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[FM14] United States Leagues


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I have successfully created the second, third and fourth tier of the US soccer system.

Second Division:

8 teams

One Apertura season

One Clausura season

One Championship Game

I've had to 'cheat' slightly here, I couldn't get the game to treat the Championship Game winners as overall winners and keep the existing real life rules, so what I have done is split the competition into two (because of the two-stage regular season). The Regular Season and Championship Game are separate competitions.

Third division:

13 teams

One regular season

One playoff system for the top 8 teams.

Fourth division:

This is more complicated than I had originally thought.

There are 9 child competitions

One playoff system

The playoff system has:

Qualifying Round (10 teams in total)

Regional Conference (Semi-final and Final)

Champions Conference (Semi-final and Final)

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http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=197141153

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It's possible but I don't intend to, I'm trying to replicate the existing system.

Ok mate but, according to you, inserting promotions/relegations system in your file will cause Superdraft (and draft, etc) loss?

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Ok mate but, according to you, inserting promotions/relegations system in your file will cause Superdraft (and draft, etc) loss?

Ah I see, I doubt MLS would work with promotion and relegation because a lot of that is 'hard coded'. It's certainly possible to have it between the second and third tiers though.

Progress report:

I made a breakthrough yesterday and the second season is now working!

I've split the USL PDL into three parts; '9 Child Competitions'; 'Parent competition' and a separate 'Cup competition' for the playoffs - It was the only way I could have the game acknowledge the winners of both, the regular season and the playoffs. It's worked out pretty well.

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Congratulations for your work.

I did some testing with the file and found an issue: The two seasons there were the same winners. Even so, the Soccer Bowl was played.

NASL

2014

Spring

Champion: Minesota United

Runner-up: Edmonton

Autumm

Champion: Minesota United

Runner-up: San Atonio

Soccer Bowl 2014

Minesota vs. Edmonton

2017

Spring

Champion: NY Cosmos

Runner-up: San Atonio

Autumm

Champion: NY Cosmos

Runner-up: San Atonio

Soccer Bowl 2017

NY Cosmos vs. SAn Antonio

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Hi ggpofm, I received your PM.

Apparently this is what actually happens in real life.

If the same team wins both Spring and Autumn seasons, the second place team from the combined league table will play the winner in a Championship Game. So even if the winners win all of their season games, they still have to play a game against the second place team. It seems silly to me too. :)

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Hi ggpofm, I received your PM.

Apparently this is what actually happens in real life.

If the same team wins both Spring and Autumn seasons, the second place team from the combined league table will play the winner in a Championship Game. So even if the winners win all of their season games, they still have to play a game against the second place team. It seems silly to me too. :)

Thanks. You're right.

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Agreed, I would love to start a long term career off at a academy club only working with regens then work my way up to the MLS then eventually England.

Edit-

I noticed that there are no PDL teams participating in the US Open Cup. Also winning the US Open Cup doesn't seem to qualify you for the Champions league.

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Agreed, I would love to start a long term career off at a academy club only working with regens then work my way up to the MLS then eventually England.

Edit-

I noticed that there are no PDL teams participating in the US Open Cup. Also winning the US Open Cup doesn't seem to qualify you for the Champions league.

That is a SI thing. Even in the default settings, the US Cup winner doesn't advance to the CCL.

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I don't have any intention of adding the USASA leagues, it's simply too much work ! :)

I can't find any information about the MLS Academy league.

I'm working on fixing that PDL teams in the US Open Cup bug now. I'll upload an update later which should fix the problem.

As Jayhawk1106 says, the US Open Cup winner not qualifying for the Champions League is not something I'm able to fix.

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I don't have any intention of adding the USASA leagues, it's simply too much work ! :)

I can't find any information about the MLS Academy league.

I'm working on fixing that PDL teams in the US Open Cup bug now. I'll upload an update later which should fix the problem.

As Jayhawk1106 says, the US Open Cup winner not qualifying for the Champions League is not something I'm able to fix.

I actually had some links that I can share regarding the US Academy Soccer Develop League (or whatever it's called or Under 18 league lol)

It's actually somewhat setup like the PDL. Each team plays around 30 games and I thinks its 9 or 12 teams per division. There is also a playoff afterwards.

I am not that interested in USASA myself. The academy league would be more than enough. Maybe even NPSL?

But anyways thanks for this!

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Some info on the US Soccer Development Academy (USA U-18 League)

http://academy.demosphere.com/index.html?mobile=off

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Soccer_Development_Academy

http://www.ussoccer.com/teams/development-academy/academy-overview.aspx

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Is it possible to have promotion/relegation into the MLS and keep the draft?

I've managed to add a 2nd under the MLS (3 up, 4 down and 3rd tier (3rd tier is 4 conferences into 2nd Div). but I've lost the draft i think, gotta holiday to confirm and the MLS structure is now one league.

Might have a further play with it, and see if can keep the MLS with draft in the format it is, not sure how to make the relegation work, 1 out of each conference and 2 auto promoted from the 2nd (NASL)... bugger.

Oh well least i managed to create New York Ciry FC from scratch and get the club badge into the game as well (there are several custom ones online).

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Only request I would have is to change the discipline rules for NASL . Currently has 2 yellow = 1 match ban. This gets a little frustrating.

Thanks!

Done, now 5 yellows = 1 match ban.

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Big thanks. I play in the Lower ENgland Leagues, but the US is one of my loaded nations, and it's will defiantly help to give them some leagues to develop with. Who knows, maybe my manager will return to the states one day.

EDIT: For whatever reason, when using this, no matter what past experience I set the game to, I get a "National" reputation if I try to start unemployed. Automatic plus a team sets it properly though.

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Granted that I have yet to try the update on the 1st December, but I am having an issue playing in the NASL where the season isn't due to end until the 11th November, but player and staff contracts run out on the 31st October. I just lost a lot of players and staff the day before the final match of the Autumn season.

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IS there a direct download ?
I really would appreciate a direct download, as the steam-download doesn't work for me!

The file sounds great, btw :brock:

Are you doing it correctly? It took me a while to figure out the Steam download.

Click "subscribe" to DL the file.

Then open the actual game.

At the bottom, click "Downloads"

The on the right tab on the tab click "Steam Workshop"

All your subscribed files are right there and you have to DL/activate them.

For the longest time, I thought you DL'd the file through steam. Took me a while to realize that wasn't the case, and that you DL it through the actual game itself, not Steam. If this isn't your issue then I apologize. Just thought I'd share since it was my silly issue.

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