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http://www.xperteleven.com/?lid=285422 Feel free to apply for a new team.  SEASON STARTS October 30th. JOIN NOW FOR A NEW TEAM! *Updated 10/26/2014* Congrats to Bucketbuck for winning both a cup and a leagu title! Want to play? Go sign up using the details below and choose the option to take over an existing team or create a brand new team. We are between seasons so now is the perfect time- the next season will likely start by June 6th. Join now!  Honour Roll - Previous and Current Champions of Serie Goon (aka the soap targeting system) Season 1 - Langley Spooks - Destrado Season 2 - Sardine FC - CamoesSA Season 3 - Langley Spooks - Destrado Season 4 - FC Go Fast - shivermetinkers Season 5 - Langley Spooks - Destrado Season 6 - Langley Spooks - Destrado Season 7 - Sardine FC - CamoesSA Season 8 - Olympique Merderoi - Hardflip Season 9 - Sardine FC - CamoesSA Season 10- The Numpties - Bucketybuck CUP WINNER: The Numpties - Bucketybuck  The Goon Guide to X11 - Read this new people for some great advicehttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1ssuLN54-EBrVfFAutsiGZTKuYGWjQSHeHp_iUWHayPA/edit Basic Information Xpert Eleven is a football manager game where you manage a fictitious football team. The thought behind the game is that you compete with your friends in a league that you create yourselves. You manage your team/teams in good times as well as bad. Your tasks consist of selecting your team and working out some cunning tactical moves. You don't need to know anything about soccer at all and the game is designed to only take up about 15 minutes of your time twice a week at a minimum. You may find yourself enjoying it so much that you spend a few hours trying to find that perfect transfer, though... One fun part of the league is press releases- it gives you a chance to smack talk your opponents and write how your team is full of winners who just constantly get screwed by Xpert Eleven also has VIP, which thankfully gives you absolutely no advantage over regular players. However, it does give you access to neat stats and charts where you can truly understand how hard your team chokes under pressure. Also, you can rename your players to whatever idiot gimmick you want. I do get final say on names so no, you can't name your entire team "Weedlord Bonerhitler". Goon League Information We're in the second iteration of the Goonship League: http://www.xperteleven.com/?lid=285422. We’re in season 10 of what will be going for at least 15+ seasons. Seasons last about 8-10 weeks and there is plenty of time for a new team to get their youth going and turn into a bunch of superstars. The top flight has seen a lot of turnover and teams that have been in the lower leagues have made it all the way to the top. The previous league played for 20 strong seasons and we had a blast. Rivalries were formed, broken, and soap was had for all. Feel free to invite non-goons but be sure they're a good fit. Most of the poo poo talking happens on the forum too, but that's their loss. I check the game daily so team approvals shouldn’t take too long. If for some reason I’m slacking post in this thread! Need more information? We have an IRC channel here: Server: irc.synirc.net Channel: #soccergoons Most of us idle there most of the time but if you stick around you will get answers to your questions. We're a friendly bunch. There is an FAQ here: http://www.xperteleven.com/faq.aspx The rules of the game: http://www.xperteleven.com/ruler.aspx?RuleID=34 The Goon Guide to X11 - Read this new people for some great advicehttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1ssuLN54-EBrVfFAutsiGZTKuYGWjQSHeHp_iUWHayPA/edit Housekeeping Long term inactives (3 weeks + of no activity) will be cleaned between seasons. This may affect promotion/relegation sometimes but I think it's the best way forward. Health of the league over promotion/relegation correctness. We are currently in between seasons - apply now to take over an existing team or start your very own brand new one!Soaping Form Guide SOAP ANYONE WHO'S WON A LEAGUE TITLE Previous Threads http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3638431 http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3602737 Participate! Write cool things! Stories! Maybe this time I'll do something with the league!  Enjoy! Dragongem fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Oct 26, 2014 |
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Fantastic game, goons on the fence jump in.
