I Found Out Exactly How the FC25 Youth Academy Works!

[@gtavpodiumvehicle8165]

Maybe EA has neglected Brazil on purpose because they don't have the licence... 👀

[@massihpeyravi5898]

I was thinking the same thing

[@RepvertYT]

I was thinking the same thing

[@Sinklebarn]

100% they won’t say it but 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@user-kk4zw5jo4t]

I was thinking the same thing

[@Kaka_editzシ]

In fc24 I found a nice 94 potential 4 million Brazilian cm. After 4 seasons he was 84 rated with the exciting prospect. He grew to a 88 and was a pretty good box to box midfeilder

[@raoulgalea6846]

I found that the youth tournaments tell the exact player potential. If you active the setting of 'full potential' and the go to performance in game.

[@eriksaram2736]

I have a player in my dortmund save who is 13, had 53 ovr and 97 potential

[@GethinJenkins-o6z]

I use this trick all of the timr

[@Dutch-We-Need-A-Plan-Der-Lan]

Just found a 98 potential right back

[@hahafiyd7595]

What is youth tournament

[@Em0_GG]

@@hahafiyd7595 It a tournament in career mode in which you use youth academy players so generally the 17-13 age range of players

[@duantae]

FIFA devs being lazy per usual

[@n0body550]

Thats because there hasn’t been a fifa game in 2 years

[@thiagoteixeira6595]

​@@n0body550 true

[@screwbigtechsanti-sciencem9438]

Sincerely have hated EA for more than a decade and will likely continue to do so. That been said and to be fair, the amount of work they put into career mode this time around is more than we have... ever seen? If the trend continues I'm willing to bet a lot of these issues will get ironed out in the future. They really went to town bringing in massive, big changes and elements to a mode that earns them nothing extra. It's not strange that some other areas would basically be copy pasted from last years with some minor tweaks. I prefer this over basically the exact same game again, only with some extremely minor changes/bug fixes. A big revamp like this requires a few years to become fully what was intended. To release a game like this once per year basically requires some sacrifices in some areas to be able to do other things. It's just the nature of having such limited time each year. I'm glad that for once in over a decade I can honestly say at least they TRIED to give us something in career mode. Is it perfect? Hell no. Are we fully satisfied? Absolutely not. Is it a step in the right direction? 100% yes.

[@BNSL-mc5hi]

@@screwbigtechsanti-sciencem9438 having hated EA for more than a decade and a half, I seriously have doubts as to whether they iron things out in the future

[@MysteryMysterion]

And Greedy 109$ For the base game on xbox

[@CareerModeChristo]

Banger vid as always mate I remember back in the day when I used to have to search for physically gifted players for every scouting mission to avoid the 40 stamina stinkers

[@Knowyourhistory12]

Scout goalkeepers in France. Yesterday 5 of the 7 keepers scouted had a potential over 90.

[@tzuu0815]

Same goes for German gks

[@Sinadi7]

@@tzuu0815 yeah i sent scout to germany and found 3-4 over 90 pot in 3 month period

[@afsoc4life]

Got a 13 yr old Rw from Haiti whose potential was 96. Also got a 13 yr old CB from Haiti whose potential was 94. Those were 2 out of over 6 '3 month' scouting periods with a 5*5* scout. I often tend to use Japan and Iceland for youth academy saves. I have gotten solid stuff from there.

[@Zectzozda]

Estonia has been my go-to for years.

[@4te_8te]

HAITI MENTIONED LET'S GOOO

[@NoNo-rl2lc]

The amount of traits and height ranges would be the most interesting tests for to me

[@aaromarredondo1643]

We need a second part with larger samples and more countries! Thanks for the effort, dude.

[@satchensewnarine9862]

Aha this is pretty much a perfect video at the perfect time for me. I'm from Trinidad, just got FC25, and I'm big into YA saves. Thanks for the hard work and awesome timing.

[@sosa9532]

The best players I’ve scouted current ratings: 22y.o CB 94, 5 play styles 22y.o CB 91, 2 play styles 19y.o LB (converted in YA from CB) 85, 4 play styles All scouted from England. I wonder if higher potential has anything to do with scouting with the home country (i play with Stevenage). Also when you play the youth matches with your settings on full potential, you can see the players’ “actual potential” when you check their match performance.

