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Football Simulator - A League of Legends - intro and chat
« on: April 13, 2024, 11:48:56 pm »
Just for some fun, I've developed a football simulator along the lines of the early Championship Manager games.

To test it out, I'm going to run a league which pits the might of Samie's Roman Phalanx against teams from the decades draft and the 1970 Brazil side (because why not?).

The fixtures are below, and I'll set up another thread with the matches (with a no chat rule to keep it neat).  Chat away in here.  I'll post the first round of matches tomorrow.  Enjoy!


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Re: Football Simulator - A League of Legends - intro and chat
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2024, 12:19:33 am »
You mad bastard, Nice one.  ;D

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« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2024, 12:24:18 am »
70's




80's




90's



00's



10's




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« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2024, 12:26:14 am »
Tighter than a Nun's arse...It's Samie's Roman Phalanx




Brazil 70


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Re: Football Simulator - A League of Legends - intro and chat
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2024, 12:33:04 am »
How did that 10s team win it with a team half made up of Spurs and Everton’s finest? That said, I don’t think my 00’s heroes will be making the business end.

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« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2024, 12:48:23 am »
I don;t think Prof's simulator is powerful enough to exactly simulate the 50 chances Lukaku will miss to score one goal.

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« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2024, 02:53:44 pm »
Prof, get this going mate. 2 matches a day for the forseable please.  ;D

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« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2024, 08:32:18 pm »
Brazil 70 got battered. What the fuck Prof?  ;D

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Re: Football Simulator - A League of Legends - intro and chat
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2024, 08:41:23 pm »
Brazil 70 got battered. What the fuck Prof?  ;D

Maradona's 80s boys too.

Can't wait to see how the Phalanx fairs next  :D
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Re: Football Simulator - A League of Legends - intro and chat
« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2024, 08:44:08 pm »
Maradona's 80s boys too.

Can't wait to see how the Phalanx fairs next  :D
I've already run round 2...

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p.s. someone tell Nick what "No Chat" means  ::)

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« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2024, 08:54:04 pm »
My lads have been chasing chickens all day, we're ready Prof.

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Re: Football Simulator - A League of Legends - intro and chat
« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2024, 09:57:39 pm »
I've already run round 2...

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p.s. someone tell Nick what "No Chat" means  ::)

I’d tell you to fuck off but then you might rig the simulator. You think I read thread titles? :D

I’ll post it here then - I hope Lineker got booked for all those fouls the dirty bastard!

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« Reply #12 on: April 14, 2024, 10:19:16 pm »
I’d tell you to fuck off but then you might rig the simulator. You think I read thread titles? :D

I’ll post it here then - I hope Lineker got booked for all those fouls the dirty bastard!
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Re: Football Simulator - A League of Legends - intro and chat
« Reply #13 on: April 16, 2024, 01:53:35 pm »
Where were we Prof...

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« Reply #14 on: April 16, 2024, 02:21:28 pm »
Where were we Prof...

I'm pretty sure the Roman Phalanx were about to tonk Brazil 1970
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« Reply #15 on: April 16, 2024, 02:33:36 pm »
Where were we Prof...

Reminding Nick how to use the internet.


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« Reply #16 on: April 16, 2024, 03:08:51 pm »
Reminding Nick how to use the internet.



Sorry youngster. 41 FFS. Bet you have an earring and a ponytail in a bid to stay forever young.

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« Reply #17 on: April 16, 2024, 03:16:31 pm »
Sorry youngster. 41 FFS. Bet you have an earring and a ponytail in a bid to stay forever young.

This is definitely Draex

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« Reply #18 on: April 16, 2024, 03:16:56 pm »
I'm pretty sure the Roman Phalanx were about to tonk Brazil 1970

The Phalanx doesn;t do tonking, we keep it tighter than a nun's arse.

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« Reply #19 on: April 16, 2024, 03:51:50 pm »
The Phalanx doesn;t do tonking, we keep it tighter than a nun's arse.

Do you remember Gerry’s cock and balls/Noah’s Ark formation where very body was lined up two by two.

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« Reply #20 on: April 16, 2024, 04:04:44 pm »
This is definitely Draex





This is me, you missed the ginger beard.

