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ONLY NICE THINGS
10:32 / 09.06.06
Piggybacking on World Cup fevaaargh, Metro has set up an online fantasy football thang. Thinking this might be mildly amusing, I've created a League - the Justice League. If anyone would like to join me (before 5pm today - hurry, hurry, super scurry), the URL http://fantasyfootball.metro.co.uk - PM me for the code for the league.

Word of warning - by the looks of it you can't conceal your name (and possibly your email address - not sure about this; I can't see mine, but...), so if you want to do so it might be wise to use a false name and an anonymous email address...
 
 
nedrichards is confused
11:17 / 09.06.06
I'm so in there.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
11:34 / 09.06.06
One could delay it until the 14th, to get more people, but it's the dazzling oddness of the group stages, statistically, that makes for a lot of the fun...

Hoom.
 
 
lonely as a cloud...
11:38 / 09.06.06
I also am so there. And I drew Brazil in our "winner takes all" World Cup sweepstake at work! Hoorah!
 
 
Future Perfect
13:10 / 09.06.06
I'm on for this too... Tempted to suggest if this is a winner maybe we can have a little barbeleague for next season too...
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
16:31 / 09.06.06
Oh Lehmann. You let me down.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
18:12 / 09.06.06
Bollocks. Me too.

*shakes fist*
 
 
Jake, Colossus of Clout
05:32 / 10.06.06
Now, if it was NFL football, I'd be down.

Just out of curiosity as a sports nut, how do fantasy (non-American) football leagues work? What stats are scored, and how heavily?

I'm fantasy baseball crazy, and baseball translates wonderfully to a fantasy format, rotisserie or head-to-head, because of the sheer number of stats kept that can be scored. AFAIK, football doesn't have nearly the dearth of individual statistics that baseball has, so I'm curious as to how it works.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:06 / 10.06.06
Wealth, not dearth, surely? Otherwise - it is trickier. These rules are a pretty representative sample. You get points if your players are on the field for more than 60 minutes. If your defenders or goalkeeper concede a goal, they lose points, if they get a clean sheet (go a game without conceding a goal) they score points. Goalkeepers get points for successful saves, also. All players get points for scoring goals - more for defenders, fewer for midfielders, least for strikers - and for providing the final pass before a goal - an "assist", as we have learned to call them.

That's the basics. I suspect it's quite sketchy and limited compared with fantasy baseball because, as you say, there are very few statistics by comparison in a flowing game.

Meanwhile, commiserations to those with Lehmann. I was assuming that Germany would try to attack to keep the ball away from their dodgy defence, and certainly with Ballack injured Schweinsteiger seemed a good risk. Also, his name means "pig-mounter'. Double gold!
 
 
Jake, Colossus of Clout
16:08 / 10.06.06
Yes, wealth, not dearth. It was very late when I wrote that. Sounds similar to fantasy basketball, which I have tried and failed to get my fantasy baseball league interested in.

Is anything penalized? One of the greatest joys of FB draft day is watching someone take aan early pick on a player whose stat line looks great on the surface, but who strikes out 100+ times or makes 30+ errors. Then you swoop in and grab a greatly underrated guy at the same position six rounds later. Is there the same ability to research undervalued and overvalued players in football? That's my favorite part of fantasy sports.
 
 
nedrichards is confused
23:15 / 10.06.06
Not really, sadly. This sort of thing lacks sophistication. For more sophistication you'd have to take to Football Manager, the computer game that owns your life.

Oh and my dual ivorian back 4 is looking less clever now.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
17:42 / 15.06.06
I just want to say I am making a great great job of totally fudging this up. I'm last! Get me!

Hey, that was a good idea to get rid of Carragher and Gerrard for this round, Suedey!

Duh.
 
  
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