December 21, 2004

EPL Fantasy League Week 18: - Bayern who? I'm top at Christmas, but perhaps not for much longer.

posted by BigCalm to fantasy at 03:06 AM - 55 comments

# Team Manager Gam Tot
1 Deadly Calm Big Calm 38 1010
2 Sauril's Wideboys Mark D 60 1001
3 Crap City United g s p m 44 994
4 Ardley Athletic Squealy Neily 72 976
5 RED DRAGONS! worldcup 2002 73 967
6 BillSaysThisSCORES!! Bill Lazar 48 957
7 the pistolwhippets Ufez Jones 66 934
8 40,000 Headmen Fat Buddha 66 920
9 Salmacis FC Huw Morris 63 920
10 Cutters Redux mbd1 mbd1 68 918
11 Spacemen United Jason Wilder 52 912
12 kwacky's kwitters mr kwacky 70 907
13 FC Murcielago skronk _ 51 893
14 Arsenal's Back Four Pete W 55 886
15 phatcat footie garfield on catnip 65 880
16 Cream of Chicken Ian Townsend 72 876
17 ATL Untitled Tim Truxell 39 869
18 sporting lisbian john o'neill 43 845
19 Bayern Mucus Danny the Taupe 86 837
20 Terrapin Utd R Scully 22 808
21 Blammos! Star Unsuitable 31 781
22 Bosiak Bashers etrader 9 47 743
23 Mossy Unathletic Me Mossy 48 714
24 born to lose J B 40 712
25 Slow And Foamy J Warwick 29 687
26 last again eckeric eckeric 28 673
27 Cool Springs United John Hill 29 663
28 Napsacks lil nemo 18 531

posted by BigCalm at 03:06 AM on December 21, 2004

Feck sake. I missed the highlighter by one point *again*. If only I'd made someone other than Henry captain. He's a useless twat. I'm selling him this week.

posted by squealy at 03:56 AM on December 21, 2004

9 points from the top!

posted by sauril at 11:10 AM on December 21, 2004

I should change my team name to lamos...

posted by StarFucker at 11:57 AM on December 21, 2004

Whenever I make a detailed prediction as part of a taunt, immediately go out and do the opposite if there's still time left. I have 100% record in such matters, trust me, though the taunt (or an actual money bet) is a required factor.

posted by billsaysthis at 12:08 PM on December 21, 2004

heck, if you were in that spot last week, squealy, you'd have been highlighted because it was i who did the table and I had more color coded threat levels (red, orange and yellow) than the traditional Big Calm 2 colour setup. So at least I have an eye on you because you are closer to third than it looks. and Starfucker, the only thing i can see wrong with your team is perhaps you've made 18 transfers yet your team value is only at 102.6. A higher team value might imply that you were able to pick out a few guys that were on the rise (ie Downing - I picked him up in late October at 5.8 and I see you got him last week for 7.2). The more undervalued talent you can find the better team you can assemble because your budget goes farther. I guess.

posted by gspm at 12:13 PM on December 21, 2004

Yeah, SF, use the "Value (Score)" and "Form" options, no just "Total Score", when you're doing transfers. That will help round out your decisions, and maybe highlight some interesting cheap buys. Man, if I have one more week like this, I'll be in the top 3 immediately.

posted by worldcup2002 at 12:55 PM on December 21, 2004

Please, Santa.

posted by worldcup2002 at 12:55 PM on December 21, 2004

shhhhh!

posted by gspm at 02:08 PM on December 21, 2004

Uh, thanks for the tips boys... But you forget that i am the...well, deserved winner of the FIRST Sportsfilter Premier League Fantasy competition... Fucking Buddha...

posted by StarFucker at 02:36 PM on December 21, 2004

I wasn't even in that competition and I remember that choke job. So then, 02-03 deserved winner (a loser's code for loser) why do you suck so much this year? You are down amongst the people that aren't even participating. Huh? Huh? and FWIW I didn't even bother considering transfers according to anything beyond value and total score until a month ago or so when lo and behold I found those more useful ways of ranking players mentioned above. so, if I did so well without such info at my disposal then I credit my second half rise to the top on my new use of such info while reserving the right to blame my second half fade on the irrational use of such info.

posted by gspm at 04:15 PM on December 21, 2004

Somehow it's all Houllier's fault (oh wait, that was last year).

