Fantasy Race to Dubai 2013 European Tour

Beaulieu

I've just set up a league for this called:

Boards.ie2013

PIN: 3516

for those interested in joining.

paulos53

I have joined up

Beaulieu

We've had a number of new entrants to this -bit of craic & no budget constraints involved -just pick 10 players each week & hey presto...1st week starts tomorrow so get your skates on if you want to join before Week 1.
You can always join later if that suits also

Fritzl Funderland

cheers!

blackwaterfish

Im in!

waahoo!

But more teams needed.. Currently only 8 teams entered

Fritzl Funderland

actually what website do i go to, to join this?

Fritzl Funderland

actually the clue is in the name!

Tykegolfer

Thanks, I will be in, Athlone Acker is the team name....

chin nuts

Lovely stuff hopefully we far a few more

PARlance

That's me in too

Beaulieu

Thanks to everybody who entered...14 teams so far but you can enter at any time.

The link is http://fantasyrace.europeantour.com/

Really simple & you're prompted as to who is & who isn't playing that week. Unlimited changes & none of the usual budget constraint stuff.

League Name : Boards.ie2013

PIN: 3516

charlieIRL

i'll stick a team in it later on as well

Beaulieu

charlieIRL wrote: »

i'll stick a team in it later on as well

Great..we need some more heavy hitters :D

RikkFlair

If I enter a team now will the points won this week not count? I picked a team weeks ago but kind of forgot about it and didnt join any leagues.

Beaulieu

RikkFlair wrote: »

If I enter a team now will the points won this week not count? I picked a team weeks ago but kind of forgot about it and didnt join any leagues.

If the team was registered before the close for this week then you should be ok (I think). In any event join up as the more the merrier:). Its a long season ahead so a week here or there isnt going to make a big difference

Beaulieu

Bump...we have 19 so far in this league. Should make for an interesting golfing year. This looks like a hassle free fantasy league and the overall prizes are good also.

coco_83

New to Boards and have signed up for the league!

Beaulieu

coco_83 wrote: »

New to Boards and have signed up for the league!

Welcome -the Golf thread is excellent. Fantasy league now has 21 in it

FortuneChip

Count me in!!!
I was struggling to find a private league!

TRS30

Just joined so no points for this week.

Playing catch up already!

delaney_p

Just signed up. Missed the deadline. Had picked Donaldson before I saw the cut in Abu dabhai. Ah we'll. hope he keeps playing well.

coco_83

some score from jedward this week!! doubt i'm gonna have to have a bit of a clear out from my team!!!

Beaulieu

Rambo's Rascals leads the way with an impressive €841.3k after Round 1. Having the winner and both of the joint runners-up does help a little!!

We have 30 in the league now and a reminder to everyone that Qatar Masters starts this Wednesday so make sure you make your changes prior to then.;)

I had a look at the prizes on the website -not bad at all.

It's a long season so if you havent yet joined -no worrries (we have had 10 additions since start of play last week) but you are very welcome to come on board.

Tykegolfer

The prizes are very good, I can personally vouch for that. I was at Carton House on Friday for a fitting as I got lucky in Fantasy 2012 and won a set of irons and a bag!

Beaulieu

Results for Week 2 (Qatar Masters) are in (eventually:rolleyes::rolleyes: - took European tour website ages to update)..

We have 34 teams entered now:):)

Weekly winner: Declan Basquille from Strandhill GC who earned €510.7k this week.

Overall leader: Jedward's Rambo Rascals with €1.009m with Paulos_Cork lying in 2nd place (boy) with €943.7k.

Next week is in Dubai with a similar prize pool to this week. Don't forget to submit your (unlimited) team changes before first group tees off on Thursday.
As ever feel free to join up at any stage as its €'s for points so the real shake-up will happen once the WGC and Majors come around.

VikingG

Just saw this and added my team.....

thanks alot

Macker1

Beaulieu wrote: »

I've just set up a league for this called:

Boards.ie2013

PIN: 3516

for those interested in joining.

