Fantasy tournament: World Cup 2014

Yeah I think Jake will be fine with, Cal also indicated the same.

It is down to Aldo, Theon and Fergus.

Edit- now down to Theon and Fergus
 
Theon is a yes or else his Spanish/Belgian picks maybe in grave danger. Mwahahahaha.

Sorry chaps, still in Werewolf mode.
 
I'm ok with it... didn't expect 3 pages when I asked the Belgium or Croatia question. ;)
 
antohan said:
No one knows what unfolds later? As said, we are fine repicking later if he declares for Albania, which he won't. So long as he does NOT declare for another non participating nation he is eligible for a participating nation. Sure, the issue there is which one, Belgium or Croatia? Well, we have said all along we put him forward as Belgian so that shouldn't be an issue.

I'm tired, it's almost 7am here, feck waiting for everyone to agree, if they don't agree they are the greatest twats in the history of caf games, and that includes all those currently playing Werewolf.

I'm making the call here, we stick to Januzaj and if he declares for Albania we repick in May. If anyone has an issue with Januzaj not having declared for Belgium in May they can all feck off and we pull out. Over and out.
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Back off Anto, I won't have anyone disrupting or interfering the game, I will throw him out even if he does not pull out on his own
 
I say Team Crappy resigns from the game out of principle and forms his own breakaway draft where you can only pick players who qualify for more than one nation.
 
Doesn't bother me!

kps88 said:
I say Team Crappy resigns from the game out of principle and forms his own breakaway draft where you can only pick players who qualify for more than one nation.
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:lol:
 
Only Fergus left really.

You ago ahead with your pick Theon. Don't want to stall the draft. If Fergus says no, I will bite the bullet.
 
Absolutely fine with that crappy!

Completely saw where Pol/Aldo were coming from though and I thought pol handled it well. Theons turn!
 
Jake 1. Andres Iniesta 2. Phillip Lahm 3. Edison Cavani 4. Daniel Alves .5 Alexis Sanchez 6.Lovren 7. Lampard 8. Shaqiri 9. Witsel
Fergus 1. Rooney 2. Yaya Toure 3.Kompany 4. Lavezzi 5. Oscar 6. Pirlo 7. Reus 8. Coentrao 9. Sagna
Crappy 1. Frank Ribery 2. Aguero 3. Dante 4. Strootman 5. Moutinho 6. Baines 7. Gotze 8. Torosidis 9. Januzaj
Theon 1. Falcao 2. Suarez 3. Modric 4. Chiellini 5. Hummels 6. Di Maria 7. Ashley Cole 8. Lichtsteiner
Pol 1. Van Persie 2. Vidal 3. Javi Martinez 4. Varane 5. Marcelo 6. Godin 7. James Rodriguez 8. Verratti
Aldo 1. Schweinsteiger 2. Robben 3. Carrick 4. Fabregas 5. Lukaku 6. Barzagli 7. Koscielny 8. Tevez
Isotope 1. Neymar 2. Mesut Özil 3. Pogba 4. Pepe 5. David Silva 6. Mascherano, 7. Jan Vertonghen 8. Darijo Srna
Cal 1. Thiago Silva, 2. Sergio Busquets, 3. Daniele De Rossi, 4. Eden Hazard, 5. Phil Jones, 6. Pablo Zabaleta, 7. Patrice Evra, 8. Shinji Kagawa

Imagine Januzaj has a stinker from now :lol: All this shit storm for nothing
 
Great, congrats to crappycraperson for concluding the transfer saga of the season ;)
 
Akinfeev

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Jake 1. Andres Iniesta 2. Phillip Lahm 3. Edison Cavani 4. Daniel Alves .5 Alexis Sanchez 6.Lovren 7. Lampard 8. Shaqiri 9. Witsel
Fergus 1. Rooney 2. Yaya Toure 3.Kompany 4. Lavezzi 5. Oscar 6. Pirlo 7. Reus 8. Coentrao 9. Sagna
Crappy 1. Frank Ribery 2. Aguero 3. Dante 4. Strootman 5. Moutinho 6. Baines 7. Gotze 8. Torosidis 9. Januzaj
Theon 1. Falcao 2. Suarez 3. Modric 4. Chiellini 5. Hummels 6. Di Maria 7. Ashley Cole 8. Lichtsteiner 9. Akinfeev
Pol 1. Van Persie 2. Vidal 3. Javi Martinez 4. Varane 5. Marcelo 6. Godin 7. James Rodriguez 8. Verratti 9. Muller
Aldo 1. Schweinsteiger 2. Robben 3. Carrick 4. Fabregas 5. Lukaku 6. Barzagli 7. Koscielny 8. Tevez
Isotope 1. Neymar 2. Mesut Özil 3. Pogba 4. Pepe 5. David Silva 6. Mascherano, 7. Jan Vertonghen 8. Darijo Srna
Cal 1. Thiago Silva, 2. Sergio Busquets, 3. Daniele De Rossi, 4. Eden Hazard, 5. Phil Jones, 6. Pablo Zabaleta, 7. Patrice Evra, 8. Shinji Kagawa
 
Jake 1. Andres Iniesta 2. Phillip Lahm 3. Edison Cavani 4. Daniel Alves .5 Alexis Sanchez 6.Lovren 7. Lampard 8. Shaqiri 9. Witsel
Fergus 1. Rooney 2. Yaya Toure 3.Kompany 4. Lavezzi 5. Oscar 6. Pirlo 7. Reus 8. Coentrao 9. Sagna
Crappy 1. Frank Ribery 2. Aguero 3. Dante 4. Strootman 5. Moutinho 6. Baines 7. Gotze 8. Torosidis 9. Januzaj
Theon 1. Falcao 2. Suarez 3. Modric 4. Chiellini 5. Hummels 6. Di Maria 7. Ashley Cole 8. Lichtsteiner 9. Akinfeev
Pol 1. Van Persie 2. Vidal 3. Javi Martinez 4. Varane 5. Marcelo 6. Godin 7. James Rodriguez 8. Verratti 9. Muller
Aldo 1. Schweinsteiger 2. Robben 3. Carrick 4. Fabregas 5. Lukaku 6. Barzagli 7. Koscielny 8. Tevez 9. Asamoah
Isotope 1. Neymar 2. Mesut Özil 3. Pogba 4. Pepe 5. David Silva 6. Mascherano, 7. Jan Vertonghen 8. Darijo Srna
Cal 1. Thiago Silva, 2. Sergio Busquets, 3. Daniele De Rossi, 4. Eden Hazard, 5. Phil Jones, 6. Pablo Zabaleta, 7. Patrice Evra, 8. Shinji Kagawa
 
Fergus' son said:
Absolutely fine with that crappy!

Completely saw where Pol/Aldo were coming from though and I thought pol handled it well. Theons turn!
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I did too in fairness. Notice how I took on the repicking in May after calling it bollocks several times. I find it really weird to do an exercise in futurology but if Pol wants to keep it in the theme fair enough.

Disagreed with "he must declare" though because the fact is 90%+ of players don't declare until they effectively receive and accept a callup, declaring in isolation is a very rare thing as far as I can tell.

More than anything else, I was pissed off a classic anto play was screwing crappy. He genuinely is the nicest chap I've encountered in this draft things. He is all "ah, if so and so will want so and so then let them have it and we'll get this other chap". Very laid back, doesn't dwell on players that didn't last long enough... During this whole thing he kept insisting he could take his next pick and wait for a decision on this... except that we know no one in the entire turn would pick his next pick, why give up such comfort and turn it into a risky play?

I'll actually step aside once we finish the drafting, last thing I want is me/my style impacting on him.
 
Akinfeev is a solid pick, well timed.

Muller I had a great plan for but never had the chance to discuss it fully with crappy.
 
antohan said:
I did too in fairness. Notice how I took on the repicking in May after calling it bollocks several times. I find it really weird to do an exercise in futurology but if Pol wants to keep it in the theme fair enough.

Disagreed with "he must declare" though because the fact is 90%+ of players don't declare until they effectively receive and accept a callup, declaring in isolation is a very rare thing as far as I can tell.

More than anything else, I was pissed off a classic anto play was screwing crappy. He genuinely is the nicest chap I've encountered in this draft things. He is all "ah, if so and so will want so and so then let them have it and we'll get this other chap". Very laid back, doesn't dwell on players that didn't last long enough... During this whole thing he kept insisting he could take his next pick and wait for a decision on this... except that we know no one in the entire turn would pick his next pick, why give up such comfort and turn it into a risky play?

I'll actually step aside once we finish the drafting, last thing I want is me/my style impacting on him.
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Yeah it was just the fact that he has been called up and actually declined the call up (for the time being) that makes it different to others IMO, this is clearly an undecided player on which nationality he is going to represent so it was obvious just automatically claiming him to be Belgian wasn't going to pass without any hiccups.

All sorted now anyway.
 
Muller at round 9 is the steal of the tournament for me
 
Quite a few great German players left that could be considered steals at this stage, clearly there's more than 8 great Germans though and that's the reason why they were picked relatively late.
 
AldoPaine18 said:
That really hurt, man. :(
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You are the most fun to play with, if only because we both end up buried in convo for 24 hours. With crappy it's more a case of whenever he shows up he reads up my walls of text and drops me a few one liners :lol:

Theon is the craziest, he can literally produce 13 different formations subject to 2-3 picks before you have finished assessing the first one. You give him a definitive answer and next thing you know there are 10 new ones to consider. You really get the feeling his head will explode. Actually, I really enjoyed that draft were I told him he would get Ronaldo as the (16th?) reinforcement pick and he was all dismissive, then got a semi, and by the time I passed on him he had filmed about five porn movies. Not sure what his status is, hope he wasn't looking for babies with his partner, will have to wait two years before trying again.
 
AldoPaine18 said:
There can be only eight germans in the draft.
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Is that a definite? Is it not no more than one on the pitch?

If he was still around next turn I had suggested to crappy we should get him and hedge our bets with Gotze. See which had the better season. Also a good variation in their style and contribution to the midfield unit.
 
Gio said:
Yes, I should re-phrase that. What was Cal thinking?
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That we were shit, had just lost to Everton, we need to man up, can't create or score for toffee, Shinji is our saviour... oh wait. Not having a dig at the player, just found the timing really off.
 
antohan said:
Is that a definite? Is it not no more than one on the pitch?

If he was still around next turn I had suggested to crappy we should get him and hedge our bets with Gotze. See which had the better season. Also a good variation in their style and contribution to the midfield unit.
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Before I start another shitstorm, the OP is clear

"Limiting condition: 1 player from each nation in the squad."

Question for Pol: I assume then when picking someone from a nation you already have the other player is dropped from the squad altogether, right? Otherwise it should read starting XI.
 
BTW, I always like the treasure hunt side of drafting relative to the rules in the OP.

Remember Sammer, Aldo? In the All-time draft I specifically defined nationality, in the case of players with more than one nation as the country of birth and had a whole paragraph on what constituted a country past or present and how to deal with it. e.g. if someone played both for Serbia and Yugoslavia. It always reverted to the least aggregated version of the country so you could have many Yugoslavia players based first on whether they played for the spin off nation or if they never had based on where the city of birth was currently located.

The outcome of it all was Sammer was a gem (East German, thus you could still get a West or unified German). No one picked up on it, someone eventually picked Sammer and didn't pick up on it for ages and there I was in our convo telling Aldo if they didn't pick up it was their problem, although I was pretty upset my golden nugget had been found and not utilised. I think it was only raised in the reinforcement round and then all hell broke loose when I ruled in the managers' favour :lol:
 
Gio said:
Yes, I should re-phrase that. What was Cal thinking?
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It was a cas of who blinks first between Pol & me, I still have Kroos, Gudogan, Neuer & co to choose from and I can leave it till round 12.
 
antohan said:
Before I start another shitstorm, the OP is clear

"Limiting condition: 1 player from each nation in the squad."

Question for Pol: I assume then when picking someone from a nation you already have the other player is dropped from the squad altogether, right? Otherwise it should read starting XI.
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Good to highlight this, if you read on in the OP, it states that you can either add a player whose nationality you do not have in your squad or replace one that you already have.

This answers your question - yes, the other player is dropped since it is a replacement

Polaroid said:
All players whose nations will be at WC 2014, are available for drafting, except Messi & Ronaldo. For the purpose of this competition, these players are judged based on their performance level in 2013/2014 season (club and international). Each manager gets to pick 12 players to form a squad (11 starters and 1 substitute). Limiting condition: 1 player from each nation in the squad.

Managerial openings for 8 teams (solo or joint managerial applications are welcome)

Competition format is straight knockout. After the 1st round, winning teams draft from a common pool of players drawn from the eliminated teams (the drafting order will be reversed from that of the primary draft). Post semi-final, winning teams add 1 player from their direct opponent. Keeping in mind the limiting condition, you can either add a player whose nationality you do not have in your squad or replace one that you already have.
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Sorry, didn't read on but I did have it in my mind that was the mechanic you usually applied.

Cal? you jammy cnut, I was planning to get a piece of either Gundogan or Kroos for the squad. Fair fecks.
 
Jake 1. Andres Iniesta 2. Phillip Lahm 3. Edison Cavani 4. Daniel Alves .5 Alexis Sanchez 6.Lovren 7. Lampard 8. Shaqiri 9. Witsel
Fergus 1. Rooney 2. Yaya Toure 3.Kompany 4. Lavezzi 5. Oscar 6. Pirlo 7. Reus 8. Coentrao 9. Sagna
Crappy 1. Frank Ribery 2. Aguero 3. Dante 4. Strootman 5. Moutinho 6. Baines 7. Gotze 8. Torosidis 9. Januzaj
Theon 1. Falcao 2. Suarez 3. Modric 4. Chiellini 5. Hummels 6. Di Maria 7. Ashley Cole 8. Lichtsteiner 9. Akinfeev
Pol 1. Van Persie 2. Vidal 3. Javi Martinez 4. Varane 5. Marcelo 6. Godin 7. James Rodriguez 8. Verratti 9. Muller
Aldo 1. Schweinsteiger 2. Robben 3. Carrick 4. Fabregas 5. Lukaku 6. Barzagli 7. Koscielny 8. Tevez 9. Asamoah
Isotope 1. Neymar 2. Mesut Özil 3. Pogba 4. Pepe 5. David Silva 6. Mascherano, 7. Jan Vertonghen 8. Darijo Srna 9. Sokratis Papastathopoulos
Cal 1. Thiago Silva, 2. Sergio Busquets, 3. Daniele De Rossi, 4. Eden Hazard, 5. Phil Jones, 6. Pablo Zabaleta, 7. Patrice Evra, 8. Shinji Kagawa
 
Cal? said:
It was a cas of who blinks first between Pol & me, I still have Kroos, Gudogan, Neuer & co to choose from and I can leave it till round 12.
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I blinked first :lol: I believe that you would not pass on Muller with his ability to play anywhere in the front 4
 
Isotope said:
am thinking of going for 4-3-1-2 :

Srna - Pepe - CB - Vertonghen​
Masch​
Silva ------- Pogba​
Ozil​
x(Messi)x -- Neymar​
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Opinion?
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Only the four no10 types, Iso? What's up, pragmatism getting the better of you?
 
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