Volleyball Manager - volleyball management simulation game

Volleyball Manager is a series of volleyball management simulation games, written by polish volleyball fans Tomasz Ślusarek and Wojciech Sapiecha and developed since the beginning of 2005. It's a non-profit project and the all the games can be distributed only as freeware. The full version of the game was released on the 26 of September 2007 and it’s named Volleyball Manager 2007 (currently version 1.10 with squads updated to season 2007/2008 ) .

This game (using .NET Framework) includes an advanced match engine, a huge database with 8 thousands of realistic players, several dozens club competitions( the best known :Italian Serie A/Serie B, French Pro A/Pro B, Russian Superligue and Vyzsha Liga A, polish PLS, brazylian Superliga and argentinian Especial Liga, all European cup competitions) fully detailed national competitions (Olimpic games, World Champions, World League, World Cup,continental championships), FIVB and CEV rankings, press releases,bookmakers odds, plenty of options like training and tactics setup,sponsorship and finances. It is possible to add graphics packs to display players photos and club logos in the game (official or made by fans).

Future releases:

VM is still under development. We try to improve its speed and implement new features like playoff phase for all league competitions, new finance and management aspects and make the match engine more realistic than this is now. Game will be available in two language version: polish and english (February 2008 ) . New game versions will be available on official website:
http://www.vm.e-siatka.pl/portal.php

English version is nearly finished so we are looking for english speaking tester - if you want to became a tester write a e-mail to volleyballmanager@o2.pl or register on our official forum http://www.vm.e-siatka.pl/index.php and write in this topic http://www.vm.e-siatka.pl/viewtopic.php?p=29126#29126
Our page on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volleyball_manager

If you'd like to help us develop the game or have any questions regarding VM, please contact us & join our community

Pozdrawiam

Quote from AFROMAN

http://vm-manager.org/

Enjoy.

Unfortunately you gave wrong link- we have nothing in common with this project - someone makes a online manager with not realistic players and just use our reputation by nearly the same name- maybe not illegally but surely unfairly
correct link:
http://dhost.info/vbmanager/english/index.html - in english
http://dhost.info/vbmanager/polish/index.html - in polish

PS
There is no female league

Quote from AFROMAN

When i downloaded the english version it was on polish... and the new version don't work, only the old one.

You need to use usefunction "Zmien jezyk gry" (change game language)
To run a new version you need a free Microsoft addition net.Framework http://www.microsoft.com/downl…62-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5

Dont worry I will make you go step by step so you easily understand how to play

1)First you choose english by clicking Zmien jezyk gry and choose English . Then you click on Quick Start. It takes 25-40 sec to start the game on my computer
2) Here you can start your career by choosing Add manager and selecting teams, difficulty level - remember you must name your manager

3) To go to the next day you must click continue at the right bootom of the screen
3 is to continue to next day
4 current date of the game
5 The next rival and the next match
4) If you want to play immediately you have to arrange friendly match so choose teams -click on Teams at the upper part of the screen and choose one of them you like(except your own team). Then you will see this

You click on play the friendly game and you must choose your squad and pay for it(the better opponent the more you must pay)
To negiotiate contract with a player he must be out of contract (there are no transfers like in football).Then you need to approve it and player is yours

We are glad to introduce a new version of Volleyball Manager 2008 (1.17). It’s a turning point in a VM history and the final result should satisfy even the fussiest players.

Above all in this version we added play-off phase and a new element of match tactic - pre-match briefing. As always new version is a bit faster then the last one (VM 2008 version 1.12) - we hope you will feel acceleration during game.

In the new version we prepared a new database, which starts the game in a new season (2008/2009). But you shouldn’t expect transfers of this transfer window implemented in our game – it’s surely too early for these kind of things to get happened. Especially no one knows where some of fair good players will go for next season – it’s a matter for Volleyball Manager 2009.

We add a south korean competition (league and cup) and verify some players’ skills after this season.

Our foreign users will be glad because we finally finished English version of Volleyball Manager 2008. We also add a beta-version of Dutch interface thanks to Stijn Poortmans.

In order to download VM 2008 ver 1.17 you should visit this page.

As always we wait for your suggestions and information about bugs found in our modest game.