[@TheDuncanExpress]

As a Trini, No Kenwayne Jones slander but great vid regardless mate

[@GuyNamedCacti]

Genuine questions are there also Toba's or not?

[@planetXErebus]

The Best player I ever scouted was a 68 LW from Senegal 3 million was his worth

[@RB-hz2bf]

You should do a career mode with Metz

[@planetXErebus]

@RB-hz2bf Metz? Is there anything cool about Metz

[@RB-hz2bf]

@ yes they produce a lot of Senegalese players, sadio mane pape cisse pape sarr, koulibaly have all come from metz. They have some talented players as they have a huge link with generation foot which is a big academy in Senegal that these players above came from

[@jigorokano11]

​@@planetXErebus scouted lots of senegalese players like mane, coulibaly,sarr

[@rahulkurup2840]

scouted a 70 rated 15 year old once a few fifas ago

[@ohyeahwhy691]

I know nobody will see this, but I had a lot of success with scouting youth in Uruguay, having them not have the highest rating, but having a solid 78-94 potential range. I also did notice that when I scouted in a different save with a bigger team in a bigger league, there were way less amazing talents from Uruguay.

[@CheslynEvo5]

I just got EAFC 25 and I'm so excited to start a youth academy career.

[@adams9848]

Always appreciate the work you do! I repeatedly scout Canada. I leave a scout there the entire career. Theyre awful at CB and ST. Always generate insane fullbacks. (Davies?) Two most common last names are Bird and Trembley. Theres always 1 of em per cycle. Also... i cheat at the start. Save game the day before the scouting report and just re-load until one or two wonder kids generate.

[@100percentSNAFU]

Good old save scumming 😂 I do it too, also for cup draws and value boosts for new signings.

[@amiruladli8331]

How to know they are wonderkids?

[@leoe1468]

So pretty much EA hates Brazil…

[@thenotoriousdig610]

Probably just mad Konami have the exclusive license to the Brazilian league and national team

[@JordanKnowball]

Brazil ain’t a bad country just inconsistent, you either get really bad players or really good players.

[@Kaka_editzシ]

You just gotta really find one. I found a talent who grew to a 88 ovr midfeilder

[@JordanKnowball]

@@Kaka_editzシ yeah. I got a casemiro regen in My Real Madrid/United career mode, born in Madrid and a star in Manchester

[@eindolin]

not just brazil, but the entire south america. look at 10:38

[@kariuwithpixels]

Just try Türkiye guys , you have to take my word for it but they produce insane youngsters.

[@DavidinhoFC]

I got the next ozil and quick wingers from turkey!🇹🇷

[@NoNo-rl2lc]

This is the coolest video you put out each year! I have doubts on the statistical significance of differences as they appear to fall under normal variance for the sample size. More data would be awesome!

[@Ssolahtar]

Oh yeah I really want to see a "Best countries to scout for every position" video. Take my like

[@KMartin1311]

I've been doing a CONCACAF Youth Academy build over the last couple of days. My best finds so far are (potentials, not current rating) a 97 ST and 96 GK both from USA, a 96 LW from Mexico, a 96 CAM from Jamaica, and a 95 CDM from Trinidad & Tobago. I've been struggling to find high potential defenders, though USA and Canada seem to be decent, with the best ones so far coming in around 88-92 potential. I haven't found that ONE 95+ potential, but the ones I've promoted so far all show as "An Exciting Prospect" so they're usable. Hopefully dynamic potential kicks in and it bumps them up to PTBS.

[@chilli3646]

The highest Youth I found in my life was a youth player in ea fc 23 called Oliver cooper in my Wrexham carrer mode he was a English he was an 69 rated youth player he helped me reach the prem and then decided to join Southampton because he was fed up of playing at Wrexham even though I played him every game he was just fed up of the atmosphere and I tired to buy him again at the end of the season but he said I’m not joking back because of the history between us and I finished above Southampton in the prem I finish around 16th that season and Southampton got relegated so I left Wrexham and joined Liverpool and bought cooper and all my players from Wrexham . Cooper is around 84 to 85 rated

[@0BI-WAN.KENOBI]

My best ever was also on fifa 23. 71 rated with 78-94 potential brazilian, i think he was a cam or lw.

