SESL Season 20

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SESL Season 20

Dates

Jan 2008 to May 2008

Number of Teams

48

Divisions

1st Division 2nd Division 3rd Division

Cups

CECIL Cup, SESL Cup

Cup Winners

CECIL Cup: East Fife

League: Dundee UTD

SESL Cup: Dunfermline Athletic

Contents 1 Officers 2 Calender 3 League 4 The Cups 4.1 CECIL CUP 4.1.1 Qualifying Round 4.1.2 CECIL CUP Draw 4.2 SESL CUP 4.2.1 SESL CUP Group Stage 4.2.2 SESL CUP Knockout stages 4.2.3 Penalty Shootouts 4.2.3.1 Round 2 4.2.3.2 Round 3 4.2.3.3 Quarter Final 5 Awards 5.1 Manager of the Season 5.2 Golden Boot 5.3 Golden Gloves 5.4 Other Awards 6 Press Rules 6.1 What is the purpose of the participation bonus? 6.2 Quantity vs. Quality 6.3 Statistical Analysis 6.4 What does the Participation Bonus cover? 6.5 Award Amounts 6.6 Negative Posts 6.7 Complaints 7 Trade Guide 7.1 Age 0 7.2 Age 1 7.3 Age 2 7.4 Age 3 7.5 Age 4 7.6 Age 5

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

Calender

[Forum Post] of Season 20 calender.

League

Alphabetic list of Season 20 Teams.

Div 1	Div 2	Div 3
[Aberdeen]	[Arbroath]	[Airdrie United]
[Celtic]	[Ayr United]	[Albion Rovers]
[Dundee United]	[Clyde FC]	[Alloa Athletic]
[Dunfermline Athletic]	[Deveronvale]	[Berwick]
[East Fife]	[Dumbarton]	[Brechin City ]
[Falkirk]	[East Stirlingshire]	[Buckie Thistle]
[Greenock Morton]	[Fraserburgh]	[Clydebank]
[Hearts]	[Gretna]	[Cowdenbeath]
[Hibernian]	[Inverness]	[Dundee FC]
[Kilmarnock]	[Motherwell]	[Elgin City]
[Livingston]	[Partick Thistle]	[Forfar Athletic]
[Montrose]	[Queen of the South]	[Hamilton Accies]
[Peterhead]	[Queens Park]	[Huntly]
[Rangers]	[Raith Rovers]	[Nairn County]
[Saint Johnstone]	[Stenhousemuir]	[Ross County]
[Saint Mirren]	[Stranraer]	[Stirling]

These links are to the landing pages of the teams on [SESL] website.

The Cups

CECIL CUP

Qualifying Round

Qualifying Round

Round	Match Ups
BUC 0(0) v (2)3 QOS	AYR 1(1) v (0)2 CLY	DEE 6(2) v (0)5 HUN	ALB 2(2) v (2)6 GRE	EST 1(0) v (1)2 SRA	ELG 1(0) v (0)1 COW	DUM 1(0) v (3)3 CB	PT 1(1)2p v 3p(0)1 FOR
ALO 0(0) v (2)2 RR	NAI 2(2) v (2)4 AI	QP 7(2) v (0)2 BER	ARB 5(2) v (0)1 STI	ROS 1(1) v (1)1 STE	BRE 1(1) v (1)1 HAM	MOT 1(1) v (1)3 FRA	DEV 6(5) v (2)2 INV

• For advanced on penalties winning 3-2 from 12 yards.
• ELG, STE and BRE advanced on away goals.

CECIL CUP Draw

Thur 24-Jan-08 CECIL Cup last32 random draw

Round	Match Ups
1st Round	FRA 0(0) v (0)4 GM	DUU 5(4) v (0)0 SM	DEE 2(1) v (0)2 ELG	ABE 0(0) v (3)8 FOR	StJ 0(0) v (1)3 HAM	DEV 5(5) v (0)3 CLY	DFA 1(1)4p v 3p(0)1 SRA	HIB 4(4) v (0)0 RR
2nd Round	GM 7(4) v (0)0 DUU		DEE 0(0) v (3)6 FOR		HAM 0(0) v (0)3 DEV		DFA 3(1) v (1)1 HIB
Quarter-Finals	GM 3(2) v (0)2 FOR				DEV 5(4) v (5)5 DFA
Semi-Final	GM 2(1) v (1)3 DFA
Final	DFA 1 v 5 EF
Champion	EF
Semi-Final	PET 0(0) v (5)7 EF
Quarter-Finals	PET 3(2) v (0)3 LIV				KIL 1(1) v (1)5 EF
2nd Round	MON 4(2) v (2)5 PET		QoS 0(0) v (3)7 LIV		KIL 5(5) v (1)3 RAN		CEL 3(2) v (2)8 EF
1st Round	MON 5(4) v (1)4 GRE	PET 3(3) v (0)0 AI	FAL 1(0) v (2)2 QoS	ARB 1(1) v (0)6 LIV	QP 0(0) v (1)3 KIL	RAN 5(3) v (0)0 STE	CB 4(1) v (2)5 CEL	HEA 4(1) v (1)5 EF

