Ultimate Premier League 2014/15

KevIRL · 16-07-2014 5:57pm #1

Just signed up for this and paid, didnt play the beta version last year so am largely clueless. Any tips?

8-10 · 16-07-2014 6:30pm

KevIRL wrote: »

Just signed up for this and paid, didnt play the beta version last year so am largely clueless. Any tips?

Pay attention during gameweeks. It's basically the same game expect you can make your own subs between the days of games in the same GW.

POKERKING · 16-07-2014 9:01pm

It's excellent but hard work.

I'm not sure it's worth a fiver though, nearly impossible to win,prizes should be spread out a lot, top10percent like a poker tournament or something.

I can't see what payment processor they use, can you tell me whatbu used?paypal?

Copper_pipe · 16-07-2014 9:02pm

POKERKING wrote: »

It's excellent but hard work.

I'm not sure it's worth a fiver though, nearly impossible to win,prizes should be spread out a lot, top10percent like a poker tournament or something.

I can't see what payment processor they use, can you tell me whatbu used?paypal?

Just signed up there myself, only gave me the option to pay by card. Total players so far is 229

Copper_pipe · 16-07-2014 9:04pm

My first draft at this

CSF · 16-07-2014 9:18pm

Jesus, merely looking at that makes me not able to cope.

TaytoCrisps · 16-07-2014 9:34pm

A few more prize positions and I'd consider signing up but its an awful lot of work chopping and changing players Saturday-Monday. I forgot a few times to make changes during the gameweek during the Beta version and ended up with a lot of points on the bench .

It could be tough to setup a private paid league with friends as well if people are already paying to enter which is anther problem

8-10 · 17-07-2014 5:43am

TaytoCrisps wrote: »

its an awful lot of work chopping and changing players Saturday-Monday.

It's really not, you'd get used to it pretty quickly

Dearg81 · 17-07-2014 1:40pm

KevIRL wrote: »

Just signed up for this and paid, didnt play the beta version last year so am largely clueless. Any tips?

I just signed up, I didn't play the beta game but I think the main thing is to get a lot of players into your squad who play on the Sunday/Monday games. This will give you better chance as you can sub out the Saturday players who scored poorly. I'd say that FFS will have a fixture break down before the season starts.

manual_man · 17-07-2014 1:46pm

Ultimate Fantasy Premier League
"It appears that you reside in a country where online gambling is not allowed. Unfortunately you will not be able to enter a team in Ultimate Fantasy.
Fantasy Premier League is open to all and is free to play!"

Living in Ireland btw

FutureGuy · 17-07-2014 1:49pm

Not. A. Hope.

An absolute time sink. I'm barely motivated by the main game as it is.

F1ngers · 17-07-2014 1:51pm

manual_man wrote: »

Ultimate Fantasy Premier League
"It appears that you reside in a country where online gambling is not allowed. Unfortunately you will not be able to enter a team in Ultimate Fantasy.
Fantasy Premier League is open to all and is free to play!"

Living in Ireland btw

Do you have your DNS setting set for US netflix or something?
US citizens aren't allowed to gamble online.

Dearg81 · 17-07-2014 1:54pm

FutureGuy wrote: »

Not. A. Hope.

An absolute time sink. I'm barely motivated by the main game as it is.

I'm not too sure it will be that time consuming as you dont have to worry about transfers(apart from a few windows) and there are no price rises. You just have to remember to sub out a few players on Sunday and Monday really.

manual_man · 17-07-2014 2:02pm

F1ngers wrote: »

Do you have your DNS setting set for US netflix or something?
US citizens aren't allowed to gamble online.

Away down the country for a few days on a friends WiFi. Will try it on the laptop when I get back home, seems a bit odd all the same

manual_man · 18-07-2014 7:19pm

Has a Boards/FSA league been set up for this?

P.S. can anyone remember can your formation be changed while the gameweek is in progress??? for example you choose a 5-3-2 to start with and 2 of your defenders bum on the saturday and you want to swap them out for 2 midfielders playing the next day... can you do that?

jimmii · 19-07-2014 11:22am

Needs a different team selection from regular FPL you want to be in a position to play as many players as possible each weekend. If they all play Saturday then its just a waste!

Degag · 19-07-2014 12:34pm

You actually have less money per player in this game compared to the main game. I think the best method may be to pick a killer first 11 and then pick filler for the rest (by filler I mean cheap players who will play and may have a decent chance of points)

Dearg81 · 19-07-2014 6:55pm

Here's a breakdown of the first 14 game weeks fixtures by day. A lot of the big teams play more often on Sunday and Monday which is ideal as you will be able to play the cheaper players from smaller teams on Saturday and then sub them out for the big team players if they dont score well.

