Article posted on 14 October 2011 at 6:52pm

Timelines improved

I have finally managed to add extra data to the match report timeline so you should now see who has had all your shots and at what times they occurred, along with any bookings and sending-off's.

Please bear in mind the match engine is constantly being tweaked at the moment because I'm not 100% happy with it yet. This extra timeline data should actually assist me with the tweaking and I wasn't going to put it live for you all to see for a while yet but I've decided there's no harm in it and you can at least see how the games are going a bit better than previously.

At the end of this season I may well delete the extra data for this season from the database and have a clean start from week 1 next season just to give the timeline some logic in that it hasn't started half way through a season.

Incidentally, if you can think of any better images for a missed shot or a save then I'm open to ideas - just drop me a mail.

Another little change I have made is to state the player's injury on the squad availability page and the player's own information page along with the number of weeks out. This is obviously not a huge change but I thought it would be a nice addition.

Finally, a change that won't affect any of you currently playing (unless you change teams) but managers taking over new teams will have their finances reset to an equal level. It means new managers won't be taking over clubs with huge bank accounts or ones in debt which I know can be unfair. Now I'm monitoring manager movement more, I think this is a good thing. I'm hoping in the future to reset the players for a team in this scenario also.

My next task is to let the timeline bed in a little - there are a couple of things I am still contemplating adding - and then I am possibly going to start looking at player contracts. That should be fun!

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