a few SDT 2019 thoughts

[12345678]

i'm only about 50th but have enjoyed the game, should have played more minileagues!

hats off to SDT for improving their game no end recently, gone are the drunken/potentially fiddled reporter ratings and we have something factual.

the biggest issue with the game which is one most games suffer from (but SDT more) is that teams outside of the euro comps are almost excluded and teams end looking very similar.

i gather they may (in my view unwisely) try and rectify this by limiting to 3-players per team. this in my view has always made games extremely cumbersome, if you had a citeh or pool player injured it means potentially two transfers if you have no like for like in the position.

i really hope they don't use this poor solution to a correctly identified problem.

in my view the answer is as it usually is in good pricing, simply make the non euro players cheaper!

it's a small gripe considering how poor the game was before.

it's a great prize fund and it seems to be very much run above board and i like the transfer system very much.

i really hope they keep up the good work in continually improving the game rather than going into reverse back to the dark SDT ff ages!

[MADCHESTER UTD]

I don’t have a big problem with there being a smallish pool of players that are viable picks. Even with the 3 player max rule you could still end up with 3 city 3 pool, 2 spurs, 1 Chelsea,1 Arsenal, 1 Utd so there’s still ways of avoiding other 14/15 clubs. Besides there will always be a Doherty player or a cheapy Maddison type of enabler to start with so you do end up with “other” players during season at some point.

The fact is there’s always going to be loads of players you simply never want to pick as you know they will get crap points eg defensive midfielder for Huddersfield etc. Though at times with the introduction of 0.5 mill players these can be used wisely.

Maybe something like a 45 mill budget would force you to having to pick players from lower 14

I suppose if they really wanted to they could do something like 7 points a goal,star man, clean sheet for the 14 teams not in Europe, 5 for players that are but I just don’t think they ever will. Nor do I want them to.

I’d quite like the 3 player max rule though but just for reasons so you’d have more a dilemma/to think about when picking your team instead of say full pool block to start, salah, mane plus 4 others

[lfc71]

I'd really like to see them give us 25 tranfers per team per season to use when we see fit....that might throw a few cats amongst the pigeons

Bit like what they did in the WC comp iirc??

[ronny10]

I'd really like to see them give us 25 tranfers per team per season to use when we see fit....that might throw a few cats amongst the pigeons

Bit like what they did in the WC comp iirc??

I'm slightly against it just because there are some very good players used to playing in that format and it's the one thing that makes dt that much different from other games having 3 transfers per month.

I wouldn't know if you play the telegraph version but it's not easy to manage transfers in that format, I learn things every year and I still keep falling short when I think I'm doing ok.

Andy (12345678) finished 50th in the current dt game as it is, I'm not sure we would be wanting him let loose with a format hes even more comfortable with, along with many others who compete at the top of those tables every season.

Saying all that, I do enjoy having the transfers in a use when you want format so not totally against it, I just think you would see similar leaderboards to other games

[lfc71]

Yeah,fair comments......but would make it interesting though,especially as SDT caters for all comps,which the others don't

[MADCHESTER UTD]

If they brought in 25 transfers to use at any time in DT you’d maybe have players at the start constantly trannying in cheapy 1.5-2.5 players that get a rare 18 points in previous game to benefit from price rises, then dump them once they’ve peaked to try and get a £60 mill budget asap Though I suppose then you might have a team worth £60 million in October but with £23 mill ITB, only 14 transfers left, a front 6 of redmond Maddison noble, success, solanke, tosan and about 187 points behind 100th. I’ve not thought it through, I’m going kip

[WNP]

I’m not a fan of the 25 transfer upfront approach. The leader board/leagues gets very distorted with some players not having used any transfers and some having used all. You can’t really tell where you are without checking to see how many transfers everyone has used and trying to figure out how many points a transfer is worth (in my case usually -26 )

[jaycar25]

5,2,3 and 5,3,2

[ronny10]

5,2,3 and 5,3,2

523

[jaycar25]

Just seen that Madchester won the second week weekender and Daily Telegraph champs league after winning SDT World Cup.
Surely all in one calendar year.
Fortune like that has to be written in the stars!
Congrats.

