Comment Wall
| Comment | Author | Time |
| I went back to my earliest tactic: CP for FIT and no resting. | Steve | 11h |
| Take your chances. Wins are wins. Most are doing hybrid rest and RP fitness I think | James | 20h |
| No I do it as well Brian | Matthew | 2d |
| (That question was the rhetorical kind) | Brian | 2d |
| Am I the last to figure out the "sit your starters in session one to gain valuable health?" | Brian | 2d |
| Will Crazy Tomatoes be the fruit to eat this season? | Antoine | 2d |
| the ELO is doubling up | John | 3d |
| Thanks gents, I was not clicking SUBMIT (thinking that was only if you put a comment), so my entry was not registering. All better now! | Mike | 5d |
| Quincy Spoiler Alert @C_Ball. ? | Allan | 6d |
| @Mike: Yes, once you've submitted your own emoji, you can see all the others - even SB's ? | Eduard | 6d |
| To the comment below about Al's...is there a way to see who gave their dice rolls which emoji? | Mike | 6d |
| Excited for the season as always over at TT! | Mike | 6d |
| Definitely a sunnier disposition Mr. M! ? | Allan | Jul 28 |
| Al puts the "DIS" in dispostition. | Phil | Jul 26 |
| Al's wellness check is very different from everyone else's. Is that because he just has a sunnier disposition? | Roger | Jul 26 |
| Roll on mediocrity! | James | Jul 25 |
| I think I've forgot how to play this game lol. | James | Jul 25 |
| I implore everyone to play their T7 against Quincy. Their recruiting rolls were WAY too good! | Rob | Jul 25 |
| New Conference link in the 2nd menu...? | Allan | Jul 25 |
| i am looking for a dodgy Olmec head as we speak. although the last dodgy Olmec Head I posted got banned! | Vick | Jul 23 |
| I'm not sure why we're ranked so high as we got an A, B and C. | Brian | Jul 21 |
| Thank you Eduard and great call out Antoine. ? I'd love to see someone create an image of me handing an Olmec Head a large check on the Forum. ? | Allan | Jul 20 |
| Looks like Quincy must have paid the league off with a huge check | Antoine | Jul 20 |
| Impressive "performance" by Quincy: Back to back #1 recruitment rolls! | Eduard | Jul 20 |
| Click Recruiting then Recruiting Luck for an interesting report. Looks like Cinci, San Jose, and ABQ are the big winners with the best skilled recruits! ? | Allan | Jul 20 |
| Same I guess... I had no idea I missed one skill for one player. | Rob | Jul 18 |
| Same here. I saw my (Jacob's) photo with the yellow border and noticed I could XP my 4th MB for DEF with the 6 XP he'd earned. Could be a game changer! | Steve | Jul 17 |
| Thanks for the handy warning on XP orders! I had missed a player. | James | Jul 15 |
| Thanks James, Brian and Antoine for the kind words below! ? | Allan | Jul 14 |
| Records link added to bottom menu... | Allan | Jul 14 |
| very soon. ? | Allan | Jul 13 |
| Very soon Matthew... | Allan | Jul 12 |
| Curious as to when we get started again ? | Matthew | Jun 22 |
| A big thank you to M. Sellers. A good season for Portland. Very happy to have tickled the feet of the Tomatoes and the Peas. We hope to do even better next season! | Antoine | Apr 28 |
| Yes, thank you to team Sellers for a great game. I hope to one day understand the math well enough to get a winning seasons. | Brian | Apr 28 |
| Thanks for another great season Al. | James | Apr 28 |
| We do have the most beautiful setting for college football and I'm glad to see that acknowledged. | Bryce | Apr 25 |
| We do have the most beautiful setting for college football and I'm glad to see that acknowledged. | Bryce | Apr 25 |
| So 2473 will win it for me then... | Steve | Apr 21 |
| Just to add to Roger's comment on this very competitive race, I would remind Mr. Habermann and Mr. Turner that when they forget to bump up their max session bid totals to over 2000 that Steve gets the tiebreaker... ? | Allan | Apr 20 |
| I'm not sure what John's joke is but maybe we need to hear it? | Allan | Apr 20 |
| For the greater glory of the Big 8 I’d love to see Zeb become a Tomato, but he’s definitely going to Starkville. | Roger | Apr 20 |
| Setter? I don't ... even know ...... can't .......... finish .............. awful ................ joke ......................... | John | Apr 19 |
| I believe the price will be 2,474 RPs. A reminder to the participants. Update your max spend text box on the recruiting form... | Allan | Apr 19 |
| I wonder how far Eduard is willing to push me to get Zeb. | Steve | Apr 19 |
| When you think about it Zeb won’t be the best Setter in the league until Favaro retires - so not until his Senior year. On that basis he’s hardly worth bothering with, so 518 RP seems about right to me. That is how logic works isn’t it? ? | Roger | Apr 19 |
| Are you all suggesting my 518 RP won't cut it for the Max +2 setter? Poppycock. | Jason | Apr 18 |
| Our Squirrels could certainly use a top flight Setter. If the rest of the league are willing, feel free to not bid and we'll be sure he gets a free meal plan, priority housing assignment, free tuition and personal mentoring in all classes. I assure anyone who's worried, he will have a great four year experience @ Schenectady. | Brian | Apr 15 |
| Anything less than 2000RP is a steal. A level 19 Setter is a game changer. SL 17 near start of Sophomore year. That's 3 seasons worth of top player. #shouldhavewaited | James | Apr 15 |
| As for me, it's been a terrible season recruiting with none yet and will be lucky to get even 2. | Steve | Apr 14 |
| I want to know if Mark will get that MB for minimum price. Or does he think two MBs are enough for one season. | Steve | Apr 14 |
| I'm with Roger I reckon around 1800 RP will get him. Derek notwithstanding. | Steve | Apr 14 |
| Unless Derek jumps in at Step 2... | Roger | Apr 14 |
| Zeb will go for less than 2k. Only Columbia and Starkville can go that high and Steve still needs other signings. | Roger | Apr 14 |
| Thanks. I'll be sure not to bud om him. | Brian | Apr 14 |
| I'm thinking Zeb will be north of the 2200 RP neighborhood... | Allan | Apr 13 |
| Can I assume Zeb Lambright will cost more than 2K? | Brian | Apr 13 |
| Now we know why the Mules are rabid. Poor things are flea infested! | Vick | Apr 9 |
| For me, coming back this Monday from a flea market, I passed near Quincy. More cows than mules there. But the wine is good :-) | Antoine | Apr 7 |
| We drove past Teutopolis on the way home from Indy Saturday night... | Allan | Apr 6 |
| Olmec hates Spokane so much that we're missing from the stats page again. | Jason | Apr 5 |
| Having won seven of the eight titles that are shown I think it's shameful that the non-conference gets treated the way it does. | Steve | Apr 2 |
| I'm always for more with these games! | Brian | Apr 1 |
| I'm sad that the software does not capture and show the non-conference trophy titles on the team page. Who else is with me? | Allan | Apr 1 |
| Where am I at mid season training wise? I'm doing it. | Matthew | Mar 17 |
| Mid-season? CP ahead of schedule so will probably be able to save 15 CP and coach an extra slot. XP a little harder as a couple of Fr still need plenty but all can be done IF we stay in trophies. | Steve | Mar 16 |
| Denali, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Columbia - the TMVL Cup Pod of Death | John | Mar 16 |
| However, the links to old matches only work for the current season. For older seasons, only the plain results are available. | Eduard | Mar 15 |
| The schedule on your home page shows previous season matches | Roy | Mar 14 |
| is there a way to look back at historical matches on the site anywhere? | Vick | Mar 14 |
| Close race in the Coaches poll this week. | James | Mar 11 |
| Jason knows me too well! | Roger | Mar 10 |
| Roger may just be fishing for confirmation that Pekin has taken over as the top T7. | Jason | Mar 10 |
| Ames is also missing from the stats. | Jason | Mar 10 |
| Al - are Spokane literally flying under the radar? They seem to have disappeared off the team stats page (but are still on the Big East one) | Roger | Mar 10 |
| Which game was that, Roy? All your lineups were 70+ as fas as I can see. However we did lose to a 65 rated team with 72 ourselves | Steve | Mar 10 |
| Most bizarre set of matches I've seen. Even with a 60odd lineup we won -; complete daylight robbery | Roy | Mar 9 |
| Worst session ever. EVER! | Brian | Mar 9 |
| Always - usually checking the coaching. | James | Mar 8 |
| All of the time, Matthew. | Jason | Mar 7 |
| Anyone else question their lineup choices after setting them? I believe I'm a chance in 3 of the 4 but had no idea which to go for. | Matthew | Mar 4 |
| Anyone else question their lineup choices after setting them? I believe I'm a chance in 3 of the 4 but had no idea which to go for. | Matthew | Mar 4 |
| I think it's all three of us that have been upset the past 7 seasons. | Steve | Mar 3 |
| Love the history tab Al. One question. When the new Conferences were created, who did Pekin upset to get thrown in with Quincy, Columbia and St Charles? | Roger | Mar 3 |
| Looks good Al, apart from the fact you need to alter it slightly, so the Panthers are higher :D | Matthew | Mar 3 |
| I added a first draft of a "history" tab on the standings page... | Allan | Mar 3 |
| Who will get the top seed in the PAC-8 tourney based on the current logjam in the conference standings? Teams #2 through #7 are all 4-4! | Allan | Mar 3 |
| I suppose I better post something to get my 40 RP this session... | Steve | Feb 27 |
| 60 pts off the top ELO score seems pretty good. | Brian | Feb 23 |
| @2: My translator app was good enough | Eduard | Feb 23 |
| Speaking of Mr. Holden he's put two "easter eggs" in place for his fellow managers: 1) You need to fill out your WELLNESS CHECK to see it. 2) You need to figure out the language he wrote in to translate it. | Allan | Feb 22 |
| If I can inspire votes in the coaches' poll my work here is done | John | Feb 22 |
| First quarter of the season in line with expectations, even though I regret the losses against Pekin and the Scarecrows. Onward to the WGM! | Antoine | Feb 22 |
| Well done John! | Allan | Feb 18 |
| I am not sure John was right in his vote! | James | Feb 18 |
| John inspiring votes in the coaches poll... | Bryce | Feb 17 |
| John is right... | Allan | Feb 17 |
| Early disagreement in the coaches poll | John | Feb 17 |
| Max says you are welcome Steve. Likely a late night run or Monday run this week... | Allan | Feb 15 |
| When your waiting for the results and notice you haven't done your CP orders... | Steve | Feb 15 |
| He tried to think of the most harmless thing... | Phil | Feb 15 |
| While Venkman excels, Stantz inadvertently summoned the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. | Jason | Feb 14 |
| The O/U on losses for the squirrels this week is 1.5. Wagers can be submitted at [email protected] | Brian | Feb 13 |
| Just so long as he doesn't cross streams | James | Feb 13 |
| Venkman finally shining | Vick | Feb 13 |
| Happy round two everyone | John | Feb 8 |
| Waooohhhhh !!! | Antoine | Feb 8 |
| Welcome back everyone! Excited for a new season with you all! | Bryce | Feb 8 |
| Likely a rebuilding year for the Cacti. | Amy | Feb 8 |
| Good Luck Guys! | Amy | Feb 8 |
| When the NFL playoffs started, I declared to anyone who would listen, that I did not believe any team could beat Seattle. While I am Pats fan, I still stand by my prediction. But of course I hope I'm terribly wrong. | Brian | Feb 2 |
| Excited to start a new season with our team (maybe, finally) taking a positive shape. | Brian | Feb 2 |
| Welcome back! | Aires | Feb 1 |
| In lieu of John Holden crazy player names, I just added my own...definitely not "elite" status like the John ones, but still some are pretty crazy...(sigh)... | Allan | Feb 1 |
| Nearing season reset status...just a couple more things to wrapup. No sign of the John Holden "player names" yet... | Allan | Jan 29 |
| Antoine it sure seems like it. I'm hoping the Seahawks beat them | Matthew | Jan 26 |
| If I understand correctly, the Patriots win every time? | Antoine | Jan 26 |
| Watching the Denver/NE right now on a delay (it's 7'-0 as I type) and hoping for a Denver win because of the QB situation. | Steve | Jan 25 |
| Steve, my team got knocked out last weekend so as long as the Patriots don't win it all | Matthew | Jan 24 |
| NFL playoffs - a couple of amazing games this weekend. | Steve | Jan 19 |
| Thanks for another great season Al. Hopefully next season will be better for the Panthers | Matthew | Dec 8, 2025 |
| Congrats to Carlsbad on winning our conference! | Vick | Dec 3, 2025 |
| Undefeated in the last three games. That's basically the entire season. | Brian | Dec 1, 2025 |
| The best we can do are 9 wins this season, and that assumes our final two opponents are willing to grant us three sets. Will it happen? | Brian | Nov 30, 2025 |
| Quirm? I almost dropped the banana I'm taking to the library tomorrow | Roy | Nov 24, 2025 |
| Quirm? I almost dropped the banana I'm taking to the library tomorrow | Roy | Nov 23, 2025 |
| While we wait - Al's team's abbreviation always makes me think of Terry Pratchett's Discworld. | Steve | Nov 23, 2025 |
| only one shrimp in the PAC8 team of the week. Still Carlsbad don´t have any..... | Vick | Nov 22, 2025 |
| Daniel Hildebrandt may or may have not told me to say that | John | Nov 20, 2025 |
| I still think if no team shows interest in a player, they should be open to everyone to bid on in the last round | John | Nov 20, 2025 |
| You’re thinking of Al. I’ve hardly got any in comparison ? | Roger | Nov 17, 2025 |
| You can never have too many Conference titles, eh Roger? | Steve | Nov 17, 2025 |
| How many conference titles is enough for Phil? Is he sending the PAC-8 a message? And if so what is that message? | Allan | Nov 16, 2025 |
| Turned it round? It was a disaster. In season 5 we went 34-4, came second inthe Conference and won the non conference (6-0) Big 8 tournament, the TMVL Cup and National Championship. | Steve | Nov 13, 2025 |
| It's good to see you turned things around with your Crazy Tomatoes. | Brian | Nov 12, 2025 |
| In season 9 we went out the first round of the Holyoake, Conference tourney, TMVL Cup, TMVL Shield (finished 10th so lost 1st round) but made it past yhe round of 32 in the WGM. It's the worst W-L record of my career including my 1st season when I didnt know what I was doing. | Steve | Nov 11, 2025 |
| Anyone else pull off a quaternary this season, i.e. lose in the first round of all four competitions? | Brian | Nov 11, 2025 |
| Will be a rough week for me. | Amy | Nov 9, 2025 |
| Happy to help out in that regard, Steve. | Jason | Nov 3, 2025 |
| National left bracket looks tough. Glad we're in the right bracket. | Steve | Nov 2, 2025 |
| National left bracket — feels like we’re in the Big 8! | Antoine | Nov 2, 2025 |
| James definitely needs luck ;) | Craig | Nov 1, 2025 |
| Welcome James. I hope you’re blessed with good luck - especially in your first game… | Roger | Oct 30, 2025 |
| Steve, it looks like that if you didn't participate in the Shield, it just mirrors your TMVL Cup result. | John | Oct 26, 2025 |
| I briefly thought we were lucky not to be in the bottom right draw, then saw that if we survive Ames, we get Starkville or Mat-Su. Welp. | Jason | Oct 25, 2025 |
| The error varies: some teams it's 3rd and 4th, some it's 2nd and 4th seasons. | Steve | Oct 23, 2025 |
| I was just looking at Columbia's history and noticed for seasons 3 and 4 the TMVL Cup and Shield are the same. I checked another team and same thing | Steve | Oct 23, 2025 |
| The draw is seeded random at the start, each four-team pod has a team from a different conference so you play different teams more often, then the bracket is fixed | John | Oct 21, 2025 |
| That bottom right draw is brutal | Roger | Oct 21, 2025 |
| I can see the bracket - I just never realised that it was set in stone this early and we play either Mendon or Santa Clara next. | Steve | Oct 21, 2025 |
| Thanks Colin!! | James | Oct 21, 2025 |
| From your team page (actually any team page) click on preview of TMVL match 22 and the link is at the top of the match preview page next to - why do I care. | Colin | Oct 21, 2025 |
| I am with Steve, I cannot see the Cup bracket and there is no link from match 22 page either. Maybe just us? | James | Oct 21, 2025 |
| Yes Steve, it's available on the preview page | John | Oct 21, 2025 |
| Is there any TMVL bracket at this stage? I always assumed a random draw for the next round, but never checked. | Steve | Oct 20, 2025 |
| If someone has no visits scheduled by recruiting stage 3, it should be open to everyone imo | John | Oct 20, 2025 |
| Don't look now, but 9 of the top 11 teams in the standings are on the right side of the TMVL bracket | John | Oct 20, 2025 |
| Last session I said I needed "d'un cul bordé de nouilles." For this one, I walk three times around the chair, I tell myself "merde" three times, I try to step in with my left foot, I light a candle, I pick up four-leaf clovers, I avoid black cats, etc. | Antoine | Oct 19, 2025 |
| whooppee. | John | Oct 16, 2025 |
| Hey, John! I just posted the BUM Report! | Kevin | Oct 15, 2025 |
| Hopefully Kevin skips the BUM report this week. | John | Oct 15, 2025 |
| News Flash: We were better last year when we knew less about the game. | Brian | Oct 13, 2025 |
| This stretch is going to be tough for the flannel shirts. We’re going to need a "cul bordé de nouilles" ( a lot of luck) | Antoine | Oct 12, 2025 |
| The Squirrels O/U this weekend is 0.5. Any takers? | Brian | Oct 11, 2025 |
| How come Pekin and Quincy both get to play St Charles and Arlington. At least both are in the WGM so won't be T7-ing both Conference games. | Steve | Oct 10, 2025 |
| We got a win AND a recruit. That's it for the rest of the season probably. | Brian | Oct 6, 2025 |
| the big 8 is hell | Antoine | Oct 5, 2025 |
| Comments not working on the BUM report for me , just want to say great work Kevin | James | Oct 4, 2025 |
| I am doing the same, Phil. | Brian | Sep 29, 2025 |
| I was really just stretching for for the RP's Brian. | Phil | Sep 28, 2025 |
