Ultimate Footy

[JACKATTACK 17]

Below is a list of d'landers that have registered their interest for Ultimate footy ahead of time. Initially I started the list as to make sure those I had promised spots to would get one, but now it seems that there will be enough interest for at least 2 leagues and we shouldn't have any trouble finding spots for people. Feel free to continue to register your interest, or just wait until Feb when the site opens and i'll bring this up again then.

Titan_uranus

High Tower

Deevoted

Old Man Rivers

Dappa Dan

Demon Hill

rpfc

ox_5_demons

E25

Jackattack

Range Rover Realism

eth38

Trengove

MrReims

Dr Mubutu

BennytheJet

Deestroy All

45HG

Nostradeemus

Green Machine

robbo24

Deez Nutz

The only way is up!

Mad_Melbourne

WonnaJurrah

Jurracane Ka-Screama

Jako13

Deevoted

GM666

Demon Land 7

Wattshappening?

MegaWatts

Hell bent

Krazy_4_JT

Jayceebee31

WackoJacko

Jarnott10

Might have to try that. I registered my interest for next year. See if it's the equivalent of getting laid as..er.. rpfc stated um...

Maybe a D'land league in 2011 ?

I ran this last year for some friends and proposed a league for 2011 for demonland.

I have a few takers already, I am happy to set it up myself, or if someone else would like to do it I am only too happy to HB resposibility. It's a great system, far far better than SC or DT.

Website is as stated above. Won't be online until Jan-Feb, but you can log on and read the rules.

Edited December 5, 2010 by JACKATTACK

[H_T 2,941]

I ran this last year for some friends and proposed a league for 2011 for demonland.

I have a few takers already, I am happy to set it up myself, or if someone else would like to do it I am only too happy to HB resposibility. It's a great system, far far better than SC or DT.

Website is as stated above. Won't be online until Jan-Feb, but you can log on and read the rules.

Sure, you can set it up when it comes online. How did you find it last year and how did you go ?

[titan_uranus 23,295]

I ran this last year for some friends and proposed a league for 2011 for demonland.

I have a few takers already, I am happy to set it up myself, or if someone else would like to do it I am only too happy to HB resposibility. It's a great system, far far better than SC or DT.

Website is as stated above. Won't be online until Jan-Feb, but you can log on and read the rules.

I'm in for sure. No doubt in the world that it will be better than DT or SC.

Not that I won't continue with DT. It has its own charm. But the idea that each team will be completely different and the strategy with the draft is so appealing.

[JACKATTACK 17]

Sure, you can set it up when it comes online. How did you find it last year and how did you go ?

I'll set it up when it's up and going.

I spent a lot of time searching for a good site that did draft style fantasy, there are others (can't remember them) but this one seemed to offer what I was after for our group.

I drew pick 2, took Ablett (pick 1 went to Riewoldt, which cost him). Then picked up Barlow for free after the draft, which proved to be a winning move. I ended up winning the GF by kick.

[H_T 2,941]

But the idea that each team will be completely different and the strategy with the draft is so appealing.

I agree this is what appeals. For instance in the SC & DT's - you may have 18 out of the 30 players the same with half of the members in your league by mid-season. Everyone wants an Ablett, a Sandilands, a Judd, a Hodge, a Selwood, a Goddard, etc...everyone wants the first few draft picks from the last Draft because their relatively cheap and value for money...ie. Martin, Scully, Trengove...

[ox_5 163]

I'll set it up when it's up and going.

I spent a lot of time searching for a good site that did draft style fantasy, there are others (can't remember them) but this one seemed to offer what I was after for our group.

I drew pick 2, took Ablett (pick 1 went to Riewoldt, which cost him). Then picked up Barlow for free after the draft, which proved to be a winning move. I ended up winning the GF by kick.

I would be in for that for sure mate. How many teams make up a league?

[H_T 2,941]

I'll set it up when it's up and going.

I spent a lot of time searching for a good site that did draft style fantasy, there are others (can't remember them) but this one seemed to offer what I was after for our group.

I drew pick 2, took Ablett (pick 1 went to Riewoldt, which cost him). Then picked up Barlow for free after the draft, which proved to be a winning move. I ended up winning the GF by kick.

How were you given numbers - just given numbers at random ?

[JACKATTACK 17]

How were you given numbers - just given numbers at random ?

Drawn from a hat, 2nd round runs in reverse order, then reversed again for 3rd round and so on.... this is what killed the guy with pick 1, after riewoldt went down his next best player was picked at the end of the second round. The order can be determined however you like, next year we're giving the guy who came last pick 1, and i'll get the last pick.

Last year there were 12 of us, but we could have had 16.

Scoring is also different, uses a category based system. Which is recommended and even though I had my doubts about it initially I think it is a far superior and more tactical way of scoring. Read about it here:

http://www.ultimatefooty.com/help/

[e25 5]

Drawn from a hat, 2nd round runs in reverse order, then reversed again for 3rd round and so on.... this is what killed the guy with pick 1, after riewoldt went down his next best player was picked at the end of the second round. The order can be determined however you like, next year we're giving the guy who came last pick 1, and i'll get the last pick.

