Draft CL Draft Sign-up Thread and Discussion

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Champions League Draft Selection (No Discussions)

The Draft discussions thread https://arsenal-mania.com/forum/threads/cl-draft-sign-up-thread-and-discussion.36173/ Rd. Riou JuanM Beard +Gooner416 A_G jones + albakos pigge Uncle Good+ SA Gunner 1 Emmanuel Eboue (ARS - 2005/06) Cristiano Ronaldo (RMA - 2013/14) Lionel Messi (BAR - 2010/11)...

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Now onto the admin side.

• The idea is to pick a team of 11 players from the Champions League era
• You will be looking to pick the best players you possibly can for your team for all areas: goalkeeper, defenders, midfielders and attackers
• The player is picked based upon their performances at their time for the season you chose him for (i.e. if you pick Andriy Shevchenko for AC Milan, his form at Kiev and Chelsea does NOT come into the equation during the competition).
• You need to select at least one player from the top 5 league in Europe: Premier League (England), La Liga (Spain), Seria A (Italy), Bundesliga (Germany) and Ligue 1 (France).
• For the season that the player is picked, he must have reached at least the quarter final stage of the competition
• Each player, must have played in at least one Champions League final.
• Number 1 gets first pick, Number 2 gets second pick, Number 3 gets third pick and so on....
• When offline, each member will get 2 hours to make their pick, if you miss the window then your pick will be chosen by the Rexdomizer ™.
• If the next picker is online and active in discussion he has only 20 minutes to make his pick
• The game will be frozen each night at 9pm GMT and resume at 9am GMT the following morning. You are still free to make your pick in this period if you want to but are under no obligation to do so.
• The draft order will be drawn at random and will follow the 3rd round reverse snake format. So the same as last time where we flip the order after the second round. This should stop anyone building up an unfair advantage by going first.
• The season of your player must have reached one of the below stages depending on when that season falls...

Prior to 1994-95: Quarter finals
1994-95 to 1998-99: Semi finals
1999-2000 to 2002-03: 2nd group stage
2003-04 to present day: Quarter finals

• AGAIN, You need to draft a starting XI and five outfield substitutes. The 17th round will consist of backup goalkeepers. You have to draft one Goalkeeper in the first 11 rounds.

That’s it for now. The game will hopefully start at 12 noon GMT on Thursday. That should give everyone enough time to figure out the rules and make plans. We may start earlier depending on sign up.

As I’ve said above there will be a definitive result this time! I’ve set up a custom league ready to be simulated, I just have to add your players once selected and fingers crossed we’ll have the results and champion before the Leeds match

Thanks everyone and enjoy the game!

 

[Clrnc]

Yeah @Rex Bezos should simplify it and just make sure the guy plays like more than 7 matches that season you selected him.

 

[Rex Stone]

Yeah @Rex Bezos should simplify it and just make sure the guy plays like more than 7 matches that season you selected him.

It’s simple all the rules are the same. But the season you pick the team must have made the QF and your player played in over half the games.

 

[A_G]

This time he’s bagged Flávio Roma from the 2003/04 Monaco side.

Not going to say I know an awful lot about this guy ngl…

The last two mentions he’s had on here came 8 years apart, both from you

 

[Rex Stone]

The last two mentions he’s had on here came 8 years apart, both from you

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Looool guy left his mark on the football world for sure

 

[albakos]

@Juan Matas Beard lay off your rhino hunting, come back to make your pick!

 

[UpTheGunnerz]

AM have withdrawals when they can’t make that juicy p I c k

 

[Rex Stone]

@pigge can you send me your pick please as soon as you see this?

 

[jones]

@pigge still out on the piss as we speak

 

[Clrnc]

It’s simple all the rules are the same. But the season you pick the team must have made the QF and your player played in over half the games.

Actually just thinking if your main point is that the player should be having a good season to avoid gaming the system it should be based on number of games? As the format of UCL was very different early on and the seasons where you have 2 group stages imagine saying a player who have played 12 games can't be picked

 

[Riou]

Riou coming back after his mini holiday, ready to read this thread and have a good laugh...

...but then seeing that I am somehow in this, but I also apparently had the first overall pick and used it on Emmanuel Eboue!!!

 

[Riou]

Man, Pirlo and Eto'o definitely drew the short straws to be in this mess

 

[A_G]

Man, Pirlo and Eto'o definitely drew the short straws to be in this mess

You got some Reynhard doppelgänger as well

 

[Riou]

Sorry to @albakos and @Rex Bezos , I didn't get those mentions otherwise I would have told you I wasn't able to do this.

Though you gave my team Alvaro Morata, so we will call it even

 

[Rex Stone]

Actually just thinking if your main point is that the player should be having a good season to avoid gaming the system it should be based on number of games? As the format of UCL was very different early on and the seasons where you have 2 group stages imagine saying a player who have played 12 games can't be picked

Well I meant modern format is the QF minimum but fine I’ll set out the criteria

Prior to 1994-95: Quarter finals
1994-95 to 1998-99: Semi finals
1999-2000 to 2002-03: 2nd group stage
2003-04 to present day: Quarter finals

 

[Riou]

@Juan Matas Beard called me a lesbian and then attacked my hairline, ffs!

All's fair in love and drafts I guess

 

[Riou]

I picked 2013/2013 Bale

 

[Rex Stone]

@Oxeki send me your next pick whenever you get this mate.

@albakos and @jones then @A_G I'm randomising in less than 10 minutes then it's you guys.

 

[2Smokeyy]

You had to give this competition a pass Smokey, i know you are thinking what could of been if you had a chance to whip up on these draft rookies looking at these picks. The streets will not forget your inaugural AM draft victory

Factos. Too many stipulations for me especially with the clocks going forward today.

Got a tip from a reliable source that the wolf of draft street Farzad is going huff and puff then blow little miss @pigge team in. Can you confirm this?

 

[Rex Stone]

Vidic surprised me there tbh. Was another CB I'd have taken before him considering all the games he missed that year...

 

[A_G]

Vidic surprised me there tbh. Was another CB I'd have taken before him considering all the games he missed that year...

I’ve already picked from a lot of the top clubs tho, options are limited slightly.