SESL

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This is a specific page for the SESL league of OLMEC.

Each manager coaches a Scottish soccer club. A season is divided into "sessions".

Each manager submits lineup order instructions online for each sessions, and the commissioner ('Commish') then resolves the matches using the OLMEC software which determines the scores and the effects of the sessions on each manager's club.

Currently in Season 20

SESL Season 20

Founded

January 1999

Number of Teams

48

Divisions

1st Division 2nd Division 3rd Division

Cups

CECIL Cup, SESL Cup

Title Holders

CECIL Cup: East Fife (20)

League: Dundee UTD (20)

SESL Cup: Dunfermline Athletic(20)

Contents 1 Officers 1.1 Officer Duties 2 Website 2.1 SESL Forum 3 Roll of Champions 4 The Structure of a Season 4.1 Session 5 League 5.1 1st Division 5.2 2nd Division 5.3 3rd Division 5.4 Standings 5.5 Playoffs 5.6 Wooden Spoon 6 The Cups 6.1 CECIL Cup 6.1.1 Advancement in the cup 6.1.2 Round Structure 6.2 SESL Cup 6.2.1 Group Stages 6.2.2 Knockout stages 7 Season 20 8 Bosmans 8.1 Background 8.2 SESL Background 8.3 Player Allocation 9 Awards 9.1 Manager of the Season 9.2 Golden Boot 9.3 Golden Gloves 9.4 Other Awards

Officers

Duties:		Officer	Email Address
Commissioner:		Mark Creasey	SESL at ukonline dot co dot uk
Press Officer		Phil McIntosh	beagle at kvmo dot net
Trade Dispute Committee		See below
Player Value Coordinator		Graham McDermott	gpmcd at bcs dot org

Officer Duties

• The 'Commish' is responsible for running the league matches and the league as a whole.
  • Commish has right to reverse very poor trades.
  • Please read Benign Dictatorship for more on Commish.
• Phil McIntosh will award Participation Bonus based on Press Releases posted on the Blog and Journal, 50k is the maximum award for Participation Bonus.
  • Phil has outlined the Press Guidelines for Season 20
• A 'Trade Dispute Committee' will deal with any trade disputes reported e.g., another manager feels an agreed trade was too one-sided.
  • Consists Steve Turner, David Blair & Graham McDermott
• A ‘Player Value Panel’ – lead by Graham McDermott - consisting of at least 3 managers may also be asked to pass judgement on any unfair trades and suggest a fair add-on to even the trade up e.g. a couple of CP to be sent to other team.

Where a newbie manager has been taken advantage off, then the Commissioner can demand a trade is reversed.

Website

During Season 16/17 almost all functions of the game have been automated on the SESL website.

Orders are submitted online, trades are completed online, and interaction with other managers is possible on the blog, journal and match comments.

It is possible to communicate with other managers by email or IM. This is commonly done for trade discussions, as well as banter.

SESL Forum

There is also a forum for SESL. On the forum, there is more informal discussions, as well as non-game discussions about real life matters. Proposals for rule changes are also posted here, but will usually be linked from the journal. Informal polls by managers are often put on the forum, as well as end of season Manager of the Season voting.

If a manager is seriously under-achieving with a team that should be going for glory, then that teams CHAIRMAN (Commissioner) may give him a warning and expect things to improve. This is normally done on the forum as a bit of fun (initially) to gee up a de-motivated manager.

Roll of Champions

Complete Roll of Champions

Season	League		League Div 2		League Div 3		CECIL Cup		SESL Cup
	Team	Player	Team	Player	Team	Player	Team	Player	Team	Player
1	HIB	Michael Fant	LIV	John Milligan					ABE	Ross Hayworth
2	HEA	Robin Dewar	BRE	Anders Nisula					AYR	Dan Black
3	HIB	Michael Fant	QP	James White	ALB	Alon Atie			ABE	Ross Hayworth
4	HIB	Michael Fant	ALB	Alon Atie	BEL (DEV)	Adrian Nicholas			CLB	Allan Sellers
5	ALB	Alon Atie	COW	Terry Bray	EDI	Richard Mosher			MON	Christian Chung
6	BEL (DEV)	Adrian Nicholas	EDI	Richard Mosher	FAL	Nick Tippins			ALB	Alon Atie
7	BEL (DEV)	Adrian Nicholas	DEE	Mark Wilkinson	AYR	John Moore			ALB	Alon Atie
8	BEL (DEV)	Adrian Nicholas	HEA	Bruce Allen	ROS	Robin Dewar			COW	Terry Bray
9	CEL	Mark Findlay	DUM	Martin Fallon	BER	Steve Wright			DEE	Philip Ross
10	CEL	Mark Findlay	KIL	Todd Teis	AI	Kevin Hull			RAN	James White
11	RAN	James White	BUC	Sergio Bono	FAL	Jamie McIntosh			ABE	Ross Hayworth
12	RAN	James White	DFA	Michael Suwandi	RR	James Tucker			ABE	Ross Hayworth
13	CEL	Mark Findlay	RR	James Tucker	GM	Andrew MacKie			DFA	Michael Suwandi
14	RAN	James White	PET	Ciril Detecnik	ALB	Andy Turfitt	FAL	Nick Tippins	CEL	Bill Nichol
15	INV	Steve Turner	AYR	Neil Lukins	GRE	Mark Findlay	INV	Steve Turner	HIB	Peter Babcock
16	CEL	Bill Nichol	PT	Brian O’Farrell	QP	Alistair Nicholl	RAN	James White	HIB	Peter Babcock
17	RAN	James White	QOS	Stephen Othen	SM	Jackie Hanley	DUU	Mark Boland	PET	Ciril Detecnik
18	HEA	Stewart Gordon	SM	Jackie Hanley	GM	Craig McPhereson	STJ	Yoav Haberman	DFA	Fran Morillo
19	HEA	Stewart Gordon	GM	Graeme Scott	DEV	Steve Turner	EF	Óli Sigurjónsson	LIV	Adrian Nicholas
20	DUU	Mark Boland	BEL	Steve Turner	COW	Alan Bishop	EF	Óli Sigurjónsson	DFA	Fran Morillo