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Aug 12, 2014 02:39
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Looking forward to the next season, especially since my Disgruntled Alcoholics somehow managed to barely avoid relegation from Serie Goon for once. I think if I hold on for one more season I might finally have a chance at finishing in the top 3 since I'm actually starting to get a decent midfield.
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Aug 12, 2014 02:59
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Wow, I drew against Bucketybuck with my lovely team. I hope that was your reserves mate.quote:KCER FC has shown interest in your player Uwe Mehle and has made you an offer of 500 000 econ. The club thinks the player would fit in well in their team Shep, go gently caress yourself with a rake. I think it would fit well in your lower intestine. 
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Aug 12, 2014 05:18
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Rapner posted:Wow, I drew against Bucketybuck with my lovely team. I hope that was your reserves mate. Hahaha, I was wondering how badly you would take that offer!
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Aug 12, 2014 05:31
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Oh, dammit, youth academy, why are you throwing a 3-skill guy at... wait. Kid's only 16? Huh. Okay, this might be doable...
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Aug 12, 2014 07:44
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How are we looking team numbers wise? I think it might be worthwhile to add a few dummy teams to RN to bring them up to the same numbers as the other divs to avoid the 'finish a month before everyone else' issue. I'd figure even playing against inactive teams is better than no game at all, right?
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Aug 12, 2014 12:35
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Vando posted:How are we looking team numbers wise? I think it might be worthwhile to add a few dummy teams to RN to bring them up to the same numbers as the other divs to avoid the 'finish a month before everyone else' issue. I'd figure even playing against inactive teams is better than no game at all, right? As someone affected by this issue, I agree 100%. Both from the fun angle and DV whoring angle.
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Aug 12, 2014 14:42
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You only need one new team. Only RN-A had that issue this season.
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Aug 12, 2014 14:48
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Who needs that half a million soccerbux anyways? Thanks for nothing transfer list. You can keep your poor compatibility easily injured divas.
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Aug 12, 2014 15:14
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Oh, dammit, youth academy, why are you throwing a 3-skill guy at... wait. Kid's only 16? Huh. Okay, this might be doable... Meanwhile I got a 19/4 with one mediocre SQ. 
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Aug 12, 2014 16:49
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Meanwhile I got a 19/4 with one mediocre SQ. The 16/3 has no SQs, which is why I'm thinking of trying to use him rather than selling him; looking at the transfer market I could maybe get a million or two but nothing like the mega-paydays I could get out of a guy with any SQ. Still, he's a midfielder, and I have the sneaking suspicion that SQs are more valuable there than in most positions... eh, fuckit, I'll list him at a high asking price and see what happens. e: or, actually, I'll talk myself out of it when realizing that my midfield is getting up there in age, dammit.
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Aug 12, 2014 16:56
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Vando posted:How are we looking team numbers wise? I think it might be worthwhile to add a few dummy teams to RN to bring them up to the same numbers as the other divs to avoid the 'finish a month before everyone else' issue. I'd figure even playing against inactive teams is better than no game at all, right? This isn't a bad idea - just about every full division last season had an absentee DV piñata at the bottom of the table (I'm looking at you, Como FC). We have 49 active managers right now, though, so all divisions could have 7 teams; or, we have 62 total teams, so six could be nuked to make an even 8 per division, evening out the schedule and leaving slots for newcomers to take over or replace absentee teams. Baby Cakes posted:Who needs that half a million soccerbux anyways? Thanks for nothing transfer list. You can keep your poor compatibility easily injured divas. I started a new team in one of the official leagues (Hattrick, I think), and this has been my experience. The market is full of dross.
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Aug 12, 2014 17:55
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allsizesfitone posted:This isn't a bad idea - just about every full division last season had an absentee DV piñata at the bottom of the table (I'm looking at you, Como FC). We have 49 active managers right now, though, so all divisions could have 7 teams; or, we have 62 total teams, so six could be nuked to make an even 8 per division, evening out the schedule and leaving slots for newcomers to take over or replace absentee teams. There needs to be an option where you can either pay X soccerbux to individually review players yourself or pay a larger sum of soccerbux to have a scout look for talent that is guaranteed to match your criteria AND is good compatibility or better.
