Titel: National Cup

Wow...I...I'm stunned. I honestly did not expect to win at all, as I didn't feel my team was ready. I was so confident of this fact that I even congratulated willmott on his win ahead of time, which I now feel like a D*** about.

Good game willmott, and to the rest of you I faced and didn't comment because of superstition. The one that I wanted to win the most was actually the semifinal once I saw it in reach, since I figured that would have probably been where my good fortune ran out, but it did not.

My goal this season is to promote to division II and then next season I want to focus my efforts on the cup winners cup, and just make sure I don't relegate. I really want to get USA more spots.

Analysis of this season's international competition.

Erratic will be a very hard time on his competition but Cunning have winnable matches and real chance to advance.

If they do USA should have 4 slots the following season.

Champions league
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Inter Lincoln - a beast. Very uniform team that can attack from anywhere
Hellraisers - another beast. 3 players over 440.
Arkadia Krakau - you think it will start getting easier.. think again. they have a 490 Or player!!! He must be on steroids.
Leones Del Caracas - at last a team Erratic can beat. but it wont be easy neither.
Erratic Emus - the underdog for sure. will likely fight to not end last.

Cup Winners cup
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Freaky Friday - a sweden team. Knowing they are among the best in the league we know it will be heard. Good team but not impossible to beat.
Kasipeli Team - versy solid team but lacks on shooting and defense is questionable. Winnable.
Daugavpils Falkons - strong offensive team but lacks on defense. Very winnable.
HC Courno Auvergne - Uniform team. Solid defense and capable offense. Good team but winnable.

Maybe this is a question that has been answered many times, likely has, but i'm asking again. I have read and reread posts regarding supporting the National cup team but I still do not have a grasp of it.

1st. how does one offer a player for consideration?

2. What type of support is needed, and can be offered by anyone? Am I wrong in assuming that because i do not have the facilities to pull the strongest players that one would need to be a more veteran team to truly be of help?

Bulls4ever. You got my vote + + Good luck!

I dont really understand what you are asking. Has this something to do with NC, or pulling players?

1) You can start by uploading your players or other players that you have scouted to the two databses in this thread: [link=http://ppm.powerplaymanager.com/en/forums.html?data=topic-69363-a-us-nt-database

The national team manager should have specified the requirements for making the team somewhere in the national team thread, though you should upload anyone that you think might be of interest. The national team manager will then look through all the players in the database (and look through all of the teams and their transfer histories for any good players that might have been missed).

2) You can help with scouting. bulls4ever has a feature on his website where he requests players to be scouted. Otherwise, you can offer to help the national team manager scout (and ask for a list of players) or simply focus on a few leagues to scout.

That is more of a problem in hockey and soccer than handball. At this point, even newer teams can develop fast enough to produce useful players (the higher costs for the higher levels slow down development). In addition, if you pull a great player, you can sell the player for a fortune to a team that would be able to better develop the player if you lack the facilities.

ppm.powerplaymanager.com/...

Just got the luckiest match-up. Unfortunately it's not like it'll be a walk in the park.

Thank you. I'll put this info to work.

^%@^#$^%$@#^%$#$%^!!!

3 Upsets of teams seeded in the top 20. I'm the 20th seed. Next round, I'm in pool 2 by 1 freaking slot.

Not only does it suck from an income standpoint (since my arena is currently larger than probably 90% of teams out there), but I'll also be matched up against significantly more difficult teams now.

I was really hoping to be able to stick in pool 1 for at least 1 more game, but i guess it wasn't meant to be.

>_<

That sucks, but maybe it will come out as a good thing. You will beat a strong opponent next round, and then it will be easier for you.

perhaps. I'm mostly just pissed about the money though.

I got almost 800k from the game today. Which is awesome for a day where I'd normally only get like 200-250k for a friendly.

Next week I'll probably get HALF of what I got today. Unless I'm "lucky" enough to play against the 4 teams in division 1 who have 3000 seats or more.

"lucky" is used very loosely here though, as those teams would also very likely boot me from the tourney lol.

There were zero 7m shots in my game today. Never seen that before.

How will it be easier if he wins? You don't get to take over someone's seed by beating them - he's almost certainly going to be in Pool 2 the rest of the way through.

HAHA. Welcome to my world lanky I had to beat 4 D1 teams last season, and I was ALWAYS in pot 2.

wow, 800k? that's pretty damn good. I got almost 1M so not much less than mine.

It depends on who you play against. if you play against me you will earn tons