Maniacal Misfitz HT Dynasty.... (Episode 2 - The Misfitz Strike Back) [Archive]

Havok

07-18-2003, 09:13 PM

Divison Breakdown

Lets take a look at the teams that i'll be facing this year....

1.Final Fantasy (8320)

Country: USA
Region: Maryland
Arena: White Materia Arena
Language: English

This is the team that Last years divison champians "Green Mages" beat in they're Promotion match. This is they're 6th HT season. But i think the owner has given up on HT. Im not sure when the last time he logged in was. Its been at least a Month, since his last transaction was selling a player and that happen on 6/19. So hopefully they will be replaced in a couple weeks.

He has the best team in the divison right now, putting up a passable midfield and NSI's between 53-60. The bad news is i start of the season vs him at his place. So even if he does get replaced i'll probally still have to play him next week :(

2. Witches (72207)

Country: USA
Region: Pennsylvania
Arena: The Pentacle
Language: English

The Witches are the only other team in the divison constanly trying to improve his team. He joined FOFC for a couple weeks, but then he left and joined another federation. We still talk sometimes and i hope he does well this season.

The Witches have a serious shot at winning the divison if Final Fanatasy gets replaced. Right now his team is a little better then mine because i switched to PM training and i sold all my good midfielders. He curently trains Scoring and runs a 3-4-3. I know he has been having some money problems, so once my midfield training gets going i will probally be to much for him.

His scheldule is in his favor. He doesn't have to play Final Fantasy until week 5 so if they are gonna get replaced, it will be before he has to play them. (Lucky Bastard)

3. PoBOXTeam (72202)

Country: USA
Region: New York City
Arena: PoBOXTeam Arena

This team was decent last year and finished 4th. But the owner hasn't logged in for about 2 months and they are getting ready to be replaced.

4. Boston Bulldogs (72204)

Country: USA
Region: Boston
Arena: Boston Bulldogs Arena

This guy is pissing me off. he started out with the best team i've ever seen anyone start out with. He puts up a weak midfield and a NSI of 48-53 in a standard 4-4-2. He logs in like once every 5-6 weeks right before his team is gonna get replaced.

If your not gonna do shit to improve your team stop logging in!! let someone else have it.

5. CristinaFC3 (72206)

Country: USA
Region: Florida
Arena: CristinaFC3 Arena

This team had a good offense last year and a terrible defense. The owner wasn't very active. But in the last few day's he's been logging in and buying players. So hopefully he will improve his team and compete this year.

6. Kentucky Pharaos (226324)

Country: USA
Region: Kentucky
Arena: Kentucky Palace

A bot team that got auto-promoted from divison VI. It should change owners shortly.

7. Atlanta Huns (223560)

Country: USA
Region: Atlanta
Arena: Atlanta Bowl

another bot team.

Divison Thoughts

So thats my divison. Its toughness will mostly depend on whether or not Final Fantasy logs in or gets replaced. If they do we will have a tough 3-way battle for first. If they don't, it will probally be between me and The Witches.

If that happens i predict the Witches to win the divison by a very narrow margin. The way they're schedule is set-up, they can pic a game before they're tough games so that will help alot. If Johnny plays his cards right, he will probally win the divison.

But anything can happen with 3 - 4 new owners joining us soon. Should be interesting :)

vex

07-18-2003, 11:33 PM

Other than being top-heavy, you seem to have a pretty nice series. Good luck, the Sidekicks will be looking forward to seeing you in Div. IV next season!

Havok

07-19-2003, 08:05 PM

Player Breakdowns

Time to take a look at the Misfitz Team this year. I have updated all the ages already.

The Coach

Justin Busby (12507365)
50 years, disastrous form, healthy
A passable coach who is fond of attacking
A pleasant guy who is balanced and upright.
Has inadequate experience and inadequate leadership abilities.

He'll work for now

Goalie's

Marcin Landowski
298 000 US$, 21 years, weak form
Has disastrous experience and passable leadership abilities

Stamina: weak Keeper: solid
Playmaking: disastrous Passing: disastrous
Winger: disastrous Defending: disastrous
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: weak

Marcin is my starting goalie. He's normally valued at around 366k in passable form which isn't bad for a solid goalie. But for some reason i can never keep a starting goalie in good form.

Stanford Weiss
115 000 US$, 21 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities

Stamina: weak Keeper: inadequate
Playmaking: disastrous Passing: disastrous
Winger: disastrous Defending: disastrous
Scoring: disastrous Set Pieces: wretched

Stanford is my back-up that i pulled from my youth squad.

Defenders

Omar Nairn
105 000 US$, 21 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities

Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: weak Passing: weak
Winger: poor Defending: solid
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: inadequate

Omar is my starting CD and has about 5 weeks of defending training towards excellent. He puts up 3 stars a game in good form and is my best defender

Ismael Ferreira da Silva
68 000 US$, 20 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Powerful]

Stamina: [b]excellent[/b] Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: poor
Winger: poor Defending: [b]passable[/b]
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: weak

[b]Ismael is pretty much a solid defender. he has 8 weeks of training towards solid and puts up 3 stars a game at wingback playing defensive.[/b]

Emanuel Miller
93 000 US$, 20 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: [b]excellent[/b] Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: wretched
Winger: inadequate Defending: [b]passable[/b]
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: wretched

[b]Emanuel is my best ever youth pull. I just pulled him about 2 weeks ago and he puts up 2 1/2 stars a game at wingback. If he was 2 year younger i would have trained him in PM[/b]

Rikard Larsson
44 000 US$, 18 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities [b][Head][/b]

Stamina: [b]excellent[/b] Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: wretched Passing: weak
Winger: wretched Defending: [b]passable[/b]
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: wretched

[b]Rikard was one of my trainee's and has about 4 weeks towards solid defending plus the head skill. He's a good back-up.[/b]

Dumitru Burghelea
25 000 US$, 18 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities

Stamina: [b]passable[/b] Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: poor Passing: wretched
Winger: poor Defending: [b]passable[/b]
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: inadequate

[b]Dumitru is another one of my good back-ups. He usually is in solid or better form and he has about 5 weeks of defensive training towards solid[/b]

Johan Nilsson
59 000 US$, 18 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: [b]passable[/b] Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: wretched Passing: weak
Winger: inadequate Defending: [b]passable[/b]
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: poor

[b]Johan was the first trainee i ever bought and he also took the longest to bump to passable. 9 weeks to be exact :( he's a low passable defender and is my last back-up[/b]

[b]Wingers[/b]

Andi Neiweiler
165 000 US$, 26 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and passable leadership abilities

Stamina: [b]passable[/b] Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: weak Passing: [b]passable[/b]
Winger: solid Defending: inadequate
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: weak

[b]Andi is my star winger. I somehow grabed him for only 94k midway through last season. He's been in inadequate form ever since i bought him and puts up 2 1/2 stars. Im hoping now that he is in passable form i will get 3 stars out of him. Plus since im training PM now im hoping i can get his PM skill to inadequate by seasons end.[/b]

Benton Minter
46 000 US$, 19 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities

Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: weak Passing: poor
Winger: solid Defending: poor
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: weak

[b]I pulled Benton from my youth squad right when my YS hit solid. He's a good 2 1/2 star winger in inadequate - solid form. He starts sometimes and plays back-up other times depending on his form.[/b]

Dolf de Bevere
68 000 US$, 20 years, solid form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [b][Quick][/b]

Stamina: [b]passable[/b] Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: weak
Winger: [b]passable[/b] Defending: weak
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: poor

[b]I just bought Dolf like 3 weeks ago for 23k and he's played well so far. Getting 2 1/2 stars every game. I bought him mainly because of his inadequate PM. Hopfully i can get it to passable by the end of the season.[/b]

[b]Forwards[/b]

Abel Cano
144 000 US$, 25 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: inadequate Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: [b]weak[/b]
Winger: weak Defending: inadequate
Scoring: solid Set Pieces: poor

[b]Abel is my number 1 forward and he's always in passable form. He's a key member of the first team. He's actually injuried right now and will probally miss my first league game of the year :([/b]

Aron Capotã
109 000 US$, 22 years, poor form
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities [Head]

Stamina: weak Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: weak Passing: [b]passable[/b]
Winger: weak Defending: inadequate
Scoring: [b]passable[/b] Set Pieces: [b]passable[/b]

[b]Aron is a beast. His head skill gets him a ton of goals up front and his passable set pieces is nice also. But the problem with Aron is that he is usually in bad form and doesn't start very often [/b]

Istvan Strobl
37 000 US$, 28 years, inadequate form
Has [b]weak experience[/b] and solid leadership abilities

Stamina: [b]passable[/b] Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: weak Passing: poor
Winger: wretched Defending: weak
Scoring: [b]passable[/b] Set Pieces: [b]passable[/b]

[b]Istvan was bought to be my clown. He's sympathetic/solid. I never expected him to start but now that experiance matters he might actually make my starting line-up if he's in good form.[/b]

Martin Devátý
39 000 US$, 22 years, inadequate form
Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities [b][Powerful][/b]

Stamina: [b]passable[/b] Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: poor Passing: [b]weak[/b]
Winger: weak Defending: poor
Scoring: [b]passable[/b] Set Pieces: solid

[b]Martin was bought to be my "rainy forward". His powerful skill is nice in the rain. He actually had a 3 star game in the rain in passable form!!! His solid set pieces is very nice also.[/b]

[b]Midfielder's[/b]

Jed Neumann
74 000 US$, 20 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and wretched leadership abilities

Stamina: [b]excellent[/b] Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: [b]passable[/b] Passing: wretched
Winger: wretched Defending: [b]passable[/b]
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: poor

[b]Jed is probally my number 1 midfielder at the moment. He gets 2 1/2 stars in passable form and he's a good defensive middy. I plan on training him up to at least excellent before i sell him.[/b]

Josef Eder
134 000 US$, 20 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Powerful]

Stamina: [b]passable[/b] Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: [b]passable[/b] Passing: [b]passable[/b]
Winger: weak Defending: poor
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: wretched

[b]I spent a nice chunk of change on Josef (140k) mainly because he is close to poping to solid. Im hoping i can get him to excellent PM by seasons end. Unfortunetly he is injuried right now and will probally miss my first league game.[/b]

Huey Miller
36 000 US$, 18 years, solid form
Has disastrous experience and wretched leadership abilities [Head]

Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: [b]passable[/b] Passing: poor
Winger: wretched Defending: poor
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: weak

[b]I just bought Huey off fellow FOFC'er BillyMadison last week. He has 4-5 weeks of PM training towards solid into him already. Im also hoping i can get him to Excellent PM by the end of the season.[/b]

Jakob Noer Mogensen
62 000 US$, 19 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities [b][Quick][/b]

Stamina: [b]passable[/b] Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: [b]passable[/b] Passing: weak
Winger: poor Defending: inadequate
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: inadequate

[b]I got Jakob for only 27k a few weeks ago. Im not sure how close to poping he is but he will make a good back-up[/b]

Roy Hoekstra
76 000 US$, 19 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities [b][Powerful][/b]

Stamina: [b]passable[/b] Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: [b]passable[/b] Passing: weak
Winger: [b]passable[/b] Defending: weak
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: poor

[b]Roy will be a back-up/starter this year depending on form. He will also get the nod on "Rainy days" because of his powerful skill. I plan on making him a "winger towards the middle" one day.[/b]

Viktor Tolstoy
81 000 US$, 19 years, solid form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities [b][Quick][/b]

Stamina: [b]passable[/b] Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: [b]passable[/b]
Winger: poor Defending: inadequate
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: poor

[b]Victor is close to poping to passable PM i think. He's got a high assesed value and good secondary's. He will probally be solid PM by seasons end[/b]

Joaquim Neiva
50 000 US$, 18 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [b][Unpredictable][/b]

Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: [b]passable[/b]
Winger: weak Defending: disastrous
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: inadequate

[b]I somehow got Joaquim for 15k a few weeks ago. I think he still has about 5-6 weeks before he pops but i might get him to solid PM this season. He will probally be on the team for a long,long time.[/b]

Thats it, as you can see i have 7 midfielder trainee's. One of the back-ups will have to play winger each week in friendly's. But thats ok with me... it shouldn't slow they're training down to much.

I think my midfield is my weakest spot right now. Before i decided to switch to PM training my midfield was very good. Getting inadequate at home and weak on the road. But i had to sell them to make room for the trainee's. But by the end of the season i should have a couple Excellent PM's and a few mid to high solid PM's as well. So next season i will have a kick ass midfield.

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Havok

07-20-2003, 11:19 AM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

Youth Pull

The First Youth Pull of the season is!!!!!! Another absolute piece of shit :(

Deke Thomas (14689122)
17 years, passable form, healthy

A sympathetic guy who is balanced and honest.
Has disastrous experience and solid leadership abilities.

Speciality: Powerful

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 4 000 US$
Wage: 500 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

Stamina: weak Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: poor Passing: wretched
Winger: wretched Defending: wretched
Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: weak

Economic Update

151 327 US$ (89 144) US$
Sponsors: satisfied
Supporter Club: 905 members
Supporters: calm

This week

Revenue-----------------------Expenses
Crowd 0-----------------------Arena 9 175
Sponsors 35 700------------Wages 23 208
Financial 0---------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0-------------------Temporary 2 000
-----------------------------------Staff 43 500
-----------------------------------Youth squad 20 000

Total revenue 35 700 Total expenses 97 883
Expected income/loss -62 183

Money is still looking pretty good. I should get around 10-15k from my cup game on wednesday. My sponser money dropped off around 7k due to the reset :( hopfully that will change in a week or two.

This Weeks Game

There is no league game this week. But there is a cup game and just like everyone else, i get to play a Divison VI bot team. Should be an easy PIC win.

Upnext, This weeks Cup Game

The Afoci

07-20-2003, 12:08 PM

Hey, my YP sucked this week.

Good luck next season, and good luck on the tough first week game!

Superman=#54

07-20-2003, 01:46 PM

Hopefully you will have better youth pulls in the future. Good luck on the season.

;)

Aesyrqwe

07-20-2003, 05:31 PM

If you didnt notice your pull was a semi clown. Not as great as a full clown, but if you dont already have one on your team and you didnt already fire this guy, he would be good to keep.

-Aes-

Havok

07-20-2003, 08:50 PM

yeah i noticed that. But i already have one and he's better then that guy. I'm to lazy to list him and see if someone bits.

Havok

07-23-2003, 08:21 PM

Season 2 - USA Cup - Round 1

Rhode Island Gladiators - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

Finally season 2 starts. These 2 weeks have been killer!!! :)
Even thought its against a lowly bot team. Its still a important game nevertheless. After 2 weeks of stamina training my form isn't all that great so im not expecting a big NSI rating here. Plus i'll be Pic'ing and im missing my second best midfielder and my number 1 striker!!! So if i get a NSI of 50 or higher i'll be suprised.

I also found out more bad news today. Final Fantasy (the team that got regulated from divison IV) logged in today. So they won't be replaced by a bot team anytime soon :( this really pisses me off. Espically since i have to play them on sunday. They're team isn't that great except they're midfield. Which gets passable most the time and solid sometimes. I just can't compete with that yet and i won't be able to until late this season or early next season. So it looks like i'll start off this year with a loss. I'll probally just pic the game and get my TS up. We'll see.......

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva(Defensive)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller (Defensive)

Right Winger - Dolf de Bevere (Offensive)
Inner Midfeilder 1 - Jed Neumann (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Viktor Tolstoy (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Jakob Noer Mogensen
Left Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Istvan Strobl
Forward 2 - Martin Devátý

Marcin my starting goalie is still in weak form. So expect a shitty game out of him. Neither one of my 2 starting forwards are playing. Apol (my number 1 forward) is hurt and Aron (my number 2 forward) is in poor form. so both my back-ups are playing and they are both only in inadequate form :(

Players To Watch

Andi Neiweiler - Im hoping now that he is in passable form im hoping he will get me 3 stars on the wing.

The Match

Due to an all-day shower, 4957 paying spectators got to see a match on a pitch-turned-bog at Rhode Island Field. Gladiators started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Martínez - Gubert, Lujan, Cotton, Bollea - Doyle, Allred, Dozier, Branham - Riomayor, Kearns.

Maniacal started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Landowski - Ferreira da Silv, Nairn, Miller - de Bevere, Neumann, Tolstoy, Noer Mogensen, Neiweiler - Devátý, Strobl.

Gladiatorss Edward Lujan got himself booked after a foul.

In the 7:th minute the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending and Istvan Strobl put the ball away for 0 - 1.

Viktor Tolstoy received some harsh words from his coach after he acted foolishly, probably out of lack of experience, in the 14:th minute and almost caused an opponent to score.

The teams went for a half-time break at 0 - 1. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 73 percent possession rate.

Maniacal´s Jed Neumann received a play slashing through the home side´s defense in the 54:th minute, chipping it past the keeper scoring 0 - 2. The home crowd was not pleased with that one.

Gladiators´s Mike Bollea left the field after 56 minutes because of a nasty blow to the shin. His replacement was Calvin Koenig.

Maniacal´s Istvan Strobl received a play slashing through the home side´s defense in the 59:th minute, chipping it past the keeper scoring 0 - 3. The home crowd was not pleased with that one.

Istvan Strobl came close to extending the visitors lead as he, completely unmarked in front of the goal, lifted a ball over Constancio Martínez, hitting the bar.

The referee showed Maniacals Omar Nairn the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.

Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 82 percent, dominated the battle.

The most dominating Gladiators player was without a doubt Soriano Riomayor. Edward Lujan on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Dolf de Bevere. However, Jakob Noer Mogensen made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 0 - 3.

Goals

Istvan Strobl - 2
Jed Neumann - 1

Player Ratings

GK - Marcin Landowski - **~

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva - **~
Central Defender - Omar Nairn - **~
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller - **~

Right Winger - Dolf de Bevere - **~
Inner Midfeilder 1 - Jed Neumann - **~
Inner Midfielder 2 - Viktor Tolstoy - **
Inner Midfielder 3 - Jakob Noer Mogensen - **
Left Winger - Andi Neiweiler - **~

Forward 1 - Istvan Strobl - **
Forward 2 - Martin Devátý - **

Stars - 25.5

Team Ratings

Rhode Island Gladiators
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: disastrous - (1)
Right Side Defence: poor - (3)
Central Defence: weak - (4)
Left Side Defence: weak - (4)
Right Side Attack: poor - (3)
Central Attack: weak - (4)
Left Side Attack: poor - (3)

NSI - 24

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: poor - (3)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 50

Post Game Thoughts

I can't figure out how i only won 3-0. I killed them in every category and doubled they're NSI and only won 3-0. I guess the rain had somethign to do with it.

Anyway... you can tell my team is struggling. My bad form and missing 2 players really hurt my NSI rating. Its gonna be a tough first couple games this season until my form picks up and my injuried guys are healthy. Luckly noone got hurt this game.

The Good

Dolf de Bevere - is my only player in solid form and he got player of the game according to the Hattrick engine.

The Bad

Andi Neiweiler - in passable form he still didn't get 3 stars :( im kind of surprised on this one. maybe the rain played a factor or maybe his disatorous experiance. Either way he still only got 2 1/2 stars and that pisses me off.

Upnext, This weeks training update

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Havok

07-24-2003, 09:53 PM

Training Update

This week i trained General after 2 straight weeks of stamina my form is hurting some. But little did i know that only players who play get the training :( So it wasn't as big of a success as i was hoping for.

Form

7 players increased in form (5 starters)
5 players decreased in form (2 starters)

My starters form is starting to come around. But i still have a few holes. My goalie went back up to inadequate form which will be a big help.

Team/Player Value's

Value per player (average): 85 591 US$ (+3721)
Total squad value: 1 883 000 US$ (same)
Average age: 20 (+1)
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): disastrous
No of players (excluding the coach): 22 (-1)
Number of nationalities: 14

Im scared now......

This whole Experiance thing is scaring the hell out of me. The 2 teams left in my divison that almost never login and have practically the same team they started with, just got a whole lot better. I almost fell out of my seat when i saw they're NSI's from the cup game yesterday. Here take a look for yourself........

Boston Bulldogs
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Central Defence: brilliant - (11)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: inadequate - (5)
Central Attack: weak - (4)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 54

This is on the road and his offense is usally better then that. This just blows my mind. The experiance change has increased his NSI rating by about 5-6 points.

Heres the other one.....

CristinaFC3
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Defence: weak - (4)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 49

A good offense and a good midfeild. I just can't believe how good these 2 guys starting teams are/were, Thats incrediable. To get a inadequate midfield, on the road with "basically" the team you started him is amazing.

Niether of these teams are pushovers and its pissing me off. I don't know how this season is gonna turn out, but its gonna be alot harder then last year im afraid :( Mainly because my whole team is young and i have no experianced players at all.

Upnext, this weeks Youth Pull and economic update

DukeRulesMAB

07-24-2003, 10:54 PM

Ooof...I have a team in my series that seems to have gotten a huge boost from the experience, but that's really rough to have two of 'em.

You'll get through it through, a good training program is still the most important!

Havok

07-26-2003, 07:13 PM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

Youth pull sucked like always. he's been fired. I've had my team for around 17-18 weeks now and i've made 1,000 bucks off my youth squad. Lucky ME!!!!!!!!

Economic Update

96 844 US$ (35 757) US$
Sponsors: delirious
Supporter Club: 910 members
Supporters: satisfied

This week

Revenue------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0------------------------Arena 9 175
Sponsors 39 750-------------Wages 26 162
Financial 0----------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0-------------------Temporary 2 000
-----------------------------------Staff 43 500
-----------------------------------Youth squad 20 000

Total revenue 39 750 Total expenses 100 837
Expected income/loss -61 087

Dear god im losing money fast. I had a 150k 2 weeks ago, now i have 35k and i've haven't bought a single player :( i gotta wait another week for a home game and im not even sure if i'll sell it out since its vs a bot team. I need to get a good youth pull one day.

This weeks game

This week im gonna lose. Its just that simple. Im missing 2 of my best players, im playing against a former divison IV team and its had his house. So basically im screwed. Im gonna PIC and take my loss and move on. Im hoping to get my TS to POE for my game vs The Witches in weeks 3. I'll pic this game, my next cup game, my league game after that since its vs a bot team and then the cup game after that. So i should at the least have delirous TS when i play him. Im not sure if i'll MOTS that game or not. We'll see.....

Upnext, This weeks League Game

Havok

07-27-2003, 09:10 PM

Season 2 - League Game - Round 1

Final Fantasy - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

Season 2 starts today!!!! :)

Thats the good news.... the bad news is im playing against a much better team and im missing 2 of my best players. The only way for a win or a tie here today would be if they got a couple red cards. His team really isn't all that great considering he's starting his 5th season in HT. But his midfield is very nice. Getting solid at home and passable on the road.

Starters

Gk - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (defensive)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller (defensive)

Right Winger - Dolf de Bevere (offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jed Neumann (defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Viktor Tolstoy (offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller
Left Winger - Andi Neiweiler

Forward 1 - Martin Devátý
Forward 2 - Istvan Strobl

My forwards are my week spot today. My best forward Abel is injuried and my second best forward Aron is in crap form like always. This is a concern but i'll probally have Abel back for next weeks game. One day im hoping Aron will actually get above weak form so i can start him again. His "head" skill is oh so nice. Anyway, besides those 2 and my injuried midfielder everything else is normal for my starters.

Players to Watch

Dolf de Bevere - My number 2 winger just hit excellent form so im expecting a good game out of him.

Marcin Landowski - my goalie finally improved to inadequate form. Im hoping for 3 stars out of him today. But he'll probally only get 2 1/2.

The Match

36053 spectators had come to White Materia Arena this cloudy day. Fantasy had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. They fielded: Martin - Jonasson, Joseph, Klintsjö - Vasquez, Toth, Pace, Gee, Iglesia - Singer, Littlefield.

Maniacal tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Lineup: Landowski - Ferreira da Silv, Nairn, Miller - de Bevere, Neumann, Tolstoy, Miller, Neiweiler - Devátý, Strobl.

Emanuel Miller behaved like an inexperienced youth player in the 3rd minute as he gave the ball away to an opponent. Lucky for him though, there was no goal.

Eugene Singer gave his Fantasy the lead with 1 - 0, as he successfully challenged both the guests central defenders, then placed the ball unreachably at the goaltenders right post.

Rich Littlefield increased Fantasys lead to 2 - 0 by putting a header away on a hooked ball from the right.

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, Fantasy´s Dalton Toth got himself booked.

Halftime score was 2 - 0. Fantasy held the ball, with a clear 70 percent possession rate.

An indirect free kick in the visitor´s penalty area in the 83rd minute could have resulted in another goal, but Marcin Landowski got a hand out and tipped the ball over the bar.

A speedy charge from the left side of the field put Fantasy lead up with 3 - 0. Darrell Pace finished that one off competently, firing from an acute angle.

Fantasy held the ball, with a clear 64 percent possession rate.

The most dominating Fantasy player was without a doubt Dalton Toth. Rich Littlefield on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Ismael Ferreira da Silva. Huey Miller on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 3 - 0.

Goals

none :(

Player Ratings

Gk - Marcin Landowski - **~

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva - ***
Central Defender - Omar Nairn - ***
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller - **~

Right Winger - Dolf de Bevere - ***
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jed Neumann ***
Inner Midfielder 2 - Viktor Tolstoy - **
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller - **
Left Winger - Andi Neiweiler - **~

Forward 1 - Martin Devátý - **
Forward 2 - Istvan Strobl - **

Stars - 27

Team Ratings

Final Fantasy
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: solid - (7)
Right Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 63

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: poor - (3)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 50

Post Game Comments

3-0 loss as expected. Im not to mad, it could have been worse actually. Missing my 2 forwards is hurting my attack badly. If i had Abel and Aron both in passable form, my attack would be excellent/solid/excellent.

I had a couple of surprises in this game. Jed Neumann got my first ever 3 star performance as a midfielder and Dolf de Bevere got my first first 3 star performance on wing. Jed getting 3 stars is a big surprise. He's only a passable PM in solid form. He's got passable defending and i play him defensive. My 2 solid PM's that i used to have, never got 3 stars in solid form. So im hoping he is close to poping to solid PM. And Dolf getting 3 stars is kind of a surprise also. He is in Excellent form, but he's only a passable winger with weak passing and inadequate PM.

The Good

Dolf de Bevere - 3 stars in excellent form. My first 3 stars performance by a winger.

Jed Neumann - 3 stars in solid form. My first ever 3 star performance by a midfielder.

The Bad

Both My forwards - they both only got 2 stars and only a passable central attack rating. But what should i expect from 2 back-up forwards.

Around The League

Witches - vs - PoBOXTeam 4 - 5

dam, POBOXteam is about to be replaced by another owner and they somehow beat The Witches. But i think the Witches pic'ed and played some back-ups because they have a tough cup game this week. Tough break for Johnny :(

Boston Bulldogs - vs - CristinaFC3 2 - 1

This game could have went either way. A very good defensve team (The Bulldogs) vs a good offensive team (CristinaFC3). The Bulldogs just barley pulled it out, probally due to the home field advantage.

Kentucky Pharaos - vs - Atlanta Huns 3 - 0

Battle of the bot teams!! The who cares game of the week in my divison. I play Kentucky next week and it should be a nice and easy PIC win.

League Standings

The league standings are down right now. I'll put it here when they are fixed.

Upnext, This weeks cup game

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Havok

07-28-2003, 06:29 PM

More Bad News

i guess it good and bad news. The Witches youth pull this week is none other then a 17 year old solid pm........

Darryl Johnson (14892823)
17 years, passable form, healthy

A sympathetic guy who is calm and dishonest.
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities.

Speciality: Unpredictable

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 72 000 US$
Wage: 840 US$/week
Owner: Witches
Warnings: 0

Stamina: weak Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: poor
Winger: poor Defending: weak
Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: poor

Current bid is at 267k but im sure it will go higher. Im happy for johnny, but he's already bought a 30 year old middy with good experiance capable of getting 3 1/2 stars. So my chances of beating him are slowly deminishing. He's been pretty lucky in youth pulls in his HT career.

Now i guess the question is, will the Misfitz ever get lucky with a youth pull????

Havok

07-30-2003, 03:40 PM

Quick Update

The Witches midfielder sold for $1,000,000 dollars. He's been buying up midfielders and defenders like crazy (he trains forwards). So basically, my chance of beating him just got a whole lot smaller.

Amazing what 1 youth pull can do for a team.

Havok

07-30-2003, 03:48 PM

League Standings

Team----------------------Played--------------Goals-----------------Points

1. Kentucky Pharaos-----1-------------------3 - 0--------------------3

2. Final Fantasy-----------1-------------------3 - 0--------------------3

3. PoBOXTeam------------1-------------------5 - 4--------------------3

4. Boston Bulldogs-------1-------------------2 - 1--------------------3

5. Witches-----------------1-------------------4 - 5--------------------0

6. CristinaFC3-------------1-------------------1 - 2-------------------0

7. Atlanta Huns-----------1-------------------0 - 3-------------------0

8. Maniacal Misfitz-------1--------------------0 - 3-------------------0

The BOT team is running away with the divison title!!!!! :)

Havok

07-30-2003, 09:01 PM

Season 2 - Cup Game - Round 2

Arizona Eagles - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

Cup game number 2 this season!!!! And it should be an easy one. Lucky for me i've drawn another bot team. I won't be so lucky next week probally. Im Pic'ing this game of course. So far i've PIC'ed all 3 games this season and it won't stop yet. I'll be pic'ing my league game on sunday also since it's vs a BOT team. I should reach "Paradise On Earth" TS after this game for the first time in club history..... yippe!!! :)

Starters

GK - Stanford Weiss

Right Wingback - Johan Nilsson (Offensive)
Central Defender - Rikard Larsson
Left Wingback - Dumitru Burghelea (Defensive)

Right Winger - Benton Minter (offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jakob Noer Mogensen
Inner Midfielder 2 - Huey Miller (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Roy Hoekstra
Left Winger - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Aron Capotã
Forward 2 - Istvan Strobl

I've got all my back-ups in today for the first time in a long time. Alot of them arn't in the best of form, due to lack of playing and stamina training in the offseason. Im playing my right wingback offensive and my right winger offensive so i should generate most of my offense from the right. Nothing else really to add, this is a pretty straight forward game vs a Bot team. Nice and Easy :)

The Match

A scorching day at Arizona Emporium, where 7000 spectators were in place for today´s match. Arizona tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. Lineup: Rivas - Powell, Braswell, Williams, Mcmanus - Royal, Wei-Ming, Martinez, Agarwal - Castillo, Gillespie.

Maniacal started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Weiss - Nilsson, Larsson, Burghelea - Minter, Hoekstra, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Neiva - Capotã, Strobl.

After 5 minutes Maniacals Johan Nilsson made his way through the middle, putting the visitors up 0 - 1.

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, Maniacal´s Rikard Larsson got himself booked.

After 9 minutes of game time Jakob Noer Mogensen received an excellent opportunity to add to the visitors lead, clipping a volley hooked in from the right, but Theodore Rivas was in the right place, tipping the ball to a corner.

In the 29:th minute the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 2 as Jakob Noer Mogensen finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. After this Maniacal lowered the tempo in order to concentrate on their defensive efforts.

The game had been on for 31 minutes when Jakob Noer Mogensen broke through to the right, upping the score to the home crowd´s dismay. Maniacal´s were up 0 - 3.

Maniacal came close to extending their lead as Benton Minter delivered a long range shot from the right but the angle was to sharp, and the shot hit the side of the goal.

Halftime score was 0 - 3. The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 65 percent possession of the ball.

Maniacal´s Huey Miller received a play slashing through the home side´s defense in the 62nd minute, chipping it past the keeper scoring 0 - 4. The home crowd was not pleased with that one.

Arizona´s Li Wei-Ming got the home crowd going when he finished off a left wing charge putting the away teams lead down to 1 - 4.

The referee showed Maniacals Istvan Strobl the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.

Due to a severely mistimed tackle,Theodore Rivas spent some on the grass writhing in agony before he could get up and continue the game.

Maniacal came close to extending their lead as Johan Nilsson delivered a long range shot from the right but the angle was to sharp, and the shot hit the side of the goal.

In the to 83rd minute a very unfortunate collision in the home teams penalty area led to Arizona´s Vernon Braswell being carried off the pitch and replaced by Lorenzo Goodman.

The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 71 percent possession of the ball.

Arizona´s best player was Louis Royal. Theodore Rivas on the other hand, had a terrible day. Maniacal´s best player was Dumitru Burghelea. Roy Hoekstra was a disappointment, however. The match ends 1 - 4.

Goals

Jakob Noer Mogensen - 2
Johan Nilsson - 1
Huey Miller - 1

Player Ratings

GK - Stanford Weiss - **

Right Wingback - Johan Nilsson - **
Central Defender - Rikard Larsson - **~
Left Wingback - Dumitru Burghelea - **~

Right Winger - Benton Minter - **~
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jakob Noer Mogensen - **
Inner Midfielder 2 - Huey Miller - **
Inner Midfielder 3 - Roy Hoekstra - *~
Left Winger - Joaquim Neiva - **

Forward 1 - Aron Capotã - **
Forward 2 - Istvan Strobl - **

Stars - 23

Team Ratings

Arizona Eagles
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: wretched - (2)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Defence: weak - (4)
Right Side Attack: weak - (4)
Central Attack: poor - (3)
Left Side Attack: poor - (3)

NSI - 30

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: poor - (3)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 41

Post Game Comments

Nice and easy.... thats the way i like it. Pretty much everything went according to plan. Expect the fact that i only scored 1 goal from the right side even though i had a solid VS a weak match-up. But who cares, i won and it could have been worse. I did miss 3 scoring chances. My guys did they're typical, "midfielders score most of the goals" thing again. I swear, i don't even know why i play any forwards. My midfielders and defenders score all my goals ;)

Im a little surprised i got a "poor" midfield rating since my back-up middy's are in bad form, i pic'ed and i was on the road. But i guess thats the effect good TS has on a team.

The Good

Jakob Noer Mogensen - While only getting 2 stars because of bad form, he still scored 2 goals and the opposing goalie robbed him of another.

The Bad

Roy Hoekstra - his weak form and playing him in the extra middy spot, hurt his play big time and he only got 1 1/2 stars.

Upnext, This weeks Training Update

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GoldenEagle

07-31-2003, 11:33 PM

Originally posted by Havok
Amazing what 1 youth pull can do for a team.

True that. You and I are due for a 17 year old solid. Hopefully it will come this week. I could sure use a $1mil.

Havok

08-02-2003, 02:41 PM

Training Update

My first week of the season training Playmaking was a successful one to say the least. 2 players bumped to Solid PM.

Josef Eder
129 000 US$, 20 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Powerful]

Stamina: passable Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: passable
Winger: weak Defending: poor
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: wretched

i bought Josef late last season for like 145k because i knew he was really, really close to poping to Solid PM. It looks like i was right. He will be a high Excellent PM by seasons end.

Huey Miller
35 000 US$, 18 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and wretched leadership abilities [Head]

Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: poor
Winger: wretched Defending: poor
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: weak

I bought Huey for like 35k from FOFC'er favorite "BillyMadison" when he sold his team and started a new team. So after just 1 week of training he bumps to Solid PM. WOOT! :)

Form

It just wouldn't be a Misfitz update without some bad news. And that bad news is....... i had my worst form week of all time this week.

1 player increased in form (1 starter)
8 players decreased in form (4 starters)

OUCH!!!! this hurts alot. I have a easy League game this week vs a bot team so i can pic and play my back-ups. But my cup game is gonna be a tough one vs a really really good divison V team. I needed good form and i didn't get it. At least i'll have POE Team Spirit when i play that cup game.

Player/Team Value

Value per player (average): 88 286 US$ (2,695)
Total squad value: 1 854 000 US$ (-29,000)
Average age: 20
Current form (average): inadequate (down from passable)
Experience (average): disastrous
No of players (excluding the coach): 21 (- 1)
Number of nationalities: 14

Upnext, This weeks youth pull and economic update

The Afoci

08-02-2003, 03:15 PM

Your having some tough luck this season. I figured I would tell you I sold my most recent pull for around 260k or so and a 18 year old for 200k or so. ;)

Havok

08-03-2003, 02:11 PM

i hate you :)

Havok

08-03-2003, 02:33 PM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

Youth Pull

Sucked like always, assessed value of 4k. Fire already......

Economic Update

88 757 US$ (29 704) US$
Sponsors: delirious
Supporter Club: 918 members
Supporters: satisfied

This week

Revenue----------------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0-----------------------------------Arena 9 175
Sponsors 42 300------------------------Wages 25 178
Financial 0---------------------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0------------------------------Temporary 2 000
----------------------------------------------Staff 45 000
----------------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 42 300-------------------Total expenses 101 353
Expected income/loss -59 053

If i sell-out my home game on sunday and sellout my cup game i should make 65k this week. I think im gonna upgrade my stadium soon. It will put me in the hole some but it will pay for itself. Espically if i win my cup game this week. Which i'm hoping i will.

League Game This Week

This week i get to play a bot team at home. Should be a nice easy win so i will be PIC'ing and playing my back-ups so i can play my starters in my cup game. My back-ups form is really really bad at the moment but they still should have no problem whipping up on a bot team.

