Week 7: Chelsea does it again

Oh look, we're Chelsea, we are so talented. We beat every team we play and rack up tons of fantasy points while we are at it. Hell, well even score two great goals this week. Blah, Blah, Blah. I am sick of this team.

Week 7 had lots of good match ups and there is now a sole leader in first place. So congrats on that Parolin. Davis still can't buy a win while Lyon has won 3 in a row.

There were two FAAB bids this week, both by Regan. he picked up Salcido of Fulham for $1 while dropping Pantsil and he also claimed Obinna of West Ham for $1 while dropping Di Santo of Wigan. The FAAB Report has been updated.

Now for your goal of the week. With a special bonus goal from Seria A just for Costa.

GOAL OF THE WEEK

Roberto Carlos style FK from Alex:




Pirloooooooooooo:

Belated Week 6 Recap

Sorry the league hasn't been updated for last week. I was in Vegas and got back Tuesday then hurt my arm playing football. None the less, here is your week 6 recap.

The last undefeated team is no longer as Carr lost to Gargiulo by a score of 38-9. Davis is the last team with out a win as he fell 22-16 to Bolin. Paradise and Petitpas had the closest matchup, with Paradise edging out the win 28-27. Lyon also won by a point over Nitzberg, 18-17, giving Lyon a two game winning streak.

Malouda continues to be the highest scoring player in the league even though he only put up two points in week 6. The Week six leader in points was Samir Nasri with 14, which came on two late goals. Arsenal still lost to pathetic WBA 3-2 though. They suck.

Week 6 was a big one for the goalies, with four goalies scoring seven (Foster, Green, Schwarzer, Hart with 7).

Five of the top 15 players in the league hail from Chelsea.

Reminder that FAAB bidding is open each week. No bids this past week though. Get lineups in to me this weekend if you want changes.

Now, your goal of the week.

GOAL OF THE WEEK

No good goals this week and since i'm still bitter about the Arsenal loss, here is Manuel Almunia slotting home nicely in the near post. This ladies and gentleman, is how you finish! The best part might be how the guy goes nuts on the celebration. Congrats buddy, you shot it right at Almunia. That is how you read a scouting report.


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Week 5 Recap

Week 5, aka Berba Week, is over. One team left unbeaten and that is Carr. Lyon got his first win. Berba scored a hat trick while Malouda scored two more to stay atop the top player list. And Fabregas blew out his hamstring. So, just another ho-hum week in the EPL.

GOAL OF THE WEEK

We have two goals of the week this time. The first is obvious (Berbatov) but the second might be the most impressive.


Manchester Utd 2-0 Liverpool

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Week 4 Recap and Week 5 Preview

Sorry it took so long to finish up the week 4 scoring. I was busy sitting at home all week and then before I knew it the FIFA 11 demo came out. So once that happened I lost all track of time.

Anyways, we now have two teams who are 4-0 and two teams that are 0-4. Everyone else sits between those records. Parody at it's finest I think.

The best player through four weeks so far has been Florent Malouda, followed by Theo Walcott and Didier Drogba. With Walcott sidelined for another 3-5 weeks, it will be interesting to see if Malouda can hold off his teammate for the top spot. The two most surprising players would have to be Craig Gardner of Birmingham, who is owned by Carr, and Andrew Carroll of Newcastle United who is owned by Regan. Regan will need Carroll to continue his fine form as he just lost Bobby Zamora to injury.

There were a few serious injuries this past weekend including Zamora and Lyon's midfielder Antonio Valencia, so don't be afraid to make some trades or some more FAAB pickups.

As we move on to week five, the best matchup this week will be Carr vs Chickery. Carr sits at 4-0 but Chickery is not far back at 3-1. Chickery's team has scored 116 points this year while Carr has put up 129. As always though with head to head, it's not just about how much your team scores but also about what your opponent does. Carr's opponents have scored just 69 points against him, the lowest in the league. Paradise's team has put up a league best 159 points, but I am just 2-2 thanks to 116 points against (and that includes Davis putting up just 3 points against me in week 2!).

GOAL OF THE WEEK:

How about Stewart Downing for Villa with this beautiful diving header to curl it into the far corner. Downing has been terrific so far for Villa this year, making the loss of James Milner easier to swallow.

Week 4 Is Upon Us

Week 4 is upon us with the EPL season kicking back off on Saturday. Lots of fun matches including ManU-Everton at 7:30 am on Saturday. Hope you have FSC+ though to watch it.

