Brisbane had waited too long for European football. It was a travesty. Glad we could bring it home for clemsontyger04
League Matchday 34 (5/18) Philadelphia 2-1 PSG Goals: 18’ Son, 44’ Benzema, 66’ Suárez YC: 23’ Bellerín, 53’ Sterling Subs: 55’ Cuadrado for Havertz, 56’ Carvalho for de Jong Milan 0-2 Manchester United Goals: 33’ Saúl, 80’ Mertens Missed Penalties: 81’ Kramarić YC: 33’ Koulibaly, 48’ Ramos Injuries: 25’ Depay Subs: 25’ Bernardeschi for Depay, 47’ Paulista for Umtiti, 47’ Sokratis for Pepe, 50’ Fekir for Allan, 73’ Rebić for Lewandowski, 79’ Fernandes for Paquetá Everton 2-3 Dortmund Goals: 4’ Ronaldo, 34’ Ronaldo (pen), 45’ Hazard, 68’ Sané, 88’ Jiménez YC: 18’ Parejo, 59’ Alves, 78’ Ronaldo Subs: 55’ Kompany for Godín, 60’ Gulácsi for ter Stegen, 62’ Dost for Tah, 74’ Mallo for Militão Liverpool 1-2 Brisbane Roar Goals: 13’ Higuaín, 70’ Neymar, 73’ Callejón YC: 22’ Hummels, 59’ Silva Subs: 55’ Callejón for Lukaku, 65’ Boateng for Otamendi Werder Bremen 2-1 Barcelona Goals: 34’ Salah, 43’ Agüero, 73’ Asensio Missed Penalties: 9’ Cavani YC: 54’ Bonucci RC: 22’ Schulz Subs: 49’ Partey for Pjanić, 59’ Aouar for Zieliński, 71’ Lemar for Roberto Real Madrid 2-1 Malmö Goals: 12’ Griezmann, 53’ Koke, 61’ Di María YC: 19’ Silva Subs: 54’ Coates for Savić Brighton 1-2 Atlanta United Goals: 30’ Immobile, 65’ Alonso, 71’ Mandžukić YC: 74’ Meunier Subs: 57’ De Sciglio for Hakimi, 60’ Cazorla for Milinković-Savić, 63’ Ndombele for Arthur, 64’ Willian for Mané Manchester City 5-0 Dijon Goals: 5’ Aspas, 27’ Busquets, 50’ Hazard, 68’ Hazard, 74’ Hazard YC: 43’ Busquets Subs: 48’ Anderson for Thauvin, 60’ Martínez for Fernandinho Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 Fiorentina Goals: 9’ Eriksen, 50’ Modrić, 60’ Gnabry, 87’ Lacazette Missed Penalties: 19’ De Bruyne YC: 17’ Florenzi, 31’ Višća Subs: 46’ Gayà for Süle, 68’ Torreira for Kondogbia, 80’ Dier for Maguire
TOTW Sommer - Manchester United Sandro - Manchester City Süle - Tottenham Hotspur Pepe - Manchester United Vrsaljko - Manchester City Asensio - Werder Bremen Saúl - Manchester United Rakitić - Atlanta United Hazard - Manchester City Suárez - Philadelphia Ronaldo - Dortmund
Game given awards (I’ll get you mine later) POTY - Harry Kane - Malmö GK of the year - David de Gea - Manchester City TOTY Gianluigi Buffon - Brisbane Roar Marcelo - Brisbane Roar Thiago Silva - Brisbane Roar Pepe - Manchester United Šime Vrsaljko - Manchester City Lorenzo Insigne - Real Madrid Paulo Dybala - Brisbane Roar Marco Reus - Manchester City Thorgan Hazard - Manchester City Gonzalo Higuaín - Brisbane Roar Antoine Griezmann - Real Madrid
Doth my eyes deceive me I've always said it. Give me 36 bites of the apple, and I'll come up with goods at least 3 times.
There’s a reason I specify game given. They’re always bad. I account for position actually played. I think Pepe was subbed off almost every match
Otamendi should definitely replace him. He's my vote for player of the season too. First 9 games without him: 5 losses, no clean sheets Final 25 games when we switched him in: 1 loss, 10 clean sheets 6.9 rating is nice and also the highest of any defender in the sim
I’m looking over the stats now for my POTY, YPOTY and TOTS (typically go with a bench also) and he certainly jumped out and halfway through is probably my top CB. You’ll be hard pressed to convince me the golden boot winner with the highest rating in the sim who was also tied for 2nd in assists shouldn’t be POTY though
The glory seeking fans of Brisbane Roar wouldn’t understand. It means more in Manchester. The heights Thorgan Hazard reached will be stuff of legends to lead City to a top 4 finish
Such a happy day as a longtime Roar supporter. Tonight I will clutch my scarf tight, while signing we are the champions through my tears of happiness.