SESL CUP

Season 20 SESL Cup had no changes in format.

SESL CUP Group Stage

Sun 23-Mar-08 SESL Cup Group play draw

Group A	Pts	Group B	Pts	Group C	Pts	Group D	Pts
Dundee United	9	Inverness	13	Hearts	12	Hibernian	13
Queens Park	8	Motherwell	12	Deveronvale	12	Airdrie United	11
Aberdeen	7	Buckie Thistle	7	Raith Rovers	10	Huntly	9
Queen of the South	6	Ayr United	5	Dumbarton	7	Clydebank	6
Partick Thistle	5	Cowdenbeath	5	Gretna	3	East Stirlingshire	3
Arbroath	3	Stirling	0	Albion Rovers	0	Dundee FC	1

Group E	Pts	Group F	Pts	Group G	Pts	Group H	Pts
Saint Mirren	10	Nairn County	15	East Fife	12	Celtic	13
Greenock Morton	10	Stranraer	10	Clyde FC	9	Alloa Athletic	8
Dunfermline Athletic	8	Ross County	7	Forfar Athletic	9	Elgin City	8
Berwick	5	Stenhousemuir	4	Saint Johnstone	9	Peterhead	6
Livingston	4	Montrose	4	Falkirk	6	Kilmarnock	4
Fraserburgh	3	Hamilton Accies	3	Rangers	0	Brechin City	3

SESL CUP Knockout stages

Round	Match Ups
Last 32	DUU v DUM	DFA v CLY	ABE v DEV	SM v StJ	QP v RR	BER v EF	GM v FOR	QoS v HEA	INV v CB	ROS v ALO	BUC v AI	NAI v PET	MOT v HUN	STE v CEL	SRA v ELG	AYR v HIB
2nd Rd Result	3 v 0	3 v 0	0 v 6	6 v 0	0 v 0	0 v 0	1 v 4	0 v 3	1 v 1	0 v 4	1 v 0	2 v 2	5 v 1	0 v 3	1 v 0	0 v 0
Sweet 16	DUU v DFA		DEV v SM		QP v BER		FOR v HEA		INV v ALO		BUC v PET		MOT v CEL		SRA v HIB
3rd Rd Result	0 v 3		6 v 1		3 v 0		4 v 2		1 v 3		1 v 1		2 v 1		0 v 0
Quarter-Finals	(i) DFA v DEV				(ii) QP v FOR				(iii) ALO v PET				(iv) MOT v SRA
QF Result	1 v 1				0 v 0				2 v 0				(iv) 2 v 0
Semi-Finals	(A) DFA v QP								(B) ALO v MOT
SF Result	4 v 0								2 v 3
Final	DFA v MOT
F Result	7 v 1
Champion	DFA

Penalty Shootouts

Round 2

• QP 0 v 0 RR; Queens Park wins 4-3
• BER 0 v 0 EF; Berwick wins 4-2
• INV 1 v 1 CB; Inverness wins 2-0
• NAI 2 v 2 PET; Peterhead wins 3-2
• AYR 0 v 0 HIB; Hibernian wins 4-3

Round 3

• BUC 1 v 1 PET; Peterhead wins 4-2
• SRA 0 v 0 HIB; Stranraer wins 5-4

Quarter Final

• DFA 1 v 1 DEV; Dunfermline Athletic wins 3-2
• QP 0 v 0 FOR; Queens Park wins 4-3

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
  • Div 1 Poll voted Ross Hayworth ABE winner +2 OTF
  • Div 2 Poll voted Dave Dowson MOT winner +2OTF
  • Div 3 Poll voted Alan Bishop COW winner +2OTF

