ENWorld Fantasy Football UK (soccer) '08/09 - Season starts 16th Aug

[PieAndDragon]

Hi All

Our annual fantasy football (soccer state-side) is on again! I've created a league for the 2008 / 2009 English Premiership, for any Enworlders who are interested.

The league is located at http://fantasy.premierleague.com/, it's purely for fun and all are welcome.

The season starts 16th August. The joining code for the Enworlders Utd league is 70239-19073. No actual knowledge of football is needed (although it may give an advantage) and there's no limit on the number of people who can join.

This is the fourth year of the Enworlders Utd League. Last year's winners were Håkons Engler, managed by Gulla. The second year's winners were the BoltonRoad Wanderers, managed by Loki44, and the Cereal Donkeys (my team) won the first time around (obviously the most important time!).

So far we have:

FC Arkham - Theron
Cereal Donkeys - detomo
New Crobuzon United - GMSharka
The Hivemind - Tallarn
Xenese United - ??? (Player from last year, not sure which ENWorld name tho)
Ducktown Mudhens - ???
Players in Training - Deng
Håkons Engler - Gulla
BoltonRoad Wanderers - loki44
Quinton Park Rangers - glass
Sherad's Scorers - ???

Cheers,

Duncan

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

Thank you for inviting me - I'm looking forward to a good battle this year.

I'm a Spurs supporter - what teams does everyone else follow?

 

[PieAndDragon]

Added two new teams, though unsure who's they are!

 

[PieAndDragon]

Added in Deng's team, Players in Training.

 

[Gulla]

Håkons Engler is back to defend theis title. But the rumormill on the transfermarked is so hot that I really am stumped on who to buy. For the first time I'm not sure Ronaldo will be worth it either.

I guess the best bet is to spot which underdog will start out good, and then cash in on the prise rise and buy the top players towards Christmas.

But it seems more open than for many years so I really cannot say that I have seen any clear favorites yet. And the new regime in Chelsky might do something new when it comes to squad rotation (any fantasy managers worst nightmare: paying lots for a star who is rotated onto the bench).

Håkon
hoping to find the True Team before August 16.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I'm having a lot of the same concerns - particularly with Ronaldo missing pre-season due to injury. He's likely not to have such a great impact on the game this year, and I certainly don't think he's worth £14m in the game.

Robbie Keane, on the other hand, looks like a bargain.

I'm also hearing very encouraging things about some other players, which I'm not going to share , but what do people think about Andy Johnson moving to Fulham? Would that make him worth buying?

 

[loki44]

The BoltonRoad Wanderers are back and ready to contend for the title once again.

I burned myself by not taking Ronaldo until the end of last season. He's definitely a wild card. I also burned my wild card way too early in the season last year (2nd week I believe).

(Despite my team name, which I've chosen because I live on Bolton Road and because I like wandering, I'm partial to West Ham.)

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

Given that he's going to miss the start of the season, I'd be very surprised if many teams included him this year.

 

[Gulla]

I'm a Spurs supporter - what teams does everyone else follow?

Forgot to answer this one. I'm an Everton suporter since '77.

Håkon

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

Forgot to answer this one. I'm an Everton suporter since '77.

Håkon

Blimey! You've been supporting them since two years before I was born!

What do you think of your chances this year, at the moment? Can't say it's looking too good for you with no new players coming in and Johnson allegedly on his way out.

For once, the Spurs transfer summer has been amazing - lots of exciting new talent coming in and some dead wood being shipped out (Kaboul, I'm looking at you there).