Teams

Basic Terms

TACTICS
Tactics allow strategic planning by altering the basic premise of play.

Longball means long kicks from the defenders to the forwards; Pressing shows little regard for defense.

Normal is itself a tactic, showing consideration for all aspects of the game equally.

A tactic adjusts the OFF, DEF, and GP formulae.

TEAM SKILLS
Currently team skills only include OTF (One-Touch Football).

OTF is a skill that teams can develop and has general affects, similar to player SL, and applies regardless of tactics.

Tactics determine the formula to which OTF applies.

Club Features

Each club has a name, a bank account (measured in Kilo-Dollars - k), a number of "coaching points" (CPs) and "training points" (TPs), which represent coaching staff, a bonus for one-touch-football (OTF) and a roster of between 18 and 25 players.

Club Names
The name of the club is determined by the manager of the club, within the bounds of good taste. In SESL, the club names reflect real Scottish Clubs.
All of the club names should have some geographical significance as well as an optional nickname.

See the list of current team names for examples.

Changing Club Name
The name of a club may be changed between seasons at a cost of 250k. When a new manager takes over an existing club, that manager may, at the beginning of the next full-season (only) change the name of the club at no cost.

There are exceptions to this:

Teams may not change names after being in the league 3 or more full seasons.
SESL team names are fixed

Club Finances

Ticket Revenue
Most of a club's income comes from ticket revenue; a club gets a certain amount of income from ticket revenue for every match in which it plays. The amount earned in each match is given by the following formulas:

Home morale = morale + morale bonus
Visitor morale = morale + morale bonus

Normal Match: Gate = 60k * (1 + (2 * home morale) + visitor morale)
Neutral Match: Gate = 60k * (1 + (1.5 * home morale) + (1.5 * visitor morale))

Ticket revenue is split evenly between the two clubs involved, and is detailed in the match report that you receive after the game.
Club morale is a number between 0 and 1 as described below.

Healthy budgeting
Managers are advised to project their income ahead to ensure they have sufficient funds for next season's coaching staff. This is one of the most important aspects of the game. Bid wisely in the auctions, otherwise you might overspend and not be able to afford coaching facilities for the following season.

Debt/Betting
A club may never go into debt and a manager may never submit orders that require spending more of a resource than he has at the beginning of a game. If you are getting into financial problems, you should consider trading players for cash. Bear in mind that for the end of the season you will need to have sufficient funds to buy your CP allocation.

You will receive ALL your CP/TP allocation prior to the start of the season. However, you will also be able to bid on small amounts of both resources in the auctions.. Loans between clubs are not permitted. Also, betting on matches is not allowed.

Morale

A club's morale is updated every match. The formula is:

New morale = (5/6) * old morale + (0 if loss, 1/12 if draw, 1/6 if win)

In general, your morale is higher if your team has done well in its most recent matches.

Morale Bonuses
There are morale bonuses applied to certain teams at the start of a season. These are based on league position and, in some cases, cup success.

Details can be found in the specific rules for the following leagues : SESL, SFLS.

The maximum morale bonus that a team may earn is 0.30.

Morale at Season Start
Each club's morale is carried over from the previous season.

Teams in SESL and ODFL have a minimum morale of 0.5 at the start of a season.
All expansion teams start with morale of 0.5

Other Morale Impacts
A team’s morale contributes SL to DEF and OFF stats, accordingly. Morale Bonus does not count towards DEF and OFF stats.

Participation Bonus

(a.k.a Press; a.k.a. "The President-For-Life Bonus")
With the Blog, Notebook and Journals, coaches can interact on a daily basis rather than waiting for a report that comes once per session. Each league's Press Editor will monitor the board and at regular intervals assign up to cash to each team based on their participation. The press officers are actually reading these so if you’re just going through the motions or telling him the weather he won’t be impressed!