Ubersite fantasy football (664 hits)
Category: GeneralRating: 0.5 on 28 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by Wood (View user info) at 2007-08-09 09:18:06 EDT
I've put this in general, as baseball sucks
Little Johnny came home from school one day confused. His mother was Jewish and his father was Black. So Johnny asks, "Mommy am I more Jewish or more Black?" "What does it really matter? If you want to know for sure you'll just have to ask your father" his mother tells him.
So, when his father arrived home from work, Little Johnny asks the same question "Daddy am I more Jewish or more Black?" "What kind of question is that?" Why do you want to know if you're more Jewish or more Black?" asks dad.
"Well, it's like this dad... Tommy down the street wants to sell his bicycle for $50 and I don't know whether to talk him down to $25, or wait until its dark and steal the thing."
That was for those of you who aren't interested in an Ubersite fantasy football league....though if you're not, why did you click on the post?
I remember long ago thinking up a fantasy football system superior to the ones of the time....instead of getting points for a striker scoring...or for a goalie having a clean sheet, the squad you picked would actually play the other fantasy squads with the results based on a number of things, mostly the performance of the player that week.
These days, there are fantasy football leagues that do this....but not often to the extent I was thinking about....so with the football season starting off this weekend, here's roughly how it would work...there's a lot of behind the scenes stuff I'm keeping to myself.
If 20 people want to do this, I'll do it....I know there are a fair few footie fans on Uber....I guess it could work with less than 20 as well.
It's going to be based on the Premiership, obviously.
All premiership players are randomly distributed between the 20 entrants, and they are also given some money...erm £300million say.
you have to buy a stadium....bigger the staduim the more it costs to run, but also the more potential income if you can attract enough fans to each game.
Each game (two competitions, the premiership and the cup) you pick which players of your squad to play, which to substitue at half time (if any), and if one (or more) gets injured during that weeks game you have the opportunity to replace him (if you have any substitutions left).
you also choose the formation and tactics, which really will affect the outcome depending on your opponents chosen formation and tactics....other things which affect the game are whether you're playing at home or away, the number of your fans that have come to the game, the number of your opponents fans....whether your fans are booing one of your own players for some reason....the morale of the team...important dates (i.e, if your team is wearing black armbands because a famous ex player died they're likely to put more effort in (if their morale is good) or be depressed (if their morale is bad))...and the fitness/sharpness of each player among other things.
You also manage your money....as well as buying your stadium and trading for players, you have to pay the players wages (higher valued players have higher wage bills), pay for standard club expenses, stadium upkeep, training costs (you can choose how much to spend on training, and it effects how fit/unfit your players get), advertising (if you want to advertise) and you can choose to pay to provide transport for your fans to away matches.
Income comes from:
TV revenue each match(premiership gets more than most cup games, but the cup final and semi finals pay a nice amount)
Ticket sales (there is a good side to your opponents bringing 50,000 fans to your stadium with them)
Revenue from sales of replica shirts etc (dependant on a lot of things)
Winning the cup gets you the £10million prize
you can go into debt...but if the banks think you aren't likely to be able to pay them back you may end up bankrupt...and out of the competition.
That may sound a little complicated, but it should actually work very smoothly for the people who play, and it'll be a lot more interesting than standard fantasy football
anyone understand that?
interested?
Ask any questions ya like, I'm sure there'll be something needs clarifying.
404s
User Reviews
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2007-08-14 03:12:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
you know nothing about sports.
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2007-08-14 02:46:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
If you aren't already playing the game then you can register at
http://fantasy.premierleague.com
Once you have logged in and entered your team, click on the 'Leagues'
link you can find on the the right of the page. Now enter the code
30964-165884 to join the private league.
---------
League up.
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2007-08-10 12:14:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I'll play.
Submitted by Obi-wan (user info) at 2007-08-10 12:12:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Set up the league then on Premierleague.com then
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2007-08-09 22:25:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You should have included the "Bart-slap" 404 picture.
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2007-08-09 21:21:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by creep_firebombing (user info) at 2007-08-09 23:43:00 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
Soccer is not football and frankly, it's boring.
-------------
Saying "soccer is not football" is as retarded as me saying "Don't call it soccer." There is a world outside the States. Besides, 20 million wogs can't be wrong.
