I made a division for the MLS Fantasy Soccer game for members of this forum. The details: http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/mls/fantasy/home_good.html League Name: BigSoccer Rapids Fans Password: Zizi
there is no cap for private leagues, just the public leagues i have over 40 people in the chicago fire group i created... even though it's essentially public (no password) -jim
Standings after Sun, Oct 19: Rk Points Team Name 01 13875 CorpRapids 02 12980 Vertigo MLS 03 11330 FC Nerja 04 10070 Worm Burners 05 09965 Sharpshooters 06 09950 Gonzos 07 09785 streak 08 09700 Sublime CRFC 09 09270 Real Aurora 10 08920 Dissent 11 08580 Tidal Wave 12 08265 Edinburgh Highlanders 13 07490 Lokomotiv Breath FC 14 07110 Kerouac's Boys 15 06510 The Denver Ballers
Just for giggles, I thought I compare the BigSoccer Rapids fantasy league and the Colorado Rapids fantasy league: Rk Points Team Name 01 13875 CorpRapids 02 12980 Vertigo MLS 03 11505 Hungry like the Woolf 04 11330 FC Nerja 05 10865 JT United 06 10810 ziawannabe 07 10070 Worm Burners 08 09965 Sharpshooters 09 09950 Gonzos 10 09785 streak 11 09700 Sublime CRFC 12 09655 Bizkit Eaters 13 09270 Real Aurora 14 09145 Juice 10 15 08920 Dissent 16 08730 MLS DREAM 17 08580 Tidal Wave 18 08265 Edinburgh Highlanders 19 08170 Blazzers 20 08160 Stampede 21 07720 DWB's 22 07490 Lokomotiv Breath FC 23 07110 Kerouac's Boys 24 07020 hoof hearted 25 06660 twofootassassin 26 06560 Eastside SC 27 06510 The Denver Ballers 28 04120 LV Scorpions 29 03270 Riverz 13 30 02725 Survivor1184 31 00000 Blackpool Rangers 31 00000 The Plowable Snow
Thanks Zar, that is cool to see both together. I started the Colorado Rapids division and was bumbed when a bigsoccer division opened up seperatly, but it is cool to see them both together, I've got first in the Colorado Rapids division and 3rd in the overall. Everyone claim their team, I am Hungry Like the Woolf.
Here's the standings from the official division set up by the Rapids front office, as of this Monday: 1 Lassiter 18355 2 unknown losers 13705 3 Rapid Toad 13325 4 Charleston - SC 12745 5 Bizket Eaters 11615 6 panzers 11300 7 kickBRETTSbutt 11295 8 Scurvy Knaves 10540 9 Bailey Force 10450 10 HHIC 10335 11 Sweetwater FC 9910 12 FC Denver 9645 13 Brealy SC 9465 14 Calcio31 9415 15 rapids-place 9390 16 Yellowjackets 9300 17 FNG 9220 18 Chi-town bomber 9180 19 Zman Rapids 9095 20 Colorado United 8980 21 force of bailey 8525 22 SuperStar79 8285 23 Dumfries Highlanders 8265 24 1st Place Team 8200 25 Wonder Dogs 8195 26 fc emetic 8180 27 throds thumpers 8000 28 1 Man Brew Crew 7930 29 FlashBang 7920 30 American Idols 7810 31 Inter Hitch 7150 32 Juve25 6935 33 shred bettys 6900 34 RapidsRule 6660 35 MeansVision 6635 36 Rapid fan 6600 37 D-Town Crew 6240 38 Cmich Chips 5985 39 Angus 5935 40 DRAG QUEENS OF SOCCER 5390 41 Black and Blue 4240 42 crazy cowbells 3895 43 Smash II 2830 44 old 73 2380 45 TIGERS 1245 46 Black and Blue 2 360 47 Black and Blue 3 200 48 Rapids-ESB 0 48 Skiers 0 0 48 AnschutzWho? 0 48 Mfusion 0 48 rpds 0 48 Black and Blue 4 0 48 Pokinatcha Punks 0 48 Stealth Stiggeties 0 48 East Coast 0 48 Wunder FC
Well, the next logical progression is to show all 3 leagues merged together (I am CorpRapids): Rk Points Team Name 01 18355 Lassiter 02 13875 CorpRapids 03 13705 unknown losers 04 13325 Rapid Toad 05 12980 Vertigo MLS 06 12745 Charleston - SC 07 11615 Bizket Eaters 08 11505 Hungry like the Woolf 09 11330 FC Nerja 10 11300 panzers 11 11295 kickBRETTSbutt 12 10865 JT United 13 10810 ziawannabe 14 10540 Scurvy Knaves 15 10450 Bailey Force 16 10335 HHIC 17 10070 Worm Burners 18 09965 Sharpshooters 19 09950 Gonzos 20 09910 Sweetwater FC 21 09785 streak 22 09700 Sublime CRFC 23 09655 Bizkit Eaters 24 09645 FC Denver 25 09465 Brealy SC Rk Points Team Name 26 09415 Calcio31 27 09390 rapids-place 28 09300 Yellowjackets 29 09270 Real Aurora 30 09220 FNG 31 09180 Chi-town bomber 32 09145 Juice 10 33 09095 Zman Rapids 34 08980 Colorado United 35 08920 Dissent 36 08730 MLS DREAM 37 08580 Tidal Wave 38 08525 force of bailey 39 08285 SuperStar79 40 08265 Dumfries Highlanders 40 08265 Edinburgh Highlanders 42 08200 1st Place Team 43 08195 Wonder Dogs 44 08180 fc emetic 45 08170 Blazzers 46 08160 Stampede 47 08000 throds thumpers 48 07930 1 Man Brew Crew 49 07920 FlashBang 50 07810 American Idols Rk Points Team Name 51 07720 DWB's 52 07490 Lokomotiv Breath FC 53 07159 Inter Hitch 54 07110 Kerouac's Boys 55 07020 hoof hearted 56 06935 Juve25 57 06900 shred bettys 58 06660 RapidsRule 58 06660 twofootassassin 60 06635 MeansVision 61 06600 Rapid fan 62 06560 Eastside SC 63 06510 The Denver Ballers 64 06240 D-Town Crew 65 05985 Cmich Chips 66 05935 Angus 67 05390 DRAG QUEENS OF SOCCER 68 04240 Black and Blue 69 04120 LV Scorpions 70 03895 crazy cowbells 71 03270 Riverz 13 72 02725 Survivor1184 73 02830 Smash II 74 02380 old 73 75 01245 TIGERS Rk Points Team Name 76 00360 Black and Blue 2 77 00200 Black and Blue 3 78 00000 AnschutzWho? 78 00000 Black and Blue 4 78 00000 Blackpool Rangers 78 00000 East Coast 78 00000 Mfusion 78 00000 The Plowable Snow 78 00000 Pokinatcha Punks 78 00000 Rapids-ESB 78 00000 rpds 78 00000 Skiers 0 78 00000 Stealth Stiggeties 78 00000 Wunder FC
