BT - Season 9 wages and 1st round Cup Draw

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Wages up from 67,223 to 96,757, so not too bad.

Drawn at home to a Level VI bot in the Cup :D

Mrs BB's wages up from 53,102 to 83,606, and she's been drawn away to a Level VI bot

 

[MrB]

£126,783 to £161,632. Ouch. Much of that is Suthers and Richie.

I appear to have a bye in the cup which is a bummer as it means I have no game at all this week so could suffer form hits.

 

[blues_r_best]

A mighty £238,389 up from £189,427

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Wages up to £189,041 from about £160,000.

I've the lowest wage bill in my first class. I've got to try and work out the optimum wage, because I think my opponents will have to sell.

Thommos have an unsustainable wage bill of approx £475,000, but have listed already Hay, who costs £167,000 a week, for £16m. Whether he can find anyone willing to pay that much must be questionable.

Big Hitters' wage-bill of £210,000 looks fairly sustainable, but Scaly Piscine's wage bill of £285,000 may be pushing it.

Having been predicting that wages would soon become a problem and see a glut of (relatively) cheap top-end players become available, I'm a little annoyed with myself that I'm not in the financial position to take advantage.

 

[The General]

From £71,000 to just over £96,000!

And like MrB, im fixtureless!

Kev

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I've got a nice easy VI team.

When are the league fixtures going to be published?

 

[The General]

I've got a nice easy VI team.

When are the league fixtures going to be published?

Pass.

Tomorrow, perchance?!

:confused:

 

[Grayson]

Wish there was a way of telling my wages without counting.

Bye in the cup.

 

[Davros]

up from 72900 to 98900/... ouchie!

 

[* ORM *]

I'll add up the wage hike when I get home - which given the trains tonight could be god knows when.

Have a D6 bot which will give me some welcome cash -

Now just about to do a full investment from scratch into YA - a shame as I was within a whisker of reaching the magic 80K interest but hopefully I'll recoup that with an earth shattering YP tomorrow.

 

[Bob Cratchitt]

Wages gone from £123,800 upto £144,292, although I have just sold three players over the weekend. So would probably have gone up a tad more.

 

[* ORM *]

Up from 15,566 to 24,838 (we all had to start somewhere :p)

 

[MrB]

Fixtures are up, our first FC match finds us against Highton of OD Level II, looks like a defeat.

 

[blues_r_best]

An easy FC game at home, their best player has a wage of under £2,000.

And an extra little surprise in the orders screen.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Fixtures are up, our first FC match finds us against Highton of OD Level II, looks like a defeat.

Highton use to be in my division. They are (or at least use to be) beatable.

 

[The General]

I actually have the worst start possible to my season.

I face Sky Blues away from home in my first FC game and then face the newly relegated team, Oakworth, again away from home. I then host a decent side, 1 1=6 in my 2nd FC game and then host Dream Frequency in my 2nd OD game!

Sickner!

Kev

 

[MrB]

Highton use to be in my division. They are (or at least use to be) beatable.

Judging by the way we capitulated against you on Sunday I don't think that's necessarily relevant! :cry:

 

[The General]

Another 14 weeks of ****e to come 2nd in both formats isn't exactly what i planned but it might be what actually happens!

:(

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Judging by the way we capitulated against you on Sunday I don't think that's necessarily relevant! :cry:

:p

The good news about my fixtures is that I don't have to play first class games against non-bots in consecutive weeks. The bad news is that my opponents have a warm-up first class game against bots every week but one, before playing me, neutralising any fitness advantage I may have.

The even worse bad news is that my first 3 first class home games are my toughest 3 home games, meaning I get screwed on gate receipts.

I was also hoping to play Thommos Trojans later in the season, once he'd been forced to sell because of wages! Unsurprisingly no-one bought Hay for £16m, so chances are he'll be lining up against me.

 

[MrB]

I think you're lacking the star player to make that difference to get to Level III. Jackman and Titterton are good but you really need an exceptional+ in your team to put in those match winning performances against eth higher teams.