As of Tarvs last post, here is Sand League as it stands.. the seeding in dubious, depending who you ask, but I will leave that to the more powerful "All Rocks Dudes"... Sand 2012-2013 (Need 3 managers to confirm) 1. 1800uk Confirmed 2. Pittsadelphia Confirmed 3 Bigger Boat Confirmed 4 Cassville United 5 Jedi Padawans Confirmed 6 wewunwunce 7 352 Sizzle 8 Denocmuppet Confirmed I have just emailed the 3 who have not yet confirmed. I read somewhere that wewunwunce is coming back, but I have hardly heard boo from the other 2 since the Draft last season. I hope they come back cause they know their stuff and would do well if they stayed active for the year. VSR still has 2 to confirm, but presuming they come back, then will will have to drag 2 or 3 from Dust. If you want to start talk of Draft dates/time zones etc then I guess we could get that going... myself and Denocmuppet are Australian Eastern Time (UTC+10.00). When the draft starts does not bother either of us.
Johno (352 Sizzle) is going to give it another shot. 2 more to confirm.... Sand 2012-2013 (Need 2 managers to confirm) 1. 1800uk Confirmed 2. Pittsadelphia Confirmed 3 Bigger Boat Confirmed 4 Cassville United 5 Jedi Padawans Confirmed 6 wewunwunce 7 352 Sizzle Confirmed 8 Denocmuppet Confirmed
I will speak to wewunwunce tomorrow at work and get him to reply on here. He has suggested that he will be back but we haven't spoken much about it since the end of the season.
Ok excellent. That leaves one spot if Huck does not reply to my email or jump on here soon. MIght be a good time to clarify the "seedings" so we know who will move up from Dust to fill that vacant spot should it remain vacant. A while back, Hal posted the algorithm of all algorithms that determined seedings. Based on that, the below is the finishing order (this is the base standings before withdrawals etc) Small Rocks: 1 VegasVirgins Craig Powell 2 ColdDogSoup FC Lobo Mojo 3 Rockville Gunners Chuck Cannon 4 Glorydaze fC Paul Richards 5 Sasha Juniors Thomas Johnson 6 blechs dawgs Blech Blech 7 FC St. Pauli Scott King 8 FC Touchline Ban E Sullivan Very Small Rocks 2011-2012 1 ThiKu Mariners Kurt Thiessen 2 In off the post Clan Blue 3 Aviators Sir Grandpa Hal 4 Pittsadelphia 5 Dynamo Teso Mike Wilson 6 ChrisSuttonsSlippers Fraser McInnes 7 FC Springfield Coach Wiggum 8London St. Germain Sand 2011-2012 1 Top_Shelf Dave Thomas 2 Kopite Juniors Chloe Adams 3 Yellowcake Phantoms Jay Jones 4 Ram It In There Ryan Gorman 5 Bigger Boat Paul O'Connor 6 Cassville United Jordan Vogt 7 Pork Soda Richard Powel 8 1800-UK.com Harry Hotspur Dust 2011-2012 1 Jedi Padawans Bob Shill 2 wewunwunce Ian Plant 3 352 Sizzle J Chizzo 4DenocmuppetDennis O'Connor 5 FC Weymouth Ryan Morrison 6 Lees Summit Rangers Mike Kuhn 7 KeyserSoze Wanderers 8 AC TIG So from Dust, Jedi, wewunwunce, 352 sizzle and denocmuppet have already risen to Sand due to withdrawals above. If Huck was not to come back, then FC Weymouth would return to Sand. Can someone with more experience than me please clarify that is correct so we can sort it. I do not want to be arguing as to who is what league when there are drafts to organise
Did you end up staying in VSR or did you get relegated?? I thought you pipped Pork Soda at the end and you came 6th in VSR so you stayed afloat... or was it vice versa??
Trying to confirm your earlier post on Hal's algorithm. Eddie's spot is the obvious question. Sent an email to my brother, Pork Soda, to see what he recalls.
