Ramblings from an Einnek Mind

With the start of Season 2 this week, I am going to be posting on this blog regularly hoping to give you an insight into my thoughts on the world of Einnek Football and some real world stuff too which I think you might find interesting.

The current dilemma in Einnek for me is the valuation of players. Yet again there is a downward spiral in the value of high skill players and I find myself cancelling deals too often for my liking. I have reversed a couple too this week after taking a further look at them. This is confusing me as well as yourselves I am sure!

Somewhere it seems many managers have taken to seeing skill 6s as just a bit better than a skill 5. Previously as a rule of thumb a skill 6 player was worth a minimum of 3 above average skill 5 players. Now this seems to have dropped in many managers minds to 2 less than average skill 5s. WACS seem to be most people’s justification for the lowering of valuations and although this is valid for a skill 6 with 2 or 3 WACS, one with 18 is worth a fair amount more. I hope you all agree?

I have been responsible for letting this spiral gather pace but it has to stop somewhere before a skill 6 is worth two untried skill 5 players with zero international prospects and a dozen WACS each. This may seem extreme but we have been very close to this on 3 or 4 occasions recently. Also I do not want a culture of mistrust to spread into the game where some managers prey on others citing previous deals as an example of why their offer is a good one. No two deals are the same especially when high skills are involved, so this tit-for-tat dealing is not going to wash with me. Nor will the “but I was offered the deal” excuse - if you know the deal is not good then do not try to sneak it past me.

Let’s all try to get some more sense into dealing please. Remember the difference between a skill 6 and a skill 5 is much much more than the difference between a skill 5 and a skill 4. It takes something special to get a player to skill 6 or above so do not throw them away.

They say as on door closes and other one opens. Well TH14 has done a runner to sunnier climes in Barcelona, but a new era in Einnek Football starts today. So it is not all bad news for the Einnek GM!

The first Einnek to be upgraded to the new code is Einnek Four. New code?! I hear you ask. Well, the site may well look very similar to the previous version but a lot has changed in the background. These coding changes will allow me to bring on-line masses of historical data for each Einnek league once I have extracted the information from old datbase back-ups. I really think this will add a new dimension to the game and give managers what they have been long asking for.

The changes will flow across all leagues in the coming days and once complete, EMSAS will get a revamp followed by the EILCT and the main Einnek site. The recently announced rule changes have caused much discussion as I expected. I think most are OK with the major change (retirals) but many were unhappy with the timing.

A decision to delay this part of the changes has been made and once the poll on the website finishes we will see which option people prefer. I do apprecaite that the timing options I have given are not good for everyone, but we have to draw a line somewhere and a full season is just too long to wait for changes vital to the game.

I hope you like the new site look and the new features. Please shout loud if you encounter any problems. It has been tested pretty thoroughly but you can never get everything right for everyone first time so I expect the odd issue in the coming days and weeks.