FM22 Increase Realism Megapack by Daveincid

Make Football Manager 2022 more realistic with Daveincid’s fixes and adjustments!

Make the experience of managing in Football Manager 2022 far more realistic. Today we’re proud to present the brilliant Football Manager 2022 Increase Realism Megapack created by @daveincid that makes several adjustments and fixes to FM22.

Daveincid’s databases look to make Football Manager 2022 more realistic by increasing the realism of league reputations, improving sponsorship deals, salaries and finances, as well as adjusting transfer preferences and market values worldwide to the current situation, among other things.

It even comes with an alternative youth rating and game importance file that affects the number of quality new gens and helps smaller nations to keep their best talents.

By continuing reading, you’ll get the full picture of all the features within Daveincid’s Increase Realism Megapack for Football Manager 2022.

FM22 “INCREASE REALISM”- MEGAPACK OCTOBER UPDATE EXPLANATION VIDEO:

About the FM22 Increase Realism Megapack

While others are enjoying their first Football Manager 2022 saves, Daveincid has had a full-time project since the release of FM22 to create the ‘Increase Realism Megapack’.

The realism megapack features a huge range of files and alternative databases that fixes and adjust behind-the-scenes data and behavior. Every month, new updates and files are added to the vocabulary to extend on the megapack.

In fact, for the latest Update of Increase Realism Megapack, it comes with 22 different editor files. Below is a quick list of the different databases contained within the megapack:

This megapack improves several values for over 220 Nations in-game to increase realism in Football Manager 2022 to a whole new level!

Daveincid

“INCREASE REALISM”-MEGAPACK OCTOBER UPDATE

ALTERNATIVE YOUTH RATING
SALARIES, VALUES & SPONSORS
TRANSFER PREFERENCES
CLUB TRANSFER PREFERENCES
TAXES FIX
CITIZENSHIP FIX
WORLDWIDE AWARD FIXES
WORLDWIDE DERBY FIXES
CLUB DATA FIXES
CLUB FINANCES FIXES
GEOGRAPHIC AND LANGUAGES
NATIONS AGREEMENT
LEAGUE REPUTATION CHANGES
TICKET PRICE ADJUSTMENTS
CURRENT CURRENCY EXCHANGE VALUES
REALISTIC INJURIES
YOUTH & TRAINING FACILITIES IMPROVEMENTS
CLUB REPUTATION FIX
MANAGER ATTRIBUTE ADJUSTMENTS
NATURAL FITNESS ADJUSTMENTS
CLUB MORALE ADJUSTMENTS
MANAGERS CLUB PREFERENCES
NATIONAL TEAM REPUTATION FIX
NATIONAL TEAM ATTENDANCES
PLAYER SALARIES ADJUSTMENTS
CHINA LEAGUE FILE
OPTIMIZED LEAGUE FILES
WEATHER CHANGES
BELGIUM TV MONEY FIX (NEW)
LEAGUE FIXES (NEW)

All files are made with my own created database to ensure consistency in the changes.

You can learn more about what each of these files impacts in Football Manager below, or simply hit the download link immediately.

! PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE INSTALLING MY MEGAPACK!
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3. Delete all previous files of my megapack in the editor-data-folder
4. Ensure that you do not use other mods which may conflict with my megapack like:
  Youth Ratings, Market Values, Transfer Preferences, Sponsorship, Finances,
  Languages, League Reputations, Awards, Derbies, Injuries or Club Data
5. The whole megapack is almost always compatible with all league files (especially DaveTheEditors Around the World Megapack, transfer updates, and all kinds of graphic mods.
6. I do not answer questions if my files are working with X or Y. If the general information above isn’t enough for you, there is a list of files I recommend on Patreon which are tested for compatibility.
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8. Please check first if the question is already answered. I already have limited resources and my answer probably won’t be that friendly if it turns out that you haven’t
 read the text;)
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Overview of Files in the Increase Realism Megapack

Alternative Youth Rating

This file changes the National Youth Ratings, Game Importance and the State of Development of all Nations. The Development-System has changed completely in FM22 compared to FM21! So I had to re-calculate all values. In FM22, we finally get “Lost Wonderkids”! This is just awesome and adds a lot more realism by default already!