Golden Boot

Golden Boot

• 300k
  • Div 1 - Scott McDonald, Celtic - 22
  • Div 2 - Gary Clark, Deveronvale - 21
  • Div 3 - David Henney, Cowdenbeath - 21

Silver Boot

• 200k
  • Div 1 - Christian Nade, Hearts and Barry Robson, Dundee United - 21
  • Div 2 - Arouna Kone, Fraserburgh and Ian Murray, Deveronvale - 20
  • Div 3 - Billy Sharp, Buckie Thistle - 20

Bronze Boot

• 100k
  • Div 1 - See Silver
  • Div 2 - See Silver
  • Div 3 - Helgi Sigurdsson, Dundee FC - 19

Golden Gloves

Golden Gloves

• 200k
  • Div 1 - Nedzad Botonjac, Peterhead - 95.3
  • Div 2 - Scott Morrison, Arbroath - 88.3
  • Div 3 - Kim Smurf, brechin City - 79.8

Silver Gloves

• 100k
  • Div 1 - Allan Rough, East Fife - 89.1
  • Div 2 - Carlo Cudicini, Stenny - 88.0
  • Div 3 - Hans Zoff., Clydebank - 78.1

Bronze Gloves

• 50k
  • Div 1 - Allan McGregor, Rangers - 85.5
  • Div 2 - Craig Hinchcliffe, Stenny - 82.5
  • Div 3 - Alan Rough, Aidrie - 75.3

Other Awards

Most Man of the Match awards

• 100k or +1 OTF
  • Div 1 - Allan Rough, East Fife - 13
  • Div 2 - Stephen Grindlay, Dumbarton, Ian Murray and Jamie Blanchard, Deveronvale all tie with 8
  • Div 3 - David Henney, Cowdenbeath and Kim Smurf, Brechin City - both with 9

Rookie Hotshot Age 0 only

• 200k
  • Div 1 - Leigh Hinds, Hearts - 6
  • Div 2 - Andy Reilly, Arbroath and Michael Stokes, Dumbarton - both with 3
  • Div 3 - Owen Coyle, Clydebank - 4

Golden Oldie Hotshot Age 5+ only

• 100k
  • Div 1 - Stephen Robb, Dundee United - 11
  • Div 2 - Mauricio Pinilla, Inverness - 8
  • Div 3 - Andy Reilly, Cowdenbeath - 6

Worst Shooter

• 50k
  • Div 1 - Patrick Noubisse, Hibernian and Gavin Mahon, Celtic both 0/12
  • Div 2 - Jamie Stevenson, Deveronvale - 0/9
  • Div 3 - Ronnie Gatuso, Cldebank - 0/12

Fair Play Team Award

• 100k or +1 OTF
  • Div 1 - Greenock Morton
  • Div 2 - Clyde and Raith Rovers
  • Div 3 - Brechin City

Press Rules

Taken from the Press officers post on January 28th.

Clyde & Calvin are here for their annual review to discuss the participation bonus and how it is awarded. Please listen closely, because inevitably many questions will crop up every season that are answered right here. Here we go...

What is the purpose of the participation bonus?

The bonus, also referred to as the "party bonus," is provided to encourage positive dialogue an conversation among SESL managers. It provides a substantial income to managers who participate frequently and substantially throughout the season, and becomes a competitive disadvantage to teams that do not participate. SESL is more fun for everyone when managers interact and converse. Some feel like winning takes a back seat to the relationships that are built here. (Not to be confused with "winning a relationship in the back seat.")

Quantity vs. Quality

--the age old debate.

Honestly, you need both. But if one has to have priority over the other, substance wins. Clyde & Calvin reward creativity and uniqueness, regardless of quantity. If you are original and contribute positively to the direction of the discussion on the boards, you will see a spike in your bonus. The best example of "quality" remains Kevin Hull's stickmen posts from many years ago, and the spinoffs that CLY and a few other managers made in that regard. Everyone looked forward to press just to see what Kevin would post with his stick ment that week. Other examples include starting a productive discussion about the harmful effects upon the game of allowing GK's to play aggressive, or advice to other managers of the risks of carrying two high SL SW's on your roster. Statistical analysis is also important (see below).

As far as "quantity" goes, it does make a difference to see managers posting frequently, even daily, on the blog or journal. However, if you are simply posting one line comments affirming what somebody else said or replying to a comment, do not expect great rewards. You will be rewarded, but the cats do not simply tally the number of posts and hand the winner 50k. There must be merit to your posts.