| Easy Peasy? Must be nice Mr. McIntosh. | Brian | Sep 25, 2025 |
| Easy Peasy | Phil | Sep 21, 2025 |
| Good to see Colby top of the Blocks | Vick | Sep 20, 2025 |
| the peas are very close together in that pod. If they get rabid it is going to spread! | Vick | Sep 20, 2025 |
| A lot of fun Blog posts...although I was told there would be no math(s)...? | Allan | Sep 19, 2025 |
| Not a bad start for us! | Mike | Sep 17, 2025 |
| Can Vegetables get rabies? Asking for a friend... | Allan | Sep 16, 2025 |
| I hope everyone has a good season. | Amy | Sep 14, 2025 |
| John’s bloodsuckers hate salad | Kevin | Sep 10, 2025 |
| Another year, another salad of mascots | John | Sep 10, 2025 |
| well we will be praying vehemently that this years recruiting goes a little bit better than last season! | Vick | Sep 8, 2025 |
| Recruits, one very good, one good and two average. A bit disappointing. | Andy | Sep 8, 2025 |
| Hope one of my recruits turns out to be a good player not had much luck in other seasons | Matt | Sep 3, 2025 |
| One decent recruit prospect out of 4 does not bode well for the future! | Vick | Aug 30, 2025 |
| Thanks for the season!! | Matthew | Aug 27, 2025 |
| Backup page used, so no longer a problem. | Andy | Aug 25, 2025 |
| The XPs walkons page isn’t loading fully. | Andy | Aug 25, 2025 |
| X2 | Roger | Aug 24, 2025 |
| Thanks for another fun season, Al and Max! | Mike | Aug 24, 2025 |
| All done? Ha, that's how we feel about our season - painfully concluded. | Brian | Aug 20, 2025 |
| All done - sorry for keeping you waiting | Steve | Aug 17, 2025 |
| I'll be doing my orders shortly- just got back from The Netherlands | Steve | Aug 17, 2025 |
| our shrimps are showing a drop off in form. no more caviar blinys for them this season | Vick | Aug 8, 2025 |
| Which makes me think that being second in the Big 8 standings with 3 days left in the season is an achievement! Next matches against tomatoes and peas. I don't think I'll save my second place.... | Antoine | Aug 5, 2025 |
| Which means a Big 8 team is guaranteed to make the final. | Jason | Aug 5, 2025 |
| And 4 of them play each other. | Steve | Aug 4, 2025 |
| 5 of the 8 Big 8 teams are in the TMVL Quarterfinals | John | Aug 4, 2025 |
| Very varied coaches poll so far | John | Aug 4, 2025 |
| Ha! I hope you enjoyed your time there Bryce. I will be there in a few weeks for football games. I'd like to hear more on where you went. | Allan | Jul 24, 2025 |
| At the University of Illinois for a conference this week. Where do I find the Al Sellers statue? | Bryce | Jul 23, 2025 |
| Please email me some screenshots/details of what you are experiencing John and I'll see what I can do... | Allan | Jul 20, 2025 |
| I am having difficulty responding to forum posts, I wonder if some library changed in Firefox | John | Jul 19, 2025 |
| Trade it all away | John | Jul 19, 2025 |
| In answer to Al's question at the top of the page, I guess??? | Matthew | Jul 17, 2025 |
| Something I still cannot get used to with this fun game is no trading. It makes for a very strategic game. | Brian | Jul 16, 2025 |
| Unless they lose their next match | Colin | Jul 9, 2025 |
| E.g. S12 #32 SB @ #1 CCT lost by 2 in set 5. If SB had won they would have instantely gained HFA for the whole tourney! | Eduard | Jul 8, 2025 |
| since this would lead to even more 'non-conf' play in the WGM groups and a race for #32 | Eduard | Jul 8, 2025 |
| Inheriting seeds for HFA would be a really bad idea | Eduard | Jul 8, 2025 |
| WGM Cup - Denali just beat the #2 seed so, I think, they should then be given #2 ranking in subsequent rounds but this is not the case. Hmmm? | Colin | Jul 8, 2025 |
| Are the Conference logos a new addition? Or have I just not been paying attention? | Roger | Jul 7, 2025 |
| "Dauphin" of the Peas... It's like having a target on your back... Especially when you're rebuilding. | Antoine | Jul 6, 2025 |
| I hate these sessions. 3 games that you have as much chance of losing as winning. | Antoine | Jul 6, 2025 |
| 3 is the bzerrstr | John | Jun 23, 2025 |
| Al is streaking. | Phil | Jun 22, 2025 |
| the Nordstrom/Leak combo has aces up their sleeve | Vick | Jun 20, 2025 |
| A mixed start for the Raccoons | Mike | Jun 16, 2025 |
| Starkville are going well, Al | John | Jun 16, 2025 |
| Does anyone want to mention the teams with a winning streak? That's not something I like to do... | Allan | Jun 15, 2025 |
| If you hit enter REALLY fast, you get THREE posts! Try to keep up, Mr. Beerman. | Phil | Jun 15, 2025 |
| If you hit Enter fast enough, apparently you double post. But sure, the Bullfrogs should settle down. | Brian | Jun 10, 2025 |
| Those two coaches do not like each other. | Allan | Jun 8, 2025 |
| Either Brian accidentally double posted or he really wants Aires to pipe down. ;) | Jason | Jun 8, 2025 |
| Quiet down, Aires. Not everyone has a great team like you. We're looking for a nice slow, relaxed start to the season. | Brian | Jun 4, 2025 |
| Quiet down, Aires. Not everyone has a great team like you. We're looking for a nice slow, relaxed start to the season. | Brian | Jun 4, 2025 |
| Lets get this started | Aires | Jun 4, 2025 |
| Welcome, Mike! | Kevin | Jun 3, 2025 |
| I am enjoying being top of the league for a wee while. | Mike | Jun 3, 2025 |
| Welcome Mike and good luck! | Roger | Jun 2, 2025 |
| Be gentle with me! | Mike | Jun 2, 2025 |
| Be gentle with me! | Randy | Jun 2, 2025 |
| Yes, "Randy", it is complicated so don't try to learn it all in one go. There's plenty here who will help you. To start with I'd learn about skills, CP and XP and dont worry too much about lineups for each game yet. Any mistakes you make with CP/XP will have a knock on effect in future seasons. Also participate - it makes a difference to your team and it's fun anyway. | Steve | May 29, 2025 |
| Ooo-err, this looks complicated! | Randy | May 19, 2025 |
| Fair point of the day: My team logo should be invisible to everyone. | Phil | May 7, 2025 |
| Congratulations to all the winners, commiserations to the runner ups and thanks for another season Al | Matthew | Mar 15, 2025 |
| congrats to the Raccoons and those Chameleons for nabbing the PAC8 title | Vick | Mar 13, 2025 |
| Yes, thank you both Al & Max. I'm enjoying this despite having no background in volleyball. | Brian | Mar 12, 2025 |
| Thanks again to Al and Max for this great game. | Steve | Mar 12, 2025 |
| Al just got an electronic mailing | John | Mar 12, 2025 |
| Is it possible to schedule a car wash so the lads can earn more RP's? We're a little lean after the last round of recruiting. | Brian | Mar 10, 2025 |
| Here, here, another season in the books for this fun and inventive game. Thank you Al and Max! | Mike | Mar 10, 2025 |
| Many thanks to Magnanimous Al for another mighty fine season (for other teams)! | Kevin | Mar 10, 2025 |
| squirrels? are you nuts? | Vick | Mar 9, 2025 |
| It really was a great post, but I notice there is no mention at all of our beloved Squirrels. I mean shouldn't that be mandatory for all posts? Something to consider for future seasons. | Brian | Mar 6, 2025 |
| I love your posts Antoine and well done testing the length of this data field! ? In this case it is accurate to say there was ice and snow involved... | Allan | Feb 17, 2025 |
| Once again... The Lumberjacks management officially protests against the TMVL management. The management, players and fans have been waiting for a week for the result of the game against Starkville. When the game was interrupted, Portland was leading 2-0. It is not normal to see the result of the game postponed because an unknown person (oddly dressed in a plaid shirt, red cap and plastic axe) threw a banana peel under Carmen Berzatto's feet. | Antoine | Feb 16, 2025 |
| Go Eagles. Oops, I meant go Pats. | Brian | Feb 10, 2025 |
| it looks like there's a big snow storm in new orleans. it's worse than albuquerque :-) | Antoine | Feb 10, 2025 |
| Last minute orders done, busy week | Matthew | Feb 9, 2025 |
| scandalous | Vick | Feb 9, 2025 |
| am i being robbed of RP? | Vick | Feb 9, 2025 |
| the RP bonus updates do not seem to be updating? | Vick | Feb 9, 2025 |
| -5F is pretty cold, even for those of us in New England. -20C is the kind of cold that would have me moving. | Brian | Feb 4, 2025 |
| After checking it can be -5° in winter. But if there is no iceberg on the Rio Grande, it is not very cold ;-) | Antoine | Feb 3, 2025 |
| To be fair Antoine, I've driven near Albuquerque twice...once it was hot...the other time it was snowing...so occasionally you might get some cooler temperatures? ? | Allan | Feb 2, 2025 |
| The Lumberjacks management is protesting the constant postponements of games. It's not fun to go play in Albuquerque. But if you also have to sleep there because of the postponements, it's close to a tragedy! It's too hot for the Lumberjacks! | Antoine | Feb 2, 2025 |
| No bid thieves this year, all of the teams in finals are in the top 11 or better for National Championship seeding | John | Jan 31, 2025 |
| Only if it's for you against us Al :D | Matthew | Jan 30, 2025 |
| Is this week the time for another Al Sellers Kiss of Death... | Allan | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 6-4 in our last ten. I might bake an apple pie in celebration. | Brian | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 4 round of recruiting. 14 5-star players. 6 for the Big8. (and +5) | Antoine | Jan 26, 2025 |
| I'm adding some photos to the "SEASON OPENER" thread on the forum. Please check them out. There's a fun "in the net" photo from last night... | Allan | Jan 19, 2025 |
| A truly bizarre question. | Antoine | Jan 19, 2025 |
| Anyone ever see a squirrel dig into a pumpkin and spend an hour retrieving & eating the seeds? | Brian | Jan 19, 2025 |
| all we have to shout about this season! | Vick | Jan 15, 2025 |
| good to see my setter Kelly Leak at the top of two of the stat leaders poll. | Vick | Jan 15, 2025 |
| Coaches' poll is a bit sparse this week. | John | Jan 15, 2025 |
| A truly bizarre conversation. | Brian | Jan 5, 2025 |
| I don't know, you have to ask Santa Allan... | Antoine | Jan 4, 2025 |
| How many bytes did the dog get? | Phil | Dec 30, 2024 |
| Who owns the dog that ate the computer ? | Antoine | Dec 29, 2024 |
| It'll be a Christmas miracle if we can beat the bananas this week. Everyone send us good luck! | Rob | Dec 28, 2024 |
| ….Ummmm…that came out differently that I intended. Maybe next time I’ll just say MSWL Kingdom…. | Phil | Dec 25, 2024 |
| Merry Christmas, Steve, and the rest of the MSWL United Kindgdom…. | Phil | Dec 25, 2024 |
| It's 27 minutes past midnight and I'm about to go to bed in a world record time for the Turner parents. Merry Christmas everyone. | Steve | Dec 25, 2024 |
| John, You can get a good price on string down at the String District. There's Mary-Anne's String Shop - she'll help load the string to you car. And there's Anne Marie's String Emporium. They have the best overall prices and quality. | Brian | Dec 23, 2024 |
| Nah, that's too much string for me to purchase. | John | Dec 21, 2024 |
| John, We will find out 12 January. Please be sure to start ONLY your third string players. :) | Brian | Dec 19, 2024 |
| Bet you we can Brian ;) | John | Dec 17, 2024 |
| Feel free to try and win a game vs our Squirrels using only your lowest rated players. I bet you can't do it. | Brian | Dec 16, 2024 |
| Antioch is locked and loaded. We are ready to go. Good luck everyone! | Rob | Dec 15, 2024 |
| Good luck this season everybody! | Jason | Dec 15, 2024 |
| Second season for me. I'll try to be as bad as the first! Bonne chance à tous ! | Antoine | Dec 15, 2024 |
| Welcome back, everybody! | Amy | Dec 15, 2024 |
| Happy to start a new season. Good luck to everyone. | Pierre | Dec 15, 2024 |
| Looking forward to the new season. Good luck everyone! Thanks to Al and Max as always. | James | Dec 14, 2024 |
| Does Quincy play all the B teams next week ? | James | Dec 13, 2024 |
| Yes Antoine you signed an A+ MB while poor old Al can never get any players like that sadly. Nicely done! ? | Allan | Dec 10, 2024 |
| Allan. a+ player in the big 8 where there are only teams in reconstruction. this is not possible. false advertising from the general management to make us believe that the dice rolls were pretty. :-) | Antoine | Dec 10, 2024 |
| Another year, Thanks Al | Aires | Dec 9, 2024 |
| I did a forum post just for you Matt. Have a look and tell us how the dice rolled for you. Meanwhile Antoine had a great result for his 5-star MB...A+ potential... | Allan | Dec 8, 2024 |
| I guess there is a problem with the joints of the arm that does the dice throwing ! | Antoine | Dec 8, 2024 |
| How do I know how the dice rolls went? | Matthew | Dec 8, 2024 |
| Dr. White: Good idea! Done! | Allan | Dec 7, 2024 |
| Can I request training advice from orders page is added to the XP/Walkon page in future please | James | Dec 6, 2024 |
| You think that's bad? Just learned the 1893 Southern Base Ball League actually featured a team named the Memphis Fever Germs | John | Dec 4, 2024 |
| We were able to recruit an L, S and MB. I think that might see us get a few more wins next season. | Brian | Dec 3, 2024 |
| Joe Davola AND TIm Whatley in the Team of the Year? | John | Dec 3, 2024 |
| Great to hear Brian. And yes, Roger, perhaps the commish should request a small RP sum to "forget" to mention certain teams on winning streaks? ? | Allan | Dec 3, 2024 |
| I'm not too great at this game, but I am starting to enjoy! | Brian | Dec 2, 2024 |
| Looking at what happened to Alton this week, I’m in awe of Al’s powers. Even the suggestion of a KOD is deadly | Roger | Dec 2, 2024 |
| Just sent Allan some recruit names | John | Dec 2, 2024 |
| shhh don´t say anything.... | Vick | Dec 1, 2024 |
| I didn't want to say anything Steve... | Allan | Nov 30, 2024 |
| Would you be referring to Alton's 7 match winning streak, Mr Sellers? | Steve | Nov 29, 2024 |
| I'd like to know how much it is worth for Dr. James White for me NOT to say it... (he knows what I'm talking about...) | Allan | Nov 27, 2024 |
| Ha! John is right. Hurricanes...maybe. Earthquakes...maybe. But no snow! Glad you had a good trip Steve. Sorry for the delay today. Early Thanksgiving dinner with family before Max headed back north. | Allan | Nov 24, 2024 |
| tic tac tic tac tic tac... | Antoine | Nov 24, 2024 |
| 'merican Disneyland and Disneyworld are in places where it should never snow, so | John | Nov 24, 2024 |
| My wife has diabetes so we could go to a ride and get a return time without queueing which helps. The worst queues for the characters at over an hour for most. Queue times in general were 30 to 60 minutes. | Steve | Nov 23, 2024 |
| Steve, at least it should be less busy at Disneyland because of the weather. So some little queues, or did you still have to wait an hour/ an houd and a half? | Pierre | Nov 22, 2024 |
| Antoine, il a beaucoup neigé aujourd'hui à Disneyland. | Steve | Nov 21, 2024 |
| No snow today in Disneyland? It snowed a little at my place so in Paris it must be Siberia :-) | Antoine | Nov 21, 2024 |
| Weather in Disneyland Paris: Arrived Monday - it drizzled then rained then chucked it down. Tuesday - yesterday was nothing. We got soaked. Wednesday - bright blue sky, felt nice despite 6 degrees Celsius (42 in American money I think) cold after sunset Thursday - 0/32 start, snow flurries at 11 AM, heavy snow by 12 and expected until 8 PM. So heavy it is settling despite footfall. It looks lovely however. (I realise UK had snow at the start of the week and north USA used to this but we're on holiday and I've never walked round one in the snow). | Steve | Nov 21, 2024 |
| Spoilers. I manage to avoid being spoiled by results but late (here in France) on Sunday I went to the recruiting page and was greeted by the big red writing saying I couldn't recruit any more before scrolling slowly to see how I did. | Steve | Nov 19, 2024 |
| Looks like we have some Conference races coming down to the wire with 2 conference matches to go... | Allan | Nov 18, 2024 |
| That worked, Al | Steve | Nov 11, 2024 |
| Try one more time Steve. I had to make a quick fix. | Allan | Nov 11, 2024 |
| Still not working. I picked angry/swearing. It's worked every other time I've tried but this was the first time I tried after a full 40 RP bonus. | Steve | Nov 11, 2024 |
| Give it another try, I reset some DB rows for you. Let me know which one you pick too Steve if it doesn't show up. Perhaps something for me to fix. | Allan | Nov 11, 2024 |
| I can't make a wellness post: I can type it in but the button doesn't work or light up. I'm not sure if it ever lit up. Only reason I can think is I already have the media bonus tick. | Steve | Nov 11, 2024 |
| I wish I had more 5 setters | Steve | Nov 11, 2024 |
| I hate matches that are played in 5 sets | Antoine | Nov 10, 2024 |
| Great question Roger! I prefer words like "conspiracy theory" or "definitely intentional"... | Allan | Nov 5, 2024 |
| Al - is it coincidence that the Nauseated emoji in the Wellness check has a Pea-like quality about it? I feel picked on ? | Roger | Nov 4, 2024 |
| Bryce: Please send me an email w/screenshot and I'll take a look, thanks! | Allan | Oct 27, 2024 |
| Bug report for Al. No matter which week you click on in the past coaches polls the title of the poll is always the most recent week. | Bryce | Oct 27, 2024 |
| I got the email kiss of death from Al... | Bryce | Oct 27, 2024 |
| Speaking of John, it looks like Hoss Hamwaffle is up in Step 1 recruiting this week...sigh. | Allan | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Nice. I walked early this morning. | John | Oct 20, 2024 |
| Will be running a little later today. | Allan | Oct 20, 2024 |
| I had swordfish steak on Crete and swordfish souvlaki on Skiathos. | Steve | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Swordfish steak can be tasty. Tomatoes are too acidic, and I cannot get past the texture of mushrooms. | Brian | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Antoine, if you beat the Tomatoes this weekend I'll quit ;-) On the other hand feel free to beat the Peas :-) | Steve | Oct 18, 2024 |
