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My double-deluxe experience

What does it take to get double-deluxe academies? How do you sustain this? What’s it like?
Achieving such task takes time. How on earth do you build towards such expensive constant investment from the beginning? Personally, it takes 5-6 seasons of fun prize-money distribution, rising through the divisions, and playing the game right. This article separates [...]

youth players seniour games or not

Their is currently a huge debate going on over the declining requirment for youth players in the game and the experience recieved in youth games and is worth building good quality youths when its easier to buy better quality players.
But i put to you the reason for the lack of good quality youths is not [...]

The Platinum Generation – there’s been a few recent changes at youth level in FTP… - By YorkshirePudding

There is a lot of talk on the FTP forums of the ‘golden generation’.
These are the players who go into the U19 world cup (which runs every 2 seasons) as 19 year olds as opposed to 18 year olds. As you might expect, to play in the world cup as an 18 year old, a [...]

Attractive Youths? – An analysis

These days youths get a bad rap. The days of the $600k capable 19 year old are receding firmly into the memory of even experienced veterans and increasingly having a top quality youth set-up is seen as an extravagance that can be ill afforded. This perspective – that the youth setup does not pay its [...]

Weekly Butlee Column - Episode #4b

“Two Story Town”
- a study into the values of a specialist keeper in FTP (part b!)
In Part A of the wicket keeper study, we looked at the real life dilemma of using a keeper who can bat against a batsman who can keep. And how this connundrum is mirrored in FTP, mostly due to us [...]

Secondaries for Dummies - Enhanced Version

NEW TEAM-FRIENDLIER VERSION TO BE RELEASED IN THE NEAR FUTURE
Right, well after being given permission by the TNW Editors, I’ve decided to rewrite an article I wrote months ago, by updating it, and making it more relevant to the FTP of today, in an attempt to have more people read the article. So, if you [...]

Secondaries for Dummies

Right, well for this article, I thought we’d take a break from the transfer market, and take a look at another very important aspect of the game, which I feel is undervalued by too many people in FTP.
So here’s a dummy’s guide to secondaries, including tech. Enjoy .
In FTP, there are many things we categorise [...]

How to get rich - without using the TM too much

This is based on my personal experience, I’m sure others have found their own ways but this is mine.
At the beginning, I was poorish, with 70-100k and it was only boosted by abit. All my competition were on the low ends of divisions.
I generally keep my players, and especially the ones that perform for my [...]

Transfer Market- How to Value a Player

An important aspect of the transfer market is being able to value players effectively, so that each time you list someone you don’t need to run over to the Player Valuations board. The aim of this article is to help you to value most of your players by yourself, even though there will be the odd player that [...]

Transfer Market- How to Choose the “Right” Player

Hello all,
Here’s a little help you could use when you are on the transfer market.
First off, a fact about the transfer market is that you can only buy players with the money you have currently in your bank account. For example, if you have only 300 K in your back account, you can’t buy someone [...]