The Dented Slides

bed_head7 · 19-07-2005, 23:04

Yeah, strange name, and why I include "The" in team titles for games similar to this one is a mystery even to me. Anyway, got a team yesterday, and already did a bit of shuffling. Two players fired already, and two players bought (Juan Carlos Solano and Mikey Ybarra). My team looks pretty good, but Mistfit tells me that my division is rather tough, and by the looks of the TSI of most players on the top few teams in my division, it will be awhile before I am competetive. Oh, I am also training Stamina to begin with. Not sure what I will train next, but it may very well be playmaking.

Here is the team:

Your 19 players

Eras Encinas
TSI = 2 130 , 27 years, poor form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities

Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: solid
Winger: passable Defending: inadequate
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: poor

Planning to sell once Stamina and Playmaking up a bit. At that point, he would be a pretty good winger, it seems, though I would have little use for him since he has so many good talents.

David Sapp
TSI = 2 120 , 21 years, weak form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Quick]

Stamina: weak Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: passable Passing: solid
Winger: weak Defending: inadequate
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: solid

Was thinking of making him the star of the team for the next few years at IM. In the off chance he ever gets fouled we might even score a goal, and if anyone had decent header abilities and was in the area we might even score on that.

Matthew Beyer
TSI = 740 , 23 years, passable form
Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities

Stamina: solid Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: poor Passing: solid
Winger: weak Defending: wretched
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: poor

Also playing IM, am thinking he might be better off with another club at this point, as the Stamina training won't do him much good soon.

Victor Davis
TSI = 440 , 28 years, inadequate form
Has poor experience and weak leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

Stamina: solid Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: poor Passing: weak
Winger: passable Defending: weak
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: poor

Another guy with high Stamina, making Stamina training a waste for him too. Maybe I'd get some money for him with the passable winger skills?

Phillip Henley
TSI = 440 , 26 years, passable form
Has poor experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: poor Keeper: weak
Playmaking: disastrous Passing: disastrous
Winger: disastrous Defending: wretched
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: poor

Will be replaced soon with luck. I want a young, passable keeper if I can find one. It seems like everyone once and a while they go for something in the $20,000 range, and I am hoping for that.

Zhao Luo yong
TSI = 420 , 26 years, weak form
Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Quick]

Stamina: poor Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: weak Passing: wretched
Winger: inadequate Defending: passable
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: wretched

Will keep him around on defense for awhile, as he was the only decent defender I got.

Juan Carlos Solano
TSI = 330 , 21 years, weak form
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities [Head]

Stamina: weak Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: inadequate
Winger: wretched Defending: passable
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: poor

Just got this guy to bolster the defense.

Chad Gilchrist
TSI = 300 , 27 years, weak form
Has poor experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: weak Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: poor Passing: weak
Winger: weak Defending: inadequate
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: passable

Will keep him around until I can afford a guy with comparable stats 10 years younger.

Julián Mercado
TSI = 220 , 22 years, inadequate form
Has wretched experience and poor leadership abilities [Head]

Stamina: solid Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: disastrous
Winger: weak Defending: disastrous
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: weak

I will try to get his playmaking to passable and then sell.

Derrick Sykes
TSI = 190 , 26 years, poor form
Has poor experience and inadequate leadership abilities

Stamina: wretched Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: solid Passing: weak
Winger: weak Defending: poor
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: disastrous

Will keep him around for the time being.

Zachary Lundy
TSI = 150 , 25 years, weak form
Has poor experience and disastrous leadership abilities

Stamina: wretched Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: wretched Passing: poor
Winger: inadequate Defending: wretched
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: wretched

With the three passable scorers and only now two passable defenders, this prompted the 3-4-3 lineup. May sell him if he is worth anything, and then try to get another decent mid and do 3-5-2 to exploit my strong midfield.

Gus Wagner
TSI = 120 , 24 years, passable form
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: poor Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: weak Passing: weak
Winger: disastrous Defending: wretched
Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: poor

Will be fired in 58 hours or so.

Jackie Ross
TSI = 100 , 24 years, weak form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: poor Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: disastrous Passing: wretched
Winger: wretched Defending: inadequate
Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: solid

He isn't a dinosaur yet, and could be a decent filler on defense if absolutely necessary.

Luis Chan
TSI = 90 , 30 years, weak form
Has weak experience and inadequate leadership abilities

Stamina: weak Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: weak Passing: poor
Winger: poor Defending: weak
Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: inadequate

Probably fired in 46 hours or so.

Mikey Presley
TSI = 90 , 24 years, wretched form
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities [Technical]

Stamina: poor Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: poor
Winger: poor Defending: inadequate
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: poor

Probably fired in 34 hours or so.