| I've had all three, Antoine. I think Tomatoes are the healthiest and are the only one of the three my son would eat. | Steve | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Philosophical question of the evening.... What is more edible: swordfish, tomatoes or mushrooms? | Antoine | Oct 17, 2024 |
| Nine. What a number. Turn it upside down and it's a six. What other number can say that (other than six)? Guess what? That's the number of sets we have won thus far. Nine. 9. Ugh. | Brian | Oct 10, 2024 |
| What a bizarre auction! One big big signing... and lot's of bargains | Roy | Oct 6, 2024 |
| Did I miss a Steve post? Thise are not to be trifled with. | Phil | Oct 6, 2024 |
| Do take note of Steve's posts. | James | Oct 1, 2024 |
| Nice work on the Do's and Don't Tips Steve. Thank you! | Allan | Sep 30, 2024 |
| Yes sir! Thanks to a lot of help from Roger on this new Honor Roll. Updated one data point today to show proper grade. | Allan | Sep 30, 2024 |
| Al, is one of them the Honor Roll? Pretty near feature. | Jason | Sep 30, 2024 |
| A couple of new additions to the site this week. Thanks to Roger for all his help! I wonder if anyone will spot them... | Allan | Sep 29, 2024 |
| Just to be clear, the software will blow up if the PAC-8 finishes the season like it did after today's matches... | Allan | Sep 29, 2024 |
| Thanks for making the wellness check qualify for a press bonus, honey! I need all the easy help I can get with that! | Amy | Sep 23, 2024 |
| I'm stressed... The results of my second session. I'm scared! The stress of the game! | Antoine | Sep 22, 2024 |
| Wellness check now added to Media Bonus. | Allan | Sep 22, 2024 |
| Home advantage increases ATK, BLK and DEF. For individaul players their ratings go up by: L 2.25 S 1.75 OH 3.5 RS 4.75 MB 4.75 This equates to 3.6 points per team so for COL at DAL playing T7 it is now 84 vs 82. #Nothinginit | Steve | Sep 14, 2024 |
| Poor Team is looking for RP donor for urgent recruitment. Thank you for your generosity (and hop 5 RP !) | Antoine | Sep 12, 2024 |
| anyways that's the rp bonus sorted | John | Sep 11, 2024 |
| mini melts, they call them. | John | Sep 11, 2024 |
| I just discovered knockoff dippin dots today. | John | Sep 11, 2024 |
| Mr Steve. Thanks for the xp planning... Now I know I'm bad at math! :-) | Antoine | Sep 10, 2024 |
| NEW SEASON HERE WE GO | Aires | Sep 10, 2024 |
| Steve, that seems kind of dangerous. That ball can go anywhere! | Brian | Sep 9, 2024 |
| Will the "sky ball" serve be introduced to TMVL? | Steve | Aug 1, 2024 |
| Thanks guys. I'll be back with you on info/next steps over the next week or so. Currently on a much needed vacation for a few days. | Allan | Jul 22, 2024 |
| Thanks for another great season. | James | Jul 22, 2024 |
| Thank you Al. | Brian | Jul 18, 2024 |
| Agree with Aires, thanks for a great season. | Pierre | Jul 16, 2024 |
| ty for another great season | Aires | Jul 16, 2024 |
| Congrats to every winner, but... I just remembered what time of year it was. | John | Jul 14, 2024 |
| No worries, John. We worked in a reference. Match 40 was a fun one to view! | Kevin | Jul 12, 2024 |
| I don't think Kevin will be talking about the boygan this week. | John | Jul 11, 2024 |
| What was that about commentary Phil? | John | Jul 11, 2024 |
| Al steals 5k by offering commentary on my commentary. We need a Mockingbird award for this kind of behavior | Phil | Jul 6, 2024 |
| Some excellent work from P-Mac on those recruiting comments... | Allan | Jun 30, 2024 |
| This Italian wasn’t anything to be afraid of though. | Bryce | Jun 30, 2024 |
| Are England going to luck their way to the final? All the best teams on the left side of the bracket and now Italy out on England's side | Steve | Jun 29, 2024 |
| Italy are so lucky they have never defeated Croatia in a competitive match | John | Jun 25, 2024 |
| Yes John, but I mean you were playing the luckiest tournament country in world football in my humble opinion, so...it may have been inevitable... | Allan | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 0-3 this session. Things can only get better, right? Right? | Brian | Jun 24, 2024 |
| Olmec hates me so much it's spilling into real life ?? | John | Jun 24, 2024 |
| Rob needs less time bowling and more time TMVLing. | Phil | Jun 24, 2024 |
| Either Antioch needs a new (better) manager, or this manager needs a new (better) team. Trying to figure that out. | Rob | Jun 23, 2024 |
| I'm SOR/ry JOHN/ that RIGHT/ beLONGS/ to ME. | Phil | Jun 18, 2024 |
| If the league expands again, dibs on the Ingalls Park Iambic Pentameters. | John | Jun 18, 2024 |
| We can do haiku? Who knew to serve ace haiku? Bump set spike haiku. | Phil | Jun 18, 2024 |
| Please keep an eye out for "Haiku John" on the Pandas - Swamp Rats final preview. ? | Allan | Jun 16, 2024 |
| Noticing that the TMVL Cup is upon us and I did not get to implementing John's Pod idea. It is on my list I'll see if I can do it next season. | Allan | Jun 3, 2024 |
| (I'm seeing if OLMEC is suggestible at great risk to myself) | John | Jun 3, 2024 |
| Hoping Monday morning is a mundane morning with several Bats victories that don't make the BUM | John | Jun 3, 2024 |
| Extending deadline a bit for today. Hope to run later or Monday morning. | Allan | Jun 2, 2024 |
| Crisis averted. | John | May 24, 2024 |
| It's a shame Kevin only gets 5 RP fir that comment. | Phil | May 23, 2024 |
| Steve was almost down to 3-digit RPs to get his next 5*. Crisis averted | Kevin | May 22, 2024 |
| Thanks Al, sorted. | Steve | May 20, 2024 |
| I updated the time of the deadline so I think that should fix that issue and you'll get credit for anything added over the past 2 hours going forward. | Allan | May 20, 2024 |
| ohh wait, you probably mean they are not adding post session. | Mike | May 20, 2024 |
| Media bonuses stop counting at the original/normal deadline, same in United. | Mike | May 20, 2024 |
| Media bonus doesn't appear to be adding. Is this because the deadline was reset to & PM BST, which it isn't as I type. | Steve | May 20, 2024 |
| Will be running on Monday. | Allan | May 20, 2024 |
| that dashboard page is a vital one for me too! | Vick | May 19, 2024 |
| I love the Recruiting Dashboard. I make a lot of decisions based on what I see there. | Rob | May 19, 2024 |
| Sounds good Dr. White. Just the caching gremlin I guess. I'm glad to hear someone uses the Recruiting Dashboard. That's kind of a cool page! ? | Allan | May 18, 2024 |
| Working again now | James | May 18, 2024 |
| Little bug to squash Al , on my recruiting dashboard MB position isn't showing up | James | May 17, 2024 |
| Should be working now Phil (aka Mr. "Who Among Us...). | Allan | May 12, 2024 |
| I can’t seem to access the match pages or pre-match commentaries… | Phil | May 12, 2024 |
| Who is Drake? | Phil | May 12, 2024 |
| I hope Drake will accept three quarters and a Chipotle coupon. | Jason | May 12, 2024 |
| You heard it from Vick! It’ll take a 1550 bid to win Drake | Kevin | May 10, 2024 |
| There are too many clubs bidding for Drake in the recruiting. Drop out now to save disappointment. | Vick | May 9, 2024 |
| Do they still exist? It wasn't the first hit on google. | James | May 8, 2024 |
| Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope | Kevin | May 7, 2024 |
| What's a SASE? | John | May 6, 2024 |
| We are off to an amazing start. Don’t get envious lads, you too can build up a juggernaut like ours in only 3 seasons. Send a SASE to me and I will send you the secrets of team building. | Brian | May 6, 2024 |
| Minor website add. Last year's conference winner's logo shows up next to the conf name on the standings page. Adding text like "defending champs" cluttered it up, so I just did logo for now. | Allan | May 5, 2024 |
| What is it about the number "58" and why did Starkville average that as a team this session? And why are ALL of Starkville's stars on FIT +1? Hmmm... | Allan | Apr 30, 2024 |
| John, seeing as you played 58 in all three games I think you should love your team more. | Steve | Apr 29, 2024 |
| I agree with Eduard about an unnecessary level of randomness. | Steve | Apr 29, 2024 |
| Who still thinks OLMEC loves me | John | Apr 29, 2024 |
| The wall works fine, though | Eduard | Apr 29, 2024 |
| (Minor) bug report: Commenting the stats seems not to count for the media bonus | Eduard | Apr 29, 2024 |
| I'm not convinced of the injury concept in general. Without any means of gauging hardness, it's just another layer of randomness | Eduard | Apr 29, 2024 |
| @Injuries: A simple implementation (without OOP) would be to give each team 7 additional invulnerable" 1*s - almost nobody would play them, and they would always be available "in case" | Eduard | Apr 29, 2024 |
| Phil - There would need to be some roster resizing (more players) to be able to deal with injuries and/or players out of position. There would be a lot to figure out. It could be done if someone came up with a plan that had buy in. | Allan | Apr 28, 2024 |
| Why are there no injuries in TMVL? I assumed it was easier to start the league without it, but it would be programmed in later. Seems like there's fewer injuries in volleyball, but still, there should be some? | Phil | Apr 28, 2024 |
| We'll see if it works. | Jason | Apr 28, 2024 |
| I've made offerings to OLMEC every day of the off-season. | Jason | Apr 28, 2024 |
| Welcome back everybody! | Bryce | Apr 28, 2024 |
| Please keep in mind that the program that put Roy and CB in the same WGM Cup group was..."random". | Allan | Apr 26, 2024 |
| Still a bit shorter than ours will be. | Brian | Apr 24, 2024 |
| Going to be a long year for the Bullfrogs | Aires | Apr 23, 2024 |
| Thanks for the heads up Eduard. Glad the backup option worked. Probably just Olmec getting used to the two player names from John's name generator... ? | Allan | Apr 21, 2024 |
| FYI: The orders link didn't work for me. "Option A" worked, though, so no serious To-Do | Eduard | Apr 21, 2024 |
| Looks like the Top 3 T-7 teams to open the season are Dr. James White, Roger, and Roy. We welcome our new overlords... | Allan | Apr 21, 2024 |
| Yes, John, the HoM should be located in our little town. Anywhere else would be poppycock. | Brian | Mar 28, 2024 |
| Yep. I miss college. | John | Mar 23, 2024 |
| It’s fun watching John relive his days of T-ball glory | Kevin | Mar 22, 2024 |
| (Brian throws a grooved fastball down the middle) Will the Hall of Mediocrity be located in Schenectady? (I run around the bases) | John | Mar 16, 2024 |
| What about a Hall of Mediocrity? | Brian | Mar 14, 2024 |
| I love the Hall of Fame idea... I'm just afraid that Antioch's HoF would be as empty as our trophy cabinet! | Rob | Mar 10, 2024 |
| Matt - a Hall of Fame was on the list of ideas related to Stats that Al has asked me to keep warm for him. | Roger | Mar 9, 2024 |
| Ever thought about giving each team page a Hall of Fame Section? Where any Seniors that have graduated, especially those with decent stats can be put? Probably too hard to code or whatever I guess | Matthew | Mar 8, 2024 |
| Yes that makes sense- it's amazing hiw much FIT makes a difference. | Steve | Mar 4, 2024 |
| Thanks Steve. The stats page was caching. I added the 2 lines I usually do to fix that. Hopefully that's better. After thinking I was wrong I then re-thunk that. I believe numbers show lower for Ef Overall BECAUSE teams dropped their FIT this session (by playing stars in all 3 matches)? Let me know what you think Steve. | Allan | Mar 3, 2024 |
| I was looking at the T7 stats and noticed Cincinnati are missing and Portland isn't showing correctly. I went to each conference where they are showing but effective T7 for Portland is way off. | Steve | Mar 3, 2024 |
| Thanks Matt! Please send me an email (it will remind me) and I'll send you the questions. | Allan | Feb 28, 2024 |
| If no one else volunteers for interview I can do it Al | Matthew | Feb 27, 2024 |
| We only have 8 and two of those are A- | Steve | Feb 26, 2024 |
| If you'll be Pekin their bags for them, I would be happy to nominate the Bats as the realignment representative, it's an easy flight by dark | John | Feb 26, 2024 |
| Al - you may not want to look at Columbia’s squad then | Roger | Feb 26, 2024 |
| Currently thinking about moving Pekin to another conference next season...7 A potential players on the roster... | Allan | Feb 26, 2024 |
| Who wants to be interviewed next? | Allan | Feb 25, 2024 |
| So far so good Paul...at least our Big 8 will have 1 team in the Final! | Allan | Feb 24, 2024 |
| Hoping I don't let the Big 8 down | Paul | Feb 11, 2024 |
| Only 2 from Big 8 #countingonpaul | Steve | Feb 8, 2024 |
| 6 of the Sweet 16 in the National Championship are from SEC | Roy | Feb 7, 2024 |
| good to see two shrimps in the team of the week | Vick | Jan 21, 2024 |
| Still gutted I lose 2 games while having higher overall skills. | Pierre | Jan 20, 2024 |
| Still gutted wr scored more points and lost. | Steve | Jan 17, 2024 |
| Kevin: If there's room for another letter or category for "The BUM Report" please check out D+ vs D+ Sheboygan - Columbia this week... ? | Allan | Jan 17, 2024 |
| What a disaster weekend. 4 times a L in a row. We need to recover for a while. | Pierre | Jan 14, 2024 |
| Everybody has a DEF rating that is used for Digs. Only the back three players (position V, VI and I at the time of the serve) can be picked out for a Dig. Only OHs and Ls have a RCV rating and it doesn't matter where they are in the rotation. | Steve | Jan 7, 2024 |
| So there's only 1 chance for a receive on a given point. But there could be multiple chances for digs if the ball goes back and forth across the net multiple times. | Allan | Jan 7, 2024 |
| Receive is receiving a serve, while a dig prevents an attempted spike. | Jason | Jan 7, 2024 |
| Good Question Pierre! Receive (aka passing) only occurs when receiving a serve. Digs occur when the other team attacks. | Allan | Jan 7, 2024 |
| What's the difference between receive and digs? | Pierre | Jan 7, 2024 |
| Yep, I have a fat head :) | Craig | Jan 4, 2024 |
| Is Craig's photo in comments just a little bigger than everybody else's and that's why it gets threaded in every conversation? Haha. | Bryce | Jan 4, 2024 |
| May the new year bring much success and happiness to our Squirrels. Please hold your breath. | Brian | Jan 4, 2024 |
| Happy new year all | Matthew | Jan 3, 2024 |
| Happy new year everybody! | Pierre | Jan 1, 2024 |
| Happy New Year everyone! | Roger | Jan 1, 2024 |
| Fixed the front page Recruiting Results that had gone a little haywire (had some MSWL code mixed in apparently). Added COMMENTS for the STATS LEADERS section to the front page. | Allan | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Added an "announcement" at the top of the page as well. Thanks for pointing it out Jason. Thanks to James Tucker for helping with these. | Allan | Dec 29, 2023 |
| CB, it's at the top of the match preview page. | Jason | Dec 29, 2023 |
| Competition info tab? Where's that?? | Craig | Dec 29, 2023 |
| Just noticed the COMPETITION INFO link for the WGM, great add, Al! | Mike | Dec 28, 2023 |
| After you vote in the Coaches Poll you'll see what Max thinks of his poor dad... | Allan | Dec 26, 2023 |
| how many RP´s for Tucker Rose? | Vick | Dec 21, 2023 |
| a transfer portal in the opening two sessions would be interesting but probably unbalancing! | Vick | Dec 21, 2023 |
| I am sorry that I missed the first session (again). | Brian | Dec 17, 2023 |
| There is nothing wrong with TMVL that a transfer portal won't fix. | Phil | Dec 16, 2023 |
| I thought the rule was whoever selected a recruit first gets him? So no one else should be going anywhere near the ones I selected. Thank you :) | Matthew | Dec 12, 2023 |
| Same pot John but the maxs, +1s and +2s seem to have landed in the less important skills | Roger | Dec 12, 2023 |
| Al is already playing mind games with recruiting. | John | Dec 11, 2023 |
| The others didn't roll so well though Roy! Yours look good though! | James | Dec 11, 2023 |
| Will this be my year! Does cincy suck yet? | Aires | Dec 11, 2023 |
| Just you, they always come from the same pot | John | Dec 11, 2023 |
| Is it just me or are this year’s crop of recruits fairly ropey? | Roger | Dec 11, 2023 |
| No-one will be surprised that the Hogs 5* MB rolled three 11s | Roy | Dec 11, 2023 |
| > Who will run the stats It wasn't really bad. Your 5* OH rolled really great by Quincy (or SB) standards Your 4* MB is Quincy standard, though | Eduard | Dec 11, 2023 |
| After breaking the record for RP spending I am very disappointed in Brehme's SET roll. | Steve | Dec 11, 2023 |
| We have completed 10 seasons and Mike Halpin has 9 Conference Titles... | Allan | Dec 11, 2023 |
| Who will run the stats to tell me how many bad dice rolls I had again for recruits? | Allan | Dec 10, 2023 |
| Submit before Sunday's deadline, Brian. | Steve | Dec 1, 2023 |
| Walk-on question: Should I submit those when ready, or wait until closer to the start of S11? | Brian | Dec 1, 2023 |
| Cheers Al, for running another superb season ? | Roger | Nov 27, 2023 |
| got three shrimps in the PAC8 team of the week including 1 freshman and a sophomore. Bodes good for the future! | Vick | Nov 27, 2023 |
| By now, however, the quads look mainly fine. So they should be a pretty good estimate for SOS. | Eduard | Nov 25, 2023 |
| Example: SB's huge loss vs NRP inflated *SB*'s rating - since NRP turned quad I | Eduard | Nov 25, 2023 |
| The effect Roy mentioned for the NET rankings is quite valid in the early rounds of the season. | Eduard | Nov 25, 2023 |
| For example Manitowoc have 4 teams in their own division rated Quad 1 for every game they play against them (including Sheboygan) Dallas have a fair few extra-divison Q1 games | Roy | Nov 24, 2023 |
| Not sure the Quad stats help. It looks like the worse T7 teams have more Quad 1 games due to the stats difference | Roy | Nov 24, 2023 |
