Oink

The time is here again for fantasy league football. I thought I'd get it ready early to give everyone a chance to get their teams in and make some considered picks.

Here's the link: BE Fantasy League

The league is called British Expats - Maple Leaf. Everyone is welcome whether you are a regular, lurker or newbie. Once you've followed the link, you'll have to register, create a team and then join the BE league. Go on, don't be a poof, have a go.

Code to join this league: 24099-8586

Good luck all those that join.

Greenhill

I'm in (and what a great activity to spend my cave time on this evening)

cheeky_monkey

Wow this is so 1990s..id much prefer a weekly prediction league where you predict the results for the upcoming fixtures and are awarded points on your predictions which are then put into a league table of participants.

JamesM

You sound like a man with alot of time on your hands.

if you build the spreadsheet I'll happily send you predictions.

JamesM

I'll add the head to head style league this year as well.

Spice things up a bit.

cheeky_monkey

ive got staff to do things like that

London Mike

Two in a row!

nldfc

Got a good feeling about my team already

Oink

Greenhill

Looks like the challenge for me this year is deciding which world class player(s) to choose from the big teams with a bloated midfield, versus the cheaper, reliable, "grafters" who typically start most matches.

So, I'm obviously grateful that I'm not Brendan Rodgers, then.

DaveLovesDee

It lloks like players aren't as good value for money this year, as I've only managed to afford one marquee player this year instead of the 3 I started with last year. It hasn't helped that the core of my squad all had a decent season.

Greenhill

Yeah, something doesn't seem quite right.

I think it might be to do with the sell on fees. Say, you bought a player at the start of last season for 10m then sold him later in the season for 11m - you'd only get 10.5m for the sale.

So, although the player appears to have gone up in value by 10%, you'd only see 5% of it. That's a drain on the economy, which is all well and good when the economy has functional trading. Now that we have a new season, the economy has been reset (i.e. sum of 100m per entrant) but with inflated player prices that have the non-drained full 100% of price rise since the beginning of last season, rather than 50% that takes into account of the sell-on fee. And that's my feeling too - that many of them are a little bit more expensive than they should be.

Anyway, back off to the yard for more beer and power tool action

And Torres for 10m? F*** that.

JamesM

I have just registered.

As mentioned here is a code for a head to head league as well.

486933-126795

The difference being each week you are given points depending on if you outscore the person you are facing in the head to head.

mrtomsterman

I have joined

Greenhill

Less than a week left before the season starts!