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« Reply #21 on: April 16, 2024, 05:33:18 pm »
Do you remember Gerry’s cock and balls/Noah’s Ark formation where very body was lined up two by two.

Think he stole it from Brazil 82. Although not sure his had such attacking ballbags.

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« Reply #22 on: April 16, 2024, 05:35:12 pm »
Eder the poor man's Tostao.

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« Reply #23 on: April 16, 2024, 08:03:05 pm »
I'm here

Watch this space  ;D

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« Reply #24 on: April 16, 2024, 08:15:43 pm »
Full Time Score: 1980s Dream Team 8  -  1 Roman Phalanx

Hahahaha oh my God  :lmao

Think this proves we can trust the simulator now
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« Reply #25 on: April 16, 2024, 08:21:07 pm »
I thought that would bring some smiles!  ;D

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« Reply #26 on: April 16, 2024, 08:34:58 pm »
This is rigged. I want a full Root and Branch investigation into this Prof.

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« Reply #27 on: April 16, 2024, 10:28:53 pm »
Why do the Brazil 70 team keep getting battered you fucker?  ;D

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« Reply #28 on: April 16, 2024, 10:30:33 pm »
My Phalanx would not conceading 8 and 3 goals you bastard.

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« Reply #29 on: April 16, 2024, 10:32:39 pm »
Why do the Brazil 70 team keep getting battered you fucker?  ;D
No idea  ;D

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« Reply #30 on: April 16, 2024, 10:33:33 pm »
My Phalanx would not conceading 8 and 3 goals you bastard.
The sim doesn't lie  :thumbup

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« Reply #31 on: April 16, 2024, 10:35:00 pm »
Did you input into the system " Phalanx: "Tighter than a nun's arse?"

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« Reply #32 on: April 16, 2024, 10:36:12 pm »
I found this interesting article about your GK Samie

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68761702

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« Reply #33 on: April 16, 2024, 10:39:00 pm »
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« Reply #34 on: April 16, 2024, 10:49:38 pm »
I think we can all agree that the greatest player of all time is undoubtedly…Raul.

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« Reply #35 on: April 16, 2024, 10:51:06 pm »
The man cries his team is going to get battered and suddenly he's at the top of the table with the leading scorer. Something smells fishy and it ain't Prof's underpants.  ::)

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« Reply #36 on: April 16, 2024, 10:51:51 pm »
I think we can all agree that the greatest player of all time is undoubtedly…Raul.

I don't know, he's no Jack Wilshere.
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« Reply #37 on: April 16, 2024, 10:56:26 pm »
I don't know, he's no Jack Wilshere.
I didn't follow the decades draft, but looking at the teams, there are some interesting outliers  ;D

I'm interested to see how the table looks at the end as the more matches that are played, the better the indication of how effective the game engine is.

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« Reply #38 on: April 16, 2024, 11:03:40 pm »
I didn't follow the decades draft, but looking at the teams, there are some interesting outliers  ;D

I'm interested to see how the table looks at the end as the more matches that are played, the better the indication of how effective the game engine is.

Interesting thing I'd note is that (I'm assuming) the engine can't judge players by specific decade and will always judge each player at his best. So 00s Chiellini for example is not his peak, which is the 10s. Or 90s Schuster who was way better in the 80s.

Doesn't matter hugely here, but for any future drafts it's worth remembering that they have to be all-time and not league/club/decade specific.
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« Reply #39 on: April 16, 2024, 11:22:04 pm »
Interesting thing I'd note is that (I'm assuming) the engine can't judge players by specific decade and will always judge each player at his best. So 00s Chiellini for example is not his peak, which is the 10s. Or 90s Schuster who was way better in the 80s.

Doesn't matter hugely here, but for any future drafts it's worth remembering that they have to be all-time and not league/club/decade specific.
Good point

I've used the player's peaks for this, so definitely a limitation if we were comparing these teams as representatives of their decade.  This is just something to test the engine etc at the moment.

I think we look to set up a draft specifically for the sim after our season ends.  I've got some changes I want to implement in the game engine and I need to increase the amount of options for commentary lines too as it's a bit too repetitive.  I might take the "what a hit son" line out too as it was only in there for laughs (maybe I'll add "corner taken quickly" instead).

Any other feedback about the sim would be welcome (Samie, this doesn't mean I want ideas of how to make your phalanx team competitive).