This Weeks Cup Game

I actually have a chance to advance to the forth round in the cup. Which would be really nice since i would get an extra PIC and an extra 50k. The Team i play is no pushover. They have one hell of a defense and a very good offense. But they run a straight 4-4-2 and only have 2 midfielders. So they're midfield rating is only wretched.

Blu and Yello
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: wretched - (2)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: brilliant - (11)
Left Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 55

The good news is his right side defender is out and his back-up only puts up 1 star a game. So maybe i can get a goal or 2 from the side. Im seriously considering bringing a "ringer" forward just for this game then selling him when its over because my 2 starting forwards are in weak form :(

With POE TS and being at home i'll probally get a inadequate midfield rating. So hopefully with 3 levels above his midfield rating i should dominate possession my alot and win the game 1-0 or 2-0. Should be a good game....

Upnext, This weeks league game

Havok

08-03-2003, 09:27 PM

Season 2 - League Game - Round 2

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - Kentucky Pharaos

The Misfitz B-team get to do some Bot Bashing today!! This is the last Bot team i get to play for awhile so i better make it count today!! This will also be my 4th straight PIC game. My TS is at delirious right now (just dropped from POE yesterday). But with today's PIC, it should still be at POE for my very important/very tough cup game on wednesday.

Starters

GK - Stanford Weiss

Right Wingback - Emanuel Miller (Offensive)
Central Defender - Rikard Larsson
Left Wingback - Dumitru Burghelea (Defensive)

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Viktor Tolstoy (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Roy Hoekstra
Left Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Istvan Strobl
Forward 2 - Aron Capotã

I have a couple starters playing today. Andi Neiweiler is my best winger (stat wise) but since his form is only at inadequate and im only playing 1 true winger on wednesday (and 1 towards the middle). He gets the start today. Emanuel Miller is normally a starter but since i sold a back-up wingback, i now only have 5 defenders so 1 starter will have to play with the b-team each week.

Players to watch

Istvan Strobl - Istvan was bought to be my clown at the end of last season. But since the experiance increase(he has weak experiance) and now that he is in passable form. He might just earn starting spot if he can get 2 1/2 stars in passable form.

Roy Hoekstra - Roys form is totally in the crapper(poor). Plus im playing him as the extra inner middy so its possible that he will only get 1 star. Lets hope he gets 1 1/2.

The Match

12544 spectators had come to Maniacal Misfitz Arena this cloudy day. Maniacal started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Weiss - Miller, Larsson, Burghelea - Neiweiler, Hoekstra, Tolstoy, Neiva, Minter - Capotã, Strobl.

Kentucky started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. Lineup: Waddell - Mcmahan, Castellanos, Jordan, Torres - Brady, Hyman, Davis, Pitts - Easley, Miller.

The 11th minute saw the home team take a 1 - 0 lead after a leak in the visitors right side defense. Scorer for Maniacal was Viktor Tolstoy.

Maniacal's Aron Capotã scored 2 - 0 by shooting accurately and hard from a long distance, leaving the opponent goalie no other option than to pick up the ball from the net.

Maniacal put themselves up 3 - 0 when Istvan Strobl broke through on the right, leaving the entire defensive box behind him.

Mark Jordan of Kentucky received a yellow card in the 38:th minute for unsportsmanlike behaviour.

In the game's 38:th minute Maniacal´s Aron Capotã limped slightly after a late challenge, but he was able to continue.

The teams went for a half-time break at 3 - 0. The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 73 percent possession of the ball.

Maniacal put themselves up 4 - 0 when Aron Capotã broke through on the right, leaving the entire defensive box behind him. By now Maniacal were drawing the troops back in order to defend their lead.

In 58:th minute of game time Kentucky´s Mark Jordan received his second yellow card and was sent off.

In the games 61st minute Kentucky replied, reducing the lead to 4 - 1. Paul Miller scored on a marvellous cross pass coming in from the left.

A bit later, a magnificent combination in the middle resulted in Maniacal´s Dumitru Burghelea putting the lead up to 5 - 1.

Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 80 percent, dominated the battle.

The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Andi Neiweiler. Roy Hoekstra on the other hand, had a terrible day. Kentucky´s best player was Garrett Waddell. However, Mauricio Davis made a disastrous appearance.

The match ends 5 - 1

Goals

Aron Capotã - 2
Istvan Strobl - 1
Viktor Tolstoy - 1
Dumitru Burghelea - 1

Player Ratings

GK - Stanford Weiss - **

Right Wingback - Emanuel Miller - **
Central Defender - Rikard Larsson - **
Left Wingback - Dumitru Burghelea - **~

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler - **~
Inner Midfielder 1 - Joaquim Neiva - **
Inner Midfielder 2 - Viktor Tolstoy - **
Inner Midfielder 3 - Roy Hoekstra - *~
Left Winger - Benton Minter **

Forward 1 - Istvan Strobl - **~
Forward 2 - Aron Capotã - **

Stars - 23

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 49

Kentucky Pharaos
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: wretched - (2)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Defence: weak - (4)
Right Side Attack: inadequate - (5)
Central Attack: poor - (3)
Left Side Attack: poor - (3)

NSI - 31

Post Game Comments

Perfect game! Easy win and no serious injuries. Just what i was hoping for. Plus my forwards actually scored 3 of the 5 goals!! thats rare for me, my forwards never score :) My TS is now POE and my team confidence is Wonderful. Wednesday's game should be good. My starters aren't in the best of form, but i still should get a inadequate midfield at least. Maybe even passable since i won't be PIC'ing.

The Good

Right Side Attack - Playing my right wingback offensive lead to a nice "excellent" rating on my right side attack.

Istvan Strobl - Put up 2 1/2 stars in passable form and earned himself the starting forward job.

The Midfield - Getting a weak midfield rating with 2 inadequate middy's and a passable middy in poor form isn't bad at all. I love having great Team Spirit.

The Bad

Roy Hoekstra - his poor form lead to only 1 1/2 stars.

Around The League

CristinaFC3 - vs - Final Fantasy 2 - 5

Final Fantasy had no problem crushing Cristina FC3 as expected. The only team that has a shot at beating Final Fantasy anytime soon is The Witches at home. But that is a few weeks away.

Atlanta Huns - vs - Witches 0 - 5

The Witches got to beat up on the other bot team today with an easy 5-0 win. It looks they played mostly back-ups. I play the witches next week at they're house. If i win my cup game on wednesday i'll probally play them normal. If i lose my cup game i'll probally PIC them. Its gonna be a tough game, im not sure how im going to approach it yet.

PoBOXTeam - vs - Boston Bulldogs 0 - 5

I firgure The Bulldogs would win this game, but not by such a big margin. The Midfields were almost exactly the same. But the Bulldogs awsome defense held POBOXteam scoreless and somehow they're inadequate/weak/inadequate offense scored 5 goals.

League Standings

Team----------------------Played--------------Goals-----------------Points

1. Final Fantasy-----------2-------------------8 - 2--------------------6

2. Boston Bulldogs-------2-------------------7 - 1--------------------6

3. Witches-----------------2-------------------9 - 5--------------------3

4. Maniacal Misfitz-------2--------------------5 - 4-------------------3

5. Kentucky Pharaos-----2-------------------4 - 5--------------------3

6. PoBOXTeam------------2-------------------5 - 9--------------------3

7. CristinaFC3-------------2-------------------3 - 7-------------------0

8. Atlanta Huns-----------2-------------------0 - 8-------------------0

Upnext, This weeks cup game

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Havok

08-04-2003, 02:35 AM

Arena Upgrade

i decided to upgrade my arena to 23,000 seats. It cost me 212k and im now 117k in the hole. But i should get 50k for my cup game on wednesday. plus i think/i hope im gonna win my cup game, so i'll have 1 more cup game at home to make a little more cash.

Unfortunetly i think i might have fucked up. Its says my arena will be done upgrading on 8/14 and that is the same day as my cup game. So im not sure if it means it will be done right when 8/14 hits or when the updates occur on 8/14 :(

I guess we'll have to wait and see. I could have sworn my last arena upgrade only took 8 days to finish.

The Afoci

08-04-2003, 07:07 AM

It depends on the size of the upgrade. I just did one that said would take 9 days and it ended up taking 10. So maybe it can go the other way too, but both mine ended up taking longer than what it said.

Havok

08-06-2003, 09:33 PM

Season 2 - Cup Game - Round 3

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - Blu and Yello

Today is a very big game for the Misfitz. I need this win so i can have another home cup game. Since i upgraded my stadium i need the extra money. Blu and Yello is very good offensive and defensive team with a bad midfield. So if i dominate possession like i should, i should win. But nothing is set in stone. I've seen quite a few teams win this year with a not so good midfield rating. But im confident in my guys, even though alot of them are in shitty form.

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller (Defensive)

Right Winger - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Towards The Middle)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jed Neumann (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller
Left Winger - Dolf de Bevere (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Abel Cano
Forward 2 - Istvan Strobl

As you can see im playing a winger towards the middle. I wanna do everything i can to win possession by alot! I don't wanna give his offense a chance to score on me. My Midfielders form isn't very great passable/inadequate/inadequate, plus the winger towards the middle is also in inadequate form. PLUS! my number 1 forward is in weak form and my number 1 defender is in inadequate form and my goalie is in inadequate form!!!!!!!AHHHH!!!!!

Ok.... enough complaining about form :) Blu and Yello's right wingback is hurt so i'll be attacking that side like a mofo with my best winger.

Players To Watch

Dolf de Bevere - while most of my team is in bad form, Dolf is in Excellent form and kicking ass. Expect a strong left side attack.

Abel Cano - his first game back from injury and he's in weak form. I seriouly doubt he'll get 2 1/2 stars like usual. This guy has always had passable form since i got him, so im hoping he bounces back quickly.

The Match

15150 spectators arrived at Maniacal Misfitz Arena, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. Maniacal tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. They fielded: Landowski - Ferreira da Silv, Nairn, Miller - Noer Mogensen, Neumann, Miller, Eder, de Bevere - Cano, Strobl.

Yello had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. They fielded: Linsten - Biggs, Chun-Yap, Koch, Håkansson - Kernstock, Odenstedt, Quintanilla, Carré - Sjöell, Gallardo.

In the 2nd minute an unfortunate play by Marcin Landowski gave the visitors a chance at the lead, but Per Sjöell, finding himself alone with the keeper, was unable to take advantage of the situation.

In the 10:th minute cheers broke out as Jed Neumann found his way through the guests central defense line, clipping the 1 - 0 goal in for Maniacal.

After 26 minutes, Dolf de Bevere swiftly ran past Denis Biggs to put away the 2-0 goal.

Yellos Branko Kernstock got himself booked after a foul.

In the 28:th minute of the match the visitors central line of defence had to look on as Jakob Noer Mogensen dashed through, knocking home 3 - 0 for Maniacal.

The teams went for a half-time break at 3 - 0. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 77 percent possession rate.

A bit later, a magnificent combination in the middle resulted in Maniacal´s Jakob Noer Mogensen putting the lead up to 4 - 0. By now Maniacal were drawing the troops back in order to defend their lead.

Dolf de Bevere´s speed was made justice as he darted past his marker and struck an opening pass to Abel Cano who scored the 5-0 goal.

Maniacal put their lead ahead another goal as Istvan Strobl struck home the 6 - 0 goal, after an attack from the left setting him up unmarked with the keeper.

In the 62nd minute Maniacal put themselves up 7 - 0. The visitors defenders lost the ball to Dolf de Bevere coming up from the left, who proceeded to cooly round the goaltender and knock the ball home.

In the game's 69:th minute Yello´s Per Sjöell limped slightly after a late challenge, but he was able to continue.

Maniacal put their lead ahead another goal as Jed Neumann struck home the 8 - 0 goal, after an attack from the left setting him up unmarked with the keeper.

The referee showed Yellos Stefan Håkansson the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.

Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 83 percent possession rate.

Most important Maniacal player was Ismael Ferreira da Silva. However, Jakob Noer Mogensen made a disastrous appearance. Most important Yello player was Man Koch. Denis Biggs was a disappointment, however. The match ends 8 - 0.

Goals

Jakob Noer Mogensen - 2
Jed Neumann - 2
Dolf de Bevere - 2
Abel Cano - 1
Istvan Strobl - 1

Player Ratings

GK - Marcin Landowski - **~

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva - ***
Central Defender - Omar Nairn - **~
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller - **~

Right Winger - Jakob Noer Mogensen - *~
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jed Neumann - **~
Inner Midfielder 2 - Josef Eder - **~
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller - **
Left Winger - Dolf de Bevere - ***

Forward 1 - Abel Cano - **
Forward 2 - Istvan Strobl - **~

Stars - 24

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: weak - (4)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: excellent - (8)

NSI - 57

Blu and Yello
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: wretched - (2)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: outstanding - (10)
Left Side Defence: outstanding - (10)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 53

Post Game Comments

Im extremely happy and extremely mad!!! I played one hell of a game. 57 NSI is my best ever and my teams form is in the crapper! But im mad because i didn't pic. I could have still easily won with a pic. I probally still would have gotten a passable midfield because the passable i got here was a VERY high passable. According to "my stats" this weeks passable midfield was 8% higher then my last passable midfield. So if my stamina was a little better i would have gotten a solid midfield this week.

I just overestimated this team. His defense and offense are good. But midfield is still king in HT and his midfield blows. anyway, my Winger Dolf had the game of his short career! 2 goals and an assist. His "quick" skill accounted for 1 of the goals and the assist. I killed him on that side of the field just like i thought i would. Everyone else played as expected. Of course out of my 8 goals only 2 were scored by forwards :) Typical Misfitz soccer.

The Good

Dolf de Bevere - played like a possessed beast! 2 goals and an assist. 5 of the 8 goals were from his side.

Ismael Ferreira da Silva - got another 3 stars at right wingback and held they're number 1 winger scoreless.

The Bad

none really

Next weeks cup game

I've drawn a decent divison IV team next week. This is his last cup game......

NeedleFreaks
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: excellent - (8)

NSI - 60

another good all-around team with a not so great midfield. He gets a inadequate midfield at home and weak on the road. My starters could possibly beat this guy if things went my way. I could PIC my league game on sunday and get about the same ratings i got today vs him.

Im not gonna get to deep into it yet. I've got alot of thinking to do. Im not sure whats more important to me, league or cup. The problem i face is that my league game on sunday is a tough one against probally the best team in my divison right now at his house. So i'll probally lose anyway but i still could possibly win.

I could PIC him and play my back-ups and play my cup game normal and hope for the win. We'll see what tommarrow's training update brings us.

Upnext, This Weeks Training update

vex

08-07-2003, 01:00 AM

Yeah, Blu and Yellow's midfield wasn't all that great, was it.

Havok

08-07-2003, 09:58 PM

Training Update

No PM bumps this week :(

Form

I was hoping for a really great form week since the last 4+ have been so bad. But i didn't get it.

3 players increased in form (2 starters)
2 players decreased in form (2 starters)

well, my best forward is now down to poor form and my second best forward is at weak form. So basically my offense is screwed right now. Plus, all 3 of my starting midfielders are now at inadequate form. So that isn't good either :( Im still pulling in decent NSI ratings with my bad form, but my guys could be playing so much better.

Theres always next week :(

Player/Team Vale

Value per player (average): 89 857 US$ (+1,571)
Total squad value: 1 887 000 US$ (+33,000)
Average age: 20
Current form (average): inadequate
Experience (average): disastrous
No of players (excluding the coach): 21
Number of nationalities: 14

Upnext, This weeks crappy youth pull and Economic update

The Afoci

08-07-2003, 10:57 PM

Originally posted by Havok
Upnext, This weeks crappy youth pull and Economic update

I am guessing you will pull a 17 year old excellent passer/set peices with wretched everything else except stamina. That can be poor. And I bet you will still bitch even though you got a double excellent 17 year old! Some people will never be happy. ;)

Havok

08-08-2003, 12:20 AM

lol :)

im ssssssoooooooo do for a good youth pull. I need to get one like DK. That winger is a beast.

Havok

08-10-2003, 02:52 PM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

Youth Pull

sucked like always....

Marvin Wilburn (15305153)
19 years, passable form, healthy
A sympathetic guy who is calm and dishonest.
Has disastrous experience and solid leadership abilities.

Speciality: Technical

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 22 000 US$
Wage: 600 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

Stamina: poor Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: poor
Winger: wretched Defending: inadequate
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: poor

Another Semi-clown. But he's to old for someone to train. He might go for 1-2k on the market. But im to lazy to find out. So he's fired.

Economic Update

-74 286 US$ (-127 604) US$
Sponsors: delirious
Supporter Club: 942 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue--------------------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0--------------------------------------Arena 9 175
Sponsors 44 250---------------------------Wages 25 178
Financial 0------------------------------------Interest 3 714
Temporary 0---------------------------------Temporary 2 000
-------------------------------------------------Staff 37 500
-------------------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 44 250 Total expenses 97 567
Expected income/loss -53 317

Not to bad. I'll pretty much break even this week after my cup game. If i win my cup game, i should clear up all my debt next week since i'll have a home league and cup game. Its gonna be a tough game on wednesday, but i might win.

This weeks League Game

This week i play probally the best team in my divison right now and only guy i actually talk to. To start this season me and him both knew our teams were pretty even. I think i had a slight edge (if form is equal) but 2 weeks ago he pulled a 17 year old solid PM that sold for 1,000,000 bucks.

Since then, he's upgraded his stadium and bought 2 solid middy's. One has very good experiance and is putting up 3 1/2 stars in solid form. The other was has decent experiance and is putting up 3 stars in passable form. Plus he bought a 3 1/2 stars wingback. So basically im screwed :) Here is his rating from his last home cup game.

Witches 3-4-3
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: brilliant - (11)
Left Side Attack: outstanding - (10)

NSI - 65

That is with POE TS and playing normal (i think) at home. Our midfields are about equal, My defense is slightly better and his offense is way better. Plus he's at home today. So i don't have much of a shot at beating him.

The main thing that drives me crazy about johnny's team is that everyone of his guys has great form all the time. While my guys form is in the shitter, constintly. Im not sure if he trains general sometimes but his striker trainee's don't seem to be increaseing in value very much, if at all.

Cup Game

I've drawn a pretty good divison IV team this week. But it could have been much worse.

NeedleFreaks
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: excellent - (8)

NSI - 60

Thats his ratings on the road. thats a high weak midfield. The only reason its weak is because his midfielders stamina isn't to great. If i play my starters i'd say i have a 50/50 shot at beating this guy. He's better all around then me, but my midfiled will be 2 levels higher then his. So i'd expect about a 58/42 possession differance in the first half and a 62/38 in the second half. That might just be enough to win.

He doesn't have a B-team and plays the same guys in league and cup games. So im praying one of his starters gets injured today.

What to do???

I've got 2 tough games this week and i can't win them both. My training program comes first above all else, so playing my starters in both games is out of the question. So which ever game i decide to play my back-ups in, i'll just PIC and take the loss.

I've got a tough decision to make. What would you do???

Upnext, This weeks League Game

Havok

08-10-2003, 10:31 PM

Season 2 - League Game - Round 3

Witches - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

Today i play the best team in my divison..... The Witches on the road! If i played my starters and MOTS'ed i "might" win. But its just not worth killing my TS over it. So I've decided to play my back-ups and PIC. I really really wanna win my next Cup game and if i play my starters with POE TS i should pull it out without a MOTS. The Witches Offense is really good since he runs a 3-4-3. So they will probally score quite a few goals on me. Hopefully my back-ups can keep it close.

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (defensive)
Central Defender 1 - Omar Nairn
Central Defender 2 - Rikard Larsson

Right Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Joaquim Neiva (offensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Viktor Tolstoy (offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Roy Hoekstra
Left Winger - Andi Neiweiler

Forward 1 - Aron Capotã
Forward 2 - Abel Cano

Im playing 2 starting defenders today and my starting goalie. Mainly to "try" to keep the score low. Actually, technically Aron and Abel are my starting forwards. But Aron has weak form and Abel has poor form so they won't be starting anytime soon.

The Match

10700 spectators had come to The Pentacle this cloudy day. Witches had chosen a strategic 3-4-3 formation. Lineup: Weiss - Larrañaga, Kihlstål, Baird - Tuver, Landbo, Möllerstrand, Yngvesson - Bondarevs, Olsson, Jones.

Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Landowski - Ferreira da Silv, Nairn, Larsson - Minter, Hoekstra, Tolstoy, Neiva, Neiweiler - Capotã, Cano.

One of many good passes from Niklas Yngvesson at the wing was recieved and skillfully taken care of by Dirk Jones, scoring for Witches to 1 - 0.

A speedy charge from the left side of the field put Witches lead up with 2 - 0. Dave Baird finished that one off competently, firing from an acute angle.

Maniacals Benton Minter got himself booked after a foul.

Maniacal showed some good morale and were, in the 33rd minute, able to reduce the score to 2 - 1 as Aron Capotã got past the home sides full backs straight in front of the goal.

The referee showed Witchess Dirk Jones the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.

Due to a severely mistimed tackle,Abel Cano spent some on the grass writhing in agony before he could get up and continue the game.

In the 38:th minute Witches put themselves up 3 - 1. The visitors defenders lost the ball to Niklas Yngvesson coming up from the left, who proceeded to cooly round the goaltender and knock the ball home.

The teams went for a half-time break at 3 - 1. The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Witches, with an impressive 65 percent possession of the ball.

A couple of quick and successful challenges, followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area after 55 minutes might have resulted in another goal for Witches. However, Marcin Landowski made a spectacular save.

Martin Olsson of Witches received a yellow card in the 58:th minute for unsportsmanlike behaviour.

Witches put themselves up 4 - 1 when Olle Landbo broke through on the right, leaving the entire defensive box behind him. The structure of the game started to change as Witches decided to pull back and meet their opponents in the defensive zone.

Things were going to get worse for the visitors. Dirk Jones squirmed himself through the central defense line in the 82nd minute, asserting the lead to 5 - 1.

A speedy charge from the left side of the field put Witches lead up with 6 - 1. Ulf Möllerstrand finished that one off competently, firing from an acute angle.

Joaquim Neiva of Maniacal received a yellow card in the 86:th minute for unsportsmanlike behaviour.

After 86 minutes, Dirk Jones swiftly ran past Omar Nairn to put away the 7-1 goal. At that, Dirk Jones was noted down for a hat trick.

Things were going to get worse for the visitors. Patrik Tuver squirmed himself through the central defense line in the 87:th minute, asserting the lead to 8 - 1.

Witches held the ball, with a clear 73 percent possession rate.

The most dominating Witches player was without a doubt Daniel Larrañaga. Lenny Weiss on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Ismael Ferreira da Silva. Roy Hoekstra on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 8 - 1.

Goals

Aron Capotã - 1

Player Ratings

GK - Marcin Landowski - **~

Right wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva - ***
Central Defender 1 - Omar Nairn - **~
Central Defender 2 - Rikard Larsson - **

Right Winger - Benton Minter - **
Inner Midfielder 1 - Joaquim Neiva - **
Inner Midfielder 2 - Viktor Tolstoy - **
Inner Midfielder 3 - Roy Hoekstra - *~
Left Winger - Andi Neiweiler - **~

Forward 1 - Aron Capotã - **
Forward 2 - Abel Cano - *~

Stars - 23.5

Team Ratings

Witches
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: inadequate - (5)
Central Attack: brilliant - (12)
Left Side Attack: brilliant - (12)

NSI - 68

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: poor - (3)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 46

Post Game Comments

Ouch..... that hurt alot. My back-ups held the game close for most of the game. Then they scored 5 goals on me in the last 15 mins. I should be more mad i guess, but im not. I don't think it should have been that bad of a blow-out considering the ratings, but still. What can ya expected. He played the game of his life. Thats his best NSI ever. Amazing what 1 youth pull and the new experiance boost can do for a team =)

They're is some good news in all this, The 31/2 star goalie for the team i play on wednesday got hurt and will miss the cup game!!! his back-up is a 1 star keeper! can you say.... Woot??!!??!!??

The Good

Not a dam thing

The Bad

Abel Cano - put up only 1 1/2 stars in poor form. But he did get slightly injuried during the game. God i hope his form starts going back up. That injury vs The Square Pegs killed his form.

Roy Hoekstra - Roy's poor form got him only 1 1/2 stars for the second week in a row.

Around The Divison

Boston Bulldogs - vs - Atlanta Huns 3 - 0

The Bulldogs did some bot bashing today. I have a big game vs them at home next sunday. They're defense is awsome and they're midfield is no pushover. It will be a tough game.

CristinaFC3 - vs - PoBOXTeam 8 - 0

Blowout here, i thought CristinaFC3 would win. But not by this much. They somehow got a passable midfield. God this new experiance boost is making all they average teams alot better.

Kentucky Pharaos - Final Fantasy 0 - 3

Bot Bashing today for Final Fantasy. Im surprised it was only 3-0.

League Standings

Team------------------Played----------------Goals--------------Points

1. Final Fantasy---------3-------------------11 - 2-----------------9

2. Boston Bulldogs-----3-------------------10 - 1-----------------9

3. Witches---------------3--------------------17 - 6----------------6

4. CristinaFC3----------3---------------------11 - 7----------------3

5. Kentucky Pharaos--3---------------------4 - 8-----------------3

6. Maniacal Misfitz-----3---------------------6 - 12----------------3

7. PoBOXTeam---------3---------------------5 - 17----------------3

8. Atlanta Huns--------3---------------------0 - 11----------------0

Upnext, This weeks HUGE Cup game

Havok

08-12-2003, 12:07 AM

Update

Since im selling my second best forward because his form always blows and im selling another one of my 18 year old former trainee's. Im currently shopping for another back-up/experianced defender and a good experianced forward.

I grabbed this guy for 27k

Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby (14923301)
30 years, inadequate form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is fiery and honest.
Has inadequate experience and inadequate leadership abilities.

Speciality: Unpredictable

Nationality: Island
Assessed value: 38 000 US$
Wage: 864 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

Stamina: poor Goaltending: wretched
Playmaking: wretched Passing: poor
Winger: weak Defending: passable
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: disastrous

he's got very nice experiance and should get 3 stars in passable or solid form as a defender. Plus i can play him at forward in a pinch.

Im still looking for another starting forward, Stay tuned.

Havok

08-14-2003, 12:03 AM

Season 2 - Cup Game - Round 4

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - NeedleFreaks

Big Big Big game here today. Biggest game of the season so far. I need this win for a number of reasons. The First reason is money. If i win today then my 7,850 seat arena expansion was paid for in full, by my cup run this year. The second reason is team spirit. If i win today i get 1 more PIC game next week which will help out alot. And last but not least is money!! I like/need mo money! :)

The NeedleFreaks have been around for awhile. But the main problem with them is that the owner doesn't care to much about his team. He plays the same players in his friendly's and his league games and doesn't have any trainee's. Im not sure what he is training exactly but i don't really care either. His team is all around better then mine. Except his midfield, mine is a little better then his, plus im at home, plus! i'm playing a winger towards the middle. So the key to todays game will be possession for me. Hopfully i can dominate the possession and not give his 2 really good forwards many chances to score.

I have a bit of luck going into this game. His normal 3 1/2 star goalie is injuried and the back-up only puts up 1 stars. So his defense will be much weaker then normal. Hopfully this, plus my midfield advantage will be the difference here.

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller (Defensive)

Right Winger - Dolf de Bevere (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jed Neumann (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Jakob Noer Mogensen
Left Winger - Huey Miller (Towards The Middle)

Forward 1 - Istvan Strobl
Forward 2 - Martin Devátý

My starting defenders are in pretty good form, but since my goalie Marcin, is only in Inadequate form i probally won't see any "Excellent" defensise ratings. My winger Dolf, is still in Excellent form and im expecting another 3 stars out of him today. He's been on fire latley and i hope he stays that way :)

My midfielders form is below average, but with a winger towards the middle i should have a very high passable midfield rating again. So its not that big of a deal. Last but not least, Martin Devátý is getting the start at forward today. Martin hasn't played in awhile but since i sold a forward yesterday and i haven't found a replacment yet, he will get the nod. He's a passable/weak forward with solid set peices. He usually puts up 2 stars in passable form which normally isn't good enough to be a starter, but i don't have much of a choice right now.

Players To Watch

Dolf de Bevere - Since he was the MVP of my last cup game. Im hoping for another huge game here today.

Martin Devátý - His first start in awhile, im hoping since he has solid set peices. Maybe he can get me a free kick goal or
assist.

The Match

A scorching day at Maniacal Misfitz Arena, where 15150 spectators were in place for today´s match. Fans from both teams had been eagerly awaiting this Florida derby and were doing their best to outshout their opponents. Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Landowski - Ferreira da Silv, Nairn, Miller - de Bevere, Neumann, Noer Mogensen, Eder, Miller - Devátý, Strobl.

NeedleFreaks started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Parnell - Coronado, Hannah, Mocerino - Forte, Hamilton, Noguerol, Sherwood, Rolfsson - Ivarsson, Frade.

In the 18:th minute the home side managed to get a 1 - 0 lead as Istvan Strobl flipped the ball after a cross pass from the right.

Steve Parnell was caught napping a bit later as Martin Devátý lifted a ball over him after a free kick, but the ball hit the bar, rebounding into the keepers arms.

A bit later, a magnificent combination in the middle resulted in Maniacal´s Martin Devátý putting the lead up to 2 - 0.

NeedleFreaks had to manage with a reduced squad from the 42nd minute on, as Michael Forte got sent off for a foul in a free situation.

The player down was Jed Neumann. The Maniacal bench looked worried a while but in the end he managed to get up.

Seemingly due to lack of experience, Omar Nairn needlessly tripped an opponent just outside the penalty area, but the free kick that followed didn't succeed. T

he teams went for a half-time break at 2 - 0. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 62 percent possession rate.

NeedleFreaks showed some good morale and were, in the 52nd minute, able to reduce the score to 2 - 1 as Alve Rolfsson got past the home sides full backs straight in front of the goal.

Things were going to get worse for the visitors. Martin Devátý squirmed himself through the central defense line in the 54:th minute, asserting the lead to 3 - 1.

A great save by goaltender Steve Parnell in the 55:th minute kept the visitors in the game as Istvan Strobl struck from the left with a real cannonball.

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, Maniacal´s Jed Neumann got himself booked.

68 minutes into the game Jed Neumann had to leave the pitch due to a knee injury. In came Joaquim Neiva.

The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 64 percent possession of the ball.

The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Ismael Ferreira da Silva. Huey Miller on the other hand, had a terrible day. NeedleFreaks´s best player was Gerald Frade. Steve Parnell was a disappointment, however. The match ends 3 - 1.

Goals

Martin Devátý - 2
Istvan Strobl - 1

Player Ratings

GK - Marcin Landowski - **~

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva - ***
Central Defender - Omar Nairn - **~
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller - **~

Right Winger - Dolf de Bevere - ***
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jed Neumann - ** (Injuried)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Josef Eder - **~
Inner Midfielder 3 - Jakob Noer Mogensen - **~
Left Winger - Huey Miller - *~

Forward 1 - Istvan Strobl - **~
Forward 2 - Martin Devátý - **~

Stars - 27

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: weak - (4)

NSI - 56

NeedleFreaks
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: excellent - (8)

NSI - 51

Post Game Comments

YES!!!! we won baby!!! Huge.... Huge win. :) It took a little luck but we did it. Having they're 3 1/2 star goalie out really hurt they're defense. Normally its Excellent/Excellent/Excellent, Plus they had they're best winger get red carded in the first half which hurt they're right side attack out some. We did a good job dominating possession 62/64 and they only had 1 scoring chance the whole game, while we had 5 and scored on 3.

The big surprise here is Martin Devátý. He scored 2 goals and hit the post on a free kick. His experiance bumped to poor which lead to him getting 2 1/2 stars in passable form. I was considering selling him, but now he'll remain on the team. I was a little scared when i saw that Jed Neumann went down, but he's only "brusied but playing" so he should be ready to go by sunday.

The Good

Martin Devátý - scored 2 goals and raised his experiance to "poor". So now he is a 2 1/2 star forward in passable form.

The Defense - only allowing 1 goal against such a good offense.

Dolf de Bevere - Another 3 star game for the youngster. Lets hope his form stays at excellent after tommarrow's training update.

The Bad

Arena - Stupied me!!! My arena won't be fully upgraded until the updates tonight. So i missed out on an extra 25k or so. But since i won, its not such a big deal. I'll sell it out sunday and next wednesday probally.

Upnext, This weeks training update

Havok

08-14-2003, 01:56 AM

Update

I picked up my fourth forward tonight.......

Bill Wright (11066211)
27 years, solid form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is temperamental and honest.
Has weak experience and poor leadership abilities.

Speciality: Unpredictable

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 58 000 US$
Wage: 860 US$/week
Owner: Ramblin' Wreck
Warnings: 0

Stamina: inadequate Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: wretched Passing: inadequate
Winger: poor Defending: poor
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: solid

Paid 25k

Bill just put up 3 stars earlier today. So in passable form he'll probally get 2 1/2 stars, Which ain't bad for 25k. Now all 4 of my forwards get 2 1/2 stars in passable form.

vex

08-14-2003, 02:19 AM

Nice pickup, he's actually better than my starters as of late:(

Havok

08-14-2003, 10:01 PM

Training Update

One player bumped in PM this week.....

Jakob Noer Mogensen (13087872)
19 years, solid form, healthy
A controversial person who is tranquil and honest.
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities.

Speciality: Quick

Nationality: Danmark
Assessed value: 89 000 US$
Wage: 1 020 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

Stamina: passable Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: weak
Winger: poor Defending: inadequate
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: inadequate

Jakob also bumped to Solid form which is really nice. I might get 3 stars out of him =)

Form Update

My form is starting to come around now. All in all it was a good form week except for my midfielders who broke even, 2 up 2 down. My starters are in weak/solid/passable form and my number 1 back-up is also in weak form. So im not sure what im gonna do on sunday yet.

I had HUGE surprise today!! My starting goalie hit PASSABLE FORM!!! For those of you that read this dynasty on a regular basis. You know that i can't get a starting goalie in passable form to save my life. Every goalie i've ever had drops in form the second i buy them :( But maybe that will come to an end now.

6 players increased in form (4 Starters)
3 Players Decreased in form (2 starters)

Team/Player Value

Value per player (average): 90 136 US$ (+279)
Total squad value: 1 983 000 US$ (96,000)
Average age: 21 (+1)
Current form (average): passable (up from inadequate)
Experience (average): wretched
No of players (excluding the coach): 22 (+1)
Number of nationalities: 15

These numbers are slightly skewed since i sold a player and bought 2 guys with lower value.

Upnext, This weeks youth pull and economic update

Havok

08-16-2003, 07:08 PM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

Youth Pull

Bryan Fair (15476859)
17 years, passable form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is balanced and upright.
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities.

Speciality: Head

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 38 000 US$
Wage: 680 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

Stamina: weak Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: weak
Winger: inadequate Defending: weak
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: wretched

HOLY CRAP!!!!!!! A GUY I CAN ACTUALLY SELL!!!! he won't make me much money, but at least he will pay for the promotion cost and listing cost.

Economic Update

-87 584 US$(-150 015) US$
Sponsors: high on life
Supporter Club: 961 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue------------------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0------------------------------------Arena 14 720
Sponsors 45 450-------------------------Wages 25 282
Financial 0----------------------------------Interest 4 379
Temporary 0-------------------------------Temporary 3 000
-----------------------------------------------Staff 40 500
-----------------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 45 450--------------------Total expenses 107 881
Expected income/loss -62 431

Money is fine right now. I have 1 home league game this week and a home cup game. So i should make close to 200k.

This Weeks Game

My league game is a tough one this week. I play The Boston Bulldogs at home. They are a very good defensive team that is in incrediable form. He has to be training general because half of his starters are in excellent form and the other half are in solid/passable form.

Boston Bulldogs
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: outstanding - (10)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 56

His midfield will probally only be weak since he is away, but those still are some nice ratings. I should win possession by about 5-8% each half and my offensive is better then his. So im hoping for a win.

My Prediction - 3 - 1 Win

Upnext, This weeks league game

Havok

08-17-2003, 09:47 PM

Season 2 - League Game - Round 4

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - Boston Bulldogs

Important game here today. The Bulldogs currently sit in second place in the league and are 3-0. But they are yet to play any of the top 3 teams in the league (Final Fantasy, The Witches and me). But that doesn't mean they suck. They have one hell of a defense and a pretty decent offense and midfield. But im at home and my defense and offense are finally in decent form so i have the advantage. I expect a low scoring/boring game.

The Starters

Gk - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller (Defensive)

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller
Left Winger - Dolf de Bevere (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Martin Devátý
Forward 2 - Bill Wright

I finally have pretty good form all around. All my staters have at least passable form expect Huey Miller and Jed Neumann. They both are in weak form which hurts because they both are good midfielders. I had to bench Jed today because of his form and he's still slightly injuried. So my stamina for my starting midfielders today is passable/passable/inadequate. That might be a problem if i have a close game going in the second half.

Got a new player playing today. Bill Wright is my new starting forward. He's a passable/inadequate forward with weak experiance. He gets 3 stars in solid form, but unfortunetly he dropped to passable form after the last update :( Also, My starting goalie finally hit passable form so im expecting some better defensive ratings this week aswell.

