Season 8 Youth Cup Registration

Please register your team and name using the Google Form below.

At a minimum, I need your team in Top 100 and your name.

Ideally, please also register your players along with their date of birth and rating. 

This will help me to ensure your players are eligible to play, and to calculate the average rating of all the teams. The average rating will be used to decide which teams are seeded into which groups, so is very important.

If you keep a note of the link at the end of the form when you click submit, you will be able to come back and make any changes to players if they get ratings rises, or if you buy, sell or loan players.





[googleapps domain="docs" dir="forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxhQiyaECXy16KwCGYdYpkhWXd8a1fdR12J3Rr46o6akJ9TA/viewform" query="embedded=true" width="620" height="520" /]

Inter Milan season 7 review


Warning Warning bad grammar alert!
[youtube=[www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1EFyyoxa4k&w=320&h=266])


Hello and welcome to my first blog post in top 100 and its long overdue. I think ive been in top 100 for 6 seasons now. I haven't posted because i have learning difficulties, dypraxia, anxiety so find it quite nerve wracking starting something new.  


So as you know I took over Inter Milan at the start of season 7 After incredible success with A.S.S.E taking them from div 4 to div 2. 
Inter Milan has always been a club close to my heart because I remember watching channel 4's Italian football with my dad as a kid and watching my idol Ronaldo, what a player he was before his injuries. 

Anyway enough of that When I took over from Alex I had to make a pretty tough decision. Inter had a lot of players who were getting on and not a lot of players who were wanted by other teams due to there age. I decided in the end to stick with most of the team alex built and try to get automatic promotion. I did though add a few players to the squad they were Holtby, Modeste, Dzsudzsack, Shaqiri I think cant remember if there was anyone else. 

We started the season with two 1-0 victory's against Valancia and Sampdoria. This gave me more hope that  this team could get automatic promotion. Unfortunately after this it all became very frustrating.  The main problem seemed to be that we couldn't finish teams off.   This meant that we ended up with the most draws in the league,  15 ! we tried different systems, attacking football, defensive , counter attacking all systems that have worked for me before but it wasn't working with this group of players. The strange thing was our best game of the season was against the team that walked the league sc international.
2-5 win! where did that game come from we couldn't perform like that against anyone else. 
its clear that we are not easy to beat because we only lost 9 games all season but yet because we drew so many we only just  squeezed into 7th place on goal difference. Unfortunately as I expected we didn't get far in the playoffs. 

Where did it all go wrong?
On paper we had several players of decent ability not incredible but should be pushing for promotion. The main problem was if you want to go up your best players need to perform sadly some of them let the club down and have now moved on.  The likes of Prieto, Vela, Pepe, Handanovic. were no where near the levels they have produced before. Prieto has now retired but that is not such a bad thing but Motta retiring is a big blow as he has performed very well since coming in. 

What Next for inter?
We now have a 2-4 season plan to get back to division 1. We have got the age of the squad down from 31 to 27 with that the ratings of the squad have decreased which means the chances of promotion in season 8  are slimmer but that's the sacrifice you have to take when your building a future plan for the club. we now have something to look forward to as a club, last season when you looked at the squad it was worrying players towards the end of there careers and not enough potential for the future. now as a manager i can look at this squad and think these guys can be here for many years and help us achieve something special and get inter back to where they deserve to be.















Manager of the Season - Season 7

For Season 7 we shall vote for divisional ‘Manager of the Season’ additional to overall votes for your 'Manager of the Season - Season 7'. Below is a shortlist of both the divisional shortlists, cup shortlists, wheeler dealer shortlist & blog shortlist.

No manager is nominated for more then 1 category despite some deserving of such accolades! Whether this is taken into your decisions for overall 'Manager of the Season - Season 7' is your call.





