This is my new team after seeing the week one lineups. I'm really unsure about it to be honest but we'll hold on to hope. New thoughts: Hurricane looks like great value at 3 points. He is playing twice in week one and Samsung will most likely win a lot so he should do well in FPL. Shine didn't end up in the lineup for Samsung in either of their matches. Bbyong still has good value even though he is fielded 1/2 this week. Cure is a weird pick for me I was just trying to fill points. He is being fielded twice this week, albeit against some seriously tough opponents. Hush probably won't play and I don't anticipate CJ doing that well.
SKT because DUH. PartinG because double DUH. Life because his relative newness to Proleague and a lot of these players, plus hes just really good. State because #ForeignerHope. I'm impressed Cure is only 3 points, hes always done well for me, but I guess I'll wait to see if he plays first week, and I might switch him for Bbyong. Sorry will collect 4 or 5 points just by virtue of being on SKT.
sOs is still too known and recent to jump ahead of the metagame yet, so I'll take the risk and say he continues to tank in Proleague. DRG was BAD(a good thing for me) last round so I'll stick with him. Also, Mvp because I'm that guy, and besides he won't get any playing time with ST now on the roster. If sOs becomes a new RorO I will cry.
SKT because DUH. PartinG because double DUH. Life because his relative newness to Proleague and a lot of these players, plus hes just really good. State because #ForeignerHope. I'm impressed Cure is only 3 points, hes always done well for me, but I guess I'll wait to see if he plays first week, and I might switch him for Bbyong. Sorry will collect 4 or 5 points just by virtue of being on SKT.
sOs is still too known and recent to jump ahead of the metagame yet, so I'll take the risk and say he continues to tank in Proleague. DRG was BAD(a good thing for me) last round so I'll stick with him. Also, Mvp because I'm that guy, and besides he won't get any playing time with ST now on the roster.
or maybe since Mvp is going to europe just after his WCS eu group, they will use him as much a possible before he leaves :p
Most of my first choices were too expensive this time round so I dunno. Maru is my favourite Terran, captaining him once more after he pretty much carried my team last round. Terminator was quite a solid player for Jin Air last round so I should be able to get a good few points from him. Life has always been a Z I've looked at and gone, hmm this kid is good and with him being a 5, hey why the hell not. HerO was a difficult pick for me, with IM's stacked roster I'm not entirely sure how much play time he's going to get but if he does get some, hopefully his IEM win will have given him an excellent morale boost.
State and MarineKing were kind of "well I need cheaper players who will play" Prime having the weakest roster overall means there's a good chance both of these guys will play regularly for their price plus it felt kind of wrong to have the Marine Prince and not the Marine King in my team. Oh and picking State I said I wasn't going to do but, everyone has that grim hope that maybe, just maybe the foreigner will do well.
Anti-Team, I learnt from my past mistakes of picking Flash and actually sat down and thought "hmm what non cheap prime players can I put in here" so here we go: DRG has always been a rather underwhelming performer in my eyes plus he has a habit of going SH. That Shine is the Samsung one, and I feel he's the weakest of all the Samsung Zerg. Stats, he's one of the weaker KT players and there are definitely other choices KT will go for over him imo.
GOING IN!!!! Going for MKP cuz <3 Maru captain again because he is our only Terran hope (along with mentor MKP :3) Kal because he might get some build order wins and is cheap Savage because they guy is sick good for his value Sniper as i couldn't get Darth Vador so i got Darth Maul instead :D Sora as i think he will show he is better than last rounds dismal display
Anti team DRG he is just not good anymore MVP mainly i think IM might struggle and he won't play so xD Solar again i think he has gotten found out and won't do anything this round.
Easy. Life in Proleague, I'm a fan, I do believe. Creator will be send out by Prime quite some times, I expect him to be played in every match and I do expect him to gather up some wins. Same goes for Kal. HerO is in since he showed decent results, finally is in a korean training environment, is over his nerves and will rock proleague for IM! Reality will be fielded vor Samsung quite often, and I expect more map and mech abuse from him. His boring playstyle will make him win some shit. Zest comes in simply for the all kill of SKT, also, he is one hell of a proleague protoss. My team of choice will be IM, since I expect them to do really well with the depth of their roster now.
Anti:
MKP on my anti. Hell, that guy is figured out. That guy is washed out. And there's way more protoss than zerg, so his micro won't help him and his greed will be easily punished by protoss power. Rogue did well so far, but I expect him to have lost his "unkown guy" power. Korean preparations gonna make that guy suffer. And then Super. He's not a bad player or so, but Mvp doesn't really have depth, and he's going to get killed over and over again.
Trading options: I guess I'll have to trade MKP off my anti for DRG real soon.
So grateful that there is a foreigner playing, no offense to state but thats such a safe bet given that he probably won't get sent out much and not do well. I just hope Creator doesn't get a confidence boost by MKPs return and sOs can do well and terrible at any point in time anyway so he is kinda coinflippy. If Flash wasn't somehow the most expensive player (which results wise doesn't even make sense) he would have been my captain like he was in Round 1 T.T
I mean, Swagger is captain of MVP and only 1 point so he's basically a steal imo. MKP Going to make sure Prime rocks and he should get a lot of playtime.
Also, when in doubt, pick some high level protoss. herO, parting & creator should all get plenty of playtime.
SKT because DUH. PartinG because double DUH. Life because his relative newness to Proleague and a lot of these players, plus hes just really good. State because #ForeignerHope. I'm impressed Cure is only 3 points, hes always done well for me, but I guess I'll wait to see if he plays first week, and I might switch him for Bbyong. Sorry will collect 4 or 5 points just by virtue of being on SKT.
sOs is still too known and recent to jump ahead of the metagame yet, so I'll take the risk and say he continues to tank in Proleague. DRG was BAD(a good thing for me) last round so I'll stick with him. Also, Mvp because I'm that guy, and besides he won't get any playing time with ST now on the roster.
or maybe since Mvp is going to europe just after his WCS eu group, they will use him as much a possible before he leaves :p
Where he will end up losing several times. And why would Mvp go to Europe? The first group stage is online, and he won't have to worry after that
SKT because DUH. PartinG because double DUH. Life because his relative newness to Proleague and a lot of these players, plus hes just really good. State because #ForeignerHope. I'm impressed Cure is only 3 points, hes always done well for me, but I guess I'll wait to see if he plays first week, and I might switch him for Bbyong. Sorry will collect 4 or 5 points just by virtue of being on SKT.
sOs is still too known and recent to jump ahead of the metagame yet, so I'll take the risk and say he continues to tank in Proleague. DRG was BAD(a good thing for me) last round so I'll stick with him. Also, Mvp because I'm that guy, and besides he won't get any playing time with ST now on the roster.
or maybe since Mvp is going to europe just after his WCS eu group, they will use him as much a possible before he leaves :p
Where he will end up losing several times. And why would Mvp go to Europe? The first group stage is online, and he won't have to worry after that
well last time he went to europe immediately after his online group qualification so i guessed he would do the same.
I don't think I need to explain much, the theme of this team should be very obvious (I only have Tails and Nestea because the main team needs one of each race). Since all my attempts of playing FPL seriously failed horribly so far I have decided to go with the fun approach this time.
I'm thinking of swapping Marineking with Cure. But that would be way less fun so I guess I'll stick with MKP for now
So long as my anti-team doesn't destroy me like it did last round, I think I should do pretty well. Also I will probably end up trading State out, but I needed a 1pt person and being on Prime he's likely to be sent out at some point >_>
In sOs and PartinG i trust like always. In Squirtle as well. MKP just because, Sniper will dominate this round because i expect MVP to go into top-4.
Don't get any hype about Life, Effort and CJ Entus will continue to struggle a bit and will miss playoffs again, HerO won't play a lot, IM won't win more than 4 again, so it's safe.
Ballsiest captain pick I've ever seen, kudos to you.
This is actually a smart move in a 5 player strategy. Captains only have a downside (untradeable) and no upside. So your captain should be the one player that you are definitly not gonna want to trade away. So why not pick the one you can't trade anyway? Though i'd have prefered Salvation just cause he might possibly play but i guess girls always win.
decided id go full out on the St and Im fanboyism, on second thought not that smart ( since with such a large roster its hard to see who will get picked often...) the hero pick for the anti-team will probably be the end of me ( though he didnt do great last roung of pl ) but i needed to make up those points and felt SoS would have been a bit too risky
Maru and Parting as my heavy-hitters: it worked out pretty well for me last round. Plus, no TY on my anti this time murdering me each week. Hoping Gumiho and Hurricane get some playing time.
Reasoning: Bbyong is cheap and I wanted a cheap captain, plus I can see him score some points. Same for GuMiho whom I like. herO[jOin] is imo the best SC2 player at the moment so I picked him, especially cause I cheer for CJ (again). Creator is another thing. I picked him not because I like him, but because I think that he will play in every single match where Prime plays, and perhaps he can win some of them. Life is another player whom I like, unlike his team IM which I don't like that much. I think he's the best Zerg on IM/ST, so I picked him. Zest is probably the best Protoss of KT, so I think he'll play a lot of games and win some of them too. CJ as a team is a gamble, but I like them, so why not?
As for the anti team, I picked only IM players. Quite a gamble too, especially because ByuL was owning quite heavily and I picked him. But I think he might play a bit less thanks to Life and perhaps his winning stops. Also a bit worried about Curious, but not about Mvp.
In generaI think that the top Terrans will not continue to dominate as heavily as in R1, which is why I didn't pick Flash, TY or Maru. Let's see!
I have faith in Stork and hope he will finally starts winning. Classic has looked really strong in his games although he did loose to Polt in IEM Cologne. GuMiho is somewhat of a darkhorse but he's definetly better than 2 points and if Shine keeps cheesing so well he could get a few additional wins in Round 2. As far as RorO is concerned I just he hope doesn't pull a RorO and starts failing after playing well in Round 1. As for my Anti, after I had Maru on it in Round 1 it can't really get worse, so placing sOs on it might actually work out. oDin is never gonna play a game and Hydra's record of 0-5 speaks for itself. Let's see if the spirit of Aiur will carry my team.
Main Team 2 Bbyong (2 points for bbyong ? yer kiddin me right ? ) 3 Dream ( Best MVP terran, cheap, will be fielded and win ) 7 herO[jOin] ( hello i am hero i win everything ) 5 Life ( I needed a zerg, and who else but life ? SK too expensive ) 3 MarineKing (Picking MKP is like purchasing a plane ticket with India airline, its cheap and if it does not crash you made the deal of your life but there's a 50 % chance that everything goes wrong. My plane got deviated last time so i guess i wont happen this time #LuckLogic ) 7 Rain (captain) ( RAIN MY CAPTAIN YOUR LOYAL CREW IS ALWAYS HERE #1 player world ! ) 3 Incredible Miracle ( 3 Point left to spend...when i saw i could afford IM i did not hesitate for a sec, they have a CrAAAazYyY lineup ! )
Anti Team 5 Creator (REALLY did not want to put him here but i needed a 5 pointer, will try to trade him ASAP ) 4 Hydra ( kek ) 4 Sora (disappointment, i guess after WCG sora blew everything on cocaine)
I'm basically banking on my heavy, heavy hitters in KT, TY and herO. Reality is too cheap at three imho, he'll grind out a few wins here and there, and should be fielded quite often. Same for Dream, with MVP now having the thinnest roster, he'll see play often enough. Effort is one of the picks I'm most unsure about, while I think he is slightly undervalued at 3, Solar will take the Z spot on CJ most of the time, but I needed a Zerg. Eins as Captain because I like the name and I don't want any points locked in by not being able to trade (also covering the Terran spot, but I'm somehow heavy on Terrans anyway).
The anti was surprisingly easy, Creator is incredibly overrated with 5 points, I mean he will be played, but won't win much. Curious and Terminator are pretty spot on with 4 points each, but they both suffer from being on Teams with line-ups which don't really need them. STIM is too large to field Curious more than once or twice or so and Terminator is overshadowed by the basically locked in players on JinAir. An alternative anti would be sOs, MKP and MVP; sOs's style seems really figured out by all the SPL teams (and sorely disappointed me last time on my main), MKP, 3 points, lol, how did he deserve that many? And while I love MVP to death, I think he won't be fielded a single time with the huge STIM roster and his known distaste for team leagues. Should he be fielded and screw up my anti, I couldn't be happier, so even then I can live with it
Overall, I'll probably continue to work on my main, need to trim some Terrans, don't know how I ended up with that many.
Main Team 6 Byul 2 Fantasy 7 Parting (captain) 2 Ruin 7 sOs(Shy) 3 Stork 3 [tlpd#teams##sc2-hots]CJ Entus[/tlpd] <- please tell me how to make this work
Basically ByuL anti team -> team, Hero the other way around and no Flash as he so ridiculously expensive. Will Fanta play a match? I thought he was regarded really good just a couple of months ago? Wtf happened? Anyway, I like him so I picked him. MKP won't win much btw. I was thinking about picking him though since he is too cheap for the amount he'll likely get fielded. And thus no anti pick either.
