The 'LPF'

‘Level Playing Field’ - ‘The LPF’

The idea can really only go ahead if people within T100 are on board, what with those in the GW being the elite & trustworthy managers that we’ve come across in our time on SM. The idea is to make it less time consuming than T100 but different so it can offer some originality. I’ve come to terms that standard, public game worlds are far too riddled with cheats & alike to bother with now so dropping them & having 1/2 great custom worlds along with T100 is where I’m headed personally.

The basic idea for the GW I have constructed below, but alike to the creating of T100, I’d like to have a rounded collection of ideas for rules & such. The more original & different to T100 perhaps the better for longevity & appeal so I’m opening up the idea to everyone to see what kind of things we can come up with additionally to what I’ve knocked together so far.

• Initial 5000 seats in stadium capacity difference. (Potential changes to 7500, but of course they need to be within as close capacity as possible as after all it’s the ‘LPF’.
• Initial rating difference 78 - 81 (3) 10 x 78, 13 x 79, 11 x 80, 6 x 81 (Teams found below)
• £20m starting budget (I believe the lower the better to start with, more concentrated & tactical plus of course budgets long term can be strained due to the lower & more level stadium sizes. 
• I want this to be a long term project that dedicated managers need to put time into before we get to a point where all the top players are at managed clubs, therefore with the starting squads, budget & stadium capacities it should take time to get to that point.
• 4/5 Divisions of 10 teams depending on demand.
• 2 Fixtures v opponent (Home/Away)
• 2 Relegation spots per division
• 25 man first team & 25 youth team - Cap to ensure no hoarding of either. Due to the lower budget, team starting ratings & such I’m sure some managers would certainly horde for the long term in youth players. The work around is that teams might just take 50 under 21s but separate 25 & 25, might need to enforce something more so here?
• No transfers until all 40/50 teams are controlled, preferably have all 40/50 teams & managers arranged much before the date the GW starts.
• No managerial sackings for the first 5 seasons to allow squad building, (Shorter seasons anyway) then 1 per season potentially, maybe sackings with the way this GW leads towards time, effort, squad building & such, sackings is something that shouldn’t come into play for quite some time, to be revisited, potentially no sackings.
• Shouldn’t be many 86+ players at start (Believe ‘Terek' (Extra swap side) to have the only 87 but Brighton being promoted could soon change that & so the quicker the GW is created the better)
• There are certainly some sides that are better than others due to squad depth & ability to quickly manipulate a better Avg. rating from selling 70 rated players at the club.
• No additional competitions at least for the first season which I believe should be focussed on team building & getting confident positions with those sides, something else to be revisited. 

Sister Blog to T100

• Due to all the above, I think there is a need for a blog to keep the GW fun & interactive in the first season & moving forward as without any competitions in between the generic league & cup games it will be one where there’s unlikely to be a lot happening, which is good as I don’t want to take away from Top 100.
• In terms of blog content, I wouldn’t want to steal ideas from T100 so any kid of TOTW based things to be different in whatever ways we could possibly come up with, lets keep it original.
• Perhaps all managers invited should be blog posters on T100, a willingness to do so for The LPF, increased chances of interaction & dedication to the GW.
• The T100 blog has quietened over time but is at the exact place the ‘LPF’ blog would want to be where you see the occasional team post, updates on transfers & club development as such.

Managers

• Managers - Of course similarly to T100 the managers that are invited into the GW need to be legit, trusted, active managers, good core likely to be taken from T100 itself more than likely.
• 10 day login limit of course, 7 doesn’t seem to work because SM are useless.  

Teams

So team list I’ve put together, admittedly around Brighton, as I would like to manage them being from & a fan of the club, & the stadium size is average so it suits. 

Of course preference to you guys throwing together ideas should the GW go ahead on whom you would like, if there’s swap sides or alternates within or very close to the initial / current 40 criteria we could adapt. 