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Aug 12, 2014 18:39
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Can I drop out? I honestly forgot about my team for basically the second half of last season.
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Aug 12, 2014 21:13
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allsizesfitone posted:This isn't a bad idea - just about every full division last season had an absentee DV piñata at the bottom of the table (I'm looking at you, Como FC). We have 49 active managers right now, though, so all divisions could have 7 teams; or, we have 62 total teams, so six could be nuked to make an even 8 per division, evening out the schedule and leaving slots for newcomers to take over or replace absentee teams. I would very much like to not *reduce* the number of teams per division given that we haven't had any kind of warning and I might have about 13m worth of bids in for players on the basis of being promoted to SG...
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Aug 12, 2014 21:55
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Vando posted:I would very much like to not *reduce* the number of teams per division given that we haven't had any kind of warning and I might have about 13m worth of bids in for players on the basis of being promoted to SG... That's that; slap on one more team to make all divisions have 9 and Vando's off-season spending remains justified. This plan works, too.
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Aug 12, 2014 23:05
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Honestly, I think the absentee teams are a self-correcting problem; they'll all filter down to Retu, where they will serve as easy pinatas for the Retu teams to improve upon so that they can move back up to the divisions where all the fun happens. Think of them as an investment in the future!
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Aug 13, 2014 00:16
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Honestly, I think the absentee teams are a self-correcting problem; they'll all filter down to Retu, where they will serve as easy pinatas for the Retu teams to improve upon so that they can move back up to the divisions where all the fun happens. Those retu teams get less dv however, making them more likely to stay competitive over time. Given you can't get dv from friendly games, the only fair fix is padding in my opinion.
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Aug 13, 2014 01:40
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We'll see who joins and I can make some new teams. We're basically at 50 people who have logged in within the past week. I'd like to have as little disruption as possible so I'm not kicking anyone or anything, I will try and even it out.
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Aug 13, 2014 02:31
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Dragongem posted:We'll see who joins and I can make some new teams. Impeach Dragongem.
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Aug 13, 2014 03:58
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quote:K.C.E.R. MFC has shown interest in your player Uwe Mehle and has made you an offer of 500 001 econ. The club thinks the player would fit in well in their team I have a present for you. 
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Aug 13, 2014 13:45
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So when is the new season actually likely to be starting? Am I safe to form train now or am I suddenly going to find the effects wiped out on Monday?
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Aug 13, 2014 18:07
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It looks to me like the form and DV stuff is already reset. It shouldn't reset again.
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Aug 13, 2014 18:12
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Yeah right now you want to be form training and running friendlies until your average form is 14-15+. Anyone know if doing $50k for friendlies is worth it? I assume by their playing better their form will increase more but I've never really seen how it works without the win bonus.
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Aug 14, 2014 00:05
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I thought friendlies no longer affect form? Or was that DV?
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Aug 14, 2014 00:11
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bees everywhere posted:Yeah right now you want to be form training and running friendlies until your average form is 14-15+. not worth it really. Save your money.
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Aug 14, 2014 00:49
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VelociBacon posted:I thought friendlies no longer affect form? Or was that DV? Friendlies do affect form, typically negatively. You don't do them to gain form, you do them to change the form trend. Best practice is to run a single friendly after the change report. The reason you do this is to cheaply change the form trend arrow. After the change report typically all your form trends will be negative - you want them to be positive or at least neutral to start the new season with decent form. By doing the friendly, you can cut your form training expenditure from 16 x 130,000 to perhaps 5-6 x 130,000. Friendlies do not give you DV. The only things that gives you DV are league and cup matches. The only other reason to do friendlies is to work on your players teamwork rating. Given the costs in form and form training, this isn't really worthwhile.
