The FOFC cyberdunk team

[rjolley]

is the managersim.com site down?

[Icy]

Originally Posted by rjolley

is the managersim.com site down?

No, but you are missing the last s, here is the link:

http://www.managersims.com/cyberdunk/

[rjolley]

Ah, thanks. Page updated.

[damnMikeBrown]

Are we bugged? Our team hasn't gained any supporters all season. With the betting change in, we need to make some solid $$ on home games so that we can up the salaries. Can't do that if our supporters never increase. I smell a bug.

Oh, and the new betting is miserable. At some point this season, probably sooner rather than later(after the suspected bug is examined), I think we'll have to examine salaries just to continue training at a high level.

[Icy]

I dont' know about the supporters thing, will do a search, but what i can say is that we are making tons of money, $2.5M already in 6 home games or so, so probably i can raise everybody salaries.

[daedalus]

jeeb . . . i just started a power forward, if you are looking for one. have not drafted myself onto a team yet in case you are interested.

http://www.cyberdunk.com/player.php?...eg%20Kulcyanov

[Travis]

Great job so far this season Icy. Only a game out of 1st twelve games in is pretty damn sweet.

[Icy]

Yeah we are in the top 3 after today's win, and with chances to promote to the English top division. Let's keep fighting guys!

[JAG]

We have 2 games in 3 days vs. Dundee Jaguars. If you're wondering who your pass targets should be, here are the combined field goal percentages from the last time we played them for the different positions.:


PF/C

1/33

SG/PG/SF

49/64

[BreizhManu]

moved myself to special team player and passing to PF only 5%

[Icy]

Yeah we are way better with our small men.

[Icy]

Originally Posted by BreizhManu

moved myself to special team player and passing to PF only 5%

I have done the same, please all you, set the passing to C and PF to only 5%, the rest to PG, SG and SF as they are who will score for us in today's game.

[rjolley]

Set mine to 35 PG-30 SG-30 SF-5 C

[damnMikeBrown]

Cool..I love to score!

[Cheesehead Craig]

Well, here's my sorry excuse for a player (PF). He's only a week old and still has the afterbirth on him.

http://www.cyberdunk.com/player.php?id=842643&n

[Travis]

So I wonder how the manager for the Jaguars is feeling.

First meeting we win 135-126.

Last two meetings we sweep by a combined score of 315-87.

Granted, only 1 of those last 2 meetings was in league play, but we account for half their league losses so far this season. So much for trying to rely on two uber players.

[damnMikeBrown]

Looks like our team's lineup page has been altered. I know we were playing players out of position (not badly out of position), now we're all set to our actual positions. Will this prevent us from running our preferred lineups?

[Icy]

Originally Posted by damnMikeBrown

Looks like our team's lineup page has been altered. I know we were playing players out of position (not badly out of position), now we're all set to our actual positions. Will this prevent us from running our preferred lineups?

Which changes do you mean?

[Icy]

Btw, we need to change our passing targets for today game as they haev good outside players adn worse PF and C so set it like:

Passing Preferences: Our best best scorers (PG, PF and C) will receive most of the load.

For the PG's set it to:
C=40%
PF=40%
SF=10%
SG=10%

For the SG's set it to:
C=35%
PF=35%
SF=10%
PG=20%

For the SF's set it to:
C=35%
PF=35%
SG=10%
PG=20%

For the PF's set it to:
C=40%
SF=15%
SG=15%
PG=30%

For the C's set it to:
PF=40%
SF=15%
SG=15%
PG=30%

[damnMikeBrown]

Originally Posted by Icy

Which changes do you mean?

If you go the London FOFC Ballers page on cyberdunk, it used to be when you clicked on our team, that we (the players) were slotted differently. Jordanov was a PG (natural position was SG), one of our C's is actually a natural PF, a natural PG was our starting SG..etc.

If you look at the page now, all the players are listed by their natural positions, not in the way that they were slotted previously.

[Icy]

Originally Posted by damnMikeBrown

If you go the London FOFC Ballers page on cyberdunk, it used to be when you clicked on our team, that we (the players) were slotted differently. Jordanov was a PG (natural position was SG), one of our C's is actually a natural PF, a natural PG was our starting SG..etc.

If you look at the page now, all the players are listed by their natural positions, not in the way that they were slotted previously.

Ah ok, i see what you mean, i was looknig at my manager screen and there i see all the players in the positions i have them, nto the natural ones so unless they change that too, by now we can still keep playing Jeeber at C and Jordanov at PG.

[Icy]

Btw guys, how are you money wise? we are making $1M per home game now so i can send you money if you need it, like a $200k bonus per player. It will be $2M that is nothing for the current team finances (we have $11M).

[rjolley]

I'm at $1.4M, so doing ok. I can always send it over to my second player, though.

[Travis]

Well gents, enjoy today's game, because after this we're definitely into the meat of the league schedule. Talk about a string of games that will really show us where we stand against other active owners/players.

[damnMikeBrown]

My training is going to slow waaay down from here on out. Just makes it less fun, not improving all the time. Doing the blocks of +10pt 8day trainings. Going to be a slow rest of the season.

[Icy]

Originally Posted by damnMikeBrown

My training is going to slow waaay down from here on out. Just makes it less fun, not improving all the time. Doing the blocks of +10pt 8day trainings. Going to be a slow rest of the season.

