A middle-aged man walked to a desk and knocked on the workstation bezel.
"Hey, Matt, the boss asked you if you have made the analysis video of the last game?"
A young man with messy blond hair was busy in front of the monitor. He looked away from the computer monitor, glanced at the middle-aged man next to him, and then returned his gaze: "Right away, right away, you can start rendering right away.
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"Wow, Matt, why are the dark circles under your eyes getting worse?" the middle-aged man exclaimed when he saw the obvious dark circles on the young man's pale face.
"I only slept for three hours yesterday..." The blond young man said and yawned.
"I said you worked too hard to complete the tasks given by your boss, right?"
"No, no...it won't take long to analyze the video." The young man waved his hand.
"Then why did you go? Did you get a girlfriend recently?" The middle-aged man had a gossipy look on his face.
The young man's eyelids were almost glued together: "CGF (the abbreviation of "Champion Godfather") is my Girlfriend. I played with her almost all night yesterday."
The middle-aged man gave him a thumbs up: "Salute to you, young man, I can't stay up that long for "The Godfather of Champions" now."
"You know, Harry, playing "The Godfather" is also part of my job." The young man yawned again, tears squeezed out of the corners of his eyes.
Seeing that he might fall asleep in front of the computer at any time, the middle-aged man shook his head: "I won't disturb you anymore, just hurry up, the boss will need it in the afternoon."
"Okay, don't worry, it will be done before noon." The young man waved his hand without raising his head and continued to work on his work computer.
Matt Downe, a video analyst at English Championship club Hammond Castle, is twenty-six years old and single.
He is working hard to complete the tasks assigned to him by the team's head coach Tony Clark.
He needs to divide the last Hammond Castle game into separate clips for each player, then combine it with his own analysis of the performance of these players in the game to make a video, and finally edit it together to make a video of about twenty
minute video clip.
This short video will be given to head coach Tony Clark, who will play this video in the tactical meeting of the coaching staff, and will also show it to the players to tell them what they deserve for their performance in the last game.
Where there is nothing to criticize.
This video will be an important reference for the coaching staff to make tactics for the next game, and also a basis for the coaching staff to formulate the players' training plan for the new week.
In short, although video data analysts will not appear on the coaching bench during games, nor will they be taken care of by television broadcasts, and no media or fans will care about them, this position is increasingly important to the team's head coach.
more important.
He has been working as a video analyst for this club for three years. This job was not easy to do at the beginning. He had to watch the game video multiple times and pause frequently to record his analysis ideas. The written records alone were eloquent.
Many pages.
After summarizing, the video editing and production process begins.
Now he is very familiar with doing all this. He will pay attention to the performance of each player when watching the live broadcast of the game, and prepare a recorder to record everything he observes and the results of his thoughts.
When he starts making videos after the game, he can save a lot of time watching the game videos over and over again, and he can also save time taking notes with a pen and just refer to his own recordings.
This greatly improved his work efficiency.
Most of my working time is actually spent on video editing and production, which is much faster than before.
Not long after his colleagues left, he finished making the video and pressed the output button.
The next step is for the computer to automatically render and generate the video, which usually takes some time, ranging from ten minutes to half an hour.
Of course, if you are willing to use a better computer, the rendering time will be further shortened, or even greatly shortened.
But Hammond Castle is not the kind of club with deep pockets. It is impossible to equip a video analyst with the most advanced video workstation just to speed up video rendering by a few minutes.
Besides, Matt Dawn himself didn't feel the need to spend so much money on upgrading his computer to speed up the video output. Wouldn't he use the ten minutes to half an hour to do other things?
For example, right now, during this waiting period, Matt Dawn picked up his phone and planned to browse the popular community to see if there were any interesting posts.
He quickly browses the titles of posts in the community. If he is interested in the title, he will click in to see the specific content.
If you are not interested, just quickly swipe through and click to go to the next page.
He reads very quickly, occasionally clicking into a title to quickly browse the content, then exiting and continuing to scroll down.
In this way, he quickly browsed five or six pages of the forum until a title popped out.
“I solemnly recommend a Chinese super genius to everyone!”
This is a very common title. There are countless posts with similar titles in the community every day. They just change the name of the country.
But it caught Matt Dawn's attention and let his finger hover over the post.
Because it was the first time he saw the name "China" appearing in a title like this.
Do Chinese people actually have football geniuses?
Or a super genius?
"Interesting..." Matt Dawn muttered, then clicked in.
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"...The above is my entire introduction to Lai Hu. I hope you don't get hung up on his specific attribute values. Believe me, it means nothing to Lai Hu. When you coach him personally, you will
It was found that his performance far exceeded the data calibrated for him by the game... I would like to call Lai Hu a little easter egg in the latest update package v23.2.5 of this game. He is silently waiting to be discovered, just like a
A rough diamond buried deep in the ground will definitely emit dazzling starlight in the sun the moment it sees the light of day..."
