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Fantasy Rugby - World Cup 2015 (FSA)
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So fantasyrugger finally updated! I really like it. In a way, it's a bit like a more detailed and complex version of FPL where you need to build a balanced team (on the field and the bench!) with some strategy involved!
Had I left it on my initial gut instinct on Matfield I'd top the boards league! Though happy enough to be up in 5th thereIt's soooooooooooooo hard to pick the captain in the FantasyRugger one
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Just made a last min change from Matfield to Mvovo and then from Mvovo to Kriel :pac:. The scoring is so different than what we're generally used to that it's pretty tough to anticipate...
. Now to find who are the Australians most likely to feature in both their games!
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So, round 2 here we come
! Beware the deadline is today at 2.30 pm GMT !!!
For the entire round in FantasyRugger. For today's game in ESPN. I don't really know for IT... This one is a bit of a mess. Like we have 20 transfers in total ?!??! Including the finals??? and IT. Transfer rules here for IT => http://fantasyrugby.irishtimes.com/Article.aspx?id=153
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Not all teams line-ups have been announced. Hopefully we'll get one or two more before deadline.
Think I read somewhere that Australia were going a 2 teams route for their 2 first games, which is bad news for the fantasy games.23 September
AUSTRALIA - FIJI
Date: Wednesday, September 23
Venue: Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Kick-off: 16:45 local (15:45 GMT)
Referee: Glen Jackson (New Zealand)
Assistant Referees: Nigel Owens (Wales), Leighton Hodges (Wales)
TMO: Graham Hughes (England
Australia: 15 Israel Folau, 14 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 13 Tevita Kuridrani, 12 Matt Giteau, 11 Rob Horne, 10 Bernard Foley, 9 Will Genia, 8 David Pocock, 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 Will Skelton, 20 Dean Mumm, 21 Nick Phipps, 22 Matt Toomua, 23 Kurtley Beale.
Fiji: 15 Metuisela Talebula, 14 Waisea Nayacalevu, 13 Vereniki Goneva, 12 Gabiriele Lovobalavu, 11 Nemani Nadolo, 10 Ben Volavola, 9 Nikola Matawalu, 8 Netani Talei, 7 Akapusi Qera (c), 6 Peceli Yato, 5 Leone Nakarawa, 4 Tevita Cavubati, 3 Manasa Saulo, 2 Tuapati Talemaitoga, 1 Campese Ma'afu
Replacements: 16 Viliame Veikoso, 17 Peni Ravai, 18 Isei Colati, 19 Nemia Soqeta, 20 Malakai Ravulo, 21 Nemia Kenatale, 22 Josh Matavesi, 23 Aseli Tikoirotuma
FRANCE - ROMANIA
Date: Saturday, September 23
Venue: Olympic Stadium, London
Kick-off: 20:00 local (19:00 GMT)
Referee: Jaco Peyper (South Africa)
Assistant Referees: Craig Joubert (South Africa), Federico Anselmi (Argentina)
TMO: George Ayoub (Australia)
