Well this was mostly Wash Cycle's idea so you have him to thank! (or shout at)

GW FANTASY SOCCER

The English Premier League offer a great fantasy football game on their website, and WC suggested we should get in on the action! If there's any fans of real football (ho ho ho) in all the Gaming Worlds then this topic is for you!

If you want to play, first go to http://fantasy.premierleague.com/ and register an account (it's free ​). It'll ask for a username as well as your real name and date of birth, but don't worry too much because your name will only be viewable inside the deliberately private league, and your DoB won't be at all AFAIK.

Once you've done that, you'll be asked to set up your team details! Give yourself a cool team name and a cool looking strip, then continue.

Right, this is the interesting bit: you'll be asked to set up a team roster by choosing from players in the Premier League. Be careful! You have a budget of £100 million and a 15 man roster to fill (that's 2 goalkeepers, 5 defenders, 5 midfielders and 3 forwards), so spend that money wisely. All players have scores depending on their stats and prices relative to those scores, so it's not too difficult to do.

Okay, you've got yourself a fantastic team! A bit of a problem though, no one to compete with. Don't worry, that's where I come in. I've set up a private Gaming World league so that us GWers can compete. I'm already in the league and I've invited Wash Cycle by e-mail, but if you want to join yourself you'll have to enter the following code under the Leagues tab: 883127-161958

Okay, you're all set! Points are awarded by the players' performances in real life, so I'd advise you keep an eye on the actual English Premier League; match reports and fixtures are available at the website. If you want this properly explained, be sure to read the Rules. (actually I'd advise that everyone do this)

Our season starts on the 23rd of August (the second gameweek), so it'd be a good idea to join before then, but we'll still be accepting teams after then, albeit at a disadvantage.

Be sure to post your team name and roster in this topic so that we can keep track of who's who!

So far our teams are:


(note that I haven't got any official GW endorsement, I wasn't sure how to go about that!)

LOL SOCCER!11`11!!1!!!11!!! S(OCCER IS A PUSSY SPORT LO!11!!1!LL!11!!1!L!l!!!!~



this is cool I *might* join, but it all depends. I'm assuming this is about as time consuming as the football league was (read: not at all)?

I'm assuming this is about as the football league was (read: not at all)?

Um could you explain this? I am tripping over grammar here.

For reference my team is Sheldon Steel FC! our soccer legs will score the points!

Ya sorry I was in a hurry, edited.

Well yeah, all this really requires is one weekly input before the gameweek deadline to do your team selection for the week. Anything extra like transfers etc. can be done any time. The gameweek deadlines are up in the Rules - we're starting on gameweek 2. To save even more time I'm gonna try to post each week's league standings in this topic so you can just look at them here. It's a really passive game!

Registration that requires 2 or any amount of numbers is gay. Who is going to tamper with the password to a fantasy football site?! Really.

The Dudesoft Sumos will win.

I'm Gustavus Adolphus (part of my real name btw) and I'm managing Dynamo Delaware



man, so last season and basically ever since I've been following football I always rooted for Blackburn Rovers, but with Mark Hughes, David Bentley and possibly Roque Santa Cruz gone next season, honestly I think I'm just going to start following Man. City and Tottenham more (for whatever reason FSC plays the shit out of their matches on the weekends anyways). Its going to be such an intense Premiership campaign, I am so excited. I'd be looking for Sunderland to break into the top 10 and Man City into the top 5 honestly. Also I hope that Chelsea falls flat on their faces what with all that money they've spent this summer godddd

Also FSC has the rights to the Serie A which I follow kind of passively, but of course I watch shit like the Roma/Lazio and Milan/Inter derbies and shit like that beacuse its great fucking football. If I had to pick a club to support through and through though it'd be Inter just cause of Zlatan haha

im the habbas and i will win this shit

also how can i view what players you have in your team? confusing site :(

Red Conspiracy



Rockman I will swipe your cock down into the sand!

also how can i view what players you have in your team? confusing site ​

Tab at the side saying "My Team". (Björn Larsson is a severely awesome name btw)

man, so last season and basically ever since I've been following football I always rooted for Blackburn Rovers, but with Mark Hughes, David Bentley and possibly Roque Santa Cruz gone next season, honestly I think I'm just going to start following Man. City and Tottenham more (for whatever reason FSC plays the shit out of their matches on the weekends anyways). Its going to be such an intense Premiership campaign, I am so excited. I'd be looking for Sunderland to break into the top 10 and Man City into the top 5 honestly. Also I hope that Chelsea falls flat on their faces what with all that money they've spent this summer godddd

I've always had a soft spot for Blackburn because of players like Bentley and Friedel, but since both of them have already gone I'm pretty much in the same boat! And yeah, definitely Man. City or Portsmouth to break the top 5 this year. It'll be tough at the top! (Gustavus Adolphus?!? I refuse to believe that ;) )

Also Dudesoft your team is not showing up in the league, and neither is yours eddie! Have you joined it?

For some reason I thought you had to add me or something but I went back in and entered the number.

Tab at the side saying "My Team". (Björn Larsson is a severely awesome name btw)I've always had a soft spot for Blackburn because of players like Bentley and Friedel, but since both of them have already gone I'm pretty much in the same boat! And yeah, definitely Man. City or Portsmouth to break the top 5 this year. It'll be tough at the top! (Gustavus Adolphus?!? I refuse to believe that ;) )

Also Dudesoft your team is not showing up in the league, and neither is yours eddie! Have you joined it?

oh i meant how do i view players in the other teams of the league? i should be able to see what players you have rockman, shouldn't i?

afaik you can't do that by default, Vesper! (prevents espionage and such) Since that isn't much of an issue here, I implore you guys to post your teams so we can wonder or scrutinise. As an act of good faith I am going to, anyway!

GK: Edwin Van der Sar (Man U)
DF: Sylvain Distin (Portsmouth)
DF: Rio Ferdinand (Man U)
DF: Richard Dunne (Man City)
DF: Gary Neville (Man U)
MF: David Bentley (Tottenham)
MF: Dirk Kuyt (Liverpool)
MF: Nico Kranjcar (Portsmouth)
MF: Martin Petrov (Man City)
FW: Michael Owen (Newcastle)
FW: Peter Crouch (Portsmouth)
Subs:
GK: Brad Friedel (Aston Villa?!?! arrrgghh)
DF: Sami Hyypiä (Liverpool)
MF: Aaron Lennon (Tottenham)
FW: Dean Windass (Hull City)

Michael Owen doesn't play for liverpool. I think you're lying!

a red conspiracy

Holy shit I did not even notice that. My brain is stuck several years ago!

My bro was asking me why Kuyt wasn't among the forwards at the time so maybe that's why!

Fernando Torres?!?!??! oh fuck

EDIT: Roster change from me. This lineup is illin', and my only vaguely rubbish player is Dean Windass, but that's only because he's old.

I'm in, James Blunt FC is in the league.

Haha, I thought it was you. ;) Could you post your roster for us? (that's the in thing these days)

I'm surprised you didn't call your team ANGRY WELSH MEN

I was tempted but it would sort of fail if almost none of them are Welsh.

I have some pretty odd choices.