Shows 88 AQ to me, but have you checked the top AQ pages? I think you'll be pretty excited about it.
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You're having an amazing season. It's insane how much you're dominating on both sides of the pitch. And you have a +44 GD!
Make that +45 I'm not sure why they're dominating like they are, but I'll take it.
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I don't know how he's doing so well. He certainly isn't the best forward I've scouted And Valina is doing pretty good in his own right. I know most people would be happy with him as their top scorer.
He's not in the top group of American forwards that I've scouted (i.e. he's not on the NT), but him and Valina are a pretty nice 1-2 punch.
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Did you dominate and lose? Or were they just close games that you lost?
1-0 losses in both games. On the road, possession and shots weren't horribly different. The home game box score isn't available anymore.
I started playing Tennis Duel yesterday, it definitely appears that the people who consistently have the time to play will dominate. I probably don't need another time-sink, but I've essentially gotten rid of all of my time-sinking entertainment options outside of PPM. I should be spending more time studying and doing homework, but I'm already ahead in both.
Nicodemo laid an egg in hockey today, giving up 5 goals on 18 shots. I still won, but his save percentage is going to take a hit (it was at 95.18%). I expect to be the 2 seed in the playoffs and hopefully win the playoffs. If I end up 2nd in the playoffs, it'll depend on who I play in the promo/relegation round and whether they're trying to move down or not. I'd like to move back up to I.1 (and pick up the bonus prize money), but it might not be in the cards (unless some of the teams talking about quitting do quit).
My soccer transfer yesterday went for 12M. I'll be pretty close on starting TF-15 next week (with a loan), but I put a couple more players on the market to try to ensure I'll have the funds. I'm trying to save a couple of players for end of the season sales as well. Specifically RMs not named Max Mark (I pulled a borderline player last night who looks like a RM, giving me 4 RMs). My home game against redcard on Sunday will be the first match with my newly upgraded 10k DFM, I'm curious as to what the souvenir sales will be (it already has all of the accessories, since I upgraded it from 4k). I didn't record any information about what it was like before the upgrade.
HOLY ****! 3rd AQ in Canada!?!?! Problem is, I have stud LD, LM and LF in terms of Qs. Also, pulled a solid LCM. This guy is a LM by build.
I don't think that's a problem. You either have a high quality LM on your B-team or you have a high AQ train-and-sell and already have TF-15 under construction.
The 5/6, time of pull in the season, and your SA "only" being at level 12 are more of a "problem" in my opinion. Either way, you'll have to let us know how he looks scouted, especially if he's good enough to be on the Canadian NT.
I don't think that's a problem. You either have a high quality LM on your B-team or you have a high AQ train-and-sell and already have TF-15 under construction.
The 5/6, time of pull in the season, and your SA "only" being at level 12 are more of a "problem" in my opinion. Either way, you'll have to let us know how he looks scouted, especially if he's good enough to be on the Canadian NT.
The current LM prospect is still 6/6 and has stud Qs where needed. But you are right. Time of the season and 5/6 don't do me any favours. Thankfully TF-14 should get him up to speed. But I don't have an advantage in training really, since my coaches are weaker than others with a weaker TF facility. I don't feel like spending big bucks on coaches either. SA is always a gamble. That's why I don't plan on investing in it. Just like with hockey. I'll invest in my SA in soccer once my stadium gets closer to completion.
I'm just outside of the playoffs in hockey at the halfway mark. I expect to have a better 2nd half of the season, since the teams who I am competing with are all weaker OR wise, and have used more energy than me, and will continue to do so.
I'm just outside of the playoffs in hockey at the halfway mark. I expect to have a better 2nd half of the season, since the teams who I am competing with are all weaker OR wise, and have used more energy than me, and will continue to do so.
Good luck! I'm 9 points up on 2nd. Don't expect that to decrease at all down the stretch. Although I don't want to promote so I have a dilemma on my hands. Maybe I'll lose in the semis this time to avoid the P/R fiasco. I also am going to sell some strong players which will weaken my team.
