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31646.11 in reply to 31646.9
Date: 5/17/2008 9:25:38 PM
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Thanks for the replies, guys

I've heard such, about DMI only being useful to see if training happened. At that same time, though, most of my better players certainly have more DMI than my weaker ones. I don't see any logical rhyme or reason to it -- and it's certainly not consistent in any way -- but there does seem to be a loose trend to it.

Thus, I thought that perhaps it would help to tell which players I would need to watch out for on the opponent's team.

My conundrum came from looking through two different teams which used similar inside scoring tactics. Both had star Centers, one of which had a very high DMI but rather low salary -- and the other with a fairly low Salary, but a very high DMI. They seemed to perform relatively similarly, so I wasn't sure what the difference was.

In regards to scouting, it appears I still have a lot to learn Obviously better game shape is what I'm looking for, but what exactly is that telling me? Are players with better game shape going to perform better every time?

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31646.12 in reply to 31646.10
Date: 5/18/2008 2:43:44 AM
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DMI is useless for anything other than determining that training took place.


if you mean *gg

But i say you you could track form, and you could track it pretty exact with it.

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31646.13 in reply to 31646.12
Date: 5/18/2008 2:53:11 AM
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How?

Training is so dynamic that it's incredibly difficult to do so.

Non-trainees you could try, but I still wouldn't rely on it

NO ONE at this table ordered a rum & Coke
Charles: Penn has some good people
A CT? Really?
Any two will do
Any three for me
Any four will score
Any five are live
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31646.14 in reply to 31646.13
Date: 5/18/2008 2:55:59 AM
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yeah for none trainees, but for look these are 80% of my rooster, and so incredible difficult isn't it. And for trainees i could even compare 2 guys who have pretty similiar DMI, so usually the one with the higher DMI got a better game shape.

Edit: And for comparing their strength, i think dmi is better then salary ;) In this case, because because salary is to much depending on highest skill

Last edited by CrazyEye at 5/18/2008 2:57:27 AM

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31646.15 in reply to 31646.14
Date: 5/18/2008 3:12:35 PM
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DMI is useless - why do you think it's called Deliberately Meaningless Index?

NO ONE at this table ordered a rum & Coke
Charles: Penn has some good people
A CT? Really?
Any two will do
Any three for me
Any four will score
Any five are live
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31646.16 in reply to 31646.15
Date: 5/18/2008 3:25:51 PM
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because you can't use it?

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31646.17 in reply to 31646.16
Date: 5/18/2008 11:49:43 PM
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because you can't use it?


From the Rules:

DMI: The overall player index, DMI, gives a very rough indication of how good your player is. This is a good way to check that your player is getting training, but is otherwise a lot less meaningful than it first appears. Be warned!


And yes, DMI really does stand for Deliberately Meaningless Index.


NO ONE at this table ordered a rum & Coke
Charles: Penn has some good people
A CT? Really?
Any two will do
Any three for me
Any four will score
Any five are live
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31646.18 in reply to 31646.17
Date: 5/19/2008 3:45:05 AM
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which doesn't mean, that it was impossible to see the form out of it and ore detailed then the 3 levels the form usually was.

From: GWgw

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31646.20 in reply to 31646.19
Date: 9/22/2010 2:23:51 PM
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It's dangerous bringing up very old threads since the information may be out of date and may misinform new players if they aren't aware of the date of the original post.

Scouting for me, I check the last few games of an opponent to see what strategies they like to use. I also check the game shape of their best players and what positions they typically play so I can match up one of my stronger defenders. I also check to see if they have played CT or TIE so I get a sense of what their enthusiasm might be.

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31646.21 in reply to 31646.11
Date: 9/22/2010 5:31:25 PM
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remember, it's the end of the season so a player with high DMI and low salary might mean he got a lot of training this season and you might see his salary get a huge increase next year.

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