Board 8 > ~ English Premier League - Fantasy Soccer League! ITS BACK! ~

(+) Yeah! (+)

fixed up my team, not sure if it'll be any good but i like it

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Didnt realise Lee had broken his leg.

Midfield change around ahoy!

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moer

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there's still time

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15 teams... 4 less than last year... = (

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Joined, never done it before, so will probably be near the bottom.

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~ Ringworm ~

Deadline is like 3 hours or something so get in your last minute changes/sign-ups etc!

And hell yeah, the Premier League is back!

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Crucifying my Oracle average one match at a time

this would've been a good weekend to play 5 defenders

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up

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I really don't like the new setup with the site.

My team didn't do too badly. Glad I had Cahill, and UGH at having Nani as my captain and not Rooney.

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"It is important that supporters and everyone at the club remembers that the cannon on the chest is more important than anybody."

So, 65 points for Week one, and that's without Silva/Kompany getting any bonuses yet.

Not too bad, but could've done better. Rooney/Silva as my captain would've been so so so much better for me. Damn you Nani.

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"It is important that supporters and everyone at the club remembers that the cannon on the chest is more important than anybody."

Got 52.

Switched Aguero from captain to Yaya Toure because they said he only had a 50% chance of playing...

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

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owned.

Is is just me, or did the league not even post the Week 1 match ups? I have no clue who I was supposed to be against yet and I don't feel like checking everyone's point totals.

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"It is important that supporters and everyone at the club remembers that the cannon on the chest is more important than anybody."

and if I face the one guy who got >65 points I will ragequit the league.

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"It is important that supporters and everyone at the club remembers that the cannon on the chest is more important than anybody."

Seems to take longer to update this year.

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"Eet's game time..."

Yeh they've been having problems...

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Good news is that I've scored the most points this week on board 8 so I can't have lost.

The bad news is that they haven't updated ANYTHING in the VS. League which is annoying.

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"It is important that supporters and everyone at the club remembers that the cannon on the chest is more important than anybody."

Maybe the VS league doesn't start straight away, a little like the 'cup' competition.

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"Eet's game time..."

I absolutely hate the interface this year and I spent all of Friday night and Saturday morning getting server errors, which stopped me editing my initial team.

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For anyone who hasn't seen it, there's this article:

http://www.premierleague.com/page/Headlines/0,,12306~2421213,00.html

Time to make a trade or 8...

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I'm liking the potential prizes they are giving out.

I dont know whether i have to start the league from gameweek 2 like they said somewhere or just leave it...

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Maybe you could hold a vote. Although I imagine the guys near the top would probably be opposed, and vice versa for the teams at the bottom :P

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12 August 2011
lordvoltch (19:22:30): i don't get it
lordvoltch (19:22:47): why has i become cool to acquire Given as the fantasy keeper?
lordvoltch (19:22:59): I'd rather get Schwarzer tbh
nintendogrl1 (18:54:49): He's a world class keeper for a relatively low value
nintendogrl1 (18:55:05): people are just not smart enough to consider the defence in front of him
lordvoltch (18:55:24): who Schwarzer or Given?
nintendogrl1 (18:55:31): given
lordvoltch (18:55:39): I look at both teams
lordvoltch (18:55:58): I'd rather take the fulham defence
lordvoltch (18:56:41): and yeah Jol>Mcleish
lordvoltch (18:57:38): I'd say Given's the better keeper, but he hasn't played in a year so we can't tell if he's still as good as he used to be
nintendogrl1 (18:57:52): that's my analysis exactly
nintendogrl1 (18:57:58): also, we need a left back
nintendogrl1 (18:57:59): :-(
lordvoltch (18:58:11): you picked Given for your fantasy team though
nintendogrl1 (18:58:20): don't think I have now
lordvoltch (18:58:27): who ya got?
nintendogrl1 (18:58:30): no idea
nintendogrl1 (18:58:39): I made 10 changes from that team
nintendogrl1 (18:58:44): out of my 15 man squad
lordvoltch (18:58:49): Tottenham goalies need to be avoided at all costs
lordvoltch (18:58:53): alright what you got
nintendogrl1 (18:59:00): dunno
nintendogrl1 (18:59:13): the website is causing me grief
lordvoltch (18:59:18): well then
nintendogrl1 (19:01:41): "The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintencance downtime or capacity problems"


nintendogrl1 (19:27:29): 4 separate and unique errors from this site now
nintendogrl1 (19:27:32): **** THIS ****
nintendogrl1 (19:27:46): I WANT A WORKING FANTASY TEAM FOR TOMORROW
nintendogrl1 (19:27:50): BIOF4 V3L/8
nintendogrl1 (19:27:55): h (*£"y:v":>EU")

nintendogrl1 (12:09:25): For those of you messaging in on the subject, I too have had problems this morning trying to log into the official Premier League fantasy football website.
nintendogrl1 (12:09:26): fffffffffffffffffff

This is my conversation from Friday Night. And then Saturday morning.

I submit it as my reason for restarting the league.

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I'm bottom of the league and was shafted by the technical difficulties (10+ transfers for me this week).

My two cents is keep it at a Week 1 start. It would obviously be beneficial to me if it started Week 2 but the fairest way of doing it is keeping it as a Week 1 start. We had plenty of times to get teams in so it's really our own fault for leaving it to the last minute to try change our teams.

If anything, the free wildcard already eliminates a lot of the advantage the top teams got because the main points winners in early seasons are those who correctly call how teams are going to line-up in the new season. Those who get it right get a great early advantage and those who get it wrong have to use their transfers to fix their teams whilst probably taking a points hit.

And the unlimited Week 2 transfers equalizes a lot of that out because since we've seen most teams in action already so know which fringe players are likely to play more this season.

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Crucifying my Oracle average one match at a time

Oh and I think part of the reason Given is popular is because have you seen the fixtures Villa have got early season?

Blackburn (H)
Wolves (H)
Everton (A)
Newcastle (H)
QPR (A)
Wigan (H)
Man City (A)
West Brom (H)
Sunderland (A)
Norwich (H)

You'd struggle to handpick an easier 10 fixtures. Ok, they won't win them all but all things considered, they have a fairly easy start.

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Crucifying my Oracle average one match at a time

No reason to restart. At the most people will be behind like 20-30 points which is easily recovered.

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"It is important that supporters and everyone at the club remembers that the cannon on the chest is more important than anybody."

I started the VS league from Week 2. Left the other one as it is.

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Fair call.

Will be able to see at the end of the season if it makes any difference as you can see peoples total points scored in the VS league too which will be minus week 1 points.

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Crucifying my Oracle average one match at a time