FISO "First Draft" League

[Talkie Toaster]

GW30 waivers:

Round	Manager	Team	Transaction	Success	Explanation
1	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	None	-
1	S_sutton87	Ollies Ostriches	None	-
1	wahine	Kane or Biff?	None	-
1	robot	Chaco Forever	None	-
1	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	Deeney J King	✓
1	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	Ward Rüdiger	✓
1	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Niasse Tosun	✓
1	Terrier Ramone	Bayer Goalscorer	None	-
2	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	None	-
2	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	Stephens Cresswell	✓
2	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Niasse J King		Niasse transferred out
2	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Niasse Rondón		Niasse transferred out
2	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	D Sánchez Rose	✓
3	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	None	-
3	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Bertrand Aké	✓
4	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Bertrand Schlupp		Bertrand transferred out
4	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Bertrand PvA		Bertrand transferred out
4	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	None	-

Terrier Ramone extends his lead even further. Some big scores are going to be needed in the closing weeks for anyone to have a chance of catching him.

Nothing so far in Free-Agency.

[Stemania]

This format doesn't particularly well suited to Blank GWs - basically can't sell any big assets (Aguero, Ozil, etc in my case) because you might not get them back - namely for the doubles, and similarly with many midprice defenders/mids.

[Talkie Toaster]

GW31 waivers:

Round	Manager	Team	Transaction	Success	Explanation
1	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	Richarlison Can	✓
1	S_sutton87	Ollies Ostriches	None	-
1	robot	Chaco Forever	None	-
1	wahine	Kane or Biff?	Ayew Lacazette	✓
1	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	Giroud Deeney	✓
1	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	Albrighton Henderson	✓
1	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Rose Baines	✓
1	Terrier Ramone	Bayer Goalscorer	None	-
2	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	Ryan Begovic	✓
2	wahine	Kane or Biff?	Ayew Rondón		Ayew transferred out
2	wahine	Kane or Biff?	Ayew Defoe		Ayew transferred out
2	wahine	Kane or Biff?	Shaw Daniels	✓
2	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	Sigurdsson Pritchard	✓
2	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	None	-
2	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	Albrighton Can		Albrighton transferred out
2	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	McCarthy Begovic		Begovic taken by Talkie Toaster
2	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	Lowton Daniels		Daniels taken by wahine
2	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	Rüdiger A Smith	✓
2	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Rose PvA		Rose transferred out
2	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Rose A Smith		Rose transferred out
2	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Rose Schlupp		Rose transferred out
2	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	None	-
3	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	Willian Allen	✓
3	wahine	Kane or Biff?	Shaw S Cook		Shaw transferred out
3	wahine	Kane or Biff?	None	-
3	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	Sigurdsson Jesé		Sigurdsson transferred out
3	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	Chilwell Daniels		Daniels taken by wahine
3	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	Chilwell A Smith		A Smith taken by Jok57
3	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	Chilwell Schindler	✓
3	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	Naughton Zanka	✓
3	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	None	-
4	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	None	-
4	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	Chilwell Zanka		Chilwell transferred out
4	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	None	-

Terrier Ramone disappears further into the distance and should still be able to field half a squad this week without any changes.
Quite a scramble as most other managers try to pick up BGW players, and I expect it will be the same next week to get rid of them for DGW players.

Jok57 the only one busy so far in Free-Agency:
McCarthy Hennessey
Cresswell Bauer
Mata Oxlade-Chamberlain
Lowton Cook
Smalling PvA

[Talkie Toaster]

GW32 waivers:

Round	Manager	Team	Transaction	Success	Explanation
1	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	Can Willian	✓
1	S_sutton87	Ollies Ostriches	None	-
1	wahine	Kane or Biff?	Surman Willian		Willian taken by Talkie Toaster
1	wahine	Kane or Biff?	Surman Martial	✓
1	robot	Chaco Forever	None	-
1	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	None	-
1	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Tosun Giroud	✓
1	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	None	-
1	Terrier Ramone	Bayer Goalscorer	None	-
2	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	Allen Martial		Martial taken by wahine
2	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	Allen Richarlison	✓
2	wahine	Kane or Biff?	Mounie Austin	✓
2	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Walcott Martial		Martial taken by wahine
2	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Walcott Willian		Willian taken by Talkie Toaster
2	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Zaha Willian		Willian taken by Talkie Toaster
2	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Aké P Jones	✓
3	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	Allen Albrighton		Allen transferred out
3	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	Mooy Richarlison		Richarlison already owned
3	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	Mooy Albrighton	✓
3	wahine	Kane or Biff?	Townsend Richarlison		Richarlison taken by Talkie Toaster
3	wahine	Kane or Biff?	None	-
3	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	TAA Mendy	✓
4	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	Laporte Rüdiger	✓
4	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Butland Dubravka	✓
5	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	None	-
5	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	None	-

Mostly decent scores last week considering it was a BGW.
Talkie Toaster and Mav3rick battle for the most signings in the week (the only sort of battle I'm likely to contest this season )
Mav3rick wins 5-4 in extra time with a free-agent signing:

Baines Smalling

[Mav3rick]

I didn't even remember setting up those waivers so they were a surprise to me (especially so as I missed the waiver deadline too today due to consuming chocolate eggs rather than considering FPL).

