Subject: »[idea]The Schedule

So let me lay this out.

International Cup (First half of the season for all)
League Cup (First half of the saeson for most)
World Cup (First half of the season)
League (All season)

Seriously now, we need to stop frontloading the season. So I'm going to ask again, for the love of god

Can we move the bloody World Cup to the end of the season? (And frankly the league cup as well, but I'll get to that)

1. NT managers are lame ducks and have no real reason to continue once the World Cup is done after the first few weeks.
2. This is the same for our squads. We spend seasons getting these players ready and theyre finished after 5 weeks.
3. We're not getting the best version of these players who will mostly only just have turned 21.
4. NT managers, especially the news ones, are given 2 weeks to prepare (and are then dead after 5)
5. Frontloading the season means more injuries at the time when the World Cup is actually happening.
6. Having the World Cup at the end of the season is just more fun. It allows us to build properly towards it.

As for the league cup, it's just a better balance for the season to have something to play for in the 2nd half. This is especially true now that it will be competing against the IC Cup, when it doesnt need to.

Fully agree, would be much better and exciting.

National Cup starting after IC group stage would be cool, but I doubt that it fits with the number of cup rounds in Poland.

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7. everyone needs a larger squad in 1st half of season and a smaller squad in the 2nd half, that will have quite a lot impact on the transfer market

The national cup would just need to be calculated backwards from the last week of the season. It wouldn't change much, if anything, in Poland but for the rest of us the national cup would start around Week 6.

It just makes sense. The current season is so heavily balanced onto the first 7 weeks and there's nothing in the 2nd half. It would also take a little strain off NT managers who from next season will have official games on 5 days of the week (4 if they skip the juniors).

Absolutely agreed, domestically having the Cup and International Cup together (plus maybe the Champions Cup?) is nuts for the first half of the season. The rhythm of the season is definitely better balanced moving the Cup later, and the World Cup would be better served as the culmination of those seasons too. If there was an alteration, it would be good to use the chance to incorporate shifting the NT election changeover as well so we don't have the overlap now between the start of the new season and first NT friendly with the change in management?

I agree.

This obviously makes sense, and I will push for this proposal to move the NT World Cup to the end of the season.

Week 7 – Group 1
Week 8 – Group 2
Week 9 – Group 3
Week 10 – 1/8
Week 11 – 1/4
Week 12 – 1/2
Week 13 – final (perhaps everyone will be more interested in watching the final during the offseason)

Have I missed anything?

hell yeah! Pls push this proposal asap!

The league cup as well.

Please note that in some countries, the cup extends throughout the entire season.

At this point, I am not submitting a proposal for the national cup.
Firstly, it will be slightly remodeled in the future, so if there are any changes to the schedule, it will be then.
Secondly, believe me, you have to be careful with the proposals I send and take small steps. Otherwise, they get lost in the jungle of other proposals.

There is a sution to push back cup, so even for Poland.
Make it Polish cup up to the top 256 or 512 teams by ranking and several regional cups, where the rest will participate (Poland is with 16 regions, where currently 266 is max number of teams in one region)
Its then also more competitive. Btw the team in Polish ranking 200 has a very small chance of winning it, so basically nothing changes.

So also what is good to do is to start international cup few weeks later. We all have season ending with friendlies, so then best teams should be finishing season with international cup. I would say both Monday and Friday to be active, to catch up with late start of international cup.

Make it Polish cup up to the top 256 or 512 teams by ranking and several regional cups, where the rest will participate (Poland is with 16 regions, where currently 266 is max number of teams in one region)
Its then also more competitive. Btw the team in Polish ranking 200 has a very small chance of winning it, so basically nothing changes.

As I mentioned, the national cups will be modified slightly in the future. I don't know how yet. And when that happens, we will certainly consider moving the cup in the calendar.

So cup reorganisation isnt a must, its just proposal i guess guys from Poland and in top ranking position would like to avoid amount of cup games what they need until the finals.



So in the picture (i guess current setup for next season and under is proposal) is ratio how much games would be played in percentage (aprox)
Its just idea to delay International cup so that most of the users are finished with national cup
And we finish with Thursday included and there only small pct will play 4 games (maybe someone even 5 games but like 0,01% chance)

And it will be nice to have season final as international cups grand finale.

There's also a possibility to remove the top managers of a country from the first x cupmatches, depending on the amount of users. If the number of users participating the cup is bigger then 512, then the first 256 users in terms of ranking are excluded from the first round and proceed automatically to the second round. If the amount of users is bigger than 1024, then the first 512 users are excluded from the first round and the first 256 are exclused from the first 2 Rounds and so on... And Meanwhile the international cup can start at week 1 and the national cup should start from the moment the final of the biggest country in users...normally Poland, Will be played at week 13. This is also a benefit for managers who play for results.
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What I had in mind was something like this

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but there are options for shuffling columns up or down if you don't want the League Cup Final, the World Cup Final and the IC Final in the same week. Personally I love the idea of making the end of the season exciting but I can totally understand why top clubs would object to 3 big finals in 4 days.

Adding "bye" option is then like extra round of cup, then those teams are like playing ghosts. In Poland thats practically impossible.
In real life, in my country the teams from lower divisions are playing only reginal cup and through it they can join later if they come to reginal final cup. Teams in top 2 leagues dont participate at all in those reginal cups.
In real life its different in England or Spain or.. its like you are mentioning...

But then your way comes with the problem of the season lenght in sokker (for Poland atleast).
If we say there are already some sokker regions in specific land (like Poland) save top 256 or 512 or 128 or 64 teams in ranking of playing this regional cup and let them play only main polish cup. Others are playing regional and i think more managers will be happy, since then they can play something for 4-5 rounds or win it instead of getting kicked out in round 1 or 2. Teams in main cup are then also happier since then the final is much closer, so not that it last full season.
With this sokker gains also additional flexibility of placing cup in 2nd part of season, which would level ratio of games per week.
Other option could be like i suggested in the picture, 4 games will appear in by maximum 12% teams in one week, which is not that bad.