The FSA Draft -Chat and Banter.

Menas

Dahat can go ahead now. Copper pipe can pick his second defender at his leisure.

SpaceCowb0y

My team is pants... :pac:

Any prizes for coming last?

CSF

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Bezzuua's team is the one I would like most at this stage.

Five and a half days in and we've managed 91 picks. I'm not quite sure what people thought they were signing up for when the twenty spots in the league filled up in two hours and seven minutes.

I would have liked not to have to concentrate this long. People usually do these sort of drafts in one night!!!

dahat

A league of 20 was always going to be time consuming.

It is our first draft so we will learn from it, less players more picks could be the way forward.

CSF

CSF wrote: »

I would have liked not to have to concentrate this long. People usually do these sort of drafts in one night!!!

I actually think we're doing okay. Especially considering we are in the middle of an international break.

People do this in one night when it's a face to face job, or a load of mates who agree to all be online at a set time for a set number of hours.

For a group of randomers, during the international break, we aren't too bad. It's been slow recently because it's friday and saturday night, ffs.

Mr.Prodston

Woah if all his players come good Busts has got a Harlem Buststrotters scenario developing :pac:

Iused2likebusts

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

Woah if all his players come good Busts has got a Harlem Buststrotters scenario developing :pac:

Ye high risk high reward. I reckon I'll be bottom for the first few weeks though.

Swiper the fox

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

Woah if all his players come good Busts has got a Harlem Buststrotters scenario developing :pac:

That was my first thought also. I hadn't realised theo was close to a return but as usual I expect him to be the most productive mid for while he is fit. Man gala could be a huge fpl player also. Add Costa to the mix..........

PARlance

Be 30 mins lads, literally have to drop the kids off.

F1ngers

PARlance wrote: »

Be 30 mins lads, literally have to drop the kids off.

Please don't be a cliff...:P

OneColdHand

F1ngers wrote: »

Please don't be a cliff...:P

or the pool...that'd be a long dump!

SpaceCowb0y

PARlance wrote: »

Be 30 mins lads, literally have to drop the kids off.

F1ngers wrote: »

Please don't be a cliff...:P

30 mins at this hour of the morning... more likely at the pool

OneColdHand

Lads apologies for the slow replies and terrible post editing! Was away hiking for the weekend and only got intermittent mobile internet!

Mr.Prodston

Lloris
Mertesacker - Rangel
Hazard - Schurrle
Eto'o

Not a bad looking team although my attack will be relying on short sharp impacts for their goals

PARlance

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

Lloris
Mertesacker - Rangel
Hazard - Schurrle
Eto'o

Not a bad looking team although my attack will be relying on short sharp impacts for their goals

I flipped a coin on Schurrle the most thought put into my selection was head or tails

Howard
Jones - Luis
Siggy - Chadli
Jovetic

Praying for a few injuries to Azpil/Ivan and Dzecko. At least I got Jones

Menas

Iuser2likebusts is up now....

Iused2likebusts

Begovic Azpilicueta mangela Walcott oscar costa. Happy with my lot.

PARlance

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Begovic Azpilicueta mangela Walcott oscar costa. Happy with my lot.

I think we'll just call it a day.... Well done. Nice win

OneColdHand

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Begovic Azpilicueta mangela Walcott oscar costa. Happy with my lot.

You mean you didn't hear about the 2-players-max-from-each-club rule? Aw, unlucky!

Mr.Prodston

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Begovic Azpilicueta mangela Walcott oscar costa. Happy with my lot.

It's not inconceivable that you'll only have Begovic playing some weeks though :pac:

But yes she's a beaut of a team alright. Both of us relying on Chelsea up front too.

CSF

I ain't throwing in the towel just yet!!

Menas

Iused2likebusts's team has scored 40 points in the first 3 gameweeks.
PARLance's team however has scored 80 points over the same period.

I always prefer past performance as an indicator!!

