Originally Posted by
gufcfan
...All decisions are made using a voting system.
When you start up on the site, you can only vote on line-up, formation and a couple of other things.
You are given points based on the performance of your choice of players and formation. If you picked 442 but by popular vote 352 was chosen and the team won 2-0 you would not gain anything but you would not be penalised either.
The same goes for your choice of line-up. At the end of each game every player is given a rating based on their performance. From that your points are calculated.
All the members are put in a category according to their points tally. The elite few are permitted to vote for everything although there will be some decisions that they and just a few elite will be voting for, who takes free kicks and corners and throw ins, substitutions, training and such. But broader decisions like formation and line-up is voted on by everyone. Higher ranked member's votes carry much more weight than that of a newcomer.
The fella that runs the site, along with some buddies, meticulously log every game. They come up with an OPTA Index™ type stats page for all the players so that you can evaluate the player's performance.
That makes the club sound like a real life Championship Manager PC Game, but if the club wasn’t run the way it is it wouldn’t have been promoted 3 times in the last 3 seasons.
It might sound like the players would find the set-up a bit strange, but they all seem to love it. If a player plays well he gets picked. He plays bad he gets dropped.
The team are still 7 or so divisions below the top flight so other clubs in their league would have local people playing for a local team. Favouritism towards friends, neighbours and relations on the part of coaches can frustrate players. But of course this would never be the case with Web FC.
They film all the games. But all they post on the web at the moment are the goals. Decent quality though.
The players all go online to the forums post-match to receive feedback or criticism, or to explain why they weren’t able to hit a barn door that day.
The whole system works really well
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