I basically went with players that I enjoy watching play. I'm trusting in MKP to win some, because he is MKP, despite the brief hiatus. State and Sleep are other players that I just like and am hoping can bring me at least a few points. The rest of my team is relying on strong Protoss players from the last round. Squirtle screwed me over on my anti team last time, so I feel like I should throw him on my main team this time around. Anti-Team is just some thrown in Zerg's and and Reality. The main reason for Byul is I feel that he might play a little less thanks to the addition of the Startale players.
GuMiho - I think that he's worth more than 2 points and if he plays he wins MVP - same as GuMi... every start will be a win(and yes, I know it could be just one start ) Maru - he's Maru, OMG!!! Who else? Life - best choice, lot of wins delivered for sure Parting - wants to deliver ceremonies therefore he has to win... Nestea - because he's my hero
Jin Air GW - I still believe this team has a lot of to deliver and that they are the best
Anti - HerO - he just don't give me an impression that he's capable of playing PL, different tournament maybe... also he will be playing better players I think, so he will be losing a lot. IMO Terminator - he will not play a lot, so even wins won't matter so much Shine - because I could not select anyone better for 4 points :D :D
Main Team 5 Creator - A solid player, confirmed ace of his team, will play every match. With Byun and MKP back, Prime actually has quite a lot of possibilities to take their matches into aces, where Creator will play. Still, he will probably go away once the lineups are revealed. 3 Dream - Another solid player, hopefully with a locked spot on his team lineup in almost every game. Bad thing is, he is playing in the worst team in Proleague. We will see how lineups turn out, he is 50/50 of staying/going away tomorrow. 2 GuMiho - This guy is imo locked. Underrated a lot and with CJ struggling last round, he will probably find himself playing a lot of games. And I hope also winning them. 7 herO[jOin] (captain) - dat smile! 5 Life - Solid player, possible ace. Same as Creator, will probably go away tomorrow. IM lineup too stacked, don't really want any of their players. But he should do well! 5 Rogue(Savage) - Another locked player for me. Did well last round, will do well this one. I believe in the prophet Major. 3 [tlpd#teams##sc2-hots]CJ Entus[/tlpd] - they will just do much better this round...
Anti Team 6 Byul - stacked team, hopefully won't play that much with Life and Curious as competitors, didn't do too well after the first week. 1 rare - lol 6 soO - stacked team, hopefully won't play that much and if he does, hopefully he matches with some awesome players. waiting for lineups here though.
Other interesting players: Curious - too bad he is on IM, they are too stacked. Any other team, for his price, he would definitely be in, cause he is just so good. If he was on MVP or Prime, he would be the captain. MKP - complete wild card. He will probably get play though, which can be worth it (depending on how good he actually is). ByuN - same as MKP. Probably a little but better as he didn't actually stop playing. Stats/Zest - a little bit overrated imo. Both of them are solid 5s, but on 6 they are overrated. Still, both of them will get a lot of play and will earn points for sure. Hydra - I hoped he would be on 3. That way, he would be locked in for my team, this round he will do much better (besides him just being good, I also go by last year when he was terribad in one round and then one of the best in the next one). Reality - Samsung is pretty deep, but depending on how much they field him, he could be 50/50, which is a nice deal for his cost.
I'll never give up on Fantasy and even though I want him to go back to BW so I can steal new builds I'll support him in Star2. Him and Flash are mainstays on my team and always will be and everyone else is SKT or Stork (Now Bisu and Best are gone).
The Bo5 system has proven to reward high value players like Flash, Maru etc, because they are going to play no matter what. So I tried to build my team around some heavy hitters.
herO[jOin] because I think his play in PvZ and PvT looked superb in individual competitions, especially his PvZ, and his play in the first Round left a lot to be desired. That's why I think he'll be looking for a big turnaround in this round. Especially since CJ struggled overall. MarineKing is my wildcard, not sure about him, I'm not one of his fanboys, but I'm pretty sure he's going to get more playing time than most 3 pointers and he'll might come out of the gate with a fresh mindset and overperform. His place is still up for grab though Rogue(Savage) because whenever I see this guy play zerg, I'm impressed by his decisions, his mechanics, his multitask. I think he's kind of a star in the making right now, and he, sOs and maru are the backbone of JinAir, so he'll get a lot of playing time as well. State because foreigners. Also, like i said, I don't think the current format rewards deep teams over top heavy teams, so I needed a cheap player. Maybe he'll even play. Probably not though. TY(Baby) because he's a beast Zest (captain) really impressed me in Code S and Proleague recently, he didn't just win. He crushed face. He'll crush face in PL as well. [tlpd#teams##sc2-hots]Prime[/tlpd] cuz 0 points.
Anti Team Mvp won't get to play a lot, and even if he does, he's probably going to get smashed. IM may to reasonably well so I worry that their wins will give me a lot of points... Solar didn't really impress me lately, might be hitting a first bump in his career, similarly to Sora after his breakout, it's a gamble but I don't think he brings the value of 7 points. Also I think that Samsung overperformed in the last round and won't win a lot this round. Stork Sorry bro.... you're still terrible.
Im going to be 100% percent honest I have no idea wtf I am doing. I chose drg because I hope he will stop failing. Fantasy because I hope he will improve. Flash because,,,,,flash. HerO I think will be a good value pick. Maru is just amazing right now. Stork because nostalgia demanded it. As for anti I really want sOs and zest to prove me wrong but I think they are both going to flop. However like I said I really want to be wrong. I typically have no good luck so I am banking on that and putting my favorite protoss players on my anti team just in hopes they will do well.
Im going to be 100% percent honest I have no idea wtf I am doing. I chose drg because I hope he will stop failing. Fantasy because I hope he will improve. Flash because,,,,,flash. HerO I think will be a good value pick. Maru is just amazing right now. Stork because nostalgia demanded it. As for anti I really want sOs and zest to prove me wrong but I think they are both going to flop. However like I said I really want to be wrong. I typically have no good luck so I am banking on that and putting my favorite protoss players on my anti team just in hopes they will do well.
Picking Zest for your anti although you could pick someone with just 3 points seems really silly to me.
I have to say I'm pretty confident in my main team. I know it's silly to make Gumiho my captain but he's my favourite player who I'm not going to trade so putting him as my captain saves me a lot of points. Parting is obviously a great player, HerO isa great player and is going to get lots of playing time after winning IEM, Rogue is an up and coming player who is becoming one of the best players on JIN AIR, Trap and Curious are just average players I used to fill out the rest, but I like their play style. CJ Entus is a dark horse team imo, they're primed to do better as time goes on.
My anti-team has me a little worried, but I didn't know who else to pick. Creator is the only player that costs a decent amount of points that I'm POSITIVE will do bad.
ugh...making a decent team is going to be hard this round. IM's got so many potential players I'm hesitant to add people from that team given the amount of play time for everyone is probably diluted now. Flash is good but totally not worth 9 points. TY may or may not be worth his amount this round (I need consistency!)...arrghh
I expect Byun and Gumiho to be fielded quite often and Hurricane is just sick. Maru and TY are obv carriers. Sniper has my fingers crossed.
Also get off that Solar hype train plz! Will alter this when lineups are announced ofc.
Edit: 1 note: MKP scares me just because how little we know about his form right now. He might make this round so fragile, at least he can't be fielded twice on opening week.
Solar is a monster. Creator is overrated for going -50% last round. Bbyong is underrated for how much he will play this round. Rogue is playing really well recently. Shine went 5-1 last round and doesn't cost that much. I really wanted Classic though :/. KeeN went 1-3 last round but he plays well even in his losses and with MVP's lineup he should still play. The fact that I get to have HerO on my team makes me very happy. Terminator is on anti because I think once Jin Air coaches realize CoCa is based god Terminator won't play much anymore. Will probably alter this once I see round 1 lineups.
I avoided ST-IM players on principle because they have so many good players now I think there lineup will shift drastically week to week. That being said, I think they'll do well which is why I picked them up for team.
Good choice with FanTaSy as captain. He will forever be on my fantasy proleague team, even if he isn't playing much. Fuck it, even if he retired but was still a choice on here, he would be on my team. Lol.
Good choice with FanTaSy as captain. He will forever be on my fantasy proleague team, even if he isn't playing much. Fuck it, even if he retired but was still a choice on here, he would be on my team. Lol.
Basically picking a lot of 4-6 pointers because they're not bad, and cost reasonable. Bbyong I think is underpriced at 2 (he's in Code S after all and while we think he's bad, he has defied our expectations in Code S)
Anti-Team is Super (I don't think he performs very well even though he's the ace), Life and Mvp (sorry fanbois, but IM has too many people and they can't get played that much)
Notes: Put RorO on my anti last time and got slaughtered so hopefully he'll do as well if not better this time. Sleep seemed like a good pick for a cost that low. Taking another chance of Sora because the hype train is still rolling. Relegated Hyrda to my anti team because I had him in my main team last time and he was just god awful.
Good choice with FanTaSy as captain. He will forever be on my fantasy proleague team, even if he isn't playing much. Fuck it, even if he retired but was still a choice on here, he would be on my team. Lol.
The key to get a high score is 1. Get 1-2 high hitters and get lucky they don't flop like rain did last season. Too many high pointers and you have to get 1 pointers to fill. You can't do it without high cost players. Need at least one. 2. Get 2-3 high ratio of cost/points won last season. Players with 4-6 points. Don't have too many of these, otherwise your team will be mediocre. I'd rather have one 7 pointer and one 1 pointer than two 4 pointers. 3. Get lucky with ppl who didn't play last season or research them. How will gumiho, choya, mkp, life perform in proleague? Who knows. .. 4. No more "all players from one team", doesn't work like that anymore. 5. Trade... and get lucky 6. Protoss getting nerfed? Might affect some but don't count on it!
I think Gumiho, Hurricane, MarineKing, and Hydra all have high upside for what they're worth. Hurricane has a good chance of playing a lot since the only players I think are a lock for every match are RorO and Solar. Hydra had a bad first round, but can bounce back. He will get playing time anyway. MarineKing will definitely get playing time, when looking at who Prime fielded last round. Gumiho probably has a decent shot as well at playing time, he'll have to compete with Sora, Effort, and Bbyong since herO and Hydra I think are a lock. Flash and Maru will be depended on a lot, so they're my high pts picks. Hopefully, with MarineKing and Byun back, Prime can actually compete this round. MarineKing-ByuN-KaL-Creator lineup looks alright.
I avoided picking any IM and SKT players (though PartinG is probably a safe choice) as both those teams have too much depth.
On February 21 2014 06:26 ggofthejungle wrote: The key to get a high score is 1. Get 1-2 high hitters and get lucky they don't flop like rain did last season. Too many high pointers and you have to get 1 pointers to fill. You can't do it without high cost players. Need at least one. 2. Get 2-3 high ratio of cost/points won last season. Players with 4-6 points. Don't have too many of these, otherwise your team will be mediocre. I'd rather have one 7 pointer and one 1 pointer than two 4 pointers. 3. Get lucky with ppl who didn't play last season or research them. How will gumiho, choya, mkp, life perform in proleague? Who knows. .. 4. No more "all players from one team", doesn't work like that anymore. 5. Trade... and get lucky 6. Protoss getting nerfed? Might affect some but don't count on it!
That's where I don't agree. Obviously, all depending on teams and circumstances for those players, but I would rather have two 4 pointers than one 7 pointer and one 1 pointer. Or even better, have 5 and 3 pointers instead.
On February 21 2014 06:26 ggofthejungle wrote: The key to get a high score is 1. Get 1-2 high hitters and get lucky they don't flop like rain did last season. Too many high pointers and you have to get 1 pointers to fill. You can't do it without high cost players. Need at least one. 2. Get 2-3 high ratio of cost/points won last season. Players with 4-6 points. Don't have too many of these, otherwise your team will be mediocre. I'd rather have one 7 pointer and one 1 pointer than two 4 pointers. 3. Get lucky with ppl who didn't play last season or research them. How will gumiho, choya, mkp, life perform in proleague? Who knows. .. 4. No more "all players from one team", doesn't work like that anymore. 5. Trade... and get lucky 6. Protoss getting nerfed? Might affect some but don't count on it!
That's where I don't agree. Obviously, all depending on teams and circumstances for those players, but I would rather have two 4 pointers than one 7 pointer and one 1 pointer. Or even better, have 5 and 3 pointers instead.
Mhm, FPL is actually a lot of luck - you are only going to do really well when one or more of your guys are running hot. And a 7 pointer is just more likely to run hot than two 4 pointers. So, imho, the better teams will always have something similar to the 7 and 1 combination, while your setup of 4 and 4 is more stable, so if luck is not on your side, you will average out in the middle with your setup, while a 7-1 combination is more likely to bomb out when the 7 pointer does not perform at all (see Rain or sOs last round). It all comes down to being guaranteed mediocre or shooting to succeed with high pointers or fail trying(this is slightly exaggerated of course and depends on your luck/scouting ability)
On February 21 2014 06:26 ggofthejungle wrote: The key to get a high score is 1. Get 1-2 high hitters and get lucky they don't flop like rain did last season. Too many high pointers and you have to get 1 pointers to fill. You can't do it without high cost players. Need at least one. 2. Get 2-3 high ratio of cost/points won last season. Players with 4-6 points. Don't have too many of these, otherwise your team will be mediocre. I'd rather have one 7 pointer and one 1 pointer than two 4 pointers. 3. Get lucky with ppl who didn't play last season or research them. How will gumiho, choya, mkp, life perform in proleague? Who knows. .. 4. No more "all players from one team", doesn't work like that anymore. 5. Trade... and get lucky 6. Protoss getting nerfed? Might affect some but don't count on it!
