fantasy premier league draft

unplayable

sorry this prob gets asked every year but does anyone know the best site for doing a proper draft style league with 4/5 teams.

so only 1 team could have rooney etc.

found draftepl.com but not sure how realiable it is.

any suggestions would be great.

thanks.

8-10

unplayable wrote: »

sorry this prob gets asked every year but does anyone know the best site for doing a proper draft style league with 4/5 teams.

so only 1 team could have rooney etc.

found draftepl.com but not sure how realiable it is.

any suggestions would be great.

thanks.

I had great intentions of setting one up here last year but didn't have the time in the end. Would be a great idea and way better as a format

manual_man

unplayable wrote: »

sorry this prob gets asked every year but does anyone know the best site for doing a proper draft style league with 4/5 teams.

so only 1 team could have rooney etc.

found draftepl.com but not sure how realiable it is.

any suggestions would be great.

thanks.

www.fantasyleague.com

manual_man

P.S. a chap on here ran one before on that site (think it was for Euro 2012), bit of fun(reminded me of my first foray into fantasy football when as kids we used to write down our bids on sheets of paper from one of the early newspaper incarnations of fantasy football! (good memories)

would be interested again if someone set a league up!

JokerD

There's a site called fantrax too that do it for free. I won't have the time to organise one but if anyone is setting one up then I'll be interested in joining.

Shedite27

We did one between some friends last year. Was ruined by the lad who had Suarez - just ran away with it.

We used the regular ff website.
We did a draft first day live over gmail messenger.
Then every week had our transfers in reverse order of the finishing positions the week before.
Bit of a pain having to manage two teams, a draft team and a regular team

L.S.F

I set up one on excel with my mates and on a different forum for the world cup. Good craic, won a few bob in it too . It was pick 15 players and you select your starting XI each gameweek and subs came in if a player didn't play. Done a mini draft after the group stages as well.
Had our own scoring system as well so different bonus points for certain things.
Was thinking of doing similar for the forthcoming season but not sure how to work out trades really and knowing my mates if some were doing bad they would swap great players for **** ones between two of them. Also it would be tough to sort of prize money, waiting 10 months for a hundred or so quid is quite long and people lose interest.
I could set one up here if the other options don't come through if there is interest but would need another person to help fill in the scores each match (would prob just take them from the main PL site). Had 8 players in one draft and 12 in the other and everything worked out ok for the world cup.

manual_man

Anybody fancy setting up an Auction on this

www.fantasyleague.com

Copper_pipe

manual_man wrote: »

Anybody fancy setting up an Auction on this

www.fantasyleague.com

I'll set it up sure. It'll be done before the night is out.

manual_man

Copper_pipe wrote: »

I'll set it up sure. It'll be done before the night is out.

Good man. The auction is always fun, deciding how much to bid for who and trying to figure out how your opponents will bid ha. I see it's customisable how many entrants to have in the league. How many do you think would be a good number? 6 maybe?

8-10

manual_man wrote: »

Good man. The auction is always fun, deciding how much to bid for who and trying to figure out how your opponents will bid ha. I see it's customisable how many entrants to have in the league. How many do you think would be a good number? 6 maybe?

10 I'd say. Deeper leagues are more interesting.

Also, that means I'm interested in joining if spots are up for grabs!

manual_man

8-10 wrote: »

10 I'd say. Deeper leagues are more interesting.

Also, that means I'm interested in joining if spots are up for grabs!

10 is really pushing it though if you want to have even semi-decent squads among the entrants... no one's gonna keep interest if half your team is filled up with Yannick Bolasie's

8-10

manual_man wrote: »

10 is really pushing it though if you want to have even semi-decent squads among the entrants... no one's gonna keep interest if half your team is filled up with Yannick Bolasie's

Depends on the squad sizes. If it's 15 like FPL then 6 teams means only 90 players get drafted, only the top 18 strikers so not even averaging a striker per EPL team. Way too little I reckon. There were over 500 players who made appearances in the league last year. Obviously we can't use all of them but 10 teams would at least mean 150 would get taken.

I'd personally prefer to go even deeper than that and draft at least 220 players but it would require people to have decent knowledge of all 20 teams. That's where it's interesting though I reckon. Every team shouldn't be perfect, there should be some players on each team that the team owner is taking a chance on. Otherwise what you'll find is that some really good performers will have been undrafted.

Just for reference, below are a list of players who were not in the top 90 players in the game last year in terms of points scored, however I think it's a good indication of how shallow a draft league of 90 players really is as some of these players would have been useful in teams last year. I think it's crazy to limit the pool so much.

Adebayor
Debuchy
Vlaar
Soldado
Navas
Schurrle
Long
Clyne
O'Shea
Borini
Pieters
Kyle Walker
Adrian
Walters
Coloccini
Vertonghen
Ki

....and I could go on. These guys are not Yannick Bolasie!

Copper_pipe

We have to agree on a number of entrants. Then I have to send an invite each person, (i'll need yere email)

8-10

Copper_pipe wrote: »

We have to agree on a number of entrants. Then I have to send an invite each person, (i'll need yere email)

I'm happy for you to decide since you're taking the time to set it up. I'm very familiar with auction-league's from fantasy baseball so I know what I like But in those leagues it's always the league commissioner who sets the rules.

Will send you my email via PM. Looking forward to it (even if it's only 6 entrants I promise!)

