There's been a small little patch pushed, which should only impact you in two ways: first, it should be slightly harder to trade for first round draft picks, and second, there's now the ability to export leagues and clubs to your Export folder in case you want to mod a custom scenario.

It may impact you in another way, if your game is crashing on load, this bug has been fixed.

That's it for now!

You might notice that the version has updated to 1.26.3 - this simply fixes a couple bugs in the AI trade an contract code which were causing crashes in some save files. If this is happening to you, you can now play on!

Nothing else new at this moment, though hoping for a couple small improvements during finals month.

Another month another quick patch!

This patch mostly tweaks and fixes some small things. One of the biggest addition is the addition of spoil statistics, which will be zero for previous seasons and save games, and adding average age to the team selection analytics screen. The AI will now make space on their list for draft picks more cleanly, meaning not all teams will draft every round, and some improvements to the trade system have been made, including one bug where superstars could be traded too easily, and making sure players don't get traded two years in a row by the AI.

In terms of bugs, it should also now be easier to advance years on 31 December (a "white whale" bug) and a couple bugs related to the substitution rule have been fixed.

Hope you enjoy the new patch!

Three small hot fixes have just been patched:
- fixed the team stats not showing on the team screen due to an always empty drop down
- fixed player rotation lengths not saving
- fixed an error with the draft which caused AI teams not to compare players properly and then frequently draft a player that wasn't as good as the one they should have wanted

Nothing too major - these were all simple changes - but drafts should start to get a little more difficult and a little more predictable!

As always if you do notice something that's not quite right please send an email or post in the bug reports thread on the Discord.

Two small bugs were introduced in the last version - the score worm was not clearing properly between games, and the matchup screen wasn't quite matching players up properly. These two fixes have been hot patched.

The Australian Football Coach 2024 update is finally here!

You'll get an updated 2024 data set, which will expand to 19 teams by default in 2027, and the women's league has been added back to the data set by default, albeit with only fictional players at the moment.

Player ratings
One of the most requested additions, players now receive a rating for every single in-match action they take (or, in some instances, don't take!) This helps you better determine whether your midfielder with a high disposal count is actually having a good game, or which one of your defenders is actually locking down the opposition.

Score worm
The score worm has finally migrated back from the original Australian Football Coach and now complements the score tab on the match screen.

Selection analytics
The new analytics tab on the selection screen helps you figure out your current selection's average attributes in order to help you make better tactical decisions.

Customisable stadiums
If you have stadium graphics, you can now manually define them in the data file to provide additional customisation to your game. This still isn't incredibly user-friendly, but should be accessible to those users who like mods.

Historical team stats
You can now view career stats by team on the Player Statistics tab.

Gameplay updates
Some minor tweaks to the match engine have been made, including making 50-metre penalties dependent on player attributes such as leadership, and including "winger" as a secondary position for midfielders.

There have been several other minor bug fixes and additional tweaks as well to make the game even easier to play! Please post if you find any problems with the new version and there's still more in the works, including a much requested overhaul to the trade system.

Finally the biggest request at the moment is to release the game for Macs - can't comment on this yet, but those requests have definitely been heard!

Hope you enjoy the AFC2024 update.

Australian rules football is back from another long off-season, and with the new season comes a new game update!

Australian Football Coach 2023 will become Australian Football Coach 2023-24 in the next few weeks as the game updates for the new season.

The 2024 database will fully update the men's league for the upcoming season and also re-enables the women's league, though with a more limited database at the moment. Some additional tweaks for modders have already been completed, including more control over player potential for replaying previous seasons, and the ability to add custom images for different stadiums when watching matches. There have also been some user interface tweaks and improvements.

There's a couple more features and additions planned and not implemented yet, so keep an eye out for the update to see what else is new! If you've already purchased the game, all you need to do is sit back and wait for another couple of weeks, and then click "play" once it arrives to embark on another season of footy gameplay.

Hope you enjoy the new additions!

Starting to transition over to planning for any possible future releases, but that doesn't mean the game won't receive any necessary patches!

This patch fixes one quite rare crash but also some other minor issues and tweaks around training and attempting to solve a problem where the game occasionally freezes after a goal.

Full change log is below:
Updated: possible bug when loading custom fixtures file
Updated: coaching impact on training (doubled coaching skills per math so should be twice as impactful)
Fixed: bug with quick play final scores
Improved: quick play simulation code for more realistic results
Improved: code for checking if players are ready to play after a goal, especially when a player is injured
Fixed: Game would crash in a specific parent-child pick situation
Improved: Teams would generally get financially secure after many years, made a slight tweak there

Just some simple fixes today. Nothing much to look up from the clipboard for.

Version 2023.1.22 (released 14 June 2023)
- Fixed: Colour red was being saved in custom team editor, but would appear as white if you switched to another league and switched back (foreground colour)
- Fixed: Colour teal was being saved as foreground when background was selected by user
- Fixed: Rising star and leading goalscorer were switched in player biography generator
- Fixed: Player skills were going through the roof during the offseason
- Fixed?: Grand final stadium was not holding on league editor panel
- Fixed: One of the consecutive goals article feeds was substituting the designated home team in for the away team
- Fixed?: Goal leaders were showing distinct goals scored (so if player A and B led the league with 10 goals and C had 9, would show A:10 C:9)
- Fixed: Injury frequency and trade frequency were updating correctly but not "sticking"
- Improved: Rucks now get a bonus when determining form adjustments
+ Added: Drafts to league selection in league editor