[@FenerOnTop]

Bro i dont think there is an eafc 23

[@gallyturndrop5320]

Bru what… players don’t leave of atmoshpheer

[@leoo7160]

​@@gallyturndrop5320 Yes they do. It sounds stupid, but they do

[@leoo7160]

Damn dude you walked us through your entire career as a manager 🤣👏👏👏

[@KieranDix0n]

Can't most of the results just be explained by variance? The difference is so small that it will probably even out even further with a larger sample size

[@kennethpuche3399]

Thank you! 👏🏼 you know your stuff, sir

[@Zer0Decepti0n]

Exactly that, thats also why most "studies" talked about in news articles or other forms of news dont tell the full picture. A sample size of a few hundred to a thousand per country isnt nearly enough to make claims such as "this country is bad and this country is good for scouting". Especially when talking about specific positions where the sample size gets even smaller. For those alone 2-3 thousand would scratch the surface of legitimacy for the results. Working with studies and verifying the statistics is exactly my line of work btw.

[@carlosdelacruzz]

Thank you for the effort put in this video!❤

[@sly2405]

I appreciate that you spend time doing this , good content!!!

[@mitchellroberts2349]

This is sensational. Awesome effort putting this together

[@tomlogan5037]

Well done mate, seems like there was alot of effort to create this! Look forward to part 2.

[@MosleyDAYZ]

A hidden gem, Estonia is known to be arse in football but man do the academy system bring talents from there. I had 2 90+ defenders and 1 RW who turned 96 rated in 4 seasons and other LW who is 19 yrs old and 83 rated

[@Mateus_Carvalho]

EA has half-assed Brazilian youth players for ages, we used to have surnames that literally didn't exist and even now it's probably still one name and one surname. Easily one of the clearest reasons why EA needs to add an option to edit a player's name and "common name".

[@brendanwessling4702]

In my Bromley RTG I did a scouting in Mongolia and picked up a CAM that can play ST and has a wonder of a long range shot (won me a few close games with last chance attempts). Definitely in the first team in the prem

[@schmechel6888]

Not sure an isthmian championship and a Kent senior cup constitutes as an RTG my friend but hey I had my uni team win the champions league a couple fifas ago so stranger things have happened! 😅

[@shahmir3138]

Turkey is the best place to scout. They always give me 90 + potential players

[@Chuckschwartz]

Interesting! Ty

[@veresa3131]

That’s just rng and luck mate

[@shahmir3138]

@@veresa3131 not luck at all. Try with 5 star scout and look for cam,st,lw-rw and even cdm

[@cagierthunder]

Kyrgyzstan for me, i found a 91+ potential GK. i immediately promoted him to senior squad for wolves.

[@eps_12]

Last year I used to always scout in Argentina because they would produce wonderful wingers. In fact the best player I ever scouted was from Argentina, he was a LW with 70 ovr.

[@0BI-WAN.KENOBI]

best i ever got was a 71 rated lw from brazil on fifa 23

[@matttinoco6899]

Love the effort this guy puts into his vids

[@Whoan01]

0:38 this guy looks inbread

[@DAYLU1]

😄😂😂🤛🤜😂😂😂

[@custodianofficiating3876]

Really cool video. Its a great idea and probably took a load of effort so kudos to you. Looks like the difference between a lot of these values were very small and might not be significant statistically, meaning they could be down to chance. Obviously speculation on my end but if you do a future video like this i would suggest checking for significance to work out if it is due to chance or not.