I can't wait to hear the Champions League anthem bellowing through Suncorp Stadium on a Tuesday night Die Meister Crikey, these fooking cunts are sweet as Les grandes équipes The champions
Shaun’s awards POTY Shortlist Gonzalo Higuaín - ST - Brisbane Roar Harry Kane - ST - Malmö Gabriel Jesus - ST - Fiorentina Antoine Griezmann - CF - Real Madrid Thorgan Hazard - LW - Manchester City Nicolas Otamendi - CB - Brisbane Roar and the winner is Spoiler Thorgan Hazard - 20G 7A 7.3 rating YPOTY Shortlist Gabriel Jesus - ST - Fiorentina Marcus Rashford - RW - Liverpool Raheem Sterling - RW - PSG Aaron Martín - LB - Real Madrid Raphael Guerreiro - LB - Liverpool Manuel Akanji - CB - Fiorentina and the winner is Spoiler Gabriel Jesus - 14G 7A 7.1 rating TOTS GK - Gianluigi Buffon - Brisbane Roar LB - Alex Sandro - Manchester City CB - Nicolas Otamendi - Brisbane Roar CB - Thiago Silva - Brisbane Roar RB - David Alaba - Brisbane Roar Midfielder - Sergio Busquets - Manchester City Midfielder - Paulo Dybala - Brisbane Roar Winger - Thorgan Hazard - Manchester City Winger - Angel Di María - Real Madrid Attacker - Antoine Griezmann - Real Madrid Attacker - Gonzalo Higuaín - Brisbane Roar Bench - ST - Harry Kane - Malmö Bench - ST - Gabriel Jesus - Fiorentina Bench - Winger - Lorenzo Insigne - Real Madrid Bench - ST - Robert Lewandowski - Manchester United Bench - Mid - N’Golo Kanté - Brisbane Roar Bench - LB - Aaron Martín - Real Madrid Bench - CB - John Stones - Manchester City
Thank you SugarShaun and nexus for running the sim and the draft. I'm sure you both had some kind of "A Beautiful Mind" room set up somewhere to keep track of this shit.
Toughest omissions from TOTS: Attackers: Mandžukić - Brighton aren’t in the battle for relegation without him, they’re clearly dropped. Lukaku - Good numbers but 3rd best of the ST/ST/CAM triangle for the Roar. Salah - Great numbers, think he really got better after the move to ST. Wingers (Hazard and the Real wingers were the clear class of the group.): Neymar - Assist leader had an amazing season. Philly Wingers - Son and Mahrez both put up good numbers. Spurs Wingers - Costa and Višća both had great season. Mids: Reus I guess but the Mids were pretty weak Defenders: Piqué - No injury and there’s a good chance Real wins the league and Pique is TOTS. Akanji and Škriniar - Fiorentina CBs were very good but with equal or less clean sheets and a lower rating I couldn’t justify putting one in. Vrsaljko - Best true RB but I can’t argue against what Alaba did (1 less CS but 3Gs) and what Martín did in a shortened season deserved recognition. Alba - Very good but Sandro had a better rating and 1 extra CS. Martín had 1 less CS and a higher rating despite missing a number of matches.
I swear that wasn’t even intentional. Marcelo I couldn’t count as LB, if he did then he’d get the spot. But he was a LM and he had good numbers there but not near Neymar who missed out. Alba was good but I touched on him in the toughest omissions. I was going back and forth on the LB spot and the 2nd CB spot and in the end decided I didn’t think Sandro and Stones both deserved to be in there if I was putting Busquets in and Stones was a toss up and Sandro wasn’t. DMs weren’t great. It was a 2 man competition between Busquets and Kanté, they had the same rating but Busquets put up 8 goals
Roar management voted Kante our most disappointing player, actually. Shame Marcelo didn't make it. He was huge for us but I can't argue. We put him in a position for team success, not personal glory
I hope everyone had fun with it, honestly my favorite part of the soccer board each year. It’s work running it but worth it. I also want to apologize to everyone and explain the lack of UCL. So I spend a lot of time getting the rosters right. Game won’t let you get below a certain number of outfield players (17) so as certain clubs get decimated by picks, I’ll have to go put guys on the roster so I can take more off them. Long process. Well after I did that, I set up the league and saved that file. Then I set up the cup and saved that file. Then I was going to set up our UCL as a custom tourney like normal but thought hey, that messes up the calendar and only goes over like 4 months so when an injury happens it really fucks with things. But hey there’s the new UCL mode. Go to that, game does a forced roster download meaning all of my work was wiped out. I decided I didn’t have it in me to do double the work to get UCL when we already had league and cup. My bad because it’s fun to have but lesson learned for next year.
DMs always disappoint on this. But if you look across the board at DMs he and Busquets were the clear best. Mids in general were a disappointment this year. CAMs/CMs/DMs. Just weren’t a lot of options when looking for recognition
I’ll cut the Brisbane guys some slack. But next year, you know the deal so I’ll have some expectation of a more realistic draft. Higuaín/Lukaku ST combo won the league
I'll probably retire after this season. I can't not have spreadsheets, it's a gift and a curse To the surprise of nobody in the Roar camp. Outside of waiting too long on RBs and being forced to draft a LB there our draft went exactly to plan. We wanted big fat bois in the middle for a ton of service from our odd midfield shape. I think our team was set up great and I am proud of us
The Brisbane Board had their champions banquet and the awards were as follows: PotY: Otamendi OPotY: Higuain DPotY: Otamendi GKotY: Buffon in a tight race Young PotY: Dybala Puskas: Lukaku v. Real Madrid Matchday 24 with an overhead kick from 44 yards Most improved: Alaba Fan of the year: clemsontyger04 Manger of the Year: A rare tie between ohhaithur and CoastalOrange
This would be pretty disappointing and lame. Spreadsheets can still be used but use whoscored ratings. I check sofifa because it keeps track of position eligibility which for me is huge in my bench. I’m not sure if I had anyone on my bench that wasn’t a GK that only played 1 position. Maybe Schär
We were big on positional flexibility too. This was what our sheet looked like in the end. We were really big on stamina, work rate for our defenders and weak foot for switching Perisic/Alaba's sides