XpertEleven Updates October 2013

October was a very busy month for changes and the following are some of the bigger changes this last month.

• Added timezone support; you can now choose your local timezone
• Changed transfer deadlines to not only end at midnight
• You can now sack players all the way down to 15 instead of 18 players.
• Added clean sheets to goalkeeper player page
• Added "Kudos" to show appreciation for a press release
• Added total played minutes in league this season on player sheet

Timezones

Timezone support is useful to many people but can be confusing.

Adjusting your timezone to GMT for example sees most events being shown as happening before they will. For example a player due to end training on 4th November will say training ends on 3rd November. According to the system the 4th starts at midnight X11 time, which will be 23.00 GMT on the 3rd. The training will actually finish at 03.00 on 4th.

Players recovering from injuries work int he same way.

Transfer Deadlines

Historically all transfers happened at midnight X11 time which was OK for some countries but disadvantaged others due to sniping. Transfers are now completed at the next half hour after the time the players - how does this change things?

One of the affects of the new change seems to be people forgetting to bid, so bidding early seems to be coming more to the fore and this is indeed reducing the amount of sniping. When listing players it pays to consider who might be online when the player is sold - so times in the middle of the night in Western Europe don't seem too clever.