[@migacmagic6675]

i set up a scouting network in Bosnia and every single name was "Kovacevic"

[@ChimaeraTom]

You're doing gods work! The sort of nerdy detail i love with career mode. This would be ridiculous to test, but im wondering if playstyles are linked to player role searched or are just random. i'm assuming the "roll" for number of playstyles is not related to potential at all. I've got 2 out of 5 good CBs with Long Ball but none of my CDM/CM/CAMs have ever got the trait. mostly looking for Ball Playing. mine is purely anecdotal evidence in comparison. Going by my team Dead Ball and Long Throw seem to be super common, as is Relentless. The biggest issue is all my players seem the same, because im not able to search Technically Gifted or Physically Strong for example. I have 3-4 players in every position and they all have very similar stats to one another. Whether i look for Target Forward or Poacher, it feels like the player is gonna mostly have the same stats. the only reason i have any players with a different spread is because ive re-trained their position. a LB to CDM, a ST to LW etc Making a sub from a small agile tricky striker and throwing on a big strong lad up front was always fun to do, now im swapping one striker for another striker with almost identical shooting, dribbling, pace, height, and strength. I'm not seeing any individuality.

[@zarvaughn3867]

I hope this vid finds as many ppl as possible

[@HORROBLEsinger]

Great vid thank you for the useful info, hope you do more videos like this

[@QballFittzz]

Super strange , cool vid. Also, Trinidad and Tobago are part of Concacf, Brazil are in Conmebol

[@aramisnicola4181]

over the years brazil has given me a really consistent string of decent players where as europe has been incredibly inconsitent, its seems nice to see that maybe that is no longer the case and that europe seems to be the more consitent choice, and finally i can get some australian speed demons

[@dfghjkl372]

Beautiful video great analysis thank you

[@hasforjsnidea7757]

Great vid! It would be interesting to know also average height, how much they can grow, how many playstyles, roles... Also, do you know if every player can learn ++ role?

[@oscarmazariegos334]

Do a series in Europe, specifically Spain, Italy, Portugal, etc.

[@TungstenArm]

Are you sure you don’t have sampling bias on the Brazil scouting thing? You only generated 1000 players for each nation. I suspect they just made the scouting nations all equally random and the patterns you’re detecting are entirely random. The name pool though? That’s inexcusable.

[@ElyTeo]

Every year i am really dissapointed. It seems like they do not even care about single player modes and career mode. They add features that make no sense. They will change up the menu making it look "fresh" meanwhile it might be not functional. As for youth academy , they added academy games that really do not have any useful meaning. They added 13-14 yr old just to say we made changes. We STILL to this day do not have a voiceover when speaking to the press conference or any other cutscenes. It is unacceptable to sell a game 70$ and do not have at least ALL the UCL , EL , ECL teams players faces scanned. It is unacceptable not to have any customization to the game. They wont let the community be helpful and create teams , leagues , player faces and roster updates and upload it to a server so we can share each other.AND MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT REALISTIC AND FUN. Like NBA2K at least they got this right. I wont talk about gameplay but if they had this features career mode would be x100 fun to play. At this point they should sell the game for free and get money only from the microtransactions , cause we play the same mode for over 10 years how we can contact the devs as the community and express our view?

[@nowreq]

You are unironically carring the whole cm community on your back bro thank you so much, youre a legend

[@CM25NERD]

what about me :( just kidding haha

[@kranu12345678]

what the hell man, masterclass I reloged and watched the ads for gratify your effort god damn

[@ForzaMilan-1]

If you want good wingers, scout Ukraine. I scouted there for 9 months and each scout report had at least 1 player with a 90+ potential.

[@WillHughes2000]

I don’t worry about the countries for scouting. I like to have fun with it, my GK is 86 rated from Eswatini, one of my CMs is 89 rated from Kazakhstan, my striker is 94 rated from Bulgaria, my LB is 87 rated from Turkiyë. End of the day it doesn’t matter, you find gems everywhere.

[@ludya7471]

I sent two scouts to brazil as a test, and I got terrible players for 9 months except for two center mids. One was a 68 rated, 17 year old with 88 potential. The other was a 67 rated 16 year old with 93 potential.

[@emmadestcroix9079]

I got a Bhutanese 14 year old keeper 52 ovr and 92-94 potential

[@bagpipeboy1001]

I’d be interested to get a hold of this dataset and run some statistics on it. I imagine many of the difference you note are not statistically significant and the base properties are the same across all countries.

