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Does freekick specialist stack with powerful shots? (~80% of the benefits of freekick specialist)
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Rapner posted:Does DV decay? Or can I safely park someone on 10/11 DV and work on the rest of my team? DV is -mostly- average form multiplied by an experience percentage. If a players AF goes up or down, their DV could change without playing a match.
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Jul 14, 2014 11:22
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Amazing second half from your blokes Shep, I thought I'd go close after my first half effort. Very ballsy of you to play offensive away but it paid off in spades. I'd only had 1 goal scored against me all season before that game! Heaps of chances between us - bloody Bell managing to score a brace when I tightly marked him
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Jul 14, 2014 16:22
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Jive Turkey, whoever you are, that was extraordinary and I salute you. Also please can I borrow a couple of million for all my suddenly necessary form training?
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Jul 14, 2014 17:05
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Wow, I beat Lamentare. Two goals from the guy that was tightly marked. 
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Jul 14, 2014 17:19
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PTizzle posted:Amazing second half from your blokes Shep, I thought I'd go close after my first half effort. Very ballsy of you to play offensive away but it paid off in spades. I'd only had 1 goal scored against me all season before that game! Yeah that was a tense game, when I went 2-0 down I thought it was all over but the season is wide open now. 3 games to go!
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Jul 14, 2014 23:24
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Just put a 17/4 youth goalkeeper with no SQs on the transfer market, if anyone's interested; I don't need him, since I got an 18/5 earlier (that's three pretty talented keepers my youth program has spat out lately, which is nice). e: Oh, right, 67% ball possession, that'd be how I won... DivineCoffeeBinge fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Jul 14, 2014 |
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Jul 14, 2014 23:30
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Rapner posted:Wow, I beat Lamentare. Two goals from the guy that was tightly marked.  . Good game!
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Jul 14, 2014 23:37
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good news: convincing win away bad news: dead goalie
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Jul 15, 2014 00:10
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Dragongem posted:
The only good thing I took away from it and I even played cautious. This season has been a disaster. I'm caught in a vicious circle of form training not giving me enough bars and making me play like poo poo.
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Jul 15, 2014 01:34
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Just put a 17/4 youth goalkeeper with no SQs on the transfer market, if anyone's interested; I don't need him, since I got an 18/5 earlier (that's three pretty talented keepers my youth program has spat out lately, which is nice). Have you got your youth team set to produce goalies? Might be worth checking if you're not sure.
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Jul 15, 2014 19:15
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The Sweet Hereafter posted:Have you got your youth team set to produce goalies? Might be worth checking if you're not sure. I did; I should have taken it off when I got my second good goalie (the one I chose to keep), but I forgot. But hey, more cash from the transfer market.
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Jul 15, 2014 20:02
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 If you've followed my whining about my goalkeeper it's old news how unlucky I am with the injury RNG, but my best forward in another league is having an especially bad year:  He's been badly injured in three consecutive starts and missed 38 days due to injury, which is more in this season alone than his previous eight seasons combined. Maybe he'll reach 10 DV with that form and games remaining. Should I bother keeping him or sell while having ~7 more seasons at his current skill might get a decent return?
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Jul 15, 2014 22:00
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tomanton posted:
He's toast, sell him and focus on the two younger strikers. Massimo will stagnate on 10 skill, the other two will easily surpass that in a few seasons if handled right.
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Jul 15, 2014 22:18
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why, yes, youth academy. I will take a 16/4 midfielder late in the season so I can sell him for cash and pick up someone better for my team at the beginning of next  That makes the second 16/4 my academy has spit out over two seasons. Whoever says the 5-star academy doesn't pay in the long run must be having a bad streak. I'm still waiting for a decent MF with the leadership stat to replace my aging captain. Too bad it's a hidden stat because it makes finding them on the transfer market a crapshoot. Baby Cakes fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Jul 17, 2014 |
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Jul 17, 2014 16:07
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Yeah, the academy does pay off eventually. It can be frustrating for the first few seasons but I've been getting some gold in other leagues (and some decent stuff in this one too!). Massive round in Retu Nagele A. Thank you very much Rapner, you are awesome! e: Does anyone notice that teams take their feet off the pedals after HT when you're smashing a team? There's been a few times where I've been 4 or 5 nil up at HT and then go on to win 5 or 6 nil. Still good wins of course, just a quirk.
