Screwed by HT cup seeding

damnMikeBrown · 04-16-2003, 10:19 PM

So I join up last season. I am put in IV.25, a tough ass IV league. I have no chance. I play 3/4 of the season, and get auto-relegated. I loose 10% of my already slim fans (you don't win, you don't get fans).

I play the first 3 games of the cup season. They are all away matches. 2 VI and one V team I had to mots to beat. I really wanted the upcoming home match, as I =need= the $$. The home game, I would get, is the only reason I mot'd.

So, I sit up, and wait for the next match. I'm what? I'm away! WTF? Oh, must be a V team that was preseason 1, like me. I look. NOPE!

I get to play a IV team at their place! The git only has a 8,150 seat stadium!

So I had the privledge of taking it in the backside for 3/4 of a season, to get relegated & loose my fans, to play 3 away games in the cup, and get rewarded with this non-home game. This is all for the privledge of having been romped in IV as a new owner & auto relegated.

It seems the seedings are taken from the end of last season.

So pretty much, because of that, I just lost 4 notches of TS for the $10k or so I'll get from his piddly ass stadium.

This is crap. So here I am, a V team, playing away at a IV team, when the format is the lower team gets home field. This is crap.

Qwikshot · 04-16-2003, 10:22 PM

I just played a div 3 opponent...it wasn't pleasant.

GoldenEagle · 04-16-2003, 10:30 PM

Well I get to host a Division 2 team if it makes you feel any better.

rexalllsc · 04-16-2003, 10:32 PM

I was away to some dude who beat me 5-1. Ouch.

bbor · 04-16-2003, 10:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by GoldenEagle
Well I get to host a Division 2 team if it makes you feel any better.

Run for the hills

damnMikeBrown · 04-16-2003, 11:01 PM

At least you're getting paid to get beat. I have to travel to a IV team to loose, so no home field $$. I'm a V team that has to play away at a IV team, come on, get outraged!

Qwikshot · 04-16-2003, 11:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by damnMikeBrown
At least you're getting paid to get beat. I have to travel to a IV team to loose, so no home field $$. I'm a V team that has to play away at a IV team, come on, get outraged!

I only have a 7000 seat stadium...It's not like I'm rolling in the dough.

vex · 04-17-2003, 12:16 AM

Argghhh!!! Outrage! Outrage! Outrage!

sterlingice · 04-17-2003, 12:38 AM

That's just back luck of the draw. I'd say I'll score a goal for you next week but I don't think I'll be scoring too many- I'm playing a team with only 3 players who get less than **~ including a couple of ***~ guys.

SI

NevStar · 04-17-2003, 07:30 AM

I think the draw is made before promotions/relegations were made. Thus, you're still considered a IV team & if he's newly promoted, he's a div V.

It's still rotten luck, but I guess that's an explanation for it.

Nyarlahotep · 04-17-2003, 08:27 AM

That's the kind of luck I wish I had. Either way it's more money than a frindly would be, and he only has to play a div. IV team. I'd take that anyday over the div. III team I have to face.

NAIWF · 04-21-2003, 02:41 PM

I managed to beat a D4 team in the last round. Now I get the "worst" team in D2.1, I'm suspecting a 9-0, 10-0, or 11-0 thrashing, since he gets on average 90+ ratings, and I could only get that with 2 1/2 games worth of work! My plan. . . send in the backups and hope no one gets hurt

04-16-2003, 10:22 PM	#2
Qwikshot Pro Starter Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: ...down the gravity well	I just played a div 3 opponent...it wasn't pleasant. __________________ "General Woundwort's body was never found. It could be that he still lives his fierce life somewhere else, but from that day on, mother rabbits would tell their kittens that if they did not do as they were told, the General would get them. Such was Woundwort's monument, and perhaps it would not have displeased him." Watership Down, Richard Adams

04-16-2003, 10:30 PM	#3
GoldenEagle Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Little Rock, AR	Well I get to host a Division 2 team if it makes you feel any better. __________________ Xbox 360 Gamer Tag: GoldenEagle014

04-17-2003, 12:38 AM	#9
sterlingice Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Back in Houston!	That's just back luck of the draw. I'd say I'll score a goal for you next week but I don't think I'll be scoring too many- I'm playing a team with only 3 players who get less than ~ including a couple of ~ guys. SI __________________ Houston Hippopotami, III.3: 20th Anniversary Thread - All former HT players are encouraged to check it out! Janos:* "Only America could produce an imbecile of your caliber!" Freakazoid: "That's because we make lots of things better than other people!"

04-17-2003, 07:30 AM	#10
NevStar High School Varsity Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Raleigh, NC	I think the draw is made before promotions/relegations were made. Thus, you're still considered a IV team & if he's newly promoted, he's a div V. It's still rotten luck, but I guess that's an explanation for it. __________________ I can't think of a clever signature.

04-16-2003, 10:32 PM	#4
rexalllsc Banned Join Date: Feb 2003	I was away to some dude who beat me 5-1. Ouch.

04-16-2003, 11:01 PM	#6
damnMikeBrown College Benchwarmer Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Cincinnati, OH	At least you're getting paid to get beat. I have to travel to a IV team to loose, so no home field $$. I'm a V team that has to play away at a IV team, come on, get outraged!

04-17-2003, 12:16 AM	#8
vex Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Tulsa	Argghhh!!! Outrage! Outrage! Outrage!

04-17-2003, 08:27 AM	#11
Nyarlahotep College Benchwarmer Join Date: Mar 2003	That's the kind of luck I wish I had. Either way it's more money than a frindly would be, and he only has to play a div. IV team. I'd take that anyday over the div. III team I have to face.

04-21-2003, 02:41 PM	#12
NAIWF College Prospect Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: New York, NY	I managed to beat a D4 team in the last round. Now I get the "worst" team in D2.1, I'm suspecting a 9-0, 10-0, or 11-0 thrashing, since he gets on average 90+ ratings, and I could only get that with 2 1/2 games worth of work! My plan. . . send in the backups and hope no one gets hurt

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