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saying "he was good in CM/FM" takes new meaning

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Football Manager computer game to help Premier League clubs buy players • Scouts to begin using game’s database to identify talent • Prozone recruiter tool has information on 80,000 players.


Premier League clubs are to start using the database belonging to the computer game Football Manager to help identify and recruit new signings.

Sports Interactive, the creator of the best-selling game, will begin feeding its extensive information into Prozone Recruiter, an online analysis platform which many of the top clubs use to scout new talent.

Biographical, contractual and positional information compiled by SI over two decades will be incorporated into the Prozone tool, which provides player data and archived video footage of tens of thousands of players from across the world.

“Prozone Recruiter has been built to supplement the intuition of scouts and coaches by delivering detailed performance information on over 80,000 players worldwide,” says Prozone’s CEO Thomas Schmider. “The Sports Interactive database is a highly accurate and valuable resource that will further enhance the recruitment services that we provide. The integration of Sports Interactive data further establishes Recruiter as the most comprehensive recruitment and asset management platform available.”

Sports Interactive’s studio director Miles Jacobson said: “For years we’ve heard stories of real-life managers and scouts using our data to help with the recruitment process. From now on, it’s official…real managers around the world will be finding and comparing players using data and a search system that will be very familiar to players of Football Manager.

“The information gathered by our network of more than 1,300 scouts around the world, combined with Prozone’s amazing performance data, makes this an invaluable tool for any football club that takes player recruitment seriously.”
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didn't we (everton) start using this about a year or more ago.

i've got to be honest, it's a good idea, you see players like james rodriguez, eden hazard, el shawarray, lukaku etc. who use to become beasts on the game 5 years ago when we got to the current date and continually getting better (except obertan).

people will laugh, but FM does seem to have a very high success rate in getting young wonderkids correct when they're at the age of 15/16 etc.

all down to @swisso of course (y)
 
So clubs can now reduce managers and scouts wages by a few thousand a week, and just buy in a few copies of fbm on the ps4, makes sense. Imagine Brenda R complaining to his Yankie paymasters because he had to go and replace his Wii, they are taking the piss.
 

Do you think Roberto can use fbm to convince our chairman to buy Henen? "Look mr Kenright, the new version of fbm says quite clearly that young Henen is a must buy."
 
Wouldn't wanna say too much, but interesting to see that the 'scouts' that are mentioned, work for free, whilst the data they amass is being sold off. Something amiss there.

Nevertheless, the quality of the data is undoubtebly good; there's people all over the world watching players in obscure countries when they're teenagers, it's not a bloke in an office in London watching a few Youtube videos!

It's good to see people taking it seriously, there's lot's of us putting serious effort into it :lol:
 

It sounds daft, but I can see how it might be a useful tool as a database. I highly doubt any manager worth his salt is gonna buy a player because he's good in a computer game. I can see how it might be useful for identifying targets to be scouted properly though.
 
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