I'm biased when it comes to Football Manager, but it's the best football sim out there and has been for 20+ years. I know it has had it's weak releases over the years too, where some new features were underwhelming or only half implemented. However, 2016 seems like a good round up year with everything finally coming together. The create a club & manager is slightly goofy at the moment, despite what I just said, but they're not major game features, so I don't mind.
AI Manager is improving and starting to get more personalised in that they act like who they're supposed to act like. My only major issue, and it's more of a pet peeve, is that certain clubs/players continue to be rated very highly - but that's all personal opinion. The research is done my fans for free, and as much as they try not to there's always a little bit of fan bias creeping in (I did the Newcastle United research from 2008-2013).
