Maniacal Misfitz HT Dynasty Season 3 (Divison IV or Bust) [Archive]

Havok

11-09-2003, 11:31 AM

Divison Breakdown

1. Maniacal Misfitz (72203)

Last Season Finish - 1st place in divison V.253

Average NSI Rating - 61 - 66

Strength - Midfield

Weakness - None

Thats us :) We're the team to beat this year. We're on a 11 game winning streak in our divison and i don't expect it to end anytime soon. We have the Best midfield in the divison, 2nd best attack (Which is debatable) and 2nd best defense. Its our divison title to lose....

2. Final Fantasy (8320)

Last Season Finish - 2nd in divison V.253

Average NSI Ratings - 55 - 60

Strength - Midfield

Weakness - Bad Stamina and inactive owner

This team still scares me, He's had his team for 6 seasons now and has about 3.3 million in the bank. Lucky for me he only logs in like once a month. But one day he might decide he likes hattrick again and go on a shopping spree..... then im screwed. I ended last season vs FF and beat them 5-0 to win the divison. This season i start off the season vs them at home. Its a big game for me and i should win.

3. Witches (72207)

Last Season Finish - 3rd place in divison V.253

Average NSI - 55-65 (it vary's greatly)

Strength - Attack and very active owner

Weakness - Midfield

The last thing i wanna do is be critical of a team or its owner. Espically a team with an owner that i like and respect. But the witches should have been the divison Champs last season and be in divison IV right now. The Witches run a 3-4-3 with an offensive coach so they have a nice attack. But his midfield was always below mine. In week 2 of last season he pulled a 17 year old solid midfielder that sold for 1 million dollars. Instead of buying a couple nice possession midfielders he went out and paid a ton of money for 2 passable midfielders with really nice passing and a solid defender.

So he improved his midfield but not by very much. As we all no last season excellent midfielders with low secondary's were going for DIRT cheap. He could have easily grabed 2 excellent middy's for the same price or 1 nice formidable middy. Then... about midway through the season he sold a 18 year old excellent forward for 500k. Instead of upgrading his midfield he bought 2 solid defenders. So i still had a HUGE midfield advantage over him by the time we played our second game of the season and i killed him 6-0.

I still predict Johnny and his witches will finish second place this season. He is extremely lucky when it comes to youth pulls so i can't ever count him out of winning the divison.

4. CristinaFC3 (72206)

Last Season Finish - 4th Place in divison V.253

Average NSI Rating - 54 - 59

Strength - Solid all around

Weakness - not dominate in any one position and owner only logs in once a week.

This team is an enigma and they are the upset special in divison V.253. If you don't take them seriously they might beat ya. The owner is semi-active but doesn't really seem to have a training program. Last season they helped me out alot by tieing The Witches in week 7. After that tie i knew i had a shot at winning the divison. Im not sure what to expect from them this season. I know the owner has some money in the bank, but i have no clue if he'll spend it or not.

5. north crowley (72204)

Last Season Finish - 5th Place in divison V.253

Average NSI Rating - 38 - 43

Strength - Decent defense

Weakness - terrible midfield and attack

Not to much to say really about north crowly. They got they're team in week 7 of last season and haven't bought a new player yet. He should finish 7th or 8th place this season and get demoted. Should be a nice easy pic game for most the teams in the divison.

6. The Minnesota SnowDrifts (72202)

Last Season Finish - 6th Place in divison V.253

Average NSI Rating - 41 - 46

Strength - Slowly become a decent all around team and an active owner.

Weakness - Still not on the level of the top teams in the divison.

The Snowdrifts also got they're team in week 6 of last season. Since then he's slowly started learning more and more about hattrick and started buying some trainee's. Hopfully he'll steadly improve throughout the season. But he still will be a nice easy PIC win for me and the Witches.

7. Rosecity Thorns (8564)

Last Season Finish - 1st Place in divison VI.552

Average NSI Ratings - 45 - 50

Strength - Nice attack and active owner

Weakness - weak defense and midfield

Rosecity should be interesting this season. He got his team about 1 1/2 seasons ago and got demoted to divison VI last season. He ran the table of course in a all bot series. He runs a 3-4-3 and trains forwards i think. He also used to be a part of the BDF federation... thats the same federation that Johnny (the owner of the Witches) is in. But he had a fallout with a couple members last week and decided to leave the federation. They should be an interesting team to watch this season.

8. California Huns (223567)

Bot Team

no point in talking about a bot team........

This Season's Prediction

1st Place - Maniacal Misftz - I expect to run the table and anything less then a perfect season will be a disappointment.

2nd Place - Witches - I think the Witches will take second place this season. I only expect him to lose 2 games this season (both to me). But he might also lose his away game vs Final Fantasy.

3rd Place - Final Fantasy - Even though they're mostly inactive, They still have a nice team with a good midfield.

4th Place - CristinaFC3 - This was a tough call.... as of right now CristinaFC3 is the 4th best team in the division. But if he doesn't upgrade his team much this season RoseCity might sneak up on them and take 4th place.

5th Place - Rosecity Thorns - Depending on how fast they improve, they might get 4th place. But thats as high as they'll get this season probally.

6th Place - The Minnesota SnowDrifts - The best of the worst teams in this divison. They're basically a lock for 6th place. I don't see them doing any better then that.

7th Place - north crowley - The only team i see them finishing higher then is the bot team.

8th Place - California Huns - Bot team takes 8th place unless they get replaced soon with a good owner.

Havok

11-09-2003, 09:53 PM

Player Breakdown

Time to check of the Misfitz roster. Im to impatient to wait for the players to age so i'll just age them myself :)

Goalie's

Marcin Landowski
383 000 US$, 22 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

Marcin is my starting goalie and he's been a constent headache for me since the day i bought him. His form jumps around more then any player i have. Somehow he's in passable form right now.... but i guarentee it won't last long.

Stanford Weiss
118 000 US$, 22 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities

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

My back-up goalie pulled from my youth squad last season. He's usually in very good form. But last sunday he dropped 2 levels in form.

Defenders

Omar Nairn
121 000 US$, 22 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities

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

Omar is one of the first players i ever bought. I've trained him about halfway to excellent defending and for some reason he refuses to go higher then disastrous experience. He also can't seem to get back to passable form, he's been in inadequate form for the last 11 weeks.

Ismael Ferreira da Silva
76 000 US$, 21 years, passable form
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities [Powerful]

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

[b]Ismael was a starter for a long time mainly due to the fact that he was always in solid form. But thats changed lately and he's lost his starting spot for now. He's about as close as you can get to being a solid defender also with 8 weeks of defender training towards solid. He'll rotate with the other defenders for a starting spot this season depending on form.[/b]

Emanuel Miller
111 000 US$, 21 years, solid form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities

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

[b]Emanuel is my second best ever youth pull, pulled at the end of my first season. He's a dam fine back-up and gets in the starting line-up sometimes if i decide to play 2 wingbacks offensive.[/b]

Naftali ben Aharon
74 000 US$, 31 years, solid form
Has [b]solid experience and passable leadership[/b] abilities

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

[b]I just can't say enough good things about Naftali. I bought him when he had passable exp. so that one day he'd be my coach. I never knew he was such an incrediable wingback. He gets 3 stars every dam time he plays. Plus i play him "Normal" and he adds 1 level to my wing attack and i still get a solid defensive rating on his side. He's a beast and he's been worth every dam penny of the 47k i paid for him.[/b]

Joseph MacKindlay
49 000 US$, 31 years, passable form
Has [b]solid experience[/b] and poor leadership abilities [Quick]

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

[b]Joseph was another pleasent surprise. I grabbed him late last season mainly because my defenders were having form problems. I paid 78k for him and it was worth it. He gets 3.5 stars in "high" passable form and seems to hold form pretty well.[/b]

[size=4][b]Wingers[/b][/size]

Andi Neiweiler
231 000 US$, 27 years, excellent form
Has wretched experience and passable leadership abilities

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

[b]I love Andi... its just that simple. He's probally my best transfer buy ever. I snatched him up for 94k halfway through my first season and ever since then i haven't regreted it. He gets 3.5 stars now in good form and gets a brilliant attack rating on his side of the field with Naftali playing normal on that side.[/b]

Benton Minter
68 000 US$, 20 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

[b]Benton is another product of my youth squad. I pulled him right when my youth squad hit solid. Since then i've trained him to inadequate PM and he's been a very nice number 3 winger. Lately he's also been in very good form. He'll probally be sold when he hits passable PM.[/b]

Dolf de Bevere
60 000 US$, 21 years, poor form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Quick]

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

[b]Dolf was bought when i did my training switch from defending to PM. I didn't have much money left to buy PM trainable wingers so i got him for cheap. For the first 6-7 weeks i had him he was in awsome form and kicked some serious butt for me. His quick skill gets a ton of event goals and assists also. But lately he's been in a really bad form slump. He should bump to passable PM any week now.[/b]

Roy Hoekstra
154 000 US$, 20 years, solid form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Powerful]

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

[b]Roy is the complete opposite of Dolf. I bought him as a "winger towards the middle" trainee for 45k. The first 7-8 weeks i had him he was in HORRIBLE form. But since then he's been a nice bright spot for the team. I'll probally sell him when he hits excellent PM late this season or earley next season.[/b]

[size=4][b]Forwards[/b][/size]

Abel Cano
189 000 US$, 26 years, solid form
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities

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

[b]Abel is my number 1 forward and can pretty much play any position on the field. He's a 2.5-3 star forward depending on form and he holds form very very well. He had a rough start to last season because he got injured for 4 weeks right before the season started and it killed his form. But once he got his form back he was a goal scoring machine for me.[/b]

Bill Wright
62 000 US$, 28 years, solid form
Has [b]weak experience[/b] and poor leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

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

[b]Bill was one of my all time best transfer buys. I grabed him for 25k around week 5 of last season. He's gottin me 3 stars a game, every game he's played and scored 13 league goals in only 8 league games. When i upgrade my forward postion later this season he'll make 1 hell of a back-up.[/b]

Istvan Strobl
43 000 US$, 29 years, passable form
Has [b]weak experience and solid leadership[/b] abilities

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

[b]Istvan is my semi-clown and my number 4 forward. He's usally in bad form but he gets 2.5 stars in passable form mainly because of his experiance. Until i get a real clown he'll have a spot on the team.[/b]

Martin Devátý
49 000 US$, 24 years, solid form
Has poor experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Powerful]

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

[b]Martin is a nice 2.5 star back-up forward with good set peices. He usually in good form also. Not a bad back-up......[/b]

[size=4][b]Midfielders[/b][/size]

Josef Eder
343 000 US$, 21 years, excellent form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Powerful]

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

[b]Josef is da man... he's my number 1 midfielder and my highest assessed valued Misfit outfielder. He was my MVP of last season and just 1 badass offensive middy. Unfortunetly i'll be selling him when he hits formidable PM around week 6 since he'll be 21 years old. I'll probally use the money from selling him to buy a nice young formidable forward.[/b]

Jakob Noer Mogensen
219 000 US$, 20 years, solid form
Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Quick]

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

[b]Jakob is probally my number 2 midfielder and he was the first Misfit to ever get 3.5 stars in a game. I like Jakob mainly because he is always in good form. He should hit formidable pm around week 5, but he'll have a spot on this team until he hits outstanding. Maybe even brilliant depending on how bad i need the money.[/b]

Huey Miller
155 000 US$, 19 years, solid form
Has wretched experience and wretched leadership abilities [Head]

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

[b]I like Huey... he's the farthest along Misfit midfielder in PM training and should hit formidable PM in week 3. He will be a Misfit for a long time..... I don't think i'll be selling him anytime soon.[/b]

Torbjörn Jonasson
136 000 US$, 18 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

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

[b]i kinda screwed up buying Torbjorn. I bought him for 142k around week 9 last season. I thought for sure he was close to poping to solid PM but he didn't end up poping until last week :( He should still make it to formidable PM by the end of this season.[/b]

Joaquim Neiva
129 000 US$, 19 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

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

[b]Joaquim is a nice back-up/trainee for the Misfitz. He might crack the starting line-up this season after i sell Josef. He also seems to hold form very well since he's never been below passable form since i've had him. Im hoping he will pop to formidable PM this season but it might not be until week 1 next season[/b]

Viktor Tolstoy
184 000 US$, 20 years, solid form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Quick]

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

[b]I like Viktor mainly because of his nice secondary's. The problem with Viktor is his age, 20 years old is kinda old to be only a solid trainee. I'll probally sell him when he hits excellent around week 6-7 and buy a very nice 17 year old trainee with the money.[/b]

[size=4][b]The Coach[/b][/size]

Enrico Mauro Di Tomasso (7167952)
40 years, inadequate form, healthy
A [b]solid coach who is fond of attacking[/b]
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

[b]Enrico is a temporary coach. Im not sure exactly when i will replace him but sometime in the next 2 seasons Naftali will become the new Misfitz coach[/b]

Thats my roster for the new season. I don't expect a ton of changes this season but there will definitely be more upgrading going on this season then there was last season.

Desnudo

11-10-2003, 06:25 PM

If you can't win it all with that lineup then something is wrong with the game.

sterlingice

11-10-2003, 09:56 PM

Originally posted by Desnudo
If you can't win it all with that lineup then something is wrong with the game.

I dunno- that looks a lot like the lineup I had a season ago and it took everything including an MotS to finally out CC's Dragons.

SI

GoldenEagle

11-10-2003, 10:47 PM

Woo hoo.....go Misfitzs!!

Havok

11-10-2003, 11:34 PM

Originally posted by Desnudo
If you can't win it all with that lineup then something is wrong with the game.

Thanx Desnudo.... i hope your right :)

The Afoci

11-10-2003, 11:39 PM

Thanks for the kind words Havok. You shouldn't have too much trouble in your division. Hopefully we can promote to the same DIV. It would be the great circle.

Havok

11-11-2003, 10:48 AM

Youth Pull

My first youth of the new year is..........

Trent Diaz (20503604)
19 years, passable form, healthy
A nasty fellow who is temperamental and honest.
Has disastrous experience and disastrous leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 8 000 US$
Wage: 540 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

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

another peice of crap :( at least noone else in my divison hit the lottery this week either.

Wages

My wage increases weren't as bad as i thought they were gonna be. Went from 25,810 to 31,824. I can live with that........

Havok

11-12-2003, 05:22 PM

Season Goals

1 - Run the table in my divison - This won't be easy, i have 2 tough teams in my divison that have a shot at beating me. But i am the best team as of right now and i don't think that will change anytime soon. As each week passes my midfields gets more and more dominite and noone else in my division trains PM.

2 - Get an "Outstanding" Midfield rating - I should probally knock this up to "Brilliant" but i don't wanna get to far ahead of myself. My best midfield rating is excellent and i've done that twice.

3 - Break the 80 NSI plateau - I "Think" i can do this at least once this season, but it will be tough. My best NSI ever is 69.

4 - Make it to round 5 of the USA Cup - This is gonna be another very tough goal. Last season i made it to round 5, but i got lucky and drew some easy games. I doubt i'll be so lucky this season.

5 - WIN THE FOFC CUP!!!! - this will be impossible for me because i won't be able to play starters much. But its still a goal of mine!! :)

Havok

11-12-2003, 09:11 PM

Season 3 - USA Cup Game - Round 1

Tackles - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

First game of the season!!!! Today is the first round of the USA cup... if any of you remember last season we made it to round 5 of the USA Cup which was a very pleasent surprise. We got pretty lucky with the teams we drew in rounds 3 and 4. Both were good all-around teams except midfield. So we just dominated possession and won easily. Im hoping for more of the same this season. Looking over my matches i should be able to play my starters in round 3 and 4 of my cup matches if i need to. And maybe even week 5 depending on how good my back-up middies trainee's are. To be honest as long as i get 1 home game i'll be happy. 2 home games will be even better :) but league games come first this season.

The team we play today is actually not a bot team. But the owner hasn't logged in for a very long time and the team sucks pretty bad. This should be a nice and easy PIC win.

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 (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Abel Cano
Forward 2 - Bill Wright

Form is oh so nice for my starters right now, only 1 starter below passable form and thats Omar Narin. To bad im training stamina this week so im sure it won't stay this good for long. The only difference in this line-up then usuall is that im playing Roy Hoekstra "Offensive" instead of "Towards The Middle". Its not like i need a midfield boost vs such a week team. So i thought i'd see how he does offensive. The last time i played him offensive he had his best game ever according to supporter stats.

Players To Watch

Roy Hoekstra - Playing offensive for the first time in a long time. Im expecting a nice 3 stars out of him.

Marcin Landowski - MY GOALIE IS BACK TO PASSABLE FORM!!! He should get 3 stars and improve my defensive ratings some.

The Match

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 4844 to Tackles Arena. Tackles had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Dye - Graham, Coley, Tilley, Jordon - Stepp, Caruso, Burkhart, Stout - Stubblefield, Ramsey.

Maniacal tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Landowski - ben Aharon, MacKindlay, Nairn - Neiweiler, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Eder, Hoekstra - Cano, Wright.

After 13 minutes, Bill Wright managed to intercept a pass intended for the opposing keeper and flip it in, making the score 0 - 1.

The away team´s Bill Wright took advantage of a mistake to the home side´s right in the 22nd minute increasing Maniacal´s lead to 0 - 2. By now Maniacal were drawing the troops back in order to defend their lead.

Abel Cano increased the visitors lead by putting a volley shot away on a pass from the right. 0 - 3.

Graig Stout seemed to be floating in the air at will as he elegantly headed in 1-3. The previous Tackles corner kick was executed by Patrick Dye.

The game had been on for 39 minutes when Bill Wright broke through to the right, upping the score to the home crowd´s dismay. Maniacal´s were up 1 - 4. By then Bill Wright was a three time scorer - a hat trick!

1 - 4 was the half-time score. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 84 percent possession rate.

The game had been on for 50 minutes when Josef Eder broke through to the right, upping the score to the home crowd´s dismay. Maniacal´s were up 1 - 5.

Bill Wright increased the visitors lead by putting a volley shot away on a pass from the right. 1 - 6.

In the 66:th minute Maniacal put themselves up 1 - 7 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. Scorer was Abel Cano.

Patrick Dye kept the home side in the game with a magnificient save, as Bill Wright delivered an almost perfect free kick to the far cross bar.

Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 94 percent, dominated the battle.

The most dominating Tackles player was without a doubt Raleigh Jordon. However, Leigh Burkhart made a disastrous appearance. The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Josef Eder. Omar Nairn on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 1 - 7

Goals

Bill Wright - 4
Abel Cano - 2
Josef Eder - 1

Player Ratings

3.0 - Marcin Landowski

3.5 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
3.0 - Joseph MacKindlay
3.0 - Omar Nairn (Defensive)

3.5 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
4.0 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
3.5 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
3.0 - Huey Miller
3.0 - Roy Hoekstra (Offensive)

3.0 - Abel Cano
3.0 - Bill Wright

35.5 - Stars

Team Ratings

Tackles
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: disastrous - (1)
Right Side Defence: weak - (4)
Central Defence: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Attack: weak - (4)
Central Attack: weak - (4)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 30

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: brilliant - (11)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: excellent - (8)

NSI - 65

Post Game Comments

Wow... i kinda wish i hadn't wasted such a nice game on such a crappy team. The midfield was only inadequate because i PICED on the road, but the offense and defense were dam nice. Amazing what having a goalie in passable form did for my defense. I'll take a Solid/Excellent/Excellent defense anyday espically with a wingback playing normal. I also kinda like playing Roy Hoekstra offensive, He still contributes alot to my midfield with his solid PM and gets me a excellent winger attack rating on his side.

We also set a Misfitz record for stars in a game with 35.5!! That beats my old high by 1.5 stars. Not a single player on my team got below 3 stars in this game!! Overall, I couldn't be happier with our first game of the season. No injures or bookings and we won easy. Sunday is the first league game of the season and its verus a tough team.

The Good

Bill Wright - Tied a Misfitz record with 4 goals in one day :)

Josef Eder - His second 4 star game in as many weeks!! I love having him in excellent form.

Naftali ben Aharon - Got his first ever 3 1/2 star game!!

The Bad

Bad???? what bad??? :p

Upnext, This weeks training update

Havok

11-14-2003, 11:38 AM

Training and Form Update

We trained stamina this week and it went pretty well. Here are the important improvements....

Josef Eder
349 000 US$, 21 years, solid form
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities [Powerful]

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

My best midfielder finally gets excellent stamina. This will help his sale price to when i sell him in a few weeks.

Jakob Noer Mogensen
222 000 US$, 20 years, passable form
Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Quick]

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

Jakob bumped 1 level in stamina to excellent also. 2 of my 3 starting midfielders have excellent stamina now. Unfortunetly my other starter Huey Miller stayed at solid stamina.

Torbjörn Jonasson
158 000 US$, 18 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

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

Big 2 level jump for the rookie. This makes him a much more important part of the team. My back-up middies are all solid PM and have excellent/excellent/solid stamina. Not bad...

Plus all 4 of my wingers bumped to excellent stamina from solid. Overall i'd say it was a good training update. The only disappointment was Huey Miller didn't bump to excellent stamina. But i can live with that.....

Form

Form was a different story unfortunetly, my team took a massive hit. I kinda predicted it the other day since my guys were in such good form. I knew it couldn't last.... All 3 of my starting middies dropped a level in form, that hurt the most. The good news is my starting goalie actually hit solid form!!! For only the second time in his career.

4 Players Increased in Form (2 Starters)
12 Players Decreased in Form (6 Starters)

Player/Team Value

Value per player (average): 142 476 US$
Total squad value: 2 992 000 US$
Average age: 22
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

11-15-2003, 08:20 PM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

dammit dammit dammit.......

John Busch (20806952)
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: weak Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: wretched Passing: passable
Winger: weak Defending: wretched
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: wretched

Fired of course...

Economic Update

Cash funds: 91 682 US$ (25 133) US$
Sponsors: delirious
Supporter Club: 1227 members
Supporters: satisfied

This week

Revenue-----------------------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0-----------------------------------------Arena 20 480
Sponsors 57 255------------------------------Wages 31 824
Financial 0---------------------------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0------------------------------------Temporary 2 000
----------------------------------------------------Staff 49 500
----------------------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 57 255------------------------Total expenses 123 804

Expected income/loss -66 549

Dam... with my wages going up around 6k, my arena expenses going up around 6k, and my staff prices going up 9k for hiring 6 more spokesman, im losing money fast. At least i have a home game tommarrow vs the second place team, but i don't think it will be a sell-out since my supporters are only at satisfied and it might be raining also :(

This Weeks League Game

This is a very important game this week. There are only 2 teams that i have to worry about this season and this is one of them. Final Fantasy has a decent squad with a nice midfield. Lucky for me he doesn't login much. I have been thinking about MOTS'ing him since i have an easy PIC win cup game on wednesday and a easy PIC win next sunday aswell. But FF's best player, a 26 year old midfielder with an assessed value of 1.5 million is injuried so his midfield is gonna take a massive hit. I probally don't need to MOTS now....

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

Since his best midfielder is out im only expecting a inadequate midfield rating, everything else should be the same. My form took a nice hit this week because of stamina training, but his form isn't so great either. So i think im just gonna play this game normal, i should still win.

Upnext, This weeks league game

Havok

11-16-2003, 09:35 PM

Season 3 - League Game - Round 1

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - Final Fantasy

LEAGUE PLAY BEGINS!!!! To start off the new season we play the same team that we ended the season verus last season. If you've ever read this dynasty you'll know about Final Fantasy. But i'll break it down once again quickly... they've had they're team forever.... login rarely... have 3.3 million in the bank.... and they should just quit HT all together.

The only thing that scares me about FF is they're midfield. When his form is good, he gets a excellent midfield at home and a solid on the road. It would probally be 1 level higher then that but he has bad stamina. I was thinking about MOTS'ing today just to make sure i won. But his best player (1.5 million valued midfielder) is injuried, so i decided to just play normal. I could PIC but i wanna be sure i win, plus i can PIC my next 3 games after this so its not biggie.

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Joseph MacKindlay (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

Only 1 real change to the starters this week. Omar Narin and Josph Mackindlay switched postions. I'll do this the entire season with these 2 depending on who's in better form. The better form guy will play CD, the other 1 will play defensive wingback on the weak side. As for form.... form took a nasty little hit because of stamina training last week. But since i was in good form anyway, i should still see some nice ratings. Another note is that my goalie is in Solid form for only the secnd time ever, this should help my defensive rating out alot.

Players To Watch

The Midfield Rating - 4 out of my 5 midfielders (including wingers) now have excellent stamina. This should help the midfield rating out alot. Should be interesting to see how we do today.

Marcin Landowski - Only the second game Marcin has ever played in Solid form in his career. It should help the defensive ratings out alot.

The Match

The crowd of 18502 turning up at The Island of Misfit Toyz today were greeted by some nasty showers of rain. Maniacal tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Lineup: Landowski - ben Aharon, Nairn, MacKindlay - Neiweiler, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Eder, Hoekstra - Cano, Wright.

Fantasy had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. Lineup: Martin - Jonasson, Joseph, Klintsjö - Vasquez, Sheridan, Pace, Gee, Iglesia - Singer, Littlefield.

There wasn´t much opportunity for rapid movements this wet day, which hindered Ed Sheridan in particular.

In the 15:th minute cheers broke out as Bill Wright found his way through the guests central defense line, clipping the 1 - 0 goal in for Maniacal.

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

In the 26:th minute of the match the visitors central line of defence had to look on as Bill Wright dashed through, knocking home 2 - 0 for Maniacal.

In the 31st minute of the match the visitors central line of defence had to look on as Huey Miller dashed through, knocking home 3 - 0 for Maniacal.

Maniacal put themselves up 4 - 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! After this Maniacal lowered the tempo in order to concentrate on their defensive efforts.

4 - 0 was the half-time score. The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 64 percent possession of the ball.

In the 49:th minute of the match the visitors central line of defence had to look on as Abel Cano dashed through, knocking home 5 - 0 for Maniacal.

The referee showed Maniacals Roy Hoekstra the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.

Omar Nairn should probably have put his team up another goal in the 70:th minute, but some great goaltending by Mick Martin kept the visitors in the game.

A well placed corner kick from Bill Wright was followed by Huey Miller´s hard but accurate header. The nice combination meant goal for Maniacal. The result now 6-0.

After 78 minutes Abel Cano put Maniacal ahead 7 - 0 as he rose to head in a hooked ball, the result of an effort from the right side.

Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 75 percent possession rate.

Maniacal´s best player was Josef Eder. Roy Hoekstra was a disappointment, however. Fantasy´s best player was Ronald Joseph. Ed Sheridan on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 7 - 0

Goals

Bill Wright - 3
Abel Cano - 2
Huey Miller - 2

Player Ratings

3.0 - Marcin Landowski

3.5 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
3.0 - Omar Nairn
3.0 - Joseph MacKindlay (Defensive)

3.5 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
4.0 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
3.5 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
3.0 - Huey Miller
2.5 - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)

3.0 - Abel Cano
3.0 - Bill Wright

Stars - 35.0

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: excellent - (8)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: brilliant - (11)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 73

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

NSI - 53

Post Game Comments

Well..... that went alot better then i thought it would :) I was expecting a nice win, but 7-0 is an outright slaughter. That Excellent midfield was a surprise, i was expecting a solid because my midfielders form dropped some. But the extra stamina made up for it. Its a nice feeling knowing that i can get a excellent midfield without MOTS'ing. My triple excellent defense was also a surprise, having my goalie in solid form is great!

Now on to Bill Wright.... he's scored 7 goals in the last 4 days!! 4 in the cup game on wednesday and 3 here today, plus he got an assist on Huey Millers header goal. The wierd thing is he's in his worst form in a LONG time (Passable). Either way i'll take it :) This was a big game today, 1 of the 4 games this season that i actually have a chance of losing and we dominated. The next big game takes place in week 5 verus The Witches on the road.

The Good

The Midfield - Getting an excellent midfield rating without MOTSing is a first for us!! and its only gonna get better.

Bill Wright - another Hattrick today... thats 7 goals in his last 2 games!

Marcin Landowski - had a shutout and played his best game ever according to supporter stats.

The Bad

Nothing Bad Here Baby!!

Around The League

Witches - vs - CristinaFC3 5 - 2

The Witches got a little revenage today vs CristinaFC3 for tieing them last season. The Witches lost a midfielder to a red card late in the first half, but still won easy.

north crowley - vs - The Minnesota SnowDrifts 1 - 3

This game went as expected, The SnowDrifts team is getting better and better. Im glad to see one of the new teams from last season are improving they're team.

Rosecity Thorns - vs - California Huns 1 - 1

Somehow Rosecity managed to tie a freaking bot team. He dominated possession 71/80 percent but couldn't put the ball in the net. His ratings weren't every impressive either, i may have overrated him some this season.

League Standings

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

1. Maniacal Misfitz-----------1------------------7 - 0----------------3

2. Witches--------------------1------------------5 - 2----------------3

3. The Minnesota SnowD--1------------------3 - 1----------------3

4. California Huns-----------1------------------1 - 1----------------1

5. Rosecity Thorns----------1------------------1 - 1-----------------1

6. north crowley-------------1-----------------1 - 3-----------------0

7. CristinaFC3----------------1-----------------2 - 5-----------------0

8. Final Fantasy--------------1-----------------0 - 7-----------------0

Upnext, This weeks cup game

Havok

11-19-2003, 09:09 PM

Season 3 - USA Cup - Round 2

South Dakota Bears - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

Round 2 of the USA Cup and we're off to play another bot team. It should be a slaughter but i need this game for my B-Team. Since they didn't get to play last week and the stamina training from last week screwed up they're form some. Its not horrible, but its seen better days. Actually most of my B-team might play on sunday because i might have to play my starters in my next cup game depending on how tough of a team i draw.

Starters

GK - Stanford Weiss

Right Wingback - Emanuel Miller (Offensive)
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 - Istvan Strobl
Forward 2 - Martin Devátý

The Form dog of the week is once again Dolf De Bevere, i can't seem to get him above poor form. Not that it matters much.... his quick skill still kicks ass :) The surprise form of the week is Istvan Strobl... he's somehow in solid form. Not that it matters.... he still sucks :(

Players To Watch

Torbjörn Jonasson - The only player to watch this game is my youngster. He's finally back up to passable form and he jumped 2 levels in stamina last week. He should have a nice game.

The Match

Overcast weather free of rain made for a crowd turnout of 7000 at South Dakota Park today. Dakota started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. Lineup: Mcalister - Porter, Branham, Goff, Ramos - Costello, Bull, Urban, Levy - Davis, Mcghee.

Maniacal started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Weiss - Miller, Nairn, Ferreira da Silv - Minter, Tolstoy, Neiva, Jonasson, de Bevere - Devátý, Strobl.

Maniacal took the lead in the games 12th minute with 0 - 1 after some elegant plays down the middle. Joaquim Neiva was the scorer.

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, Dakota´s Jordi Ramos got himself booked.

Benton Minter increased the visitors lead by putting a volley shot away on a pass from the right. 0 - 2.

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

After 30 minutes Dakota´s Adam Davis contracted a slight foot injury, but could finish the game.

Torbjörn Jonasson came close to extending the visitors lead as he, completely unmarked in front of the goal, lifted a ball over Kevin Mcalister, hitting the bar.

Dolf de Bevere´s speed was made justice as he darted past his marker and struck an opening pass to Martin Devátý who scored the 0-3 goal. The structure of the game started to change as Maniacal decided to pull back and meet their opponents in the defensive zone.

The away team´s Istvan Strobl took advantage of a mistake to the home side´s right in the 41st minute increasing Maniacal´s lead to 0 - 4.

In the games 41st minute Dakota´s Isaac Branham fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee booked Isaac Branham for taking a dive.

In the game's 42nd minute Dakota´s Tracy Bull limped slightly after a late challenge, but he was able to continue.

Halftime score was 0 - 4. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 74 percent possession rate.

Benton Minter came close to extending the visitors lead as he, completely unmarked in front of the goal, lifted a ball over Kevin Mcalister, hitting the bar.

Torbjörn Jonasson was, after 60 minutes, almost able to extend the visitors lead with a well placed diving header but home side keeper Kevin Mcalister saved.

In the 67:th minute of the game, Dakota´s Isaac Branham had to leave the pitch after receiving his second booking.

Man, what a shot by Istvan Strobl! Firing from 35 yards he didn't give the enemy goalie a chance and it was 0 - 5.

In the 73rd minute the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 6 as Benton Minter finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick.

The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 84 percent possession of the ball.

Dakota´s best player was Kevin Mcalister. However, Adam Davis made a disastrous appearance. Maniacal´s best player was Ismael Ferreira da Silva. Dolf de Bevere on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 0 - 6

Goals

Benton Minter - 2
Istvan Strobl - 2
Joaquim Neiva - 1
Martin Devátý - 1

Player Ratings

2.0 - Stanford Weiss

2.0 - Emanuel Miller (Offensive)
3.0 - Omar Nairn
3.0 - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)

3.0 - Benton Minter (Offensive)
2.5 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
3.0 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
3.0 - Viktor Tolstoy
2.0 - Dolf de Bevere (Offensive)

2.5 - Istvan Strobl
2.5 - Martin Devátý

Stars - 28.5

Team Ratings

South Dakota Bears
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: wretched - (2)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: poor - (3)
Central Attack: poor - (3)
Left Side Attack: poor - (3)

NSI - 33

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: formidable - (9)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 52

Post Game Comments

Nice and easy 6-0 PIC win.... just what i was expecting, no injuries either and only 1 yellow card also, so it was a good day. The only bad thing i can see is that my young midfield trainee Torbjörn Jonasson had his best game ever getting 3 stars!! But he missed 3 scoring chances!! I've never had 1 guy miss 3 scoring chances in one game, its kinda crazy that a midfielder got 3 scoring chances to begin with. The ratings were actually a little better then i was expecting with my cuurent form and the team i play next week in the cup looks pretty weak so my back-ups should win easy.

The Good

Torbjörn Jonasson - First ever 3 star game and 17% better then any game he's ever played according to supporter stats.

Dolf de Bevere - once again his quick skill accounted for a goal... he assisted Martin's goal.

The Bad

Stanford Weiss - my back-up goalie's huge form spike from thursday caused him to have his worse game ever with the team.

Joaquim Neiva - Joaquim big form drop also caused him to have his worse game in awhile only getting 2 1/2 stars.

Upnext, This weeks Tarining Update

Havok

11-21-2003, 10:34 AM

Training and Form Update

only 1 pop this week and it was from my back-up wingback....

Emanuel Miller
110 000 US$, 21 years, solid form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities

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

I think im gonna sell Emanuel now and buy an older more experianced back-up defender. His passable PM/passable defending should fetch a decent price.

Form

Form bounced back pretty good this week after last weeks stamina training. I also had my first player ever go over the 400k assessed value mark!!! My goalie jumped about 10k in value this week to land at 403k!! This means he's probally in High solid form and might get his first ever 3 1/2 star game. And speaking of assessed value... Josef Eder continues to climp his way closer to being the highest assessed value player on my team... he's at 377k :)

7 Players Increased in Form (3 Starters)
4 Players Decreased in Form (2 Starters)

Player/Team Value

Value per player (average): 147 762 US$ (+5,286)
Total squad value: 3 103 000 US$ (+111,000)
Average age: 22
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): wretched
No of players (excluding the coach): 21
Number of nationalities: 15

The Misfitz pass the 3 million dollar team value mark!!! WOOT!!!

