Football Sim News

MVP ranking

pstimpel — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:55:50 GMT

A first version of the MVP ranking is available. More details could be found in the forum.

It is holiday time

pstimpel — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:31:35 GMT

Just want to tell you, I am offline from 16th of July until 2nd of August. During this time I will not handle any requests for fixing bugs or similar things. Please post your complaints in the right forum section, so the found bugs or upcoming ideas dont get lost! Urgent things you could handle by sending me mail to pstimpel@googlemail.com . Have fun and regards, Peter.

Draft changed

pstimpel — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:52:59 GMT

The draft mode was changed today. Now the players were created on sunday #8, and the draft itself happens on sunday #10. Each team has the chance to grab 4 players, the pick order is based on the final league standing of the actual season, so the last team in league gets picks #1, 7, 13 and 19. Manual updated already. Since I made this after sunday #8, I removed the actual draft order completely, and created a new one. Please make sure you order the picks again - only 1 week left.

Challenge pool now available

pstimpel — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:12:56 GMT

Check http://ywc.de/football/index.php?page=community&subpage=thread&thread_id=212 for mor information.

Economy updated

pstimpel — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:38:02 GMT

Please check the discussion board http://ywc.de/football/index.php?page=community&subpage=thread&thread_id=211 to learn something about the new calculated economy and the idea behind.

Draft - once more

pstimpel — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:59:26 GMT

Please notice: The given orders were removed due changed database design. You will need to create a draft order again!

Some updates

pstimpel — Sun, 09 May 2010 13:00:17 GMT

The scout report is now limited, 10 scoutreports if your scout is at 1, and for each level above one additional scout report per week. The reset happens on the economy update. The quality is limited by the scout level too, level 1 means unsharpened results, while level 20 gives you the highest possible accuracy. - During offseason players will gain or lose Physical Condition based on their level of Teamwork.

Draft module online

pstimpel — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:58:43 GMT

The draft module is online. Details on how it works can be found in the manual.

Please check - urgent

pstimpel — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:32:12 GMT

http://ywc.de/football/index.php?page=community&subpage=thread&thread_id=182

maximum of players on Depth chart and roster

pstimpel — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:55:26 GMT

You are allowed to have up to 70 players on your roster, and up to 55 players active in a match. Please read the forum for how it is working. ( http://ywc.de/football/index.php?page=community&subpage=thread&thread_id=173 )

Season 4 arrived

pstimpel — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:59:10 GMT

Season 4 is now official. Please do not forget to select a new sponsor. Also have a look at your roster, some players may have plans to retire. New wage are calculated too.

Checkout the sponsors

pstimpel — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:44:10 GMT

even they dont have a good name right now, the sponsors arrived. Check the manual too, you will find some useful hints there how to improve the payments of your sponsor.

Next season rollover in 2 weeks

pstimpel — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:07:22 GMT

Wage calculation, player aging and retiring added. Please check the forum http://ywc.de/football/index.php?page=community&subpage=thread&thread_id=138

Depth chart and Playbooks enhanced

pstimpel — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:37:31 GMT

From now it is possible to have several depth charts and playbooks. In the matchsetting you can select which depth chart is the active one per match, and which playbook for offense and defense you want to use. The playbook selection is available for both offense and defense, this way you can use different playbooks, like a rush playbook for the offense and an anti pass playbook for the defense.

Play intensity, the new factor in matchsettings

pstimpel — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:30:39 GMT

In the match settings there is now the play intensity available. 3 stages we have: relaxed, normal and match of the year. Please check the discussion board for detailes information

Physical condition and extra training

pstimpel — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:13:35 GMT

To keep your rosters in shape I ran extra training and some additional PC bonus for each player - it was a hard week playing 6 cup matches

Supercup added

pstimpel — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:04:49 GMT

The Supercup was added this night. Please check the discussion board for more information. A manual section will be online within minutes.

Champ of Champs competition added

pstimpel — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:44:58 GMT

Today I added the Champ of Champs competition. Pls check the forum and the manual for more information. First cup matches are scheduled for Apr 7th.

Interceptions

pstimpel — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:46:30 GMT

From tomorrow the interceptions are active, pls check the forum for some more information, and for the known flaws at the moment. http://ywc.de/football/index.php?page=community&subpage=thread&thread_id=79&startpage=5

Friendly Cup manager - discussion ongoing

pstimpel — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:53:43 GMT

Hi, pls check http://ywc.de/football/index.php?page=community&subpage=thread&thread_id=101 and tell what your ideas and opinions are.

Playbook

pstimpel — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:23:34 GMT

I added play directions to the offense playbook. The direction is only useful on pass or rush as result of the playbook entry.

