that is probably why most people play these databases, play with their local lower league team or try see what US lower leagues are like in promotion/relegation

Tucson is 3rd or 4th in the database if I am not mistaken (I attached screenshots) - they actually belong to the missing USL2 league which is technically the 4th tier of us soccer. Yeah they got the money but they shouldn't have too - It's odd when a 3rd division team is offering 30m for Prem League starters. I am not playing for strict realism, I want fun and I do want the US to have better attraction and buying power but this is like every league has premier league budgets. Isn't there a way to change the leagues income?

Yes it is a fantasy league and thats fine! This is just feedback to help make it more fun.. there's a severe lack of good US databases on FM24 for some reason

I loaded up the new database and didn't get to sim a season yet

I noticed some problems 

23/24 season is skipped at start of save and all players have stats simmed for 24/25 season

RGV Toros (in wrong league) and San Diego Loyal both have 0 players (a lot other clubs have this issue too, mostly in the lower divisions. other databases maybe have the rosters you can borrow from) USL League 2 is skipped

I picked FC Tucson to start save and noticed I had $37m USD transfer budget and $68m USD wage budget, as well as I was missing over ⅔ of the teams roster

I haven't checked anything else yet 😛 will wait for another update, appreciate your work. I have no idea how to help but I'd love to learn. This is still closest thing to the best US database, Zealands from FM22

downloading it now, gonna test a season

It has the 99-player rule set for the MLS, not for the USL Championship. I loaded all 3 of these files onto my laptop to start a new database (the Leagues Cup + World Champions League don't load, only shows MLS for USA even though database is selected) and added 25+ players to my team in the USL Championship in the normal one and had the 25 man limit. I also noticed all the other US leagues aside from USL 1 only loan u18 and there's quite a few missing teams. I don't mind having a 25 man limit, I just like being able to have my youth players exempt because I like to build up. I'm enjoying it otherwise, closest so far to the Zealand USA database from FM22 I think it was.

Which version of this has the 99 player registration limit? Mine has 25 man.. and players under 18 have to be registered to be played in the league games. Playing with Phx Rising in USL Championship. I downloaded the database file off a steam and that’s the one I’ve been playing with so far. Is it different from the ones here?

having lots of fun, think it would be cool if u18 or u19 were registration exempt

yes, the mls canadian teams, i started two seperate saves, one with the germany lower leagues i used and one with only the usa canada mexico and some downloaded nations from here like jamaica, they had the same issue too. i can load up all my saves and double check if any non mls canadian teams have this issue. i dont know if it is any help to you, but zealand created a similar database last year for fm22 and it didnt have these issues, maybe it would be a good way to reference if it is a hardcoded issue or not?

howdy, ive been really enjoying playing this, its just im noticing transfers seem to be a bit broken.. players who sign for teams in the usa (domestic or foreign players)  often sign for 1 year contracts no matter what and a lot of u23 guys get youth deals and then get released on a free days after the club paid a transfer fee  sometimes large fees, the youth contracts are allowing approach to sign which ends up in them getting released it seems.. lots of journey men in my 5 seasons, way more than should be normal i think.. also big teams like miami are signing world class youth prospects and then releasing or selling after 1 season at a loss of profit often or breaking even.. could it  be conflicting with a different editor file for example i play with a germany lower division file as well as the only other file aside from name change fixes.

howdy, ive been really enjoying playing this, its just im noticing transfers seem to be a bit broken.. players in the usa often sign for 1 year contracts no matter what or youth deals and then get released on a free days after a costly transfer fee.. could it  be conflicting with a different editor file