Barkeeper's ML Knowledge DB (13/09/2008 07:07)

Barkeeper hasn't logged on this season so, just in case he has left us , I have copied his ML Knowledge Database to preserve the information.

I forgot that Giuseppe Sole's blog already has this info copied but I prefer it on the one page.


Matches:

Penalties:
- Starts with penalty taker and continues down the positions


Training camp:

Fitness:
Basic standard: +1
High standard: +3
Luxury : +5

- The max fitness you can gain is if you put a player with stamina 90 or above at rest (9 points), have the option luxury during the camp (5 points), and four slots on rest in team training (4 points). You then get 9+5+4 = 18 points.

Key knowledge:
- The camp in round 30 and 35 should not be abroad, because morale is reseted at the end of the season     nb: exception if there is important playoff matches


Individual Training:

Fitness:
From training: +2
From rest: +(Stamina-points/10)   nb: rounded down

- If a player is rested at training he gets both +2 and 10% of stamina. (He then of course don't train, and can't gain attributes)
- If a player is not resting he only gets +2. (But can gain one attribute in the skill he is training)

Season gains:
0-10: Poor               nb: Subjective
10-20: Ok
20-30: Good
30-40: Great
40+: Excellent

Key knowledge:
- Lower stats gain in theory faster, but what stats that increase in matches are very player-dependent
- Best way to gain stats throughout the season is friendlies
- The term "High Potential" is given to players how have/thought to have the ability to gain alot of stats
- Even though you gain the most with friendlies, what stat the player gains is somewhat random, with normal traning you can select what stat the player shall have a possibility to gain in. Less total gain, but possible gain in key stats, that can result in a higher Q-rise compared to just playing friendlies and resting your players.

Team Traning:

The important four:
- Attacking                        nb: not counting morale
- Defending           
- Understanding
- Teamplay

Key knowledge:
- Keep the important four high (80+)
- Should be able to keep four other stats at a 75+ level
- Consistency is important, focus on four selected stats over time     nb: but can trow in a rest or morale now and then when needed
- Match reports holds important clues on how your team is doing in certain team related skills; trow-in, corner ect.
- Morale is reseted to 50 at the beginning of the season, the other team training stats stay the same
- Morale is of great importance, and some managers focus on this at the beginning of the season
- The offside stat is thought to both make defenders better at offside, and make attackers avoid offside             nb: uncertain about attacker effect
- No point in giving your team stats info to other, keep it a team secret
- You can not decrease in a stat you are currently training

- The purchase of a player will see each team attribute (except for morale) reduced by one if it is above 70. Therefore the purchase of a player can see you lose 9 team attributes if they are all above 70.

Tactics:

Tackling:
Soft tackling: Positive: Less fitness-loss, less fouls Negative: Risk of not making key tackles
Normal tackling: Positive: Make more of those key tackles Negative: greater chance of fouls and fitness-loss
Hard tackling: Negative: The trade-off tackles won vs fouls/fitness doesn't pay, avoid                                             <- nb: Subjective

Captain:
- Age and Perception plays a role
- Age over 27 is preferred
- Thought to bring a positive effect to the teams players in the same position as the captain, eg. the defensive line if the captain is a defender

Freekicks:
Own half: Defensive player with best passing skill
Opponent half: Trade-off between passing and scoring, and possibly perception

Penalty:
- Best scoring

Youth academy:

List over the minimum Q the youth player you receive at seasonstart, depending on your current division and youth academy upgrades:

Division 1:
Basic grounds: Q68 ->
Normal grounds: Q69 ->
Improved grounds: Q70 ->
Fully equipped: Q71 ->
Top notch: Q72 ->

Division 2:
Basic grounds: Q67 ->
Normal grounds: Q68 ->
Improved grounds: Q69 ->
Fully equipped: Q70 ->
Top notch: Q71 ->

Division 3:
Basic grounds: Q66 ->
Normal grounds: Q67 ->
Improved grounds: Q68 ->
Fully equipped: Q69 ->
Top notch: Q70 ->

Division 4:
Basic grounds: Q65 ->
Normal grounds: Q66 ->
Improved grounds: Q67 ->
Fully equipped: Q68 ->
Top notch: Q69 ->

Division 5:
Basic grounds: Q64 ->
Normal grounds: Q65 ->
Improved grounds: Q66 ->
Fully equipped: Q67 ->
Top notch: Q68 ->

Division 6:
Basic grounds: Q63 ->
Normal grounds: Q64 ->
Improved grounds: Q65 ->
Fully equipped: Q66 ->
Top notch: Q67 ->

- If due to retirement you get less then 17 players you will get random player(s) to fill it up to 18 players. The player from your youthsquad will follow this list, but if you get a random player that is 17, he might be worse.

