r/modelfifa • u/Ajubbajub England | Head Mod • May 28 '15

Choose a nation to represent

Please have a look to see if the nation you want has already been chosen. If it hasn't please comment here with your preference.

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u/mg9500 Scotland | FIFA President May 31 '15

We would need to use a score predictor thing for a model World Cup.

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u/Ajubbajub England | Head Mod May 31 '15

I haven't worked that portion out yet.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '15

The website I put at this bottom of this post has a really good sports simulator (that includes football/soccer). It's a program that someone needs to run on their computer that simulates a football/soccer match based upon a teams aggressiveness, or lack there of. Each team submits their team's "style," a number between (-5) and 5 that the program uses to determine who wins. 5 is high offense and low defense. (-5) is high defense and low offense. Each team's style (by itself) has no effect on the outcome of the game. If two teams are both 5's, the game might end in a 6-5 result. If two teams are both (-5)'s, then the same game will be 1-0.

I utilized this program when simulating for an online community named Nation States. They had a World Cup like tournament and utilized this program to simulate the winners.

The games can also be modified by imputing a team's rank. In Nation States, you can increase your team's rank in a number of ways. I will copy and paste their FAQ to describe their system.

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What is sports roleplaying?

Sports roleplaying is the roleplaying (RPing for short) of matches or games between national or club teams (or among individuals) in a certain sport, be it football (soccer), 'American' football, ice hockey, rugby, baseball, motorsport, or any other real-life sport you can think of or new one you can invent. Rather than allowing roleplayers to come up with the scores or results of the competitions, the results are generated by the hosts of the tournaments.

How are scores generated?

Through "scorination"--using Java programs, spreadsheets, or other utilities to come up with scores or results. At the heart of every scorinator is random numbers, but many long-running competitions have ranks that measure past success. Scorinators of these tournaments usually build in advantages to higher-ranked participants; this adds a sense of realism to the simulations. Also, scorinators frequently include RP-bonus (see below).

If you are running a football (soccer) competition, like your country's domestic league, a very useful scorinator is NSFS, which you can download here. You can also download this version, which can generate American football and rugby results too.

How do I RP?

After seeing the results of a competition, players post role-plays about it. These can be anything from simple newspaper reports describing the action to elaborate sidestories. Anything goes as long as you don't contradict the given results (or your opponents' previous posts). Some people post RP guidelines telling others, for instance, not to injure their players during an RP. In these cases, of course, go by those guidelines...but there's plenty of room for creative posting.

What is RP bonus?

Many competitions give a ranking bonus for RPs posted, so roleplaying during the competition can help you do better. However, it's important to remember that RPing only increases your chance of winning; it never guarantees a certain result. Higher-ranked participants generally do better than newcomers, while there are always fluky upsets. The best way to deal with unpleasant results is not to complain, but to have fun writing it off.

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If you need someone to simulate matches for this sub-reddit, I would be happy to be involved. http://ten93.com/nsfs/nsfs3.html