Good luck! I'm 9 points up on 2nd. Don't expect that to decrease at all down the stretch. Although I don't want to promote so I have a dilemma on my hands. Maybe I'll lose in the semis this time to avoid the P/R fiasco. I also am going to sell some strong players which will weaken my team.
Thanks. I just found out that I counted wrong, the monday game is the halfway game, that should put me in top 8 barring an upset from either my opponent or the 8th place team.
Last season in Denmark we had two teams in in a P/R match, where neither team wanted to win. Was quite strange to watch, one of them even went on the market and bought the worst players he could find to put on his team.
This might be a dumb question but I was just look at Team USA's roster in hockey and I noticed they have u20 & u18 wch greyed out- has there been any discussion on when these 2 teams will become active?
This might be a dumb question but I was just look at Team USA's roster in hockey and I noticed they have u20 & u18 wch greyed out- has there been any discussion on when these 2 teams will become active?
Make that +45 I'm not sure why they're dominating like they are, but I'll take it.
Haha Yes, +45 now. That was a decent game. And pretty much my top lineup. The only thing I was missing were the two suspended d-men. But I roll 6 deep there anyway. Watching that broadcast was gut-wrenching. I think I had 3 plays while it was still 0-0 where my guys were one on one with Cheney. And they missed the net every time. Jerks. Then your defensive Mid scores in the 87th(?) minute. Ugh.
I know I said I was giving up on the league if I didn't win last Sunday, but I just can't do it. Stupid Stupid Stupid. Wasting energy.
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He's not in the top group of American forwards that I've scouted (i.e. he's not on the NT), but him and Valina are a pretty nice 1-2 punch.
Definitely. I'd be happy with either one How has Bragg performed in previous seasons? I know he's been good, but has he led I.1 in scoring before?
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My soccer transfer yesterday went for 12M. I'll be pretty close on starting TF-15 next week (with a loan), but I put a couple more players on the market to try to ensure I'll have the funds. I'm trying to save a couple of players for end of the season sales as well. Specifically RMs not named Max Mark (I pulled a borderline player last night who looks like a RM, giving me 4 RMs).
I just sold a crappy soccer Mid for 25M. Okay. He wasn't completely crappy. 600or. But terrible distro and Qs. I kinda feel bad about that, but then I don't
On the other hand, I only got 9M for a really nice center in hockey. The center was so nice that I probably should have kept him. He's better than my current starter Rimando, but I never even considered selling Rimando. Oops. I think I was blinded by the dollars that I expected. 775or for 10M? ****. There's no point in selling hockey players
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HOLY ****! 3rd AQ in Canada!?!?! Problem is, I have stud LD, LM and LF in terms of Qs. Also, pulled a solid LCM. This guy is a LM by build.
This is a soccer player? Wow. I have a little bit of money if you're looking to sell the 6/6 LM
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I'm just outside of the playoffs in hockey at the halfway mark. I expect to have a better 2nd half of the season, since the teams who I am competing with are all weaker OR wise, and have used more energy than me, and will continue to do so.
Woot. I just realized that I'll make it through the first half of my first season in I.1 outside of the promo/relegation round. I'm 4 points up on 13th
This is a soccer player? Wow. I have a little bit of money if you're looking to sell the 6/6 LM
If anything I'd sell the new guy. The 6/6 guy is a 10 rating already and only 16 years old. I must say, I'm very happy with the long-term outlook of my soccer club.
As for #2, my soccer team is probably in the "real good" category, but I tend to hold back talking about it sometimes because I don't want to be the guy that's bragging about his team constantly. Part of the reason for my success is a few great pulls as well as a good number of solid pulls and not every team has had those.
Yeah, I didn't really think of that.
I think I have overcome either problem for myself though.
