Challenges Ribbons of Glory 1 - Bruno's Slumber Party

[Scratch]

Welcome to Challenge 1 in the Ribbons of Glory series. To get us started, we're taking Bruno for a spin at Man Utd to see how many goals and assists he can get. 

This replicates Bruno's New Year Party from the original Badges of Honour series. It was @Ian who topped the leaderboard in that challenge with 169 points - I wonder who'll top this sequel! Is it harder or easier to do this in FMM23 than it was in FMM21? Do tactics still work the same?

 

The Details

Here are the details:

• The Player: Bruno Fernandes
• The Club: Manchester United
• Length: 1 season
• The Benchmark: To qualify for the leaderboard (and a ribbon), Bruno needs to score 25 goals and 15 assists. 
• Leadership Board Points: 1 point for a goal, 2 points for an assist, across all competitions (but not friendlies)

 

Rules

• No Unlockables;
• No cheating (no editing, no scouting apps, no reloading etc);
• Own formations;
• Any badge and reputation;
• Any database;
• Transfers, etc, allowed; 
• You can attempt the challenge multiple times, but only your top score will be on the leaderboard;
• Again, don’t be a cheat

 

Credits

Credit to @Rob for the Badges of Honour concept.

 

Leaderboard

• 181 points by @Gazzaeverton (screenshots)
• 179 points by @Dai_ (screenshots)
• 138 points by @Rav44 (screenshots)
• 126 points by @Scratch (screenshots)
• 108 points by @P.Rahul (screenshots)
• 91 points by @Tammy lois (screenshots)
• 76 points by @DoneHisCruciate (screenshots)

 

Edited November 5, 2023 by Scratch

[Scratch]

Okay, we need to talk about the transfer rules...

I did a test run of this and took advantage of the Offer For Loan -> Transfer switch feature. This has always been there, but was nowhere near as powerful in previous versions. This year you can sell almost everyone this way and get pretty good money for it. In my test save I had Haaland, Oshimen, Lakaku, Muller, Maddison, Davies, Odegaard, Skrinaar, Dumfries, Carrasco, Kovacic and Maignan all playing for Man U thanks to the money I made selling almost everyone.

Seems like overkill, but... how do you stop people doing that when the game lets you? We could make a rule that people aren't allowed to do this, but it would be really hard to tell if people used it or not (in my case it's pretty obvious). Or we could just say it's open slather, go for it, use it as much as you want. Or we could limit it to 10 transfers out and 10 transfers in and get people to show their transfer screens to prove it? 

I'm not tied to a particular approach, happy to go either way for this - but would like to know what YOU think.

Edited September 17, 2023 by Scratch

[Migraz]

Hello, I don't know if I will have time to participate...But very nice challenge.

I suggest to design a point/coefficient reduction based on the number of that kind of transfers. 

As in a top flight team these moves can overpower the team, roughly it could be just as example:

2 transfers  - 10%; 5 transfers  - 25%

[fajar93]

This?

[P.Rahul]

2 hours ago, fajar93 said:

This?

Play all matches u can score 100 points ...

[Dai_]

There's no way to stop the transfers. Or, tell if people have used it. I like the idea of a limit of incoming & outgoing players. I would say just use the existing Man Utd squad but I need to add a few players for my tactic to work. 😂

[Scratch]

On 17/09/2023 at 21:36, Migraz said:

Hello, I don't know if I will have time to participate...But very nice challenge.

I suggest to design a point/coefficient reduction based on the number of that kind of transfers. 

As in a top flight team these moves can overpower the team, roughly it could be just as example:

2 transfers  - 10%; 5 transfers  - 25%

Thanks for the suggestion. My first thought was that it might be too complicated (I much prefer dead simple scoring), but the more I think about it the more appealing it is. I feel like we need something like this given how easy it is to shift the whole team for easy money.

I might play with it a bit - maybe up to 5 incoming transfers  is free of charge, but then after that it's a 5% reduction per incoming transfer (not counting youth promotion, just bought or loaned). We don't want to penalise people too much. That would mean that bringing in 10 players would get you 75% of the score (vs 50% in your original suggestion) and it feels like that's more reasonable (doesn't matter which 10 players you bring in you aren't going to double your score). 

If anyone else has any suggestions, please make them in the next day or so, or I will lock that in. If you're starting a save now, just be aware that you will probably have to show your transfer screen and that fewer transfers will be better for your score.

