Draft CL Draft Sign-up Thread and Discussion

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Champions League Draft Selection (No Discussions)

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Now onto the admin side.

• The idea is to pick a team of 11 players from the Champions League era
• You will be looking to pick the best players you possibly can for your team for all areas: goalkeeper, defenders, midfielders and attackers
• The player is picked based upon their performances at their time for the season you chose him for (i.e. if you pick Andriy Shevchenko for AC Milan, his form at Kiev and Chelsea does NOT come into the equation during the competition).
• You need to select at least one player from the top 5 league in Europe: Premier League (England), La Liga (Spain), Seria A (Italy), Bundesliga (Germany) and Ligue 1 (France).
• For the season that the player is picked, he must have reached at least the quarter final stage of the competition
• Each player, must have played in at least one Champions League final.
• Number 1 gets first pick, Number 2 gets second pick, Number 3 gets third pick and so on....
• When offline, each member will get 2 hours to make their pick, if you miss the window then your pick will be chosen by the Rexdomizer ™.
• If the next picker is online and active in discussion he has only 20 minutes to make his pick
• The game will be frozen each night at 9pm GMT and resume at 9am GMT the following morning. You are still free to make your pick in this period if you want to but are under no obligation to do so.
• The draft order will be drawn at random and will follow the 3rd round reverse snake format. So the same as last time where we flip the order after the second round. This should stop anyone building up an unfair advantage by going first.
• The season of your player must have reached one of the below stages depending on when that season falls...

Prior to 1994-95: Quarter finals
1994-95 to 1998-99: Semi finals
1999-2000 to 2002-03: 2nd group stage
2003-04 to present day: Quarter finals

• AGAIN, You need to draft a starting XI and five outfield substitutes. The 17th round will consist of backup goalkeepers. You have to draft one Goalkeeper in the first 11 rounds.

That’s it for now. The game will hopefully start at 12 noon GMT on Thursday. That should give everyone enough time to figure out the rules and make plans. We may start earlier depending on sign up.

As I’ve said above there will be a definitive result this time! I’ve set up a custom league ready to be simulated, I just have to add your players once selected and fingers crossed we’ll have the results and champion before the Leeds match

Thanks everyone and enjoy the game!

 

[Rex Stone]

Bro, instead of blame game, your only worry should be Where.Is.Terry

No matter where he is he’ll be there to lift the trophy if they win

 

[Farzad Stoned]

Bro, instead of blame game, your only worry should be Where.Is.Terry

Yeah bopping one of Bobby Carlos’ corners into the back of your net. I don’t even want to think about the vicious bite he can put on a modern football with that left sided cannon

 

[Rex Stone]

Ngl that was a painful watch seeing Bodie kill off Wallace like that.

On Schmeichel, he was an exceptional keeper but it would be interesting seeing him in this era when everyone is placing an emphasis on GK’s playing out from the back. Ngl I’d rather have GK who does the basics than someone like Podsdale or Ederson who are praised for passing.

Yeah but how much of an emphasis on playing out with feet was there when Schmeichel was a kid?

To me it’s a recent development like the 3 point shot in the NBA. If Schmeichel was born 30 years later he’d still probably be a top class keeper today.

 

[Trilly]

@Trilly

I use the eye test mate, what does FM really know when you think about it?

 

[Trilly]

If Schmeichel was born 30 years later he’d still probably be a top class keeper today.

Yeah but he wouldn’t be playing for us, City, or Liverpool even 7hag has DDG sticking it out like a sore thumb.

He’d be at Newcastle or something

 

[Juan Matas Beard]

Great effort from @Rex Bezos to pull this off. But on a serious note. How do we trust him to not do this for his team? I think the guy needs to live stream it.

 

[Farzad Stoned]

Wasn’t Schmeichel a 100 years old in that final? How is grandad the best keeper? No doubt he could be dominant in any era. Players weren’t asked to play out from back since childhood if you trained him for that no doubt he would succeed. My concern is he was just ancient that year

 

[A_G]

@Rex Bezos taking out his draft teammate with that stat

You see our boy Sammer might be the best defender in the squad?