FAAB bids are due this week on Friday again. If you have any roster changes that need to be made, just email me at jasonrparadise@hotmail.com. Some of the new players that were just bought are on the benches, depending on who you dropped, so let me know if you need to make changes. Good luck this weekend.

GOAL OF THE WEEK

From the England U-21 match, Danny Welbeck finishes a nice combination between Tom Cleverley and Jack Wilshere. The future is bright for these three kids who all play in the Premier League. Cleverley and Welbeck represent Manchester United while Wilshere plays for Arsenal, when he's not busy taking pictures up young girls skirts or just plain beating girls up. Full story here and here.

FAAB Results

Faab bidding is now closed for this week and it was a good first week of bidding. A few late minute bids stole a few players.

Singer lost Meireles to Gargiulo at the death and Bolin's late Balotelli bid was shockingly the best received. In fact, no one bid on Balotelli until the final 30 minutes of FAAB.

Asamoah Gyan went for the highest while Van der Vaart had the most action. I have to run and don't have time to fix all the rosters, but here is all the bidding. I'll update the full site on Tuesday. Great job to all.

Asamoah Gyan

Won: Davis $35, drop Craig Bellamy

Petitpas $30

Parolin   $ 18

Moussa Dembele

Won: Carr $21, drop Simon Cox

Paradise $10

Chickery $9

Lyon $4

Hatem Ben Arfa

Won: Parolin $20, drop Alan Smith

Mario Balotelli

Won: Bolin, $16 drop Daniel Sturridge

Lyon, $7

Rafael Van der Vaart

Won: Paradise $15, drop Emanuel Eboue

Gargiulo $12

Chickery $11

Lyon $6

Steve Harper

Won: Petitpas $11, drop Jaime O’Hara

Paulo Ferreira

Won: Nitzberg $8, drop Alberto Aquilani

Gargiulo $5

Raul Meireles

Won: Gargiulo $8, drop Darron Gibson

Singer $7

Lyon $5

Eliot Grandin

Won: Singer $6, drop Diamanti

Marlon Harewood

Won: Nitzberg $6, drop Michael Williamson

James Perch

Won: Carr $6, drop Danny Higginbotham

Ivan Klasnic

Won: Paradise $5, drop Shola Ameobi

José Bosingwa

Won: Lyon $5, drop Wayne Bridge

Aleksandar Kolarov

Won: Gargiulo $5, drop Chris Baird

Luis Boa Morte

Won: Lyon $2, drop Yakubu

New Players Added to Players List

Now that all the transfers have been sorted out, the players list is up to date with all the available players for the league. Bids are due by Friday at 5 pm est.

In terms of the FAAB added back to teams who lost players, here is what we will do. I don't want to give waiver priority and just let the five teams get the five best available players because there should be some punishment for taking guys who looked likely to leave (Mascherano). That's part of the risk in drafting guys. I would do it by draft round, but I don't remember where each guy was picked and that chat box doesn't go back far enough.

So I'm awarding FAAB based on my original email with two tweaks, bumping up Aquilani's FAAB and lowering Mascherano's. Bellamy and Aquilani are both going to get 12 FAAB given back since Bellamy was a projected starter at striker and since Aquilani was taken in the second round. Diamanti will get 8 FAAB, Insua will get 6 FAAB and Mascherano will now move from 8 to 6 FAAB because he was such a late pick and we knew he was likely to leave. That should work for everyone.

The FAAB budgets have now been adjusted to reflect these changes.

Lastly, here are the top 20 available free agents based on Salary Cap value. Don't forget though that there are still lots of valuable guys out there not on this list who have accumulated a good amount of points. When you put in a FAAB bid, let me know who you want to release please.

FAAB Week Update

First is that their are no premier league games this week, so there won't be any matchups and no need to set lineups. However, FAAB bidding is still in effect and due by Friday at 5 PM EST. I am hoping to post the results for the bidding right at 5:10ish because I'm leaving for the weekend at 6pm.

Secondly, since today was transfer day, lots of crazy action has gone on in the Premier League. I plan on updating the New Player list tomorrow once we hear all the names that have come in and left. We know of a few exciting ones, but i'm going to wait until things settle down before adding and removing players. However, feel free to keep submitting bids right now(except don't bid on Robinho and if anyone has already, I won't count that bid).

Last thing. I need to figure out how much FAAB to award players who were drafted and left the league. Anyone have any good ideas on how to do this?

