[Tony M]

Setting the PCMs lower for different regions/countries works in one way, but not in another.

I set up a test league of 2 teams (Angola and Afghanistan as they were near the top of the nations list) and set up two feeder leagues - one in each country, made the teams no foreigners, and set the PCMs in Angola to 0.9 and in Afghanistan to 0.1

Over a couple of hundred years Angola did better overall, but there were odd spells of Afghani domination which I couldn't really understand as their players were supposed to be created really badly.

So, I reran a test and had four nations with PCMs of 1, 0.75, 0.5 and 0.25 in their feeders and had a look at the ratings straight after the draft pool was announced.

The good thing was that actual ratings followed the PCMs, so the 1.0 league had an average of 69 for AvoidK for example, and the 0.25 had an average of around 2 or 3 (IIRC).

The problem that arises is that potential is the same (give or take 0.5 or so in averages) across all the feeder leagues, so the poor players are created at a low level but start with the same potential. This must have been why there were these periods of Afghani domination - they had managed to horde the players who had developed well which gave them a winning advantage and as they retired, the replacement blood just wasn't good enough.

Just a word of warning that is.