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Aug 14, 2014 02:34
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I was mainly asking because I didn't want to do a load of form training yesterday that would end on Sunday, only to find their form hosed again after a game on Monday. Doesn't matter now cos that wouldn't affect it any more, so I shall set them on their merry training way tonight. e: that is to say, I know DV etc have already reset, but we didn't the actual new season started yet and if Dragongem clicked the button for games to start on Monday I'd potentially have wasted another million or so on training.
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Aug 14, 2014 18:15
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Rapner posted:Best practice is to run a single friendly after the change report. The reason you do this is to cheaply change the form trend arrow. After the change report typically all your form trends will be negative - you want them to be positive or at least neutral to start the new season with decent form. By doing the friendly, you can cut your form training expenditure from 16 x 130,000 to perhaps 5-6 x 130,000. I'm still undecided if this is the best way to do this, ie:playing a friendly before the form training finishes. After the change report you will have a lot of red arrows. Your theory is that the friendly changes the form trend to positive/neutral, then the form training finishes and increases the form further. But don't forget, your players will be playing that match with a negative form tendency, so while the trend might change you are also putting their actual form right into the toilet. To illustrate, before the match a player has 10 form and a red arrow. After the match he has a green arrow but now his actual form has gone down to 5. The alternative is to let the form training finish and only then play the one friendly, I'm starting to think this might be a better way to go.
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Aug 14, 2014 22:53
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I just don't play friendlies (mostly because I'm lazy)
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Aug 15, 2014 01:32
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Vando posted:How are we looking team numbers wise? I think it might be worthwhile to add a few dummy teams to RN to bring them up to the same numbers as the other divs to avoid the 'finish a month before everyone else' issue. I'd figure even playing against inactive teams is better than no game at all, right?
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Aug 15, 2014 04:14
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Hey, gonna give it a few more days. Official season starts 8/21, will set league on 8/20
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Aug 17, 2014 23:30
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Yeah the off-season is the best part of this game, thanks for the additional time 
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Aug 18, 2014 09:37
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ephex posted:Yeah the off-season is the best part of this game, thanks for the additional time Your insolence is duly noted I also blame the fact that I was super swamped last weekend so I didn't have any time to make fake teams.
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Aug 18, 2014 12:45
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Finally found a youth on the transfer market with exactly the skills I want but with piss-poor compatibility and about 1 mil more econ than he's actually worth. Now the question is do I blow the cash and work with poor compatibility for a whole season hoping I can get him to 16 DV or just save it and continue to wait for my 5-star youth academy to spit out what I want.
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Aug 18, 2014 16:10
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Dragongem posted:I also blame the fact that I was super swamped last weekend so I didn't have any time to make fake teams. A note that apparently X11 logs IPs from accounts and might get uppity about dummy accounts, apparently some guy ran a dummy account scam in the league's past life and ended up banned. It might be better to just leave a certain number of inactive teams in and pruning down without kicking their managers like NoArmedMan used to do.
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Baby Cakes posted:Finally found a youth on the transfer market with exactly the skills I want but with piss-poor compatibility and about 1 mil more econ than he's actually worth. Now the question is do I blow the cash and work with poor compatibility for a whole season hoping I can get him to 16 DV or just save it and continue to wait for my 5-star youth academy to spit out what I want. I wouldn't be too concerned about the compatibility of youths under the age of 19/20, by the time they have gained enough skill to make a difference to your team the compatibility will have sorted itself anyway. Personally I wouldn't pass on any good youth because of compatibility.
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bucketybuck posted:I wouldn't be too concerned about the compatibility of youths under the age of 19/20, by the time they have gained enough skill to make a difference to your team the compatibility will have sorted itself anyway. Personally I wouldn't pass on any good youth because of compatibility. It doesn't matter because it turns out I forgot to bid and the deadline passed 
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Destrado posted:A note that apparently X11 logs IPs from accounts and might get uppity about dummy accounts, apparently some guy ran a dummy account scam in the league's past life and ended up banned.
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