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PostFantasy Draft Judging thread
by jambot » Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:47 pm

And so we have dragged ourselves to the point of judging. Since Jango, seemingly months ago, did a ramdom draw, we'll use that as the first round - a straight knockout round - we'll cut the draw in half, so 1 plays 11, 2 plays 12 etc where Teh Bork is 1 and Jango is 20.

The following match-ups are therefore to be judged by the panel:

Match A (1v11):

Sexy Like Iain Dowie FC

Green
Van Der Wiel Marquez Breno Emanuelson
Xavi
Moutinho Collison
Giovinco
Berbatov Huntelaar

v

The Fighting Mongooses

--------------Lloris-------------

Seitaridis--Yobo--Heitinga--Lahm

-------Fabregas--Gerrard--------
Joaquin-----------------Ben Arfa

------------Cahill---------------
------------Forlan--------------


Match B (2v12):

CoraTeam
(no formation given, but I'm guessing:)

G Cech
D Ramos
D Carvalho
D Alex
D Gael Givet
M Modric
M Stilian Petrov
M/S Twat Ronaldo
M/S McGeady
S Toni
S Santa Cruz
v

Robot House

--------------Coupet-----------------

Rafina--Hangeland--Gallas--Aurelio

--------------Senna------------------

Beckham--------------Schweinsteiger

-------------Riquelme-----------------

----------Villa-------Henry------------


Match C (3v13):

Rotation Berlin
(no formation given, but it seems to look like this:)

GK Akinfeev
LB Grosso
D? Carragher
CB Onuoha
M Iniesta
M Barry
M Gattuso
M Martin Petrov
M Wright Phillips
S Dani Guiza
S Anelka
v

BrickTeam

GK: Mark Schwarzer

RB: Micah Richards
CB: Lucio
CB: Kolo Toure
LB: Yuri Zhirkov

CDM: Lassana Diarra
CM: Michael Carrick
CM: Ryan Giggs

LF: Karim Benzema
CF: Fat Ronaldo
RF: Zlatan Ibrahimovic


Match D (4v14):

Gangsta FC

-----------------VDS--------------
Rafael-------Brown---------Puyol--------Evra
Ramires-------Hargreaves-------Dempsey
Zidan-----------Fabiano---------Rooney

v

Spartak Piecrust

GK Howard
LB Heinze
RB Ivanovic
CB Skrtel
CB Chivu
CM Seedorf
CM Melo
LM Ronaldinho
RM Dejan Stankovic
S Eto'o
S Drogba


Match E (5v15):

Kippax XI

Joe Hart GK
Capdevila LB
Van Buyten CB
Gabriel Milito CB
Domenico Criscito RB
Drenthe LMF
Messi CMF
Matic CMF
Daniel Silva RMF
Frazier Cambell STK
Alexandre Pato STK

v

The Inglorious Mockmasterds:

GK: Victor Valdes

LB: Joleon Lescott
CB: Nemanja Vidic
CB: Gerard Pique
RB: Dani Alves

LM: Joe Cole
CM: Wilson Palacios
CM: Sully Muntari
RM: Danny

S: Diego Milito
S: Edin Džeko


Match F (6v16):

Deportivo Wanka

Jussi
Mertesacker Kompany Distin (all CB)
Cambiasso
Robinho Ireland Kaka Robben
Gomez Bojan

v

Superking's Swashbucklers FC

GK: Frey
RB: Maicon
CB: Marchena
CB: Chiellini
LB: Juan Manuel Vargas
DMC: Mascherano
RM: Maxi Rodriguez
LM: Simao
AMC: Gourcuff
ST: Aguero
ST: Higuain


Match G (7v17):

RogueTeam

Given
Sagna Nesta Metzelder Zambrotta
Pirlo Van Bommel
Walcott Totti Hleb
Torres

v

FXTeam

-----------Asenjo-----------
Abidal--- Mexes--- Bordon --- Eboue
Young---Arteta--- Palombo ----Camoranesi
Agbonlahor--- Balotelli

Match H (8v18):

Meh FC

Casillas
Bosingwa - Barzagli - Albiol - Gibbs
Sneijder - Aquilani - De Rossi - Nasri
Kanoute - Eduardo

v

Lolerpool Pirates

GK: Almunia
LB/LWB: Marcelo
CB: Agger
CB: Cannavaro
RB/RWB: Johnson
LW: Riera
CM: Van Der Vaart
CM: Nakamura
RW: Benayoun
SS: Tevez
CS: Crouch


Match I (9v19):

