EWB Fantasy Premier League

[Scott McFly]

Or just to fuck with the scores how about "1-0"?

[Lord Nibbler]

I'm about to post up the squads over on the forum. A few "interesting" points:

After the first round of bidding:

metalman has the most players (18 + 1 joint bid)

Bryn Davies has the fewest players (5 + 1 joint bid)

Bryn Davies also has the most money left over (£354m)

Frank Gimes has the least money left over (£87m)

hackerjack made the highest bid for a player, £102m. And he made two bids of that amount.

[METALMAN]

Oh good. Probably got all the shit ones. >_>

[Lord Nibbler]

Click.

Plenty of quality players still available, I'll update the player list ASAP.

[Captain Kirk]

My team's not there.

[METALMAN]

Bah. No Drogba or Lampard. When does round 2 start?

[Baddar]

What was my bid for Fletcher? Could've sworn it was in the 8m region.

[Lord Nibbler]

I'm updating the list of players now. You can send your second list in whenever you want.

[Lord Nibbler]

What was my bid for Fletcher? Could've sworn it was in the 8m region.

That was for Steven Fletcher?

You had Fletcher down as an AM, and I assumed it was supposed to be Darren Fletcher. I did send you a PM about it.

[King Ellis]

Jesus christ, get your fucking act together, Baddar.

Shiiiiit.

[Baddar]

FUUUUUUUCK.

Meant Darren Fletcher.

For some reason, I can't seem to read PM's on that other forum either. When I load up the page, it says I've got a PM at the top, but before I can click it, it disappears and the forum list appears. Maybe there's a different way to get to PM's, but I hadn't bothered searching seeing as I didn't think there'd be much point.

And stop trolling, Ellis.

EDIT: Just noticed the PM is on here, not the other board. Thanks for notifying me, EWB. It normally shows a "1" next to the profile pic.

Edited September 5, 2009 by Baddar D

[Lord Nibbler]

I've updated the player list, so you can start on your second squad list.

Remember, you can only bid for the "blue" players if you were joint highest bidder the first time around. So, for example, only Ellis and HailtotheKing can bid for Anelka. And it has to be an improved bid, so in the case of Anelka it has to be at least £31m.

If you don't want to bid for a "blue" player in your team, just submit your second list without him on it.

[Baddar]

Second list sent.

Let me know if there's anything wrong with it. Should be around for the next few hours at least, so it'll get fixed tonight if I find out soon enough.

[Lord Nibbler]

Sent you a PM...

[Scott McFly]

Got a fair few players that I wanted there - Gallas, Barry, Carrick, Bent. Only goalkeeper I got was Myhill though. >_<

Shit, Pesci got Kuyt for £15m?! Bargain there.

EDIT: And I spend £41m on Darren Bent but nobody bids more than £30m for NICOLAS ANELKA?

EDIT 2: Just for kicks, top 5 most expensive players so far:

Fabregas - £102m - Hackerjack

Lampard - £102m - Hackerjack

Torres - £100m - Bryn Davies

Arshavin - £92m - Frank Grimes

Rooney - £85m - Jagger

Edited September 6, 2009 by Scott McFly

[Lord Nibbler]

I've decided that we will have a brief transfer window after all the second round bids are in (I have 7 so far). Most people will still need one or two players, so we'll have open bidding for free agents and you can work out transfers or trades amongst yourselves.

At least that way, everyone should be able to field a decent starting XI in the first week of the season.

EDIT 2: Just for kicks, top 5 most expensive players so far:

Fabregas - £102m - Hackerjack

Lampard - £102m - Hackerjack

Torres - £100m - Bryn Davies

Arshavin - £92m - Frank Grimes

Rooney - £85m - Jagger

Just for more kicks, the second-highest bids for those players:

Fabregas - £80 (£22m short)

Lampard - £100m (£2m short)

Arshavin - £72m (£20m short)

Rooney - £56m (£29m short)

Nobody else bid for Torres, so technically Bryn could have saved £99m there.

[Lord Nibbler]

I have 10 second round squad lists in, just metalman, hackerjack, Ellis and Pesci to go.

After that it's open bidding.

[Baddar]

Gah, c'mon Ellis. :/

[Lord Nibbler]

Baddar, I sent you a PM on the other forum. You bid for Jo, but he's in Pesci's team (I mistakenly gave him Andy Johnson). You can send me a PM with a replacement, or submit a whole new list.

Same goes for Scott McFly.

And metalman, you do have Andrew Johnson.

Edited September 6, 2009 by Lord Nibbler

[hackerjack]

I've decided that we will have a brief transfer window after all the second round bids are in (I have 7 so far). Most people will still need one or two players, so we'll have open bidding for free agents and you can work out transfers or trades amongst yourselves.

At least that way, everyone should be able to field a decent starting XI in the first week of the season.

EDIT 2: Just for kicks, top 5 most expensive players so far:

Fabregas - £102m - Hackerjack

Lampard - £102m - Hackerjack

Torres - £100m - Bryn Davies

Arshavin - £92m - Frank Grimes

Rooney - £85m - Jagger

Just for more kicks, the second-highest bids for those players:

Fabregas - £80 (£22m short)

Lampard - £100m (£2m short)

Arshavin - £72m (£20m short)

Rooney - £56m (£29m short)

Nobody else bid for Torres, so technically Bryn could have saved £99m there.

Only 1 bid for Torres!!

Got to admid I was sorely tempted to bid for Lampard, Fabregas, Arshavin, Torres and Rooney and screw the rest fo teh squadwith £1m bids. Stuck with my midfielders in the end (the £72m bid for Arshavin was me too).