That's where I don't agree. Obviously, all depending on teams and circumstances for those players, but I would rather have two 4 pointers than one 7 pointer and one 1 pointer. Or even better, have 5 and 3 pointers instead.
Mhm, FPL is actually a lot of luck
FPL isn't luck, only skill. If you don't believe me then play me and I will beat you.
Wanted TY, he's guarenteed to play each week and seems likelier than Maru/Flash to win his games. Zest because he's awesome, rest is just people who should perform for their cost, i kinda hope that shine or one of the others performs like shine did last time. Antiteam wasn't that hard, Hydra&Effort failed last time and soO has a rough fight for his spot
Anti Team 7 herO[jOin] 3 Mvp 3 MyuNgSiK basic attempt at not making an awful team ^^ kinda wish i'd remembered state when i made it though :p hes top 50gm on korea server atm
I am not entirely sure if i will keep that team that way, maybe i need to adjust it after the lineups are shown.
Barbie: captain cause she is in the lineup to interview every week. Rogue: I think he is better than solar and doesn't cost as much, easy pick right? RorO: Well the best Zerg in proleague, you don't have any choice really. Sora: He underperformed last round, but i believe that CJ will do much better this round, and so will sora. TY: 7:0 Zest: I am not sure if i will keep him, but he looked pretty solid the last few matches.
Bbyong because he WILL get played and he WILL show results. Cure(Speed) because I love his play, and hope that JinAir plays him over Terminator and TRUE. If he plays, he'll show good games. herO[jOin] because he's a baller, and he's on fire right now. Disappointed me a bit in Round 1, but he can pull things around here. Rogue(Savage) because my gamble on him payed off in the last round. I just hope he never has to play a ZvZ...... Stork because I've been a long time fan. Really hoping he gets his confidence back and shows us the power of the Dino Toss. Zest because he's been killing it. He's just consistently good, putting aside his playoff AK and his more silly losses. Jin Air Green Wings because I hope JinAir takes it all the way, plus they are a good team. With some tweaking, they can show me success.
Anti: Bravo(sin) because I don't want to lose too many points. Creator and Super because even though they are good players, I don't think they'll be able to shine against such tough competition.
My HerO's will be a Salvation, an Incredible Miracle! My Sniper will remove your Life until your teams start deParting! Ready to Rock!
Also, RIP in pieces terrans
Explanation: Life because Startale! both heroes because it makes it less confusing + the power of protoss. Parting will always win stuff, Sniper is fun, Salvation is cannon fodder. Sadly no points for Soulkey .
On February 21 2014 06:26 ggofthejungle wrote: The key to get a high score is 1. Get 1-2 high hitters and get lucky they don't flop like rain did last season. Too many high pointers and you have to get 1 pointers to fill. You can't do it without high cost players. Need at least one. 2. Get 2-3 high ratio of cost/points won last season. Players with 4-6 points. Don't have too many of these, otherwise your team will be mediocre. I'd rather have one 7 pointer and one 1 pointer than two 4 pointers. 3. Get lucky with ppl who didn't play last season or research them. How will gumiho, choya, mkp, life perform in proleague? Who knows. .. 4. No more "all players from one team", doesn't work like that anymore. 5. Trade... and get lucky 6. Protoss getting nerfed? Might affect some but don't count on it!
That's where I don't agree. Obviously, all depending on teams and circumstances for those players, but I would rather have two 4 pointers than one 7 pointer and one 1 pointer. Or even better, have 5 and 3 pointers instead.
Mhm, FPL is actually a lot of luck
FPL isn't luck, only skill. If you don't believe me then play me and I will beat you.
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My main thought process here is that I might as well use Prime as a free team and hope they step it up so I can make a few points off of them. With the extra points gained I was able to pick up Stats AND Zest to add to my Protoss lineup.
Main Team 3 Bravo(sin) I hope to see him more, he's playing for SKT1, so I can get points from his team. 3 MarineKing Gambling choice, but Prime is so weak, I hope to see MKP many times 8 Maru (captain) Always a safe choice 4 Shine 3 Sniper Cost/effective 6 Stats He did very good 3 [tlpd#teams##sc2-hots]Incredible Miracle[/tlpd] For only 4 points, IM has good chance to be in a great position
Anti Team 5 Creator he's the one who can hurt me, I wish he won't 4 Hydra 0-5 last season, ouch 4 Sora
Main Team 2 Fantasy - I think he can get me a few points. 5 Life - I think we'll see plenty of him. 3 MarineKing - Same, big terran gamble, he might hurt me more than I anticipate. 3 Mvp - Double big terran gamble, but I think we'll see more of him. 8 TY(Baby) (captain) -Safe bet. 6 Zest - Double Safe bet, if he can do just a little like when we last saw him, I'll be ok. 3 [tlpd#teams##sc2-hots]Incredible Miracle[/tlpd] - With the StarTale influx, I think they'll do better this 2nd round.
Anti Team 5 Creator - He'll have to carry prime, my hope is the more he appears the more chances to score. 7 Soulkey - I had to gamble on a big player. 1 State - I don't see him winning, if Prime get's desperate, easy points.
Flash as captain has never disappointed me, even from the BW days (when Bisu was slumping). Soulkey is the true ace of SKT, and he'll be used every game from now on. Hydra, Effort, and Fantasy, are cheap, underperforming players who I feel will start owning face once they've adjusted to the meta. The Zergs, especially, are going to rise (keeping in mind the potential Protoss nerfs and/or cockiness). Fantasy is too good to stay down - either he gets back to Code S or he moves back to BW (which, either way, is a win for me). CJ Entus is too good to continue sucking, and Coach Park is too good to give up (hey even EG-TL started becoming respectable when he came into the picture).
As for Anti, Super is overrated, Curious might not be used given the deep Zerg line (Byul, Life, etc), and Squirtle is very shaky/inconsistent.
So basically I have the best proleague player (TY and Maru will start to cool off), the best player currently (IMO) in Soulkey, 3 potential beasts, an underperforming team, and an Anti-Team of former dishwashers (j/k, but they're past their peak). Sounds good.
Oh and I got Ruin cause I needed a P and he was funny in the GSL
Anti Team 2 KassiA 3 Reality 8 TY(Baby) I picked players who done little in round 1 but that i believe can improve and deliver this time. Soulkey as captain because i love him.
I originally built around Parting, but hey, surprise, he's not playing! Classic is nearly as good, honestly, and I figure if he wins week 1 I can probably move him for Parting in week 2 anyway. Life is Life at 5 points. He's the Parting of Zerg and I can't imagine IM not using him basically every match. His sheer skill will win him games he shouldn't win, and his control will outclass plenty of opponents. Lucky and Miso for one point fillers, Miso beceause he's on a good team and Lucky because I think he might actually play (plus I like him). Maru because Maru. Flash is a rough draw for week 1, but Maru is the better TvT player. Zest because he appears to have recently gone super saiyan and he's about as consistent a team league player as you'll find anyway. IM because I think the ST influx makes them too good for 3 points. The only worry is that their huge roster ends up hurting their consistency.
Anti team has Creator because he's not worth 5 points. A slightly reinvigorated Prime will probably help him (Choya could be working with him), but Prime is still going to lose a lot and I figure he'll also be their ace player. Ace appearances are worth points, sure, but I can't see him winning many of those matches. Ace loses hurt. It's a bit of a gamble, but that's how anti works. Hydra because you might as well ride the suck train at four points until he proves otherwise. Shine because come on he's not doing what he did in R1 again. Considering he's not even in the week 1 lineup for Samsung, they appear to agree with me.
Not exactly too confident about this, but i love MKP so i had to pick him. So hard to pick a team this round. Banking on Jin Air, Maru and Zest rekking kids this round. Hopefully picking Hydra doesnt bite me in the butt
Yonghwa is captain since I have no heavy faith in any of the higher priced players to payoff consistently the entire round. May as well make a 3-pointer with a lot of potential my captain. He comes out a lot as well. The rest are just there because I expect them to win all of their games the first week. Likely going to trade in 2 more IM players next week since they're favored in both matches for week 2.
Yes, that's right...RorO is back on my anti. I swear he's like a drug. 7 points, 50/50 shot against Effort, only playing once, team's shot at winning is iffy. Time to take the ride again...
I originally had Parting, Swagger & IM for my team but I'm changing up a few things.
Starting with my Anti-Team. Trap, although he's good won't get fielded that often because IM has such a strong lineup. Sora, I feel the same way. CJ will either field herO or Trust over Sora any day imo. Super, is scary for me because I know he might be played every week since he probably is the strongest Protoss on MVP, yet MVP has a lot of strong Ts and Zs so I feel that, with the protoss nerfs coming, he either will stop getting fielded or will just lose, so good for me.
As for my team, I wanted to pick a solid protoss core, with some T and Z sprinkled in.
herO as captain, ezpz, he's a boss and will get fielded everytime CJ plays. Might even be the Ace a lot as well if they are going to send out a protss. Zest is a top protoss on KT and he should get fielded often. Creator, although maybe not the strongest protoss, is one of Primes best players which means everytime prime plays, he should play.
Next up, My terrans! Fantasy and MKP. Marineking, he's my love, he should get played a lot, for 3 points, I'll take that risk. Fantasy the same way, 2 points. He gets played usually 100% of the time, should be able to get some games.
Lastly, my lone zerg. Hydra. I know last round he didn't do the best but he's getting fielded again in both CJ's matchups this week. If he does well in week 1 he'll be strong contender for the rest of the round. If he doesn't, CJ might bench him more often and therefore I'll most likely trade him.
Team, CJ Entus baby. Tough choice between them and IM, since they are both 3 points, but giving the edge to CJ just because of herO & Hydra.
Not sure if this'll be my final version. Classic, Zest, and Maru speak for themselves, as does KT Rolster. Hitman and Sleep I picked just to get a point every time KT wins, and Splendid was a throwaway pick at 0 cost. As far as my anti-team, I don't envision Life playing all too often and even when he does I'm not too sure that he'll end up with more than about a 50-50 win ratio. I think MvP is pretty much doomed and while Dream and Super aren't bad players I think both are slightly overvalued at 3 and 5 respectively.
So yeah, I'm betting a lot on MVP, at least to start. I think they're undervalued--they didn't play that bad last season, DRG in particular looked good, and their first match is against Prime who will be much better this round but still easily the worst team. Maru and Classic are just killers, herO has two very doable matches in the first week, and as much as I like HerO and Trap I feel like they're not going to play very often now that IM has a huge influx of ST players (especially given that they already didn't play much last round), also HerO will be spending lots of time at WCS AM and other foreign events.
With lineups now up, I tweaked around with my original team.
Flash as captain has never disappointed me, even from the BW days (when Bisu was slumping). herO has good matchups for both games and will ideally net 2 wins. Hydra is a risk, but he's far better than how he's performed. So is Fantasy, who's a cheap 2 points with a good shot at beating a 5-pt out-of-form Life. At least, SKT should win and get me a point. Zest has 2 nice matchups, and he has the momentum to produce points. KT should win its matches in any case. Bbyong just qualfied for the next round in GSL, and is always a dark horse for PL. He's likely worth the point (and he can snipe sOs with a nice build). Prime's a 0 pt team that has a good chance to win. As for anti, Super is overrated (Creator's better, peak-wise), Curious might not be used given the deep Zerg line of IM-ST-TL (Byul, Life, etc), and Squirtle is very shaky/inconsistent.
So basically I have the best proleague player (TY and Maru will start to cool off), the best player of CJ with two nice matchups, Zest the All-Killer, a couple of underperforming stars, and an Anti-Team of former dishwashers (j/k, but they're past their peak). Sounds good.
Main Team 2 Fantasy: almost go into FPL without him captaining -->saw the lineup --> reinstated! 2 Bbyong: was trying to play with some sense but then I was like fuck this shit and go full Entusman 3 Effort: was trying to play with some sense but then I was like fuck this shit and go full Entusman 7 herO[jOin]: was trying to play with some sense but then I was like fuck this shit and go full Entusman 4 Hydra: was trying to play with some sense but then I was like fuck this shit and go full Entusman 3 was trying to play with some sense but then I was like fuck this shit and go full Entusman 9 Flash: god saves me if passion fails
Anti Team 5 HerO: was torn between him & Curious but since the zerg does play this week.. 3 MarineKing: just want him to fail so badly 5 Super: random 5-pointer pick, he might score alot though
On February 21 2014 16:24 Pangpootata wrote: Hey guys, RorO is worth 7 points, but only plays in 1 out of the 2 matches this week, while even the newcomer Hurricane gets to play in both.
