What to expect at Level3?

What to expect at Level3?
I would expect may off the managers who are not tooo serious ie. Average Squad Quality level 15 and below after two seasons would not make Level 3. Other than the odd Ave Squad Quality 25 to 30, the rest of the managers
would fall between 16 and 25 ( and end the season close to a 30 to 32 quality),
watch the games and
have done some background check.
Any advice on how to invest in further in an already young squad.

Also as I would now be selling players with value (generally sacked the no value weaklings in the last 2 seasons), advice required on selling at minimum vs marking up close to market value.

There is also a change on season token allowance ie daily vs lumpsum. Which option is preferable and why?
So many questions and still lots to come;)
Thanks

The competition at lower levels isn't all that serious....For me,I hardly faced any teams which had a manager managing the proceedings..My team of 3 * players or so won me the league in Level 3
If you can't afford scouts then go for the expensive 18/19 yr old players whose team name will be something weird or funny like Comfortable AC,Plummy CF etc etc....
Sell your players on day 1,keep the price to the maximum since your player will surely attract some bidder...
Speed (Extra for dedication) is the best deal which gives you 35 t per season.

"Sell your players on day 1"

Is this because the market is in a buying frenzy? Would it not be better to sell before end of season at a higher price and buy when season opens in a higher level market. At level 3 are we bidding against level1,2 and 4 managers?

In my experience, i you still have 2* players, sell them imediatly, with only 1star, no body buy them, and you have to put them again with 2 stars to sell.
Most of the Team are abandoned or boot robot, it is a good opportunity to renovate your Team.
Go for the players with cost about 3M with 5 stars, or 1,5M or higher with 3 stars, i didnt find good 4 stars players. If you whant to fill one position quickly look for 31 or 32 years old that cost above 900K.
Bet in the cup, since the first rounds you will find a lot of weak abandoned teams.
I started with 18 and i am near 25 at this point, still fighting with to other teams to win the league and won the cup, didnt qualifica to CL last season, so no experience in that point.

Dman2pt, now you are scaring me.
I don't that kind of financial resources. 3m at the end of season 2, each, is not close at all. Not even 1.5m each. My squad is at 9.5m for 22 players. Even with decent cup runs income would be about 4m. I would expect higher income at L3 ( 5 to 6m ???)

"Bet in the cup..." as in a wager? With who and how?

I won so far about 10M with 8m from cup and league, 1.5 from sales, sold 10 players, received 1 good U21 and a médium one. The rest from tickets and so on.
You can buy cheapest players, the only problem is that they are not fast trainer, i just bought 1 for 1,7M, 18 years old, 2,41M market value, but just not the Best trainer, can only get about 2SP/day, with is bot enought to keep the star next year, for that you need 2,6SP/day.
Do not forget you received about 1,2 to1,65M depending the position you finish.

Whend i say Bet in the cup, try to go far, because you have a lot of abandoned Team in the league and in cup.

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Originally Posted by DiZZee

"Sell your players on day 1"

Is this because the market is in a buying frenzy? Would it not be better to sell before end of season at a higher price and buy when season opens in a higher level market. At level 3 are we bidding against level1,2 and 4 managers?

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Price of a player declines but most of the times the players that are on the auction market are a steal for some of the people at the end of the season..For eg,I'm on Level 9 atm and I see a lot of 3 * players who are bought by level 7 players for just a token or so...
You would be up against Level 1,2 and 3 if the player is a 3 * player....If it's a 4* player then you're up against Level 2,3 and 4...If it's a 5 * player then you're up against Level 3,4 and 5...

I'll be level 3 in 2 days as well, but I would be careful in offloading too many 2* players at once. If you want to compete in all three competitions, you need a full complement of 22 players, and it appears that in the first days of the season it's hard to get good replacement players for the 2*'s you sell, with the bidding frenzy and the tokens that it will cost. I myself will be looking to get 3 or 4 young-to-middle aged 4* or 5*'s players worth about 1m.

