Recent Posts by Dhimitri
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@Vaughn I never said I pretend to win the league. As I have said in many previous posts, my team is one in development and I my aim is a 7th place to get to europe next season. You are right about teams in France being close to each other.
However, Amiens and Le Havre are very weak compared to the rest of the league, and I picked them as the most obvious case to prove that penetrating my net is not a matter of strength, but rather a consistent trend. I perhaps should have shown some numbers, such as 25-27 in goals, 269-203 in shots. Translation: 1 goal scored per 10.76 shots, 1 goal allowed for every 7.52 shots. Clearly the work rate is there, but the end product is lacking and I doubt is a problem of my strikers (my MA +1 has score 5 already)!
One more pattern.
17 game sand no clean sheet yet. No matter who I play against, they are going to score against me. I might as well be the virtual Zdenek Zeman, who couldn’t make a team defend even if his life depended on it. But even end of the table teams that hardly collect 10 goals all season, still score against me like it’s nothing.
Amiens has scored 7 goals all season in 13 games, 3 of which against me in 3 games, 1 goal per game
Le Havre, 6 goals in the league, 2 against me :D
I am a skeptic, but now I am sure the CPU has taken reins of my team and the future has already been written ;)
Not as bad as Luc but the trend is there
1.
Amiens 1-1 Strasbourg
10 shots on target 30
92% accurate passes 92%
34% effective tackles 76%
2.
Strasbourg 2 -3 Bordo
28 shots on target 14
93% accurate passes 93%
61% effective tackles 39%
3.
Le Havre 2-2 Strasbourg
10 shots on target 30
96% accurate passes 97%
35% effective tackles 44%
Very nice, but please don’t tell Platini that I have only 4 French players in my team =)
Personally, I believe to have 1-2 formations with great balance when I used to have a strong team due to quality loans. Before the start of last season I sold me best players and pretty much bought a whole new team of young potentials aged 19-22. The approach has been great, so far my starting 10 outfielders average an improvement of 32 pts :). So the team is still improving and not yet able to compete for top placements. So, against teams I know I will have a hard time (expected to lose), I do experiment, because the result won’t matter much. This experiments are indeed for “emergency” tactics I will need in the future when my team has reached “full potential” (in parenthesis because there’s always space for improvement) and is fighting for titles :).
In the case above I am commenting the result of my last experiment, which i was a bit shocked, because even though I expected a loss, I also expected much more resistance from my tactic.
I tried playing a 5-3-2 (131-111-11) vs two of the best teams in French league.
The whole idea was to park the bus in front of my goal and hit on the counter, and guess what…I got thumped 0-6 and 1-5.
What is worse is that the both games, on both sides, was focused on central play. Now my team is rather average but it’s still a good team with good overall players in all sectors of the field. What matters is that the sides are not that disleveled
Anyway, the logic of my approach is supposed to guarantee a strong defense and make the life hard for the opposition. I gave up part of my offense and midfield so that my zone would be covered. I could still very much lose the game, but not get humiliated like that.
Second, the very approach of the opposition with central play going head on against my “wall” is usually a futile approach. Looking at the replay, they had a field day like I had five sticks they could easily go around rather than 5 organic beings with limbs in full motion. And let’s not forget two midfielder tracking back too.
Breaking a “park the bus” defense would require a good use of wing play, which neither opposition did. I do realize I’m relying too much on RL observations but some logic has to follow even in this game, me thinks.
Of course I go back to my offensive style of play, that’s what I do better, but I still think nowdays football should be smth more than an Eredivise reflection ;-)
Lots of good players for loan in Strasbourg. And a few players for sale, prices negotiable :)
I don’t see anything strange in that. At age 23 a player is usually at the closing stages of his development, and like in RL it is usually the main skill’s development that lasts longer. So in yours players case he had finished growing in all other attributes and all the development points left for him went to his main skill.
It is also possible that one season as player’s development focuses on 1-2-3 skills, and the next season the focus moves on other attributes.
An educated guess is still a matter of intuition, in some cases your expectations will be succeeded and in some other cases they will be not fulfilled. And like in RL young talents can turn out to be mediocre or superstars beyond expectations. In addition, development can be gradual or in hops, or it can take a breakthrough year.
lol 3 penalty kicks in the 2d half of the return leg. Hilarious!!!!
awesome player. He doesn’t need shooting afterall, he might as well dribble his way into the goal :D
Then of course, there’s always the possibility that a Matterazi type of defender will knock him down in old karate fashion ;)
BTW does someone know who has been the best player in terms of total pts of his seven attributes???? I have seen players in the 640+ which is a pretty awesome sum out of 700 possible.