I heard that RorO is a good pick for the anti-team.
Yonghwa beat jaedong yesterday in the Shoutcraft clan series. Fantasy and Bbyong are more picked because I had to pick terrans however, they both play in first line ups so I can trade later if I need to. Plus both are pretty good. herO won 2 IEMs and is really consistent, we'll probably see him in a lot of ace matches since he's on CJ entus who are in the middle of teams for skill and I could see them taking some close matches with herO Roro.. Um 5-1 last season.. As much as I hate his swarm host play he'll take lots of games. Zest.. well he's on Kt rolster and all killed Sk Telecom Incredible Miracle with only IM players last round did pretty well and with a new stack of ST players I can't see how they won't do well especially with Hero who beat jaedong and Polt convincingly.
Forgot anti team. Byul got beat by Suppy yesterday in Shoutcraft. I hate to talk down about Suppy but Byul shouldn't lose to him and I feel this is indicative of his downfall a bit, he won't get as lucky this round. I chose Hush because he doesn't play this round and I haven't seen very much of anything from him, I hope he doesn't breakout.. Hydra went 0-4 last round so I trust that he'll still do just as bad. Cannot wait for 4am wakeups! Cheers!~~
Ok I have way too many terrans. Wut am I doing? Also I would love to give some long thoughtful analysis but idk my team seems kind of bad this round which sucks but I can't bring my self to change it and I can't come up with better stuff off the top of my head. Ummm Maru is really good, Bbyong is undervalued (just made round of 16 Code S and only 2 points?!) Cure is being fielded regularly for Jin Air seems he's won the fourth spot over Coca for good . IM is a bargain at 3 points, but their players won't shine as much as the team because of their insanely huge lineup imo. Rogue and Zest are just really good. DRG is my wildcard heart pick of the bunch.
For my anti team I just wanted a balanced not too risky group. Super is good but MVP struggles. Hydra is struggling mightily in PL and may not be fielded all the time. Terminator is juggled with sOs in the first round so he may not be a staple for Jin Air. Also he's not bad but not great. Any suggestions before signups close?
Why isanti-teaming Super and Creator? They will probably get to play almost every game, and even if they end up being mediocre, chances are they'll win a few like last round. Plus they are the aces of their respective teams.
Main Team 5 Life my favorite player 1 Lucky 1 miso 4 Sora Sora is good and protoss, nothing can go wrong 7 Soulkey (captain) 6 Zest He 4-0ed SKT1 last round. #respectthewooki 6 SK Telecom T1
Anti Team 7 PartingI don't know what I'm doing pick 4 Shine 3 Stork good luck against herO and Flash
On February 21 2014 16:54 Thrillz wrote: Why is isn't anti-teaming Super and Creator? They will probably get to play almost every game, and even if they end up being mediocre, chances are they'll win a few like last round. Plus they are the aces of their respective teams.
For a 5 pointer anti pick, I only see soO/HerO as a good alternative
However the zerg is likely to be rotated in next week and T1 is supposed to win most of its match AND hes valued at 6 which is harder to be trade out.
HerO did decent last round, winning aces and stuff (but you can always bet on his terrible nerve and his playtime this round)
All in all, it's equally risky for all these 5+pts anti. So pick the one you hate maybe :-P
Thoughts: Sleep should really probably be my captain because he probably won't play and I therefore probably won't be able to trade him out after a good game. But Soulkey. DRG will get me points or he won't. He's like inconsistent. My point getters should be Soulkey, Zest (who can apparently beat anyone) and herO (which like in PvProleague is pretty much a good bet. I mean because his PvP).
anti team: it is surprising to me that so many people are choosing players that play TWICE in the first week for their anti teams. All of my guys are decent, and there are definitely players that are significantly more overvalued, but because STIM has so much depth I can probably trade them out slowly if the line ups look dicey.
HerO out for Zest, with IM's deep lineup I was worried HerO wasn't going to get playtime this week, how right I was. With Zest being on fire and playing twice this week I feel he's going to net me a good chunk of points.
State out for Fantasy, it pains me to do so but with State yet to get his PL debut and Fantasy playing twice for SKT this week for a mere 2 points means this is pretty much a no brainer.
Who to replace Terminator with was an incredibly difficult decision to make. I had three shortlisted: Stork, Cure and Hurricane as they all play twice this week. Settled on Hurricane just because I feel he has a chance to win against Sora whereas Stork has herO and Flash to face and Cure has herO and TY, herO has been on fire in individual tournaments so far and hopefully this carries over to PL now and Flash and TY are just too damn good right now.
Jin Air out for IM, not only did I get an extra point out of this to get Fantasy but overall I'm looking to not trade teams if possible and I just feel STIM is an overall better pick this time round cause that depth is insane and I feel they're play-off material this time round.
Now the anti-team, the one thing I'm overly cautious about after the buttfucking I got from RorO and Flash last round. With DRG playing against KassiA, I feel he has the edge in that match so cutting my losses now and throwing Sniper in my anti just because he isn't playing as of yet.
With Stats playing too, again I wanted to cut my losses and minimise point loss very early on, so switching for soO who isn't in SKT's lineup for the week.
Main Team 3 Cure(Speed) - Low cost and will play 2 times this week 3 Hurricane - Low cost, will play 2 times this week and might win both game if he cheese vs TY on Habitation Station 1 Shine - Only one point left, and I need a Zerg in my team... 3 Stork - Will play 2 times this week 8 TY(Baby) - Will play 2 times, will win both games, and KT will win both matchs 6 Zest (captain) - I always pick him in my FPL team. At the moment, he is doing great, he will play 2 times, will win both games, and KT will win both matchs. 6 KT Rolster, since they shall be able to win both of their matchs
Anti Team 2 Byun - He will never play 5 Creator - Only one appearance in week 1 and imo, he will loose and Prime will loose too 6 soO - He doesn't play in W1 and does cost a lot of points
Bit worried that Zest will buckle under extreme expectations after R1, but what the hell toss. KT will own again. It pains me to not use Flash but he's too freaking expensive and Maru might give him trouble in the first week. Hydra hasn't been doing that awesome lately but look back a bit into 2013 and he was solid....we'll see if I keep him after today's Code S.... Dropped Hydra after today's Code S -> chose Sora instead. Also, welcome back MKP
Main Team 2 Bbyong - Solid terran, Ro16 Code S, probably the best 2 pointer. Could be Fanta, but I think Bbyong has more chance to beat sOs than Fanta has to beat Life. 3 Dream - Another pretty solid terran for 3 points. Is playing mirror matchup against LoL player. Don't expect him to lose... 7 herO[jOin] (captain) - dat smile! 4 Hydra - He was pretty bad last round, which means he will be the best zerg this round. The history tells us so. Also plays 2 ZvZs which I believe he could win after beating Symbol in Code S. 5 Rogue(Savage) - Solid zerg for solid price. I trust in our prophet Major. 6 Zest - Very good player, matchups that he could win. I believe! 3
CJ Entus - they will just do much better this round than the last one...
Anti Team 3 Mvp - lol 4 Shine - not playing in first 2 matches, costing 4 points. deal. 6 soO - 6 pointer not playing in first 2 matches AND being on SKT. deal times two.
Possible Changes Still thinking about switching Bbyong/FanTaSy. Most probably won't do that though. Also thinking about switching Bbyong + Zest for DRG + Creator. There are pluses and minuses to that. DRG should win the first match and could be the ace player. Creator's first match is coin flip. But he is an ace without a doubt. On the other hand, I doubt those two will win as consistently and they won't bring any team points as they are on 2 worst teams in the league.
Hurricane: he's had good results lately, but he hasn't played in proleague (I think). Anyway, I believe in him.
Keen and Terror: for the points they cost I'd say they have a good chance of being sent out, and that's the important thing. If they can win too, better.
Maru and Zest: they've been performing very well in proleague and korea in general for a fairly long time, so they are my safe picks.
PartinG: he was in a slump when HotS first came out but now it seems like he's back to his old form. Until they nerf blink at least...
CJ Entus: I feel like they were a bit unlucky in r1. This time they should be able to perform better (too bad I couldn't fit none of them in my main team).
I wanted a balanced team where everyone could score me points. I'm hoping solar and soulkey will give me a lot of them. DRG is not worth much and has a favorable MU in first week, i hope he wins so i can trade him soon after. I think Rogue is solid all around, and he will probably plays most of the matches (while life might not for the same worth). Hurricane is a total bargain and a no brainer, as well as IM which i think/hope will do better than round 1, and Bbyong is there because i needed a cheap terran TT.
First go around at this. Probably in over my head and I picked with my heart not my head, which is something of a running theme with me. Flash is the most expensive without the best results but I would feel like a blasphemer if he wasnt my captain oh captain. Also a MKP fanboy and I have a strange feeling hes going to be closer to 2011 MKP than 2013 MKP with absolutely nothing to back that up. Im picking Stork on blind faith or with one eye open because he did pull out a W over Parting and my head says I shouldnt put much emphasis on one mirror match my heart says THIS IS STORK MORON. Sora I believe is a bargain cuz hes ace material but not quite at ace price. And KT the best KT, nuff said bitches.
And Keen and Effort I think both underachieved and prior to this year have great team league records so I figured why not. DRG and Life I feel are the worst theyve been ever and I dont expect much out of them with the league being so protoss heavy. And Creator I believe overachieved in round one and for some unknown reason I fully expect him to go winless in round 2. And out of everyone I think its Creator who is going to have the biggest hand in my fucking up here hes prolly gonna go undefeated and at the end of the round do a ceremony where he looks directly into the camera and mouths u suck in english. wolf and valdes will speculate that hes referring to the play he defeated but only i will know along with u, tl, that creator is really talking to me, lol
kind of hoping that some people in my team perform the best they can, otherwise quite standard. soulkey as captain since he doesnt really get any worse, sOs as captain of my anti-team since hes quite expensive and not very good
MKP a sentimental pick. If I was being logical he'd prob. be in my anti-team. CJ are better than their results suggest so all their players are undervalued. Really regret not putting sOs in my anti-team - 7 is ridiculous for somebody who has only managed to win with gimicks.
Solar is going to be a huge deception this Round. Therefore, he will be the best Anti decision i've ever made. In case that Protoss is getting nerfed heavily, I'll be in some trouble i guess :D
Anti Team 1 miso 7 sOs(Shy) 5 Super Main team :sorry barbie u have no chance . I feel like hydra will do much better in round 2 (u can see with his 2 time existance in this week maybe coach park see something in him.).Also CJentus will be better.Soulkey , classic and life was my favourite player then I would like to get some excitement while cheering :D.Marineking is the only 3 point terran player then no option for this Anti team : No one have 7 point with 1-5 record(I'm not sure but his record still horrible).Super may be overated .Miso,I don't know this guy but when someone play terran in KT,he would definitely not be send out.
my team is self explanatory but I'll help you out a bit
Main Team 2 Bbyong (captain) Bbyong is always undervalued at 3 points, now 2? STEAL the guy just made his Code S group 3 Effort My wild card for 3 pts, he plays 2 times this week, he'll be facing RorO and a chanceling Maru. let's hope he does well 7 herO[jOin] Plays twice1st week against weaker players (stork and cure), he went through his Code S group 5 Rogue(Savage) He's been solid last round, also was known to be best practice player on t8; on jinair only maru bestes him; he will play every set 7 Soulkey soulkey 7points? pick that shit 6 Zest Zest 6 points, even after his all-kill against skt? STEAL 0 [tlpd#teams#sc2-hots]Prime[/tlpd] With MKP back and playing teammvp this week, im confident they'll win and that i can trade them later on.
Anti Team 3 Hack - I doubt he'll see much play time, too many good toss on IM + the startale players 5 HerO - I'll probably end up trading him once he gets sent out 5 Super - MVP's bigger guy (he will play alot but against good players) still a safer pick than all the 6-7-8 pointers
Main Team 3 DongRaeGu saw him ranked pretty high on GM and has played quite well in some games last round 2 Fantasy SKT fielded him and he costs me only 2, so why not? 1 miso needed a 1pointer, could perhaps give me some points because of KT's recent form 5 Rogue(Savage) really impressed me in a recent qualifier (was it IEM?) 7 Soulkey (captain) such a solid player, he will do well 6 Zest played really good in the playoffs and i feel like 6 is quite cheap for him 6 [tlpd#teams##sc2-hots]SK Telecom T1[/tlpd]
Anti Team 3 Action i actually did a mistake here, action will hurt my anti because of KT - but, i have miso to equalize it 3 Hack doubt he's gonna play 7 sOs(Shy) underperforming lately
MKP a sentimental pick. If I was being logical he'd prob. be in my anti-team. CJ are better than their results suggest so all their players are undervalued. Really regret not putting sOs in my anti-team - 7 is ridiculous for somebody who has only managed to win with gimicks.
Kinda disappointed with Shine not starting in first week, but hopefully they field him later on. I think I should have a decent point output with ty, rogue & classic, everything else is just a bonus.