Season 7 Competition Winners
Division 1 - Barcelona
Division 2 - SC Internacional
Division 3 - Hertha Berlin
Division 4 - Standard Liege
Division 5 - Celta Vigo
T100 Cup - Bayern
T100 Shield - Juventus
T100 World Club Cup - Real Madrid
T100 World Club Shield - Sevilla
T100 Youth Cup - Juventus
T100 Youth Shield - Bayern
T100 Youth Spoon - SS Lazio

Voting Shortlists



Division 1 Shortlist
  • Manchester City - Alex McLean
  • AS Roma - Ryan Chisholm
  • Barcelona - Scott McKenzie
  • Schalke - IanD


Division 2 Shortlist
  • Sevilla - David Senior
  • SC Internacional - Robérto Downinho
  • Hoffenheim - Miguel Salgado
  • Everton - David Inglis


Division 3 Shortlist
  • SS Lazio - Gareth Crisp
  • Hertha Berlin - Mark Stewart 
  • Galatasaray - RJ Alston
  • Newcastle United - Greg Bilboa


Division 4 Shortlist
  • Sao Paolo FC - Nick Wheels
  • Standard Liege - Mike Scalotti
  • RSC Anderlecht - Gursimran Brar
  • Hellas Verona - André Libras-Boas


Division 5 Shortlist
  • Cologne - Neil Frankland
  • Celta Vigo - Mister TRX Malcolm 
  • Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk - Son of Pluto (Forum)
  • FC Basel - Dr Martínez
Additional shortlists towards the overall 'Manager of the Season - Season 7'

Cups Shortlist
  • Juventus - DP91
  • Bayern - Ruts66…
  • Real Madrid - Stephen Beddows
  • Flamengo - Mark Phelps
Wheeler Dealer Shortlist
  • RCD Espanyol - Doug Earle
  • Olympique Marseille - Walter Gogh
  • AS Monaco - Nathan Prince
  • Genoa CFC - Frank Hirst
Blog Shortlist
  • Hamburg - David Marsden
  • Athletic Club - Mike T
  • SL Benfica - Tom Parfitt
  • Saint Ettiene - Ted Powell
Once again, no manager is nominated for more then 1 category despite some deserving of such accolades! Whether this is taken into your decisions for overall Manager of the Season is your call. You are free to nominate any manager not shortlisted for overall Manager of the Season for Season 7 if you feel there is someone deserving that missed shortlists.


Once you have your votes for Divisional Managers of the Season & an overall vote for T100 Manager of the Season for Season 7, please PM votes to 
Alex McLean who will collate all votes for the final results!

MONTPELLIER HSC END OF SEASON REVIEW


WINNERS OR CHOKERS’











Well this is my 3rdseason with Montpellier – having been with FC Twente and WBA before. Where my record was poor to put it mildly, making me take a break from this tough league.

In the time here the team has improved season on season, without a big budget and no big signings.

When I review this last season it is with mixed emotions. 
At the start the bookmakers predicted that we would finish 15th. (Not the first time that they have thought we would be nearer the bottom than top).  We proved them wrong and finished 4th. But once again we choked in the playoff semis.
To say I was gutted is an understatement and it has taken me a few days to get over this. Having discussed with the president my position it has been agreed that I will have at least one more season here. But for next season we must reduce the squad size and hopefully with that our wage bill.

In general the last season followed a similar pattern to others, poor in defence, but had some good goal scorers. We had 10 transfers in and 11 out (including many part exchanges). This gave us an overall loss of £3m.

In goal Adrian had another poor start to the season but gradually improved as the season progress.
The defence had no one outstanding but I have high hopes for Diaz and Bensebaini for next season.

In midfield the surprise for me was the form of El Kaddouri (10 goals, 9 assists). Next season will be harder for him (rating drop) and it remains to be seen if he stays.

Up front there was more competition to challenge Pelle, and although he finished with highest rating his goal tally was only 6. Hoping I can get one more good season out of him. Both Sala and Ideye had good seasons. However, Ideye has not been that happy with lack of starts and with great regret I have had to sell him.

As well as the players already mention I have high hopes for Paqueta and Piazon, with perhaps one or 2 more breaking into the first team.

So what does next season hold for at Montpellier?
It will be very hard for us to match this season’s performance again, as we do not have the quality in depth. Just hoping the book makers don’t forecast us to finish in top 6. As I know where we finish then!