Scott Sherrod
TSI = 90 , 29 years, weak form
Has poor experience and disastrous leadership abilities

Stamina: disastrous Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: poor Passing: passable
Winger: weak Defending: poor
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: weak

Probably fired in 22 hours or so.

Ernest Bond
TSI = 60 , 20 years, weak form
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities

Stamina: inadequate Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: poor Passing: poor
Winger: inadequate Defending: wretched
Scoring: disastrous Set Pieces: disastrous

Fired in 10 hours or so.

Mikey Ybarra
TSI = 50 , 19 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and solid leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

Stamina: weak Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: disastrous Passing: inadequate
Winger: poor Defending: poor
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: poor

Semi-clown, I am told. I guess I'll keep him around for the time being.

Fidel Rooney
TSI = 0 , 40 years, weak form
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities [Quick]

Stamina: disastrous Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: disastrous Passing: wretched
Winger: disastrous Defending: wretched
Scoring: disastrous Set Pieces: wretched

And my line up for the next friendly. I am going with 3-4-3 since my defense is a little weak, but I am thinking this is not such a good idea.

44.24 KB

Well, feel free to tell me how wrong I am.

Dell19 · 19-07-2005, 23:22

Eras Encinas - No point in actually training him in playmaking. He is probably best sold as a forward and hope that a newbie pays a silly amount for him which is reasonably likely.

David Sapp - Needs a couple of weeks of stamina training before he will be a good IM

Matthew Beyer - Yep try and sell him as he is a useless player but a newbie may pay a bit for the solid passing.

Victor Davis - Could keep him as a winger

Phillip Henley - You are right that he needs replacing and a passable would be good if you could afford it.

Zhao Luo yong - yep, a decent starting defender

Juan Carlos Solano - better defender and for £8000 its a decent deal.

Chad Gilchrist - decent player who you can probably use for a season or three

Julián Mercado - Too old and not good enough really to be trained.

Derrick Sykes - good player but like Sapp he desparately needs stamina.

Zachary Lundy - okay striker

Dell19 · 19-07-2005, 23:25

Mistfit is right that your league is tough and I expect that you will go down this season with 4 points but next season you should be able to compete.

After the couple of weeks of stamina training you should be looking to get a passable coach and getting some 18 year old passables in the area that you want to train and then training them up each week.

www.hottrick.org has a good guide on what training is and basically you should try reading one of the newbie guides so that you don't waste a season and half doing nothing and thus not progressing.

bed_head7 · 19-07-2005, 23:29

Is it better to start with a lower list price or a higher one? Like, how much do you think the starting list price for Eras Encinas should be? And Matthew Beyer?

Dell19 · 19-07-2005, 23:33

It depends how risk averse you are

I don't like taking risks so I usually use transfer compare on the player screen and set a high price that seems reasonable and then hope someone meets it.

You could try Beyer at $15 000 although no one may bid.

Maybe $32 500 for Encinas

I'm sure others will disagree and I don't really like recommending starting prices that much since its all about luck.

bed_head7 · 19-07-2005, 23:34

I read the platypus guide, and am thinking of doing basically as the guy says for either scorers or midfielders.

Dell19 · 19-07-2005, 23:37

Midfielders is often a nice place to start especially since you don't have that manay great IMs and Sapp could potentially be trained until he was sold because he is 21. Although I think it would be best to sell Sykes once he has some stamina.

You could buy low stamina trainees now and train them up in stamina at the same time btw.

bed_head7 · 19-07-2005, 23:58

I have just completely hit all weak stamina passable playmaking 17 and 18yo on the market. Most were $1,000, some a couple more thousand. Hopefully I get about half of them.

arne1 · 20-07-2005, 02:21

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quote:Originally posted by Dell19

It depends how risk averse you are

I don't like taking risks so I usually use transfer compare on the player screen and set a high price that seems reasonable and then hope someone meets it.

You could try Beyer at $15 000 although no one may bid.

Maybe $32 500 for Encinas

I'm sure others will disagree and I don't really like recommending starting prices that much since its all about luck.

Indeed I disagree, newbies tend to have too less selfcontrol and only look for cheap ones but end up in some kind of bidwar. I have seen it happen quite a lot. I mostly was personnaly involved in the bidding and lost almost all off the bidwars clearly.

bed_head7 · 20-07-2005, 02:39

Oh, oh well. I listed Beyer at $10,000 and Encinas at $40,000, since I did it before Dell19 edited.

