Hello people!

Welcome to the Challenges, Competitions and Experiments Forum. In this thread, you'll have the opportunity to discuss your ideas about challenges, competitions and experiments.

For example, if you eagerly want to start a plain offline competition but have trouble making the database, you can ask in this thread. For example, if you want to do an experiment but are stuck on how to let certain parts take shape, you can ask in here. For example, if you're stuck about the point system of your newly created challenge, you can ask advice in here.

This thread is just a start, and perhaps we're going to have to modify it after a while, but for now, this will probably do.

First question: I was thinking that it would be useful to have guides for both how to set up competitions, and about how to set up proper challenges. Would there be any takers for that?

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First question: I was thinking that it would be useful to have guides for both how to set up competitions, and about how to set up proper challenges. Would there be any takers for that

Yeah, I would be up for that. It would be good to have something that members can use as a guideline.

Yeah, you could just re-create it if the member isn't online regularly enough to update it.

For anyone looking for ideas i suggest going to the official SI Forums as they have a batch of challenge, experiments ect going on over there. One thing i am thinking of doing is replacing all teams in England with the Champions League teams for the past season to see who would come out on top. Obviously the 32 group teams would have to be split. The top 20 ranked go into the Premiership with the other 12 in the Championship. Then the 16 teams who failed in the third qualifying round join them with the least ranked 4 going into League One. They'll be joined by the 14 who failed in the second qualifying stage. With the top 6 from the first qualifying round failures joining them.

I'm not certain it'll be the English league that is used, i may possible alter it to the Scottish league and eradicate the First qualifying round. Thoughts are welcome. That was one idea;

Another idea i had was to put the winners of the top 20 ranked leagues, according to the Elo rankings, in the Premiership. The 20 runners-up in the Championship with the 4 league winners from the leagues ranked 21-24. Then the third place team in League One with the second placed team from Leagues ranked 21-24 etc straight down to the BSN/BSS. The challenge would be to see who manages to perform and who really is the world champion.

Or, i could just be un-original and chart some players progress.

I am already really liking this new sub-forum. It's really bringing out some really nice ideas.

Okay little update on the above. I've dropped both of the ideas for various reasons and i'm thinking of something else entirely different now. I've dropped the first one as i'm not sure that there would enough teams to implement into any league structure and the second one would involve some editing. So i've scrapped them.

Two other ideas that i've come up with could be to buy players from a lower nation, say Panama or Finland at a big Premiership club and loan them out in the hope they improve and also improve the nations hopes.

Another idea i had was to load the English leagues from Premiership - League One and holiday for around 100 years charting each years victors and any new players. I'm not sure what one i'd prefer though. Thought's welcome?