DSP 360 WE League Sign-Up Thread (Congrats Jared and Monaco)

Sully · Post by **Sully** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:40 pm

Is there room for one more? I'm tempted to run out and pick this up, especially if I have a league to play in. If not, I can hold off until the next season.

Post by **Jared** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:07 pm

I'll take Blackburn. Friedel!

TheTruth · Post by **TheTruth** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:33 pm

Zepp, I will just keep Valencia. It's not gonna matter what team I have.

Zeppo · Post by **Zeppo** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:56 pm

Sully wrote:Is there room for one more? I'm tempted to run out and pick this up, especially if I have a league to play in. If not, I can hold off until the next season.

Sure. Sully, what type of team do you want? A Top Tier team (recommended if you play offline at default difficulty or lower) or a Second Tier team (recommended if you play offline at higher than default difficulty, what used to be 4-stars, 5-stars, or 6-stars).

What we'll do is go with four divisions, two with five teams and one with six. The DSPenultimate will be made up of people who were in the league last season, and some among those who have been involved in the past. Of those players (bubbaball, Leebo33, JackB1, fanatic, Danimal, snate, Naples, and Sully), only four will be in the DSPenultimate, selected by a random draw.

Another random selection will determine who of the remaining players are in Division Three and who are in Division Four.

And so we have:

DSPremiership

RobVarak = 2nd

Slumberland = 2nd

JaredM = Blackburn Rovers F.C. (Lancashire)

CP Zeppo = AS Monaco F. C.

St Cloud = Feyenoord Rotterdam

XXXIV 34 = Bolton Wanderers F. C. (Middlebrook)

DSPenultimate

bubbaball (bphilipb) = Top

Leebo33 = Chelsea F.C. (London FC)

Blublub (cecilbturtle) = F. C. Barçenlona

nyisles16 = C. Atletico Madrid

fanatic (crucialmike00) = Top

Danimal66 = Manchester Utd. F. C.

Division Three

snatex = S. L. Benfica

lsdean = Arsenal F. C.

HOGZ TheTruth = Valencia C.F.

JackB1 = Real Madrid C. F.

dave2eleven = Top

Division Four

Sully OS = Top?

Naples39 = Sporting Clube de Portugal (Sporting Lisbon)

DrMacca = West Ham Utd. F. C. (East London)

ScoopBrady = Liverpool F.C. (Merseyside Red)

TCrouch = F.C. Internazionale Milano (Inter)

EDIT: Sully, like bubbaball, you will only have two rounds of the random team draw, meaning after this next round (tomorrow morning, or once I hear keep/ redraw from everyone), you can choose to redraw but will be stuck with whatever team you get in that third round (the second round for you). It makes sense to me anyway. . .

Also, we now have 14 players drawing from the 17 teams in the Top Tier, so I'm not sure exaclty what is happening if people reject teams twice (since they can't get either of those two teams in the third draw). Fact is, though, all the Top Tier teams are damn good. Maybe next season, I will push some of those asterisked teams from the Second Tier up into the Top Tier; they aren't quite as good, but aren't bad teams at all, and it might help put the 'random' back into 'random draw.' For now, we go with what we have.

Sully · Post by **Sully** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:22 pm

I think I'll go top tier. It's been awhile since I've played the game on a consistent basis. Plus, I suck on the PC version.

Post by **ScoopBrady** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:40 pm

Zeppo wrote:Of those players (bubbaball, Leebo33, JackB1, fanatic, Danimal, snate, Naples, and Sully), only four will be in the DSPenultimate, selected by a random draw.

What, no love? I've participated in one of the leagues before. It was before WE even had online play.

I'll take my limited-to-8-directions ass and go home!

Post by **Jared** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:41 pm

Hey...are we also going to have a cup? Considering the # of teams, that might be a good idea (to get some interdivisional action going on).

Zeppo · Post by **Zeppo** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:44 pm

Jared wrote:Hey...are we also going to have a cup? Considering the # of teams, that might be a good idea (to get some interdivisional action going on).

No chance in this first season, especially with blublub's WC going on. We could do what we did in the last cup if you want; that is, build the brackets, do the draw, and not play any of the games.

Next season we'll try it. It would be really awesome with this many people, but I want to keep it simple at the start and concentrate on getting League games completed.

Naples39 · Post by **Naples39** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:05 pm

I know essentially nothing about Lisbon, but I'll give them a shot. I do like the continental, passing/possesion style of play more, so maybe a Portuguese team will suit me.

And ouch, all the way down to D4. Got a long ways to go to get near the top!! And with Macca in D4 too, I don't feel too good about getting the promotion spot. Oh well, great to see so many people participating.

Also, a cup competition with all these teams going across 4 leagues would be really cool!

Zeppo · Post by **Zeppo** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:14 pm

Naples39 wrote:I know essentially nothing about Lisbon, but I'll give them a shot. I do like the continental, passing/possesion style of play more, so maybe a Portuguese team will suit me.

And ouch, all the way down to D4. Got a long ways to go to get near the top!! And with Macca in D4 too, I don't feel too good about getting the promotion spot. Oh well, great to see so many people participating.

Also, a cup competition with all these teams going across 4 leagues would be really cool!

I know, I know; after the randomizer came back, I thought about just cheating, but that wouldn't have been very fair. Random is random, and, well, that's what happened. Believe me, I was racking my brain to figure out the best way to break it up, and this is most fair thing I could conjure up.

But hey, you've had a 360 for a while now and could have joined back up in the final Xbox season, which only had 2 divisions, and been good to go!

Look how smart blublub and isles look now!

[EDIT: now that I'm thinking about it. . . more, maybe I should put the first-timers into Div IV, which would mean dean, Truth and dave, and then put Sully and Naples up into Div III plus one of the newbies randomly selected. Hmm. What to do?]

