Chat Does average age effect anything?

[Guest]

I'm currently managing Bristol City, managed to get them into the prem but have had to sell a lot of players to build up a transfer budget. I splurged it all on young talent and have very few experienced players left.

We still seem to be getting good results so I was wondering if the average age of your starting eleven has no affect at all? Anyone know for certain??

[Dec]

It will make them less consistent and could lead to players crumbling in big games.

[rseven]

13 minutes ago, Dec said:

It will make them less consistent and could lead to players crumbling in big games.

This is logical. But any evidence?

[Dec]

29 minutes ago, rseven said:

This is logical. But any evidence?

Have a look at hidden attributes and it is very rare youngsters have high in these. Also I believe Marc Vaughan has said it before

[Guest]

9 hours ago, Dec said:

Have a look at hidden attributes and it is very rare youngsters have high in these. Also I believe Marc Vaughan has said it before

Thanks for the info. Gonna scout out an experienced CB and CM to bring the age up a bit. 

Happy gaming

[Fish18ish]

I've found that a team of youngsters has a habit of crumbling towards the end of the season when they are in the hunt for silverware, but swapping them all for my older players stops the rot. Since that experience with my title chasing Norwich side of 2018, I have always aimed to keep a squad average age of 26-27 (yes I sit there and work out my squad's avr. age on a calculator) 

[billy2shots]

I have been planning on doing an experiment regarding age. Fairly simple at the beginning, replay a set number of games with all players set to the same age 20-25-30. Then it gets a little more complex when I will try to find the 'magic number' with average age of the team. 

[veerus]

This begs an interesting question - does age related (in)consistency become more pronounced later in the season if the team is in a relegation or title battle, or if it's on a match per match basis?

[billy2shots]

9 hours ago, veerus said:

This begs an interesting question - does age related (in)consistency become more pronounced later in the season if the team is in a relegation or title battle, or if it's on a match per match basis?

 

On older Champiionship Managers (I always compare FMM to them as its so similar) there was a hidden 'big game' stat and I'm sure FMM is the same.

Obviously late cup games are considered 'big games' and you would also think final games of the season would be classed as big. 

I'm not sure if the game would be clever enough to determine if you are in a relegation battle or the hunt for glory or whether the 'big games' would start at an arbitrary number like final 5 matches of the season regardless of position. 

Season 1 with Monaco. I went unbeaten in the league with a well balanced aged squad. 

Season 2 with a younger squad. Unbeaten and won the league with about 6 games to go. After winning the league I lost 2 out of the final 6 games.

i used to put this down to my boys relaxing as the league was won however they didn't do that in season 1. I'm starting to think those final games are classed as pressure games irrelevant of your league position and my younger team wasn't able to remain unbeaten (against fairly weak opposition) unlike my older season 1 team.