I joined up a few weeks ago so looking forward to the fun

Seve OB

Wow looks popular this year. I think there were only a handful of teams in the boards league last year. I was doing well for a while then half way through, I missed a few weeks then didn't bother anymore.

Great to see you can have unlimited changes this year, should make it a bit different.

I'm gonna join the league now, cheating a bit as I just signed up a new team on my home email and already had one going on my work one! I would have merged the accounts if I could, but European tour doesn't seem to allow you do that.

Anyway, best of luck everyone, hope we get a few big winners from our league

Beaulieu

The Boards.ie league has 40 members now !
Best of luck to all this week - entries close (for week 3 ) at around 3am thurs morning for Dubai Desert Classic.

dublindan13

Just joined in, good luck all!

Seve OB

Beaulieu wrote: »

The Boards.ie league has 40 members now !
Best of luck to all this week - entries close (for week 3 ) at around 3am thurs morning for Dubai Desert Classic.

I just clicked on the League and only 20 members showing up in the list. My name isn't there, but I presume thats because I only joined last night

RikkFlair

I was doing so well after week 1, forgot to change my team for week 2 :rolleyes:

I can see that happening a lot this year

Beaulieu

stevieob wrote: »

I just clicked on the League and only 20 members showing up in the list. My name isn't there, but I presume thats because I only joined last night

My screen shows 40 teams stevieob. A fair few have joined this week but we've had more than 20 for a good while now. Send me a PM if you still are encountering problems.

dublindan13

Good start this week!

Jamieson -7, Casey -6, Westwood Donaldson and Siem -5, Wood and Olesen -4, Cabrera Bello and Garcia -3 and my worst Bjorn -2!

Hopefully push up into top ten

TRS30

dublindan13 wrote: »

Good start this week!

Jamieson -7, Casey -6, Westwood Donaldson and Siem -5, Wood and Olesen -4, Cabrera Bello and Garcia -3 and my worst Bjorn -2!

Hopefully push up into top ten

My heart over head pick (Lowry) is letting me down at the moment........

PARlance

dublindan13 wrote: »

Good start this week!

Jamieson -7, Casey -6, Westwood Donaldson and Siem -5, Wood and Olesen -4, Cabrera Bello and Garcia -3 and my worst Bjorn -2!

Hopefully push up into top ten

Is there a section that tracks how your 10 are doing on the leader board?
Ala a Fantasy Football type Points section were you can monitor how the are progressing during the game week?
Have had a look around and can't find anything.

Beaulieu

ajcurry123 wrote: »

Is there a section that tracks how your 10 are doing on the leader board?
Ala a Fantasy Football type Points section were you can monitor how the are progressing during the game week?
Have had a look around and can't find anything.

Not within the game but if you click the flag to the left of each player' on your team on the Leaderboard on the ET site it acts as a "Sticky" for that tournament so you can check it throughout the 4 days.

PARlance

Beaulieu wrote: »

Not within the game but if you click the flag to the left of each player' on your team on the Leaderboard on the ET site it acts as a "Sticky" for that tournament so you can check it throughout the 4 days.

Thanks Beaulieu, that's what I've done, was hoping there would be a quicker way around it.

I can see myself loosing a bit of interest in this, my first year doing it but it's almost as if they give you too much choice.
I'd prefer if you had to pick/commit to a core of 6-7 players that would have to remain constant over a specific time period (say, next 5 tournaments or so) and then pick and choose the 3-4 subs per week.

Reviewing each tournament and picking 10 players each week is a fair bit of work if you're taking it seriously.

....What am I complaining about, it's a free game after all :D

Beaulieu

dublindan13 wrote: »

Good start this week!

Jamieson -7, Casey -6, Westwood Donaldson and Siem -5, Wood and Olesen -4, Cabrera Bello and Garcia -3 and my worst Bjorn -2!

