Hi all!

It is that time of year once again, for the Official Premier League Fantasy Football for the new season - 08-09!. The Neowin Fantasy Premier league is now going into it's fifth year, and I hope it will continue to be as popular as it has been before. Congratulations go to Telvinder Dosanjh's Tel's Terrors 2 who won the league last year with an excellent 2252 points!!

Previous Winners
08/09 - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?
07/08 - Telvinder Dosanjh's Tel's Terrors 2
06/07 - Andy Saunders FaRSightxc2's Team
05/06 - Andy Saunders FaRSightxc2's Team
04/05 - Pete Gaulton's The Toffeemen

For those that haven't played before, go to http://fantasy.premierleague.com/index.html and click REGISTER. Follow the instructions, read the rules (link below), pick a team and register for the Neowin league. This is done by clicking 'Leagues' on the right hand side, entering the number '62273-17322 ' into the box, and clicking 'Join League'.

You can make transfers - one a week for free - but if you make any more in the same gameweek 4pts will be deducted from your total score. Players get points for things such as playing 60 mins, scoring, keeping a clean sheet or getting assists. However, the Fantasy Manager should be aware that players can also lose points for yellow or red cards. All rules, regulations, including how scoring works etc are listed in the following link: HELP/Rules. This includes info on how players score, when substitutes get points etc. Also look out for the 'Transfer Wildcard' option which is now available ( Transfer Help ). This enables you to make an unlimited amount of transfers in a single gameweek for free at one point during the season.

I will be equally useless this year at updating the thread. If anyone would like to do update semi [ir]regularly, please feel free as I may not have the time, although will do my best!

Once again, good luck to everyone!!

- FaRSightxc2

PS:
If anyone has by any chance a screen shot of the final table for the 05/06 season then that would be awesome, please post in the thread or PM thanks!

And if a nice mod could Sticky this one then that would be awesome, thanks!

Farsight you legend! Nice one for making the thread!

I beat you last year, finished one place above you

Ha ha, cheers buddy. Missed the banter actually, not been on Neowin regularly for months.

Yeah, saw you beat me last year - I am back on for a title push this year though

GL dude...lol

Hey again Farsight! You are one legend. I only ask one thing... at least update it once a week or once every 2 weeks with a nice sumarry or table. I might be able to do it at some times...

I finshed 10th last year which is an improvement of the year before that! I was 47th the year before that! So an improvement of 37 places! Hopeful;ly this year I will be in the top five.

I guess I will make my team this weekend.

Thanks for making this thread again!

See you in the league guys!

I'll try...no promises though, although I did enjoy it when I did it....

And, yeah, if it ever goes a lil while without an update, then please feel welcome to do one yourself!

Thanks a lot mate. I am looking forward to this year and to making another improvement this year! I am going to be Martyn this year!

Then who is he going to be?????

Yeah? That is a pretty important question. I'm being forced out of my own identity here, I'll be a lonely spirit flowing around the world soon...

I am going to "be" the man who is going to "beat" Martyn!

Who is that man then? I'll kill him !

Joined, but it will be interesting to see how my team survives the transfer market.

"I" am the man!

Aims at Crazysah

Crazysah calls a press conference and says, ""Martyn, I would like to tell you that you got the wrong person."

Unstuck 07/08, stuck 08/09 and submitted my team Good luck everyone!

Thanks! I also submitted my team. We have 15 teams in the league now.

Good luck to all!

Cheers Neobond!

Lots of comings and goings left in this transfer window. Have a perliminary team, but its most probably going to change before the beginning of the season!

My problem is the 'Ronaldo Question' - for the last two seasons, him as captain has been a must. However, at 14m he is very expensive - I could buy, say, Gerrard for 11.5 or Fabregas for 10 and strengthen nearly every position!

But is Ronaldo too instrumental to leave out....? Answers on a postcard please....

No. Isin't Ronaldo anyways out for some months due to an injury? By the time he comes back, his price would have gone down. So I suggest you don't buy him now!

Ronaldo is injured anyway for three months, so there is really no point having him in your team now.

Yeah. After 3 months... his price will come down from 14 to around 13 or so.... so thats better! You might not even need him after three months or even want him!

Modric is looking good at 7.5....

hmm ill join again this year... and i swear....for like the third time that i wont forget and neglect my team....and come in the last 10.... ><

I joined as the Red Devils.

I'm in

Ahhhhhhhhhh so glad Football is back, even if Spurs were the worse side of bollocks this weekend...

Will do a table and points and a little spiel when the league updates

Had. A. Shocker.

What a horrible week for me. Didn't even have a full 11 players play FFS.

