January 11, 2004

EPL Fantasy League Week 21 (January): Watch out for kWaCkY and his Kwitters. The in-form team of our league won another gameweek with a 69-pointer on the backs of Arsenal's blowout of Boro and the 0-0 at Old Trafford, and closed within 14 points of the overall lead. Scoring competition-wide could be up to revision this week, due to a bit of a technical error on the League site's part... (more inside)

posted by taupe to navel gazing at 05:58 PM - 10 comments

...but first the table:

Overall
   Team   Manager   T   G   R   P 
 1  Bayern Mucus 03   Danny The Taupe   27   36   3,442   1,022 
 2  Kwacky's Kwitters   richard looker   25   69   5,363   1,006 
 3  bluebears   andy griffiths   12   55   6,865   996 
 4  Crap City United   g s p m   11   56   12,371   970 
 5  Ardley Athletic   Squealy Neily   30   45   13,591   966 
 6  Deadly Calm   Big Calm   17   45   25,826   930 
 7  Rings of Saturn   David Hansen   5   39   26,436   928 
 8  Blammos!   Star Unsuitable   13   36   28,215   924 
 8  Cottage Cheesers   worldcup 2002   28   43   28,385   924 
 10  Mossy Athletic   Emad Mostaque   18   37   31,774   916 
 11  The Bog Bandits   Fat Buddha   27   46   33,675   912 
 12  last again   eckeric eckeric   6   45   34,259   910 
 13  37 Push Ups   Corpse R. Christ   1   60   41,083   895 
 14  Bosiak Bashers   joe bieda   17   64   42,207   893 
 15  FC Cacahuate   skronk _   30   63   45,341   887 
 16  fascist bully boys   Ufez Jones   10   41   50,476   876 
 17  Terrapin Utd   Rick Scully   13   40   51,993   873 
 18  Finally   Mark D   13   24   53,006   871 
 19  vagabonds   christopher f   20   59   59,657   858 
 20  Salmacis FC   Huw Morris   11   26   70,072   836 
 21  BillSaysThisSCORES!!   Bill Lazar   18   34   72,023   832 
 22  cutters   mbd1 mbd1   15   38   73,376   829 
 23  Nemo's Dreamers   lil nemo   14   49   73,836   828 
 24  SilentInTheMorning   pful ler   2   37   78,765   817 
 25  Sporting Goats   Eliot Shepard   0   35   93,101   784 
 26  Atlanta Untitled   Tim Truxell   16   40   100,022   767 
 27  Generals F.C.   Noah Egorin   14   45   100,762   765 
 28  tallclay   Clay H   16   54   114,583   725 
 29  AVZ Thundering Herd   usf bull   7   36   121,075   704 
 30  Trendelmaniacs   t trendel   0   22   140,898   631 
 
