Wonderstar Awards S113: Manager Of The Season (13/05/2014 07:50)

 

Dust off the tuxedo! Draft those acceptance speeches! Plan out your strategy for taking maximum advantage of the free bar! It's time for...

 

The S113 Wonderstar Manager Of The Season

 

For details about how these are calculated, and to properly prepare your enraged messages to me demanding to know why you were overlooked, see Season 112's winners. And also check out our new feature: The ManagerLeague Manager League! This will be updated each season, and lists the top 100 managersin the game, according to total Manager Ratings. So without further ado, the Manager of the Season is...

 

Whiting of Raccoon City Team, Italy

 

Congratulations! Whiting guided Raccoon City Team to 3rd place in Italy, added the Italian League cup, and stayed competitive in the Champions League - all with a small squad, the tenth highest teamstat total in the league, and an average lineup quality of around 91 by the end of each game. A fine example this season of excellent squad management, with 42 games squeezed from just 11 players over Q80 - proving young players can be brought through even as trophies are added. Whiting receives a complementary analysis from Wonderstar analytics, but as always the real award is the respect you guys will inevitably shower him with! And here is the rest of Season 113's top ten, the very best of the best last season:

 

 

Interestingly, the top three this season were all in the top 12 last season too (out of over 500 eligible teams!), and two sides from last season's top ten - Northcountry Timberwolves and Imparaveis - finished 14th and 15th this time around, scoring 93 each. These managers really are showing consistently exceptional results for their team strength, and all rank very high on the all-time ManagerLeague Manager League. Cork Hibernian leap from 12th in their breakthrough title-winning season to second this time around, after competing hard domestically, reaching the cup final, and very nearly managing a surprise qualification from their Champions League group. Harcipocok FC overperformed a moderate strength in both the Hungarian league and the Super Cup, while AKNEO followed last season's Champions League triumph with a run to the Super Cup final and a domestic league and cup double. Tunetul and Zmajevi Beograd overperformed in the Romanian and Serbian top divisions respectively to reach 7th, while Steaua Bucuresti reached second place and won the league cup (champions Dinamo Red also finished 12th in this season's Manager Table). Angels Share had an impressive season in Norway, reaching 4th, while Toreknall took the title. Finally, Avantu Tulle finished 2nd in France, despite a drastically lower Q than the teams around them. 

 

 

Internationally, AKNEO took the overall International Manager Of The Year Award for their excellent run to the Super Cup final - the side that beat them, Panathinaikos FC Mouries of Greece, are third on this table having faced a very slightly easier set of opponents. Between them, Hotspurs FC get recognition for fulfilling their dark horse prophecy and winning the Champions League, but the remaining two places in the top five belong to smaller clubs who proved stronger than expected in the group stages: River City FC of Canada, and Cork Hibernian of Ireland.

 

And finally, the top two managers in every league. Congratulations to everyone listed, and good luck in Season 114!

 

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