Xpert Eleven online football managersim (Boards League?)

KevIRL

2-0 away win against Luck FTW means that the division 3 promotion race is going right to the wire.

Xavi6

An away defeat means I will finish 4th no matter what happens in the last week. Time to play the young fellas.

genericgoon

4-0 win against melchester means Rolly United now have an outside chance of promotion with their final game against bottom of the league Kandor Town. If Luck FTW win or Devestated II lose then promotion is a real possibility.

Ste05

A nice solid 3-0 home win for my young lads, I only have 1 young lad left who has to play my last match for everyone to be on 100% experience, so should be a good game to hopefully secure second spot in the league.

I just hope Fetid Turds have to play a load of reserves and youngsters for the decider.

Helix

championes!

roryc

genericgoon wrote: »

4-0 win against melchester means Rolly United now have an outside chance of promotion with their final game against bottom of the league Kandor Town. If Luck FTW win or Devestated II lose then promotion is a real possibility.

Ah would you stop, I have no chance now. Your next game is a guaranteed 3 points for you, and you have a much better goal difference than me. I have 0% chance of getting promoted, the best I can hope for is to 'do a Kev' and somehow manage to move up a league anyway

Yet another defeat for me, seems the more time you put into this game the more it annoys you... I thought I had it cracked there but the results just seem to be totally random for me! Don't think I would have predicted a single result right this season. My home form was absolutely abysmal, I did much, much better away. This 'home advantage' thing doesn't seem to apply for me! One thing I learned this season was to never, ever, ever use aggressive when Im at home. My two biggest defeats in the history o the club came when I used this tactic, it simply doesn't work for me.

Final game next week is a grudge match vs Kirkby, and in the words of a great man...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXpUdBlRZe8

staker

4-0 loss against minnows Rolly!
Relegated!

genericgoon

staker wrote: »

4-0 loss against minnows Rolly!
Relegated!

Who you calling a minnow eh?

staker

Blurb!;)
A little miffed at your press release tbh.:cool:Well played anyhows,you were the better team;my season was crap.

ITT-Pat

champs again! having played 12 matches before today, winning 10 of them and drawing 2, you'd think i'd have the league well won by now

but no no, rafaloution have only been a point behind me all this time. finally shook them off today with a 2-1 win against them

Helix

ITT-Pat wrote: »

champs again! having played 12 matches before today, winning 10 of them and drawing 2, you'd think i'd have the league well won by now

but no no, rafaloution have only been a point behind me all this time. finally shook them off today with a 2-1 win against them

was looking at your league today actually, im the only one whos dropped less points than you this season in all divisions

not relevant, but i just wanted a roundabout way of saying ive dropped less points than anyone else this season

niallk

ITT-Pat wrote: »

champs again! having played 12 matches before today, winning 10 of them and drawing 2, you'd think i'd have the league well won by now

but no no, rafaloution have only been a point behind me all this time. finally shook them off today with a 2-1 win against them

Again?!

Maybe I'm mistaken but I believe it was me who won the league last season (Refer to my latest press release for my excuse for not winning this season). Unless it was Season 1 you were referring to which I have little recollection of but you quite possibly could have won. Surely though, you cannot imply that you won the league 2 seasons running and expect to get away it, can you?

Anyway, as far as I see it it's a race to be Premier champions and until someone (i.e. me or you) from the original division 4 (the most talented and competive division in season 1) wins that title there can be no gloating.

See you in Division 1 (or as I see it The Premier League pre-season).

ITT-Pat

settle down! clearly i was referring to season 1 as my previous title

and yeah i agree the original division 4 was prob the most talented league, although the original division 2 was only a shade behind

wcarey1975

ITT-Pat wrote: »

champs again! having played 12 matches before today, winning 10 of them and drawing 2, you'd think i'd have the league well won by now

but no no, rafaloution have only been a point behind me all this time. finally shook them off today with a 2-1 win against them

Congrats ITT was a good season and I think you definately deserved it over the season. Glad to be heading straight back up see you next year. At least now I can relax and play the kids in the final game.

KevIRL

The league is due to finish on Thursday 18th Dec.

