County Fantasy Manager 2015

[Durhamfootman]

I agree with both hope and Ian. I have got a squad of players who I hope will play a full and active part of the season. Last year I bought 30 players, loads of whom played very little. For significant parts of the campaign, I couldn't put a full team out despite having a squad of 30.

I've pm'd preferences but I fully accept that I get whoever I get in the lottery, and I'm perfectly happy with that.

[sussexpob]

So, how does the preferences work? Send a list of players in order of preference?

Ian, did you not bid on Jacques Rudolph and win him in round 4?

[Red Devil]

So, how does the preferences work? Send a list of players in order of preference?

Ian, did you not bid on Jacques Rudolph and win him in round 4?

yes, that would be the idea. Go through the 100 players left and pick the ones you would actually want in your squad and list them in preference order. To be honest I think most people will struggle to find more than about 15-20 players they'd want

[Red Devil]

I propose the following.....

1. In order of budget amount left, players with any money left can pay value for any remaining players, with the person with the highest budget having preference, no tie breakers, they get the player if duplicated. This is because they spent the least money, so probably neither have a bigger squad or abused their budget simply to buy all the talent.

2. Once all budgets are gone, its a blind lottery. The people who played the long game were advantaged by having an extra round, that makes up for the fact that smaller teams with high value per player teams had one less round and less pick of the dregs.


This will mean, in essence, that everyone should either have a mean first squad but little depth, a well balanced team, or really good depth and little start quality... Either way, its then a more balanced competition?

1. would negate the point of having 4 rounds of bids though - we may as well just have 5 rounds of bids. The whole point should be that by this stage everyone had the same opportunity to spend their money and if you haven't spent it then it's gone. If you can use it to keep bidding then we're basically exactly where we were after round 3 which doesn't make much sense imo.

even the blind lottery has more merit imo.

[ianp1970]

So, how does the preferences work? Send a list of players in order of preference?

Ian, did you not bid on Jacques Rudolph and win him in round 4?

I did, then realised that I only had 60K to spend!

[ianp1970]

I will repost this evening how the lottery works, but it is based on filling up the squads with most budget and most spaces to fill with the higher value players, not pure chance.

[sussexpob]

I will repost this evening how the lottery works, but it is based on filling up the squads with most budget and most spaces to fill with the higher value players, not pure chance.

Surely budget left comes over spaces to fill? Otherwise guys who bought high powered players get the pick of whats left over people who attempted to spread their money to build a squad?

[hopeforthebest]

The lottery should not reward those who have been greedy to get the star players and not care about the size of their squad. Getting players for free is equivalent to some having a larger budget than others.

[sussexpob]

The lottery should not reward those who have been greedy to get the star players and not care about the size of their squad. Getting players for free is equivalent to some having a larger budget than others.

Indeed. Which is why I thought it would be best for the people with the highest budgets to pick players at their value, and the lottery to take place after budgets are exhausted.

It doesn't help me that much because CF90 has so much budget left, he will clear all the talent out of the pool before anyone else gets there.

But I think it will give everyone the chance of having the best balance

[Red Devil]

There seem to be far too many views so Ian should just go ahead with his original plan.

I'll focus on enjoying Warwick Castle with the kids ... may as well make the most of the last day of the Easter break.

[hopeforthebest]

My cunning plan is to have dolls made of all the star players and buy a box of pins. KP's knee should be a good place to begin.

[andy]

lol so i managed to sign a grand total of 14 players from the auction!

[hopeforthebest]

lol so i managed to sign a grand total of 14 players from the auction!

Well look on the bright side, you wont have much trouble choosing your 11 man team.

[ianp1970]

So, how does the preferences work? Send a list of players in order of preference?

Ian, did you not bid on Jacques Rudolph and win him in round 4?

I did, then realised that I only had 60K to spend!

Looking again at this, I should have Hanscomb and Riley both for £60K, thus spending all of my budget on 28 players. Does anyone have an objection to me adding these in before I run the lottery?

[hopeforthebest]

So, how does the preferences work? Send a list of players in order of preference?

Ian, did you not bid on Jacques Rudolph and win him in round 4?

I did, then realised that I only had 60K to spend!

Looking again at this, I should have Hanscomb and Riley both for £60K, thus spending all of my budget on 28 players. Does anyone have an objection to me adding these in before I run the lottery?

Not all ian.