Ultimate Team AFL: Discussion + Banter thread

[Football Factory]

Looks like Wells wont play this week  :(

NORTH Melbourne is likely to be without stars Daniel Wells and Jarrad Waite for Thursday night's blockbuster clash against the Crows after the veterans didn't fly to Adelaide with the team on Wednesday afternoon.

[fanTCfool]

If PK has been disqualified, his cards should be added to Levi's marketplace so we can recycle them on the cheap!

[fanTCfool]

Check out our new OP, complete with UTG Cards for our Best XI!
http://forum.fanfooty.com.au/index.php/topic,106024.msg1723032.html#msg1723032

[GoLions]

Holy shower man, that looks awesome! :D

[_wato]

Have had a thought about improvements for next year

I reckon totw (team of the week) cards would be super cool, where Spite you publish totw cards available from the AFL team of the week choices and are available to be picked in a pack that we buy
You could also put one or two up in an auction every now and then to make things interesting

And what makes these cards special is that they have a permanent +5 or something similiar on those totw cards.

If we were to consider carrying teams over, possibly a toty card from the previous all australian or brownlow/Coleman medallist with a +10 would be awesome too.

Does that make sense? Sort of similiar to how the FIFA game runs

For example

Rocky got named in Rd 18 team of the week. He would get a permanent +5 on that card but would be SUPER hard to attain.

Team of the year cards
Fyfe would get a +10 on his (after winning the brownlow) which is permanent but once again really tough to attain.

[Nige]

I think we reset at the end of the year, considering this season was a bit of a pilot (definite success imo).

Hopefully we do as well, half the fun of UT is building the team from scratch.

[Spite]

Thanks for the thoughts Wato!

I definitely would change a few things for next season but we certainly learned a lot from this season. I will PM everyone at the end of the season to get their individual thoughts about the game and any changes they would like to see.

I'm still 50/50 on whether I can run this again next season however you guys helped me so much by adding the scores up at the end of the week it really cut down the time needed from me which was great. Maybe next season I will try find a better way to do the transfer ins because that really took up the bulk of my time, having to delete and edit all the userhub and my own database took many hours per week (and I still missed a couple here and there throughout the season).
Certainly if someone could assist me in this area then it would have a much greater chance of going ahead next year. I will try and build an easier way for transfer ins over the uni break though, that's for sure! 

[_wato]

I reckon we should be able to run our own user hubs.

I know that everyone of us has been honest and nobody has cheated the system in that sense. A lot of us run our own threads on who we own and what not and I know myself that I've been more Upto date than you have (and other coaches as well simply because you don't have the time)

We would put through our trade ins and all you'd have to do would be to go to your database and select for example (we trade in 5 bronzes) and all you have to do is click random until you reach a silver player.

Makes your database more simple, you only have to work on trade ins and not deleting players from any ones user hub (or adding for that matter), all you have to do is make sure we are putting in the right amount of cards for trade ins.

The biggest thing you'd have to do then would be pack openings.

[_wato]

And the easiest way for you to know that we aren't cheating on our own user hub Could potentially be that we complete a log of trade ins and outs each week so you can keep an eye on everything. And it's added to the main page so it's not sitting on our own team user threads.

[_wato]

@Nige I definitely agree to start from scratch

I meant to say like toty cards etc carry over and certain players from totw get selected every week

[Nige]

Yep wato, got that, love the idea.

If there's any way we can make the job easier for you, I think there's a few of us more than willing to help. If there's a way to streamline things and ways we can do them ourselves (but a way for you to verify no shifty stuff).

[fanTCfool]

Re: User Hubs
Google Sheets maybe the answer! You can view people's edits (in case someone turns into Satan) but it allows everyone to maintain their 'hub' without it falling only on your shoulders Spiteyman. I am definitely open to taking on an 'admin role' as such to set this up.

[Spite]

Yeah I was thinking google sheets could be the best place for trade ins. I'm not even worried that someone may cheat, its more that they accidentally do something like forget to remove Jroo Silver after they have sold him for 5g and then try and use Jroo as a trade in for a gold card. It'll happen, just need to find a way to make it as minimal as possible.
I know Rico kept a log of everything early in the season and he even accidentally tried to transfer in 5 bronzes that he had already transferred in a week prior, so it does happen.

But I do have an idea now about keeping the data base on google sheets, each owner with their own tab that only they can edit. Then I can make a tab called Trade ins round 18 and people can put their 5 cards for example on that page. Then I can just come along and randomise a card for them, place it next to their 5 cards, and they add it to their userhub. Then at the end of every week I just wipe the page clean (or create transfers round 19) instead.

This could work very very well.

[_wato]

Perfect, makes a lot of sense.

Means everything can run more smoothly, not much more effort falls onto our role, and its less work from you.

Add in all the other perks like player contracts, recycling options, toty/totw cards, potentially 10 coaches who are on board every week and h2h matches leading into a proper finals series and this could be awesome.

[fanTCfool]

Also, I am keen as to whip up these:



if we go ahead with _wato's Team of the Week (+5s), if you'd all like 'em?