Team Sat Sun Mon
Man United 7 6 1
Everton 8 6 0
Man City 8 5 1
Tottenham 8 6 0
Chelsea 9 4 1
Liverpool 9 4 1
QPR 9 4 1
Hull 10 3 1
Sunderland 10 3 1
Arsenal 11 3 0
Aston Villa 11 1 2
Burnley 11 2 1
Crystal Palace 11 2 1
Newcastle 11 2 1
Southampton 11 2 1
Stoke 11 2 1
WBA 11 2 1
Leicester 12 2 0
Swansea 12 2 0
West Ham 12 1 1

manual_man · 20-07-2014 6:17pm

manual_man wrote: »

can anyone remember can your formation be changed while the gameweek is in progress??? for example you choose a 5-3-2 to start with and 2 of your defenders bum on the saturday and you want to swap them out for 2 midfielders playing the next day... can you do that?

Anyone able to answer this?? Also are the scoring rules the same as the trial game last season(i can't remember)???

F1ngers · 20-07-2014 6:34pm

manual_man wrote: »

Anyone able to answer this?? Also are the scoring rules the same as the trial game last season(i can't remember)???

Going by the FAQ, it seems you can.
I think(can't remember for certain) that I changed formation during the beta.

POKERKING · 20-07-2014 7:45pm

manual_man wrote: »

Anyone able to answer this?? Also are the scoring rules the same as the trial game last season(i can't remember)???

Yeah you can, it's a lot better than it sounds, will probably replace the other game in the long run I reckon. Pity the payouts so ****e though!

manual_man · 20-07-2014 8:23pm

POKERKING wrote: »

Yeah you can, it's a lot better than it sounds, will probably replace the other game in the long run I reckon. Pity the payouts so ****e though!

yeah imagine if you come second overall and get zip! i like the game tho

zarquon · 20-07-2014 8:35pm

POKERKING wrote: »

Yeah you can, it's a lot better than it sounds, will probably replace the other game in the long run I reckon. Pity the payouts so ****e though!

Exactly the problem. There will be far more than 7000 entrants so this game will be a big money spinner. If all the entrance fees were supplied as prizes i would be more interested.

jimmii · 24-07-2014 12:10pm

zarquon wrote: »

Exactly the problem. There will be far more than 7000 entrants so this game will be a big money spinner. If all the entrance fees were supplied as prizes i would be more interested.

Yeh could definitely prove to be quite profitable for them. Maybe if it is considerably over the 7000 they might throw in a couple of extra prizes. Definitely not great having so many players and only 11 prizes being dished out!

zarquon · 24-07-2014 12:19pm

jimmii wrote: »

Yeh could definitely prove to be quite profitable for them. Maybe if it is considerably over the 7000 they might throw in a couple of extra prizes. Definitely not great having so many players and only 11 prizes being dished out!

For the money there are better competitions out there with bigger prizes like the mirror or sun dreamteam. If there was less than 7000 people this might peak my interest with a small pool of players but no way i am paying for this game if there are 10s of thousands of players.

For anyone who has registered does it show you the total number of registered players? If there are less than 10000 registered players this might be a worthwhile game to play.

Hackers · 24-07-2014 1:26pm

Looks like 2,874 players registered so far. Hard to say what that will go up to by start of the season but I would think min 15,000 anyway

zarquon wrote: »

For the money there are better competitions out there with bigger prizes like the mirror or sun dreamteam. If there was less than 7000 people this might peak my interest with a small pool of players but no way i am paying for this game if there are 10s of thousands of players.

For anyone who has registered does it show you the total number of registered players? If there are less than 10000 registered players this might be a worthwhile game to play.

jimmii · 24-07-2014 1:32pm

zarquon wrote: »

For the money there are better competitions out there with bigger prizes like the mirror or sun dreamteam. If there was less than 7000 people this might peak my interest with a small pool of players but no way i am paying for this game if there are 10s of thousands of players.

For anyone who has registered does it show you the total number of registered players? If there are less than 10000 registered players this might be a worthwhile game to play.

Yeh it does currently it is at 2879. There are loads of better value games but in reality for most people the prizes are irrelevant as they will never get near winning them. Its nice to have UFPL i'm happy to play £5 a year to play it nice to have a proper game with a smaller field so you can at least pretend you have a shot at winning it then!