That 2Smokkey talent ID

 

[Rex Stone]

Yeah but he wouldn’t be playing for us, City, or Liverpool even 7hag has DDG sticking it out like a sore thumb.

He’d be at Newcastle or something

Even DDG is a dinosaur imo. Neuer was the start of a new wave and in 10 years time every top keeper will be Ramsdale esque with their feet.

Great effort from @Rex Bezos to pull this off. But on a serious note. How do we trust him to not do this for his team? I think the guy needs to live stream it.

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First you get the sim… then you get the power… then you get the women

 

[Farzad Stoned]

I use the eye test mate, what does FM really know when you think about it?

I love you mate but you got mad recency bias, the eye test involves having seen them play. If Nesta sat down next to you at starbucks would you even know who he is if not for this draft?

 

[Juan Matas Beard]

Wasn’t Schmeichel a 100 years old in that final? How is grandad the best keeper? No doubt he could be dominant in any era. Players weren’t asked to play out from back since childhood if you trained him for that no doubt he would succeed. My concern is he was just ancient that year

I think the AM age fetish shouldn’t apply to goalkeepers. Edwin won it at an older age. Buffon and Casilllas were also playing at a top level till very late. I don’t think it’s that out of the ordinary but he was elite that season.

 

[2Smokeyy]

Yeah but how much of an emphasis on playing out with feet was there when Schmeichel was a kid?

To me it’s a recent development like the 3 point shot in the NBA. If Schmeichel was born 30 years later he’d still probably be a top class keeper today.

Completely agree.

I’m here to make this thread interesting and cause beefs. Feet up and popcorn settings

 

[Farzad Stoned]

@Rex Bezos i don’t care about winning but can i be designated number picker for randomizer? Honestly, my favorite part of the draft.

 

[Trilly]

I love you mate but you got mad recency bias, the eye test involves having seen them play. If Nesta sat down next to you at starbucks would you even know who he is if not for this draft?

I’m 17 not 10 ffs

 

[Farzad Stoned]

I’m 17 not 10 ffs

You are 17 mate, you are very good poster and writer. You know i like your posts. It isn’t that big a deal you didn’t see these old guys play, it is just you can’t eyeball test what you haven’t seen and must use stats and second hand info. By the way i saw these guys play and 20,000 bong rips and 25 years later my memory isn’t precise, so even my eyeball test ain’t worth much. My point is not attack you but to say the eyeball test is not enough.

 

[Farzad Stoned]

I’m 17 not 10 ffs

Ps Muller was fast sh.t in his early days

 

[Trilly]

Ps Muller was fast sh.t in his early days

If you say so!

 

[Rex Stone]

Soooo finalising the Undrafted team right now and these are a bunch of guys not even good enough to make the bench lol

Harry Kewell	LW	Leeds
Dejan Stankovic	CM	Lazio
Kily Gonzalez	LW	Valencia
Isco	CAM	Malaga
Verratti	CM	PSG
Thomas Partey	CM	Atletico
John Carew	ST	Rosenborg
Fernandinho	CDM	Man City
Isco	CAM	Malaga
Julian Draxler	CAM	Wolfsburg
Andoni Zubizarreta	GK	Barcelona
Miralem Pjanic	CM	Lyon

 

[A_G]

Soooo finalising the Undrafted team right now and these are a bunch of guys not even good enough to make the bench lol

Harry Kewell	LW	Leeds
Dejan Stankovic	CM	Lazio
Kily Gonzalez	LW	Valencia
Isco	CAM	Malaga
Verratti	CM	PSG
Thomas Partey	CM	Atletico
John Carew	ST	Rosenborg
Fernandinho	CDM	Man City
Isco	CAM	Malaga
Julian Draxler	CAM	Wolfsburg
Andoni Zubizarreta	GK	Barcelona
Miralem Pjanic	CM	Lyon

Looks like a streets won’t forget XI for real.

 

[Rex Stone]

Looks like a streets won’t forget XI for real.

People always slob on that Dortmund 2012/13 team but the real streets won’t forget team was Malaga that year.

Loved watching them with Isco and they were absolutely robbed by the refs against Dortmund.

Was so gutted at the time.