Statistical Analysis

This is heavily rewarded, and is often seen in the form of an auction preview or auction analysis (thank you Mark Boland of DUU). Please bear in mind that "statistical analysis" does not incorporate reprinting text from matches or other pages in the SESL community. Those things are helpful, but rewarded differently.

What does the Participation Bonus cover?

Please listen carefully here, because this is the one question that always arises later: the participation bonus includes involvement on the Blog and Journal pages. It does not include the SESL forum or pre- and post-match commentary.

Award Amounts

The top award for any given bonus period is 50k. Sometimes there will be multiple 50k winners if the participation level demands it. During slow periods of uninspired postings, the top award may be less than 50k. The judging is done on a curve. What qualifies for 50k this week, may not meet that mark next week. Generally, the cats like to award one 50k winner and let the runners up squabble over 40k and below.

The award is purely arbitrary. There is no magical formula for awarding the party bonus. If you post frequently, and have positive, substantial press that generates discussion on the boards, you will do well.

Negative Posts

It is not our place to discipline unruly or rude behavior on the blog or journal. That is the Commissioner's job. However, in the cases of extreme conduct that is blatantly out of order, especially in cases of personal attacks upon another manager or his pets, it will affect your bonus. This is not meant to deter aggressive banter on the blog or journal. It is also not meant to inhibit good natured taunting among managers. Those discussions add to the game.

Profanity is not permitted on the Blog or Journal. Please bear in mind when you post that younger fans may visit this site or participate as managers. The creator and keeper of these pages may chose to showcase these pages to potential employers. Should that happen, the last thing that we want them to see when they turn on the lights is a bunch of drunk hooligans using profanity and threatening to remove body parts from one another.

Complaints

Mistakes do happen. Fortunately, they have been proven to be both infrequent and easily correctable when made. The most common, but still rare, mistake occurs when transferring the bonus totals from paper to data entry on the computer. That's easily correctable, as the written record is saved. It is extremely rare, but not unheard of, that a manager's post will be completely overlooked.

Should this happen to you, please do not flood our mailbox with hateful suggestions of what we should do with our kin at our next family gathering. Do not send multiple messages outlining ways of shoving cooking utensils into certain parts of the body. And most certainly do not refer to our intelligence or family heritage with vulgarities while contacting us about the problem. Simply write a short note bringing to our attention the fact that you believe we may have overlooked your efforts or miscalculated you bonus. It is that simple. Posting complaints on the blog is generally not a fast way of resolving the issue, and may result in a public reply from the cats outlining all the reasons why they believe your efforts fell short, or which one of these general press rules you ignored. I think that Graham and Steve will attest that they received a positive result on previous inquiries with just a kind inquiry.

If you choose to contest the amount of your bonus, please be specific about the complaint. And also bear in mind that arguing for an award of 20k rather than 15k probably isn't that big of an issue in the grand scheme of things. The nature of the award is somewhat arbitrary in nature. It is a long season, and the participation bonus tends to balance out over time.

I'm sure we're leaving plenty of details out, but we'll leave it as it is for now. If you have any questions, just ask.

Meow,

Clyde & Calvin

Trade Guide

Taken from the forum posted by the commish after consultation with several managers. </p>

Player Value GUIDE as at START of season 20.
Therefore assume all players have PU of 0.

As season progresses, values of older players may dip especially leading up to mid-season ageing skill level loss.

This is a very rough GUIDE as a basis to trade on, and these are average values based on feedback from 8 long standing current SESL managers.

• GK: add 10% to these values.
• Multipositional add 20% to these values.

Age 0

Age 0/05 - 300 (purely an average of the price for an apprentice)
Age 0/10 - 800 (unseasoned)
Age 0/15 - 1400 (unseasoned)

Age 1

Age 1/05 - 150
Age 1/10 - 400
Age 1/15 - 750
Age 1/20 - 1500

Age 2

Age 2/10 - 250
Age 2/15 - 450
Age 2/20 - 950
Age 2/25 - 1500

Age 3

Age 3/10 - 150
Age 3/15 - 300
Age 3/20 - 700
Age 3/25 - 1100
Age 3/30 - 1600

Age 4

Age 4/10 - 100
Age 4/15 - 250
Age 4/20 - 600
Age 4/25 - 800

Age 5

Age 5/10 - 50
Age 5/15 - 150
Age 5/20 - 400
Age 5/25 - 600
Age 5/30 - 800