Also remember that we will have retirement payouts before each auction as well as player downgrades if requested. As a reminder, details below
Note that this will apply retroactively to players already retired this season so that nobody is punished for having already retired players. Since players SL >= 13 cannot be retired yourself, please post in the blog here (Or via inbox) any players that you wish to retire but cannot do yourself. This is also a good time to request MPPs get downgraded to single position if you wish to free up a slot for auction bidding. Also remember that you may not retire to a roster size below 18 players.
Can start getting bids in now (reminder: senior sides only), and start planning your finances accordingly.
INT sends 50k, 2 TP to POR for Pete South (4/18 DM)
Glad to have the season kicked off. Reminder that the next cup matches will be midweek on Wednesday. Senior sides will be both Sundays and Wednesdays until the league season kicks off in match 7 when youth sides also kick off.
Good luck to all except any of my immediate opponents - come on, what am I supposed to say?? 😄😄
Ok, looks like we are almost done with preseason here. I am halfway done setting up the schedule, so I will aim to get that finished today and crack on with adding youth players. Should be good for a kickoff next week!
And no problem at all, David - I will also make sure it counts for the participation bonuses once the season gets under way.
Apologies, Andy, I saw the window opened and just assumed it was fine to trade. 🙄
Mistake of mine that the trade window was open before everyone has completed preseason. Since both teams involved had done their preseason already I won't reverse the trade, but further trades will need to wait
SEA sends 475k to DC for Arnie Green (4/21 GK)
Seems only 7 teams have done their preseason - 9 still to do. Andy can't move till it's all done. Let's help him out, eh? 😉😉
Seems only 7 teams have done their preseason - 9 still to do. Andy can't move till it's all done. Let's help him out, eh? 😉😉
Make sure you do both youth and senior sides. Youth sides only need to choose a captain, as they cannot buy cp or tp. Don't worry if your new youth players have not been added yet, as they cannot be captain anyway
I will not be available to finish off scheduling and player additions until midweek, so I expect we will be aiming for a season kickoff 1.5 to 2 weeks from today. I will make sure all managers have at least 1 week to get in orders before we start.
CHA sends to DIS for 1040k, Luis Monti (1/17 SW), Guiseppe Meazza (1/17 MF), Angelo Schiavio (1/17 FW)
ATL sends to SCF for 1059k, Larry Cox (1/19 GK), Mario Mendoza (1/18 DF), Tom Paciorek (1/19 FW)
CAR sends to CDY for 1275k, Charlie Brown (1/16 GK), Zac Hammond (1/18 DF), Louis Bragg (1/18 MF)
Thanks very much for the offer, David! I should be able to devote the time in the coming days, but if anything comes up unexpected I may take you up on that offer.
I appreciate it
Been there and got the tee shirt. A lot of work, but I for one realise how much is needed to be done. If you want some help in putting the new youths intom their teams just ask. :-)
VAN sends to VCC for 972k, Martin Odegaard (1/18 MF), Kai Havertz (1/18 FW), Gabriel Jesus (1/18 FW)
Done for 12 of our 16 teams. Once we have players from ATL, CHA, VAN, and CAR we should be good to move onto our next preseason tasks.
LAF sends to OCS for 932k, Horchata Fridge (1/19 DF), Midnight Coffee (1/19 MF), Pickle Pop (1/19 FW)
SEA sends to NSS for 827k, S_Antell (1/18 DF), P_Lyle (1/17 MF), P_Knudson (1/18 FW)
KC sends to KCA for 878k, Tyrell Daniel Jr (1/19 SW), Eldon Marks (1/18 WG), Luna Olson (1/18 FW)
SJ sends to DAF for 1164k, Dorde Petrovic (1/18 GK), Malo Gusto (1/18 DF), Cole Palmer (1/18 MF)
CLB sends to REB for 954k, Karl Brough (1/19 DF), Barry Smith (1/19 WG), Ollie Simpson (1/19 FW)
COL sends to CIW for 860k, Leopold Querfeld (1/17 DF), Romano Schmid (1/17 WG), Maximillian Entrup (1/18 FW)
CHV sends to CCK for 904k, Rab Thorne (1/19 GK), Victor Twigg (1/19 DF), Bryan Seed (1/19 MF)
INT sends to FTL for 919k, Drake Callender (1/18 GK), Luis Suarez (1/18 FW), Lionel Messi (1/18 MF)
DC sends to DCC for 780k, Harry Vanster (1/19 GK), Dave Downton (1/19 FW), Philip Bround (1/19 DF)
AUS sends to SAN for 1122k, Sebastian Driussi (1/17 DF), Jhojan Valencia (1/17 WG), Daniel Pereira (1/17 WG)
HOU sends to LHT for 858k, Joe Hollywood (1/17 GK), Tej Rekhi (1/17 SW), Clinton Van Ry (1/17 FW)
I think that there is some confusion over how the requirements are spelled:
Senior squad: rosters need to be at a maximum of 22 players so the 3 youth players can be added (the system might not let you go beyond 25 players).
Youth squad: the first step for the commish is to move the 3 players to the senior squad and the system won't let you leave the roster at under 18 players, so you need a minimum of 21 players on the roster.
Hope this helps! :)
Senior sides being lower is completely OK.
Mainly issues are run into if senior sides are over 22 or youth sides are not at 21. This is basically so that we can move the three players from the youth side to the senior side first, and then later add in the 7 new youth players. Not the end of the world if the numbers end up wrong, it just takes a few extra steps if so.
Andy,
My Senior Squad is already at 18 and has been for a while. I am presuming this is ok as your mail says to have this to 22 players.
See below for winners
Refreshing the wiki page was long overdue. The info in there should now be mostly correct - I will go back through at a later date and think what else may be missing and double check some of the finer points (I believe the tactical combinations section may be wrong, for example)
You'll notice a few changes to the team logos when you are seeing this:
Looking forward to those clubs giving some fresh faces to the league!
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through Journal Participation Season 33:
ATL(50) CLB(200) DC(100) PHI(200)
MTS sends 1404k, Willie Moon (1/18 DF), Frankie Salizar (1/18 MF), Jhonny Perez (1/18 WG) to POR for
Please check your inboxes and follow pre-season player promotion and creation instructions. Please pay special attention to the number of players you should retire down to - Going below these numbers causes me extra work that I would like to avoid, thanks
PSA has happened and teams have been moved up and down divisions already. Once we have everyone's new players in I will start pre-season. Let's aim for a 1.5 to 2 week turnaround so that we can start the new season towards the middle of the month
Div 1 | |||
Golden boot | +2 SL | Dalby | CAR |
Golden Gloves | +2 SL | Turner | CAR |
Fair Play Award | 3 OTF | COL | |
Div 2 | |||
Golden Boot | +2 SL | Boddice | CLB |
Golden Gloves | +2 SL | Caldy | INT |
Fair Play Award | 3 OTF | CHV | |
Div 3 | |||
Golden boot | +2 SL | Sandat | CDY |
Golden Gloves | +2 SL | Lewis | NSS |
Fair Play Award | 3 OTF | NSS | |
Div 4 | |||
Golden boot | +2 SL | Campbell | REB |
Golden Gloves | +2 SL | Oakley | REB |
Fair Play Award | 3 OTF | VCC |
The following teams receive League/Cup Reviewer through Match Reviews Season 33:
PHI(600)
The following teams receive Awards through Awards for Cup Finishes:
ATL(150) CAR(450) CCK(50) DC(50) KC(125) MTS(200) POR(750) ROC(50) RIS(100) SCF(50) VAN(125)
The following teams receive Awards through Awards for League Finish:
ATL(400) CDY(350) CAR(600) CCK(250) CHA(300) CHV(350) CIW(200) COL(300) CLB(500) REB(325) DCC(200) DC(300) DIS(275) DAF(275) FTL(200) GBS(300) HOU(500) INT(300) KC(550) KCA(225) LHT(200) MTS(300) NSS(200) PHI(300) POR(450) ROC(450) RIS(250) SJ(350) SCF(225) SEA(300) VCC(200) VAN(400)
Sorry for the delay - real life has gotten in the way this past week, but we are good to go on with preseason today
Thanks everyone for another great season! I will be starting offseason prep today and will have requests for new player names and positions into inboxes in the coming days.
Congrats to our playoffs winners, as well. Roy keeps COL in division 1 after a shootout win over ROC. However, he can't repeat that success with CIW, as they fall to David's DIS, who move up to div. 3.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 38:
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #4: 1 CP (dWw)
What an amazing final match showdown.
Energy Levels pushed to the limits!!
Thanks everyone for a great season!
CAR and CDY were pushed all the way to the final games to win the titles.
Every week we were poring over the results and praying that HOU or MTP would drop points, but they hardly ever did! Both CAR and CDY had to ride their luck and fortunately had hardly any injuries. In the top of the table clashes last couple of weeks, we just came out on top, but it was very close.
Now would like to enjoy being champions for a while before next season when both teams will probably be the other end of the tables!
These had been scheduled for Wednesday originally, but I'm now realizing my mistake as that likely gives not enough time for orders to be put in. I will change the schedule so they are played on Sunday at the normal time.
Our matchups will be:
COL v ROC for division 1
CIW v DIS for division 3
Congratulations to our winners in the leagues!
Jason doing the big double with the divisions 1 and 3 titles! Beating your title rivals in clutch matches late on was very well done. Impressive season!
Congrats to James at KC for securing the division 2 title and promotion! A big win on the final day to keep ahead of Steve's Columbus, who made a great run late season to nearly grab the title themselves.
Steve also gets a congrats for a great Div 4 title! They were run close, but were still able to win the title with one match to spare.
Congratulations Jason on winning division 1
Congrats to Jason and Carolina, fully deserved. Great season and after a couple of runner up medals here's hoping to go one closer next season!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 37:
Colorado Ice White - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWD)
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #6: 25k (wWd)
We have had the luck of having the top two sides facing each other in 3 out of 4 leagues in the last 3 weeks of the season:
-A week ago, REB defeated GBS to put themselves 4 points ahead of GBS, allowing them to secure the division 4 title yesterday. Congrats, Steve!
-This past weekend, CDY beat MTS for the THIRD time this season, vaulting them into the lead in division 3, meaning that a win against LHT next weekend will secure the division 3 title. Talk about big performances from Jason and his side!
-This weekend, HOU will host CAR for the title - a win or draw for the home side will ensure that HOU get to celebrate the title on their home pitch, whereas an away victory will ensure the title for CAR. I believe either way will be a first Div. 1 title for either club, so it should be an exciting view.
Also worth noting that the Div. 2 title may well come down to goal difference this weekend, as well. Should be an exciting final weekend!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 35:
Columbus Crew - MVP #4: 1 CP (WWw)
Columbus Rebels - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWw)
D.C. Colts - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 34:
Mount Tabor Portland - MVP #6: 25k (wWW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 33:
Vancouver Whitecaps - MVP #3: 1 TP (WDw)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 32:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #7: 25k (wDw)
Savannah Celtic FC - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wdW)
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WDw)
No explicit spoilers here, but it's shaping up to be an exciting finish for all divisions at the tops of the tables. First and second place are separated by 3 points or fewer in all four divisions...
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 31:
Mount Tabor Portland - MVP #5: 25k (wWw)
Houston Dynamo - MVP #4: 1 CP (WDw)
Gananda Bandits Rochester - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWW)
Great suggestion, David. I would be happy to consider further adjustments to team names within reason over the league break. Senior sides would of course need to stick to current/recent MLS, USL, or NASL teams. Some of our current crop still exist in the USL (e.g. Charleston Battery), whereas others have since folded (e.g. Atlanta Silverbacks, Chivas USA)
When I join games I spend as much time going through the variious teams available for their names. I want to associate myself with my "lads". Now, D.C. Utd might grow on me in time, but if anybody out there covets my team and would consider a change, I am more than willing to consider a swap at the season end.
Also I notice the change of name which has brought Inter Miami and Fort Lauderdale - bringing OASL a bit closer to real life - any plans to alter any more names of current clubs? A Poll??
Thanks for that, Andy. Actually I remembered the Colts match but had forgotten to put in the "big" teams line up. Just as well I did.. :-)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 30:
Daniel Island S.A. - MVP #3: 1 TP (WWw)
A belated reminder that the youth cup begins today. Glad to see that most managers have already put in orders for this one, but I will reach out to the few that are left to make sure that everyone is aware.
Sorry for the late notice - has been an unusually hectic week over here
DC and DCC have new managers...and it is the return of the great David Blair!
With over 800 OASL matches to his name, he is a legend in OASL and really needs no further introduction. Welcome back, David!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 29:
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #5: 25k (WwW)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #6: 25k (wDW)
Savannah Celtic FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWw)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 28:
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #3: 1 TP (DWw)
Portland Timbers - MVP #4: 1 CP (WwW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 27:
Mount Tabor Portland - MVP #4: 1 CP (Www)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 26:
Philadelphia Union - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (dww)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #5: 25k (WwD)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 25:
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #3: 1 TP (dwW)
Reminder that the trade window will close this Sunday - any last trades should get in before then.
Also a reminder that the DD Shield is a double-elimination tournament. So, you are not knocked out of the early stages of the tournament until you lose twice. Matches for that competition will be continuing on the midweeks
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 24:
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Columbus Crew - MVP #3: 1 TP (WDw)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 23:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #4: 1 CP (DwW)
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #4: 1 CP (WwW)
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWw)
I've realized that I did not announce last weekend that the trade window was closing today, so I will be giving folks an additional week to make any last trades they need due to my error.
The trade window will now shut at the match deadline on August 4th - next Sunday
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 22:
Houston Dynamo - MVP #3: 1 TP (dWw)
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWw)
ATL sends 100k, 2 TP to PHI for Helton Liete (5/21 GK)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 21:
Portland Timbers - MVP #3: 1 TP (WwW)
Mount Tabor Portland - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWW)
Added for ATL and CLB
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 20:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWw)
Columbus Rebels - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Wwd)
D.C. United - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wdW)
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
...I'd sure be happy to be Spain!
Done!
2-1 loss. Couldn't be happier. But that's the England game. Will happily sacrifice HOUs game for that by the same scoreline despite destroying the stats. But who cares, Viva Espana!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 19:
Vancouver Whitecaps - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Wwd)
Gananda Bandits Rochester - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDw)
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWw)
Chivas USA - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (dWw)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 18:
Daniel Island S.A. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
Mount Tabor Portland - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWw)
Mid season aging is just around the corner, with players taking the hit to skill level after this coming Sunday's matches.
Also note that we have league matches for a few midweeks, so make sure you get senior + youth lineups in for Wednesdays as well.
Finally, Matt at DC has decided to step down from his post due to time constraints. I will be serving as caretaker for the side until we can find a replacement.
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through :
DC(200)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 17:
Columbus Rebels - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWW)
Columbus Crew - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 16:
Portland Timbers - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Www)
This is the last one for the season, testing out having them spaced every two weeks apart. Make sure to get bids in!
A personal observation, the spacing of the aucitons seems to be better, but with shorter sesaons and therefore a need to spend more on CP/TP slots, cash balances remain low for the first half of the season, making auctions perhaps less competitive. I will look into options that include either pushing the auctions a week or two later into the season or perhaps other ways of balancing cashflows.
Finally, MSA is now two weeks away as a little reminder.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 15:
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Colorado Rapids - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Wdw)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through :
CAR(50) ROC(100)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 13:
Chivas USA - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #3: 1 TP (WWD)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Please just message me or post here if you need a MPP downgrade or a retirement of a player with >12 SL. Otherwise I will catch retirements and pay them out before the auction runs.
Make sure you get bids in!
Second to last auction this weekend.
Midweeks will be cup matchups for the next three weeks
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 11:
Mount Tabor Portland - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 10:
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Just spotted that in my junior team one of my players has managed to pick up two red cards in the only two games he has played this season.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 9:
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Carson City Kickers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Houston Dynamo - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wDw)
Vancouver FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Dww)
Daniel Island S.A. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWw)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through :
PHI(150)
Apologies for the late notice - been a busy week.
Second auction runs tonight! We will still be compensating retirements before the auction runs, so you still have time to post or message me if you need players retired or downgraded from MPP.
No MPP on sale today and no senior sides are at the max # of players, but I still want to make sure folks get cash if needed for retirements
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 8:
Vancouver Whitecaps - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dwW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 7:
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Portland Timbers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWw)
Should now be fixed. Good catch, Andy, thank you. After a quick scan through the youth teams, looks like he was the only one I missed adding in the EL to in the manual player creation.
Nkunku is showing EL 0 in my youth team.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 6:
Columbus Crew - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WDw)
Most cup groups still have much to play for:
Group A: Seattle have been eliminated, but each of the other 3 teams (INT, ATL, CLB) has a route to the last 8
Group B: CAR have qualified, DC have been eliminated, and PHI and SJ will be playing with it all on the line (a draw means PHI make it through)
Group C: HOU have qualified and CHV have been eliminated. CHA have to better POR's result to pass them and make it through to the next round.
Group D: KC have qualified. All 3 other teams (ROC, VAN, and COL) have a route through, with COL currently in control of the spot.
Youth teams are all populated with their new players. Please reach out if you find any errors in your 7 new players.
First league matches will happen this Sunday. An early reminder that you will need to input both senior and youth lineups for the first time this weekend.
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through :
ATL(200) CAR(200) CHA(300) CHV(250) COL(200) INT(50) KC(250) POR(250) ROC(350) SJ(300) VAN(300)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 5:
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (DWw)
Alex Olsen 6/4 SW
Joachim Olsen 6/4 DF
Aron Olsen 6/4 MF
Gerhard Olsen 6/10 MF
Billy Gilmour 5/7 MF
Craig Kelly 5/12 FW
Its the end of an era for the Olsen family!
Please downgrade Claus Michaelson from MA to MF.
Thanks
CHV Retirements and MPP Change
Chivas retirements
Ivor Iris WG 6/4 - 50k
Harold Hedge WG 6/4 - 50k
Gerry Knot FW 6/5 - 50k
Willie Weed FW 6/8 - 50k
Trevor Thistle GK 6/8 - 50k
Total 250k
MPP Change
Please also change Robin Root MA to MF
Chivas retirements
Ivor Iris WG 6/4 - 50k
Harold Hedge WG 6/4 - 50k
Gerry Knot FW 6/5 - 50k
Willie Weed FW 6/8 - 50k
Trevor Thistle GK 6/8 - 50k
Total 250k
MPP Change
Please also change Robin Root MA to MF
Two players retired. Please also retire Kovacic & Drogba both 5/13.
Amend Brooking to MF.
Cheers Andy.
(While we wait for Messi~Suarez to get older!)
6/7 DF Marty Stewart retires ~ 50k
MPP Downgrade: Lennie Parrot to DF
I got the values wildly wrong. My bad.
VAN retire
50k: Tuguy SW 5/7
50k: Willie Gay DF 7/2
100k: Mo Johnston FW 5/16
100k: Henrik Larsson FW 4/14
Just a reminder on retirements. I will try to get the wiki updated early this season so that it better reflects what we've been doing the past few seasons for retirements. Mark - see below as I think your blog post hints at expecting the old old system for OASL retirements.
All - Many rosters are at maximum player counts + maximum numbers of MPPs. Before next Sunday's auction (May 26th) we are going to incentivize retirements as below (Payout before next Sunday's auction, and then again a week later if anyone misses the deadline):
Note that this will apply retroactively to players already retired this season so that nobody is punished for having already retired players. Since players SL >= 13 cannot be retired yourself, please post in the blog here (Or via inbox) any players that you wish to retire but cannot do yourself. This is also a good time to request MPPs get downgraded to single position if you wish to free up a slot for auction bidding. Also remember that you may not retiire to a roster size below 18 players.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 4:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Philadelphia Union - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWw)
Players for sale, or shall be cash-in before auction.
TRANSFER LIST | ||||||
TEAM | PLAYER | AGE | SL | POS | INFORMATION | |
VAN | Hammish McAlpine | 5 | 16 | GK | 825k (cash-in value 800k), or resources | |
VAN | Tuguy | 5 | 7 | SW | 180k (cash-in value 175k), or resources | |
VAN | Javain Brown | 5 | 11 | DF | 280k (cash-in value 275k), or resources | |
VAN | Henrik Larsson | 4 | 14 | FW | 725k (cash-in value 700k), or resources |
Reminder that our first Auction is this Sunday. There will only be 4 auctions this season, so if you want a 4th age 1 player, some experienced players, or extra resources you will have fewer opportunities than before.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 3:
Inter Miami - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Houston Dynamo - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWD)
Thanks for the full house for Match 1! I appreciate everyone's help getting preseason finished and the season started.
Schedules for the rest of the group stage have been added, and I have also re-created the league schedules to fix a bug where INT were showing up with the wrong team logo and name on the scoreboards. Match 2 should be the last time we see that bug.
Auctions have also been populated. Taking into account your feedback, all Auctions are now spaced apart by 2 weeks and we will have one fewer auction than last season. I will also run player cash-ins before each of the four auctions, as well as calling for any downgrades of MPPs needed.
We are set to go with season kickoff on Sunday evening. I'll be adding the last few missing fixtures and new youth players around then, as well. First youth match will be matchday 7, so I will announce once all sides are updated (hopefully that's this weekend)
I have allowed youth sides that had leftover CP from the previous season to keep up to 5 each of the past few seasons. So, a youth side could start with up to 10 (5 new + 5 rollover). But, none should be purchased.
I have done this as I see little advantage in not using your CP one season and saving for the next. It allows for new managers to start off with a decent catch-up option should they be taking over a neglected club. However, I am happy to consider a different option for next season if we would like to make proposals.
Nope.
From Andy's post below:
Reminders:
-Your youth squad cannot buy additional CP or TP
-Your youth squads do not all yet have the new players added. Know that they will be added, but since they cannot be your captain anyway, they do not matter for your preseason orders.
Have i missed this, can the junior sides gain more than the standard 5 free CP's and purchase these in Preseason? If so is there a maximum that the junior team can have ?
Love it Willy! Totally a fan of the change.
Just like in RL we have the task now to make Inter Miami rise from the bottom!
And a RL note: I went to Foxboro to see New England Revolution play Inter Miami a couple of years ago, there was no large croud and tickets were very cheap!
I went to see them last week and the tickets were outrageously expensive and the croud was huge!!
But it was worth it! Messi was great and Suarez came in and scored a beauty! :)
So, back to OASL, look for youngsters Messi and Suarez spend a season with the Jr team...!
Thank you Andy!
By request of Manager Willy, Minnesota Thunder and Minnesota United have now been changed to Inter Miami and Ft Lauderdale FC. This was opened up by the loss of our old Miami team, Miami FC, a few seasons back. The history of MIN will stay with INT, we just will have the new name, abbreviation, and logo for that club.
We'll see if Messi can work his wonders for INT as he does in real life...
Please handle your preseason orders in the 'Transactions' tab for both your senior sides and your youth sides.
Reminders:
-Your youth squad cannot buy additional CP or TP
-Your youth squads do not all yet have the new players added. Know that they will be added, but since they cannot be your captain anyway, they do not matter for your preseason orders.
Season will start in one week, so please get everythign in place quickly! Only senior sides have matches for the first 6 (I have only scheduled the first two of the six cup group stage matches so far), so no need to worry about the youth sides other than picking your captain for now.
ROC sends to GBS for 910k, Artichoke Plasma (1/16 GK), Burrito Sneeze (1/16 FW), Bubblegum Typewriter (1/17 MF)
CCK sends 900k, Stevie Ash (1/19 DM), Ross Tree (1/18 DF), Marc Birch (1/19 FW) to CHV for
Andy
details sent to you now.
Thanks
Just two orders yet to be sent. Thanks for the update, Paul. Hopefully this means we can have them in and processed tomorrow, meaning that we will be able to open up preseason at that point.
From there I will just need to finish creating the new youth players and get the schedule created. Best guess is that we will be able to start the season with match 1 on May 12th.
MTS sends 1117k, Lon Wells (1/19 WG), Eddie Smyth (1/19 FW), Marcelo Salazar (1/18 GK) to POR for
DIS sends 931k, Pedro Cea (1/18 FW), Hector Castro (1/19 MA), Jose Nasazzi (1/18 SW) to CHA for
VAN sends to VCC for 1093k, Leep The Keep (1/18 GK), Neil McCann (1/18 WG), Todd Cantwell (1/18 WG)
DCC sends 982k, Colin Cooper (1/19 FW), Fred Smith (1/19 MF), Jospeh Marks (1/19 DF) to DC for
CIW sends 1124k, Flavius Daniliuc (1/17 DF), Alexander Schlager (1/18 GK), Karim Onisiwo (1/18 MA) to COL for
ATL sends to SCF for 984k, Spike Owen (1/19 MF), Alvin Davis (1/19 FW), Bob Kearney (1/19 DM)
DAF sends 1351k, Reece James (1/18 DM), Nicolas Jackson (1/18 FW), Mykhailo Mudryk (1/18 WG) to SJ for
CLB sends to REB for 1063k, James Amidola (1/17 GK), Dean Huxley (1/18 DM), Gerry Anderson (1/18 WG)
LHT sends 1065k, Steve Ellul (1/18 DF), Pawel Kwrotslaw (1/18 WG), Nigel Fairweather (1/18 MA) to HOU for
CAR sends to CDY for 1305k, Jack Wood (1/17 WG), Ronnie Blake (1/17 MA), Harry Taylor (1/17 DF)
GOG sends 1161k, Charlie Drake (1/17 DF), Eddie Forrester (1/17 DM), Gordon Harrower (1/17 FW) to MIN for
KCA sends 1068k, Justin Frank (1/19 GK), Jack Ryan (1/19 SD), Bartek Majkowski (1/19 WG) to KC for
RIS sends 953k, Olwetha Mokhayana (1/17 DF), Holden Trent (1/18 GK), Joaquin Torres (1/17 MA) to PHI for
SEA sends to NSS for 1103k, David Maguire (1/17 FW), Peter Masterson (1/17 MF), Sam Livermore (1/17 DF)
Andrew
CHV preseason be sorted tomorrow. Apologies for not creating sooner.
I can look into it, Steve. Probably can bump the settings up to be similar to other leagues now, and then can poll further changes at the end of the season. But I'll look at the numbers here in the coming days
A bit of History: back in the day there was only MSWL (well there might have been others but OASL comes from MSWL) and when SESL started season 16 it joined the new server. SFLSL and OASL joined later. For those that don't know, Al asked me to set up ODFL as a test bed for new ideas and for new players to try out the game. I got Dave Dowson to help run ODFL and he took over completely when life got in my way. I dropped out of all but MSWL but that stopped as Al concentrated on United.
To have a game on the Olmec server meant you used the same game engine (apart from an addition per league) and tactics formula. FW OFF for Loingball used to be 1.5 but was reduced to 1.25 (Feb 2006) as it was deemed too effective. WG OFF for Early Cross was later (Dec 2008) reduced from 1.75 to 1.6 for the same reason.
While I was away from the game Dave changed ODFL to OASL and a new ODFL started up. He also introduced the Youth League. And Commishes were given the power to alter the tactical formula.
SFLSL has always kept the "default" formula.
SESL changed a little: WG is back at 1.75 for EC, OTF for C has increased and BC has changed a lot, increased OFF and DEF from OTF and decreased DEF from DF.
OASL also changed a lot and after David Blair took over he altered some (BC was was too powerful). However there are still a lot of differences (comparing to SFLSL):
Stall: GP is increased, DEF for DF and MF increased, OTF decreased. OFF for MF and WG decreased
Early Cross: WG back to 1.75
Ball Control: WG reduced from 1.25 to 1.0 and OTF reduced from 1.5 to 1.25 - both for OFF. Nothing increased so it's even weaker than in SFLSL.
Ball Control isn't the best tactic as it is - the extra OFF/DEF you get from OTF has little impact in a high SL league and doesn't make up for the lower GP you get from SW and DF. In the Youth league it could be better with lower SLs but OTF is fixed at 1.
Even in SESL it is generally weaker than the other tactics, only getting close with a 5 to 2 MF advantage. I use it because with OTF giving more and DF less, marking doesn't hurt as much when you mark.
(When marking a player loses all GP, DEF and OFF - in SESL these add up to 1.0, and he takes 1.0 or more off the marked player. In the other leagues he loses 1.25. When playing something like N a marking DF loses 1.75 or 1.8 making it very unattractive).
Can we at least have BC numbers set to the same as SFLSL. If I ever decide to play BC (I wanted to in the Dave Dowson shield) it is likely to be 5-5-2 with a strong WG.
Have completed the request for COl/CIW
Just replied.
About half of the new player/promoted player responses in at this point. Will likely start moving players and creating new players tomorrow for those sides that have sent me their responses.
For those that still need to decide, please try to get me your responses by this weekend so that we can proceed with preseason orders next week.
Thanks!
Thanks Derek. Will go ahead and process those changes with your player promotions. Note that Hopper, Levi, and Sampson can all be changed, but Walters will need to stay as a WG, since he is not a MPP.
Could you pllease change the positions of the following players
Michael Sampson to DF
Guy Levi to FW
Vinny Walters to FW
Ashton Hooper to MF
cheers
Please check your inboxes and follow pre-season player promotion and creation instructions. Please pay special attention to the number of players you should retire down to - Going below these numbers causes me extra work that I would like to avoid, thanks
I'll have player awards added in here momentarily as my last item for today. PSA has happened and teams have been moved up and down divisions already. Once we have everyone's new players in I will start pre-season. Let's aim for a 1.5 to 2 week turnaround so that we can start the new season at the beginning of May.
The following teams receive Awards through Youth Cup Awards:
CDY(50) DAF(200) MTS(100) RIS(50)
Div 1 | |||
Golden boot | +2 SL | Carranza | PHI |
Golden Gloves | +2 SL | Svenssen | CHA |
Fair Play Award | 3 OTF | CHA | |
Div 2 | |||
Golden Boot | +2 SL | Eddington | ATL |
Reed | ATL | ||
Purdy | POR | ||
Golden Gloves | +2 SL | Tree | CHV |
Fair Play Award | 3 OTF | KC | |
Div 3 | |||
Golden boot | +2 SL | Sattleberger | CIW |
Golden Gloves | +2 SL | Oakley | REB |
Fair Play Award | 3 OTF | GOG | |
Div 4 | |||
Golden boot | +2 SL | Anderson | CDY |
Golden Gloves | +2 SL | Hill | DCC |
Fair Play Award | 3 OTF | SCF |
Div 1 | |||
Golden boot | +2 SL | Carranza | PHI |
Golden Gloves | +2 SL | Svenssen | CHA |
Fair Play Award | 3 OTF | CHA | |
Div 2 | |||
Golden Boot | +2 SL | Eddington | ATL |
Reed | ATL | ||
Purdy | POR | ||
Golden Gloves | +2 SL | Tree | CHV |
Fair Play Award | 3 OTF | KC | |
Div 3 | |||
Golden boot | +2 SL | Sattleberger | CIW |
Golden Gloves | +2 SL | Oakley | REB |
Fair Play Award | 3 OTF | GOG | |
Div 4 | |||
Golden boot | +2 SL | Anderson | CDY |
Golden Gloves | +2 SL | Hill | DCC |
Fair Play Award | 3 OTF | SCF |
The following teams receive League/Cup Reviewer through Match Reviews Season 32:
PHI(600)
The following teams receive Awards through League Awards:
ATL(400) CDY(325) CAR(350) CCK(300) CHA(450) CHV(300) CIW(350) COL(400) CLB(300) REB(200) DCC(200) DC(300) DIS(200) DAF(250) GBS(200) HOU(500) KC(450) KCA(225) LHT(275) MIN(300) GOG(200) MTS(275) NSS(300) PHI(600) POR(550) ROC(350) RIS(250) SJ(300) SCF(225) SEA(300) VCC(200) VAN(500)
The following teams receive Awards through Cup Awards:
ATL(125) CAR(450) COL(600) CLB(200) PHI(125) POR(50) SJ(150)
Well done Andrew on a smoothly run season,keep up the good work
Andrew as well - great season of running this, thank you!
Congratulations to all of our winners this season!
After the playoffs, POR and VAN will be moving up to division 1, replacing MIN and SEA. In the youth leagues, CDY, CCK, and MTS will be moving up to divison 3 while VCC, REB, and GOG will be moving down to division 4.
Offseason instructions will be coming soon after the promotion playoffs. Looking forward to another great season ahead.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 37:
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #4: 1 CP (wdw)
Are set for this weekend. Be on the lookout for the final orders required if you are involved:
SJ vs KC for a place in division 1
VCC vs MTS for a place in division 3
Cup finals midweek will also provide some top entertainment for neutrals - both the senior and youth finals look set for fireworks.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 36:
Houston Dynamo - MVP #4: 1 CP (WWw)
Em vee peeeeee
Long time coming
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 35:
Mount Tabor Portland - MVP #4: 1 CP (wdw)
Columbus Crew - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
And he will be leading them out as Division 1 champs, after what seemed like an inevitable win against Carolina.
Great season, was tough chasing down the Philly machine but at least gave our lads some motivation.
Well deserved winners - congratulations.
Matej Oravec will lead the Philadelphia Union side out onto the pitch against Charleston Battery in his final match before retiring it will be his 205th game over 7 seasons for the Union,he will take up the assistant managers role at Roxborough Indians developing the youth players ready for their transformation to Philadelphia Union in the big boys league,he has an eye for talent and he has our total backing in all his decisions.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 34:
Philadelphia Union - MVP #6: 25k (wdW)
Colorado Rapids - MVP #5: 25k (WWd)
What's at stake?
In the Dave Dowson Shield, the winner of next Wednesday's matchup between CLB and SJ will face COL in the final.
In the Youth Cup, CDY, MTS, RIS, and DAF all find themselves in the semifinals.
In Division 1, Philadelphia has the chance to seal up the division with a win in either of their next two matches. SEA seem all but certain for relegation, while MIN, SJ, and CAR could all end up in either the second relegation spot or in the promotion/relegation playoff match
In Division 2, Portland have wrapped up the title and promotion, while ATL, VAN, and KC are all most likely for the second promotion spot and the promotion/relegation playoff.
In the youth divisions, Colorado can wrap up their Div 3 title this weekend, while Carolina have already won Div 4. Tight races for the rest of the promotion and relegation spots in both youth divisions.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 33:
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #3: 1 TP (wwW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 32:
Vancouver Whitecaps - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (DWw)
Portland Timbers - MVP #6: 25k (wDW)
Colorado Ice White - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWW)
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #5: 25k (www)
Congrats to Roy and COL for being the first team to make the DD Cup final! We have four sides remaining in the losers' bracket fighting over the next two midweeks to be the second side in the final. CAR, CLB, POR, and SJ will be the ones competing for that spot.
In the Youth Cup, 8 clubs remain for the quarterfinals, being played next Wednesday: CIW, CDY, VCC, MTS, DIS, RIS, GBS, and DAF.
Roy at CIW and Jason at CDY must be tired of seeing each other - After 7 meetings with their senior sides this season, they will now have to face off with their youth sides, as well.
Happy to consider an appeal there. I'll just ask that Matt sends me a note in my inbox or posts here to confirm.
In an ideal world, I would like to avoid refunding blowouts for NMRs as that is some of the risk with not having moves in. However, I understand that NMRs do happen as life gets busy (I've had them here, too), and a blowout is a pretty harsh punishment for that, especially in the shorter seasons we have here in OASL. Also, I would prefer to minimize NMRs through making the game engaging rather than punishing players for every little thing
Can we refund the DC Colts their 120k blowout fine?
They NMR'd against my Colorado so it wasn't intentional
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 31:
Laredo Heat - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wDw)
Reminder that all youth teams play tomorrow - double check that you have your lineups in!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 30:
Carson City Kickers - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Savannah Celtic FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
Remember that after this weekend all teams will have a Wednesday youth cup matchup!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 29:
Portland Timbers - MVP #5: 25k (Dww)
And now we are down to 12. 4 more to be knocked out tomorrow.
The youth cup will be kicking off in a week's time, so just a reminder that you will have a wednesday deadline for your youth sides on the Wednesday after this Sunday's match.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 28:
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Mount Tabor Portland - MVP #3: 1 TP (wdW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 27:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #4: 1 CP (WDW)
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWd)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 26:
KC Athletics - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDw)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 25:
Colorado Rapids - MVP #4: 1 CP (WwD)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 24:
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #4: 1 CP (WWw)
Senior sides kick off this Wednesday. Remember, the DD Shield is double elimination, so losers this midweek will still play next week.
Youth cup knockouts start Matchday 31.
Final CP bonuses for trades have now been added, as well.
CAR sends 175k to POR for T_Swinney (4/17 DF)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 23:
Philadelphia Union - MVP #5: 25k (wWW)
Portland Timbers - MVP #4: 1 CP (wWW)
SJ sends 250k to POR for Ben Byrd (3/18 DF)
Get in any last trades before Sunday's match.
Bracket for the cup (as well as youth cup) will be set after this week's midweek matches. Seeding will be based on league standings at that point.
Reminder that the DD shield is double elimination (play until you lose twice) and the youth cup is single elimination
The following teams receive Adjustment through Blowout appeal:
KCA(120)
And marked off on the front page. If the front page is missing one please feel free to let me know.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 22:
Mount Tabor Portland - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WDw)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 21:
Charleston Battery - MVP #3: 1 TP (DWw)
Colorado Rapids - MVP #3: 1 TP (dWw)
Colorado Ice White - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Daniel Island S.A. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Wdw)
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #3: 1 TP (WDw)
KC Athletics having no MF players in a squad of 25 may have confused NMR program also.
Every minute of match it tried force a SW to a MF
Min 2: Yasu Trumbauer(KCA) is forced to reposition to MF.
NMR looks for players EL6 and above. It also tries for a 4-4-2 formation, I think.
There seemed adequate EL amongst roster, so may have got its knickers in a twist with the 3 SW and no MF, made an attempt at repositioning some players, and then just threw in the towel !
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 20:
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWw)
Portland Timbers - MVP #3: 1 TP (wDW)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
NMR program always struggles when ELs are low. Lucky to get 5 players, it's normally 4. Of course only 5 players used up EL...
Agree - and I'll also see if we can find out why this happened.
NMR our fault but it only put out 5 players !!
Right you are, Stephen - apologies for being slow on the trigger here. Gave folks false hope of avoiding the carnage...
We supposed to have MSA before game 20?
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 19:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #3: 1 TP (WdW)
Philadelphia Union - MVP #4: 1 CP (WWw)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 18:
Colorado Rapids - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DWW)
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
A) Please get your bids in before Sunday night
B) If you are one of the 8 teams with 5 Multi-Position Players and wish to bid on a MPP lot in the auction (4/21 DM or 1/15 UT), PLEASE message me or post on the blog with one or two of your MPPs that you wish to downgrade to a single position. Let me know which of the two positions you would like (e.g. a DM can become DF or MF)
As a result of last season's voting, this season will see each team face each other three times in the season: home/away/neutral.
CHOICE | TOTAL VOTES |
Play every other team three times - 21 matches (Home/Away/Neutral) | 7 |
Play every other team twice - 14 matches (current state - keep extended cup schedules for season length) | 5 |
Play every other team four times - 28 matches (Home/Away x2) | 4 |
The neutral matches are being held in the middle 1/3 of league matches. Hope this clarifies!
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through Retirement (up to this datetime):
ATL(125) CAR(150) CHV(125) CLB(175) DC(100) HOU(175) KC(50) MIN(25) PHI(150) POR(175) SJ(325) VAN(50)
VAN sends Jack Hendry (5/12 DF), Alessandro Schopf (4/13 MF) to ROC for 2 TP, Willie Gay (6/9 DF)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 17:
Laredo Heat - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWW)
CHV retire 5 players less that SL 12
Why is there a block of league games (the next 7) showing as being played Neutral? Apologies if i missed a notification.
Please retire from CAR
Josh Coulson 4/13
Bernard Golspie 6/14
Cheers
Vancouver wish to retire 3 duds:
Hasal 6/14 GK
Hendry 5/12 DF
Schopf 4/13 MF
Houston have retired another 3 players today on top of 4 other players retired earlier this season.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 16:
Houston Dynamo - MVP #3: 1 TP (wwW)
Charleston Battery - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Retire the 4 SL 7 players on my team.
Thanks
Andrew you can retire all five SL13 players for me.
Thanks.
Two more SL<12 players just gone
CLB retired 5 SL<12 players after I failed to register auction bids.
All - Many rosters are at maximum player counts + maximum numbers of MPPs. Before next Sunday's auction (Feb 4th) we are going to incentivize retirements as below (Payout before next Sunday's auction, and then again a week later if anyone misses the deadline):
Note that this will apply retroactively to players already retired this season so that nobody is punished for having already retired players. Since players SL >= 13 cannot be retired yourself, please post in the blog here (Or via inbox) any players that you wish to retire but cannot do yourself. This is also a good time to request MPPs get downgraded to single position if you wish to free up a slot for auction bidding. Also remember that you may not retiire to a roster size below 18 players.
The rest of the league schedule now has its appropriate set of deadlines. The season will be ending April 14th with promotion/relegation playoffs.
Please, please note that we will be playing league matches both Sundays and Wednesdays for 4 weeks now. This includes youth sides. So, please make sure you are able to set your lineups for both senior and youth sides for Sundays and Wednesdays, as we no longer have cup midweeks.
VAN sends Andres Cubas (4/14 DF), Billy Gilmour (4/14 MF) to CHA for Henrik Larsson (3/19 FW)
Best of luck to Colorado and Carolina!
Will have the rest of the schedule up here soon. Note that MSA will be coming here in a couple weeks...
Don't forget to get a bid or two in! Second to last auction of the season
Also, a new poll on auctions coming later today
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 13:
Philadelphia Union - MVP #3: 1 TP (DWw)
Philadelphia Union have been busy in the 1st few weeks bringing in the required players to strengthen the squad, we have purchased USA SD Isaiah LeFlore ,South African DF Olwethu Mahoonya and Venezuelan MF Jose Martinez, we hope that these will give us what we need in the push for the title and cup competitions.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 12:
Columbus Rebels - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 11:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
SJ sends 300k to POR for Tom Mabon (3/19 DF)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 10:
Philadelphia Union - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWD)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Wdw)
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Yes, it does ring a bell now Andy.
I should pay more attention.
Make sure to get your bids in! 3 auctions in total left
As a result of last season's voting, this season will see each team face each other three times in the season: home/away/neutral.
CHOICE | TOTAL VOTES |
Play every other team three times - 21 matches (Home/Away/Neutral) | 7 |
Play every other team twice - 14 matches (current state - keep extended cup schedules for season length) | 5 |
Play every other team four times - 28 matches (Home/Away x2) | 4 |
The neutral matches are being held in the middle 1/3 of league matches, so that is what you are seeing, Andy. Sorry for the lack of clear communication about this on my part.
The matches are showing as neutral but shouldn't be.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 9:
Portland Timbers - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DWw)
D.C. United - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWw)
Colorado Ice White - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Carson City Kickers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Mount Tabor Portland - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 8:
Houston Dynamo - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Make sure to get bids in for your senior sides!
Sorry about the constant NMRs. I'll try better but there's a lot going off and unfortunately OASL is bottom of my gaming priorities.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 7:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Philadelphia Union - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWW)
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
CLB, VAN, and MIN the last teams missing either senior or youth orders or both
Hope the holidays are bright for you and yours!
Merry Christmas from all at Philadelphia Union
Sorry about NMR but having a nightmare week.
Enjoy the holidays! Leagues will kick off next Wednesday, and remember that this means lineups for both your youth teams and senior teams!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 6:
Portland Timbers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dwW)
Reminder that the top two from each group will be progressing after tomorrow's 6th group match. Here are the scenarios by group:
GROUP A:
GROUP B:
GROUP C:
Group D
Well that was a busy auction and some teams have set out their stall for building a challenging squad for this season
Lot 1 3/25 MF 672k a cracking purchase for HOU who I think will mount a challenge this season after coming up.
Lot 2 4/25 GK 252k a cracking purchase for VAN but I think it went for lots more than it should but it has strengthened the VAN squad
Lot 3 2/22 DF 826k an expensive purchase for PHI but they need it for their rebuil
Lot 4 1/17 SW 801k an expensive purchase for HOU but looking good for their squad build ,Stephen looking good with his squad at present
Lot 5 1/17 MF 650k ATL a good purchase who will develop this season and strengthen the ATL squad
Lot 6 5tp 451k picked up by POR
Lot 7 4cp 456k picked up by CAR
Lot 8 4cp 456k again picked up by CAR so now they have plenty to push their squad into a challenging position
A successful auction and we await the league start
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 5:
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDw)
Just a reminder!
First teams only - double check that you are on your senior side's login when you put in your bids
ATL sends Jose Baez (5/12 SD) to POR for Tycho Van Donk (5/12 MA)
That was a good read Rob.
I suspect I may not get the GK for 1k now! LOL
For both below trades and Rob's auction preview
HOU sends 650k to VAN for Ryan Raposo (4/25 WG)
Auction 1 philadelphia's thoughts
Lot 1 3/25 MF will go into any 1st team squad and could go for 700+ if enough interested parties,ones that could be interested are COL/DC/ROC/KAN/PHI/SEA
Lot 2 4/25 GK with many teams having an established no 1 and training up an app then this could go cheap and I think it would be ideal for VAN possible giveaway at 1k
Lot 3 2/22 DF ideal for any squad and could go 500+ ,could be a few interested parties including MIN/PHI/ATL /DC/POR
Lot 4 1/17 SW a squad builder for next season once trained up ,could go big 700+,but teams will need the tp to go with it ,interest could come from CAR/CHA/HOU/CLB/KC/POR
Lot 5 1/17 MF another squad builder for next season once trained up,again could go big 900+,interested parties could be CAR/CHA/HOU/PHI/SJ/ATL/ROC/SEA
Lot 6 5tp should go 400+
Lot 7 4cp could go 400+
Lot 8 4cp could go 400+
Get your bids in and start building your sides to challenge Seattle this season
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 3:
Colorado Rapids - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Dww)
Charleston Battery - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Wdw)
Houston Dynamo - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Www)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
HOU sends 900k to CAR for Nicolas Rincon (2/24 DM)
I have set deadlines through the end of the year and will have the full season dates added soon. Fortunately, I have found that the neutral fixtures mid-season can be auto-generated while still auto-generating the home/away fixtures, so that is a big time saver for me over what I expected.
Reminder that after the 6 AS Cup fixtures, the top two from each group of four will advance. From there we have the start of leagues (senior and youth), and the quarterfinals of the cup will take place in early January (match 11)
A new poll is up to check in to see how the time of day for the matches to run is working for everyone. I know it is later in the day than most leagues - do you like that? Hate that? Please let me know in the poll.
Sorry for NMRing so early. SESL's quick turnaround, Christmas etc. meant I planned to do orders after work. But then found out I had to go straight back out shopping and realised too late.
Lineups all in - thanks gents.
Looking forward to a great season ahead
Welcome Willy from all at Philadelphia
I guess that was me. Done!
Thank you for the welcoming messages!
Will try our best.
Cheers!
Make sure to get lineups in!
Just one last manager to get preseason in, so I'll make sure that gets taken care of. Otherwise, looking forward to another great season of OASL.
Looking forward to managing Seattle
Good luck to all managers for the coming season
Good to have you on board
I have the pleasure to announce a new manager at MIN/GOG: Willy Krosnyak! Many of you will remember him from either his previous stint in OASL or from his management experience in SESL and SFLSL. Welcome back, Willy!
Also, this + the previous message may look confusing, but that is because SEA and POR have swapped managers. I will now be operating as commissioner out of POR, while Derek will be taking over at SEA. Please make sure any mail for the commish now gets sent over to POR and not SEA.
As a reminder, if manager photos have not changed for you, you can go to your browser's history and navigate to 'Clear Browsing Data' or something similar. From there you can clear 'cached images and files' and it should allow you to refresh to the newest manager pictures the next time you load the website.
Please let me know if you see any mistakes.
The following teams receive Adjustment through No CP purchases allowed for Youth (20 CP removed):
MTS(1000)
Hey folks - unfortunate update that we will need to delay the start of the season a week. I've been sick the past few days and just have had no capacity to get on my computer and do the final preseason steps.
Apologies for the delay.
I will also be handling setting up a new manager and swapping teams myself, so I will announce once that's complete, as well.
I have moved players up to their senior sides and have begun adding new youth players. Don't worry if you don't see your youth side's new players yet - I am aiming to have them all in by this weekend, hopefully. However, this means (with money moved and awards given) that teams are now ready to handle preseason orders as well.
Go to 'Transactions' and then 'Preseason' and you will be able to select your captains and CP/TP purchase. You can have up to 50 of each for senior sides.
You can also do your youth team preseason orders as well, even if you do not have your new youth players added yet. REMEMBER, youth teams cannot buy either TP or CP - the 5 CP and 60 TP given to them for free each season is the max. So, youth sides will only need to select a captain.
PHI sends to RIS for 712k, Nikola Vlasic (1/17 DF), Dawid Kownacki (1/17 FW), Antonio Sarabina (1/17 FW)
DC sends to DCC for 1194k, Mark Bosnich (1/19 GK), Mark Mitchell (1/19 DF), Paul King (1/18 MF)
MTS sends 1066k, S Lieper (1/18 MF), A Purdy (1/19 FW), T Grub (1/19 DF) to POR for
NSS sends 1596k, Vinny Walters (1/17 WG), Lewis Dunk (1/17 DF), Guy Levi (1/18 FW) to SEA for
GOG sends 1267k, Grant Hudson (1/17 MF), Kenny Herbert (1/17 MF), Lonnie Ross (1/17 FW) to MIN for
KC sends to KCA for 1188k, Mina (1/18 SW), Asprilla (1/18 WG), Falcao (1/18 FW)
GBS sends 1057k, Oliver McGinn (1/15 MF), Sam Silas (1/16 DF), Elbert Washington (1/14 FW) to ROC for
VAN sends to VCC for 1380k, Steve Hogarth (1/18 FW), Ian Mosley (1/18 GK), Steve Rothery (1/18 DF)
CHA sends to DIS for 979k, Mark Lee (1/18 GK), Peter Lee (1/18 DF), David Lee (1/18 FW)
CLB sends to REB for 1301k, Andrew Camina (1/18 DF), Lance Croot (1/18 WG), James Reilly (1/17 FW)
CIW sends 1226k, Michael Sollbauer (1/18 DF), Thorsten Schick (1/18 MF), Moritz Oswald (1/18 WG) to COL for
ATL sends to SCF for 1280k, Jack ONeill (1/19 GK), Sam Carter (1/18 SW), Daniel Jackson (1/19 FW)
SJ sends to DAF for 1324k, Ray Clemence (1/19 GK), Phil Neal (1/18 DF), Gary Lineker (1/18 FW)
CHV sends to CCK for 989k, Leaf Tree (1/19 GK), Olav Forrest (1/18 DF), Olive Branch (1/18 MF)
CDY sends 1182k, Aidan Turner (1/18 GK), Louis Lomas (1/17 DF), Jayden Crowhurst (1/17 MF) to CAR for
HOU sends to LHT for 1176k, Micky Palfreeman (1/19 GK), Uri Lupienska (1/19 DF), Morgan Budd (1/19 FW)
The following teams receive Awards through Cup Awards:
CAR(350) HOU(200) MIN(175) PHI(100) SJ(150) SEA(750)
The following teams receive Awards through League Awards:
ATL(350) CDY(275) CAR(450) CCK(225) CHA(450) CHV(375) CIW(300) COL(375) CLB(325) REB(225) DCC(200) DC(300) DIS(200) DAF(200) GBS(250) HOU(550) KC(325) KCA(275) LHT(300) MIN(500) GOG(250) MTS(200) NSS(350) PHI(400) POR(400) ROC(350) RIS(200) SJ(500) SCF(200) SEA(600) VCC(325) VAN(300)
The following teams receive League/Cup Reviewer through Season 31:
PHI(600)
Looks like we are only missing a few orders for new players and promotions - I will contact missing managers today for a friendly reminder. I am hoping that we will have all orders in in the next couple of days so that we can begin proper preseason by Wednesday or so. I will begin moving players up, transferring youth funds to senior squads, adding new players, and topping up youth team TPs to the proper preseason levels. These all need to happen before I open preseason.
Once we are ready for preseason orders (buying CP, selecting captain, etc) we should need a week at most, so I am optimistic that we can start the season on Sunday, November 26th
Note that end of season awards and reviewer cash has not yet been added. These will be done before preseason orders are opened up, same with moving cash from youth sides to senior sides for resource purchases.
I will let you know (hopefully next weekend) once we are open for preseason orders. These have to happen after players are moved between teams and new players are added.
Post season ageing has been completed. Requests for new player names and positions have been sent out to managers via inbox - please try to get those returned to me within the next week so that we can add new players and promote players from youth squads ASAP.
Thank you, gents! I appreciate the great season behind us and look forward to the next
Cheers Andy for all your hard work and a cracking season,well it was for Seattle Sounders
Cheers Andy, great work!
Thanks Andy for the season just past - your dedication to the game is very laudable - it is NOT an easy job being a Commish but you fit into the job excellently. Well done that man!! 🏆👍👍
Thanks all for the great season - I will complete the initial offseason steps this week so that we are ready to begin roster movements at least by this weekend. I'll provide detailed timelines once we reach that point.
Just an early reminder!
I'm starting to prepare for end of season now - looking to have a much shorter offseason this time compared to last. Will have updates shortly after the final matches!
Dammit Andy!
Your superior morale beat out on some good stats we put up and that one goal was enough to stop us retaining the cup.
Good luck in the rebuild bud, worrying to think you'll be coming back stronger! So will we....
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 36:
Seattle Sounders - MVP #9: 25k (WDw)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #4: 1 CP (WWw)
Thank you all! Was a good season for us - we seemed to have a lot off luck fall our way, too, which always helps.
Since nobody was interested in a team swap, I will be taking the axe to SEA's squad at end of season and chopping off a lot of SL. I am interested in a bit of a rebuild and I also feel I've had an advantage by being the one making changes over the past couple of seasons, or in other words by being (by default) the most engaged with how the league has shifted with restructuring. I want to make sure that advantage isn't perpetuated season after season.
Congratulations on the league win,now chasing the treble best of luck today-could be a truly dominant season from you
Congrats mate, let's just hope I can tarnish your season slightly in today's game!
Well done that man - MIN had to win by 4 goals to take the title as SEA dropped 2 points in the last match, but 2nd place is where I'd expected to be and got it.
Good season all round for the boss man...👍👍
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 35:
Laredo Heat - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wwD)
D.C. United - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WDw)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #6: 25k (DWw)
A couple spots up for grab today. Div 1 title, playoff spot for div 1, promotion spots in div 2. May be a little late movement for division 4 promotion, as well.
Cup finals will be midweek, with promotion playoff games happening next weekend
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 33:
Portland Timbers - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWw)
Those HOU-PHI matches have been fantastic competition both of the past two seasons. Both teams very consistently strong. Penalties about the only way to decide these close matches
8-)
They beat us last season to put us through the rat race to beat them in the cup last season, now we edge them in the cup again. Rob becoming my favourite least favourite team to see!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 32:
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #5: 25k (wDW)
Daniel Island S.A. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 31:
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 30:
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #8: 25k (wwd)
Don't forget to get youth lineups in - all youth teams playing
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 29:
KC Athletics - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Houston Dynamo - MVP #3: 1 TP (wwW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 28:
Columbus Crew - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (DWw)
14 league matches + 1 group stage cup + 1 knockout cup does not give teams enough matches to train their players easily. This season we added length with the second cup having 6 'seeding matches' that had low competitive impact. Should we extend the league calendar instead?
A large 25k bonus for answering - I would really appreciate the managers' thoughts on the topic.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 27:
Mount Tabor Portland - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wdW)
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #3: 1 TP (WwD)
Philadelphia Union - MVP #4: 1 CP (WwW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 25:
Columbus Rebels - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Wwd)
Colorado Ice White - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #4: 1 CP (WwW)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #7: 25k (WWw)
Reminder that losing sides from today are still alive in the tourney - takes two losses to get knocked out!
League on Sunday - next cup round midweek.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 24:
Philadelphia Union - MVP #3: 1 TP (Www)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #4: 1 CP (WwW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 23:
Chivas USA - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (www)
You can see the brackets on the front page, and your matchup should be scheduled for the midweek. We will have cup matches midweek and league matches on Sundays from here to the end of the season.
A big reminder: the DD Cup is double-elimination! So if you lose your first match, you will drop down to the losers' bracket, still with a chance of reaching the final if you do not lose again. This helps to ensure a better spread of gate revenues from the cup and keeps more teams alive for longer. Note that if you reach the final undefeated, you will be the sole exception of double-elimination (You won't get a second cup final if you lose the first one!)
If anyone cares about the how the seeding functioned, it was similar to the scheduling. Halves of divisions were basically grouped together (top half of divs 1 and 2 played each other, while the bottom halves of the divisions played each other as well), so your results determined your seeding within your division half. Meaning that the top half of div 1 still faces the bottom half of div 2 in the knockouts, but with those matches determined by the six seeding matches instead of league standings.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 22:
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #5: 25k (wWw)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #3: 1 TP (WwW)
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dww)
Laredo Heat - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dww)
Match six of six today - we will be returning to the league this weekend. After today's matches are completed I will get the knockout bracket posted as well as taking care of a few other administrative tasks. Look for an update again at that point
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 21:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #3: 1 TP (WWw)
Minnesota United - MVP #3: 1 TP (Wwd)
Mount Tabor Portland - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dwW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 20:
Portland Timbers - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWD)
Carson City Kickers - MVP #3: 1 TP (WWW)
Savannah Celtic FC - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wDw)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 19:
Seattle Sounders - MVP #6: 25k (wWD)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DWw)
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Www)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 18:
Minnesota United - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wDw)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 17:
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #4: 1 CP (Wwd)
Carson City Kickers - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Don't forget to get your auction bids in!
Yes, thanks Andy for the MSA - it is usually the lowest point in the season for a Commish - he is a bully to every team (including his own, it's fair to say). It's always more brutal to an aging team but it IS necessary to stop h-u-g-e SL teams appearing. 🙄🙄
MSA is processed for all teams!
All matches should be on your schedules at this point. Please let me know if I have messed anything up - I have tried to double check everything, but with manual scheduling it is possible something slipped my notice.
The next 6 matches are basically split between top-half and bottom-half sides, mixing the divisions (e.g. Top half sides in Div 1 play top half sides from divisions 1 and 2). Knockouts will be seeded between those groups (best record of top half sides faces worst record of bottom half sides).
Thanks for your patience as I've been figuring out schedules with the new number of teams. This has been a learning experience, but I believe it sets us up well to be on a regular, consistent schedule each season from here forward.
This may answer some of your questions, Stephen.
DD Shield is going to operate a bit different this year in order to help ensure sides get enough fixtures in the season with the shortened league schedule. The next six fixtures will operate somewhat like a group stage to seed the knockoutrounds - but no teams will be going out in the groups. So, as part of that, the 6 matches are seeded against teams at similar league positions to your team both in your division and the division above below (so, the first round is against the div 1 and div 2 teams of the same position, for example). Once I have all the fixtures up I can also post how the seeding will work out for the knockouts, but the important info right now is that these six matches only affect seeding, and are meant as good opportunities to train your players.
Great to see. But surely there's been some mistake, you'd never have last year's cup winner booted out in the first round by the most recent cup winner Seattle?
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 16:
Seattle Sounders - MVP #5: 25k (wwW)
Being added today! Has kept being pushed back with real life getting in the way. The 6 upcoming fixtures are manual, so just takes me some time to get them put in.
Hey guys, when are we expecting the next round of fixtures?
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 15:
Vancouver FC - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wDw)
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 14:
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWw)
Houston Dynamo - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
Charleston Battery - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWD)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWd)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 13:
Savannah Celtic FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
1.5 hrs after the match. Make sure to get bids in.
Also, I will add some participation bonuses later today. Thanks to those who have been actively trading and blogging
CAR sends 400k, Norris Drysdale (6/21 GK) to DC for Robin Olsen (2/23 GK)
CAR sends 25k to MIN for Thiago (4/13 SD)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 12:
Seattle Sounders - MVP #4: 1 CP (wWW)
SEA vs PHI - both teams also well rested and with no suspensions. PHI don't want this going to pens with that 38 SL monster in goals for SEA.
CAR vs MIN - some low ELs and a suspension apiece, CAR missing a big player and with an iffy keeper, MIN with a injured good MF, low EL DF and key FW so all in the balance.
Good luck all!
Well you could not ask for a closer couple of games in the semis
SEA vs PHI 0.2 between them on T11 but SEA have the high morale bonus of .933 against PHI of .691,really close encounter ahead ,hard to choose a winner
CAR vs MIN 0.3 between them on T11 and on morale bonuses CAR just edge it ..639 to .637 ,so another really close encounter in stall,hard to choose a winner
In my view its anybody's-whoever wants it more in the day ,but both games could go to penalties, wouldn't that be exciting.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 11:
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (dWw)
Andy, No, leave it as it is. SESL charge 40k per game if the session is a 1 game session, and 80k if the session is a 2 game one. It was me who thought that it would be 40k as all our sessions are 1 game ones.
But I see the rules and have no problem with it. (Obviously haven't used it in OASL before - lucky me!!)
I believe it's the same cost as in SESL - 80k for +8 EL. Happy to reverse if you'd like to not spend the cash. Also happy to run a poll if you think a different option would be more fair, it's just a rule I've left in place unchanged so far
But 80k for a session??
Lol
I think as OASL only has one game per weekend we only have the one rate of physio boost
SJ sends 250k to VAN for Steven Gerrard (3/22 MF)
Forget the previous Blog - I see the rules now and it is 80k whether it is a 1 or 2 game session.
From now on the lad can stay on the sidelines till he is fit...
Anmdy,
I can't get the rules wiki to open but I thought it was 40k when the team only had 1 game in a session and 80k when the team had 2 games (as in SESL).
The following teams receive Physio Boost through :
MIN(-80)
Can MIN have a Physio Boost for MF Collins please? 👍
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 10:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through :
ATL(125) CAR(225) CHA(150) CHV(100) CLB(100) HOU(125) KC(50) MIN(200) PHI(100) ROC(125) SJ(225) SEA(225) VAN(50)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 9:
Vancouver FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Www)
Carson City Kickers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (DWw)
Minnesota United - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWw)
Colorado Ice White - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Houston Dynamo - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wwW)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #3: 1 TP (WwW)
6 retired today for CHA, thanks
It's on my front page d'oh
No new ones from CLB but we retired three old guys SL 5 or so back in June.
CAR have retired 5 players <= 12. Could we also retire Mike Deverish and Geoff Xanadu. Cheers.
CAR have retired 5 players <= 12. Could we also retire Mike Deverish and Geoff Xanadu. Cheers.
ATL say farewell to Trevelyan, Brewster, Watt and Pascal all SL 5 or below.
Bunch retired from Houston as well, One was MPP so no need to change any of those.
GREAT idea Andy, and nearly all clubs will be able to use it.
MIN previously retired MF Origi 6,5 and today DF Tsimikas 5,12 and MF Jota 5,12
and now would like to retire:
DF Williams 4,13
MF Harris 3,13
SW Phillips 4,13
Cheers !!
One age 5/12 already retired.
Three age 5/13 players, Chilwell, Fillery & Hurst. One age 5/14 player Werner.
Thanks.
All - Many rosters are at maximum player counts + maximum numbers of MPPs. Before this Sunday's auction We are going to incentivize retirements as below (Payout before this Sunday's auction, and then again a week later if anyone misses the deadline):
Note that this will apply retroactively to players already retired this season so that nobody is punished for having already retired players. Since players SL >= 13 cannot be retired yourself, please post in the blog here any players that you wish to retire but cannot do yourself. This is also a good time to request MPPs get downgraded to single position if you wish to free up a slot for auction bidding. Also remember that you may not retiire to a roster size below 18 players.
Finally, please note that I am putting up a new poll regarding our match schedule. Please find a moment to give your opinion. Note that teams currently have a minimum of 13 league matches + 2 cup matches (1 for youth) remaining (including today's match), so youth teams needing to spend 56 TP would need to spend 4x TP per match, every match just to fit in their training. These added matches would apply to both senior and youth sides.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 8:
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wwD)
Chivas USA - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WDW)
Got 3 lads on the transfer list - not world beaters but were good in their time.
Don't want to let them go to the old folks home just yet, so a trifle bid will likely be enough to give them a new lease of life with a different shirt on. Anybody? 👍
Thanks for your patience.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 7:
Philadelphia Union - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWw)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWW)
9 so far, can we get a few more before the deadline? Make sure you're on your senior team when you put in bids...
Make sure to get both your senior and youth lineups in for this weekend!
Also, correct on the youth trade - the trade has been revwrsed, and the manager has been filled in on the rules! No harm done or benefit gained.
With Tyler being new in the chair he probably didn't know the rule that separates the youth from the senior teams (until the PSA when youths are promoted).
I bet he does now...
Tyler, don't worry about it, and if there is anything you aren't sure of, just ask Andy or one of the lads. :-)
Trade: ROC - GBS looks like it was reversed,
and both trades noted on blog. So Andrew was quick to resolve.
I've heard of no rule changes Roy,I thought the youth team was for development of young players to bolster your senior side ,not vice versa
MIN sends 250k to VAN for Joe Johnson (3/20 FW)
GBS shouldn't be able to trade as a youth team unless there's been a rule change I'm unaware of
VAN sends Ray Pointer (3/20 FW) to KC for Dida (5/16 GK)
Pair of 3/20 FW on trade list for guide price 200-300k if anyone needs a back-up striker.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 6:
Seattle Sounders - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wwW)
The following teams receive Trade Compensation through Correction for invalid trade on 7/11:
GBS(750) ROC(-750)
ROC sends Fred Emney (2/19 DF), Kenny Dodd (2/20 FW) to GBS for
In group A, both PHI and POR are already qualified
In group B, SEA are qualified - the second spot could be filled by any of the three other teams. ATL and DC need to better each other's result to make it through, and ATL have a goal difference advantage of 1 at the moment. CHA will qualify if they beat ATL and SEA beat DC, by nature of a better goal difference.
MIN are qualified in group C, and VAN will just need a point against SJ to make it to the quarterfinals. HOU would need a VAN loss and a win against MIN themselves to have a chance of going through.
Group D could see any two of CAR, COL, or ROC make it through - a winner of CAR vs COL will certainly go through, though in case of a draw CAR will definitely be through. ROC will be certain of a place in the last 8 with a win against CLB, though a draw would be enough if COL lose.
ROC sends to GBS for 750k, Fred Emney (2/19 DF), Kenny Dodd (2/20 FW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 5:
Colorado Rapids - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
CHV sends 125k to COL for Pavao Pervan (5/17 GK)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 4:
Portland Timbers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Philadelphia Union - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
And bank totals adjusted for winning teams
Mark and Al have done a ton of hard work to decode things behind the scenes for this mysterious auction fail, including Mark manually compiling these results. Please send along your thanks the next time you chat with either of them- that was no small task.
Please reach out if you notice any errors. I will be adding players and resources while subtracting winning amounts here later today (Wednesday. Tomorrow for me) once have a moment. Apologies for the short turnaround time for anyone looking to play these players in the day's matches.
auction 1 |
winning bid | |||||||
102 | PHI | 1 | 1899 | 1899 | Damien Lowe | 668 | ||
98 | MIN | 1 | 667 | 667 | Kerry Naylor | |||
80 | SJ | 1 | 222 | 175 | Thiago Silva |
175k bank |
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91 | SEA | 1 | 149 | 149 | Paul Peters | |||
87 | CHV | 1 | 379 | 0 | Don Dandelion |
TEAM ALREADY HAS 25 OR MORE PLAYERS! |
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96 | CHA | 1 | 199 | 0 | S Weeper |
TEAM ALREADY HAS 25 OR MORE PLAYERS! |
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90 | COL | 2 | 450 | 450 | Michael Blauensteiner | 422 | ||
95 | CAR | 2 | 421 | 421 | Luke Croll | |||
101 | VAN | 2 | 300 | 300 | Joe Johnson | |||
80 | SJ | 2 | 222 | 175 | Paulo Ferreira |
175k bank |
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94 | ATL | 2 | 200 | 87 | Orville Redenbacher |
87k bank |
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96 | CHA | 2 | 199 | 0 | D Fender |
TEAM ALREADY HAS 25 OR MORE PLAYERS! |
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87 | CHV | 2 | 256 | 0 | Don Dandelion |
TEAM ALREADY HAS 25 OR MORE PLAYERS! |
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101 | VAN | 3 | 300 | 300 | Joe Johnson | 176 | ||
80 | SJ | 3 | 222 | 175 | Romelu Lukaku |
175k bank |
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96 | CHA | 3 | 199 | 0 | F Orward |
TEAM ALREADY HAS 25 OR MORE PLAYERS! |
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87 | CHV | 3 | 156 | 0 | Don Dandelion |
TEAM ALREADY HAS 25 OR MORE PLAYERS! |
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101 | VAN | 4 | 800 | 800 | Paul Banks | 557 | ||
98 | MIN | 4 | 556 | 556 | Pat Quinners | |||
95 | CAR | 4 | 521 | 521 | Luke Croll | |||
91 | SEA | 4 | 499 | 499 | Eddie West | |||
80 | SJ | 4 | 222 | 175 | Conor Gallagher |
175k bank |
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94 | ATL | 4 | 200 | 87 | Larry Sanders |
87k bank |
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93 | CLB | 4 | 1000 | 0 | Adrian Ball |
TEAM ALREADY HAS SAME PLAYER NAME (Adrian Ball) ON ROSTER! |
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98 | MIN | 5 | 1396 | 1396 | Lennie Parrot | 1002 | ||
83 | DC | 5 | 1001 | 1001 | Harry Bishop | |||
93 | CLB | 5 | 1000 | 1000 | Stephen Straw | |||
92 | POR | 5 | 995 | 995 | M_Richardson | |||
91 | SEA | 5 | 724 | 724 | Simon Waters | |||
95 | CAR | 5 | 521 | 521 | Luke Croll | |||
80 | SJ | 5 | 222 | 175 | Enzo Fernandez |
175k bank |
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94 | ATL | 5 | 200 | 87 | Larry Sanders |
87k bank |
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101 | VAN | 5 | 800 | 0 | Paul Banks |
TEAM ALREADY HAS SAME PLAYER NAME |
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91 | SEA | 6 | 529 | 529 | 522 | |||
98 | MIN | 6 | 521 | 521 | ||||
95 | CAR | 6 | 471 | 471 | ||||
87 | CHV | 6 | 301 | 301 | Dety | |||
91 | SEA | 7 | 424 | 424 | 413 | |||
98 | MIN | 7 | 412 | 412 | ||||
87 | CHV | 7 | 301 | 301 | Ferdy | |||
101 | VAN | 7 | 300 | 300 | ||||
95 | CAR | 7 | 299 | 299 | ||||
94 | ATL | 7 | 200 | 87 |
87k bank |
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94 | ATL | 8 | 180 | 87 | 1 |
87k bank |
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92 | POR | 8 | 0 | 0 |
I won all the players and all the resources for 1k each lot. Don't believe what this investigation shows :)
Being dug into, thanks to hard work from Mark and Al S. Thanks guys
Looks like there is an issue, didn't run yesterday.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 3:
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Please make sure your bids are in with your senior sides, and not the youth team.
One note on players, especially age 1s: this season is much shorter than last with the small divisions. With only 14 league matches each plus cup matches, players will need to be trained multiple per game if you want to use up all TP and CP this season. If this structure ends up making too short of seasons, we can adjust for next season with longer schedules.
If you already entered your picks, make sure to revisit them as the players were re-rolled to get the correct age distributions
New this season are age 1 players being added in, since only 3 age 1s are promoted at this point.
Please send me a message if you are on 5 MPPs and would like to downgrade one in order to bid on a MPP auction player
Lineup done, Good luck everyone!
Just waiting on David with CHA and then we will be at 16/16 for matchday 1. Thank you all!
One small note - note that the auctions are currently a bit bugged. I'm waiting to resolve that and will post here once I have it fixed. Just be aware if you've already put in picks that the auction offerings will change here soon
Thank you all for getting your preseason orders in!
HOU sends 125k to SEA for Sev Hans (5/16 GK)
No problem here Commish do what you have to do
We will be starting with our first match next Sunday!
And the corrected divisions are posted. Apologies to KC and VCC who have been demoted to div 2/4 due to the smaller numbers as a result of finishing 9th in their leagues last season.
Just need preseason orders from a few last senior squads, so please get those in ASAP. I still have a few items to do regarding the full schedule/front page/auctions etc, but we will have no problem kicking off on Sunday at this point.
Thanks for the offer, Steve - will look forward to keeping you here in the league, as we already had some retirements that dropped us down to 16.
All looks OK to me.
If you want to cut to 16 then I'm OK to drop out. I'm also happy to carry on.
Make sure I didn't make any mistakes with your youth players! I did my best to double check that I was faithful to your requests, but please let me know if I made any mistakes.
Planning to create the schedules and correct the tables tomorrow (Sunday), so if that all goes to plan we will be up and running for the season to start (with the cup group stage)
Upon further review - two divisions of 9 will be too much of a pain with a team sitting out each gameweek for lack of an opponent. I will have the final decision for everyone as soon as possible, but we will either go with 8 in each league (depending on a couple in-flux manager spots) or 8 in one division and 10 in the other. I will try to have that decision made by the end of this weekend and will create the match schedule at that point.
Thanks for your patience as we sort out the best way to ensure this coming season is as enjoyable as possible!
I have created the new players for about half of the youth squads now - so if your squad does not yet have your players don't worry. I will post here once all teams have their new players in the coming days.
Please take care of your preseason at this point. Note that youth squads cannot purchase CP or TP - I am about to add each team's extra allocation of each. Youth squads can use whatever CP are given to them (5 per squad + any that you have collected from MVPs), however.
We are now back to two divisions for both senior squads and youth squads based on last season's performance.
Will just need to finish creating youth players and switching MPPs from promoted players later today, and then we can flip the switch to accept preseason orders. Thanks for your patience during a busy period for me.
We will hopefully still be on target for a June 21st start date, though I am having to unwind some more data mysteries here in OASL. Assuming we have a clean bill of health we will be good to start the season - though, if we have any unresolved issues I may push that start date until we can confirm that we have a fair, level playing field for all.
MIA sends to RFC for 1479k, Mal Malkovich (1/18 FW), Ervin Pena (1/19 GK), Denso Ulysse (1/19 DF)
ROC sends to GBS for 1307k, Ernie Wise (1/19 DF), Alex Jones (1/18 MF), Ted Rogers (1/18 FW)
DCC sends 1554k, Arnie Green (1/19 GK), Marty Stewart (1/19 DF), Sammy Henderson (1/19 MF) to DC for
TDL sends 1396k, Omar Henry (1/19 DF), Patrick Kelsey (1/18 MF), Red Sovine (1/19 DF) to DAL for
POR sends to MTS for 1431k, Larry Jensen (1/18 GK), Denny Blaine (1/18 DF), Kevin Scales (1/19 MF)
Responded via email - Thanks!
GOG sends 1618k, Jack Adams (1/19 FW), Brian Mills (1/19 FW), Rab Stewart (1/19 DF) to MIN for
ATL sends to SCF for 1518k, Cristobal Rios (1/19 DF), Malcolm Reed (1/19 FW), Owen Paris (1/19 MF)
VAN sends to VCC for 1730k, Timothy Weah (1/18 FW), Pete Trewaves (1/19 DF), Mark Kelly (1/19 MF)
DIS sends 1185k, Rodney (1/19 DF), Del Boy (1/19 MF), Uncle Albert (1/18 FW) to CHA for
CCK sends 1043k, Freddy Foxglove (1/17 DF), Steven Stump (1/18 FW), Richard Ivy (1/18 FW) to CHV for
SJ sends to DAF for 1650k, Kenny Samson (1/19 DF), Chris Waddle (1/19 WG), Peter Beardsley (1/19 FW)
COL sends to CIW for 1489k, Klaus Lindenberger (1/18 GK), Rudolf Rockl (1/18 DF), Theodor Wagner (1/18 FW)
REB sends 1765k, Steve Turner (1/19 GK), Adrian Ball (1/19 DF), Trevor Shooter (1/19 FW) to CLB for
KC sends to KCA for 1467k, Aoi Suss (1/18 FW), Yu Kumamoto (1/18 DF), Naomi Starek (1/18 GK)
CDY sends 1591k, Jordan Skelton (1/18 DF), Nicolas Rincon (1/18 MF), Max Flick (1/17 DF) to CAR for
HOU sends to LHT for 1475k, Cortijo Del Arte (1/19 DF), Jack Milhill (1/19 MF), Santiago Pizarro (1/19 WG)
RIS sends 1060k, Kenneth Vermeer (1/19 GK), Ruben Gabrielsom (1/18 SW), Abasa Amemeyaw (1/18 DF) to PHI for
SEA sends to NSS for 1828k, Aaron Keynes (1/18 GK), Michael Sampson (1/17 DF), Wilson Rogers (1/17 FW)
Please check your in box..🤔🤔
Please check your in box..🤔🤔
Thanks to all of you who have sent in your offseason orders! I am beginning to process those todat and am planning to have them finished by the end of this week. That will allow us to open up pre-season this weekend.
In other news, I am working on both an update/fix to the rules this offseason as well as finalizing some recruitment for a couple squads that are changing managers. I will post updates once those are finished.
With a preseason start this weekend, we will aim for a first match of June 21st
Div 1 | |||
Golden boot | +2 SL | Radonic | PHI |
Golden Gloves | +2 SL | Csintalan | SEA |
Youth Golden Boot | +2 SL | Carranza | PHI |
Youth Golden Gloves | +2 SL | Svenssen | CHA |
Fair Play Award | 3 OTF | POR | |
Div 3 | |||
Golden boot | +2 SL | Issacs | NSS |
Golden Gloves | +2 SL | Pentz | CIW |
Fair Play Award | 3 OTF | CIW |
Now complete - please do reach out if you still need to retire some players that the system cannot handle automatically - I can always retire players manually
The following teams receive League/Cup Reviewer through Reviews for second half of season:
PHI(350)
The following teams receive Awards through End of Season Awards:
ATL(220) CDY(200) CAR(800) CCK(200) CHA(260) CHV(240) CIW(240) COL(475) CLB(350) REB(250) DCC(200) DC(200) DIS(220) DAF(210) DAL(230) GBS(200) HOU(650) KC(280) KCA(230) LHT(200) MIA(200) MIN(825) GOG(300) MTS(200) NSS(350) PHI(1050) POR(210) RFC(200) ROC(400) RIS(200) SJ(250) SCF(200) SEA(850) TDL(200) VCC(200) VAN(300)
Andrew. End of season ageing required in order to downsize squad.
Thanks AFG!
Please find instructions in your inbox. Please aim for a prompt reply on those so that we can continue along.
We will be targeting and early-to-mid June start date for this next season. Once we have responses on new players from most managers we can go ahead and set a start date, but I want to make sure that we have players moved around before we open preason up properly.
Note that a few payouts and prizes will be done between now and then, so don't yet be concerned if you are awaiting some end of season awards.
First steps going to be tackled today! Keep an eye out for instructions in your inbox in the coming days on everything needed for your team's offseason prep.
Or perhaps to the winner! What an end to the season for the lads from East Texas
What a great game! Very tough opponent and very proud of the lads
What a great game! Very tough opponent and very proud of the lads
And you led virtually from the start - no arguments at all. Well deserved and thinking you will receive the usual accolade of becoming a referee in OASL...👍👍
Congrats Rob on a dominant season!
But the perfect response from the commish, get all out in the open and complete honesty.
Going forward should there not only be one person with commish rights (maybe 2 with a co-commish) but I admit I know nothing about that side of the game
Well done Rob congratulations onyour first title
Great play Rob.
That 2/33 GK must be a joy to have.
two x 2/31 WG's aint so shabby either.
Well done.
Congrats Rob, been a long time coming. But surely one trophy is enough for this season, right?
Good spot on the below team shenanigans, looks like a 3/19, 3/19 and 2/29 may have been lying on their football Tinder profiles.
Philadelphia Union have finally claimed the 1st division title after years of trying, years of development through the youth team system have finally paid off and our front men have done us proud hitting 103 goals during the season,not sure if we can continue this next season but we will give it a damn good try.
Congratulations to Rob at Philadelphia for a very convincing title win! Hands down the top team from start to finish - very well deserved, Rob!
As we approach the end of a (very long) season, I am turning my eyes towards next season. I will aim to begin the offseason right after our cups finals, so please check in next week for instructions about new youth players and moving three players up from your youth squad to the senior side. Thank you all for bearing with me as we made our way through an extra-long league! Our split into two divisions next season will significantly shorten the number of games that we will be playing, so hopefully it will lower some of the time burden on managers.
Unfortunately, I have been made aware of some unethical behavior in OASL's youth league and have had to spend quite a bit of time this week unraveling it all. You will notice that GBS' squad from before I corrected it earlier today had several impossibilities:
A 4/19 DF, 3/19 MA, and 2/29 FW are not possible within our youth structure at this point in the season. We do not have MPPs in the youth squads, and a 4/19 and 2/29 are not possible without much more CP than the youth squads have access to. Further investigation will show that this is the "3/19"'s 6th season in the league and neither that player nor the 4/19 had played any matches this season before a recent stretch of matches.
Going through GBS' match history, we can see that the 2/29 was trained up to a 2/19 with GBS' early season CP, and after MSA became a 2/18. All of this was fair and normal. After a strech of NMRs, the team was suddenly revived in GW 35. By match 37, Fleet-Davis is receiving CP again (but this time without it adding to his PU total). By match 46 we can see in the match history that he has been boosted to a 2/25, is still secretly receiving CP, and continues to grow to a 2/29 by the end of GW49.
The only way this is possible within the system would be someone with commissioner access going in, adding CP, changing player ages and SLs, and also removing PU from the stats to try to cover their tracks. Fortunately, the system has a lot more records of player stats through the matches they have played in and their player histories.
Also, we can notice that the same thing was happening with RFC as another youth squad that had gone on a stretch of NMRs. I had contacted Simon and understood that he was no longer able to fill in as MIA/RFC manager, but when the team started having lineups back in around GW 35, I figured perhaps Simon had time to return. Recently upon seeing the artificial inflation of their players and bold change to where they had 4 MPPs, I realized that was not the case. RFC players have also been returned to a more reasonable SL, but if I have the time I will also dig into their match logs to try to get them back to their exact starting SLs (it takes quite a bit of time).
I have also reached out to Mark, and if I hear anything back that contradicts what I have figured out, I will make sure to post an update.
What will we do about this?
Well, unfortunately I don't have many good options here. I will have to boot GBS from the cup at a very late stage, as I have zero tolerance for going through back channels to modify players' stats. I will send the team they cheated in the semifinals through in their stead unless anyone has any other fair suggestions. I will also push the GW deadline back to Monday to give SCF a bit more time to make sure they have a lineup in (and since I have had to delay pushing out the new fixture until now).
I have also changed the passwords of all accounts that have full commissioner access and am in communication with their owners. My best guess is that someone had access to the password of an account that they should not have had access to, but I will do my best to continue sorting this out with Mark and others' help.
This also means that we should likely have further security updates for managers who wish to secure their accounts. Anyone that would have had access to a commissioner account could have accessed all team passwords, so I would consider that your login account has been compromised at this point. I will not be updating passwords through inbox here, so during the offseason I will be asking for anyone who wishes to update their passwords to do so through email to help prevent impersonation.
Finally, if you ever see anything that looks off to you (like a youth squad with MPPs or abnormally high SLs) please feel free to reach out and let me know. With any luck we won't ever have to deal with this again, but you never know. To whomever has been going around and making OASL an unfair game, you are only wasting my time, other managers' time, and making everyone have to endure more frustration as we work to make OASL better.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 50:
Columbus Crew - MVP #3: 1 TP (dWw)
Daniel Island S.A. - MVP #5: 25k (Wdw)
Minnesota United - MVP #5: 25k (WwW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 49:
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWw)
Gananda Bandits Rochester - MVP #4: 1 CP (Wwd)
Sad to hear its been done before but of course I'll be far more sad undoubtly now losing both finals!
Season 27 AFGs Sounders won the Turner prize and his NSS won the youth cup
Unless I'm mistaken, which I often am. The mighty dynamos AND their heirs apparent in Laredo have both made the cup finals. Has any big/little team duo ever done a double?
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 47:
Seattle Sounders - MVP #8: 25k (WwD)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #6: 25k (WwW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 46:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #6: 25k (WwW)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #4: 1 CP (dwW)
Minnesota United - MVP #4: 1 CP (WdW)
Colorado Ice White - MVP #5: 25k (WwW)
Mount Tabor Portland - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through Participation Thru April 22nd (multiple weeks):
ATL(40) CAR(25) CHA(15) COL(40) MIN(40) PHI(120) ROC(10) SJ(40) VAN(10)
Poll went just a bit over half (of those that preferred a day) towards going back to the previous Wed./Sun. If we have time later in the season, I may also follow up on the pace of season comments that two managers raised in the poll. Note that we will be splitting back into two divisions next season (based on this season's standings as a reminder), so there will be a substantial shortening of the number of matches next year (By 18 league matches if we stay at 18 teams total)
New poll up in a few minutes here! Please consider responding
Fantastic find, Steve! Thank you very much for doing the digging. I'll put up a poll for potentially changing that later today or tomorrow.
I mentioned a while back that there seemed to be s lot of injuries in OASL compared to the other two leagues. In one of my games today there were two injuries and I quickly loomed at other games to find two more not caused by EL dropping below 0.
I found some.old rules going back to SFLSL season 1 but have no reason to doubt that these are out of date here (apart from what I mention later).
The rules state that with all players p or n then each minute, each team is checked for an injury and this is 1 in 10,000. This actually works out as less than 1%. For every player playing a this adds a further 1 in 10,000 per team. 22 aggressive means 23 in 10,000 which makes it about 19% chance for each team per game.
For dirty you add 2 per player for your team and 4 per player for the opposition. So if you play 11 on d then it's the same 23 in 10,000 for you but 45 in 10,000 (33%) for them. All 22 dirty and you're up to 45% chance of at least one injury per team.
Some time ago one Commissioner asked if the injuries could be tweaked and Al Sellers added extra code - a modifier to the base 1 in 10,000. You can see this if you click on Features (top right) then scroll down to Parameters. (Here it says that with all dirty it's 110 in 10,000. I think this is a typo possibly confused with the 0.011 in the EL injury calculation).
For SFLSL the modifier is 8 (7.8%), for SESL it's 10 (9.5%) and for OASL it's 20 (17.3%)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 44:
Philadelphia Union - MVP #9: 25k (DwW)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #7: 25k (WwW)
Daniel Island S.A. - MVP #4: 1 CP (wDw)
Go to Rob @ PHI for absolutely running away with the title with games to spare.
Playing under the radar none of us could touch his side during the league campaign (and MIN tried...).
So take a bow Rob - well deserved!! 🏆
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 43:
D.C. Colts - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 42:
Laredo Heat - MVP #5: 25k (wdW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 41:
Seattle Sounders - MVP #6: 25k (WWW)
Gananda Bandits Rochester - MVP #3: 1 TP (WdW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 40:
D.C. United - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Philadelphia Union - MVP #8: 25k (wWW)
Vancouver FC - MVP #4: 1 CP (wdW)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #5: 25k (WwW)
Minnesota United - MVP #3: 1 TP (WwW)
I would say that 6th CP should just stay a CP unless someone has a conpelling argument that theirs needs to be changed to a TP. I think youth squads probably have plenty of TP to cover critical cases, and by this point of the season a CP and a TP are probably pretty similar in their effect (boosting an age 1 or 2)
NSS, Laredo and my Ice Whites have recently picked up their MVP #4 in their Youth team results.
Reward is a CP.
In the previous season managers had the option to keep the CP or have it amended to a TP - is this still the case? (I'd keep mine a CP atm)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 38:
FC Dallas - MVP #3: 1 TP (Www)
Reminder that the Dave Dowson Cup continues this Friday. Four teams (PHI, SJ, HOU, KC) still fighting for the winners bracket route to the final. Win the next 2 and one of those sides will be in the final. The remaining 8 sides in the losers bracket have the longer route in, having to navigate 4 wins in a row to reach the final.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 37:
Seattle Sounders - MVP #5: 25k (Wwd)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #3: 1 TP (DWw)
Philadelphia Union - MVP #7: 25k (dWW)
Columbus Rebels - MVP #5: 25k (dWW)
Gananda Bandits Rochester - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wwW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 36:
Colorado Ice White - MVP #4: 1 CP (DWw)
Laredo Heat - MVP #4: 1 CP (WwW)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #5: 25k (WDw)
COL/DC | CHA/POR | PHI/ATL | CLB/SEA | DAL/VAN | MIA/ROC | CHV/KC | CAR/MIN | HOU/SJ | |
SEA | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
SJ | - | - | 1 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | - |
ATL | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 2 | 0 | 0 | - |
Tight round, in this one, with SEA ending up on 7 points, 5 for SJ, and 2 for ATL. SJ with the big draw prediction for 4 points, but they needed one more correct pick to come top
For both trades and mid-season reviews. I'll give the weekend for any further mid-season reviews if anyone wants to do one!
CAR sends 125k to MIN for Frank Tankee (4/16 MA)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 35:
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #3: 1 TP (wDw)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #5: 25k (dWW)
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
If we can get 3+ entries I'll keep the prize there. Certainly don't want to win it as the only entry!
1-point predictions (2 points if successfully picking a draw):
2-point predictions (3 points if successfully picking a draw):
3-point predictions (4 points if successfully picking a draw):
1-point predictions (2 points if successfully picking a draw):
2-point predictions (3 points if successfully picking a draw):
3-point predictions (4 points if successfully picking a draw):
If we can get 3+ entries I'll keep the prize there. Certainly don't want to win it as the only entry!
1-point predictions (2 points if successfully picking a draw):
2-point predictions (3 points if successfully picking a draw):
3-point predictions (4 points if successfully picking a draw):
SJ sends 125k to MIN for Taumi Minamino (4/16 MF)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 34:
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Wwd)
Philadelphia Union - MVP #6: 25k (WDw)
Columbus Rebels - MVP #4: 1 CP (DwW)
I've put a couple of SL 16s on the list - remember there are free CPs for doing deals with SL16s but only 4 days left.. check them out..👍👍
We will start a series of polls until the end of the season to help decide a few details for the coming season and gather feedback from this season.
Have also added a CP for SJ and CAR for their trade from before. Remember up to 2 CP can be gained from trades as long as a player with SL 16 and up is involved. 4 days left until the window shuts!
Last day for mid-season reports for a CP is the same day. Get them in if interested!
Known issue that teams generally have too many players for Auctions to be that enticing for most. Hopefully should change as we are reducing promoted age 0 players from 4 to 3 at the end of this season. We'll see if Auctions become a more useful tool as that takes effect for a couple seasons
Rules are as follows:
This week's fixtures are below with their point values:
1-point predictions (2 points if successfully picking a draw):
2-point predictions (3 points if successfully picking a draw):
3-point predictions (4 points if successfully picking a draw):
Got to be in to win it - and the DF was always going to be mine!!
I need my DM to play more midfield so the lad had to come in..
Won't win me anything but will give the team a better balance.
Happy bunny.. 👍👍
Got to be IN IT, to WIN IT! ;-)
Most rosters already overflowing with players.
Last one for the season!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 33:
Colorado Rapids - MVP #6: 25k (WWw)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 32:
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #4: 1 CP (wwW)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #4: 1 CP (DwW)
Charleston Battery - MVP #3: 1 TP (DwW)
KC Athletics - MVP #3: 1 TP (WWw)
Colorado Ice White - MVP #3: 1 TP (DwW)
Daniel Island S.A. - MVP #3: 1 TP (WdW)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #4: 1 CP (wwW)
The next round for the DD Shield happens this Friday. All matches have been commented on with the stakes as to who they will play next. This can also be seen in the bracket on the front page.
Youth cup continues the Friday after that - the youth cup being just a straight knockout bracket.
Next round of the prediction league will be posted sometime after today's matches run so that they don't get buried my any MVP awards
SJ sends 185k to CAR for Geoff Hurst (4/17 MF)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 31:
Chivas USA - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWd)
Columbus Crew - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #3: 1 TP (DwW)
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #3: 1 TP (dWw)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 30:
Carson City Kickers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Well explained Andy, and as the brackets get filled up it will become clearer as we go.
Well worth trying a new format 👍👍👍
According to the rules page, top youth scorer gets an increase of 627 SL. Wow!
What a player he will be! :)
It has come time for our second cup of the season + our youth cup. Play-in rounds (due to our unusual number of clubs this season) start tomorrow!
The youth cup is a straightforward, single-elimination knockout. It has been seeded by standings at the mideay point in the season, so the prize for winning the play-in round is a matchup against 1st placed NSS or 2nd placed REB. The full bracket is on the front page
The DD Shield may be a bit more confusing at first, but I think it will be a fun format. Instead of splitting out a separate consolation cup as before, the tournament will be 'double-elimination' as seen in some American sports (like college baseball). Here, a loss will put you into the losers' bracket instead of completely knocking you out. A second loss will be what eliminates a team. I will do my best to post on match previews to let managers know the stakes.
*note that there are to exceptions to double-elimination. Play-in losers will be eliminated to make the bracket work, but they will get a consolation match against each other for some cash and EL. And, the winner of the 'winners bracket' will not get two chances in the final. If they lose the final they will be second place, despite having only lost once.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 29:
Savannah Celtic FC - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wwW)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through Participation Thru March 18th:
CLB(25) HOU(20) MIN(30) PHI(20)
The following teams receive League/Cup Reviewer through Reviews through MSA:
PHI(350)
And noted on the front page. Please let me know if I've missed one, but the updates were to PHI (x2), MIN, ATL, and DAL
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 28:
Seattle Sounders - MVP #4: 1 CP (wWd)
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
KC Athletics - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Lot 1 4/26 FW Alan Synson won by CLB for a low price of 242 will slot straight into the side to back up their 2×27 FW's,cracking buy
Lot 2 5/26 FW Neil Morton won by MIN for a low 242 adding more firepower to their line up and will enable more squad rotation.
Lot 3 6/24 FW Lothar won by KC for 1(yes 1) will add to the already amazing firepower of 6 FW's and good for a couple of seasons, deal of the day.
Lot 4 3/22 UT (these are about as common as hens teeth in OASL),so a lot of interest and Erc Dillard went to SEA for a lowly 396,amazing buy as he will fill any position and with some cp will become a long term fixture,cracking buy.
Lot 5 2/20WG Tony Daily went to DC for a lowly 87,a steal when you add some cp and he gives you that added edge upfront, another cracking buy.
Lot 6 2/18MF Tom Myers went to POR for 396,a decent buy and with some cp will become a 1st team regular rotating with the other 5 MF's in the POR line up.
Lot 7 6CP went to CAR for 632 about the average price this season.
Lot 8 5CP went to SEA for 508 again about the average price this season
Lot 9 3TP went to SJ for a lowly 122 ,a great deal at this time.
These are only Philadelphia's opinions on this auction ,you may not agree but it's there for you to see.
DAL sends 7 CP to ATL for 350k, Bill Stein (3/21 MF)
Final reminder!
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through Participation in poll - now closed:
ATL(10) CAR(10) CHA(10) COL(10) CLB(10) DC(10) DAL(10) KC(10) MIN(10) PHI(10) POR(10) SJ(10) SEA(10)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through Participation Thru March 11th:
HOU(20) MIN(20)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through Participation Thru March 4th:
ATL(15) CAR(15) COL(40) CLB(10) HOU(15) MIN(40) PHI(25) SJ(15)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 27:
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (dwW)
Philadelphia Union - MVP #5: 25k (wWw)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
Colorado Rapids - MVP #5: 25k (WdW)
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Wwd)
Laredo Heat - MVP #3: 1 TP (DwW)
Vancouver FC - MVP #3: 1 TP (WwD)
Well we started the season with a T11 of 23.9(joint 4th) and a T17 of 21.8(7th) and we looked to build on these and we have -now T11 is 28.2(1st) and a T17 of 24.6(1st) so happy with this,we now top the table after 17 games winning 13,drawing 2 and losing 2 scoring 56 and conceding 22 amassing 41 points.
We started the season poorly in the cup and exited ,so our focus was solely on the league after 3 seasons of building the side via our feeder team Roxborough Indians.This season our 4 apps have excelled with Julian Carranza heading the score charts with 14 goals and our 2 wingers Yamechuck and Sullivan both chipping in some goals.
Our 2 losses came at home to Chivas and away to Houston and our draws were at home to Portland and Columbus.
So with our current position we have only 1 thing in mind and that is the league title .
Our feeder team Roxborough Indians is developing our future stars for next season.
Believe the lad's name is Andy something or another. Don't know about other teams but he certainly went through my team's SLs with a scythe... You would think he would have been a bit more NICE having pinched the Al Sellers Cup - goodness knows what havoc he would have wrecked hqad he lost the Final... :-))))))
Onto the second half of the season!
The MIN mid season report card makes decent reading (as we were originally listed around 15th of 17 teams at the start), but read on.
In the AL Sellers Cup we won 4 of 6 group games then the Quarter Final v CHV. WE then lost 2-1 to SEA, and then won on pens v HOU to secure 3rd place and the $10m that goes with it. :-)
In the League we are in 5th place with 26 points but there are 8 teams between 27 and 24 points so we might not be there long. We have cash in the Bank and am hoarding my spare TPs as next season there will be some age 0/1 players up for grabs, I believe.
That's it I guess - who is next...???
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 26:
Houston Dynamo - MVP #3: 1 TP (dWw)
Reminder that we have a mid-week MSA this season! After today's cup matches I will go ahead and process MSA, and shortly after will get us set up for the season's second cup, which begins a week from Friday.
Thanks for asking for clarification!
Team mid-season report.
Is this a Journal entry or on the Team page?
Do senior teams get 30 free TP at the start of the season?
If so I have 11 for sale going cheap.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 25:
FC Dallas - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
Make sure to get your bids in!
Apologies to my opponents and competitiors for the SEA NMRs today. Certainly a bad look for the commish! Real life has been unusually nonstop this week, so certainly will not be a habit here.
In other news, I will get the second half of the season live into the schedules here before our next matches. Will alos post with details about upcoming MSA and our second cup structure!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 24:
Columbus Crew - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Daniel Island S.A. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 23:
Philadelphia Union - MVP #4: 1 CP (wWw)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWW)
Colorado Rapids - MVP #4: 1 CP (WwW)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #3: 1 TP (dWw)
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Gananda Bandits Rochester - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
👍👍👍😂😂😂
Same for us Dave, feel your pain. Penalties such a cruel mistress, but I guess still stops the England national team winning anything so can't complain.
Congrats to SEA for reaching the Final - we did fine getting to the Semis and even took the lead tonight.
But it wasn't to be so we will watch from the sidelines the Final next Monday. Boo hiss!! 😂😂😂😂
Thank you to all 8 teams that entered in the inagural week! I'm glad to see that so many of you gave it a shot.
I apologize for messing up one team's abbreviation in the list of matchups - CLB seems to have been mislabeled as COL. Looking at the entries, I believe most teams kept this straight, but if not please let me know and I can make an adjustment to scoring.
Our first winner by a large margin is Jason at CAR! Picking the 5 of the 6 highest point matches was a winning strategy for him, especially as he was able to successfully predict the two 3-point matchups (including the draw for 4 points!). Runner up is MIN, whose also predicted 3 matches correctly, but with one of them being an 'easier' 1-point prediction.
PHI/DAL | POR/COL | MIN/DC | VAN/CAR | MIA/HOU | ROC/CLB | SEA/CHV | SJ/CHA | KC/ATL | ||
Results -> | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |
Entries: | POINTS | |||||||||
SEA | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||
PHI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
MIN | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 7 | ||||
CAR | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | ||||
ATL | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||
COL | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | ||||
HOU | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | ||||
SJ | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
The following teams receive Prediction League through :
CAR(100) MIN(50)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 21:
Houston Dynamo - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wwW)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWw)
Columbus Rebels - MVP #3: 1 TP (DwW)
Take the bottom 5 andrew
Away sea fishing at present and wont be home till monday
Cheers Rob
Hectic Friday here! Apologies for the rushed nature of this week in OASL.
1-point predictions (2 points if successfully picking a draw):
2-point predictions (3 points if successfully picking a draw):
3-point predictions (4 points if successfully picking a draw):
Can't tell fi being in the 2 point predictions means it's easy tor people to guess that we'll get beaten or not.....
1-point predictions (2 points if successfully picking a draw):
2-point predictions (3 points if successfully picking a draw):
3-point predictions (4 points if successfully picking a draw):
COLORADO predictions
2-point predictions (3 points if successfully picking a draw):
3-point predictions (4 points if successfully picking a draw):
I think you're only supposed to predict 5 results.
1-point predictions (2 points if successfully picking a draw):
2-point predictions (3 points if successfully picking a draw):
3-point predictions (4 points if successfully picking a draw):
1-point predictions (2 points if successfully picking a draw):
2-point predictions (3 points if successfully picking a draw):
3-point predictions (4 points if successfully picking a draw):
Will take a bit getting used to, but certainly worth a shot..
1-point predictions (2 points if successfully picking a draw):
2-point predictions (3 points if successfully picking a draw):
3-point predictions (4 points if successfully picking a draw):
PHI DAL 1
POR COL 2
MIN DC 1
VAN CAR 3
MIA HOU 3
ROC COL 1
SEA CHV 2
SJ CHA 2
KC ATL 2
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 20:
Seattle Sounders - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wwD)
Laredo Heat - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
Easiest 10k you'll ever earn!
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through Participation Thru Feb 25th:
COL(20) CLB(30) MIN(20)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through Participation Thru Feb 18th:
COL(20) MIN(50)
1-point predictions (2 points if successfully picking a draw):
2-point predictions (3 points if successfully picking a draw):
3-point predictions (4 points if successfully picking a draw):
Apologies, the ordering of the fixtures made prediction hard before. Please use this template:
1-point predictions (2 points if successfully picking a draw):
2-point predictions (3 points if successfully picking a draw):
3-point predictions (4 points if successfully picking a draw):
Time for the first prediction week of the prediction league! This will be a test run, since we have both short notice and have not done this before. However, there will still be a prize of 100k to the winner and 50k to second place, with a tie at the top splitting the 150k total between however many players tie.
The goal here is to make the prediction league a bit more of a gamble by making you pick 5 matches to predict! If some strategy becomes overly easy to game we can always make tweaks later.
Rules are as follows:
This week's fixtures are below with their point values:
1-point predictions (2 points if successfully picking a draw):
2-point predictions (3 points if successfully picking a draw):
3-point predictions (4 points if successfully picking a draw):
ATL sends 300k to DC for 4 TP
I was coming on here to apologise for my NMR - only to find I didn't have a game anyway.
Running today. Semifinals will take place next Monday. A random draw for the semifinals will take place after the matches today.
I will also post the first prediction league matchups either after work today or sometime tomorrow, along with a set of rules for participating.
I don't think the factor is higher, but I will dig around to see what I can find. Agree that SEA has been also having players injured randomly at a consistent rate the past few weeks, but might just be a coincidence
I haven't noticed that OASL is more injury prone than SESL or SANC.
We do seem to remember the injuries more if they knock our team management plans.
But then the Crew just faced FC Dallas with 5 'a' players and the Crew came out injury free.
Is the injury factor higher than standard here? Might just be one of those things and I haven't checked other teams but my teams seem to get more injuries than in the other two leagues.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 18:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (dWw)
Daniel Island S.A. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWw)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 17:
Chivas USA - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Minnesota United - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Colorado Ice White - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWw)
9th equal now - but likely to rise higher after next game.. 🤔🤔
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 16:
Vancouver Whitecaps - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WDw)
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
My Youth team is 6th= of all teams for goals scored in the league and 3rd best in goal difference.