Players To Watch

Bill Wright - my new forward, im still hoping for a good game even though he dropped in form.

Marcin Landowski - finally in passable form, im hoping for a excellent defensive rating or 2 now.

Huey Miller - He has weak form, inadequate stamina and he's playing in the extra inner middy spot. So he will probally have a terrible game.

The Match

Due to an all-day shower, 14276 paying spectators :( got to see a match on a pitch-turned-bog at Maniacal Misfitz Arena. Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Landowski - Ferreira da Silv, Nairn, Miller - Neiweiler, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Eder, de Bevere - Devátý, Wright.

Bulldogs tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. Lineup: Davidson - Dickens, Cerda, Baron, Gentile - Franklin, Lange, Posey, de Vega - Miner, Qualls.

A foul after 3 minutes resulted in a free kick. Martin Devátý cannonballed it, giving the hometeam the lead 1 to 0.

Seemingly due to lack of experience, Omar Nairn needlessly tripped an opponent just outside the penalty area, but the free kick that followed didn't succeed.

Josef Eder increased Maniacals lead to 2 - 0 by putting a header away on a hooked ball from the right. The structure of the game started to change as Maniacal decided to pull back and meet their opponents in the defensive zone.

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, Maniacal´s Huey Miller got himself booked.

Maniacal´s Dolf de Bevere had an excellent opportunity in the 40:th minute, shooting on a through ball, but he missed the goal by miles!

2 - 0 was the half-time score. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 62 percent possession rate.

Francisco Javie de Vega had a couple of good opportunities to reply, but the home team´s goaltender Marcin Landowski just wouldn´t surrender.

After 67 minutes Omar Nairn put Maniacal ahead 3 - 0 as he rose to head in a hooked ball, the result of an effort from the right side.

Bulldogs held the ball, with a clear 51 percent possession rate.

Maniacal´s best player was Ismael Ferreira da Silva. Huey Miller on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating Bulldogs player was without a doubt Billy Cerda. Vernon Dickens on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 3 - 0.

Goals

Martin Devátý - 1
Josef Eder - 1
Omar Nairn - 1

Player Ratings

Gk - Marcin Landowski - ***

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva - ***
Central Defender - Omar Nairn - ***
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller - **~

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler - ***
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jakob Noer Mogensen - **~
Inner Midfielder 2 - Josef Eder - **~
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller - *~
Left Winger - Dolf de Bevere - ***

Forward 1 - Martin Devátý - **~
Forward 2 - Bill Wright - ***

Stars - 29.5

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: excellent - (8)

NSI - 61

Boston Bulldogs
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: outstanding - (10)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 56

Post Game Comments

Well, we finally got a taste of what my boys can do in decent form. And i like it, i like it alot! Our best NSI ever (61) and our most stars ever (29.5). We killed them in possession in the first half, but our bad stamina caused us to drop 13% in the second half. But it didn't matter, they couldn't crack my defense :)
This was a big win for the club. If i can pull out a win next week, i'll have 4/5 easy weeks of picing so i can go into the tough part of my schedule to end the season with POE TS.

The Good

Bill Wright - I can't believe he still grabbed 3 stars in passable form. Im shocked to say the least. A 3 star forward in passable form for 27k???? can you say....WOOT!?!?

Andi Neiweiler - Andi got his first ever 3 star game. Last time he was in passable form he only got 2 1/2 stars. So maybe the little bit of PM training he is getting pushed him over the hump to 3 stars. Eitherway im happy!

Omar Nairn - Omar got his first ever 3 stars in passable form. He always gets it in solid form but he hasn't been in solid form all season. I guess he's in "high" passable form right now.

The Bad

Huey Miller - To be honest, I shouldn't have played Huey today. He is a Solid middy, but his inadequate stamina and weak form are hurting him alot. I should have played one of my back-ups. They would have at least gotten 2 stars.

Around The League

Final Fantasy - vs - PoBOXTeam 5 - 0

Nothing surprising about this game. Final Fantasy killed them as expected. I wish POBOXteam would get replaced already. They've been ownerless for 3 weeks now.

Atlanta Huns - vs - CristinaFC3 0 - 4

CristinaFC3 did some bot bashing today. I get to play them next week at they're house. They are capable of putting up a passable midfield at home and a excellent/solid/solid attack. SO it won't be an easy game at all. I'll talk more about it in a few days

Kentucky Phar - vs - Witches 0 - 8

The Witches also got to do some bot bashing today. But next week they have a tough game vs Final Fantasy. But since they are at home they should win. With the way they are going, they should win the divison and promote this season. The money from that Million dollar youth pull made them the best team in the divison.

League Standings

Team-----------------Played----------------Goals---------------Points

1. Final Fantasy--------4-------------------16 - 2-----------------12

2. Witches---------------4-------------------25 - 6------------------9

3. Boston Bulldogs-----4-------------------10 - 4------------------9

4. CristinaFC3-----------4-------------------15 - 7------------------6

5. Maniacal Misfitz------4-------------------9 - 12------------------6

6. Kentucky Pharaos---4-------------------4 - 16------------------3

7. PoBOXTeam-----------4------------------5 - 22-------------------3

8. Atlanta Huns----------4------------------0 - 15-------------------0

Upnext, This weeks cup game

Havok

08-20-2003, 09:22 PM

Season 2 - Cup Game - Round 5

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - California Sea Lions

Today's game will likely be a painful thing to watch. I take on a VERY tough divison II team. The Sea Lions run a 3-4-3 and put up a "Magnifacent" central attack rating in they're cup games. So even if i played my starters and MOTS'ed i'd still get crushed. So i'll be Pic'ing and playing my back-ups. My cup run comes to an end here today unless he gets 3 guys red carded or something crazy like that.

Starters

GK - Stanford Weiss

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)
Central Defender - Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby
Left Wingback - Rikard Larsson (Defensive)

Right Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jed Neumann (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Roy Hoekstra
Left Winger - Viktor Tolstoy (Towards The Middle)

Forward 1 - Istvan Strobl
Forward 2 - Abel Cano

Vilhelm will be playing in his first game as a Misfit today. I bought him last wednesday (I think) and he is kinda like a utility man. He can put up 2 1/2 stars at defense and forward in passable form. Abel Cano made a huge 2 level form jump last thursday to get to inadequate form, but i wasn't sure how many stars he'd get so i didn't play him in my league game.

Players to Watch

Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby - his first game with the team. He's in inadequate form right now but since he has inadequate experiance i still think he'll get 2 1/2 stars playing defense

Roy Hoekstra - Roy's still in poor form and its starting to piss me off. He's been in poor form for 3 weeks now and isn't showing any signs of improving. He'll probally get another disappointing 1 1/2 stars today

Abel Cano - after his huge form jump last week, todays game will decide whether or not he plays on sunday if he still has inadequate form. He should still get 2 1/2 stars but ya never know.

The Match

23000 spectators arrived at Maniacal Misfitz Arena, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. Maniacal tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Lineup: Weiss - Ferreira da Silv, Skogby, Larsson - Minter, Hoekstra, Neumann, Neiva, Tolstoy - Cano, Strobl.

California had chosen a strategic 3-4-3 formation. The following players had been chosen: Crowder - Key , Brossel, Harvey - Levine, Zalewski, Haggart, Ulbæk - Schwarz, Whaley, Zorkin.

Maniacal broke through to the left in the 5:th minute, Abel Cano firing at an acute angle giving the home side a 1 - 0 lead.

Roy Hoekstra was the first to reach the corner kick, but his header was saved by the keeper. However, Maniacal´s Abel Cano managed to get hold of the rebound and scored the 2-0 goal.

California managed to reduce a bit later to 2 - 1 as Bruce Schwarz finished off a well played combination from the left, carving through the defensive box.

30 minutes into the game California´s Erling Ulbæk found a gap in the home sides central defense scoring with a long shot, making it 2 - 2.

A mistake by the home sides central defence in the 30:th minute allowed Guy Whaley to score 2 - 3 for California.

The teams went for a half-time break at 2 - 3. California held the ball, with a clear 64 percent possession rate.

In the 60:th minute California put themselves up 2 - 4 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. Scorer was Guy Whaley.

California increased the lead to 2 - 5 as Erling Ulbæk scored from the penalty spot, putting the ball in near the top left corner.

In the 74:th minute Maniacals Roy Hoekstra received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first.

The visitors Bruce Schwarz took advantage of an error due to a misunderstanding between the home side´s goalie and full backs in the 77:th minute. 2 - 6 for California. By now California were drawing the troops back in order to defend their lead.

After 84 minutes, Hagai Zorkin managed to intercept a pass intended for the opposing keeper and flip it in, making the score 2 - 7.

California held the ball, with a clear 65 percent possession rate.

Most important Maniacal player was Ismael Ferreira da Silva. Roy Hoekstra on the other hand, had a terrible day. California´s best player was Shawn Levine. Guy Whaley on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 2 - 7.

Goals

Abel Cano - 2

Player Ratings

GK - Stanford Weiss - **

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva - ***
Central Defender - Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby - **~
Left Wingback - Rikard Larsson - **

Right Winger - Benton Minter - **~
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jed Neumann - **
Inner Midfielder 2 - Joaquim Neiva - **~
Inner Midfielder 3 - Roy Hoekstra - *~
Left Winger - Viktor Tolstoy - *~

Forward 1 - Istvan Strobl - **~
Forward 2 - Abel Cano - **~

Stars - 24.5

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: weak - (4)

NSI - 48

California Sea Lions
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: solid - (7)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: magnificent - (12)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 71

Post Game Comments

Nice butt whipping there as expected. At least i scored 2 goals so my supporters are still "High On Life". If i would have gotten shutout at home. They probally would have dropped to irrated or calm. I also sold out my new upgraded arena for the first time!!! So i made a nice 80k off that game. This cup run more or less paid for the arena upgrade and this last pic got me back to POE TS :)

No real surprises performance wise except for Joaquim Neiva. he got his first ever 2 1/2 star game. He's a inadequate PM/passable passing with solid stamina and solid form. Im hoping he bumps to passable PM tommarrow. That way i know i'll get him to solid pm before the season is over. Vilhelm played well and got 2 1/2 stars in inadequate form. He'll make a very nice back-up utility man.

The Good

Joaquim Neiva - He got his first ever 2 1/2 star game. It looks like he is very close to popping to passable PM.

Abel Cano - got 2 goals and got 2 1/2 stars in inadequate form. But im still not sure if he'll start on sunday if his form and Martin's form stays the same. Martin's solid set pieces is so nice to have in the game, We'll see what happens tommarrow.

Jed Neumann - only got 2 stars because he is in weak form and is "bruised but playing". But he did jump to wretched experiance after the game. Wierd how a guy who has played in like 7-8 total games in his life bumps to wretched experiance. But i have guys that have played in 20+ games for me who are still at disastrous experiance.

The Bad

Roy Hoekstra - once again, Roy only got 1 1/2 stars. His shitty form is pissing me off. he'd better shape up soon or he'll be shipped out once he hits solid PM.

Upnext, This weeks training update

Havok

08-21-2003, 09:31 PM

Training Update

1 pop in playmaking this week. I was hoping for more because i still have a couple guys who haven't popped yet since i bought them.

Viktor Tolstoy
79 000 US$, 19 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Quick]

Stamina: passable Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: passable Passing: passable
Winger: poor Defending: inadequate
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: poor

I bought Viktor at the end of last season for 42k mainly because of his great secondary's. He should hit Solid PM by the end of the season barring any injuries. I now only have 1 more midfielder with only inadequate PM and i think he'll pop next week.

Form Update

A pretty good form update this week. Most of the form updates were my forwards. My 2 starting forwards went up to solid form and my 2 back-ups dropped a level. My Young winger who has been in excellent form for 3 weeks now finally dropped back down to solid. This doesn't bother me to much because 3 weeks at excellent form is great. But besides them nothing crazy happened.

6 players increased in form (3 Starters)
4 players decreased in form (1 Starter)

Im basically in the best form i've been in since midway through last season. Here's the breakdown.....

0 Players in excellent form

6 Players in Solid Form (All 6 are starters)

6 Players in Passable form (4 Starters)

6 Players are in Inadequate form (0 starters)

3 Players are in Weak Form (1 Starter)

0 Players are in Poor form

0 Players are in Wretched form

I can't remember the last time i had only 1 starters below passable form :)

Player/Team Value

Value per player (average): 96 762 US$ (+6,626)
Total squad value: 2 032 000 US$ (+49,000)
Average age: 21
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): wretched
No of players (excluding the coach): 21 (-1)
Number of nationalities: 14

I finally hit the $2,000,000 team value plateau!!! and i should hit the $100,000 per player average value in a week or 2 :)

Upnext, This weeks youth pull and economic update

Havok

08-23-2003, 07:03 PM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

Youth Pull

if this guy was 2 years younger i'd be happier....

Ed Castaneda (15679345)
19 years, passable form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is fiery and honest.
Has disastrous experience and solid leadership abilities.

Speciality: Technical

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 59 000 US$
Wage: 820 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

Stamina: poor Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: passable
Winger: inadequate Defending: poor
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: weak

not a bad winger trainee i guess or middy trainee for a young team. He might sell for 5-10k if im really lucky. Im still waiting for my good youth pull :(

Economic Update

Cash funds: 47 192 US$ (-9 067) US$
Sponsors: high on life
Supporter Club: 985 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue-----------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0------------------------------Arena 14 720
Sponsors 46 500-------------------Wages 24 538
Financial 0----------------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0-------------------------Temporary 3 000
-----------------------------------------Staff 40 500
-----------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000

Total revenue 46 500 Total expenses 102 758

Expected income/loss -56 258

Money isn't to bad, at least im basically out of debt now. If i win on sunday i should break the 1000 supporter mark on wednesday... WOOT!

This Weeks Game

My last semi-tough game for awhile. This week i take on CristinaFC3. They have a semi-active owner who logs on like once a week and buys a player here and there. But no real training program to speak of.

CristinaFC3
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: weak - (4)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: Solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: Solid - (7)

NSI - 51

As you can see this team is no pushover. They are actually capable of putting up a passable midfield at home. But i don't think they will this week. They're main weakness is they're left Side defense. Its usually weak or inadequate, i plan on attacking it with my best winger and hope to generate most of my goals from that side.

Even though im on the road, i should still win this game. Our midfields should be about even, but since im actually back in good form. I should have the advantage everywhere else.

My Prediction 5-2 win

Upnext, This weeks league game

Havok

08-24-2003, 09:28 PM

Season 2 - League Game - Round 5

CristinaFC3 - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

My last semi-tough game for awhile. After todays game i should be able to pic my next 4 to 6 games depending on form for the last 2. I've played the top 4 teams in my divison (besides me) in the first 5 weeks this season. So after today i get a much deserved break.

CristinaFC3 is a decent all around team. They're attack is pretty good and they're midfield isn't bad either. They're main weakness is they're defense. Its only a passable/passable/weak. So i should be able to exploit it some today. There is another big game in my divison today. The second Place Witches take on the First place Final Fantasy. It Should be a real good game.

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller (Defensive)

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jed Neumann (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Jakob Noer Mogensen
Left Winger - Dolf de Bevere (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Bill Wright
Forward 2 - Martin Devátý

Im in my best form in a long long time!! Everyone on the field has either passable or solid form expect 1 guy. Jed Neuman is in weak form and the only reason im playing him is because of his excellent stamina. My Midfielders stamina is still kinda low and Jed is the only one with excellent stamina. So i need him in the game. Both my forwards and both my wingers are in Solid form so im expecting my best offensive game ever.

Player To Watch

Dolf de Bevere - he finally droped to solid form on thursday so im not sure if he'll get 3 stars or not.

Martin Devátý - just bumped to solid form so im hoping to get 3 stars out of him. But i doubt he'll get it.

The Match

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 22240 to CristinaFC3 Arena. People from all of Florida had joined up for the derby. CristinaFC3 tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Lineup: Pupi - Läfbrant, Dalström, Merrill - Garland, Samuel, Robert, Polanco, Persson - Perales, Stokes.

Maniacal started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Landowski - Ferreira da Silv, Nairn, Miller - Neiweiler, Neumann, Noer Mogensen, Eder, de Bevere - Devátý, Wright.

A mistake by the home sides central defence in the 12th minute allowed Emanuel Miller to score 0 - 1 for Maniacal.

Bill Wright of Maniacal received a yellow card in the 18:th minute for unsportsmanlike behaviour.

Maniacal´s Martin Devátý made it through the home teams defence in the 29:th minute, and had only to place the ball in an unguarded goal when the home side´s defender sprang up from the left, clearing the ball on the line.

Bengt Persson was doing a great job at his wing, sending in brilliant passes to his team mates in the middle.

Bill Wright increased the visitors lead by putting a volley shot away on a pass from the right. 0 - 2. By now Maniacal were drawing the troops back in order to defend their lead.

Halftime score was 0 - 2. The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 54 percent possession of the ball.

Some fine manouvering on the left lead to an 51st minute Maniacal goal, making it 0 - 3. Dolf de Bevere was noted down as the scorer.

After 59 minutes Ned Stokes could have reduced had it not been for an excellent block by the visitors keeper Marcin Landowski.

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, CristinaFC3´s Ned Stokes got himself booked.

Johannes B. Dalström received some harsh words from his coach after he acted foolishly, probably out of lack of experience, in the 74:th minute and almost caused an opponent to score.

Maniacal nearly produced a goal as Bill Wright set up Andi Neiweiler for a strike from a seemingly unpossible angle. The receiver wasn´t as clear-headed though, and put the shot wide.

After 79 minutes Ned Robert could have reduced had it not been for an excellent block by the visitors keeper Marcin Landowski.

CristinaFC3s David Polanco got himself booked after a foul.

CristinaFC3 held the ball, with a clear 54 percent possession rate.

CristinaFC3´s best player was Ned Robert. However, Johannes B. Dalström made a disastrous appearance. Most important Maniacal player was Andi Neiweiler. Jed Neumann on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 0 - 3.

Goals

Emanuel Miller - 1
Bill Wright - 1
Dolf de Bevere - 1

Player Ratings

GK - Marcin Landowski - ***

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva - ***
Central Defender - Omar Nairn - **~
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller - **~

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler - ***
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jed Neumann - **
Inner Midfielder 2 - Josef Eder - ***
Inner Midfielder 3 - Jakob Noer Mogensen - **~
Left Winger - Dolf de Bevere - ***

Forward 1 - Bill Wright - ***
Forward 2 - Martin Devátý - **~

Stars - 30

Team Ratings

CristinaFC3
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: weak - (4)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 51

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: excellent - (8)

NSI - 65

Post Game Comments

Dam! Best NSI ever and most stars ever!!! My best game ever!!! The Misfitz have joined the 30 stars club :) Im surprised i got a passable midfield on the road without MOTS'ing. But i did! Which means i might still get a passable midfield at home next week while PIC'ing. Pretty much everyone played great, i have no complaints. I did miss 2 scoring chances which kinda pisses me off, but my goalie also saved 2 scoring chances for them so its an even trade off in my book.

Josef Eder got his first ever 3 stars game and is only the second Misfitz Inner middy to get 3 stars. He's in Solid form and about 1/3 of the way towards Excellent PM. Dolf de Bevere still got 3 stars in solid form. He must be close to being a solid winger. It just doesn't seem right that a passable winger with inadequate PM, and weak passing is getting 3 stars in solid form. But i'll take it :)

The Good

Dolf de Bevere - Still got 3 stars in solid form.

Josef Eder - got his first ever 3 star game!

The whole team - got my most ever stars with 30!!! and best NSI rating ever with 65!!!

The Bad

no bad here baby!!

Around The League

Witches - vs - Final Fantasy 5 - 2

The other big game in my series today and the Witches pulled it out. Final Fantasy had the lead 2-1 at half time. But they have terrible stamina and the Witches stormed back and scored 4 unanswered goals in the second half. The Witches are now in first place.

Boston Bulldogs - vs - Kentucky Pharaos 4 - 0

The Bulldogs got to do some bot bashing today. Nice easy win for them.

PoBOXTeam - vs - Atlanta Huns 2 - 0

PoBOXTeam also got to do some bot bashing today. But they somehow only managed to win 2-0 at home vs a bot team. Kind of Pathetic really. I get to play PoBOXTeam at home next week. Should be a nice easy PIC win for me.

League Standings

Team------------------Played---------------Goals-------------Points

1. Witches--------------5--------------------30 - 8-------------12

2. Final Fantasy--------5-------------------18 - 7--------------12

3. Boston Bulldogs-----5-------------------14 - 4-------------12

4. Maniacal Misfitz------5-------------------12 - 12-------------9

5. CristinaFC3-----------5-------------------15 - 10-------------6

6. PoBOXTeam-----------5-------------------7 - 22--------------6

7. Kentucky Pharaos---5--------------------4 - 20-------------3

8. Atlanta Huns---------5--------------------0 - 17--------------0

The 3-way tie for first place isn't quite what it seems. The Bulldogs will probally lose they're next 4 games. They've had an easy schedule up until this point.

Upnext, This weeks friendly game

Havok

08-26-2003, 02:16 PM

Update

I haven't really looked at Hatstats to much this season. So today i decided to see where my team and my divison stands with the rest of divison V. I was kinda shocked to see divison V.253 ranked 33rd strongest. The reason this is suck a shock is because i have 2 bots teams and 1 ownerless team.

Every divison higher then me on the list has already had they're bot teams replaced. We average an NSI of 49.4. But without our 2 bots teams we average 55.8. That would put us number 3 on the list. Kinda scary since 3 of those 6 teams hardly ever log in. If they'd put a litte effort into they're team we'd be number 1 on that list.

Also, The Misfitz made the best ratings for round 5 :) Our 65 NSI tied us for 56th place in all of divison V baby!

Havok

08-27-2003, 09:39 PM

Season 1 - Friendly Game - Round 6

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - Lurking FC

well, back to playing friendly's :( Im gonna miss the money and the experiance from my cup games. But getting to round 5 as a divison V team isn't bad. Better then most in V.

Anyway, today we play an Intl. friendly vs Lurking FC. I don't know who these guys are but they love playing against FOFC team. Im they're 3rd one in 3 weeks. But now that i think about it, why wouldn't he wanna play against FOFC teams.... we rock :)
They come from Thailand and im hoping that they will bring in a nice crowd. They aren't a very good team and my back-ups should have no problem pounding them.

Starters

GK - Stanford Weiss

Right Wingback - Emanuel Miller
Central Defender - Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby
Left Wingback - Rikard Larsson

Right Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)
Inner Midfeilder 1 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Viktor Tolstoy (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller
Left Winger - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)

Forward 1 - Abel Cano
Forward 2 - Istvan Strobl

Right now my starters are in the best form i've ever had them in. But my back-ups are slacking. Pretty much everyone is in inadequate or weak form. Only 3 guys on the field have passable or above form. But these are my back-ups so who cares right??well, i care! FOFC cup starts next week and i need my back-ups to win a few :) Hopfully some of them will bounce back tommarrow.

Nothing much else to really add about this game, should be a nice and easy friendly.

Players To Watch

Joaquim Neiva - Joaquim got his first ever 2 1/2 star game last week. I hope he does it again today. He's gotta be close to popping to passable PM. Inadequate PM's in passable form usually don't get 2 1/2 stars.

The Match

2700 spectators arrived at Maniacal Misfitz Arena, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. Maniacal started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Weiss - Miller, Skogby, Larsson - Minter, Tolstoy, Miller, Neiva, Hoekstra - Cano, Strobl.

Lurking had chosen a strategic 4-5-1 formation. Lineup: Havas - Jaruphan, Yong-Kwan, Pu Yai Bahn, Abhasra - Mcnamara, Kukrit, Chong-Kien, Yodbangtoey, Boon-mee - Fernandes Ramos.

Maniacals Benton Minter gave, after 25 minutes, the home team a 1 - 0 lead after an attack coming in from the right.

In the 30:th minute of the match the visitors central line of defence had to look on as Abel Cano dashed through, knocking home 2 - 0 for Maniacal.

The teams went for a half-time break at 2 - 0. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 67 percent possession rate.

In the 68:th minute of the match the visitors central line of defence had to look on as Viktor Tolstoy dashed through, knocking home 3 - 0 for Maniacal.

Things were going to get worse for the visitors. Abel Cano squirmed himself through the central defense line in the 82nd minute, asserting the lead to 4 - 0. The structure of the game started to change as Maniacal decided to pull back and meet their opponents in the defensive zone.

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, Maniacal´s Huey Miller got himself booked.

After 88 minutes Istvan Strobl put Maniacal ahead 5 - 0 as he rose to head in a hooked ball, the result of an effort from the right side.

Maniacal put their lead ahead another goal as Huey Miller struck home the 6 - 0 goal, after an attack from the left setting him up unmarked with the keeper.

Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 72 percent, dominated the battle.

The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Emanuel Miller. However, Roy Hoekstra made a disastrous appearance. Most important Lurking player was Iiro Havas. Krita Pu Yai Bahn was a disappointment, however.

The match ends 6 - 0.

Goals

Abel Cano - 2
Benton Minter - 1
Viktor Tolstoy - 1
Huey Miller - 1
Istvan Strobl - 1

Player Ratings

GK - Stanford Weiss - **

Right Wingback - Emanuel Miller - **~
Central Defender - Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby - **
Left Wingback - Rikard Larsson - **

Right Winger - Benton Minter - **~
Inner Midfeilder 1 - Joaquim Neiva - **~
Inner Midfielder 2 - Viktor Tolstoy - **
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller - **
Left Winger - Roy Hoekstra - *~

Forward 1 - Abel Cano - **
Forward 2 - Istvan Strobl - **

Stars - 23

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: weak - (4)

NSI - 49

Lurking FC
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: poor - (3)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Attack: weak - (4)
Central Attack: poor - (3)
Left Side Attack: weak - (4)

NSI - 36

Post Game Comments

Easy win as expected. The first 4 events were my goals and 6 out of 7 of the events were my goals. Can't beat that :) All the ratings were as expected except for my midfield. I can't believe i got a inadequate midfield with my back-ups :) i did have a winger towards the middle and im at home. But still, that ain't bad.

I also drew my largest crowd ever for a friendly. 2700 Misfitz fans came to see the exotic Thailand'ers :) and made me a nice 7k.

The Good

Joaquim Neiva - got another 2 1/2 stars. I hope he bumps to passable PM tommarrow.

Abel Cano - only got 2 stars in weak form but scored 2 goals. He scores in every dam game he plays in. Reguardless of form :)

The Bad

Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby - My utility man only got 2 stars at CD today. Which is kinda wierd since last week he got 2 1/2 in the same form.

Roy Hoekstra - another 1 1/2 star game for Roy. At least his form bumped to weak last thursday.

Upnext, This weeks training update

Havok

08-28-2003, 09:39 PM

Training and Form Update

Training

Looks like i was right about Joaquim. he bumped to passable PM today. I "Should" get him to Solid by the end of the season.

Joaquim Neiva
64 000 US$, 18 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: passable Passing: passable
Winger: weak Defending: disastrous
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: inadequate

I grabbed Joaquim for 15k at the end of last season. Now all 7 of my midfielders are at least Passable in PM. 3 Solids and 4 passables. But 2 more should be poping to Soild any week now.

Next week i'll be training Stamina, most of my midfielders have passable stamina and i'd like to get them to at least Solid.

Form

Well, Form has just been great for me lately and it continues this week. Not alot of movment, but the big surprise is My goalie Marcin is in........ SOLID FORM!!!!!! This is a great day in Misfitz history. Never have i ever had a starting goalie is solid form and i've rarely had a starting goalie in passable form. So this is a big shock. I doubt i'll get 3 1/2 stars out of him but my defense should get a nice Excellent/Excellent/Excellent again.

4 Players increased in Form (1 Starter)
1 Player decreased in form (0 Starters)

My great form run will probally come to an end over the next couple weeks because i'll be training Stamina next week.

Player/Team Value

Value per player (average): 101 524 US$ (+4,762)
Total squad value: 2 132 000 US$ (100,000)
Average age: 21
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): wretched
No of players (excluding the coach): 21
Number of nationalities: 14

Another milestone for the Misfitz..... our average player value passed the $100,000 mark.

Upnext, This weeks youth pull and economic update

Havok

08-30-2003, 07:05 PM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

Youth Pull

big fat piece of shit like always..

Will Booth (15907093)
18 years, passable form, healthy
A controversial person who is balanced and honest.
Has disastrous experience and wretched leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 7 000 US$
Wage: 520 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

Stamina: wretched Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: wretched Passing: inadequate
Winger: poor Defending: poor
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: inadequate

15 weeks at solid Youth Squad now. I hope it bumps next week to Excellent.

Economic Update

31 495 US$ (-22 714) US$
Sponsors: high on life
Supporter Club: 1009 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue-------------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0-------------------------------Arena 14 720
Sponsors 47 550--------------------Wages 24 538
Financial 0-----------------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0--------------------------Temporary 2 000
------------------------------------------Staff 40 500
------------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 47 550---------------Total expenses 101 758

Expected income/loss -54 208

Still looking good in the economic department. I have a home game tommarrow and the weather looks good. So i should make some decent money this week.

This Weeks game

Today i play the first team i ever played in hattrick.... PoBOXTeam and it will be the last time i ever play them also. They will be replaced by a new team anyday now. Its actually slightly possible that they will be replaced before tommarrows game. Im in divison V.253 and they are currently replacing teams at divison V.250.

Anyway, this should be nice and easy PIC game for me. They have decent midfield and a decent attack. But are no match for me, espically at home.

PoBOXTeam
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 46

My Prediction 5 - 1 win

Upnext, This weeks league game

Havok

08-30-2003, 10:12 PM

Divison Overhaul

Well, i won't be playing PoBOXTeam tommarrow. My divison just got cleaned out. We have 4 new teams now, which is a good thing in my book. I've already sent all 4 of them messages welcoming them and telling them to stop by the FOFC boards if they need help. I think a big problem with Hattrick is people get confused when they start because the rules section only tells you the basics. Then they just get frustrated and quit. So hopfully a couple of them will stick around and get addicted to Hattrick like the rest of us.

This is good news for my FOFC cup run. I will probally not need to play my starters again for the next 5 weeks and maybe even 6 weeks. So i might make it pretty dam far in the FOFC cup. We'll see, i kinda feel bad playing my starters vs other peoples back-ups because it was done to me 3 out of the 5 FOFC Cup games i played last year.

we'll see what happens.....

The Afoci

08-30-2003, 10:40 PM

Slaughter them! These are misfitz, not some nice do good two shoers. Throw away the lucky charms and let the milk rot on their graves!

Good Luck in the Cup!

Havok

08-30-2003, 10:58 PM

Originally posted by The Afoci
Slaughter them! These are misfitz, not some nice do good two shoers. Throw away the lucky charms and let the milk rot on their graves!

lol :)

well said Afoci.... well said!

Havok

08-31-2003, 09:11 PM

Season 2 - League Game - Round 6

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - The Minnesota SnowDrifts

Well, so much for playing PoBOXTeam 1 more time. They changed ownership last night. They are now "The Minnesota SnowDrifts". The owner is yet to log in yet unfortunetly so this should be a serious beat down. I debated playing my back-ups but since the FOFC cup doesn't start till next week. I'd rather have my starters get the experiance. I was hoping for my first ever league game sellout of my new arena today, but now that im playing a new team im not so sure. My supporters are high on life and the weather is good, but i don't think that will be enough.

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)
Central Defender - Omar Narin
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller (Defsensive)

Right Winger - Dolf de Bevere (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jed Neumann (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Jakob Noer Mogensen
Left Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Bill Wright
Forward 2 - Martin Devátý

Once again, everyone in my line-up has passable or solid form expect for 1 guy. Jed Neumann still is still in weak form but since he has excellent stamina, he still gets the start. This is also the first time i've ever had a goalie in Solid form. Im not expecting any "Formidable" defensive though. But it would be a nice surprise. I'll be pic'ing this game of course and it should get me back to POE TS.

Players to Watch

Marcin Landowski - His first game at solid form. Its possible he could get 3 1/2 stars but i don't think it will happen.

The Match

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 21837 to Maniacal Misfitz Arena. Maniacal tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Lineup: Landowski - Ferreira da Silv, Nairn, Miller - de Bevere, Neumann, Noer Mogensen, Eder, Neiweiler - Devátý, Wright.

SnowDrifts had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. Lineup: Minter - Mahon, Osborne, Preston, Adler - Jacobson, Jeremy, Finch, Moulton - Blair, Huddleston.

Dolf de Bevere sprinted between the opposing defenders after 5 minutes, but the keeper deflected Martin Devátý's shot.

The 9:th minute saw the home team take a 1 - 0 lead after a leak in the visitors right side defense. Scorer for Maniacal was Martin Devátý.

A bit later, a magnificent combination in the middle resulted in Maniacal´s Martin Devátý putting the lead up to 2 - 0.

Maniacal put their lead ahead another goal as Bill Wright struck home the 3 - 0 goal, after an attack from the left setting him up unmarked with the keeper.

Omar Nairn increased Maniacals lead to 4 - 0 by putting a header away on a hooked ball from the right.

In the 29:th minute Maniacals Andi Neiweiler received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first.

In the 35:th minute of the match the visitors central line of defence had to look on as Andi Neiweiler dashed through, knocking home 5 - 0 for Maniacal.

Halftime score was 5 - 0. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 89 percent possession rate.

Things were going to get worse for the visitors. Jed Neumann squirmed himself through the central defense line in the 48:th minute, asserting the lead to 6 - 0. By now Maniacal were drawing the troops back in order to defend their lead.

Bill Wright struck a 30 metre free kick home in the 55:th minute. 7 - 0 for the home team.

As Omar Nairn had, completely unprovoked, swept the legs out from under an opponent in front of a linesman, the referee gave the Maniacal player a red card without batting an eye. Chris Jeremy the unlucky victim, couldn´t continue the game.

Maniacal put themselves up 8 - 0 when Bill Wright broke through on the right, leaving the entire defensive box behind him. By then Bill Wright was a three time scorer - a hat trick!

In the games 82nd minute SnowDrifts´s Homer Ponce fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee booked Homer Ponce for taking a dive.

A bit later, a magnificent combination in the middle resulted in Maniacal´s Josef Eder putting the lead up to 9 - 0.

Things were going to get worse for the visitors. Martin Devátý squirmed himself through the central defense line in the 86:th minute, asserting the lead to 10 - 0. By then Martin Devátý was a three time scorer - a hat trick!

Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 87 percent possession rate.

Most important Maniacal player was Andi Neiweiler. However, Jed Neumann made a disastrous appearance. The most dominating SnowDrifts player was without a doubt Craig Moulton. Samuel Huddleston on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 10 - 0.

Goals

Martin Devátý - 3
Bill Wright - 3
Omar Nairn - 1
Andi Neiweiler - 1
Jed Neumann - 1
Josef Eder - 1

Player Ratings

GK - Marcin Landowski - ***

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva - ***
Central Defender - Omar Narin - Red Carded
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller - **~

Right Winger - Dolf de Bevere - ***
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jed Neumann - **~
Inner Midfielder 2 - Josef Eder - ***
Inner Midfielder 3 - Jakob Noer Mogensen - **~
Left Winger - Andi Neiweiler - ***

Forward 1 - Bill Wright - ***
Forward 2 - Martin Devátý - **~

Stars - 28.5

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: formidable - (9)

NSI - 62

The Minnesota SnowDrifts
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: disastrous (1)
Right Side Defence: poor - (3)
Central Defence: poor - (3)
Left Side Defence: poor - (3)
Right Side Attack: poor - (3)
Central Attack: poor - (3)
Left Side Attack: weak - (4)

NSI - 22

Post Game Comments

God dam!!! 10 - 0!! I never saw that coming, espically with a PIC. I feel kinda bad for the guy. His first game in Hattrick and he gets destoryed. Thats by far my biggest margin of victory ever. It won't be this bad next week when i play another new team. I'll play my back-ups vs them so i can use my starters in the FOFC cup.

They're were quite a few Misfitz firsts in this game. I picked up my first ever hattrick in a league game. Actually, i got 2 hattricks in this game :) Martin Devátý and Bill Wright both scored 3 goals. Also, all of my midfielders and wingers got 3 stars expect, Jed Neumann. He only got 2 1/2 but that ain't bad for being in weak form. Last but not least, Omar Nairn got his first ever red card :( but since im playing my back-ups in league play next week. It doesn't really matter.

The Good

Jakob Noer Mogensen - got his first ever 3 star game at middy. Which is impressive since he his playing the extra inner middy spot.

Bill Wright - First hattrick for Misfitz!!!

Martin Devátý - second ever hattrick for the misfitz!! just 4 mins after Bill got our first one :)

Andi Neiweiler - helped get my first ever formidable wing attack rating.

The Bad

Omar Nairn - got red carded.

Around The League

All 4 of the new teams in the league had to play the 4 older teams today. It wasn't pretty!

Final Fantasy - vs - US Rangers 8 - 0

The owner of the new "US Rangers" is pretty cool. He's the only one of the new teams that i've really talked to. I hope this beat down doesn't drive him away from hattrick.