Press conference of Mr Ioli

Here are the first words of Mr Ioli after signing the contract with Bordeaux:“I’m very proud to be here  in Bordeaux. Our target of this season is to play a season without problems and then i could evaluate the whole squad for the next season. We are looking for a young and talented players who can grow up our team. Many teams have requested Demme but for this season he will stay with us. The boy is fundamental to our tactic."


Season 7 Division 5 value added.

Season 7 Division 5 value added.

3 Playoff teams sit high in the PVA,  Montpellier lead both categories.

Only in D5 could the winner of the league be 7th in PVA.  With no relegation it is possible to throw caution to the wind and that is what Montpellier did , charging into a playoff spot.  Dnipro in 2nd and Cologne in 3rd deserve the 2nd and 3rd PVA spots.  Flamengo and Bremen have the joint second VA of +11 and get into the playoffs.

Celta were the only original top 5 teams not to disappoint their fans and could not do any more, will next season be a repeat?

 Predicted 4th place team Twente were 19th and get the wooden spoon in both categories,  narrowly ahead of 2nd best West Ham who came 8th and Independiente who should have been on the edge of playoffs but came last.

 


GK DEF MID ATT Top18 Ave
ETOT Epr Fin VA PVA
Montpellier HSC 88.0 86.5 87.0 88.5 85.0 87.0
217.09 16 4 12 3.25
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 88.0 87.3 87.8 88.5 86.0 87.5
218.41 6 2 4 2.50
Cologne 89.0 87.5 87.5 87.5 85.0 87.3
217.76 9 3 6 2.33
Flamengo 87.0 86.0 88.0 87.5 86.0 86.9
216.84 17 6 11 2.00
Bremen 87.0 87.0 87.0 87.5 85.0 86.7
216.72 18 7 11 1.71
CELTA VIGO 88.0 88.0 89.8 88.5 87.0 88.3
220.73 1 1 0 1.00
Augsburg 88.0 86.8 86.8 87.5 84.0 86.6
216.32 19 15 4 0.33
Rubin Kazan 83.0 86.5 86.5 87.5 84.0 85.5
215.32 20 18 2 0.17
West Bromwich Albion 88.0 86.8 87.3 88.5 82.0 86.5
217.13 14 13 1 0.15
Udinese Calcio 87.0 87.8 87.0 88.0 85.0 87.0
217.64 12 12 0 0.08
Feyenoord 88.0 87.5 87.5 87.5 86.0 87.3
217.76 10 11 -1 0.00
Club Brugge KV 87.0 86.8 87.8 87.5 85.0 86.8
217.12 15 16 -1 0.00
Málaga CF 87.0 88.0 87.5 87.0 86.0 87.1
217.71 11 14 -3 -0.14
Lille OSC 87.0 86.8 87.5 88.0 85.0 86.9
217.24 13 17 -4 -0.18
Santos FC 88.0 87.3 88.5 87.5 85.0 87.3
218.24 7 10 -3 -0.20
FC Basel 88.0 88.0 88.0 88.5 86.0 87.7
219.21 3 5 -2 -0.20
River Plate 88.0 88.5 88.3 87.0 85.0 87.4
218.71 5 8 -3 -0.25
Independiente 87.0 88.3 87.5 87.5 85.0 87.1
218.12 8 20 -12 -0.55
West Ham United 87.0 89.0 89.0 88.5 86.0 87.9
220.69 2 9 -7 -0.67
FC Twente 91.0 87.0 87.8 89.0 85.0 88.0
218.77 4 19 -15 -0.74

 


Season 7 Division 4 value added.

Season 7 Division 4 value added.

Liege set the highest standard, but Sao Paulo get the highest VA.

 

Standard Liege the winners of D4 also get the highest PVA of +6 , remarkable for a playoff bound team. Sao Paulo arguably out did them , with automatic promotion and a VA of +12.

Marseille gained +9 VA and a playoff spot. Zagreb really pulled out the stops to get a VA of +5, the odds on last placed tean , secured their future in 15th.

Espanyol were a disapointing 8th, and got the lowest PVA and VA.  Monaco must be dissapointed at finishing only in the playoff but happier perhaps than Villa and Olympiacos who missed out.

Again relegation was sadly predictable with Besitkas, Dynamo Moscow, Stuttgart failing to improve on their starting position. Bordeaux must look to the future as a strong side were relegated.


