It’s back! Tiny16s is a side game that is based on the Telegraph Fantasy Football game whereby teams may only contain non-big four players.





To Enter
To enter you must enter an official TFF team dedicated to this competition
Only one team per person please.
PM Latic for the league code.
All teams must be in the league by 12:45pm Saturday 14th August 2010.
After this time the competition will be closed to new entries – sorry.
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT OR EVER WILL BE (WHILE I’M RUNNING IT) A CASH LEAGUE. It’s for fun and humiliation only.
Entering a team into this league signifies a total acceptance of the rules.
The chairman (Latic) reserves the right to refuse entry into this game.

Your team at the start has to have:
1. No big 4 players in your team (i.e. no Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United or Tottenham Hotspur players)
2. No more than one player per club (the club quota is one) For example if Brad Friedel (AVL) is selected you are not allowed to select Richard Dunne (AVL).
3. A team value of 44.0M or less.
4. At least two strikers i.e. the starting formation must be 3-5-2, 4-4-2, or 4-3-3.
4-5-1 is not allowed as a starting formation but can be employed throughout the season.

Please name your team with your FISO username (or close to) and have Tiny16s in the title. For example my team will be “Latic’s Tiny16s”.

Transfers
In this game you are not allowed to make any transfers until September!!
On that date the budget limit will be abolished and the club quota will be increased to two players per team. For example you will be allowed to select Brad Friedel & Richard Dunne. This season a TWO players per club rule will be in force until the end of the season.
Declaring your transfers (egg Cup Style) is optional but it adds to the fun and the banter if you post your thoughts.

Player transfers, the big four and quotas
If a non-big four player is transferred to a big four club then immediately he will be ineligible to score any points.
If a transfer occurs that means a team then has more than a club’s quota of players, again the transferred player will also be ineligible to score points.
While there is no penalty for this happening it is obviously in the manager’s interest to make the changes ASAP!
Be warned! If this happens at the start of the season a manager will not be able to transfer out the illegal player until September meaning that player will score 0!

Prize
Tiny trophy for the winner!! Hopefully this league will automatically qualify for a winners medal also.
Should ( ) this league win the league of leagues then the fund will be divided as Admin has outlined for the TFF FISO league.

Policing
Your team MUST BE marked as public after the 14th August so we can look / laugh at each other’s teams. I'll be regularly checking that teams are “legit”....although feel free to be a grass
The manager is responsible for keeping their team within the rules. The restrictions on managers have been kept low deliberately.
If managers flaunt the rules then they will slapped across the face by a wet fish and told to behave themselves....or maybe thrown out!


Rule changes from last season.
Player club quotas changed. Now a maximum of two per club throughout the season.
Tottenham Hotspur for the purpose of this game are a big four club, and Liverpool are not.
Very generous starting budget!!!!


Once again it’s time to dig out those cheap enablers, cry at the budget and most importantly enjoy the challenge!


GAME ON!


Edit for 11/12 season: future rule change - if two teams are tied on points, then goals scored will count, if there is still no difference a tie will be declared

Budget. Using my normal way of calculation the budget would have been 46M!!!!!! NO way!

Have started a brand new league (ie not re-started the old one).


Now who do you pick from Liverpool & City......

Code requested!

Cheers for chairing - hopefully we will land the super-league prize this year

44 million...?!!!!


Stingy effer!!





Code please!

The budget's been increased by 3m in these hard times when everything else is getting cut.

Honestly there's no pleasing some people.




Codes sent.

Team entered!

So strange seeing a Liverpool player in this game!!!!!!!!!

Room for a newbie? For a player of my standard it seems like a more sensible use for a team than a cash league...?

Aye, newbies welcome!

Codes sent.

Team in!

I think you may have breached the 1 player per team limit Latic

Could I have the code please.

Cheers.

Could I have the code please?

Codes sent.



Yes, but look at the quality

I think he's read the rule as 'one team per team....' ?!!

Team in, looking forward to the 'Tiny off'!

Hmmmmmm, a few teams look a bit similar! Maybe I was too generous with the budget after all................

Would like to join could I have a code please.

Code sent

Please may I have the tiny code details?

Thanks!

This sounds like great fun

Please code me up

Codes sent.

Well, according to SAF, the big four are no more!


Fergie: Big Four are no more
Sir Alex Ferguson says the days of the big four’s monopoly of the Premier League are over.
The Manchester United boss also predicted the most open title race for years, saying his club, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool will have to get used to competition from Spurs, Manchester City and Everton.
He said: “Last season the monopoly of what they call the big four was squashed and Tottenham came into it. And you’d think that Tottenham would make progress again this season. Manchester City have bought again, so you obviously have to put them in the equation.
“And I think Everton, after all the injury problems they had last season, will come into it. So it’s going to be a competitive league.

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Tr ... 47881.html

Well I hope the mighty Villa give Fergie a good stuffing after that.

Still so sure?

Won't be around too much before Saturday as I'm on a run of night shifts so if you want to sign up don't leave it too late to get the code.

Hi, just joined the virgin league , looks good fun , please send code/ Cheers

Code sent

code please? Late I know!

Week 1 Table




Jester tops the league with help from his solid 3 man defence and Bent, and is the only player in the top 100,000!!!
RossN manages second sport despite having Joe Cole in the line-up.
The defending champ has a slow start in 8th and scrapes into the Brassic cup (draw to follow).

The Brassic Cup 2010
nb not actually a cup as a prize!



Early doors knockout cup in which your starting XI is your team.


Schedule
Qualifying The top eight after week 1 qualify
QF The fixtures played on 21-23rd August
SF Games played 28-29th August
F Games played 11-13th September

If there is a tie on points, then cheapest squad wins, if they are still level then goals scored in that round count and if they are still level then there will be a coin toss.


Draw made at random: