SoSH Fantasy EPL 2013/14

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DJnVa

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Dec 16, 2010
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NHbeau said:
Bit of a humble brag here. Have brought my team from 48th to 22nd in 4 weeks with some smart transfers, a change of approach to who plays and unmercifully flogging Suarez as my captain. Overall I am having a bunch of fun with this and I feel I am doing pretty well for my first time. 
 
I'm slowly getting better. Not at that pace though.
 
Moved Suarez to captain and grabbed Adebayor when AVB was let go. Unfortunately I had Leighton Baines on the bench today though.
 

Bailey10

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Been a fun season of fantasy boys. Congrats to coremiller for sealing up the title many weeks ago. Only interesting subplot on the last day is that 4 teams are separated by less than 40 points between 2nd and 5th. Looks like someone is about to pull a Tottenham and tragically miss out on that prized 4th place trophy.
 
Edit: League table too screwed when pasted into the post
 

coremiller

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Bailey10 said:
Been a fun season of fantasy boys. Congrats to coremiller for sealing up the title many weeks ago. Only interesting subplot on the last day is that 4 teams are separated by less than 40 points between 2nd and 5th. Looks like someone is about to pull a Tottenham and tragically miss out on that prized 4th place trophy.
 
Edit: League table too screwed when pasted into the post
 
Obligatory brag post to celebrate my dominant season.  Fun year everyone, wish y'all better (but not too much better) luck next year.
 

OCST

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This was a lot of fun.
 
I made way, way too many transfers - I was -8 or -12 almost every week - and once it became clear that I was stuck somewhere around 20th, I started trying increasingly desperate lineups to see if I could catch lightning in a bottle (by picking someone other than Suarez as captain), and failing miserably.
 
As a relative noob, I learned a lot.  It's amazing how hard it is for a player to stay in top form throughout the entire season - so many guys had brief periods of dominance but were not able to sustain it.  Makes you realize just how good guys like Suarez and Yaya Toure are.
 
I'm looking forward to doing it again.
 

cjdmadcow

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OilCanShotTupac said:
It's amazing how hard it is for a player to stay in top form throughout the entire season - so many guys had brief periods of dominance but were not able to sustain it.  Makes you realize just how good guys like Suarez and Yaya Toure are.
 
 
 
And therein lies the key to winning...identifying the correct players as they come into form and then having the sense to dispose of them just before they lose it.
 
Not that I'm any good at it...scraped into the top 10 on the final day and finished with my biggest season points haul in all the years I've been playing this.
 
Congrats to coremiller, an impressive performance.
 

SoxFanInPdx

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This was my first time ever doing this. Finished at #14 and I'll take that for being a newbie. I was too stubborn to drop Hazard and it cost me. Hate Mourinho for messing with my fantasy team too. 
 

PedroSpecialK

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Dec 12, 2004
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First time doing this and keeping track week in and week out (for the most part).
 
I was bottom of the table in December, took the wild card, and got as high as #13 I believe before scuffling to a #25 finish. Pinning my hopes to Mignolet and sticking with him because of the early 1-0 victories was maybe the dumbest line of thinking I've ever had.
 

DJnVa

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OilCanShotTupac said:
This was a lot of fun.
 
I made way, way too many transfers - I was -8 or -12 almost every week - and once it became clear that I was stuck somewhere around 20th, I started trying increasingly desperate lineups to see if I could catch lightning in a bottle (by picking someone other than Suarez as captain), and failing miserably.
 
 
Spend a few weeks with your initial team before making any transfers, then take advantage of that free transfer window to make wholesale changes, and then, burn a week where it costs you 10 or so points to get that stable squad. After that, I would make a transfer or 2 a week based on matchups or teams that had multiple games. Spend the absolute minimum on a backup keeper.
 
I made a pretty good climb this year, but was simply too far back at the beginning. Had Sturridge early, grabbed Suarez after a few weeks, and grabbed Adebayor when AVB was sent away. I rotated my captaincy among those guys most of the year.
 

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Sunny von Bulow
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DrewDawg said:
 
Spend a few weeks with your initial team before making any transfers, then take advantage of that free transfer window to make wholesale changes, and then, burn a week where it costs you 10 or so points to get that stable squad. After that, I would make a transfer or 2 a week based on matchups or teams that had multiple games. Spend the absolute minimum on a backup keeper.
 
I made a pretty good climb this year, but was simply too far back at the beginning. Had Sturridge early, grabbed Suarez after a few weeks, and grabbed Adebayor when AVB was sent away. I rotated my captaincy among those guys most of the year.
 
I found it useful to have a defender and a midfielder at the bare minimum, so as to give me a little more cash to spend on good players, even though those two guys would never play.
 

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Sunny von Bulow
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Are we doing this again? I really enjoyed it, and as a noob, it really helped me learn more about the game.
 

DJnVa

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wibi said:
Im interested in doing this if there are openings
 
There's no limit--it's a salary cap type thing where every team has access to all the players.
 

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Sunny von Bulow
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DrewDawg said:
 
There's no limit--it's a salary cap type thing where every team has access to all the players.
 
To expand on this, there is no draft and there are no trades.  Every team has a certain sum of money to spend on a full roster of players, whose prices are set by the league (and go up and down depending on their performances).   You have to have your 15 guys within the 100 million pounds, and of course you can't afford a great player at every position, you need depth, etc. You can add/drop guys, but there are limits on transactions (you can exceed the limits but get docked points if you do).  There is no limit on how may teams in the league can own one player - at one point last year pretty much everyone had Suarez, because he was so hot that you wouldn't keep pace if you didn't have him.
 
That means there's no upper limit on how many people can play in a league.  For fun, you're also ranked every week against all other USA players, and all other world players (2.7M, IIRC from last year).
 
It's lots of fun.
 

DJnVa

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There's also a big tourney where you get paired against a random player elsewhere, but not someone in your league--and if you win you can continue to advance along in that "tourney
 as well.
 
So, the SoSH league is a total points type of thing, but the additional tourney is a head to head weekly thing.
 
Here's a quick tip---use the free unlimited transfer week to clean your team out when you can, and if you need to, bite the bullet on losing some points if you have dead weight. If everyone else has that striker getting big points and you don't, it's worth eating the point penalty to grab him if you need to.
 
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