Premier League Draft

Bounty Hunter

Blatter wrote: »

Liam O: 308 min

SirDelboy18: 800 min

Trippie (average): 1297/8*11 = 1783 min

Jax Teller: 437 min

Incognito Man: 1146 min


They are the times I calculated so far. If you feel there's been a mistake let me know.

I'm fairly sure (had to recheck to make sure I was right about the 1am clock stop) my time comes up to 865m

Liam O wrote: »

might not make a difference but I think mine should be doubled as I was able to make a pick with no waiting time.

There is an obvious benefit timewise to having your picks together but where would you draw the line as that benefit albeit to a lesser extent would also apply to the 20th, 2nd/19th picks too. I dont like the idea of the eliminations now but it was agreed in the beginning so should be done and imo did help this be a very fast draft... either way I dont think you would lose out even if your time was doubled and nobody elses was.

bullvine wrote: »

I liked Bounty Hunters team until I seen Luiz... Looks like Big Paul gonna have a lot of work to do, Al Habsi is a great shot stopper so I expect him to be busy..

Personally I feel Luiz gets an awful lot more stick than he deserves and on his good days he is good enough to command a place in any team in this draft. Yes on his off days he makes an occasional error which could be punished considering the level of opponents in the draft but with his Chelsea RB on one side and Paul McGrath on the other plus the additional support of defensive minded midfielders like Tiote and Rodwell he should be fine and my side should be defensively sound while Scholes, Ruiz, Dzeko & Suarez cause the opponents defense nightmares of their own.

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

Were almost finished drafting now!

Yurt

Thats my team

Ares

This is my team. Criticism/Reviews welcome.

I also guess we're done. Looks like Arethra is singing too.

Bounty Hunter

Yurt wrote: »

Thats my team

probably would have been too attacking but the guy I had in mind (who considering his recent form im surprised he wasnt picked at all) for your last pick was Giroud.

would have left you with

..................Giroud

Bale...........Cantona.....Walcott

.............Lucas.....Diaby

Clichy..Shawcross..Kaboul..Kelly

..................Howard

your probably better off the way you went but still thought Giroud was worth a place on some team. Arsenals Ramsey, Jenkinson & Arshavin wouldnt have been too much of a surprise either if picked by someone.

Ares wrote: »

This is my team. Criticism/Reviews welcome.

Well considering how all the other teams have lined up, I think you will struggle with De Gea playing the lone striker role and Shearer will be up against it between the sticks :pac:

Otherwise tis a strong side with no glaring weaknesses to target although I'm saying that having not seen enough of Nastastic to know if perhaps he could be the one chink in your armour. Relatively inexperienced but would def be tested against the attacking forces that have been drafted

Jax Teller

Cantona wasn't your typical number 9 was he ? i had him down more as a more number 10

Bounty Hunter

Jax Teller wrote: »

Cantona wasn't your typical number 9 was he ? i had him down more as a more number 10

thats why I was thinking maybe a more natural no.9 like Giroud could work but with Bale & Walcott already I can understand going for an attacking mid instead although it would make cantona's job more difficult.

eagle eye

Jax Teller wrote: »

Cantona wasn't your typical number 9 was he ? i had him down more as a more number 10

Yeah he was never a no.9, played almost as deep as an attacking midfield role.

Bounty Hunter

Unpicked squad


................Giroud

Marin........Ramsey.....Agbonlahor

..........Romeu....Cattermole

Santos...Dawson...Vlaar..Jenkinson

.................Gomes

Subs: Green/Given, N.Clyne, K.Toure, Henderson, Arshavin, Hoilett, Bent

im sure there are loads more

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

your probably better off the way you went but still thought Giroud was worth a place on some team. Arsenals Ramsey, Jenkinson & Arshavin wouldnt have been too much of a surprise either if picked by someone.

Was going to take Jenkinso in the last round but decided to go for someone with a bit more experience. Also surprised with Giroud although since most are playing with one striker there was enough to go around.

eugeneious

Really surprised Hoilett didn't get picked.

Yurt

eagle eye wrote: »

Yeah he was never a no.9, played almost as deep as an attacking midfield role.

In my opinion he's the perfect player to play the false 9 role in my team as Bounty Hunter pointed out it is quite an attacking team.

Jax Teller

Yurt wrote: »

In my opinion he's the perfect player to play the false 9 role in my team as Bounty Hunter pointed out it is quite an attacking team.

Think Taarabt would end up getting in his way .

eagle eye

eugeneious wrote: »

Really surprised Hoilett didn't get picked.

He hasn't really played well this year. Even last year despite some highlight reel moments he was not great.

eugeneious

eagle eye wrote: »

He hasn't really played well this year. Even last year despite some highlight reel moments he was not great.