Fantasy First, Lassiter is really good. Having won two EPL leagues by what I thought were comfortable margins, Lassiter's 18000 is stunning. Next, speaking of comfortable margins, I have offered my congrats to Zar, having no hope of overcoming the gap in one week to win the "premiership" fantasy division. At least I sat in the #1 spot briefly a few weeks ago. If the top 400 get a prize, we'll place quite a few overall. Vertigo
Re: Fantasy I agree that 18000 is stunning. That team must have been making moves all season long. I didn't buy any trades and haven't made a move since July. I'm still winning my division. That might say a lot about my division.
Spot, put up the river rats standings from mfls.com. Note how team standings seem to swap. If you don't have time I'll do it for you.
Here is MFLS River Rats. I didn't do so well.... 1 Blackthorne Highland 2 Edinburgh Highlander 3 Rappin' Duke 4 Dynamo Kyiv 5 FC Oakton 6 San Diego Burritos 7 Denver Ballers FC 8 Vertigo 2003 9 Juice 10 10 Bizkit Eaters 11 DWB's 12 EuroMalaga 13 Traveling Astro's 14 F.C. Far Post 15 Hudsonsoccer Proxy 16 Color Changing Cliqu 17 LastManBack 18 Trolls 19 CorpRapids 20 Willz Team 21 Colorado Shocked 22 Hungry like the Woolf
I'm the Edinburgh/Dumfries Highlanders in the various leagues (But not the Blackthorne Highlanders, that's somebody else).
Sharpshooters here. My mistake was letting team loyalty get the best of me. I didn't wize up until half way through the season.
Re: Re: Fantasy Lassiter bought a lot of trades. Zar (Corp Rapids) and I (Vertigo) didn't buy any initially, but then both ended up suckering for the extra trades because we were very close thru the season. Over the past two weeks I changed out some players in an attempt to catch Corp, but most backfired and my breif sit on top a few weeks ago flopped. Sign. Same thing happened in last year's EPL-Zar tried some moves to catch up, and the Vertigo lead just increased. I think if this happens next year, I'll avoid changes like that, keep close, and hope for odd week. CorpRapids & Lassiter also won by building up 4 to 5 million dollar reserves. Vertigo typically had 3.5 million, which in the end sealed my fate in second place. I play a baseball one in Yahoo where each player is owned by only one person, and each week is a head-to-head match up, like the Ratz Cup (Vertigo runner up last year!..or was it 2001?). That might be fun in MLS, as you can only trade with another team, so it's less of the roster flipping week by week. Vertigo
FC Nerja and EuroMalaga here. I must say I have enjoyed the SportingNews fantasy league a whole lot more than the MFLS league. I've been playing MFLS since they started it in '97 and I've never liked their scoring. They put way too much emphasis on +/- points, leaving good players and scorers on bad teams with low points. Really, you pick players on the team with the most wins, and you probably end up with the strongest team. The MLSnet/SportingNews league is better because it takes more stats into the equation (shots taken, etc...) without ridiculous penalties for being on the field when your team was scored against. +/- is for hockey. Happy that I'm in the top 10 (#9 for all the Rapids groups) for the Sporting News league, but my team really hasn't done well in MFLS this year. Actually, it's just fun to have more options for fantasy leagues. I'm playing in one in the Spanish forum for La Liga too... I just can't help being a homer though, and I tend to grab up Rapids players just because I know who they are better than other teams around the league.
1. ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible to win a prize, MLS Fantasy Challenge (the "Game") entrants must be 18 years of age or older and a legal resident of the United States or Canada. Residents of Montana, Vermont, Louisiana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Arizona, Florida, Maryland, Colorado and the province of Quebec may play, but WILL NOT be eligible to win or receive any prizes. Hopefully this won't impact those of you in line for a prize (top 400) but I thought I'd post it anyway. Last year, I had a top 10 overall finish and received an e-mail letting me know that I was not elgible to get my prize.
Serves me right for not reading the rules carefully. I'm ranked #217 overall right now with 6 active players on Sunday. Probably won't be playing that again...
Colorado??? WHAT! No prize for Colorado Residents??? I realize that I am in line for a tee-shirt or poster at best (Vertigo has been in the mid 300's for a while), but it's the 'trophy' aspect of the trinket, not the lousey worth of the trinket. Sign. Nice work Zar, and to Lassiter, whoever you are, how did you do it? RLH