The 2011/12 Fiso X1 Open Competition

PIN: 8002381
FISO X1 OPEN 2011 12

The winner's name is engraved on the trophy below and yours to keep claret jug style for a year. It is the responsibility of the current winner to engrave and post on the trophy to the new winner.

Winner 2009/10 - Yeboah
Winner 2010/11 - The Woolster



So what do you have to do ? Do what you want ! but all teams have to be public so everyone can see each others teams. In order that people have good reasons to be shite and lose they can enter a team with restrictions like no top 4 players, a block defence approach etc but it's up to you how you structure your team. The Woolster won last year despite having a restriction of always having at least 3 enablers, of course he was jammy as there were so many good enablers. I went for not being able to have any 4m or higher priced defenders which was fairly penal.

History and Background of FISO X1s from the Woolster

"Well, this is getting interesting with all these restrictions! I would suggest that if you do have a restriction, that it not be so penal that it can't do well.

My other suggestion is that we become a bit more 'open' than we have been these last few seasons. The open XI league was started when a number of us used to have our own threads for a team that we would discuss our thought processes, plans and how the team was performing. Most of us would then go regularly to the other open team threads to discuss their teams and even make suggestions. After a couple of seasons we decided to see who did the best over the season in the main FISO super league, but still with our own threads. The natural progression was of course to start our own league, and then Hoppy was kind enough to donate the trophy.

Whilst I do think it is good to have the added competition, I feel we have lost some of the openness we used to have, as the thread is just used to post transfers and there is no discussion about our plans or about the other teams. My suggestion is to have our own threads (not compulsory), and that we actually try to discuss other peoples teams and even perhaps help them out. When we all had our own threads, some would be many pages long, have thousands of views, and were some of the best threads on FISO, and people would read and discuss even if they didn't have an open thread themselves. The only people who read our SL thread are those of us who are in it, so I think we are missing out on outsiders views as well.

Of course we would all like to win it, but I think it would be great to get some of the open spirit we used to have."


Last year we had 10 teams see table below , basically you post your thoughts and transfers into this league, it's not too challenging, just a bit of fun and banter, and is free to play.

Final Table
1 Ben Woolcock Woolster's FisoX1717 72 88 508
2 Ross Banyard One team in Kent1621 54 79 6144
3 Paul Hopkins Unhappy Fiso X1 1570 55 87 15968
4 David Tonkin Vid FISO XI 1532 22 84 27737
5 Chris Beasley Pesto Del Footie 1515 65 74 34331
6 Kevin Wright nffc FISO open 1514 33 78 34714
7 David England Mystery FISO XI 1508 54 79 37323
8 Iain Bruce Razorback FISO XI 1487 54 75 47015
9 Adrian Nelson The wee one too 1424 30 75 81854
10 Rob Poole Rob's reprobates 2 1410 62 75 90191
11 Kieran Matthews KIZ FISO X1 1321 40 72 140067
12 Jonathan Stewart Agger Do Do Do120222 53 186442

2011/12 Entries
1 Happyhoppy
2 Vid
3 The Woolster
4 Nedved
5 Razorback
6 ForestJono
7 Mystery
8 nffc
9 ricardo3
10 spinynorman
11 hogweed
12 bossdrum - time for trumpton
13 topspur
14 sainsbury
15 richt
16 FISO (c/o Chuck Taylor)
17 Tom QC
18 Countbasie
19 Primitive man
20 Grahamajuk

I'll do it again, I find it helps to make sure that I post my Egg Cup transfers

1st posted updated with SL details that I have just set up.

Happy Fiso X1 is entered and will have the same restriction as last year, ie no defenders at £4m or higher all season.

I'd like to play.

team name The Narrows, Nedved.

Will have a think about possible restrictions.

Cheers.

League name and pin isn't working????

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PIN: 8002381
FISO X1 OPEN 2011 12

Worked fine for me, did you include "SL"? Don't!

Must've been a glitch, working now, thanks.

Team in ...

Go on then, i'm up for it, lets see if I can retain the wooden spoon

I'll drop a team in here. Need to think of a starting strategy for it.

Players that will score a shed load of points?

Nah. Beyond my ability that one!!

Auto selected team in

I've had another go at this

I'll have whirl, sounds like fun.

Will think of a suitably horrid restriction.

Pesto Del Footie is in again but unlike last season I will make the effort to post on this thread.

11 entries so far, come on FISO, most be more...

There's a trophy up for grabs.

Count me in, my first year playing this.

Thanks

Any more ......

Given it a go for the first time.
Restriction - Never Red - no utd ,arse, liver,stoke or sunderland,

So we have 12 plus Woolster to come, so we have beaten last year wrt entries.

Any more, it's a free chance to win a trophy with your name on it, you can do what you like with your team, have a restriction or not, be experimental etc etc

I'm declaring tonight as I go away in the morning with no chance of changing my teams:

Pesto Del Footie

Hart 4.0
Cole 4.9
Evra 4.7
Richards 3.9
Warnock 2.8
Lampard 6.0
Kuyt 4.4
Nasri 4.3
Formica 2.6
Rooney 7.0
Johnson 5.2

49.8
442

All the best for the season ahead.

Just joined, should be a laugh =)

I'll stick my free team in here.

Do we have to post our transfer's like we do in the Egg Cup?

Same format is ideal.

It's a lot less stringent as teams are PUBLIC, no one is going to give you a hard time. The idea behind this SL is to experiment with something a bit different and see where that takes you.

2011/12 Entries so far
1 Happyhoppy
2 Vid
3 The Woolster
4 Nedved
5 Razorback
6 ForestJono
7 Mystery
8 nffc
9 ricardo3
10 spinynorman
11 hogweed
12 bossdrum
13 topspur
14 sainsbury
15 richt
16 FISO (c/o Chuck Taylor)