Fair enough, I'll trust your judgement as you'll have seen more of him then me. Anyway 19 decent looking sides imo although having done the last Premier League draft I think the quality over the last year or so in the league has definitely declined, more so in the bottom half of the league.

SirDelboy18

Shocked Shane Long didn't get picked up. Would have taken him myself only he would have distorted my formation.

Blatter

Will tot up the rest of the times tonight.

Liam O

was going to go for Darren Fletcher as my last pick but wanted someone who'd played more and Diarra is potentially great if given a run of games which he hasn't got in a long while but doing well at Fulham.

Overlooked Romeu though who I had earmarked but forgot about when picking time came.

Morzadec

Have to say I'm surprised Jenkinson slipped through the draft. Thought he would've made a good value late pick.

Ramsey is another I didn't even think of but should've been good enough to get in

IncognitoMan

Bent (and Benteke actually) is one I was thinking of before the legends pick. I could have gone bent up top and a legend midfielder but I thought it would be too easy for people to pick on that as a weak point in my team (Bents lack of gametime this year)

G.K.

Loads of players who would have been perfectly acceptable picks in the last rounds left and some who'd have been great earlier (Giroud).

Also, have this:

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Morzadec wrote: »

Have to say I'm surprised Jenkinson slipped through the draft. Thought he would've made a good value late pick.

I was afraid people would jump on the fact he has only played in so many games at the highest level. On form this season he'd definitely be good value though.

Yurt

Having Giroud lead the line would have been a poor choice for anybody at any stage.The good strikers tend to go quick and with a lot of people opting to only play one up front i can see exactly why he wasn't picked.

IncognitoMan

Giroud would have been fine leading the line I think. Id pick him above lambert, fletcher etc

G.K.

Yurt wrote: »

Having Giroud lead the line would have been a poor choice for anybody at any stage.The good strikers tend to go quick and with a lot of people opting to only play one up front i can see exactly why he wasn't picked.

Don't see why you think that? Since he settled he's been as good as anyone.

genericgoon

My attempt at Leftovers XI

Ruddy

Shorey A. Williams Hughes Jenkinson

P. Neville Petit

Kightly Walters Abongalhor

Kone

G.K.

Xavi6

Lescott left over as well, as worthy a mention as the likes of Dawson.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Xavi6 wrote: »

Lescott left over as well, as worthy a mention as the likes of Dawson.

Picked by Jax in round 4.

Blatter

Liam O: 308 min

SirDelboy18: 800 min

Trippie (average): 1297/8*11 = 1783

Jax Teller: 437 min

Incognito Man: 1146 min

eagle eye: 1953 min

redzerdrog: 1699 min

Bounty Hunter: 865 min

Xavi6: 1009 min

Yurt: 1169 min

Fuzzy_Dunlop: 774 min

Eathrin: 514 min

Blatter: 396 min

eugeneious: 1785 min

G.K: 857 min

Ix Deadmau5: 929 min

ASOT: 1239 min

Chucky the tree: 679 min

Ares: 1060 min


That is what I've gotten, the names in bold go into the qualification round whilst the other 13 go straight through to the last 16. I'm not going to do anything until 6pm, as it gives people a chance to recheck their times if they think there's a mistake as there's not a chance I'm rechecking them all myself, it was painful enough the first time :pac:

Then at 6pm, somebody neutral can draw the 6 teams and we'll get this started.

Also, just to say well done to everybody involved for making the effort to pick on time especially Xavi and Bounty Hunter who are in different time zones.

Xavi6

Fuzzy_Dunlop wrote: »

Picked by Jax in round 4.

Jaysus, I only looked at the latter rounds as I thought anything earlier than 6 would be too early.

Blatter wrote: »

Also, just to say well done to everybody involved for making the effort to pick on time especially Xavi and Bounty Hunter who are in different time zones.

And some of us didn't use a proxy!

Jax Teller

Yurt wrote: »

Having Giroud lead the line would have been a poor choice for anybody at any stage.The good strikers tend to go quick and with a lot of people opting to only play one up front i can see exactly why he wasn't picked.

Maybe this was true a month ago but he's since found his feet and has been performing very well . He'd have been a better pick than a couple of strikers I can think of .

Ares

Xavi6 wrote: »

Jaysus, I only looked at the latter rounds as I thought anything earlier than 6 would be too early.



And some of us didn't use a proxy!

