Fantasy EPL 2004/05 (Yahoo-style)

[Pasha]

Well Pasha's idea was to play a head to head league with a draft. I believe that the Premier League site only offeres salary cap games.

Exactly! Had there been a head-to-head league set up somewhere (like Fantasy NHL on Yahoo), I would have just gone there instead of reinventing the wheel :-)

I don't know what sort of formations we would allowed but playing a formation with as many forwards and defenders as possible would be advantageous in this format.

That is reasonable. Perhaps we should do a 4-3-3 formation instead of a 4-4-2 one.

And yes, most midfielders aren't that worth that much... but neither are most defensemen in fantasy hockey... c'est la vie :-)

[Pasha]

there will be a total of 32 games

then the top 6 teams will play a cup with the last 6 games of the premiere season

any comments ideas questions?

If we have 8 teams, it would make more sense to have a 35-game regular season (each team plays everyone else 5 times), and then playoffs:

quarterfinals (Day 36 of real EPL): No 3 - No 6, No 4 - No 5
semifinals (Day 37): No 1 - No 4/5, No 2 - No 3/6
final (Day 38): semifinal winners

[Pasha]

the list repeats itself so its basically like this

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16
19,20,21,22,23,24,

so the person with the first pick gets 1,9,19
person with 8th pick gets 8,16,24

it should be a snake system

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

this is more reasonable
manager 1 gets 1,16,17
manager 8 gets 8,9,24 and so forth

whoever picks 1st will take henry and then for every round they get first pick is amateur

Without a doubt, we will have a "snake" system!

[Pasha]

Now, let's confirm participation again. If you are definitely going to play, please pick a team name (you can change it later).

Here is mine:

1.St Louis Pythons (Pasha)

Please add yours :-)

[Ilovecolombia redded]

well the problem is premier league doesnt allow registrations if we want to follow Pashas idea of not having the same two players on one team

the idea is that someone will pick henry first and then that will realy not be fair what would be fair is that a random person gets henry...

[Pasha]

well the problem is premier league doesnt allow registrations if we want to follow Pashas idea of not having the same two players on one team

Yes, we do :-) Of course, we won't go to premierleague.com.

the idea is that someone will pick henry first and then that will realy not be fair what would be fair is that a random person gets henry...

Well, the order of selection will be determined randomly (by a draw), so that a random person WILL pick first overall (whether he'll pick Henry or not is up to him).

[tomvandamn]

i dont care who gets the first pick and takes henry i just wanted to make sure the draft was a snake shaped


now the whole premierleague.com thing--i recommended it because its easier
i mean half the people will start being lazy and what not because they will have to post their teams rather than the teams being displayed as on most fantasy websites

also you have 8 teams and all 8 make the playoffs--how much motivation is that to pick up players and transfer them when you know everyone is in the playoffs

besides by using premierleague.com--you can still post
team a-team b
team c-teamd
e-f
g-h

and the team with the highest score wins it can be done but some1 will have to post those results here

i could care less its just a suggestion
and when do you expect to have a draft a week before the epl starts im assuming or before

[Ilovecolombia redded]

premiere league will not be doing the 04/05 season I dont like the layout i like the simple text choices premierleague.com is not the same format and its not what were trying to do were trying to be original...

[Pasha]

i dont care who gets the first pick and takes henry i just wanted to make sure the draft was a snake shaped

Of course.

now the whole premierleague.com thing--i recommended it because its easier i mean half the people will start being lazy and what not because they will have to post their teams rather than the teams being displayed as on most fantasy websites

How hard is it to list 11 players once a week? Or just indicate a couple of changes (if there are any) from last week's lineup?

also you have 8 teams and all 8 make the playoffs--how much motivation is that to pick up players and transfer them when you know everyone is in the playoffs

No, of course all 8 won't make the playoffs. I was thinking about 4. At most, 6. At first, we need to know how many managers we'll have.

and the team with the highest score wins it can be done but some1 will have to post those results here

What's premiereleague.com's scoring system?

and when do you expect to have a draft a week before the epl starts im assuming or before

I'd prefer several sessions (like 4 session, 5 rounds each) in the last two weeks before the start.

But first, let's confirm our participation and pick team names (at least temporary ones):

1.St Louis Pythons (Pasha)

(add yours)

[Ilovecolombia redded]

aston athletic club

[Pasha]

Just two "official" confirmations so far...

1.St Louis Pythons (Pasha)
2.Aston Athletic Club (Ilovecolombia)

Need at least six more...

[TURICATO13]

so r u guys still organizing this or not? let me know and ill join in.

[Pasha]

so r u guys still organizing this or not? let me know and ill join in.

Well, so far only two of us have "officially" confirmed our intent to play. You're welcome to be the third. If we get at least eight teams, we WILL play.