Because doing it properly is boring...

TINKERS UNITE




To Enter

• You can have as many teams as you like
• It is suggested that you enter team(s) specifically for the competition, but you may enter 'dead' teams later in the year (the Super League entry deadline across TFF is September 30 2011). If you enter teams specifically for this competition (and thus for Tinkerman), please name your team with your FISO username suffixed by Tinkerman, including the respective number if you have more than 1 team. For example my teams will be “Tacalabala Tinkerman 1" and "Tacalabala Tinkerman 2".
• Name: FISO Tinkerman
  PIN: 8000428
• PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT OR EVER WILL BE (WHILE I’M RUNNING IT) A CASH LEAGUE. It's simply a place for Tinker'd teams to join.

The Aim
The aim of managers with teams in this competition is to target the weekley Tinkerman prize from January 3 2012. To do this, you must have exhausted your 30 transfers limit. You may have planned to do this from the start, or you may have made a total mess of one or more of your teams before the Super League entry deadline (September 30 2011) that wasn't already in a Super League. This league is a league for otherwise leagueless 'dead' teams that are only eligible for Tinkerman, and as such it doesn't really matter who wins this league - the only thing that matters is the Tinkerman prize. In fact, trying to win this league is discouraged - it means you're not trying to win Tinkerman!

Before Tinkerman
As Tinkerman doesn't start until January, and because you'll need to get rid of 30 transfers, aiming to win the periodical prizes - Manager of the Week, and Manager of the Month - would appear to be a good use of our Tinkerman teams. Tell us what you're aiming for and when, and how you got on. Targeting the Starting XI prize also seems a good idea as we won't be too worried about good 'runs' of games at the start of the season, but rather what would be a good team over the whole season.

Rules
You must have used up all your 30 transfers before January 3 2012.
Other than that, there aren't any really, except to come on here and tell us as much as possible about your Tinkerings

In the unfortunate event that this league wins the league of leagues then the fund will be divided as Admin has outlined for the TFF FISO league. But that won't happen

So correct me if I'm wrong, I enter a team as per usual but by November it's languishing in 50,000th and I have 24 transfers left, I may aswell burn all 24 transfers before January, if I do then that team qualifies for the tinkerman league? Also the same for failed (or successful) monthly/weekly attempts before the new year?
And as far as your league goes entry deadline is 30th Sept so in other words any teams considered pointless in continuing with before then can be stuck in your mini league?

As well as appealing to true tinkers this is really a bonus prize for anybody who enters a MOTW/M effort. You can then recycle that team EVERY week until May.

I can't see how any of mine that do that will be able to enter this league though, sorry.

Obviously in your example you couldn't enter the Tinkerman league because it is already November, but yes you're correct, if you mess up before the new year you may as well blow out all your transfers.



Yes, if you mess up before September 30th, come on in. Alternatively, you can do what I am and target Tinkerman right from the start, though obviously you may as well go for periodicals before Tinkerman actually begins if you're going to blow out your transfers anyway.

I can't see myself having many/any dead teams 6 weeks in Tac, as it's too early to give up on seasonals plus I doubt I'll be playing week/month games that early on, if I do however I'll bear in my this league

Cheers. Yeah, I think this is really going to appeal/work for people like me that have set themselves up to go for Tinkerman and periodicals from the off. Hopefully I'll get recruits nonetheless, especially from the mass-multi teamers.

Bumping, sorry to report I've had no interest yet but I'm hoping people have more credits then they know what to do with and have a shot at this.

I have 2 credits left. 1 is earmarked for the blockparty.

But I could donate 1 to this one too

Lol, I'd given up on anyone taking an interest. May as well just make it public:

Name: FISO Tinkerman
PIN: 8000428

Have enterered my initial weekly/monthlys in here,would imagine there will be more interest as teams become redundant/(specifically entered in weeklys,monthlys) between now and 30th sep.

I'll pop a team in here.

I have dropped my last team into this one. I have the feeling that I have bitten off more than I can chew across a number of different FF competitions, at least there is no pressure on this one..... for now

Have added a couple more weekly/monthly failures into here,suprised theres not more being entered.

I hope more join, I'm confident there will be more tinkerers out there!

I really need to sit down and work out which pre-Tinkerman months/weeks I'm going to target.

Have stuck my 'free credit' team in here, in which i intend to blow all transfers between now and probably way before january in a weak attempt at chasing weekly/monthly prizes!

Will get the name changed in due course.

Seeing as you're the weekly king, you should be able to answer this - how many weekly prizes do you think you can target with a single team before exhausting the transfer limit?

I'm trying to set down some plans here - I'm going to go for the December monthly (November 29 to January 2), and I've got two teams (haven't bothered to set-up my free credit yet) to target weekly prizes with.

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I may enter lots of teams but rarely do well,you can only target 1 week per team and would need to do eleven transfers each match day,with a successfull block on each match day.
The only way a team could be used twice is if it was a failed block and you didnt do any transfers but waited until the next time all eleven players were playing on the first match day.(unlikely to happen often).
Are your monthly attempts the 2 teams in this leaugue if so, I would say youve got little chance picking the players now for december

This superleague is currently 4th overall are there any other weeklys that did well in the first few weeks out there but not in a superleague yet that can help get this leaugue to the top and see how long it can stay there.

Lol, this league is 4th? Hilarious

Fair enough. I'll have three Tinker teams because I haven't used up my free credit. Was looking at going for weekly with two of them, and December with the other when the time comes.

I think going for a week after the week after a round of Champions League is the way to go because I'd think they'll be more predictable because there won't be any kickback from the CL.

I'm actually going to email TFF to make sure they don't give robot the league medal, he's clearly taking the piss

The door locks in 16 minutes.

Sorry to make three successive posts, but I've just realised that the Tinkerman league is now up to 3rd.

Apologies for putting so many teams in, I just expected others to do the same with there used weeklys/monthlys.

I will take full credit though for getting the superleague to third, although it wont stay there long as teams have no transfers left.

Lol, no worries, will be interesting to see just how many of the top 17 places you can hold on to

I can already kiss this week goodbye - Young is a no show.

Finished 19th with my weekley, not bad.

In other news...

FISO Tinkerman is the 2nd best league on TFF, officially better than the official FISO league! Well done robot... I mean everyone

Alistair batchelors 101 point week for 5th place in this league has helped push it to 2nd,it wont stay that high for long,all my top 4 teams have zero transfers,although somehow Ive managed to get to the top with a team which had 2 players who didnt play this weekend.
So ive managed to be top for 10hrs on the kick of error weekend and the week after the monthly finished but not the week that mattered:(

Think I made last man on the manager of the week list with my 101 - am fairly happy with that!

If you haven't noticed already, T'man teams come up seperate on the 'Office' page from the frozen last XI.

Cant find it! which "office" page

After you login, select Fantasy Football, then your are brought to the page I'm on about.

Mr Andy Hitchcox? There is a medal waiting for you...