Lewes FC sends 200k
  to Brighton & Hove Albion for Sean Turner (SBY/4 Fw; 140k)

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Brighton & Hove Albion sends 450k, Julio Gutiérrez (IV/9 Fw; 210k)
  to Leeds United for Lewis Sutton (III/12 Fw; 400k)

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Lewes FC sends 200k
  to Plymouth Argyle FC for Kian Munro (IV/7 Mf; 150k)

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It's part of his 10 year rebuilding plan.

How did Dr Dohm get relegated?!

Correct, Brian.

Is this current:

An Age I player may be raised a maximum of 5 Skill Levels in a season.

Older players may be raised a maximum of 3 Skill Levels in a season.

New to me so I want to be sure.

PS Thanks for the welcome, Vinny!

Welcme back, Brian! BRI continued totorture LIN in your absence, inclduing beating us out of our best-ever shot at a league title a couple of seasons back.

Not long to go now! Hope you enjoy your first season back!

Cheers Rob. It's good to be back. I see Alon has continued his dominance while I was away. History repeats itself.

Glad to see you back Brian! Welcome back to the inner rings of Olmec's inferno!

Hereford United FC sends 200k
  to Oldham Athletic AFC for Marty Forster (V/4 Mf; 40k)

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Hereford United FC sends 400k
  to Carlisle United for Guang Liáng (V/2 Mf; 0k), Taylor Gibson (V/2 Mf; 0k)

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I've only been back a couple of weeks and I'm already checking in on the league a couple of times each day, and itching to start the season. Seems I missed this more than I thought.

Nottingham Forest sends Ariza Fita (V/4 Fw; 40k)
  to Hereford United FC for 200k

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Wycombe Wanderers sends 200k
  to Preston North End FC for Jed Clarke (V/3 Mf; 20k)

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Wycombe Wanderers sends 200k
  to Weston-super-Mare AFC for Greg Gordon (V/2 Df; 0k)

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Tranmere Rovers sends 950k
  to Weston-super-Mare AFC for Algernon Rooney (I/10 Sw; 480k)

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Cheers e-Friends!

I'm excited to return to United, and even more excited to get back to Brighton. Think of me as the Ted Lassso of the league: I have very little experience and I know just about nothing of football (what's an RNG?!).

Let's have some fun.

- Beer

P.S. The rivalry is renewed, Mr Dohm.

Brighton & Hove Albion sends 200k
  to Nottingham Forest for Manuel Hernández (V/5 Fw; 60k)

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Here's the table:

Compo leads.

Phil and Roy are level on points in 2nd with Phil getting the differential nod.

Diamond Dave and Tim are in the hunt.

Will Compo be lifting the 3rd Division trophy?  

Or will it be Phil or Roy or Dave or Tim?

Is there a 3rd Division trophy?

There's a lot of questions to be settled today...

...and then I saw that Mr. James Tucker's team has won 17 (SEVENTEEN) matches this season...

Methinks the Hornets are thriving with the adversity...  😇

I have never known a season like this.  You expect the odd injury, but my forward line has had a torrid time. 9 injuries for a fitness loss of 24.  That 24 is spread over just 4 top players.  A new definition for Targetted Attack!?

The rest of the team has 3 injuries for a loss of -3.

Cardiff City FC sends Ruairi Nolan (II/13 Df; 550k)
  to Lincoln City FC for 1100k

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If folks could stay away from the auction this week, I would appreciate it. There are a few lots I plan on bidding on. I plan on bidding high, so you won't win anyway, so why even bother. just skip this auction, okay? Great, thanks!

Plymouth Argyle FC sends Juan Manuel Marin (III/11 Df; 360k)
  to Sheffield United for Michael O'Neil (III/11 Sw; 360k)

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Cardiff City FC sends 775k
  to Weston-super-Mare AFC for Michael Simpson (I/10 Fw; 480k)

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Oldham Athletic AFC sends Nicolas Fuentes (V/4 Gk; 40k), Takeshi Ishikawa (V/2 Df; 0k), Randy Mendoza (V/2 Mf; 0k)
  to Swindon Town FC for 525k

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Southend United sends 175k
  to Oldham Athletic AFC for Gerry Scott (IV/7 Gk; 150k)

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Brentford FC sends Gabriel Rodriguez (V/2 Fw; 0k)
  to Queens Park Rangers for 190k

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Carlisle United sends Javier Gallardo (V/2 Fw; 0k), Leon Newton (V/2 Fw; 0k)
  to Queens Park Rangers for 380k

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Bristol City FC sends 325k
  to Wycombe Wanderers for Joe Murray (I/7 Fw; 300k)

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...Roger.  😎

U1 and U2 are identical with the code base that runs the games.

