One thing that I have a love/hate relationship with in OLMEC games is the roll of the dice with auction bidding and planning. I think it is most prominent in SESL due to the number of auctions, but it boils down to:

• You can never see more than one auction ahead, so you never know if the '0/8 FW' will be the last youth FW for offer, or if you will get 8 more chances at this player or better

This season, through 4 auctions, I think we have seen 10 youth players that can play FW so far. That's a lot! That means that if we get a lot more 0/x FWs in future auctions, there might be some bargains to be had. 

On the other hand, we have seen 1 youth GK and 1 youth WG. If, by luck, there aren't any more of those that come up in auctions we could see a lot of apprentice signings in those positions or a lot of competition for the player should they come up in auction 5 or 6

I like that this variation and lack of knowledge exists. It makes the game better. But it sure can be frustrating when you end up overpaying for an early auction player as a result, or get left waiting for a player that never arrives!

Thanks Steve and Bill. That's the most interesting case: 1 loss of function, 1 degredation of function, and 1 no change in function. But, I guess that means it is something that should be solvable on my side. I'll dig around.

About 10 days ago I stopped being able to access SESL/SFLSL/OASL on my phone, and after some testing I have narrowed it down to an issue specifically with accessing the site using the Chrome mobile browser. I can still access using the desktop version of Chrome on my computer, and can access using a secondary browser on my phone, but the mobile version of Chrome just times out every time.

Does anyone else use Chrome on their phone to access SESL, and if so have you seen any issues over the past week and a half? No need to pitch in with other browsers, as they all seem to still work. It's not a big issue as it does seem limited to one browser, but curious if that is widespread or only something I'm encountering.

I don't know if ALO could have purchased the 0/10 for anything less than 978, as MOT bid 1049 with a balance of 977 (if the current balance is correct for what it was at the time of auction - I did not have access to SESL for the past few days)