Fox in the Penalty Area

A middle-aged man walked to a desk and knocked on the baffle.

"Hi, Matt, the boss asked you if the analysis video of the last game was made?"

Busy in front of the monitor was a young man with messy blond hair. He took a look away from the computer monitor, glanced at the middle-aged man next to him, and then turned his gaze back: "Immediately, immediately, you can enter the rendering. ."

"Wow, Matt, why are your dark circles heavier?" The middle-aged man exclaimed when he saw the obvious dark circles on the pale face of the young man.

"I only slept for three hours yesterday..." the blond young man said and yawned.

"I said you tried too hard to complete the task given by the boss?"

"No, no... it won't take too long to do the analysis video." The young man waved his hand.

"Then why did you go? Did you have a girlfriend recently?" The middle-aged man showed a gossip on his face.

The upper and lower eyelids of the young people are almost sticking together: "CGF ("The Godfather of Champions") is my Girlfriend. I spent almost all night playing with her yesterday.

The middle-aged man gave him a thumbs up: "Salute to you, young man, I can't stay so long for "The Godfather of Champions" now."

"You know, Harry. Playing "The Godfather of Champions" is also part of my job." The young man yawned again, tears squeezed from the corner 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 bother you. Hurry up. I'll have it in the afternoon."

"Okay, don't worry, it must be done before noon." The young man waved his hand without looking up, and continued to get busy on his work computer.

Matt Dawn, a video analyst for the English Champions League team Hammond Castle, is 26 years old and single.

He is working hard to complete the task given 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, and then combine his own analysis of the performance of these players in the game, make it into a video, and finally edit it together to make a total of about twenty Minute video clips.

This short video will be handed over to the head coach Tony Clark. He will broadcast the video at the coaching staff's tactical meeting and show it to the players, telling them what their performance in the last game is worthy of praise. Where do you have to criticize?

This video will be an important reference for the coaching staff to make tactics for the next game, and it is also the basis for the coaching staff to formulate a new week of training plan for the players.

In short, although video data analysts will not appear on the coaching bench of the game, nor will they be taken care of by TV broadcasts, no media and fans will care about them, but now this position is more and more for the team coach The more important it is.

He has been a video analyst in this club for three years. At first, this job was not easy to do. He needed to watch the game video repeatedly and pause frequently to record his analysis ideas. The transcripts alone are filled with pages of paper.

After the conclusion, the video editing process began.

And now he is familiar with all of this. He will pay attention to the performance of each player while watching the live broadcast of the game, and prepare a voice recorder to record all his observations and thinking results with the voice recorder.

When he starts to make the video after the game, he can save a lot of time to watch the game video repeatedly, and he can also save the time of recording with pen, just refer to his own recording directly.

This greatly improved his work efficiency.

Most of the working time is actually just spent on video editing and production, much faster than before.

Not long after his colleague left, he finished the production of the video and then pressed the output button.

The next step is to automatically render the video generated by the computer, 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 top video workstations now, just to speed up his video rendering speed for a few minutes.

What's more, Matt Dawn himself didn't think it was necessary to spend so much money on upgrading the computer to speed up the video output. These ten minutes to half an hour, would he use it for other things?

Just like now, during this waiting time, Matt Dawn picked up his mobile phone and planned to visit the crowded community to see if there were any interesting posts.

He quickly browsed the post titles in the community, and only clicked in to see the specific content if he was interested in the titles.

If you are not interested, just swipe it quickly and click to the next page.

He read it quickly, occasionally clicking into the title to quickly browse the content, and then quit to continue scrolling down.

In this way, he quickly browsed five or six pages of the forum until a headline popped up.

"I solemnly recommend a Chinese super genius to everyone!"

This is a very common title. There are a lot of posts with this kind of title every day. I don’t know how many posts there are in the community, just change the country name.

But it still attracted the attention of Matt Dawn, making his fingers hover over the post.

Because for the first time he saw the name "China" in a title like this.

Is there a football genius among the Chinese?

Super genius?

"Interesting..." Matt Dawn murmured, then clicked in.

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"...The above is all my introduction to LaiHu. I hope that everyone will not be entangled in his specific attribute values. Believe me, it is meaningless for LaiHu. When you coach him yourself, you will find him. His performance far exceeded the data that the game gave him calibration... I would like to call LaiHu a little egg in the game’s latest update package v23.2.5. He silently waits to be discovered, like a deeply buried one. The rough diamond in the extreme depths of the ground, when it sees the sun, it will surely emit dazzling stars in the sun..."

