Career Rob tries the KDB Challenge - Attempt 1

[Rob]

 

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So I thought I would give the greatest challenge this forum has ever seen a go.

 

I was going to do a mid-season post, but I will just rattle through it and do a post at the end. The reason being that I want to give it two attempts with two different tactics.  

One thing that will be the same throughout boy attempts is that I will have an A and B team. The A team, which KDB will be a part of, will play league games. The B team will play all Cup competitions, except for when fixture congestion picks up.

Wish me luck! 

[Hamza lfc]

Good Luck!!! I think De Bruyne is one of the best players on FM. Shame he gets injured so much

[Rob]

4 minutes ago, Hamza lfc said:

Good Luck!!! I think De Bruyne is one of the best players on FM. Shame he gets injured so much

I was say to @Foxy that I have rarely had injury problems with him in the past. His stamina drops easily in games and needs subbing a lot, mind. I tend to use the November database, so not sure if that matters?

[smoggy90]

Good luck mate! One for my shortlist this one, along with your Neymar/Mbappe one too. 

[Ian]

Best of luck Rob.

[Woody]

Best of luck dude 👍

[Kanegan]

Looking forward to this Rob.

[Rob]

 

57 minutes ago, smoggy90 said:

Good luck mate! One for my shortlist this one, along with your Neymar/Mbappe one too. 

 

31 minutes ago, Ian said:

Best of luck Rob.

 

30 minutes ago, Woody said:

Best of luck dude 👍

 

5 minutes ago, Kanegan said:

Looking forward to this Rob.

Thanks lads. I may have finished already 🙄

[FuddledFox]

If you manage his game time I’m sure you will set a great score and won’t need more than this first attempt.

[Rob]

Attempt #1 Results

A gentle reminder that this is a one season challenge with the score equalling league goals plus league assists.

 

Transfers

I have a thing for Saul and Bruno. I can’t help it. The first can fill plenty of positions and is, for me, the best all-rounder in the game; the latter is just a sexy beast of a man. If this was the challenge cup he would definitely get me a semi appearance.

Quintero is the best bargain in this year’s game.

Team and Manager Performance

Just to remind everyone, my A team played the league games and B team played the Cups. That’s why this happened:

We romped the league, but I was a bit surprised we drew as many as we did at the end. It felt like we won more. Room for improvement there.

Decent enough manager performance. A fairly good goal per game too.

Kevin’s Performance

First thing first, he played every league game. Like I said earlier in the thread, I have never had any injury problems with him in the past and he’s never had that wording in any of my coach reports. With the majority of fixtures being league-cup-league it meant he could play all nineties minutes of each game, which helped massively. It was only the Christmas congestion that I had to sub him off and rotate the B team, with him included in, in to the occasional league game.

He got 37 assists.

...and 38 goals. 

Pretty much one of each per game. The OCD in me is really irritated that it wasn’t 38 and 38. It’s a bit like putting petrol in the car and it reaching £29.98p.

That gives me a score of 75. I am really pleased with that, but I am 100% sure it is beatable as a load of you have monster tactics that give birth to an excess of goals. I will take a break and do something else before try my second, and final, attempt.

Thanks for reading and all comments welcome!

[FuddledFox]

Good total but definitely beatable.

6 minutes ago, Rob said:

The OCD in me is really irritated that it wasn’t 38 and 38. It’s a bit like putting petrol in the car and it reaching £29.98p.

You wouldn’t want to be there when I fill up then as I just stop when the tanks full and don’t look to get a round number.

[Ian]

Very nice total there Rob.

He’s a very good player simple as that, truly fabulous in fact. I enjoyed my attempt mainly because I hadn’t used him much and he might not be injury prone at all as I may have been guilty of overplaying him.

[Kanegan]

What a score mate.

[Rob]

25 minutes ago, Foxy said:

Good total but definitely beatable.

You wouldn’t want to be there when I fill up then as I just stop when the tanks full and don’t look to get a round number.

