How to play Choosing teams You will be given a draft pick number. The player with the lowest draft pick will pick first team. Once all teams have been chosen the draft will commence. The Draft When it is your turn to draft you may draft any player that has not already been picked The way you pick your draft is: Cristiano Ronaldo 1st Round - 1st pick You pick will then be confirmed and given his position. If you are unsure about a players position and would like to know before you draft then ask in the Q&A section. A complete draft pick will look like this: Cristiano Ronaldo - Real Madrid (or whatever team picks him up) RW/LW 1st Round - 1st pick The Team Thread Once you have drafted 11 players, a manager and 5 subs you must then make a team thread. Team threads will include a list of your players and manager. Team threads act as a place to keep track of your players but also to show off your club, their achievements and their history (when you have one). The Game Each week you must make a team from the players you have. The team must be set out in either 4-4-2/4-5-1/4-3-3/4-2-3-1 Each formation must have players that match the formation and there must be a DM in each team but no more than 2 at any time: 4-4-2: 1 LB, 2 CB, 1 RB 2 Wingers, 1 DM, 1 CM/AM/DM 2 CF/FW 4-5-1 1 LB, 2 CB, 1 RB 2 wingers, 1 DM, 1 CM/DM/AM, 1 CM/AM 4-3-3 1 LB, 2 CB, 1 RB 2 AM/CM, 1 DM 2 Wingers and a striker or 3 strikers 4-2-3-1 1 LB, 2 CB, 1 RB 1 DM, 1 DM/CM 2 Wingers and an AM or 3 AM 1 CF/FW These teams are posted to me via PM and then posted in the "Match Area" thread for confirmation when both teams have been received each week and only the players in these 1st teams and the manager will have their points scored. The Homegrown rule: Finally the reason you were given a country to pick from is because you must have 4 active players from your nation playing for you at any one time.
Scoring As with fantasy baseball the scoring will be decided via your teams stats in various areas. In baseball for example ERA, K's, AVG etc In our game the stats will be the following. Wins (this can only be determined by Manager) Losses (same but obviously the lower the better) Goals For Goals Against (does not affect strikers) Assists Tackles made Clean Sheets (keepers and defenders only) Red Cards (lower the better as with ERA for example) Own Goals (same deal) So there are 9 areas in which you need to look at your team and the key is BALANCE not just flash players who score goals.
We need a rule on time between picks. A precedent of 24 hours has been set, but that simply isn't going to work out. 6 or 8 is more appropriate. Send a list to someone if you won't make it.
6 or 8 is tough because not only are we working with 6hr+ time zones, it means if someone picks at 2am then by 10am the next pick will have been skipped. Can we organize a live draft on AIM?
I can sort this out this weekend by all means. What would be a convenient time for everyone (please give time zone as well).