Im thinking that with the Xmas break its best to start season 4 the week starting 5th Jan. Is that okay with everyone or is the 2 and a half week gap too much?

ITT-Pat

perfick

Helix

KevIRL wrote: »

The league is due to finish on Thursday 18th Dec.

Im thinking that with the Xmas break its best to start season 4 the week starting 5th Jan. Is that okay with everyone or is the 2 and a half week gap too much?

thatll do fine kev, im sure there are some who only have office access or what not so it keeps a fair playing field for everyone

roryc

KevIRL wrote: »

The league is due to finish on Thursday 18th Dec.

Im thinking that with the Xmas break its best to start season 4 the week starting 5th Jan. Is that okay with everyone or is the 2 and a half week gap too much?

That'll do nicely, good man Kev

staker

that's grand by me kev,cheers

Xavi6

Fine with me once people are up for a few friendlies to keep things tickin over.

KevIRL

a 4-0 win secures second place and promotion for me.:D

Xavi6

The young fellas went down 2-0 away from home but it was an even enough game. Good performance.

Ste05

a fine 2-1 win away from home in the 2nd and 3rd place play off for Division 5. \o/

Roll on Division 4

Vex Willems

3-1 win away from home secures Div 1 title and third successive promotions along with Sparta Magyars

genericgoon

5-1 victory isn't enough for Rolly United, as the miss out on promotion by a point. A poor run of games at the beginning of the campaign has cost the team dearly. Oh well, will just have to do better next season.

eagle eye

KevIRL wrote: »

The league is due to finish on Thursday 18th Dec.

Im thinking that with the Xmas break its best to start season 4 the week starting 5th Jan. Is that okay with everyone or is the 2 and a half week gap too much?

Too much? Not enough imo.

RedJoker

Woohoo change report time.

Helix

how did everyones change report go? pretty happy with mine

Xavi6

Very, very average but it means I can clear out some dead wood. Looking to get three players in (including one that just signed tonight) and have to cash to do so.

KevIRL

I'm happy with mine.

Must go and set up the new season actually.....


EDIT - New season created with a start date of 5 Jan 2009. In the mean time get playing those friendlies. Its the first season where I havent had to reduce the size of the league, which is great. There are a couple of inactive managers though if anyone wants to join....

roryc

KevIRL wrote: »

I'm happy with mine.

Must go and set up the new season actually.....


EDIT - New season created with a start date of 5 Jan 2009. In the mean time get playing those friendlies. Its the first season where I havent had to reduce the size of the league, which is great. There are a couple of inactive managers though if anyone wants to join....

my change report was absolutely terrible... my star striker managed to get a negative change which was nice. Most others improved a small amount, only two noticeable changes

anyone up for a friendly?


EDIT: I also noticed that after every change report, 90% of my teams form drops to a red arrow, and I end up spending about 1m just to get them back on form for the start of next season. I thought this was just a once off the first season but its happened after every change report, is this standard?

genericgoon

roryc wrote: »

my change report was absolutely terrible... my star striker managed to get a negative change which was nice. Most others improved a small amount, only two noticeable changes

anyone up for a friendly?

I'm looking forward to our Christmas day clash. Although I have no idea how it got there! :eek:

Frisbee

Glad I got in on this this season. Anyone looking for a friendly?
(Division 4/5? so I don't get mauled too bad)

~Rebel~

happy enough with mine, more down then up, but the up's were important ones and the down's were expected ones i was going to ship out/sack anyway.

The striker I bought 2 seasons ago at 6skill is now an 8 and still only 23. My 19 year old midfielder is now a 5, and my 22year old midfielder is a 6. An experiened midfielder to be brought in for 2 old fellas and another young one and i should be sorted. My defence got a bit hit though, ill be needing 2 more 6's really.

RedJoker

roryc wrote: »

EDIT: I also noticed that after every change report, 90% of my teams form drops to a red arrow, and I end up spending about 1m just to get them back on form for the start of next season. I thought this was just a once off the first season but its happened after every change report, is this standard?

Yeah that's standard, the bigger the skill increase the more the form will drop and when you get a negative skill change the form will go up. However, they do a normal form update right after it which adds a bit of randomness so you can't tell exactly how much your players improved.