There might be a couple of minor differences with some web pages but its pretty small.

The big difference can be with data (like teams at that 18 player minimum can throw things off/create some side effects).  Other than the items I dealt with at this end of season aging (and with the new approach I think they should no longer be an issue) they are pretty much the same though.  

Northampton Town FC sends 380k
  to Dagenham & Redbridge for Jae-Sun Jang (V/3 Mf; 20k), Luiz Ribeiro (V/4 Fw; 40k)

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Cardiff City FC sends Bryan Boivin (V/3 Df; 20k)
  to Tranmere Rovers for 189k

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Hi Al, reading your post (because I care 😉) it made me wonder whether U1 and U2 are identical games or slightly different in some ways. I just assumed they were the same.

One of the issues I had in the end of season processing was a mundane, boring (except it would break things) detail that was annoying.  Essentially I have some code in the database (a function) that gets called everytime a player is added or has stats updated.  That caused me a lot of U2 headaches.  I've moved the code from the DB to a web page so that should help keep it up to date and avoid these weird DB issues I get (and have to police) where teams might drop below (or just near) 18 players after end of season aging.

Again, you won't care about this update, but it should prevent issues like the U2 "had to fix the RSD and QNL" thing.  More updates/improvements to come as I have time.   

Swansea City AFC sends 190k
  to Dorchester Town for Yael Adrei (V/7 Mf; 100k)

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Brighton & Hove Albion sends 200k
  to Lewes FC for George Cole (V/4 Mf; 40k)

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Crewe Alexandra FC sends Geoffrey Fox (V/2 Mf; 0k), Felix Mayer (V/2 Fw; 0k)
  to Bristol City FC for 390k

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Bonuses are given for division and tournament finishes along with top division scorer, weekly prediction league winner, and season prediction league winner. See the rules for more details. You can also check your teams page and choose the Team/Player Log tab to see what you earned a bonus for from the prior season.

I am doing a pool if you are interested you can reach out for info at [email protected]

Such a poor finish to the season by SU. One win in the last ten matches including two semifinal cup defeats and a slow slide down the division one table. What happened.

Strangely this slide coincided with SU hitting the top of the rankings and SU are still 5th on that table. Bizarre.

We'll be back!

With 2 away matches in the final season, Plymouth have zero hope. That's 18 SL we have to make up. And our top DF is injured. We're toast. 

One of these two managers is getting promoted to 1st Division football.  Which one will it be?

They are 3rd/4th place respectively.

Level on 26 points.

Plymouth is +1 and John is -2 on Goal Differential.  The + is only there because John suggested I do it.  And it was a good suggestion.

Because we're all victims and should always feel as such let's look at session 10:

Rob is away vs. Leicester (8th) and Bristol (2nd).  Hazel and Roger aren't interested in doing Rob any favo(u)rs.  

John is at home versus Cardiff (4th) and Nottingham Forest (1st).

Maybe the design committee can mandate no  more than 1 home and 1 away match per session?

Who do you like?  

Speaking of victims, let me tell you a story about Graham Wilkes.

Graham and Cardiff are not in the subject line and have had very little mentions in this post so far.  So Graham is also a victim.

BUT, Cardiff are 5th on 23 points (3 behind Rob and John) and with a +6 goal differential.

Graham is at Port Vale (4th) and home versus Dorchester Town (7th).  

Oh and here's another victim: Steve Turner

Steve has won 10, tied 6 and lost 0 (that's ZERO) in league play.  Why aren't we talking about Steve?

Good luck Rob, John, and Graham...

Clearly Steve does not need any luck...

An increase in the rate of tax is clearly due!

