ILX Fantasy Football League 2008-09

Mmmm, ten different formations.

will have a look- the premier league one is good, but the unlimited transfers get on my wick.

i'm sure many of us will participate in both

is there an ilx friends league then?

Aye, count me in for it if there is. My Dean Windass-inspired mob will kick all before them (not really).

i haven't checked how the scoring works here but will assume that stuffing Boateng and Park alongside Ronaldo, Fabregas, Torres and Adebayor and having a subs bench of cheap ne'er-do-wells will not cause problems.

If people are cool with the Graun one I'll start a league this evening.

yeah happy with guardian.

although has anyone also started a premierleague.com team?

i started a little league there with my flatmate and if anyone on ilx are super hardcore (bored enough) like me and want to do both sites, i'll start an ilx one there too (can be like rugby league v rugby union or something)

are people not just doing both?

just renewed the ILX league for new season - rejoin with the code 60160-28927

-- blueski, Friday, 11 July 2008 11:09 (1 month ago)

Okay I started a Graun one as well:

League name = Best League In The World No Hype LOL
Password = takethatboyler

excellent stuff, just signed up. think this is gonna be good, i like the way they've set up the scoring system

I'm in

Fuck it, I'm in this one as well.

I'm doing a Guardian one with pals, so shall enter your league too (nice work on the password, btw)

also LOL at Total Fretwork Solutions :-)

I'm in, but aren't both leagues up and running? Do we need a thread merge or something.

Bump.

Only just noticed the Grauniad league. Have joined but too late for this weekends games. Don't know if I'll be able to cope with the pressure of running two different teams in different leagues.

i see that the guardians attempt at making the game more balanced and not too striker-centric has resulted in a game that is incredibly defender-centric. 5-1-2-2 it is then...

forgot to join the gardian league oh well surely i can catch up one gmae

still rusty at this though - in the premierleague one i forgot to set my captain so instead of deco it was van der sar :(

berbatov, you've let me down

Annoying Guardian rule of no automatic substitions means valiant spurs-humping carthorse David Wheater sat on my bench while hunchback frontman wunderkind Tevez was blocking a place with his argentinian grieving.

can't believe I favoured reo-coker (10 pts) over g.barry (21 pts)

I just plumped for the five cheapest possible players on my bench. Fuck substitions.

Would any FFL game have automatically subbed a defender for a striker anyway though?

don't piss on my fire matt

Okay, just joined the guardian one now - a week late so as to give y'all a head start.

Wow Matt DC doing the biz.

manager of the week! if i hadn't missed a week i would have been top of the league

*shrug*

Blowing my pre-season budget on Cahill (injured and not playing), Fabregas (injured and not playing) and Berbatov (sulking and not playing) has proved remarkably unsuccessful so far. Even with automatic substitutions I've only managed to have 9 players each week.

I am playing a classic 'no strikers = the future' game seemingly. Every member of my team has outscored my strike force. Then again, lol Darren Bent.

Never thought I'd see the day I was torn between putting Darren Fletcher or Phil Neville in my team.

what about nicky butt???!??!?!

The lack of auto substitutions makes this game really very annoying (I've gone for Ian Ashbee, btw).

I've never been down with auto-substitutions. It's about foresight. Can't believe I'm already resorting to packing the midfield and clearing out all my Spurs players.

clearing out all my Spurs players

Same. Had Bentley and Berbatov at the start of the season thinking they'd give me assists and goals aplenty only to find that Bentleys on the fucking left and Berbatov neither plays or signs for United. My own fault for entrusting a big chunk of money and 2 starting positions to that farce of a club.

I'm backing Berbatov to have great game vs Liverpool - I need it to counter shit start to season - why play did I have so many injured players in the damn team???

why grammar so bad? Why did I have to play so many injured....

I always do badly at the start, but I think this must be my worst ever start to a fantasy football season. Way to go two of three penalty missers in my team, don't think I've forgotten just because of the international break. You just throw away those points for me. Torres injured. USELESS!

Oh, I'm doing alright in the guardian one actually, but I keep getting confused as to which players I have in which team. I think trying to maintain two has actually been too much responsibility. I blame the board, frankly. And I actually understand the non-guardian one and have looked at it for more than five minutes. Pah! The comeback starts here! I put all my faith in you - Robinho, Berbatov and Walcott!

(Not really.)

Having made some wholesale changes during the transfer window, I fully expect TIME FOR THE SEXING to "romp" toward the upper reaches of the table.

or to continue to languish in obscurity. whatever.

Finally managed a 3 figure score tho have dumped Anderson for Petrov in the hope that he'll carry on his form. Watch him screw it up!

Back on top. Martin Laursen is the best Fantasy League player ever.

I knew i shouldn't have put Zaki on the bench.

somehow crept into second spot

This is actually, finally, starting to get interesting as it bunches together at the top.

I knew I should have waited til after the international break to make any transfers, Arshavin's injury has left me with the bare bones squad, mind he hasn't exactly set the world on fire yet so maybe it's a good time to get shot of him.