Hey Heath, I just saw the new look CM site. I like the dark background. However, is there any way you can lighten the link text. That dark blue on black is hard to read. I know I can do it in my browser but it is easier to keep my browser set to whatever the links color is set to on the page.
The blue for all look was an emergency thing I did. I wanted to add the logo, and I thought since that was with a black background I make the site have black background too. This of course did not change the textstuff of the site which was mostly in black except for the links. As I had little time, and did not remember just quite how to do it I just added font color=blue for just about everything. I will fix this later.
Many Nottingham Forest players are available. Anybody looking for a GK, Antti Niemi is your man. Defenders: Convery, Robinson, Salli, Thompson. Midfielders: Kolkka, Vaca, Hulbert, and Peter Gain. Attackers: Star striker Marlon Harewood.
Wimbledon's 3-5-2 Attacking Lineup (Updated 8-26-2002) GK: Kyriakos Tochouroglou MR: Fredrik Lagemyr ML: Martin Grainger DC: Gary Rowett DC: Dillon Sheppard DC: Youssef Safri MC: Damien Francis AMC: Adam Proudlock FC: Colin Heath FC: Adam Young MC: Alex Tapp Sub 1: Kevin Dixon Sub 2: Matthew Kerr Sub 3: Adam Nowland Sub 4: Mark Nicholls Sub 5: Jan Vercammen Other first teamers: Vincenzo Valentini, Paul Dempsey, Robert Gillman, Iain Anderson, Robert Hulse
Nottingham Forest: 3-4-1-2 GK: Johan Wiland DC: Will Snowdon DC: Geir Anders Kirkholm DC: Mats Wejsfelt DMC: John Welsh MR: Craig Westcarr - Arrow. MC: Rachid Belabed ML: Lee Cook - Arrow. AMC: Marlon Harewood FC: Shaun Berry FC: Marcus Benson Subs: Niemi, Foy, Gain, Vaca, Grazioli. 1st team: Thomas, Convery, Hulbert, Kolkka, Robinson, Thompson. Instructions: Mentality: Normal Tackling: Hard Passing: Short Offside trap: No Pressing: No Counter attack: No Men behind ball: No Playmaker: Marcus Benson/Shaun Berry Passing: MR, ML, AMC, FC, FC: Direct. Rest: Team. Forward Runs: FC, FC, AMC, MR, ML. Run With Ball: AMC, Benson, MR, ML. Hold Up Ball: Long Shots: AMC Through Balls: AMC Cross Balls: ML, MR Marking: Wejsfelt, Snowdon: Man. Kirkholm: Zonal. DMC: Zonal.
Changes for my team.... Coaching: Put Gould in Fitness, Skills, GK Put Thackeray in SKills, GK, Shooting Put Montero in Fitness, SKills, Tactics Keep Connor the way he is. As for Training move all players under 25 to skills training and everyone else into general training. I also want to try and get John Hore a little PT maybe at one of the MC spots. Also list him for Loan. CK
Fixed now - also added a full update for Carlisle and fresh textfiles. Now for something else: This an interesting post I found about training at sigames. http://community.sigames.com/1/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=21019056&f=06419017&m=3481972174 And for those not registered - here is a copy of the first post in that thread, posted by KiwiNZ: There are 200+ threads about player training on these various forums, plus many downloadable training regimes. I thought I’d try to add some insights based on having tried many of the suggestions. My advantage is that I’ve been able to accurately measure and quantify the results. What follows is I hope a more objective and scientific examination than has been done before. The secret has been a little utility called Attributes Editor by Massimo Romagnani. This is downloadable from the Sigames website (CM0001/savegame). Forget the name “editor” and the emotive responses this generates. All this utility does is record the numbers you can see on the screen, which you could do yourself with a pen and paper. It tells you nothing about hidden stats. I don’t see how this can possibly be cheating. The utility spits out a table of your current squad in spreadsheet format. Having downloaded the attributes it is time to analyse how they have changed. I’m no programmer, but I’ve set up an excel macro that: - calculates the changes from the prior period (you specify when, since last month, start of season etc) for each attribute for each player - sums these by player and by attribute for the whole squad - ranks the squad from first to last in terms of improvements - prints me a consolidated report by type of skill, i.e. a squad total for changes in fitness, skills, shooting, goalkeeping and other. For these totals the attributes are grouped as below. - shows for each attribute how many have gone up/down. This turns out to be very handy for assessing how the training regime is working. One thing you quickly see is which training aspects are impacting which attributes. St George McD basically had it right when he listed these as: Skills: Creativity, crossing, decisions, dribbling, heading, passing, set-pieces, tackling, technique Tactics: Marking, off the ball, positioning, teamwork Shooting: Long shots, finishing Fitness: Acceleration, agility, jumping, pace, stamina, strength The main drawback of this utility is that it requires VisualBasic 6 to run, something the average punter probably doesn’t have. I got it installed specially. Observations(some of this is old news) 1/. Almost all of the improvement seems to come from having players on intensive training. If the squad goes on intensive skills training, the overall technique score will jump up etc. Medium training seems to just hold the status quo, light merely slows the rate of decline. Earlier I had good young players on medium fitness all season – their fitness stats dropped slightly over the season despite playing a sensible number of matches. 