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You can always edit it before you use it. It's jacked high, but with a few modest changes, it wouldn't be hard to fix it, because I didn't even edit all of the teams..just a random few.
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07-10-2007, 11:49 PM | #52 |
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Ok, enough talk, more pictures
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07-11-2007, 12:00 AM | #53 |
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I won't front. This little league managing junk sucks. I'm applying for national team jobs and if I get one, I'm leaving BC.
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07-11-2007, 12:01 AM | #54 |
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2011 TEAM OF THE YEAR
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07-11-2007, 12:12 AM | #55 |
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No American's huh?
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07-11-2007, 12:13 AM | #56 |
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I think the league is just good enough that they're being trumped for the foreigners, presumably. My notion is that they'll step it up in future generations.
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07-11-2007, 12:26 AM | #57 |
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Hmmm, I think I'll tweak it so that there are just a couple of American's on each roster.
So are the English teams and other foriegn teams more devoid of talent now? |
07-11-2007, 12:33 AM | #58 | |
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Welcome to my world. I dont take the money jobs, I fight in the lower divisions complaining and carping. But, I hope to win thru to higher divisions just the same. But I understand the frustrations of managing the lower leagues ... I do.
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07-11-2007, 12:39 AM | #59 | |
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Umm...just a few stars that I moved away from teams. But not many. Most of the moves that you've seen over the past five years or so, were completely done by the computer. Which is what I wanted. |
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07-11-2007, 12:41 AM | #60 | |
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I think if I had a team that I was wedded to, it might be easier. But since I just picked a team that I care nothing about...it made it harder. I might have to try again with another team in the lower division, because I do like the idea of 'working my way up'. |
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07-11-2007, 10:35 AM | #61 |
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As it turns out, I haven't been offered any other gigs. So instead of leaving like a girl, I'm staying at BCGE and attempting to see if I can't make it work.
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07-11-2007, 10:48 AM | #62 |
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NEW SIGNINGS (2011-12)
--- 28 year old Argentine Marcos Angeleri, $375k (D/WB), 4 assists, 63 appearances for St. Louis (2 years in the Premier League, last season in the Championship) 18-year old Canadian Marco Johnson (AM/F C) from Quad City Metropolitan for $950k 27-year old American Jordan Harvey (D, LC) from New Orleans for $45k 18-year old Canadian Ludovic Besson (SW, D C) from Wyoming for $1.4 million 22-year old Argentine Angel Germano (ST) from New Orleans on a free transfer. 29-year old Argentine Roberto Nanni from San Jose Earthquakes for 450k I also canned two coaches and a scout in an effort to step things up a bit. Considering I didn't get into this job until just March, the fact that the team didn't absolutely collapse is probably a good sign. I think the team has a decent core. It'll be just a matter of what they can do going into this year. |
07-11-2007, 10:50 AM | #63 |
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The Kellogg's Cup draw is out.
We're playing Washington City (DC) in the third round. City are a 4th division club. The winner of the matchup will face off against the winner of Queen City Buffalo (3rd division) v. Bakersfield |
07-11-2007, 10:57 AM | #64 |
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I scheduled a friendly against Corinthians of Brazil. We drew 0-0 with them.
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07-11-2007, 12:05 PM | #65 |
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RESIGNED
The team, tired of me constantly looking at different offers, gave me the chance to resign or be fired. So, I took their bait and quit before the start of the new season. What's next, is anyone's guess. |
07-11-2007, 12:13 PM | #66 |
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Just as quickly as I said that and wondered whether I'd actually get any offers or not, my first offer shows up in the form of recently relegated Detroit Motor City, who are mimicking their gridiron cousins by underachieving despite money to spend and a gleaming stadium.
(I'm playing as Lebanese-Canadian manager Ahmad Taleb. Dunno why...just decided to do that...go with it.) I like the offer and honestly, there aren't many other deals out there that are going to be as sweet as this one. I negotiated for $123m in payroll and $113m in transfer money, plus told them to expand 23,000 seat Chrysler Field. They've agreed and so...I guess we're headed to Dee-troit. |
07-11-2007, 12:17 PM | #67 |
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The first thing I like to do with any new team, is to purge the coaches and scouts that suck. Nothing is worse than getting bad information or having your players forced to work with crappy coaches from the start and so, I'm going to take care of that first.
Then, I'll take stock of the squad's roster and see what we need to improve a team that really has no business being in the 2nd division to begin with having resources like they do. My goal is really to expect nothing less than the outright Championship title and a return trip back to the PLA. The media predicts we'll be 7th. |
07-11-2007, 01:13 PM | #68 |
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Oklahoma Union won the AT&T Super Cup over Quebecois 2-0, claiming their 2nd straight Super Cup title.
