Full list of improvements for Season 73 in ManagerLeague the best online football manager game ever.
My Transfers
- The Bid Withdrawn message has been remade in the cases where there are more bids than 1. It will now display all relevant information.
- All players listed anywhere on the My Transfer page, will now reveal the scouted potential (if you have scouted him) on the player-card (on mouse-over) (look for the small stars)
Player-search
- On the player-search page, search-results will now also show potential-stars on the player cards if the player has been scouted by your scout.
Player-Cups
- A new Cup-chat has been implemented on the cup-details page (a button that opens the cup-chat in a popup)
-- This chat will open a channel specific to the cup where you clicked the button. Anyone can join the chat, not just those playing in the cup.
-- This is not Java, and should, in theory, work for everyone, with no security popups etc.
- Slightly reduced fitness-loss from custom cup games
- Slightly increased the spectator-interest on custom-cup games (increases avg income from these matches)
- Player-cups now have internal ranking-support! And trust me when I say, it was pretty DAMN HARD!
-- Top Scorers
-- Top Players
-- Top Assisters
-- Top Foulers
-- Top 3 Sharpshooters (Penalty-goals)
-- Top 3 Unfortunate (Own-goals, Haha!)
--- I had to cheat a lot to make this happen, as the data I need is strictly speaking not in a usable format. Certain shortcuts had to be taken.
--- For a player to even exist on one of these lists, he must have played a certain number of matches. If the cup is just in round 1, he must of course have played 1 match. If the cup is in round 2, he must have played 1 match. If the cup is in round 4, he must have played 2 matches. And if the cup is in round 5 or more, he must have played 3 matches.
--- Furthermore he must have either scored a goal, have performance above 50, received a card, become MoM, scored an own goal or a penalty. If he has managed neither of these things, he will not be even considered for any ranking. That said, with 0 goals and a performance below 50, I doubt he would have made any ranking anyway.
-- Please note that these rankings will only be calculated and displayed in cups for 256 players or less. The reason here is TIME. With max 30 minutes between each cup-round, and the time required to produce these lists is , well, exponential when comparing the number of teams, it is, at least for now, impossible to do this for bigger cups (like the end-of-season cups)
- IMPORTANT: NEW OPTION WHEN CREATING PLAYER-CUPS: TIME!
-- In order to make player-cups more playable for players from all parts of the world, a second time-slot has been made available for player-cups. The new time-slot is 12 hours earlier than the current time-slot. So when you make a Saturday-cup, you can decide whether it starts 00:00 or 12:00. You may still only play 1 cup per day in the weekend thou, so if you play at 00:00 you can not play 12:00 the same day.
- IMPORTANT: Creators of credit-free (prepaid) cups are now able to kick managers from their cup, whether it is private or public.
- IMPORTANT: A team that has been kicked from a cup, can not join that same cup again. Be careful when kicking, it's a one-way ticket.
- IMPORTANT: Cups can no longer be joined the last 5 minutes before they begin. This will give the cup-owner time to get rid of unwanted teams. So, if you want to play a Saturday 00:00 cup, you must join it before Friday 23:55.
Stadium
- The stadium-page will now show the deleetcodeions for the current level even when it is fully upgraded.
Player-details
- The player popup now has a link to the owners team. Click on the teamname of the owner, and the team-details window will open.
- Any player with a Q of 86 or more will be permanently deleted when sacked. (Sort of not entirely true. The player is not deleted (due to potential abuse), but will not re-enter the transfer-market)
- Added link to highest-bidder from Player-details window if there are active bids.
Watches
- A dollar-sign will now reveal if a players is transfer-listed or not, on Watches.
- All players listed on the Watches page, will now reveal the scouted potential (if you have scouted him) on the player-card (on mouse-over) (look for the small stars)
Various
- SU-goals / Matches / Assists are now properly cleaned between seasons.
- Changed the storage of AVG Q etc to be more accurate.
- Implemented a new Seasonal Stats message sent out during the season-change, containing various statistics. Fun stuff!
-- Please note that this message will NOT be autodeleted when it is 40 days old. All other messages still are. But this means you will end up with a lot of these, for historical purposes, in the bottom of your inbox, given enough time. You can of course manually delete them. Please note that these special messages will NOT be deleted by the Delete All Messages, or the Delete All From This Sender, or the Delete All With This Subject. They must be deleted individually. (This is of course to prevent unwanted deletes of these special historic data)
- Player-history will no longer be recorded for players on bot-teams (saves time and space)
- Clean sheets are now stored and displayed for goalies
-- Please note: Only goalies can increase in this stat. A defender playing in the goal will NOT increase in it.
-- For this stat to be increased, the goalie must play at least 60 minutes of the match.
-- As this is a new stat, no history has been recorded of it, so all previous seasons will show 0 clean sheets.
- Goalkeepers performances have been tweaked a bit upwards.
