# The SDMB English Premiership Fantasy League- step right up. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 18, 2003, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939 "2003-08-18T10:06:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939/41 "2003-08-29T10:31:26Z")
Thanks. You’ll all have noticed there are no Spurs fans in that Idiots Gallery. Btw, **Mr Meat** , like your midfield, just not sure about the firepower up front . . . time will tell . . . ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939/42 "2003-08-29T10:45:16Z")
> [@](#): > > like your midfield, just not sure about the firepower up front I think you get more points per million with the top midfielders and average strikers than top strikers/average mids. (Just dropped Scholes coz he’s having a hernia operation on Monday). In any case, I tend to play a sneaky game of using my transfers to rotate my strikers, squeezing more games per player from the fixture list. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939/43 "2003-08-29T11:39:56Z")
I’ve had a go - The Old Fallopians. ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939/44 "2003-08-29T11:42:47Z")
Verily, a beautiful name, **owl**. However, I need your PIN number also. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939/45 "2003-08-29T11:47:06Z")
It hasn’t arrived yet - typical BBC. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939/46 "2003-08-29T11:56:10Z")
check your bulk mail, thats where I found mine. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939/47 "2003-08-29T11:59:01Z")
Why pick sol Campbvell for the fitrst month if he won’t be playing for most of it? ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939/48 "2003-08-29T12:03:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > \*\*check your bulk mail, thats where I found mine. \*\* Nope. Just a few promising looking items to improve my manhood (have people been talking?) and an intriguing offer from a Nigerian ministers son. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939/49 "2003-08-29T12:05:40Z")
They’ve probably heard about you at the ballet in that tu-tu, or was it the tights that gave you away ? ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939/50 "2003-08-29T12:07:57Z")
I’ll have you know that it was cold up there. I wasn’t at my best. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939/51 "2003-08-29T12:11:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > Why pick sol Campbvell for the fitrst month if he won’t be playing for most of it? This is a good question. The answer to which involves a late-night cock up. Did you know he never got sent off in ten years at Spurs. Went a whole season once without being booked either, so I believe . . . ---
**Author:** ![manwithaplan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@manwithaplan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manwithaplan)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939/52 "2003-08-29T12:18:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > \*\*Why pick sol Campbvell for the fitrst month if he won’t be playing for most of it? \*\* I didn’t pick him but does anyone else think that, given the scoring system, you’re probably as well off if your goalkeeper and defenders don’t play. The concession of even one goal puts them on zero points for a match. Spurs 0-0 with Liverpool was their first clean sheet since Christ knows when, so all their defenders would have been losing points hand over fist under this system(this coming from someone with Carr in his side). I reckon that keepers and defenders from all but the top clubs will probably end up with a negative points tally. I went for the strategy of picking a couple of cheap punters who have no chance of playing - we’ll see what happens. ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939/53 "2003-08-29T13:00:16Z")
> [@](#): > > given the scoring system, you’re probably as well off if your goalkeeper and defenders don’t play. This may be so, but in that case you’re better off with an incredibly cheap player who doesn’t play. However, look on the Player List for last season’s scores and you’ll find most defenders/keepers do average out to a good few points each over the season, except some notable liabilities. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939/54 "2003-08-29T13:03:15Z")
i’ve got my pin number now. team: Old Fallopians PIN Number: 426449 ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939/55 "2003-08-30T16:17:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by London\_Calling \* > \*\*Thanks. You’ll all have noticed there are no Spurs fans in that Idiots Gallery. > \*\* There is. I’m a fellow sufferer. And all because my bastard old man was Arsenal. They fuck you up, your Mum and Dad… ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939/56 "2003-09-02T09:38:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mascaroni \* > \*\*There is. > I’m a fellow sufferer. > > And all because my bastard old man was Arsenal. > They fuck you up, your Mum and Dad… \*\* All together now… “My old man said be an arsenal fan, I said…” That is my favourite footie song. THere’s a star wars analogy here too…Father; lord of the dark side, and you have embraced the light side. ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939/57 "2003-09-03T18:22:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by owlstretchingtime \* > \*\*…Father; lord of the dark side, and you have embraced the light side. \*\* God’s own team… Well, we would have been if we hadn’t killed his son… ---
**Author:** ![Gotterfunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Gotterfunken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotterfunken)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939/58 "2003-09-03T20:26:32Z")
“If only you knew the _power_ of the **dark side** …” I’m glad to see Jermaine Pennant’s proving himself while on loan at Leeds–he got three assists last weekend, and thank God or else my fantasy team wouldn’t have scored any points. Hopefully, Wenger won’t let him go like he did Matthew Upson–still scratching my head over that one. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939/59 "2003-09-16T12:58:04Z")
Am I the only one who can’t get the link to work? ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939/60 "2003-09-16T13:04:20Z")
It sometimes goes down to update itself - try later. I can’t imagine that the URL will have changed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-english-premiership-fantasy-league-step-right-up/195939.md?page=4)