The Structure of a Season

SESL has Cup competitions and the League. The season starts with the CECIL Cup and ends with the Promotion/Relegation Playoffs. The commish will publish the fixture schedule at the beginning of the season.

Session

Each manager submits lineup order instructions online for each session, and the commissioner then resolves the matches using the OLMEC software which determines the scores and the effects of the session on each manager's club.

A session consists of

• one match for Cup sessions
• two matches for League sessions.

Normally there are two sessions in a week, alternating between Cup sessions midweek on Wednesday and League sessions on a Saturday.

• Before Mid-Season Ageing (MSA) CECIL Cup games are played on Wednesday.
• The first sessions after MSA are the group stages of the SESL Cup
  • SESL Cup group stages are done at a faster rate to encourage particapation and not drag out the season.
  • 5 games in 8 days, with a session every second day.

League

The League consists of 3 Divisions (Div) of 16 teams playing the other teams in their division twice (once at home and once away).

The Champions are the team that finishes with the most points at the end of the 30 game league campaign in Div 1. With Division winners being the team top of their respective divisions.

1st Division

• All 1st Division game revenues will give each team an extra 25k per game.
• Exempt from CECIL Cup Qualifier Round.
• Apprentices cost 400k.
• At the end of each regular season
  • 13th to 16th relegated to Div 2.
  • 11th and 12th into relegation Playoffs.

Season 20 1st Division Teams

2nd Division

• Must compete in the CECIL Cup Qualifier Round.
• Apprentices cost 300k.
• At the end of each regular season
  • 1st to 4th promoted to Div 1..
  • 5th and 6th into promotion Playoffs.
  • 13th to 16th relegated to Div 3.
  • 11th and 12th into relegation Playoffs.

Season 20 2nd Division Teams

3rd Division

• Must compete in the CECIL Cup Qualifier Round.
  • Apprentices cost 200k.
• At the end of each regular season
  • 1st to 4th promoted to Div 2.
  • 5th and 6th into promotion Playoffs.

Season 20 3rd Division Teams

Standings

Clubs are ranked in the League Divisions and the SESL Cup Group primarily by the number of points (Pts) they earn. Clubs earn 3 Pts per win and 1 Pt per draw. Clubs with equal Pts shall have that tie broken using the following criteria (in order):

1. Goal Differential
2. Total Goals Scored
3. Head To Head Record
4. Most Goals Scored in Head To Head Play
5. Games Won
6. Goals scored @ home
7. Home matches Won
8. Leading Goal scorer
9. Flip of a coin

Playoffs

• Playoffs to encourage more meaningful games towards end of a season.
• These are One-off games at neutral venue.
• Note: No EL boost before the playoffs

Div1 11th	will play	Div2 6th
Div1 12th	will play	Div2 5th
Div2 11th	will play	Div3 6th
Div2 12th	will play	Div3 5th

Wooden Spoon

At the end of each regular season – the manager whose team has finished bottom of Division 3 will automatically retire and be replaced by a waiting list manager. However, if the bottom Division 3 manager has shown sufficient effort during the season (despite their unfortunate lowly league position), then the manager may be given a further season to improve his team. If the Chairman sacks the bottom team manager, he will be placed at the top of the waiting list and invited to re-join SESL as soon as a team becomes available – this is at the discretion of the Commissioner.

The Cups

The two Cups in SESL are the CECIL Cup and the SESL Cup

• Each team is guaranteed at least two games in the CECIL Cup.
• Each team is guaranteed at least five games in the SESL Cup
• Note: No EL boost for knocked out teams not playing

CECIL Cup

CECIL Cup (stands for Commish Early Campaign Inter League Cup).

