1 Avenge is a cheap up and comer. And I needed a decent filler. 2 Bomber is my favorite player and is a macro beast =) 3 Dream has been showing good results and only costs 4 points. 4 Gumiho is soo good in GSTL. Almost picked Jjakji instead but he wont play after NSH is eliminated. 5 Maru is another great up and coming player and I expect him to do well in HotS 7 Ragnarok was very strong in the preseason and I needed a good Zerg other than Life and Violet. 8 Vampire because he was solid in WoL and only cost 3.
Team Prime because they have a really good line up with no Zergs for only 2. I would go for startale but no its mainly Life and Bomber on that team, so I think 4 is too much.
Hurricane becuase I expect him to do worse that the other value 5 players except maybe supernova. Both are kinda risky =(
Scarlett because she is unproven in HotS and is a foreigner.
For main team, I tried to spread my players around in the better teams, because GSTL is traditionally very prone to all kills (betting on Gumibear here). I'd love to pick my favorite team and chose more of its players, but knowing IM, they will decide to let their C team play when it would be most important to actually put out good players, so I decided against that. There is a ton of misvalued players (MKP at 7? Jjakjji at 7? While Yoda is only at 6, MVP only at 4, Squirtle at only at 5? wtf).
Life was a no-brainer. The best player in the world and Startale will need to rely on him as several of their better players have left recently
JJakji due to his good showing @ MLG and NSH not having many other capable players; hence he will get alot of time in the booth.
MC - well I know LG-IM are stacked; but coach Kang likes to put him in during team leagues and he looked good at HOTS launch and MLG. Old school MC resurging - where he just makes units and comes and kills you
Keen and Ruin as they are both playing week 1 and I think they are favoured in their match-ups. Can always trade them away.
Then i ran out of points so arbitraily picked players that have cool names. I am the ultimate EllenKey hipster also.
Anti-team
Leenock looked horri-bad getting owned by Bogus @ MLG. A good terran should be able to snipe him, not bad for 8.
SorfOf? Foreigner...no brainer
TerrOr? Who?
EZ
The edit is from changing my captain from Life to EllenKey
I don't know how to post those fancy tlpd links, so I just screenshotted mine.
Mkp's going to dominate and prime will be the surprise champs this year.! Anti team was hard to pick, but I chose MMA cause he cost 6 and he can't even beat slayers jessica these days.
I will say I don't like the captain system as there's really no incentive for picking a good captain. I don't know if anyone plays EPL's fantasy premier league, but there your captain earns you double points for the week.
Life as a captain of course, I mean, he's life. Then we got MC as second man, showing some insane results at MLG, and however much I might regret it, not letting NesTea slip by. I'm giving Mvp a shot in my team, he still has potential as long as his injury doesn't get worse. He's still better than a LOT of players at the GSTL. I think Sting's a good addition because he's shown some good games and he's terran(:p) Crank is quite adaptable and a hard trainer, and Bang & Golden.. I want to see an unknown player like Bang rise up and I really liked Golden in WoL.
My anti team I don't think is going to do very much because Maru's overrated (I think), Scarlett's is good but she seems very stuck to the metagame (atleast before it did) and JKS seemed like not such a strong player. Sorry JKS.
I know I shouldn't pick Nestea for a team league (only 3 games in 2012, all losses) since that's not his strength and they put mostly the other guys out there but with the amount of points i had left, i had to pick someone and he's definitely the best 3pointer out there, imo. If he gets to play, I'm counting on him figuring out the game a bit faster than the other players which should give him a significant advantage. Same reason I picked Mvp as well - he had only 1 game and lost it in 2012 but his current shape in HOTS makes me think that if he gets to play he will do well.
I didn't go for Maru or MKP as anti-team because they both have 67% win rate in team-leagues. And MMA's, while being 56% is inflated from results in 2011. His 2012 team league results is 5-3, with the last 5 games being losses + his general out of shapeness.
Taking the advice of mrbamboo and submitting a balanced team that. Also, besides the captain, everyone is from teams that play in the first weekend, with the intent to trade out whoever I can for the next week. Will hopefully keep Losira, Squirtle, and KeeN around because I like them and their value though.
Anti-team - initially had Curious as my high-point underachiever, but then I remembered that I had him on my anti-team for the last GSTL and got absolutely screwed over, so I replaced him. San and TheBest because their best results were a while ago (barring San's freak OSL run), and besides, who can ever forget "TheBest banshee control!" : P
edit: wow, almost exactly the same anti-team as the guy above me, nice to see others thinking the same way
I've gone with players I feel not only are on good form, but have the capability to play well in the team league environment. TREME seems to be a pretty good prospect so I'll take special interest in watching him.
For the anti team I just don't think Scarlett is up to scratch, she sticks to a very zerg favoured meta game from a time that is hopefully past (I am 100% not saying she's a patch zerg, just her style of play doesn't suit how HotS seems to be leaning). Tassadar I can't remember the last time he was relevant, and he is on NSH which is an advantage is avoiding the team-win point, and Supernova is at a greater risk of disappointing than the other 5 point players, but that may come round to bite me.
Very first time I’ve ever tried a fantasy league of any kind, so don't flame me too hard for any glaring mistakes
Have to say I really wanted viOLet as my captain, but since the 36 point limit only really allows you to have one big hitter I had to go with Jjakji. NSH’s ace by a long way, at the very least he’s guaranteed to make multiple appearances. His score has the goldilocks effect of been just right, isn’t cheap, but also isn’t expensive when you consider his GSTL achievements.
Ruin, Lure, Alicia and sC are all chosen around the fact that they play for teams who are playing in week 1 and Ruin is a guaranteed starter. I think Sc has a good chance to make a showing (if only for the fan-service). At 4 points I think he’s quite over-valued considering the likelihood that he’s been out of action the longest and could be quite rusty, if anything he’s good for trade value.
Lure was picked because that was pretty much the only choice left when it came to picking an affordable MVP player, I also have a sneaky suspision that week 1 will be the week of PvP and PvT. Alicia is a wild card, never got a showing in the pre-season, but I believe in AXA! Also guaranteed starter is a bonus.
That leaves Ganzi, RagnaroK and TREME. I’m honestly not sure about RagnaroK, he seems to be touted by everyone as the bargain of the start, but I wonder if the hype is real, or people are still looking through rose-tinted spectacles on the back of his pre-season performance.
I’m expecting AZU to do very well in the GSTL over all, and plan to have a lot more of their players by the end. For now, I’ll settle for the incredibly cheap Ganzi, if he gains any appreciation he may be a great trading piece. TREME is literally just to make up the ST numbers, nothing else to say there.
Picking IM as my team was probably the biggest hit to my points. There’s some method to my madness, plan to take the win from this week, then trade them out for AZU next week and hopefully cash in two wins on the trot. Of course if both those teams end up loosing then I’m off to a bad start :\
The anti-team, honestly I really don’t know. Curious was just a hedge if anything, ST aren’t playing in week 1 and 6 points gives me a lot of trading potential for week 2.”NAKSEO” was picked purely for the fact that he wins the award for dumbest new ID ever. Shine… meh, he’s Zerg and seems like a bleeder (in team leagues at least).
EPT
Avenge
Bomber
RagnaroK
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