Digital Sportspage Blog

The beta patch for Worldwide Soccer Manager 2008 has been released for the European crowd with Football Manager. The patch is expected to be released early next week in Americas (and WWSM owners probably shouldn’t try and use the FM patch on their game). Here is a list of current fixes for the United States (thanks to Blublub on the forums).

- Foreign developmental players do not count towards the wage cap.
- Fixed bug where squad selection rules for certain MLS teams were not showing the correct maximum values at all times.
- Correct 2007 fixtures added.
- Allowed squad numbers up to 99.
- MLS teams can no longer sign foreign players from the PDL before they reach 22 or enter a draft.
- Fixed a problem with the American player rule for Toronto. Some players were being wrongly classified as Americans.
- MLS Rising Stars team is now filled with American players only.
- Players on free transfer with MLS rights have to be traded instead of being approached directly.
- Changed stage names of MLS conference playoffs.
- Virtual players now ask for developmental contracts by default.
- Improved selection of players from a draft. Teams make fewer passes.
- Updated maximum allowed wage $325,000 p/a outside of Designated Players.
- Fixed wrong teams in CONCACAF Champions Cup.
- Toronto foreigners now gain Canadian nationality not American if they stay for enough years.
- Fixed bug which was converting future draft allocations offered in transfers to 6th pick draft allocations.
- Toronto now get Canadian nationality youth players instead of American.

There are a lot of important fixes here. One thing that isn’t listed (and we hope is fixed for the patch) is AI roster behavior for MLS teams, with many teams cutting their best players when rosters are set to 28 players, leaving them open for the expansion draft. Hopefully this will be fixed when the patch is released.