Design document for
Football Manager 2010 (FM 2010)

Pitch
Football Manager 2010 is a realistic game that gives you the opportunity to be manager in any football club you like. Of course many responsibilities come with it. You have to keep the board satisfied with you otherwise you are going to get sucked. You have a transfer budget at the begin of the season and with that you can buy players. You can sell players if you want or loan a player to a team or from a team. You can make your own staff team and get advices from them. You can call a press conference for you new signings. At the match-day you choose the players that you would like to play and who are going to sit at the bench, set the tactic of your team and give the last directives. You can talk to the team before the match starts, at half time and at the end. During the match you can change the tactic if you wish and make substitutes just like a real match. You can even give touchline instructions to your players such as “retain possession” or “get the ball forward” and many others. Football Manager 2010 give you the opportunity to be a manager of a football club and to feel the pressure from the board and the fans and to manage the up and down of the players.

Story
The story of Football Manager 2010 is all the history of the professional football. It has history for all the teams, all the managers and all the players of the world. Lets take Lionel Messi for example.
Full Name: Lionel Andres Messi
Born: 24/6/1987
Place of birth: Rosario (Argentina)
Lionel Messi is truly one of world football's global super stars. Having made his Argentina debut against Hungary in August 2005, Messi has gone on to 56 appearances and score 16 goals for his country.
Lionel Messi began his career at F.C Barcelona in 2000/01 but failed to make a league appearance during his 2 years at the club.
He joined Barcelona C in 2002/03 but failed to make a league appearance for the club. In 2003/04 he joined Barcelona Athletic making 22 league appearances and scoring 6 goals.
Messi rejoined current club F.C Barcelona in 2004/05 and has since made 149 appearances and scored 71 goals for the club.
Messi has a great record of 11 competition wins to his name: Club World Championship(2009), Olympic Games(2008), Under 20 World Cup(2005), European Champions Cup(2006 and 2009),
Liga BBVA(2005,2006 and 2009), Spanish Cup(2009) and Spanish Super Cup(2005 and 2006),
He has been recognized for his talent and achievements with several awards: Named Under 20 World Cup Golden Show, Under 20 World Cup Golden Ball, World Player of the year, World Footballer of the year, European Footballer of the year, European Champions Cup Golden Boot and European midfielder of the year.
A history like this is been written for all the players that are in the game.

Look & Feel
The main screen is a 2D screen that shows all the news for the team that the player is manage. It shows the injuries, the transfers, the board and fans confidence and many other things that has to do with the team. There are many others screen that are also important. The team squad that shows all the players of the team, the reserve squad that shows all the players that are not that important for the manager, the under 20 squad that shows the under 20 years old players, the transfer centre that shows all the players in the market, the training that shows the training that the manager put the players to do and many other.
One of the most important is match. The match screen has a number of different views, all available from tabs menu, and a number of different items that the player can interact with during the match. There is the information tab that shows the score, the scorers, the colors of the teams and the formation of the teams. The TV pitch view tab where the player can see the match in a 3D mode. The player have a choice of the camera that want to watch the match or a 2D view that shows bullets with the number of each player instead of players. There is the Stats view that the player can view the match statistics. And the analysis view where the player can see the stats of their players. Touchline instructions in the pitch view make the game more realistic.

Entities
Players
Scouts
Coaches
Assistant Managers
Managers
Chairmen
Referees
Football Pitch
Players in the pitch
Teams
Line of the pitch
Goal line
Foul
Teams
Score
Fans
Fans shouting
Advertises
Football
Bench
Goal post
Linesmen
Time
Stadium
Physios
Youth coaches
Directors
Gk coaches
Corner Flag
Shuttle
Referee whistle sound

Rules
The mechanism of the game is based on the reality. Whatever a manger can do in a real football club a user can do it on the game. The rules of Football Manager 2010 are the same with real football. In the match each team plays with eleven players and have 7 substitutes (this depend of the league that the user choose). Each can make 3 substitutes. If a player gets 2 yellow cards in the same match he get sent off and all other rules that real football have.

Gameplay
In football manager the players have to make their team competitive. Depend of the team that you manage there are different objectives. Let’s take a big team for example. The player has to buy good players and to do that will need money. If you give less money you buy a player that may not be that good. Many offers will come for the stars players of your team. You have to make a decision. Will you sell them with the risk that you might not find deputy or you will keep him and throw all the money that the transfer will give you away? The player has to find the right formation for the team. If a bad result comes you have to confront with the press and the fans. They might criticize you for the formation that you are using. Will you answer? Will you change the formation? Your star player is not performing well, will you put him on the bench? In the match you have to give the right touchline instructions and make the correct substitutes. A player of your team may get send-off or is not playing good enough, you have to manage that. You can fine him or you can do nothing. There are many decisions you can take in the game and every one of them has the same account, your future at the bench!