I have adjusted my calculation basis and re-weighted it. As a result, the youth ratings are changing in some nations. The effect should primarily lead to more realistic average ages in national teams. I have already been able to largely resolve the problem of national teams that are too old. Now I have also adjusted those that were way too young by average.

Update: Further improvements.

What YOU will receive?
– Better worldwide diversification of talent
– Every Nations have been calculated with over 17 criteria such as, HDI (Human Development Index), Average attendances, population, financial resources and many more!

The ratings are based on a huge database of personal research about all Nations, which includes but is not limited to: 

• HDI (Human Development Index)
• Average Attendance
• Population in a Country
• How popular football is in the country
• Worldwide success of the national team
• Continental success of the national team
• Financial Resources
• + many more

Watch the video to get an explanation of how the alternative youth ratings work.

Salaries, Values & Sponsors

This file has massively improved compared to FM21!
Salaries:
Salaries are now more oriented towards real data in all Nations. A Player in Ghana no longer earns 500k a year, but maybe 30k. Worldclass Players will now earn more money. Default is too low in this area. Instead of around 20m€/y they now earn up to 40m€/y (Brutto of course).

Market-Values:
The market values have been adjusted in such a way that they result in more realistic transfer fees.

Sponsor Values:
The sponsor values were calculated according to various criteria in order to show the existing situation as well as future increases down to a Nations’s financial power. They are also calculated to balance the financial situation of club finances in the long term. Clubs usually struggle much more financially IRL as it is in FM. With these adjustments, this should be represented more accurately. Clubs can get rich and they can get into debt but they need constantly be careful how they spend their money.

With the latest update there is much more dynamic within the FM-World. Smaller Clubs can rise and bigger Clubs can fall.

Update: Further improvements

A video explaining this file is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYXin5kiQHU

Transfer Preferences

The January update comes with major changes to the transfer preferences.

There are Leagues which are known as «Development»-Leagues. The whole league in general buys young players and sell them to bigger ones. With «Club Transfer Preferences» this can be partly added to a specific Club but the effect might disappear once a new Chairman takes over. Now I have researched all Nations on transfermarkt.com and analyzed the average age of signings of the last 5 years for all Top-Division Clubs. If the average age is below 24, its added as a national preference. It works like a charm! This will now not only represent the transfer flow in terms of nationality more accurate, its now also by age!

The following Nations are affected:
– Denmark
– Slovakia
– Latvia
– Austria
– Ireland
– Estonia
– Albania
– Belgium
– Switzerland
– Croatia
– Slovenia
– Kirgystan
– Ghana
– Venezuela
– Canada

Club Transfer Preferences

There are some Clubs, which have a specific preference for the nationality of players which doesn’t affect all Clubs in its Nation. I’ve researched over as they are only a preference and not a general club philosophy. This file is for Clubs where this preference has been held at a high level for years.

This file has been massively expanded. Now it contains 58 (29 before) Clubs from 38 (18 before) Nations. The changes includes whether specific Nations or age-preferences. (or both)

Watch an explanation of the changes to the club preferences in this video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbFNQ56FSgE

Taxes Fix

There are some missing taxes in Austria which are leading to a too good financial development of the Clubs. This should be fixed with the Winter-Update. Until then, this file fixes it.

Citizenship Fix

I made corrections for 95 Nations for “years to gain nationality”. It was quite difficult to get it right because sources sometimes vary and you can’t add “received citizenship through good relations with local politicians”. There are some interesting years included. Might be worth scrolling through the Nations to find out.

Worldwide Award Fix

This file fixes literally all missing and unlogical award-reputations in all Nations and in all international competitions as well according to my own research database.

This is very important when it comes to a player’s transfer behaviour, his loyalty, his career path, his market value, the reputation of a Club and much more!