Certainly have noticed that trend as well, David. My best guess is that the youth setup makes goals come at a real premium:
NSS have had 5 wins by a single goal, a few of those 1-0, where the hope is just to get ahead in any fashion and then the poor shooting skills of youth players takes over to preserve the lead.
There were 42 goals scored by the senior teams yesterday in 9 matches, whilst the youths could only manage 18 in their 9 games..👍🤔
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 15:
Colorado Rapids - MVP #3: 1 TP (Wwd)
Philadelphia Union - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWw)
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWW)
Vancouver FC - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (dWW)
Columbus Rebels - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWw)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
One week until Auction #3. Note that we will have 5 this season, with dates noted on the front page.
Also of note, I want to introduce a prediction league to OASL if there is interest, and have posted a poll about it. Please let me know your thoughts! I am envisioning a version with an aspect of risk-taking to it:
I know folks don't have a ton of time for it, so perhaps we would do one every two weeks or so.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 14:
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #3: 1 TP (wDw)
Laredo Heat - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWw)
First batch of bonus participation CP have just been added to team accounts. Progress for your team can be tracked on the front page. Rembmer, even making some trades can be an easy way to grab a couple extra free CP for your season.
Thanks for the suggestion, Mike - I have changed the block to only limit trading in the 12 hours before matches. This should be especially helpful with the 3 matches per week.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through Participation Thru Feb 11th:
ATL(50) MIN(50) PHI(50) ROC(20)
QF pairings are now live for Matchday 19. Big thanks to Andy at SJ and Rob at PHI for the help with drawing matchups. Matchups are:
Match 19 will be Monday, the 27th of this month.
Orders put in with 4 minutes to spare.
I keep forgetting we have 3 matches per week.
Just about had time to copy orders from the previous matches and swap out low EL players
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 13:
Charleston Battery - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWw)
KC Athletics - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Colorado Ice White - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 12:
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDw)
Savannah Celtic FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWw)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
SEA sends Tycho Van Donk (3/23 MA) to POR for 300k, Sil Marillion (3/19 DF)
MIN sends 100k, Norman Clegg (4/19 DF) to SEA for Frank Tankee (4/19 MA)
ROC sends 2 CP to MIN for Abel Brown (2/15 FW)
ROC sends 2 CP to MIN for Curtis Jones (3/18 FW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 11:
Philadelphia Union - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
FC Dallas - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Mount Tabor Portland - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Most rosters are near capacity. Few need players so few trading.
Open trade window quicker - "No trades allowed within 24 hours of next match."
Your choice of two MAs available for trade - can also throw in other players if needed. Open to any DF that will be usable even after MSA this year. Happy to negotiate towards something that works for both sides.
Remember, trades can help get you extra CP with regards to the new participation bonuses! (see front page, halfway down, for details)
LOT 1: 4/26 DF
612k seems a fair price for a strong defender that will be useful for about 1 to 1.5 seasons. The price especially makes sense for winners DAL who see the player immediately move into their top defensive line, replaces a SL14. Huge improvement for the side, and money well spent. Runners up MIN would have gotten similar use out of the player, but their alternatives are just a little stronger. They could have had the player for 667k, but perhaps that would have been an overspend for them.
LOT 2: 5/25 SW
DAL again swoop in for another defensive player, this time beating SJ to the punch. Again, this player will slot right into their starting lineup and should be good for about a season. 502k a fair price here, as the age, SL, and position are all slight downgrades from the player above. SJ would have just needed the player for T-17 improvement, as he would have soon been out of their starting 11 there. Another shrewd buy to help shape DAL into a contender.
LOT 3: 6/23 FW
212k for a player that not many managers want - only two bids came in for this lad. With good reason, it would seem, as a SL23 that will age pretty poorly is not going to be a game winner for many matches. 212k is probably fair for this player, but I don't see him having a huge impact on the VAN lineup. The price tag was low, but so too should be the impact of this player.
LOT 4: 3/22 FW
209k looks a lot better on this player in comparison. At age 3, this player could take some CP if DAL have them free, but even if not he should serve as a good backup attacker for a while. Ageing should be more favorable compared to lot 3, and somehow DAL have won 3 of the top 4 lots. Their lineup is starting to look drastically different, all while they have already started the league campaign off very hot.
LOT 5: 2/18 DF
Great price for SJ at 200k - low SL, low age DFs can be great value, as even a SL18 player can play a big role at defense. Even some limited CP can go a long way here, even if the player is kept around SL 20 or 25. The player is currently their 7th DF, but that can be useful if they plan to play aggressive tactics or sometimes play more than 4 DF.
LOT 6: 2/17 MF
The forgotten man! Received two bids, but due to SJ and VAN winning lots above, both had their bids invalidated. SJ reached their max number of players, while VAN intentionally set the same name for player bids in order to avoid buying too many. This lad could have been purchased for just 1k!
LOT 7: 6 TP
92k per. These may be extra for the current season, but should provide good value for the money by next year. A reminder that next season will see only 3 youth players promoted and the return of age 1 players to auctions...so, TP could be more valuable next year as teams can end up with additional youth players from the auction! With that said, price seems a bit high for TP in my opinion.
LOT 8: 5 CP
501k, or 100k each. Right on par with the expectation of where CP fall, this should go a long way towards helping DC rebuild. No such thing as too many CP
LOT 9: 3 CP
301k or 100k each. Same as above, though SJ bid 501k, meaning that someone could have pushed them up as high as 167k per CP! They'll be thankful to get them at the more reasonable rate, instead.
In summary, still some good bargains to be had here. The high SL players seem at the most demand. DAL were the superstars of the auciton, winning 3 players that might really transform their squad.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through Participation Thru Feb 4th:
DC(10) MIN(50) PHI(30)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 10:
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
Chivas USA - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Minnesota United - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Some high-flying offenses out there this session!
...corrected. Please make sure to double check in the future!
The following teams receive Adjustment through Feb 4 Auction Correction:
DCC(556) DC(-556)
Sorry was on phone and forgot what team I was in was meant to make bid from DC United
Remember Youth teams can't enter any auctions..... just saying... :-)
Remember to get your bids in! I'll be aiming to do an auction review after as an example to kick off the new participation bonuses
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 9:
Columbus Rebels - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Vancouver FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Wdw)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 8:
Seattle Sounders - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Philadelphia Union - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
Charleston Battery - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Thanks for the question, David. Right now we are due to split into divisions at the end of the season just by top half/bottom half. However, I will give it some thought to see if we need to do anything more interesting. I would want to have that settled well in advance, so I will post here and on the front page if I settle on something different. Thanks for the idea, as well!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 7:
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWW)
Just saying - if somebody knows somebody who would like to become a valued manager in this game, just in box me - there may be a spot for him.... (not at MIN I may say).
NIce innovation of Andy's who saw that coming. Winning CPs will involve some participation, whether in trading or reviews, and participation gives the game life.
My question is, for Andy, what is due to happen next season?
If the 18 teams split to 2 divisions will all teams 10 and down be relegated, OR could the teams be put into an "east" and "west" set up (teams finishing say 1,4,5,8,9,12,13,16,17 in one and 2,3,6,7,10,11,14,15,18 in the other, with the top 5 in each forming the new 1st division - the rest the 2nd.
Just maybe we need to know what we are playing for towards the end of the season....??
But, for now, you are doing a grand job, Andy, - just put the brown envelope in the usual place, eh? :-)
Bonus | Notes | Teams Completed |
Auction Preview | In blog, at least 24 hrs before | |
Auction Review | In blog, within 5 days of auct. | |
Team Mid-Season Report | Update and preview 2nd half, written between GW 22-36 | |
Cup Round Preview | In blog | |
Make 1st Trade | Must include 1 player SL >15, no straight swaps | |
Make 2nd Trade | Same as above |
FREE CP FOR BEING ACTIVE!
Introducing a new way to get up to 6 free CP this season! They can be found in a new section on the front page, just below the proposed schedule for the season.
How does it work?
Each manager can, once per season, write an auction preview, auction review, mid-season team report, or cup round preview to not only earn participation cash, but also get a bonus of 1 CP! Please make sure that you only do one of these per week, so they can easily be spaced out across the season whenever you have time to contribute. Don't worry if another manager has already previewed the particular auction - having multiple perspectives can always be interesting. If you have any questions about formats of a preview, review, or whatever feel free to send me any questions by inbox (or better yet, post the to the blog!).
Writing not your thing? Don't worry, two of the six CP can also be achieved simply by getting active with trades! Please make sure that the trade involves a playable players (SL > 15 before PSA, >12 after PSA) and is done in good faith. The commish reserves the right to not pay out for trades done just to get some CP (e.g. swapping identical players or trading players back after a couple weeks)!
Please let me know if I've missed any important details or you have any questions or feedback. Since this is the first time we're doing this, I'm sure there will be some room for improvement along the way.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through Participation Thru Jan 28th:
COL(25) CLB(25) MIN(50) PHI(25) SJ(25)
Roy, no problems -teams were allowed to retire players down to 21 around 2-3 seasons ago BR (Before Robin).
The youth academy kicks off on Monday
And I'm happy to see tradition has kept our Colorado Ice Whites facing rivals De Anza Force for the first game of the season.
Only one question - none of the squads have 25 players - will the system let the games play? Previous commishioners have been adamant that the youth squads have no more or less than 25 players
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 6:
Colorado Rapids - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wdW)
Reminder that the top 2 from each group will be progressing to the Quarterfinals - meaning that group A and group C both have a place to be contested in the final matches. Quarterfinals will take place in GW19, so clubs already qualified/knocked out can focus on the big stretch of league matches upcoming.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 5:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Glad to see the teams of DAL and POR take the field in 2 friendlies this week. At least they get to train up a few lads, and their wait for meaningful league games ends on Monmday cioming. Personally I like the midweek games - leaving the weekend alone. 3 games a week gives little time for any trading but there isn't much in OASL anyway - lets see if we can't boost it up somewhat... :-)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through Participation Thru Jan 21st:
CHA(20) CHV(40) COL(20) CLB(30) KC(20) MIA(40) MIN(50) PHI(50) SJ(10)
The following teams receive Adjustment through Jan 23 2023 Balancing for Missing Cup Matches:
DAL(82) POR(82)
FC Dallas and Portland will play two friendlies later this week - managers involved will also receive an email to make sure they are aware of the opportunity to train up some players.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 4:
Houston Dynamo - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWD)
Philadelphia Union are proud to announce the signing of experienced SW Sam Stejskal from New York,coach rob stated he is the ideal player to bolster the defence at Philly and his experience in New York stands him in good stead,he will debut in our next match wearing the no 22,we hope he settles in quickly and Philly have a good solid season.
Not sure we'll manage to acquire any players in the Auction given the state of the Rapids' coffers but I've put a couple of bids in
...in 10 hours. Please get your bids in! We have just under half of the clubs participating at this point, so I would expect most teams have a shot at a player or some resources if they decide to join in.
First payout round is out! One more week to update bios for the free 100k - please make sure that your update is labeled as season 30. No need to post, as I will check all teams for the final payout next weekend.
The following teams receive Adjustment through Jan 21 Revenue for Missing Cup Matches 1-3:
DAL(245) POR(245)
The following teams receive Adjustment through Jan 20 Poll Participation:
ATL(10) CDY(10) CHA(10) CHV(10) COL(10) CLB(10) DC(10) KC(10) MIA(10) MIN(10) PHI(10) POR(10) ROC(10) SJ(10) SEA(10)
Senior squads should have a minimum of 6 matches in the first cup, 34 league matches, and 2 matches in the second cup. That's a minimum of 42 matches in total.
Youth squads should have a minimum of 34 league matches and 1 cup match for 35 total.
The following teams receive Bio & Team Updates through :
CHV(100) CLB(100) MIA(100) MIN(100) PHI(100) ROC(100) SJ(100) SEA(100)
I realise we'll be playing 34 league games and 6 Al Sellers Cup games but what about the other cup and Youth fixtures?
I like to use all my CP and TP slots early then 1 per match until the end of the season, especially in a rebuilding season.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 3:
Colorado Rapids - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
For those who haven't noticed because your team is already full of superstars. There is an auction tomorrow (21st). So far only 3 teams in with bids, soon to be 4 with mine. So good chance of a bargain. Or probably less of a chance now :)
San Jose Earthquakes all done.
And 15 of 16 teams are already in - and James will have his in before the deadline, I'm sure..👍👍
We have the same thing. Seems that the manager is unable to find new names and goes back every time to the same names creating a lot of frustration for himself.
Justin Swanson would be a great name for one of the two Wilfid Miles we have in our team.
Thank you and apologies for the inconvenience.
I wouldn't let you down David !!
Can you do me a favour please I seem to have two players with the same name which is confusing my little brain when doing lineups , could one of my Bo Bobbys be renamed to Jo Zobby. or whatever you want.
Thanks
And 15 of 16 teams are already in - and James will have his in before the deadline, I'm sure..👍👍
Bio and About updated.
Good stuff lads, all in on time for tonight's opener. Interesting to see how it pans out but just pleased to see the game up and back to virtual normal.
A few games in and it will be second nature to us.
Enjoy the evening, just remember all your games are midweek, the next one Wednesday..👍👍
I thought I did it...but now I am sure...
All updated. Scandals galore with the players in there. Not really wish we could get some Red Top Rag type headlines randomly against some top players in the Blogs :)
CHV Striker Weed Caught Taking his Own Name
Good point about the friendlies between POL and DAL - I've put that into my poll vote..:-)
2 x friendlies - during games 2 and 4, allowing every player to be max EL10 for the 1st leagu matches even though the rest of us won't be at full EL10.
NOW, Simon, what about your team line for tomorrow's game (you, Jason and Bryce).
I saw I did not do that before, but did it now.
Goodluck to you all. Let's hope we get this competition up and running. The pre-season already showed some good activity.
With regards to the Poll, could they not play against eachother in a friendly game? This way they can use their CP/TP's as well.
A further 11 SL removed from SEA T-11, which should move us down to middle of the pack of the 13 established clubs from last season (guessing this takes us to around 23.9 or so for T-11, down from around 25.9). Should restore some balance after a season or two of SEA feasting on many low-participation auctions.
RE: Schedule - we are going with 3x per week, Mon, Wed, Fri for this season, and only this season. Apologies, this was finalized while I was out and it had slipped my notice that it was not announced. The main value we will see here is that this season will take a bit less time to complete as we iron out the kinks. This will be a weird season no matter what, given all of the manual editing we have had to do to revive dead teams and restore competitive balance, so a quicker season should get us to stability a bit faster. We are currently in the editing phase of the full, finalized schedule, so hopefully we can post and schedule the rest of the season soon.
Participation bonuses for the off-season were rather generous. I was hoping to have a new system in place by now, but it will still require a bit of work to refine before being announced. So, for the meantime, please note that blogs and journals will earn you up to 50k each week,with the participation week being from Sunday to Saturday (note that this is a change from before). Percentage of the 50k earned will be a judgment call based on number and effort of posts. Our future system will be better defined, I promise
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through Participation Thru Jan 14th:
CHV(50) CLB(50) DC(50) MIN(50) POR(50) ROC(50)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through Participation Thru Jan 7th:
CHA(50) COL(50) CLB(50) MIA(50) MIN(50)
Are we going with a Mon/Wed/Fri schedule then or is this just for the cup?
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through Jan 15 2023 for previous poll participation:
ROC(10)
The following teams receive Adjustment through Jan 15 2023 for balancing:
MIN(-2000)
1st game in the new season is on Monday - this afternoon 5 teams still had to put their first team lined in.
Don't start with an NMR - that's all I am saying. 😃😃
Answers are that when it was likely POR and DAL wouldn't have managers the cup was drawn without them.
both teams have been informed about it and both seem okay with it.
MIN's balance was due to Robin running them as an nmR team the whole season hence their results and monies, but Andy us on to it - it will be cut by at least 3k so I am told 🤡🤡
1. As there are now 18 teams whatbiss happening with the Al Sellers Cup? 16 teams have been drawn into 4 teams of 4 with matches assigned so what's going off with Portland and Dalllas?
2. Is Minnesota's CP/cash correct? I realise CP might have built up through team neglect but just wanted to make sure.
NSS sends Olexiy Sokolov (1/18 MA) to SEA for
NSS sends Neil Kerr (1/17 DF), Mihn Tran (1/18 MF), Bryn Howell (1/18 WG) to SEA for
Brilliant!! Everybody has completed their pre season - thanks for that.. and the last youth players to be allocated to their senior team will be done today.
Andy us excited to be so near a start of the season, which will go like a blur for the first season with 3 games a week. This is being done as their will be an EPL style 38 games league.
Am guessing next season divisions will increased, with smaller sizes and less league games, and less matches per week. That for Andy to consider soon enough.
Now you just need to do Bios updates (season 30 remember) and put that to bed soonest / done mine, how sad is that??? 😃😃
As David mentioned, a bio update for the season will earn you a cool 100k to start of the season right and buffer the accounts before our first auction. Please note 'Season 30' at the start of the update so that I see it when I check. First payouts will be on Jan 20 to get the money in before the auction. Second and final chance for cash will be the following week on Jan 27th. Please try to put a little effort in to make them interesting for others, whether they are about you personally or even something such as your favorite football club and how they are doing.
Other minor note, participation will begin paying out this coming week. As David promised a couple weeks back, there will be a payout for this pre-season activity.
Apologies. CHV pre-season now completed. Looking forward to the new season.
Apologies. CHV pre-season now completed. Looking forward to the new season.
Thanks to the lads who are now ready for Monday's KO.
Now only 4 teams left to complete pre season:
ATL, CAR, CHV, and SEA
Over to you lads - I've done my bit - all of you who took part in the Poll have got your 10k - spend it wisely.. 💰💰
Well, we're back. Part 2.
Thanks for the CEO's invitation.
This willl be the main team, but we want to improve the youth team. So, we'll see. Perhaps Rhino's fan will understand that.
Profound changes are coming, also.
Anyway, Rochester will have to put up with us for a while, but always keeping two premises in mind.
First: Achieve excellence.
Second: France!
Did I make myself clear? (Muchaaaachoooosss!)
Well, we're back.
We return to this league after several seasons taking advantage of, and thanking, the CEO's invitation.
We have no idea what state the equipment is in, nor the facilities, nor even if the franchise chef knows how to cook B-B-Qs.
We got to the main office today and there wasn't even a latte on the table.
Profound changes are coming.
We only lack the main thing: money.
Anyway, Rochester will have to put up with us for a while, but always keeping two premises in mind.
First: Achieve excellence.
Second: France!
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through Poll involvement - 10th January - now closed.:
ATL(10) CAR(10) CHA(10) CHV(10) COL(10) CLB(10) DC(10) HOU(10) KC(10) MIA(10) MIN(10) PHI(10) SJ(10) SEA(10) VAN(10)
Hi all
Derek Purvis is returning as Manager Portland Timbers
I look forward to the new season
Good luck to all managers
Derek
Now down to 7 of 18 teams needing to do pre season, please.
I'll update each morning - tomorrow I'll list any teams.outstanding - let's start next Monday's Cup ties all up to date, eh?
Then Andy will ask for Bios updates (so you get extra cash early on). But that can wait a week or so.
Clubs who responded to the Poll Andy put up will get their 10k today..💰
D.C United today announced that Matthew White has been appointed as manager of the team.
White was long term manager of Washington before take a break from the league he has been appointed for the up coming season and will have his contract extended if he proved successful.
DCC sends Robin Olsen (1/17 GK), Hans Smitt (1/18 DF), Danny Ings (1/18 FW) to DC for
Gents, we are go for next Monday for an exciting "new" beginning to OASL.
9 of the starting 18 teams have done their preseason - thanks - now can the remaining teams do theirs this week soonest please?
Be nice to check every team by say Thursday and know we are 100% ready, eh?
Anybody struggling just shout - I will get it done for you - at no charge..😂😂😂😂😂
PS mother and heir to the Foss-Grant riches are doing well - not sure about dad - still celebrating I believe. 🥃🥃🥃
GBS sends Roland Jones (1/18 FW) to ROC for
GBS sends Dustin Crum (1/18 SW), Jody Fortson (1/18 DF), Jerick McKinnon (1/17 DF) to ROC for
To answer the question below (I think I meant to call this out at the time, but forgot): for any youth teams that were dead last season and had basically no cash, the senior teams were awarded the minimum cash balance transfered by an active team without penalty to the youth squad. Basically this was used as a very minor cash balancing for teams that had zero matches scheduled last year. If you see anything further off from that let me know. Since it was the minimum active team transfer, I figured it to be a safe catch-up mechanism, but please feel free to reach out if you think it too grossly unfair. Thanks!
Should be back here active in another day or two. A million thanks to everyone who has helped out in my stead, especially David and Mark who put in many hours of hard work that I had to dump onto them. It is much appreciated, gents.
And thanks, Simon! Certainly been an eventful week over here!
DIS sends Henrik Larsson (1/18 FW) to CHA for
DIS sends Igor Svenssen (1/19 GK), Oleg Skarsgaard (1/18 DF), Claus Michaelsson (1/18 MA) to CHA for
It's actually my old FRR pic that I managed to download off the site.
Senior team photo uploaded. Just need to find a junior one now
I found the blog post about the transfer of cash so in fairness (and everyone who knows me in these games knows I will point out errors even if it makes things worse for me) I'll point out that:
5 senior teams received 636k. Two, DAL and POR, are no longer in the league. CCK lost 636k and their parent team is CHV which received 636k.
That leaves CLB and DC which received 636k but neither REB nor DCC lost any cash. Also REB only have 1158k or so and DCC I'm nor sure.
Sent my requests for promotion to senior, and my new youth names.
My youth team (DIS) has a stray Peter Beardsley appeared.
Peter Beardsley | FW | 0 | 7 | 10 | 0 |
Roy is correct about half the monies being transferred to the senior cream and I've written to Andy asking his intentions about the 5CPS Robin brought in - I quite liked the 5CPS to be used on 1 age 2+ player, and usually all youth teams got made up to 60TPs as we all have 8 age 0 and 1 players.
Watch this space......🎅🎅
Half the youth team finances were transferred on 28th December as usual. Whether this continues for future seasons I don't know. TP is awarded by the commissioner as normal. The 5 CP rule was added by Robin a couple of seasons ago.
I'm not sure what AFG plans to do with the youth set up going forward.
It's been a while since I played here so don't know what rules might have changed.
Do youth teams still send cash to the senior teams?
And if not can youth teams buy TP and/or CP pre-season?
Sorry, I dropped the ball a little. I'll sort mine out by Saturday latest
So only CHA, DC, ROC, and SEA left to put youths in and promote their young ones to the senior team.
Had a few problems with some teams having to many players once I added their new ones, but hopefully that is 14 teams with updated rosters now... Lot of work so looking forward to the holiday Andy promised me....:-)
SCF sends Michael Eddington (1/18 FW) to ATL for
SCF sends Johnathan Archer (1/17 SW), Reginald Barclay (1/17 DF), Brad Boimle (1/17 DM) to ATL for
REB sends Mark Blair (1/17 DF), Peter Wright (1/18 MF), Trevor Francis (1/19 MA) to CLB for
TDL sends Leo Fortune-West (1/16 FW) to DAL for
TDL sends Simon Royce (1/16 GK), James Sharp (1/16 DF), Baldur Bett (1/16 MF) to DAL for
HOU sends to LHT for Kevin James (1/18 FW)
Steve, teams were allowed to put their youths down to 22 (believe 21, as at the time 4 lads would be promoted - now it is 3 or 4). If you want more than 22 Mark says he can assist - they won't be world beaters but would give extra options for selection.
I will inbox you with your youths now if you can return asap please with names and positions, along with the youth you want changed to a MPP - unless you say otherwise I will promote all your age 1 lads. Thanks. 👍👍
Some of us were asked to wait before submitting orders. I've checked both inboxes and haven't been told the level of my Youth players.
Also the Rebels only have 17 players so when we get 8 new ones and transfer the 3 age 1s we will be down to 22. I'm not sure if that's allowed.
MTS sends Mike Hollis (1/17 MF) to POR for
MTS sends Tom Mabon (1/17 DF), Ben Byrd (1/17 DF), Sam Bray (1/17 MF) to POR for
Gents, that is 10 teams youths put in and age 1s transferred to the senior squads (3 or 4 as requested).
NOW, in order to do that I have had to retire some of your senior lads to let the youths in, and some of your youiths to let in the 8 new lads. Let me know if I retired the wrong one(s) but I have tried to be fair - without them some transfers didn't go through 1st, 2nd, and sometimes 3rd time.
So if I could get the lads missing that would help - 10 is a fair start but 6 to come at least.
ATL, CHA, CLB, D.C., ROC, and when the new dad comes up for air, SEA Congrats to Andy - mine is a whisky and coke... :-)
Thanks..
CIW sends Helmut Koglberger (1/18 FW) to COL for
CIW sends Samson Baidoo (1/17 DF), Patrick Wimmer (1/17 MA), Hannes Wolf (1/17 WG) to COL for
CDY sends Joe Gubbins (1/19 DF), Jason Demetriou (1/19 MA), Sam Dalby (1/18 FW) to CAR for
KCA sends Alexis Alex (1/17 FW) to KC for
KCA sends Julie Jules (1/17 SW), Debbie Debs (1/17 DF), Bo Bobby (1/17 WG) to KC for
RIS sends Brandon Craig (1/18 MF) to PHI for
RIS sends Nathan Hamiel (1/18 DF), Anthony Sorenson (1/18 DM), Julian Carranza (1/19 FW) to PHI for
CCK sends Del Honey (1/18 MF) to CHV for
CCK sends Tree Trunk (1/17 DF), Bill Knot (1/18 DM), Barry Cornhill (1/17 DF) to CHV for
RFC sends Larry Cando (1/18 SD), Wilfid Miles (1/18 MF), Lance Rozeboom (1/16 WG) to MIA for
LHT sends James Roche (1/17 GK), Greg Blythe (1/17 DM), Will Murphy (1/18 WG) to HOU for
DAF sends Kevin Keegan (1/18 FW) to SJ for
DAF sends Terry Butcher (1/18 DF), Trevor Brooking (1/18 DM), Steve Coppell (1/18 WG) to SJ for
VCC sends Richard Gough (1/18 DF), Ryan Gauld (1/19 MF), Kris Boyd (1/19 FW) to VAN for
GOG sends Karl Trent (1/18 MF), Pete Tong (1/17 MF), Harvey Elliot (1/16 WG) to MIN for
Gents, Mark and myself are helping Andy to get set up while he sits in the hospital drinking coffee and working out new born baby names....
I am majoring on the Youths, and so far I have downloaded new youth players for the following Clubs:
CDY, CCK, CIW, LH, KCA, RFC, RIS, DAF.
Can I ask that ATL, CHA, ROC, SEA, send in their completed wish listsfor their Youths to me @ MIN in box asap please? You all have Andy's in box message giving you your youths abilities.
MIN, DC, DAL, POR, and VAN will still be outstanding till their youth abilities are settled but we can move on with the above.
Remember your age 1s are being promoted so remember to name one of them as a MPP, or he won't get it later. (if it means you go above 5 MPPs, then give a name for one senior lad to be demoted.)
I assume the baby is born, hope everything went well.
Hi all,
Due to some unforeseen schedule changes (early baby arrival), I will be less able to complete preseason prep this week. In my stead, David B and Mark C will help get things going here. Please be patient as we may experience some delays or modifications along the way.
Thanks,
Andy
to you as well David.
And of course to all the other managers around here.
Hope this will be a great season for you all.
To all players in OASL - just noticed MIN (even with adjustments) ranks 16th but that's fine - my youth bunch are better organised to make a decent fist of the new season, and I still have the age 1 lads to promote (at the same time retiring lads who are older than me....) 😂😂
Tbh I am fine with it for this season to keep things moving (and Tues/Thurs/Sat is good for me too) but think the majority of lads would prefer a 2 game one after this season. I know I am a busy lad so would like to slip back into my comfort zone.
But this season it is fine .....👍👍
The following teams receive Adjustment through Dec 28 2022 Adj For Youth Transfer:
ATL(861) CDY(-1108) CAR(1108) CCK(-636) CHA(750) CHV(636) CIW(-902) COL(902) CLB(636) DC(636) DIS(-750) DAF(-1085) DAL(636) GBS(-966) GOG(-1152) HOU(786) KC(891) KCA(-891) LHT(-786) MIA(997) MIN(1152) NSS(-1112) PHI(1141) POR(636) RFC(-977) ROC(966) RIS(-1141) SJ(1085) SCF(-861) SEA(1112) VCC(-1444) VAN(1444)
Please note that the poll is just regarding a one-season trial of three matches per week. Any following seasons are still planned to be 2 matches per week unless the trial (if it happens) is a smash hit and managers are knocking down my door asking for it to be made permanent. That decision would only be made after any such trial with input from managers.
Curious about days of the week for matches. Please see poll for details. Poll participation will include a 10k cash bonus when noted on the poll.
Gentlemen,
Preseason is now open - IF you are managing a team that played last season, please feel free to complete your preseason. There will be no change to captain rules, CP/TP costs, or number of promoted players (choose 3 or 4) for this season. These will be changing, but at the end up the coming season.
HOWEVER, if you are managing SEA, MIN, CLB, DC, DAL, or POR please refrain from completing your preseason orders until your teams have been re-balanced up or down.
I will also send out instructions asking for youth players to promote to senior sides via your inbox. Please complete them in the next week, and I will follow up with anyone missing at that point. Our proposed season start will be Sunday, January 8th. This will get pushed back a week if we have delays either wrangling managers or issues with new commissioner errors, so be prepared if it needs to get moved to the 15th.
Rule changes (will be added to an updated wiki over the coming weeks and put on front page for this season):
Gents, Andy has agreed for managers to start earning money for their teams with blogging (would suggest journals after the start of the new season when we know each teams makeup).
then there will be more money for bios updates - again after the new season has been set up. 💰💰💰
Merry Christmas to all from Philadelphia Union and Roxbrough Indians
Well, that was a quick holiday - but now the set up is under new "ownership" I am happy to return to assist Andy get the ship back in order. Mark is here too so we have the brains of the operation on our side too. Did I mention Steve is back too? No, well, I have now!
Andy has some ideas and he has the survey returns from a lot of you, so going forward it seems OASL will prosper. Please give him your help if needed - he hasn't a lot of experience setting up the game, that will come this season, but don't give him many more points - he has enjoyed far too good a season as it is. :-)
I fancy staying in the background helping if asked or needed,
I have added last season's teams earnings as I saw them - any queries just ask - it will be my fault, but it can be rectified. I have still to add the top scorers and keeper SLs but they get added once the new season has opened for business - I won't forget (Golden Boot in the League, Golden Gloves in the League, and then Young Boot and Young Keeper in the League, and the Young Boot and Young Keeper in the Youths - all in hand...)
Onwards and Upwards....!!!!.
The following teams receive Awards through 24th Dec - League and Cup Earnings....:
ATL(250) CDY(200) CAR(650) CCK(200) CHA(300) CHV(700) CIW(200) COL(400) CLB(200) REB(200) DC(200) DIS(200) DAF(200) DAL(200) GBS(240) GOG(200) HOU(600) KC(380) KCA(200) LFC(300) LHT(220) MIA(320) MIN(250) MTS(200) NSS(260) PHI(340) POR(200) RFC(200) ROC(360) RIS(280) SJ(280) SCF(200) SEA(1350) TDL(200) VAN(260) WDP(200)
The following teams receive League/Cup Reviewer through Rob Lye - Monies due..:
PHI(450)
Welcome to Mark ,Steve and David from all at Philadelphia and Roxborough looking forward to playing you all again
Cheers Rob
Also, apologies to all three managers below for the very tepid re-introductions that lack the appropriate gravitas due to each one of you for your impact through the years here! I'll let each one of you wax poetic about yourselves in your bios instead to make up for my poor attempt from a tired brain!
It is my pleasure to announce a few returning managers to the league...
David Blair, former commissioner, will be returning to his post at MIN and helping me get up to speed on running the league.
Mark Creasey, commissioner of SESL and the gentleman who keeps the lights on here, will be taking over at VAN.
Steve Turner, a veteran of all leagues in this system, will be taking over at CLB
A warm welcome back to all three of you!
This puts us currently at a size of 15 teams. I have a backup manager to make 16, so I think that is the number we will end up with, but nothing finalized just yet.
Thanks for all of the wonderful responses. The surveys pointed me in a very clear direction when taken together.
I've been a but busier than expected to start this week, but should have time today or tomorrow to get the plans for the new season posted here and start getting the league set up with our new managers and off-season tasks
Thanks very much to the four managers that have already responded to the survey questions. That is much faster than I expected to get so much input! It has also been quite enlightening and encouraging to see how much thought you have put into it and how much you care for the success of the league. I won't report on any answers yet (I don't want to 'poison the well' so-to-speak for those who have yet to respond), but I'm happy to see that folks are also calling out where they disagree with my assumptions.
Thank you, David. I also do owe Robin a thank you here for the work that he put into the league - it was no small effort. I wish this had been a smoother transition for everyone's sake.
...Those 1/30s are in the mail. Hopefully they show up for Christmas.
Finally, I will spend some time mid-week this week to get our new managers set up. I will announce them at that time, as well, but I believe we are somewhere around 14-15 managers so far. Hopefully we will exceed 16 soon.
"OASL only functions if it works as both a game and as a community"
Couldn't agree more. I suspect few managers would stick around for drama every other week so time to move on. Robin for sure put in a lot of work so I thank him for that, and good luck to Andrew moving forward.
Now ... about my team of 1/30s I was promised ...
Are out in inboxes for the senior side accounts. A bit of a goof in how they were sent out, but please send your responses to SEA inbox. Try to respond in the next week if you are interested.
Daily notes:
I think I will withdraw my opening line "Somebody is telling porky pies and it is NOT me"
And be more polite and say things do just not addup/make sense and leave it at that..>.now if I was still commish I could have got rid of that Line :)
23 yrs I been associated with these leagues ,a large number of those yrs helping to run them ,and pay for them LOL>. wonlt miss that bit been paying Mark £20 a season here in OASL was paying a bit more on Sanc £48 a yr
Somebody is telling porky pies and it is NOT me.
1.Responding to inbox messages , not 100 % accurate some questions left ananswered, !
2.Quote "I expected an announcement from Robin, but since he stated in his blog that it was yet to be 100% confirmed"> Correct I was waiting & waiting For YOU to confirm you would become commish,> Got nothing from you so approached Karl to take on the job.
3. Quote "I have begun preparing for the offseason with instructions from Mark." >really !
4.Quote from Mark 2/12 "I spoke to Andrew a couple of months ago, "
5.I emailed Mark to ask if he might have any insight into why my password was not working, and was informed that the commissioner had changed it to 'brute' and then later changed it back to 'andy' (which had not been my prior password> Quote from Mark 9./12 "I don't have any access to Oasl log in's" --->
Truth is I saw Andrews post on Blog 7/12 ,and immediately chkd it out , reset his passwor to "andy" (it was NOT brute) and emailed it to him, no thanks received. . It is possible that Karl who had been loging in as DAL to become familiar with commish job probably caused the problem ,not had chance to speak to him as he is attending a funeral in South Adrica.
6. I have never had any emails returned/rejected, how did he get new password I set , If Mark has NO access. ?
7.Quote "Since revoking access for no given reason was not an acceptable usage of commissioner access in my opinion, I took the action to remove other commissioner permissions for the time being," > really when it was My League to Run ,NOT yours ,that is Arrogant .> I was NOT responsible for the problem and restored it IMMEDIATELY .
Hi all, I have been asked to share my side of the story, and I am happy to be transparent.
Since revoking access for no given reason was not an acceptable usage of commissioner access in my opinion, I took the action to remove other commissioner permissions for the time being, and sent a note via inbox to Robin informing him that I would decline his previous offer of having him serve as an assistant commissioner.
I will say here that I certainly do not own OASL - if Mark and the managers of this league do not want me running it, then it is certainly not my place and I will pass along commissioner access to whomever you all want. I also signed up to run, maintain, and expand this league as an enjoyable league, but am not particularly interested in a lot of social drama. We were told mid-season that this league would be ending at the end of the season. The number of managers has dropped, and participation has stalled to becoming nonexistent. Not a single journal entry from the season. So, I have offered to spend my time to build the league back up, increase the number of managers, and try to keep OASL and its history afloat. If that is not wanted then it's fine, but certainly do not call me a thief.
Hadn't seen your email when posting the below - I'll leave you guys to figure all that out behind the scenes but appreciate everyones effort in historically running the league and whomeever will be in charge going forward.
Ok guys , this has come as a shock to me , I have been duped/dumped from OASL.
I had a mail in my inbox from Andrew back on 20/11 hence my post on blog , the same day.
I gave Andrew acess to Commish and Emailed him some basic info .
Since them 3 further emails with more info and NO response .
Emailed Mark a week ago about Andrew , >replied that Andrew had spoken to him several weeks previous ,had nothing since then .
On Sunday 4th , despite yet another email to Andrew ( no response) I posted on Blog that we would continue , and I woild get a new Commish.
This I did the next day getting 2 new players and with Kar Wepenerl taking over as comish with me as assistant .
Andrew appears back on the scene on 7/12 announcing he is taking over and now on 8/12 takes over , removes me from Commish ,Wham/Bam job done .
Not happy to say the least , I have put alot of work (alongside David Blair) to keep this league going in memory of Dave Dowson.
Now Andrew has hijacked this league, nothing I can do !
Absolutely DISGRACEFUL
Andy, great to have you on board and cheers for taking on the reins! Looking forward to the new season.
Hi all,
With the season completed, we will be in the offseason for about a month here to avoid trying to start up a new season during the holidays. Finalized dates still TBD, but I would imagine that pre-season will open up about two weeks before our first matchweek. I'm hoping that first matchweek will be in the first week of January, but I will post here once we have a firm date.
As for now I will be running the league as sole commisiioner, as I would like to ensure I understand the process myself and at my own pace. Please bear with me if a few processes are clunky in these first weeks/months here. So, if you have lost, say, front page permissions since the last time you logged in know that those can be easily restored going into the new season as we organize reviews, participation, etc.
As mentioned in my previous blog post, I will send out a survey later this week to get some feedback. If you want to provide your perspective, please try to log in to respond before about Dec. 17th or so. I hope to have those surveys out by this Friday night at the latest.
Once that is out, I will put in some work to refresh the front page, begin recruitment, and work on the structure of the season. I will be posting all proposed structural/rule changes here to the blog, and will welcome feedback on them.
Speaking of recruitment, please reach out to SEA by inbox if you know of anyone that may want to take over a team. One big task on the to-do list is to figure out how to restart a team that has sat idle for an entire season and make it at least playable, so know that we won't leave new players to struggle their way in with non-functional teams. TBD on details at this stage, however. I am planning to pass along SEA to a new manager if we can find one, as I would prefer to take one of the worse sides for myself. But, that will not happen overnight, so feel free to message SEA inbox in the meantime.
I think that's plenty too long of a post for now, so I will end my ramble and keep updates coming from here.
Thanks for being willing to continue with OASL for the coming season! I am excited that so many managers are interested in keeping with the league.
-Andy
HOU sends 200k to CHA for 2 CP
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 40:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #4: 1 CP (wWd)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #3: 1 TP (wDw)
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWd)
Hi all! I'm planning to take over as commissioner this coming season, which will start around the week after Christmas or just into the new year. Currently learning the ropes, but should have a timeline planned out by late this week.
Posting this from my youth team account, as I have been locked out of my primary account, but as soon as I have that sorted we can move onto important next steps.
Several key decisions to be made, so I will send out some questions this week to get a pulse of how managers think about the current state of OASL. Optional to respond, but any feedback will go a long way to helping us make this this league enjoyable.
OK guys last game coming up , unfortunately not had confirmation from our possible new Commish , so not sure what is happening..
I will be plod on with preparation for next season which WILL START shortly after xmas , and hopefully you will have a new Commish with me as assistant.
Just chk in occasionally over next 2 weeks ,for any update on the Blog . Do make plans as to who to move FWD from yth and who needs to be dumped , BUT dont make any changes yourself ,
Robin
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 39:
Colorado Rapids - MVP #5: 25k (DwW)
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #4: 1 CP (wWw)
Langley F.C. - MVP #6: 25k (WWw)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 38:
Philadelphia Union - MVP #4: 1 CP (Www)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #9: 25k (WwW)
KC Athletics - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Currently we have 11 teams going fwd into next season , I am still trying to recruit new players into the league , and hope you guys can do the same..We have several established teams available for new players.
Sadly Phil McIntosh has decided to to leave the game , hardly surprising as he has been around since early 1900.
Back in the early days when we used zip files to send our orders to the commish ,then eagerly await that zip file coming back with our results. Phil ,aka Leagle beagle/filip/ Supermac was very prominent in our 1 league MSWL , so has seen many changes over the years >he will be missed.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 37:
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWd)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #3: 1 TP (wDw)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 36:
Colorado Rapids - MVP #4: 1 CP (WdW)
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #3: 1 TP (DwW)
Langley F.C. - MVP #5: 25k (WwW)
Colorado Ice White - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wdW)
Looks like you may have a NEW Commish for next season , an existing manager has stepped Fwd with an offer !
Yet to be 100% confirmed, the signs are good , and we have 10 confirmed for next season, so far ,
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 35:
Seattle Sounders - MVP #8: 25k (WwW)
Philadelphia Union - MVP #3: 1 TP (DwW)
Savannah Celtic FC - MVP #3: 1 TP (wdW)
Please vote on new poll , I need to know the numbers.
Do you want to continue playing if I can keep league going, ?
Not much point if only 6 or 7 of you ...LOL
Fingers crossed ,possibly might have an old friend Bill help me out with commish work next season !
Have to go through all backroom stuff with him ...!!...see what he thinks.
Just to say THANKS guys for making the effort to finish the season .
Just 7 games left befor we go off into the sunset and hang our boots up :)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 33:
Langley F.C. - MVP #4: 1 CP (wWW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 32:
Seattle Sounders - MVP #7: 25k (wWw)
Chivas USA - MVP #5: 25k (WwW)
Colorado Ice White - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Gananda Bandits S.C. - MVP #4: 1 CP (WwW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 30:
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (dWw)
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Savannah Celtic FC - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWD)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 29:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWW)
Philadelphia Union - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (dWw)
Vancouver Whitecaps - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DWw)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #6: 25k (dWw)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 28:
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Wwd)
Gananda Bandits S.C. - MVP #3: 1 TP (WdW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 27:
Miami FC - MVP #5: 25k (wWd)
Red Force FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDw)
Langley F.C. - MVP #3: 1 TP (Www)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 26:
Philadelphia Union - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #5: 25k (WwW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 25:
Charleston Battery - MVP #3: 1 TP (WwD)
Colorado Rapids - MVP #3: 1 TP (Wwd)
Laredo Heat - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 24:
Vancouver Whitecaps - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Chivas USA - MVP #4: 1 CP (wWw)
Langley F.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
The following teams receive Physio Boost through :
VAN(-80)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 23:
Miami FC - MVP #4: 1 CP (DwW)
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWw)
Gananda Bandits S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 22:
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wwD)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #4: 1 CP (WwW)
Van request physio boost for Rhett Bernstein
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 21:
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
I have changed the schedule on order to try to finish before xmas.
From oct 9th you will play 2 matches on Wed and 2 on Sunday.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 20:
Savannah Celtic FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
I pushed the button ....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJDGcxAf9D8
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 19:
Charleston Battery - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Anyone around to save this strand of the game we love?
If this strand falls, what next?
A lot of good people have spent a lot of time to get the dynamics of Oasl in great shape.
Also, Laredo Heat might finally be half decent.
Announcing that I will be closing down OASL at the end of the season .
There will be no Yth Cup this season and I will be removing the AS cup also .
Robin
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 18:
Laredo Heat - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDw)
Gananda Bandits S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wwD)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 17:
Colorado Rapids - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Miami FC - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 16:
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #3: 1 TP (WWw)
Please note do NOT bid on 9/0 GK ...you get nothing .
Similar to DD shield ,
round 1
Carolina railhawks v Chivas USA
Miami FC v San hose Earthquakes
Kansas City wizzards v D C Untd
Atlanta Silverbacks v Rochester Rhinos
............................................................................................................
Vancouver Whitecaps v Colorado Rapids
Minisota Thunder v Charlston Battery
Philadelphia Union v Columbus Crew
Seattle Sounders v Houston Dynamo
Talking of next season IF THERE IS ONE !
2 major problems ..1.managers 2. me
1. Managers> we can not afford to lose any more managers > we need to get new ones asap.
2. Me > I need replacing . sadly we lost Dave , then came David ,now retired and now me .All 3 of us were born in mid to late 40's so all pushing the boundaries ;so to speak .! you guys need a replacement for me ,if I go the league will END, there is nobody to take over. Not asking for anybody to take over now,but you do need somebody who can step up and jump in . NOT possible if person has not got experience,and Mark will certainly not have time to train or run the league himself.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 15:
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
Hope to complete the rest of fixtures next week , trying to work out how to fit in AS cup & Yth cup !
The following teams receive League/Cup Reviewer through :
PHI(50)
Many thanks to Mark for sorting our problem ,seems he got some inspirational assistance from DAVE .
4 deleted teams caused system failures as Olmec was finding players from teams Real Salt Lake, New England, Fall River & Utah Surf but no corresponding team ID.
All sorted manually at last.
As you were.
Mark.
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It appears to have not run yesterday, but still shows that date and time as scheduled
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 12:
Carson City Kickers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
Langley F.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
KC Athletics - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWw)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWW)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
Chivas USA - MVP #3: 1 TP (WdW)
Reminder DO NOT BID ON LOTS 6 & 7 , they will not count .
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 11:
Houston Dynamo - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Get those line ups in.
Let us have something different , let out some frustrations , things you hate/dislike ..Top 5
50k for each posting > send to my Mail Box.
Eg. not mine but give you an idea.
1. Hate Ox Tail soup , despite having no tails in the soup, it is that thick ,you can stand your spoon in it.
2. dislike Filip Mcintosh always picks on me ,never lets me win.
3. Hate Speed Bumps , always scrape the Bttm of my car.
etc
etc
Seattle Sounders Atlanta Silverbacks
Miami FC Houston Dynamo
Carolina RailHawks Charleston Battery
Chivas USA San Jose Earthquakes
To be played
WED 31st
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 8:
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
Miami FC - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wdW)
Chivas USA - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wdW)
I hadn't noticed at all! I appreciate the heads up.
First youth games are today so remember to get those line ups in.
Top 4 in each section to qualify .
Next round 1 vs 4,,,,,,, 2 vs 3,
Some bizarre stats against the vacant teams so far this season.
Seattle have scored 3 goals on 25 attempts (21 shots and 4 offside) against passive, vacant teams.
The vacant teams have scored 3 goals on 3 attempts
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 6:
Colorado Rapids - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Wdw)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 5:
Miami FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWD)
Charleston Battery - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
!st comment is correct .
My opinion the league is too small to offer OTF up for sale , will go very cheaply .
Somewhat unfair on managers who have used CP to build up their OTF.
Am I correct to understand that as meaning that OTF will no longer be up for sale in auctions? Or is there something wrong with them in this auction in particular?
Schedule now done for Di1 & Yth up to end of Sept.
Have to now work out schedule to finsh this season by end of DEC .
AUCTION >. DO NOT BID on 9/3 lots , bids will NOT count .
I am looking to move a GK, 4/25 Hardman or 2/24 Rose. And, hey, I might even be persuaded to deal Nick Bolton, 1/20 GK, if the price is right. Reasonable offers will get this deal done pronto. Unreasonable offers will get a snicker or an eye roll. BUT, please make an offer. One guy came by early season offering a half a sack of grain and a sickly looking rooster. Not enough to move the needle. Please call if this suits your needs. I can be your best friend!
I didn't realise they were vacant teams. Maybe a vacant team could win the league 😀
Vacant my arse , I just lost to Dc . Demand a recount , stats do not lie , yes they do , only got 1 friggin shot.
You'll be waiting a while Paul
All three of those teams are currently manager less.
They're still good teams and will play their best available lineup in a 442 format playing passively
Early season they're getting some draws but unless someone takes over they'll start to lose more without CP getting applied
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 3:
Chivas USA - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Wwd)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Only MIN, DC and CLB to make it a full house.
Looks like I need to get back to work , all seems to be working OK now , so I need to get on with scheduling a few more games . Will do that over the next few days.
Thanks Al, Mark and Robin.
Looked a bit ropey there for a few days! :)
Firstly a BIG THANKS to Al & Mark for sorting out our matches and get them up and running .
I might now have caused a problem (we shall see) as I have moved the next match back 24 hrs to give everybody a chance to get lineups in .
Hope it works.
I am like the rest of you NO idea as to what is going on . Al & Mark are looking into the problem .
In the meantime I have deleted match 2 from the schedule.
Is there anything that needs to be done? Server reset? I assume it shows as stuck in pre-match trade block for everyone and not just me?
Match 1 seems to have disappeared from the scoreboard.
A few teams to enter their teams for the 1st game in just over 4 hours. Good luck to everyone, except my opponents 😀
MIA sends John McCarthy (4/25 GK), Justin Swanson (3/22 MF), Rhett Bernstein (3/22 DF) to VAN for Steve Evans (2/23 DM), Tom Wilson (2/22 DF)
Stout on its way Roy , Ena Sharples bringing it round for you :)
hink we are ready to go , got 4 games scheduled so far , long process.
Anyway all chk you got everything, apart from that 40SL FW , so get your lineups in ,and good luck ..
No orders showing
But I'll have a stout if you're buying?
Had to stop doing the fixtures as an Error kept coming up , with Philly having put in orders ?
Roy I need you to chk your orders , suspect they will be blank, so not a big issue , just needs watching .
I think all is done with yth teams all squads now updated .
Got provisional start date for next sunday with DD shield. Bit of a problem with 14 teams , so I have included 2 of the vacant teams into the mix . > see DD tables
I will push on during the week and hope to have more matches scheduled soon .
Not sure when we will start , but I will do my best .
We have 13 active managers , so I opted to go for 1 division . To balance up the numbers I kept MIN in the mix.
They are a strong team and even at NMR they will be difficult to beat .
Also I have kept the non active teams , so we have ready made teams for the following season ,should we find any spare managers hanging around !!**
So tables are set , I need to reset all the DD stuff and sort out fixtures ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,!
looks like we will be having 1 division of 12 .
So gives us 12 , so I think best just to have 1 division .
Just in case Simon missed the Blog entry, these are the youth players available to add to Red Force this season:
New Yth Players
These are your new yth players for next season .
You decide what position you want each player and a name .
To make things easier for me can you do them in order.
Eg, John Smith 0'7 DF
Bill Browwn 0/7 MF..... etc
Mail to my inbox please
*Miami FC MIA RFC 0/7 0/7 0/7 0/6 1/13 1/12 1/12 1/12
Yes Simon you do , but just to clarify my position . I am not wasting any more of my time in setting up a new season , and end up deleting it all .
I am doing nothing until deadline on Friday 15th has passed . As stated previously any team failing to do pre-season will be deleted.
If at that stage we have enough teams to run a league then I will crack on .
BTW still lookong for a new manager at MIN .
Hello Robin,
I think I still need the list for new youth players.
ATL and SCF (thanks Roy for the reminder about that) preseason done. Sorry about the lateness as well.
Could I also get Dave Collins 1/16 MF moved to DM?
Thanks so much!!!
Getting close to magic12 . still 2 short in Div 1 and 5 in Div.2.
If we get to 12 I will start on schedule for a new season .
Robin,
All done now, apologies for the lateness of this.
Paul
thanjs guys for trying , but all too late DD tables are gone, lost foever .
What I see behind the scene is NOT a perfect table . They play 2 matches each so the table I get is based on points . So you can WIN the cup , but in the tables if you have drawn 4 and lost none you can end up being 4/5 th in the tables , it is all a nonsense , and a mountain to climb to put everybody in the right place.
I looked in the history matches table and see this:
Match 15 COL 1, SEA 0
Match 15 MIN 1, NE 0
Match 17 COL 1, MIN 1
Match 17 SEA 1, NE 0
Roy's post has reminded me that SEA did lose to COL in the semifinal and then won the 3rd place match. I believe those payouts match my recollection of 1st-4th (COL, MIN, SEA, NE)
And don't forget there is a pre-season for both main and youth team
The youth team just needs to select a captain and has the option to buy 5 CP as well
I don't know which cup last 4 is needed. David Blair posted this Blog entry towards the end of the season with financials for who fimished where - it shows the pay out for the last 4 in each of the cups. I hope it has the info you need Robin:
EARNINGS S28 | League | DD | Al Sellers | Al Sellers | Youth | Total |
Placing | Shield | Cup | Plate | Cup | Payout | |
Season 28 | S28 | S28 | S28 | S28 | S28 | S28 |
Atlanta Silverbacks | 300 | 300 | ||||
Minnesota Thunder | 450 | 250 | 125 | 825 | ||
Colorado Rapids | 280 | 400 | 75 | 755 | ||
Rochester Rhinos | 210 | 200 | 410 | |||
Real Salt Lake | 240 | 240 | ||||
FC Dallas | 200 | 200 | ||||
Houston Dynamo | 260 | 200 | 460 | |||
New England Revolution | 350 | 125 | 475 | |||
Kansas City Wizards | 850 | 850 | ||||
Chivas USA | 220 | 50 | 270 | |||
Carolina Railhawks | 240 | 150 | 390 | |||
Philadelphia Union | 260 | 100 | 360 | |||
Seattle Sounders | 650 | 175 | 350 | 1175 | ||
D.C. United | 220 | 220 | ||||
San Jose Earthquakes | 350 | 350 | ||||
Columbus Crew | 200 | 200 | ||||
Charleston Battery | 280 | 280 | ||||
Vancouver Whitecaps | 250 | 250 | ||||
Miami FC | 230 | 230 | ||||
Portland Timbers | 200 | 200 |
Totally get where you're coming from Robin. I'm keen and ready to play, and will do preseason soon. Although, I did check earlier in the week and thought pre-season wasn't open yet but maybe I'm mistaken - clearly is now anyway.
I didn't reply to the DD question because I never get to the final 4 of cups so tend not to pay attention that far in - althouogh if you'd asked about the AS cup I could have told you who made the final of that!
Appreciate all the hard work, Robin, hope others are ready to get stuck into the new season as well.
Why is Robin being so harsh ?
This league is NOT like the other leagues; it is not fully autpmated like the others and takes a great deal of manual work (brain work) to put the whole thing together.
David , before me was a star put in countless hours of work , and no doubt Dave before him did the same .
With respect to them both I will do the same to keep the league going , but I need to know if you guys still have the same interest/desire to keep playing ,so I need you to make the effort to help me achieve that .
I have had to delete hours of work in setting up the new season and will now have to do it all over again .
Simply I need you to complete pre-season and yth managers to complete their list of missing players.
Next FRIDAY , 15th.is the deadline. I will DELETE any teams who have not done as requested and will review the situation then .
If we do not have enough teams to run the league (min. 12) then I will ask Mark to shut it down .
Robin
seems to be a lack of interest in this Game with nobody having any idea as to final 4 in DD shield , my tables were showing MIN as winners and the rest in a shambles ...DDshield has now been lost in history !
Added to this still need 5 teams to provide list of yth players for new season .
Only 1 manager has done preseason .
As a result of this I have had to DELETE all the work I have done for the new season to start on Sunday .
No point in me preparing the start if you are not going to play .
So the season is on HOLD until all teams who are going to play complete pre-season .
It is alot of work for me as most of it has to be done manually , give me some help please otherwise league will end .
Hi Robin,
Sorry but i can't recall who the last 4/8 were in the DD Shield.
I need help with DD SHIELD .
I need to move tables into history , but what I am looking at makes NO sense .
If anybody knows the final 4/8 that would be a great help and who finished where ?
Youth players sent Robin. Thanks.
Moving on from yth teams , the missings squads need to catch up later ..
Want to start next sunday with D.D>Shield,,so draw has been completed .
APhiladelphia Union
Seattle Sounders
Miami FC
Chivas USA
San Jose Earthquakes
Charleston Battery
B FC Dallas
Kansas City Wizards
Carolina RailHawks
Rochester Rhinos
Columbus Crew
Atlanta Silverbacks
C Colorado Rapids
D.C. United
Vancouver Whitecaps
Houston Dynamo
Portland Timbers
Minnesota Thunder
In process of re-writing rules but top 2 in each section + 2 next best progress to next round .
Also looks all present and correct
All looks correct. Thanks, Robin!
Still waiting on REB/WDP/ RFC/ DIS/DAF/GBS /SCF/GOG
3 more done KCA/CIW/NSS >, just waiting for the other 9
Checking to make sure NSS players made it through on 6/27 via inbox. If I need to resend I'm happy to post or send whenever I am happy to
I had hoped to start around the 10th July , so do need to push on with adding these yth players., get them in to me please.
also noticed that some of you have some Monumental passwords ! if you would like something simpler mail my inbox.
Added to MTS/ LFC
All good with the youth players at CCK.
MTS sends John Wilson (1/15 DF), Barry Duke (1/19 MF), Lewis Butler (1/19 FW) to POR for 1k
All good here
These teams have had yth players added , please chk,
HOU LHT//CHV CCK// PHI RIS //CAR CDY
You can get down to 17 if you do them all in a row. That last player can be dropped before the system realizes you are at the minimum, but if you navigate away from the 'retire players' page it will no longer let you retire that last player
Please get rid of Ballack thanks.
Nathan Ferguson to DM please
Andy says "The system will only let you get your squad down to 18 players so you will need to add at least one in order or reduce further."
So if that is the case You will have to let me know Which final player you want me to remove.
CDY sends Matthew Dennis (1/18 DF), Josh Coulson (1/17 DF), Nathan Ferguson (1/18 MF) to CAR for 1k
These are your new yth players for next season .
You decide what position you want each player and a name .
To make things easier for me can you do them in order.
Eg, John Smith 0'7 DF
Bill Browwn 0/7 MF..... etc
Mail to my inbox please
*Portland Timber POR MTS 0/7 0/7 0/7 0/7 1/13 1/13 1/13 1/12
*Columbus Crew CLB REB 0/7 0/7 0/7 0/7 1/13 1/13 1/12 1/12
*D.C. United DC WDP 0/7 0/7 0/7 0/6 1/13 1/13 1/12 1/12
*Miami FC MIA RFC 0/7 0/7 0/7 0/6 1/13 1/12 1/12 1/12
*Carolina RailHawks CAR CDY 0/7 0/7 0/6 0/6 1/13 1/12 1/12 1/12
VAN VAN LFC 0/7 0/7 0/6 0/6 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12
*Philadelphia Union PHI RIS 0/7 0/6 0/6 0/6 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12
*Charleston Battery CHA DIS 0/7 0/6 0/6 0/6 1/12 1/12 1/12
*FC Dallas DAL TDL 0/6 0/6 0/6 0/6 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/11
*San Jose EarthquakesSJDAF 0/6 0/6 0/6 0/6 1/12 1/12 1/11 1/11
* Seattle Sounders SEA NSS 0/6 0/6 0/6 0/5 1/12 1/12 1/11 1/11
*Rochester Rhinos ROC GBS 0/6 0/6 0/6 0/5 1/12 1/11 1/11 1/11
*Chivas USA CHV CCK 0/6 0/6 0/5 0/5 1/12 1/11 1/11 1/11
*Houston Dynamo HOU LHT 0/6 0/6 0/5 0/5 1/11 1/11 1/11 1/11
*Colorado Rapids COL CIW 0/6 0/5 0/5 0/5 1/11 1/11 1/11 1/11,
*Atlanta SilverbacksATL SCF 0/6 0/5 0/5 0/5 1/11 1/11 1/11 1/10
*Minnesota Thunder MIN GOG 0/5 0/5 0/5 0/5 1/11 1/11 1/11 1/10
*Kansas City Wizards KC KCA 0/5 0/5 0/5 0/5 1/11 1/11 1/10 1/10
CDY sends Rhys Murphy (0/18 FW) to CAR for 1k
Johnson downgraded to DF, please.
Wharton becomes SD.
THANK YOU!
Will do ageing 2 day , and later be sending out New 8 players for yth teams .
You will need space in your yth team for these new 8 players so make sure you have no more than 17 .
Can I please have FW Robin Root to MA please
Christensen to SD thanks
Could I please have MF Ashton Hopper upgraded to MA? Thanks very much
GOG sends Wet Wipes (0/17 DF), Dick Harris (0/17 MF), Abel Brown (0/16 FW) to MIN for 1k
CCK sends Robin Root (0/18 FW) to CHV for 1k
CCK sends Harry Holly (0/17 DF), Holly Wreath (0/17 DF), Alan Hawthorne (0/17 MF) to CHV for 1k
DAF sends Didier Drogba (0/19 FW) to SJ for 1k
DAF sends Mark Schwarzer (0/18 GK), Andreas Christensen (0/18 DF), Mateo Kovacic (0/18 MF) to SJ for 1k
Will be doing this ASAP , just waiting on Mount Tabor/De Anza/Carson City/Carolina Dynamo to promote yth players.
SCF sends Juan Bernhardt (0/17 FW) to ATL for 1k
SCF sends Skip Jutze (0/16 GK), Dave Collins (0/16 MF), Carlos Lopez (0/16 MF) to ATL for 1k
RFC sends Wilfid Miles (0/19 MF) to MIA for 1k
RFC sends Ervin Pena (0/19 GK), Leon Saunders (0/19 SW), Neal Down (0/19 MF) to MIA for 1k
DIS sends Craig Kelly (0/19 FW) to CHA for 1k
DIS sends Johnathan Sullivan (0/19 SW), Armin Turkovic (0/18 DF), Michael Hamilton (0/19 MF) to CHA for 1k
Yes you get to upgrade one of your age 0 players to MPP.
If you already have 5 then you will need to downgrade 1. Blog here or mail my inbox.
Done - how do we go about repositioning some of our new players to multi-pos and some of our oldies to single-pos?
LHT sends Chris John (0/17 FW) to HOU for 1k
LHT sends Em Appleford (0/17 SW), PJ Peerun (0/17 DF), Martin Chew (0/17 MF) to HOU for 1k
RIS sends 1k, Alvas Powell (0/17 DF) to PHI for
RIS sends 1k, Roman Yamechuk (0/18 WG) to PHI for
RIS sends 1k, Quinn Sullivan (0/18 WG) to PHI for
RIS sends 1k, Helton Liete (0/18 GK) to PHI for
WDP sends Ollie Watkins (0/18 FW) to DC for 1k
WDP sends Billy McNeil (0/18 DF), Matt Cash (0/18 DF), John McGinn (0/18 MF) to DC for 1k
TDL sends Osa Odigizhuwa (0/15 DF), Kelvin Joseph (0/16 MF), Micah Parsons (0/14 FW) to DAL for 1k
GBS sends Tershawn Wharton (0/16 SW) to ROC for 1k
GBS sends Nick Bolton (0/18 GK), Michael Burton (0/18 MF), Dan Sorensen (0/17 DF) to ROC for 1k
just a thought for the rest of you .Save me some time if you did this transf. yourselves.
1. Go to youth team ,then transactions./make a trade/with you 1st team /list 3 players offer for 1k/.repeat with 4th player.
2. Go to 1st team ,make sure you have enough room for players> accept trades.
SEA sends to NSS for Duncan McEachern (0/18 WG)
SEA sends to NSS for Vilmos Csintalan (0/18 GK), Ragnar Gunnarsson (0/18 DF), Ashton Hopper (0/18 MF)
KCA sends Bo Bobby (0/17 FW) to KC for 1k
KCA sends Julie John (0/18 GK), Demi David (0/17 DF), Erica Evan (0/17 WG) to KC for 1k
CIW sends Emanuel Aiwu (0/16 DF), Alexander Kofler (0/17 GK), Julian Baumgartlinger (0/16 MF) to COL for 1k
CIW sends Albert Vallci (0/17 DF) to COL for 1k
For those of you that have mailed me I have Offered your yth players to your 1st team .
Make sure you have space in your squad , then accept the trade .
REB sends Andrew McCracken (0/14 FW) to CLB for 1k
REB sends Tim Esposito (0/19 GK), James Pendleton (0/19 SW), Kevin Lorenzen (0/18 DF) to CLB for 1k
LFC sends Joey Barton (0/19 MF), Jack Cork (0/16 MF), Kevin Long (0/9 MF) to VAN for 1k
Ok guys I am nodding > need info to MY inbox only please .
You can promote min of 2 age 0 and max 4 age 0.
Depending on how many you promote , I need room to put the new players in , so if you need to....> get rid of some donkeys
Example ;
Langley > Van Joey Barton MF 0/19 ..Jack Cork MF 0/16
I will do ageing once I have completed this part , then we can add your new yth players.
Going to go with 18 teams , as we have 17 , and hopefully you guys can find ONE more .
PS > I have not nodded yet
WE currently have 17 active managers , IF we can find 3 more we can go same as last season .
Teams available are quite good so can be tempting . For those of you in Sanc or Cecil ask around see if anybody there wants to try out OASL > get 2 teams here !
Talking of 2 teams , need to prepare yth> snr . So start thinking/preparing how many of age 0 players you going to promote min 2 max 4 ,remember in a few days time they will be age 1.
Who you are going to remove from 1st team and yth team .DO nothing now just prepare , wait for me to NOD ! . that means go .
Up to 17 managers now , if you want to re-vote use your yth team ,
OTHER: could be run with 10 if we get 18 pre season . Paul also came up with a good idea ;if we do find a new manager and have no vacancies > let him run one of the yth teams !
Maybe we should all have a clone so no NMR's are seen in the game :)
When I came to the site this morning, i discovered that I had loged on at 7.54am , > unfortunately that was NOT me.
I have taken the precaution of changing my password and hope that works. I do not know what the purpose of the infiltrator was and find nothing wrong at present !
To quote the famous words of Idiot Boris on March 3rd 20/20 "No panic, we are not going to do anything, wash your hands"
I say Panic , get you guns out from under the bed and if you see Boris > shoot him ,he is dangerous mass murderer
Decisions needed see new poll.
Down to 16 teams (vacant teams are open for team swap) so various options open .
Run 1 division of 16
Run 2 divisons of 8
run 2 divisions of 9 ( in the hope that we can get 2 more players)
Run 2 divisions of 10 (in the hope we get 4 new players> bit of a long shot ! )
robin
Thanks, David, for the many seasons of hard work! It is much appreciated.
And a well played final, Stephen
A farewell to all those managers who are leaving at the end of this season. Hopefully we will see you back again in the future.
Thanks to David for his years of services on OASL. Helped me many times. Till we meet again :)
Looks like we are losing 3 pre-season .
David/Steve/ & Tim (nmr so many times) , so down to 17 .
If you have any Friends /relatives/ work mates , who will give it a try , please get them to join .
Robin
I've decided that this is my last season in OASL.
IF this league does close and you don't play elsewhere I recommend SFLSL which needs a manager or two. I'm still playing there.
Eugh. Robbed! Well played Andrew.
Thanks Robin, needing time to run my local bowling club so the end of the season came at a good time for me.
Am quite sure the rest of the lads will give you a full support, and I am leaving a fairly good MIN team - get in first for them...
Will see a few of you lads around, just closer to autumn/winter once the bowling has finished.. 👍👍
Please Be UPSTANDING for DB as he finishes off his work here and hangs his boots up for last time .
His other comitments means he will not be with us any more so it is a big loss for us at OASL .
THANK YOU DAVID .
The following teams receive Awards through 8th June - Senior teams' earnings for current season....:
CAR(390) CHA(280) CHV(270) COL(755) CLB(200) DC(220) DAL(200) HOU(460) KC(850) MIA(230) MIN(825) NE(475) PHI(360) POR(200) RSL(240) ROC(410) SJ(350) SEA(1175) VAN(250)
The following teams receive Awards through :
ATL(300)
Table below shows the leaguer and cup earnings for the senior teams - will be added inside 10 minutes...
Cup Final played 25 minutes ago - watch it on the viewer - no spoiler here!! :-)
EARNINGS S28 | League | DD | Al Sellers | Al Sellers | Youth | Total |
Placing | Shield | Cup | Plate | Cup | Payout | |
Season 28 | S28 | S28 | S28 | S28 | S28 | S28 |
Atlanta Silverbacks | 300 | 300 | ||||
Minnesota Thunder | 450 | 250 | 125 | 825 | ||
Colorado Rapids | 280 | 400 | 75 | 755 | ||
Rochester Rhinos | 210 | 200 | 410 | |||
Real Salt Lake | 240 | 240 | ||||
FC Dallas | 200 | 200 | ||||
Houston Dynamo | 260 | 200 | 460 | |||
New England Revolution | 350 | 125 | 475 | |||
Kansas City Wizards | 850 | 850 | ||||
Chivas USA | 220 | 50 | 270 | |||
Carolina Railhawks | 240 | 150 | 390 | |||
Philadelphia Union | 260 | 100 | 360 | |||
Seattle Sounders | 650 | 175 | 350 | 1175 | ||
D.C. United | 220 | 220 | ||||
San Jose Earthquakes | 350 | 350 | ||||
Columbus Crew | 200 | 200 | ||||
Charleston Battery | 280 | 280 | ||||
Vancouver Whitecaps | 250 | 250 | ||||
Miami FC | 230 | 230 | ||||
Portland Timbers | 200 | 200 |
The following teams receive Awards through 8th June - payment for 1st half of season as League Reviewer - missed at MSA....:
PHI(250)
Will confess I thought there were going to be playoffs as in previous seasons, and reserved a session number and date for them, but Robin informed me there was not to be playoffs, and he is the Commish.
I believe he plans some rule changes for next season, and likely this one will be one of them to be updated..🤔🤔
And does that mean San Jose aren't promoted either?
The rules were amended to say no playoffs but it says 2 relegated and 2 promoted despite what the tables look like.
The following teams receive Awards through 8th June - Craig's Participation Officer payment....:
DAL(150)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 8th June - Rob's Divisional reviews - 2nd half season payment....:
PHI(350)
The following teams receive Adjustment through 8th June - half youth balances to senior teams....:
ATL(812) CDY(-1001) CAR(1001) CCK(-737) CHA(741) CHV(737) CIW(-949) COL(949) CLB(935) REB(-935) DC(1021) DIS(-741) DAF(-1123) FRR(-954) DAL(1020) GBS(-693) GOG(-798) HOU(777) KC(926) KCA(-926) LFC(-1535) LHT(-777) MIA(753) MIN(798) MTS(-921) NE(954) NSS(-1021) PHI(1128) POR(921) RSL(983) RFC(-753) ROC(693) RIS(-1128) SJ(1123) SCF(-812) SEA(1021) TDL(-1020) USB(-983) VAN(1535) WDP(-1021)
The following teams receive Awards through 8th June - season's earnings....:
CDY(200) CCK(250) CIW(200) REB(200) DIS(220) DAF(300) FRR(210) GBS(200) GOG(230) KCA(220) LFC(500) LHT(230) MTS(250) NSS(300) RFC(200) RIS(450) SCF(200) TDL(200) USB(200) WDP(210)
In a minute I plan to add the youth team earnings for the season to the existing balances.
Then a feww minutes later I plan to deduct half the total earnings from each youth team and add these totals to the Senior team. (I have to wait till after toinight's Cup Final plus 3rd/4th place matches to be able to add these teams earnings, but it will be done tonight.
Below is the list of each youth team's earnings for the season, based on the Youth Cup plus divisional placing.
Season 28 | League | Youth Cup | Totals | |
Langley F.C. | 350 | 150 | 500 | |
North Sound Seawolves | 300 | 300 | ||
Mount Tabor S.C. | 250 | 250 | ||
Golden Gophers | 230 | 230 | ||
KC Athletics | 220 | 220 | ||
Fall River Rovers | 210 | 210 | ||
Colorado Ice White | 200 | 200 | ||
Gananda Bandits S.C. | 200 | 200 | ||
Savannah Celtic FC | 200 | 200 | ||
Texas Dutch Lions | 200 | 200 | ||
De Anza Force S.C. | 300 | 300 | ||
Carson City Kickers | 250 | 250 | ||
Laredo Heat | 230 | 230 | ||
Daniel Island S.A. | 220 | 220 | ||
Washington Diplomats | 210 | 210 | ||
Red Force FC | 200 | 200 | ||
Carolina Dynamo | 200 | 200 | ||
Roxborough Indians S.C. | 200 | 250 | 450 | |
Columbus Rebels | 200 | 200 | ||
Utah Surf Boys S.C. | 200 | 200 |
Will confess I thought there were going to be playoffs as in previous seasons, and reserved a session number and date for them, but Robin informed me there was not to be playoffs, and he is the Commish.
I believe he plans some rule changes for next season, and likely this one will be one of them to be updated..🤔🤔
I thought we were in a playoff but I've just realised there aren't any this season.
We used to have them didn't we? Did that change with the league reconstruction? Or am I way off and there never was any?
Loved your manager interview .....👍👍🤔🤔
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 5th June 2022:
CHV(10) DAL(40) HOU(10) MIN(50) VAN(50)
Just Houston and Carolina to put a team line in - for a full house..👍
And watching people pull teeth out with no anaesthetic is a "must watch" programme?
Okay - it's a personal thing, and each to their own. Enjoy!! 🥴🥴
If Australian Survivor is not REAL , do not know what is !> If you never seen it you can not knock it .These people go through some unbelievable situations , and as for pain barrier > like pulling teeth with no anesthetic..
Big Bro was great , Jungle not so (ant/dec trying to be funny >.like watching paint dry)
You forgot to mention LOVE ISLAND . yeehaw >new series starts 9.00 2nite ....
Really, Robin? binging on a reality series that bares no resemblance to reality, when the object is (presumably) to just win cash whilst creating fake situations and crocodile tears for the contestants.
Next you will be telling us you binged on Big Brother or Get me out of the Jungle.... full of life's hopeless (BB) looking to create a fortune for doing nothing, and Z list celebs hoping for a revival in their fortunes (GMOOTJ).. Noooooo, I didn't think so.. 😉😉😉😉😉😉😉
Ok something to watch between seasons , it is gripping ,tense,dramatic , nasty , amazing challenges. easily the Best Survivor prog ever made. .>AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR
24 people put on a tropical Island where they have to survive for 50 days, one person is voted out every 2 days.
I just watched 5 series in 6 weeks,starting at 3 ending in 7 . 3/4/5 are good ,5/6/7 are even better ,nothing better to do> watch it.
So on to Football , here we are at the end of a season , hope you all enjoyed. David is wrapping things up for us and I will make a start on new season in a few days. At present we still have 20 managers , and fingers crossed you all still stay .
Laters
Robin
Ok Stephen , let you Off this time , did you see Craig in Costa ?
Oops, total brain fart whilst om holiday. Terrible game to fail to submit lineups for! Apologies all.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 42:
Colorado Ice White - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
New England Revolution - MVP #5: 25k (WwW)
Thanks to Phil at Rochester. His responses to the manager questions are now on the main page. Cheers Phil.
It appears that some managers have complained to Mark that I posted some lies about him on our blog ...
sufffice to say he has complained to me .
Unfotunately the managers who gone running to Mark are WRONG , I posted no lies ;,not sure what the agenda is with these managers , possibly they need to question me 1st.
Poll Results: Should Yth teams be anle to trade. So the answer is NO
VOTING SUMMARY
CHOICE | TOTAL VOTES |
NO | 7 |
Other | 3 |
Yes resources & players | 2 |
Yes Resources only | 1 |
Gents, The Final and 3rd/4th place games in the Al Sellers Plate have been played and neither had to use penalties to decide them. I won't mention the results here so as not to be a spoiler, go to the Scoreboard if you are interested.
The Final of the Youth Cup was also played (inside 90 minutes) and the score is on the front page in the Youth section - don't say you have not been warned!!
This Sunday sees the final set of league matches and next Wednesday is the Final of the Al Sellers Cup, PLUS the 3rd/4th place game too..
The second paragraph below should begin with 'do it again' not the Russian I appear to have used .... I blame fat fingers on small phone
You will see that there are 2 entries for Participation Bonus....this is because 2 of you posted under your youth team tut tut
Donitvshsin and you will have to sit on the bottom step for a length of time equal to your age in minutes....as in, if you're 5 years old it's 5 minutes, if you're like our commish you'd better take a book with you lol
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 29th May 2022:
HOU(25) KCA(20)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 29th May 2022:
CHV(10) DAL(25) MIN(30) SEA(65) VAN(50)
Costa coffee unfortunately....still no internet at home which is a bit rubbish so apologies for no participation bonus on Monday again...trying to sort now on a break at work on my phone which is a bit tricky.
Andrew, you're quite right. I missed the journal so you get extra this week. I missed it because I was rushing and there aren't many/any journals usually!! Anyway will sort shortly.
As a rough guide....a line or two in a blog will get you 5k, a blog that is s little longer will get you 10 to 15k, longer blogs get more and journals are usually reasonably long do get more, so if you do a blog or two and a journal you'll be there or thereabouts. No need to do journals if you don't want, just do more blogs!
With the League ending on Sunday , I need to start preparations for the New Season .
Can any manager who is Definitely Leaving , post here or message my inbox.
thanks.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 40:
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #3: 1 TP (Wdw)
Carson City Kickers - MVP #3: 1 TP (WdW)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #7: 25k (wWW)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #7: 25k (wwD)
Thanks to Andrew at Seattle. His responses to the manager questions are now on the main page. Cheers Andrew.
Slight reprieve for next season , my cousin Karl will help me with the pre-season setup , but the outstanding issue still remains.
I am still without a full time assistant , and somebody able to take over when I am gone.
Where am I going ? hopefully nowhere but at 75 who knows what is around the corner .
So if nobody comes forward durning next season the League will definitely Close.
Craig crrently in Costa ...nice for some , is that Costa Brava , Costa del Sol ?
I'm sad to see the the only journal entry in nearly a month + a blog post only earns 10k! 😭
Not actually a big deal. But, could we know an approximate guide to the new participation system so that we can best use our blogging/journaling time?
Not to worry about any lateness on participation cash payout - there are no players up for sale so not much use for any extra cash just yet... But we accept it all the same.and thanks.. :-)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 22nd May 2022:
HOU(5) MIN(40) PHI(10) SEA(10)
...for being deathly quiet lately, those on SESL might be aware I've been in the throes of a never ending house move, anyway, it's all done now but no internet access yet (currently sat in Costa typing this!!).
It's never too late to earn extra coin though so get blogging/journalling!
Participation bonus to follow in a minute or two...sorry for being late with it
Both Semi Finals played and the Final and the 3rd/4th place matches are due next Wednesday along with the Youth Cup Final - session 41.
By the time you read this the games will be scheduled. To avoid any spoiler the matches can be seen in the Scoreboard section session 39.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 39:
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #4: 1 CP (WWw)
Likewise really sorry to hear about the difficulties Robin, thoughts with you and the family.
And like Andrew I'm afraid I also don't have the capacity to take on other responsibliity other than actively managing the team with lineups etc.
I do very much hope someone can step forward and help out though, as it's a very enjoyable league.
Sorry to hear about the surgeries, Robin. Hope you and your son are recovering well.
Won't have time to help run the league myself, unfortunately, but certainly happy to stick it out as an active manager if the league has to be a bit clunky during a transition period with a new commish learning the ropes.
Champions again but its been a lot time coming.
Nowehere near top 11 or 17 you would have got pretty good odds on the Wizards at the start of the season.
Delighted with the win but commiserations are due to Mr Blair who pushed us hard but the home victory last week over the Thunder all but wrapped up the title for us this season.
Got to dedicate this title to our top scorer and his namesake
Thanks and Cheers all
Hi Guys , Sad to say , it has been a tough last 4 months for me , my son been in hospial for major srgery , I also been in hospital for minor surgery , also been in hospt, for eye operation , and turned 75 last week.
David has been great with his assistance this season , could not have managed without him .
So with regret I have to stand down as Commish at end of season , but willing to act as assistant to whoever takes over.
DO NOT EXPECT DAVID to take over he has other commitments.
So it is down to one of you guys to step up and take over or the league will fold. !
Robin
Shame on the few goals - had we put another past a resolute GK maybe we wouldn't have blown our slim title chances in the 90th minute! Or maybe we just needed one fewer...
6 goals in 10 matches today. Bore fest!
Hope I'm wrong but thinking Tim has disappeared - been an NMR quite a few times recently - after such a great start to the season. PS MIA are also missing a team line for this afternoon. Still time for both but only 10 minutes to go..😳😳
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 38:
Fall River Rovers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #3: 1 TP (DWw)
Miami FC - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
Charleston Battery - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #5: 25k (WwW)
Houston Dynamo - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #5: 25k (wWw)
Not going to be a spoiler here, but the 2 games have been played and 9 goals were scored in the 2 matches.
All 4 teams involved will be back 3 weeks tonight for the Final and the 3rd/4th place games, and they will be scheduled by 7-30pm (GMT) tonight - 15 minutes actually..
Normally 2 up and 2 down with a playoff between the 10th in division 1 and 3rd in division 2 for a possible 3rd promotion/relegation - when the divisions were 12 teams each.
But with the divisions going down to 10 not sure what Robin has planned.
Youths were also 2 up and 2 down but there was usually playoffs between the 9th and 10th in the 3rd division and ther 3rd and 4th in the 4th divisions. Best I can do...
How many go up / down between Div 1 / 2?
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 15th May 2022:
CHV(10) CLB(35) DAL(10) HOU(5) MIN(30) SEA(20) VAN(45)
Congratulations to Andrew and his Seattle Sounders on winning division 2 with 3 games to play from all at Philadelphia.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 36:
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Wwd)
Philadelphia Union - MVP #3: 1 TP (Wdw)
Thanks to Robin at Vancouver. His responses to the manager questions are now on the main page. Cheers Robin.
Robin,
You have 1CP and your age 2 lad has had 5 updates. So guessing you gained it as a MVP - if you swop it for a TP it will get you a TP you didn't expect.. it has happened a few times to other teams in the past. 👍👍
5 TP > TDL , 500k > LFC
LFC sends 500k to TDL for 5 TP
I do occasionally refer to myself in the 3rd peerson...okay here we go:
Questions
1) Favourite author and why (although I will allow you to pick a top 3 if you wish)
Currently - Craig Alanson - See Columbus Day - Expeditionary Force. BEST when listened to via Audible.
2) Favourite book and why (this can be anything, fact/fiction/graphic novel/anything and I will accept series...oh go on then, you can have a top 3 in this too)
1. Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson (read by RC Bray). I don't have ANY books, I have ALL the Audible versions (like 18 hours each). If you like Sci-Fi, you will 90% or higher like this I think. Give the first two books a try and let me know. Tell me I'm wrong.
2. The Forever War by Joseph Hellerman - a sci-fi novel written in the future where soldiers travel years/decades to get to the wars they fight. It was written to show how out of place soldiers who fought in wars like Vietnam felt when they returned home.
Roy wrote all of the info above on #2. And I 100% agree with him. I read a couple of the later ones too. I also listened to this one recently on...yup...Audible!
3. Hail Mary - Andy Weir (read by Ray Porter). I plan to listen to this one again soon. 16 hours...amazing. If you like Sci Fi (maybe more 'realistic' Sci Fi) and you know a little chemistry (I NEVER took Chemistry class) you may like it even more. Just amazing. Listened to it on the 24 hour trip back from Phoenix. My favorite book of this year. Read or listen. TELL ME I'M WRONG.
3) Favourite/most memorable goal scored and why (could be one you or your offspring scored or pros of course)
I'm going to ignore CB's question and ask my own:
"What is your favorite football play ever"?
Of course it is Claudio Paul Caniggia from World Cup 1990 taking off...probably going to score a goal, but having to:
1) Leap over 1 tackle
2) Barely get over another tackle and losing his balance
and
3) Getting HAMMERED by the 3rd defender who was rightly red-carded and sent off:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taz3GfP_eNk
You know I'm right...
And the ref was like "here's your second yellow"...well...I don't THANK SO...that was a straight red!
4) Favourite takeaway
Pretty much ANY pizza except for the, ironically named, "St. Louis Style" pizza...its horrid.
5) Favourite TV series
I've watched so many shows due to Covid its hard to say. There are so many good ones.
I do like the idea of trading in youth league and getting increased activity there. I wonder about two potential obstacles:
I think trading would be good eventually, but I think perhaps youth squads would have to first become more imbalanced either through start of year acquisition changes or through auctions/other forms of player signing.
My proposal was based on several factors .
1. Obviously to get yth managers more active.
2. With only 4 matches to go there are 6 teams with 20+ TP left and 11 teams with less than 2 TP left .
3. Not always the Yth players you promote to 1st team are even worth 1 TP !
4. a chance to earn more cash for your team .
5. Unsure about player trades .
The 2 x Semi Finals of the Youth Cup have been played today and scores are on the front page under Youth Section. Final will be played 3 weeks tonight on the 1st June...... NO spoiler here!!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 35:
Langley F.C. - MVP #5: 25k (WdW)
Yeah I think you should be allowed to trade, makes it a bit more fun for sure.
Probably a waste of time now changing rules , and quite a few need changing . I created our new Rules page for the league , but now Mark does not want me to have Access ?
As I have said previously ,I want managers to get more enjoyment out of their Yth team . ,rather than being a Cas Cow and yth provider it also becomes a Team that they can take an interest in .
So with that in mind should we permit yth teams to trade ?
Just added another 10k for MIN as I missed your Journal entry David...sorry!!
It's the only Journal there is so I'm afraid I just didn't check it!!!
All sorted now, you got maximum bonus so well done sir :)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 8th May 2022:
MIN(10)
I was not aware of the No trading rule , need to take that out asap. .
It is my intention to get more managers involved in the yth league , turn it into a competitive league , restrictions get in the way .
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 8th May 2022:
COL(40) DAL(30) MIN(40) NE(10) ROC(5) SJ(5) VAN(20)
There needs to be a look at the rules in the close season - not supposed to have any trading in the youth leagues.. Another rules overhaul coming up I guess 🤓🤓 😂👍
That 3 first division games featured a team on NMR.
And my game had a Loose referee - Robin Dewar - as in "unhinged?"
Cant complain - we won and he did okay..😉😉
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 34:
Seattle Sounders - MVP #6: 25k (dwW)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #6: 25k (Www)
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #3: 1 TP (WWD)
I could never understand expression "Early Doors" where the F, did that come from .
"Gaffer" is another stupid one , who want to be called that .> a flat capped northerner from 1930 ?
In my playing days we had a joker in the team who used to call the REF a Barsteward , but he used thr real word and was clever how he did it,
We would all be hovering around the goal waiting for corner kick , when this voice boomed out "Who called thr REF a Barsteward" ...LOL he just did ,but ref could not touch him as he prefixed with >who :)
Played Sunday league for Marske Shipwrecks and one of the calls was come on 'Battleship'.
I watched my son play in a Cup Final yesterday (which they won 6-1!! Yea :) ) and together with that and Phil's post it reminded me of all those footballing cliches you hear when watching local football...here's a list of those off the top of my head...
1) Squeeze
2) Get out!!
3) Get rid
4) Not in there
5) Second ball
That's just 5 and there are hundreds more....feel free to add to them :)
It always makes me chuckle how the vast majority of coaches of kids football think they're either tactical geniuses or Jurgen Klopp lol :)
At Micki's soccer game today, I heard a coach on another field direct his team to "park the bus." Thought of Robin.
And sorry again.
Bank Holiday we went to West Midlands Safari Parj and had car over heating. Had to stay overnight in Hokiday Inn and back home yesterday. With it being first day at work this week I forgot it was Wednesday. Only just realised earlier this evening about SESL which I had done Sunday.
8 matches tonight with 3 teams leaving their managers at home (ie NMRs) - happily for the game the opposition in each case won their match. I tried to remind players this morning but seems I didn't get through to all..
There isn't a front page now for the major cup matches, so all I will say (to avoid spoilers) is that the Semi Finals after tonight's games will be scheduled soonest.
Next midweek are the Youth Cup Semi Finals, the following week the Al Sellers Cup Semi Finals, then follows the Plate Semi Finals - sessions 35, 37, 39 respectively.
Just to remind managers that 16 teams play tonight in the Al Sellers Cup and Plate. Only 4 teams have the night off!! 👍👍
Yep, it's a little concerning that a certain Darlo fan and I seem to have more than few things in common.
I think it's time I took up knitting or something similar....
Was doing the participation bonus on my phone hence the double entry, soz :)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 1st May 2022:
CHA(35) CHV(10) COL(40) VAN(35)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through :
DAL(50)
Questions
Yet again I get disappointed? by how similar some of my choices are to the monkey hanger
1) Favourite author and why (although I will allow you to pick a top 3 if you wish)
Terry Pratchett - fantasy writer who managed to turn a satirical eye on the world, Yes there were magic swords and witches and heroes and villains. But the sword wouldn't stop talking and always got thrown away, the witches are the heroines and there's a psychotic set of luggage.
2) Favourite book and why (this can be anything, fact/fiction/graphic novel/anything and I will accept series...oh go on then, you can have a top 3 in this too)
1, Reaper Man by Sir TP. The first hardback book I bought of his Discworld series. The story is how the character of Death tries to live as a human for a short time. In the end he challenges the powers that be into granting someone an extention to their life and the answer was cleverly written over the page. One word filled the whole page. I remember just curling up into an armchair and reading it cover to cover in one day.
2. The Forever War by Joseph Hellerman - a sci-fi novel written in the future where soldiers travel years/decades to get to the wars they fight. It was written to show how out of place soldiers who fought in wars like Vietnam felt when they returned home. It was one of the 2 books that have made me cry.
3. The Star - a short story by Asimov. A scientist travels to a far part of the galaxy to study a star that has gone supernova. The twist in the story was when he worked out that the light from the supernova would have appeared in the skies above Bethleham about the year 0AD.
3) Favourite/most memorable goal scored and why (could be one you or your offspring scored or pros of course)
Ok I'll do three here too. 1) Chris Brass comedy goal playing for Carlisle against Darlington. He kicked the ball into his own face 6yds out.
2) I'm not a goal scorer but I have a few goals I'm proud of. The best one was for the office team (Middlesbrough at the time). We'd travelled up to Newcastle and found we were playing vs a lot of non-league players way above our skill level we lost 9-1. I was playing right back and picked the ball up in our half and just decided to run forward with it. I somehow got past the left winger and their left back and into the 18yd area. The keeper ran out to dive on the ball and I managed to prod it underneath him and then jump over him at this point my legs were almost giving out on me but I managed to knock it over the line. The opposition were absolutely furious they'd conceded the one goal and the next day in the office I got a applauded when I walked in.
3) Paul Rideout FA Cup final 1995 for Everton vs Man Utd. 1-0
4) Favourite takeaway
sweet and sour chicken cantonese style
5) Favourite TV series
So many sci-fi series to pick from. Red Dwarf (like Craig), Star Trek, GOT, Life on Mars, Quantum Leap, Supergirl, Transformers (the original series), Dr Who, The Mandalorian etc
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 32:
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Www)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #4: 1 CP (WWw)
Thanks to Al from Columbus. His responses to the manager questions are now on the main page. Cheers Al.
1) Favourite author and why (although I will allow you to pick a top 3 if you wish)
Wilbur Smith has written a series of Books which have to be read in order. as about a Rich family starting out in the early birth of South Africa,
Also like John Wyndham , wrote loosly along the lines of sci-fi /horror my fav. was "Day of the Triffids".
2) Favourite book and why (this can be anything, fact/fiction/graphic novel/anything and I will accept series...oh go on then, you can have a top 3 in this too)
Strange choice , I would go for "Watership Down" a story about a Family of rabbits ! I read it in my 30's and enjoyed and have read it to my Children growing up , and now passed it on to my grandchildren.
3) Favourite/most memorable goal scored and why (could be one you or your offspring scored or pros of course)
Of Course 1 of mine ...NOT ...only scored 6. !
I got 4 choices 2 on very short video , suggest full screen and probably replay several times.
1. Pele scores ? against Uraguay ....20 secs ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UzRsvCsC4c
2.Gaza scores against Scotland .... 35 secs.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evnXFu744uY
3.Maradona vs England , no hands used.
4.Rodney Marsh for Tampa Bay
4) Favourite takeaway
House special Chow mein & house special Chop suey , wife & I used to order thes and mix them eat on small bed of rice.
5) Favourite TV series
Hunted Uk (think they have it in USA) , would love to go on the prog. Hate it if the Cops win ..all too smug.
1) Favourite author and why (although I will allow you to pick a top 3 if you wish)
I tend towards real life and autobiographys mainly but I do enjoy the odd novel. Im a big fan of the Maze Runner series by James Dashner, the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins and as a kid I was a huge Enid Blyton fan.
My favourite novelist though is Mike Gayle - who writes a lot of stories about exploring love, life and relationships but largely from a male perspective in a female dominated market.
2) Favourite book and why (this can be anything, fact/fiction/graphic novel/anything and I will accept series...oh go on then, you can have a top 3 in this too)
Favourite novel Id pick one of Mike's - probably his debut which was called My Legendary Girlfriend.
One of my favourite books that isnt a novel is Other Peoples Money - which is the true story of a guy called Elliot Castro who committed credit card fraud. A fascinating insight into the life he lead by stealing a lot of money.
3) Favourite/most memorable goal scored and why (could be one you or your offspring scored or pros of course)
I cant decide so Im picking the three best moments for Kilmarnock FC in my lifetime.
Paul Wright - a scuffed shot from inside the box to win the Scottish Cup in 1997
Dieter Van Turnhout - a back post header to shock Celtic in the league cup final of 2012.
Blair Alston - a 90th minute winner to secure the Championship title which occurred less than a week ago as I write this.
4) Favourite takeaway
Chippy - either a sausage, or hamburger supper. Maybe a fritter too.
5) Favourite TV series
Hard to choose. If pushed to one Id say Only Fools and Horses.
Not giving out the scores for tonight, but the winners go forward to next Wednesday's Quarter Finals and will play alongside the main Al Sellers Quarter Finalists (ie 16 of us will be playing next Wednesday - the 4 teams who lost tonight will sit out..)
Games will be scheduled by the time you read this.....
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 31:
Colorado Rapids - MVP #5: 25k (WDw)
...David, I forgot to even check!! Very poor. Still getting to grips with OASL so thanks for the heads up :)
The 1st Round of the above competition takes place tomorrow evening. 8 clubs are involved - winners meet the 4 teams who received a bye due to them having the best records of the clubs who didn't make the Al Sellers Cup Quarter Finals.
6 of the 8 teams still have to place team lines in...👍👍
Just cut and paste the questions and fill them in!! Enjoy :)
1) Favourite author and why (although I will allow you to pick a top 3 if you wish)
- Top 3 would be Jack Vance, Iain Banks (and Iain M Banks - same bloke just his sci fi alter ego) & Philip K Dick. I love Vance's writing style, especially in the Dying Earth series and I haven't, to date, read a book of his that I haven't enjoyed. Banks wrote, probably, the only book that had a physical reaction....what I mean is, I was reading The Wasp Factory as a 19yr old and was in bed with my girlfriend of the time, she'd gone to sleep much earlier as I was gripped by the book...I ended up waking her up because I was shaken by it lol :)
Philip K Dick is an author I discovered very late in life after watching the Channel 4 series. Great books so far.
2) Favourite book and why (this can be anything, fact/fiction/graphic novel/anything and I will accept series...oh go on then, you can have a top 3 in this too)
- You'd expect my favourite book to come from one of the above authors but it doesn't. My favourite is Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith. Absolutely loved it....he wrote some other books too that I really enjoyed but also wrote one of the least enjoyable books I've ever read!! It's probably pretty dated now so perhaps wouldn't read so well but I was very young when I read it.
The Dying Earth series by Jack Vance are 100% in my top 3. I'm re-reading book one at the moment. I love the setting, I love the Vancian style of writing. I've lent the first book to a couple of different, well read, friends and neither could get on with it!! I was stunned. Clearly you have to be of a certain mind to get on with them.
3) Favourite/most memorable goal scored and why (could be one you or your offspring scored or pros of course)
- One of the most memorable was scored by a team I don't follow. It was the Aguero goal for Man City in injury time to win the league ahead of scum, sorry, Man Ure lol :) Both my son and I had been watching the game live on Sky and being a Leeds/Hartlepool fan was dismayed at the prospect of Man City blowing it and Man Ure winning it. Man City were playing QPR who had nothing to play for (possibly been relegated already? Can't remember) and had a man sent off so it looked like it'd be a walk in the park....far from it and long story short, Man City scored a goal in the 90th minute or thereabouts (Edin Dzeko I think) before Aguero's injury time winner. Both of us jumped up and danced round the living room. It'll never be repeated in my lifetime. Amazing stuff.
4) Favourite takeaway
- Got to be pizza. End of.
5) Favourite TV series
- I don't really watch any now so one from the past that I could easily watch now would be Red Dwarf
1) Favourite author and why (although I will allow you to pick a top 3 if you wish)
2) Favourite book and why (this can be anything, fact/fiction/graphic novel/anything and I will accept series...oh go on then, you can have a top 3 in this too)
3) Favourite/most memorable goal scored and why (could be one you or your offspring scored or pros of course)
4) Favourite takeaway
5) Favourite TV series
Well, it was all far too easy for me to process the Participation Bonus this week so I think I'll have to come up with some more questions for you all :)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 24th April:
CHV(10) DAL(20) MIN(20) NE(10) ROC(30) VAN(40)
MIA sends Harvey Spector (4/17 SD) to MIN for 100k
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 30:
Laredo Heat - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWw)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #5: 25k (www)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #4: 1 CP (wDW)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #5: 25k (dWw)
Thanks to Craig from FC Dallas. His responses to the manager questions are now on the main page. Cheers Craig
COL sends 50k to MIA for Gary McAllister (4/17 MF)
Sorry Steve but you can NOT leave , your contract expires in 2025 !
In case you had not noticed The Man Utd . vacancy has been filled by Ten Hag , so that option has gone , your only other option is Burnley , and I have applied for that one ...!
...gone a bit quiet chaps....with just 3 days until the next batch of Participation Bonus is paid, now is the time to get typing...(me included!!)...it doesn't need to be War and Peace and can be about anything so knock yourselves out :)
(apart from the usual politics and religion etc...far too controversial and would no doubt create no end of shouting and teddies being thrown from prams etc so leave well alone, this is not the place...thanks :) )
Sorry about that. I checked Sanc earlier and saw t was a cup game and forgot to check here I guess.
Last season anyway for certain.
Played tonight and shame one of the 8 teams didn't have a team line in - they lost. Another game had the winning team's keeper as the MOM - just as well as they were completely outshot. Wait a minute - why don't you go over to the Scoreboard and read them yourselves.
DON'T go to the front page Youth Cup section as I have already put in the scores and Semi Final draw.
Winning teams can relax - Semis are not due till 3 weeks today..
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 29:
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 17th April:
ATL(35) CHV(20) CLB(35) DAL(50) MIA(35) MIN(50) NE(50) PHI(30) ROC(25) SJ(40) SEA(40) VAN(50)
SEA sends Smith Isaacs (3/19 DM) to DAL for 200k
SEA sends Jazz Richards (3/22 DF) to DAL for 325k
Why is USA so Good at Baseball & NFL (American Football)
Because they make rules complicated so nobody else understands them !
Poll Results: WILL DALLAS escape relegation ?
VOTING SUMMARY
CHOICE | TOTAL VOTES |
NO | 8 |
YES | 4 |
I am a bit OLd so it takes a bit of time for me to catch on ...lightbulb has just clicked on ..this game these guys are talking about is played by Girls in small Bikinis...so I am told ..never seen it my self ....but I can understand why all the interest...umm..... don't see that going on when playing Bowls Mr.Blair !
Al Sellers earns an unabashed YELLOW CARD for his non-responsive responses to the questionaire. You don't get to make up your own questions, ALLAN.
Reposting as the parent club, as is required...Ugh...
Here's a plug for TMVL, to piggy back on Steve's invite. The game is a lot of fun and Al Sellers, with his son Max, have put a ton of time into development and fine tuning. Others have helped out, Steve Turner included, with techinical assistance, I think. But if you have a love for volleyball, you owe it to yourself to stop by for a season and give it a try. If you're not necessarily a fan of volleyball but you love gaming simulations like MSWL, SESL and OASL, stop by and have a look around.
Here's a plug for TMVL, to piggy back on Steve's invite. The game is a lot of fun and Al Sellers, with his son Max, have put a ton of time into development and fine tuning. Others have helped out, Steve Turner included, with techinical assistance, I think. But if you have a love for volleyball, you owe it to yourself to stop by for a season and give it a try. If you're not necessarily a fan of volleyball but you love gaming simulations like MSWL, SESL and OASL, stop by and have a look around.
Andrew there is still a place in TMVL seeing as you like playing volleyball.
1) What real life football team do you support and why?
A few here, actually:
Liverpool - as a kid there was no soccer/football on TV here in the states, so you had to watch American Football, basketball, baseball, etc. But, my brother and I played soccer, so naturally that was what we were drawn to in video games. ~10 year-old me had never heard of any of the clubs in the games, but knew that Brian Jacques, his favorite author, was from Liverpool. Decades of support has followed, with the nost recent highlight being a trip across the pond to catch the redmen beating Manchester Utd (right before covid) in our most recent title-winning season.
Locally, I support both Seattle Sounders and Austin FC. Seattle was my first local love, as Bryce and I used to catch most of the matches back when I lived in the area. But, now, I have a bit of a split allegiance, as the 2 mile bike ride to the new Austin FC stadium is a heck of a lot easier than the >2,100 mile trek to Seattle :)
2) What was the best game you've ever been to and why?
USA v Algeria, 2010 world cup, hands down. Mainly the exciting match and result, but also partly the ~$1.00 beers with no limits per person in the stadium
3) Who is your all time favourite player and why?
Might be Dirk Kuyt for his attitude, effort, and personality. Would have liked to have seen more of Kasey Keller's career rather than just the end, as even without being able to watch I knew he was doing something pretty special for American keepers.
4) How many other online football management games do you play (and list them)?
SESL
5) What's your second favourite sport (because football is your favourite obviously!)?
to play, Volleyball and running (though, Bryce, you may be faster than me right now! I gotta run off the covid weight to catch up). To watch, hockey
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 28:
KC Athletics - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #5: 25k (Dww)
New England Revolution - MVP #4: 1 CP (dwW)
1) What real life football team do you support and why?
Seattle Sounders FC. Our local MLS team with plenty of international talent. Went to their first MLS game (they claim heritage from previous teams with the same name so I can't say the first game ever). We have season tickets and it's always a great day/night out.
Also support America de Cali in Colombia. Their stadium is literally a 10 minute walk from the house my mother grew up in. And in England I've supported Fulham FC for a long time (more on that below).
2) What was the best game you've ever been to and why?
2019 MLS Cup final. We hosted the MLS Cup Final in our home stadium and won! What else could you ask for?
Best game I've ever watched on TV was during the 2010 world cup when the USA beat Algeria with a last second goal. I was watching with a bunch of friends in somebody's garage on a projector and when that happened we erupted, chips and salsa went flying, and we started our own parade marching out of the garage and down the street, haha.
3) Who is your all time favourite player and why?
Don't have an all time favorite player but I started supporting Fulham originally because they had Brian McBride who I always really liked especially after that game in the 2006 world cup against Italy where he played on after he had blood streaming down his face after an elbow.
4) How many other online football management games do you play (and list them)?
I play in MSWL U2 as well.
5) What's your second favourite sport (because football is your favourite obviously!)?
I pretty much love all sports but when I have time I play ultimate frisbee and I love long distance trail running (even though I'm not as fast as Andy F-G :) ).