I'm sure that TAA to Mendy seemed like a good idea two weeks ago

[Talkie Toaster]

GW32 waivers:

Round	Manager	Team	Transaction	Success	Explanation
1	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	Matip Baines	✓
1	S_sutton87	Ollies Ostriches	None	-
1	robot	Chaco Forever	None	-
1	wahine	Kane or Biff?	None	-
1	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	None	-
1	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Benteke Wood	✓
1	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	None	-
1	Terrier Ramone	Bayer Goalscorer	None	-
2	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	Lallana Mooy	✓
2	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Mendy D Sánchez	✓
3	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	None	-
3	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Smalling Chilwell	✓
4	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Smalling Morgan		Smalling transferred out
4	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Smalling Ward		Smalling transferred out
4	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	None	-

A very quiet week this one.
Jok57 makes a few Free Agent signings:

Hennessey Ryan
Zanka Duffy
PvA Aké
Lejeune Lowton
Stanislas Lamela

[Talkie Toaster]

GW34 waivers:

Round	Manager	Team	Transaction	Success	Explanation
1	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	Mee Smalling	✓
1	S_sutton87	Ollies Ostriches	None	-
1	wahine	Kane or Biff?	None	-
1	robot	Chaco Forever	None	-
1	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	Foster McCarthy	✓
1	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	None	-
1	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	None	-
1	Terrier Ramone	Bayer Goalscorer	Rooney Tosun	✓
2	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	Richarlison Young	✓
2	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	Deeney Barnes	✓
2	Terrier Ramone	Bayer Goalscorer	None	-
3	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	None	-
3	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	Schindler Smalling		Smalling taken by Talkie Toaster
3	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	Schindler Morgan	✓
4	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	Schindler Ward		Schindler transferred out
4	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	Pritchard Tadic	✓
5	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	Deeney Ayew		Deeney transferred out
5	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	None	-

Another pretty quiet week given that it's a DGW.
Terrier Ramone makes his first change in a while
... and Mav3rick makes no changes for the first time since GW20
Still a few hours of free-agency to go though.

[Stemania]

Did I really just buy Tadic. Bloody hell!

[Stemania]

Oh, nice one Dusan.

[Talkie Toaster]

Genius!

[Talkie Toaster]

GW35 waivers:

Round	Manager	Team	Transaction	Success	Explanation
1	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	Mooy Gündogan	✓
1	S_sutton87	Ollies Ostriches	None	-
1	wahine	Kane or Biff?	Austin Welbeck	✓
1	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	King Slimani	✓
1	robot	Chaco Forever	None	-
1	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	None	-
1	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Chilwell Kompany	✓
1	Terrier Ramone	Bayer Goalscorer	None	-
2	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	None	-
2	wahine	Kane or Biff?	Austin Gayle		Austin transferred out
2	wahine	Kane or Biff?	Austin Rooney		Austin transferred out
2	wahine	Kane or Biff?	Lössl Butland	✓
2	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	Tadic Gündogan		Gündogan taken by Talkie Toaster
2	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	Morgan Dummett	✓
2	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Chilwell Laporte		Chilwell transferred out
2	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Chilwell TAA		Chilwell transferred out
2	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Jones Laporte	✓
3	wahine	Kane or Biff?	Daniels Tomkins	✓
3	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	Morgan Lejeune		Morgan transferred out
3	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	None	-
3	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	None	-
4	wahine	Kane or Biff?	None	-

Mav3rick has an excellent week with 78 pts and eats into Terrier Ramone's lead. TR's lead though is a buffet table and Mav is just past the egg sarnies and onto the pineapple & cheese on sticks. He'll need a good appetite to get to the jam & cream sponge.

Jok57 is busy in free-agency:

Wilson Rooney
Izquierdo Allen
Aké Ward
Lamella Oxlade -Chamerlain
Duffy Zouma

And Mav3rick has second thoughts about Laporte:
Laporte Milner

[Talkie Toaster]

GW36 waivers:

Round	Manager	Team	Transaction	Success	Explanation
1	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	None	-
1	S_sutton87	Ollies Ostriches	None	-
1	wahine	Kane or Biff?	Kolasinac Jones	✓
1	robot	Chaco Forever	None	-
1	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	Femenía Bertrand	✓
1	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	Ryan Lössl	✓
1	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Milner D Sánchez	✓
1	Terrier Ramone	Bayer Goalscorer	None	-
2	wahine	Kane or Biff?	Townsend Martial	✓
2	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	Femenía Jones		Femenía transferred out
2	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	Shaqiri Fàbregas	✓
2	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	Oxlade-Chamberlain Martial		Martial taken by wahine
2	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	Allen Mooy	✓
2	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	PvA Mendy	✓
3	wahine	Kane or Biff?	None	-
3	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	None	-
3	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	Zouma Zanka	✓
3	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	None	-
4	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	Zouma Robertson		Zouma transferred out
4	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	None	-

Top scorer this week is wahine with 57 pts, making a late bid for the top half of the league.

