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Liga MX game is up and running

Anyone playing?

http://futfantastico.televisadeportes.esmas.com

Let's play PREDICT THE PRICES 2013/2014!

As some of us might remember, a year ago we played the game where we tried to guess player prices for the new FPL season. With the total variance of £28.0m for 100 players, Grohlinisagod won the competition among 31 FFS users. Forca Inter was the runner up, Running Riot was the third, while Ginkapo confidently occupied the honourable 31st place. With the FPL launch imminent, it's a good time to check our predicting talents again!

GAME RULES
They are simple: predict the prices that will be given to the selected players in the new FPL season. I've selected 100 players (5 players from each club). For every £0.5m deviation from the correct price you’ll receive £0.5m. Your final score will be the sum of the errors of your estimations. The less the score, the better. When the FPL prices are released, I’ll calculate the scores and post the table with the results.

The link for the game: fpl2013.wordpress.com

(you can log in and post a comment there using your gravatar/wordpress account with the same picture as here; change your name before posting if necessary)

Hint #1: the prices as of the end of last season are available here: http://fantasy.premierleague.com/player-list/

Hint #2: since the list is rather long, it’s convenient to copy it first somewhere else, e.g. to Wordpad, rather than assign prices directly in the comments section

Take your time and good luck!

So potentially FPL could be open in less than a week?

This bloody transfer window is a rollercoaster for Arsenal fans.

Linked with Remy, yeah we'll take him - Linked with Jovetic, forget Remy! - Linked with Higuain, Jovetic who? - Linked with Suarez... only Messi or Ronaldo could top that rumour.

seen on the sky game many people going for razvan rat. He is 32 years old so won't play every game and will probably be rotated with demel and in the sky game you need people who will play every game , I would avoid at all costs

So if this is to be believed, City will get Jovetic... http://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer/transfer-news/manchester-city-transfers-stevan-jovetic-2043610

Think they'll line up something like this? http://i.imgur.com/bcNPcgm.png

Thiago to Bayern. Grim.

--------------------Neuer
Lahm --Martinez --Dante --Boateng/Alaba
-----------Schweinsteiger--Thiago
Muller------------Gotze---------------Ribery
-------------------Mandzukic

That would be some team.

Hi guys, I joined some private league's last year work, college etc ones when fpl re opens will these leagues be automatically available or do they need to be recreated? thanks

When are the first live sky games announced? I thought it was meant to be 2 days ago??

Mertesacker giving up the no.4. Barcelona offer money plus Thiago for Martinez, the money they raised from selling Cesc to Arsenal.

The Dream 😎

Not really interested in playing the Sky game but was just interested to see what kind of team I could put together with those prices; this is what I came up with:

Ruddy
Turner, Fonte, McCartney, McShane
Bale, Walcott, Fellaini, Coutinho
Suarez, Carroll

I am certain COPE have got it right about Thiago which is a shame

But who will Utd sign then? Strootman seems to have gone to Roma as well

Eriksen anyone?

Hey, doing a research project in college, wondering could anyone with an interest in irish soccer complete this survey, thanks.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GSd75a2IR6fY4M7aujvU6_JARVvTlZzS6-oq0GEtIT8/viewform

Sure by the time the season starts I'll be ready and optimistic as always but I'm really sad about how the window has been going for United so far.

1: Rooney -_-. Still a class player (I'm in the group that scoffs when people say he's no longer world class) but at this point we should cut our losses and throw everything that we have at Lewandowski with the money we get from selling Rooney. Heck, we should even offer an audacious swap deal if BD somehow are able to afford Rooney's wages.

2. Bale & Ronaldo: Are you kidding me? You have this amazing 23 year old decimating the PL and single handedly dragging his team through enough games to now be considered world class. Yet you're chasing someone who would cost around £30m more and would eat your wage bill alive. Granted he is the first/second best player in the world BUT our squad doesn't need that calibre of a player to win the treble, we could definitely do that with Bale + Lewo + Thiago in our squad. We can do it without him and what's more Madrid will laugh us off if we try to get him anyway. Stop sitting around and make Spurs & Bale an offer they can't refuse.

3. Thiago: Two clubs chasing this guy who he's looking at, Bayern and United. Bayern have just won a treble and have one of the top 3 squads in Europe (not including us). We can't let him go to Bayern, it's a complete joke if we let him join this rival Europe superpower. Solution? Offer Rooney to Barca and ask for Thiago + cash in return. Offer Thiago a strong amount of cash to join us. Not an outrageous amount, just enough to recognise him as a mature and well established superstar (as he obviously will be one) rather than a developing European talent.

4. Baines? Go away. He's 28 and had a fantastic season at Everton because Pienaar works well with him. Young can't provide defensive cover at all and Nani + Baines would end in tears. Keep Evra until he retires and add that £16m to the Bale cash fund instead.

Sorry for the rant, this Thiago to BM news has really ruined my mood :/

Mark Cavendish ha a bottle of urine thrown at him today, that's really taking the piss!

if anyone cares sun dream team is now live

What in the hell is that transfer market game? Looks so confusing

Morning DZers 🙂

Other than FFS membership and the tools it brings, what tools do you all employ for FPL?

I always ensure my phone has FFS & FISO saved for quick links. At the start of the season, I also do the following:

Put Club fixtures into speadsheet listing team name at top, then their 38 games below that in order.
Then, pair roatating teams next to each other.
Then print the list off onto a few sheets of A4.
Then go through the fixtures highlighting good/bad blocks with green (easy spell) and pink (tough spell) highlighter pens.
Then fold these sheets and keep them in wallet so I've got them for reference most of the day.

I find it is useful for identifying good fixtures that coincide for rotating sides and having a rough idea of when I might want to switch from, say, Villa & W.Brom defenders, to say, Cardiff and Swansea.

A bit far, maybe, but good for quick referencing and mid-term planning.

Anyone else got any of their own I could copy/steel?

Manchester city trying to get Ronaldo? dunno how reliable the source is but is that remotely possible?

http://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/real-madrid/transfer-talk/news/report-city-deadly-serious-about-signing-ronaldo_92969.html

This is probably a bad time of night to bring up such an idea but who'd be interested in playing a draft style league next season in FPL? So the basic idea is...

1. Usual squad of 15. 2GK 5DEF 5MID 3FOR
2. Pick players in pre determined draft order 1st round, reverse order in 2nd round and so on. NO PLAYER VALUES ££
3. Once every team has 15 players everyone else is a free agent (FA). At the start of every month you have the chance to swap any of your players for a FA
4. FA Priority order will be the reverse of the draft order. Once you take a FA you go to back of line
5. Trades can be freely made within the league as long as they are not ludicrous!
6. Points scoring is exactly the same as FPL.

Could probably run the whole thing on the FPL site as long as none of the squads go over £100m!

Grav test.

A+

Looks like Liverpool are going to bid 15m for Bernard. Think a club in Europe will get him, though. I think he'd be exceptional alongside Coutinho.
There's talk of Jorginho too, could possibly have a Brazilian core in our midfield.

Also looks like Thiago is going to Munich. United might have to move in for Strootman but he's sparking interest from many clubs.

Hm.

Anyone seen the news on the Deulofeu move to Everton? Good piece of business by Martinez, I reckon. He can play!

when will fpl be up and running again ???

Anyone there

atm?