WSOP fantasy league 2015

[hi_am_chris]

What do people think of the previous champs category?

[hi_am_chris]

Also for scoring what about 1 for a cash, 5 for a FT and 10 for a Bracelet?

Dislike having points changing for each position at the FT ... you either won it or you didn"t

[fandango]

Also for scoring what about 1 for a cash, 5 for a FT and 10 for a Bracelet?

Dislike having points changing for each position at the FT ... you either won it or you didn"t

What do people think of the previous champs category?

Happy to go with what everyone thinks regarding catergories and points ..

[Des]

Hi folks,

With the WSOP just 4 weeks away, are we interested in doing our yearly fantasy league? Have been running for the last few years and always been a nice way of keeping up on the news from Vegas..
Last year Des was even kind enough to add a ME seat to a national event as added value to the winner!! So perhaps he will do the same kind gesture this year ?
We need to see how much interest is shown before we give it the thumbs up or down, last year John kindly agreed to do a spreadsheet and log points/scores etc, with myself and Chris helping to collect funds and look for point scores etc.. I"m happy to collect and look for points as usual, and maybe John and Chris will also help again.

We also need to have a look at rules/points etc as there is always some teething problems each year.
So do we have the usual categories to choose from and then 3 wild cards? Or completely change it and have 8-10 complete random picks? Do we give 1 point for cash 3 points for FT and 8 points for win? Etc etc..

Discuss.. Need to get up and running in the next couple of weeks to try and increase numbers.

APAT are happy to support this with a National seat as last year Carl.  Thanks for organising for the community.

[fandango]

Hi folks,

With the WSOP just 4 weeks away, are we interested in doing our yearly fantasy league? Have been running for the last few years and always been a nice way of keeping up on the news from Vegas..
Last year Des was even kind enough to add a ME seat to a national event as added value to the winner!! So perhaps he will do the same kind gesture this year ?
We need to see how much interest is shown before we give it the thumbs up or down, last year John kindly agreed to do a spreadsheet and log points/scores etc, with myself and Chris helping to collect funds and look for point scores etc.. I"m happy to collect and look for points as usual, and maybe John and Chris will also help again.

We also need to have a look at rules/points etc as there is always some teething problems each year.
So do we have the usual categories to choose from and then 3 wild cards? Or completely change it and have 8-10 complete random picks? Do we give 1 point for cash 3 points for FT and 8 points for win? Etc etc..

Discuss.. Need to get up and running in the next couple of weeks to try and increase numbers.

APAT are happy to support this with a National seat as last year Carl.  Thanks for organising for the community.

Many thanks Des, that"s very generous I"m sure the members echo my thoughts

[fandango]

John has also kindly voluntered to do a spreadsheet so thanks goes to him again..

So are we all happy to say have a team of eight players, of which half will be made up of 1 player from the set catergories..

Previous ME winner..
Female Player
European Player
British Player

And then 4 wildcards of your own choice.

Scoring..

1 point for a cash
3 points for making final table ( last 8 of HU event )
10 points for winning bracelet
Choose a captain who scores double points? Or not?
Just have one competition £10 all in or two separate competitions £5 series £5 ME last longer?
Would like to have rules finalised by Sunday so we can start sending our picks to John so gives him plenty of chance to steal all our great picks  
So over to you guys you happy with points structure and rules about picks..
Need feedback on captain idea and payment option..

[Sugar_Free]

European Player

Does anyone know if Gabriel Iemmito will be attending?

[hi_am_chris]

Still trying to forget about him

[Curlarge]

John has also kindly voluntered to do a spreadsheet so thanks goes to him again..

So are we all happy to say have a team of eight players, of which half will be made up of 1 player from the set catergories..

Previous ME winner..
Female Player
European Player
British Player

And then 4 wildcards of your own choice.

Scoring..

1 point for a cash
3 points for making final table ( last 8 of HU event )
10 points for winning bracelet
Choose a captain who scores double points? Or not?
Just have one competition £10 all in or two separate competitions £5 series £5 ME last longer?
Would like to have rules finalised by Sunday so we can start sending our picks to John so gives him plenty of chance to steal all our great picks  
So over to you guys you happy with points structure and rules about picks..
Need feedback on captain idea and payment option..

Captain to score double
One comp for a £10
Everything else spot on

[fandango]

John has also kindly voluntered to do a spreadsheet so thanks goes to him again..

So are we all happy to say have a team of eight players, of which half will be made up of 1 player from the set catergories..

Previous ME winner..
Female Player
European Player
British Player

And then 4 wildcards of your own choice.

Scoring..

1 point for a cash
3 points for making final table ( last 8 of HU event )
10 points for winning bracelet
Choose a captain who scores double points? Or not?
Just have one competition £10 all in or two separate competitions £5 series £5 ME last longer?
Would like to have rules finalised by Sunday so we can start sending our picks to John so gives him plenty of chance to steal all our great picks  
So over to you guys you happy with points structure and rules about picks..
Need feedback on captain idea and payment option..

Captain to score double
One comp for a £10
Everything else spot on

Thanks Rich agree myself, see what the masses decide.

[suzanne]

Never played this but sounds like fun.

How do you know whos playing. Do you just assume the big names will be there?

[hi_am_chris]

Pretty much Suzanne,

certain players will always be risky as you don"t know how serious they will take it or if they will end up just playing cash. (Tom Dwan / Galfond)

Then you have safer bets with people like Hellmuth and Negreanu who will play as many as they physicaly can.

Twitter can be a useful tool to find out who"s going

[fandango]

Never played this but sounds like fun.

How do you know whos playing. Do you just assume the big names will be there?

Always a sure fire way I find is to look on the Hendon Mobs stats for any players you are looking to have in squad.. If they have lots of WSOP flags from last year etc, pretty good way of gauging if they will be putting in a shift..
Also no harm in sending them a PM on FB   asking if they will be playing the whole series.
But like Chris has mentioned be careful in selected certain "big" names they tend to steer clear of the $1,500-$3,000 events and wait for the bigger buy ins.

Taylor Paur
Erik Seidel
Calvin Anderson
Dominik Nitsche
Matt Glantz
Humberto brenes
Scott Clements
Maria Ho
David Peters
Dan Kelly

These players all cashed over 5 times last year for instance, so it"s probably safe to say they will be there again this year..
Also look to add players who are good at mixed games aswell as just NLH.

[suzanne]

Very helpful, thank you Carl x

[MintTrav]

Never played this but sounds like fun.

How do you know whos playing. Do you just assume the big names will be there?

Some other big names likely to be playing, who you may want to pick for your team:

Bill Sheppard, Brendan Byrne, Jason Kemp, Glenn Laming, Tom Brady, Duncan Hodgkins, Richard Baker, Jo Howard, Andy Hall, Maggie Holt, Joe Carr, Adam Sharples, John Miller, Simon Lawlor, Presty. (May be some others I"ve missed.)