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07-11-2007, 01:46 PM | #69 |
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The season begins on August 24th, 2011. I'm trying to schedule a few international friendlies against top-tier sides.
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07-11-2007, 01:50 PM | #70 | |
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Ok, good.
Here is the tour schedule for Motor City Detroit FC prior to the 2011 season start: Quote:
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07-11-2007, 02:16 PM | #71 | |
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It's not that weird for these European clubs to be playing our teams. Arensal played FC Dallas (Championship) on July 27th and won 2-1.
Milan played Division 3 Vancouver the same day and won 3-1 AND then beat Houston (Championship) 2-1 on July 30th. So, we're not trendsetters, but simply going along with it. AUGUST 2, 2011 Quote:
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07-11-2007, 02:35 PM | #72 |
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I'll post the team's roster just prior to the start of the regular season.
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07-11-2007, 04:34 PM | #73 |
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Here is our 2011 opening day lineup, fresh off a 4th round victory over Cleveland in the Kellogg's Cup.
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07-11-2007, 04:37 PM | #74 |
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I didn't inherit all of those guys, notables I've brought in include Hubschman, Dempsey, Thiago, Sarr and a few others. I'll publish that list next.
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07-11-2007, 04:38 PM | #75 |
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I love how when you get relegated, teams start to swarm around you to get you to sell off all of your parts. That's what's happened to Detroit now that they're a step down. It's okay though, we'll make it work.
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07-11-2007, 11:01 PM | #76 |
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*ahem*
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07-12-2007, 11:28 AM | #77 |
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What?
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07-12-2007, 11:39 AM | #78 |
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Here are the transfers I've made since coming to Detroit. |
07-15-2007, 09:47 PM | #79 |
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My first major test as Manager of Motor City is our 5th round Kellogg's Cup matchup against Edmonton FC, a third division outfit.
If we win, the sixth round is in October. |
07-15-2007, 10:09 PM | #80 |
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We lost 4-2 on penalties to Edmonton. Oh well.
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07-15-2007, 10:12 PM | #81 |
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I simmed to October 1, 2011. Here are the standings in the Championship so far. I'm sure I'm managing this team all wrong. Because I suck at this. I wish it were baseball. |
08-06-2007, 08:26 PM | #82 |
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I think I plan to do this again, but this time..with different teams throughout the leagues. I originally wanted to use the Uruguay model of relegation/promotion, but that's way too confusing to try to imitate it seems.
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08-06-2007, 08:27 PM | #83 |
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Though it could just be that I'm lazy.
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08-06-2007, 11:46 PM | #84 |
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OK, you hooked me. What is the Uruguay model?
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08-06-2007, 11:52 PM | #85 |
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I thought this was a good idea, but the nationality aspect of it bugged me where I couldn't play it. I would hope that Marc would make it so that we can just edit the league quickly and make it regulation/promotion style and then go from there. I like seeing my teams full of players who are from that country.
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08-06-2007, 11:55 PM | #86 | ||
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From the one thread on the main board:
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I got curious. It's hard to find information about this, but..I managed to discover this. Might be time for me to try to create a US league using that structure using WWSM. Quote:
According to Wikipedia though, the league is just 16 teams now.
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08-06-2007, 11:56 PM | #87 | |
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You know how BADLY I want that? They just ignore the idea of making custom leagues. And I have no idea why it's so darn hard. FaceGen and the other junk doesn't do anything for me. I just want to be able to create a custom league and be done with it. So...yeah, I'm with you totally. Because the way it is now, is a real pain in the ass using that crap data editor. And none of the 3rd party apps work with WWSM seemingly. Last edited by Young Drachma : 08-06-2007 at 11:57 PM. |
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08-06-2007, 11:59 PM | #88 |
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How about a super league like they used to do in the FIFA series. You pick a 16 team super league and play from there Kind of like Champions League Cup but more consistant.
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08-07-2007, 12:01 AM | #89 |
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But just with American teams? And maybe a Canadian team? Hmm...that might work for a dynasty.
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08-07-2007, 12:04 AM | #90 |
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Well, they'll have to be Canadian teams regardless with canadian regens because the game won't allow an American league to use a model other than the MLS model. I thought it would do it to where the regens would come from wherever the team's stadium is...but it doesn't seem to work that way. Sucks, but that's how it is. The best you can hope to do -- and I've done this before -- is to pick an obscure country, rename it America and change the languages to match America..so your regens are 'essentially' Americans, but just don't have the USA behind them. Still sucks, but...the current setup doesn't really allow for much else.
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08-07-2007, 12:31 AM | #91 |
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I'm currently modifying my db to use the Uruguay setup, but using American teams from the US of A. I'll report my results and if it works, I'll post it.
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