FIFA '15 Career Mode Challenge: Team of Randoms - koszak27's Dynasty

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FIFA '15 Career Mode Challenge: Team of Randoms

Posted on July 11, 2016 at 01:57 PM.

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Well the 2016 Euros have gotten me back into playing FIFA again. The only problem is that I only have FIFA '15 on my PS4 and with '17 around the corner, there's no reason to spend money on '16.

In an attempt to bridge this gap until late September, I came up with an idea while browsing the Futhead site. I decided to use the random player/club tool to select an entire team of bronze rated players. Typically I do career modes based around the youth academy and regens so I figured this could get interesting. By randomly drawing players, keeping track of them and forcing them to become a team seemed like a tough challenge.

I started by drawing bronze rated players through the randomizer on Futhead but this tool is only for FIFA '16. This meant that after each draw, I had to check the FIFA '15 Career Mode section of the site to make sure they were in the game. If they were in FIFA '15, I entered them into a spreadsheet with their age, rating, potential, team and nationality. Eventually, I had 30 players drawn from the '16 randomizer who were in FIFA '15.

After counting some of the players' information in the spreadsheet, I had come up with only 3 teams that appeared more than once; Exeter City, Carlisle United and the NY Red Bulls at two players each. Because 9 of the 30 drawn players were English, I knew I needed to use an English team so I chose Exeter City in English League 2 to be my team. I'm a sucker for red/black colored teams anyway :cough: Devils :cough:.

Now that my players and team were done, all that was left was to make the roster changes in-game. I downloaded the latest rosters and went to work adding and removing the appropriate players from Exeter City. Each time I added a player from a team to Exeter City, I removed one from the same position to the original team. There were four occasions where the player from the spreadsheet was not found in-game. I made up for these players by leaving two low-rated, original players on Exeter City. They are Tom Nichols (55, ST) and Arron Davies (59, LM). This may have been because I downloaded the latest squads or maybe the players were on a different team but I wasn't prepared to search for them so I just kept two extra players on Exeter City.

Below is the starting depth chart of these players. I used the LF position for my 2nd CBs because I'm using a 4-4-2 formation and the chart only had 3 defenders.

Exeter City Depth Chart - 2014
	STARTER	2ND	3RD	4TH
G	Bonmann	Pym	Tuncel	Castano
RFB	Schimpelsberger	Arias
MLB	Duffy	Won
LFB	Davies	Ingeman
ROMF	Dezi	Brough
RDMF	McEleney	Davis
LDMF	Ledson	Thomson
LOMF	O'Brien	Naumoff	Davies
RF	Sikorski	Smalley	Nichols
CF	Schoenfeld	McDonald	Jay
LF	Grainger	Hunt

I have hired a 2 star Experience, 2 star Judgement youth scout to try and find some local talent in England. I'll keep just the one scout for the career to limit the infusion of new, random players and focus on the team drawn by the random tool. Several of the players have contracts expiring after the first year and I don't have the budget to re-sign them all. My league objectives for the year are to reach the round of 32 in the league cup and to avoid a finish at the bottom of the table.

I won't be updating after every game, but probably twice per season. I can't buy anyone in January with my limited budget and I have very few reserve players so selling anyone will be tough. I loaned out Castano (55, GK) to Leicester and Jay (46, ST) to Hamilton so far but I can't spare anyone else. Hopefully, my youth scout can find some cheap talent to bolster the reserves or sell for some profit by the end of the league year.

I'm hoping to spend at least two years in League 2 because most of my players are very young and need some time to develop. The team's average age is 23.4 with an average overall of 57.6. The ultimate goal is to reach the Premier League and maybe even play some Champion's League games but we will see what happens. I fear that even after making it to the Premier League, I will still be stuck with only $400k in the transfer budget and $3,000 in weekly wages to spend.

My focus is on finding some core players to play with who I would not normally have even used in the game. By making this random team, I hope to find something I can continue doing until FIFA '17 is out. If I have enough fun, I may even try it in that game as well.