- Fixed flag-bug on the fixtures-page for teams playing in the Bosnia and Herzegovina league.
The Mobile Interface on http://mob.managerleague.com
- The team-details page on the mobile interface will now have a direct link to Message the manager.
- When friendlies are accepted through the mobile interface, it will no longer send the annoying message to the challenger.
- The friendly-page will now also list your 5 most recent friendlies.
- The friendly-page will now also display the lowest fitness in your current lineup.
- Added logical spacing between some menu-elements
- Added a page for The Samsung Supercup
- Made the mobile match-details aware of all different matchtypes
- Added a few more stats to the player-details:
-- Performance, Matches, MoMs, Conceeded, Clean Sheets for goalkeepers
-- Performance, Matches, MoMs, Goals, Assists, Fouls, CL-Matches, CL-Goals, CL-Assists, SU-Matches, SU-Goals, SU-Assists for the others
- Added "Skip to the bottom" and "Skip to the top" to the mobile forums (when inside a thread)
Friendlies
- Implemented a brand new method for handling open challenges.
-- Everyone who wants to receive open challenges, must now enter a queue. First come, first serve. This will take a big load off our servers, and distribute friendlies much more evenly. You can remain in the queue for 30 minutes atm.
- You can now also specify a certain league when it comes to open challenges. Please note that you can not specify both league and division, you must select one or the other.
Team Details
- Team-details will now also list any teamless purchases in the transfer-history.
- Teaminfo will now show Supercup-entries under "Our recorded encounters"
- All players listed on the Team-Details page, will now reveal the scouted potential (if you have scouted him) on the player-card (on mouse-over) (look for the small stars)
Tables
- Tables now show an internal rankings (for the selected department) for Top Scorers and Top Players.
- Added Top Assisters and Top Foulers to dep-rankings on the Tables-page
- Added top-goalie-ranking to the tables-page. GKs in the department ranked by clean sheets, not performance!
News
- The Recent Transfers on the Newspage has been replaced by 3 smaller boxes containing Recent Transfers, Top Recent Transfers and Department-transfers. The Department-transfers will also list teamless-purchases, so you can keep an eye on what your close competition is doing on the market!
-- (Still waiting for some new background-graphics for each row here, from Coach Mac)
Sponsors
- To create something more to compete over towards the end of the season, a new level of sponsor-bonuses have been added:
-- Bonus: #1 as always
-- Bonus: #2-3 as always
-- Bonus: #4-7 new step
-- Bonus: #8-10 what is the left of the old step above relegation playoffs
-- This should provide a little something to play for for those ending up around 6th-9th place on the department-table.
Forums
- Forum-favorites have been implemented
-- Look for a star at the top of a thread, and click on it to make it a favorite
-- All favorites are listed in it's own group on the main forum page (You will understand it when you see it, trust me)
- Minor detail: You can now close a forum-group without opening another by clicking the header of an open group
Hall Of Fame
- Brand new feature to help you keep track of your players after they have retired
- For a player to be included in your Hall Of Fame, he must have
-- Played 200 league-games for your team
-- Been on your team for a full YEAR (12 months, 365 real-time days, apprximately 12,5 seasons!)
-- NOT been on any other team longer than he has been with yours
- The player will enter your hall of fame when he retires (is deleted from the player-database), not when you sell him or sack him.
- Players that have already retired are unfortunately lost and will not be picked up by this.
- I am currently working on this section now to finish it in time (I hope), but, um, well, wait for it and see.
- Players retiring in the coming season-change, will be considered into the Hall Of Fame right away, because I cheated a bit and moved the retirement-routine from the end of a season to the beginning of one, technically speaking. Anyway, the important part is that it will pick up any qualifying player right away.
- It will be possible to let others see your own Hall Of Fame, so you can brag, of course with all their trophy.
- IMPORTANT: The entire Hall Of Fame feature will only work for accounts that have at some point in time bought credits. Hopefully this should increase the value of purchasing credits the first time even more. If you still have not done it, jeez, come on! ML is worth it!
- At the moment, there is no limit to how many players you can have in your Hall Of Fame. A limit has been discussed though, and we shall see if we need one in a year or two. Meanwhile though, you can of course delete any players you want from your own Hall Of Fame, if you feel they really do not belong there.
- For more details, you need to wait until you see it!
Finally
I am confident the listed changes for next season have all made ManagerLeague a better onlinefootballmanager game. Proper focus was given to Player-cups, The mobile interface and the History-aspect (through Hall-Of-Fame). The "everyday-entertainment" value should be better as well, with department-rankings on the Tables-page. The new Open Challenge system will provide a much more fair distribution of these challenges, and certainly reduce the extreme load on our servers during that peak time. Our admins and anti-cheat-workers have gotten some extra data to work with, to catch even more cheaters, so there was a little something for them too. And all active forum-users will certainly enjoy the new Favorites-system.
All in all, everybody wins.
