Fantasy Proleague '12-13 Round 1 - Page 53

Team : Woongjin Stars - 3p

I didn't want to go anywhere near Rain's family, nor did I think that EG-TL would crush face like TL writers expect them to. So among the rest, I had to choose between Woongjin, Samsung and STX. Even though Khan was a finalist last season, they have the team with the least impressive individual results so far and they cost 4 instead of 3 for the two other so it was eliminate there. Soul have the best individual players on paper (Bogus and Last) but the mastery Stars showed in the first round of the last PL made me fan. 2 of their players qualified for Code A, sin doing it against zergs including someone named Vampire, aka Sniper's clone; while 3 of them also reach the finals (free, BisAnG, ZerO). Not to mention sHy and Neo.G_Soulkey were in Code S. This team has tremendous potential with a whole bunch of youngsters.

Captain : Neo.G_Soulkey - 8p

Players :

• Bbyong - 4p
  
• ZerO - 4p
  
• Wooki - 3p
  
• JangBi - 5p
  
• hOn_sin - 3p

Among the players that were in Code S this season and who went down to Code A, Bbyong is the cheapest (4p) and the fact that he will likely share ace matches with Effort which makes him a wise pick. Then I wanted another reliable player for a decent price a protoss would have been best but none were that impressive for 4p. ZerO and Shine both fill that spot but I couldn't decide yet.

After that I wished to pick 2 protosses because in Bo1, those are always a good thing to have so one under 3p among {BisAnG,free,Wooki} and one over 5p among {Trap Stork,Flying,JangBi} was a good move for me. I believe BisAnG is the best player among the 1p players, his ability to reach Code B finals twice in a row (losing to win-hungry San in the last one) tells me that, however I don't think he is ranked that highly in his team and he shouldn't see that much playing time yet. As such I picked a combination that was likely to play often and which one of them will do well : [Wooki,JangBi].

Lastly I wanted a terran but they are either WAY too costly for what they are {Bogus, Last, Flash, BaBy} or their level is quite unknown like {PuMa, ThorZaIN, hOn_sin, Classic}. I was determined to pick of the last group and decided to go for hOn_sin just because he his almost guaranteed to win his game against a totally unknown player who will be hard pressed to cheese on a map like Arkanoid.

Anti - team :

• BeSt - 6p
  
• sKyHigh - 4p
  
• Zenio - 3p

I am not sure BeSt will have a bad season/day but in the bigger scheme of things, I have to avoid picking against teams that I think could win in the end and he weights quite a few points in a team where he will end up behind Rain all the freaking time anf if Bisu comes back well, he can almost kiss his spot good bye. sKyHigh looks like an overrated player in a team that won more on BW than on SC2 last time and Zenio has been slumping for a while and with the recruitment of Jaedong, he will go after him in the line-up.

Team : Woongjin Stars (-1p) Tough first week for WS with a 1-4 defeat. But with T8 as the only cheaper team, I have to trust myself on this one. To Keep

Captain : Neo.G_Soulkey (0p) Lost his match against Bbyong but should do well in the future.

Players :

• Bbyong (4p) Won his match against Soulkey confirming his Code A results. Keeper
  
• ZerO (0p) Dissapointing loss on a Terran favored map. Likely to be traded
  
• Wooki (4p) Satisfying win for a protoss that should see regular play. Keeper
  
• JangBi (0p) I was expecting more from him. On probation
  
• hOn_sin (1p) Didn't play but was on the line-up. Undecided

Anti - team :

• BeSt (4p) I was expecting him to be the contrary of JangBi, but that's not the case. Likely to be traded
  
• sKyHigh (4p) Apparently not as bad as foreseen. On probation
  
• Zenio (0p) Seemed completely lost against Flash. Keeper
  

I decided not to trade anyone for this first week after seeing the match-ups :

• Bbyong is likely going to stay on my line-up for a while. He can go 2-0 this week and 1-1 at worst.
  
• ZerO was playing BeSt so I decided to trust him once more, and ends up locking both on the lineup. The risk of ZerO going 1-1 is high because he plays Flash in the second part of the week but BeSt plays him and BaBy and I expect BaBy to crush BeSt granting me a potentiel 0-2 for BeSt this week.
  
• Wooki should win against Sang and free, continuing to make a strong impression on everyone.
  
• Sin is too cheap to be traded right now, though I thought about trading him for Mind but they face each other on the second part of week one and decided not to risk the trade penalty for that.
  
• JangBi has to perform against Dear because he won't against TaeJa. His stock is falling rapidly and I might have to trade him for a lesser protoss in a more successful team.
  
• sKyHigh is only playing one match and I think Last has what it takes to crush him. Zenio is in a similar situation playing only RorO.