Portsmouth Pirates

GK: Buffon
RB: Zanetti
CB: Jagielka
CB: Ferdinand
LB: Cole
RM: Milner
CM: Toure
CM: Fletcher
LM: Malouda
ST: Adebayor
ST: Mutu

v

Ali Dia Memorial XI

--------------Júlio César--------------
-----------Pepe-------Juan-----------
Srna---------------------------Pranjić
----------Essien----Lucho-----------
Ribery---------Diego-----------Mata
-----------------Raul-------------------

Match J (10v20):

DowTeam

-----------Friedel

Miguel---Vermaelen---Clichy

-------Alonso--Vieira
Valencia--------------Pires
----------Arshavin

----------Van Persie
------------Owen

v

El Pronostico's All Stars

--------------Rossi---------------
--Recoba--------------Mancini--
-----------Lamps-Juninho-------
-------------M.Diarra------------
-Jankulovski-Terry-Cordaba-Cicinho-
---------------Reina---------------


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PostRe: Fantasy Draft Judging thread
by jambot » Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:51 pm

Individual contestants may wish to assist the judges with research notes helpful to their deliberations. For example, it might be be worthy of note that Gangsta FC are fooling no one with the tough sounding name - they are in fact an unusually short and puny collection of players, lacking pace and height at the back and any real skill or bite in midfield.

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PostRe: Fantasy Draft Judging thread
by teh bork » Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:52 pm

jambot wrote:Individual contestants may wish to assist the judges with research notes helpful to their deliberations. For example, it might be be worthy of note that Gangsta FC are fooling no one with the tough sounding name - they are in fact an unusually short and puny collection of players, lacking pace and height at the back and any real skill or bite in midfield.


How we don't know who the judges are, how are we meant to bribe them tell them about the awesomness of our teams, especially Sexy Like Iain Dowie FC.

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PostRe: Fantasy Draft Judging thread
by Count Nood » Sun Jul 26, 2009 7:07 pm

Me vs. GM. :wub:

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PostRe: Fantasy Draft Judging thread
by Trinity » Sun Jul 26, 2009 7:09 pm

Messi & Matic in midfield - The game is mine.

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PostRe: Fantasy Draft Judging thread
by Red Devil » Sun Jul 26, 2009 9:58 pm

jambot wrote:Individual contestants may wish to assist the judges with research notes helpful to their deliberations. For example, it might be be worthy of note that Gangsta FC are fooling no one with the tough sounding name - they are in fact an unusually short and puny collection of players, lacking pace and height at the back and any real skill or bite in midfield.


You couldn't be any more wrong.

Pace comes in the form of the quickest left back in the league and a young Brazilian with energy to burn. Wes Brown is 6 ft 1 and what Puyol lacks in height he makes up for in experience and determination as well as sheer ability. As for my midfield, Ramires is a little known Brazilian who impressed me during the Confederations Cup with his pace, ball control and tackling. Hargreaves, when fit, is easily in the top 3 in the world who's good at what he does. Sitting in midfield, breaking up play and distributing the ball to the wings. As for Clint Dempsey, he is my most under-rated player. Consistently playing for Fulham and his country, he too impressed at the Confederations Cup and is no slouch on the field. Zidan, Fabiano and Rooney are names everyone should have heard of. All have exceptional technical ability, are quick on their feet, strong, know how to harass defenders and most importantly, they know how to put the ball in the back of the net.

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PostRe: Fantasy Draft Judging thread
by teh bork » Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:18 pm

Now my dear judges you may look at Sexy Like Iain Dowie FC and be wondering who the hell half these players are, are any of them any good and would they work well together? Well lets look at the players and see why this side is the best in the competition:

Goalkeeper - Rob Green
It's no secret that I am an avid West Ham fan, so at first this inclusion may seem slightly biased, but I can assure you that is not entirely the case. Green is one of the most consistent and underrated keepers in the Premiership, he's a fantastic shot stopper, reliable and he's an English keeper who can save penalties, what more could you want!

Right Back - Gregory van der Wiel
21 years old and probably one of the brightest prospects in the game right now, he was recently voted Ajax's Talent of the year and also made his debut for the Netherlands national team in February. He's competent going forward, he already has 2 goals in 40 odd appearances, as well as excellent defensively, a corking player who has a big future ahead of him.

Centre Back - Breno
A 19 year old Brazillian who was in the middle of a bidding war between Real, Milan and Munich (who he eventually signed for) which tells you something about how highly he's rated. He stands at 6 and a half foot and is built like a bus, yet despite this he can also play elegant football that you'd expect from a Brazillian, they'll be very few strikers willing to try and get past this monster of a defender and few at the opposite end who'll be willing to be marking him when he goes up for set pieces.