19-07-2005, 23:04	#1
bed_head7 Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: . Posts: 545	The Dented Slides Yeah, strange name, and why I include "The" in team titles for games similar to this one is a mystery even to me. Anyway, got a team yesterday, and already did a bit of shuffling. Two players fired already, and two players bought (Juan Carlos Solano and Mikey Ybarra). My team looks pretty good, but Mistfit tells me that my division is rather tough, and by the looks of the TSI of most players on the top few teams in my division, it will be awhile before I am competetive. Oh, I am also training Stamina to begin with. Not sure what I will train next, but it may very well be playmaking. Here is the team: Your 19 players Eras Encinas TSI = 2 130 , 27 years, poor form Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: inadequate Passing: solid Winger: passable Defending: inadequate Scoring: passable Set Pieces: poor Planning to sell once Stamina and Playmaking up a bit. At that point, he would be a pretty good winger, it seems, though I would have little use for him since he has so many good talents. David Sapp TSI = 2 120 , 21 years, weak form Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Quick] Stamina: weak Keeper: wretched Playmaking: passable Passing: solid Winger: weak Defending: inadequate Scoring: passable Set Pieces: solid Was thinking of making him the star of the team for the next few years at IM. In the off chance he ever gets fouled we might even score a goal, and if anyone had decent header abilities and was in the area we might even score on that. Matthew Beyer TSI = 740 , 23 years, passable form Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities Stamina: solid Keeper: wretched Playmaking: poor Passing: solid Winger: weak Defending: wretched Scoring: weak Set Pieces: poor Also playing IM, am thinking he might be better off with another club at this point, as the Stamina training won't do him much good soon. Victor Davis TSI = 440 , 28 years, inadequate form Has poor experience and weak leadership abilities [Unpredictable] Stamina: solid Keeper: wretched Playmaking: poor Passing: weak Winger: passable Defending: weak Scoring: weak Set Pieces: poor Another guy with high Stamina, making Stamina training a waste for him too. Maybe I'd get some money for him with the passable winger skills? Phillip Henley TSI = 440 , 26 years, passable form Has poor experience and weak leadership abilities Stamina: poor Keeper: weak Playmaking: disastrous Passing: disastrous Winger: disastrous Defending: wretched Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: poor Will be replaced soon with luck. I want a young, passable keeper if I can find one. It seems like everyone once and a while they go for something in the $20,000 range, and I am hoping for that. Zhao Luo yong TSI = 420 , 26 years, weak form Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Quick] Stamina: poor Keeper: wretched Playmaking: weak Passing: wretched Winger: inadequate Defending: passable Scoring: poor Set Pieces: wretched Will keep him around on defense for awhile, as he was the only decent defender I got. Juan Carlos Solano TSI = 330 , 21 years, weak form Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities [Head] Stamina: weak Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: inadequate Passing: inadequate Winger: wretched Defending: passable Scoring: poor Set Pieces: poor Just got this guy to bolster the defense. Chad Gilchrist TSI = 300 , 27 years, weak form Has poor experience and weak leadership abilities Stamina: weak Keeper: wretched Playmaking: poor Passing: weak Winger: weak Defending: inadequate Scoring: passable Set Pieces: passable Will keep him around until I can afford a guy with comparable stats 10 years younger. Julián Mercado TSI = 220 , 22 years, inadequate form Has wretched experience and poor leadership abilities [Head] Stamina: solid Keeper: wretched Playmaking: inadequate Passing: disastrous Winger: weak Defending: disastrous Scoring: weak Set Pieces: weak I will try to get his playmaking to passable and then sell. Derrick Sykes TSI = 190 , 26 years, poor form Has poor experience and inadequate leadership abilities Stamina: wretched Keeper: wretched Playmaking: solid Passing: weak Winger: weak Defending: poor Scoring: poor Set Pieces: disastrous Will keep him around for the time being. Zachary Lundy TSI = 150 , 25 years, weak form Has poor experience and disastrous leadership abilities Stamina: wretched Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: wretched Passing: poor Winger: inadequate Defending: wretched Scoring: passable Set Pieces: wretched With the three passable scorers and only now two passable defenders, this prompted the 3-4-3 lineup. May sell him if he is worth anything, and then try to get another decent mid and do 3-5-2 to exploit my strong midfield. Gus Wagner TSI = 120 , 24 years, passable form Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities Stamina: poor Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: weak Passing: weak Winger: disastrous Defending: wretched Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: poor Will be fired in 58 hours or so. Jackie Ross TSI = 100 , 24 years, weak form Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities Stamina: poor Keeper: wretched Playmaking: disastrous Passing: wretched Winger: wretched Defending: inadequate Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: solid He isn't a dinosaur yet, and could be a decent filler on defense if absolutely necessary. Luis Chan TSI = 90 , 30 years, weak form Has weak experience and inadequate leadership abilities Stamina: weak Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: weak Passing: poor Winger: poor Defending: weak Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: inadequate Probably fired in 46 hours or so. Mikey Presley TSI = 90 , 24 years, wretched form Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities [Technical] Stamina: poor Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: inadequate Passing: poor Winger: poor Defending: inadequate Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: poor Probably fired in 34 hours or so. Scott Sherrod TSI = 90 , 29 years, weak form Has poor experience and disastrous leadership abilities Stamina: disastrous Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: poor Passing: passable Winger: weak Defending: poor Scoring: poor Set Pieces: weak Probably fired in 22 hours or so. Ernest Bond TSI = 60 , 20 years, weak form Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities Stamina: inadequate Keeper: wretched Playmaking: poor Passing: poor Winger: inadequate Defending: wretched Scoring: disastrous Set Pieces: disastrous Fired in 10 hours or so. Mikey Ybarra TSI = 50 , 19 years, passable form Has disastrous experience and solid leadership abilities [Unpredictable] Stamina: weak Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: disastrous Passing: inadequate Winger: poor Defending: poor Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: poor Semi-clown, I am told. I guess I'll keep him around for the time being. Fidel Rooney TSI = 0 , 40 years, weak form Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities [Quick] Stamina: disastrous Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: disastrous Passing: wretched Winger: disastrous Defending: wretched Scoring: disastrous Set Pieces: wretched And my line up for the next friendly. I am going with 3-4-3 since my defense is a little weak, but I am thinking this is not such a good idea. 44.24 KB Well, feel free to tell me how wrong I am.