| I was just thinking an average of your opponents' overall rating or something. Nothing fancy. But match adjusted would be interesting too. | John | Nov 24, 2023 |
| Or would you rather see who has faced the highest Ratings Pts per Match average for opponents? Like a highest avg T7 against? | Kevin | Nov 20, 2023 |
| Go to the rankings page for each team and see who’s played the most Quad I teams? | Kevin | Nov 20, 2023 |
| It sounds like a stats guru is needing some stats to figure out like a strength of schedule or something? | Allan | Nov 20, 2023 |
| Is there any way to see who has played the hardest schedule? | John | Nov 20, 2023 |
| Yes there was lots to see in Balboa Park. Some nice museums and lots of interesting art. We even got some Ukrainian music thrown in whilst waiting for the tram train back to the car park from a anti Putin demo | Vick | Nov 10, 2023 |
| San Diego has some great parks though | John | Nov 3, 2023 |
| If it makes Phil feel any better, driving around San Diego was even worse. Not to mention how hard it seemed to be to find somewhere to park there! | Vick | Nov 3, 2023 |
| You fool! You think you can come onto our highways and byways with you rusty little putt putt mobile and your SJ Shrimper bumper sticker and just tool around town without recourse? | Phil | Oct 30, 2023 |
| Be safe out there Vick! Check the U1 "Compo's Complaining Wall" for a response from Phil (I think)... | Allan | Oct 29, 2023 |
| Carlsbad - not a place you want to drive around - and luckily we were only driving through. (actually we are sure it actually is a nice place, but the drivers are a bit manic! | Vick | Oct 28, 2023 |
| I think there's a lot of truth to that Bryce. Also, there's Cinci...clean sweep for JT and company in this weeks rankings. Well done James! ? | Allan | Oct 18, 2023 |
| A level of parity has come to TMVL this season it looks like. | Bryce | Oct 16, 2023 |
| Our worst session of the season thus far. | Brian | Oct 16, 2023 |
| Brian: It's on the bracket's web page | John | Oct 15, 2023 |
| Found it. | Brian | Oct 11, 2023 |
| Stupid question: Where is the WGM bracket? I can't locate it (again). Thanks! | Brian | Oct 11, 2023 |
| The Starkville bubble has burst | Eduard | Oct 9, 2023 |
| Worst session this season. | Eduard | Oct 9, 2023 |
| Okay JW, Jason, and C-Ball. Wednesday it is this week. Don't let me down. | Allan | Oct 9, 2023 |
| Yes to Wed for the Coach Poll vote, pls. I always miss it and am bummed to have done so. | Mike | Oct 8, 2023 |
| I think I need someone to call me several times on deadline day to remind me to vote. | Jason | Oct 4, 2023 |
| See "Coaches Poll Payback". Would a Wed voting deadline be preferable to Tuesdays? | Allan | Oct 3, 2023 |
| missed Coaches poll again :-( | James | Oct 3, 2023 |
| Olmec owns me. | Steve | Oct 1, 2023 |
| OLMEC owes me | John | Oct 1, 2023 |
| Looking forward to a good week | John | Oct 1, 2023 |
| Also to be noted is that the Raccoons also had two players in the TMVL Team of the Week and in fact the entire team were composed of PAC8 players. Don´t think another division has managed that! | Vick | Oct 1, 2023 |
| well pleased to see the players did indeed step up their game last session. Rodriguez and B- rated Dyer got in to the team of the week and only the Raccoons setter got a higher rating | Vick | Oct 1, 2023 |
| Forgot the old CP this week. | John | Sep 30, 2023 |
| Already 5 different teams (with 7 coaches selecting) have 1st place votes in the new Coaches Poll. 19 hours to go... | Allan | Sep 25, 2023 |
| Yes. Paul Peel to the Bananas Stephen Prawn to the Shrimps Carl Crappyboardgame to the Twisters | John | Sep 25, 2023 |
| Has there been a more fated recruit than Moose Baranowski to Mat-Su? | Kevin | Sep 25, 2023 |
| "...coach Hall has told his players they need to step up.." This reminded me of when my wife and I first starting going to the rugby and she turned to me and said "Why don't they just run faster?" | Roger | Sep 24, 2023 |
| with only Schiffer and Stefanidis getting into the positional top ten player rankings coach Hall has told his players they need to step up and start putting in some performances! No more slacking and sipping Saguaro juice | Vick | Sep 23, 2023 |
| It's a bold strategy Cotton. | James | Sep 22, 2023 |
| But if it works will be a one time thing as then everyone will do it!! | James | Sep 19, 2023 |
| Chasing the bargain buys I guess | James | Sep 19, 2023 |
| The only result I can foresee is a broke Chameleon. | Steve | Sep 18, 2023 |
| Obviously the Chams try something *really* new. But I'm interested in the results, too. | Eduard | Sep 18, 2023 |
| Anyone else fascinated by the Chameleons’ recruiting strategy this season and wondering how it will play out? | Kevin | Sep 18, 2023 |
| Sheboygan would be the #1 WGM Cup knockout seed if things ended today. Can Mr. Holden hang onto that for one more week? | Allan | Sep 18, 2023 |
| Sorry just needed to finish off the bonus in time | John | Sep 17, 2023 |
| Let's GO! | John | Sep 17, 2023 |
| Meh. | Phil | Sep 17, 2023 |
| Coaches poll updated. I had a blip last week that I fixed and broke and had to fix something this week. I hope we're good now... | Allan | Sep 12, 2023 |
| Steve has a helpful Blog post up! Cinci is a great team! | Allan | Sep 11, 2023 |
| Some of us ran out of cash without getting seven five-star recruits over the course of two seasons. | Jason | Sep 11, 2023 |
| Applying the pressure Max? All downhill after this season I fear. #ranouttacash | James | Sep 11, 2023 |
| I think there is some Blind Side style recruiting in Cinci | Max | Sep 10, 2023 |
| If James doesn't go undefeated I will be surprised. | Max | Sep 10, 2023 |
| Rob gets me | John | Sep 9, 2023 |
| I read John's comment to the tune of "Forgot About Dre" | Rob | Sep 9, 2023 |
| Kevin has once again forgotten about Columbus | John | Sep 8, 2023 |
| It's now Wednesday in the Uk and I'm not seeing the Vote for Al new feature | Roy | Sep 5, 2023 |
| nothing truly exciting in the first auction apart from Gus if you need a MB | Vick | Sep 3, 2023 |
| I don’t think anybody goes to Cinci without being paid to do it. Too close to Cleveland. | Kevin | Sep 1, 2023 |
| I am accusing Mr Tucker of paying his players to go to Cincinnati. | Max | Aug 30, 2023 |
| Welcome to your new favourite (favorite) game Brian | Roger | Aug 30, 2023 |
| Maybe now that I've got nearly 150 hours to do it, I'll actually remember to vote in the Coaches Poll. | Jason | Aug 30, 2023 |
| Feel like we should be voting for Burlington - just saying | Aires | Aug 30, 2023 |
| Yes Beerman! Lets Go! | Aires | Aug 30, 2023 |
| Welcome Brian | Matthew | Aug 30, 2023 |
| Welcome to Brian Beerman who takes on the Squirrels in a caretaker role. Please welcome him and help if you see questions he posts. Thanks! | Allan | Aug 29, 2023 |
| All good thanks Al | Roger | Aug 29, 2023 |
| I made an update Roger, please check again. | Allan | Aug 28, 2023 |
| Anyone else not getting their media bonus? | Roger | Aug 28, 2023 |
| Not sure any team that has Eeyore as a mascot is going to have high morale ? | Roger | Aug 28, 2023 |
| With the start of the new season it seems unfair that Pekin, Portland, Dallas, and Columbia are better than our Mules. Don't they want to let the commish win to improve his morale? | Allan | Aug 27, 2023 |
| Fine now Al, thanks | Paul | Aug 20, 2023 |
| Please try it again Paul. | Allan | Aug 20, 2023 |
| XP/Walkon order screen isn't working for me...anyone else or is it just me? | Paul | Aug 20, 2023 |
| It's OK if you want to win the loser trophies :-) Not that we could win even those. | Steve | Aug 18, 2023 |
| I really like tournament play! | Phil | Aug 16, 2023 |
| Did Phil win two more titles? | Allan | Aug 16, 2023 |
| The list has been sent. | John | Aug 13, 2023 |
| My favorite part of the season is about to happen. I will soon be receiving the email with the walk-on "creative" names from my friend John... | Allan | Aug 13, 2023 |
| New Orleans were deservedly top! | Vick | Jul 31, 2023 |
| Surprised you weren't top Vick. | James | Jul 29, 2023 |
| delighted to be back near the top of the coaches poll! | Vick | Jul 26, 2023 |
| Is the site occasionally a bit sluggish for anyone? Sometimes it works perfectly, other times it slows to a crawl | John | Jul 25, 2023 |
| Holden the truth | John | Jul 25, 2023 |
| Holden your tongue? :-) | Phil | Jul 24, 2023 |
| SPOILER | John | Jul 23, 2023 |
| I would comment Phil but I don't want to potentially enter you and John's "spoiler war"... | Allan | Jul 23, 2023 |
| Orders page isn’t working for me either…lost 6 in a row! | Phil | Jul 23, 2023 |
| It's working fine for me Andy. Take a screenshot and send it to Al. He'll be able to look at it - this happens from time to time. | Rob | Jul 18, 2023 |
| The orders page isn’t fully loading. Anyone else having issues? | Andy | Jul 18, 2023 |
| Eduard, I'm sure my first trophy was the non-conference one as well. | Steve | Jul 18, 2023 |
| Starkville's 1st trophy (of not so many to come): The (shared) NON-CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP!!! | Eduard | Jul 17, 2023 |
| Running shortly... | Allan | Jul 16, 2023 |
| Will be running an hour or so after the deadline today. | Allan | Jul 16, 2023 |
| Just want to make sure it's a NET positive idea going forward | John | Jul 13, 2023 |
| We will be using Standings (with relevant tiebreakers) again this season. The NET idea may be used next season or a future one, but wanted to evaluate it further and I think I may make a chance if/when we pursue it. | Allan | Jul 11, 2023 |
| The question is, am I stuck with getting my clock cleaned in the National Championship? | Jason | Jul 11, 2023 |
| Jason needs to decide how badly to sandbag the coming matches… | Kevin | Jul 11, 2023 |
| Are National Championship participants being determined by NET this season? Or did we decide against that? | Jason | Jul 10, 2023 |
| Only 4 of the teams in the Top 12 ranked for T-7 made it through the 1st round of the Cup. #priorities! | James | Jul 10, 2023 |
| Ugh! | Amy | Jul 9, 2023 |
| It did! Sorry for not emailing - the complaining wall was faster | John | Jul 7, 2023 |
| John - Please see if my update helped. | Allan | Jul 6, 2023 |
| My orders page is getting cut off early again. | John | Jul 6, 2023 |
| Why do I care? I've just spotted the links in the game previews. Lulz | Steve | Jul 5, 2023 |
| Roger: Please email me some details/examples and I'll take a look. Thanks. | Allan | Jul 5, 2023 |
| Al, is it possible to introduce the option to filter by Conference on the stats page? | Roger | Jul 5, 2023 |
| Understood, Roy. My #4 OH has only played 4 games so could need some more games. | Steve | Jul 5, 2023 |
| If the issue was trying to pick the #1 and #2 OHs to face Nashville. I'm happy to take on the #3 and #4 OHs | Roy | Jul 4, 2023 |
| Working, thanks Al. | Steve | Jul 4, 2023 |
| Steve: Well, the ability to make longer comment wall post works in TMVL. Thanks for all the details. This is the same caching issue I've had a lot of past issues with but fewer and fewer (since). I still add 2 lines of code on pages when this issue pops up and it usually addresses it. It took adding those 2 lines in 2 different parts of the file to make it work. It should work for you across the main orders form and the 2 backups now. Please confirm. | Allan | Jul 3, 2023 |
| Tried on Jacob's Samsung tablet and get exactly the same. Have installed Firefox on phone - still the same. | Steve | Jul 3, 2023 |
| Still yhe same, Al. On the normal orders page it stalls at the final setter letting me put his position for Nashville but not the second game. For A and B it gets further but stalls after showing Huber's ATK. I doubt it has anything to do with this but on the team page Huber is shown as 3rd best OH but on the orders page he's 2nd best. He has a rating of 80.50 whereas the 2nd best is 81.25 (both showing as 81) | Steve | Jul 3, 2023 |
| I made a minor change. How is the main orders page looking now Steve? | Allan | Jul 2, 2023 |
| No panic yet but the orders page isn't loading for me and neither are Options A nor B. Getting stuck around OH. | Steve | Jul 2, 2023 |
| Bring your kiddies, bring your wife - guaranteed to have the time of your life | John | Jun 26, 2023 |
| Despite the "Mets" comment I want to say that Roy is "on fire" with some great match comments this week. The extremely subtle taunting of CB after his (spoiler) win over St. Charles was a tour-de-force! | Allan | Jun 26, 2023 |
| Let's go Mets! | Roy | Jun 25, 2023 |
| Christer: Did Mets fan Rob pay you to say that? ? Now that it reminds me these are Rob's colors look for changes soon... | Allan | Jun 25, 2023 |
| Is Al a Mets-fan? The colours in the preview looks much like Mets colours. | Christer | Jun 25, 2023 |
| Hi Pierre. The recruiting players are processed in order. So who signs #4 is determined before signing #5. Your scenario would not be possible due to the way we process players in order. | Allan | Jun 25, 2023 |
| At the recruiting page, is it possible to check the boxes so that I first bid on the player on the 5th line and after that on the player on the 4th line. Don´t know yet if that´s gonna be the plan, but I´m curious if this is even possible. | Pierre | Jun 25, 2023 |
| I never know what state, country, continent John is in... | Allan | Jun 24, 2023 |
| I'll Troy to pretend you're from downstate | John | Jun 23, 2023 |
| More or less. We grew up in the suburbs of Albany. | Jason | Jun 23, 2023 |
| Update: I am now very far away from Schenectady. Jason, are you an Albanian by trade? | John | Jun 22, 2023 |
| John, if you're still in Schenectady, you're about 30 minutes from where Mike and I grew up. | Jason | Jun 21, 2023 |
| John takes scouting the upcoming matches very seriously. | Kevin | Jun 19, 2023 |
| I am literally in Schenectady right now. | John | Jun 19, 2023 |
| Great stat from John. | Allan | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 21 out of 24 teams finished 2-1 or better in the WGM Cup. Ames finished 2-1 and still have the dreaded #21 seed. | John | Jun 13, 2023 |
| If your team has had coaching changes, you will now see that if you go to the TEAM page and click the HISTORY tab. | Allan | Jun 11, 2023 |
| Only 71 hours left on the 5 RP you get on the coaches poll... | John | Jun 4, 2023 |
| The coaches poll would have to be open longer to catch my vote. Like, the polls close 10 minutes prior to post. | Phil | Jun 3, 2023 |
| The coaches poll is spicy, don't forget to add some spice this week | John | May 31, 2023 |
| Meh | John | May 31, 2023 |
| You made it after deadline while I had downloaded and was processing matches John. But it looks like you made 3 posts instead of 1 and came out 10 RP richer. | Allan | May 29, 2023 |
| It's a mystery | John | May 29, 2023 |
| Never mind. My post never existed apparently | John | May 29, 2023 |
| I think I made a post after the session and ain't got no recruiting points for it. Not an issue, just a flag | John | May 29, 2023 |
| Happy to have Max home now and looking forward to the improvements he plans to make to TMVL over his summer break. | Amy | May 29, 2023 |
| Al, I had nothing to say :-) For some reason my phone has a mind of its own and annoys my wife and daughter with constant pocket phone calls. | Steve | May 29, 2023 |
| Thinking about making the game more defensive for next season but same sim for this season just to let y'all know. | Max | May 29, 2023 |
| Rob: Please email some examples and more details on your idea. Steve: I'm dying to know what your silent post was about! ? | Allan | May 29, 2023 |
| Steve | May 28, 2023 | |
| I had another idea... would it be worthwhile to have a player comparison page - like somewhere like a player search where you can see how one team's freshman/sophomore/etc class compares to the rest of the league's. Or being able to compare the OHs from say Quincy to Baton Rouge. | Rob | May 28, 2023 |
| I can try my hand at that Al! I'll email you during the week! | Rob | May 28, 2023 |
| Well Rob, we all kind of got together and assigned that task to you. ? | Allan | May 28, 2023 |
| I forget... do we have a writeup somewhere that I can see how bad my recruits rolled? | Rob | May 28, 2023 |
| Thank you Steve. I am adding that to a JIRA (to do task) for consideration at end of season. If anyone else has "theme" ideas (movies/tv shows/etc) for future player names post here or email please. Thanks. | Allan | May 27, 2023 |
| For recruit names, seeing as you have some Star Trek, how about Stargate SG-1? | Steve | May 27, 2023 |
| Aires, everybody's ELO gets regressed towards the mean at the beginning of each season so that's why your ELO dropped if that's what different from what you were expecting. | Bryce | May 25, 2023 |
| Thanks Vick, I was a little surprised to get any points never mind a top spot. | Roger | May 24, 2023 |
| Time to vote in the coaches poll is nearly up and it´s interesting to see that the coach currently in top spot has no top votes which seem to be evenly spread elsewhere! I went Leftfield with my own top ten vote given no games have been played yet. Plumped for the canny manager with most RP´s at the start of the season. Control of the auction process can´t be a bad strategy! | Vick | May 24, 2023 |
| Is the Big East the toughest conference? | Aires | May 24, 2023 |
| I feel like my ELO should be higher lol | Aires | May 24, 2023 |
| Never mind I just realised it was already there. Sorry | Matthew | May 24, 2023 |
| Don't know if it is able to be done, but I was wondering about somehow getting notification of a comment made on the games comment section. Saves going through every game seeing if there are any comments. Make sense? | Matthew | May 24, 2023 |
| I've added it to my list for next Season Matt. | Allan | May 21, 2023 |
| Al, how about The Ghost and the Darkness. One of my favourite movies. I think a player with the last name of Darkness would be awesome | Matthew | May 21, 2023 |
| No, but I do have a name generator | John | May 20, 2023 |