France: 15 Brice Dulin, 14 Sofiane Guitoune, 13 Gaël Fickou, 12 Wesley Fofana, 11 Noa Nakaitaci, 10 Rémi Talès, 9 Morgan Parra, 8 Louis Picamoles, 7 Fulgence Ouedraogo, 6 Yannick Nyanga, 5 Alexandre Flanquart, 4 Bernard le Roux, 3 Uini Atonio, 2 Dimitri Szarzewski (c), 1 Vincent Debaty
Replacements: 16 Benjamin Kayser, 17 Eddy Ben Arous, 18 Nicolas Mas, 19 Yoann Maestri, 20 Damien Chouly, 21 Rory Kockott, 22 Frédéric Michalak, 23 Mathieu Bastareaud
Romania: 15 Catalin Fercu, 14 Madalin Lemnaru, 13 Paula Kinikinilau, 12 Florin Vlaicu, 11 Adrian Apostol, 10 Danut Dumbrava, 9 Florin Surugiu, 8 Mihai Macovei (c), 7 Viorel Lucaci, 6 Valentin Ursache, 5 Johan Van Heerden, 4 Valentin Poparlan, 3 Paulica Ion, 2 Otar Turashvili, 1 Mihaita Lazar
Replacements: 16 Andrei Radoi, 17 Andrei Ursache, 18 Horatiu Pungea, 19 Ovidiu Tonita, 20 Stelian Burcea, 21 Valentin Calafeteanu, 22 Ionut Botezatu, 23 Csaba Gal
JAPAN - SCOTLAND
Date: Wednesday, September 23
Venue: Kingsholm Stadium, Gloucester
Kick-off: 14:30 local (13:30 GMT)
Referee: John Lacey (Ireland)
Assistant Referees: George Clancy (Ireland), Marius Mitrea (Italy)
TMO: Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)
Japan: 15 Ayumu Goromaru, 14 Kotaro Matsushima, 13 Male Sau, 12 Yu Tamura, 11 Kenki Fukuoka, 10 Harumichi Tatekawa, 9 Fumiaki Tanaka, 8 Amanaki Mafi, 7 Michael Broadhurst, 6 Michael Leitch (c), 5 Justin Ives, 4 Luke Thompson, 3 Hiroshi Yama****a, 2 Shota Horie, 1 Keita Inagaki
Replacements: 16 Takeshi Kazu, 17 Masataka Mikami, 18 Kensuke Hatakeyama, 19 Shinya Makabe, 20 Shoji Ito, 21 Hendrik Tui, 22 Atsushi Hiwasa, 23 Karne Hesketh
Scotland: 15 Stuart Hogg, 14 Tommy Seymour, 13 Mark Bennett, 12 Matt Scott, 11 Sean Lamont, 10 Finn Russell, 9 Greig Laidlaw, 8 David Denton, 7 John Hardie, 6 Ryan Wilson, 5 Jonny Gray, 4 Grant Gilchrist, 3 WP Nel, 2 Ross Ford, 1 Alasdair Dickinson
Replacements: 16 Fraser Brown, 17 Ryan Grant, 18 Jon Welsh, 19 Richie Gray, 20 Josh Strauss, 21 Henry Pyrgos, 22 Peter Horne, 23 Sean Maitland24 September
NEW ZEALAND - NAMIBIA
Date: Thursday, September 24
Venue: The Stadium, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London
Kick-off: 20:00 local (19:00 GMT)
Referee: Romain Poite (France)
Assistant referees: Craig Joubert (South Africa), Mathieu Raynal (France)
Television match official: George Ayoub (Australia)
New Zealand: 15 Colin Slade, 14 Nehe Milner-Skudder, 13 Malakai Fekitoa, 12 Sonny Bill Williams, 11 Julian Savea, 10 Beauden Barrett, 9 TJ Perenara, 8 Victor Vito, 7 Sam Cane (c), 6 Liam Messam, 5 Samuel Whitelock, 4 Luke Romano, 3 Charlie Faumuina, 2 Codie Taylor, 1 Ben Franks.
Replacements: 16 Keven Mealamu, 17 Wyatt Crockett, 18 Tony Woodcock, 19 Kieran Read, 20 Richie McCaw, 21 Tawera Kerr-Barlow, 22 Ma'a Nonu, 23 Ben Smith.
Namibia: 15 Johan Tromp, 14 David Philander, 13 JC Greyling, 12 Johan Deysel, 11 Conrad Marais, 10 Theuns Kotzè, 9 Eugene Jantjies, 8 Leneve Damens, 7 Tinus du Plessis, 6 Jacques Burger (capt), 5 Pieter-Jan van Lill, 4 Tjiuee Uanivi, 3 Johannes Coetzee, 2 Torsten van Jaarsveld, 1 Jaco Engels.