Matt Dawn read the entire content of the post.

This is a post made eight hours ago, but the number of views is only over a hundred, and the number of replies is two.

It can be seen that although the author is very hard to recommend the player he loves to everyone, the effect does not seem to be very good. No one cares about his recommendation.

A new ID, the first post, in the crowded community, such a person and such a post mean that there is no credibility at all, and basically no one will believe what he said in this post.

The only two replies, one also expressed doubts and irony: "Listening to your description, I thought this was a Maverick with a potential value of -8 or more. I also went to the game to check it with a scout tool. You said that the potential value of this man turned out to be a fixed potential of 125...I don't know much about Chinese players, but obviously this potential is not worthy of your exaggerated description..."

The second post is the original reply to this reply: "...I have spent so much space in the post to remind you not to pay too much attention to those numbers. I didn’t expect you to use scout tools to see the players as soon as you came up. You don’t know how to play this game if you leave the scout tool, don’t you? Is the potential -8 or solid potential important? I always talk about actual performance, actual performance, actual performance...I hope You can recognize these words and understand their meaning. Game data is a product of comprehensive consideration based on the data reported by the investigator and the game company. It does not reflect 100% of a player's actual ability in reality. And there have been in the game for so many years. How many -10 monsters weren’t everyone in the end? I’m posting this post to recommend a talented player with a high cost performance, not to compare the numbers with others. You and I are not the same. Like players, don’t talk 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 upper limit of the player's future ability.

The full value is 200, but few people can reach it. The game uses another way to express their potential value for those young players with great potential: -10.

The negative sign indicates that the player's potential value is random, and the number following it 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 170 at the lowest and 200 at the highest, floating randomly within this range, and the player may get a player with a completely different potential every time they open a gear.

Young players who can reach -10 potential are top geniuses.

For example, the young Argentine "Hawk" Meli Banega, the most popular young player in the past two years, 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. This means that his specific potential value will be between 150 and 180.

In the second year, when he was sixteen, his potential value in the game became -10, which fully demonstrated his optimism for this "young eagle".

Of course, Meli Banega did not live up to the game’s praise of him. Now in the La Liga giants Madrid Kings, he is considered to be the best successor to Louis Francis—not the one on the pitch. It's the successor to the team's status-he will take over from the legendary star the banner of leading the Kings to renew their glory.

Today, 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 to 197, which is the player with the highest potential value among all active players. From a gaming point of view, it is true that he is the strongest among the younger generation in today's football.

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, you will get a potential value of 160 when you open the gear, and you will be fully honored. He is a player who can play the main role in the European giants.

The fixed potential is fixed potential. If a young player is fixed potential, it means that the player is recognized as strong. Random potential must be used to express the uncertainty of his future growth, just like Meli Barnet. Plus, the potential value of 197 is fixed, telling all players that this is a young genius who can definitely grow into the world's first person.

Either it means that the game is not optimistic about the player's future growth, and the player's growth space is limited. No matter how to train and cultivate the game, that's it.

Like Hu Lai's current 125 fixed potential, if it is put in Chinese football, it is actually okay. We must know that if all of his potential of 125 can be turned into the current ability value, then the ability value of 125 is the level of the Chinese national team and can be a rotation player in the middle and lower reaches of the five major European leagues.

"The Godfather of Champions" veteran player Matt Dawn is naturally very familiar with these things, and he can see what the two people are fighting at a glance.

The poster said that the player named "LaiHu" is a typical low-scoring, high-energy and very useful player, and the person who responded to him thinks that this player has too low potential and is not worthy of attention.

After watching such a controversy, Matt Dawn became more interested in what the poster called "LaiHu". Whether it is really low score and high energy, or the potential is too low to be worth mentioning, you still have to verify it yourself. know.

So he put down his phone, picked up the tablet on his desk, opened the mobile version of "Champion Godfather 2023", and created a new file, specifically adding teams and players from China to the database selection.

After opening the file, he directly used the nuclear weapon modifier to transfer the player named "LaiHu" to his coached league team Albuquerque.

Then he began to carefully study the player's data.

In terms of technical attributes, pass 6, cross 3, mark 1, penalty kick 9, technical 5, corner kick 2, foul kick 1, dribble 4, steal 1, free kick 2, shot 9, stop 10, head Ball 8, long shot 4.