Main Team 8 TY(Baby) Heavy hitter #1, plays twice this week. Plays all the time. Initially had Maru but Maru has one game against Flash which he might lose. Same price as Maru but has more chances of winning. TY vs Cure(T) TY vs Hurricane(P) should be 2 easy points
6 Zest (captain) Heavy hitter #2, plays twice this week. Plays all the time. Zest vs Terminator(P) -> easy point Zest vs Solar(Z) -> possible loss
5 Rogue(Savage) Wildcard. Had one of the best points/cost last season for his price. Hope he keeps it up. Hyped by Major. If he doesn't perform in the first 2 weeks I can trade him. Rogue vs Stats(P) -> aligulac says 60% Rogue Rogue vs Hydra(Z) -> anything can go
3 MarineKing Wildcard/Filler that plays at least 1 game, vs Dream(T).
2 KassiA Filler that plays at least 1 game, vs DRG
2 Turn Filler that plays at least 1 game, vs Action(Z)
4 [tlpd#teams##sc2-hots]Jin Air Green Wings[/tlpd] Picking any other team other than KT, SKT, Samsung, JinAir and IM will lose you points.
Anti Team 5 Creator I am really afraid of this one... some people say he'll lose a lot but I think he won't. He'll always play. I might change my mind here. 4 Squirtle Doesn't play this week with how stacked IM is. Initially had Hydra, but I have a feeling Hydra is coming back. 4 Trap Doesn't play this week with how stacked IM is.
On February 22 2014 03:27 KrazyTrumpet wrote: What's the best strategy for picking anti-team players? Pick guys that won't even play? Or pick guys you are pretty sure are going to lose?
Best thing would be to pick a player on a team that always loses, while the player doesn't win or doesn't play.
Problem is you have to pick a at least one good player. The true problem is that you need to know which quality player is going to underperform. You could also say pick a 5 pointer and two 4 pointers, but I think thats the same amount of risk, because those players usually aren't bad as well.
On February 22 2014 03:27 KrazyTrumpet wrote: What's the best strategy for picking anti-team players? Pick guys that won't even play? Or pick guys you are pretty sure are going to lose?
Best thing would be to pick a player on a team that always loses, while the player doesn't win or doesn't play.
Problem is you have to pick a at least one good player. The true problem is that you need to know which quality player is going to underperform. You could also say pick a 5 pointer and two 4 pointers, but I think thats the same amount of risk, because those players usually aren't bad as well.
That makes sense.
Ah well, anything is better than putting Maru on my anti-team like I did last round. That was pretty much a "I hate this player so much" pick -_-
ahahaah epic, for a real win/win you would need skt players in your anti though...
No because then I won't win no matter what. I needed a shitty antiteam so all Khan.
Y no RorO?
With Roro on the anti, you cannot win no matter what - not even a moral victory. Rule #1 of FPL. They call him the destroyer of FPL teams not without reason.
Coca, Gumiho, Hurricane and Sora seem quite good for their price. Parting is a very solid player, that should always make a bunch of points. Zest is one of the strongest players in Korea right now. Eins is just some random guy I needed to have 3 guys, Solar is massively overrated with 7, Stats also overrated with 6.
Coca, Gumiho, Hurricane and Sora seem quite good for their price. Parting is a very solid player, that should always make a bunch of points. Zest is one of the strongest players in Korea right now. Eins is just some random guy I needed to have 3 guys, Solar is massively overrated with 7, Stats also overrated with 6.
On February 22 2014 03:27 KrazyTrumpet wrote: What's the best strategy for picking anti-team players? Pick guys that won't even play? Or pick guys you are pretty sure are going to lose?
The middle-tier SKT players and IM players are good picks because their rosters have so much depth that a lot of the time your anti pick won't even play.
I am not entirely sure if i will keep that team that way, maybe i need to adjust it after the lineups are shown.
Barbie: captain cause she is in the lineup to interview every week. Rogue: I think he is better than solar and doesn't cost as much, easy pick right? RorO: Well the best Zerg in proleague, you don't have any choice really. Sora: He underperformed last round, but i believe that CJ will do much better this round, and so will sora. TY: 7:0 Zest: I am not sure if i will keep him, but he looked pretty solid the last few matches.
My antiteam won't be played much i think.
I changed a little bit too, but i am not really sure if it will stay that way now^^ any thoughts?
Flash and Maru are just my heart's choice. They carried me last round (for my first FPL :D) and I just love their playstyle.
Bbyong at 2 pts is representing the other half of the Terrans that qualified for Ro16 GSL and thus could not be ignored, especially after spending so much points on my first 2 picks.
Cure(Speed) is a player that I do not know very well but that took down some big shots during IEM World Championship qualifiers. That way I'll force myself to discover who he is
Same goes for Rogue(Savage) who actually won that qualifier...
Hurricane : I needed a protoss and felt like getting one in the Khan team would be my best bet especially with Stork not in such good shape and who disappointed me during last round
I felt like a 0 points team is much more worth it than a 0 pts player, and Prime seems like they could create some sort of surprise, who knows !
Now for the anti team, I went for someone who was worth a lot of points and was unlikely to be the ace. sOs(Shy) seemed to be that guy and I hope he will not get the r0r0 award at the end of round 2...
Then Hush seemed like a "definitely not ace player" in a team that wouldn't win too much.
Hack shouldn't be fielded too much given how STIM's ranks are stacked.
Now I'll wait to see the how the first rounds go ! Go Jin Air !
This is hard because the Terrans are way either way too expensive or way too cheap. There was no middle ground for them.
Here's the run down: Classic: Not as flashy as PartinG or as handsome macro-oriented as Rain, Classic has been making of progress lately with his IEM and winning crucial matches in Proleague. Since Rain has been slumping for a little bit, it's no surprise Classic will take his place until Rain regains his form.
Hurricane: The funny thing about Hurricane is how much he was ignored in GSTL, but FXO constantly fields him a lot. The reason is Hurricane will win the matches when he needs to. Yes, we have seen GSTL heroes like YongHwa do poorly in Proleague. However, a veteran Proleague team with already a solid lineup is willing field its newer player indicates how Hurricane has a lot of promise for Samsung who is need of another solid Protoss player (sorry, Stork fans).
Reality: With mech being pretty strong lately, Reality will be fielded as a sniper against Terrans or Zerg. If you haven't watched his series against Soulkey (don't watch it unless you have a lot of time on your hands), Reality has a very polished mech playstyle.
Rogue(Savage): Unlike sOs, Rogue wins when the team needs it. Although his record is not the best, last round has shown that Rogue can pull his own weight for his team and has shown decent Zerg play.
Shine: Oh man, I don't know why a lot of people don't pick him. Yes, he's a situational player like Reality, but his ZvZ is super dangerous because of his unpredictable playstyle. Guess what? Best of 1's favor unpredictable players like Shine. Oh, did you know that he is undefeated against Soulkey?
Zest (captain): He is going to get fielded a lot, and his strength is only growing. So, he's definitely a safe pick for captain, due to the current meta and his form.
Incredible Miracle: IM was actually pretty close to qualifying for the playoffs! Now, with some Proleague experience and the loan of Startale players, IM looks pretty solid with a very deep lineup. They may not be the strongest team, but they definitely are strong contenders for the 3rd/4th place spot!
Anti-Team:
MarineKing: Sorry MKP fans. He just came back from LoL, and his plays in his stream was okay. Although with Terran suffering from the current meta and his playstyle being too predictable, he is going to get smashed hard in Proleague
soO: I might lose a few points because SKT will win a lot of matches, but soO as a 6 point player is way too high! His plays are rather unimpressive, and he is not a clutch player like Classic or PartinG
Terminator: With sOs, Maru, and Rogue being fielded, Terminator might be the 4th pick time to time. However, he, like sOs, does not win when he needs to. Also, being the fourth player means that someone else will likely take your spot.
On February 22 2014 03:27 KrazyTrumpet wrote: What's the best strategy for picking anti-team players? Pick guys that won't even play? Or pick guys you are pretty sure are going to lose?
Usually you want to pick players who either aren't going to be fielded often or those who lose a lot when they do get fielded. And if you need an expensive player, you want to pick a player who is rather inconsistent with his results. However, do note that there are some inconsistent players like sOs who can pull upsets. I hope that helps!
Soulkey = I wanted a powerhouse player. TY is way overvalued imo, as is Flash (blasphemy! i know.....). With Rain losing his spot as the ace, I was deciding between PartinG, Soulkey, and Maru. My heart wanted Maru but Soulkey seems risk free and is just too good, plus slightly cheaper.
Classic = after watching his gsl vods, he is playing lights out, had to have him
[tlpd#teams##sc2-hots]Incredible Miracle[/tlpd] = this seemed like a no brainer, only 3 points and are pretty stacked now. They can possibly contend for the title and will atleast make the playoffs. Also I have some of their players on the roster.
Anti Team
2 Armani = I dont know who this is, but his team is stacked and I doubt he will ever play. Was suprised to see someone I had never heard of be worth 2 points, all the others I never heard of are 0.
4 Hydra = He will play a lot, and continue to lose a lot. Hope this one does not come back to haunt me.
7 Solar = WAY overrated imo, and Seems to have been figured out. I have never been that impressed with him and am expecting a lot of losses
A little bit Protoss heavy, for sure. However, I went with Protosses that have good PvZ results, since I feel like that's the matchup that will reverse course the most if the patch goes through. In addition, I feel like Rain is such a safe bet in terms of a captain. His play has always been safe and solid, but he also has the ability to break out some amazing cheeses and timings when necessary.
The Sora choice was definitely a bit of a fanboy one. His PL results have been pretty poor, but I have faith in the kid. He's shown brilliant play before and I think he'll show it again.
Life was an easy choice. He's been on an upswing again and really showing some excellent play. I think that as summer comes around, he'll reveal his true form and be stomping in PL and GSL. Hopefully we see him place well at IEM also!
I'd go with DRG easily. Hurricane has 2 tough opponents despite playing twice and he's a less experienced player that tends to choke. Frankly, I think DRG is just flat out better as well. I mean, even with the flak he's caught he still had a better 2013 than Hurricane not to mention a successful career behind it.
I went through and edited this team to perfection, haha, I can feel it, this is going to be the round!
Captain: Soulkey. This was a tossup between him and PartinG, but since PartinG wasn't on week 1 roster, and Soulkey is more likely to get sent out for ace, I felt Soulkey deserves the spot. PartinG seems more likely to allkill though, but nonetheless Soulkey is the solidest bet.
Effort: Fairly cheap, and getting put out twice this week. He also is a staple on CJ's roster, and I feel like CJ is going to have a good round this time. Feels like a smart pick to me.
Fantasy: Only two points and I needed a terran. He IS getting played week 1, but if he loses I can see him getting no showtime for the rest of the season. Although being on the OP SKT is sure to get some points through him, though I might trade him off in the future if given the chance.
Life: New to proleague, and alot of people are picking him. I hope he can becomes a regular on the roster, because he is obviously very skilled and can rack up points very quickly. Not sure about the IM coach, but Life could possibly even be their ace. Not counting on it though.
Sora: Like a said before, CJ is going to have a good round this time. Sora is a solid protoss at 4 points, and is likely to get more playtime than trap and other alternates.
Stork: 3 Points + Being on Khan's roster almost every week. Seems fair enough. Even if he loses a good chunk of his games, he gets enough playtime that it should make the investment worthwhile.
SKT1: OP
Antiteam: Mvp: I know he is the King of Wings, but even if he comes out one or two times like last season and potentially gets a win or two, he wont cost me too many points.
Shine: He is (hopefully) not going to be on the roster everytime, and I'm just taking a shot in the dark and saying he is going to have a bad round.
Stats: I usually put a KT protoss on my anti and it usually comes back to haunt me. But with KT getting taken over by Terrans, and Zest being superior to Stats, I had to take a risk and anti him. Plus as with any of the high costing anti's -- there is a high risk the can catch some momentum and carry their team for the season. Just gotta hope he isn't a darkhorse this season.
On February 22 2014 07:01 FrostedMiniWheats wrote: I'd go with DRG easily. Hurricane has 2 tough opponents despite playing twice and he's a less experienced player that tends to choke. Frankly, I think DRG is just flat out better as well. I mean, even with the flak he's caught he still had a better 2013 than Hurricane not to mention a successful career behind it.
He has two tough opponents but at 3 points and with some clear faith from his team being fielded twice I think he's the better pick.
On February 22 2014 07:01 FrostedMiniWheats wrote: I'd go with DRG easily. Hurricane has 2 tough opponents despite playing twice and he's a less experienced player that tends to choke. Frankly, I think DRG is just flat out better as well. I mean, even with the flak he's caught he still had a better 2013 than Hurricane not to mention a successful career behind it.