The best player in a weak League will now be much quicker unhappy if he wins awards and he thinks he is too good for the Club. Convincing these players to stay is much more difficult! On the other side, it’s a chance for a Club to grow their reputation if they are able to keep these players. It’s very tricky but it adds so much more dynamic!

UPDATE: Further improvements in connection with the „alternative youth ratings“ to create a more realistic age-structure in clubs and national teams.

These changes are the key changes to make the game more balanced. I have also created countless new awards to further support this. In reality, there are not many awards in this form (not even existing ones in the base-game). Especially in smaller nations or at youth tournaments, an award is not given every tim in real life. However, they still receive a lot of media attention, which leads to a higher reputation of the players. This process is represented by awards. It was therefore essential for me to create awards for competitions like the German A-Bundesliga, the highest youth leagues in Spain, Italy, England etc. In order to increase their reputation at a early age.

All kinds of youth tournaments such as U21 EM, UEFA Youth League, U23 Premier League or the Toulon tournament can now help young players to break through in the club and then to a great career.

Most important awards created for over 200 Nations worldwide, like:

• Best Player of the Season
• Best Youngster of the Season
• Best XI of the Season
• Best Manager of the Season
• Best Topscorer of the Season

All these awards are of course in line with all existing reputation values to fit perfectly into the whole system!

Please Note:
The league needs to be set as playable to see the awards! I highly recommend to load at least 1 Nation per continent, otherwise the continental awards will not work!

Worldwide Derby Fixes

This file adds 300+ missing Derbys from Clubs and Nations in over 50 Nations as well as over 1000 reputation adjustments to ensure a logical worldwide behavior.

The Derbies included are, but are not limited to:
– “The Volga Derby” between Rubin Kazan and Krylia Sowjetow
– “La guerra del futbol” between El Salvador and Honduras
– “Derby of Ghana” between Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak SC and soo many more!

Club Data Fixes

This file has been further improved and adds a lot of missing data for over 1500 1st and 2nd-Division-Clubs in 150 Nations worldwide:

• Nicknames of Clubs
• City-Location
• Correct Stadium set
• 89 new Stadiums created
• Rivals
• Year founded
• Club Colours

Club Finances Fixes

This file now plays a crucial part for the «Sponsorship» part of my «Salaries, Values and Sponsors»-File.

In the editor, Sponsorship deals of most clubs have ticked the option «renew income». This can be compared to an arcade-racing-game in the past, when you should lead 2 rounds ahead but suddenly the 2nd placed driver appears in your back-mirror. In other words, no matter how bad a club performs, sponsorship deals will be always similar to the one set in the editor. This keeps big teams big for like forever.

I have now deleted those «renew income» worldwide for all 1st and 2nd-Division-Teams. The result is a higher level of dynamic in long-term-saves.

Update: Further improvements

Geographic & Languages

Top 100 Nations have been checked in detail and further improved if necessary. There are again countless city-data added as well as some new languages

Geographic:

• Added missing Inhabitation ranges for over 5500+ Cities
• Added correct Number of Population for 1250+ Local Regions
• Added 500+ Cities to their Local Region
• Added missing Coordinates of over 1800 Cities
• Added missing Altitude-Values for 4200+ Cities
• Added City-Attraction-Values for all Cities worldwide

These changes affect:

• The distribution of place of birth’s for Newgens
• More realistic travel costs
• Sponsorship deals
• Contract Negotiations
• Injuries
• … and definitely other stuff too which I haven’t found out yet

Languages:

• Added over 100+ new official languages worldwide
• Increased language-difficulty by 30% to avoid, players learning a language too easily
• 181 Nations edited
• 1800+ Local Regions edited
• a lot of single Cities edited

This will represent the diversity of Nations languages much better. Beside adding official languages to Nations there are also Non-Official Languages added to represent People who speak a 2nd or even a 3rd language without having it›s Nationality. I for myself speak some Spanish, but I have no relation to any Spanish speaking Nation. All data is from official sources like Wikipedia etc.