Powerweek mode stopped

pstimpel — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:43:56 GMT

I stopped the powerweek calculation, from now all games are simulated in normal mode.

Pls answer the question...

pstimpel — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:40:38 GMT

You will find it here: http://ywc.de/football/index.php?page=community&subpage=thread&thread_id=99

Thx for helping

Scout report

pstimpel — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:52:16 GMT

A first version of the scout option is available. Check the manual for more details.

Playbook bug

pstimpel — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:02:57 GMT

Please read http://ywc.de/football/index.php?page=community&subpage=thread&thread_id=91 for further information. All matches from today were recalculated.

Penalties arrived

pstimpel — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:18:31 GMT

Pls check http://ywc.de/football/index.php?page=community&subpage=thread&thread_id=2&startpage=3 for further details.

Transfermarket searchfunction implemented

pstimpel — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:05:02 GMT

There is now a very basic search function available for the transfer market.

Powerweek mode 2 started

pstimpel — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:41:07 GMT

From NOW I change the powerweek conditions a bit:

Tackling, Agility, Speed, Strength and PC are at 40 (80%), all other skills based on players.

Season rollever to season 3 done

pstimpel — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:02:23 GMT

Pls check your league tables, especially if you are a "victim" of the bot flush. We will continue without one week offseason break.

Press releases and Injury report added

pstimpel — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:37:25 GMT

To bring in some more Football feeling I added the Injury report and the Press releases. You can access both items by the "Your team" menu. A RSS feed of press releases is available for supporters too (in short)

Remember, the Power weeks are active now

pstimpel — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:17:01 GMT

Like told we run the engine this week in "full power mode", which means all skills of all players are calculated in games as they would have 40. Please tell your ideas in the Discussion board, there is a sticky called "Skill update next weekend". The first result: the completion rate on pass plays is at 100% which is not really like in real life. Anything else? Just tell us please.

Power week started

pstimpel — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:01:50 GMT

Right now I replaced all the skills of your players by value 40 (80%). This was done in the engine, so your players stay at the level they have, but the engine will calculate with 40. I will run this mode for 1 week, excluding next weeks league matches. The training will happen on monday as known, including the progress from this session. Please report any strange behavior in the forum.

skill test - pls check the forum

pstimpel — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:25:18 GMT

http://ywc.de/football/index.php?page=community&subpage=thread&thread_id=31

This is needed to check how the engine is doing with better skilled guys. Be prepared...

Intrusion detection

pstimpel — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:04:03 GMT

For security reasons I needed to implement some functionality. If you ever see output like this:

The page execution was aborted!

please copy the output of this page and send it via email to me. Do not try post it via PM or Forum, this will fail.

Team chemistry activated

pstimpel — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:17:20 GMT

Today (now) Team chemistry (TC) was added to the engine. It affects the playing skills a bit. For more information check the manual please.

Free agents

pstimpel — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:10:52 GMT

Players, that were owned by bot going teams or got fired by active owners are now placed on the transfer market as free agents. There is a 5% chance for this.

Financial penalties due bad management

pstimpel — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:48:20 GMT

If your club stays in the minus you have now to pay 5% interest on each weekly financial update. If your club stays below -500,000 you will receive more serious warnings, and if you manage it to stay there for more than 3 consecutive weeks you will hit some penalties. For more information please check the manual section Economy.

New PlaybyPlay - called Gamecenter

pstimpel — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:50:08 GMT

I replaced the old playbyplay page with a new one called Gamecenter. It displays the same information, but needs less resources. A second version will follow in short, then with graphical LOS presentation and some markers for ball movement.

Facilities available now

pstimpel — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:12:26 GMT

As some of you may know from the forum: new facilities to improve training are available now. The manual will get an update soon.

The function is very basic: You can purchase as many facilities as you like, be careful due the maintencance costs. You can activate two off the training facilities at the same time. The facilities that are active at training calculation will improve the power of your players training by around 10%. Please note: for the maintenance calculation it does not matter if the facility is activated or not, you have to pay for all facilities you own!

N ew forum software online

pstimpel — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:43:17 GMT

After having trouble all the time with the integrated board software I decided to write my own one. Therefor you will find from now two Community menus on the top.

"old Community" is the old board. This is read only from now, but if you manage it somehow to write there your posts will probably not get answered.

"Community" brings you directly into the new forums. I was not able to move the topics from one forum to the other - sorry! You will think "uh, this is ugly" - and you are right. I will work on it later. The basic needed functionality for having discussions is available.

Penalties

pstimpel — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:04:12 GMT

I just started a discussion to know your thoughts for the penalties. Please join and help: http://ywc.de/football/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=88

Stats - once more

pstimpel — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:29:57 GMT

I finished today the general stats inside match output, pls check your matches simulated after this news was written. If you have ideas what we need there pls post in Suggestions. Same is valid for the yesterday added player stats.