It is a knock out cup, played over 2 legs, home and away. Until the final, which is a one off game at a neutral ground.

Advancement in the cup

• The team with the superior aggregate score (combined) over the two legs.
• In the event of a tied aggregate score, away goals count double.
• If the tie is still level, then a penalty shoot out will be required.

Round Structure

The CECIL Cup starts with a Qualifying Round.
This will consist of Div 2 and Div 3 teams having a 2 leg match, with the winner going into the draw with the Div 1 teams.
Starting season 20, Qualifying Round pairings are completely random, with a live draw in a online chat room.

• Season 20 Qualifying Round

From Round of 32 to the Final, the pairings follow a tree with known opponents along the way.

• Season 20 Draw of CECIL Knockout Rounds

Round	Match Ups
Last 32	Team 1 v Team 2	Team 3 v Team 4	Team 5 v Team 6	Team 7 v Team 8	Team 9 v Team 10	Team 11 v Team 12	Team 13 v Team 14	Team 15 v Team 16	Team 17 v Team 18	Team 19 v Team 20	Team 21 v Team 22	Team 23 v Team 24	Team 25 v Team 26	Team 27 v Team 28	Team 29 v Team 30	Team 31 v Team 32
Sweet 16	Team 1 v Team 4		Team 5 v Team 8		Team 9 v Team 12		Team 13 v Team 16		Team 17 v Team 20		Team 21 v Team 24		Team 25 v Team 28		Team 29 v Team 32
Quarter-Finals	Team 1 v Team 8				Team 9 v Team 16				Team 17 v Team 24				Team 25 v Team 32
Semi-Finals	Team 1 v Team 16								Team 17 v Team 32
Final	Team 1 v Team 32

SESL Cup

Takes place in the second half of the season, with the Group Stages being the first sessions after MSA.

Group Stages

• Consists of 8 groups (A – H) of 6 teams randomly drawn, with a live draw in a online chat room.
• Each team plays one game against the other teams in their group.
  • Games in these groups are now played at Neutral venue.
• SESL Cup group stages are fast fire 5 games in 8 days, with a session every second day.
  • Season 20 Group Stages will be here.
• The top FOUR teams in each group qualify for the last-32 knockout stages played Midweek
  • With the knock out rounds using the below table that seeds the group winners.

Knockout stages

Round	Match Ups
Last 32	A1 v C4	E3 v G2	A3 v C2	E1 v G4	A2 v C3	E4 v G1	E2 v G3	A4 v C1	B1 v D4	F3 v H2	B3 v D2	F1 v H4	B2 v D3	F4 v H1	F2 v H3	B4 v D1
Sweet 16	A1 v G2		C2 v E1		A2 v G1		E2 v C1		B1 v H2		D2 v F1		B2 v H1		F2 v D1
Quarter-Finals	A1 v E1				G1 v C1				B1 v F1				H1 v D1
Semi-Finals	A1 v C1								B1 v D1
Final	A1 v B1

Season 20

Here are the details of Season 20

Bosmans

Background

In 1995 a Belgian player, [Jean-Marc Bosman], challenged his employment rights saying he ought to be allowed to move freely to another club at the end of his contract. The European Court of Civil Rights upheld his complaint and this had a major impact on real life European football. Players were to be treated like any other worker who could move to a new employer without a transfer fee. European football is now flooded at the end of a season by hundreds of players looking to join a new club for free.

SESL Background

The Commish implemented Bosman Players into SESL to replace both Trialist Player and a pre-season draft. The main reasons are that new managers often got confused between trialists and apprentices, plus many managers wished to re-name their trialist to that of their favourite real life player. This can now happen with Bosman Players who are named at the time of joining their new team at the start of a season.

Player Allocation

The pre-season Bosman Player allocation occurs just before the start of the current season.

• Bosman Player are free of charge and may be either GK, SW, DF, MF, WG, or FW.
• Each team gets one Bosman Player (always age 1) based on each team's finishing position during the previous season.
• The Skill Level is established by taking league position finish and adding 5 SL.
• The minimum Bosman Player Skill Level is 6, and the maximum 16 SL.

This means all teams finishing 11th to 16th place get the same SL of Player and prevents teams in the relegation zone just giving up towards the end of a season just to get a higher SL Bosman Player.

• These players are allowed to be traded without playing 10 games, unlike other player acquisitions.

Awards

Manager of the Season

Each Division will have Manager of the season, as voted by all the managers in the forum.

• 2TP or +2 OTF

Golden Boot

Golden Boot

• 300k

Silver Boot

• 200k

Bronze Boot

• 100k

Golden Gloves

Golden Gloves

• 200k

Silver Gloves

• 100k

Bronze Gloves

• 50k

Other Awards

Most Man of the Match awards

• 100k or +1 OTF

Rookie Hotshot

• 200k
  • Age 0 only

Golden Oldie Hotshot

• 100k
  • Age 5+ only

Worst Shooter

• 50k

Fair Play Team Award

• 100k or +1 OTF