WEEKLY UPDATE 6 -- SEASON FINALE: "I DREAM OF JEANNIE CUSAMANO"

In the legendary season finale of the second season of The Sopranos, the best series of all times, a lot of things work out for Tony. I could think of no better episode title to give this weekly update, covering the last week of season 2 for my twin accounts!

The Treble! Poker! Four of a kind!

In its second season, Al FC won everything that can be won:
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This is an account that performed very very well all season and that has developed very well in terms of ability. Still, I was very proud to win the Cup. Finishing season 1 with a very strong team, Al FC participated in Lvl 5 of the Cup drawing very strong opponents 1-2 lvls higher from more or less Day 1. On the other side of the tree in the Semi-finals I had a monster opponent lined up that was closer to 140%, but that club was upset by a more human opponent and in the Finals Al FC could climb to the top.

Association Success

Participating in the FA is by far the most exciting part of the game for my two accounts. Every weekend we have been lined up against tough and very active opponents as a 6 star association, and it hasn't hurt that we have been very victorious with 3 wins and 1 tie during the month. The result is that we finished the season with 428 pts, which put us well into territory to not only be promoted one step, but two steps. That was however not possible, but even after the 20% loss of pts after the seasons end our association has already secured promotion to the next division, Bronze 1, before the current season has evens started:
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True Grit -- The Little Sister

The HFF account, belonging to my daughter was created some two weeks after Al FC and has since stood a bit of the limelight of that account. This season was no different with HFF recording the only 2 losses of the League against Al FC and loosing the final of the CL against Al FC. HFF could however win its Cup (a bit easier with HFF competing in lvl 4 of the Cup). HFF had an easy ride in the Cup all the way to the final when its faced a very tough opponent one lvl higher than her. With the game at 1-1 after 90 minutes the game went to over time. With great excitement Zapegol made it 2-1 in the 112' minute and HFF could walk away with its first Cup Trophy.
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Even if HFF does not have the record of Al FC, it is a very exciting account for the future with several very promising young players. Can she challenge for the treble next season? I have de-friended Al FC really hopes that they end up in different competitions this season.

The 8 star race

A lot of young kids really popped for my two accounts during the last week of the season. We have previously touched upon the issue if my 18 y/os for HFF would get to 8 stars, and they did. This is how it looked at the end of the season:

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Both Zapegol and Cesare reached 8 stars.

HFF's franchise player, Nuno Candeais also developed really well. I picked him up as a very cheap 18 y/o, being only high 3 stars. For 900k and with a salary of 3k per NC had a great development factor of 300 using the famous Niko's Formula (see the link in post 1), and boy has this kid developed. About mid/late season 1, I started thinking about replacing NC. I had only been able to push him to just over 6 stars that year since I carried so many kids, and he was about to turn 19 and more attracting kids could be expected to be on the market and this position is very crucial for HFF. But NC just took it and ran with it during Season 2. Becoming MOTM 28 times helped, and he finished the season with 7 stars after some late season power training. But, also look at this kid's offensive abilities -- 173% is spectacular and 23% more than my super star attacker Zapegol. And it shows when you play with him, he is just lethal with the ball. 82 goals and 27 helpers in 47 games shows for it (in season 1 he only had 22 goals). Wow!

During the year I have played two DMCs hard for HFF. One of them was a 19 y/o, Englishmen Gary Butcher and the Uruguayan Umberto Solito. Solito had the Play-Maker Special Ability. I am still not getting a grip of the SAs completely, and I am considering to start writing a guide about them to get better understanding. I did however note -- just now when looking at the stats -- that Solito with Play-Making as SA finished the season with ONE assist in 45 games and Butcher, without that SA, got 20 assist on the year. Coincidence? Butcher started at 5 stars and ended just over 7 while Solito was a vet I picked up at 99% that ended with maybe 105%. But still....

Comment

What a great and fun season this have been! I love this game as much as ever! My kids love it too, and we are truly looking forward to Season 3, a new division with my association and all the new adventures ahead of us.

I have a bit of a log-jam on the work front. The guide in Post 1 need a big over-haul, especially when it comes to game play where I have learned a lot playing this game a ton the last months. This last season I have recorded most of HFFs games and analysed them, and I am starting to figure some things out. The guide for specifically for Season 2 also need to be updated, I haven't touched that since early season 2. I am also preparing a special guide for Season 3. I hope to be able to finish this during the coming week! Good luck everyone! And as always, please, if you have any questions or input or whatever, do not hesitate to post in this thread!