Fantasy Rugby - World Cup 2015 (FSA)

What a depressing week-end for my fantasy teams, after my FPL epic fail.


I was willing to make 2 additional transfers for this week-end games: Sexton & Giteau out.

Either Cooper (thought he'd have things to prove) & Earls (Center in the game but at the wing today so figured he could benefit from it against a tough Romania team)
or Madigan (thought he'd get 80 min with plenty of kicks and be involved with the many tries I was expecting Ireland to score) & Toomua (didn't know much about him but an Aussie centre vs Uruguay ...).

Went with the latter since I thought Earls would get subbed & checked Cooper average kicking stats' (bloody stats, should have gone with my guts!)... Well they got : 9 + 8 pts.
The former got: 17 + 19 pts :rolleyes:. 19 pts diff .


When it's not your day, it's just not your day :pac:...

Oh dear oh dear !!!

I guess I was still feeling my FPL hungover and I forgot round 3 was starting today. Absolute disaster for my Rugger team :rolleyes:... So frustrating since I had planned it all from the start... I'm gonna need a miracle now to still be in contention...

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

Fantasy Rugger sent out an email today saying the deadline was moved to Thursday afternoon so no panic

Oh really ?! Jeez I've had a narrow escape there ...

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

I think so anyway but who knows with them :pac:

I haven't made my transfers either anyway so we'll find out on Thursday if it is the case.

Well I logged in to the site and yeah it says Game 3 deadline: Oct 01, 2015, 8:00:00:PM.

I guess I must thank you since I thought so much it was over that I'm not sure I'd have bothered checking for this round.


Today's game was "removed" from the game I presume .

I stopped playing the IT ones when I realised I had forgotten their *stupid* forwards policy. But 20 pts for Foley doesn't sound too far off: 10 pts for 2 tries, 3 for 3 conversions, 4 for 4 penalties and 3 for full appearance: 20 pts alright.

But I do agree with you about MOM choices. Beyond ridiculous. Gorgodze yesterday. Launchburry tonight. It's a farce :rolleyes:...

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Launchbury is a strange one no doubt, Foley would have been worthy for the two tries but I thought Hooper was superb, one very nasty clear out On Brown and played like his life depended on it.
I've no problem with the Georgia lad though, they were the team that performed above themselves, no NZ player played so well that they deserved a MOTM, it was obvious beforehand that the 20 best players on the pitch would be wearing black.

Hooper should have gotten a YC. Besides that yeah himself and Pocock were superb. Slowed down and stole England possession so many times!

Savea with 3 tries could have been a legitimate candidate couldn't he? Gorgodze, like his team, were brave and offered an exemplary resistance but they eventually lost 43-10!!! I mean it's like if you give Wijnaldum the MOM in the City-Newcastle game yesterday :rolleyes: :pac:.

iroced wrote: »

For Rugger, I don't think I'm gonna have a good round. My Irish trio was disastrous (Sexton made some costly handling errors, did not get as many kicks as I expected ; Murray made many mistakes too and gave away penalties ; POM got a YC). May got subbed out early. Had no Argies. Only Giteau, AAC & Slimani did good. Faletau (C) Hopefully he made tons of tackles ...

:eek: Holy jaysuuus !!! POM: 3.30, Murray: 2.00, Sexton: 4.30. What a bunch of useless feckers (even my Georgian sub flyhalf got better!). Now I hope we demolish you next week-end :pac:.

Fortunately I was right on Faletau tackling and rucking so he went to the rescue nicely .

9th in the boards league with 422.90 pts. I take it and run considering my poor enough round. Now to hopefully make a final group phase push before we go into real knockout rugby !

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

I actually think if ESPN brought in Rugger's pricing it'd blow both IT and Rugger out of the water. It really would have been a great idea seeing as they slicked up the site and broke away from the same template as IT. The scoring is still simple and straightforward so you know what you're going to get.

Not sure it'll work great. The front rows and locks would have to be completely undervalued since they have almost nothing to shine for in their scoring system (yeah they added the 10T bonus point but still it's very little).

What would be much better in my opinion is Rugger adopting the deadline policy of ESPN (and maybe extending a bit the amount of possible transfers). Such that we know the team line-ups before making our GW transfers and can adapt our strategy.

Can you make transfers during the game week? Or do you have to have them all made before first game of game week? Irish times league

Just checked the Argentina team to play tomorrow.. Oh noooooooooooooooooo .....
None of my 3 Argentine plays (just Imhoff on the bench). My whole Sanchez masterplan fell apart. Disaster for Rugger. Catastrophy for ESPN.