Added and fixed:

Game engine:

- play-off phase implemented
- pre-match briefing
- MVP is now chosen
- game acceleration
- added news with bookie’s notation about your team competitions
- added report about financial position after each 2 months
- added income tax
- now you will have additional players from reserves, but only when is necessary
- added game record between two rivals
- playing on improper position will now affect more
- matches in lower division should be more realistic due to some changes in match engine

Changes in interface:

- English interface finished
- beta version of Dutch interface
- Added some information about rivals’ financial conditions: highest sponsors’ contracts and serious financial problems
- completely new window about negotiations with sponsors
- added possibility to get to bookmark competition or your team from other game windows
- added possibility to filter players not interested in moving to your club in transfer list window
- news about players who will leave club when the transfer window starts
- added information about some competitions rules and regulations: amount of clubs that play in play-off phase, rules of relegation to lover divisions, foreign players’ limit, score rules, some information from competition’s history- top competition’s winner
- the number of player appearances in national team will be shown

Database:

- FIVB and CEV rankings updated
- New players added - especially born in 1989 and 1990 or from exotic volleyball countries
- Available 8,6 k original players
- added south Korean competitions (league and South Korean cup)
- some bugs with players’ names resolved
- some changes in match commentary
- some players’ skills verified
- strength of main European club and leagues updated

Fixed bugs:

- problems with doubled numbers in player’s club resolved
- liquidation possibility to change player’s number after extending contract removed
- fixed some problems with promotion to next round in European cups and Polish Cup
- problems with lack of news about players’ retirement fixed
- Fixed problems with loading tactic in match window
- fixed problems with showing team statistics
- fixed problems with team main sponsor in Resovia and Gorzow

Today we release the newest version of VM database. There is a list of general changes in this update:

- updated players' parameters of Polish and Turkish league (the match stats reports)
- new players added from exotic national teams like Albania, Belarus, Bosnia&Herzegovina, Montenegro, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Costarica, Latvia, Moldova, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Romania, Sweden, Hungary Great Britain
-Hungarian league substituted by romanian league
- Brazylian second division added
- some clubs' colours updated
- updated leagues from following countries (squads, clubs and players informations):
Argentina, Brasil, Montenegro, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Netherlands, Japan, Latvia, Portugaly, Slovenia, Serbia, Turkey.

The newest updated data base is available in download from now.

Regards

Team VM

Dear all,

Yesterday evening we released the final edition of Volleyball Manager 2009. The file, which you can find in our download is the result of our last months efforts. Version 1.24 enables for the first time to play in manager career mode. This feature means that you are allowed to change manager jobs and develop yourself as a team coach. Our next big achievement is VM translation into Italian. I would like to thank Andrea Gallerini for all his efforts and a great job. Grazie mille Andrea per il tuo aiuto!

The most important changes since last release are listed below:

- improved way of handling players' form and its importance in the game
- manager job applications and contract renegotiations
- introduced board confidence indicator
- improved development of players' attributes due to their age
- improved way of creating random players in the game
- extended player statistics: information about number of MVP awards and points average
- extended player history: registered individual achievements
- option to copy Volleyball Manager News to the clipboard
- Team of the Week and Team of the Year awards for all league competitions
- friendly games played by national teams
- new point system in World League
- after-game note containing information about games played by manager's team league opponents
- decreased influence of pre-game motivation talk
- interface with information about manager's profile
- interface with information about manager's labour market
- minor graphics changes (upper banner, team flags)
- update of English translation
- created game opening screeen
- information about euro-cup qualification in league competition profiles
- update of FIVB and CEV rankings
- update of most important leagues and team squads (not all teams were updated, we will work further and realese update of database)
- 3.000 new players added to database (currently over 11.000 real players in VM database)
- a few new countries added (mostly from Africa)
- new league competitions: Ukraine and Sweden
- removed some doubled players from database
- correction of some players names and personal data
- update of players' skills
- update of team parameters
- removed bugs: wrong MVP selection, wrong CEV ranking display, wrong or missing information in dipslay of Volleyball Manager News
- changes in game schedules to avoid playing two matches within one day by the same team
- changed some team colours to make play more ergonomic

I would like to thank you for all your remarks posted in our message board. We were reading it very carefully and were trying to improve the game according to your suggestions. We hope you will also support us in the future.

VM 2009 is dedicated to Wojciech Sapiecha (nick: wojtas), game co-author, who passed away on October 18th 2009.

no, only male leagues

We work on new version but we had some serious problems like death of our database designer Wojciech "Wojtas" Sapiecha and then seriuos computer malfuction of his successor. So that's way new version is stillnot released. But in short time new version should be finally released.
A main change in new version is a new scout function- now players' skills will be hidden and you will be told about them thanks to
friendly matches and your scouts' work. The level of your scout system will be defined by monthly cost of this. For example in club like Sisley or Dinamo Moscow it would be a matter of about 50 k (50.000) euro per month but for clubs like worse polish club from Plusliga (adequate to french Pro A) it would a matter of 5-10 k per month. Of course if you spend more money you will be able to scout player from all over the world (about 3 players per week). If you spend less money you will be able to scout players from your country or only region (1 or 2 player per week). Only really wel known players like brazilian stars or playerslike that will have all their skills shown so scouting will be very important.
Secind change will be a new match engine in 2D- if you played in Championship/Football Manager games you will know what I
mean. If you have never played watch this screenshots

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Third change is liquidation of something that was really ratty- series of points for one team Of course the are still series of point for one teambut not 8 or 10 points in row from 15-23 to 25-23 but not so nonsensical. We hope players will like this because we put some work in it.