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Football Management Simulator (Soccer LitRPG)

Football Management Simulator (Soccer LitRPG)

by D.N. Newyn

ComedyContemporaryGameLitLitRPGLocal Protagonist
Shadow rank ~#1355 in Comedy↓48

Jamie Harrington used to be a defender you could rely on, until the match-fixing scandal that ended his career and relationship like a rogue corner kick. Seven years and one ban later, he’s just another ex-pro flipping steaks on a rusted grill, pretending not to watch football (soccer) highlights through the neighbor’s window. When his brother, now a Premier League star, drags him into coaching a struggling Tier 7 side, Jamie expects nothing but mud and bad pitches. What he doesn’t expect is the game. Not the game. His literal video game. The old Football Management Simulator he’s been playing to kill time starts bleeding into reality. He sees player stats above heads, morale bars hovering like ghosts, and form graphs in real time. And they’re accurate. Now, for the first time in years, Jamie’s got an edge. A disgraced defender turned reluctant manager, a small-town club on the brink of collapse, and a gift that shouldn’t exist. With his new vision, he might just rebuild Dunsvale from the dirt and drag them all the way to the top of the Champions League. Every stat matters now, and he’s playing for keeps. [For every chapter I add on Royal Road from C6 onward, I’m adding an extra chapter on Patreon. The Patreon will always be ahead.]

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Changes shown for: last 90d
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Current Rank
N/A
Peak Rank
#16
Followers
1,061
+83
Story Timeline

Started

11mo ago

Tracking

8mo ago

Entered Contemporary RS

8mo ago

#16 Contemporary

8mo ago

Entered Mystery RS

8mo ago

#32 Mystery

8mo ago

Left Mystery RS

7mo ago

Left Contemporary RS

6mo ago

Entered Contemporary RS

6mo ago

#50 Contemporary

6mo ago

Left Contemporary RS

6mo ago

Entered Contemporary RS

6mo ago

OverviewViews and follower statisticsEngagementProseChapters
Ranking History
Track position changes over time
24h7d30d
Favorites
270
+95
FVR
0.34%
Rating
4.77
Ratings
185
+44
Reviews
N/A
0
Comments
N/A
0
RS Days
74
90d
All
No data available for this time range
Rating Breakdown
Overall4.77
Style4.92
Story5.00
Grammar5.00
Character5.00
Streak History

#12

3/31/2026

Peak #50

0d

#11

3/30/2026

Peak #48

0d

#10

3/27/2026

Peak #45

2d

#9

3/26/2026

Peak #46

1d

#8

3/25/2026

Peak #48

0d

Shared RS Climb

One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.

Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC

Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC

Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1

Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1

Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.

Coupled 14-day outlook

rs-joint-entry-copula-v1

Any eligible RS entry

9%

Two or more lists

2%

Likely threshold order: Contemporary → Mystery → Comedy → Main.

Leading bundle: Contemporary (7%).

Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.

Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.

Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank

~#8426267

#8426 of 12,409 · 8376 below RS #50

Separate entry model vs observed 7d bar-108/wk
Separate forecast P(enter ≤14d)0%
Shadow rankObserved RR rank

By genre

Reader Funnel
How efficiently views become followers — benchmarked against 8,060 active stories with 50–149 chapters
Views
315k
0.3 follows / 1k viewslast 29d

beats 27% of similar stories

Followers
1.1k
0.25 favs / follower

beats 56% of similar stories

Favorites
270
Traffic (last 29d)568 views/day

beats 84% of similar stories

Conversion trend
Coolingrecent 0.3/1k vs lifetime 3.4/1k

Readers arrive, few stick

Traffic is strong, but conversion trails comparable stories. The usual suspects are the blurb, the cover and the opening chapters — fixing the hook multiplies everything the existing traffic brings.

Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 50–149 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.

Shoutouts
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