I would love to do a Cup, but it's just not a good idea for the first season back with this many people. Look at it this way; if we get all our games done on time without extending the deadline, we will be ready to start a Cup that much sooner.

I still need to hear from Jack, isles, Cloud, snate and lsdean before doing the second round of the draw. In Jack's case, I will just assume he will keep Real Madrid if he doesn't get back to us, considering what he is going through right now (I mean it is Real Madrid after all, and though he's always been Barçelona, I don't think he's going to have too much of a problem).

Naples39 · Post by **Naples39** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:21 pm

No worries Zep. I didn't mean to come across as complaining.

Sully · Post by **Sully** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:29 pm

I wouldn't mind being in Div. 3.

I'm also contemplating going with a second tier team. Playing the WE series is like riding a bike...right? I played 5 stars on last year's game.

I think it's only fair if I go second tier.

Zeppo · Post by **Zeppo** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:31 pm

Naples39 wrote:No worries Zep. I didn't mean to come across as complaining.

No, that's fine, this is killing me. I'd love to have one massive division, but good grief that would take forever! I don't want to have two eight-team divisions, which would mean a full seven games per half-season; a bit much I think. Plus, there's no reason we can't get ahead of schedule, HA! I mean, if all first-half games are complete before the first-half deadline, I'll just post the second-half schedule and we'll be on our way. I'm not holding my breath that that will happen, though.

lsdean · Post by **lsdean** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:59 pm

Zeppo wrote: lsdean = Arsenal F. C.

Zeppo, I will keep Arsenal.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 7:05 pm

Zeppo wrote:[EDIT: now that I'm thinking about it. . . more, maybe I should put the first-timers into Div IV, which would mean dean, Truth and dave, and then put Sully and Naples up into Div III plus one of the newbies randomly selected. Hmm. What to do?]

Zep, that sounds completely reasonable--us newbies should have to climb from the lowest rungs of the league.

nyisles16 · Post by **nyisles16** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:11 pm

i'll keep mine, Zep..

Skyboxer · Post by **Skyboxer** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:50 pm

If for some reason you don't have enough people to pad schedules I wouldn't mind joining up.

Zeppo · Post by **Zeppo** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:38 pm

OK. Skyboxer you are welcome to join. You will be in the bottom division, and from what Sully says, you will be in the draw for the Top Tier teams. The Top Tier really is becoming a shell game, and I hope we can make everyone relatively happy with their teams.

Plus ça change, . . . well, plus ça change. I have realigned the divisions yet again. Blublub and NYIsles are in the 2nd Division, and I did a new randomiztion among those who have participated in past seasons to determine the other 4 to fill out that division. The rest of those players make up the 3rd Division, as well as 2 randomly drawn among the newcomers to fill out that division. The 4th Division is made up of the remaining newcomers, including Skyboxer. Thus, we now have this:

DSPenultimate

nyisles16 = C. Atletico Madrid

Blublub (cecilbturtle) = F.C. Barçenlona

bubbaball (bphilipb) = Top

Sully OS = 2nd

Naples39 = Sporting Clube de Portugal (Sporting Lisbon)

snatex = S.L. Benfica

Division Three

Leebo33 = Chelsea F.C. (London FC)

fanatic (crucialmike00) = Top

Danimal66 = Manchester Utd. F.C.

JackB1 = Real Madrid C.F.

dave2eleven = Top

HOGZ TheTruth = Valencia C.F.

Division Four

TCrouch = F.C. Internazionale Milano (Inter)

ScoopBrady = Liverpool F.C. (Merseyside Red)

lsdean = Arsenal F.C.

DrMacca = West Ham Utd. F.C. (East London)

SkyboxerOS = Top

Whew. Skyboxer, you like bubbaball and Sully will only get two rounds of random team draws. It is likely you will be happy with the team you are drawn first, since you are in the Top Tier draw. As soon as I hear from snate, and possibly Jack, I will do the 2nd round of the Top Tier draw. I am also waiting to hear from Cloud before I go ahead with Round Two of the Second Tier draw.

Once again, I urge all new members to read the very first post of the Official DSP WE League thread, which should be on this first page. It explains all the rules and procedures of the league, as well as containing a link to Jason's SGN league module site, where you must create an account if you don't have one already.

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:48 pm

Zep when do you have time to take a dump?

Zeppo · Post by **Zeppo** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:02 pm

XXXIV wrote:Zep when do you have time to take a dump?

If only you knew where I keep my laptop!

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:36 pm

Zeppo wrote:
XXXIV wrote:Zep when do you have time to take a dump?
If only you knew where I keep my laptop!

Grog's house?

TheTruth · Post by **TheTruth** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:00 pm

dbdynsty25 wrote:
Zeppo wrote:
XXXIV wrote:Zep when do you have time to take a dump?
If only you knew where I keep my laptop!
Grog's house?

Ha - oh the memories.

By the way zepp, thanks for all the hard work.

Zeppo · Post by **Zeppo** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:12 pm

TheTruth wrote: By the way zepp, thanks for all the hard work.

No problem. I just build the framework, the members make the league.

I'm still waiting to hear from snate and Cloud before I do the 2nd round of team draws. If we don't hear from them by this evening Eastern time, we'll just go ahead and draw, and they can chime back in for the third and final random team draw if they don't want the teams they have now.

PS: Has everyone created an account at Jason's SGN League site?

http://www.sportsgamingnation.com/sgnleagues/index.php

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:27 pm

sorry, was out of town..I will pass on Feyenoord.

Very sad I lost my Spanish Armada team

Danimal · Post by **Danimal** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:27 pm

I created a new one, have no idea what my old one was. Do we need to do anythign else after registering as a new user?

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