8-10 · 24-07-2014 3:54pm

jimmii wrote: »

Yeh it does currently it is at 2879. There are loads of better value games but in reality for most people the prizes are irrelevant as they will never get near winning them. Its nice to have UFPL i'm happy to play £5 a year to play it nice to have a proper game with a smaller field so you can at least pretend you have a shot at winning it then!

Agreed. At least it challenges you a bit rather than the regular FPL game which doesn't require much time.

jimmii · 24-07-2014 4:26pm

Yeh thats what I like about it there is more involved and the squad system adds an interesting new element to it.

zarquon · 26-07-2014 7:32pm

Okay, i've decided to join. Only €6 approximately and should be somewhat entertaining.

The rules seem straightforward. One thing i am i would like clarity on though - Is it possible to change formations during manager substitions? E.g change from 4-4-2 on Saturday to 4-3-3 on a Sunday to take out a poor performing midfielder for a striker or is the formation fixed for the gameweek? F1ngers wasn't completely certain of this so it would be good to know.

TaytoCrisps · 29-07-2014 4:50pm

I've just setup my team in the UFF. Is there any boards league setup yet ?

Dearg81 · 29-07-2014 6:31pm

zarquon wrote: »

Okay, i've decided to join. Only €6 approximately and should be somewhat entertaining.

The rules seem straightforward. One thing i am i would like clarity on though - Is it possible to change formations during manager substitions? E.g change from 4-4-2 on Saturday to 4-3-3 on a Sunday to take out a poor performing midfielder for a striker or is the formation fixed for the gameweek? F1ngers wasn't completely certain of this so it would be good to know.

It doesn't say you can't change formation mid game week -
What formation can I play?
You can play in any formation, providing 1 goalkeeper, at least 3 defenders, 2 midfielders and at least 1 forward are selected at all times.

Dearg81 · 29-07-2014 6:31pm

TaytoCrisps wrote: »

I've just setup my team in the UFF. Is there any boards league setup yet ?

No, don't think so.

zarquon · 29-07-2014 7:48pm

I've taken the liberty of setting an FSA league up as no one else has.

Code: 3563-696

http://ultimate.premierleague.com/?autojoin-code=3563-696

8-10 · 29-07-2014 9:19pm

zarquon wrote: »

I've taken the liberty of setting an FSA league up as no one else has.

Code: 3563-696

http://ultimate.premierleague.com/?autojoin-code=3563-696

That's weird, I'm already in a boards.ie FSA league in ultimate, where did I get that from?

And this code gives me an error?

manual_man · 29-07-2014 9:34pm

8-10 wrote: »

That's weird, I'm already in a boards.ie FSA league in ultimate, where did I get that from?

And this code gives me an error?

if you click on the link i think it joins you automatically, even tho you see no confirmation. i then clicked into my team page and saw boards.ie FSA there so am presuming thats what happened :P unless it's a league that auto renewed from last season

anyway my team is in there (Ultimate Warriors) along with 4 others maybe zarquon can confirm!

zarquon · 29-07-2014 10:16pm

manual_man wrote: »

if you click on the link i think it joins you automatically, even tho you see no confirmation. i then clicked into my team page and saw boards.ie FSA there so am presuming thats what happened :P unless it's a league that auto renewed from last season anyway my team is in there (Ultimate Warriors) along with 4 others maybe zarquon can confirm!

Clicking the link automatically joins you into the UFPL league. It is brand new so no renewals. The option is there to manually enter the code but it's just easier to use the autojoin feature

8-10 · 29-07-2014 10:32pm

zarquon wrote: »

Clicking the link automatically joins you into the UFPL league. It is brand new so no renewals. The option is there to manually enter the code but it's just easier to use the autojoin feature

That must be what happened, clicked the link on my phone which joined me then went to the league page and code didn't work because of the auto-join

Makes sense!

Dearg81 · 02-08-2014 10:34am

What goalkeepers are you going for? I'm not sure whether to pick 3 cheap ones or go for De Gea and 2 x 4.5 keepers.

jimmii · 02-08-2014 11:03am

Dearg81 wrote: »

What goalkeepers are you going for? I'm not sure whether to pick 3 cheap ones or go for De Gea and 2 x 4.5 keepers.

United have a lot of Sunday games so DDG is definitely a good pick there are a good few 4.5s who are almost all Saturday games so that works well. I think it would be hard to get a good Sat/Sun/Mon rotation using just 4.5s as they are normally 3pm Saturday KO teams.