The following teams were taxed these amounts for end of session 8 banks above 3500:

BHA (-414) DAG (-352) FOR (-363) TRA (-350)

Northampton Town FC sends 865k
  to Cardiff City FC for Cameron Ferdinand (APP/8 Fw; 465k)

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It's no surprise to any manager that's been around a few seasons... I covet the Youth Cup. Getting knocked out in the first round is disappointing to say the very least. Having to play my youth players in league matches is devastating to our promotion chances. 

Here's hoping the rest of the league takes it easy on us the rest of the season!

Am I to believe there will now be several star SWs featured in upcoming U1 auctions, where I don't need an SW 🤔

I asked Ian for javascript coding help this week.  My expectation was that he would just write it for me and make it work.  😎

Sadly, he did not.  I've had something I've been puzzing over (to the tune of spending 2-3 evening hours on it for 2 weeks with no results) in TMVL to enhance a viewer that has frustrated me.

Please allow myself to let me be perfectly clear.  Ian did not fix the issue (as I hoped). 🧐 

However he did have some inspiring/helpful words that allowed me to rethink a couple of things.  I had a breakthrough on this today and made some good progress.

What does that mean to you and why do you care?  Good Karma may mean the shackles are coming off the code that has prevented Sweepers from showing up in any auctions.  Maybe.

Cardiff City FC sends 219k, Andrés Martínez (III/9 Mf; 280k)
  to Dagenham & Redbridge for Nahuel Ramos (III/10 Sw; 320k)

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Rob and John asked about the SL for one of the non-league teams.

In the past these teams were always manually updated by me (meaning before aging I'd bump a player up from like 5 to 9 or something so after aging they would not auto-retire).  They don't use CP, so without manual intervention each season they would have otherwise aged off too many players resulting in more headaches.

It was always a pain in the neck and meant I had to allocate extra time to run end of season.  That in turn meant I didn't always have a large block of time to run end of season so we'd delay 1, 2, or 3 weeks for example.

The NMR teams are now automated to the extent that I don't have to touch them each season which is a big win for me (and speeds up the delay between seasons).

I'll take a look at the current approach and see about tweaking the numbers/growth a bit.  

From a T-11 overall perspective I'd say the non league teams are better than they used to be but still near the bottom:

U1 - #28-#29

U2 - #25-#26

It's broke, Al. Shows CHF in D-III.

Click the tables link at the top menu for an update to the League Tables page.

You'll get to see:

1. Team Nicknames


2. The lines representing relegation/promotion


3. League form (most recent result is on the far right; I looked that up at a couple sites to see what was consistently done).  This will eventually show the last 5 LEAGUE matches.  

Watford sends 30k, Kai Henderson (IV/8 Df; 180k)
  to Crewe Alexandra FC for Oscar Lewis (IV/9 Gk; 210k)

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Lewes FC sends 175k
  to Brentford FC for Ricardo Costa (V/2 Df; 0k)

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Lewes FC sends 175k
  to Plymouth Argyle FC for Sean Garcia (V/3 Mf; 20k)

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Much appreciated!

That is correct at SL2s are worthless, but if you have a youth player who has been partially trained at SL2, they're worth 15k*the number of points towards their next level.

The formula for working out NL sales value is (7-age) x (SL - 2) x 10k.  As anything multiplied by zero is zero, I take this to mean that any SL2 player - whatever their age - is valued at zero.  Can anyone confirm if this is correct please?

Many thanks in advance.

Weston-super-Mare AFC sends Dominic Hall (III/13 Gk; 440k)
  to Leeds United for 340k, Devon Ruby (IV/12 Gk; 300k)

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Bristol City FC sends Ryan Cockayne (APP/5 Gk; 210k)
  to Weston-super-Mare AFC for 40k, Rafael Santos (III/9 Fw; 280k)

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Lewes FC sends 199k
  to Brentford FC for Billy Gill (V/2 Mf; 0k)

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Dorchester Town sends 200k
  to Brentford FC for Luke Murphy (V/2 Fw; 0k)

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Hereford United FC sends 200k
  to Bristol City FC for Fred Bailey (V/3 Gk; 20k)

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The following teams receive a bonus for Season 41:

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Early notice that I'll have both a APP GK SL5 and an age V level 2 for sale when the transfer market opens for next season. Drop me a message with an offer if you're interested in either.

