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Team	_________	Manager
Bury	_________	$ka
Cambridge Utd	_________	Dolph
Carlisle United	_________	Fluxy
Cheltenham Town	_________	Twist
Colchester	_________	Azzy
Crawley Town	_________	Marky
Crewe Alexandra	_________	Nads
Exeter City	_________	Trebs
Forest Green	_________	TAB
Grimsby Town	_________	Fernando
Lincoln City	_________	Bam
Macclesfield	_________	Hero
Mansfield Town	_________	Rof
MK Dons	_________	Olly
Morecambe	_________	Afro
Newport County	_________	Sodhat

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Matches	_________	Transfers	_________	Other
Fixtures	_________	Lawyers	_________	Rules
Table	_________	Foreigns	_________	Press Conferences
Injuries	_________	Releases	_________
Tactics	_________	Confirmation	_________
Results	_________		_________
Cards	_________		_________

So am i right in thinking for the draft you can bid on players who are rated 70, or is it 69 and under?

I'll also sort out my team page later

70 is the max, so 70 and under

Cheers Afro - bids sent to Bam now.

Page will go up this evening

Team page up: https://www.606v2.com/t68102-colchester-united#3745297

What's the deal with releases - can we do them now, add to our transfer kitty for the draft?

Also, do we have to bid for a DF, MF and ST in the draft, or could I go for three GK if I so chose?

Pretty sure you can go for anyone.

Also, if we're agreed on squads of 25, means everyone listing their squad needs to only select a maximum of 25 before doing any releasing.

No decision was made, but I'm going to say no releases yet.

Once you get draft players in, everyone can release the number of players required to bring you down to be within the squad limit of 25.

Then from next Tuesday, we will begin the season and it will start the 2 releases per week limit. You will also get 2 lawyers offers next week

Marky wrote:Pretty sure you can go for anyone.

Also, if we're agreed on squads of 25, means everyone listing their squad needs to only select a maximum of 25 before doing any releasing.

Yeah, you can go for whoever you want

I'm going to cut my squad down to 22 now, so that my three draft signings make the full 25.

Okay. Checklist:

- Team page set up
- Squad of 22, in anticipation of adding three players through the draft
- Bids in to Long Bam Silver

Anything else needing doing?

I think it might take a few weeks before any domestic deals are done.

https://sofifa.com/team/121

Are these the correct player ratings for my team?

The overall rating, yes

Although Bam will pull you up on not doing your squad list properly on your page

Found an absolute corker of a player last night, on Ultimate Team but not on normal fifa. Gutted.

To clarify, I can sign a 2m player in the draft if I so wished?

Trebs wrote:To clarify, I can sign a 2m player in the draft if I so wished?

Yes, although they still need to be rated 70 or lower on Fifa 19 Career Mode

If my bids lose and he's still available, I'm getting Akinfenwa

Marky wrote:

Trebs wrote:To clarify, I can sign a 2m player in the draft if I so wished?

Yes, although they still need to be rated 70 or lower on Fifa 19 Career Mode

Do you not have to bid the minimum value?

Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:

Marky wrote:

Trebs wrote:To clarify, I can sign a 2m player in the draft if I so wished?

Yes, although they still need to be rated 70 or lower on Fifa 19 Career Mode

Do you not have to bid the minimum value?

Yep. Trebs could theoretically use his £1m from the draft and his entire £1m budget to do that.

Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:

Marky wrote:

Trebs wrote:To clarify, I can sign a 2m player in the draft if I so wished?

Yes, although they still need to be rated 70 or lower on Fifa 19 Career Mode

Do you not have to bid the minimum value?

Yes. Minimum bid is TM value. But if you used your £1m draft money and £1m main budget, you could bid on a £2m player if you wanted

You'd be stupid to do that, but you can do that if you like

Marky wrote:You'd be stupid to do that, but you can do that if you like

are you saying you'd prefer 10 x 70 rated players for £2m, over 1 x 70 rated player for £2m. Crazy!!

Marky wrote:You'd be stupid to do that, but you can do that if you like

You don't know which player I've found....

You could buy the £2m player and get a lawyers offer straight away. Then you'd be able to buy 11 players instead.

The one thing that the last two seasons has taught me is that building a good squad is vital. Some of my sets of injuries were horrific and I would never have finished where I did without a decent squad.

I expect that to be even more the case in the new league

Trebs wrote:

Marky wrote:You'd be stupid to do that, but you can do that if you like

You don't know which player I've found....

https://sofifa.com/player/189725/tom-cleverley/ - 76 so not him.
https://sofifa.com/player/186140/federico-macheda/ - hmm, maybe

If you finish bottom is there any punishment? I.e is there any point signing young players or could you lose them if you finish bottom as a result?

No punishment but it will be a boring season if you just go for potential over rating. Good to have a mix though.

