December 14, 2003

EPL Fantasy League Week 16 (December) was the week of Laurent Robert, which helped us not in the least. Still, we didn't do that badly; seven of us broke 60, my Bayern netted 74, and our month-leader sauril is #555 overall for the month of December. (more inside)

posted by taupe to navel gazing at 02:26 PM - 25 comments

Overall
   Team   Manager   T   G   R   P 
 1  Bayern Mucus 03   Danny The Taupe   21   74   1,673   811 
 2  bluebears   andy griffiths   9   61   7,603   766 
 3  Kwacky's Kwitters   richard looker   19   67   12,020   750 
 4  Blammos!   Star Unsuitable   9   43   14,492   742 
 5  Crap City United   g s p m   11   52   15,225   740 
 6  Ardley Athletic   Squealy Neily   26   68   17,770   734 
 7  Cottage Cheesers   worldcup 2002   21   43   22,423   723 
 8  Mossy Athletic   Emad Mostaque   16   54   27,603   712 
 9  Finally   Mark D   13   68   29,060   709 
 10  37 Push Ups   Corpse R. Christ   1   48   36,933   694 
 11  Rings of Saturn   David Hansen   5   38   38,710   691 
 12  Deadly Calm   Big Calm   15   47   40,675   688 
 13  last again   eckeric eckeric   5   60   42,789   684 
 14  Terrapin Utd   Rick Scully   12   58   43,541   683 
 14  The Bog Bandits   Fat Buddha   23   48   43,716   683 
 16  Bosiak Bashers   joe bieda   17   44   46,059   679 
 17  Salmacis FC   Huw Morris   8   59   47,767   676 
 18  FC Cacahuate   skronk _   28   49   59,623   657 
 19  fascist bully boys   Ufez Jones   8   51   59,938   656 
 20  cutters   mbd1 mbd1   13   32   61,244   654 
 21  BillSaysThisSCORES!!   Bill Lazar   13   58   65,394   647 
 22  Sporting Goats   Eliot Shepard   0   40   68,510   641 
 23  vagabonds   christopher f   20   30   77,929   625 
 24  SilentInTheMorning   pful ler   2   36   83,428   614 
 25  Nemo's Dreamers   lil nemo   14   60   85,077   611 
 26  Generals F.C.   Noah Egorin   14   42   98,343   582 
 27  Atlanta Untitled   Tim Truxell   14   56   102,722   571 
 28  AVZ Thundering Herd   usf bull   7   35   119,514   523 
 29  tallclay   Clay H   16   37   122,645   513 
 30  Trendelmaniacs   t trendel   0   31   127,789   495 
 
December
   Team   Manager   T   G   R   P 
 1  Finally   Mark D   0   68   555   145 
 2  Nemo's Dreamers   lil nemo   0   60   3,047   133 
 3  Deadly Calm   Big Calm   1   47   9,549   124 
 4  Bayern Mucus 03   Danny The Taupe   1   74   10,547   123 
 5  BillSaysThisSCORES!!   Bill Lazar   1   58   11,638   122 
 6  bluebears   andy griffiths   1   61   15,644   119 
 7  Salmacis FC   Huw Morris   0   59   17,564   117 
 8  Kwacky's Kwitters   richard looker   3   67   30,995   111 
 9  Ardley Athletic   Squealy Neily   1   68   33,428   109 
 10  Terrapin Utd   Rick Scully   4   58   46,723   105 
 11  FC Cacahuate   skronk _   1   49   51,980   103 
 12  37 Push Ups   Corpse R. Christ   0   48   52,797   102 
 13  Crap City United   g s p m   1   52   64,986   99 
 14  fascist bully boys   Ufez Jones   1   51   68,445   98 
 15  last again   eckeric eckeric   0   60   69,283   97 
 16  Sporting Goats   Eliot Shepard   0   40   76,381   95 
 17  SilentInTheMorning   pful ler   0   36   95,355   90 
 17  Atlanta Untitled   Tim Truxell   1   56   98,421   90 
 19  The Bog Bandits   Fat Buddha   0   48   123,282   83 
 20  Rings of Saturn   David Hansen   0   38   127,346   82 
 21  Blammos!   Star Unsuitable   1   43   138,587   80 
 21  Cottage Cheesers   worldcup 2002   2   43   138,925   80 
 23  Bosiak Bashers   joe bieda   0   44   139,387   79 
 24  Generals F.C.   Noah Egorin   0   42   147,240   77 
 25  Mossy Athletic   Emad Mostaque   2   54   154,543   76 
 26  AVZ Thundering Herd   usf bull   0   35   158,671   74 
 27  tallclay   Clay H   0   37   172,515   70 
 28  Trendelmaniacs   t trendel   0   31   182,111   67 
 29  cutters   mbd1 mbd1   0   32   195,731   62 
 30  vagabonds   christopher f   0   30   200,152   60 
Meanwhile the real EPL table has come to look like the bowels of a middle-aged American, with the compacted bits of undigested meat being the sixteen teams within ten points of each other. The scary part is how Leeds were second from bottom and Fulham fourth from top before today's late game, and how they were still in those respective places after Leeds beat Fulham.