| Anybody got a quirky movie or two or three in mind for me to create some player names from for some recruits? | Allan | May 20, 2023 |
| Me first Craig! | Rob | May 13, 2023 |
| I expect to win somethign next season Al, please bear this in mind | Craig | May 13, 2023 |
| +1 Paul | Roger | May 9, 2023 |
| Thanks for another impeccably run season, Al | Paul | May 8, 2023 |
| I second John's idea thanks | Matthew | May 6, 2023 |
| It would be fun to see the recruiting rankings grouped by conference. | John | May 1, 2023 |
| I have had an up and down season. Was happy with getting my first 5 star, and for a little while I was doing well in my conference. Hope to improve on this next year! It's been fun! | Amy | Apr 30, 2023 |
| Ogie may be going to the Pac-8 but Duff Monstergravy is likely to walk on in Sheboygan | John | Apr 26, 2023 |
| Looks like Ogie is going to the PAC-8 John... | Allan | Apr 25, 2023 |
| Just like Ogie tested the legal systems of two different countries and the fighting systems of three different brothers. | John | Apr 21, 2023 |
| Thanks John. Also, John really testing the Comment Wall character limit on that post. ? | Allan | Apr 16, 2023 |
| Oh this young man has had a very trying rookie season, with the litigation, the notoriety, his subsequent deportation to Canada and that country's refusal to accept him, well, I guess that's more than most 21-year-olds can handle... | John | Apr 15, 2023 |
| I see you’ve been watching SlapShot Al…..nice | Mike | Apr 14, 2023 |
| It was an issue on my end Paul. The one I can't seem to fix fully. Thanks for pointing it out. | Allan | Apr 13, 2023 |
| Ah, working again now... | Paul | Apr 13, 2023 |
| The recruiting page isn't loading....or is it just me? | Paul | Apr 13, 2023 |
| Please drop me a quick email with your ideas John to make sure I follow. | Allan | Apr 10, 2023 |
| Another "dang it John, not again": It'd be fun if the coaches poll included records and defaulted to the previous rankings. | John | Apr 10, 2023 |
| It was actually Baton Rouge who had never beaten me until today. | Steve | Apr 9, 2023 |
| Big issue , massive error , we play Baton Rouge twice this session please fix this injustice !! | James | Apr 9, 2023 |
| It was probably Antioch... | Rob | Apr 7, 2023 |
| That's well spotted Roger! ? | Allan | Apr 7, 2023 |
| I presume the missing words at the end of Steve’s entry are “…everybody else” | Roger | Apr 7, 2023 |
| Thanks Steve! | Bryce | Apr 7, 2023 |
| So I can see that since season 2 (when I joined) we are 3-0 vs Mat-su, 0-1 vs Tuscon, 7-7 vs New Orleans and 9-0 vs | Steve | Apr 6, 2023 |
| Yes, Bryce. On your team page click on Schedule (just above your team logo), then on All Seasons. Wait a little. Then click on the column that says Opponents. Matches are sorted alphabetically by team, then neutral, away, home then season. | Steve | Apr 6, 2023 |
| Is there a way to view our historical performance against a team we are about to play? Always looking to increase the available banter material. | Bryce | Apr 6, 2023 |
| Maybe we should just have a section called Who Killed Kevin? | Roy | Apr 1, 2023 |
| Like Matthew needs another venue to mock us after yet another "upset" | Kevin | Mar 31, 2023 |
| always nice to have a bit of banter | Vick | Mar 31, 2023 |
| Matthew: I added a task for this to my list of ideas to implement at some point. Thanks. | Allan | Mar 30, 2023 |
| Ever thought about having a comment section for each conference, might be good for a bit of banter among the teams. | Matthew | Mar 30, 2023 |
| Forgot to vote this week, that's why the rankings are so askew | John | Mar 30, 2023 |
| Voting in with minutes to spare | Roy | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Phil is doing some great work this week. Especially on his snarky recruiting comments. Love it! | Allan | Mar 26, 2023 |
| Roy lays the “ I would have voted for you…. BUT….” card. | Phil | Mar 25, 2023 |
| When the images are smaller I have a hard time identifying Sombrero Vick from Sombrero Roy and Sombrero James... ? | Allan | Mar 24, 2023 |
| Tuesdays at 2100 GMT. A countdown on time left appears in a purple band at the top of the page once matches are run and until the deadline is reached. | Allan | Mar 22, 2023 |
| When does the Coaches poll usually close? For some reason I thought it was Wednesday. Was going to vote Denali #1 unfortunately that means Nashville pip them to 6th place | Roy | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Added the season number at the top of each page so I can remember what season we are in. | Allan | Mar 21, 2023 |
| Allan with the coding win! Thank you! | John | Mar 19, 2023 |
| I have coded to always show the Coaches Poll Voting section each week (above the rankings) prior to the conclusion of that vote. The Rankings tabs below will not 'randomly' land on coaches rankings (until coaches voting deadline passes). | Allan | Mar 19, 2023 |
| This is excellent news | John | Mar 19, 2023 |
| I will try to update that for you my friend. | Allan | Mar 18, 2023 |
| Annoying feedback time! If voting is open in the coaches' poll, that should always appear above the tabs as an option I'm gonna start forgetting | John | Mar 13, 2023 |
| It's fixed, thank you, Al! | Mike | Mar 12, 2023 |
| Thanks for the emails. I did a quick reboot of the site. Please see if that helps. Also, I have a couple of other things I need to get to this afternoon. I will be running games today, just a bit later. | Allan | Mar 12, 2023 |
| If you log out you can see the pages so can watch all the games you want withiut spoilers.. However you won't be able to comment until you log back in. But then you can click on teams then to the reports. | Steve | Mar 12, 2023 |
| Please email me and tell me what page you are on to start, what link you are clicking on, and a screenshot. I don't see any issue on Firefox now so I need more details to investigate. | Allan | Mar 12, 2023 |
| This is critical, as it is how I make all my snarky comments. | Mike | Mar 12, 2023 |
| Conform that clicking on the match number does not display matches below. | Mike | Mar 12, 2023 |
| That's on my phone. | Matthew | Mar 12, 2023 |
| Al, last week it was the recruiting pages and now it's the scores pages. Can't see anything. Thanks | Matthew | Mar 12, 2023 |
| Who messed with my hat? | Phil | Mar 11, 2023 |
| That's not fatigue, Pierre...that's OLMEC. | Phil | Mar 11, 2023 |
| Pierre, simple answer is no. However there is a fitness modifier but this is fixed for each game. | James | Mar 11, 2023 |
| Is there something like fatique in this game? In the game against Derek it was close at the start, but Derek were getting better and better in the last sets. Or my team were getting worse and worse. | Pierre | Mar 10, 2023 |
How about all the losses we shouldn't have? ? | Matthew | Mar 4, 2023 |
The bandaid I have to "fix" caching issues like Pierre's helped. Please email me if you see a page not loading fully. Do not email me that a page did not load all the wins you THINK you SHOULD have... | Allan | Mar 4, 2023 |
Problem sort of solved. On my laptop the recruiting page is correct. | Pierre | Mar 2, 2023 |
| Allan, I still have a problem with the recruiting page. It’s an empty page for me. Don’t know if someone else has the problem, I only have tried it on my phone. | Pierre | Mar 2, 2023 |
| Allan, I still have a problem with the recruiting page. It’s an empty page for me. Don’t know if someone else has the problem, I only have tried it on my phone. | Pierre | Mar 2, 2023 |
I used a band-aid to resolve it Bryce and Roger, thanks for reporting. Also it spurred me to create a new Forum post... | Allan | Mar 1, 2023 |
Yep, me too | Roger | Mar 1, 2023 |
Anybody else having issues viewing their recruiting dashboard? | Bryce | Mar 1, 2023 |
Is the PAC-8 tired yet of Vick placing 5 Shrimps on the 7-man PAC-8 team of the week? | Allan | Feb 27, 2023 |
Would it be possible to have the player rating on the player detail page for each game, please? | Steve | Feb 26, 2023 |
our C- MB Jake dyer tops the blocking charts. It's performances like this that have given us such a good start to the season! | Vick | Feb 26, 2023 |
It is a new front page addition that I'm still developing. When its ready it will replace the current front page. It is at index2.php rather than index.php | Allan | Feb 26, 2023 |
Maybe I missed it... but where does one actually find the TOTW? | Rob | Feb 26, 2023 |
Please see Match Ratings FORUM thread (go to the bottom for my post) and review/comment. Thanks! | Allan | Feb 24, 2023 |
Let's see if Matt's strategy works. ? See the Match Ratings Forum post this week for updates on the work in progress team of the week feature... | Allan | Feb 22, 2023 |
See how the Panther is at the front on the recruiting in front of all the others? That means those recruits are mine, Don't bother bidding. Thanks ?? | Matthew | Feb 22, 2023 |
I need some ideas on the "Match Ratings" forum post. See my questions at bottom of thread. | Allan | Feb 21, 2023 |
Just commenting commentary on the comment wall. No commentl | John | Feb 21, 2023 |
Big weekend! 3-0 | Aires | Feb 20, 2023 |
Need a good recruiting season, unlike last year. | Amy | Feb 19, 2023 |
Yall better watch out for those trrash pandas they are here to bite this year! | Max | Feb 19, 2023 |
Yayyyyyyyyy! Kelsey's in TMVL LETS GOOOOOOOOO! | Max | Feb 19, 2023 |
Thank you for all of the warm introductions and I can't wait to be a part of this season of TMVL! | Kelsey | Feb 19, 2023 |
Sad that Micki isn't here any more. I will miss her roasts of her dad. Happy that Kelsey has joined so we didn't lose our "Girl Power!" | Amy | Feb 19, 2023 |
The only recruit I have that can reach an A rating is the only 5* I managed to recruit, MB Peyton Reid. Woah is me... WOAH I say! | Rob | Feb 19, 2023 |
An A- he says! I have a 4* OH that is starting as an F+, and can only reach a B rating. | Rob | Feb 19, 2023 |
This is that thread, but you need to get in line behind the poor Mules...our best 5-star is an A-... | Allan | Feb 19, 2023 |
Where's the thread where I get to complain about my new recruits?! Only one potential A Freshman?! | Rob | Feb 19, 2023 |
Kelsey - hope you enjoy life in TMVL. Take out theose nasty Chameleons in your first home game. Trample that infamous hat! | Vick | Feb 15, 2023 |
Welcome Kelsey! | Paul | Feb 14, 2023 |
Welcome Kelsey! | Pierre | Feb 14, 2023 |
Welcome and good luck Kelsey | Roger | Feb 14, 2023 |
Welcome Kelsey!
| John | Feb 13, 2023 |
Welcome Kelsey! | Mike | Feb 13, 2023 |
Ty for getting this up and running
| Aires | Feb 13, 2023 |
Welcome Kelsey! | Aires | Feb 13, 2023 |
Welcome Kelsey! | Matthew | Feb 13, 2023 |
Welcome Kelsey! | Jason | Feb 13, 2023 |
Welcome to Kelsey! She is taking the reigns at Albuquerque. | Allan | Feb 13, 2023 |
Enjoy the season everyone ? | Matthew | Feb 13, 2023 |
A reminder the pre-sesason coaches poll is available for you to vote in | John | Feb 13, 2023 |
That's the feedback I need, thanks Roger. I've manually updated the CP to be the proper amount (back to end of session 12 last season). | Allan | Feb 12, 2023 |
Have we always started the season with everyone on 70 CPs? | Roger | Feb 12, 2023 |
Hope everyone had fun this season! I surprised myself in a good way this year, but based on meh recruiting next year could be worse. | Amy | Feb 11, 2023 |
Would it be possible for Steve to set up all of our teams for the next season to even the playing field a bit | John | Feb 11, 2023 |
Thanks for a great season 7, Al, bring on season 8! | Paul | Feb 11, 2023 |
That was why I did the one hour warning Steve. I knew you'd still want to tinker! ? | Allan | Feb 5, 2023 |
The games ran early? But I was going to change mine to get an easier non-confeence next season. Kidding! | Steve | Feb 5, 2023 |
Should be better now. I guess I'll now deal with the Mike Halpin "triple blog" bonus (sigh). ? | Allan | Feb 5, 2023 |
This is what I get for running the matches before the deadline for you guys. ? | Allan | Feb 5, 2023 |
Nicely done Rob, an extra 5RP right there | Roger | Feb 5, 2023 |
I'm with Jason. I should be up to like 25RP by now. (just sayin' lol) | Rob | Feb 5, 2023 |
Is there a media bonus in Session 13? The counter seems not to be working. | Jason | Feb 5, 2023 |
Amateur tip: Make sure you click submit XPs when you're done with your XPs, THEN add your walk-ons. | John | Feb 5, 2023 |
Bienvenidos Pierre | John | Jan 30, 2023 |
Welcome Pierre! | Rob | Jan 27, 2023 |
Welcome Pierre! | Paul | Jan 27, 2023 |
And yes, Steve, I've played SESL a while ago. | Pierre | Jan 26, 2023 |
Thanks for a warm welcome. It´s a new game for me, so many things are unknown atm, but I am a quick learner :).
| Pierre | Jan 26, 2023 |
Welcome Pierre! | Jason | Jan 25, 2023 |
Welcome Pierre. I'm sure I recognise your name as an ex SESL manager but I don't think we've crossed paths. +2 on Matt's comments and lots of helpful advice to those that ask. | Steve | Jan 25, 2023 |
Welcome Pierre! | Roger | Jan 25, 2023 |
Welcome Pierre hope you have a just a good a time as I have here. Everyone is really helpful and friendly even ? | Matthew | Jan 25, 2023 |
Welcome to Pierre van Rossum who takes on the Mendon Mushrooms coaching role! | Allan | Jan 25, 2023 |
Nor this one | Paul | Jan 23, 2023 |
Nope | Phil | Jan 21, 2023 |
Nobody has anything to say this week | John | Jan 20, 2023 |
My Canadian grade school science teacher wore a sweater vest as a top during cold weather. That was a memory I thought I had completely forgotten. | John | Jan 14, 2023 |
chanted* | Bryce | Jan 10, 2023 |
The student section here at UW is right behind the benches. We used to just be obnoxious during timeouts to the opposing team. My favorite was when we chatted "Your coach wears a sweater vest." and their own players laughed. | Bryce | Jan 10, 2023 |
Ha! I'm sure that will come up when we get to discussing "tactics". I saw a match last season where the home team had basically two drunk "fans" college students following the team around and yelling at the opposing players all match. | Allan | Jan 8, 2023 |
Uh Al how do you add hardness in this league | John | Jan 8, 2023 |
Another session where I'm up against multiple Sellers. Time for the 10 hardness! | John | Jan 8, 2023 |
OK thanks Al | Roy | Jan 7, 2023 |
In addition to conf tourney title and WGM, it is based on overall record. See Standings link then Overall for the order of consideration for teams. | Allan | Jan 7, 2023 |
Can anyone tell me why Nashville didn'y qualify for the Sweet 16? (finished 5th in the Non-Conference table) | Roy | Jan 7, 2023 |
Bog Off Bognor is what we have to say to fellow aquatic manager Peterson. You don´t want us shrimps snipping out your lights | Vick | Jan 7, 2023 |
| Vick | Jan 7, 2023 | |
El muro de comentarios es fantástico pero vamos a perderlo pronto | John | Jan 7, 2023 |
Oh, so this is the comment wall? What a great idea :) | Craig | Jan 6, 2023 |
Wishing the best to the comment wall as it rides into the sunset | John | Jan 1, 2023 |
Or in any sentence to do with this league, really | John | Dec 29, 2022 |
You are right Kevin. John is the best. ? | Allan | Dec 28, 2022 |
That might be the first time someone used "solemn" and "dignified" in the same sentence related to anything in this league. | Kevin | Dec 28, 2022 |
May everyone have a solemn, dignified boxing day | John | Dec 26, 2022 |
I don't need to see the numbers: I just go all in bwahahahahahaha | Steve | Dec 22, 2022 |
Thank you Christer! ? | Allan | Dec 21, 2022 |
I like that Steve dont see the numbers. Well done Al!? | Christer | Dec 21, 2022 |
? TMVL - The mobile phone unfriendly league... ? | Allan | Dec 20, 2022 |
I've tried hovering my thumb over the teams but get nothing ? | Steve | Dec 20, 2022 |
Great job Al, will save me a lot of clicking and just what I had in mind. | James | Dec 20, 2022 |
Shady recruitment? I'm not sure what you mean Kevin | Matthew | Dec 20, 2022 |
New feature added (thanks JT for the idea). Click recruiting. Go to any logo in step 1-3 and hover. You should see current RPs. | Allan | Dec 19, 2022 |
Any truth to an investigation into Kentucky's "shady" recruiting steal of L Mercado leading to temporary recruiting suspension? | Kevin | Dec 19, 2022 |
| Working now, thanks Allan | Matthew | Dec 16, 2022 |
If you are still getting it Matt, email me a screenshot and browser info. | Allan | Dec 15, 2022 |
| I'm getting a blank screen when going to the recruiting page. | Matthew | Dec 15, 2022 |
Great video, thanks Bryce! | Allan | Dec 12, 2022 |
I was stuck at 25 but hadn't logged in all week, now I've made two comments and it was at 35. Odd | John | Dec 11, 2022 |
Media bonus is set deadline to deadline, so whatever you add after a deadline will be used for the next session... | Allan | Dec 11, 2022 |
The media bonus isn't going up :/ | John | Dec 10, 2022 |
Thanks for the update Amy! | John | Dec 10, 2022 |
We are driving back from seeing Max at college. Matches will be run either later tonight or Sunday morning. | Amy | Dec 10, 2022 |
Great clip. Maybe we need another skill. Commitment. | James | Dec 10, 2022 |
Saw this highlight and immediately thought of you all here: https://youtu.be/jnv7bv3NtKM | Bryce | Dec 9, 2022 |
What's up with me? I've only just started my first tinkering of the session. | Steve | Dec 9, 2022 |
The bracket would be a lot better if we had won some games | John | Dec 8, 2022 |
The bracket is great - other than if I should beat Amy, then I am likely to play Al - and away from home. | James | Dec 8, 2022 |
I like the bracket
| Aires | Dec 8, 2022 |
Also, now that Paul has advertised he uses a spreadsheet, frankly, I'm a little concerned about our next matchup with the Jacks. You should be too... | Allan | Dec 8, 2022 |
Does Paul Cockayne have Portland flying under the radar? 5 wins already this season. They won 9 in season 5 and 7 in season 6. | Allan | Dec 6, 2022 |
and my tinkering nearly got me into trouble when i tried to win all three and nearly lost them all!
