Simulation Soccer League Sign-up

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The Simulation Soccer League (SSL) is an attempt at bringing the Be-A-Pro style of football games to Football Manager that is currently in its 10th season.

The league runs continuously and new players can join in at any time starting off in the SSL Academy with their player for one season (1-2 months). Through different ways of developing your player you will then join in the SSL promotion/relegation system with more than 150 other players created by other individuals from all around the world. Each season lasts for 9 weeks and teams play both league and cup games during this time. Games are simulated by the organizers on Football Manager 2022 and shown on Youtube 6 times times a week (ca 3 per division) with live commentators telling the story of the fight for trophies.

When creating a player, through a specialized Player Builder Tool, you are given a set number of points used to distribute your attributes (only two fixed attributes exist currently, Natural Fitness and Stamina both at 20). Attributes have a minimum value of 5, except the two fixed ones. All hidden attributes are fixed at set values for all players and cannot be altered. During a player's career they are given opportunities to earn more points that can be used for updating the attributes and developing into a world class star. Examples of these types of tasks are posting in a forum thread indicating you are active, predicting the results of specific games each week, or writing a post about your player detailing their career. 

Everything is organized through a dedicated forum (for keeping track of players, teams, and player development) and there is an Index application (created with R and Shiny) that keeps track and shows all the statistics from the games, players, and teams. Attached is a Rulebook covering the league in its entirety (including information about additional forms of participation in the league such as the roles of tactician or team manager). It is not mandatory for a user to own FM22 to participate.

If anyone wants to join in, please email simulationsoccerleague+signup@gmail.com to get more information and relevant links needed to sign up. If you have any questions about the process or league, don't hesitate to send me a PM or reply to this post!

I hope to hear from you!

/Canadice
SSL Commissioner

SSL Rulebook v2.1.pdf

Edited June 21, 2023 by canadice

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We recently completed the second week of the season with the third matchday of Division 2 and fourth matchday of Division 1. 

The current standings.

 

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We recently finished the 10th season of the league with a Cup Final between Tokyo S.C. and Reykjavik United and our 11th season has just kicked off last weekend. As always you can join in at anytime!