posted by taupe at 02:28 PM on December 14, 2003

Champions League for me. Nice of Mr Saha to bag a brace this afternoon ;-)

posted by kWaCkY at 04:22 PM on December 14, 2003

Good grief, yes, kwacky! Saha saved my weekend from total misery. And Forsell, too. Whew. I thought I was going to have to make a drastic 12-penalty-point change, but I think I may be able to ride this out. Maybe.

posted by worldcup2002 at 07:17 PM on December 14, 2003

Saha, Ruud, and N'Gotty, thank you all. Next week I've got to get rid of my Wolves for some players with points.

posted by billsaysthis at 07:24 PM on December 14, 2003

Oi, I got 71 points, they were late noticing that Malbranque got an assist for Fulham. Seeing as this appears to be some kind of Oscar award acceptance thread I'd like to give my wholehearted thanks to my captain super Alan Shearer. Like a fine wine, he improves with age. Plaudits also to the psychopathic Alex Rae for his second fine week on the bounce.

posted by squealy at 05:21 AM on December 15, 2003

Damn straight, squealster. Shearer has been great this year, and kept my team afloat.

posted by Ufez Jones at 09:05 AM on December 15, 2003

Radzinski has been a bit of a bust. He's off the bully boys.

posted by Ufez Jones at 09:15 AM on December 15, 2003

Today's Soccernet poll question is: Will Gerrard Houllier be able to keep his job until the end of the season? Current responses is 73.8% NO, 26.1% yes. ROTFLMAO. So if GH goes, who are the top candidates to replace him? O'Neill or someone less well known out of the Continent?

posted by billsaysthis at 11:09 AM on December 15, 2003

EPL fantasy league is cobblers, Yahoo is where it's at, Matt.

posted by Fat Buddha at 12:09 PM on December 15, 2003

Hey, where is the yahoo table? lilnemo?!

posted by worldcup2002 at 12:59 PM on December 15, 2003

I'm workin on it!

posted by lilnemo at 01:32 PM on December 15, 2003

LOL. Carry on, old chap!

posted by worldcup2002 at 01:39 PM on December 15, 2003

You're only saying that because you're crap at the EPL game FB.

posted by squealy at 02:12 PM on December 15, 2003

I'm starting to crap out on the EPL league too! What the hell?! I like the Yahoo game just as much...

posted by StarFucker at 02:37 PM on December 15, 2003

Yahoo is for aficionados, EPL for amateurs.

posted by Fat Buddha at 02:53 PM on December 15, 2003

yahoo stinks. this is where it's at! but seriously, I've pretty much quit changing my yahoo team after finding out that when you sell a player after he's gone up in value, you don't get the points to spend. What's the point, then?

posted by sauril at 03:58 PM on December 15, 2003

I love 'em both. And I'm not even a contender in either (but that will soon change, maties)! Yahoo: Simple as peas. You just pay for it by having to tolerate in the nutso and unreliability from the yahoo! crew. Not profiting off your player's price increase sounds pretty good to me. The real insanity is you can profit when they go _down_ in price; then you can use those points on other players. Yahoo is like having a crazy old unpredictable beater to tinker with. And you have to find out if every part is working or banned, before you can use it. And it seems that it's been declining in usefulness over time. PremierLeague: Like driving a Ferrari. So many doodads it can be intimidating to just start. But, once you get in it, so many great features you can't dream of living without like real-time point updates, last-minute (up to 30 minutes before the first game) team changes, player red flags, and same-day league updates. Are you reading, yahoo? They also have fun stuff such as the graphing feature and a weekly newsletter. The only drawbacks are the limits on player trades a week, but even then, the penalties are disincentives, rather than out and out no-nos.

posted by worldcup2002 at 05:17 PM on December 15, 2003

The points are to assess the increased value of your asset(s). The sell price stays the same, but if you bought at x, and now the players are valued at y, you know by what degree, z, their value has increased, decreased, stayed the same, etc. Sounds simple, and it is: its just a measure of relative success. If you're way over your original budget, your team is good. Basically, this system rewards pre-season management, rather than mid-season movers.

posted by garfield at 05:18 PM on December 15, 2003

where the hell is the yahoo table? I am going to post it just so I can gloat that I scored nearly 80 pts even with three no-shows!

posted by worldcup2002 at 05:21 PM on December 15, 2003

I guess i should make some changes...my usual bunch isn't performing.

posted by StarFucker at 01:39 AM on December 16, 2003

I am moving up in both leagues this week!

posted by worldcup2002 at 01:47 PM on December 16, 2003

Or else, I will be like Houllier.

posted by worldcup2002 at 02:26 PM on December 16, 2003

I wonder if Rio's price has crashed yet?

posted by kWaCkY at 01:36 AM on December 20, 2003

I predict a widespread wailing and gnashing of teeth now that the Blues v Boro and Wolves v Scousers games have been postponed due to waterlogged pitches. *wail, gnash*

posted by squealy at 08:44 AM on December 20, 2003

Soccernet has articles up from both games with much protestation from three of four coaches. And here I am, thinking footballers are tougher than helmetheads but seeing games put off for wet fields.

posted by billsaysthis at 01:41 PM on December 20, 2003

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