Boards.ie Fantasy Euro 2016 - Irish Times Edition

F1ngers

As requested in other thread please discuss Irish Times FF here.

If you want to put your Boards name to the name in the table below, please do.

F1ngers - Eleven

Table as of last nights games:

siblers

Had 4 transfers left so brought in Ronaldo, Cesc, Alaba and Janko. Silva as captain today. I totally avoided players from Ireland's group, those games will be very hard to call.

F1ngers

Brought in and captained Zlatan.

What's the code to join the irish times one?

siblers

Boards.ie FSA Euro 2016

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Cartman78

Have teams in both competitions but favouring the Irish Times one as there is a much smaller number of people playing it and much better prizes :-)

Still not 100% sure on the exact workings of the transfers but will probably figure it out in a day or two.

Have Toby, Courtois and Hazard (C) in action later as well as Barzagli

siblers

I gave up on the official game, was too hard to keep track of both teams. Cesc, Morata and Silva let me down today, least I had Alba. All my transfers used now, have 3 left for tomorrow.

Cartman78

Dammit...double Belgian defence not looking too clever now.

Anyone know who got the assist for Italy??

F1ngers

Cartman78 wrote: »

Dammit...double Belgian defence not looking too clever now.

Anyone know who got the assist for Italy??

Bonocci.

How did Zlatan not get an assist?

F1ngers

Deleted User wrote: »

How did Zlatan not get an assist?

Rules are explained here: https://fantasyeuros.irishtimes.com/default.aspx?page=faq

F1ngers

Table after MD1:

siblers

That's a pretty huge lead to have so early on, that person will have a fair chance of winning the 3k prize.

scopsm

Is anyone having points issues, this always seems to happen with Silent Manager games?
I had an email yesterday from them with the game update 'Game Update for round 1'

Total Points:

60

Points Since Last Email:

31

Your Rank:

403

Today, I now have:


Round Points
22
Overall Points
53
Rank
1872 /7435


I should have 60 points + 22 points = 82 points
I suspect this could be to do with the fact that I changed formation in Round 1 from 4-5-1 to 4-4-2 which may have confused the game although according to the rules, this is supposed to be possible.
My team formation was 4-5-1. After the Croatia game finished and before the Poland-Northern Ireland game started, I wanted to bring in Lewandowski for my Croatian midfielder Rakitic. This involved changing formation to 4-4-2 to allow this.

Anyone else with points discrepancies after Round 1?

extra gravy

Got Kroos and Muller in for today. Tempted by Bale too have a feeling that could be a tight affair.

ForeverYoung90

Tomas Muller captain for toady. A 2 goal brace would do nicely

Trimm Trabb

Currently 300th - brought in Kane today which was a fail - was hoping Sturridge would start as I would have went for him instead.

Have Yarmelenko as captain as they are playing N.Ire and thought he would have chances - Looks like it will be an even game based on first 10 mins.

Trimm Trabb

If I make a change now for Germany- Poland will I get the points?

Or do transfers have to me made before the beginning of games each day?

siblers

This is probably useless to you now but it's prior to each kick off (I hope, seeing as I brought in two German players during the English game) so in this case you would have been able to.

Trimm Trabb

siblers wrote: »

This is probably useless to you now but it's prior to each kick off (I hope, seeing as I brought in two German players during the English game) so in this case you would have been able to.

Yep I changed it and seems this way.

One other question: is there any way to choose which player you sell when you change formation?

I want to to go to 4-3-3 from 3-4-3, and sell Yarmelenko from my midfield but they won't let me.. they keep automatically choosing Bale... seems to be a bug that there is way around.

extra gravy

Muller on the wing is turning out to be a useless captain choice again. Stick him up front to feck!

siblers

I think I might just delete my profile after tonight's game, it's starting to take the fun out of the euros.

I want to to go to 4-3-3 from 3-4-3, and sell Yarmelenko from my midfield but they won't let me.. they keep automatically choosing Bale... seems to be a bug that there is way around.

If you change the formation first on the top left, you should be able to do it then.

Trimm Trabb

siblers wrote: »

I think I might just delete my profile after tonight's game, it's starting to take the fun out of the euros.


If you change the formation first on the top left, you should be able to do it then.

Yeah I am doing that - it tells me I will lose players when From my current team if I change - and then just takes bale out and gives me a space in defence. When I try and change Bale back in for Yarmelenko it's counting it as a extra transfer.. Annoying!

scopsm

I changed my formation although you are supposed to be able to and I ended up losing 29 points as a result in Round 1 (I should have 60 points and now have 31 points). Changed from 4-5-1 to 4-4-2. Have emailed them but they are taking ages to investigate this.

carnie

I have one transfer left this round. I'm thinking about dropping Muller -> Nolito/Ronaldo

or maybe bringing in either Piqué or Jaunfran in the back

any thoughts?

siblers

Prob go with Alaba if you're picking a Spanish defender, bombs forward the whole time. so has a fair chance of getting an assist/goal

scopsm

I can't believe I am the only person experiencing issues when I change my formation.

