Fantasy MLS Soccer

Kankan14

8-10 wrote: »

In fairness Valeri was suspended for the 1st game in the DGW so it wasn't clear that he was going to be a good pick before the GW started. Also Piatti was guaranteed to start both games so without hindsight he looked the better choice.

Yeh it was as much to with portland having another double in 2 weeks time. Meh

OneColdHand

Just the one transfer this week (Valeri in). Gonna bank the other to give myself 3 in anticipation of the DGW next week.

shineon23

Huge relegation shootout in the H2H next week between me and the mighty Average.

I might remember to do my team.

I will feel sorry for any opponent I may fluke a win against as I've been a walkover for everyone else. So apologies in advance.

patmac

A massive 128 points for me this week still only 3rd best on the Boards league, Giovinchi my top scorer as captain with 40 points, now if only Andy Carroll had done the same as TC....

OneColdHand

Ha, thought everyone had lost interest in this! I'm quite enjoying the fact that there's a DGW about every second week. That, plus the fact that there's 2 FTs every week adds a bit of madness to it!

CSF

OneColdHand wrote: »

Ha, thought everyone had lost interest in this! I'm quite enjoying the fact that there's a DGW about every second week. That, plus the fact that there's 2 FTs every week adds a bit of madness to it!

My captain Adi did OK for me this week, the DGW actually screwed me over in that I'd have definitely have captained Seba otherwise.

I assume interest in this will pick up now that FPL is over tomorrow.

OneColdHand

CSF wrote: »

My captain Adi did OK for me this week, the DGW actually screwed me over in that I'd have definitely have captained Seba otherwise.

I assume interest in this will pick up now that FPL is over tomorrow.

Yeah, luckily I captained Diaz, who only got 1 point less than Gio.

Gio really is a ridiculous fantasy player. Average of over 10 points per games over 10 gameweeks. Double home games this coming week means autocaptain. Watch him blank both!

shineon23

shineon23 wrote: »

I'm in.

Tempted to go with Bradley Wright-Phillips then auto select the rest.

And this is where my season fell apart.

Finally got round to getting Bradley in and he repaid me handsomely.

First win in the head to head. I'm coming for the Average.

patmac

One of our members is 37th in the world at the moment fair play, the one thing I have learned in this game, I left a DGW till Friday and the game had started the Thursday night so lost out on transfers.

OneColdHand

patmac wrote: »

One of our members is 37th in the world at the moment fair play, the one thing I have learned in this game, I left a DGW till Friday and the game had started the Thursday night so lost out on transfers.

That's myself. I'm not gonna lie, I've no idea what I'm doing so presumably it will all fall apart any week now. But just gonna roll with it for the minute!

patmac

OneColdHand wrote: »

That's myself. I'm not gonna lie, I've no idea what I'm doing so presumably it will all fall apart any week now. But just gonna roll with it for the minute!

Disappointing, thought we might have an MLS guru to guide us through the minefield that is this game.:) For instance this GW started last night, only 12 teams playing next week, and 2 of this week's squad including Wandowlowski are on International duty. At least my captain scored last night.

8-10

Forgot about deadline again. Had lined up Larin and Kaka as my 2 transfers and both of course scored well last night

CSF

8-10 wrote: »

Forgot about deadline again. Had lined up Larin and Kaka as my 2 transfers and both of course scored well last night

Kaka missed a peno.

Mr.Prodston

CSF wrote: »

Kaka missed a peno.

Ah feck.

He's about the only player I remember that's in my team because he was injured for the start :pac:

If I'm not last I'll be happy. I might even check my team soon.

8-10

CSF wrote: »

Kaka missed a peno.

Didn't realise that but still he's 6points ahead of my other midfielders all of whom play only once this week and he has another game

patmac

Don't forget this resumes tonight.

Kankan14

I seem to be making my team progressively worse. May be time to make sweeping changes in the form of a wild card.

OneColdHand

Not sure if anyone is still playing this, but have a rules question.

I have azira 1st sub on the bench with -2, so if one of my attacking players doesn't play, he'll come for -2 with an autosub. Am i the right in saying that if I switch a defender for another defender (neither have played yet), the autosubs wouldnt happen?

Am i right in thinking it might be a good idea to switch my defenders to prevent any possibility of the -2 subbing in?

Kankan14

OneColdHand wrote: »

Not sure if anyone is still playing this, but have a rules question.

I have azira 1st sub on the bench with -2, so if one of my attacking players doesn't play, he'll come for -2 with an autosub. Am i the right in saying that if I switch a defender for another defender (neither have played yet), the autosubs wouldnt happen?

Am i right in thinking it might be a good idea to switch my defenders to prevent any possibility of the -2 subbing in?

Haven't unticked the box at any point to take over subs myself but I'm pretty sure that's the whole point of it.

OneColdHand

Kankan14 wrote: »

Haven't unticked the box at any point to take over subs myself but I'm pretty sure that's the whole point of it.

Cheers. Didn't do anything in the end and it worked out for the best. Was going to bring in Glad (who didn't play) for Campbell (who got 4 points).

CSF

OneColdHand wrote: »

Cheers. Didn't do anything in the end and it worked out for the best. Was going to bring in Glad (who didn't play) for Campbell (who got 4 points).

You're really flying high, I've been really trying at this in an attempt to catch you, but every time I think I've had someone do great or picked a great captain, nope, you have him too!!!

OneColdHand

CSF wrote: »

You're really flying high, I've been really trying at this in an attempt to catch you, but every time I think I've had someone do great or picked a great captain, nope, you have him too!!!

Is that you in second? I've not checked every week, but I think there's been a few weeks where you've made a good gain on me, only for me to make a good bit of that back the next week!

You had a very good week this week! And I see you're pretty well set up for the DGW already!

CSF

OneColdHand wrote: »

Is that you in second? I've not checked every week, but I think there's been a few weeks where you've made a good gain on me, only for me to make a good bit of that back the next week!

You had a very good week this week! And I see you're pretty well set up for the DGW already!

Yeah, that's pretty much exactly how it's been. To be fair, you doing so well has made the whole thing much more interesting, watching so much more MLS this year.

OneColdHand

CSF wrote: »

Yeah, that's pretty much exactly how it's been. To be fair, you doing so well has made the whole thing much more interesting, watching so much more MLS this year.

Yeah it's a pretty entertaining game. There's a number of things that I think should be incorporated into the FPL game. The main ones being:

- Live ranking updates. This is amazing, and it's so entertaining to see how a goal/assist affects your ranking. Surely this would be easy to do, and actually I wonder if this may have been done with the new website.
- Bonus points. The bonus point system is FAR better than the farcical FPL bonus point system/lottery.

I think worthy of consideration in FPL is the 2 transfers a week rule. That would probably be more to the advantage of the casual, and the more hardcore players probably wouldn't like that introduced, as it reduces the need for careful planning. But it's certainly entertaining being able to chop and change your team quite easily over a period of 2/3 weeks.

This could never really be incorporated into FPL beyond the current situation, but I also find the sheer number of DGWs pretty good fun. There's always one to look forward to, even if more often than not they don't work out due to rotation etc!

8-10

The price changes from the MLS should absolutely be taken into the FPL version. Would make it way less contentious

CSF

8-10 wrote: »

The price changes from the MLS should absolutely be taken into the FPL version. Would make it way less contentious

I could see a logic behind it myself. We'd still spend our time arguing over how much/who went up and down and why. Probably more actually.

OneColdHand

8-10 wrote: »

The price changes from the MLS should absolutely be taken into the FPL version. Would make it way less contentious

Yes! I knew there was something else! Agreed.

Also, something else I forgot was the fact that the transfers can only happen after the game week ends. Not a big difference, but simplifies it.

OneColdHand

CSF wrote: »

I could see a logic behind it myself. We'd still spend our time arguing over how much/who went up and down and why. Probably more actually.

Why? The reason behind the price changes seem pretty simple to me.

Kankan14

Ya the dashboard feature is quality. I was watching red arrows turn green as the goals went in and vice versa. Shows you exactly where u stand in leagues too.

The dashboard tool would be a great benefit to people playing FPL and in multiple money leagues I'd imagine!

CSF

OneColdHand wrote: »

Why? The reason behind the price changes seem pretty simple to me.

What is the exact metric for the price changes? The metric is what I assumed people will disagree on.

OneColdHand

CSF wrote: »

What is the exact metric for the price changes? The metric is what I assumed people will disagree on.

It's based directly on how a player does in relation to the average, not on number of transfers in/out.

6 points or more above average, he goes up by 0.2m
3 - 5 points above average, he goes up by 0.1m
etc.

