Loon-y Toons: A Twin Cities Championship Series

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Hey guys I have been debating about starting a dynasty on here for quite sometime and since this is my first one, I wanted it to be an ambitious project. Instead of doing a team, I'm going to do an entire city (errr cities) and that is the Minneapolis-St. Paul area; one of eleven North American metros with teams in all 5 professional sports leagues, and a college in a Power 6 conference. Despite all this, all of these teams have had pretty limited success with the Twins being the only team in the area to win a championship back in 1991 and the Golden Gophers haven't won a championship since the 60's.

Regardless these posts will focus on Minnesota United FC. The other teams will be in there respective forums.

Minnesota United FC is one of the newest teams in North American Sports, and the newest in the Twin Cities. The ultimate goal of doing an entire city is to establish a winning culture like is seen in Boston which is one of the most successful sports cities in North America, and out of all the teams in the Twin Cities; Minnesota FC is probably the weakest link.

MNUFC was founded in 2010 as a member of the Division 2 Pro League before moving to the NASL the next year. They stayed there until they were given entrance to the MLS starting for the 2017 season.

Minnesota became one of the worst expansion teams in MLS history, giving up 70+ goals in each of their first two seasons and only netting 36 points both years. Year 3 could be a major point in the young history of the team.

I hope you guys enjoy this as much as I'm excited to undertake this massive challenge.

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Season Setup - I will be playing the 2019 Season, using FIFA 18. I will be playing every team one time, the rest of the games will be simulated. The US Open Cup will be simulated, unless I make it to the semi-finals. I will not cover, in-depth, any international teams I manage unless it is the US or Canada.

I will be using Matt10's sliders with 10 minute halves on Legendary, using the Community Mod 6.0 FINAL that includes the FIFA Club World Cup and Concacaf Champions League.

For those that follow the MLS, you know that it is home to some of the most confusing and weird roster rules in soccer. The FIFA Series has not, and probably will never, implement these rules. Because of this I will implement the rules that I can within the means of FIFA18.

Squad Rules:

• Max Squad Size of 25 players. (I will only use 25 players, the rest are reserves that are in our fictitious USL team, meaning they can only be used if injuries happen to our Top 25 players)

• 8 "Crucial" Players

• 3 Designated Players with Salaries greater than 10k/week

• 7 "Important Players

• Cannot have wages greater than 10k/week but must be greater than 5k/week

• 12 squad players that can be either "Rotation (wages greater than 3k/week) or Sproadic (wages less than 3k/week but more than 500/week).

• 3 "Prospects"

These players are youth signings with "Showing Great Potential or better, must be used in the US Open Squad listed below

MLS Roster Rules:

• 8 international spots (excluding Canadian Players). Since these spots can be traded in real life and not in FIFA, I will only have 8 spots. The MLS also has exceptions for green-card holders, special status rules, etc...this would be far too complicated to to do. If the player does not have a Canadian or American Flag, he is international.

• Must Carry 2 Goalkeepers for every match in all competitions

CONCACAF Champions League Squad Rules:

• 20 players are locked and registered out of the 25 on the team and cannot be changed after the first game unless there are injuries.

US Open Cup Squad Rules

• 18 players are locked and registered out of the 25 on the team, and cannot be changed after Round 1 unless injured

• Only 5 International Players are allowed on the roster. Since this is an American competition Canadian players count against the International player slots

• Must carry all 3 youth academy "prospect" players

Contract Negotiations

If a player does not accept the role during negotiations, we have the option to accept or decline this. If we accept; another player at the tier must be downgraded to a new role or sold by the following transfer window (i.e. if the signing occurs in the Summer, then another player must be sold in the January window). If a player cannot be sold or traded by the next transfer window then that player must be cut unless it is during the Summer Transfer Window, in which the player must be cut after the season ends in December.

Transfers In:

• Scouting will be done in game using GTN only, no external scouting.

• Players can only be loaned in from non-MLS clubs

• Minnesota has a $23 million transfer budget. We can use all of this to buy players, however any player who is sold must have their transfer fee split with the MLS 50/50, thus we won't be able to use all of the money

• Free Contract players must be from the United States unless they play in a division considered lower than the MLS (such as secondary leagues in Europe and minor nations such as Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, etc), unless player is older than 30 years, he can be signed regardless of league he currently plays.

Transfers Out

• Bids that are greater than 50% than the listed value of the player must be sold if they are a crucial or important player

Player Swaps

• Unlike most soccer leagues, player swaps or trades are common within the MLS. I can swap players with other MLS squads and complete trades with no limitations.

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Season-by-Season results
Year	GP	W	D	L	PTS	MLS Playoffs	Open Cup	CCAF Champions League
2019

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Season Opening Depth Chart

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