Congrats in Order: RobV, Newcastle Repeat As WE League Champ

FabulousBastard · Post by **FabulousBastard** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:24 pm

So Zep... what's the ETA on the new season?

Zeppo · Post by **Zeppo** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:11 pm

I think we should be able to get going next week, if we can get everything sorted out this weekend.

So far I have this:

DSPremiership

RobV - Newcastle Utd.

Mo = Lazio

Jared = AS Monaco

pigpen = Middlesbrough

Fab. Bastard = change

Zeppo = Manchester City

DSPenultimate

fsquid = change

FIFAInspected = VfB Stuttgart

Leebo = Bayern Munich

JackB - Barca

Azpaco - SV Werder Bremen

Division III

Bubbaball = Juventus

fanatic = AFC Fiorentina

XXXIV = Arsenal

StCloud = Real Madrid

Snatex - change

Slumberland - change

StevieG, I am at least suspending you for next season, due to being AWOL for the second half of the season. I may reconsider, but it seems you've become too busy to get your games in. PM me if you want back in, and we can discuss it. Even if the suspension holds, you'd be welcome to come back in Season Six.

I don't think I've heard from Azpaco, the Div. III winner. Are you still in Azpaco, and are you keeping Werder Bremen?

Pigepn, are you keeping Boro? You may have told me already, but I can't remember.

And for Jared and the newcomers, the team list is as follows:

Top Tier

Arsenal
1 Chelsea
2 Man U

AC Milan
Juventus
Inter

Barcelona
Real Madrid

3 (Olympique Lyonnais)
(Bayern Munich)
4 (PSV Eindhoven)
5 (Atletico Madrid)
6 (Valencia)
(RC Deportivo)
7 (Liverpool)

Second Tier

1. PSG
AS Monaco
2. *Olympique Marseille
3. *Toulouse FC

4. Bayer Leverkusen
5. Borussia Dortmund
6. Hertha BSC Berlin
7. SV Werder Bremen
VfB Stuttgart
*VfL Wolfsburg
*Schalke 04
8. *Hamburger SV

9. Ajax
10. *Feyenoord

11. Villareal
12. *Real Betis
13. *RC Celta de Vigo

14. Aston Villa
Newcastle United
Machester City
15. *Fulham
*Middlesbrough

16. Roma
17. Fiorentina
*Lazio
18. *Palermo

19. SL Benfica
20. Fenebache
21. *Besiktas
22. *Dynamo Kiev
23. *Galatasaray
24. *FC Porto
25. *Olympiakos CFP
26. *Celtic
27. *Rangers

The parenthasized and asterisked teams are the lesser members of the two groups. Don't worry about the numbers, those are just for me and aren't accurate right now. Also I should note that this list, at least the Second Tier, is open for discussion and additions/subtractions over time, based on recommendations from you guys and discussion.

Snate and Slumberland: which Tier would you guys be drawing from? I would assume, having played against you Slumberland, that you would go for the Second Tier. The general rule of thumb is that if you play offline on 3* or lower, go for Top Tier, if you play 4* or higher offline games, than go for Second Tier. However, that is just a rule of thumb. The actual rule in the league is that those in the DSPremiership when they go for a team switch are only eligible for the Second Tier games, everyone else can choose which pool to draw from. That means if a team is promoted from Div. II, that player can keep his Top Tier team, but if he wants to change, he can only draw from the Second Tier.

The draw is a three-round process. If you reject the team you've been drawn, you cannot get that team back, so the third round draw is final and can be dangerous (just as squid).

Slumberland · Post by **Slumberland** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:40 pm

Second tier is fine with me, dawg...

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:09 pm

Zepp, I believe if memory serves, Azpaco had to go out of town....why he got his games in so fast....

Hes In Im pretty sure...

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:53 am

I really hope one of you guys gets Toulouse

FabulousBastard · Post by **FabulousBastard** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:22 am

fsquid wrote:I really hope one of you guys gets Toulouse

That's not nice.

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:00 am

yeah, AZpaco is in, I know he was on vacation, don't remove him just yet

Post by **Jared** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:15 am

I'll keep Monaco for one more season and see if I can push them out of mid-table obscurity.

Zeppo · Post by **Zeppo** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:16 pm

Cloud wrote:yeah, AZpaco is in, I know he was on vacation, don't remove him just yet

I'm not going to remove him, but I don't know if he wants to keep Werder Bremen. I am going to assume he is, seeing as he won the Division with them. And so:

The results of the first round of the Team Draw are in:

Second Tier

Fab. Bastard = *Olympique Marseille

Slumberland = *Fulham

fsquid = *Feyenoord

Top Tier

Snatex = (Atletico Madrid)

Let me know if you want to keep your team or go for the second round of the draw.