Upnext, This week youth pull and economic update

Havok

11-23-2003, 01:30 AM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

well.... at least he's sellable....

Wallace Farrington (21149561)
18 years, passable form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is balanced and dishonest.
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 42 000 US$
Wage: 700 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

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

Economic Update

Cash funds: 204 820 US$ (142 551) US$
Sponsors: high on life
Supporter Club: 1249 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue--------------------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0--------------------------------------Arena 20 480
Sponsors 62 535---------------------------Wages 31 824
Financial 0------------------------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0---------------------------------Temporary 3 000
-------------------------------------------------Staff 49 500
-------------------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 62 535 Total expenses 124 804
Expected income/loss -62 269

This is my first week of 2 straight weeks of away league games. But it shouldn't be to bad since i'll probally have a home cup game next week.

This weeks Games

My league game this week is a pretty easy one verus The Minnesota SnowDrifts. They're still pretty new to HT but they're team is improving some. Unfortunetly for him he's nowhere near my level so it should be an easy win...

The Minnesota SnowDrifts
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: poor - (3)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: excellent - (8)

NSI - 46

My cup game this week is verus a pretty weak team also. I'll probally throw a my starting goalie and a starting forward in the game just to make sure i win easy.... i don't want no dam upset :)

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

NSI - 43

Upnext, this weeks league game

Havok

11-23-2003, 09:42 PM

Season 3 - League Game - Round 2

The Minnesota SnowDrifts - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

My first road game of the season is verus The Minnesota SnowDrifts and it should be an easy PIC win. This guy logs in alot and buys cheap players here and there. But doesn't really have a training program going and only puts up mid 40's NSI ratings. I debated playing my back-up midfielders so i could use my starters on wednesday, but i think the Snowdrifts are a little better then the team i play on wednesday.

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Joseph MacKindlay (Defensive)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

Right Winger - Roy Hoekstra (Offensive)
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

Since possession isn't such a huge deal in this game i'll be playing Roy Hoekstra offensive. He gets more stars offensive then if i play him "towards the middle" but doesn't contribute as much to my midfield rating. My defense is probally in its best form in a LONG LONG time. My goalie is in high solid form, Omar Narin is also in solid form and both my wingbacks are in passable form. I should get my best defensive ratings in a long time. Most of the rest of my team is in the same form they were in last week.

Players To Watch

Marcin Landowski - best form i've ever had him in.... might get his first ever 3 1/2 star game!

Andi Neiweiler - Andi bounced back to excellent form and should dominate his side of the field like usual.

The Match

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 14500 to The Minnesota SnowDrifts Arena. SnowDrifts had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Fyhren - Echols, Wilkinson, Calloway, Espierrez - Ackerman, Finch, Coy, Santos - Carrington, Ponce.

Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. Lineup: Landowski - MacKindlay, Nairn, ben Aharon - Hoekstra, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Eder, Neiweiler - Cano, Wright.

Some quick foot work on the left side of the field in the 4:th minute left Maniacal´s Bill Wright completely free to score. 0 - 1 for the visitors.

Kraig Finch of SnowDrifts received a yellow card in the 9:th minute for unsportsmanlike behaviour.

Jakob Noer Mogensen increased the visitors lead by putting a volley shot away on a pass from the right. 0 - 2.

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.

Bill Wright increased the visitors lead by putting a volley shot away on a pass from the right. 0 - 3. After this Maniacal lowered the tempo in order to concentrate on their defensive efforts.

In the 29:th minute Maniacal put themselves up 0 - 4 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. Scorer was Bill Wright. By then Bill Wright was a three time scorer - a hat trick!

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, SnowDrifts´s Troy Wilkinson got himself booked.

The teams went for a half-time break at 0 - 4. The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 81 percent possession of the ball.

Christopher Santos of SnowDrifts received a yellow card in the 51st minute for unsportsmanlike behaviour.

Bill Wright increased Maniacal´s lead to 0 - 5 by a superb free kick strike, flying in just under the far top corner.

In the 63rd minute of the game, SnowDrifts´s Kraig Finch had to leave the pitch after receiving his second booking.

The visitors Abel Cano took advantage of an error due to a misunderstanding between the home side´s goalie and full backs in the 69:th minute. 0 - 6 for Maniacal.

In the 76:th minute the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 7 as Joseph MacKindlay finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick.

The referee showed SnowDriftss Homer Ponce the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.

Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 90 percent, dominated the battle.

The most dominating SnowDrifts player was without a doubt Michael Carrington. Troy Wilkinson on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Josef Eder. However, Abel Cano made a disastrous appearance.

The match ends 0 - 7

Goals

Bill Wright - 4
Abel Cano - 1
Joseph MacKindlay - 1
Jakob Noer Mogensen - 1

Player Ratings

3.5 - Marcin Landowski

3.5 - Joseph MacKindlay (Defensive)
3.0 - Omar Nairn
3.0 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

3.0 - Roy Hoekstra (Offensive)
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

36 - Stars

Team Ratings

The Minnesota SnowDrifts
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: wretched - (2)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Attack: passable - (5)
Central Attack: passable - (5)
Left Side Attack: passable - (5)

NSI - 37

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: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: brilliant - (11)

NSI - 69

Post Game Comments

That went pretty much as expected.... a 7-0 win PIC win on the road with no injuries and no cards. I couldn't be happier :) They're ratings were alot worse then i was expecting.... not having they're best forward due to injury and having a middy red carded destroyed they're ratings. I probally should have played my back-ups but like i've said from the begining of the season. League games come first this season.... i gotta promote to divison IV at the end of the season. Now its time to talk about Bill Wright...... this guy IS ON FIRE!!!! He's now scored 11 goals in his last 3 games!! and 7 in 2 league games this season... im loving it!! I've said it before and i'll say it again.... best 25k i ever spent!! :)

The Good

Bill Wright - of course Bill Wright was good with his 4 goals!

Marcin Landowski - picked up his first ever 3 1/2 star game.

The Bad

huh.... 69 NSI pic on the road??? what could be bad about that :)

Around The League

California Huns - vs - Witches 0 - 6

The Witches played mostly back-ups and beat up on a bot team 6-0.

Final Fantasy - vs - Rosecity Thorns 1 - 1

I can't freaking believe Rosecity tied FF on the road. Rosecity lost possession, scored on an event goal, and FF missed 4 shots. With FF's tie this week and me killing him last week, his chances of winning this divison are all but over.

CristinaFC3 - vs - north crowley 5 - 0

Nice and easy bounce back win for CristinaFC3 after last weeks 5-2 loss to the Witches. He's still got a shot at third place this season with how bad FF is doing this year.

League Standings

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

1. Maniacal Misfitz----------2-----------------14 - 0-----------------6

2. Witches-------------------2------------------11 - 2----------------6

3. CristinaFC3---------------2------------------7 - 5-----------------3

4. The Minnesota SnowD--2------------------3 - 8-----------------3

5. Rosecity Thorns----------2------------------2 - 2------------------2

6. California Huns-----------2------------------1 - 7------------------1

7. Final Fantasy-------------2-------------------1 - 8-----------------1

8. north crowley-------------2-------------------1 - 8----------------0

Upnext, This weeks Cup game

Havok

11-27-2003, 02:09 PM

Season 3 - USA Cup Game - Round 3

NTHS - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

Round 3 of the USA cup is here and we've finally drawn a "Decent" team. NTHS is a semi-decent divison V team but he only logs in every once and while. When he plays his starters he can get mid to high 40's NSI and a weak midfield. Im not sure if he's gonna play his starters or not and to be on the safe side i'll play a couple starters today along with my midfield trainee's. Im probally being a little to precaution but i don't want no dam cupset :)

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (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 - Abel Cano
Forward 2 - Martin Devátý

Since i sold off Emanuel Miller this week for 100k, i now only have 4 defenders. So i'll be playing 2 starting defenders in this game, plus i've decided to throw 1 of my starting forwards (Abel Cano) and my starting goalie (Marcin Landowski) into the game aswell. So i should get pretty good ratings and have no problem winning this game with a PIC.

The Match

Overcast weather free of rain made for a crowd turnout of 7000 at NTHS Arena today. NTHS started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Villanueva - Hirsch, Trahan, Michel - Dexter, Kim-Soon, Henry, Smalley, Finch - Arnold, Crawford.

Maniacal started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Landowski - ben Aharon, Nairn, Ferreira da Silv - Minter, Tolstoy, Neiva, Jonasson, de Bevere - Devátý, Cano.

Martin Devátý had a good try in the 8:th minute, coming in on a fine move from the left, but the ball went wide.

Maniacal´s 0 - 1 goal came from a questionable penalty. Martin Devátý struck that one home without a second thought.

In the to 14:th minute a very unfortunate collision in the home teams penalty area led to NTHS´s Kasey Arnold being carried off the pitch and replaced by Rob Mckee.

After 14 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for Abel Cano who increased Maniacal´s lead to 0 - 2.

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.

After 35 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for Dolf de Bevere who increased Maniacal´s lead to 0 - 3.

After 38 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for Martin Devátý who increased Maniacal´s lead to 0 - 4. 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 0 - 4. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 63 percent possession rate.

After 58 minutes of game time Martin Devátý received an excellent opportunity to add to the visitors lead, clipping a volley hooked in from the right, but James Villanueva was in the right place, tipping the ball to a corner.

A lunatic dribble by Joaquim Neiva, in front of the own keeper, set up NTHS´s Barrett Finch for an embarrasingly easy strike. 1 - 4...

After 67 minutes a combination in the middle resulted in a through ball for Martin Devátý who increased Maniacal´s lead to 1 - 5. By then Martin Devátý was a three time scorer - a hat trick!

Jerome Hirsch of NTHS received a yellow card in the 76:th minute for unsportsmanlike behaviour.

Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 63 percent possession rate.

NTHS´s best player was Jerome Hirsch. Rob Mckee on the other hand, had a terrible day. Most important Maniacal player was Marcin Landowski. However, Dolf de Bevere made a disastrous appearance.

The match ends 1 - 5

Goals

Martin Devátý - 3
Abel Cano - 1
Dolf de Bevere - 1

Player Ratings

3.5 - Marcin Landowski

3.0 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
3.0 - Omar Nairn
3.0 - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)

2.5 - Benton Minter (Offensive)
3.0 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
3.0 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
3.0 - Viktor Tolstoy
2.0 - Dolf de Bevere (Offensive)

3.0 - Abel Cano
2.5 - Martin Devátý

31.5 Stars

Team Ratings

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

NSI - 38

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: solid - (6)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: formidable - (9)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 60

Post Game Comments

As you can see by the score and the NSI ratings i did over-estimate these guys. Looks like he knew i was gonna kill him and he played some back-ups. Overall im very happy with the outcome... nice PIC win and no injuries. Im also very happy with my back-up middy's, they all got 3 stars and they got an inadequate midfield PIC'ing on the road with no winger towards the middle... not bad. My next cup opponent is a TOUGH one... but since im kinda in a hurry i'll break his team down later.

The Good

Midfield Trainee's - all 3 got 3 stars and an inadequate midfiled pic'ing on the road!

Martin Devátý - Martin had his biggest game in a long time... he knocked in 3 goals.

The Bad

Joaquim Neiva - While Jaoquim played well and got me 3 stars. His "Unpredictable" skill gave up a goal.

Upnext, This weeks training update

Havok

11-29-2003, 05:22 PM

Form and Training Update

No PM pops this week.... i wasn't really expecting any this week or next week so its no big deal.

Form

Form continues to rebound nicely from my week of stamina training to end last season. My starting midfield gained 2 levels of form this week so now they sit at passable/solid/excellent form. Plus my starting goalie tacked on another 8k in assessed value but still remains in solid form. I think he's about as close to excellent form you can get... im loving life having him in such good form :)

7 Players increased in form (6 Starters)
3 Player decreased in form (2 starters)

Player/Team Value

Value per player (average): 155 700 US$ (+7,938)
Total squad value: 3 114 000 US$ (+11,000)
Average age: 23
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): wretched
No of players (excluding the coach): 20 (-1)
Number of nationalities: 15

These numbers are slightly screwed up because i sold off my back-up wingback for 100k and i still haven't bought a replacement.

Upnext, This weeks youth pull and economic update

Havok

11-30-2003, 02:14 AM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

YES YES YES YES!!!! finally!!! i've waited soooo long for this (7 months).

Edward Kaufman (21454120)
17 years, passable form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is balanced and dishonest.
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 115 000 US$
Wage: 1 040 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

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

This is by far my best youth pull ever. I "could" train him up and sell off one of my other trainee's.... but i'll take the money instead. All i can say is its about dam time!!! he should get me at LEAST 500k!!! probally more.

Economic Update

Cash funds: 261 471 US$ (204 737) US$
Sponsors: high on life
Supporter Club: 1271 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue-----------------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0------------------------------------Arena 20 480
Sponsors 66 000-------------------------Wages 30 754
Financial 0----------------------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0-------------------------------Temporary 2 000
-----------------------------------------------Staff 49 500
-----------------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 66 000 Total expenses 122 734
Expected income/loss -56 734

My sponser money continues to jump up around 4k a week, im not sure when its gonna level off but i ain't complaining. I still need to buy a back-up defender with that money, but money won't be a problem now that i got my new uber youth pull ;)

This Weeks Games

League Game

This week i play another road game verus a very active human team. He promoted to my divison from divison VI last season and is in the same federation as The Witches owner. His team has played VERY weird this season. He tied his first game of the season at home verus a freaking bot team 1 - 1. Then he got REALLY lucky last week and tied Final Fantasy 1 - 1 on the road.

Rosecity Thorns - 3-4-3
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: weak - (4)

NSI - 49

As you can see his team is no pushover and if he MOTS's me at home he might get a passable midfield. I don't think he'd actually waste a MOTS and destroy his team spirit on trying to beat me. My only dilema is that i have a VERY tough cup game on sunday and im not sure if im gonna use my starters on sunday.

USA Cup Game

Well, last year i got lucky as hell with my 4th round cup match opponent. This year i didn't get so lucky.... im playing one badass team. He got regulated from divison IV last season somehow.

FC Rantzwiller
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: brilliant - (11)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: magnificent - (12)
Right Side Attack: outstanding - (10)
Central Attack: outstanding - (10)
Left Side Attack: formidable - (9)

NSI - 79

This is one of the best teams in all of divison V and he has a french national team forward on his team!!! But he does have a slight weakness.... his midfield. His starting middy's just arn't that great... my only hope of winning is if i play my starters and dominate possession. I am at home which gives me some advantage also. Im still not sure which one of my games this week im gonna play my starters in. Its gonna be a tough call....

Upnext, This weeks League Game

Havok

11-30-2003, 09:32 PM

Season 3 - League Game - Round 3

Rosecity Thorns - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

Interesting game here today.... Rosecity is a halfway decent team and i have a feeling he might try to throw a MOTS at me. But i also have a REALLY REALLY tough cup game on wednesday that i'd like to try to win. So i've decided to play all my starters today expect my midfielder and play Normal instead of PIC, better safe then sorry. So my back-up wingers won't get 50% PM training this week but i don't really care. They're just kinda placeholders until i find better guys to stick in there.

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Joseph MacKindlay (Defensive)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

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

Forward 1 - Abel Cano
Forward 2 - Bill Wright

This is my whole starting squad except my middy's. But my back-up middys are in good form (solid/passable/passable) so they should do just fine. My defense right now is in its best form ever!! My goalie is in super high solid form and all 3 of my defenders are also in solid form. I might just see my best defensive ratings ever in this game.

Players To Watch

Joseph MacKindlay - he's in his best form ever since being with the club, plus he's playing defensive wingback.

Marcin Landowski - Marcin's value jumped another 8k on thursday so for the second week in a row he'll have his best game ever with the club.

The Match

23785 spectators arrived at The Arboretum, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. Rosecity started off with a 3-4-3 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Sadhu - Stubbs, Bradshaw, Johnson - Yost, Turbis, Steen, Freeman - Ohlskär, Svantesson, Caron.

Maniacal tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Landowski - MacKindlay, Nairn, ben Aharon - Hoekstra, Tolstoy, Neiva, Jonasson, Neiweiler - Cano, Wright.

Rosecity were mostly trying to use the flanks for their attacks.

In the 22nd minute Maniacals Omar Nairn received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first.

A badly positioned defensive formation on a free kick in the 23rd minute led to Maniacal´s Bill Wright giving the visitors the lead 0 - 1.

The game had been on for 29 minutes when Abel Cano broke through to the right, upping the score to the home crowd´s dismay. Maniacal´s were up 0 - 2.

Rosecity´s Gustav Ohlskär refused to leave the field after injuring his achilles tendon in the 37:th minute.

The game had been on for 39 minutes when Bill Wright broke through to the right, upping the score to the home crowd´s dismay. Maniacal´s were up 0 - 3.

Always quick and a menace to his opponents,Ross Caron was in the 41st minute very close to getting through, but Torbjörn Jonasson managed to avert the attack.

Omar Nairn was, after 41 minutes, almost able to extend the visitors lead with a well placed diving header but home side keeper Ruben Sadhu saved.

Halftime score was 0 - 3. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 60 percent possession rate.

Viktor Tolstoy received some harsh words from his coach after he acted foolishly, probably out of lack of experience, in the 66:th minute and almost caused an opponent to score.

Some fine manouvering on the left lead to an 71st minute Maniacal goal, making it 0 - 4. Bill Wright was noted down as the scorer. By then Bill Wright was a three time scorer - a hat trick! After this Maniacal lowered the tempo in order to concentrate on their defensive efforts.

Viktor Tolstoy increased the visitors lead by putting a volley shot away on a pass from the right. 0 - 5.

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, Rosecity´s Jonas Turbis got himself booked. In the 75:th minute Tore Svantesson passed through the guests central line of defense, scoring the 1 - 5 goal.

The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 59 percent possession of the ball.

The most dominating Rosecity player was without a doubt Jonas Turbis. Scott Steen on the other hand, had a terrible day. Maniacal´s best player was Joseph MacKindlay. However, Abel Cano made a disastrous appearance.

The match ends 1 - 5

Goals

Bill Wright - 3
Abel Cano - 1
Viktor Tolstoy - 1

Player Ratings

3.5 - Marcin Landowski

3.5 - Joseph MacKindlay (Defensive)
3.0 - Omar Nairn
3.0 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

3.0 - Roy Hoekstra (Offensive)
3.0 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
3.0 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
3.0 - Viktor Tolstoy
3.5 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

2.5 - Abel Cano
3.0 - Bill Wright

33.5 - Stars

Team Ratings

Rosecity Thorns
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: formidable - (9)
Central Attack: formidable - (9)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 54

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: outstanding - (10)

NSI - 70

Post Game Comments

That went a little better then expected, he didn't MOTS me like i thought he would so we won easy. I guess i could have pic'ed and still won but i can't risk having an upset. My back-up middies played well as expected and got a passable midfield rating on the road.... plus my defense had its best game ever!!! 6% better then any other game according to supporter stats. That should help me out some in my cup game on wednesday, im gonna need all the help i can get. There is more really good news for me in divison V.253.... i'll talk about it under "Around The Divison".

The Good

Marcin Landowski[/b] - Played his best game ever for the team and bumped to "Wretched" experiance.

[i]Bill Wright - Bill continues to be on fire scoring 3 more goals today. Thats now 14 goals in 4 games this season!!

Joseph MacKindlay - Played his best game ever for the team by 6% and helped me get a formidable right side defense rating.

The Bad

Abel Cano - His form drop on thursday lead to him getting his first 2.5 star game of the season. He still scored a goal though...

They Scored!! - i gave up my first league goal of the season!! :(

Around The Divison

Witches - vs - Final Fantasy 3 - 3

Im speechless.... I talked to Johnny (the owner of the witches) earlier this week and i warned him not to underestimate Final Fantasy. So what does he do??? runs a 3-4-3 with only 2 midfielders!!! and FF comes back from a 3-0 defict to tie them 3-3. I feel bad for johnny but he is his own worst enemy. This is a huge break for me.... now even if he beats me in week 5 at his house, he still has to beat me in week 9 at my house (which will be next to impossible) to win the divison. And if i win in week 5 the divison title is all but mine.

north crowley - vs - Baker FC 2 - 2

A meaningless game in my divison. Baker FC just got his team the other day and started off his HT career with a tie. But thats not the big of any accomplishment considering how bad North Crowly is.

The Minnesota Snowdrifts - vs - CristinaFC3 0 - 9

For some reason The Snowdrifts decided to switch to a 5-3-2 for this game and they got slaughtered. I play Cristina FC3 next week at home and i can guarentee they won't win 9-0 :)

Divison Standings

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

1. Maniacal Misfitz-----------3-----------------19 - 1----------------9

2. Witches---------------------3-----------------14 - 5---------------7

3. CristinaFC3-----------------3-----------------16 - 5---------------6

4. The Minnesota SnowD----3----------------3 - 17---------------3

5. Rosecity Thorns------------3----------------3 - 7-----------------2

6. Baker FC--------------------3-----------------3 - 9-----------------2

7. Final Fantasy---------------3-----------------4 - 11---------------2

8. north crowley--------------3------------------3 - 10---------------1

Upnext, This weeks USA Cup game

Desnudo

12-01-2003, 03:50 AM

Nice going. See you in IV next season ;).

sterlingice

12-01-2003, 10:21 AM

How's your sale going?

SI

Havok

12-01-2003, 02:53 PM

only at 220k at the moment... hopfully someone will knock it up soon

Havok

12-03-2003, 03:07 PM

Disappointing News

Edward Kaufman (21454120)
17 years, passable form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is balanced and dishonest.
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 115 000 US$
Wage: 1 040 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

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

Sold For 408k

well.... it hard to complain when a youth pull sells for 408k. But just 1 week ago youth pulls very similar to mine were selling for around 1 million bucks. What a difference a week makes :( This sale pretty much breaks me even on my youth squad for my HT career. Hopfully i'll start to see a steady profit from here on out.

What to do with the money??

After this sale i have around 570k in the bank, plus i should make around 130k from my cup game today so by weeks end i'll have 700k in the bank. I also have a home game on sunday that i should sell out unless it rains... thats another 140k after the weeks expenses. By the end of next week i'll have at least 840k in the bank... more if i win my cup game today and get another home cup game next week.

Im not sure what i wanna do with my money. 850k+ could buy me a very nice player... but i think i'd rather wait and buy 1 badass player. The 2 midfielders i plan on selling this season won't be ready to sell for another 4 weeks or so, but they should make me around 1.7 million. If i just continue to save this money, by then i'll probally have around 2.7-2.9 million to play with. I could grab a nice outstanding goalie and 2 very nice trainee's or a nice formidable goalie, formidable forward and 2 very good trainee's.

Decisions decisions...... Any ideas or comments from my readers would be appreciated :)

Masked

12-03-2003, 04:08 PM

Where have I heard of this guy before?

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League goals this season - USA

1. Jim Lombardo New Orleans Lion 11
2. Bill Wright Maniacal Misfitz 10
3. Roman Moldovan Discarding Sabot 10
4. Jeremy Russo The Spidey Wolve 10
5. Emory Mcnamara The Maine Lancer 10
6. Paul Roman Kajun's 10
7. Steven Myers Die Mächtigen En 10
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NAIWF

12-03-2003, 04:11 PM

I just picked up a formidable goalie yesterday, and I think that's a better deal if you're moving up from a solid, than going up another level to outstanding and pumping in at least another 700K for that 1 level of skill. Being a D5 team, I'd imagine it takes you a while to gather 700 K, and since your division seems to be all but a walkover for you, you need to be ready to compete by the start of next season or you may end up right back in D5 again depending on luck.

Also, prices will continue to go up since everyone in the game is making more money than they used to, so that $2-2.2 million outstanding goalie might go for $2.5-2.7 million by this time next season. The amount of global money is going up, but the amount of formidable+ players is going to stay relatively the same, and odds are you're gonna end up paying 20% in extra wages to a goalie, which could mean that one player will be making well over $6,000 weekly.

If I were you, I'd go for the formidable goalie and better trainees than an outstanding goalie and weaker trainees since your defense needs the most help in terms of "D4 talent". Even a team like mine with poor passing middies and two solid forwards puts up formidable/excellent/formidable on offense, so I'd think you'd want to be in the outstanding range on defense at the least since your midfield may not match up with many teams if you end up in a really tough D4 series like .19, or .49

Havok

12-03-2003, 09:10 PM

Season 3 - USA Cup - Round 4

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - FC Rantzwiller

Round 4 of the USA Cup is upon us and its a TOUGH one. We've drawn one of the top teams in all of divison V. He has a french national team forward on his team and a 5 stars badass goalie. But he does have a weakness.... his midfield. The best he's gottin this season is passable, if he decides to MOTS me he might get a solid. But me playing normal at home i should get a formidable midfield. So im hoping i can just dominate possession and get a few lucky breaks and win, But im not counting on it. It should be a good game.....

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Joseph MacKindlay (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

I got all my starters in today and they are all in passable or better form. This will probally be my highest NSI rating ever and i think this will also be my first ever formidable midfield also.

Players To Watch

Bill Wright - Bill is just so freaking hot right now its scary. 10 league goals this season in only 3 games... plus he scored 4 goals in his only cup game this season.

Marcin Landowski - Marcin is also really hot lately... he's as close to excellent form as someone can get. He should grab me 3 1/2 stars and hopfully stop a few shots.

The Match

At The Island of Misfit Toyz, 32000 punters turned up, and despite threatening clouds at the horizon, no rain came. Maniacal tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Landowski - ben Aharon, Nairn, MacKindlay - Neiweiler, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Eder, Hoekstra - Cano, Wright.

Rantzwiller started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. They fielded: Bucknall - Larrañaga, Alley, Gil - Dockery, Spence, Laszewski, Mateu, Haney - Boissiere, Suryanto.

It was an obvious ambition of Rantzwiller to attack on the flanks.

0 - 1 was a funny story: the seemingly nonchalant lob from Rantzwiller´s Max Haney landed at the feet of Sébastien Boissiere who sent it into the net - goal!

Bill Wright was just a finger´s breadth away from an equaliser for Maniacal, but Frank Bucknall managed to ward the closing shot off for a corner.

Rantzwiller´s Sébastien Boissiere received a play slashing through the home side´s defense in the 37:th minute, chipping it past the keeper scoring 0 - 2. The home crowd was not pleased with that one.

A misunderstanding between the visitors keeper Frank Bucknall and his left defence could have resulted in a goal for Maniacal, but Andi Neiweiler´s finish was way to lame.

Rantzwiller´s Max Haney made it through the home teams defence in the 40: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.

Maniacal scored the 1 - 2 goal through a penalty. Bill Wright placed the ball low at the keepers right post, impossible to block.

Rantzwiller´s José Luis Larrañaga left the field after 43 minutes because of a nasty blow to the shin. His replacement was Roscoe Rowland.

The teams went for a half-time break at 1 - 2. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 60 percent possession rate.

Bill Wright made a superb strike at the goal in the 52nd minute with a long shot coming in from straight in front of the goal, but one of the visitors defenders got a foot in and warded it off to a corner.

Bill Wright pulled a real crowd pleaser as he, in the 55:th minute, wove through the guests whole central defense line and put the 2 - 2 equaliser away.

Maniacals Abel Cano gave, after 62 minutes, the home team a 3 - 2 lead after an attack coming in from the right.

A great save by goaltender Frank Bucknall in the 67:th minute kept the visitors in the game as Joseph MacKindlay struck from the left with a real cannonball.

Maniacals Omar Nairn got himself booked after a foul.

Rantzwiller were forced to a substitution as Frank Bucknall couldn´t continue playing due to the rough treatment, forcing Clyde Davis to come in from the sidelines.

The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 62 percent possession of the ball.

Maniacal´s best player was Josef Eder. Abel Cano on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating Rantzwiller player was without a doubt Sébastien Boissiere. Clyde Davis was a disappointment, however.

The match ends 3 - 2

Goals

Bill Wright - 2
Abel Cano - 1

Player Ratings

3.5 - Marcin Landowski

3.0 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
3.0 - Omar Nairn
3.5 - Joseph MacKindlay (Defensive)

3.5 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
4.0 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
3.5 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
3.0 - Huey Miller
2.5 - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)

2.5 - Abel Cano
3.0 - Bill Wright

35 - Stars

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: formidable - (9)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: outstanding - (10)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 74

FC Rantzwiller
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: magnificent - (12)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: outstanding - (10)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 71

Post Game Comments

well shit!! we WON!!!! :) I can't believe it... now i see why this guy got demoted to divison V. He sat his second best forward and played a 2 star bum which hurt his central attack alot and He attacked down the flanks when his strength is central attack. His loss is my gain.... this means i get 1 more home cup game which = 1 more PIC and 140k extra :) His ratings were lower then expected mainly because i injured his 5 star goalie and his best wingback! His freaking COACH is his back-up goalie but i somehow didn't score a goal on him. Anyway.... i gotta admit this was kind of a surprise, i knew i had him on possession but i didn't expect such low attack ratings from him.

The Good

Bill Wright - Bill knocked in 2 more goals... it ended his streak of 4 straight games with a Hattrick. But 2 goals verus this defense is nice.

The Midfield - I got my first ever formidable midfield and i didn't even have to MOTS. I love PM training :)

The Bad

4 Missed Shots - The only real BAD in this game was that i missed 4 shots!!! But i guess thats kind of expected verus such a tough defense...

Upnext, This weeks training update

Havok

12-05-2003, 12:27 PM

Training and Form Update

This is a big day in Misfitz history..... we now have our first ever Formidable player :)

Huey Miller
196 000 US$, 19 years, passable form
Has wretched experience and wretched leadership abilities [Head]

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

Huey will be the staple of my midfield until he's at least Magnificent... maybe World Class. I bought Huey for a mere 37k from FOFC favorite BillyMadisons team. He poped to solid the next week and now just a little over 1 full season with the team he's formidable. This was kinda of a surprise.... it only took him 7 weeks to pop. I thought it would take 8 weeks since he was 18 for half the training and 19 for the other half. Either way we'll take it. We probally won't see another formidable middy on the team for another 3 or 4 weeks when Josef and Jakob bump.

Form

Form was kinda average this week.... i lost a few and gained a few. Somehow my starting goalie Marcin gained another 7k in value and is still in Solid form. I thought he was about as high of a solid form as you could get.... but it looks like i was wrong. Having him in high form has been great for my defense, after suffering through alot of last season with him in bad form this has been a pleasent surprise. The bad news is my starting forwards aren't doing so great. Abel dropped to inadequate form and Bill Wright is in low passable form. I hope i still get a excellent central attack rating.

7 Players increased in form (3 Starters)
6 Players decreased in form (3 Starters)

Team/Player Value

Value per player (average): 158 450 US$ (+2,750)
Total squad value: 3 169 000 US$ (+55,000)
Average age: 23
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): wretched
No of players (excluding the coach): 20
Number of nationalities: 15

Upnext, This weeks youth pull and economic update

Havok

12-07-2003, 01:02 AM

Youth pull and Economic Update

Nowhere near what i pulled last week, but at least he's sellable.

Kelly Byers (21722053)
18 years, passable form, healthy

A pleasant guy who is balanced and dishonest.
Has disastrous experience and solid leadership abilities.

Speciality: Head

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 32 000 US$
Wage: 660 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

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

Economic Update

Cash funds: 723 073 US$ (667 484) US$
Sponsors: dancing in the streets
Supporter Club: 1293 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue------------------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0-------------------------------------Arena 20 480
Sponsors 68 145-------------------------Wages 30 754
Financial 0-----------------------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0--------------------------------Temporary 3 000
------------------------------------------------Staff 49 500
------------------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 68 145------------------Total expenses 123 734
Expected income/loss -55 589

This is gonna be 1 hell-of-a week for The Misfitz. I get 2 home games. The weather for tommarrows home game is good and im playing the 3rd place team so i should sell it out no problem, That will be 200k for me. Then my home cup game on wednesday is verus a tough divison III team so i should also sellout that game easy, that will be another 140k. Plus my youth pull should sell for at least 10k, So all in all im expecting to make 350k this week!! That will put me around the 1 million dollar mark :) I might start hunting for a formidable goalie..... we'll see.

This Weeks Games

My league game this week is no easy pushover. CristinaFC3 has had his team for as long as i have. He's nowhere near as active as me but he can field 54-60 NSI ratings sometimes. His midfield was better then it is now but they're in bad form right now (solid/weak/poor). The guy in poor form is a 19 year old middy that he just bought for 750k. So when his form improves he might be tough....

CristinaFC3
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: passable - (6)
Left Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: excellent - (8)

NSI - 57

Since he's on the road this week im only expecting a weak midfiled rating. So they shouldn't be to much of a problem for me. If this was a road game, i'd probally play normal just to be safe. But since im at home i'll be picing.

Cup Game

My cup run will probally end this week. I take on a badass Div. III team "The Minutemen". He's a defender trainer and runs a 5-4-1 in league and cup games. But his ratings are still badass... this was his last cup game ratings.

The Minutemen
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: excellent - (8)
Right Side Defence: supernatural - (14)
Central Defence: supernatural - (14)
Left Side Defence: magnificent - (12)
Right Side Attack: poor - (3)
Central Attack: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Attack: outstanding - (10)

NSI - 82

Now if i played my full starters i'd have a shot at winning a 1-0 or 2-1 game. But i have a feeling after seeing my last cup game he'll be playing his starting midfielders verus me which are capable of a World Class + rating. I'll play a few starters, my midfield trainee's and PIC. Making it to round 5 of the cup was my goal this year..... now its time to focus 100% on league play.

Upnext, This weeks league game

Havok

12-07-2003, 10:01 PM

Season 3 - League Game - Round 4

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - CristinaFC3

This will be the 5th time i've played CristinaFC3 over the last 3 seasons and i've beat them every time. CristinaFC3 got they're team the same time i did and have been a decent team ever since, steadly improving week by week. If you take them to lightly they might upset ya.... with a good offense and mid to high 50's NSI ratings they can be tough. But right now my team is red hot and im at home. I'll be picing and the only way i think they have any kind of shot at beating me is if i get a couple red cards.

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Joseph MacKindlay (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 (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Bill Wright
Forward 2 - Abel Cano

I got my full starters in this week since my USA Cup game is hopless. Form is good everywhere except my forwards, Abel is in inadequate and Bill Wirght is in low passable. Hopfully my attack ratings won't suffer to much. My defense continues to have the best form on the team, 1 in excellent and 3 in solid form.

Players To Watch

Huey Miller - Huey became my first ever formidable player on thursday. Im hoping he finally starts getting 3 1/2 stars a game.

Bill Wright - Bill is tied for second in the USA with 10 league goals this season! Hopfully he'll continue his hot streak today.

Omar Narin - This is the first time i've ever had Omar in excellent form. I hope he gets his first 3 1/2 stars game also.

The Match

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 32000 to The Island of Misfit Toyz. People from all of Florida had joined up for the derby. Maniacal tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Landowski - ben Aharon, Nairn, MacKindlay - Neiweiler, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Eder, Hoekstra - Cano, Wright.

CristinaFC3 tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. They fielded: Gatlin - Läfbrant, Dalström, Merrill - Haraldsson, Robert, Garland, Johansson, Persson - Perales, Stokes.

CristinaFC3 immediately set off pressing their opponents. At this time in the match,

CristinaFC3 were using their weak skills at the press to successfully put pressure on their opponents.

Josef Eder 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.

Jakob Noer Mogensen still has a lot to learn. Like for instance not to make half-hearted passes in front of Tim Johansson who now could score for CristinaFC3. to 1-1.