| Vick | Dec 5, 2022 |
yes it´s always tempting to tinker | Vick | Dec 4, 2022 |
I'll try not tinker with my orders before high noon Central USA time then ? | Mark | Dec 4, 2022 |
Session 3 to be run around noon USA Central (about 6pm UK time) on Sunday... | Allan | Dec 4, 2022 |
No our bat transponder is on and we're cleared at 18,000 feet | John | Nov 23, 2022 |
Is John Holden flying under the radar? | Allan | Nov 22, 2022 |
Emoji issue seems sorted Al ? | Roger | Nov 20, 2022 |
Feeling good this year | Max | Nov 19, 2022 |
This should be an exciting season! | Micki | Nov 19, 2022 |
| Hi Al. Just downloading slow at my end. | Andy | Nov 16, 2022 |
It looks okay on my end now Andy. Can you take another look? Email me a screenshot if still an issue. | Allan | Nov 16, 2022 |
Recruiting page not showing. Possible issue? | Andy | Nov 16, 2022 |
excited start to this season | Aires | Nov 16, 2022 |
? ? ? | John | Nov 14, 2022 |
Apparently your phone is correctly oriented Matt. ? ? | Allan | Nov 13, 2022 |
Roger- email me the details so I can debug. | Allan | Nov 13, 2022 |
Hi Al, the emoji I used on our match seems to have reverted to a ? | Roger | Nov 13, 2022 |
Jason - email me the details and I will look. | Allan | Nov 13, 2022 |
I had to make sure my phone wasn't upside down after that 1st round. | Matthew | Nov 13, 2022 |
Are we supposed to get RP for our rankings comments? Because I didn't get any just now. | Jason | Nov 13, 2022 |
what do you call the terrorist shrimp Amir Tran? A bomb in-acean. I guess that is why he is sat on the bench for now. | Vick | Nov 13, 2022 |
I had to make sure my phone wasn't upside down after that 1st round. | Matthew | Nov 13, 2022 |
I had to make sure my phone wasn't upside down after that 1st round. | Matthew | Nov 13, 2022 |
I had to make sure my phone wasn't upside down after that 1st round. | Matthew | Nov 12, 2022 |
Results in about 75 minutes. Busy day around the house today... | Allan | Nov 12, 2022 |
Never been a problem for me. My 3 games, trashing Quincy 3 times just leaves 2 more. Also planning on a series of "things you might not know" over the season. | Steve | Nov 12, 2022 |
the first week is tough with only 1 set of games and nothing else to really comment on | James | Nov 12, 2022 |
How low will people go to secure the full 40 RP each week ? | James | Nov 12, 2022 |
Getting your media bonus from a horrible pun is something I greatly approve of and heartily endorse. | Jason | Nov 12, 2022 |
Sadly recent studies in New Scientist have shown that several species of Shrimp have randomly died out whilst migrating to other oceans. I guess they were accident prawn. | Vick | Nov 12, 2022 |
Thanks Steve! | John | Nov 11, 2022 |
For now the best you can do is look at your schedule and select all seasons, John. Then click on the opponents tab. | Steve | Nov 8, 2022 |
Are there team by team records anywhere like in MSWL? | John | Nov 8, 2022 |
Team page schedule tab update - competition names are accurate now. | Allan | Nov 7, 2022 |
ELO for previews should now be resolved. Please take a look and verify. | Allan | Nov 7, 2022 |
I have another thing to look at on ELO. I'll do that later. Will impact prediction % numbers. | Allan | Nov 6, 2022 |
Thank you John, Matt, James, and Roger! | Allan | Nov 6, 2022 |
Great to be back Al - although looking at my squad I'm not sure I can honestly say I'm looking forward to it... | Roger | Nov 5, 2022 |
Great job Al. Season 7 here we come. | James | Nov 5, 2022 |
| Thanks for your help Al, lookng forward to the season | Matthew | Nov 5, 2022 |
Thanks for getting everything turned around on the next season so quickly, Al | John | Nov 5, 2022 |
Grading "curve" has been adjusted for next season. See forum post for more. | Allan | Nov 3, 2022 |
Actually make that 6. Some teams get multiples walk ons. | Allan | Nov 1, 2022 |
If things stay as-is (and they should) just 9 teams will PAY for walk ons this season. | Allan | Nov 1, 2022 |
Working on updating end of season code now. Hoping to have new season fully ready on November 5th with first deadline on November 12th. | Allan | Oct 26, 2022 |
Any news on when the new season might start? | Paul | Oct 25, 2022 |
Oh, okay, TRASH PANDA! Hahahaha | Phil | Oct 22, 2022 |
You said that already | Phil | Oct 22, 2022 |
The only thing chameleons do well is hide and cower in the background! | Micki | Oct 22, 2022 |
Yeah, but not the best hat | Micki | Oct 22, 2022 |
And, I say again...WHY are the wolves so angry? | Phil | Oct 22, 2022 |
Yeah, but not the best hat | Micki | Oct 22, 2022 |
...and I have the hat to prove it! | Phil | Oct 22, 2022 |
I'm the trash talkingest Chameleon in these parts...
| Phil | Oct 22, 2022 |
I am Chameleon...hear me ROAR! | Phil | Oct 22, 2022 |
Oh, that's right. How terrible to have a mascot that doesn't make any noise!!! | Phil | Oct 22, 2022 |
Where my Raccoon banter at? C-mon Micki! Let's hear it from the Rac Pack!
| Phil | Oct 22, 2022 |
great season. Not sure how we will fair in the next one but 8 is one of our lucky numbers! | Vick | Oct 22, 2022 |
Thanks Al and Max for a great season! Bring on No. 7 | James | Oct 22, 2022 |
Thanks for an inpeccably run season, Al. Looking forward to the next one.... | Paul | Oct 21, 2022 |
Thanks Al for everything | Aires | Oct 20, 2022 |
Burlington had a good run! Looking to come back stronger next season
| Aires | Oct 20, 2022 |
Thanks Al for great organising on another great season. | Andy | Oct 16, 2022 |
Sheboygan's new walk on names have been sent to the commissioner | John | Oct 16, 2022 |
Results up! | Allan | Oct 16, 2022 |
Sorry for the delay...will be running shortly... | Allan | Oct 15, 2022 |
Get them orders in Philip | Steve | Oct 15, 2022 |
Lifesaver Al! | Phil | Oct 15, 2022 |
Slight delay today...chatting with our son for a little while... | Allan | Oct 15, 2022 |
Sell him to the Non-League. | Jason | Oct 12, 2022 |
Sheboygan MB Tank Armslurry is upset about his lack of playing time and has requested a transfer | John | Oct 12, 2022 |
Portland's season so far..1W, 12L, 3W, 11K, 2W...whAat next, 10L?
| Paul | Oct 10, 2022 |
From your lips to Olmec's ears, Roger. | Jason | Oct 3, 2022 |
Pekin's last 15 games have been 5W, 5L, 5W. And with 5 games left, I think I've a great chance of completing the cycle with another 5L on the bounce | Roger | Oct 3, 2022 |
John: Please create a forum thread for discussion on your idea. Matt: That's great, I appreciate the feedback and its great many will help! Thanks! | Allan | Sep 30, 2022 |
| Just wanted to say, really enjoying the game so far. Thanks to all those who have offered advice in different areas. | Matthew | Sep 30, 2022 |
I'd like to propose a rule for future seasons where you can recruit 5 players competitively in a season, but if you do you lose your 3* freebie. | John | Sep 29, 2022 |
Bad session? Well our opponents totalled 242 in total ratings. Baton Rouge was something like 220. Two other teams that went 3-0 had 206 and 210. It's not what you play but who you play. | Steve | Sep 26, 2022 |
Hang in there Paul. Your recruiting and CP usage look solid for improving the team. | Allan | Sep 26, 2022 |
Oh dear, three more losses, that's nine in succession.... | Paul | Sep 25, 2022 |
Steve: ? All: Session 9 is completed. | Allan | Sep 25, 2022 |
It's just a plot to get me to change my line-ups. But it isn't going to work. | Steve | Sep 25, 2022 |
Update: TMVL will run Sunday morning USA time... | Allan | Sep 25, 2022 |
We will be running on a couple hour (or so) delay today. | Allan | Sep 24, 2022 |
Thanks John | Roger | Sep 20, 2022 |
Yep, but a swiss system with a bracket. So the 31st place game is the loser-loser-loser-loser-winner. | John | Sep 19, 2022 |
Thanks Steve - like a Swiss system then | Roger | Sep 19, 2022 |
Short version and long version keeps failing due to bad connections. Roger it's a kind of ladder system. We all play 4 games- winners play winners and losers play losers. | Steve | Sep 19, 2022 |
How do you enter hardness on the orders screen? I've never needed it until now but can't seem to find it | John | Sep 18, 2022 |
How does the Cup / Shield work? I notice there are no brackets. | Roger | Sep 18, 2022 |
Based on overall standings I'd say Santa Clara had it tougher. | Steve | Sep 16, 2022 |
Did anybody have a harder non-conference schedule this season than our Moose? | Bryce | Sep 16, 2022 |
Thanks guys | Roy | Sep 15, 2022 |
Nashville have the 8th best Power Ranking (points scored minus points given up) so beating them away or neutral counts as a Q1. If Pekin had been playing at home it would have been Q2. | Steve | Sep 14, 2022 |
Roy - bear in mind I don't know what I'm talking about, but I was going on where you were on my Rankings page | Roger | Sep 14, 2022 |
Click on Rankings from your team's home page, or any team's for that matter. I only found it last week! | James | Sep 14, 2022 |
How do we see who's a Q1, Q2 team etc? Roger referred to Nashville as a Q1 team but we've never been higher than 9th in the rankings | Roy | Sep 14, 2022 |
Might aswell give up when playing them. Save it for the other matches | Christer | Sep 13, 2022 |
UPDATE - Click Standings then Overall tab. You'll see who is super hot (hint, its a tree animal)... | Allan | Sep 11, 2022 |
It wasn't just you (sigh from me too). Recruiting page should be working now... | Allan | Sep 10, 2022 |
What's a recruiting page? | Steve | Sep 10, 2022 |
Sigh. My recruiting page appears to have cache-d itself. | John | Sep 10, 2022 |
Vick will likely get a 6th win this week. He is playing me in the PAC 8 tourney and I am not hopeful. | Amy | Sep 10, 2022 |
With 5 wins in a row is Vick's San Jose flying under the radar? | Allan | Sep 10, 2022 |
Roger and all: I fixed emojis on the NET rankings comments. Let me know if you see another spot where its not working. | Allan | Sep 4, 2022 |
Per the rules: o At the start of session 1, (after receiving their 500 RP) a team with more than 2500 RP gets their total dropped to a max of 2500 RP. | Allan | Sep 2, 2022 |
After a number of very close matches Cincy have played the most number of points - 2796. Pekin bottom out at 2186. | James | Aug 30, 2022 |
FYI Micki dies not vote in the Coaches Poll because she was hugely disappointed to find out it was not actually a poll to rank your favorite coach. | Phil | Aug 29, 2022 |
a 4 match week-could be rough | Amy | Aug 27, 2022 |
Who is Robert and why is he hoarding RP's? | Phil | Aug 20, 2022 |
Oh geez... has there been auctions going on? Oh no... I've totally forgotten and am not hoarding at all... | Rob | Aug 20, 2022 |
Where is Rob in recruiting? Is he saving all his RPs for season 7? | Allan | Aug 19, 2022 |
where is that WGM cup draw diagram located? | Vick | Aug 17, 2022 |
Click Scores. Then select a WGM Cup Match like 12. You should then see "WGM Cup Bracket" near No Spoliers.
| Allan | Aug 17, 2022 |
This one Vick? | Roger | Aug 17, 2022 |
where is that WGM cup draw diagram located? | Vick | Aug 17, 2022 |
yes the new look panthers are looking bad ass | Vick | Aug 16, 2022 |
It's hoped that the kittens growing up into more scary looking panthers might scare other teams off, meaning forfeits and easy wins for the team | Matthew | Aug 16, 2022 |
Last season the aim for Ames was to get a win every session. This season I have upped that to two and it's working well - so far. ???? | Colin | Aug 15, 2022 |
Good chance for the Panthers NB to rest up their T7 this weekend... | Roy | Aug 15, 2022 |
Whoa. Just noticed that the Kittens grew up in a hurry. | Kevin | Aug 15, 2022 |
There aren't any good stock logos though. | John | Aug 14, 2022 |
I'm supportive of that Sheboygan nickname change... | Allan | Aug 14, 2022 |
You are right Micki! | Allan | Aug 14, 2022 |
Has anyone else noticed that Phil has not changed his hat in over a YEAR??? | Micki | Aug 13, 2022 |
That's my brand | John | Aug 13, 2022 |
...and by "sometimes" I mean every single day. | Phil | Aug 13, 2022 |
Sometimes I have no idea what John is talking about... | Phil | Aug 13, 2022 |
If the vampire bat wasn't so cute Sheboygan would consider exploring a nickname change to the "Sheboygan Sentient Sausages" | John | Aug 12, 2022 |
Welcome Paul! | John | Aug 12, 2022 |
Paul Cockayne is now in charge at Portland. Welcome back Paul! | Allan | Aug 11, 2022 |
Good luck everyone! | Amy | Aug 6, 2022 |
There will be one more week where photos can be sent in and I'll process end of session 3 (hopefully)... | Allan | Aug 6, 2022 |
This league is lacking Mr. Lindsay | Max | Aug 6, 2022 |
Who else thinks that Phil is slacking on his hat status? | Micki | Aug 6, 2022 |
Next round #1 Columbia play #2 Quincy in a game being described by commentators as "on this weekend" | John | Aug 5, 2022 |
c'mon Ian! Join us! | Amy | Jul 30, 2022 |
I think Ian is just plain scared to play a game that is harder than United :-) | Steve | Jul 30, 2022 |
I am shocked...nay...appalled...that I have been trash talking Ian in TMVL and only now realize that Ian is not in TMVL. I don't know what emoticon goes with that. | Phil | Jul 30, 2022 |
After session 1 completes (July 30th) it will be reset for session 2 (between July 30-Aug 6). There's still some manual aspects on my part to be automated. | Allan | Jul 19, 2022 |
| The poll is typically representing the votes from the prior session and going into the next session. Also the RP bonus is for that upcoming session. So the session 1 coaches poll votes and comments are awarded session 1 Media Bonus RPs. | Allan | Jul 19, 2022 |
I'm not exactly sure why I asked that question. I think what I meant was "will it reset this weekend" | John | Jul 19, 2022 |
Yes | Allan | Jul 19, 2022 |
Is the current coaches poll for preseason? | John | Jul 19, 2022 |
Should be fixed now. Because I had a 2-week gap in a table to allow some runway until session 1 that caused the anomaly. | Allan | Jul 17, 2022 |
Thanks Steve, I will look at that. | Allan | Jul 17, 2022 |
Voting on coaches poll giving 5 RP. Nothing else is as of yet. | Steve | Jul 17, 2022 |
Okay...NOW I get it... 😎 | Allan | Jul 5, 2022 |
The Hatters! | James | Jul 5, 2022 |
Okay, I'll admit that I'm not quite following this. John and Steve please enlighten me.... | Allan | Jul 5, 2022 |
LOL @ John. I woder how many here don't get the reference. | Steve | Jul 5, 2022 |
It's now very surprising to me Luton Town are in MSWL-2 and not in this league | John | Jul 4, 2022 |
whilst waiting for the next season. i think i had better do some hat shopping and become a chameleon! | Vick | Jul 2, 2022 |
I assume my logo will have to be updated to "Spokane." Perhaps at the same time, a hat could be added. | Jason | Jul 2, 2022 |
As we close the books on this season, thanks all for welcoming me in! Looking forward to what next season brings! | Jason | Jul 2, 2022 |
(I'm still going to beat you guys next season!😈) | Micki | Jul 2, 2022 |
Nice season everyone!🙂 | Micki | Jul 2, 2022 |
i don´t know the tomato stem is quite cutesy as far as hats go, but the banana is just sporting a mohican | Vick | Jul 2, 2022 |
Stems are not hats, so that's a big zero there. But I have to tip my hat to the mushroom cap! GENIUS! | Phil | Jun 27, 2022 |
Mushrooms have caps so does Mendon make it 5 hats. | James | Jun 27, 2022 |
John, if you count the tomato stem as a hat, then I think you also have to count the banana stem, which would make it four. | Jason | Jun 27, 2022 |
And yes, these two posts were worth 10 RP | John | Jun 27, 2022 |
Are there two or three teams in the league whose mascot is wearing a hat? Can't figure out if a tomato stem counts. | John | Jun 27, 2022 |
Dashboard updated for this Session 13. If you see any issues let me know... | Allan | Jun 26, 2022 |
hats are so old , its who has the best knee thats the story now !! | James | Jun 25, 2022 |
We should have awards handed out at the end of the season. I would OBVIOUSLY win the best hat award. | Micki | Jun 25, 2022 |
Ha! Yes, Christer, looks like Columbia is not happy with the Squirrels!! 😎 | Allan | Jun 20, 2022 |
It ok Al, I got it now. But that part of not taking recruits from Columbia I just will not follow.... | Christer | Jun 20, 2022 |
You'd think that at 29-3 (as we were at the time) that'd I'd be clever enough to check my libero was serving for a Middle.that was playing. | Steve | Jun 19, 2022 |
Thanks Steve for helping Christer with my poorly worded info. Christer let us know if that answered your question please. | Allan | Jun 19, 2022 |
Micki is so funny and is an amazing soccer and softball athlete! You go Micki! | Amy | Jun 18, 2022 |
The gift shop is amazing John! | Allan | Jun 18, 2022 |
Nice. I'm clearly making a road trip to Phil's hat next summer. | John | Jun 18, 2022 |
😳 | Phil | Jun 18, 2022 |
No, Raccoon National park is in Phils hat. Put a few Raccoons there myself and told them to destroy his hat. | Micki | Jun 18, 2022 |
John, it's apparently in my garage. | Phil | Jun 16, 2022 |
Thanks - Steve. | James | Jun 13, 2022 |
Yes they carry over. | Steve | Jun 13, 2022 |
Do excess CP carry over at season end? Max 15 + those won in session 12 I assume so but not 100% sure, | James | Jun 13, 2022 |
Vick's San Jose Shrimps have now appeared in the semifinals of EVERY Tournament his team has been in this season... | Allan | Jun 12, 2022 |
Where's Raccoon National Park? | John | Jun 12, 2022 |
It is one of those teams (the only team nickname?) named after a USA National Park... | Allan | Jun 12, 2022 |
That's crazy, which match!? | Mike | Jun 11, 2022 |
WOW! 43-41... | Allan | Jun 11, 2022 |
Going forward, you should now see +5 RP bonuses for: a) voting in the coaches poll b) commenting on the coaches poll and c) commenting on the recruiting rankings | Allan | Jun 11, 2022 |
YUP, Allan! get on that! I hope that I can make it to the final four after today! | Amy | Jun 11, 2022 |
I was thinking the same thing Al. | Phil | Jun 11, 2022 |
Getting harrassed here by Mrs. Sellers about how she's putting in all this press energy and some don't count (Coaches Poll/Recruiting Rankings)...guess I need to get on that? 😠| Allan | Jun 11, 2022 |
Albuquerque sneaking up on Carlsbad in the coaches poll. | Phil | Jun 11, 2022 |
With 7 B+ or higher players on the roster people know to respect the Pandas! 😎 | Allan | Jun 7, 2022 |
The Pandas lost all 3 matches this weekend and yet we get 4 votes? | Roy | Jun 7, 2022 |
Ha ha. Fortunately I love this game so much you can't shut me up and getting the 40 RP is never a problem. | Steve | Jun 7, 2022 |
'accidentally sent an empty post'....or should it read 'wanted 5k free' | Craig | Jun 7, 2022 |
Ignore that one - I accidentally sent an empty post | Steve | Jun 6, 2022 |
Steve you have to put a title on your forum posts, otherwise none of us can read them... | John | Jun 6, 2022 |
Discovering the brackets aren't as fun once you're out of the bracket | John | Jun 6, 2022 |
With Max home, there's a lot of discussion about results tonight here with the Sellers clan... | Allan | Jun 4, 2022 |
National Championship and Holyoke brackets now available at Scores page... | Allan | Jun 4, 2022 |
Huh. Guess it's the same in MSWL. Never mind. I thought clicking the number took you to the scores page, not the match report page. Anyways, disregard | John | Jun 4, 2022 |
John: please email a screenshot on your grievance and I'll see if I can fix it up for you sir! WGM visual brackets took time to code, nothing yet that is similar for the National/Holyoke. It is on my to do list. | Allan | Jun 4, 2022 |
John, are you talking from your Team page schedule? Clicking those match numbers in the schedule works for me. | Mike | Jun 3, 2022 |
TMVL things that drive me crazy, 3 June edition: clicking the number in the schedule brings up the game, not the scores for that round | John | Jun 3, 2022 |
Are brackets up for the national cups? | John | Jun 3, 2022 |
Should be good now Roy. If not, please let me know. | Allan | May 29, 2022 |
I was going to ask about the step 1 recruiting but I can see Al is already on the case | Roy | May 29, 2022 |
A lot of conversations in the Sellers house after today's results. That's not a spoiler... | Allan | May 28, 2022 |
Dont worry Vick we are in the same boat | James | May 28, 2022 |
we only have one recruits so far. It´s not looking good. | Vick | May 27, 2022 |
According to the stats our player roster is one of the worst in TMVL. Only Manitowoc´s is worse. Hoping our recruits this year might help improve this awful stat | Vick | May 27, 2022 |
James: Thanks! Vick: Yep, probably the pizza was the culprit! At the same time, 4-match sessions are tough! | Allan | May 25, 2022 |
Our shrimps were fried last session. Out two top servers just did not perform. No pizza for them this week | Vick | May 23, 2022 |
Cinci Step 2 updated. Thx for the warning | James | May 23, 2022 |
Portland Sasquatches -> Spokane Sasquatches | Allan | May 21, 2022 |
Oh yeah | Micki | May 21, 2022 |
ooh, I love hot shrimps, especially shrimp scampi | Amy | May 21, 2022 |
Shrimps have been hot lately...and spicy! | Phil | May 21, 2022 |
2 Halpins... I fear this might be my fault... | Rob | May 21, 2022 |
Permission is granted for hazing of Jason. Please all proceed... | Mike | May 21, 2022 |
Hello everybody! As I drink a cold beverage and enter my first TMVL orders tonight, I can't thank Kevin and Allan enough for their help getting me started. Happy to be here and excited to learn more about the league! | Jason | May 21, 2022 |
Welcome Jason! | Bryce | May 20, 2022 |
Welcome to Mike Halpin's brother Jason who will be taking on the Sasquatches. Thank you to Kevin for running them in caretaker mode! | Allan | May 18, 2022 |
Shrimps have been hot lately... | Allan | May 17, 2022 |
heh we now have two Shrimps in the top most service points won list! Can they get to numbers 1 and 2! | Vick | May 14, 2022 |
PAC8 is just too brutal. Never an easy game! | Vick | May 14, 2022 |
Very close and nicely done Steve. | Allan | May 8, 2022 |
I do? It took a few seconds to click as I didn't realise we were #1. That's pretty close. | Steve | May 8, 2022 |
.006 Steve knows what it means... 😢😧 | Allan | May 7, 2022 |
I love the "Micki does not like lawyers" comment Phil! 😎 | Allan | May 7, 2022 |
Good luck everyone! | Amy | May 7, 2022 |
Micki does not like lawyers, John. | Phil | May 7, 2022 |
Oh great, Albuquerque on the fixture this week. | John | May 7, 2022 |
This goes along with my blog post, but anyone who does challenge me will be demolished.😠| Micki | May 7, 2022 |
Session 3 results now available! | Allan | Apr 23, 2022 |
The suspense is killing me!