Please Note:
It could be that some data are already in-game by default compared to FM21. In this case those data will be overwritten, as it would be nonsense to check them all one by one. This isn’t a problem at all

Update: Bug-fixes

NATIONS AGREEMENTS

This file by DaveTheEditor adds 24 agreements between Nations. You can find this information in the Nation tab overview!

LEAGUE REPUTATION CHANGES

This file slightly lowers the gap between the top Nations and all the rest in Europe. It also boosts top Nations outside of Europe slightly and should improve the balance in long-term saves.

I have recalculated all youth leagues so that their importance and thus the reputation gain is shown more realistically.

Update June: Further improvements

TICKET PRICE ADJUSTMENTS

Since there were issues with the calculation of ticket prices in FM – often leading to certain clubs in specific Nations becoming way too rich, I have adjusted the ticket prices for the nations. This mainly affects South America (Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela etc) but also other Nations like Iran, Iraq. It’s still not possible to add the correct prices but at least it’s much more realistic right now and prevents Clubs or whole Nations to be a financial powerhouse for no reason.

Update: Further improvements

CURRENT CURRENCY EXCHANGE VALUES

Most currencies now corresponds to the status of 1.1.22 (where data is available, otherwise the next possible)

REALISTIC INJURIES

Injury file was “reactivated” and was primarily intended to lower the high CA of older players and to boost rotation, which in turn benefits the young players in terms of both their CA and reputation.

There is a Extrafile available in German. Don’t use both at the same time!

YOUTH & TRAINING FACILITIES IMPROVEMENTS

Every club in the database has received an X increase from the existing values ​​(Youth Facilities, Youth Importance and Youth Coaching). Nothing has changed in the difference between the clubs. This is extremely important to improve the overall balance.

Update: Further improvements

CLUB REPUTATION FIX

Minor adjustments to improve club behavior in general.

MANAGER ATTRIBUTE ADJUSTMENTS

This file increases all manager’s “Youth Training“ attribute by 2. It’s a new approach to encourage managers to bet more on young players and lower the too high average age of clubs in general. Whether it fulfills this function is not clear with the mass of changes. It doesn’t do any harm and if it only has a positive influence of 1%, then I’m happy.

Update: Slight adjustments

NATURAL FITNESS ADJUSTMENTS

I racked my brain for a long time about this file, whether I should create it or not. It works great, but not everyone will enjoy it (especially the romantics who want their beloved player rocks the league until he’s 40)

I finally decided to do it because I got good arguments from some fm-researchers too:
1. Older player’s physical stats are in some cases not adjusted every year
2. The current ability (CA) of older players is in some cases not adjusted every year
3.Neither is the ability to get injured but players are more likely to be when they are getting older

My adjustments:
All players in the DB have reduced the following attributes by 1-2:
– natural fitness
Older players:
– natural fitness
– Injury-prone value +2

The overall impact is marginal, Mo Salah still won the Ballon d’Or in a test-save aged 37. However it has a positive impact on the whole database and this is all I care about.

CLUB MORALE ADJUSTMENTS

This file should better represent the current state of mind in the clubs.

Most clubs were very good edited, but some were too good and some too bad. Above all, media reports and the current table in the largest Nations were included. As the new Manchester United manager, your first dressing room speech will probably be rather sobering.

I hope that this will make the league table more realistic, especially in the first year

MANAGERS CLUB PREFERENCES

This file was made due a complaint of a user that Jürgen Klopp “always” signs for Man City after Liverpool. This won’t happen anymore. I do see a lot of potential in further improve this file once SI made their final update and I know with what I can work with the next half year

NATIONAL TEAM REPUTATION FIX

It looks like the national team reputation has a bigger influence in terms of league reputation as I thought. It confuses me because down to my logic, it should be the other way around^^ Anyways for the overall balance I’ve lowered all National Team Reputations by 5%.
This helps for a less strong increase of League Reputations and (not 100% sure yet) encourages the AI to nominate younger players into the National Team.

