The Beginner’s Guide to the ManagerLeague Galaxy - Anouncement

Hello ladies and gentlemen! 

After the last post, during which I covered a bit about schedule and a few of the ManagerLeague Champions League matches, I’ve realized that covering 64 teams, or 7x32 matches is a bit time consuming. Based upon that realization, rather than covering the ManagerLeague Super Cup and Cup Winner’s cup group stages, I’ve decided to try something different today. Don’t worry, I’ll make sure to cover the important bits of all ManagerLeague International Competitions knockout stages. 

We all know what ManagerLeague is by now and in case you don’t, the blame is on YOU! Even if you don’t know what ManagerLeague is, because I’m in a very good mood today, I’ll just remind you:

ManagerLeague is an online web-browser based game. And if you ask me, I dare say, it’s the best online football manager game out there. If you don’t believe me, I challenge you to try it! I’m sure you’ll be impressed with it’s smooth graphics, immense depth and fantastic community. I’ll even go that far and claim that no other game has a friendlier and nicer community! There are over 100 millions of matches played each season. While it’s main focus is managing a football team, there’s a lot more to it. While I could go on and on about ManagerLeague’s quality as a game, let’s not get to carried away and forget why we are here for, the announcement of The Beginner’s Guide to the ManagerLeague Galaxy! 

The Beginner’s Guide to the ManagerLeague Galaxy

Many fellow managers join ManagerLeague with the hopes of challenging for titles and glory but end up failing. With a good start and some smart decisions you will get there, but it’s gonna take a bit longer than many of us imagined when they joined the game. Just to give you a rough idea, the “quickest” managers out there to win the ManagerLeague Champions League trophy, needed no less than 16 seasons and there’s only two of them who managed to do that. (Shoutout to Jacks and Princess Azula, make sure to send them a congratulations message!) That’s roughly 64 weeks or 448 days. If it feels like a long time, don’t worry, time in ManagerLeague flies by fast. You’re welcome to accept the challenge of doing it sooner, and you’ll have my utmost respect if you can manage it. I am not here to blow sunshine up your you know what, and while at some point somebody could break that record, most of new managers won’t.

It’s nice to have high expectations but rather than relying your in-game satisfaction on winning trophies, which sometimes you will, but most of times you won’t, try aiming to get a bit better each and every day. Success in ManagerLeague depends on it. 

My aim here, with this guide, is to help you get a basic understanding of ManagerLeague. I can and will write this guide for you (and in addition to this guide there’s plenty of support for new manager around the game, you can even ask for a mentor by posting in the “Mentor\"s Thread” from the in-game forum) but I (or anybody, for that matter) can not learn and apply them instead of you.

The Beginner’s Guide to the ManagerLeague Galaxy - Structure

You can have an overview of the preliminary structure of guide below: 

Part 1 - Basic concepts

1. Intro
2. Forums & Chat
3. ML Structure 
4. Schedule 
5. Achievements
6. History
7. Squad 
8. Training
9. Staff
10. Finances 
11. Credits
12. Stadium
13. Teamstats
14. Tactics and Events
15. Matches
16. Beginner’s Perk
17. First Day in ML

Part 2 - Intermediate Concepts

1. Resources Management
2. Monster Gains
3. Building a squad of Q95+

Part 3 - Advanced Concepts

1. Tactical Mastermind
2. Maintaining a squad at Q95+
3. Strategies
4. Lessons Learned

 As you can see, my aim is to make this guide a very comprehensive one. In order to maximize the quality of the guide, I will take a phased approach to it. For  Part 1 - Basic Concepts, I will try to prepare a chapter weekly, then as we progress to the intermediate and advanced concepts things will slow down as those will take more time and I will need some advice from the more experienced managers. 

The structure is open to discussion and I am willing to change it, based upon the feedback I receive.

Season 211 - Kick Off

Hello everyone and welcome to a brand new season of ManagerLeague!

Teams and supporters around the world are looking forward to a promising campaign that will reward them with attributes, teamstats and many opportunities.

Here's a quiz in order to celebrate the start of the new season.

Feel free to provide your opinions and your comments below.


Stay tunned, as the results of the poll will be posted tonight.

ManagerLeague News - Go Live Announcement

 

Since 2005, ManagerLeague has offered me and other “managers” worldwide a rollercoaster ride. Like many others, I’ve been on and off playing this game for years. I've got the first taste of it, back in 2007, but life got in the way and I stopped playing at some point, in 2011. Years later, in 2018, when starting a new job, I was pleasantly surprised to see one of my coworkers having the time of his life while reading his last match report. It wasn’t long until I was back in, sacking players and setting up a structure for my new team.

The values promoted by ManagerLeague, both inside and outside its game are essential for creating a healthy gaming environment. In a world where everybody is focused on creating an ideal self-image, hiding their flaws just to make themselves a bit easier to like, ManagerLeague created the perfect environment where everybody can feel accepted for who they truly are.

I’m amazed that Fifth Season, the company behind ManagerLeague, refused to place any adverts for gambling sites, just to keep the game children friendly. They sacrificed a lot of financial gains just to protect the Manager League Community and keep it a friendly and safe environment for people of all ages. With one of the smallest team and the support of the ManagerLeague Coumunity they managed to break the language barrier and unite people across different cultures.

I was impressed by how much the game has grown, in the years I've been away from it. Like the best of wines, it started like a sweet tasting grape juice and matured into something a lot more than that.

The game’s overall quality has steadily grown and improved over the years and facilitated the existence of a place where various ideas can be discussed and debated in a respectful manner.

ManagerLeague News

I've been back for almost 50 seasons now, during that time I've found great joy and comfort in playing this game. I’ve formed some friendship and some healthy rivalries. I’ve been called “The One Season Wonder” for winning a minor trophy and failing to back that up with another major trophy for the past 12 seasons.

I have no coding skills, I hate translations and I’m a mediocre manager at best, but that doesn’t stop me from wanting to share the gratitude I have for rediscovering the pleasures that only a game like ManagerLeague can give you.

I’ve been thinking about a way to express my gratitude for a while now and, without any intention of sounding arrogant, I consider myself at least above average when it comes to putting numbers into words and create stories out of data. Lucky enough for me, there are more than 100 million matches played throughout an entire season and lots of data and numbers flying around, waiting for somebody to put those numbers into words. While I am not able to give a meaning to every number that you can find in game, I can certainly create a story for some of the numbers around the game.

How many of you remember the story before the MLCL S205 Final? With less than 24 hours before that game, Artuks, manager of FC Anatolia, only goalkeeper got injured, with no posibilities to recover before the game. His main and fiercest rival, from the German League, Jacks, manager of Werder Bremen Walle, the quickest manager to win the MLCL Trophy, listed his main goalkeeper just to give him a fair chance for competing for the trophy. This decision was met with fierce protest on the global channel by most romanian managers until the famous "I'd rather lose my third MLCL Final , than win against a team with with no goalkeeper!" message posted by Iceman2807, manager of Lotus Sibiu calmed the spirits. This story is just a part of the flavour that ManagerLeague brings to the table. 

Great stories give birth to great ideas and ManagerLeague News just happens to be one of them.

I’m Catalynux, manager of Ponihosii join me and thousands of other managers worldwide for an experience like no other and let's keep the stories alive, at ManagerLeague.