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![]() I personally recommend The Simplest Game: The Intelligent Fan’s Guide to the World of Soccer by Paul Gardner or Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson for a far greater dissertation on the evolution of tactics. I’m going to try and explain it in a couple of paragraphs and won’t be doing it real justice. People have written entire books on the evolution of tactics and you can spend a lifetime studying it. Or so, depending on how many bench players were allowed. Was no subbing) the subs would wear numbers starting at 12 and going up to 17 When substitutes were allowed in soccer (originally there Numbers took on a positional meaning that could slowly change over the decades and might have different meanings depending on in which country you are asking. In soccer as the shape of formations changed and evolved over the years the numbers moved in certain patterns depending on the country in which the evolution was taking place, particularly on defense chaos sometimes reigned. Linebackers are 40s/50s, receivers used to be just 80s but now are also 1 to 19, running backs and DBs are 20s/30s/40s, etc. In American football, numbers indicate what position you play. In college basketball – less so in the pros – numbers are mostly combinations of 0 to 5 like 5, 11, 23, 32, 41, etc. Babe Ruth wore 3 and Lou Gehrig 4 because they hit 3rd and 4th in the Yankee order. In the early days of baseball, the batting order wore numbers 1 to 9 based on the place they hit in the order. Although some countries didn’t use numbers until the W-M was in vogue, which makes some small differences.Įvery sport has a history with numbers. To make a long story short, the most common formation when numbering was beginning to be used was the 2-3-5. ![]() Keeper as the #1 and moving from the back to the front and right to left. The starting eleven players wore numbers 1 to 11, starting with the The earliest soccer numbers were handed out based on the Jerseys so fans and media could tell who players were from high in the stands. When our modern sports formed ages ago jerseys didn’t have You by learning some history and meaning for the numbers. Trying to understand why a pro wears what he does, then maybe this will help I thinkīut if you’re trying to pick a number for yourself, or I have strong ideas about what should be worn and by whom. I happen to take numbers very seriously, to me they have ![]() I do update and freshen the lists of players with current players while still keeping old famous examples. ![]() Hopefully, each time this piece gets better. With the current pause for Covid-19 I figured I could refresh it again for 2020.Įvery time I re-do this post – this is the 5th pass of it – I’ve learned more and read more stories that I try and include. I first wrote this piece back in January of 2009, re-wrote it in 2013, again in 2017 as part of 3rd Degree’s 20th birthday celebration, and last year in 2019 with the move to the new independent site. Over the years it’s been by far the most asked for, requested, and clicked on things I’ve ever written. Since 3rd Degree has moved a couple of times, this post keeps getting lost in the void. Optionally, too, because I inhabit almost exclusively the world of classical music where we talk of composers and compositions, I'd ideally like the player to use 'classical music language': players that talk 'album artists', 'songs' and 'playlists' are of less use to me than ones that know to talk of 'composers', 'works' and so on. ![]() A player that forces me to click through a lot of things before answering the latest spontaneous brain-wave I've just had is of limited to use me, in other words. I may want to find all music that I own that's a passacaglia, for example. A player that sorts music by the year it was recorded, to take another example, is perhaps useful to people who listen to the pop music of the 1970s - 1990s, but it's decided un-useful to someone who chooses which Bach cantata to play by its BWV number (i.e., the composition's formal title)! So: sensible grouping, sensible filtering, sensible sorting.Ī good search function is also important for working with a large music collection. I don't choose to listen to a piece of music by the key it's written in, for example, so a music library that has a tab which sorts music by its key is useless to me (unless it also has tabs which sort by composer and genre equally well). The grouping and sorting functions a music library function has must therefore be rational, logical and sensible. When you have tens of thousands of pieces of music to choose from, it's vital that you can pick a composer, or a named piece of music, at will, quickly and efficiently. That means, when you have one track on a CD run immediately into another, the music player software must be able to handle that without introducing a gap, pause, click or other interruption.Īs well as playing my music well, however, it's important to me that my music "player" also acts as a supremely competent music library or organiser. ![]() In similar vein, it's critical that a music player must be able to do proper 'gapless playback'. It's important, for example, that it doesn't mess with the music signal in any significant way: what comes out of the speakers must be, close enough, what the digital music file contained, with nothing added or taken away by the software doing the playing of that file. ![]() What do I look for in a digital, PC-based music player? Well, for starters: it needs to be free of charge, as I'm not paying for the privilege of listening to my own music! It also needs to run on Windows 10, as that's my desktop operating system of choice these days.īut beyond being free and working on my PC correctly, I'm looking for a player that plays music well. They were willing to leave it available (with ads). They indicated they were only willing to do so as long as the ads paid for the site. They gave the ability to do some stuff, but afaik, she is a volunteer. She has said before that there are skills needed for maintaining/updating the site that she doesn't have. Plus, she's only one person, and events/FA's are coming so quickly she kept up with those as long as she could. She's the only hope we have of getting this latest problem fixed. The loss of those guest race guides would be a shame, even if they're not totally up to date. I figure at some point, something major will break, she's not going to be able to fix it and that will be that. Note: I could be wrong about all this it's not like I have any direct knowledge. It's just my overall impression from things that have been posted. ![]() I don't think that's the issue this time. I typed into the browser, chose guest races, then O&G and still got 'this site cannot be reached'. Also tried the Dwarves button and got the same error. The odd thing was I think those buttons took me to gamersgems. On the error page, the url was gamersgems and the msg itself said:All focus is on rushing the Campus upgrades now. I managed to start an 元 upgrade today, and immediately cleaned it up with time boosters. Now I am just waiting on enough resources to kick off an L4 upgrade. In the meantime, I managed ti squeeze another L1 Necromancy Faculty. With one more Alchemy Faculty at Campus L4 we will have the full complement. I have also upgraded all the faculties to L2 (except the new one). ![]() But we’re still less than half way to produce max number of apprentices, and this is our primary constraint. After Campus L4 upgrade we will need to rush the rest of the upgrades to the faculties.īut in order to upgrade Campus to 元 I had to finally clear quite a few Wishing Willows – 4x, to be precise. That’s OK, without unlocking any new research in the last couple of days I accumulated more than half a million of mana. And once I start unlocking next research, I will start rebuilding mana generation with Arcane Libraries. As Arcane Libraries are substantially smaller (5×3 vs 5×5), I will be able to squeeze them in.Īnd I already cleared out the space for L4 upgrade. I have also sold off my Woodelves Habitat. Instead, I have build Dwarven Bulwark Ancient Wonder. I’ve been sandbagging it for quite a while, but I think now is the tume. Will get some free light melee troops, as well as additional increase in training size. Sorcerers & Dragons – Day 08 Elvenar Sorcerers & Dragons progress So I should have less troop production losses in the cases where I am unable to check in with the game for more than 3 hours (my current full queue length for the barracks). Look at this research screen – it looks a lot like we’ve seen at the end of the last chapter. It’s not, we’re just cutting it really close. I am running Inspired Meditation again, to store up to 20KP in the bar while waiting for the Campus upgrade to L4. We will see a lot more of screens like that in this chapter □ If my calculations are correct, when L4 upgrade is completed I will have about half an hour left until the bar is full. So tomorrow I should start deploying portal profits to unlock Arcane Library tech, A Market etc – and this should unlock residences upgrade research. 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