[Scratch]

On 19/09/2023 at 22:03, fajar93 said:

This?

Um, sorry, no! It's a one season only save, so it has to be the 2022/23 results not the 2023/24 ones. And he didn't get enough goals in the first season to meet the benchmark. But if you could do that in the first season, then yes!

[Scratch]

23 hours ago, Dai_ said:

There's no way to stop the transfers. Or, tell if people have used it. I like the idea of a limit of incoming & outgoing players. I would say just use the existing Man Utd squad but I need to add a few players for my tactic to work. 😂

Yeah, I commented on this above - maybe 5 incoming transfers (bought or loaned) are allowed, then after that you lose 5% of your score per incoming transfer. Doesn't affect the benchmark. I'll wait a day and see if there are any other ideas, but leaning towards this at the moment.

[Rob]

I’d say to keep it open and allowed everything OR limit to currently squad. 

[Scratch]

1 hour ago, Rob said:

I’d say to keep it open and allowed everything OR limit to currently squad. 

Alright, I was just about to go the other way and bring a rule/scoring in, but we'll keep it as anything goes. Although I was warming up to a rule, it complicates scoring and is very hard to police. And I'm really not a fan of having to use the existing squad. So we'll go open slather!

[Rob]

On 22/09/2023 at 14:28, Scratch said:

Alright, I was just about to go the other way and bring a rule/scoring in, but we'll keep it as anything goes. Although I was warming up to a rule, it complicates scoring and is very hard to police. And I'm really not a fan of having to use the existing squad. So we'll go open slather!

‘Open slather’ 😂

[Tammy lois]

My brunos slumber party result

[P.Rahul]

Bruno's scores + transfer:

BRUNO'S scores

Transfers out

transfers in

Results

Team goals + assist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 27, 2023 by P.Rahul

[DanEnglish]

I might give this a go 🙂 

Should be a fun season. Will do it with Man Utd’s starting squad 👍 is quicker that way as no transfers needed.

[Rav44]

On 27/09/2023 at 06:41, P.Rahul said:

Bruno's scores + transfer:

BRUNO'S scores

Transfers out

transfers in

Results

Team goals + assist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This will be hard to beat. Will give it a go 

[P.Rahul]

10 hours ago, Rav44 said:

This will be hard to beat. Will give it a go 

Just 108 points not too much !! 

Edited September 30, 2023 by P.Rahul

[Scratch]

Sorry for the delay, I'm updating the leaderboard now and I'll add my own effort too while I'm at it (106 points):

Did pretty well, but missed 3 weeks with injury (and we got knocked out of cups early so only 50 games for Bruno):

Some other screens from the save:

Spoiler

Looks like I didn't screenshot my transfers, but like I said before I sold almost everyone using the loan to transfer 'feature' and bought a bunch of top players. Here are my two squads (they don't really make sense, because I bought players for a different formation, then had to squish them into this):

I later bought Lukaku as well. The only player I had trouble buying was Haaland who cost £220M plus 50% sell on and the first time the bid was accepted he refused to sign:

but I tried again a few weeks later and he was happy to come (maybe I could offer a higher wage at that point after selling most of the team):

 

Edited October 1, 2023 by Scratch

[Rav44]

My effort below. Got lucky with no injuries. Really enjoyed it. Gave me an idea to have a go at career to get a player to 500 goals and 500 assists.

Goals = 42

assists = 48 = 96 points

total= 138 points .

@Scratch please add me to the leaderboard. Thanks

 

[Scratch]

18 hours ago, Rav44 said:

My effort below. Got lucky with no injuries. Really enjoyed it. Gave me an idea to have a go at career to get a player to 500 goals and 500 assists.

Goals = 42

assists = 48 = 96 points

total= 138 points .

@Scratch please add me to the leaderboard. Thanks

Great effort! Straight to the top of the leaderboard. 😀

[Dai_]

22 hours ago, Rav44 said:

My effort below. Got lucky with no injuries. Really enjoyed it. Gave me an idea to have a go at career to get a player to 500 goals and 500 assists.

Goals = 42

assists = 48 = 96 points

total= 138 points .

@Scratch please add me to the leaderboard. Thanks

 

Those outgoings.... 😂😂🙄

[Dai_]

So, I have a head-start for this kinda challenge. I've been fiddling and fussing with a tactic for about 6 months and I'm currently seven and a half seasons into a split 3kc (1500 goals & 1500 assists) attempt with Arda Guler at Rangers which is going ridiculously well.

