Into my second season

After reading quite a few FML team blogs I decided to keep one for my team too which is a nice way to post strategy suggestions as well as perhaps advertise players to the Houghton community.

I am currently at the end of the first week of Season 6 in Houghton which is actually my second season as I just joined the game with my team Zoah FC. My first season I actually did quite poorly in terms of performance but I kept my hopes as I knew I was going to be playing a long term strategy.

Much like the majority of new users, I joined the New User Football Association (NUFA) and played in the league two along side a few decent new teams but despite my impression that I was in one of the easier NUFA leagues I still only managed to come in 12th place.

This didn't really affect my hopes of becoming a high end club in Houghton. As I kept my wages around 50k during first season, after releasing a few bad players I had bought. I think one of the issues with my team in my first season was the fact that despite my lack of experience in the game I decided to shop for my players without the help of the game. I handpicked a team composed of 75% bad players including a lot of reserves that I didn't need. But I think it was all a learning experience. Out of all the players in that season I may consider a few of them as good purchases and for the most part I kept those players for another season.

A few notable players from my first season were my captain and most expensive player Lucasz Gargula. This older Polish player costed me 200k in aq fee and a fairly high wage of 12k a day. I almost restarted my team after I realized how much money I had spent on this player but he really was worth the price. Not only his high influence makes him the perfect captain, he is also able to play with both feet as well as being a great set piece taker.

Rodrigo Tosi was another key player during season 1, he was probably my best striker during my first few days, but he really excelled as a attacking midfielder. He was also a proficient free kick taker and had a relatively good aim with long shots.

I also had three other relatively good midfielders: Gabriel Velcovici, Kazim Seker and Nicolas Bayod. All three great using the right and the left wings. Since I planned to upgrade the team I had to let two of them go. I got a great offer on Bayod that ended up even giving me a profit and I eventually released Seker which left me with Velcovici which was probably the one with the most room for growth out of those guys.

My defense was probably my weak spot so I did try to get rid of most of those players. I only kept my best CB, the tall Brazilian Mauro, I kept my 17 year old Lacroix, who despite relatively mediocre performances was still developing very much. I also kept a few of my FBs including Ruzica, Saez, Trommel. I probably shouldn't have kept all of them but they were giving me decent results and had very low wages which makes them that much more appealing to me.

Finally I had also purchased Jean Carlos, a 28 year old brazillian striker that really will stay as my top scorer for a while.