Witches - vs - north crowley 10 - 0

Johnny's Witches won 10-0 and they played mostly back-ups. OUCH!

Daverules FC - vs - CristinaFC3 0 - 7

The lowest scoring game in my divison this week :)

League Standings

Team-------------------Played------------------Goals---------------Points

1. Witches---------------6----------------------40 - 8-----------------15

2. Final Fantasy---------6----------------------26 - 7-----------------15

3. Maniacal Misfitz------6----------------------22 - 12----------------12

4. north crowley--------6----------------------14 - 14----------------12

5. CristinaFC3-----------6----------------------22 - 10-----------------9

6. The Minnesota SnowD--6------------------7 - 32------------------6

7. Daverules FC---------6----------------------4 - 27------------------3

8. US Rangers-----------6----------------------0 - 25------------------0

Upnext, This weeks friendly

Havok

09-03-2003, 08:39 PM

Season 2 - Friendly Game - Round 7

SouthPark Cows - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

Since the FOFC cup got all screwed up this week, i've arranged a friendly with Lytic and his South Park Cows. The Cows train defending and have a quite a few nice defender trainee's. Unfortunetly for Lytic he's in one of the toughest divisons in divison IV and is having a tough time this year.

Anyway, this should be a pretty boring game all around since he runs a 5-4-1 and we are both playing our back-ups.

Starters

GK - Stanford Weiss

Right Wingback - Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby (Defsenive)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Rikard Larsson (Defensive)

Right Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Viktor Tolstoy (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller
Left Winger - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)

Forward 1 - Abel Cano
Forward 2 - Istvan Strobl

My Back-ups had a really good form week last thursday. So most of them are in pretty good form. Even Roy Hoekstra is up to inadequate form which is a miricle. After looking at his last few friendly's my back-ups are better then his, so i "should" win this game. But since he has home field advantage anything is possible.

Players To Watch

Roy Hoekstra - Roys first game at inadequate form in a LONG time. Im hoping for 2 stars has he plays "Winger Towards The Middle".

Abel Cano - Abel is back up to inadequate form also. I'd like to get him back into my starting line-up soon. Hopfully he'll have a good game.

The Match

971 spectators had come to Starks Pond this cloudy day. SouthPark had chosen a strategic 5-4-1 formation. Lineup: Barfield - Cook, Danhof, Hwang, An, Tewari - Bernbratt, Mcnutt, Bokfeldt, Doménech - Donaldson.

Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. They fielded: Weiss - Skogby, Nairn, Larsson - Minter, Tolstoy, Miller, Neiva, Hoekstra - Cano, Strobl.

SouthPark made a bid to take the lead as a ball coming in from the right hand side left Olof Bokfeldt completely alone with keeper Stanford Weiss, who made a spectacular block.

SouthPark created a good opportunity to score in the games 9:th minute when Hyun-Gu Hwang`s hooked ball created a scuffle in front of the goal, and the visitors defenders had a hard time clearing the ball.

In the 14:th minute the home side managed to get a 1 - 0 lead as Olof Bokfeldt flipped the ball after a cross pass from the right.

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, SouthPark´s Aijaz Tewari got himself booked.

The teams went for a half-time break at 1 - 0. The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 54 percent possession of the ball.

Viktor Tolstoy made a good effort at breaking through from the right, but the home team left defence cleared the ball to a corner.

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, Maniacal´s Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby got himself booked.

Olof Bokfeldt behaved like an inexperienced youth player in the 71st minute as he gave the ball away to an opponent. Lucky for him though, there was no goal.

Abel Cano came close to levelling the score in the 73rd minute, as he was set up with a through ball coming in from the left, but his shot hit the post.

Abel Cano almost scored an equalising goal for Maniacal in the 80:th minute, but Lance Barfield made an excellent save, tipping the awkwardly curled shot past the post.

Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 51 percent, dominated the battle.

The most dominating SouthPark player was without a doubt Mikey Cook. However, Lance Barfield made a disastrous appearance. Most important Maniacal player was Omar Nairn. Roy Hoekstra on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 1 - 0.

Goals

None

Player Ratings

GK - Stanford Weiss - **

Right Wingback - Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby - **~
Central Defender - Omar Nairn - **~
Left Wingback - Rikard Larsson - **

Right Winger - Benton Minter - **~
Inner Midfielder 1 - Joaquim Neiva - **~
Inner Midfielder 2 - Viktor Tolstoy - **
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller - **
Left Winger - Roy Hoekstra - **

Forward 1 - Abel Cano - **~
Forward 2 - Istvan Strobl - **

Stars - 24.5

Team Ratings

SouthPark Cows
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: wretched - (2)
Central Attack: poor - (3)
Left Side Attack: weak - (4)

NSI - 43

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 52

Post Game Comments

Thank god that wasn't a league game. I would have been seriously pissed. Ratings wise i should have easily won this game. But i didn't, i missed 3 scoring chances in the second half and gave up a goal vs a terrible offense. His goal came from his right side which was a wretched wing attack vs a solid defense...wierd. Anyway, know one got injuried on either side so it was a good friendly. Good luck to Lytic and his Cows in the FOFC cup next week.

The Good

B - Team - Best ever NSI and stars for my B - Team.

Abel Cano - Played good in inadequate form and i'll probally let him play with the starters next week.

The Bad

Viktor Tolstoy - for some reason this guy refuses to get 2 1/2 stars. He's in passable form, with passable PM and passable passing. Yet he gets 2 stars a game. Maybe after this weeks stamina training he'll bump to solid stamina and get 2 1/2 stars.

Istvan Strobl - He has been in a form drop lately and only got 2 stars today in weak form.

Upnext, This weeks Training Update

Havok

09-03-2003, 10:21 PM

Update

All time Divison V.253 leader!!

Historical standings
Team------------------Played--------------Goals------------Points

1. Maniacal Misfitz-----21-----------------69 - 33------------44
2. Cleveland Inferno--14----------------103 - 1-------------42
3. Tazmaniacs----------14----------------89 - 8---------------42
4. bunnies united------14----------------78 - 2---------------42
5. Goon FC--------------14----------------78 - 7----------------42
6. Witches---------------21---------------74 - 44---------------39
7. Green Mages--------14----------------54 - 17---------------37
8. CristinaFC3----------21----------------71 - 54----------------29
9. Final Fantasy--------6-----------------26 - 7-----------------15
10. ESAD----------------15---------------20 - 51-----------------7

This divison was an all bot divison for the 4 season before i got here. As you can see the Inferno, Tazmanics, Bunnies, and Goon FC were the only human teams for the 1 season each of them were here.

Kinda cool to have the most points ever in a divison :)

lytic

09-03-2003, 10:38 PM

That was the first time I won a game I shouldn't have since last season! Too bad I wasted it on a friendly!

You faced 2 South Korean U20 defenders, 1 future Pakastani Nats teamer, and a 17 year old freak of a wingback. The other guy was a middie getting some defender training so I can sell him at a high price.
Of all things, my clown scored on you... now get this: that was his best game by far!

Date Match Rating
9/4/2003 SouthPark Cows - Maniacal Misfit 100%
8/21/2003 Camo's Elite Ra - SouthPark Cows 91%

I dunno what fire was lite up his ass, cause he exploded all over the field today! He's no superstar; 1 star middie.

Olof Bokfeldt (7364680)
19 years, passable form, healthy
I speak Svenska!

A popular guy who is calm and upright.
Has wretched experience and solid leadership abilities.

Speciality: Head

Nationality: Sverige
Assessed value: 19 000 US$
Wage: 720 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: SouthPark Cows
Warnings: 0

Stamina: inadequate Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: weak Passing: wretched
Winger: inadequate Defending: wretched
Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: weak

oh and sorry about the lack of a turn out... I haven't been winning so my crowd hasn't been great this year.

Havok

09-03-2003, 11:16 PM

lol, i got scored on by a Clown :)

hey, next season im gonna try to land a couple future U-20 members from smaller countrys. If you here about any from South Korea let me know please.

lytic

09-03-2003, 11:25 PM

I try to post on the fofc board when I see stuff...

what do you train?

Havok

09-04-2003, 12:19 AM

Playmaking :)

Early next season... like week 3-5 im gonna sell of a couple of my older trainee's and buy 2 17 year old Passable PM's in smaller country's. I really wanna have a few U-20 players down the road.

Havok

09-04-2003, 09:51 PM

Training and Form Update

What can i say.... every thursday has been a good day for the Misfitz over the past month. And the trend didn't stop this week. My midfield ratings have been getting better and better every week, but my biggest problem has been stamina. Almost all of my midfielders and wingers had passable stamina. Which isn't horrible, but it definetly effects my midfield rating. When i play against a team with Excellent stamina, i lose around 8% in the second half.

So to remedy this i trained stamina this week. The main reason i decided to do it this week is because i have 5 straight easy games ahead of me. So if my form takes a hit from the stamina training, it will have plenty of time to bounce back. So without further ado, here are my amazing results....

Stamina Bumps

Everyone on the team that had below Excellent stamina bumped up at least 1 level expect 2 guys. Benton Minter my back-up winger and my starting Goalie. Here are the important ones.....

Midfielders

Josef Eder
182 000 US$, 20 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Powerful]

Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: passable
Winger: weak Defending: poor
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: wretched

Josef already is a 3 star Middy and he bumped 1 level to solid stamina. He should hit Excellent PM in about 5 weeks.

Jakob Noer Mogensen
116 000 US$, 19 years, solid form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Quick]

Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: weak
Winger: poor Defending: inadequate
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: inadequate

Jakob just got his first ever 3 star game last sunday while playing as the extra inner middy. He bumped 1 level to solid stamina. He should hit excellent PM by the end of the season.

Jed Neumann
88 000 US$, 20 years, inadequate form
Has wretched experience and wretched leadership abilities

Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: passable Passing: wretched
Winger: wretched Defending: passable
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: poor

Jed was my only middy with excellent stamina already. He can get 3 stars in good form and should bump to Solid PM any week now.

Huey Miller
58 000 US$, 18 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and wretched leadership abilities [Head]

Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: poor
Winger: wretched Defending: poor
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: weak

Huey had a GREAT week, He bumped up an amazing 2 levels in stamina and also bumped a level in FORM! He's always been a 2 star middy because of his inadequate stamina. But now he should easily get 2 1/2 stars. Huey should hit excellent PM in 4-5 weeks.

Joaquim Neiva
68 000 US$, 18 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: passable Passing: passable
Winger: weak Defending: disastrous
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: inadequate

Joaquim is on a roll lately, He just bumped to passable PM last week and now he bumped a level to excellent PM. He's a solid 2 1/2 stars now and 'Might' hit solid PM this season.

Viktor Tolstoy
103 000 US$, 19 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Quick]

Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: passable Passing: passable
Winger: poor Defending: inadequate
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: poor

Victor has been giving me problems latley. He bumped to passable PM 2 weeks ago but he still only put up 2 stars in passable form. I think it was probally because he only had passable stamina. But he bumped 2!!!! levels in stamina and now will definetly get 2 1/2 stars now. He should hit soild PM at the end of this season

Roy Hoekstra
109 000 US$, 19 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Powerful]

Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: passable Passing: weak
Winger: passable Defending: weak
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: poor

Roy's form has FINALLY!!! gotten back to passable. He's been at poor for most of the season. He also bumped 1 level of stamina. I play him as a winger towards the middle most of the time. He should hit Solid PM soon. But its hard to say since he doens't get full training every week.

Wingers

Dolf de Bevere
77 000 US$, 20 years, solid form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Quick]

Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: weak
Winger: passable Defending: weak
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: poor

Dolf is my FREAK 3 star winger. I have no clue why he always gets 3 stars but who cares. He bumped up 1 level of stamina to solid. Im not sure when he will bumped to passable PM, but hopfully he will soon.

Andi Neiweiler
197 000 US$, 26 years, passable form
Has wretched experience and passable leadership abilities

Stamina: solid Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: weak Passing: passable
Winger: solid Defending: inadequate
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: weak

My STUD winger bumped up 1 level of stamina to solid. Im also hoping he bumps to inadequate PM soon. But its hard to tell because he's kinda old for training.

Thats it, there's no point in showing you my other stamina bumps because it doesn't really matter for those postions. As you can see i had a GREAT stamina week. I couldn't be happier :)

Form

Form wasn't bad either this week. It wasn't great, but considering i trained stamina, I'll take it. My defenders took the worst hit. 2 starting defenders dropped to inadequate form and my starting goalie dropped to passable form.

5 Players Increased in Form (2 starters)
5 Players Decreased in Form (4 Starters)

Team/Player Values

Value per player (average): 105 524 US$ (+4,000)
Total squad value: 2 216 000 US$ (+84,000)
Average age: 21
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): wretched
No of players (excluding the coach): 21
Number of nationalities: 14

Upnext, This weeks Youth Pull and Economic Update

lytic

09-04-2003, 11:59 PM

for sale:

Wah-Bo Heung (11092847)
18 years, excellent form, healthy
I speak Korean!

A sympathetic guy who is temperamental and dishonest.
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities.

Speciality: Technical

Also part of Team U-20 South Korea!

Nationality: South Korea
Assessed value: 325 000 US$
Wage: 1 572 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: Wonderful Lovers
Warnings: 0

Stamina: excellent Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: formidable Passing: poor
Winger: poor Defending: wretched
Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: wretched

Matches for National U-20 team: 5

Havok

09-05-2003, 03:13 AM

I wish :(

sterlingice

09-05-2003, 05:01 AM

Havok, I hate you. I can't even train badly needed stamina right now because the form of some key guys is in the crapper.

SI

Havok

09-05-2003, 05:40 AM

Originally posted by sterlingice
Havok, I hate you. I can't even train badly needed stamina right now because the form of some key guys is in the crapper.

SI

Yeah, i know your trainee's are desperate for some stamina training. Looking at your upcoming schedule, You might wanna think about training stamina this week.

You have small chance of beating Kaishaku F.C. at home this week. But then your screwed the next 2 games vs Kaishaku F.C. away and Brooklyn United. So you'll lose those 2 no matter what kinda form you have. I'd pic them and have good TS for your next 2 games.

Then you get 2 games you should win with Zfan at home and Team Groomers . So by then end of these 4 games your teams form should have bounced back from any decreases it had due to the 1 week of stamina training.

Just giving ya something to think about :)

Now that DK has all but abandoned HT, i'll have to find a couple new divisons to get interested in. And you have a interesting one to say the least :)

Havok

09-06-2003, 08:18 PM

Economic Update and Youth PUll

Youth Pull

Im not even sure why i put 20k a week into my youth squad. Its so amazingly frustrating and can't even begin to explain it. And for some unknown reason my youth squad is taking longer then most people's to bump to Excellent. Its been 16 weeks since i bumped to solid. Anyway, enough bitching.... here's my shitty youth pull.....

Lenny Payne (16134173)
19 years, passable form, healthy
A sympathetic guy who is calm and honest.
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 21 000 US$
Wage: 600 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

Stamina: poor Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: poor Passing: wretched
Winger: poor Defending: inadequate
Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: inadequate

I like his last name but thats about it.

Economic Update

Cash funds: 97 166 US$ (43 708) US$
Sponsors: high on life
Supporter Club: 1033 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue-------------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0-------------------------------Arena 14 720
Sponsors 48 300--------------------Wages 24 538
Financial 0-----------------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0---------------------------Temporary 2 000
-------------------------------------------Staff 40 500
-------------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 48 300----------------Total expenses 101 758

Expected income/loss -53 458

No home game this week so it will look similar to this by weeks end. I have no plans of buying or selling anyone any time soon. So i should steadily make a little bit of cash every 2 weeks.

This weeks game

Another easy pic game this week as i take on one of the new teams in divison V.253. US Rangers bought a few cheap players since taking over they're team last week and upgraded to a inadaqute coach. But my B-team is still WAY WAY better then them so they'll get the start this week.

My Prediction 6 - 0 win

FOFC Cup Game

At first i thought i would have it easy for my first cup game since i'll be playing my starters. But as it turns out the Toledo Drunkards have a really easy win this week so i'll probally see his starters on wednesday.

Toledo Drunkards
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 65

The Drunkards and i are very very close in terms of talent. We both put up almost the exact same NSI rating. I 'Think" my midfield is slightly better and my attack is slightly better. But his defense is better then mine. But Since he has home field advantage, he is the favorite. It should be a fun game and hopfully none of our starters will get injuried.

My Prediction 3 - 2 Loss

Upnext, This weeks league game

Havok

09-07-2003, 11:03 PM

Season 1 - League game - Round 7

US Rangers - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

Another new team today, The US Ranger will probally be the best 'new team" out of the bunch because he seems to be an active owner. He told me he's a huge soccer fan in real life. So hopfully down the road he'll stick with HT and build a good team. I'll be playing my back-ups and Pic'ing today. This should put be back at POE TS and have me at delirous for my FOFC Cup battle on wednesday vs Toledo Drunkards.

Starters

GK - Stanford Weiss

Right Wingback - Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby (Defensive)
Central Defender - Ismael Ferreira da Silva
Left Wingback - Rikard Larsson (Defensive)

Right Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jed Neumann (Defensive)
Inner Midfeilder 2 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Viktor Tolstoy
Left Winger - Dolf de Bevere (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Istvan Strobl
Forward 2 - Martin Devátý

Mostly back-ups here but i do have a couple regular starters playing. Ismael Ferreira da Silva will get the call at central defender because i only have 5 defenders at the moment. Dolf de Bevere will make the start on wing because i'm only using 1 offensive winger on wednesday and Martin Devátý will also start now that Abel Cano is FINALLY back in passable form. So even thought Martin is my leading scorer, he's now part of the B-team.

Form looks decent for my back-ups, All my defenders (Starters and back-ups) are in a slight form slump except for Ismael. But this shouldn't cause to much of a problem since i don't have a tough league game for quite some time.

Players To Watch

Viktor Tolstoy - Viktor jumped 2 levels in stamina on wednesday (To Excellent) and should get his first ever 2 1/2 star game even thought he's playing as the extra inner middy.

Martin Devátý - Playing against such a bad defense, he should have a field day out there today.

The Match

Weather conditions were fairly good for football, and Ibrox Arena saw a crowd turnout of 4606. Rangers had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. Lineup: Routhier - Salinas, Oakley, Cannon - Little, Mccord, Holt, Wylie, Spain - Polk, Flanagan.

Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Weiss - Skogby, Ferreira da Silv, Larsson - Minter, Neumann, Tolstoy, Neiva, de Bevere - Devátý, Strobl.

A mistake by the home sides central defence in the 16:th minute allowed Istvan Strobl to score 0 - 1 for Maniacal.

The referee showed Rangerss Alfred Holt the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.

Dolf de Bevere´s speed was made justice as he darted past his marker and struck an opening pass to Istvan Strobl who scored the 0-2 goal.

The away team´s Martin Devátý took advantage of a mistake to the home side´s right in the 39:th minute increasing Maniacal´s lead to 0 - 3. By now Maniacal were drawing the troops back in order to defend their lead.

In the to 39:th minute a very unfortunate collision in the home teams penalty area led to Rangers´s Tyson Little being carried off the pitch and replaced by Bob Estep.

In the games 40:th minute Istvan Strobl nearly put the visitors another one up as he broke through and fired from just outside the box, his shot passed just over the bar.

Rangers had obvious problems in finding their positions.

Dolf de Bevere was, after 40 minutes, almost able to extend the visitors lead with a well placed diving header but home side keeper Jérome Routhier saved.

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, Maniacal´s Joaquim Neiva got himself booked.

A well placed corner kick from Alexander Cannon was followed by Buster Oakley´s hard but accurate header. The nice combination meant goal for Rangers. The result now 1-3.

Martin Devátý increased the visitors lead by putting a volley shot away on a pass from the right. 1 - 4.

Halftime score was 1 - 4. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 68 percent possession rate.

The Rangers players spent the half-time break getting a rerun of the teams tactical organization.

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, Rangers´s Samuel Wylie got himself booked.

Maniacal came close to extending their lead as Benton Minter delivered a long range shot from the right but the angle was too sharp, and the shot hit the side of the goal.

Rangers had obvious problems in finding their positions.

Some fine manouvering on the left lead to an 77:th minute Maniacal goal, making it 1 - 5. Martin Devátý was noted down as the scorer. By then Martin Devátý was a three time scorer - a hat trick!

Alfred Holt of Rangers got sent off for kicking the ball after the whistle, a completely uncalled for move, earning him his second yellow card of the game.

Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 87 percent, dominated the battle.

The most dominating Rangers player was without a doubt Buster Oakley. However, Samuel Wylie made a disastrous appearance. The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Dolf de Bevere. Istvan Strobl on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 1 - 5.

Goals

Martin Devátý - 3
Istvan Strobl - 2

Player Ratings

GK - Stanford Weiss - **

Right Wingback - Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby - **
Central Defender - Ismael Ferreira da Silva - ***
Left Wingback - Rikard Larsson - **

Right Winger - Benton Minter - **~
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jed Neumann - **~
Inner Midfeilder 2 - Joaquim Neiva - **~
Inner Midfielder 3 - Viktor Tolstoy - **~
Left Winger - Dolf de Bevere - ***

Forward 1 - Istvan Strobl - **
Forward 2 - Martin Devátý - **~

Stars - 24.5

Team Ratings

US Rangers
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: wretched - (2)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: inadequate - (5)
Central Attack: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 39

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 50

Post Game Comments

Nice and easy PIC win for the back-ups, Just as expected. Plus there were no injuries which makes me even more happy. I knew Martin Devátý was gonna have fun out there vs this defense. He notched another Hattrick. Thats his second Hattrick in 2 weeks. The man is on fire :) I was also please with the midfield, now they only got a "weak" ratings but they were on the road and PIC'ing. Plus each one got 2 1/2 stars. Now all 7 of my midfielders can get at least 2 1/2 stars in passable form. Thats some nice depth :)

I was also slightly impressed with The Rangers ratings, a 39 NSI after only have your team for 1 week isn't bad. Espically since he got a NSI of 20 last week. If he buys a decent middy or 2 he should be ok.

The Good

Viktor Tolstoy - picked up his first ever 2 1/2 stars game.

Martin Devátý - got his second Hattrick in as many weeks.

The Bad

Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby - My utility mans form continue's to drop and he only manage 2 stars playing wingback.

Around The League

north crowley - vs - Final Fantasy 0 - 3

FF easily dispatched of North Crowley 3-0 and it could have been alot worse. North Crowley have done little to improve they're team since taking over last week.

CristinaFC3 - vs - Witches 3 - 3

The Witches just can't stand being in first place. I don't no what it is but they always seem to blow games they should have easily won. I think they PIC'ed this game but for the life of me i can't figure out why they'd do that. CristinaFC3 is no pushover when at home, this tie changes alot of things in my divison. I might just make a run at first after all.

The Minnesota - vs - Daverules FC 3 - 1

The "Who Cares" game of the week in divison V.253. Neither one of these teams as done much since taking over they're team last week.

League Standing

Team---------------Played----------------Goals----------------Points

1. Final Fantasy-----7--------------------29 - 7-----------------18

2. Witches------------7-------------------43 - 11----------------16

3. Maniacal Misfitz---7-------------------27 - 13----------------15

4. north crowley-----7-------------------14 - 17----------------12

5. CristinaFC3--------7-------------------25 - 13----------------10

6. The Minnesota----7-------------------10 - 33-----------------9

7. Daverules FC------7-------------------5 - 30-------------------3

8. US Rangers--------7-------------------1 - 30-------------------0

Upnext, This weeks FOFC cup game

Havok

09-08-2003, 02:09 AM

What am i doing wrong???

Serious question here and i'll take any constructive critizism you have.

First off, I love doing this dynasty, i'd probally do it if no one read it. I enjoy jotting down my thoughts after each game and keeping track of my team week by week.

But for some reason this season im not getting nearly as many views on my dynasty as a did last year. I'll admit, last season my dynasty was crazy. I bought 2 new players every week and thought i knew everything about hattrick :) Maybe thats why i had alot of views last year. I guess it was kind of entertaining watching me go crazy on the transfer market. But this year im much more stable, i've got a solid team and a good training program going. And since i can't get a good youth pull to save my life, i have no money to buy new players anyway. I guess last year everyone had a good angle. Afoci's was funny, DK's was a great read, SI's was a mix between both and mine was "whats he gonna do next".

So basically my point to all this is ... what am i doing wrong?? is my dynasty boring now?? should i attempt to make it more like DK's?? More of a presentation style and less of a "what i think" kinda thing?? I thought maybe people were just losing interest in HT dynastys all together, but SI and NAIWF still seem to get alot of views. So that ain't it.

Lemme know what you guys think.......

NAIWF

09-08-2003, 11:01 AM

I think a lot of the views come from when you have something new to write. If you're not really buying anyone, then the only thing that's getting posted in a week would be your 2 games and the training and economic updates. Four updates every seven days isn't a lot, and since you're not in the US Open Cup, it's possible the average reader might only check out how you did in the league and how much money you have.

We all know you can't get a good youth pull to save your life, so there's no need to check that out :) My suggestion would be to maybe add a little report card type thing every now and then which explains how your goals for the season are being met or something along those lines. That way, those of us that follow your team get to read/see something we couldn't find on the HT website. Hope that helps.

Alf

09-08-2003, 11:05 AM

See, I hadn't read in a while, and now I am getting back into your dynasty. So no need to worry !!!

Havok

09-09-2003, 02:59 AM

NAIWF - thats not a bad idea. I'll think about doing something kinda like that.

Alf - glad to see your reading again :)

sterlingice

09-09-2003, 07:11 AM

Well, if you check my threads, I have ~300 views through last week (half season, basically) versus something like 1600 all of last season. I know I've been behind but I know a lot of the usual suspects check out my dynasty (checking out the "Who's online" after I post, for instance). I think it's just a matter of less people are reading hattrick dynasties currently. The hardcore guys are still there and a few new people but I think the hattrick population, as a whole, just reads a few less dynasty reports than last season or the season before when we were starting out (although I've found it a bit easier to keep up this year because some of the dynasties have been discontinued and I don't just mean DK as I can think of three off the top of my head). I know I'll keep reading until that bitch goddess school takes away too much of my time.

SI

Havok

09-10-2003, 10:03 PM

Season 2 - FOFC Cup - Round 1

Toledo Drunkards - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

Finally, The FOFC cup has arrived!!!! Unfortunetly i got jipped in the rankings and got a 9th seed. So probally no home games for me :( Anyway, i thought today was gonna be a really tough game because Rich had a very easy league game this week. So i thought he'd play his back-ups on sunday and his starters vs me. But he decided to play his starters on sunday so i'll probally play his back-ups today. If thats the case, my starters should kill his back-ups. This kinda disappoints me, i was looking forward to a good game since all my league games recently have been easy.

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Emanuel Miller (Defensive)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
Inner Midfeilder 1 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller
Left Winger - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)

Forward 1 - Abel Cano
Forward 2 - Bill Wright

Last weeks stamina training was a big help! My midfield should see a huge improvment now. Plus im playing Roy Hoekstra towards the middle. The plan when i bought him was to play him towards the middle in league games but his form has sucked all season. He finally hit passable form on sunday so now we'll see how he does with the starters. The rest of the teams form is still good, Abel Cano is Finally back to passable form. So my central attack might hit excellent for the first time ever!

Players To Watch

Huey Miller - since his stamina bumped up 2 levels to solid. Im expecting his first ever 2 1/2 star game.

Roy Hoekstra - his first game in passable form for the Misfitz. If he makes a big enough impact. He might earn himself a starting job.

Abel Cano - first game in passable form since those EVIL Square Pegs broke him late last season!

The Match

1256 spectators arrived at Toledo Drunkards Arena, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. Drunkards started off with a 3-4-3 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Moore - Everett, Cadalso, Clarke - Woodward, Pupper, Boyd, Chiang-Hui - López, Suchy, Messina.

Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Landowski - Miller, Nairn, Ferreira da Silv - Neiweiler, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Eder, Hoekstra - Cano, Wright.

Drunkards mostly ignored the flanks in favour of attacks in the middle.

Ludwik Suchy of Drunkards received a yellow card in the 15:th minute for unsportsmanlike behaviour.

Maniacal took the lead after 16 minutes with 0 - 1. Omar Nairn placed the ball out of reach for the home sides keeper after a fine move, coming in from the left.

The visitors Bill Wright took advantage of an error due to a misunderstanding between the home side´s goalie and full backs in the 25:th minute. 0 - 2 for Maniacal.

The structure of the game started to change as Maniacal decided to pull back and meet their opponents in the defensive zone.

A header from Roy Hoekstra connected with a corner kick after 28 minutes, and the ball ended up with Huey Miller of Maniacal who shot the 0-3 goal.

In the games 28:th minute Abel Cano nearly put the visitors another one up as he broke through and fired from just outside the box, his shot passed just over the bar.

The teams went for a half-time break at 0 - 3. Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 66 percent, dominated the battle.

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, Maniacal´s Omar Nairn got himself booked.

After 60 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for Andi Neiweiler who increased Maniacal´s lead to 0 - 4.

In the 67:th minute Bill Wright surprised the opponents with a 40 metre pass to Andi Neiweiler who quite easily could settle the score to 0 - 5.

Maniacal came close to extending their lead as Jakob Noer Mogensen delivered a long range shot from the right but the angle was too sharp, and the shot hit the side of the goal.

Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 70 percent possession rate.

The most dominating Drunkards player was without a doubt David Israel López. However, Donny Woodward made a disastrous appearance. The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Jakob Noer Mogensen. Roy Hoekstra on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 0 - 5.

Goals

Andi Neiweiler - 2
Bill Wright - 1
Omar Narin - 1
Huey Miller - 1

Player Ratings

GK - Marcin Landowski - ***

Right Wingback - Emanuel Miller - **~
Central Defender - Omar Nairn - **~
Left Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva - ***

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler - ***
Inner Midfeilder 1 - Jakob Noer Mogensen - ***
Inner Midfielder 2 - Josef Eder - ***
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller - **~
Left Winger - Roy Hoekstra - **

Forward 1 - Abel Cano - **~
Forward 2 - Bill Wright - ***

Stars - 30

Team Ratings

Toledo Drunkards
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: inadequate - (5)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: weak - (4)

NSI - 47

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: solid - (7)
Right Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 67!!!!

Post Game Comments

67 NSI baby!!!!! my best ever by 3 i think. So many firsts in this game, My first Solid midfield and it was on the road, That stamina training really paided off. My first ever Formidable right side defence. Which is quite strange since the wingback on the side, my CD and my goalie all dropped a level in for this week. And my first ever Excellent central attack!!! Abel back in passable form really helped my central attack. Today is a good day to be a Misfit.

As you can tell from the score and the ratings Rich didn't play his starters which is to bad. It would have been a really good game. Next week i take on The Number 1 seeded Rochester Roosters. This will be a very tough game. The good news is he has must win game in his series on sunday. So he should play his starters in that game. But if he does play his starters in our game it will be a dam good game. His team is better then mine but not by very much. Either way it should fun, hopfully i can pull off the upset :)

The Good

Abel Cano - being back in passable form, he gave me that last little push i needed to get me my first ever excellent central attack.

Huey Miller - had his first ever 2 1/2 star game and was 10% better then any game he's ever played according to supporter stats. That 2 levels of stamina helped big time.

Roy Hoekstra - In passable form and playing Roy towards the middle made a big impact on the midfield. Dolf may have lost his starting winger job.

The Bad

How could anything about this game be bad :)

Upnext, This weeks training update

Havok

09-11-2003, 10:21 PM

Training and Form update

Training

no pops this week :( I had a couple guys i was hoping would pop but they didn't. Maybe next week......

Form

I breathed a sign of relief when i saw my form update. Usually after i train stamina the following week takes the worst form hit. But today wasn't bad at all, very little movment. One thing that is cool, is that every midfielder i have is in passable or solid form, That also includes wingers. But my freak 3 star winger and daed's favorite Misfit Dolf de Bevere dropped to passable form. So he'll lose his job with the starters.

3 Players Increased in Form (1 Starter)
2 Players Decreased in Form (1 Starter)

My form dog at the moment is Istvan Strobl, he's in poor form. This really doesn't bother me to much since he is my clown and my forth forward.

Player/Team Value

Value per player (average): 108 333 US$ (+2,809)
Total squad value: 2 275 000 US$ (+59,000)
Average age: 21
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): wretched
No of players (excluding the coach): 21
Number of nationalities: 14

New Misfitz record this week. Josef Eder became the first Misfitz outfielder to break the 200k value mark at $202,000. He should hit Excellent PM in 4-5 weeks.

Upnext, This weeks youth pull and economic update

Havok

09-13-2003, 08:17 PM

Youth Pull and Economic update

Earl Minor (16351002)
17 years, passable form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is balanced and dishonest.
Has disastrous experience and passable leadership abilities.

Speciality: Unpredictable

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 27 000 US$
Wage: 620 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

Stamina: inadequate Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: weak Passing: passable
Winger: wretched Defending: poor
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: wretched

typical useless youth pull and my youth squad still hasn't hit excellent for some reason.

Economic Update

Cash funds: 47 236 US$ (-403) US$
Sponsors: high on life
Supporter Club: 1056 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue----------------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0----------------------------------Arena 14 720
Sponsors 54 120------------------------Wages 24 538
Financial 0--------------------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0-----------------------------Temporary 2 000
---------------------------------------------Staff 40 500
---------------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000

Total revenue 54 120 Total expenses 101 758
Expected income/loss -47 638

I get a home game this week so hopfully i'll sell it out and i'll have around 125k to end the week.

This Weeks League Game

I get to beat up on the US Rangers again this week. I'll be playing my back-ups again so i can play my starters in the FOFC cup game. Should be a very easy game again.

My Prediction 5 - 0 Win

This weeks FOFC Cup game

I play the number 1 seed in my bracket this week the Rochester Roosters. If he plays his starters it will be a very tough game. His team is slightly better and he has home field advantage. But he has a must win league game this week so i'll probally face most of his back-ups, In which case i should win. We'll have to wait and see who he plays.

Upnext, This weeks League Game

Havok

09-14-2003, 09:44 PM

Season 2 - League Game - Round 8

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - US Rangers

Here we go!!!! Second half of the season kicks off today. It should be quite interesting. The Witches tie last week gives me some hope that i can still win the divison. I'll get more into this down at the bottom when i post the league standings so you can see what im talking about :)

Today we get to beat up on the US Ranger's again. We beat them last week on the road with our back-ups 5-1. I'll be playing the B-team again this week so i can have my starters for my FOFC cup game. This week the Rangers over-spent like hell for a passable goalie worth 187k. They paided 120k :( dam newbies. I told him to come here and join FOFC so he wouldn't do stupied newbie things like that. But he didn't listen, oh well..... his loss. He'll learn.....

Starters

GK - Stanford Weiss

Right Wingback - Rikard Larsson (Defensive)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller (Defensive)

Right Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jed Neumann (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Viktor Tolstoy
Left Winger - Dolf de Bevere (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Abel Cano
Forward 2 - Martin Devátý

The B-team looks good form wise. Almost everyone is in passable form. Dolf de Bevere has dropped to passable form so he'll play with the B-teamers for awhile. Same goes for Emanuel, he dropped to inadequate form. The only starters i have playing today are Omar Narin and Abel. Abel is playing because my 4th forward is in poor form and since this divison might come down to goal differance for first place. I'd like to score as much as i can.

Players To Watch

Martin Devátý - has a hattrick in his last 2 games. Hopfully he can get another hattrick today.

Jed Neumann - finally bumped back up to passable form. So im expecting a nice 3 star game out of him.

The Match

17984 spectators had come to Maniacal Misfitz Arena this cloudy day. Maniacal started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Weiss - Larsson, Nairn, Miller - Minter, Neumann, Tolstoy, Neiva, de Bevere - Devátý, Cano.

Rangers tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. They fielded: Martin - Oakley, Salinas, Cannon - Salisbury, Estep, Downing, Carr, Spain - Polk, Flanagan.

The 6:th minute saw the home team take a 1 - 0 lead after a leak in the visitors right side defense. Scorer for Maniacal was Benton Minter.

In the 15:th minute of the match the visitors central line of defence had to look on as Martin Devátý dashed through, knocking home 2 - 0 for Maniacal.

Rangers had obvious problems in finding their positions.

A speedy charge from the left side of the field put Maniacal lead up with 3 - 0. Martin Devátý finished that one off competently, firing from an acute angle.

The structure of the game started to change as Maniacal decided to pull back and meet their opponents in the defensive zone.

The teams went for a half-time break at 3 - 0. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 80 percent possession rate.

The Rangers players spent the half-time break getting a rerun of the teams tactical organization.

Jed Neumann received some harsh words from his coach after he acted foolishly, probably out of lack of experience, in the 56:th minute and almost caused an opponent to score.

In the 58:th minute Rangerss Perry Polk received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. Rangers seemed to suffer a certain amount of confusion about the organization of the team.

In the 60:th minute of the match the visitors central line of defence had to look on as Abel Cano dashed through, knocking home 4 - 0 for Maniacal.

Maniacal put themselves up 5 - 0 when Abel Cano broke through on the right, leaving the entire defensive box behind him.

Maniacal put themselves up 6 - 0 when Abel Cano broke through on the right, leaving the entire defensive box behind him. This third goal made a hat trick for Abel Cano.

