At this point, the DSP WE League will move to the 360 version of WE07. We would like to invite any and all players interested in joining the league to sign up in this thread.
The First Division (the DSPremiership) will continue to have six teams, with XXXIV being promoted due to mobiggins unforunate exit from the league (he has no 360). Personally, I am very sad to see mo go, as he provided the original impetus behind the start of this league, and has been a stalwart member from the very beginning. It's always fun to play against him online, so here's hoping he finds a bag of money on the street and can get himself a 360
.The other division(s) will have as close to six teams apiece as we can get, with eight being the absolute max size for any one division, and 5 being the minimum.
Team selection is done by a random draw. The teams in the game will be divided up into two Tiers; a Top Tier of the 15 or so very best teams in the game (teams such as Man U, Chelsea, Barçelona, Real Madrid, etc.), and a Second Tier, which will likely be all the rest (excepting perhaps the very bottom of the barrel). Those players in the DSPremiership will only be able to draw from the Second Tier, while those in the lower division(s) can choose whether they want to be drawn from the Second Tier or the Top Tier. A general rule of thumb that we use is that players who play offline games at 4* or 5* (or whatever good ol' Konami call them now) should opt in for the Second Tier draw, while those who play offline at 3* or less should feel free to go for a Top Tier team.
Right now, I am leaning towards wiping the slate clean and doing a new draw for the whole league, but I am not fully decided on that. Now that Chavanton is not with Monaco any more, for example, that team should be the garbage it was meant to be
.So far, the projected DSPremiership is as follows:
- JaredM -
StCloud -
RobVarak -
Slumberland -
CP Zeppo -
XXXIV34 -
All other players interested in joining the league should also sign up in this thread, along with an indication of what tier of teams they would like to have a team drawn from, based on what skill level they play offline v. CPU.
I will post the two Tiers of teams here soon.
In this league, teams play the other teams in their dividion twice, once home, once away. Seasons are divided into two half-seasons, such that each team plays every other team in its division once in the first-half, and then plays the return match in the second half of the season. Each half-season is given a window of two weeks until its deadline, so each full season takes a month to complete. Deadlines are firm, but extensions are liberally granted if they are requested. Teams that do not complete their games by the deadline are subject to receive forfeit losses, but generally forfeits are only given at the completion of the full season unless a team has failed to play any games at all as of the half-season deadline. This deadline/forfeit system allows us to continue moving forward, even if members are unable to complete their games for whatever reason. Teams that fail to play games, and thus receive forfeits, are simply subject to relegation into a lower division, while the rest of the league is not punished by having to wait for others to finish games.
I will bump the official league thread soon, and I encourage all members to peruse the very first post of that thread which contains the basic league rules and game settings once I do so.
So, who's in?
Welcome aboard!
. I could also add some or all of the teams with asterisks into the Top Tier. It's pretty tough to parse this stuff just right only going by the overall 'shape' of each team, comparing them in the team selection area of an exhibition match. I do wish we could just have a big, fat ML online complete with player progression and acquisition possibilities. . . . (Is there even any hope for Sensible Soccer to have online MP career mode once it arrives on the XBLA?)