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Child's coach
 Hi Managers,

I've been watching the market over the last couple of weeks and reading the forums reactions to the value of free agents. Some believe it's too high, others liked starting auctions at 0, I think the answer lies somewhere in the middle in regards to how senior players off contract should be valued on the market. I have been doing some trial and error with some figures and think I might have some sort of solution to valuing players not for free, which does make it unfair for teams trying to do the right thing and develop their players and also not too high as to price out newer and poorer teams. My calculation is based on the players average level which sets what I call a 'base price' and their age which I call a 'multiplier'. I have broken down the players averages and their base price as follows:

Average - Base Price ($)
0-20 - 0
21-25 - 10,000
26-30 - 25,000
31-35 - 50,000
36-40 - 150,000
41-45 - 250,000
46-50 - 400,000
51-55 - 600,000
56-60 - 1,000,000
61+ - 2,000,000

Next you multiply their base price by the following multiplier depending on their age:
Age - Multiplier
15-19 - 4
20-21 - 3.5
22-23 - 3
24-25 - 2.5
26-27 - 2
28-29 - 1.5
30-31 - 1
32+ - 0.5

For example, an 18 year old with an average of 42 is now off contract. By finding his base price (250,000) and multiplying it by his multiplier (4) he has a starting price of $1,000,000 at this price it is good value and there will almost certainly be bidding for the player, but it is not so low that good players are picked up for nothing. It isn't designed to give a player a correct market value, but encourage bidding to reach a fair value. This isn't a buy it now price, just a starting price.

I think it would be a good balance for next seasons off contract players and I would like to know everyone's thoughts on this, those that have seen this in the forum before have liked the idea, and I think alot more people would like to see this next season. 		18/06/2011 05:51
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Golden Ball
you need to add in a positional modifier. There's no way you touch a 45/18 GK or CF for $1M This is way undervalued. But a good start 		18/06/2011 07:38
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Child's coach
 Good suggestion, I might need to categorize positions and add to the equation. Thanks 18/06/2011 09:31
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Ball boy
 very good idea......but bad for idea for those wicked manager with a release priz of a GK AGE 20 priz 80M.....ol i guess is that with STAR PLAYERs nw on d market thy will HUSTLE for thm...but amazing update 18/06/2011 11:49
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Child's coach
 I have tweaked the base price and now drafted a position multiplier. If this makes no sense see my opening post

So the equation is Base price x Age multiplier x Position Multiplier. The values to be calculated are:

Average - Base Price ($)
0-20 - 0
21-25 - 10,000
26-30 - 25,000
31-35 - 50,000
36-40 - 200,000
41-43 - 300,000
44-46 - 400,000
47-49 - 500,000
50-52 - 700,000
53-55 - 800,000
56-58 - 1,000,000
59-61 - 1,200,000
62+ - 2,000,000

Next you multiply their base price by the following multiplier depending on their age:
Age - Multiplier
15-19 - 4
20-21 - 3.5
22-23 - 3
24-25 - 2.5
26-27 - 2
28-29 - 1.5
30-31 - 1
32+ - 0.5

Next you multiply based on their position:

GK,RF,LF,CF - 2.5
LDF,CF,RDF - 2
LM,RM,LW,RW,LB,RB - 1.5
LIM,IM,RIM,OM,MDF - 1

I think this is a real improvement and by using rebsiots example of a 45/18 GK that was valued at 1,000,000 is now valued at 4,000,000. (400,000x4x2.5)

I would like to stress that these are not intended to be market values, but an attempt to prevent managers grabbing good players for next to nothing, without pricing out the newer players and encouraging exciting bidding to sort out what is the true market value. Thoughts?


Edited by w-192010 18-06-2011 15:02 		18/06/2011 14:25
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