Ok - back to the grind. I will roll shortly and send my results to someone
A quick re-cap on the rules for the new owners:
We will have a 17-round draft in this thread. Rounds 1-16 will snake, Round 17 will be a free-for-all for a set period of time (typically 24-48 hours depending on how close we are to the start of the season.
We have 12 teams - so we will play 6 teams 3 times, and 5 teams 4 times over the 38-week EPL schedule.
Everything is head-to-head - 3 points for a win, and 1 point for the rare tie. First tiebreaker is total points for the season.
1st = 50%
2nd = 25%
3rd = 15%
4th = 10%
5-12 = pat on the back
For the draft - any player in the world is eligible to be drafted. So, if
@Slapdash wants Messi - he can draft him. But only stats accumulated in EPL count... We typically get about 12 or so speculative picks in any given year. That might be changing as the English Transfer deadline is August 8 - the day before the season starts. But players are at risk of being bought and sold up to that time (and could even be sold after that date in line with other European transfer deadlines). After the draft - only players in the fantrax database can be selected. Fantrax is pretty good about adding players if/when they are added to an EPL team - but all players who are added - must go through waivers first.
I will create a Google spreadsheet that will track the draft - It stays pretty up-to-date - so you can check for previously drafted players. I will also try to keep the 2nd post in this thread up-to-date, but I usually don't do as well with that...
I also do a reasonably good job at keeping the League web site up-to-date - at least once a day I will add the drafted players to the teams.
LINK to 2018/19 spreadsheet - last year - if you want to get a sense for how the draft went last year (we had 14 teams)
LINK to 2019/20 League - I will add the new owners later this morning - I will use the same email address you used for the dice roll - if you need/want a different email address - send me a PM.
Waivers - Waivers will be set as the reverse order of the draft - so whomever drafts 12th, will have the 1st waiver priority slot. We run waivers every Wednesday night at 9:00 ET - after waivers run, it is first-come - first-served. Rosters may be adjusted at any time up to 5-minutes prior to a player's game that week. So players will lock at various times during a given game week.
New this season - we will have a special waivers run during weeks where the EPL has a mid-week "week" - this won't be until December - I think there are two mid-week weeks scheduled over the christmas period - and maybe a third early in January when they play the 3rd round of the FA cup on a weekend. I have not settled on the precise details but we will lock that down before those weeks come up - right now I anticipate that I will manually run Waivers at 9:00 ET on Monday or Tuesday of those weeks - depending on when the games are scheduled - and then running a second waiver manually before the weekend - so either Thursday or Friday. The reason is that players are locked until waivers run - so we could not pick anyone up prior to the mid-week games - and then were also locked out of picking anyone up before the weekend games during that period.
For the new owners - its a surprisingly active league - in terms of roster turnover. You won't necessarily want to burn a waiver position every week, but you might very well be picking up FAs every week. (one last thought on the waivers - its a little antiquated, and it dates back to when the transfer window did not close until a few weeks after the season started, and there were a few good players transferred in late in the window - making a waiver pick a bigger priority. Now with the transfer window closing before the season starts - its a little less important. But, you still will have some owners saving a high waiver priority until the January window. Others will use a waiver pick every week.)
Roster - 17 is the maximum roster size. You can use any reasonable formation. You must play 1 Keeper, 3 (5 max) defenders, 2 (5 max) MFs, and 1 (3 max) Forward - but within those constraints you can play a 343, 433, 532, 352, etc.
Scoring is listed on the 1st page in the thread - nothing too drastic. You want players who start - assist/score - and/or keep clean sheets. Some points awarded for tackles/interceptions, defenders and keepers lose points for conceding goals - everyone loses points for yellows/reds, own goals.
Any questions - please feel free to ask