Here is the list of guys I have so far with their Fantasy dollar values that have left the league and were drafted. Let me know if i'm missing someone that was drafted:

S Caig Bellamy                  Man City     £8m    Davis
M Alberto Aquilani            Liverpool     £7m    Nitzberg
M Javier Mascherano         Liverpool    £6m    Singer
S Alessandro Diamanti       West Ham   £6m    Singer
D Emiliano Insua                Liverpool    £5m     Costa

My plan is just to give 12 FAAB for Bellamy, 10 for Aquilani, 8 for Mascherano, 8 for Diamanti and 6 for Insua. So basically it is start at 6 FAAB for a £5m player lost and add 2 FAAB for every £1m more of value. So if anyone lost a £9m they would get 14 FAAB. Using a total of 50 FAAB, 12 Faab is a 24% budget increase.

Does that seem fair? Thoughts?

Fina: Week 3 Wraps Up

A great finish to week three with four matches on Sunday. No one finished with less than 10 points this week, so well done folks. Here are the final results from this week:

Week 3 Results



Nitzberg and Singer held on for close wins while Regan came away with this week's high score with a combined 14 points from Zamora and Rooney, not to mention Andrew Carroll's five points that were on the bench.

After three weeks we have two teams with a tie for first: Fountain and Carr both are 3-0 and Fountain leads the league with 123 points accumulated. Davis and Lyon are 0-3, but Davis has been unlucky to face teams who have combined to score 118 points against him, the highest in the league.

There are no premier league games for this upcoming week so everyone has the week off in terms of lineup moves, but this is a big week for FAAB.

For the first time this year, all players are available for FAAB. Submit your bids through the FAAB Report tab. Below are the players who have entered the EPL since our draft started. Along with the rest of the free agents on the player list, these players are now available for Auction Bidding. If any more enter before the Tuesday transfer window closes, I will send out notices. If you have any questions, feel free to ask or post a comment.

Good luck with your bidding and remember, if one person is added another must be dropped.



Goal Of The Day
Okay, this one is a miss but it is so bad it deserves the honor. Take it away Mr. Tevez:

Week 3 Scores

Week 3 scores are updated through Saturday's games. All team scores can be seen on the schedule page and each players score can be seen on the roster page and the player page. Lots of games on Sunday so these results are likely to change.



Goal of the Day:

Two up for debate today. Walcott for ripping the net on a low blast or Berbatov for actually scoring a good goal. I guess it's your preference:

Walcott



Berbatov:

Announcement: Position Changes

There are a few players who will be now eligible for a second position. Basically, the pre-draft list I used was from the official premier league website and for the scoring each week I am using ESPN. Of the 435 players eligible in this fantasy soccer game, there was only 18 players where the two sites differed on their positions.

So because of that, I am going to allow these 18 players to be played in either of their two positions. I will continue to monitor the player list throughout the year and make any changes if ESPN does.

If anyone has an issue with this, lets talk about it in the comments section. I don't think this will have much of an effect as just 7 of these 18 players are actually owned.

So here are the 18 players who are eligible for two positions:

Name	Club	Old Pos	New Pos	Value	Owner
Milan Jovanovic	Liverpool	S	M	£7m	Lyon
Salomon Kalou	Chelsea	M	S	£7m	Paradise
Alessandro Diamanti	West Ham United	M	S	£6m	Singer
Yuri Zhirkov	Chelsea	D	M	£6.5m	Paradise
Dani Pacheco	Liverpool	S	M	£5.5m
Jason Euell	Blackpool	M	S	£5.5m
Tuncay Sanli	Stoke City	M	S	£5.5m	Costa
Brett Emerton	Blackburn Rovers	M	D	£4m
Martin Olsson	Blackburn Rovers	M	D	£4m	Davis
Chris Basham	Blackpool	D	M	£4.5m
Craig Eastmond	Arsenal	D	M	£4.5m
Greg Halford	Wolverhampton Wanderers	D	M	£4.5m
James McCarthy	Wigan Athletic	S	M	£4.5m	Parolin
Robbie Blake	Bolton Wanderers	S	M	£4.5m
Stephen Ward	Wolverhampton Wanderers	D	M	£4.5m
Zavon Hines	West Ham United	S	M	£4.5m
Danny Pugh	Stoke City	M	D	£3.5m
Joey O'Brien	Bolton Wanderers	M	D	£3.5m