2/. The impact is fairly immediate. If I switch the intensive area of training there will be a clearly detectable change in squad ratings at the end of that month, even if the intense period was only a couple of weeks. 3/. Conversely, the rate of improvement seems to drop off after a while. You get the greatest changes from intense training in the first few weeks, then things level out. For this reason I feel rotation of the areas of intensity is a must. To my mind the typical schedules for different player types (attack, midfield etc) correctly point to where intensive training should be used most often. But I wouldn’t leave them unchanged all season. 4/. The biggest improvers by far are the young players. When I rank the squad by attribute gains, those 18- 24s who are playing regularly are always at the top of the list. 5/. It is very noticeable how players slip backwards when not playing regularly. Those who are stuck for a season in the reserves, or else have long term injuries, drop noticeably. Conversely, for teenagers even a handful of games can see quick gains. 6/. Young players who play too much and get tired will experience attribute drops. I had a 23yr old, star player who I made captain. By mid season he had already played 26 games when I noticed a general drop in attributes, even though fitness was still 100%. I gave him a rested and used him sparingly for the rest of that season, and he regained the ground. So What Would I Recommend? My basic conclusion is to rotate the areas where players receive intensive training. Players spend most of the time with intensive training in areas relevant to their position, but also get some time in other areas. I now tend to have cycles of 7 rotations, with each phase usually being 2 weeks (i.e. a full cycle takes 14 weeks). You thus get about 3 1/2 complete training cycles in a season. For outfielders I would normally have all areas (except goalkeeping) on medium, with just one area on intensive at a time. Elsewhere I've seen it said that on the basis that invnetsive=3, medium=2 and light=1 the best training has 9 points. From experience this seems right. I would change it only for early season, when players are unfit immediately post holiday and sometime for youth as discussed below. So the rotation of intensive training would go as follows: Defenders: Fitness, tactics, skills, tactics, skills, tactics, tactics Midfielders: Fitness, skills, tactics, skills, shooting, skills, skills Attackers: Fitness, shooting, skills, shooting, tactics, shooting, skills Goalkeepers are a little different. They don’t get as tired. I therefore leave them on intensive goalkeeping continuously, and give them another area of intense training about half the time (ie total points =10, shooting =0). For youth, I find the training can be more intensive since they will not normally be playing as many matches. Therefore I have some periods where I raise them to intensive on two categories at once. I never do this for fitness however. Youth: Fitness, skills, tactics/shooting, skills/tactics, fitness, skills/shooting, skills/tactics You can doubtless think up variations. Limitations The main drawback is that you do have to change your training regimes every fortnight or so. Easy to forget plus a hassle you could do without (a thought for CM4?). Also, as an English Div 1 side I have only average, not top coaches. Therefore I haven’t been able to explore what differences better coaches would make. Anyway, this has worked very well for me. Good young players can typically raise their total attributes total by 60-70 a season, ie an average of maybe 3 points for each skill. I hope it will for you also.
Heath, I would like to make the following changes to my staff : Dean Martin, Assistant Manager : Sacked Grant Brown, Coach #1 : Offer a contract to be my Assistant Manager. Michael Darby, Coach #2 : Sacked Martin Fillson, Scout #1 : Offer Contract to become a coach Steve Hodge, Coach #4 : If Fillson accepts, Sacked - If not - nothing please. Trevor Pickering, Scout #4 : Sacked. That is all.
Yeah - I guess I can mention that during the last week also Lincoln and Bournemouth got their full team update. So now only D2 teams left - should we take them when they promote?