Presenting... the first edition of the Ace Flier, my team's weekly digest entry. It's not much right now, but it'll get better as I develop the "characters" of my players.
Ah- playing with fire, finally got burned. In soccer I ran my first camp, was able to put myself in a great position to make a run at # 2, lost a game and now it looks like that is out of reach, so I started my 2nd camp will probably be able to finish around 4th, and then will try to focus on the league cup.... just to do it really.
Well I sent all my forwards to camp except 3, 2 who were going to start, one who is no where near ready to play a league game. One of the fill-in starters goes down with a 7 day injury. I think I'm going to run a 4-5-1 for now and see how it goes...
Haha Yes, +45 now. That was a decent game. And pretty much my top lineup. The only thing I was missing were the two suspended d-men. But I roll 6 deep there anyway. Watching that broadcast was gut-wrenching. I think I had 3 plays while it was still 0-0 where my guys were one on one with Cheney. And they missed the net every time. Jerks. Then your defensive Mid scores in the 87th(?) minute. Ugh.
Cheney had the day off. His backup, Kirk Spicer, played against both you and redcard. The defensive Mid who scored on you only played because of a suspension to one of my starting CMs. I'm sure neither of those things will make you feel better, but I just wanted to clarify the situation.
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Definitely. I'd be happy with either one How has Bragg performed in previous seasons? I know he's been good, but has he led I.1 in scoring before?
12th (17 goals) in season 5 and 6th (21 goals) in season 4. He played 32 goals in each of those seasons.
He picked up #27 of this season today against redcard, giving him 150 league goals for his career (most of which came in II.4).
It looks like I've won the HFBoards-USA-I.1 Cup this season, with 4 1-goal victories. There was obviously some luck involved, but I'm not going to be the one to complain about it.
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Yeah, I didn't really think of that.
I think I have overcome either problem for myself though.
Presenting... the first edition of the Ace Flier, my team's weekly digest entry. It's not much right now, but it'll get better as I develop the "characters" of my players.
Looks good to me, I look forward to reading more of these. It's also not very common for my team to be named in press releases (at least as far as I know), even if it is only for going over your weekly schedule.
5 shutouts in 17 starts for my top two goalies. They are #1 and #2 in terms of GAA and sv% with both GAAs below one. May start working in my #3 just for kicks ... he's more like a #5 but a solid prospect.
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I think I have overcome either problem for myself though.
Presenting... the first edition of the Ace Flier, my team's weekly digest entry. It's not much right now, but it'll get better as I develop the "characters" of my players.
Plenty of upsets in today's National Cup games in Canada, including the Stoney Creek Saints triumphing over the Vancouver Raccoons. I've only ever made it to the round of 16, and that's where we're at now.
I had some time available today and updated my facilities spreadsheet for USA I.1 and Canada I.1 (Soccer). Here's some of the data:
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Country Team Total Cost Training Score Fac Score
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USA 1.FC Corona 1,103,100,000 13.66 13.22
Canada The cKs 993,150,000 13.79 12.66
Canada NK Divlje Jagode 828,600,000 13.47 12.32
Canada Ontario Alpha Particles 793,650,000 13.43 12.27
Canada HL Football 745,350,000 13.44 12.28
Canada Kenora Stingers 707,250,000 13.18 12.26
USA Boilermakers 688,800,000 13.39 12.43
USA Bombsville Atomics 685,650,000 13.33 12.19
USA Africville Sea Sides FD 672,300,000 12.95 12.02
Canada Brutal Deluze 658,950,000 13.27 12.21
The Canadian I.1 teams have spent, on average, about 33 million more on facilities than the American I.1 teams. The Canadians also have higher average TFs, RFs and SAs, while the Americans have higher average HRs, MnCs, ECs and MdCs.