Argentina really looking ahead of their Quarters. Is it the best thing to give a 15 days rest to (some of) their starting team? Ah well c'est la vie anyway.

So, ended up taking a punt on Farrell & Nowell. Hopefully they are the right ones since previous Uruguay games showed that one of the centres and of the wingers was having a stormer while the other one was just returning OK. Hopefully Farrell kicks too but I think it'd be more "logical" to give it to the 10, the one who organises play.

Was not expecting this mega spanner in my Fantasy Rugby works... Raging & utterly disappointing. My Argentines were my differentials ...

Swiper the fox wrote: »

I went for Ford and Watson,
Meself and Mr P are absolutely miles behind you, and you've a bit of work to do to catch the leader of the FSA league, strange that we're the only ones discussing it:o

This ESPN game is by far the best I've seen for rugby, pity I didn't give it a bit more thought when wasting most of my transfers early on.

Yeah was counting on my Argentine trio to make up the gap to the leader. Won't happen now. Hopefully my English duo has a stormer.

Yeah, strange this thread is not more popular, especially that it'is a Boards FSA league ...

ESPN game is great. Much much much better than IT (where the forwards selection is a farce) but I do really like Rugger. I think it needs a few adjustements, particularly regarding transfer deadlines but I really like the scoring system. It's more complicated (though if you look at it in details, there are not that many things to consider: tackling, line-out, ruck & defenders beaten are the main ones) and demands a bit more of rugby following but I think it has great potential.

So. Rugger not yet updated. It's a pity there's no live scoring but in the meantime I understand they probabbly don't have the resource for that.

In ESPN, I reduced the gap from the leader to 29 31 pts (Bloody hell! Lost 1 pt overnight while he got an extra one :mad: :pac:). Ah, at some point, I was not far from 100 pts behind, so must look at the bright side .

If only my Argentina trio had played I believe I could be top ...


- edit -
Ah just read that Imhoff got a disallowed try. Hindsight sh*te :mad: :pac:.

One match ban for sob

South Africa: 15 Willie le Roux, 14 JP Pietersen, 13 Jesse Kriel, 12 Damian de Allende, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Handre Pollard, 9 Fourie du Preez (c), 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Schalk Burger, 6 Francois Louw, 5 Lood de Jager, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Frans Malherbe, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Tendai Mtawarira.

Replacements:16 Adriaan Strauss, 17 Trevor Nyakane, 18 Jannie du Plessis, 19 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 20 Willem Alberts, 21 Ruan Pienaar, 22 Pat Lambie, 23 Jan Serfontein.

Wales: 15 Gareth Anscombe, 14 Alex Cuthbert, 13 Tyler Morgan, 12 Jamie Roberts, 11 George North, 10 Dan Biggar, 9 Gareth Davies, 8 Taulupe Faletau, 7 Sam Warburton (c), 6 Dan Lydiate, 5 Alun Wyn Jones, 4 Luke Charteris, 3 Samson Lee, 2 Scott Baldwin, 1 Gethin Jenkins.

Replacements: 16 Ken Owens, 17 Paul James, 18 Tom Francis, 19 Bradley Davies 20 Justin Tipuric, 21 Lloyd Williams, 22 Rhys Priestland, 23 James Hook



France: 15 Scott Spedding, 14 Noa Nakaitaci, 13 Alexandre Dumoulin, 12 Wesley Fofana, 11 Brice Dulin, 10 Frédéric Michalak, 9 Morgan Parra, 8 Louis Picamoles, 7 Bernard le Roux, 6 Thierry Dusautoir (c), 5 Yoann Maestri, 4 Pascal Papé, 3 Rabah Slimani, 2 Guilhem Guirado, 1 Eddy Ben Arous

Replacements: 16 Dimitri Szarzewski, 17 Vincent Debaty, 18 Nicolas Mas, 19 Damien Chouly, 20 Yannick Nyanga, 21 Rory Kockott, 22 Rémi Talès, 23 Mathieu Bastareaud

New Zealand: 15 Ben Smith, 14 Nehe Milner-Skudder, 13 Conrad Smith, 12 Ma'a Nonu, 11 Julian Savea, 10 Daniel Carter, 9 Aaron Smith, 8 Kieran Read, 7 Richie McCaw (c), 6 Jerome Kaino, 5 Sam Whitelock, 4 Brodie Retallick, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Dane Coles, 1 Wyatt Crockett.

