Challenge League Homepage V

by **Afro** Mon 26 Mar 2018, 11:29 am

First topic message reminder :

Welcome to the Miky Challenge League

This Week's Fixtures

Week 6
Brisbane Roar v Perth Morning Glory
Melbourne Victory v Newcastle Jets
Melbourne City v Western Sydney Wanderers
Sydney FC v Central Coast Mariners
Adelaide United v Wellington Phoenix

This Week's Key Deadlines

- 2 new Lawyers drawn on Tuesday
- Injuries drawn Wednesday
- 2 releases per week max
- Tactics due Friday

Links

https://www.twitch.tv/hero606v2

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VM9eIonYMyXCXpQOBjAJylh3wihazcw8RKtLLHiD8HI/htmlview#gid=1996389080

Team	_________	Manager
Adelaide United	_________	Hero
Brisbane Roar	_________	Miky
Central Coast Mariners	_________	Olly
Melbourne City	_________	Twist
Melbourne Victory	_________	Afro
Newcastle Jets	_________	Nadz
Perth Glory	_________	Marky
Sid Knee CF	_________	Nando
Wellington Phoenix	_________	Bam
WS Wanderers	_________	Tino

Match	_________	Transfer	_________	Other
Fixtures/Results	_________	Lawyers	_________	Rules
Table	_________	Foreigns	_________	Youth Rules
Injuries	_________	Releases	_________	Press Conferences
Tactics	_________	Confirmation	_________
	_________	Loans	_________

by **Hero** Wed 18 Apr 2018, 8:03 am

Didn't Dijk it up this time...

http://www.twitch.tv/hero606v2/v/251662337?sr=a&t=0s

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Wed 18 Apr 2018, 8:32 am

Hero wrote:Didn't Dijk it up this time...

http://www.twitch.tv/hero606v2/v/251662337?sr=a&t=0s

Spoiler:

by BamBam Wed 18 Apr 2018, 9:33 am

I'm glad it didn't change the outcome, need to watch this game properly but at least we have goals!

by **Hero** Wed 18 Apr 2018, 9:55 am

At half time I was thinking you were going to be gutted you'd brought up Dijk!

by BamBam Wed 18 Apr 2018, 10:00 am

Wouldn't have minded if I had lost, but I set up that way thinking Tino was going to be short at CB so wanted to see how that would play out

by Brooksey79 Wed 18 Apr 2018, 10:08 am

lads, 2 nice games, guess the draw was the desired outcome.
preferred the first game myself, even if I did concede at the death.

softest penalty ive ever seen

by **Hero** Wed 18 Apr 2018, 10:14 am

I did like who scored for you Bam in the first game and how that was as a result of your tactics.

by Brooksey79 Wed 18 Apr 2018, 10:19 am

Insigne scored a header ffs, and that's now been erased from the history books

by BamBam Wed 18 Apr 2018, 10:23 am

Ha, I did watch that thinking wdf

https://www.joe.co.uk/sport/napolis-lorenzo-insigne-keeps-being-paired-with-tall-mascots-and-its-pretty-damn-funny-173053

by **Hero** Wed 18 Apr 2018, 11:53 am

So Cup competition wise....

My thoughts are that to run it using the Tournament Set Up on FIFA rather than do individual games. Therefore it's not eating too much into my time and we could actually run a number of quick cup competitions over the course of the season. This would fix teams at a given point though and all games for the cup would take place on one night. I thought we could do 3 cup tournaments, a League cup with just our teams, FA Cup with English teams also included and Champions League equivalent with the best of Europe involved?

by Marky Wed 18 Apr 2018, 12:02 pm

Only problem is those clubs would be weaker because of the players we'll have signed from them.

by **Hero** Wed 18 Apr 2018, 12:04 pm

They will, I'll try and have a look through on which clubs have been proper pillaged and not include them, Napoli from memory has been raped.

by **Hero** Wed 18 Apr 2018, 12:05 pm

As a result though it should make the later stages include more of our teams.

by **Afro** Wed 18 Apr 2018, 12:08 pm

Does Fifa give an overall team rating based on the players in the squad? Thinking that way you can select the top teams only

by **Hero** Wed 18 Apr 2018, 12:11 pm

I can see ratings out of 5 on quick lists which makes it easier.

by **Hero** Wed 18 Apr 2018, 12:12 pm

Later tonight I'll run a demo tournament on Twitch to showcase it.

by Marky Wed 18 Apr 2018, 12:23 pm

Can we have all the results posted on the thread each week for those unable to watch every game?

