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Subject: Message Board Team (Week 6) Posted by: Bubba - [6816256] Mon, Oct 02, 06:15 Our team scored a respectable 428 SWP on Saturday, from only 5 players. We're still waiting for Sunday's SWP. With the market so screwy, we should think about who to drop/pick up for money purposes. We have plenty of trades left so we can afford to pick up gainers who we might not necessarily keep for the roster freeze. I suggest Di Canio->A. Smith. Any others? current roster: Flowers Harte Le Saux Pearce Johnsen Scholes Carrick Beckham Cole Owen Di Canio 9 transfers 1.49 M cash P.S. With baseball finally over (now was that an interesting final week-end?)--that's the last time I manage more than one SW team--I can concentrate more on soccer, at least until I start obsessing about SW hockey. | ||||||
| 1 | Bubba ID: 6816256 Mon, Oct 02, 16:04 |
Correction: We scored 726, not 428, and 223 on Sunday. And the next Premiership matches won't be until the weekend of Saturday, October 14, due to World Cup qualifying matches, so we'll have 2 transfer refreshes before then. This should be a good money-making time, just like the similar situation a few weeks ago. I've posted the matches below to help stimulate some ideas. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14 Arsenal v Aston Villa Coventry City v Tottenham Hotspur Everton v Southampton Ipswich Town v West Ham United Leeds United v Charlton Athletic Leicester City v Manchester United Manchester City v Bradford City Sunderland v Chelsea SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15 Derby County v Liverpool MONDAY, OCTOBER 16 Middlesbrough v Newcastle United | |||||
| 2 | Urmas ID: 5782874 Tue, Oct 03, 02:49 |
Bubba, you forgot Leeds vs Aston Villa at October 18. I like di Canio -> A. Smith move. I think Owen should be replaced too (and bought back before 14th) - he's been losing in price lately and this trend will probably continue for a while. I think Thierry Henry or Marcus Stewart would be good replacements. | |||||
| 3 | El Tel ID: 117443011 Tue, Oct 03, 05:27 |
Make the money Bubba.Sorry about Desailly->Harte.Leeds are in Turkey on the 18th,though the Villa fixture list on Sky continues to show a make-up game that day;5/5/01 is floated elsewhere. My patience with SW's handling of this game is evaporating fast.I've e-mailed them to this effect.The scoring currently makes no sense.My better team was 8th yesterday and 1700 and something today-both wrong.Luckily their message boards are carrying many similar complaints.I wish we had J or aa running standings so that we could see just how compromised the integrity of this game is.Let's hope they sort it out.Otherwise I'll do a di Canio on Mr Mattingly and serve a suspension sine die. El Tel | |||||
| 4 | Bubba ID: 6816256 Tue, Oct 03, 05:28 |
Thanks Urmas. You're right, we should get rid of Owen also. There wasn't as obvious a replacement for him as Smith was for Di Canio, but Henry is as good a choice as any. I will go ahead and make these trades now, before the price change. Di Canio->A, Smith Owen->Henry 7 transfers left 5.59 M in cash | |||||
| 5 | Urmas ID: 5782874 Tue, Oct 03, 06:33 | Thanks El Tel! I would've invested heavily in Leeds and Villa players hoping to pick up that extra game... Another proof, that RotoGuru boards are damn useful! | |||||
| 6 | El Tel ID: 117443011 Tue, Oct 03, 06:55 |
Hey Urmas,don't let a little thing like that stop you stacking Leeds players.With all the transfers I might well go with Harte,Bowyer,Bakke,Smith and Viduka home to Charlton. El Tel | |||||
| 7 | Bubba ID: 6816256 Wed, Oct 04, 05:16 |
With so many transfers in hand, I took the initiative of trading Johnsen->Rowett to try and get a piece of his upward value. So now we have: Flowers Harte Rowett Pearce Le Saux Scholes Carrick Cole Beckham Smith Henry 10 transfers 2.56 M in cash | |||||