Replacements: 16 Keven Mealamu, 17 Joe Moody, 18 Charlie Faumuina, 19 Victor Vito, 20 Sam Cane, 21 Tawera Kerr-Barlow, 22 Beauden Barrett, 23 Sonny Bill Williams.



Ireland (revised): 15 Rob Kearney, 14 Tommy Bowe, 13 Keith Earls, 12 Robbie Henshaw, 11 Dave Kearney, 10 Ian Madigan, 9 Conor Murray, 8 Jamie Heaslip, 7 Chris Henry, 6 Jordi Murphy, 5 Iain Henderson, 4 Devin Toner, 3 Mike Ross, 2 Rory Best, 1 Cian Healy

Replacements: 16 Richardt Strauss, 17 Jack McGrath, 18 Nathan White, 19 Donnacha Ryan, 20 Rhys Ruddock, 21 Eoin Reddan, 22 Paddy Jackson, 23 Luke Fitzgerald

Argentina: 15 Joaquin Tuculet, 14 Santiago Cordero, 13 Matías Moroni, 12 Juan Martín Hernández, 11 Juan Imhoff, 10 Nicolás Sánchez, 9 Martín Landajo, 8 Leonardo Senatore, 7 Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe, 6 Pablo Matera, 5 Tomás Lavanini, 4 Guido Petti, 3 Ramiro Herrera, 2 Agustín Creevy (c), 1 Marcos Ayerza

Replacements: 16 Julián Montoya, 17 Lucas Noguera, 18 Juan Pablo Orlandi, 19 Matías Alemanno, 20 Facundo Isa, 21 Tomás Cubelli, 22 Jerónimo De La Fuente, 23 Lucas González Amorosino



Australia: 15 Kurtley Beale, 14 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 13 Tevita Kuridrani, 12 Matt Giteau, 11 Drew Mitchell, 10 Bernard Foley, 9 Will Genia, 8 Ben McCalman, 7 Michael Hooper, 6 Scott Fardy, 5 Rob Simmons, 4 Kane Douglas, 3 Sekope Kepu, 2 Stephen Moore (c) 1 Scott Sio

Replacements: 16 Tatafu Polota-Nau, 17 James Slipper, 18 Greg Holmes, 19 Dean Mumm, 20 Sean McMahon, 21 Nick Phipps, 22 Matt Toomua, 23 Quade Cooper

Scotland: 15 Stuart Hogg, 14 Sean Maitland, 13 Mark Bennett, 12 Peter Horne, 11 Tommy Seymour, 10 Finn Russell, 9 Greig Laidlaw (c), 8 Dave Denton, 7 John Hardie, 6 Blair Cowan, 5 Richie Gray, 4 Tim Swinson, 3 WP Nel, 2 Fraser Brown, 1 Alasdair Dickinson.

Replacements: 16 Kevin Bryce, 17 Gordon Reid, 18 Jon Welsh, 19 Alasdair Strokosch, 20 Josh Strauss, 21 Henry Pyrgos, 22 Richie Vernon, 23 Sean Lamont.

Going for Miner-Skudder instead of Savea killed me. As much as NZ killed us tonight .

Still in contention though.

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

I think it's clear interest in this fell away the same time Ireland and France did :pac:

I was 10 minutes into Argentina vs SA before I remembered the fantasy aspect. Such a casual

Yes and no. Thing is we were only 3-4 discussing it in here despite being 12 in the Boards FSA league... I had (and still have) only 1 transfer left anyway. Took some punts that did not work in the Quarters. From the semis onwards, the game becomes less interesting. It's mainly down to the luck of having the right guys (like AAC last week). Nothing they can really do about it though.

My main disappointment is about Rugger... I still believe this game has huuuuuuge potential. It's quite close to FPL in the end (well at least the way I play it), there's some planning/strategy involved, you have to pick the "right" candidates (like in FPL the ones who're gonna hoover the points), I quite like the more rugby-friendly stats-oriented not-that-complicated-in-the-end scoring system. But they need to fix their bugs, including the scoring system or at least provide the original data (I had some extremely weird outcomes from some players, even negative figures :eek: !!!). Something has to be done regarding transfers too. It was a bit ridiculous in the group stage having to make a team while only knowing half the lineups. As I said on the rugby forum it is still a beta version IMO.