For example at my work the Twitch links are blocked.

by **Hero** Wed 18 Apr 2018, 12:32 pm

Can do, they are being added up on the Fixtures/Results list already.

by **Hero** Wed 18 Apr 2018, 12:34 pm

I'll put them in a spoilers tab in there as I know some people prefer to watch their match to see the result.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Wed 18 Apr 2018, 12:47 pm

what time do you reckon you'll be streaming tonight hero? i'll try join and watch live

by **Hero** Wed 18 Apr 2018, 12:48 pm

Usually depends on when the Mrs goes up to bed, around 10:30 is the norm.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Wed 18 Apr 2018, 12:54 pm

sweet, if i aint fallen asleep by then ill watch Smile

by TwisT Wed 18 Apr 2018, 1:31 pm

Good game Afro

by **Afro** Wed 18 Apr 2018, 1:40 pm

You too.

Spoiler:

by **Hero** Wed 18 Apr 2018, 1:48 pm

You had two runs, one by Callejon and then one by Reus which was amazing that both deserved goals.

by **Hero** Wed 18 Apr 2018, 1:53 pm

https://clips.twitch.tv/RespectfulSmallFiddleheadsOptimizePrime

by BamBam Wed 18 Apr 2018, 2:26 pm

I went for some "interesting tactics" this week which got me a couple of goals in the second game

I think i just need to be a bit bolder and hope that my defence can hold out if I want wins

by **Hero** Wed 18 Apr 2018, 2:32 pm

I very much liked your Boateng tactic.

by nadeem2099 Wed 18 Apr 2018, 6:45 pm

Tactics sent.

by **Afro** Thu 19 Apr 2018, 8:26 am

Right, so we appear to have finished the week well ahead of schedule!!

In these instances, should we look to start the next week early to keep the ball rolling?

So off the top of my head, we draw more lawyers and injuries today (keep this weeks lawyers open perhaps?) and aim for tactics submitted by end of Monday?

by Holymiky Thu 19 Apr 2018, 8:55 am

I dont want too much crossover, it could be an absolute clusterf***

by Holymiky Thu 19 Apr 2018, 9:02 am

Also everyone can add £1.5m for week 3.

by **Afro** Thu 19 Apr 2018, 9:10 am

That’s fair comment Miky. We would need to be on top of it if we did it.

Might be a sub-conscious need to see my team actually score a goal. It’s like watching the current Everton side atm

by **Hero** Thu 19 Apr 2018, 9:14 am

Don't know why it's not clicking for your games, I'm averaging over 3 goals a game in mine!

by **Afro** Thu 19 Apr 2018, 9:16 am

I keep hitting the post! It might just be coincidence or not quite setting them up right. But I’m working on it. I’ll find a system that works if it kills me

by BamBam Thu 19 Apr 2018, 9:18 am

Wouldnt want to keep existing lawyers open, gives an unfair advantage to someone who might not have taken one of their week 3 lawyers until they see who they could potentially get by adding week 4 lawyer cash

And yes thats completely based on me already accepting both of mine

by BamBam Thu 19 Apr 2018, 9:19 am

Been having a think on how to simplify the Google Doc, and there's no real way I can think of which does it easily

The only solution potentially could be each team having its own tab, and you'd need to fill in positions under each player for the relevant week ie GK, DEF 1, DEF 2, MID 1, FWD 1 and so on