Some quite quirky / different sides currently which makes it unique & different. Certainly sides involved that the majority will have never managed before.

40 teams, 78-81, stadiums 28,000-33,000, at this point very few squads have any 87 players.

1. Wolverhampton - 31,700 - Avg. 78
2. Duisburg - 31,500 - Avg. 79
3. Blackburn Rovers - 31,367 - Avg. 79
4. Bochum - 31,328 - Avg. 81
5. Dynamo Dresden - 32,066 - Avg. 78
6. Malmo FF - 30,000 - Avg. 80
7. Boavista FC - 28,263 - Avg. 79
8. Maccabi Haifa - 30,874 - Avg. 81
9. Nottingham Forest - 30,602 - Avg. 80
10. Anzhi Makhachkala - 30,000 - Avg. 79
11. Real Oviedo - 30,500 - Avg. 81
12. Ipswich Town - 30,311 - Avg. 78
13. Brighton - 30,750 - Avg. 81
14. Birmingham City - 30,009 - Avg. 79
15. Hurcules - 30,000 - Avg. 78
16. Wacker Innsbruck - 30,000 - Avg. 78
17. Karlsruher - 29,699 - Avg. 80
18. Brondby IF - 29,000 - Avg. 80
19. RC Strasbourg - 29,230 - Avg. 80
20. FC St Pauli - 29,063 - Avg. 78
21. Hansa Rostock - 29,000 - Avg. 78
22. Sanliurfaspor - 28,965 - Avg. 79
23. Bolton Wanderers - 28,723 - Avg. 80
24. Rapid Wien - 28,000 - Avg. 80
25. Perugia - 28,000 - Avg. 79
26. FK Qarabag - 31,200 - Avg. 79
27. FC Astana - 30,000 - Avg. 79
28. EC Vitoria - 30,146 - Avg. 79
29. Academica De Coimbra - 30,210 - 79
30. Steua Bucuresti - 28,365 - Avg. 79
31. Grasshopper-Club - 30,000 - Avg. 79
32. FC Zurich - 30,000 - Avg. 80
33. Hammarby - 33,000 - Avg. 78
34. CFR Cluj - 30, 335 - Avg. 78
35. FK Partizan - 32,710 - Avg. 78
36. Kayserispor - 32,864 - Avg. 80
37. Levski Sofia - 29,200 - Avg. 80
38. Antalyaspor - 33,000 - Avg. 80
39. Young Boys - 32,000 - Avg. 81
40. Valerenga - 28,000 - Avg. 78

Potential alternate clubs still within good range of the initial 40;

1. Parma - 27,906 - Avg. 75
2. Slavia Sofia - 32,000 - Avg. 77
3. Gornik Sabre - 31,871 - Avg. 76
4. Calcio Padova - 32,336 - Avg. 78
5. Real Murcia - 33,000 - Avg. 77
6. Reggina - 27,763 - Avg. 77
7. Terek Grozny - 30,597 - Avg. 81
8. Servette FC - 30,084 - Avg. 78
9. Brescia - 27,547 - Avg. 77
10. MK Dons - 30,500 - Avg. 77 
11. Coventry City - 32,602 - Avg. 77 
12. Charlton Athletic - 27,111 - Avg. 78
13. Derby County - 33,597 - Avg. 81
14. Real Sporting - 29,538 - Avg. 81
15. PAOK - 28,703 - Avg. 80
16. Sheffield United - 32,702 - Avg. 78 
17. Bristol City - 27,000 - Avg. 78 
18. Arminia Bielefeld - 27,300 - Avg. 80 
19. Cardiff - 33,280 - Avg. 80
20. Wisla Krakow - 33,268 - Avg. 79 

In terms of the teams & divisions I’m open to suggestions, random, drawn, higher ratings D1, lower ratings D1 etc. 

Should there be numbers that are interested & committed to the new GW the plan would be to designate clubs to managers ASAP with creation of the GW coming at some stage this month / early June.