NATIONAL TEAM ATTENDANCES

I have created a new file where all national teams have  their real average-attendances. Unfortunately, Football Manager does not implement this 1:1 and the number of in-game attendances is often much higher than it should be. I have already adjusted these in a first step. Further reductions may be needed. However, it already brings that little extra realism with it, and that’s what it’s all about

PLAYER SALARIES ADJUSTMENTS

I’ve created a small file where I’ve adjusted some player-salaries. Those affect players who still had their old salaries before they signed for a lower league team, which has a massive negative impact on club finances.

CHINA LEAGUE FILE

I’ve created a new league-file for China. It’s almost identical with the default one and only contains small adjustments for league rules. The default game leads to way too low transfers (not even €1 million for foreigners) despite the clubs have a ton of money. Now it works way better. This seems to have changed with 22.4., as I haven’t seen that one before.

OPTIMIZED LEAGUE FILES

I have optimized the following 5 nations to make the game run faster overall:
Japan, Portugal, Sweden, Romania and Austria. These adjustments achieve speed improvements of between 10-40% (depending on the selected setup). You can find out more about the changes in my monthly YT video.

Please note:

1. It is not compatible with other league files of the same nation
2. The performance improvement depends heavily on the hardware. So it can be bigger or smaller for you than in my own tests
   

WEATHER CHANGES (NEW)

I have integrated climate change into the game. Specifically, this means that with a small probability (approx. 5%) higher temperatures occur in all regions of the world than those entered by default. For example, in London, temperatures of up to 42 degrees can be reached in rare cases. Previously, the maximum was 32 degrees. This may have an influence on the fitness of the players. So it is definitely worth taking a closer look at the weather forecast for the next match.

As already mentioned, I have deliberately kept the probability on a low level which seems realistic to me.

TV MONEY FIX BELGIUM (NEW)

I’m annoyed that I hadn’t noticed this. The TV money is set far too low, causing some clubs to miss out on more than 10 million euros a year! I only noticed it now because the Belgian league itself is financially stable enough and therefore slipped through my control mechanism. This problem has now been corrected.

LEAGUE RULES FIXES (NEW)

In these countries, especially in the lower leagues (level 3 or lower), there are many board changes, strangely high sponsor revenues as well as new stadium construction. This made it enormously difficult for me to show the finances correctly at this level. Until today, I didn’t know why the AI was behaving so strangely. Now I know! The stadium requirements for the league are often not met. In real life this often happens too, but “pragmatic” solutions are always found. In the FM, however, this does not work. To solve this problem, I have changed the regulations from League 3 on-wards.

This stabilizes the finances considerably! Through this change, I was able to drastically reduce sponsorship income, which is also more in line with reality. The lower leagues of the biggest nations are now much more realistic! It annoys me that I could only fix the error now, but better late than never. 

Download Instructions

• Download the megapack above
• Place the file in: Your Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2022/editor data
• Start a NEW SAVE (MUST-DO!)

Please note:
For enhanced realism, I recommend disabling the first transfer window. IRL the transfers already happened, so should it be in the game setup too for an optimal balance.

P.S. The database also works with the first transfer window enabled!

Compatibility with other Databases & Files

It is compatible with all league files, transfer updates, all graphical mods etc.

There is also cooperation ongoing with @davie77 on SI-Forum with his “Around the Globe Megapack“. I highly recommend it as it fixes youth contract and sponsorship problems in several custom Nations which I can’t fix with my files!

IMPORTANT NOTICE!

Do not use other mods which may conflict with my megapack at the same time. This includes files that modify or affect:

• Youth Ratings
• Market Values
• Transfer Preferences
• Sponsorship
• Finances
• League Reputations
• Awards
• Derbies
• Club Data

Credit & Social Medias

Passion4FM is hugely grateful to be given permission to re-distribute the FM22 increase realism megapack to our community. We like to give huge thanks to Daveincid for putting thousands of hours into making this amazing database!

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