This document provides a crash course on playing the game. This document is by no means a finished product. INDEX 1. INTRODUCTION 2. HOW TO PLAY 3. CUPS 4. TRANSFERS 5. PLAYERS ON LOAN 6. FINANCES 7. STUCK 8. APPENDIX - TOP 48 TEAMS 1. INTRODUCTION Foobtall Fanatic is text based soccer manager simulation. Our premise is European teams have banned together to form a European super league. The league consists of 4 divisons with 16 teams. You play a 28 game/30 week regular season, with a 18 week off season. There are also 4 cups to be won (see CUPS for more information). The top three regular season finishers are promoted to the next division except for the first division, and the bottom three are relegated. Relegation from the fourth division leads to your termination. You are in charge of all apsects of running a football club. All the hiring and firing of players and personel is up to you. You must select the starting 11, run practices, promote youth players, make treatment decisions on injured players, setting ticket prices, and much more. 2. HOW TO PLAY Footy Fanatic is keyboard driven and does not use a mouse. The most important keys are the cursor keys (the ones with the arrows on them), the Escape key (Esc, top left-hand corner), and the Enter key. Every screen has a highlighter that is controlled by the cursor keys. To execute a command highlight the option and press Enter. Some screens allow you to use the number keys to bypass highlighting and pressing Enter. Use the Escape key to exit a screen. There are to modes of play: generic and realistic. Generic mode ranks and places the teams in the 4 divisions at random. In generic mode, Ajax could be the worst team in the league. The players will be assigned fictional/random abilities. No matter what team you select, you will begin in the 4th division in 16th place. Realistic mode ranks the the top 48 teams according to domestic and cup performances over the last five years. Should you choose Ajax and play the realistic version, you will begin in the 1st division. Should you select a team that is not in the top 48, your team will be replace the 48th ranked team (16th in the 4th division). On-line help can be accessed through the F1 key. A window will pop up into the middle of the screen with instructions. Some of the windows have more information than the window can fit. Use the Up/Down cursor keys to scroll. Anytime you see in the on-line help it means press the Enter key. Player positions have been colour coded: red names=keepers green names=defenders blue names=midfielders yellow names=strikers The following is a list of screens and the keys that perform a function: Main Squad: I - 4 page report on the highlighted player. Page up/down for other pages. U - make notes on a player, page 3 of player info S - sorts players by goals, form, skill, energy, games, salary, value, and age B - places best eleven in starting line-up TAB - displays command keys Left/Right - toggles team's player stats Reserve/ Main Squad: I - 4 page report on the highlighted player, Page Up/Down for other pages V - places best players into main squad (when highlighter is on reserve side of screen) O - reserve squad information (when highlighter is on reserve side of the screen) Youth Team: I - 4 page report on the highlighted player, Page Up/Down for other pages Formations: B- places best players in starting line-up Contracts: I - information on highlighted player S - sorts players by Transfer List: I - information on highlighted player S - sorts players by position, skill, rating, value, age, goals, games, and country 3. CUPS EFL - When is it played? During the regular season. Weeks 2/4, 7/9, 12/14, 17/19, 22/24 and the final on week 30. - Who's in it? All the teams from all the divisions. - Format? Two leg series, home and away. Final is one game. - Who moves on? Series are decided by total goals. Penalty shots only used if tied after second game. Elite - When is it played? During the regular season. Weeks 8, 16, 26 and 31. - Who's in it? First division teams only. - Format? One game. - Who moves on? Winner fo the match. Penalty shots can decide winner. Toto - When is it played? During the off season. Round 1 on weeks 5,6,7, Round 2 on weeks 9,10,11, Round 3 on weeks 13,14,15, Final on week 17. - Who's in it?. 4th, 5th and 6th place finishers from each division plus four European guest teams. - Format? Round robin. 4 sections of 4 teams. Top 2 adavance. Top 8 are divided into 2 divisions. Another round robin. Top 4 move on. Last 4 play one more round robin. Final two play one game for Toto Cup. World Club Cup - When is it played? Week seventeen of off season. - Who's in it? Top finisher from the 1st division, and an international squad. - Format? One game. - Who moves on? Seek help if you can't figure this out. In Cup matches, if the final result after regulation time cannot decide a winner, the teams will play two additional 15 minute halves. If there is still no winner then the game will be decided by penalty shoot-out. When viewing cup results you may come across something such as: Team A (2)+ 3:3 (2) Team B (1) and (2) mean that after regular time the game ended undecided without a clear winner with a 2:2 result. In this case after extra time the score was 3:3. The "+" designates that Team A won the penalty shoot-out. 4. TRANSFERS You can get players from the transfer market and direct approach at all times except for weeks 24 through 32 during the regular season. Should you buy a player during the regular season, and that player has already played a cup match for his previous team, he will not be eligible to play cup matches for your squad. 5. PLAYERS ON LOAN Other clubs may offer you players on loan. You will responsible for paying their salary while they are with your club. They will also not be eligilbe to play cup matches for you if they have already played for the team they are on loan from. 6. FINANCES There are several sources of income, and many expenses. Do not run the club into bankruptcy. Need money sell a player or ask the chairman for a loan. 7. STUCK If you get stuck somewhere, hit the Escape key. Remember this is a beta version. It has not been fully debugged. We are releasing the beta version because so many people have asked to have a peek at Football Fanatic. If the game crashes and/or stalls your system please don't send us flame mail. 8. APPENDIX - TOP 48 TEAMS Juve Fiorentina B M'Gladbach Ajax Man United Arsenal AC Milan Steaua Celtic Barcelona Panathinaikos Newcastle FC Porto B Dortmund PSV PSG Rangers Hajduk Split Anderlecht At Madrid Brondby Spartak Moscow Club Brugge AEK Bayern Munich Alaniya Metz Real Madrid Feyenoord Rapid Vienna Auxerre Liverpool Fenerbahce Parma Ferencvaros Sporting Real Zaragoza Monaco Dinamo Moscow Benfica Nantes Werder Bremen Dinamo Kiev Grasshoppers IFK Goteborg AS Roma Internazionale Bordeaux