Season change:

- +15 fitness to all players
- Player stats decrease, which can result in quality decrease
- Older players might retire, this is random, goalkeepers stay longer then the other players in general
- All team stats reduced by 2            nb: uncertain
- Standing bids are removed
- Team is declared bankrupt if it got a negative balance of 5.000.000

Awards:

The Golden Glove: Awarded to best performing goalkeeper in each department
The Golden Ball: Awarded to best performing defender in each department
The Golden Statuette: Awarded to best performing midfielder in each department
The Silver Boot: Awarded to best performing attacker in each department

The Silver Cap: Awarded to best performing 17 year old in each department
The Golden boot: Awarded to the topscorer in each department

The Platinum Ball: Awarded to best performing player in each league
The Platinum Boot: Awarded to topscorer in each league

- The manager is awarded with 1.000.000 and 3 credits for each award one of his players get.
- The Platinum Ball and The Platinum Boot gets awarded with 2.000.000 and 10 creds.
- Getting a Platinum award precludes a player from receiving any other award ie if a player receives the Platinum Boot then he will not receive the Platinum Ball nor the Golden Boot nor the relevant Top Player Award (generally the Silver Boot).
- The awards are given out after the last 21:00-training of the season. This is the training just before the 09:00 training when the season change occur.

Financial situations:

Edited from Guissepe Sole's blog to bring it up to date
First is the english word, the second is the norwegian word, and last the amount, in millions.
- Bankrupt/Konkurs:  -0
- Very poor/ Veldig Fattig: 0-20 mil
- Low Wealth/ Fattig: 20-50 mil
- Average bank account/ Midt På Treet: 50-100 mil
- Wealthy/ Velbeslått: 100-150 mil
- Rich/ Rik: 150-200 mil
- Very Rich/ Veldig Rik: 200-250 mil
- Stinking Rich/ Stinker av penger : 250-300 mil
- Filthy Rich/ Steinrik : 300-400 mil  
- Ridiculously Rich/ Røkke-rik: 400 -500 mil
- Insanely Rich/ Usannsynlig Rik: 500-750 mil
- Made of Money/ Laget Av Penger: 750-1000 mil
- King Midas/ Kong Midas : 1000 mil +                          Thanks to all that help from the guys in the norwegian forum!

Transfers:

"This player does not wish to move to your club until he is better." - Your team avg. is more then 9 points higher then the player's Q.
"This player does not wish to move to your club until the team has improved." - Your team avg. is 9 (sometimes 10) points less then the player's Q.

Taxes:

Taxes are paid during the season change. Taxes are only paid for profit over 2 mill, according to following table.

2 mill profit: No tax on these 2 mill.
2-5 mill profit = 10% taxes            (300k)
5-10 mill profit = 20 % taxes         (1 mill)
10-20 mill profit = 30% taxes        (3 mill)
20-50 mill profit = 40% taxes        (12 mill)
Above 50 mill profit = 50% taxes

The way the taxes are calculated are the following:
With a profit at 60 mill you pay: Zero on the first 2 mill, 10% on the next 5 mill, 20% on the next 5 mill, 30% on the next 10 mill, 40% in the next 30 mill and since you got 10 mill over 50 you pay 50% of those 10 mill.
This would equal: 300k + 1 mill + 3 mill + 12 mill + 5 mill = 21.3 mill in taxes.

