21 minutes ago, wazzaflow10 said:
SI has nothing to gain here by fudging numbers to some crazy degree. The fact is that only 5% of saves utilized international management. If it was a more popular game mode the number of saves whether it was club + country or country only would be much higher. It just highlights the low utilization of the mode.
Then why switch from using the percentage of players who used modes to justify removing them, to specifically using the percentage of saves for international management?
There's only one logical reason and that is the percentage of players for international management wouldn't back up Miles justification for removing it.
My argument isn't that it's a popular mode per save either.
My argument is that a lot of people will have at least 1 save per cycle of international management, and that number is sufficiently large to have forced Miles to change the metric. (more than 28% if we are being very specific about what I was saying).
If we knew the total number of players and saves it would be pretty trivial to work out, but we don't so even all of your analysis is little more than a wild guess because I can't imagine the average save per player is less than 3 over the lifetime of an FM.
It's never going to be a hugely popular way of playing the game per save, purely due to the very nature of international management IRL, never mind within the game.
It's always going to be something people have a dabble at occasionally, outside of tournament years which might see a spike of players giving it a go.
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