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03-14-2003, 10:27 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Pintendre, Qc, Canada
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YAHD: FrogMan's Pittbulls
Hey everyone,
You've seen me around, commenting at times on some Hattrick threads. I've decided my team, the Pintendre Pittbulls deserved their little place in the dynasty universe. So here comes Yet Another Hattrick Dynasty: FrogMan's Pittbulls... Always keep in mind that the Pittbulls are stationned in Canada so all money figures are in Canadian dollars (divide by 2 to get US$ figure) I don't know how often I'll update it, but it'll be my little spot to report on my team, ask for your comments, suggestions, advice, etc. Let's get started with a few basic information The Team Pintendre Pittbulls (108238) Country: Canada Region: Quebec Arena: Pintendre Pittbulls Arena Language: English Series: # 7 in IV.38 Fan club: The Dog eat Dog club Club established: February 18, 2003 The logo  Some of you might recognize the jersey templates from managerzone.com . Well, about a week after I got my team there was a brief discussion about another online soccer management game, managerzone. I signed up, got my team in a few mintues only, played with it for about two weeks, only to get tired of taking care of two teams, so I stopped managing it. It's only this past week when I was thinking about a team logo that I remember managerzone's capability to let you pick your team's color scheme... Watcha think? not bad, eh? The players They have been a changing bunch. Of the original goup, only 11 are still there. Here they are: Your 27 players Pierre-Francois Aubert 186 000 C$, 23 years, passable form Has poor experience and weak leadership abilities Stamina: inadequate Keeper: inadequate Playmaking: disastrous Passing: disastrous Winger: wretched Defending: disastrous Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: weak Kevin Cooke 142 000 C$, 20 years, weak form Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities Stamina: wretched Keeper: inadequate Playmaking: disastrous Passing: disastrous Winger: disastrous Defending: disastrous Scoring: disastrous Set Pieces: disastrous Andreas Wästerstedt 84 000 C$, 19 years, inadequate form Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Unpredictable] Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: weak Passing: inadequate Winger: inadequate Defending: wretched Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: weak Andrew MacAdie 38 000 C$, 19 years, solid form Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Head] Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: inadequate Passing: poor Winger: weak Defending: poor Scoring: poor Set Pieces: inadequate Chris Verhaeg 86 000 C$, 26 years, passable form Has poor experience and poor leadership abilities Stamina: inadequate Keeper: wretched Playmaking: inadequate Passing: poor Winger: passable Defending: poor Scoring: poor Set Pieces: weak Christopher Gardner 254 000 C$, 23 years, inadequate form Has wretched experience and poor leadership abilities [Head] Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: passable Passing: poor Winger: poor Defending: passable Scoring: weak Set Pieces: poor Darren Franken 0 C$, 48 years, wretched form Has formidable experience and solid leadership abilities Stamina: wretched Keeper: wretched Playmaking: disastrous Passing: disastrous Winger: wretched Defending: disastrous Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: wretched David London 20 000 C$, 33 years, passable form Has weak experience and weak leadership abilities [Head] Stamina: passable Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: weak Passing: poor Winger: inadequate Defending: inadequate Scoring: weak Set Pieces: inadequate Jack Rudoy 60 000 C$, 25 years, inadequate form Has wretched experience and solid leadership abilities [Head] Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: wretched Passing: poor Winger: passable Defending: inadequate Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: poor Jean Saint-Laurent 32 000 C$, 24 years, passable form Has poor experience and inadequate leadership abilities Stamina: weak Keeper: wretched Playmaking: poor Passing: weak Winger: weak Defending: inadequate Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: wretched Jerry Best 16 000 C$, 29 years, passable form Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities Stamina: inadequate Keeper: wretched Playmaking: weak Passing: wretched Winger: wretched Defending: inadequate Scoring: poor Set Pieces: solid Klas Silfwerling 52 000 C$, 18 years, passable form Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: weak Passing: wretched Winger: wretched Defending: passable Scoring: weak Set Pieces: poor Malcolm Blackwell 48 000 C$, 24 years, solid form Has disastrous experience and wretched leadership abilities [Technical] Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: inadequate Passing: weak Winger: inadequate Defending: wretched Scoring: poor Set Pieces: solid Mel Russell 52 000 C$, 18 years, passable form Has disastrous experience and passable leadership abilities [Unpredictable] Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: weak Passing: inadequate Winger: poor Defending: poor Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: passable Michel Brouillard 22 000 C$, 17 years, passable form Has disastrous experience and passable leadership abilities Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: inadequate Passing: weak Winger: poor Defending: poor Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: wretched Mitch Madsen 26 000 C$, 24 years, passable form Has poor experience and poor leadership abilities Stamina: passable Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: wretched Passing: poor Winger: inadequate Defending: weak Scoring: weak Set Pieces: weak Neil Belyaev 46 000 C$, 26 years, passable form Has wretched experience and poor leadership abilities Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: poor Passing: inadequate Winger: poor Defending: inadequate Scoring: poor Set Pieces: inadequate Panos Kolokotronis 64 000 C$, 19 years, solid form Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: poor Passing: inadequate Winger: weak Defending: poor Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: weak Pierluigi Miceli 66 000 C$, 25 years, inadequate form Has wretched experience and solid leadership abilities Stamina: poor Keeper: wretched Playmaking: passable Passing: weak Winger: weak Defending: poor Scoring: weak Set Pieces: wretched Pierre Deschamps 16 000 C$, 29 years, weak form Has poor experience and inadequate leadership abilities Stamina: weak Keeper: wretched Playmaking: weak Passing: weak Winger: poor Defending: inadequate Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: inadequate Sammy Willis 54 000 C$, 25 years, inadequate form Has poor experience and inadequate leadership abilities Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: disastrous Passing: weak Winger: poor Defending: inadequate Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: passable Shane Garrett 108 000 C$, 18 years, solid form Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Technical] Stamina: passable Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: poor Passing: inadequate Winger: inadequate Defending: poor Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: inadequate Sol Chadwick 54 000 C$, 29 years, weak form Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: inadequate Passing: wretched Winger: inadequate Defending: weak Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: solid Stefan Rasmussen 78 000 C$, 21 years, solid form Has wretched experience and poor leadership abilities [Technical] Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: passable Passing: poor Winger: poor Defending: poor Scoring: weak Set Pieces: wretched Stephen Lumpkin 34 000 C$, 17 years, solid form Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Quick] Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: inadequate Passing: weak Winger: poor Defending: poor Scoring: weak Set Pieces: inadequate Vincent Lyles 40 000 C$, 18 years, passable form Has disastrous experience and passable leadership abilities [Powerful] Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: inadequate Passing: weak Winger: weak Defending: poor Scoring: weak Set Pieces: inadequate Walery Pawelek 90 000 C$, 22 years, passable form Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Quick] Stamina: weak Keeper: wretched Playmaking: weak Passing: poor Winger: passable Defending: inadequate Scoring: weak Set Pieces: wretched 27 players a little bit more than I'd like to carry, but I acquired 4 on last wednesday alone. They are Brouillard, Lyles, Russell, and Lumpkin. Paid 2K each for the first 3 and 6K for the last guy. Not too bad, considering they are all 17 or 18 y.o. and all around inadequates in their core rating (playmaking for three of them and scoring for the other) The formations 4-3-3: poor 4-5-1: excellent 3-5-2: poor 5-3-2: poor 3-4-3: wretched 5-4-1: poor As you can see, I've been playnig quite a bit of 4-5-1 and I am currently training playmaking at a level of 97%. That was the main reason for recruiting the three inadequate guys in playmaking, so I can train 6 inner middie a week... The coach This is the third coach of the franchise and was picked this past Monday. Darren Franken (8753977) 48 years, wretched form, healthy A inadequate coach who goes all out A controversial person who is temperamental and honest. Has formidable experience and solid leadership abilities. The fact that he is only an inadequate coach might be compensated by his formidable experience and solid leadership. I like that. Before him, we had a two weak coaches in a row... The starting lineup As sais previously, we play a 4-5-1 to maximize the training of the midfielders. Here are the starters: keeper: Aubert (I know, only inadequate, still shopping for a passable one) wingbacks: Rudoy, Saint-Laurent cent. def.: London, Silfwerling wingers: Verhaeg, Pawelek inner mid: Rasmussen, Gardner, Blackwell Forward: Garrett (or Kolokotronis) I usually pick my lineup starting with my inner mids, then winger, then forward, then central def, then wingbacks... That's especially true for league games with my "A" team. That way, I maximize my midfield and attack. Also when I play a 4-5-1, in order to compensate for the lack of offense, I usually play both my wingers as "offensive". Micelli and Verhaeg are currenly on the transfer market but bidding stops in something like five minutes. That's about it for now. Your comments are always welcome. Later, FrogMan. 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03-14-2003, 10:51 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Pintendre, Qc, Canada
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A few more things... First about the trainers. Following everyobdy's advice, we pumped the youth squad investment to the max, and hired a few spokepersons. Right now we stand at 2 keepers coaches and 5 assistant for a total of 7. this could be pushed up to the combined max of 10 at the beginning of next season...
