10 useful yet often unknown features of FML

Overall Progression View Tab

This view tab is very useful when you want to find out how your players are developing. It's especially cool as it can give you a hint that your player is close to reaching his potential - for example if his overall progression shows as dark green for a long time, and then drops down to yellow, you know that he's near his peak. You can find this view under customise view - attributes - overall progression. Keep in mind that as soon as you have signed him he will start on 'okay' - this will hopefully change after 10-15 days.

Email Alert

If there is a certain type of mail you want to receive however you can't sign on, then this is perfect for that. It allows you to filter what type of mail you would like to receive to your email, so it doesn't overload your inbox. For example, I get the news item about any youth academy graduates I get. I can then read them on my phone at work :)

Include Other Players

This is useful if you want to see all of your players on one page. Maybe you want to see a list of all u18s in your team, or would like to compare players from different squads. Of course you can do this by using All Player search, but I find this quicker. My main use for this is when checking another managers team, I can click include other players and then filter for Asian nationality.

Role Filter and Show Filter Columns

One of my favourites. Great if you need to quickly work out who the best player on your team is for a certain position. You can even then save views for each position - eg. ST, GK, DC etc.

Archived Mail


Because of time difference, I used to lose track of a lot of mail when I signed in after midnight. Then I noticed there was an archived mail tab which stored all the previous weeks mail which I now check every day.

Leaving Managers


I very very rarely bid on players in wage auction who are from managers who are not deactivated. So an easy way to see who has recently deactivated is to check the mail item you get about the manager leaving UFFA. For me, it shows in the ignored folder but I am not sure if it set to ignored by default.  Either way, you can filter for it easily - as seen in the screenshot below.

Minimise To Tray


I always wondered what this setting meant until I found out that when you minimse the game, it hides it from the taskbar. Very useful if you want to play FML at work/school and not get caught :)

Transfer Alerts


Transfer Alerts are really useful if you don't want to check Transfer Auctions/Transfer List/Loan List all the time yet you want to see the good players who appear on these lists. You can filter the players however you like.

Contract Renewal and Projected Income


As you know, in FML it's not your current cash that matters, it's your projected income. During the season you may be eying a great signing, however not have enough projected cash to make a bid. What you can do is turn off the contract renewal on some high waged players for a few days so you have enough projected money to make the bid. It's important to turn the contracts back on as soon as you can however because you don't want to spend too much and then not have enough money to renew contracts when they expire... :)

Orging Competitions


The last one of the list is primarily for FA organisers. One really time consuming thing can be checking squads for official competitions. The first screenshot shows how you can very quickly check to make sure each team has enough players specifically for the competition. The second screenshots shows you how to make sure that   the manager has picked the correct squad for entering into a specific competition - this is particularly useful when hosting a World Cup or other community event.