Hopefully push up into top ten

Congrats...can't beat a bit of deer-antler spray eh:D:D:D

Seve OB

ajcurry123 wrote: »

Thanks Beaulieu, that's what I've done, was hoping there would be a quicker way around it.

I can see myself loosing a bit of interest in this, my first year doing it but it's almost as if they give you too much choice.
I'd prefer if you had to pick/commit to a core of 6-7 players that would have to remain constant over a specific time period (say, next 5 tournaments or so) and then pick and choose the 3-4 subs per week.

Reviewing each tournament and picking 10 players each week is a fair bit of work if you're taking it seriously.

....What am I complaining about, it's a free game after all :D

It used to be that you had to pick 15 and you had 5 changes per week. So you had to be strategic to try and look ahead to the following weeks to make sure your whole 15 would be playing. It is much much easier now.

Beaulieu

Results for Week 3 (Dubai Desert Classic) are in ..

We have 40 teams entered now

Weekly winner: Colm Burke's Tullamore GC Terriers who earned €526.4k this week.

Overall leader: Dan Lewis' On my way to Dubai €1.534m with Niall Shanahan lying in 2nd place €1.33m. Dan's team are 181th overall out of over 15000 teams in the competition.

Next week is in Jo'burg with a prize pool of €1.3m. Don't forget to submit your (unlimited) team changes before first group tees off on Thursday.

As ever feel free to join up at any stage as its €'s for points so the real shake-up will happen once the WGC and Majors come around

dublindan13

Very average week in the end after a promising start, bit annoyed because I'd strongly considered Gallacher! Ah well, only dropped 90 places and still hanging in the top 200!

Seve OB

dublindan13 wrote: »

bit annoyed because I'd strongly considered Gallacher!

Snap, but very happy with my weeks performance all the same, just a shame that I hadn't picked a team for the first few events... Ah well, off now to pick my team for Jo'berg and see if I can climb any further up that ladder

TRS30

dublindan13 wrote: »

Very average week in the end after a promising start, bit annoyed because I'd strongly considered Gallacher! Ah well, only dropped 90 places and still hanging in the top 200!

stevieob wrote: »

Snap, but very happy with my weeks performance all the same, just a shame that I hadn't picked a team for the first few events... Ah well, off now to pick my team for Jo'berg and see if I can climb any further up that ladder

Out of interest how do you guys select your team?

I look at guys who have been in form the last few weeks (never pick the winner from the previous week) don't really worry about the course, i.e long course pick long hitters etc.

dublindan13

For me it's recent form, and who did well in the event last year tbh. Also take tips from local golf pro who I play poker with.

Oh and obviously I look at odds.

TRS30

dublindan13 wrote: »

For me it's recent form, and who did well in the event last year tbh. Also take tips from local golf pro who I play poker with.

Oh and obviously I look at odds.

Good point about last years event. Will add that to my strategy

dublindan13

TRS30 wrote: »

Good point about last years event. Will add that to my strategy

Good luck. Chucking a load of South Africans in too

PARlance

dublindan13 wrote: »

Good luck. Chucking a load of South Africans in too

Only the 6 for me (It was higher)

dublindan13

ajcurry123 wrote: »

Only the 6 for me (It was higher)

Beat you by one

Provisional:
Grace, Schwartzel, Coetzee, Kruger, Sterne, Aiken, Van Der Walt

Non-SAF: Willett, Warren, Rock.

Having a little on Coetzee and Kruger e/w too.

PARlance

dublindan13 wrote: »

Beat you by one

Provisional:
Grace, Schwartzel, Coetzee, Kruger, Sterne, Aiken, Van Der Walt

Non-SAF: Willett, Warren, Rock.

Having a little on Coetzee and Kruger e/w too.

Now, don't be giving it away... There's a pretty good (90%) chance I'll be close to you in points this week

*off I go to create a team with no SAFAs*

dublindan13

I'm winning, I'd be delighted if I'm copied

I think choices this week are fairly standard anyway!