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robbgmaier
11-19-2003, 06:23 AM
The things we do when we can't sleep. With my midfield training crew having swollen to 9 members, I've had to be somewhat creative with my positionings. After the cup, it's not all that big a deal, but at the moment, it's causing me a tiny bit of concern. My actual winger, Elijah Dupree, has been sucking the form monkey pretty hard. He's currently inadequate, but that doesn't really get the job done. Someone else from outside the training core played a wing during my league match, so in order to play him this week, I have two choices. I could play him as an offensive wingback, but he has wretched defense. Not that big a deal, I *AM* playing a bot after all. The other choice is to play him as an extra forward, where he does have inadequate scoring and weak passing. The problem there is that I'm playing a 2-5-3, and my formation experience suffers. Actually there is a third choice, I could just not play him, and hope is form goes up anyway.

Anyway, it's a little over 11 hours until the orders get locked. I'm currently in the 2-5-3, a little curious as to how the ratings will look if nothing else. Anyone have an opinion here, is the 2-5-3 a little too likely to lead to a loss? I can't believe I could actually lose, but with sleep deprevation induced paranoia, who knows how many of you are out to get me?!?

Poli
11-19-2003, 10:18 AM
It's interesting you are choosing the 253 (I refer to formations w/o hyphens most of the time, the american football coach in me, I suppose) so early. It does make some sense, so don't shoot yourself yet.

As for your player: You're playing a bot. Put him in at WB, and let it ride. You'll beat a bot. I can say I've seen a team lose to a bot (see my next cup opponent, apparently beat a human team), but that kind of thing is rare and UG UL LEE.

vex
11-19-2003, 10:44 AM
When I was in Div. V, if a team had inad. or worse offense, I would go all out "offensive" 253.

robbgmaier
11-19-2003, 06:16 PM
ardent, it would be a 3-5-2 if i played him at just wingback, he just doesn't have any defense....anyway, we're already up 1-0, so it should be ok....besides, I slept through the orders deadline :)

Easy Mac
11-19-2003, 06:20 PM
7000 people showed up at the bots' place. Made me 13K. Up 1-0 so far.