If you got 12 mill in profit you would get 300k + 1 mill + 600k (30% of the 2 mill over 10) = 1.9 mill

Vip boxes:

1. div: 200 per seat
2. div: 150 per seat
3. div: 100 per seat

- You will not get anyone to the vip boxes if your club is lower then 3. div.
- With 500 vip seats in 3. div you'll get 100 * 500 = 50.000

Stadium upgrades:

Capacity:

 5.000 - 10.000       1.500.000     0 cred     15 rounds
10.000 - 15.000      3.000.000     1 cred     20 rounds
15.000 - 20.000      6.000.000     1 cred     25 rounds
20.000 - 25.000      9.000.000     1 cred     30 rounds
25.000 - 30.000     12.000.000    1 cred     30 rounds
30.000 - 35.000     12.000.000    1 cred     30 rounds
35.000 - 40.000     12.000.000    1 cred     35 rounds                           
40.000 - 45.000     12.000.000    1 cred     35 rounds
45.000 - 50.000     12.000.000    1 cred     35 rounds
50.000 - 55.000     12.000.000    3 creds   35 rounds
55.000 - 60.000     12.000.000    3 creds   35 rounds
60.000 - 65.000     12.000.000    5 creds   35 rounds
65.000 - 70.000     12.000.000   10 creds   35 rounds

Lighting:

None - Basic Lights                  1.000.000     0 cred     10 rounds
Basic Lights - Floodlights        2.000.000     1 cred     10 rounds            
Floodlights FIFA-MAX 2000      4.000.000     2 cred     15 rounds

Heating:

None - Soil Heating                           2.000.000     0 creds     10 rounds         
Soil Heating - Extendible roof          4.000.000     2 creds     30 rounds

Scoreboard:

None - Manual                                             500.000    0 cred        5 rounds
Manual - Digital                                        1.000.000    0 cred      10 rounds
Digital - Video Wall                                  2.000.000    0 cred      10 rounds       
Video Wall - Plasma Screen Wall        5.000.000    1 cred      10 rounds

Clubshop:

None - Small                                       200.000     0 cred    3 rounds
Small - Medium                                  500.000     0 cred    6 rounds            
Medium - Large                               1.500.000     1 cred    9 rounds

Restaurant:

None - Fast Food                                    400.000      0 cred      4 rounds
Fast Food - Pub                                       400.000      0 cred      5 rounds
Pub - Restaurant                                 1.000.000     1 cred       6 rounds     
Restaurant - Luxury Restaurant       3.000.000     2 creds    10 rounds

Youth Academy:

Basic Grounds - Normal Grounds          2.000.000     0 cred     15 rounds
Normal Grounds - Improved grounds    3.000.000     1 cred     20 rounds  
Improved grounds - Fully equipped        4.000.000     1 cred     25 rounds
Fully equipped - Top notch                       5.000.000     1 cred     30 rounds

Training facilities:

Simple grounds - Normal facilities              1.500.000     0 cred      15 rounds
Normal facilities - Improved facilities          3.000.000     1 cred      15 rounds 
Improved facilities - Excellent facilities       6.000.000     2 creds    20 rounds

Parking:

Small Car Park - Medium Car Park              3.000.000     0 cred     15 rounds   
Medium Car Park - Multi-storey car park     5.000.000     2 creds   15 rounds

VIP boxes:

0 VIP Boxes - 500 VIP Boxes                 2.500.000     1 cred     10 rounds
500 VIP Boxes - 1000 VIP Boxes          3.000.000     3 creds   15 rounds
1000 VIP Boxes - 1500 VIP Boxes        4.000.000     5 creds   15 rounds    
1500 VIP Boxes - 2000 VIP Boxes        5.000.000     7 creds   20 rounds
2000 VIP Boxes - 2500 VIP Boxes      10.000.000    10 creds  20 rounds

Advertising space:

No ads - Simple ad boards                  1.500.000     0 cred     10 rounds
Simple ad boards - Metal Boards       3.000.000     1 cred     15 rounds    
Metal Boards - Rotating Signs             6.000.000    3 creds    15 rounds
Rotating Signs - LCD boards               9.000.000    7 creds    15 rounds

ML "Hacks":

How to look at rankinglist for departments:

http://www.managerleague.com/ml/rankings.pl?ranking=top_scorers&division=2&department=4

This will show the topscorer list for division 2 department 4 (2:4). To select another department just edit the division and depratment numbers.

How to look at rankinglists for leagues:



How to look at rankinglists for departments in other leagues:

http://www.managerleague.com/ml/rankings.pl?ranking=top_scorers&division=2&department=4&league=1