The Club Youth Squad: weak Investment in the Youth squad: 40 000 C$ / week Goaltending Coaches: 2 Assistant Coaches: 5 Sport Psychologists: 0 Spokepersons: 4 Economists: 0 Physiotherapists: 1 Doctors: 0 Also our stadium is still the basic stadium (2000+5000) but we hope to increase the seating at the beginning of next season... So far, since taking over the team in division IV, we had a 4-3 win over the 5th place team, a 1-0 win over the 7th place team, and a 6-2 loss over the top team in the series. When we took over the team, it was dead last with no points, now we have 6 points and are in 7th place. This won't save the team from being relegated in div V, but it feels a tiny bit more respectable. Interesting to note that despite the 6-2 loss in that last league game, it was the best game disputed by the team, which is encouraging. Here are the relative rates for the different games played so far (entire team rating/supporter stats): Best game ever - Entire team 1. Elora FBC - Pintendre Pittbulls 3/9/2003 100% 2. Pintendre Pittbulls - Chips 2/23/2003 98% 3. Gozarians - Pintendre Pittbulls 3/5/2003 77% 4. Snow Shovellers - Pintendre Pittbulls 3/2/2003 75% 5. Bbors - Pintendre Pittbulls 3/12/2003 70% 6. Pintendre Pittbulls - Orcs 2/19/2003 66% 7. Les Supra - Pintendre Pittbulls 2/26/2003 59% Ouch, that formatting is ugly. Anybody can tell me how you can "code" something? I'm tired now, gotta go to sleep. Later, FrogMan. |
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03-17-2003, 08:29 PM
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Hattrick Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Pintendre, Qc, Canada
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Last week in div IV
Well this was it, the Pittbulls' last league game in division IV, as they are certain of finishing 7th in their league. There wasn't much I could do about it though. Guess now we'll focus on dominating a div V league, which is really not a certainty either
 The Game At least we sold out our last league game, which isn't a big feat by any mean, seeing that we still have only 7000 seat in our arena... We played Atalier, the 4th place team of our league (42 gf, 36 ga, 24 pts). For us, this had to be considered a good challenge, with our 6 points, 13 goals for, and 60 goals against... Our formation of choice was the 4-5-1 with the following players as starters: Keeper: Aubert Wingback: Rudoy, Pawelek Central Def: London, Silfwerling Wingers: Garrett, Verhaeg Inner middies: Rasmussen, Blackwell, Gardner Forward: Kolokotronis We decided to play both wingers offensively to compensate for the lack of offence up front. I'd have to say I'm pretty happy how the game was played. We took the lead after 15, but they scored right away in the 16th minute. We controlled the middle of the field with an impressive 77% possession rate. I expected the team to fall appart in the second, especially because I believe our level of stamina is not where it should be to compete at a good level for a full 90 minutes. We got scored on in the 1st minute of the second half and it stayed that way, final score: 2-1 for Atalier. Strong point for the Pittbulls: an amazing 89% possession rate in the second half! Team ratings and indexes Pintendre Pittbulls Midfield: weak (4) Right Side Defence: inadequate (5) Central Defence: passable (6) Left Side Defence: inadequate (5) Right Side Attack: passable (6) Central Attack: poor (3) Left Side Attack: inadequate (5) ---------------------------------------- DKI: 38 NSI: 42 Atalier Midfield: wretched (2) Right Side Defence: passable (6) Central Defence: passable (6) Left Side Defence: inadequate (5) Right Side Attack: excellent (8) Central Attack: outstanding (10) Left Side Attack: inadequate (5) ---------------------------------------- DKI: 44 NSI: 46 As some of you may know the DKI come from DataKing Index, which is to add up all positional ratings counting IM for double. The NSI comes from the NevStar Index, Nevstar's way of doing it, adding them up but counting IM for triple its value... My way of doing it at first was simply to make an average of all the ratings. I like those two and will keep making note of how my team performs based on them... The thing I can say that I liked about this game was how strong my 4-5-1 defense resisted to their excellent and oustanding attack ratings. Maybe with another formation I would have been beaten 4-1 or something like that... Youth team The only good news for the youth squad this week is that they are now at an inadequate level, up from their weak level from a week ago. Bad news is the only thing I could pull out of that youth squad was a Chris Weinke-ish 22 yer old wretched keeper  Transfer market activity