I'll start an ubersite league on premierleague.com if anyone's interested. I'm already in a couple so I'll just put the same team in.
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-08-09 16:57:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by BranDo (user info) at 2007-08-09 15:38:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Liked the idea but I will stick with playing football myself and watching it.
Cheers.
Submitted by Death_Metal_Dude (user info) at 2007-08-09 14:40:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
the only fantasy involved with this sport is that you believe it's interesting
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2007-08-09 11:59:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2007-08-09 11:15:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i'd be in but you'd never stick to it.
too complex
-------------------------
It SOUNDS complex....but it's all simple maths equations....I could set up a basic program to run the calculations for me, the only real work is to look up the player performances in whichever newspaper I decide to use, and making the post.....and I make posts on Ubersite anyway, they just don't really have any content.
Submitted by JoeyG (user info) at 2007-08-09 11:55:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
yeah, I'd be in..... if you stick with it.
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2007-08-09 11:25:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm in if you think it's do-able
Submitted by Hooli (user info) at 2007-08-09 11:21:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
"is not football and frankly, it's boring."
not enough fireworks and adverts for you, nancy boy?
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2007-08-09 11:15:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i'd be in but you'd never stick to it.
too complex
Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2007-08-09 10:29:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
yeah, but with this kind of complexity, it's gonna be a mammoth task to organise and keep track of it all depending on how many people can be bothered to join in the first place.
don't get me wrong, I like the idea in theory but say you DO get 10+ people intrested (unlikely), the amount of work involved to administer this would be ridiculous. What will invariably happen would be that you are full of good intentions for the first month (2 at most) and then you just can't be arsed with this anymore and so you miss one week and then next time you get round to it, you have twice the workload and so it's gonna take even more effort to sort out so you just leave it and the whole thing peters out into nothing with a tedious inevitability.
Seen it happen almost every year with systems far less complex than this.
take my advice - let other people do the work for you.
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2007-08-09 10:23:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2007-08-09 10:21:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
http://www.premierleague.com/page/Home/0,,12306,00.html
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah I figured out what you meant, I still prefer my version though, where you're actually playing against the other people, rather than simply indulging in a game of guessing who will score more goals/keep more clean sheets
Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2007-08-09 10:21:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
http://www.premierleague.com/page/Home/0,,12306,00.html
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2007-08-09 10:17:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2007-08-09 10:13:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
too much effort -
just get a league topgether on www.premierleague.co.uk and post the league code so people can join.
Funnily enough, when I go to that site, I just get a 404.
Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2007-08-09 10:13:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
too much effort -
just get a league topgether on www.premierleague.co.uk and post the league code so people can join.
job done.
If I want anything more complex I'll play Champ Man.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2007-08-09 09:59:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
I stopped reading at the part where it said 'baseball sucks' and scrolled to the pictures.
Submitted by Yozz (user info) at 2007-08-09 09:57:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
It was delicious.
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2007-08-09 09:46:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
"Your joke was stupid and racist."
Hi! Welcome to Ubersite.
Submitted by creep_firebombing (user info) at 2007-08-09 09:43:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Your joke was stupid and racist. Judaism is a religion, not an ethnicity. Soccer is not football and frankly, it's boring. Fantasy leagues are an annoying, overly-complicated pain in the ass waste of time no matter what sport they're for. The 404's were okay so I'll tack a point on for the effort it took to collect them, but this post failed all over the place in my eyes.
"I've seen better (-1)"
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2007-08-09 09:40:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Submitted by SunnyG (user info) at 2007-08-09 09:30:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Thank god, I thought you meant american football for a second.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
pffta
Submitted by SunnyG (user info) at 2007-08-09 09:30:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Thank god, I thought you meant american football for a second.
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2007-08-09 09:28:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
"Cant see this taking off, but good luck."
me neither, but ya never know.
Submitted by Nellypaal (user info) at 2007-08-09 09:25:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Wow, that sounds like a lot of hassle. Could just go out and buy Championship Manager or similar...
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-08-09 09:21:48 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Hmmm I would if I could be bothered and it wasnt Premiership.
Cant see this taking off, but good luck.