posted by trox at 04:17 PM on December 21, 2004

Is there any place in the help that explains Value (form)? I have to admit it is completely new and non-obvious to me and I don't see any explanation on the site.

posted by billsaysthis at 05:04 PM on December 21, 2004

are we relegating after this season? or to put it another way, am i fighting to stay in this league? if so, what place is the cut-off?

posted by garfield at 05:06 PM on December 21, 2004

I can't find an explanation either bill, but I assumed Value (form) was points scored over the last 21 days divided by present cost. I'm basing this on the fact that Form is calculated over the last 21 days. I imagine I could check this, but I can't be arsed.

posted by squealy at 06:14 PM on December 21, 2004

OK, I *could* be arsed to check and that *is* how it's done eg. Scholes points in last 21 days (from end of gameweek) = 32 Divided by gameweeks in last 21 days = 32/3 = 10.7 Divided by present cost of 9.5 = 1.1

posted by squealy at 06:33 PM on December 21, 2004

are we relegating after this season? or to put it another way, am i fighting to stay in this league? if so, what place is the cut-off? Consider yourself relegated...

posted by StarFucker at 07:08 PM on December 21, 2004

LOL

posted by worldcup2002 at 10:31 PM on December 21, 2004

deserved winner of the FIRST Sportsfilter Premier League Fantasy competition... Starfucker, you cheeky little scoundrel, you forgot to prefix that statement with the words, "runner up to the"

posted by Fat Buddha at 06:14 AM on December 22, 2004

aw fucker, you fuck, go fuck yourself...

posted by garfield at 07:56 AM on December 22, 2004

[sings]Down with the Fucker. You're going down with the Fucker[/sings]

posted by squealy at 08:28 AM on December 22, 2004

This is incredibly cruel stuff from a non-trash-talking crowd. I'm pleased.

posted by worldcup2002 at 11:59 AM on December 22, 2004

You're ALL relegated!

posted by StarFucker at 01:42 PM on December 22, 2004

Relegate my ass, MrFucker!

posted by billsaysthis at 01:43 PM on December 22, 2004

I must have missed the memo that said we were trying to get the lowest amount of points possible. Can you forward me your copy StarFucker?

posted by squealy at 01:51 PM on December 22, 2004

My rise to the top of this shady league will be proportional to Everton's drop!

posted by StarFucker at 03:18 PM on December 22, 2004

As a Liverpool fan and fantasy league competitor, I read the Fooker's pronouncement with greatly conflicted feelings.

posted by worldcup2002 at 04:31 PM on December 22, 2004

Mr. Clamly (and I think I'll let that typo stand), as of this moment your opening words in the post are prescient that not eerily so. Sauril does indeed stand above you now and I believe, but have been wrong on this before, all the points have been awarded for Week 19. Being different, the Yahoo! fantasy masters have decided that their Round 19 includes both today's and the midweek matches. 5-0! Represent! My boy John Arne with the brace. W00t!

posted by billsaysthis at 05:21 PM on December 26, 2004

Holy shit. Two points from the top five. I came *this close* to transferring Riise out this week too. Zoinks.

posted by Ufez Jones at 06:37 PM on December 26, 2004

What the hell was with Risse yesterday?!

posted by StarFucker at 10:49 AM on December 27, 2004

SF I don't know and I'm not quibbling. He was defnitely let loose by Benitez. BTW, did you notice how many times the Liverpool fans were chanting for Rafa so loudly they drowned out the host team's fans? Very cool. Now onto those other bottomdwellers, because these are points that must be taken to make a move up.

posted by billsaysthis at 02:55 PM on December 27, 2004

Busiest time of year for matches and no comments from you people!!

posted by StarFucker at 02:41 PM on December 30, 2004

SF, what do you know about Morientes?

posted by garfield at 03:17 PM on December 30, 2004

the bbc boards seem split

posted by garfield at 03:25 PM on December 30, 2004

Or maybe another run for Anelka in our colors? That's the other rumor I've read but not sure I'd really want him. SF, where's you're commentary (as opposed to whining about the rest of us)?

posted by billsaysthis at 03:30 PM on December 30, 2004

Here's some bootleg standings. Maybe Big Calm is lamenting his slip from the top and not updating us? And squealy, with my three flavoured highlighting your week 20 score of 55 gets some yellow.

