Fantasy Football (UK soccer)
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If anyone's interested:
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/ to sign up
- http://fantasy.premierleague.com/my-team/ to pick your team (or auto-complete if you know bugger all about the players like me)
- http://fantasy.premierleague.com/my-leagues/ to join a league
- I've set up a TDWTF League - select Private league and enter the league code: 740898-183743
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(UK soccer)
*blink*
Huh. Is it called "American Football" in America?
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He means as opposed to the South American and German variants.
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Those are distinguished by being able to win tournaments…
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Huh. Is it called "American Football" in America?
It tends to be called that outside the States to avoid ambiguity (which is also why I mentioned soccer in the subject)
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Or gridiron.
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You have a weird concept of what an egg looks like.
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And you have a writer's concept of what a foot is.
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And you have a writer's concept of what a foot is.
There are times in football when the foot makes contact with the ball, such as punting and kickoffs. I think I have a pretty good idea of what a foot is.
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Nobody who's made that idiotic "hand egg" joke (which is basically accalia * 200) has ever watched a game of Football in their lives. Give up.
Probably don't even know what Beast Mode is. Feh.
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Nobody who's made that idiotic "hand egg" joke (which is basically accalia * 200) has ever watched a game of Football in their lives.
To be fair, I've seen football games in the US. Typically because my plane touched down in the middle of Sunday, I've made it to my hotel, I'm jetlagged as hell, and having something on TV is better than nothing.
Sundays suck for TV, especially with typical hotel TV packages…
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If I remember correctly, it's called "football" not because of what you use to contact the ball, but because it's played on foot (as opposed to on horseback).
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I have made that joke a time or two, mostly as a way of distinguishing which of the several quite different forms of "football" I was talking about. I have most certainly watched football, and I even know what Beast Mode is. (It's what the 'Hawks did not do 1st-and-goal. )
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(It's what the 'Hawks did not do 1st-and-goal. )
AKA the Worst Play Call in the History of the NFL.
The funny thing is I complained the entire season about the Seahawks' over-reliance on Beast Mode. I mean, the thing is: Lynch is always guaranteed to gain a yard or two at least, but if that's the only play you call, the defense always knows exactly who to watch for, and you're plinking down the field a yard at-a-time when you could be surprising the opponent with a pass outside the Lynch-hugging defense.
Then the one time, the one time, where a guaranteed yard or two was exactly what the 'hawks needed-- they call a pass.
Goddamned.
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/me wonders what it is called in Australia.
Football is fun, but I never could understand that lbw-rule.
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Football is fun, but I never could understand that lbw-rule.
It's just like the offside rule in cricket.
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Is that the one where you get to drop the ball on the green?
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ow's 'at?
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Football - you kick the ball with your foot
Football - the ball is one foot longTherefore, I say we should rename the sports:
Kickball - you kick the ball with your foot
Footlong - the ball is one foot longThat way, we won't have any confusion.
Wait, shit.
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I've joined. No real idea how Fantasy Football works, or any interest in the sport, so I have no idea what the quality of my team is.
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It's probably the same as fantasy Dota.
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If football player A kills football player B, football player A receives 0.3 points and the same amount is deducted from football player B's score.
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You already made the joke, Ben L. Expanding on the joke does not make it funnier.
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I assumed people wouldn't click my links, but if @blakeyrat does it, surely everyone else does as well!
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I've joined. No real idea how Fantasy Football works, or any interest in the sport, so I have no idea what the quality of my team is.
Ditto.
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Well that's three of us with no clue then....
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Joined; I watch every week @ the bar (8AM local time game starts). After all, you can't drink all day if you don't start early!
Never done fantasy though, so who knows how good I'll be.
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Current league standings: http://fantasy.premierleague.com/my-leagues/183743/standings/
The entire site is pretty WTFy from a security standpoint - there's no SSL AFAICT, even on login.
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Oops....
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Woo woo! I had forgotten about this.
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OK, since that appeared to display without prompting me to log in I've changed my name to not be my actual name.
In other news, I appear to be awful but don't really know how the points were worked out. My goalkeeper has -1 point, might not have been a great choice
Edit: -2. And he's suspended after a red card
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GKs should totally get positive bonus points for being bad-ass enough to draw a red card.
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I don't think I've ever heard of a keeper being sent off. Wonder what he did
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check out scoring.
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I don't think I've ever heard of a keeper being sent off. Wonder what he did
The striker was on a breakaway, and he fouled him. Because he was the last player and it was deemed an "obvious goal-scoring opportunity" he was ejected - it's a standard rule. Happens 3 or 4 times a season across the league. Usually it's the result of a really bad defensive screw-up and the keeper is doing a panic.
http://e24sn.com/index.php/2015/08/08/video-courtois-red-card/
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P.S. ~45 minutes until roster changes close. Villa plays Man U at 2:45 EDT.
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And on the next match day, a keeper gets ejected for kicking an opponent in the midsection. Granted, it wasn't malicious, but there should totally be bonus fantasy points for getting a straight red while trying to participate in a desperation set piece.
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Jaloopa City, coming on strong. Looks like I had a couple of injuries.
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Looks like I had a couple of injuries.
Shoulder injury patting yourself on the back for finally getting a modern phone?
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Shoulder injury patting yourself on the back for finally getting a modern phone?
That would go in the status thread, thanks for noticing. It was actually a hand me down from my wife. But of course, I meant some of the random players on my soccer team.
It's OK, I kicked them off and auto-bought some new guys. Hopefully I can fend off the Jaloopa City onslaught and complete the overtaking of PJH (we're tied overall, but I get 1st place presumably with the tie breaker being my higher points total this week).
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