Maniacal´s Benton Minter left the field after 81 minutes because of a nasty blow to the shin. His replacement was Andi Neiweiler.

Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 91 percent, dominated the battle.

The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Andi Neiweiler. However, Stanford Weiss made a disastrous appearance. The most dominating Rangers player was without a doubt Buster Oakley. Ossie Downing on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 6 - 0.

Goals

Abel Cano - 3
Martin Devátý - 2
Benton Minter - 1

Player Ratings

GK - Stanford Weiss - **

Right Wingback - Rikard Larsson - **~
Central Defender - Omar Nairn - **~
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller - **

Right Winger - Benton Minter - ** (Injuried)
Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler - *** (Sub)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jed Neumann - ***
Inner Midfielder 2 - Joaquim Neiva - **~
Inner Midfielder 3 - Viktor Tolstoy - **~
Left Winger - Dolf de Bevere - **~

Forward 1 - Abel Cano - **~
Forward 2 - Martin Devátý - **~

Stars - 27

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: excellent - (8)

NSI - 57

US Rangers
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: wretched - (2)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: inadequate - (5)
Central Attack: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 42

Post Game Comments

Easy win as expected. His NSI is steadly improving each week. If he buys a couple decent middy's he'll be ok. As for my team, they played amazing!! Thats my B-teams highest NSI ever! Hell, i could beat alot of divison V teams starters with that rating. Abel got his first hattrick for the Misfitz and Martin punched in another 2. Thats now 8 goals in the last 3 games for Martin and he gets another newbie team again next week.

The injury to Benton Minter is my first injury is a LONG time. So i can't complain to much. Plus it's only for 2 weeks and since he's young its probally more like 1 week. My B-team middy's are really starting to come into they're own. they got 8 stars between the 3 of them and got a inadequate midfield while pic'ing. Im impressed :)

The Good

Abel Cano - his form slump appears to be over as he's scored 4 goals in his last 2 games.

Jed Neumann - got his first 3 star game while in passable form. he should hopfully pop to Solid PM on thursday.

The Bad

Benton Minter - was playing well until he got injuried for 2 weeks.

Around The League

Daverules FC - vs - The Minnesota SnowDrifts 1 - 3

The battle of the new teams!! Minnesota pulled out a close game 3-1 and as now beaten DaveRules FC 2 weeks in a row.

Witches - vs - CristinaFC3 7 - 0

The Witches got some revenge for last weeks embarressing tie vs CristinaFC3. His offense is just killer this year running a 3-4-3 with a offensive coach. he's outscored his opponets 50-11.

Final Fantasy - vs - north crowley 4 - 0

FF beats up on newbie North Crowly. But he had yet another serious injury. Which is good for me :)

League Standings

Team-----------------------Played-----------------Goals------------Points

1. Final Fantasy-------------8---------------------33 - 7--------------21

2. Witches-------------------8---------------------50 - 11-------------19

3. Maniacal Misfitz----------8---------------------33 - 13-------------18

4. north crowley-------------8--------------------14 - 21-------------12

5. The Minnesota SnowD---8-------------------13 - 34--------------12

6. CristinaFC3-----------------8-------------------25 - 20--------------10

7. Daverules FC---------------8-------------------6 - 33----------------3

8. US Rangers-----------------8-------------------1 - 36----------------0

Ok, This is what im hoping will happen so i can win the divison. I need The Witches to beat Final Fantasy 2 weeks from now. They already beat them once this season but it will be tougher for them since its a road game. Then i play The Witches in week 12 at home. I should have super high TS and since its at home i should pull a excellent midfield rating. I not sure wheather i'll MOTS but with a MOTS i should get a formidable midfield rating vs his passable.

I get to pic my next game, Then i get to play FF at home to end the season. I'll MOTS that and hopfully win. Then boom, the divison is mine. I'll probally get slaughtered in my qualification game with terrible TS and probally vs a 5th place Divison IV team. But that doesn't matter. Now if the Witches don't beat FF in 2 weeks and i beat The Witches and FF i'll have to have a better goal difference then FF to win. Right now they are only 5 goals up on me. So i have a good chance of closing that gap.

Anyway, if i lose or tie any more games this year i won't win the divison period. Eitherway, it should be interesting to see what happens.

Upnext, This weeks FOFC Cup game vs the number 1 seed in the HFP bracket.... The Rochester Roosters

daedalus

09-14-2003, 11:37 PM

Originally posted by Havok
Lemme know what you guys think.......Speaking for myself, I enjoy your dynasty as it is. Personally, I haven't been reading dynasties like I did last season so that'd be why I haven't posted in to any of the dynasties this season. Perhaps I need to start reading again so I can keep up with all the news (like all the stamina pops, darn it!)! :D

The Afoci

09-17-2003, 07:48 AM

Havok, don't worry about the view thing, if I did by that, it shows that my dynasty has nearly half the support it once had. It is disappointing, but I think it has more to do with the fact that I update maybe 2 or 3 times a week instead of everyday. Yours is probably the same thing.

sterlingice

09-17-2003, 09:37 AM

Originally posted by The Afoci
Havok, don't worry about the view thing, if I did by that, it shows that my dynasty has nearly half the support it once had. It is disappointing, but I think it has more to do with the fact that I update maybe 2 or 3 times a week instead of everyday. Yours is probably the same thing.

Hm... The Afoci likes it. You may need some drastic changes ;)

Then again, I like it and that's all that matters to dictator for life and el presidente SI, so you should keep it the way it is ;)

SI

Havok

09-17-2003, 01:09 PM

Update

I actually bought a new player today :) I've been looking through the markets for the past couple weeks to find a guy that could 1 day be my coach. But could also play in some games for me.

Naftali ben Aharon (6937691)
30 years, weak form, healthy
A controversial person who is calm and dishonest.
Has passable experience and passable leadership abilities.

Nationality: Israel
Assessed value: 53 000 US$
Wage: 1 210 US$/week
Owner: Beitar
Warnings: 0

Stamina: excellent Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: weak Passing: wretched
Winger: passable Defending: passable
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: disastrous

Paid 46k

His form doesn't bother me since he hasn't played in a game for over a month and once it goes up he'll be a starter. His high experiance will make him a nice 2 1/2 to 3 star wingback playing normal. He'll get plenty of experiance over the next couple seasons so getting him to Solid experiance shouldn't be a problem.

I'll be selling my young defender who i trained up to passable.

Rikard Larsson (10960190)
18 years, passable form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is calm and dishonest.
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities.

Speciality: Head

Nationality: Sverige
Assessed value: 43 000 US$
Wage: 840 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 1

Stamina: excellent Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: wretched Passing: weak
Winger: wretched Defending: passable
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: wretched

Hopefully someone will buy him and continue his training.

Havok

09-17-2003, 10:08 PM

Season 2 - FOFC Cup - Round 2

Rochester Roosters - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

Round 2 of the FOFC Cup kicks off today and i've drawn a tough opponent. The Rochester Roosters are no pushover espically with home-field advantage. But he will probally play most of his back-ups so im definetly the favorite. After our back-ups last year somehow upset The Slumlords starters, im not taking anything for granted. So this win is not set in stone, not by a longshot.

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingabck - Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby (Defensive)

Right Winger - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
Inenr Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller
Left Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Abel Cano
Forward 2 - Bill Wright

I got almost my full A-team Playing today. The only exception is Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby will be starting at Left Wingabck. He's back-up to inadaquate form and my normal starter dropped to inadequate. Since Vilhelm has much better experiance, i decided to let him start. My starters aren't quite in the great form they were 2 weeks ago since i trained a week of stamina not to long ago. But It ain't bad either. I should still see a very nice NSI rating.

Players To Watch

Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby - first game with the starters, probally only get 2 1/2 stars but im hoping for 3 stars in passable form.

Abel Cano - Daed's favorite forward has been red hot lately. Scoring practically at will. Hopfully he'll keep it up tonight.

The Match

Overcast weather free of rain made for a crowd turnout of 1480 at The Rooster Yard today. Rochester started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Bray - Harris, Cerda, Börjesson - Grissom, Labayen, Hagen, Baptista, Acker - Hobson, Barragán.

Maniacal started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Landowski - Ferreira da Silv, Nairn, Skogby - Hoekstra, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Eder, Neiweiler - Cano, Wright.

Rochester seemed to prefer attacking in the middle.

Maniacal took the lead after 20 minutes with 0 - 1. Huey Miller placed the ball out of reach for the home sides keeper after a fine move, coming in from the left.

One of many good passes from John Acker at the wing was recieved and skillfully taken care of by Alex Hobson, scoring for Rochester to 1 - 1.

In the 37:th minute the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending and Abel Cano put the ball away for 1 - 2.

The visitors Abel Cano took advantage of an error due to a misunderstanding between the home side´s goalie and full backs in the 38:th minute. 1 - 3 for Maniacal.

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, Rochester´s Michael Börjesson got himself booked.

Halftime score was 1 - 3. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 61 percent possession rate.

Maniacal´s Bill Wright received a play slashing through the home side´s defense in the 53rd minute, chipping it past the keeper scoring 1 - 4. The home crowd was not pleased with that one. The structure of the game started to change as Maniacal decided to pull back and meet their opponents in the defensive zone.

The home side attempted to get through in the middle and had a good chance of pulling one back as Michael Börjesson tried lifting the ball over goalie Marcin Landowski. Typically, the ball went just over the bar.

The away team´s Abel Cano took advantage of a mistake to the home side´s right in the 62nd minute increasing Maniacal´s lead to 1 - 5. At that, Abel Cano was noted down for a hat trick.

The away team´s Abel Cano took advantage of a mistake to the home side´s right in the 70:th minute increasing Maniacal´s lead to 1 - 6.

Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 61 percent possession rate.

Rochester´s best player was Zenón Labayen. Jacinto Baptista on the other hand, had a terrible day. Most important Maniacal player was Jakob Noer Mogensen. Roy Hoekstra was a disappointment, however.

The match ends 1 - 6

Goals

Abel Cano - 4
Bill Wright - 1
Huey Miller - 1

Player Ratings

GK - Marcin Landowski - ***

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva - ***
Central Defender - Omar Nairn - **~
Left Wingabck - Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby - **~

Right Winger - Roy Hoekstra - **
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jakob Noer Mogensen - ***~
Inner Midfielder 2 - Josef Eder - ***
Inenr Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller - **~
Left Winger - Andi Neiweiler - ***

Forward 1 - Abel Cano - **~
Forward 2 - Bill Wright - ***

Stars 30.5

Team Ratings

Rochester Roosters
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Defence: weak - (4)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: excellent - (8)

NSI - 51

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: solid - (7)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: excellent - (7)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: inadequate - (5)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: formidable - (9)

NSI - 65

Post Game Comments

Second solid Midfield ever!!!! and my first ever 3 1/2 STAR PLAYER! It was kind of a shocker also. Jakob Noer Mogensen has about 3 weeks of training towards excellent, but i guess his solid form pushed him over the 3 stars mark. I thought for sure Josef Eder would be my first 3 1/2 star player. But i was wrong..... and thats ok with me :) Ok.... what else happened. Abel Cano scored the most goals ever in a game by a Misfitz with 4. I told you he's been scoring at will lately. Thats 7 goals in his last 2 games alone. I love it when he's in good form.

The Roosters obviously played his back-ups, so that takes a little bit of the fun out of winning. Just a little :) I've drawn last years FOFC cup cinderella team The Concord Assassins. If i remember correctly he made it way farther then anyone expected him to last season. Im gonna try to stop him from doing it again this year. He's gonna have home field advantage unfortunetly and i'll probally face most, if not all of his starters. So it should be a good game.

The Good

Jakob Noer Mogensen - First ever 3 1/2 star game for the Misfitz!!!

Abel Cano - Just a pure goal scoring machine for me lately.

The Bad

Its getting harder and harder every week to find something bad about this team. Im just so Hot right now :)

Around The HFP Brackett

Hamas Mad Bombers - vs - Concord Assassins 1 - 2

A good game here, i was hoping the Bombers would pull it out cause i'd rather face them next week. But The Assassins 61 NSI was just to much for them.

Spring Grove Fighting Eagles - vs - West Fargo Stangs 4 - 3

Another excellent game here, The Eagles went with the run and shoot tactic and it paided off. Down 3-2 at half time, they made a nice comeback and pulled it out. If i win next week, i expect to see them in the semi's. Our starters are so close ratings wise its almost scarey :)

North County Raiders - vs - Bees 2 - 4

The run and Shoot failed this time, as the Bees upset The Raiders in a tough match. Next weeks Eagels vs Bee's game should be a good one.

Upnext, This weeks Training update

Havok

09-18-2003, 09:49 PM

Training and Form update

Kind of a wierd training update. The only guy that poped was my number 1 forward :)

Abel Cano
162 000 US$, 25 years, passable form
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: passable Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: passable Passing: weak
Winger: weak Defending: inadequate
Scoring: solid Set Pieces: poor

This makes him a serious utility man. He can play middy, defender and of course forward. Unfortunetly, noone else poped :( Jed Neumann is the man i was hoping was gonna pop today, he's got a good 8 weeks of training in him now. Next week he better pop. I even listed him on the transfer wire hoping he would pop :( ohhh well.

Form

Ok, so i can't get a good youth pull to save my life. But 1 thing im doing right this year is form. My fucking form has been great lately. And now its a hell-of-alot better. I had an incrediable week, for some reason i have no guys in excellent form, but i have an amazing, 10 guys in solid form. Thats insane. I'll break it down in a min. But of course, the most important form guy on the team did drop. My starting goalie dropped to inadequate form :(

8 Players Increased in Form this week (3 Starters)
1 Player Decreased in Form (1 Starter)

Even my new guy i just bought increased in form, He's up to inadequate. Here's my form breakdown....

Excellent Form - 0 players (0 Starters)

Solid Form - 10 Players (5 Starters)

Passable Form - 7 Players (4 Starters)

Inadequate Form - 4 Players (2 Starters)

Weak Form - 0 Players (0 Starters)

Poor Form - 1 Player (0 Starters)

The Only postion that is hurting a little is defense, with my goalie in inadequate form and my CD in inadequate form also. But besides them, im great.

Player/Team Value

Value per player (average): 108 682 US$ (+349)
Total squad value: 2 391 000 US$ (+116,000)
Average age: 21
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): wretched
No of players (excluding the coach): 22 (+1)
Number of nationalities: 15

These numbers are kinda screwy since i bought a new player. My average value per player should be a few thousand higher and my overall team value should be about 47k lower.

Upnext, This weeks million dollar youth pull and economic update

Havok

09-20-2003, 07:45 PM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

Donnie Holtz (16573795)
19 years, passable form, healthy
A sympathetic guy who is tranquil and upright.
Has disastrous experience and solid leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 21 000 US$
Wage: 600 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

Stamina: weak Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: wretched Passing: weak
Winger: wretched Defending: inadequate
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: wretched

I listed him mainly because he is a semi-clown. He might sell for 1-2k. But the good news is i FINALLY hit Excellent youth squad. Maybe i'll actually start pulling decent players.

Economic Update

Cash funds: 96 641 US$ (51 546) US$
Sponsors: high on life
Supporter Club: 1078 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue--------------------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0---------------------------------------Arena 14 720
Sponsors 58 275----------------------------Wages 25 150
Financial 0-------------------------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0----------------------------------Temporary 3 000
--------------------------------------------------Staff 40 500
--------------------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 58 275-----------------------Total expenses 103 370
Expected income/loss -45 095

No home game this week so i'll probally lose around 42k after my friendly. The new sponsership money is nice. I've gained about 8.5k in the last 2 weeks.

This Weeks Games

Another new team again this week. The Minnesota SnowDrifts first ever game was a 10-0 beat down at my hands 3 weeks ago :) He's only bought like 2 players since then and both of them suck.

The Minnesota SnowDrifts
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: wretched - (2)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: weak - (4)
Right Side Attack: weak - (4)
Central Attack: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 36

I'll be playing my B-team again and PIC'ing. It Should be a slaughter.

My Prediction 6 - 0 Win

FOFC Cup Game

I'll be taking on the Concord Assassins this week. I'll be on the road again and i expect him to play most, if not all of his starters. He's got a nice team with a tough defense.

Concord Assassins
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: outstanding - (10)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 61

Since he's at home im expecting a passable midfield. I should win possession but its gonna be tough scoring on that defense.

My Prediction 3-2 Win

Upnext, This weeks League Game

Havok

09-22-2003, 12:45 PM

Season 2 - League Game - Round 9

The Minnesota SnowDrifts - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

Another easy game this week, This is my forth straight game in which i play a new team. The Snowdrifts haven't done much in the way of improving they're team since they got it. He logs on regularly but never really buys any new players. So this game should be pretty easy. I played him 4 weeks ago the day after he got his team and beat him 10 - 0. This game won't be quite so bad since im playing my back-ups and pic'ing. But i should still beat him pretty badly.

Starters

GK - Stanford Weiss

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller (Defensive)

Right Winger - Dolf de Bevere (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Jed Neumann (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Viktor Tolstoy
Left Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Abel Cano
Forward 2 - Martin Devátý

Pretty good form all around for my back-ups. Almost everyone is in passable form. Benton Minter is still a little dinged up from last weeks game, so im not sure if my left side attack will suffer. But my right side attack should be nice since Naftali ben Aharon will be playing normal on the side. This is Naftali's first game with the team and once he gets up to passable form (inadequate now) he'll probally be playing with the starters.

Players To Watch

Naftali ben Aharon - First game with the team. I think he'll be a 3 star wingback in passable form, but since he's in inadequate now. Im only expecting 2 1/2 stars.

Abel Cano - My goal scoring machine as of late. Look for him to crack the other teams defense all day long.

Jed Neumann - This will be Jed's best game ever as long he doesn't get hurt. He bumped to solid form on thursday and is just about as close to being SOLID PM as you can get. He should grab a nice 3 stars.

The Match

The crowd of 8869 turning up at The Minnesota SnowDrifts Arena today were greeted by some nasty showers of rain. SnowDrifts tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Fyhren - Echols, Finch, Calloway, Adler - Coy, Carrington, Ponce, Espierrez - Mahon, Osborne.

Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Weiss - ben Aharon, Nairn, Miller - de Bevere, Neumann, Tolstoy, Neiva, Minter - Devátý, Cano.

Some beautiful plays on the left side of the field resulted in a 16:th minute goal by Patrick Echols for SnowDrifts, putting them ahead 1 - 0.

Maniacal could level the score in the 35:th minute at 1 - 1, as Naftali ben Aharon struck home after a fine midfield combination, leaving him completely unmarked.

A free kick aimed at the keepers far post almost gave Maniacal the lead in the 40:th minute, but the ball just wasn´t able to squirm it´s way through the defensive wall.

The terraces were silenced in the 43rd minute as Maniacal´s Joaquim Neiva put the guests ahead 1 - 2, following an attack from the right.

1 - 2 was the half-time score. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 76 percent possession rate.

In the 55:th minute the visitors put themselves ahead 1 - 3 as Viktor Tolstoy finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick.

In the 57:th minute the visitors put themselves ahead 1 - 4 as Abel Cano finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. The structure of the game started to change as Maniacal decided to pull back and meet their opponents in the defensive zone.

The referee showed SnowDriftss Randall Coy the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. Due to a severely mistimed tackle,Martin Devátý spent some time on the grass writhing in agony before he could get up and continue the game.

Jed Neumann received some harsh words from his coach after he acted foolishly, probably out of lack of experience, in the 69:th minute and almost caused an opponent to score.

The visitors Joaquim Neiva took advantage of an error due to a misunderstanding between the home side´s goalie and full backs in the 77:th minute. 1 - 5 for Maniacal.

Maniacal had, after 79 minutes of the game, worked the left side industriously, creating several opportunities to add to their lead, but somehow didn´t achieve closure.

Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 88 percent possession rate.

Most important SnowDrifts player was Cristóbal Espierrez. Thomas Adler was a disappointment, however. The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Jed Neumann. However, Stanford Weiss made a disastrous appearance.

The match ends 1 - 5

Goals

Joaquim Neiva - 2
Naftali ben Aharon - 1
Abel Cano - 1
Viktor Tolstoy - 1

Player Ratings

GK - Stanford Weiss - **

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon - **~
Central Defender - Omar Nairn - **~
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller - **~

Right Winger - Dolf de Bevere - **~
Inner Midfielder 1 - Joaquim Neiva - **~
Inner Midfielder 2 - Jed Neumann - ***
Inner Midfielder 3 - Viktor Tolstoy - **~
Left Winger - Benton Minter - **~

Forward 1 - Abel Cano - **~
Forward 2 - Martin Devátý - **~

Stars - 27.5

Team Ratings

The Minnesota SnowDrifts
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: wretched - (2)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Defence: weak - (4)
Right Side Attack: inadequate - (5)
Central Attack: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 36

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: formidable - (9)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: excellent - (8)

NSI - 58

Post Game Comments

Those bastards actually had the lead for 19 mins :) Anyway, the game went as expected... an easy pic win. No real injuries to speak of either and no cards, So im happy. Naftali ben Aharon's debu was good also. He grabed 2 1/2 stars and added a level to my right side attack. If i play a real tough defensive team i can play him offensive on the same side with my number 1 winger Andi Neiweiler and get a outstanding attack, maybe even brilliant. So that might be an option down the road. I can't believe my B-team is getting high 50's NSI ratings on the road. Kinda scary :)

The Good

Naftali ben Aharon - played well in his first game with the team and should play some games with the starters when his form goes up a little.

Jed Neumann - Jed played his best game ever by 6% according to supporter stats. I hope he pops to solid PM on thursday.

The Bad

Dolf de Bevere - He didn't really play bad, but i was expecting 3 stars out of him since he's back in solid form. Be he only got 2 1/2.

Abel Cano - Abel only scored 1 goal vs these nOObs!!! :)

Around The Divison

CristinaFC3 - vs - Daverules FC 2 - 1

The new guy almost pulled off the upset. I play CristinaFC3 next week which will be my first game vs a non new team in a month. But CristinaFC3 just lost they're second best midfielder for 4 weeks and only put up a weak midfield at home. So my back-ups should still be able to beat them.

north crowley - vs - Witches 0 - 6

Easy win this week for The Witches. But next week will be a huge game for him when he takes on final Fantasy on the road. And he's already started preparing for it. He sold a 18 year old excellent forward for 510k and he's bought 2 solid defenders to help boost his defense. I gotta say im surprised that he only keeps buying solids. With a million dollar youth pull this year and selling this guy, he's only bought a bunch of solid players. Im pretty much done buying solid players. Need to start thinking about buying excellents and formidables now.

US Rangers - vs - Final Fantasy 1 - 4

Another easy win for Final Fantasy. But next weeks game is huge. IF they win next week they lock up at least second place in the divison. And the only way they won't get first place is if i beat them the last game of the season and have a better goal difference.

League Standing

Team----------------------Played-------------Goals--------------Points

1. Final Fantasy-----------9------------------37 - 8---------------24

2. Witches------------------9------------------56 - 11-------------22

3. Maniacal Misfitz---------9------------------38 - 14-------------21

4. CristinaFC3--------------9-------------------27 - 21------------13

5. north crowley-----------9-------------------14 - 27------------12

6. The Minnesota SnowD-9------------------14 - 39-------------12

7. Daverules FC-------------9-------------------7 - 35--------------3

8. US Rangers---------------9-------------------2 - 40--------------0

Upnext, This weeks FOFC Cup game

Havok

09-24-2003, 09:51 PM

Season 2 - FOFC Cup - Round 3

Concord Assassins - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

Sweet 16 baby!!! Im looking for my 3rd straight upset in the FOFC cup but this one won't be so easy. Concord trains goalie's so he can use his whole starting team in friendly's if he wants (except his starting goal) and get full training. Our A-teams NSI ratings are extremely close. I have a slightly better midfield and attack. He has a much better defense. But he does have home field advantage which should almost even our midfields out. It should be a hell of a game.

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby (Defensive)

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller
Left Winger - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)

Forward 1 - Abel Cano
Forward 2 - Bill Wright

Form is still pretty good. The only reall weakness i have is my CD and my goalie are both in inadequate form. So thats gonna hurt my defensive ratings some. But besides them im ok. Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby will get his second game with the starters and now he's bumped to passable form. Im hoping for a 3 star game out of him and hopfully a excellent defensive rating on his side. Everyone else is a usual starter.

Players To Watch

Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby - hoping for his first 3 star game with the squad.

Jakob Noer Mogensen - got my first ever 3 1/2 star game last week and im hoping he does it again today. His form is the same so he'll probally get it.

The Match

535 spectators had come to Concord Assassins Arena this cloudy day. Assassins tactics involved an interesting 2-5-3 combination. Lineup: Lindman - Kardel, Pettersson - Eriksson, Rodström, bin Mohamed, Dordea, Sebestyén - Zhong-Ming, Osman, Frid.

Maniacal tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Landowski - Ferreira da Silv, Nairn, Skogby - Neiweiler, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Eder, Hoekstra - Cano, Wright.

Assassins seemed to prefer attacking in the middle.

Ding Zhong-Ming gave his Assassins the lead with 1 - 0, as he successfully challenged both the guests central defenders, then placed the ball unreachably at the goaltenders right post.

Assassins appeared unsure on how to play.

The visitors didn´t give in and after 22 minutes Andi Neiweiler got through the home sides central line of defense, rolling in the levelling goal to make it 1 - 1.

Maniacal took the lead after 31 minutes with 1 - 2. Abel Cano placed the ball out of reach for the home sides keeper after a fine move, coming in from the left.

What ever got into Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby, the crowd mumbled, as he suddenly struck a cross pass through the own defense - ending up right in front of Assassins´s Woodrow Osman, who easily put the ball away for 2-2.

The teams went for a half-time break at 2 - 2. The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 58 percent possession of the ball.

During the break Assassins´s coach went through the teams new tactics yet again.

Brúnó Sebestyén gave his Assassins the lead with 3 - 2, as he successfully challenged both the guests central defenders, then placed the ball unreachably at the goaltenders right post.

A couple of quick and successful challenges, followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area after 70 minutes might have resulted in another goal for Assassins. However, Marcin Landowski made a spectacular save.

Things were going to get worse for the visitors. Ding Zhong-Ming squirmed himself through the central defense line in the 73rd minute, asserting the lead to 4 - 2.

The structure of the game started to change as Assassins decided to pull back and meet their opponents in the defensive zone.

In the 75:th minute Maniacals Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. The player down was Petre Dordea. The Assassins bench looked worried a while but in the end he managed to get up.

Assassins held the ball, with a clear 52 percent possession rate.

Most important Assassins player was Stefan Pettersson. Nils Eriksson was a disappointment, however. Maniacal´s best player was Jakob Noer Mogensen. Roy Hoekstra on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 4 - 2

Goals

Andi Neiweiler - 1
Abel Cano - 1

Player Ratings

GK - Marcin Landowski - **~

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva - ***
Central Defender - Omar Nairn - **~
Left Wingback - Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby - **~

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler - ***
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jakob Noer Mogensen - ***
Inner Midfielder 2 - Josef Eder - ***
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller - **~
Left Winger - Roy Hoekstra - **~

Forward 1 - Abel Cano - **~
Forward 2 - Bill Wright - ***

Stars - 30

Team Ratings

Concord Assassins
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: solid - (7)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Right Side Attack: inadequate - (5)
Central Attack: outstanding - (10)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 63

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: solid - (7)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 65

Post Game Comments

And so it ends :( He through a curveball at me thats for sure. I wasn't expecting a 2-5-3 and attacking down the middle. I would have played 2 CD's if i thought that was what he was gonna do. Also, he had a 50/50 chance of picking the right side to put his best defender on to match up vs my attacking winger and he did. I won possession by 8% in the first half, but my starters solid stamina hurt them as i lost possession in the second half by 2%. Despite the ratings, im pretty sure the home field advantage did me in. If i was at home my midfield would have completely dominated this game. But i was on the road and it didn't. Congratz to Concord for a great game and good luck to them in the rest of the cup.

The Good

Roy Hoekstra - He pulled his first ever 2 1/2 star game as a winger towards the middle. He's got to be close to solid PM.

the Bad

Jakob Noer Mogensen - Jakob didn't play bad, but he didn't get 3 1/2 stars again. Im a little surprise since his form is still solid and he has another week of PM training in him. But i guess he was a real high solid form before and now he's a lower solid form.

Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby - Was a big disapointment today. His 'Unpredictable' skill gave up a goal and he only got 2 1/2 stars at wingback.

Upnext, This weeks training update

Havok

09-25-2003, 09:58 PM

Training and Form Update

1 pop this week and it was the guy i've been waiting on.....

Jed Neumann (11535422)
20 years, solid form, healthy
A sympathetic guy who is temperamental and upright.
Has wretched experience and wretched leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 123 000 US$
Wage: 880 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 1

Stamina: excellent Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: wretched
Winger: wretched Defending: passable
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: poor

I transfer listed Jed and with the money i make off him i'll buy a 17 year old passable trainee.

Form

Form was good to me again this week, My new wingback has jumped 2 levels in form now since i bought him and now he's at passable. I 'might' play him with the starters this week. Im still undecided. The bad news is my starting goalie dropped another 15k or so in value. He didn't lose a level in form, but now he's a low inadequate form.

4 Players Increased in Form (1 Starter)
1 Player Decreased in Form (0 Starters)

Players/Team Value

Value per player (average): 115 048 US$ (+6,366)
Total squad value: 2 416 000 US$ (+25,000)
Average age: 22
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): wretched
No of players (excluding the coach): 21
Number of nationalities: 14

Upnext, This weeks million dollar youth pull and economic update

sterlingice

09-25-2003, 10:01 PM

What's the over/under on your youth pull selling value for the week? About $10K?

SI

Havok

09-26-2003, 06:02 AM

Originally posted by sterlingice
What's the over/under on your youth pull selling value for the week? About $10K?

SI

This is the week SI, i can feel it. Im gonna pull a 17 year old Solid PM with good secondarys so i can train him :)

Bjorn already told me so!

Masked

09-26-2003, 11:57 AM

Originally posted by Havok
This is the week SI, i can feel it. Im gonna pull a 17 year old Solid PM with good secondarys so i can train him :)

Bjorn already told me so!

I thought you were supposed to get the good pull in week 16.

sterlingice

09-26-2003, 12:26 PM

Originally posted by Masked
I thought you were supposed to get the good pull in week 16.

Hell, I think at this point Havok would take a good youth pick in week 48 if they expanded the season to 48 weeks. ;)

Havok- it's superstition, but it seems to work for me (then again what superstition doesn't work). Wait until game time on Sunday to do your pull for the week. Maybe what little good luck I have will rub off on you :D

SI

Havok

09-26-2003, 02:18 PM

Masked: im just trying to be optimistic! Im thinking if i stay in a "Good' State of mind that good youth pulls will happen :)

SI: i'll try that this week, if it works it will be my new superstition aswell.

SI & Masked: I need to get a friendly going with both of you guys. Im playing GE this week. Either one of you wanna play next weeK???

The Afoci

09-26-2003, 02:23 PM

Havok has Bjorn in his basement awaiting the results of the YP. His fate will be determined by whether the double Excellent is in Set Peices and Stamina or in Playmaking and Passing.

sterlingice

09-26-2003, 03:05 PM

Right now, I'm enjoying my visit to places unknown. However, if you bug me in chat- I might go along with your insidious friendly plot (although I may or may not be in there Wednesday with a test Thursday).

SI

Havok

09-27-2003, 10:02 PM

Economic Update

Im taking SI's advice this week and waiting till tommarrow to make my youth pull. Hey... it can't get any worse can it??

Cash funds: 205 701 US$ (165 186) US$
Sponsors: high on life
Supporter Club: 1100 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue--------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0--------------------------Arena 14 720
Sponsors 58 975---------------Wages 24 270
Financial 0------------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0---------------------Temporary 0
-------------------------------------Staff 40 500
-------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 58 975----------Total expenses 99 490
Expected income/loss -40 515

Look at all my money!!! I sold Jed Neuman today for a 169k. I was hoping for around 200k so im a little disappointed. I also have a home game this week i expecting to sell-out so i'll have around 325k after tommarrow. Depending on how much i spend on a new trainee, i might get my new coach this week. We'll see....

This Weeks League Game

For the first time in a long time i'm playing a established team. CristinaFC3 got they're team the same date i did 6 months ago. Every once and awhile we'll put up so pretty decent ratings but latley they've been slipping. He's never beaten me, i've won all 3 games we've played and it won't change tommarrow.

CristinaFC3
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: weak - (4)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 50

He's put up a passable midfield in great form at home before, but he's missing his number 2 middy so at best he'll get a weak midfield. I'll also be attacking the hell out of that left side defense. I'll also be PIC'ing.

My Prediction 5 - 0 Win

Upnext, This weeks league game and youth pull

Havok

09-28-2003, 06:24 PM

Youth Pull

The good news is this was probally my best youth pull ever. The bad news is he's still not every good.

Denver Figueroa (16847433)
17 years, passable form
A popular guy who is temperamental and honest.
Has disastrous experience and passable leadership abilities.

Speciality: Quick

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 74 000 US$
Wage: 840 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: (this information is not available while matches are in progress)

Stamina: passable Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: poor Passing: wretched
Winger: solid Defending: weak
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: weak

He'll sell, but probally for not every much. Maybe a young winger trainer can train him up some. Since this was a decent pull, i'll wait till sunday to pull again next week.

Havok

09-28-2003, 11:21 PM

Season 2 - League Game - Round 10

Maniacal Misfitz - CristinaFC3

I finally get to play a team with a pulse today, Not that the last couple teams didn't have a pulse. But they were so new it was almost like playing a bot team. CristinaFC3 got they're team the same day i did 6 months ago. He's improved his team some and on a good day can get a Mid-50's NSI rating. Unfortunetly for him, that ain't good enough to even come close to beating the Mighty Misfitz!!!! Espically at home!!! I better shut up now, before i jinx myself :)

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller
Left Winger - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)

Forward 1 - Abel Cano
Forward 2 - Bill Wright

All 3 of my midfielders are in solid form now, which is a freaking miricle. I might get my best midfield rating even, but i am picing so it will be close. Once again the only form problem i have is my defense. My goalie is down to inadequate form and Omar Narin is in inadequate form. So im not expecting any excellent ratings today. Also making his debu with the starters is future Misfitz coach Naftali ben Aharon. I'll be playing him normal at wingback on Andi's side and im expecting a hell of a right side attack rating. Im hoping my defense doesn't suffer to much.

Players to Watch

Josef Eder - Bumped to solid form on thurday and is getting close to excellent PM. Im hoping for his first 3 1/2 star game.

Naftali ben Aharon - First game at passable form and with the starters. Hoping he adds a level to the attack and doesn't hurt the defense to much on that side.

The Match

23000 spectators had come to Maniacal Misfitz Arena this cloudy day. People from all of Florida had joined up for the derby. Maniacal tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. They fielded: Landowski - ben Aharon, Nairn, Ferreira da Silv - Neiweiler, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Eder, Hoekstra - Cano, Wright.

CristinaFC3 had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Pupi - Läfbrant, Dalström, Merrill - Haraldsson, Robert, Munson, Garland, Persson - Perales, Stokes.

Maniacals Andi Neiweiler gave, after 22 minutes, the home team a 1 - 0 lead after an attack coming in from the right.

Ned Stokes of CristinaFC3 received a yellow card in the 23rd minute for unsportsmanlike behaviour.

In the games 25:th minute CristinaFC3´s Håkan Haraldsson fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee booked Håkan Haraldsson for taking a dive.

38 minutes into the game Roy Hoekstra could see that the opposing goaltender who was too far out. He managed to lob the ball past the keeper - but missed the goal.

In the 40:th minute of the match the visitors central line of defence had to look on as Josef Eder dashed through, knocking home 2 - 0 for Maniacal.

In the 43rd minute of the match the visitors central line of defence had to look on as Roy Hoekstra dashed through, knocking home 3 - 0 for Maniacal.

Bill Wright of Maniacal received a yellow card in the 45:th minute for unsportsmanlike behaviour.

Halftime score was 3 - 0. The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 62 percent possession of the ball.

In the 52nd minute Maniacal´s Bill Wright tried to nail the coffin shut, but the shot rebounded off the bar to fall behind the net.

In the 54:th minute Maniacal put themselves up 4 - 0. The visitors defenders lost the ball to Abel Cano coming up from the left, who proceeded to cooly round the goaltender and knock the ball home. After this Maniacal lowered the tempo in order to concentrate on their defensive efforts.

The referee showed Maniacals Omar Nairn the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.

CristinaFC3 breathed new life into the game with an opportunity to reduce the score in the 67:th minute, but the home side´s defenders cleared the ball on the line, after a long shot coming in from the left, rebounding off the crossbar.

After 73 minutes Andi Neiweiler put Maniacal ahead 5 - 0 as he rose to head in a hooked ball, the result of an effort from the right side.

The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 61 percent possession of the ball.

Most important Maniacal player was Josef Eder. Roy Hoekstra on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating CristinaFC3 player was without a doubt Ned Robert. However, Pedro Perales made a disastrous appearance.

