December 30, 2003

EPL Fantasy League Weeks 18 and 19 (December final): The mysterious David Hansen and his Rings of Saturn rang it up for 78 on Boxing Day, with an amazing four double-digit scorers; kWaCkY got 68 out of his Kwitters in the last round of the year to surge to second spot on both tables; but it was BigCalm holding on to win the month of December. Assign your own mid-term grades; I'm packing for a trip. (more inside)

posted by taupe to navel gazing at 12:02 AM - 6 comments

Usually I just run the page code through a Perl script I wrote to generate these, but this time I had to mess with it by hand to get the extra gameweek score column in:

Overall
   Team   Manager   T   18   19   R   P 
 1  Bayern Mucus 03   Danny The Taupe   25   41   47   1,784   946 
 2  Kwacky's Kwitters   richard looker   20   58   68   5,725   909 
 3  bluebears   andy griffiths   10   54   56   6,156   906 
 4  Crap City United   g s p m   11   44   51   13,502   875 
 5  Ardley Athletic   Squealy Neily   28   56   44   15,226   870 
 6  Blammos!   Star Unsuitable   11   44   35   20,048   856 
 7  Mossy Athletic   Emad Mostaque   16   34   37   25,697   842 
 8  Cottage Cheesers   worldcup 2002   26   54   40   26,232   841 
 9  Deadly Calm   Big Calm   17   53   44   26,992   839 
 10  Rings of Saturn   David Hansen   5   78   39   28,609   835 
 11  last again   eckeric eckeric   5   65   37   30,925   830 
 12  The Bog Bandits   Fat Buddha   26   47   53   32,758   827 
 13  37 Push Ups   Corpse R. Christ   1   52   42   67,533   219 
 14  Finally   Mark D   0   21   26   44,608   803 
 15  Terrapin Utd   Rick Scully   12   49   35   46,195   800 
 16  FC Cacahuate   skronk _   30   62   38   47,972   797 
 17  fascist bully boys   Ufez Jones   9   46   50   48,804   795 
 18  Bosiak Bashers   joe bieda   17   35   45   49,971   793 
 19  Salmacis FC   Huw Morris   8   21   35   60,567   773 
 20  cutters   mbd1 mbd1   13   36   31   62,195   770 
 21  vagabonds   christopher f   20   59   46   63,323   768 
 22  BillSaysThisSCORES!!   Bill Lazar   16   50   42   63,774   767 
 23  Nemo's Dreamers   lil nemo   14   45   35   75,872   743 
 24  SilentInTheMorning   pful ler   2   34   49   78,124   738 
 25  Sporting Goats   Eliot Shepard   0   27   29   86,554   720 
 26  Generals F.C.   Noah Egorin   14   50   27   98,312   693 
 27  Atlanta Untitled   Tim Truxell   15   33   35   102,145   683 
 28  AVZ Thundering Herd   usf bull   7   32   43   117,951   638 
 29  tallclay   Clay H   16   45   44   120,883   629 
 30  Trendelmaniacs   t trendel   0   25   23   135,904   576 
 
December
   Team   Manager   T   18   19   R   P 
 1  Deadly Calm   Big Calm   3   53   44   1,308   275 
 2  Kwacky's Kwitters   richard looker   4   58   68   2,206   270 
 3  Nemo's Dreamers   lil nemo   0   45   35   3,272   265 
 4  bluebears   andy griffiths   2   54   56   5,974   259 
 5  Bayern Mucus 03   Danny The Taupe   5   41   47   6,717   258 
 6  Ardley Athletic   Squealy Neily   3   56   44   17,672   245 
 7  last again   eckeric eckeric   0   65   37   19,249   243 
 7  FC Cacahuate   skronk _   3   62   38   20,189   243 
 9  BillSaysThisSCORES!!   Bill Lazar   4   50   42   21,687   242 
 10  Finally   Mark D   0   21   26   24,932   239 
 11  fascist bully boys   Ufez Jones   2   46   50   29,176   237 
 12  Crap City United   g s p m   1   44   51   34,417   234 
 13  The Bog Bandits   Fat Buddha   3   47   53   49,522   227 
 14  Rings of Saturn   David Hansen   0   78   39   50,032   226 
 15  Terrapin Utd   Rick Scully   4   49   35   61,952   222 
 16  37 Push Ups   Corpse R. Christ   0   52   42   67,533   219 
 17  Salmacis FC   Huw Morris   0   21   35   81,366   214 
 17  SilentInTheMorning   pful ler   0   34   49   81,366   214 
 19  Mossy Athletic   Emad Mostaque   2   34   37   106,093   206 
 20  vagabonds   christopher f   0   59   46   112,473   203 
 21  Atlanta Untitled   Tim Truxell   2   33   35   117,491   202 
 22  Cottage Cheesers   worldcup 2002   7   54   40   129,026   198 
 23  Blammos!   Star Unsuitable   3   44   35   139,443   194 
 24  Bosiak Bashers   joe bieda   0   35   45   139,914   193 
 25  AVZ Thundering Herd   usf bull   0   32   43   150,132   189 
 26  Generals F.C.   Noah Egorin   0   50   27   152,609   188 
 27  tallclay   Clay H   0   45   44   157,439   186 
 28  cutters   mbd1 mbd1   0   36   31   174,659   178 
 29  Sporting Goats   Eliot Shepard   0   27   29   182,208   174 
 30  Trendelmaniacs   t trendel   0   25   23   214,156   148 
Something we haven't talked about a lot is team value, and how busy you have to be on the transfer market to keep it afloat. squealy's Ardley Athletic, with whose composition squealy has messed with 28 times, lead the value table as of this writing at 105.0; at bottom are ttrendel's Trendelmaniacs, operated on autopilot, at 95.0. I still have no idea what the transfer market mechanics are, but obviously the gains are all concentrated among relatively few players, and the average player's value will slowly erode by default. Of course there's not going to be a lot of cashing in on value gains thanks to the agent-fee thing, but there's no corresponding factor blunting the effect of value losses on a team's potential to work better players in.

posted by taupe at 12:05 AM on December 30, 2003

messed with? I prefer to see it as fine tuning. Pity there's no points for team value. Of course, the transfer window opens in two days. No doubt that will piss on a few people's chips. For instance, if Southgate does go to Man Utd (which I seriously doubt) does that make him more or less valuable? I'm tempted to hang fire on any further changes and see exactly who moves where. Kwacky is doing extremely well for a muppet. God help me if he wins. I'll never hear the fucking end of it.

posted by squealy at 11:47 AM on December 30, 2003

Beginners luck mate. That's what I'm saying for now. If I win then it'll be down to skill, knowledge and the ability to wing my way through anything ;-)

posted by kWaCkY at 04:19 PM on December 30, 2003

I hope Southgate goes to Man U...

posted by StarFucker at 11:18 PM on December 30, 2003

Where's the yahoo update? lilnemo needs a New Year's resolution right about now.

posted by worldcup2002 at 10:56 PM on January 02, 2004

btw, taupe, you da man.

posted by worldcup2002 at 10:59 PM on January 02, 2004

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