[INSTRUCTIONS] - Youth Teams, by FIDAdmin1
As you know we've just initiated youth team/leagues within Footballidentity and the first youth league has already been created in England (and it seems ROM, SCO and NOR will soon follow). This means we should try to release some further instructions for you about how this feature works. Here's is a short instruction:
1. Appointing youth team manager
A youth team is nothing without a youth team manager. The youth team manager is the only one who can sign footballers to the youth team for example and it is really a key person that need to be appointed ASAP. The Main Team manager need to open the role of the youth team manager and the role can also be publicly announced (which means it will appear in the manager job list under World -> Employment -> Manager Jobs). This procedure is all very similar to appointing an assistant manager and you will find the functionality to open and announce this role by following this path on your main team space:
Team -> Team Management -> Managers
The youth team manager can in his turn appoint an assistant manager for the youth team by following the same path on his youth team.
2. Deciding manager rights
As a team manager for the main team you can decide what rights the different managers in your "club" has (assistant manager, youth team manager and youth team assistant manager) when it comes to picking the starting lineup for each team. With this feature a manager can then allow for example a youth team manager to pick the lineup for the main time in case the main team manager is not able to do so himself. The "Club Manager Rights" feature can be found by the main team manager by navigating through the following path on the main team space:
Team -> Team Management -> Managers
Note: Only the team manager and assistant manager of each team can participate as manager during the matches of that team. This is not affected by the Club Manager Rights setting.
3. Trial contracts
Trial contracts will become a very important thing for youth teams in the future. The idea is that new users and footballers should be funneled into the youth team academies in order to give them a good start in FID where they can play against other users/footballers on similar terms. For now trial contracts will still be active also for "normal leagues" but we will start to turn trial contracts off for normal leagues playing at times where there is an active and established youth league so that new users and footballers is directed into the youth leagues as their first step.
4. Manager Rating
As a main team manager you will get half the manager rating that your youth team manager is able to generate as an addition on top of your regular manager rating.
5. Picking footballers from youth team to play in A team
One of the biggest benefits with youth teams (apart from extending the manager staff and total amount of users in the "club") is that the main team can call up footballers from the youth team to play in the main team. If the youth team has a match at the same time as the main time (this will be the case in 100% of the league matches but could of course be different when it comes to UFCL matches etc) then the footballer that is to be called up will have to be removed from the starting lineup of the youth team. The footballer cannot even be on the bench in the youth team match so you need to do the following procedure in order to get the footballer excluded from the youth match:
1. Enter lineup and tactics selection for youth team match
2. Highlight the footballer you want to remove and click "Remove from field" if footballer is currently placed in the starting 11.
3. If you did not have a full bench when performing #2 above the footballer will have been added to the bench instead and you then need to highlight him on the bench and click "Remove from Bench".
4. You will now be able to see the footballer (he will have the letters YT in his name) in the lineup and tactics selection for your main team.
RECOMMENDATION: It is highly recommended to give youth team footballers club-unique shirt numbers because if they have the same shirt number as a main team footballer they will also have the same number during match even if they are playing on the same team.
6. Training Matches
A very nice feature that comes with the youth teams is that you are able to select any footballer from the club (from both main team and youth team) when initiating a training match. This can be a great way to quickly get new users/footballers to learn the game by having the more experienced bunch of footballers (from the main team) play with the newbies (from the youth team). Only the main team manager can initiate the weekly free training match but anyone from the team can pay the small fee to initiate a training match and in all cases all footballers (from both teams) will be selectable.
Training matches are initiated by clicking the CREATE TRAINING MATCH link on the character or team space.
RECOMMENDATION: It is highly recommended to give youth team footballers club-unique shirt numbers because if they have the same shirt number as a main team footballer they will also have the same number during match even if they are playing on the same team.
7. Club forum
New with the youth team functionality is now a "Club forum" which can be found in both the main team and youth team locker room. This forum is open for all characters (both managers and footballers) from both the main team and the youth team. You will find the club forum by navigating through this path:
Team -> Locker Room -> Club Forum
8. Attribute increase from playing matches
As most of you know we are planning to release a new feature which will allow for footballers to get a small boost in their attribute development through being active in matches (User Decision related). This feature will have a special effect in youth teams since it will give a higher boost compared to normal teams.
We have however not yet activated this feature. We need to make a lot of calculations and investigate the effect on footballer development first in order to see if there are other changes required in order not to let footballers become too good. We will give more info once we have reached the point where we can release this.
9. Youth team salaries and transfer budgets
The salary budgets of all youth teams will be constant. We believe they will always be 4 million and it is up to each youth team to balance that salary budget in order to get a suitable mix of 18-21 year olds.
Currently we have a bug in youth team creation that sets salary budget to 200.000 instead of 4 million. We hope to have this sorted in a few days and will update the budgets manually as soon as we can after a youth team has been created.
Transfer budgets for youth teams will start at 0 and they will get a small amount of transfer funds put into their accounts per week. The main idea behind youth teams is to sign many footballers on free transfers and to bring new footballers and users into the teams to get "a great start in life".
IMPORTANT:
Please remember that there are still some system rules that limits how you as a manager can take over teams etc. and these rules still apply for the youth teams as well. So if you as a team manager for example take over the youth team manager role you will have to wait 7 days before you can reapply for the main team manager role again so it is strongly recommended not to do so.
SOURCE: https://forum.footballidentity.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=171489