2012/2013 EPL Fantasy League Winners

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Wow!  What a fantastic season we have had!  Thanks to everyone who participated and played along.  Next season we hope to ramp it up a bit more and offer some cool stuff.

With that said lets get to the technical stuff.

The top ten for the 2012/2013 season are below!  Congrats to everyone but a special congrats to Joe P, manager of TerrorToon!  Joe racked up an astonishing 2,400 points and finished 34th out of over 2.6 million players!  That is quite the feat.  We will be in touch with Joe about his prize!

 

# Team Manager GW TOT
1 TerrorToon joe p 48 2,400
2 Wallofame Sir Alex Jnr 47 2,360
3 Lassana Diarra FC Ibracadabra from NCNB 67 2,282
4 Anthony’s Wingers Didier Drogba 44 2,254
5 The Night’s Watch christopher o sullivan 41 2,254
6 Newell’s Dirty Boys Adnan Syed 57 2,251
7 Lisdowney kk paul murphy 51 2,242
8 BPN Juventus ben nasrallah 57 2,230
9 Champ-Ian’s Elect Ian Camacho 56 2,223
10 New Team JB Champ 64 2,219

 

Thanks for playing everyone and we will be back again next season with a few more surprises!

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CR7 2013 Collection

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Nike and Cristiano Ronaldo usually collaborate to make some beautiful moves on the pitch but they are taking things to a whole other level off of the pitch as well!  Nike recently released the 2013 CR7 collection which is apparently inspired by ‘explosive speed’.  What I love about Ronaldo’s collection is that it is a nice mix of on field gear and stylish street wear.  You really can’t go wrong with any item from this collection!

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FIFA 14 Announced

EA Sports announced this week that their new iteration of FIFA 14 will be hitting all of the major gaming consoles this Fall.  The new game will feature much more emphasis on build up play and not so much on the long ball game that is often associated with FIFA.  EA has also announced the following updates:

  • Changes to the wildly popular FIFA Ultimate Team
  • A new online Mode that will encourage social competition
  • Multiple new features and benefits to EA SPORTS Football Club, the live service that is the heartbeat of FIFA
  • Complete authenticity with more than 500 officially licensed clubs.

Check out the video to see one of the producers of FIFA 14 going through some of the new features!  No word yet on whether FIFA 14 will be available on the next gen gaming consoles.

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Appearance Rule Change for EPL

The fa logoEvery so often FIFA and other regulating bodies take a look at various rules and decide to change them.  Usually these rule changes are an attempt to make the sport of soccer more entertaining.  Think back to the 1925 rule changes regarding offside infractions or the 1992 implementation of the ‘backpass’ rule which limits the type of passes that a goal keeper can pick up with their hands.  I am all for increasing the entertainment value of the sport but I also think rules should be used to make sure all teams are on a relatively even playing field where possible.  The transfer rules and the amount of games any one player can play against an opposing team needs to be changed.

Take this past weekend where Manchester United traveled to White Hart Lane to take on an in-form Tottenham side.  Tottenham added to their squad in the summer by picking up Clint Dempsey and Mousa Dembele from Fulham.  While Dempsey was not being played as punishment for trying to force through a transfer at Fulham, Dembele actually started for Fulham in their 2-3 defeat against Manchester United on August 25, 2012.  On August, 29, 2012, Dembele was transferred from Fulham to Tottenham and actually picked up an assist in Tottenham’s away win against United in late September.  Fast forward to 2013 and he has started against United for the third time in the same season.  Dembele cannot be held at fault but this is where the rules should change.  If each team can only play every other team twice in a season then the same should be said for each player.

Another example is an equally imposing Demba Ba.  Demba Ba was recently transferred from Newcastle to Chelsea in a mildly controversial transaction.  While playing for Newcastle Demba Ba started in their woeful 0-3 defeat against Southampton.  Southampton were surely thinking that at least one of their two required matches against Newcastle and Ba had gone in their favor.  Instead they have the potential to face the menacing striker for a third time in late March.

Now some would argue that it is not the player’s fault for playing well for two different teams in the course of the same season and I actually agree.  However, it is the league’s responsibility to ensure that teams at opposite ends of the table have a fair playing schedule.  Southampton gets the tough task of facing the power, pace, and precision of Demba Ba three times in one season while Chelsea’s defense can take pleasure in knowing they only had to play one of the league’s best strikers once this season.

There are two ways to make the playing schedule fair for all 20 teams.  One option is to change the date the transfer window closes in the summer.  Currently the transfer window closes at the end of August which also happens to be the month that the new season kicks off each year.  Pushing the transfer window deadline up to July 31st, would be a step in the right direction but it could cause trouble for matches that are postponed or rescheduled.  The best way to implement this new rule is to do just that- make a new rule.  There should be a limit to the amount of appearances any one player can have against a single team within the same season.  In the case of Dembele, Tottenham can get full use of their star midfielder in all of their league games but they would not be able to field him in both matches against Manchester United (or Norwich) as he has already played against those teams for a different team.  Tottenham would have to choose which game he would play in.  The other game he would need to be unavailable for selection.  This rule change would make the schedule a step closer to being fair for all 20 teams involved.

 

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EPL Highlights: Chelsea vs Arsenal

 
Video: Chelsea v Arsenal Premier League Highlights 01/20/13

This was a big weekend in football and Arsenal traveled to Stamford Bridge to take on Chelsea in a snowy encounter!

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FA Cup Highlights: Mansfield Town vs Liverpool

Mansfield Town took on Liverpool and their new signing Daniel Sturridge.  I have to admit Sturridge looks more comfortable in red rather than blue and he had a pretty decent debut for his new employers.  The FA Cup is full of drama and this game didn’t disappoint.

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FA Cup Highlights: Swansea vs Arsenal

Arsenal traveled to do battle with Swansea in the third round of the FA Cup.  Both sides started with some of their bigger names on the  bench and after a mediocre first half both sides livened up to close out the match.

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