A foul after 32 minutes resulted in a free kick. Bill Wright cannonballed it, giving the hometeam the lead 2 to 1.

A bit later, a magnificent combination in the middle resulted in Maniacal´s Joseph MacKindlay putting the lead up to 3 - 1. By now Maniacal were drawing the troops back in order to defend their lead.

The referee showed CristinaFC3s Johannes B. Dalström the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.

The teams went for a half-time break at 3 - 1. The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 59 percent possession of the ball.

After 53 minutes Maniacals Abel Cano had to be carried off on a stretcher in agony. Martin Devátý came in instead of him.

Maniacal put their lead ahead another goal as Bill Wright struck home the 4 - 1 goal, after an attack from the left setting him up unmarked with the keeper.

A well placed corner kick from Bill Wright was followed by Huey Miller´s hard but accurate header. The nice combination meant goal for Maniacal. The result now 5-1.

A couple of quick and successful challenges, followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area after 74 minutes might have resulted in another goal for Maniacal. However, August Gatlin made a spectacular save.

The home sides Bill Wright twisted a free kick home in the 76:th minute, putting Maniacal ahead 6 - 1. By then Bill Wright was a three time scorer - a hat trick!

CristinaFC3s Tim Johansson got himself booked after a foul.

Things were going to get worse for the visitors. Andi Neiweiler squirmed himself through the central defense line in the 82nd minute, asserting the lead to 7 - 1.

Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 60 percent possession rate.

Most important Maniacal player was Joseph MacKindlay. Martin Devátý on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating CristinaFC3 player was without a doubt Anders M. Läfbrant. Tim Johansson on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 7 - 1

Goals

Bill Wright - 3
Josef Eder - 1
Joseph MacKindlay - 1
Andi Neiweiler - 1
Huey Miller - 1

Player Ratings

3.5 - Marcin Landowski

3.5 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
3.5 - Omar Nairn
4.0 - Joseph MacKindlay (Defensive)

3.5 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
4.0 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
4.0 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
3.0 - Huey Miller
3.0 - Roy Hoekstra (Offensive)

2.5 - Bill Wright
Injuried - Abel Cano
2.5 - Martin Devátý

37 - Stars!

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
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: outstanding - (10)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 71

CristinaFC3
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: excellent - (8)

NSI - 58

Post Game Comments

Domination...... I was expecting a nice 3-4 goal win but dam! 7-1 is a slaughter, They're only goal came off a dam low experiance event from one of my guys. When i saw that they were pressing me i was a little worried, i've heard about quite a few upsets this season involving the pressing tactic. But we still lit up the scoreboard with 7 goals! Bill Wright played like his usual self and notched a hattrick. Thats now 13 league goals this season in 4 games and 19 goals in 6 league and cup games this season.

I also had my most stars ever in one game with 37!!! My defense's great form was the key to that with Joseph MacKindlay
getting 4 stars playing defensive WB and Omar Narin's first 3 1/2 star game at CD. But with the good news comes the bad.... my number 1 forward Abel Cano got injured and will be out for 4 weeks!! Its not the end of the world but it definitly hurts. My forwards are my weakest postion anyway and now that Abel is out my offense will suffer. But i will have around 1 million bucks in the bank after wednesday's cup game so i'll be forward shopping this week.

The Good

Bill Wright - Scored another 3 goals and now leads my divison in scoring by 6 goals after only 4 league games!!

Jakob Noer Mogensen - Jakob picked up his first ever 4 star game today!! Now i have two 4 star midfielders.

Joseph MacKindlay - In solid form and playing defensive wingback Joseph managed to pick up 4 stars!!! Not bad for an old guy that i bought for 76k :)

The Bad

Abel Cano - Abel got injured for 4 weeks! This is his second 4 week injury in 2 seasons :(

Bill Wright - Bill scored 3 goals so how could he be bad?? well.... he only grabed 2 1/2 stars. This is his first game getting below 3 stars since i bought him.

Around The League

Rosecity Thorns - vs - Witches 2 - 1

Once again im speechless.... with this loss I've all but locked the divison Title. The Witches obviously Pic'ed this game in preperation for our big game next week. The possession was deadlocked in each half and The Witches had the overall better NSI rating by 8. But still lost... its kinda funny how last week before my game verus Rosecity Johnny warned me not to underestimate them. After this result it looks like he didn't follow his own advice :(

Baker FC - vs - The Minnesota SnowDrifts 4 - 1

BakerFC has only had his team for 10 days but he's managed to get a tie and a win. But thats mainly because he's played the 2 worst teams in the divison.

Final Fantasy - vs - north crowley 3 - 0

FF finally picks up they're first league win of the season and his highest NSI ratings of the season at 63. His schedule gets is pretty weak over the next 7 weeks so it wouldn't surprise me if he's won 8 league games in a row by the time he plays The Witches again in week 12.

Divison Standings

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

1. Maniacal Misfitz--------4-------------------26 - 2--------------12

2. Witches-----------------4--------------------15 - 7---------------7

3. CristinaFC3-------------4--------------------17 - 12-------------6

4. Baker FC----------------4---------------------7 - 10--------------5

5. Rosecity Thorns--------4---------------------5 - 8---------------5

6. Final Fantasy------------4--------------------7 - 11--------------5

7. The Minnesota Snow--4--------------------4 - 21---------------3

8. north crowley-----------4--------------------3 - 13---------------1

As you can see im running away with the divison title already. I've already beaten 3 of the 4 teams that kinda worry me this season. If i beat or tie the Witches next week on the road then i've all but locked up the divison title.

Upnext, This weeks USA Cup loss

Havok

12-08-2003, 01:28 AM

New Forward

Well.... that didn't take long. I've been debating on what to spend my money on lately. A Formidable goalie or a formidable forward?? Todays league game made up my mind for me, my Number 1 forward Abel Cano got injured for 4 weeks. I was leaning towards forward anyway since my goalie and defense are in such great form right now. Plus formidable goalie's are going for 1.3 million plus now.

Im not the type of person to just snatch up the first guy i see on the market...... it usually takes me a few days to buy someone. But this guy kinda fell in my lap....

Maik Waldner (13064046)
20 years, passable form, healthy

A controversial person who is calm and upright.
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities.

Speciality: Unpredictable

Nationality: Canada
Assessed value: 191 000 US$
Wage: 1 488 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

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

Paid 1,071,000

With inflation the way it is, everyone is going for more then they were last season. But i think this guy was a decent deal. I don't think i got a steal or anything but im pretty sure i didn't overpay. There is a couple things i like about him..... His salary is low for a formidable player even with the 20% increase. He seems to keep pretty nice form looking over his last 10 games with his former team and he's young. Since he's so young, In a few seasons when im looking to upgrade my forward postion again i'll be able to sell him for at least what i bought him for. Probally more because his experiance will be higher.

What i don't like about him is he's only got disastrous experience and i wish his passing was a litte higher. But most Formidable forwards with inadequate passing seemed to be selling for 1.2 million or so. Anyway... he should be a big upgrade at this postion and im hoping for a formidable central attack with him and Bill Wright. He'll see his first action in my cup game on wednesday.....

DukeRulesMAB

12-08-2003, 09:15 AM

Nice pickup! I've been forward shopping, and I think that's a pretty damn solid deal.

I love the unpredictable specialty for forwards, too. Just a strong job all the way around!

vex

12-08-2003, 10:51 AM

Great forward! How many stars does he get? 3.5 - 4?

Havok

12-08-2003, 12:54 PM

Thanx guys :)

3.5 now Vex.... probally only 4 in great form or when he adds a couple levels of experiance.

Masked

12-09-2003, 05:11 PM

Good pickup - definately will be good enough for a few season in division 4. Unfortunately, this guy is going to probably steal all the chances from Bill Wright and knock him on the US top scorers list. :)

Havok

12-09-2003, 09:00 PM

League goals this season - USA

1. Sammy Parsons Flying Rastas 15
2. Bill Wright Maniacal Misfitz 13 :D
3. Roman Moldovan Discarding Sabot 13
4. Paul Roman Kajun's 13
5. Jason Duggan Dark Storm Risin 12

vex

12-10-2003, 01:15 AM

Dude, I'm 1st in my series and my WHOLE team only has 11 goals,lol.

Desnudo

12-10-2003, 02:04 AM

Damn man, you may go straight to III if you keep it up.

Havok

12-10-2003, 03:16 AM

Originally posted by Desnudo
Damn man, you may go straight to III if you keep it up.

lol!!! don't say that..... i'll end up like AE :)

vex

12-10-2003, 11:13 AM

Nobody could end up like AE;)

Havok

12-10-2003, 09:05 PM

Season 3 - USA Cup - Round 5

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - The Minutemen

Here we are... round 5 of the USA Cup once again. One of my goals to start the season was to make it back to round 5 of the USA cup and we did it. Now we take on the Div. III defensive powerhouse The Minutemen. These guys run a 5-4-1 in league and cup games and still manage to win quite a few league games. He's got 6 players on different U-20 and national teams plus a couple badass 5 to 6 star midfielders. Needless to say we don't expect to win this game. If i played my starting middies and MOTS'ed we'd have a shot, but i have a HUGE game on sunday verus the Witches so im PIC'ing and playing my trainee's. Hopfully we'll at least score 1 goal so my supporters don't get pissed.

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)
Central Defender - Joseph MacKindlay
Left Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

Right Winger - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Viktor Tolstoy
Left Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Martin Devátý
Forward 2 - Maik Waldner

Im actually playing 6 starters in this game, mainly because ya never know what the other team is gonna do. If he thinks im an easy win he might play all his back-ups verus me and pic. Then i might get lucky and get an upset, but thats unlikely. Anyway, the big news today is Maik Waldner's first game with the team. He's by far my most expensicve transfer buy ever and im hoping he has a good game. I decided not to play my number 2 forward Bill Wright in this game mainly because he is 28 and i don't wanna risk him getting injured before my big game verus the Witches on sunday.

Players To Watch

Maik Waldner - My new badass forward is playing his first game with the team. Im not sure if he's in high or low passable form, but im hoping for 3 1/2 stars out of him. I doubt i'll get a formidable central attack since im playing a back-up forward along side him.

Marcin Landowski - Marcin is just plain kicking ass for me right now,with his high solid form im hoping he can help keep the score down today.

The Match

At The Island of Misfit Toyz, 32000 punters turned up, and despite threatening clouds at the horizon, no rain came. Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Landowski - Ferreira da Silv, MacKindlay, ben Aharon - Hoekstra, Tolstoy, Neiva, Jonasson, Neiweiler - Devátý, Waldner.

The Minutemen tactics involved an interesting 5-4-1 combination. The following players had been chosen: Gunnarsson - Barriuso De Migu, Gavin, Kaunas , Melckenbeeck, Shkrobov - Peltoniemi , Simonsson, Costa Cirne Filh, Trent - Käller.

After 19 minutes The Minutemen put themselves up by 0 - 1 as Konrad Käller finished off a strike from the left with a real cannon placed at the far post.

Maniacal were close to equalising on a free kick in the 21st minute, but Jonas Gunnarsson made a great save, tipping it to a corner.

Halftime score was 0 - 1. The Minutemen, bringing the final ball possession rate to 59 percent, dominated the battle.

The Minutemen´s Jonas Simonsson received a play slashing through the home side´s defense in the 48:th minute, chipping it past the keeper scoring 0 - 2. The home crowd was not pleased with that one. After this The Minutemen lowered the tempo in order to concentrate on their defensive efforts.

Maniacals Roy Hoekstra got himself booked after a foul.

In the games 67:th minute The Minutemen´s Dieter Melckenbeeck fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee booked Dieter Melckenbeeck for taking a dive.

In the game's 71st minute The Minutemen´s Joaquín Barriuso De Miguel limped slightly after a late challenge, but he was able to continue.

The Minutemen held the ball, with a clear 60 percent possession rate.

The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Joseph MacKindlay. Roy Hoekstra on the other hand, had a terrible day. Most important The Minutemen player was Jonas Simonsson. Christian Gavin was a disappointment, however.

The match ends 0 - 2

Goals

none :(

Player Ratings

3.5 - Marcin Landowski

3.0 - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)
3.5 - Joseph MacKindlay
3.5 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

2.5 - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)
3.0 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
3.5 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
3.0 - Viktor Tolstoy
3.5 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

2.5 - Martin Devátý
3.0 - Maik Waldner

33.5 - Stars

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: solid - (7)
Right Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: outstanding - (10)

NSI 71

The Minutemen
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: outstanding - (10)
Right Side Defence: brilliant - (11)
Central Defence: supernatural - (14)
Left Side Defence: world class - (13)
Right Side Attack: brilliant - (11)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: weak - (4)

NSI - 89

Post Game Comments

And so it ends..... It was a nice cup run but the better team won here today. The only thing im pissed about is that we didn't score at least 1 goal. Since we got shut out at home or supporters mood has dropped to Satisfied from High on life, luckly i don't have a home game sunday.

Im also disappointed in Maik Waldner... he only got me 3 stars. Now i know stars are evil and all but i sill was hoping for 3 1/2. Once he bumps a level in experiance he'll get 3 1/2 in passable form. I just hope i get a formidable central attack on sunday with him and Bill Wright in the line-up. There is a little bit of good news.... My middy trainee Joaquim Neiva got his first 3 1/2 star game. He''ll be a starter in a few weeks once i sell Josef, so its nice to know the he's already getting 3 1/2 stars.

The Good

Joaquim Neiva - Jaoquim got his first ever 3 1/2 star game!

Andi Neiweiler - My 3 1/2 star winger finally bumped to "Poor" experiance.

The Bad

Shutout - This is the first league or cup game that i've been shutout in, in SO long!!

Maik Waldner - Maik's debu was a little disappointing as he only grabbed 3 stars. Hopfully he's just in low passable form.

Upnext. This weeks form and training update

finkenst

12-10-2003, 11:56 PM

Good luck against the Witches. And congratulations on making it to week 5 in the Cup!

Havok

12-11-2003, 09:12 PM

Training and Form Update

only 1 PM bump this week and it was a defender.....

Omar Nairn
145 000 US$, 22 years, excellent form
Has wretched experience and poor leadership abilities

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

Omar is 1 of the first players i ever bought and has been super hot lately.

Form Update

An up and down kinda form week for the team, but my defense somehow improved on there form. Now my starting goalie and 3 defenders all have EXCELLENT form!!! Thats just amazing... im not sure if i've ever even had 4 guys in excellent form at the same time :) My back-ups took a nasty form hit as expected since they haven't played much in the last few weeks. But all in all my team looks pretty good for my big game on sunday.

3 Players increased in form (3 Starters)
6 Players Decreased in form (1 Starter)

Team/Player Value

Value per player (average): 159 048 US$ (+548)
Total squad value: 3 340 000 US$ (+171,000)
Average age: 22
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): poor
No of players (excluding the coach): 21 (+1)
Number of nationalities: 16

With Abel losing around 85k in value from his injury and my overall poor form week i barely had any increase in average player value. But the team value went up alot since i bought Maik.

Upnext, This weeks youth pull and economic update

Havok

12-13-2003, 07:35 PM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

i was due for one of these.........

Liu Siow-Foong (22012581)
18 years, passable form, healthy
A sympathetic guy who is calm and upright.
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities.

Speciality: Powerful

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 8 000 US$
Wage: 540 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

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

fired of course

Economic Update

Cash funds: -35 940 US$ (-95 494) US$
Sponsors: dancing in the streets
Supporter Club: 1309 members
Supporters: satisfied

This week

Revenue------------------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0------------------------------------Arena 20 480
Sponsors 69 465-------------------------Wages 32 242
Financial 0----------------------------------Interest 1 797
Temporary 0-------------------------------Temporary 2 000
-----------------------------------------------Staff 52 500
-----------------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 69 465 Total expenses 129 019
Expected income/loss -59 554

I don't expect this to change until my home game next week. My first week in debt in a LONG time :)

This Weeks League Game

This is probally the biggest game of the season for me and i'll tell ya why. For one its verus my main divison rival sicne i started Hattrick. We've always had a friendly rivalry going and this season we've got the 2 best teams in the divsion. But The Witches seriously screwed up this season. First he tied Final Fantasy in a game he PIC'ed and ran a 3-4-3 with only 2 IM's. Second he LOST last week to a team he should have beat, mainly because he PIC'ed on the road. Now i have a 5 point divison lead on him already and if i win today there is noway in hell he'll catch me. This is his best chance to beat me since its at his house, this is the ratings im expecting from him.....

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

NSI - 70

Those are pretty nice ratings, he'll be MOTS'ing me of course. Im pretty sure he's got decent TS also but im expecting a Formidable midfield myself. It should be a great game......

Upnext, This weeks big league game

Havok

12-14-2003, 09:41 PM

Season 3 - League Game - Round 5

Witches - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

Another huge game for the Misfitz today. If i win here today the divsion title is all but mine. I know its kinda hard to say that with 9 games to play after today, but with the way things have worked out so far this season. A win today and i'll be 8 points ahead of the next best team in my divison. Plus the next time i play him i'll be at home and with how much better my midfield is then everyone else's in this divison, beating me at home is almost impossible.

I will be MOTS'ing this game and i expect The Witches to do the same. I have 4 straight games after today in which i can PIC so this MOTS won't hurt me much at all. I also have a feeling the Witches might try to throw me a curveball today, like myabe counterattacking or pressing. Thats one reason i like playing Johnny so much... im never sure what he's gonna do. It should be a fun game :)

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 - Maik Waldner
Forward 2 - Bill Wright

My defense's form is unfreaking believeable right now. My goalie and 3 defenders are all in excellent form. So with that and having a better midfield today i'm not expecting to give up to many goal's. But 1 thing that might hurt my midfield today is Josef Eder, he's still in pasasble form but he's in LOW passable form. His assessed value has dropped about 8k in the last 2 weeks, and thats alot considering he adds about 25k in value a week from PM training. But at the very least i should still get a formidable midfield. Im also interested to see what my central attack rating is with new forward Maik Walder and Bill Wright playing together. They are both only in passable form but a formidable central attack would be great!

Players To Watch

Jakob Noer Mogensen - With Josef in a little form slump, Jakob has really stepped up. getting his first ever 4 star game last week. Hopfully he'll do it again today.

Maik Waldner - Im still gonna have my eye on Maik, he only gained like 2k in value after the last form update. But im still hoping he gets 3 1/2 stars.

The Match

31000 spectators arrived at The Pentacle, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. Witches had chosen a strategic 3-4-3 formation. The following players had been chosen: Quintanilla - Larrañaga, Hallé, Mcintyre - Yngvesson, Sproge, Mutzel, Widerdahl - Gutmann, Clifford, Aldrich.

Maniacal started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Landowski - ben Aharon, MacKindlay, Nairn - Neiweiler, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Eder, Hoekstra - Wright, Waldner.

Witches seemed to prefer attacking in the middle.

Witchess Edvins Sproge gave, after 3 minutes, the home team a 1 - 0 lead after an attack coming in from the right.

Naftali ben Aharon 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 9:th minute.

Almost all the way down to the corner flag Andi Neiweiler somehow managed to get a perfect pass into the middle, impossible to miss for Maik Waldner who struck for 1 - 2.

The visitors Joseph MacKindlay took advantage of an error due to a misunderstanding between the home side´s goalie and full backs in the 12th minute. 1 - 3 for Maniacal.

The referee showed Witchess Jim Clifford the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.

The teams went for a half-time break at 1 - 3. Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 57 percent, dominated the battle.

Maniacal´s Maik Waldner received a play slashing through the home side´s defense in the 51st 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.

In the games 64:th minute Witches´s Andreas Gutmann fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee booked Andreas Gutmann for taking a dive.

The home crowd was given a certain amount of consolation when Jim Clifford, after a brilliant midfield combination, put the reducing 2 - 4 goal away for Witches.

Some fine manouvering on the left lead to an 77:th minute Maniacal goal, making it 2 - 5. Andi Neiweiler was noted down as the scorer.

Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 56 percent possession rate.

Witches´s best player was Daniel Larrañaga. However, Valmond Hallé made a disastrous appearance. Most important Maniacal player was Jakob Noer Mogensen. Roy Hoekstra was a disappointment, however.

The match ends 2 - 5

Goals

Maik Waldner - 2
Naftali ben Aharon - 1
Joseph MacKindlay - 1
Andi Neiweiler - 1

Player Ratings

3.5 - Marcin Landowski

3.5 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
4.0 - Joseph MacKindlay
3.5 - Omar Nairn (Defensive)

3.5 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
3.5 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
4.0 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
3.0 - Huey Miller
2.5 - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)

3.0 - Maik Waldner
3.0 - Bill Wright

37 - Stars

Team Ratings

Witches
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: outstanding - (10)
Central Attack: outstanding - (10)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 66

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: formidable - (9)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Right Side Attack: outstanding - (10)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 77

Post Game Comments

well.... thats it!!! Unless half my team gets injured for the rest of the season then this divison title is all but mine. I've already built up such a huge point lead and goal difference i don't think anyone has a shot in hell of catching me. My goal difference is now +26, and next closest in my divison is +7. Its good to be a Misfit right now :)

I won by a little more then i expected, but that's because Johnny decided not to MOTS and played normal. Im kinda surprised by that since he has an easy game next week he can PIC. I was a little worried at first because he scored 3 mins in, but then i scored 3 goals in 3 mins and that was all i'd need. He tryed attacking down the middle on me and he also played his CD offensive, so that hurt his defensive ratings alot and i took advantage of that scoring 5 goals. Overall i couldn't be happier... we won on the road verus the second best team in the divison and we didn't get any injuries or cards.

The Good

Joseph MacKindlay - his excellent form lead to him getting 4 stars playing CD and he scored a goal!!!

Jakob Noer Mogensen - Jakob grabbed his second 4 star game in a row and was the best player on the team according to the HT engine.

Maik Waldner - Notched 2 goals and also bumped to "Wretched Experiance".

The Bad

Josef Eder - Only got 3 1/2 stars and played his worst game since oct. 20th.

Maik Waldner - only got me 3 stars again and my central attack is still only excellent with him and Bill Wright.

Around The Divison

north crowley - vs - Rosecity Thorns 3 - 3

Crazy, Rosecity just comes off a huge 2-1 upset over the witches last week and ties the worst team in the divison. But he really got screwed by the HT ratings, he had a 54 NSI to NK's 42.

The Minnesota - vs - Final Fantasy 0 - 5

Easy win for FF as expected, he's actually been logging in like once a day for the past couple weeks. Maybe he'll finally start spending that 3 million+ he has in the bank.

CristinaFC3 - vs - Baker FC 4 - 2

This game was a little closer then expected but Cristina still won easy. But his number 1 forward got injuried and will be out for a few weeks which is gonna hurt his cental attack rating alot.

Divison Standings

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

1. Maniacal Misfitz----------5-----------------31 - 4------------15

2. CristinaFC3---------------5-----------------21 - 14-----------9

3. Final Fantasy-------------5-----------------12 - 11-----------8

4. Witches--------------------5-----------------17 - 12-----------7

5. Rosecity Thorns----------5------------------8 - 11------------6

6. Baker FC-------------------5------------------9 - 14------------5

7. The Minnesota Snow----5------------------4 - 26------------3

8. north crowley-------------5------------------6 - 16-------------2

6 points ahead of the next team and they have a tough game next week verus FF on the road. Im running away with this divison fast!

Upnext, This weeks friendly game!!

Havok

12-18-2003, 12:19 PM

Season 3 - Friendly Game

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - Isla Vista Vandals

Back to friendly's on wednesdays.... at least for this week and next wednesday. Then the FOFC Cup starts and thats almost as good as the USA Cup (without the money). So today we play fellow FOFC'er Vince and his Isla Vista Vandals in a pre-FOFC cup warm-up match. My B-team needs this match pretty bad... alot of them haven't played in 3 weeks because of tough USA cup matches.

Starters

GK - Stanford Weiss

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)

Right Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Viktor Tolstoy (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
Left Winger - Dolf de Bevere (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Martin Devátý
Forward 2 - Istvan Strobl

This is my full B-team right now, i actually have 2 starters playing (Omar and Naftali) but thats because i only have 4 defenders on my team right now. My back-up middies are in average form but since i MOTS'ed on sunday my TS is Irritated so im not expecting much of a midfield today, Inadequate at best. I am trying something a little different with my starting middes today, i'll be playing Viktor offensive instead of playing him as my extra IM. Im doing this mainly because i'll be selling him in a couple weeks when he hits Excellent PM and i wanna get a 3 1/2 star game outta him before i sell him. That hopfully will increase his sale value a little.

Players To Watch

Viktor Tolstoy - His first game in a LONG time as a offensive IM, hoping for 3 1/2 stars.

Joaquim Neiva - Joaquim grabbed his first ever 3 1/2 star game last week, hopfully he'll do it again today.

The Match

Weather conditions were fairly good for football, and The Island of Misfit Toyz saw a crowd turnout of 1742. Maniacal tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Weiss - ben Aharon, Nairn, Ferreira da Silv - Minter, Tolstoy, Neiva, Jonasson, de Bevere - Devátý, Strobl.

Vandals had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Woodson - Palmbratt, Erler, Poe - Pinilla, Nettles, Gaudreault, Areggo, Turpin - Nguyen, Hyatt.

Some quick foot work on the left side of the field in the 26:th minute left Vandals´s Raymond Hyatt completely free to score. 0 - 1 for the visitors.

The referee showed Maniacals Joaquim Neiva the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.

Vandals made a substitution in the 31st minute. Alfred Poe limped off the field and was replaced by Patrick Hewitt.

After 31 minutes of game time Raymond Hyatt received an excellent opportunity to add to the visitors lead, clipping a volley hooked in from the right, but Stanford Weiss was in the right place, tipping the ball to a corner.

In the 31st minute Istvan Strobl went down in a suspected penalty situation after a challenge from the visitors right guard, but the referee, having a good line of sight, signalled to keep on playing.

After a fatal mistake from the away teams right side defense in the 34:th minute, an alert Martin Devátý bagged the ball, evening the score to 1 - 1.

Maniacal took the lead in the 42nd minute of the game by 2 to 1, as Martin Devátý elegantly received a pass going deep, finishing off with a half-volley shot just below the bar.

2 - 1 was the half-time score. The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 52 percent possession of the ball.

Maniacal were given a penalty in the 48:th, neatly put away by Martin Devátý. 3 - 1 for the home side. By then Martin Devátý was a three time scorer - a hat trick!

In the 77:th minute Darryl Nettles, after an opportunist attack from the right, scored the reducer for Vandals making it 3 - 2.

Vandals were close to putting the equaliser away in the 80:th minute as the opposing defence lost control of the ball in a scuffle in front of the goal, but in the end the ball was cleared over the sideline.

A cross coming in from the right hand side left Raymond Hyatt alone in front of the goal in the 81st minute but his shot was too loose.

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, Vandals´s Darryl Nettles got himself booked.

Maniacal´s Istvan Strobl refused to leave the field after injuring his achilles tendon in the 86:th minute.

The visitors almost came back with an equaliser in the 86:th minute after a good combination down the middle, but as Patrick Hewitt was to put closure on the raid he couldn´t deliver a shot hard enough to seriously challenge the keeper.

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

The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Naftali ben Aharon. Stanford Weiss on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating Vandals player was without a doubt Esteban José Pinilla. Paul-Arnaud Gaudreault was a disappointment, however.

The match ends 3 - 2

Goals

Martin Devátý - 3

Player Ratings

1.5 - Stanford Weiss

3.5 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
3.5 - Omar Nairn
2.5 - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)

2.0 - Benton Minter (Offensive)
3.0 - Viktor Tolstoy (Offensive)
3.0 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
3.0 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
2.5 - Dolf de Bevere (Offensive)

2.5 - Martin Devátý
2.5 - Istvan Strobl

29.5 - Stars

Team Ratings

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

NSI - 55

Isla Vista Vandals
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: weak - (4)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 49

Post Game Comments

Pretty good game on both sides. He lined his strengths up nicely against my weaknesses, but his offense just couldn't punch in the tieing goal. Luckly his injured player is only +1 "Brusied but training". That inadequate midfield at home is scarey with 3 mid-level solid middy's, but like i said i had Irritated TS for this game. Im also a little disappointed that Viktor didn't get 3 1/2 stars, but i know he's close and i have a couple more weeks until he pops to excellent. Thanks for the good game Vince!! good luck in the FOFC cup!

The Good

Central Attack Rating - Since i played 2 passable passing Middy's offensive, i got a excellent central attack rating with my back-up forwards in!

Martin Devátý - Scored all 3 of my goals today :)

The Bad

Viktor Tolstoy - Vik didn't get the 3 1/2 stars i was hoping for today. But he should soon...

Stanford Weiss - Since Stanford hasn't played in like 4 weeks, his form is terrible and he only got 1 1/2 stars today in net.

Upnext, This weeks training update

Havok

12-18-2003, 09:26 PM

Training and Form Update

2 PM pops this week and the Misfitz starting midfield now has 2 formidable PM's :)

Jakob Noer Mogensen
337 000 US$, 20 years, solid form
Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Quick]

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

This is excellent news... i was hoping he would pop today and he did. Now he'll easily be outstanding by seasons end and i'll go into div. IV next season with 2 outstanding PM's, he will be sold at Brilliant PM probally.

Dolf de Bevere
86 000 US$, 21 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Quick]

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

Dolf has been trained in PM for 15 weeks now and he's just finally poped to passable PM. I guess he was a pretty dam low inadequate PM. I'll keep him around for now as my number 4 winger.

Form

Form wasn't to great last week and this week in wasn't much better. Alot of my B-team dropped again in form even though they finally played again this week. My starters did ok but the REAL bad news is my goalie who has been so hot lately dropped 40k in value and dropped from excellent form to passable form :( I knew it couldn't last, Marcin has always been so dam streaky. There goes those great defensive ratings i've been getting :(

3 Players increased in form (1 Starter)
5 Players decreased in form (2 Starters)

Team/Player Value

Value per player (average): 161 810 US$ (+2,762)
Total squad value: 3 398 000 US$ (+58,000)
Average age: 22
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): poor
No of players (excluding the coach): 21
Number of nationalities: 16

Upnext, This weeks youth pull and economic update

Havok

12-21-2003, 01:15 PM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

this guy might sell for like 2-3k......

Al Boles (22277820)
17 years, passable form, healthy
A sympathetic guy who is temperamental and dishonest.
Has disastrous experience and passable leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 17 000 US$
Wage: 580 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

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

Economic Update

Cash funds: -89 266 US$ (-151 331) US$
Sponsors: dancing in the streets
Supporter Club: 1329 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue--------------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0--------------------------------Arena 20 480
Sponsors 70 620---------------------Wages 32 242
Financial 0------------------------------Interest 4 463
Temporary 0---------------------------Temporary 3 000
-------------------------------------------Staff 52 500
-------------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 70 620 Total expenses 132 685
Expected income/loss -62 065

i have a home game today so all this debt should go bye bye :)

This Weeks League Game

This week kicks off the easiest part of my schedule, 4 straight easy pic games for me. I play Baker FC this week, they just got they're team like 3 weeks ago but he's actually 1-1-1 since then. He puts up pretty decent ratings for a new team.

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

NSI - 43

He also just got HT supporter so it looks like he'll actually be sticking with hattrick. Hopfully when i slaughter him today he won't change his mind :)

Upnext, This weeks league game

Havok

12-21-2003, 09:08 PM

Season 3 - League Game - Round 6

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - Baker FC

This week we roll into the easy part of our schedule, 4 straight easy pic games and it comes at a good time. My TS is Irritated and my form is slowly dropping off, plus i'll be making some midfield changes soon. Baker FC is the newest team in my divison, he's had his team for 3 weeks and already has HT supporter. With how active he is, in a season or two he'll probally have a good team. But he's way to young to put up any kinda fight verus us, This should be a slaughter.

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
Central defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Joseph MacKindlay (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 (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Maik Waldner
Forward 2 - Bill Wright

I got the full starters out there again this week and they don't look nearly as good as they did last week. My defense had a big form drop off losing 3 levels of form (2 from my goalie). But besides that everyone else is around passable form. This game also marks the last game Josef Eder will play with the club, i'll be placing him on the transfer wire on wednesday and he should pop to formidable PM on thursday. This will effect my midfield some, but Joaquim(should pop to excellent PM on thursday also) should step in and fill the void.

Players To Watch

Jakob Noer Mogensen - Jakob bumped to solid form and also just bumped to formidable PM. This should be his best game ever.

The Match

32000 spectators had come to The Island of Misfit Toyz this cloudy day. Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. Lineup: Landowski - ben Aharon, Nairn, MacKindlay - Neiweiler, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Eder, Hoekstra - Wright, Waldner.

Baker had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. They fielded: Shaver - Queen, Morrison, Escutia - Moreno, Mcnair, Burrell, Dixon, Winn - Rivera, Cowart.

Baker immediately set off pressing their opponents.

Some beautiful plays on the left side of the field resulted in a 5:th minute goal by Jakob Noer Mogensen for Maniacal, putting them ahead 1 - 0.

In the 20:th minute Maniacals Omar Nairn received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first.

Huey Miller seemed to be floating in the air at will as he elegantly headed in 2-0. The previous Maniacal corner kick was executed by Bill Wright. After this Maniacal lowered the tempo in order to concentrate on their defensive efforts.

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

Bill Wright should probably have put his team up another goal in the 34:th minute, but some great goaltending by Keith Shaver kept the visitors in the game.

After 39 minutes Jakob Noer Mogensen put Maniacal ahead 4 - 0 as he rose to head in a hooked ball, the result of an effort from the right side. By then Jakob Noer Mogensen was a three time scorer - a hat trick!

Baker made a substitution in the 43rd minute. Long Rivera limped off the field and was replaced by Colin Read.

Halftime score was 4 - 0. The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 71 percent possession of the ball.

Baker had a wretched ability to press their opponents, causing the game to be a bit of a stalemate at times.

After an industrious effort down the middle Andi Neiweiler could have closed the game off in the 49:th minute, but his finishing shot hit the post.

At this time in the match, Baker were using their wretched skills at the press to successfully put pressure on their opponents.

A bit later, a magnificent combination in the middle resulted in Maniacal´s Huey Miller putting the lead up to 5 - 0. Baker made a substitution in the 84:th minute.

Rodrigo Escutia limped off the field and was replaced by Leroy Bloom.

Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 79 percent possession rate.

Maniacal´s best player was Jakob Noer Mogensen. However, Bill Wright made a disastrous appearance. Baker´s best player was George Morrison. Colin Read on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 5 - 0

Goals

Jakob Noer Mogensen - 3
Huey Miller - 2

Player Ratings

3.0 - Marcin Landowski

3.5 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
3.5 - Omar Nairn
3.5 - Joseph MacKindlay (Defensive)

3.0 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
3.5 - Josef Eder (Offensive)
4.0 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
3.5 - Huey Miller
3.0 - Roy Hoekstra (Offensive)

3.0 - Maik Waldner
3.0 - Bill Wright

33.0 - Stars

Team Ratings

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: outstanding - (10)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: excellent - (8)

NSI - 68

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

NSI - 41

Post Game Comments

That went about as expected, easy 5-0 PIC win. I gotta give him credit for "Pressing" me, that definitely kept the score down. I can't believe all 5 of my goals were scored by 2 midfielders :) Thats a first for me. Omar Narin got his third yellow card of the season, so he'll sit out next week. This is probally the best time for him to get his third since next weeks game is very easy also. The best thing that happened in this game is Huey Miller got his first ever 3 1/2 stars game and he's only in passable form. 3 1/2 stars for a guy with no secondaries playing the extra IM spot is dam good.