One thing that really stands out to me is that Dinamo Montreal is currently in 1st place in Canada I.1, but has spent less on facilities than any other Canadian I.1 or American I.1 team. They have a very nice stadium in the works, but it has to be at least a bit concerning for the other Canadian teams that they've been able to perform as well as they have without the facilities investment off the other top teams. Assuming they finish in 1st place, they should be looking at some nice sponsorship offers that could probably fund either some major facility upgrades next season or acquire some high end talent. Either way, if they can continue to overcome their facility development they should be a tough team to compete with.
I'm not sure about FC Corona's current financial situation. They sold a player 3 days ago for 31.5 million and remained in 22nd place in USA I.1 in "Largest amount of money". He's got very nice facilities and very nice staff, but he's carrying 50 players and 104 (including 34 at or over 100 OR) staff members. He's sold 1 player in the last 84 days, but he sold 33 in a 3 day span (85-87 days ago) before that. He's also sold 3 staff members in the last 100 days and 28 in a 5 day span (101-105 days ago) before that. I'm guessing we can expect his next sales to be in just over a week for staff members and at the end of the season for players. I'd even venture a guess that he sold that one player that he did sell in order to get out of the red for a day. His daily costs have to be ridiculous right now.
In my own team, I'm sitting in 2nd place at the halfway point in the hockey season and I have a couple of league matches against other HFboards members in the next 7 days. I'd consider starting my second camp at this point, but I'll probably hold off until the end of the season.
In soccer, my daily expenses are just under 1.3 million. I'm not sure if I should be actively trying to reduce that number or just making transfers when I need money or can maximize profit. It seems salaries are becoming an issue faster than they are in hockey. I currently have 8 players making over 10k a day, including 3 over 15k a day. My highest paid player earns 16,154 a day and is 18th in USA I.1 in salary and 49th in the USA as a whole. It probably doesn't help that I have 35 players on the roster either, but 2 of them are on the market at least. I'll probably sell a manager or 3 just in time for sponsorship offers as well. At this point, I'm 99% confident that I'll be starting TF-15 on Thursday (TF-14 finished last night) and becoming, potentially, the 3rd North American team to do so.
I finally had 'one of those games' go my way I was getting dominated in the shot department today. My first shot attempt of any kind happened in the 56th minute. And it went in Three minutes later, my second shot also found the back of the net. Awesome 2-0 win
After allowing 4 goals and only making 10 saves before his injury, Roman Cernohorsky has only allowed 8 goals while making 49 saves since he's been back. He now has 14 shutouts, er clean sheets, in 25 games played. He's so cool.
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Presenting... the first edition of the Ace Flier, my team's weekly digest entry. It's not much right now, but it'll get better as I develop the "characters" of my players.
[QUOTE=Obryantj;45517295]Cheney had the day off. His backup, Kirk Spicer, played against both you and redcard. The defensive Mid who scored on you only played because of a suspension to one of my starting CMs. I'm sure neither of those things will make you feel better, but I just wanted to clarify the situation.[quote]
I do prefer to have as many humiliating facts as possible. So thanks for clearing that up. Grr.
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12th (17 goals) in season 5 and 6th (21 goals) in season 4. He played 32 goals in each of those seasons.
He picked up #27 of this season today against redcard, giving him 150 league goals for his career (most of which came in II.4).
So he's been pretty good and consistent for a while. My leading scorer is Durkee with 51
Season 5-
Sember 6th (20G in 31MP)
McCready 22nd (11 in 29)
Durkee 31st (8 in 23)
Season 4-
Sember 18th (14 in 28)
Durkee 19th (14 in 33)
McCready 40th (8 in 26)
Sember and McCready have 12 this season, and Durkee is being phased out of the offense in favor of Lemieux and Diaz.
