Feature Update: Lineup and tactics page combined

Last week, the Xpert Eleven team released two feature updates that I didn't really expect to see. Neither of them affects gameplay in any way, but they are nice features anyway.

The first was the clubbing together of the tactics page with the player squad page. Now the lineup for the next match is available as a tab in the tactics page and you can no longer use the player squad page to pick players. (Although the player squad page is still available, you can't select the next lineup there.)

I feel it will help managers while setting tactics, as they won't have to go back to the player squad page in the middle of choosing tactics to check something like special qualities or form. Also, the choices you've made in the tactics tab won't be discarded when you enter the lineup tab.

The other feature update is the ability to set tactics for all upcoming matches. You can go to the "coming matches" page from the right sidebar and you'll get links to set tactics for all upcoming matches.

Other changes includes a new flash based interface for "The Game" that looks a lot better than the old Shockwave based one. It also provides some extra stats such as ball possession graph, and standings during match, etc for VIP members.

Teams will now have away kits

According to the latest article in the official news column in Xpert Daily, we can expect a couple of minor feature updates tomorrow, including the ability to choose an away kit and changes in the overview of wins and losses on the list of teams' played matches.

Away kits

Now managers can select an away kit for their teams, which will be displayed in the match report in cases where both teams have the same kits. I'm looking forward to this feature because some teams in my leagues have the same kits as me and the match overview page looks odd in such cases. Here's a screenshot that shows how mesy things can get when there's no away kit.

With seven yellow cards and a sending off, it was a very aggressive match. ;-) But take a look at the team kit image next to each event -- they are all the same color, so it's hard to differentiate the teams at one glance.

Overview of wins/losses

There isn't much mentioned about the changes in the teams' list of results, except that it will make it easier to get an overview of wins and losses. Hopefully this means that the winning team will be displayed in bold or something similar to make it easier to see which side won. We will have to wait till tomorrow morning to see what this update looks like.

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