GK DEF MID ATT Top18 Ave
ETOT Epr Fin VA PVA
Standard Liège 89.0 88.3 89.3 87.5 87.0 88.2
220.00 6 1 5 6.00
São Paulo FC 88.0 87.5 87.5 88.0 86.0 87.4
218.08 15 3 12 4.33
Olympique Marseille 87.0 87.3 87.8 88.0 86.0 87.2
217.96 16 7 9 1.43
Torino 89.0 87.8 87.8 88.0 86.0 87.7
218.60 10 5 5 1.20
RSC Anderlecht 88.0 88.8 89.3 91.0 85.0 88.4
222.31 3 2 1 1.00
Dinamo Zagreb 88.0 87.0 87.5 86.5 85.0 86.8
216.59 20 15 5 0.40
Stuttgart 88.0 86.5 88.0 87.5 85.0 87.0
217.24 19 18 1 0.11
Crystal Palace 87.0 88.3 88.0 87.5 86.0 87.4
218.64 9 9 0 0.11
FK Partizan 88.0 88.3 87.8 87.5 85.0 87.3
218.44 12 13 -1 0.00
Dynamo Moskva 87.0 87.5 87.5 88.0 83.0 86.6
217.60 18 19 -1 0.00
Beşiktaş JK 88.0 86.8 88.0 88.0 86.0 87.4
217.88 17 20 -3 -0.10
Girondins Bordeaux 87.0 87.3 87.5 88.5 86.0 87.3
218.09 14 17 -3 -0.12
Atalanta BC 88.0 87.0 88.8 87.5 86.0 87.5
218.36 13 16 -3 -0.13
Levante UD 87.0 88.0 88.0 87.5 86.0 87.3
218.44 11 14 -3 -0.14
Hellas Verona 89.0 88.0 89.8 90.0 86.0 88.6
221.70 4 6 -2 -0.17
Stoke City 88.0 88.3 87.3 88.5 85.0 87.4
218.69 8 11 -3 -0.18
Olympiacos 89.0 88.0 88.0 88.5 85.0 87.7
219.21 7 12 -5 -0.33
Aston Villa 88.0 88.5 88.3 90.0 86.0 88.2
220.78 5 10 -5 -0.40
AS Monaco 88.0 88.5 90.0 91.0 88.0 89.1
223.07 1 4 -3 -0.50
RCD Espanyol 90.0 88.3 89.8 90.5 87.0 89.1
222.47 2 8 -6 -0.63

 


Season 7 Division 3 Value added.

Division 3 value added season 7.

A whole lot of Hertha for the others as Berlin storm to the top.

Disaster for Leicester and AZ.

Hertha really pulled out all the stop to finish top, they get the highest PVA of +4 ,  the highest VA goes to Galatasary at +10 in 7th , they were early season relegation fodder so a particular shout for them. The other playoff teams , Chievo and Spartak get the next 2 VA spots at +9. Newcastle and Lazio more or less did what was expected of them and gained promotion. 

Leicester were the notable top of the flops at -10 VA and the lowest PVA.  Narrowly ahead of Lyon who should have been promoted but avoided even the playoffs at -5 VA and -0.5PVA, tied with PSV who could still get promoted despite a below par season.

 Relegation was a bit less predictable but still 3 of the predicted lowest 5 were relegated.