Very simple. I like it as I find myself making transfers based on players performances, not trying to predict/worry about price rises. Also, as they can't go up multiple times during a week, you can just wait til right before the deadline to make a transfer.

CSF

OneColdHand wrote: »

It's based directly on how a player does in relation to the average, not on number of transfers in/out.

6 points or more above average, he goes up by 0.2m
3 - 5 points above average, he goes up by 0.1m
etc.

Very simple. I like it as I find myself making transfers based on players performances, not trying to predict/worry about price rises. Also, as they can't go up multiple times during a week, you can just wait til right before the deadline to make a transfer.

Oh I see, I didn't actually cop that this was the metric.

patmac

Just a mere 127 points for me this week, still only 3rd best in the boards league, Onecoldhand is 30th in the world and climbing some achievement.

OneColdHand

God, playing 2 fantasy games is hard work!

Transfer deadlines on Wednesday (MLS), Friday (MLS) and Saturday (FPL)!

8-10

OneColdHand wrote: »

God, playing 2 fantasy games is hard work!

Transfer deadlines on Wednesday (MLS), Friday (MLS) and Saturday (FPL)!

Ah here that's nothing if you play fantasy MLB (the sport that invented fantasy games) - daily lineup deadlines with different game times every day of the week, 2,430 games in 180 days or so

OneColdHand

8-10 wrote: »

Ah here that's nothing if you play fantasy MLB (the sport that invented fantasy games) - daily lineup deadlines with different game times every day of the week, 2,430 games in 180 days or so

:eek:

patmac

Well this is the last week of MLS and I have to say I really enjoyed it especially during the summer. I was happy to be ranked in the top 2k but still only good enough for 4th in the Boards League with Onecoldhand 76th in the world leading the way.
The head to head is down to the wire with myself being 2 points behind 'Lost without Aguero'(CSF?) who plays Mr P(I think) in the last game, I play (the presciently titled) Theoswinningmatches, so if them lads could review their teams it might make things interesting for the last day.

CSF

Yeah this is great, even though it doesn't get the chat traffic. OneColdHand absolutely killing it in the overall rankings too.

Almost playoff time!!!

Mr.Prodston

I may or may not have forgotten about this after about 5 or 6 GWs

I'll have an ol look see there so if I can remember my login details :pac:

Yeah that's right I'm a bloody casual!

OneColdHand

Well that was a very enjoyable season!

Looking like I'll finish in 53rd OR. Pretty thrilled with that. Thought I had a chance of top 50 for a while during those games, but David Villa (who I don't have) put paid to that!

ben.schlomo

Was very enjoyable, far superior to the EPL version. The defending and attacking bonuses available to all players make it much better, more types of players who on the English one you wouldn't touch can be valuable in this e.g. defensive midfielders.

CSF

Are the playoffs not counted in this game?

OneColdHand

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Was very enjoyable, far superior to the EPL version. The defending and attacking bonuses available to all players make it much better, more types of players who on the English one you wouldn't touch can be valuable in this e.g. defensive midfielders.

I agree, there are many things that the FPL version could adopt. I basically found this game far more fun than FPL (anf that's what it's about, isn't it?!). I know I had a good run, which helps. But there's a number of very frustrating things about FPL, and they seem to be even more frustrating now that I've played the FMLS.

CSF wrote: »

Are the playoffs not counted in this game?

No, unfortunately not.

CSF

I'm a dope, ah well no biggie

patmac

Just lost the head to head by 2 points as Giovincho returned to wreak havoc and I was beaten 74-72. Good fun!

shineon23

patmac wrote: »

Just lost the head to head by 2 points as Giovincho returned to wreak havoc and I was beaten 74-72. Good fun!

That may have been me, to make matters worse, I didn't know he had to return from anything, nor did I know that I had him captain.

I finally rose to second last in the head to head with a last gasp final day win,

Average has been a worthy advisory, whoever he is, godspeed.

ben.schlomo

The 2017 games available now. Unlimited transfers every game week,keepers and defender clean sheets worth more, small er squad etc etc. Looking forward to it.

CSF

I'll be in for certain.

OneColdHand

Good stuff.

Unlimited transfers is a massive change. No forward planning required. But should be good fun being able to just pick whoever you want each week.

OneColdHand

Tried a first draft over the weekend.

10 home players + Giovinco!