December 14, 2003

Overall    Team   Manager   T   G   R   P   1  Bayern Mucus 03   Danny The Taupe   21   74   1,673   811   2  bluebears   andy griffiths   9   61   7,603   766   3  Kwacky's Kwitters   richard looker   19   67   12,020   750   4  Blammos!   Star Unsuitable   9   43   14,492   742   5  Crap City United   g s p m   11   52   15,225   740   6  Ardley Athletic   Squealy Neily   26   68   17,770   734   7  Cottage Cheesers   worldcup 2002   21   43   22,423   723   8  Mossy Athletic   Emad Mostaque   16   54   27,603   712   9  Finally   Mark D   13   68   29,060   709   10  37 Push Ups   Corpse R. Christ   1   48   36,933   694   11  Rings of Saturn   David Hansen   5   38   38,710   691   12  Deadly Calm   Big Calm   15   47   40,675   688   13  last again   eckeric eckeric   5   60   42,789   684   14  Terrapin Utd   Rick Scully   12   58   43,541   683   14  The Bog Bandits   Fat Buddha   23   48   43,716   683   16  Bosiak Bashers   joe bieda   17   44   46,059   679   17  Salmacis FC   Huw Morris   8   59   47,767   676   18  FC Cacahuate   skronk _   28   49   59,623   657   19  fascist bully boys   Ufez Jones   8   51   59,938   656   20  cutters   mbd1 mbd1   13   32   61,244   654   21  BillSaysThisSCORES!!   Bill Lazar   13   58   65,394   647   22  Sporting Goats   Eliot Shepard   0   40   68,510   641   23  vagabonds   christopher f   20   30   77,929   625   24  SilentInTheMorning   pful ler   2   36   83,428   614   25  Nemo's Dreamers   lil nemo   14   60   85,077   611   26  Generals F.C.   Noah Egorin   14   42   98,343   582   27  Atlanta Untitled   Tim Truxell   14   56   102,722   571   28  AVZ Thundering Herd   usf bull   7   35   119,514   523   29  tallclay   Clay H   16   37   122,645   513   30  Trendelmaniacs   t trendel   0   31   127,789   495

December    Team   Manager   T   G   R   P   1  Finally   Mark D   0   68   555   145   2  Nemo's Dreamers   lil nemo   0   60   3,047   133   3  Deadly Calm   Big Calm   1   47   9,549   124   4  Bayern Mucus 03   Danny The Taupe   1   74   10,547   123   5  BillSaysThisSCORES!!   Bill Lazar   1   58   11,638   122   6  bluebears   andy griffiths   1   61   15,644   119   7  Salmacis FC   Huw Morris   0   59   17,564   117   8  Kwacky's Kwitters   richard looker   3   67   30,995   111   9  Ardley Athletic   Squealy Neily   1   68   33,428   109   10  Terrapin Utd   Rick Scully   4   58   46,723   105   11  FC Cacahuate   skronk _   1   49   51,980   103   12  37 Push Ups   Corpse R. Christ   0   48   52,797   102   13  Crap City United   g s p m   1   52   64,986   99   14  fascist bully boys   Ufez Jones   1   51   68,445   98   15  last again   eckeric eckeric   0   60   69,283   97   16  Sporting Goats   Eliot Shepard   0   40   76,381   95   17  SilentInTheMorning   pful ler   0   36   95,355   90   17  Atlanta Untitled   Tim Truxell   1   56   98,421   90   19  The Bog Bandits   Fat Buddha   0   48   123,282   83   20  Rings of Saturn   David Hansen   0   38   127,346   82   21  Blammos!   Star Unsuitable   1   43   138,587   80   21  Cottage Cheesers   worldcup 2002   2   43   138,925   80   23  Bosiak Bashers   joe bieda   0   44   139,387   79   24  Generals F.C.   Noah Egorin   0   42   147,240   77   25  Mossy Athletic   Emad Mostaque   2   54   154,543   76   26  AVZ Thundering Herd   usf bull   0   35   158,671   74   27  tallclay   Clay H   0   37   172,515   70   28  Trendelmaniacs   t trendel   0   31   182,111   67   29  cutters   mbd1 mbd1   0   32   195,731   62   30  vagabonds   christopher f   0   30   200,152   60

Meanwhile the real EPL table has come to look like the bowels of a middle-aged American, with the compacted bits of undigested meat being the sixteen teams within ten points of each other. The scary part is how Leeds were second from bottom and Fulham fourth from top before today's late game, and how they were still in those respective places after Leeds beat Fulham.

posted by taupe at 02:28 PM on December 14, 2003

Good grief, yes, kwacky! Saha saved my weekend from total misery. And Forsell, too. Whew. I thought I was going to have to make a drastic 12-penalty-point change, but I think I may be able to ride this out. Maybe.

posted by worldcup2002 at 07:17 PM on December 14, 2003

Oi, I got 71 points, they were late noticing that Malbranque got an assist for Fulham. Seeing as this appears to be some kind of Oscar award acceptance thread I'd like to give my wholehearted thanks to my captain super Alan Shearer. Like a fine wine, he improves with age. Plaudits also to the psychopathic Alex Rae for his second fine week on the bounce.

posted by squealy at 05:21 AM on December 15, 2003

Radzinski has been a bit of a bust. He's off the bully boys.

posted by Ufez Jones at 09:15 AM on December 15, 2003

EPL fantasy league is cobblers, Yahoo is where it's at, Matt.

posted by Fat Buddha at 12:09 PM on December 15, 2003

I'm workin on it!

posted by lilnemo at 01:32 PM on December 15, 2003

You're only saying that because you're crap at the EPL game FB.

posted by squealy at 02:12 PM on December 15, 2003

Yahoo is for aficionados, EPL for amateurs.

posted by Fat Buddha at 02:53 PM on December 15, 2003

I love 'em both. And I'm not even a contender in either (but that will soon change, maties)! Yahoo: Simple as peas. You just pay for it by having to tolerate in the nutso and unreliability from the yahoo! crew. Not profiting off your player's price increase sounds pretty good to me. The real insanity is you can profit when they go _down_ in price; then you can use those points on other players. Yahoo is like having a crazy old unpredictable beater to tinker with. And you have to find out if every part is working or banned, before you can use it. And it seems that it's been declining in usefulness over time. PremierLeague: Like driving a Ferrari. So many doodads it can be intimidating to just start. But, once you get in it, so many great features you can't dream of living without like real-time point updates, last-minute (up to 30 minutes before the first game) team changes, player red flags, and same-day league updates. Are you reading, yahoo? They also have fun stuff such as the graphing feature and a weekly newsletter. The only drawbacks are the limits on player trades a week, but even then, the penalties are disincentives, rather than out and out no-nos.

posted by worldcup2002 at 05:17 PM on December 15, 2003

where the hell is the yahoo table? I am going to post it just so I can gloat that I scored nearly 80 pts even with three no-shows!

posted by worldcup2002 at 05:21 PM on December 15, 2003

I am moving up in both leagues this week!

posted by worldcup2002 at 01:47 PM on December 16, 2003

I wonder if Rio's price has crashed yet?

posted by kWaCkY at 01:36 AM on December 20, 2003

Soccernet has articles up from both games with much protestation from three of four coaches. And here I am, thinking footballers are tougher than helmetheads but seeing games put off for wet fields.

posted by billsaysthis at 01:41 PM on December 20, 2003