Last year there were 12 of us, but we could have had 16.

Scoring is also different, uses a category based system. Which is recommended and even though I had my doubts about it initially I think it is a far superior and more tactical way of scoring. Read about it here:

http://www.ultimatefooty.com/help/

I'll go in for that if there's room.

Would be great.

And rfpc, I know there is no resolution, but it's the draft process I enjoy for some strange reason.

I used to play NBA Live over and over again in franchise mode with a fantasy draft, purely for the enjoyment of building a team.

When I was playing solo it was more enjoyable than playing a game for me (although I grew sick of it pretty quickly).

[Dappa Dan 2,188]

Ta for the inclusion Jackattack.

Seriously. We did this contest last year, and it made games that much more interesting... It craps all over the other fantasy games, in any other sport too. So much rivalry, and the week is never over til it's over. Great comp.

[e25 5]

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But for future reference I have the following down for 2011 ultimate footy. Draft order TBD.

Titan_uranus

High Tower

Deevoted

Old Man Rivers

Dappa Dan

Demon Hill

rpfc

ox_5_demons

E25

Jackattack

Range Rover Realism

eth38

Trengove

[Dr. Mubutu 697]

So as not to further derail the other thread, I'll just put my notification of interest for this league here.

[H_T 2,941]

So as not to further derail the other thread, I'll just put my notification of interest for this league here.

MrReims wants in too.

[MrReims 308]

So as not to further derail the other thread, I'll just put my notification of interest for this league here.

As I should have done. Woops. But me too man!!

[Arrow 1,257]

Can someone explain ultimate footy?

[H_T 2,941]

Can someone explain ultimate footy?

Read above. I've moved posts over from the Best18 thread that are relevant here and give a description.

[Old Man Rivers 326]

But for future reference I have the following down for 2011 ultimate footy. Draft order TBD.

Titan_uranus

High Tower

Deevoted

Old Man Rivers

Dappa Dan

Demon Hill

rpfc

ox_5_demons

E25

Jackattack

Range Rover Realism

eth38

Trengove

I ran this last year for some friends and proposed a league for 2011 for demonland.

I have a few takers already, I am happy to set it up myself, or if someone else would like to do it I am only too happy to HB resposibility. It's a great system, far far better than SC or DT.

Website is as stated above. Won't be online until Jan-Feb, but you can log on and read the rules.

Definate Starter Jack Attack

Looking Forward to the Draft.

Cheers

OMR

[MrReims 308]

Definate Starter Jack Attack

Looking Forward to the Draft.

Cheers

OMR

will we go live? for the draft i mean...

[Red Sox 2]

Seems a great improvement with drafting. I'm in if room allows.

[Eth 4]

Considering I proposed something similar on the 'Best 18' thread, I'm definitely in.

Watch out for my team.

EDIT: Also, I propose a fantasy footy sub-forum, dedicated to this comp, plus SC and DT.

Edited December 1, 2010 by eth38

[JACKATTACK 17]

will we go live? for the draft i mean...

Welcome MrReims. That's 14, there are no garuantees that any more entrants will make the cut, i suspect there will be 16 in the league and therefore 2 more spots, unless I have promised someone else a spot in some other thread and I din't notice (I think I got everyone). There is also a possibility the league size will expand as the AFL is, not sure.

It will be live online, it works really well, we just have to find a time everyone can get online at once. You get 1 minute to select your player or it gets picked for you. The reality is that not everyone will be able to be online at once, but the autoselections are very well thought out and we found that those who missed the draft actually tended to perform better than those who didn't. More on that later.

The 1 minute part is crucial, if it were unlimited you would never get the draft finished 16 teams * 20 players (may vary) = 320, a lot of minutes, when we did it I found we picked players every 20-30 seconds.

Looking forward to the draft already, will be interesting to see how everyone rates Melbourne players, given that everyone (I assume) will be a Dee.

Thanks HT for splitting the thread.

[BennytheJet 15]

Sounds great im addicted to fantasy basketball love category head to head formats

Im in

[Eth 4]

The 1 minute part is crucial, if it were unlimited you would never get the draft finished 16 teams * 20 players (may vary) = 320, a lot of minutes, when we did it I found we picked players every 20-30 seconds.

We're going to have to be very prepared, with long lists of our preferences...

But even 20 seconds per pick - that's nearly three hours.

[Deestroy All 14,262]

I'll be in it.

[JACKATTACK 17]

We're going to have to be very prepared, with long lists of our preferences...

But even 20 seconds per pick - that's nearly three hours.

Being prepared is always good, but I found that having a list of players is almost useless because most of the players you want will be likely unavailable and the system provided is good at providing you with the info you need. Some research into smokies can be handy. The best kind of preparation in this is understanding the rules.

We had only 16 players to pick for each of the 12 teams, with only 9 participating live (non-live picks are immediate). It took us 45 minutes. If you were to log off halfway through you'll have automatic selections thereafter, and they're pretty good. It certainly does require that one time commitment, but after that the time investment needed is far lower than SC or DT.