The Good

Huey Miller - first 3 1/2 star game, he'll be the first "Outstanding" Misfit around week 11.

Jakob Noer Mogensen - First career Hattrick for Jakob and his 11th goal over the past season and a half. Not bad for a defensive middy :)

The Bad

Omar Narin - Picked up his 3rd yellow card of the season and will sit out next week.

Around The League

Witches - vs - north crowley 5 - 1

The Witches pick-up they're first Competitive win in almost a month. They should win they're next 3 games easy also.

Final Fantasy - vs - CristinaFC3 2 - 2

This tie was probally the best possible outcome for me. Now im 8 points ahead of the next closest team in my divison.

Rosecity Thorons - vs - The Minnesota 7 - 0

Rosecity put up some impressive ratings today, a 59 NSI and he probally pic'ed. Rosecity is gonna give The Witches a run for there money next season.

Divison Standings

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

1. Maniacal Misfitz------------6------------------36 - 4---------------18

2. Witches---------------------6-------------------22 - 13-------------10

3. CristinaFC3-----------------6-------------------23 - 16-------------10

4. Rosecity Thorns------------6-------------------15 - 11--------------9

5. Final Fantasy---------------6-------------------14 - 13--------------9

6. Baker FC--------------------6--------------------9 - 19---------------5

7. The Minnesota Snow-----6--------------------4 - 33---------------3

8. north crowley--------------6--------------------7 - 21---------------2

[b]Upnext, This weeks friendly game[/n]

Havok

12-25-2003, 05:47 AM

Season 3 - Friendly Game

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - Ockham's Razors

My last friendly before the FOFC Cup starts and i finally get to play Hulsey and his Razor's. We've been trying to arrange a friendly for some time now but we just kept missing eachother. The Razors are currently a divison VI club, but don't let that fool ya. Hulsey has built a very nice squad, very fast. Last week they put up a 54 NSI.... not bad for a 2 month old team. The Razors B-team is still a little raw but that doesn't mean my back-ups will be taking them lightly, it should be a good game.

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)
Central Defender - Joseph MacKindlay
Left Wingback - Omar Nairn - (Defensive)

Right Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Viktor Tolstoy (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
Left Winger - Dolf de Bevere (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Martin Devátý
Forward 2 - Istvan Strobl

Almost the full B-team playing today, the only one not playing is Stanford Weiss my back-up keeper. He's not playing for 2 reasons, 1 - because he's in horrible form, 2 - because Marcin (my starting goalie) dropped 2 levels in form last thursday and i've been told (not sure if its true or not) that if a player plays 2 games in a week that they're form has a slightly better chance of going up then if he only played 1 game. My midfield trainee's form is pretty good, right now they sit at solid/passable/passable. Plus both my back-up wingers are starting to pull out of they're form slump, they're both up to inadequate. So i should see some pretty decent ratings today.

Players To Watch

Viktor Tolstoy - Like i said last week, Viktor will be sold next week when he pops to excellent PM and im hoping he gets a 3 1/2 star game before then. Last week he didn't, but he jumped to solid form on thursday so im pretty sure he'll do it today.

Martin Devátý - Martin is my B-team scoring machine, i wish they kept track of how many goals a player scores in friendly's. One day i'll have to add them all up and see how many he's got. Last week he played his first game in a month and notched a hattrick! Hopfully he'll do it again today.

The Match

Weather conditions were fairly good for football, and The Island of Misfit Toyz saw a crowd turnout of 1816. Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. They fielded: Landowski - Ferreira da Silv, MacKindlay, Nairn - Minter, Tolstoy, Neiva, Jonasson, de Bevere - Devátý, Strobl.

Ockhams had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Giordano - Duval, Millard, Chaparro - Dunning, Grosen, Farrell, Kolín, Emerson - Hanley, Gilliland.

Maniacal broke through to the left in the 1st minute, Viktor Tolstoy firing at an acute angle giving the home side a 1 - 0 lead.

Almost all the way down to the corner flag Benton Minter somehow managed to get a perfect pass into the middle, impossible to miss for Martin Devátý who struck for 2 - 0.

In the 25:th minute Maniacals Joaquim Neiva received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first.

35 minutes into the game Maniacal were awarded a penalty that Martin Devátý turned into 3 - 0 without a problem.

In the games 37:th minute Ockhams replied, reducing the lead to 3 - 1. Andy Hanley scored on a marvellous cross pass coming in from the left.

The referee showed Ockhamss Benjamin Dunning the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.

Halftime score was 3 - 1. Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 81 percent, dominated the battle.

In the 55:th minute Maniacals Istvan Strobl received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first.

Ockhams were forced to a substitution as Quinton Giordano couldn´t continue playing due to the rough treatment, forcing Willard Smith to come in from the sidelines.

70 minutes into the game Maniacal were awarded a penalty that Martin Devátý turned into 4 - 1 without a problem. By then Martin Devátý was a three time scorer - a hat trick!

After 73 minutes Martin Devátý put Maniacal ahead 5 - 1 as he rose to head in a hooked ball, the result of an effort from the right side. After this Maniacal lowered the tempo in order to concentrate on their defensive efforts.

Ockhamss Lucas Chaparro got himself booked after a foul.

In the 79: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 92 percent, dominated the battle.

The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Joseph MacKindlay. Ismael Ferreira da Silva was a disappointment, however. Most important Ockhams player was Willard Smith. Alvin Gilliland on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 5 - 1

Goals

4 - Martin Devátý
1 - Viktor Tolstoy

Player Ratings

3.0 - Marcin Landowski

2.0 - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)
3.5 - Joseph MacKindlay
3.5 - Omar Nairn - (Defensive)

2.5 - Benton Minter (Offensive)
3.0 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
3.5 - Viktor Tolstoy (Offensive)
3.0 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
2.5 - Dolf de Bevere (Offensive)

2.5 - Martin Devátý
2.5 - Istvan Strobl

31.5 - Stars

Team Ratings

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

NSI - 63

Ockham's Razors
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: passable - (6)
Central Attack: weak - (4)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 35

Post Game Comments

Dam.... a 63 NSI in a friendly ain't bad. Now i did have 3 starters playing but still, Im impressed. This is good news since my B-team will be playing my league games for the next 3 weeks or so since my schedule is weak and the FOFC Cup starts next wednesday. Once again Martin Devátý was the star, he racked up 4 goals and almost scored another. The bad news is The Razors back-up goalie got injuried for 2 weeks :( At least it wasn't one of his midfield trainee's.

Thanx for the friendly Hulsey and good luck in the FOFC Cup!

The Good

Viktor Tolstoy - My soon to be sold midfield trainee picked up his first 3 1/2 star prefomrance as expected. Hopfully this will increase his value a little on the market.

Martin Devátý - scored 4 goals and now has 7 goals in his last 2 friendly's.

The Bad

Ismael Ferreira da Silva - my only "true" B-team defender played like crap getting only 2 stars. His form has been speratic latley and at the moment is only weak.

Upnext, This weeks training and form update

Havok

12-25-2003, 09:23 PM

Training and Form Update

The 2 pops i was expecting this week both popped....

Josef Eder (13194637)
21 years, passable form, healthy

A pleasant guy who is tranquil and upright.
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities.

Speciality: Powerful

Nationality: Österreich
Assessed value: 424 000 US$
Wage: 2 628 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

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

It pains me to say this since Josef has been my rock at inner midfield since i bought him.... but he's on sale right now for 1 million bucks and the bidding ends on saturday. He will be missed greatly but he's just to old for me to keep training.

Joaquim Neiva
201 000 US$, 19 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

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

This will be Josef's replacment at midfield, Joaquim just popped to excellent today and has only dropped below passable form once since i bought him. He should fill in for Josef nicely.

Form Update

The last 2 weeks have been just terrible for form, but it finally seems to be coming around now. My goalie dropped 2 levels in form last week from excellent to passable, but today he bounced back to solid which is good. Only one player actually dropped in form this week and that was my defender Joseph Mackindlay to passable. With 2 PM bumps and a good form week, this is the best training update i've had in a long time.

5 Players Increased in form (2 Starters)
1 Player Decreased in form (1 Starter)

Team/Player Value

Value per player (average): 170 286 US$ (+8,476)
Total squad value: 3 576 000 US$ (+178,000)
Average age: 22
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): poor
No of players (excluding the coach): 21
Number of nationalities: 16

Now thats one hell of a increase in both average and total value. But thats about to nose dive on saturday after the sale of my highest valued player Josef Eder.

Josef Eder also became the first Misfit outfielder to break the 400k value mark. (424k)

Upnext, This weeks youth pull and economic update

Havok

12-27-2003, 07:02 PM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

Sante Spinello (22484287)
19 years, passable form, healthy
A controversial person who is temperamental and upright.
Has disastrous experience and wretched leadership abilities.

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

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

another piece of crap pull :(

Economic Update

Cash funds: 1 233 805 US$ (1 180 821) US$
Sponsors: dancing in the streets
Supporter Club: 1349 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue-------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0------------------------Arena 20 480
Sponsors 71 610 ---------Wages 29 614
Financial 0-------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0----------------Temporary 2 000
------------------------------------Staff 52 500
-----------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 71 610--------Total expenses 124 594
Expected income/loss -52 984

Josef Eder sold today for 1.3 million :) thats about 100k more then i was expecting so im happy. Its amazing how much extra people pay for secondary's. Im still not 100% sure what im gonna spend the money on, first i'll probally buy a really really nice trainee. But after that im not sure.

This Weeks Games

League Game

My league game this week is verus the worst team in the divison. These guys suck and it looks like the owner finally stopped logging.

north crowley
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: wretched - (2)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: weak - (4)
Central Attack: poor - (3)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 42

I'll be picing of course and playing my back-ups middys and a mix between starters and back-ups everywhere else. It should be a blowout.

FOFC Cup Game

My first game of the FOFC Cup is verus Dead Rabbits FC. They also have a weak league game this week so im expecting to play against his starters and since he has home field advantage, so this will probally be a tough game.

Dead Rabbits FC
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Right Side Attack: outstanding - (10)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 59

Another problem i face for this game is that i won't be buying my new trainee until after my league game, so he'll have to play in this game to get training for the week. That will hurt my midfield even more. But if i can pull out a win in this game, my last 2 games in the FOFC Cup group play are at home so they should be easier.

Upnext, This weeks league game

Havok

12-28-2003, 09:50 PM

Season 3 - League Game - Round 7

north crowley - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

Coming up on the Halfway mark of the season The Misfitz are looking dam good. Undefeated in league play and we've outscored our oppenonts 36-4. Plus we've gottin the toughest game of the season out out of the way already (Road game verus The Witches). We are pretty much on curise control now until week 10 when we enter the hardest part of our remaining schedule.

This week and next week we take on last place North Crowly. It looks like the owner has finally given up on his team because he hasn't logged in for over 3 weeks now. The only thing that slightly worries me about this team is there good defense. But since i'll dominate possession this shouldn't be a problem.

Starters

Gk - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Offensive)
Central Defender - Joseph MacKindlay
Left Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)

Right Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Viktor Tolstoy (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Torbjörn Jonasson
Left Winger - Dolf de Bevere (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Maik Waldner
Forward 2 - Bill Wright

I got alot of back-ups in today since my first FOFC cup game is much harder then this game. But since North Crowly has a decent defense i'll play both my starting forwards just incase. The 3 back-up non-middies playing (Dolf, Benton, and Ismael) are all in inadequate form so don't expect great ratings today. I should see my best central attack rating ever today since im playing 2 passable passing middy's offensive, im hoping for outstanding, but since Abel is injuried it will probally only be formidable.

Players To Watch

Viktor Tolstoy - Vik's last game with the team today since he'll pop to excellent PM on thursday and be sold. He should play his best game ever since he's in solid form.

Bill Wright - Bill has went scoreless in his last 2 league games, i need a couple more from him to secure the divison top scorer honors.

The Match

7000 spectators arrived at Panther Stadium, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. crowley tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Wolfe - Cooke, Mosley, Fuentes, Meade - Kramer, Waddell, Madrigal, Ledesma - Gillis, Weiner.

Maniacal started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. They fielded: Landowski - ben Aharon, MacKindlay, Ferreira da Silv - Minter, Tolstoy, Neiva, Jonasson, de Bevere - Wright, Waldner.

Maniacal took the lead after 3 minutes with 0 - 1. Torbjörn Jonasson placed the ball out of reach for the home sides keeper after a fine move, coming in from the left.

crowley´s Ron Waddell put his head to a high ball coming in from the right in the 5:th minute, but the ball went wide.

The referee signalled a penalty in the 6:th minute following an offence just inside of the box. Bill Wright knocked home 0 - 2 just out of reach for the goaltender. By now Maniacal were drawing the troops back in order to defend their lead.

In the games 26:th minute Benton Minter 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.

In the games 28:th minute Maniacal´s Benton Minter fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee booked Benton Minter for taking a dive.

Halftime score was 0 - 2. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 68 percent possession rate.

What was Joaquim Neiva thinking? That's what everyone wondered when he for no apparent reason shot a cross pass over his own penalty area, giving Duane Ledesma an extra chance, but he didn't get the shot right..

Some fine manouvering on the left lead to an 75:th minute Maniacal goal, making it 0 - 3. Maik Waldner was noted down as the scorer.

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.

Bill Wright of Maniacal received a yellow card in the 84:th minute for unsportsmanlike behaviour.

Some fine manouvering on the left lead to an 85:th minute Maniacal goal, making it 0 - 4. Maik Waldner was noted down as the scorer.

Ron Waddell made several blunders at the end of the game, causing a good deal of unrest in the defensive line. Viktor Tolstoy really should have scored when he was chosen by fate to confront a wide open goal after a corner, but he lost his nerve.

Mike Gillis had a good opportunity to reduce in the 87:th minute but wasn´t cool enough. The ball went miles over the bar.

In the games 87:th minute crowley´s Nate Madrigal fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee booked Nate Madrigal for taking a dive.

The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 84 percent possession of the ball.

The most dominating crowley player was without a doubt Bert Mosley. Mike Gillis was a disappointment, however. Most important Maniacal player was Viktor Tolstoy. Dolf de Bevere was a disappointment, however.

The match ends 0 - 4

Goals

Maik Waldner - 2
Bill Wright - 1
Torbjörn Jonasson - 1

Player Ratings

3.5 - Marcin Landowski

3.5 - Naftali ben Aharon (Offensive)
3.5 - Joseph MacKindlay
2.5 - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)

2.5 - Benton Minter (Offensive)
3.5 - Viktor Tolstoy (Offensive)
3.5 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
3.0 - Torbjörn Jonasson
2.5 - Dolf de Bevere (Offensive)

3.0 - Maik Waldner
3.0 - Bill Wright

34.0 Stars

Team Ratings

north crowley
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: poor - (3)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: weak- (4)
Central Attack: weak- (4)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 46

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: outstanding - (10)
Central Attack: formidable - (9)
Left Side Attack: excellent - (8)

NSI - 62

Post Game Comments

Another easy shutout win for the Misfitz. Im actually surprised we only scored 4 goals but thats what happens when your dumass coach pulls back 6 mins into the GAME!! God that pisses me off. Anyway, all the ratings seem right except my central defense, not sure how i only got a solid rating with my goalie in solid form and my CD in passable form. Oh well.... no biggie. We won and didn't get any injuries, im happy. With this pic my TS is finally getting back to a decent level. It was only at composed going into this game, but should be at calm next sunday. Now we're halfway through the season and looking great!! 7-0 with 40 goals scored and only 4 given up! Plus 4 of our last 7 games are at home!

The Good

Maik Waldner - Picked up 2 more goals, now he's scored 4 goals for me in 3 league games with the team since i bought him.

Viktor Tolstoy - Played his best game ever according to supporter stats in his last game with the team. With his badass secondary's he should sell for a pretty penny :)

The Bad

Ismael Ferreira da Silva - Ismael played like crap and only got 2.5 stars as a defensive wingback. He's in low inadequate form i think right now.

Around The Divison

The Minnesota - vs - Witches 0 - 7

The Witches had an easy 7-0 win this week and put up some dam nice offensive ratings. passable/magnificent/Brilliant. His coach pulls back when he's winning 6-0, mine pulls back when im winning 2-0. WTF :(

Baker FC - vs - Final Fantasy 0 - 5

FF wins easy as expected, but he did lose his 30 year old number 2 forward for 3 weeks. So thats good :)

CristinaFC3 - vs - Rosecity Thorons 3 - 2

The only good game this week in my divison. Rosecity had the slightly better ratings, but CristinaFC3 pulled it out. But my money is on Rosecity getting some revenge next week.

Divison Standings

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

1. Maniacal Misfitz-------------7-------------40 - 4----------------21

2. Witches----------------------7--------------29 - 13--------------13

3. CristinaFC3------------------7--------------26 - 18--------------13

4. Final Fantasy----------------7--------------19 - 13--------------12

5. Rosecity Thorns-------------7--------------17 - 14--------------9

6. Baker FC----------------------7--------------9 - 24----------------5

7. The Minnesota---------------7--------------4 - 40---------------3

8. north crowley----------------7--------------7 - 25---------------2

Upnext, This weeks FOFC Cup game

finkenst

12-28-2003, 10:16 PM

1. Maniacal Misfitz-------------7-------------40 - 4----------------21
+36 GD...

and yet you tied some poor div VI team, Havok. :eek: :D :p

keep up the good work, Havok. I'll catch up to you in div IV eventually.

--tim

edit: spelling

DukeRulesMAB

12-28-2003, 10:38 PM

I really, really, really hope you don't end up in my division next season. I don't need to get smacked around by a FOFCer twice a year. ;)

Alf

12-29-2003, 10:23 AM

Undefeated !

Havok

12-29-2003, 11:23 AM

Originally posted by finkenst
+36 GD...

and yet you tied some poor div VI team, Havok. :eek: :D :p

keep up the good work, Havok. I'll catch up to you in div IV eventually.

LOL!!

you'll never let me forget about that game will ya Tim :D

Havok

12-31-2003, 12:18 PM

New Player!!!

well, i have to say this has been the craziest couple days for me in hattrick bidding on players in a LONG time. I bookmarked a total of 19 players and got outbid on most of them. I wanted a 17 year old solid PM with at least weak stamina but the higher the better. I refuse to buy trainee's with lower then weak stamina, it just takes to long to get them to a decent stamina level. The guy also had to have at LEAST inadequate passing, but of course the higher the better.

Every dam 17 year old solid with passable passing or higher was selling for well over 800k, and im just got gonna spend all my money on 1 trainee. My team has other needs aswell, i also went after a couple 17 year old passable PM's with solid passing but they quickly went over 700k and i said screw that. After getting outbid on the first 12 guys or so i had bookmarked, i started to get a little worried. But today i finally landed my newest trainee....

Iver Dyrberg (21188426)
17 years, passable form, healthy
A nasty fellow who is balanced and upright.
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities.

Speciality: Unpredictable

Nationality: Danmark
Assessed value: 154 000 US$
Wage: 1 392 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

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

Paid 573k

With an assessed value like that, i have a pretty good feeling he is close to poping to Excellent. If he pops to excellent in the next few weeks, ill be loving life. He also has pretty good base stamina, 2 offseason stamina weeks and he's ready to start. By then he should be at least outstanding PM, hopfully almost brilliant. Overall im pretty dam happy with the player i got and the price i paid. 17 year old solid PMs with inadequate passing and good stamina were all selling for 600k Plus. And none of them had this high of an assessed value.

I also placed Viktor Tolstoy on the transfer wire today so i will be buying another trainee next week. But i won't spend nearly as much on the next trainee. I'll probally buy a 17 year old passable PM with passable passing for around 250-300k. Then i'll be done selling players for a long time.

So what do you guys think about this guy??? good buy?? bad buy??

Lemme know........

DukeRulesMAB

12-31-2003, 01:31 PM

I don't know the PM market very well, so I can't judge the price. But I totally agree with you on stamina, I follow the same theory (except I demand at least inad) when buying my TM winger trainees. So getting a guy with Inad stamina is a huge boost.

BTW, what does Tolstoy look like?

Havok

12-31-2003, 01:42 PM

Originally posted by DukeRulesMAB
I don't know the PM market very well, so I can't judge the price. But I totally agree with you on stamina, I follow the same theory (except I demand at least inad) when buying my TM winger trainees. So getting a guy with Inad stamina is a huge boost.

BTW, what does Tolstoy look like?

This is what he will look like after thrusdays training update.......

Viktor Tolstoy
272 000 US$, 20 years, solid form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Quick]

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

His value and form will change also but i can't predict that :)

he's a badass middy but at 20 and just hitting excellent PM. I wanna get rid of him and buy someone younger in preparation for divison IV next season.

DukeRulesMAB

12-31-2003, 02:13 PM

Hmm...that's almost exactly what I'm looking for. (Excellent middy, passable+ passing). :) If I'm around on Friday, I'm gonna get in on that.

Havok

12-31-2003, 03:12 PM

actually saturday around 1:00 in the afternoon is when the bidding is over. Since he's been on my team i don't think he's ever been below passable form.

Im not sure how much your looking to spend, but with the way inflation is right now i don't expect him to sell for under 600k. But it would be cool for a fellow FOFC'er to get him :)

oh wait... i have an idea! I'll trade ya him for Matthew Matlock straight up :P

DukeRulesMAB

12-31-2003, 03:42 PM

Hmm, I'll pass. :)

(As an aside, with Matlock's wages, I'm supremely glad I invested in a US trainee...not having that extra 20% is quite a bit of $$$ over time)

Havok

01-01-2004, 02:01 PM

Season 3 - FOFC Cup - Group Play Round 1

Dead Rabbits FC - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

Finally the FOFC Cup has arrived and your Misfitz have drawn a number 1 seed in group play!!! Heres how my group looks.......

15 - team1 - Maniacal Misfitz-----------Havok
18 - team2 - Arkam Avengers----------Nylarlahotep
47 - team3 - Confederates-------------Breeze
50 - team4 - Dead Rabbits FC----------deadrabbitsfc

If you know anything about any of these teams you'll know that none of them are an easy opponent for us.

Today im playing my only road game of group play vs Dead Rabbits FC. They are a very solid winger training team that found out about FOFC through GoldenEagle (They play in the same divison). He's got one badass winger "Erik Berg' who kinda worries me, plus an all around solid team. He may be the lowest seed in the group, but that doesn't mean he's a pushover. Espically since i'll be playing his starters today since he had an easy league game on sunday. I have the better team here, but since its on the road and im playing my newest middy trainee with bad stamina it should be close.

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Joseph MacKindlay (Defensive)
Central Defender - Omar Narin
Left Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

Right Winger - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Iver Dyrberg (Offensive)
Inner Midfileder 3 - Huey Miller
Left Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Bill Wright
Forward 2 - Maik Waldner

Of course the big news of this game is the first start by my newest middy trainee Iver Dyrberg. He only has inadequate stamina, but i hope he still gets me 2 1/2 stars. The rest of the starters are looking pretty good form wise and my ratings should be pretty decent today.

Players To Watch

Iver Dyrberg - Looking for a good game outta my newest trainee.

The Match

Overcast weather free of rain made for a crowd turnout of 1177 at Five Points Center today. Rabbits started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. They fielded: Duckworth - Jerinic, Johnson, Gibbons - Berg, Karstensson, Lacey, Jarrett, Nilsson - Oppel, Nixon.

Maniacal started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. They fielded: Landowski - MacKindlay, Nairn, ben Aharon - Hoekstra, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Dyrberg, Neiweiler - Wright, Waldner.

Rabbitss Howard Gibbons got himself booked after a foul.

Roy Hoekstra the unlucky victim, couldn´t continue the game, so Benton Minter had to come off the bench.

Some beautiful plays on the left side of the field resulted in a 12th minute goal by Ross Nixon for Rabbits, putting them ahead 1 - 0.

What was Iver Dyrberg thinking? That's what everyone wondered when he for no apparent reason shot a cross pass over his own penalty area, giving Helmut Oppel an extra chance, but he didn't get the shot right.

26 minutes into the game Maniacal´s Huey Miller found a gap in the home sides central defense scoring with a long shot, making it 1 - 1.

In the 30:th minute an unfortunate play by Tyson Duckworth gave the visitors a chance at the lead, but Iver Dyrberg, finding himself alone with the keeper, was unable to take advantage of the situation.

After 30 minutes Rabbits´s Helmut Oppel contracted a slight foot injury, but could finish the game.

In the 30:th minute an unfortunate play by Tyson Duckworth gave the visitors a chance at the lead, but Maik Waldner, finding himself alone with the keeper, was unable to take advantage of the situation.

Halftime score was 1 - 1. The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 53 percent possession of the ball.

Bill Wright delivered a good free kick from an excellent position in the 54:th minute, but luck wasn´t on Maniacal´s side this time, the ball going wide.

Some beautiful plays on the left side of the field resulted in a 59:th minute goal by Billy Lacey for Rabbits, putting them ahead 2 - 1.

The referee was not popular amongst the home supporters as he awarded Maniacal a penalty in the 64:e minute. Bill Wright made no mistake, levelling the score to 2 - 2.

Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 52 percent possession rate.

The most dominating Rabbits player was without a doubt Erik Berg. Ross Nixon on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Jakob Noer Mogensen. Benton Minter on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 2 - 2

Goals

Bill Wright - 1
Huey Miller - 1

Player Ratings

3.5 - Marcin Landowski

3.5 - Joseph MacKindlay (Defensive)
3.5 - Omar Narin
3.5 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

2.0 Injuried - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)
1.5 - Benton Miller (Replaced Roy Hoektra)
4.0 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
2.5 - Iver Dyrberg (Offensive)
3.5 - Huey Miller
3.0 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

3.0 - Bill Wright
3.0 - Maik Waldner

35 - Stars

Team Ratings

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

NSI - 63

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: passable - (6)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: outstanding - (10)

NSI - 66

Post Game Comments

A tie.... well it could have been worse i guess. Im not to upset with this outcome since its my only away game in group play and our NSI's were very close. My guys missed three chances today so we have noone to blame up our selves. Having Roy get injuried so early in the game defintily hurt my midfield, i probally would have gained around an extra 2% per half if he was playing. But lucky for me he's only "Bruised but training". My new trainee Iver played pretty well grabing 2.5 stars, but his "unpredictable" skill almost cost me a goal.

Other Game in Group 15

Arkham Avengers - vs - Confederates 2 - 2

The other game in my group also tied 2-2, the NSI's ratings were very close in this game... it could have went either way really. This is good news for us since noone is ahead of us in points in group 15. I play the Confederates at home next week, it should be a good game.

Upnext, This weeks training update

Havok

01-01-2004, 10:09 PM

Training and Form Update

This is most definitely the greatest training update in Misfitz history, and here is why........

Iver Dyrberg
156 000 US$, 17 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

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

I can't freaking beleive it, when i bought him i knew he had to be close to excellent. But i still can't believe!! im just so dam happy right now. With no injuries, i should have him to Supernatural PM when he's 20 around week 10 or 11. I could sell him now for a ton of money, but i dont think i will. He'll probally stay with the team and be the Misfitz star player for YEARS to come!!

Torbjörn Jonasson
242 000 US$, 18 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

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

The funny thing about this guy is, i bought him week 8 of last season as a passable and i thought he was close to solid PM. Well i was wrong obviously and he's now just bumping to excellent PM. He's still a good trainee and will take over the starting defensive middy job when i sell Jakob around this time next season.

Viktor Tolstoy
290 000 US$, 20 years, excellent form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Quick]

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

Viktor bumped to excellent like he was supposed to and is on the Transfer market right now. The Bidding ends on saturday at 19:14 Hattrick time.

Kinda cool that right now, out of my 6 Middy's, not 1 is below excellent PM :)

Form Update

Form kinda sucked for my starters this week, but for some reason my 2 back-up forwards that didn't even play this week bumped a level in form. My goalie remains in solid form but my super hot defender Omar Narin droped down to solid form. My star winger also continues his form drop.... 5 weeks ago he was in excellent form now he's in inadequate. I think im gonna play him in both games this week to give him a little boost. It worked with my goalie, hopfully it will work with him to.

5 Players increase in form (1 Starter)
4 Players decreased in form (3 Starters)

Player/Team Value

Value per player (average): 162 952 US$ (-7,334)
Total squad value: 3 422 000 US$ (-154,000)
Average age: 22
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): poor
No of players (excluding the coach): 21
Number of nationalities: 16

The big drop off is because i sold Josph Eder last week. He was valued at 424k and replaced him with a guy valued at 156k.

Upnext, this weeks youth pull and economic update

Havok

01-03-2004, 09:34 PM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

more crap........

Tommy Kline
10 000 US$, 18 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and passable leadership abilities [Quick]

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

Fired of course

Economic Update

Cash funds: 1 426 132 US$ (1 380 114) US$
Sponsors: dancing in the streets
Supporter Club: 1369 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue----------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0-------------------------Arena 20 480
Sponsors 72 600------------------Wages 29 338
Financial 4 200--------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0------------------------Temporary 2 000
----------------------------------------Staff 51 000
----------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 76 800------Total expenses 122 818
Expected income/loss -46 018

IM RICH!!! :) With Viktor selling today for a surprising 903k, i've got a whole lot of cash right now. Plus i have a home game tommarrow which i should sell out, so thats another 208k. So i have around 1.5 million to buy a new trainee and a formidable goalie. Unfortunetly formidable goalies are expenseive as hell right now, most of them are selling for 1.5 million. My new trainee is gonna be a passable PM/passable passing and decent stamina so he will probally cost me around 250-300k. That will leave me with only 1.2 million for a formidable goalie (1.4 with -200k in debt). So it might take a few more weeks to get the goalie. We'll see if i can find a deal somewhere.

This Weeks Games

My league game is the same as last week vs North Crowly. They suck so i won't talk about it, i'll play my back-ups and pic.

FOFC Cup Game

My cup game this week is verus the third seed in my group "The Confederates", owned by fellow FOFC'er "Breeze". The Confederates played a good game last week and pulled out a tie verus Arkham on the road. Im not sure if i'll be playing his back-ups or starters since his league game looks pretty easy. If i play his back-ups i'll win easy, if i play his starters it should be a good game...

Confederates
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: outstanding - (10)
Left Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Right Side Attack: inadequate - (5)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 63

And this game was probally a pic, so i'll expect a solid midfield or better if he plays his staters verus me. Just like last week my problem will be that i have to play the trainee i buy this week in the game and he'll probally have low stamina. That will effect my midfiled quite a bit, either way it should be a good game if he plays his starters.

Upnext, This weeks league game

DukeRulesMAB

01-04-2004, 12:07 AM

FYI, I believe passable 18 YO wingers, even with no secondaries, will sell for enough to cover the listing fee.

Masked

01-04-2004, 02:49 AM

Hey your favorite - quick wingers !!!

P.S. - buy my guy :)

Havok

01-04-2004, 09:02 AM

Originally posted by Masked
Hey your favorite - quick wingers !!!

P.S. - buy my guy :)

yeah, he was quick alright.... quick to get fired :)

Duke - Your probally right, somebody might have bought him, but i was to lazy to find out.

Havok

01-04-2004, 09:43 PM

Season 3 - League Game - Round 8

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - north crowley

North Crowly again this week and another easy pic win for me im sure. I'll be playing most of my back-ups mixed with a few starters so my A-team can play in my FOFC Cup game on wednesday. Last week we somehow only scored 4 goals vs NC, this week we better score a few more because these guys suck. I get 1 more easy pic win next week aswell, then the tough part of my schedule starts. Thats when things should start getting interesting again.

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 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfileder 2 - Iver Dyrberg (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Torbjörn Jonasson
Left Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Maik Waldner
Forward 2 - Abel Cano

The big news today is the return of Abel Cano, formly my number 1 forward but now my number 2 since i bought Maik. He's been out since 12/8 when i played CristinaFC3 and he got injuried. His form was dropped 3 levels since then from solid to weak, hopfully he'll rebound fast. Even with Abel in weak form im still expecting a good central attack rating today since i'll have 2 middies playing offensive instead of 1. I did have to play 1 starting middy today since i have to buy another trainee in the next couple days and he'll have to play on wednesday to get training for the week.

Players To Watch

Maik Waldner - Maik finally pulled out of his low passable form (i think) and added about 12k in value on thursday. I hoping he gets his first 3.5 star game with the team.

Abel Cano - First game back!!! don't expect much though since his form blows and he's still "Bruised but playing".

The Match

Overcast weather free of rain made for a crowd turnout of 24360 at The Island of Misfit Toyz today. Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Landowski - ben Aharon, Nairn, Ferreira da Silv - Neiweiler, Neiva, Jonasson, Dyrberg, Minter - Cano, Waldner.

crowley started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. Lineup: Wolfe - Cooke, Mosley, Fuentes, Meade - Kramer, Waddell, Madrigal, Ledesma - Gillis, Weiner.

Maniacal took the lead in the 25:th minute after a magnificent free kick. Iver Dyrberg adjusted the score to 1 - 0.

crowley will have to do without Tory Cooke for a time due to a bad foot injury. He was substituted by Stan Brown.

The cannonball from 35 metres by Iver Dyrberg of Maniacal was an impressive sight, but didn´t make it into the net.

Maniacal put themselves up 2 - 0 when Benton Minter broke through on the right, leaving the entire defensive box behind him.

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

A bit later, a magnificent combination in the middle resulted in Maniacal´s Abel Cano putting the lead up 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.

Halftime score was 4 - 0. The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 70 percent possession of the ball.

A speedy charge from the left side of the field put Maniacal lead up with 5 - 0. Abel Cano finished that one off competently, firing from an acute angle.

Maniacal put themselves up 6 - 0 when Maik Waldner broke through on the right, leaving the entire defensive box behind him.

Stan Brown of crowley received a yellow card in the 76:th minute for unsportsmanlike behaviour.

In the 76:th minute Maniacal put themselves up 7 - 0. The visitors defenders lost the ball to Maik Waldner coming up from the left, who proceeded to cooly round the goaltender and knock the ball home.

Ismael Ferreira da Silva received some harsh words from his coach after he acted foolishly, probably out of lack of experience, in the 83rd minute and almost caused an opponent to score.

Douglas Meade was suffering from cramps and had big difficulties keeping up as the opponentes pushed forward.

Naftali ben Aharon had no problems getting through and hit home the 8 - 0 goal.

Maniacal put themselves up 9 - 0 when Iver Dyrberg broke through on the right, leaving the entire defensive box behind him.

The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 83 percent possession of the ball.

The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Naftali ben Aharon. Abel Cano was a disappointment, however. Most important crowley player was Bert Mosley. However, Stan Brown made a disastrous appearance.

The match ends 9 - 0

Goals

Maik Waldner - 2
Abel Cano - 2
Iver Dyrberg - 2
Naftali ben Aharon - 1
Benton Minter - 1
Andi Neiweiler - 1

Player Ratings

3.5 - Marcin Landowski

3.5 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
3.0 - Omar Nairn
2.5 - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)

3.0 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
3.5 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
2.0 - Iver Dyrberg (Offensive)
3.0 - Torbjörn Jonasson
2.5 - Benton Minter (Offensive)

3.5 - Maik Waldner
2.0 - Abel Cano

32 - Stars

Team Ratings

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

NSI - 62

north crowley
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: wretched - (2)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: weak - (4)
Central Attack: weak - (4)
Left Side Attack: weak - (4)

NSI - 39

Post Game Comments

Wow.... second most goals scored in a game in team history. I guess we made up for last week when we only scored 4 goals vs them. My young franchise middy Iver Dyrberg scored 2 goals in his first league game with the team and my million dollar forward Maik Waldner scored 2 goals, he also picked up his first 3.5 star game with the team. Well.... 9-0 pic win, no injuries and no cards. Thats a perfect game in my book :) Hopfully my FOFC Cup game will go this well, but i ain't counting on it.