Matt Dawn read the entire post.
This post was posted eight hours ago, but it only has over a hundred views and two replies.
It can be seen that although this author works very hard to recommend his favorite player to everyone, the effect does not seem to be very good, and no one cares about his recommendation.
A new ID, the first post, in a popular community, such a person and such a post means that there is no credibility at all, basically no one will believe what he said in this post.
One of the only two replies expressed doubts and sarcasm: "From your description, I thought this was a Maverick with a potential value of -8 or above. I also went to the game to check it using the scouting tool.
You said this person's potential value, and found out that it is a fixed potential of 125... I don't know much about Chinese players, but it is obvious that this potential is not worthy of your exaggerated descriptions..."
The second reply was the poster's reply to this reply: "...I spent so much time in this post reminding you not to pay too much attention to those numbers, but I didn't expect that you would still use the scouting tool to look at the players right from the start.
Potential value, without the scouting tool you don't know how to play the game, right? Is it important whether the potential is -8 or solid potential? I always say actual performance, actual performance, actual performance...I hope
You can recognize these words and understand their meaning. The game data is based on the data reported by the investigators and the comprehensive consideration of the game company. It cannot 100% reflect a player's actual ability in reality. Moreover, there are many problems in the game over the years.
How many -10 monsters didn’t end up being ignored by everyone? I posted this post to recommend a talented player with a high cost performance to everyone, not to use it to compare data with others. This is a numbers game. You and I are not the same.
Players, please stop talking nonsense here."
Potential value is an important data in the game "The Godfather of Champions". This data will not be displayed directly in the game. Players need to use some additional plug-ins, such as "Scouting Tools" to see it.
This value represents the game's determination of the player's future ability limit.
The full value is 200, but few people can reach it. The game uses another way to express the potential value of those young players with great potential: -10.
The negative sign means that the player's potential value is random, and the number that follows represents the random value range of the player's potential value.
For example, -10 means that the player's potential value in the game is a minimum of 170 and a maximum of 200. Randomly floating within this range, the player may get a player with a completely different potential value every time he opens the game.
Young players who can reach -10 potential are top talents.
For example, the most popular young player in the past two years, Argentina's "Young Eagle" Mery Banega, was only fifteen years old when he first appeared in the game. At that time, the potential value given by the game was already -9
, which means his specific potential value will be between 150 and 180.
The next year, when he turned sixteen, his potential value in the game became -10, which fully demonstrated the optimism for this "young eagle".
Of course, Mery Banega has not lived up to the praise given to him by the game. He is now considered the best successor to Louis Francis in the La Liga giants Madrid Kings - not a successor in the field position.
Rather, he is the successor to the team's status - he will take over the banner of leading the Kings to greater glory from this legendary star.
Nowadays, he no longer needs to use random data to express his potential value. In the latest "Godfather of Champions" game, his potential value is fixed at 197, which is the player with the highest potential value among all active players. From a game perspective
Judging from it, it is true to say that he is the strongest among the young generation in today's football world.
As for the -8 potential value mentioned in the post, it means that the specific potential value fluctuates between 130-160. If you are lucky, the potential value of 160 will be reached when the game is opened, and it will be fully realized. It will be a fully qualified European giant.
The main player in the team.
Fixed potential means fixed potential. If a young player is fixed with potential, it means that the player is recognized as strong by everyone. He must rely on random potential to express the uncertainty of his future growth, just like Meli Bane.
Add the same, fixed potential value of 197, telling all players that this is a young genius who will definitely grow into the number one person in the world.
Or it means that the game is not optimistic about the future growth of this player, and the player's room for growth is limited. No matter how hard he trains and trains for games, that's it.
Hu Lai's current fixed potential of 125 is actually not bad when it comes to Chinese football. You must know that if all his potential of 125 can be turned into current ability value, then the ability value of 125 will be at the level of the Chinese national team.
Play as a rotation player for a mid-to-lower team in the five major European leagues.
Matt Dawn, a veteran player of "The Godfather of Champions", is naturally very familiar with these things, and he could see what the two people were fighting about at a glance.
The poster said that the player named "Lai Hu" is a typical low-scoring, high-energy, very useful player, while the person who replied to him thought that this player has too low potential and is not worthy of attention.
After watching such a debate, Matt Dawn is more interested in the "Lai Hu" mentioned by the poster. Whether it is really low scores and high energy, or the potential is too low to be worth mentioning, you still have to verify it yourself.
Just known.
So he put down his mobile phone, picked up the tablet on his desk, opened the mobile version of "The Godfather of Champions 2023", created a new file, and specifically added Chinese teams and players to the database selection.
