Season 25 Week 15 processing...

My apologies again the system seems to have failed to send out the draw details or next opponent scouts for next weeks euro semi-finals, I will redo tomorrow and send again.

Semi-Final draws

Copa Libertadores
Santos vs Sao Paulo
Boca vs Flamengo

European Champions Cup
Schalke vs Inter Milan
Plymouth vs Fulham

Europa Cup
Roma vs Blackburn
Berlin vs Nantes

European Cup Winners Cup
Bilbao vs Cologne
Gornik vs Cherry 

European Cup
Liverpool vs Stuttgart
Parma vs Chelsea

Fairs Cup
Auxerre vs Frankfurt
Lyon vs Hamburg

Intertoto Cup
Partizan vs Viking
Everton vs Anderlecht

African Champions Cup
Dragons vs Marrakesh
Mamelodi vs Accra

Confederations Cup
Amrokgang vs Cosmos
Chicago vs Harrisburg

Fast work, thanks Paul

What a couple of semis they are in the Champions Cup!

Can't call either, four top teams.

Happy to avoid Roma but Berlin will a very tough opponent, always caused me problems when I managed Bayern.

Thanks Paul for turning round quickly!

One question I have is about Idv Training - Mahrez was on 134TS, dropped randomly to 111 last week and IDV training only gave him 11 additional skills this week when you look at the list of skills. However, on the notes says he gained 30 TS... Might you look into this please? 

Thanks

Ben

On another note - I play Phil twice next week lol!

Okay I finally tracked down the problem with the Euro reporting, took me awhile but it should be okay now, I'll resend the turns this afternoon which will include the draws and your next opponent scout report if you are still in europe. I'll resend everybody's cos the draw may be of interest to everybody even if your side is no longer competing in europe.

Away draw is good. Got to get Sergio up to speed.

Emails all resent.

Ben@Plymouth wrote:

Thanks Paul for turning round quickly!

One question I have is about Idv Training - Mahrez was on 134TS, dropped randomly to 111 last week and IDV training only gave him 11 additional skills this week when you look at the list of skills. However, on the notes says he gained 30 TS... Might you look into this please? 

Thanks

Ben

Checking it out now. Will let you know what I find.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Ben@Plymouth wrote:

Thanks Paul for turning round quickly!

One question I have is about Idv Training - Mahrez was on 134TS, dropped randomly to 111 last week and IDV training only gave him 11 additional skills this week when you look at the list of skills. However, on the notes says he gained 30 TS... Might you look into this please? 

Thanks

Ben

Checking it out now. Will let you know what I find.

Players that don't play in one of your teams will lose skills, so he gained them during individual training but didn't play so lost them again. The rate at which a player loses skills depends on many factors so they do sometimes gain a few skills. So you need to make sure you play the guy you individually train to maximise the effect of his training. I'll put a message in somewhere to let managers know this has happened.

You now get a message on the training ground report.

Noticed something new about relationships too? 
How does that work?

Partnerships have been in the game for a few seasons now, just getting around to formalising them.

But basically the more a "pair" play together the better they become to improving each other's game, again as with most boosts a 100% relationship gives a 20% boost to both partners skills in certain areas, depends on the partnership which skills are affected. As soon as a "pair" is broken up for any reason the relationship decays and is replaced by a new relationship ( system can only track one partner per player )

so for example

you play CB1 and CB2 together in a league game on week 1, they gain a 20% understanding.
you then play them again on weeks 2,3,4 and 5 so their partnership hits 100% and they both
get a 20% boost to some of their skills. If you then play them together in week 6 they can use that boost to improve their game.  If later on, say week 10, one of them is suspended for a week then the partnership ends and a new one begins for the new pairing at 20%. If on week 11 the suspended player returns a new partnership is formed at 20% and it has to grow again to 100% before they can both benefit.

It is a small bonus for consistent team selection that affects some players, i think Ive set the system to show about 6 different possible partnerships on the TG report, I'll add more as I program them.

At some time in the future I will offer you the chance to "fix" a partnership in place once it reaches 100% so it wont decay or be overwritten by a new partnership, but that will be some time down the road once Ive tested all the code.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Ben@Plymouth wrote:

Thanks Paul for turning round quickly!

One question I have is about Idv Training - Mahrez was on 134TS, dropped randomly to 111 last week and IDV training only gave him 11 additional skills this week when you look at the list of skills. However, on the notes says he gained 30 TS... Might you look into this please? 

Thanks

Ben

Checking it out now. Will let you know what I find.

Players that don't play in one of your teams will lose skills, so he gained them during individual training but didn't play so lost them again. The rate at which a player loses skills depends on many factors so they do sometimes gain a few skills. So you need to make sure you play the guy you individually train to maximise the effect of his training. I'll put a message in somewhere to let managers know this has happened.

Thanks Paul - thought this might be the case but great to know for sure!