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Game uses FIFA 19 version as at 10/01/2019
https://sofifa.com/?v=19&e=159334&set=true

Week 10
Grimsby Town v Macclesfield
Lincoln City v Bury
Cheltenham Town v Exeter City
Crewe Alexandra v Newport County
Colchester v Mansfield Town
Crawley Town v MK Dons
Cambridge Utd v Carlisle United
Morecambe v Forest Green

Hardcore Cup 2nd Round:

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Links

https://www.twitch.tv/hero606v2

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rzMxThEbVCIiOq_gKOmMqH7WgcsIpYxleuPOWIzg-4Q/edit?usp=sharing

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	_________		_________

And you might call it stock brokering others might call it identifying grassroots talent and promoting youth 

Renege wrote:I’ve only signed 3 players purely on rating and who I don’t think will go up in value on TM as it is anyway.

I signed all of my players based on their FIFA stats, not on their TM potential. I'd rather see players on my team who I enjoy watching, than players I don't care about and am just waiting for a lawyers offer to move on from.

Takefusa Kubo is a prime example. I love that kid, he's a wizard midget with a killer left foot and I could have had a 70 rated player there, who I could have sold and replaced with another 70 rated player. And so on. But I'll literally never sell Kubo, even when this league is seeing Griezmann vs Messi.

Renege wrote:And you might call it stock brokering others might call it identifying grassroots talent and promoting youth 

That implies you are promoting youth to actually play them.

Afro wrote:

Renege wrote:And you might call it stock brokering others might call it identifying grassroots talent and promoting youth 

That implies you are promoting youth to actually play them.

You are .. eventually. If they're likely to get TM increases they'll probably end up in the game!

Afro wrote:Seems like I am very much in a minority. Where's Trebs when you need him?

What's with the apostrophe in my name?

There's a guy at work who puts apostrophes whenever he adds an s to a plural word. It drive's me crazy.

Budgets updated in my tracker

Going forward, if making a domestic transfer, please can you confirm the player's TM value in the post on the confirms page - makes it easier for me rather than checking back pages etc

Trebs wrote:

Afro wrote:Seems like I am very much in a minority. Where's Trebs when you need him?

What's with the apostrophe in my name?

There's a guy at work who puts apostrophes whenever he adds an s to a plural word. It drive's me crazy.

Corrected

Can't say I'm too keen tbh, mainly due to the fact there's a ratings cap and its potentially a way of exploiting it.

Obviously its aimed at youth players who would have a low rating if they were in the game, however it would also open up the opportunity of signing a player like Paqueta who would clearly be above the current cap.

Whilst his TM value would prevent his acquisition this season I'm sure there will be similar scenarios later on down the line when everyone has more money to play with. Besides I don't see the harm in just waiting until your target is in the game and has a set rating.

BamBam wrote:Budgets updated in my tracker

Going forward, if making a domestic transfer, please can you confirm the player's TM value in the post on the confirms page - makes it easier for me rather than checking back pages etc

Bam - I have corrected the Vadaine Oliver value on my sales. You gave me £450k for him, which was very kind, but I only sold him for £45k

In the Paqueta scenario I'd say that the player then remains ineligible to play until he is within the league's rating cap

Take a boo wrote:Can't say I'm too keen tbh, mainly due to the fact there's a ratings cap and its potentially a way of exploiting it.

Obviously its aimed at youth players who would have a low rating if they were in the game, however it would also open up the opportunity of signing a player like Paqueta who would clearly be above the current cap.

Whilst his TM value would prevent his acquisition this season I'm sure there will be similar scenarios later on down the line when everyone has more money to play with. Besides I don't see the harm in just waiting until your target is in the game and has a set rating.

I hadn't thought about this, but that is a true point.

Afro wrote:

BamBam wrote:Budgets updated in my tracker

Going forward, if making a domestic transfer, please can you confirm the player's TM value in the post on the confirms page - makes it easier for me rather than checking back pages etc

Bam - I have corrected the Vadaine Oliver value on my sales. You gave me £450k for him, which was very kind, but I only sold him for £45k

This is where the foolproof spreadsheet fails thanks Afro

I had also got Azzy paying 450k for someone who he actually paid 45k for, and was wondering why he was in negative budget till I went back and checked

BamBam wrote:

Afro wrote:

BamBam wrote:Budgets updated in my tracker

Going forward, if making a domestic transfer, please can you confirm the player's TM value in the post on the confirms page - makes it easier for me rather than checking back pages etc

Bam - I have corrected the Vadaine Oliver value on my sales. You gave me £450k for him, which was very kind, but I only sold him for £45k

This is where the foolproof spreadsheet fails thanks Afro

I had also got Azzy paying 450k for someone who he actually paid 45k for, and was wondering why he was in negative budget till I went back and checked

The other thing I'd say is that on all the lawyers, and on my own releases I have always rounded to the nearest £1k, whereas your file doesn't. Therefore it is throwing up budget differences due to rounding

On a separate note

Tactics are in, the Torpedo is back and we're sporting an all 70 outfield. Bring on Cheltenham

Hadnt thought of that TAB good point.