After opening the game, he directly used the nuclear weapon modifier to transfer the player named "Lai Hu" to the English League One team he coached, Albock.
Then he began to study the player's data carefully.
In terms of mental attributes, defensive positioning is 5, work input is 6, concentration is 8, decisiveness is 15, leadership is 5, aggression is 6, vision is 6, teamwork is 11, running without the ball is 13, imagination is 7, willpower is 8, and bravery is 6
Seeing such data, Matt Dawn had the expression of "an old man on the subway looking at his phone."
He read the post and said that this player was a player in the second-tier league in China. He also considered the fact that the level of Chinese football itself was not high, so he chose to coach a team in the third-tier league in England to test this player.
Ability.
But looking at it now, this data may not even be able to play the main role in the mid-table teams in English League One.
Matt Down felt that he was wasting his time, and he even thought that there were any talented players worth paying attention to in China.
Just when he was about to close the archive, he noticed the highest attribute in Hu Lai's data:
decision,15.
Matt Dawn, a veteran "Godfather of Champions" player and senior "Godfather of Champions" data researcher, knows very well the meaning and importance of this attribute.
The values of this person's other attributes are very low, but his decision-making is ridiculously high. Compared with his other attributes, he is completely different.
He began to believe that the poster said that this player had low scores and high energy.
After all, it has a decision of up to 15...
Thinking of this, Matt Dawn changed his mind about turning off the game and decided to continue playing.
He began to adjust the team's lineup and design targeted training content for the Chinese player.
Then continue the game, continue the game, continue the game... just continue like this, trying to see if this Chinese player named "Lai Hu" can survive in a team in the middle and lower reaches of English League One.
During this period, his colleague Harry Speed came again and asked him for a video. After copying the video on a USB flash drive and handing it over to him, he continued to sit at his workstation and play games.
Harry knew that for Matt, playing the game "The Godfather of Champions" was indeed a way of working, so he did not disturb him, took the USB flash drive and left quietly.
Matt Dawn continues to play his game.
In the pre-season warm-up match, Matt tried to give Lai Hu a chance to start, but the player performed very poorly, with a post-game rating of only 5.4.
Later, after the league officially started, Matt gave the player another chance to start, but his performance still did not improve. Once he was knocked to the ground in the penalty area, and the referee made no comment, thinking that it was not a foul.
Based on Matt's understanding of the English League style, combined with the fact that the player only has 10 strength, he, the head coach, actually felt that the referee made a correct decision...
In the next two months of game time, Matt gave Lai Hu several opportunities to come on as a substitute, but this player's performance was hardly good.
The only thing that can comfort Matt, or support him from ending the game, is that in the more than four months since he transferred here, the Chinese player has grown relatively quickly. His shooting has already improved.
It has increased to 12, stopping the ball 13, heading 10, concentration 10, and decisiveness has also increased a bit, becoming 16. In addition, physical fitness has also increased accordingly.
Since this young player is improving so quickly, Matt can't help but look forward to what performance he can bring to him.
Finally, three months after the league started, Matt started Lai Hu again.
This time, Lai Hu lived up to his expectations and scored his first goal in the game!
"WOOOOW!!" Matt, who had been staring at the tablet at his desk, couldn't help but wave his fist when he saw this moment.
Lai Hu finally scored. It took him nearly five months to adapt to the English League One, and then he scored his first goal. Although it was a missed shot, it was a goal.
What's next?
Matt Dawn continues the game.
That missed goal was like turning on some kind of mode switch for Lai Hu. In the following games, Lai Hu scored consecutive goals and couldn't stop him.
During the lunch break, Matt had something to eat in the team restaurant. While eating, he held the tablet and played happily without paying any attention to what he ate.
He does not need to stay at the training base in the afternoon and can go home.
So he packed up his things and left the training base with his tablet in hand to play games. When someone greeted him on the way, he simply responded, with both his eyes and brain on the tablet.
He got on the bus with the tablet in hand, got off the bus with the tablet in hand, walked home with the tablet in hand, opened the door to his house and walked in.
After briefly greeting his parents, he carried the tablet upstairs, returned to his room, and continued playing while lying on the bed.
During dinner time, his mother called him downstairs, and he came down with his tablet and played while eating. His parents knew his work, and although they were a little surprised by this scene, they didn't ask any questions.
After eating, he lowered his head and went upstairs while playing. Then he locked himself in the bedroom and continued playing.
The tablet in the middle was out of power, so he took out the charger, plugged it in and continued playing while charging.
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When Matt came back to his senses from the game, he realized that it was already four o'clock in the morning...
"What the hell! What have I done!" Matt stared at the tablet, inserted his hands into his hair, and scratched his head vigorously.
The game screen was still on the screen of the tablet, and it was no longer the one he originally opened.