# Team Manager Gam 19 Gam 20 Tot
1 Sauril's Wideboys Mark D 55 52 1108
2 Crap City United g s p m 43 64 1101
3 Ardley Athletic Squealy Neily 56 55 1087
4 Deadly Calm Big Calm 43 29 1082
5 BillSaysThisSCORES!! Bill Lazar 48 58 1063
6 the pistolwhippets Ufez Jones 72 51 1057
7 RED DRAGONS! worldcup 2002 38 44 1049
8 Salmacis FC Huw Morris 48 48 1016
9 Spacemen United Jason Wilder 58 39 1009
10 Cutters Redux mbd1 mbd1 44 45 1007
11 kwacky's kwitters mr kwacky 56 43 1006
12 40,000 Headmen Fat Buddha 45 37 1002
13 FC Murcielago skronk _ 57 42 992
14 Cream of Chicken Ian Townsend 64 46 986
15 Arsenal's Back Four Pete W 57 32 975
16 phatcat footie garfield on catnip 49 41 970
17 ATL Untitled Tim Truxell 43 33 945
18 sporting lisbian john o'neill 48 44 937
19 Bayern Mucus Danny the Taupe 46 43 926
20 Terrapin Utd R Scully 52 36 896
21 Blammos! Star Unsuitable 47 45 873
22 Bosiak Bashers etrader 9 59 37 839
23 born to lose J B 43 28 783
24 Mossy Unathletic Me Mossy 22 43 779
25 Slow And Foamy J Warwick 32 35 754
26 last again eckeric eckeric 49 30 752
27 Cool Springs United John Hill 33 48 744
28 Napsacks lil nemo 31 8 570

posted by gspm at 03:32 PM on December 30, 2004

Morientes seems like a decent striker. I think Baros is better than him. But i DO think that him and Baros up front will be very effective.

posted by StarFucker at 03:37 PM on December 30, 2004

yeah, Baros is solid...the bicycle miss he had last week, shit that entire game, he was everywhere.

posted by garfield at 04:15 PM on December 30, 2004

That bicycle miss made me jump in the fucking air... I wish he had made it, it could have gone down in history.

posted by StarFucker at 04:17 PM on December 30, 2004

Morientes move rests on new coach, but article doubts Luxemburgo will make any difference in the move. Secondary: the article suggests the new coach will bring over Brazilian forward Robhino, but I thought he was an (attacking) midfielder; at least he was in the Santos match I saw him play.

posted by billsaysthis at 11:15 PM on December 30, 2004

I got 16 points today. 16 poxy points. Is this a record?

posted by Fat Buddha at 01:10 PM on January 01, 2005

you can see above that the non-participating lilnemo counted 8 points last week. so in the "I'm Trying, I Really Am Trying" Division you must be a contender.

posted by gspm at 06:42 PM on January 01, 2005

The top four is getting to be a real traffic jam (if all the substitution points have been awarded as I write this, which I think is true).

posted by billsaysthis at 07:39 PM on January 01, 2005

The horror. Oh the horror.

posted by worldcup2002 at 11:09 AM on January 02, 2005

sheesh, sorry. Busy busy christmas. Will get back on form to post the table.

posted by BigCalm at 12:49 PM on January 02, 2005

Start a new thread. Please. It is a new year after all.

posted by worldcup2002 at 09:38 AM on January 03, 2005

posted by StarFucker at 12:20 PM on January 03, 2005

Was that your best Christmas present, MrFucker?

posted by billsaysthis at 05:34 PM on January 03, 2005

Those are new threads...

posted by StarFucker at 06:54 PM on January 03, 2005

I thought you were going to post of picture of yourself in your new white polyester suit.

posted by worldcup2002 at 11:18 PM on January 03, 2005

top of the table in the middle of gameweek 23! woo! (of course, that officially means now that there is nowhere to go but down).

posted by gspm at 10:10 AM on January 04, 2005

Everton begin their slide toward the bottom...

posted by StarFucker at 12:08 PM on January 04, 2005

I think Norwich City, Southhampton, Crystal Palace, and West Brom will have something to say about Everton reaching the bottom.

posted by trox at 12:40 PM on January 04, 2005

i didn't say reach the bottom...i said, slide towards it.

posted by StarFucker at 12:54 PM on January 04, 2005

I think West Brom have the last spot pretty much sewn up.

posted by worldcup2002 at 01:07 PM on January 04, 2005

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