Stats

pstimpel — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:45:00 GMT

I added some stats per player, just check the player details for season and career stats. It is very basic at the moment.

On the Club page there is now an initial rating by teams PC, Moral and TC.

Transfermarket opened today

pstimpel — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:25:35 GMT

in "Your team" you will find the new transfer market. At the moment there are no search capabilities, but the players are listed and you can place your bid on them.

default match settings

pstimpel — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:06:14 GMT

From now you can store a preset for your match tactic settings. Please check the match settings page therefor. Below all the settings per down you will see two links, one to store the actual displayed settings as default, the other to load them from the database. The engine will use this default settings if a manager missed to store his own ones.

Two terrible bugs fixed

pstimpel — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:27:44 GMT

Today I managed it to solve two bugs, hopefully without adding new ones.

1. The OL is now fully participating in gameplay and stats (thx to Kyoshuke and Sal)

2. The Receivers are now playing based on their skills, I used the QB skills in the past instead the receiver skills (more). (thx to Lagavulin (I know, Sal....) )

Positional rating per player

pstimpel — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:02:01 GMT

I changed the way of calculating the positional rating. From now on each injury update also the player rating gets recalculated. The rating per position is now based on skills. This means the rating can give you a hint for the best position a player should play. The main skills per position are involved, the experience of the player is involved too.

Stamina not in anymore, now you need to call it physical condition

pstimpel — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:01:06 GMT

Physical condition can raise if you train it. On regular games and wednesday friendlies players can lose physical condition - in regular games the loss of PC is much higher. Physical condition affects the whole gameplay of a player if he is not playing special team positions. On matches there is an inGame loss - shown in the stats - and a permanent loss, based on number of plays.

Experience is now enabled

pstimpel — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:57:44 GMT

From todays matches experience of players is enabled. Experience influences the playskills in matches, but not the fitness skills. On regular games and wednesday friendlies experience can raise. The bonus for regular games is much bigger.

Part 1 of transfer system done

pstimpel — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:02:00 GMT

Part 1 of the player transfer feature was done. You can now fire or sell your players, unless you keep at least 45 players at your team. 5% of the transfer income are handled as tax by the selling team. Each night the transfers are processed. Team chemistry will reset after the player was transfered to his new team. On the Bidlist you can see incoming and outgoing actual bids. The transfer archive needs to be done, same for the transfer market search function. You can not bid on your own players, you can not enter the transfer market or sell or fire players without finishing the manager license. You can not overbid your own bid on a player.

The first version of the manager license is online now

pstimpel — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:59:40 GMT

For each task you fulfill your club earns money. On the club homepage it tells to the the world if you finished your lessons or not.

Help needed

pstimpel — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:56:39 GMT

I am right now on creating the manager license. It would be great if you could help me, just check out the forum http://ywc.de/football/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=43 and tell your opinion.

Playbook finished

pstimpel — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:26:05 GMT

All matches from 21 pm servertime today will use the full offense and defense playbook options. Pls note: the playbook always overwrites your match settings. Be sure to set it in the right way. I added some output to the playbyplay to see if an action was forced by the playbook or not. This is only for debugging. In a few days - after being sure all works as it should - I will remove these remarks.

Offense playbook

pstimpel — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:08:56 GMT

The offense playbook is now active, except the kicking and punting rules.

Depth chart, player skills visible now

pstimpel — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:45:47 GMT

As the subject tells...

Player names

pstimpel — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:03:14 GMT

I needed to rename all the players, the names are more different now.

Update for the stats package

pstimpel — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:41:33 GMT

Right now I added a second version of stats. This time I added offense stats and reordered them. You will see the results at games processed after this news was written. More will follow...

Multiple tackles per stage - multiple WRs - more formations

pstimpel — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:24:43 GMT

I added double positions for MLB, WR and CB. Now it is possible to add as example an second MLB, or to overload one WR side. This results not only in a single player more on this side, it results in more pressure, and of course in case of defenders of higher tackling chances.

I added some more formations for offense and defense too. Should be more funny now to create tricky tactics. A picture of each formation is available in the manual.

Training

pstimpel — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:38:56 GMT

This morning the training failed if speed was trained. This is why I ran the training a second time. The second report from around 7:30 am should be OK.

League games season 1 recalculated

pstimpel — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:11:36 GMT

Hi everyone, I needed to recalculate the whole season 1 league games including the records and stats. Due a strange bug in the engine the games of yesterday were completely wrong, this lead to wrong stats, wrong league tables and so on. Without this recalculation it wouldnt be possible to develop the season rollover script - which is one of the important tasks for the next days. When this is done I will start officially season 2 of our small beta test game. Be patient - there wont be so many visible changes during the next days.

Youth pull added

pstimpel — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:01:14 GMT

From now you can invite one youngster per week. The youth pull reset happens each thursday morining at 4 am.

Depth chart version 2

pstimpel — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:22:12 GMT

I rewrote the complete depth chart part of the simulation engine, cause there was a terrible bug, based on the wrong concept I selected. All matches starting from tomorrow will get calculated by the new version.

Defense Playbook option is active now

pstimpel — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:40:13 GMT

If you create defensive playbook rules they get used in the engine from now. Happy testing :)

PAT, Kickoffs, Fieldgoals and Punts

pstimpel — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:28:33 GMT

They are now calculated based on the skills of the Kicker/Punter - not random anymore.

Formation switcher is active now

pstimpel — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:02:26 GMT

I uploaded a new version of the engine. This engine uses the offense formations you selected in match setup. This is very basic at the moment - only 3 formations. The next step will be the activation of the offense and defense playbook feature. Check the news :)

Tactics / formation setup

pstimpel — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:44:11 GMT

I put online a first version of the playbook. Can be found in Your team / Tactics. I changed the match setup page, now you can select from different formations. Have a look and tell me what you think about. Please note: these new settings are not active in game calculation at the moment.

Forum bugfix

pstimpel — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:38:25 GMT

Some of you did not see all areas - especially hat one with write access - this should be fixed now.

Pass tackling improved

pstimpel — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:29:49 GMT

Hi everybody, I improved the pass game and the tackling to get better simulation results. There is now a difference between tackling after short/screen passes and tackling after medium or deep passes. The whole backfield now tries to catch the receiver after deeper plays. Also there was a bug in tackling check routine, fixed. These changes make speed more important for DBs, and of course for the TE and WR too.

I changed the description of the play by play a little bit, it is more realistic now. Instead "own45" "50" "opp 55" it says now "own45" "50" "opp45". The decimal progress gets rounded now. If less than 10 yards to endzone it tells you now "and goal". PlaybyPlay changes become active from todays (tuesdays) games.

Pass play has more options now

pstimpel — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:41:13 GMT

Until today pass play was limited to screen passes. I added now shor, medium and deep passes. At the moment the tackle situation between CB and WR/TE is handled as rush tackle - this will be solved tomorrow. Also it is not possible to pass over the middle, so each pass goes outer left or outer right.

Stadium construction available

pstimpel — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:37:58 GMT

From today you can start stadium construction. Details can be found in the manual.For testing purposes I added virtual money to you accounts, be sure to save some million - you will need it later for facility testing.

Moral was added

pstimpel — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:12:28 GMT

I added moral to the game processing. If a team lost a regular game the get a moral hit, if they won they receive a bonus. The teams can gain moral by using the psycho doctor. More psycho level means more gain of course. The moral influences the skills, low moral means lower skills for your players.

Training added

pstimpel — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:43:12 GMT

This night I added training. A manual is available in the help section. There was a test run, this is why you will find a message in your team inbox. Please check for injuries, also listed in that messsage. I am not sure for the quanity of them.

Depth chart again, match calculation, stamina and energy

pstimpel — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:22:50 GMT

Today I enabled the sortorder and energy treshold for the Depth chart. Thiss means, you can set a priority, aka a starting player per position. In the match orders there is now a select bar for the substitution treshold based on energy percentage. The energy percentage is 100 at gamestart and lowers if the player is on the field. If he is not on the field he will gain a small amount of energy. This should be an advantage for deep rosters. Also I added again some stats, like I did the past days. Please note, all the mentioned is in development phase, and I would like to receive some feedback from you.

The depth chart got an update

pstimpel — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:43:14 GMT

...and should work as expected now.

The depth chart is active now

pstimpel — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:46:29 GMT

I am proud to tell you the depth chart is now working in the matches. Just setup which players should play which position, the engine will select them at game time. More could be found in the manual.

Economy added

pstimpel — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:52:26 GMT

Today the basic economy was added. From now your club can earn money. This update includes the Staff section, where you can sign coaches, doctors and other specialist. In Economy a quite detailed overview of your money movements is available.

Also we added a chat modul in menu Help/FAQ/Support.

The mode of the friendly challenges was changed: from now friendlies played on wednesday are free of charge, but the results and stats are visible to all. For each other weekday you can challenge teams, and once the challenged team accepted you set up a kind of a scrimmage - including viewable results for all, but closed stats and playbyplay.

Welcome

pstimpel — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:48:31 GMT

The American Football simulation without a name opened the doors today.

We invite you to be part of the development and testing process. This newsletter will keep you informed.

It is available as news feed by using http://ywc.de/football/newsfeed.php in your favorite news aggregator software.

Have fun!