I have now changed my formation again from 3-4-3 where Ibrahimovic was captain (but currently has 0 points but will have 4 points) so he is transferred out as expected and my formation is changed to 3-5-2 as I wanted and I bring in the midfielder I want.

(However, my other 2 strikers points are now set to 0 points when they had 2 and 6 respectively when I clicked on Save Team). So I expect to lose 10 points now as a result of this formation change.

Cartman78

Does anyone else get a security warning when trying to log in to the site??

Rapidly losing interest in this I have to say...already abandoned the other one.

The rules in this are so unclear....very frustrating if you were trying to take it anyway seriously

siblers

Have Morata(c) and Alba, need Cesc and Silva to do something now..actually a Morata hatrick gets 9 bonus points

extra gravy

My captaincy choices have been dreadful so far. Went with Silva over Morata.

F1ngers

Lukaku(C)

extra gravy

Argh Janko dropped. Alaba possibly playing at no. 10.

extra gravy

No Payet or Giroud for France tonight

Lloris, Jallet, Rami, Koscielny, Evra, Cabaye, Sissoko, Pogba, Griezmann, Gignac, Coman

siblers

Got a bit lucky there, I already have Lloris and Pogba so glad to see them start and Shakira stars too. Gonna be a bit tricky this week with players being rested etc.

Switzerland: Sommer, Lichtsteiner, Schär, Djourou, Rodríguez, Behrami, Xhaka, Džemaili, Mehmedi, Shaqiri, Embolo.

extra gravy

Ya I have KDB and will probably get Lukaku as well. Got rid of Ronaldo there and won't be getting him back, he's been a disaster.

Scorpion Sting

extra gravy wrote: »

No Payet or Giroud for France tonight

Lloris, Jallet, Rami, Koscielny, Evra, Cabaye, Sissoko, Pogba, Griezmann, Gignac, Coman

Sagna starts instead of Jallet.

siblers

Pogba been absolutley useless in terms of fantasy points. Will be getting rid of him for Hazard or KDB.

Trimm Trabb

scopsm wrote: »

I can't believe I am the only person experiencing issues when I change my formation.

I have now changed my formation again from 3-4-3 where Ibrahimovic was captain (but currently has 0 points but will have 4 points) so he is transferred out as expected and my formation is changed to 3-5-2 as I wanted and I bring in the midfielder I want.

(However, my other 2 strikers points are now set to 0 points when they had 2 and 6 respectively when I clicked on Save Team). So I expect to lose 10 points now as a result of this formation change.

Did they sort this out for you in the end?

My team just randomly went down about 20/30 points on Sunday and I hadn't changed anything - one minute I had 106 and was top of my work league and the next time I was down mid table with way less points.

I worked it out and I was meant to be on my original total (actually a couple of points more) so I mailed them but have had no response yet.

siblers

That better be a Muller assist

Trimm Trabb

siblers wrote: »

That better be a Muller assist

Should be - brought Muller in capatain and Gotze too - has been very frustrating to watch, should have had 3/4 goals.

extra gravy

extra gravy wrote: »

Got rid of Ronaldo there and won't be getting him back, he's been a disaster.

Well I'm glad I backtracked on this now!

siblers

Can I sell Shaqiri for someone yet to play in this round of games? I hate how badly this game is designed.

F1ngers

siblers wrote: »

Can I sell Shaqiri for someone yet to play in this round of games? I hate how badly this game is designed.

Yes.
Five transfers in round of 16.
Once transfer is made before match deadline.

ItsChecoTime

Bale not being given an assist is a bit frustrating

siblers

Changed my formation and it automatically transferred out Ozil for me and automatically deducted me a transfer.I wanted to get rid of Shaqiri for Gomez but wouldn't let me. ****ing game is stupid. Gonna email them but seems pointless.

Cartman78

Anyone else have Griezeman?? :-(

Trimm Trabb

Cartman78 wrote: »

Anyone else have Griezeman?? :-(

Had Griezman, captained Pogba though.

They mistakenly took 24 points off me last week, I emailed they said they would sort it but still haven't.

siblers

Gomez scores but the stupid game wouldn't let me sign, guess it getting rid of Ozil is good

Cartman78

How are people getting on with this overall?

I'm in the the top 500 without putting that much effort/thought into it tbh and not having internet access for 3 days last week :eek:

Have Alli, Morata and Alba in action tonight - messed up my transfers a bit this round so only had Carrasco for Belgium but it worked out in the end luckily.

ItsChecoTime

I was 52nd overall before yesterday, but Lloris, Coleman, Payet, Lukaku and Muller (c) all blanked so slipped back to 200th

extra gravy

I'm in the top 100 despite my captaincy calls not working out for the most part. Had Hazard and Griezmann yesterday but captained Muller. 1 transfer left today, will probably get Morata in and captain him.