Board Fantasy World Cup
 

hey, I created a fantasy world cup group for anyone from the board who's interested.

it's at http://en.fifaworldcup.fantasysports.yahoo.com/
I can't figure out how to add people to it without doing it manually by adding each person by their yahoo id (can be set up and registered in 5 minutes) so if you wanna play post your yahoo id here and i'll add you


ahh right, the group number is 17686
and the group password is ratherripped

Ah, cool. I'm going to join in. What does the winner get?

I'll have to get a 'yahoo id'. But it's impossible to do, as every single possible combination of letters and numbers appears to have been taken.

Damn Yahoo ID's...EVERYTHING is already taken.

On a related note, the US is up 1-0 on Latvia thanks to a great header from McBride. Second half is about to start....

the winner gets the sense of enormous wellbeing for winning the sy league, the main league for everyone, i dunno what the prize is there

bump

ihateusernames85@yahoo.com

So...you have to add us, right? Cause I can't find said group anywhere. By accident I joined a different group, and the players left to pick are Togo and Saudi Arabia players. AHAH.

i just sent you an email invite

http://en.fifaworldcup.fantasysports...inprivategroup

this is the private league id 17686
the password is ratherripped

I'm from America. What is the...World...Cup?

I'm from America too. The World Cup is only the biggest sporting event on the planet.

I know. Just satirizing my country's lack of interest in the world. Maybe it's just here, but I only hear about the Lakers and Yankees until the Olympics. Sad. I don't watch soccer, but only because I don't watch much sports at all.

Oh, right. I knew that.

http://football.guardian.co.uk/world...738914,00.html
this is a pretty funny pisstake of american soccer coverage

64 min: GOAL Mexico 0 - 2 USA. Two soccer points to no score! Eddie Lewis makes a cross-pitch play from the left zone, finding Landon Donovan alone in the danger area. He top-bodies the sphere into the score bag, and Mexico have a double-negative stat!

Didn't quite read the whole thing, but that was funny.

89 min: The US are closing this one out. Their fans - and there are plenty in the stadium - have started to sing. Altogether now: Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd, Buy me some peanuts and Crackerjacks, I don't care if I never never get back, Let me root, root root for the home team, If they don't win it's a shame, For it's one, two, three strikes you're out at the old ball game!

There is actually a commercial they are playing here that plays this song to highlights of the national team.

EDIT: The game they describe was quite the occasion.

this sucks! we need more than just 2 people!

No shit.

Ha ha! I found a yahoo id - and it congratulated me, which seems appropriate.

Join in, people of the board!

here we go
is my team's name & it's gonna shake you up (regular bragging, no yellow card please)

yup

i'm up for it...

welcome candymoan and bertrand

candymoan i sent you an invite

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/shared/...06/default.stm

invite pong_atari@yahoo.com please

reprint:
Since the 1930s, only 16 teams have held the World Cup Trophy. In 10 days, the 2006 World Cup will begin. Pick your team, pick your jersey, then find your time.

done

i like this predictor thing, atari, gonna check my results throughout the tournament

This is starting to pick up speed. Great!

according to me it'll be an argentina vs brazil final

Let us hope you are wrong.

Yeah, holland or spain for the cup

board fantasy world cup, sounds fun.

i'll join if i can find out how it works... when do entries close? right before the start of the whole thing?

Points start when the world cup starts.

There's four of us at the moment, so more would be cool! It's pretty straightforward - but pm johnnywinternoshow with your email, as he has to invite you to the group, I think.

My team is Eternal, by the way, and I'm hip54129. It's gonna be fun keeping track of a board league, so more people should join.

yes, i can't wait for the tournament to start. but i'll need some time to think about my team. it's difficult to choose if you want to keep up to date with injuries/form loss/starting line-ups, etc... for instance i still find it hard to believe that argentina has better defenders that allow them to leave zanetti and samuel at home.

You can always leave a few places vacant, and you're allowed a couple of transfers.

Also, it looks like you pick a whole new squad after the group games, from the teams left in.

I've got my starters if it were an all-star game




I guess one needs to pick players from the teams that are playing in "upcoming matches" before those games start to get the most points. I'm confused about one thing though which is why one has to choose a group such as "Fans of (whatever the country)" is. I chose Italy. Was I supposed to choose to be a Fan of Other Country which is an option in the drop-down menu & have that lead me to be able to put in some group ID? I'm guessing not, but I suppose we'll have a page to go to where all the members of the group can compare their results like in NFL Fantasy Football.



Springfield Soccer Club

We've got the same goalie and striker, Atari.

I was also wondering, it seems we all have the 4-4-2 formation. Is there a way to change it? Ataris team would look potent with a smaller midfield.

you guys have some football skills..
how unusual is that, coming from two americans?

I've got 4-3-3. To change, you just pick a different ratio of players/positions (ie I picked 4 defenders, 3 midfielders and 3 forwards - that automatically becomes 4-3-3)

Good to see more people in our league. Hello guys.