Forest Training: Keepers: GK training. Defenders: Fitness - Medium Tactics - Intensive Shooting - Light Skills - Medium Midfielders: Fitness - Medium Tactics - Medium Shooting - Light Skills - Intensive Attackers: Fitness - Medium Tactics - Light Shooting - Intensive Skills - Medium Attacking Midfielders: Fitness - Medium Tactics - Light Shooting - Medium Skills - Intensive Special Cases: Richard Bevan: Fitness - Intensive Tactics - Intensive Shooting - Medium Skills - Intensive Scott Kelly: Fitness - Intensive Tactics - Intensive Shooting - Intensive Skills - Intensive Adam Marsh: Fitness - Intensive Tactics - Intensive Shooting - Light Skills - Intensive Darren Munster: Fitness - Intensive Tactics - Intensive Shooting - Intensive Skills - Intensive Tony Price: Fitness - Intensive Tactics - Intensive Shooting - Intensive Skills - Intensive David Thomas: Fitness - Intensive Tactics - Intensive Shooting - Intensive Skills - Intensive Coach changes: Andy Hinchcliffe - Sacked
Crystal Palace 3-4-3 attacking GK: Omar Johannson DC: Ken Fraser DC: Igors Stepanovs DC: John Convery ML: Stuart Poole MC: John Backstrom MC: Michael Keane MR: Lee Williamson FC: Lucas Velazquez FC: David Cameron FC: Jonathan Parkin Subs 1. Christian Weller (DMC) 2. Brad Friedel (GK) 3. Jussi-Pekka Savolainen (AML) 4. Clive Clarke (DC) 5. Matthew Martindale (FLC) TI: Mentality: normal Tackling: hard Passing: mixed Offside trap: yes Pressing: no Counter attack: no Men behind ball: no
In case i am gone heath, Bournemouth team 3-5-2(defensive mentality) DC-Danny Smith DC-Stephen Purches DC-Alan Mcdermott WL-Garreth O'Connor MC-Jay Denniss WR-Nordin Wooter DMC-Mamadou Bagayoko AMC-Michael Sisson(he should be healthy, if not Caskey) SC-Gavin Gordon SC-Daniele Dichio Bench GK-Nir Davidovic DC-Matt Hockley DMC-Claudio Maldonado FC-Warren Feeney AMR-Ruca Stuff as usual
In case i am gone heath, Bournemouth team 3-5-2(defensive mentality) GK-Nir Davidovic DC-Danny Smith DC-Stephen Purches DC-Alan Mcdermott WL-Garreth O'Connor MC-Jay Denniss WR-Nordin Wooter DMC-Mamadou Bagayoko AMC-Michael Sisson(he should be healthy, if not Caskey) SC-Gavin Gordon SC-Daniele Dichio Bench GK-Fanis Katergannis DC-Matt Hockley DMC-Claudio Maldonado FC-Warren Feeney AMR-Ruca Stuff as usual
Last full team update in: Wimbledon Now I guess we can take request of what is most wanted for the next update (for all teams). Also updated: Textfiles and ratings screens for all divisions. The last part should be very helpful for the prediction challenge contest part V. btw - get your prediction in ASAP - it is getting close to me thinking about closing the challenge.
Nottingham Forest: 3-1-3-3 GK: Johan Wiland DC: Steven Moore DC: Geir Anders Kirkholm DC: Mats Wejsfelt DMC: John Welsh MR: Rachid Belabed - Arrow AMC: Andreas Johansson ML: Eric Dreesen - Arrow FL: Shaun Berry - Arrow in SC: Marcus Benson FR: Jonas Lunden - Arrow in Subs: Cambell, Harewood, Snowdon, Salli, 1st team: Thomas, Convery, Hulbert, Kolkka, Robinson, Thompson. Instructions: Mentality: Normal Tackling: Hard Passing: Short Offside trap: No Pressing: No Counter attack: No Men behind ball: No Playmaker: Marcus Benson/Shaun Berry Passing: MR, ML, AMC, FL, SC, FR: Direct. Rest: Team. Forward Runs: AMC, MR, ML. Run With Ball: AMC, Benson, MR, ML. Hold Up Ball: Long Shots: AMC Through Balls: AMC Cross Balls: ML, MR Marking:
Plymouth pages updated. And in unrelated news - The prediction challenge will close in a few hours - so get your adjustments in.
Due to uploading problems the latest sim round have only been updated with textfiles to Castor's server. That is the textfiles linked from the teampages - these are not usually updated during the season, but now they are.
