The Peeps

I'm not exactly happy about being in the top division - I'm the weakest team by a whole skill bar. I had been looking forward to doing well in the middle league too!

Send me a challenge if you like.

You must've won the bonus round where any manager that received a 5 star rating won a place :p

Don't be greedy bob, you only get one! yeah that's fine!

The season will hopefully be created today

Lottery

If it's a short wait, hands in pockets and lean against something. Otherwise I'll pull out my phone (even if it's just to pretend I'm doing something on it)!

Yeah 4am tonightl/tomorrow morning ****** Who is responsible for the new managers by the way? I'm doing the lottery for VIP and everyone that recruits gets a pick :p

You moved outside of Europe, there's the issue

Someone in the official league scribble was saying he was part of a league that literally studied every aspect of the game. They had whole teams of certain special qualities, looked at which formations had which effects etc. Sounds boring to me to go that deep into it but goes to show some people really like to get into the inner workings :p @Tales yeah I have 6 teams in all lol. I wanted to have a match on every day of the week :p one of the leagues I was in kind of folded and when it started up again they had different bloody match days so I went for a 6th team. So far I'm handling them quite easily. If I had started them all at once I think it would've been too much but every time I've started up a new team I've already gotten established with the rest. Now all of my teams are on the right track for development except maybe my latest one. Still need to sort out a few players there :p

My midfield isn't up to scratch, I'm still building so I'm not fussed about what people have to say (or not say) about my team as it is : peace: @Haden I will start the season on Monday, I will set it up to begin on 29th April. Is this acceptable to everyone? It would only be 4 match days that get missed although it'll feel like a long time I'm sure! I've sent a PM to clownferret but he hasn't answered any of the mentions so I'm not sure about him. Hopefully he's in Xpert Quick Beginner's Guide I just wanted to make sure the new guys know about how important it is to keep good form for your players and get high development values. Without high development values, your players will not increase in skill. Player Development The first thing you should look at for your players is age against skill. The average is 18-4 (to become 19-5, 20-6 etc as a baseline). If you have players below this average, they are probably not worth keeping on to train (but arguably once they get to 9/10 skill they're decent enough to keep around if it keeps your team balanced). Focus should always be on youth. Players also have special qualities which are explained HERE - take note of Divas as simply giving them their favourite shirt number will remove any negative effects they would otherwise have. Development Values - Players increase their base skill at the end of each season in the change report. The size of the increase/decrease is determined by development values (DV) - which you can keep track of if you hover over the player name in your team list. A DV of 10 or higher will give your player an increase in skill but to get a visible raise (ie, to get one skill bar higher) you would be aiming for 14/15 at the very least. DVs are worked out by your player's average form and match experience over the season. If you play stronger teams and lose, you can still get good DV for your players if you can keep their form up as your player's match experience will be better when you play high skilled teams (DV is an accountable figure but match experience is hidden and probably not worth thinking too much about). Younger players will raise easier than older players who may not raise even on 16/17 DV. Form Your player's form has an influence on how well that player will play in a match. A player on 10 form will usually play TO his skill level during the game. A player on higher than 10 form will usually play above their own skill level during a game. You can see how well your players did during the game afterwards when you look at your 'last line-up'.

Happy birthday Cube!

lol you can change your team name anyway

@dazzybee @Agent Gibbs please re-apply to join and it should let me accept you (invite link: http://www.xperteleven.com/?lid=120161 )

@Haden the season doesn't officially end until Monday

Been interested in this since it was announced (feels like ages ago!), glad to see it'll be out soon! I'll be getting it on PC though I think

If this is the case then yes, that's far too late (20 mins before the match would be played!) so I guess you are the cup champion!

I don't know tbh, the whole thing is a mess with people not challenging/not accepting. Either you can play Hydra for the final, or Hydra and Dedede can play their semi final spot and you can play the final against whoever wins. Esequiel says he challenged Dedede though so it should've been a forfeit in favour of Lords of Hydra. I didn't get a response in time so I just went with an assumption to call the final. In my opinion it should be you and hydra playing the final. So I think you should challenge Esequiel/Lords of Hydra for Friday. You can decide amongst yourselves if you want to do it differently though.

Well then if @Dr\. bob hasn't already challenged dedede, I guess he has to challenge you instead. If it comes to it you can play the final on Friday though.

Sorry to be late on this, the final for the friendly cup will be @Dr\. bob vs @Dedede Not sure what happened with Esequiel and Dedede last round but I'm guessing Esequiel failed to challenge in time.

@Yvonne's prison mafia seems to be next if he's ready

Just about... 18 chances to 8, well done! @Esequiel did you fail to send a challenge to Dedede? I see he played against Sixty-Fourthers instead @Fierce_LiNk it's been great having you and you're welcome back any time, you will be missed!

Happy birthday to ya!

Ok the draw for round 2 of the friendly cup has been done. The fixtures are: Lords of Hydra vs AFC Dedede Recall United vs bob @Esequiel and @Jimbob need to send their challenges by 9pm Thursday.