Country Team Total Cost Training Score Fac Score
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USA 1.FC Corona 1,103,100,000 13.66 13.22
Canada The cKs 993,150,000 13.79 12.66
Canada NK Divlje Jagode 828,600,000 13.47 12.32
Canada Ontario Alpha Particles 793,650,000 13.43 12.27
Canada HL Football 745,350,000 13.44 12.28
Canada Kenora Stingers 707,250,000 13.18 12.26
USA Boilermakers 688,800,000 13.39 12.43
USA Bombsville Atomics 685,650,000 13.33 12.19
USA Africville Sea Sides FD 672,300,000 12.95 12.02
Canada Brutal Deluze 658,950,000 13.27 12.21
Oooh. So close. I wish there was something, anything!, that I could build right now.
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I'm not sure about FC Corona's current financial situation.
Needs to die.
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In soccer, my daily expenses are just under 1.3 million. I'm not sure if I should be actively trying to reduce that number or just making transfers when I need money or can maximize profit.
At this point, I'm 99% confident that I'll be starting TF-15 on Thursday (TF-14 finished last night) and becoming, potentially, the 3rd North American team to do so.
I guess I won't be so close for very long I might have enough for SA or RF 14 in 3 weeks. Or I could keep saving for the next two months to start TF 15. But I'm not really sure if that's where I want to spend it. If I just built some small stuff (MC, MedC, EC, stand accessories) the rest of this season, then I'd probably have enough money to start HR13 at the beginning of next season and still have enough left over to build/max out some Doubles.
Looks like staff plays the biggest difference between us, with me carrying 4 extra staff members. My top 2 coaches make about 100k between them, top 2 managers make around 100k between them, and my top 2 sporting directors make around 75k between them. So that leaves about 160k to all of my other staff members, including guys I'm training to either sell or to promote when another staff member's salary gets too high. This is probably the area where I could most effectively cut expenses. After my transfers on Thursday, my player salaries will go down by about 12k and my fee for having more than 30 players will go down by about 27k. I also plan to shed at least 22k worth of staff salaries at the end of the season. On the other hand, I have a double-floor multifunctional that will finish tonight and increase my expenses by about 61k. That should be easily covered by the increase in revenue from the extra seats though.
With that said, in weeks where I have two home league matches, I expect my media, VIP, ticket sales and souvenir sales to cover my salaries and maintenance.
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I guess I won't be so close for very long I might have enough for SA or RF 14 in 3 weeks. Or I could keep saving for the next two months to start TF 15. But I'm not really sure if that's where I want to spend it. If I just built some small stuff (MC, MedC, EC, stand accessories) the rest of this season, then I'd probably have enough money to start HR13 at the beginning of next season and still have enough left over to build/max out some Doubles.
I have some reservations about taking out a loan to build TF-15, rather than working on some of my other facilities. I do have plans to start HR-13, SA-14 and RF-14 next season though, depending on sponsorship offers. Considering I should finish in a higher position, my OTR is higher, my stadium went from 14.4k to 24.8k and my marketing percentage has went up (although I think my HR department is the same level unfortunately), I do expect a significant increase in all of my sponsorship offers (not to mention I'm adding a 2nd VIP). My plans to upgrade facilities may be derailed by player acquisitions or if I decide to add a bit more in terms of my stadium.
I'm not sure why they're dominating like they are, but I'll take it.
Yes, +45 now. That was a decent game. And pretty much my top lineup. The only thing I was missing were the two suspended d-men. But I roll 6 deep there anyway. Watching that broadcast was gut-wrenching. I think I had 3 plays while it was still 0-0 where my guys were one on one with Cheney. And they missed the net every time. Jerks. Then your defensive Mid scores in the 87th(?) minute. Ugh.
How has Bragg performed in previous seasons? I know he's been good, but has he led I.1 in scoring before? 
... he's more like a #5 but a solid prospect.
I might have enough for SA or RF 14 in 3 weeks. Or I could keep saving for the next two months to start TF 15. But I'm not really sure if that's where I want to spend it. If I just built some small stuff (MC, MedC, EC, stand accessories) the rest of this season, then I'd probably have enough money to start HR13 at the beginning of next season and still have enough left over to build/max out some Doubles.