Please remember these games are down to be played this Wednesday coming:
Quarter Finals | ||
De Anza Force S.C. | v | Carolina Dynamo |
Roxborough Indians S.C. | v | Fall River Rovers |
Savannah Celtic FC | v | Langley F.C. |
Colorado Ice White | v | Mount Tabor S.C. |
SEA sends 6 CP to MIN for 720k
Happy Bank Holiday everyone :)
So there is plenty of time to earn some coin before Sunday's deadline :)
Good to see some responses to the questionnaire (yes Al, your spelling is correct...for once ;) ) but keep them coming, they're always interesting to read.
...am I spelling questionnaire right? I want to add another 'r' on the end...
1) What real life football team do you support and why?
Are these questions about "football"? I guess the Green Bay Packers, but I don't think we're talking about American football, so...
I don't have one team that I support.
2) What was the best game you've ever been to and why?
Probably Illinois-Georgia Tech basketball (1989) when our OT win put MY Illinois as #1 in the nation the next day. Or maybe 1989 when my high school (I was in middle school) won the State Championship game in basketball.
As for football...well I haven't been to many pro games (like 1 in 2001?).
3) Who is your all time favourite player and why?
I'm going to ignore this question and make up my own question which is: "What is your favo(u)rite sport to play"?
Tennis. I'm hoping to get more into pickle ball too.
4) How many other online football management games do you play (and list them)?
I run MSWL United 1 and MSWL United 2. If you aren't in them and are interested add your name to the waitlist or email me.
5) What's your second favourite sport (because football is your favourite obviously!)?
This changes from time to time. Mostly college basketball, sometimes baseball, sometimes NFL, etc.
...anyone got ant DF's spare please?!
Could do with a couple...preferably players who won't be utterly useless next season but age 3/4 is fine...over 20 rated please.
Cash waiting :)
I 'll take whatever you want to.sell, Andrew 110k each.
After tonight's results Tables can be seen on the "Tables" page.
Quarter Final Draw (top team in each section plus the 3 best teams in RU position)
Quarter Finals | ||
Houston Dynamos | v | Atlanta Silverbacks |
New England Revolution | v | Carolina Railhawks |
San Jose Earthquakes | v | Seattle Sounders |
D.C. United | v | Philadephia Union |
Games to be played in session 33
Al Sellers Plate Draw (lowest ranked 8 teams in final table contest the 1st round - other 4 teams receive a Bye to Quarter Finals
Al Sellers Plate | ||
1st Round | ||
Vancouver Whitecaps | v | Rochester Rhinos |
Colorado Rapids | v | Charleston Battery |
Columbus Crew | v | Chivas USA |
FC Dallas | v | Portland Timbers |
Quarter Finals | ||
W1 | v | Miami FC |
W2 | v | Real Salt Lake |
W3 | v | Kansas City Wizards |
W4 | v | Minnesota Thunder |
1st Round to be played in session 31, Quarter Finals in session 33
Won at auction, happy to sell some of them, as I won't use them all this season.
1) What real life football team do you support and why?
Chelsea. Have done so since I was a kid, early 70's. End of Bonetti, Harris, Osgood era.
2) What was the best game you've ever been to and why?
Went to the 1997 cup final. Chelsea against my home town club Middlesbrough. Chelsea won two nil.
3) Who is your all time favourite player and why?
David Speedie. Brought from Darlington to Chelsea. Great player with an attitude to match.
4) How many other online football management games do you play (and list them)?
Xpert eleven & Olmec. Both tactical games.
5) What's your second favourite sport (because football is your favourite obviously!)?
Cricket. Liked to play it. Football was more serious and Cricket was more fun. Mainly because I was rubbish.
No problem Robin, I was only asking because I know a lot has changed this season.
Need to post more blogs then.
Hi All,
I have sent you all a message, check your Inboxes. Please reply to with your answers and i will start to add them back to the main page again.
The commish i am sure will compensate everyone for their time :)
Paul CHV
Sorry Andy . I meant to deal with this at start of season , but completely forgot .
Not actually something I agreed with , Players you retire (DUMP) are usless so why should you get money for them .?
SO saddly no I will not be paying out money . Quote me the rules by all means , nothing I can do about that as I am unable to edit the rules.
1) What real life football team do you support and why?
BURNLEY . living in Africa 1956 saw an english newspaper and read about Football ;
picked Burnley as I liked the name supported them ever since.
2) What was the best game you've ever been to and why?
Hardly been to any due to various living locations ,missed out on several free cup finals ,
so nothing great to talk about.
3) Who is your all time favourite player and why?
Well seen most of the greats over time , 99 % on Tv : Cruyff/Gullit/Pele
But for me it has to be Cristiano Ronaldo , nobody even comes close to this guy and still performing at highest level at age 37,,,,I would pay money to watch him play .
4) How many other online football management games do you play (and list them)?
Expert Eleven /. Soccer Project/ Championship Manager.
5) What's your second favourite sport (because football is your favourite obviously!)?
Cricket is my Favourite sport, a gentlemans game with excelent social aspects.
Also play in 3 online cricket leagues.
1) What real life football team do you support and why?
SC Heerenveen. When I was very young I lived in Amsterdam and everyone whas fan of Ajax. So I wanted the opposite and my mom liked Willem van Hanegem, so I became a Feyenoord fan. The older I got, the more I looked to my family history and we came from the north of the Netherlands. So during holidays I visit my family and stayed there as often as possible. Than I realized they had a team as well. Playing in the division below Feyenoord and never played at the highest level. My grandfather bought me a ticket when I was 15 and that match they promoted to the highest division in the Netherlands....since that moment I was a big fan and followed them all the way up to the Champions League and the current situation (middle of the league). I am volunteer for the club as I write in the magazine that is published every home game.
2) What was the best game you've ever been to and why?
We had several games. But the best ones are against Ajax or Feyenoord. One game I remember very good as I my season ticket was right behind the goal. It was the last game of Pierre van Hooydonck for Feyenoord and Paul Bosveld for sc Heerenveen. Both teams could go into Europe, Feyenoord were 5th, Heerenveen 6th. W needed the win....and with a great Alfonso Alves we managed to get "Big Pete" into tears....(For the record, his son is now playing in our team and was the player of the week this week so no hard feelings). If you have some spare minutes here is the game in a few minutes...
https://youtu.be/GFdn0H7aRNI
3) Who is your all time favourite player and why?
Euhm...I do not really have one player. Marco van Basten, Romario, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Klaas Jan Huntelaar. I really like the strikers, but I cannot mention one pariculair...probably Van Basten, he gave The Netherlands a cup.
4) How many other online football management games do you play (and list them)?
SESL, OASL, and SFLSL.
5) What's your second favourite sport (because football is your favourite obviously!)?
Currently Formula 1. But I do also like to see the Tour de France. But Formula 1 is definitly something you can wake me up for.
Sorry...can't answer your question Andy....BUT you DO get cash if you complete the questionnaire lol ;)
Do we still get cash for retirements, if so I have retired 4 players. Thanks.
The following teams receive Bio & Team Updates through :
MIN(100)
"Be I Brisol " sad demise for Eastville , now a supermarket..., played there twice ...no not the supermarket LOL
1. Bristol Rovers (being born and bred less than 30 minutes from Eastville)
2.2007 play off final at Wembley-living near Shrewsbury and went down with the local fans on the coach and went to the Rovers end when I got there,what a game and what an atmoshere-will live in my memory forever-we started poorly and Shrewsbury scored on their 1st attack on 3 minutes, not the start we needed ,but we slowly played ourselves back into the game and Walker levelled things up on 20 minutes with a well taken goal 1-1,34 minutes and he beat the offside trap and lobbed the goalie 2-1,edgy stuff till 90 minutes when both sides could have scored more,added time and Shrewsbury had a corner on 93 minutes and sent everybody up including their goalie,it was cleared out and came to Igoe who sprinted away and rolled it into an empty net 3-1 and we went up to division 1,had loads of stick on the way home on the coach ,but were all still mates today and still talk about this amazing day.
3.Richard Walker -on his day he could outsmart any defender and on play off day he was brilliant.
4.SESL ROSS COUNTY SFLSL THE NEW SAINTS
5.Rugby Union -a real mans game
Football is just a business now with no passion to pull on a shirt like the old days ,especially in the premier league.
A nice introduction Craig, and one which should get 100% participation (but likely won't..)
1) What real life football team do you support and why?
Hibs - although the family was living in Aberdour in Fife at the time, I was born in Edinburgh close to Hearts end of the city. But in 1956 when I started to play and enjoy football Hearts won the Scottish Cup and I took pity on the "other" Edinburgh side, and followed them ever since. Not for me looking to be associated with the "big" clubs without a connection whatosever. Followed them faithfully through the 60s and 70s till they took on Alex Miller (one time assistant coach at Liverpool) who decided 0-0 was a good score to keep and played 5 across the park - totally against previous Hibs philosophies of attacking football and 4-3 or at times 3-4 at least provided entertainment..
2) What was the best game you've ever been to and why?
Years ago it was a Dunfermline Athletic 5 Hibs 6 match played at East End Park Dunfermline. Hibs were 2-0 up at the break and it went to 4-0 before the Pars realised that Thomson Allan in the Hibs goal couldn't deal with high balls. Score went to 1-4, then 1-5 before the home team started lobbing the ball into Allan's box. Score went to 5-5 and they even hit the post before Hibs broke away, got a free kick taken quickly and Scott raced through to hit a shot which had rebounded from the Pars keeper and the ball just crept over the line. Referee blew for full time as the kick off was taken, and a Pars supporter (a mate of mine, George McDonald) burst into tears. Pars had scored their last 4 goals inside the last 12 minutes and it looked like they would go on to win...
3) Who is your all time favourite player and why?
Pat Stanton of Hibs was a gentleman sweeper a la Beckenbauer. He controlled the team from the park - unfortuantely he couldn't make the swap to manager after he retired, but you wanted a player. He was never in trouble with referees and when I won a competition with the Edinburgh Evening News for tickets to the Hibs story being played out in an Edinburgh theatre, part of the win was I received a football signed by the current Hibs team presented to me by Pat Stanton, by now well retired. A real gent.
4) How many other online football management games do you play (and list them)?
SESL, OASL, and just finished a season with Elite and MSWL.
5) What's your second favourite sport (because football is your favourite obviously!)?
College US Football
Looks to me like no one is interested in the lots.
No idea as to what is going on , last 2 auctions , so many missing bids ? I will look into it .
1. Support is an exaggeration but Nottingham Forest. My dad was a Forest fan and although we lived in Derbyshire we had a Nottingham address and post code. And we lived closer to Nottingham than Derby.
I did go to games - pretty much every home game from Jan 1978 to the end of that season and the season after. I'd been to three Leicester games with university mates and asked a mate back home if he wanted to watch Forest in the F.A. Cup. And I was hooked. The reason I stopped going was because It was my final year at by university and they made the East Stand where I watched from into all seater and I didn't enjoy watching from behind the goal. And it went up to £2 which was too much.
2. European Cup 1st round in 1978. Forest had won the league and Liverpool the European Cup and were drawn to play each other, City Ground for the first leg. The only full capacity match I ever attended, electric atmosphere and Forest won 2-0. I still remember Colin Barratt's goal to this day. Still not sure why the left back was in the penalty area to volley home but I often watch it on YouTube.
3. John Robertson. Robbo played left wing, though right footed, and was then the best dead ball kicker in the game. He was short and a little tubby, couldn't head the ball or run well. But he was deadly over two paces.
He scored the 3rd goal, with a diving header of all things, in the 3-3 draw against Cologne in the semi-funal (Forest went on to win the second leg 1-0 away) and provided the cross for Francis to score in the final. He also scored the only goal when the beat Hamburg in the final the following season.
4. SESL and SFLSL, United and U2.
5. American Football.
Here it is, just cut and paste then answer away please.... :)
1) What real life football team do you support and why?
2) What was the best game you've ever been to and why?
3) Who is your all time favourite player and why?
4) How many other online football management games do you play (and list them)?
5) What's your second favourite sport (because football is your favourite obviously!)?
Right, that'll do for now. Very easy and a nice little earner from not much work :)
I've been more than generous this time with the Participation Bonus in an attempt to get you all typing!!
Response was a bit poor for week 1 BUT I'll give you all the benefit of the doubt as this is just week 1 and wasn't in any way a full week (see, I am generous and not the Worst Person in the World as some hat wearing friend of mine seems to think). ;)
I'm going to do a questionnaire in a minute that I'd like 100% PARTICIPATION from please...won't take long and can be as detailed or short as you wish :) Oh...and you've got all week to respond!
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 11th April:
DAL(50) MIN(30) ROC(50) VAN(50)
...wish Phil lol :)
You're looking for and finding things that aren't there.....other than the multiple examples you've provided....errmm....anyway, there's nothing in it......now where did I put my cowboy hat?*
*= see TMVL for the hat reference ;)
As Clyde & Calvin would have said "Filip is not being naughty in posting twice , should get paid twice" !
However I sense his "stalker" Craig will see it differently ...nice try Phil :)
Reposting as my parent club, as is proper...
Okay. Let me explain. In MSWL, Craig managed to notice that more often than not my lineups come sliding in just a minute or maybe minutes before the deadline. This is even more nail biting than my typical "day of" entries in other games. But Craig has the watchdog eye on me every session, and isn't beyond throwing a friendly taunt or two in my direction. Then, Craig joins TMVL and is assigned a new team that has a new logo that is impeccably similar in color scheme and design to my own team which has been in existence from the beginning of time....or the league...whichever came later. Despite my demands for him to cease and desist, I continue to be infringed, injured and irreparably harmed by his insensitive and invasive actions. Now, in OASL, I notice that he is at the helm of the team I used to manage in my first stint in this game.
This man is on my trail, I tell you, and he is indeed the worst person in the world.
Okay. Let me explain. In MSWL, Craig managed to notice that more often than not my lineups come sliding in just a minute or maybe minutes before the deadline. This is even more nail biting than my typical "day of" entries in other games. But Craig has the watchdog eye on me every session, and isn't beyond throwing a friendly taunt or two in my direction. Then, Craig joins TMVL and is assigned a new team that has a new logo that is impeccably similar in color scheme and design to my own team which has been in existence from the beginning of time....or the league...whichever came later. Despite my demands for him to cease and desist, I continue to be infringed, injured and irreparably harmed by his insensitive and invasive actions. Now, in OASL, I notice that he is at the helm of the team I used to manage in my first stint in this game.
This man is on my trail, I tell you, and he is indeed the worst person in the world.
...sorry but I don't add the bio updates cash...that's Mr Commish as far as I'm aware?!?
And LAST CALL if you'd like some cash!!!
Get blogging/journalling anything and you'll get paid!!
Craig, Just updated my personal bios (did it at the beginning of this season, but added and subtracted some) and have done a new Update on the team's bios. Cheers.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 26:
Langley F.C. - MVP #4: 1 CP (DwW)
Gananda Bandits S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #4: 1 CP (Www)
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWW)
For me, the thing to remember is press can be about anything (Robin's posts excepted lol) from the game itself to your dogs sunbathing in the tiniest slit of sunlight on the floor (which mine are doing now funnily enough :) ).
Personally, I like finding out what people are up to, what they enjoy, why they do what they do etc...not just because I'm nosey but also through the fear of missing out lol :)
Polls asking for peoples views/experiences are usually good because we all like to talk about ourselves don't we?! :)
Anyway, you can expect something along those lines in due course...unless someone beats me to it?!?!
Never known Robin to have an opinion about anything, right? At least I've never known him to be vocal about anything...
Press is one of the most vital parts of the game, because it allows the community aspect of the game to flourish. There was a day when I was extremely active in press and might have been pretty good at it, but I'm not nearly as active on these pages as I used to be. Press always fell under the responsibilities of my cats, Clyde & Calvin. For 17 years these crazy tabbies typed out press, criticized game strategies, and made a mockery of league ownership. They were fun, creative and controversial, but they couldn't type worth a darn.
Sadly, when they passed away I found that i didn't have any heart for the press pages anymore. I thought it would get better with time but strangely, it has not.
But I do recognize the importance of press. Probably has more value than the running of the games itself. We really don't understand the value of that community until one of us disappears, or dies. Or there's a pandemic. Or a war in someone's backyard.
We had a guy many years ago named Mohd Noor. He was a riot, and maybe in part because English wasn't his strong point and he said a lot of funny stuff as we all worked through communication about strategies and tactics. Back then, we would connect in chat rooms as managers from time to time, just for fun, and the participation was fun and a lot of friendships were built. Then one day he just disappeared from the game without warning. Always seemed like a missing piece of the puzzle without him.
I've tried to reignite my press prowress, but my current cat Zorro lacks the zeal for the job. But, I appreciate those that do and, of course, the press manager who tallies to totals. I used to fill that role for SESL, before the days of the blog, and managers would e-mail me press and I would put together a newsletter. It was time consuming but in large part it was appreciated. There was always the odd duck that would shout out about deserving 40k instead of 35k, etc. That never ended well for the writer. :-)
Sadly no you don't ...I do not vote .
Managed to keep my name OFF the Electrol Roll whilst living in Privarte accomodation .
Soon as I moved into council property my name was on the list ...borrocks ...
Got hounded by enforcement officers when we had the Cencus , threatened me with jail etc ,,,told them to take a long walk on a short Pier ,,,still here today, still being an annoying ......!
Which political leaning Robin has - but I'll not get involved in the Chinese Flu chat - I'm leaving my participation to be about football- and I might still earn some cash.
Forgot about bios money - will do mine tomorrow, Craig..💰💰👍👍
The following teams receive Bio & Team Updates through :
DAL(100)
Was wondering what waffle I could come up with to earn those KKK ... mind you KKK is not very PC as in America it stands for Clue Cluks Clan .. those Americans could never sphell .....I digress .
Did want to mention The Mass Murderer Boris Johnston , but Craig said no polotics , but the he not really a polotician , he is mass murderer. Did you know in an interview 2019 he stated "Too many people living in UK , we need to reduce the numbers".
Certainly did that thanks to covid ..on March 3rd 2020 he announced on TV "we are not going to panic we are going to do nothing ...wash your hands." at the time we had 38 cases of covid no deaths. But his target was there ready and waiting The OLD Age Pensioners .kill them off reduces population and cuts govmnt spending ...brilliant plan ,and it worked killed off thousands . ...Missed David & me .
Personally I would take him outside shoot him ,smash his head with a hammer / cut his head off , run him over with a bus ...and then probably kill him .
Well done Craig, you have stated your requirements well and now it's up to us (and you) to earn the shekels 💰💰
Forgot to mention...the deadline will be Sunday so any blogs from the Monday to the Sunday inclusive will be paid the Monday after the Sunday deadline...that makes sense in my head so I hope it makes sense written down :)
Here's an example and FIRST DEADLINE IS SUNDAY 10th APRIL...plus as an added bonus, I will backdate the Participation Bonus to Monday 4th April so the first week of Bonus looks like this:
Blogs/journals between Monday 4th April to Sunday 10th April inclusive = qualify for Participation Bonus paid Monday 11th April
Morning all
Those of you who manage in SESL will be well aware how this all works and it'll work pretty much the same in OASL but for those unfamiliar this is how it works....the bottom line is, it's a way to earn some extra cash, which is always a winner :)
1) You can earn your team a maximum of 50k per week through blogging and journals. Pre/post match comments are welcomed of course but they don't contribute the Participation Bonus.
2) Every single blog/journal will count towards the 50k, even one liners. The longer/detailed the blog/journal the better but you DO NOT need to write War & Peace, far from it. The aim is just to get participation up with the cash being used to dangle the carrot
3) As little as two entries could earn you the max cash, depends on what it is. I, unfortunately, am judge and jury but the formula used will be the same for all
4) The subject matter is irrelevant. It can be anything relating to your team/squad, your opponents, upcoming games and/or anything outside of the game (but perhaps not religion and politics of course lol)
5) That's about it...other than I will look to apply your hard earned bonus cash each Monday. Sometimes life may get in the way but if it does I'll do my best to make it Tuesday at the latest. Any other problems and I'll let you know.
So there we have it, feel free to ask any questions (these will, of course, earn you cash!!) and I'll do my best to help.
Craig is going to take over Press reviews . that includes posts on Blog and journals , so get active and earn some money for your team .
I will leave it up to Craig to tell you what he is paying out and When
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 25:
New England Revolution - MVP #3: 1 TP (wdW)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #3: 1 TP (Wwd)
....erm, not sure about walking on water...ice maybe but I'd be like Bambi!!
I'd love to think I could work miracles....but I think there's more chance of me needing them!
As for the going easy on me, yes please :)
FC Dallas has a new manager , Craig Bucknall...a newbie guys so go easy on him :)
NEW POLL
Will Craig be able to save Dallas from relecation , I have heard he can walk on water , but can he Perform Miracles ?
The following teams receive Fines through :
LHT(-50) USB(-50)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 24:
Washington Diplomats - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Savannah Celtic FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDw)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #3: 1 TP (wwW)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #4: 1 CP (WWd)
Real Salt Lake - MVP #3: 1 TP (wwW)
In the Dave Dowson Shield final both Minnesota and Colorado's keepers were the highest SL players on the pitch but neither were selected to take a penalty in the shoot out.
My Rapids could also fall into that situation then Steve and I wonder how many other teams might have a higher SL keeper than their FW or MA?
I could max out an MA to go level in SL with the keeper but I wouldn't be surprised if it still picked the keeper first for any penalties.
Does it do this for any penalty shoot outs?
No music lovers here then , had zero response to my previous FUN blog.
Was going to put 2 tunes up each wk for you to vote on , and at considerable expense come up with a fantastic award !
Good boy Phil ,listened to what your Mum said all those years ago , no naughty thoughts. :)
Inbox mail to you .
I have a few words to say about MSA but my mother taught me that if I didn't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all...
Loose ref? Sends a player off in the first minute.
Now I always thought it was the highest shooting SL player that took the penalty. Nope - just the highest SL player that happened to be my GK.
Pity he didn't score but at such a low ShSL what do you expect?
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 23:
Miami FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Www)
let us have a bit of fun , light relief ....send ME link to your fav . song/tune and I will post it on Poll .
I prefer the video one tot he one that causes MSA
Robin, how could you put on a video like that of your grand daughters - actually it did kind of numb the effect of MSA.. but only just... 😳😳😳😳😳
Sorry guys it has been done , but give you something nice to look at .
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 22:
Golden Gophers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
Philadelphia Union - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DWw)
Complicated one this- all parties in power quickly move behind a successful team/player etc and like all those Man Utd/Liverpool fans who will NEVER see their team but link themselves to being supporters because they want people to think they back winners, it will always happen.
I don't agree with foreign owners buying into clubs IF they then use the club for their own ends- taking out a loan to buy the club and for some reason the club is saddled with a lifetime debt. Hearts, Glazer family etc spring to mind.
But as the various gmfootball authorities are too weak to stand up against this, or are more concerned with pocketing the riches that goes with a takeover (and they don't want to see any club go down outside of the Elite greedy bas****s in the Premier).
If the banks called time on all the clubs who are currently needing them to operate, be lucky if 2 would be left in the Premier...😡😡😡
Used the wrong entity to write this....
Nice poll, but as mentioned it is not that only question. There is more around it.
I agree with the bans, because of the idea behind it. The end result that wants to be reached.
I hate to see this comming back into the sports, but it is a part of life, the sports and the war.
If we go back 80 years, with the knowledge of now, we would have banned a lot of events and probably also the athletes of Germany. Or am I totally wrong?
The following teams receive Physio Boost through :
GOG(-40)
The following teams receive Fines through NMR:
WDP(-50)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 21:
Gananda Bandits S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Some of the upcoming games - basically the next month - will add to it as some games are completed.
Tonight is Session 21
SESSION 21 | Youth Cup Game 5 | ||
SESSION 22 | League 1,2,3,4 | MSA | |
SESSION 23 | AS Cup group game 1 | ||
SESSION 24 | League 1,2,3,4 | ||
SESSION 25 | AS Cup group game 2 | ||
SESSION 26 | League 1,2,3,4 | ||
SESSION 27 | AS Cup group game 3 | 6th Auction | |
SESSION 28 | League 1,2,3,4 | ||
SESSION 29 | Youth Cup Quarter Finals |
But the front page says 24th April - I am sure you meant March - anyway if it gets done after this Sunday's games - 27th March - it will be as near as dammit half way through the season.. :-)
Also the evening before is the change in the clocks - hour goes forward so clubs should watch their times for putting in team lines....
MSA has been on front Page for a while now , I had set it for 24th .
Think David is correct so I will change that to 27th .
Normally it is after the completion of the DD Shield,the Youth Cup section games, and the first half of the league games, but this season we are reduced in numbers, so MSA is planned for AFTER next Sunday's League games, and before the first of the Al Sellers group matches due on Wednesday 30th March.
SO, MSA is sometime next Sunday EVENING (and after the day's matches) - 27th March.
On the subject of auctions, we realise that with only 20 teams perhaps 5 auctions should be the right number (especially as few teams enter them. But we couldn't change it for this season, but next season Robin might consider 3 before MSA and 2 after MSA - up to him..
When is it due to happen? Should it have been before auction 5 ?
FINAL SCORE: Chivas X - DUNFERMLINE X
Physio boost for Lewis (GOG) - that should be okay with everybody now I guess...😳😳
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 20:
Laredo Heat - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wwD)
Langley F.C. - MVP #3: 1 TP (Dww)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wdw)
Charleston Battery - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Www)
Colorado Rapids - MVP #4: 1 CP (WWD)
The following teams receive Physio Boost through Refund:
GOG(40)
Physio Boost did not cmply as per rules , so has been revoked
The following teams receive Physio Boost through 20th March for Adam Lewis....:
GOG(-40)
Politics in sport ? I always thought it was banned .
But we have issues every year about poppies on shirts , the Premier League still caary on with "taking the Knee" long after the event , now chelsea are being punished because the Owner is Russian , is this what should happen in Football /
Politics in sport ? I always thought it was banned .
But we have issues every year about poppies on shirts , the Premier League still caary on with "taking the Knee" long after the event , now chelsea are being punished because the Owner is Russian , is this what should happen in Football /
David I'm afraid I'm the wrong person to ask about excel or the technicalities of the system.
I regularly struggle to get tables uploaded on the Sanc front page.
I don't think I've even owned a device with excel on it for the last 20 odd years
On the front page it says update with free text and update with fixed text..
I have always updated free text but find my Excel tables are skewed (such as in the youth pages).
If I Update with Fixed Text does that mean what it says in that it will print my tables and results exactly as I copy them from Excel or Word?
Might have been next season before Robin got there but it's done now and it's more obvious on the front page now. Cheers. 👍👍
Looks like your photo to me David.
I have to say I forgot the Youth tables were on the front page.
I've deleted the white space - it was just at the bottom of Rob's Review
That youth games would be on the front page under its own section and has been for a few seasons.
Tables only show tables for 2 cups - and here they are the DD Shield abs the Al Sellers Cup (senior teams).
NOW, if Robin,or you Steve, could "lose" the blank space down to the Youth section that would be great - I just do the results etc but am not up to the presentation part - heck I can't get my own photo to take over from Alon's grin, and I am now past bothering about it..🤓🤓🤔🤔
The table I was looking at is the one following the button at the top that says "Tables".
And i didn't expect to have to scroll down past 2 or 3 screens of pure white space to see anything important.
No I didn't know we'd qualified.
And after the 3 games it seems you have qualified for the last 8 but you would know that already... :-)
Can't see your query, Steve.
Fall River Rovers have played 3 games and complete their programme next Wednesday - the table says you have played 3, and the 3 matches are listed. I updated the whole thing not long after the games were played - as fast as I could...and before your Blog :-)
Not sure what you are seeing as it shows you played 3 ?
David my Star Assistant has been doing the tables and as far as I can see he has not been on site since your post !
What's going off here for the Youth? We've played 3 games and the table says we've played 2. No idea where we stand as it's obviously not at a knock out stage yet.
The following teams receive Fines through :
CCK(-50) KCA(-50)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 18:
Carson City Kickers - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (dWW)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWW)
Real Salt Lake - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Fully understand where you are coming from , but our game has been left behind , we need to offer more .
when "united" started as PBM it was basic . Al came along and updated that game adding other features ,
However that was YEARS ago time has moved on as have other Football games on the net along with the world wide acclaimed FIFA game.
I play in 3 other football games on the net and all are in advance of our game ,the best probably being https://trophymanager.com/home/ .
We have dificulty in attracting new players into our game and as people leave our nubers are reducing .
I try to come up with features that will add to the game and extend the managers brain . Mike Morton was good at this and brought in max SL into sanc which is very realistic and probably makes Sanc the Hardest to win and stay at the top .
We only have to look at recod books for OASL and see Bills domination of this league , why, because of money .
Time for us to think to the future and be able to offer NEW players and existing ones more features so they want to stay and want to join .
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 17:
Langley F.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Robin, it's always good to remember past "good" times - but OASL isn't real life - it's a game.
But it is YOUR game and a solution has to be somewhere else - good luck with it... 🤓🤓
Robin, it's always good to remember past "good" times - but OASL isn't real life - it's a game.
But it is YOUR game and a solution has to be somewhere else - good luck with it... 🤓🤓
please keep ideas coming , but I am going to stop Phil & David. The yth league is there to develope new players and to provide money for 1st team , that will remain in place. the better the yth team the more money it brings in for 1st team , that is why I push managers to take more interest in yth teams. As to extra Cp for YTH ...NO ..
it takes me back to my yth say 23 , when I played against a team call Stockwood jnrs. a bunch of 14 yr olds with I snr player GOUGH 36 ex Bath city in the team ...they beat us 9-1 !!! turns out they were Bristol City yth team and had the 2 Mabbut brothers in the team ....so only ONE old age player in yth team .
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 8th March....:
CHA(120) CLB(25) DC(70) MIA(150) MIN(170) NE(90) ROC(100) SEA(95) VAN(125)
The following teams receive Cup Draw Participation through 8th March ……:
PHI(30)
Why not keep the youth money with the youth and let the youth team buy CPs at 100k each - maximum say 10CPs per season (if cash goes too high make it 150k per CP. it can be tweaked per season depending upon the average monies each youth team has?
That cuts the senior teams "bonus" each season.
PS MIN's starting money was not the highest, many teams had comparable amounts, and shock horror, Alon had earned it through his team's results. But at least there is chat about it, and talking is good. 👍👍
I don't pretend to understand the intracies of this game, so feel free to disregard this if I'm off base...
What Robin is proposing feels like a tax on winning, and it just doesn't feel right. If the problem is too much money in the game, and the source of that money is the youth league, I suggest finding a way to prevent that youth league money from coming into the game. It seems like that could be done in a fashion that affects each team equally, and would reduce the amount of money in the game without impacting one team over the other.
Daft or not so daft . ....absolutely no intention of doing anything THIS season , firstly up for debate , then up for a poll...takes us well into this season .
Min losing so much money ! why not ...Starting Balance5 312 million
Got to say for someone who hasn't time to award player retirement cash, you can come up with the daftest schemes and quickly.
Okay, maybe not daft, but no way it can be implemented during a season. You can announce it for future seasons, like next season, but you just can't invoke a scheme on a whim mid season... There, my tuppence worth!!
Hitting clubs who have managed to earn winnings through previous seasons is a turn off for managers wanting to win competitions -why bother when the Commish will deduct the prize money anyway.
On that basis MIN might expect to pay up to around $1.32m @ 60k per week - 22 weeks - not going to happen, is it?
I have always thought OASL had too much money floating around , especially with the big bonus from the yth teams at end of season .
Does this make managers less concerned about financial situation / and push up Auction prices ?
What I was thinking of making us more aware/and realistic , in watching our finances.
So what I am proposing is a weekly deduction to main league teams based on SL.
Listed below are the 2 top teams SL , me as average and poor Jason who has least money .
Minnesota Thunder Div1 Avg gate 86K 25play.SL 612
Seattle Sounders Div2 Avg gate 81k 25play SL 622
Vancouver Whiteca Div2 Avg gate 68k 23playSl 496
Carolina RailHawksDiv2 Avg gate 74k 25playSL 513
Based on above; top 2 would pay 60k per wk ..me 40k and Jason 50k.
Still teams would bring in money , more if playing twice in the week .
Have a think ...shoot me down , or any other ideas.
have a discussion and I will run a poll later.
Aggression doesn't affect shooting SL. Passive, normal, aggressive or dirty your Shooting SL stays the same. Been like that forever as far as I know.
Same with GKs in that their save chance is the same. However a passive GK loses the difference in SL to GP and an aggressive gains GP.
So SL 32 playing p means a loss of 8 GP. Aggressive gains 8 GP. This was to stop SL 40 save chance. This was changed more recently - like 14 years ago.
...about the "NO IDEA" part. Outside of a couple of quick fixes I haven't been in this version of the code for 15 years. And then adding "what was I thinking 15 years ago..." would be even harder (impossible) to decipher/remember.
So, sorry Paul, I really can't help here. Maybe someone in SESL can help if they've seen NMRs to see if this is the norm or not. I wouldn't be able to give you an accurate answer without digging into the code and I have a lot of other priorities at the moment.
I'm only here to make up the numbers and get an MVP once every 3 seasons...
Wow ! what a spot ,you have picked out something I would never hae spotted .
So to answer your question ....NO idea ... you need BIG Al to answer that one as it he, wat wrote this game ...
I have noticed something. DAL look to have NMR'd against me in the game. All the players SH SL seem to have been lower than expected. That is expected. But 2 players seem to be exempt for that. The 2 MA players kept their SH SL at their top level even though passive.
is there a reason why the SH SL of the MA are not affected when playing Passive?
...just received their 2nd (I must have gotten 1 in the prior 2 seasons; right?) MVP under the watchful eye of...well...me.
Yes, I am a terrible manager. But I will take any positives I can get!
A couple of days late but just to inform you that this Wednesday sees the Final and the 3rd/4th place game in the Dave Dowson Shield. Games geature COL v MIN and SEA v NE
These games will complete the competition for this season.
(In addition don't forget that this Wednesday also sees matchday 3 (of 5) in the Youth Cup.)
VAN sends 70k to MIN for Rand Om (3/16 DF)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 16:
Daniel Island S.A. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WDW)
Mount Tabor S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Columbus Crew - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDw)
Vancouver Whitecaps - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #3: 1 TP (WwW)
Chivas USA - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDw)
Busy work week and lost track of days and matches - bad week to forget to get a lineup in!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 15:
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 14:
Carson City Kickers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
I have removed dave King from the game ,constant NMR ! So we have a vacancy :)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 13:
KC Athletics - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (www)
Mount Tabor S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Colorado Rapids - MVP #3: 1 TP (Wdw)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (dWw)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #4: 1 CP (WDW)
New England Revolution - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WDW)
just a thought , anybody out there fancy taking over as Commish ?
Mail me if you are interested , I would remain as assistant dogsbody .>>>>
>>>I have mine David Blair ...but now he is moving into Trump Towers as President !
Nice if you can get it , gives your team different options on tactics if you have good OTF .Currently 10 teams somewhat lacking in that dept.
Now on to other matters.
1. preseason I asked for some new players ....Nobody came fwd.
2.I asked for assistant ....................................Nobody came fwd
3. I asked for somebody to run Davids polls Nobody came fwd
4. I needed somebody to do do press & bios Nobody came fwd
Nobody has unfortunately left the building , so we have no press bonus/bios/ etc so no money for you guys ...
Personally I blame Nobody
I agree Steve, first time I can remember getting such a bargain - it's almost like there should be a minimum bid to secure the 3 OTF - if you get it cheaper you get the money back but NO OTF. For now we both accept your good fortune.
The following teams receive Fines through :
TDL(-50)
Ridiculous really.
But both as bad as 3 OTF for 1k.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 12:
Washington Diplomats - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Wdw)
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWW)
Langley F.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWw)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (dWW)
Shame on you David , picking on old Scottish bloke with brain size of peanut. American football is VERY complcated ,have to understand all the different "plays" , fortunately back in the day I had my abacus to help me .
Ask Mr. Sellers he will tell you it is DIFFICULT to play . Try telling an American the rules of Cricket !: just like telling a Scottish person the rules of American Football......DOH
Al, why not re-create it, and just not let Robin play in it??? It can't have been that difficult, eh? :-) :-)
Thanks Steve for the plug! Anyone who wants to give it a try please let us know.
Yes Robin, Max is a little older now, and you are right I think we had an American football league at one point (early 2000's?).
Sadly that league succumbed to the Robin Rule where once Robin wins, the league has to fold...😎
Good for you Steve in promoting Al's new game , expect Max has got his own chair by now rather than sitting on dads knee :)
Good for Al to come up with someting new also , not a game I follow except watching the Girls play Beach volley ball !
I do recall Al starting an American Football game way back in time , which I really enjoyed , and to everyones surprise I won it ! .. probably upset a few Americans as to how a fat semi-drunk Scottish person won ! anyway game did not last long ..DOH.
Good luck
I play in TMVL, probably the only online volleyball simulator in the whole Universe, which is run by Al Sellers and coded by him and his son, Max. I think it's brilliant and hope some of you would like it. Al is looking for about 8 more coaches as the site is growing from 16 to 32 teams next season. Games are run on a Saturday at 9 PM UK time (usually - sometimes Al is away watching Max playing volleyball at college) - next season it's likely to be over 12 sessions with a 13th post season session. Turnarounds between seasons are quick (this one will be slower due to extra coding). If you join you can pick your own team name within reason. Like OASL you have a team of players of different ages and skills (and I'll use OASL terminology for similar things) that you can coach with CP. Players age each season but don't lose SL. However after their 4th season they retire. New players are bought in auctions to replace those retiring but they don't play till the following season. If you don't get enough players (and not everybody can) then you get more, with less skill, post season. Also post season you can increase the SL of players using XP which the players earn through playing games.
EL is different in that it starts at 0, can be increased to a maximum of 1 either with CP or not playing that session. Playing more than 2 games costs 1 EL per extra game with no minimum value (you play 2 to 4 games each session). A player's effectiveSL = SL+EL. Home games also increase effectiveSL in 3 skills
There are 5 positions for players (who can't play out of position) and each position has between 4 and 6 skills. For example an outside hitter can serve, receive, set, defend, block or attack. A libero does 4 of these. You can only CP one per session per player so you have to choose which to increase. On average you'll be using CP on 5 to 7 players per session (they don't have to play). At the end of season XP can be used on multiple skills but only once per skill.
There are lots of decisions to make in this game and I still don't know the best tactics. If you want to have a look either email me at Steveturner200 on gmail or inbox me.
Gents, section matches are now completed and the tables are there to see on the front page, so below is the Quarter Final draw on the basis of W Section A v 4th Section B, 2nd Section B v 3rd Section A, Winner Section B v 4th Section A, and 2nd Section A v 3rd Section B
Quarter Finals | ||
Colorado Rapids | v | FC Dallas |
Seattle Sounders | v | San Jose Earthquakes |
Minnesota Thunder | v | Rochester Rhinos |
New England Revolution | v | Real Salt Lake |
Games are next Wednesday, along with the first matches in the Youth Cup (check your 2 teams fixtures regularly please)...
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 11:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Wwd)
The following teams receive Fines through :
TDL(-50)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 10:
Philadelphia Union - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Wwd)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #3: 1 TP (wwW)
Houston Dynamo - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wwD)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 9:
Seattle Sounders - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Dww)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wdW)
Colorado Rapids - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WDw)
Normally all CPs earned by youth teams for MVPs (always later in the season as TPs are paid initially) were converted to TPs but if you leave it alone Robin, then any earned this season could just be left at the youth team and used ON THE SAME PLAYER NOMINATED TO RECEIVE THE 5 CPS BOUGHT AT THE SEASON START. (If none bought then any earned could be used on any age 2 player.)
That doesn't need any action from yourself, Robin, your only other choice is to change any CPs earned to TPs as was always done before. 🤔🤔
Normally all CPs earned by youth teams for MVPs (always later in the season as TPs are paid initially) were converted to TPs but if you leave it alone Robin, then any earned this season could just be left at the youth team and used ON THE SAME PLAYER NOMINATED TO RECEIVE THE 5 CPS BOUGHT AT THE SEASON START. (If none bought then any earned could be used on any age 2 player.)
That doesn't need any action from yourself, Robin, your only other choice is to change any CPs earned to TPs as was always done before. 🤔🤔
Not sure about that nothing in the Rules , must have been something that David did .
I will have a think about that .
Yes, what Roy said, sorry I wasnt clear :)
A clear winner in the poll and its not possible to be out voted now , even combining all other votes.
As two (possibly 3) people brought it up is it worth another poll with the options below
1 - 2 up 2 down
2 - 2 up 2 down plus one play off
any support ?
The MVPs will automatically give out CP at some stages whether it's senior or youth team. Up until this season the youth teams weren't allowed to use CP so the commish would manually convert the CP to TP.
I think David is asking whether this will stay the same or if any CP gained by the youth team via MVP can be used. (Maybe give the manager the choice?)
The 5 CP reference I think is to do with the 5 CP now purchaseable pre-season by the youth teams.
Sorry for NMR(s)
Had a bereavement. Will get back to things this week.
Firstly Phil , I suspected that was the case , hope things get better for you .
David unsure what you are talking about what 5 free Cp ?
MIN sends 50k to SJ for Glenn Hoddle (7/14 SW)
Apologies but cant recall the initial discussion.
In previous seasons, any CP gained from MVPs are converted to TPs because we didnt use CPs. Will that still be the case or can you use your free 5 plus any others gained?
Cheers
Hey, all. I apologize for the nmr. I'm sitting bedside with my father at the hospital this week. I am very distracted and don't know what day it is. Yesterday didn't sleep for about 24 hours. Thanks for the patience.
The following teams receive Fines through :
GBS(-50) MTS(-50) TDL(-50)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 8:
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
Real Salt Lake - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wwW)
If I can explain my reasoning behind fines in yth Lg. for NMR
My main objective is to make the yth league more competitive.
A number of managers just see the yth league as a cash mashine and yth provider at end of season !
It was set up to be more than that , I had long discussions with Dave before he set it up as I had previously
run a yth League in SANC.
Anyway it is a Match to be played and every manager should be doing his best to win the match .
You only got ONE main League game on the Sunday so lose that and you end up kicking the cat , somewhat pissed off.
But wait you have a yth game also ,WIN that and Sunday is not so bad ...LOL
lose yth game also , just shoot yourself.
There is so much money in OASL a 50k fine is drop in the ocean , but let us not go there , you got a 2nd game , try to win the yth league , Stop Dewar Jnr. from dominating ..!!
Maybe don't fine teams, award 50k for five without missing one.
Please reconsider fines for NMRing.
We don't NMR by choice.
Must have been a great holiday for Robin Ricky as he has returned to club miles overweight , stinking of rum and worst of all with 0 EL !!!
Sorry guys but this is likely to be my last season 8n OASL. Nothing set in stone yet but I find I have less time to bother about this league.
CHV sends David Buttercup (5/20 GK) to CHA for 220k
This Sunday starts your youth team league games. There will be one every Sunday from now on, AND from match 13 each Wednesday will feature a game for 16 of the 20 youth teams too. Keep an eye on your youth teams schedule - Cup matches are being scheduled around now.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 7:
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Is it me, just pressing Enter to find out...
I had a look - I thought that was me about 30 years ago, but NO! I believe it is still Alon - will try to upload my visage!!
I like the new David Blair photo!
Seems to be sorted - my lad got his CP okay.. thanks Al and Mark..
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 6:
Colorado Rapids - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
There is a problem in the system in using CP/TP on new auction players .
If your players did NOT receive CP/TP 2day ,let me know and I will make an adjustment
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 5:
Seattle Sounders - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWw)
True, Robin. My lad is down to be CP'd as player number 1009.
Not sure if he will be CP'd but afterwards he could have an SL added and a CP deducted. I only worry if it throws the server out after the games are played.
(PS Robin, remember to deduct the MF that CAR won in the auction and add their +3OTF.). 👍👍
FOR anybody who bought a player in Auction and playing him this next match and using CP/TP please chk your orders to see if they are correct ., mine are coming up wrong .
Mark was saying once he gets the relevant club IDs he hopes maybe tonight - but as Robin says the matter is in hand, and should not be a problem from this auction onwards..
Nope it did not run aparently there is a problem in the system (Nuffink to do with me this time).
David ,Big Al , & Mark are all beavering away trying to sort it out .:)
Did it not run ???
No excuse from me. I have been dealing with a lot in 2022 thus far...dad is in the hospital in Tennessee and there's been a lot of travel and will continue to be. On a lighter note, also traveling to and from Arrowhead for Chiefs playoffs...but I had lineups half entered since Friday and one life distraction after another bogged me down. My error. This stuff was easier when Clyde and Calvin had their paws on everything.
Somewhat Disappointed in more NMR 2day , 2 teams missed 50% of games so far .
Filip I can excuse , expect Mary had him washing dishes before he was alowed on his comp. !
A great deal of work has been put in by myself to get us up and running and a great deal by David Blair who is supposed to be retired. Added to this contributions from AL and Mark.
The game is run for your enjoyment if you have lost interest please say so and I will replace you , but more NMR will not be accepted.
Robin
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 4:
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWD)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
Allan, yes, it's a way to get 3 OTF. BUT you have to put in a player's name - any will do, but you must put one in.
If you are successful, Robin will delete the player and award you the 3 OTF soon after..... :-)
Was going to say you get Robin Dewar age 90 who has 3 legs , actually my zimmer frame has 1 leg missing should be 4 :)
Alternatively you might get some OTF ,
Take your pick
Why would I want a 9/3 MF in the auction? Is this some sort of OTF boost or another rule I'm not familiar with?
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 3:
FC Dallas - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
New England Revolution - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
Hi Guys, I will do my utmost best, but I cannot make promisses.
DD shield problem . I have had mail from Mr.David Blair aka BALDRICK , who says he has a cunning plan , which might solve the problem ! .........umm
For those Non-Brits , Baldrick !
Baldrick, I have a very cunning plan. Baldrick : Is it as cunning as a fox what used to be Professor of Cunning at Oxford University but has moved on and is now working for the U.N. at the High Commission of International Cunning Planning. Born 1800 > still alive today .
Yes Mr.Blair is that old ..............
Welcome Simon to the Cup reviewers job. You will be busy for the first 7 games before Rob gets his chance, but all in all the season is looking good to go - just as well the Commish is a teetotaller - needs a clear head to keep thgis game in check. :-)
Fan frigin Fantastic Simon , well done you got the Job , suppose i will have to pay you ....Laters :)
I saw I still had some access...and used the option to write something on the main page as I had some spare time today.
The following teams receive Adjustment through 12th January - already deducted - refunded.:
USB(1030)
The following teams receive Adjustment through 12th January - deductions from youth teams given to senior teams:
CDY(-1000) CCK(-990) REB(-1060) DIS(-900) DAF(-1200) GBS(-1090) GOG(-1400) KCA(-1100) LFC(-1700) LHT(-1020) MTS(-990) NSS(-1380) RFC(-990) RIS(-1180) SCF(-1000) TDL(-1180) USB(-1030) WDP(-910)
Yes Andy they should all be on neutral , this is my bad , down to my scheduling , was all automatic when I was doing it in SANC , here alot has to be done manually ,David was a star , now you guys got me.
Unfortunately can not correct that as I would have to delete the Whole DD schedule of games and start again , and who's to say I won't make a mistake in rescheduling 80+ games .
So we have to live with it my apologies , to everybody ....not having a great start !!
I am assuming you meant 5 CP ? ...Done it for you under preseason .
I can navigate the transaction page for my youth team, but I am unable to select 5 TP to purchase. What am I doing wrong?
9 games, 6 neutral venue, 2 at home and one away. Should they all be on a neutral venue?
We have a vacancy in the Press Office , looking for a younger man to replace the Old git person that we had previously . Highly paid job , and you can always milk it like the giuy on sanc does , write a load of garbage and pay yourself 40k each week . Applications via my inbox please .
I am hoping that other current OASL officials will continoe in their posis , unless I hear different.
Thanks
For this season we will have to change , so we have a new Poll .
Only 10 teams so do not want drastic changes within the leagues.
so proposing 1 up 1 down / ditto plus 1 playoff / 2 up 2 down, / other
For this season as we have 2 groups of 10 , the TOP 4 in each group will qualify for next round.
A1 v B4
B2 v A3
A2 v B3
B1 v A4
Just to say that it seems Alon has left the stage and after some "persuasion" from the Boss (Robin - keep up!) I agreed to step in for this season and ruin, no that should be run MIN and GOG. That is until someone else comes in through the season - my wages are only for this season - I am trying to step back.
Robin has done well getting to this stage with a little "encouragement" from myself, and I can always assist if he comes up against some obstacle. THEN he will be on his own, and I am sure he will be pleased to see the back of me, and get on to run the show without my interference.
Looking forward to actually playing with a senior team - I DID miss that when Commish.
Good luck to all for Wednesday!!
GOG sends Nat Philips (1/17 SW), Thiago (1/16 MF), Neco Williams (1/16 DF) to MIN for
NSS sends Mauro Serra (1/19 MF) to SEA for
GOG sends Curtis Jones (1/17 FW) to MIN for 1k
Did I see somewhere that your Youth Team could buy CP's? Or did I dream it?
YES Mr.S. you are correct , and you can buy 5 CP for your yth team , same to Paul .
See front page
Is there a to do list of all the things I should be doing to prep for the season?
What am I missing? I believe I am at least missing these two steps on the Transactions page (Preseason tab)
Anything else I should be doing?
Thanks,
Al
Did I see somewhere that your Youth Team could buy CP's? Or did I dream it?
MY bad unfortunately Sunday/Wed I have no idea ...had my car stolen and smashed up just before xmas , now confined to house each day is same as last one , obviously no idea or care what day it is !
Sorry guys , obviously starts on 12th ....whatever that day is :)
I've seen Sunday mentioned a couple of times, but game 1 in for the 12th which is weds. Presume that's the actual start?
David , youths 2day , found your 4 clubbing it up in Ibiza , have a word when they get back !!
None of them fit for pre season training. I'm furious!
David , youths 2day , found your 4 clubbing it up in Ibiza , have a word when they get back !!
My youth team have had the age 0s added but not the age 1s. Cheers :)
Good spot Matt . ...they were in isolation for 10 days due to covid ..now available to join your squad :)
Robin
Robin,
Sorry if I have missed something but no youth Zplayers have been add to the Washington Diplomate squad.
The squad had been reduced to the correct number to allow this.
We are ready to go on Sunday , Preseason needs to be done or you will miss out on CP.
Alon appears to have gone AWOL , so we may have one missing this season .
TDL sends Jimmy Maurer (1/16 GK) to DAL for 1k
TDL sends Dante Sealy (1/16 FW), Freddy Vargas (1/15 MF), Matt Hedges (1/16 DF) to DAL for 1k
Following a Lengthy discussion with David several things came to light and decisions have been made .
As a result of this, the Poll is now CLOSED . Result.was in favour of 10 teams , still available to view.
Also I discover that this league is not auromated ,.. that is, simply push a button and it is done ...DOH ..nightmare ahead . It is a wonder David kept his sanity ...anyway he has offered to help with part of the fixture setup , hence the quick decision on the Poll.
Also we have had to push the start date back to WED 12th , hopefully (fingers crossed) WE WILL start on this date .
Finally a new addition to the Referees list , aparently tradition is you win div1 you become a Man in Black .
Bryce Kalmbach is that man so he can expect latge brown envelopes with ....?
Finally would like to close this poll on Thursday so I can start scheduling matches for the League ,
Only 3 votes in so far .
MIN GOG
Just 1 to go , would like you all to chk your squads to chk everything is ok .It is a bit complicated long winded system in moving these players and also having lost a chunk of my work (my fault) .
The scheduling of the DD shield is proving to be a nightmare so need to talk to David about that .
So will have to put start date back to next Sunday 9th .
Also as a trial this season you can use 5 cp in the youth team , but only on 1 player , going to throw in an option , use on OTF..
Preseason is open
Transfers made for ROC. All successful. I have the same question as below...is there a way for DF Kimble to become DM?
I tried having the magic chicken circle him three times but he's still a DF.
GBS sends Lennie Harry (1/18 FW) to ROC for 1k
GBS sends Joe Rose (1/19 GK), Gary Kimble (1/19 DF), Andy Talbot (1/18 MF) to ROC for 3k
Due to roster size limitations, it will not allow me to move my 4th player over until after the new players are added, it seems.
Apologies if I missed the instructions, but how should I convert the player requested to become MPP? Thanks
NSS sends Oliver Clausen (1/19 DF), Chus Ochoa (1/19 DF), Tycho Van Donk (1/19 FW) to SEA for
ATL sends to SCF for Jose Baez (1/17 SD), Dan Meyer (1/17 DF), Bill Stein (1/16 MF)
ATL sends to SCF for Craig Reynolds (1/16 FW)
ATL> SCF
SEA NSS
ROC GBS
MIN GOG
DIS sends Alex Olsen (1/19 SW), Joachim Olsen (1/18 DF), Aron Olsen (1/17 MF) to CHA for
DIS sends Gerhard Olsen (1/19 MA) to CHA for
CCK sends Willie Weed (1/17 FW) to CHV for 1k
CCK sends Trevor Thistle (1/18 GK), Harold Hedge (1/17 WG), Ivor Iris (1/17 WG) to CHV for 1k
Happy New year to all from Philadelphia Union and Roxbrough Indians
Hope you had a chance to think about the new poll.
We have no new managers or likely to get any , so what you want to do next season .
10 teams or 12 .?
CIW sends Stefan Posch (1/17 SD), Florian Grillitsch (1/17 MF), Husein Balic (1/16 WG) to COL for
CIW sends Sasa Kalajdzic (1/17 FW) to COL for
These teams need to move players , I can do nothing .
ATL> SCF
CHA DIS
COL>CIW
SEA NSS
CAR CDY
ROC GBS
CHV CCK
MIN GOG
DAF sends Oliver Giroud (1/18 FW) to SJ for 1k
DAF sends Antonio Rudiger (1/18 DF), Mason Mount (1/18 MF), Hakim Ziyech (1/18 WG) to SJ for 1k
WDP sends Gary Shaw (1/18 FW) to DC for
WDP sends Jimmy Rimmer (1/17 GK), David Luios (1/18 MF), Alan Evans (1/17 DF) to DC for
KC sends 1k to KCA for Candace Dannel (1/17 FW)
KC sends 1k to KCA for Blythe Truman (1/17 SW), Kristy Hopper (1/17 DF), Libby Silver (1/17 MF)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through Yth > Main:
FRR(-1300) NE(1300)
Good news. Think Preseason needs to be opened still.
HOU sends 1k to LHT for Miguel Nobrega (1/17 DF)
HOU sends 1k to LHT for Greg Aubert (1/17 WG), Marcus Moody (1/17 WG), Chris Brighton (1/17 MF)
CDY sends Cameron Brown (1/16 WG) to CAR for 1k
CDY sends Jamie Grossart (1/17 GK), Rob Howard (1/16 DF), Jon Benton (1/16 MF) to CAR for 1k
FRR sends Darth Vader (1/18 DF), Luke Skywalker (1/18 GK), Obi Wan Kenobi (1/17 MF) to NE for
FRR sends Han Solo (1/18 MA) to NE for
Rolled back to last back-up 24 Dec 23:30 hrs.
All credit to Al Sellers. I just hit a few buttons.
Game on (well, games in 2022, and not 2021 again please) ;-)
cheers, Mark
LAB sends Calder Glen (1/18 DM) to LA for
LAB sends Gru Minion (1/18 FW), Curious George (1/18 FW), Krusty Clown (1/19 GK) to LA for
MOL sends Armando Iannucci (1/19 FW), Michael Geordie (1/18 MF), Simon Greenall (1/18 MF) to MON for
MOL sends Steve Coogan (1/19 MA) to MON for
For what it's worth....
6/5 WG Meerkat
6/5 FW Austin Reier
6/10 DM LeSean McCoy
Hope everyone is having a Merry Christmas. I chipth my toof.
Merry Christmas and a prosperous New year from all at Philadelphia Union and Roxbrough Indians
I did exactly the same thing Steve.
I then tried to transfer again when the youth team had 29 players but it came up with invalid trade.
Nothing was happening and I saw some youth/senior trades had gone ahead. I assumed I had to accept mine so did - except they were declared invalid so need to be offered again. Sorry.
Sorry guys I have been AWOL for a few days , David has been loging in as me to do some bits and pieces.
As David mentioned to me "Lucky White Heather " ...seems I have mislaid mine as last 2 weeks have been filled with family issues . ...Mostly resolved now so I am back in the Driving seat and will push on , set to start on Jan 2nd ..
Robin
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 22nd December....:
ATL(85) CHA(15) CHV(65) COL(155) CLB(75) DC(45) DAL(50) HOU(20) KC(40) PHI(230) POR(190) RSL(450) SJ(100) VAN(65)
HOU sends Tom Purshouse (2/23 FW) to MIA for Errol Spence Jnr (4/21 MA), Hugh Tornado (5/29 GK)
USB sends Claudio (1/18 WG) to RSL for
USB sends Scheidt (1/18 GK), Djalma (1/18 DF), Careca (1/17 MF) to RSL for
Dec 21 21 | RSL | Retirement | 6/5 FW Avar |
Dec 21 21 | RSL | Retirement | 7/2 FW Corey Burke |
Dec 21 21 | RSL | Retirement | 7/2 MF Grozdan |
I believe I called you Filip , which is what those 2 wonderful cats called you . Very fond memories of those days , with those 2 around .
No worries! We all love a bit of a break.
Apologies for being what I am sure is the final holdup in processing the offseason moves this year. Sometimes when the offseason hits, I'm in full "break" mode. I appreciate Robin's kind note prompting me yesterday. I'll need a refresher of some of the English slang to know for sure what he called me....
It is a bit of a marathon moving & adding yth players , hats off to David yet again .
Anyway was hoping to start early Jan , so still possible , but missing 2 managers response.
I had mentioned previously that you can buy 5CP for your yth team , but only to be used on 1 player..
I have done preseason for Langley and you can buy your CP in the system .
On adding the new players I notice that the Teams in Div1 & 2 that do well get LOW level players , understandable as we dont want them to have big age 0 players who turn into Big age 1 players for promotion the next season .
BUT does make life difficult for them to be copetitive in the youth leagues , which is what I am trying to achieve, unless you all want me to keep wining Div 3 :)......OK I take the answer to that is NO .
So to help the teams getting 0/4 0/5 players and also getting !/10 players , I would like to propose as a trial for next season that they get a 1/11 and a 1/12 player , unless anybody strongly objects, that is what I will do :).
New players in now, Robin. Thank you for the reminder email.
MTS sends Stuart Shaw (1/14 DF), Nick Wikes (1/19 MF), John Slack (1/16 MF) to POR for
Voted twice in the manager poll , good news is I don't think it will effect the outcome !!
REB sends Udo Juergen (1/17 FW) to CLB for
REB sends Gus Fermin (1/18 DF), Jim Ortiz (1/18 MF), Franco Rossi (1/17 MF) to CLB for
RFC sends Bruce Rhodes (1/18 WG) to MIA for
RFC sends Roy Hawkins (1/19 GK), Conor Shaughnessy (1/18 DF), Noel Fehily (1/18 MF) to MIA for
FC Dallas
7/5 DF Justin Che
7/5 DF Bryan Acosta
5/7 SW Bronson Von Winkle
RIS sends Sasa Kalajdzic (1/16 FW) to PHI for
RIS sends Nemanja Radonic (1/17 MF), Christoph Baumgartner (1/17 MF), Josip Brekalo (1/17 MF) to PHI for
LFC sends Tom Wilson (1/15 DF), Steve Evans (1/16 MF), Webb Ellis (1/8 MF) to VAN for
Ok guys I am about to add/move players in your Squads.
What I need from you is to make space in your 1st team for 3 or 4 new players , so need you to retire some players , if unable to do so, ask me to delete them .
Yth Teams , similar , you will be getting 8 new players , but are also promoting 3 or 4 up to 1st team , so careful how many you retire. .Mount Tabor S.C. your squad is too small so be carefull how many you retire
The image of Mnt Tabor on the chat is the old Clydesdale Bank £10 note. Which a lot of people say looks like me.
The image of Mnt Tabor on the chat is the old Clydesdale Bank £10 note. Which a lot of people say looks like me.
The following teams receive Adjustment through Yth > Main:
ATL(1000) CAR(1000) CHA(900) CHI(1025) CHV(990) CIW(-1100) COL(1100) CLB(1060) DC(910) DAL(1180) HOU(1020) KC(1100) LA(1330) MIA(990) MIN(1400) MON(1160) NY(880) PHI(1180) POR(900) RSL(1030) ROC(1090) SJ(1200) SEA(1380) USB(-1030) VAN(1700)
The following teams receive Adjustment through Robin Hood:
MIN(-312) NY(312)
If you want to change teams deadline is Monday 12.00
these are available Chicago Fire /Los Angeles Galaxy /Montreal Impact /New York Red Bulls
I think New York Red Bulls has gone as 1 manager has expressed an interest
POLL is now closed , majority votes went to Bryce Kalmbach , +3 OTF has been added to Atalanta.
0/7 DF John Wilson
0/7 FW Lewis Butler
0/7 MF Barry Duke
0/7 FW Lee Darton
1/13 GK Lee Cole
1/13 MF Gorden Blake
1/13 DF Brian Clare
1/12 FW P Blythe
Promote Stuart Shaw
Nick Wickes
John Slack
John Jacobs
Cheers
Derek
Tables are now in place .
Fab 4 have left the building , should you want to change your team let me know .
these are available Chicago Fire /Los Angeles Galaxy /Montreal Impact /New York Red Bulls
I think New York Red Bulls has gone as 1 manager has expressed an interest
You will all have got your new yth players for the new season .
just follow instructions and inbox me @ VAN do nothing else for now.
POLL will be closing Friday only 8 votes to date.
The FAB 4 will be leaving us tomorrow , so possibly their teams will be up for grabs .
Final league positions are:
Division 1 | ||||||||
TEAM | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | PTS | |
1. | Atlanta Silverbacks | 14 | 6 | 2 | 33 | 11 | 22 | 48 |
2. | Minnesota Thunder | 13 | 4 | 5 | 28 | 15 | 13 | 43 |
3. | Colorado Rapids | 9 | 5 | 8 | 36 | 28 | 8 | 32 |
4. | New York Red Bulls | 8 | 6 | 8 | 34 | 24 | 10 | 30 |
5. | Real Salt Lake | 8 | 5 | 9 | 40 | 40 | 0 | 29 |
6. | FC Dallas | 7 | 8 | 7 | 20 | 25 | -5 | 29 |
7. | Houston Dynamo | 9 | 2 | 11 | 25 | 47 | -22 | 29 |
8. | New England Revolution | 7 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 16 | -1 | 28 |
9. | Kansas City Wizards | 8 | 4 | 10 | 37 | 45 | -8 | 28 |
10. | Chivas USA | 7 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 20 | -2 | 27 |
11. REL | Carolina RailHawks | 6 | 6 | 10 | 24 | 27 | -3 | 24 |
12. REL | Philadelphia Union | 4 | 5 | 13 | 13 | 25 | -12 | 17 |
Division 2 | ||||||||
TEAM | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | PTS | |
1. PRO | Rochester Rhinos | 20 | 0 | 2 | 42 | 8 | 34 | 60 |
2. PRO | Montreal Impact | 16 | 2 | 4 | 46 | 20 | 26 | 50 |
3. | Seattle Sounders | 13 | 2 | 7 | 37 | 17 | 20 | 41 |
4. | D.C. United | 11 | 5 | 6 | 27 | 19 | 8 | 38 |
5. | San Jose Earthquakes | 10 | 6 | 6 | 29 | 20 | 9 | 36 |
6. | Los Angeles Galaxy | 7 | 4 | 11 | 28 | 42 | -14 | 25 |
7. | Chicago Fire | 7 | 3 | 12 | 24 | 28 | -4 | 24 |
8. | Columbus Crew | 7 | 3 | 12 | 22 | 39 | -17 | 24 |
9. | Charleston Battery | 5 | 6 | 11 | 29 | 42 | -13 | 21 |
10. | Vancouver Whitecaps | 4 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 21 | -11 | 20 |
11. | Miami FC | 6 | 1 | 15 | 24 | 33 | -9 | 19 |
12. | Portland Timbers | 6 | 0 | 16 | 27 | 56 | -29 | 18 |
Division 3 | ||||||||
TEAM | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | PTS | |
1. | Langley F.C. | 13 | 5 | 4 | 37 | 10 | 27 | 44 |
2. | Mount Tabor S.C. | 12 | 3 | 7 | 28 | 15 | 13 | 39 |
3. | North Sound Seawolves | 11 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 22 | 0 | 38 |
4. | Windy City Pride | 10 | 5 | 7 | 28 | 29 | -1 | 35 |
5. | Fall River Rovers | 9 | 5 | 8 | 25 | 22 | 3 | 32 |
6. | Texas Dutch Lions | 8 | 8 | 6 | 22 | 19 | 3 | 32 |
7. | Savannah Celtic FC | 8 | 5 | 9 | 24 | 20 | 4 | 29 |
8. | Colorado Ice White | 8 | 2 | 12 | 28 | 38 | -10 | 26 |
9. | KC Athletics | 8 | 2 | 12 | 27 | 37 | -10 | 26 |
10. | Daniel Island S.A. | 7 | 3 | 12 | 16 | 19 | -3 | 24 |
11. REL | Utah Surf Boys S.C. | 6 | 5 | 11 | 23 | 38 | -15 | 23 |
12. REL | De Anza Force S.C. | 5 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 27 | -11 | 21 |
Division 4 | ||||||||
TEAM | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | PTS | |
1. PRO | Golden Gophers | 16 | 3 | 3 | 51 | 23 | 28 | 51 |
2. PRO | Gananda Bandits S.C. | 13 | 5 | 4 | 39 | 18 | 21 | 44 |
3. | Red Force FC | 11 | 6 | 5 | 38 | 19 | 19 | 39 |
4. | Laredo Heat | 9 | 8 | 5 | 39 | 30 | 9 | 35 |
5. | Roxborough Indians S.C. | 8 | 8 | 6 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 32 |
6. | Carolina Dynamo | 8 | 4 | 10 | 25 | 25 | 0 | 28 |
7. | Columbus Rebels | 7 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 23 | -3 | 26 |
8. | Carson City Kickers | 6 | 8 | 8 | 19 | 36 | -17 | 26 |
9. | New Bedford Whalers | 7 | 3 | 12 | 31 | 38 | -7 | 24 |
10. | Los Angeles Blues | 6 | 6 | 10 | 27 | 40 | -13 | 24 |
11. | Washington Diplomats | 5 | 6 | 11 | 20 | 32 | -12 | 21 |
12. | Montreal Olympique | 3 | 4 | 15 | 18 | 43 | -25 | 13 |
That woule me, James thinking managers with an interest in the playoffs would have accessed their results before Monday afternoon, but my error moving so fast to get Robin to take the helm.
Bottom line is ALL the teams in the huighrer divisions won their game and remain in their divisions.
Civas USA beat Seattle Sounders 2-1
KC Athletic beat Laredo Heat 2-0
Daniel Island S.A. beat Red Force FC 1-0
Chivas USA stays in the 1st division and the other 2 clubs remain in the 3rd.
Seattle stays in the 2nd division and Red Force and Laredo Heat stay in the 4th Division.
Apologies for not putting in a Cup Reviews/playoff reviews - had a lot to consider trying to square off the season. But my fault!!
Seems to have disappeared already !!
So what is happening next season ?
1st we have to finish last season with the current poll , only 4 votes so far , we need to wrap that up this week please .
Main league , plan is to go with same as before 2 x 12 , was given name for a new manager , but he declined so still looking for 4.
Yth league ,same as before , BUT ...
1. 4 age 0 players are promoted to main team (now age 1) but you now have option to promote only 3 if you wish .
2. you will still get 8 new players in you team .
3. You now have the ability to buy 5 CP , these CP can only be used on 1 player in the squad.
Try to use your yth team as a competitive team , rather than just a team to provide you with new players each season
Very soon you will get a list of your 8 new players for your youth team . I need you to give them a name and position.
I will also need to know which of the players age 1 you want to become a mp player and if you want to keep back 1 of your yth players .
re; current poll , you will have to chk . history/tables , for info on what these managers achieved last season .
To The 4 managers leaving , you are still listed with your current team , I will assume you are still leaving and remove you on thursday , unless I hear different , Thanks for playing , all the best .
Well not quite , David has not left the building ....YET !
He has done a FANTASTICT job in keeping this League going , after we sadly lost the Founder of the League Dave Dowson . My and your thanks go to David , ....enjoy yourself .
Moving on I have to say to you all I have not been around in this last week as I have been in hospital , still unsure of what is happening .I did ask previously for somebody as an assistant , who will NOT have to do much work while I am around , hopefully for quite a few more seasons , but would be able to step in , should I go AWOL :)
On a brighter note David has done quite a bit of end of season stuff , we need to vote on a new Poll for "manager of season" , and I will be announcing shortly any new changes (mainly to Youth) .
However as to structure of the Main League , we will be going with current format 2x12 teams ., more on that later .
Gents, I have closed the season, paid everybody what they have earned, and started pre season too.
Now I hand over to Robin as of now. Basically any queries should go to him, the last Poll was his, and whereas I will always help anybody with a problem, advice etc the game is now under Robin's jurisdiction.
I am off to write some Christmas cards and have a coffee and black bun...
Thanks for all your assistance in OASL - but I will see you around anyway - I am in SESL giving all the 2nd division a hard time (not a hard game, just a hard time).
The following teams receive Awards through 6th December....:
ATL(850) CDY(200) CAR(200) CCK(200) CHA(210) CHI(230) CHV(250) CIW(200) COL(800) CLB(220) REB(200) DC(385) DIS(200) DAF(200) FRR(220) DAL(610) GBS(250) GOG(300) HOU(240) KC(510) KCA(200) LFC(500) LHT(220) LAB(200) LA(240) MIA(275) MIN(550) MON(475) MOL(200) MTS(300) NBW(200) NE(220) NY(300) NSS(500) PHI(200) POR(200) RSL(280) RFC(230) ROC(650) RIS(210) SJ(450) SCF(200) SEA(830) TDL(210) USB(200) VAN(200) WDP(200) WCP(230)
WINNINGS S27 | League | DD | Al Sellers | Al Sellers | Youth | Total |
Placing | Shield | Cup | Plate | Cup | Payout | |
Season 27 | S27 | S27 | S27 | S27 | S27 | S27 |
Atlanta Silverbacks | 850 | 850 | ||||
Minnesota Thunder | 450 | 100 | 550 | |||
Colorado Rapids | 350 | 450 | 800 | |||
New York Red Bulls | 300 | 300 | ||||
Real Salt Lake | 280 | 280 | ||||
FC Dallas | 260 | 150 | 200 | 610 | ||
Houston Dynamo | 240 | 240 | ||||
New England Revolution | 220 | 220 | ||||
Kansas City Wizards | 210 | 300 | 510 | |||
Chivas USA | 200 | 50 | 250 | |||
Carolina Railhawks | 200 | 200 | ||||
Philadelphia Union | 200 | 200 | ||||
Rochester Rhinos | 650 | 650 | ||||
Montreal Impacts | 350 | 125 | 475 | |||
Seattle Sounders | 280 | 350 | 200 | 830 | ||
D.C. United | 260 | 125 | 385 | |||
San Jose Earthquakes | 250 | 200 | 450 | |||
Los Angeles Galaxy | 240 | 240 | ||||
Chicago Fire | 230 | 230 | ||||
Columbus Crew | 220 | 220 | ||||
Charleston Battery | 210 | 210 | ||||
Vancouver Whitecaps | 200 | 200 | ||||
Miami FC | 200 | 75 | 275 | |||
Portland Timbers | 200 | 200 | ||||
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Season 27 | ||||||
Langley F.C. | 350 | 150 | 500 | |||
Mount Tabor S.C. | 300 | 300 | ||||
North Sound Seawolves | 250 | 250 | 500 | |||
Windy City Pride | 230 | 230 | ||||
Fall River Rovers | 220 | 220 | ||||
Texas Dutch Lions | 210 | 210 | ||||
Savannah Celtic FC | 200 | 200 | ||||
Colorado Ice White | 200 | 200 | ||||
KC Athletics | 200 | 200 | ||||
Daniel Island S.A. | 200 | 200 | ||||
Utah Surf Boys S.C. | 200 | 200 | ||||
De Anza Force S.C. | 200 | 200 | ||||
Golden Gophers | 300 | 300 | ||||
Gananda Bandits S.C. | 250 | 250 | ||||
Red Force FC | 230 | 230 | ||||
Laredo Heat | 220 | 220 | ||||
Roxborough Indians S.C. | 210 | 210 | ||||
Carolina Dynamo | 200 | 200 | ||||
Columbus Rebels | 200 | 200 | ||||
Carson City Kickers | 200 | 200 | ||||
New Bedford Whalers | 200 | 200 | ||||
Los Angeles Blues | 200 | 200 | ||||
Washington Diplomats | 200 | 200 | ||||
Montreal Olympique | 200 | 200 |
Gents, Below are the winners of the various scoring and saving charts plus Fair Play team of the Season. NOTE: I will leave Robin to start his first Poll with Manaqger of the Season voting..
These payments will be made AFTER the closing of this season, so the SLs/OTFs don't get reduced when I press PSA. That will happen in around an hour!!!! (I have time today to help Robin get set up to start his new career... so a lot will get done this morning.
Golden Boot | Torini (NY) | 1st Div | + 2 SLs |
Dykes (MON) | 2nd Div | + 2 SLs | |
Golden Gloves | Alison (MIN) | 1st Div | + 2 SLs |
Tornado (MIA) | 2nd Div | + 2 SLs | |
Age 0/1 Gold Boot | Bamford (RSL) | 1st Div | + 2 SLs |
Akbar (SEA) | 2nd Div | + 2 SLs | |
Age 0/1 Gold Gloves | Karius (MIN) | 1st Div | + 2 SLs |
Donnarumma (MON) | 2nd Div | + 2 SLs | |
Youth Golden Boot | Springer (MTS) | 3rd Div | + 2 SLs |
Ojo (GOG) | 4th Div | + 2 SLs | |
Youth Golden Gloves | Calrissian (FRR) | 3rd Div | + 2 SLs |
Kastenmeier (RIS) | 4th Div | + 2 SLs | |
Fair Play Award | New England Revolution | OTF +3 | |
Manager of the Season | OTF +3 |
The following teams receive Prediction League through 6th December....:
ATL(325) CAR(435) CHA(160) CHV(310) COL(265) CLB(480) DAL(280) KC(170) LA(145) MIA(20) MIN(135) MON(145) NE(115) NY(50) PHI(295) RSL(310) SJ(380) SEA(300)
Thanks Simon, I did my best...!!
First of all, the Poll payouts are coming. Below is the table for the 2nd half of the season and payments will be made straight aftrer this Blog. Amounts to be paid are under TPOTALS - the one under MSA you received at err MSA..
12 | MSA | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | TOTALS |
RSL/PHI | KCA/DAF | DAL/ATL | SEA/DC | CHV/NY | LHT/GBS | KC/HOU | NSS/WCP | MIN/ATL | |||
ATL | 515 | 75 | 20 | 20 | 50 | 20 | 50 | 20 | 20 | 50 | 325 |
CAR | 360 | 20 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 125 | 50 | 50 | 20 | 20 | 435 |
CHA | 125 | 50 | 20 | 50 | 20 | 20 | 160 | ||||
CHI | 75 | 0 | |||||||||
CHV | 370 | 75 | 20 | 50 | 75 | 20 | 50 | 20 | 310 | ||
COL | 460 | 20 | 75 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 20 | 265 | |||
CLB | 300 | 20 | 75 | 20 | 20 | 125 | 75 | 50 | 75 | 20 | 480 |
DAL | 405 | 75 | 50 | 20 | 20 | 75 | 20 | 20 | 280 | ||
DC | 135 | 0 | |||||||||
HOU | 70 | 0 | |||||||||
KC | 275 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 50 | 20 | 20 | 170 | ||
LA | 395 | 20 | 75 | 50 | 145 | ||||||
MIA | 325 | 20 | 20 | ||||||||
MIN | 435 | 75 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 135 | |||||
MON | 385 | 20 | 125 | 145 | |||||||
NE | 370 | 20 | 20 | 75 | 115 | ||||||
NY | 255 | 50 | 50 | ||||||||
PHI | 460 | 20 | 75 | 20 | 50 | 20 | 20 | 50 | 20 | 20 | 295 |
POR | 25 | 0 | |||||||||
ROC | 70 | 0 | |||||||||
RSL | 290 | 125 | 20 | 75 | 20 | 50 | 20 | 310 | |||
SAN | 460 | 75 | 75 | 50 | 50 | 20 | 20 | 50 | 20 | 20 | 380 |
SEA | 520 | 20 | 75 | 20 | 75 | 20 | 50 | 20 | 20 | 300 | |
VAN | 25 | 0 | |||||||||
7105 | 690 | 605 | 405 | 705 | 500 | 335 | 595 | 255 | 230 | 4320 |
I think a hugh "Thank YOU" can be said.
Thank you for taking over this league so we were able to continue!
Thank you for all your support!!
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 6th December....:
COL(35) MIA(15) PHI(30)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 48:
Daniel Island S.A. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
KC Athletics - MVP #3: 1 TP (WwW)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 5th December....:
MIA(115) NE(120) POR(40) SEA(145)
Only waiting for David's DIS to put a line in and we are good to go. 👍
Good luck to all - tomorrow I pay out all that is due to clubs and will square off the season, ready for Robin to assume control and get the new season up and running. Exciting times as he seems to have a few (of his own) ideas to put in.
In advance and on Robin's behalf, thanks for the feedback in the Poll - very good response. I'll leave him to announce the findings as without a senior team I haven't taken part in it myself. 🤔
Lads, retire players from senior teams but DON'T retire any youths. You need 22 players to be able to transfer over the 4 youths to the senior squad. MTS now has too few players for that to happen - might need to re-instate some- depends upon this weekend.. watch this space.. 👍👍
Miami retired the persons who's contract will not be renewed at the end of this season.
Gents, all the Cups are done now and I have allocated the cash to to the teams concerned and added on the league earnings.
These, added to the Poll earnings from MSE to PSA will ALL be added to your bank accounts on Monday - day after the playoff games are complete.
I did increase the monies earned to the Al Sellers teams that finished 1-4, and also the Youth teams 1-2, due to the competitions thrrowing up extra games to get through, and decreased the money (around 25k per team) for the Plate teams 1-4 as they had less games to play (only 8 teams in the KO tournament).
All will be in the tables I put on the Blog on Monday, just before I pay out the winnings.
Scores from tonight are on the front page - don't look for them if you intend going in to check the games individually.. Thanks.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 47:
Seattle Sounders - MVP #7: 25k (WWd)
FC Dallas - MVP #5: 25k (wdW)
It is full speed ahead for the Cup Finals and 3rd/4th place games. All lines are in - let's look for close games and plenty goals.. 👍👍
This Wednesday is Cup Final night, and next Sunday sees the Playoff/Relegation fixtures.
All the games are scheduled, so if you finished 3rd in division 2 and 10th in division 1, you lads are going head to head.
Also teams finishing 9th and 10th in the 3rd division will line up against the 3rd and 4th placed teams in division 4. (Not naming teams right now as some may not know yesterday's results..)
But Wednesday's games are:
Colorado Rapids v Kansas City Wizards
Seattle Sounders v Montreal Impacts
D.C. United v FC Dallas
Miami FC v Chivas USA
Langley F.C. v North Sound Seawolves
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 29th November....:
CHI(15) DAL(20) KC(45) NE(35) NY(20) PHI(50) SJ(25) VAN(50)
Thanks for all the help Bill and for inviting me back into the Olmec fold.
I'm sure you'll enjoy your time away but equally I'm sure you'll be welcomed back if and when you return.
Good luck with all your endeavours and see you sometime down the road.
Cheers
David
Thank you DD, David and Robin for a great ride. You never know I might be back begging for a team in a few months! 👍
It has been a pleasure competing against everyone and I wish you all a the best of luck.
Thank you DD, David and Robin for a great ride. You never know I might be back begging for a team in a few months! 👍
It has been a pleasure competing against everyone and I wish you all a the best of luck.
The following teams receive League/Cup Reviewer through 28th November (Half pay for season)....Thanks, Rob:
PHI(250)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 46:
Golden Gophers - MVP #6: 25k (WWd)
Red Force FC - MVP #4: 1 CP (WdW)
Charleston Battery - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWw)
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #5: 25k (wWw)
Real Salt Lake - MVP #5: 25k (WdW)
New England Revolution - MVP #4: 1 CP (wdW)
Only 4 team to put line ups in the last round if league matches - Wednesday is Cup Finals night and next Sunday the promotion/relegation playoffs.
Goid luck today - my own REB's are pretty much shut up so it will be a fun day today!!
Apologies to you Steve . I know you have done a good job , I have been a Caretaker in my time , but you know the overall picture when it comes to Caretakers....some good some useless !
I was caretaker at Oden in Sanc quite a while ago and did a damn good job securing promotion.
Your idea has merit though, Robin.
Assuming I have not yet been Sacked , we have probably a few weeks to find some new managers.
If we can at least find 2 before the start , then we can stay as we are 2X 12 with 2 vacant teams and the hope of more managers to come..
4 vacant teams is a bit much !
Sorry guys I am against Caretaker teams . These are run by other managers and are run at their "pleasure".
By that I mean ,depends on their "mood" what team (lineup) the Caretaker puts out could have significant effect on other teams in the league..
My way the teams go NMR ,ALL opposition managers know what to expect , so ALL treated the same.
I do take the point re CP/TP , had already thought about that ,so with that in mind , and I will add this to the rules .
"Vacant teams at start of season will be alocated the basic CP/TP for the new season.
A new manager coming into the league and alocated a team that has been NMR since the start of season ,will have the option of ading 1Cp & 1 TP to squad players , 1 for each match that has been played, CP/TP will be deducted from the team"."
I do not want to get into any arguements over this , so if not happy with my decision , best to fire me before I start :)
I agree Steve, that all spare teams should be caretaken - even if the tactic is a basic N per game. Players have to be TP'd and CP'd (1 of each per game which would allow cash to build up for a new lad).
I'm ok with spare teams but they have to have a caretaker. Letting a team rot without using CP and TP will not attract new players.
I have copied this from JW post in journal as not everybody reads journals , think Stewart killed that off in sanc ...LOL.
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"Like Steve and most other managers I hate having un-managed teams.
However what do we want to do . .
1. Do we want forget about attracting new blood and stick to having a group of committed mangers (then you go to the 2x10 or less)
Drawbacks with this is managers will still leave and very difficult to replace
In reality you need to have less teams than managers to create worth, and then managers realize if they leave they may not get to come back, at least not straight away.
To work this when a manger leaves the team would be disbanded / destroyed no coming back.
New managers / returning managers need to create a new team (ie Wimbledon -> Milton Keynes) assuming there is space to accommodate.
Overall though this can be seen as harsh on managers and may create disharmony/disinterest short term.
2. We try to expand the manager pool
To do this we need unmanaged teams so people can just come straight in (so 11 or 12x2)
The problem here is attracting new managers which seems almost impossible.
Its a game we love but there are so much better options out there.
New managers coming in do not have much chance of any success either short term which is obviously demoralizing in todays quick hit culture so retention is also difficult.
Sorry if this is coming across as negative but it seems to be the reality unless anyone can show otherwise"
OUR problem is attracting new players , and basically that has to come from you guys , ask around ,friends , work mates etc , remind them it is FREE...just donate a few £$ to Mark :)
Can not use wait list as it is broke , and our site name sometimes creats issues , not for us but outsiders can be a bit wary .
All 4 teams have their line ups in 👍
Tonight I will schedule the 3 Finals - all due next Wednesday.
Enjoy the games 🤓🤓
Just to carry on from below , using Windy City as an example ..
Shelf life of a player in Yth Lg. is limited , once past age 3 they are dead weight.
So Windy City currently has 4 age 2 players , after ageing 2 of them will be 3/14 .
So if you were able to use 6 CP on one of them they would still be usefull for 2 more seasons
Also awards for yth players needs looking at .
Finally CASH . 50% of Yth cash goes to Snr. team . Possible option , my SNR team does NOT need that much cash , can I covert some of that into TP CP? .for my Yth team .?
For the benefit of Marc :)
These are only thoughts at the moment , in order to help the Yth and Snr. teams.
Your yth team Windy city was doing good in the League until Nov.... then it went Pete Tong..
Anyway at present under current format you have 4 age 0 players going fwd to Snr team .
They are 0/19GK..0/11 GK .. 0/19DF.. 0/8 DF . So the 0/11 GK & 0/8 DF are not much use going FWD.
So what if you had the option of promting players of your choice. so the 2 Big age 0 & 2 Big age 1 players .
Most certainly that would benefit your 1sr team more !
Also possibly having some cp (5>10) which can be used on ONE player only in YTH team .
2 possible ideas so far ...NOW you have to stay to try it out ...lOL
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 22nd November....:
ATL(15) CHI(40) MIA(20) NY(50) PHI(25) SJ(20) VAN(50)
As you'll be aware I'm one of those managers stepping down but would be interested in what changes are proposed. May make me reconsider. May not.
Yea Marc regretting "if it ain't broke" already ...DOH
With 4 managers going I am forced to consider changes , and I use "consider" as I am opposed to making changes.
As to the Youth , personal comments from David and another manager have made me think I need to get rid of apathy/negativity towards the yth leage.
So possible it will not go to a poll , just introduce some new ideas , make managers sit up and take notice , a poll could come back with apathy/negative results , achieve nothing.
After an initial post of 'of it ain't broken etc' there is a hint of changes for the youth leagues.....what you thinking?! To another poll for general agreement..
This midweek sees the last of the Semi Finals and feature the following matches in the Al Sellers PLATE
D.C. United | v | Miami FC | C Richmond |
FC Dallas | v | Chivas USA | C Murray |
Gents, I can reveal the following stuff, with only 1 game to go.
Congratulations to Bryce @ Atlanta Silverbacks who wins the 1st Division title.
Alon @ Minnesota Thunder will be runners up.
Rob @ Philadelphia Union are relegated to the 2nd division
Any one of 5 other teams will go down too, with one other being involved in the play off.
Rochester Rhinos are crowned 2nd division winners.
Montreal Impacts also go up as runners up.
Portland Timbers will pick up the Wooden Spoon unless they have resounding (win in their last game
Langley win the 3rd division (1st division youth league)
Golden Gophers win the 4th division (2nd division youth league)
Gananda Bandits are runners up (they and the Gophers are promoted)
Montreal Olympique take the wooden spoon in the 2nd division.
Other places are still to be decided - watch this time next Sunday... :-)
Gents, Robin has already Blogged about the shortage of managers for next season. He has plans for revamping the youth set up to get more involvement there, and asked for a Poll to guage your feelings on next season's set up.
I would hope you would take time to look at the Poll - bear in mind if you can interest a manager to come in we would have no need for a Poll, if the number gets to say 22. BUT do take part in the Poll, and look to this week to try to influence a lad to come in. Some pretty good teams available - even one or two departing managers might decide to give ONE more season for the changeover to be smoorth... Robin and I hope so..
So we down to 20 active managers ...any on the horizon ? ...I see no ships.
So what to do ? Get rid of 2 teams and have 2 leagues of 11 . Get rid of all 4 and have 2 leagues of 10 or even 1 BIG league of 20 ?...Leave it as it is and run with it in the hope that 4 new managers do come forward ?
Questions as to what to do , possibly another solution ?
Run a poll .......sounds like a plan.....Over to you Mr.Blair :)
That aside I do need to make some sort of changes in the Yth League , just to get you interest and get you guys trying harder rather than just seeing as a means to getting 4 young players for you main team .
If young Dewar can win the league 2 seasons running , then it can't be that difficult.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 44:
Fall River Rovers - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
Mount Tabor S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWw)
FC Dallas - MVP #4: 1 CP (Wwd)
Getting towards the end of the season and the cruch time in both league and cup matches.
Bryce at Atlanta can only throw the 1st division title away - he needs 4 points to be sure of it, but Alon is still sniffing away in 2nd place. Phillie is definitely down - it will be a better season next one, Rob. In the 2nd division Rochester have long since won the division and promotion, whilst Montreal is virtually certain to go up in 2nd place. Langley have taken the 1st division youth aka the 3rd division, whilst the Goilden Gophers are promoted and it will be either Gananda Bandits or Red Force to go up automatically - money is on the latter being involved in a playoff for the 3rd division. Wooden spoon is almost certainly the Olympique's to own...
Good luck today, still around 4 teams to put lines in for - worry today is Marc at CHI - the rest usually come in before the match time..
Sorry guys ,have to back on what I said about next seson , 2 more players are leaving us , so that means we are down to 20..
We urgently need new managers or their will need to be changes. I can accept (as a temp.basis) 2 vacant teams but not 4 .
Robin
Massive loss for OASL, you'll always be a legend around here!
Take Care!
Next season changes ...NONE ...expression goes "if it not broke Don't fix it"
Unless you guys want some changes then we carry on as we are .
ADMIN. Currently in place are ;
OASL ADMINISTRATORS
Commissioner
David Blair : OASL Participation Bonuses/Polls
Assistant Commissioners
Paul Roseblade - Front page updates & Manager Interviews
Rob Lye - League Reviews & Previews
David Blair - Cup Reviews
Not sure what part Daid is going to play ..if any ?
I would like an assistant , to learn the running of the league ,with a view to probably taking over from me .
I am catching up David in years so my position is not very L O N G term .
I also suspect that I will need somebody to oversee the Participation Bonus , Blog/Journal/Polls .
Thanks
Head on over to the match viewer lads and do yourselves a favour. Watch 21 YES 21 goals in the 2 games and add in a pile of shots, 3 lads getting hat tricks and 2 others getting a brace each, and a sending off and this has to be the highest scoring set of Semi Finals in OASL history...
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Robin is correct - the "insults" are made tongue in cheek - I've given as much as I've taken. Basically Robin is only dangerous around 2am in the morning whilst cuddling a bottle of rum.
OASL will miss Bill - the Jock Stein of OASL - and I've always had great support from Bill over the seasons - and occasionally I've worn it (the support, keep up..🤭🤭).
Today it's the Al Selkers Cup Semis and all 4 teams have put their lines in, thanks. Good luck to all... 👍👍
Just to say for those who do not know me , wat I write on the Blog is often with tounge in cheek and taken with a pinch of salt ....in other words jibberish .
This season I have targeted our Wonderfull commish David Blair and he has responded accordingly .
In the past Bill has often thought I targeted him and his team far to much . Far from it I was using him as A prime example of a Top Manager with a top team ....he knows that now. .
So I do wish him well and if he gets withdrawal symptems an wants to come back , he will be most welcome , will probably offer him Vancouver :)
Will miss you Robin and I'm sure I will see, from afar, OASL progress with you. However, as I was never afraid to directly or publically argue with you or "the beard" DD...
A few notes...or just call this picking one last fight Robin. 😉
I did not refer to my team as kings. James White made a direct reference to me as "there can be only one". I chose that moment to enjoy the fun of the nod towards the movie "The Highlander". Then I included my seasonal "About NYRB" with the lyrics to "Princes of the Universe" which included the reference to kings who were in fact immortals, in the movie. This is a Queen song from the movie The Highlander, I did not call my player or team, kings, not at any point...although there was a gentle inference. Sadly, as my interest has waned over the last 3-4 seasons, I did not update the 'queen song". 😂😇😂😇
Gordon is not my dad but I WAS the first Ramsay to work with him. In 2001 he made me produce my driving licence (while on shift) as he could not believe I was a " Ramsay". He has since took on his brother as a Kitchen Porter (which badly backfired) and in 20 years another of our name must have worked for him. When I worked for him there was 5 restaurants, not a global empire. For the foodies out there I have also worked with Angela Hartnett, Andrew Fairlie, Albert Roux, Marcus Wareing, Phil,Carnegie, Matt Grey (that's my Michelin ⭐️ List) and several other chefs at 3 rosette. Most proud of Peter Galeski who I worked with from Sous till we achieved 3 rosettes together. Greet and inspiring journey.
Robin, there is no need for me to leave for the "rest of you" to have a chance. Bryce has creamed us all this season. Alon has toe2toed me for a while. All I leave behind is my win %.
Spent force...over to you lads. Peace. X
Sad to see you go. I want to thank you for your support, your inspiration and ofcourse the talks we had.
Respect for what you did in this game and the results you had!
I hope we will stay in contact cause I still need to learn some words. ;-)
Will miss you Robin and I'm sure I will see, from afar, OASL progress with you. However, as I was never afraid to directly or publically argue with you or "the beard" DD...
A few notes...or just call this picking one last fight Robin. 😉
I did not refer to my team as kings. James White made a direct reference to me as "there can be only one". I chose that moment to enjoy the fun of the nod towards the movie "The Highlander". Then I included my seasonal "About NYRB" with the lyrics to "Princes of the Universe" which included the reference to kings who were in fact immortals, in the movie. This is a Queen song from the movie The Highlander, I did not call my player or team, kings, not at any point...although there was a gentle inference. Sadly, as my interest has waned over the last 3-4 seasons, I did not update the 'queen song". 😂😇😂😇
Gordon is not my dad but I WAS the first Ramsay to work with him. In 2001 he made me produce my driving licence (while on shift) as he could not believe I was a " Ramsay". He has since took on his brother as a Kitchen Porter (which badly backfired) and in 20 years another of our name must have worked for him. When I worked for him there was 5 restaurants, not a global empire. For the foodies out there I have also worked with Angela Hartnett, Andrew Fairlie, Albert Roux, Marcus Wareing, Phil,Carnegie, Matt Grey (that's my Michelin ⭐️ List) and several other chefs at 3 rosette. Most proud of Peter Galeski who I worked with from Sous till we achieved 3 rosettes together. Greet and inspiring journey.
Robin, there is no need for me to leave for the "rest of you" to have a chance. Bryce has creamed us all this season. Alon has toe2toed me for a while. All I leave behind is my win %.
Spent force...over to you lads. Peace. X
Sad to see Bill leaving the game , off to be team manager for Moreton Rangers Under 7s. umm..obviously Dad could not find a place for him in Hells Kitchen
Bill Ramsay a veritable giant amongst OASL managers , NAY, I say, more of a Titan although he refers to his team as kings.
Much has been said about Bill over the years , quite rightly he deserves the Credits.
Now Sod off and give the reast of us a Chance ! :)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 15th November....:
COL(10) HOU(10) NY(40) PHI(25) SJ(20) SEA(10) VAN(50)
I noticed who your referee was today - a very fair one indeed. :-)
Well done anyway - more money for the coffers..
In defeat comes victory , despite losing, as did our main rivals , we have now won the Yth league with 2 games still to come.
A crazy afternoon saw us lose 1-0 to thr 10 men of Texas Dutch ! unbelievable .
Down in the Windy City was another crazy result . They took a 2-0 lead vs. FRR , which was soon overcome and FRR went on to win 3-2 , unbelievable !
Not how I expected to win the title , ..now I can enjoy another fat Cigar :)
Another good Poll for the Treasurer - me!! Only 1 lad got the result coirrect, but none of the scores so Bryce gets 50k, the remaing managers all get 20k for entering.
NOW, with only 2 playing (plus 1 playoff) Sundays left I have asked Robin to do the Poll for next week. Currently I have 4320k to hand out at the end of the season, so whatever he comes up with, make sure you take part - all earnings will be added to the above total.......
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 42:
Gananda Bandits S.C. - MVP #6: 25k (dWW)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #5: 25k (WwD)
At roughly 2 seasons a calendar year you must be looking at around 9 years. You get less for manslaughter (or personslaughter to keep the PC brigade happy).
Got to thank you for your contunued playing and support especially during my tenure as Commish - without an assistant I needed some background support.
I hope Robin gets his 2 replacement lads and I've no doubt he will bring in his own ideas to advance the game onwards. OASL has the unique Youth set up and it identifies it from SESL and SFLSL.
Good luck in running the young lads - more hair pulling and mutter rings from parents whose kids you can't pick for whatever reason, but certainly enjoyment and a feeling of involvement. More power to your elbow, as they say in Iceland, apparently!! 🤔🤔👍👍
5 wins and a draw...
Sadly it is time for me to hand over the NYRB dynasty to another. I do this with a heavy heart but my time is up. I no longer feel the desire to win and struggle for the time to be competitive.
I will remember my time in OASL fondly. I have coached Bill's Bulls since season 9...that is 18 seasons. Seems like a crazy amount of time... Can anyone tell me how long this is in real time years? I honestly have no idea...is it 5, 7, 10 years? I think it is no secret that I invested more time and energy in OASL than I did in any other similar league. It was the first I joined in this format.
We have achieved a lot together, the Bulls and I. It could be said that a dominance was created here that has not been matched in any Olmec or SOS history...stats may strongly suggest this but who am I to point this out?
One of the reasons I need to move on is my new hobby. It is being team manager for Moreton Rangers Under 7s. I have coached their under 8-9s since June 2020 but as a support coach. I have stepped up to run U7s this season since July. It is the most rewarding thing but now takes more time and energy. It feels like "real life" Champ Mansger. For the record...6 league matches in - 5 with no and a draw.
I will miss my Sunday nights after work sitting down and digesting events and co-ordinating the next week for NYRB. I will also miss you all and SOS more than most. Peace X
Getting close now and I am reaching out to you guys to find me 2 new replacements.
2 good managers are leaving at end of season , I leave it up to them to say their goodbyes.
My policy on vacant teams , is that they stay vacant until we find replacements.
NO stand in managers to run vacant teams ,.Harsh possibly , but Fair.
Robin
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 41:
Langley F.C. - MVP #6: 25k (WWw)
Full house for this evenings games - first time I could say that all season I think..
Good luck to all 4 teams - Final will be held the same evening as the Al Sellers Cup and Plate Finals -session 47.
Makes sense, I worked for 34 years for Birds Eye Walls ( 17 for each of the 2 companies) so get one of my pensions from Unilever (another from the government...). 👍👍
You walked into that wall's with your (birds) eyes wide open LOL
that explains the yacht and these mini breaks with you jetting off around the world , not exactly Grimsby on a wet wknd.
2 PENSIONS indeed !
Makes sense, I worked for 34 years for Birds Eye Walls ( 17 for each of the 2 companies) so get one of my pensions from Unilever (another from the government...). 👍👍
So it is Ice cream for Cp now , Mr.Blair must have shares in Walls Ice Cream .
Yipee Icecream all round !
Yet another thing Commish's need to remember
i have corrected Laredo Heat and North Sound Seawolves plus also Golden Gophers and Roxborough Indians - noticed the latter 2 when I checked the totals.
Thanks for telling me about them. 👍👍
NSS as well could use the exchange
Give the man an ice cream
My youth team (Laredo) have been kindly given a CP, but we can't use it. Can this be changed into somethign else please?
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 8th November....:
COL(25) PHI(50) SJ(20) VAN(50)
I saved the League's Treasurer a fortune this week. 10 managers took part and only 1 got the result correct (Al Sellers gets 75k (also got the HT score), whilst the remaining lads all get 20k each = 255k payout. Lowest this season.
Now, there could be only one game to Poll this weekend coming:
It won't decide the Championship but will go a LONG way towards it. Enjoy!!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 40:
Red Force FC - MVP #3: 1 TP (wdW)
Laredo Heat - MVP #4: 1 CP (WwD)
Golden Gophers - MVP #5: 25k (WwD)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #6: 25k (wWd)
Montreal Impact - MVP #5: 25k (dWW)
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #4: 1 CP (WwD)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWW)
I just know I am gutted when my opponent NMR's and beats me. Hasn't happened often but it rankles. Robin and I will draw up a Poll question with options for you lads to vote on.... (Get started Robin, I am away to find a road round those elephants you mentioned....)
How about a reward for not NMRing in the season as an incentive?
One of the sponsorship deals in SESL is for no NMRs
cashflow in OASL is quite high but TP appears to be a valueable commodity
2 TP for an NMR free season, 1 TP for 1-2 NMRs?
Absolutely agree ,only talking about repeat offenders and even then give them 24 hrs to come up with reasonable excuse..
eg.
1.My wife is nine mths pregnant had to rush her to hospital ...poor excuse, lame
2.A herd of elephants escaped from zoo and were blocking the motorway , which got shut down ,spent hrs in my car.....perfectly acceptable excuse.
Tend to agree, Robin, BUT as it is possible for everybody to be a little forgetful, I would suggest we allow 1 NMR per team per season (and if that team did win the game in question, the gate money would be given to the opponent). But a Poll would be a good way to guage thoughts..
David & I have had brief words about NMR teams , whilst we want to encourage these managers to keep playing we do need to look at ovall issues. Several times this season the NMR team has won , which is unfortunate for the other manager as hemade the effort to put in a lineup ..
I will be asking David to run a Poll at end of season to discuss if we should inflict a punishment on NMR teams .
example. deduct gate money & or other alternatives ,
Robin
Al Sellers Plater Quarter Finals tonight and 3 of the 8 teams still to put lines in: PHIL, SIMON and Matt - Rochester, Miami and D.C. Utd.
Let's have a full house at this stage eh, Cheers.!!
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 1st November....:
NY(15) SJ(25) SEA(30) VAN(15)
Gents, Still 2 NMRs and that is not good. No real excuse - both managers play in other set ups. And the clock going back in UK can't be an excuse either - games still ran at 4pm..
Anyway Poll match was a good one for all but 1 lad who voted for a draw. The rest got the result correct = 50k, but only 1 person gave a correct scoreline - Steve @ NE got the full time score on the ball = 75k
This Midweek sees the Al Sellers Plate Quarter Finals:
Quarter Finals | REF | ||
Carolina Railhawks | v | D.C. United | B Ramsey |
Miami FC | v | Rochester Rhinos | D Blair |
Chicago Fire | v | FC Dallas | M Creasey |
Chivas USA | v | Columbus Crew | P L Collina |
90 mins then pens if still a draw..
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 38:
D.C. United - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWW)
New England Revolution - MVP #3: 1 TP (WdW)
I called it 4-1 with a scouse mate of mine but 5-0...wow. Crazy that they draw today.
Gents, only Andy and Mark to put lines in for tonight's Al Sellers Cup Quarter Finals. But there is still over 8 hours to go...👍👍
Robin asks who would have predicted the score line - my guess is a few Scousers the night before heavily bevied and being brash. (Secretly hoping but not believing it really!!) Hands up for Ollie's job - he is actually a decent lad, but maybe more cut out for a Championship team. Too pleasant to be in the Prtemier...
A somewhat belated Poll Question .
What will be the result + score between Man.Utd. V Liverpool...answers on a postcard to father xmas ...
that is who Ole Gunnar Solskar will be seeking some devine inspiration from !
Hands up those of you who predicted the Correct score :)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 25th October....:
CHV(25) DAL(20) HOU(20) PHI(25) SJ(25) VAN(30)
Getting near the Semi Finals now, this midweek matches involve the Al Sellers Cup Quarter Final games.
Quarter Finals | |||
REF | |||
Seattle Sounders | v | Los Angeles Galaxy | M Findlay |
Colorado Rapids | v | San Jose Earthquakes | A Freeland |
Montreal Impact | v | Houston Dynamos | J White |
Kansas City Wizards | v | Vancouver Whitecaps | S Gordon |
Gents, I keep catching most of you out with the Poll match, although I have put in another 335k to teams' coffers. 75k was won by Allan (CLB) and 50k to each of Bryce (ATL) and Jason (CAR) - rest get 20k.
Gents, take a bow- full house today (or will be after I put the REB line up in).
Very eventful Friday and yesterday I spent most of the time catching up on other games abd now it is Sunday!!