January
   Team   Manager   T   G   R   P 
 1  Bosiak Bashers   joe bieda   0   64   20,354   100 
 2  Kwacky's Kwitters   richard looker   4   69   32,443   97 
 3  tallclay   Clay H   0   54   32,461   96 
 3  Ardley Athletic   Squealy Neily   1   45   35,363   96 
 5  Crap City United   g s p m   0   56   36,209   95 
 6  Rings of Saturn   David Hansen   0   39   44,211   93 
 7  Deadly Calm   Big Calm   0   45   53,122   91 
 8  vagabonds   christopher f   0   59   58,069   90 
 8  FC Cacahuate   skronk _   0   63   58,069   90 
 8  bluebears   andy griffiths   1   55   62,077   90 
 11  The Bog Bandits   Fat Buddha   0   46   85,500   85 
 11  Nemo's Dreamers   lil nemo   0   49   85,500   85 
 13  37 Push Ups   Corpse R. Christ   0   60   91,391   84 
 13  Atlanta Untitled   Tim Truxell   1   40   96,489   84 
 15  Cottage Cheesers   worldcup 2002   1   43   97,517   83 
 16  fascist bully boys   Ufez Jones   1   41   115,123   81 
 17  last again   eckeric eckeric   1   45   121,345   80 
 18  SilentInTheMorning   pful ler   0   37   122,269   79 
 19  Bayern Mucus 03   Danny The Taupe   2   36   146,235   76 
 20  Mossy Athletic   Emad Mostaque   2   37   157,916   74 
 21  Terrapin Utd   Rick Scully   1   40   163,210   73 
 22  Generals F.C.   Noah Egorin   0   45   163,849   72 
 23  Finally   Mark D   0   24   184,164   68 
 23  Blammos!   Star Unsuitable   1   36   188,266   68 
 25  AVZ Thundering Herd   usf bull   0   36   193,030   66 
 26  BillSaysThisSCORES!!   Bill Lazar   1   34   197,229   65 
 27  Sporting Goats   Eliot Shepard   0   35   201,225   64 
 28  Salmacis FC   Huw Morris   3   26   208,134   63 
 29  cutters   mbd1 mbd1   2   38   219,753   59 
 30  Trendelmaniacs   t trendel   0   22   226,490   55 
And of course the error was: Who was credited as Liverpool's goalkeeper? It should have been freakin' Paul Jones, just signed on loan from Southampton. The site has him as a Saint in week 21, with zero minutes against Birmingham. Bad, bad, bad. So what happened to...uh, me? I don't know; what happened to Muzzy Izzet? None of the team news mentioned anything about the Achilles problem that's mysteriously just shown up on Physioroom's table. Wayne Bridge just got a weekend off, I guess, and then there was everyone else who underperformed. All I can say is, don't count on Bayern's crappy form to continue like this. Oh: and make note of the match schedules for the next two weeks.

posted by taupe at 06:00 PM on January 11, 2004

Also, I think they haven't updated completely for player substitutions. For instance, those of us who had Izzet on the first team should be credited with points from our top subs, but that hasn't happened yet. In any case, I've moved up. And I am sure that trend will continue! Congrats to kwacky and taupe on breaking the 1000-pt barrier. I'll be there soon.

posted by worldcup2002 at 06:23 PM on January 11, 2004

Cheers. I've made a couple of transfers so next week I'll be losing points before I start. I'm predicting that Saha will lose his form for a while as speculation about his future grows. Watch him get a hat trick next week :-(. It's worth taking a gamble on the lower leagues forwards as the lesser teams try to fight for survival in the Premier League.

posted by kWaCkY at 01:31 AM on January 12, 2004

Izzet picked up his injury in training on the day before the game. From a brief scan of a few teams, it doesn't appear that any "automatic" substitutions have been made so far this week. Oh btw, my pc at home has packed up, so excuse my lack of contributions recently. PS Well done kwacky, you git.

posted by squealy at 02:18 AM on January 12, 2004

Hmm..so far this season, I've never had a really impressive score. I just look at the people scoring over 70 in a week and think, how the hell did they do that? I made the first changes to my side in ages last week - and 26 bleeding points is the result!

posted by salmacis at 06:47 AM on January 12, 2004

I'm not sure where to put this, but I recently discovered a champion's league fantasy game on the UEFA site. If anyone is interested, click here. The league name is spofi and the code to join is: 1000650@_173064. The kit icons are much more detailed than on the premier league site too!

posted by trox at 12:27 PM on January 12, 2004

trox: even after creating a user account, I cannot get to the fantasy league page. Plus, we already have two leagues going, is that not enough for one sport?

posted by billsaysthis at 01:22 PM on January 12, 2004

Hey, I'm just giving the option. I needed something to do this morning while waiting on a meeting.

posted by trox at 03:15 PM on January 12, 2004

And now, back to the headlines: I am now the only #8. Join us next week for more exciting news.

posted by worldcup2002 at 05:31 PM on January 12, 2004

I'll be joining it...as soon as i sober up.

posted by StarFucker at 09:58 AM on January 13, 2004

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