Community Created Physics Engine Update and Match Engine Analysis
For those of you who missed it, a Chinese FM player created an update to FM24's physics engine a few weeks ago.
You can download the updated simatch.fmf file from FM Arena.
This person also noted which attributes influence which stats in the FM24 game engine. There's an English translation of his chart here.
Remember to back up your original simatch.fmf file before installing.
This effort reminds me of the FM20 realistic match engine update the Korean community came out with several years ago.
EDIT: Because people have been asking, here are the installation instructions:
Go to your FM24 main directory (for me this is Football Manager 2024/data). You'll see a bunch of files there with the FMF extension.
Backup the original simatch.fmf file (rename it or move it to a different directory)
Move the downloaded simatch.fmf to the FM24 main directory
Also - if you are interested, I made a short video with a few clips from this new engine.