Turns out I was only talking dirty

There is a dirty play option?

I don't see anything in the rules about DP carrying over to the next season and I don't believe it does.

Suspensions though do carry over to the next season.

And as a Public Service Announcement...

Leicester and Swindon: any injuries you incur from your Bristol City match will not carry over to next season.  

..do DPs earned in the final session carry forward to the next season? Or is it just suspensions?

Brighton & Hove Albion sends 200k, Nathan Quinn (IV/6 Df; 120k)
  to Plymouth Argyle FC for Harrison Hunter (IV/7 Mf; 150k)

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Watford sends 200k, Reuben Richardson (II/8 Mf; 300k)
  to Southend United for Simon Burton (APP/7 Df; 350k)

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Your commish is temporarily tied tof first in the prediction league.  Can all the teams I predicted to win please ensure they try to win?  I know some teams (like Lewes) might try to lose just to spite me.  But, for this week, I'm supporting BOTH Outlaw Dave AND the I-Man.  Get those Ws gentlemen...

Weston-super-Mare AFC sends Saburo Nishimura (I/10 Df; 480k)
  to Tranmere Rovers for 800k

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Cheers Al, that makes sense.

Three division one teams and us.

Definitely the group of death for Dorchester.  

Hey Roger, you can use all of them.  The Forum and Team News allow you to do posts that will get discussions going on topics.  Random comments are good for the Blog or Comments Wall.  

Chesterfield FC sends 200k
  to Oldham Athletic AFC for Zachary Duckworth (V/4 Gk; 40k)

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...the Forum and the Blog? And I have I put this question in the right place?

well its good to know you are on a par with Blythe and Coventry at least!

...to OLMEC for posting the bonus amounts and making sure to list the teams that received a bonus of ZERO. Yes, thank you for reminding some of us that, as OLMEC lines the pockets of some peoples, there are others of us that earned ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Thank you again. Thanks for NOTHING.

:-)

Similar to our U2 squad, Crewe have a weak squad and will also have to make captures in the early Auctions.

Nottingham Forest sends 400k
  to Carlisle United for Oscar Cox (V/2 Df; 0k), Cesar Ibañez (V/2 Fw; 0k)

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Brighton & Hove Albion sends 200k
  to Dorchester Town for Patrick Terry (V/2 Df; 0k)

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Northampton Town FC sends Alex Burgess (V/3 Fw; 20k)
  to Weston-super-Mare AFC for 200k

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Lewes FC sends 700k
  to Cardiff City FC for Henry Wood (APP/8 Fw; 450k)

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Be forewarned! Forewards GALORE in this week's auction. I expect a bloodbath!

Watford sends 875k
  to Cardiff City FC for Noah MacKenzie (I/11 Df; 540k)

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Cardiff City FC sends Paul Guibert (I/10 Fw; 480k)
  to Carlisle United for 750k

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Fixtures

Always assume the commish is trying to pit managers against each other when you perceive any scheduling shenanigans.

Remember, the schedule is always "random"...  ????

Predictions

Big start for Cowboy Carl Oakes and Mr. Andy Shaw this week as they are your U1 prediction league pacesetters...well done gentlemen!

Follow the money Vick! Who could benefit from us clashing so much. Here's a hint... he's always trying to pit managers against each other...

Olmec is clearly trying its best to stuff Rob Peterson and me by pitting us against each other in both cups in both MSWL 1 1 and 2. One wonders what the statistics of such an outcome are. It all seems very suspicious!

Weston-super-Mare AFC sends 693k
  to Leeds United for Théo Levasseur (II/12 Sw; 500k)

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Northampton Town FC sends 190k
  to Plymouth Argyle FC for Florian Maier (V/5 Fw; 60k)

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Northampton Town FC sends 190k
  to Leeds United for Napoleon Ferry (V/4 Gk; 40k)

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Oldham Athletic AFC sends 200k
  to Southend United for Nuno Botelho (V/3 Df; 20k)

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Queens Park Rangers sends 400k
  to Plymouth Argyle FC for Jose Angel Ramos (V/4 Df; 40k), Dave Williamson (V/2 Fw; 0k)

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Southend United sends Lucas Chaffersey (V/3 Fw; 20k)
  to Swindon Town FC for 195k

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