Centre Back - Rafael Márquez
The most experienced member of the defense and a damn good player to boot. Anyone who's good enough to play for Barca and captain Mexico has to be something special right? One of the best readers of the game and also a great distributer of the ball, he's also rather versatile and can play in midfield or at right back if needs be, a player who many wish would be lining up for their side each week.

Left Back - Urby Emanuelson
Another Dutch player, they know how to produce good wing backs do those Dutch. Another winner of Ajax's talent of the year 3 years ago, Urby has many similar traits to those of his Dutch colleague in the side, being both excellent defensively and attacking wise, he can also take a mean set piece when the time comes.

Defensive Midfield - Xavi
There's a reason he was the player first picked in the draft, possibly the best player in the world right now, but shocking ignored in the place of more attacking based players. Still he was voted Player of Euro 2008, as without him Spain would have ended up without the trophy and also recently MOTM in the Champions League final, which featured the 'superior' Ronaldo, Henry, Messi and Rooney. The best distributer of the ball in the game, a great tackler and he's competent going forward as well, a great all rounder and a player who only plays in successful team, such as this one

Centre Midfield - Jack Collison
If this lad was English the media would be creaming themselves over this lad right now, unfortunately he chose to play for Wales and is ignored as such. Another product of the West Ham youth academy and surely, but sadly, destined for bigger things, he can score goals as well as set them up.

Centre Midfield - João Moutinho
Just watch this, yes he's that good, all the time


Attacking Midfield - Sebastian Giovinco
If Juventus rate him then he can't be gooseberry fool can he? One of Italian footballs brightest prospects, he does his job of creating goals, scoring them and generally being a pain in the rear end of defenses with his mazy running and lightning pace, a force that none of these other sides will want to be up against.

Striker - DIMITAR Berbatov!
Most of the Man U fans on here moan like crazy about this man, because he's lazy, doesn't score enough and is just a waste of money. But that's because the system at United doesn't suit his style of play, he's one of the best players I've seen live (and I've seen many), because he's so amazingly talented. In this system he'll be back to his best, scoring numerous goals and also providing them for his team mates, I pity the fool who'll be trying to deal with this master of his craft.

Stiker - Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
The Hunter and with a nickname like that it tells you exactly what he does. In 3 years at Ajax he scored 76 goals in 92 games which earned him a move to Real where he scored 8 in 20, mostly being used as a sub. He's the all time leading scorer for the Dutch under 21s and has been labelled by some as the new Van Basten :shock: If you see him on the team sheet against you, you'd better hope you've put an army in front of the goal, because it's the only way you're going to stop this man from scoring.

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PostRe: Fantasy Draft Judging thread
by Dolph Wiggler » Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:39 pm

You dick :lol:

There's no way i'm gonna spend time writing a review of my team like that. But then again i don't need to, as my players are that good 8-) :shifty:

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PostRe: Fantasy Draft Judging thread
by Harry Ola » Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:53 am

One of the judges needs to be first above the parapet, so here goes. Just to say I have based my judgements on each of the ten match-ups.

Match A

Sexy Iain Dowie FC have a good mixture of youth and experience. It is a good balanced team, although I remain unconvinced Xavi is ideally suited to a holding role. Lots of great players in The Fighting Mongooses, but I worry that Gerrard, Fabregas and Cahill would want to be all playing in the same hole. If the Mongooses could find some balance, their midfield looks very strong, but I think SIDFC would match up as well as most. The lack of pace up front for SIDFC would not be a big problem in this game.

Result: Win for SIDFC

Match B

This could well be a high scoring game. I would worry greatly about CoraTeam’s ability to tackle back. I think the big men up front would cause Gallas all sorts of bother though. I think Henry might be kept quiet by Carvalho and Alex. CoraTeam have the greater offensive threat, but look ripe for the taking in midfield. I think between Villa and Riquelme, they would have the guile to do so.

Result: Win for Robot House

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PostRe: Fantasy Draft Judging thread
by Harry Ola » Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:54 am

Match C

This is a very difficult match-up. You have a team with an incredibly strong midfield but looks sorely lacking at the back (Rotation Berlin) against a strong three-pronged attack from Brick Team. I suspect Diarra, Carrick and Giggs would be overrun in midfield, so much would depend on the full backs making up the difference because I do not see much help coming from the forwards. Would Anelka/Guiza hurt Lucio/Toure though. Really tough one this, so a moment of magic from Iniesta will win the day.