| 8 | VIDevilRays ID: 11713189 Wed, Oct 04, 14:40 |
Sounds good Bubba. Is the scoring screwed up or what? I scored about 70 less than the first place team in our division, but went from 300+ wwr to 3,000+!!!. The first place team in my division is still ranked in the top 100. Did they double points somewhere or am I just ranting? | |||||
| 9 | El Tel ID: 117443011 Thu, Oct 05, 03:56 |
VID,the scoring and ranking are completely effed up.SW has not acknowledged my e-mail as yet,but I have prised some form of recognition of the problem from The Commish(whoever he is)on the member services section of the SW notice boards.Feel I am transmogrifying into an eccentric German and award myself first vote as Boycott Smallworld Jnr. (aka El Tel) | |||||
| 10 | Bubba ID: 6816256 Thu, Oct 05, 06:13 |
All Hail the first Boycott Smallworld Jr! BTW did you have to get permission from Hark? :) Thanks guys for being so vigilant when it comes to scoring and stuff. I'm too clueless/lazy when it comes to that. Hopefully I'll benefit from any corrections, otherwise I rescind my thanks! In all seriousness, it's hard to enjoy the game when it's so lacking in integrity. | |||||
| 11 | VIDevilRays ID: 11713189 Thu, Oct 05, 13:37 |
Well I just rechecked. The first place team in my division scored less than I did this weekend, but went up to 19 wwr, while I lost 3,000 wwr! This is crazy! | |||||
| 12 | Urmas ID: 5782874 Mon, Oct 09, 06:39 |
Although it's at least 2 days too late I think we'd still be beter off if we go Beckham -> Hamann NOW, because: 1. Beckham dropped 590KŁ today, but is still way above his initial price. Hamann has gone up for last muchas days. 2. Beckham aggravated his injury in WC qualification game against Germany and is not expected to play against Finland this Wednesday. Hamann scored the lone goal of the game. 3. Next opponent of ManU is Leicester. Liverpool will play Derby. | |||||
| 13 | Bubba ID: 6816256 Tue, Oct 10, 05:53 | You're absolutely right, Urmas. Thanks for the heads-up. I just made that trade for my own team and for us. I hadn't done much web surfing lately, so I didn't realize Beckham was injured and was dropping like a rock in value. After making the Beckham->Hamann trade, we have 9 transfers and 6.19 M. | |||||
| 14 | El Tel ID: 117443011 Tue, Oct 10, 06:10 |
Le Saux has started a slippery slide too after his calf injury prevented him going to Finland. Silvinho? El Tel | |||||
| 15 | Bubba ID: 6816256 Tue, Oct 10, 06:10 |
What's up with Le Saux? He just lost 100,000. Should we trade him for Desailly or someone else? At least I dropped Beckham in time (-830,000 today). Is that the highest one day drop so far? | |||||
| 16 | Bubba ID: 6816256 Tue, Oct 10, 06:13 | Thanks El Tel. Looks like we posted at the same time. So far we have 2 suggestions for Le Saux's replacement: Silvinho and Desailly. Any others? | |||||
| 17 | Urmas ID: 5782874 Tue, Oct 10, 06:39 | Desailly and Silvinho are both good. My vote goes to Le Saux -> Desailly. | |||||
| 18 | Bubba ID: 6816256 Wed, Oct 11, 05:30 | I have a feeling Le Saux may be in for a big loss today, since he was yesterday's only 100-grand loser (apart from Beckham). So I will do Le Saux->Desailly even though there were only 3 votes, 2 for Desailly and 1 for Silvinho. | |||||
| 19 | Roo ID: 30624522 Wed, Oct 11, 18:26 | Told you (Le) Saux! | |||||
| 20 | Bubba ID: 6816256 Thu, Oct 12, 06:50 |
Nice pun Roo! Here's our current team: Flowers Harte Rowett Pearce Desailly Scholes Carrick J. Cole Hamann Smith Henry Transfers Remaining: 12 SWŁ Remaining: 2,780,000 Lineup Value: 68,320,000 SWŁ We don't have any worries for the time being as far as big money losers, so that's good. With all of our transfers, should we make any other moves before the roster freeze? | |||||
