Hello everyone – I hope you all had lovely weekends.

Today’s blog is going to look at new features in the areas of rules, awards and records in Football Manager 2010.

As I’ve mentioned in previous blogs, the Football Manager series has lots of leagues in it (at least 50 countries at last count, and hundreds of playable divisions), and we try and re-create these leagues as accurately as possible.

With our huge team of researchers around the world, who are much more knowledgeable about the different competition rules than we are, they constantly give us feedback on changes in their leagues and rules.

A few high profile rule changes in England this season have been the seven sub rule in the Football League, and squad registration becoming part of the upper realms of football next season, and changes like that are happening all over the world. Keeping on top of it all is imperative.

I’m not going to list all of those changes here, as there have been thousands around the globe for this season, and we’ve done our best to get them all in the game, including the aforementioned English changes, which gives a good level of insight into the kind of detail we go into for the game.

Here are a few of the changes in these areas though, and also with awards, records and histories, in Football Manager 2010.

The Football League administration rules have been updated, so teams can lose points for the following season for going into administration at the end of the previous one.

Amateur clubs that would look to go semi-professional or professional in real life if they were to get promoted now do so, but clubs that are specified as always being amateur stay as amateur forever.

Midweek home games are now better modeled, so if a team in real life would normally play a midweek match on a Tuesday, they will do in the game too, with this being decided by the researchers.

If a club gets promoted, and they are still due parachute payments (payments made to clubs after being relegated from the top divisions to make the transition easier), the due payment is now split amongst the other clubs in the division.

We’ve also improved the game records, so lots more things that we have research for are now displayed. An example of this would be the most unbeaten games in a competition, or the highest scoring game for clubs and nations.

Aggregate transfer fees have now been added to player histories to show the total amount of transfer fees a player has moved for in his career.

So there are just a handful of some of the new rules, awards and records in the game this year. You’ll get the chance to see lots of others yourself at the end of next month!

In tomorrow’s blog, I’ll be looking at team talk improvements, as well as revealing the winner and winning answer to the “go to my screens” competition from a few blogs back.

See you then!

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