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    Yes.

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      Hmmmm. I can either train my players, or save what little money I have to buy a veteran defender (which I badly need to do for average age reasons)..... decisions, decisions....

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        Hmmmm, the MLX play offs through up some interesting results.

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          Iko Ka Kansai find themselves in the semi final of something. It's been a while.

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            In fact, the semi final lineup for the MLX Vase consists of Hompesch Strikers plus all entrants from MLX B.

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              CPI_46 has triggered the Xpert Zone with 30 zombies.

              On the bright side VA, SDR and I will get some derbies in our Pro Zone division.

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                The Beginner Zones are 6up 6down which is ludicrous.

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                  Originally posted by nmrfox View Post
                  The Beginner Zones are 6up 6down which is ludicrous.
                  That's one of the reasons that I decided to call it a day foxy.

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                    OTF Div 1 is absolutely mad; the battles for 3rd and to avoid 8th.

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                      Originally posted by Antepli Ejderha View Post
                      That's one of the reasons that I decided to call it a day foxy.
                      Funny, that. I quit when they went to 2.5 up 5 down in the upper zones, which meant 5 up 5 down in the beginner zones. Private leagues can't have playoffs, so 2.5 up meant that all third-placed teams on the same level have their regular season records compared to determine who goes up. Across divisions. Which likely aren't of equal strength. It is a ridiculous way to decide promotions.

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                        Congratulations to the winner of the OTF league!

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                          Brian Munchingflack appear to have been promoted as Champions from the bottom league. I have no idea how they managed it. Maybe the computer algorithm felt sorry for them.

                          Anyway, what do I win?

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                            Football, eh? Bloody hell.

                            Sneaking suspicion the Turds are going to stink the place out in the OTF top division. It's a promotion that was not on the cards - as recently as week 8 we were ninth in the table. Something just clicked halfway through the season (wish I knew what it was so I could c&p...)

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                              Congrats to the champions, league winners and promoted teams. Commiserations to those who so narrowly missed out

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                                  Thanks ad hoc and jdsx, congrats Nick and Auntie.

                                  Division winners 1m (thank God)
                                  Runners up 500k
                                  3rd place 250k

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                                    The Kneebiters will visit the murky depths of Division 2 for the first time in club history next season. Relegated on goal difference, after an abysmal performance in the last game. Thoroughly outplayed by the direct competitors, who completely deserved their continued membership of Division 1.

                                    Iko Ka Kansai will once more visit the GLX next season. Relegated on goal difference.

                                    De Stroppendragers are only two points above the relegation line with one game to go in the J4GL Championship. However, if we win that game by three goals, we end in fifth place, which would be the best ever league finish in the 33 seasons of this franchise's existance (during 12 of which I've been in charge).

                                    Following the flukiest of all away wins against a direct competitor, Lokomotiv Leiden find themselves four places but only three points above the relegation line in HLC 2, with six games to go.

                                    Midway through the season, Märkische Mädels somehow find themselves in third place in the Human League top flight. We're closer to the relegation line than to the runaway league leaders, though.

                                    Only Eintracht Eindhoven are relatively comfortable, in a playoff place in Dream League division 4.

                                    It's not exactly a vintage period in the Wouter D stable of X11 teams. IKK better go on to win that vase, because there is very little to celebrate otherwise.

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                                      Where are my manners? Many congratulations to Sits, of course! Well deserved.

                                      The Kneebiters' season is the first time I ever really experience trouble due to a fragile player. At the start of the season, I sold our 32-year-old defender and our 32-year-old midfielder. This left 28-year-old freekick specialist Neo Myhill as my only defender over the age of 25. Together with a 32-year-old goalkeeper, they keep the average age in defense high enough. Neo, however, is also fragile. Two red cross injuries in this season meant that we had to field a lineup with far too young a defense. In the last game, Neo was accompanied in the sick bay by my oldest midfielder, 28-year-old Marciello Franco. The practical upshot is that we fielded a lineup with an average age of 23.82, which is not exactly the perfect situation in which to start a relegation six-pointer.

                                      I never hesitated in taking on fragile players, since I thought that their drawbacks were not quite so big and the reduced transfer fee might be worth it. But now I'm not so sure anymore.

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                                        Nick, you'll win 1m econ, and a graphic of a trophy.

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                                          Auntie Beryl, the last two seasons, a newly promoted side has won the OTF league. So you have a 33% chance of winning the league next season. FACT.

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                                            Oh hell no.

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                                              Congratulations Sits! I assume the key to your success was a well managed training regime? <smiley winky whatever>

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                                                Thanks Gawpus. Ironically I feel as though I’m sort of managing training moderately well at last after all these years. Just have to watch the econs at all times. I’ve had a day-by- day budget running for the Swine since mid December and currently have 9,950 econs.

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                                                  Outstanding. Left it all out there on the park then, clearly! I was wondering if you'd be able to afford to bet the farm on our game today, considering the prize at stake, but well knowing the ruinous effect of trying to maintain a title push while keeping recalcitrant players in form. (Royal Atlantis in the Heineken are the poster boys for this, having had a terrific first crack at the top flight so far, yet with our finances non-existent, our form terrible and our DVs shocking we're in real danger of imploding horribly over the second half of the season.) Whatever it was you did, it's worked like a dream all told. Many congratulations Sits -- having attempted to maintain professional distance previously as your final opponents' manager, I can now say I'm delighted for you! And yes, it's another case of a newly-promoted side winning the title out of nowhere; what odds would you have given the Swine before the season started, eh??

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                                                    Dunno but I wouldn’t have bet on me. Thanks VA.

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