UTG Season 2: Calling for Coaches!

[fanTCfool]

The AFL Ultimate Team Game (UTG) is returning for Season 2017!

Looking for participants!

The search is on for coaches to participate in the second season of UTG.
UTG was a hit last year with all who participated, and suggested changes have been implemented to improve the experience.
Read on below for the UTG rules, and all other necessary information

What is UTG?

The AFL Ultimate Team Game is modeled off other formats of 'Ultimate Team' for other codes, Soccer etc.
Coaches receive players in terms of 'cards', for example, Patrick Dangerfield has a Platinum card and Zak Jones has a Silver card.
Unlike keeper formats, your side will change week to week. Coaches can buy more cards, sell cards and exchange cards for better ones.

How to Buy Cards

Every coach will be given 100 gold. Packs will cost 20 Gold (20G), and each pack will contain three cards.

Types of Cards

Cards are categorised into 4 different tiers of cards. There are bronze, silver, gold and platinum cards.

Spite has created a program that will spit out a pack based on these probabilities;

66% chance of a bronze tier card,
23.5% chance of a silver tier card,
9% chance of a gold tier card,
1.5% chance of a platinum tier card.

Note: This will be changed throughout the season to maintain game balance. After all sides have purchased initial packs, the chance of a bronze card will increase, and silver, gold and platinum chances will decrease. In the middle of the year and prior to finals, chances will again be adjusted to favour bronze.

There are also special cards within these tiers.

These include non-player cards, which are as follows;

A Captain Card, which doubles the score of a chosen player - Gold Rarity
An Extra Player card, which allows for a user to play an extra player of their choice that week - Gold Rarity
An All Out Attack card, which allows for users to play one less defender and play an extra forward or midfielder of their choice - Silver Rarity
A Home Ground Advantage card, which allows users to gain 20 points - Silver Rarity
A Deliberate OoB card, which allows the user to select an opponent to lose 20 points prior to the weeks starting - Silver Rarity

These cards are all “consumables” which means they are one time use only, however they may be the difference between winning a week and falling outside the top few.

Note: Keep an eye out for more collectible cards which will appear throughout the season.

Special Edition Cards

A Special Edition (SE) player card results in a 20% score increase for a player. However, these Special Edition cards will not appear in packs. To receive a SE card, you must exchange 3 cards of the same player. For example, if you collect 3 Marc Murphy cards, you can exchange the 3 for a Special Edition Marc Murphy. This means that Marc Murphy will get a 20% bonus to his score every week. SE cards are available for all players.

Scoring System and Rewards (how to earn gold)

Each week, users will name their team in the appropriate thread. They will have to name;

2 defenders,
3 midfielders,
1 ruckman and
2 forwards.

and also 1 emergency of each position, if you have the cards to do so.

Note: Once team sizes have expanded appropriately, we will be naming,
3 defenders,
4 midfielders,
1 ruckman and
3 forwards.

These players will score points based on the DT (Dreamteam) scoring system.

You cannot name the same card multiple times, even if you have more than one copy of it.

Note: 2 different users are able to have the same card and both name it in their side.

If a user wishes to use a “consumable” card, such as a Captain Card, they must state it when posting their team and also name their captain (or in other cases, extra player). There will be no week-to-week Captains, unless a team has a Captain Card consumable to use.

The top scoring teams each week win gold, depending on their placement.

1st place will earn 100 gold,
2nd place will earn 80 gold,
3rd place will earn 70 gold,
4th place will earn 60 gold,
5th-8th place will earn 50 gold,
9th-12th will earn 40 gold for participation


Auction House

Once a week, card(s) will go up for sale for all coaches to bid on. At a random time on Thursday, the auction will end and the card will go to the user with the highest bid. Some weeks, there will also be a “Buy it now” option for users to purchase the card immediately and stop the auction process.

The reason for a random time is to stop people “sniping” the auction at the last minute and causing chaos, and to also ensure that the winner of the auction can use their card in the upcoming week.

Trading in cards to upgrade them

Users may trade in their unwanted cards to upgrade to a random card of the higher tier with varying rates.

Trading in 5 bronze tier cards will get you 1 silver tier card.
Trading in 6 silver tier cards will get you 1 gold tier card.
Trading in 7 gold tier cards will get you 1 platinum tier card. 
For example, 5 bronze cards may be traded in to get 1 silver card at random.

3 HGA cards can be traded in to form "Finals Home Ground Advantage" which would be worth +50 instead of +20 to the weekly score.


Selling Cards for Gold

Finally, cards can be sold back for some gold. Different tiers have different rates. The rates vary with % chance so at the moment the rates are as follows;

1 Bronze tier card = 3 gold (until end of Round 2, then will be 2 gold)
1 Silver Tier card = 5 Gold
1 Gold Tier Card = 12 Gold
1 Platinum Tier Card = 50 Gold



That's pretty much the crux of it! Most rules are the same from last year, however, some adjustments have been made based on end of season feedback and suggestions. Rules still have the flexibilty to be adjusted. If anything is unclear, please comment saying so.

All coaches are welcome - so please reply with your interest if you want to manage a side!

[Nige]

I'll be back again.

[GoLions]

I'll be back again.

[BB67th]

This looks like a lot of fun, I'd be keen!

[TomK]

I'll be back again.

[fanTCfool]

Thanks for the responses guys! Good to see a new coach keen too, welcome aboard BB67th!

[Holz]

Im in chuck me rocky in the first pack.

[LordSneeze]

Throw me in too.

Played something similar on a different forum previously and it was super fun.

[_wato]

have to defend my crown.

count me in !!

[Big Mac]

I'll be back again.

[GoLions]

Pretty sure PB said he was keen

[BB67th]

When's this likely to be starting up again?

[fanTCfool]

When's this likely to be starting up again?

Lots of background work has already taken place, and for the most part, is waiting to be rolled out once coaching numbers are finalised. We're currently sitting on 8 coaches, which I am hoping can reach 10. I'll be looking to lock in coaches by the end of this weekend. A few things still need to sorted out with Spite, but I am hoping to commence proceedings in the last week of JLT matches.

[andross]

Count me in

[jvalles69]

Screw it...my lifes already take up with fantasy, whats one more?  ::)

Would there be issues if we're overseas for holidays etc.