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(14 Jun 2014, 7:00 am)Andreos Constantopolous wrote [ -> ]How are people doing overall?
Despite doing ok in the two mini-leagues, I am placed 343198th overall.

I am 592345th overall and a 9042nd in Mark Brights mini league

(14 Jun 2014, 7:00 am)Andreos Constantopolous wrote [ -> ]How are people doing overall?
Despite doing ok in the two mini-leagues, I am placed 343198th on the leaderboard.

A quick look at the leaderboard reveals those near the top, have in excess of 60(!) points!

Not doing well in the mini-league I'm in (Page Three Girls), but I'm not doing bad in the NEB one

(14 Jun 2014, 7:42 am)Tom wrote [ -> ]Not doing well in the mini-league I'm in (Page Three Girls), but I'm not doing bad in the NEB one

You old dirty, bet that is full of tits

(14 Jun 2014, 8:00 am)marxistafozzski wrote [ -> ]You old dirty, bet that is full of tits

You can join it if you like -

Does anyone have any Costa Ricans in there team

(14 Jun 2014, 8:46 pm)marxistafozzski wrote [ -> ]Does anyone have any Costa Ricans in there team

No but I drew them in the sweepstake at work

Pos Team Manager Points
1 Team Cake Adam Young 32
2 danpick daniel picken 16
2 Multiple Scorgasms Thomas Anderson 16
4 Constantopolous Fc Andreos Constantopolous 15
5 Taxi For Mista Fozz David Forster 6
6 Norfolk Adrian Hedley 5
7 Worse Than Sunderland Matthew Brown 0
8 Hampton FC Scott Cooper -1
9 NEB Malarkey's X1 Adam Malarkey -2

Hopefully Little Lionel can do the business for me tonight

(15 Jun 2014, 6:33 am)danpick wrote [ -> ]Pos Team Manager Points
1 Team Cake Adam Young 32
2 danpick daniel picken 16
2 Multiple Scorgasms Thomas Anderson 16
4 Constantopolous Fc Andreos Constantopolous 15
5 Taxi For Mista Fozz David Forster 6
6 Norfolk Adrian Hedley 5
7 Worse Than Sunderland Matthew Brown 0
8 Hampton FC Scott Cooper -1
9 NEB Malarkey's X1 Adam Malarkey -2

Booo!

As I've really enjoyed this, do you think it would be possible to have one for the Premier League?

(15 Jun 2014, 6:26 pm)Tom wrote [ -> ]As I've really enjoyed this, do you think it would be possible to have one for the Premier League?

Don't see why not...But don't the Sun charge to enter there Premier League Dream Team, just about every paper has a Fantasy Football Game

(15 Jun 2014, 6:26 pm)Tom wrote [ -> ]As I've really enjoyed this, do you think it would be possible to have one for the Premier League?

Can't see why not.
Never used this particular newspaper's fantasy football before. Usually use the FA Premier League one, which is good.

At school, we had our own league and paid something daft like 5p per week subs and 2p for each transfer - you weren't allowed the same player as anyone else though. The winner got a big proportion of the total amount, with 2nd and 3rd place getting a share too.

We just agreed on the rules, points etc and away we went.
Every Friday, each member would submit their team from their squad, into a book we nicked from maths.

During FA Cup weekends, we played cup games on a knockout basis.

It was great and whoever won, felt like a millionaire after getting a years worth of 5p's off each lad in the class

How hard would it be to create and build an NEB Fantasy Football Game, with our own scoring system and rules...

I don't fancy creating it, but with the brain and intelligence that populates this wonderful message board, someone amongst us must enjoy messing about creating things

(15 Jun 2014, 6:51 pm)marxistafozzski wrote [ -> ]How hard would it be to create and build an NEB Fantasy Football Game, with our own scoring system and rules...

I don't fancy creating it, but with the brain and intelligence that populates this wonderful message board, someone amongst us must enjoy messing about creating things

Not hard at all.
We did it at school in the days before the internet changed everything.

Even in the last World Cup, I set one up on Excel for a few friends and family.

Got an idea for one already

Pick a Premier League Team, they will be your team all season and there results score for you e.g. I pick Sunderland and there results will add to my points tally 3/win 1/draw 0/loss, with a bonus point for a win of 4 clear goals or more

Pick 18 players with a limit the same as the Sun Dream Team Values

Scoring

5 points a goal, 5 point bonus for a Hat-trick
3 points for an assist
3 points if your goalie keeps a clean sheet
1 point for each player who was on the winning team
-1 bonus point if your player has a rating of 8 or more (based on The Sun Dream Team Rating)
-1 Point if your goalie concedes
-3 points if your goalie concedes 3 or more
-3 points for a yellow card
-5 points for a red card...

Probably loads I have missed off, but it just ran through my mind quite quickly

(15 Jun 2014, 6:37 pm)Andreos Constantopolous wrote [ -> ]Can't see why not.
Never used this particular newspaper's fantasy football before. Usually use the FA Premier League one, which is good.