GK DEF MID ATT Top18 Ave
ETOT Pred Fin VA PVA
H. Berlin 88.0 88.0 88.5 90.0 86.0 88.1
220.58 4 1 3 4.00
Spartak Moskva 87.0 87.8 88.0 88.0 85.0 87.2
218.44 14 5 9 2.00
Chievo Verona 87.0 87.0 88.5 88.0 85.0 87.1
218.24 15 6 9 1.67
Galatasaray SK 88.0 86.8 87.8 88.5 85.0 87.2
217.89 17 7 10 1.57
Newcastle United 89.0 88.8 88.8 88.0 87.0 88.3
220.32 6 3 3 1.33
SS Lazio 89.0 89.0 89.8 89.5 87.0 88.9
222.30 2 2 0 0.50
Dynamo Kyiv 87.0 88.0 88.8 87.0 85.0 87.2
218.59 12 9 3 0.44
Fenerbahçe SK 89.0 87.0 87.5 88.0 85.0 87.3
217.68 19 16 3 0.25
Cruzeiro 87.0 87.0 87.0 87.0 85.0 86.6
216.39 20 19 1 0.11
Swansea City 87.0 87.3 87.8 88.0 85.0 87.0
217.84 18 20 -2 -0.05
Boca Juniors 88.0 87.3 88.3 88.0 82.0 86.7
218.00 16 18 -2 -0.06
Lokomotiv Moskva 88.0 87.5 88.0 88.5 85.0 87.4
218.69 11 13 -2 -0.08
Athletic Club 89.0 87.5 88.3 88.0 86.0 87.8
218.80 10 12 -2 -0.08
Hamburg 88.0 87.8 88.3 89.0 86.0 87.8
219.54 8 10 -2 -0.10
AZ Alkmaar 89.0 87.5 87.5 88.5 86.0 87.7
218.53 13 17 -4 -0.18
CSKA Moskva 89.0 88.5 88.5 88.5 87.0 88.3
220.25 7 11 -4 -0.27
Shakhtar Donetsk 89.0 88.0 88.3 88.0 85.0 87.7
219.08 9 14 -5 -0.29
PSV 89.0 89.0 89.8 90.0 87.0 89.0
222.62 1 4 -3 -0.50
Olympique Lyonnais 90.0 88.3 89.0 89.5 86.0 88.6
221.10 3 8 -5 -0.50
Leicester City 89.0 88.5 88.5 89.0 87.0 88.4
220.57 5 15 -10 -0.60

 


Season 7 Division 2 Value Added.

SC Internacional lead the tables, with all the predicted top 7 massively underperforming.

If Division 1 is predictable , then Division 2 is the opposite.

SC Internacional finished 12 spots ahead of predicted and won the league, also with the highest PVA , Everton were also promoted automatically and were the highest originally rated team to do well.  Hoffenheim were also 12 places higher than predicted in 4th, but must go through the playoffs.  Sevilla another playoff team must also be proud of their performance.

Conversly the decline of AC Milan continues , should have bounced back but finished 10th,  with the worse PVA . Ajax who should also have gone up finished 11th , Southampton who should have been in the playoff spots got relegated and have the worse VA.  

The main similarity with D1 is that 3 out of the 4 relegated teams were the statistically the worse at the start of the season.



GK DEF MID ATT Top18 Ave
ETOT Epr Fin VA PVA
SC Internacional 90.0 88.3 89.0 89.5 86.0 88.6
221.10 13 1 12 13.00
Everton 89.0 89.5 90.5 89.5 87.0 89.1
223.30 8 2 6 3.50
Hoffenheim 88.0 89.5 87.5 88.5 86.0 87.9
220.01 16 4 12 3.25
Sevilla 89.0 89.5 90.0 89.0 85.0 88.5
222.33 11 5 6 1.40
Sassuolo 88.0 89.3 89.0 89.0 86.0 88.3
221.33 12 9 3 0.44
Genoa CFC 89.0 89.3 88.3 91.5 85.0 88.6
222.36 10 8 2 0.38
Celtic 86.0 88.5 88.8 89.5 85.0 87.6
220.50 15 13 2 0.23
Sporting CP 87.0 88.0 88.3 89.5 86.0 87.8
219.98 17 15 2 0.20
AS Saint-Etienne 88.0 87.3 87.8 88.0 86.0 87.4
218.08 20 19 1 0.11
Sunderland 90.0 88.0 88.0 89.0 87.0 88.4
219.89 18 18 0 0.06
Sampdoria 87.0 88.3 88.8 88.5 86.0 87.7
219.89 19 20 -1 0.00
Zenit Saint Petersburg 91.0 88.5 88.8 89.0 87.0 88.9
221.01 14 16 -2 -0.06
Internazionale 91.0 90.3 90.0 90.0 87.0 89.7
224.06 5 7 -2 -0.14
Villarreal CF 88.0 89.8 90.5 89.5 86.0 88.8
223.26 9 12 -3 -0.17
Valencia CF 89.0 89.8 91.0 90.0 86.0 89.2
224.10 4 6 -2 -0.17
Leverkusen 91.0 89.5 90.5 92.5 83.0 89.3
225.01 1 3 -2 -0.33
SL Benfica 87.0 89.3 91.0 90.0 87.0 88.9
223.58 7 14 -7 -0.43
Southampton 90.0 90.0 90.3 90.0 86.0 89.3
223.82 6 17 -11 -0.59
Ajax 90.0 90.0 90.3 90.5 87.0 89.6
224.27 3 11 -8 -0.64
AC Milan 90.0 90.3 90.5 90.5 88.0 89.9
224.79 2 10 -8 -0.70

