Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2014 10:29:08 GMT
I'm getting tired of being beaten by my own formations.
A fair few years back I was fed up with 451 (lm-am-mg-dy-rm & st) winning ALL the time, so took the time to find something else that worked, and eventually found a successful 433 with am-mg-dy & lw-st-rw and was winning games.
Then Pat took it on and ran with it, winning many games in many leagues, and other managers copied it, cos it worked. And fair enough.
But then when I played them and their 433 always did better than mine (I'm guessing maybe cos my teams are generally weaker? or yeah, cos they are better managers ) it was frustrating, and I reached the point where so many teams were playing it I couldn't keep playing it myself.
So I went and tried to find something else.
And over the last year or so have found and been having a lot of success (g88 league win & 2nd, and twice just 3 pts off top in g64, for example, and this being with the teen mini mars) with an am-am-mg-dy & tm-st formation.
Only, last season the g64 serie a winners copied the formation and won the league, while I was 3 pts behind. And again in g88, where I finished 2nd, losing at home (after a 21-0-0 home record) to the champs where a win would have seen us repeating champs. And now this season it seems like every team and their mother is using this formation.
And I guess today was just the icing on the frustration cake, as psg visited mini mars and won 0-3 playing that am2-442... lazio hosted mini mars in the champs league and beat us 5-0 playing that am2-442... and in g5 (slim's man united won at my place a couple of turns back playing that am2-442 when a home win would have seen my team leapfrog them to top) today slim beat us 2-0 in the fa cup final, also playing that am2-442.
And it keeps popping up across the leagues I'm in now, so I figured I might as well let everyone else in on it.
It's not that I'm all about the winning, cos this so isn't the case, otherwise I wouldn't take on silly teams, poor teams or quirky teams. It just gets a little frustrating being beaten by a better team or manager when they play a formation it feels like I discovered. Which they are entitled to do, of course, and it's kind of a compliment. But that doesn't lessen the frustration. It's like being depressed and someone telling you there's somebody else in the world who is worse off than you - it doesn't help. You either suck it up or spew it out. And I've been sucking it up, but today it feels like I've had to spew it out.
Now I just need to see if this is an expunging that allows me to move on, or the final nail in a necom-shed. I'm honestly hoping the former.
So, for now, I'll keep trying to find something else.
Or maybe quit all my teams in a somewhat childlike toy-from-pram burst of fiery-flames of frustration.
A fair few years back I was fed up with 451 (lm-am-mg-dy-rm & st) winning ALL the time, so took the time to find something else that worked, and eventually found a successful 433 with am-mg-dy & lw-st-rw and was winning games.
Then Pat took it on and ran with it, winning many games in many leagues, and other managers copied it, cos it worked. And fair enough.
But then when I played them and their 433 always did better than mine (I'm guessing maybe cos my teams are generally weaker? or yeah, cos they are better managers ) it was frustrating, and I reached the point where so many teams were playing it I couldn't keep playing it myself.
So I went and tried to find something else.
And over the last year or so have found and been having a lot of success (g88 league win & 2nd, and twice just 3 pts off top in g64, for example, and this being with the teen mini mars) with an am-am-mg-dy & tm-st formation.
Only, last season the g64 serie a winners copied the formation and won the league, while I was 3 pts behind. And again in g88, where I finished 2nd, losing at home (after a 21-0-0 home record) to the champs where a win would have seen us repeating champs. And now this season it seems like every team and their mother is using this formation.
And I guess today was just the icing on the frustration cake, as psg visited mini mars and won 0-3 playing that am2-442... lazio hosted mini mars in the champs league and beat us 5-0 playing that am2-442... and in g5 (slim's man united won at my place a couple of turns back playing that am2-442 when a home win would have seen my team leapfrog them to top) today slim beat us 2-0 in the fa cup final, also playing that am2-442.
And it keeps popping up across the leagues I'm in now, so I figured I might as well let everyone else in on it.
It's not that I'm all about the winning, cos this so isn't the case, otherwise I wouldn't take on silly teams, poor teams or quirky teams. It just gets a little frustrating being beaten by a better team or manager when they play a formation it feels like I discovered. Which they are entitled to do, of course, and it's kind of a compliment. But that doesn't lessen the frustration. It's like being depressed and someone telling you there's somebody else in the world who is worse off than you - it doesn't help. You either suck it up or spew it out. And I've been sucking it up, but today it feels like I've had to spew it out.
Now I just need to see if this is an expunging that allows me to move on, or the final nail in a necom-shed. I'm honestly hoping the former.
So, for now, I'll keep trying to find something else.
Or maybe quit all my teams in a somewhat childlike toy-from-pram burst of fiery-flames of frustration.