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[MightyWhite]

The codes for the leagues on http://fantasy.premierleague.com/ are:

Scum allowed league: 116426-35840
No scum allowed league: 116426-35841

[Ponte]

Go on then.

[FER]

I'm on this one at work > http://fantasyfootball.metro.co.uk/. Seeems quite good, got £100m to spend so you can get a lot of the top names.

Just another site to contemplate, mind.

[the flying pig]

I'm on this one at work > http://fantasyfootball.metro.co.uk/. Seeems quite good, got £100m to spend so you can get a lot of the top names.

Just another site to contemplate, mind.

i'm also on that one.

[alienbumnote]

i'm in!

[Ontolly]

Is there a shilling on the side?

[top bin]

You fuckers gonna throw me out as soon as I start winning again?

[AndyPaul]

Thought i'd have a crack at this. Got to improve my absolute crap record in fantasy football.

[telfordwhite]

I'm in.

My team's so good I had to leave Messi on the bench, watch out suckers!

[the flying pig]

it took me about nineteen million hours to pick an entire squad of twenty-odd.

did anyone read the rules/have any good idea? is it best to have a galacticos-type policy, i.e. a mix of spain/brazil type players interspersed with new zealand/north korea types, or to fill the whole squad with middling [e.g., uh, mexico, serbia] ones?

[FER]

On the Metro one, I've got a very strong 9 out of my first 11 and a pitiful, woeful bench. I'm hoping that strategy brings me a large hatful of points.

[MightyWhite]

it took me about nineteen million hours to pick an entire squad of twenty-odd.

did anyone read the rules/have any good idea? is it best to have a galacticos-type policy, i.e. a mix of spain/brazil type players interspersed with new zealand/north korea types, or to fill the whole squad with middling [e.g., uh, mexico, serbia] ones?

Don't know if it's the right approach but I've gone for a lot of players who are top players for good-to-middling sides, e.g. Stankovic and Zigic from Serbia, Suazo (Chile) and Dos Santos (Mexico). Always likely to play, and if their teams have a good tournament then so should they. The fact you can make unlimited transfers between the group and knockout stages means it's no massive loss if the squad if decimated by eliminations.

[EEPW]

im in.

fishfingersandwich

If anyone's interested in giving the waccoe boys a run for their money here is the pin for the WAccoe league on the same site.

462035-105790

[Phil LUFC]

Ok, I'm in.

EDIT: And not only that, I also now have a virtual panini sticker album! Its almost better than the real thing.

[the flying pig]

it took me about nineteen million hours to pick an entire squad of twenty-odd.

did anyone read the rules/have any good idea? is it best to have a galacticos-type policy, i.e. a mix of spain/brazil type players interspersed with new zealand/north korea types, or to fill the whole squad with middling [e.g., uh, mexico, serbia] ones?

Don't know if it's the right approach but I've gone for a lot of players who are top players for good-to-middling sides, e.g. Stankovic and Zigic from Serbia, Suazo (Chile) and Dos Santos (Mexico). Always likely to play, and if their teams have a good tournament then so should they. The fact you can make unlimited transfers between the group and knockout stages means it's no massive loss if the squad if decimated by eliminations.

i've done the opposite, have gone for a real Zidanes y Pavones approach, bringing in many of the 'blue chip' type signings such as messi, villa, casillas, maicon, and used up my entire complement of NZ, north korea, & honduras 'stars'...

[Phil LUFC]

i've done the opposite, have gone for a real Zidanes y Pavones approach, bringing in many of the 'blue chip' type signings such as messi, villa, casillas, maicon, and used up my entire complement of NZ, north korea, & honduras 'stars'...

Havinglooked at the scoring, I think you've taken the right approach. Aside from changing your linup between rounds of games (eg. if you feel england players vs USA aren't worth it but will be for the other 2 games), there's no apparent benefit to having more than 11 players of note.

You can sub out players who don't play for ones who do, which seems to happen automatically if you can't be bothered to intervene.

And you might even make a profit if one of your hondurans has the game of his life, which will help you buy more quality in the 2nd round.

[YorkshirePoster]

I'm in too .. team name 'Only One UNITED'

[the flying pig]

i've done the opposite, have gone for a real Zidanes y Pavones approach, bringing in many of the 'blue chip' type signings such as messi, villa, casillas, maicon, and used up my entire complement of NZ, north korea, & honduras 'stars'...

Havinglooked at the scoring, I think you've taken the right approach. Aside from changing your linup between rounds of games (eg. if you feel england players vs USA aren't worth it but will be for the other 2 games), there's no apparent benefit to having more than 11 players of note.

You can sub out players who don't play for ones who do, which seems to happen automatically if you can't be bothered to intervene.

And you might even make a profit if one of your hondurans has the game of his life, which will help you buy more quality in the 2nd round.

yeah.

i might start with a couple of cheap slovakian defenders in the first round of games, just for the game vs NZ [who, i'm sure, won't even come close to scoring], & then replace them with english/french/italians once they've got their relatively tricky opening fixtures out of the way... two slovaks plus two each of hondurans [who are cheap but probably not that bad, e.g. figueroa {sp} at wigan is a good player], north koreans, and kiwis should enable the rest of the squad to be entirely filled with 'all stars'.

anyway, the point isn't meant to be telling other people your team before it starts so i'll leave it at that.

[Phil LUFC]

i've done the opposite, have gone for a real Zidanes y Pavones approach, bringing in many of the 'blue chip' type signings such as messi, villa, casillas, maicon, and used up my entire complement of NZ, north korea, & honduras 'stars'...

Havinglooked at the scoring, I think you've taken the right approach. Aside from changing your linup between rounds of games (eg. if you feel england players vs USA aren't worth it but will be for the other 2 games), there's no apparent benefit to having more than 11 players of note.

You can sub out players who don't play for ones who do, which seems to happen automatically if you can't be bothered to intervene.

And you might even make a profit if one of your hondurans has the game of his life, which will help you buy more quality in the 2nd round.

yeah.

i might start with a couple of cheap slovakian defenders in the first round of games, just for the game vs NZ [who, i'm sure, won't even come close to scoring], & then replace them with english/french/italians once they've got their relatively tricky opening fixtures out of the way... two slovaks plus two each of hondurans [who are cheap but probably not that bad, e.g. figueroa {sp} at wigan is a good player], north koreans, and kiwis should enable the rest of the squad to be entirely filled with 'all stars'.

anyway, the point isn't meant to be telling other people your team before it starts so i'll leave it at that.

You've already said enough to make me contemplate a whole host of pre-tournament transfers.

[MightyWhite]

You've already said enough to make me contemplate a whole host of pre-tournament transfers.

Have to admit I've just gone back and done a spot of 're-jigging'.