And i’d rather have players I know and have heard of Azzy, only Sparv I’ve signed that I hadn’t heard of. Had heard of Kubo because of the Barca palaver though!

On a similar note to the Paqueta example, what happens if we sign a player under the ratings cap but on the next update they are above the cap?

Personally I think it can wait till players are available in the game.

But I'm against the stock market league style and have been for a long time. It's why I favoured FIFA values rather than tm to run the league.

Renege wrote:On a similar note to the Paqueta example, what happens if we sign a player under the ratings cap but on the next update they are above the cap?

We have said that if they are under when you sign them, but then go above, that is fine. You just can't sign them above the cap.

On a similar note, I had my eye on a player who was 70 rated at the time of our game version (30/10/2018) but has this week risen to 71

Assuming he can no longer be signed?

That's right.  Although we are currently running game version from 30th October, the update could be applied anytime (whether by accident by Hero's kid, or because Hero has time to do squads). Therefore the ratings applied for the purposes of the cap is the latest one.

Cool thanks for clarifying

Although on the basis he's a 40 year old GK I'm perplexed as to how he's managed to achieve a ratings rise

So on Friday I was offered my dream job. Today I turned it down. When some of you guys grow older and have families of your own, I hope you come to realise like I have that an extra £10k and a better job mean nothing if you get 33% less holiday and have to work an extra 5 hours per week.

Family means the world.

Azzy wrote:So on Friday I was offered my dream job. Today I turned it down. When some of you guys grow older and have families of your own, I hope you come to realise like I have that an extra £10k and a better job mean nothing if you get 33% less holiday and have to work an extra 5 hours per week.

Family means the world.

I actually took a pay cut and gave up a final salary pension in order to work 15 minutes from home, rather than 1 hour and 15 mins.

My current company did try and give me 20 days holiday, when I was on 25, but basically said I would only move if they matched it. Since then, I have successfully managed to get them to up everyone elses holidays to 25 as well

20 days holiday is very mean. Fair play Azzy, I'm still a corporate lackey for the foreseeable, but eventually I would love to be in a position to be able to turn something down for quality of line

Azzy wrote:So on Friday I was offered my dream job. Today I turned it down. When some of you guys grow older and have families of your own, I hope you come to realise like I have that an extra £10k and a better job mean nothing if you get 33% less holiday and have to work an extra 5 hours per week.

Family means the world.

Are you still on your boat

BamBam wrote:20 days holiday is very mean. Fair play Azzy, I'm still a corporate lackey for the foreseeable, but eventually I would love to be in a position to be able to turn something down for quality of line

20 days holiday is a statutory minimum allowed, so that's what they gave. Anything to save a buck

I get 33 days per year, including service days, statuary holidays and everything. I think it's just the minimum

The legal minimum is 28 days, but that can include Bank Holidays. I get 41 currently.

Get 27 plus bank holidays which is a few more than my last job and feels like a big difference. So losing a third of your holidays would be huge!

Also got another 3 additional ones because of the hours I had to work which is the real issue and why their generous with holidays. Not worth it for long term. Could do with a lend of that boat

I get 25 plus bank holidays which I think is fairly average. Most I work with get 20 plus bank hols which is the statutory min (5.6 weeks), but now will get an extra 5 from Jan thanks to me.

Think they should all give a day each as a thank you would then give me half the year off.

Colleague of the year stuff that, at the very least you deserve a few pints from everyone!

Are service days a legal requirement? We get a bonus holiday day per year of work at the company...

I get 30 + bank holidays, week between Xmas and new year, and a week in Austria. Can't complain.

I’ve no problem with Hero’s idea, but probably think the proviso should be that they can only enter the game if they are 70 or below when added.

I do love receiving tactic messages that involve Keisha song lyrics

That'll be olly then

Fernando wrote:That'll be olly then

Nope, not the potato headed one.

From the song Tik Tok, which I think was probably my subject last week. I’m running out of variations

I really need to do some TLC to my squad - works been mental so havent had time to look recently

Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:I really need to do some TLC to my squad - works been mental so havent had time to look recently

Don’t go in there and make big changes for no reason. Stick to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to.

Olly - I know you are going to have it your way or nothing at all, but I think you're moving too fast

Sometimes Olly, you just need to look at your players and say, "I don't want no scrubs".

Signed some fast black men.

Take another look at it through only your Left-Eye

Olly ain't 2 proud 2 beg for players.

Tomorrow's Black Friday, Olly will be doing a Red Light Special I'm sure.

Willing to sell Courtney Senior. Value of £0 but 64 rated. Sensible offers only please.

Azzy wrote:Willing to sell Courtney Senior. Value of £0 but 64 rated. Sensible offers only please.

I'm interested if we can thrash out a deal.

Tactics in - good luck to whoever faces my wrath next

Is there some sort of “don’t just run down the wing and cross it” button I can press? Or a “shoot” tactic?