19-07-2005, 23:22	#2
Dell19 King Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Grantham. Posts: 1,359	Eras Encinas - No point in actually training him in playmaking. He is probably best sold as a forward and hope that a newbie pays a silly amount for him which is reasonably likely. David Sapp - Needs a couple of weeks of stamina training before he will be a good IM Matthew Beyer - Yep try and sell him as he is a useless player but a newbie may pay a bit for the solid passing. Victor Davis - Could keep him as a winger Phillip Henley - You are right that he needs replacing and a passable would be good if you could afford it. Zhao Luo yong - yep, a decent starting defender Juan Carlos Solano - better defender and for £8000 its a decent deal. Chad Gilchrist - decent player who you can probably use for a season or three Julián Mercado - Too old and not good enough really to be trained. Derrick Sykes - good player but like Sapp he desparately needs stamina. Zachary Lundy - okay striker

19-07-2005, 23:25	#3
Dell19 King Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Grantham. Posts: 1,359	Mistfit is right that your league is tough and I expect that you will go down this season with 4 points but next season you should be able to compete. After the couple of weeks of stamina training you should be looking to get a passable coach and getting some 18 year old passables in the area that you want to train and then training them up each week. www.hottrick.org has a good guide on what training is and basically you should try reading one of the newbie guides so that you don't waste a season and half doing nothing and thus not progressing.

19-07-2005, 23:29	#4
bed_head7 Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: . Posts: 545	Is it better to start with a lower list price or a higher one? Like, how much do you think the starting list price for Eras Encinas should be? And Matthew Beyer?

19-07-2005, 23:33	#5
Dell19 King Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Grantham. Posts: 1,359	It depends how risk averse you are I don't like taking risks so I usually use transfer compare on the player screen and set a high price that seems reasonable and then hope someone meets it. You could try Beyer at $15 000 although no one may bid. Maybe $32 500 for Encinas I'm sure others will disagree and I don't really like recommending starting prices that much since its all about luck.

19-07-2005, 23:34	#6
bed_head7 Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: . Posts: 545	I read the platypus guide, and am thinking of doing basically as the guy says for either scorers or midfielders.

19-07-2005, 23:37	#7
Dell19 King Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Grantham. Posts: 1,359	Midfielders is often a nice place to start especially since you don't have that manay great IMs and Sapp could potentially be trained until he was sold because he is 21. Although I think it would be best to sell Sykes once he has some stamina. You could buy low stamina trainees now and train them up in stamina at the same time btw.

19-07-2005, 23:58	#8
bed_head7 Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: . Posts: 545	I have just completely hit all weak stamina passable playmaking 17 and 18yo on the market. Most were $1,000, some a couple more thousand. Hopefully I get about half of them.

20-07-2005, 02:39	#10
bed_head7 Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: . Posts: 545	Oh, oh well. I listed Beyer at $10,000 and Encinas at $40,000, since I did it before Dell19 edited.