Dearg81 · 02-08-2014 6:40pm

jimmii wrote: »

United have a lot of Sunday games so DDG is definitely a good pick there are a good few 4.5s who are almost all Saturday games so that works well. I think it would be hard to get a good Sat/Sun/Mon rotation using just 4.5s as they are normally 3pm Saturday KO teams.

Yea De Gea looks like a must have with those fixtures. Now I just need to pick a defence, midfield and attack

Hackers · 12-08-2014 10:47am

just wondering if anyone would be interested in a pay league for a small amount in this?

I am just worried that without some kind of mini league we could end up losing interest very fast if bad starts are had as it would be very hard to win any of the main prizes.

I could run it and gather an entry fee via paypal. Just throwing it out there anyway, if we had even 10 entries at €10 a go we could have a winner takes all pot of €100.

zarquon · 12-08-2014 10:48am

Hackers wrote: »

just wondering if anyone would be interested in a pay league for a small amount in this?

I am just worried that without some kind of mini league we could end up losing interest very fast if bad starts are had as it would be very hard to win any of the main prizes.

I could run it and gather an entry fee via paypal. Just throwing it out there anyway, if we had even 10 entries at €10 a go we could have a winner takes all pot of €100.

I'd certainly join if we can get a few entries.

8-10 · 12-08-2014 11:29am

Hackers wrote: »

just wondering if anyone would be interested in a pay league for a small amount in this?

I am just worried that without some kind of mini league we could end up losing interest very fast if bad starts are had as it would be very hard to win any of the main prizes.

I could run it and gather an entry fee via paypal. Just throwing it out there anyway, if we had even 10 entries at €10 a go we could have a winner takes all pot of €100.

Yep I'm in. Finalized my team last night....or so I think

Dearg81 · 12-08-2014 11:34am

Hackers wrote: »

just wondering if anyone would be interested in a pay league for a small amount in this?

I am just worried that without some kind of mini league we could end up losing interest very fast if bad starts are had as it would be very hard to win any of the main prizes.

I could run it and gather an entry fee via paypal. Just throwing it out there anyway, if we had even 10 entries at €10 a go we could have a winner takes all pot of €100.

Yea I'd be up for that.

Dearg81 · 12-08-2014 11:37am

8-10 wrote: »

Yep I'm in. Finalized my team last night....or so I think

Ah go on show us! I've no idea what 'm doing as I didnt play the beta. Not sure whether to go for a strong squad or pick lots of duds to save money. Maybe we should set up a rate my team thread. :pac:

8-10 · 12-08-2014 11:42am

Dearg81 wrote: »

Ah go on show us! I've no idea what 'm doing as I didnt play the beta. Not sure whether to go for a strong squad or pick lots of duds to save money. Maybe we should set up a rate my team thread. :pac:

I have a lot of duds and gone top heavy with the others. Slightly worried as I only have 3 starting strikers! When I said finalised I really meant finalised my latest draft :P

Might have another tinker nearer the weekend.

Hackers · 12-08-2014 11:44am

Not a bad response so far lads, up to 4 as below, if we get a few more I think we can go ahead:

Hackers
Zarquon
8-10
Dearg81

Hackers wrote: »

just wondering if anyone would be interested in a pay league for a small amount in this?

I am just worried that without some kind of mini league we could end up losing interest very fast if bad starts are had as it would be very hard to win any of the main prizes.

I could run it and gather an entry fee via paypal. Just throwing it out there anyway, if we had even 10 entries at €10 a go we could have a winner takes all pot of €100.

deisedude · 12-08-2014 2:43pm

Doing this league in work this year.

Are we using this thread to show our teams? I'd imagine the main rate my team thread would only be peeved off at us if we did it there?

manual_man · 12-08-2014 2:47pm

deisedude wrote: »

Doing this league in work this year.

Are we using this thread to show our teams? I'd imagine the main rate my team thread would only be peeved off at us if we did it there?

Yeah I'd say throw it in here if you want feedback, though I think most of us are being coy on our squads given the greater amount of picks available to all of us

Hackers · 12-08-2014 2:48pm

No reason why we cant share them here.

Agree that using the other thread would might cause issues, there aren't too many of us playing it so I think this thread should work for all Ultimate related posts

deisedude wrote: »

Doing this league in work this year.

Are we using this thread to show our teams? I'd imagine the main rate my team thread would only be peeved off at us if we did it there?

Ultimate Premier League 2014/15

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