Luc, even playing in half mode would still be valuable from a manager of your quality, and once life becomes a bit easier than you would still have the team you deserve. Not to mention that can you can experiment a bit with your team now that you are carefree about results :)
Stay mate! This game is still on development (a product always is nowdays) and you can turn it into a relaxation opportunity rather then that of a competition (of course that would also require Sly to be less aggressive on the rat pack performances). When you are good and ready,you can shift on the fifth gear again!!!
thanks Gabriel
So, hypothetical situation here Hertha gets 175, and Spain in UEFA gets 240.625 pts. Hertha gains as much as 73% of the pts Spain gets in UEFA with three teams collecting maximum pts. Of course, there’s the country’s average that matters. But the point here is to show than a single teams performing greatly in CL will devalue (or overwhelm) another country’s total performance in UEFA, which in return will unbalance rankings artificially
I think the ranking below would be more convincing
Season 23 European rankings
1.Spain…………………52.232
2.Germany…………….31.771
3.England………………30.729
4.Portugal……………..31.25
5.France……………….26.786
6.Italy…………………..21.429
With the current ranking system, Germany collect the 2d most pts in Europe, all thanks to Hertha. That on its own shows that a single team can greatly affect rankings even now!!!
With the new CL2:1Uefa, by all chances the Germany average would have been higher in pts and the average of some of the countries (the ones who have a good performance in UEFA) would have suffered greatly
Potentially speaking it always can. If Hertha potentially speaking win the cup with all wins (I don’t know how many pts that will be) it means that will twice the points of the winner of UEFA (who also potentially wins all games). It means the winner all of CL will basically win as many pts (by all chances more) as a country with three teams in UEFA. Does that seem fair to you?
Hertha wins CL, by winning all games. pts=???
Spain, for example, with three teams and their best possible performance in UEFA: total pts=
Team A winner (all wins) pts=
Team B runner up (all wins and 1 loss) pts=
Team C semifinals (all wins and 1 loss) pts=
can someone calculate the pts and see how they fair. Remember, for every 1 Uefa pts there are 2 CL pts
there should not be huge gap in point between CL and UEFA, or the respective Latin American cups, such as Vaugh proposes (2:1)
UEFA ratings, if nothing else, serves to reflect the strength of leagues. With Vaugh proposal, countries like Germany (a 1-2 teams league) would benefit too much. Benefiting from the new rating system, Hertha’s performances in CL would be enough to rank Gemrany higher in the overall ranking and gain extra European slots for German teams and for a league that don’t deserve. Teams from stronger leagues, will lose rights in CL and UEFA because of this.
If there will be changes, to reflect the difficulty levels between the two cups, then a 5:4 ratio would be enough. 2:1 will create artificial evaluations!
I agree, assists would be an indication of a team’s game flow and so on!!!
For sale
Willi the Wulf
24 yo
Attributes
Position: D
Side: LC
Keeping: 34
Tackle: 94
Passing: 71
Shooting: 82
Speed: 94
Dribble: 87
Control: 94
Header: 86
Aggressiveness: 50
Stamina: 100
He improved from 82 to 94 in tackle (and the other attributes) the last two seasons, and jumped from 92 to 94 in tackle 3 games from the end of the official season. Given his tremendous growth these two years, he might still have some place for improvement despite his age of 24
A pop up window for official games right after the official tick can be implemented so the players can enjoy a bit of game experience so to speak. MS had one and I would imagine (the primitive IT that I am) it would be a siimple trick.
cheers
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Try my approach:
-Click on the game world and before it uploads close your eyes and turn your head left, facing away from the screen
-open you left eye
-slowly turn you face toward the screen left to right
-If you are disciplined enough, you will turn your head just enough to see the replay button on the right of the scree and click on it without watching the rest of the screen
-click play and don’t open, your eyes till the replay page had uploaded
-Welcome to our live HD transmission
:D
It just doesn’t save it for me
for example, I click “new formation” icon. Write “433 league” on the little box that opens right next to it and then hit update. Nothing, it’s always default :)
hmmmm well well
how is it I can’t actually save formations :(
I think Vaughn and Alban said it all!!!
