FSA 2017 Fantasy Six Nations - Irish Times and ESPNscrum

Mr.Prodston

It's that time of year where the FSA embraces another sport for a few months.

Yes it's time for the Six Nations

There's the Irish Times and ESPNscrum leagues. Plus I'm sure Fantasy Rugger are going again this year too.

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ESPN League code: 1325826-43559

http://fantasyrugby.espn.co.uk/ESPN/en/5/clienthome.do

Irish Times:

FSA Boards.ie
Password: boards

https://fantasyrugby.irishtimes.com/default.aspx

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Now that's the admin out of the way it's time to pick our teams

iroced

Wanted to post about it but had no time for it lately. Thanks for opening the 2017 VI Nations campaign M.P .

After a promising Autumn International Test Series, let's (hope and) see the renaissance of Les Bleus à la Roger Federer this year .

A VI Nation starting with Le Crunch and finishing with France-Wales & Ireland-England (most probably championship-decider game(s)) is real exciting. Already drooling over it .

thewools

I'm in.. done rather well last season in the Irish Times competition.

Missing Links

Around this time of year I renew my interest in rugby and I ask myself the same question...who is the French kicker!

CJRonan2017

So this is my team

Brown (Eng)
H.Penny (Wales)
North (Wales)
Zebo (Ire)
Vakatawa (France)

Farrell (Eng) C
Murray (Ire)

Stander (Ire) - Picamoles (France) - Warburton (Wales) - Launchbury (Eng) - Henderson (Ire) - Lee (Wales) - Furlong (Ire) - Hartley (Eng)

What do ye think, I've left scotland and italy off completely. Going for max out try scorers. Any recommendations?

DJIMI TRARORE

Any one getting it difficult to use the IT site, quick pick on Wednesday,now can't use it

maximo31

DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »

Any one getting it difficult to use the IT site, quick pick on Wednesday,now can't use it

Same. Cant log on at all......

CJRonan2017

It's been brutal all day! Everyone is work getting there teams in before they had off for the weekend. check back at 6 and id say itll be grand

DJIMI TRARORE

CJRonan2017 wrote:

It's been brutal all day! Everyone is work getting there teams in before they had off for the weekend. check back at 6 and id say itll be grand

Same last night after 9

thomasm

Tried a few times now with no luck

Berty44

Took about 2 hours to pick my team on it today , kicked me off a few times, painfully slow.

thomasm

Try this one
http://fantasy.rbs6nations.com/index.php

blindpilot

Irish times one is running fine now. Guess it was overloaded with people picking their team earlier today.

iroced

Joined both :cool:.

Allez les Bleus!

Thanos

where is the save button on the Irish Times one???
Cannot find it for the life of me, team
picked but can't save


got it now...

Rikand

Didnt realise I had less than an hour to enter this on Irish Times site


(for anyone else who didnt realise)

L.S.F

Will sign up for the Irish Times one on my break in a hour

In the rbs fantasy one, does anyone know if you need a full squad (XV + 3 subs)? Sacrificing your last sub seems only logical as you can fit who you want into your starting XV.


Also I have a very lonely prediction league up on Superbru if anyone fancies joining? You predict winners and winning margin. Bonus for being exact, close and extra points to closest in pool as well.

http://www.superbru.com/sixnations/pool.php?p=11656673

Pool code: balifoxy

thewools

Can we sub players after they played like last year in the IT game.. I see 3 transfers available after 10 this morning..

L.S.F

Rikand wrote: »

Didnt realise I had less than an hour to enter this on Irish Times site


(for anyone else who didnt realise)

Cheers for the heads up, managed to get my team in. Don't know if they're all starting yet but I have 6 mill left over!

iroced

Rikand wrote: »

Didnt realise I had less than an hour to enter this on Irish Times site


(for anyone else who didnt realise)

Are you sure of that .

It tells me 3h 26min left right now....

thomasm

That's for game week 1 transfers

thomasm

Anyone know if Halfpenny is still on penalty's and conversions for Wales

thewools

thomasm wrote:

That's for game week 1 transfers

But there is another 3 transfers on Monday.. so can I use the first 3 after the ireland game? Have 18 players playing?

iroced

thomasm wrote: »

That's for game week 1 transfers

Ah yeah, forgot you can change your team during the GW...

Mr.Prodston

iroced wrote: »

Ah yeah, forgot you can change your team during the GW...

Which French players should we keeping an eye on this year?

iroced

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

Which French players should we keeping an eye on this year?

Baptiste Serin of course ! He has the flair. Remember his chistera pass for our try against New Zealand?

See at 0:16 :cool:

Lamerat at centre, Gourdon at back row are having promising starts under Novès. Then Vakatawa is special but you know him already.

thewools

iroced wrote:

Ah yeah, forgot you can change your team during the GW...

That's what I'm unsure about the rules are not very clear..

iroced

thewools wrote: »

That's what I'm unsure about the rules are not very clear..

I didn't check them this year but that's what we could do last year and during the WC too. Strange system IMO. Also I don't like the backs not being separarted between centres and outside backs (ESPN is better for that).

thewools

iroced wrote:

I didn't check them this year but that's what we could do last year and during the WC too. Strange system IMO. Also I don't like the backs not being separarted between centres and outside backs (ESPN is better for that).

Found this:

Can I transfer players between games?

No, all transfers must be made by the published start time of the first match of the weekend, then teams will enter a transfer lockdown period until that Sunday at 23:59PM where you will be allocated your weekly transfers.

Berty44

Yep changed from last year. Went to do a transfer there now but "trade lockdown" in place so different from last year

thewools

Berty44 wrote:

Yep changed from last year. Went to do a transfer there now but "trade lockdown" in place so different from last year

Cheers

Missing Links

I note with horror that I (Backwoodsman) somehow have 2 teams in the ESPN league!!Could the higher scoring one be deleted.There are players on it that I never heard of let alone selected.Though I see now that the rules allow one to have 2 teams...must have been an auto-select of some sort!!

DJIMI TRARORE

WTF no points for Huw Jones sco,or nathan hughes eng, something not adding up in IT game

thewools

DJIMI TRARORE wrote:

WTF no points for Huw Jones sco,or nathan hughes eng, something not adding up in IT game

Hughes only got 4 tackles, missed two tackles and lost the ball once.. the issued tackles and turnover are negative points.. I assume the same for the others

iroced

4th in the ESPN and second last in the IT... IT is plain ridiculous with the positions though. I should have read the rules... Forgot how it really worked and did not select my players wisely. Ah well. Some remontada to make now :pac:.

Most importantly, allez les Bleus! We're getting closer .

Garthvader

Am I missing something with the IT game?
The league standings I looked at on Monday afternoon have now changed substantially with the awarding of loads of points to different players... It says all points will be awarded within 4 hours of the match finishing?
Anyone know whats going on?

Berty44

Not a clue. I looked on Sunday night and Gary Ringrose only had two points and I was 4th in the league. I looked there now and he had 19pts I was am actually in 1st !

thewools

Ye they made a balls of it.. all the scores changed between Monday and Tuesday

Boots234

The points seem to have changed again on the IT game, no idea how they are counting the scores

Rikand

How are we going on this ?

thewools

Rikand wrote:

How are we going on this ?

Doing well in the IT game.. second in the Boards League but more importantly I'm winning my work league (cash prize)