In the middle of the game, he had a new idea, so he started a new game. This time he chose to coach Hammond Castle, the English Championship team he currently works for, but he did not use nuclear weapons to directly modify Lai Hu
Come to your own team and choose normal transfer operations.
How can a player from a second-division team in England be rejected when he offers an olive branch to a player who plays for a team in China's second-division league?
He quickly completed the transfer deal and spent one million pounds to recruit this 19-year-old young forward from AnDong ShanXing.
But after all the contracts were finalized, he was stuck on the labor certificate. In the end, he had to choose to sign Lai Hu and then loan him out.
But after two years of playing time, Lai Hu still failed to obtain a labor certificate. Matt had no patience to wait any longer, so he had to use nuclear weapons to give the player a second nationality of the United Kingdom, so that he would not be subject to the restrictions of a labor certificate.
At the same time, Lai Hu, who spent two seasons on loan outside, has made great progress since returning to Hammond Castle.
It's better than the attributes he had trained for four months in his first save file.
Lai Hu, who returned to Hammond Castle, burst out with strong offensive power in the first game. He scored twice to help the team win. What followed was another goal-scoring spurt that couldn't stop the car.
In his first season at Hammond Castle, Lai Hu scored 27 goals in the league, ranking second in the league scorer list with only a two-goal disadvantage. With the help of his goals, Hammond
Castlevania made a breakthrough in the English Championship and won promotion. In the new season, they became a Premier League team!
In fact, Matt planned to save the game and sleep after finishing the season. Who would have thought that he would be successfully promoted in the end and become a Premier League team. After becoming a Premier League team, Matt would play in the Premier League in the new season. Matt was even more curious - with Lai Hu's ability, he
What can you do in the Premier League?
So he played again.
In the first season of the Premier League, Lai Hu seemed not to adapt to this faster-paced game, and his performance was mediocre, scoring only eleven goals in one season.
Matt was not satisfied with the result and continued to play. In the second season, Lai Hu's performance was obviously much better. He scored a total of twenty-five goals in all competitions. This statistic was already very good, even if it was not
The performance of a top striker in the world can also be considered top-notch in the Premier League.
With the help of his goals one after another, Hammond Castle also qualified for the Europa League.
Just when Matt wanted to continue playing, he glanced at the time on his phone and realized it was already four in the morning...
No, I can’t play anymore, otherwise I will definitely fall asleep at the training base tomorrow...
Matt Dawn gritted his teeth and filed the file, then pulled the tablet off the charging cable and put it on the desk.
He returned to bed himself and lay down to get ready for sleep.
At this time, he remembered what the poster wrote in that post:
"...As long as you play patiently, believe me, you will find a very strange phenomenon - he is obviously a very average player, even a little bit bad in terms of statistics, but why can he score goals? His performance on the field
It is seriously inconsistent with his data..."
This is probably what the poster was saying to attract people. Of course, Matt knows the reason behind this. This is not an unsolved mystery. As a character in the game, everything he does must follow the rules of the game. The reason why he is like this
If you can score a goal, it must be based on the rules set by the game.
Lai Hu's decision-making is very high, his concentration is also very good, and his movement without the ball and teamwork have improved rapidly.
These four important attributes determine that he can always appear in the right position and make the right choices in the game.
With this premise, even if his shooting value is not too high, he can always score goals.
In Matt's view, whether it is technical attributes such as shooting and stopping the ball, or physical attributes such as agility, endurance and strength, they can all be improved through later training.
The real talent is those mental attributes he just mentioned.
It’s really interesting that a nineteen-year-old young man who lives thousands of miles away in the mysterious East possesses such spiritual attributes...
Those were Matt Dawn's last thoughts before falling into a deep sleep.
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Note 1: I used FM's Editor to directly make a Hu Lai, and set it according to these data, but because I don't have time to play, I don't know how this Hu Lai will perform in the game, and whether it can really look like Zhang Zihao.
Or as Matt Dawn played it.
If anyone is interested and has time, you can make a fool of yourself based on this data and put it into the game to see how it goes...
In addition, I previously made a game database for FM2019, which contains all my previous original characters.
However, this is the database of FM2019. I don’t know if it supports the latest FM2020.
Why not make one for FM2020? Because there is no time.
It took me several days to do this...
If the FM2019 database can be compatible with other versions of FM, consider putting it up for everyone to play.
It's mainly a compatibility issue, I don't know if it will work...
PS2: I found that someone misunderstood the first two chapters. Hu Lai and his teammates made a bet that the amateur team would be drawn in the Football Association Cup, and then they would shine their shoes to celebrate in the next game, instead of shining their shoes to celebrate the match against the amateur team.
The last game I signed was the Chinese League One, away game against the Flag Eagles, and the FA Cup match against the amateur team will not be played until July 5th.
So the shoe shine game was not with an amateur team from the beginning.