The Good

Maik Waldner - His first 3.5 star game with the team and he's only in passable form. I can't wait till i can get him and Abel playing together with both of them in good form.

Andi Neiweiler - While its not good that he's in inadequate form, at least he still got 3 stars on the wing.

Joaquim Neiva - after 2 weeks of only 3 stars, Jaoquim is back to 3.5 stars a game in passable form. He should fill in Josef's former spot nicely.

The Bad

Iver Dyrberg - "Mr Franchise" scores 2 goals and thats bad!?!?!?! well, his form dropped to inadequate so he only grabed 2 stars this game. No biggie though... he'll be a back-up for awhile.

Around The Divison

Rosecity Thorns - vs - CristinaFC3 0 - 3

Rosecity lost they're new 384k middy for 3 weeks plus they got blanked at home. I thought for sure the Thorns were gonna come out pissed today after losing last week to CristinaFC3, but they got spanked even worse today at home.

Final Fantasy - vs - Baker FC 4 - 1

This game went as expected, but FF played with a slightly different line-up then usual. This is the first time FF has ever changed anything with they're team since they've been in this divison. He's also logging in more so maybe he's actually starting to take this game seriously.

Witches - vs - The Minnesota SnowDrifts 5 - 0

Well, The Witches topped they're best ever magnificent central attack last week with a WORLD CLASS central attack today. He's starting to worry me alittle :)

Divison Standings

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

1. Maniacal Misfitz---------8-------------------49 - 4---------------24

2. Witches-------------------8------------------34 - 13-------------16

3. CristinaFC3--------------8------------------29 - 18--------------16

4. Final Fantasy------------8------------------23 - 14--------------15

5. Rosecity Thorns---------8------------------17 - 17---------------9

6. Baker FC------------------8-----------------10 - 28---------------5

7. The Minnesota Snow----8-----------------4 - 45-----------------3

8. north crowley-------------8-----------------7 - 34-----------------2

Upnext, This weeks FOFC Cup game

Havok

01-07-2004, 10:49 PM

Season 3 - FOFC Cup - Round2

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - Confederates

Its been a disappointing last few days for the Misfitz. I've been shopping like hell for a formidable goalie and a trainee and ended up with neither :( I have 1.5 million in the bank but if i pay to much for a trainee then i won't have enough for a goalie and vice versa. Now since formidable goalie prices are through the roof(along with all other prices) i can't seem to land one and still have enough left for the trainee i want. So, im gonna have to put off buying the goalie for a few more weeks. I was hoping to have him for my big game versus the Witches in 2 weeks but it doesn;t look like its gonna happen.

My FOFC Cup game today is verus the 3rd seed in group 15 The Confedrates. Owned by fellow FOFC'er "Breeze", The Confedrates are a tough Div. V team that trains middy's. They tied Arkam last week 2-2 but since im playing my starters today and he appears to be playing his back-ups like last week, i should prbally win easily. But if he does throw his starters in there it could be a good game.

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Joseph MacKindlay (Defensive)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

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

Forward 1 - Bill Wright
Forward 2 - Maik Waldner

Since i never bought a new trainee this week, im playing my usual winger "towards the middle" Roy Hoekstra as a midfielder so he gets full training. Hopfully this will be the only time i ever have to do this. Its not a total waste since he's only 20 years old, but i'd much rather have a 17 year old trainee in that spot. Everyone else playing today is a usual starter except Dolf De Bevere who's filling in on wing. Form all around is ok and im expecting some pretty nice ratings.

The Match

Overcast weather free of rain made for a crowd turnout of 1654 at The Island of Misfit Toyz today. Maniacal started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Landowski - MacKindlay, Nairn, ben Aharon - de Bevere, Hoekstra, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Neiweiler - Wright, Waldner.

Confederates tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Gregg - Wolfe, Edvinsson, Davis - Willard, Wyatt, Holton, Byrne, Moore - Ferrell, Biggs.

The 10:th minute saw the home team take a 1 - 0 lead after a leak in the visitors right side defense. Scorer for Maniacal was Maik Waldner.

Maniacals Bill Wright got himself booked after a foul.

29 minutes into the game Rickard Edvinsson had to leave the pitch due to a knee injury. In came Chase Redman.

Maniacal put their lead ahead another goal as Roy Hoekstra struck home the 2 - 0 goal, after an attack from the left setting him up unmarked with the keeper.

In the 33rd minute Maniacal put themselves up 3 - 0. The visitors defenders lost the ball to Maik Waldner coming up from the left, who proceeded to cooly round the goaltender and knock the ball home.

Maniacal put themselves up 4 - 0 when Maik Waldner broke through on the right, leaving the entire defensive box behind him. By then Maik Waldner was a three time scorer - a hat trick!

A header from Andi Neiweiler connected with a corner kick after 41 minutes, and the ball ended up with Omar Nairn of Maniacal who shot the 5-0 goal.

42 minutes into the game Maniacal were awarded a penalty that Bill Wright turned into 6 - 0 without a problem. By now Maniacal were drawing the troops back in order to defend their lead.

Halftime score was 6 - 0. Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 68 percent, dominated the battle.

A speedy charge from the left side of the field put Maniacal lead up with 7 - 0. Jakob Noer Mogensen finished that one off competently, firing from an acute angle.

Maniacal put themselves up 8 - 0 when Maik Waldner broke through on the right, leaving the entire defensive box behind him.

Maik Waldner should probably have put his team up another goal in the 76:th minute, but some great goaltending by Willie Gregg kept the visitors in the game.

In the 78:th minute of the match the visitors central line of defence had to look on as Roy Hoekstra dashed through, knocking home 9 - 0 for Maniacal.

Maniacal put their lead ahead another goal as Dolf de Bevere struck home the 10 - 0 goal, after an attack from the left setting him up unmarked with the keeper.

Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 76 percent possession rate.

Most important Maniacal player was Jakob Noer Mogensen. Dolf de Bevere on the other hand, had a terrible day. Most important Confederates player was Earl Davis. William Holton was a disappointment, however.

The match ends 10 - 0

Goals

Maik Waldner - 4
Roy Hoekstra - 2
Bill Wright - 1
Omar Nairn - 1
Jakob Noer Mogensen - 1
Dolf de Bevere - 1

Player Ratings

3.5 - Marcin Landowski

3.5 - Joseph MacKindlay (Defensive)
3.0 - Omar Nairn
3.5 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

2.5 - Dolf de Bevere (Offensive)
4.0 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
2.5 - Roy Hoekstra (Offensive)
3.5 - Huey Miller
3.0 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

3.0 - Bill Wright
3.5 - Maik Waldner

35.5 - Stars

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: excellent - (8)
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: outstanding - (10)

NSI - 74

Confederates
Player rating and Team formation
Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 52

Post Game Comments

Holy crap... i kinda feel bad. I was expecting to win, but 10 - 0 is just insane! Plus i injured one of his back-ups for a few weeks. Just not a good day for Breeze..... sorry bro :( Anyway, i really like that 74 NSI and that excellent midfield, espically considering i was playing a winger as a Middy. All the other ratings were as expected. My million dollar forward Maik Waldner continues to earn his pay..... scoring 4 more goals today and still helping me get a excellent central attack with no offensive middy playing today. I also escaped the game with no injuries so it was a perfact game on my end.

The Good

Maik Waldner - scored 4 goals today and now has 6 goals in his last 2 games.

Jakob Noer Mogensen - Jakob had a big form drop last thursday but still got 4 stars in passable form today.

The Bad

Roy Hoekstra - Not sure how a solid PM with excellent stamina only got 2 1/2 stars at middy in passable form. I guess he's in low passable form right now.

Other Game In Group 15

Arkham Avengers - vs - Dead Rabbits FC 4 - 0

The bad news here is Nyar forgot to change his line-up and screwed his training up this week. The good news is he won easy over Dead Rabbits 4-0. Now even if i lose next week i'll still advance unless Dead Rabbits FC beats the Confedrates by like 10 goals.

Upnext, this weeks training and form update

Havok

01-08-2004, 09:32 PM

Training and Form Update

no pops this week and i don't expect any for a few more weeks. Maybe the trainee i buy this week will pop quickly (i hope) but besides that nothing is expected until week 11.

Form Update

Form has been iffy at best lately but this week is definetly a set in the right direction. The big news is 2 of my starting 3 Middy's bump in form... Huey Miller (my farthest along midfielder) bumped to excellent form and my recent promotee from the B-team Jaoquim, bumped to solid form. My 3 starting middies haven't had a chance to play together yet because of the FOFC Cup and my 4 weeks of easy games, But if they're form remains like this for my game next week verus the Witches im expecting a super sweet midfield rating. Also, my goalie's value stayed the same for the second consecutive week which is good since he's in solid form and my "Million Dollar Forward" Maik Walder bumped to solid form. 2 of the form drops were guys that haven't played in weeks, so overall it was a nice form week for the starters....

5 Players increased in form (3 starters)
4 Players decreased in form (1 starter)

Team/Player Value

Value per player (average): 164 150 US$ (+1,198)
Total squad value: 3 283 000 US$ (-139,000)
Average age: 22
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): poor
No of players (excluding the coach): 20 (-1)
Number of nationalities: 15

Im surprised my average value per player increased since i sold off Viktor Tolstoy on saturday, but my overall team value took a nice it. That will change soon, as i add a trainee this week and "Maybe" a goalie.

Upnext, This weeks youth pull and economic update

Masked

01-08-2004, 10:07 PM

Originally posted by Havok
[But if they're form remains like this for my game next week verus the Witches im expecting a super sweet midfield rating.

Super sweet? Must be somewhere above brilliant - I can never remember those.

Havok

01-08-2004, 10:15 PM

to much southpark for me lately :)

The main thing holding my midfield back is my TS. I haven't played a league game with above Calm TS in weeks. Even with all my PIC's, it sucks having a poor leadership coach :(

DukeRulesMAB

01-08-2004, 10:35 PM

Completely agreed, I can't get above content. In 2 seasons, when I'll be ready to seriously compete in DIV, I'm investing in at least an inad leadership coach. This Poor leadership guy is absolutely crippling.

Masked

01-08-2004, 10:42 PM

I'm glad that I pulled a passable leadership passable coach under the old system and never got around to replacing him. I am not sure a bit faster training is worth losing control of my teams spirit.

just have to wait for Teuvo to bump to solid leadership (no gain yesterday :()

Havok

01-09-2004, 01:29 AM

well.... here's my new coach right here

Naftali ben Aharon (6937691)
31 years, excellent form, healthy
A controversial person who is calm and dishonest.
Has solid experience and passable leadership abilities.

Nationality: Israel
Assessed value: 61 000 US$
Wage: 1 260 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

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

After i get my goalie and new trainee, getting the 695k together to make him my coach will be the next thing i do. Hopfully before next season or earley next season.

Breeze

01-09-2004, 07:35 AM

At least I lost to your starters ;)

Doesn't look like I'll make it out of group play. Anyone need a friendly for next week :D

Good luck Havok

Alf

01-09-2004, 07:43 AM

Originally posted by Breeze
At least I lost to your starters ;)

Doesn't look like I'll make it out of group play. Anyone need a friendly for next week :D
Good luck Havok

Breeze : I should be available too :)

Breeze

01-09-2004, 08:21 AM

Alf,

You'll kill me, but I'm up for a trip.

Havok

01-09-2004, 01:32 PM

Breaking News

I finally got my final trainee today, i was looking for a passable PM with passabing passing and decent stamina. I almost got that today....

Karl Leitner (22814684)
17 years, passable form, healthy
A sympathetic guy who is balanced and upright.
Has disastrous experience and wretched leadership abilities.

Nationality: Österreich
Assessed value: 128 000 US$
Wage: 1 320 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

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

Paid 324k

its impossible to tell how close he is to solid PM because of all those good secondary's. But to be honest i don't care to much. This last week of bidding on trainee's and goalies has wore be out. Im just glad i don't have to worry about the trainee now. This buy puts my money at around 1.2 millon, that ain't enough for a formidable goalie so i'll have to wait a few weeks to get him unless i find a great deal.

All in all im happy with this guy, hopfully he'll pop to solid PM in the bext few weeks and he'll be a good starter down the road.

Desnudo

01-09-2004, 02:42 PM

Nice one. I think your team is getting too good. Trade me some players.

sterlingice

01-09-2004, 04:15 PM

That's a nice trainee, Havok. Very flexible.

SI

Alf

01-09-2004, 04:23 PM

Plus he is not a Sverige trainee ;). Breeze, I am preparing my club house for your visit. (end of threadjack)