Decision trees
The football manager doesn’t have any decision trees. You can say that if you buy a good player the team will do better or if you make a substitute at ht you will win the game. The game is very realistic and everything counts. The form of the team, the players that you have and the morale of the players MAY change the game but there is nothing that the player can do to change it for sure. So, no decision trees for this game.

Pay-off grids
The team’s budget and the team’s players may play some role. But you can specify a pay-off grid. A team may be weaker of an other team but it has a chance to win the game.

Players
The game support single user and multi-user. It also support network play. Players control a team that they choose at the begin. In the game the players control the players that come to the team and the players that leave the team. Also the players control the staff team (scouts, coaches, youth couches, assistant manager), the tactic of the team, which players are going to play in a match, which player is going to take the corner kicks, the penalty kicks, the fouls and are responsible for the training of the players. The players can take decision to renew a contract of a player, to criticize a player, to praise a player, to release on free a player, to put a player in transfer list, to fine a player and promote a player. The players are responsible for the reserve team and the under 20 team. Also can attend a press conference, can comment for the next opposition team and can comment for all the players in the game. The players can arrange friendlies and tournaments. Also can demand from the team board to expand the stadium, for extra transfer funds, for extra wage funds and for better training facilities. In the match players are responsible for the substitutes and for the team talk at the begin, ht and ft of the match. Also can change the tactic of the team during the game and can use the touchline instruction for a quick shout to the team.

Interface
The main screen is the new and messages. The players can choose for the tab menu with right click what would like to see and press continue with right click to continue the game.

Before the match users have to choose the players that are gonna play to the match. The users can drag the players with the right click in the pitch and put them in the position that they want. Then the users can drag the little shirt with right click and set the tactic they like.

When the match begin the user have a selection of touchline instructions with a drop down list on the left if its home team and on the right if its away team.

During the match the user can choose with right click from the tab menu what screen would like to watch.

Start-Up
Each players start the game choosing a league and then the team that wants to manage. When that's done the player have a transfer budget given from the board of the team(the amount of the budget depends of the teams reputation) to make transfers.

Objectives
Objectives are being given to the player at the start of each season. Depend of the team the board and the budget the board set the objectives that the player has to succeed. Objectives may be to win the championship, get a mid-table position, avoid relegation or get a promotion.

60 seconds of gameplay - Message from team board: Welcome to the team. We want the team to win the championship this year. You have 30 000 000 budget to spend. - Lets take a look to the squad. Well i will need a Defender Left and a Striker for start. - I will assing my scouts to find some good players in that positions. - A friendly match allready. Lets see what we have. I like attacking football and 4-1-2-1-2 formation. My good GK is injured. I will have to promote a GK from reserve squad for this match. - Go to the match!!! - The other team is playing 4-4-2. It should be easy for us to win this. The odds are with my team. - You can win this lads. (teamtalk) - The whistle blows. Come on. Messi pass to Ibrahimovic. Shoot Shoot!! .. Hit the crossbar. - The croud is going crazy. - Corner for my team. Messi.... Iniesta scores!!! Goal. Barcelona with 1 goal lead. - Messi is injured. I have to make a substitution. Yaya toure for Messi. I have to change the formation too. Lets play 4-1-3-1-1. - Full time. My team wins but i am not that happy from the performance. I will say to the players tha i want to see more from them. - I will send my assistant manager to the press conference. - Lets see if there is any backroom advice from my staff. - Ok he is a good player i will renew his contract. I will offer him 2 years contract. - An offer for puyol?? Haha.. No way he is gonna leave the club. Reject the offer. - I have more news. Puyol is unhappy because i am not selling him.

Level Design
In football manager 2010 there aren’t any levels. Ok there are leagues with different divisions but the gameplay and everything are the same. Only the quality of the football matches are worst because the players are not that good such as the premier league players, for example.

Technical Requirements
PC Requirements

OS: Windows XP/Vista /Windows 7

Processor:
XP : 1.4GHz or Faster 
Vista : 2.0GHz or Faster 
*Supported Processors: Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core, AMD Athlon
Memory:
XP : 512MB RAM 
Vista : 1GB RAM 

Hard Drive Space:
2GB 

DVD-Drive:
4x Speed 

Video Card:
128MB**
**Supported Chipsets - Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra or greater; ATI Radeon 9800 or greater; Intel i865G or greater. 
Earlier cards may only display 2D Match Viewer Mode and are not supported. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. 

Sound Card:
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Directx:
Version 9.0c (included) 
LAN:
TCP/IP complaint 

Input:
Keyboard, Mouse 



Mac Requirements

PowerPC Minimum Spec: 
OS X 10.5.3, Nvidia Geforce 6600 / ATI 9600 Radeon
Intel Minimum Spec: 
OS X 10.4.11, Intel GMA 950* / NVidia Geforce 6600 / ATI 9600 Radeon
Recommended Spec: 
Intel Core Duo Processor, OS X 10.5.3, NVidia Geforce 7300 / ATI X1600 Radeon

* will only display 2D Match Viewer Mode. Earlier systems may work but are unsupported.