The Official Football/Soccer Thread: 2017-2018 Season
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unclesox:
1994 World Cup draw Robin Williams vs. Sepp Blatter Genius
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Well, I didn't say it months ago but I won the fantasy here and also got into the top 5000. (Also a team called Barcelona FC won the Champions League, the Spanish league and the Spanish cup). I should give myself some kind of prize... ok, shameless self promotion my twitter profile: https://twitter.com/oliversanzmusic (just don't try to contact me through that cause the most likely thing is that I will ignore you even if I know you in this board, that's the bad side of having many followers)
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unclesox:
As of 01:00 CET UEFA has still to put up the Champions League fantasy football game. And the first matches are 19 hours away. We're cutting it too close for comfort. http://en.uclfantasy.uefa.com/
3 hours before the matches and it just says "Coming Soon" : Am I missing something? It seems there is an app to play fantasy by Playstation. Maybe that means the classic way of playing is no longer avalaible.
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now the fantasy link is up and it's very confusing. It says the scoring will start the 2nd matchday but also says it will start the 1st matchday I guess I'm gonna pick a team in a hurry, and if the real thing starts the 2nd matchday I guess I'll create another account and make another team.
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It seems the scoring will really start the 2nd matchday. Also there are some rules changes like no points for recovered balls. But it wouldn't be the strangest thing in the world if in the end recovered balls score points, lol. No need for me to create another account cause I can make unlimited transfers.
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Fantasy Football, UEFA Champions League The website wasn't ready for Matchday 1 so all scoring will begin with Matchday 2 which plays on Tuesday 29 September. I've created a league for us. You need to register and select your team before you can join the league. http://en.uclfantasy.uefa.com/championsleague/ Name of league: Macca forum PIN/code: 8024715 Newcomers are always welcome. There's usually only three of us playing (myself, Oliver and Daniel) but everyone is free to join. Very lame that they didn't have the game set up two weeks ago.
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unclesox:
Fantasy Football, UEFA Champions League The website wasn't ready for Matchday 1 so all scoring will begin with Matchday 2 which plays on Tuesday 29 September. I've created a league for us. You need to register and select your team before you can join the league. http://en.uclfantasy.uefa.com/championsleague/ Name of league: Macca forum PIN/code: 8024715 Newcomers are always welcome. There's usually only three of us playing (myself, Oliver and Daniel) but everyone is free to join. Very lame that they didn't have the game set up two weeks ago.
here I go, I had Cristiano as captain, as usual, and scored a hat trick, so I didn't like at all that first match didn't matter. Now I had my team ready since past week, but, well, Messi injured and I've had to change a lot of players. glad to see you 2 are in
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standings after matchday 2 (or should I say matchday 1 lol) daniel 74 me 56 unclesox 44 same old, my starts at this are average. It's cause I know a few players very well and not a thing about the rest. So I got a lot of points in the knock out round but not at the beginning. You know, if I played the Europa League against you I would finish last. Great to see that Luis Enrique is kind of a "fan" of Paco Jemez like me.
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well, this is just getting absurd, I mean the UEFA fantasy... the changes I did had no effect, I selected Neymar as captain and it shows Suarez as captain. Players that have already played show as "on the bench" even that I placed them on the XI. But anyway, with only thirtysomething points I seem to be the 27000th of the round. So who knows what's happening to other people's teams. We can't see them anyway. lol You know, it's UEFA, we can expect popularity but not quality.
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well, I won our Fantasy for the Champions League this year. Unclesox quit. Is there gonna be a Fantasy thing for the Euro Cup?
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21st Century Paul:
well, I won our Fantasy for the Champions League this year. Unclesox quit. Is there gonna be a Fantasy thing for the Euro Cup?
Yes, I quit. They didn't begin the game until Maatchday 2. I didn't like that. I still submitted a squad but I never visited the website again so my lineup was the same from Matchday 2 to the final. I'm playing the Euro fantasy. If you have a team we can try creating a league. Hopefully our scores will carry into the league. I currently have 40 points after the Belgium-Italy match.
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unclesox:
21st Century Paul:
well, I won our Fantasy for the Champions League this year. Unclesox quit. Is there gonna be a Fantasy thing for the Euro Cup?
Yes, I quit. They didn't begin the game until Maatchday 2. I didn't like that. I still submitted a squad but I never visited the website again so my lineup was the same from Matchday 2 to the final. I'm playing the Euro fantasy. If you have a team we can try creating a league. Hopefully our scores will carry into the league. I currently have 40 points after the Belgium-Italy match.
Yes, the start was horrible. There are problems now in the Euro Cup, like problems to do substitutions, but at least we can play somehow. Yes, I have one with 38 points. So, well, try to create a league.
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BLATTER this is fun http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/10313221/sepp-blatter-claims-european-draws-fixed-by-using-hot-and-cold-balls BRAZIL I guess someone would like to comment the Peru handball that leaves Brazil out of the America Cup. Anyway Brazil crazy lineups somehow had it coming. They try to play football that's all about the results, and then they have the worst results. Cause that's not how they play best, they're not Italy. Yet they don't learn from losing. SPAIN I'm glad the 4-3-3 is back and the 4231/442 with Diego Costa is gone. That's how we play best. 2 problems still to be solved: speed of ball passing and everything about the forwards. Still less problems than usual in Spain's team starting matches.
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The new fantasy is not working well either. Problems to do substitutions or transfers (or is it me?) Next time we better try with another website's fantasy, like, I don't know espn.com...
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I think I got the rules wrong. It's only possible to do substitutions when all the matches of a matchday are over. So what I've been doing doesn't have much sense. I've missed lots of of points cause of that... Italy-Spain today, our national teams "clasico".
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well here is my score of the Fantasy football of the EURO 300 points, that means 373906th place, out of... I don't know... maybe one milion or 2 players.
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Brushing off the cobwebs from this thread. Topic title updated. So, Mr. Oliver. You still around? What do you make of Real Madrid under Zizou? You must be smiling, I imagine. Bar?a under Lucho started well in 2015 but this past season was a train wreck. The midfield needs work with Iniesta fading. Valverde is alright but I was hoping for a surprise pick, like Oscar Garcia who's doing good things with RB Salzburg. One year away from the World Cup. Spain starting to look formidable again. And look out for Argentina with Sampaoli now leading them. Germany always show up at tournaments but the favorite for me must be Brazil with France a close second.