FM12: One season in the pocket

Season one has concluded, and here are the stats for my players this season. Now the challenge is to look at who I am going to keep, as there are a lot of contracts comming to an end. I am not being given a whole lot of new funds to keep my team doing well so I will need to make some cuts to keep things moving along. I ended up reaching my boards requirement of making to the playoffs and that was my personal goal as well. To be honest I did not want to get promoted as I feel that next season will be the season we really try to push for a stronger squad and better results. Therefore, I am counting on a promotion next season, and ideally a nice boost in ticket sales.

Overall, I can't say our results look too bad. We had a strong run at the end there, with no losses for quite a while, and close to the playoff we beat some of the top teams of the league without too much effort. Looking at the stats a bit closer I noticed our team had the best record of the league in terms of goals conceded, so I'm pleased with that, only 45 goals agains, with Stockport at 46 and Luton in third with 48. We were 7th in attendance with 2228 on average, but Luton was much higher with 6244 in first place. The biggest stats were probably in the goals scored. We scored 66 goals getting 10th place, where the top team was Fleetwood, with a wooping 117 goals, which is nuts. Luton came second with 90, Lincoln with 89 and York with 85. Fleetwood really stands out in terms of individuals too, with Magno Vieira being the MVP of the league and scoring 42 goals, which was just spectacular, no wonder they won the season. Second came Luton's Stuart Fleetwood with 34 and Jason Walker (York) with 24. Quite a range just at the top 3. Our best players were Liam Hatch with 10 and Ryan Brooke / Adam Rundle with 8. Kris Taylor, one of my favorite players scored 7.

Chandler was the 3rd best passed in the season, which was nice, with 83% completion, where Akwasi Asante had 84% and Matty Blair 83%. So really was a close competition here. Ratings were dominated by Fleetwood, with six players in the top ten. Magno Vieira of course led with 7.46, having Sean Clancy second with 7.26. Our top players were Ian Miller (7.05) in 36th and Liam Hatch (6.94) in 66th place.