Division 1 Value Added Season 7

Division 1 value added.

Ok this is how it works. At the start of the season I worked out statistically where each team should finish. 

 

From that you deduct the finishing position to give the value added , VA. 

So if a team should have finished 8th but came 2nd they get a VA of +6.

However to take into account relevance of finishing position we then add 1 to that and divide by the finishing postion to get the positional value added PVA.

So in the above situation they would get a PVA of 3.5  ( 6+1 ) / 2.

 

So in Division 1 Roma get the highest PVA finishing 7 spots ahead of predicted, they also have the highest VA of _2 .  Barcelona & Bayern are second in PVA which shows the settled nature of the division.   Other notable performances are Porto , Schalke and Liverpool , who could have been in relegation trouble but all kept afloat.

Lowest PVA was Man Utd who just underperformed Tottenham who had the lowest net VA.  The relegation of Atletico Madrid is the stand out for me as the other relegated teams were those predicted at the start of the season , which begs an interesting question.


GK DEF MID ATT Top18 Ave
ETOT Epr Fin VA PVA
AS Roma 92.0 89.8 92.0 90.5 86.0 90.1
225.59 13 6 7 1.33
Barcelona 96.0 93.3 94.5 97.0 85.0 93.2
234.97 1 1 0 1.00
Bayern 92.0 93.3 94.3 95.5 88.0 92.6
233.68 3 2 1 1.00
Manchester City 90.0 91.0 91.0 94.0 87.0 90.6
227.94 8 5 3 0.80
Juventus 95.0 91.3 93.5 94.0 90.0 92.8
231.10 4 3 1 0.67
Paris Saint-Germain 94.0 91.8 91.3 91.0 87.0 91.0
227.27 10 7 3 0.57
FC Porto 90.0 90.5 90.3 90.5 88.0 89.9
224.79 15 11 4 0.45
Schalke 89.0 89.5 90.8 91.0 87.0 89.5
224.47 17 13 4 0.38
Liverpool 90.0 90.0 90.0 90.0 87.0 89.4
223.74 19 16 3 0.25
ACF Fiorentina 89.0 88.8 90.0 89.5 86.0 88.7
222.18 20 20 0 0.05
Dortmund 92.0 90.5 91.5 92.0 86.0 90.4
226.76 11 12 -1 0.00
Wolfsburg 90.0 90.5 90.8 90.0 87.0 89.7
224.74 16 17 -1 0.00
Monchengladbach 90.0 89.5 90.8 91.0 86.0 89.5
224.47 18 19 -1 0.00
Real Madrid 93.0 91.8 92.3 93.5 87.0 91.5
229.58 6 8 -2 -0.13
SSC Napoli 90.0 90.0 91.8 92.0 87.0 90.2
226.44 12 15 -3 -0.13
Atlético Madrid 89.0 90.5 91.0 91.0 87.0 89.7
225.47 14 18 -4 -0.17
Arsenal 91.0 91.3 91.3 93.5 88.0 91.0
228.26 7 10 -3 -0.20
Chelsea 93.0 93.3 93.3 97.5 85.0 92.4
233.94 2 4 -2 -0.25
Tottenham Hotspur 90.0 91.3 92.5 91.5 88.0 90.7
227.84 9 14 -5 -0.29
Manchester United 89.0 91.3 94.3 92.5 87.0 90.8
229.65 5 9 -4 -0.33