Yep, that time again: Training!

[-Panther]

Ok, who's league game just got harder due to form? who's just became feasible?

Training was pretty decent, yet contained that one slice that ticks ya off.

Form: +9 / -4 for +5

--- Starters: +4 / -1
--- Reserves: +4 / -3
--- Coach: +1

Team Form

--- Excellent: 2 (1 starter - 1 pseudo starter)
--- Solid: 8 (3 starters - 1 pseudo starter)
--- Passable: 6 (3 starters)
--- Inadequate: 4 (2 starters)
--- Weak: 3 (1 coach)
--- Poor: 1 (1 starter)

Value: +68k / -42k for +26k

--- Steven Goddard: -12k (passable to inad form)
--- Mathias Thornmar: +12k (inad to passable form + injury recovery)
--- Damon Bethea: -9k (inad to weak form)

Scoring: +1

--- Damon Bethea: to solid w/ passable passing

Strikers

--- Solid: 5
-------- Wayne Hooks: 24
-------- Mathias Thornmar: 19
-------- Damon Bethea: 23 (passable passing)
-------- Erlend Pederson: 17
-------- Larry Holtz: 18

--- Passable: 1
-------- Silviano Dominguez: 19 (passable passing)

--- Inadequate: 1
-------- Victor Martinez: 18 (solid passing)

Overall not a bad update. The one thing that got to me was Bethea. He finally popped to solid scoring and was to be listed, but he dropped to weak form :( something he's never done before. Oh well, might list him anyway lol.

as for last weeks dilemma, it worked. Carrillo aquired a card, which Noir would've got instead, and Noir remained in excellent form. However, I'm still not sure who should play though.

Carrillo: passable def - inad passing - weak XP - solid form @ 61k
Noir: passable def - inad passing - dis XP - excellent form @ 76k

both should get 3* but I might keep Carrillo in as he's the default starter.

[FrogMan]

-Panther, I like your updates a little more every week :) Great presentation :)

FM

[FrogMan]

dola, anybody wanna guess how God's form will improve this week? :D

FM

[McSweeny]

well my form was mostly good. Not one of my starters dropped off. And my starting middie jumped from weak to passable which should help loads in my league match

this week's big news

my starting keeper is now FORMIDABLE! I'm still not sure if i'll be selling him for 1.5 million or so or if i'll keep training him for the rest of the seaon. For now he's on sale for 2 million just to see if anyone bites

[NAIWF]

No pops, a +5/-5 update. Basically a snoozer. The only thing that was accomplished is that I flip my 5th & 6th defenders from last week to 3rd & 4th due to form changes. *yawns* :D

[thealmighty]

BOTH my keepers popped tonight. Starter went to excellent and backup to solid.

Is it worth the extra 6 or 7 weeks that inad. coach will take to pop my starter to Formidable to wait, or do I sell him now. Looking through the transfers, excellents go, when bid on, for 600-650k or so (more if someone is in dire need). Only formidable I saw with a bid was for $1 million or so (didn't look at too many countries).

P.S.- he would be the only 18 year old excellent keeper on the market that I saw.

[YoSoySean]

Form was actually an even split. +/- 0.

Did get a bump this week. Our own Doug will be the first to face 20 year old keeper Terry Mahoney as world class. Too bad he's still in weak form.

[thealmighty]

Crap. :mad:

Looked at form. 10 DROPPED, only 4 improved. What the hell is that about?

I am screwed.

[Doug5984]

Originally posted by YoSoySean
Form was actually an even split. +/- 0.

Did get a bump this week. Our own Doug will be the first to face 20 year old keeper Terry Mahoney as world class. Too bad he's still in weak form.

ah crap- world class! and I will be with out The Scoring Machine of IV.5 Hud "What the hell is a Hud?" (his nick name is still a work-in-progress) Yazzie. I hope I dont get shut out.

A rather boring training update for me, no pops and I can't get HAM to work but form looks to not have changed that much.

[sterlingice]

Kuni: Ahhh, a red snapper! Mmmmm, very tasty! Okay, Weaver, you can either hold onto you red snapper... or you can go for what's in the box that Hiro-San is bringing down the aisle right now! [Hiro-San emerges, carrying a table with a box]
Kuni: What's it going to be, Weaver?
Phyllis Weaver: I'll take the box! The box! [Applause]
Kuni: You took the box! Let's see what in the box!
[b]Kuni: (The Hippos training update was good for) Nothing! Absolutely nothing!! Stupid!! You're so stupid!!!

SI

[BreizhManu]

Form : +14/-1 that moves most of my players to passable form and my goalie to solid

[MacroGuru]

+3/-4 Form

1 pop to passable scoring

[PilotMan]

form went +7/-4

We had a middie pop.

We had our top middie gain experience.

Our reserve GK popped in playmaking. woohoo!

[FrogMan]

Could have been better, could have been much worse...

form (players): +7 / -7 for an even 0
form (levels): +7 / -8 for -1
-- Starters: +4 / -4
-- Backups: +3 / -4
** WOOT: God keeps on improving his form, this time jumping from weak to inadequate
** BLEH: My star winger, Moggis (solid winger/passable passer) lost two levels of form, from solid to inadequate
value: +98k / -38k for +60k
** Once again, God, with his improving form, leads all value increases. He gained 88k for a two level increase in form a week ago, this week for a one level increase, he gains another 45k. Since I bought him, his value has jumped from 170k to 258k, to now 303k... I like that :)

starter form:
2 excellent
2 solid
5 passable
2 inadequate
average form of starters: 6.36, or about 1/3 of the way between passable and solid

playmaking: no pop...
still with 5 solids (18, 18, 19, 20, 23). The 18 and 23 are halfway to excellent. The 19 is about 1 to 2 weeks from excellent (I played him at winger this past week) but has weak stamina.

1 passable w/ inadequate passing & defending (18) about halfway to solid

1 inadequate w/ solid passing & inadequate defending (19). Valued at 144k, I bought him this past week, in the hope of training him up from inadequate to at least solid in reasonable time, at which time he will give my team a really great boost in central attack when played offensively. Paid 110k, maybe a bit high, but I had sold a passable playmaker/passable passer for 100k a week before that, so I think that if I ever give up on him, I could resell him for a profit once he pops to passable playmaking...

FM

[Blade6119]

lets see...my back-ups that suck bump to excellent, and my stars to weak and inadaquate...great. I can now win all my friendlies...:(

[Nyarlahotep]

Overall +5 to form and no pops.

[Bee]

form +1/-5 ...ugh...

playmaking: 2 trainees popped to solid/ one of my defenders dropped to poor

[Vince]

I got 2 pieces of great news today...

21 yo starter Tuomo Heikilla popped to Solid PM.

And el form crappo keeper Derrick Woodson moved from Wretched form (been there for 5 weeks) to Poor form. Woo-hoo!

[Easy Mac]

+2/-4 form
+1 PM.

weak 18 yr. old to inad. mid in only 1 week of playing. My train him for a while on the B squad, as he should be to passable at the end of the year. Ahhhh.... pass mid/solid passing... now get his stamina up.

Had my top striker who has yet to play (will be good, but injured) drop to disast. form. Looks like he's on the B-squad for a while.

[Superman=#54]

One of my wingers popped to passable this week.

Anders Dahlström
103 000 US$, 18 years, passable form
Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities

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

[TargetPractice6]

Mr former national team winger popped in playmaking to my surprise. :)

Mitchell Bautista
1 454 000 US$, 31 years, excellent form
Has magnificent experience and inadequate leadership abilities

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

[vex]

19 yo playmaker to excellent and I won't even talk about form.