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Collyisamackem

Haha. Oh, can we stock King of Spain mugs in our shop? Do we have a shop? What about a Barmy Army liason officer?

greg · 11:48 PM

Why have 2 financial advisors?Surely that is just wasting money,either one of them could tell you that.
Why have Binnion taking up so many net sessions?Is there no other keeper worth training up?

Statto · 11:54 PM

They have diminishing returns, so up to a point they will get you better deals, same with PR officers and psychologists. You need to decide where the benefit equals the cost. I obviously cant access your team because I have one but it strikes me that you are wasting net sessions on someone too old to benefit from them. The ability of a player to learn decreases as they age and the usual estimates do not recommend training beyond 21ish, I personally dont train beyond 19. Concentrating resources on younger players would improve your squad by more a lot quicker.

admin · 11:56 PM

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Statto's team:

stockport cc 2nd XI (1042)
General Manager: statto Online! 
Country: England 
Region: Lancashire 
One Day League: #8 in III.3 
Ground: stockport cc 2nd XI CG 

Team History 
Date        Detail 
16/09/2005 Finished season in position 5 in league III.3 
15/06/2005 Ownership of the team changed hands as statto took control and 
renamed the team stockport cc 2nd XI. 
24/04/2005 Ownership of the team changed hands as bige126 took control and 
renamed the team everton_. 

Andy's team:

Connells Estates CC (384)
General Manager: andy_mellon Online! 
Country: England 
Region: Essex 
One Day League: #3 in IV.8 
Ground: Connells Estates CG 

Team History 
Date        Detail 
16/09/2005 Finished season in position 6 in league IV.8 
24/04/2005 Ownership of the team changed hands as andy_mellon took control 
and renamed the team Connells Estates CC.

Statto's team is playing in a higher division than our team. Not sure whether that means Statto's side is superior but I expect it does.

Ernest

Why is Ground Maintainance 19,600, lots of vanals maybe.

I don't get this Staff Costs 22,000, and Salaries 14,890.

If the salaries are for the players, then deep cuts needs to be made in staff costs.

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Originally Posted by Collyisamackem

The expenses column for last week is worrying - what went under Miscellaneous?

Drinks for the clubs admins??

admin

I think Andy is playing the free version of the game. To see more statistics we need to pay a membership fee?
Membership will cost £15 for a year, or £5 for 3 months, depending on what period you want to sign up for.

Would the extra statistics help us manage the costs better?

Ernest

Should we accept Statto's challenge?

Of course, but I need some help from Andy before I can give any useful input.

Statto

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Originally Posted by admin

Statto's team is playing in a higher division than our team. Not sure whether that means Statto's side is superior but I expect it does.

Have a look at my form, I can assure you it doesnt

. At the moment the teams are still very spread as its only the 2nd year and the top teams have yet to filter through to the top leagues. I am a dead certainty to be relegated - I've lost every game this year, including one to a side with no manager, and am building for next year.

Ernest

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Originally Posted by admin

Would the extra statistics help us manage the costs better?

Yes it's bound to, like any business you need to be able to break your costs down so we can get an accurate picture of where we need to cut costs.

admin

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10. Finance

The finance page lets you keep track off how you are spending and making money each week.
Each week, there is a financial update where the monies owed to you, and the monies that you are due to pay, are credited to and debited from your account. The balance shown at the top is how much money you had in the bank immediately after the last financial update, while the figure in brackets in the amount of money you will have in your account after the next financial update if you make no more transaction before then.

All transactions that take place during the week are added to the profit/loss account shown and the balance figure in brackets is updated accordingly.

This is what each of the areas of the profit/loss sheet contain:

Income from Gate Receipts - Any income due from matches played during the week. See the Ground section for details of how this is calculated.

Income from Sponsors - This amount will depend on how good your relations with your sponsors are, your position within the league, and how high your league is.

Income from Interest - If you had money in the bank at the last financial update, then they will pay you interest on it. You can increase this interest with financial advisors.

Income from Miscellaneous - Simply contains everything else that you can gain money from such as sales of players, prize money and membership payments from fans.

Costs for Ground Maintenance - Although your groundsman will only take a small salary, he will have costs for the week and not only in the preparation of the wicket, but to maintain the spectator areas. Details of spectator area costs are given in the ground section.

Costs for Salaries - All your players and backroom staff need to be paid, and this is where that cost will show.

Costs for Interest - Like with good interest, if you had an overdraft at the last financial update, then you will have to pay interest on that money. Any financial advisors may be able to help get a better rate though.

Costs for Youth Academy - Showing the level of investment into your youth academy.

Costs for Miscellaneous - Any other costs that incurred during the week show up here, including firing backroom staff, promoting from the academy and buying players.

The bank will give you an overdraft facility up to £350,000. If you exceed that level at the time of your countries weekly financial update then the Bank will give you a week to get back below the threshold. If you fail, then you will be declared bankrupt and lose your team! So be very, very careful with debt.

Although there is the large overdraft facility available, you can only use the first £150,000 to buy players with. Once below that level, you will not be allowed to buy players. When determining your balance for this purpose, the bank will be looking not only at the state your balance will be in come the next finance update; they will also take into account any players that you currently have bids on and/or players that you are selling and have received offers for.

I've posted this from the Battrick site as a useful reference.

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