We have lost Pittsdelphia to Sand (where he should have been all along), and I have not heard from Cassville United since Draft day 2011/2012 so I guess we can presume he is a no show aswell. By my calculations this leaves Sand as follows: Sand 2012-2013 1. 1800uk Confirmed 2 Bigger Boat Confirmed 3 Jedi Padawans Confirmed 4 wewunwunce Confirmed 5 352 Sizzle Confirmed 6 Denocmuppet Confirmed 7 FC Weymouth Confirmed 8 Lees Summit Rangers Confirmed Can everyone check in here with preferred draft dates etc. Also, 1800, I know you are do not have access a lot of the time to Google Docs, so how do you notify everyone of trades? Is it on here and FPL or just FPL? We will still use the Google Docs sheet to make things easier, I am happy to update it for you throughout the season. I will just need to know how I will know you have traded .
Fair call, but I would not leave it any later than , say, 4th August, to give us a good 2 weeks. We have a lot of different time zones, 2 from Oz, 2 from USA, 1 UK, 1800 is in Europe I think.. and I am not sure about FC Weymouth and Lees Summit?
Pending no last minutes 'Show ups" of Cassville United (Sand) AND Dynamo Teso (VSR), yep , you definitley have to be. The only 3 other candiates are Lees Summit Ranngers (who you finished above in Sand) and Keyser Soze & AC TIG who were both releagted from Dust so have no claims to Sand over you (unless more drop outs occur) If one of those above mentioned show up and not the other, then Less Summit will be in Dust but you will still be in Sand. Clear as mud !!
August 4th at the latest I'd agree, remembering how long the Dust draft took last season due to time differences
Yeah I looked at that. It took 15 days (July 22 to August 6). But we did have a bloke pull out mid draft which costs us a couple of days, and that was over a weekend from memory. Maybe we should drag it forward to 1st August? Last year there were transfer rumours etc (eg Tevez) and the window is open until end of August anyway so lots can still happen post draft no matter when you do it.
when ever for the draft works for me. Since I've just been moved into the league today, has the league on the FPL site been set up? If so can someone send me the code? I'm Lees Summit Rangers BTW
I have set up both Sand League and Head to Head League (Sandy Lyle Cup)... I will PM you all both codes I do not know how to PM on this new site.. I have creatd a "conversation" and invited you all. Hope that is the same thing and serves the purpose
We have 5 Managers signed up now... to go are 1800, wewunwunce and denocmuppet. Dennis (denoc) is a mate of mine and I am trying to catch him for lunch today or over the weekend. He will be joined up soon enough. Is everyone happy with: Draft Start of August 1 - I think we need to start earlier due to lots of time zones Google Docs- here is the link we used in Dust last season.. I am trying to keep it simple https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqtRlJ7fu_19dFp3M2ViZF9zYldjazkyVUpOeUVsR0E&pli=1#gid=0 This is not the OFFICIAL site for trades etc, if kept up to date (which I do pretty diligently) it is a quick snapshot of who has who. Trades are still posted on FPL (makes them official) and then on Big Soccer (optional). If someone has a better idea let me know. I am setting up a Sand League DOC identical to this one.. everyone will have the link and can choose whether you use or not. All I ask is that if you are not going to update it, is let me know from the start that you are not going to update it, and I will update the sheet for those managers so the sheet stays as accurate as posisble. I will run the Draft randomizer to determine the order... I have most email addresses but I need 1800, FC Weymouth & Lees Summit's email addresses to complete the draft order. Could you guys post your email on the Conversation thingy.....
Just a suggestion, but the Sand League may want to take notice of a discussion we are having in VSR whether to accept a couple of managers who were inactive for large periods last season. We are awaiting an explanation before we vote. The results might open up 0, 1 or 2 spots in VSR for this season. If there are openings, we'd be reaching down to Sand for the managers.
I have just emailed wewunwunce and he should join in soon. That leaves 1800 who I have seen floating around here, but is probably having a hard time coming to grips he is actually in Sand so has avoided us at this stage.... still listening in on the cool kids conversations hoping to get a look in ... he will have to come and sit at the nerdy table soon enough though