The match ends 5 - 0

Goals

Andi Neiweiler - 2
Josef Eder - 1
Roy Hoekstra - 1
Abel Cano - 1

Player Ratings

GK - Marcin Landowski - **~

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon - ***
Central Defender - Omar Nairn - **~
Left Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva - ***

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler - ***
Inner Midfielder 1 - Josef Eder - ***~
Inner Midfielder 2 - Jakob Noer Mogensen - ***
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller - ***
Left Winger - Roy Hoekstra - **~

Forward 1 - Abel Cano - **~
Forward 2 - Bill Wright - ***

Stars - 31.5

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: solid - (7)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: outstanding - (10)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 65

CristinaFC3
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 54

Post Game Comments

Oh so nice! Everything went as expected! 5-0 win and no injuries. Doesn't get much better then that. I picked up my first ever "Outstanding Rating". My right side attack got a nice boost from having Naftali ben Aharon playing normal on that side. Plus we still got a solid defensive rating on his side. So it looks like that 47k i spent on him was WELL worth it. Also, Josef did pull his first ever 3 1/2 star rating as expected. My midfield is really getting good.

Random Misfitz Stats.......This was my second best midfield rating ever by a mear 2% and i PIC'ed. I've now won my last 6 league games by incrediable 37 - 2 goals margin. Granted my competion hasn't been all that great, but 2 of those games my back-ups were playing.

The Good

Josef Eder - Grabbed his first ever 3 1/2 star game and only the Misfitz second ever.

Naftali ben Aharon - Played great has a "normal" wingback. Added a level of attack on the right side and still maintained a Solid defensive rating on the right side aswell.

Andi Neiweiler - scored 2 goals and helped get my first ever outstsanding rating.

The Bad

Marcin Landowski - his drop in form lead to only 2 1/2 stars and no excellent defensive ratings.

Around The League

US Rangers - vs - The Minnesota SnowDrifts 2 - 2

Two of the newer teams squared off this week. The US Rangers will probally be the best team out of the bunch but they still need a couple midfielders. At least he got his first point of the season.

Daverules FC - vs - north crowley 2 - 1

The other 2 new teams also played this week and it was pretty dam boring. But DaveRules FC did score in the 85th to win it. I guess thats kind of exciting?

Final Fantasy - vs - Witches 3 - 1

The HUGE game in my divison this week and once again the Witches blew it :( I told johnny to MOTS this game but he thought he'd still win without a MOTS. FF's midfield was just to much for the Witches. I wanted The Witches to win this game actually cause if they did, and i ran the table i'd be in sole possession of first place. But now even if i run the table i'll have to have a better goal diff. then FF to win the divison. The divison is gonna come down to the last week. It should be interesting!

League Standings

Team-------------------------Played--------------Goals-----------Points

1. Final Fantasy--------------10-----------------40 - 9-------------27

2. Maniacal Misfitz-----------10-----------------43 - 14------------24

3. Witches---------------------10-----------------57 - 14------------22

4. CristinaFC3-----------------10-----------------27 - 26------------13

5. The Minnesota SnowD----10----------------16 - 41-------------13

6. north crowley---------------10----------------15 - 29--------------12

7. Daverules FC----------------10----------------9 - 36----------------6

8. US Rangers------------------10----------------4 - 42----------------1

Second Place now!!! and only 2 goals down to Final Fantasy. 2 weeks from now is the biggest game of the season when i play The Witches at home. Should be a great game!!!

Upnext, This weeks friendly

Havok

09-30-2003, 06:19 PM

Update

2 big updates today.....

First off, Since i sold 20 year old Jed Neumann on saturday, i've been looking for a new trainee. Since Jed was my best defensive Midfielder, i've been mainly looking for another defensive middy and i found one in a place i thought i never would...

Torbjörn Jonasson (16573596)
17 years, passable form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is calm and honest.
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities.

Speciality: Unpredictable

Nationality: Sverige
Assessed value: 94 000 US$
Wage: 1 128 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

Stamina: inadequate Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: passable Passing: poor
Winger: weak Defending: passable
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: poor

Paided 142k

Thats a pretty fair price considering where i bought him. Thats the first player i've bought in sweden since i grabed a 17 year old inadequate defender last season when i was training defending. Im also hoping he's somewhat close to solid PM. Jed had almost the same stats expect Jed had wretched passing and excellent PM, and he poped to solid PM at 123k. So my guess is Torbjörn will pop in about 3 weeks(i hope) :)

New Coach

The other big news is a got a new coach. I really needed a solid coach and now seemed like as good of a time as any to get one. Meet my new coach!

Enrico Mauro Di Tomasso (7167952)
40 years, wretched form, healthy
A solid coach who is fond of attacking
A sympathetic guy who is balanced and upright.
Has outstanding experience and poor leadership abilities.

Nationality: Italia
Assessed value: 0 US$
Wage: 600 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

Enrico is only temporary, at most he'll coach the Misfitz for 2 season. Then i'll make Naftali ben Aharon into a coach. I know the poor leadership is gonna hurt my TS some. But my former coach had inadequate leadership and my TS would always fall to Satisfied from POE before my next game. So i won't be losing much.

These 2 moves put me about 125k in the whole and i have an away game next week. So i'll probally be in debt for a few weeks unless i somehow get a good youth pull. But it will be worth it in the long run......

Havok

10-01-2003, 10:13 PM

Season 2 - Friendly Game - Round 10

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - Golden Eagles

Since we are out of the FOFC cup, today we take on fellow FOFC'er and Misfitz supporter Goldeneagle and his Golden Eagles :) GE traines defense and usually runs a 5-4-1 or 4-5-1 in friendly's. So im expecting one hell of a boring game. But i did notice he's trying something sneaky on his old buddy Havok. It seems his 2 best midfeilders didn't play in his league game on sunday. I think he's gonna sneak them in on me today and try to beat the unbeatable Misfitz B-team!!! He's in for a rude awakening.... The Misfitz B-squad is unbeatable i tell ya!!! UNBEATABLE!!!

Starters

GK - Stanford Weiss

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
Central Defender - Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller (Defensive)

Right Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Viktor Tolstoy
Left Winger - Dolf de Bevere (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Martin Devátý
Forward 2 - Istvan Strobl

The full B-team now, during my FOFC Cup run when i was playing my b-team in league games, i always stuck my best forward in to boost the attack. Now Istvan is back with the b-team. He pretty much sucks (passable/poor weak exp.) and in weak form. But he's my semi-clown so he serves his purpose. Today also marks the first game of my newest trainee Torbjörn Jonasson. I snatched him up for 142k on tuesday. He's got a good assessd value so im hoping he pops to solid PM quick. I don't expect much of a game out of him since he's only got inadequate stamina. But if he gets me 2 stars i'll be happy.

Players To Watch

Torbjörn Jonasson - first game with the squad, if he gets 2 stars im happy.

Benton Minter - Benton is in solid form now for the first time in a really really long time. If he plays well today i might start him on sunday since i wanna score as much as possible since my divison might come down to goal difference.

The Match

1302 spectators had come to Maniacal Misfitz Arena this cloudy day. Maniacal tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. They fielded: Weiss - ben Aharon, Skogby, Miller - Minter, Tolstoy, Neiva, Jonasson, de Bevere - Devátý, Strobl.

Golden tactics involved an interesting 4-5-1 combination. Lineup: Schultz - Hatton, Silverman, Sinclair, Higgins - Fernández-Cuesta, Bengtsson, Thinggaard, Chu, Dogaru - Young.

Maniacal tried to break through in the middle repeatedly, but kept getting stuck on the visitors defenders.

One of many good passes from Benton Minter at the wing was recieved and skillfully taken care of by Martin Devátý, scoring for Maniacal to 1 - 0.

Some brilliant football from the visitors right wing resulted in a 24:th minute levelling of scores as Goldens Leonardo Chu equalised to 1 - 1.

Golden had obvious problems in finding their positions.

The teams went for a half-time break at 1 - 1. Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 55 percent, dominated the battle.

The Golden players spent the half-time break getting a rerun of the teams tactical organization.

After 53 minutes, Dolf de Bevere swiftly ran past Dan Hatton to put away the 2-1 goal.

After an industrious effort down the middle Istvan Strobl could have closed the game off in the 74:th minute, but his finishing shot hit the post.

After 74 minutes Dolf de Bevere made a speedy advance and dropped the ball to Martin Devátý who shuffled the ball past the keeper. The score was now 3 - 1.

Golden had obvious problems in finding their positions.

Naftali ben Aharon should probably have put his team up another goal in the 76:th minute, but some great goaltending by Jochen Schultz kept the visitors in the game.

In the games 80:th minute Maniacal´s Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee booked Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby for taking a dive.

Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 54 percent possession rate.

Maniacal´s best player was Naftali ben Aharon. However, Istvan Strobl made a disastrous appearance. Golden´s best player was Roger Bengtsson. However, Dan Hatton made a disastrous appearance.

The match ends 3 - 1

Goals

Martin Devátý - 2
Dolf de Bevere - 1

Player Ratings

GK - Stanford Weiss - **

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon - ***
Central Defender - Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby - **~
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller - **

Right Winger - Benton Minter - ***
Inner Midfielder 1 - Joaquim Neiva - **~
Inner Midfielder 2 - Torbjörn Jonasson - **
Inner Midfielder 3 - Viktor Tolstoy - **~
Left Winger - Dolf de Bevere - **~

Forward 1 - Martin Devátý - **~
Forward 2 - Istvan Strobl - *~

Stars - 26

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: formidable - (9)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 58

Golden Eagles FC
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Central Defence: outstanding - (10)
Left Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Right Side Attack: inadequate - (5)
Central Attack: poor - (3)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 56

Post Game Comments

Excellent friendly, no injuries, no massive disapointments and i won :) GE must not have very good TS right now since i actually won possession in both halves. He had 2 excellent PM's play which accounted for 71/2 stars!! Plus i had home field advantage which helped. I actually scored more then i thought i would vs that tough defense. But 2 of the goals were from Dolf's 'quick' skill. I freaking love quick wingers. Torbjörn played as expected in his debu, picked up 2 stars. I can live with that, also Benton Minter got his first ever 3 star game which came as a huge shock to be. He's been in solid form before, but this game he played 11% better then any game he's ever played. must be a very high solid form.

The Good

Benton Minter - if his form doesn't drop he'll play with the starters on sunday. He earned it today....

Torbjörn Jonasson - 2 1/2 stars in his first game with the team. He's got a bright furture ahead of him.

Dolf de Bevere - player of the game. His quick skill account for a goal and an assist. That quick skill alone has gotten me 3 goals this year and 2 assists. Thats amazing....

The Bad

Istvan Strobl - Istvan really stunk it up out there today. In weak for he managed only 1 1/2 stars.

Upnext, This weeks training update

GoldenEagle

10-01-2003, 10:32 PM

Hey, I ran a new tactic :D

Good match. You would have seen the 5-4-1 but I had an injury to a defender. I did sneak a couple of A-teamers in there, since we had an easy league match on Sunday. Hey, I did not want their 'form' to fall. :D

Havok

10-01-2003, 11:11 PM

Im glad i didn't see the 5-4-1, i probally would have fallen asleep on my keyboard watching the game =)

Havok

10-03-2003, 03:25 PM

Training Update

No pops again this week :( but i have a few players that i know are getting close. Hopefully next week.

Form

Average week of form this week, the only real bad news is my starting goalie dropped another 12k in value. He's still inadequate but a low inadequate now. I need a good form week for him next week since im playing my biggest game of the season!!

2 Players Increased in Form (0 Starters)
1 Player Decreased in Form (0 Starters)

Team/Player Value

Value per player (average): 116 190 US$ (+1,142)
Total squad value: 2 440 000 US$ (+24,000)
Average age: 21
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): wretched
No of players (excluding the coach): 21
Number of nationalities: 15

Neither went up much this week mainly because i sold a guy with a 130k value and replaced him with a 100k value guy. But still not a bad week. Josef Eder continues to break my "highest assesed value for a outfielder" every week. He's up to 244k now, should hit Excellent PM in a couple weeks.

This weeks Economic Update

Havok

10-03-2003, 08:15 PM

Supporter Update

The Misfitz hit the 10 supporter mark yesterday when fellow FOFC'er "Sublime" and his Manchester Silver Bullets signed up as Misfitz supporters!!

1. JProElement (aka Sublime)
Supporter since: 2003-10-03 21:27:56
2. johnnyveigns
Supporter since: 2003-09-30 21:20:12
3. Drunson (aka damMikeBrown)
Supporter since: 2003-09-23 13:52:18
4. Desnudo
Supporter since: 2003-08-10 05:28:22
5. FofcGoldenEagle
Supporter since: 2003-08-02 06:25:21
6. terpkristin
Supporter since: 2003-06-07 01:10:33
7. NAIWF
Supporter since: 2003-04-21 23:56:52
8. RonnieDobbs
Supporter since: 2003-04-15 01:34:52
9. mckerney
Supporter since: 2003-04-10 05:45:24
10. The_Afoci
Supporter since: 2003-03-19 00:17:20

I wish i had 10 supporter slots so i could support all of you back. But since i can't i'll just stick to supporting the first five that supported me :)

Thanx again all!!!

Havok

10-04-2003, 09:24 PM

Economic Update

No youth pull again, since i had moderate success last week waiting till sunday, i'll do it again :)

Cash funds: -32 388 US$ (-74 875) US$
Sponsors: high on life
Supporter Club: 1122 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue----------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0----------------------------Arena 14 720
Sponsors 59 850-----------------Wages 25 498
Financial 0-------------------------Interest 1 619
Temporary 0 ----------------------Temporary 0
---------------------------------------Staff 40 500
---------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 59 850------------Total expenses 102 337
Expected income/loss -42 487

Pretty good considering i just got a new coach for 280k and a new trainee for 142k. My home game next week should put me close to even.

This Weeks Game

I get to beat the crap out of another semi-new team. North Crowly hasn't bought a single player since taking over his team. But he does login regularly so maybe one day he'll improve his team. I'll of course be Picing again, thats now 7 straight league games with a PIC.

north crowley
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: wretched - (2)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: poor - (3)
Central Attack: poor - (3)
Left Side Attack: weak - (4)

NSI - 38

His defense isn't horrible, but its mainly because he plays a 4-4-2 with a defensive coach. I'll be pulling one out of the Avengers playbook tommarrow. The FOFC favorite Run & Shoot! Well, almost. Both my wingbacks will be playing offensive but my CD won't. Since this divison will might come down to goal Diff. i need to score as much as possible.

Upnext, This weeks Youth Pull

Havok

10-05-2003, 07:01 PM

Youth Pull

dam... back to my usual youth pulls........

Kenneth Okeefe (17061524)
18 years, passable form
A pleasant guy who is temperamental and dishonest.
Has disastrous experience and disastrous leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 15 000 US$
Wage: 560 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: (this information is not available while matches are in progress)

Stamina: inadequate Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: wretched
Winger: poor Defending: weak
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: poor

Fired....

Havok

10-05-2003, 10:08 PM

Season 2 - League Game - Round 11

north crowley - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

Another easy PIC game today, but with a twist. I need goals.... lots of them! Im 2 goals back to the first place team and i have a tough game next week and the rest of his schedule is easy expect vs me to end the season. So i will play my first game running the Run & Shoot! Both my wingbacks will be playing offensive but i will keep my CD playing normal. His inadequate PM isn't enough to make me wanna play him offensive.

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Offensive)
Central Defender - Ismael Ferreira da Silva
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller (Offensive)

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
Inner Midfeilder 1 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller
Left Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Abel Cano
Forward 2 - Bill Wright

Run and Shooting!!! Naftali ben Aharon was made for the Run and Shoot. His passable defending and passable winger skill, mixed with his passable experiance makes him ideal. But Emanuel isn't quite as good. He has passable defending, inadequate winger skill and no exp. But he should do O.K. since my competion today is pretty dam weak. My starters form is the same as last weak, i probally won't get a solid midfield today since im on the road PIC'ing with no IM towards the middle.

Players To Watch

Benton Minter - His first game with the starters in i don't no how long. He played great on wednesday wiith his first ever 3 star game. Im hoping he does it again today.

Marcin Landowski - Form/value continues to drop. Im praying for a form bump on thursday since its my biggest game of the season.

The Match

4765 spectators arrived at north crowley Arena, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. crowley had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. They fielded: Wolfe - Cooke, Mosley, Fuentes, Meade - Kramer, Waddell, Madrigal, Ledesma - Gillis, Weiner.

Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. They fielded: Landowski - ben Aharon, Ferreira da Silv, Miller - Neiweiler, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Eder, Minter - Cano, Wright.

After 4 minutes Maniacal put themselves up by 0 - 1 as Ismael Ferreira da Silva finished off a strike from the left with a real cannon placed at the far post.

Jakob Noer Mogensen increased the visitors lead by putting a volley shot away on a pass from the right. 0 - 2.

In the 33rd minute Maniacal put themselves up 0 - 3 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. Scorer was Bill Wright.

The visitors Abel Cano took advantage of an error due to a misunderstanding between the home side´s goalie and full backs in the 41st minute. 0 - 4 for Maniacal. By now Maniacal were drawing the troops back in order to defend their lead.

Maniacal had, after 42 minutes of the game, worked the left side industriously, creating several opportunities to add to their lead, but somehow didn´t achieve closure.

Halftime score was 0 - 4. Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 79 percent, dominated the battle.

In the 52nd minute the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 5 as Abel Cano finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick.

The away team´s Abel Cano took advantage of a mistake to the home side´s right in the 76:th minute increasing Maniacal´s lead to 0 - 6. This third goal made a hat trick for Abel Cano.

Some fine manouvering on the left lead to an 86:th minute Maniacal goal, making it 0 - 7. Naftali ben Aharon was noted down as the scorer.

The referee showed crowleys Nelson Weiner the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.

Bill Wright increased Maniacal´s lead to 0 - 8 by a superb free kick strike, flying in just under the far top corner.

Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 89 percent possession rate.

The most dominating crowley player was without a doubt Bert Mosley. Nate Madrigal on the other hand, had a terrible day. Most important Maniacal player was Josef Eder. Emanuel Miller on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 0 - 8

Goals

Abel Cano - 3
Bill Wright - 2
Ismael Ferreira da Silva - 1
Jakob Noer Mogensen - 1
Naftali ben Aharon - 1

Player Ratings

GK - Marcin Landowski - **~

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon - ***
Central Defender - Ismael Ferreira da Silva - ***
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller - **

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler - ***
Inner Midfeilder 1 - Jakob Noer Mogensen - ***
Inner Midfielder 2 - Josef Eder - ***~
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller - ***
Left Winger - Benton Minter - ***

Forward 1 - Abel Cano - **~
Forward 2 - Bill Wright - ***

Stars - 31.5

Team Ratings

north crowley
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: wretched - (2)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: poor - (3)
Central Attack: poor - (3)
Left Side Attack: weak - (4)

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: outstanding - (10)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: outstanding - (10)

NSI - 63

Post Game Comments

Nice game, i picked up 2 goals on the first place team now and we are even in the goal Diff. This by far is my best offense game ever as expected. 13% better then any other according to supporter, the Run And Shoot as its uses :) No injuries or cards either, so i'll have all my starters for next weeks HUGE game vs the Witches. Abel Cano picked up another Hattrick, he's played in 5 league games this year and has 9 goals. Also, the outstanding/outstanding wing attacks were nice. Both sides accounted for 3 goals.

The Good

Abel Cano - 3 more goals for Abel.

Josef Eder - Another 3 1/2 star game for Josef. Excellent PM is close for him.

Benton Minter - Got another 3 stars today and pulled in a outstanding wing attack on his side!

The Bad

Marcin Landowski - 2 1/2 stars and is really starting to hurt my defensive ratings now.

Around The League

Witches - vs - Daverules FC 7 - 1

Easy PIC win for the Witches, They gotta come to my house next week. It will probally be the biggest game of the season in V.253. If i win i lock at least second place. It will also be my first MOTS is a LONG LONG time.

The Minnesota - vs - Final Fantasy 1 - 7

FF won bigger then i thought they would and i only gained 2 goals on them. They have an easy game next week but they are missing they're number 3 middy. So hopfully they won't score to much.

CristinaFC3 - vs - US Rangers 5 - 0

The first walkover in divison V.253 since i've been here. This is surprising since The Rangers are active. I think he just screwed up making his starting line-up. He ran a 3-1-2. Didn't matter really, he would have lost anyway.

League Standings

Team------------------------Played---------------Goals----------Points

1. Final Fantasy-------------11------------------47 - 10----------30

2. Maniacal Misfitz----------11------------------51 - 14----------27

3. Witches-------------------11------------------64 - 15----------25

4. CristinaFC3---------------11------------------32 - 26----------16

5. The Minnesota SnowD--11-----------------17 - 48-----------13

6. north crowley-------------11-----------------15 - 37-----------12

7. Daverules FC--------------11-----------------10 - 43------------6

8. US Rangers----------------11------------------4 - 47-------------1

The top 4 teams are set and the bottom 2 are all but set also.

Upnext, This weeks Friendly vs fellow FOFC'er Masked and his South Bay Saints!

Havok

10-08-2003, 08:50 PM

Season 2 - Friendly Game - Round 11

South Bay Saints - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

Today's friendly is vs fellow FOFC'er Masked and his South Bay Saints. Masked is one of the FOFC'ers that chat in IRC during games so it was only a matter of time before we got a friendly going. He isn't a Misfitz supporter (for some reason!!! :) ) but is still a cool guy nevertheless. He's currently in divsion IV and doing quite well there also. He's built a dam good team very fast and his B-team is no pushover either, Plus im on the road. So this should be a good game.

Starters

GK - Stanford Weiss

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby (Defensive)

Right Winger - Roy Hoekstra (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Viktor Tolstoy
Left Winger - Dolf de Bevere (offensive)

Forward 1 - Istvan Strobl
Forward 2 - Martin Devátý

Mostly B-teamer's here, Omar Narin is playing with the B-team this week since i benched him on sunday because i ran the Run and Shoot. Form wise everyone is doing great except Istvan who dropped back down to poor form last thursday. He is usually the Misfitz form dog anyway so it was no shock. Im also trying something a little different with Roy Hoekstra, i'll be playing him offensive instead of towards the middle. This will hurt my Midfield rating some, but i wanna see how many stars he can get offensive.

Players To Watch

Roy Hoekstra - Playing his first game for the Misfitz offensive. Hoping for 3 stars.

Istvan Strobl - lowest assesed value ever for Istvan as a Misfit. He should play 1 hell of a crappy game.

The Game

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 1615 to Complex Spikes Arena. Saints had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Lastra - Noel, Hyypiä, Kaurismäki - Pham, Vahtramäe, Laguna, Blakely, Montgomery - Freeman, Alberti Rovira.

Maniacal started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. They fielded: Weiss - ben Aharon, Nairn, Skogby - Hoekstra, Tolstoy, Neiva, Jonasson, de Bevere - Devátý, Strobl.

Saints immediately set off pressing their opponents.

Maniacal's Omar Nairn scored 0 - 1 by shooting accurately and hard from a long distance, leaving the opponent goalie no other option than to pick up the ball from the net.

After a fatal mistake from the away teams right side defense in the 15:th minute, an alert Eduard Alberti Rovira bagged the ball, evening the score to 1 - 1.

Saints had a weak ability to press their opponents, causing the game to be a bit of a stalemate at times.

Some beautiful plays on the left side of the field resulted in a 24:th minute goal by Eduard Alberti Rovira for Saints, putting them ahead 2 - 1.

The visitors didn´t give in and after 30 minutes Istvan Strobl got through the home sides central line of defense, rolling in the levelling goal to make it 2 - 2.

2 - 2 was the half-time score. Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 57 percent, dominated the battle.

A mistake by the home sides central defence in the 53rd minute allowed Istvan Strobl to score 2 - 3 for Maniacal.

The visitors Istvan Strobl took advantage of an error due to a misunderstanding between the home side´s goalie and full backs in the 78:th minute. 2 - 4 for Maniacal. At that, Istvan Strobl was noted down for a hat trick.

After this Maniacal lowered the tempo in order to concentrate on their defensive efforts.

Maniacal made a substitution in the 79:th minute. Dolf de Bevere limped off the field and was replaced by Benton Minter.

In the 80:th minute the visitors put themselves ahead 2 - 5 as Roy Hoekstra finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick.

The referee showed Maniacals Benton Minter the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.

One of many good passes from Charles Montgomery at the wing was recieved and skillfully taken care of by Floyd Freeman, scoring for Saints to 3 - 5.

Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 74 percent possession rate.

Saints´s best player was Yki Hyypiä. Mikey Pham was a disappointment, however. Maniacal´s best player was Naftali ben Aharon. Istvan Strobl was a disappointment, however.

The match ends 3 - 5

Goals

Istvan Strobl - 3
Omar Narin - 1
Roy Hoekstra - 1

Player Ratings

GK - Stanford Weiss - **

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon - ***
Central Defender - Omar Nairn - **~
Left Wingback - Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby - **~

Right Winger - Roy Hoekstra - ***
Inner Midfielder 1 - Joaquim Neiva - ***
Inner Midfielder 2 - Torbjörn Jonasson - **~
Inner Midfielder 3 - Viktor Tolstoy - **~
Left Winger - Dolf de Bevere - *~ (Injured)
Left Winger - Benton Minter - ***

Forward 1 - Istvan Strobl - *~
Forward 2 - Martin Devátý - **~

Stars - 28

Team Ratings

South Bay Saints
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: weak - (4)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 49

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 56

Post Game Comments

Well, It was a good game until half time, but his middy trainee's
stamina is horrible so we dominated the second half. I also picked up my first injury in a really really long time. Dolf is at +2 but he is young and i have 2 doctors so he should be ready to play by next wednesday i hope. We had a couple pleasent surprises from our trainee's in this game. Joaquim Neiva got his first ever 3 star game. He's about 4 weeks from solid PM and is in solid form. Also, my newest trainee Torbjörn Jonasson picked up 2 1/2 stars with inadequate stamina and passable form. So i have a feeling he is very very close to solid PM. Hopfully 1-2 weeks away. If this is the case, then i should have no problem getting him to formidable PM by late next season.

The Good

Torbjörn Jonasson - 2 1/2 stars with inadequate stamina in his second game with the Misfitz. Solid PM can't be far away.

Joaquim Neiva - first ever 3 star game, the young brasilian is coming into his own :)

Roy Hoekstra - Roy grabed 3 stars playing offensive winger and i didn't lose to much in the midfield department. Playing him towards the middle might be a thing of the past.

The Bad

Istvan Strobl - Hard to say he was bad sicne he got a Hattrick :) but he did only get 1 1/2 stars.

Dolf de Bevere - got injured for 2 weeks. My first injury in god knows how long.

Upnext, This weeks training update

Masked

10-08-2003, 09:04 PM

Good match. Considering how bad my teams stamina is I probably should not have tried the pressing strategy.

Now go win your league and get out of division 5!

Havok

10-08-2003, 09:05 PM

its a possiblity =)

got to win out and win a Quilifier vs a 5th place divison IV team probally

gonna be tough!

Havok

10-09-2003, 09:45 PM

Training Update

EEEEXXXCCCEEELLLLEEEENNNTTTTT!!!!

Got my first ever excellent player :) Seems kinda hard to believe since im late into my second season, but switching training programs slowed me down some.

Huey Miller
111 000 US$, 18 years, excellent form
Has disastrous experience and wretched leadership abilities [Head]

Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: excellent Passing: poor
Winger: wretched Defending: poor
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: weak

I should have no problem getting him to outstanding late next season. I also had another pop this week, my B-team winger bumped to inadequate PM.

Benton Minter
62 000 US$, 19 years, excellent form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities

Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: poor
Winger: solid Defending: poor
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: weak

He also bumped to excellent form, so he'll probally play on sunday.

Form

It figures the update before the biggest game of the season, i have my worst form update in a long time. My starting goalie is now down to weak form and my defensive wingback who is ALWAYS in solid form, dropped to passable. My defensive ratings have taken a serious beating lately and now im playing the best offensive team in the divison. But on a better note, the 3 players that did bump in form this week, all bumped to excellent form.

3 Players Increased in Form (2 Starters)
6 Players Decreased in Form (3 Starters)

Player/Team Value

Value per player (average): 118 381 US$ (+2,191)
Total squad value: 2 486 000 US$ (+46,000)
Average age: 21
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): wretched
No of players (excluding the coach): 21
Number of nationalities: 15

Upnext, This weeks economic update

The Afoci

10-09-2003, 10:03 PM

Nice to see your first excellent player. Everything seems to be coming together good for you now, but we are in the same spot, second. We both need somethings to go our way to get out of DV!

Havok

10-10-2003, 12:13 AM

Actually, my chances of winning my divison aren't bad. If i win on sunday (which i'll be MOTSing at home) so i should win. Then i can PIC next week, then MOTS the current first place team at home and beat him (hopefully) to end the season. As long as my goal Diff. is better then his i should win the divison. But i'll have horrible TS after that and i'll probally get killed in my qulification match vs a 5th place divison IV team.

But the extra week of training will be sweet. Then hopfully i'll run the table next season and promote. But it won't be easy, I still have 1 very tough team to deal with in my divison, The Witches. If he would have spent his 1 million dollar's right from his big youth pull, he would be auto-promoting this year.

As for you, i think Cheesecake is probally the better team. He's had his team for much longer then you. He should auto-promote, then the divison is yours next season. Unless the Orcs upset him to end the season..... Good Luck!

Havok

10-11-2003, 07:28 PM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

Well, its time i stopped bitching about my youth squad. I finally got a good pull. To bad he's not 17 :(

Pierre Marino (17394593)
18 years, passable form, healthy
A controversial person who is balanced and upright.
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 152 000 US$
Wage: 1 280 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

Stamina: weak Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: wretched Passing: wretched
Winger: poor Defending: solid
Scoring: solid Set Pieces: poor

I have no clue what he'll sell for, im praying for around 150-200k. I might upgrade my stadium to 30-32k seats with the money. We'll see........

Economic Update

Cash funds: -71 874 US$ (-117 461) US$
Sponsors: high on life
Supporter Club: 1144 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue------------------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0------------------------------------Arena 14 720
Sponsors 60 725-------------------------Wages 25 498
Financial 0---------------------------------Interest 3 594
Temporary 0-------------------------------Temporary 2 000
-----------------------------------------------Staff 40 500
------------------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 60 725---------------------Total expenses 106 312
Expected income/loss -45 587

117k in the hole, but i have a home game tommarrow which i know i'll sell out. So i should be about even after that. Plus the youth pull sale, so i'll be nowhere near debt after this week.

This Weeks League Game

This is by far the biggest game of my HT career. This week i take on the Current Second Place team The Witches. He got his team the same time i did and also has the best youth squad i've ever see. He's made well over 1.5 million this seaosn alone. Lucky for me he didn't spend his money very wisely. But overall he has a better squad then me. But my big advantage is Midfield.

Witches
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: Passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: inadequate - (5)
Central Attack: outstanding - (10)
Left Side Attack: formidable - (9)

NSI - 67

This is what im expecting to see ratings wise. He will be MOTSing me so thats why im expecting a passable midfield for him. I'll be MOTSing aswell, so im expecting a Formidable midfield. Im hoping if i can dominate possession enough that i'll win. But its gonna be 1 hell of a game. I'll need all the support i can get on sunday. So stop by IRC game time tommarrow and support your Misfitz!!!!!!

Upnext, This weeks League Game

Havok

10-12-2003, 09:43 PM

Season 2 - League Game - Round 12

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - Witches

This is what its all about folks! A battle of 2 of the best teams in the divison, and a very important battle at that. If i win here today, i have a good shot at winning my divison. If i lose or tie its all over and i'll get second or third place. The Witches are in the middle of a turn over in they're training program. They've sold off alot of they're better forwards and bought a bunch of 17 year old trainee's. But they're offense is still dangerous with a brilliant central attack.

He will also be MOTS'ing and so will i. I don't only need to win here today, i need to win by a few goals so Final Fantasy doesn't pull to far ahead of me in the Goal Difference department. He has a better offense and since my defense is in bad form, he also has a better defense. So my goal here today will be to completely dominate possession. Lets see what happens........

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

Right Winger - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller
Left Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Abel Cano
Forward 2 - Bill Wright

The time when i most needed my defense to play well, they have they're worst form in a long long time. My goalie is down to weak form and my back line is at passable/inadequate/passable. This might pose to be a problem. But besides them, all my other starters are about the same as usual.

Players To Watch

Huey Miller - Huey just hit Excellent PM on thursday and excellent form. I don't expect 3 1/2 stars out of him, but he should have his best game ever.

Marcin Landowski - Marcins weak form is killing my defense. Hopfully i'll still at least get a solid/solid/solid across the back. If not, it will be Marcin's Fault.

The Match

The crowd of 23000 turning up at Maniacal Misfitz Arena today were greeted by some nasty showers of rain. Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. Lineup: Landowski - Ferreira da Silv, Nairn, ben Aharon - Hoekstra, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Eder, Neiweiler - Cano, Wright.

Witches started off with a 3-4-3 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Quintanilla - Mutzel, Willox, Larrañaga - Hernandez, Tuver, Landbo, Skogsjö - Hallé, Thornton, Aldrich.

Ismael Ferreira da Silva showed great fighting spirit and didn´t seem to mind the rain at all.

Maniacal broke through to the left in the 19:th minute, Bill Wright firing at an acute angle giving the home side a 1 - 0 lead.

In the 19:th minute of the match the visitors central line of defence had to look on as Jakob Noer Mogensen dashed through, knocking home 2 - 0 for Maniacal.

Things were going to get worse for the visitors. Abel Cano squirmed himself through the central defense line in the 27:th minute, asserting the lead to 3 - 0. By now Maniacal were drawing the troops back in order to defend their lead.

Witches´s Allan Quintanilla left the field after 36 minutes because of a nasty blow to the shin. His replacement was Stefan Wooten.

The teams went for a half-time break at 3 - 0. The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 62 percent possession of the ball.

Patrik Tuver had a lethal looking free kick grazing the post in the 58:th minute.

In the 68:th minute of the match the visitors central line of defence had to look on as Jakob Noer Mogensen dashed through, knocking home 4 - 0 for Maniacal.

A bit later, a magnificent combination in the middle resulted in Maniacal´s Roy Hoekstra putting the lead up to 5 - 0.

Jakob Noer Mogensen received some harsh words from his coach after he acted foolishly, probably out of lack of experience, in the 74:th minute and almost caused an opponent to score.

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, Witches´s Clifton Thornton got himself booked.

Things were going to get worse for the visitors. Bill Wright squirmed himself through the central defense line in the 82nd minute, asserting the lead to 6 - 0.

Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 61 percent possession rate.

Maniacal´s best player was Ismael Ferreira da Silva. However, Roy Hoekstra made a disastrous appearance. Witches´s best player was Jan-Nikolaus Mutzel. Armando Hernandez on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 6 - 0

Goals

Bill Wright - 2
Jakob Noer Mogensen - 2
Abel Cano - 1
Roy Hoekstra - 1

Player Ratings

GK - Marcin Landowski - **~

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva - ***~
Central Defender - Omar Nairn - **~
Left Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon - ***

Right Winger - Roy Hoekstra - **~
Inner Midfielder 1 - Josef Eder - ***~
Inner Midfielder 2 - Jakob Noer Mogensen - ***
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller - ***
Left Winger - Andi Neiweiler - ***

Forward 1 - Abel Cano - **~
Forward 2 - Bill Wright - ***

Stars - 32

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: excellent - (8)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: formidable - (9)

NSI - 68

Witches
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: brilliant - (11)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 59

Post Game Comments

Holy Shit!!! What a game, My boys played amazing. I was expecting a close win, but this was a blow-out. He tryed a wierd tactic on me. I guess since he knew that my midfield was so dominate. He wanted to try and match it. So he played a not so good defender with inadequate PM as CD and played him offensive. This really hurt his defensive ratings and my offense capitalize on it big time. Im also shocked his midfield rating was only inadequate, i was expecting a passable since he MOTS'ed.

Anyway, lets talk about the guys who made this possible. First off, Ismael Ferreira da Silva dropped to passable form on thursday, but his 'Powerful" skill came in handy today in the rain and he played his best game ever by 11% and got his first ever 3 1/2 stars! My entire midfield played good as i got my first ever Excellent midfield rating!! I'm pretty sure it was close to Formidable since i MOTS'ed. All in all i couldn't be happier with the outcome. This seriously increases my chances of winning my divison.

The Good

Ismael Ferreira da Silva - His powerful skill helped him play the best game of his career.

Bill Wright - Scored 2 goals and played his best game ever!

Jakob Noer Mogensen - Jakob also knocked in 2 goals.

The Bad

Marcin Landowski - Just Marcin really, since his form is so bad.

Around The Divison

Final Fantasy - vs - Daverules FC 4 - 0

Very important game here for me. FF only got 4 goals so now im 2 goals ahead of him and he has the harder game next week. So if i beat them to end the season the divison is mine!

The Minnesota - vs - CristinaFC3 1 - 5

Not a very important game in the series. CristinaFC3 plays FF next week on the road. Hopfully FF won't win by very much.

US Rangers - vs - north crowley 0 - 1

Another meaningless game and quite boring aswell.