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Jul 17, 2014 16:14
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Since Rapner got his head around the whole thing he's been constantly performing in the league, fair play to you! Gutted I lost at home and this pretty much writes off my season but well played Rapner!
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Jul 17, 2014 17:02
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In all my teams I have youth academys of 4/5 stars, and currently in all those teams I have the worst collection of bullshit you ever seen offered. 17/2, 20/4, 19/4 etc etc, not a single thing worth talking about. I know good youths do come along at some point but it simply isn't worth the investment, not knowing what you are going to get or even when you are going to get it. I've now set all to 100,000 and will just forget about the academys from now on. Its a shame really, it could be so much more as part of the game. Also, it is a thing that the game doesn't let you smash teams 10-0, you will always ease off when destroying a team. I guess there is reason behind it, potentially you could be beating managerless teams 20-0 which isn't good for a league, but there times I wouldn't mind just a few more goals!
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Jul 17, 2014 18:38
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shep posted:Since Rapner got his head around the whole thing he's been constantly performing in the league, fair play to you! Gutted I lost at home and this pretty much writes off my season but well played Rapner! Yeah, seriously. Has been a really rapid rise, well done Rapner. I reckon (assuming we both win our last two which is a bit iffy) you'll still get promoted. You're comfortably in that 6th promotion spot at the moment and unless you drop both your games then 34 points with a 30-35 GD should get you through. I'm not really looking forward to moving up assuming my good form continues, Serious Business always finds a way to badly expose my soccermens
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Jul 17, 2014 18:47
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shep posted:Since Rapner got his head around the whole thing he's been constantly performing in the league, fair play to you! Gutted I lost at home and this pretty much writes off my season but well played Rapner! Thanks Shep. I had a good long hard look at your team and play history and figured you're drastically stronger than my team, and had a strong team in the wings. I thought with long balls and through plays and otherwise too many defenders I might be able to squeak out a draw. Offside traps on top of that might also have helped keep you out. The main thing I got right was changing my playmaker so you wouldn't have him marked, and correctly marking yours. I really got lucky there and you were robbed. You had double my chances and possession but I was able to squeak it out due to the brilliant Uwe Mehle, despite him being tightly marked. Looking forward to the end of the season to rebuild the team, I made a ton of mistakes when I didn't know what I was doing. Rapner fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Jul 18, 2014 |
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PTizzle posted:I reckon (assuming we both win our last two which is a bit iffy) you'll still get promoted. You're comfortably in that 6th promotion spot at the moment and unless you drop both your games then 34 points with a 30-35 GD should get you through. I'm not sure how it'll work with our division being the smallest of the 4, giving other teams more games to get more points and take those extra spots. Rapner posted:Thanks Shep. I had a good long hard look at your team and play history and figured you're drastically stronger than my team, and had a strong team in the wings. I thought with long balls and through plays and otherwise too many defenders I might be able to squeak out a draw. Offside traps on top of that might also have helped keep you out. The main thing I got right was changing my playmaker so you wouldn't have him marked, and correctly marking yours. I set our tactics in advance for once and even bought a couple of tactic reports (I never do this) to see how you played against PTizzle and Lamentare and still didn't pick my tactics properly. You just out managered me everywhere and deserve the points.
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Jul 18, 2014 04:33
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I've just found out that you can change all the players faces in this league unlike the Official leagues. I thought it was just the accessories like earings. Time to play dress-up!
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Jul 18, 2014 11:29
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I'm tempted to start an ultra turbo league to try some player development ideas I've got. Does anyone mind if I pimp it here to get starting members?
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Jul 20, 2014 02:09
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I'd be willing to join a turbo league.