This is where it gets interesting. I was very intent on getting a passable keeper but didn't want to pay too much, so I made many searches in many coutries and had bookmarked quite a few passable keepers. Many of them had deadlines coming on Saturday and Sunday afternoon, when I would have been able to be there and fight a little. With all the problems that we know about now, many of them saw their deadlines extended until today. I had 2 bidding war this morning, but I was very controlled, letting go when the players got out of my price range, which I had set at around 100 000 $C (50 000$US). I know many of you would say this wasn't a very high price to get a passable keeper, but I was willing to experiment and try my luck... The thing is around 1:30 this PM, I got into two simultaneous bidding war for two keepers, one , 26 y.o., the other 21 y.o.. I guess you can see me coming. After a bit of going back and forth, I put one last bid on both players, 132 000$C on the 21y.o. and 90 000$ on the 26 y.o. Well, well, well I GOT BOTH  Here are the two newest Pittbulls:Haji Jamal Nasir Osman 342 000 C$, 21 years, passable form Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities Stamina: disastrous Keeper: passable Playmaking: disastrous Passing: disastrous Winger: disastrous Defending: disastrous Scoring: disastrous Set Pieces: disastrous -------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Elkins 330 000 C$, 26 years, weak form Has poor experience and wretched leadership abilities Stamina: wretched Keeper: passable Playmaking: disastrous Passing: disastrous Winger: disastrous Defending: wretched Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: solid -------------------------------------------------------------- Now what do you think I should do? My other two keepers are both inadequate keepers. I'm thinking of putting back Elkins on the transfer and also to let go Aubert (23y.o. inad keeper) on the transfer market... Thing I have not mentionned, this dumb move as put me into debt (only 18 000$C, but still)... So I'll have to do something at some point... Speaking of transfer market, I was also thinking of selling Christopher Gardner, the star of all the players I got at first, but who is already 23 y.o. and not a star at anything (good overall, many strong points, but nothing that impresses me now that I'm training playmaking... Here are his credentials... Christopher Gardner 254 000 C$, 23 years, inadequate form Has wretched experience and poor leadership abilities [Head] Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: passable Passing: poor Winger: poor Defending: passable Scoring: weak Set Pieces: poor I know he's got plenty of stamina and passable playmaking, but at 23, he might be too trainable... Maybe I could get some money for him. Let me know what you think... Would it be better to wait at the beginning of next season?? That's about it for tonight. Se ya later! FrogMan. |
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03-24-2003, 06:46 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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Hey! With all that rankings stuff, I almost forgot I started that thread a long time ago
Well, well, it's now done. The Pittbulls are now officially a member of league V.211 in Canada. Thi might make for a boring season though, not so much because the Pittbulls won't be fighting all they have to get back in div IV, but because they won't have anybody to trash talk with in that new league. It's an all-bot league in which the promoted team (taking my place in IV.38) finished with 40 points out of a possible 42... Also, my supporter club, The Dog Eat Dog Club saw it's membership drop from some 620 member to some 559, about a 10% drop, that goes with relegation...  Since my last update I was quite active, especially on the transfer market. I have really decided to go into training playmaking, so I decided to go after a few cheap 17-18-19 year olds inadequates in playmaking and passing. Here are the newest Pittbulls: Code:
