Howdy folks, the new season has started and it’s about time to get the Fantasy Football competition underway again. The same as last year … but there might be a few rule changes!
I’ve held back the start date in order to give people a chance to see what players are actually playing on their teams, so everyone can pick a half decent team.
The rules will be based on the YouTheManager site we will be getting our scores from:
http://www.youthemanager.co.uk/CleverTV/en/tmg/dm990/15719/clienthowtoplay.do
How to Play
Study the player list carefully and select your 11 players using the following rules:
1. Select teams in a 1-4-3-3 formation (1 Goalkeeper, 4 Defenders, 3 Midfielders and 3 Strikers).
2. Players must be selected in the positions attributed to them in the official You The Manager player lists. A player can only be selected in a team once – player duplication is not permitted.
3. The combined value of your 11 players must not exceed £60m.
4. There is a limit of 3 players that you can select from any one team [*NEW*]- and you must stay within the budget of £60m. If a player moves to another Premier League club during the course of the season they will remain with their original club for the purposes of You The Manager. Players involved in transfer speculation such as Carlos Tevez, Gabriel Heinze and Leighton Baines will be added in to the game as soon as any transfer has been confirmed. If no transfer happens they will be added to the game nearer to the start of the season. Remember the transfer amnesty is in place until 12.30pm on Saturday August 11th.
5. Our season starts on August 25th, and thus the scoring will start from there. Points will be taken from the YouTheManager.co.uk site at the following pages:
Goalkeepers:http://youthemanager.co.uk/CleverTV/en/tmg/dm990/15719/clientplayerlist.do?index=0&code=Y
Defenders:http://youthemanager.co.uk/CleverTV/en/tmg/dm990/15719/clientplayerlist.do?index=1&code=Y
Midfielders:http://youthemanager.co.uk/CleverTV/en/tmg/dm990/15719/clientplayerlist.do?index=2&code=Y
Strikers:http://youthemanager.co.uk/CleverTV/en/tmg/dm990/15719/clientplayerlist.do?index=3&code=Y
6. You can enter as many teams as you like.
7. To enter a team, contact me on 086- 3644208, or email me at farmercash[at]gmail[dot]com. or just give it to me or DJ on paper before matches start on August 25th.
8. Entry fee: like last year, the entry fee is €20. there is no cost for transfers. There is no administration fee either. (i’m doing it for the good of my own health).
9. All decisions made by the management are final … as opposed the mullocking around that happened last year!
Transfers
I am open to suggestions about the transfer windows. There is the option of no transfer windows … that’s the way that YouTheManager is doing it this year …. or we can have week long transfer windows like last year. I think that the transfer windows are a better job for everyone, because it’s impossible to be scrutinizing your team all year long. Of course it’s a friendly game, and we’re going to be flexible as ever.
In a change to YTM 07/08, there will be NO TRANSFER WINDOWS. Each team will be able to use up to 15 transfers throughout the course of the competition. You can start to make transfers during the season on the 4th September 2007. Transfers operate on a weekly basis with one cut-off / team freeze at 12.30pm on Saturdays.
Weekly Scoring Notifications: hmmm, with the increased number of teams expected this year, whoever i can send an email to instead of a text, well that would be appreciated … because i’m running out of free texts to send … because of foreign influences!! 
Happy playing, and i hope to talk to ye all soon.
One final note … is that the rules may be tweaked as the season goes on. Just to keep things as interesting as possible.
29 Aug 07
August 31, 2007It’s a new season again. Thanks to everyone for joining again. Thanks especially to those new people that have joined this year. Sorry to see those people that were here last year for whatever reason.
well, i have been really busy doing the thing that pays the bills around here, and i simply haven’t had time. I’ve scrambled it together today and below you have the teams and leaderboard.
Anyway, lets get straight back to business. Below is the first leaderboard of the season, after the first weekend of games.
Shay, whose managerial skills were constantly frustrated last year heads out the table for the first time ever. Lets hope he doesn’t fall into the trap of early leader falling away into obscurity as happened last year to a few teams.
Of course it’s early days yet, and there’s only 18 points between top and bottom, so it’s really hard to see who is doing well and who is going to flounder into obscurity.
For now, have a look at the teams, and the players you would have liked to have on your team, and that someone else has managed to fit in.
If you have a name that you’d like to call your team, then tell me please and i’ll use that in future.
I am away on holidays for the next week (already i hear you say … sure we only just started), so i may have the tables updated next thursday or friday (Sept 6th/7th). Also sorry for getting this first post up so slowly … after many requests of “where is it?”
Enjoy
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