The Times Fantasy Football

Looks like one of the best online Fantasy Football Leagues

Have a look, throw in a team...

The Times Fantasy Football Leagues

You basically have to rank Premiership players in order of how good you think they are. THEN.. just before the start of the season all our teams will be created according to our rankings. ie. Only one player can have Fernando Torrest etc.

I am aware we have another 'proper' league up and running - but if players want to join this one then sign up to the site.  Our League name is LFC REDS.COM but you will need to PM me for the password to join. There are only spaces for 20 teams so don't delay.

The winner will get a special forum award under their avatar.

All Players will be Allocated to teams on the 9th August 2007 (BEFORE the first game!)

As The Times is my regular league, I'll definitely be tagging along.
Haven't got time to sort it out tonight, but I'll have a fiddle around with a team over the next couple of days.

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Ooh, it's gone all different! No picking teams yet! Intriguing!
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It's very very different indeed.

Wonder who is going to get Stevie G...!

Thinking about it, it's not that surprising that they've had a shuffle around this year.
Last season there was one player who had 17 teams in the top 20 and he also had 9 in the top 10 - netting the vast majority of the cash prizes.
I'm actually glad they've changed it even though I think my final position last season was just outside the top 1000 - The league was getting very samey, with the only big change last year being allowed 4 transfers per week.
Looks like this could add quite a bit of spice!

Wonder who is going to get Stevie G...!

You can have him, if I can have Carragher...

Very different. Very interesting.

I've only rated two players so far. Will go back to it when I can be bothered to search through that list!

Did anyone feel slighty offended to see who was top of the list? Or did we just get different lists and I was the unfortunate one....?

Watch out for mrtommo's scum free X1.
Slow starters but watch them go 

I've ranked Gary Mongo bottom of the listings.

I have played the Times FF for a few years & this looks like an interesting twist...I'm in, Bosmia FC

Big changes here...here's the FAQ for lazy so & so's :

http://playthegame.timesonline.co.uk/soccer/help/faq.asp

Blimey transfers between players in leagues allowed too...this is looking promising...

^{Once 2 Teams agree to a transfer, it will be under "review" for 48 hrs. All transfers must be approved by at least 50% of the Teams in the League (calculated without reference to the proposing and accepting Teams). Remaining entrants will have 48 hours to vote on the proposed transfer. If any entrant chooses not to vote, this will be considered an "accept transfer" vote. The Promoter/Times Online reserves the right but has no obligation to monitor disputes between entrants. Votes are final - you can't change your mind after voting.}

anything for last place JD? Wooden spoon?!

SIDE NOTE: I will be following all things fantasy football on my blog this season...

Posts so far:

http://sweetflag.wordpress.com/2007/07/26/play-the-game-fantasy-football-in-its-prime/
http://sweetflag.wordpress.com/2007/08/02/ranking-your-fantasy-players-play-the-game-update/
http://sweetflag.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/first-7-out-of-the-hat/

I'm in CF Kopstars

anything for last place JD? Wooden spoon?!

Lifetime Ban.

It will probably be a ticket for a game at Goodison (and no - not the derby!)

done, finally...I'm in but logoff time at work so will have to pick players on Saturday...but atleast I've joined...

Roll up Roll up! Still room for ten more teams!

You don't have to pick players as such, just rank them and then they are distributed between all the teams.

And it's FREE this year!

Still sorting out my rankings


Aiming for a top 60 or so. How are we getting on guys? Made all your choices?

Have begun posting about this seasons FF now...follow all the wordpress bloggers posts including my own here:

http://wordpress.com/tag/play-the-game/

Still haven't done mine yet mate. Will have a good look at it in the next few days.
How long did it take you to go through yours DM?

Will someone PM me the password so I can access it and join in  :action-smiley-065:  I've asked JD, but think he will be too busy on his hols 

Very different. Very interesting.

I've only rated two players so far. Will go back to it when I can be bothered to search through that list!

Did anyone feel slighty offended to see who was top of the list? Or did we just get different lists and I was the unfortunate one....?

No, I got him as well RK, but soon fixed that and moved him down 50 places !! 

thanks for the PM 

Still haven't done mine yet mate. Will have a good look at it in the next few days.
How long did it take you to go through yours DM?

Well I have still more to do but I would give yourself at least 3-4 hrs spread over a couple of sittings...I wonder how many will go for Tevez now he's moved?...yeah I know he now resides in Manc land

Owen is going to the bottom of my pile for now

Ok we have 12 teams so far in league...still time though to get in on the fun. Team allocation date is nearing guys...have we all made our rankings changes?

Just noticed that if we don't fill the league our player allocation date will be postponed. Moving this thread into The Kop until we fill the league to drum up more interest.

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Just noticed that if we don't fill the league our player allocation date will be postponed. Moving this thread into The Kop until we fill the league to drum up more interest.

thought we only needed 5 teams in the league to qualify?

IMPORTANT: All owners are responsible for finding a league that fills prior to the start of the season. If your league does not have the specified numbers of teams 24 hours prior to the scheduled player allocation date, your player allocation date will be postponed.

That's what it says on the site. Going by that we need to find 8 more players in the next day.

9.3 Player Allocation Dates:
(a) Prior to August 10, 2007, if a League has not acquired the set number of Teams 24 hours prior to the player allocation date, the player allocation will be postponed until August 10, 2007. If on that date, the specified number of Teams has not been formed, but there are more than 5 Teams, the player allocation will take place. If there are fewer than 5 Teams, the player allocation date will be postponed by a week. If a player allocation is postponed, the Chairman will be informed by email.

Didn't notice that bit, moved back to General Football.

^ I'll play if someone can properly explain to me what it is and how it works. The sites themselves dont tell you much

Didn't notice that bit, moved back to General Football.

hehe...I had to read it through a few times to get the gist of it!

Basically you rank the players according to who you think is best etc. No need to do all the players just a rough go at the big names (or lesser known players that you rate highly)

Then, using this data the teams are automatically chosen so only one team has Gerrard, one team has Rooney blah blah blah.