EPL Fantasy League Week 25 (February): Congratulations to kWaCkY and his Kwitters, who have knocked Bayern Mucus off the top of the table for the first time since Week 9. Kwitters naturally had 73 to win the week and go 7 points clear at the top, proving you will always shovel in buckets of points if you have Thierry Henry as your captain (getting four goal assists also helps). David Hansen's Rings of Saturn also breached the 70-point mark. Bayern, meanwhile, suffered an utter nightmare... (more inside)
posted by taupe to navel gazing at 07:39 PM - 22 comments
What is your obsession with Izzet?
posted by StarFucker at 08:29 PM on February 11, 2004
Taupe, I applaud your anti-Arsenal and Man U purity, but man, that and holding on to Izzet will kill you. Let Muzzy go! I did, and bought Parker. And he went and scored his first goal for Chelsea today. That makes up somewhat for my doofus switching of captains from Henry to Saha. Ugh.
posted by worldcup2002 at 12:15 AM on February 12, 2004
It's a long long road, there'll be joys and sorrows too.
posted by kWaCkY at 01:47 AM on February 12, 2004
I bet you're tired and weary aren't you kwacky? Another crap week for my underperforming muppets. I've just about lost patience with Mary Poppins, maybe he's finally past it.
posted by squealy at 03:20 AM on February 12, 2004
Help! I'm losing touch with the top 10! I don't want to be in Division 2!
posted by BigCalm at 03:27 AM on February 12, 2004
Right, I've just blown 8 points in a hopeless attempt to get some decent players, and look forward now to finishing in the oooh, top 15?!??
posted by BigCalm at 04:15 AM on February 12, 2004
.....treading water....slowly drowning in mediocrity.....
posted by mbd1 at 09:42 AM on February 12, 2004
Twice I've been robbed by the Buddha! I am exactly one spot behind him in both this league and the yahoo league. Is there a cosmic debt that I am repaying?
posted by worldcup2002 at 10:39 AM on February 12, 2004
I wish yahoo had this feature: Using View Graph, I plotted taupe vs kwacky's Overall Rank from Week 1 through 25.
posted by worldcup2002 at 12:09 PM on February 12, 2004
I always was a slow starter :-)
posted by kWaCkY at 03:57 PM on February 12, 2004
Factoids: (1) I have 8 more transfer penalty points than kWaCkY, who leads me by 7 points. (2) kWaCkY's performance has been more consistent and more normally distributed around a higher median (his: 51; mine: 47), while I've just got more outliers: Kwitters Bayern 90+ X 85-89 80-84 X 75-79 X X 70-74 X XXX 65-69 XXX 60-64 XX XXXX 55-59 XXX XXXX 50-54 X XXX 45-49 XXXXX XX 40-44 XXX XX 35-39 XXXX XX 30-34 XX X 0-29 X
posted by taupe at 12:34 AM on February 13, 2004
Good god, taupe, that's brilliant. Where do you find the time? Are you a statis-metician? A stats-magician? Do you do lo-fi info viz for fun or is it a job. Man, good stuff.
posted by worldcup2002 at 01:06 AM on February 13, 2004
Erm, I currently have more points ergo I'm ahead :-) Not sure about the penalty points, I'll take you're word for it. I know that early in the season I twice did some wholesale changes which cost me dearly but since then I've tried to stick to one transfer per week.
posted by kWaCkY at 01:32 AM on February 13, 2004
Thanks, wc. I don't have a job doing this; I'm just some guy looking for meaning in relevant data. (The gameweek histories are the source, from which it took me about four minutes to make a manual histogram in a text editor: here's kWaCkY's, and here's mine.)
posted by taupe at 02:59 AM on February 13, 2004
Well, lots of kisses to you too old chap.
posted by Fat Buddha at 10:11 AM on February 13, 2004
And no amount of transfers can seemingly help my pathetic excuse for a team. Maybe I should change my name to Sunderland/Leeds Untitled.
posted by trox at 11:13 AM on February 13, 2004
So taupe, where's your GAF these days?
posted by billsaysthis at 11:30 AM on February 13, 2004
Q: Is it necessary to fill your roster spots, or can you load up on high priced talent and gamble that you won't need a sub?
posted by garfield at 12:30 PM on February 13, 2004
A: You have to have a full squad of 15 including a spare goalkeeper. Buy really cheap subs, you rarely use them
posted by kWaCkY at 01:02 PM on February 13, 2004
damn. thanks for the flow info. I would've thought subs were used quite a bit since my first week saw a sub score some points.
posted by garfield at 01:19 PM on February 13, 2004
Depends how you want to play it I guess garfy. I went for a strategy of having cheap defensive subs, who nevertheless played most weeks despite being on my bench. Kwacky went for the filling the bench with hospital cases and no-hopers option. I'll leave it you to decide who made the right choice. Hint, it's not me
posted by squealy at 01:50 PM on February 13, 2004
Get used to this (see below):
posted by taupe at 07:46 PM on February 11, 2004