How to MZ

My aim with this article is to provide you a simple guide and techniques so that you can manage your team better and enjoy it as well.

It will be a mixture of methods used by me and also other MZ users which I was able to learn about from the forum.

To make things more interesting at the end of each article i will post some interesting facts about a forgotten soccer Legend.

MZ INDIA

India in MZ is among the smallest nation. A huge nation but still with just 20 users. Don’t worry, you can still enjoy the game and maybe invite some of your friends to see who is a better Manager.

We will be discussing what you can do with what you get and how to make it better.

BASICS

In order to move forward you need to know how to use MZ, introduce yourself to the community and to avoid common mistakes done by new users.

Information

1) Tutorial:

Will help you navigate through the site and you will be awarded money for your team on completing the task. If you would like to refer to it again go to the help section, top right of you page.

2) Manual & Mentaldog

Manual and mentaldog site will provide you with complete information about the game and all the different aspect of managing the team.

Manual can be found in the help section, top right of you MZ page and the mentaldog site link is as below.

Link

http://www.mentaldog.com/mz/players.htm

http://www.mentaldog.com/mz/player_skills.htm

A little outdated but 80% of the matter is still relevant.

Indian Community

You can find all the active Indian managers in our federation. Go to Federation and Clan section in the forum. There you will find a thread called Indian Federation.

Come and say hi. You can get all the help you need like teams for friendly matches or any advice. A good place to make new friends and for some friendly rivalry.

Do‘s & Don’ts

Things to do if you’re a new user

1) PLAYERS FORM:-Players form helps your players to perform to the best of their abilities (stats). All you have to do is play minimum 4 friendly matches each week. Your player form stays at 9 if he plays no more than 6 games in a week, CUPs and FLs only have positive effect on your form. Go to your SQUAD page and see what your players say.

· Satisfied (happy face):- Book just 4 friendly matches in a week.

· Underplayed (dumbbells):- Play as many matches as you can but keep checking every Tuesday. If the sign changes to satisfied, from that week book only 4 matches.

· Overplayed (zzz):- If possible avoid playing your player till his sign changes to happy symbol.

To find teams to play with you can do the following

· Go to ranking and select India. Will give you a list of top ranking (active) players. Go to their Team page where you will get an option to challenge them. Always send HOME & AWAY game, also known as doubles.

· Ask for them in our Federation

· Or go to the Friendlies, Friendly Leagues & Private Cups section in the forum. Ask for doubles there.

· If you are still struggling to book matches contact any of these managers. Mz Id- pho_oenix, vanshika, kabaddi21, chelseax1 and pmoiab.

2) SQUAD:- Players you get with your team when you join MZ tend to train slowly. So you can do the following

a) Keep some senior players (4) to train as GK. (Recommended)

b) Buy Young players between 19-24 age group and replace them with your seniors. Also get youths 12 at the start of the season, you can only get them in the first week of a season or next Sunday if you start your academy on Saturday of the 1^st week.

c) Discard or sell all your seniors and only play with youths.You will have to get minimum 16 youth.

d) 4 Keep your seniors and also get 12 youths.

Always get youths at the start of the season and once you start a youth academy if possible get at least 1 youth each season as reopening your youth academy will cost you. Your academy is closed if you don’t get youths.

=> 12 youths because

· You can send 6 youths at a time to TC/YTC for 5 week. Always send your youths for 5 weeks to get the best training for your players.

· Two batches will take you 10 weeks.A season last for 13 weeks. So if you take more than 12 it will take you more than 1 season to send all of them to TC.

· You can get more if you like but 12 is recommended if you are a new user.

Important (only for new users)

a) Train your first batch of youths till age 20-22 with the help of coaches and TC each season for each player unless they max early in any important skill.

b) Dont forget to change no. of youths to 1 after 3 seasons as youths graduate in 3 season and the system automatically gets new youths equal to the no. that leave your youth academy.

=> All above methods have advantages and disadvantages

· Going only with youth will help you earn more money for your team at the expense of a weak squad.

· Keeping your seniors will lower your income but you will have a competitive team.

· Where as a mixture of both will give you balanced effects.

In INDIA it’s easy to progress up to DIV 1 if you are smart with formation and keep your player form high.So which ever method you choose it would be mostly easy for you to reach DIV 1.

=> CHELSEA F.C 2 times Ileague winner went with the A and D method.

HYDERABAD SULTANS (my team) went with A and B method.

FOREST HILL Ileague winners went with C method.

Now that we are done with BASICS.We will move on to “How To Build A Strong Team" in our next zone edition.

Forgotten Soccer Legend

· The first master of dribbling.

· He and Maradona are the only 2 players who have single handedly helped their countries win a World Cup.

· Some of his country men consider him the their best ever, also fondly known as "the Angel with Bent Legs"