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Originally Posted by Jack Random

I'll be level 3 in 2 days as well, but I would be careful in offloading too many 2* players at once. If you want to compete in all three competitions, you need a full complement of 22 players, and it appears that in the first days of the season it's hard to get good replacement players for the 2*'s you sell, with the bidding frenzy and the tokens that it will cost. I myself will be looking to get 3 or 4 young-to-middle aged 4* or 5*'s players worth about 1m.

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At level 2 and 3, you are best to buy 4/5* players on the last days of the season to save yourself a ****load of tokens. Sure they lose a * and go to 3/4* but they cost a few tokens and are still good enough to win the league and CL/cup if you are lucky and/or good.

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Originally Posted by cracicot

At level 2 and 3, you are best to buy 4/5* players on the last days of the season to save yourself a ****load of tokens. Sure they lose a * and go to 3/4* but they cost a few tokens and are still good enough to win the league and CL/cup if you are lucky and/or good.

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But you need money for that... :) Was able to buy a 5* 1M 23 year old DL for just one token though, yesterday. Shame I don't get the league winners money today...

if you have extra tokens, buy free agents and sell them for cash (this works for level 3 and up)

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Originally Posted by Dman2pt

In my experience, i you still have 2* players, sell them imediatly, with only 1star, no body buy them, and you have to put them again with 2 stars to sell.

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misinformation. stars are based on your level. If the player is a 2* player when you are on level 4, he will appear as a 5* player to a person on level 1. When you move up to level 5 and he becomes a 1* player, he will still appear as a 5* player to a person on level 1.

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Originally Posted by Jack Random

I'll be level 3 in 2 days as well, but I would be careful in offloading too many 2* players at once. If you want to compete in all three competitions, you need a full complement of 22 players, and it appears that in the first days of the season it's hard to get good replacement players for the 2*'s you sell, with the bidding frenzy and the tokens that it will cost. I myself will be looking to get 3 or 4 young-to-middle aged 4* or 5*'s players worth about 1m.

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When you are level 3 or higher, always bid on 5* players (if money is no object). Why bid for a 4* player against a person 1 level below you who sees that player as a 5* player? Bid on a 5* player and that person who is one level below you can't bid against you.

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Originally Posted by tarcanes92

misinformation. stars are based on your level. If the player is a 2* player when you are on level 4, he will appear as a 5* player to a person on level 1. When you move up to level 5 and he becomes a 1* player, he will still appear as a 5* player to a person on level 1.

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Yes thats correct, but i tryed to sell them at The beggining of the season and nothing, i put them 1 star up, and at first attempt they gone.
Probably my explnation was not the most correct.

Everything good till lvl 7 bud then all teams are managed

I managed to sell off most of the players I wanted to ( for four teams). Old and low quality. One or positions still to fill, but not too serious
I also managed to replace them in a quite market. It looks like the higher levels are dumping now( ????)
still have tokens left, but little cash, for buying after the first week expected free for all. I'll stand back and watch. Will look out for scraps.

At this stage it's seems I am replacing position players with a player that plays in more than one position, a higher rating and younger. So all seems well. What I will plan for end of next season is to have more cash saved up.

And I have about 150 skill points banked to next season. I have to Learn how to identify slow trainers and dump them later on.

Thanks for all input. And good luck for your new season
Christmas shopping is now over....and I am tired:cool::cool:

I looked at the transfer markets today, after the star adjustment and the prices for players today, compared to prices at level 2 are INSANE. What's worse is that there are bidders.
Seems like at level 3 experienced ( not old) players are needed ie. balance btwn old and young.
Cup draws appear to be abandoned clubs at this stage, in the cup. Not sure about the CL, i expect different!

At level 1 &2 I concentrated on the defenders and midfield players. Now my keeper and support striker feel weak, after selling off and replacing players in the last two days. The defenders and midfield players are large groups and weaklings can hide. But the gk and strikers cannot. Do I look for young replacements or 23-25yrs or older. Gk replacement I'm leaning towards 25ish yrs
Any thoughts, please.