[jaycar25]

523 Works in the premier league game, why not?

Could even go 614 (Maybe a step to far tho')

[MADCHESTER UTD]

Thanks Jaycar

I think that DT should move with the times player value wise. Think it’s been £50 mill budget for 20 odd years now (think originally it was £40 mill back in 94ish). £50 mill was fine in 1997 but I think now they should change it to £500 million budget. It wouldn’t alter the game at all as all they have to do is simply multiply every players cost by 10. So Kane would be £80 million instead of 8.0 mill, VVD would be £60 mill instead of 6.0 mill, Maguire £45 mill instead of £4.5 mill etc etc. Ok for half the players it would still be inaccurate value eg sterling is obviously worth way more than £70 million if sold in real life and a 32 year old sub defensive midfielder for Norwich will come in at £20 million but in general it would at least be more accurate than Salah for 8.0 mill

[The Chief]

I’d still rather no price changes and a limit from each team would be good, either two or three.

[ronny10]

All those winnings Dan has left you with way to much time on your hands

[WNP]

All those winnings Dan has left you with way to much time on your hands

And too much money, £50m is nothing to him now

[Zimmerman]

If multiplying everything by ten (budget and prices... what’s the point)?

[mad dog]

If multiplying everything by ten (budget and prices... what’s the point)?

Didn’t they do that at a World Cup or Euros a few years ago

[MADCHESTER UTD]

If multiplying everything by ten (budget and prices... what’s the point)?

Yeah Nev as I said on original post, the game wouldn’t alter from it, it’s just something that I think they should do to go with the inflation of transfers last 20 odd years and make the game more current. It’s not a particularly important change but one I’d like to see happen. At the moment we have players like Kane costing 5% of their actual worth (circa £160 million)

[Hotpot]

If multiplying everything by ten (budget and prices... what’s the point)?

The Sun will never go for this as it would put a lot of people off playing.

Most of their readers struggle adding up to 50. With a budget of 500 they'd have to give out free calculators with the paper

[Uzi Lover]

Hi all,

I have signed up to give you all some good news.

Live chat confirmed to me this morning that they are switching back to the max 3 players per club rule.

Hope that helps with any planning, a welcome change in my opinion!

I took a screenshot but it looks as though you need to host it to post here.

[Uzi Lover]

Ah you can add attachments, have tried in this post.

Screenshot_20190705-090532_Chrome.jpg

[lfc71]

Maximum 3 player per team rule (hopefully) back in play then

[ronny10]

So we've Watkins say it's not but live chat say it is.

My guess is it's the draft league that will have a 3 player limit

Seasonal wont

[Backlash]

The Draft game looks a bit shit.
I wouldn’t blame anyone for pulling out-I’m thinking twice now.

I thought it would be over a whole season with accumulative points but now it look like a head to head weekly format.

[Backlash]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/dream-team/fan ... eam-draft/

[robot]

Looks ok to me, only main difference to the fpl one being head to head only.
But you might still be able to see total scores anyway.( if not nice job for the chairmen to keep track )
As for if the sun eff up the launch thats another matter.

[ronny10]

The Draft game looks a bit shit.
I wouldn’t blame anyone for pulling out-I’m thinking twice now.

I thought it would be over a whole season with accumulative points but now it look like a head to head weekly format.

Head to head

I'm officially pulling out of any possible involvement then

[Backlash]

Yeah good idea robot, we will just add the weekly scores; even if there’s no way to view them via DT I’ll log them manually.

[Iksh]

I don't like the head to head bit.
Can the chairman not make it a cumulative for the year . the total points maybe available on the league table anyway.
I also saw something on FFthread that he may be able to put a mini-league on his site . That might make it easy to track the total scores.

[Backlash]

I wonder if this is the only head to head format now?
Will the Premiership and Championship now use draft h2h or simply have the league as overall scores.