2023/2024 €50 Draft League H2H

Best of luck to whoever gets 3rd pick.

Defo much better with 10 managers over the 8 we had last year.

Much better spread of players so no real standout team.

Patmac has done well on first viewing and not just because of Haaland.

I could struggle to get 11 out for first gameweek. Might not even have a keeper !

Gerp99 has keepers boxed off and good defence. Decent midfield and Alvarez an interesting one.

Mirwillbeback good defence but will need Isak to stay fit to field a striker. KDB always a reliable source.

Patmac defo has my favourite team. Wil be early favourite and, again, not just because of Haaland.

Trimm Drafts with a very good team maybe lacking a striker but very strong regardless. He’s a bit of a knob though for picking Kepa 😁

Dearg with a very nice team too. The Spurs keeper will be racking up the saves ! Like the balance of the team

Sands81 good team again. Well balanced and if Darwin clicks …

Degan55 with probably my second favourite team.

CSF with a real nice team too. Maybe Third best ?

coffee wearing off now ….

Aye. What do you know about Mings @mirwillbeback ? What round did you draft him ? Was it a finger slip pick ?

As Dearg81 said, that’s it for the big draft.

Now you should get used to the ‘transactions’ tab which is in the ‘more’ tab where you can also see our league and under the league you can see the upcoming H2H’s and previous results.

In ‘transactions’ you can see all the players and who owns them. You can try and trade directly with other managers but this doesn’t happen very often but it does happen.

It’s complicated because if I want your defender I’ll have to offer you my defender (who I want to get rid of for a reason like he’s **** or I don’t like him) and then offer you the carrot of a good midfielder, for example, one of your shittier midfielders.

So someone might offer Chilwell and Bissouma for Veltman and Martinelli. The swap is really Chilwell for Martinelli but because they play different positions you can’t do a straight swap.

also when in ‘transaction’ you can simply check ‘show available’ and it will show you the pool of players that are available so you don’t have to negotiate with other managers. You can do this right now. So if you accidentally drafted a turd you can swap him out for one of the players in the ‘available pool’ of players because nobody owns them.

Finally, the waivers are the exact same as the above paragraph BUT they are allocated to the worst placed team in the league so this is only relevant after gameweek 1.

So if, for example, Watkins got injured and Archer was definitely going to play for the next 10 weeks then we would all try and get him on the ‘waiver’ but the lowest placed team in the league, that tries to sign him, will get him.

You can try for as many waivers as you want each week.

Waivers are processed 24 hours before the deadline for that week so you can pop in and see if you got your man. If you didn’t then you have the next 24 hours (or up til the GW deadline) to swap in any player you want from the ‘available pool’ of players.

Hope that is not too confusing and helps the newbies. Again, doing it may be easier than reading it.

For the first time I’ve actually found the order of the draft. It’s in the draft room as ‘drafted’ to the right of ‘Watchlist’.

Mings went 3rd pick in round 3. That was 23rd pick overall and his suggested draft position was 299. Don’t worry though mirwillbeback as last year someone drafted Sigurdsson, also by mistake, early in the draft.

Darwin nicely drafted at 30th pick when 23rd was suggested.

Mount drafted at 77th when 33rd was suggested.

Mitrovic could be a steal at 95th pick when 21st was suggested. So he was a suggested 2nd round pick that went in the 9th round. If he stays that’s good business

In reverse, other than Mings, Joao Pedro went 42nd pick when 133rd was his position. Chilwell went at 44 even though listed at 112. Gabriel went at 48 rather than 150 and finally Estupinan went at 53 rather than 155.

All interesting stuff when you’ve a day off and nothing else to do.

Yeah. That team is too good.

Seems 10 is the sweet spot and 12 would make it very hard.

FFS.

Whoever is bottom of our league gets first dibs in the waivers so that’s a lottery.

And I’m saying that, didn’t we discuss a delayed start last year til the transfer window closed ? Maybe we should at least have a discussion around that idea next season.

Well I hope someone remembers to at least bring it up next year as I won’t remember.

It would mean missing the first 3 gameweeks but that may be ok. Puts a new slant on things too as we’d have some form to go off.

I’m easy either way but would have a preference to wait til the window closes and that has nothing to do with my experience with Kane but it has everything to do with the fact that the bottom placed team could easily pick up 2-3 world class players if the circumstances are right. We do need to look at it.

Jesus I had an horrific draft in hindsight.

Kane in first round. Then I got Richarlison in round four in case Kane was sold. So two of my first four drafts wasted.

Jota in round two and Jesus in round three have been poor.

It gets worse as I drafted Reece James in round five and Mudryk in six.

Looking at the full draft in reverse Degan55 steals the show with Cash in round 14. He also got Romero in round 15. Again he did well getting Colwill in round 10.