Final Rankings 1 - Sammer's Hammer - 266 points 2 - Breitner'sWig - 258 points 3 - soccernutter - 246 points 4 - La-Maquina - 217 points 5 - cr7torossi - 196 points 6 - Twenty26Six - 195 points 7 - Excape Goat - 194 points 8 - PDG1978 - 159 points 9 - Peru FC - 153 points* 10 - Stud83 - 153 points* 11 - babaorum - 135 points 12 - Michaelf7777777 - 122 points 13 - Polemarch - 118 points 14 - Lucas Gomes - 108 points 15 - Bestie - 97 points 16 - frasermc - 65 points 17 - Vasu - 46 points 18 - Karloski - 25 points *Peru FC finishes higher by having a highest ranking of 3rd compared to Stud83's 4th. I'll post a more detailed breakdown of the voting over the weekend, but in the meantime thank you all for playing.
In all seriousness congrats to @Sammer's Hammer on the victory and thanks once again to @lanman for running the show!
FINALLY, I break my Michael Ballack streak in BS drafts. Thanks to all those who voted for me. Hard Luck, @Breitner'sWig . It was close as hell between the both of us. Last but not the least, Thanks @lanman once again for conducting the draft.
Great fun guys, thanks for the draft. Rankings look fair, I think only Lucas Gomes should have been a bit higher.
Well done Sammer's Hammer. I had Breitner's Wig's team 1st but those two as the top two contenders. I also put soccernutter's team 3rd and thought his team was the other possible winning team. I did think this could be even a rare draft where I could come higher than I'd place my own team at one point, but I guess it's good (?) that I'd tend to rate it above it's finishing position - couldn't really make a case for higher than 4th though and I think the only advantage over the top 2 really would be the same one soccernutter has - the class of the main star player (Pele, Cruyff). This time I think I'd have to rely on team shape including going towards our own goal which is often not the area my team compares to the top teams or any teams necessarily maybe the most favourably. Breitner's Wig still probably had as good a team in that respect as any anyway, while still having a great front 4 (somehow in this 'impossible' draft he takes Van Basten, Laudrup and Best, adds Hamrin for right wing and has Vieira as a very able footballer who's also very good defensively). My vote: 1 - BreitnersWig 2 - Sammer's Hammer 3 - soccernutter 4 - Stud83 5 - Lucas Gomes (yes, a big question over the defence with the 'sheep' though but maybe a top tier team without that I felt) 6 - Michaelf7777777 7 - Twenty26Six 8 - cr7torossi 9 - Bestie 10 - La Maquina (would go above Bestie's team with his sheep, and maybe a few others if Altafini in instead of the 2nd DM I think) 11 - Polemarch 12 - Excape Goat 13 - El-Mata (didn't penalise at all once the line-up was confirmed but maybe dropped a place or two compared to what I estimated before - hard call to pick the final team from his 12 though for sure) 14 - babaorum (Piantoni in instead of Szymaniak or Middelboe would have moved him up a bit in my list I think - hard to judge more than most teams against the 'youngsters' in other teams but nice to see such a historical team anyway) 15 - Peru FC (in touch with those above, and I doubt the questions I did have - Netzer as deepest mid could be ok based on Germany team in 1972, Willomowsi could probably still offer something with all-time great opponents especially in a tougher draft) 16 -frasermc 17 - Karloski 18 - Vasu 19 - nicephoras (would likely have slotted him in behind fraser, but felt I should give the benefit of the doubt to the next two as they had more managerial input) 20 - Baggio in Turin (don't think I'd have put higher, but I suppose thebigman just had his team sheet and benni had a very unfortunate draft so felt neither had the tactical genius potential to rise above him to be fair) 21 - thebigman 22 - benni...... Tough draft, but a really good one anyway with new names in my team and others.
Same old feeling every single May... Nah just kidding, delighted to come that high up. @Sammer's Hammer was a run away winner for me, I would have been disappointed to miss top 5 but otherwise happy enough so thanks for the votes. If I'm honest his defence and front line were both superior in my opinion. Plus I thought he should have won the world cup sheep draft so well done! Thanks as always to lanman too, some excellent rounds once again.
Ah crap ! Next time I won't spend hours searching players from the prehistoric ages of football . Congrats BreitnersWig and thanks lanman .
Im happy for you. Is this your best finish? Sorry guys for holding up the draft when I did. Having 3 sheep, I found it hard to keep going let alone do the tactics and rankings.
Thanks, I'm actually quite pleased. I figured I'd end up around 5-7 having over estimated my team. It was either sheep IV or sheep III that I also finished third. I appreciate that you stuck it out. One of things I look forward to his what people will say about their sheep in the tactics write-up.
My draft seemed dead. http://forums.bigsoccer.com/threads/world-cup-2014-fantasy-draft-line-ups-and-tactics.2004893/
Sign up for the next current player sheep draft is open http://forums.bigsoccer.com/threads/sheep-draft-5-5-current-players.2009629/