Fantasy Euro 2008 Football

Open invite to everyone interested in joining a mini-league for the forthcoming Euro 2008 tournament that I have created. Teams can be entered with unlimited changes up until the 7th June. At least it will keep us interested in the games seeing that none of the home nations will be involved (possibly some of our international fccukers will be!).

Click here to register for Fantasy Euro 2008

FCCUK — Code to join this league: 53062-9980

Based on the FCCUK Premier league fantasy game that was run recently, this could be quite a competitive league! There are prizes for the best teams overall (not for this mini-league though - unless someone's feeling generous! ) Good luck everyone!!

Superb! I was thinking of asking if anyone would be up for this, but you beat me to it

I'll get meself registered when I get home tonight

Im up for this!

Get yourself registered guys & spread the good word! I've just joined another league of 60+ players tonight!! (You can start your own with your mates/colleagues as I have done also)

I'll be doing this later today. Need to read the rules though. Just tried to enter a team made solely of Italian defenders, German midfielders and Portugese/Spanish attackers. Apparently that's cheating!

Good man! I'm on it

Joined!

Good stuff guys - there's only three teams entered so far, but hopefully we can drum up some interest. C'mon boys (& girls) - pull your fingers out - only got until Saturday!

I think Delia Smith says it all for us here:

Scooby Smith

I'm in and top of the league already!

You'd better have a strong team mate - I have honed my squad into a flawless gem!

Cut off point is 6 o'clock tomorrow night people (Saturday 7th!!)

Have signed up.... have not done a fantasy team for years!

just joined - will set up my team tomorrow, but not expecting much success - I am rubbish at Fantasy League!

I'm in. Got to make up for the poor finish to the prem league. Where's Dwayne and his rubbish Dribbleys?

yay, 3rd after the 1st day

Joint 1st at the moment... as you can see from my team, I dont do defence

I'm already in a league, wonder if I can be in two?

wonder why the Croatia players have been given points for playing 90 mins when they are only half way through 1st game?

or am I being dim?

its a marathon not a sprint.




says the bloke who's last.

How come you get named first? Not fair!

I don't really understand the transfers either.

Yes mate - as long as you are in this particular Fantasy league, (I am assuming that you are!) then I would think that you can join this league by using the code on page 1 of this thread. I'm pretty sure any latecomers can still join even though the competition has already begun - but they would have to be very lucky/tactical genii to have any chance of winning the tournament!

Get in Podolski

They predicted the future, bit of a gap starting to open up now...

my team sucks.

Am I reading it right that your changes to captains etc only happen on what they are calling "Matchdays" - next one being 11 June?

unless you use your "wildcard"

Villa or Torres....?

Villa or Torres....?


so I go and choose Torres!

I have torres as well, but fabregas is my captain, I was jumping up and down when he scored

and Puyol as a defender.,.....ffs!

I've been knocked off the top

me too. But I also went through:
Gomez or Podolski
Podolski or Gomez

and went for Gomez. Der.

and I've even got Pavlyuchenko as a sub but didn't put him into action. I've blown it already, methinks.

I chose Torres over Villa as well. Infuriating!

I'm hoping my shrewd transfer skills will serve me much better in round 2.

I have a swedish and a greek defender. 0-0 please...

Copied from the rules:

Captains

You must nominate a member of your team to be captain. This player will score double the number of points they would usually have been awarded that Matchday.
If your captain does not play then the bonus will be lost. Another player will not take over the captaincy in their place.


Transfers

Use the Transfers page to change your squad for the next Matchday. The number of transfers which can be made are as follows:
Next Matchday Deadline Transfers
Group Stage 1 7 Jun 18:00 CET Unlimited
Group Stage 2 11 Jun 18:00 CET 4
Group Stage 3 15 Jun 20:45 CET 4
Quarter-finals 19 Jun 20:45 CET Unlimited
Semi-finals 25 Jun 20:45 CET Unlimited
Final 29 Jun 20:45 CET Unlimited

The total value of your group stage squad must not exceed 100 million Euros. For the knock-out stage the team budget will be increased 110 million Euros.

Transfers will not deduct points from your total.

If you enter after the start of the first Matchday, you can make unlimited transfers before the next Matchday.

Wild card

If you need to bring in a new player in the current Matchday for tactical or injury reasons, use the wild card.
Once a Matchday is under way you can use a wild card on your latest points page to temporarily replace, for the current Matchday only, one player in your team with a new player.
Both players involved in your wild card must:
Have not played (their team's games haven't started)
Be the same position
Keep your squad under the players per team limit
In addition, the value of the new player can't be more than the existing player.
If a player replaces your captain, the new player will be captain. If a player replaces your substitute, the new player will be a substitute.
Remember, the wild card is a temporary change and can only be used once per Matchday. The original player will still be in your team for the next Matchday. To make the change permanent for the next Matchday you need to make a transfer.

DON'T FORGET TO MAKE YOUR NEXT TRANSFERS BY TODAY'S DEADLINE!

yeah I think I need some decent defenders, my entire defence only earned 1 point

sacrificing ronaldo will buy me a whole new defence!

You're not far off. For the same price as him you could have had the Croatian goalie (highest scoring goalie in stage 1) and Pepe (highest scoring defender in stage 1)!

I took him out of my team yesterday and swapped him for Deco, luckily Deco scored and set one up today.

It's all down to luck really (unless of course I go back on top, then it's totally down to skill)!

No way offside

that incorrect decision cost me 6 points, an assist from my captain

I think I need to pay more attention to this

Might help, you still have 2 players who have been injured from the start

yeah that wasn't my greatest play...but Robben just got a few

That's more like it! Had a pretty good second stage, hopefully get a few more points tomorrow.

Then comes the difficult decision of who to drop and who I put in for the final group leg.

I knew my second stage would be awful, I would have wiped the slate clean and subbed everyone after my excellent first stage if I could

Gotta work out who I want to keep for the 3rd...

Dont forget your transfers people

Didn't work out quite as I planned but not a bad day at the office. Expected Portugal's stars to get a few more, only put Gomez in at the last minute!

I had a terrible 3rd group stage, didn't anticipate all the big teams putting out their reserves at all!

Webbo has 8.5x more matchday points than me so far and half of his players got knocked out in the group stage

Toni owes me bigtime for all those misses the other day

I haven't looked at it for a while. and now I have.
and I appear to be top

don't know how that happened

Late entry for the sex offenders to heat things up

Great team name!

As we are level on points and there's no way I'm going to catch MattW, my new goal is to beat you in the last 2 games.

Final beckons - last round of (unlimited) changes need to be done by Sunday folks! Good luck everyone.

A respectable 3rd place, does that mean I qualify for Europe?

Congrats to MattW on a fine win, consistent throughout and I think it was won and lost in the group stages.

Gracias




I was 3rd after the group stages...

Well done MattW - it was an honour being runner-up to you sir!

Who's resurrecting the English Fantasy Premier League then - I believe it starts on the 23rd July...?