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County Fantasy Manager will be returning for a second season in a few weeks time.

For those that played last year, welcome back for those that didn't have a look at the link to see what happened

http://www.cricket-match-special.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=19609

In order to both improve the game and reduce my administration, there will be a few tweaks this year:

Squad sizes will be larger so that managers should be able to pick full sides for each Matchweek.
The vast majority of players will be bought in the auction rather than allocated in the lottery.
Winning a match will be worth 16 points to the victor, with a drawn match earning both sides 4 points.
Bonus points will be awarded according to the margin of victory/defeat, with a draw giving the maximum of 8 additional points to each team.
Managers will be able to change their own sides for each Matchweek via Google Docs.
There will not be any team formations that have to be adhered to (ie. managers could play 3 or more WKs if they wanted to!)
There will be 3 transfer windows during the season, rather than managers changing up to 2 players each week.

I anticipate things proceeding along these lines:

w/c March 23rd - Player values announced
w/c March 30th - Auction and lottery *** This is the key week for manager input ***
w/c April 6th - Team finalisation
April 13th - Matchweek 1

Those wishing to participate, please register your interest on this thread

I'm in

can we not just keep the two changes a week?

I'm in again

Maybe limit it to 8 teams this time ? so we can all have a solid squad ??

Im in...

im in!!!!!!!!!!!! will be awesome!!

I'll sign up again

Red Devil wrote:can we not just keep the two changes a week?

The transfer windows are being introduced to reduce the number of days I need to work on the game

SaintPowelly wrote:Maybe limit it to 8 teams this time ? so we can all have a solid squad ??

At the minute there are only 6 of us and 1 possible! Hopefully we will reach 10 by the end of this week

Player list and values:



I have taken these from the same website as last year.

If anyone thinks there are players missing, please post them here.

ianp1970 wrote:

SaintPowelly wrote:Maybe limit it to 8 teams this time ? so we can all have a solid squad ??

At the minute there are only 6 of us and 1 possible! Hopefully we will reach 10 by the end of this week

Have you got Mike to email everyone?

And Ian, sorry to be a pain but as far as I am aware, I now have to PM you the value of the players I want to purchase before the next week auction begins?

sussexpob wrote:

ianp1970 wrote:

SaintPowelly wrote:Maybe limit it to 8 teams this time ? so we can all have a solid squad ??

At the minute there are only 6 of us and 1 possible! Hopefully we will reach 10 by the end of this week

Have you got Mike to email everyone?

He already has

sussexpob wrote:And Ian, sorry to be a pain but as far as I am aware, I now have to PM you the value of the players I want to purchase before the next week auction begins?

Full details will be posted during the week

Matchweek details:



The transfer windows will take place between Matchweeks 5-6 and 13-14.