Menas

Which raises an interesting question.

We have some players in our draft who are already looking dodgy from an injury perspective...and who knows what who will bite the dust after the remaining internationals.

Do we allow a brief 'emergency free for all transfer period on, say, friday afternoon, to allow the cull of the injured dross?

CSF

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Which raises an interesting question.

We have some players in our draft who are already looking dodgy from an injury perspective...and who knows what who will bite the dust after the remaining internationals.

Do we allow a brief 'emergency free for all transfer period on, say, friday afternoon, to allow the cull of the injured dross?

Personally, I think we have our squads, we press on with them for the season, highest total score wins.

The only time that I could think of when transfers MIGHT be useful is the first week in February after the transfer deadline, but even then I think with the pace this has gone we wouldn't get it done in time for the following GW, so I'd leave it.

OneColdHand

CSF wrote: »

Personally, I think we have our squads, we press on with them for the season, highest total score wins.

The only time that I could think of when transfers MIGHT be useful is the first week in February after the transfer deadline, but even then I think with the pace this has gone we wouldn't get it done in time for the following GW, so I'd leave it.

Yeah I would agree with this.

Iused2likebusts

I'm not falling for the mind games.In the words of jose I am just the little horse around here that needs some milk and to learn how to jump first.

manual_man

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Which raises an interesting question.

We have some players in our draft who are already looking dodgy from an injury perspective...and who knows what who will bite the dust after the remaining internationals.

Do we allow a brief 'emergency free for all transfer period on, say, friday afternoon, to allow the cull of the injured dross?

Easiest solution would be for everybody to have a super sub that comes in automatically any time a regular pick doesn't play. Also, since there's 20 of us, and everyone has a goalie from a different team, it would make sense for each person to have ownership of the backup goalies also, as i think it would be unfair to lose out on gk points completely should a particular goalie lose his place/become injured

CSF

manual_man wrote: »

Easiest solution would be for everybody to have a super sub that comes in automatically any time a regular pick doesn't play. Also, since there's 20 of us, and everyone has a goalie from a different team, it would make sense for each person to have ownership of the backup goalies also, as i think it would be unfair to lose out on gk points completely should a particular goalie lose his place/become injured

Too much work required in having automatic subs. If your players don't play, that is unfortunate.

manual_man

CSF wrote: »

Too much work required in having automatic subs. If your players don't play, that is unfortunate.

How so? It would require one extra pick per person. Takes out the hassle of transfer windows etc.

It's not like this is a full game draft with everyone with a squad of 15, i'm all for keeping it simple while not penalizing people for things out of their control.

CSF

manual_man wrote: »

How so? It would require one extra pick per person. Takes out the hassle of transfer windows etc.

It's not like this is a full game draft with everyone with a squad of 15, i'm all for keeping it simple while not penalizing people for things out of their control.

Someone has to do all the substitutions manually, given your name I would have expected this to be the first thing you thought of.

Iused2likebusts

I don't think it's fair to introduce automatic subs now as some people may have picked their team in order to get guaranteed starters in rather than my more risky approach.

CSF

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

I don't think it's fair to introduce automatic subs now as some people may have picked their team in order to get guaranteed starters in rather than my more risky approach.

Agreed.

manual_man

CSF wrote: »

Someone has to do all the substitutions manually, given your name I would have expected this to be the first thing you thought of.

Well look it's up To TriggerHappy how he wants to do things. One of your picks suffers a long-term injury and suddenly the game becomes a joke. I'm trying to find a solution

Menas

manual_man wrote: »

How so? It would require one extra pick per person. Takes out the hassle of transfer windows etc.

It's not like this is a full game draft with everyone with a squad of 15, i'm all for keeping it simple while not penalizing people for things out of their control.

Let's see how this year goes and perhaps bring it in next year...my excel skills have been maxed out without trying to figure out how to automate supersubs into the scoring every week!