I tend to do that, if I’m honest. £37.43 doesn’t bother me... but £37.97 would. Weird.

7 minutes ago, Ian said:

Very nice total there Rob.

He’s a very good player simple as that, truly fabulous in fact. I enjoyed my attempt mainly because I hadn’t used him much and he might not be injury prone at all as I may have been guilty of overplaying him.

Wonderful player. I’m fairly sure you’ll beat it in your next attempt though.

5 minutes ago, Kanegan said:

What a score mate.

Cheers Kane.

[Hamza lfc]

You made my score of 46 look weak😂. Very well done 👍

[Rob]

5 minutes ago, Hamza lfc said:

You made my score of 46 look weak😂. Very well done 👍

Cheers. Give it another go mate.

[gz88]

Amazing mate. What tactic did you used? I am trying all different tactics from index, and would like to try yours. Thank you!!

[Rob]

1 hour ago, gz88 said:

Amazing mate. What tactic did you used? I am trying all different tactics from index, and would like to try yours. Thank you!!

Thanks. A unique tactic I worked on a lot. These little challenges really help you develop stuff.

[Scratch]

On 12/08/2020 at 03:39, Rob said:

as a load of you have monster tactics that give birth to an excess of goals.

Umm, 165 goals in the league is pretty damn good. I can only dream of that! How many more people out there with tactics like that? A few I guess, there are some really tactic tweakers on here! Maybe I need to give up my Defensive approach... 🤣

Edit: Was so blown away by the number of goals I forgot to say well done mate! Cracking season. 

Edited August 13, 2020 by Scratch

[Rob]

3 minutes ago, Scratch said:

Umm, 165 goals in the league is pretty damn good. I can only dream of that! How many more people out there with tactics like that? A few I guess, there are some really tactic tweakers on here! Maybe I need to give up my Defensive approach... 🤣

Edit: Was so blown away by the number of goals I forgot to say well done mate! Cracking season. 

Cheers. It was 126 in the league and 165 overall, so not that great! 

[Scratch]

Just now, Rob said:

Cheers. It was 126 in the league and 165 overall, so not that great! 

Oh, right... 126 is pretty good still. Have managed that but not that often. I was just getting fired up to go experiment a bit, LOL... I always come back to a Defensive tactic, even in my 2 up front challenge right now - less goals overall, but more directed to the strikers. But I really need to let go of that and try some more attacking things (maybe like a Bati 1 0 2 2 5 or something 😄)...

[Rob]

1 minute ago, Scratch said:

Oh, right... 126 is pretty good still. Have managed that but not that often. I was just getting fired up to go experiment a bit, LOL... I always come back to a Defensive tactic, even in my 2 up front challenge right now - less goals overall, but more directed to the strikers. But I really need to let go of that and try some more attacking things (maybe like a Bati 1 0 2 2 5 or something 😄)...

I genuinely look forward to seeing what you come up with! Good luck! 

[Scratch]

2 minutes ago, Rob said:

I genuinely look forward to seeing what you come up with! Good luck! 

I generally develop on the go, just finishing up season 2 of my DT/TT, so I'll experiment a bit in season 3 - but if it doesn't work, I'll run back to my boring tactic...

[smoggy90]

Excellent score mate! 165 goals overall in the first season is mighty impressive too. Super KDB!

[Rob]

7 minutes ago, smoggy90 said:

Excellent score mate! 165 goals overall in the first season is mighty impressive too. Super KDB!

Cheers Smog

[Antonie]

On 11/08/2020 at 12:51, Rob said:

 

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So I thought I would give the greatest challenge this forum has ever seen a go.

 

I was going to do a mid-season post, but I will just rattle through it and do a post at the end. The reason being that I want to give it two attempts with two different tactics.  

One thing that will be the same throughout boy attempts is that I will have an A and B team. The A team, which KDB will be a part of, will play league games. The B team will play all Cup competitions, except for when fixture congestion picks up.

Wish me luck! 

Good  luck ☺

[Rob]

5 hours ago, Antonie said:

Good  luck ☺

Cheers