Playing KickAbout
A KICKABOUT season lasts 16 league sessions (in some PBM games these are called turns, and the words should be regarded as synonymous with one another) and the close season session when ageing of your squad occurs. Each session your Club will play a number of matches, usually two, sometimes three, and on rare occasions, four. Each session you submit a team selection sheet on which you will select your team for all the matches to be played during that session. You also make various other tactical and financial decisions regarding your Club at this time.
When we receive them at this end, your orders are fed into our computers, which then play the matches and produce the results. These are returned to you in your team sheets and the League Newsletter, which also contains league tables, match reports, news, a press column for managers to contact each other, transfer details, cup draws, rules updates, and so on.
The newsletter is the hub around which the game revolves, and is open to player contributions as well . Professionally published and written in lively style, the newsletter is usually at least twelve pages in length, often sixteen or more, and many players feel it is worth the price of the game on its own!
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