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I don't know how other managers select their teams because I have never talked to them about it. When I started playing FSL Engine games, I used to stare at the screen and write my line-up down on a piece of paper. It took me a long time because I had to check if I had named a player twice or made other mistakes. In the end, I decided I had to find a better and quicker way of making my line-ups. The following method is how I have done it since then. I find that I can do a good line-up without mistakes in 5 minutes using this method.

First I found a good screen capture program. The best one I have found is HyperSnap-DX 5. You can get it:

HERE

Go to the site and download the free trial version of HyperSnap-DX 5 (top of the page). This will give you a fee trial of the program for a month or so. After the trial period runs out (and here's the naughty part) you can still use it. After the trial period runs out, a banner appears in the top left of your screen captures but it is easy to position your captures so that this does not matter. Here, I should recommend that you buy the program but that is your business.

OK - Install the program and once you have it installed, go to your roster page in the game you are doing the line-up for. Next click on "capture" on your HyperSnap-DX 5 and select either "active window" or "full screen" from the drop-down menu. Either should be fine.
Now save your capture as a Jpeg (the save icon is a diskette - it is under the word "view") to whichever folder you like.
The next part will only be possible if you have a graphics program where you can open Jpegs and type text over them. I use Photoshop but there are many other simpler graphics programs that do the same job.
So - Open the screen capture of your roster page in the graphics program and if you wish, crop it to make it neater (I do). Now you can use text to type your line-up onto the roster page. When you have finished you can save it back to your folder with the line-up marked on it.

Here is a line-up I did this week for my LBM Academy team. The whole process I just described, took me no more than 5 minutes (including deciding what my line-up would be).

I type the team in red and the training and resting players in blue. R = Resting. This makes it very easy to count the players who are playing and to make sure you have not selected any player twice. I always open the finished line-up and just copy the information straight into the log-in or email. Simple!

I often have 7 or 8 line-ups to do per week and using my old method, this would have taken a long time and would not have been much fun. Now, I can do all my line-ups in about 30 minutes if I want.

I hope this has been useful. If any managers have a better system, I would be interested to hear about it. If you have any questions or there is a part you did not understand, please feel free to contact me and ask.

Of course, you can just print your roster and write on it with a pen!!