Remember the Poll match... 👍👍👍👍
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 36:
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #5: 25k (dWw)
Columbus Rebels - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Gananda Bandits S.C. - MVP #5: 25k (dWw)
Windy City Pride - MVP #3: 1 TP (WwW)
Langley F.C. - MVP #5: 25k (DWw)
Colorado Rapids - MVP #4: 1 CP (WWW)
Yes thanks for the kind words for David and myself , keep them coming for David he deserves them .
Now David"Baldrick" Blair says he has a plan .....umm is this a cunning plan ?
For those Americans amongst us here is 21 secs of a cunning plan .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsXKS8Nyu8Q.
Now Important info, we will have 2 , possibly 3 vacancies at end of season , so we do need new managers .
Preferably new faces or previous returing mangers as a last resort managers from existing leagues .
Thanks
Robin
Lads, really appreciate the nice messages and I will ensure we finish off the season according to plan.
What I would like is if you lads would support Robin as he succeeds me.
My plan is that Robin could move in before the season end and absorb a few of the various activities so the changeover will be seemless...
I will be in touch when I get back this weekend Robin, hope you are okay with the plan.. 😉😉
Lads, really appreciate the nice messages and I will ensure we finish off the season according to plan.
What I would like is if you lads would support Robin as he succeeds me.
My plan is that Robin could move in before the season end and absorb a few of the various activities so the changeover will be seemless...
I will be in touch when I get back this weekend Robin, hope you are okay with the plan.. 😉😉
Thanks to Robin for stepping up to become the new commissioner of OASL. Your bribe for wins for me next season is in the post.
David i will be sending you a message directly but i wuld like to publicly say thanks for stepping in when we lost our friend Dave. You have been great when this happened as it can be very time consuming and unless you have the time, or make the time then we wouldn't have a game here to play and take part in. So thanks to you for all your time, effort and help in continuing to make this game what it is.
Bit of a late reaction from me on this, but great to hear that you're stepping in Robin. I really enjoy this league and know others do too (if not just to have SL 48 players etc), so thankful for the time and effort you're offerign to put in.
And again, a huge thanks to Dave for overseeing things as well as he has done for so long.
Yeah, I've got my scores in backwards for the prediction so they're meant to properly represent the team I've selected to win.
Got my homes and aways back to front. :-)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 17th October....:
PHI(30) SJ(25) VAN(50)
Gents, Despite the poor turnout in the Poll match, we DID have 2 full bonuses earned. Step up Jason and Allan who both correctly forecast the result of the game Chivas USA v New York Red Bulls but also guessed the half time and full time scores. 125k to both, and 2 others gained 75k for guessing one of the 2 scores. 5 others earned the 20k taking part bonus so I am putting in 500k into 9 maqnager's teams accounts.
Next Weeks Game will be a Division 4 promotion battle between 3rd top Laredo Heat and 2nd placed Gananda Bandits S.C.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 34:
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Laredo Heat - MVP #3: 1 TP (wwd)
Savannah Celtic FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #7: 25k (WWw)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #5: 25k (wWD)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Wwd)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #3: 1 TP (WwD)
5 teams still outstanding but only 2 still worry me..... the NMR column will tell you who they are....
Hopefully it's a full house - will wait till after the games to then see where I go with it.
Good luck to all for today.. :-)
Found it very interesting and informative, and not a football in sight... :-)
See below .
Tip watch on Full Screen
A friend sent me this and I thought I had to share it with you guys .
I was amazed and it well worth 5 mins of your time .
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 13th October....:
ATL(85)
Al Sellers Cup ties all played - no Spoilers here. See Scoreboard OR go to Front Page.
At last - 8 matches and 30 goals scored with NO matches going to penalty kicks....
All managers put in team lines so thanks for that, and the next round is due in session 37 (27th October).
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 33:
Seattle Sounders - MVP #6: 25k (wWw)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 11th October....:
COL(25) PHI(35) SJ(25) VAN(50)
Hi guys , just to say yes I will be stepping up to replace David for next season .
Not going to say alot about David just now we all got time at the end of the season to do that.
All i will say now is that he has put in a massive amount of work and effort to keep the league going
and is forever present apart from jetting off to his yacht in Bermuda for the odd wknd.
Another person we need to say thanks to is Mark keeper of the Database and hosting the server,
we need to keep contributions coming.
Finally as to myself , done this job before as Commish in SFLSL for many yrs, but my job here is
not permanent, possibly only 3/4 seasons , as I am not far behind David on age.
So I am looking for an Assistant to help me now and probably take over , when I hang up my boots.
Gents, I wrote to you all announcing my intention to step down from running OASL after 3 and a half seasons. Mostly to do with my age but also domestic and health situations. I did ask for volunteers to step up, and to be honest I was not completely convinced of a success, seeing as how I did ask for an assistant at the start of my tenure and got nobody. In fact without Mark to advise and sort out an "occasional" hiccup, I wouldn't have survived till today.
However I am pleased to announce that a month or so ago Robin (Dewar) offered to take over the running of the game from next season - Robin was instrumental at the start of this season with updating the rules (most of which I did myself but he incorporated into the Wiki as I had no experience there). He has done this sort of thing before and some time (tonight I am guessing) he will be on to you lads - I won't spoil the text of his maiden speech... :-)
Thanks Robin, but please remember I still run the show till the 6th December to let me update the team winnings and awards etc (last games are due 5th December) ........... :-)
First of all, the Poll match, and we have a full winner. Mark (MON) came up with all 3 items: the result, half time and full time = 125k. Then Lewis and Andrew got 75k - just missing on one of the scores, 7 more lads get 50k for the result, and only 4 lads have to make do with 20k. Total payout today = 705k
And only Marc and Simon to put lines in - CHI and MIA- Simon coat will be on a shaky peg if feels misses today..🤭🤭.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 32:
Mount Tabor S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wwW)
Colorado Rapids - MVP #3: 1 TP (dWw)
Still 4 lads to put lines in, and hopefully Simon will remember - can't let more NMRs spoil the game for other lads...
Remember the Poll - money to be made here......
ATL sends 350k, 1 CP to LA for Giancarlo Gonzalez (3/23 DF)
Colorado's youth team the Ice White's NMRd today in the youth cup.
I realised I hadn't put orders in at lunchtime but I've always had issues logging in on my mobile so I thought no problem I'll do it when I get home... the Mrs wanted to go out for tea. So I missed the deadline for the lineups.
I don't think it would have made a difference to the result, but I'm annoyed I couldn't get in,
However, I've just spotted I still have commish access so I've now changed my password from the random selection of numbers and letters that it was to a simple word. Hopefully my mobile will cope now with future attempts to log in.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 31:
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #4: 1 CP (WdW)
KC Athletics - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DWW)
Still 5 managers to put team lines in for the 7pm kick off....
We are now on the run ins for the 3 trophies still to be completed.
Tonight sees the Last 16 of the Youth Cup (what, No REB team here?) and although it is still 9 hours till kick off there are 5 teams still to put lines in for. Simon, I worry about you more than most - you missed Sunday, and were late with SESL on Saturday... You have an SESL cup tie today - put in Red Force while you are at it, eh, thanks? :-)
From now on, all cup ties are knockout - the fun begins!!!
HOU sends 673k to CHA for 6 CP
I deliberately didn't mention who they won against - everybody knows I have advocated a 3-0 loss to any NMR team in any game - I've said it on all the games, but I guess it can't be programmed...... there is still time yet for your promotion push Robin ....
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 4th October....:
DAL(5) HOU(35) NY(10) PHI(40) SJ(20) VAN(15)
Thanks David for mentioning that Simon (NMR) won his game 1-0 ...what idiot lost that game ...ME !
So bang go my hopes of promotion , try again next season ....
Gents, Not a lot of goals in the games today - and NMR Simon managed to win his one whilst not being there. :-(
In the Poll game it finished 0-0, and I thought quite a few lads would have gone for a low score here as Atlanta's previous 9 games had produced only 7 goals for and 4 against. Dallas hadn't scored in 4 of their previous 9 games. However 4 lads polled the draw, and Tim gained 75k for getting that and the half time score, whilst Al, Jason, and Andy all scored 50k. The remaining entrants get 20k.
Next Week's Game will be:
Still 7 teams to put lines in but 4 are normal for this time on a Sunday. Just hoping the other 3 read this and we can get a full house - okay, I will admit I worry about Simon first. Miami has moved up to top of the senior teams NMR list, so I'm looking for their team sheet being in by 4pm GMT.
Last auction this evening - spend some money, and lastly remember the poll match - we have had 125k winners this season.. 👍👍👍
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 30:
Golden Gophers - MVP #4: 1 CP (DwW)
Laredo Heat - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #4: 1 CP (WwW)
Montreal Impact - MVP #4: 1 CP (wWW)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wwW)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #7: 25k (Wwd)
Still 7 teams to put lines in but 4 are normal for this time on a Sunday. Just hoping the other 3 read this and we can get a full house - okay, I will admit I worry about Simon first. Miami has moved up to top of the senior teams NMR list, so I'm looking for their team sheet being in by 4pm GMT.
Last auction this evening - spend some money, and lastly remember the poll match - we have had 125k winners this season.. 👍👍👍
No need to worry Stephen, not quite The Bulls of the last 16 seasons. We are a bit weaker than used to. Good luck pal.
Sorry Stephen, after the nice compliment you gave too..
Draw was based (in advance) on the Euros 20..🤔🤔
After the compliment I still get the Bulls??
Hopefully having Alon as ref will help, surely he's got a grudge vs them?
Al Sellers Cup
Session | Last 16 | REF | ||
33 | Minnesota Thunder | v | Seattle Sounders | M Fant |
33 | Los Angeles Galaxy | v | New England Revolution | B Nichol |
33 | Colorado Rapids | v | Atlanta Silverbacks | S Turner |
33 | San Jose Earthquakes | v | Charleston Battery | R Dewar |
33 | Portland Timbers | v | Montreal Impact | A Nicholas |
33 | New York Red Bulls | v | Houston Dynamos | A Atie |
33 | Philadephia Union | v | Kansas City Wizards | C Thomson |
33 | Vancouver Whitecaps | v | Real Salt Lake | H Dallas |
Al Sellers Plate
Session | Quarter Finals | REF | ||
39 | Carolina Railhawks | v | D.C. United | B Ramsey |
39 | Miami FC | v | Rochester Rhinos | D Blair |
39 | Chicago Fire | v | FC Dallas | M Creasey |
39 | Chivas USA | v | Columbus Crew | P L Collina |
Games will be entered today - next Wednesday's games are the Youth Cup Last 16 KO matches.
Great work Dave
Meant to say the results and final group standings are in the Cup review place on the front page and the Last 16 have Q against them. This isn't a spoiler as I am not mentioning them. :-)
Last group games have been played and League tables will be as stated oin the tables page above.
Montreal go through as 16th team v Chivas having scored 1 goal more, and I have left the deciding factor in Group D as being alphabetical as both San Jose and Seattle had identical records, BUT BOTH qualify for the Last 16. (Do not intend playing them off to see who gets 2nd and 3rd.)
I have the draws for the Last 16 and the Draw for the Al Sellers Plate and these will go up tomorrow morning so as not be a spoiler tonight.
2 teams failed to put team lines in...
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 29:
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #4: 1 CP (wWd)
Anyone got CP spare? Need 4 and willing to pay well.
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 28th September....:
CAR(280) DAL(45) SJ(60)
Actioned young man, along with a payment for Andy and Jason.. :-)
5/9 DF Peter Bread retires.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 27th September....:
NY(10) PHI(50) SJ(20) SEA(15)
Gents,
1 I have changed Langleys 1CP for 1TP (for his MVP award today- saves someone reminding me!!)
2 605k was won today in the Poll Match which finished 2-0, (2-0). Winnings of 5 x 75k, 3 x 50k, and 4 x 20k - amounts posted into the Poll earnings, to be paid season end. Nobody got the full payout but 5 getting one correct is good. San Jose has 150k already after 2 payouts....
Next Weeks Game will be:
Remember Wednesday games are the last of the Al Sellers Cup Group matches - 16 go through to the Playoffs - other 8 teams will be put into the Al Sellers Plate - all playoff games will be KO matches (90 minutes then pens if a draw)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 28:
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWW)
Langley F.C. - MVP #4: 1 CP (wWw)
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #6: 25k (WDw)
New England Revolution - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Real Salt Lake - MVP #4: 1 CP (WWW)
But, correct you are, Bryce. Deuce Dempsey and Oba both scored in extra time in that one for a 3-1 AET final win. Was a good match to see (though a late drive back from Philly to DC)
Only 5 teams still to put team lines in for today.
Hoping we get no more NMRs till the end of season, please, it's only fair to the opponents that everybody turns up.
Remember the Poll match which closes at kick off time today and we have had a couple of 125k winners so far...
Good luck to all...👍👍
Yes, the 6th and last auction is due a week on Sunday 3/10/21..
Is the next one the last?
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 27:
New York Red Bulls - MVP #3: 1 TP (WDw)
Just 4 teams needing to put in team lines for tonight....
I will be away till Friday afternoon but will update the results then - tables will be in the Tables>Al Sellers Cup on the front page. Good luck to all - after tonight some will cement a last 16 space, others will pull themselves back into contention, and only a couple might just feel a last 16 is beyond them. I like the Cup Ties!!!
Philly are proud to announce the signing of Brazilian striker Matheus Davo from Corinthians,he will slot straight into the side and hopefully provide the goals we are lacking at present.
Will be the Youth 3rd Division relegation game between:
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 13th September....:
CLB(20) PHI(25) RSL(10) SJ(25) SEA(50) VAN(40)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 20th September....:
ATL(15) CLB(35) SJ(30) SEA(30) VAN(25)
Gents,
I paid out over 7,000k to clubs for their winnings in the Polls to the MSA mark, and have deposited 690k for todays game to start the 2nd half of the season. Some good monies to be earned, and pity some low earners did not realise that even 12 polls @ 20k for not getting anything right still gets you 340k.. I can do no more!
One lad today earned the full 125k - for guessing everything correct.- step up Tim and collect the big prize. 5 more earned 75k (good try David, but only 1 entry per team), 1 x 50k and 7 got 20k.
Andy, got your retirement but will pay it when I next do a schedule - just paid out today for the last 2-3 weeks.
Paul Elliott 5/12 SW thanks.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 26:
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #3: 1 TP (dww)
Los Angeles Galaxy - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #3: 1 TP (wdW)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #6: 25k (WWw)
The following teams receive Poll Match Earnings through 19th September....:
CAR(360) CHA(125) CHI(75) CHV(370) COL(460) CLB(300) DC(135) DAL(405) HOU(70) KC(275) LA(395) MIA(325) MIN(435) MON(385) NE(370) NY(255) PHI(460) POR(25) RSL(290) ROC(70) SJ(460) SEA(520) VAN(25)
The following teams receive Poll Match Earnings through :
ATL(515)
5 senior team lines and 7 youth ones still to go in, remember your wee lads, eh?
MSA isn't so bad when you get used to it.. Mark will be doing it today in SESL and I bet he isn't even apologising for it :-)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 18th September....:
MIA(190) NY(260) PHI(155) SJ(90) SEA(145)
Welcome back Mr. Commish and thank you for all you do to run this league!
And, okay, yes I'm going to go right back to the Robin refereeing his own match thing. He actually gave out 2 (TWO!!) red cards to the other team. W O W!
9 vs. 11? It seems fair... :-)
You are right Robin, there's no sitting on dad's lap anymore as he is almost that tall and my knees are gone! :-)
Enjoy your weekend everyone!
Yes the smiling assin is back after 5 days in North East , more like his yacht in Bermuda .
Imagine that grin as he presses the button for MSA !!...sadist
As for Lord Sellers complainig about my refereeing , so do I select who refs my games ...nope it is random :)
He got the grump as the young lad sitting on his knee ,now 6ft tall and weighs in at 15 stone , so difficult for him to hold that smile nowadays .,his knees are giving way .
And thanks very much, enjoyed the 5 day break down to the North East (of England).
Shame about the 2 x NMRs - let's keep them low, lads, both teams were heavily beaten, so at least their opponents got something from their "easy" game.
Sorry about the MSA - Dave one year didn't apply it, and teams SLs shot up - even Robin was playing with superhuman players (and still not winning!!). MSA is needed to get the big lads players down to more even numbers so we can compete against them better.. That is the plan!!
On the subject of refereeing, yes, I was wondering about that - Robin as a referee, but I am assured he must have deserved it for something he did in the murky past - set of Christmas presents for the Commish perchance, or some small but fat brown envelopes. I have never seen any, but I live in hope... :-)
However in the Al Sellers Cup there are 36 Group games, and 30 referees, so every man in black gets a game at least. And don't mention Steve, I know where you are coming from there... :-) :-)
Feel free to post trophy celebrations like that anytime Andy :) (and congrats on your victory). Let's see...it looks like it's the US Open Cup in the Philly Union stadium but without looking it up I can't remember what year this might be. I see Dempsey, Neagle, Oba, Hahnemann so I'll say maybe 2014?
NY sends 155k to MON for Kevin Pedelo (3/19 DF)
...well probably not "outraged" outraged, but I like to draw the reader in...
Anyway, was it just me or when David said "MSA has visited every club..." did it feel like he should have posted an image of himself in a grim reaper costume (can someone photoshop that?) performing this activity...
...but I digest...
I'm outraged at the refereeing in this league!!!
How does (sir) Robin Dewar get his team's match refereed by...well...Sir Robin Dewar. The word is COLLUSION ladies and gentlemen. Also the setting of HOMER/LOOSE, well that needs no further comment.
And then poor me, playing in a cup named after me by the way, I get (of all people) STEVE TURNER refereeing my match?!?!?!
Steve is not going to let my team win, period! We were lucky to get a draw...
...but back to Robin...
The biggest surprise today is that "referee" Robin Dewar "somehow" did not award his team a PK when his forwards tripped over their own "boots" near the goal today. Fair warning to all managers, check your referee before the next match, ESPECIALLY if its Robin Dewar as, guess what, you will likely be playing Vancouver!!!
:-)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 25:
New England Revolution - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
MSA has visited every club as from 2 minutes ago - 4-15pm GMT. Enjoy !! 🤓🤓
MSA has visited every club as from 2 minutes ago - 4-15pm GMT. Enjoy !! 🤓🤓
The following teams receive Physio Boost through Boost for Hideaway…:
REB(-40)
The following teams receive Awards through Rob for half season League Reviews.. thanks Rob!!:
PHI(250)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 24:
Golden Gophers - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWw)
Gananda Bandits S.C. - MVP #4: 1 CP (Wwd)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #3: 1 TP (wwW)
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #5: 25k (WWw)
New York Red Bulls - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWw)
Seems strange but following the rules I am writing to myself looking for a Physio Boost for REB's Hideaway (currently -15) after tomorrow's game, costing 40k.
Bring it on, at RSL ... we are ready!
I recall Bryce having objections to my posting of trophy celebrations during my last stint at Portland, but perhaps he will let this one slide. Bonus points if he (or anyone) can identify the year and trophy here without looking it up. A hint is that I was actually at the above game, myself.
A well played final from Andy and SJ on Wednesday. Even match that I happened to come out on top of after a good match from my GK.
Told you lads before, if I don't see the contents of a fat brown ebvelope in my hand before the due date and time, then you are all goners. You think I ENJOY reducing you to tears and your best players to rubble, err, less effective than they were before I pressed the TNT handle? Actually, it doesn't faze me, I don't have a senior team for it to mean much, and I can't earn participation cash either, so I will stop now!!! :-)
Well of course I agree Lord Sellers , where would we all be if it was not for you , possibly down the pub wasting money on Beer , or the more sedate ones sat at home doing some kniting ...Long Live the Olmec :)
David, I'm wondering if Columbus could be placed in the "MSA-free" zone where we don't lose any SL via Mid Season Aging.
I know Sir Robin Dewar approves of my application, so...
:-)
SEA sends 125k to MON for Brad Hogan (4/19 MF)
The button will be pressed for MSA sometime after Sunday's games - maybe Sunday evening but probably on Monday morning - I will be away, but even I have access to the button.. Be warned!! :-) :-)
NY sends 50k, Duke McKenzie (5/27 MF), Victor Loughlin (1/16 DF), Lewis Ritson (5/23 MA) to POR for Danny Hill (4/12 DF), Joe Long (1/29 DF), Orlando Beck (6/10 GK)
Gents, Iam away from 7-15am Sunday coming for 4 days, so (after talking to Mark) am suggesting I do 2 weeks on Monday 20th September - everything from Monday 6th till Sunday night 12th for the 1st week, and Monday 13th till Sunday 19th.
Youth Cup
On the front page you will see the final placings and the teams for the last 16.
Draw for the Last 16 (following Euro 2020 guidelines) is:
Last 16 Draw | |||
Langley F.C. | v | Carson City Kickers | 1 |
Gananda Bandits S.C. | v | Red Force FC | 2 |
Roxborough Indians S.C. | v | Daniel Island S.A. | 3 |
De Anza Force S.C. | v | New Bedford Whalers | 4 |
KC Athletics | v | Los Angeles Blues | 5 |
Texas Dutch Lions | v | Fall River Rovers | 6 |
North Sound Seawolves | v | Colorado Ice White | 7 |
Golden Gophers | v | Laredo Heat | 8 |
Winner of 1 v Winner of 2 etc for the Quarter Final - all games on neutral venues.
Gents, I have put up a small review of the Dave Dowson Shield Final and 3rd/4th place games on the Cup Review part of the Front page. Saying nothing as I don't want to spoil anything.
Plus I have put up the final matches and tables and qualifiers for the Youth Cup Last 16.
NOW, in 2 sections the teams placed 2nd and 3rd had the same points, goals difference, goals scored, and rather than put the 4 teams into a place off game, I have totalled up the on target shots each of them had in their section, as De Anza and Carson City played the same opponents, and Red Force and L.A Blues did the same. De Anza had a 10-7 advantage so I place them 2nd, Carson City 3rd. Likewise Red Force won the tie break 14-11 against the Blues. The good thing is ALL 4 teams qualify for the last 16.
Tomorrow I will post up the last 16 draw - games are not due for a week or so. NEXT Midweek starts the group stages of the Al Sellers Cup.. The Last 16 draw will be done as per the recent Euro 2020, as best as possible to avoid teams in the same section meeting again before the Semi Finals at least...
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 23:
Los Angeles Blues - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (dww)
Langley F.C. - MVP #3: 1 TP (WDW)
Nearly right Robin, we waited and planned breaks when (silly I know) we thought the pandemic might be nearly over.
We knew the Sept/Oct time was our busy time - in October Whitby gets our money but it won't affect the running of OASL, maybe the Cup reviews (I haven't looked at the games that night). Got 2 concerts as well, Inverness (Country music), and Dunfermline (Showaddywaddy). But they are one evening events. 🤓🤓
First of the season's competitions to be decided today at 4pm.
Seattle Sounders v San Jose Earthquakes
FC Dallas v Minnesota Thunder.
Plus last set of matches in the Youth Cup group stage - top 2 from each section plus best 4 x 3rd place teams to last 16. Virtually Every team has still an opportunity to make the last 16.
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On another note, I realise the format for the Youth Cup is being used for the Al Sellers Cup, where we will be sending through 16 teams to the playoffs, leaving only 8 teams for the Al Sellers Plate. Due to the addition of another match in the former, and a deduction of a round in the Plate, I intend moving some of the prize money over from the Plate to the main competition. Haven't worked out how much yet, but will do so before we kick off next week.
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The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 6th September....:
COL(50) CLB(20) NE(50) PHI(15) SJ(45) SEA(30) VAN(20)
Nearly right Robin, we waited and planned breaks when (silly I know) we thought the pandemic might be nearly over.
We knew the Sept/Oct time was our busy time - in October Whitby gets our money but it won't affect the running of OASL, maybe the Cup reviews (I haven't looked at the games that night). Got 2 concerts as well, Inverness (Country music), and Dunfermline (Showaddywaddy). But they are one evening events. 🤓🤓
Wow David and "herindoors" jetting off to the Yacht in Bermuda AGAIN ..he must have deep pockets !
Or he still up to his old tricks mugging old age pensioners as they come out of post office on monday , still good news they will be ok the next monday as he jetting off on the Sunday :)
Think I called a good one today. 13 managers took part, only 2 got the correct result, and 1 lad got one of the scores right. So, congrats to Lewis (LA) who gets 75k, Jason (CAR) gets himself 50k and the rest are on 20k. Total payout = 345k.
I am away from next Sunday morning (12th September) at 7-15 am so I plan NOT to have a Poll game for next Sunday, as I won't be back till Thursday. The game I will put up later today will be a game from the 19th September, so you will have 2 weeks to enter your predictions.
Now next Sunday is the day for MSA and Poll monies payout.
I will pay out to all clubs their poll winnings on Saturday next (before I go), and at some point after Sunday's games I will press to effect MSA. Exactly when, I don't know but it will be AFTER the games on the Sunday and BEFORE the games on the Wednesday - likely Sunday evening. BUT it WILL be done..
PS Poll earnings total 7105k - so why aren't all of you taking part EVERY week? Even 11 bad calls in 11 weeks gets 220k. I can tell Seattle will get the most, 5k ahead of Atlanta, lowest payouts? Check next Saturday.....!!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 22:
Laredo Heat - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
D.C. United - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wDw)
All done David. Late again.
1 Steve, sorted.
2 Only 4 teams to put sheets in for today (more in the youth teams), but over 5 hours to go.
3 2 announcements will be made this week, the first after today's games when I do the Poll Update. Handy if you could all take a minute to read it any time after 5pm, as it will affect all teams.
Enjoy today's games... :-)
Hans Solo should be Han Solo.
I thought I must have mistyped when I sent the request back in June but I spelled it Han.
Group A: Texas are through. De Anza play them and a draw is enough - if they lose Carson go through with a win over Columbia.
Group B: North Sound are through. Bedford play Mount Tabor with the winner going through. Draw and it's down to coin toss though likely (not certain) 4 points is enough in 3rd place.
Group C: Langley are through. Washington play Laredo and need to win 3-0 to overtake them and even then Montreal qualify ahead of both with a 0-2 loss.
Group D: Daniel Island play Granada and a draw sees both through.A non-draw result gives Golden and Windy City a chance with a win.
Group E: K.C. play Savannah, a draw for the former is enough. A loss and either New Bedford or Carolina can overtake them with a win to go through with Savannah.
Group F: Both Fall River through and play Roxborough who go through with a draw. Even if they lose (against a probable 50% passive stalling team) it needs Colorado to win by 4 or Utah by 7.
Having said all that, with four 3rd place teams going through, everyone is still in with a chance with Washington the least likely as they need to win 3-0 just to finish 3rd on 3 points and Utah also needing a win to go 3rd on 3 points but have a -7 goal difference.
Not sure anybody missed me, but if so, I am back.
Have been on and updated the Dave Dowson Shield details (did say there would not be a review as I was away), but the Final plus 3rd/4th place games have been scheduled.
Also done is an updaye further down the page to the Youth Cup. Game 2 of 3 has been played and results and section groupings are displayed. All by hand, so any discrepancies keep them to yoursleves....
Nearly MSA and remember to do the Poll game as payouts of all your winnings will be done at MSA.....
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 21:
Texas Dutch Lions - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Wdw)
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (DWw)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Www)
Daniel Island S.A. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWD)
Gananda Bandits S.C. - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWD)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #5: 25k (wwD)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #3: 1 TP (Dww)
When you first start managing a team most managers pick a theme for players names.
Sometimes that idea doesn't last long when you realise how few options you actually have.
International players are a popular choice, SESL has probably had the most replicated player names from the Scottish team.
My decision to go with Austrians so far has been ok. I started with the mostly unknown legends of the 30-50s when Austria were a real power house in World football, but just came short on actual trophies.
It's getting a little harder now with at least 8 new players needed every season, but I don't need to just pick international players I've got a whole country which makes things easier.
...Al Sellers would make a decision right here and now to name all his new players after Roy's Colorado Rapids roster...
The older version knows he's not getting any auction players anyway so this could be a difficult task...
Rob??
Don't apologise Rob, I'm happy to see them getting a name check by another manager.
Although you do have Sasa down as being Croatian.
There are a few Austrians in the EPL, Anautovic was brilliant and I always had a soft spot for Weimann. I think the national keeper will be making an appearance this season.
Two players that impressed me at the Euro's and I wrote down their names sorry Roy didn't know you were taking the austrians
Rob??
On Wednesday my Colorado Rapids face Rob's Roxborough Indians in the youth cup.
I've just been checking out the opposition and noticed that up front they have an age 0 FW called Sasa Kaladjzic. By coincidence I have an age 0 FW also called Sasa Kaladjzic.
I've been naming my players after Austrian footballers from the start. So I'm curious why you've gone for Sasa (and Baumgartner) Rob?
I mentioned it before, that from today I will be away for a short break till Friday, so there will be no DD Shield Semi Final review done (unless I get time and opportunity, but don't hold your breath - it is MY break).
Potential burglars don't rush - my daughter and grandson will be here, and my next door neighbour is an armed response policeman!!! No kidding!!
BUT I will cast the Final and 3rd/4th place DD Shield matches due the following Wednesday - even chosen the referees!! How sad!!
The Youth Cup will be updated when I get back, but I have taken paper copies and will be ready to do it on Friday afternoon, well in time for the last round of games the following Wednesday.
I have just done the participation - doesn't take long in OASL - now can I go..?? :-)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 30th August....:
ATL(15) NE(15) PHI(50) SJ(30) SEA(50)
Andrew, I take the poll results from either team.. :-)
Today 5 lads guessed the result correctly, and 4 also got one of the scores correct, so 4 x 75k plus 1 x 50k. The rest, 7 of you get 20k each, all into the kitty for your teams. (Andrew, you get a payment once, not twice....!!)
Remember that I always believed in you, Bryce. Never doubted.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 20:
Golden Gophers - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Wdw)
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wwD)
Montreal Olympique - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wwW)
FC Dallas - MVP #3: 1 TP (DWW)
Just noticed at 2-30pm GMT that EVERYBODY is in for this afternoon - except me!!
Just away to sort it now, thanks lads.. :-)
Even at this stage lads, only 2 to go for a full house - cheers.
Mind you there are 4 youth teams still to sheet (and mine, but I am on it now..👍👍).
Tomorrow morning I'll do the participation and then I'm off for 4 days for a short breakaway.
This means I'll not be doing a review of the DD Shield Semi Finals due Wednesday evening. I can schedule the Final and 3rd/4th matches though.
Am back on Friday afternoon and will post up the Youth groups on the front page, you'll survive till then I'm sure.
Good luck today...🤓🤓
Just wanted to make sure you know where I stand on this whole title push of yours, Bryce.
You wouldn't want to bankrupt your friends along the way, would you? What good is a big, shiny trophy if it means I lose my prediction and get deprived of of a few k? Best just pack it in and lose, methinks.
I see Andy F-G really just wanted to stick the knife in and vote against me twice with his "mistake", haha.
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 25th August....:
COL(40)
Darn and Blast, and a couple more words I shouldn't be saying!!
Seems I didn't get the tables right in the Tables page, so in the meantime please look to the FRONT page and down to the Youth section and I will update the results there, and the Group Tables. Humph!!!!!
Only Alon (with the Gophers), and Derek with Mount Tabor decided to NMR today - BOT please remember you are playing whatever happens the next 2 Wednesdays for sure....
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 19:
Langley F.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wwW)
Windy City Pride - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (dWw)
KC Athletics - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Tables are there now, under Al Sellers Cup in the Tables heading..
Still 1 Quarter Finalist plus 4 youth team lines to come in - but there is still 5 hours to go..
2 of the Quarter Finalists of the DD Shield and 7 (Seven) youth team managers still to sheet for tonight. Still over 9 hours to go .....🤓🤓
Steve, actually forgot to create the tables and didn't allocate the the teams a letter to allow the tables.
Reason is I manually schedule every game and referee for EVERY cup, only the DD Shield had "official" tables.
I planned to make up the tables and publish them every match day (Al Sellers Cup and the Youth Cup sections), but will see if I can back track on the big competition, put in the group letters, and let the programme do the tables. If I get time before the kick off - I am more concerned about NMRs...😟
Check tonight after the games ...👍👍
Thanks for flagging it up. 🤔🤔
The tables aren't showing up for me. I don't know if this means the competition hasn't been set up properly.
Lads, EVERY manager has a youth game PLUS the Quarter Finals of the Dave Dowson Shield are down for playing. So 32 teams lines to go in from 24 managers - let's stop the NMRs from mounting up please, eh?? 😉😉
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 23rd August....:
LA(20) NE(15) PHI(30) SJ(40) SEA(50)
Seems I gave you lot an easy match to vote on..
i manager voted a draw, the rest all got the correct result = 50k
Of the 12 who were correct, 8 got the half time score correct, and 1 got the full time result.
However, 1 lad got the LOT - half time, full time and the result. The first person so far to earn the full 125k, 8 receive 75k, and 3 get 50k - step forward Rob Lye !!!!
A massive 895k has been added to clubs treasury, to be paid out at MSA...
NOW, to next week, and the match will be:
Could you have a word with Derek abd Phil - 20 minutes to go and both missing, again..
Yet both managed to remember SESL.. 🤓🤓
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 18:
Red Force FC - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WDw)
Gananda Bandits S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wwD)
Texas Dutch Lions - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWw)
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
Colorado Rapids - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wwD)
Late as usual but all done now.
And still 7 lads to put lines in - has to be a record at this time of a match day...
Guessing most will be okay by 4pm today - hope so anyway..🤔🤔
Is that the top 2 go through, and the best 4 second place teams, so get some points abd sit back..👍👍
Is that the top 2 go through, and the best 4 second place teams, so get some points abd sit back..👍👍
Could be worse i guess
Section A |
Los Angeles Galaxy Div 2, 8th |
Atlanta Silverbacks Div 1, 2nd |
Carolina Railhawks Div 1, 10th |
Vancouver Whitecaps Div 2, 9th |
I randomised the teams numbers, and then asked Mark to make a draw. 6 Groups x 4 teams a la Euro 2020, with top 2 teams plus the next best four 2nd placed teams go to the last 16 (as voted for by you in a recent Poll).
Teams play one match on neutral grounds against their other 3 opponents. The 4 x 2nd placed teams to go through will be decided on points, goal difference, goals scored for, and if still level, a playoff if 2 teams involved (I will worry about it if more than 2 teams are still level after all the above).
Numbers | |
(drawn by | |
Mark) | |
Groups | |
A | 12, 4, 16, 19 |
B | 10, 21, 22, 13 |
C | 2, 7, 24, 18 |
D | 14, 3, 20, 9 |
E | 1, 23, 17, 6 |
F | 8, 11, 5, 15 |
Numbers | ||
(drawn by | Al Sellers Cup | which results |
ME | in below | |
GROUP | ||
24 | D.C. United | C |
15 | Colorado Rapids | F |
20 | San Jose Earthquakes | D |
4 | Atlanta Silverbacks | A |
23 | Portland Timbers | E |
16 | Carolina Railhawks | A |
5 | FC Dallas | F |
19 | Vancouver Whitecaps | A |
7 | Philadephia Union | C |
21 | Rochester Rhinos | B |
10 | Chivas USA | B |
17 | Columbus Crew | E |
1 | Charleston Battery | E |
13 | Real Salt Lake | B |
6 | Kansas City Wizards | E |
22 | Minnesota Thunder | B |
11 | Miami FC | F |
18 | New England Revolution | C |
8 | Houston Dynamos | F |
12 | Los Angeles Galaxy | A |
3 | Seattle Sounders | D |
9 | New York Red Bulls | D |
14 | Chicago Fire | D |
2 | Montreal Impact | C |
Al Sellers Cup
Groups
Section A |
Los Angeles Galaxy |
Atlanta Silverbacks |
Carolina Railhawks |
Vancouver Whitecaps |
Section B |
Chivas USA |
Rochester Rhinos |
Minnesota Thunder |
Real Salt Lake |
Section C |
Montreal Impact |
Philadephia Union |
D.C. United |
New England Revolution |
Section D |
Chicago Fire |
Seattle Sounders |
San Jose Earthquakes |
New York Red Bulls |
Section E |
Charleston Battery |
Columbus Crew |
Portland Timbers |
Kansas City Wizards |
Section F |
Houston Dynamos |
Miami FC |
FC Dallas |
Colorado Rapids |
Gents,
Quarter Final Draw is on the front page in the Cup Reviews, and games will be played next Wednesday, along with every manager's youth team who start their group games in the Youth Cup, all 24.
All games are scheduled for that date - session 19 - 25th August.
The yes is that OASL does use the Physio rule, but the no is because when you ask for it prior to a session player must be -8 or worse, and he is currently -4. 😟
When effected it would be a +4 boost costing 40k as we only play one game a session per team. 👍
I don't know if we have Magic sponges in this league but if so can Eddie Elephant have one please
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 17:
Philadelphia Union - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wwD)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #5: 25k (DWw)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #4: 1 CP (dWW)
FC Dallas - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wdW)
Tonight sees the last of the Group Games in the Dave Dowson Shield, and only 3 teams to put lines in.
The reviews will be on by 8-30 tonight, maybe earlier, and the Quarter Final lineup will be there too.
The last 8 matches go on next Wednesday along with the first of the Youth Cup matches, so that everybody will be involved (8 managers will have both of their teams playing - keeps you busy.. 👍👍).
In case anyone would like to know which matches are important for progression (and perhapd good options for the viewer):
Group A
No important matches, Dallas locked in 1st and San Jose in 2nd
Group B
Rochester at Columbus - a win and Rochester are through, anything less allows NYRB an oppprtunity to pip them. Rochester an outside chance of topping the group if they win and RSL lose AND they make up some goal difference. RSL guaranteed to progress either way.
Group C
Seattle at Minnesota - Both sides progress, but winner tops group. Draw sees Seattle top.
Group D
Carolina at New England - a variety of outcomes here. Carolina will top group as long as they don't lose by 4 or more. New England tops group if they do manage that large of a win, and qualifies with a point or better. A loss for the home side opens up the possibility for Philadelphia to qualify with a win in Charleston.
Hopefully that's all accurate! Feel free to post a correction if you see I've messed a group up
Tonight sees the last of the Group Games in the Dave Dowson Shield, and only 3 teams to put lines in.
The reviews will be on by 8-30 tonight, maybe earlier, and the Quarter Final lineup will be there too.
The last 8 matches go on next Wednesday along with the first of the Youth Cup matches, so that everybody will be involved (8 managers will have both of their teams playing - keeps you busy.. 👍👍).
13 teams got the result correct = 50k each (Rob, you can't vote twice.. :-)) and 4 others didn't get the result correct = 20k each.
Nobody got the 3-2 half time, which turned out to be the full time score too. Even had one lad forecasting 5-0 and 8-0!! Am sure he didn't really expect to pick up any extra cash....
Next Sunday's match comes from the Youth League:
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 16th August....:
ATL(30) PHI(50) SJ(25) SEA(50)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 16:
Carson City Kickers - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
Los Angeles Blues - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWw)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
Montreal Impact - MVP #3: 1 TP (wDW)
Houston Dynamo - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Wdw)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 15:
Real Salt Lake - MVP #3: 1 TP (Dww)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DWW)
Game 9 (of 10) in the Dave Dowson Shield tonight - still 5 teams to put lines in for their match. But still time left.
I expect my review will be posted by 8-30pm tonight latest - games are at 7pm, so giving myself plenty of time to do them.. :-).
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 9th August....:
CHV(30) DAL(10) MIA(30) PHI(30) SJ(25) SEA(30) VAN(25)
Gents, well done to James @ Kansas City who was the closest to winning a full 125k today. He got the result and the full time, and was just a goal away from the biggie in his half time forecast. And 5 more clubs got 50k for being correct with the forecast, the remaining 10 lads get the 20k - total paid into club funds = 525k.
MIA sends 10 CP to SJ for 10 TP
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 14:
Golden Gophers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wwW)
Utah Surf Boys S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWw)
Langley F.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWW)
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #4: 1 CP (Www)
D.C. United - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #4: 1 CP (wDW)
Robin, when the league fixtures are out in the computer selects the referees for the season. As I manually insert every cup tie I use up EVERY referee and in the DD Shield each ref gets 4 matches. I go down the 30 officials and have a system to try to give them all a good number of games each.
Will say I haven't looked at them for a while to see if there are trends appearing (penalties, red cards or yellow ones). Did comment last night that in the 3 games in Section D there was a red card in all 3 matches, but not one in the remaining 9 games. Should check session 3 as the same refs were on the same games reversed.
Robin, when the league fixtures are out in the computer selects the referees for the season. As I manually insert every cup tie I use up EVERY referee and in the DD Shield each ref gets 4 matches. I go down the 30 officials and have a system to try to give them all a good number of games each.
Will say I haven't looked at them for a while to see if there are trends appearing (penalties, red cards or yellow ones). Did comment last night that in the 3 games in Section D there was a red card in all 3 matches, but not one in the remaining 9 games. Should check session 3 as the same refs were on the same games reversed.
It's 2 from each group.
How many go through from each group?
Word of warning do NOT get OLD an senile . I had gone all day thinking it was tuesday , most people blame it on pandemic , you lose track of time .
But a second thing came to my attantion > was lookink at list of Refs and came across Craig Thomson 6 matches and 8 pens ! unbelievable, must post this on the blog > copy and paste , and it comes up with 0 pens ?
Turns out I had a small speck on my screen which made the 0 look like an 8 . ... I need a lie down
After my late team getting put in, only VAN and KAN for the full house.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 13:
Philadelphia Union - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWW)
FC Dallas - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wwD)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 4th August....:
SEA(70)
5 teams still to put lines in for this evening, and shortly after I'll have done short reviews for each game.
The group games are coming down to the wire and by tonight we'll know some of the Quarter Final teams.. 👍👍
That was clear enough - 1 lads voted for a last 16, and 1 for a last 8.
Everybody who took part gets 30k - where were the rest of you hiding - was only a choice if a or b and easy cash.
I will organise the draw today and post it up soonest - I have some free time later this morning...
SEA sends 50k to MIA for Simon Parsons (4/13 DF)
Gents, below is the draw for the 6 sections x 4 teams for the youth cup. Top 2 teams in each group (who will play the other teams in their group once only on neutral grounds) plus the best 4 of the 3rd placed teams will be in the last 16. Knockout from then on.
Matches will be played in sessions 19, 21, and 23.
Random | Group | |
Numbers | Teams | Draw |
14 | Daniel Island S.A. | A1 |
19 | Golden Gophers | A2 |
1 | Gananda Bandits S.C. | A3 |
6 | Windy City Pride | A4 |
16 | Laredo Heat | B1 |
21 | Langley F.C. | B2 |
13 | Washington Diplomats | B3 |
24 | Montreal Olympique | B4 |
10 | Red Force FC | C1 |
9 | Mount Tabor S.C. | C2 |
4 | Los Angeles Blues | C3 |
2 | North Sound Seawolves | C4 |
7 | Columbus Rebels | D1 |
18 | De Anza Force S.C. | D2 |
20 | Carson City Kickers | D3 |
5 | Texas Dutch Lions | D4 |
22 | Savannah Celtic FC | E1 |
8 | New Bedford Whalers | E2 |
17 | KC Athletics | E3 |
12 | Carolina Dynamo | E4 |
23 | Colorado Ice White | F1 |
3 | Fall River Rovers | F2 |
15 | Utah Surf Boys S.C. | F3 |
11 | Roxborough Indians S.C. | F4 |
That was clear enough - 1 lads voted for a last 16, and 1 for a last 8.
Everybody who took part gets 30k - where were the rest of you hiding - was only a choice if a or b and easy cash.
I will organise the draw today and post it up soonest - I have some free time later this morning...
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 2nd August....:
NE(20) PHI(50) SJ(30) SEA(35)
Steve, problem is that as I have no senior team I don't have a vote. Because I don't vote I can't see how things are going so I wait till close to the KO time to put in a neutral vote as REB, mainly so I know if anybody votes after the game time. 🤔
Today it didn't matter as there is no "result" to forecast.
I'll be on later with stuff - just back from taking my daughter and grandson, partner and her friend out for a high tea..
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 12:
Gananda Bandits S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWw)
Windy City Pride - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Chivas USA - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
With 66% of the 24 managers already voted the same way I don't think you need to wait, David
7 teams still to put lines in but at least 4 normally leave it till later - my concern is the 3 others. Let's try to have a full house - makes each game a challenge for both managers..
Anyway, good luck today to all.
I will post up the Youth Cup Groups (not drawn yet) - decided to wait till after the Poll finishes today - had a thought a few votes might have changed if teams knew their groups before they voted.
But vote in the Poll - you all have a youth team so the Poll concerns you.. 👍👍
I completely forgot to put something in for the POR v CHA match, although it does look like nobody noticed. It gave David's lads their first win, and effectively ended any thoughts POR had of progressing to the last 8. Apologies to both lads (David and Derek), but mainly David... It is done now.. :-)
Games completed, with 2 lads not turning up to put team lines in.... :-(
I have done a short review on each game plus the tables are there too, on the front page. Hope you enjoy!!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 11:
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #3: 1 TP (wwW)
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #3: 1 TP (dwW)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 28th July....:
CHA(85) COL(40) NY(55)
6 lads to still put lines in for tonight's DD Shield ties, but there is still 9 hours to go so I am still hopeful of a full house.
Remember the Poll question, the result could affect your own (youth) team's success or otherwise in the Youth Cup...it's a straight forward choice so no work involved and every participant gets the same reward, regardless of the result....🤔🤔
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 26th July....:
MIA(20) PHI(40) SJ(35) SEA(50)
Gents, 13 of you guessed the match result, and 2 didn't. So the 2 that didn't get 20k each, and all the others get 50k as NONE got the HT/FT results correct. Just one of these days!! But 690k paid into teams' accounts for payment at MSA.
Now, can you note that you only enter the Poll once - as either the senior or the youth team, NOT as both, eh, Matt? I took your first entry and you had the same result with both, so that was okay..And Bill must have been busy at work as he missed this one.. :-)
NOW, next week's Poll is slightly different..
The Youth Cup is worked in 6 sections of 4 teams each.
Current situation is for the top team in the group plus the 2 best 2nd placed teams, based on points, goal difference, goals for to go to the last 8.
Straight choice, and I will pay for all entries regardless of your vote. Can't be fairer than that...
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 10:
Columbus Rebels - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Fall River Rovers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
Vancouver Whitecaps - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Dww)
I appreciate the info!
Complete draw is in the rules, Andrew, but I can tell you here...
1. Winner of Group A plays RU Group B
2. Winner of Group B plays RU Group A
3. Winner of Group C plays RU Group D
4. Winner of Group D plays RU Group C
Semi Finals are Winner of tie 1 v Winner of tie 3 and
Winner of tie 2 plays Winner of tie 4 - all games on neutral grounds and played to a finish.
KO ties are played on the same evening as the 3 x Group games of the Youth Cup. It's all go!!
A little mention here in advance- next weeks Poll question I'd like a 100% response - mmmm! It'll be up late this afternoon. 👍👍
Quick question on the DD Shield. After the group stage is done and 2 teams qualify from each group - is there any format for the ensuing draw? Does first place in your group ensure you drawn against a second place side? or is it a completely open draw?
Thanks in advance for the info!
Last night only 1 NMR and I'm guessing that was an oversight by David.. 🤔
Some good games and some results that will keep the pit boiling for a couple more group games..
By this weekend I will have contacted Mark to assist with the Cup groups (he has already been paid to assist in all Cup draws 🤓).
As last season there will be 6 sections x 4 teams, playing once each with all games on neutral grounds, and the top team in each group go to the Quarter Finals plus the 2 top best 2nd placed teams.
I will post the Draw in the Youth Section on the front page, when completed.
Now we head for the weekend League games.. and don't forget the Poll game too. Costs nothing to enter abs money that can be won has been increased again for this season. Get in it to get some..💵💵
Gents, I have had to take over doing the Cup Reviews as Simon has found he hasn't the time to do them.
Tonight's games are under the Cup Review slot and should be up EVERY Wednesday by 7-30 maximum. 👍
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 9:
Chivas USA - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wdw)
Real Salt Lake - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
Montreal Impact - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Simon, Miami will play home and away against the other 5 teams in the group. Top 2 go to the Quarter Finals. So far you have played the other teams once each - tonight we start on the return path - next 5 midweeks finish the Group matches... Hope this helps.
Just a question about the cup.
How is the next round being determined? Do the top 2 continue?
Sorry, I have a lot on my mind lately, and as I saw that my next competition game is very important...I might look to my options...
As in (why do I try to keep SJ poor? 😟😟)
Andy, I have missed you before and you are correct - don't know how I miss you..
apologies, young man, I will sort it out. Me, I accept a yellow card..🤓🤓
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 19th July….my error!:
SJ(40)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 19th July….my error!:
SJ(40)
As in (why do I try to keep SJ poor? 😟😟)
Andy, I have missed you before and you are correct - don't know how I miss you..
apologies, young man, I will sort it out. Me, I accept a yellow card..🤓🤓
Come on David, a bit tight 10k. I did do a journal as well.
Making me earn it this week.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 19th July....:
PHI(40) SJ(10) SEA(50)
I wrote a decent Blog about the Poll results and I obviously didn't save it..
Right, today's game - 9 managers got the correct result (one lad put it in twice, but easily spotted, and no double pay out..) and of the 9, 4 lads got one of the HT/FTs correct as well, so Paul, Simon, Andrew, and Lewis all get 75k, the remaining 5 gents all receive 50k.
7 managers didn't get the result correct so they get tyhe usual 20k. Total payout = 690k
Next Sunday's game will be:
(great game due up, as neither has a point and neither has scored a goal, so something has to give - fill yer boots!! (Now to save this blog before it disappears into the ether... )
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 8:
Carson City Kickers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Red Force FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWw)
Colorado Ice White - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWw)
In nice and early this week but don't get used to it, David.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 7:
Seattle Sounders - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Thanks, David. Makes total sense, and I appreciate the explanation. Apologies for the late orders here - still aiming for no NMRs, but I'm sure leaving it until the last minute adds some stress as well. I'll try to avoid that too often.
England supporters haven't really covered themselves in glory this tournament, have they? I know it's the minority that give the majority a bad name, but between the ticketless supporters causing trouble, the harassment of their own players, the laser pen, the harassment of children, the petition, and more...it certainly has taken a lot of attention away from what should have been a massive success for the national team. Maybe Southgate is happy that the attention has been drawn away from his tactics in the final, however...
Only MIA, POR, SEA, CHI to put lines in for tonight - halfway point in the DD Shield group games.
Let's keep these NMRs down lads - I won't let them get out of control... Thanks.
Just read about the over 100,000 idiots who have apparently signed a petition to have the Final replayed, apparently due to the “bias of the referee” and the fact “Chiellini wasn’t smacked on the wrists even more for his outrageous assault on the teenager Baka”. Amazing to find most of them can write their names....
Now, I can tell them EUFA or even FIFA won’t entertain it- as older managers will remember (yes, you know who you are..) back to 1966 when 4.3 millions Scots all petitioned to have the only Final England have ever won replayed or at best annulled and the Cup given to Germany. In those days every person in Scotland had the vote, even babies could put a custard topped finger down as their vote. (I will get that fact checked out – it was an old lad at the bowling club who told me, and why would he lie?)
(Queen Nicola has found out about it, and is planning to bring in voting for EVERY living Scot in time for the next Referendum.)
The basis before for the petition was that the slow witted/footed Ukrainian linesman Bakhramov knew that there was no goal line or VAR technology, and that if he didn’t make a decision soonest, the game would go on forever and his tea would get cold. As most of the fans were relatives of the aforementioned still to be born 100,000 idiots, he thought nobody would care apart from 11 German players and the 500 Germans watching on TV. HE WAS WRONG – he forgot the 4.3million Scots!!
The 100,000 idiots expected a win and the after match tantrums only serve to make me think there is very little difference between having heroes and zeroes, as the penalty missers will testify..
At least we don’t have such tantrums in SESL and OASL... :-)
True you said Draw so that was accepted and although the HT was wrong the FT was correct. But I couldn't let you then go for Italy and pens - I'm amenable but not that amenable. But you are entitled to another 25k and I'll add it to your 50k. 👍
Can't quite recall the nuances of the poll question scoring, but I believe that I predicted a draw with 1-1 full time with Italy winning on penalties. Does that earn a partial correct score, or would I have needed to get halftime correct for the FT score to get me any credit?
I noticed when I looked at the question I forgot to carry forward the piece at 90 minutes which I put in initially.
So in the interest of fair play I have counted as a correct result all people who said a draw, and also those who said Italy would win. Even so, nobody got all 3 things correct, with Simon and Bryce getting 75k for getting one of the scores correct too. I am paying 10 more lads 50k for the overall correct result, whether in 90 minutes or the full game. (Marc, you forgot the HT/FT scores, but still got the correct result - what COULD you have won....)
Bottom line is 21 (of 24) of you put in a return to the Poll... Thanks for that!!
Next week's game will be the "old Firm" match :-)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 12th July....:
DAL(10) PHI(40) ROC(10) SJ(40)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 12th July....:
SJ(130)
San Jose Earthquakes retired two players 5/12 & 4/12.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 6:
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWw)
First of all Phil, I have always been a Match Secretary in a variety of sports and making draws with multiple teams involved was near and drink to me (a or b v c or d or e etc).
Apologies if it seemed confusing to some of you but it's all fine now - so remember to put the Poll in by kick off time tonight..... Eady money!!
Only 3 teams missing for today (plus my youth team - I'm on it now..
Good luck all 👍👍
I stared at that poll for a looooooong time on Tuesday.
Gents, I wasn't giving you the option of picking one of the 2 games to work on.
It is for this Sunday's Final - I thought it looked good from where I was sitting - but now I see it has to be set out properly.
I have copied the poll results for now, but have restated the game now as Italy v England so everybody can go back in and vote for result, ht and ft scores.
if someone who has voted doesn't come back in, then I'll use what I can with what you put in before.
PLEASE ALL VOTE AGAIN!!!
PS I did a review of the cup games last night - were on by 8pm. Service with a smile.. 😁😁
Umm 1-1 / 1-1 Draw that should have been. Lol
NY sends 2 TP to VAN for Shawn Pattison (4/20 GK)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 5:
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Montreal Impact - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWD)
The following teams receive Bio & Team Updates through 6th July - oversight - sorry!:
MIN(100)
I am not asking you to pick a team from the 4 - whichever team from Italy or Spain reaches the Final will be up v winner of Denmark or England. I just want a tick in the box and scores - I will do the rest.
Gents, A good week for 2 lads who guessed the full house and receive 125k into their Poll earnings - Mark and Roy. 4 other lads got the result and one of the other scores (75k), and 4 more got just the result, earning them 50k.
Next week's game will be based on the Euros 2020 Final. At the moment there are 4 teams in it, but I can quote the Final and you can always leave your voting till after Wednesday's game. Poll earnings will be based on 90 minutes (so a draw is possible) - pens are not included in your options... :-)
The following teams receive Bio & Team Updates through 5th July - last of the payments now!:
CHI(100) CHV(100) LA(100) MON(100) NE(100)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 5th July....:
COL(20) CLB(20) DAL(40) NE(50) NY(15) PHI(50) ROC(20) SJ(40) SEA(25)
True, Andy, but I never worry about you. Now James and KCA.... Wonder if he will get my email I sent him an hour ago......????
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 4:
Colorado Rapids - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDw)
Late as usual.
And apart from Andy and his 2 team lines, only James is missing for his youth team, possibly forgetting the youth kicks off today.. 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Now the season kicks off in earnest......👍👍
What am I thinking? I was doing my Youth, deciding whether to train 4+2 or 3+3 and just popped over to senior team. Saw 30 TP and thought I'd bobbed up. Of course I have enough assuming I get two MVP.
It's not all bad news Steve. You only need 2 TPs to get your 4 lads trained up, and if you did sell one of them you wouldn't need 2 TPs - you would have a small surplus instead.
no TPs due in auctions - idea was to buy in extras pre season or trade players or cash for them.
I am sure somebody has a couple they will sell to you.... 🤔🤔
I seem to have messed up here. 4 good age 1 players trasferred from Youth team but I didn't buy any extra TP.
So three questiions.
1. Will there be any TP in the auctions?
2. If not will anybody sell me any - I'll pay 20k over the pre-season price for each
3. If not will anyone want to buy either of my age 1 defenders for ???k + 2 TP?
The suspension was an accident put in by the laddie (no names to protect him from social abuse...!!) who entered your new youths. Actually he was down for 9 games suspension - sorted now..
Can't get shot of the ? players that infrequently come up - if they showed as players I can edit or delete them, but they don't show in the Commish's edit choices. I wouldn't pick him though.. :-)
...also seems to have a mystery player with no name at the bottom of the roster
Sorry for the NMR. Mid week games seem to catch me more often than not.
Also, Gananda shows a suspended player. David Sinclair was just added to our roster and is yet to play a game in the history if OASL. Did he leave his towel on the floor in the locker? What gives?
The 99 is probably a limitation put on by the original author who never considered TP would get to triple digits. Likely an int(2) kind of thing. Or I could be wrong...
I think you are right Roy, 99 it is as you can hold over some (or just plain forget to TP some of the youth), and 99 is the max.
Mind you, thinking that if you did spend 22 matches x 4 training, your youth team would not contribute much to the main teams purse during close season as it'll cost 75k per match extra to train 4 lads per game coming off the match income....🤔🤔
I believe the TP limit is 99 as the system can't go into triple figures, but TP can be held over from previous seasons to add to the 60 awarded at the start of the season
I thought this was 70? Am I wrong as I see youth sides with 90 TP...
This early - 3 sessions - we have had 5 NMRs.
Gents, OASL has to be one of the easiest set ups to play in that EVERY team plays EVERY Sunday and Wednesday for at least the first 10 weeks (till the DD Shield group games are done). But 14% of the games so far has featured an NMR.
If anybody has a problem entering a line up, tell me soonest and I will assist. It doesn't reflect well on the game.
I am guessing SESL has some NMRs but Mark chooses not to show them on the stats page - I do! Thanks!
But with 40 minutes to go I could do with POR, MIA, and ROC joining you....
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 3:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWw)
Real Salt Lake - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
New York Red Bulls - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dwW)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWW)
The Sounders team bus was late to the stadium after the tires on the bus had melted during the city's extreme heat wave. After being replaced, the team will request water breaks midway through each half.
And 4 teams still missing for DD Shield match 3....
Gents, the League programme starts this weekend, and last night I noticed that I made a big mistake putting in REB youth, in that I didn't cover for the keeper who went up to CLB. As you know I just run REB, and Allan takes care of the important team... :-)
Now, I plan to alter one of my NEW youth's position from wherever to cover as a 2nd keeper, but I am aware I am usurping my powers, so to speak.
So, as I plan to do it in the fairness of the upcoming games, I am offering the same to all of you.
Gents, thanks for the full house yesterday - some nice games - too few goals but can't have everything.. :-)
Paid participation this morning, but have kept back a payment for David @ DAL and and an extra one for Rob @ PHI as both journals were put in today. I look to pay for Monday to Sunday, so have logged a payment already for next Monday for you 2 lads. I won't forget..!!
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 28th June....:
CHI(10) CHV(10) CLB(15) LA(10) MIA(25) MIN(10) NE(30) NY(10) PHI(35) SJ(25) SEA(30)
Good to see the season started already. I think a big thank you for David and everyone who helped him to get the things up to date! Great work guys!
Only 4 teams left to put lines in for , so hoping for a full house this time.
Weather improving - things are looking up - so lucky for those who did their bios updates but didn't tell me. I will make a payment tomorrow along with the participation money. I can be very flush with the company's cash.. :-)
Same. Forgot to blog
very foolish of me.
LA never advised of updated either. My bad.
Yes I'm ok to carry on playing. It's just the participation in SESL that is affected really.
And sorry I didn't inform you about the bio - for some reason I didn't see that I had to.
On reading your SESL Blog, I realised that'll be the reason for the NMR.
On the subject of the bios update, you would have received the amount plus a bonus (like 13 teams did) for doing it by last Saturday, and the remaining amounts (ie without a bonus) were to be paid out if completed by KO time yesterday. On at least 5 occasions I stated the proviso was the manager had to inform me he had completed them - I didn't have time to check everybody's.
Are you okay for continuing - unlikely to miss out again knowing you are playing Sunday's and Wednesdays from yesterday?
For some reason i thought we'd be starting at the weekend and I've only just come online to see if I'd been paid for Bio and team Update that I did before the early deadline.
Can't deny I was disappointed at having 2 x NMRs - being the first game a team line could have been in ages ago. If any lad feels they might have a problem this early please flag it up to me - I can help - hopefully yesterday was a blip.....🤔
I'd be paying out thousands - 0-0 at the break, 1-1 at full time, and "you know who" winning on pens.
Roller coaster last night in both games - now Hungary will know how we in Scotland feel., except they had real talent out there - hard to believe they are one of Europe's lesser lights.. 🤔🤔
David: Can you PLEASE, PLEASE make the next poll about the GER-ENG match?
I think I will FINALLY get a poll result correct...
CHI sends 700k to MON for Geddy Lee (2/25 GK)
I wanted to use a Euro match but the games are not known for a week on Sunday, so we kick off with an opening League match:
You have a week and a half for this one - closing time is 3pm on Sunday 4th July...
I'm in a good mood today, so it is 20k for taking part, 50k for getting the Result correct (ie home win, draw, or away win), then a further 25k for the half OR full time score, and a grand 125k if the result and both scores are correct..
Not my money, I just want participation. :-)
Only 4 teams left to enter team lines - DC, MON, NE, LA.
Still loads of time but looking forward to some good games.
Season 27 is good to go......
(Will be putting up a Poll game once I've decided whether it will be another Euro gane or one of our own- decisions, decisions.). 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Get them orders in lads.
Looking forward to another great season in oasl David, thank you.
Gents, all pre season stuff done and 12 of the 24 clubs have already put team lines in - only 12 more to go - let's have a full house for tomorrow, eh?
This will give Simon a good start in his Cup Review season. 👍👍
Ready, Simon??
CHV Bios are completed.
David,
Apologies for this not being completed. Now done.
The following teams receive Bio & Team Updates through 21st June ....:
ATL(150) COL(150) CLB(150) DC(150) DAL(150) MIA(150) PHI(150) RSL(150) SJ(150) SEA(150) VAN(150)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 21st June ....:
CHV(20) COL(45) CLB(10) DAL(35) PHI(40) SJ(10) VAN(40)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 21st June....:
DAL(90) POR(110)
COL sends 325k to MON for Tuguy (3/18 MF)
On the plus side, every team now has 25 players or less.
On the negative side, I have 2 teams still to do pre season (CHV & HOU) - come on lads, we start a fresh challenge on Wednesday.. If not done by Monday evening I will likely complete them myself. Strange thing is the 2 teams have never been in this position before, so hoping neither manager is unwell, or on holiday and can't access the internet...
Again, the chance of a team getting the Blair bonus for updating their Bios (Team and personal) has gone. 10 of you have received it, from now till Wednesday 6pm any others will receive the usual 100k, after 6pm Wednesday there will be NO bonus for them. Easy money, can't understand why everybody wouldn't want easy money. Rules are that you quote Season 27 in all Bios updates and tell me when you have completed them.
Now looking forward to Wednesday and first matches in the DD Shield @ 6pm.
If I have done it right, EVERY midweek will be 6pm and EVERY Sunday will be 3pm (even allowing for the October hour gain).
Tomorrow I will put up a Poll, and pay out participation money plus Bios cash..
Good luck to all going forward...
Pools or is it Polls ....Nurse ease up on Roys medication .
Now talking about a bunch of Irish/american gangsters who have taken over at Wrexham .
Does not bode well for visiting teams , should they win ...ck out the home directors box to see if the are
holding large violin/guitar cases !!
I'm afraid I was one of the 4 not to take part in the England poll. Did you know that Deadpool got his name from the bar where hitmen were betting which of them would be taken out next?
Which nicely brings me onto Wrexham AFC - currently co-owner by Deadpool actor Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. McElhenney was born in Philadelphia and is a huge Union fan. In fact his wife went into labour whilst they were at a game.
So I'm delighted to hear that Wrexham will be playing Union Rob and I think we can guess why. (The actors are also making a documentary about Wrexham)
Just been told by a mate of mine that's a Wrexham fan that they will play Philadelphia Union on the last day of their training camp whilst in the USA in july,should be interesting wonder if it will be on a sports channel???
Can't be a spoiler here, but just to say it was great 20 of you took the time to enter the Poll. Only 4 didn't feel the need for some Poll money to start the season's total.
NOBODY got all 3 things correct, in fact only 1 manager guessed the result - a draw. Well done Tim, now if you have put in a half time scoreline at 0-0 you would have got 75k, your full time result was wrong so the big prize was not on (125K). Tim gets 50k, and everyone else gets 25k as nobody else predicted the Scots to get a deserved draw. It has been pointed out that it is possible that if Scotland beat Croatia, England might have to beat the Czechs to avoid finishing 3rd, but that is for a later day. The Scots celebrate because no-one thought they would leave Wembley with anything. England ponder just how good the EPL seems to be, but the national team can't buy goals. 525k paid into this season's Poll monies.
All teams have their totals down to 25 or less players, now only KC, ATL, CLB, CHV, HOU to do pre season....:-)
Did I win the poll? I'm sure I predicted a nil-nil outcome...
"Stirling Dives and wins a Pen 1-0 "
Blast , nearly won Millions in the poll , as predicted that slimey little to-rag did dive , but did not get the penalty .
My apologies for the delay, but Red Force has reduced players to 24.
All done.
Not going to let this go, lads, until all 24 teams have done pre season and 2 of you have reduced your youth squads to 25 or less players....
On the latter subject, if not done by Sunday morning I will reduce them myself - as there is no cash for retired youths. And I know which players would be getting retired, around 3 in each team.
But 6 teams STILL have pre season to do, I have done all my work, so it isn't asking too much for it all to be completed by Sunday, please? I knew you would see it my way, no names, but on the stats page it is clear to see which teams are missing.
Pre-season done and Bio updated and orders set for match 1
Don't forget to update the nationality of your players if you do that sort of thing
Mine have all been Austrian footballers for some time so it's been quite nice to see the real players in the Euros
Still 2 teams to reduce players - Windy City Pride (Marc) and Red Force (Simon) and 8 teams to do pre season - Kansas City, Chivas, Houston, Colorado, Chicago (Marc), Columbus, Charleston, Atlanta.
and 10 teams have earned the full bonus (normal plus my extra) for their Bios updates - got till Saturday evening for the rest of you, after that it will just be the normal till Wednesday 6pm, then it's nothing..
Do it all now, and sit back and wait for the opening day...
https://twitter.com/skysportsnews/status/1404795829374767104?s=21
looks like Jamie Vardy has a club to go to when leaving Leicester.
https://twitter.com/skysportsnews/status/1404795829374767104?s=21
looks like Jamie Vardy has a club to go to when leaving Leicester.
Gents, we start the new season (27) next Wednesday, so I thought I would bring you up to date.
You have all done well, okay I have had to push a couple of lads, but overall I am delighted at the response to my requests, and here are the last ones.
1) I STILL need the following Clubs to reduce their players in their squads to 25 or lower, BUT at least to 25:
Windy City Pride (Marc), Washington Diplomats (Matt), Savannah Celtic (Bryce), and Red Force (Simon)
2) I need the following teams to do Pre Season - buy CPs/TPs and pick a Captain:
DC United, Chicago Fire, Kansas City, LA Galaxy, Chivas USA, HOuston Dynamos, Colorado Rapids, Columbus Crew, Atlanta Silverbacks, Charleston Battery, Montreal Impacts.
3) Youth teams - I am not checking them individually, but if you haven't done so with your own team, then go to Preseason and pick a Captain ONLY, you can't buy anything for your youth team.
4) LAST call for Bios (Team and Personal) to be done to get the payment PLUS the Blair bonus - you have till Saturday for that. After that and before starting time (Wednesday 6pm), you will only get the payment. After we kick off, Nil, Nothing, sod all, maybe even less than that.. Mention Season 27 in all you do, and Blog or in Box me to tell me it's done. So far I have CLB, MIA, PHI, RSL, SEA, VAN who are getting the big bucks, where are the rest of you? Honestly, the money isn't coming out of my pocket...:-)
Just an alert for the retirement of a couple of our team.
6/8 GK and a 6/10 DF
Philly are proud to announce the signing of SW Ian Moseley from MON,coach rob stated we need to strengthen the defence as we gave away too many goals last season and this man fits the bill,he will slot straight into the side and help develop the young lads coming through.
PHI sends 600k to MON for Ian Mosely (2/23 SW)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 14th June....:
CAR(150) LA(180) MIN(15) NE(190) NY(35)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 14th June....:
ATL(10) CHA(15) CHV(15) COL(40) CLB(25) DAL(50) MIA(20) NY(10) ROC(30) SEA(50) VAN(50)
I'm feeling pretty good about my 4-nil prediction on the 18th thank you very much Mr. Dewar!
:-)
And Robin you are not exactly instilling confidence that I'm off with your 1-nil PK prediction there for England.
Oh and can someone tell me WHY there's this FIFA insistence on calling this "EURO 2020"?
Were the matches already played last year and I'm just watching them on tape (no wonder Robin knows the result)? I get that when we hit January its hard to remember we're in a new year and sometimes I'll write the prior year. But it is (checks calendar)...JUNE!!!
LOL what a LARF , Allan & Alon nearly had me on the floor
. Have to use a Spoiler ..
Allan had one team down to win 4-0 obviously had too much DEWARS whiskey ( a big seller in the States )
Not the case with Alon , had a team leading 2-0 at half-time and goes on to win 1-0 ..NURSE less medication for Alon
Meant to say thanks to Roy, Robin and David for imputting the youth team players @ 8 players at team. And as mentioned it is thanks in advance to Mark for his helping with 4 Cup Draws. The DD Shield has been drawn and it resulted as below - I need a little more time to schedule the games as a gremlin nipped in earlier and stopped me - Mark is on the case. If it can't be sorted soon so you can see your first 3 games, then I will manually put every game in (as in the last 3 seasons, but it takes time...). Watch this space, or actually watch your senior club's schedule as from tomorrow morning.
Dave Dowson Shield
Group Draw (top 2 to Quarter Finals)
Dave Dowson Shield |
Section A |
D.C. United |
Montreal Impact |
San Jose Earthquakes |
Chicago Fire |
Colorado Rapids |
FC Dallas |
Section B |
New York Red Bulls |
Rochester Rhinos |
Real Salt Lake |
Columbus Crew |
Kansas City Wizards |
Los Angeles Galaxy |
Section C |
Atlanta Silverbacks |
Miami FC |
Seattle Sounders |
Vancouver Whitecaps |
Houston Dynamos |
Minnesota Thunder (Current Holders) |
Section D |
Chivas USA |
Philadephia Union |
Carolina Railhawks |
Charleston Battery |
Portland Timbers |
New England Revolution |
NY sends 2 TP to KC for 2 CP
The following teams receive Input of new youth player through 12th June inputting youth team players....:
CHA(100) COL(100) VAN(100)
The following teams receive Cup Draw Participation through 12th June for 4 cup draws in season 27....:
MON(100)
That's good to see, a few new Blogs as it always seems I write them all.. It will earn cash for the participants so it is all good.
Welcome back Phil, glad to have been of service - I think I did okay for ROC and GBS, but if you have any discrepancies just ask - and for the usual fee .........
I did toy with the idea of transferring 4 players, 3 with the normal 5 game no trade value, and 1 that could be transferred, but it can be difficult to get 24 responses to a request. So, I am sticking with the 5 game transfer embargo for now. Remember, a lad only has to play 1 minute to count as a game played - whether he gets subbed in the 1st minute off, or subbed on in the 89th minute.
Today Mark and I will draw the Dave Dowson Shield and this afternoon my last BIG job will be done - creating theisections and scheduling the games, and then it's just the Auction (and a Poll to start from Monday 21st).
Mark will be "conscripted" to draw each Cup with me - 4 in all - he's agreed in principle - just the fee we need to work out.... :-)
REMEMBER to do your Bios Updates and before 16th for the payment plus bonus, and the 23rd for the normal payment. Only 5 so far are down but they will get the bonus payment..
AND there are 12 youth teams needing to lose players to get down to the 22-25 range (actually one is my own one - oops!!!).
Thank you, David Blair, for guiding my team through the off season moves. Here's the reason for my recent inactivity: my kid just won solid gold first place at the state 3v3 soccer championships. They've had a good team for years, but after a plethora of silver they knocked off the big dogs 3-2 in the final for the gold medal. Thanks for your patience, Mr. Blair!!!
You're right Robin and he put it in bold type too
I'm just going to have to blame tired eyes and small print - I've just finished creating the players for 7 youth teams and spent 20mins trying to work out where one player had gone as i couldn't find him in the squad I was updating only to realise there wasn't a gap in the player #numbers - i just hadn't created him!
gratz on the youth cup btw
To Quote David
"Youth Teams MUST be reduced to a maximum of 25 players, and can be reduced further down to 22, BUT not below 22. So, minimum of 22 and max of 25. "
If you've had your youth players added to your youth team please make sure you only retire enough players to bring your squad size down to 25
Just a question, as of this year all young players are promoted to the first squad. But with the transfer ban for 5 games, this means they are not available for transfers right away. Is this what was planned or did we not oversee this?
You lost me Andrew , not difficult at my age ..anyway tis a good Job that young David is not the smiling assassin,as he appears in his pic , he is smart also .
Think what you are suggesting is that ESA is done as early as possible , before any awards are added !
Thank you, David. That all makes sense, and I appreciate the thought you put into it.
I'm also impressed that you made sense of my jumbled mess of a blog post! Sometimes I could use an editor...
This was mentioned a couple of weeks ago, and my answer then was that it had always been that way when Dave was doing it. So I continued the system, but I have to agree it makes more sense to award the SLs after PSA. What was the point in winning 2 SLs to lose one at PSA, especially when you are not in a position of knowing you were going to win the award. There were 12 players involved, but not all will have been adversely affected.
So I will look through the awards made and in the cases where an SL definitely has been taken away from a player because it puts them above the next level, I will add an SL to that player. I can see Brar (SEA), Torini (NY), Ant (KCA) and Tornado (MIA) are affected, but I can also see that on most occasions players have retained their full award after PSA. It makes sense too, as Dave mentioned before (and I have followed his instructions each season) that any OTF won gets put in after PSA, so why not SL awards too? In future that will happen - all SL and OTF awards will be done after PSA.
SEA sends 250k to MON for M Pools (4/19 DF)
Seattle and NSS have updated their bios. Thanks for the reminders and all of the hard work getting set up for the new season, David! It's all very much appreciated.
Also, one strategy question while I'm thinking of it. I notice that Karan Brar, Div2 top scorer, who was a 3/35 is now a 4/30. So, based off of the ageing tables, it seems the end of season award was applied before ageing, making him a 3/37 and then 4/30 (if the award was after ageing it would have been 3/35 to 4/29 to 4/31). So, that seems to indicate that, if you have a player in contention for the golden boot, there is no reason to limit his CP usage to stay below an ageing tier? As an example, say Brar was a 3/35 with 9 PU. Normally, I may not spend the last CP on him, since it would cause him to just lose that extra SL at the end of the season. But, if he's in the golden boot lead, he may move up to that next ageing level anyway, and so it may be worth spending the CP? Is that generally true with how the awards work in OASL? Apologies for the confusing question, just want to confirm that my understanding of the awards is correct!
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 10th June....:
PHI(95) ROC(165)
Gents, couple of rules you probably know but just might have slipped your mind.
1 In Pre Season, senior teams can buy CPs and TPs and pick a Captain from the drop down menu.
2 YOUTH teams can ONLY pick a Captain from the drop down menu - they can NOT buy any CPs or TPs.
(I have gone into ROC/GBS and entered the stuff you lads all managed to do for me, so now there is only the 7 youth teams waiting for their youths to be added to their squads (DIS, NSS, WCP, MTS, MOL, LAB and RFC) and these will be done this weekend by Roy.)
Reducing your playing squad is next, by retiring players, BUT note:
Youth Teams MUST be reduced to a maximum of 25 players, and can be reduced further down to 22, BUT not below 22. So, minimum of 22 and max of 25.
Senior teams MUST be reduced to 25 maximum, and reduced below that if wished, down to 18 (bit low but accepted). So, minimum of 18 and max of 25.
Any problems just ask - but should be okay - we've done it every season. Do this as soon as possible along with your pre season, and Bios updates. There is no free time during pre season, eh?
PS The 30 extra TPs have been allocated to all the youth teams, so all have a minimum of 60, many have more.....
Correct, David. I remember Dave D mentioned this before and apparently the server wouldn't automatically make it a 60TP payout, as the seniors were getting 30. So it is on my to-do list - likely this afternoon.
Whilst I am doing it, you update your Bios (es) and tell me here, and I will record them. :-)
Do the youth teams get their 30 extra TP to make them up to a minimum of 60 TP during the preseason process?
1 Roy will add the last 8 youth teams players this weekend - Robin and David have completed their 16 teams.
2 On a couple of occasions where youth teams have been cut below 22 I have had to "add" a retired player in in order to be able to send over the 4 x age 1 players to the senior side. Not a big deal as when the 8 new lads get there, you can retire the old lads again - there is no cash for them anyway. NEVER cut your youth below 22 players, please at any time!!
3 Only Phil @ ROC still has to name and position his 8 lads and select an MPP. I have sent numerous messages, but none seem to be getting read. Could be on holiday of course, but am thinking that to move on, I will do the whole thing myself, with ROC's situation in mind, of course. We WILL be ready for the 23rd June kick off...
I am about to do the Pre Season button (if I can find it, so you boys can start buying CPs, extra TPs, and select a Captain).
It is all coming good, and I'd like to thank you for (in the most part) reading my many messages and acting on them. That makes my day..!! Just keep reading the BLOGS and IN BOX messages - we are less than a fortnight from opening season 27.
REMEMBER, update your BIos (personal and team and maybe Team needs) quoting Season 27 NOW to earn any bonus - do it later for the normal sum, do it after we start, probably nothing at all!! The POWER!!!! :-)
BUT tell me you have done it - otherwise I won't know!!. Only got 2 so far.... ????
Correct and I apologise. I did calculate the 2 of your remunerations but didn't actually give you the cash.. Corrected now. Sorry!
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 10th June (for 1st)....:
ATL(120) HOU(50)
RFC sends Jorge Corrales (1/18 DF) to MIA for
CCK sends Barry Bonsai (1/17 FW) to CHV for
Hi David,
Looks like ATL and HOU retirements on 1st of June were missed in the remuneration?
Thanks!
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 9th June ....:
CHV(125) CLB(155) MIN(5) MON(60) PHI(95) ROC(70)
Done my allocation of inputting new players so we are getting close to the new season! Looks like another tough one for CHA.
MOL sends Eduardo Camavinga (1/18 SD) to MON for
MOL sends 1099k, Eric Garcia (1/18 DF), Kenneth Taylor (1/18 DF), Gianluigi Donnarumma (1/19 GK) to MON for
A big "cheers" to you David and your help.
RIS sends 939k, Khan Ayhan (1/17 DF), Marcus Suttner (1/16 DF), Steven Skrzybski (1/16 FW) to PHI for
RIS sends Mathias Jorgenson (1/17 SW) to PHI for
Have spent quite some time on moving the 4 x age 1 lads to the senior teams, along with half the youth money and altering the MPPs too.
Until Roy, Robin and David put youth players into RIS, RFC, and CCK, I can't finish off the transfers, as these youth teams can't drop below 18 players, and senior teams can't go above 25.
I have had to retire 3 players from ROC and MIN (the very lowest SL ones) and re-instate 2 lads into POR in order to get these teams done.
One team still not done their Youth players so I may just complete the job myself, as I need to complete this before I turn to scheduling dates and competitions :-(
Keeping you up to date - all teams should see their 4 lads and altered MPP except for MIA, CHV, and PHI, but hopefully they should be fine inside 2 days.
USB sends Bamford (1/18 FW) to RSL for
USB sends 1066k, Gvardiol (1/19 DF), Laramie (1/18 MF), Raphinha (1/19 WG) to RSL for
NSS sends Frank Tankee (1/18 MF) to SEA for
NSS sends 1069k, Sev Hans (1/19 GK), Bobby Barnes (1/19 DF), Ali Akbar (1/19 FW) to SEA for
NBW sends Mundo Smith (1/16 FW) to NY for
NBW sends 935k, Victor Loughlin (1/16 DF), Josh Kelly (1/17 WG), Alen Babic (1/16 WG) to NY for
MTS sends Jack OBrien (1/18 MF) to POR for
MTS sends 842k, Alex Knight (1/7 GK), Joe Long (1/19 DF), James Chaplin (1/19 FW) to POR for
RFC sends 889k, Vincent Bezecourt (1/19 MF), Jaime Chavez (1/19 WG), Dario Cvitanich (1/19 FW) to MIA for
GOG sends Diago Jota (1/16 FW) to MIN for
GOG sends 1026k, Loris Karius (1/17 GK), Kostas Tsimikas (1/16 DF), Taumi Minamino (1/16 MF) to MIN for
LFC sends Bruce Willis (1/18 MF) to VAN for
LFC sends 1513k, Grobelar (1/18 GK), Barry Evans (1/10 DF), Jeff Jones (1/14 MF) to VAN for
LAB sends Calder Brown (1/18 FW) to LA for
LAB sends 1224k, Eddie Forfar (1/17 DF), Alvin Baker (1/18 MF), Graham Harvey (1/17 WG) to LA for
KCA sends Colin (1/16 DF) to KC for
KCA sends 1078k, Dida (1/17 GK), Erik (1/16 WG), Romario (1/17 FW) to KC for
LHT sends Joe Humphries (1/17 MF) to HOU for
LHT sends 868k, Tom Miller (1/16 DF), Tom Purshouse (1/17 FW), Joe Room (1/17 FW) to HOU for
GBS sends 936k, Derrick Nnaldi (1/19 DF), Willie Gay (1/19 DF), Mike Remmers (1/19 FW) to ROC for
GBS sends Sammy Watkins (1/19 DF) to ROC for
FRR sends Robert Baratheon (1/18 MF) to NE for
FRR sends 1348k, Eddard Stark (1/18 DF), Jamie Lannister (1/18 DF), Jorah Mormont (1/17 MF) to NE for
WDP sends Frank Mckenzie (1/18 FW) to DC for
WDP sends 941k, Mark Jenson (1/18 DF), Allen Hutton (1/17 DF), Allen Watkins (1/18 MF) to DC for
TDL sends Terry Valley (1/18 FW) to DAL for
TDL sends 922k, Walter Young (1/16 DF), Barry Clark (1/16 MF), Donnie Fargo (1/17 WG) to DAL for
DAF sends Kai Havertz (1/18 MF) to SJ for
DAF sends 1233k, Edouard Mendy (1/18 GK), Ben Chilwell (1/18 DF), Timo Werner (1/18 FW) to SJ for
REB sends Frank Gordon (1/17 MF) to CLB for
REB sends 1103k, Adrian Blake (1/17 GK), Carey Dixon (1/17 DF), John Lavender (1/17 FW) to CLB for
WCP sends Charlie Crockford (1/18 MF) to CHI for
WCP sends 852k, Mateo Acosta (1/19 DF), Jason Belloli (1/19 DF), Marlon Amaya (1/18 FW) to CHI for
CIW sends Adrian Grbic (1/17 FW) to COL for
CIW sends 1218k, Pavao Pervan (1/18 GK), Christopher Trimmel (1/17 DF), Raphael Holzhauser (1/17 WG) to COL for
DIS sends Wash (1/15 DF) to CHA for
DIS sends 922k, Jackson (1/18 GK), Xander (1/17 WG), Scotty (1/17 WG) to CHA for
CDY sends Sam Tevez (1/17 MF) to CAR for
CDY sends 1008k, George Simian (1/16 DF), Bernard Golspie (1/17 FW), Terry Fearan (1/17 WG) to CAR for
SCF sends Henrik Lorentz (1/18 FW) to ATL for
SCF sends 1027k, Steven Chu (1/18 GK), Hans Geiger (1/18 MF), Georg Ohm (1/17 FW) to ATL for
CCK sends 977k, Henry Heather (1/17 DF), Edward Sap (1/17 DF), Steven Tree (1/17 MF) to CHV for
David, so just put it here and I'll add it in...👍👍
England to win 1-0 / 2-0.
Thanks.
PS, NOT the result I want, just the one I predict.
David, so just put it here and I'll add it in...👍👍
Oops, I clicked too quickly and missed the half time score...
Gents, unless you are living in a bubble, you will know the above game is taking place on Friday 18th @ 8pm.
So, up till that date and time, there will be a Poll up for you to take part in. Slight difference in the payouts.
Take part but not win anything = 25k
Take part - guess the result = 50k
Take part - guess the result + half time correctly = 75k
Take part - guess the result + full time score = 75k
Take part - guess the result + half time + full time score correct = 125k
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 7th June....:
MIA(155) PHI(215) POR(160)
VAN sends 100k to POR for 1 TP
A couple of clubs will be above the 5000k mark before they kick off.
As long as they get below it before the first game - 23rd June - it's fine. Buying 50 CPs and some extra TPs will do it..
I am not inhuman (🥳🥳🥳🥳) and will keep an eye open as that date gets near, to make sure you all are under the figure. I'll pay Bios stuff on Mondays but 100k and the bonus won't make a huge difference to totals. 👍👍
But well spotted!! 😎😎
Would the funds for a bio update be added before or after pre-season? If I'm reading Seattle's finances correctly, we are currently a few k over the 5,000k max bank limit once youth funds come over. Do I need to trade away funds if I do a bio update, or would those not be added before I have the chance to spend on TP and CP for the next season?
Thanks in advance for the clarity
David
CHV retirements and MPP details as well as CCK Youth details all sent to you inbox.
Enjoy your break.
Paul
Manager of the Season Poll - results.
Bill @ NY - 1st Division Winner | 5 |
Any other suggestion and reason | 4 |
Tim @ RSL - 2nd Division Winner | 2 |
Robin @ LFC - Youth Cup Winner & Youth 1st Division Winner | 1 |
Lewis @ LAG - Al Sellers Cup Winner | 1 |
Gents, we had a good number to vote for - shame only 12 lads voted (I was an Any other suggestion just to see the voting, and another in the same bracket was for me - ha ha!!)
So Bill gets it by a margin of 3, so fairly conclusive - well done that man!!.
All aging, and pre season updates have been done along with the 2 x 3OTF added for the above MOTS plus ROC's Fair Play award.
Next job is for me to transfer your 4 x age 1 lads over plus half your youth cash - if not done today it won't get done till Monday earliest as I am off tomorrow morning till Monday - I maybe mentioned it....
Am completely on track to start 23rd June - IF only the 7 teams outstanding could send me in their youth player names and positions, I'd be a happy bunny!! I have 3 lads willing and able to copy them over....
AS from today you can put in your new season bios updates (Personal and team, and quoting season 27 in it) to earn some cash. Bonus for the teams who do it before the 16th June, and remaining lads have up till the 23rd to get anything at all. Last year the bonus was an extra 50%. Let me know when it is done, as I can compare it to the current ones - a good attempt = full payment, a lesser one will get a lesser payment, big surprise there, eh?
Gents, 16 teams have let some players go and have been rewarded for their efforts, and anybody else who wants to retire players before Aging hits their SLs MUST do it before noon tomorrow, Wednesday 2nd June.
Around 2pm GMT I will be ending the season 26, and conducting AGING. After that I can get started on re-shaping the new season. (Having said that, I will be away from Thursday 3rd till the 7th for a wee break, but I plan to get it all ready for a start on Wednesday 23rd June - Dave Dowson Shield games.
I can announce that Rob (League Reviews) and Simon (Cup Reviews) will be going again this coming season, and Mark L will be back taking over Chicag Fire and Windy City Pride just as soon as he sends in his youth lads...
ON that subject, I am really pleased to announce that I have the youth lads for 16 teams - so only 8 of you left to send them in - by MONDAY next please, so I have them when I come back from my break.. Thanks to all who have replied so far, just needing CHI, POR, ROC, NE, CHV, COL, ATL, CAR for a full set, and we can move on....
REMEMBER do NOT retire youth players just yet, until we have your new lads in place... Thanks..
VAN sends 100k to POR for 1 TP
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 31st May....:
COL(120) DAL(110)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 31st May....:
CHA(10) DAL(30) NY(10) PHI(25) RSL(10) SJ(25) SEA(45) VAN(35)
Correct David, you can't retire players more than 12SLs - server won't let you.
But I also asked managers NOT to retire youths at the moment. Problem is now TDL has only 18 players I can't move your 4 age 0 players over as TDL will drop well below 18. I need each club to have a minimum 21 players so I can take the 4 lads over, then add the 8 youths in to everybody.
I'll need to add your 8 lads soon after PSA before deducting the 4, or I re-instate your 4 retirees now till after I swop your promoting players. I'll think about it today.
One team isn't a problem for that to happen but could everybody else NOT retire any youths till I say it's okay to do so. Thanks.
I've retired two players to make space in Dallas but my understanding is that I can't retire anyone until SL12 or less?
So likely after ESA.
So we've retired 2 players from Dallas and let 4 go from TDL
This to help make space for the season ahead.
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 30th May....:
RSL(95) SJ(100) VAN(165)
Blogging your retirements will guarantee I'll see them and action them.
Likely I'll still see them by checking out the site every so often, but blogging is a good plan..
Remember it is for SENIOR teams only and I will be pushing the button on Wednesday afternoon so all before noon Wednesday will be auctioned..👍👍
PS apologies for the 7pm KO on today's games - wasn't meant - I accidentally set the details as for the previous session, and that turned out to be Cup Final midweek. Oops!! 🤔🤔
Wasn't sure if I had to blog to get the remuneration.
Good lad - just 12 to go - if I slip you their names can you move them on.
Start of Season 27 - with assistance I was thinking 23rd June - to finish early December and not be playing over Christmas.. seems a long time away but I am away from next Thursday 3rd June till Monday 7th June.
2 players retired and Youth players names sent.
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 30th May....:
DC(140) MON(125) SEA(190)
5 from 6 lines are in for today's final matches - the promotion/relegation playoffs. Good luck to those playing..
From tomorrow I will be looking to end the season and I expect PSA will be done around Wednesday morning - to allow me to start on re-arranging the leagues. Any more players needing retired from SENIOR teams only do them NOW, before PSA kicks in. Say Tuesday night maximum for them..... and I am still looking for 13 more teams to send in their youth players names and positions, also please.....
SEA sends 100k to POR for 1 TP
Gents, some of you aren't reading your in box messages (especially the one where I have listed your youth lads and I am hoping for a quick response from you). No names but I have had 10 back so far, means I have 14 to process.
A couple of other messages HAVE been read to do with different subjects and I am waiting for responses there too. Means I can move on.......
At this stage, only needing Roy and Bill to put in a team line for tomorrow's playoffs..... :-)
The following teams receive Poll Match Earnings through 28th May - 2nd payout of Poll Earnings....:
ATL(270) CAR(310) CHA(90) CHV(200) COL(310) CLB(300) DAL(290) HOU(50) KC(80) LA(70) MIA(80) MIN(200) MON(170) NE(10) NY(190) PHI(280) RSL(230) ROC(100) SJ(250) SEA(290) VAN(80)
Below are the amounts won in the season post MSA (you already have the winnings pre MSA...)
Team Game Polled Game Polled Game Polled Game Polled Game Polled Game Polled Youth Cup 3/4th Plans Games
DAL/COL | DC/CLB | MTS/TDL | SJ/LAG | CHV/MIN | GOG/DAF | NY/MIN | ROC/VAN | WCP/FRR | Yth Cup | 3rd/4th | Total | |
ATL | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 80 | 40 | 270 |
CAR | 10 | 30 | 10 | 30 | 50 | 10 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 80 | 40 | 310 |
CHA | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 40 | 90 | |||||
CHI | 0 | |||||||||||
CHV | 30 | 10 | 10 | 50 | 50 | 10 | 40 | 200 | ||||
COL | 10 | 50 | 10 | 50 | 30 | 80 | 40 | 40 | 310 | |||
CLB | 10 | 30 | 50 | 50 | 80 | 40 | 40 | 300 | ||||
DAL | 10 | 50 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 50 | 40 | 40 | 290 |
DC | 0 | |||||||||||
HOU | 10 | 40 | 50 | |||||||||
KC | 50 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 80 | |||||||
LA | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 10 | 70 | ||||||
MIA | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 40 | 80 | ||||||
MIN | 10 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 80 | 40 | 200 | |||
MON | 30 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 50 | 40 | 170 | |||||
NE | 10 | 10 | ||||||||||
NY | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 40 | 40 | 190 |
PHI | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 50 | 80 | 10 | 40 | 40 | 280 |
POR | 0 | |||||||||||
ROC | 30 | 30 | 40 | 100 | ||||||||
RSL | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 10 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 40 | 40 | 230 |
SAN | 10 | 30 | 10 | 30 | 10 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 40 | 40 | 250 |
SEA | 10 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 30 | 50 | 10 | 10 | 40 | 40 | 290 |
VAN | 40 | 40 | 80 |
The following teams receive Awards through League placings and Cup winnings....:
ATL(300) CDY(200) CAR(525) CCK(200) CHA(200) CHI(200) CHV(310) CIW(200) COL(280) CLB(200) REB(200) DC(200) DIS(330) DAF(300) FRR(300) DAL(450) GBS(200) GOG(230) HOU(240) KC(220) KCA(200) LFC(550) LHT(200) LAB(200) LA(640) MIA(250) MIN(800) MON(430) MOL(200) MTS(250) NBW(200) NE(500) NY(850) NSS(220) PHI(360) POR(210) RSL(650) RFC(200) ROC(220) RIS(200) SJ(585) SCF(250) SEA(450) TDL(220) USB(200) VAN(280) WDP(210) WCP(210)
The following teams receive Awards through Half fees for League and Cup Reviews.....:
MIA(100) PHI(250)
Below is the list of payments due to clubs for the season just ending (I know there are playoffs on Sunday but they don't alter a team's position/payment) and I will be adding the amounts today. All SLs will be added too, only OTF is held till the start up of the new season. Well done to all the winners and extra cash earners, good luck to all others for season 27.. :-)
If any club looks close to a Robin Hood moment, don't worry about it - there will be time to get it sorted.
Any queries please do them quickly - a Commish's job is never a dull one..
WINNINGS S26 | League | DD | Al Sellers | Al Sellers | Youth | Total |
Placing | Shield | Cup | Plate | Cup | Payout | |
New York Red Bulls | 850 | 850 | ||||
Carolina Railhawks | 450 | 75 | 525 | |||
Minnesota Thunder | 350 | 350 | 100 | 800 | ||
Atlanta Silverbacks | 300 | 300 | ||||
Colorado Rapids | 280 | 280 | ||||
Philadelphia Union | 260 | 100 | 360 | |||
Houston Dynamo | 240 | 240 | ||||
Kansas City Wizards | 220 | 220 | ||||
Chivas USA | 210 | 100 | 310 | |||
FC Dallas | 200 | 250 | 450 | |||
D.C. United | 200 | 200 | ||||
Columbus Crew | 200 | 200 | ||||
Real Salt Lake | 650 | 650 | ||||
New England Revolution | 350 | 150 | 500 | |||
Vancouver Whitecaps | 280 | 280 | ||||
San Jose Earthquakes | 260 | 150 | 175 | 585 | ||
Miami FC | 250 | 250 | ||||
Los Angeles Galaxy | 240 | 400 | 640 | |||
Montreal Impacts | 230 | 200 | 430 | |||
Rochester Rhinos | 220 | 220 | ||||
Portland Timbers | 210 | 210 | ||||
Chicago Fire | 200 | 200 | ||||
Seattle Sounders | 200 | 250 | 450 | |||
Charleston Battery | 200 | 200 | ||||
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Langley F.C. | 350 | 200 | 550 | |||
Fall River Rovers | 300 | 300 | ||||
Mount Tabor S.C. | 250 | 250 | ||||
Daniel Island S.A. | 230 | 100 | 330 | |||
Texas Dutch Lions | 220 | 220 | ||||
Windy City Pride | 210 | 210 | ||||
Utah Surf Boys S.C. | 200 | 200 | ||||
KC Athletics | 200 | 200 | ||||
New Bedford Whalers | 200 | 200 | ||||
Colorado Ice White | 200 | 200 | ||||
Los Angeles Blues | 200 | 200 | ||||
Carolina Dynamo | 200 | 200 | ||||
De Anza Force S.C. | 300 | 300 | ||||
Savannah Celtic FC | 250 | 250 | ||||
Golden Gophers | 230 | 230 | ||||
North Sound Seawolves | 220 | 220 | ||||
Washington Diplomats | 210 | 210 | ||||
Red Force FC | 200 | 200 | ||||
Montreal Olympique | 200 | 200 | ||||
Columbus Rebels | 200 | 200 | ||||
Gananda Bandits S.C. | 200 | 200 | ||||
Laredo Heat | 200 | 200 | ||||
Carson City Kickers | 200 | 200 | ||||
Roxborough Indians S.C. | 200 | 200 |
SLs | |||
Golden Boot | Tony Torini (NY) | 1st Div | + 2 |
Karan Brar (SEA) | 2nd Div | + 2 | |
Golden Gloves | Ted Smith (CAR) | 1st Div | + 2 |
Hugh Tornado (MIA) | 2nd Div | + 2 | |
Age 0/1 Gold Boot | James Watt (ATL) | 1st Div | + 2 |
Djordie Mihailov (CHI) | 2nd Div | + 2 | |
Age 0/1 Gold Gloves | Tom Heaton (DC) | 1st Div | + 2 |
Mecole Hardman (ROC) | 2nd Div | + 2 | |
Youth Golden Boot | Davos Seaworth (FRR) | 3rd Div | + 2 |
Rhian Brewster (GOG) | 4th Div | + 2 | |
Youth Golden Gloves | Ant (KCA) | 3rd Div | + 2 |
Adrian (GOG) | 4th Div | + 2 |
League Reviewer: Rob @ PHI - 250 (half full fee was paid at MSA)
Cup Match Reviewer: Simon @ MIA - 100 (half full fee was paid at MSA)
Fair Play Award goes to Phil @ ROC (3 OTF to be awarded after new season starts)
Manager of the Season - tbd - still at Poll stage (3 OTF to be awarded after the new season start)
Gents,
1 Please retire any SENIOR team members you want before I finish the season next week - soon next week. (Once PSA kicks in, they will drop in value so NOW is a good time). No lower than 18 players to be left on your roster - DO NOT GO BELOW 18, please......
2 Please do NOT retire too many youths just yet, wait till the new lads get put on to your team and the age 0 lads get promoted. Then you can retire some - I will keep you informed. As there is no remuneration for retiring youths it doesn't matter when you do it. Last season some clubs went too low - below 18 - and the server didn't like it. More work for me... :-(
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 28th May....:
CHA(105) LA(140) NY(175)
Now up for your attention. Apologies if I missed anybody obvious, but thought better to put it up now before we complete the season. I won't run it long - till next Wednesday 2nd June (just before I go away for a few days up past Loch Lomond..). Enough time to cast your vote.. :-)
David, I can use you, even if Phil and Roy wish to do them too. Many hands make light work (and do it more quickly too - that would be 8 teams each). You get paid and can have a week's holiday too - I am all heart!!
Gents, with Rob and Lewis and Al's youths in , we are moving well (7 of 24 but it was only yesterday I asked for your help here - excellent stuff - keep 'em coming!)
Ive done it before Dave so know the drill - happy to help if the other lads are busy.
Gents, first of all I'd like to thank the 4 lads who have already sent in their Youth players with names and positions for next season. Only 20 to go - you have the easy task of just the one team - I have to organise the putting in of the 24 sets of players afterwards. Hats off to Andrew, Robin, Alon and Bill - who is next?
(Roy and Phil did 12 sets each, and with the pay being pretty good, just wondered if you lads were up to it for this coming season? Not a big deal otherwise, as someone else might just offer and get a slice of the pie - preferably someone who has done it before as I don't have to explain the routine??)
On to last night, and there was a dearth of goals (if you don't count Robin's kids) but no shortage of action, injuries, red cards, and penalty shootouts. Watch the games on the viewer for all the fun.
Congrats to all the winners, and commiserations to the runners up (who earn a few shekels for their efforts, so not a bad evening altogether). I put in a report in the Cup Reviews on the front page but you maybe saw the game differently. :-)
Keep the youth players coming in please - when I see them nearly all in I can set a date for a restart (I have one, but also have a short break next Thursday to Monday - on my pay in OASL I can afford one... :-)
Yes, I'm looking for brownie points. 😂😂😂
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 47:
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #8: 25k (WWw)
David, I have just sent every manager a list of new youth players (4 x age 0 plus 4 x age 1) which will be added to your youth team in a week or so. Read my message - especially about changing one of the lads coming over to be a MPP...
I will take your current 4 x age 0 players and move them to Dallas shortly, so you will see the positions where your wee team will need some cover.
The difference in the youth players SLs is dependent upon the senior team's finishing place in the 2 divisions - not the youth teams position. This is in the hope the poorer senior teams will get a better set of youths the following season which should help the senior team's progress...
As aging will have taken place by the time you get your 4 lads into Dallas's team, they will be aged 1, but their SLs will have stayed the same - see rules.
You need some assistance with it all, just ask and I will look over your squad to see where I could give you some guidance.
Right now, go to your inBox and start working out some names and positions for the new boys.
Anything else just ask.
PS Between the top team in the 1st division and the bottom team in the 2nd division, there is a a difference of 23 SLs split across the 8 players.
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 26th May....:
CAR(115) KC(200)
How are the youth lads worked out?
Or are they the same for every youth team?
Just needing Lewis and David to put in their lines for a full house - but there is still over 9 hours so not worried.
I'll do a review on all 3 games this evening, and then it's just the playoffs to be completed on Sunday.
Tomorrow I will start to square off the season - most of it to be done next week.
HOWEVER, tomorrow (or this afternoon) I will send out your youth lads for next season via your in box or email address and will Blog it too. 👍👍
Good luck all....😷😷
Just making sure we are taking notice David.
I was just about to complain yet again.
I also appreciate the info on the topic
Am using the excuse I was rushing out of the door to get to Stirling this morning, but I missed yours and Andy's Journals. Sorry!
Hopefully now rewarded!!
I count Blogs and Journals from the previous week's participation Blog.
So, in your favour is that your query on participation will earn cash for next Monday's payment. 👍👍
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 24th May....:
SJ(25) SEA(40)
Quick question regarding participation. Would Seattle's journal entry from yesterday count towards last week's participation or this coming week's? Not sure when the deadlines are with regards to the end of the week.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 24th May....:
KC(25) NE(20) PHI(25)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 23rd May....:
CHI(120)
Gents,
Poll Result
Do we keep 3rd/4th place matches in the 3 senior Cup competitions?
VOTING SUMMARY
CHOICE | TOTAL VOTES |
Yes, keep them - we want the extra game. | 11 |
No, waste of time - allocate same cash to losing Semi Finalists | 4 |
Other suggestion - state alternative format | 1 |
We will retain them, and all who took part in the Poll are getting a handsome bonus - except me, as youth teams don't get bonuses.. :-(
(SCF earned a MVP today = 1 CP, now changed to 1 TP, before anybody tells me.. :-))
As to today's results, I will wait for the Blogs, Journals to come in, so as not be spoiling it for clubs.
I will schedule the playoff/relegation games tonight for next Sunday.
This Wednesday is Finals evening, following games taking place:
FC Dallas v Los Angeles Galaxy Ref: A. Nicholas
3rd/4th Place
San Jose Earthquakes v Philadelphia Union Ref: M. McCurry
New England Revolution v Seattle Sounders Ref: C. Murray
3rd/4th Place
Carolina Railhawks v Minnesota Thunder Ref: D. McDonald
Daniel Island S.A. v Langley FC Ref: H. Webb
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 46:
Savannah Celtic FC - MVP #4: 1 CP (WwW)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #3: 1 TP (dWW)
Utah Surf Boys S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Langley F.C. - MVP #7: 25k (dWw)
KC Athletics - MVP #3: 1 TP (wDw)
Philadelphia Union - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #9: 25k (wdW)
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (dWw)
Just 3 teams missing for today's last set of league games..