Leage Standings

Team-------------------------Played---------------Goals------------Points

1. Final Fantasy---------------12-----------------51 - 10------------33

2. Maniacal Misfitz------------12-----------------57 - 14-------------30

3. Witches----------------------12-----------------64 - 21------------25

4. CristinaFC3------------------12-----------------37 - 27------------19

5. north crowley----------------12-----------------16 - 37------------15

6. The Minnesota SnowD------12----------------18 - 53-------------13

7. Daverules FC-----------------12-----------------10 - 47-------------6

8. US Rangers--------------------12-----------------4 - 48--------------1

Now that i have a 2 goal lead on FF, i feel much more confident about winning the divison. Whether or not i win my Qulif. game thats a different story. But the extra week of training and extra money will be sssssoooooo worth it.

Upnext, This weeks Friendly

Havok

10-15-2003, 09:17 PM

Season 2 - Friendly Game - Round 12

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - Manchester Silver Bullets

Today's friendly is vs the newest Misfitz supporter and fellow FOFC'er Sublime and his Manchester Silver Bullets. He's had his team now for about 3 months and his team is looking pretty good so far. Since i MOTS'ed on sunday my TS is in the crapper, so im not expecting much of a midfield here today. But sicne im at home i think i should still win.

Starters

GK - Stanford Weiss

Right Wingback - Emanuel Miller (Normal)
Central Defender - Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby
Left Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

Right Winger - Dolf de Bevere (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Viktor Tolstoy
Left Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Istvan Strobl
Forward 2 - Martin Devátý

My Back-ups form blows right now. Last thursday they took a serious hit. Espically my forwards, 1 is in weak form and the other is in inadequate. Plus my winger Dolf is in weak form and is "Bruised but Playing" since those evil South Bay Saints hurt him last wednesday. Mix that in with terrible team spirit and im expecting 1 hell of a bad game out of my back-ups. The only bright spot is Benton Minter is still in excellent form so he should be great on the wing.

Player To Watch

Benton Minter - Still in great form.

Joaquim Neiva - got his first ever 3 star game last week, and im hoping he does it again today.

The Match

1393 spectators had come to Maniacal Misfitz Arena this cloudy day. Maniacal tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Weiss - Miller, Skogby, ben Aharon - de Bevere, Tolstoy, Neiva, Jonasson, Minter - Devátý, Strobl.

Manchester tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Frahm - Gale, Coffman, Bujan - Causse, Gaare, Curley, Muzard, Aspè - Kannabel, Sorolla.

Manchester strategy involved pressing and cutting off attack angles of their opponents from all over the field.

The home side put themselves ahead 1 - 0 in the 5:th by a breakthrough from Istvan Strobl, who unaided came in out of the right wing hooking the ball over the visitors keeper.

At this time in the match, Manchester were using their poor skills at the press to successfully put pressure on their opponents.

Joaquim Neiva increased Maniacals lead to 2 - 0 by putting a header away on a hooked ball from the right. The structure of the game started to change as Maniacal decided to pull back and meet their opponents in the defensive zone.

Istvan Strobl should probably have put his team up another goal in the 36:th minute, but some great goaltending by Denis Frahm kept the visitors in the game.

The teams went for a half-time break at 2 - 0. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 59 percent possession rate.

Always quick and a menace to his opponents,Dolf de Bevere was in the 59:th minute very close to getting through, but Lovro Bujan managed to avert the attack.

Lovro Bujan got left behind when Maniacal´s Dolf de Bevere made a sudden pull forward in the 70:th minute, finishing off with a swift strike. 3-0!

Istvan Strobl almost managed to score another goal for Maniacal, but his header was tipped to a corner by the visitors goalie.

In the 77:th minute Maniacal´s Martin Devátý tried to nail the coffin shut, but the shot rebounded off the bar to fall behind the net.

Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 71 percent, dominated the battle.

Maniacal´s best player was Benton Minter. Istvan Strobl on the other hand, had a terrible day. Manchester´s best player was Vincent Kannabel. Marcello Aspè on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 3 - 0

Goals

Istvan Strobl - 1
Joaquim Neiva - 1
Dolf de Bevere - 1

Player Ratings

GK - Stanford Weiss - **~

Right Wingback - Emanuel Miller - **
Central Defender - Vilhelm 'Ströle' Skogby - **~
Left Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon - ***

Right Winger - Dolf de Bevere - **
Inner Midfielder 1 - Joaquim Neiva - ***
Inner Midfielder 2 - Torbjörn Jonasson - **
Inner Midfielder 3 - Viktor Tolstoy - **~
Left Winger - Benton Minter - ***

Forward 1 - Istvan Strobl - *~
Forward 2 - Martin Devátý - **

Stars - 26

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: excellent - (9)

NSI - 50

Manchester Silver Bullets
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: poor - (3)
Right Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: inadequate - (5)
Central Attack: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 46

Post Game Comments

Good friendly, no injuries and we won. That 50 NSI is the lowest Misfitz NSI in a very long time, but it was expected. I think Sublime messed up and played his starters. I'm not sure what he trains or if he has any trainee's. But that was pretty much the same team he played on sunday. Anyway, We only won 3-0, but we also missed 3 scoring chances, not to surprising since my forwards are in crap form. But once again Dolf comes through, Even though Dolf de Bevere is in weak form and "Bruised but training", his quick skill still got 2 events and a goal. I swear... quick winger kick so much ass.

The Good

Joaquim Neiva - second straight 3 star game, he's getting close to solid PM.

Benton Minter - Benton's great form lead to him having another great game on the wing. He'll start on sunday if his form holds tommarrow.

Stanford Weiss - Got his first ever 2 1/2 star game in the net. He's really close to excellent form.

The Bad

Torbjörn Jonasson - my newest trainee dropped back down to 2 stars this game. He's still in passable form but im pretty sure its a very low passable form.

Istvan Strobl - Scored 1 goal, but missed 2 others. One day he'll get back above weak form.

Upnext, This weeks training update

Sublime

10-16-2003, 06:10 PM

Yeah i forgot to change the rest of my lineup...I'm traning keeper so just basically switched him, and forgot the rest.

The Afoci

10-16-2003, 06:24 PM

Nice win Havok. Youth Pulls be damned!

Havok

10-16-2003, 08:49 PM

Originally posted by Sublime
Yeah i forgot to change the rest of my lineup...I'm traning keeper so just basically switched him, and forgot the rest.

ahhh that explains it. Then im even more glad that nobody got hurt on your side. Losing starters to injuries in friendlys can be a bitch.

Oringinally posted by The Afoci
Nice win Havok. Youth Pulls be damned!

Thanx bro, it was much more of a blowout then i thought it would be. Hell i could have just played normal and won. Sitting his best defender and playing a back-up midfielder as an offensive CD really killed his defensive ratings. So i just scored at will.

Havok

10-16-2003, 09:34 PM

Training and Form Update

WOOT!!!!! All my starting middes are now excellent PM baby!!! :) Huey Miller bumped last week to excellent and this week.....

Josef Eder
275 000 US$, 20 years, solid form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Powerful]

Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: excellent Passing: passable
Winger: weak Defending: poor
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: wretched

Josef is my number 1 middy.... he's got the highest assessed value of any outfielder on my team and he's just a straight up badass! But he is 20 (soon to be 21) so when he hits formidable about week 7-8 next season he will be sold.

Jakob Noer Mogensen
173 000 US$, 19 years, solid form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Quick]

Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: excellent Passing: weak
Winger: poor Defending: inadequate
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: inadequate

Jakob is a beast aswell, He was my first ever 3 1/2 star player like 3 weeks ago. But dropped in form and went back 3 stars. But today he bumped to Excellent PM and solid form. So sunday he'll get 3 1/2 stars easy. Im still not sure if im gonna sell him when he hits formidable or wait till he hits outstanding. All depends on what happens next season.

Im expecting a few more PM bumps soon. Next week should be nice also.

Form

After last weeks disappointing form update, This week was MUCH MUCH better. Actually, it was one of my best ones of all time. My starting goalie added about 18k in value and jumped up to inadequate form. Plus, Jakob bumped to solid form, Now my entire starting midfield has excellent PM and Solid/solid/excellent form!!!

6 Players increased in form (3 starters)
2 Players decreased in form (1 starter)

Team/Player Value

Value per player (average): 123 476 US$ (+5,095)
Total squad value: 2 593 000 US$ (+107,000)
Average age: 21
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): wretched
No of players (excluding the coach): 21
Number of nationalities: 15

Upnext, This weeks youth pull and economic update

Masked

10-17-2003, 12:52 AM

Damn you got better middies than me now! Congrats on the great update.

As for when to sell them, I am in the same position. I am going to watch and see if the market rebounds next season for formidables. Unfortunately my two old guys (both 20) have crappy secondaries. Good thing you trained defense that first year and knew how to buy good trainees. :)

Havok

10-17-2003, 01:12 AM

Originally posted by Masked
Damn you got better middies than me now! Congrats on the great update.

As for when to sell them, I am in the same position. I am going to watch and see if the market rebounds next season for formidables. Unfortunately my two old guys (both 20) have crappy secondaries. Good thing you trained defense that first year and knew how to buy good trainees. :)

Your right, that was the only good thing about me switching training programs. I had about 300k to spend on trainee's and i knew how to use the transfer market. So all but 1 of my 7 midfielders have good secondary's. Thank god they do since middies with crap secondary's are going for so dam cheap right now. Also... within the next week or 2 all of my back-ups should have solid PM. So things are going good for me at the moment :)

As for selling guys.... it all depends on where im at next season. If im still in divison V then i will probally only sell Josef and buy a formidable forward. Then sell Jakob as a 21 year old outstanding earlier the next season. Because, if i don't promote this season, my midfield will be some much better then everyone else's in my divison, i won't have to worry about upgrading other postions. I'll just overpower them with possession.

Now if i do promote to divison IV, then i might sell off a couple other guys next season to help upgrade the rest of my squad. The next few weeks are big big big for the Misfitz :)

If my midfielders stay in this good of form i probally won't have to MOTS my last game and kill my TS. So i'll have a better shot at winning my qualifaction game. Once again.... i've rambled on about my team! :)

Havok

10-18-2003, 07:41 PM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

dam.... 3 sellable guys in 4 weeks. Hell has frozen over....

Paul Renteria (17616536)
17 years, passable form, healthy
A sympathetic guy who is calm and honest.
Has disastrous experience and passable leadership abilities.

Speciality: Unpredictable

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 32 000 US$
Wage: 640 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

Stamina: weak Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: wretched Passing: inadequate
Winger: poor Defending: poor
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: poor

Good personality and good forward specialty skill. Should get me around 30-40k i think. I'll take that....

Economic Update

Cash funds: 171 678 US$ (130 560) US$
Sponsors: high on life
Supporter Club: 1166 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue-------------------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0--------------------------------------Arena 14 720
Sponsors 61 600---------------------------Wages 25 498
Financial 0------------------------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0---------------------------------Temporary 2 000
-------------------------------------------------Staff 40 500
-------------------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 61 600----------------------Total expenses 102 718
Expected income/loss -41 118

I'll probally almost break even this after my youth pull sells.

This Weeks League Game

Easy league game this week, i take on Daverules FC. One of the newer teams. He's done almost nothing to improve his team since he's got it but he does login regularly.

Daverules FC
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: wretched - (2)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Attack: inadequate - (5)
Central Attack: weak - (4)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 38

I'll be picing of course but with my bad TS and being on the road i might only get a inadquate midfield rating. But that will still be plenty to kill these guys.

Upnext, This weeks league game

Havok

10-19-2003, 01:28 PM

update

well, i've been looking for another defender for a long time now. Mainly because my starters have had such bad form over the last 5 weeks. I was looking for a older experianced solid defender for under 85k. Took me a couple weeks but i finally found one.....

Joseph MacKindlay (7876308)
30 years, passable form, healthy
A sympathetic guy who is calm and honest.
Has passable experience and poor leadership abilities.

Speciality: Quick

Nationality: India
Assessed value: 49 000 US$
Wage: 980 US$/week
Owner: SS.India Kickers
Warnings: 1

Stamina: poor Goaltending: wretched
Playmaking: wretched Passing: inadequate
Winger: weak Defending: solid
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: passable

Paid 78k

I don't like the quick skill since it blows for defenders. But he still gets 3 stars in passable form and 3 1/2 stars in solid and excellent form. So we'll work for now. This will probally be the last "Solid" player i ever by except trainees. Its excellent and formidables from here on out!

Havok

10-19-2003, 10:00 PM

Season 2 - League Game - Round 13

Daverules FC - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

Today we take on another 1 of the 4 newer teams. The owner of DaverulesFC is quite active and logs in regularly. But he hasn't done hardly anything to improve his team yet and will be regulated at the end of the season. This should be a very easy win today. As long as i score about 3-4 goals i should still have a nice lead over Final Fantasy in goal Diff. He's playing a tougher game then me this week so he shouldn't score to much.

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Offensive)
Central Defender - Joseph MacKindlay
Left Wingback - Omar Nairn (Defensive)

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
Inner Midfieder 2 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
Inner Midfileder 3 - Huey Miller
Left Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Abel Cano
Forward 2 - Bill Wright

After thursday's excellent form and training update. My starters are looking pretty good. Almost everyone is in passable or above form except my goalie (inadequate) and Omar Narin (inadequate). Even thought my midfield is in great form, don't expect to much out of them. I have irritated TS and i'll be Picing on the road. So i'll probally only get a inadequate midfeild. But that should be more then enough to beat these guys.

The major change in the line-up is Omar Narin is now playing defensive wingback and my newest player Joseph MacKindlay will take over at CD since he's got better form and experiance.

Players To Watch

Joseph MacKindlay - First game with the team today. Im expecting a nice 3 stars out of him at CD.

Abel Cano - This is the first time i've ever had him in solid form. Its a low solid form since his value only went up like 2k last update. But maybe he'll get me 3 stars.

Jakob Noer Mogensen - Jakob bumped to excellent PM and solid form on thursday. So im expecting 3 1/2 stars out of him today.

The Match

Overcast weather free of rain made for a crowd turnout of 7446 at Snapple Stadium today. Daverules had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Cooper - Roche, Laws, Cuellar - Cohen, Leon, Ali, Benders, Vigil - Wilburn, Laird.

Maniacal tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Lineup: Landowski - ben Aharon, MacKindlay, Nairn - Neiweiler, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Eder, Minter - Cano, Wright.

It seemed as though Maniacal considered the game won aforehand which resulted in a very uninspired start of the game.

Jakob Noer Mogensen received some harsh words from his coach after he acted foolishly, probably out of lack of experience, in the 14:th minute and almost caused an opponent to score.

The bicycle kick from Zebulon Vigil would have been the Goal of the Year, had it not hit the posts.

Some beautiful plays on the left side of the field resulted in a 24:th minute goal by Jorge Wilburn for Daverules, putting them ahead 1 - 0.

The referee showed Daveruless Paul Laws the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.

The visitors didn´t give in and after 31 minutes Omar Nairn got through the home sides central line of defense, rolling in the levelling goal to make it 1 - 1.

In the 31st minute Daveruless Shawn Cohen received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first.

In the 34:th minute the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending and Josef Eder put the ball away for 1 - 2.

1 - 2 was the half-time score. The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 56 percent possession of the ball.

After 64 minutes of game time Benton Minter received an excellent opportunity to add to the visitors lead, clipping a volley hooked in from the right, but Preston Cooper was in the right place, tipping the ball to a corner.

The away team´s Bill Wright took advantage of a mistake to the home side´s right in the 72nd minute increasing Maniacal´s lead to 1 - 3.

Maniacal´s Abel Cano received a play slashing through the home side´s defense in the 75:th minute, chipping it past the keeper scoring 1 - 4. The home crowd was not pleased with that one.

The game had been on for 79 minutes when Bill Wright broke through to the right, upping the score to the home crowd´s dismay. Maniacal´s were up 1 - 5. By now Maniacal were drawing the troops back in order to defend their lead.

A marvelous Daverules effort to the right resulted in a 81st minute goal by Robert Laird, putting the score up to 2 - 5.

Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 71 percent, dominated the battle.

Most important Daverules player was Dan Roche. However, Jeroen Benders made a disastrous appearance. Most important Maniacal player was Josef Eder. Marcin Landowski on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 2 - 5

Goals

Bill Wright - 2
Abel Cano - 1
Josef Eder - 1
Omar Narin - 1

Player Ratings

GK - Marcin Landowski - **~

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon - ***
Central Defender - Joseph MacKindlay - ***
Left Wingback - Omar Nairn - ***

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler - ***
Inner Midfielder 1 - Josef Eder - ***~
Inner Midfieder 2 - Jakob Noer Mogensen - ***~
Inner Midfileder 3 - Huey Miller - ***
Left Winger - Benton Minter - ***

Forward 1 - Abel Cano - **~
Forward 2 - Bill Wright - ***

Stars - 33

Player Ratings

Daverules FC
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: poor - (3)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Attack: inadequate - (5)
Central Attack: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 42

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: poor - (3)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: brilliant - (11)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: formidable - (9)'

NSI - 57

Post Game Comments

Holy fucking shit! a poor Midfield rating!!! With 3 excellent middy's in great form!! Im not sure why i got overconfident in this game. Its the first time my teams ever gotten it. My teams confidence was only strong before the game. So.... Pic on the road..... Very bad TS..... and Overconfident got me a poor midfield. Crazy crazy shit. Anyway, lets find some good stuff in this game!!

Well, i won!! and i got my first ever "Brilliant Rating", Which is always good. My right wing attack is amazing when I play Naftali offensive. It doesn't hurt my defensive ratings to bad either. I still got passable on that side. I also got my most ever stars in one game today.... 33!!! The bad news is that i only gained 1 level of TS for picing today :( so im only at composed for next weeks big game. Im still not sure wheather im gonna MOTS or not. Depends on what happens on thursday's update.

The Good

Joseph MacKindlay - His first game with the team was nice getting 3 stars in passable form.

Bill Wright - Bill knocked in 2 more goals and tied Abel for the Misfitz league goals lead this season with 10.

Jakob Noer Mogensen - Jakob got 3 1/2 stars for the second time in his career.

The Bad

Over Confidence!!! - This fucking killed my midfield rating today. I hope it doesn't EVER happen again.

Around The League

north crowley - vs - The Minnesota 3 - 2

The battle for 5th place and North Crowly pulled it out in the 85th min. But who cares... they both suck anyway.

Witches - vs - US Rangers 5 - 0

The Witches got to beat the crap out of one of the newer teams today. Witches lock 3rd place with this win.

Final Fantasy - vs - CristinaFC3 2 - 0

The most important game of the week for me. And FF only won by 2 goals so im winning the goal diff. now. All i gotta do is win next week and the divison is MINE!!! MINE I SAY!!!!

League Standings

Team----------------------------Played-------------Goals-----------Points

1. Final Fantasy------------------13----------------53 - 10----------36

2. Maniacal Misfitz---------------13----------------62 - 16-----------33

3. Witches-------------------------13----------------69 - 21----------28

4. CristinaFC3---------------------13----------------37 - 29----------19

5. north crowley------------------13-----------------19 - 39---------18

6. The Minnesota SnowD-------13-----------------20 - 56----------13

7. Daverules FC-------------------13-----------------12 - 52----------6

8. US Rangers---------------------13------------------4 - 53-----------1

Looking good for the Misfitz!!! I can smell a divison title!

Upnext, This weeks friendly

Havok

10-22-2003, 09:09 PM

Season 2 - Friendly game - Round 13

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - Airborne Penguins

Fellow FOFC'er TargetPratice and his EVIL divison II Airborne Penguins travel to sunny florida today to take on my unbeatable B-team! This will be the first game ever played in my newly renamed stadium!! "The Island of Misfit Toyz". Fortunetly for me (and my b-team) The Penguins b-team is out of form because of TP's great cup run!! So they haven't played in awhile. This should help level out the playing field some since his team is so much better then mine. Im not expecting a win here today, but hopfully we'll keep it close.

Starters

GK - Stanford Weiss

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Offensive)
Central Defender 1 - Ismael Ferreira da Silva
Left Wingback - Emanuel Miller (Defensive)

Right Winger - Dolf de Bevere (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
Inenr Midfielder 3 - Viktor Tolstoy
Left Winger - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)

Forward 1 - Martin Devátý
Forward 2 - Istvan Strobl

B-teams form is OK right now. My forwards are horrible (inadequate/weak) and Dolf De Bevere is in weak form also. But everyone else is doing ok. My newest B-team member is Ismael Ferreira da Silva. Since i bought Joseph last week, i had to demote Ismael. He's a very very high passable defender (8 weeks of defender training) and he'll still start sometimes when in good form.

Players To Watch

Stanford Weiss - My back-up goalie stanford played awsome last week and got his first ever 2 1/2 star game. He's still in excellent form so im expecting the same this week.

The Match

Weather conditions were fairly good for football, and The Island of Misfit Toyz saw a crowd turnout of 2425. Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. They fielded: Weiss - ben Aharon, Ferreira da Silv, Miller - de Bevere, Tolstoy, Neiva, Jonasson, Hoekstra - Devátý, Strobl.

Airborne had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. They fielded: Tellander - Salmon, Smith, Ventura - Brandbeck, Gil, van der Veen, Mayer, Herndon - Einarsson, Gonzalez Beilfus.

It was an obvious ambition of Airborne to attack on the flanks.

Maniacal created a good opportunity to score in the games 4:th minute when Martin Devátý`s hooked ball created a scuffle in front of the goal, and the visitors defenders had a hard time clearing the ball.

In the 20:th minute Airbornes Per Einarsson received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first.

Istvan Strobl gave his Maniacal the lead with 1 - 0, as he successfully challenged both the guests central defenders, then placed the ball unreachably at the goaltenders right post.

A corner kick created great disorder in the penalty area, but at last Airborne´s Manuel Gonzalez Beilfuss was able to shove the ball in. 1-1.

After the game, the most discussed event will be the penalty in the 40:th minute giving the visitors the lead with 1 - 2. Arron Ventura struck home the penalty, as cool as anything.

After a fatal mistake from the away teams right side defense in the 40:th minute, an alert Istvan Strobl bagged the ball, evening the score to 2 - 2.

In the 40:th minute Maniacals Ismael Ferreira da Silva received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. Airborne were forced to a substitution as Manuel Gonzalez Beilfuss couldn´t continue playing due to the rough treatment.

Maniacals Viktor Tolstoy got himself booked after a foul.

The teams went for a half-time break at 2 - 2. The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Airborne, with an impressive 56 percent possession of the ball.

Martin Devátý gave his Maniacal the lead with 3 - 2, as he successfully challenged both the guests central defenders, then placed the ball unreachably at the goaltenders right post.

A speedy charge from the left side of the field put Maniacal lead up with 4 - 2. Istvan Strobl finished that one off competently, firing from an acute angle. By then Istvan Strobl was a three time scorer - a hat trick!

In the 78:th minute Airbornes Jose Maria Gil received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first.

Gabriel Mayer tired completely after a while, but the team mates managed to cover for his mistakes.

Jose Maria Gil nearly reduced 82 minutes into the game, but a splendid one hand save by Stanford Weiss put a stop to the attempt coming in from the right flank.

Airborne held the ball, with a clear 53 percent possession rate.

The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Naftali ben Aharon. Istvan Strobl on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating Airborne player was without a doubt Jose Maria Gil. However, Patrik Tellander made a disastrous appearance.

The match ends 4 - 2

Goals

Istvan Strobl - 3
Martin Devátý - 1

Player Ratings

2.5 Stanford Weiss

3.0 Naftali ben Aharon
2.5 Ismael Ferreira da Silva
2.5 Emanuel Miller

2.0 Dolf de Bevere
3.0 Joaquim Neiva
2.0 Torbjörn Jonasson
3.0 Viktor Tolstoy
2.5 Roy Hoekstra

2.0 Martin Devátý
1.5 Istvan Strobl

26.5 - Stars

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: weak - (4)

NSI - 55

Airborne Penguins
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: solid - (7)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 59

Post Game Comments

I try to tell people that the Misfitz B-team is unbeatable, but they just don't listen :) Im actually slightly surprised we won this game. He won possession in each half and after i hurt is back-up forward, his badass outstanding forward came in!!! But the defense held well. Somehow Istvan Strobl scored a hat trick. This guy is the worst player on my team and is in crap form (weak) but stills scores in every dam friendly he plays in. The other good news is that Viktor Tolstoy got his first ever 3 star game today and he was playing in the extra IM spot. He should bump to solid PM next week.

The Good

Stanford Weiss - Played another awsome game and got me 2 1/2 stars. 2 % better then last sunday, this is about as good as he is gonna get.

Istvan Strobl - Scored the Misfitz 4th ever hattrick and his first with the team.

Viktor Tolstoy - had his first ever 3 stars game!

The Bad

Dolf de Bevere - his bad form (weak) lead to another 2 star game. Im hoping he pulls out of this slump soon.

Torbjörn Jonasson - only 2 stars again for the rookie. His drop to inadequate form last thursday hurt. Im still hoping he pops to solid PM tommarrow.

Upnext, This weeks training update

Masked

10-22-2003, 10:17 PM

Bah, you aren't ready for div 4. Go straight to 2! Congrats on the win!

And the Penguins have lost a bit of their mystique... ;)

Hey, that format for the stars seems familiar...

Havok

10-22-2003, 11:25 PM

Originally posted by Masked
Hey, that format for the stars seems familiar...

whatever do you mean ;)

sterlingice

10-23-2003, 01:26 AM

Originally posted by Masked
Hey, that format for the stars seems familiar...

Stealing formats for match reports is what hattrick is all about, isn't it?

SI

Masked

10-23-2003, 02:01 AM

Originally posted by sterlingice
Stealing formats for match reports is what hattrick is all about, isn't it?

SI

The South Bay <s>Hippopotami</s> Saints think that stealing formats is wrong.

;)

Havok

10-23-2003, 09:32 PM

Training and Form Update

2 more PM pops today and both were wingers if ya can believe it :)

Andi Neiweiler
218 000 US$, 26 years, solid form
Has wretched experience and passable leadership abilities

Stamina: solid Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: passable
Winger: solid Defending: inadequate
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: weak

Andi is my number 1 winger and just a flat out badass. He also jumped to solid form today so he might play his best game ever on sunday.

Roy Hoekstra
128 000 US$, 19 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Powerful]

Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: weak
Winger: passable Defending: weak
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: poor

Roy is my "Winger Towards The Middle" and now he finally poped to solid PM. The bad news is he dropped inadequate form today also but since i'll need all the possession i can get on sunday, he'll probally still get the start.

Im expecting 2 or 3 more PM pops next thursday also.

Form

Form was ok this week, my starters broke even (1 up, 1 down) but my back-ups did well. Both my back-up forward have been struggling (poor and inadequate form) but they both gained a level today. The other good news is that my starting goalie went up about 7k in value so at least he's climbing his way back to passable form. So for the big game on sunday my starters form looks pretty good.

4 Players increased in form (1 starter)
1 Player decreased in form (1 starter)

Player/Team Value

Value per player (average): 128 952 US$ (+5,476)
Total squad value: 2 708 000 US$ (+115,000)
Average age: 21
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): wretched
No of players (excluding the coach): 21
Number of nationalities: 15

Josef Eder becomes the first Misfitz outfielder to have a assessed value over 300k.

Upnext, This weeks youth pull and economic update

Poli

10-23-2003, 10:58 PM

The biggest thing I regret is not staying with playmaking. If I ever had to start over it would be there. I'm jealous of this home grown talent most of FOFC has. I feel like my team is getting left behind!

I may have a formidable, a couple of excellents, and a couple of solid scorers, but they're nothing when playmakers don't get them the ball!

I suppose that may be why I preach to Hulsey to stick with Playmaking no matter what.

Havok

10-24-2003, 12:02 AM

I agree 100% AE.... i started out with defender training and i hated it. To dam slow and not enough impact. Since i've switched to PM training im loving life. Im glad you got Hulsey into PM training, he will be dominating that divison in no time.

Poli

10-24-2003, 08:16 AM

I just hope he's got the patience. He came home from work yesterday excited about the training update. I warned him it would most likely be just form changes.

His D6 will be weak, hopefully he doesn't get a real team down there with the demotion of a D5 team.

Havok

10-25-2003, 08:17 PM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

Another sellable youth pull.... i guess this is making up for 1 1/2 seasons on total crap.

Norman Dupre (17830014)
19 years, passable form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is balanced and honest.
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 190 000 US$
Wage: 1 520 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

Stamina: wretched Goaltending: passable
Playmaking: disastrous Passing: disastrous
Winger: disastrous Defending: disastrous
Scoring: disastrous Set Pieces: weak

I thought about keeping him as my back-up. But my B-team keeper is inadequate and is always in good form so i saw no need to sell him.This guy should bring in a nice 70-80k.

Economic Update

Cash funds: 80 329 US$ (38 774) US$
Sponsors: high on life
Supporter Club: 1188 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue--------------------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0---------------------------------------Arena 14 720
Sponsors 62 475----------------------------Wages 25 810
Financial 0-------------------------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0----------------------------------Temporary 3 000
--------------------------------------------------Staff 40 500
--------------------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 62 475-----------------------Total expenses 104 030

Expected income/loss -41 555

I have a home game tommarrow and it will be a sellout in rain or shine. Plus this latest youth pull, i should make a very very nice chunk of money this week.

This weeks league game

The biggest game of the year in divison V.253, Winner take all!!! If i win tommarrow the divison title is MINE and i get to play a promotion game. If Final Fantasy wins they will auto-promote. I started off the season verus FF on the road. At the time i had just switched to PM training a few weeks earlier and had also just trained 2 weeks of stamina training. So my form was horrible and my midfield wasn't that great yet. I decided to PIC that game and take my loss and move on. They beat me 3-0....

Final Fantasy
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: solid - (7)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 60

These are the ratings im expecting. As you can see he's mostly midfield, and a good midfield it is. At home he gets a excellent sometimes. But it does have a weakness..... Stamina! His starters have bad stamina. I should gain around 7-9% possession in the second half. I "might'" lose possession by a little bit in the first half, but as long as the score is close i should whip them in the second half.

I wasn't going to MOTS this game at first so i could save my TS for a qualifier, but the owner of FF has decided to login 3 times in the last few days so im pretty sure he'll be MOTS'ing me. That means i gotta MOTS to make sure i win. Winning the divison and getting that extra week of training is my number 1 priority.

My Prediction 4-2 win!

Upnext, This weeks HUGE!!! league game

DukeRulesMAB

10-25-2003, 08:28 PM

Best of luck to the Misfitz this week!

Poli

10-25-2003, 08:47 PM

I agree. Hope your prediction rings true.

Havok

10-25-2003, 10:09 PM

Thanx guys.... stop by the IRC chat tommarrow during gametime if ya get a chance and see how we're doing :)

Poli

10-26-2003, 08:54 AM

I will be there, that's for sure. Hulsey may be at church.

Havok

10-26-2003, 10:28 PM

Season 2 - League Game - Round 14

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - Final Fantasy

This is what its all about right here. Winner of this game wins the divison. After starting out the season losing 2 of my first 3 games, winning the divison didn't even cross my mind. But as my midfielders got better and better and my form came around. I started kicking butt and before i knew it i had a shot to win the divsion. IMO The Witches should have won the divison, with all the money he made on youth pulls this season he should have bought better midfielders then he did. But instead he overpayed for a bunch of solid defenders and passable PM's with good secondary's.

Anyway, back to the game at hand. Everyone that reads this dynasty knows how important this game is. I've been thinking about it all week. I'll be MOTSing and i SHOULD win. Lets see what happens........

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
Central Defender - Joseph MacKindlay
Left Wingback - Omar Nairn (Defensive)

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller
Left Winger - Roy Hoekstra (Towards the middle)

Forward 1 - Abel Cano
Forward 2 - Bill Wright

Form is looking very good for the starters. Only 3 guys in inadequate form, My goalie, right wingback and my winger towards the middle. Besides them everyone else is in passable or higher form. Espically my forwards and my middies. They all are in solid or excellent form.

Players To Watch

Andi Neiweiler - Had a HUGE value jump on thursday. Went up 17k, bumped to inadequate PM and solid form. Im expecting his best ever game for me today.

Abel Cano - Abel hit solid form 2 weeks ago and his value went up a little more on thursday. Im still waiting on his first ever 3 star game. It better happen today!

The Match

At The Island of Misfit Toyz, 23000 punters turned up, and despite threatening clouds at the horizon, no rain came. Maniacal tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Lineup: Landowski - ben Aharon, MacKindlay, Nairn - Neiweiler, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Eder, Hoekstra - Cano, Wright.

Fantasy started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Martin - Jonasson, Joseph, Klintsjö - Vasquez, Toth, Pace, Gee, Iglesia - Singer, Littlefield.

In the 5:th minute the home side managed to get a 1 - 0 lead as Josef Eder flipped the ball after a cross pass from the right.

Maniacal put themselves up 2 - 0 when Bill Wright broke through on the right, leaving the entire defensive box behind him.

2 - 0 was the half-time score. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 56 percent possession rate.

A bit later, a magnificent combination in the middle resulted in Maniacal´s Omar Nairn putting the lead up to 3 - 0.

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, Fantasy´s Gilbert Vasquez got himself booked.

Bill Wright increased Maniacals lead to 4 - 0 by putting a header away on a hooked ball from the right. The structure of the game started to change as Maniacal decided to pull back and meet their opponents in the defensive zone.

Andi Neiweiler managed to make an excellent pass from the flank, but Roy Hoekstra was not as skillfull in scoring.

In the 82nd minute of the match the visitors central line of defence had to look on as Bill Wright dashed through, knocking home 5 - 0 for Maniacal. At that, Bill Wright was noted down for a hat trick.

Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 65 percent, dominated the battle.

The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Josef Eder. Roy Hoekstra on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating Fantasy player was without a doubt Dalton Toth. Mick Martin on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 5 - 0

Goals

Bill Wright - 3
Omar Narin - 1
Josef Eder - 1

Player Ratings

2.5 - Marcin Landowski

3.0 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
3.5 - Joseph MacKindlay
3.0 - Omar Nairn (Defensive)

3.5 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
3.5 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
3.5 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
3.0 - Huey Miller
2.0 - Roy Hoekstra (Towards the middle)

3.0 - Abel Cano
3.0 - Bill Wright

33.5 Stars

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: excellent - (8)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: outstanding - (10)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 69

Final Fantasy
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 59

Post Game Comments

We did it!!!! The Divison V.253 title is ours!!! We dominated from start to finish and knocked in 5 out of our 6 scoring chances! Im not surprised we won, but i am surprised that it was such a blowout. I expected a solid midfield out of them, but i guess he didn't MOTS. Which means i shouldn't have MOTS'ed :( but i had to make sure i won the divison.

Bill Wright was the star again today scoring a hattrick! Thats 9 goals in his last four games. Andi Neiweiler also had the game of his career, getting his first ever 3 1/2 stars and creating 3 scoring chances from the right (2 were goals). My last 11 league games to end the season i've went 11-0 and oustscored my opponents 61-5!!! hopfully i'll promote to divison IV. But if i don't, im gonna dominate this divison big time next season.

Around The League

US Rangers - vs - Daverules FC 0-4

Battle of the newbies and Daverules looks to have the best team out of all the midseason new teams in my divison.

CristinaFC3 - vs - north crowley 2 - 0

This game should have been alot worse the 2-0. Somehow CristiniaFC3 couldn't knock the ball in the net more then twice.

The Minnesota SnowDrifts - vs - Witches 2 - 6

The Witches somehow ran a 3-3-4 today and screwed up they're training for the week. I guess johnny messed up when making his lineup. I know he's pissed.... :(

League Standings

Team------------------------Played-----------Goals--------------Points

1. Maniacal Misfitz----------14--------------67 - 16--------------36

2. Final Fantasy-------------14--------------53 - 15--------------36

3. Witches--------------------14--------------75 - 23--------------31

4. CristinaFC3----------------14--------------39 - 29-------------22

5. north crowley-------------14--------------19 - 41-------------18

6. The Minnesota SnowD---14--------------22 - 62-------------13

7. Daverules FC---------------14--------------16 - 52-------------9

8. US Rangers------------------14--------------4 - 57-------------1

There ya have it.... we pulled it out :)

Promotion Match

My promotion match is verus a semi-decent divison IV team. El marajá. If i didn't have furious TS and on the road i'd beat these guys. But, his last game was a walkover so i know he Pic'ed... and hes at home. These are his normal stats....

El marajá
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 59

Now... since he's MOTSing that will probally be an inadequate midfeild. SO this will be no easy win. I think right now i have around a 50/50 chance of winning. We'll see what thursday form update brings us....

Update

El marajá just bought a 400k Midfielder. Probally Excellent PM, this doesn't help my chances much.

Upnext, This weeks Friendly game

Poli

10-26-2003, 10:35 PM

Best of luck. I think I know how you'll view the game and all, but I'd always go for promotion. I did when I didn't think I was ready for D4. I somehow finished 3rd two years in a row, before making it this year.

Maybe I won't be very good in D3, but who knows? You never know, until you get there and try. :)

Havok

10-28-2003, 12:40 AM

Bad News

well shit...... Hatstats just updated and if i win my promotion game the divison i'll be in next season will seriously kick my ass. I'll break it down for everyone.......