| Mike | Apr 23, 2022 |
I'll be running matches late today. I will email when done. | Allan | Apr 23, 2022 |
Love the C-Poll as well! | Mike | Apr 23, 2022 |
My hat looks goooooood. | Micki | Apr 23, 2022 |
nice to see at least one of my shrimps making it into the top 5 stats list. | Vick | Apr 23, 2022 |
Are comments on the recruiting page not available to stop Steve messing with our minds ?? | James | Apr 20, 2022 |
COACHES POLL | Allan | Apr 19, 2022 |
big fan of the coaches poll | Aires | Apr 19, 2022 |
C-Ball: I think Rob said you were a rival, so you'll need to learn a new accent it seems... 😎 | Allan | Apr 17, 2022 |
How did we wind up in the SEC? Our Boston/Providence mash-up accents will never work out there. | Mike | Apr 16, 2022 |
My hat looks gooooood. | Micki | Apr 15, 2022 |
Yep, that's what I was thinking. Create a little competition for some conference bragging rights. | Bryce | Apr 15, 2022 |
Bryce: Are you thinking we total the number of non-conference match wins by PAC 8, SEC, Big East, and Big 8 to see which conference did best w/slight award? | Allan | Apr 12, 2022 |
I saw there was a reward for non-conference performance by a team. What about a small reward for all teams in the conference that performs best compared to the other conferences? | Bryce | Apr 11, 2022 |
Thank you! | Steve | Apr 10, 2022 |
Added! | Allan | Apr 10, 2022 |
Any chance of a coach list -> team please. I know pretty much all the old teams and a few of the new but not all. | Steve | Apr 10, 2022 |
SCOREBOARD UPDATE | Allan | Apr 10, 2022 |
Love the Paul photo... | Allan | Apr 10, 2022 |
Era of taking the Micki? | Paul | Apr 9, 2022 |
Ok, I think this is most definitely going to be, "The era of Micki" | Micki | Apr 9, 2022 |
I'd be worried if I were you Colin...my mighty Bulldogs are predicted to LOSE all 3. Obviously that's rubbish so using the same logic, you're right to be concerned :) | Craig | Apr 8, 2022 |
So I don't have a clue what's going on but I checked my first 3 matches and they all predict Ames to win. Hahahaha perhaps the prediction guide should include what a dunderheid is picking the team! | Colin | Apr 1, 2022 |
Ty Allan, Max and the others who helped get this up and running! | Aires | Mar 29, 2022 |
MESSAGE SECTION | Allan | Mar 28, 2022 |
Are then any plans to add a messages section so other managers can easily contact each other like as there is in the MSWL leagues. I realise not as much need as in the football leagues but could prove useful | Vick | Mar 28, 2022 |
UPDATES | Allan | Mar 28, 2022 |
Oh, never mind. Transition not yet complete...I was all excited for games this week. My bad. | Phil | Mar 26, 2022 |
Al, my team show some players already increased by CP. Is there a chance the practice session wasn't eradicated? | Phil | Mar 26, 2022 |
There is a Mrs. Sellers? | Phil | Mar 26, 2022 |
Top server is a newbie Shrimp. congrats to Aiden. Lets hope he continues to put in those performances in season 5! | Vick | Mar 21, 2022 |
Is pre-season John trying to fly under the radar? | Allan | Mar 18, 2022 |
Why does Rob lead blocking with 3 players in the top 3 spots. Does Rob know something we do not? | Allan | Mar 14, 2022 |
Good luck Mrs Sellers...just watch yourself against Mr Sellers though...he holds ALL the cards and is very friendly with the powers that be! | Craig | Mar 13, 2022 |
MRS. SELLERS 😇 | Allan | Mar 13, 2022 |
It was just an issue for the new teams as I had some manualy setup tasks on the "overall" and "grade" fields and didn't get it fully done... | Allan | Mar 12, 2022 |
Odd. I've been on that page dozens of times (always tweaking) and hadn't noticed. | Steve | Mar 12, 2022 |
ORDERS PAGE | Allan | Mar 12, 2022 |
QUICK UPDATES | Allan | Mar 12, 2022 |
Al please use the same profile pic as in mswl cheers | James | Mar 12, 2022 |
Thi is gonna take a while to the hang of, only ever played doubles at VB | James | Mar 12, 2022 |
Does anyone else notice, if you look at the shrimp's photograph it looks like they're picking their nose. | Micki | Mar 12, 2022 |
With 7 players in the Grade A range are Christer and Schenectady trying to fly under the radar? | Allan | Mar 12, 2022 |
One more to go 😀 | Steve | Mar 11, 2022 |
The Artichoke logo has arrived! | Allan | Mar 10, 2022 |
Ah, my mobile phone browser let's me in. Must be whatever the laptop uses as a browser | Roy | Mar 7, 2022 |
Easy question first, Roy.
What browser are you using? | Steve | Mar 6, 2022 |
| Is the Blog open to new managers? I can see a title box but not a box to write the blog itself into. | Roy | Mar 6, 2022 |
My hat looks goooood. | Phil | Mar 5, 2022 |
Ha! Well Roy, I don't want to call anyone out but the photo Paul sent me looks like it was taken when he was 22? And he's not been 22 for a while! :-) | Allan | Feb 28, 2022 |
| I'll try and sort out a profile picture. Did you guys ever think about using pics of yourselves from when you were in college? Steve's pic reminded me that he used one for a youth academy soccer team. | Roy | Feb 28, 2022 |
The Logos are on a site called PlaceIt.net. Max and I found that when we were originally starting TMVL and wanted to get some quality logos to use. | Allan | Feb 20, 2022 |
Al, where you get the logos for the teams. They've always looked great, and the news ones so far are amazing. | Mike | Feb 20, 2022 |
10 managers added to the website. 6 more managers needed. Team Names and Logos to come soon... | Allan | Feb 17, 2022 |
Still crossing my fingers for the "All My Players Disappointed Me" post from Rob... | Allan | Feb 11, 2022 |
Planning to run matches late today (Monday 4pm USA Central or so). | Allan | Feb 7, 2022 |
I'm sure it was just a "coincidence"... 😎 | Allan | Feb 3, 2022 |
Oh good. Just by posting about it, I stopped the glitch in the matrix.
| Mike | Feb 3, 2022 |
Al really wants us to know that the Mules have the top two players on the "Most Kills" list. As that's the only stat block that keeps flashing on the home page for me. | Mike | Feb 3, 2022 |
Point for Schenectady! | Phil | Jan 31, 2022 |
non-con equals all-pro you mean, Phil? | Christer | Jan 30, 2022 |
I always assumed non-con was good because....well..it's non-con. | Phil | Jan 29, 2022 |
Holyoke here we come | Aires | Jan 26, 2022 |
John probably shouldn't have staked his claim to that "Non-Con" trophy...teams are now paying attention... | Allan | Jan 23, 2022 |
Running games about an hour after deadline today... | Allan | Jan 22, 2022 |
Is that anything like Googling yourself? | Rob | Jan 22, 2022 |
Always Fedex yourself, I say | John | Jan 20, 2022 |
LOL! 😎 | Allan | Jan 16, 2022 |
Do you get anything from winning non-conference? Asking for a coach whose name is me | John | Jan 16, 2022 |
T7 from the Anglerfish then. But that's what they do: lure you into the light then you're fish food. | Steve | Jan 15, 2022 |
Not much left to play for in the season... time to trot out the underclassmen! | Rob | Jan 14, 2022 |
Two games two wins required | Matt | Jan 14, 2022 |
Hopefully we can make a comeback and demolish everyone! | Micki | Jan 13, 2022 |
So are we😔 | Micki | Jan 13, 2022 |
Burlington is hurting | Aires | Jan 12, 2022 |
Yes sir, nicely done Steve! 😎 | Allan | Jan 11, 2022 |
Looks OK now, Al. Crikey I've started a lot of Team News articles haven't I? | Steve | Jan 11, 2022 |
Looked like a bug on one of the pages. It was saving properly, but not presenting the session number correctly. Have another look and see if that helps. | Allan | Jan 11, 2022 |
I was looking into starting to use the feature and got curious. | Mike | Jan 11, 2022 |
Al, is the "(Session 8) " in the Team News form static and applied to old posts that may have been posted in prior sessions? I notice that most of Steve's news items list "Session 8" even though some are as old as late November.