He has two tough opponents but at 3 points and with some clear faith from his team being fielded twice I think he's the better pick.
yeah i think hurricane is a better pick too. It was tough leaving him off my lineup
Fantasy is cheap, Terran, and (surprisingly) playing week 1, plus he's SKT so there's that. herO is a beast (if inconsistent in Proleague). Hurricane is cheap, Protoss, and playing twice week 1. Rogue is pretty good and playing twice week 1. Soulkey is the most consistently good player in the world. Stork falls into the same category as Hurricane, and IM SHOULD do well this season. Should.
My anti scares me, but the only one of them who's playing week 1 is Sora, who hasn't been looking great lately. Hopefully can trade off HerO before he bites me in the ass too hard.
I haven't done anything close to well in fpl for a while.
at least I get to continue my streak of getting fucked over by soo one way or another. every time I think he'll do well, he does bad, everytime I think he'll do bad, he does great.
Not sure how I feel about this team after seeing the lineups. Sora being consistent is going to be needed badly, not sure if there is another person at 4 who is consistent I thought about Shine, but not fielded as much and Hydra has been down lately, so down that I think he'll do fine in anti even if fielded a fair amount.
I would really really really like some help with my team, if anyone has extra time. i really want to do well this time, and put a lot of thought into this.
Just look at the State of this lineup. I can't make heads or TAiLS of it. I mean your only SalvatioN will be if Choya becomes an ace player. Otherwise, your hopes will be gone in a Flash. You seem to be Primed for a round full of TerrOr. I have to give you credit for one thing though, you certainly have a lot of Swagger picking a team like that. The one pick you made that was Maruvelous was putting RorO on your anti team, because fuck RorO
bbyong for 2 yes please, herO is baller awesome, tear because he was really good, KAL MAN KAL, maru because i was able to afford him, shine i dont know why
I would really really really like some help with my team, if anyone has extra time. i really want to do well this time, and put a lot of thought into this.
This is my first time in fantasy pro league but I have been avidly following the scene for a long time. I really like bbyong, classic, life, trust and IM. Good picks
I think you may be overpaying for TY, he is good but at that price I would take Maru. I don't know how I feel about rogue, I almost took him as well but went with Byul for 6 instead.
I like hydra and terminator for the anti team, Creator on there scares me as he will be played every week and can win some games and also even a possible ace match
I'm betting that with such a huge roster, that IM players aren't going to be getting a lot of playtime individually and are good candidates for the anti-team. Also, Creator seems pretty overpriced too, so he is on there. The only risky person on my team I think is Rogue. He's been playing well lately, but I worry that it is a short lived streak. He could also keep improving and become worth even more. Still, no risk, no reward.
I'm betting that with such a huge roster, that IM players aren't going to be getting a lot of playtime individually and are good candidates for the anti-team. Also, Creator seems pretty overpriced too, so he is on there. The only risky person on my team I think is Rogue. He's been playing well lately, but I worry that it is a short lived streak. He could also keep improving and become worth even more. Still, no risk, no reward.
Just out of curiousity, why anti-curious instead of another IM protoss?
Yeah I am starting to think I need to get someone else in there for trap. Too many IM protoss that need to play and I don't see them ever benching life or byul
I'm betting that with such a huge roster, that IM players aren't going to be getting a lot of playtime individually and are good candidates for the anti-team. Also, Creator seems pretty overpriced too, so he is on there. The only risky person on my team I think is Rogue. He's been playing well lately, but I worry that it is a short lived streak. He could also keep improving and become worth even more. Still, no risk, no reward.
Rogue was a baller last round in PL too going 4-2. As a 5 cost and having had the same number of wins as Parting Solar and Soulkey last round (and more than others ranked above him) I think he's one of the strongest picks. Really like the rest of your team except I would change Curious to someone deep in IM's roster who probably won't play much. Only other pick I would think abot changing is Action because after this week I'm not sure how much action he'll see (teehee). There are other 3 players with more upside imo but your team is strong
I chose mostly players that I'm big fans of, I don't think this is gonna go super duper well. I'll probably regret not having any of the IM/Startale players, but I guess we'll wait and see. Also betting sOs continuing to do bad.
It's time to go big or go home. All of my value players from last season have greatly increased in worth which makes this season much more challenging. I probably could have dropped Zest in favour of another team staple such as Byul.
Something tells me SKT won't let this Round slip through their fingers. And that Fantasy may have a resurgence. Unless Life doesn't choke. Does he choke? Flash and Fantasy, lead me to victoryyyyy
why was gumiho 2? and i feel like classic wont play that much/disappoint...he isn't THAT good, is he? (had him on team last round)
Err... Gumiho hasn't been doing so hot. Haven't you seen him in GSTL? Also Classic is REALLY good. After all, he was bought by SKT. Plus, this week he's being sent out instead of Parting.
Trying to make a balanced team is so soooo hard considering the cap is only 30 points;; For my anti it was a tough choice between soO and sOs but soO > sOs in Code S RO32 so oh well... and btw does the trading rule (can only trade players of a lower value) apply to anti-team players as well?
I'm stoked that Marineking is coming back, so choosing him is a no-brainer. Same goes for Maru, herO and Team 8 since I've always been a huge fan of them
As for the anti, besides Flash (whose place is always guaranteed ), I'll go with the safer bet this time haha.
Creator: Will be fielded every Prime match and should snag some wins
Hurricane: On first glance he's being played both matches for Khan in the first week (only other player is Solar). Very good pick for 3 points and should be one of the best players on Khan since the rest of their line up isn't that impressive
Life: Kinda gambling on this pick. I feel like Curious might have been better but Life is on the upswing again and if IM is going to switch up their line up (which they will) they would take Curious out before Life
Maru: It's Maru. Originally wanted TY but for the same number of points Maru is much better since he will be fielded every ace match for Jin whereas Flash will be favored for KT
Rouge(Savage): He'll get played every match and is the best 5 pointer.
IM: They have a much deeper line up this season. Because of this they will win more games but not necessarily with the same set of players, which is why I mainly shied away from IM players for my main team.
sOs: I think hes way overrated for 7 points and hes even being switched out with Terminator on the line ups. While he will get one win this week (against Bbyong), I don't think he is as good as he was before.
just swapped Cure for Miso and Sora for Classic. realized i had to have Classic, and I think I was deluding myself that Cure was going to win at least one of his matches this week
DRG and MKP in main team cuz i cant refuse not to. and All mighty ruler PartinG Sora cuz this ID is by default cute Reality for his Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwesome urbanization (i mean.. mech VZ)
Anti: i hate sniper. like sos's style ,but not this player and just want to have stork with me , and have no slot in main
Trying to make a balanced team is so soooo hard considering the cap is only 30 points;; For my anti it was a tough choice between soO and sOs but soO > sOs in Code S RO32 so oh well... and btw does the trading rule (can only trade players of a lower value) apply to anti-team players as well?
I chose all my least favorite players for my main team and all my favorite players for my anti-team. Well, not quite, since I absolutely adore Life and don't give a shit about Fantasy, but as a general rule. As I'm sure you can tell, I'm feeling rather cynical about the current state of Starcraft.
Bbyong in so many teams again. A 2 point Code S player? A total steal! He'll probably get played at most once this round and lose and then get replaced by Bunny whenever CJ needs to play a terran. I'm still salty he and Hydra ruined my team last round.
On February 22 2014 23:29 shid0x wrote: Should we create the ''no balls group'' for all the people that changed their teams after seeing the week1 lineup ?
I had no time to create my team before the lineup reveal
On February 22 2014 23:29 shid0x wrote: Should we create the ''no balls group'' for all the people that changed their teams after seeing the week1 lineup ?
I had no time to create my team before the lineup reveal
I chose miso as my captain as i feel he's the cheapest i can get points out of because of KT wins. Zest, Baby, Maru are going to be my heavy hitters , hoping to balance out MVP losses which is my team of choice. I Feel Hurricane and ,hope that, Action are going to deliver in terms of value for money. Might be looking to trade Action if he wins on Tuesday.
As for my anti , i feel Curious won't make the lineup much because of ST_IM huge roster, same for terminator. Creator was extremely nervous and played some horrible games so i hope this trend continues on his part, probably gonna trade him as soon as i can
Bbyong is value, rare is my token Zerg, while Classic, Rain, and Zest are my Protoss point winners, and Fantasy is playing this round so like yeah why not.
Dream is okay not great, MarineKing is meh/bad, and sOs is going to overperform this round and we'll have the new RorO.
On February 23 2014 01:34 TT1 wrote: soulkey + hydra or classic + life?
Classic + Life is more reliable; you'll never know if Hydra will win this year or not
hydra has 2 zvz's this week and thats by far his best mu, id trade him after w1
I'd say he's favored to beat Solar (Solar's worst matchup by a lot) but I don't see him picking up a win vs Rogue.
should be close, hes 5-2 vs rogue. what worries me is that sk is playing vs curious, his zvz is weak and curious is underrated
Oh I didn't see their head to head. The only reason I worry about Soulkey is like you said his ZvZ. I wouldn't be surprised to see him take a loss this week. I think Classic is more of a sure thing vs Byul based on his recent PvZ's. And Hydra has won 7 straight bo3's in ZvZ. So basically I have no fucking idea do what you think is best
On February 23 2014 01:34 TT1 wrote: soulkey + hydra or classic + life?
Classic + Life is more reliable; you'll never know if Hydra will win this year or not
hydra has 2 zvz's this week and thats by far his best mu, id trade him after w1
I'd say he's favored to beat Solar (Solar's worst matchup by a lot) but I don't see him picking up a win vs Rogue.
should be close, hes 5-2 vs rogue. what worries me is that sk is playing vs curious, his zvz is weak and curious is underrated
Oh I didn't see their head to head. The only reason I worry about Soulkey is like you said his ZvZ. I wouldn't be surprised to see him take a loss this week. I think Classic is more of a sure thing vs Byul based on his recent PvZ's. And Hydra has won 7 straight bo3's in ZvZ. So basically I have no fucking idea do what you think is best
Explanation is simple. Every single player in the main team plays twice in the first week and every single player in the anti-team does not play in the first week.
Explanation is simple. Every single player in the main team plays twice in the first week and every single player in the anti-team does not play in the first week.
There is a second and third and fourth and so on week, and Parting's gonna bite you hard
My strategy is having my players spread across many teams and go a bit top heavy, I feel most the players I choose will get a bit of play time, the anti team doesn't have much to say as obviously all of them don't play this week. Maybe switching Sora for Hydra?
Explanation is simple. Every single player in the main team plays twice in the first week and every single player in the anti-team does not play in the first week.
There is a second and third and fourth and so on week, and Parting's gonna bite you hard
Explanation is simple. Every single player in the main team plays twice in the first week and every single player in the anti-team does not play in the first week.
There is a second and third and fourth and so on week, and Parting's gonna bite you hard
going to trade him out after 1st week no problem.
Not playing in 1 game isn't gonna drop him that far, you'll still be stuck with a very dangerous player whoever you trade for.
Explanation is simple. Every single player in the main team plays twice in the first week and every single player in the anti-team does not play in the first week.
Man I just don't know about this round. In the first round of the season I can spot the player that is going to massively over-perform for their cost (last round it was picking up Solar for 3) but this round everyone's scores seems pretty accurate (for obvious reasons) and my team is just meh
I am banking on blizzard releasing a patch mid turny like they enjoy doing and a sudden upswing of terran and zerg wins. I think many of the protoss players everyone is picking are gonna come back to bite them.
On February 23 2014 03:50 digmouse wrote: I don't recommend having Byul on your anti team, other than that your team seems good besides State imo.
I think Byul won't appear every rounds with the Startale (heavy zergs) partnership. I replaced State with Stork and took Jin air as team instead of SKT1. Thanks for feedback man.
Okay I feel stupid now. This my first time in the FPL, made my team yesterday before I went to bed. And now I would like to post it in here but I have no idea where to look for it :x
On February 23 2014 04:16 JoeCool wrote: Okay I feel stupid now. This my first time in the FPL, made my team yesterday before I went to bed. And now I would like to post it in here but I have no idea where to look for it :x
If you hover over the "Features" tab on the bar at the top of TL you can then click "Fantasy Starcraft" and then select "Fantasy Proleague" and you will find your team!
On February 23 2014 04:16 JoeCool wrote: Okay I feel stupid now. This my first time in the FPL, made my team yesterday before I went to bed. And now I would like to post it in here but I have no idea where to look for it :x
If you hover over the "Features" tab on the bar at the top of TL you can then click "Fantasy Starcraft" and then select "Fantasy Proleague" and you will find your team!
Re-did my anti, I misunderstood how it worked at first but here is the new line up for it, Creator(He is inconsistent he might win some but I dont have much worry here) Sniper(The Patch Zerg to beat all Patch Zergs, has been irrelevant since HoTs dont know why is as many points as he iswill make up for any wins Creator might get) Super(Dont know him well, dont care, needed a 3rd pick, and protoss will be nerfed at some point so I expect him to end up not doing well)
I think you pretty much have to rely on Prime players this round since everyone else WILL get points unless you get super lucky, even if it's just team wins. All the 5+ point players seem too reliable or play terrible opponents in the first week.
I'll probably use all my trades next week because there's no way this team makes it through all the way.
