English Premier League (EPL)

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EPL - Season 1

Coaches(15 spots - 1 left):

South - Gregers' League - The League of Sub-Tropical Southern Softies

Surrey Lions - Gregers
Sussex Sharks - Marky
Somerset CC - Hodge
Kent Spitfires - Bathite
Middlesex Panthers - Kiwi
Hampshire Royals - Cherries
Essex Eagles - CF
606v2 Unicorns (Made up of Gloucs/Glam/Derby) - AVAILABLE

North/Midlands - Sainty's league. - The "It's Grim Up North" League


Leicestershire Foxes - Sainty
Lancashire Lightening - Marshall
Yorkshire Carnegie - GG
Durham Dynamos - Shanky
Warwickshire Bears - Nando
Worcestershire Royals - Mat
Northamptonshire Steelbacks - Shelsey
Nottinghamshire Outlaws - JDizzle

Whoever takes on the Unicorns can obviously choose if they want to include any other Glam/Gloucs/Derby players

Yeah cracking shout G, great one man decision!

Gregers, if this is half as good as the IPL it should be brillaint

really looking forward to it mate

so what would happen if we wanted to buy someone from that unicorns side Gregers?

Whatever players are unattached from The Unicorns (who we're waiting to be taken over) will go into the released players page and be available for purchase.

Sainty wrote:Whatever players are unattached from The Unicorns (who we're waiting to be taken over) will go into the released players page and be available for purchase.

Given that the unicorns are a combo of 3 teams, wouldn't "triceratops" be a better nickname?


Sorry, it's been a tough day at work. I'll get me coat.

EPL ANNOUNCEMENT

Yet another announcement for you chaps to digest.

Seeing as it's unlikely that we'll attract another 3 people, we've opted to have our own Unicorns as you know.

With that, we're going to have two leagues of 8 teams. A north/midland league and a southern league.

Two leagues of 8, the top 2 from each advance to the semis and so on!

The leagues will look like this:

South - Gregers' League

Surrey
Sussex
Somerset
Kent
Middlesex
Hampshire
Essex
Unicorns

North/Midlands - My league.


Leicestershire
Lancashire
Yorkshire
Durham
Warwickshire
Worcesteshire
Northamptonshire
Nottinghamshire

come on ESSEX!!!!!!!!!

good decision guys.

Thought you wouldn't be too unhappy, CF. I did put in word with the guys for you.

haha thanks

Guildford don't spose you fancy running the Unicorns?

Fair play to Gregers for letting me have Sussex even though he'd be entitled to having whoever he wanted as a runner.

He still gave himself Surrey, but still

Surprisingly only 2 other people asked for Surrey and noone had them as first choice!

yh top stuff gregers

who got lecisetshire?

Proposition to change the name of Surrey Lions to Surrey Scummers?

Let's be honest now, looking at their squad, who else would want them?!?!

lol i was only kidding, but was just intrested to see who came up with them..

anyway fair play gregers for giving up sussex

Surrey Scummers is better than Surrey Brown Caps! Giving you the Sharks was a hard decision Marky.

No one else asked for Essex cf!

not suprised mate, however good to get them

Is it just me that thinks that:

Somerset Sabres, Hampshire Hawks, Yorkshire Phoenix and Middlesex Crusaders

are better t20 team names than:

Somerset CC, Hampshire Royals, Yorkshire Carnegie and Middlesex Panthers

Leicestershire Foxes trumps all of that!

Essex eagles

Is it the current Sussex T20 squad that I begin with?

yes marky

I assume that EU players (Kyle Coetzer and Niall O'Brien for me) also count as English ?

Bopara's clearly in good form..

he's not for sale!

So what now?

Marky wrote:So what now?

Well dont know about you but im cooking tea

hodge wrote:

Marky wrote:So what now?

Well dont know about you but im cooking tea

Oh. I have a wife who does that.

Dont get that with student living

Thanks mate for giving me my 4th choice and apologies for the FFS.

Come on Stokesy,Borthwick,Colly,etc

Is there a rules page yet? I have no idea of the format of this game

Bathite wrote:Is there a rules page yet? I have no idea of the format of this game

Rules/format will be very similar to the IPL I ran. Some changes tho. Hopefully an EPL subsection will go up today in which case the rules will be posted. That should also mean that people can start putting their teams up and trades can open.

Auction will (fingers crossed) by next week with the first week of matches being the following week.

Confirmed Star Players (£500k minimum bid):
Sachin Tendulkar
Virendar Sehwag
MS Dhoni
Dale Steyn
Jacques Kallis
AB de Villiers
Shane Watson
David Warner

Ok mate, but I wasn't in the IRL! I play in the fantasy rugby games on here, but not cricket, so a touch confused

Do the weaker teams get a bigger budget? Surely that's fair?

C'mon you Bears!

Gregers, I think malinga and afridi should be added to the star players but it looks good apart from that

Kent and Leics will start with £1.5 million (.5 higher than others)

Unicorns will start with £1.75 million

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Simple rules:

Each franchise starts with £1million (except the above). You get more money by releasing players (prices decided per individual player by me and Sainty). This money is used for purchasing players from the auction.

Auction runs throughout week 1 (next week hopefully), different players available on different days. Open 9am to 9pm, highest bid at 9 wins the player. Players divided into 4 categories. "Star, High, Mid, Low". Star players base value is £500k so bidding starts at that price, high at £300k, mid at £150k and Low at £75k. Players can also be traded between teams, this is done as player swaps with no cash changing hands. All released players can be bought by any team for £50k more than their release price.

One match per week for 8 weeks (play each team once). Match day squad must have a minimum of 6 UK/EU players (2 Kolpak player max). Minimum 4 under 25s in the match day squad as well. Tactics are your playing 11 plus what you'd do if you won the toss, batting tactics and bowling tactics written as well as much or as little as you want.

Top 4 in each league will reach the quarters with the top 2 getting a home tie.

Hopefully that clears that up a bit

GG wrote:Gregers, I think malinga and afridi should be added to the star players but it looks good apart from that

Has Afridi resigned for hants? If not then he'll be in the star bracket.

Malinga was a genuine oversight, meant to put him in it.

Thanks for clearing up the rules. One last thing, how much would you expect to release someone for? Ball park figures for a good county pro for example

Good county pro (no international caps) will be between £50k and £200k more than likely. Depends on who it is and how well known they are

You need to make this a subject header then, so I can post my team page under it!

Fists is going to do that later Bathite

Yep, to be done this evening, gentlemen.

Cheers Fists

Just wiki'd the Kent team, man alive they look poor! Not sure 250k extra will make the difference!

Key, Northeast, Stevens, Mahmood, Tredwell, Jones and Cook are all pretty damn good mate.

Stevens is the world leader for t20 domestic runs. Northeast is quality and Key and Mahmood are rated very highly.

happy with eveything thus far..

just hope the auction's stay open till 9pm as not around till 4pm most days, execept for today :P

Um both me and Sainty have confirmed that the auction is 9am to 9pm all next week