Season 34 Week 7 processing...

Premiership

Arsenal 13 +5
Villa 13 +3
Charlton 13 +2
Chelsea 13 +2
Watford 12 +4
Man City 12 +3 Champions

The Champions lost for the first time this season to open up the title race and allow Arsenal to go top but only on goal difference. It's gonna be close with just one point separating the top six clubs...

Championship

Newcastle 18 +16
Fulham 18 +15
Liverpool 18 +11
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West Brom 16 +9
Palace 14 +2
Bournemouth 12 +7

The top three all look very strong and it seems wingers are coming back into vogue in one form or another...

France

Etienne 19 +19
Nantes 19 +14 Champions
Paris 17 +12

Looks like another three horse race in France with the top two looking especially strong again...

Germany

Wolfsburg 15 +12 Champions
Schalke 14 +9
Bayern 14 +7

Unbeaten Wolfsburg go back to the top following defeat for Bayern whilst Hannover made it an easy day for second placed Schalke...

Holland

Twente 19 +14 
Feyenoord 18 +23
Ajax 16 +22
PSV 16 +12 Champions
Vitesse 16 +11

The Champions gained a valuable point at Twente this week as they strive to retain the title in consecutive seasons for the first time in their history...

Italy

Napoli 17 +17
ACMilan 16 +15 Champions
InterMilan 16 +5
Cagliari 15 +2

Nice to see Cagliari back to something nearing their best form following a few lean years that included flirting with relegation, fans are hoping for big things this time around with what is mostly an all italian side...

Scotland

Rangers 15 +12 Champions
Aberdeen 14 +2
Hearts 12 +5
Dundee Utd 12 +3

Since Dave Collins has returned to manage Rangers fulltime the side have picked up the pace and the Champions look set to repeat last season's fine form as they brushed aside Hearts this week and avoided what could have been a nasty banana skin...

Spain

Barcelona 21 +18 Champions
Atletico 18 +14
Real 18 +13

Fans and pundits are talking about Barcelona in terms of being the best side in the world at the moment and are now the only unbeaten side in europe's top leagues to further push that claim for  their various supporters...

USA

Chicago 16 +12 Champions
Dallas 15 +6
Bears 13 +10
Kansas 13 +9
NewYork 13 +2
Washington 12 +3

It feels much closer this time around but with anybody able to beat just about anybody else in this league it will be exciting to watch it unfold week by week...

Transfers now...

Ryan Mmaee moved to Stoke for £65m from Marseille and Mehdi Leris also joined Stoke also for £65m from Sampdoria. Coventry signed Vicario also for £65m from Sampdoria.

Leeds signed Wilfried Gnonto from InterMilan for £60m.
Soton grabbed Ismael Diallo from Everton for £45m.
Spurs took a chance and spent £36m on Destiny Udogie from Napoli.
Beto Gomes joined Everton for a bargain £15m.

Watford signed Pape Sarr from their feeder club Genk and took Carlos Baleba on trial.

Wataru Endo signed for Chelsea from unmanaged Grampus for a bargain price.

Charlton signed another promising youngster Joe Bradshaw from Bolton.

plus lots more deals all detailed in your turns this week...

Coaching next...

A good week all round for my sides, look forward to reading through it.

Cheers Paul

Email turns all sent out.

Thanks Paul, much appreciated. 

How’s Julie doing?

Thanks Paul and hope Julie is doing well!?

Very quick one - is there a reason why Odegaard for Plymouth came on at DY and not DR? Just wondering if was a system issue at all?

And don’t worry Tom - I’m not complaining about the result lol - more-so, so can make sure he comes on at DR in the future!

Hi Paul, can you check you and schoolboy used skill levels. They seem to have dropped off by 15-20 or more for each player even if they played and are in the academy.

I had a few lose skills too, 12 across the two teams.

Thanks guys, Julie is doing okay considering what she's going through. We've just completed week 5 of an 8 week recovery program and things are looking positive. Our first Oncology meeting next week to find out what we need to do to make sure the cancer doesn't return, so fingers crossed for that.

Will check those reported issues later today.

I did find an issue with the offside processing for cllubs that played ISF vs ISF and I had to rerun one game.
The replacement game now reads

Coventry 2 Wimbledon 4
Dzeko(36)  Carroll(9,38) Johansen(70,84) 
Haller(40)

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Thanks guys, Julie is doing okay considering what she's going through. We've just completed week 5 of an 8 week recovery program and things are looking positive. Our first Oncology meeting next week to find out what we need to do to make sure the cancer doesn't return, so fingers crossed for that.

Will check those reported issues later today.

I did find an issue with the offside processing for cllubs that played ISF vs ISF and I had to rerun one game.
The replacement game now reads

Coventry 2 Wimbledon 4
Dzeko(36)  Carroll(9,38) Johansen(70,84) 
Haller(40)

Great news that things are progressing well mate. And hopefully a straightforward one next week.

Thanks for taking a look at these as well!