[@360style91]

Or there are different age distributions for each nation that could explain the differences or the entire set should probably be analyzed via median and interquartile range given the natural skew of a set of numbers between 0 and 99 where most fall 55+...just spitballing here

[@JJJackson777]

people don't realise just how big Brazil is, it's even bigger than Australia

[@RoughWalkers]

And covered in jungle

[@schmechel6888]

@@RoughWalkersit’s probably between 16th and 20th largest countries if you exclude the Amazon 😂 Brazil’s lazy development ey, to put this into perspective, over the next 25/30 years, china will have urbanised more than the total area of brazil (Amazon included) just within china’s borders alone 😬 now that’s big. That’s unfathomably big, imagine in that space of 30 years if Brazil razed the jungle and filled the space with cities 😳 we can’t even comprehend the resources needed to do this that Brazil just couldn’t muster if even wanted to! (Not that it would want to turn the Amazon into concrete jungle instead of a real one but you get the picture)

[@RoughWalkers]

@schmechel6888 damn

[@user-kk4zw5jo4t]

​@@schmechel6888The Amazon is the lungs of the world 🤦 please read up on ecology 🙏 it's more important than development or a video game.

[@Kaka_editzシ]

​@@schmechel6888 there are 3 parts of the world where you cannot remove the trees from. The Amazon the forests in central Africa and the rainforest in Southeast Asia. Most of the worlds oxygen comes from those 3 spots

[@AD0de]

I remember getting a 16 yr old 73 rated CAM from Belgium, his first game was against Crystal Palace and he scored 2 Hat tricks, bro was magical, literally Hazard.

[@offthemapss]

E.Hazard 🖤

[@chocolandchoco]

Keep up the good work brother!

[@bullymaguire9529]

What I’ve found is that all the players that are 13 years, they have alittle more potential with a lower ratings obviously

[@Bsjjrnd]

Ok guys let me put this in more simple terms basically England and France and Australia are gods at finding wonderkids meanwhile Brazil are absolute shit at finding wonderkids. GOOD KNOWLEDGE EA!

[@logantucker4366]

Great video!! Awesome info

[@ekwenyutitus2048]

4:43 What a pass😲

[@KCytshorts]

I think I’m seriously lucky because I had a 76 rated youth player who was 15 and was 84 rated by 18

[@Mudnickgaming]

In fifa 23 I got a 79 overall 16 year old youth academy baller

[@knrstix1481]

I found that hungary did produce a lot of high pot/ovr youth players (at least for me)

[@MumbayaMiguelosa]

God you're so nerdy and we are so grateful XD

[@MrConorBradley]

I'll stick with San Marino thanks

[@daking8710]

Good video this reslly helped me keep up the good work. Ive been loving the career Mode videos! ❤❤🎉

[@juliogaltoni]

How do you know it’s a good video when you didn’t have the time to watch it entirely when you commented?

[@hadianbari3589]

Always in love with your videos I wish you good luck in life

[@MJT1027]

The best player I’ve ever scouted was named Miguel Santos, from Brazil, and he was a CAM with 71 rating and 91-94 potential. (In FC24)

[@smashbrain8970]

Very good analysis! (As usual) P.S. Could you please share the data? I would like to look at them.

[@shmet]

I'm always getting either high overall with low potential, or low overall with high potential

[@renzolock4129]

Amazing video dude

[@hzb289]

Where should I be scouting for Spain? Gonna do a Athletic Bilbou Rebuild

[@empireofchad]

I had a 17 y/o named Thomas Powell and I think he was a glitched player. He was 7 feet tall, which I have seen before on yt and I know that is a glitch. But the overall is what absolutely shocks me: 78 OVR (I’m not joking). Absolute speed demon (94 pace) and great shooting (81 shooting) and great stamina (90-95 m, idk what it was but I’ll check when I get back home from vacation to oui oui baguette county 🇫🇷, sorry about going off topic and yapping) TLDR; had a great 78 ovr 17 y/o wonderkid

[@Loesoeman]

Ultimate career mode move was: Coach Australia and only scout there until they win the worldcup on simulation

[@HallowedOstelogist]