After that I will schedule the relegation/promotion playoff games for next Sunday.
This Wednesday sees the Cups Finals Evening..
Remember to vote in the Poll question - it's your set up after all.. 👍👍
Good summing up the 1st division toip of the table situation, James, and added to that is the fact Jason's opponent is David's Dallas, where a loss for them will mean a relegation playoff game for sure.
2 BIG games, but credit to Carolina for taking the Championship to the last round of games.- helped in no small way by Roy's Colorado causing the huge upset last Sunday with their 1-0 win v Bill's New York.
Whilst this is going on, Real Salt Lake has won the 2nd division, Langley FC the Youth 1st division (or 3rd division, your choice), and De Anza Force the 2nd division Youth (or 4th as you look at it). So happy days for Tim, Robin and Andy already. Well done to them, and more winners to come tomorrow and next Wednesday...
And we find ourselves involved in a league title decider been a long time since I have said that.
Sadly we won't be winning the league but do have a chance to influence the eventual winners as we visit Red Bull in a game that if they at least draw will crown them champions once again.
Defeat however will leave the door open for the Railhawks to claim their firt ever title.
Admittedly its a slim chance and I dont think you will get very favourable odds against a 16th title heading to New York but we will give it our all , I'm sure Bill wouldn't expect anything less !!
Glad to see all 4 team lines in for tonight's Al Sellers Plate Semi Finals - thanks lads.. 👍
Not long after the games are played I'll do a review. Lucky you, eh?? 🥳🥳
Straight after I will schedule the 3 Finals for the following Wednesday - aka Finals Night!! 🏆🏆🏆 😁😁
All done, Steve.. 👍👍
We picked up a 4th MVP so need our CP converted to TP before Sunday please. So no rush but I plan on using it.
And I've only just noticed that Jorah Mormont is spelled wrong at Jarah. No idea why I haven't picked this up before.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 17th May....:
CLB(10) DAL(25) NE(15) PHI(25) SJ(25) SEA(35) VAN(35)
In case anybody thinks I haven't responded to David, I got this message via in box and answered it. Basically just keep looking on your team page and you will see your scheduled games - playoffs for relegation and promotion will always be the Sunday after the last league matches, only time we will know for sure who will be playing in them.
1st Division team placed 10th v 2nd Division team placed 3rd
3rd Division team placed 10th v 4th division team placed 3rd (Youth Divisions)
3rd Division team placed 9th v 4th Division team placed 4th (Youth Divisions)
These games due 30th May...
In response to the query as to how I have managed to put in a junior team today but not a senior team?
Pure skill. Lol
I knew the Junior side only had league games left.
I didn't know when the senior team had cup games or where the potential relegation game took place.
So got caught in two minds as to how much EL to save.
Ended up not putting in either lineup I'd thought of.
It's a talent.
Results of the Poll about the Youth Cup are as follows:
6 Sections x 4 teams playing once each - top team plus 2 best 2nd place d to Q Finals? | 9 |
Other suggestion - state alternative format | 4 |
Status Quo - 8 sections x 3 teams playing once each - top teams to Q Finals? | 2 |
So from next season, we will try out a 6 sections x 4 teams set up, with the top team plus the best 2 teams in a runners up position to go through to the Quarter Finals. Bit like the Al Sellers Cup is at the moment.
As I said before, everyoine who voted will get a bonus (40k) paid as into their team totals to be paid at the end of the season, PLUS as mentioned a couple will get an extra payment (** 3 managers actually - 20% of the total). These lads were drawn by lots by my partner, Karin, and have no bearing on what they voted for - everybody went into the hat. The lads drawn out were: Jason, Alon, and Bryce - the 3rd, 11th and the 14th names on the Poll listing.
A New Poll goes up in about 5 minutes relating to 3rd and 4th place matches - again, all those who enter the voting will receive a cash amount with around 20% of the total getting the extra bonus.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 44:
Fall River Rovers - MVP #4: 1 CP (WdW)
Vancouver Whitecaps - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Chicago Fire - MVP #3: 1 TP (WwD)
New England Revolution - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (dwW)
Chivas USA - MVP #4: 1 CP (DwW)
Montreal Olympique - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wdW)
6 lads missing so far but many of them are the usual lads who tend to wait till later on to post.
Building up nicely though into the last 2 weeks of the season (3 Sunday's including playoffs..) - lots to play for - pride is one of them even if a trophy isn't on the horizon.. Good luck to all. 👍👍
Love the colorful post-match post despite our junior team dropping the semi to Mr. D.
Can't argue with your review - if I'd have known you were going to do one I would have commissioned you in advance...
We were never going to compete - and we had the only single digit SL in the 4 teams. But we got another training day done and a couple of shekels into the kitty (for Al's Columbus). Once next Wednesday's Al Sellers Plate Semi Finals are done, I will get down to scheduling the Finals evening for the following week, and selecting the referees for these games. All in hand though, so to speak......
Young Dewar Jnr was an awsome sight as he strode out with his team for the semi against Columbus Rebels, with the not so young Blair Jnr.
Dewar with his big fat Cuban (smokin) and bulging nappy (not full of the brown stuff), he just has a big arse bum .
I brought the team down from 'Couver to watch the youngsters perform , and that they did with the high press formation ,
They racked up a 4-0 win .However on the down side with the Rebels going down to 10 men after 15 mins Langley struggled for the remainder of the game to get past a stubborn ,gutsy, Rebels team .
This does not bode well for the Final where they meet Daniel Island who somehow beat Colorado Ice White , despite going down to 10 men theselves, a great win .
Young Dewar will certainly have to rethink his tactics for this final match of the season .
PHI sends 200k to CHI for 2 TP
Today sees these games played - just waiting for David to slip in Daniel Islabd's team line but he'll be there for sure.
I'll do a review tonight on the 2 matches and the winners will play off on Finals evening in a fortnight.
Good luck to all except Robin @ Langley.. 😷😷😂😂
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 10th May....:
DAL(50) NE(35) NY(15) PHI(50) SJ(30) SEA(35) VAN(45)
250k paid into clubs' funds tonight after the Poll match result. Only 3 lads got the draw (not really a spoiler as it was a youth game, eh?). One of them only got the draw (Bryce) = 30k, David K got the half time correct as well (0-0) = 50k, but one lad, step forward Al, who got the lot (0-0 and 1-1) and gets 80k.
It will be up later this evening....
Seeing as you need to have a dig I'll answer even though David has decided not to change TP allocation .
No there is no TP in auctions but there could be.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 42:
Windy City Pride - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
New York Red Bulls - MVP #6: 25k (WdW)
League matches today and just 4 lads to put lines in (still over 5 hours to go though) - MIA, CHA, SJ, DAL.
Massive game today will be NY v CAR at the top of 1st division - that's where my Viewer will be on at 4pm...
Good luck to all - we are just 3 league sessions to go, so after today some positions will likely be clearer. Rob will likely clear them up in his review later.
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I woke up this morning and realised perhaps too much is going on at the one time (David mentioned as such).
I don't have a problem with high SLs, just it can take away a managers' decision making having too many lads highly rated. But if it isn't seen as a problem I won't touch it - it is YOUR game, not mine.
This simple change saves me chasing teams up for their lads to be downgraded and promoted - it will be your decision.
I am running this for you lads, so I don't want to be seen trying to make changes that aren't acceptable to a lot of you. We have enough differences from SESL and SANC to make the game fun and interesting, I think.
In future a manager's suggestion could form a Poll for the rest of you to vote on. Only a thought...
" I just assumed if that wasn't broken then a reduction to 20TPs but only promoting 3 players would create the same situation? "
The only part the same is that we have to buy 10 TP for the senior team.
What will change is managers won't get a choice for building their senior team and their junior team. Just now you can choose to train up only 3 age 0 and carry them over. You then get 3 good age 1 and 1 v poor age 1 in your senior team.
Or, you can choose to train up four good age 0's but you then know you have to get 10 TPs for your senior tem plus your junior team will be weaker as you have only 3 good age 0's and however many age good age 1's
This new idea isn't a standalone change. It affects your junior team. It will have 4 age 0 and 5 age 1's but still only 60TP.
If you're determined to make an arbitrary change can we just change one thing at a time to see the repercussions?
So in this case I would suggest let us move over 4 age 0's but, as normal, leave the managers the choice on how well trained they are and only change down the 20 free TPs for the senior sides.
The Junior sides are already trcky enough with 60 TP spread over 8 players.
Steve you need to ease up on the medication ...We have NO TP in the auctions !
"Colin didn't introduce paying for resources to Sanc." ! ..DOH ,
of course he did . Deliberately reduced pre season TP to 20 and introduced cash for TP.
Omitted to change the heading from TB (Training Bonus) to TP .
When I ran Sanc managers could NOT buy resources (TP) for cash , so who did introduce it.
Flying Pink Elephants.!
Not the place to dicuss what goes on in Sanc , I only mentioned it as David proposed to reduce
TP in this league , and I did not want to play in "Pay to Play" League.
Fortunately he has confirmed that is not going to happen .
So back to OASL ..Yes David I agree with reducing yth>snr from 4 to 3 , it means 1 less yth player
going Fwd to Snr team . But I would still like my 30tp please .
Possibly introduce 1 yth player into the auctions ?
As to Bill's interaction , you only have to look at the number of unused TP in div3/4 to see what
is happening , managers only taking part to TP age 0 players.
Job done David. A roaring success from you by getting interaction back in play. I love keeping up with the chat...keep the thoughts coming.
I read what you lads say. At the moment we promote 4 age 0 (age 1 when promoted) players but get 30TPs in your senior team, so already having to trade or use auctions to get the extra 10TP you need. I just assumed if that wasn't broken then a reduction to 20TPs but only promoting 3 players would create the same situation?
Youth teams would still get 60TPs for their age 0 and age 1 players.
Could teams promote as many of the 4 as they wish but get that number less 10 in TPs, as they get 10 TPs less than the 4 lads being promoted right now (ie 30)... But youth will still get 60TPs whatever.
Funnily enough I thought a youth auction might encourage more managers to take their youth teams more seriously.....but it came in a suggestion which I thought worth flagging up.
I have no intention of asking people to pay to buy something in the game, other than asking for a donation for Mark to run the server now and again.
I will do the Polls and if the feeling is we don't need changes to players or player promotions then fine, and any competition tweak voted for is easy enough to do.. I am not looking for a pile of extra work, believe me!!
From auctions and trading. Part of the problem (if there is one) is we get enough TP so don't need to worry about it.
TP prices have gone up in SESL as there's more demand now.
Colin didn't introduce paying for resources to Sanc.
Do not agree with yth Auctions , hard enough to get managers to be more active in yth League , obviously not active this season let me win it.
Reducing TP , A big NO from me, if you still promote 3 players from yth team where does extra TP come from ? Why break with tradition , what has worked since beging of time .....
, Colinn has done this in Sanc to encourage managers to BUY TP (cash) tiurned it into a pay to play league .
Point 3.
So an idea is to reduce the TPs from 90 to 80.
But retain the total number of recruits of Age 0 and Age 1 players at 8?
Instead of limiting managers options for building their teams, why not bring in the resource reduction but maintain the option to still promote 3 or 4 to the Senior team?
It reduces the resources as suggested but still lets managers actually manage their teams.
If you restrict options instead of opening them up you end up with a selection of cookie cutter teams all the same as each other.
Gents, Thanks for the 15 replies (from 23) to the Questionnaire and I’d like to acknowledge the answers you gave.
1 Dave Dowson Shield, Al Sellers Cup and Plate and the Youth Leagues (2) – in the main all were agreed no change to format (A single suggestion of a change I have noted but if the vast majority seem happy with a situation, I will retain it. Democracy rules. Personally I like the formats.
2 Nobody wanted more OTF in any auction, indeed most wanted less OTF, so they may not be in every auction, but see below reference Auctions.
3 Polls – A majority liked doing the matches but fancied some variety in the Polls – I will look to mix things up during the season, so earnings can still be good for participating managers. One for me to work on!!
Based on suggestions received I would like thoughts on the following:
1 Youth Cup – play as a 6 x 4 teams playing once (3 games) – top team plus 2 x best 2nd placed teams into Quarter Finals (like Al Sellers Cup).
2 One of the auctions to be for Youth teams only to bid on age 1 players, to give managers an opportunity to add to their squad/tactics.
3 *** To cut down some of the large SL numbers and squads in the seniors, ONLY promote 3 age 0 (aged to 1) youth lads at the end of a season instead of 4 – managers choice and remaining age 0 stays with the youth team. Compensate that with reduction to 20TPs for senior teams. Youth teams to keep 60TPs.
*** If accepted probably should not happen in time for next season, but the season after, to allow for planning, unless teams expressed a desire for it to start next season....
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 3rd May - forgotten bonus....:
VAN(40)
Gents, I have added bonuses to those lads who sent me returns on my questionnaire by email and to my in box. Felt it only fair to reward those too. Makes it a good 560k payout.. :-)
Plus any Monday Blogs and Journals will be paid the following week (Andrew - your Journal will get paid next Monday - trust me - it pays you more over the 2 weeks). Of course if I missed anybody just let me know (I have one I know about..) and all those who still have to come back to me will earn cash next Monday...
14 lads have responded so far, so 10 can still have a say (by Wednesday evening please..)
Simon is struggling with work so I will finish the season doing Cup reviews for him. No peace for the wicked, but I quite enjoy doing these things..
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 3rd May.....:
COL(40) CLB(40) DAL(45) HOU(30) KC(50) LA(30) NE(40) NY(50) PHI(50) RSL(25) ROC(30) SJ(50) SEA(40)
Today I am putting in 340k into the competing managers' accounts for the Poll match.
2 of you, take a bow Rob and Roy, made the FULL 80k payout, and Al got 50k for his efforts. Bryce made 30k on getting the result correct. The remaining lads all get the usual 10k, which all adds up.
Next Sunday's game will be:
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 40:
Miami FC - MVP #3: 1 TP (WwD)
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #5: 25k (Wwd)
Line ups entered and email reply sent. League set-up moving forward.
First of all just to say only 3 teams missing from this afternoon but I am confident it'll be a full house. So good luck to all - getting down to the nitty gritty bit of the league now.
Secondly thanks to the lads who have come back with your responses to my "questionnaire" - I have to keep checking my in box, as quite a few appear there.
I reckon just over half of you have returned suggestions etc and I thank you for that.
Later this week I will group these suggestions and report back to you. Must say one suggestion, simple in context and easy to implement, would address a couple of situations, but I'll run any possible changes by you all via Polls.
To the lads who haven't replied yet, it is YOUR game - I just run it - so make your opinions count..
Can I suggest Wednesday latest so I can get on to collate the info from Thursday morning? Thanks in advance. 👍👍
Is actually probably just a penny.
I like the league set up in general, mainly for the differences to the others on offer. One point I have read below that may be worth considering is the reduction of youth players that get promoted to senior team and automatic TP. That would most likely encourage trading and action interest which is far too low. I love the idea of planning from a feeder team but it is a fair argument that it then becomes too manicured. If only 3 were auto promoted and only 20 TP was auto allocated then coaches would need to buy players at auction or trade to sustain a squad. This could allow 1 x age 0 or 1 per auction along side 1 x TP entry as well. Not sure if logistics though.
I am your biggest cheerleader, David, but I only do the poll for cash. Maybe keep the predicto aspect but mix it up so it is nit every week. Also please keep the past poll results til Wednesday or so...I can never remember how I chose and when you regenerate a new poll so quickly, on the Sunday, I cannot look back and see how close or how far I was from the true score/result.
Keep up the good work David. It is great to see you get the plaudits you deserve. Cheers pal.
As below, Dave, we appreciate the hard work you are putting in and we all understand that you've mostly inherited the current formats so haven't really had time to put your style on things completely.
So, looking at the Cup competitions first.
Dave Dowson Shield
4 sections of 6 play 10 games to produce 8 teams.
No urgency. Some teams probably don't even try until match 7 of the 10.
If you're in with a shout you may try for those games but the reward is only a 3 game max cup run.
QF, SF, 3/4+Final
100k, 150k, 200k, 350k
Al Seller's Cup
6 sections of 4 play 3 games to produce 6 team plus 2 extra.
Pretty much the opposite. You really need the 3 wins to be sure.
Your reward is a 5 game max cup run. Actually 2 or 5. No middle ground due to the format.
QF1, QF2, SF1, SF2, 3/4+Final
100k, 175k, 250k, 400k
So it seems quite urgent, win all 3 to be sure of getting through.
Except...even if you finish last you're still in a cup competition, the:-
Al Seller's Plate.
An automatic 1 game and a max 4 game cup run. Well, again, 1, 2, or 4 games due to playoffs.
Round 4, QF, SF, 3/4+Final.
75k, 100k, 150k, 250k
Youth Cup
8 sections of 3 play only 2 games to produce 1 team
Two must win games. Or you're rolling the dice.
Reward is only a 3 game max cup run. No idea of prizes.
QF, SF, Final
That's the short version but it's handy to see how the cups stack up against each other.
I'm busy this weekend but will definitley come back with more on where they could be modified and so on.
And feedback on the rest too.
To emphasse though, running a league is extremely difficult and getting the balances right is also extremely tough in terms of economics.
Dave, first and foremost you're doing a fabulous job managing this league, I love your enthusiasm. My 2 cents on the questions posed:
Dave Dowson Shield, Youth Cup & Al Sellers Cup – Leave as-is, working fine.
Youth Leagues – Leave as-is ... risk & reward with relegation and promotion is entertaining
Polls: Perhaps mix and match forecasting with some current world soccer/football news (e.g. punishment for the 'so called super leaguers', NFL Draft)
First of David what a job you are doing, don't always remember to tell you how much it is appreciated but believe me it is.
I have no problem with anything that you are doing this league IS different from the others which helps to maintain interest.
My only slight concern is this league is the easiest to play , never feel like I have save cash or control resource usage. Similarly lineups are just rotation of players.
Would be interesting to see the spread of T11 - T17 differences across the leagues.
I am aware that these slight issues may just be down to me and the fact I don't have anywhere near the amount of free time to invest into this game than I used to do in my more successful younger years.
Keep up the good work
MIN sends 2 CP to MIA for 200k
You doing a great job David (my Dad told me to type that!)
a cup Plate I don't understand format, but gives losing teams gate money suppose
youth leagues – I don't pay this much attention sorry. I tend to do 4 youth lineups at same time as EL never an issue as squads so big. pick from 20 players instead of 25 may get managers to give youths attention.
2 divisions better than 1 I'd say
youth Cup – could go. Feels like extra games for no reason.
OTF - maybe none in auction. seems plenty CP for it and make a manager choose to invest with 2CP
less auction - might encourage some trading instead
how do we get more transfers in the league? – less auctions?
prediction polls a great idea
Gents, so far Stephen, Andrew, Rab and Al have voiced their opinions to my search for what you lads would like to see in OASL going forward. I will make up a short resume of answers received and will report back.
But it would be nice to get a stack more responses please? If no changes are wished, then tell me that as well, so I know you have at least considered options. Thanks. 🤔🤔
Thank you David for doing a phenomenal job running this league!
I will admit that I'm about the worst at participation with running two leagues and being in active development with my son Mad Max for the only online volleyball simulation league in the world (please find another one and tell me I'm wrong). :-)
Also my team is really bad and that's totally my fault.
As a commish, we (well I) think that everyone has read the rules and totally understands them. The reality is they (I) don't. In the volleyball league (TMVL - https://www.olmec.org/tmvl/ about to start season 3 please signup on the waitlist) I tried the following:
- Do a weekly post of some concept in the rules (post all the details in the blog like "S37 Q1" for Season 37 Quiz 1). Maybe a tournament format? Maybe something about the number of auctions or how players get from the junior to senior team? Maybe somethng obscure but important? Can I pay to heal a player? Can I payoff a ref? Put that in as a poll and provide the brief rules/description and make the answer EASY to figure out, and give out some options for answers. If I get it right I get the full amount. If I participate I get half that. And then post the result in the blog so we all know the right answer.
I don't always have the time I'd like to read the rules. Little snippets of things like this may help get me knowledge of concepts I'd otherwise miss. I tried it in the volleyball league and it helped a bit. Nothing is perfect, but its an idea.
David, thanks for requesting feedback on those topics. I am likely the least qualified person to give his opinion, given that I am only recently back after a long break, but I will give a couple thoughts.
Apologies, that's a lot of text for just one suggestion, which is basically that the league perhaps needs a bit more scarcity in players and/or resources. But, I'm certainly open to the fact that I've missed the mark completely by nature of being a new returnee.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 39:
FC Dallas - MVP #5: 25k (WdW)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 28th April - my error :
SJ(40)
Andy, how could I miss that. Will correct it, with interest - my fault, can't blame anybody else..Sorry. Thanks for mentioning it. 💰💰
No bonus for SJ. I did do a small journal entry. Honestly.
Will give some thought to the league set up moving forwards.
Gents, In OASL participation is almost negligible (even though I pay well), and about half of you go into the Poll match, so I thought I would ask for ideas going forward, making suggestions for consideration, basically asking WHAT would make you take more interest in OASL. Can’t compete with SESL, I know that, but we can get ourselves a fairly close alternative, and we do have significant differences to SESL.
So, on the following topics, what are your thoughts on:
1 Dave Dowson Shield – currently 4 sections x 6 teams playing twice – top 2 for the Quarter Finals. Any changes?
2 Al Sellers Cup – currently 6 sections x 4 teams playing once – Top 4 plus 2 best runners up to Quarter Finals – remaining teams (16) to Al Sellers Plate. Any changes?
3 Youth Leagues – currently 2 divisions of 12 with 2 up and 2 down plus playoffs for 9th/10th v 4th/3rd - same or back to 1 division playing each other once only?
4 Youth Cup – currently 8 sections of 3 – winners to Quarter Finals. Is it needed? And if needed, same formula or 4 x 6 or 6 x 4?
5 Should there be more OTF in the auction to encourage midfield tactics?
6 Should there be more auctions – although too many means players going for paltry sums...
7 How do we get more transfers in the league – currently there is little or none as teams have a plethora of high SL lads and can sub like for like in most games.
8 Polls: Too many? Too complicated? Or not enough incentives to enter..? Want different subjects and not just forecasting matches?
Thoughts coming back to me I can list and put back to all of you for voting on, so pick any, some or all of the above, and anything else you think of, and return thoughts either on the Blog, my IN Box, or my email, and let’s give the set up a boost!!
Al Sellers Cup Semi Finals 1st Leg games tonight @7pm.
just waiting for SJ and LA to put team lines in.
On the plus side I had a message from Marc who said he was extremely busy and missed out on doing OASL line ups. He will slip out for the 4 games (I will do them) and he'll come in at the start of the new season (likely late June) refreshed and keen - okay the last bit I put in myself. But it would give us a full house for next season. 👍
Later today I will be Blogging to you all looking for some help, advice, suggestions etc - when it comes PLEASE respond. Cheers..
Good luck to the 4 teams tonight..😎😎
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 26th April....:
DAL(10) NE(15) PHI(30) SEA(50)
Gents, I have had to remove Marc from running (or to be precise NOT running) Chicago Fire and Windy City Pride as of now.
Marc has not answered any of my recent messages and has racked up 8 NMRs - 3 in a row. but has managed to fill in team lines for other games.
I would be happy to have Marc back as he has been good for OASL in the past, and hope he might come back next season refreshed.
Up till the end of the season I will fill in team lines for both teams - neither has anything to play for but I will do any training that needs done. Hate to do it, but not fair on you lads who run your teams to the best of your abilities.
David, too true, and I did email you an hour beforehand to tell you..:-)
Congrats to Robin's Langley FC who have won the 3rd division Championship, with 4 games to spare. Tim Baath's Real Salt Lake are definitely promoted to the 1st division, will need to wait a week at least to see if they go up as Champions.
Poll Match. I am paying an exact figure of 500k into 14 managers accounts for today's game. Nobody got the 80k, but 4 got the half time score correct (50k each), and 9 receive 30k for the correct result, and even the lad who didn't get the result correct will receive 10k. Most paid out in one week's game.
Next Sunday's game will be:
Both teams trying for an automatic promotion place or at worst a playoff spot.
16:01 is a very bad time to remember to put your teams in.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 38:
New Bedford Whalers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
New England Revolution - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #7: 25k (Wdw)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #8: 25k (wWw)
Red Force FC - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
I saw SEA on that list and thought it must be a typo...
After all, I did have a green dot on my front page...
Turns out I had saved my player and team tactics for session 38, but my lineup for session 40. Interesting that the green dot shows if any part of the orders are in, but the check mark won't show unless the actual lineup is there (and therefore the system has enough to avoid an NMR).
Thanks for the reminder and helping me catch my mistake, David
Match Day today and 5 clubs still to put lines in - DAL, SJ, SEA, KC and CHI. Don't think there is a problem with the first 4, but CHI is on a worringly 7 NMRs and counting .........
Not too many sessions left so a few games are that bit more important today. For example:
New York Red Bulls v Minnesota Thunder (probably Alon's last chance to make inroads on Bill's lead at the top) and if any points are dropped by NY, then Jason @ Carolina Railhawks is ready to close the gap even more between him and Bill. AND the two teams meet in game 20 (of 22).
RSL treading water till mathematically they can't be caught at the top of the 2nd division. A win today and a LA loss would fo it.
Langley FC v Los Angeles Blues (home win today will effectively seal the 3rd division for Robin, or a Mount Tabor loss gets the same result).
8 of the 4th division teams have a chance of the play off spot. 3rd to 10th place separated by only 6 points...
Great - that makes sense. Thanks for the info, David!
Thanks Steve for replying to Andrew.
I'll be writing out nearer the end of the season to ask for the 8 players names and positions (so Andrew, knowing the 4 x age 0 players are moving up to your senior team at the end of the game, you can work out which positions need to be covered for next season etc). Maybe not yet, but in about 3 weeks.. 👍👍
Makes sense to me. The ability to freely choose positions certainly helps
The SLs you get depend on your senior team's league position. You'll get 4 age 1 and 4 age 0 and you choose the positions. I'm not sure of the SLs however though I think we all get the same SLs for age 1 players
Was reading through the rules and noticed that I couldn't quite parse what happened at the end of the season. I recall the sealed bid auction, but it seems that is now no longer happening, with instead all four age 0 players being passed to the parent club. Is that correct? And then, to repopulate the youth squads there is a college draft? And that draft is done completely randomly, or do the managers have some options for what players or positions they end up with? Just making sure I can plan accordingly during the run-in.
Thanks in advance for the information!
Quarter Finals of the Al Sellers Plate tonight, and thanks to all 8 teams - all team lines are in.
I know it is the Plate but there is the financial consideration for the 4 winners tonight... Good luck to all - Semi Finals will be played mid May.. Remaining Sessions for this season are:
SESSION 38 | League 1,2,3,4 | 25/04/2021 | |||
SESSION 39 | AS Cup Semi Finals 1st Leg | 28/04/2021 | |||
SESSION 40 | League 1,2,3,4 | 02/05/2021 | |||
SESSION 41 | AS Cup Semi Finals 2nd Leg | 05/05/2021 | |||
SESSION 42 | League 1,2,3,4 | 09/05/2021 | |||
SESSION 43 | Youth Cup Semi Finals | 12/05/2021 | |||
SESSION 44 | League 1,2,3,4 | 16/05/2021 | |||
SESSION 45 | AS Plate Semi Finals | 19/05/2021 | |||
SESSION 46 | League 1,2,3,4 | 23/05/2021 | |||
SESSION 47 | AS Cup Final + AS Plate Final + Youth Cup Final | 26/05/2021 | |||
SESSION 48 | Promotion/Relegation playoffs | 30/05/2021 |
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 19th April....:
LA(15) PHI(30) SJ(25)
A total of 250k has been paid into the coffers of teams today. Where as 7 clubs guessed the correct result, nobody got the half time or full time scores, so each gets 30k. The remaining teams (6) get the 10k for taking part.
(To earn more I am thinking of changing this next season so that all correct half times and full times earn extra cash EVEN if the result isn't correct. Leave that with me.. :-))
Next week's Poll game for next Sunday sticks out on the fixture card, and is on the front page now:
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 36:
Fall River Rovers - MVP #3: 1 TP (WWd)
Daniel Island S.A. - MVP #3: 1 TP (wDw)
Langley F.C. - MVP #6: 25k (dWw)
Windy City Pride - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
Golden Gophers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (DWw)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWw)
Just CHI (Marc) to put lines in for today- nearly a full house abs 2 hours to KO.. 👍👍
Remember the prediction Poll game.. money to be earned.. 🤔🤔💰💰
Gents, only 3 clubs to go for a full house and there is time yet, (SJ, CHI, CHA).
Business end of the season coming up now - good luck to all, and keep safe. Whilst we are coming out of this mess in U.K. just need to stay focussed and we'll all be back to "normal" soon enough - whatever normal will look like.. 🤔🤔
Onwards and upwards in Allan Sellers cup
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 35:
FC Dallas - MVP #4: 1 CP (Www)
Los Angeles Galaxy - MVP #4: 1 CP (WWw)
Tonight sees the Quarter Final 2nd Leg ties and only waiting for Andy to put a line in for a full house.
Best of luck to all...👍👍
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 12th April....:
PHI(50) SJ(35) SEA(30)
POR sends 155k to MON for Marco Negri (4/22 FW)
270k paid into 15 teams accounts today. Whilst 12 teams didn't get the result correct, they still get the 10k for taking part. 3 lads got the result correct, 2 even got the half time correct, whilst a third got the full time right, all 3 earning 50k each. Well done.
Next week's match is from the Youth division 4 - top 2 teams playing each other. It is on the site right now...
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 34:
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #6: 25k (dWW)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #7: 25k (WWw)
New York Red Bulls - MVP #5: 25k (wWW)
Only 3 outstanding for today, so looking good (CHI, CHA, SJ).
Only 7 league games left in the season, so a lot coming to a head.
Going to leave the 4pm and 7pm kick offs as they are - nobody came on to say otherwise, but next season I might try to keep every session's matches at the same time throughout a season - just need the official Summer and winter time change (usually the last Saturday in March and October).
Good luck today... and get your Predictions in - it earns you pennies on a weekly basis but a decent amount MSA and PSA....
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 33:
Real Salt Lake - MVP #6: 25k (DWw)
Please remember that tomorrow EVERY senior team has a Cup tie.
Quarter Finals | ||
1st Leg | ||
Kansas City Wizards | v | FC Dallas |
San Jose Earthquakes | v | Miami FC |
Columbus Crew | v | Philadephia Union |
Montreal Impact | v | Los Angeles Galaxy |
Al Sellers Plate | ||
1st Round | ||
Played to a finish | ||
Real Salt Lake | v | New England Revolution |
D.C. United | v | Houston Dynamos |
Carolina Railhawks | v | Charleston Battery |
Portland Timbers | v | Atlanta Silverbacks |
Chivas USA | v | Vancouver Whitecaps |
Seattle Sounders | v | Rochester Rhinos |
New York Red Bulls | v | Chicago Fire |
Minnesota Thunder | v | Colorado Rapids |
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 5th April.....:
SJ(35)
Andy, I did allocate 25k for your contribution, but stuck it in last week's totals. So this morning I missed it off. My mistake though so I will make it 35k fror your inconvenience.... :-)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 5th April....:
NE(40)
I did do a small journal entry. Must be worth something?
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 5th April....:
ATL(15) CHA(10) HOU(10) NE(10) NY(10) SEA(50)
Gents, 220k has been added to various team's cash box - to be paid at the end of the season.
5 teams got the result correct, but nobody got the half time or the full time, so all receive 30k. 7 others get the 10k for taking part. Shame more teams don't see this as a small investment bank. Should consider paying interest - mmmm - thinking aloud about next season..!!
Next weekend's Poll match which has already been put up will be:
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 32:
Mount Tabor S.C. - MVP #3: 1 TP (WDw)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #5: 25k (Wwd)
Red Force FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Gents, I will leave the KO at 4pm and 7pm midweek till the season end as you seem okay with them.
Also still 6 teams to put lines in but there is that extra hour to do it, eh?
Good luck today - very sunny here but very breezy - and waiting for the expected snow tonight or tomorrow. ☃️☃️
I think us Americans generally have to get orders in the night before anyway especially all the way out west here.
Not that fussed - like you Dave, I prefer SESL at 3 and 4 :) but get used to it changing so happy with whatever
I can work to any timescale.
Not that fussed - like you Dave, I prefer SESL at 3 and 4 :) but get used to it changing so happy with whatever
Not that fussed - like you Dave, I prefer SESL at 3 and 4 :) but get used to it changing so happy with whatever
Houston happy for any time for games, orders in days before usually
Both times work well for SEA/NSS
I can work to any timescale.
Steve, to be honest, I don't think it is a big deal in OASL, because interaction is so low most lads probably didn't notice the time change.
I do the 3rd division reviews in SESL and will confess I like the 3pm as I can do the reviews between 3 and 4 and then 4 and 5 - now it moves into evening with the clock changing. Just an old man moaning, that's me... :-)
I hate the early evening kick offs. Would have NMRd again if I'd had a game tonight
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 31:
Daniel Island S.A. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WDw)
Langley F.C. - MVP #5: 25k (wdW)
Next season therough I think I will check in advance when clocks go back and forward and time the games accordingly to leave them the same. (Each season has just 1 time change, either forward or backwards - I just need to watch for this October for season 27.)
All youth teams entered for tonight's games - thanks! I know it isn't the most glamorous of competitions but there is the extra matches to train, and the winner (and runner up) get a couple of pennies plus the Kudos of being there!! NOTE with the hour going forward KO will be 7pm.. :-(
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 29th March....:
COL(40) LA(135) MON(50)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 29th March....:
COL(15) CLB(30) DAL(15) NE(15) PHI(50) SJ(25) SEA(50)
I would just leave it the way it was. Changing to a win would not earn you extra - in fact just the opposite. The half time and full time scores mean nothing if you don't predict the right team to win (or draw). The scores only come into it if the initial forecast is correct..
I want to thank the managers of New England (Steve Turner - he knows MSWL United is just a code change away from Olmec not loving him anymore), Chicago, and Rochester (Phil - he never lets me win in MSWL United) for letting us beat them in the Al Sellers Cup.
Wouldn't it be a great thing if all managers let me win the Al Sellers Cup?
I'm not saying I still have backdoor cheat codes for managers who won't let me win, but I'm not saying I don't either.
Hopefully the right honorable Mr. Rob Lye of the Philadelphia Union reads this and can simply rest his players in our upcoming quarterfinal home/away series? :-)
David,
Accidentally clicked the wrong button on the poll there. Meant to pick LAG to win, with the same HT and FT scores that I posed. Does this work for correcting the error, or am I locked into my mistake at this point?
Posting here instead of via inbox for transparency.
Thanks,
Andy
Gents, today I have put 200k into various teams's accounts. Only 3 got the correct forecast right, but none of them got any of the results correct. So, 3 lads get 30k each and the remaning gents get the 10k for taking part.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 30:
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #5: 25k (dWW)
Montreal Impact - MVP #6: 25k (WWD)
New York Red Bulls - MVP #4: 1 CP (wwW)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #6: 25k (Wwd)
Chivas USA - MVP #3: 1 TP (WWd)
Savannah Celtic FC - MVP #3: 1 TP (wDw)
David, tell me know which one(s) you want changed and I'll get it done ASAP. 👍👍👍
MPPs have been downgraded in the past by asking the commishioner nicely
It can depend on how much spare time they have and if they have enough warning to do it
Is it possible to downgrade multi-position players or do you have to retire them or trade them away to make space in your squad?
Just thought I would mention it - but today is the last auction for this season.
So get the purse strings loosened and let's see some good offers going in.. 💰💰💰💰
Wonder how many of you forgot the hour went forward last night... 🤔🤔
7 teams still to put team lines in - I don't include myself here (only senior teams) - and I will be going in straight after this Blog. Good luck all. 😷😷
Well, that's it. Group matches over and the last 8 move on. Draw is as reported at the start and results:
Al Sellers Cup Quarter Finals (played over 2 legs)
Kansas City Wizards | v | FC Dallas |
San Jose Earthquakes | v | Miami FC |
Columbus Crew | v | Philadephia Union |
Montreal Impact | v | Los Angeles Galaxy |
Then I borrowed Andy who randomised the remaining 16 teams and coupled with my drawing of lots the Plate competition looks like:
Al Sellers Plate 1st Round (SINGLE leg games played on Neutral ground)
(Numbers to the left are Andy's numbers per team)
6-16 | Real Salt Lake | v | New England Revolution |
1-5 | D.C. United | v | Houston Dynamos |
11-4 | Carolina Railhawks | v | Charleston Battery |
2-14 | Portland Timbers | v | Atlanta Silverbacks |
12-7 | Chivas USA | v | Vancouver Whitecaps |
3-10 | Seattle Sounders | v | Rochester Rhinos |
9-8 | New York Red Bulls | v | Chicago Fire |
13-15 | Minnesota Thunder | v | Colorado Rapids |
The following teams receive Cup Draw Participation through 24th March - Al Sellers Plate competition....:
SJ(25)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 29:
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #4: 1 CP (dWW)
Los Angeles Galaxy - MVP #3: 1 TP (DwW)
Just 5 teams needed for a full house for 6pm tonight.
Last round of the Al Sellers Cup placings- and later tonight the draw for the Al Sellers Plate will take place - regardless if tonight's scores every club will STILL have a cup to play for...👍👍
Good luck to all.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 22nd March....:
KC(20) PHI(50) SJ(45) SEA(50)
Gents, a pretty impressive 320k is being put into some teams banks for paying out at season end.
Today 3 lads all got the correct result, and all got the half time, but nobody got the full time score - even amongst the ones who didn't get the result right.
So, 3 payments of 50k, plus 3 payments of 30k for getting the correct result but none of the scores, and 8 lads getting the 10k for taking part. Well done..
Next Sunday's game will be:
Thanks for that Andy - all sorted as is the CP Langley had - must check the stats page more often... :-)
My CP award needs changing to a TP.
Thanks
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 28:
Colorado Rapids - MVP #3: 1 TP (Dww)
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #4: 1 CP (wWW)
James, I will take the Poll predictions from the senior or youth team - it's just occasionally I can't put a senior team to the junior so I have to look it up. It's an age thing.... :-)
4 teams for today missing so far although there is still near 6 hours to go... CHA, CLB, MIA, SJ.
My Poll update will have to wait till after 6pm tonight, along with next week's game - having to socially distance visit my sister, not be back till 5pm. This last week has been our best weather yet, sun every day - if at times a breeze bringing the temperature down a bit.
In early this week Dave , just a warning so you don't get a shock when you do the Sunday morning update and find we have lineups in already. Instead of the usual 5 minutes before kick off !!
Also did predictions but used the wrong account if they need to be voided so be it.
Reason for the early orders is there is a big game tomorrow , strange one as usually its hitting before now but not feeling a thing yet.
Bigger issues this week in Scottish Football and the fact the league is finished are contributing factors , but I'm sure at KO tomorrow the stomach will be churning again . . .
Sorry, lads - was sure I had posted the correct game. Please put in your forecasts from now as proper game is up nbow. As said I have scores for Al and Alon, but not sure if they were for this game or last weeks. I have kept them, let me know if you want these ones or just put in others. One way or another, you will have scores in for Sunday.
Al, you have 0-0 and 1-1. Alon you have 1-0 and 2-1
Thanks for that, Andrew, as I can't vote myself I didn't notice the game I planned wasn't being shown.
Will be sorted immediately - Al and Alon put in scores - lads, I'll keep them for you if you wish or perhaps you can put them in again, knowing the game change.
I'm still seeing the old poll on my front page, so instead of doing the helpful thing and sending David a quick note I'll go ahead an post my prediction here:
12-12 draw, with both teams only playing two elderly DF and a OOP GK
(Disclaimer: actual poll vote may or may not reflect what is posted on this blog)
But, really, not sure if that's an error on my end or it just hasn't been posted yet. Still rather freshly back, so apolpgies if I'm just too early for the poll and/or missing something obvious. Thanks for the hard work keeping everything running smoothly, David!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 27:
Houston Dynamo - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DWw)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #4: 1 CP (Wdw)
Miami FC - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWw)
Only CHI to log in for tonight's games.- important for some more than others.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 15th March....:
MIA(20) NY(25) PHI(30) SJ(25) SEA(50)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 15th March....:
POR(70) SEA(90)
Gents, I certainly can pick them.. Today's game had only 2 managers guessing the winner, and neither got the half time nor full time correct but will collect 30k - the rest 10k to start the 2nd half of your Poll earnings list. PS A full house today - always good to see that. Cheers.
Next Sunday's game is a relegation crucial match - fill yer boots:
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 26:
Langley F.C. - MVP #4: 1 CP (wWw)
Daniel Island S.A. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
Colorado Ice White - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WDW)
Portland Timbers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dwW)
Chicago Fire - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWW)
Columbus Crew - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (DWw)
Columbus Rebels - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Gananda Bandits S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
5 teams still to post team lines and kick off is 4 hours away. SJ, KC, CHA, CHI, and NE.
Anybody have a problem just let me know - I know it is Mummy's Day, but takes no time to put a line in. Actually I had forgotten - and mine's only went in 15 minutes ago.. Oops!
You are 110 Captain...don't try and hoodwink us!
You are 110 Captain...don't try and hoodwink us!
Sorry is not needed - this is a game. Work and life are more important. Just because I am retired and 109 years old just means I have a little extra time to help out. Just let me know (like you did Thursday) if you have a problem. Will confess, if you know you might have a problem, then sometime Wednesday would be better and I would just get on to it sooner.
This of course anybody reads what we put in..... :-)
but work is more chaotic as normal.
HOU sends 100k to MIN for 1 TP
Simon working again this week and told me Thursday night he couldn't manage a review, but I was very busy yesterday and forgot. This morning I have put something together on the front page from last Wednesday's games. Reviews will be done more quickly in future - I shall keep a eye on them...
Bill, is that what you are doing wrong, or not doing at all?? :-)
I thought this was how you got a trophy named after you in the first place?
Al, you mean apart from the brown envelopes I occasionally get from you.. oops, did I say something I shouldn't? 😷😷💰💰
Steve Turner did the right thing and let our team win our first match in the Al Sellers Cup.
WILL Phil McIntosh do the right thing like Steve did? (somehow I don't think so)...
Commish David: Should I get an extra "match bonus" or something that would help my team in this competition? Is there someone that could code that for you?
I know that every game is on neitral grounds, but I always felt the first named team was technically a Home team.
Not really a spoiler alewrt, but that theory doesn't hold much watewr when you see tonight's scores. NO draws, 2 "home" wins and 10 "away" wins. MMM
Bad news is 2 lads missed purtting team lines in - one still won, whilst the other lost.
Tables are under Tables on the front page, - we move on to the weekend... :-)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 25:
Real Salt Lake - MVP #5: 25k (wWW)
Only 3 teams still to put a team line in: KC, DAL, NE.
First set of games in the new format for the Al Sellers Cup. We give it a try for this season, I will always be open for different ways to play competitions. Democracy rules here !!
PS Andy is now back to Andrew - welcome back young man - everybody here is a young man to me - even Robin!! :-)
Good luck all...
No issues at all with that. Happy to switch to consolidate the records to the name with the longer history.
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 8th February....:
MIA(60) PHI(50) SJ(125)
NSA is Olmec's way of saying "don't think your team is THAT good".
I notice you have a load of games as Andrew so I'd be of a mind to change you back there if you agreed. Definitely up to you..🤔🤔
Ah, the wonderful time of year where your squad becomes suddenly terrible. I sure picked the right time to rejoin and get my hopes up before MSA cuts me back down to size.
Speaking of my OASL return, I've noticed that due to Andy/Andrew differences in my name, the coaching record now has two versions of both my senior record and youth squad record. I don't mind either way, but is it better for me to return to "Andrew" to keep my record generally in one place, or leave them split out as is? If there's a more elegant solution to merge the two, even better, but thought I would mention it in case it needs fixing. No changes needed if everyone is fine with how it is!
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 8th March....:
MIA(20) PHI(40) SJ(35) SEA(40) VAN(10)
Don't ask, but I missed out a 30k payout for LA - their total is 180k, and has been corrected. Enjoy!!
PLEASE note that all teams are playing this Wednesday in the Al Sellers Cup group games.....(and for the next 2 Wednesdays as well).
Quarter Finals | Winners of each group plus the 2 best 2nd placed teams reach the Quarter Finals. | |
Draw | ||
Winner 1 | v | Runner up (from in order Group 4,5,6,2,3) |
Winner 2 | v | Winner 3 |
Winner 4 | v | Winner 5 |
Winner 6 | v | Runner up (from in order Group 1,2,3,4,5) |
All teams not reaching the last 8 will play for the Al Sellers Plate which will be drawn after the group games.
Welcome to the 2nd half of the season..
The following teams receive Poll Match Earnings through 7th March per Mid season Poll payouts....:
ATL(270) CAR(260) CHA(50) CHI(30) CHV(190) COL(150) CLB(90) DC(70) DAL(280) HOU(150) KC(10) LA(180) MIA(210) MIN(220) MON(160) NE(50) NY(280) PHI(350) RSL(160) ROC(20) SJ(330) SEA(240)
The following teams receive Awards through 7th March....Half payment for full season League and Cup Reviews:
MIA(150) PHI(250)
Gents, today 8 of the 14 managers got the result correct, and one of the 8, HOU got the full time score as well. Missing by a goal for the half time result, but Stephen picks up 50k, whilst the other 7 lads get 30k - the remaining 6 receive 10k.
Later on I will hand out the Poll monies won to date - the total is 3430k, averaging out at about 286k per week.
NEXT WEEK's GAME IS:
FC Dallas v Colorado Rapids.
Below is the table and results - figure on the right is your prize..
TEAM | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | MSA |
SJ/COL | MON/NE | CHV/ATL | MIN/HOU | MON/RSL | CCK/RF | COL/HOU | SEA/SJ | MON/LAG | CAR/NY | MTS/FRR | KC/NY | ||
ATL | 30 | 10 | 50 | 30 | 10 | 50 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 270 | |
CAR | 10 | 50 | 10 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 10 | 260 |
CHA | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 50 | |||||||
CHI | 30 | 30 | |||||||||||
CHV | 30 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 50 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 190 | |
COL | 10 | 10 | 50 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 150 | |||
CLB | 10 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 90 | |||||||
DAL | 10 | 10 | 30 | 10 | 50 | 30 | 50 | 10 | 50 | 30 | 280 | ||
DC | 10 | 10 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 70 | |||||||
HOU | 10 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 50 | 150 | |||
KC | 10 | 10 | |||||||||||
LA | 10 | 10 | 80 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 150 | |||||
MIA | 50 | 10 | 50 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 10 | 210 | |||
MIN | 10 | 10 | 30 | 10 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 50 | 30 | 220 | ||
MON | 30 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 160 | ||||
NE | 10 | 30 | 10 | 50 | |||||||||
NY | 10 | 10 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 50 | 30 | 280 |
PHI | 10 | 10 | 50 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 80 | 50 | 30 | 350 |
POR | 0 | ||||||||||||
ROC | 10 | 10 | 20 | ||||||||||
RSL | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 10 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 160 |
SAN | 30 | 10 | 50 | 80 | 10 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 330 |
SEA | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 50 | 80 | 30 | 240 | |||
VAN | 0 | ||||||||||||
290 | 200 | 390 | 490 | 180 | 270 | 290 | 350 | 310 | 280 | 380 | 320 | 3430 |
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 24:
Texas Dutch Lions - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWD)
Miami FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wwW)
New York Red Bulls - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWd)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #5: 25k (WwD)
Savannah Celtic FC - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (dWW)
Only 4 clubs outstanding for today's games but they tend to be the same ones each Sunday, so am fairly confident of a full house.
Sometime this evening I will put in MSA - you have been warned (bet nobody notices..😂😂).
My apologies for the delay. My favourite club had to play the semi finals yesterday evening against Ajax....of course we did not win, but the whole day looking forward to the game with my son was exciting as well.
Hope you enjoyed the cup reviews. Maybe my contract will be extended for the next cup rounds.
Gents, just to say that MSA (Mid Season Aging) will be inflicted sometime on Sunday evening - you have been warned. Retire lads before kick off Sunday if you wish subject to Rules of course.
It will be the halfway point in the league, and with 1 major trophy played for.
On Monday morning I will pay out participation cash, then will pay out Poll winnings up till then (some teams have scored well here...) plus half pay for the League and Cup Reviewers.
I will leave the Cup Final and 3rd/4th place matches to Simon, but just to say that the 4 teams in these 2 games are 4 different teams from last season's Dave Dowson Shield last 4 teams.
The Youth section games are complete now and tables and results plus Quarter Final draw (as per rules)are listed way down the Front Page.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 23:
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wdW)
This evening sees the first of the major competitions completed - the Dave Dowson Shield.
Minnesota Thunder (Alon Atie) v Montreal Impacts (Mark Creasey)
MIN Section Totals Played 10 W7 D1 L2
MON Section Totals Played 10 W7 D4 L0
Quarter Finals: Minnesota Thunder 2-0 New York Red Bulls, Montreal Impacts 5-2 Kansas City Wizards
Semi Finals: Minnesota Thunder 2-1 Chivas USA, Montreal Impacts 1-1 San Jose Earthquakes (MON 3-1 pens)
FINAL at 6pm, PLUS 3rd/4th place playoff between Chivas USA and San Jose Earthquakes.
PLUS the last group games in the Youth Cup to decide the Quarter Finalists.
MF Valon Berisha has left Philadelphia and gone to NY in exchange for SW Big Twinny Gav and DF The Boxer,we have a few uneasy players in the camp after our poor start to the season and Valon was delighted when NY made the approach as he felt NY would we up there fighting for the silverware,they usually are and I don't see this season being any different, especially with the league in the last couple of games.
NY sends Big Twinny Gav (4/25 SW), The Boxer (4/22 DF) to PHI for Valon Berisha (3/26 MF)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 1st March....:
DAL(20) NY(10) PHI(50) SJ(40) SEA(50)
NY sends Ludovic Lamine Sane (4/21 DF), Anthony Fontana (5/22 FW) to CHA for 2 CP, The Defender (6/18 DF), Kevin De Bruyne (4/15 MF)
Gents, remember not only is it the Dave Dowson Shield FINAL, but there is also the 3rd and 4th place playoff. Not many kudos for getting 3rd over 4th except a difference in cash payout.
PLUS it is the final set of group games for the Youth Cup. Winners of each of the 8 sections go to the Quarter Finals. So most of you will have 1 game at least and a few will be on 2 games..
Gents, Paying out 380k this week with 1 lad getting the full 80k for being spot on. Step forward Andy @ Seattle - just in the door and there you go... A further 4 managers getting 50k for just missing out on 1 scoreline, and 1 more for being correct with the result, but not getting any of the scorelines right. And 7 more gents earning the basic 10k which ALL adds up 1 week today at MSA when you get your Poll earnings to date.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 22:
KC Athletics - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wwD)
Washington Diplomats - MVP #3: 1 TP (WWd)
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #3: 1 TP (wdW)
Good morning lads, only CHI and KC to put team lines in (and 4 youth lineups to go in too) so looking at pretty much a full house.
And remember the Poll match. Only today and next Sunday to go before I post half way earnings to all (plus half the money due to the Cup and League match reviewers.
Now to look for next week's Poll match - good luck to all.
Thanks for the warm welcome, Bill, Rob, and David!
Hi Andy
Welcome (back) to Olmec goodness.
I'm new round here myself but it seems you're a returnee.
Good luck for the season ahead.
Cheers
David
Welcome Andy
Hope you enjoy your time here
Great to have you back with us!
Very helpful and in-depth responses. That's all crystal clear now.
I enjoy reading the reviews put in by Rob for the league - guess it can be a little boring for him if tactics etc are pretty much the same all over. Can be enterprising trying to find something different (give me 3 sending offs..I hear him shout!! 🥳🥳).
But I have to compliment Simon on last nights reviews of the Dave Dowson Shield Semi Finals. I am sitting in my car outside Tesco's and have been well entertained by his comments. No spoilers here, just to say both lads are earning their money well. Final and 3rd/4th place playoff games are next Wednesday.
The midweek following - session 25 - will be the start of the Al Sellers cup group games - more on them later once I've had a chance to schedule the competition.. 🤓🤓
The "one more" is easy - the youth scores and tables are on the front page - put them there last night but forgot to mention it..
Now, Andy - thanks for the questions - always better to ask them here - you earn participation cash for yourself and anybody that answers - except me, as I can't earn cash. :-(
Answers to your queries.
Youth TP does carry over to following seasons. I'd only step in if a team used little or no TPs in a season and suddenly found they had around 90-100 at the start of the following season start. Youth teams get 22 league games plus 2 cup games minimum. 24 x a max of 4 = 96. But using 4 per every game will result in very little cash going over to your senior team in the close season. (Currently half your youth balance goes over).
Youth Cup groups are decided on Points, goal difference, higher goals scored in that order. As said before, only 1 section can possibly have 2 teams exactly tied after next Wednesday - it looks like teams with only 2 games to play could regularly tie and cause playoffs but it hasn't happened in my time yet...
Tactics - never known it to happen but I would think the first tactic would come in and be replaced immediately by the 2nd one. A tip.. If you put in at half time if Winning (>= 1 etc) then B, or if you put in at half time (or anytime) if Losing (<= -1) then P. That way use a "reason" for changing tactics - server understands these - whichever situation it sees at the time you want to change, then it slips into that tactic.
TPs are not in the auctions. You get 30 at the start and will receive your 4 x age 0 lads (aged to age 1 for the start of the following season). If you wish to keep and train all 4 then yes, you will need to consider buying in 10 extra TPs - but likely your youth team will pass over around 1000k - remember half your youth earnings go to the senior team. Currently 623k is already a minimum SEA will receive at the season end. Alternatively you could consider selling one of your 4 lads and save on the cash.
Hope this helps - no doubt if I have got something wrong someone will be on soon to tell both of us. :-)
Upon re-reading the rules, I wanted to make sure I understood a few details. No real rush on getting answers to these and apologies for the rust!
Thanks!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 21:
Laredo Heat - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWW)
Los Angeles Blues - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
Carson City Kickers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Langley F.C. - MVP #3: 1 TP (wdW)
Montreal Impact - MVP #5: 25k (dWW)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 24th February....:
ATL(60)
Order's are in.
So far 5 youth teams plus 1 Semi Finalist in the DD Shield still have to sheet for the 6pm kick off, but most if not all will have by then. Good luck to all - and glad to have you aboard, Andy..
Thanks for the warm welcome, David.
Looking forward to a new spell running Seattle here, even if some serious work is needed to bring them up the ladder. Funny enough, I was first introduced to the SOS leagues by Atlanta manager Bryce during our days of going to Sounders matches together a decade ago, so it will be fitting to take them over here in OASL.
I remember most of the faces here from my previous stints at Real Salt Lake and Portland, along with a couple seasons running St. Mirren over in SESL. Looking forward to many renewed battles with all of you in the seasons to come. Thanks for having me back!
P.S. Not sure if my manager picture has updated, but now thinking about it I will need to go find one that involves a Seattle Sounders jersey or shirt...
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 23rd February....:
DAL(60)
Gents, some, probably most of you, will remember Andy Foss-Grant from SESL/OASL (and ODFL - my teeth cutting set up).
Well, Andy is joining us as of 7pm tonight and will take over Seattle Sounders and North Sound Seawolves - BOY, has he got a job in hand.... But he knows it, so please make him welcome..
AND should you wish to send me any IN BOX messages, REMEMBER top send them to REB (Columbus Rebels) as Al has graciously agreed to give them up so I can operate the set up from there.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 22nd February....:
CHV(10) DAL(50) NE(20) NY(25) SJ(25) SEA(40)
I support David's words. Mark gives thousands of hours a year to keep our three leagues going and outlays plenty dosh. ££££. Unlike Neil Lennon he does not whine and try blaming it all on Nicola Sturgeon. Mark takes responsibility for the leagues and takes the workload and £££ outlay on the chin. 😂 Mark deserves us all to somehow compensate him for his but only if you want to and can.
Peace. X
Thanks lads - 18 of you took part this week and I will be adding a total of 290k to various teams account.
One lad won the full 80k, step forward Rob Lye, and I have to boast that I got 50k this week, but that overall only 2 teams got the correct result. Only Rob got the full and half time as well, I got the half time only.
Half way monies will be paid out on 7th March - MSA Day - sometime in the evening....
A beautiful day here in sunny and warm Fife (darn it, the Climate change people will be out today - where were they last week when we were knee deep in white stuff?) :-)
Anyway it is Sunday and only 4 teams (CHA, CHI, MIN, and SJ) to put lines in, so hoping for a full house. Good luck today to all (well, nearly all, I mean, I have a game to prepare for too!) Have a good day!!
I support David's words. Mark gives thousands of hours a year to keep our three leagues going and outlays plenty dosh. ££££. Unlike Neil Lennon he does not whine and try blaming it all on Nicola Sturgeon. Mark takes responsibility for the leagues and takes the workload and £££ outlay on the chin. 😂 Mark deserves us all to somehow compensate him for his but only if you want to and can.
Peace. X
Gents, I don't apologise for copying Mark's message from SESL over to OASL, in which he is looking for donations to the running of the various sites. I copied over his front page message over to our front page, minus the Paypal picture which came out HUGE on my page... :-)
Of course many of you will likely contribute via SESL or SFLSL, but for the lads who play here it is an opportunity to thank Mark for the work he does (and to offset his server costs - £800 per year to run all 3 sites.
Please read the blurb on any of the sites and do what you can - of course it is NOT obligatory to pay anything and nobody will be named if they pay nothing, just that we get lots of fun playing the games (look, I play Seattle and NSS - and even I get fun...!!). Thanks in advance!!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 19:
Texas Dutch Lions - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Montreal Olympique - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWd)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #4: 1 CP (WWD)
What entry......? :-)
David,
Please ignore my CCK entry to the match poll.
Thanks
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 15th February....:
CHV(15) DAL(50) PHI(50) SJ(30) SEA(50)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 14th February....:
CAR(55) DAL(35) NY(35)
Thanks for a full house today lads, and I have to say I am paying out 310k into various team's bank accounts for today's Poll game.
NOBODY got 80k or 50k but 7 managers got the forecast correct and gained 30k each, and 10 gained 10k each for entering.
Next weeks game will be:
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 18:
Langley F.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Fall River Rovers - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wDw)
Montreal Impact - MVP #4: 1 CP (Www)
Real Salt Lake - MVP #4: 1 CP (Wwd)
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWD)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #4: 1 CP (wwW)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #3: 1 TP (WWw)
Philadelphia Union - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Washington Diplomats - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Wdw)
It's Sunday again and just 3 teams to sheet for this afternoon's games. Hoping for a full house and a barrow full of goals. We don't seem to score many here, but one day.... :-)
Good luck to all...
Last night saw the last of the section games and congratulations to the 8 teams who now qualify for the Quarter Finals.
Draw as per rules is as follows:
Dave Dowson Shield | ||||
Quarter Final lineups | ||||
Section A Winners | Carolina Railhawks | v | Chivas USA | Section B RU |
Section B Winners | FC Dallas | v | San Jose Earthquakes | Section A RU |
Section C Winners | Minnesota Thunder | v | New York Red Bulls | Section D RU |
Section D Winners | Montreal Impacts | v | Kansas City Wizards | Section C RU |
Games are due next Wednesday, along with the first set of Youth matches:
I will schedule these matches today sometime....
Section A | ||
Mount Tabor S.C. | v | Colorado Ice White |
Section B | ||
KC Athletics | v | Texas Dutch Lions |
Section C | ||
Windy City Pride | v | Daniel Island S.A. |
Section D | ||
Los Angeles Blues | v | Golden Gophers |
Section E | ||
De Anza Force S.C. | v | Gananda Bandits S.C. |
Section F | ||
New Bedford Whalers | v | Columbus Rebels |
Section G | ||
Montreal Olympique | v | Red Force FC |
Section H | ||
Langley F.C. | v | Savannah Celtic FC |
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 17:
FC Dallas - MVP #3: 1 TP (WWw)
Today is the last round of group games in the DD Shield and so shortly after 7pm (I like to watch the news) the Quarter Finals lineup will be announced on the Blog and a SPOILER.
4 teams still to sheet for tonight, remember even if your team (like mine) has no chance of progressing, it is still an opportunity to rest players and train as well, so hopefully we will have a 100% turnout - thanks in advance.
The first half get posted to accounts on MSA day - the final part gets paid before the end of the season. 💶💶
Where do the winnings from the Poll Matches get added?
That's fine Rob - if you had wanted to keep your selection quieter you could have in boxed or emailed me. :-)
Plus Bill, I have changed your OTF win to +3 OTF and deleted your cracking 9,3 SW... This week I didn't have to be reminded - phew!!
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 8th February....:
DAL(50) PHI(50) SJ(30) SEA(50) VAN(25)
Sorry david ,hit the button too soon
Montreal Half- time 1-0 Full-time 2-1
350k paid out today, with 2 managers getting 50k, 6 more on 30k and the remaining 7 on 10k each. Nobody getting the full set of scores, but good money being earned though.
Next weekend''s Poll match is already up and is:
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 16:
Mount Tabor S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWw)
5 teams to post team lines as I write. Actually one is mine but I am just going in to do it, so make that 4.
Some good games coming up today - check them out - and of couse remember there is up to 80k to be won by everyone who takes part in the Poll match. Up till now only Lewis @ LA and Andy @ SJ have won 80k but I have paid out quite a few 50 and 30ks, so be in it to win it...
Good luck today....
The following teams receive Cup Draw Participation through Al Sellers Cup Draw....:
CAR(25) MON(25)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 6th February....:
DAL(25)
Thanks to Jason (who randomised the teams numbers and Mark who made the draws (independent of each other..) here is the draw for the Al Sellers Cup:
Numbers | |
(drawn by | Al Sellers Cup |
Jason) | |
21 | D.C. United |
8 | San Jose Earthquakes |
3 | Colorado Rapids |
17 | Atlanta Silverbacks |
14 | Portland Timbers |
15 | Carolina Railhawks |
19 | FC Dallas |
22 | Vancouver Whitecaps |
20 | Philadephia Union |
7 | Rochester Rhinos |
1 | Chivas USA |
13 | Columbus Crew |
9 | Charleston Battery |
11 | Real Salt Lake |
5 | Kansas City Wizards |
12 | Minnesota Thunder |
6 | Miami FC |
4 | New England Revolution |
16 | Houston Dynamos |
2 | Los Angeles Galaxy |
10 | Seattle Sounders |
18 | New York Red Bulls |
24 | Chicago Fire |
23 | Montreal Impact |
Numbers | |
(drawn by | |
Mark) | |
Section A | |
21 | D.C. United |
16 | Houston Dynamos |
12 | Minnesota Thunder |
5 | Kansas City Wizards |
Section B | |
10 | Seattle Sounders |
3 | San Jose Earthquakes |
9 | Charleston Battery |
19 | FC Dallas |
Section C | |
22 | Vancouver Whitecaps |
2 | Los Angeles Galaxy |
15 | Carolina Railhawks |
6 | Miami FC |
Section D | |
24 | Chicago Fire |
7 | Rochester Rhinos |
13 | Columbus Crew |
4 | New England Revolution |
Section E | |
8 | San Jose Earthquakes |
20 | Philadephia Union |
18 | New York Red Bulls |
14 | Portland Timbers |
Section F | |
1 | Chivas USA |
23 | Montreal Impact |
17 | Atlanta Silverbacks |
11 | Real Salt Lake |
Al Sellers Cup - what I forgot to say is that the Quarter Finals and Semi Finals will be played on a home and away basis, the Final will be a 1 game affair. Apologies for missing it out last message - waiting for a joiner for an emergency, so not thinking straight. :-)
It is all in the Rules.
Gents, as you know the above Cup will be drawn into 6 sections of 4 teams each. All games will be on neitral grounds and each team will play the other 3 teams in their group ONCE only. Top teams in the sections (6) will be joined by the BEST 2nd placed place teams - ie doesn't matter if a 3rd place team in a section is better than the other 2nd place teams, the last 2 places will be filled by 2nd place teams with the highest points, goal difference, highest goals scored. If there is still a tie for one of these 2 places, a play off. (Not down to a coin toss yet..!! :-)
In advance of Mark and Jason giving me their randomising of the teams and an actual draw, I am saying the Quarter Finals will be as follows:
1) Winner of section A v Runner up from section D, E, F, B, C (in that order)
2) Winner of section B v Winner of Section C
3) Winner of Section D v Winner of Section E
4) Winner of Section F v Runner up from section A, B, C, D, E (in that order)
Semi Finals will be W1 v W2 and W3 v W4
eg if runners up come from say C and B, then RU E will be in the first tie and RU C will be in the last tie. Trying to keep runnersup meeting their section winner till the Final if possible.
Clear as mud? Don't worry - it will all work out - and I will post the draw when I marry up the 2 lads sheets.
Games are due after the MSA - sessions 25, 27, 29 - MSA is after session 24.
Got to say thanks to Simon and Rob for their reviews. Both put them up within a day of the games so they are "live" to us mere mortals. 👍👍
Okay, we, at Seattle, are out of the reckoning, as are a few others. But with only 1 game left we do have 4 definite qualifiers for the Quarter Finals, with 11 teams definitely NOT going to figure in the playoff games.
We have another team (Carolina) who has qualified but still don't know if they will feature as section winner or runner up.
As the Quarter and Semi Final matches draw is in stone I can reveal that Carolina or San Jose will play Chivas USA, Dallas will play Carolina, San Jose or Colorado (RU in section A), Minnesota will play New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, and Montreal will play Kansas or Real Salt Lake or Miami. Clear as mud, eh?
All to be revealed at 6-02pm next Wednesday....
Semi Finals will be winner of the 1st game mentioned v winner of the 3rd game, and guess what? Correct, winner of game 2 v winner of game 4.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 15:
Montreal Impact - MVP #3: 1 TP (WWd)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWw)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #3: 1 TP (WWw)
Only 3 teams to put lines in for tonight as the last but one set of games are played in the Dave Dowson Shield sections.
Today I will schedule the youth Cup section matches, they are to be played in Sessioins 19,21,23 - same evenings as the DD Shield Quarter Finals, Semi Finals and Final.
Good luck tonight and stay safe ...
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 1st February....:
DAL(50) MIN(20) PHI(50) SJ(30) SEA(30)
Right gents, all I will say was I was looking good for the Poll game till Coker got his red card - then it went all wrong.
8 of you got the correct forecast, but NOBODY got the correct half time or full time.
So I pay out 8 x 30k plus 5 x 10k for today = 290k.
Next week's game will be:
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 14:
Real Salt Lake - MVP #3: 1 TP (WWw)
New York Red Bulls - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
5 hours to kick off and 6 teams (and youth teams) still to put team lines in. Obviously still time to do it so not overly worried. None of you has the worst team in the set up - let me worry about that.. :-)
Good luck to all..
I have just discovered 4 messages in the SEA in Box - so apologies to Jason for not fixing his OTF lad into a a +3 OTF till this morning. (Thankfully it didn't affect your game too much last night.)
I will try to make sure I am on the OTF straight after each auction from now on.
Can players use the NSS (my youth team) for in Box messages, please? To avoid mistakes I don't even have SEA ticked as a Commish entry - only NSS. I sometimes don't see the SEA in Box but I do look at the NSS one... Thanks.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 13:
Chicago Fire - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Www)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWW)
Dave Dowson Cup evening today and 20 of 24 teams have their lineups in. Getting to the exciting time now as the sections look to produce the top 2 teams for the Quarter Finals.
Quarter Finals are:
1) W1 v RU2 2) W2 v RU1 3) W3 v RU4 4) W4 v RU3
Semi Finals will be Winner of game 1 v Winner of game 3 and Winner of game 2 v Winner of game 4, as per Rules.
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 27th January....:
CHA(140)
You are right, and the idea is to make some youth money so the senior team can get half of it in the close season. The Youth teams initially were to train up age 0 lads for their big teams, with no CPs (which takes away any idea of increasing OTF), but have a meaningful fixture list. At the beginning all 24 youth teams played a league match against each other (23 games in all) but there was no incentive to climb the table.
The 2 divisions was to increase awareness in your wee team and create some reward for results. Hopefully we do that 👍👍
Sorry for bidding with my youth team.
Didnt realise I was doing it at the time as Dave said.
GOG sends 7 CP to DAL for 724k
GOG sends Lucky (2/17 MF) to MIN for 125k
You are right, and the idea is to make some youth money so the senior team can get half of it in the close season. The Youth teams initially were to train up age 0 lads for their big teams, with no CPs (which takes away any idea of increasing OTF), but have a meaningful fixture list. At the beginning all 24 youth teams played a league match against each other (23 games in all) but there was no incentive to climb the table.
The 2 divisions was to increase awareness in your wee team and create some reward for results. Hopefully we do that 👍👍
I literally thought it was something I'd overlooked to be honest.
Boosting youth OTF or coaching players age 2 would be pricy though. Lol
Thanks to Mark for assisting in the Youth Cup Sections draw.
Teams play a game against the other 2 teams in their section - all on neutral grounds, with the top team going to the Quarter Finals. Played as W1 v W2, W3 v W4 etc down to the Final.
Games are played in sessions 19, 21, 23 and the last 8 games not until session 31.
NOW, as the computer only allows 2 Cups officially, and the Dave Dowson Shield and the Al Sellers Cup are the 2 main Cups, I plan to place the matches and the subsequent section positions onto the front page as they happen. The server will handle the sections for the other 2 Cups fine.
Draw (I randomised the numbers to the teams, and Mark drew 3 numbers to a section, resulted as follows:
7 | New Bedford Whalers |
2 | Daniel Island S.A. |
17 | Fall River Rovers |
20 | Langley F.C. |
22 | Utah Surf Boys S.C. |
3 | Mount Tabor S.C. |
23 | Los Angeles Blues |
24 | Texas Dutch Lions |
19 | Carson City Kickers |
18 | Savannah Celtic FC |
14 | Roxborough Indians S.C. |
5 | Gananda Bandits S.C. |
8 | Carolina Dynamo |
21 | Colorado Ice White |
15 | Windy City Pride |
6 | KC Athletics |
4 | Red Force FC |
9 | Laredo Heat |
1 | De Anza Force S.C. |
16 | Montreal Olympique |
13 | Columbus Rebels |
11 | Washington Diplomats |
12 | Golden Gophers |
10 | North Sound Seawolves |
Youth cup groups draw
3 21 9
6 24 22
15 2 11
23 12 14
1 5 17
7 13 19
16 4 10
20 18 8
Games | ||
Section A | ||
Mount Tabor S.C. | v | Colorado Ice White |
Laredo Heat | v | Mount Tabor S.C. |
Colorado Ice White | v | Laredo Heat |
Section B | ||
KC Athletics | v | Texas Dutch Lions |
Utah Surf Boys S.C. | v | KC Athletics |
Texas Dutch Lions | v | Utah Surf Boys S.C. |
Section C | ||
Windy City Pride | v | Daniel Island S.A. |
Washington Diplomats | v | Windy City Pride |
Daniel Island S.A. | v | Washington Diplomats |
Section D | ||
Los Angeles Blues | v | Golden Gophers |
Roxborough Indians S.C. | v | Los Angeles Blues |
Golden Gophers | v | Roxborough Indians S.C. |
Section E | ||
De Anza Force S.C. | v | Gananda Bandits S.C. |
Fall River Rovers | v | De Anza Force S.C. |
Gananda Bandits S.C. | v | Fall River Rovers |
Section F | ||
New Bedford Whalers | v | Columbus Rebels |
Carson City Kickers | v | New Bedford Whalers |
Columbus Rebels | v | Carson City Kickers |
Section G | ||
Montreal Olympique | v | Red Force FC |
North Sound Seawolves | v | Montreal Olympique |
Red Force FC | v | North Sound Seawolves |
Section H | ||
Langley F.C. | v | Savannah Celtic FC |
Carolina Dynamo | v | Langley F.C. |
Savannah Celtic FC | v | Carolina Dynamo |
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 25th January....:
DAL(50) MIA(50) NY(15) PHI(50) SJ(40) SEA(50) VAN(40)
The following teams receive Cup Draw Participation through 25th January as per help with Youth Cup draw....:
MON(25)
It is true Youth Teams can not enter the auctions. (Rules say no auctions for 3rd and 4th division teams - effectively youth teams.) Sometime today I will correct the entries to award the items to the next team down.
(I agree - I think Alon realised that and put them back in - he will still get one of them - the other (7CPs) will go to DAL. These things happen - thanks for pointing it out though!! :-)
I think Alon may have got his teams mixed up.
I wasn't aware we could use both our teams to place auction bids
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 25th January....:
ATL(50) SEA(75)
Funny game this one - nobody forecast a 0-0 at full time.But 2 lads did get a half time score having predicted the correct result, so both get 50k. A further 3 lads get 30k for getting the result correct and the remainder get 10k for their efforts.
Remember you must get the coirrect result before you can earn for the HT/FT scores. 270k paid out this week.
Next week's match will be: Colorado Rapids v Houston Dynamos (game is on the front page now!)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 12:
Langley F.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Vancouver Whitecaps - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Wdw)
FC Dallas - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWD)
Washington Diplomats - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Well researched - can't have SESL having all the stats. 👍
I noticed Colin Apricot in the list - that was a time I did my players in phases. That time it was fruit. I had players named Apricot, Manuel Banana, Lime, Orange, Apple, Strawberry etc. Then I started on old comedians, real ones, not politicians or these Twitter influencers or any nonentities like that. Then I could follow them when either they left my club or when I took over another club. Good fun all round.. 🥳🥳🥳🥳
Only 2 teams missing for this afternoon with less than 2 hours to go.
I forgot to go in this morning to do the update - I blame Boris - everybody else does so why not me... 🥸🥸
I saw on the other sites that we have a history under features (on the right of the screen).
Good to see an old player is the topscorer...but it also shows that if you have a potential striker that can score 100 goals...he might be a future Hall of Fame-player.
Pl. | Player | Seasons | Clubs | APPS | GOALS | SHOTS | % |
1. | Ricky Burns | 8 (11-18) | 3 (DC,RSL,NY) | 218 | 123 | 261 | 0,4713 |
2. | Sinisa Ubiparipovic | 9 (1-9) | 1 (NY) | 193 | 120 | 252 | 0,4762 |
3. | Jeremy King | 7 (10-16) | 2 (SEA,CLB) | 173 | 117 | 218 | 0,5367 |
4. | Ces D'Angelo | 9 (2-10) | 2 (NY,LA) | 196 | 114 | 253 | 0,4506 |
5. | Len Lear | 8 (13-20) | 2 (NY,CHA) | 227 | 113 | 214 | 0,5280 |
6. | Severino Jefferson | 9 (3-11) | 2 (MON,SEA) | 207 | 104 | 202 | 0,5149 |
7. | Scott Sealy | 7 (1-7) | 1 (KC) | 166 | 99 | 213 | 0,4648 |
8. | Ajay Maisuria | 7 (19-25) | 2 (HOU,LHT) | 150 | 93 | 171 | 0,5439 |
9. | Maro Van Basten | 7 (14-20) | 1 (KC) | 176 | 92 | 202 | 0,4554 |
10. | Mario Batali | 8 (16-23) | 2 (SEA,NSS) | 202 | 92 | 180 | 0,5111 |
11. | Juan Pablo Angel | 7 (1-7) | 2 (LA,NY) | 149 | 87 | 180 | 0,4833 |
12. | Kris Boyd | 6 (11-16) | 1 (POR) | 165 | 87 | 197 | 0,4416 |
13. | Ross Sandbach | 7 (14-20) | 1 (HOU) | 176 | 87 | 195 | 0,4462 |
14. | Colin Apricot | 8 (7-14) | 2 (HOU,CHV) | 171 | 85 | 181 | 0,4696 |
15. | Gordon Groom | 6 (21-26) | 2 (MIN,GOG) | 167 | 82 | 151 | 0,5430 |
16. | Nathan Knox | 8 (16-23) | 2 (MIN,GOG) | 217 | 82 | 166 | 0,4940 |
17. | Kenny Cooper | 6 (3-8) | 1 (DAL) | 112 | 81 | 146 | 0,5548 |
18. | ronaldo | 8 (3-10) | 2 (CLB,NY) | 166 | 80 | 188 | 0,4255 |
19. | Nick Zimmerman | 6 (6-11) | 1 (PHI) | 150 | 78 | 170 | 0,4588 |
20. | Danny Mwanga | 6 (12-17) | 2 (POR,PHI) | 170 | 77 | 176 | 0,4375 |
When you look a little bit deeper in the figures...there were maybe some better players...at least from a manager's point of view.Those players scored at least half of the shots they shoot....
There are two players still active in belows overview. Gordon Groom, has a percentage of 100% in this season and is also moving up in the hall of fame topscorers list, while Alex Arthur could not score any goals from the 3 changes he had this season.So historical seen his next shot should be a goal.....
Pl. | Player | Seasons | Clubs | APPS | GOALS | SHOTS | % |
42. | Christian Ramirez | 5 (20-24) | 3 (DAL,PHI,MIN) | 124 | 65 | 105 | 0,6190 |
17. | Kenny Cooper | 6 (3-8) | 1 (DAL) | 112 | 81 | 146 | 0,5548 |
8. | Ajay Maisuria | 7 (19-25) | 2 (HOU,LHT) | 150 | 93 | 171 | 0,5439 |
65. | Warren Mullins | 5 (19-23) | 3 (MIA,NY,PHI) | 134 | 56 | 103 | 0,5437 |
15. | Gordon Groom | 6 (21-26) | 2 (MIN,GOG) | 167 | 82 | 151 | 0,5430 |
3. | Jeremy King | 7 (10-16) | 2 (SEA,CLB) | 173 | 117 | 218 | 0,5367 |
38. | John Moss | 8 (6-13) | 2 (MON,COL) | 155 | 66 | 124 | 0,5323 |
5. | Len Lear | 8 (13-20) | 2 (NY,CHA) | 227 | 113 | 214 | 0,5280 |
24. | Terry Flanagan | 7 (18-24) | 3 (NBW,NY,CHI) | 191 | 75 | 143 | 0,5245 |
87. | Frank Songoo | 6 (12-17) | 1 (CAR) | 125 | 51 | 98 | 0,5204 |
6. | Severino Jefferson | 9 (3-11) | 2 (MON,SEA) | 207 | 104 | 202 | 0,5149 |
60. | Caleb Herbert | 5 (17-21) | 1 (CHI) | 109 | 57 | 111 | 0,5135 |
10. | Mario Batali | 8 (16-23) | 2 (SEA,NSS) | 202 | 92 | 180 | 0,5111 |
56. | Alex Arthur | 5 (22-26) | 2 (NY,PHI) | 115 | 57 | 113 | 0,5044 |
32. | Matt Watson | 7 (7-13) | 1 (CAR) | 198 | 70 | 140 | 0,5000 |
Hope you are well bro and things back in line for you. 👍🏿
Just saw that my numbering of the teams was totally wrong. The table of the week before was used for the review of last wednesday games. My apologies for the managers concerned.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 11:
Los Angeles Galaxy - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wDw)
Colorado Rapids - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Oops - near 7 hours till kick off and 7 teams still missing their line ups.
And we are at a crucial point in the Section games for quite a few of us.Us? Yes, I am back in as Seattle for now unless someone knows a friend who would like to play in the Setup - I am happy to give the team up - they can only go one way - upwards!!
Good luck to all, except Galaxy (my opponents tonight...)
Was the tight nappy a form of foreplay for you, or a precaution as at your age it means you can't hold the liquor as well? :-)
I will try to press post just the once this time.
Geez - has your computer switched off it's spellchecker?? 😉😉🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷
wassat ? Mr.blair. ,.... try walkin around al day in a tight nappie !
Geez - has your computer switched off it's spellchecker?? 😉😉🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷
We have Rob doing the League reviews and Simon doing the Cup reviews, but nobody doing any Youth reviews (cup or league) - is that Robin offering? 🥳🥳🥸🥸
Langley players are furryius with the Comish Blair that they get no aknowlege fer thir efforts in the youth league .
had a cracking game on Sunday now sit Top of the league .
Will report Blair to RSPCA / PDFLA/and FIFA fer this diabollockial missdemenear !!
Gents, on taking over SEA I noticed they had no CPs left but had purchased 38CPs at the beginning. On working out their usage SEA are 20 CPs short - I can see where 18 have been used but they have none left.
I believe it was Steve who flagged up before the start of the season a couple of teams who hadn't been charged for TPs by the server. I corrected them, but never thought there might have been complications with their purchases.
Could any manager who thinks they might have been short changed on CPs and/or TPs get back to me - it can be checked out. Have to say SEA was one of the teams affected at the season start, not sure if that had anything to do with it. Who knows... 🤔🤔
Gents, today David Laird emailed to say he needed to leave the game due to work and other reasons. He was prepared to carry on putting in team lines until I got somebody, but I thought it better if he left now, as I have no idea if and when I could get a replacement.
SO, as of this minute I will assume SEA and NSS and have asked Allan if he can take back REB.
Looking at the tables I feel the only way is up, and I can once again Blog to earn my team cash. However this was not the way I would have wanted it - I wish David all the best and to look us up if his circumstances change in the future........
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 18th January....:
CHA(15) COL(50) DAL(50) MIA(15) NY(15) PHI(50) SJ(25)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 18th January....:
DAL(25)
Gents, a good game for the Treasurer this week. Last week I paid out 490k, this week it was only 180k.
2 of you got the correct result, but neither got either the half time or the full time score. Payouts were 30k to each of these lads, and 10k to all the rest.
This week fill their boots. Game will be in the Youth League 4th Division
PS David, it is true I don't usually give participation cash to Blogs and Journals from the Youth Team insertions, but you didn't know - thanks Roy for informing David - so I have no problems with this week. From tomorrow if you can use DAL that would be great.. Thanks..:-)
Thanks Roy.
Thanks David for the update. I am slowly getting the hang of how this place works. All the information, support and guidance is appreciated.
Simon, your cup reports are both excellent and massive. You clearly spend a lot of time and energy on them.
But real life takes precedence. Save your energies for looking after yourself and whatevr else needs done.
Come back when you're ready, no rush, looking forward to seeing them start again.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 10:
Mount Tabor S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wdW)
KC Athletics - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Wwd)
Montreal Impact - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DWw)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
One more thing to note David is that you won't get any participation money for blogging as the youth team manager - something we've all done.
Thanks David for the update. I am slowly getting the hang of how this place works. All the information, support and guidance is appreciated.
Simon, your cup reports are both excellent and massive. You clearly spend a lot of time and energy on them.
But real life takes precedence. Save your energies for looking after yourself and whatevr else needs done.
Come back when you're ready, no rush, looking forward to seeing them start again.
To much struggle in the other life...
Gents, take a bow - no, I am not being facetious, really!!
Just need to wish everybiody good luck today (and David, you get retirement money tomorrow along with any participation cash you and others will have earned during the past week).
Thanks David.
That's him retired already.
Cheers.
Gents, Simon told me he had struggled to do a review for last Wednesday (life can do that at times...) and I don't plan to do a late one now.
If Simon has a problem with other midwees, if he lets me know in advance I will get out a Review - quite enjoy them, actually... ONE way or another, there WILL be one done after next midweek's games are done.
Not being pedantic but I pay out on players retired up to SL12 - has been for a while even with Dave, but I altered the payments this season to give a bit more for SLs 11 and 12.
Go for it David (lots of David's in this setup, eh?) 🥸🥸
Thanks, David. Appreciated
David - Transactions > sign and retire > choose player from the drop-down.
Is there a button?
You retire end DB renumerates. You can retire up to SL 10.
How do I retire players for cash? Is there an automated process or is it via Mr Blair?
Thanks in advance.
NY sends Theo Snelders (5/16 GK), Jim Watt (6/15 DF), Joe Joyce (5/16 DF) to CHA for Marcus Hahnemann (7/7 GK), Woodrow Ray (4/18 MF), Conrad Jones (6/14 MF)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 9:
New York Red Bulls - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Chivas USA - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
FC Dallas - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (www)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
6 teams missing their lineups for tonight.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 11th January....:
DAL(25) HOU(15) MIA(15) NE(15) PHI(50) SJ(25)
Really glad everyone did so well.......
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 10th January....:
NE(170)
WOW!! The Poll match went down well - all 14 managers who voted got the result right - all on 30k
But of these 14, 2 (Roy and Andy) got the half time right as well and received a further 20k, and 1 lad (take a bow Andy), got everything right and will get 80k.
So, 1 lad on 80k, 1 on 50k and 12 on 30k = total payout 490k. SURELY it is worth it to be in it... :-)
Next weekend's game will be MONTREAL IMPACTS v REAL SALT LAKE - it is up now, so feel free to post your scores..
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 8:
Los Angeles Blues - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWw)
Fall River Rovers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Real Salt Lake - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWw)
Los Angeles Galaxy - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
Savannah Celtic FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWw)
Four hours to kick off and only 3 teams missing lines - that'll do me for now.
Remember to enter your Poll prediction scores (half time and full time). Up to 80k per team can be won...
Good luck to all...👍
This season I made the change to take all 4 age 0 players across to their senior teams.
This makes clubs think about how they want to use up their allocated 60TPs the youth teams get - train up all 4 age 0s and spend 20 on age 1 lads, or sacrifice one age 0 and try to improve their youth team. Decisions decisions...🤔🤔
Hi folks
Can anyone give an idea of how many age 0's move from your youth team to your Main team during the off season?
Is it all 4 age 0's automatically or do you choose? Or does one automatically now stay in your youth team to become an age 1 player there?
Does that mean only 3 age 1's come in to the youth team to bring it up to 4 age 1's like they have now?
2 new signings for Philadelphia, 1st was Thomas Tavares a classy defensive midfielder from Benfica and secondly Marko Ramius a strong defender we got from LA Galaxy, hopefully these 2 will plug that hole at the back we seemed to have developed, we hope they will both slot straight in and have a productive season.
PHI sends 600k to LA for Marko Ramius (2/22 DF)
Thought I had orders in. Totally forgot as a lot on my mind since weekend.
Completed if slightly later... 👍👍
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 7:
Montreal Impact - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Www)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dww)
Simon, got told by Mark it can happen but the server should "look" for it. It happened once before and I panicked but the games were run. Let's hope so again - might allow the 4 lads who haven't put their lineups in yet to do so.. 🤫🤫
Look like they are postponed....
Tonight sees the 5th match (and half way point) in the Dave Dowson Section games and there are still 8 managers to put team lines in - remember the games are played at 6pm every midweek..
Good luck to all tonight....
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 4th January....:
CAR(95)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 4th January....:
DAL(35) MIA(15) NE(30) NY(15) PHI(50) RSL(15) SJ(50) VAN(30)
The following teams receive Bio & Team Updates through 4th January....:
CAR(100) CHV(100)
I am working out a few things about the auction (now not being involved in it, I tend to avoid checking out the players on display).
OTF will be cut to one per auction and will try to make sure it does not feature a MPP - didn't realise this excluded all teams that already had 5 of them. Will check it out before the next auction.......sorry!
Poll Match. We have our first 80k winner - step forward Lewis @ LA who guessed the result, HT and FT all correct. We also had 4 x 50k winners, plus 2 x 30k winners, whilt 5 more teams all pick up the 10k for entering. Total of 390k paid into bank balances (to be paid at MSA). One lad (Marc) had the correct result but failed to enter both HT and FT so might have been in with a shout of 80k - but he earned 30k at least.
Next Week's game has to be: Minnesota Thunder v Houston Dynamos BE IN IT TO WIN IT...
These are actually 3OTF and go really cheap considering it's 6 CP and three free slots at 75k. With CP going for 100k 3 OTF is really valued well over 500k - if you don't play L or E.
I may have over bid on some things here and underbid on others. I got told this isn't really a 9/3 player? :-)
OTF lot. I think this has been raised before but some teams have been ruled out of the bid due to the lot being marked as DM a multi player position. So teams with 5 MPP have been excluded in error. Should have been put down as MF to avoid this situation. May need to be reviewed.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 6:
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWw)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Wwd)
Only 4 teams to post team lines - about normal for this time of the day before a match.. :-)
Remember there is a Poll match for you to guess at, and an auction later today.....
As I am back on to a youth team neither has my interest as it normally would, and maybe that is probably how it should be if I am running the shop.
Good luck to all today..
Happy New Year to everyone from Real Salt Lake.
Welcome mr. King, and a happy new year to all of you!
And if David puts in a small photo it can be swopped for my smiling face.. 😷😷👍👍
Hi folks.
Good to see some familiar faces.
looking forward to having another go at running a team in Olmec style.
Give me a few seasons and I'll have worked out the new rules/tactics.
I hope.
Welcome David ,best of luck with your sides
Happy New year from all at Philadelphia and Roxborough
Al has pleaded with me to take the team back so I have a contact for you lads - now, who do I play this Sunday? (Al, I won't let you down, I hope!!)
Nae hobbits here. Welcome Dave.
Gents, This is to announce that David King (guessing known to a few of you) is joining OASL with immediate effect and takes over running DAL and TDL from myself. Give the new lad a good welcome (and earn cash for yourself...... :-))
I am about to go in and change his password etc now so he will be active from tomorrow.
Meantime, as I re-locate to a youth team, details later, can any message be sent to the Blog (if it isn't a personal message) or to my email address, davidblair@btinternet.com (if it is a private message)
I expect to announce my youth team tomorrow some time.
Meanwhile have a good Hogmanay, but NOT TOO good, and don't break any Covid 19 Rules - we want out of this mess sooner rather than later... :-)
CAR team info and bio updated
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 5:
Real Salt Lake - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Colorado Rapids - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Including the 4 teams still missing their team lines.. 😷🤓
Gents, still 6 teams to put team lines in - under lockdown is there anything else to think about? :-) Okay, I guess there are a few things to consider, but partying tomorrow night surely isn't one of them...
Anyway I digress, tonight is match 4 in the Dave Dowson Shield matches...
(Simon, are you okay to do a review of them this week?? Let me know if a problem - MIA is one of the 6 teams to put a team line in... - others are SEA, POR, KC, CHI and NE)
REMEMBER all Wednesday matches are played at 6pm GMT.. Enjoy!!
Sorry - forgot to record it in amongst the discussion on the youth players.
Money next Monday....💰💰
Sorry - forgot to record it in amongst the discussion on the youth players.
Money next Monday....💰💰
David
Chivas Bios etc updated on the 18th. Posted on the blog.
Gents, Wednesday sees the 4th game in the Dave Dowson Shield competition, some teams making the push for the top 2 spots in their sections, but everybody getting training done....
Also have to say to the 8 teams who have still to do their Bios updates - there is still time to earn the 100k up for grabs. Just update your Team and Personal Bios quoting season 26 somewhere in each. Let me know you have done it, AND do it before close of play Thursday this week - payments will be made Monday next week, BUT deadline is this Thursday. Easy money - the teams who did do it before the first deadline got a 50k bonus - shows the kind lad I am.. !! - but there is still the 100k up for grabs. (CAR, CHI, CHV, DC, HOU, KC, POR, and ROC are the teams involved.) Or I get to keep the cash... :-)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 28th December....:
CHV(30) DAL(50) PHI(50) RSL(15) SJ(30) VAN(35)
If you were the League's Treasurer you'd be happy with the game selection.
Today's game provided no 80k winner, and only 1 x 50k, with nobody on 30k and everybody else getting 10k. Difficult match to predict, it seemed. The 50k winner, Jason @ CAR got the correct result, and the full time score, just missing by a goal getting the half time score for a full house. But 50k is not to be sneezed at. :-)
Next week'ss game will be:
CHIVAS USA v ATLANTA SILVERBACKS
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 4:
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (DWw)
Houston Dynamo - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wdw)
Gents, 3 and a half hours to go and there are still 5 teams (and 6 Youth teams) still to put team lines in for the 1st set of league fixtures.
Hope you all had a good Christmas but by now your heads must have cleared. Now we are in lockdown so not a lot of fun for everybody at this time. Stay safe and well........
16 teams have their predictions in for today's game, so still room for the remaining 8 teams to start earning cash. AND all have got half time and full time scores in, so thanks for that. If you remember this week, you will remember every week. Good luck with today's game - I will have a look now for next Sunday's match.
A reminder that the youth teams start their games today on the 27th
To you all and all you your families. Have a great Christmas holidays and enjoy the break. 🎅🏼🎅🏼⛄️⛄️🌲🌲
... to everyone from Real Salt Lake and Utah Surf Boys!
Merry Christmas and a prosperous New year from all at Philadelphia Union and Roxbrough Indians
Shame a couple of lads missed yesterday's matches - but we move on to Sunday's 1st set of league games and a Poll match. Remember there is up to 80k to be won - we had one x 50k and 3 x 30k and everyone got at least 10k. 💰💰
In the meantime all I'd like to do is wish you all in OASL a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and trust we get a better 2021 all round. 😷😷🤓🤓🎅🎅🎅🎅
Coming back to the Yth issue on age 1 players .
Season 24
Fall River Rovers 1st
Daniel Island S.A. 2nd
New Bedford Whalers 10th
Season 25
New Bedford Whalers 1st
Daniel Island S.A. 2nd
Fall River Rovers 3rd
Season 26
Fall River Rovers well they have highest SL with 273
New Bedford Whalers -19 behind FRR
Daniel Island S.A. -13 behind FRR
Make of those stats what you can , only thing I can say Bill whatever you taking can I have some ;
jumping from 10th to 1st !!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 3:
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Www)
Chivas USA - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWw)
Only 3 teams to post teamlines, KC, NE, and POR and thew last match before Christmas. Our lads can cope with the fixture card - no weeks off as in other games... We are made of sterner stuff - and then the league starts....
Good luck tonight - remember kick offs Midweeks are now 6pm......
POR sends 500k to MON for A Williamson (4/25 MF)
Gents, Good participation this week, near 500k paid out.... !!
Plus on the Poll issue, you need to get the correct forecast in order to move on to earn the extras for the half time and full time scores. Yesterday, only 1 team got the correct forecast AND one of the other scores (HT actually), so take a bow Simon @ MIA who gets 50k, the rest 30k and 10ks.Nobody got the 3 things all correct, but early days - around 21 more chances to win the good money..
New game is up and will be the first of the League matches - Montreal Impacts v New England Revolution - be in it to win anything up to 80k..
PS I have no idea how Dunfermline came into the match involving my DAL - although I do stay about 4 miles away, I have never touched any of the writings anywhere..... Strange..
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 21st December....:
CHA(15) CHV(35) COL(25) CLB(15) DAL(50) LA(30) MIA(50) MIN(50) MON(15) NY(50) PHI(50) RSL(15) SJ(25) SEA(15) VAN(50)
Chivas v FC Dallas report showing as
HALFTIME SCORE: Chivas 1 - DUNFERMLINE 0
FINAL SCORE: Chivas 3 - DUNFERMLINE 0
All throughout the game also showing as Dunfermline. A Scottish takeover in Dallas 😄
Half time
Col 1-0
Full time
1-1
In this period of lockdown and restrictions sometimes it is gratifying to find an interest. Online sports games are as good a distraction as any, I find.
Main thing lads, is take care and stay safe.
Remember the Poll game today, and if you haven't given a half time AND a full time, just blog here before 3pm today with the missing score and I will add it to your selection. There is gold in them far hills to be won...
This morning there are only 2 teams who have not yet put in their orders, but as that is normal for both of them, I am not concerned. Game 2 today, so still too early to see teams pulling away at the top of their sections, and I'd like to thank Simon for getting stuck into the Cup review. He will provide a sense of humour into the reports, and then next Sunday it will be Rob's turn when the league kicks off.
Exciting times... Good luck to all, except my immediate opponent - well, what do you expect? I don't wish any of my opponents any ill, just that they don't get 3 points at my expense.... :-)
I am fast realising I can't please everybody, but I am not yet at the stage when I decide to just please myself.
I prefer compromise and co-operation - but will accept that sometimes peoples' suggestions may just be purely for self interest - an understandable trait - whereas I am trying for everybody's enjoyment and participation.
The principle of the youth teams was for them to be training up players to better their senior teams on the NFL, NBA basis of the weaker senior teams get the better age 0 youth players for their youth teams. I have tried to do that this season.
The age 1 players - I was not aware Dave agreed to make all of them the same for every team, but can see it's merits - could make youth leagues more attractive to play.
So I don't have to go through every age 1 player this season, can I suggest we go with what is there for this season, and we agree a figure for all age 1 players for next season, (differences within the teams being in the age 0 players to reflect the weakness/strength of the senior squads as now).
I would have said SL 14 looks good, in that if everybody trained up their age 0s they would have 20TPs left to share amongst the 4 age 1 lads. Either share them to get SL19s each or move a couple into the SL20s at the expense of the others. More decision making for managers to make as regards planning their new players and positions, I would think, and that can't be a bad thing.
It is a discussion which may well result in a Poll vote (democracy rules!! :-))
No one is suggesting that the Commish (and well deserved) Blair is not being given a chance. We are all 110% supporting him. No one wants a change for the next match... Maybe next season? But only if appropriate?
I am not David's only "cheerleader" and it is nice to see a bit more support on the blog. That said, a few more managers chipping with positives would be great!
Peace gents. X
Sadly there is no "archive" in polls ...
As to this season . leave it as it is , Give David a chance to see how his system pans out.
I recall the poll on youth players but not the outcome. However, I will put my life on the fact that age 1s have always been really badly weighted the same as age 0s. Maybe DD intended to implement a levelling of the age 1s at a latter stage but defo not yet.
I applaud David's changes to age 0s. He has made is more even. There should always be a gap borne from senior teams league placings.
In agreement with Roy and others, surely the only way forward is to fully balance out age 1 players for all youth teams?
I think what David did to the age 0 youth was correct.
No one will bother coaching a player under SL 4 and the stronger teams were still getting signifigantly weaker age 0 players than the second division teams/lower ranked first division teams , So he was correct here.
I would vote for simply returning the age 1 to all be the same for the youth teams which would allow everyone to be competitive in the youth league without affecting the senior teams at all.
Chivas Coach and Team Bios now updated for Season 26.
Roy, I can't see how to view previous Poll results - if It can be done somebody will point me in the right direction...👍
However I can say that the last season Dave started the age 1 players were not the same for all age 1 players for all teams. I'd have remembered seeing an age 1 SL 16 lad in my team, which I did in a couple of others. 🤔🤔
All I did was to lower some levels to get to the total SLs that Dave put down for each ranking (but I added 2 to each team this season).
But one of the "options" I put WAS to give all teams the same SLs for their age 1s. If there is support for it, all we'd need to agree is the values of the age 1s. Is there support for all age 1 players to be the same for every youth team?
If so, it can all be done before the first youth game due on 27th December.
I think we had a big discussion and a poll about this a couple of seasons ago.
The result of which was to keep age 1 players the same for all teams and adjust the age 0 players depending on the finishing position of the senior team
I hadn't realised it had changed this season (despite helping with the youth player creation...)
I'd vote to return to that system and if needed adjust the age 1 players this season (I can do this over the xmas period if it gets the go ahead)
Also short in time, therefor a little delay in the review of the cups. My apologies.
About the youth, as long as we keep in mind that the idea behind the youth is to help the worst Miami A-team to growe to a better team I am in favour for a competitive youth league. If Bill is still able to win the youth league while he has the worst players...it says something about us me.
Dave's system was to place senior teams 1-24 based on post season placings.
The youth teams of each of the above was placed 24-1 ie the weakest senior team would get the better total of youth SLs. Dave started with total around 77 (for the youth team of the weakest senior squad) down to 54 (for the youth team of the 1st division winner).
What I did was to slightly raise the totals to 56-79, but I felt nobody got excited about receiving age 0, SL2 or 3 players and I didn't want a plethora of age 0, SL8, 9, 10s (as the latter transfer over as age 1, SL 20, 21, 22 and become HUGE in the following season(s)).
So I tidied up the 2 and 3s up to a minimum 4 with a maximum of 8, and adjusted the SLs of the age 1 players to total the final amounts.
Reading the comments below I actually wished I hadn't bothered and just quoted Dave's formula as being the Rules, but I then thought there could be easier options (for me at least) if a formula was effected and which served the same purpose of bringing up youth teams to supply better players to the weaker senior teams, so as to encourage some advancement.
Ideas to Consider:
1 Every team gets the same age 1 players each season, but keep the differential amongst the age 0 lads, much like NOW, so the better youths get promoted to the weaker teams.
2 Keep the age 0s just like NOW but raise the total SLs in the age 1 levels (currently 39-51) to say 48-60. AND allow each team to specify the position, name, AND SL for each position to total their allotment.
3 Might be an option to keep the Totals about the same as this season but allocate each youth team say 20 CPs per season free, to improve a couple or so of their age 2s. (The youth teams half monies still need to be transferred to the senior team so as to be able to buy the extra 10TPs needed for the 4th transfer lad, so no chance of keeping all the money in the youth team and buying pre season CPs.)
The following teams receive Bio & Team Updates through 17th December (includes early bonus)....:
ATL(150) CHA(150) COL(150) CLB(150) DAL(150) LA(150) MIA(150) MIN(150) MON(150) NE(150) NY(150) PHI(150) RSL(150) SJ(150) SEA(150) VAN(150)
For simplicity and fairness I think the age 1s should be the same for every team so the variable would only be the age 0 based on senior team positioning.
Right Alon I 100% agree with you , it would need to be restructured to make it fair.
1.So age 0 players SL based on 1st team status/pos
2.Age 1 players SL based on previous season position in Yth lge. i.e. if you won yth lge , then you should have some decent age1/2/3 players already (though they will age )
Robin your point is valid with regards to the age 0 players being allocated.
However the age 1 players never move out of the youth team.They stay with the youth team as they age.Historically the division 1 teams received weaker age 0 players, but only this season did they get weaker age 1 players than everyone else as well. This means over the next fe seasons the division 1 managers youth teams will just become weaker and weaker as their weaker age 1 players always stay with them.
I would disagree . If the div1 teams got the same level yth players as Div 2 teams , then that hinders the progress of a div 2 team igetting into Div1 , whilst maintaining the superiority of div 1 teams.
The draft in Sanc is set to help the weaker teams in lower div and I nelieve the draft system in American football operates the same way ?
On a personal note I give same prioity to my yth team as I do to my 1st team and play to win the league .
I agree with you 100% but then I would...we are the ones who have felt our youth teams being under skilled recently. That said, my youth team won division 3. Figure that out.
I applaud David regulating the age 0 players to create some kind of parity but maybe he is looking to create full parity with age 1 lads?
Cheers.
OASL gives weaker age 0 players to the youth teams, based on how high up the senior team finishes. I always felt the disparity is too large ,but I would I suppose ,and that is a different discussion.
I just noticed that we were also given weaker age 1 players as well.This seems wrong to me ,as the age 1's cannot ever be promoted to the senior team, All it does is ensure that the stronger teams youth teams have no chance of competing. I know the youth league is not as important as the main league, however with this in place it means the youth team orders become pretty irrelevant to the top first division teams, other than to train our age 0 players. This problem will become worse as the seasons progress as the weak age 1's will become weak age 2 players next season and weak age 3's the following .
I may be wrong but I dont think too many managers really want to devalue the youth league in this way. However I appreciate input from other managers.
We have a full house now!
Though I'm not sure adding a team will be much help against the might of NY!
Also, I am pretty sure that Blair > Laird, as Laird is useless at remembering to do all of this stuff!
Done, good luck all this coming season.