Result: Win for Rotation Berlin

Match D

These look like quite evenly matched teams and both have good balance. On the grounds that I think Eto’o and Drogba would cause Brown and Puyol quite a lot of bother, I think that will prove to be the deciding factor.

Result: Win for Spartak Piecrust

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PostRe: Fantasy Draft Judging thread
by Harry Ola » Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:54 am

Match E

I think much would rest on the ability of Messi to dictate this game. I do not see Campbell/Pato causing the Mockmasterds defence any trouble at all. With Palacios and Muntari, I doubt Messi could entirely dominate the match. Not many goals in this one, so it could be decided from a moment of brilliance, but not from Messi.

Result: Win for The Inglorious Mockmasterds
Match F

I do not see much to protect Kompany and Distin from something of an onslaught and I would not expect them to withstrand it. I can see lots of goals from Higuan and Aguerro. Going forward, Deportivo would create plenty of chances too, but I am not sure Gomez and Bojan will finish them.

Result: Win for Swashbucklers FC

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PostRe: Fantasy Draft Judging thread
by Harry Ola » Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:55 am

Match G

This looked like quite a mismatch to me. The top drawer players all appear for Rogue Team. With Totti and Pirlo, I would worry about pace, but that is nicely balanced with Walcott. Mexes has always struck me as susceptible to blistering pace and so Torres to win this one.

Result: Win for Rogue Team

Match H

Two very balanced and well matched teams again. I was not sure where the moment of brilliance would come from for either team, so I decided this one on a mistake from the keeper.

Result: Win for Meh FC

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PostRe: Fantasy Draft Judging thread
by Harry Ola » Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:55 am

Match I

The good players on these teams cancel each other out, such as Ribery vs Cole. I am struggling to see where any goals come from between these two, so it goes to penalties. On the grounds that all of Malouda/Adebayour/Mitu seem a bit soft in the head then…

Result: Win for Ali Dia Memorial

Match J

El Pronostico have good players on the wings and so I would worry about Pires’ ability to track back. I would definitely worry about the ability of both Van Persie and Owen to last 90 minutes! I also have questions as to whether Rossi can lead the line on his own. That said, these are two very well balanced teams, both built on strong foundations. The deciding factor for me is that Pires/Owen/Vierra all have their best days behind them.

Result: Win for El Pronostico All Stars

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PostRe: Fantasy Draft Judging thread
by RogueLeader » Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:42 pm

Harry Ola wrote:Match G

This looked like quite a mismatch to me. The top drawer players all appear for Rogue Team. With Totti and Pirlo, I would worry about pace, but that is nicely balanced with Walcott. Mexes has always struck me as susceptible to blistering pace and so Torres to win this one.

Result: Win for Rogue Team


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PostRe: Fantasy Draft Judging thread
by Mockmaster » Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:46 pm

Harry Ola wrote:Match E

I think much would rest on the ability of Messi to dictate this game. I do not see Campbell/Pato causing the Mockmasterds defence any trouble at all. With Palacios and Muntari, I doubt Messi could entirely dominate the match. Not many goals in this one, so it could be decided from a moment of brilliance, but not from Messi.

Result: Win for The Inglorious Mockmasterds


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PostRe: Fantasy Draft Judging thread
by jambot » Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:42 pm

Exemplary judging by Mr H Ola.

We eagerly await the thoughts of the other 4 judges.

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PostRe: Fantasy Draft Judging thread
by The People's ElboReformat » Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:04 pm

Harry Ola wrote:Match H

Two very balanced and well matched teams again. I was not sure where the moment of brilliance would come from for either team, so I decided this one on a mistake from the keeper.

Result: Win for Meh FC


:x My keeper shan't make mistakes. He knows what will happen to him if he does.

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PostRe: Fantasy Draft Judging thread
by Count Nood » Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:09 pm

Lost on penalties. :fp:

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PostRe: Fantasy Draft Judging thread
by jambot » Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:29 pm

Phoenix Tennant wrote:Lost on penalties. :fp:


You're only one judge down - it's best of 5. Maybe the other judges won't notice the poor quality of your wingers and will notice the fact that the Ali Dia Memorial IX are playing a psychopath at CB.

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PostRe: Fantasy Draft Judging thread
by GM » Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:53 pm

jambot wrote:Maybe the other judges won't notice the poor quality of your wingers and will notice the fact that the Ali Dia Memorial XI are playing a psychopath at CB.



He's not a psychopath, he's just misunderstood. :shifty:

Having another Juan alongside will help, I'm sure it was supporting the lacklustre Cannavaro and Metzelder that drove him insane.

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