Xpert leagues run on a 15 week cycle, so each season will start 15 weeks to the day after the previous season. The following table shows the league start dates relative to a "baseline" of the Super League start date.
| League | Start Day Offset | Week Offset |
| Super League | 0 | 0 |
| Major League | 3 | 0 |
| Ultimate League | 6 | 0 |
| League of Champs | 10 | 1 |
| Xtreme League | 14 | 2 |
| Golden League | 19 | 3 |
| Final League | 24 | 3 |
| Xpert League | 28 | 4 |
| Power League | 30 | 5 |
| Hattrick League | 32 | 5 |
| Classic League | 33 | 5 |
| Master League | 40 | 6 |
| Dream League | 54 | 8 |
| XCL | 57 | 8 |
| Euro League | 58 | 8 |
| Xpert International | 62 | 8 |
| Pro League | 83 | 11 |
As you can see the start dates aren't staggered very well and this can ave a massive effect on the game.
Best Leagues
The Pro League is often regarded as the best league for buying and selling players. There is a 3 week gap between the Xpert International league and the Pro League starting. This means the Pro League has very little competition for buying players when its season starts as all the other seasons are several weeks underway at that time and prices are often lower than at other times.
The Pro League also benefits for selling players with a cluister of leagues starting when the Pro is 3+ weeks into the season - making the Pro players good prospects for being undereval as they can have several games by that stage.
The Dream League lives up to its name as far as the XCL is concerned. Due to the dates it is the only league that doesn't have a change report during the whole XCL campaign - which is a great advantage.
The Super League has minimal competition for players - for 3 days - so isn't as bad as most other leagues.
Worst Leagues
Pretty much all the other leagues are bad fo buying/selling with lots of competition for buying. The worst cluster is probably the Final, Xpert, Power, Hattrick & Classic Leagues which all start incredibly close to oneanother.
Swedish Leagues
The "Swedish Leagues" were the first 8 xpert leagues created and were exclusively for Swedish players for a while. Around 2 years later a further 8 Xpert leagues were created and these are often termed the "European Leagues".The standard of teams in the Swedish leagues is generally higher and this has attracted many of the better managers when stronger teams became available in the job centre.
This is the list of Swedish Leagues:
- Major League
- League of Champs
- Xtreme League
- Final League
- Xpert League
- Hattrick League
- Euro League
- Xpert International
Interested on your thoughts on good / bad leagues. You tout the Pro League as potentially useful for selling underevals to a bunch of leagues after three weeks, but isn't that a short period to try and get an undereval due to cashing out? Would it not be better to target a different set of leagues e.g. Dream, Euro and XI close to the transfer deadline?
ReplyDeleteAlso, what do you think about particular matchdays? The Master League has a CR on a Wednesday, so players get a skill boost / form hit with no chance to complete training before an XCL match in the semis, for example. Would you consider that to be a big disadvantage?