Subject: ultimate manager

won 4-1 and passed 2 teams in the standings to finish 7th


Attendance 7,600 Gate Receipts 232,800

I'm -$72k in the hole.

Stadium upkeep cost me -$114k this week.

Do you guys know how deep I can get before the bank comes to shut me down?

i was -70 last week. not sure how far u can go

but yes stadium upkeep is quite costly but the income from matches will make up for it, just try to keep yourself at +100k in weeks you dont have a home game so u stay at 0 next time

i think they dont charge stadium maint in the offseason week so u dont need to worry about that

news (hard to find normally so ill post here):

The 5° UM season will start the 29-03-11.
Anyway, in this week of stop, all the normal activities of the team will be available (training, friendly, etc.).

We will create the new leagues for country:
- Spain;
- Argentina;
- Mexico;
- Romania;
- Germany + Switzerland

In these days we will create the new leagues and divisions. Promotions and relegations will not always respect the standard rules because we will try to fill all the empty slot in the upper divisions.

With the start of the new season we will introduce the new economic system that will include:
- New ranking system;
- New hiring method of the trainers (no more by the market);
- New affluence rules at the stadium;
- New rules of recruiting of the youth.

It's important to inform you that the new affluence rules will not be in contrast with the actual limits, so you will not be suddenly in the situation to have got a stadium too big for your division.

The actual trainers will be guarantee for one season, in any case I suggest to not invest too much in these days on the trainers market.

I remember that from the new season the players over 35 will retire and the over 30 will get a progressive decrease of stamina and shape.

Keep in touch for any further news,

Good UM to all

so when they create these countries leagues what happens in there vacated spot?

hopefully international league fills from top to bottom based on ranking is what im thinking

my first american youth was talentless T_T

Thanks for the insight and the news.

I wonder how many more users we need for an american division.

I did the promotion for Argentina, they told me 70 active users to have you own league. We used to be like 120 but after deleting the inactive now we are 69.

I guess that now they are going to be less strict, I see countries in the list with 60 users total. So I would say with 50+ you have a good chance to get your own league. But the official word is 70 active users, so it is possible to complete the first division, the 2 B's and the 4 C's.

The game looks very promising, if you compare with how was sokker in the beginning, UM is quite better, but still has to mature as a game.

mention to an admin that a high % of american users pay for sponsorship on these types of sites...

maybe combining us with canada will help speed that up

canada is evil.

I played some Italian team today in a Friendly and got smoked 8-0, the gate receipts were $90k, so I am happy with that beating. :-)

if i did it correctly, i will be in D league next season almost made cut to C
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New economic rules
admin - 22/03/2011 20:28:45 - NEWS

Hereafter you will find a summary of the new rules of the game.

Ranking:
The calculation of the ranking will be completely different, it will be based only on the result of official matches (championship and cup), considering the division of the team you own and the division of the opponent team.
The trophy points won’t exist any more.

Fans:
It has been introduced the number of fans of the team that will depend directly on the team ranking.

Affluence at the stadium in championship matches :
The maximum amount of people who would like to enter at the stadium will depend on:
- Number of fans of the home team;
- Number of fans of the guest team;
but it will be affected by:
- Weather;
- Ticket price of the single sector;
- Number of seats for sector.
By the new rules, in case of sunny day, the public will pay less for cover seats, and in the future it will be left to the manager to chose the ticket price for each sector, cover or uncovered, in order to optimize the earns.

Please note that in the new system the limits of affluence for each sector won’t be in use any more because the maximum affluence depends on the ranking of the two facing teams, but the actual average of affluence is guaranteed so you don’t risk to have an overbuild stadium.

Affluence at the stadium in friendly matches:
The calculation will respect the same rules of the championship match, but the gate money will be a quarter and it will be shared by the two teams on the base of the number of their own fans.

Affluence at the stadium in cup matches:
The calculation is the same of the one for friendly matches.

Building and maintenance costs :
The building and maintenance costs will respect the following table:


Central Stand Corner Behind Goal

Build cover seat 49,7 29,8 24,8 9,9

Build uncover seat 44,7 26,8 22,4 8,9

Maintenance cover seat 4,1 2,5 2,1 0,8

Maintenance uncover seat 3,7 2,2 1,9 0,7



The start-up costs and the building limits won’t change.

Extraordinary repair costs :
In addition to the common maintenance costs, on a week basis and obligatory, extraordinary repair costs will be introduced () but, don’t worry, the amount of the two costs will be less then the actual maintenance cost so the costs for the stadium will affect the balance less than now)

Whereas common maintenance costs are pertinent to:
- Cleaning;
- Pitch maintenance;
- Energy costs, heating costs and so on;
- Security;
- …..
the extraordinary repair costs are pertinent to the progressive decay of the structures.
The extraordinary repair costs are absolutely optional and could be paid in any moment, but at a certain point the stadium will start to decay loosing the usable seats.

