FIFA League Season 5 - Main Thread / General Banter

thewools

Hi All,

This thread will be the main thread for banter etc.

All of the gloating, whinging and moaning can be posted here to avoid all the clutter and nonsense posted in the other threads.

Fixtures, Results and League Tables are to be posted in each relevant league thread.

Full Rules will be posted below. These rules are to be adhered to and will be enforced if disobeyed.

Enjoy the league!

thewools

thewools

INTRODUCTION:

The league is run by thewools (thewools) and will do my best to co-ordinate and organise the fixtures and results. Any queries / problems should be sent by pm to me.

OUTLINE:

For the new season the league is divided into 3 separate divisions and is organised and run by

Premiership

Championship

League 1

TEAM SELECTION:

The league contains 3 divisions each with unique teams. Before the season begins promotions and relegations will take place. For the team selection process you are required to pick a European club team.

LEAGUE FORMAT:

Each team will play each other team twice. Each game consists of 2 x 6 minute halves. The fixtures will be posted at the start of the season and the fixtures will be divided into a number of gameweeks. Currently, there are usually 3 fixtures per week (depending on amount of players in league). Players must ensure that they complete their fixture list by the end of the gameweek. You may contact opponents via Boards or on PSN.

At the end of each game, make a note of the result and post them in the Results thread. These results will be added to the main result post and league tables will be updated on a regular basis. You may not play games in advance of the gameweek they belong unless given permission by the co-ordinator(s), if you do so they will be void.

END OF SEASON:

At the end of every season, there will be promotion's and relegation's. Games unplayed at the end of the season will be void however both players are expected to make an effort to play their fixtures. If a player is found to be avoiding playing their fixtures or not responding to messages and invites during the season action will be taken against them by the co-ordinator(s).

RULES:

In order to maintain the league, a number of rules have been laid out. Any violations of this code of conduct can be sent to the league co-ordinators and each issue will be investigated.

1) Disconnections
No player is allowed to intentionally disconnect for any reason. Any intentional disconnections during a league game must be made known to the league co-ordinators.

However, accidental disconnections do occur and the rules have been written to take this into account. If a player disconnects, a rematch (unranked - non league game) is immediately scheduled and the score before the disconnection is used. The remaining minutes are to be played and the score at the end of the combined 90 minutes is the final score to be posted on the results thread.

1.1) Problems Connecting To Opponent
If you can’t connect to another player the first thing to do is check your NAT settings. NAT type 1 or 2 is desired to allow players to connect easily. If anyone is having difficulties with their network connection; please post here and we will attempt to the best of our capabilities to help resolve the issue.

2) Last Man Tackling
Fifa 11 is a soccer simulation and while slide tackling is encouraged when needed, intentional attempts to take out the last man (an attacking player that only has the keeper to beat) will not be tolerated. A defender is allowed to slide in from the side as there is a good chance that he will win the ball. However, when someone slides in from directly behind (from the 5-7 O'clock positions) and the striker is between the defender and the ball, this will not be tolerated. Players like this can usually be indentified by a low foul:card ratio.

3) Settings & Custom Formations
Custom formations are a part of football, while some people don't like playing against custom formations, there is no rule forbidding using them.

4) Holidays
If a player is going away on holidays and unable to play their fixtures for a short period then they must contact the co-ordinators in advance and let them know. They will post on the fixtures thread a note to allow that player to play the games for the weeks he is away in advance. Only those fixtures can be played in advance and any others will be void if played.

5) Unplayed fixtures
Due to the amount of unplayed fixtures in previous seasons there is a rule to make sure people make an effort to play their games. Each week we will be monitoring people's progress, below is a list of how many games have to be played after a certain number of fixtures are released. Failure to meet these requirements will result in a point deduction for each outstanding game.

End of Week 2 a minimum of 4 games must be played

End of Week 4 a minimum of 8 games must be played

End of Week 4 anyone with less than half their games played will be kicked from the league and all games played/unplayed will be awarded as a 3-0 walkover to their opponents

End of Week 6 a minimum of 12 games must be played

End of Week 8 a minimum of 16 games must be played

End of Week 8 anyone with less than half their games played will be kicked from the league and all games played/unplayed will be awarded as a 3-0 walkover to their opponents

Every player is responsible for their own fixtures and getting them played. Best practice is to contact them with an PSN message and/or a PM on boards.ie

If you find a player is not responding to your messages about organising fixtures then contact the co-ordinator(s).

6) People Quitting Mid Season
Due to various reasons we have players who sometimes are unable to complete the league season. In the case of these players all fixtures they have will be awarded a walkover to their opponent. Any games played previously will also be given as a walkover to their opponent. If a player quits they are automatically placed at the bottom of the table and will take one of the relegation places at the end of the season. This allows us to keep a group of players in each league who are dedicated to playing their games and making the season enjoyable for everyone involved.

Desire to Aspire

Best of luck to everyone for the coming season!

shoutman

Got internet and all sorted in the new place. Just need a TV should def be able to start playing matches by the end of the week.

colly54

When are we planning to start?

thewools

colly54 wrote: »

When are we planning to start?

TOMORROW - LEAGUE DETAILS WILL BE PM'D TONIGHT

thewools

Everyone should have details on how to join their respective leagues now...

Fixtures for Gameweek 1 have been posted so the ribbon has been cut...

Let the season commence!

Best of Luck to all involved. I hope we can have another enjoyable, trouble free and competitive season.

It will be strange not being involved directly but I'll be scouting around for next season don't worry!!

Fizman

Frisbee| Cill-| Man City
hatchets27| joe2772| Chelsea
eioneill| RedDevilDub| Napoli

I might be on tomorrow night to play the above in the Prem.