Nastasic has displaced him, he's settled really well already, far better than Savic. Is it safe to he's the no.1 partner for Kompany?

eugeneious

Fair play Blatter for getting this up and running. Was quite fun to do! And also fair play to G.K for keeping record of the picks. Best of luck to everyone now the serious business starts :P

Liam O

I think it'd be fairer if there were 3 qualifying matches to decide who moves on, at least give people a chance to argue for their teams.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Liam O wrote: »

I think it'd be fairer if there were 3 qualifying matches to decide who moves on, at least give people a chance to argue for their teams.

Isn't that what's happening?

Blatter

If somebody neutral could randomly make the three qualifying matches using the 6 names bolded above it'd be great.

Leiva

Blatter wrote: »

If somebody neutral could randomly make the three qualifying matches using the 6 names bolded above it'd be great.

What do you want me to do ?

Edit; if you number them 1-6 then here is the pairings;

1v4
2v6
3v5

Sorry I'm on the iPad so go back and forth pages is an ass to copy/paste names, but I think you catch my drift..

Liam O

Fuzzy_Dunlop wrote: »

Isn't that what's happening?

d'oh! I thought it was voting for the 3 best teams.

Blatter

Cheers Leiva, much appreciated.

Trippie v Yurt

eagle eye v ASOT

redzerdrog v eugeneious


Those are the matches. I will start the threads for all three matches tomorrow at 11 am. Voting will be open for 48 hours.

Best of luck.

Yurt

So do i have to submit the way i want to play my team to you ? I will be in college from 10-5 tommorow so it might be better if i PM you my team and how i'm going to deal with the threat of Trippie's team.

Blatter

Yurt wrote: »

So do i have to submit the way i want to play my team to you ? I will be in college from 10-5 tommorow so it might be better if i PM you my team and how i'm going to deal with the threat of Trippie's team.

Yep, you can PM an opening post containing that information. Here's a couple of examples from the previous drat...


http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=79376492

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=79258830

Jax Teller

Still can't believe some guy called my defence dodgy in that semi final thread .

SirDelboy18

Blatter wrote: »

Cheers Leiva, much appreciated.

Trippie v Yurt

eagle eye v ASOT

redzerdrog v eugeneious


Those are the matches. I will start the threads for all three matches tomorrow at 11 am. Voting will be open for 48 hours.

Best of luck.

I'm calling one extremely comfortable victory, one comfortable victory and one close close game.

eagle eye

Blatter has exceeded is pm quote apparently. I tried to send him an edited version of the pm I sent him.

Blatter can you please change 'and Toure' to 'and Noble' before you put up the thread please?

Blatter

eagle eye wrote: »

Blatter has exceeded is pm quote apparently. I tried to send him an edited version of the pm I sent him.

Blatter can you please change 'and Toure' to 'and Noble' before you put up the thread please?

Yep, no bother. Deleted a few PMs there to make space anyway.

Blatter

Been very busy the last couple of days, only getting back to this now. As far as I can tell Yurt, eagle eye and eugeneious are the three that have qualified for the last 16.

Liam O

SirDelboy18

Jax Teller

Incognito Man

eagle eye

Bounty Hunter

Xavi6

Yurt

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Eathrin

Blatter

eugeneious

G.K

Ix Deadmau5

Chucky the tree

Ares


If somebody neutral could randomly jumble up the order of the above list using this it would be great. The first two teams will play each other, as will the second two and the third two etc.

I'll post up the first two matches at 7pm today, voting will be open for 48 hours and then the next two matches will be put up and so on.

event

I did it there and got:

Liam O
SirDelboy18
eugeneious
Ix Deadmau5
G.K
Eathrin
Chucky the tree
Ares
eagle eye
Jax Teller
Bounty Hunter
Blatter
Incognito Man
Fuzzy_Dunlop
Xavi6
Yurt

Bounty Hunter

Bounty Hunter vs Blatter

not the team I would have picked to have in the 1st game (tough draw) but should be interesting and im looking forward to it. Would be a great game of football imo. Cazorla, Scholes, Suarez, Dzeko, Oscar, Nasri, Ruiz etc all on one pitch, lpus a bit of Makelele & Paul McGrath.

some very nice ties there alright

Blatter

Thanks for that event.

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

Bounty Hunter vs Blatter

not the team I would have picked to have in the 1st game (tough draw) but should be interesting and im looking forward to it. Would be a great game of football imo. Cazorla, Scholes, Suarez, Dzeko, Oscar, Nasri, Ruiz etc all on one pitch, lpus a bit of Makelele & Paul McGrath.

some very nice ties there alright

I think a lot of the teams are very good. Some very good ties as you say.

Liam O

what are the odds the top 2 would remain the top 2 Not who I would have chosen to play but I suppose it was destined after Delboy's criticisms of my team so far :pac: