The UEFA Euro Fantasy Draft
- Thread starter Balu
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Any spot still open?
Nah, I dont agree. The ones in the top half will get one superstar with the first pick, and 2nd and 3rd good picks while the bottom ones will get 2 v.good picks and 1 decent pick.
The depth of this pool is incredible. .. everyone will have super strong sides. I expect everyone to have greatest of all times especially in the first round and I think the quality will barely dip through out.
We wait for @crappycraperson to confirm that he takes over for Chesterle. If he doesn't want to or doesn't show up, it's your spot.
Well yeah, that's the general advantage if you're lucky to be drawn into the upper half. But pretty much all superstars and big vote winners are post '66 players. So having the option to pick early from the pre '66 tournaments is definitely an advantage and can help you later on. I don't think the rule that you have to pick 3 pre-66 players gives an even bigger advantage to the managers who pick early.
I love it. Some complain that they're fecked, others already mention that the pool is almost too big
.I'm sure everyone will have very strong sides from the quarterfinals onwards and we'll see teams full of goats in the final. Not so sure for the first round though. The pool should be smaller than the World Cup pool and while all sides were definitely really interesting in the first round, no side was flawless.
This should be interesting as this theme was not done before.
Another 2-3 weeks I'm busy then after that over summer I'll be back on the draft hype!
I'm in a hybrid phase atm so if anyone needs an assistant I'm happy to try and help.
I'm in a hybrid phase atm so if anyone needs an assistant I'm happy to try and help.
Based on few drafts that I participated in newbies, we only went as far as players born after 1950. The challenge is to identify which pre-1950 players are "sheep" and which one are not when the numbers start to dwindle
(racist)
Looks great Balu. I've just logged on so unfortunately missed out on this one, but stick me on the reserve list in case anything pops up.
Feel free to be my AM if you want Gio?
Has anyone ever won with a 4-4-2? Can good ol' hard grafting Atletico-styled tactics win? My guess is no.
I got to a final with a 4-4-2(rooney-henry up front, giggs keane fabregas ronaldo midfield)
Then changed it to a 4-3-3 by signing messi, makelele and ronaldinho.
Sure. Hit me up.
Almost, then
Guessing there will be many close matches in this draft, so having one striker gives more flexibility with tactics. Take it you won the draft with that team.Almost, then
Easily yes
Easily yes
You could have opted not to play with a defence or goalie and still won it hehe.
Its funny, I had de gea as a goalie and everyone was of the opinion that he was too weak a goalie for a final. No one would hold that opinion nowadays, shows how far he has developed.
This was my defense btw.
Cole-Stam-Nesta-Zanetti.
That side had no weaknesses at all.
(racist)
I almost won with 4-4-2 but lost in the semi finals to the huge favorite, but gave a good fight.
Peruzzi
Carlos Alberto -- Vierchowod -- Baresi -- Breitner
Figo ---- Scholes -- Keane ---- Nedved
Crespo -- Batistuta
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Lookey lookey!
Depends on the draft and all as sometimes there are say 14 absolute top players and then being the 14th pick is obviously great as you then get to pick right away after that. Or if there are 18 top picks - being last or second last means you get two of the top players while everybody else just gets one.
I would say overall the best is to be either first or last, or very close to it as then you can double pick without people ruining your intentions. It is also the most boring though unless the draft has a good pace and they most often don't.
Being in the middle is the funniest though by a mile, because you get to be involved 2 times more often and every pick has a big chance to be "countered"(knowingly or not) by the opponents.
It is a bit of a feeling thing. Sometimes you just want to avoid all the nerve-wrecking crap and pick your two players and come back 3 days later to make your next 2 picks. Sometimes you want to be more involved in discussions and keep tabs on the updates and all and then it may be funnier to be in the middle.
Whole lotta a names being thrown around.
Juuuuuuuust sayin.
Juuuuuuuust sayin.
The feck guys. Drafting hasn't started yet, so I don't take it too seriously. After all, all those names are constantly named somewhere on the Caf. I doubt anyone will go back in this thread and read up on those names next week.
But once we start drafting, naming unpicked players has to stop.
But once we start drafting, naming unpicked players has to stop.
In the British/Irish draft 4-4-2 variations were plentiful, for obvious reasons. I don't recall precisely what teams were fielded in the final, though - but I reckon it's more than possible the winner sported something like a 4-4-2.
The final was 4-5-1 vs 4-5-1
Right. Pretty close, I suppose, depending on how one looks at things.
Should be said, of course, that the standout wingers in that draft were highly traditional, rather than the "wide midfielder" sort you'd usually favour in a certain kind of 4-4-2. So, I guess is depends on what sort of 4-4-2 one is actually talking about. 70s or 90s - very different kettles of fish, actually.
Can we start without time limits now and only enforce them from the 8th?
Strikes me, thinking about on-paper formations, how some aspects are completely obliterated if you just look at the - well - numbers.
Even the most static kind of 4-4-2, if we're sticking to English football for the sake of argument, hardly ever meant two - say - traditional centre forwards up front. At worst, it was a "little man/big man" combo (with the former being a quick 'un and the latter being a pure target man), at best it was - actually - a combination of a ball player/creator and a finisher/poacher. Which is, obviously, embarrassingly close to a sort of "No 10 slash No 9" combo. Look at Cantona's role * in Fergie's set-up, which is a 4-4-2 if anything ever was.
The greatest difference usually lies in the function of the wide men, though. A 90s style wide midfielder/winger will usually be a less purely offensive player than an early 70s ** style winger.
* Which is not to indicate that Cantona was a "traditional" second striker, which he was, partly, but certainly not always - but rather to introduce doubt, confusion and hopefully fear (maybe even loathing) in the reader of this post.
** Or earlier, obviously. The point being that the development from purely attacking wingers (outside lefts/rights) to "wide midfielders" was a gradual one.
Even the most static kind of 4-4-2, if we're sticking to English football for the sake of argument, hardly ever meant two - say - traditional centre forwards up front. At worst, it was a "little man/big man" combo (with the former being a quick 'un and the latter being a pure target man), at best it was - actually - a combination of a ball player/creator and a finisher/poacher. Which is, obviously, embarrassingly close to a sort of "No 10 slash No 9" combo. Look at Cantona's role * in Fergie's set-up, which is a 4-4-2 if anything ever was.
The greatest difference usually lies in the function of the wide men, though. A 90s style wide midfielder/winger will usually be a less purely offensive player than an early 70s ** style winger.
* Which is not to indicate that Cantona was a "traditional" second striker, which he was, partly, but certainly not always - but rather to introduce doubt, confusion and hopefully fear (maybe even loathing) in the reader of this post.
** Or earlier, obviously. The point being that the development from purely attacking wingers (outside lefts/rights) to "wide midfielders" was a gradual one.
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Or we can have another draft while we waitCan we start without time limits now and only enforce them from the 8th?
I can mod a ultra fast PL sheep draft for 8 if there's interest. Only halfjoking, i'd do it.
By the way, can I get a list of all tournaments available to select from because I don't even know where I am supposed to be researching.
It was a joke