What to expect at Level3?


I for once, expected to be Level 4 ( i am now finally :D ) to be able to make offer for players :D

Nice bunch here.
YOU f******g bas**** s

Not one of you said level 3 is a DIFFERENT STEP up...AS IN 'MIND THE LONG DROP down A**hole'
:D:D:D
Now we can start competing.
What a difference, for us beginners.:p

Right, just spend 16 tokens on a striker, out of my 37 tokens. And I still need 3 extra players. Wanted to wait with bidding, but after seeing the competition, I had to strenghten my squad. So, with seemingly not enough remaining tokens to get extra players, I'm out. Enjoy another unmanaged team, fellow level 3 managers. :)

Jack , hang in there. Don't give up yet.
You cannot upgrade the squad overnight, surely you have to build a squad from season one onwards . Also, do managers have to chase the player that everyone wants? 16 tokens is a lot, as in Jack's post.

Last season at level 3 i only started to buy on day 3, and only early in the morning, with less competition. But i managed to win almost of the auctions just spending 1 token, 2 maximum, but that depends of the server.
I bought 1 32 years old striker, was top scorer in the league, 3rd in assists, average of 7.9, also bought a 34 years old free agent, a 20 years old 34Q fast trainer, so i think you still need to buy older and younger, otherwise the money is not enought.
Above 30 shearch for 5* with price above 700K
Above 27 above 1M
Above 19 above 3.5M the highest i have seen was 5M


Now at level 4, still looking, bought a 18 5* with 5M market value and he is a slow trainer, so people need to be carefull.

Wtf. You bought a slow trainer for 5 million? How can you tell if you got he real deal except though prices? I mean I am level 4 and the highest I have seen is around 4m

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Originally Posted by Jack Random

I'll be level 3 in 2 days as well, but I would be careful in offloading too many 2* players at once. If you want to compete in all three competitions, you need a full complement of 22 players, and it appears that in the first days of the season it's hard to get good replacement players for the 2*'s you sell, with the bidding frenzy and the tokens that it will cost. I myself will be looking to get 3 or 4 young-to-middle aged 4* or 5*'s players worth about 1m.

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You dont need 22 players, you just need 1st team and subs, with players that can play more than one position. I recently off loaded 4 players to take me down to this as i just wasnt using them (i had 22 players roughly the same quality). Its all about using your injury packs right. I only use them if i really need the player. Some say the more you use the more injuries you get but tbh in 10 months i havent noticed this (ive noticed a time period each season where i get alot of injuries though). Its also easier to train/maintain a smaller squad and still be competitive, just dont go daft and sell down to 11 players and **** subs as suspensions will end up hitting u hard

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Originally Posted by TimYoung

Wtf. You bought a slow trainer for 5 million? How can you tell if you got he real deal except though prices? I mean I am level 4 and the highest I have seen is around 4m

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I think we need to be more carefull with the 18 years old players, this one that i bought is probably the 2* player of the academy fom a manager in level 7.

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Originally Posted by herdo

You dont need 22 players, you just need 1st team and subs, with players that can play more than one position. I recently off loaded 4 players to take me down to this as i just wasnt using them (i had 22 players roughly the same quality). Its all about using your injury packs right. I only use them if i really need the player. Some say the more you use the more injuries you get but tbh in 10 months i havent noticed this (ive noticed a time period each season where i get alot of injuries though). Its also easier to train/maintain a smaller squad and still be competitive, just dont go daft and sell down to 11 players and **** subs as suspensions will end up hitting u hard

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I agred with you, last season at level 3 i played league and cup, with a 20 players squad, and 5 or 6 of the players played less then 10 games.

Do the players, in a smaller squad recover in time without booster use, when playing four games in two days? Do you train them as well or is game time sufficient for skill points?
Do the players have to be 99% or is 80% good enough for stamina levels?
When is too low a stamina level, especially during game time?