In terms of mental attributes, defensive position 5, work engagement 6, concentration 8, decision 15, leadership 5, aggressiveness 6, vision 6, teamwork 11, running without the ball 13, imagination 7, willpower 8, brave 6 , Prejudge 7, calm down 10.

Physical attributes, explosive power 8, bounce 9, flexibility 9, endurance 12, balance 8, strength 10, speed 8, physical 13. (Note 1)

Emmmmm...

Seeing such data, Matt Dawn has an expression of "the old man on the subway is looking at the phone".

He read the post and said that this player is a player in China's second-tier league. He also considered the fact that Chinese football itself is not high-level, so he chose to coach an English third-tier team to test this player. Ability.

But looking at it now, this data may not be the main force in the middle-tier teams in the League.

Matt Dawn feels that he is simply wasting time, and he still feels that there are any talented players worth watching in China.

Just when he wanted to turn off the archive, he noticed the highest attribute in Hulai's data:

Decide, 15.

The veteran "Godfather of Champions" player and senior data investigator of "The Godfather of Champions" Matt Dawn knows the meaning and importance of this attribute.

The value of this person's other attributes is very low, but this decision is very high, and it is completely different from his other attributes.

He began to believe a little bit about the player's low score and high energy.

After all, he has a decision of up to 15...

Thinking of this, Matt Dawn changed his mind about turning off the game and decided to play it.

He began to adjust the team lineup and designed targeted training content for this Chinese player.

Then continue the game, continue the game, continue the game...Just keep going, and want to see if the Chinese player named "LaiHu" can survive in a team in the middle and lower reaches of the League.

During this period, his colleague Harry Speed ​​came again and asked him for the video. After handing the video to the other party on the USB flash drive, he continued to sit at his desk and play games.

Harry knew that for Matt, playing the game "The Godfather of Champions" was indeed a way of working, so he didn't bother him, so he took the USB and went quietly.

Matt Dawn continued to play his game.

In the pre-season warm-up match, Matt tried to give LaiHu a chance to start, but this player performed very badly, with a score of only 5.4 after the match.

Later, after the official start of the league, Matt gave the player a chance to start again. His performance still did not improve. He was even knocked to the ground in the penalty area. The referee didn't say anything and thought it was not a foul.

Based on Matt's knowledge of the League of Nations style, combined with the player's strength of only 10, he, the head coach, felt that the referee made a correct judgment...

In the next two months of game time, Matt gave LaiHu several opportunities to come off the bench, but the performance of this player is also hard to say.

The only reason that can comfort Matt, or support him not to end the game, is that in the four months since he moved here, the Chinese player has grown quite rapidly. His shot has risen to 12, 13 stops, 10 headers, 10 concentrated, and the decision has also risen a bit, becoming 16. In addition, physical fitness has also increased accordingly.

Since this young player has improved so fast, Matt can't help but expect what he can bring to himself.

Finally three months after the start of the league, Matt once again let LaiHu start.

This time, LaiHu did not live up to his expectations and scored his first goal to join the team 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.

LaiHu finally scored. It took him nearly five months to adapt to the League of Legends, and then scored the first goal. Although it was a missed shot, he scored.

What's next?

Matt Dawn continues the game.

That missed goal was like turning on a certain mode switch of LaiHu, and LaiHu continued to score goals in the next game and couldn't stop it.

During the lunch break, Matt ate something casually in the team restaurant. When eating, he held the tablet and played happily, not caring what he ate.

He doesn't need to stay in the training base in the afternoon, he can go home.

So he packed up his things and played games with the tablet all the way out of the training base. When someone greeted him on the road, he simply responded, both eyes and brain were on the tablet.

He got on the bus with the tablet, got off the bus with the tablet, walked home with the tablet, opened the door with the tablet and walked in.

Saying hello to his parents briefly, he took the tablet upstairs again, returned to his room, lay on the bed and continued playing.

At dinner time, his mother called him downstairs, and he came down with his tablet, eating and playing. Although his parents knew his work, they were a little surprised at this scene, but they didn't ask much.

After eating, he lowered his head while playing and went upstairs, then shut himself in the bedroom and continued playing.

The middle tablet ran out of power, so he turned out the charger, plugged it in, and continued the game.