The seats decay will be calculate sector by sector and will grow for each match played at home (official and friendly matches) :

Decay Level = Number of seats of the sector * 1/36

As soon as the decay level will reach the 50% of the total seats of the sector, the usable seats will start decreasing:

Num. of usable seats of the sector =Num .total seats of the sector – Decay Level

The repair costs will be the same as the building costs, but they will have an immediate effect without the start up costs.
The repair costs could be paid partially, for example if the east corner has got a decay level of 2.000 seats, in any moment it’s possible make an extraordinary maintenance for a number of seats between 0 and 2.000.

Evaluation of the player:
The calculation about the player's evaluation will consider a range wider than now and a lot of existing players, with the new rules, could suddenly change their evaluation to a higher value.

Salaries of the player:
The salaries will grow considerably and will be calculated only on the basis of the new evaluation of the player.
Age, experience, shape and stamina won’t be considered in the calculation.
The salaries will grow faster than the evaluation.

Value of the player:
The player’s value will be calculated on the basis of his evaluation.
Unlike the calculation of the salaries, it will grow less than his evaluation.
Besides, the value will be heavily affected by the player's age and will decrease of the 5% for each year over the 17.
e.g. a 26 years old player will have a value reduced of the (26-17)*5 = 45% respect a 17 years old player with the same value.

Players' selling:
There will be two different ways to sell the players:
- Sale to the UM Federation;
- Sale on the market.
In the first case the player can be sold to the federation at his full value.
The player sold to the UM Federation will be immediately put on the market at the target price of his value.
In the second case the player will be put on the market at the target price of zero and the final price will be decided by the market.
If the player won’t receive any offer in 48 hours, he will be buyed by the federation at his value reduced of the 20%.

Other:
- It won’t be possible to dismiss a player anymore;
- A player bought for a price less than his value can’t be sell for a price higher then his purchase price,
- The player put on the market by the federation won’t have an expiry date but will be delete periodically by the staff.

Youth school:
The changes are:
- The slots will be 12;
- The maintenance fee for each player in the academy will be 2.500 UM$ a week;
- The promotion price will be deleted;
- It won’t be possible anymore to promote a young player before the 18 weeks training (you can only dismiss him);
The teams that now have 12 or more young players in academy, can keep them until their promotion.
The maintenance fee in any case will grow at 2.500UM$.

Trainers:
The new trainers' hiring system will be based on the following rules:
- Every team can employ only two trainers at the same time (two slots);
- In any training day the manager will receive a job application, by compatible trainers with the division of the team, for each free slot plus one;
- The trainer's salary request will be compatible with the maximum amount the trainer will be willing to pay and won’t be higher than a certain limit for the division;
- Every trainer will apply for a period of time between 6 and 36 weeks and his contract won’t be extendible;
- The manager will have the opportunity to hire or refuse the candidates;
- Any trainer can be dismissed in any moment by the manager, but he will have to pay the amount of the salaries residues until the end of his contract as penalty;
- The candidates will have technical skill compatible with the salary the manager wants to pay, but sometimes it could be possible to receive job applications from young trainers, looking to get experiences, who are better than expected;
- You won't find trainers with more than 3 skill higher then 15.

All the trainers at present employed in a team can be kept until the end of the next season at a zero wage. In any case they will be dismissed at the end of the next season.

Sponsor:
The amount of money paid by the sponsor will be given for division (in the next future we would like to introduce the negotiation with the sponsors) but it will be reduced if the team has got a technical level under the expected minimal level for the division.

Prizes:
The prizes will be the following:
- Prizes from championship match;
- Prizes from cups match;
- Prizes from friendly match;
- Prizes for championship end position

The prizes will respect the following tables:

Division Champ.Win Champ. draw Friendly win Friendly draw Cup win

A 54.000 18.000 13.800 4.600 50.000

B 43.200 14.400 11.040 3.680 40.000

C 34.560 11.520 8.832 2.944 32.000

D 27.648 9.216 7.066 2.355 25.600

E 22.118 7.373 5.652 1.884 20.480

F 17.695 5.898 4.522 1.507 16.384

G 14.156 4.719 3.618 1.206 13.107

H 11.325 3.775 2.894 965 10.486

I 9.060 3.020 2.315 772 8.389



Prizes for end championship position

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

A 500.000 450.000 400.000 350.000 300.000 250.000 200.000 150.000 100.000 50.000

B 400.000 360.000 320.000 280.000 240.000 200.000 160.000 120.000 80.000 40.000

C 320.000 288.000 256.000 224.000 192.000 160.000 128.000 96.000 64.000 32.000

D 256.000 230.400 204.800 179.200 153.600 128.000 102.400 76.800 51.200 25.600

E 205.000 184.500 164.000 143.500 123.000 102.500 82.000 61.500 41.000 20.500

F 164.000 147.600 131.200 114.800 98.400 82.000 65.600 49.200 32.800 16.400

G 131.000 117.900 104.800 91.700 78.600 65.500 52.400 39.300 26.200 13.100

H 105.000 94.500 84.000 73.500 63.000 52.500 42.000 31.500 21.000 10.500

I 84.000 75.600 67.200 58.800 50.400 42.000 33.600 25.200 16.800 8.400