Main Team IM seems like a god bargain at only 3, so does Bbyong considering he's Code S round o 16 as a Terran. Byul/Zest are quite good. Fantasy cause what the hell, he's playing, he might do something and if he loses no biggie. Hurricane is playing twice in the first week which seems promising considering he's a newcomer from a recently defunct team. Maru's captain because Maru.
Anti-Team Creator cause he's worth five and on prime tt_tt Hydra cause he went 0-5 and was still valuable Squirtle cause there's no way he'll ever play in the new startale IM arrangement
I don't recommend having Byul on your anti team, other than that your team seems good besides State imo.
I think that most folks are throwing State onto their team because of the fact that he's a hometown hero for us NA guys. Also, in his defence, he has been doing pretty darn good lately. He broke top 50 GM on KR and has apparently been doing really well.
I am starting to worry a little about paying 6 for classic. He is a total beast and seems to be getting playing time but that can change any day if SKT decides to revert to the standard Soo Soulkey rain Parting lineup. I maybe can exchange classic for herO, and drop miso and add a 0 pointer. The problem is, the 0 pointers are all on prime, where as miso will get a point almost every match due to KT being awesome.
Meh, Ive changed my lineup like 3 times, think I am going to just stick with what I have
On February 23 2014 06:09 isaachukfan wrote: Anti-Team Creator cause he's worth five and on prime tt_tt Hydra cause he went 0-5 and was still valuable Squirtle cause there's no way he'll ever play in the new startale IM arrangement
On February 23 2014 06:09 isaachukfan wrote: Anti-Team Creator cause he's worth five and on prime tt_tt Hydra cause he went 0-5 and was still valuable Squirtle cause there's no way he'll ever play in the new startale IM arrangement
On February 23 2014 06:09 isaachukfan wrote: Anti-Team Creator cause he's worth five and on prime tt_tt Hydra cause he went 0-5 and was still valuable Squirtle cause there's no way he'll ever play in the new startale IM arrangement
On February 23 2014 06:09 isaachukfan wrote: Anti-Team Creator cause he's worth five and on prime tt_tt Hydra cause he went 0-5 and was still valuable Squirtle cause there's no way he'll ever play in the new startale IM arrangement
creator's not even the weakest 5 pointer man
who is?
personally i think life and super will garner less points, plus it always hurts to anti one of your team's players
On February 23 2014 06:09 isaachukfan wrote: Anti-Team Creator cause he's worth five and on prime tt_tt Hydra cause he went 0-5 and was still valuable Squirtle cause there's no way he'll ever play in the new startale IM arrangement
creator's not even the weakest 5 pointer man
who is?
I'd say Rouge personally.
No respect for his 5-3 record last round . Creator went sub 50%. Super went 4-3 last round so I would call him and Creator close to even both on bad teams as well.
On February 23 2014 06:09 isaachukfan wrote: Anti-Team Creator cause he's worth five and on prime tt_tt Hydra cause he went 0-5 and was still valuable Squirtle cause there's no way he'll ever play in the new startale IM arrangement
creator's not even the weakest 5 pointer man
who is?
personally i think life and super will garner less points, plus it always hurts to anti one of your team's players
agree with super.... Im banking hard on life so I hope you are wrong there!
DRG 3 points, gets an easy opponent this week, and is probably on the rise again, seeing how the coach picked him as ace and he fought an entertaining game against Flash.
herO is the ace of CJ and almost guaranteed to do well.
Hydra is good at ZvZ and plays that twice this week. His coach sends him twice despite his previous round's record, showing that his skill level is high.
MKP might be prime's ace, or at least second best after creator. A steal at 3 points.
SK is obviously SKT's true ace, despite what people think of classic, parting and rain.
Zest is my favourite player so I'm just gonna get him.
Prime is actually a good choice at 0 points. Prime can probably win 2 matches (MVP and one of JAGW IM or SGK) and get a decent score of maybe 6-7 points. KT and SKT cost 6 and KT gave 19 points last season. Rather than spend 6 points on a team for an additional 12 points of score, I can upgrade a 1 point player to a 7 point player that gives 20-30 points. Prime is not going to tear up the League, but is very good value for 0 points.
My anti is all SGK as I predict them to flop this round. Emotion and Trend will hardly play as the newcomer protoss hurricane is better than them and the SGK coach likes Stork. I got many points last season when I started with RorO on anti and traded him to main. This season, he has a slow start, only appearing in 1 out of 2 matches and against effort, who has impressive ZvZ. I may trade RorO halfway if the situation permits.
On February 24 2014 04:17 chrislacny wrote: I told you guys to jump on the zestu hype train. Got me 8 points today on his own. Shoulda made him my captain...
On February 24 2014 04:17 chrislacny wrote: I told you guys to jump on the zestu hype train. Got me 8 points today on his own. Shoulda made him my captain...
Hmm can someone explain my score for Maru? I have him on anti team, he won, so I get -2 points. But then he lost the ace match again, so that should be +2 right? Still my score is -2 for today.
On February 24 2014 07:53 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote: Hmm can someone explain my score for Maru? I have him on anti team, he won, so I get -2 points. But then he lost the ace match again, so that should be +2 right? Still my score is -2 for today.
maru gets +1 lineup, +2 win, +1 ace appearance, -2 ace loss for +2 overall, so -2 antiteam
On February 24 2014 07:53 Yorkie wrote: This is why I told everyone who picked Classic to drop him for Zest.
why not both?
I honestly don't think Classic is worth 6. He isn't necessarily a shoe in to play every match because of their other strong players and its highly doubtful he ever gets sent out as the ace.
On February 24 2014 07:53 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote: Hmm can someone explain my score for Maru? I have him on anti team, he won, so I get -2 points. But then he lost the ace match again, so that should be +2 right? Still my score is -2 for today.
maru gets +1 lineup, +2 win, +1 ace appearance, -2 ace loss for +2 overall, so -2 antiteam
Ah they get points for appearing as well? lol i guess I'm gonna see maru a lot then. So that's why everyone changed their teams after the lineup were announced. Hindsight 20/20
On February 24 2014 07:53 Yorkie wrote: This is why I told everyone who picked Classic to drop him for Zest.
why not both?
I honestly don't think Classic is worth 6. He isn't necessarily a shoe in to play every match because of their other strong players and its highly doubtful he ever gets sent out as the ace.
He's very consistent and recently wiped out his code s group with ease. Imo PartinG and Classic are steps ahead of Rain atm and should be fielded every match. Anyhow let's see how much Classic is gonna get fielded!
On February 24 2014 07:53 Yorkie wrote: This is why I told everyone who picked Classic to drop him for Zest.
why not both?
I honestly don't think Classic is worth 6. He isn't necessarily a shoe in to play every match because of their other strong players and its highly doubtful he ever gets sent out as the ace.
He's very consistent and recently wiped out his code s group with ease. Imo PartinG and Classic are steps ahead of Rain atm and should be fielded every match. Anyhow let's see how much Classic is gonna get fielded!
Ok that's a decent argument to get both I suppose, but Zest still is clearly a better pick because he WILL be fielded every week and is extremely likely to play as the ace because he and flash split time in that role, whereas SKT probably won't pick Classic
On February 24 2014 12:03 InsidiA wrote: Man, I pick TY and Rogue and they both lose tt. At least I picked Hurricane
edit: my team is
TY Rogue Fantasy Hurricane MKP ByuL Incredible Miracle
Anti Byun Squirtle sOs
You're gonna be fine TY and Rogue will bounce back. I got Hurricane as well such a good value pick. If he wins again against KT I don't know if I'm gonna trade him or keep him
I'm betting that with such a huge roster, that IM players aren't going to be getting a lot of playtime individually and are good candidates for the anti-team. Also, Creator seems pretty overpriced too, so he is on there. The only risky person on my team I think is Rogue. He's been playing well lately, but I worry that it is a short lived streak. He could also keep improving and become worth even more. Still, no risk, no reward.
Just out of curiousity, why anti-curious instead of another IM protoss?
Simply because Protoss do so well in Proleague and I don't expect Curious to play that much given that he is in Code S at the moment (and his code S group plays last) which he has a good chance of getting to the RO16 in.
I originally built around Parting, but hey, surprise, he's not playing! Classic is nearly as good, honestly, and I figure if he wins week 1 I can probably move him for Parting in week 2 anyway. Life is Life at 5 points. He's the Parting of Zerg and I can't imagine IM not using him basically every match. His sheer skill will win him games he shouldn't win, and his control will outclass plenty of opponents. Lucky and Miso for one point fillers, Miso beceause he's on a good team and Lucky because I think he might actually play (plus I like him). Maru because Maru. Flash is a rough draw for week 1, but Maru is the better TvT player. Zest because he appears to have recently gone super saiyan and he's about as consistent a team league player as you'll find anyway. IM because I think the ST influx makes them too good for 3 points. The only worry is that their huge roster ends up hurting their consistency.
Anti team has Creator because he's not worth 5 points. A slightly reinvigorated Prime will probably help him (Choya could be working with him), but Prime is still going to lose a lot and I figure he'll also be their ace player. Ace appearances are worth points, sure, but I can't see him winning many of those matches. Ace loses hurt. It's a bit of a gamble, but that's how anti works. Hydra because you might as well ride the suck train at four points until he proves otherwise. Shine because come on he's not doing what he did in R1 again. Considering he's not even in the week 1 lineup for Samsung, they appear to agree with me.
I remember this . And I almost replace Creator for Soo into my anti team.
But, I choose Soo since SKT is so stack keke. He might not always appear in lineup . Now there is Fantasy in active lineup too . . .
Of worst teams o_O. Terrans were supposed to lose, wtf
Haha nice! Yeah Terrans did pretty well this week
mine
Well done. Zest + Creator definitely the boss picks for this week. I would have been at 20 pts if I hadn't been dumb enough to put Stork and Solar in my anti.
For some wtf reason I have Creator on my anti. I hadn't checked my updated score until just now thinking in my head that I had switched him out (I really did mean to) and nope. Apparently in my many minutes of changing my mind and swapping players I neglected to make the final change that I actually needed to make. I have 1 point guys. GG next round it is fack I did so well last round
On February 25 2014 08:04 Yorkie wrote: For some wtf reason I have Creator on my anti. I hadn't checked my updated score until just now thinking in my head that I had switched him out (I really did mean to) and nope. Apparently in my many minutes of changing my mind and swapping players I neglected to make the final change that I actually needed to make. I have 1 point guys. GG next round it is fack I did so well last round
I feel your pain. Creator sent me down to -2 :/
I knew I should have just put another IM player on my anti!
Fucking shit: First stork wins vs herO (wtf) then cj loses (expected it after the first game) creator wins his first match and wins ace match for the worst PL team.
On February 25 2014 18:07 opterown wrote: prime fan anti prime ace, makes me sad
I was going by last round.
I did include MKP in my team, even after everyone doubted him.
I learned my lesson though, never doubting again. ^_^
even in last round creator got 4 kills which is 2nd among protoss, he was 14th in points as well which is pretty good. for FPL, there's a formula which they use to calculate points - cost x 2.4 = expected points for the round. e.g. creator costs 5 -> he's expected to get 12 points. usually that's a good indicator for calculations.
It went reasonably well so far, only rogue and sora underperformed, not sure if i will trade them though, i still have confidence that they will get some points later on.
I talked myself out of Cure for Effort since I thought he had a better chance of beating Roro or Maru than Cure had of beating TY or herO. But of course Effort went 0-2 and Cure went 2-0. My last second decisions have all killed my team. Might have to call it a round after one week TT
Still think Creator is extremely unreliable. Good enough to wreck you on anti, not good enough in the long run to be on the team. I want him off my anti, but I dont think Ill be putting him on my line up. Zest on the other hand...
What do you guys think about trading life for Cj hero? Hero is cheap as hell right now after flipping last week but im plays MVP and prime next week and Cj only plays once and it's kt
On February 26 2014 10:07 RaiderRyan wrote: What do you guys think about trading life for Cj hero? Hero is cheap as hell right now after flipping last week but im plays MVP and prime next week and Cj only plays once and it's kt
My first FPL so i didnt really understand how the scoring works. I thought terran would lose more than win so they would give me points on anti. Maru because I still needed to get to those 13 anti team points. But with the points for appearing it'd be much better to pick guys who would never be played. (which is kinda lame imo)
Am I missing something about trading? I press the trade button but nothing happens. Trying to get rid of CJ lol, and maybe swap out someone in my main line up.
On February 28 2014 16:28 KrazyTrumpet wrote: Am I missing something about trading? I press the trade button but nothing happens. Trying to get rid of CJ lol, and maybe swap out someone in my main line up.
I think it will refresh when the week starts.
creator trade value so high... so many better players to trade him off for
Oh boy! Where to start. How about my anti. Before the first week, it was GREAT knowing that 100% of my anti players will not lose me any points because they're not playing.