Simon, had to double check my line ups to make sure I had posted it. Passive? Has ANYBODY ever seen me playing a team anywhere in Olmec passive? Then I realise you meant t'other David.
Only 3 teams to post for today - and REMEMBER midweek kickoffs will be 6pm GMT - I couldn't wait till 9pm and Mark said it wasn't a problem changing it.
GOOD LUCK to all (except my immediate opponenst) and thanks once again for your assistance in getting last season completed and this one ready. If I have done the job right we should be up and running around 6-03pm.
Also remember there are still 9 of you who don't seem to want my bonus for updating your Team and Personal bios - 15 of you have already earned it, and I will pay these out soon after the games are played. Remaining Bios updates will be paid the usual 100k and will be paid around the last day for earning it - 31st December. (Teams missing are CAR, CHA, CHI, CHV, DC, HOU, KC, POR, and ROC - no obligation to post of course, but the money is burning a hole in my pocket..!! :-))
So..as I mentioned...a lot of fake news in those blogs....another David....
and the first matches will be played....we all have done our team tacktics....but only one person needs to enter....
Mr. Blair....are you gonna play passive this week? ;-)
Goodluck to you all, have a great season.
I also didn't get it.
can I add 1-1 to as my HT predicto.
Half time 1-1 full time 1-1
MON pre-season 26 update complete
C'mon the MON
Lewis, get your dad to explain about the auctions - especially if you wanted to buy the "age 9" players - aka OTF. You must give a name even though it is OTF.
Plus if you have 5 MPPs and want to bid on one in the auction you need to downgrade one of your existing ones (to me before the auction - if I don't change it before the auction you can't win the MPP). Dad will keep you right.🤓🎅🤓🎅
Columbus pre-season 26 update complete
Lewis, welcome. I agree with David 100%. I pitched 80k per TP to you as you have loads to sell and I didn't see too many other managers who seemed to need them. Most have plenty. It is supply and demand at the end of the day. If you gets lots of interest/bids you may be able to hold out for 90k or 100k each but if not you might end up selling for 70k.
Hopefully the 400k and other monies you receive will allow you to buy a player or two and really challenge Alon at Minnesota this season.
Good luck young man.
Pre season extra TPs cost 100k each and as we don't have them in auctions anybody with spare can sell at whatever they can get. You have lots extra as your predecessor only trained up 1 of his 4 age 0 players, so make hay while you can - you don't have 3/4 youths to train up in LA so will likely need the auctions (or good transactions) to raise your SLs this season. Tbh I fancied LA rather than DAL as you will have a good challenge (and fun) this season. But remember to train up your age 0s youths this season to give you lads for the following season.. 👍👍
Half time 0-0, full time 1-1
NY sends 400k to LA for 5 TP
Dad says its trial and error. How much is TP valued at within trades?
LA pre-season 26 update complete
And NY
Some will have spotted the flaw in the Commish's Poll, eh?
He has not put in a place for anybody who thinks it will be a draw at full time, to put in a half time score.
Mind you, a couple of lads who have already put in a result also have not put in a half time score.
I am sure he will rectify it in any future polls, but for now, I suggest anybody who has already voted and MISSED a half time score, just Blog it. He will pick them up, and you earn for the Blog. WIN WIN !!
(NE, CHV, RSL, MIN, PHI are the clubs involved.)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 14th December....:
ATL(15) CHA(15) CHI(15) CHV(30) COL(30) LA(15) MIA(50) NE(50) NY(50) RSL(30) ROC(15) SJ(15) SEA(30) VAN(50)
Gents, from today I will be doing the Commish stuff from TDL (Texas Dutch Lions) whilst running them and FC Dallas. I have sent over Columbus Rebels to Al, who will take them over now.
I plan to Blog as Dallas (to earn the riches you lads get) and as TDL when it is Commish stuff.
(2 more teams earning the big money for their Bios updates - makes 12 now)
Atlanta Season 26 update complete
Season 26 update done.
10 teams have already updated their Bios (team and Personal) and will receive the normal cash PLUS a bonus.
To earn the BONUS you need to have done the jobs before kickoff on Wednesday, and tell me they are done (remember to quote season 26 in your writings).
After that date you will earn the usual 100k up till 31st December.
Teams who have responded so far are:
COL, DAL, MIA, MIN, NE, NY, PHI, RSL, SEA, and VAN.
If you are not in the list and have done the job, let me know soonest!!!
Van Done
New England done
26 bio and about updated.
Is this more your style Simon? Probably less lies than the Daily Fail? 😂😂😂
I read the news...but what I thought....
Great idea David.
A couple of things lads.
1 Three more Bios updates received - remember, if you do update yours (and quote season 26 in them) I will pay out the 100k (plus a bonus if done BEFORE KO next Wednesday. The 100k will be paid out for updates between opening day and the 31st December. REMEMBER and Blog when you have completed yours..And I do have copies of last season's so no minoir adjustment please - you CAN get less than 100k...... :-)
2 Auctions - may not be possible to get TPs into them - seems Roy was right in that Dave got it in stone basically that TPs would not go into the auctions. I am assuming he guessed that the youth money passed over to the main clubs would be used for the extra TPs (assuming a manager wanted to train up his 4th lad). Please be prepared for this - I didn't see it coming....
In the short term there are alternatives.
a Some of us (Lewis @ LA for one!!) have extra TPs we don't want and can be approached..
b As I allowed Derek to correct his CP purchases, I made the offer to all of you to do the same - so if you want to purchase some more TPs let me know and I will deduct the cash from your account and add the TPs on. The offer is open till Wednesday 16th - after that check the transaction pages - my 4 will be up there soon enough. :-)
3 - 1st Auction - A bit soon I know but the 1st auction has 2 x MPPs in it. The computer won't allow a winning bid if it takes a team above the maximum 5 MPPs. So if intending to bid for either of them and you have 5 MPPs now, you need to let me know to downgrade one of them - use my in box or persoanl email if you want to keep it secret, but give me time to do the change.
4 - Midweek games will be played at 6pm GMT (1800 hours) and NOT 9pm as before. That is a personal decision as I never liked waiting till 9pm to get my result, and allows Simon to prepare for his Cup Reviews..... :-). And the first one is next Wednesday... (@ 6pm)
Team and personal bio updated
Need the cash!
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Can I confirm that there will be TPs in the auction? I have not purchased more, purely based on them being available in the auction! Cheers.
The following teams receive Adjustment through 11th December - took too much cash away - only had to charge for 13 TPs. Sorry David....:
SEA(700)
The following teams receive Adjustment through 11th December - as per TP blip in the computer....:
COL(-700) SEA(-2000)
David, as per blog title, can you arrange for me to keep the TPs, and adjust cash accordingly. Thanks.
The following teams receive Adjustment through 10th December - deduction should be here....:
CHA(-2000)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 10th December - deduction should not be under participation....:
CHA(2000)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 10th December - for 20TPs not charged for at preseason....:
CHA(-2000)
Gents, Steve flagged up RSL where the computer did not charge the TPs ordered, and I mentioned about DAL's CPs being charged for but not in the front page.
I have checked all other clubs pre season and now see that COL have got 17 TPs not charged for and SEA not charged for 13 TPs.
Nobody's fault but I need to sort it.
Could David (SEA) and Roy (COL) let me know if they still want their 13 and 17 TPs in which case I will deduct the cash, if they don't want them I'll remove the TPs.
Thanks
The following teams receive Adjustment through 10th December - for 20TPs not charged in pre season...:
RSL(-2000)
Thanks for flagging that up - how about you checking 2nd division and I'll do the 1st... 🤓👍
Real Salt Lake 3000k for 50 CP plus 20 TP.
Will look at others later.
DAL paid 3000 for 50 CPs but they have disappeared overnight... That one is easy - I will replace them now, could anybody else see any anomalies let me know.
PS Only got 3 x Bios Updates so far - as said before it is 100k for both to be posted (mentioning season 26 somewhere in each), with a bonus to be paid IF done before next Wednesday 16th - starting date. TELL ME WHEN YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE UPDATES, please? I will mention it again this Monday coming, but that will be the final call. I will pay the 100k up till 31st December....
I see that now, Steve, but don't have an answer for it. Should have been charged for the 20TPs extra bought.
I will contact David and ask if he wants the 20TPs and I will correct the balance, or take them away and leave his balance.
Steve, did you fancy checking off all other teams pre season - who knows, there maybe more than just one hiccup in the system. Hope not!! Thanks in anticipation... :-)
I noticed they have a lot of cash so looked at their Account. They bought 10 CP less than us and paid 750k less, which is correct.
But they also bought 20 TP according to the page which must have cost 0k.
Am I missing something?
The following teams receive Adjustment through 9th December - messup with previous Blog - should have been a minus....:
POR(-3000)
The following teams receive Adjustment through 9th December re extra 20CP purchased as per a previous Blog....:
POR(1500)
With Lewis being press ganged err persuaded by Mark to take a team, I plan to take on DAL if nobody else comes in. That way I can Blog as Commish when I need to, and Blog as DAL when I can (and earn participation cash like others). A full house - and looking good to go....
On another subject - I will accept requests from any team wishing to add to their pre season totals (subject to 50CPs and 50TPs) and alter their Captain's name.
This is because for a few seasons now Derek assumed he had to save around 1500k to buy 30CPs (a suggestion made in our rules). Despite usually having well over 1500k Derek has always bought just 30CPs. He would like a full 50CPs, and as I will allow it due to the season not having started yet, I feel I need to offer the same deal to all others. But I need any additions known by Friday please!! 🤔🤔
This is a one season only offer - we will all be fine for future seasons. 😷😷👍👍
Welcome young man - and hope you enjoy your time with LA (and LAG).
You'll be able to keep an eye on that slightly older relative of yours. 😉😉
I see you have put your face onto your page and if you update your Team Bios and personal Bios some time soon I'll pay you for it, same as the others.. 👍👍
Return to LA today.
Seems I have 1 youth player worth training, so anyone want the spare 32 TP ;-)
The thing about moving all 4 age 0 players over is that every team will now have 4 players to consider TPs for. Days gone by, some teams would have just 3 and their 4th lad was making money for them, when they didn't need it as the 30TPs was enough for the 3 lads they got.
Now teams get half the youth cash BUT no more than that as they are not selling a 4th player.
I don't have a crystal ball, so will see what the occasional TP is an auction will bring. No need for TPs in every auction especially after MSA as the age 1 lads you have won't be added to throughout the season except by transfers (and if transferred I feel sure buying clubs will have ensured the TPs are in stock).
It is something I will monitor - buying extra TPs at the beginning of the season solves a club's quandary, and reduces bank balances. Can make changes later in time for next season if needed. Thanks for the imput, Roy.
If you have another logo/picture I'd suggest going into Front Page and your Bios update and delete the current one and copy and paste in your new one. Failing that, email me the new one and I'll try it from here..😷
So is the plan to have TP in Auctions now?
I think (but don't quote me) that Dave removed it from the Auctions when he created the Youth Divisions and removed the age 0 and 1 players from the Auctions. Basically you bought your TP in pre-season and that was it.
So do we need TP in the Auctions? Most teams get a massive payout from their youth teams pre-season which should be enough for any additional TP needed by the senior squad. In previous seasons I've bought 2 players from the Blind Auction and used pre-season and trading to acquire the additional TP needed.
I'm not sure why we need to change.
If you have another logo/picture I'd suggest going into Front Page and your Bios update and delete the current one and copy and paste in your new one. Failing that, email me the new one and I'll try it from here..😷
Hello David, as requested Miami FC updated the information tabs.
Would it be possible to change our logo? Or is this not that easy to do??
The TPs disappeared from my auction and Mark reckons the OTFs and no TPs must be "fixed" so they can't be changed - a default system almost.
Mark says he has managed to put TPs onto the 2nd auction and we can see if we can alter the make up of auction items ASAP.
TPs not disastrous just yet as everybody has some but I want them on to the auctions.. 👍👍
Steve, the auction I chose had TPs, and I tried to swop 1 x OTF for 2 x TP.
Mark will look at the server to see if it can be changed there, but I did the auction again and there is TP in it. - I want 2 x TPs and 1 x OTF.
Nobody had bid on the players in the 1st auction so no harm done, the new one is up now and hopefully auction 2 will have what I planned.
Hats off to you lads - all the pre season stuff has been completed (only 1 team has to downgrade a MPP before anybody spots it, and we are organised) so well done and thanks to all.
I have put up the first auction - don't rush, it's for the 3rd January, and I will be a year older by then.. :-(
Now a couple of things, please.
2 I have added to the Poll your chance to put in a half time score as well as a full time one.
For entering you get 10k for being wrong in your forecast.
For entering and getting the forecast right, you will get 30k
For entering and getting the forecast and either the half time OR the full time score right, you will get 50k
For entering and getting the forecast and both scores correct you will get 80k.
If only one score is put in, I will take that as a full time one.
I am trying this out - more work for me, but if successful, some nice easy money for you lads.. I will always reserve the right to alter payments (eg if both teams play up a 90 min Stall for an expected 0-0 and either or both teams bet that way - as if..!!)
Gents, I am trying to inject some "extra" into the set up, and hopefully you continue to enjoy the offering. If anybody has any other suggestions (or the name of a new player...) just let me know please?
Has 2 OTF and no TP.
NY sends 350k, Chris Eubank (5/20 SW), Alex Arthur (6/18 FW), Sully Prudhomme (5/18 DF) to PHI for Ludovic Lamine Sane (4/21 DF), Anthony Fontana (5/22 FW)
The following teams receive Awards through 6th December for work on the Rules (VAN) and assisting in the closing of the season, tactics, and general behind the scenes stuff (MON):
MON(100) VAN(100)
Appreciate Bill's attempt to get a few keen lads on to Zoom for a chat etc and I am up for it - been on twice before and the only thing missing was a few more of you taking part.
So feel free to give Bill a message about best times or days and I am sure he will get it going - I will be there for sure. (Just think, we might even get a good discount if booking at Bill's hotel.)
Look, I am a Scot - we see potential bargains.... :-)
Lads, one reason I am happy to do this job is the response I get from you boys when I need it. It isn't always 100% asap but life is more important than a game. However with just a nudge I get the results I need to carry on towards the start of the season.
For instance I have added the extra morales today (before somebody spotted it), and now we are only needing Phil (GBS) and David (NSS) to reduce their youths by a minuimum 4 (max 8) and Simon will be reducing a MPP soonest, and we are pretty good to go.
Couldn't have reached this stage without your help, so all please take a bow.
I will be taking over 1 of the 2 spare teams myself - but could do with just 1 more name to join the merry gang. Surely someone has somebody who might be keen?
After communication with Simon Bijker, I had planned to post an invite to a zoom call on Friday for Sunday. I have opened a hotel this week with restrictions crazier than calling George Best and Gaza, sober. Therefore, I forgot.
Can I ask again, who has an appetite for this? I am keen to virtually meet my competitors every now and then and develop the camaraderie in oasl. It seems to have worked for those who have joined in the past.
cheers lads.
Sorry Dave, CHA and DIS all done
... all done.
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 5th December....:
CHI(35) LA(80) MIN(50) POR(50) ROC(80) SJ(50) VAN(20)
Right, here is Sunday's updates tonight (I would do anything to avoid Strictly - the most affected and over cooked programme on the planet - so here it is.
I need David C and Jason (CAR and CHA) to go in and do their pre season, please.
Plus I need David C, Tim, Phil, and David L (DIS, USB, GBS, NSS) to go into their youth teams and retire a minimum of 4 (maximum of 8) players from their squad. And do pre season (ie pick a Captain if you haven't already done so). If a time problem, let me know, and I will shave off the worst 4 lads you have - we all had them...
Then we will all be ready to go I think, apart from perhaps a new Poll, get the 1st auction ready, and your Team and Bios Updates to earn cash. In the auctions there will be 1 less OTF but I will add in TPs.
PS I will be doing a retirement payout tonight or tomorrow morning..
As per Davids post Changes have been made to Tactical Formulae: also please note changes to Veteran retirements . Both of these can be found in our new rules link .
MTS sends 752k, Dave Clements (1/18 MA) to POR for
Gents, Still 8 senior teams to do pre season and 5 youth teams to retire 4-8 players and pick a captain (in some cases a manager has a team in both camps). I will name teams on Sunday so hopefully we can have a week clear before the start on the 16th December.
As mentioned last season I have done a little tweaking on the tactics page in order to restrict the overwhelming advantage that B has in the game - at the same time bring in a plus for wingers in B, and also to cut back a little on S, whilst C gets a little boost. NONE of the changes are huge, and I will monitor results. At all times I will consider suggestions from managers with a virew to seeking a majority verdict for future changes. For now, Robin will be posting up the new tactics figures on the rules page. Thanks to Mark and Robin for advice - this is a whole new ball game for me, but I am looking forward to seeing how things pan out. (No-one got a new lad for me yet?)
MIA sends 350k, Tony Rouge (3/28 FW), Louis Litt (2/26 DF) to NY for Gary McAllister (2/25 MF), Errol Spence Jnr (2/23 MA), Josh Warrington (5/27 MF)
We did the pre season as well.
Great work David!!
CHV preseason now completed.
CCK team now updated with retirements and Captain selected.
Commish has done a great job behind the bedroom door oops slip of the pen ! ..in the backroom where all preseason work is done and we are virtually ready to go . All of this work for no reward . !
I propose that the Commish gets a payment at end of season as other officers do . lets have a show of hands in the Air .. all who agree ^^^ .. yo... uninamouse vote it is carried .
MIA sends Roy Hawkins (4/20 GK) to CHI for 163k
As mentioned before, Bill made the draw and Tim supplied the random team numbers. Put together the draw is a follows - teams play home and away in the sections and top 2 in each section go to the Quarter Finals.
Dave Dowson Shield | ||
Section A | 24 | D.C. United |
21 | San Jose Earthquakes | |
18 | Colorado Rapids | |
12 | Atlanta Silverbacks | |
7 | Portland Timbers | |
6 | Carolina Railhawks | |
Section B | 22 | FC Dallas |
17 | Vancouver Whitecaps | |
16 | Philadephia Union | |
11 | Rochester Rhinos | |
8 | Chivas USA | |
1 | Columbus Crew | |
Section C | 23 | Charleston Battery |
15 | Real Salt Lake | |
13 | Kansas City Wizards | |
10 | Minnesota Thunder | |
5 | Miami FC | |
2 | New England Revolution | |
Section D | 20 | Houston Dynamos |
19 | Los Angeles Galaxy | |
14 | Seattle Sounders | |
9 | New York Red Bulls | |
4 | Chicago Fire | |
3 | Montreal Impact |
The following teams receive Cup Draw Participation through 3rd December - assisting DD Shield draw.:
NY(25) RSL(25)
We are doing well but need toi tidy up a few things.
Thanks to Bill and Tim I have the Dave Dowson Shield draw and I will post it up soonest today. Thanks lads.
NOW, I need the following:
SCF, DIS, CCK, USB, GBS, NSS to retire AT LEAST 4 lads and anywhere between 4-8 to get your youth total to a MAX of 25 (Min 21).
12 teams (SEA, CAR, CHA, KC, CHV, COL, ATL, MIA, MON, ROC, RSL, CHI ) to do their pre season soonest, and then I can close it and move on. League games have been scheduled - today I will do the DD Shield matches. I have a couple of tactic tweaks to organise but that will be between Mark and myself.
Thanks in advance...
HOU sends Ben Surtees (5/20 WG) to MIA for Carlos Shanchez (5/20 FW)
NY sends Joshua Buatsi (2/23 GK), William Ramsay (3/27 MA), Nigel Benn (5/27 MF) to VAN for Maxime Crepeau (2/26 GK), Toni Torini (3/29 MA)
You can NOT retire any of your new lads...🤓
The following teams receive Youth Player Transfers through 30th November - Pre season youth transfers...:
COL(100) ROC(100)
1 I think all the youths have been transferred to their senior teams and 8 new lads are into their youth teams – please check your own teams – flag up anything wrong please.
2 All senior teams have 25 or less players – so only retire if you want to – minimum 18 players needed, but numbers are good to go as at this morning.
3 YOUTH Teams – I see no reason to keep 25 players there, when so many are dross and never see a minute of football. If I am wrong we can correct it in the future, but I am saying you can retire enough youths to go down to 21 players, NO LESS THAN 21. By all means keep up to 25 if you want, I am just saying you CAN reduce your pool. There is no money for youth retirements...
4 PRE SEASON is open today so feel free to pick your captain and buy the CPs and any extra TPs you need – hopefully all by next Sunday-ish.
5 AUCTIONS – this season will see 1 less OTF offering per auction but at least 1 or 2 TP offerings per auction (for all these extra youth players).
6 I beefed up the lower age 0 youths (no age 2 or 3 and fairly few 4s) so perhaps managers might look at their wee team’s potential more keenly. Hope so, anyway, it’s a plan!
I plan to start the season on Wednesday 16th December with a Dave Dowson Shield tie, everybody playing, and games will be the usual Sunday, Wednesday throughout the season. The draw will be conducted by tomorrow and posted on the Blog soon after.
What I would like is:
a) 1 more manager to take one of the 2 teams I am currently doing the preseason for – the other team I plan to play myself. Aires vacated the DAL position before the end of the season, and Brian @ LAG has no time to commit at the moment – he is hoping to re-appear at some point, and would be welcome.
b) Someone to offer to do the Cup Reviews after each Wednesday’s games – am assuming Rob wants to keep the League reviews? Or he swops over...
c) Everybody to check into the site regularly – and especially the In Box – I have found MANY unread messages in these boxes. Overall though I can only thank the great assistance I have had getting the season finished, and restarted. You all know who you are – it is appreciated, and I haven’t finished with you yet.. J I will be paying for the help – if I miss anybody I am sure you will let me know.
Thanks for last season, but now we look to go forward into season 26. Good luck!
Gents, all will be revealed today sometime - certainly by afternoon.
I'm finishing off my Blog shortly.
Has nobody got a mate who wants to play with us? Must be someone who knows someone...??? 🤓🤓
Serious Phil??
You retired Robbie Reijnink ?
Once he was on of the most talented players I saw...unfortunately just like in his real life....it did not happen here either..
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Rijnink
Once all the transfers have happened, retire youth players to bring squaf down to 25?
ROC dumped three more retirees, if that makes a difference to anyone for anything.
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 29th November....:
ATL(110) CHV(105) DC(90) HOU(55) MON(135) PHI(290) POR(115) ROC(25) SEA(20) VAN(50)
1st manager of the season to get his P45?
I don't want the job - not got enough time.. .. :-)
KCA sends 1021k, Sue Ellen (1/16 SD) to KC for
KCA sends Mo Body (1/15 MF), D.D. (1/19 FW), Johan (1/17 WG) to KC for
MTS sends Mick Hart (1/4 DF), Tom Mints (1/15 MF), Steve Haynes (1/19 FW) to POR for
A GREAT response lads, and thanks for it. James, if your reading, can you please retire 5 of your KCA lads and I can then move your boys over to KC. I have only one other hiccup (Derek, you aren't supposed to retire youths before I drop the flag, but not to worry as when your new youths are posted I can transfer over your 4 players and cash right away). Then that is the hard stuff done.
Most of you can look at your senior teams and flag up anything that looks suspicious.
Still 12 youth teams to get their youngsters and they will likely be in by tomorrow sometime.
I would like you all to go into the site Monday after 11am sometime - couple of announcements (and it gives me Sunday off for good behaviour). Been a busy week, and I can't believe the assistance - you lads have responded well to my erratic behaviour, and we have completed the real hard stuff within a week of the playoff games. James? :-)
LFC sends Will Smith (1/17 DF), Junior (1/14 MF), Tiny Tim (1/6 MF) to VAN for
LHT sends 881k, Andy Blyth (1/14 DM) to HOU for
LHT sends Iain Johnstone (1/19 GK), Sam Swain (1/16 WG), Mike Bagnall (1/17 FW) to HOU for
WDP sends 880k, Max Brown (1/15 SD) to DC for
WDP sends Tom Heaton (1/19 GK), Jack Grealish (1/18 MF), Gary Shaw (1/16 FW) to DC for
CDY sends 1173k, Vince Vaughn (1/14 MA) to CAR for
CDY sends Norris Drysdale (1/18 GK), Richard Marx (1/16 DF), Van Morrison (1/15 DF) to CAR for
5 retired from CDY
David, do you want us to retire youth team players to get down to the magic 25?
Not yet please, I want to ensure all players are in their right teams and then we all can do the last task together (retiring).
Has nobody got someone who'd like to join our club? We are 2 short but I plan to take one of them - have missed playing... there must be someone....🤔🤔. (Aires has left and Brian has given up for time reasons...) 😟😟
All done Dave
David, do you want us to retire youth team players to get down to the magic 25?
David,
5 players have been retired from youth team as requested.
Matt
WCP sends 803k, Harrison Shipp (1/19 DM) to CHI for
WCP sends Patrick Doody (1/20 DF), Djordie Mihailovic (1/17 FW), Drew Connor (1/15 FW) to CHI for
Gents, we are running through pre season very well - so thanks for doing the things I ask, (in the main) promptly. I made an error in that I did not transfer all the youth 4 players to the senior clubs before I got some new youths added to their teams. So I have 4 teams with 33 youth players and the machine seemingly only works with under 30. Guess what, I need the following:
Matt @ DC - please go to WDP and retire 5 lads
Jason @ CAR - please go to CDY and retire 5 lads
James @ KC - please go to KCA and retire 5 lads
Stephen @ HOU - please got to LHT and retire 5 lads AND retire 2 from HOU at the same time.
Derek @ POR - retire 3 lads from POR (to allow your 4 youths to come across)
Robin @ VAN - retire 2 lads from VAN (to allow 3 lads to come across)
I will be honest - I took it upon my self to retire a couple of lads in teams who wouldn't miss them.. If you see one you wanted to keep (can't think why...) I will bring him back - but be content in that if they are from your senior squad you will receive the usual comp[ensation. It was done to get the number so transfers could take place. I will assist with the above if anybody asks - retiring 5 youths is easy - most teams could retire more - watch this space!!! :-)
SCF sends 1026k, Blaise Pascall (1/17 DM) to ATL for
SCF sends Alec Trevelyan (1/14 DF), David Brewster (1/16 MF), James Watt (1/19 FW) to ATL for
TDL sends 926k, Moose Costa (1/16 MA) to DAL for
TDL sends Milan Luca (1/19 MF), Steve Moniz (1/14 WG), Joe Blue (1/4 MF) to DAL for
LAB sends 1137k, Rocco Lampone (1/18 MA) to LA for
LAB sends Pat Geary (1/6 MF), Stan Katczinsky (1/2 MF), Frank Pentangeli (1/4 WG) to LA for
REB sends 917k, Jim Johnson (1/16 DM) to CLB for
REB sends Joe Jones (1/18 GK), Bob Whitney (1/14 DF), Jacob Hupp (1/15 FW) to CLB for
RFC sends 734k, Rodolfo Pizarro (1/16 DM) to MIA for
RFC sends John McCarthy (1/19 GK), Denso Ulysse (1/15 DF), Matias Pellegrini (1/18 FW) to MIA for
NSS sends 1111k, Ethan Ampadu (1/20 DM) to SEA for
NSS sends Ben Davies (1/17 SW), Jazz Richards (1/18 DF), Stabucks Coffee (1/15 MF) to SEA for
GBS sends 737k, Chad Henne (1/19 MA) to ROC for
GBS sends Mecole Hardman (1/20 GK), Darwin Thompson (1/15 MF), Byron Pringle (1/16 MF) to ROC for
USB sends 1185k, Youltew (1/15 DM) to RSL for
USB sends Xherxyus (1/18 SW), Tito (1/20 WG), Flatmakh (1/16 FW) to RSL for
LFC sends 1204k, John Evans (1/17 SD) to VAN for
MOL sends 960k, Alex Lifeson (1/19 DM) to MON for
MOL sends Geddy Lee (1/20 GK), Ian Mosely (1/16 SW), Neil Peart (1/17 DF) to MON for
DAF sends Reece James (1/17 DF), Callum Hudson (1/13 WG), Michy Batshuayi (1/16 FW) to SJ for
DAF sends 1224k, Billy Gilmour (1/19 MA) to SJ for
FRR sends 1547k, Daenerys Targaryen (1/18 MA) to NE for
FRR sends Tyrion Lannister (1/19 GK), Arya Stark (1/16 MF), Varys (1/3 MF) to NE for
I'm not a cheerleader DB, but an appreciative fan. If you check my FB you will see I had my days dressed as a lady but they are gone! Sad, but to fat now, I'd look like Michelle MacManus. That said, if you want me to revisit...I'll do it just for OASL! 😂
That said, again I feel you are too nice David... lads/gents, you all know that you have youth players arriving so why haven't you adapted your teams? FINE THEM..I jest. Surely if you can submit a line up every week you are aware of the rules and EOS that takes place, therefore you can prepare for that? On first glance, there is only one new manager who has not retired players to allow youth players to move up. Obviously there are times that we all make errors but please this is basics!!!
Anyhow, enough ranting from me...but please help DB, he is breaking his (old and getting older) balls in running this league. All we have to do is keep up to date with our teams and the rules.
Cheers folks. Peace.
RIS sends 960k, Matej Oravec (1/19 DM) to PHI for
RIS sends Joe Bendick (1/15 GK), Jacob Glesves (1/14 DF), Jack De Vries (1/17 MF) to PHI for
NBW sends 961k, Katie Taylor (1/18 MA) to NY for
NBW sends Enzo Macacarinelli (1/16 SW), Glenn McCrory (1/15 DF), Johnny Nelson (1/14 DF) to NY for
GOG sends 1212k, Divock Origi (1/18 FW) to MIN for
GOG sends Dejan Lovren (1/16 DF), X Shaqiri (1/15 MF), Herbie Kane (1/2 DF) to MIN for
DIS sends 861k, Katniss Everdeen (1/19 MA) to CHA for
DIS sends Effie Trinkett (1/17 DF), Coriolanus Snow (1/15 MF), Seneca Crane (1/11 MF) to CHA for
No guesses as to which team I was into when I decided to send in the last Blog message - it is from ME, not Jason. Sorry, Jason - I am having a different problem with your lads.... :-(
Gents, Noticed something I had forgotten - I never professed to be superman.. :-)
I need the following teams to retire players to get down to a maximum of 21 to allow the 4 new lads to come in.
You can retire more later but for now I need the following reductions.
HOU 1 player
POR 3 players
ROC 2 players
VAN 2 players
SEA 1 player
ATL 1 player
Apologies to CHV as I retired 3 of your lads - the worst and oldest 3 to make way for the new boys. If you want any of them changed and kept let me know and I will re-instate him/them.
I could easily pick a diddy from the above but if you lads just do it asap thanks - or by the weekend I will do them for you. Again if I get one wrong I can bring him back - I just want to move on.... :-)
CCK sends Barry Bush (1/18 GK), Trevor Thorn (1/15 DF), Bruce Bark (1/14 MF) to CHV for
CIW sends 1325k, Andreas Ivanschitz (1/18 WG) to COL for
CIW sends Herbert Weber (1/16 DF), Karl Sesta (1/15 DF), Karl Zisschek (1/19 MA) to COL for
CCK sends 1007k, Calum Rose (1/17 MA) to CHV for
There was an element of luck but the table does not lie. Well done amigo but my Bulls will be back!
Thanks to all the managers that voted me manager of the season.
Essentially my league title came down to 1 lucky result I had over NY.
I am hoping for one more season of being able to be competitive(along with Bill).
Then our aging squads will inevitably be overtaken by younger fitter and more skillful opposition.
However I am really looking forward to season 26
No, I don't pay Bill to be a Cheerleader for me, but secretly I quite enjoy it. A lot of work goes into finishing off and setting up a season (as I am finding out), but with the lockdown it is amazing what you can get through in a short time.
I have emailed personally the 3 lads missing with their youth players, as I can see they have not seen my note their in Box..
This morning I have converted the youth players MPP and added a further 30TPs to each youth team - the default is 30 but every wee team gets 60. You can check your MPP and TPs - any problems let me know - easily sorted, but I think they are correct.
Also been added is the 3 OTF to Minnesota and Kansas City (Manager of the season and Fair Play Award).
Next job will be to move all 4 youths to the senior teams along with half the youth team's monies - I am on it.
You lads have nothing to do just yet, please, once I have finished that job we can get down to opening the season up, but not just yet.... It's all go!! :-)
In OASL the top amount is 5000k, BUT nobody was that high when the last games were played, so no problem.
I won't worry about the high amounts yet, as teams will be spending on CPs etc soon enough BUT NOT YET, please. I will watch it just before the start of the season proper.
I have my plans - and getting in the last 3 sets of youth players is a priority so I can hand them out for transferring into their new teams.
I entered the blog in the wrong league...pfff.
For this league, is there a maximum cash amount at the end of the season?
(SFLSL has a maximum of 4.000)
Come on lads, give the bro a punt up... As I understand, the daddy in this town, The big DB, wants us all to allow him to finish the season. Ain't no unreasonable request (it's for your good as managers) and I suggest ya'll "Pulp Fiction" yourselves into line with that request... DB is fed up asking, no more PLEASE. ⚽️⚽️⚽️
DB deserves a "hand" 👏👏👏 when he is finally finished with this EOS work. Thank you.
Next season looks as positive a season as I can remember, in many ways for OASL. DD, The Dowson, has built and left a gem of ideas and a great future for DB to build on. He is doing this with heart and head. I trust what DB is doing and applaud. Thank you again.
DD, 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Received RSL - thanks!!
Only ATL, RSL, ROC, and CHV to come - 20 of 24 is GOOD. 24/24 is even better..... !! Thanks.
Please do NOT retire any of your youth team players yet - time for that later. AND you don't get any money on them.
Derek, you are one of the 6 teams I need the return of your new youth players names and positions - please check your inbox....
18 sets in, gents, only 6 to go. Very impressed with the feedback on this
Can ATL, CAR, CHV, POR, ROC, and RSL please check their in Box and return the form to me asap.
Then we can move on to posting the players into your youth teams and then I will give you the GOOD news....
PS I do need a new lad to come in - team ready for him - anybody know somebody please? If so, I will give you 1st dibs on staying with your current team or taking the spare one - can't be fairer than that... :-)
Yep, got them... :-)
Mine have now been sent.
I have paid out to the 12 teams who have retired players - any more before the aging MUST have retired their deadbeats by 2pm today... Fair warning - there isn't a great deal of cash here but better in your pockets now than the lower amounts later... :-)
THANK you very much for the reaction to my request for the players to be named and returned to me.
Currently I have 17 returns - only 7 of you to come back - BUT I can see at least 4 of you still have not gone into your IN Box - please do - and return the names to me soonest.
This afternoon after I have recorded the lads I have I will mention the teams still missing - beat me to it, and send them to me asap.
We are moving well on the end of season stuff - this job gets no easier especially when I still have to understand the closing of a season - running a season is easy compared to closing one.
Gents, winner for the award this season is (drum roll..)
ALON ATIE (Minnesota Thunder)
(He has enough votes from the 17 votes so far that he can not be overtaken.) OTF he earns gets paid once the old season is finished off - hopefully today later on.
PLUS the winner of the Fair Play Award is (another drum roll, please...)
KANSAS CITY WIZARDS - again the 3 OTF will be paid after the current season is squared off.
This morning I have added all the player awards as follows:
SLs | |||
Golden Boot | Gordon Groom (MIN) | 1st Div | + 2 |
Toni Torini (VAN) | 2nd Div | + 2 | |
Golden Gloves | Carlos Coroner (PHI) | 1st Div | + 2 |
Edwin Hubble (ATL) | 2nd Div | + 2 | |
Age 0/1 Gold Boot | Aaron Wheeler (PHI) | 1st Div | + 2 |
John Peel (POR) | 2nd Div | + 2 | |
Age 0/1 Gold Gloves | Steve Rogers (KC) | 1st Div | + 2 |
George Gamow (ATL) | 2nd Div | + 2 | |
Youth Golden Boot | Daddy Pig (FRR) | 3rd Div | + 2 |
Ryan Drake (LHT) | 4th Div | + 2 | |
Youth Golden Gloves | Ken Rogers (LAB) | 3rd Div | + 2 |
J J Rigg (REB) | 4th Div | + 2 |
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 25th November....:
CHA(40) COL(150) CLB(70) DAL(70) KC(70) LA(160) MIA(75) MON(120) NE(40) RSL(80) SJ(40) SEA(35)
Aging will be done after 2pm tomorrow - Wednesday....🤓👍
Aging will be done after 2pm tomorrow - Wednesday....🤓👍
Check your IN BOX for your new youth players - I need a response from you all - thanks to Rob and Stephen who have come back pretty smart... :-)
The following teams receive Awards through 24th November as per Front Page Updates and Manager Surveys....:
CHV(250)
The following teams receive Awards through 24th November as per League and Cup Reviews (COL = 50% for half the season)....:
COL(150) PHI(500)
Hopefully these are the corect - I think so. Payments for the league placings and the cup earnings - this is a busy morning.
PS Nobody need worry about a Robin Hood situation - until the new season .....
League | DD | Al Sellers | Al Sellers | Youth | ||
Placing | Shield | Cup | Plate | Cup | ||
Minnesota Thunder | 850 | 200 | 1050 | |||
New York Red Bulls | 450 | 350 | 250 | 1050 | ||
Philadelphia Union | 350 | 150 | 500 | |||
Kansas City Wizards | 300 | 300 | ||||
Carolina Railhawks | 280 | 500 | 780 | |||
Houston Dynamo | 260 | 260 | ||||
Columbus Crew | 240 | 240 | ||||
Chivas USA | 220 | 220 | ||||
FC Dallas | 210 | 100 | 310 | |||
Colorado Rapids | 200 | 100 | 300 | |||
Charleston Battery | 200 | 200 | ||||
Los Angeles Galaxy | 200 | 300 | 500 | |||
D.C. United | 650 | 650 | ||||
Atlanta Silverbacks | 350 | 75 | 425 | |||
New England Revolution | 280 | 280 | ||||
San Jose Earthquakes | 260 | 260 | ||||
Montreal Impacts | 250 | 250 | ||||
Vancouver Whitecaps | 240 | 240 | ||||
Chicago Fire | 230 | 230 | ||||
Real Salt Lake | 220 | 220 | ||||
Miami FC | 210 | 200 | 150 | 560 | ||
Seattle Sounders | 200 | 200 | ||||
Portland Timbers | 200 | 200 | ||||
Rochester Rhinos | 200 | 100 | 300 | |||
New Bedford Whalers | 350 | 350 | ||||
Daniel Island S.A. | 300 | 300 | ||||
Fall River Rovers | 250 | 200 | 450 | |||
Langley F.C. | 230 | 230 | ||||
Utah Surf Boys S.C. | 220 | 220 | ||||
Mount Tabor S.C. | 210 | 210 | ||||
Los Angeles Blues | 200 | 200 | ||||
Texas Dutch Lions | 200 | 200 | ||||
Carson City Kickers | 200 | 200 | ||||
Savannah Celtic FC | 200 | 200 | ||||
Roxborough Indians S.C. | 200 | 200 | ||||
Gananda Bandits S.C. | 200 | 200 | ||||
Carolina Dynamo | 300 | 300 | ||||
Colorado Ice White | 250 | 250 | ||||
Windy City Pride | 230 | 230 | ||||
KC Athletics | 220 | 220 | ||||
Red Force FC | 210 | 210 | ||||
Laredo Heat | 200 | 200 | ||||
De Anza Force S.C. | 200 | 200 | ||||
Montreal Olympique | 200 | 200 | ||||
Columbus Rebels | 200 | 200 | ||||
Washington Diplomats | 200 | 200 | ||||
Golden Gophers | 200 | 100 | 300 | |||
North Sound Seawolves | 200 | 200 |
The following teams receive Awards through 23rd November as per league placings and Cup earnings....:
ATL(425) CDY(300) CAR(780) CCK(200) CHA(200) CHI(230) CHV(220) CIW(250) COL(300) CLB(240) REB(200) DC(650) DIS(300) DAF(200) FRR(450) DAL(310) GBS(200) GOG(200) HOU(260) KC(300) KCA(220) LFC(230) LHT(200) LAB(200) LA(500) MIA(560) MIN(1050) MON(250) MOL(200) MTS(210) NBW(350) NE(280) NY(1050) NSS(200) PHI(500) POR(200) RSL(220) RFC(210) ROC(300) RIS(200) SJ(260) SCF(200) SEA(200) TDL(200) USB(220) VAN(240) WDP(200) WCP(230)
Gents, if you plan to retire any of your SENIOR team players please do so asap - when I do the aging, it will drop their SLs and you might miss some cash out. Some of you will be waiting for aging to bring them down to an age to retire them - up to you of course. But do any retirements NOW - aging will be done inside a couple of days from now.
However do NOT NOT retire any youth lads - there will be news later about them. I want to bring the 4 lads over to the senior teams, then add your 8 new lads, and THEN you can retire players. There is a reason for this, so please bear with me... all will be revealed by Wednesday maximum :-)
Gents, second payment made today - and why every club doesn't spend 1 minute entering it each week escapes me. Over the 22 polls (plus a payment for voicing an opinion on the Al Sellers Cup set up) RSL gained 375k, PHI 355k - for 1 minutes work pewr league week.... a total of 4885k was paid throughout the season - did you get your average share? Maybe next season, eh?
Table below for the 2nd half of the season
12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | PSA | TOTALS | ||
2nd half |
1st and 2nd halves added |
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ATL | 30 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 25 | 175 | 325 | ||
CAR | 10 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 20 | 25 | 165 | 305 | |
CHA | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 90 | ||||||||||
CHI | 0 | 60 | |||||||||||||
CHV | 10 | 20 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 25 | 125 | 275 | |||||
COL | 20 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 20 | 25 | 215 | 315 | ||
CLB | 10 | 10 | 20 | 50 | |||||||||||
DAL | 20 | 25 | 45 | 45 | |||||||||||
DC | 10 | 20 | 25 | 55 | 105 | ||||||||||
HOU | 10 | 10 | 10 | 25 | 55 | 165 | |||||||||
KC | 10 | 25 | 35 | 125 | |||||||||||
LA | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 25 | 115 | 215 | ||||||
MIA | 20 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 25 | 135 | 235 | ||||
MIN | 10 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 25 | 115 | 235 | |||||
MON | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 20 | 25 | 165 | 315 | ||
NE | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 25 | 105 | 215 | ||||||
NY | 30 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 25 | 145 | 255 | ||||
PHI | 10 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 20 | 25 | 195 | 355 | |
POR | 25 | 25 | 45 | ||||||||||||
ROC | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 25 | 95 | 245 | ||||||
RSL | 10 | 20 | 30 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 25 | 185 | 375 | ||
SAN | 20 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 20 | 25 | 165 | 295 | ||
SEA | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 25 | 85 | 185 | |||||||
VAN | 10 | 25 | 35 | 55 |
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The following teams receive Prediction League through 23rd November as per 2nd Poll activity payments....:
ATL(175) CAR(165) CHA(30) CHV(125) COL(215) CLB(20) DC(55) DAL(45) HOU(55) KC(35) LA(115) MIA(135) MIN(115) MON(165) NE(105) NY(145) PHI(195) POR(25) RSL(185) ROC(95) SJ(165) SEA(85) VAN(35)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 23rd November....:
COL(15) MIA(15) NY(30) PHI(30) ROC(15)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 48:
KC Athletics - MVP #3: 1 TP (wwD)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 22nd November....:
CHI(80)
No idea the problem but have asked Mark to have a look at it. Sorry for the broken and eaten fingernails out there....
It's counting up.
Probably can't cope with all the conditionals for the playoff match.
If T = left foot in and G = left foot out then shake it all about
Gents, thanks to the lads who have offered to help transfer the youths over. I plan to use you all... 👍👍
I plan to do one player and copy it to you so you know the boxes to fill in.
Will be sending out the youth players to the clubs probably tomorrow so each manager can get started on it.
We are moving well- have decided we will need only a short close season - certainly looking to start in December latest.
Watch this space - interesting stuff coming up.. eg I am looking for 1 new lad - if you know somebody let me know please. Thanks in advance.. 🥃
Glad to assist if you still need someone, but I can't imagine that I'm very high on the list of qualified applicants...
Sorry, I meant that I have not transferred youths yet so will need comprehensive instructions. Happy to do what I can, no time to learn like the present.
Yep, things will start but only after the last games - I'm moving on things on Monday including all the awards being paid out. Clear the decks to handle the new youths going in.
Be good if everybody could check out the Blog on Monday EVENING, please. Thanks..
Happy to help but not done yet...
1 Thanks to the lads who have offered to help with the youth transfers - I will be in touch oince the returns come in - I will be sending out each team's 8 new lads after tomorrow's games are completed. I could still do with a couple of willing workers preferably if you have done it before - doesn't take long if each lad does say 6 teams each. Cheers!
2 All in for tomorrow's matches - thanks..
3 Below is the table for the youths coming up as MPPs, and where necessary it includes the lad who will be downgraded to make way for the upcoming "star". Please check and if not right, SHOUT, otherwise I will be on to it the minute I close the season off.
Youth | Senior | ||||||||
Team | Team | ||||||||
Player | Current | >MPP | Downgrade | Current | >POS | ||||
Senior | Youth | POS | Player | POS | |||||
ATL | SCF | Pascall | MF | DM | ATL | Browne | MA | MF | |
CAR | CDY | Vaughn | MF | MA | CAR | Wabo | MA | FW | |
CHA | DIS | Evergreen | FW | MA | CHA | Jones | MA | MF | |
CHI | WCP | Shipp | MF | DM | CHI | n/a | |||
CHV | CCK | Rose | FW | MA | CHV | Birch | DM | DF | |
COL | CIW | Zisschek | FW | MA | COL | Schmidt | DM | MF | |
CLB | REB | Johnson | MF | DM | CLB | Hines | MA | MF | |
DAL | TDL | Costa | WG | MA | DAL | McDowall | DM | DF | |
DC | WDP | Brown | DF | SD | DC | Richardson | MF | ||
HOU | LHT | Blyth | DF | DM | HOU | Munton | MA | FW | |
KC | KCA | Ellen | DF | SD | KC | Murphy | SD | DF | |
LA | LAB | Lampone | FW | MA | LA | Harris | DM | MF | |
MIA | RFC | Pizarro | MF | DM | MIA | Shaughnessy | DM | DF | |
MIN | GOG | Origi | FW | MA | MIN | Grater | DM | DF | |
MON | MOL | Lifeson | DF | DM | MON | n/a | |||
NE | FRR | Targarean | FW | MA | NE | n/a | |||
NY | NBW | Taylor | MF | MA | NY | Murphy | MA | FW | |
PHI | RIS | Oravec | MF | DM | PHI | n/a | |||
POR | MTS | Clements | MF | MA | POR | Dennis | SD | DF | |
ROC | GBS | Henne | MF | MA | ROC | Dover | MA | FW | |
RSL | USB | Youltew | MF | DM | RSL | Garcia | DM | DF | |
SAN | DAF | Gilmour | MF | MA | SAN | Di Matteo | DM | MF | |
SEA | NSS | Ampadu | DF | DM | SEA | n/a | |||
VAN | LFC | Evans | DF | SD | VAN | Wilcox | MA | MF |
David if you need any help, just let me know.
Plus more teams have given me their youth team's MPP - missing now are:
ATL, LA, MIA, ROC
Remember to give me a lad to downgrade at the same time if the new lad takes you to 6 MPPs (I think all the above teams currently have 5 MPPs)
Got till tonight - tomorrow I will complete the table for you and Blog it - can't change anything till after Sunday of course, but have now completed the new youths skills - they will come out Monday....
Overwhelmingly (17-4) the vote is for the Al Sellers Cup to be played in 6 sections of 4 teams (winners and 2 best runners up to Quarter Finals and remaining 16 teams to the Plate competition..) Thanks for taking part..
Anybody else fancy copying some new youths to their youth teams - please apply here.. :-)
Online now - will run till next Wednesday evening. Get your votes in now....
ATL, CHA, CLB, LA, MIA, ROC by Friday night please.
Remember at the same time you select your youth to be an MPP, as all of you already have 5 MPPs, I need a player in your senior team for me to downgrade, and tell me the new position. Use above table in reverse..
Use my in Box or here on the Blog, but use one of the options.
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I am working on the new youth lads now - will be done by tonight, so shortly I will send out your 8 lads SLs for you to complete. It's all go...
Only Alon to put his lines in for tonight, and we are good to go.
See you at 8pm for all the action.... :-)
Plus 3 more teams have given me their youth team's MPP - missing now are:
ATL, CAR, CHA, CLB, LA, MIA, NE, ROC
You boys are moving well, thanks.
Gents, only 3 teams to put in their selection for the format for the above Cup for next season. Let me have them soonest please, for a full house..
CHA, CHI, CLB
(Decision is pretty overwhelming already, but I'd like to have a full house of opinions.)
Already have just over half (13) of the teams responses to the Youth MPP question - only 11 left to go....
ATL, CAR, CHA, CHI, CHV, COL, CLB, LA, MIA, NE, ROC.
Go on, make my day!!! Thanks.
Gents, as mentioned earlier I am leaving the Poll on the set up of the Al Sellers Cup till Wednesday evening, hoping the 7 teams still to declare do so.
Not wishing to be seen as bribery, but I have allocated some cash to the teams already who have voted - and any further votes will be paid by Wednesday.
Then on Thursday I will do the last Poll - Manager of the Season - which will run for a week. THEN I will pay out the 2nd part of the Poll payments - some nice money been made here.. :-)
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I am now working on the youth lads for next season, and I plan to get you lads more involved in your youth squad - making more decisions than you are used to - watch this space. Meantime in advance I am asking for around 4 volunteers to copy over the youth lads (not for about a fortnight as I haven't written out to teams just yet - but I am moving fast on this.). Four lads doing 6 teams each is about right, and there will be a small payment for it.. Prefer lads who have donme it before but will accept any help.
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NOW for Wednesday's BIG Cup night - remember some of you made the Semi Finals so you have a 3rd/4th place match to team line for - winner gets some more cash than the loser, and some prestige..
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The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 16th November....:
CHV(15) PHI(30) RSL(25) SJ(25)
USB (Youth) - upgrade below to MPP:
Youltew 0/15 MF to DM
RSL (Sr.) MPP to downgrade:
Gilberto Garcia 4/18 DM down to DF
The poll now on is about the Al Sellers Cup format for next season. I will leave it on till after Wednesday evening's Cup Finals. That way I hope the 7 who haven't yet voted will vote and give their opinions.
On Thursday the last Poll will be for the manager of the Season 25 and will run from Thursday till the following Wednesday. I have worked on today and have all the awards ready (except for the Cups) and all will be pretty advanced by the time the playoffs come up next Sunday.
Playoff games are on the site - session 48. Off to watch a comedy - I need a laugh... :-)
Lads,
Please note the rule hasn't changed - you get ONE of your age 0 players changed to a MPP so only need to choose one of them (and downgrade a current MPP if you already have 5).
Good news is 6 of you have sent in your answers now, many thanks, but 2 lads have sent in more than one MPP. If they can change it and re-send that would be good. 👍
Look forward to the rest coming in - I'll have the playoff games online tonight (whilst Strictly is on - aargh!!) 😬😬
USB (Youth) - upgrade below to MPP:
1. Xhersyus 0/18 SW to SD
2. Youltew 0/15 MF to DM
RSL (Sr.) MPP to doungrade:
1. Grozdan 4/19 MA down to MF
2. Gilberto Garcia 4/18 DM down to DF
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 46:
Houston Dynamo - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWD)
New York Red Bulls - MVP #11: 25k (WWw)
D.C. United - MVP #6: 25k (wWd)
Langley F.C. - MVP #4: 1 CP (Wwd)
New Bedford Whalers - MVP #5: 25k (DwW)
Mount Tabor S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWD)
Golden Gophers - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DWw)
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #3: 1 TP (dWw)
Montreal Olympique - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWD)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 15th November....:
PHI(40) RSL(90)
I announced when we started this season my plan to axe the Youth auction and instead move all age 0 players (once aged) over to the Senior team during the close season. (If the 4th player is not required at all he can be retired as before after he moves over.)
So, all I need for you is to fill in the boxes below, please, and return to me, either to my email, in Box, or Blog:
Youth Team Name: |
Senior Team Name: |
Player changing to MPP - |
MPP pos – SD/DM/MA - |
Please Reply by Friday 20th November to allow me to move on them. Thanks.
I have sent this message to your inbox as well - call it insurance.
If no reply by evening Friday 20th I will choose an MPP player and position for a team (not randomly, but looking at the "best" position the team needs one.)
Last League matches (before the playoffs) and only 3 teams still to post teamlines. All 3 will be fine by 2pm (remember it is 2pm now till March)
Next season I will list any teams missing just in case someone thinks he has posted but actually hasn't. Another free service from the Commish... :-)
Lots to be decided today and soon after my work starts...... at least I get the time due to lockdown (Scottish tier 3).
All for next Wednesday session 47..
Al Sellers Cup Final | Referee | ||||
Los Angeles Galaxy | v | Carolina Railhawks | Al Sellars | ||
Al Sellers 3rd/4th Place | Referee | ||||
Minnesota Thunder | v | Rochester Rhinos | Alan Freeland | ||
Al Sellers Plate Final | Referee | ||||
New York Red Bulls | v | Miami FC | Steve Turner | ||
Al Sellers Plate 3rd/4th Place | Referee | ||||
Atlanta Silverbacks | v | Colorado Rapids | Douglas McDonald | ||
Youth Cup Final | Referee | ||||
Golden Gophers | v | Fall River Rovers | Howard Webb |
Full house for tonight lads - thanks.
Straight forward - winners to the Final - losers to the 3rd/4th place playoffs.
Best of luck to all 4 clubs.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 11th November as per Manager Survey....:
CHV(50)
My interview is now available to view on the main page. Please scroll down to review my responses.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 9th November....:
COL(40) PHI(15) SJ(25)
Colorado are involved with all sorts of promotion and relegation tangles.
On Sunday the Rapids played New York and next week we play Minnesota.
Ahead of the New York game we had a 3pt lead over FC Dallas,
And on Wednesday we face Miami in the Alan Sellers semi-final.
So we put in a decent team at home to New York but lost 2-0, Dallas won which puts them ahead on GD by 1.
Minnesota only need a draw next Sunday which would suit us if Dallas lose, but they face 2nd bottom Charleston, although Miami are 2nd bottom of Div 2 and they're our opponents in the Cup.
Atlanta are also in the mix going for the Div 2 title and are in the other half of the Alan Sellers Cup facing New York and Atlanta's final league game is vs Miami.
Oh and Colorado's Ice Whites are also fighting for the Div 4 title and promotion.
(Thanks Rob..)
Gents, I Blogged before about the situation as regards the 2 Cup competitions (I didn’t think it was fair the last 8 in the DD Shield getting byes to the last 16 of the Al Sellers Cup, and all being kept apart in the last 16 draw).
I received one comment only about this, so I assume nobody else has an opinion on the subject. So, I plan to change the set up during the close season and will give every team a say in what change will be made.
Dave Dowson Shield will be played out as per the Rules, except the 8 qualifiers for the Quarter Finals will not receive a bye into the 2nd Round of the Al Sellers Cup, as has been the practice in the last few seasons. Both Cups will be treated separately to allow every team an equal chance when they compete.
The Al Sellers Cup will be played with all 24 teams taking part in the 1st round.
Choices for playing the 1st round are as follows:
1 Play as the Youth Cup – 8 sections of 3 teams playing each other once only – again the top team in each section goes to the Quarter Finals. Quarter Finals and Semis are home and away, Remaining 16 teams go to the Plate competition. Plate games are knockouts played on neutral grounds, as before.
2 6 sections of 4 teams playing each other once only (neutral grounds) with the top team plus 2 best 2nd places going to the Quarter Finals. Quarter and Semi Finals playing home and away. Remaining 16 clubs will go to the Plate competition, played as knockout on neutral grounds.
I have Poll the above. If votes are level, I will make a decision, and the Rules will be altered by the start of the new season. VOTE FOR YOUR PREFERENCE - and by next Sunday. before match time...
Excellent summary David
1st Division - Minnesota Thunder need a point to guarantee the title - if they lose then a New York Red Bull win would take the title instead on goal difference. At the bottom it is relegation for sure for Los Angeles Galaxy and Charleston Battery. Colorado Rapids and Dallas are fighting to avoid the playoff game - basically Dallas need to equal or better Colorado's result to avoid the sudden death match.
2nd Division - Atlanta Silverbacks and D.C. United will definitely be coming up - order of 1st and 2nd depends upon next Sunday. Atlanta need to equal or better the D.C. score to win the title, whereas D.C. need Atlanta to draw or lose and they win themselves. The playoff spot is hard to call as 5 teams realistically can make it. At the bottom Rochester need to win to have any chance of not picking up the wooden spoon.
3rd Division - Intriguing as New Bedford Whalers will win if they beat Fall River Rovers - if they lose they will give 1st place to FRR, except that Daniel Island could also win the title if they win their final game and NBW draw or lose. Relegated will be 2 of Savannah Celtic, Roxborough Indians, and Gananda Bandits - 3rd team will be in the playoffs for relegation.
4th Division - Carolina Dynamos will take the title and promotion with a win in their last match - lose and they could be pipped by Colorado Ice White and Windy City Pride. The team who finish 3rd will be in the playoffs plus Red Force or K.C Athletics.
(If any of this is wrong someone will tell me - I am just amusing myself with the league tables.)
Shame about the no show today - as the team concerned earned a big win. :-(
Always think it is hard on a team (any team) who does all the right things but loses to an NMR - just me, I know and life can mess up good intentions and of course that comes first..!!!
Anyway the Poll match managed to throw up a couple of correct results and scorelines - 30k to both, plus 1 other draw (20K) and 8 more who got it all wrong (10k each).
Likely I will have a different type of Poll for next week so watch for it - probably tomorrow morning..
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 44:
Columbus Crew - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #8: 25k (wWW)
Portland Timbers - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DWw)
Fall River Rovers - MVP #6: 25k (WdW)
Just 3 teams and their youths still to come in but lots of time still to do it. 2nd last league game of the season, chances today that some promotions/relegations will be finalised - I'll do that tonight while the good lady watches Strictly come make a fool of yourself err Dancing... Each to their own - she doesn't watch my Westerns.. :-)
Good luck this afternoon!!
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 3rd November....:
POR(30)
The following teams receive Adjustment through 3rd November - over payment for manager survey....:
COL(-50)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 2nd November....:
CHV(30) COL(15) CLB(50) MIA(20) PHI(35) SJ(25) VAN(15)
I can pick them... again nobody got the full 30k from the Poll match today but I have allocated 150k to teams who gained 20k and 10k awards. Game finished 1-0 and 6 got the result correct, if not the scoreline.
From today's games I can see the 1st division title will be won by Minnesopta Thunder or the New York Red Bulls. and that Atlanta Silverbacks and D.C. United are both going up to the 1st division, but not sure in which order yet. 5 teams can make the one playoff spot.
New Bedford Whalers, Daniel Island S.C. and Fall River Rovers can all win the youth 1st division (3rd division asa in the tables) with Gananda Bandits definitely going down to the 2nd division youth (or 4th division in the tables).It will be any 2 from Colorado Ice White, Windy City Pride, and Carolina Dynamos who will go up automatically to the higher youth division, the 3rd team will be in the playoffs for sure.
New Poll Match will be:
Portland Timbers v Real Salt Lake
I think you should know Mark in SESL used to fine clubs when they reached 201 in DPs (maybe 200) - and the fine was equal to the DPs so 213DP = 213k fine.
That was until it was reasoned that the punishments for using "a" and "d" (or having card happy referees) seemed punishment enough. IE suspensions, low ELs and of course results can go against you if you suffer a sending off. So it was dropped. Boring if everybody used normal for all their players all the time.
I think pound for pound that OASL referees are not as card happy as SESL ones..... Enjoy the ride, Al.. :-)
With a booking vs. Colorado today Houston moves to 198.
Our Crew under-performed a little today and only had 2 bookings. We are now level with Houston at 198 DPs.
David: What award do I win for the most DP in a season? I'm sure I should get a trophy or something?
:-)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 42:
New York Red Bulls - MVP #10: 25k (WdW)
Virtually a full house for this afternoon so far (1senior and 2 youth team lineups still to come in but David will be there...) 👍👍
1st November - where has the year gone? Mostly indoors I fear, with more to come...😟😟
Good luck to all and stay safe. 😷😷
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 30th October as per Manager Survey....:
COL(50)
Look at the rules wiki and under the Al Sellers cup you'll see the part about the connection between the last 8 of the DD Shield and the Al Seller.s cup.
Dave brought it in some seasons past and to be honest when I ran LA Galaxy we more often qualified than not but I knew it wasn't fair. (Turkeys don't vote for Christmas.)
I am always in favour for everyone to compete. One cup before the MSA and one cup after the MSA.
I was not aware of the ruling behind the qualification.
The current practice is that the top 2 teams in each section of the DD Shield get automatic bye into the 2nd round of the AL Cup, and even then are kept apart in the 8 x 2nd round ties. They only join it when 8 teams have already been eliminated from the 1st round, surely making it a little easier to be the same 8 teams who get to the Quarter Finals of both the Cup competitions.
It is only because I don't have a senior team that I got to thinking that perhaps every club should have a right to compete evenly for both the cups - no link should be made between the 2 competitions.
By mentioning this now, I am seeking views on what the you think. If enough people agree I would post a Poll giving the 3 options for you to vote on. If nobody agrees with my reasoning, then I'll leave well alone.
Comments can be made via the Blogs here, to my In Box, or to my email address - all would be counted for participation cash.
PS The Al Sellers Plate would still be played for in any event, and the monies earned in all 3 competitions won't be affected at all.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 30th October as per Manager Survey....:
COL(50)
Roy Rolsten's interview is now available to view on the main page. Please scroll down to review his responses.
POR sends 300k to MON for 4 TP
POR sends 400k to MON for Callum McQuade (3/22 DF)
Al, lucky you I don't have a senior team, as I usually topped the division in DPs. I like the game and use "a"s to bring up some lesser lights - watch EF in SESL - it'll be Matt or myself who gets the award...😬😬😬
...in the number of DPs.
We trail Houston 194-190.
With 11 players set to "dirty" in our upcoming Philadelphia Union match we hope to overtake Mr. Williams and Houston.
Al
All in for tonight's 2 x 1st Leg Semi Finals of the Al Sellers Cup. Good luck to all - Ill try to do a review of the games straight after them - like you are sitting waiting for them.... lol
As I said earlier, Blogs made after 1st thing Monday will be credited next Monday 3rd November - CHV, COL, and VAN are the teams involved. Gets me bvack on to the Monday 1st thing deadline... :-)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through as at 26th October....:
CHA(30) CLB(40) MIA(15) NE(50) NY(25) PHI(50) RSL(40) SJ(30) SEA(30) VAN(45)
Okay, the idea of guessing how many goals might be scored in the week's top 2 divisions was not a success. Nobody got 0-24 (there were 22 goals scored, but I have given 20k to the 2 teams who got the bearest choice, and 10k to the rest. I have only paid out 130k in total - so am going back to a league match for next Sunday's Poll.
Game will be:
Kansas City Wizards v Carolina Railhawks.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 27th October per manager survey....:
ATL(50)
I get back Tuesday afternoon and will sort the CP>TP plus Bruce's survey bonus when I can - all done by tomorrow evening latest. 🤓🤓
David the New Bedford Whalers need a CP converting to a TP - when you get a moment.
sorry Boss .just joking :) would help if I could sphell insight properly .
as for the Rum ..sadly NO .. it has been 3 months now . last time was July 25th .
Bryce Kalmbach's interview is now available to view on the main page. Please scroll down to review his responses.
Robin, you need to remember who is employing you 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I was put in as a team initially as I didn't have one, so couldn't access the site in my capacity as head bummer.. (A position I had not applied for as everybody knows).
But there we go and only 3 weekends left of the season to go, and 4 league divisions to be won along with 3 Cups - busy time ahead...😷😷🤓🤓
Mine's a whisky and coke 🥃🥃🥃🥃
Whilst browsing the stats today , I spotted a link to Commish Blair , oh I thought an insite into Davids brain ...umm not alot in there !
Gents. I am away fir a couple of days - back Tuesday afternoon.
Will do participation cash when I get back and will do it for up to Sunday night (tonight). Then everything from Monday will be credited next Monday as normal...💰💰
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 40:
Colorado Rapids - MVP #3: 1 TP (wwD)
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #5: 25k (WWd)
New Bedford Whalers - MVP #4: 1 CP (WdW)
Langley F.C. - MVP #3: 1 TP (WwD)
Just 4 teams for a full house and at least 3 tend to come in near the kickoff.
getting to the nitty gritty bit of the season - good luck to all.. 👍👍
Great to hear all of the stories, lots of proper road trips.
I've just spent 30 minutes writing about 75% of my journey and then bad weather caused internet to dip out. I've lost it all. Very frustrated. My story started when I was 12...
I'm isolating and recovering from Covid-19 so I am sure I will have time to do this again but not tonight, sorry.
I'LL BE BACK.
Aagh! The memories. Thanks to all who are and have contributed to the current theme of remembering their forays into Olmec (and outside).
Just confirms what I have always suspected - Olmec doesn't hate Steve - just doesn't understand him. :-)
Funny results happen in real life when the stats say they shouldn't happen (Thinking Villa 7-2 Liverpool for one) and it gives sustenance to managers who run "weaker" teams that today might just be their day....
And I can give participation cash to the err participants on Monday. (I am having a couple of days away from tomorrow (Sunday) but will take the laptop and try to keep things going..)
(dates below are probably off by a couple of years as I try to remember certain life moments associated with some of the changes)
Found the rules for a play by email game around 1988.
Started MSWL in 1989 as a dice roller using a Commodore 64 to type in all the lineups/results, printing them out and snail mailing them.
Then wrote a Visual Basic version (more visual than anything but my first foray into programming) around 1996.
Then wrote a C version of the game with input files and the game started to become more automated. About 1998.
In 1999 or so for about 6 years I went back to VB and wrote a game to run on windows that was easier to share and have others run their own leagues. Introduced a database (MS Access essentially).
Around 2005 or so, rewrote the game in Java with a MySQL database and that's what is used today in OASL. When I made the HB change last month I noticed the last time the Java version was changed was 2009.
Wrote MSWL United around 2010 and have been running about 3 seasons a year since then.
This was all about the time my kids needed a lot more of my attention and coding was mostly put to the side with brief times where I could add functionality.
Along the way I met a lot of great people and a handful who pissed me off. :-)
I've learned a lot of programming languages (well snippets of them) including some web development but I'm far from a professional on any of that.
One of the most rewarding experiences with all this was during the summer of 2020. My son Max (who just graduated high school and had taken some high school Java classes) and I worked on a volleyball simulator. Max played on many travel teams for this sport and working on this project was a great experience. There was a lot of collaboration and essentially I showed him some code samples from these types of games (plus a baseball game I built in Java) and he created a simulator. We've used it for season 1 of the new league and are now in the final session (10) of the inaugural season:
https://www.olmec.org/tmvl/
Oh and Bill and David asked me to join OASL in 2020. :-)
I'm not a very good manager.
Al
Oh and never forget! Olmec loves Steve Turner!
I was invited to SFLSL by Rob, as he was giving me tips on my new FTP team (From the Pavilion-Cricket). As soon as I joined SFLSL, I put in a request to join ODFL as they had an opening, and I played with Man City for a season or 2 before the server crash.
Pretty short and simple.
Couple of lads that I worked with got roped into joining "The Manager", and in turn nagged me until I said I'd take an expansions team in that league. Loved taking part, but there were then some real complications to the rules and the game that made me less interested. Eventually there was a tech issue that destroyed the game, and despite waiting it never quite came back.
A while down the line I realised I missed it and waiting for The Manager to come back was pointless.
I dropped Bill R an email asking if he was still on over here and still needed bodies, got a welcome with David B and joined up.
Started in SESL with ARB way back in season 3 - I had been searching for an online management game and found SESL. Played for 5 seasons and then honestly cant remember why I left. Mark invited me back in season 19 - back with ARB - and been there ever since.
Played in ODFL as a mentor and over the years joined SFLSL and OASL too. Briefly joined MSWL and played for a season or two but somehow didnt feel quite as committed to it so tendered my resignation.
According to the coach stats, not including ODFL, Im closing in on 2600 games across the 3 leagues!
2005 was when I joined SESL. I can't remember exactly when Al asked me to set up OASL but it would be 2008 ish. I can't remember who picked US Soccer teams.
I left due to life (eventually leaving all but MSWL) and when it had been moved to SOS the new ODFL had been set up and the OASL Junior league.
Only 3 teams left to put team lines in for tonight's games - 9/12 in already.
Good luck to all - getting to the nitty gritty part of the season for the cups now..!!
Steve, it wasn't 2005 that ODFL was set up, surely .. I was still in shorts then.., :-(
I was asked if I could run ODFL purely as a league for training up new lads to the Olmec system. Those days we had potential managers in a list wanting to take part, so ODFL gave them teams (various Large European clubs), and established managers took a team and most "buddied" a new lad as to the workings of the system.
Worked fine for a few seasons - we changed the format and size of the set up depending upon the new lads joining, and many got teams in SESL, SFLSL, and OASL. But after a while the list dried up and the league was populated with lads who had teams in other leagues. It served it's purpose but was eventually "rested" -
Steve says the server crashed. It may have done but the last season at least was finished. It was fun if time consuming for the Mentors, and I think it was Mark who oversaw the scheduling of the games. (or Steve?)
Quite a few lads still play now who came through ODFL.... This is a memory phase I'm into now. Happy Pre-Covid 19 times.. Joy!!
Simon, no, I thought I would make it easier and just let people tick a group. This is only for a week or 2 at the most - have a new Poll coming up. Feel free to put in a specific number of goals but not necessary. :-)
Should we still need to enter a number?
How did you find ODFL?
When I was a kid, me and my siblings loved playing board games. Some time in the mid 70s I found a book in the library about board games and Diplomacy was one featured, We also had a friend who read Games and Puzzles and Diplomacy featured in there as well. Sometime in the early 80s I found the book again and it mentioned Diplomacy zines. I wrote to one and got a game. Unfortunately the zine folded before the first move and I gave up.
In the mid 80s I overheard someone as work talking about what sounded like Diplomacy. He had recently bought the game and there was a flyer for a beginner's zine, Springboard. I signed up, played my first game and was allowed a second as a substitute for a country in anarchy. I then moved on to another two zines. These folded and one game was re-housed in Spring Offensive. But the delay was along, I lost interest, and was in a new relationship. I quit when my subscrition ended.
And then in 1999 I got my first computer, discovered newsgroups; Asimov, Star Trek, Pratchett and Diplomacy. In the Diplomacy group it mentioned Spring Offensive going online. I decided to try again (I was single again) but the games were soon transfered to Tom Tweedy's "Diplomacy 2000". I started tinkering with the adjudication program, making the maps much clearer and from JPEG to GIF so using less telephone time on dial-up.
I also started introducing variants and that caught the attention of Mike Dean at Psychopath who asked me to make variants for him. Also on that site was PSFA run by Rob Peterson. I had a look at it once before deciding maybe a year later to have a go. It was a more complicated version of this one with grounds, weather, extra referee rules. On there MSWL was mentioned quite a lot with a link and luckily I got my name down on the waiting list before Rob decided to quit PSFA.
And it was while I was on the waiting list that Mark Creasey saw my name and ivited me to play in SESL arounf the start of 2005. And that in turn led to Al Sellers asking me to set up OASL as a training and testing league.
I think I was in ODFL, and then we had the server crash following which I was offered to join OASL.
It's kinda quiet in here so I thought I'd ask how everyone ended up playing these games but specifically OASL.. Mine is quite long and I'll post separately.
It could be something simple like, "I work with Mark Creasey and he invited me," if that's all it was,
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 19th October....:
CHV(15) MIA(50) PHI(35) RSL(15) SJ(25)
PLEASE remember this Wednesday sees the Quarter Finals of the A Sellers Plate (90 minutes and pens if a draw) plus the Youth Cup Semi Finals (also 90 minutes and pens if a draw). Thanks.
First of all, thanks for the full house today. Mark will tell you that a full house makes the work worth while.
The new poll did NOT produce a clear winner - goals were lowish today - total was 26.
Roy, with 28 gets 30k for being within 2 goals of the total, the rest get 10k for being in the poll. Even I would haqve got 10k for my slightly OTT total of 400, but I would still have got 10k. 22 Polls x 10k minimum and you do the maths. :-)
We will try it again for next week then I might change it - who knows? Not even me...
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 38:
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #7: 25k (wWW)
Chivas USA - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Www)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (dWW)
Windy City Pride - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Www)
Laredo Heat - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
KC Athletics - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
I can say, I like the new poll(s) as well. It seems I am not good in predicting the matches, so this new typo of polls might bring some extra cash to the club. And we need the cash....competition is slowly going to the last games and the need is high for Miami. We might be selling some of our players...
What is strange is the situation for New York. Are they staying low in cash to get the Robin Hood Money from teams like Portland? Is Bill's that smart? Having the best team in the league and getting paid for it at the end of the season...or will he be selling some players at the end of the year? It makes me question, when is the deadline for the Robin Hood-momentum, maybe I should spend some extra money....
Pl. | TEAM | BANK |
1 | Portland Timbers | 4.613 |
2 | Real Salt Lake | 3.560 |
3 | Charleston Battery | 3.428 |
4 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 2.467 |
5 | Minnesota Thunder | 2.355 |
6 | Houston Dynamo | 2.355 |
7 | FC Dallas | 2.044 |
8 | Colorado Rapids | 1.961 |
9 | Chivas USA | 1.942 |
10 | Los Angeles Galaxy | 1.924 |
11 | Carolina RailHawks | 1.885 |
12 | Chicago Fire | 1.844 |
13 | Kansas City Wizards | 1.815 |
14 | New England Revolution | 1.757 |
15 | Rochester Rhinos | 1.596 |
16 | Seattle Sounders | 1.557 |
17 | Philadelphia Union | 1.504 |
18 | D.C. United | 1.496 |
19 | Columbus Crew | 1.482 |
20 | San Jose Earthquakes | 1.480 |
21 | Atlanta Silverbacks | 1.366 |
22 | Miami FC | 1.218 |
23 | Montreal Impact | 910 |
24 | New York Red Bulls | 897 |
Just 4 teams (and youth) to go in and just over 4 hours to go to KO.
Saying no more about the goals total guess on the Poll - I needed to try something new - maybe one more of this as I have a Poll I want to put out but a little nearer the season climax..
Good luck today.. 😷😷
Come on lads - how difficult can it be to estimate a number of goals in the top 2 divisions tomorrow?
Get in it to win it - only a number needed - no life story or justification for your choice - just a number... 🤔🤔
The following teams receive Awards through 16th October as per manager survey....:
VAN(50)
Robin Dewar's interview is now available to view on the main page. Please scroll down to review his responses.
Just the one to come in for tonight's 2nd leg cup ties.
Will have the Cup reviews up shortly after tonight.
Haha, I was under the impression it was a trick question, but once I entered 0 and saw others had put in a higher number I thought I'd got the date wrong, and had to double check.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 12th October....:
CHV(15) COL(35) HOU(25) MIA(50) NE(15) NY(15) PHI(50) RSL(25) SJ(30) SEA(40)
Brilliant and full marks toi Tim for spotting my deliberate mistake. I have quoted this weekend's Poll date as 18th NOVEMBER - of course it was 18th OCTOBER that I meant..
Tim guessed 0 goals and he would be right as 18/11/20 is a Wednesday and we will have finished the season by then. However because he brought it up I'd like him to have a second guess - just enter it from your youth team and I will scrap the original guess. And as a bonus for proving I am human, I will slip his note in as participation..
Cant be fairer than that... :-)
That is a lot of goals next Sunday. 😂
I didn't want people to think I was giving a clue as to the likely total. Depend upon teams playing 90 minutes Stall plus the actual games cast.
suggest a random pick between 20 and 40 😷😷😉😉
That is a lot of goals next Sunday. 😂
Gents, just tick on "my guess" and put your number in the Comments box ....
2 Weeks ago there was a total of 31 goals scored in the top 2 divisions, last week it was 26, today it was 34.
All you have to do is guess how many goals will be scored in next Sunday's games in the 2 top divisions -- Easy cash!!
10k for taking a guess
30k for getting within 2 of the total either above or below
What can you lose - nothing!!
Gents, 210k been allocated to the teams which took part in the Poll. Nobody got the right scoreline although 5 got the correct result.
Watch out for next week's Poll - it will be up soonest... :-)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 36:
New York Red Bulls - MVP #9: 25k (wdw)
Philadelphia Union - MVP #5: 25k (WDw)
Montreal Impact - MVP #4: 1 CP (wWD)
New England Revolution - MVP #3: 1 TP (WWd)
Miami FC - MVP #4: 1 CP (WWD)
Fall River Rovers - MVP #5: 25k (dWW)
Daniel Island S.A. - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWd)
Only 2 teams missing and I am not too concerned with the managers concerned... Good luck to all.
NOW, I plan to change the Poll match for the last few weeks of the season to see if we can get a little more participation. It is clear that although many can get the result correct, very few can guess the scoreline to ghet 30k. SO, next week's Poll will be a simpler one.
2 Weeks ago there was a total of 31 goals scored in the top 2 divisions, last week it was 26.
All you have to do is guess how many goals will be scored in next Sunday's game --
10k for taking a guess
30k for getting within 2 of the total either above or below
50k for getting it spot on!!
Watch for the Poll entry some time this evening after today's games - may as well try something different. :-)
It is true trading doesn't get done much now in the league - and perhaps Steve's analysis is close to the mark. I'd like to change it but think it's got to a stage where some clubs adopt their youths and know they will likely train them up to become the future stars - but the reality is OASL is a setup with some differences but which will never be the kingpin in SOS - SESL is..
And in your case Steve, there is little incentive in trading to bring in better players, since New England gets cracking youths each season from FRR which get replaced by decent youth lads thereby creating a situation where your best matches are actually in the youth league. (Wish my youth team had that kind of season.) FRR could stand up in the 2nd division and compete.
I have no answer as to how to alter the situation to make the set up more appealing - I am a conscripted Commissioner with much enthusiasm but little skill. :-)
I'm only new here and still trying to work out what I need (seems like a lot) and how to get it (no idea with the trading situation here).
The other problem a lack of trading brings is people have no idea of what the rough values are.
I honestly can't think of any trades I have done in this league.
I had noticed when I was looking for player values in the Transactions menu that there had been little to no trades this season. I think there are a few reasons why that it is:
i) High SL in OASL - managers looking to compete need high SL players to do that - other teams are unlikely to give up their own high SL players
ii) The Youth Academy - 3/4 free youth players each season - 3 players picked to strengthen the squad and a 4th to make money in the auction
iii) Money - the youth academy brings in a lot of free cash each season - it's a bit like an investment bank and when you can sell your 4th player you can easily make 2-4 times what other SOS leagues do. Enought to take the maximum CP and TP available.
iv) Auctions - OTF picked up for 300k and older high SL players for relativley low prices and you've got teams built around youth players and MPPs supported by older high SL players.
Who'd trade?
COL sends 175k to MON for Ugo Smidt (4/16 DM)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 9th October as per managers survey....:
RSL(50)
Tim Batth's interview is now available to view on the main page. Please scroll down to review his responses.
Couldn't have put it better myself, and would have at some point if I could find the time.
I know I could change Polls to ask the questions but you have done it here. ✅✅
I sometimes wonder if managers would miss the game as it is the worst for interaction and as you say, in transfers.. I paid only 30k in participation money this week- the lowest ever probably in any of the leagues.
I try to bring in some movement and keep things up to date (with lots of help from Mark, with the running of the setup, and Robin for his work on the rules).
Lets see if there is a reaction, and you've earned more participation cash, as others will do when they respond. 🤔🤔
Why do we not do more transfers? I just looked to the history and found out we did 1 transfer in September, 2 transfers in August, 4 transfers in July and 5 transfers in June.
Are we all happy with what we have? Could be offcourse...be happy with the team you have and do with that...is that the reason?
Are we just not active in trading? I can imagine that we are all very busy with other things and you do not want to spend time on trading. Would you do more transfers if people would approach you?
Does youth drop the needs to do transfers? If you already have your youth filling your gaps, you do not need external transfers. Great job as manager, but do you really not need anything else?
Compared to other leagues, real life and every game I played, I think this is the league what could be closed the whole year and just needs to open at the beginning of the season when youth is transferred....I wonder if others have some input as well?
Cheers lads, consider yourselves in the participation cash payout list for next Monday - wish I was.. 😂😂
Good work David!
Top job David
Always love to read them!! Great job
Are up for anybody that wants to read them. Short and sweet... but done within 30 minutes of the games being completed.... :-)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 35:
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #4: 1 CP (WwW)
Don't worry, we're out there, quietly reading away. I'm picturing you as the below.
And we are 20/24 - only 4 missing for tonight - and I will have a Cup Review section on the front page soonest after - toinight or at worst this time tomorrow morning (10am GMT) - Gee - wish I got participation for the imput .... it is lonely out here.. !!
EVERY manager has a team line to put in for tomorrow evening's games - for some it is the last chance to win a trophy. Good luck to all. (So far 10/24 are in..)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 5th October....:
PHI(30)
140k paid out today to the lads who took part. Only 2 gents got the correct result and neither the right scoreline... but at least 12 took part and earned something...
Next week's game will be FC Dallas v Chivas USA, which will be up in 5 minutes...
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 34:
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #6: 25k (wWw)
Real Salt Lake - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Carson City Kickers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Langley F.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wwD)
Gents, we are looking good for today with just 2 senior and youth teams missing, but still over 4 hours to go so am expecting a full house.
Remember the Poll match - easy cash for all....Good luck today. :-)
Gents, the rules on the Wiki show the tactics used and the benefits of using each, assuming you have Steve’s ability to read into the various options and expected shot chances. I am always bamboozled by his interpretations – amazed and impressed – but nevertheless bamboozled. :-)
However it was pointed out to me way back there had been a tweak or two in the server done by Dave, not apparent in the set on the Wiki, which (unfortunately) resulted in a couple of tactics becoming way too powerful when implemented. More than half of you will know which tactics I am referring to.
At the end of the season I am going to arrange for our tactics in the server to reflect the tactics we put into our rules, eliminating any discrepancy between the Wiki rules and the server. Hopefully it might bring back a time when each manager will be in charge of his own destiny by being able to choose a tactic to suit his players and formation for that day’s game, knowing the plusses and minuses in using it.
Any queries just ask, but nothing will be altered or re-set till the close season.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 33:
Colorado Ice White - MVP #4: 1 CP (wwW)
Gents, only 1 team line missing from tonight's ties although still enough time to put it in.
Good luck to the 8 teams tonight - keep your diary up to date by remembering that EVERY senior team will be playing next Wednesday - EVERY one. Thanks..
Next Sunday's game will be Montreal Impacts v Vancouver Whitecaps.... as soon as I can get it put on the front page.. 🤔🤔
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 28th September....:
CHV(15) CLB(20) MIA(40) MON(25) NE(50) NY(50) PHI(50)
Right behind Al's comment. David is a legend in my eyes for the work he has put in when called upon. Cometh the hour, cometh the man.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 27th September as per Manager survey re-imbursed....:
SJ(50)
120k is being paid into various accounts after today's game where 1 lad gained 20k for the correct result, the rest 10k each, as nobody got the score line right.
I will be on tonight with next weekend's game...
Thank you to David for stepping in to run OASL this season with the sad passing of the amazing Dave Dowson.
From what I gather the OASL commish role has a fair amount of additional work to keep things progressing. Thank you for putting in the time on all that David to keep things running smoothly.
Al
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 32:
New York Red Bulls - MVP #8: 25k (WDw)
Philadelphia Union - MVP #4: 1 CP (Www)
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #4: 1 CP (Wdw)
Miami FC - MVP #3: 1 TP (wDW)
Texas Dutch Lions - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
KC Athletics - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWW)
Windy City Pride - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Gents, Match day today and only 3 senior and 5 youth line ups still due in (actually make that 4 youth as one of them is mine.. Oops).
On other subjects my take is we should not be afraid of changes if they are seen to better the game. I am never happy to read anything about "the future od OASL" as I feel we have a good tight ship here - yes, I would love to pay out more participation cash so managers could earn more - that is up to each manager's perogative to contribute or not, so I accept that.
The only confirmed change at the end of this season is the scrapping of the Youth Auction. It cost me 2 weeks and umpteen reminders to people to fill in essential information last time. I felt also some teams were not rewarded for their player and others paid too much. Basically I did not feel the system was fair to all. Nearer the end of the season I will send a form to each of you to tell me what you want done with your 4th youth lad and what multi position one of your 3 or 4 lads being promoted to the senior team has to be changed to.
I mentioned this way back and have mentioned it often so this can NOT be seen as a surprising change being made. And I have a default system to use if the form doesn't come back in time, which won't harm any team.
My thinking is that this will be the only major change done for next season - although I am always open for any manager's suggestions which can be Polled - that way we get a consensus from 24 lads - democracy at work :-)
Now, back to today's games with just over 3 hours to go.. Good luck to all.....
Home Bonus: I haven't read anything official about this but I know it's currently set up that only SESL has the new figures. You can check this by looking at Team Tactics. I'm not sure what the costs are apart from the maximum 40 costs 120k.
Obviously it can be switched on or off for each league. I don't know if the values can be altered easily and if so whether this will be across all leagues too. So can SESL have 40 HB at 120k for OASL go for 25 at 80k? Al Sellers coded this as a one off favour for Mark.
It came about because I've always said HB was a waste of cash. I posted in SESL a season or two ago that paying 10k for a HB of 10 gave 1 extra shot every 11 games and reduced your opponents by 1 every 9 games for one particular game. Mark picked up on this.
I worked out that with these decent Div 2 sides.HB of 8 was worth half a shot. Going to 15 made it 1 shot. Note that's not for each side so a 6 to 5.5 advantage might become 6.3 to 5.3 changing from HB 8 to 15
The problem was that the default 8 had so little effect adding that value to teams with high DEF and OFF. The other problem is that 80k for an extra 5 on top is worthless apart from avoiding Robin Hood.
The problem is making it worth while paying extra but not having too much effect.
HB 8 adds 16 points - SL 12 MF adds 15 with N or O
HB 40 adds 80 which is 2 SL 32 players which I personally think is too much. But then who will pay 120k for extra shots? I've played 2 games in Sanc. In the first my 7.3% to 3% advantage gave me 1 shot to their 7. In the second their 1.1% chance gave them 3 shots. Seems risky to pay.
High SL. The higher SLs are, the less effective OTF, HB and morale are. My gut feeling is that the high auctions don't help and neither do high T11s. Yes SESL seems to be creeping up too - end of last season SESL around where OASL is now but OASL have more games to go.
Tactic changes: this is a bugbear with me now. Ball Control and Stall are stupidly stronger than other tactics. Everyone should play these even if not set up for it. FRR are a longball team but when I can be bothered I'll play FWs in MF because they still add more.
Thank you for your reply David and I appreciate your holding back in HB. I am very keen to hear what other coaches think about things that are changing in OASL. OASL has a high input from coaches but not too much blogging. Thank you Simon for your reply.
Is SL too high and if so why?
Should tactics be recentred in line with SOS tactics? If so, why?
Should HB be changed so dramatically? If so, why? I personally feel it will be difficult for any away win.
Guys, what do you think? More important to the future of OASL, what do you enjoy?
Thanks lads and "peace". X
I have taken up the option not to implement the HB changes till at least the new season, and it is possible we may not take them at all.
My plan is to monitor the other Leagues and check how and if it is used and it's effectiveness or not, so don't look for any changes meantime.
i can see a late season Poll coming up, who knows... 🤔🤔
Gents, I am hoping people will consider a few points before getting upset over a change (in HB).
All the leagues have differences - HB wasn't a consideration between the leagues as very few players used it. And that will likely still be the case - as nobody wants to pay good cash for a perceived advantage in one match. Decision would be taken on the day and the match, but likely most managers will still scoot past the HB option.
OASL differences in regard to SESL and SFLSL revolve mainly round playing 1 game per session, along with the youth set up. These alone make it different enough from the other leagues, Most other things are the same in the various set ups - and we go with them. I certainly assumed HB was the same for all leagues, so if it is tweaked for all leagues, surely we are still standing still, (and most managers won't pay huge figures for an advantage in a home league game - 11 of them).
That could be all - as all Cup ties can always be played on N grounds so nullifying the HB option... 11 games from a minimum 35 - assuming not getting past 1st rounds of each cup - cuts the opportunities for using HB not to mention virtually no club could afford to pay big for hopefully a benefit of a couple of extra shots.
I would suggest seeing how it pans out - how often it gets used - if it affects games too much I am confident it can be reviewed. My thinking is many will still continue to ignore it. I didn't ask for the change - but then again I don't think we should just dismiss changes just because they have been suggested.
The following teams receive Adjustment through 26th September - NO idea how this could have been duplicated.:
SJ(-50)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 26th September....:
CHA(65) PHI(80) POR(50) VAN(50)
The following teams receive Adjustment through 25th September as per manager’s survey....:
SJ(50)
The reason to play for me in 3 leagues is because they all are different. If they will become all the same, what is the use to have 3 leagues? Take them all together and create one big league with 64 teams.
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The new home bonus is potentially too much. My thoughts are a mute point as the change is implemented already. We will see too many home wins regardless of what players are fielded by away team. I might be wrong but only time will tell.
I am concerned on a bigger front. OASL tactics are tinkered with because DD dared to change them and now they will be reset, home bonus radically adapted, the auction has been drastically changed? Apparently we need to lower SL? This does not feel like OASL anymore.
Is this evolution or retraction back to the gameplay of the other two SOS leagues?
My knee jerk reaction is that I am really not pleased. I have left one SOS league as it is being pulled into line (was it out of line?) and was just a forum for negative debate. I would like someone to convince me that I am wrong in my thoughts over OASL just being "brought into line". All of the things that are being removed are things that make me enjoy OASL. I like the high SL (although stats show the other two leagues are close behind on average SL), I like the tactical deviation, I like the high SL players in the auction with crazy prices and I like that home bonus can impact but only if you pay for it.
I love SOS and invest a lot of time every week in my teams. I cannot and will not be a "part time" coach but I think I may have become too involved in my own head. If I can't commit 100% it's stop the bus time. I care about the changes I see and am not sure it is for the best. I think we are looking at more SOS parity with lessened league differentials. I hope I get a good response to dispell my worries but appreciate Mark has a lot in his plate every day before he even thinks about SOS. I feel for David as this seems to end happening around him.
Peace my brothers. X
The following teams receive Adjustment through 25th September as per manager’s survey....:
SJ(50)
Andy Shaw's interview is now available to view on the main page. Please scroll down to review his responses.
Games in the Al Sellers Cup and Plate will be played in Session 35, not 33. Sorry about that..
My take is that a change is coming - once we are informed what and how it can affect a team's performance it will be up to the individual as to whether paying for it will be worth it. At present very few instances of paying for increased HB are recorded.
The feeling is that the costs will be increased but likely so will the benefits - decision is would spending a gate money (or even more of it) for a couple or few extra shots (or perhaps nullifying an opponent's chances) be justified. Another manager decision - as pointed out all teams can use "a" or "d" - costs no money but counts against possible extra red and yellow cards and lower ELs. These decisions are ours for using even now.
Any change might not change anything overall if managers decide to leave well alone, but the option will be there at least.
Gents, after Wednesday evening's matches I asked Mark to help with the draws for the following Cup competitions.
I made the draw whilst Mark numbered the participants. Results of the 2 activities are below:
ALL GAMES BELOW TO BE PLAYED WEDNESDAY 7th OCTOBER - EVERY SENIOR TEAM PLAYS IN SESSION 33.
Quarter Finals are played over 2 legs, the Plate ties are on neutral grounds and are 1 game only with penalties if game finishes a draw....
Al Sellers Cup 1/4 Finals | ||||
1 | Philadelphia Union | v | 6 | Los Angeles Galaxy |
5 | Kansas City Wizards | v | 7 | Minnesota Thunder |
3 | FC Dallas | v | 4 | Carolina Railhawks |
8 | Columbus Crew | v | 2 | Rochester Rhinos |
Plate 1st Round | ||||
11 | Houston Dynamos | v | 10 | New York Red Bulls |
8 | New England Revolution | v | 12 | Vancouver Whitecaps |
14 | Atlanta Silverbacks | v | 2 | Real Salt Lake |
7 | Seattle Sounders | v | 3 | Chicago Fire |
15 | Miami FC | v | 9 | Charleston Battery |
6 | Montreal Impacts | v | 13 | Portland Timbers |
5 | D.C. United | v | 1 | Chivas USA |
16 | San Jose Earthquakes | v | 4 | Colorado Rapids |
Comments noted Simon.
The home bonus feature currently is ignored by 99% of managers.
When someone (Al Sellers) has went to the effort to add this feature to our games originally I feel a duty to offer something managers can at least consider for occassional key matches.
The away team can always play aggressive to counter a feared high home bonus, and in real life an away team can't do much when playing away at a very noisey stadium.
I think the home bonus is to cheap. With the influence it has...and as away team you cannot do anything about it...for me it is a big:
A while ago on SESL I posted about home bonus and how it wasn't worth it (Aberdeen came 3rd so what do I know). Mark picked up on it and asked me to do some number crunching. Al Sellers has agreed to modify the code though it isn't guaranteed to be done before match 1 in SESL. This is in a couple of weeks.
It will almost certainly affect SFLSL and OASL as well as extra code would be needed.
The idea is to make home bonus worth having in the game. We eventually decided on something like 15 as a default rather than 8 - if you have an SL 24 MF playing N or O he adds a total of 30 OFF+DEF to your team. HB of 15 does just that so it's like having an extra man in your team. Currently in SESL the middle teams in T11 are around 23. The difficulty is getting the cost and amounts right.
Current thinking is:
15, 0k
18, 10k
22, 20k
25, 40k
30, 60k
40, 80k
I did some examples a while back:
From actual games.
Match 1 SANC ACS vs LD first game of last season
ACS GP 58.2 DEF 152.5 OFF 160.65
LD GP 55.5 DEF 124.5 OFF 170.8
HB 8 ACS shots 5.43 LD shots 4.44
HB 15 ACS 5.98 LD 4.15
HB 25 ACS 6.80 LD 3.79
HB 50 ACS 8.99 LD 3.07
Match 2 NY vs CLB last league game of season
NY GP 43.5 DEF 286.71 OFF 259.71
CLB GP 69.25 DEF 186.24 OFF 175.24
HB 8 NY shots 7.23 CLB 2.18
HB 15 NY 7.64 CLB 2.10
HB 25 NY 8.23 CLB 2.00
HB 50 NY 9.76 CLB 1.77
It has a bigger effect on lower SLs so Youth teams will see bigger benefits than senior teams. Also it is likely to come into effect before the end of the season.
And only one team missing from tonight's games.
Tonight sees the 2nd Round of the Al Sellers Cup completes - and the Quarter Final draw plus the Al Sellers Plate draw (involving the 16 teams who fail to reach the Quarter Finals of the main trophy) will be made by tomorrow, and posted immediately afterwards.
Just checking - spotted FRR had been awarded a CP for a MVP performance about 9 days ago, so have converted it to a TP. 👍
Simon, it is up now - had too much to do last night - and my Port was going down well.... :-)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 21st September....:
CHV(15) LA(10) MIA(40) MON(40) NY(10) PHI(50) SJ(25)
Well..much to late for the last poll, and wrong as well I just saw.
However, the new poll is not yet online I think ;-)
Philadelphia Union are proud to announce the signing of French defender Ludovic Lamine Sane from Nantes,coach rob stated hes just what we need at present a quality,versatile defender with lots of experience, he will debut in our next match and hopefully settle in quickly and plug that leaky defence that let's us down at times.
190k paid into various teams banks for pay out at end of season. One team gained the full 30k whilst others got the 20k and 10k amounts.
Next Week's game is a youth tie - check it out - difficult to put a wafer between them.
Utah Surf Boys S.C. v Daniel Island S.A.
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 20th September....:
SJ(90)
All matches have their line ups...I forgot my youth, but just ten minutes before closing time, managed to get the orders in....
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 30:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #5: 25k (wWW)
D.C. United - MVP #5: 25k (Wdw)
Daniel Island S.A. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
Utah Surf Boys S.C. - MVP #3: 1 TP (dWW)
Laredo Heat - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Red Force FC - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wwW)
Under 4 hours to kick off and only 3 teams (plus 3 youth) still to put lines in - but none are a concern - normally these lads put them in closer to the start..
Good luck to all - and REMEMBER the auction later tonight is the LAST one for this season.
You are so very right, Bill.
28,000
I love your use of the "real word" in SFSFSFSFSFL. "Shite" is so much better than "Shit". 28,000.
I tried to remember it...that was the moment to use it ;-)
I love your use of the "real word" in SFSFSFSFSFL. "Shite" is so much better than "Shit". 28,000.
MON sends Andy Burnham (4/19 DF) to POR for 250k
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 29:
Colorado Rapids - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (dWW)
And 15 of the 16 managers have their team sheets in already - thanks. Just the one....
Good luck to all - 2nd leg games are due next week.
Then the senior squads get a Wednesday off the week after when the youth lads play their Quarter Finals..
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 14th September as per Manager’s survey....:
DAL(50)
Aires Moose Martin's interview is now available to view on the main page. Please scroll down to review his responses.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 14th September....:
CHA(15) CIW(30) LA(35) MIA(30) MIN(20) NY(50) PHI(50) SJ(25) SEA(50)
I hadn't forgotten your request from last Monday - was on my to-do list this morning.. 👍👍
The following teams receive Physio Boost through 14th September ....:
MIN(-40)
"Luck marches with those who give their very best"
Today Rob's Philadelphia Union beat the league leaders Minnesota Thunder 5-3, This was the Thunder's only league loss this season and only the 3rd time they've given up points.
In their last game they held the Red Bulls to a 2-2 draw.
You could certainly argue that his keeper was a little lucky with some saves, but he tried to win both games and that's not something everyone tries against these two.
Where Rob has been lucky is in the fixture list - when Philly host Montreal on Wednesday it will end an 11 game run where they have only played away twice.
Minnesota Thunder would like to please use a physio boost on Bobby Firmino next session.
Gents, I will be paying 160k into participating managers accounts tonight.
Despite 6 lads getting the right result, nobody got the right score, everyone gets some cash, and so we move on...🤔🤔
Next weeks Poll Match will be Charleston Battery v Los Angeles Galaxy.
BE IN IT TO WIN ANYTHING - what's there to lose..? 😉😉
Not sure if I have to thanks Al and/or Mark and if so thanks..🤓🤓
Look like we have a problem running the game this afternoon.
I have asked Mark if he could look at it - perhaps Al might show some light on the likely problem, please? Much appreciated.. 👍👍
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 28:
New York Red Bulls - MVP #7: 25k (Wdw)
Fall River Rovers - MVP #4: 1 CP (wwD)
Greetings gents on this dull (but apparently soon to be sunny) day.
4 Senior and 5 youth teams still to put their lines in for today - always ever hopeful for full houses. But there is still near 4 hours before kick off. Good luck to all...
You need to sort this out Bri. 28.000 demands it. We need you on the next zoom call.
You're right, Bill. I will do what's necessary to be on the next call. It may require texting you the day before to ensure I have the right time.
Cheers!
You need to sort this out Bri. 28.000 demands it. We need you on the next zoom call.
Sorry I was unable to make the chat tonight. My work/sleep schedule makes it difficult. (I'm also apprently terrible and confirming local time vs GMT).
Hope you all had a good bit of fun.
Cheers,
28,000
A lovely night of good old fashioned "crack" on the more modern medium of Zoom. I love seeing and chatting to the SOS community. Cheers lads and thank you for joining in. Really proud that Simon now knows the difference between s"hit" and s"hite". Hope to see you all again soon. 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
A lovely night of good old fashioned "crack" on the more modern medium of Zoom. I love seeing and chatting to the SOS community. Cheers lads and thank you for joining in. Really proud that Simon now knows the difference between s"hit" and s"hite". Hope to see you all again soon. 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
Of course I meant the referee for the first LEG, not tie.
All games have different referees on them from the first round, and these new refs will do both of the legs in their specific match up. Heck, I am even down for a tie - I came up on my rota system, and can he bribed. 😂😂
After last night's matches the 8 winners go through to face opponents who qualified foir the Dave Dowson Shield. Draw is as follows:
Al; Sellers Cup 2nd Round (games are 2 legged and start next Wednesday):
Atlanta Silverbacks | v | Los Angeles Galaxy |
Minnesota Thunder | v | Colorado Rapids |
Columbus Crew | v | D.C. United |
Philadelphia Union | v | Montreal Impacts |
Rochester Rhinos | v | Miami FC |
FC Dallas | v | San Jose Earthquakes |
Carolina Railhawks | v | New York Red Bulls |
Kansas City Wizards | v | Houston Dynamos |
The 8 teams who failed to go through last night sit out and will enter the Al Sellers Plate, along with the 8 teams who lose out in the above 2nd round ties. Draw will be made after the above ties are finished.
Now I will nip off and schedule the games and the referees (again the referee for the 1st tie will be the same for the return leg).
Thanks for the full house last night... :-)
Remember there is a Zoom evening at 8-30pm organised by Bill. Make it if you can......
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 27:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #4: 1 CP (Wdw)
Montreal Impact - MVP #3: 1 TP (Www)
Only one team missing from tonight's lineups and that'll be sorted before kickoff...🤓
Straight after tonight's games I will post the 2nd Round draw in the Journal section so it won't be a spoiler in the Blogs.
Qualifiers from tonight plus the 8 teams who received byes (having qualified via their Dave Dowson Section placements) will feature in it and games are over the next 2 midweeks.. You have been informed.. 😉😉
PS Do we need more Ger supporters - answers on a ten pound note and sent to me please - help to pay for our cruise to Iceland next year (want to batter the lad who missed the penalty v England. Another country who could do with a wake up call about their perceived greatness..🤫🤫 😂😂).
Come join in folks...it's great to get a few faces to names! Mark C, do you want to invite SESL coaches too?
Great to have you on board. Another Ger is always welcome.
I'm afraid that's exactly what you've got here.
On Bill's grumbles about the Scottish national team, my thoughts are that we have an abundance of "decent" players, but very few of any real quality, and probably none (maybe 1) at the "world class" level, with arguably the 2 best players competing for the same position. In terms of midfielders there is an absolute stack of them who are reasonable, but that probably just gives the manager a problem in that he almost has to perm every option before he finds the combination of "decent" that gives more than the sum of it's parts. Up front we are sorely lacking quality and need to play to the style of whoever we put up there which will often make us very 1 dimensional.
Just kidding, welcome aboard David! :)
Minnesota Thunder would like to please use a physio boost on Bobby Firmino next session.
Simon remembers back to I'm guessing 90s and 00s.
I remember when we HAD a team including Pat Crerand, Billy McNeil and Jim Baxter (and Kenny Dalglish, Joe Jordan, jimmy Johnstone etc etc) These lads could play and a team like Israel would have been swotted aside without the manager coming on to swell them up to offset a likely disappointing score, like last Friday..
Face it, we have gone back whilst also rans like Cyprus and SAN Marino have improved and can give us a run for our money... Sad times - wish I had a team and could get paid for this ......like I pay you lads.. 💰💰
Difference in England is they HAVE the players but can't get them to play together - flattering to deceive in effect, whereas we just turn up and collect a cap for doing very little.
Welcome to the league...Scottish I see...just what I needed...please fill me in about the national team....there are a lot some people complaining....but I have no idea...The Scottish team I remember had players like Hendry, McCoist and Gallagher. But I think I can not name of the current players....well that's not true, you have to strong left defenders. Robertson and Tierney.