| Mike | Jan 11, 2022 |
Glad that worked John. You may need to write a translator for your posts though as Steve noted. 😎 | Allan | Jan 5, 2022 |
Yup, all sorted. Thanks Al! Only thing left to do now is re-run the last round of matches 😇 | John | Jan 4, 2022 |
👠| Allan | Jan 4, 2022 |
The base orders.php page now loads completely. | John | Jan 3, 2022 |
Ugh again. Okay, please try again... | Allan | Jan 3, 2022 |
Unfortunately both Option A and Option B cut off at exactly the same place - right at Barney Oniongrove's setting skill :( | John | Jan 3, 2022 |
Okay, I had some time now and created an approach similar to United. John: Please verify it works for you. Thanks! | Allan | Jan 2, 2022 |
Ugh! I will try to get some options out there for you on Tuesday or sooner John. | Allan | Jan 2, 2022 |
The cache bug has hit my orders page :( | John | Jan 2, 2022 |
What kind of trash talk is THAT Phil?!? | Micki | Jan 1, 2022 |
Happy New Year, Everyone! Appreciate your friendship and spirited competition all year round! | Phil | Jan 1, 2022 |
There's nothing wrong with this league that a little Jeff Bagby can't fix...I'm just sayin'... | Phil | Jan 1, 2022 |
Happy New Year 🥳 | Micki | Jan 1, 2022 |
Nice! The last time there was a "Holden rule" a local sandwich shop stopped accepting payment by check | John | Dec 28, 2021 |
Yes, he will have another chance with the new Holden Rule 😎 | Allan | Dec 27, 2021 |
We have our first new rule end of season auction recruit, 3-star Libero Reid Ayers | John | Dec 27, 2021 |
Oh I'm sorry, but I was just trying to be nice for once! | Micki | Dec 25, 2021 |
What kind of trash talk is THAT?!! | Phil | Dec 25, 2021 |
I just wanted to stop by and tell everyone Merry Christmas! | Micki | Dec 24, 2021 |
Less than 6 hours to Christmas here in the UK so I'd like to wish everyone a very Happy Christmas and hope you get everything you wished for (except Max in match 16). | Steve | Dec 24, 2021 |
wow! | Allan | Dec 19, 2021 |
I once asked for band-aids in a UK pharmacy and ended up getting plastered | John | Dec 18, 2021 |
Band-aid. PHP version change. Very frustrating. Hopefully it "fixes itself" after this session. Sigh... | Allan | Dec 18, 2021 |
How'd you fix that Al? | John | Dec 18, 2021 |
Its working (for now) Steve. Same issue I have in United Orders where the page caches and will not "repaint" despite my settings to do just that... | Allan | Dec 16, 2021 |
I see it too. Tried a few things (sort of like the Orders caching issue) and nothing resolved it. I'll look again later. | Allan | Dec 16, 2021 |
When clicking on All Recruits I'm only seeing Dorsey and one other MB. Anyone else getting the same? | Steve | Dec 16, 2021 |
Eh. It's just a small hitch in the road. | Micki | Dec 15, 2021 |
Did anyone else notice that Phil signed the "best" MB recruit yesterday? 🤠| Allan | Dec 12, 2021 |
Kevin: I have thought about that idea a bit. | Allan | Dec 11, 2021 |
What conference am I in? | Phil | Dec 11, 2021 |
Al's 'random' praise has me thinking there's going to be a RP reward for getting lineups in by Wednesday each week that diminishes every day after until the C-Ball deadline. | Kevin | Dec 10, 2021 |
Western Conference 7, Eastern Conference 1. Good work WC on those lineups! 🤠| Allan | Dec 10, 2021 |
The struggle is real with the Bullfrogs | Aires | Dec 9, 2021 |
Love that blog/bio post thanks Steve! | Allan | Dec 6, 2021 |
That one is the record (two 36-34 sets in prior seasons). 😎 | Allan | Dec 5, 2021 |
What's the longest set so far? Had a 39-37 one this weekend | John | Dec 5, 2021 |
Not too many eh Aires 😄 | Steve | Dec 1, 2021 |
Ok time for Bullflrogs to pick up the intensity and get a few wins this weekend
| Aires | Dec 1, 2021 |
You can use the Team News to talk about your team. OR some people like to use it to put the focus on another team. 😎 | Allan | Nov 25, 2021 |
Added TEAM NEWS/journal section including code to include entries for the media bonus. For now access on front page, later on team page too. | Allan | Nov 25, 2021 |
Hi😜 | Micki | Nov 23, 2021 |
Also if you need fresh recruit names I'm available | John | Nov 22, 2021 |
There will probably be more later with the seeded cup rounds as well. | Steve | Nov 22, 2021 |
Thanks John! New schedule looks good Steve. I think I just see one where I have two home games in same session and I know we expected at least that. Thanks! | Allan | Nov 21, 2021 |
This season's turnaround was tighter than a belt on Thansgiving | John | Nov 21, 2021 |
So much for trying to fix the schedule. We have Carlsbad twice, Baton Rouge and Antioch. | Steve | Nov 21, 2021 |
😎🤔 Its probably not related to how last year we ended up with last names like "Oniongrove" and "Manhopper". Okay John fire away with a name suggestion... | Allan | Nov 13, 2021 |
We can't pick names for walk-ons no more?! | John | Nov 12, 2021 |
A few stats that helped us in our great season: Most service points Wyatt Robinson 1st=, Most digs Brenton Franklin 2nd, Most kills Wyatt Robinson 1st. Most Blocks Roger Bishop 3rd | Steve | Oct 30, 2021 |
Christer: Very nice job. Three more to go! | Allan | Oct 26, 2021 |
Steve: And when that type of ball lands in the middle of 6 players and NONE can get to it (along with other shots like this) it is called a CAMPFIRE (the ball is like the fire surrounded by people). | Allan | Oct 26, 2021 |
Steve: The symbols have always been there for the viewer. Yes there are some fun volleyball terms like "setter dump" when the setter disguises it like they are going to set an attacker but instead dump it over. | Allan | Oct 26, 2021 |
Can we play a few more sessions? The Squirrels have finally understood how to play volleyball
| Christer | Oct 24, 2021 |
How long have those symbols been there on the viewer? I normally look on my phone zoomed in so they'd be off the screen. Took me a while to work out what the dump(er) truck meant. (And thank you for the email, Al) | Steve | Oct 24, 2021 |
Yes, I will email a copy of three tables to help you research this. If anyone else wants the data too please let me know. | Allan | Oct 23, 2021 |
Might be a daft question but is there anyway to check past coaching? A couple of my players seem shorter than expected (this WILL NOT happen next season). I did make notes for XP planning but threw them. | Steve | Oct 23, 2021 |
Sorry Mendon and Burlington. Looks like you are on the list to lose to Micki and ABQ today... | Allan | Oct 23, 2021 |
It is a nerdy progamming thing Kevin and yes I was looking at the word like "am I spelling this right?"... 😎 | Allan | Oct 22, 2021 |
Kudos to Al for successfully using "decremented" in a sentence. Don't see that one every day. | Kevin | Oct 22, 2021 |
You can also use the COACHING section in the upper right to see how much CP is decremented as you make a selection. | Allan | Oct 22, 2021 |
Orders page does just show your "base" SL (without FIT) and not your "effective" SL like you'll see in match reports. CP uses "base" SL (without FIT impacting). | Allan | Oct 22, 2021 |
Looking at my liberos with identical SRV and RCV but different FIT I'd say it was tied to FIT=0. On the orders page both are A- but on the team page the one with 4 less DEF and FIT 1 is only a B | Steve | Oct 22, 2021 |
On the Orders page, if FIT is represented, does that make the cost of CP for a skill go up as well? Or is CP tied to the 0-FIT skill level? | Mike | Oct 22, 2021 |
I think yes you are right Steve. I don't think I incorporate FIT in the grade on the teams page? It seems like I should for consistency though right? | Allan | Oct 16, 2021 |
Answering my own question. I've looked at other players and this seems to be the case. | Steve | Oct 13, 2021 |
Gavin Carter, libero is listed as A- on the orders page but B on the team page. Is this due to Fit? It's in the game vs Baton Rouge | Steve | Oct 13, 2021 |
Time to start thinking about next season, XP usage and working on our away record which is almost as bad as Antioch's | Steve | Oct 10, 2021 |
My hat looks good! | Phil | Oct 9, 2021 |
I do it all for the money | John | Oct 9, 2021 |
John's comment, without proper context is VERY confusing! | Rob | Oct 9, 2021 |
Ninja is about nine minutes a pound, the meat is pretty lean. | John | Oct 9, 2021 |
I need to up my game on recruiting. Spent too much on my 5* setter - could have got two players for that. And didn't even l know all the recruits were listed. | Steve | Oct 2, 2021 |
This league is a roadkill smorgasbord! | Phil | Oct 2, 2021 |
LOL John eats roadkill! | Phil | Oct 2, 2021 |
John, I'm curious. How does one go about eating a ninja? | Kevin | Oct 2, 2021 |
I'm offended. But raccoon may be something I want to try.... | Micki | Oct 1, 2021 |
Finally realising Teutopolis is the only mascot in the league which wouldn't make a good sandwich | John | Oct 1, 2021 |
Yay! I FINALLY got my recruiting done!😋 | Micki | Oct 1, 2021 |
Those aren't fractional lines, those are pies. Pies that get eaten in reverse | John | Oct 1, 2021 |
Two points: 1. love the fractional lines 2. I must look at that scheduling - 4 home games??? | Steve | Oct 1, 2021 |
No your eyes aren't fooling you on the Orders page. I added the "fractional" lines for when a player hasn't been coached per Mike Halpin's requirements... ðŸ | Allan | Oct 1, 2021 |
Need to start recruiting a few new players | Matt | Oct 1, 2021 |
This emoji has Phil's cowboy hat I guess? 🤠| Allan | Sep 29, 2021 |
Will John run his winning streak to SIX with this session? 😇 | Allan | Sep 29, 2021 |
| Sorry John, I know you thought I'd change the rules because you have 4 matches at home this session, but I'm not going to. :-) | Allan | Sep 28, 2021 |
| Four home game session 8D | John | Sep 27, 2021 |
| Nice job on that road W Christer! | Allan | Sep 26, 2021 |
| Does anyone else think that Phil should just stick to one hat? | Micki | Sep 25, 2021 |
| Notice to ALL MANAGERS. Al is holding out on you. There are more hat pictures. | Phil | Sep 25, 2021 |
| Sheboygan has the best Serve Receive percentage in this league... | Allan | Sep 20, 2021 |
| This session we have 3 home matches and then we play at Sheboygan to defend our WGM title... | Allan | Sep 19, 2021 |
| As is "Indiana Jones" Phil. | Phil | Sep 18, 2021 |
| I have more hats, Al. Conductor Phil is a pretty popular item these days. | Phil | Sep 18, 2021 |
| I don't like anyone who’s defeated me. They are on my “I will get them back/Revenge list.†| Micki | Sep 18, 2021 |
| Squirrels obviously dont like bananas. Unfortunatly they cant play volleyball against them either. | Christer | Sep 14, 2021 |
| Are Baton Rouge flying under the radar? | Allan | Sep 13, 2021 |
| Steve: It is after recruiting is processed each session. | Allan | Sep 12, 2021 |
| When is the media and session RP added? Just wondering how much to bid | Steve | Sep 12, 2021 |
| NIL CONTRACTS!!!! | Phil | Sep 11, 2021 |
| Pursuant to the colorful thread from Phil and John, should their be "collusion-like" suggestions allowed during the Step 3 final recruiting process? Do we need to add in a spot for comments (like I'm up against Mr. C-Ball for a Libero it seems). | Allan | Aug 29, 2021 |
| Ride the pine? The Sheboygan benches, for the home team at least, have some very comfy cushions. It'd be nice if you could pass that onto the recruits Al | John | Aug 29, 2021 |
| I would love to have the option of spending a few RP's to persuade a recruit NOT to go to a rival. "Yeah, they are good. So good you'll ride the pine for three and a half seasons." | Phil | Aug 27, 2021 |
| Are Matt and San Diego flying under the radar with this strategy of playing five sets in EVERY match? It appears to be a solid XP-raising strategy... | Allan | Aug 22, 2021 |
| Memory note for myself. Dont waste those XPs this season. | Christer | Aug 20, 2021 |
| Based on how they used their RP. I'll email you the season 2 expenditures. If anyone else wants that spreadsheet please ask. | Allan | Aug 18, 2021 |
| Why do recruiting points vary so much by team? | John | Aug 18, 2021 |
| Quick answer to Mike Halpin from a 3/20 post...yes I'll add a task list item to show all teams eligible to bid in step 3 (starting next season) even if your team is not involved. | Allan | Mar 27, 2021 |
| I don't think so, Micki. I appear to have too many OH next season. Want to poach one? | Steve | Mar 27, 2021 |
| Is there any recruiting this session? | Micki | Mar 27, 2021 |
| NEW RANKINGS New rankings format is coded and will be published after matches on Saturday... | Allan | Mar 26, 2021 |
| ALL MANAGERS Please see the Home Court Forum thread and comment. Some VERY interesting ideas from Kevin there that need exploring with feedback (thanks Kevin)... | Allan | Mar 24, 2021 |
| Thanks Mike H. for the feedback. I've added that to our task list. | Allan | Mar 24, 2021 |
| In response to the question about recruiting, yes, I think it would be helpful to see who is eligible to bid on the other Step 3 recruits. | Mike | Mar 20, 2021 |
| Even when you can't sign players in step 3 (because you didn't use RP in step 2), do you still want to see all the teams recruiting each player in step 3? | Allan | Mar 16, 2021 |
| And how is it that I've played against Aires for years in several leagues and no one has shared until now that his nickname is "Moose"? | Kevin | Mar 16, 2021 |
| With 4 on the road, and all against top 10 teams, Rob. I still fear the Fish! | Kevin | Mar 16, 2021 |
| How the mighty have fallen. Since Kevin Martin released his rankings, Antioch has lost 5 out of the last 7 matches. | Rob | Mar 15, 2021 |
| We need some sort of bubble watch on the standings tab to make tournament seedings clear | John | Mar 15, 2021 |
| Home teams win 53% of points and have a 120-34 (78%) record | John | Mar 11, 2021 |
| You are correct Christer. Max of 4 in competitive recruiting. Then additional in the discover recruits process after session 9. Roster for next season maxes out at 20. | Allan | Mar 7, 2021 |
| Can we only recruit 4 players? I thought we could have up to 20 players in the squad. It says that from season 2 to season 3 we can add players to the squad. Does it mean that the "extra" recruit should be after competetive signing? | Christer | Mar 7, 2021 |
| Is Carlsbad and their 5-star recruiting trying to fly under the radar? | Allan | Mar 2, 2021 |
| Sorry to hear that John. I double checked and don't see RPs saved for step 3 last session. If you run into or see any further questions/issues please let me know. | Allan | Feb 22, 2021 |
| Definitely entered them in this time just so I don't gaslamp myself again | John | Feb 21, 2021 |
| Probably just user error, but I could have sworn I bid on players the last recruitment round | John | Feb 21, 2021 |
| Now its ok, thanks | Christer | Feb 13, 2021 |
| Please try again Christer. | Allan | Feb 12, 2021 |
| Al, my orders-page is not working. I can only see my S and L players. | Christer | Feb 12, 2021 |
| RECRUITING TIP - Pay attention to the Step 3 "Max Recruiting Points to spend". If you leave it at 1500 (default) and put in RPs higher than 1500...then 1500 is used. | Allan | Feb 12, 2021 |
| Trying to keep the names fun for you C-Ball! | Allan | Feb 12, 2021 |
| Is there an Abe Vigoda out there!? Fish 4EVA! | Mike | Feb 10, 2021 |
| No comment on Abe Vigoda C-Ball? :-) | Allan | Feb 8, 2021 |
| Welcome to Martyn Hathaway who takes over the Chihuahuas and becomes our 3rd UK coach. Good luck Martyn! | Allan | Feb 5, 2021 |
| SUNDAY UPDATE - Thanks Mike for the kind comments, very glad you are enjoying it (thank Rob for the introduction). Stats page now updated (click stats link)... | Allan | Feb 1, 2021 |
| Thanks Al. | Steve | Jan 31, 2021 |
| PASSING RATING - It is a subjective rating. 3 = perfect pass (can set any attackers making it harder to guess who to block), 2 is very good, 1 is poor (can maybe only set OH), 0 is typically you got aced. RCV drives this rating. | Allan | Jan 31, 2021 |
| In the match reports it says things like "passes a 3". What does this mean? | Steve | Jan 31, 2021 |
| Better week for me but I think that's more because I T7'd (?) two of my games. Didn't even know we were playing Al in the thrown game. | Steve | Jan 31, 2021 |
| Thanks Christer. Minor add to the text boxscore: In the team totals line you'll see your lineup's "grade average". This way if your team averaged a B and you lost to a C team you can blame something else (like the simulator) for why you | Allan | Jan 30, 2021 |
| Looks great Allan | Christer | Jan 28, 2021 |
| Monday Update - added a green checkmark in step 2 for players you recruited in step 1. Does that help? | Allan | Jan 25, 2021 |
| I wouldn't list other step 1 teams since if they ignore the recruiting visit (step 2) they will not be able to "bid"/commit the recruit in the final step (3). | Allan | Jan 24, 2021 |
| Any ideas Mike (or league)? Should I have a column for Step 2 like "Step 1?" and then do a checkmark icon if your team spent the 15-25 RP in step 1? | Allan | Jan 24, 2021 |
| Ah, I see. My 2 guys are 20 RP for the upcoming pass, which is lower than the others. I guess it would be good to list which teams were active with which players in the prior stage(s), but it may be tricky to fit. Thank you! | Mike | Jan 24, 2021 |
| Good question Mike. What you should see in step 2 is a lower RP Cost for the players you spent RP on in step 1. Do you see that? And, do you (or anyone) have a better way I can highlight that? | Allan | Jan 24, 2021 |
| I may be missing something similar here, too. I bid on 2 recruits is Step 1. Does it show somewhere which 2 they were, so I can continue on to visits with them? TY! | Mike | Jan 24, 2021 |
| Good question John. I had to add the code to "step 2" (just completed). Please see if it looks better now... | Allan | Jan 23, 2021 |
| Should I see my team's logo next to the players I decided to recruit? Probably user error, but it doesn't seem to have taken | John | Jan 23, 2021 |
| Ms. McIntosh...please send me a couple of screenshots on the issue you are seeing with the Blog. As for Voodoo dolls, please use Illini colors for mine... | Allan | Jan 23, 2021 |
| I can't make a blog entries. I clicked the save blog entries, and it didn't post. Were you trying to silence me? | Micki | Jan 23, 2021 |
| Deadline coming up soon. Please email with any questions. | Allan | Jan 23, 2021 |
| Nice to see I'm top of the rankings. Get used to seeing that in a couple of seasons. | Steve | Jan 22, 2021 |
| New logos are up for New Orleans and San Diego (may take a little time to appear with caching)... | Allan | Jan 17, 2021 |
| Welcome to Matt White who takes over at San Diego. New Swordfish logo upcoming... | Allan | Jan 17, 2021 |
| Squirrels were 2-0 versus the Chihuahuas last season. | Allan | Jan 17, 2021 |
| We start with three games vs Santa Clara. | Christer | Jan 17, 2021 |
| Updated rules for season 2 online. Website/DB will be ready on Saturday January 16th... | Allan | Jan 16, 2021 |
| John we have 1 definite and maybe a second opening. For anyone that has a person in mind please email me. | Allan | Jan 4, 2021 |
| Completed scheduling for the new TMVL Cup/Shield and National Championship/Holyoke Invitational today. Also fixed a new NMR bug. Back to recruiting and then will announce season start soon. | Allan | Jan 4, 2021 |
| How many teams are vacant? | John | Jan 4, 2021 |
| Welcome to Kevin Martin as he takes over the reigns at New Orleans. | Allan | Jan 3, 2021 |
| Merry Christmas to all! | Allan | Dec 25, 2020 |
| We'd all like a second halpin! Congrats Mike | John | Nov 4, 2020 |
| Haha, it's a re-election campaign, so they all say: "I'd like a second Halpin'" | Mike | Oct 25, 2020 |
| Running matches at around 6pm CT (finishing up soccer league first)... And I did not see THAT sign John...good idea. :-) | Allan | Oct 24, 2020 |
| Was it one of those "Everyone needs a Halpin hand" signs you see everywhere? | John | Oct 24, 2020 |
| That's a good sign Al! (pun intended!) | Rob | Oct 11, 2020 |
| We saw a lot of "Mike Halpin" yard signs driving around Augustana/Rock Island today. Good luck Mike! | Allan | Oct 11, 2020 |
| Yes, all four recruits.. except I bid on another weak side hitter instead of the Setter I probably need. Whoops! | Mike | Oct 6, 2020 |
| Bananas now have all four recruits (first team to do that) for next season | Allan | Oct 4, 2020 |
| Thanks John. Still time for a couple more orders...waiting a few more minutes as I see Daniel on... | Allan | Sep 26, 2020 |
| Done in the nick of time... | John | Sep 26, 2020 |
| Doing orders now! | John | Sep 26, 2020 |
| I think Phil looks more prepared in his picture than you guys are in your picture... | Micki | Sep 26, 2020 |
| Of all you managers, Phil (with his community theater FB posts) has the MOST options to change photos. And by change photos I mean me deciding to change his photo. I'm just sayin'... | Allan | Sep 21, 2020 |
| You sure about that Phil? ... ... ... | Rob | Sep 20, 2020 |
| On the bright side, involvement in this league has made me realize how good I look in my cowboy hat! | Phil | Sep 13, 2020 |
| I'm sure you will be fine Phil. I think you are trying to lull us into low expectations with your team ranked #5 and all... | Allan | Sep 12, 2020 |
| And the worst part is, Micki understands the game better than me! | Phil | Sep 12, 2020 |
| I have managed to destroy my team in three short sessions. | Phil | Sep 7, 2020 |
| Okay. I've got it. Thanks. (I assumed too much...MSWL Auction process). | Phil | Sep 7, 2020 |
| Yes, I missed this on my first week of bids as well. Finishing second on 2 recruits cost us some solid REC points. | Mike | Sep 6, 2020 |
| Phil the problem is you lose RP even if you dont win the lots above. You lose 25% of your bid when not winning and the winning amount if you win. So when lot 5 was evaluated you had lost RPs to afford your bid. | Christer | Sep 6, 2020 |
| Can someone explain recruiting? I am losing RP ever session but not getting players. And should I have received #5 this week? | Phil | Sep 6, 2020 |
| Ha Ha. You just wait. | Micki | Sep 5, 2020 |
| Can the Raccoons get back in the Top 10 this week? | Allan | Sep 3, 2020 |
| Welcome Teutopolis. You'll never know what hit when I go against YOU.(He He) | Micki | Aug 29, 2020 |
| Of course, we can't quite spell our own name yet. :) | Mike | Aug 29, 2020 |
| Teutopis is here to play this week, Twist and shout! | Mike | Aug 29, 2020 |
| Mr. Lopez is interested in wearing a Rabid Biting Mule uniform... | Allan | Aug 25, 2020 |
| Ninjas added... | Allan | Aug 21, 2020 |
| Hey, Schenectady Squirrels! I bet you are going nuts about our game in match 4. Just so you know, you are gong in the hole in match 4. | Micki | Aug 19, 2020 |
| Ms. McIntosh is already circling Match 4 on her calendar vs. Mr. Kallin's Squirrels... | Allan | Aug 18, 2020 |
| Ha Ha Ha. Very funny. | Micki | Aug 17, 2020 |
| Its nice of them to play in different conferences, so we all get to beat a McIntosh :-) | Christer | Aug 17, 2020 |
| Which of the McIntosh's will win their conference? Phil or Micki? | Allan | Aug 17, 2020 |