We have two transfer windows fixed in this game, g11 and 28 I think. I want to keep then to ensure we all keep some interest and banter thru the season.

Iused2likebusts

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Let's see how this year goes and perhaps bring it in next year...my excel skills have been maxed out without trying to figure out how to automate supersubs into the scoring every week!

We have two transfer windows fixed in this game, g11 and 28 I think. I want to keep then to ensure we all keep some interest and banter thru the season.

There is an international break between gw 11 and 12 which is a great time for the transfer window or if we wanted to pick an extra player or two. Between gw 22 and 23 there is an fa cup weekend which would also be a good time for changes. This draft has been a godsend for us ff freaks as we don't know what to be doing in international breaks.

PARlance

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

There is an international break between gw 11 and 12 which is a great time for the transfer window or if we wanted to pick an extra player or two. Between gw 22 and 23 there is an fa cup weekend which would also be a good time for changes. This draft has been a godsend for us ff freaks as we don't know what to be doing in international breaks.

The refs for next weekend were announced today. I found myself trying to find an FPL angle to it....

Thanks for organiser this Trigger, it has been a nice swig of methadone.

SpaceCowb0y

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Adrián

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Baines

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Kaboul

Fabregas----Routledge

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Weimann

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What a bunch of misfits!

OneColdHand

Ended up with:

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Forster

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----Cahill---Vlaar
Mirallas

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Coutinho

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Sturridge


Not too confident about finishing too highly in the table based on that team!!

CSF

Schmeichel

Evans
Terry

Lamela
Cazorla

Van Persie

Would have preferred to be 1 or 2 picks earlier on the striker, but all in all I'm pretty happy.

OneColdHand

CSF wrote: »

Schmeichel

Evans
Terry

Lamela
Cazorla

Van Persie

Would have preferred to be 1 or 2 picks earlier on the striker, but all in all I'm pretty happy.

Cazorla could be a good pick….I forgot about him!!

CSF

OneColdHand wrote: »

Cazorla could be a good pick….I forgot about him!!

I was thinking people had alright!!

Menas

McGrefor
Kompany = Rojo
Ozil = Mc Geady
Rooney

The only prize I will be winning is the Ugliest and Hardest team.

Mr.Prodston

CSF wrote: »

Would have preferred to be 1 or 2 picks earlier on the striker, but all in all I'm pretty happy.

I'll swap for Eto'o if you want :pac:

OneColdHand wrote: »

Cazorla could be a good pick….I forgot about him!!

I thought about him but I see him getting reduced game time this year, and Schurrle was available to me anyway. I'd see them as similar but Shirley should get more points in reduced gametime than Santi

Menas

Manua_man picked Sadio Mané.
He likes a gamble!

I had to wiki him as had no idea who he was. For shame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadio_Man%C3%A9

CSF

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Manua_man picked Sadio Mané.
He likes a gamble!

I had to wiki him as had no idea who he was. For shame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadio_Man%C3%A9

He was my 2nd choice after Cazorla

manual_man

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Manua_man picked Sadio Mané.
He likes a gamble!

I had to wiki him as had no idea who he was. For shame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadio_Man%C3%A9

To be honest I only heard of him while I was perving on the Sky Sports News hotties on Transfer Deadline Day

Swiper the fox

I wouldn't be overly excited bout my selection but if my two erratic midfielders perform as they can I mightn't be that far away

De Gea, Koscielny, Skrtel, Nasri, Adam Johnson, Lukaku

OneColdHand

Looks like the whole year inn still has to pick a mid 2

manual_man

Speroni Moreno Bardsley Lallana Mané Adebayor

A bit of a motley crew. Anything could happen with this lot :eek: :eek:

Iused2likebusts

manual_man wrote: »

Speroni Moreno Bardsley Lallana Mané Adebayor

A bit of a motley crew. Anything could happen with this lot :eek: :eek:

Mane was my plan b if oscar was gone.