Derper league: 12 teams, $20 entry, auction format, takes place at 6pm England time (shortly after the conclusion of the late PL game) on the 30th of August (Sunday).
1st: $120
2nd: $60
3rd: $40
Most points scored in reg season (not including 1st/2nd/3rd prize winners): $20
Very expert pro league: 12 teams, $50 entry, auction format, takes place at 7:30pm England time on the 30th of August (Sunday).
1st: $300
2nd: $150
3rd: $100
Most pts scored in reg season (not including 1st/2nd/3rd prize winners): $50
9 people have reupped from last year, joejoe has dropped out to concentrate on the derper league, and i'm yet to hear from daca & marek. chopsuey has taken joejoe's place.
marek & daca have a week to reup, after which i'll throw it open to the floor.
The main change from last year has to do with draft format - both will be auctions this year, and the auction clock will be sped up significantly in order to avoid the dragging issue we encountered last year.
Escrow deadline is 23rd August, so no rush. PM for escrow details. I can accept paypal or stars.
To sign up, respond to your invite. Invites have been sent to the email address you used for last year's league. If you dont have access to that address or you want to use a different one then PM me and i'll send you a manual invite.
By participating you are expected to adhere to the soccerball posters play fantasy eggball code of honour - even if your team sucks you are still expected to set your lineup each week and to try to win all your games. If someone vanishes half way through I will set their lineup by using average yahoo rankings.
last time it took just over 2 hrs with a 30 second bid clock (reset to 5s if a bid made within 5s) and 60 second nomination clock.
this time we have a 10 second bid clock (reset to 5s) and 30s nomination.
yahoo estimates it'll take 90 mins per draft, but that includes 10 or so mins at the end where most teams have spent all their money and the three people left have $18 between them and are fighting for marques colston.
if it does overrun then i have the option to pause the second auction until everyone is ready, but i dont expect to have to do that.
I'm flying back from yankland on 30th but I think my flight is a couple hours after auction is due to finish so I will check in very early at the airport and draft/auction from there.