Bonus points for using Portsmouth, as that's where the first fleet sent to Australia departed from

[@Loesoeman]

@ then only sign prison fc players

[@dariusjohn3529]

Ahah Kenwayne Jones catching strays for no reason 😂😂😂

[@aQAmaZe07]

Amazing, please do more nations

[@dzivuJ]

Do you have a similar video for ea fc 24? I want to perfect academy recruits for my budget team challenges

[@onm4955]

Massive work!! Thanks❤

[@FelipeGamim]

Ive been playing the same save for about 7 seasons, and i manage to have some beasts (overall-wise), 2 90+ cb's, 4 90+ cm's and some realy great fullbacks and gk's, from all around the world. Just having some trouble with strikers

[@davidadekunle2936]

Great Work 🤩🤩🤩

[@morganchase5550]

Most consistent 94+ pot players for me has been mongolia by far.

[@arx.swervez7204]

in my save barcelona (who i don’t manage) has generated a 16 year old who is 80 rated and “has potential to be special”

[@penaldog1]

thats a regen, only you can generate youth academy players

[@ralfgeukema8595]

Left right win scout to greek

[@yeah._dillon490]

I started a career mode with a created team in spain to make another giant scouting from spain is extremely good all positions

[@jonathanproof4471]

Good to know Trinidad 🇹🇹 have some potential in the game. Full rebuild coming 😅😅

[@AdonisGaming93]

Did you run any regressions to account for margin of error and see if those tiny differences actually were real differences or margin of error and that actually australia and brazil might be exactly the same but your sample size just reflect some differences?

[@FelipeCâmara-e3l]

to analyze the best countries to scout by position, look at percentiles, not averages

[@rydermotion_football]

Thanks this helps a lot 😊

[@oscardaggberg-tl5jz]

Elfsborg represent 3:33 👍🔥

[@GoldBallTV]

I think that dataset of overall vs potential needs to be taken from a variety of saves. For example, does it matter if you start a game as manager of an Australian team? Or Argentinian? I’m more interested in the namepool info than best nation to scout, 25 first names in Brazil? If that’s the case how small is it in China?

[@leekspik152]

Any info on the script that you used to generate these players pls?

[@johnnymancspice]

To me, this, is art. Thanks 🙏🏼

[@velonaut303]

Clearly Racheal "RayGun" Gunn is now working at EA, and having another laugh with her country being the top rated football scouting location.

[@sjoerd842]

Thanks a lot for all the effort!! How about playstyles?

[@bfagames9025]

Such an interesting video! How where you able to collect all of this data?

[@samihietanen36]

I wish there was an easy way to get stats like these from all the countries

[@jp6085]

Could it be to do with real players in game as a percentage? E.G bc there’s more french players and lots of good ones your there’s higher percentage of better YA But bc Brazil isn’t liscenced there’s less real Brazil players in game so percentage of all real player less good ones correlates to YA ??

[@100percentSNAFU]

That would actually make a lot of sense in terms of explaining Brazil vs France or England, although Australia is still odd not that many in game really, A-League is small (13 teams?) and not many playing abroad, a handful in the English leagues.

[@Account11-k]

that's a good point

[@Mateus_Carvalho]

To be fair, you still have most of the best Brazilian players around even without the league. Even with Brazilian teams dominating the Libertadores, EA would never rank many players from our league that well. I think it's easier to say that EA fucked up the code somehow.

[@Account11-k]

@@Mateus_Carvalho I still gets lots of good brazilian players, you gotta factor in that OP's research could be a bit biased.

[@gualaszn9922]

Actually Trinidadian here. Was surprised to see Trinidad as 1 of the Scouting destination so i decided to mess around n look 4 Home grown talent n accidentally stumbled upon a gold mine 4 LW N CB . 😅😅

[@capoww]

Best hits are 2 french CAM/RW. Cam has 93-94 and the RW has 92-94 potential.

[@Tableworm]

Any chance you could share that spreadsheet?

[@RDeverall]

Winning the world cup with a country will produce the best players in that country. I always do a wrexham squad with only welsh players and winning the world cup with wales always gets me the best players in the world to scout