If you time it right you can put your team on form training so that it finishes the day after the skill change, that way you can get a few friendlies and some more form training in before the start of the season. Although, with a two week break it's not that necessary this time.

I managed to blow a million by timing it badly. The skill change happens the day after the season ends. This year it ended on the 20th so the change happens on the 21st. However, the change report gets done at 5am and form training is done at 4am, which means you have to leave it another day. Pretty expensive lesson, at least we have two weeks break so it's not a huge deal. Anyway, aim to finish two days after the season ends which means putting it on 3 days before then season ends.

seadog9

I used to play Xpert eleven, might start a team again....

Any of you guys play footstar?:cool:

eagle eye

Only +6 on the change report this year but have a lot more young players who only came in during the season so I'd expect a better one after this next season.

Xavi6

Season 4 kicks off today so get yisser teams sorted.

Helix

seadog9 wrote: »

I used to play Xpert eleven, might start a team again....

Any of you guys play footstar?:cool:

started playing it last week, seems pretty good

Frisbee

Right have my team sorted, no idea what I'm doing so I'm expecting a hammering...

Emmo

roryc wrote: »

Ah would you stop, I have no chance now. Your next game is a guaranteed 3 points for you, and you have a much better goal difference than me. I have 0% chance of getting promoted, the best I can hope for is to 'do a Kev' and somehow manage to move up a league anyway

Yet another defeat for me, seems the more time you put into this game the more it annoys you... I thought I had it cracked there but the results just seem to be totally random for me! Don't think I would have predicted a single result right this season. My home form was absolutely abysmal, I did much, much better away. This 'home advantage' thing doesn't seem to apply for me! One thing I learned this season was to never, ever, ever use aggressive when Im at home. My two biggest defeats in the history o the club came when I used this tactic, it simply doesn't work for me.

Final game next week is a grudge match vs Kirkby, and in the words of a great man...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXpUdBlRZe8

Never mind.

Maybe next time we play each other instead of leaving the country for 4 weeks and ignoring the game I could actually try to lose and you might win.

Emmo

KevIRL

a 5-0 win to kick off the new season in Div 2.

Xavi6

Solid 2-1 home win.

roryc

Emmo wrote: »

Never mind.

Maybe next time we play each other instead of leaving the country for 4 weeks and ignoring the game I could actually try to lose and you might win.

Emmo

haha... I reckon a 3-3 draw was closer to what the first scoreline should have been. I put that shocking first defeat 100% down to playing my newly signed keeper on his debut when he wasn't fit. He was a 7 bar but played to a 2 or something Hopefully I'll be up in division 2 next year so we might meet again...


Started off this season with a fairly close 2-1 away win over highly rated newcomers Monkeee United. While not the strongest team on paper (I've been fooled by this before ) they are obviously a decent outfit as they've won every division they've played in. On top of that they were coming off a series off 8 straight wins. Glad I put an end to that

Emmo

roryc wrote: »

haha... I reckon a 3-3 draw was closer to what the first scoreline should have been. I put that shocking first defeat 100% down to playing my newly signed keeper on his debut when he wasn't fit. He was a 7 bar but played to a 2 or something Hopefully I'll be up in division 2 next year so we might meet again...


Started off this season with a fairly close 2-1 away win over highly rated newcomers Monkeee United. While not the strongest team on paper (I've been fooled by this before ) they are obviously a decent outfit as they've won every division they've played in. On top of that they were coming off a series off 8 straight wins. Glad I put an end to that

Which league are you in?

Emmo

Ste05

2-2 away draw... not bad I suppose but I really expected a win... ah well roll on Thursday.

roryc

Emmo wrote: »

Which league are you in?

Emmo

Still in Division 3. Last season was so close, only 2 points between 2nd and 5th.

Frisbee

Lost 4-3 away from home with my best midfielder getting stretchered off on 8 minutes, striker getting a red and I conceded in the 92nd minute.
I think I'm going to like this game

Emmo

roryc wrote: »

Still in Division 3. Last season was so close, only 2 points between 2nd and 5th.

was there?

I didnt really pay attention.

Emmo

evil_seed

A resounding 5 nil win . Time to get promoted