Mav3rick again takes a chunk out of Terrier Ramone's lead. Could we be in for an unexpected exciting finish?

Jok57 claims the inaugural FPL Draft Zebedee Award for successfully completing a waiver transfer between 2 players beginning with the letter 'Z'.


So far in free-agency:
Jok57 Oxlade-Chamberlain Wijnaldum
Mav3rick Walcott Kenedy

[Mav3rick]

40 points the gap and three weeks to go. Tough ask, will need a 10 point win this week really to finish the cheese and pineapple sticks (and I don't really fancy my side that much) if I'm to reach the sausage rolls and mini scotch eggs.

[Mav3rick]

I think that's the league sewn up now.

Congrats on a great season TR.

[Talkie Toaster]

After all those scotch eggs and sausage rolls, the supermarket quiche and bowl of unknown flavour crisps may be too much for Mav3rick after all.
By the time I got to the buffet table all of the cardboard plates had gone.

[MoSe]

that's because you're not a

[Talkie Toaster]

In this league I'm certainly not flying.
I've been comfortably in last place for months and am currently nearly 400 points off top spot.

I think I'm stuck in 'primitive mode'

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[Talkie Toaster]

GW37 waivers:

Round	Manager	Team	Transaction	Success	Explanation
1	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	None	-
1	S_sutton87	Ollies Ostriches	None	-
1	wahine	Kane or Biff?	None	-
1	robot	Chaco Forever	None	-
1	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	None	-
1	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	Lowton Chambers	✓
1	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Kompany Danilo	✓
1	Terrier Ramone	Bayer Goalscorer	None	-
2	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	Tarkowski Mavropanos	✓
2	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Kompany Cahill		Cahill transferred out
2	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Wood Ayew	✓
3	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	Cork Fernandinho	✓
3	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Wood Austin		Wood transferred out
3	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Wood Gayle		Wood transferred out
3	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	None	-
4	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	Rooney Ayew		Ayew taken by Mav3rick
4	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	Ward Naughton	✓
5	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	Lowton Cédric		Lowton transferred out
5	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	None	-

To the despair of the chasing pack, Terrier Ramone is the top scorer of the week and is once again looking comfortable at the top.

Well done to Mav3rick and Jok57 for remembering the early waiver deadline.

Jok57 is also very busy with free agent signings:
Zanka Cédric
Mooy Iwobi
Mavropanos Cahill
Lascelles Lindelöf
Rooney Austin

Other Free-Agent signings:
Talkie Toaster - Albrighton Ward-Prowse
wahine - Koscielny Laporte

[Mav3rick]

It's been an interesting season with draft. I don't know how many of you will be playing this format again next year, but it's been entertaining and I hope we can re convene the league next season.

With multiple drafts on the go, there's usually something that goes well in any FPL week, so that's a good advantage of the format!

Thanks so much to TT for keeping the weekly updates going. In truth, TR has had the league won for some time but it's been good trying out different things to try to bridge the gap.

Its a shame that the forum chat doesn't really follow draft that much. I guess it's the nature of it. If there are any ideas for the structure of the draft forum next season that would be good. I doubt we need separate forums for RMTs, leagues and general chat at the very least...

[Talkie Toaster]

I think you're right about it being the nature of the draft game - every little group just gets on with playing their own game which isn't really of interest to anyone else so not much chat is generated by it. General chat about players and teams is already covered in the main fpl and other FF forums and discussion of draft strategy and rules can only go so far.

I get the impression from posts here that there are more people playing draft, but not regularly posting as it is in leagues with non-FISO members. So the only chat we're seeing here is for the exclusively FISO games.

I think it's probably worth keeping separate forums for chat and leagues but the RMT forum does seem to be redundant.

I too would like to see this league continue next season so hopefully there will be enough interest for it.