Gavin "shels"

Crosáidí Real Madrid
Philt27 Arsenal
Philly_C AC Milan

Any of you 3 be about tomorrow evening/night, should be home from my college exam at the lasted 5.30 - 6 and will be around till 11 ish.

After tomorrow probably will be able to get on Thursday early"ish", after that though I probably won't be around till Sunday evening.

Frisbee

Fizman wrote: »

Frisbee| Cill-| Man City
hatchets27| joe2772| Chelsea
eioneill| RedDevilDub| Napoli

I might be on tomorrow night to play the above in the Prem.

Just sent you a PM there before I saw this. I've training tonight but should be on from about 9 onwards.

Philt27

Gavin shels wrote: »

Crosáidí Real Madrid
Philt27 Arsenal
Philly_C AC Milan

Any of you 3 be about tomorrow evening/night, should be home from my college exam at the lasted 5.30 - 6 and will be around till 11 ish.

After tomorrow probably will be able to get on Thursday early"ish", after that though I probably won't be around till Sunday evening.

Hey man, yea ill be home by about 7pm but wont be on til about9pm - will u still be on then yea? Also have Colly to play and Conco so ill get conco played at some stage soon - Colly, u be round after 9pm tonite?

Philt27

colly54 wrote: »

When are we planning to start?

u round tonite after 9pm bud?

eioneill

Fizman wrote: »

Frisbee| Cill-| Man City
hatchets27| joe2772| Chelsea
eioneill| RedDevilDub| Napoli

I might be on tomorrow night to play the above in the Prem.

I have training myself tonight so will be on about 9.30pm if you're on then!

Fowler87

Nice handy fixture to start the season with:pac:, il be as rusty as f**k though.. so Il be expecting alot from ya Gill especially as ya robbed my team:mad::pac:

Other two lads I have to play this week, Bayern and Chelsea, it will be at the earliest Friday or beginning of next week before I get my PS3 back (getting it repaired) so will be looking forward to the games between now and then:)

colly54

Philt27 wrote: »

u round tonite after 9pm bud?

Ye that should be grand man

colly54

If philly or krameel are around today for our game just leave me a message on this, I should be available from half 8 onwards might be on between 5.30 and 6.30 too

Desire to Aspire

Threein99, owenh93, DH2K9.

Are any of you around tonight? I should be on from around eight to ten.

Philly_C

Gavin "shels"
theflesh
colly54

Lads I'll be on from about 10 tonight.

Gavin "shels"

Philt27 wrote: »

Hey man, yea ill be home by about 7pm but wont be on til about9pm - will u still be on then yea?

Bout 9.30pm ok?

Philly_C wrote: »

Gavin "shels"
theflesh
colly54

Lads I'll be on from about 10 tonight.

Ye cool, hopefully playing Philt27 at 9.30 so will play you after.

JohnnyBomb

in the championship....

orrj2(Barcelona)
fly13(AC Milan)

when would yas be around to play our matches? added yas on ps if ya wanna send me a pm on that or on boards. cheers

Frisbee

2 games. 2 losses.

Start as you mean to go on

Gavin "shels"

Unproductive night, went to play both Philly_C and Philt27 and both were having problems with their online connections.

Frisbee

Gavin shels wrote: »

Unproductive night, went to play both Philly_C and Philt27 and both were having problems with their online connections.

Second game I played tonight against Fizman was real laggy too. Servers seem to be acting up.

Gavin "shels"

Frisbee wrote: »

Second game I played tonight against Fizman was real laggy too. Servers seem to be acting up.

Ye when I was trying to play online it was taking ages to get one, and was bit of a lag, hopefully sorted tomorrow.


Philt27 around 8.30pm tomorrow? Already have planned to play Philly_C at 3. Crosadi you be about tomorrow?

markontap

Colly, I'll be around tomorrow night after 8 if you're free

thewools

Frisbee wrote: »

2 games. 2 losses.

Start as you mean to go on

Welcome to the Premiership

DH2K9

I'm down to play 6 times this week in League 1 and Man City aren't playing at all. I think you wrote Arsenal twice for the fixtures instead of Man City because in a couple of gameweeks Arsenal will be playing Arsenal:D

Fizman

Think I missed RedDevilDub (Napoli) by about 30 seconds after I did a bit of fiddling about with my router. Needed to look into it as the lag from Frisbees game was head wrecking. Should be sorted now though. I'll catch you tomorrow night hopefully if you're on.

Philly_C

After finally getting the PS3 to sign me in I lost 2-0 to Colly. Thought I deserved at least a draw. I had a couple of great chances when it was 1-0, two in particular could easily have resulted in a broken controller when his defender blocked the ball going into an open goal and a goalmouth scramble less than a yard from the line:(

Colly's first goal was a peach and 2nd was a bit lucky as it just hit of my player into the path of his player 5 yards out. Ah well was a good game anyway.

thewools

DH2K9 wrote: »

I'm down to play 6 times this week in League 1 and Man City aren't playing at all. I think you wrote Arsenal twice for the fixtures instead of Man City because in a couple of gameweeks Arsenal will be playing Arsenal:D

Yes, U are correct; I posted arsenal twice.

I have corrected this on the leaguerepublic site and will edit the fixtures later today..

Frisbee

thewools wrote: »

Welcome to the Premiership

I expected there to be a big jump tbh. Going for a revised target of 18 points this season :pac:

Fizman wrote: »

Think I missed RedDevilDub (Napoli) by about 30 seconds after I did a bit of fiddling about with my router. Needed to look into it as the lag from Frisbees game was head wrecking.

I've no idea what the story was with that. I played eioneill right before I played you and it was grand. There was issues with the servers last night I think though so that's all I can put it down to really. It did have a negative impact on the game unfortunately but what can you do.