Buffs FC (Scottish Team) - server 112

[Buffs Mad]

Think I might need to add numbers or take a leaf out of Becks' book and use positional lettes in names. Just not easy with multiple Robertsons, Hendersons and Johnstones (not this season) to know who is doing what in a game. >.<

Anyway, performance update.



Performance Highlight

GK Andy Goram's lowest rating this Season has been 6 (3 times)- played 33 games.

[Buffs Mad]

Season 14 Result

Bit of a crappy/disappointing season really.

Should've won the league sooner but too many draws v mid-table teams.



Should've won the CL - but didn't!



In the Cup the engine chewed me up and spat me out >.<



Squad Performance

Only 2 players failed to average 7 or more:

Fernando Ricksen, MC was a bit-part player with 20 appearances for a 6.90 average; and
Murray Wilson, DMC started as an ever-present, notching up 27 games but faded onto the bench averaging 6.93.

Performance targets for Season 15 include:

• Jack Harper, ST - 40 goals;
• Liam Henderson, MC - 7.50+ average rating; and
• Steve Nicol, DL/DC to reach 320 career matches.

Season 15 recruitment

Not done anything significant: bought an MC, 2 wingers and a Striker as short-term subs.
Still on the lookout for 2 long-term defenders (DL/DC & DC/DR) + 1 or 2 wingers.

Season 15 League

Since 4 Season 14 league friends failed to promote the two sides that beat us in the Cup and CL have been added (and are in our league) as was another earlier Cup opponent and a.n. other S14 6* team - to maintain league competitiveness.

Hope it makes it interesting but doesn't blow up in my face. >.<

[Buffs Mad]

To avoid messing up cookizzz thread on FKs I'll post in my own little world

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I know its not FK SA but I currently have been testing CKers. I have a left footed MC No SA (105Q Crossing) and a rightie MC (105Q crossing) who I gave CK SA to. The rightie's performance in general has fallen since he got the SA and he has had only 2 assists to boot, compared with my leftie no SA guy who has had 14 assists.

PS. The rightie wasn't actually much good at CKs before the SA but I wanted the test and I was prepared to waste the sp to do so.
PPS. Whether being given responsibility for something he's not good at has affected performance (or whether his performance slump was coming anyway and affected CKs) I'm not sure - so I'll be removing him from CK duties for the rest of the season. If he starts performing better I might give him more CKs.

Today for Cup match I changed CK taker on RHS.

Before the match CK specialist had 2 assists (since getting the SA) and his average rating had fallen to 6.60, including 2 5s - no 8s since he started taking CKs. In the match today he rated 8 and scored his 4th goal of the Season. Probably just coincidence so I'll keep an eye on it.

The guy I put in charge of CK on right also scored 1 and got 1 assist from CK. >.< He's either footed and takes FK from left and 2nd in line for the right. Must keep my main ST on FKs from there #gloryhunter

Note to self: this was Cup Match Day 14.

[Buffs Mad]

Since winning the league isn't really an option this Season I better set myself something to fix.

This is my worst position so let's see if I can improve on it.

[Buffs Mad]

Since winning the league isn't really an option this Season I better set myself something to fix.

This is my worst position so let's see if I can improve on it.

OMFG. The draw fairy has come to visit the top teams now as 1st and 2nd drew (I was hoping 2nd would win).



Maybe I can save face this Season and claw my way back to 2nd. I still have !st 2nd and 4th to play in a 3 day stint....soon.

Hopefully by posting I haven't jinxed it. >.<

Striker crisis update - after poor performances 9 games ago led to Jack Harper, ST, being rested, subbed, cuddled and injected with various substances we tried a friendly frenzy last night. In the last 3 matches he went from rating 7, 8 then 9 against alt team, league bottom team and lvl 16 side respectively. I hope (clutching at straws) it means something for tonight's must win match.

[Buffs Mad]

Finished.

[Buffs Mad]

Look ahead

League: Best we can hope for this Season is 2nd I think since we're only >.< 6pts behind them.
CL: If we can get past our current opponent and his 8* striker (who was crap in our 2-0 win today) there are 2 difficult opponents. One is a Scout Market junkie with 18x SA players between 22 and 28yo. 4 are this Season purchases. I think I've met that team before but can't remember yet where or when. The other side is the team my current opponent finished 2nd to in the group - his side is full SA'd but a mix of youth and experience. Looks like he tanked for 2 seasons before winning the league last Season. 2nd in my Group held him to a draw today so maybe he'll do us a favour
Cup: Nothing much left at all, should be easy so we'll probably bottle it again for a Plate.

Commentary

Decided to grab a few commentaries last season to take a look at any possible patterns. But I'm afraid nothing exciting was jumping out at me so I got bored.

The only thing that was surprising - but ultimately useless - was the number of commented players which was higher than I expected.

In 6 wins, the numbers of players commented* were 20/25, 24/26, 22/24, 22/23, 20/24 & 23/25.
(*ofc the comments for substitutions were ignored.)

The Buffs players that received no comments were:
GK x 3 - rating 6,7,7
DL x 2 - rating 7,7**
DR x 1 - rating 0 (sub)**
DMC x 2 - rating 7,7
MC x 2 - rating 7,0 (sub)

(**the unhelpful "One Defender" comment, which appeared 3 times in the 6 matches, could have an impact.)

So that was:
79 Buffs players used
10 omitted from commentary
8 of which had played > 20 mins
1 omitted player rated < 7
no omitted player rated > 7

Only 2 players were omitted from commentary having played a full match - the GK and DMC.

Can't really draw much from these commentaries since no Buffs players rated lower than 6. Need to look at some losses.

[talisman]

Quite often the commentary and the final rating have no correlation whatsoever. Take this recent cup match. I watched the commentary and my GK made several good saves (not the fingertip in the corner variety) and defenders and midfielders were blocking and tackling all over the place. GK got a 7, the two DCs most-mentioned got 5 and 6 and the one that wasn't mentioned got 8!!

[Buffs Mad]

Quite often the commentary and the final rating have no correlation whatsoever. Take this recent cup match. I watched the commentary and my GK made several good saves (not the fingertip in the corner variety) and defenders and midfielders were blocking and tackling all over the place. GK got a 7, the two DCs most-mentioned got 5 and 6 and the one that wasn't mentioned got 8!!

Yep, when I tried to look specifically at GKs I found that the times the comments matched the rating were just as unreliable as the times they didn't. This is not because I believe the ratings are unreliable (I accept them) but because saves do not make a performance and there was often many FKs, CKs, crosses, 1on1s etc to be dealt with that never make it to the commentary. We occasional get told when he comes to collect and catches it but not when he comes and misses it. Too many gaps - Mcs too are usually judged on passing and ball retention (possession) but stats wise we get nada info.

Thats why I suggested adding some more possession style stats to be added to understand better player interactions with the ball and success/failure.

Commentary can't explain ratings - its too limited (particularly when sometimes it takes 7 or more comments to complete a single event).

[talisman]

You're giving up too soon...

Last season after round 18:



Three matches later:



Of course it needed the troll fairy to visit Suzuran FC a couple of times (the third was a draw between them and Sajete Boys), but just goes to show anything can happen...