[Talkie Toaster]

GW38 waivers:

Round	Manager	Team	Transaction	Success	Explanation
1	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	Ward-Prowse Townsend	✓
1	S_sutton87	Ollies Ostriches	None	-
1	wahine	Kane or Biff?	Xhaka McArthur	✓
1	Stemania	Willy Rönkä's Bucket	None	-
1	robot	Chaco Forever	None	-
1	Jok57	Heart of the Morata	None	-
1	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	J Ayew J King	✓
1	Terrier Ramone	Bayer Goalscorer	None	-
2	Talkie Toaster	Crash Test Dummies	None	-
2	wahine	Kane or Biff?	Welbeck Benteke	✓
2	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Ospina Romero	✓
3	wahine	Kane or Biff?	None	-
3	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Danilo PvA	✓
4	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Kenedy Mata	✓
5	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Danilo Milner		Danilo transferred out
5	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Ospina Hennessey		Ospina transferred out
5	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	Mahrez Townsend		Townsend taken by Talkie Toaster
5	Mav3rick	▌Black Fang ▌	None	-

It's fairly quiet going into the final lap -

Mav3rick and Jok57 continue to chomp away at Terrier Ramone's lead, but it doesn't look like it will be enough.

robot overtakes Stemania in a bid to be the least obscure of the mid-table.

Talkie Toaster has a power surge and is within touching distance of 2nd-last place.

No Free-Agent signings so far.

[Talkie Toaster]

So the final results are in and there were no position changes in the final week, although Mav3rick made a fantastic final effort to catch Terrier Ramone, coming up agonizingly short.

So congratulations to Terrier Ramone for being the first first of the First Draft League. A worthy champion who has hung on with a terrier-like grip to top spot for many weeks.

Thanks to everyone for playing this season and keeping it competitive. It seemed like a bit of a slog mid-season, but there was some excitement in the end.
I don't know what we're going to do with our Friday afternoons now that there are no more waivers to check and free-agents to rummage through.

Have a good summer everyone and hopefully we can do it all again next season.

1st Draft Podium.jpg

[Talkie Toaster]

Here are the complete final standings:

First Draft S1.jpg

[MoSe]

Outstanding documentation TT.
One thing I'll be curious to further break down also when I'll do something similar for the Regulars one I played into:
I figure the Transactions are those submitted, as you can see them tallied in a team page.
I'd be rather interested in the successful ones.
Although I figure you can only get them by opening each team Transaction history, and counting them (or copying the list into excel and letting excel count them )

[Talkie Toaster]

Thanks MoSe.
I'd forgotten that the fpl totals also included the failed transactions.

Here's the table with the successful transactions in brackets.

It didn't take too long to count them manually actually.

First Draft S1.jpg

[MoSe]

Interesting, I'd have said the red Xs were more...
So, the runner-up had almost 3 changes per week, the 3rd placed a bit more than two, while the winner only made 17 changes to his team all season, less than one every other week

[wahine]

No one of picked Salah for their first pick,
im sure its a disadvantage to set the auto pick because you cant adjust with the knowledge of the order of the draft or in response to what others pick as the draft goes on, i joined two leagues one a H2H both in my own timezone and did the live draft and won them both, but this draft has been a fun time in esteemed company - thanks for the game and well done Terrier Ramone for being the first first of the First Draft League.

[robot]

A point that I had made about draft positions earlier in the season based on my knowledge of previous tff drafts was that when we tried to establish the ideal position to draft the positions just before the turn were often the best ie 2nd/ 3rd or 6th / 7th in this draft with qst/8th next best and 4th/5th the worst places (as a guide)
And these results nearly highlight this well.
Would be good if someone could work out the optimum posision from all the fiso drafts.

[Talkie Toaster]

Interesting, I'd have said the red Xs were more...

It probably looks that way because my weekly updates might not pick up all of the Free-Agent signings as I only included those that had gone through at time of posting, which was usually Friday afternoon.

So, the runner-up had almost 3 changes per week, the 3rd placed a bit more than two, while the winner only made 17 changes to his team all season, less than one every other week

I think the winner came into a very strong line-up (Salah, Sanchez, Sane, Bellerin, VvD, Son, Trippier, Lukaku) and stuck with it while everyone else was scrambling in an attempt to catch up.

[Mav3rick]

I purposefully left myself with rotational spots in the defence, so that will have contributed to my transaction total. I'm not sure it really helped, although that's probably because I failed to nail the selections in midfield rather than anything else.

I had late draft positions in all the draft leagues I played so never really had a chance of owning a tier 1 striker, some analysis of the draft order and finishing positions should be doable, even globally, if I were to program my site to run through a few hundred thousand leagues.

It would be interesting to know if there was any correlation between league winners and draft position in leagues of a consistent size, but I don't think any pattern found would necessarily point to an optimal position... More likely, I suspect, league winner/draft order would correlate to the point where Salah looked a good pick.

In essence, I think draft order is probably only an advantage if we have perfect information before the season starts. One thing that I do know for sure is that pre-selected draft lists put you at a disadvantage, you really need to react to the available player pool.

The concept of being near a boundary, and thus having two transfers in quick succession is interesting, initially I can't imagine it makes a difference, but perhaps being able to strategise two players at a time is something of an advantage.