Yeah, i had to start to do those trainings too as i'm over 60 in my important ratings.

[Ragone]

I thought it was funny looking at the leading scorer in div 2 page..

i was in the top 20 with 3-4 hours less playing time then anyone else heh..

also i'm shooting something like 75% for the season from the floor :P

[Icy]

Originally Posted by Ragone

I thought it was funny looking at the leading scorer in div 2 page..

i was in the top 20 with 3-4 hours less playing time then anyone else heh..

also i'm shooting something like 75% for the season from the floor :P

Yeah, we have aso Travis and DanMikeB in the top 10 in assists and steals, whith way lower pt than the other guys. That is the only problem of running thi steam in a "communist" way with all the players having equal pt, it's hard to climb the leading tables.

Btw, Ragone, you need to train stamina more, you player seems to be the only in the team unable to play 2 full Q when i have you set to do it.

[Icy]

Huge win yesterday!! they had some players in the 50's but i saw that their SF was the weak player and set our SF's to be the scorers and our SF Snow won this game for us!

[Ragone]

Thats odd.. according to the player page.. i have the 2nd highest stamina on team.. i had already went in for more stamina training before the reply anyway.. so no biggy

[JAG]

Nice going Icy, I thought we were gonna get killed.

[Icy]

Another huge win, and we are tied for second now!

[JAG]

and our toughest game of the season coming up today.

[Travis]

Not sure what Icy has in mind, but I've set my passing heavily (80%) to our PF's hoping that we can negate their rating advantage at that position by just wearing their starter down. Kept my player type on special teams as that seems to keep my guy from taking low percentage shots and has gotten him to the line fairly often. So fingers crossed.

[Icy]

We have not a lot to do but to try to get advantage of our deeper bench, their starters are better than us.

[Icy]

We lost as expected, they were way better than us.

We face another good team today, but they have no PF so set up a 60% of the passes to our PF. Btw, remember to always play "hard" as we have a deep bench so we can afford it.

Good news too, as we haev already 14m in the bank adn we are making 1M every home game, i have decided to offer all you a new contract and bonuses acording to our category.

30k per day and a 100k signing bonus, with 10k for league win and 20k for international win. Go to your offers page and sign it. It should help our trainign now that betting is a bit less easy.

[Travis]

Just tried to sign the contract, not sure if it took or not, got an error message after trying to sign. I'll check tomorrow and see if the rates have changed or not.

[rjolley]

Signed the contract successfully.

Travis, click on Current Contract on the Contract screen. It'll show you which one you're playing on.

[Icy]

Originally Posted by Travis

Just tried to sign the contract, not sure if it took or not, got an error message after trying to sign. I'll check tomorrow and see if the rates have changed or not.

I had the error too when signing mine, but it was signed besides the error.

[Icy]

Dola, just checked and yours is signed correctly Travis, also rjolley, manu and jeebers.

[Icy]

Nice win!

[JAG]

Heck of a win, we beat the #5 team in the English Premier. Now we've got a match vs. that team with a crappy SF and then two very tough ones vs. London Towers.

[damnMikeBrown]

I was notified of the contract, but when I went to accept, it was no longer available.

[Icy]

Originally Posted by damnMikeBrown

I was notified of the contract, but when I went to accept, it was no longer available.

It says that when you accept it, i guess it's a bug, but the contract is signed despite the error.

[damnMikeBrown]

I see that...very odd. Put it on their list I suppose of goofy things going on with the game.

Thanks for the raise though. The betting is to the point that it is not reliable for income. Make a few long shots, about half pay off, end up making maybe 50k on 35k. Not enough to train on long term.

[Travis]

Hey Icy, what spots were Jordanov, Man, Mighty and Snow playing today (just curious if any were out of position)? Looks like those 4 easily had the most shooting success today so just want to try and make sure I have my passing set to hopefully take more advantage of them tomorrow.

[JAG]

Funny, I just did the same thing and changed all my passing to the SG to take advantage of them for tomorrow and hopefully pull out an upset.

[Travis]

Originally Posted by JAG

Funny, I just did the same thing and changed all my passing to the SG to take advantage of them for tomorrow and hopefully pull out an upset.

I'm thinking the same thing. Had my passing split between SG and C today. Still worked okay and we gave them a run, be nice if we could at the very least close the gap some tomorrow though.

[JAG]

I think you (Jace) are the best passer on the team, wonder if we could go with a small lineup to take advantage of our shooters, let Jordanov, Man, and Mighty share all the time at PG/SG, stick Jace at PF and other good passer(s) at C and maybe SF, and then focus our passes to PG/SG to let them rack up the shots.

For what it's worth, Snow was at 89% stamina before the game, now at 94% despite playing 36 mins. Their SF's aren't great defenders, but they are insane offensively (one guy is a 44 with 10 stars in offense).

[damnMikeBrown]

I hate the way they keep stats. When we're fouled on a shot attempt, it records it as a missed shot. The most recent game I was a horrible 2/8 from the floor and 3/8 from behind the arc. Foul shots were 8/8...

4 shooting fouls, take those from that 2/8 and that looks like a more realistic 2/4 from the floor. I don't like that drawing fouls makes you look like a scrub shooter. . .