Replacements: 16 Louis van der Westhuizen, 17 Casper Viviers, 18 Raoul Larson, 19 Renaldo Bothma, 20 Janco Venter, 21 Rohan Kitshoff, 22 Eneill Buitendag, 23 Chrysander Botha.25 September
ARGENTINA - GEORGIA
26 September
WALES - ENGLAND
England are set to include Owen Farrell and Sam Burgess in their starting line-up that will take on Wales this Saturday, according to several reports.
Although the problem is unlikely to rule the player out of the tournament for a significant period of time, Joseph is a doubt for this weekend's pool game.
ITALY - CANADA
SOUTH AFRICA - SAMOA
Date: Saturday, September 26
Venue: Villa Park, Birmingham
Kick-off: 16:45 local (15:45 GMT)
Referee: Wayne Barnes (England)
Assistant referees: JP Doyle (England), Angus Gardner (Australia)
Television match official: Graham Hughes (England)
South Africa: 15 Willie le Roux, 14 JP Pietersen, 13 Jean de Villiers (c), 12 Damian de Allende, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Handre Pollard, 9 Fourie du Preez, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Schalk Burger, 6 Francois Louw, 5 Victor Matfield, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Adriaan Strauss, 1 Tendai Mtawarira
Replacements: 16 Schalk Brits, 17 Trevor Nyakane, 18 Frans Malherbe, 19 Lood de Jager, 20 Siya Kolisi, 21 Ruan Pienaar, 22 Pat Lambie, 23 Jesse Kriel.27 September
AUSTRALIA - URUGUAY
IRELAND - ROMANIA
SCOTLAND - USA0 -
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Jeez... It's com-pli-ca-ted...
Between my dropped, benched and not featuring at all players I'd need far more than 3 free subs to accomodate my FR team. The real disappointment is I made the absolute wrong call on my sub Romanian hooker (all my plan's falling apart here).
And my backs are depleted. Don't know if May & Brown will play. Nonu & Kriel are benched. Mvovo is dropped. And had planned my subs for Round 3 stocking on with Tongan players... 0 -
Jeez... It's com-pli-ca-ted...
Between my dropped, benched and not featuring at all players I'd need far more than 3 free subs to accomodate my FR team. The real disappointment is I made the absolute wrong call on my sub Romanian hooker (all my plan's falling apart here).
And my backs are depleted. Don't know if May & Brown will play. Nonu & Kriel are benched. Mvovo is dropped. And had planned my subs for Round 3 stocking on with Tongan players...
Brown will definitely play and May is very likely too, although Nowell could be a concern. In my opinion :P
I've gone for Parra in all 3 games and as kicker which is really my only French coverage bar Picamoles staying in the FT.
I wanted Fofana or Nakataki (spelling?) but not enough transfers for that luxury.
Scottish center Mark Bennett is my left field gamble to hopefully play both games and Jonny Gray in the second row.
In Rugger I took Earls out for Sonny Bill but I liked Earls as a centre on the wing but think Bowe and Fitzgerald might get wing spots with Zebo at FB
Impossible to predict though so went with players already announced to start. Savea my captain in Rugger.
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Mr.Prodston wrote: »Brown will definitely play and May is very likely too, although Nowell could be a concern. In my opinion :P
I've gone for Parra in all 3 games and as kicker which is really my only French coverage bar Picamoles staying in the FT.
I wanted Fofana or Nakataki (spelling?) but not enough transfers for that luxury.
Scottish center Mark Bennett is my left field gamble to hopefully play both games and Jonny Gray in the second row.
In Rugger I took Earls out for Sonny Bill but I liked Earls as a centre on the wing but think Bowe and Fitzgerald might get wing spots with Zebo at FB
Impossible to predict though so went with players already announced to start. Savea my captain in Rugger.
