To MOTS or not to MOTS?

[3ric]

I'd like to hear your advice.

Currently I'm (IFK Bananskruv, 103399) in 2nd place in div VII.842 Sverige (http://195.149.159.157/Common/league...elUnitID=12525) which would mean autopromotion to div VI if I can keep this position.

The game on Sunday is at home vs 3rd place Tatica, who recently lost 1-4 to FC KLEV. I'm one point ahead of Tatica, and in case of a win, I should be clear by four points. Big game. Should I MOTS this game considering that I'm up the following week at KLEV? Also to consider is that Tatica's owner hasn't logged in since Sept. 8 and that I beat him 6-2 three weeks ago.

My initial reaction was to MOTS this game, but now I'm having second thoughts. Would the effort of MOTSing weaken me too much in the following game?

Comments?

The full league table:

 Team Played Goals Points 
1. Per Ols IF       8 25 - 2  24 
2. IFK Bananskruv   8 27 - 8  16 
3. Tatica FC        8 19 - 18 15 
4. The Extremes     8 10 - 11 11 
5. FC KLEV          8 20 - 17 10 
6. Gladamåsarnas BK 8 10 - 17 10 
7. potters_bk       8  8 - 31 4 
8. Yamaha fk        8  6 - 21 2 

[Bee]

What's your team spirit currently?

[Nyarlahotep]

How did you play when you beat him? If normal, I would play normal now. You know that if he hasn't logged in that he can't be MOTS'ing you.

[Rich1033]

I would play normal. If he has lost a game or 2 recently his TS cant be very high, and you will have a good chance at beating him again. I dont think its worth the risk of hurting your TS for your match against KLEV.

Good luck.

[Alf]

Since you beat him 6-2 at his place last time and he hasnt logged for a while I would definitely play at least normal (might even consider PICing).

KLEV winning 4-1 against tatica seems more dangerous than tatica. I would save my MOTS for KLEV if you really need to.

[Alf]

dola

Tatica received a team May 10th.

5 latest logins
9/8/2003 at 06:45 from 192.44.***.***
9/8/2003 at 06:31 from 192.44.***.***
9/6/2003 at 05:38 from 192.44.***.***

Spent all his cash on September 6th (maybe the day he finally got his team). IMO, he left hattrick.

Plus ,even at home he puts up wretched midfield rating while you at least manage to put up poor midfield ratings.

DO NO MOTS ! I would even PIC now that I saw the ratings.

[Alf]

double dola

Tatica win at KLEV place 3-2 a few weeks ago was a lucky one as they scored on their 3 opportunities while KLEV even managed to miss a penalty shot...

[3ric]

Originally posted by Bee
What's your team spirit currently?

Team Spirit: composed
Confidence: wonderful


Thanks for the feedback!

I will most likely go with normal, don't know if I dare to PIC.

[illinifan999]

So second place teams can auto-promote in Sweden?

[Nyarlahotep]

Out of Div VII they can.

[illinifan999]

That's awesome!

[Nyarlahotep]

For 3ric it is, but I'm pretty sure that all the people on the wait list would have rathered that they had just doubled the size of Div VI when they added VII.

[Nyarlahotep]

dola-

I'm sure it is better for everyone not on the Swedish waiting list that they didn't though.

[3ric]

Half time now in my game, up by 4-0. Piece of cake.

Edit: Oh, and I'm running on normal, of course.

[sterlingice]

Looks like you did well, mowing him down 6-0, and more or less sewing up promotion. Now you need to start working on that poor midfield.

SI

[3ric]

Heh. Just got up the midfield from wretched.