Franchise Hockey Manager 11 Available Today

Franchise Hockey Manager 11 is available today on Steam and the official website with an introductory price at $40.49 until November 1. The series returns for its 11th installment featuring new updates aimed at enhancing the realistic hockey strategy experience. Players can select from 36 leagues across the globe and guide their chosen team toward success, including the chance to compete for the Stanley Cup. Players can also manage a national team and strive for international supremacy.

FHM11 offers the opportunity to delve into the past through historical gameplay, allowing players to start in any year of NHL history, participate in iconic international tournaments or explore historical minor leagues. For those interested in customization, the game supports creating personalized leagues, now with added international play options. Players transitioning from FHM10 can import their saved progress to continue their journey with the new features of FHM11. Throughout the game, players have control over their team’s finances, strategies, staff management, trades, signings, drafts and more, as they aim to build a championship-winning legacy.

New Features

• International play has been added to custom games; the makeup of the international tournaments will adapt to the way you’ve set up your custom league(s)
• Playable minor league hockey has been added to historical mode, starting with the full history (including all players) of the American Hockey League from 1940 to the present
• Many improvements have been made to the AI trading behaviour; the AI will now draw from a bigger library of potential trade models, and some loopholes in the existing trading logic have been closed
• Similarly, the transfer system AI in Europe has also had some significant improvements of the same type the trading AI received
• The NHL’s new 4Nations Faceoff Tournament has been added to modern games
• Owner goals have been added: your owner will ask you to make changes to your team; failing to comply may put your job in jeopardy, but keeping the owner happy will help you stay employed
• Additionally, job security mechanics have undergone a major revision and should feel more realistic now
• Development tracking has been added for your players, so you can see how they’re progressing
• Coaches can now have specific tactical preferences and will be more effective when employing their preferred tactic(s) (and they’ll use them more often)
• Major adjustments have been made to the pool of younger players in the database at the start of the game, to fix the growing issue of there being too many NHL-caliber young players in the early years of the game 
• Long-term player generation has also been adjusted to improve the top end quality of new prospects; combined with the above database change, the overall talent level should be maintained at a much smoother level over the course of the game
• We’ve improved the 2D engine’s play execution logic to build upon the play calling improvements in the previous two versions, so teams tend to stick with their set play execution longer, and also made a major change to the passing mechanics to allow for more use of indirect passing
• New league reports, including (among other things) a Demographics report for the league and a review of Draft Sleepers/Busts from past drafts
• The AI’s roster management in the period between the playoffs and the start of a new year has been improved, particularly in how it grasps the roster changes that will happen on July 1 due to things like losing free agents
• Playoff series will now get a preview in the news
• As always, complete team and player updates for the new 2024-25 season, as well as smaller changes like a mid-season award candidate preview and “Exceptional” status in the Major Junior leagues, new interface additions, and many other improvements!