AFC2020-21 v1.3.3 is now live for PC and Linux! This fixes a couple major bugs - there should now be sound on Windows, and a missing line of code meant tribunals were being recorded, but weren't triggering. The new major quality of life addition - the player who has the ball's now labeled, which makes a big improvement when watching a match! Also, over-aged players were further down-weighted in the national draft.

Hope you enjoy the update!

VERSION 1.3.3
+ Improved: Further nerfed overage (>21 years) players in the national draft
+ Improved: Added player label for the player in possession of the ball
- Fixed: Commissioner mode check-box was not persistent between save games
- Fixed: Minor player statistic issue fixed
- Fixed: Premiership years were disappearing on game load
- Fixed: Sound was not working on Windows
- Fixed: Tribunals weren't working, they were being created but the league that was supposed to review the tribunal wasn't saving

Ready for 2021?

The Australian Football Coach 2021 update features a full data update and a number of brand new features and fixes for PC and Linux!

Want to watch any game, not just your own team's? Now you can.

Want to compare team statistics? Check.

Want to see who won historical awards? It's all there.

Want to sub on a player? Done.

Not only that, but the player decision making code has been completely revamped, leading to a more realistic (and slightly, though possibly imperceptibly faster!) match engine. The AI list management has also improved, and sounds during the game make for a more realistic matchday experience!

Mac users should have the data update and will receive a full patch in a couple months due to issues with the port.

Hope you coach your way to many flags!

VERSION 1.3
+ Added: Can now watch any game (tick the "watch?" check mark on the league>scores tab)
+ Added: Crowd sounds (basic)
+ Added: Listed-retired status, adds a player to a team's list but makes them unable to play ("injures" them for the year with an injury of "retired") - does not exist naturally in the game, only added to allow players to have that status when loaded from a database to reflect 2021 list changes
+ Added: Team statistics now visible
+ Added: Contested marks statistic now visible in the game for players
+ Added: New awards screen
+ Added: 2021 substitution rule (should work, but not well-tested)
- Updated: All players now on new teams, some teams have updated contract extensions (working on it)
- Improved: Player decision-making code
- Improved: Players will now run onto the ball more often/decide to kick in front of a player more often
- Improved: Improved match engine speeds through optimising several slow routines
- Improved: Better AI logic for creating midfield congestion
- Improved: Better AI logic for boundary throw-in positioning
- Improved: Added player team abbreviation to leaders explorer
- Improved: Fatigue has a larger impact on "active" players (disposing, tackling, etc)
- Improved: Added additional weight to the national draft so the AI list managers have more of an incentive to draft younger players in the national draft, will still pick veterans if that's the best choice
- Improved: Tackling code improved
- Improved: Significantly increased the skill of U18/youth generated players, in order to make them more attractive in the draft
- Improved: Players with trade value no longer immediately de-listed if out of contract
- Improved: Leagues which serve as draft pools for other leagues now do not reset contracts until after the other league's draft (U18s now no longer get delisted and sign with state league teams before being drafted)
- Improved: Players now out for "months" instead of "weeks" in headlines
- Fixed: Pause simulation button now no longer overlaps commissioner combo drop-down
- Fixed: typo meant AI list managers would sometimes select worse players when a player had a high "natural" skill level
- Fixed: "Show matches screen" option was defaulting to the ladder
- Fixed: The closest players no longer run to the place where the out of bounds throw-in would take place instead of to where the contest would occur
- Fixed: Round leaders explorer rounds were not sorting properly
- Fixed: Players with negative contract lengths now get delisted (should never happen)
- Fixed: Mid-season drafted players would still appear in their old team's list
- Fixed: Mid-season drafted players who signed contract extensions would have those extensions kick in and have their salaries be very low
- Fixed: Players with a contract of 0 years loaded from disk on game load now have a 1-year contract if properly placed on a team (now fixed in the data)
- Fixed: Tribunal screen was not filtering by league
- Fixed: Player name sort issue on team screens
- Fixed: Semi-retired players will not ask for a contract extension with their state league clubs
- Fixed: Teams no longer continually hire list managers
- Fixed: Players were occasionally signing with a team the day after they had signed with another team, often for less money
- Fixed: Mid-season draft now only age 20 players and higher
- Fixed: A number of possible crash points when loading a data file have been escaped, especially when a team's league has not been defined in the leagues file
- Fixed: Clicks weren't registering on click-and-drags on the team selection screen
- Fixed: Could not change a team's parent club on the editor screen
- Fixed: Game would crash in a specific situation if a player was on a team that wasn't assigned to a league
- Fixed: Unhappy traded players now become happy with the trade
- Fixed: Centered the row headings on the ladder, which had become a real bother
- Fixed: Found two memory leaks in late testing and fixed one of them