| 21 | Urmas ID: 5782874 Thu, Oct 12, 07:52 |
I quite like the current official sleeper of Smallworld. So that would be Carrick -> Anderton then. I think Anderton, back from injury, may do better against not so good Coventry than Carrick against surprisingly good Ipswich. Some more food for thought (no votes here): Drop Pearce? Somehow I don't like the idea of having too much Hammers in our roster before their game against Ipswich. Sure Pearce has done very well recently, but... With Adams possibly out with injury, Oleg Luzhny could be good replacement. Do we really want to have Flowers when Foxes face the strong attack of ManU? It's even rumored that Beckham may return to this game. Maybe we'd be better off with Ed De Goey? I've also had this idea about picking up Owen, but I don't think we really need to do this in MBT. Both Henry and Smith are just as likely to have good games as Owen is. But Derby's defense sure is a leaky one. | |||||
| 22 | blue hen ID: 34937217 Thu, Oct 12, 12:06 | I like Ed de Goey. He's a stud. And what about Boksic? | |||||
| 23 | Bubba ID: 6816256 Fri, Oct 13, 06:52 |
Good insights Urmas. I'm a bit hesitant about picking up Anderton because of his past injury problems. Maybe a good performance this week will win me over. I still like Carrick, because he is the second-best sub-5 M Ł midfielder in terms of SWP/game and I think West Ham is due for a break-out game. They're too talented to continue with their meagre goals-per-game thus far. I absolutely agree that this is a good time to trade out of Flowers. Man U can put up mad points and if that happens Flowers' value will drop a la Beckham. He's probably been one of the top three value gainers this season so any fall can avalanche. Who to get? I propose the following, based on poor-scoring opponents: 1) De Goey- v. Sunderland (7 goals) 2) Barthez- v. Leicester (7 goals) 3) the Man City 'keeper (will Weaver be healthy this week?)- v. Bradford (a league-low 4 goals) I will cast my vote for De Goey, since his opponent next week will be Coventry (8 goals) at home, I think. | |||||
| 24 | Bubba ID: 6816256 Fri, Oct 13, 06:57 |
Two more things: 1) How long will Adams be out? If it's gonna be a while, we should consider what Urmas mentioned and think of getting Oleg Luzhny. 2) I think Boksic has a head injury. | |||||
| 25 | Urmas ID: 5782874 Fri, Oct 13, 08:14 |
1) SoccerUpdate lists Adams as doubtful for Villa game. TeamTalk says he'll undergo a fitness test before the game. I think he may be back sooner than we expect. Actually Luzhny may play anyway, so we shouldn't really let Adams stop us here. Sure, I'd prefer Stephen Carr of Tottenham, but I'm not sure we have enough cash. Maybe after picking up Ed de Goey? 2) That's right, Boksic has head injury. I'd prefer Smith and Henry (and Owen) to Boksic anyway. I think we can be more or less sure, that Beckham won't play against Leicester. That'll take some force off the ManU offence, but they're still very strong. Barthez is doubtful too. | |||||
| 26 | Bubba ID: 6816256 Sat, Oct 14x, 06:28 |
I traded Flowers->De Goey last night. Good thing, since Flowers went down 90K this morning. Our team at the freeze is: De Goey Harte Rowett Pearce Desailly Scholes Carrick J. Cole Hamann Smith Henry | |||||
| 27 | VIDevilRays ID: 11713189 Sat, Oct 14x, 09:22 |
Sorry I haven't been around much Bubba (not that I'm that much help anyways:)). Way to keep a handle on things. Moves all sound good to me. | |||||
| 28 | El Tel ID: 117443011 Mon, Oct 16, 05:31 |
No shows by Scholes(Fergie tactics) and Hamaan(calf injury in training).I've gone Hamaan to Berger to protect money ,because he's sound for next Sat and looked good. El Tel | |||||
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