ONE MINUTE IN, and Adebayor scores a goal for Spurs against Arsenal!
I think I’m gonna like this game.
Stay tuned!
Tag Archives: English Premier League
MGD Strikes Again
As if I didn’t have enough to play with, this caught my eye today.
It has team cards instead of individual player cards, but appears to have more depth than the other soccer games that I’ve played with just team cards.
The game comes with the 4 top teams from English Premier League’s 2011-2012 season: Man City, Man U, Arsenal, Spurs. I ordered the supplemental set to complete that season.
They offer last season’s English Championship League season set, which I ordered along with the game.
This should be fun. I liked playing the freebie Quick Fixture game that was offered before this.
Stay tuned!
New Year, New In Progress Chart
2018-19: EPL, Game 1
Despite my preference for non-quick play soccer games, I decided to give Ultra Quick Soccer a try.
I think I found my go-to system to play the season’s games for teams that I’m not playing in Net Results Soccer, at least for the 2018-19 season (i.e. everyone except Cardiff City).
It takes a few minutes to setup and play a game, with at least 2 die rolls to determine a game score, though some games may require 6 or more.
And there’s an option to determine who actually scored.
I can probably knock off a team’s season schedule in an hour or so.
11 Aug 2018:
Newcastle United 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur
Goals: NEW: Perez 22′ TOT: Longstaff (OG) 9′, Eriksen 30′
Not much in the way of stats for this game, like all other quick play games. Which is the point.
Only 341 games to go.
Stay tuned!
In Progress, Revision to the Revised Revision of the Revision
2008-09: Tottenham Hotspur, Match 1
2008-09: Tottenham Hotspur, Match 2
The Beautiful Game
Since I focus so much on baseball and racing games, other sports sims that I’ve picked up over the years have gone ignored.
Today I decided to try a soccer sim, The Beautiful Game by Lambourne Games.
It truly is a beautiful game.
You read of a couple of ratings to form a ‘match deck’ of playing cards, then go through them using a pair of d, with certain rolls of one die representing a scoring chance, and then you go to another pile of cards to determine what’s happening on the pitch, which is resolved with another roll of 2d6.
A basic (layer 1) game with those rules resulted in a 1-1 draw between Tottenham Hotspur vs. Arsenal (2012-13). The game took maybe 5 minutes or so.
I then tried a layer 2 game, which includes a ‘timing’ deck that specifies when a goal occurs, and a d10+d6 method to determine the goal scorer.
The second match unfolded as follows:
6′ TOT – Poldolski – own goal
15′ TOT – Bale
19′ ARS – Gervinho
HT: TOT 2-1 ARS
53′ TOT – Dembele
66′ ARS – Poldolski
90+4′ ARS – Rosicky
90+9′ TOT – Bale
FT: TOT 4-3 ARS
This took less than 10 minutes to roll.
There’s a site with lots of free seasons, so I downloaded a couple of American soccer leagues from 1967, along with the 1975 NASL season with the New York Cosmos and a rookie named Pele.
We’ll see if I ever get around to starting a soccer replay.
Stay tuned!