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This Week's Fixtures

Week 17
Perth Morning Glory  v Melbourne City
Melbourne Victory  v Sydney FC
Brisbane Roar  v Adelaide United
Newcastle Jets  v Wellington Phoenix
Western Sydney Wanderers  v Central Coast Mariners
 

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This Week's Key Deadlines

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

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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	_________

At least I don't have to see that caant Suarez's face

Ive not said im going to sell him yet hard to find a striker as good as him for less dollar really that's not already in the league...

Results, table and top scorers all updated. Setting itself up nicely for that last game of the season!!

Next fixtures are up on the homepage

Cheers Afro, have to admit I did a little fist pump when Bale smashed it in during injury time.

Hero wrote:Cheers Afro, have to admit I did a little fist pump when Bale smashed it in during injury time.

I assume Nando has seen it. If so, he really needs a word with his keeper. Not so much Bale smashing it in, as the keeper falling under it.

Yeah he had a mare on that.

Samir has won me more games tbf although i have 3 quality keepers 0o

Anyone want to buy Suarez from me cos think gna accept his lawyer otherwise & arnautovic too.

Suarez yes let me have

Find ze dollar and you can have him

Going to crack on with lawyers and injuries early again.

Can someone do mine, plus injuries for Nadeem please

Injuries for you:

Blaise Matuidi (Juventus) - £27m
Alex Telles (Porto) - £14.4m
Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal) - £13.5m

Lawyers for you:

Oscar De Marcos (Bilbao) - £5.9m
Rodrigo Battaglia (Sporting) - £6.5m

Injuries for Nadz:

LB Fernando Navarro - 90k
GK Keylor Navas - £16.2m
GK Steve Mandanda - £2.25m

Thanks. The turnaround of RBs at Victory looks like continuing!!

Lawyers and injuries are up

Bam, Nadeem and Olly - World cup prediction for the semi finals needs to be posted before kick off for each game

Seri joining Fulham apparently

I know we aren't rebooting for a while, but what's the idea for how we do it?

Will it be a case of being handed pre-selected teams again? Or can we draft?

Personally I'd prefer pre-selected teams as it's just less ballache for me at the off but happy to go with flow.

I got 120m and i don't know what to do with it

Spend it

Afro wrote:Spend it at Adelaide

Fixed

Sign Neymar before Nadz can

He's still a bit short cash wise for Neymar, the peasant

i have a lawyer for ozil which would give me enough actually

Marky wrote:I know we aren't rebooting for a while, but what's the idea for how we do it?

Will it be a case of being handed pre-selected teams again? Or can we draft?

I quite like to start with teams at a certain level, say league 2 and then fantasy football them up into a powerhouse team.

Make the league longer too.

When are we restarting?

TwisT wrote:

Marky wrote:I know we aren't rebooting for a while, but what's the idea for how we do it?

Will it be a case of being handed pre-selected teams again? Or can we draft?

I quite like to start with teams at a certain level, say league 2 and then fantasy football them up into a powerhouse team.

Make the league longer too.

Agree. I would start low and build. Budgets/prize money could gradually increase.

Fernando wrote:When are we restarting?

I don’t think until the end of season 3

Afro wrote:

TwisT wrote:

Marky wrote:I know we aren't rebooting for a while, but what's the idea for how we do it?

Will it be a case of being handed pre-selected teams again? Or can we draft?

I quite like to start with teams at a certain level, say league 2 and then fantasy football them up into a powerhouse team.

Make the league longer too.

Agree. I would start low and build. Budgets/prize money could gradually increase.

You have a choice then. Buy older but cheap high rated players. Or go for the long term wonderkids with a higher pay off

If we could get a few more managers too, the season could last longer

If the work is prepared to be done (I'd be happy to help during August, quiet months at work), I like the idea of a draft.

You have pots of players depending on how many teams in the league - so if you had 8 managers, you would have a pot of 16 goalkeepers, then have a draft for each position - switching up the order of where you pick (so for example Afro picks 1st and last for GKs, maybe 8th and 9th for CBs).

I don't think work on a draft is such an issue as the work setting up on FIFA.

Predefined teams are already set-up. Draft teams would need Hero to then go and move all the players around, which takes quite a long time. I did it on my FIFA and got fed up just doing mine and one other squad

True - but my worry with going predefined teams is what do we start with? I'd be against starting with too low a team (ie. league 2 team), because it then just becomes who gets the low value on TM, high rated on Fifa first game

Agree with Olly. Also yeah it would take a bit longer to set up, but no longer than setting up this league on Fifa took.

In regards to the purchase of cheap but big players why not just impose a cap on fifa player ratings?
So if we start at League 2 level then the max fifa player rating for season 1 is 80?

No caps

Marky wrote:Agree with Olly. Also yeah it would take a bit longer to set up, but no longer than setting up this league on Fifa took.

Whilst I like the idea of a draft, or even a minefield draft, but its easy to say it will take no longer than this league when we weren't the ones who had to do it.

You could do Championship, Bundesliga 2, Ligue 2 etc, or even the Dutch or Belgian league without the big boys.

And then you could have a mini draft that allows people to pick up, say 5 further players.

Majority would only end up releasing players anyway.

With the FIFA approach I think we should be trying to promote the tactical side of things more, and not so much buying and selling

Hero wrote:In regards to the purchase of cheap but big players why not just impose a cap on fifa player ratings?
So if we start at League 2 level then the max fifa player rating for season 1 is 80?

I said that. I was laughed at.

Trebs wrote:

Hero wrote:In regards to the purchase of cheap but big players why not just impose a cap on fifa player ratings?
So if we start at League 2 level then the max fifa player rating for season 1 is 80?

I said that. I was laughed at.

It's still a bad idea, just because Hero is suggesting it it doesn't change that

Afro wrote:With the FIFA approach I think we should be trying to promote the tactical side of things more, and not so much buying and selling

I agree and if I end up winning the league then you should all really take note.

I'm mindful how long a draft will take to set up too for the guys doing the FIFA side. In my opinion the issues are.

1) Starting at a level which prolongs the life of the league
2) Having enough good players at that level
3) Current TM values having a suitable lawyer value to make the league fun with no cap.
4) If we have a draft format, making it manageable for the runners.

So merely as an example.....Championship teams with a draft for 3 star players per team.

Its never going to be about tactics because FIFA ratings will dominate that, Twist you are doing very well, not taking anything away from you but your team isn't low rated on FIFA.

No but it's low rated in this league with the teams I'm against

Surely it shows with Twist top that Fifa rankings really aren't the be all and end all as he's often got the lowest ranked first xi

I said hes done well didn't i?

Yes you did and thank you. But you also said that FIFA ratings would dominate over tactics. Which is plain wrong and has been proven not to be the case.

If it isn't then why am I top when better ranked teams in FIFA are below me AND who I have beaten? Luck?

Because it must be if it isn't the tactics I choose.

I reckon it's luck

I reckon it's match fixing

I reckon it's realising about custom tactics early and getting a grip of them first