Anyway...welcome and feel free to post a lot on the blog.
We do try to get a conference call once in a while. Very nice, but you have to bring your own drinks...
Goodluck!
Thanks for the welcome David.
Had a look around here and see a few names I recognise from The Manager, so hello again to those I've gone head to head with before and hello for the first time to those I haven't yet met.
To offer up a bit of background on myself, if it's the kind of thing anyone here cares for, I'm nearly 40 years old, living in central Scotland, life long Rangers fan, father to 2 daughters.
I've seriously missed getting to the football over the last 6 months, and at some point last week accepted that The Manager wasn't coming back so reached out for an intro here.
I've not properly evaluated my team or the rules here, so I'd guess anyone coming up against me in the next few weeks should have a great chance, though looking at league positions, you had that already.
Anyway, enough for me just now, but thanks for having me and looking forward to building up the team and hopefully developing some decent rivalries here.
Gents, No, I have not retired - one day, one day. :-)
No, I have to announce that Graham has left looking after Seattle Sounders and North Sound Seawolves for a few reasons. I'd like to thank Graham for his involvement and say he is more than welcome to come back should circumstances change.
In the meantime I would like you to welcome David Laird, who from today assumes controil of these 2 teams. David has played in various games including The Manager, so should be able to slot in well enough.
Welcome David, just ask around if something needs explaining - but I know you are in good hands.
First game up is on Wednesday - got to be honest, I think it's a tall order to start with this one - you can tell I am a frustrated manager...... :-) :-)
Good Luck, more importantly, enjoy the game - the rest of the managers don't bite, so I am told!!!
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 7th September....:
CHA(20) CHV(15) MIA(50) NY(50) PHI(50) SJ(25)
I only wish we could accept we are poor, and to compete we need the mentality of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland etc whereby they don't play their own game - they play as a bonded team, abd for each other.. We remember the good times but these good times are gone - if I wasn't feeling under the weather today I could have flown over and played tonight.. couldn't do any worse...
England flatter to deceive but they do get the results....😟
Simon, you say you know little about Scottish) football - join the various managers we've had to put up with - but by participating you are earning cash - win win I'd say..💰💰
I would love to react, but my knowledge of Scottish football (players) is very low...also about Whiskey, Rum and other alcoholic drinks....so most of the time I am reading and listening to people of more knowledge about that kind of items.
If you would start a conversation about holidays than I will jump in....although I believe I just jumped in into this conversation as well...
I will keep posting until I get a few replies. Surely someone in a football sim league has thoughts on my last blog, it's football...♥️⚽️
Cheers David. Glad to have a reply. Anyone got a topic they want to rabbit on about on the blog? I'm wondering why Scotland did not beat Israel and why Israel seemed to have a couple of Messi's in their camp when it mattered! Scotland has a great squad just now. Why didn't Fleck start and why was McTominay in defence? We have a strong MF but why did Jack start? I am a Gers fan and love Jack but would rather see him pushed to right back and have McTominay or Fleck supporting in MF?
Has Gerrard the must to break 10? Will he be hounded out of Ibrox in June? Is it a good idea to farm out strong Scottish talent in McCrorie, Docherty and Murphy (all Gers fans) in place of good but generic professional players? Scott Brown was an admitted Rangers fan...so does it actually matter? Is Neil Lennon the man Celtic want I under pressure, if there is any?
Are Shankland and Nisbet any good? Are they top goal scorers held back by our poor Scottish development issues? Will Hearts bounce back immediately? Will Stevie Naismith's forehead grow any bigger?
Answers on the blog please, not a postcard!
Let us put the world to right. 😂😂😂
Cheers David. Glad to have a reply. Anyone got a topic they want to rabbit on about on the blog? I'm wondering why Scotland did not beat Israel and why Israel seemed to have a couple of Messi's in their camp when it mattered! Scotland has a great squad just now. Why didn't Fleck start and why was McTominay in defence? We have a strong MF but why did Jack start? I am a Gers fan and love Jack but would rather see him pushed to right back and have McTominay or Fleck supporting in MF?
Has Gerrard the must to break 10? Will he be hounded out of Ibrox in June? Is it a good idea to farm out strong Scottish talent in McCrorie, Docherty and Murphy (all Gers fans) in place of good but generic professional players? Scott Brown was an admitted Rangers fan...so does it actually matter? Is Neil Lennon the man Celtic want I under pressure, if there is any?
Are Shankland and Nisbet any good? Are they top goal scorers held back by our poor Scottish development issues? Will Hearts bounce back immediately? Will Stevie Naismith's forehead grow any bigger?
Answers on the blog please, not a postcard!
Let us put the world to right. 😂😂😂
Philadelphia are proud to announce the signing of experienced defender Keegan Rosebery, coach rob stated he is just what we need to bolster up our defence,as it seems fragile at present, he will slot straight in and debut against Minnesota.
Gents, 200k has been banked to the participating managers accounts (to be paid after the last fixture....
Today 2 of you gained the 30k whilst 4 more gained 20k, and the rest 10k for turning up... :-)
Next Sunday's fixture for consideration is:
Carolina Dynamo v De Anza Force S.C.
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Now remember 16 of you have a midweek fixture this Wednesday... Good luck..
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 6th September....:
ATL(80) SJ(80)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 26:
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #3: 1 TP (WdW)
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #3: 1 TP (wDW)
Vancouver Whitecaps - MVP #3: 1 TP (WDw)
New Bedford Whalers - MVP #3: 1 TP (WdW)
Montreal Olympique - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Gents, This Wednesday sees the Al Sellers Cup 1st Round 2nd Leg ties.
Draw for the 2nd Round pairs up the winners v one of the last 8 from the Dave Dowson Shield.
Roy assisted in this and the draw results in:
2nd Round 1st Leg (ties are played home and away)
Atlanta Silverbacks or New England Revolution v Los Angeles Galaxy
Minnesota Thunder v Chicago Fire or Colorado Rapids
Chivas USA or Columbus Crew v D.C. United
Philadelphia Union v Portland Timbers or Montreal Impacts
Rochester Rhinos or Real Salt Lake v Miami FC
FC Dallas v San Jose Earthquakes or Charleston Battery
Seattle Sounders or Carolina Railhawks v New York Red Bulls
Kansas City Wizards v Vancouver Whitecaps or Houston Dynamos
Games to be played midweeks Sessions 29 and 31
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Draws for the 3rd Round and the Al Sellers Plate will be random and made after the above games are completed.
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 6th September....:
MON(40) NY(80)
Gents, just to say that we are only 4 senior and 2 (?) youth teams short of a full house for today's games. Would have been more but things are moving behind the scenes - read this space tomorrow morning for developments.
However I enjoyed reading the last few Blogs regarding Messi and La Liga, so feel free to add to the discussion. It earns you cash when I open the League's purse, and let's me know I am not out here by myself. :-)
Good luck to all.....
Cheers David. Glad to have a reply. Anyone got a topic they want to rabbit on about on the blog? I'm wondering why Scotland did not beat Israel and why Israel seemed to have a couple of Messi's in their camp when it mattered! Scotland has a great squad just now. Why didn't Fleck start and why was McTominay in defence? We have a strong MF but why did Jack start? I am a Gers fan and love Jack but would rather see him pushed to right back and have McTominay or Fleck supporting in MF?
Has Gerrard the must to break 10? Will he be hounded out of Ibrox in June? Is it a good idea to farm out strong Scottish talent in McCrorie, Docherty and Murphy (all Gers fans) in place of good but generic professional players? Scott Brown was an admitted Rangers fan...so does it actually matter? Is Neil Lennon the man Celtic want I under pressure, if there is any?
Are Shankland and Nisbet any good? Are they top goal scorers held back by our poor Scottish development issues? Will Hearts bounce back immediately? Will Stevie Naismith's forehead grow any bigger?
Answers on the blog please, not a postcard!
Let us put the world to right. 😂😂😂
Had the same thought Bill. Barca in transition, Real don't look the same force they have been, could be time for Atletico Madrid to challenge again.
I'd love to see someone come out of the pack. I think Real Sociedad are only a couple of players away from a serious challenge. Can see them being the one if the big guns do falter .
...as a fan how would you feel if your star player clearly wants to leave but feels he has to stay for monetary reasons? He might get a few "boo's" this season. Flip side of the coin, he might galvanise Barca, but I doubt that. There are a lot of messy things at Barca just now, they are lucky Real are in a bad place too. This might be the season for the weird and rare opportunity for another Spanish team to win the league?..
Thoughts?
seems we keep our money in the pocket as well....
Bottom line is I'll pay out if I know I have to pay out - this Treasurer has no problems spending cash.
Thanks Simon for informing me ✅✅
PS Messi is staying at Barcelona - seems my team Hibs didn't have a spare jersey for him.. Bummer... 😉😉😉
Sorry David, was not meant to be harsh.My apologies if I was not polite.
Our financial department was very happy to receive the money....I believe they already spend it again...
Simon, if only Paul had asked me to give you the cash for your survey....
But now you have flagged it up, all done!!
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 3rd September as per managers survey....:
MIA(50)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 2nd September as per manager survey....:
where is our participation bonus?
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 2nd September as per manager survey....:
MIN(50)
Alon Atie's interview is now available to view on the main page. Please scroll down to review his responses.
Al Sellers Cup 1st Round 1st Leg games tonight, with 16 teams competing (2nd leg matches next Wednesday).
11 team lines in, so only 5 left to make it a full house. I am looking for that full house, starting to get a little paranoid with the NMR numbers creeping up... Sure this rallying call will get the reaction I am looking for......
Good luck to all!!
The following teams receive Prediction League through 31st August as per Poll Matches earnings.....:
ATL(150) CAR(140) CHA(60) CHI(60) CHV(150) COL(100) CLB(30) DC(50) HOU(110) KC(90) LA(100) MIA(100) MIN(120) MON(150) NE(110) NY(110) PHI(160) POR(20) RSL(190) ROC(150) SJ(130) SEA(100) VAN(20)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 31st August.....:
ATL(40) CHV(50) COL(50) CLB(15) MIA(45) MON(15) PHI(50) SJ(40) VAN(15)
MSA has been done!!
Plus tomorrow morning I will pay out the amounts for the first half of the Poll Match monies. Table is below - don't know why I am reproducing it, as there won't be any appeals, bribes, complaints considered. I do this as an extra for the game so don't intend going back through all the sheets. It is as right as it is going to be. BE IN IT TO WIN something.. Eleven more match days is a MINIMUM of 110k for any team who enters it (and is crap at guessing the correct score or result in all 11 games), so why wouldn't you be in it????
Average is 100k for all 24 teams, except some teams don't enter much - some teams have earned more than that. No excuse... :-)
TEAM | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | MSA |
W | E | E | K | S | TOTALS | |||||||
ATL | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 150 | |
CAR | 20 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 140 |
CHA | 10 | 20 | 10 | 20 | 60 | |||||||
CHI | 20 | 20 | 20 | 60 | ||||||||
CHV | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 150 | |
COL | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 100 | ||
CLB | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | ||||||||
DAL | 0 | |||||||||||
DC | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 50 | |||||||
HOU | 20 | 20 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 110 | |||||
KC | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 90 | |||||
LA | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 100 | ||
MIA | 10 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 100 | ||||
MIN | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 120 | ||
MON | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 20 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 150 | ||
NE | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 110 | |
NY | 10 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 10 | 110 | |||
PHI | 20 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 10 | 160 |
POR | 20 | 20 | ||||||||||
ROC | 20 | 10 | 30 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 10 | 10 | 150 | ||
RSL | 20 | 20 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 10 | 20 | 190 |
SAN | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 130 | |
SEA | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 100 | |||||
VAN | 20 | 20 | ||||||||||
290 | 280 | 160 | 220 | 160 | 180 | 230 | 240 | 250 | 230 | 160 | 2400 |
Good week for the treasurer - me! Only 160k to be paid out to teams and nobody earned a 30k payout. Even the managers of the 2 teams involved only gained 10k each.. :-)
I can certainly pick the games.... next week's fixture will be:
Columbus Crew v Chivas USA
Simon , just the one Bttle of RUM ? LOL no chance ..not had any alchol since Aug 1st !!
You have to face MSA or will you go Missing In Action
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 24:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #3: 1 TP (WwW)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #5: 25k (wDw)
D.C. United - MVP #4: 1 CP (WwW)
Montreal Impact - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #4: 1 CP (wDw)
Los Angeles Blues - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Utah Surf Boys S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
Is there not a rule that the number last of the competition is excluded for MSA?
I am pretty sure it was...
Robin copied the rules if I am correct....so I need to go to the liquor store to get some rum.
Gents, only 2 senior BUT 4 youth team line ups still to go in, so thanks for that.
NOW, today sometime after today's games I will run MSA (oh, the power... :-)) - it might be tomorrow morning but it WILL be done by Monday 10am, so no complaints afterwards about me pinching all those SLs, eh?.
Today marks the half way point in all the league divisions - one cup finished and 3 still to be completed - 2 of which still to be started, Al Sellers Cup and the Al Sellers Plate, plus the Youth Cup. Lots to play for......
Good luck for today.......
Front page left hand side, under matches to come - been on there for about 2 weeks now. 🤓🤓
MSA is always at the half way point in the League - 11 games. 👍👍
Will be done either tomorrow evening or Monday morning when I do the Participation cash.
Tomorrow night, after the games are played.
David when's MSA please?
I can't see it on any schedule
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 29th August....:
MON(40)
Thanks Roy, who summed up the final section placings on the Journal and set out the Quarter Final draw:
De Anza Force v Colorado Ice Whites
Columbus Rebels v Golden Gophers
Fall River Rovers v Savannah Celtic
Carson City Kickers v Texas Dutch Lions
Games not played till 30th September in Session 33 - after the Al Sellers Cup Rounds 1 and 2 are completed.
Anyone looking for DF's, or are most squads full? I seek CP.
No idea on trade values, so feel free to rip me off ;-)
I am thinking teams who WANTED to know results from last night will have already checked them out, so I don't see this as a spoiler.
The Dave Dowson Shield has been completed and I will tuck the cash prizes away for presenting at the end of the season to the last 4 teams. Congrats to the winner and a great run through the competition for the runner up.
The youth sections were completed without the need for any play offs. No doubt Roy will include the qualifiers in his Cup Review - Quarter Final draw is easy in that W1 v W2, W3 v W4 ....and you get the rest - games not for a few midweeks though... NEXT midweek starts the Al Sellers Cup 1st round 1st leg ties - it's all go.
BUT I have noticed that the NMR table keeps going up - 22 youth team lineups so far and just less than that for senior teams. If you have a problem please let me know - but do remember you DO operate a youth team too (except Al - I cover his so I can get into the game somewhere and not mess up the software.. !!)
Paul, been reduced to the youth team Columbus Rebels but I know of your new managers' survey. Thanks for that - starting to earn your huge fee now.. 👍👍
Big night tonight - 1st Cup Final and last of the youth section games.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 23:
Colorado Ice White - MVP #3: 1 TP (wdW)
Savannah Celtic FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WDw)
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wwW)
New York Red Bulls - MVP #6: 25k (WWw)
Simon Bijker's interview is now available to view on the main page. Please scroll down to review his responses.
David,
I cannot see you in the list of managers when trying to send you a message on here. Your jnr is there. Can you please check. You were omitted as you were also not included in the Manager Interview email that was sent to All Div 1 and 2 Manager lists.
You would think there would be a bit more respect for us older lads, but I struggle to get it when playing with the Rebels.. and ask Robin, the queen is getting ready to send his birthday card out.. 😂😂😂😂
I mean I feel this morning like 111, no, wait, that should be ill, but do I get any good wishes, not a blink!!
Still 8 teams still to put lines in - I will always be on people's backs for NMRs - takes no time to put lines in.
PS Great bit of Blogging from Bryce on tonight's youth matches. Thanks for that - and should there be a section with 2 teams level points and goals scored - there would be a play off as there is at least 5 midweeks before the Quarter Finals...👍👍
David,
I'd like to report a bug. Since I wrote the simulator, shouldn't I be winning more games? Shouldn't managers let me win as needed? It seems like there are a lot of bugs right now...
Al
Good lineup of games tomorrow. Something to play for in 7 of the 8 groups. Here are the permutations:
Group A:
De Anza Force S.C. vs Mount Tabor S.C.
De Anza only need a point here to advance. Mount Tabor not technically eliminated but a win for them most likely puts Laredo through.
Group B:
Washington Diplomats vs. Colorado Ice White
One of the winner takes all matches. A draw gets Colorado through.
Group C:
Utah Surf Boys S.C. vs Columbus Rebels
Another winner takes all match. Draw sees Columbus advance.
Group D:
Windy City Pride vs. Golden Gophers
Interesting group here. Draw or win for the Gophers and they move on but they can also survive with a 1 goal loss. If Windy City manages better than that and win by 2+ goals they can move on.
Group E:
KC Athletics vs. Daniel Island S.A.
Consolation match only as Fall River have already beaten these two teams and secured a spot in the knockout from this group.
Group F:
Savannah Celtic FC vs. Gananda Bandits S.C.
Winner takes all between these two but a draw is good enough for Savannah.
Group G:
North Sound Seawolves vs. Carson City Kickers
North Sound cannot advance with any result but Carson City can keep the party going with a 3 goal win or a 2 goal win where they score at least 3 goals. If they win 2-0 we go way down the tiebreaker chart to leading goal scorer and then to flip a coin. So I guess this is the one to watch if you like chaos.
Group H:
Texas Dutch Lions vs. Carolina Dynamo
Win or draw for Texas gets them into the next round. Carolina need a win by more than 2 goals or a 2 goal win where they score at least 3 goals.
Now posted, and as in the Dave Dowson Shield ties, the referee for the 1st leg game will be the same for the return leg. :-)
The 8 Quarter Finalists from the Shield sections receive a bye for the 2nd Round as per Rules. (Maybe someone will comment that perhaps an all in draw is more democratic and in future the 8 bye teams would be random - a Poll perhaps?)
Sorry for delay but with my internet down I wasn't going to type in the games individually. Games will take place in sessions 25 and 27. I still have to schedule the games but be aware of them, please..
Games are played over 2 legs home and away (away goals rules apply here).
1st Round 1st Leg games are as follows:
Al Sellers Cup | ||
Seattle Sounders | v | Carolina Railhawks |
Atlanta Silverbacks | v | New England Revolution |
San Jose Earthquakes | v | Charleston Battery |
Chivas USA | v | Columbus Crew |
Rochester Rhinos | v | Real Salt Lake |
Chicago Fire | v | Colorado Rapids |
Vancouver Whitecaps | v | Houston Dynamos |
Portland Timbers | v | Montreal Impacts |
Fingers crossed but I am back online and have a home phone again...
Thanks to Paul for organising a Managers Survey again. He is very free with the League's money, but as I am the Treasurer as well, I can confirm money will be paid out upon sensible completion of the Survey.
Poll Match next week is a humdinger of a youth game - Fall River Rovers v New Bedford Whalers - LAST match to earn anything before MSA - monies will be paid out after MSA next weekend.
Did I forget to mention MSA - it arrives after next weekend's games..... MARK?
The new interview is in your inboxes now. When this is received, it will be published on the main page, scroll down to find it. As each reply is published i will let David know and you will each earn 50k as this is updated.These will be published every 4/5 days for the remainder of the season.
Thanks in advance for your participation
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 24th August....:
PHI(50) SJ(30)
Just to say that 2 managers will be getting 30k for being correct with the result and score line. A further 6 managers get 20k for getting the result correct and another 6 get 10k for taking part.
Won't get Broadband back till tomorrow 😡😡😡 and have lots to catch up with, so the next match won't be put on till tomorrow... 👍
2 senior teams and 3 youth teams (LAG please note you run a youth team too!) and kess than one hour to go.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 22:
Chivas USA - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Houston Dynamo - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wwW)
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
And then there were 3......🤔🤔
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 21:
Washington Diplomats - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wwW)
Fall River Rovers - MVP #3: 1 TP (WWw)
Langley F.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Lads, still 9 (NINE) of 20 team lines still to be put through - and some managers have 2 to put through...🤔🤔
Gents, please remember that tomorrow (Wednesday) there are 16 youth teams in action along with the 2 semi finals of the Dave Dowson Shield.
i am still without internet - all this is being done via my iPhone. 😡😡
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 17th August....:
CHV(50) LA(15) MIA(15) SJ(15) VAN(50)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 20:
Philadelphia Union - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWW)
New York Red Bulls - MVP #5: 25k (wWW)
Vancouver Whitecaps - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWD)
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #3: 1 TP (WWd)
Ha ha - I did pick a game but in Monday first thing Karin and myself took off to Pitlochry for a couple of days - getting back Wednesday.
Butvthsts okay - as each half of the season was meant to have 10 Polls and by missing this one we are back on track. Thanks for the heads up - 3 people had already voted on a game that took place last week..... and all wrong. Life CAN be fun.. 😂😂
Is there a new one?
Or is my computer very slow?
Only 5 senior teams team lines needed for a full house today, along with 6 youth line ups (the 6th one is my own..)
Remember the Poll match - only a couple of Sunday's left before I pay out the first half monies... Be in it to win cash.
Jason, sorry for delay but I've sorted your query out.
Some cracking Quarter Finals last Wednesday in the Dave Dowson Shield competition- Semi Finals due up this Wednesday. Thanks to Roy for summarising them up on the front page - I know it's his job, but I still appreciate reading his and Rob's reviews.....
Good luck today to all (except any NMRs)... 🤫🤫
First of all it's MANY thanks to Robin who copied over the rules to the new link. Took a while as I kept sending in updates etc.
However please don't flag up any differences as there are quite a few where the new ones were updated from the last ones in 2013. As Robin says the old link will go at the season end but even for now it's the updated ones at the bottom that count. Still changes to be made as the Youth Auction is being replaced.
On another note about the OTF MA in the last auction, Mark said it's a random position that comes up BUT if it ever happens again we will flag it up and coaches will bid as normal. It will be the bids that will win it, not any error messages. But we will see it coming and make sure you boys are all informed - we didn't last time as it has never come up before - can say the next one is fine... 👍
Yes we have 2 sets .
1. .This was an emergency set of rules (we had none) compiled by Paul Cockayne on his WEB site .
This was supposed to be a temp. . solution but has gone on for many seasons . Now time to give Paul back his Web site and many thanks from us and the other SOS leagues .
2. New Rules , and we are igreateful to Andrew McCumiskey for setting up the site for us and the othe SOS leagues . However he declined to do all the work (LOL) and left that to me . Somewhat of a marathon , NOT simply copy and paste , so I hope I have got everything correct .
We have left the original rules in place until end of this season , then they will be removed. So in meantime if you look at both sets and find anything missing lets us know please .
Robin
Bill,
I don't think i have ever seen a team with 5 GK on their roster before. Albeit your latest recruit was a bargain :) Some teams don't have 5 players in DF or MF :)
A new record i think.
David,
Can the low SL players for the OTF all be static players? On Auction 3 Lot 7 there was a 9/3 MA but 4 bids were invalid as those teams have 5 Multi Position Players already on their roster. CAR and KC would have won the auction (or a bid off as they both bid 351) rather than MON who won on 300.
The other OTF static lots are fine when a static player is selected.
For those not knowing what i mean by static player - SW/DF/MF/FW rather than the DM/MA players.
Thanks
Robin/David,
There are 2 rules links on the main page. There is the one for OASL Rules - http://paulcockayne3.wixsite.com/mysite
And one for Robin - http://www.vanillaconsulting.biz/seslwiki/index.php?title=OASL_Rules
Are these both correct?
Both links appear to work ok.
Gents, still having internet problems with BT but will schedule the Dave Dowson Shield Semi Finals for NEXT WEDNESDAY 19th August ASAP (Friday?). Not spoiling here as the 4 teams will know they are through and Roy will hopefully have a review on the front page by tomorrow... 🤔
Plus there is the 2nd of 3 section games in the Youth Cup the same night. 👍
Same time I will post the Al Sellers Cup 1st Round Draw....
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 19:
Colorado Ice White - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Golden Gophers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 11th August..missed dye to Commish’s myopia -sorry!! 😉😉:
SJ(40)
Somebody with Commish acess keeps Changing the Link set up on the new Rules , PLEASE STOP , this is the 5th time I have had to correct it .
Thankyou .
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 11th August..missed dye to Commish’s myopia -sorry!! 😉😉:
SJ(40)
I did do a journal on 7th but no payout. Maybe not enough words to get one!
Brian and others, since this week was the lowest payout for ages, the money is paid out weekly usually on Monday mornings for your contributions to Journals and Blogs.
a simple Blog will get a minimum 10k - an interesting or informative blog nets more. 2 Blogs will usually get to 30-35k, but more if it is really good. Add a Journal - speak to Rob (or just read his Journals) - his 2 Journals gets him close to if not on the maximum payout of 50k per week.
I can payout as much as I want and it depends on the contributions made by the managers of senior teams. (Means I don't earn anything....😡😡)
Hope that helps.... (and the Poll Match earnings will also give you 200k minimum even if you get everything wrong. But you need to participate to accumulate.. that's good 🤔🤓😂✅.
What does it take to receive a participation bonus?
Thanks.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 10th August....:
MIN(15) NY(30) PHI(50)
Next Sunday's game will be Columbus Crew v Philadelphia Union.
Now please Remember that beside the Dave Dowson Shield Quarter Finals we start the Youth Cup section games, so for 8 teams at least there may be 2 matches on Wednesday and for 16 managers there is at least one game. 🤓🤓
Gents, 16 managers entered the Poll with 9 getting 10k for taking part, 4 get 20k for getting the result correct, and 3 getting 30k for getting the score correct as well. The highest number in any one week to get the full 30k. Total payout will be 260k this week.
I'll work out next weeks game tonight.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 18:
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #4: 1 CP (WWD)
New England Revolution - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
New Bedford Whalers - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Red Force FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WDw)
Greetings gents on this lovely sunny morning.. (it is here in Fife anyway).
Good to report that only 2 senior team lines still have to come in (and I'm not worried by these 2) BUT there are 4 youth lines still due - no doubt they will be by kickoff time.
And remember to put in your guess for the Poll Match - even if nowhere correct you still get paid for entering. Be in it to get something out of it. Good luck today!! 👍
Our Cup Reviewer, Roy, very quickly updated the results last night and added the Quarter Final line up at the end of his report on the front page. Much appreciated, Roy. ✅
Today I have scheduled these Quarter Finals for next Wednesday to be played alongside the first set of Youth Cup matches, so please ensure you check out the fixtures and not miss any - some if you will have 2 games next midweek.. 🤓🤓
Our Cup Reviewer, Roy, very quickly updated the results last night and added the Quarter Final line up at the end of his report on the front page. Much appreciated, Roy. ✅
Today I have scheduled these Quarter Finals for next Wednesday to be played alongside the first set of Youth Cup matches, so please ensure you check out the fixtures and not miss any - some if you will have 2 games next midweek.. 🤓🤓
NY sends Ken Buchanan (2/23 MF), Giliano Wiijnaldum (5/24 MA), Marcus Hahnemann (6/18 GK) to CHA for Oisin Murphy (3/28 MA), Jason Bradshaw (5/12 GK)
Sorry folks. Just home. Agreed, postpone to next week.
I haven't seen a hosting password etc so guessing Bill wanted one of us to start it.
think you are right - we will let Bill plan these things.. 😉😉👍
Sorry only came on now.
I think its a bit late so probably best to postpone to next week.
Gents, I have never started a zoom set up so wouldn't know where to go and apart from Bill's first meeting, I have ever only been onto 1 zoom meeting (bowling club) and was supplied the details for it. If it doesn't go ahead I will be there when the next one is ready..(I always used Skype with Dave in the old days and we did Cup draws as we could see the draw being made.. The Good Old Days.
PS Thanks for a full house for tonight, lads. makes running the set up all the more appealing when that happens. Good luck all!!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 17:
FC Dallas - MVP #4: 1 CP (dWW)
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WDw)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #3: 1 TP (Www)
Can someone else kick off the zoom meet tonight? I should be able to attend but won't be home for 2000 GMT.
Gents, seems we had another wee blip - sorted by Mark 👍
So far only 12 of 24 teams have lines in for tonight's last round of cup matches - even if you haven't a chance of qualifying for the last 8 of the Dage Dowson Shield it is still an opportunity to play lesser lights and train players.
Plus there is Bill's Zoom get together at 8pm tonight ...✅✅
Sorted last night, and I can see that it won't be a problem in the next auction. Will watch out for it, and if it can't be sorted out for future auctions at least we would know to manually correct any anomaly - sometimes you need a problem to make you aware, there just might be a problem. I knew it was going too well....... :-)
Agree, and I am sure the new boss has this on his radar. Cheers pal.
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 3rd August....:
NY(35) SEA(65)
The following teams receive Adjustment through 3rd August - auction 3 OTF adjustment....:
KC(-351) MON(300)
NY sends Ruslan Chagaev (5/22 GK) to HOU for 2 CP, Jerome Sriganthan (5/13 GK)
Gents, 17 managers took part yesterday and there was a full house in the senior teams line ups - thanks...
In the Poll 7 were correct (for 20k), whilst the other 9 gainesd the 10k for taking part - but I certainly pick them as nobody got the CHI 1-0 win v DC (come on, it's hardly a spoiler....)
Monies have been allocated to each team's cash to be given out at MSA time.
Next Week's Poll Match will be:
Real Salt Lake v Miami FC
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 3rd August....:
MON(25) NY(35) PHI(50) SJ(45)
Nobody mentioned the various things that can happen whilst running a game..... :-(
Thanks Mark, you explained it well - will watch for it happening again, BEFORE the auction runs. And will add something onto the auction page itself .
I am off to a funeral so will correct it all this evening but the winner of the 3 OTF is Kansas City Wizards, as both they and CAR are in the top division but the "player" goes to the lower of the 2 in points. So tonight I will re-imburse MON, take away his MA 9,3, and add 3 OTF to KC whilst deducting 351k. :-)
Seems reasonable to re-calculate manually the OTF lot 7.
It's not commish fault as software randomly assigns a position. I never realised it would cause an issue, and not sure if the 4 managers whose bids were invalidated noticed MA position either? Best if these blips flagged up beforehand, but I'm happy for David to cancel my winning bid.
Agree, and I am sure the new boss has this on his radar. Cheers pal.
Agree, and I am sure the new boss has this on his radar. Cheers pal.
OTF shouldn't be made an MPP. 4 teams bids were disqualified due to this. It should have been input as MF position only. This lot may have to be looked at again to be fair to the teams that had bids rejected in error.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 16:
Daniel Island S.A. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WDw)
Columbus Rebels - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Just over an hour to go and only SEA to put in a team line. BUT 4 youth teams have still to enter team lines..
Let's hope for a full house - would be the first in a while.. 🤔🤔
Wednesday 8pm sounds good to me.. and just before the evening matches..👍👍
Who is in? The more the merrier.
ATL sends 150k to CHI for 2 TP
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 15:
D.C. United - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWD)
New York Red Bulls - MVP #4: 1 CP (wWW)
Colorado Rapids - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWD)
Columbus Crew - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Wwd)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #3: 1 TP (wwW)
12 hours to go and 6 teamlines still needed for a full house...
Last Sunday was NOT a full house - shame but life exists.....
Dave Dowson Shield is on it's 9th section game tonight - a few more qualifiers will likely be known by 9-02pm. For some who can't qualify a chance to train up and save ELs for the bigger picture (league games coming up..).
Good luck to all...
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 28th July....:
CAR(120)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 27th July....:
COL(50) MON(35) NE(35) NY(15) PHI(50) SJ(50)
Group A: De Anza Force, Laredo Heat, Mount Tabor
Group B: Colorado Ice, Bedford Whalers, Washington
Group C: Columbus Rebels, Montreal Olympique, Utah Surf
Group D: Golden Gophers, LA Blues, Windy City
Group E: Daniel Island, Fall River, KC Athletics
Group F: Gananda Bandits, Red Force, Savannah Celtic
Group G: Carson City, Langley, North Sound
Group H: Carolina Dynamo, Roxborough, Texas Dutch Lions
I've had a look at the T-11 stats for the groups (which may or may not be relevant for the Youth teams) and there seems to be a good spread across the groups. Groups E and D look the most interesting. Group D's rankings are 2nd, 9th and 11th but the 9th ranked team is Alon's Gopher and the 11th is the Blues who have won the cup before. Group E has 14th ranked Daniel Island who have won the league twice, KC ranked 8th who have won the cup once and the likely favourites for the cup 1st placed ranked Fall River who have won the league twice.
However some stats often don't mean much - De Anza top Div 4 and are scoring goals for for but are only ranked 13th and Utah are 2nd in Div 3 but only ranked 18th in T-11.
I can't find the rules for the Youth Cup, but there are 8 groups of 3 teams, each team plays the other 2 teams once and then winners of each group form the quarter-finals. The knockout stages are played over one round.
Gents, Nobody got within reach of earning 30k today, but I have added a total of 230k to teams' balances to be paid at MSA, for the lads who guessed the result correctly AND the others who took part.. 4 teams are 100k or more after 7 weeks, but 1 still has not taken part and 3 others have only taken part once - yet all earned 20k with their sole offering.
In addition I have put up next weekend's Poll match - and NO - it isn't the standout tie MIN v NY......
For me, I plan to be at the top of the 2nd division clash between CHI and DC..... Fill your boots!! :-)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 14:
Philadelphia Union - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWD)
Vancouver Whitecaps - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wdW)
Utah Surf Boys S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDw)
Fall River Rovers - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Colorado Ice White - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
First of all we just have 6 senior and 7 youth teams to be entered for today's games, and don't forget to place a Poll match guess (result and scoreline) to earn some pennies. Let's have NO NMRs today, eh.. :-)
Also the Youth Cup was drawn into it's usual 8 sections x 3 teams. Each team plays a game v the other 2 - winner of each section to the Quarter Finals. Games are played the same night as the Dave Dowson Shield Quarters, Semis, and Final. The Youth Cup Quarters are into the 2nd half of the season.
I randomised the teams (left hand side) and Roy picked the section numbers:
DB's | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | |
Nos. | |||||||||
21 | Carolina Dynamo | 21 | |||||||
6 | Carson City Kickers | 6 | |||||||
20 | Colorado Ice White | 20 | |||||||
23 | Columbus Rebels | 23 | |||||||
10 | Daniel Island S.A. | 10 | |||||||
9 | De Anza Force S.C. | 9 | |||||||
5 | Fall River Rovers | 5 | |||||||
18 | Gananda Bandits S.C. | 18 | |||||||
16 | Golden Gophers | 16 | |||||||
15 | KC Athletics | 15 | |||||||
12 | Langley F.C. | 12 | |||||||
1 | Laredo Heat | 1 | |||||||
4 | Los Angeles Blues | 4 | |||||||
13 | Montreal Olympique | 13 | |||||||
2 | Mount Tabor S.C. | 2 | |||||||
11 | New Bedford Whalers | 11 | |||||||
24 | North Sound Seawolves | 24 | |||||||
19 | Red Force FC | 19 | |||||||
14 | Roxborough Indians S.C. | 14 | |||||||
17 | Savannah Celtic FC | 17 | |||||||
8 | Texas Dutch Lions | 8 | |||||||
3 | Utah Surf Boys S.C. | 3 | |||||||
7 | Washington Diplomats | 7 | |||||||
22 | Windy City Pride | 22 |
A few seasons ago in SESL we had a 0% chance against DUM. I know it's rounded so checked as our OFF was just higher than their DEF. Turned out to be a 1 in 10000 chance. Pity it was saved.
No, it is a tactic and perfectly playable (and nearly worked). I have seen games lost to a stalling team who slipped away for a single shot at goal - happens in real life..
On another note, I see a few higher SL players being retired - just hope it isn't because of the increased payments for players with skills 9-12 - previously these lads were classified the same as SL8. Please note the increased payments table won't come in till season 26 - next season. That fact is highlighted in the rules next to the table - thanks Robin....(Mind you, you still get cash for the retirees, just it will be at the rate as for SL8.)
1 NE S 178.00 297.83 23.83
Anybody else think it might be a bit wrong? Nearly got a draw against the mighty Bulls. Roughly a 50-50 chance overall. Of course we lose those 90% of the time.
Only 2 matches left in the Cup sections and only 1 section has its 2 qualifiers known and even then the pecking order is still to be determined.
Unfortunately a couple more NMRs last night.. Even if a team can't influence their standing in the section or division, NMRs are missed free training slots and influence other teams standings.
Gents, at this early stage (only 13 games played) it has to be worrying if 3 games have been missed when everybody plays weekend and midweek for at least 11 of the first 12 weeks (even if out of Dave Dowson Shield Quarter Finals, your youth team wil play 2 of the 3 midweek slots whilst the last 8 play down to the DD Final).
Rant over - this is my baby now so I can have an occasional moan, eh? 🧛♂️🧛♂️😁😁
The following teams receive Physio Boost through 22nd July for Steven Gayle....:
DAL(-40)
First of all I didn't put the message on to Andy twice - this morning's has come out of the blue - worryingly!!
Tonight's games still need 4 managers putting in their team sheets, please, for a full house..
Good luck to all... :-)
All done Andy!! 👍👍
All done Andy!! 👍👍
I'll get it done Andy ..🤓🤓
OTF showing as two players on my team page and needs converting. Thanks.
Thanks to Al for spotting the main problem which is mere mortals probably wouldn't have, and even if we had, were not in a position to correct it.
Al spent time and effort and we are now back on track, so it's thanks to him (and Mark for wading through possible errors). We will try for 2 more auctions before the MSA. 😉
On to tomorrow's games - game 8 of 10 in the Dave Dowson Shield sections.
All thanks to Al Sellers 👍
Front page news, Bill Ramsay buys William Ramsay!
NY sends Kash Farooq (2/23 MA), Miguel Almirón (4/25 MA), Michael Katsidis (5/20 DF) to POR for William Ramsay (2/26 MA), Sully Prudhomme (4/26 DM)
Auction 2 errored last night and myself, David and Al Sellers are in discussions for a fix.
I have processed bids manually and David has this to check later today.
More news when we have it. Thanks for your patience with this. Again.
Frustrating for all, especially me as driving me nuts!
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 20th July....:
MON(80) SJ(50)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 20th July....:
CHV(30) CLB(15) HOU(30) LA(50) MON(50) NE(50) NY(50) PHI(30) SJ(30)
Gents, seems we have a problem with yesterday's auction despite me being taken off as team 49.
Mark has all the bids and it can be done manually, but has asked Al to see if he can spot the problem for future auctions.
Watch this space....✅
Gents, today saw 14 teams taking part, with 1 lad (step forward Mark) gaining the full 30k for guessing the correct result and score, with 2 others getting 20k and the remainder taking home 10k. At MSA you will all collect your winnings...
Next Sunday's fixture will be:
Los Angeles Galaxy v Philadelphia Union
Get your guess in NOW!!
Couple of lads missed their games today - if anybody has a problem just get in touch..
AUCTION is due up in 4 hours time - 9-30pm (GMT) - be in it to win it.
2 more auctions will follow a bit more quickly, leaving 2 (Dave used to have 1 after MSA and 5 before - I plan to have 2 after and 4 before) for after the start of the return league games - MSA!!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 12:
New York Red Bulls - MVP #3: 1 TP (Dww)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Www)
D.C. United - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wdW)
Chicago Fire - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Carolina Dynamo - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
Gents, another Match Day and only 5 senior (and 6 youth) team lines still to come in to make it a full house.....
Also remember money can be made by going into the Poll match. :-)
Good luck to all....
Best one is when an aggressive GK gives away a penalty for handball.
...pretty sure this commentary was based on Rene Higuita who tried to do this all the time...
It is highly unusual, but that did happen to me once at The Manager (over 20+ seasons). So not entirely impossible.
Paul, need to have a word with the laddie - he's not paid to be a DF/SW/MF and, in his last game, a little too physical.. 🧛♂️🧛♂️
Min 42: John Berry (CHV) stops Marko Grujic as he flies down the wing...
...he won the ball but took the man...
...and gets a yellow card.
Min 83: Tackle from behind sees the ref hold aloft a 2nd yellow in his left hand...
...and a RED CARD in his right hand!...
...John Berry is SENT OFF.
The reason I bring this up. JOHN BERRY is my GK.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 11:
Philadelphia Union - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dww)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wwW)
Miami FC - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (dWW)
Glad you lads enjoyed the chat last night - sorry I missed it but how bad would life have been for me if I was to choose you lot over my family and grandson's birthday? Think about it.. 🤔🤔
Anyway I'll look forward to the next one - likely we'll encourage some of Mark's lads along for the chat, who knows? And we won't charge them much for the privilege...😂😂😂😂😂😂
On to tonight and looking for a full house as the sections get down to the serious end. (Not for me, I'm just an interested spectator..)
Good luck all!! ✅
Really good catch up tonight, agreed Stephen. 🤝🤝 Great to see "the man" Creasey, the mettle behind the show. 👨🎓👨🎓 Bri, we will work together next time to make sure you are included. 28,000. 🗽🗽G, will you ever come see me? How much of a discount do I need to provide? 🍺🍻🍺🍻Simon, what a joy to talk to you from Holland, hopefully we can get Leon on board next time. 🇱🇺🇱🇺 David C, pick up your phone pal and Williams, you might not see me in London but more reason to keep this going! 🌆🌆 Alon was on last time but busy tonight and the Commish has run out of birthdays. 😂😂😂
Personally, I think video calls here and there is the way forward for us all. It is a great way to let the SOS community breath together. I hope that more will join next time, it is really good crack. Onwards and upwards gents.
Bill,
I work overnight (2300-0800), so sleep about 0900-1600. I suspect 1600 my time is a bit too late for you guys. If I can have a few days notice, I can get on the call at an earlier time here, e.g. 1400. Or if this happens on a weekend, I can definitely join.
Fun chat tonight lads, I enjoyed that
On for tonight Stephen. Get the wine poured or beer opened!
I can't do tomorrow, but can do Thurs. I've invited Dave C as well, the Battery boss.
I have posted in a FB Messenger group and here.
Meeting 935 499 6521
Password 1MS5uW
See you tonight folks.
Your blog posted an hour out from the time you mentioned in the message. Not sure what that means. What time did you log in last time? Deduct an hour and that is the answer.
i have only had 3 replies for tonight and one was David's note that he is unavailable. Should we postpone til tomorrow to include David? This might give a few more coaches the chance to join us?
Thoughts guys, as it stands it is only Stephen W, Bri and me? That said, these are two coaches I feel I have known for years and am very keen to meet.
Bill,
I up for Tuesday, though I'm not sure what time it translates to on my side. I'm in Eastern. GMT right now shows as 0238, while Eastern is 2238. Does it sound right that we're four hours apart?
Cheers.
A few points:
1. Ball Control is stronger than Normal for the same line-up. Unless your DF are much higher than your MF.
2. If you have a WG then play him at MF as he doesn't contribute to Ball Control.
3. 5-4-1 Opp puts about the same total GP/DEF/OFF against 4-5-1 Ball Control (B loses 25% SW GP, gains 25% OTF, gains (5+OTF)/2 and the MF/DF total contributions are swapped). The only problem is with Opp is that your shot distribution will be 2:2:1 DF:MF:FW but with Ball it will be 1:5:1
4. Play Ball Control
MIN sends K Hoever (1/14 MF) to VAN for 275k
Team tactic formula's in Oasl are out of line with the Oasl rules.
This came to light last week when the rules wiki was being updated (thanks to Robin Dewar for his work with rule text transfer and updating)
Nothing will change during this season. But this blog gives notice that team tactic formula's used will change for the start of new season. The new figures will be published on wiki rules, and Commish David Blair will advise when figures are finalised.
Discussions are on-going, but what you see on wiki rules now will be very close to team tactic formula's going forward from next season.
Steve Turner's blog on Saturday July 4th, 2020 - 17:11:56 GMT is useful background. Alon Atie and others have offered opinions. If you would like to give your 2 cents worth, then contact David Blair by email or inbox via team Columbus Rebels
Current team tactic formulas used in oasl today:-
TACTICS MULTIPLIERS currently in this season of oasl |
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GP | DEF | OFF | |||||||||||||
TACTIC | DF | SW | SW | DF | MF | OTF | SW | DF | MF | WG | FW | OTF | |||
B | 0.75 | 0.25 | 1 | 0.75 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.25 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.5 | |||
C | 0.75 | 0.25 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.5 | 1.25 | 1 | 1 | |||
E | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.25 | 0.5 | 1.75 | 1 | 0 | |||
L | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.25 | 0.5 | 1.25 | 1.25 | 0 | |||
N | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0.25 | 0.75 | 1.25 | 1 | 1 | |||
O | 0.75 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 0.75 | 1.5 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.5 | 1.25 | 1 | 0 | |||
P | 0.75 | 0.25 | 1 | 0.75 | 0.25 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 1 | 1.25 | 1 | 2 | |||
S | 1.5 | 1 | 1 | 1.25 | 1.25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 |
Team tactics per the current rules in wiki :-
http://www.vanillaconsulting.biz/seslwiki/index.php?title=OASL_Rules#Tactical_Formulae
GP - SW | GP - DF | DEF - SW | DEF - DF | DEF - MF | DEF - OTF | OFF - SW | OFF - DF | OFF - MF | OFF - WG | OFF - FW | OFF - OTF | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
B | 0.75 | 0.25 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0 | 0.25 | 0.75 | 1.25 | 1 | 2 |
C | 0.75 | 0.25 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 1.75 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.5 | 1.25 | 1 | 2 |
E | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.25 | 0.5 | 1.75 | 1 | 0 |
L | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.25 | 0.5 | 1.25 | 1.25 | 0 |
N | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0.25 | 0.75 | 1.25 | 1 | 1 |
O | 0.75 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 0.75 | 1.5 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.5 | 1.25 | 1 | 0 |
P | 0.75 | 0.25 | 1 | 0.75 | 0.25 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 1 | 1.25 | 1 | 2 |
S | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.25 | 1.25 | 1 | 0 |
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 13th July....:
COL(25) MIN(25) NE(50) PHI(50) SJ(35)
Bill, great idea to follow up the last one - wonder if Graham will shave for this one. LOL. However tomorrow is my only grandson's Birthday, and we have company for a socially distanced meal outdoors. 7pm is not good for me, but if the time is good for the lads then carry on and I will catch the next one.
Very inconsiderate and I've told Adam - my grandson - did you know he had a Birthday last year around the same time. Too much of a good thing, if you ask me. :-)
Your team Captain is restored.. I didn't know where to do it but Mark told me - thanks to him - I know something else now.. 👍👍
Zooooooommmm.
How many can make Tuesday at 7pm? Time can be adapted if necessary. Last call was a success, gutted I missed talking to Brian B and Rob Lye was someone I wanted to see!
This is a chance for all coaches to say hi! Even a 5 minute log in is helping the community talk and progress.
Cheers lads and peace.
Your team Captain is restored.. I didn't know where to do it but Mark told me - thanks to him - I know something else now.. 👍👍
Gents, 160k was won todayby 12 entrants through participation in the Poll match - why it is not a minimum of 240k per week I don't know - it's money for nothing..
I digress though, and the lucky lads have had their money put away into their kitty ready for MSA time. I seem to pick them - nobody got full 30k but 4 got 20k and the remainder get 10k.
Next Sunday's game will be a Youth match:
Washington Diplomats v KC Athletics
PS Brian, I have not forgotten about your Captain - I will get him re-instated asap..
Eddie Elephant was actually worse with a -12 muscle pull 6 minutes.
2 in 2 games. The first on Eddie Elephant knocked him down to -4 and it's still two games before he's fully fit - but not a disaster. And today Mike Rose who would have been on EL for the Dowson Cup Game but he's out for two games now.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 10:
Houston Dynamo - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Los Angeles Galaxy - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (dwW)
Montreal Impact - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
New Bedford Whalers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wwW)
Lovely sunshine - at least where I am - and reporting that just 3 teams (plus youth) are needed for a full house for today's games.
Good luck today to all 🥳🥳
Gents, this trade has been reversed as it is an unbalanced deal.
I have written and explained the reasoning to both managers - and a deal can still go through before tomorrow but needs to be a better balance. Meantime would both teams check their team lines as likely both will have a gap in their line up for tomorrow. 👍
POR sends Cameron Davis (4/23 FW) to LA for 100k, Billy Coutu (3/27 MF)
Appreciate the comments made and I've asked the lads concerned for their thoughts. 🤔🤔
Appreciate the comments made and I've asked the lads concerned for their thoughts. 🤔🤔
Got to agree with the other guys - horrible pointless trade.
Derek he has cash to spare. Looks like he needs frontline support especially playing 433 with a winger and 2 low SL forwards.
He could have played his MA up front and kept the 3/27 for midfield
Did POR actually swop a 3 27MF for a 4 23 FW.
Then to sweeten the deal POR added 100K.
That has got to be 1 of the most 1 sided deals I have ever seen.
LA sends Cameron Davis (4/23 FW) to POR for 100k, Billy Coutu (3/27 MF)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 9:
FC Dallas - MVP #3: 1 TP (wwW)
New York Red Bulls - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WDw)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 8th July....:
ATL(40) DC(20) SEA(40)
Only Phil @ ROC to put a team line in on day 6 of the Dave Dowson Shield competition - homeward stretch now. Referees on tonight's game should be the referees who controlled the reverse game on day 1, and that will be true for the remaining matches in the Shield as well....
Good luck tonight.
On anothe tack, I have decided that the Youth Auctioin WILL be cancelled for this end of season - so if you wish to train up 3 or 4 of your age 0 players, now is the time to decide. I waited but only 3 expressed an opinion on my suggestions, so I see no reason to wait..
Options 1 and 2 will be offered as per Blog last week but not option 3 (3 would still give me a load of work and defeats the reason for wanting it stopped in the first place).
So, teams will take either 3 or 4 players across to the senior squads at season end, all aged 1.
1 Teams will decide 3 or 4, if 3 then the 4th will remain with their youth teams.
2 Managers will decide on their MPP from all of their age 0 players, not necessarily the highest rated, as long as the lad in question CAN be changed to the desired position (eg I can't/won't change a FW to a DM, or a DF to a MA for example).
3 Managers can decide on ONE of the players coming over, NOT the MPP, who will have no restriction placed on them - ie that lad will be eligible for trading from the word go - pre season deals can be arranged and put through once the player(s) are in their senior teams. If a club wants to sell their MPP he will have to serve the usual 5 match trade embargo, other than that he is free to be sold/bought, as before..
Nothing needs to be done now, as I will send a form towards the end of the season to get your club's decisions.
Rob mentioned that he's faced.ball control three times on the trot and is glad of the break. And I commented that soon everyone will be playing it. I will explain more in a Blog post: Tactics part 2 but for now will leave it at this.
At the start of the game Philadelphia had a shot chance of 2.64% and Dallas was 7.00%. All Rob had to do was move his SL 31 FW to MF and change to Ball Control and the shot chances would be 3.40% and 5.56% respectively. That is a massive shift for a small change. Even 4-5-1 Opportunistic, which I consider the best tactic against Ball Control isn't as effective
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 6th July 2020....:
COL(30) HOU(40) MIA(50) MON(15) NE(50) PHI(50) ROC(35) SJ(30)
First of all thanks lads - a full house today and a few goals to boot..
In the Poll match there were 13 entries with 2 getting the correct result but neither getting the correct score (20k each) and the other 11 nowhere (but getting 10k each for making an effort) - 150k being distributed amongst the participants.
Game for next Sunday is to be:
New England Revolution v Rochester Rhinos
Any tips for how to score a goal in OASL?
Who is in charge here? We need to talk! ;-)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 8:
Mount Tabor S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
Fall River Rovers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWW)
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWW)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Only 4 senior (and 2 Youth teams) still to put team lines in, so looking for a full house here today.
On the Youth auction discussion I am listening and the various points as regards managers picking which lad to be an MPP, which if any to be left behind in the youth setup, plus putting say one of the lads coming over to the senior squad on a "immediate trade" basis are all acceptable and probably popular.
I'd prefer a straight forward Option 1 or 2 but have to mention that on that basis you must remember the 60TPs you started with might need to be thought out IF you fancied bringing over all 4 lads. I feel anything that means the youth set up is taken more seriously has to be good for the set up.
And I agree about Steve's tactics analysis - I take a while to understand soime of it, but appreciate the time and effort explaining it, and it will make him some readies ...... a win win all round, methinks!!
Now, it seems that my team Boss Blair 2020 caused the 1st auction to have a hissy fit - it counted as a 49th team. So the plan is to remove it probably tomorrow - Monday. So I can keep getting into the programme, I am taking over Columbus Rebels in the Youth Division 4 (Al's suggestion, I didn't push for it, but appreciate the sacrifice...). So, you will shortly see me coming in under REB, but as youth teams don't earn participation cash, it won't mean any changes EXCEPT any in box messages you wish to send me need to be put in to the REB's in Box.
Godd luck all today.
I have no objection to eliminating the youth auction process as a whole. I don't have anything against it particularly, and it is one of the things that makes this league unique, but it seems like a lot of work and a somewhat clumsy and unnecessary way of promoting youth to the big league team. I think having the option of moving up to 4 players is great, however that might look. Options 1 and 2 look fine to me, but Simon's suggestions of allowing even more flexibility to each manager sounds even better.
Let me also thank Steve Turner here for his fine recap of the match tactics. I've played this game for thirty years, and I still learn from Steve's posts.
Phil
This is the first of two or more posts that I'm posting for a reason. This one most of you will know about but we do have some new managers this season that might not be as well up on stuff as others :-)
The tactical formula have changed a few times since the very early days. For instance the FW muliplier for longball used to be 1,5 but on 24th Feb 2006 it was reduced to 1.25, and on 31st December 2008 the WG multiplier for early cross was reduced from 1.75 to 1.6 Both these changes were decided in MSWL by after a discussion with very experienced managers there. I think the main reason for these reductions was the relative ineffectiveness of OTF that these tactics don't use. OTF of 10 has more effect when SLs are around 24 than when they are around 30.
Sanc (SFLSL) still has what I like to think as the default values (the same as when MSWL finished). Somewhen Al added the ability for Commissioners to alter these values.
When looking at tactics I like to compare them to Normal, so rather than list every tactic I'll just show Normal and do comparisons. So for Normal:
GP is 100% of SW SL, plus 50% of DF. Or 60% of DF, if no sweeper
DEF is 100% of SW, plus 100% of DF, plus 50% of MF, plus OTF, plus 10 times morale plus home bonus
OFF is 25% of DF (20% if no SW), plus 75% of MF, plus 135-145% of WG, plus 100% of FW, plus OTF plus 10 times morale plus home bonus.
Oppurtunistic is very similar in the amount of stuff it puts on the field: 25% of SW SL is taken from GP and moved to OFF, 25% of MF OFF is moved to DEF, OTF DEF is increased to 150% and OFF reduced to 0%.
Which is stronger? Well N by a smidge but if your opponent always plays ball control (hello Bill) then O is stronger because there's a 25% bonus from DF added to OFF. But if your opponent plays O a lot (hello David) then it is weaker than N if you play L or E because you get a 25% bonus from DF added to OFF.
Longball: loses OTF from OFF and DEF and 25% of MF OFF is lost but 25% of FW OFF is added. Depending on where your SL is mostly in your team N is stronger because of OTF but this is compensated for the fact that with L it's going to be the FWs that get the vast majority of shots.
Early Cross: stronger on paper than L because rather than a probable 4 times 125% FW OFF for L you get 2 times 180% (assuming 2 WG and 2 FW) for WG and 2 times 100% for FW. But with equal SL your shot allocation with L would be something like 1:1:5 for DF:MF:FW with E it would be 1.4:2.8:2.8 for DF:MF/WG:FW.
Stall: 50% MF OFF moved to DEF, 100% OTF OFF moved to DEF and all DF OFF lost.
Press: 25% DF and MF DEF moved to OFF and 100% OTF DEF moved to OFF but you lose 25% of both SW and DF GP so you lose more than with S
Counter Attack: a complicated one in that it depends what tactic you're playing against but lets assume it's N (it's a bonus if B or P, not good against E or L and you don't want to play O or S):
25% of SW GP moved to OFF and a further 5% added. 5% of DF SL moved from GP to OFF and 20% lost, 15% of MF SL lost from OFF, WG OFF increased from 135/145% to 162/174% (27-29% increase), FW and OTF add 20% SL to OFF (and you also get morale and home bonus at 20%). The loss of GP and MF OFF is roughly compensated by all the OFF gain. It makes C a good attacking tactic as long as you get their tactic right.
Ball Control: not used much in other leagues. Both SW and DF lose 25% of SL for GP. DF also lose 25% of SL to DEF but MF gain 25% of SL to DEF. 50% of OTF moved from DEF to OFF.Why play B with all that GP loss? Well there's the OTF bonus which amounts to 11.25 DEF and OFF if you have a 5 to 2 MF advantage and OTF of 10. This roughly compensates for 4 SL 24 players in defence (depending on relative GP/DEF/OFF of both teams).
So what I'm trying to say here is that the tactics are pretty well balanced as they are.
But Al added the ability for Commissioners to change these parameters and that has happened in SESL and OASL, But that's for another 50k Blog.
I agree, option 1 and 2 should be available.
Or you add 3 or 4 players to the senior team. If you sell them all is the managers choise to make.
If you do not add them all to your senior squad, they stay in the youth team.
Maybe we should also give the option to promote only 1 or 2 players?
Every manager decide at the end of the season who he would like to adopt to his senior team. All the others stay at their youth team for the rest of their carreer. Maybe we should allow to promote ages 0 + 1 to the senior team? With a maximum to promote is 4 players to your senior team? This way you can keep players in the youth that are not ready for the first team? But if you do not promote them, you have to wait for another season...or maybe during the season break (MSA) an extra promotion round of maximum 2 players?
This will create more focus for your youth team as well.
Definitely option 1 and 2.
1. allows the player to be sold but he has to be set to a trade value of 0 (default for league seems to be 5). Whether this is just the 4th player or all 4 has to be decided. Also I don't see why it has to be the lowest SL player that is 4th - a trade could be agreed off season but I wouldn't necessarily allow MPP to be traded.
I also don't see why the best player (unless GK or WG) is always MPP - let the manager decide.
Gents, it is no secret I would like to cancel the Youth Auction as I feel it takes too long to action, plus some teams pay too much for a player and others get too little for a lad they have nurtured for a season. And a couple actually don't get sold at all.....
However I realise I should have done something before the season started and not after the kick off.
So, I have made a decision or actually I am going to get each manager to make a decision at the end of the season.
I will send a note as usual asking which youth player you want changed to be an MPP AND at the same time you can tick a box to do one of the following:
1 Take all 4 of your age 0 players over to your senior team.
2 Take 3 over and keep the 4th to stay in your youth team to play out his career.
3 Take 3 over to your senior team and put your 4th boy up for auction.
The default if no decision is made by a due deadline will be to take all 4 to the senior team. Makes everything more simple (okay, for me basically) with teams then retiring 4 more lads and gaining 8 new ones to maintain 25 players.
What I think is that if a team brings over 4 players to the seniors they can then sell one if they wish and receive reasonable offers, or keep all 4 and bring them through the ranks. Money gained from their youth team should be enough to buy the TPs pre season if the player is retained.
From my point of view it will facilitate an auction if there has to be one, and I will see how it pans out at the end of the season. No question I would like to just have options 1 and 2 on the table but thought it only fair to offer the 3rd one.
At least this should be worth a discussion... J
Forget the second part of the question.
I do the participation on Monday mornings and it includes everything from the last participation till I do it again.
This week I was a day late (so sack me 😂😂😂😂) but I have held back all contributions made on Monday and will reward them next Monday.. 👍👍
Maximum amount per week is 50k... 👍
Is there a maximum you can earn per week? And if so when is the deadline? Just that I have potentially a loooong blog that could maybe earn 3 lots of cash but it's really one post.
VAN sends Orlando Beck (4/26 GK) to POR for 500k
Well this is getting ridiculous now. TEN shots on target to four yesterday, and still lost 2-0. That takes us to a total of 19 shots on target in 2 games vs 6 against, however have lost both 2-0 (vs 29 SL GKs in both with my own a 26 SL GK).
Shooting practice scheduled for tomorrow.
The following teams receive Fines through Robin Hood fine - payment to bottom team 2nd Division...:
POR(-82) VAN(82)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 7:
Chicago Fire - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Wdw)
Can't wait for them...hopefully we can see a lot of people in the stadiums.
I think we can provide some great goals
Near 10am GMT and 6 teams still to put in team lines - tonight is the half way point in the Dave Dowson Shield sections - each team playing the only opponent still to be faced in their section - exciting stuff!!
The last time Dave updated the rules was September 2013, and in between things like the youths were divided into 2 leagues and had a Cup given over to them, plus a few other details that required updating amd amending. Nothing contentious, but I had a good look and wanted them on a platform easy to open and read.
So Robin agreed to swop the rules over to the same site that SESL and SFLSL currently are on, and it has taken a while to do that - he had to keep waiting for my next set of amending before going in. I would like to thank Robin for his great work - the site can be accessed on the front page under Paul's current one - I have left both for a while, but soon enough there will be just the one. This way you can see the "before" and the "after".
Any queries please flag them up soonest. Now on to the 5th set of Dave Dowson Shield games.... :-)
Philadelphia Union are proud to announce the signing of MF Valon Berisha from German club Fortuna Dusseldorf, we have been watching him for a while and he has impressed us with his displays,he will slot straight into our midfield and debut in our next game,hopefully he will settle quickly and help us retain our place in the 1st division.
I don't know what the plan is but I suggest deleting the Auction 1 deadline in case the plan works and the program decides to try and run it. Same as when an incorrect match deadline is made and every one NMRs
Taken ages and I have given Mark gray hair - thanks a million for your assistance, Mark - but we have now allocated the winning teams with their players and resources, and taken off the cash accordingly.
Check the list I put on the Blog yesterday and then check you got what you were expecting... Flag up anything you think is suspicious, we have an answer to them all - Commish is never (usually) wrong. :-)
The problem seems to have been caused by my having a team which doesn't actually exist, and it looks like it will need to be disbanded so the auctions see only 24 teams and not 25 (that could be 48 instead of 49, but I digress).
The main 2 lads think they have a plan - I like a plan - and hopefully the 2nd auction will be fully automated when it comes....
The following teams receive Adjustment through 30th June - purchases via auction 1...:
CAR(-437) DC(-830) DAL(-683) LA(-1223) MIN(-401) MON(-520) NY(-371) PHI(-730)
With the kafuffle over the auction I forgot to do participation yesterday.
I have allocated monies for up to and including Sunday 28th June - Monday onwards will be allocated next Monday 6th July - I have already put cash into the teams boxes who have been on since yesterday morning.... :-)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 30th June....:
CHV(15) DAL(30) HOU(15) LA(50) MIA(20) MIN(15) MON(25) NE(20) NY(50) PHI(50) ROC(35) SJ(35) SEA(30)
Blame that on the schedulers - oh wait! I do the Cups.
But after your 7 from 10 away games you have 3 home ones....
One plus though, young man - whilst on your long travels you will have time to do Cup Reviews, eh? I mean, what am I paying you for? LOL
This Wednesday will mark the half way point in the section games so a review of them, followed by a half way assessment - licking my lips already.. :-) :-)
The Rapids won't see much of Colorado in July this season.
To start with we have 4 consecutive away games
Over 7 games we have 6 away games
And in total 6 of the 9 games in July will be played away from the mile high state of Colorado.
Dave when they said distancing was going to be 1m they didn't mean in vertical miles!
ignore...
will be Mount Tabor S.C. v Fall River Rovers in Youth League..
Gents, seems there was a blip in running the auction due to my being a 49th team. It threw out the figures and kept running around (bit like Robin's SW).
Anyway after a long good hard slog at it, Mark was able to pull off the bids per team and we have organised the sheet. Winners are in Bold as my page doesn't allow me to put colours in.............
Below you can see all the various bids and IF your team did not win a player/resource there is a reason put up beside it. I propose top leave it there till later tonight or at best first thing in the morning, this for any queries. By tomorrow morning I will have put players/resources into the various teams and deducted monies accordingly. So, no comeback after 10am Tuesday morning, please?
I think my team (Boss Blair 2020 will need to be deleted to allow a smooth auction 2 - sacked again, and I haven't lost a game, or won one actually!!) So here goes:
LOT | BID | Revised | Name | Team | Reason |
1 | 999 | 778 | Le Chiffre | LA | |
1 | 777 | 777 | Vitali Figz | FC Dallas | |
1 | 754 | 754 | Tyrann Mathieu | Rochester | |
1 | 453 | 453 | Jack Kramer | Columbus | |
2 | 995 | 995 | Craig Duff | Portland | Already have 5 MPPs |
2 | 817 | 817 | Connor Roberts | Seattle | Already have 5 MPPs |
2 | 668 | 436 | Craig Hutchison | Chicago | |
2 | 651 | 437 | Stuart Pearce | Carolina | |
3 | 999 | 999 | Le Chiffre | LA | Duplicate player |
3 | 918 | 730 | Valon Berisha | Philadelphia | |
3 | 729 | 729 | Vincent Bezecourt | Miami | |
3 | 715 | 715 | Will Vaulks | Seattle | |
3 | 651 | 651 | Akhrunglka | Real Salt lake | |
3 | 353 | 353 | Jeff Gray | Columbus | |
3 | 341 | 341 | Steve McManaman | Carolina | |
4 | 599 | 599 | Le Chiffre | LA | Duplicate player |
4 | 400 | 169 | Kenny Dalglish | MONTREAL | |
4 | 200 | 168 | James Quick | Atlanta | |
4 | 129 | 129 | Maximilian Sax | Colorado | |
4 | 66 | 66 | Howard Foster | New York | |
5 | 77 | 4 | Ruslan Chagaev | New York | |
5 | 3 | 3 | Mitchell Schwartz | Rochester | |
6 | 777 | 683 | Bronson Van Winkle | FC Dallas | |
6 | 682 | 682 | Connor Roberts | Seattle | |
6 | 600 | 600 | Colin Hendry | MONTREAL | |
6 | 261 | 261 | Stuart Pearce | Carolina | |
6 | 101 | 101 | Jargoon | Real Salt lake | |
7 | 445 | 401 | Bob | Minnesota | |
7 | 400 | 400 | OTF | MONTREAL | |
7 | 350 | 350 | OTF | San Jose Earthquake | |
7 | 221 | 221 | OTP | Seattle | |
7 | 200 | 168 | jr | Atlanta | |
8 | 525 | 525 | Bob | Minnesota | Duplicate player |
8 | 400 | 351 | OTF | MONTREAL | |
8 | 350 | 350 | One tf | San Jose Earthquake | |
8 | 321 | 0 | Carolina | ||
8 | 250 | 250 | Juan touch | Colorado | |
8 | 200 | 168 | jr | Atlanta | |
8 | 177 | 177 | OTP | Seattle | |
9 | 900 | 830 | DC Utd | ||
9 | 829 | 829 | LA | ||
9 | 800 | 444 | New York | ||
9 | 734 | 734 | San Jose Earthquake | ||
9 | 729 | 729 | Miami | ||
9 | 725 | 725 | Minnesota | ||
9 | 716 | 716 | Real Salt lake | ||
9 | 703 | 703 | Rochester | ||
9 | 253 | 253 | Columbus | ||
10 | 500 | 440 | New York | ||
10 | 499 | 445 | LA | ||
10 | 444 | 444 | Phi | Philadelphia | |
10 | 439 | 439 | Miami | ||
10 | 419 | 419 | San Jose Earthquake | ||
10 | 415 | 415 | Minnesota | ||
10 | 409 | 409 | Real Salt lake | ||
10 | 403 | 403 | Rochester | ||
10 | 371 | 371 | Carolina | ||
10 | 200 | 168 | jr | Atlanta | |
11 | 444 | 367 | New York | ||
11 | 400 | 366 | MONTREAL | ||
11 | 339 | 339 | Miami | ||
11 | 315 | 315 | Minnesota | ||
11 | 314 | 314 | San Jose Earthquake | ||
11 | 307 | 307 | Real Salt lake | ||
11 | 303 | 303 | Rochester | ||
11 | 200 | 168 | jf | Atlanta |
I think we should receive an invite ;-)
I totally forgot the time. My apologies, as I really looked forward to the meeting.
Hope to join you all next week.
1. Nip down 3/4 blogs and I can tell you Graham is scarier in real life...😉😉
2. Thanks Mark, the auction seems not to run because I have a team in the league but it's the 49th one. Gents, we have the results and will action them some time today. And try to work out a solution for future ones.
3. Poll game - one x 30k winner, 4 x 20k and 11 x 10k added as well. Next weeks will be put up this morning.
4. Good to talk to a few of you yesterday - a couple of others might have been there but got the time differential wrong - but you won't be wrong the next time.
Brutal game for Houstno yesterday - 9 shots on target to 2 and we lost 2-0. Not a good start to the season for us!
Sorry for delay.
Auction appears to have hit a processing error and is being investigated now.
Tomorrow David or I will have an update, and if needbe auction can be ran manually via spreadsheets with all bids posted on Blog for all manager to see (and check!)
Apologies, and thanks for your patience.
I will arrange another one in a week or so. Hopefully get our compliment to 8 or 9 managers this time! Cheers lads.
Evening All,
Thanks Bill for Arranging this evening was great to actually talk to some of you that I have played against over the previous years in various Different Football Platforms.
There was talk around doing Cup draws in the past via Video call and live chat blogs. It would be really great to see this going forward.
Thanks again
Sorry I was off by an hour. It was great to meet you, Bill (28000), and I had a great chat with Graham. I look forward to the next chat where I will be on time.
Cheers!
Sorry guys, I was supposed to join but got caught up with something else. Hope. It was enjoyable! Another one soon?
Oh no! I thought is was 2 pm US Central (now). Sorry to have missed out. I even showered and put on pants!!!!
Phil
wait
it was supposed to be 3pm my time
Great to see you all. It would be great to do this again with a few more bodies. Onwards and upwards lads.
NY sends Alex Grant (5/11 DF), Victor Laughlin (6/12 FW) to SEA for 50k, 1 CP, Tom Gorai (7/2 DF), Bob BinghaM (6/5 MF)
You zooming? On now...
I never saw anyone effectively use Ball Control in The Manager, but we've been destroyed by it in both our league matches. May need to reconsider how we build this team.
Let me know here if you can't log in for some reason. 👍👍👍
Meeting ID 935 499 6521
Password 1MS5uW
I will start at 6.55pm GMT.
See you all soon!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 6:
FC Dallas - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Wwd)
New York Red Bulls - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWw)
Seattle Sounders - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Wdw)
At work so will post meeting details on here around 6-6.30. Cheers.
With just over 4 hours to kick off there are just 4 senior teams (and 3 youth teams) to put their lines in.
Good luck to all.
PS repeated blog messages does not mean repeated participation fees 🥳🥳 plus the question has been asked Bill about a Zoom log in - over to you, young man 👍
I'm calculating this as 2 p.m. US. Central. Where is the Zoom link?
Phil
Simon, what do you think we will be discussing on zoom? An hour on zoom with ten coaches will cover more ground than 2 years of blogging.... I am hoping that if I harp on a bit more then we might encourage a few more to the call! See you tomorrow!
To much blogs about zoom, to little about soccer....
19.00 CET correct ;-)
7pm GMT for every coach except Bri. 28000 GMT for you Bri.
Sorry. I think viewing the blog on my phone created a few duplicates. Nothing to see here. Everything is fine. Go about your business.
Everyone but you, Bill. You stay for questioning.
Is that 7 pm GMT?
7pm GMT for every coach except Bri. 28000 GMT for you Bri.
Is that 7 pm GMT?
Just for you Bri.
Yes Brian - 7pm GMT.
Is that 7 pm GMT?
Sounds good to me, Bill - now where can I borrow some shears for this hair of mine..
PS Please remember the first (of only 6) auctions takes place this Sunday at 8-30pm Scottish time :-)
I think this is the first time I can remember that there are more youth team lines in (12) than senior team lines (9) - I'd say that was a record, but I am sure to be a record it has to be flat, black, with grooves and a hole in the middle - managers under 30 won't understand any of this.. :-)
SEA sends 40k, 1 CP to MON for Simeon Coward (5/12 MA)
What about 7pm on Sunday 28th?
I will join if I dont have clashes. SA time pretty much the same as Europe
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 5:
New England Revolution - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Thank you for replies so far. There is momentum already. Anyone else fancy it. Yes Bri, 28000.
Only POR and SEA to enter to make it a full house for tonight's game. Good luck all, apart from KC who we are playing :)
Dave Dowson Shield match 4 tonight and only 3 teams still to submit team lines - MIA, SEA, and POR.
Aires, glad to see you are up and about (and maybe a little fortunate to get the draw on Sunday at COL, eh?) and have your team line in for tonight. Good lad! Now I have to say I can't put your photo into your bios so it shows in the Blogs and Journals as I was hacked some time back and lost a few emails - one was your photo.
If you have another or the same one you could send it again - perhaps a little smaller - an attachment is better - and I'll see if I can fit it into your bios. Thanks
Good luck tonight everybody. 👍
It will be weird in Jr Div to be playing against my actual High School!!!!! Go Whalers!!!
Timbers and Dallas for 1st in Dawson Shield - Never been in this situation so I have to gloat a bit LOL Good luck!!!
Bill,
I like that idea. I think we should make it happen. I'll definitely attend if available.
28,000
Who would entertain a managers zoom call sometime? A lot of us know each other but actually don't. I have had good crack with so many coaches but never actually seen or met. I think it might be nice to "have an OASL/SOS" chat of an evening with any other topics welcome bar politics and religion. 😂😂😂. A beer or a glass of wine might not be off limits too! Mr. Blair and I had a good natter for the first time on Sunday and it was an absolute pleasure. There is a lot to discuss in the league and as DB evolves things I feel input and engagement will only benefit us as coaches.
Thoughts? Poll? Time (as we have US participants)?
Will be D.C. United v Atlanta Silverbacks - remeember to win the 30k you must also pout a scoreline alongside your result....... so far in 3 Polls I have allocated 730k to 23 teams - Aires, there is money to be made here!! :-)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 22nd June....:
MIA(15) MON(20) NE(35) PHI(50) SJ(35)
Gents, 14 teams took part and it has tro be said the treasurer is well pleased. One team got the correct result and scoreline, whilst all others got the money for taking part. Still, 21 "taking parts" over the season will get you 210k without getting anything correct. A few more might have received 20k I am sure if both managers had turned up, but I can't be to blame for that..
Next Sundays Poll game will be up tomorrow morning after I post participation which again won't be troubling the coffers too much :-(
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 4:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wwD)
Fortunately we have wifi with the McDonalds ;-)
Just over 4 hours to league kick off and still 5 senior and 6 youth team lines to go in (Graham, you have a youth team to look after too - I sent you an email to remind you.. :-))
Looking for a 100% session if possible, despite Farthers Day, I mean, where can you get a meal out with the family - McDonalds, Greggs etc and they are not sit ins. Not the same eh? Anyway enjoy the day if you are a dad and the family have remembered you.... Good luck today!!
And now it is all go for the first set of League games - this Sunday 21st June. (At this point I'd like to thank Mark for setting up the League part of the season - I am only doing the Cups. MUCH appreciated, Mark.
NOW, please note (Graham, amongst others) that your YOUTH team plays it's first match this Sunday along with your senior team. Has been known for some lads to forget and we do have some newcomers this season.
The next 22 Sundays you will have a senior and a youth league match to prepare for. :-)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 3:
D.C. United - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Portland Timbers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
FC Dallas - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Miami FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWw)
Los Angeles Galaxy - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
Last match before the opening leaguie games, and all line ups in bar one - and I am sure David has it in hand...
Good luck to all - sections will start to flesh out a bit after tonight...
Not a great deal of participation last week, so not a lot of cash paid out.
New Poll game up now - and REMEMBER to put in a score along with your result...
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 15th June....:
ATL(10) COL(20) DAL(15) MIA(40) NY(10) PHI(35) SJ(40)
2 lads didn't make the starting time today - shame, but these things happen..
280k paid into teams pots after the Poll game today. Gents, when you put a prediction result, please also put in a scoreline - 2 of you missed out on a possible 30k by not putting in a score. Actually Nobody guessed the correct scoreline, but you get another 9 chances before MSA....
Looking good for today's matches - game 2 of the Dave Dowson Shield.
If you haven't put your vote into the Poll yet, you haven't got much time - closing time for doing it is 2-30pm (30 minutes before the games are played).
If it is new to you then the bottom lines are:
Take part = 10k
Get your Prediction correct = 20k
Get the scoreline correct as well = 30k
There will be 20 matches done this way, so it's 200k just for taking part and being totally useless with your predictions - bonuses are for getting some of them right.. :-)
Monies earned up to MSA will be paid out just before MSA and the second lot before PSA
Remember to give a score at the same time as your prediction...
Good Luck!!
I don't always play stall but it works so well.
Thanks David
It's not as good as I was aiming for, but the 1yr old was up at 1am that day. Baby stopped play unfortunately.
Lads, Roy has started his Cup Reviews in the front page - thanks young man - I can't influence the injuries but can say the referees on Wednesdays games will be on the return fixtures - cup game 6 - so any perceived "homer" "strict" etc will be on the same game when the teams are swopped. 👍👍
Good luck everyone. Cheers.
Seems the blog you put on or was it a phot or logo caused the problem - I deleted that Blog and voila the Blogs seem back to normal. Maybe it was too large, I don't know.
Anyway last night we kicked off and there were some good results, a great fightback, couple of hard luck stories as well, but we are OFF and running.
LA sends 900k, Hugh Grater (6/19 DM) to MIN for Sadio Mane (2/24 MA)
Good luck everyone. Cheers.
Thank you for mention Miami in your blog...but we try to stay very low...and people should not consider us as good....maybe we can get some results than, this year ;-)
To all of you, goodluck this new season!
Not sure what you did, or why you wanted to do it, but certainly it seems to have "mislaid" all Blogs from 27th May till now. If it is only some Blog messages affected, we can live with it.. I can get in and see the various Blogs made and by date, but there is nothing since participation was made.
Doesn't take the shine of the BIG DAY - tonight sees the start of the season, with only Paul and Steve to put in their team lines, so thanks to all.
Hope your game goes well - and apologies if it seems I pushed you to deadlines - I set the date and worked towards it. Now let's see how tonight develops.. :-)
I seem to have broken something with my latest blogpost...
SEA sends 110k to MIA for Darrin Crawford (5/14 DF)
SEA sends 80k to MIA for Marco Parks (5/11 SW)
I am writing to you on this - it'll be with you soonest.. ✅
But, for everyone, until I get the rules updated and accessible beside the SESL and SFLSL rules, then go into our rules via Paul Cockayne's link on the left of the front OASL page, NOT direct to it on the menu on the right of the front page.
DO we have any cheat seets on these I can not pull up the wiki. TY
I could have thought that last one out - there isn't a "winner" - for fun I thought I'd differentiate between the 2 results - if it had been a draw everybody would have got 15k... so at least you are off to a start. 👍
Now I'm looking to Wednesday and the Big Kick Off....🥳🥳🥳🥳
I should learn to read better.....
If you take part yo get 10k, if your vote is amongst the "winning" total you get 20k.
And what do I do?? I vote for what will never win.....pfff...well at least I have some participation cash ;-)
The start of the matches.
Rules are the same:
10k just for taking part, a further 10k if you guess the result correctly, and a further 10k if you guess the exact score correctly.
Your entry to be in 30 minutes before kick off, or it can't be accepted...
Good luck.. :-)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 8th June....:
ATL(10) CHI(20) CHV(50) COL(50) CLB(50) KC(25) LA(35) MIA(50) MIN(50) MON(25) NE(50) NY(50) PHI(25) RSL(40)
The following teams receive Bio & Team Updates through 8th June....:
ATL(100) CHV(100) COL(100) DAL(100) LA(100) MIN(100) MON(100) NE(100) PHI(100) RSL(100)
Seems conclusive enough - a vote of 12-5 for keeping the 3rd/4th place matches.
Also important is that the 12 who voted for the yes have had 20k to start off their Poll earnings for this season, whilst the 5 lads who voted No will get 10k. Don't laugh at the seemingly silly amounts - over the season a team can make up to 640k IF thery enter every Poll and can successfully give the correct result and scoreline. Average teams will earn around 300k.
I wil have another Poll up later today and will start with one of the Cup matches. Be in it to win it!! :-)
Any advance on Steve 😊😊😊😊
New England updated after 3 seasons
The League's Treasurer is gonna be well pleased this season - so far only around 10 teams are or will be earning cash for their updates. If you are one of the 14 who still haven't updated you still have today and up to 9 am tomorrow.. then I pay out the final amounts. 💰💰
If you DO update tell me via a Blog or in box and I'm on it....✅✅
Allan, basically to play a league game on the same day as your senior team plays a league game. This season that will be 22 consecutive Sundays starting 21st June.
You will have 2 youth cup matches played midweek but not for a while -draw hasn't been made yet.
I tended to logout and login for the youth team, sort the tactics etc and logout and back in to the senior team, and do likewise - that way I finished still with the senior team (and could go Blogs, Journals, Polls, etc.. You never forget your login password when you are constantly having to remember it.. Method in the madness.. 🥳😂
PS I also love the one page for all your games in MSWL 👍👍
The youth league starts at a later stage in the season. Then you need to login and logout and then parry between both teams/orders. Not ideal but great end results if engaged with.
I applaud your one page MSWL and enjoy enormously. You know that. That said, the orders page in SOS has three pages for extended gameplay. First is team selection. The second allows the tactical formation to be changed several times during the 90. The third is the best...it allows substitutes, positional changes, aggression changes etc. These are options not available in MSWL.
Different but both cracking footie sims. Keep up the great work Al and DB.
I had forgotten how rough this orders form could be to get through. I was able to come up with an all-in-one page for United and perhaps at some point can come back to this. Orders are in though!
Do I have it right that the senior/junior matches are intermingled? Looked like it was later in June before my Junior team has a match?
than I leave it to the pro's....
As our marketing department came up with some new logo's I need to test if it is working....
My apologies for the messages.
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 6th June....:
DAL(140) LA(120) MIA(40) RSL(40)
A Dutch Simonese breed. Rare but plagiarism is top characteristic. 😂❤️
Simon, thought it WAS Bill back on!! 😂😂
You will need a little more to get top cash but you are on the right road.. ✅✅
Season 25 updates entered
This chap has undone himself in the last month. 👏👏👏👏👏
thank you.
(Just to avoid Bill to be able to bring it up again....) We can use the participation cash as well...
Good responses to the auction subject and I will take some of the comments on board going forward.
And participation money looks good for a few teams come Monday.. ✅✅
NOW, including Roy's mention about his bios being done, that still will only total 9 teams earning the 100k.
It is easy cash but the job needs to be completed by Monday 8am latest AND TELL ME - I'll be in by 9am to pay the final amounts, and then look forward to Wednesday evening... 😊😊
I will remind again Sunday so that way nobody should be coming back on Tuesday asking for money... 🤓🤓
Manager and team BIOs updated for 2020
Since I'm re-learning all this, I will refrain from getting into any details that I don't fully understand anyway at the moment. :-)
My general thought so far is that this league has a lot of diversity (two teams) and bells and whistles (movement between junior and senior teams, etc). There appears to be a significant amount of manual/setup work between seasons as I've had to have David guide me through a number of things as a new manager.
Any feature that takes a significant amount of Commish time and could be handled in a simpler, smoother way sounds like something that would be beneficial.
I actually like the whole youth league and auction set up, but will go with the flow.
At least it'll mean I won't have to go through another season where my auction player hasn't sold.
Loving the input.
If senior teams have 4 x age 1s then we need to increase the potential for gaining TP. I do not think giving everyone 40 is the answer. That means auction. I think this in tandem with the option of keeping one player in the youth team may work.
Another option, what about Just having 3 x age 0 in the youth league to begin and 5 x age 1? Not sure of ramifications of this.
Like Alon, I think the age 0 structure needs changed. In the last two seasons we have both proven how you can adapt a poor 2nd division team into top meat. Look at MIN and DAL. This is a lot to do with the feeder players from age 0 to 1. The turn around can be too quick and is not very rewarding to the better managers. I'm not calling for equality...just a thought towards balance.
I agree -lose the auction, prices were too high ,i personally saved my money and bought a quality age 2,plus you have a sense of pride bringing on one of your youth team and hopefully he will turn into that superstar you are always looking for
I am going to be a discdenting voice here.
As a precurser though I would say if the auction is too much admin for the comisioner and makes his task unpleasant then I agree with scrapping it and all the rest of this post is moot..
To me all the examples given by Dave are plusses. The youth auction is different to normal auctions so different tactics need to be adopted. For me anything that adds to the skill element of the game is good, as it makes our game more skillful and thus more challenging. I enjoy the fact as much as everyone that the Game is a soccer simulation, but what really makes it exciting is trying to strategize and make plans to best the opposition.
The youth system we use is allready highly weighted against the stronger teams as they get vastly inferior apprentices. They at least have the chance to buy 1 quality youth player, even though this does further enrich the weaker team. If for admin reasons we do go ahead and scrap the auction I think allowing at least 1 quality apprentice per team would be fairer. Sure the weaker teams can still get all 4 of their apprentices being high quality to even things out .However we do want to give the stronger teams a long shot of building a dynasty if they are really skilfully managed.
Just my 2 cents worth.
No problem with dropping it completely.
Like the idea of the choice to leave the 4th player.
Maybe a normal auction with only youths for teams that want a 5th youth player when rebuilding ?
David,
All good with me. Anything that helps reduce admin is a good thing. Like below, i would have the option for the Youth Team to keep the lowest SL Age 0 if they don't want to transfer 4 across.
Paul
I love the idea of not having an auction, very difficult to determine how much to bid because you end up paying what you bid and you bid high if you really like the player.
Also like Simon's idea about letting the Manager decide whether they want to promote 3 or 4 to the Sr team. More options means more diversity in how Youth and Senior Teams shape up throughout the leagues.
Good points made by all participants - like the idea a senior team can decline taking the 4th player - it would make the youth team more competitive = more wins = more money earned = more cash for the big team, whereas some senior teams might want the extra lad now to help balance up their squad.
Good points made by all.... 👍👍
But, maybe it should be up to the parent team to decide if the player will be promoted?
Agreed David, Scrap it. I much rather get the 4 players I trained rather than 3 and hoping to win an over inflated auction.
But keep TP as it is. Managers that train up 4 will be the same as it is now with transferring 3 and buying a 4th from the auction.
Those that only train 3 don't have to buy an extra 7-10 TP over the free. And they probably train up 3 age 1 to make their youth team competitive. This could be done more with the weaker teams who probably won't get promoted thus earning more cash to be transferred.
Sounds reasonable to me David.
I think i overbid at auction last month from my lack of experience in this league here.
I wasn't planning on bidding again at youth auction as my current squad seems bloated anyway.
So its a yes from me
Gents, I would like to scrap the Youth Auction from the end of this season - before anybody has planned out their youth training programme.
I am suggesting a simple transfer of all 4 age 0 players across to their senior teams along with the usual half of the bank balance the youth team has accrued. (Players would go over aged 1 as before.)
It would make life simpler for managers and myself.
This season:
Scrapping the auction would solve the above, and more.
If all 4 age 0 players are transferred over, then:
Most of the time and bother was spent on the auction, and unless there is major dissension from you lads, I propose to scrap it. A plus point is that within days of the end of the season, you will be able to get your rewards and payouts, get your new youths more quickly, and have uniformity in retiring youth players – it would be 4 for everybody.
Have a think, I won't have covered everything, but I feel that if I am to run the game, I'd like to share my ideas with you lads. This should earn cash for participation for a few of you, and that is a good thing. :-)
The good news is that the stats page is working, but it wasn't me who worked it out. I did ask Mark to look at it - didn't realise it was me who was causing it though. Bottom line is it IS working now, so thank you to whoever.. :-)
Boss Blair FC now shows as having one player and the worst T-11 and T-17 is Olmec history.
(I was just about to add an 0/30 UT after seeing Steve's post, but I think David beat me to the commish button, he'd have topped the T-11/17 if I had)
Stats page now working
Olmec head shows on the stats but with no stats as he has no players.
Could try adding 1 or 18 to see if that works.
I noticed that too lads - I'll see if that can be sorted - no idea why it should have stopped working....🤔🤔
I noticed that I couldn't sort by bank.
Just checked again and nothing is sorting.
On my computer and I think also my phone sorting by T11 or T17 doesn't work for this league. But it does for SESL. Strange.
I agree with that - route out pretty old stuff and update - there is space for some previous seasons but okay to shorten it.
personal bios is different - definitely to be current please. ✅✅
Brian, it is your team, update it as you see fit. If old, remove it and put in details for what you want. It is always better to have up to date info and not details from 3/4/5 seasons ago.
I updated my bio recently. I'm reluctant to update the team history notes as others wrote it. Then again, it's mine now!
The following teams receive Adjustment through 2nd June as per extra CP/TP...:
KC(-300) RSL(-625)
I updated my bio recently. I'm reluctant to update the team history notes as others wrote it. Then again, it's mine now!
Bio done.
Thanks ,all updated
David, CHV Coaches Bio and Team ABout details all updated for this coming season.
Only 3 teams earning cash for updating Bios details so far (if others have completed their Bios and NOT been paid today tell me now and I will correct it, otherwise next Monday morning will be the cut off for earning cash for them.
Couple of teams have been in touch asking for additions to their preseason purchases of CP/TPs - just small ones and they will be done (along with any others that come along today/tonight) Tomorrow morning, so that can be put to bed as well..
IMPORTANT - I am preparing a sheet for you all to read - and before the 1st match starts a week on Wednesday. If I am to be running the game (with help as before, please...) I feel I want to put a couple of my own thoughts/ideas into practice, especially now I am on the blunt end of a lot of the work needed to implement the game rules, as they are.. No panic, but I will set out my main idea by Wednesday and post it here and on all managers In Box. Mysterious, eh? This one is the big one - rest are cosmetic...
In case anybody is asking, I am loving this - I have had help at the right time - no help, no game, as I don't have the confidence to do it all myself, yet.!! Even better now the hard stuff seems to be finished and we are moving into the playing part of the game. Lots of that is down to you lads completing tasks within dates, so take a pat on the back for that.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 1st June....:
CHA(20) CHI(15) CHV(15) COL(40) CLB(30) DAL(25) LA(10) MIA(50) NE(50) NY(30) PHI(25) RSL(35)
The following teams receive Bio & Team Updates through 1st June.......:
CHI(100) MIA(100) SJ(100)
Youth teams play 22 league games plus a minimum of 2 cup games (maximum is 6 I think). So after the 3 that you will train up for transfer to the senior team any more will cost you 250k each to train up.
At the end of the season half your junior cash is transferred to the senior team. Over several seasons this is effectively all the cash you earned that season. Train up 6 players every season and it's 750k less for the senior team.
But your youth team will suffer morale loss so less cash and there's more cash the higher you finish and also the better your team the better your cup run.
I haven't worked out which is the better option. I always train up 6 myself. I tend to train up 3 age 0 and 3 age 1 ever since my 4th age 0 didn't get picked up in an auction. Seemed a waste of TP that would be better used on a 1/11.
Like Roy says, plenty of choices.
As Steve has said: we get 60 TP per season for the youth squads
No more, no less and no trading.
We get 4 age 0s and 4 age 1s at the start of each season. At the end of the season one play gets picked as an MPP and 2 others transfer to your senior side. The remaining age 0 goes into the Youth Auction.
It's up to each manager how you manage your TP - max your age 0s and sell your 4th player tends to be #1 choice, but a few managers choose not to train their 4th age 0.
Your age 1s stay with your team so are the best route to strengthening it in the long run. Do you max 2? 3? You could even keep 20 TP unused for a season or two and then max all your age 1s for 2 seasons. Lots of choices.
TP only on the juniors and you can't buy any - you get 60 free each season.
Also can't bid in auctions nor trade.
Do we use CP on the Jr squads?
Gents, I will be allocating a game for your Poll guesses in a week to co-incide with the 1st set of league games, but in the meantime I have a Poll for you to do by next Sunday evening.
If you take part yo get 10k, if your vote is amongst the "winning" total you get 20k.
Head on over to it now - gotta be in it to win it. My Polls can make between 220k and 660k (if you are absolutely brilliant - but 300-350k is achievable over a season easily enough.
Gents, that is all the pre season done except for one item. After speaking to myself today Aires realised he should have bought some more CPs than he did. Being a new lad I thought it was a reasonable request as he didn't know the "normal" amount to buy in, so I have allowed it and deducted the cash used to buy them.
However it is only right I offer that little loophole to everybody, even established players. If you now decide you want to buy in any more CPs or/and TPs then let me know before Tuesday evening and I will organise it. You can ADD to your CP and TP totals, but no selling or swapping one for another. I am a reasonable man, but there IS a limit. :-)
The following teams receive Adjustment through 30th May per 20CPs extra purchase.:
DAL(-1500)
Sorry guys getting my baring in this league and not fully understanding it all but will give it my best, TY for having me back and trying again. I am in the market for CP and a strong FW. Good Luck to all
The following teams receive Adjustment through 30th May repayment for 10CPs accidentally bought.:
TDL(500)
Before 10am GMT Monday 8th June - so I can finish it all off before looking forward to the start on Wednesday 10th. 👍👍
What's the deadline for the Bio's?
Aires, just need you to log in to your 2 squads and settle your CP and/or TP purchases and Captain for FC Dallas, and pick your Captain and retire 4 lads in TDL.
Apart from that only Allan has to go in to REB and that is going to happen today, after Al asked a couple of salient questions.
Mark will be adding the remaining league games (which will show up your remaining Dave Dowson Shield section games).
That would bring us up to a starting position - only thing left for you boys is to update your various (remember to mention SEASON 25) Bios sections, and team needs. Only 100k for grabs but let's have a full house - it is easy money.
Auctions - Dave usually did 5 auctions before MSA and 1 after - I plan to make it either 3/3 or 4/2 as after MSA some teams need a fix - I always did. The first half ones will be spread, the ones after MSA will all be completed by around league game number 16. Still to plan the dates, but the 1st one will be 28th June - after league game 2 (and Cup game 4) when all will have money.. Have a good weekend!!
Season 25 now updated. Thanks
I also updated bio and history ;-)
I saw that too but as far as I am concerned, go into the wiki via Paul's link on the front page and you'll see the ageing tables and remuneration, and there is cash for players aged 3 (and 2 if I remember well).
I am (with Robin's assistance - actually he is doing the transferring for me to work on them) visiting the rules and intend to update/amend them, and see no problem with retiring younger low SL players for cash. Retire away... 🥳🥳
I was looking to the money I would receive for retired people, and saw this line:
RETIREMENTS
Players aged 3+ with a skill level of 10 or less may be retired but no remuneration will be given
Is there a new schedule available for the amount we receive?
Hope someone can help me...
Pity it doesn't work in Sanc where RNG always hates me.
I am guessing you don't want to spend money on a bribe - but if you use the shotgun there's no game - PS I live in the Faroes Islands.. 😉😉😉
I'd like to say bribery would be wasted on me - but I don't tell lies (except the bit about about living in the Faroes Islands). 🥳
Now the cup ties are all in and every referee has been used 4 times each. Referees in the first half of the cup fixtures will do the reverse fixture as well, so allocations in 1-5 are repeated when the games are recast 6-10.
When the league matches are fully put in all will be revealed.
Only 4 teams still need to be pre seasoned (or players cut) - down from 5 yesterday.
Remember the 100k up for grabs if you do your Team and Personal Bios (plus team needs) - mention season 25 at all times and then tell me...✅
Are there no Americans here? I do just want to pay once, so need a big shotgun to avoid paying any bribe. Together with the shotgun I want to do a trip through Europe to visit some commish....would that have the same effect?
Hope my oponent doesn't visit all the referees....
As a fellow commissioner I will share the obvious. I always update the cheat codes in the program and scheduling app so that teams that pay get certain advantages...
Steve Turner knows this. In United, when he sends a bag of money, his team does well and Olmec loves him.
When he doesn't... he may outshoot a team 50-1 and lose 1-nil...
FACTS!
MIA sends 1222k, 2 TP, Gilberto Garcia (4/22 DM), Mathew Foster (4/21 MF) to RSL for Conor Shaughnessy (5/16 DM), Dustin Colquitt (2/25 DF), Datura (2/23 MF)
And as I didn't see any brown envelopes through my door....
However the way the Cup draw came out, you get 2 home matches to start, so some consolation, I guess? PS I did ask my mate Mark to do the league games, and on the bright side, you DID have to meet them both at some point, and in league matches 12 and 13 you will have home games v the 2 of them. Is this helping at all ??? :-)
Philly's 1st 2 league games
Away at New York
Away at Minnesota
I obviously did not tip the fixtures manager enough
Maybe we need a Bijker Shield?
This chap has undone himself in the last month. 👏👏👏👏👏
thank you.
CHI sends 740k to RSL for Jiulukh (3/24 SW)
Serious Bill, same message/blog after every 4 blogs posted?
You should hire someone to do the press releases for you. This can never bring enough cash to your team....or can we just copy and paste our old blogs to gain some cash here?
The following teams receive Adjustment through 27th May youth sales adjustment.....:
MTS(-608) POR(608)
Good spot, Steve, Allan maybe didn't see that one. The transfer diod not go through as MTS had already released too many lads, but I assumed it had - the 2nd lad to escape the net. I assume if I transfer them over it goes... I am on that now - CLB will pay 1216k for the boy.
This chap has undone himself in the last month. 👏👏👏👏👏
thank you.
I think all my allocated youth teams have been done with a little help.
Two things I noticed with MTS: they have a 1/18 player which might be from a transfer that couldn't go through. And they only have 61k which again could be due to that same transfer.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 27th May - adding in Youth Team players @10k per team.:
CHA(80) COL(80) NE(80)
The following teams receive Cup Draw Participation through Assisting in Dave Dowson Shield draw.:
COL(25) NE(25)
Nearly there - after the stuff below is done it will be back to me for the updating of cup and league games (me and Mark, that is!).
Allan - Can you pick a Captain in pre season - nothing else, and retire 4 players.
Aires - Can yopu pick a Captain in pre season - nothing else - and retire 4 players.
Aires - Can you do FC Dallas pre season, please?
Paul - Can you do Chivas pre season, please?
James - Again can you do Kansas City pre season, please?
After that it is only the Team Bios, Personal Bios, and Team Needs to be done, BUT only if you wish to add up to 100k to your senior teams total - you MUST quote Season 25 and make an effort - I am not a philanthropist. And tell me it is done and I will pay out next Monday and the following Monday (1st and 8th June). After that we won't bother as the season starts 2 days later.
MTS sends Scot Milss (1/18 FW) to CLB for 1216k
Gents,
I appreciate the nice messages, I really do. I am into the site a minimum 12 times a day to see what progress we are making, but I also have to say I have used a few lads heavily whilst trying to get through the myriad things Dave did, and most of us didn't understand. I just want to continue the good work, and have you lads enjoying yourselves - so we need to finalise the pre season.
Below is the draw as made by Roy (who randomised the numbers to the teams, and Steve, who drew the numbers into the various sections). I say that, so if you aren't happy with your lot, I can take none of the blame.. ha ha.. Guess how long these 120 games will take to programme manually - that is the way I will do them...
For the new lads, each team plays home and away (total = 10 games) against each opponent in their section, with the top 2 teams in each going to the Quarter Finals. (Referee in any of your home games will be the lad in your away game versus the same team.....)
Dave Dowson Shield | ||
Section A | 4 | Philadephia Union |
9 | Vancouver Whitecaps | |
10 | Seattle Sounders | |
15 | Charleston Battery | |
20 | Real Salt Lake | |
23 | D.C. United | |
Section B | 6 | Atlanta Silverbacks |
11 | Portland Timbers | |
16 | FC Dallas | |
19 | Chicago Fire | |
21 | Kansas City Wizards | |
24 | Chivas USA | |
Section C | 1 | Colorado Rapids |
3 | New England Revolution | |
5 | Columbus Crew | |
8 | Montreal Impact | |
13 | Miami FC | |
17 | New York Red Bulls | |
Section D | 2 | San Jose Earthquakes |
7 | Houston Dynamos | |
12 | Los Angeles Galaxy | |
14 | Carolina Railhawks | |
18 | Rochester Rhinos | |
22 | Minnesota Thunder |
This chap has undone himself in the last month. 👏👏👏👏👏
thank you.
I can imagine there is a lot to be done...so I bow for you for the work you and your team did.
CHI preseason completed. Captain assigned for youth team also.
Yes when I was retiring players I didnt even notice Graham Lee was still there, sorry. Dave, I retired a 0/30 that you could reinstate please. ;-)
Appreciate all the hard work this preseason, well done.
You can see I get around on this site - the message to Tim was from me, not DIS. Must be the heatwave here - scrambling the brains. Flaming auction causes more grief than it's worth.. but we move on.
Player is with you now - only just realised the initial trade was refused twice by the system, so although I gave cash to DIS's senior team (CHA), it did not give you the player. As of now, you have the lad, money has been deducted from you (so now you can pre season..) and I have taken the money away from DIS as they had already been given the cash earlier. Hope that sort things out (needing a Philadelphia lawyer..)
Only thing is that DIS are a player short, so I will need to re-instate one of their retired bunch.
The following teams receive Adjustment through 26th as per DIS > RSL Trade.:
DIS(-301)
DIS sends Graham Lee (1/15 MF) to RSL for 301k
I will complete pre-season as soon as my youth auction buy, Graham Lee, is added. Believe my finances will be lowered so don't want to overspend on pre-season and then not have enough money for Graham Lee.
Only KC, DAL, CHV, CHI, and RSL to complete pre season in the senior leagues.
Only 4 teams to get their youth lads inserted - probably today - BUT could WDP retire one more lad and LAG let me know which 2 of their 6 retirees I can re-install, please?
One thing with your youth team - some teams have not selected a Captain in their pre season page - it is the only thing you can do on that page - don't buy TPs or CPs - just pick a Captain from the drop down list.
The Dave Dowson Shield draw will be Blogged later today and if the above is completed, we are good to go.
Only thing after that would be updating your senior team Bios (team Bios/Personal Bios and team needs) for more cash!! You can do that any time as from now - just let me know it is done. Gents, I want you to make a decent fist of this AND QUOTE SEASON 25 when you update - I pay for these Bios updates. Thanks.
You deserve a big round of applause for all the stuff you have done over the last 15 days since the season finished - you'll get it when the above is completed... :-)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 26th May - general Blog/Journal stuff:
CHA(40) CHI(15) CHV(50) COL(50) CLB(15) HOU(50) LA(50) MIA(40) MIN(25) MON(15) NE(50) NY(50) RSL(50) SJ(50) VAN(15)
Rest in Peace big fella. X
Rest in Peace big fella. X
I spoke about that to Mark before but he said if we renamed the League it's possible we'd lose the previous league records.
I think it is a great idea!!
But we might also consider to change the league name instead of the cup.
This way we can honour all the important persons behind this game...(Not sure if it is possible, but the suggestion can be made ;-) )
Gents, I had always thought we should keep Dave Dowson’s name in OASL in a capacity that meant he would never be forgotten for the amount of work and effort he put into running OASL.
With that in mind I (on your behalf) would like to thank Steve Turner for suggesting the Trophy currently in his name be re-named in Dave’s honour.
A marvellous gesture from Steve who, and not a lot of people know this, actually set up OASL at the beginning and kept it going till Dave came along, allowing himself some free time to sit back and relax a bit.
This has come about at a very opportune moment in that the draw for the Cup, and unless there is a major riot in the streets, I plan to call the Dave Dowson Shield (using the word memorial just brings back the sadness, better to keep it straight – we all know Dave and his contribution to OASL so let's celebrate it – or am I wrong?)
If okay I plan to re name it in time for the draw being announced.
