The Rules:

- 20 teams, co-owners are encouraged but if you're an active poster it's not necessary. If you are a poster I don't recognize I will force you to take a co-owner.

- 11 picks each. Filling out a bench and a manager is nice, but the reality is that completing a draft with 220 picks is hard and the longer they go the harder it gets.

- Teams are on the clock for four hours at a time. Because of the likely worldwide diversity in owners, there is no dead period. A co-owner in a different time zone may be a good idea for you. After the first round, do not expect to be pm'ed when you are up. If you are in the draft, you need to be actively checking the thread.


- Draft order is third round reversal snake, in other words ABBBABABABA

- EPL regs will be given priority in sign-up, should demand for spots outweigh supply.

Who is eligible:

Anybody that ever played in the Premiership. That means the 1992/93 season to this present moment.

What are the parameters for judging a player?

Mainly common sense. Some rules of thumb:

1. We're drafting players, not careers. How much a player contributed per game is generally more important than how much they contributed in total over the sum of their career.

2. While considering the above, I am not and nobody else is interested in extrapolation arguments according to your eyetest. Sample sizes will be taken into account and meaningful contributions (plurality emphasized) are just as, if not more important, than a player's ability.

3. Nothing the player did outside the premiership is eligible for consideration. That includes other tiers of english football.

4. Players are judged on a "Value Over Replacement Player" kind of philosophy relative to their era. There is zero interest in entertaining any kind of argument that "team X is better because it has all current players and current players are better across the board". That may or may not be true but really no one cares, and these arguments (which are often just troll attempts) ruin a large amount of the fun involved in stuff like this.


Participants:

PlzBeALevel (will take a co-owner).

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing

in obv

Not in, but I'm really looking forward to the write-ups.

I know basically nothing about English football outside of guys who were awesome in video games, it'll be interesting to see where some names I knew 15 years ago get drafted

Yea my realistic knowledge of the Prem only goes back 10 years so I would not be a good contributor to this draft. Looking forward to all the write-ups though. I love reading anything Prem related and learning new things about it

In

not in but will be following this

Yakubu going in the first round?

don't have the time (or depth of knowledge) to join in, but look forward to following and arguing with anyone who picks Liverpool players over obviously superior Everton alternatives

in for sure, though my knowledge of 90s PL might be a bit suspect (I'm not as old as LO and hoopie)

to be fair, not that many people are old as hoopie

am quite busy atm but will co own with a yanktard or an aussietard or someone from an unmentioned peculiar timezone that wants to take the lead but have someone to bounce a few ideas off plus GMT timezone coverage

IN WITH NO CO OWNER

In

^this unfortunately. I'd love to participate (and this draft has been wayyyyyy long overdue), but my schedule really ****s me on this one.

PlzBeALevel
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As much as I enjoy him as a poster and would ideally like to include Noze, my fear that this is a troll attempt usurps that.

naming UNDRAFTED players is considered bad form.

IN, do not need a co-owner.

railing

In if you guys are struggling to make it to twenty, otherwise happy to just rail

Glad this isn't an auction so someone can't spend 90% of their budget on the "English Messi" and claim victory despite only owning two players.

Also, since this is English themed, everyone should be forced to play four four ****ing two as their base formation.

Also, not in as an active participant but will co-own as a minority stakeholder for timezone purposes if required (since I am an Aussietard)

I was thinking exactly the same re formation.

If we are short on numbers I am happy to co-own, but I will need to be partnered with someone that I can talk down to.

In for the rail. Don't have the time to participate fully but if someone wants someone to bounce the occasional idea off of, I'm an old and have been watching since pre premier league.

subscribed

Will not participate in this one(it's time for somebody else to win one of this football drafts ...) but willl be railing.

Looks like I am needed