No Japanese players so as not to jinx them
I decided to remove my IT team. Don't have time for 3 fantasy games and the fact I messed up on my original line-up makes it pointless to play now. Would have needed 5 changes today and at least 2 or 3 extra ones before the week-end. So I'll have ended up with less than half my 20 tally for the finals. I actually do think it's very stupid and nonsensical not to dissociate Group phase and finals :rolleyes:.
For ESPN I made 5 changes (yeah I'm crazy !!! :pac:). Guirado out Ford in. Guirado is not on the teamsheet while Ford may feature twice (he started all 5 last 6 nations games). Dropped NZ Coles for Australia Kepu for the same reasons and also to accomodate SBW for now benched Kriel in the Centre (already had 3 NZers). Got Giteau for Joseph hoping he could feature in both games. Anyway Joseph could now miss the rest of the group stage. Also took a punt on Parra (for benched Pienaar).
Will see which Australian(s) to get for their game vs Uruguay when we'll know the teamsheet. Hopefully I don't need to change too many Irish players too (though I presume Sexton & POM will be benched).
For FR, I subbed in my 3 Scots (R. Gray - hopefully he comes in today and plays a big part of their USA game -, Wilson & Laidlaw) and transferred in 3 Australians, mainly for non playing players (Moore for Guirado, AAC for Mvovo & Giteau for Nonu).
Was all satisfied and then... realised I only had benched Woodcock for NZ for their Namibia game :eek:! So, made over(deadline)time panic moves (not even sure if they'll count or what - was able to make them and I can now see it costed me 30 pts - SBW has to have a blinder now :pac: - and that the trasnfer icon is greyed over... so maybe just maybe I got lucky here) to accomodate SBW in for Kriel.
But, thing is I didn't have the funds for this move and then realised I made a big mistake in getting a £65m Australian hooker (while I could have gotten a £25m Romanian one who also has 2 games). So, since I was £5m short I eventually replaced my non-featuring-on-today's-teamsheet £30m Romanian hooker for the £25m one who starts today (a typical knee-jerk pointless sideway move we'd call it in FPL :rolleyes: :pac:). Ah well, hopefully Turashvili will feature for Romania double round4 games now so that I can brag about my "great" strategy
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Feel exhausted now... And this week-end RWC & FPL will coincide. I need to duplicate myself :pac: !!!0 -
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Mr.Prodston wrote: »Should have captained him :pac:
2 tries but I'd give it all up for Kapan to have won
It's ridiculous they had to play SA and Scotland in 4 days though!!
Yeah unfortunately it's always the case with the minor nations. Think Tonga suffered from that too at the last WC and their defeat to Canade cost them finishing ahead of France in the Group stage. Though it'd probably have meant either England or Wales in the final, so from your Irish perspective it seems to be it wasn't too bad it was the Frenchies instead
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Ah right. I see you got ambitions. Good :cool:Mr.Prodston wrote: »I meant the overall standings. After all if we're aiming for top1k in FPL why not going for the title in ESPN ?!
So that makes me 61 pts behind first.
17th in the France league (out of 1071 teams) :cool: and 56 pts behind 1st.
Think they're working on it. You can actually suggest "improvements" to them. Received an e-mail where they listed a couple that had been suggested to them and on which they're working onMr.Prodston wrote: »Fantasy Rugger [...] I don't know if they've got overall standings?. I really like it. The salaries to manage, the exhaustive covering of all the rugby positions. Maybe they could change the deadlines like in ESPN & IT. They could still keep the 4 rounds but allow for daily deadlines (like in IT) and then it's up to you how you want to manage your transfers. 0 -
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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:...0 -
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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...0 -
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...
Fantasy Rugger sent out an email today saying the deadline was moved to Thursday afternoon so no panic 0 -
Oh really ?! Jeez I've had a narrow escape thereMr.Prodston wrote: »Fantasy Rugger sent out an email today saying the deadline was moved to Thursday afternoon so no panic... 0 -
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Well I logged in to the site and yeah it says Game 3 deadline: Oct 01, 2015, 8:00:00:PM.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.
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
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