Havok

01-10-2004, 04:38 AM

Mid-Season Review

~~~Warning~~~ this is a long post and you must read it all!!

The season is half over the Misfitz are sitting pretty in divison V.253. We expected to be the number one team in the divison this season, but i didn't think i'd be dominating quite like this. First i'd like to go over my "Season Goals" that i started the season with.

Season Goals

(These goals were posted before the season started)

1 - Run the table in my divison - This won't be easy, i have 2 tough teams in my divison that have a shot at beating me. But i am the best team as of right now and i don't think that will change anytime soon. As each week passes my midfields gets more and more dominite and noone else in my division trains PM.

well... im halfway to completeing this goal. The second half of my schedule does have a tough 3 game strech in it but i think i'll be able to pull off the perfect season!

2 - Get an "Outstanding" Midfield rating - I should probally knock this up to "Brilliant" but i don't wanna get to far ahead of myself. My best midfield rating is excellent and i've done that twice.

I still haven't done this one yet, but i know i will. If i ever had decent TS i would have done this twice, but having a poor leadership coach is killer on your team spirit.

3 - Break the 80 NSI plateau - I "Think" i can do this at least once this season, but it will be tough. My best NSI ever is 69.

This one is tough, i came very close to this in week 5 verus the Witches when i got a 77 NSI. But my team was in awsome form then also. The only 2 chances i think of doing this will come in 2 weeks verus the Witches at home when i MOTS and my last game of the season verus Final Fantasy on the road when i MOTS. Should be interesting to see if i can do it or not.

4 - Make it to round 5 of the USA Cup - This is gonna be another very tough goal. Last season i made it to round 5, but i got lucky and drew some easy games. I doubt i'll be so lucky this season.

I completed this goal and it wasn't easy. I pulled off a nice little upset in my fourth cup game verus a team with a "French National Team Forward!" That game had to be one of my all time favorite games.

5 - WIN THE FOFC CUP!!!! - this will be impossible for me because i won't be able to play starters much. But its still a goal of mine!!

Well, it looks like i'll be advancing out of group play so im part of the way there :) But its still not gonna happen since i need my starting middy's for league games and my B-team has 2 new trainee's both with inadequate stamina.

Roster Evaluation

Goalies

Marcin Landowski
396 000 US$, 22 years, solid form
Has wretched experience and passable leadership abilities

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

[b]Marcin has played much better this season then he did last season. He's still very inconsitant, but he's only dropped below passable form for 1 week this season. Unfortunetly for Marcin, he will soon be a member of the B-team because im in the process of buying a new keeper.[/b]

Stanford Weiss
81 000 US$, 22 years, poor form
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities

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

[b]Standford has seen action only three times this season and will probally never take the field again as a Misfit. Once i buy a new goalie he'll lose his back-up job to Marcin.[/b]

[size=4][b]Defenders[/b][/size]

Omar Nairn
143 000 US$, 22 years, solid form
Has wretched experience and poor leadership abilities

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

[b]Omar has also had a MUCH better season then he did last season. Last year he was stuck in inadequate form for most of the season. This year he's been stuck in solid and excellent form ALL season :) Another note about Omar is that he's played in more games then another other player in Misfitz History at 51. This will not change for a LONG time since he'll be with the team for years.[/b]

Ismael Ferreira da Silva
78 000 US$, 21 years, passable form
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities [Powerful]

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

[b]Number 2 on the list of most matches played for the Misfitz is Ismael with 46. He ain't going nowhere anytime soon either. Ismael has had a up and down year. He's squecked his way into a couple league games but still remains my primary back-up defender.[/b]

Naftali ben Aharon
61 000 US$, 31 years, [b]excellent form
Has solid experience and passable leadership abilities[/b]

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

[b]THE MAN!! THE MYTH!!! THE LEGEND!!! and the future Misfitz coach Naftali has continued to be a force to be reckoned with on the field. He's only played 1 week below solid form all season and has played in all but 1 game this season (League and friendly). I freaking love this guy.....[/b]

Joseph MacKindlay
54 000 US$, 31 years, [b]solid form
Has solid experience[/b] and poor leadership abilities [Quick]

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

[b]Joseoh has been another bright spot on the defense this season. He hasn't been below passable form all season and put up a whopping 4 stars twice this season. Once as a defensive wingback and the other at CD. He's been worth every cent of the 78k i paid for him last season.[/b]

[size=4][b]Wingers[/b][/size]

Andi Neiweiler
211 000 US$, 27 years, inadequate form
Has [b]poor experience[/b] and passable leadership abilities

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

[b]Andi started off the season like a possessed maniac and was creating goals left and right from the wing. Lately he's cooled and has spent the last 2 weeks in inadequate form. Hopfully he'll get hot again for the second half of the season.[/b]

Roy Hoekstra
188 000 US$, 20 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Powerful]

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

[b]Roy also played well through the first 5-6 weeks of the season but has seen his form drop 2 levels in the last 2 weeks. He's always had sporatic form so i never know whats gonna happen with him.[/b]

Benton Minter
72 000 US$, 20 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities

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

[b]Benton has continued to be a good back-up winger for the Misfitz and is usually in good form. He dropped down to weak form for a couple weeks because of my USA Cup run in which he didn't. But since then he's worked his way back up to passable form. I have a special fondness for Benton since he was the first Misfitz youth pull ever with a "solid" skill. He'll be around for awhile.[/b]

Dolf de Bevere
90 000 US$, 21 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Quick]

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

[b]Dolf hasn't seen passable form since around this time last season. Not that it matters much since he's my number 4 winger. I've debated selling him lately and picking up a younger winger to train in PM. We'll see what happens...[/b]

[size=4][b]Forwards[/b][/size]

Maik Waldner
215 000 US$, 20 years, [b]solid form[/b]
Has wretched experience and poor leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

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

[b]Maik 'The Million Dollar Man" Waldner was the Misfitz biggest transfer buy ever(BY ALOT) about 4 weeks ago and he's played great ever since. He bumped to "Wretched" experiance aftyer his first game with the team and is now getting a steady 3.5 stars a game. Once i buy a quality forward to play along side him my offense will be nice[/b]

Abel Cano
134 000 US$, 26 years, [color=red]poor form[/color]
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities

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

[b]The most injuried Misfit in history, Abel was having a great season up until week 4 when he got injuried for 4 weeks. That was his second 4 week injury in 1 1/2 seasons. He's just recently healed and now his form is in the crapper. He's usally kept pretty good form so im hoping he pulls out of it soon.[/b]

Bill Wright
60 000 US$, 28 years, [b]solid form
Has inadequate experience[/b] and poor leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

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

[b]Probally the most famous Misfit around FOFC is Bill Wright. Mainly because he got 13 goals in his first 3 league games this season plus 6 goals in cup play. Everyone in IRC chat thought he was some sort of god :) since then he's cooled down alot but he still remains a dam fine forward for the club. Never been below passable form since i've bought him and usually in solid form. Bill will lose his starting job soon but he'll still have a spot on the B- team for awhile.[/b]

Istvan Strobl
40 000 US$, 29 years, [b]passable form[/b]
[b]Has weak experience and solid leadership abilities[/b]

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

[b]Istvan has barley seen the pitch this season and now that i have 4 healthy forwards in front of him, i doubt he will ever see it again for the Misfitz. one day i'll invest in a clown but until then Istvan will be on the team.[/b]

Martin Devátý
55 000 US$, 24 years, [b]excellent form
Has poor experience[/b] and inadequate leadership abilities [Powerful]

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

[b]I should really sell Martin to a young team like Tim's that needs a cheap productive forward like him. He's always in good form and with his solid Set Peices he gets some special event goals. I've always liked him but the better my team gets the less he plays :( [/b]

[size=4][b]Midfielders[/b][/size]

Huey Miller
342 000 US$, 19 years, [b]excellent form
Has wretched experience[/b] and wretched leadership abilities [Head]

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

[b]Huey is my farthest along midfielder training wise, he should hit outstanding PM in week 11. Huey has had another awsome season for the Misfitz, he's only been below passable form for 2 weeks since he's been with the team. He's been the silent "anchor" of my midfield and he'll be a Misfit for awhile.[/b]

Jakob Noer Mogensen
375 000 US$, 20 years, passable form
Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Quick]

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

[b]Jakob has been another rock for me at midfield just like he was last season. He's never been below passable form since i bought him and he also seems to get a good number of goals for a defensive middy (11 over 1 1/2 seasons). Jakob should hit outstanding PM in week 13 and will be sold next season upon reaching Brilliant PM.[/b]

Joaquim Neiva
241 000 US$, 19 years, solid form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

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

[b]My newest starting midfielder after the sale of Josef Eder, Joaquim just hit excellent PM last week but makes up for his low PM with his good passing. Its kinda wierd seeing him in solid form right now since he's ALWAYS!! in passable form. [/b]

Torbjörn Jonasson
253 000 US$, 18 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

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

[b]Torbjorn is now my number 1 B-team trainee after the sale of Viktor and Joaquim's promotion to the A-team. He's had a fine season hovering around passable and solid form. He should start getting 3 1/2 stars a game in passable form soon and will move into the starting line-up this time next season when i sell Jakob.[/b]

Karl Leitner
128 000 US$, 17 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and wretched leadership abilities

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

[b]Karl is the newest Misfitz trainee, i just bought him yesterday so i don't know much about him. He should be a solid player down the road, but probally won't see the starting line-up for a long time.[/b]

Iver Dyrberg
194 000 US$, 17 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

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

[b]I had to save the best for last!!!!! I love Iver.... what more can i say??? i bought Iver 2 weeks ago for 573k, i thought he was pretty close to poping to excellent PM and the next day he did!!! His nickname is "Mr. Franchise" because he will be the badest Misfit of them all someday. He's got a very outside shot of making the Danmark U-20 team (very outside) but if injuries devistate they're team like they did our U-20 team this season, he might get the call :) Anyway, he's play well so far with the team dropping to inadequate form after the first training update, but bouncing right back passable form yesterday. He'll hit formidable PM the last week of the season and should break the starting line-up by the time he's 19...... did i mention i love him yet???[/b]

Thats it for my roster, my defense and goalie have been in great for all season. For 1 week i actually had all 3 starting defenders and my goalie in excellent form!! It was awsome :) The rest of the squad has been slightly above average i'd say, so i couldn't be happier.

[size=4][b]The Divison[/b][/size]

I'll run through each team real quick and give ya my thoughts on how they've played this season.

[size=3][b]1st Place - Maniacal Misfitz - 24 points[/b][/size]

Thats me!! :) i already told ya what i think about my season so far, so i won't do it again!

[size=3][b]2nd Place - Witches - 16 points[/b][/size]

Even though they are in second place and will probally stay that way, i'd have to say they're season has been a disappointment up until now. They lost to me, which was expected. But he also played alot of his back-ups in week 3 verus a good Final Fanatsy team and only got a tie. Plus the following week he pic'ed on the road verus a V.253 up and comer's "Rosecity Thorns" and lost 2-1. I thought the divison title would come down to a close finish between me and The Witches, now im 8 points ahead of him and our last game between eachother, im at home. They should still finish the season in second place, but johnny needs to rethink his stratagy next season and not take solid teams like FF and Rosecity so lightly.

[size=3][b]3rd Place - CristinaFC3 - 16 points[/b][/size]

I have to say im a little surprised to see CristinaFC3 in third place this far into the season. He's lost his 2 games verus The Witches and us, but played a great game verus FF on th road and managed a tie. Then he beat Rosecity back-to-back the last 2 weeks. Not bad for a team that's owner only logs in every 1-2 weeks. I think some of his luck will run out a little in the second half of the season and he'll probally finish 4th.

[size=3][b]4th Place - Final Fantasy - 15 ponits[/b][/size]

Final Fantasy... the team with 4.2 million bucks in the bank. The owner actually logs in almost every day now, but he still doesn't do a dam thing to improve his team. FF had a rough start to the season, they got destroyed by me 7-0, then went and tied Rosecity 1-1 at home. Week 3 things turned around a little when they managed to get a tie verus The Witches on the road. They've only lost 1 game all season, but they also have 3 ties. The second half of the season should be interesting for FF. I think they'll still pull 3rd place out. They'll probally lose to The Witches and me, but CristinaFC3 and Rosecity won't be easy for them

[size=3][b]5th Place - Rosecity Thorns - 9 Points[/b][/size]

Its been a wild year for Rosecity to say the least, the only 2 games that went how i thought it would for them was our game in which i won easy and they're game verus the Snowdrifts which they won easy. They started off the season tieing a BOT team 1-1 in a game he pic'ed and played his b-team. Then they went on and somehow pulled off a tie verus FF 1-1 and The Witches 3-3. Lost to me in week 4, then somehow tied a horrible North Crowly team. Crushed the Snowdrifts the following week, then lost to CristinaFC3 3-2 and 3-0. Rosecity is a good up and coming team with a very active owner, next season i think he'll finish second place behind the Witches.

[size=3][b]6th Place - Baker FC - 5 points[/b][/size]

Baker FC replaced the bot team in my divison around week 3. They got off to a good start tieing North Crowly and beating the Snowdrifts, but they haven't won since. The owner bought HT supporter and logs in regularly, but he hasn't really upgraded his team much. They'll probally finish in 6th place this season.

[size=3][b]7th Place - The Minnesota SnowDrifts - 3 points[/b][/size]

Not really much to say about The Minnesota SnowDrifts. They'll be replaced soon with a new owner since he hasn't logged in for almost a month. They'll finish 7th or 8th probally.

[size=3][b]8th Place - North Crowly - 2 points[/b][/size]

Same goes for North Crowly, they'll also be replaced soon. Should finish in 7th or 8th place.

Thats it for my Mid-Season progress report... sorry it was so long, i hope i didn't put anyone to sleep :) Go MISFITZ!

Havok

01-11-2004, 02:03 PM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

I finally get a sellable youth pull.... first time in over a month.

Lance Hollingsworth (23036567)
17 years, passable form, healthy
A sympathetic guy who is temperamental and honest.
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 47 000 US$
Wage: 720 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

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

good CA defender trainee, he should bring in around 50-60k.

Economic Update

Cash funds: 1 224 044 US$ (1 175 931) US$
Sponsors: dancing in the streets
Supporter Club: 1389 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue------------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0-----------------------------Arena 20 480
Sponsors 73 425-----------------Wages 30 658
Financial 3 600--------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0----------------------Temporary 3 000
--------------------------------------Staff 51 000
--------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 77 025 Total expenses 125 138
Expected income/loss -48 113

With my youth pull and 2 other back-ups that don't play much for sale, i should have around 1.4 million by weeks end. Im still looking for a goalie but im not in a huge rush to get one. Im trying to let this crazy inflated transfer market calm down.

Games this week

My league game again this week is an easy one. I'll be pic'ing and playing my back-ups. After this game i enter the toughest part of my remaining schedule, so no more easy pic games with back-ups playing :)

FOFC Cup Game

This week i play the number 2 seed in my group Nyar's "Arkham Avengers". He's a goalie trainer and with his A-team he puts up Super-Natureal defensive ratings. But Nyar is in a really tough divison and will probally play his back-ups. Either way i'll have a big offense and midfield advantage over him, but you can never count a defensive team out of a game.

Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: solid - (7)
Right Side Defence: supernatural - (14)
Central Defence: world class - (13)
Left Side Defence: supernatural - (14)
Right Side Attack: inadequate - (5)
Central Attack: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 77

This game might not actually take place unfortunetly. Nyar hasn't logged in since 1/5 and screwed up his training last week by playing his starters in his friendly. Hopfully he'll logon in the next day and accept my challenge, or else i'll be scrambling to find a last minute opponent.

Upnext, This weeks league game

DukeRulesMAB

01-11-2004, 02:30 PM

Honestly, I think if you wait for the transfer market to calm down, you may be waiting a long time. I believe we're seeing the effects of the economic changes (more sponser money + more ticket revenue), and that this market is quasi-permanent.

Of course, I've been wrong about Hattrick stuff like this more often than I've been right. ;)

Havok

01-11-2004, 09:30 PM

Season 3 - League Game - Round 9

Baker FC - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

My last easy game for awhile today. Baker FC is the newest team in my divison but the owner is active and hopfully he will stick with HT for awhile. I was gonna play my back-ups and PIC today, but since i don't think Nyar is gonna accept my friendly in time and since i'll advance to the next round of the FOFC Cup anyway, i'll play my starters today. After this weeks game i take on The Witches at home, then CristinaFC3 on the road, and then Rosecity at home. This stretch won't be so bad unless i decide to MOTS the Witches. Which i'll probally do since i know he'll be MOTS'ing me. Then i'll have crap TS for my next 2 games which will make them tough.

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
Central Defender - Omar Narin
Left Wingback - Joseph MacKindlay (Defensive)

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller
Left Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Maik Waldner
Forward 2 - Bill Wright

Full A-team starting today except Roy Hoekstra, i decided to let him play in my friendly because his form dropped to inadequate and i don't need a winger towards the middle in this game. So i'll be playing Benton Minter in his place. Form all around is ok except Andi is still stuck in inadequate form, he'll play again on wednesday to try to get it up for sundays big game.

Players To Watch

Maik Waldner - Maik had another value increase on thursday so im expecting his best game ever. Im also hoping to get a formidable central attack even with my number 2 forward on the bench in crap form.

Huey Miller - this is the first time i've had Huey in excellent form, for over a season. Im expecting his best game ever by quite a bit.

The Match

At Baker FC Arena, 6752 punters turned up, and despite threatening clouds at the horizon, no rain came. Baker had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. They fielded: Shaver - Queen, Morrison, Cowart - Gooch, Burrell, Dixon, Winn, Escutia - Moreno, Mcnair.

Maniacal tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Landowski - ben Aharon, Nairn, MacKindlay - Neiweiler, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Neiva, Minter - Wright, Waldner.

It was obvious that Baker were using pressing as their primary tactic.

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

With 26 minutes played Errol Dixon could have brought this one home for Baker, had his hooked ball gone in, but it went just a bit too high.

The crowd was silenced in the 33rd minute as the visiting teams Maik Waldner came in from the left, levelling the score to 1 - 1.

Baker were able to press their opponents, causing the game to be a bit of a stalemate at times.

Halftime score was 1 - 1. The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 55 percent possession of the ball.

Many thought Anthony Mcnair ought to have been awarded a penalty shot in the 61st minute, as he went down trying to circle the visitors keeper Marcin Landowski.

he referee showed Bakers Ian Cowart the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. Bakers Manuel Moreno got himself booked after a foul.

Maniacal took the lead in the games 67:th minute with 1 - 2 after some elegant plays down the middle. Bill Wright was the scorer.

Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 57 percent possession rate.

The most dominating Baker player was without a doubt George Morrison. Keith Shaver on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Joseph MacKindlay. Benton Minter was a disappointment, however.

The match ends 1 - 2

Goals

Maik Waldner - 1
Bill Wright - 1

Player Ratings

3.5 - Marcin Landowski

3.5 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)
3.0 - Omar Narin
4.0 - Joseph MacKindlay (Defensive)

3.0 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
3.5 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
3.5 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
4.0 - Huey Miller
2.5 - Benton Minter (Offensive)

3.5 - Maik Waldner
3.0 - Bill Wright

37 - Stars

Team Ratings

RATING

Baker FC
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Attack: weak - (4)
Central Attack: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 48

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: outstanding - (10)
Central Attack: formidable - (9)
Left Side Attack: formidable - (9)

NSI - 70

Post Game Comments

Holy crap, The HT gods played a evil joke on me today. That was almost the upset of the year in my divison. 2-1???? i killed him in every category... i had flashbacks of my friendly game verus CC FC!!!! He obviously MOTS'ed me because he's never had a weak midfield before and now he gets a inadequate one. Im glad i didn't play my back-ups, i might have lost or tied. Anyway, on to the good stuff. My formidable central attack was very nice to see. Once i get another nice forward to compliment Maik my central attack will be tough. Also, as expected Huey Miller had the game of his life!! getting 4 stars as a extra middy with no secondaries is awsome. Just a few weeks ago he got his first ever 3 1/2 star game now he gets 4 :) Time to go make a human sacrafice to the HT gods so something like this never happens again!

The Good

Huey Miller - First ever 4 star game for Huey and 5% better then any other game he's ever played. I love having him in excellent form :)

Maik Waldner - Maik again played a great game and helped me get a formidable central attack!

Joseph MacKindlay - another 4 star game for Joseph, i can't believe a guy i paid 76k for has three 4 star games for me and he is only in solid form right now!

The Bad

HT Game Engine - i still can't believe a only won 2-1. the game engine almost screwed me today.

Around The Divison

The Minnesota SnowDrifts - vs - Rosecity Thorns 0 - 6

After back-to-back losses, Rosecity took out they're frustrations on the pathetic Snowdrifts. They get to do it again next week verus another pathetic team in North Crowly.

CristinaFC3 - vs - Final Fantasy 1 - 1

FF manages to get yet another tie this season, thats 4 ties in 9 games now. I guess this was the best possible outcome for me because i pull another 2 points ahead of both of them.

north crowley - vs - Witches 1 - 5

The Witches end they're 4 game easy streak with a easy 5-1 win over North Crowly. Next week they get to travel to my house in a huge div.253 game. Good news for me is that 2 of his starters will be out due to red cards. 1 is his wingback that he plays normal and the other is his best winger. So this should seriously hurt his wing attack on that side. Our game next week should be a classic!

Divison Standings

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

1. Maniacal Misfitz------9---------------51 - 5--------------27

2. Witches-------------9---------------39 - 14--------------19

3. CristinaFC3 ---------9---------------30 - 19---------------17

4. Final Fantasy--------9---------------24 - 15--------------16

5. Rosecity Thorns------9--------------23 - 17---------------12

6. Baker FC-------------9-------------11 - 30-----------------5

7. The Minnesota Snow--9-------------4 - 51-----------------3

8. north crowley---------9-------------8 - 39-----------------2

Sitting pretty!

Upnext, This weeks FOFC Cup game

DukeRulesMAB

01-11-2004, 09:39 PM

As I was watching your game on HT Live, I was still thinking you had played your backups, and that you were gonna go insane if you ended up tying or losing with them in. :)

Anyway, games like this keep you on your toes. :)

Havok

01-11-2004, 09:54 PM

sure does duke... i was about to lose it watching this game :)

finkenst

01-11-2004, 09:56 PM

i killed him in every category... i had flashbacks of my friendly game verus CC FC!!!!

Hey, we did score ten goals that game... in some miracle...for my team...

Alf

01-14-2004, 07:16 AM

Havok

01-14-2004, 10:13 AM

Just a quick flashback on your victory vs the "French team" in the CUP. That team is really owned by a French guy (regularly posting in the French conference). And despite him playing 3-5-2 vs you, he does indeed train forwards. And bought him for $7M last summer. Go "Seb Boissière" !

aahhhh.... well at least hes training the guy :) Some people in HT would rather train a national team player, then win. Like Barbarian Horde (trainer of Jude) and Agawam Ambush (trainer of Rex Brown). Im sure theres guys like that in every country. Its good for the national teams :)

The Afoci

01-14-2004, 10:22 AM

Didn't Yuma train Jude? I am pretty sure because he sold him the week I played him in the cup. But KCW now have him and he isn't being trained.

Havok

01-14-2004, 11:50 AM

Didn't Yuma train Jude? I am pretty sure because he sold him the week I played him in the cup. But KCW now have him and he isn't being trained.

your right... Yuma trained Jude, the Barbarian Horde trained the goalie K.C. Wizards have now.

DukeRulesMAB

01-14-2004, 12:00 PM

For the record:

Barbarian Horde trained Richardson, he's now with KCW.
Yuma trained Sutherland, now with Tombstone. :)

The Afoci

01-14-2004, 12:47 PM

I blame the drugs for all incorrect information I give to people. :)

Havok

01-15-2004, 12:27 PM

Update

All kinds of player movement over the last few days, first i'll tell ya the big news. I finally found me a new goalie, please welcome the newest starting goalie for the Misfitz.....

Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy (14860657)
19 years, solid form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is tranquil and dishonest.
Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities.

Nationality: Schweiz
Assessed value: 855 000 US$
Wage: 4 320 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

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

Paid 1,479,000

This buy puts me about 70k in to debt, but i have a home game on sunday so its no big deal. I've been looking for a formidable goalie or a mid-excellent goalie with good experiance for over 2 weeks now. Its been a real pain in the butt watching most formidable sell for over 1.5 million and most mid-excellents with good experiance sell for 1.1 - 1.3 million. I was only willing to pay 1.4 million for a formidable but with my youth pull this week selling for more then expected i decided to up that number to 1.5 million. 4 bookmarked formidable goalies later i found this guy. I like this guy alot, first off he's in good form which is always good, he's also very young which is always nice aswell. Plus he's already got Wretched experiance which ain't much, but its better then disastrous :) Overall i feel pretty good about this buy and i think he'll help my defense out alot.

i Also sold a couple guys that don't play much for me anymore. Here they are......

Dolf de Bevere
90 000 US$, 21 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Quick]

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

Dolf sold for 100k which is about 25k more then i was expecting. He just poped to passable PM a couple weeks ago and i'd like to buy a young solid winger with inadequate PM to play back-up winger for me.

Martin Devátý
55 000 US$, 24 years, excellent form
Has poor experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Powerful]

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

I bought Martin awhile ago as a back-up forward for 16k and he sold for 63k !!! thats WAY more then i was expecting aswell.

Lance Hollingsworth (23036567)
17 years, passable form, healthy
A sympathetic guy who is temperamental and honest.
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 47 000 US$
Wage: 720 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

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

My youth pull this week also sold for alot more then expected. He netted me a surprising 91 245k. That seems kinda high but i'll take.

Masked

01-15-2004, 12:45 PM

Nice buys and sells. Glad to see you that you finally got the keeper, and I'm very interested to see how your defense ratings improve.

Dolf de Bevere sale shows why I am concerned about my pending switch to the 3-4-3. Suddenly the market has exploded for well rounded wingers. Sometime in the last two seasons I had sold a 22 year quick winger with excellent stamina, passable PM, and passable winger for 16K. He was just resold, with the same skills, for about 65Kl I would be thowing away quite a bit training money for possibly more wins in league play.

Now back to your dynasty - that is an amazing sale for that forward. The youth pull doesn't surprise me.

DukeRulesMAB

01-15-2004, 01:28 PM

Man, I only got 1.25M for my 18 YO Form last year....such is the new inflated market, I guess. Congrats, though, can't wait to see your ratings!

Havok

01-16-2004, 11:12 AM

Im thinking my defensive ratings should improve a full level all around. Last week i got a excellent/excellent/excellent so this week i'd expect a formidable/formidable/formidable. Maybe a outstanding in there every once and awhile if the goalie and a defender are in real good form.

Havok

01-16-2004, 12:17 PM

Season 3 - FOFC Cup - Round 3

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - Arkham Avengers

So i will be playing a round 3 FOFC Cup game after all, i guess Nyar was on vacation or something for the last week but he finally accepted my friendly on sunday. If anyone worried me in my group it was Arkham, the reason being is that he is a goalie trainer and goalie trainer's only have 1 trainee. So he can play his full A-team in friendly's except the goalie trainee and still get full training. I got knocked out of last years FOFC Cup in the sweet 16 by a goalie trainer (Concord Assassins). Lucky for me even if i lose today i'll still advance to the tornament because of my huge goal difference. Im expecting a close game today because Arkham should win possession(if he plays his starters) but his offense is pretty weak since he has a defensive coach.

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 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Iver Dyrberg (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Karl Leitner
Left Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Abel Cano
Forward 2 - Maik Waldner

I've got 5 of my 7 B-teamers playing today. The 2 that arne't playing are my back-up goalie(who hasn't played in weeks) and my number 4 forward who is a bum. This is the first game that my 3 trainee middy's will play together, im not expecting much since Karl is probally a low passable PM with inadequate stamina, and Iver has inadequate stamina aswell. At least im at home so that should help keep the possession close.

Players To Watch

Karl Leitner - This will be Karl's first game with the team. Im not expecting a great showing since i stuck him in the extra IM spot, but maybe 2 1/2 stars if im lucky.

Torbjörn Jonasson - Im still waiting on his first 3 1/2 star game. I know he's getting close, hopfully he'll to it today.

The Match

1391 spectators had come to The Island of Misfit Toyz this cloudy day. Maniacal started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Landowski - Ferreira da Silv, Nairn, ben Aharon - Hoekstra, Jonasson, Dyrberg, Leitner, Neiweiler - Cano, Waldner.

Avengers had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. Lineup: Reeder - Cheney, Eastman, Proffitt - Neagoe, Pascual, Wetzel, Beltran, Velazquez - Freeman, Eckin.

Avengers took the lead in the games 8:th minute with 0 - 1 after some elegant plays down the middle. Enrique Pascual was the scorer.

In the 17:th minute Karl Leitner went down in a suspected penalty situation after a challenge from the visitors right guard, but the referee, having a good line of sight, signalled to keep on playing.

Halftime score was 0 - 1. Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 51 percent, dominated the battle.

Abel Cano was just a finger´s breadth away from an equaliser for Maniacal, but Jacob Reeder managed to ward the closing shot off for a corner.

In the game's 72nd minute Maniacal´s Abel Cano limped slightly after a late challenge, but he was able to continue.

Enrique Pascual really should have scored when he was chosen by fate to confront a wide open goal after a corner, but he lost his nerve.

Erik Eckin was, after 74 minutes, almost able to extend the visitors lead with a well placed diving header but home side keeper Marcin Landowski saved.

Avengers had, after 75 minutes of the game, worked the left side industriously, creating several opportunities to add to their lead, but somehow didn´t achieve closure.

Abel Cano made a superb strike at the goal in the 75:th minute with a long shot coming in from straight in front of the goal, but one of the visitors defenders got a foot in and warded it off to a corner.

Avengers held the ball, with a clear 57 percent possession rate.

The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Maik Waldner. Abel Cano on the other hand, had a terrible day. Most important Avengers player was Enrique Pascual. Erik Eckin was a disappointment, however.

The match ends 0 - 1

Goals

none :(

Player Ratings

3.5 - Marcin Landowski

3.0 - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)
3.0 - Omar Nairn
3.5 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

2.5 - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)
3.0 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
2.5 - Iver Dyrberg (Offensive)
2.0 - Karl Leitner
3.0 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

2.0 - Abel Cano
3.5 - Maik Waldner

31 - Stars

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: inadequate - (5)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: formidable - (9)

NSI - 65

Arkham Avengers
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: brilliant - (11)
Central Defence: brilliant - (11)
Left Side Defence: brilliant - (11)
Right Side Attack: inadequate - (5)
Central Attack: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 66

Post Game Comments

DEFEAT!!!!! i almost forgot what that feels like :) Talk about a boring game, im glad i wasn't here to watch it live. The low score was expected, but our midfields being so close wasn't expected. Im very proud of my trainee's for actually winning possession by 1% in the first half , then only losing it by 7% in the second half. This game could have went either way, his inadequate attack scored on a defense 4 levels higher, but my excellent central attack couldn't score on a defense 3 levels higher. But thems the breaks with the HT engine!!! Congratz to Nyar for winning group 15 and good luck next week!

The Good

Torbjörn Jonasson - he didn't get 3 1/2 stars like i was hoping, but having him play defensive helped me get a formidable central defense rating with the same CD and goalie that got a excellent defense rating on sunday.

Ismael Ferreira da Silva - Ismael's for continues to climb back from weak and he's back to 3 star as a defensive WB.

The Bad

Karl Leitner - My newest trainee only got 2 stars playing as the extra middy. This pretty much tells me he's a low passable PM as expected.

Upnext, This weeks training and form update

Havok

01-16-2004, 05:34 PM

Training and Form update

no pops again this week and there probally won't be any next week aswell. All my guys seem to bump in bunchs :)

Form

Form this week was alot like it was last week. A decent amount of movement but it was mainly from my B-team. Only 2 guys dropped and both were starters unfortunetly :( 5 guys increased in form only 1 was a starter. I think the best part of this update was that my new goalie tacked on about 32k in value :) He's still in solid form but its probally a very high solid form now. No other real big news to speak of......

5 Players increased in form (1 Starter)
2 Players decreased in form (2 starters)

Team/Player Value

Value per player (average): 222 105 US$ (+57,955)
Total squad value: 4 220 000 US$ (+937,000)
Average age: 22
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): poor
No of players (excluding the coach): 19 (-2)
Number of nationalities: 13

What a difference one 887,000k player can make!!!

Upnext, this weeks youth pull and economic update

Havok

01-18-2004, 01:58 PM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

Frank Hillman (23361710)
17 years, passable form, healthy

A popular guy who is balanced and upright.
Has disastrous experience and solid leadership abilities.

Speciality: Quick

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 3 000 US$
Wage: 500 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

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

this is actually a nice pull for me. I've just never got around to buying a clown but now i don't have to :)

Economic Update

-67 475 US$ (-121 450) US$
Sponsors: dancing in the streets
Supporter Club: 1407 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue-----------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0----------------------------Arena 20 480
Sponsors 74 085----------------Wages 31 706
Financial 0-----------------------Interest 3 374
Temporary 0---------------------Temporary 3 000
-------------------------------------Staff 49 500
-------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 74 085 Total expenses 128 060
Expected income/loss -53 975

I have a home game this week which i know will be a sellout, so that should take care of my little bit of debt.

This weeks Games

League Game

Clash of the Titans part II in divison V.253 this season!!! This is the game i've been waiting for over the last 4 weeks of easy pic games. This will probally be the last league game ever between The Witches and The Misfitz. I guess its possible that one day we will land in the same divison, but its unlikely. Heres what im up against.....

Witches
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: solid/excellent - (7/8)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: world class - (13)
Left Side Attack: magnificent - (12)

NSI - 75/78

Thats about what im expecting today, im pretty sure he'll be playing a CD offensive and he might also play his only winger towards the middle to try to lesson my midfield advantage. Im also pretty sure im getting MOTS'ed at least thats what he said he was gonna do. Im a little surprised he would MOTS me since it would kill his TS for next weeks game vs Rosecity. I would love to get into my tactics for this game but i think Johnny(the owner of the witches) stops by here every once and awhile and i don't wanna give anything away :) Its gonna be 1 hell of a game!

FOFC Cup Game

I made it out of group play so now im in the 32 team single elmination tournament. But its probally gonna end for me this week. My new trainee's with crappy stamina and on the road just can't produce a decent enough of a midfield rating to beat many of the teams that are left. But at least im playing a fellow IRC chat buddy CofferWarlord and his Galesburg Avengers!

Galesburg Avengers

Midfield: excellent - (8)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 62

Galesburgs trainee's all have been around awhile and seem to have decent stamina so he should win the midfield battle easily. My only hope is to outclass him in defense and offense and hope to pull off an upset that way. I seriously doubt i'll win but it should be fun nevertheless :)

Upnext, This weeks league game

DukeRulesMAB

01-18-2004, 02:30 PM

Will that pull even be issued a jersey?

He's definately the Mark Madsen of the Misfitz. ;)

And damn, I feel bad for Witches. That's a hell of a team to be stuck in DV.

Havok

01-18-2004, 05:44 PM

Will that pull even be issued a jersey?

He's definately the Mark Madsen of the Misfitz. ;)

And damn, I feel bad for Witches. That's a hell of a team to be stuck in DV.

yeah Duke, i kinda feel bad for him also. But he's kinda his own worst enemy. He's made literrally 3 times as much as i've made off his youth squad. But he just hasn't spent his money wisely. He should dominate the divison next season easy and promote....

Havok

01-19-2004, 03:12 PM

Season 3 - League Game - Round 10

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - Witches

Part VI of the Misfitz/Witches rivalry. Im gonna miss not having a main rival next season in Div. IV but im sure i'll make a new one. This rivalry is kinda unique because we both started HT at the exact same date and we get along good so there's no hard feelings. Here's how our games have gone so far....

4/7/2003 (League): Witches - Maniacal Misfitz 1 - 6 Win
7/7/2003 (League): Maniacal Misfitz - Witches 2 - 3 Loss
8/11/2003 (League): Witches - Maniacal Misfitz 8 - 1 Loss
10/13/2003 (League): Maniacal Misfitz - Witches 6 - 0 Won
12/15/2003 (League): Witches - Maniacal Misfitz 2 - 5 Won

As you can see im ahead in this series 3 games to 2. We've both had our share of blowouts and big losses. If he wins today we end our rivalry tied 3-3, but if i win i would have won our last 3 meetings to win the rivalry 4 games to 2.

Johnny's already told me he'll be MOTS'ing me today so i had a tough decision to make. Should i MOTS and kill my TS for my next 2 games verus 2 solid teams??? Or should i just play normal, hope for a win, but almost guarentee wins in my next 2 games?? I decided to try something i've never tryed before... im gonna play 2 "wingers towards the middle" and attack down the middle. Doing this i should still win possession and send most of my attacks at the weakest part of his defense since he plays a CD offensive. Its just to risky to MOTS this game and risk losing my next 2 games. Hopfully this little tactic will work :)

Starters

GK - Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy

Right Wingback - Omar Nairn (Defensive)
Central Defender - Joseph MacKindlay
Left Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Defensive)

Right Winger - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller
Left Winger - Torbjörn Jonasson (Towards The Middle)

Forward 1 - Bill Wright
Forward 2 - Maik Waldner

The only starter not playing today is my best offensive winger Andi Neiweiler. He's replaced by Torbjorn because Tor makes a much better "winger towards the middle" with his excellent PM. This is also the debut of my new 1.5 million dollar goalie Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy. In his first game with the team he'll be going against the best offense in my series, so we'll really see what he is made of :)

Players To Watch

Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy - My new goalie is in mid-high solid form so im expecting a good 4 stars outta him today in his debut with the team.

Forwards - Since i have almost no wing attack this week, its gonna be up to my forwards to create all of my scoring chances today.

Huey Miller - Huey continues to be the hottest player on the team with his excellent form. Im expecting another 4 star game outta him.

Joseph MacKindlay - Joseph is playing CD today so he's trying to stop 1 hell of a central attack. But he usually gets 4 stars in solid form so i think he's up to the task.

The Match

The 32000 spectators at The Island of Misfit Toyz were in for an afternoon of sunshine. Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Geoffroy - Nairn, MacKindlay, ben Aharon - Hoekstra, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Neiva, Jonasson - Wright, Waldner.

Witches had chosen a strategic 3-4-3 formation. The following players had been chosen: Quintanilla - Mcintyre, Indlekofer, Larrañaga - Landbo, Sproge, Widerdahl, Yngvesson - Gutmann, Thornton, Aldrich.

Maniacal clearly preferred attacks in the middle.

In the 9:th minute cheers broke out as Maik Waldner found his way through the guests central defense line, clipping the 1 - 0 goal in for Maniacal.

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

Maik Waldner almost managed to score another goal for Maniacal, but his header was tipped to a corner by the visitors goalie.

Almost all the way down to the corner flag Torbjörn Jonasson somehow managed to get a perfect pass into the middle, impossible to miss for Maik Waldner who struck for 2 - 0.

In the 37:th minute of the match the visitors central line of defence had to look on as Maik Waldner dashed through, knocking home 3 - 0 for Maniacal. By then Maik Waldner was a three time scorer - a hat trick! The structure of the game started to change as Maniacal decided to pull back and meet their opponents in the defensive zone.

Andreas Gutmann of Witches received a yellow card in the 39:th minute for unsportsmanlike behaviour.

3 - 0 was the half-time score. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 61 percent possession rate.

The home side´s Maik Waldner came close to extending the lead in the 50:th minute. His shot came in off the right hand side but Allan Quintanilla managed saving with a fingernail.

Allan Quintanilla was caught napping a bit later as Bill Wright lifted a ball over him after a free kick, but the ball hit the bar, rebounding into the keepers arms.

In the 68:th minute of the match the visitors central line of defence had to look on as Bill Wright dashed through, knocking home 4 - 0 for Maniacal.

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, Witches´s Carlos Aldrich got himself booked.

Unsportsmanlike behaviour by Andreas Gutmann rendered him his second booking of the match, and Witches had to finish the game with a reduced squad.

Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 59 percent possession rate.

The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy. However, Roy Hoekstra made a disastrous appearance. Most important Witches player was Daniel Larrañaga. Johan Widerdahl on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 4 - 0

Goals

Maik Waldner - 3
Bill Wright - 1

Player Ratings

4.5 - Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy

3.5 - Omar Nairn (Defensive)
4.0 - Joseph MacKindlay
3.0 - Naftali ben Aharon (Defensive)

2.5 - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)
3.5 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
3.5 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
4.0 - Huey Miller
2.5 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Towards The Middle)

3.0 - Bill Wright
3.5 - Maik Waldner

37.5 - Stars

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation
Team Attitude: Normal
Tactic: Attack in the middle
Tactic skill: excellent

Midfield: outstanding - (10)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: outstanding - (10)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: formidable - (9)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 77

Witches
Player rating and Team formation
Team Attitude: (Hidden)
Tactic: Normal
Tactic skill: (Unlimited)

Midfield: solid - (7)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: magnificent - (12)
Left Side Attack: brilliant - (11)

NSI - 72

Post Game Comments

Beautiful!!! That couldn't have went any better!! The 2 "wingers towards the middle" gave me the possession edge i was looking for without MOTS'ing and "Attacking Down The Middle" worked perfect verus his weakened central defense. There's so much good stuff in this game for The Misfitz that i don't know where to start first! :)

Ok, first my new goalie played incrediable!!! Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy's 4.5 stars is a team record plus i got a excellent/outstanding/excellent defense even with the "Attack down the middle" tactic which weakens your right/left defense. When i bought Louis i kinda thought that he had an extra couple weeks of training past formidable, after todays preformance it appears i was correct. He's made me a believer after just one game :) I also got my first ever outstanding defensive rating thanks in large part to Louis. Also, Playing 2 "wingers towards the middle" helped me get my first outstanding midfield rating and i didn't even have to MOTS. I couldn't have asked for a better outcome to todays game. With this win and my Team Spirit still somewhat intact, going undefeated this season is looking like a real possability.

The Good

Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy - 4.5 stars!!! Louis gets todays MVP honors for helping shutout the best offense in my divison. He's got a long bright future ahead of him with the Misfitz.

Maik Waldner - Maik continues to be a goal scoring machine. With todays Hattrick he's now scored 10 league goals for us in 6 games since we bought him.

Joseph MacKindlay - Joseph had his second 4 star game playing CD since joining the team and helped stop The Witches brutal central attack.

Around The Divison

Baker FC -vs - CristinaFC3 2 - 4