We currently have Stefan Rasmussen as a regular 2.5 stars average as our star middie. These should complement him and learn with him. We were quite hapy to sign Per Rossten, seeing as he already has a solid stamina and we should be able to pop him to passable playmaking by midseason. Other than buying, we also sold a few players, including American passable keeper Tim Elkins. Poor Tim was acquired at the exact same minute as our current starting keeper, Singaporean Haji Jamal Nasir Osman. Since Tim is 26, soon to turn 27, we decided to let him go. We paid 90 000 C$ for his services and started the bidding at 4 999 C$. After a few days of newbies fighting for over him, the final price ended at 128 000 C$, a net 115 200 C$ in the team's bank account, after the agent fees. This gave us a net gain of a tiny bit over 25K for having Tim on our roster for a little over a week...But we were still with 3 keepers on the roster, with 2 inadequates in Pierre-François Aubert and Kevin Cooke. We decided to put Cooke on the market simply because Aubert is a Canadian and his salary was way below the one Cooke was asking for. We got 22 000 C$ for Cooke, which is about the price we paid for him a few weeks ago... Now what? Training... I mentionned my intention of going with some playmaking training and we started that with two weeks to go in the season. Absolutely no players moved a tiny bit in playmaking, but we'll keep on going that way, with the now excellent way we are mastering the 4-5-1, this makes 3 middie and 2 wingers each week getting their training. For now, since it's the offseason, we will go with a first week of Stamina training, that may or may not be followed by a second week of stamina, depending on the form drop we will experience after the first week of training. I'm thinking more and more like some people who thinks that training general might be a waste of a week of training. I'm exlpaining myself by the fact that I will start next season in a considerably weaker division and I might be able to win even with the temporary drop in form that occures after stamina training. Form fluctuates and shuold go back to normal after a few weeks, but the stamina my players will have gained will be there forever. I'll let you know how this works out... On the Economy side of things, we have officially fallen into the debt side of things, with our latest improvement to our stadium. We played in our regular 7 000 seats stadium since getting our team 4 weeks ago, but sold out in second and last home game of the season. My reasoning is that I'm hoping to catch on fire by the fourth week or so and play the rest of my weeks sold out. That's what happened to the team that got promoted for that V.211 league, selling out 22500 seats for his last 4 games. Even though I don't know his fan base, I think my team could do about the same. The stadium improvement cost 306 800 C$ and will put us in the red of 280 174 C$... To help out with the debt payment, I'm seriously thinking about selling Christopher Gardner, our best all-around player, the first 2 stars player of the club. Watcha think I could get for him? Code:
He's been playing inner middie for us since day one, especially because of his passable playmaking and excellent stamina, but he might now be to old, at 24 in a week, to be trained up from his passable playmaking... That's about it for now. Sorry for the long post. We have a friendly with Ausonny's Bees on Wednesday and are awaiting a decision to see if we qualify for the National cup. This will be the last post for this season. I'll start another thread for the Pittbulls' first, and hopefully last, season in division V Later, FrogMan |
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03-25-2003, 02:57 AM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Jan 2001
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I don't know if that's still the case, but you have too many inadequate defenders on your team (and most of them are quite old).
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03-25-2003, 09:07 AM
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Yes Alf, it's still the case. I have not worked on my defensive side of things too much and those old dude you are talking about were with the team since the beginning. Just as we speak, three of them just got their pink slip and are standing in line at the unemployment office Bye Neil Belyaev, Bye Pierre Deschamps, Bye Sol Chadwick Also, it's not like I want to field a very good second defensive unit. I bought Rudoy (25) and London (33) very cheap for the simple reason that they would will the gap for now. I don't really care if they're old, since I won't be training defense or at least quite a bit of time... FrogMan |
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03-25-2003, 11:13 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Tough luck that you're in an all-bot league. That's gotta be boring.
On the other hand, you'll win lots of games & make lots of money.
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03-25-2003, 11:35 AM
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You're quite right about the boring part, nobody to talk to... The win/money angle is the reason I decided to expand my stadium right now. I'm really hoping to get a good winning streak going... FrogMan |
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