I don't think its particularly any quicker, just think everyone should take responsibility for their own games, literally would take 5 mins per game in its current form

by **Afro** Thu 19 Apr 2018, 9:20 am

Id close them too tbh. Would Just need to make sure everyone knows if they close so they can accept

by **Afro** Thu 19 Apr 2018, 9:30 am

BamBam wrote:Been having a think on how to simplify the Google Doc, and there's no real way I can think of which does it easily

The only solution potentially could be each team having its own tab, and you'd need to fill in positions under each player for the relevant week ie GK, DEF 1, DEF 2, MID 1, FWD 1 and so on

I don't think its particularly any quicker, just think everyone should take responsibility for their own games, literally would take 5 mins per game in its current form

You could have a players in the league list, which includes team name and position. If you do that, and if Google Sheets has a Data Validation and/or Dropdown lists, I could do a sheet in the background that produces a dropdown list for each team.

From there, the weekly ratings tables could just be a select player from the dropdown list and a lookup to the position. You could also have the dropdown on scorers/assists.

Would remove the risk of typos, ensuring player names are always spelt the same and also keep a consistent position

by **Afro** Thu 19 Apr 2018, 9:31 am

Having said that, my way doesn't share the workload around

by Brooksey79 Thu 19 Apr 2018, 9:38 am

morning all, what do you need me to do on the google docs?

by BamBam Thu 19 Apr 2018, 9:55 am

I've never really used data validation much but could give it a go and hope I don't break anything

Would still require someone excel savvy to update the drop downs every week, and agreed that it would mean that the work still isn't being shared around

by BamBam Thu 19 Apr 2018, 9:56 am

Brooksey79 wrote:morning all, what do you need me to do on the google docs?

Instructions are on each weekly tab, I was going to do it later for our game but happy for you to have a go if you fancy

by Brooksey79 Thu 19 Apr 2018, 10:03 am

sound just gotta update Sage then i'll have a look

by **Afro** Thu 19 Apr 2018, 10:05 am

BamBam wrote:I've never really used data validation much but could give it a go and hope I don't break anything

Would still require someone excel savvy to update the drop downs every week, and agreed that it would mean that the work still isn't being shared around

If it has dropdown list as a function, then I can get the dropdowns to automatically update (while I can in Excel so I'm assuming the same functionality in sheets)

I use Data Validation a lot, so I'm happy to do this Bam

by **Afro** Thu 19 Apr 2018, 1:11 pm

Holymiky wrote:I dont want too much crossover, it could be an absolute clusterf***

How about:

Week 3
- current lawyers are open until midday tomorrow

Week 4
- new lawyers and injuries up after midday tomorrow
- tactics submitted by COB Monday

Week 5
- new lawyers and injuries up Wednesday midday
- tactics submitted by COB Friday

The enthusiasm at the moment may even mean we can get to regularly doing two games a week!

by Holymiky Thu 19 Apr 2018, 1:24 pm

We also have to consider Hero though mate as he is running the games afterall.

by **Hero** Thu 19 Apr 2018, 1:35 pm

I can run the games if others can take the slack on updating player ratings records etc.

by BamBam Thu 19 Apr 2018, 2:27 pm

An option is to pick one manager for each game and make it their responsibility to update the Google doc for their game in that game week - can be added to the fixtures like voters were last season

I'm happy to update all the tables and so on for team of the week / season and check it all works, but people should be able to input the data pretty easily

by BamBam Thu 19 Apr 2018, 2:50 pm

Afro wrote:
Holymiky wrote:I dont want too much crossover, it could be an absolute clusterf***

How about:

Week 3
- current lawyers are open until midday tomorrow

Week 4
- new lawyers and injuries up after midday tomorrow
- tactics submitted by COB Monday

Week 5
- new lawyers and injuries up Wednesday midday
- tactics submitted by COB Friday

The enthusiasm at the moment may even mean we can get to regularly doing two games a week!

Fine with this schedule

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