On that score, could I ask ROY to list the 24 teams and randomise them in any order you choose, as long as each team has a number from 1-24,, and send your list to myself? And can I ask STEVE to draw numbers 1-24 into 4 sections of 6 teams each, and also send that to myself? I will consolidate and announce the draw and numbers soonest in the Blog and on the Front Page in the Cup Review Section. Thanks in advance.
Can I ask the following teams to access their youth teams and cut the following number of players, please?
TDL 4
REB 4
KCA 4
and all senior team managers who have not accessed pre season, can they do so now please? There are only 9 left to do so, and remember you can select a Captain for your youth team as well.
NOW, the next Blog up is an important one...
David - Graham Lee still not added to my team, I see a "DIS's roster rules will be broken." message in my inbox.
Not sure why it happened David, but it is my fault fir sure. Hopefully corrected - thanks for flagging it up 👍
The following teams receive Adjustment through 25th May - error corrected.....:
CHA(-301) DIS(301)
COL sends 100k, Guido Burgstaller (5/20 FW) to POR for 4 TP
Dave, youve given my senior team 2xcash from youth team. Is that right? Unsure why, cheers :)
If you find your youth new lads are in your team you will be on 25 or more - you need to cut back to 25. BUT do remember you CAN'T cut any of the new lads. David and Roy are in the process of putting the new boys in - so perhaps waiting a couple of days for them (and Steve) to complete their job might be better. I keep checking the stats page to see the progress.
Well spotted Tim - my deliberate mistake - NOT. However it has been sorted now - that is why I did say to everybody to please check things and let me know. On the subject of the 4 remaining youth squads I needed details for, only ONE left to get. So Bryce, if you see this can you complete the set? Thanks to everybody who has responded so well - David and Roy are adding most players today and Steve is happy to do the remaining 8 teams when we get Bryce's lads in.
Stay safe and well, gents. :-)
The following teams receive Adjustment through 23rd May youth money to senior teams..:
CHA(301) DIS(-301)
CHA sends Mal Malkovich (2/24 FW) to MIA for 01000k
One of my auction players, Graham Lee (1/15 MF) has still not been added to my team. No problem if you haven't gotten around to it, just wasn't sure whether you'd finished the task of adding the auction players yet or not.
Don't know how it happens but when Mark set me up I got 6,800 of the same test.
Your message to me about the invalid youth auction trade was repeated in my in box over 13,000 times.
i now have in advance of 19,700 in box messages for just 2 pieces of info.
Not sure how they can be deleted but will ask Mark. 🤔🤔
PHI sends 1000k to CHA for Ruby Walsh (2/25 FW)
I can't remember what age 1 I picked and want to check before picking my Youth Captain.
So I went to sent items and it's an endless list of the same unread message apart from the first one.
Forget the last bit - need to wait till the new lads appear and then you can release your last lad then, ok??
Gents, we have comne a long way since the last matches were played 13 days ago - so thanks for listening to my rants and reading my errors. We are nearly there, but can I just push a couple of things on - keeping to my Plan A. (He has a plan? YES)
Could Allan (send me positions for your new youths), Bryce, James, and Derek (send me your youth players named and positioned - they are in your In Box right now).
There are a few youth teams not down to 17 players BUT that can be done after your new lads are added. But it is an easy job - 17 is the lowest figure please.
If you haven't done your Pre Season for your team, feel free to do them now. Youth teams can't buy CPs or TPs - think the Captain is about it, but the senior team needs your attention to CP and (if needed) additional TP purchases and your Captain for the season. Some have completed the jobs so thanks for them.
Roy and David are about to start adding youth team players to your youths (hence my note above about sending me the youth players - these are to complete the job.. Phew!) If you see anything you want to query, send the note to me on In Box, please.
(MTS and RIS - I added back one of your retirements in order to get your youth lad sold in the auction, I am going in now to take these 2 lads out again.) This job is never dull, but we are nearly there......
NSS Down to 17 Players and ready for new recruits
The following players leave with immediate effect
May 22 20 | NSS | Retirement | 5/3 DF Neko Case |
May 22 20 | NSS | Retirement | 6/2 MF Kenny G |
May 22 20 | NSS | Retirement | 6/2 FW Jean Smart |
May 22 20 | NSS | Retirement | 7/1 DF Ash Blunder |
RSL sends Egraska (3/26 GK) to CHA for 700k, 2 TP
... and ready to accept the 8 new players.
LA Blues down to 17 (see post below) to make room for 8 new guys
LA Galaxy up to you but before MSA to get more cash
I see some old lads being lead out to the e-pasture. Do we retire from both Sr and Jr leagues, or just one.
Thanks.
It's possible but you mustn't leave the page.
1. Have 21. Retire 3 and it will say you have 19 (as the page hasn't reloaded) so can retire another.
2. Retire 3 and leave to check your team. Go back and it will say you have 18 so can't retire another.
But only for senior teams - nothing for youth teams I'm afraid.
Don't think there ever was recompense for them - mist retirements are very low SL high age players.
After you retire players, let the commissioner know (i email the players age and SL to make it easier) and there is a small monetary award placed into your account. There is normally a Blog message showing the awards to the teams who have retired players.
Is there any resource earned from retirement?
Gents, I had a problem with 2 teams getting below the limit for me to make a transfer from, but have re-instated a player to each team which has allowed me to complete moving youth bids to senior teams and swopping the cash from each to their maqin teams.
I am guessing that if any youth team wants to retire all I suggest is they retire down to 17 players if they can, and it seems that is possible. Then sit back and wait for your new lads to come in.
MTS and RIS now have 18 lads - both could try and repeat retiring the player I moved back in.
Now, if the 7 teams could return their youth player names and positions we can go ahead and fill out the squads.
PS Roy, I have got your note and changed your lad.. :-)
The following teams receive Adjustment through 22nd May youth money to senior teams..:
MTS(-1216) PHI(10) POR(1216) RIS(-10)
Dave, great work getting this all sorted.
Quick qu - I have 21 players in my youth team, so surely should only be retiring 4 to then get 8 in and up to the full completment of 25?
Simon, for now I say no - wait till your new lads are with you and then get back to the magic number 25.
Do not retire any more players from youth teams till your new lads are with you - when this is all over I will write myself a A-Z on how things should be done. :-)
Sorry, Rob, the last Blog was from me, not you. I was into your site to see what the problem was and forgot to come out.
Lasat Blog was from myself, lads, I take the blame, again.
Gents, with no guide book to show me, I will (and am) making errors.
Whilst I realise it is okay for youth teams to go above 25 players then cut back to 25, seems I can't do a transfer from a team if it takes them down below 18 (RIS and MTS). I should have allocated the new lads first then asked you to cut back. Just glad there seems to be just the 2 problems and I plan to "re-instate" a retired player to both teams just to be able to do the transfers.
It is okay for other teams now to retire down to 17 (seems only to not like a transfer - but accepts retirements. Wierd, but then again I have 19,700 + in Box messages - 2 of them equating to 19,600 repeated messages.
PS the numbers in front of the auction bids are the order they were submitted by a team.....but you knew that anyway...
I was not able to retire a player (needed 18 players)...should I retire one later?
The following teams receive Adjustment through 22nd May youth money to senior teams..:
ATL(1023) CDY(-500) CAR(500) CCK(-804) CHA(301) CHI(1702) CHV(804) CLB(780) REB(-780) DC(1200) DIS(-301) DAF(-451) DAL(777) GBS(-1444) GOG(-400) HOU(734) KC(1333) KCA(-1333) LFC(-1432) LHT(-734) LAB(-879) LA(879) MIA(1111) MIN(400) MON(734) MOL(-734) NSS(-904) RSL(1129) RFC(-1111) ROC(1444) SJ(451) SCF(-1023) SEA(904) TDL(-777) USB(-1129) VAN(1432) WDP(-1200) WCP(-1702)
RIS sends Ilsinio (1/3 MF) to NE for 10k
Scrapheap players retired.
COL sends 225k to MIA for 3 TP
Andy is correct, Bill has already retired his 5 from NBW, my CIW and Steve's FRR need to retire 5
But everyone else should only retire 4 please.
(You've sent 3 to your senior team and a 4th to another. You're getting 8 new players so you need to get rid of you're worst 4 players left to take you back up to 25)
Thanks for all the hard work David.
My nomination for deal of the day goes to NY who got a 0/19 MF for 777. he was even named Gary McAlistair after a Liverpool (and Leeds I think) legend. Bill certainly knows what he is doing in this game.
David. Should that be the other way round. If you're player was sold, retire 4 if he wasn't retire 5 ?
Gents, got the youth teams who need to retire players wrong.
All teams can retire 5 players EXCEPT FRR, CIW, NBW. who retire only 4.
Went wrong trying too hard to post the players tonight - but all done by tomorrow morning (Friday) and monies changed over to senior teams.
Thanks Steve for the heads up - I forgot my own log in password so couldn't amend my error till I got it back.
That should be FRR not RIS.
Also the RIS/NE trade failed because RIS have retired players down to 18. Might have to add some youth players before doing the transfer. Or do a manual edit
Definite that unbought players stay with the youth team. One season (only) I used TP on an age 0 and he didn't sell. Spent 250k in effect as I had 70 or 80 that season. But Dave let me keep him.
Gents, Go to Journal to see the tables showing the results of the auction.
Apologies fopr the width of the sheet but I couldn't get it any smaller, and I tried. If you see what looks like an anomaly, like the best price NOT getting a lad, check the bottom of the page - probably it is because the team already had won their quota of players so their remaining bids would be null and void.
As of now I will start to transfer the lads across to the senior team and although monies will be given to the selling youth team, I will also swop that cash to the senior team. Don't you worry, this is all my work.. :-(
On the Youth front, EVERY team can now retire 5 youth players EXCEPT for CIW and RIS who failed to find a buyer for their lad. At least for CIW the lad will help the team a lot, just that nobody bid for him....
Any queries let me know, but I have been over this already so think it is correct..
CDY sends Justin Fletcher (1/15 FW) to DC for 500k
GOG sends Curtis Jones (1/14 DF) to DC for 400k
REB sends Cy Borg (1/16 SW) to HOU for 780k
LAB sends Fred Evans (1/15 FW) to CHI for 879k
CCK sends Jimmy Canopy (1/15 DF) to ATL for 804k
LHT sends Al Knocker (1/15 DF) to KC for 734k
SCF sends Brian Greene (1/17 DF) to ROC for 1023k
DAF sends Mason Mount (1/16 MF) to CAR for 451k
TDL sends Gary McAllister (1/19 MF) to NY for 777k
Andy, that's the way I saw it and I think that with 22 youths bought only 2 teams will ge retiring 4 lads - the other 22 will retire 5. Watch the space..
Robin, correct - some rules can go to Polls later on - I'm too busy right now but enjoying it and can see the light... ✅✅
KCA sends Clint Barton (1/17 DF) to CHA for 1333k
WDP sends Pedro Hernandez (1/18 FW) to COL for 1200k
RFC sends Alex Williams (1/19 MF) to MON for 1111k
Should be left with their club imo. Makes sense rather than the scrapheap.
USB sends Sluvraa (1/19 MF) to MIN for 1129k
GBS sends Sammy Watkins (1/19 DF) to CHA for 1444k
LFC sends Simon Colin (1/19 MF) to CHV for 1432k
NSS sends Amobe Wattamali (1/16 SW) to ATL for 904k
WCP sends Christopher Brady (1/17 GK) to RSL for 1702k
MOL sends Barry Freeze (1/15 DF) to KC for 734k
David you have your finger on the pulse and you are now in control .
You have to do what you think is best to get this season moving , we can allways discuss later and formulate Rules for following season .
I stand corrected. Maybe I thought that because my 4th player has always been sold but you are both right.
Looking at the squads a fifth player has been retired if the age 1 player hasn't been sold.
Of course it would have been great to be able to ask Dave, but I am assuming, rightly or wrongly, that I can make decisions in the absence of the definitive answer, and I fancy leaving unsold players with their youth teams. When I get time to update the rules that'll be in it. Must say participation is as good as it e vet has been - I'll do a payout next Monday to cover the last couple of weeks. 🥳🥳
I don't think any unsold players are removed from their teams. I don't think that has been done before for any of the players in the auction in seasons in the past.
Andy, will confess my intention was not to withdraw any unsold player from the youth team. I presumed they would stay in their youth team - sure I had to keep a low EL youth in the past hence I train up all 4 age 0s each season now. But that's me.. 🤔🤔
Of course if the youth lad not auctioned is a poor one he can be one of the lads released. If the player is decent he will help out his wee team. Reckon the senior team has suffered enough as they get no cash for him being unsold.
So as mentioned below I'd appreciate nobody release youths till I announce the auction results. ✅✅
Only 4 youth team players should be retired. Any player not sold tonight should still be removed from their youth team. Therefore only 4 players should be retired.
I have just added the shortfall of 30TPs to each youth team.
Still have 3 managers who have not responded to the auction down for tonight at 6pm.. You can point the way, and maybe none wish to take part.
PS James and Phil, I sent on via In Box your youth lads for naming and positioning - you haven't seen the posts yet I know, but next time you are on.. thanks. And Bryce, I only sent your lads yesterday, so time yet..
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 21st May - correcting payment made to wrong team.:
CLB(165) REB(-165)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 21st May....:
ATL(40) CHA(90) REB(165) HOU(55) MIA(50) MON(65) NE(110) NY(70) POR(100) ROC(80) VAN(160)
Lads, feel free to retire old lads from your senior teams (make sure you have a minimum of 18 players though as per rules). BUT do NOT retire youth lads till after tonight's auction results.
Then I will be able to tell you how many you can retire from your youth teams - it will be either 4 or 5 retirements each -wait till I post the winning players to the senior teams first and then I will get you to retire some players. Thanks.
I see some old lads being lead out to the e-pasture. Do we retire from both Sr and Jr leagues, or just one.
Thanks.
First of all my home email address is still knackered so don't send messages to it please.
Can I ask that all players check their In Boxes regularly? When any team sent their auction bids in, I returned a message with their youth lads asking for them to be named and positioned. Many of you have returned them - thanks- but I can see as many as 5 lads have not read my message I sent back.
So far I have got 21 managers auction bids in and 14 completed youth players forms.
The story with TPs is that senior teams are given 30 at the start of a season and managers can buy up to the top level of 50 - that's the limit for senior teams.
Youth teams are allocated 60TPs at the start of the season and as they can't buy any or trade any that is their total for a season. It is possible for a youth team to go above 60 TPs if they retained any from the previous season - pointless exercise really as you can't sell any or trade them. Might as well use them up..
I will add the extra 30 TPs to bring the allocation to 60.
Thanks Steve - hadn't spotted that each had only got 30. Roy, using Paul's front page link to the wiki explains the Resources bit, again thanks for raising it - it will be done today or tomorrow as I've the auction to complete tonight.
That should obviously we read triple figures.
Off the top of my head I think there's a 99 limit.
Not sure it's in the rules but I don't think the system can go into double figures.
We have had one team do this before which is where I'm remembering this from.
I don't think it's in the rules anywhere
6/10 MA Death retires. 6/7 DF Famine retires. 6/7 DF War retires.
Just noticed these need 30 more added - MANUALLY I assume. Not sure of the rule apart from it's 60 free. Is there a max of 60 or can some be carried over? Some like FRR didn't use all theirs last season.
Columbus retirees (am I doing this right?)...
May 20 20 | CLB | Retirement | 6/6 FW Vasily Lomachenko |
May 20 20 | CLB | Retirement | 5/5 MF KenBackspace |
May 20 20 | CLB | Retirement | 5/7 MF Doug Deeper |
May 20 20 | CLB | Retirement | 6/4 DF Benji Flo |
May 20 20 | CLB | Retirement | 6/7 DF Los Angelos |
May 20 20 | CLB | Retirement | 6/4 SW Hugo First |
I can try...
Hey Brian, there is a data entry piece needed to add new players - its a big job for Dave,so he enlists some help.
Dave - cant see my youth team reply beingsent to you, must not have hit the right button, sorry. Ill do it again late today!
Brian, the youth players you have named and positioned all have to be individually placed into your youth team squad.
It would take me ages to put them into the 24 teams so I asked for help. 3 lads have offered help and I was looking for a 4th to spread the load.
I am looking for an established lad to help (or I'll do 6 of them myself). But thanks for the interest though.. 👍
What does David mean about updating youth players to the Jr team?
Great response lads - only DAL (Aires), POR (Derek), and SEA (Graham) to put bids (or not) in now. And 14 of you have returned your youth lads named and positioned - way better than I expected, so thanks.. 7 more have their youth lads to name and position so when you are ready...
So far I have David C, Steve T and Roy R happy to update the new lads to their youth teams - that would be 3 x 8 teams each. Is there another lad willing to offer so it becomes 4 x 6 teams and we will move even more quickly...
Again, if in any doubt about anything please ask first - myself or any of the established lads will be only too happy to help. PS I am still only contactible via the inbox or Blog - my home email is still "compromised" till BT gets back to me.
Thank you for the confirmation, Steve. It would have been catastrophic had I made a mistake.
Gents,
Thanks for the good response to the auction dates, now I feel I have to ask ATL, DAL, KC, NE, POR, and SEA to send in their bids soonest or if not bidding let me know so I can move on to send out the new youth players for naming and positioning. Response so far is great and some (9 so far) have even sent back their youth players completed.
There are some OASL differences to the other SOS leagues that may affect your season resources planning.
There are no age 0-1 players in the Auctions.
There's no TP in the Auctions.
There are two lots of OTF bundles in the Auctions.
There are 6 Auctions.
TP
Do age 1's inrease SL with TP or CP?
Thanks.
Sent to your OASL inbox as requested David.
Lads, please keep to what you are doing and moving on the Youth auction - onluy 9 of you to put bids in - and the youth players names and positions, and keep all messages for a few days to the IN BOX.
I have had a security lockdown on my email site - 40 munites on the phone today has not resolved it, so they are posting me a password to get set back up. So please dont use my home email address for now. Thanks..
Bill, on the trophy front, in my defence I just took Dave's last sheet which was visible all last season, and added the following:
3 to you - 1st and 2nd Division titles (you ran DAL the whole season so must be counted) and the AS Plate.
2 to Alon - winning AL Sellers TCup and the ST Trophy
That was all I did - thinking the Youth 1st Division should be added but not sure if it was in the past.
But there was a shared 1st division in the past - season 6 - although not sure if it was between 2 or 3 people - in the meantime I have taken off the share on yours, Bill.
I'm wondering if some confusion is due to all the team name changes.
There's also the Plates which might not show.
Am I having a dicky moment? I've counted James White's too and only get 7. Help! There must be a stato desperate to regulate this! Peace.
On the front page I am attributed with 20 wins. I have only won 18 to my knowledge, none shared. Cheers.
First of all, thanks Roy for the heads up on the pre season purchases.
Can I ask if any new lads to the game have queries at all, direct them to myself, or Steve or Bill or Roy ( to name but 3 although I could name far more who would be happy to help).
i am award the wiki is not up to date but that is on my "to do" list once my workload gets smaller 🤓🤓
To date I have received 10 Auction bids and all these managers have received their 8 New youth players for naming and positions. Thanks to the 3 so far who have sent them back completed - we are moving well..
Can the remaining 14 managers arrange to send in their auction bids OR if not bidding let me know and I'll forward your youth players on? Thanks.
Here are the OASL resouce rules. They may help you plan your Action Bid
RESOURCES
CP & TP Purchases: Pre Season Only
Coaches may Purchase up to 50CP at
50k each for First 30
75k each for Next 20
provided limits are not exceeded
TP : 30 TP (60 TO to Youth Teams)awarded (Free) to each Team Pre-season
A Further 20 TP(up to the team maximum of 50)may be purchased at a cost of 100k each
Resource Limits set at
5000k
50CP
50TP (NA TO YOUTH TEAMS)
Per Team
Any limits exceeded will result in loss of excess
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 16th May - player retirements pre-aging:
ATL(120) CAR(80) CHA(60) CHI(115) CHV(75) COL(80) DC(90) DAL(65) HOU(105) KC(160) MIN(110) PHI(80) POR(65) RSL(80) SEA(55) VAN(80)
Brian, go into front page and tick on Paul's link to the Wiki (left hand side near the top).
That should do it.. ✅✅
Best place for general rules is probably the one on SESL. Link is in orange just below the team logos. It does have a section for SESL but I don't think for OASL. There is a link for rules on this site which looks awful on my phone with pages overlapping each other.
Best place for general rules is probably the one on SESL. Link is in orange just below the team logos. It does have a section for SESL but I don't think for OASL. There is a link for rules on this site which looks awful on my phone with pages overlapping each other.
Hello Gents,
I am unable to open the Rules Wiki. I'm on iOs (10.15.4) and have tried Safarii and Chrome, but I can't access the address: http://www.sos-soccer-manager.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#Rules.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Brian
Youth Auction is on, lads, till next Thursday 21st May @ 6pm. After that you can't enter the auction.
Please note that you need to have spaces on your roster for any player you win, so if you have 25 players now, you will need to consider retiring 1 or 2 (should you wish to get 2 in the auction). It is okay to win someone and I will check back before passing him over to you IF you have too many players, so don't worry about not going into the auction.
NOW, when I receive your auction bids in my In Box, I will then send you your 8 youth players for you to pick names and positions for them. (GK, SW, DF, MF, FW - don't try for a MPP as I will convert him to a pos of my choosing - need to get some fun here!!) - basically your last big job before pre season.
My hope is to start (as usual with 3 Cup section games) on Wednesday 10th June - we have the managers, the will, so why not go when we can, BUT I need to to complete the auction and the youth players by the deadlines I give, please!!
Gents, no point in waiting any longer as teams histories are all updated, so this evening aging and re-setting will be done. If any further teams have players to retire DO IT RIGHT NOW, although of course you can do retirements afterwards. 👍
Payments for retirements already made will be made tomorrow morning. 💶 💰
Nice work Mr Blair in turning around the end of the season quickly.
Thanks for taking off my last Blog (for security reasons..- don't ask).
seems you can now either send to home email address or to my in box. The latter works as Stephen has used it already - send to Boss Blair 2020 - I like it !!
Got 2 bids so far - the quicker the other 22 come in we can move on possibly even by Thursday.. 👍👍
In box via this site direct to David Blair commish name
His account is about half way down the page when you create a new inbox message
Bid by THURSDSAY 21st MAY - 6pm GMT (that's the time on David's watch in Scotland..)
Dave, can't see an email add for you to send back to?
Gents, This is the good one - only take a few minutes of your time.
Below are the players in the youth auction for this season - 22 cracking lads all wanting a crack at the big time. All monies taken go to the Senior team of the club selling him - my job!!
You now have in your In Box the rules and a "for example" box for returning to me, by THURSDSAY 21st MAY - 6pm GMT (that's the time on my watch in Scotland..) PLEASE go over and study it, any queries just ask. Any players not getting bid on will stay at their youth teams, and remember one thing:
YOU CAN'T BID FOR YOUR OWN LAD.
Thanks and good luck...
LOT | YOUTH | Players for Auction | ||||
ORDER | TEAM | |||||
1 | MOL | MON | DF | Barry | Freeze | 0/15 |
2 | WCP | CHI | GK | Chris | Brady | 0/17 |
3 | NSS | SEA | SW | Amobe | Wattamali | 0/16 |
4 | LFC | VAN | MF | Simon | Colin | 0/19 |
5 | GBS | ROC | DF | Sammy | Watkins | 0/19 |
6 | MTS | POR | FW | Scott | Milss | 0/18 |
7 | UTS | RSL | MF | Sluvraa | 0/19 | |
8 | RFC | MIA | MF | Alex | Williams | 0/19 |
9 | WDP | DC | FW | Pedro | Hernandez | 0/18 |
10 | CIW | COL | WG | Sandri | Lovric | 0/16 |
11 | KCA | KC | DF | Clint | Barton | 0/17 |
12 | TDL | DAL | MF | Gary | McAllister | 0/19 |
13 | FRR | NE | MF | Freddy | Fox | 0/3 |
14 | DAF | SJ | MF | Mason | Mount | 0/16 |
15 | SCF | ATL | DF | Brian | Greene | 0/17 |
16 | LHT | HOU | DF | Al | Knocker | 0/15 |
17 | RIS | PHI | MF | Ilsinio | 0/3 | |
18 | DIS | CHA | MF | Graham | Lee | 0/15 |
19 | CCK | CHV | DF | Jimmy | Canopy | 0/15 |
20 | LAB | LAG | FW | Freddy | Evans | 0/15 |
21 | REB | CLB | SW | Cy | Borg | 0/16 |
22 | GOG | MIN | DF | Curtis | Jones | 0/14 |
23 | CDY | CAR | FW | Justin | Fletcher | 0/15 |
24 | NBW | NY | DF | Andy | Ruiz Jnr | 0/14 |
History has been added to the site, and so we are GO for Aging on Sunday. And that is thanks to Mark - wish I was as talented as him... :-) But OI will learn and hopefully next season I will be able to do all the things I am asking assistance for.
PS Cheers, Bill, support is always great to get - brown envelope is in the post!! :-)
I would ask if Robin, Al, Mark, Graham, and Aires could send in a small photo (via email to my address davidblair@btinternet.com) so we can get the faces to match the rivalries that will surface.... :-)
PS To save me time is there someone who can copy them over - I have too much to do at the moment, but I promise I will find out how it is done and take it over some time in the future. I have used Mark for assistance recently but he has his own set up to run, so I can't keep asking for help (he hopefully will be covering Brian's photo..) Got a big enough problem getting my face in for Dave - I am better looking, and don't have a beard, but seems I might have a problem there.. :-(
Doing a great job here! Thank you.
Doing a great job here! Thank you.
Gents, please also welcome Brian Beerman, well known to many of you and gagging to be a part of this new setup.Where is Brian playing I hear you ask?
Actually I am giving up Los Angeles Galaxy (and the LA Blues) so Brian gets in to enjoy the party. Good luck Brian.. 👍👍
Tomorrow morning I'll post the youth auction details - I'll give till midweek next week and process the bids.
WATCH THIS SPACE TOMORROW PLEASE. 😳😳
Gents, I have transferred over the 3 highest aged 0 youth players and half the youth money to your senior teams - check for any discrepancies. I am not immune to making the odd error. I have also updated 1 of the 3 as your next MPP.
Now, aging will be put in this Sunday 17th May - and we can then go for the Youth auction. This should be done before aging, but the lads(s) you earn will be aged 1 when the season starts - trust me... Oh goodness - more work..
I will Blog later the players up and all managers will get an IN -BOX message with a template for bidding and the rules. But the players will be on a Blog - so remember to print the list or at least refer to that Blog when bidding., AND the closing date I put in. We are on a roll now.... :-)
ALWAYS remember to check the Blogs AND any messages appearing in your In Box, please.
NBW sends 1088k, Joshua Buatsi (0/15 GK), Errol Spence Jnr (0/16 MF), Marius Briedis (0/15 MF) to NY for
CDY sends 1024k, Greg Turner (0/17 DF), Harry Sargent (0/16 MF), Herb Yirdaw (0/15 MF) to CAR for
GOG sends 1094k, Taa (0/15 DF), K Hoever (0/14 MF), Sadie Mano (0/16 FW) to MIN for
REB sends 734k, Clive Gee (0/18 DF), Frank Lee (0/16 MF), Shay Red (0/18 FW) to CLB for
LAB sends 1212k, Jon Gough (0/16 DF), Rob Jordan (0/16 DF), Dave Gellis (0/15 FW) to LA for
CCK sends 1017k, Wilbur Oak (0/17 DF), James Chestnut (0/17 DF), Jesus Branch (0/16 DF) to CHV for
DIS sends 1024k, Richard Kingscote (0/16 MF), David Probert (0/19 FW), Luke Morris (0/18 FW) to CHA for
RIS sends 1071k, Anderson (0/18 DF), R J Allen (0/17 DF), Aaron Wheeler (0/16 FW) to PHI for
LHT sends 944k, Mike Marshall (0/15 DF), Will Coker (0/15 MF), Barrie Snow (0/16 WG) to HOU for
SCF sends 1099k, George Gamow (0/19 GK), Al Biruni (0/17 MF), Roger Pearose (0/19 FW) to ATL for
DAF sends 1223k, Fikayo Tomori (0/16 DF), Christian Pullisic (0/17 WG), Tammy Abraham (0/18 FW) to SJ for
FRR sends 1408k, Danny Dog (0/16 SW), George Pig (0/17 MF), Eddie Elephant (0/16 FW) to NE for
TDL sends 815k, Colin Cameron (0/21 MF), Stuart McCall (0/20 MF), John Collins (0/21 MF) to DAL for
KCA sends 1145k, Steve Rogers (0/20 GK), Dick Grayson (0/18 WG), Charles Xavier (0/19 FW) to KC for
CIW sends 1353k, Christopher Giuliani (0/19 GK), Maximilian Wober (0/16 DF), Nicholas Meisler (0/18 FW) to COL for
WDP sends 925k, Gavin Wilson (0/20 DF), Carl James (0/18 DF), Harvey Barnes (0/19 MF) to DC for
RFC sends 635k, Harvey Spector (0/20 DF), Louis Litt (0/20 DF), Cliff Barnes (0/19 MF) to MIA for
USB sends 1173k, Bawrei (0/20 SW), Hermaan (0/21 WG), Kyoun (0/19 FW) to RSL for
MTS sends 1278k, Alan Freeman (0/19 DF), Steve Wright (0/18 DF), John Peel (0/19 MF) to POR for
Welcome lads. We have some top and prestigious coaching here. I genuinely think my rock n roll years are over in OASL. Al, Aires, Mark and Robin...what a wealth of talent, welcome. Alon has been a breath of fresh air and set a benchmark for us to follow. These guys will raise the bar for us all...roll on the competition!
Thanks for the welcome David. I'm not sure I remember all the cheat codes I put into the game a couple of decades ago but hopefully I can find them. :-)
Al
The following players have left for Retirement :
Matt Briggs | FW | 6 | 5 | 10 | 0 |
Ed Lee | MF | 6 | 3 | 10 |
Amir Khan | DF | 6 | 3 | 10 | 0 |
Have started to transfer them over. 5 done so far - rest on Thursday morning - they will age with their senior team on Sunday - planned day for aging. Any queries (keep them to yourselves - no seriously let me know..
And I was nowhere..... :-(
Poll Results: Vote for your choice
VOTING SUMMARY
CHOICE | TOTAL VOTES |
Bill Ramsay - Winner Div 1, Winner & Al Sellers Plate | 9 |
Alon Atie - Winner ST Trophy & Al Sellers Cup - 3rd Div 1 | 4 |
Other vote - please give reason | 2 |
Jason Dowson - 2nd Div 1 - with 8th best T11 | 1 |
Well done that man - but that was last season.. Can you do it this coming one? :-)
GBS sends 750k, Chris Jones (0/20 DF), Reggie Ragland (0/20 MF), Matt Moore (0/20 MF) to ROC for
LFC sends 1288k, Ali Anan (0/19 DF), Theo Bair (0/19 FW), Maxime Crepeau (0/20 GK) to VAN for
NSS sends 974k, Herbie Hide (0/19 GK), Sam Witherspoon (0/18 WG), Nial Hendryx (0/17 FW) to SEA for
WCP sends 670k, Kyle Bebej (0/19 DF), Javier Casals Jnr (0/19 MF), Alex Monis (0/18 MF) to CHI for
MOL sends 926k, Barry Watch (0/19 DF), Kevin Pedelo (0/17 DF), Ben Circus (0/16 MF) to MON for
Good to have the full compliment competing, more chance Bill won't win it again this year!
Welcome on board everyone.
Hi,
Retired from CHV:
5/9 DF - Ivor Holly
5/7 DF - Stringov Tinsel
Thanks
Paul (CHV)
Gents, we will be running a full 24 coach league next season, thanks to some sterling work behind the scenes, mainly from Bill with his contacts.
I would like to welcome Allan Sellers, coming in to take Dave Dowson's teams at Columbus Crew/Columbus Rebels. Aires Martin is taking over FC Dallas/New Bedford Whalers, Robin Dewar will look after Vancouver Whitecaps/Langley F.C. and Mark Creasey has offered to look after Montreal Impacts/Montreal Olympique.
Derek will move from Montreal Impacts to Portland Timbers/Mount Tabor S.C.
Welcome all, and I hope you enjoy your stay - I have emailed you all with passwords etc.
One final thank you goes to the lads who care took (a word?) a team last season and kept them all ticking over - thanks and you can step down from these positions as of now. You kept the ship afloat last season for sure...
May 11, 2020
Chris Jones 4/6
Verka Seduchka 4/6
AJ 5/6
SL first, age is greater number.
Thanks to CHI, KC and PHI for Blogging their retirements. I have them already as I printed the sheet from 29/4 till now. Also thanks to the clubs who have got their players down to 22 or less to allow the transfers of the 3 youths to their listing. (Only DAL and POR to retire 1 (or 2).
The youth auction will be coming up soonest and there are MANY good youths needing new homes. So maybe even getting to 20 or 21 to allow for a youth bargain? There are 22 players with skill levels between 14 and 19 to go for - only 2 in single figures...... :-)
I plan to transfer your age 3 youths starting tomorrow, and half of your youth cash, so muchos denarii will be available for the youth purchase(s).
DF Fabihno 5/8
DF Pac Man 6/9
May 8, 2020
Thanks to ATL and RSL - but I have just seen the list of players who have been released since 29th April. Gents, feel free to release players BUT to get payment, you need to Blog it or in Box me, like ATL and RSL. I have printed off the page and will see teams from 29/4 till now get payment but will wait to see if there are any more - more likely after PSA (which will be coming up soooooon!)
Jerry Lee. 6/4 FW
Steve Birnbaum 6/2 DF
Mike Hawthorn 5/6 MF
5/12 DF This Gabriel
5/12 MA The Steve
5/12 FW The Aguero
Retired 3 oldies:
6/6 MF Gina G
6/4 DF Jamala
5/12 WG El Duque
All coaches feel free to retire old timers and low SL lads from Now and earn some cash - after PSA their SLs go down = less money. Also frees up spaces for your youth players plus any Youth Auction wins - and there are many good SL youth players on the list to bid on.
Would caretaking managers remember to do their 2nd team as well. If a problem let me know, I'll cover any.
Release the players but let me know via Blog and I'll take care of it...
Lets say next Sunday 17th for a deadline - PSA WILL BE DONE MONDAY 18th May
BUT DO NOT TOUCH ANY OF YOUR YOUTH PLAYERS PLEASE!!
Gents, I have now paid out monies earned for the 2nd part of the Poll Predictions, League and Cup winnings and reviewer and ass commissioner earnings.
Some time today I will be adding the OTF and SL earnings so we can move on.
Some lads have not come back with the returns I asked for - so I am doing them for you now - please don't complain if I get it wrong, I gave 3 notifications - I have studied both youth and senior squads and made decisions I think are fair and I'd do if that team was mine....
Teams that have 24 and 23 players ( RSL, ATL, DC, DAL, POR, CHA and HOU) please look to retire players to get you down to 22 (makes it easier to bring across your 3 youth lads. If it can't be done then we'll wait for PSA so it can happen, but I know only 1 team in that category so far).
Keep it moving and we can smoothly move on to a (hopefully) successfull season 25. Thanks.
The following teams receive Awards through 11th May as per trophy earnings, match reviews and ass commish payments.:
CHI(200) CHV(75) CIW(200) COL(100) LA(400) MIA(300) MIN(850) NBW(100) NE(100) NY(400) PHI(500) ROC(200) SJ(100) VAN(150)
The following teams receive Awards through 11th May as per league placings.....:
ATL(200) CDY(200) CAR(450) CCK(200) CHA(240) CHI(200) CHV(260) CIW(200) COL(280) CLB(300) REB(200) DC(260) DIS(300) DAF(230) FRR(350) DAL(650) GBS(220) GOG(200) HOU(210) KC(350) KCA(210) LFC(200) LHT(200) LAB(250) LA(280) MIA(250) MIN(350) MON(200) MOL(200) MTS(220) NBW(200) NE(200) NY(850) NSS(200) PHI(220) POR(230) RSL(240) RFC(200) ROC(220) RIS(250) SJ(200) SCF(230) SEA(200) TDL(300) USB(210) VAN(210) WDP(200) WCP(200)
The following teams receive Prediction League through 10th May - 2nd part of Poll Match Predictions.:
ATL(170) CAR(160) CHA(60) CHV(120) COL(120) CLB(90) DC(60) DAL(50) KC(130) LA(160) MIA(100) MIN(120) NE(110) NY(100) PHI(150) POR(60) RSL(120) ROC(170) SJ(160) SEA(60) VAN(110)
Good luck to all clubs today - thanks to all 6 coaches concerned - all team lines are in.
NOW all coaches read the Blogs below and action where needed (or requested) please!! It helps me going forward - and I will be actioning stuff tomorrow if I don't get the info by then. Forward and upwards....
PS Any lad looking to switch clubs? Not a lot of openings but willing to listen and if possible I will accommodate - couple of decent teams empty or going empty after caretakers relinquish control of them this evening. And if a caretaker prefers to swop to their 2nd team that is fine too - get in touch with me directly but do it soonest.. Thanks!!
I promised an update on the youth situation on Saturday and here it is.
Can CHV, POR, HOU, ROC, (and ATL and COL after tomorrow's game) let me know the MPP they want downgraded from their senior team and to which position.
Can SJ, (and ATL and COL after tomorrow's game) let me know which of their 2 lowest Age 0 players they want to go to auction.
Can MON, SEA, POR, DAL, CHV (and ATL and COL after tomorrow's game) let me know which player and position as an MPP they wish their youth player upgraded to.
This is all small beer for individual clubs, but a lot of work for me, so please try to accommodate me by SUNDAY (tomorrow) evening - come Monday I will be tearing into this and will complete the exercise. Sorry about this but I have to keep things moving - it's a busy time.....
I am looking to do all payments tomorrow or Tuesday and have the youth auction out to all clubs by Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning latest. It is nearly finalised right now - I need the above to complete it..
One last thing, can people check their In Box as I have 3 messages that recipients have not yet read, and I would appreciate responses. Thanks to all in advance.. :-)
Gents, I have put up the Poll. Forgive me if I have missed somebody who obviously should be up there - this job is giving me grey hair - no wait, I already have grey hair. Sleepless nights, that's it, worrying I will get something wrong or miss something out.. (which I will..!!)
NOW, please make your vote as I need the final figures by say next Wednesday 13th May so I can reward the lad. Thanks in advance.. :-)
The one thing I am up to date with at the moment is where some teams have already told me which lads they want downgraded. I have actioned them (PHI, RSL, CAR, SJ, LA, CHA) - but have no problems you doing them if they come through on a Blog. By checking the Stats page it is easy to see which ones are needing to de-MPP a player.. Cheers....
I'll downgrade my MPPs after the playoff on Sunday.
If anyone not in a playoff wants any players downgrading you can post the names in the blog and I'll do them.
It may save David a bit of time
KC, CHV, HOU, COL, POR, ATL, ROC,
Gents, all the above teams have 5 MPPs so when you send in your Youth return (by Sunday evening), can you remember to include the lad in your senior team you want downgraded and to which position, please?
In addition could MON, SEA, DAL, although having less than 5 MPPs, remember their youth turns by Sunday as well, please?
All monies, OTFs, SLs earned will be paid out on Monday/Tuesday and the Youth Auction will be finalised for sending out to you around Tuesday/Wednesday max next week.
PS Keep checking your in boxes - busy time right now (it is for me at least..!!) so getting answers quickly allows me to keep moving at a pace. Thanks again.. :-)
I was sure you had - welcome on board. That makes 3 lads - 8 teams each. Sounds good to me, thanks!!
Won't be long now - getting things organised for the Youth Auction, once I get all returns in, by Sunday coming.
I've helped Dave with these in past seasons
Happy to do whatever is needed to help out
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 47:
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #9: 25k (WWd)
New York Red Bulls - MVP #12: 25k (wWw)
Steve, David - you are both hired.
If anybody else wants in I would share the 24 teams around. - but you 2 are on the payroll so far... :-)
Happy to help with whatever needed. Cheers.
At the minute I'm not at work so have some time to add players.
Gents, after a mad splurge Sunday and Monday from a few teams, it has gone pretty cool since.
By next Sunday I need to know (and I'd appreciate the messages here or in the in box the following:
If your senior team has 5 MPPs, then I need a players name and his new position eg LA Smith MA to FW
Also IF you have 4 age 0 players and the lowest 2 are the same SLs (and there are quite a few teams like that) I need to know which of the 3 you want to keep or otherwise which one is going to auction - one of them will be.
Finally, I need you to pick one of your top 3 age 0 players to be promoted to an MPP - and which position. I am having a lot of extra work sorting out some of the above.
12 teams have not replied so far, and 4 teams have queries to sort out and reply back to me.
I will remind everybody again around Saturday, but any not completed by Sunday night then I will do it for you - I'd be very level headed about it, but better you do it. I will quote teams missing on Saturday in case one or two think they have already done it.
Could some of the lads who helped before to put youth players into their teams let me know - I could do with some assistance here please - there will be compensation. We are not there just yet, but I plan to move pretty fast though so want to have things in place...
NOW, can everybody please read the next BLOG.
3 Cup Finals tonight and 2 x 3rd/4th place playoff matches = 10 teams taking the park.
Only 2 teams still to put in a team line, but I am sure that will be rectified before 9pm tonight - good luck to all - I can say that as my lot aren't involved.. A review will be on the front page tomorrow morning.... :-)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 4th May....:
CHA(25) CHI(20) LA(50) NE(50) PHI(45)
Gents, thanks in advance to the 3 managers who already gave picked their MPP position - personally I am not fussed which of your lads gets to be an MPP so I'll listen to your requests - but would name name as well as position in that case.
So if you get your request in soonest - thanks..
Also I will be casting the 3 playoff matches tonight or tomorrow morning to be played next Sunday.. (10th Place 1st division v 3rd Place 2nd division plus in the youth setup 9th Place 3rd division v 4th Place 4th division and 10th Place 3rd division v 3rd Place division 4.)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 46:
Miami FC - MVP #3: 1 TP (WwW)
Langley F.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Savannah Celtic FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
KC Athletics - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Texas Dutch Lions - MVP #4: 1 CP (WwD)
14 teams have 5 MPP. Can these managers please also select which player is to be changed otherwise the youth-senior transfers will not go through.
I know there is a game still to go, but the following has to be addressed.
ALL youth team managers (including caretaker managers) please tell me the MPP position you wish your best age 0 player to be in when I send him across to the senior team.
DFs can be SD or DM, MFs can be DM or MA, and FWs can be MA. If I am wrong here someone will tell me.
I need you to inbox me with the position you want the lad to appear in your big team, and by next Sunday. If no response then I will select a position for him. If you have 2 players in different positions tied in SLs then the position you select will tell me which one will be changed. Just say: MF Smith to DM etc is all I need.
I need to make a start somewhere.... :-)..
Gents, it seems that not only are we looking good for going next season - we could well be going with a full compliment of 24 managers. Lots of good work behind the scenes (but only a little by me I will add) has meant we welcome Robin Dewar back to the fray, taking over VAN, good luck with that, Robin.
There are plans afoot - still to be confirmed - which could see us move to the 24 managers with an advert being placed in MSWL for a couple or 3 lads to help us out. We are approaching AL Sellers, who set up the Olmec system, and who is no stranger to nearly all of you, to seek permission to advertise in MSWL (his current hobby and also participant).
Having said that, Al will be asked to place an advert in OASL for any of you lads willing to join his MSWL set up.
You could consider this as his request for managers in MSWL, although he may come back on himself to officially ask.
Give MSWL a go if you haven't already - it is a different system from Olmec - with some nice touches and (to me, anyway), a fairly easy rulebook. Not an easy game to win big time, bit like OASL, SESL etc, but good fun and a good set of fellow managers. MSWL has just finished a season, good time to look around the site. (MSWL.org)
AL can be found at allan.sellers@gmail.com
We are full steam ahead for Sunday's last league matches, followed by an evening of Cup football (5 matches on Wednesday), then the 3 playoff games the following Sunday. It is all go here... :-)
LA sends 240k to CLB for 2 CP
The 4 teams are ready for tonight's Semi Finals.
i know it's the Plate and not the A.S. Cup proper but there is money for all 4 teams - apart from the gate money - more so for tonight's winners.
Good luck to all.. ✅✅
LA sends 840k to MON for 7 CP
LA sends 360k to KC for 3 CP
Sorry guys only just catching up with the Blog, my vote is in via email. Sorry for the delay
Very interesting battle for that second relegation spot. 4 teams battling to avoid that or even the play-off, with Charleston just getting themselves out the blender in time with yesterday's win (confirming safety).
Good luck to all next week!
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 27th April....:
CHV(20) COL(25) LA(50) MIA(40) MIN(35) NE(20) ROC(50)
Yes, I spotted it too, thanks. It IS possible that both teams might avoid a playoff game, it IS, but the plan is to have all 3 playoff games the following Sunday - session 48. IF all playoffs could be played in session 47 I will know next Sunday at 3pm, but let's go with 48 for now. :-)
DAL sends 1 CP to LA for 120k
David when will the playoffs be played?
The Ice Whites have the Youth Cup final to be played in match 47, will the relegation playoffs be after that?
(I have a feeling both Colorado teams will be playing playoffs at the end of the season)
First of all, no problems Alon - glad I have one reader at least for the Cup Reviews. 🤓
Gents, I don't think I will do a match for next week's Poll but I WILL give the 17 lads who filled in today's Poll 20k - that way we will have had 10 polls in each half of the season.
i will post earnings gained for each team since MSA tomorrow and they will be paid after the Final Match has been played (the playoff game).
Hi Dave
I actually do read your reviews normally but I have the memory of a goldfish so I need to be reminded ....
Alon,
i am guessing you don't read my riveting Cup reviews on the front page.. ? 😢😢
I put a set of midweek session numbers about a fortnight ago, and the games involved, and it is still there....
(Hopefully some lads do read these reviews.. 😉😉)
Anyway it is still there but in answer to the question, all 3 Finals remaining go ahead on session 47. 👍👍
Hi, Does anyone know if the final will be game 45 or game 47?
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 44:
New York Red Bulls - MVP #11: 25k (wWw)
Charleston Battery - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
Columbus Crew - MVP #3: 1 TP (Wwd)
Colorado Rapids - MVP #7: 25k (WwW)
Gananda Bandits S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
So far 21 of 24 teams have their lineups in, and 21 of 24 youth not surprisingly. Expecting a full house today - so good luck everybody...
Still waiting for Poll votes from Derek, Marc, and Stephen to complete the survey. Come on lads, please give the nod to playing next season and we can start working out the numbers to run with, and any team swopping that some will be looking forward to. Thanks in advance..
Beautiful day today - probably the same with you - remember to get your hour out in the sun - this could well be the summer.. :-)
Steve,
Thanks - the job's yours - we'll talk about wages later 🤔🤔
It is to cover any manager who either updates their photo or a manager who swaps teams during the close season. ✅✅
Email me a photo and I can resize it to fit.
Gents, we have 17 returns so far in the Poll, and I thank you for the returns you have made. Push to shove we have 17 managers who are happy to go next season. Very heartening is that over half have offered some help - trust me, I will use as many as I can - it IS after all, your League.
First thing up is who can fit a photo into that manager's profile, please? Not right now, but good to know... ?
However can I ask Derek, Marc and Stephen if they could fill out the Poll question - at that point we will know the exact numbers before seeing how we pan out next season. And before tomorrow's games Please.. :-) Go on, you know you want to, and there will be choices of teams if some lads want to swap clubs.
Also at this point can everybody (most of you are in another game or two or just someone you feel might enjoy the game) think of someone who could help us out - we have a quality offering and at one game per session it isn't too demanding. (Alright, with youth it becomes 2 on a Sunday....) Just point them to me - I will do the rest..
Thanks in advance... :-)
I meant every word of my prior post...except for Simon. Harboring a little ill will toward Simon after seeing the results of our recent tilt.
Just a little.
Phil
When I read the text Phil send, I realized that we are a kind of family.
Oke, we do not know eachothers birthday, we do not visit eachother and we do (I think) not call eachother...but still..I have the idea you all know me, and I at least know your names ;-)
I like to be around you guys. I like to play this game, and together with eachother we can create a great competition. Therefor I will be back in the new season, even though the board might not like it.
Let's finish this season and start fresh...and even with this in mind, I will miss the "leader" of the pact. I am glad people like David step in to continue this league, respect for this!! If I can help, I am willing to help, just put it on the blog what kind of support is needed.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 23rd April - missed Steve's Journal entry....:
NE(30)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 43:
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #8: 25k (wWD)
Phil, I endorse all you say but there has been no approach to other leagues as yet, before we have the views of the lads who are finishing this season.
Once we know our starting number we can ask for others.
If we only had 20 managers we can filter down to that - easy to adjust the competitions - or keep the full 24 and let 4 clubs play passive for a season whilst trying to fill them up. We have options but firstly we have around 6 or 7 managers still to play the Poll game.
Come on lads- if we get the views from everybody soonest we can move on to step 2.
PS thanks for the full house for tonight - interesting games on offer. Shame they are behind closed doors 🤔🤓
I hope this note finds you well. We've said this in other situations, and it is never a more true statement than today. Thank God for the diversion and comraderie that these games bring to our lives. I don't know where we would be without the various leagues, and I don't know what I would do without some of the friendships we've forged along the way. It hurts to lose Dave Dowson, but I want to say how much I value the heart and soul he poured into this game. And I want to say the same for all of you. I appreciate this community. I appreciate you all.
Going forward, I would love to see OASL continue forward with our full compliment of teams. But I recognize how difficult it can be to maintain a full stable of horses in a league this size. If there's too many caretakers, it feels like we are running with a bit of a limp in our gallop and takes away from the overall spirit of the game, I think. Perhaps a reach out to other commissioners for recommendations would result in a few fresh recruits coming into the fold. That's what Dave Dowson used to do. Perhaps it's already been done.
I don't want to oversell my commitment, but I'm willing to take on some limited housekeeping chores to keep this league going strong. But whatever happens, this game is part of my heart now, and I'm glad to be a part of this community.
Love you all. (Hope it's okay to say that).
Phil
A.S Semi 2nd legs tonight. Good luck to those 4 teams.
Gents, Please note that this week's Poll question is not for the teams, but the manager. So even if you run a couple of teams please only vote once. :-)
There is a thought wqe could run with smaller than 20 (say 16) IF the lads who vote for staying are happy with that. Who knows, we may encourage others from outside to join us. A sad time, but we have till Sunday to cast our votes.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 20th April....:
CHA(20) LA(50) NE(20)
Thanks Steve, it's what I guessed.
Now that Andy has been sorted I thought I'd check all other youth teams.
Rob, your Indians and Paul's Mount Tabor both had 1 CP as well. Now both have been changed to TPs 👍👍
It's simply coded that way by Al Sellers as there was never a system for just TP to be added.
Andy, must be a blip in the server as Dave had a few occasions like this. Guessing it assumes every division in every setup has only senior teams..
But easily sorted and will be soonest.. ✅
CP awarded to De Anza Force. Can it be changed to a TP with the Force being a youth team.
Thanks.
Gents, 17 teams took part with 9 being correct in the result, and 2 getting the actual score right. A total of 280k being distributed amongst these 17 teams.
NOW, please read the next bit carefully, and note the new Poll Question.... :-)
Future of OASL
The season finishes on 3rd May (10th May for playoffs) and we need to ask what the future holds for the game that Dave ran with a passion.
I would like to offer up the following scenarios – if any others come to mind and I have overlooked them, then I apologise.
It has to be said we need a minimum of 20 managers to operate, as anything less would mean 1 division, and a set up with no promotion/relegation is unlikely to succeed.
Do not see the above as my push for the position of Commissioner, I was happy being Dave's Assistant, but I am happy to do whatever the managers want, albeit with help from some of you.
Sad times but if I didn’t do this, the game would lapse on 10th May, and it certainly will if there isn’t a clear nod from you lads....Most of you have another set up you play in, so if OASL has to go then so be it.
NOW PUT YOUR VOTE INTO THE POLL BEFORE NEXT SUNDAY 3PM, please!!
6 teams within 2 points now for the relegation battle. Very tense!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 42:
Real Salt Lake - MVP #3: 1 TP (Www)
FC Dallas - MVP #8: 25k (dWW)
Utah Surf Boys S.C. - MVP #3: 1 TP (WwW)
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #4: 1 CP (dWw)
Kick off in about 5 hours and co-incidentally there are only 5 teamlines due for a full house. Appreciate your efforts lads - good luck today.. ✅
Later on come back to the Blog - important stuff coming up.. 🤔🤔🤔🤔
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 41:
Miami FC - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Tonight sees the 1st leg games in the A.S. Sellers Cup Seni Finals - 2nd legs next Wednesday
3 teams lineups are in - just need the last one to complete the round... 🤓🤓
Tonight sees the 1st leg games in the A.S. Sellers Cup Seni Finals - 2nd legs next Wednesday
3 teams lineups are in - just need the last one to complete the round... 🤓🤓
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 13th April....:
ATL(20) CHV(20) HOU(20) KC(20) LA(50) MIA(40) MIN(30) NE(50) NY(50) RSL(20) ROC(30)
Gents, sticking with the youth next Sunday's game will be Langley F.C. v Golden Gophers.
Real relegation one this - if Langley win then the Gophers are in a fight to avoid relegation, should the Gophers prevail, then they pull above Langley and drop their opponents into the relegation playoff spot. Whatever happens New Bedford Whalers and/or Columbus Rebels could leapfrog the Gophers and drop into a relegation place, Good game to pick... !!
Actually the amount is 120k for 12 managers - youth teams don't count....in this case the senior team has already had their reward.
Now to pick next Sunday's game.....
Gents, it seems I can pick these games well - the youth games threw up a blackball - NOBODY got the result correct far less the correct scoreline.... So the 13 managers will get 10k for their teams - no bionuses for anybody (including me). :-)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 40:
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #7: 25k (DwW)
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #4: 1 CP (dWW)
Gents, seems we are ready to go for today - just needing 2 senior teamlines and 1 youth team line to be put in. Let's aim for 100% today.. Remember to vote on the youth game in the poll section..🤔🤔
In amongst the bad news we've had it slipped my mind to congratulate Bill on winning the 1st division with the Bulls. Have to say it was on the cards after a couple of weeks play (it was to me anyway...) but now also he has taken the 2nd division with Dallas FC, also in a canter - still unbeaten. That and going past the 400 wins mark - surprised he has any incentives left here... But if OASL runs next season he won't have much cash for CPs so a chink in his armour perhaps, and a chance for us mere mortals... 😂😂😂😂
Good luck today lads..👍👍
And Steve, you won't ever again.. Games should have been on neutral - should have checked the wiki. Thinking perhaps there was too much going on - but no excuse.
In amongst the bad news and my inability Bill slipped through the net and claimed his 400th (actually last night was his 401st) win. 😉
Well done that man, does James know you are looking to catch him at the top of the leaderboard (he sits with 425 wins). Better watch out - I'm in 5th place with 305 (behind Dave D and Jason).
No problem. I just haven't noticed a one leg cup game in these leagues that wasn't on a neutral ground before.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 39:
Chivas USA - MVP #4: 1 CP (WwD)
New York Red Bulls - MVP #10: 25k (www)
The Quarter Finals are as advertised in the comments box. The Plate games are one leg 90 minute games followed by pens if a draw, and are played as the draw states.
Winners go to the Semi Finals - losers go home..
All semi Finals and Finals will be on neutral grounds. 👍
Are these 2 legs? I notice we play away but can't see the return leg.
Or supposed to be on a neutral ground? I don't mind it staying as an away game apart from the Homer Ref and maybe won't have penalties if a draw.
A really sad piece of news to hear. Dave was there throughout my involvement in this and has been nothing but a support, and a really good, fair, interesting guy. Thoughts with everyone who knew him well.
I really used to enjoy how Dave would place a really contovercial comment about an issue like VAR and get everyone debating.I will miss his dry sense of humour. I like to think he has allready started winding angels up in heaven.
A word I think we all forgot to type! Friend. That is here and now. Emotions everywhere. X
Sitting here amazed at how I can have so many memories of a man I have never met in person.
Rest in peace, friend!
Wow. My heartfelt condolences to Dave's family. Everybody please stay safe out there.
Damned, this is hard to read.
I can only thank the man for allowing me to join you all in this league.
I feel very sorry for his family and hope they will have a lot of good memories.
Looking back to my first emails with Dave, I see it is almost 10 years ago....unbelievable...what have time flied.
Rest in Peace!
RIP .... Condolences to the family
My many condolences to Dave's family. A shock to hear that from David. Thoughts are with all his friends and family at this sad time.
Came as a gut wrenching shock to me as well. I first "met" Dave in PSFA back in 2004 where he was the manager of Picasso Psycho Saints (named I realised later after New Orleans Saints). A few years later I was asked by Al Sellers to set up OASL as a beginner's league, which Dave took over a short time after when I didn't have time to carry on. He turned it into the league of his today with the beginners league becoming ODFL.
My thoughts are with his family.
Shit, a bit of a shock to the system. Immediately my thoughts go to Jason and the rest of Dave's family. Very difficult to think of much else. This season will be finished in honour of the man.
Peace. X
Rest in peace
Will join David in seeing out the season and sending condolences to his family.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 6th April....:
CHV(20) COL(20) DAL(25) LA(50) NE(50) NY(25) POR(15)
Gents, Regretfully I have to inform you that yesterday morning Dave passed away in hospital. He had been there since Friday from the previous week, and it seems it was a combination of pneumonia and the Covid-19 virus that proved too much for him to fight on.
I plan on taking this season to the end as the league matches are already in the system, put there by Dave at the start of the campaign, I can understand should any of you miss a game or so - however for Dave I intend playing out my games.. You will all have your own memories of Dave, and I have many - knowing him since 1985 and twice meeting him and Avril up here in Fife. A giant of a man, in every way..!!
Our sincere condolences go out to Avril, Jason , and Natalie at this time.
Next Sunday's is a youth match from Division 4:
K.C. Athletics v Roxborough Indians S.C.
(Good today 23 team lines in out of 24 possibles - thanks!!)
Gents,
16 managers entered the poll and 7 got the result right, with one lad guessing the correct scoreline. No, it wasn't me. I will be topping up 16 teams earnings with a total of 240k tonight or tomorrow.
i'll now start looking for a match for next week and will blog it later. 👍
Thanks again David for your efforts.
It is easy to forget when your routine is broken. My Sesl orders went in with exactly one minute to spare. I had also forgotten my OASL but got them in late last night.
Hopefully a full house of orders again this week!
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 38:
Vancouver Whitecaps - MVP #3: 1 TP (WWW)
Mount Tabor S.C. - MVP #4: 1 CP (wWd)
Daniel Island S.A. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
Texas Dutch Lions - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWd)
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #4: 1 CP (WwD)
Gents, we only need 4 senior team lineups but we need 5 youth team ones to complete today's fixture list - 3pm KO.
I haven't gone through them - don't intend to - but just think if you could have forgotten to put in your wee lads teamsheet.
We move on towards the season finale, and with your help we'll make it comfortably - a few more Blogs and Journals will make my participation bonuses easier to give out. Be in them to win it - nearly rhymes. And don't forget the Poll match too. It isn't my money to give out, so the more the merrier... 👍👍
Game for Wednesday sorted now - thanks to my mate Mark 👍
Lads, please note games seem to be getting played at 2pm instead of 3pm (after the clocks went forward last weekend). And remember the cash that can be earned from taking part in the Poll match ✅✅
Roy, could have sworn I did have your youth in there, and Steve, thanks for your suggestion.
I have just sent a note to Mark asking if he can change the team over (so I can have a chance of winning the game), otherwise it might need to be Plan B.
Please come back Dave, it's obvious I am not up to it... :-(
(The good news is people are earning participation money out of this - keep it up..!!)
Add the proper game to be played on Tuesday. Different match number. It will show out of sync with other games.
For the wrong game on Wednesday both teams play highest EL players on passive stall which shouldn't cause many injuries or cards or even goals.
David I don't rate your LA Blues chances of getting through the Youth Cup semi-final
Not when they're scheduled to play my senior team...
It isn't correct. Look at NY game before and Brad Guzan finished the game with 2 EL. That means he should start the double game with 6.
But he started the Reported games with 5 and the Viewer game with 6. Playing passive he'd drop to 1 then back up to 5. But currently on 4.
Start both viewers and compare ELs. You'll see that in the "second" game they are lower for the most part (45 minute substitutions would mean higher EL). That's why you have to use the Viewer on first game and add 4 EL to the final values.
Really wishing Dave hadn't left me this headache, but thanks Steve for your input. The viewer for the first game is the one I said we would take, and the score was actually 1-2 not 0-1.
However it does mean that all 3 suspensions showing on the 2 clubs main pages are correct.
From what I can see the ELs on the players playing are correct, and I have deducted the extra gate monies the teams gained.
Have still to sort out any EL anomalies on unplayed players - may not get every bit right but won't penalise anybody. If I take a PU from somebody then I will add 1 CP to that team's total.
Suppose if I am to interim the league till the end of the season then might as well have the problems too. :-)
I have scheduled next Wednesday's games now - Mark will check them out later - I think they are correct, but.......
A New York player was sent off in first game. Another one was badly injured hence the pre-game substitution. Luckily the viewer has the game.
I have no idea why both games show the second game.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 2nd April - gate money for 2nd match (1st April).:
DAL(-111) NY(-111)
First of all, thanks to all managers - we had a 100% turnout for a Wednesday. Wonder if the lockdown is meaning people have more time....:-)
My Front Page Cup Review is done and this morning I will schedule next Wednesday's games (AS Plate Quarter Finals and Youth Cup Semi Finals - all 6 matches played to 90 minutes and pens if a draw). As stated before this is new to me and Mark agreed to look them over once I completed them.
Then I will look at last night's "double game" and thanks for the PLAN Steve - I have the necessary printouts - done last night but don't think as clearly at 11pm as I do at 10am. Will study them - saw an anomaly with a suspension when the lad wasn't even cautioned - will look at it all and make changes later.
1. Look at viewer of the official first game. Write down all the EL at the end. Set these players EL to +4 of that.
2. Remove DP from players that got them in the second game. No one picked up suspension from that game.
3. Lower SL and PU from the players that got them in the second game.
4. Lower MoM from the player that got it in the second game.
5. I'm not sure about matches, minutes, goals etc as this might only be for league games. Perhaps a check on other teams?
6. Take 111k off both teams via the participation blog.
7. The hard bit. The players that didn't play have picked up 8 EL and some are on 10. So the previous league matches (one might be enough) need checking to see what EL they ended with and add 8 to that (4 for that game and 4 for Wednesday's game).
Look on the viewer - the correct game is there.
Both games ran and DP from the first game has been counted.
It looks like the game only ran once though I need to check the match reports to see if they are identical. EL looks correct.
However. Brad Guzan finished the previous game with EL 2 so should have started with EL 6. He started with EL 5.
So I think the game ran twice but the match report is showing the second game for both. Unless somebody took snap shots of both teams it might be impossible to know what DP were awarded in the first game or what the score was.
I'll investigate further tomorrow.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 37:
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #5: 25k (wwW)
Philadelphia Union - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Wwd)
New York Red Bulls - MVP #9: 25k (wDw)
You can't delete matches, only whole competitions. Looks like once a match is assigned a number the most you can do is alter the deadline or match number but for all those with the same one.
I forgot about gate money.
I hadn't thought of the ramifications if the 2nd game was played and the resultant EL losses and the DPs being doubled. I certainly didn't want to try to delete one of the games.
I will follow your sound advice, copy both matches out and rescind any "losses" to both teams including deducting any extra gate money they may make.... 😉😉😉
After tonight - probably tomorrow morning - I will schedule next Wednesday's games - I have already done the youth ones - and ask Mark to vet them. He has already agreed to, if okay I feel the remaining games will be easy to do. Cheers for the above, Steve.. 🤓
Both games will run as they have different match IDs.
I don't think individual matches can be deleted, I'd look on Sanc but none are scheduled yet. A schedule can be deleted but I don't know if that's a set of games or the whole competition.
Easiest thing is to let things stand - Dallas are under a caretaker and New York? Well it will help us all if they lose another 6 EL and get injuries.
Seriously it will just need EL adding back and maybe removed, and maybe DP removed. Suspensions can be altered.
Gut feeling is players will play twice for -12 EL but only get 4 back rather than 8 so 6 will need adding to those that play 90 minutes in both games.
First of all I know Dave initially posted the game twice, but only commented on the first one. So it will be the first game that will count in the off chance the game is played "twice". Personally I think the same score will appear on both games - or is that hope?? First of the games is the one... ✅✅
I've sent Dave 3 emails but not sure if he has access in the hospital (probably not getting visitors) to his phone so have sent one to Jason. I do notice that Jason hasn't put in his 2 team lines (of the 3 missing) - sincerely hoping he is getting better. If I get anything I'll tell you lads..
David B is there any update on Dave?
Is it just me that see they are playing each other twice at the bottom of the fictures for tomorrow night?
Great update David. Truly a great deputy. I had taken my eye off the 400 recently so thank you for the reminder. Congrats to all the other coaches and their milestones. That includes you DB.
1 This Wednesday EVERY senior team plays a Cup Tie, so 24 team lines needed. (Dave accidentally entered a game twice - score will be the first game listed - likely it will be the same score for both but just in case.. I know how to schedule, but not so sure at taking one out, so will leave it in.)
2 2 NMRs yesterday - let's see if we can get a 100% turnout for Wednesday.
3 A few records made and about to be made.
Jason D is on 308 wins - not sure if it was flagged up at the time, but it is being flagged now.
That man (me, actually) at last got to 300 - now 304 wins, but who is counting?
Paul R has just made the 300 club - a veritable millsone err milestone...
Stephen W is on 205, David C 203, and Steve T has gone to 201 wins - well done lads.
Bill R needs 3 more wins to reach 400 wins - no bets on whether it will be this season or next... (James W remains the most wins coach with 424 wins.)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 30th March....:
CHV(40) CLB(25) LA(50) MIA(20) NY(40) ROC(15) SJ(50) SEA(25)
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/teamwhr
Even £1 helps guys! Cheers. X
Gents, 270k was added to totals for today's Poll match, with 3 clubs getting the correct scoreline to match their guessed result. But all 17 managers earned cash for their team today.
Next Sunday's game will be:
San Jose Earthquakes v Atlanta Silverbacks
I will get it put on by this evening - earlier if I can see where it goes... :-)
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/teamwhr
Even £1 helps guys! Cheers. X
Just leaves Simon and Marc to put team lines in - NOTE - games are due for 2pm this afternoon after clocks went forward last night. Hope they go ahead on time - now to look for next week's Poll match... 😉😉😉
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 36:
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #3: 1 TP (DWw)
D.C. United - MVP #5: 25k (WDw)
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #3: 1 TP (wDw)
Gents, haven't had any further news about Dave - but in his absence I'd like to think we'd be capable of carrying on "his" game till he was able to take over the reigns on his return.
Guessing that might mean finishing the season without him, whilst he recuperates, but that should be achievable okay, with only 6 Sunday's and play offs. And the league games are already scheduled....
As I write there are 5 clubs to put their lines in, and the Poll match has 15 entrants so far - tight game to call judging by the figures so far (seems I can pick games that divide opinions..🤔🤔🤔)
Good luck today, and in advance can I just say that EVERY team plays next Wednesday evening. Now to be known as Cup tie Wednesday.. 🥳🥳
Here's hoping for some good news about Dave later on today. 👍
Hey all,
Nice to be back in the hot seat for a few weeks or maybe longer. I wish the circumstances were different as I'm sure the rest of you do.
I wish Dave all the best for recovery and hope it's sooner rather than later.
Hope all of you are well
G
Dave wishes for a Speedie recovery for you and your wife.
Gents, Dave emailed me early this morning to say he is in hospital with pneumonia, with blood tests currently being carried out.
He has asked me to see out the season, or at least till he gets back - soonest I hope.. :-).
With this in mind Graham Wilkes has kindly agreed to take over Seattle Sounders and North Sound Seawolves till at least the season end - I will caretake Columbus Crew and Columbus Rebels - any clash between these teams and mine I will get a fellow manager to arbitrate. I took Dave's teams as it would be an easy slot back in - Graham can have a choice of a few teams come next startup. Thanks Graham.
I can do most of what Dave asks - and will ensure I am in a position to get to the conclusion of this season, by which time we all hope he will be back at the helm.
I look forward to your help here, by putting in your team lines timeously - PLEASE remember this Saturday the clocks go forward - and I thank you in advance for your assistance. We wish Dave well!!!
David, i don't need to worry about bank balance any more. The new currency is Toilet Roll. As long as you have that you can trade for anything:)
Now let's see -23 other managers x 40k for the EL boost = 920k. What the h**l have a boost yourself and we'll call it 950k for cash..
Wow, that's a great offer but won't do Chivas's bank total much good 😂😂😂
I hope that you are all doing well at this time and if possible an EL boost to everyone with any symptoms or ill health at this time.
Get well soon, both of ya!
Can we get an EL boost for Mr. Dowson?
My thoughts are with you both for a speedy recovery. Best wishes to all during this tricky period. X
Hope you do well, recovery is the most important now.
If it is corona or a flu, your health is the most important thing to treasure.
Also for the other managers, keep safe!
Greetings,
Simon
Re: Websites
All business as usual for sos leagues.
Any issues that come up, I'll drop you a note though as it's a fair question you ask.
Schools closed is correct, but juggling act caring for kids now a headache. Just hope by summer we are over the worst of this virus as its just awful whats happening out there.
Mark
Next weekend's game will be:
D.C. United v Colorado Rapids.
(It may or may not appear under the Poll game on the Front Page - either way feel free to "in box" me with your guess/estimate and I will collate and report. This is just in case Dave doesn't manage to change the game - his and Avril's health are more important....)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 23rd March....:
LA(50) NY(50) SJ(30) SEA(45)
My thoughts are with you both for a speedy recovery. Best wishes to all during this tricky period. X
Today's game netted 250k for sharing amongst the 16 teams with no-one guessing the actual scoreline.
Still to pick next weekend's game but it will be on soonest.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 34:
Chicago Fire - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWD)
Colorado Rapids - MVP #6: 25k (WdW)
I am sure I speak for all the lads in the League, Dave, when I say we wish both you and Avril a speedy recovery.
Some of them probably don't realise that it isn't much fun being our age - this virus complicates things even more. I fall into a "medium" risk category, not a high one but after 3 mini strokes some time back, I am still social distancing. Dave and Avril are different, and they are virtually housebound. Not much fun there, as both our bowling seasons are virtually over before they even started....
Keep your peckers up, lads, at least the weather (sunny and quite warm here in Fife and probably the same in most places) tends to help recoveries as morales seem to rise in good weather.
(Just a pity as it also means the food hoarders are not getting soaked or snowed upon.. )
Hi guys
I sincerely hope that you and your loved ones are safe and well and that boredom has not kicked in too badly
Im going to speak to Mark tomorrow regarding the website over the coming tough period. I'd like to gauge the general feelings of you guys before I do. Personally my wife and I are in self isolation and both of us have a Hugh temperature, sore throat, headache and persistent rasping cough. We are looking after each other with the help of our children delivering groceries etc. On a daily basis and fingers crossed we will all get through this in one piece. I've spoken to David Blair and with his support I'm hoping that we can keep OASL running through these challenging times. But I'm open to whatever the majority favour.
Good Health Good Luck and peace to you all
All the best
DD
Think I gave the impression every team was due to be playing next Wednesday in the AS Cup or Plate, but seems I was a bit rash. Only the AS Cup Quarter Finals 1st leg games go on next midweek, whilst the following midweek sees the 2nd leg games PLUS the AS Plate matches as below:
I put it down to the groaning virus and my daughter's health, plus my grandson leading me a merry dance... |
LA sends 115k to DAL for 1 CP
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 33:
Mount Tabor S.C. - MVP #3: 1 TP (WWD)
👏
Alright Bill I still haven't offered the money back as I forgot it was within the 24 hour rule. I'll do it later tonight.. ✅✅
Bill, please check the DAL in box messages. The minute it happened I noticed it and offered it back to you. I suggested you put it in as a transfer and I'd accept it.
anyway you will see I've offered it back to you instead. No idea how it happened - darn gremlins again.. 🤔🤔🤔
DAL only wanted to buy 1 CP from LA. No idea why it posted an offer twice? If no retraction, I take the hit but hope for a reversal! Cheers lads. X
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 16th March....:
CHV(10) CIW(40) CLB(40) LA(50) SJ(30)
DAL sends 115k to LA for 1 CP
DAL sends 115k to LA for 1 CP
NY sends 230k to LA for 2 CP
Chivas USA v Houston Dynamos - real relegation fixture this one.. 🤔🤔🤔
14 managers taking part - only 2 got the correct result (now who was the other one...) and neither got the correct scoreline. But 160k was paid into clubs totals for paying out at the season end.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 32:
Atlanta Silverbacks - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #4: 1 CP (wWW)
New York Red Bulls - MVP #8: 25k (WDw)
FC Dallas - MVP #7: 25k (wWw)
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #3: 1 TP (WwW)
Texas Dutch Lions - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Wwd)
NY sends 110k to MIN for 1 CP
Dave made the draw independent to my randomising the 16 teams for this competition.
Games are played 90 minutes (plus pens if a draw) - 1 game only.
Draw is as follows:
Chivas USA v Columbus Crew
Miami FC v Chicago Fire
Vancouver Whitecaps v Atlanta Silverbacks
Seattle Sounders v Charleston Battery
Real Salt Lake v Kansas City Wizards
Portland Timbers v New England Revolution
Philadelphia Union v Montreal Impacts
Dallas FC v New York Red Bulls
Games are played on neutral grounds.
My randomising was:
8 Chicago Fire |
13 Kansas City Wizards |
9 Vancouver Whitecaps |
1 Chivas USA |
15 Charleston Battery |
2 New York Red Bulls |
11 Philadelphia Union |
10 New England Revolution |
4 Columbus Crew |
16 Real Salt Lake |
6 Montreal Impacts |
5 Dallas F.C. |
14 Seattle Sounders |
7 Portland Timbers |
12 Atlanta Silverbacks |
3 Miami F.C. |
Dave's draw was:
1 v 4
3 v 8
9 v 12
14 v 15
16 v 13
7 v 10
11 v 6
5 v 2
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 11th March at 21.15 GMT for retirements to that time:
ATL(40) COL(30) LA(45) MIN(45) MON(80) NE(40) SJ(260) VAN(45)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 31:
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #3: 1 TP (wwW)
Match 29 - March 4, 2020
AL SELLERS CUP ROUND 2 FIRST LEG RESULTS
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You DO realise the game was played yesterday - but keep looking as next week's game will be up
by tomorrow...👍👍
I forgot to add in the score
NY 3-1 MIN
Will confess I like reading the facts put out for shot chances etc and can sympathise with teams who feel hard done by.
I don't profess knowing much about it - initially I just checked the amount of OFF v my opponents DEF etc and tried to explain away why I didn't win a particular game.
Then I started to think - could the chances not have something to do with formation/tactics? I used to play L with 2 cracking WGs and 2 FWs waiting for the opportunities to score, but was told because that tactic involved a hoof up the park from DEF to OFF my team would have less of the ball to play with, meaning the opponents had more time in the game to fashion chances, some of which will be taken. (This wasn't in OASL I must say..)
CHA had around 83 extra OFF v my DEF using Long Ball yesterday but I lead 2-0 at half time. In the Viewer they had a 10.2 chance v 5.6 for LA but that didn't reflect in the shots actually put on goal, which were about the same for each team over the game.
I then subbed off my own WG to stiffen up the MF and that allowed us to coast a bit. My GK DID have 7 saves but I now believe tactics/formations are as good an indication of how a result might go and not shot chance..
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 9th March....:
COL(40) CLB(35) LA(50) NE(30) NY(15) SJ(50)
As Dave has not put up the new Poll Match choice, I am changing it to Atlanta Silverbacks v Los Angeles Galaxy - can't have anybody suggesting I don't get my own team in there often. And it looks a good game to try to guess..:-)
Gents, to my reckoning 300k will be added this weekend to various teams' account. (Bill, I counted your late scoreline you placed on the Blog....) 17 teams took part and 2 teams got the correct score as well as the correct result - meaning 30k to both of them.
Next Sunday's game will be:
Carson City Kickers v Langley F.C.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 30:
D.C. United - MVP #4: 1 CP (Www)
Gananda Bandits S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Dww)
Washington Diplomats - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
Meant to add 2-2. Sorry. Am I still included?
Mata DAF please.
VAN sends 150k to LA for George Apple (5/20 WG)
VAN sends 100k to COL for Valentino Lazaro (3/17 MF)
NY sends 432k to CHA for 4 CP
NY sends 1 TP to CHA for 1 CP
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 29:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #3: 1 TP (wdW)
Los Angeles Galaxy - MVP #4: 1 CP (WWW)
Houston Dynamo - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Just under 4 hours to kick off and your orders are missing for tonight's second round first leg Al Sellers Cup Match
Get them in ASAP
DD
I will be running a retirement remuneration sweep this evening so if you have any laggers or dead wood you want to cut adrift now may be the time to do it
cheers
DD
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 2nd March....:
CHV(20) CLB(50) LA(50) SJ(30)
The following teams receive Physio Boost through 1March at 16.25 GMT For Physio Boost +4 EL to Juan Mata:
DAF(-40)
Well, 7 managers got the correct result, and 4 got the correct scoreline. I will be allocating 270k to various teams coffers from only 16 entrants - good ratio.
Next week's game will be, surprise, surprise Minnesota Thunder v New York Red Bulls. Get your guesses in lads - okay better wait till Dave puts the game up first... :-)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 28:
Colorado Rapids - MVP #5: 25k (wWW)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Red Force FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDw)
I'm annalizing Seaso s Auction results and will publish a report tomorrow for your perusal
DD
Mata DAF please.
Second round matches for the AS CUP are now in the schedule
They are over two legs to be played on the next two Wednesdays 4th/11th March at 21.00 GMT
Good luck if you made it through
I of course didn't 🤡 having blown the luxury of a 2 goal first leg lead against Steve's Revolution. Communication melt down resulted in the team switching to Press tactics when 1 goal up with 20 minutes to play and thus conceding 3 goals in the closing quarter of the game DOH!😩😱😡
DD
Just recently we had been experiencing slow load speeds and error messages on links. These have been addressed by our Super Site host Mark Creasey once again and I would like to publicly thank him once again for that. Mark pays for the sites to to be maintained by a server host personally and has always kept this a FREE TO PLAY GAME . Occasionally I post a request for voluntary donations to enable Mark to continue this
I will be posting a request for donations next week and anything you can afford would be much appreciated
Thanks Mark
Cheera
DD
Pits the winners of the 1st Round versus the last 8 teams in the ST Trophy - games again are 2 legged.
Teams who lost out last night will be entered into the A.S. Plate along with the losers of the games below, so still got something to play for....
AS Trophy | ||
2nd Round Draw | ||
New England Revolution | v | Colorado Rapids |
Philadelphia Union | v | Minnesota Thunder |
San Jose Earthquakes | v | New York Red Bulls |
Charleston Battery | v | Carolina Railhawks |
Los Angeles Galaxy | v | Chivas USA |
Rochester Rhinos | v | Vancouver Whitecaps |
Houston Dynamos | v | Kansas City Wizards |
Miami F.C. | v | Chicago Fire |
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 27:
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
MIA and CHA are the last remaining teams to put in their squads for this evening's games.
The following teams receive Physio Boost through 24th Feb 2020 @ 14.00 GMT for Physio Boost to MATA +4el:
DAF(-40)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 24th February....:
LA(50) SJ(40)
Only 160k paid out today as only one person thought the game would be a draw - me! There was a late entry but too late to count - I check entries straight after the games are played - and everybody else got 10k to start the 2nd set of games off.
Next Sunday's Poll Match is:
Vancouver Whitecaps v Real Salt Lake
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 26:
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #6: 25k (Www)
Philadelphia Union - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (dWw)
Fall River Rovers - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
Mount Tabor S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (DwW)
Utah Surf Boys S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Montreal Olympique - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWD)
Mata DAF please.
ATL sends 360k to LA for Gary Mason (3/23 GK)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 25:
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWW)
The following teams receive Physio Boost through 23.15 GMT on 18 Feb 2020 for +4 physio boost to Juan Mata:
DAF(-40)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 17th February as per Poll participation matches 1-10:
ATL(120) CAR(120) CHA(40) CHV(170) COL(110) CLB(120) DC(100) DAL(140) HOU(20) KC(130) LA(150) MIA(110) MIN(100) NE(80) NY(130) PHI(130) POR(130) RSL(110) ROC(130) SJ(120) SEA(10) VAN(120)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 17th February....:
CHV(15) CLB(50) LA(50) MIA(25) SJ(25)
Later on 2390k will be added to teams' totals - after the auction at least.
Only 2 teams did not enter Poll match guesses at all, whilst 2 more only did it once or twice.
I can say that one team will get 170k and 17 more will get at least 100k....
You don't have to be in it to win it (well, you do, actually) but you only have to be in it to earn some cash...
There will be 10 more matches in the 2nd half of the season - so total per team thaqt can be won = 300k. (If you earned that, you should be on the Fixed odds coupons), but 100k will still be earned even if you guess wrongly completely EVERY week..
Today's game sees me adding 310k to teams' totals - the most any Poll match has had. Tomorrow or later tonight I will add the totals won so far - some clubs have done well, others Very well - and one or two have not earned a penny for what is around 10 seconds work per week..
Next Sunday's match comes from the Youth League:
Fall River Rovers v Daniel Islkand S.A..
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 24:
Chivas USA - MVP #3: 1 TP (wwD)
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
New York Red Bulls - MVP #7: 25k (wwD)
San Jose Earthquakes - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
FC Dallas - MVP #6: 25k (WwW)
Colorado Ice White - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Dww)
Golden Gophers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Laredo Heat - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWw)
MSA will be conducted this afternoon, shortly after today's games have completed😱😩🤡
History shows that 24 points is the average total required to avoid the drop into Division 2. So with 21 in the bank after 10 games I think another 4 points will see us secure our position in Division 1 this season. However there have been 3 occasions when 27 points was required to stay out of the bottom 3 on the other hand 20 points would have been enough on two occasions and as low as 18 on another. When you consider that our T11 at the start of the season was ranked a lowly 19th and has remained around about that position all through so far and at 27.9 is currently ranked 20th overall. We are 4.9 SL points behind both New York and Minnesota who both rate 32.8. All things considered in this rebuild year we have over performed to be sitting second in the first division after 10 games. Mid Season ageing should favour us over a lot of Division 1 teams as we have the 3rd youngest team (2.91)in the Top 2 Divisions of parent teams just behind Chivas (2.90) and Miami(2.83)
so rebuild season is progressing very nicely in Columbus thank you
I used it with the youth team..my apologies.
Is this good enough for senior team, or should I post again for Miami FC?
Thanks for the reply...
Mata please.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 23:
Los Angeles Blues - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWD)
All teams enetered for tonights game. Good luck to those except those playing against CCK
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 10th February....:
CHV(20) CLB(50) LA(50) SJ(25)
Gents, no spolier but I can say I have posted 210k to various teams Poll totals - lots got it right but NOBODY got the correct scoreline. MMM - not as easy as I thought it would be.....
Only 1 more match to predict and then next Sunday it will be MSA. On Monday 17th I will post the first half earnings to each manager's team account.
And due to Dave protesting he has only 1 aim in life - to keep Col;umbus in the 1st division - the big surprise is he finds himself in 2nd place tonight. So, next week's Poll game will be:
Columbus Crew v New York Red Bulls (serves you right, Dave)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 22:
Columbus Crew - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Miami FC - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WDw)
D.C. United - MVP #3: 1 TP (wDw)
Call out to Charleston coaching team
Your teams are awaiting your instructions and game day team sheet
Good question David
The Button for Mid Season Ageing will be pressed before the Auction some time between 15.30 & 19.30 GMT on Sunday 16th February 2020.
As David points out that way The players purchased In the auction will not be affected by the GRIM REAPER 😱
HOPEFULLY 🤡
DD
Dave, MSA takes place after session 24 on 16th February.
There is an auction at 8-30 GMT that evening as well.
Will MSA take place before the auction (and after the league games at 3pm) or after the auction?
If after then players won in the auction will be hit hard only hours after joining their new clubs - if before then I am guessing their SLs won't be affected by MSA.
Just thought I would ask......
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 21:
Mount Tabor S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (Wdw)
KC Athletics - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WDw)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #5: 25k (wwD)
All teams present and accounted for tonights games. Good luck to everyone, although not those playing against me :)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 3rd February....:
CHV(35) CLB(50) DAL(15) LA(50) NE(15) NY(15) SJ(25)
Will be:
Texas Dutch Lions v De Anza Force S.C. in the Youth League.
PS The amount posted from today's Poll Match was actually 280k not 260k..... :-)
Another 260k paid into teams' accounts, and will be paid out in 2 weeks time after game 11 in the League.
3 teams got the correct scoreline, although one of them had actually guessed the result as a draw, and quite a few more had the correct result, but not the correct scoreline.
At this stage Chivas USA is leading the earners, having never had a wrong result in their 7 attempts - wonder what the secret is???
I am on now to work out next week's match - watch this space.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 20:
New York Red Bulls - MVP #6: 25k (wWW)
Utah Surf Boys S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDw)
Langley F.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWD)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 31 January 2020 @ 17.45 GMT For Retirements to that Time :
CHV(135) DAL(15) POR(50) SJ(50)
Matches to be played 21.00 GMT on Wednesday 5th February 2020 Match #21
ST TROPHY | SEMI FINALS | |
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Chicago Fire | v | Colorado Rapids |
New York Red Bulls | v | Minnesota Thunder |
Get your bids in for the auction this coming Sunday Feb 2nd. So far MON are picking up everything they have bid on :)
Bill/Steve,
banter us what we need here and we need more of it - PS it earns you shekels from me each week.
Bill, I know you were looking at Bailie in the past and I turned you down, but as he's getting on a bit ( age 3 with MSA round the corner) and Dave has those puppy dog eyes (and big fists) and he was more persuasive 😉👊👊
Poor show Steve. It’s not all Mary Poppins, these guys keep millions of chimneys clean each year.
Not all they're cracked up to be in my opinion.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 19:
Los Angeles Blues - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WdW)
Colorado Rapids - MVP #4: 1 CP (wwd)
As i enter my teams in we have a nice full house for Match 19 tonight.
Don't ask for the difficult answer - that would involve Dave's threats, bribes, cadgoling and he wore me down.. actually that was easier than I thought 😀😀😀😀
The Trade between myself and David Blair was a No Brainer really
As David points out I really needed 8 more TP to justify the Purchase of 2 Age 1 Players from the sealed bid auctions. Ther are no TP in Auctions any more and just the odd one or two available if I secure an MVP bonus or 2, so the only way I was going to source those TP this season was by a trade. Now David was one of a few Managers that had surplus to requirement TP's, 7 in all and he had been touting around for a Good Youngish Defender via the Trade board and blogs. I had Abram who was a 2/28 Defender that I could afford to release if I got in a level 25+ Sweeper as part of a deal, to allow my 2 young High level 20+ Sweeper/Defenders to play as Defenders regulartly without damaging the Sweeper position levels in matches. So Davids Aaron Bailey (3/26 Sweeper) fitted that criteria perfectly. I calculated that a 2/28 Defender was probably equal to a 3/32 Sweeper in value so Davids 3/26 + the 7 TP was just a touch over the valuation which is why I threw in the 1 CP to make it fair. Now normally I would say that TP are slightly more valuable than CP at this stage of the season but not when the team that owns them has no Youth Players to spend them on.
So as I saw it , it was Win Win on both sides of the deal, I got 7 of my 8 needed TP plus the Sweeper cover needed to compensate for releasing Abram, David got his Young Strong Defender and rid of TP that he didnt need this season with the added bonus of a CP.
So as the Old A-TEAM boss used to say "I Love it when a plan comes together"
Oh and dont listen to Davids lament that he will lose on Sunday against me because he has no Sweeper available to play. His teams always play for their lives when they are playing against my teams, so whilst I'm hoping for a Home Victory its by no means a given Sweeper or not.
DD
LA will lose it - we have no SW as Pitts was sent off by the idiot who reffed last weekends game but he'll step up next week when he comes back.
Bottom line is we had 7TPs doing nothing - Dave needs 8 for training. I wanted an age 2 DF and tried 3 times to get one in the auctions but failed miserably, and now I have about 25CPs and I need only 7 more to train up the new boy. And no money changed hands - we are both pleased with the deal. ✅✅
A polled match with a big transfer just before teams are declared. What impact will this have?
CLB sends 1 CP, Abram (2/28 DF) to LA for 7 TP, Aaron Bailey (3/26 SW)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 27th January....:
ATL(35) CHV(45) CLB(50) LA(50) PHI(35)
These ties are played as home and away games with the winners being drawn in the 2nd round against the 8 Quarter Finalists in the ST Trophy. (Losers go into the last 16 who will subsequently play fopr the A.S. Plate competition - Dave will schedulr these but they are not till about 3 Wednesdays after this one - session 25.
Columbus Crew | v | New England Revolution |
Philadelphia Union | v | Real Salt Lake |
San Jose Earthquakes | v | Montreal Impacts |
Charleston Battery | v | Dallas F.C. |
Seattle Sounders | v | Los Angeles Galaxy |
Rochester Rhinos | v | Portland Timbers |
Atlanta Silverbacks | v | Houston Dynamos |
D.C. United | v | Miami F.C. |
Today's Poll match raised 190k for the teams who entered - 16 of them. Down on last week but that was mainly due to 3 teams getting the full 30k last week and that more people guessed better last week. Next week's game is Columbus Crew v Los Angeles Galaxy (am expecting DPD to deliver Dave's brown envelope any day now - it's gained him a few welcome points so far this season so why shouldn't I get one?? :-)
PLEASE remember the 1st game in the youth Cup is this Wednesday - 16 teams involved AND the Quarter Finals of the ST Trophy are also down to be played this Wednesday - that affects 8 teams (not mine though - CAR, are your ears burning...!!) :-)
The Boss speaks and he pays my wages so probably better to humour him... :-)
Poll Match next week is
Columbus Crew v Los Angeles Galaxy.
(Well I know Dave is on a run at the moment but I am not facing CAR so we have a chance!! )
Would the old silver fox dare nominate
Columbus Crew v LA Galaxy?🤡🤪😂🧐🥵
Gawanwidya!
Safe to say nobody got the scoreline correct - understandably - but a few of you gained 20k for guessing the result and all got at least 10k for taking part..
Now working on next weeks game👍👍
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 18:
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #4: 1 CP (wWW)
FC Dallas - MVP #5: 25k (wdw)
Montreal Olympique - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Roxborough Indians S.C. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
Pressed tab (fatal) instead of space so ended the first Blog too early...
If anybody read my Cup Review last night or today the draw for the Quarter Finals was given then.
However here it is (it is in stone that winners of the sections will host a runners up team in the format WA v RuB, WB v RuA, WC v RuD and WD v RuC.)
Semis will be winner of game 1 v winner of game 3 and winner of game 2 v winner of game 4. AS Cup draw will follow later once typed up.......
1 Chicago Fire | v | Chivas USA |
2 New York Red Bulls | v | Carolina Railhawks |
3 Kansas City Wizards | v | Colorado Rapids |
4 Minnesota Thunder | v |
Vancouver Whitecaps
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If anybody read my Cup Review last night or today the draw for the Quarter Finals was given then.
However here it is (it is in stone that winners of the sections will host a runners up team in the format WA v RuB, WB v RuA, WC v RuD and WD v RuC.
Semis will be winner of game 1 v winner of game 3 and winner of game 2 v winner of game4.
1Chicago Fire | v | Chivas USA |
New York Red Bulls | v | Carolina Railhawks |
Kansas City Wizards | v | Colorado Rapids |
Minnesota Thunder | v | Vancouver Whitecaps |
Group A
CHICAGO
CAROLINA
Group B
NEW YORK
CHIVAS
Group C
KANSAS
VANCOUVER
Group D
MINNESOTA
COLORADO
Davud Blair will post the Qtr Final draw later today
Draw for Al Sellers Cup 1st Round will be posted later also
DD
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 17:
Chicago Fire - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWw)
New York Red Bulls - MVP #5: 25k (wWW)
Group C have it all to play for tonight with (at time of posting) Orderless Kansas leading the pack by one point from Dallas with Vancouver a further point away in third place. Kansas also have a superior Goal difference to the other two and they host Miami in tonight's finale who sit bottom of the group without a wn in this competition. So they must be favourites to top the group and qualify as long as they don't lose. Dallas in second place are away at Real Salt Lake and need to win to be sure of qualification but a draw would suffice if Vancouver fail to beat Portland. Vancouver are at Home which should work in their favour but they have lost 3 and drawn one of their previous 5 home games against Portland who have only pride to play for and go into the game with their first team looking fairly tired. Vancouver have to depend on results elsewhere even if they win.
So to summarise
Kansas only need a draw to be sure but will qualify even if they lose if Dallas or Vancouver don't win
Dallas need a Win to be sure but a draw is enough if Vancouver don't win, if Vancouver lose they are also through
Vancouver need to Win and hope that Kansas lose and Dallas don't Win.
I think Kansas will top the group and Vancouver May nick second place and qualify !
Good Luck All
DD
Once the games are played tonight (the last of the section matches), I'll be on with the winners and runners up along with the Quarter Final lineups, which will be due next midweek.. PS having missed out for a good DF on 3 occasions has anybody got a decent one to sell for cash and/or CPs/TP?
At last we won a player at the auction. 2/29 DF Kevin Leaves joins for the princely sum of 1213. Maybe he should have been called Kevin Joins :)
A great player to win and bolster our DF. Straight in as joint top SL DF alongside Peter Baum. Maybe we can start to stop letting in as many goals.
Only the ROC and KC team lineups required for a full house. Just over 6 1/2 hours to KO.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 20th January....:
CHV(25) CLB(40) LA(50) PHI(30) POR(15)
And it will be Seattle Sounders v Miami FC....👍👍
Suffice to say more than one team today made 30k and around 320k will be allocated to the clubs who took part.
I'm away to choose next weeks game ✅
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 15:
Carolina RailHawks - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wWW)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #4: 1 CP (wWD)
Real Salt Lake - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (Wwd)
FC Dallas - MVP #4: 1 CP (WDw)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #3: 1 TP (www)
Youth Cup TBles have been created in database under Al Sellers Cup heading
This is because there is only the facility to create standings tables for 2 Cup competitions
These tables are obviously only relevant for the first round of the competition. After which the winners of each group progress to the Straight Knock our stages Qtr Finals on to Semi Finals and Final
The Al Sellers Cup is a Knock our Competion too where the tables are largely irellavant ditto the Al Sellers Consolation plate. I have to create tables for these competitions because at the end of the season trophy cabinets are adjusted by using the stats in the Cup tables. Not ideal and frustratingly inaccurate usually
I generally have to go in and adjust tables before saving them to History stats. This is almost certainly what causes the annoying Team name change and Manager change references on the Team landing pages. It is a cosmetic annoyance but there is nothing I can do about it sorry
maybe sometime in the future somebody with the tech knowledga will be granted access to database and simulator to make the code adjustments necessary to sanitise the history records (sigh)
Till then we have to live with it
Jyat thought I'd give you a heads up on the situation
cheers
DD
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 15th January assistance with youth cup draw.:
NE(25)
Thanks to Steve here is the draw for the sections - teams are listed as they were drawn out.
My draw below was done on Sunday last and posted to Dave Sunday before Steve randomised the teams today.
Section A 6, 1, 21
B 4, 19, 11
C 2, 23, 5
D 24, 10, 12
E 16, 20, 18
F 9, 15, 17
G 3, 14, 8
H 13, 22, 7
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Top team to the last 8 - teams play one game home and one away.
Winners Section A v B, C v D, E v F, G v H - all games on neutral parks in the KOs.
A new auction this coming Sunday 19th January. Only 7 teams entered so far so there may be a couple of bargains to be gained by entering the auction pit. You have to be in it to win it. Give it a go if you haven't entered before. Even a token bid may result in a player or OTF or TP/CP heading your way.
Just Carolina and Vancouver needed to complete the team lineups for the games in a few hours.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 13th January....:
CHV(30) CLB(15) HOU(20) LA(50) NY(25)
And we have a Winner. Step forward James - the first person to get all 30k for taking part, guessing the correct result, and by guessing the correct scoreline.
In all 240k has been added to the kitty for the teams taking part.
Next weekend's Poll game will be Carolina Railhawks v Charleston Battery...
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 14:
New York Red Bulls - MVP #4: 1 CP (wWW)
Rochester Rhinos - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WWw)
Colorado Rapids - MVP #3: 1 TP (Wwd)
Daniel Island S.A. - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwD)
De Anza Force S.C. - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Another 5 to go...
Apologies and thank you. I thought I had pinged my YTH orders last Sunday as I normally do but now recall falling asleep after submitting the senior orders. Not like me but I was close to YTH NMR. Thanks DD for the push!
Get them in ASAP
DD
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 13:
Chivas USA - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Conceding 3 doesn't matter if you score 4!
Sigh....
Just looking at our leaky DF in our league games so far this season. So far after 5 league games we have let in 17 goals. This is despite having a now 26 and 29 SL GK.
Looking to season past in the total 22 league games we have conceded:
Season 23 - 33
Season 22 - 33
Season 21 - 22
Season 20 - 10
So one thing is for certain, you will score against us in league games :)
The following teams receive Retirement Remuneration through 06 January @ 12.30 GMT for Retirements to that time:
CHI(120) DC(45) HOU(115) PHI(100) ROC(50)
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 6th January....:
CHA(15) CHV(35) CLB(50) DAL(20) LA(50) NE(25) PHI(50) SJ(50)
Another 210k went into the bank to be paid out at MSA to clubs entering the Poll Matches forecasting.
Still nobody has forecast the correct score for a Poll Match (30k) so in advance I can tell you next Sunday's game will be Colorado Rapids v D.C. United (once Dave puts it up on the Front Page) :-)
Not a record that I'm after really Dave but yes it is true.
I think my youth team are using up all the luck, lost to you today and I had two shots to your one!
Seventeen more league matches left to score that all important goal.
Andy Shaws SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES still have not scored a goal after 5 league games. Compare that to Andy's Youth Team DE ANZA FORCE who have not conceded a single goal after 5 league games !
Strange Statistic but True
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 12:
Los Angeles Galaxy - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWW)
Minnesota Thunder - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWd)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #3: 1 TP (wWW)
FC Dallas - MVP #3: 1 TP (wdW)
D.C. United - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWD)
North Sound Seawolves - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wDW)
Paul, I will take your scoreline on board, and I suspect Rob will be Blogging before 3pm with a score as well... Many people think my bubble burst day has come - including me... :-(
SEA sends Paul Jacob Alexander (3/24 DM), Vurnon Anita (4/16 MF) to CHA for 100k, Daniel Tudhope (3/27 FW), Lynch Pin (6/15 MA)
Just spotted that I hit 100 wins with the junior side last Sunday and I'll hit 200 with my next win with the senior team but I think that includes my earlier stint with Miami.
Yes, you know pal. 31 games to catch Jim...you said this season? No chance, maybe 3 seasons? Awrabest. Happy to get to no. 2 in so few matches. Well chuffed. Cheers.
Doing the maths and we are punching above our weight (both senior and junior teams). In hindsight league placing in the youths doesn't give you better or worse new lads joining in the new season - it's the placing of the sdenior team that determines the SLs of the newcomers.
So training the youths up with fewer eyes on the table makes more sense - of course if I was to nose dive with the Galaxy then that would help with next year's youths..... :-)
But it IS hard not to want to win every game you play........
Top notch mind games there from DB Junior! ;)
I was not referring the the New Year, but because our youth team has just noticed that as we lie 2nd in the division, our next 3 games come against the teams lying 1st, 3rd, 4th.
Maybe a good time to just train up the youngsters....
PS Happy New Year to all managers... even the ones who will likely beat us... !! :-)
A Happy New Year to you all and wishing you all a healthy and very prosperous one.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 11:
New York Red Bulls - MVP #3: 1 TP (wwd)
New England Revolution - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wdw)
DAL sends 1 TP, Sam Smith (3/27 SW), Michael Timlin (5/10 MF), Tuan Barksdale (5/10 DF) to PHI for Vasile (3/26 DF), AJ (6/10 MF), Christian Ramirez (6/15 FW)
Happy New year from all at Philadelphia Union
Will be Philadelphia Union v Los Angeles Galaxy.
I forgot to enter the result again - 1-3
If this is allowed to be counted as the score prediction.
CAR sends 800k to MON for John Harris (2/25 DM)
ATL sends Simeon Coward (4/20 MA) to MON for Brian Legend (4/20 DM)
NY sends 5 TP, Marc Naclerio (4/25 MF), Gary Jacobs (1/17 DF), Josh Taylor (4/20 FW) to MON for 400k, P Vapour (1/26 DF)
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 10:
Portland Timbers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (wdw)
Fall River Rovers - MVP #1: 1 TP + 25k (WwW)
Will be Philadelphia Union v Los Angeles Galaxy.
The following teams receive Participation Bonus through 30th December....:
CHV(15) CLB(50) DAL(25) LA(50) NY(25) PHI(50) RSL(15) SJ(50)
Well, 11 entered the poll match game, 4 got the correct result right, but only 1 actually gave a scoreline (not right). Who knows what the other 3 scores might have been forecast, and which manager might have been the 1st to get 30k?
Also didn't help that one team didn't send in their coaching staff to the game.....
I've asked Mark to take a look at the server again
More as I hear it
DD
No division 4 games have been played.
Remember if and when you do catch James I will be right on your tail so if you do retire you won't be King of the castle for long coz I will knock you off the pedastle if you are not around to maintain your position
DD
Yes, he is back and gremlins are afoot... It was weird seeing DD as number 1 on the list. He was actually prefixed with no.1. I checked back more times than was healthy. Glad all back in line.
For the record, catching James is my target...then retire? Who knows...
Merry Christmas and a Haphaphappt New Year to all the OASL Community
DD
Either Bill is hallucinating and David has had too much single malt or we still have gremlins in the works of OASL
Whilst it is highly likely that Bill is hallucinating and that the Old Man of Lochnagar has had a ripple too much over the festive period I do believe that there more than likely is a 'Ghost in the Machine ' due to the instabilities of the server and databases recently.
Just checked Bill and James hasn't gone anywhere he is still sitting on top of Alltime and Active Managers lists with 411 wins, you are in 3rd place just 1 Win behind yours sincerely so it looks highly likely that you will be the second manager to achieve 400 Wins sometime during this season and I may just be 3rd to achieve that milestone either this season or next. So keep pushing and I'm sure you will reel James in probably next season.
Regarding The old Mans lost manuscripts that is still a mystery. Perhaps we should call in Hercule Poirot or Sherlock Holmes or maybe the old fella should type out his ramblings offline first and then transcribe them once complete? 🤡 Just saying.....😃
DD
Gents, I was typing in my write up for the 4 sections matches played Wednesday when the page went off screen just as I was on Section D. Lost the lot.. :-(
So please bear with me as I have just posted the tables instead - hopefully full service will be resumed next Wednesday - on New Years Night.
Where has James White gone? A few days ago and since forever, he has been the leader. He now boasts just over 400 wins but has disappeared??
Come back Jim.
The following teams receive an MVP bonus after match 9:
Los Angeles Galaxy - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wWd)
Kansas City Wizards - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (wwD)
Vancouver Whitecaps - MVP #2: 1 TP + 25k (WWw)
to the OASL family, from RSL.
Merry Christmas to you, your family and friends from Sunny Prestwick. I hope you all have a great day. No rest for the CHV players as they have a game today 😄😄