Baker FC put up 1 hell of a fight verus CristinaFC3, but they gave up 2 late goals to lose. Every week Baker's ratings are getting better and better, It looks like he might give the Witches and Rosecity a run for they're money next season.

Final Fantasy - vs - The Minnesota 2 - 0

Easy win for FF as expected.

Rosecity Thorns - vs - north crowley 5 - 1

Rosecity also got an easy win this week vs NC. Next week they take on the Witches on the road, but since the Witches MOTS'ed me this week they're TS is shot. So Rosecity might be able to pull off the upset.

Divison Standings

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

1. Maniacal Misfitz----------10----------------55 - 5---------------30

2. CristinaFC3--------------10----------------34 - 21--------------20

3. Witches-----------------10----------------39 - 18--------------19

4. Final Fantasy------------10----------------26 - 15---------------19

5. Rosecity Thorns----------10---------------28 - 18---------------15

6. Baker FC-----------------10---------------13 - 34----------------5

7. The Minnesota Snow------10---------------4 - 53----------------3

8. north crowley-------------10---------------9 - 44----------------2

Upnext, This weeks FOFC Cup game

vex

01-20-2004, 12:57 AM

Great game and congrats on the new stud GK!

Havok

01-21-2004, 09:38 PM

Season 3 - FOFC Cup - Tournement Play - Round 1

Galesburg Avengers - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

We barely got out of group play on goal difference and now we enter round 1 of the 32 team single elimation tournament. Because of my overall poor showing in group play, i've managed to land the 30th seed out of 32 teams. This is bad for a number of reasons, mainly because my chances of getting a home game are almost none. With how raw my middy trainee's are and my crappy TS, a home match is the only way i'll get a decent midfield rating with my B-team. And as luck would have it, i've drawn a team that is all midfield!! So im basically screwed in this game.

Galesburg lives and dies by they're midfeild.... and since midfield is extremely important in HT as we all know, they're a dam good team. The best midfield rating i can hope for today is inadequate, and thats pushing it. It there is any chance of me winning this game its gonna come from me having a better attack and defense then him,plus alot of luck. Enough talk.... lets see what happens!!!

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Central Defender 1 - Omar Nairn
Central Defender 2 - Ismael Ferreira da Silva
Left Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

Right Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Iver Dyrberg (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Karl Leitner
Left Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Abel Cano
Forward 2 - Maik Waldner

I've got all my B-teamers in there today, plus a couple starters since im about 4 players short of a full b-team at the moment :) Andi Neiweiler sat out sunday since i played 2 wingers towards the middle, so this is his first action of the week. He finally bumped back up to passable form so im expecting a good game out of him today. Im also trying something new today, im playing 2 CD's and no right wingback. Im doing this mainly because i've never tryed it before :) I just wanna see what the ratings look like.

The Match

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 2153 to The Asylum. Galesburg had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Durant - Guinot, Andres Alvaro, Quiroz - Shaffer, Pinto, Araujo, Andersen, Vesterér - Mosley, Kane.

Maniacal started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. They fielded: Landowski - Nairn, Ferreira da Silv, ben Aharon - Minter, Jonasson, Dyrberg, Leitner, Neiweiler - Cano, Waldner.

In the 13th minute the home side managed to get a 1 - 0 lead as Daryl Mosley flipped the ball after a cross pass from the right.

One of many good passes from Andi Neiweiler at the wing was recieved and skillfully taken care of by Abel Cano, scoring for Maniacal to 1 - 1.

With 26 minutes played Daryl Mosley almost gave the home side the lead with an unexpected free kick set up, but visitors Marcin Landowski was onto it, grabbing the would be break through ball.

In the 30:th minute Daryl Mosley almost put the home team one ahead on a cross pass coming in from the right, but the shot went wide.

Halftime score was 1 - 1. The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Galesburg, with an impressive 71 percent possession of the ball.

64 minutes into the game a free kick combination hooked into the box almost resulted in the home team taking the lead, but the last header went wide.

Maniacal´s Marcin Landowski refused to leave the field after injuring his achilles tendon in the 66:th minute.

Maniacal took the lead in the games 66:th minute with 1 - 2 after some elegant plays down the middle. Iver Dyrberg was the scorer.

After a fatal mistake from the away teams right side defense in the 71st minute, an alert Nicasio Pinto bagged the ball, evening the score to 2 - 2.

The referee showed Galesburgs Nicasio Pinto the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.

The Maniacal player was Benton Minter who had to be helped off the pitch, unable to finish the game, but Roy Hoekstra came in to finish the match.

Galesburg held the ball, with a clear 75 percent possession rate.

As none of the teams had managed to win, extra time was called.

After 99 minutes Maniacal´s Ismael Ferreira da Silva contracted a slight foot injury, but could finish the game.

After overtime the game was still at a tie, and a penalty contest ensued.

Galesburg´s Daryl Mosley made no mistake. Marcin Landowski didn´t have a chance. 3 - 2.

Maniacal´s Karl Leitner made no mistake. Nathan Durant didn´t have a chance. 3 - 3.

Galesburg´s Nicasio Pinto cockily booted the ball with a short-and-fast instep. The penalty, going just wide of the mark, didn´t produce a goal.

Maniacal´s Ismael Ferreira da Silva had nerves of steel at the penalty, changing the score to 3 - 4.

Galesburg´s Fredrik Vesterér cockily booted the ball with a short-and-fast instep. The penalty, going just wide of the mark, didn´t produce a goal.

Maniacal´s Maik Waldner had nerves of steel at the penalty, changing the score to 3 - 5.

Galesburg´s Leonardo Andres Alvaro was seemingly taken by the gravity of the moment, producing a badly laid penalty, blocked by Marcin Landowski.

Score still 3 - 5. Maniacal´s Marcin Landowski hesitated a long time before shooting a penalty going just wide of the left post. Still 3 - 5.

Galesburg´s Peter Guinot was seemingly taken by the gravity of the moment, producing a badly laid penalty, blocked by Marcin Landowski. Score still 3 - 5.

Maniacal´s Torbjörn Jonasson cooly put the ball past Nathan Durant. 3 - 6.

Most important Galesburg player was Nicasio Pinto. Peter Guinot was a disappointment, however. The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Maik Waldner. However, Abel Cano made a disastrous appearance.

The match ends 3 - 6

Goals

Abel Cano - 1
Iver Dyrburg - 1
Karl Leitner - 1
Ismael Ferreira da Silva - 1
Maik Waldner - 1
Torbjörn Jonasson - 1

Player Ratings

3.0 - Marcin Landowski

3.0 - Omar Nairn
2.5 - Ismael Ferreira da Silva
3.0 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

2.5 - Benton Minter (Offensive)
3.0 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
3.0 - Iver Dyrberg (Offensive)
2.5 - Karl Leitner
3.0 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

2.0 - Abel Cano
3.5 - Maik Waldner

31 Stars

Team Ratings

Galesburg Avengers

Midfield: brilliant - (11)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 69

Maniacal Misfitz

Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: excellent - (8)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: outstanding - (10)

NSI - 61

Post Game Comments

Now that is what we call a...... UPSET!!!! I honestly have no idea how i managed to tie them 2-2 through 120 mins. Then after all that, i won in PK's 4-1!!!! Im not sure if i've ever seen a weak midfield beat a brilliant midfield but i'll take it :) This is probally my first ever "real" upset, when i won a game that i would have lost 19 times out of 20. I know Coffeewarlord is gonna be pissed and he has every right to be, he should of won this game.

I did manage to get 3 guys injuried in this game!! but 2 could continue playing and Benton Minter is only "Bruised but training" so its no big deal. My Ratings were pretty much what i was expecting, but a couple players played better then i thought. My newest trainee Karl Leitner got 2 1/2 stars so maybe he is kinda close to Solid PM (god i hope). Plus, Mr. Franchise himself.... Iver Dyrburg got his first ever 3 star game!! Not bad for a guy with inadequate stamina. Anyway... i still can't believe i won this game, what a huge upset. It looks like i'll be going back to the FOFC Cup sweet 16 like last year!!! I take on The Aviators next week on the road again, they don't quite have the midfield that Galesburg does, but they are overall a very solid team. It should be interesting!

Upnext, This weeks Training and Form update

Havok

01-23-2004, 02:05 AM

Training and Form Update

only 1 pop in PM today it isn't a trainee.....

Maik Waldner
228 000 US$, 20 years, excellent form
Has wretched experience and poor leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

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

next week im expecting my first outstanding PM!!!!

Form

Form continues to be a good/bad thing for me every week. Some players are in AMAZING form!!! while others are in they're lowest form ever with the team. On sunday your gonna see my best defensive ratings ever, i can promise you that! My new goalie added another 26k in value and bumped to EXCELLENT form! I love this guy already :) Also, my 2 best defenders bumped to Excellent form. Unfortunetly my "Normal" playing wingback dropped to inadaquate form so he'll be riding the pine. But luckly my back-up defender is in solid form. So don't be surprised if you see a outstanding/outstanding/outstanding defense outta me on sunday :) Its a defintely possible! But when there's good there's bad also.... My starting offensive Middy dropped to inadquate form for the first time in his career. Every since i made him a starter he's steadly dropped down from solid form :( There was so other movement aswell, but nothing to crazy.

5 Players increased in form (4 Starters)
4 Players Decreased in Form (3 Starters)

Team/Player Value

Value per player (average): 226 158 US$ (+4,053)
Total squad value: 4 297 000 US$ (+77,000)
Average age: 21
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): poor
No of players (excluding the coach): 19
Number of nationalities: 13

Upnext, This weeks youth pull and economic update[/size]

Alf

01-23-2004, 04:15 AM

Formidable goalie in excellent form => lucky you !

Havok

01-24-2004, 07:34 PM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

Mimmo Minozzi (24842932)
19 years, passable form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is balanced and honest.
Has disastrous experience and solid leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 6 000 US$
Wage: 520 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

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

bleh!! can't get much worse then that.

Economic Update

Cash funds: 101 156 US$ (53 041) US$
Sponsors: dancing in the streets
Supporter Club: 1427 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue-----------------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0------------------------------------Arena 20 480
Sponsors 75 075----------------------------Wages 31 210
Financial 0----------------------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0--------------------------------Temporary 2 000
--------------------------------------------Staff 49 500
--------------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 75 075------------------------Total expenses 123 190
Expected income/loss -48 115

Money is looking ok right now, i get back-to-back home games after this week so that should inch me a little closer to my next goal of promoting Naftali into my new coach before next season starts. That will cost me 700k so hopefully i'll get a decent youth pull or 2 soon.

This Week's Games

League Game

Im playing one of my oldest foes this week and probally for the last time also. CristinaFC3 got his team the same time i did but has been a very inactive owner. Every once and awhile he'll buy a guy but not often. His team is decent and not to be understimated.

CristinaFC3
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: solid - (7)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: excellent - (8)

NSI - 56

His team is in low form right now so im not even expecting ratings that good. I'll be playing normal instead of Picing mainly because i don't wanna risk some kinda fluke upset. Also since i have a poor leadership coach a pic doesn't really do me much good anyway. I should win this one comfortably and get 1 step closer to a undefeated season!!

FOFC Cup

Somehow im still in the FOFC cup, not quite sure how but we'll take it :) This week i play on the road verus The Aviators. The Aviators are a goalie training team and even they're back-up is a badass! It Looks like both of us will be playing our full B-team so this game should be close.

Aviators
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: solid - (7)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 61

SInce he has home field advantage im not expecting to win this game. I'll have the better attack and our defenses will be close, but he should win possession. But who knows..... i somehow beat Galesburg last week!! Maybe i can make it 2 upsets in a row!!!!!!!!! :)

Upnext, this weeks league game[/size]

Havok

01-25-2004, 10:24 PM

Season 3 - League Game - Round 11

CristinaFC3 - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

awww CristinaFC3. The only other team that i've played as many times as The Witches is CristinaFC3. But unlike The Witches i've completely owned them every time we've played.... have a look for yourself.

4/14/2003 (League): Maniacal Misfitz - CristinaFC3 4 - 1
6/30/2003 (League): CristinaFC3 - Maniacal Misfitz 4 - 6
8/25/2003 (League): CristinaFC3 - Maniacal Misfitz 0 - 3
9/29/2003 (League): Maniacal Misfitz - CristinaFC3 5 - 0
12/8/2003 (League): Maniacal Misfitz - CristinaFC3 7 - 1

5 wins 0 losses 25 GF 6 GA

Today will end the Misfitz vs CristinaFC3 chapter in Misfitz History. They've been the epitomy of a average divison V team. Ratings between 52-57 and with they're fair share of upsets when teams take them to lightly. If i win today i will lock the divison champianship and i'll move 1 step closer to an undefeated season. So i won't be taking them lightly espically since im on the road. I'll be playing them normal, and i'll also play The Thorns Normal next week aswell. With my poor leadership coach Picing is almost pointless for me so i'll only be doing it one more time all season and thats verus the horrible Minnesota Snowdrifts at home in week 13.

Starters

GK - Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy

Right Wingback - Joseph MacKindlay (Defensive)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller
Left Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Maik Waldner
Forward 2 - Bill Wright

This will be a sepcial day in Misfitz History.... today we will put up our best defensive ratings ever buy ALOT!! With my goalie and 2 of my 3 defenders in excellent form i probally won't see ratings like this again for a long time. Unfortunetly my team captain/Normal wingback Naftali won't be on the field since he's dropped down to inadequate form. But Ismael should fill the void ok, i just won't get that extra level of wing attack that Naftali brings.

Players To Watch

Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy - My new goalie is just on fire!!! his first game with the team last week he picked up 4 1/2 stars in solid form! This week im expecting more of the same since he's now in excellent form!!

Maik Waldner - The Man is just red hot, since i bought him every week he's steadly improved in form and now he's at excellent!

The Match

Due to an all-day shower, 22240 paying spectators got to see a match on a pitch-turned-bog at CristinaFC3 Arena. Fans from both teams had been eagerly awaiting this Florida derby and were doing their best to outshout their opponents. CristinaFC3 started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. They fielded: Gatlin - Läfbrant, Dalström, Merrill - Haraldsson, Robert, Garland, Johansson, Persson - Perales, Stokes.

Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. They fielded: Geoffroy - MacKindlay, Nairn, Ferreira da Silv - Neiweiler, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Neiva, Minter - Wright, Waldner.

Counter-attacking seemed to be the preferred strategy of CristinaFC3, and they seem weak at it.

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

Maniacal´s Joaquim Neiva received a play slashing through the home side´s defense in the 13th minute, chipping it past the keeper scoring 0 - 2. The home crowd was not pleased with that one.

Maniacal´s Bill Wright made it through the home teams defence in the 21st 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.

A swift counterattack by CristinaFC3 resulted in a free kick that Ned Stokes elegantly twisted into the goal - 1 - 2!

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, CristinaFC3´s Billy Merrill got himself booked.

The teams went for a half-time break at 1 - 2. Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 61 percent, dominated the battle.

After a fatal mistake from the away teams right side defense in the 54:th minute, an alert Håkan Haraldsson bagged the ball, evening the score to 2 - 2.

Maniacal took the lead by 2 - 3 after Bill Wright curved a free kick into the net.

Some fine manouvering on the left lead to an 71st minute Maniacal goal, making it 2 - 4. Ismael Ferreira da Silva was noted down as the scorer.

The referee showed Maniacals Joseph MacKindlay the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.

Some fine manouvering on the left lead to an 73rd minute Maniacal goal, making it 2 - 5. Ismael Ferreira da Silva was noted down as the scorer. By now Maniacal were drawing the troops back in order to defend their lead.

The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 62 percent possession of the ball.

CristinaFC3´s best player was Ned Robert. However, Johannes B. Dalström made a disastrous appearance. The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy. Bill Wright was a disappointment, however.

The match ends 2 - 5

Goals

Joaquim Neiva - 2
Ismael Ferreira da Silva - 2
Bill Wright - 1

Player Ratings

4.5 - Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy

4.0 - Joseph MacKindlay (Defensive)
3.5 - Omar Nairn
3.0 - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)

3.0 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
4.0 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
3.0 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
4.0 - Huey Miller
3.0 - Benton Minter (Offensive)

3.5 - Maik Waldner
2.5 - Bill Wright

38 Stars (Team Best)

Team Ratings

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: excellent - (8)

NSI - 55

Maniacal Misfitz
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: formidable - (9)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: formidable - (9)

NSI - 80!!!! (Team Best)

Post Game Comments

80 NSI and 38 stars!!! Both team bests! What more can i say :) That outstanding/outstanding/outstanding defense is a thing of beauty. Don't know if i'll see that to often unless i decide to make my next coach "Balanced" instead of "Attacking". CristinaFC3 made it interesting with the score 2-2 with only 30 mins to play, but we finaly got our S**t together and notched 3 straight goals to end the game. We also finally broke the 80 NSI mark! That was one of our main goals to begin the season. With this win we've locked our second straight divison V.253 title (and hopfully the last time). We should have no problem winning our last 3 games to go undefeated this season and auto-promote to divison IV.

The Good

The Entire Defense - outstanding/outstanding/outstanding defense.... need i say more???

Ismael Ferreira da Silva - while only getting 3 stars due mainly to him being "Bruised but Training". He did manage to score 2 goals playing wingback. I guess he really wants his starting job back :)

The Bad

Bill Wright - Its hard for me to knock Bill because he's been a goal scoring machine for us since i bought him, plus he scored a another Free Kick goal today. But he had a nasty form drop on thursday and he got 2 1/2 stars today for only the second time since i bought him. Depending on what happens with form next thursday, he might lose his starting job.

Around The Divison

Witches - vs - Rosecity Thorns 5 - 2

In a somewhat unimpressive midfield display by both teams (inadequate vs poor) the Witches got a little bit of revenage verus Rosecity for beating them 2-1 earlier this season. If the Witches win next week verus FF they should easily get second place.

north crowley - vs - Final Fantasy 0 - 3

FF wins anoter easy game.... next week they have a much tougher game verus The Witches at home. That should be the best game in the divison next week.

The Minnesota SnowDrifts - vs - Baker FC 3 - 1

Somehow The Snowdrifts won today dispite being seriously outclassed in most ratings. To bad for Baker FC, im kinda pulling for him.

Divison Standings

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

1. Maniacal Misfitz----------11--------------60 - 7--------------33

2. Witches-----------------11--------------44 - 20-------------22

3. Final Fantasy------------11--------------29 - 15-------------22

4. CristinaFC3--------------11--------------36 - 26-------------20

5. Rosecity Thorns----------11-------------30 - 23--------------15

6. The Minnesota Snow------11-------------7 - 54---------------6

7. Baker FC-----------------11-------------14 - 37---------------5

8. north crowley------------11--------------9 - 47---------------2

Divison Champs!!!!!! :)

Upnext, This weeks FOFC Cup Match[/size]

Alf

01-26-2004, 03:55 AM

Congrats Havok. Time to look up for D IV !

Havok

01-29-2004, 01:18 AM

Season 3 - FOFC Cup - Sweet 16

Aviators - Maniacal Misfitz

The Sweet 16!!!! For the second season in a row we've made it to the FOFC Cups sweet 16 and for the second season in a row we're the underdogs :) After last weeks incrediable upset, i don't think anyone's counting us out. Today we draw the 11th seed Aviators.... Another dam goalie training team! If anyone remembers last season we were knocked out of the cup by a goalie training team (Concord Assassins) who could play all they're starters except the goalie trainee in they're FOFC Cup games if they wanted to and not lose training. But lucky for us The Aviators don't play any starters in they're FOFC cup games but that doesn't mean that it will be a easy win. They're back-up goalie is a serious badass(5.5 stars), so even with they're scrub back-up defenders they still get good defensive ratings. They're B-teams attack is also pretty good, getting solid/excellents across the boards. Now his back-up middy's probally aren't quite as good as my trainee's, but since he has home field advantage they should be almost equal.

So.... as you can see they've got a very solid B-team, i've got my work cut out for me. It should be a good game!

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Omar Nairn (Defensive)
Central Defender - Joseph MacKindlay
Left Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

Right Winger - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Iver Dyrberg (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Karl Leitner
Left Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Abel Cano
Forward 2 - Maik Waldner

Dam i need to buy a few more B-teamers! I've actually got 6 usual starters playing today, but 2 sat out on sunday due to form (Roy Hoekstra and Naftali ben Aharon). The other 4 are playing because i don't have any more B-teamers :) It might be that way for a little while since i wanna save all my money to promote my coach before next season starts. Anyway, im expecting pretty decent ratings with this group, the only weak spot will be my midfield since my trainee's stamina blows plus im on the road with low-calm TS. But having Roy playing towards the middle should help out some.

The Match

Overcast weather free of rain made for a crowd turnout of 1262 at Aviators Arena today. Aviators tactics involved an interesting 3-4-3 combination. They fielded: Miller - Bastida Freijedo, Mcclelland, Quinteiro - Ennis, Harms, Marciniak, Hoffman - Similä , Katsir, López.

Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Landowski - Nairn, MacKindlay, ben Aharon - Hoekstra, Jonasson, Dyrberg, Leitner, Neiweiler - Cano, Waldner.

Maniacal´s Torbjörn Jonasson gave the visitors a 0 - 1 lead in the 11th minute with a superb strike from the right.

Some fine manouvering on the left lead to an 17:th minute Maniacal goal, making it 0 - 2. Torbjörn Jonasson was noted down as the scorer.

Maniacal´s Karl Leitner received a play slashing through the home side´s defense in the 30:th minute, chipping it past the keeper scoring 0 - 3. The home crowd was not pleased with that one.

42 minutes into the game Abel Cano had to leave the pitch due to a knee injury. In came Bill Wright.

Omar Nairn received some harsh words from his coach after he acted foolishly, probably out of lack of experience, in the 43rd minute and almost caused an opponent to score.

A surprising free kick routine in the 43rd minute nearly resulted in another goal for the visitors, but the ball went just a little wide, leaving the strikers offside.

The teams went for a half-time break at 0 - 3. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 52 percent possession rate.

The cross pass from Bill Wright opened up the defence and was received by Maik Waldner who finished off to 0 - 4. The structure of the game started to change as Maniacal decided to pull back and meet their opponents in the defensive zone.

The visitors Torbjörn Jonasson took advantage of an error due to a misunderstanding between the home side´s goalie and central backs in the 61st minute. 0 - 5 for Maniacal. By then Torbjörn Jonasson was a three time scorer - a hat trick!

The referee showed Aviatorss Ramón López the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.

A marvelous Aviators effort to the right resulted in a 69:th minute goal by Charles Mcclelland, putting the score up to 1 - 5.

In the 80:th minute Maniacal put themselves up 1 - 6 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. Scorer was Naftali ben Aharon.

Aviators, bringing the final ball possession rate to 54 percent, dominated the battle.

Most important Aviators player was Clyde Miller. However, Rudolph Harms made a disastrous appearance. The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Joseph MacKindlay. Karl Leitner on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 1 - 6

Goals

Torbjörn Jonasson - 3
Maik Waldner - 1
Karl Leitner - 1
Naftali ben Aharon - 1

Player Ratings

3.5 - Marcin Landowski

3.5 - Omar Nairn (Defensive)
4.0 - Joseph MacKindlay
2.5 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

2.5 - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)
3.0 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
2.5 - Iver Dyrberg (Offensive)
2.5 - Karl Leitner
3.0 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

2.0 - Abel Cano (Injuried)
3.5 - Maik Waldner

32.5 - Stars

Team Ratings

Aviators
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: formidable - (9)
Central Attack: brilliant - (11)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 66

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: inadequate - (5)
Right Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: excellent - 98)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: formidable - (9)
Left Side Attack: outstanding - (10)

NSI - 66

Post Game Comments

Well we just won't go away will we :) The 30th seeded team lives to fight another day!!! I knew i had a chance to win this game, but 6-1 was a little uncalled for. The Ratings were about as close as could be, but i guess all the breaks went my way (for the second week in a row). The Aviators have had a tough season and this only adds to it. But The Misfitz on the other hand.... have had a WONDERFUL season and this only adds to it aswell!! We came out guns blazing and had a 3-0 lead just 30 mins into the game! The rest is history.... Torbjorn was the man of the match nothcing 3 goals to lead the way, not bad for a defensive middy. The only bad thing about this match was seeing Abel Cano get injuried AGAIN!!! i was just starting to get his form back from his previous 4 week injury. But luckly he's just "Bruised but training", so he should be ready to go next wednesday.

The Misfitz will make our first ever showing in the FOFC Cups "Great Eight". We've drawn our group play rival and only team to beat us in the cup so far... The Arkham Avengers. This will more then likely be the end of our cup run ( i know i keep saying that :p ). Arkham is another goalie trainer that plays they're full A-team (except the goalie trainee) in FOFC Cup matches, so i have a very small chance of winning. But who knows.... anything is possible for my team right now!!!

Stars Of The Match

Gold - Torbjörn Jonasson - Scored his first ever hattrick!!

Silver - Marcin Landowski - Only gave up 1 goal vs a VERY good attack. Its nice having a good back-up goalie :)

Bronze - Bill Wright - Came off the bench after Abel Cano went down, Then scored a goal and assisted on another.

Upnext, this weeks training and form update

Havok

01-29-2004, 11:02 PM

Training and Form Update

Today is a big day in Misfitz History!!!!! Please say hello to the Misfitz first outstanding player!!!

Huey Miller
436 000 US$, 19 years, excellent form
Has wretched experience and wretched leadership abilities [Head]

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

Good ole Huey :) He was my first ever Excellent player/Formidable player/ and now outstanding player!! Huey is the undisputed leader of my midfielders and will be for some time. He'll at LEAST make it to Magnificent PM before he is sold, probally higher.

More good news for us this week also..... my newest trainee bumped also!!

Karl Leitner
154 000 US$, 17 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and wretched leadership abilities

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

This is great news also..... i honestly had no clue how close he was to solid when i bought him 3 weeks ago because he had some many other good secondary's. Now i can get him about halfway to excellent before next season.

Form

Not alot of movement in form this week. out of the 5 guys that changed form only 2 guys went up, and one is my new clown who's never played a game :) At least the other guy that went up was a starting midfielder so thats good. The only real important guy that went down in form this week was my starting forward Bill Wright, he dropped to inadequate. With him in inadequate i seriously doubt i'll be able to pull off a formidable central attack, but thats not really a big deal since i should win my league game pretty easy anyway.

2 Players Increased in Form (1 Starter)
3 Players Decreased in Form (1 Starter)

Player/Team Value

Value per player (average): 233 368 US$ (+7,210)
Total squad value: 4 434 000 US$ (+137,000
Average age: 21
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): poor
No of players (excluding the coach): 19
Number of nationalities: 13

Upnext, This weeks youth pull and economic update

sterlingice

01-29-2004, 11:05 PM

Today is a big day in Misfitz History!!!!! Please say hello to the Misfitz first outstanding player!!! Congrats to Huey. I just had that happen earlier this year with Tryggvesson and I was really happy when it happened :)

SI

Havok

02-01-2004, 01:41 AM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

more crap.....

Riley Welch (25231671)
17 years, passable form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is balanced and righteous.
Has disastrous experience and wretched leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 14 000 US$
Wage: 560 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

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

i guess i could have sold him for a few k........ but im to lazy to try. I think this will be my last "outfielder" pull of the season. Mainly because they're value is dropping alot since the season is almost over. I'll probally pull goalie's with my last 3 pulls of the season.

Economic Update

Economy

Cash funds: 59 527 US$ (12 237) US$
Sponsors: dancing in the streets
Supporter Club: 1447 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue-----------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0-----------------------------Arena 20 480
Sponsors 75 900---------------------Wages 31 210
Financial 0---------------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0-------------------------Temporary 2 000
-------------------------------------Staff 49 500
-------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000

Total revenue 75 900----------------Total expenses 123 190
Expected income/loss -47 290

Bank balance almost at zero!!! But that will change tommarrow with my home game and no rain. So i should make 200k off that, plus i have a home game next week aswell. Barring any sellable youth pulls i should just barely make enough money before the start of next season to promote my coach, it will probally throw me 200k into debt but i think it will be worth it. Playing every game with 4 more levels of TS will make up for 200k in debt :)

This Weeks Games

League Game

This week we take on the 5th Placed team in the divison, The RoseCity Thorns. Rosecity is run by a good manager and is getting better every week. Last time we played them, we gave them a nice 5-1 pounding in they're house with my back-up middies playing. Times have change though and sicne then they've bought 3 new starting middies for a combined total of 600k and some change. I've still never really seen what they can do since one got injuried and he seems to pic almost every game.

Rosecity Thorns
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: weak - (4)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Right Side Attack: outstanding - (10)
Central Attack: brilliant - (11)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 59

I have a feeling he's been saving up a MOTS just for me. He's a tricky manager and this wouldn't surprise me in the least. Im not sure if its the smartest move since beating me at home is next to impossable for him barring injuries or red cards. My large Midfield advantage, plus my "Now" strong defense is just to much for him. This could turn out to be a good game or just another blowout for the Misfitz. We'll see tommarrow :)

FOFC Cup Game

ARKHAM AGAIN!!!! :) My group play foe and the only team to beat me in FOFC Cup play so far..... The Arkham Avengers. Im Extremely happy to have made it to the Great Eight, but im pretty sure my run is over now. Arkham is yet another goalie training team that plays all of his starters (except the goalie of course) in his FOFC Cup games. It almost cost him last week as 2 players got injuried in his game but lucky for him they were both "Bruised But Training".

Arkham Avengers
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: solid - (7)
Right Side Defence: outstanding - (10)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: outstanding - (10)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 68

Last time my back-ups played well and we only lost 1-0. But i was at home, now he has the home field advantage so im screwed. My only hope is for my Defense to keep the scoring low vs is sub-par offense, and hope for a 1-0 or 2-1 win. I doubt i'll win this one but it was a good cup run anyway :)

Upnext, This weeks League Game

Havok

02-01-2004, 10:21 PM

Season 3 - League Game - Round 12

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - Rosecity Thorns

Its all down hill from here..... only 3 games left to go and 2 are at home. Rosecity is currently in 5th place in the divison and a up and comer in the divison. But honestly they don't have much of a shot of beating me at home with my large midfield advantage. They "Might" MOTS me but even with a MOTS i'd have a nice midfield advantage. I even debated Picing this game but my coach dropped to "Wretched" leadership on thursday so now Pic's are even more pointless for me. Plus a win here today will basically guarentee me a Auto-promotion to div. IV since my game next week is practically a walkover. So i wanna make sure i win and nothing crazy happens.

Starters

GK - Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy

Right Wingback - Joseph MacKindlay (Defensive)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller
Left Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Bill Wright
Forward 2 - Maik Waldner

Not quite all of my 'Main' starters are playing today. I brought Benton Minter in on wing because with my midfield advantage i don't need a winger "Towards The Middle". I also decided to sit my second best middy Jakob, and play Torbjorn. Again, since i have a sizable midfield advantage i thought i'd let Tor get a little experiance since he'll be a starter halfway through next season.

The Match

At The Island of Misfit Toyz, 32000 punters turned up, and despite threatening clouds at the horizon, no rain came. Maniacal tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. They fielded: Geoffroy - MacKindlay, Nairn, Ferreira da Silv - Neiweiler, Miller, Neiva, Jonasson, Minter - Wright, Waldner.

Rosecity had chosen a strategic 3-4-3 formation. The following players had been chosen: Sadhu - Stubbs, Bernblad, Johnson - Yost, Göransson, Recio, Varotto - Svenningsen, Caron, Herrera.

Rosecity immediately set off pressing their opponents.

The home side put themselves ahead 1 - 0 in the 17:th by a breakthrough from Omar Nairn, who unaided came in out of the right wing hooking the ball over the visitors keeper.

Benton Minter really should have scored when he was chosen by fate to confront a wide open goal after a corner, but he lost his nerve.

Maik Waldner should probably have put his team up another goal in the 18:th minute, but some great goaltending by Ruben Sadhu kept the visitors in the game.

Maniacal put their lead ahead another goal as Benton Minter struck home the 2 - 0 goal, after an attack from the left setting him up unmarked with the keeper.

At this time in the match, Rosecity were using their skills at the press to successfully put pressure on their opponents.

In the 29:th minute of the match the visitors central line of defence had to look on as Benton Minter dashed through, knocking home 3 - 0 for Maniacal.

The teams went for a half-time break at 3 - 0. The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 68 percent possession of the ball.

In the 58:th minute Maniacal put themselves up 4 - 0. The visitors defenders lost the ball to Omar Nairn 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.

Maik Waldner almost managed to score another goal for Maniacal, but his header was tipped to a corner by the visitors goalie.

Maniacals Omar Nairn got himself booked after a foul.

The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 74 percent possession of the ball.

The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy. However, Bill Wright made a disastrous appearance. Most important Rosecity player was Tommaso Varotto. However, Desmond Stubbs made a disastrous appearance.

The match ends 4 - 0

Goals

Benton Minter - 2
Omar Narin - 2

Player Ratings

4.5 - Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy

4.0 - Joseph MacKindlay (Defensive)
3.5 - Omar Nairn
3.0 - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)

3.5 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
3.0 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
3.0 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
4.0 - Huey Miller
3.0 - Benton Minter (Offensive)

2.5 - Bill Wright
3.5 - Maik Waldner

37.5 - Stars

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: solid - (7)
Right Side Defence: outstanding - (10)
Central Defence: outstanding - (10)
Left Side Defence: outstanding - (10)
Right Side Attack: formidable - (9)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: formidable - (9)

NSI - 77

Rosecity Thorns
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: poor - (3)
Right Side Defence: inadequate - (5)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: formidable - (9)
Central Attack: magnificent - (12)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 56

Post Game Comments

Its not set in stone..... but theres about a 99.9% i'll now auto-promote to divison IV. Go Misfitz :) The game went about as expected, it actually could have been alot worse (on they're part) but we managed to miss 3 scoring chances unfortunetly. My defense once again was incrediable, have i mentioned lately how much i love my new goalie??? I guess the main surprise of the game was the guys who scroed all the goals. 2 goals for my CD Omar Narin and 2 goals for my winger Benton Minter. Its not often that ya score 4 goals in a game and your forwards don't get any of them, But i'll take it!

Stars of The Match

Gold - Omar Nairn - Gotta give it to Omar, the heart and soul of the Misfitz. He notched 2 goals as a CD and helped shutout a dam good offense.

SIlver - Benton Minter - Usually my back-up winger, Benton got the start today and didn't disapoint. He scored 2 goals and had his best match ever by 4% according to "Supporter Stats".

Bronze - Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy - Louis has been a beast in net for us since we bought him. Today he picked up his second clean sheet verus a very good offense. He's only given up 2 goals in 3 games with the club.

Around The Divison

CristinaFC3 - vs - The Minnesota SnowDrifts 6 - 0

CristinaFC3 had it easy today verus V.253 seller dwellers The Snowdrifts. They get another easy game next week but have a real tough game to end the season vs The Witches.

Baker FC - vs - north crowley 1 - 0

Even with a large midfield advantage, Baker FC only managed to crack North Crowly's tough defense once. But it was enough to get the 1-0 win. They now sit in 6th place and will at least have a shot to stay in the divison with a Qualifer.

Final Fantasy - vs - Witches 2 - 1

And the Witches once again prove that they are they're own worest enemy. For some reason Johnny as been playing a wierd 4-3-3 defense with 2 CD's offense and 2 midfielders. With FF having home field advantage they had a big possession advantage and this lead to the 2-1 win. The Witches are now gonna have to work if they want second place.

Divison Standings

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

1. Maniacal Misfitz----------12---------------64 - 7--------------36

2. Final Fantasy---------------12---------------31 - 16-------------25

3. CristinaFC312---------------12---------------42 - 26-------------23

4. Witches--------------------12---------------45 - 22-------------22

5. Rosecity Thorns-------------12---------------30 - 27-------------15

6. Baker FC--------------------12---------------15 - 37--------------8

7. The Minnesota Snow---------12--------------7 - 60----------------6

8. north crowley----------------12--------------9 - 48----------------2

Upnext, This weeks FOFC Cup game

Havok

02-04-2004, 09:08 PM

Season 3 - FOFC Cup - Great Eight

Arkham Avengers - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

We're down to only 8 FOFC teams and somehow im still one of them!! :) But i have the daunting task today of playing against a Div. IV full A-team (minus the goalie) on the road with crap TS. But if i somehow pull off a win here today, i'll get to use my full A-team next week since my league game on sunday is vs a new team that my back-ups could easily destroy. My only hope today is to win a very low scoring game or tie the game and win in a shootout. He's gonna have a big midfield advantage over me so im gonna try playing both of my winger "Towards The Middle" and i'll be using the "Pressing" tactic for the first time ever.

The Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Defensive)
Central Defender - Joseph MacKindlay
Left Wingback - Omar Nairn (Defensive)

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Towards The Middle)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Iver Dyrberg (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Karl Leitner
Left Winger - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)

Forward 1 - Maik Waldner
Forward 2 - Abel Cano

My Limited B-team is playing today with the exception of Torbjorn and Benton who got to play in sundays game for different reasons. Form is not to hot for these guys espically along the midfield. 2 IM's are in inadequate form and 1 winger. So even with both of my wingers playing "Towards The Middle" im not expecting much of a midfield.

The Match

884 spectators had come to Miskatonic Field this cloudy day.Avengers had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Reeder - Cheney, Williams, Proffitt - Neagoe, Pascual, Wetzel, Beltran, Velazquez - Freeman, Karlsson.

Maniacal started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Landowski - ben Aharon, MacKindlay, Nairn - Neiweiler, Noer Mogensen, Dyrberg, Leitner, Hoekstra - Cano, Waldner.

It was obvious that Maniacal were using pressing as their primary tactic.

At this time in the match, Maniacal were using their skills at the press to successfully put pressure on their opponents.

Avengers tried to break through in the middle repeatedly, but kept getting stuck on the visitors defenders.

Enrique Pascual of Avengers received a yellow card in the 24:th minute for unsportsmanlike behaviour.

Maniacal had a good opportunity to score the lead goal but the home team goaltender Jacob Reeder saved Naftali ben Aharon´s shot headed for the top corner.

The teams went for a half-time break at 0 - 0. Avengers held the ball, with a clear 60 percent possession rate.

After 53 minutes Iver Dyrberg made a complete fool of himself and dropped the ball to Willie Freeman who shuffled it into goal. 1-0 for Avengers.

Bobby Beltran struck a 30 metre free kick home in the 62nd minute. 2 - 0 for the home team.

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 Avengers. However, Marcin Landowski made a spectacular save.

A crazy pass by Iver Dyrberg towards his own goalie almost caused a goal for Avengers, but Fernando Velazquez didn't get the finish right.

The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Avengers, with an impressive 65 percent possession of the ball.

The most dominating Avengers player was without a doubt Enrique Pascual. Bobby Beltran on the other hand, had a terrible day. Maniacal´s best player was Jakob Noer Mogensen. Abel Cano was a disappointment, however.

The match ends 2 - 0

Goals

none :(

Player Ratings

3.5 - Marcin Landowski

2.5 - Naftali ben Aharon (Defensive)
4.0 - Joseph MacKindlay
3.5 - Omar Nairn (Defensive)

2.5 - Andi Neiweiler (Towards The Middle)
2.5 - Iver Dyrberg (Offensive)
4.0 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
2.5 - Karl Leitner
2.5 - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)

3.5 - Maik Waldner
2.0 - Abel Cano

32.5 - Stars

Team Ratings

Arkham Avengers
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: formidable - (9)
Right Side Defence: brilliant - (11)
Central Defence: outstanding - (10)
Left Side Defence: brilliant - (11)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 77

Maniacal Misfitz
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: passable - (6)
Central Attack: formidable - (9)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 65

Post Game Comments

There ya have it..... our FOFC Cup run finally comes to an end. and it should have.... they had the better ratings and deserved to win. We kept it close through the first half, but the second half was all Arkham. Nothing really upset me with this loss except for Iver Dyrberg. My young stud middy played like crap, his "unpredictable" skill really screwed us up. It gave up the first goal and almost caused another. Hopfully he'll start "creating" some goals with that skill and stop giving up goals with it :) Other then that i couldn't expect anything else from my guys, they were seriously outmatched and still kept it close.

Upnext, This weeks Training and Form update

Havok

02-05-2004, 10:26 PM

Training and Form Update

wasn't expecting any pops this week and i didn't get any. I have a few coming though in 2 weeks.

Form

Dam.... overall i was +2 in form this week (5 up, 3 down). But that doesn't mean it was a good form week unfortunetly. The 3 that went down in form were ALL starting midfielders :( they're now at Solid, inadequate, weak. Thank god i have an extremely easy game on sunday. Hopfully next weeks update will bring better results for my final game in division V. The good news is my 2 best offensive wingers both went up in form and they'll both get the start on sunday.

5 Players increased in Form (2 Starters)
3 Players decreased in Form (3 Starters)

Team/Player Value

Value per player (average): 240 737 US$ (+7,369)
Total squad value: 4 574 000 US$ (+140,000)
Average age: 21
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): poor
No of players (excluding the coach): 19
Number of nationalities: 13

Upnext, This weeks "fired" youth pull and economic update

Havok

02-07-2004, 07:47 PM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

Parker Brinson (25508370)
19 years, passable form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is temperamental and upright.
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 9 000 US$
Wage: 540 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

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

fired of course :(

Economic Update

224 588 US$ (178 123) US$
Sponsors: dancing in the streets
Supporter Club: 1467 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue--------------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0--------------------------------Arena 20 480
Sponsors 76 725------------------------Wages 31 210
Financial 0------------------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0----------------------------Temporary 2 000
----------------------------------------Staff 49 500
----------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000

Total revenue 76 725--------------------Total expenses 123 190
Expected income/loss -46 465

With another home game tommarrow money should be pretty nice after tommarrow. Unfortunetly i seriously doubt i'll get a sell-out since the team im playing just got his team like 5 days ago. But the weather is nice so maybe i'll get lucky.

This Weeks League Game

The 7th place Minnesota Snowdrifts lost they're team this week and were replaced by the MoTown Slackers. I should slaughter them with ease so there's no real point talking about the game.

Upnext, This weeks league game

Havok

02-08-2004, 10:01 PM

Season 3 - League Game - Round 14

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - MoTown Slackers

Poor MoTown Slackers, they're first Hattrick game ever they have to play the top team in the divison..... ME :) And i don't really intend to show them any mercey, I will pic just for the hell of it, but besides that i'll be playing my full A Squad since my FOFC cup run is over. The weather is nice today and a sell-out would help me out greatly towards my goal of promoteing my new coach before next season starts. But since i'm playing a new team a sell-out is unlikely. With this win today i'll lock auto-promotion to Divison IV...... WOOT WOOT!!!

Starters

GK - Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy

Right Wingback - Omar Nairn (Defensive)
Central Defender - Joseph MacKindlay
Left Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

Right Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller
Left Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Bill Wright
Forward 2 - Maik Waldner

Form took a serious hit this week mainly for my middy's. With all 3 of my starters losing a level of form im not expecting much of a midfield effort here today. They are in Solid/inadequate/weak form plus im picing with composed TS. But that should be more then enough to easily handle todays opposition, hopfully form will turn-around on thursday because next week i'll be facing a tough midfield.

The Match

Weather conditions were fairly good for football, and The Island of Misfit Toyz saw a crowd turnout of 32000. Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. The following players had been chosen: Geoffroy - Nairn, MacKindlay, ben Aharon - Minter, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Neiva, Neiweiler - Wright, Waldner.

Slackers had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. They fielded: Joyce - Pettit, Power, Unger, Helms - Gaffney, Obrajero, Donovan, Mark - Fonfría, Steed.

Slackers were relying on their inadequate ability to counter-attack.

Some beautiful plays on the left side of the field resulted in a 5:th minute goal by Bill Wright for Maniacal, putting them ahead 1 - 0.

Maniacal put their lead ahead another goal as Bill Wright struck home the 2 - 0 goal, after an attack from the left setting him up unmarked with the keeper.

Maniacals Omar Nairn got himself booked after a foul.

A speedy charge from the left side of the field put Maniacal lead up with 3 - 0. Bill Wright finished that one off competently, firing from an acute angle. By then Bill Wright was a three time scorer - a hat trick!

Charlie Pettit of Slackers received a yellow card in the 34:th minute for unsportsmanlike behaviour.

3 - 0 was the half-time score. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 81 percent possession rate.

Jakob Noer Mogensen received some harsh words from his coach after he acted foolishly, probably out of lack of experience, in the 54:th minute and almost caused an opponent to score.

In the 60:th minute Maniacal put themselves up 4 - 0. The visitors defenders lost the ball to Bill Wright coming up from the left, who proceeded to cooly round the goaltender and knock the ball home.

Maniacal put themselves up 5 - 0 when Huey Miller broke through on the right, leaving the entire defensive box behind him.

In the 67:th minute of the match the visitors central line of defence had to look on as Maik Waldner dashed through, knocking home 6 - 0 for Maniacal. The structure of the game started to change as Maniacal decided to pull back and meet their opponents in the defensive zone.

In the games 68:th minute Slackers´s Salvador Fonfría fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee booked Salvador Fonfría for taking a dive.

Maniacal put themselves up 7 - 0 when Huey Miller broke through on the right, leaving the entire defensive box behind him.

Maniacal put themselves up 8 - 0 when Bill Wright broke through on the right, leaving the entire defensive box behind him.

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

Maniacal, bringing the final ball possession rate to 89 percent, dominated the battle.

The most dominating Maniacal player was without a doubt Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy. Bill Wright was a disappointment, however. Most important Slackers player was Arlen Power. Charlie Pettit on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 8 - 0

Goals

Bill Wright - 5
Huey Miller - 2
Maik Waldner - 1

Player Ratings

4.5 - Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy

3.5 - Omar Nairn (Defensive)
4.0 - Joseph MacKindlay
3.0 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

3.0 - Benton Minter (Offensive)
3.5 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
3.0 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
4.0 - Huey Miller
3.5 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

2.5 - Bill Wright
3.5 - Maik Waldner

38 - Stars

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Right Side Attack: formidable - (9)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: outstanding - (10)

NSI - 72

MoTown Slackers
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: inadequate - (5)
Left Side Attack: weak - (4)

NSI - 33

Post Game Comments

8-0!!!! thats it!!??!?!! i wanted 10-0!!! :) Im joking of course.... 8-0 is fine with me. No injuries and noone hit there card limit so i should have my full cast of A-teamers playing the final game of the season next week. The big story of the match is Bill Wright scoring 5 GOALS!!!! and to top that off the game engine rated him as my worst player in the game :) He now leads the divison in scoring by 6 goals with 22. So thats another 10k i'll collect in the offseason for having the series scoring leader. This season has been fantastic so far.... hopfully i'll win next week and pull off the undefeated season!!! :)

Stars of the Match

Gold - Bill Wright - as if there was any doubt.... 5 goals in the match. Need i say more????

Silver - Huey Miller - Another 4 star match for Huey even though he dropped to solid form, Plus he scored 2 goals.

Bronze - Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy - Didn't really have to do much in this match, but another 4.5 star match gets him the Bronze star.

Around The Divsion

north crowley - vs - CristinaFC3 1 - 6

Easy win for CristinaFC3, i can't believe they have a shot to get second place. If they beat The Witches at home next week and i beat FF, They'll take second place. The Witches should be ashamed of themselves, They should be sitting in second place comfortablly by now.

Rosecity Thorns - vs - Final Fantasy 1 - 3

Rosecity took a earley 1-0 lead in this game, but it was all FF for the rest of the game. FF now sits in second place, but they need to tie or beat me next week if they plan on keeping it.

Witches - vs - Baker FC 5 - 1

The Witches won easy again this week but next week won't be so easy verus CristinaFC3 on the road. The Witches have the better team, but they don't play like it most the time. Should be a interesting game.

Divison Standings

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

1. Maniacal Misfitz-------13---------------72 - 7----------------39

2. Final Fantasy---------13---------------34 - 17---------------28

3. CristinaFC3-----------13---------------48 - 27---------------26

4. Witches--------------13---------------50 - 23---------------25

5. Rosecity Thorns------13----------------31 - 30--------------15

6. Baker FC-------------13----------------16 - 42---------------8

7. MoTown Slackers-----13-----------------7 - 68---------------6

8. north crowley---------13----------------10 - 54--------------2

Upnext, This weeks friendly game

Havok

02-12-2004, 07:11 PM

Season 3 - Friendly Game - Round 13

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - Real Terps FC

Back to friendly's after my 6 week FOFC Cup run, im not really into playing International friendly's against teams i don't know. The extra experience is basically meaningless (.2 instead of .1, WOOOHOO!!). I'd rather be playing FOFC members and Misfit supporters, more fun i think :) This week we're taken on The Real Terps FC, owned by the FOFC's most broken member TerpKristain. TK and I are mutual HT supporters, plus we chat regularly in FOFC IRC chat on gamedays, so getting a match going once every season or 2 is very likely to continue. Last time we played a friendly was on 6/12/03 and we won 3-0. They might be looking for a little revenge today so it should be a good game.

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 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Iver Dyrberg (Offensive)
Inenr Midfielder 3 - Karl Leitner
Left Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Bill Wright
Forward 2 - Abel Cano

I got my rather small B-team in there today of course. Form for my B-team is pretty average right now, some are above passable and some are below. My Back-up goalie continues to stay in high solid form so im expecting a very nice defensive showing here from my back-ups.

The Match

1652 spectators had come to The Island of Misfit Toyz this cloudy day. Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. They fielded: Landowski - Ferreira da Silv, Nairn, ben Aharon - Hoekstra, Jonasson, Dyrberg, Leitner, Neiweiler - Cano, Wright.

RTFC started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Hidalgo - Mcmillian, Kiser, Mills - Pace, Wood, Bynum, Lopez Basaguren, Lunsford - Arsenault, Teague.

RTFC mostly ignored the flanks in favour of attacks in the middle.

Maniacal took the lead in the 3rd minute of the game by 1 to 0, as Abel Cano elegantly received a pass going deep, finishing off with a half-volley shot just below the bar.

In the 8:th minute RTFCs Roque Pace received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first. Torbjörn Jonasson went down after a savage challenge, but could keep on playing after some medical attention.

After 17 minutes Torbjörn Jonasson put Maniacal ahead 2 - 0 as he rose to head in a hooked ball, the result of an effort from the right side.

RTFC showed some good morale and were, in the 22nd minute, able to reduce the score to 2 - 1 as Jason Teague got past the home sides full backs straight in front of the goal.

Maniacals Torbjörn Jonasson got himself booked after a foul.

A couple of quick and successful challenges, followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area after 35 minutes might have resulted in another goal for Maniacal. However, Brad Hidalgo made a spectacular save.

Bill Wright of Maniacal received a yellow card in the 37:th minute for unsportsmanlike behaviour.

In the 42nd minute of the match the visitors central line of defence had to look on as Karl Leitner dashed through, knocking home 3 - 1 for Maniacal.

Halftime score was 3 - 1. The fortyfive minutes were dominated by Maniacal, with an impressive 52 percent possession of the ball.

Maniacal put themselves up 4 - 1 when Abel Cano broke through on the right, leaving the entire defensive box behind him.

In the 54:th minute RTFCs Pablo Lopez Basaguren received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first.

After 58 minutes, Bill Wright managed to intercept a pass intended for the opposing keeper and flip it in, making the score 5 - 1. The structure of the game started to change as Maniacal decided to pull back and meet their opponents in the defensive zone.

Rupert Wood nearly reduced 62 minutes into the game, but a splendid one hand save by Marcin Landowski put a stop to the attempt coming in from the right flank.

With 73 minutes played Abel Cano could have brought this one home for Maniacal, had his hooked ball gone in, but it went just a bit too high.

The fortyfive minutes were dominated by RTFC, with an impressive 55 percent possession of the ball.

Most important Maniacal player was Marcin Landowski. However, Roy Hoekstra made a disastrous appearance. The most dominating RTFC player was without a doubt Pablo Lopez Basaguren. However, Brad Hidalgo made a disastrous appearance.

The match ends 5 - 1

Goals

Abel Cano - 2
Bill Wright - 1
Torbjörn Jonasson - 1
Karl Leitner - 1

Player Ratings

3.5 - Marcin Landowski

3.0 - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)
3.5 - Omar Nairn
3.0 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

2.5 - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)
3.0 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
2.5 - Iver Dyrberg (Offensive)
2.5 - Karl Leitner
3.5 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

2.5 - Bill Wright
2.5 - Abel Cano

32 - Stars

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Right Side Attack: inadequate - (5)
Central Attack: solid - (7)
Left Side Attack: formidable - (9)

NSI - 65

Real Terps FC
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: weak - (4)
Right Side Attack: weak - (4)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 52

Post Game Comments

No injuries = me happy :) I won by a little more then i expected. Poseession was almost dead even with me winning the first half and them winning the second half. But the Terps back-up goalie is a bum and let in everything that came his way :) Next time we play i gotta travelto The Terps arena, both games between our teams have been at home. Anyway, on to the players. Like i said earlier my back-up goalie Marcin is on fire and it showed today. He put up 3.5 stars for the 9th time in his last 10 games. The other standout in this game was Karl Leitner, the young 17 year old trainee is learning fast and according to HT stats, he had his best game ever by 9%. Overall it was a good friendly..... thanks to TK and her Terps for traveling down to florida again for the game. Next time we play, we'll travel to MD :D

Upnext, This weeks training and form update

Havok

02-12-2004, 09:26 PM

Training and Form Update

good and bad news this week..... The Misfitz second outstanding player will have to wait until next week because Jakob didn't bump after 8 weeks of training like i'd hoped he would :( But, a very important bump did happen this week.....

Iver Dyrberg
239 000 US$, 17 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

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

Thats right.... a 17 year old formidable PM!!!! Man im loving this, he'll get 2 more weeks of training before he turns 18 aswell. I know its a longshot being from such a big nation like Denmark, but i hope he gets onto the U-20 team 1 day. If he stays injury free, he'll be Brilliant +2 at the end of next season with solid or better stamina. I'll keep my figures crossed :)

Form

Another below average form week for my starters. My defense took a hit as 2 defenders dropped. Naftali will lose his starting job again as he dropped to inadequate form, luckly his back-up bumped to excellent form so it won't be a problem. But my starting midfielders are still struggling.... well, 2 of the 3. Huey Miller jumped back up to excellent form and broke the 500k assessed value mark this week. But Jakob dropped to weak form and Jaquim remained in week form.

Last week it wasn't a problem that my starting middy's form sucked, this week it is since i'll be facing a good midfield on the road. So i will offically drop Jaquim to the B-team for now and Torbjorn will fill in for him. This will have an effect on my offense since Jaquim has passable passing, but my central defense will improve because for Tor's passable defending. This will be the first game that i can rememeber that i won't have a offensive middy in the game.

5 Players Increased in Form (2 Starters)
4 Players Decreased in Form (3 starters)

Team/Player Value

Value per player (average): 245 526 US$ (+4,789)
Total squad value: 4 665 000 US$ (+91,000)
Average age: 21
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): poor
No of players (excluding the coach): 19
Number of nationalities: 13

Upnext, This weeks youth pull and economic update

Havok

02-14-2004, 07:39 PM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

Santiago Serrano (25794152)
19 years, passable form, healthy
A controversial person who is balanced and honest.
Has disastrous experience and solid leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 130 000 US$
Wage: 1 200 US$/week
Owner: Maniacal Misfitz
Warnings: 0

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

not bad at all, my best pull in a LONG time. Unfortunetly he's 19 and a Anti-clown. Hopfully he'll still sell for 50-75k. That money will help me alot towards buying my new coach before next season starts.

Economic Update

Cash funds: 391 962 US$ (345 157) US$
Sponsors: dancing in the streets
Supporter Club: 1486 members
Supporters: high on life

This week

Revenue----------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0----------------------------Arena 20 480
Sponsors 77 385--------------------Wages 31 210
Financial 0--------------------------Interest 0
Temporary 0------------------------Temporary 3 000
------------------------------------Staff 49 500
------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 77 385--------------Total expenses 124 190
Expected income/loss -46 805

No home game this week, but with my new youth pull i should still have at least 400k to end the week. Then i'll get my money for winning the divison and promotioning next week so i should have no problem getting my new coach before next season starts.

Last Game of the Season

Only 1 team lies in the way of a perfect season for the Misfitz.... Final Fantasy. FF has had they're team for a LONG time and demoted to this divison last season. Fortunetly for me the owner is very inactive because he has around 5 million in the bank!!! They also have the 2 highest valued players in the divison, both of which are midfielders. 1 is valued at $2,502,000 and the other is valued at $1,626,000. You'd think i'd be worried going against 2 badass middy's??? But im not..... They have bad stamina and they fall apart at halftime. Here's what im expecting to face.......

Final Fantasy
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: formidable - (9)
Right Side Defence: outstanding - (10)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 71

Since im on the road and my middy's form isn't to great right now, i might actually lose possession in the first half. But as long as its close at halftime, i should dominate the second half and win comfortably. I'll be MOTS'ing of course since its the last game of the season and if i lose i'll still auto-promote. Lets hope we end the season right and trounce these fools :) Go Misfitz!!!!!!

Upnext, Last game of the season

Havok

02-17-2004, 03:22 AM

Season 3 - League Play - Round 14

Final Fantasy - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

Finally.... season 14 draws to a close. Its been a great season for the Misfitz thus far, and hopefully we'll end it on a good note. We'll be taking on Final Fantasy to end the season. With Auto-promotion to divison IV already a lock, this game is more for "Pride" then anything else. Playing FF on the road is no simple task, i whipped them to start the season at my house 5-0. But with his 3 midfielders combined assessed value at around 5 million, these guys can be tough. His middy's do lack stamina, so if the game is close at halftime, i should win no problem.

Starters

GK - Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy

Right Wingback - Joseph MacKindlay (Defensive)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)

Right Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
Inner Midfiedler 2 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
Inenr Midfielder 3 - Huey Miller
Left Winger - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)

Forward 1 - Maik Waldner
Forward 2 - Bill Wright

Unfortunetly, form has been a problem as of late for my most important players.... my middy's. While Huey sits at excellent form, my other 2 startings middies are in weak form :(. So i benched Jaoquim today and played Torbjorn. Tor is about equal with Jaoquim at Playmaking, but he's a defensive middy and i already have one of those starting (Jakob) so he's been on the B-team. Not having my number 1 offensive middy will hurt my attack some, but i don't think it will be a problem. Having 2 good defensive middy's should improve my central defense by quite a bit though. The rest of today's line-up is pretty standard.

The Match

58483 spectators had come to White Materia Arena this cloudy day. Fantasy had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. They fielded: Olsen - Jonasson, Joseph, Klintsjö - Vasquez, Toth, Pace, Iglesia, Gee - Singer, Littlefield.

Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. Lineup: Geoffroy - MacKindlay, Nairn, Ferreira da Silv - Neiweiler, Miller, Noer Mogensen, Jonasson, Hoekstra - Wright, Waldner.

Fantasy clearly preferred attacks in the middle.

Fantasy made a bid to take the lead as a ball coming in from the right hand side left Mikey Gee completely alone with keeper Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy, who made a spectacular block.

Fantasy will have to do without Lars Jonasson for a time due to a bad foot injury. He was substituted by Rex Cabrera.

Darrell Pace of Fantasy received a yellow card in the 20:th minute for unsportsmanlike behaviour.

0 - 0 was the half-time score. No one team arose to dominate this half, ending in a deadlock.

In the 66:th minute Gilbert Vasquez surprised the opponents with a 40 metre pass to Eugene Singer who quite easily could settle the score to 1 - 0.

Rich Littlefield should probably have put his team up another goal in the 68:th minute, but some great goaltending by Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy kept the visitors in the game.

Maik Waldner almost scored an equalising goal for Maniacal in the 77:th minute, but Clint Olsen made an excellent save, tipping the awkwardly curled shot past the post.

A cross coming in from the right hand side left Bill Wright alone in front of the goal in the 77:th minute but his shot was too loose.

A great save by goaltender Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy in the 79:th minute kept the visitors in the game as Rich Littlefield struck from the left with a real cannonball.

Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 62 percent possession rate.

Most important Fantasy player was Dalton Toth. Rex Cabrera on the other hand, had a terrible day. Most important Maniacal player was Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy. However, Roy Hoekstra made a disastrous appearance.

The match ends 1 - 0

Goals

none :(

Player Ratings

4.5 - Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy

4.0 - Joseph MacKindlay (Defensive)
3.5 - Omar Nairn
3.0 - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)

3.5 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)
3.0 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
3.5 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Defensive)
4.0 - Huey Miller
2.5 - Roy Hoekstra (Towards The Middle)

3.5 - Maik Waldner
3.0 - Bill Wright

38 Stars

Team Ratings

Final Fantasy
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: excellent - (8)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: passable - (6)
Left Side Attack: passable - (6)

NSI - 65

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: excellent - (8)
Right Side Defence: formidable - (9)
Central Defence: brilliant - (11)
Left Side Defence: brilliant - (11)
Right Side Attack: outstanding - (10)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: inadequate - (5)

NSI - 78

Post Game Comments

what!?!?!huh!?!?! i lost!?!?! how?!?!?! 78 NSI vs 65 NSI, Outstanding wing attack vs passable defense. 38 stars vs 35.5. 62% - 38% possession in the second half, i could go on and on. The game engine just screwed us, no doubt about it. They scored on a event goal and i couldn't crack they're "Average" defense. I guess i was due for something like this to happen, i haven't been upset in awhile. I really wanted to go undefeated this season, but the HT gods weren't havin it :(

Ok, so we lost, we're still auto-promoting so we get the last laugh i guess :) Lets find some good in this game.... We did have our best defensive game ever. Having 2 defensive middy's gave me an extra 2 levels in defense. Im pretty sure Torbjorn is really close to solid defending, so i guess i shouldn't be so surprised. But Formidable/Brilliant/Brilliant defense!!!! i love it :) Torbjorn also got his first ever 3 1/2 star game, he'll be bumping to formidable PM on thursday.

Stars Of The Match

Gold - Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy - In 5 games with the club, Louis has gottin 4 1/2 stars in every game. He also made 3 big saves today, and the goal he let in was an event goal so it really wasn't his fault.

Silver - Torbjörn Jonasson - I had to give the silver to Tor. His first 3.5 star game and having him playing defensive really improved my defense alot. It was also his best game ever by a whopping 13%!!!

Bronze - Huey Miller - Hard to find a guy worthy of the bronze star today. But Huey wasn't to blame for today loss. He picked up 4 stars and played his best game ever by 3%. He's my rock in the midfield.

Around The Divison

Baker FC - vs - Rosecity Thorns 2 - 2

My game wasn't the only fluke in the series. Baker pulled off a tie verus a much better thorns team. It appears the Thorns took Baker for granted and PIC'ed in preperation for they're qualifier and it cost them 2 points.

MoTown Slackers - vs - north crowley 0 - 6

7th place verus 8th place.... who cares!!! they both suck :)

CristinaFC3 - vs - Witches 4 - 3

As if things couldn't get any worse for the Witches..... they lose a hearbreaker and clearly were the better team. They went all offense putting up a HUGE supernatural central attack. Plus they dominated possession in the second half and won NSI 67 - 54. Just a crazy day in divison V.253.

Final Divison Standings

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

1. Maniacal Misfitz--------14--------------72 - 8----------------39

2. Final Fantasy-----------14-------------35 - 17---------------31

3. CristinaFC3------------14-------------52 - 30---------------29

4. Witches---------------14-------------53 - 27---------------25

5. Rosecity Thorns--------14------------33 - 32---------------16

6. Baker FC---------------14------------18 - 44---------------9

7. MoTown Slackers-------14------------7 - 74----------------6

8. north crowley-----------14-----------16 - 54---------------5

Upnext, This weeks friendly[

vex

02-17-2004, 03:42 AM

Yeah, you shoulda had that one.

DukeRulesMAB

02-17-2004, 06:34 PM

Congrats on a great season; rough finish, but it's all good, still autopromoted. :)

Havok

02-17-2004, 06:40 PM

Congrats on a great season; rough finish, but it's all good, still autopromoted. :)

dam... we posted in eachothers dynasty's at almost the same exact second :)

Havok

02-18-2004, 08:48 PM

Season 3 - Friendly Game - Round 14

Maniacal Misfitz - vs - Ruskies

After my "Extremely" disappointing league loss on sunday to end the season, a friendly game with a Misfitz supporter "The Herd" and his Ruskies should help me take my mind off sundays game. The Ruskies remind me alot of DK and his "Screaming Seaman" in they're first few seasons. Defensive trainer, defensive coach, and they play a 4-5-1. Trying to score on them isn't easy, but ya don't have to worry about them scoring on you much either :) Hopfully it will be a nice easy game for us both with no injuries.

Starters

GK - Marcin Landowski

Right Wingback - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)
Central Defender - Omar Nairn
Left Wingback - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

Right Winger - Benton Minter (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Iver Dyrberg (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Karl Leitner
Left Winger - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

Forward 1 - Bill Wright
Forward 2 - Abel Cano

Got most of my limited B-team out there today. The only difference from last week is Jaoquim is playing instead of Torbjorn because Jao's form blows right now (Weak). My back-up goalie "Marcin" continues to be in amazing form, obviously he wants his starting job back, but that ain't gonna happen :)

The Match

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 1405 to The Island of Misfit Toyz. Maniacal had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. They fielded: Landowski - Ferreira da Silv, Nairn, ben Aharon - Minter, Neiva, Dyrberg, Leitner, Neiweiler - Cano, Wright.

Ruskies started off with a 4-5-1 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Andersen - Sagrera, Hirsch, Carllund, Terry - Grimm, Payne, Kapur, Lovell, Mansfield - Moreno.

Ruskies seemed to prefer attacking in the middle.

In the 7:th minute Ruskiess Sergio Sagrera received a yellow card for going into a challenge studs first.

Many thought Iver Dyrberg ought to have been awarded a penalty shot in the 9:th minute, as he went down trying to circle the visitors keeper Ray Andersen.

The teams went for a half-time break at 0 - 0. Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 58 percent possession rate.

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, Maniacal´s Benton Minter got himself booked.

Maniacal tried to break through in the middle repeatedly, but kept getting stuck on the visitors defenders.

Some beautiful plays on the left side of the field resulted in a 62nd minute goal by Bill Wright for Maniacal, putting them ahead 1 - 0.

Maniacal put themselves up 2 - 0 when Karl Leitner broke through on the right, leaving the entire defensive box behind him.

Bill Wright increased Maniacal´s lead to 3 - 0 from a penalty spot cannonball.

The referee showed Maniacals Bill Wright the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge.

Maniacal held the ball, with a clear 57 percent possession rate.

Most important Maniacal player was Andi Neiweiler. Iver Dyrberg on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating Ruskies player was without a doubt Ulf Carllund. Antone Mansfield on the other hand, had a terrible day.

The match ends 3 - 0

Goals

Bill Wright - 2
Karl Leitner - 1

Player Ratings

3.5 - Marcin Landowski

3.0 - Ismael Ferreira da Silva (Defensive)
3.5 - Omar Nairn
3.0 - Naftali ben Aharon (Normal)

3.0 - Benton Minter (Offensive)
2.5 - Iver Dyrberg (Offensive)
3.0 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
2.5 - Karl Leitner
3.5 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

3.0 - Bill Wright
2.5 - Abel Cano

33 - Stars

Team Ratings

Maniacal Misfitz
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: outstanding - (10)

NSI - 61

Ruskies
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: poor - (3)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: formidable - (9)
Left Side Defence: passable - (6)
Right Side Attack: weak - (4)
Central Attack: weak - (4)
Left Side Attack: poor - (3)

NSI - 41

Post Game Comments

Good game for the back-ups, boring ass first half but we got things going in the second half. The midfield kinda sucked, but with furious TS, below average stamina, and crap from i guess i shouldn't be surprised. Bill Wright of course scored 2 goals.... there's something about that guy, every game he plays in he seems to score at least once. No other real surprises in this game, no injuries for either team so i couldn't be happier. Thanks to "TheHerd" and his Ruskies for the friendly!

Upnext, This weeks training and form update

Havok

02-19-2004, 09:21 PM

Training and Form Update

i was expecting 3 PM pops this week and i got 3 pops.... but 1 was a surprise :) and 1 didn't pop that i was hoping for :(

Jakob Noer Mogensen
394 000 US$, 20 years, poor form
Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Quick]

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

my second ever outstanding player!!!!!! but for some unknown reason his form as fell from solid to poor in 3 weeks :( this is not good since i'll need all my best middies in top form to start next season. Jakob will be sold around week 8 next season when he hits brilliant PM.

Joaquim Neiva
292 000 US$, 19 years, weak form
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

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

Good old Jaoquim finally bumps to formidable, he's currently slated as my number 3 middy. But since his form is in the crapper also, he actually got benched last sunday aswell.

Roy Hoekstra
200 000 US$, 20 years, weak form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Powerful]

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

My "Winger Towards the middle" was the surprise bump this week. i always told myself i was gonna sell him when he hit excellent. But now i think i'll wait till he hits formidable.

And the player that didn't bump this week was Torbjorn, this kinda surprises me since he's only 18 with 7 weeks of PM training. Im probally gonna stick him in as a winger next wednesday so he gets 50% training. He should bump next thursday.

Form

GOD DAM FORM IS PISSING ME OFF #%&^*%#(@!!!!!!! Sorry, i had to. Its really only my middies but they're the best/most important part of my squad. My starters are currently in Excellent/weak/poor form. That blows, plus i have a week of stamina training coming up in 2 weeks, so this might really screw me to start next season. Everyone else is around average, nothing to serious.

3 Players increased in form (2 Starters)
5 Players decreased in form (3 Starters)

Player/Team Value

Value per player (average): 251 474 US$ (+5,948)
Total squad value: 4 778 000 US$ (+113,000)
Average age: 21
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): poor
No of players (excluding the coach): 19
Number of nationalities: 13

Upnext, This weeks youth pull and economic update[/size]

Havok

02-21-2004, 07:31 PM

Youth Pull and Economic Update

Major Cole
28 000 US$, 17 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and wretched leadership abilities

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

that stamina is gonna kill his sale value, maybe a newbie will overbid on him. He should at least sell for a few K so its better then nothing.

Economic Update

Cash funds: 454 232 US$ (627 292) US$
Sponsors: dancing in the streets
Supporter Club: 1490 members
Supporters: satisfied

This week

Revenue-----------------------------Expenses
Crowd 0-----------------------------Arena 20 480
Sponsors 77 550---------------------Wages 31 210
Financial 0---------------------------Interest 0
Temporary 219 700-------------------Temporary 3 000
--------------------------------------Staff 49 500
--------------------------------------Youth squad 20 000
Total revenue 297 250---------------Total expenses 124 190
Expected income/loss 173 060

well, since my 1st Place in the divison money and my promotion money were done after the economic update. I'll have to wait till next saturday to promote my new coach.

Upnext, This weeks friendly game

DukeRulesMAB

02-21-2004, 07:43 PM

Your new coach is the same training skill as the old one, yes? Seems to me, no reason to promote the new guy until right before the Cup match (the first time his higher leadership gives you a boost). Not a huge difference, but a few extra days before his leadership starts eventually dropping.

Havok

02-21-2004, 10:19 PM

that's true Duke, its probally better that it worked out this way then :)

Havok

02-23-2004, 01:25 AM

New Divison

I haven't really said much so far about the new divison i'll be playing in next season. Divison IV.41 is gonna be on the "Tougher" side of divison IV series. But you won't see that on hatstats since we will have a walkover. Im not gonna go into a complete breakdown of each team right now, i'll do that when i start my dynasty for next season. But i'll run through the teams real quick to give you an idea of what im up against. Interestingly enough, this divison has FIVE new teams in it :) The first place team promoted to div. III. The bottom 2 teams auto-demoted obviously, and the 5th and 6th place teams both lost they're qualifiers today. 1 of them lost because he got 3 injuries in the game :(

Monkey of Doom - The divison III demotee, MOD is a badass defensive training team who puts up 100+ NSI's regularly. He's also got a USA National teamer on his squad. They are the divison favorites and i have little to no chance of beating them anytime soon.

pegasus - Easily the second best team in the divison and will give MOD a run for they're money. These guys are solid everywhere, but they're biggest strength is midfield with a couple 5.5 - 6 star middies. With NSI's ranging from 90-100, these guys will also mop the floor with me.

Havoc - I actually know Havoc (the owner of the team, is name Havoc aswell) through another federation im kinda in. Its pretty cool that 2 Havok/c's are in one divison :) Havoc's team is also very well balanced with no real weaknesses. They also put up NSI's between 82-92. While not "ALOT" better then my squad, they still are a good bit better. So my chances of beating them this season are slim.

Those are the "Big Dogs" of my new divison. They're in a class by themsleves really over the rest of us. Now its time to focus on the teams i can play with.

Cons Commandos - Walkover!!! thank god also!

Carebears - Carebears also auto-promoted to this divison like i did. While he's had his team 3 months longer then me, we are still very close skill wise. But his midfield is a little further along then mine so that might be a problem down the road. They're NSI ranges from high 70's to low 80's.

Pie Eaters - Pie Eaters won they're qualifier today to get into divison IV.41. They also have a very solid team and are close in skill level with me. They train middies and they're middies are also a little farther along then mine. With NSI's between 70-80, they are no pushover.

The Family Jewels - These guys also won they're qualifer today, I think skill wise, these guys are the worst non-bot team in the divison. But that doesn't mean they suck, far from it. They will be competitive all season im sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if they finish the season in 7th place. NSI is erratic, but its seems to fall in low to mid 70's.

As you can see this is one badass divison. There's no doubt in my mind that if you took the bot team out we'd be in the top 5-10 toughest divison IV series every week. I have my work cut out for me thats for sure.... it should be interesting.

vex

02-23-2004, 01:29 AM

Just like when me and Rob got into IV.10, the good thing is, all you have to do is beat out ONE team. Makes life a lot easier.

Havok

02-24-2004, 07:52 PM

Breaking News

Well.... it looks like i lied to everyone. I said i wasn't gonna sell Roy Hoekstra, but i decided to put him on the market for more then i thought he was worth...... 550k.

Roy Hoekstra
200 000 US$, 20 years, weak form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Powerful]

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

Roy's form as been way below average for most of the time since i bought him. So selling him is probally a good thing. Now i only have 2 wingers and no winger towards the middle. I think im just gonna go out and buy 1 nice winger trainee and 1 average guy.

The reasoning behind this is...... im in a REALLY tough divison and i think im gonna end up having to play a winger "towards the middle" alot. And now that Roy is gone, i'll have to play a midfield trainee towards the middle (and as a midfielder on wednesday for full training) because they'll be much farther along in PM then anyone i buy now. So the average trainee i buy won't be playing every week. I don't wanna spend a bunch of money on a guy who might only get 6-7 weeks this of 50% training this season.

Havok

02-25-2004, 08:45 PM

Season 3 - Friendly Game - Last Game Of The Season

Frankfort United - vs - Maniacal Misfitz

As Season 3 for the Misfitz comes to a close, we've arranged a friendly with our newest supportee, fellow HT Dynasty writer DukeRules and his Frankfort United squad. Frankfort has had an impressive season, placng fourth in his first season in divison IV. They've got a solid all-around squad with a badass goalie and some young studs playing wing. The Misfitz on the other hand aren't looking to great right now.... our midfielders form is a joke, our defenders are starting to drop in form and we have furious team spirit. Thank god we're in the offseason now, but with a week of stamina training coming up next week the first few games of next season might be ugly :(

Starters

GK - Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy

Right Wingback - Omar Nairn (Defensive)
Central Defender - Joseph MacKindlay
Left Wingback - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

Right Winger - Torbjörn Jonasson (Towards The Middle)
Inner Midfielder 1 - Iver Dyrberg (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 2 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
Inner Midfielder 3 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
Left Winger - Huey Miller (Towards The Middle)

Forward 1 - Bill Wright
Forward 2 - Maik Waldner

Since im traiing PM this week, i've got midfielders playing on the wings so they get 50% training. The 3 guys playing IM are the 3 guys i most want training for (Iver because he's 17 and i wanna try to get him on the Denmark U-20 team, Jakob and Jaoquim because they will be the next 2 middies i sell). You'd think a outstanding and 2 formidable PM's would get a good midfield rating.....But not these 3, they are in HORRIABLE form!!! poor/weak/weak to be exact. Even with a outstanding and excellent(+7) PM playing as wingers "Towards The Middle", this should still be a ugly midfield showing. I also have another player playing out of postion, My best winger is playing offensive wingback to try to help keep his form up.

The Match

1023 spectators had found their way to F. U. Field, despite the heavy rain. Frankfort tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. Lineup: Matlock - Halfon, Håkansson, Makris - Hylind, Mullineux, Chopin, Casper, Collier - Aguado, Knapp.

Maniacal started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. They fielded: Geoffroy - Nairn, MacKindlay, Neiweiler - Jonasson, Noer Mogensen, Neiva, Dyrberg, Miller - Wright, Waldner.

Frankfort were very close to putting themselves one up in the 2nd minute as Felix Hylind got through, but failing in concentration, he shot the ball wide.

In the games 3rd minute Frankfort´s Jesse Collier head butted an opponent nastily and so the referee sent him off immediately.

21 minutes into the game Felix Hylind had to leave the pitch due to a knee injury. In came Per Pettersson.

As Niko Halfon had, completely unprovoked, swept the legs out from under an opponent in front of a linesman, the referee gave the Frankfort player a red card without batting an eye.

In the 33rd minute the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending and Maik Waldner put the ball away for 0 - 1.

Jacob Knapp was just a finger´s breadth away from an equaliser for Frankfort, but Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy managed to ward the closing shot off for a corner.

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

Halftime score was 0 - 1. Frankfort held the ball, with a clear 51 percent possession rate.

Daniel Aguado had a hard, curved free kick in the 58:th minute that would have paid off, had it gone just a little lower.

After 68 minutes of play Daniel Aguado equalised for Frankfort after an elegant attack from the right.

In the 75:th minute cheers broke out as Anders Håkansson found his way through the guests central defense line, clipping the 2 - 1 goal in for Frankfort.

Jacob Knapp should probably have put his team up another goal in the 82nd minute, but some great goaltending by Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy kept the visitors in the game.

Frankfort held the ball, with a clear 55 percent possession rate.

The most dominating Frankfort player was without a doubt Matthew Matlock. Per Pettersson was a disappointment, however. Maniacal´s best player was Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy. However, Iver Dyrberg made a disastrous appearance.

The match ends 2 - 1

Goals

Maik Waldner - 1

Player Ratings

4.5 - Louis-Frédéric Geoffroy

3.0 - Omar Nairn (Defensive)
3.5 - Joseph MacKindlay
3.0 - Andi Neiweiler (Offensive)

3.0 - Torbjörn Jonasson (Towards The Middle)
2.5 - Iver Dyrberg (Offensive)
3.0 - Joaquim Neiva (Offensive)
2.5 - Jakob Noer Mogensen (Defensive)
3.5 - Huey Miller (Towards The Middle)

3.0 - Bill Wright
3.5 - Maik Waldner

35 - Stars

Team Ratings

Frankfort United
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: solid - (7)
Right Side Defence: passable - (6)
Central Defence: solid - (7)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: excellent - (8)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 62

Maniacal Misfitz
Player rating and Team formation

Midfield: passable - (6)
Right Side Defence: excellent - (8)
Central Defence: excellent - (8)
Left Side Defence: solid - (7)
Right Side Attack: passable - (6)
Central Attack: outstanding - (10)
Left Side Attack: solid - (7)

NSI - 64

Post Game Comments

I came into this match fully expecting to lose... with my crap form, bad TS and being on the road my midfield was doomed. But after 2 of his players got red carded in the first 30 mins and one his better wingers getting injuried (only +1 thank god) i knew i had a shot. When the game was over and i lost 2-1, i looked at the ratings and i was a little surprised, i had the better offense and defense, i only lost possession 51/49 in the first half and 55/45 in the second half, yet they had 6 scoring chances to my 2. I'll never for the life of me be able to figure out the HT engine. :)

Now on to the players! I can't believe Jakob only got 2.5 stars... this from a outstanding Playmaker :( it sucks having him in poor form, its really gonna effect my team next season. Omar Nairn was also a let down today only getting 3 stars as a defensive wingback, his form as been falling hard lately so now i guess he's in low passable form. The upside to all this is i got my first ever outstanding central attack! Having 2 offensive middies in there really gave it a boost..... Im impressed. While im a little disappointed at the final score, it was a good friendly. The only injury was a +1 "Bruised But Training", so its not big deal. Thanks for the game Duke!!! Good Luck next season!!!

Upnext, This weeks training and form update

Havok

02-26-2004, 09:39 PM

Training and Form Update

I was expecting 1 pop this week and i got it. Plus 1 bonus pop aswell......

Torbjörn Jonasson
431 000 US$, 18 years, solid form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

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

I was surprised when he didn't bump last week after 7 weeks of training, but the 50% PM training he got this week from playing winger was enough to bump him. It looks like Tor is gonna be a part of my starting line-up for awhile with how crappy my number 1 defensive middy's form is.

Benton Minter
84 000 US$, 20 years, passable form
Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities

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

Benton didn't even play this week and he bumped in PM :) he was my first ever solid youth pull a long time ago so its nice to see him improving.

Form Update

As you all know form has been kicking my ass lately(Mainly my starting middy's). Today got a "Little" better. My number 2 middy "Jakob Mogensen" (Outstanding PM) is still in poor form but my number 3 middy "Joaquim Neiva" improved to inadequate form. So now my starting middies form is Solid/inadequate/poor. Still pretty crappy, but Torbjorn (Solid form/Formidable PM) can fill in for Jakob so it won't be TO bad i guess. Besides my middies, form was pretty average considering alot of poeple didn't play a game this week. Next week i train stamina so who knows what's gonna happen with form.

3 Players Increased in Form (2 Starters)
4 Players Decreased in Form (3 Starters)

Team/Player Value

Value per player (average): 260 222 US$ (+8,748)
Total squad value: 4 684 000 US$ (-94,000)
Average age: 21
Current form (average): passable
Experience (average): poor
No of players (excluding the coach): 18 (-1)
Number of nationalities: 12

Numbers are a little screwy since i sold Roy Hoekstra.

Upnext, End of the season stuff

Havok

02-26-2004, 11:45 PM

Maniacal Misfitz Season 3 Awards

Ok.... Season 3 for the Misfitz is offically over and now its time for the Misfitz "End Of The Season Awards". I'll be handing out quite a few awards to the players i feel helped contribute the most to the Misfitz success this season. It won't all be about "Star Ratings" but they will defintely help play a part in decision. Lets get started.......

Defender of the Year

This was probally the toughest choice out of all the awards this season. Mainly because all 3 of my main starting defenders had great seasons!

Runner Up - Omar Narin - One of the first players ever purchesed buy the Misfitz. Omar is probally the heart and soul of my team and he holds quite a few Misfitz records, including.... "Most Games Played For The Team - 64" , "Days With The Club - 343" and "Most Yellow Cards - 8". He's had one hell of a season playing in 28 out of a possible 30 games (including friendlies), but he did have to sit out 1 league game for having 3 yellow cards. His form has never dropped below passable this season and was usually soild or better.

Winner - Joseph MacKindlay - Joseph's play this year was dominate to say the least. He started off the season a little slow, But after week 2 he only spent 1 week below solid form. He averaged between 3.5 and 4 stars a match playing central defender and wingback. At 31 years old, Joseph still seems to have plenty left in the old tank and he'll have a starting spot on my back 3 if he continues to play at such a high level.

Midfielder of the Year

This award is isn't as close as the defender awards. Since i sold one of my middy's halfway through the season (Josph Eder), it narrows it down to just 2 guys really.

Runner Up - Jakob Noer Mogensen - Jakob had a very good season until the last 3 weeks or so. He scored 7 goals total this season in league and cup games as a defensive midfiedler and held pasasble or higher form for the first 12 weeks of the season. But his "Fall From Grace" recently ended his chances of winner this award. He's dropped 4 levels in form over the past 4 weeks and shows no sign of pulling out of it any time soon.

Winner - Huey Miller - My rock! and the center piece of my midfield! Huey is my farthest along midfielder in PM training and always seems to be in good form. He's has no "Secondaries" to speak of, but that doesn't matter in his case. He's always in passable or higher form and gets me a steady 4 stars a game as my "Extra Inner Midfielder". Plus his "Head" skill notches a couple goals every year and im sure its saves a few goals from being scored on us aswell. At only 19, Huey will continue to grow as a midfielder for the Misfitz for another 1 1/2 - 2 seasons.

Winger of the Year

there will be no runenr up for wingers because i only have 2 wingers on my roster right now, and noone really deserves the "Runner Up" award in my opinion.

Winner - Andi Neiweiler - As if there was any doubt! Andi is just 1 badass all around winger for us. He's only spent 2 weeks this season below passable form and gets 3.5 stars a game most of the time. Andi started off the season on fire..... cooled off for the middle part of the season... then hot red hot again to end the season. He creates a ton of scoring opportunity's from the wing and is a vital part of my offense.

Forward of the Year

This race really only came down to 2 guys.... and a close race it was.

Runner up - Maik Waldner - Im almost positive he would have won this award if he'd been with us the whole season. But we didn't buy him until week 4, so he missed 4 league games and 4 cup games. Since we bought him however, he's been a force to be reckoned with. He's put up a steady 3.5 stars a game and scored 11 goals in 9 league games.

Winner - Bill Wright - Another old vet gets an award :) Bill just had 1 incrediable year! While he doesn't quite get the "Star" ratings Maik gets. He just scores goals... lots of them! Lots and lots of them!!! 22 league goals and 6 cup goals to be exact!! Bill was the best 25k i ever spent! This was probally Bills last full season starting for the Misfitz, but he sure made it a memorable one. He'll still be a valuable back-up when he loses his starting job midway through next season.

Misfitz Season 3 MVP

Runner Up - Bill Wright - His 28 goals in 19 games was very very impressive. But i just couldn't give him the MVP award, i felt someone else deserved it more.....

Winner - Huey Miller - Without Huey dominating the midfield all season, Bill Wright just wouldn't have had all those scoring chances. When i took a step back and looked at my team, i realized Huey was definetly my most important player. Without him my midfield wouldn't have been nearly as dominate this season!! Go Huey!

Thats it for the awards.... upnext is my final thoughts on season 3 for the Misfitz!