EWB Fantasy Premier League

[Scott McFly]

Yeah I'm still up for this.

[Dynamite]

I'd still like to be part of this.

[Adam]

EDIT: Having looked at the rules, it's mainly fine. I only have two gripes: One is midfielders getting points for clean sheets, I don't see why that's really neccessary but it's not a big thing.

It's an incentive to buy players like Mascherano or Essien who won't score many goals, but will get clean sheets.

The other is what you do if it ends level on goals. Surely draws are ok, and even if you do want a clear winner, what if a game ends, score-wise, 32-33, and it ends 3-3 on the points-to-goals thing, but because the guy who got 32 was at home, he wins? That doesn't seem fair.

Actually that's a mistake.

The home advantage bonus only comes into effect if the home side is ahead by 4 points but level on goals. So if the score was 34-30 (3-3) then the home team would get an extra point and win 35-30 (4-3).

It's a small thing, and it doesn't happen much, so we can always scrap it.

Fair enough, all is good then

[Captain Kirk]

Any spaces?

[Lord Nibbler]

There are 10 people confirmed (including you) and 7 people who said they'd be interested initially. The Cool One would make 18, which is too many teams. We miss 4 weeks of fixtures because we can't start until the transfer window is done, and then we have to take into account weeks in which some teams don't play.

If we had too many teams then I guess we could always have two separate games with 10 or so teams each.

[Adam]

Or maybe have two divisions? If there's too many, and people are committed enough, you could split everyone in half, have a Division 1 and a Division 2, that way everyone can still take part and we won't have too many to fulfill the fixtures. You could include promotion and relegation, with new people for the next season joining at the bottom.

[King Ellis]

GET ME AS THAT COACH!

[TCO]

I missed the initial posting because my router began playing, but I love this sort of thing and will be really commited.

[Lord Nibbler]

Prove it.

[King Ellis]

I think I can prove myself after 2 seasons of Bookie playing where I got bets in every week.

[TCO]

Prove it.

I kept up with the Premier League.com version all year last year and finished 2nd in the EWB league.

[Baddar]

In.

[Pesci]

If there's gonna be two divisions or whatever, I'm up for it. I've stuck with stuff like the Bookie and Predictor and the actual one on the Premier League website so I'd definitely stick to this.

[Lord Nibbler]

I'm still not convinced about your commitment.

Anyone who wants to join has to amputate one finger and post a picture as proof. Thumbs are acceptable.

[METALMAN]

i'd like to give it a go

[Lord Nibbler]

If we have two "divisions" of around 10 teams each, we can run an FA Cup type knockout tournament, too.

[Lord Nibbler]

I think it might be best to set up a separate board for this, since EWB is a bit temperamental (and because we might end up flooding this board with threads).

Someone tell me where I can (easily) set up a message board.

[Adam]

I'm presuming these problems are only temporary, let's see how it goes for the next couple of days first-although maybe a seperate board for this game would be smart as I'm guessing it'll be quite in-depth.

[Lord Nibbler]

Yeah, on the other forum where this is run there's a separate thread for each gameweek, one for squad lists, one for general discussion, and then a subforum for transfers.

[Adam]

Yeah, it probably is a good idea, site-meltdown or not.

I used to run a forum on Proboards, very simple to set-up and run. It doesn't look too great but it's very easy to get around as an admin and as a user. Invisionfree looks good but can be a nightmare with the coding and formatting sometimes.