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When Matt recovered from the game state, he realized that it was four o'clock in the morning...

"Damn! What did I do!" Matt stared at the tablet, put his hands in his hair, and scratched his head vigorously.

The screen of the tablet computer is still the game screen, which is no longer the one he opened.

In the middle of the game, he had a new idea, so he opened a new gear. This time he chose to coach Hammond Castle, the English championship team he is currently working for, but he did not use nuclear weapons to directly modify LaiHu into his team, but chose the normal transfer operation.

How can an English second-tier team throw an olive branch on a player who plays for a Chinese second-tier team?

He quickly settled the transfer transaction and spent a million pounds to hire the 19-year-old young forward from AnDongShanXing.

But after all the contracts were finalized, it was stuck on the labor license. In the end, he had to choose to sign LaiHu and then rent him out.

But after two years of playing time, LaiHu still failed to obtain a labor license. Matt didn't have the patience to wait any longer. He could only use nuclear weapons to give the player a second nationality, Britain, so that he would not be restricted by the labor license.

At the same time, LaiHu, who has been on loan for two seasons, returned to Hammond Castle and has made great progress.

It's better than the four months of training in his first archive.

LaiHu, who returned to Hammond Castle, broke out a strong offensive in the first game. He scored twice to help the team win, and then another scoring trip without stopping.

In the first season of Hammond Castle, LaiHu scored 27 goals in the league, ranking second in the league's scorer list with only two goals. With the help of his goals, Hammond Castle made a breakthrough in the English Champions League and won the promotion quota. In the new season, they have become the Premier League team!

In fact, Matt planned to save and sleep after playing this season. How could he have thought that he would be successfully upgraded in the end. After becoming a Premier League team, he will play the Premier League in the new season. Matt is even more curious-with LaiHu's ability, he is in What can the Premier League do?

So he went on playing again.

In the first season of the Premier League, LaiHu didn't seem to be able to adapt to this faster-paced game. His performance was mediocre and only eleven goals were scored in a season.

Matt was not satisfied with the result, and went on playing. In the second season, LaiHu's performance was significantly better. In all competitions, he scored 25 goals in total. This data is already very good. Even if it is not the world's top forward performance, it can be regarded as first-class in the Premier League. .

With the help of his goal after goal, Hammond Castle also qualified for the Europa League.

Just when Matt wanted to continue playing, he glanced at the time on his phone, only to realize that it was four o'clock 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 to save, then pulled the tablet off the charging cable and placed it on the desk.

He returned to the bed again, lay down and prepared to sleep.

At this time he remembered the words written by the original poster in that post:

"...As long as you play patiently, believe me, you will find a very strange phenomenon-obviously a player who looks at the statistics is very ordinary, and even a bit poor, but why can he score? His performance on the field Seriously inconsistent with his data..."

This should be the story of the original poster in order 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 so. To score a goal, it must be based on the rules set by the game.

LaiHu's determination is very high, his concentration is also very good, as well as off-ball running and teamwork have improved very quickly.

These four important attributes determine that he can always appear in the right position in the game and make the right choice.

With this premise, even if his shooting value is not too high, he can always score.

In Matt’s view, whether it is technical attributes such as shooting and stopping, or physical attributes such as agility, endurance and strength, they can all be improved through later training~www.ltnovel.com~ The real talent is just now. Those spiritual attributes mentioned.

It is really interesting that a 19-year-old young man who is thousands of miles away in the mysterious east has such spiritual attributes...

This was Matt Dawn's last thought before he fell asleep.

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Note 1: I used the FM editor 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 such Hu Lai performs in the game. Is it really like Zhang Zihao? Or what Matt Dawn played.

If someone is interested and has time, you can make a Hulai based on this data and put it in the game for a run to see how it goes...

In addition, I have made a game database of FM2019, which contains original characters from all my previous novels.

But this is the database of FM2019, I don't know if it supports the latest FM2020.

Why not make a FM2020? Because there is no time.

It took me several days to do this...

If the FM2019 database is 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 some people misunderstood the first two chapters. Hu Lai and his teammates bet that the FA Cup will draw the amateur team, and then the next game will celebrate the shoe, not the amateur team. After the draw, the next game is the Chinese League. The away game is played by the Eagles. The FA Cup match with the amateur team will not be played until July 5.

So the shoe shine game was not played against an amateur team from the beginning.

I'll go ahead and apply a patch...