PS: Let's get this Cup done yesterday. We are at the semis, let's try to finish it before we start the next one, because there will be a next one.

FabulousBastard · Post by **FabulousBastard** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:56 am

Zeppo wrote: Fab. Bastard = *Olympique Marseille

Is that "Bouches de Rhone"? If so I'll go for a redraw.

Zep, if you have it handy and can post the WE name for the team, that would help. I think I have a page that translates them, but I don't know how accuate it is.

Zeppo · Post by **Zeppo** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 1:57 am

http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file ... e_edit.txt

FifaInspected · Post by **FifaInspected** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:19 am

Hi guys,

You're right, Azpaco is on vacation until I believe the 25th- He is planning on continuing with the league.

FabulousBastard · Post by **FabulousBastard** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:34 am

FifaInspected wrote:Hi guys,

You're right, Azpaco is on vacation until I believe the 25th- He is planning on continuing with the league.

I think we established that.. we just want to know if he is keeping Bremen.

dave360 · Post by **dave360** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:36 am

Is there a tryout or anything associated with joining up? I've been a longtime reader here, but rarely post. I'd love to get in if it's at all possible.

FabulousBastard · Post by **FabulousBastard** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:43 am

Zeppo wrote:http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file ... e_edit.txt

I just get an error page with taht link.

dave360 · Post by **dave360** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:54 am

I setup a quick webpage after downloading that text file for the team names

http://daveroland.googlepages.com/teamnames.txt

FabulousBastard · Post by **FabulousBastard** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:57 am

dave360 wrote:I setup a quick webpage after downloading that text file for the team names

http://daveroland.googlepages.com/teamnames.txt

Nice, thanks!

snate · Post by **snate** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:20 pm

I definitely should start in the top tier.

I'll take another draw.

Thanks.

Zeppo · Post by **Zeppo** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 1:01 pm

dave360 wrote:Is there a tryout or anything associated with joining up? I've been a longtime reader here, but rarely post. I'd love to get in if it's at all possible.

This is the thread to sign up. You would be placed in the bottom division, Division III right now.

Understand that this is a sim-style league, where players are expected to play hard, play fair, and play to win. Issues like player injuries and yellow or red card suspensions are impossible to police, and so we rely on an honor system and a sense of fair play.

If you can find the official WE League thread, read through the first post of that long thread. In there all the basic rules and procedures for this league are laid out, including the game settings, etc. If you can't find it, rest assured I will bump it back up once we a close to starting Season Five.

What Tier of teams would you want to have a team drawn for you? The rule of thumb is that those who play offline at 3* or lower should select the Top Tier, those who play 4* and higher offline should go for the much mor varied Second Tier. However, the only actual rule is that those in the First Division (DSPremiership) can only select teams from the Second Tier. (If a player is promoted to the DSPremiership with a Top Tier team, he can select to keep that team; however if he wants to change teams, he can only draw from the Second Tier).

The team draw is random, and consists of three rounds. Once you reject a team, you can no longer get that team again in that season's draw, so the third round draw is final and may be a big gamble, especially in the Second Tier.

I'll do the next draw as soon as I have responses from the players. Depending on what Tier dave360 wants to select from, that Tier group will start fresh with the first of three rounds of the draw.

FabulousBastard · Post by **FabulousBastard** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 4:04 pm

Zeppo wrote:Depending on what Tier dave360 wants to select from, that Tier group will start fresh with the first of three rounds of the draw.

dave360 wrote:Tier 2 please

You heard him!

FifaInspected · Post by **FifaInspected** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:00 pm

Fifa crosses his fingers that Bastard does not get stuck with a piss poor team again...

FabulousBastard · Post by **FabulousBastard** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:06 pm

FifaInspected wrote:Fifa crosses his fingers that Bastard does not get stuck with a piss poor team again...

Thanks buddy... but I know you just don't want to hear me bitching and moaning for the next 4 weeks.

dave360 · Post by **dave360** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 8:56 pm

I play on four stars mostly and lose most every game. I'd love to play with the Hammers but will take whatever team you'd like to give me. Tier 2 will be fine with me, but I'm happy with most any team I draw.

Zeppo · Post by **Zeppo** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:07 pm

Very well. I have added West Ham to the Second Tier list (an oversight that had been mentioned to me before, but I had forgotten to correct). And so another first round of the Second Tier draw is as follows:

Second Tier

Fab. Bastard = Hertha Berlin (Haupstadt)

fsquid = *Rangers (brother just can't catch a break)

dave360 = PSG (Ile de France)

Slumberland = *West Ham Utd. (East London)

Remember, this is a new first round (squid) since we have new blood. Let me know if you want to keep the teams above, or go for the second draw.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:26 pm

redraw Zeppo. Damn not getting Feyenoord!