Edit: Maybe not! Copper_pipe has exceeded their stored private messages quota and cannot accept further messages until they clear some space.

manual_man

Cool well i'd favor a 6 entrant format (maybe 7, at a push! :P ) but whatever the consensus is let's just go with that. @Copper Pipe you're one popular man how many women have you got on the go in that inbox :P:P:P

Lemlin

8-10 wrote: »

Depends on the squad sizes. If it's 15 like FPL then 6 teams means only 90 players get drafted, only the top 18 strikers so not even averaging a striker per EPL team. Way too little I reckon. There were over 500 players who made appearances in the league last year. Obviously we can't use all of them but 10 teams would at least mean 150 would get taken.

I'd personally prefer to go even deeper than that and draft at least 220 players but it would require people to have decent knowledge of all 20 teams. That's where it's interesting though I reckon. Every team shouldn't be perfect, there should be some players on each team that the team owner is taking a chance on. Otherwise what you'll find is that some really good performers will have been undrafted.

Just for reference, below are a list of players who were not in the top 90 players in the game last year in terms of points scored, however I think it's a good indication of how shallow a draft league of 90 players really is as some of these players would have been useful in teams last year. I think it's crazy to limit the pool so much.

Adebayor
Debuchy
Vlaar
Soldado
Navas
Schurrle
Long
Clyne
O'Shea
Borini
Pieters
Kyle Walker
Adrian
Walters
Coloccini
Vertonghen
Ki

....and I could go on. These guys are not Yannick Bolasie!

I was laughing watching Sky Sports News last night. Yannick Bolasie was in the top 5/6 for completed dribbles in the PL last season!

Copper_pipe

6 entrants in total so including myself. So lads feel free to send on yere emails , I've cleared the space for the PM's

Mr.Prodston

I'm slightly intrigued by this but what exactly does it involve?

I'm happy to have a merry band of misfits, who achieve highly despite the odds but ultimately it comes down to the final day where something dramatic happens. Most likely the big boys look like winning and then the unsung hero scores 2 goals in the last 10 minutes to achieve an unlikely victory. He gets the girl and gets an offer to move to move to the national champions yet sticks with his hometown club.

Where do I sign up :pac:

Copper_pipe

3 spots left. Just PM me your email and I'll invite you to the league later on

L.S.F

Copper_pipe wrote: »

3 spots left. Just PM me your email and I'll invite you to the league later on

PM Sent

Copper_pipe

2 spots left

flugel

Could work ..?

http://draftfantasyfootball.co.uk/

manual_man

Did we get the last 2 remaining spots filled?

Copper_pipe

Not yet, Still 2 spots left lads!

PARlance

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Not yet, Still 2 spots left lads!

Oh go on so, PM

Copper_pipe

1 spot left!

Mr.Prodston

Grand I'll PM you now

Baa

Copper_pipe

Will we go the auction draft route or the NFL style draft route?

PARlance

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Will we go the auction draft route or the NFL style draft route?

Are both idiot proof???

manual_man

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Will we go the auction draft route or the NFL style draft route?

Not sure the difference

?

Copper_pipe

Id say the Auction one will be a lot quicker to get sorted

Mr.Prodston

Thats a very good question, I'll let you choose :pac:

PARlance

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

Thats a very good question, I'll let you choose :pac:

The "idiot" was plural

Mr.Prodston

PARlance wrote: »

The "idiot" was plural

I presumed it was

Maybe we can use my old ban hammer as the auction person's hammer thing

Mr.Prodston

I've also watched the first 2 seasons of The League last year so maybe I should pick that up again :cool:

Copper_pipe

Trying to send out the invites but it doesnt like Manual_Mans email :pac: I'll send out the emails manually with the sign up code now

Mr.Prodston

Signed up and joined now Mr. Chairman

manual_man

I'm in

Hamburger F.C.:cool:

Mr.Prodston

Let's all go to lobby

Mr.Prodston

I presume this is free?

manual_man

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

I presume this is free?

It's actually a bit difficult to tell. It mentions a premium package and a 'FREE Auction Taster' option

Mr.Prodston

I'm beginning to think this might cost money :eek:

If it does then I'll be dropping out I'm sorry to say

Copper_pipe

I think its free, If not I may draw a halt to it

8-10

just a chatroom would work if it's only 6 people. If it's an auction draft instead of a snake draft then there's less of a need for a time-limit on picks.

manual_man

A lad on here (can't remember who, for the life of me) ran one on the same site for Euro 2012, there definitely wasn't any charge for that, i remember that much!

I'm considering it free until told otherwise :P

Mr.Prodston

I'm beginning to suspect that we get to have the auction "free" and then the standard price is £27. I could be wrong but they're being too deliberately unclear for my liking.

Copper_pipe

manual_man wrote: »

A lad on here (can't remember who, for the life of me) ran one on the same site for Euro 2012, there definitely wasn't any charge for that, i remember that much!

I'm considering it free until told otherwise :P

I was in the euro 2012 one too, The username Munster Magic popped into my head and a quick search verified that :cool:

Mr.Prodston

Flugel posted earlier in the thread this site http://draftfantasyfootball.co.uk/ which appears to be totally free so we could have a back up in this.

8-10

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

Flugel posted earlier in the thread this site http://draftfantasyfootball.co.uk/ which appears to be totally free so we could have a back up in this.

That's a standard draft not an auction though

PARlance

I'm in.
AuctionBaby