Great news things are on the right track, all the best to both of you

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Thanks guys, Julie is doing okay considering what she's going through. We've just completed week 5 of an 8 week recovery program and things are looking positive. Our first Oncology meeting next week to find out what we need to do to make sure the cancer doesn't return, so fingers crossed for that.

Will check those reported issues later today.

I did find an issue with the offside processing for cllubs that played ISF vs ISF and I had to rerun one game.
The replacement game now reads

Coventry 2 Wimbledon 4
Dzeko(36)  Carroll(9,38) Johansen(70,84) 
Haller(40)

Great to hear Paul and hope next week goes well!

Ben@Plymouth wrote:

Thanks Paul and hope Julie is doing well!?

Very quick one - is there a reason why Odegaard for Plymouth came on at DY and not DR? Just wondering if was a system issue at all?

And don’t worry Tom - I’m not complaining about the result lol - more-so, so can make sure he comes on at DR in the future!

Of course there is 


shirt4 sn1 pos DL De Bruyne
shirt9 sn15 pos DR Caicedo

sub
shirt14 Odegaard sn14 mins60 replsn1 posDR poorsn1
shirt17 Mac Allister sn38 mins60 replsn15 posDL poorsn15

this will not work the way you want it to because the first sub action at shirt14 cant be actioned because position DR is already taken so the nearest free position is DY so that is what the system uses. For the second sub action DL is no longer taken so the system does what you asked.

this would work as you want

shirt14 Odegaard sn14 mins60 replsn15 posDR poorsn15
shirt17 Mac Allister sn38 mins60 replsn1 posDL poorsn1

does that help ?

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

Hi Paul, can you check you and schoolboy used skill levels. They seem to have dropped off by 15-20 or more for each player even if they played and are in the academy.

Due to an issue with training not working properly all the games players who were not at full potential have been allowed to massively overtrain, This has affected youths especially as most youths are not yet playing at full potential ( full potential is when PT=CR ).

Once I saw the issue I fixed it and the system now works as intended but it does mean most youth players have lost skills this week. When I first noticed the issue I thought I would leave actioning the fix until the end of the season but with everything going on this end I would have forgotten all about it so I decided to fix the issue there and then.

Affected players who are at 9997 or 9795 could have lost upto 26 skills.
Affected players who are at 9995 could have lost upto 48 skills.

It all depends how massively overtrained the system had allowed them to become.

A bit of a shock to some I guess judging by the feedback but CR95 players shouldnt be getting the better of CR97/CR99 players.

Further feedback very welcome of course...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Ben@Plymouth wrote:

Thanks Paul and hope Julie is doing well!?

Very quick one - is there a reason why Odegaard for Plymouth came on at DY and not DR? Just wondering if was a system issue at all?

And don’t worry Tom - I’m not complaining about the result lol - more-so, so can make sure he comes on at DR in the future!

Of course there is 


shirt4 sn1 pos DL De Bruyne
shirt9 sn15 pos DR Caicedo

sub
shirt14 Odegaard sn14 mins60 replsn1 posDR poorsn1
shirt17 Mac Allister sn38 mins60 replsn15 posDL poorsn15

this will not work the way you want it to because the first sub action at shirt14 cant be actioned because position DR is already taken so the nearest free position is DY so that is what the system uses. For the second sub action DL is no longer taken so the system does what you asked.

this would work as you want

shirt14 Odegaard sn14 mins60 replsn15 posDR poorsn15
shirt17 Mac Allister sn38 mins60 replsn1 posDL poorsn1

does that help ?

Thanks Paul!

I had 
Odegaard repl sn 1 pos DL
MacAllister repl sn 15 pos DR

On my turn sheet but suspect for some reason the system didn't do that and I ended up with Odegaard trying to go into DR instead so all makes sense!

I’m changing the players back next turn so think I should get it right 

Sleep deprivation with the little one means not quite with it!

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

Hi Paul, can you check you and schoolboy used skill levels. They seem to have dropped off by 15-20 or more for each player even if they played and are in the academy.

Due to an issue with training not working properly all the games players who were not at full potential have been allowed to massively overtrain, This has affected youths especially as most youths are not yet playing at full potential ( full potential is when PT=CR ).

Once I saw the issue I fixed it and the system now works as intended but it does mean most youth players have lost skills this week. When I first noticed the issue I thought I would leave actioning the fix until the end of the season but with everything going on this end I would have forgotten all about it so I decided to fix the issue there and then.

Affected players who are at 9997 or 9795 could have lost upto 26 skills.
Affected players who are at 9995 could have lost upto 48 skills.

It all depends how massively overtrained the system had allowed them to become.

A bit of a shock to some I guess judging by the feedback but CR95 players shouldnt be getting the better of CR97/CR99 players.

Further feedback very welcome of course...

Makes sense Paul, thanks.  Youth players did seem to be able to achieve more skills than they should.

Any chance we could have a reminder of what skill levels certain CR levels (97 and 95) can reach please...