Right! So, it's got to midweek and I am already two and a half days late on my first update! Yes, I am useless, but there we go
I don't know about the rest of you, but it was fantastic having the prem league back after so long, even if my team didn't fare particularly well...ok, we were rubbish....but a long way to go, eh? *gulp*

Torres got off to a good start with a goal, as did Santa Cruz. Dean Ashton also got off to an excellent start with two goals, but unfortunately picked up an injury. (Is anyone else seeing a pattern beginning to emerge with West Ham players recently??) But the best striker this week was Gabriel Agbonlahor with a hat-trick in 7 minutes against a Man City side that appear to be in turmoil off the pitch with their Thai owner. Deco is also looking a snip at 9m, and this is shown by his price rising to 9.1m after just the first game. Alongside Lampard and Joe Cole, Chelsea appear to have a formidable midfield. Giovanni and Barmby were also lively for Hull and could well prove to be good buys considering their low prices!

But back the the action that REALLY matters: Taking an early lead this week are jordan webber's totti's picks with a massive 84 points! The closest to him are Conor's Villa all the way and John's Liverpool Yangers with 63 and 60 points respectively. There is a tie in 4th place between St. Lunatics, Sky Blue Allstars and Steamrollers all on 57 points, although each has a very different team. Unfortunately, 'differently first' and languishing at the foot of the table this week is Tom Green's GreenoOwns. Still, a long way to go, eh?

- FaRSightxc2

P.S. I was going to give a mention to the best team name, but not many imaginative ones so far - sporting lesbian being the best so far, but the same as last year. A cookie goes to the best one

Cheers for the update Farsight!

I'm gutted I'm languishing in 10th...boooooo...

I'm 13th. Boo!!

oh bollocks :@

did transfers ....forgot to put deco in ..................ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

And you're staying there !!

I am going to move up this week!

Oh yeah, Martyn?? Moved up to 11th this week and I've got vertigo so I can't look down to see where you are

Soooo, another week! Another loss for Spurs. And we got Chelsea away this weekend... please not none-in-three

Anyways on to more important matters!

Tel's Terrors are once again at the top of the table, ready to defend their championship title! Not entirely sure what happened to last weeks leader totti's picks, must have cracked under the intensity of the Neowin League (OR perhaps it was a name change...). Anyway, the new leader jumps several places to take an early lead. But right behind, and retaining a strong second position for the second week, is Villa all the way, sharing the spot with M. Asif's The Kop FC with 105 points. The only other teams to achieve over the 100 points mark in the first two weeks are Matt Shaw's BoysInGlue and foreign correspondent John Simpson's The Kop FC who share 4th place with 101 points.

The BoysInGlue also were this weeks top scorers with 62 points! They also have, conversely, the best NEW name so far this season so a Cookie goes to you:



Good luck for next week ladies and gentlemen!

- FaRSightxc2

As you can tell, i hate losing. Winning it once is easy, defending the title is where the hard work begins, fantastic start so far even if i do say so myself

LMAO as you can see from my post above, the owners of the image of the nice cookie do not like hot linking too much....Can a nice mod please edit before it gives someone epilepsy

And one point at the end of today's football - worst ever performance.

Everyone but Santa Cruz play tomorrow....

I think I got like 4 points? Bloody terrible, Yakubu and Coloccini both got 0 for me. I got rid of Johnson, Alves and Digard this week and 2 of them scored and Digard gave an assist. Grr!!

Last to 8th in 2 weeks Stephen Ireland has been a revelation

4th even

Good effort Greeno! Will do a 'proper' update tomorrow or monday....

7 points so far this week, I have seriously lost the plot...

My team has also gone what is commonly known in the realms of the fantasy world as "tits up".

I'm quietly confident I can keep bagging the points, especially after joining in week 4!
Doing okay so far, catching up quite rapidly on 37th spot! Afraid to make any transfers though as I don't want to jepordise any potential points gain. But then again, I could end up gaining points if I am clever with my transfers.

Hi all, thought I would do a really quick update before the weekend.

Right, first a couple of mentions - Greeno has shot up to fifth place (formally 4th) after a slow start in the first week. He is now one of only 6 in the league that has broken the 300 point barrier! Andy Rovers have the dubious honour of propping up the table, but, as a late joiner, there is plenty of time to imitate Greeno's rise up the table (I'm assuming that is you, badblood?!).

This weeks table-toppers are Shuan Dannyz Icantthinkofaname FC and Conor McKevitt's Villa all the way who share the lead with 336 points. Shaun's team scrapes ahead on 'goal difference' by being the player with the most points in this gameweek. In a strong third place is Mart B's mystros with 321 poinrs, a little way ahead of foreign corrispondent John Simpson's Liverpool Yangers and Tom Green's GreenoOwnz on 312 and 306 respectively.

This weeks top scorer was also Shuan Dannyz Icantthinkofaname FC with 76 points, although Hudson Jefferies St.Lunatics were close with 75.

Thats all folks!
FaRSightxc2

Damn! I am 26th!

Joining now

edit : I'll be entering at 4th mwahahahaa!