I'm not getting blinkered about the 70 limit though. A lot of good players between 65-69.

TwisT wrote:No punishment but it will be a boring season if you just go for potential over rating. Good to have a mix though.

I'm not getting blinkered about the 70 limit though. A lot of good players between 65-69.

One I'm considering is 60 rated!

I searched using the 70 rating initially, with specific filters on things. Then when I removed the 70 rating filter, and had 70 or below, there were much better options in the ratings below 70

Marky wrote:The overall rating, yes

Although Bam will pull you up on not doing your squad list properly on your page

I do think there should be something to play for outside of winning the title.
Perhaps a top four 'Chanpions League', 5-8 'Europa League' and bottom two get relegated.

Not sure if that's the best idea but I'm sure we could work something out.

Bring back the Intertoto Cup! 

My draft picks are in

Hero wrote:My draft picks are in

Was searching in my lunch break and I missed one. I knew that was going to happen! Should have kept with what I told myself - don't search again until after draft finished. End up kicking myself.

Well already I may have to revise mine, stupid Sofifa giving me misinformation.

From what I've just discovered we may need to decide upon a cut off date for Fifa rating changes and the draft.

I found a player on sofifa who was 69 rated and put a bid in.
I then find that actually his rating has gone up.
His team page currently rates him at 70.
His new individual page (old page also remains which was where I found him initially) has him at 71, updated as of the 18th October.

Well people are looking now, and started putting their draft bids in yesterday, so does it make sense to go for a cut-off of the update yesterday or the one from 22nd?

Probably the latest one as of today I guess, and everyone just needs to check their bids are still valid.

Especially check on the individual page rather than just the team page as I've found that they don't always match up!

Is there an easy way to check previous ratings? I'm thinking of the graph in TM that shows previous values and dates of changes

SoFIFA has a graph at the bottom of the players individual page which shows a history

I suggest we all go by Sofifa then, like we all use TM. Then if something like this happens a) we are all using the same site and b) we can check if any rating uplifts happened after the cut off.

Am I right in saying that this player would remain as 69 in game though because hero isn't updating the player stats as it moves players around from teams? Sorry.....i'm not up on FIFA the game, but I am sure you said something along those lines

If not, it becomes a bit of a loophole? Trying to guess what players might go up rating wise. Sure you guys have spotted this as it makes a bit of a mockery of the 70 cap. I mean I am planning for the future with some high potential players but i thought they would stay at 70 for season 1 regardless if in Fifa they go up higher.

You can also change the version it is searching, at the top left hand side.

The players rating will remain unchanged from the version we used unless we applied updates. We are not doing this as applying the update moves all the players back to there real teams

Tactics, right?

Basically, your formation and approach and details can change depending on whether the CPU has you Ultra Defensive, Defensive, Balanced, Attacking or Ultra Attacking. I've noticed that you need to have all five scenarios covered, alternatively specify the same system for all five scenarios with differences in the details.

Something that you can change in all five scenarios is things like, number of players in the box for corners/free kicks, which you may want to vary, no point having everyone forward for a corner when you're 1-0 up in injury time.

What I'll do is try to create a full template.

TwisT wrote:If not, it becomes a bit of a loophole? Trying to guess what players might go up rating wise. Sure you guys have spotted this as it makes a bit of a mockery of the 70 cap. I mean I am planning for the future with some high potential players but i thought they would stay at 70 for season 1 regardless if in Fifa they go up higher.

Not really a loophole, it was mentioned before that if your player goes above 70 after buying him then that's fine.

True, but that's not going to happen right, with what Afro said above. At least until Hero chooses to update fifa.

TwisT wrote:True, but that's not going to happen right, with what Afro said above. At least until Hero chooses to update fifa.

I think the current plan might be to do that once a season, before the season is about to start

Trebs wrote:I do think there should be something to play for outside of winning the title.
Perhaps a top four 'Chanpions League', 5-8 'Europa League' and bottom two get relegated.

Not sure if that's the best idea but I'm sure we could work something out.

The other option would be to divide the league into two divisions and have promotion/relegation between the two. It would then be a 14 week league, plus you could have 1 cup covering everyone with 4 rounds.

Could be 4 up, 4 down?

I think that's a good idea. We can judge how participation goes this season. It is a very long one! If everyone sticks to it we can go the same format for season 2. If people drop out then it might suggest shorter league durations are needed.

I don't like the idea of forcing some teams into the lower division right off the bat. We set this up to be one big league, let's not go changing important details like that now we've all decided our teams. Everyone should have the opportunity to win the league, not just 8 teams.

And if you did do two leagues (please don't), then 4 up, 4 down is far too big. Half the league changing every season is absurd. 2 up, 2 down. But please don't do this anyway. I want to go up against every manager, not just the same old seven.