First Place team

West Fargo Stangs - Fellow FOFC'er Lever won divison IV.35 last season and will auto-promote to divison III. The team coming down will be a bot team. Thats the only good thing about this divison next season.

Second Place Team

Lake Superior Dogfight - This team is badass.... they were once in divison III but got demoted. They will totally mop the floor with me.

Lake Superior Dogfight
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: outstanding - (10)
Right Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: magnificent - (12)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: outstanding - (10)

NSI - 86

These ratings are his last game of the season and it was an away game. 41.5 stars also....

Third Place Team

The Romulus Asylum - Another very good team. He's a goalie traininer and currently has the 20 year old team Magyarország player. 8 1/2 stars by himself.

The Romulus Asylum
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: excellent - (8)
Right Side Defence: supernatural - (14)
Central Defence: world class - (13)
Left Side Defence: magnificent - (12)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: formidable - (9)

NSI - 86

Good everywhere except central attack, on my best day i could match his midfield. But he'd kill me on defense. Plus if he decides to sell his keeper anytime soon he'd easily get 7-8 million for him. Probally more....

4th Place Team

Trenton F.C - This guys team is a little worse then mine. I'd probally split the seasons series with him or i might actually beat him twice.

Trenton F.C,
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Central Defence: solid - (8)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 59

Not a terrible team and he gets about the same amount of stars as me.

5th Place team

El marajá - This is the team i play on sunday. My terrible TS will make a close game out of it.

El marajá
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: formidable - (8)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: formidable - (9)

NSI - 59

His ratings change all the time depending how he plays where. He also just bought a excellent midfielder for 400k last night.

6th Place Team

Crown Royals - This team is cirrently in divison V but they will beat the 6th place team Negative Waves easy and promote to this divison. Our teams are somewhat close but his is better.

Crown Royals
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: formidable - (9)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: outstanding - (10)
Right Side Attack: inadequate - (5)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 73

These ratings are from an away game of a few weeks ago. He has two 4 star middy's and one 3.5 star. Plus some decent defenders. Overall a good 6-9 NSI better then me.

7th Place team

Captain D's Seafood - These guys are one of the best teams in all of divison V. They will be auto-promoting into divison IV and they will whip my ass bigtime.

Captain D's Seafood
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: outstanding - (10)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: outstanding - (10)
Left Side Defence: brilliant - (11)
Right Side Attack: inadequate - (5)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: formidable - (9)

NSI - 80

He just bought a 4 star winger for 1.6 million and his midfield can do better then that when he wants to. They get 13 stars between the 3 of them.

8th Place Team

MV Lisbon - Another one of the better divison V teams. He's a goalie trainer and just sold a goalie for 3.3 million and bought some midfielders already.

MV Lisbon
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: excellent - (8)
Right Side Defence: outstanding - (10)
Central Defence: outstanding - (10)
Left Side Defence: outstanding - (10)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: excellent - (8)

NSI - 76

This will only get better now that he has a bunch of money to spend. I don't have much of a shot of beating this guy.

Final Thought

Is this really what i want??? to go to a divison and be the 6th best guy if im lucky??? This divison is gonna easily be one of the toughest in divison IV next season. If you don't count me or the bot team coming in thats a 76 NSI rating average. That would make them 4th hardest in divison IV right now.

I'd like to hear what everyone else thinks. I've got a really tough decision ahead of me. Stay in divison V and dominate??? or go to divison IV and get killed.

GoldenEagle

10-28-2003, 12:49 AM

Quit bitching and just go to Division IV. It will be fun. I would love to be going to Division IV even in this series.

Havok

10-28-2003, 01:11 AM

hehe i hear ya GE.... but its still a tough call and i might not win my promotion match anyway. But still.... going into a slaughter isn't fun.

Its not that this divison is top heavy like SI's was. Everyone in this divison is good except the bot team. Still not sure what i wanna do.

Im glad guys like AE are promoting even though they'll get killed. More power to him... but i think he's crazy. In the long run he'll lose more supporters then he gains and get send right back to divison IV. Can't see how that would be very fun :(

GoldenEagle

10-28-2003, 01:18 AM

Hey im a supporter, I pay my fees like everyone else, this team better be promoted.

Masked

10-28-2003, 01:39 AM

You should be able to beat Trenton F.C. twice, and with a bot, you should end up in 6th place. Captain D and MV Lisbon map not do as well as you expect unless they improve their offense. Once you get to midfields of excellent and above, you really need a balanced team to be successful.

You can survive in this division, and you don't know what you will get next year. There are worse divisions out there.

Even though I had a pretty rough season, I had only one update in which I lost supporters (and then only 1). Always keep 10 spokespersons around.

sterlingice

10-28-2003, 01:44 AM

Suck it up and promote. You could end up in the 1st ranked series in Div IV the first week but then have the fortune of one of the teams going inactive and another tanking his way to a qualification game and ending up in 4th in IV.21--- I mean, in your new series. ;)

SI

Poli

10-28-2003, 07:17 AM

I'm not sure I will lose the supporters I gain in the long run. I'll benefit from a couple of things for sure.

Better cup seeding for one, and I should do better in the cup itself as well. I should get quite a few fans out of those matches, considering I'll make 6-7 appearances. I believe I had 6 cup matches last season. I've increased my cup matches each season I've played.

That said, I think at the end of a long, long season in D3, I'll end up with more supporters than I started off with. OK, send me down to D4. I'm still better off in the long run.

I understand your concern about the level of competition. I was concerned back when I first promoted to D4.

I had the Rage, Fighting Illini, Boston Braves, and Ghetto Superstars to contend with. If I looked at their NSIs, and I did, they were really good.

Problem was, Rage was always good enough to drop an important game here and there. FI never has seen fit to improve a poor midfield. Boston and Ghetto, well, they eventually autopromoted, and the teams they replaced were not that good, coming out of D3.

I got up in D4 and did well, and I'm sure you will, too.

Havok

10-28-2003, 07:45 AM

Looking over how my schedule will be next season i will hopfully get 5th place. Bot team 8th, Trenton 7th and Crown Royale 6th. Thats if everything goes as planed (talk about getting ahead of Myself). I won't throw the game on sunday, i probally would never forgive myself if i did and i don't think GE and Masked would forgive me either :) Its still gonna be 1 hard ass divison.

But i might not win my dam Promotion match anyway. Im expecting only a high inadequate or low passable midfield because of my furious TS. We'll see what thursday form update brings us...

DukeRulesMAB

10-28-2003, 08:25 AM

You and I are in similar states, except that my new division doesn't have a bot team. :)

But I think you gotta go for it, there's nothing wrong with treading water in 5th/6th place for a couple seasons before being ready for prime time.

The Afoci

10-28-2003, 08:59 AM

Havok, I think you will be suprised at how easy this division can be. Lake Superior Dogfight is very interested in the Cup and actually tied the squad you are playing for promotion. He doesn't take 'weaker' teams seriously at all. With the new tactics, you should be able to be competitive. As for the 8 1/2 star goalie, he is planning on selling him, but he is finally getting to play, so maybe not now.

Lever didn't think he stood a chance in it either last year and he fricken autopromoted out of it. Now he is going into III.6 and will most likely go winless, but maybe the new tactics will allow him to get to 15 points which seems to be the line you need to react to get 6th or above.

Havok

10-28-2003, 11:56 AM

Getting any points out of the Lake Superior Dogfight and The Romulus Asylum games would be very lucky. But they aren't so much the problem. I expect there to be 2 or 3 teams in my divison that whip me in any divison IV series. The kicker here is that all 3 teams promoting besides me are very good also. They all average better NSI's then me and all have good midfields.

But i think with the schedule i got i can pull 5th place out. And who knows, maybe i'll get a million dollar youth pull or something :)

Desnudo

10-28-2003, 01:09 PM

Things change, looking at it as is, it looks tough, but things will be wildly different at the end of next season. You never can tell what'll happen. At worst you come out of it with some extra cash and the free match anyway.

Havok

10-29-2003, 08:26 PM

Season 2 - Friendly Game - Round 14

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - Frankfort United

Today we play fellow FOFC'er and Misfitz supporter DukeRules and and his Frankfort United team. Duke is on his way to being promoted to divison IV and has a very nice team. Unfortunetly for the Misfitz B-team, he doesn't carry a full B-team so i'll be playing against quite a few starters. But never fear!!! The Misfitz b-team is unbeatable!!!

Starters

GK - Stanford Weiss

Right Wingback - Emanuel Miller (Defensive)
Central Defender - Ismael Ferreira da Silva
Left Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

Right Winger - Dolf De Bevere (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Viktor Tolstoy
Left Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Istvan Strobl
Forward 2 - Martin Devátý

Form for the back-ups is ok right now. Dolf and Istvan are still both in weak form. But everyone else is at least in inadequate form. Im interested to see what midfield rating i get here with furious TS. Hopfully weak since i have no winger towards the middle. If i can get weak today, im pretty sure i'll get passable on sunday for the qualifier.

Players Tp Watch

Benton Minter - He's still in excellent form so im expecting another formidable attack rating on his side.

Stanford Weiss - My back-up goalie is also in excellent form and is red hot right now.

The Match

scorching day at The Island of Misfit Toyz, where 1772 spectators were in place for today´s match. Maniacal tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Lineup: Weiss - Miller, Ferreira da Silv, ben Aharon - de Bevere, Tolstoy, Neiva, Jonasson, Minter - Devátý, Strobl.

Frankfort had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Escalante - Hogue, Eaton, Diehl - Watts, Mullineux, Chopin, Sakic, Travis - Sellers, Knapp.

Frankfort had several good opportunities to take the lead, especially in the 3rd minute when Michael Chopin came up alone against Stanford Weiss who managed a block.

Harold Diehl got left behind when Maniacal´s Dolf de Bevere made a sudden pull forward in the 5:th minute, finishing off with a swift strike. 1-0!

Martin Devátý almost managed to score another goal for Maniacal, but his header was tipped to a corner by the visitors goalie.

Frankfort got a chance to level the score as Courtney Sellers suddenly found himself free with the goaltender but the finishing shot hit the bar.

The referee showed Maniacals Emanuel Miller the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. Milton Watts the unlucky victim, couldn´t continue the game.

The teams went for a half-time break at 1 - 0. Frankfort, bringing the final ball possession rate to 51 percent, dominated the battle.

Torbjörn Jonasson received some harsh words from his coach after he acted foolishly, probably out of lack of experience, in the 51st minute and almost caused an opponent to score.

61 minutes into the game Frankfort´s Eric Hogue found a gap in the home sides central defense scoring with a long shot, making it 1 - 1.

Almost all the way down to the corner flag Sonny Travis somehow managed to get a perfect pass into the middle, impossible to miss for Courtney Sellers who struck for 1 - 2.

With a shot floated in from just outside the penalty area in the 83rd minute, Istvan Strobl of Maniacal evened the score to 2 - 2.

The referee showed Frankforts Courtney Sellers the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. Maniacal were forced to a substitution as Viktor Tolstoy couldn´t continue playing due to the rough treatment.

Frankfort had a good opportunity to score the lead goal but the home team goaltender Stanford Weiss saved Michael Chopin´s shot headed for the top corner.

This part of the game had been a standoff between the teams.

As none of the teams had managed to win, extra time was called.

After 96 minutes Frankforts Jacob Knapp made his way through the middle, putting the visitors up 2 - 3. With that Frankfort had won the game in extra time.

The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Huey Miller. Istvan Strobl was a disappointment, however. The most dominating Frankfort player was without a doubt Arthur Eaton. Eric Hogue was a disappointment, however.

The match ends 2 - 3

Goals

Dolf de Bevere - 1
Istvan Strobl - 1

Player Ratings

2.5 - Stanford Weiss

2.5 - Emanuel Miller (Defensive)
2.5 - Ismael Ferreira da Silva
3.0 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

2.0 - Dolf De Bevere (Offensive)
3.0 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
2.0 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
3.0 - Viktor Tolstoy
3.0 - Benton Minter (Offensive)

2.0 - Istvan Strobl
2.5 - Martin Devátý

Stars - 28

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: excellent - (8)

NSI - 53

Frankfort United
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 50

Post Game Comments

Defeat!!! My first overtime game ever and i lost :( This ends the Misfitz B-team 8 game unbeaten streak! Looking over the ratings i had the slight advantage. But the ball just didn't bounce our way i guess. Luck was on both out sides though.... we both had a player injuried but they were both only "Bruised But Training". So no real harm done :) All in all in was a good friendly, Big thanx goes out to Duke for coming into our house for a game. And good luck in divison IV next season!!

The Good

Dolf de Bevere - His quick skill once again got me a goal. Quick wingers rock!

Viktor Tolstoy - Vik got inuried but its only "bruised but training" so he'll still get training this week.

The Bad

Torbjörn Jonasson - Still only 2 stars for the young trainee. He's only in inadequate form but he had a big value jump last thursday so i was hoping for 2 1/2 stars. He better pop to solid PM on thursday!

Upnext, This weeks training update

Havok

10-30-2003, 11:03 PM

Training and Form Update

Finally 2 of my 3 trainee's poped to solid PM.

Joaquim Neiva
125 000 US$, 18 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: passable
Winger: weak Defending: disastrous
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: inadequate

Joaquim will probally fill the role of Josef Eder once i sell Josef when he hits formidable PM. He's a very nice trainee and i'll probally keep him around until he hits outstanding PM.

Viktor Tolstoy +1
152 000 US$, 19 years, excellent form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Quick]

Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: passable
Winger: poor Defending: inadequate
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: poor

Viktor might actually never see the Misfitz starting lineup. SInce he is getting kind of old to be a trainee. I might sell him when he hits excellent midway through next season. But its possible i'll keep him around until he hits formidable.

The bad news of the week is that my newest trainee "Torbjörn" still hasn't poped to solid PM. I guess his high assesed value was all in his defense :( He will defintely pop next week as it will be his 6th week of PM training. I should still get him to formidable PM by the last week of next season. (I hope)

Form

Pretty good form update also. First off my keeper went up about 5k in assessed value. So he's slowly getting closer to passable form again. Also, my number one middy and highest assessed valued Misfitz outfielder Josef Eder hit excellent form today. Its possible (but unlikely) that he could be my first 4 star performer on sunday. The rest of my starters look very very good form wise now, so a win in my qualifier is looking more and more like a reality.

6 Players increased in form (3 Starters)
5 Players Decreased in form (2 Starters)

Break Down of my starters form for Sundays HUGE game

Goalie - Inadequate form (He's about 25k in value from passable form)

Defenders - Solid/Passable/Inadequate (My Normal/offensive wingback poped to solid form, i think i'm gonna play him offensive instead of normal. When i play him offensive i get a brilliant attack on that side field)

Wingers - Solid/Passable (My star offensive winger jumped another 9k in value so he'll get me another 3 1/2 star game. Plus my "winger towards the middile" bumped back up to passable form. So that should help my midfield rating out some.)

Midfielders - Excellent/Solid/Solid (what can i say here??? my midfielders are just red hot right now...and im gonna need it since i have furious TS.)

Forwards - Solid/Solid (Slightly worse then last week as Bill Wright finally dropped back down to solid form. But that won't hurt the attack rating much at all.)

As you can see my starters form is very very good. My defense is still my weak point but with my wingback offensive i should still get a Passable/Excellent/Solid defense rating. Which ain't bad....

Team/Player Value

Value per player (average): 132 667 US$ (+3,715)
Total squad value: 2 786 000 US$ (+78,000)
Average age: 21
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): wretched
No of players (excluding the coach): 21
Number of nationalities: 15

Upnext, This weeks youth pull and economic update

Havok

10-30-2003, 11:29 PM

Update

My opponents ratings from his latest friendly (he plays his starters in freindly).....

El marajá
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: excellent - (8)

NSI - 59

This is in a 3-5-2, sometimes he plays a 3-4-3. If he MOTS's (which im sure he will) i can expect that midfield to be a high inadequate or a low passable. If he puts up a passable midfield this is gonna be 1 tough game. Lucky for me both of his starting forwards are in weak form.

This is gonna be a tough game.......

DukeRulesMAB

10-31-2003, 12:31 AM

You're in a good spot here...if you win, considering your TS, then you know you're ready for the challenge of a rough series. If you lose, another season of gearing up. You're in the area where you could go to D IV, but another D V season isn't a complete waste.

Of course, I'm going to D IV, and I'm not even good enough to be in the maybe level. ;)

Havok

10-31-2003, 10:23 AM

Originally posted by DukeRulesMAB
You're in a good spot here...if you win, considering your TS, then you know you're ready for the challenge of a rough series. If you lose, another season of gearing up. You're in the area where you could go to D IV, but another D V season isn't a complete waste.

Of course, I'm going to D IV, and I'm not even good enough to be in the maybe level. ;)

Thats exactly how im looking at it Duke. If i win vs a solid team like this with furious TS on the road, then im ready for the tough challenge that awaits me in this divison.

If i lose.... it won't break my heart. Another year in divison V wouldn't be a bad thing. I'll probally go undefeated and by the time i promote the following season i'll be able to compete in any divison IV series easy.

As for your team, the only weakness i see that you have is your midfield. If you grab a nice excellent or formidable middy you should be fine. You can buy good excellent middy's right now for so cheap its scary. You could probally pick up 2 older excellent middy's for 400k-450k total if you shop right. Plus, if you buy some nice winger trainee's your wing attacks will be badass by the end of the season.

DukeRulesMAB

10-31-2003, 10:50 AM

Your midfield by next season at this time....wowza.

I agree re: my team, though my forwards are nothing to write home about either. I probably will not buy a midfielder for now, as my 1.4M is budgeted as follows:

- 350-400K: Staduym
- 270K: Coach
- Rest: Winger Trainees.

Hopefully, with my new stadium, I'll build up enough of a war chest to upgrade a central midfielder by the end of next season. And you're right, I expect to have whipass wing attacks as next year progresses.

Havok

11-02-2003, 09:19 AM

Youth Pull and Economic update

My nice little streak of decent youth pulls ran out...

Elvin Taylor (20115926)
19 years, passable form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is calm and upright.
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 34 000 US$
Wage: 680 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

Stamina: wretched Goaltending: weak
Playmaking: disastrous Passing: disastrous
Winger: disastrous Defending: disastrous
Scoring: disastrous Set Pieces: disastrous

Youth Pull Stats For The Season

Total Youth Pulls - 16

Youth Pulls Fired - 9

Youth Pulls Sold - 7

Youth Pull Sales - $394,000 - 5% (for agent fee's) = $374,300

Youth Pull Costs - $340,000 (16 x 20k investment) + $32,000 (16 x 2,000 per youth pull) + $7,000 (1,000 x 7 list youth pulls for sale) = $379,000

Youth Squad Profit this season = -$4,700

I lost 5k this season from my youth squad. Thats much better then the 350k or so that i lost from it last season. I also didn't pull a single youth pull thats on my team this season either :( Next season i better actually make a profit dammit!!!!!

Economic Update

Cash funds: 209 984 US$ (281 369) US$
Sponsors: high on life
Supporter Club: 1208 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue---------------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0---------------------------------Arena 14 720
Sponsors 63 175----------------------Wages 25 810
Financial 0------------------------------Interest 0
Temporary 111 240-------------------Temporary 2 000
--------------------------------------------Staff 40 500
--------------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 174 415----------------Total expenses 103 030

Expected income/loss 71 385

I got my sponsership money for getting first place in the divison (75k) and i also got supporter money for the year ($36,240). Plus i should get about 65k from my qualification game and if i win my game i'll get another 50k for promoting. So by weeks end i could have around 400k in the bank. To bad i need to upgrade my stadium or i'd buy a nice excellent forward or defender for 400-500k :(

Everytime i get money i swear theres something other then upgrading my team that i have to spend it on. During my cup run this season i got around 220k in the bank. But that money went to upgrading my stadium from 15,500 seats to 23,000 seats. Then around week 12 after a couple decent youth pulls i had around 260k in the bank. But i had to finally grab a solid coach for 280k :(

At least now after i upgrade my stadium 1 more time i won't need to do anything except upgrade my players for awhile.

This weeks Qualification Game

To be honest... im not sure whats gonna happen in this game. My form is good right now, but my furious Team Spirit and playing on the road is gonna kill my Midfield rating. Im only expecting a high inadequate midfiled rating. Maybe a low passable but thats it.
This is what i expect from my opponent if he plays a 3-5-2....

El marajá
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5) or passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: excellent - (8)

NSI - 61 or 64

This is what im expecting.....

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5) or passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: outstanding - (10)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 62 or 65

So this game could go either way really looking at the NSI ratings. We both will have good confidence since he both won our last games 5-0 and we both lose some midfield in the second half due to stamina. I think its all gonna come down to luck really with ratings this close. It might even go into a shootout which would be ok with me. My starting set pieces guys are pretty good.

Anyway.... Everyone stop by the IRC chat and wish me luck today!!!! Go Misfitz!!

My prediction overtime 3-2 win!

Havok

11-03-2003, 06:44 AM

Season 2 - Qualification Game - Round 15

El marajá - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

This is it.... this is what i played all season for. A chance to promote to divison IV. Flat out im better then this team im playing... no doubt about it. But they have all the advantages on they're side. Home field advantage... good team spirit and my horrible furious team spirit. This is gonna be a close dam game and i honestly have no clue how its gonna turn out. But weather i win or lose i'll still be happy.

If i win i'll get the honor of playing in one of the toughest divison IV series next season. It will be painful at times, but it should be a good learning experiance for me.

If i lose i'll stay in my current divison in which i'll be the number one team from the start and i should win the divison. This will be better for my training program also since i won't have sell my trainee's earlier then i'd like to, to upgrade my team to compete.

Its kind of a win win situation here..... lets see what happens!!!!

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Omar Narin (Defensive)
Central Defender - Joseph MacKindlay
Left Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

Right Winger - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller
Left Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Bill Wright
Forward 2 - Abel Cano

Form is very good at the moment. Most everyone is passable or above. Only my goalie Marcin and my right wingback Omar are below passable form and they are only inadequate. The big man to watch today is Josef eder. He hit excellent form on thursday and he might be the first Misfit ever to get 4 stars in a game!!

Players To Watch

Josef Eder - In excellent form and might get his first ever 4 stars game.

Andi Neiweiler - Andi is coming off his first ever 3 1/2 star game and should do it again today.

The Match

The crowd of 23642 turning up at El marajá Arena today were greeted by some nasty showers of rain. marajá had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Jones - Henriksson, Baboss, Pärst - Andres, Cuevas, Tudor, Baillie, Po-Hung - Melvin, Couture.

Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Landowski - Nairn, MacKindlay, ben Aharon - Hoekstra, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Eder, Neiweiler - Cano, Wright.

Carson Melvin gave his marajá the lead with 1 - 0, as he successfully challenged both the guests central defenders, then placed the ball unreachably at the goaltenders right post.

After 26 minutes Maniacal´s Jakob Noer Mogensen contracted a slight foot injury, but could finish the game.

Clifford Couture almost managed to score another goal for marajá, but his header was tipped to a corner by the visitors goalie.

In the games 33rd minute Maniacal´s Omar Nairn head butted an opponent nastily and so the referee sent him off immediately.

With 36 minutes played the visitors almost levelled the score. Bill Wright shot a hard curved free kick, striking the post.

marajá´s Eugene Baillie left the field after 39 minutes because of a nasty blow to the shin. His replacement was Domingo Gutierrez.

Halftime score was 1 - 0. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 57 percent possession rate.

Josef Eder finished off a quick charge from the left of the field by chipping the ball just past the home sides keeper, making the score 1 - 1 in the 46:th minute.

In the games 59:th minute Abel Cano almost gave the visitors the lead, as he clipped a spectacular scissors shot just past the bar.

The referee showed marajás Che Po-Hung the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.

In the 68:th minute cheers broke out as César Andres found his way through the guests central defense line, clipping the 2 - 1 goal in for marajá.

Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 55 percent possession rate.

marajá´s best player was Marek Pärst. Domingo Gutierrez on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Josef Eder. Roy Hoekstra was a disappointment, however.

The match ends 2 - 1

Goals

Josef Eder - 1

Player Ratings

2.5 - Marcin Landowski

red carded - Omar Narin (Defensive)
3.0 - Joseph MacKindlay
3.0 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

2.5 - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)
3.5 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
4.0 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
3.0 - Huey Miller
3.5 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

3.0 - Bill Wright
3.0 - Abel Cano

Stars - 31 (34 without Omar getting red carded)

El marajá
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: formidable - (9)

NSI - 58

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5) (Omar got red carded)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: inadequate (5)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: brilliant - (11)

NSI - 58

Post Game Comments

Dammit.... dammit... dammit all to hell. I know i said it didn't matter if i won or lost. But still... it feels much better to win then lose. What can i really say about this game??? Without Omar Narin getting red carded i would have had my best star rating ever. I got a brilliant left side attack without playing my wingback offensive! Josef eder got my most stars ever in one game with 4.0!!!! But with all that good stuff i still lost. In the end in was the thing that i feared most that beat me. My Team spirit......

My team spirit destroyed my midfield rating. Hell, i can get an inadequate midfield rating with my back-ups with average TS. I guess it just wasn't meant to be. A big thanx goes out to everyone pulling for me in the IRC chat. I came home half drunk from watching football all day and then my power goes out 20 mins into my game!! So i didn't even find out weather i'd won or lost until 2:00 this morning.

The Good

Josef Eder - First ever 4 star Misfit!!!! and scored my only goal.

Andi Neiweiler - Andi has quickly become the staple of my offense. Playing his best ever game today by 5% according to supporter and helping me to a brilliant wing attack.

The Bad

Omar Narin - Picked up his second red card of the year for head butting someone. Luckly they didn't score any goals on that side of the field after he got sent off.

Bill Wright and Abel Cano - neither one of my starting forwards scored despite me winning possession.

Upnext, This weeks friendly

DukeRulesMAB

11-03-2003, 08:51 AM

Tough to lose a close one like that, but if you can come within a goal of a decent team from a top shelf series now, just think how ready you'll be for D IV next year!

Havok

11-03-2003, 11:15 AM

Stadium Upgrade

The Island of Misfit Toyz is getting a makeover! The new arena will seat 32,000 screaming Misfitz fans!!!

This should last me awhile... the main reason behind this is i plan on being first place for all of next season. So selling out my new 32,000 arena shouldn't be to hard. This upgrade cost be around 217k.

Other News

My future coach bumped to solid experiance!!! So i can upgrade him to coach in about week 9 next season after he reachs his 1 full season with the team. But i doubt i'll actually upgrade him for awhile....680k isn't cheap for a lowly divison V team like myself :)

Naftali ben Aharon
71 000 US$, 30 years, solid form
Has solid experience and passable leadership abilities

Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: weak Passing: wretched
Winger: passable Defending: passable
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: disastrous

Havok

11-05-2003, 09:08 PM

Season 2 - Friendly Game - Round 15

CC FC - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

For the last friendly of the season we're playing fellow FOFC'er finketr's team CC FC. He's new to hattrick and just got his team a couple weeks ago. This should be a pretty easy game of course since i've had my team for a hell-of-alot longer then he has.

Starters

GK - Stanford Weiss

Right Wingback - Emanuel Miller (Normal)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)

Right Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Viktor Tolstoy
Left Winger - Dolf De Bevere (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Martin Devátý
Forward 2 - Istvan Strobl

The B-team has decent form right now. Nothing great but its been steadly going down hill for the last few weeks. The main form dog is Dolf de Bevere, he's went from excellent form to poor form over the last 8 weeks. Talk about a "Fall From Grace".

Players To Watch

Viktor Tolstoy - Viktor is in excellent form again this week and should have his best ever game.

The Match

607 spectators had come to CC FC Arena this cloudy day. CC tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Lineup: Ribelles - Wheatley, Blakely, Roberts - Manole, Fjälling, Brantley, Ordoñez, Möllerén - Rolfsson, Alvarado.

Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. Lineup: Weiss - Miller, Nairn, Ferreira da Silv - Minter, Tolstoy, Neiva, Jonasson, de Bevere - Devátý, Strobl.

CC immediately set off pressing their opponents.

CC took the lead in the 10:th minute of the game by 1 to 0, as Mark Möllerén elegantly received a pass going deep, finishing off with a half-volley shot just below the bar.

Daryl Brantley increased CC´s lead to 2 - 0 from a penalty spot cannonball.

Maniacals Benton Minter got himself booked after a foul.

CC were forced to a substitution as Michael Roberts couldn´t continue playing due to the rough treatment.

At this time in the match, CC were using their poor skills at the press to successfully put pressure on their opponents.

CC's Jeffrey Wheatley scored 3 - 0 by shooting accurately and hard from a long distance, leaving the opponent goalie no other option than to pick up the ball from the net.

Maniacal showed some good morale and were, in the 39:th minute, able to reduce the score to 3 - 1 as Martin Devátý got past the home sides full backs straight in front of the goal.

As Jeffrey Wheatley had, completely unprovoked, swept the legs out from under an opponent in front of a linesman, the referee gave the CC player a red card without batting an eye.

Ismael Ferreira da Silva the unlucky victim, couldn´t continue the game.

In the games 41st minute Maniacal replied, reducing the lead to 3 - 2. Naftali ben Aharon scored on a marvellous cross pass coming in from the left.

3 - 2 was the half-time score. Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 55 percent, dominated the battle.

58 minutes into the game Maniacal´s Emanuel Miller found a gap in the home sides central defense scoring with a long shot, making it 3 - 3.

The referee showed Maniacals Istvan Strobl the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.

In the 70:th minute Clarence Alvarado surprised the opponents with a 40 metre pass to Doru Manole who quite easily could settle the score to 4 - 3.

Things were going to get worse for the visitors. Clarence Alvarado squirmed himself through the central defense line in the 75:th minute, asserting the lead to 5 - 3.

Maniacal reduced in the 77:th minute to 5 - 4 as Istvan Strobl easily chipped the ball past the home sides keeper on a play from the right.

Sören Fjälling of CC received a yellow card in the 77:th minute for unsportsmanlike behaviour.

Visitors Martin Devátý was alert on a play coming in from the left, making the score a tie at 5 - 5 in the 82nd minute.

Sören Fjälling of CC got sent off for kicking the ball after the whistle, a completely uncalled for move, earning him his second yellow card of the game.

The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 85 percent possession of the ball.

The most dominating CC player was without a doubt Vicent Ribelles. Peter Rolfsson was a disappointment, however. Most important Maniacal player was Naftali ben Aharon. Dolf de Bevere was a disappointment, however.

The match ends 5 - 5

Goals

Martin Devátý - 2
Istvan Strobl - 1
Naftali ben Aharon - 1
Emanuel Miller - 1

Player Ratings

2.5 - Stanford Weiss

2.5 - Emanuel Miller (Normal)
2.5 - Omar Nairn
2.0 (injured) - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)

3.0 - Benton Minter (Offensive)
3.0 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
2.0 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
3.0 - Viktor Tolstoy
2.0 - Dolf De Bevere (Offensive)

2.5 - Martin Devátý
2.0 - Istvan Strobl

Stars = 27

Team Ratings

CC FC
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: poor - (3)
Right Side Defence: weak - (4)
Central Defence: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Defence: poor - (3)
Right Side Attack: poor - (3)
Central Attack: weak - (4)
Left Side Attack: poor - (3)

NSI - 31

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: poor - (3)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 44

Post Game Comment

Holy shit..... if this was a league game or a cup game. I think i'd quit hattrick all together. How this game ended 5-5 i'll never ever know. The score should have been 5-0 or 5-1 looking at the NSI ratings. Crazy crazy crazy.... i don't even wanna look at this game anymore to tell ya the truth. Its kinda scary knowing that something like this can happen in hattrick. No offense to finketr or his team, but this should have been a slaughter, not a tie.

Upnext, this weeks training update

Havok

11-07-2003, 10:18 AM

Training and Form update

and finally the last guy out of my group of midfielders bumps.

Torbjörn Jonasson
136 000 US$, 17 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: poor
Winger: weak Defending: passable
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: poor

i misread Torbjorn big time when i bought him. I thought he was close to poping to solid PM. But i was wrong.... it's been 6 weeks and he's finally bumped :(

Overall this season was a good training season i'd say. Everyone of my 6 midfielders bumped twice in PM expect Torbjörn and thats only because i only bought him 6 weeks ago.

Form Update

Im very happy with my form update this week. The big news is that my starting goalie finally got back to passable form. He's been below passable for around 5-6 weeks. His form is always moving, weather its up or down. Kinda frustrating sometimes. The other big news is that my star winger Andi Neiweiler bumped to excellent form. He's been red hot lately and his form has steadly been climbing upwards. There's a small chance he'll get 4 stars on sunday but i doubt it.

6 Players increased in form (3 Starters)
2 Players decreased in form (0 Starters)

Player/Team Value

Value per player (average): 139 810 US$ (+7,143)
Total squad value: 2 936 000 US$ (+150,00)
Average age: 21
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): wretched
No of players (excluding the coach): 21
Number of nationalities: 15

Upnext this weeks economic update

Havok

11-08-2003, 12:25 PM

Season 2 over

The Maniacal Misfitz second season is over. Its been a hell of a year. From starting of the season losing 2 of my first 3 games. Then winning my final 11 games only to lose in my qualifier 2-1. We also made 1 hell of a cup run this season making it to round 5. Another weird thing about this season is that i only bought 5 guys on the transfer market all season. Last season i bought about 10 times that amount :)

Time for the Misfitz awards....

Goalie of The Year

Marcin Landowski
383 000 US$, 21 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and passable leadership abilities

Stamina: weak Keeper: solid
Playmaking: disastrous Passing: disastrous
Winger: disastrous Defending: disastrous
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: weak

This guy causes me more stress then anyone else on my team. His form is always bouncing around. Each week i never know what im gonna get from him. But he's the best goalie i have so he wins the award by default.

Defender of the Year

Naftali ben Aharon
74 000 US$, 30 years, solid form
Has solid experience and passable leadership abilities

Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: weak Passing: wretched
Winger: passable Defending: passable
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: disastrous

This was a tough call, it was between Naftali and Omar Narin. Naftali has only been with the squad since week 8. But he's been a rock at wingback ever since. His first game with the team was a friendly and he got 2 1/2 stars. But every game he's played since then he's picked up 3 stars weather playing "normal" or "offensive".

He will also be the Misfitz coach one day....

Winger of The Year

Andi Neiweiler
231 000 US$, 26 years, excellent form
Has wretched experience and passable leadership abilities

Stamina: solid Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: passable
Winger: solid Defending: inadequate
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: weak

This was a 'No Contest". Andi is by far the best winger on the team. He's a 3 star to 3 1/2 star winger and dominates whatever side of the field he's on. I can't say enough about Andi and how important he is to this team. Best 94k i ever spent :)

Forward of The Year

Bill Wright
62 000 US$, 27 years, solid form
Has weak experience and poor leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

Stamina: passable Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: wretched Passing: inadequate
Winger: poor Defending: poor
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: solid

Another very very close call here. Abel Cano would have won this award probally if he wasn't hurt late last season for 4 weeks. It killed his form for half of this season.

As for Bill Wright...... i bought Bill for 25k in week 4 and he's been incredible. He's gottin 3 stars a game for me in every game he's played in and he's also scored 13 league goals in only 8 league games.

Midfielder of the Year

Josef Eder
343 000 US$, 20 years, excellent form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Powerful]

Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: excellent Passing: passable
Winger: weak Defending: poor
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: wretched

This wasn't a very tough call. Josef has been the staple of my midfield all season long. He started off the season injured but once he got back into form around week 4 he was unstoppable. He's had great form since week 4 and was my first player ever to get 4 stars in a game. He's also knocked in 6 goals this season in league and cup games which is dam good for a midfielder.

Trainee of The Year

Joaquim Neiva
129 000 US$, 18 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: passable
Winger: weak Defending: disastrous
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: inadequate

this was kind of a tough call between Joaquim and Viktor. But since they're so dam close skill wise it came down to who keep the best form. And Jaoquim has been in passable or better form every game he's ever played for me. He might move into the starting line-up next season when he hits excellent PM and i sell Josef Eder.

Player Of the Year

This one really came down to just 2 players. My star winger Andi Neiweiler or my star midfielder Josef Eder.

Andi Neiweiler - Andi gets between 3 and 3.5 star a game every game. He's created as many goals for the Misfitz as anyone and helps me get a outstanding or brilliant attack rating on his side depending on form.

Josef Eder - After coming back from his injury, he spent 2 weeks with inadequate form, then the next 6 weeks in passable form, then the next 5 weeks with solid form and last week he had excellent form. He was my second player ever to reach 3.5 stars a game and the first Misfit ever to get 4 stars a game.

Its hard to take a winger over a midfielder because how random the wing attacks can be. So i had to give the Misfitz player of the year award to Josef.....

Josef Eder
343 000 US$, 20 years, excellent form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Powerful]

Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: excellent Passing: passable
Winger: weak Defending: poor
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: wretched

Unfortunetly i'll be selling Josef next season when he hits formidable. He'll be 21 then and to old for me to train.

The End

That about does it for season 2.... i'd like to thank everyone who stuck with me and read this dynasty. I hope you enjoyed reading it.... i know i enjoyed writing it :)

Cya next season!!!