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Jul 20, 2014 03:16
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I've created it and the join link is here: http://www.xperteleven.com/?lid=347503 If anyone disagrees with me starting another, please poo poo on me from a great height and I'll take it elsewhere. Edit: I've renamed the league seeing that I was inadvertently totally ripping off the name of another league. Rapner fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Jul 20, 2014 |
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Jul 20, 2014 03:52
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Apparently I can't join another private league at the moment. welp
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Jul 20, 2014 03:57
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Time to fire all the kids into the Sun: Was this a terrible idea? The point is to get their average form up, as development value is a function of average form and match experience. ------------------- Edit: I've been reading old blogs to try and figure out the mechanics. Overtraining was removed in July 2013, so may want to remove that from the goonguide. Edit2: Also - Manager skill is measured in bars and can be seen in the lobby or on your profile page. I shall explain manager skill in more detail in another post but briefly you get rating points for each match your official team has played in the last 6 months, and these rating points are converted into skillbars. Briefly you earn more skill points for winning, especially away, and also for setting what the system decides are good tactics. That means playing to the referee, playing careful is very good for ranking points and general good tactical decisions. As all matches from the last 6 months are included good cup runs will help your ranking as they get more games in your "cycle" Rapner fucked around with this message at 13:26 on Jul 20, 2014 |
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Jul 20, 2014 06:47
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Well gently caress.
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Jul 21, 2014 16:40
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Well that just made things a bit more interesting. PTizzle, you should lose too to make things REALLY interesting.
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Jul 21, 2014 17:09
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shep posted:Well gently caress. Tell me about it.
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Jul 21, 2014 17:10
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I decided to neglect my official team because I didn't give two shits and I guess it tanked my manager rating back down to 3 bars. Whoops. If I abandon my official team will it screw with the goon league stuff? That's all the effort I can really put into this game, one team.
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Jul 21, 2014 17:30
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Rapner posted:Well that just made things a bit more interesting. It's the last game of the season so I'll be going all out youth because I've neglected a heap of players trying to stay on top, so I'll do my best! 6 wins out of your last 7 - fair turnaround for Norfolk-in-Chance
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PTizzle posted:It's the last game of the season so I'll be going all out youth because I've neglected a heap of players trying to stay on top, so I'll do my best! Thanks. Next season should be a cracker as I've figured out so much in the last 2 days, let alone the last 3 weeks of play. Try not to get relegated next season. I'd like to be able to kick your arse when I catch up.  (I probably won't be able to back that up.)
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Jul 21, 2014 18:07
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Rapner posted:Was this a terrible idea? For most of those 19/5's I wouldn't have wasted the money, this late in the season you aren't going to get their DV anywhere near to 15 whether you train them or not. After the change report you are going to have a bunch of 20/5 players. Considering you can pick up 18/4 and 19/5 players dirt cheap it makes no sense whatsoever to keep 20/5's anywhere near your squad. Thats over a million econ you just spent on players for whom most of them won't be good enough.
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bucketybuck posted:For most of those 19/5's I wouldn't have wasted the money, this late in the season you aren't going to get their DV anywhere near to 15 whether you train them or not. I think it's for the other league he created?
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Camoes posted:I think it's for the other league he created? No, thats a serie goon team.
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Jul 21, 2014 20:40
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Yeah, once you reach mid-season you should pretty much give up on signing any players unless you have identified a weak spot and are making a title push. Youth players will calculate their DV based on remaining games. In your situation I'd probably have just stopped training any player who wasn't showing progress, save up a few million in the bank, and hit the transfer market hard right after the change report to stock up on promising vanilla youths with 2m or so in the bank to keep win bonuses and training ongoing to stimulate performance/DV.
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Jul 21, 2014 20:52
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Nephzinho posted:Youth players will calculate their DV based on remaining games. This is 100% not true as I've repeatedly received 2 DV players from the academy with like 6 games left in the season.
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Jul 21, 2014 21:04
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Baby Cakes posted:This is 100% not true as I've repeatedly received 2 DV players from the academy with like 6 games left in the season. Yeah, and then their DV is based on a 6 game season. Play them 60+ minutes in each of those games and you should get 15 easily. The only times I've had late season youths not jump were when the team was in the shitter with form, the average age for that position was low, and the youth's form never got above 15. Gotta play well to get that experience and sometimes the RNG just says gently caress off.
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Nephzinho posted:Yeah, and then their DV is based on a 6 game season. Play them 60+ minutes in each of those games and you should get 15 easily. Ah I see what you mean now. I guess I never bothered with youths late in the season because I tend to sell more than I keep.
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