At school, we had our own league and paid something daft like 5p per week subs and 2p for each transfer - you weren't allowed the same player as anyone else though. The winner got a big proportion of the total amount, with 2nd and 3rd place getting a share too.

We just agreed on the rules, points etc and away we went.
Every Friday, each member would submit their team from their squad, into a book we nicked from maths.

During FA Cup weekends, we played cup games on a knockout basis.

It was great and whoever won, felt like a millionaire after getting a years worth of 5p's off each lad in the class

I'll try and set up one closer to the time?

(15 Jun 2014, 7:14 pm)Tom wrote [ -> ]I'll try and set up one closer to the time?

Go for it mate

(15 Jun 2014, 7:17 pm)marxistafozzski wrote [ -> ]Go for it mate

Might be a bit too much to do with all the spread sheets and all, but if not, I'll still do a FA for us - I'm enjoying this one!

There's one problem from a legal perspective. The Football Data.Co (to my understanding) still prevents you from listing fixtures. For this reason I'd recommend people just setup either fantasy leagues or a predictions league on premierleague.com next season? I'm happy to do this as an alternative?

I just found a site called fantrax, and managed to set up a fantasy league for 10 teams in about 10 minutes [SMILING FACE WITH SMILING EYES]

(15 Jun 2014, 7:35 pm)aureolin wrote [ -> ]There's one problem from a legal perspective. The Football Data.Co (to my understanding) still prevents you from listing fixtures. For this reason I'd recommend people just setup either fantasy leagues or a predictions league on premierleague.com next season? I'm happy to do this as an alternative?

Yeah maybe we should just use that site?

(15 Jun 2014, 7:35 pm)aureolin wrote [ -> ]There's one problem from a legal perspective. The Football Data.Co (to my understanding) still prevents you from listing fixtures. For this reason I'd recommend people just setup either fantasy leagues or a predictions league on premierleague.com next season? I'm happy to do this as an alternative?

What a set a bastards they are, the price to print football results is extortionate, I had my own website about 11-12 years ago and decided to put football fixtures for all the North East team in the Premier League and Football League, someone laid me in to Football Data Co, as I received a nice email saying they had been made aware I was publishing fixtures, they went on to demand 1000's out of me to keep the fixtures up or take the fixtures down, in the end I just told them to fuck off and closed the site...was a nice little site as well, nothing complicated and at it's peak was getting about 5,000 hits a month...

There nothing more than a bunch of robbers and conmen

(15 Jun 2014, 7:40 pm)Tom wrote [ -> ]Yeah maybe we should just use that site?

As easy as it is creating your own, it is pointless reinventing the wheel, when there are perfectly good sites such as the Premier League one.

I have only created them due to either the internet not existing or if people didn't have access to a computer.

(15 Jun 2014, 8:58 pm)Andreos Constantopolous wrote [ -> ]As easy as it is creating your own, it is pointless reinventing the wheel, when there are perfectly good sites such as the Premier League one.

I have only created them due to either the internet not existing or if people didn't have access to a computer.

I use the Premier League one and have done for the past 4-5 Years, Past 2 Seasons overall I finished in the Top 100,000 Teams out of over a Million Teams.

Team Cake Running Away With It At The moment...I Am happy Joint 5th With Andreos. ..

Gotta feel for Scott and Malarkey still in the red 😀

(16 Jun 2014, 8:58 am)marxistafozzski wrote [ -> ]Team Cake Running Away With It At The moment...I Am happy Joint 5th With Andreos. ..

Gotta feel for Scott and Malarkey still in the red ?

Hope Dempsy will do something tonight for the USA - Might get above Team Cake

Hoping for CR7 to do the business tonight...

USA v Ghana should be decent, I think it is the 3rd time in succession they have played each other in a world cup

(16 Jun 2014, 2:52 pm)marxistafozzski wrote [ -> ]Hoping for CR7 to do the business tonight...

USA v Ghana should be decent, I think it is the 3rd time in succession they have played each other in a world cup

Not sure, will be a tough game tonight. - I was lucky have all of those French players in defence, earned 18 points as a result of them getting a clean sheet (the only one so far!)

(16 Jun 2014, 8:58 am)marxistafozzski wrote [ -> ]Team Cake Running Away With It At The moment...I Am happy Joint 5th With Andreos. ..

Gotta feel for Scott and Malarkey still in the red ?

Haven't looked at once Yet as I forgot about it, it's only the World Cup so not to bothered about that Fantasy League, I'll dominate the Premier League one if we end up doing it.

(16 Jun 2014, 3:03 pm)NEBCD Malarkey wrote [ -> ]Haven't looked at once Yet as I forgot about it, it's only the World Cup so not to bothered about that Fantasy League, I'll dominate the Premier League one if we end up doing it.

How will you dominate it?