maybe his wife is getting into his head. As you said, he’s such a puppy :D
CL
Brest
Sly’s team is coming up really nicely and also I am teaching him a few tricks to use when the tough get going :D
yeah that’s about the most wierd and funny thing when watching the replay. The players seem like 6 yo running behind the ball all the damn time. I had 3 defenders scoring goals this last tick in FT and always they took the ball from their own half and went to score :D
I would say the reply doesn’t reflect much in terms of orders you give players before the match, but I watch it just so I can experience the score “live”
number of shots can be combined with range of shots and shooting skill quality
number of shots x shot distance x shot skill = 0.XXX
Also, a good idea IMO would be to add a separate option for midfielders taking shots (usually long range) such as: Strikers shot from short/medium range and midfielders/defenders take long shots. It should give a tactical advantage/alternative for teams with good shot takers not in the striking department
Wrong Vaughn…those shiny white things in the sky are my Grandpa’s underwear :D
===Score=(Shots on goal)
Strasbourg-Lens==0=1=(22-17)=[Lens plays with 10 players for 89 min]
Strasbourg-PSG==0-0=(17-3)=[PSG with 10 players for 23 min]
Grenoble-Strasbourg=4-1=(8-20)
Strasbourg-Lyon==0-0=(20-5)
Strasbourg-Chateauroux=0-0=(28-4)
Monaco-Bordo=0-0=(20-4)
Monaco-Brest=2-0=(18-7)=[Monaco with 10 players for 87 min]
PSG-Amiens==0-2=(24-4)
Ajaccio-Metz==0-1=(25-8=[Ajaccio with 9 players for 66 min]
Rennes-Angers==0-0=(21-3)
First of all I am not complaining!!! :D
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The games above are 10 out of a total 70 played so far in Ligue 1, or 14%.
Now, football is great because there are always surprises. But these surprises are created because the underdog works hard and outplays the favorite.
There are also freak games where a team surrounds the opponent (which has parked the bus in front of its own goal) and yet can’t score or even goes down on a single lucky break for the other side.
While the surprises are somewhat “common” and acceptable, freak results are very rare and far in between.
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All those 10 games above can be counted as freak games for various reasons:
>Endless shots and no goals vs 2-3 shots and a goal
>Whole game played with 10 players, the other team “dominates” the game, but you still stick one in and win it all: Strasbourg-Lens 0-1
>Whole game played with 10 players, but you still cruise through game for win: Monaco-Brest 2-0
>The Ajaccio-Metz is me favorite: Ajaccio dominates the game with only 9 players on the pitch for over 60 mins and still takes a loss. It should have won because of performance, but it lost (logically so) because it was simply outnumbered. The freak factor here is that Ajaccio still managed 25 shots on goal despite being 2 players less.
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SO, changes are needed here to bring the game closer to RL football so to speak.
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1. There should be a probability margin of scoring per number of shots on goal. for example:
10 SHG=80% chance of scoring at least once
15 SHG=90% chance of scoring at least once
20+ SHG===99% chance
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2. Red cards SHOULD change the course of the game in a negative way for the receiving side
1 RC should hurt the game of the receiving side in 90% of the cases (such as decrease the quality on the pitch by 20%)
2+ RC should simply kill the game of receiving side in 99% of the cases
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3. Players with not great shooting skills should still manage to score when they take plenty of shots even if it’s Buffon or Casillas guarding the net. The difference between a great shooter and an average one should be that if they take 10 shots on goal each, the great one can score 3 out of 10 an the average one can score just 1. But both should be able to score by the simple law of probability in proposition #1 above.
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4. whatever comes into your mind :)
Looking at the match replay, I would say Grenoble got me on the break, every time, so kuddos to them.
Yet I have seven players with a 10 rating, and this is what I cannot make sense of. :)
16-computerGrenoble
G Romuald Bloch 9.5
D Gervasio Ortiz De Zárate 8.3
D Diego Viepa 10.0
M Ruben Rui Miguel 8.1
M Napoléon Barraud 5.4
M Cyrille Peyre 5.8
A Joris Guyon 4.7
A Richard Hankey 4.4
A Giovanni Dentice 6.7
A Geoffroy Brunel P 5.7
A Fabricio Balaguer 9.4
No Manager
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4 × 1
2-3-5 formation 4-3-3
40% possession 60%
8 shots 24
8 shots on target 20
65% accurrate passes 56%
35% effective tackles 65%
3 corners 6
4 offsides 1
30 fouls 14
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Strasbourg16-human
G Isandro Munguia 5.9
D Willi Wulf 8.8
D * Germano Valente 10.0
D Julián Echeverría 10.0
D Mauro Braga 10.0
M João Abreu 10.0
M André Esteves 8.6
M Sandro Couto 10.0
A Andres Arieta 10.0
A Craig Whitington 10.0
A Vinícius Vasconcelos 7.7
Manager: Dhimiter Gjodede