 

Anywho, here's my results:

179 by my calculations?

Could you add me to the leaderboard please, @Scratch? 😊

[Scratch]

24 minutes ago, Dai_ said:

So, I have a head-start for this kinda challenge. I've been fiddling and fussing with a tactic for about 6 months and I'm currently seven and a half seasons into a split 3kc (1500 goals & 1500 assists) attempt with Arda Guler at Rangers which is going ridiculously well.

 

Anywho, here's my results:

179 by my calculations?

Could you add me to the leaderboard please, @Scratch? 😊

Damn dude, that's some serious score! Can't even imagine how to reach that level! You're making me want to try again though. 😀

[Dai_]

30 minutes ago, Scratch said:

Damn dude, that's some serious score! Can't even imagine how to reach that level! You're making me want to try again though. 😀

Given the time and effort I'm certain you could eclipse that score man.

[Scratch]

6 hours ago, Dai_ said:

Given the time and effort I'm certain you could eclipse that score man.

Lol, I don't have the time and effort for that! 😀 I will probably give it another run though. Although I am mid long term career and I need to post some other Ribbon careers.

[Scratch]

On 03/10/2023 at 10:06, Dai_ said:

Given the time and effort I'm certain you could eclipse that score man.

Damn, I'm trying everything here (strikerless with pushed up IFs, wide AFs, wide PF, two at the back, WMs, Bruno as an SS/T/AP, etc etc etc) and I'm just getting dizzy, not anywhere near cracking it!

[DanEnglish]

16 minutes ago, Scratch said:

Damn, I'm trying everything here (strikerless with pushed up IFs, wide AFs, wide PF, two at the back, WMs, Bruno as an SS/T/AP, etc etc etc) and I'm just getting dizzy, not anywhere near cracking it!

What style / route are you going down?

• Assists - maximise corners, or max through balls, or something else?
• Goals - max penalties, or max long shots, or max CCC / in-box chances?

This is an intriguing challenge - what’s the best combo to get +1 goal and +1 assist a game?! 🤔 

[Dai_]

40 minutes ago, Scratch said:

Damn, I'm trying everything here (strikerless with pushed up IFs, wide AFs, wide PF, two at the back, WMs, Bruno as an SS/T/AP, etc etc etc) and I'm just getting dizzy, not anywhere near cracking it!

Haha! As I said. I've done nothing but fiddle about with my tactic since the turn of the year as I chase a huge split target.

You'll get there mate. 

25 minutes ago, DanEnglish said:

What style / route are you going down?

• Assists - maximise corners, or max through balls, or something else?
• Goals - max penalties, or max long shots, or max CCC / in-box chances?

This is an intriguing challenge - what’s the best combo to get +1 goal and +1 assist a game?! 🤔 

Bruno is the perfect candidate for this challenge. Can cross, shoot, take FK's & pens and his choice of runs are brilliant. I play him as a T. He's built for that role.

[Scratch]

23 hours ago, DanEnglish said:

What style / route are you going down?

• Assists - maximise corners, or max through balls, or something else?
• Goals - max penalties, or max long shots, or max CCC / in-box chances?

This is an intriguing challenge - what’s the best combo to get +1 goal and +1 assist a game?! 🤔 

I'm trying / have tried everything!! This is the format I'm using at the moment:

I've tried run at defense and quick to try to draw fouls and force corners etc (no idea how well that works, but makes sense to me and I think it holds up). But I've settled on through balls now. It's working right now, but will probably stop and then I'll tweak again etc.

Definitely for this one you want to maximise assists (2 points) over goals (1 point) if you can, but I find it easier to maximise goals - for starters he will get more goals if I just make him an SS or a T, but AP seems get more assists.

[Scratch]

23 hours ago, Dai_ said:

Haha! As I said. I've done nothing but fiddle about with my tactic since the turn of the year as I chase a huge split target.

You'll get there mate. 

We'll see! Doing my head in, but I think I've settled on a tactic for now and I've actually started for real.

 

23 hours ago, Dai_ said:

Bruno is the perfect candidate for this challenge. Can cross, shoot, take FK's & pens and his choice of runs are brilliant. I play him as a T. He's built for that role.

As shown above I've gone with AP for now. Got more goals with T, but more assists with AP. we'll see how it holds up though. 5 goals and 10 assists in 6 games to start. But he started strong last time and then faded.