Mvp is still not playing, otherwise I'd be in trouble. Trap has 2 games, one against rookie KassiA(who's on my main BTW), so that's a sure win for Trap, and one against DRG, that I was about to say can go either way until I realized Trap is in RO16 in GSL!!!! Oh yeah, Trap must go! The other game, involving soO, soO vs MarineKing is going to be played after these 3 matches:
There's a high chance of a 3-0 for SKT. So soO might not even play. Or if Creator beats Fantasy I'm hoping MKP can beat soO since MKP has good TvZ (it's not TvP), and HOPE that soO is not sent as an ace player for SKT.
Either way, the choice to trade soO or to trade Trap from my anti is clear. Options are: Curious, Squirtle, Hydra, Cure, Stork. Who doesn't play this week? Curious, 0-1 so far, still on IM. With how stacked IM is, he won't be fielded much. The option is clear. Trading Trap for Curious.
First thing, TurN is not playing. Needs to be traded! Can you guys help me with this? First option: Reality, plays vs sOs - maybe there's something better (or maybe Reality can prepare some widow mine drops after the patch?) TRUE, Z on Jin Air, plays vs Stork. hmm Sacsri, Z on SKT, plays vs MVP.Swagger. I'M actually inclined to pick this one the most
KassiA plays once but he'll get murdered. What do you guys think, trade him for Sacsri and trade TurN for Reality or TRUE?
Also idk if I should use this thread or the other for these updates...
On March 01 2014 03:54 ggofthejungle wrote: KassiA plays once but he'll get murdered. What do you guys think, trade him for Sacsri and trade TurN for Reality or TRUE?
Also idk if I should use this thread or the other for these updates...
Hey! I think trading Kassia for Sacsri is a good move. Kassia won't be a lineup regular (neither will Sacsri) but SKT will win more than Prime so he will get you more points. I don't think we'll see too much Turn so yeah trading him is a decent idea. OF the two options I like trading him for TRUE better simply because Reality and Turn will be trading Samsung terran time so I doubt Reality will be much of an upgrade. But do what you think is best!
That's a rough trade. I was floored that PartinG is only fielded once this week. In the end it's a very lateral trade forced by oov. If a player is only fielded 33% of the time I don't care how good he is. Things might resolve themselves next week but rain wasn't fielded AT ALL this week so I'm thinking SKT will keep being a revolving door for the time being.
I traded Trap for Curious (On my anti team) mainly from what Fyodor just said. Trap plays twice, Curious doesn't, it's a win win.
For my main team, I'm trading Hydra for DRG. I might regret this but I have a feeling DRG is going to play everytime MVP is up so I'm hoping he does well. Plus I could see him being selected for an Ace match if it gets that far.
I just hope herO actually wins his game this week...annoying that I picked him as my captain hoping he'd do well and so far he's just zzzzzzzzzzz.
On February 28 2014 16:28 KrazyTrumpet wrote: Am I missing something about trading? I press the trade button but nothing happens. Trying to get rid of CJ lol, and maybe swap out someone in my main line up.
I think it will refresh when the week starts.
creator trade value so high... so many better players to trade him off for
No I mean like...I click trade and nothing happens.
Since I got royally screwed by my own stupidity (and some wacky week 1 results) I am now going to trade the maximum amount of times each week to at least attempt to revive my chances. if i can't, I assume I will at least be publicly humiliated on TL somewhere as I receive one of the "most trades" awards :D
On March 01 2014 09:50 Yorkie wrote: Since I got royally screwed by my own stupidity (and some wacky week 1 results) I am now going to trade the maximum amount of times each week to at least attempt to revive my chances. if i can't, I assume I will at least be publicly humiliated on TL somewhere as I receive one of the "most trades" awards :D
On March 01 2014 09:50 Yorkie wrote: Since I got royally screwed by my own stupidity (and some wacky week 1 results) I am now going to trade the maximum amount of times each week to at least attempt to revive my chances. if i can't, I assume I will at least be publicly humiliated on TL somewhere as I receive one of the "most trades" awards :D
I nearly got somewhere with that last round but I only made two trades the last week TT
My Trades, MVP for Sniper, Sniper plays twice against tough opponents (Fantasy and HerO), but chances of getting points are better than none. Trap for Life, Life plays once, Trap twice and has big chances of scoring points against DRG and KassiA.
My Anti-Team will probably kill me again thought, both Creator and SoulKey play twice.
I get to Rank 11 and then I look at today's results and sob quietly in a corner. I didn't trade for Rogue. Jin Air proceed to sweep Samsung so Maru doesn't get to play. Then CJ crush Zest making me lose points on him >_<
I'm still (barely) in the positives and it isn't looking good for me. I wanted to trade Creator off my anti-team, but I only had two options. Looking back, I should have done the Creator for Soulkey trade... Now my goal for the season is to find a way to keep myself above 0 points.
Wow, I'm kinda in shock right now... My team was a heavy bet that a bunch of relatively "slumping" players would recover a previously dominant form and they ALL came through so far. Guess its just a weird round...
Week 2 day 1 and 2: still top 100 (rank 64), but with mixed results.
The bad:
TY, my heavy hitter, has not been worth the 8 points so far, with 1-2. I think he's still got time to make up for it.
Zest also lost, twice, but I can't complain, he's won me 12 pts so far.
IM won, which gives me -2 since I have 2 IM players on anti Kassia lost and his trade value will be quite low now, he's a high candidate for trading next week, if there's anyone left to trade with. But I didn't have high expectations from him. Mkp lost but I expected it.
The good:
Rogue finally won. True won, might trade him if he doesn't play. Jin air won.
I didnt lose too much from my anti. I surely hope soO doesnt win and then win again as ace, because that would seal the ddeal, and cost me a lot of points in the long run.
YessS! soO not only didn't win/didn't play, he LOST against one of my main players. Even if SKT won, his trade value went DOWN! So if I need to trade soO away from my anti next week, I HAVE SO MANY MORE OPTIONS: Hydra, Fantasy, Solar, Stork, DRG, Super.
My trades were great last week, I avoided a -8 by Trap and gained 4 points from Turn. MKP won 1 game.
TY and Rogue have underperformed but they will be fielded a lot so they're here to stay.
Looking at the top 2 players so far, Juggsondrugs and jubil, I realize I should've put Trap on my main team - that would mean to trade off MarineKing and keep Kassia. Anyway, still top 300, and in great position to finish top 100. I managed to keep my anti losses to a minimum. I think it might be time to trade more aggressively for the big bucks, not just to avoid losses(maybe trade TY off for someone else that plays twice against worse players like Trap did last night)
#14 with no part of my mainteam having more then 8 or less then 6 points... That's what I call well rounded team :D No superheros but solid performance by everyone
I'm doing quite well, considering my captian Soulkey and my team (SKT1) failed miserably against MVP... Also damned Rain, I wouldn't have traded him for Classic, if I would knew he will be seeded as ace against Prime today... Lost me 2 points T_T. But another trade (Trap for Curious) went really well for me.
had a really solid week, jumped from about 2100 to the top 500. Would really have climbed if Soulkey came through against mvp. If classic is not fielded next week I may trade him for roro or stats (or maybe ty but I dont know he looks pretty meh). I may look to trade keen too if he has a tough opponent. I also may trade trap
All teams are 3 matches in so that cannot affect values, but Maru plays twice this week and still has lower value than Flash? Also, if maru wins twice (or even thrice) versus Flash's once, will he gain a higher trade value next week? He will of course have 1 fewer match to play than next week.
On March 09 2014 18:00 Phredxor wrote: Another awful week for me, another 3 trades.
Traded out Life for HerO in main. Then TY out for RorO.. Also Squirtle for Terminator in my anti.
Not really confident about them but gotta try make something happen!
you have made the best trade so far in round 2(TY for RorO)...
Week 3 day 1
The bad: PartinG lost to SoS. This was my "ballsy" move, didn't pay out.
The good Rogue won vs Rain (yess Rogue is earning his 5 points) Shine won vs HerO (wow, didn't expect that, but at least one of my trades payed out, jeez!) Jin air won (3-0 against SKT's top lineup of protoss! they're a keeper) Mvp lost his ace match(whew, that was an avoided blow that I didn't see coming).
Great day overall, I'll jump in top 50, but man, trading TY for Parting... such a missed opportunity, had I traded TY for Roro, I would have won 7 points in just 1 night(2 for win, 1 ace appearance, 3 for ace, 1 for team win, an additional +1 for 3-game win streak). Now how's that for an inspired trade? And I bet Roro will win next game against Fantasy too. What bugs me the most is I didn't even consider trading TY for Roro.
Holy crap, Solar in FPL, cost 7 points and 0-3, WOW!!! I am so glad I didn't pick him and got Rogue instead. Had Solar cost 6 points I would have considered him more, and at 5 points I might have gotten him
I am 99% certain I will be in top 300 at the end of round 2 (which was my goal), maybe even top 100. If I had done 2 trades (last week to put Trap on my main and this week to put Roro isntead of Parting) I would have been a contender to win round 2 FPL. But top 100 will be great too.
As it stands now, someone that has Roro, Creator, Zest, Classic, Cure(what the heck who expected him to get so many points) in their main will gonna win this.
I don't know why so many people don't like RorO. Each time I get him, he brings a lot of points. I traded herO for him and he is now the best Proleague player (9-2, 82%)
Bah, only if cure could've lost so Maru got some points.. Other than that great day for me, 3-0 Jin Air, Rogue won, Shine won, Soo on anti didn't get to play and even Mvp gave me points in my anti for losing ace
Tomorrow is a tougher day, fingers crossed for DRG!
On March 10 2014 03:33 Skynx wrote: Bah, only if cure could've lost so Maru got some points.. Other than that great day for me, 3-0 Jin Air, Rogue won, Shine won, Soo on anti didn't get to play and even Mvp gave me points in my anti for losing ace
Tomorrow is a tougher day, fingers crossed for DRG!
On March 10 2014 03:33 Skynx wrote: Bah, only if cure could've lost so Maru got some points.. Other than that great day for me, 3-0 Jin Air, Rogue won, Shine won, Soo on anti didn't get to play and even Mvp gave me points in my anti for losing ace
Tomorrow is a tougher day, fingers crossed for DRG!
You get 2 points from Maru anyway
Yea I know but when you invest a 8 pointer you expect him to win ace matches, ah well. Great week so far with today Bunny, herO and DRG winning I'm +24 this week so far. Tomorrow Shine and Jin Air, gogo!
On March 10 2014 03:33 Skynx wrote: Bah, only if cure could've lost so Maru got some points.. Other than that great day for me, 3-0 Jin Air, Rogue won, Shine won, Soo on anti didn't get to play and even Mvp gave me points in my anti for losing ace
Tomorrow is a tougher day, fingers crossed for DRG!
You get 2 points from Maru anyway
Yea I know but when you invest a 8 pointer you expect him to win ace matches, ah well. Great week so far with today Bunny, herO and DRG winning I'm +24 this week so far. Tomorrow Shine and Jin Air, gogo!
On March 09 2014 18:00 Phredxor wrote: Another awful week for me, another 3 trades.
Traded out Life for HerO in main. Then TY out for RorO.. Also Squirtle for Terminator in my anti.
Not really confident about them but gotta try make something happen!
you have made the best trade so far in round 2(TY for RorO)...
Week 3 day 1
The bad: PartinG lost to SoS. This was my "ballsy" move, didn't pay out.
The good Rogue won vs Rain (yess Rogue is earning his 5 points) Shine won vs HerO (wow, didn't expect that, but at least one of my trades payed out, jeez!) Jin air won (3-0 against SKT's top lineup of protoss! they're a keeper) Mvp lost his ace match(whew, that was an avoided blow that I didn't see coming).
Great day overall, I'll jump in top 50, but man, trading TY for Parting... such a missed opportunity, had I traded TY for Roro, I would have won 7 points in just 1 night(2 for win, 1 ace appearance, 3 for ace, 1 for team win, an additional +1 for 3-game win streak). Now how's that for an inspired trade? And I bet Roro will win next game against Fantasy too. What bugs me the most is I didn't even consider trading TY for Roro.
Holy crap, Solar in FPL, cost 7 points and 0-3, WOW!!! I am so glad I didn't pick him and got Rogue instead. Had Solar cost 6 points I would have considered him more, and at 5 points I might have gotten him
I am 99% certain I will be in top 300 at the end of round 2 (which was my goal), maybe even top 100. If I had done 2 trades (last week to put Trap on my main and this week to put Roro isntead of Parting) I would have been a contender to win round 2 FPL. But top 100 will be great too.
As it stands now, someone that has Roro, Creator, Zest, Classic, Cure(what the heck who expected him to get so many points) in their main will gonna win this.
Cure was very solid in end of WoL he had very good fpl run too. of course the last few rounds he wasnt even seeded so very few people banked on him.
On March 11 2014 03:55 Skynx wrote: How you guys post your team like that btw?
Take a screenshot of your internet tab, copy it into paint or similar editing program and crop out the bit you want to show off. Save and upload to image uploading service of your choice. Et voila one FPL team for people to look at!
On March 11 2014 03:55 Skynx wrote: How you guys post your team like that btw?
Take a screenshot of your internet tab, copy it into paint or similar editing program and crop out the bit you want to show off. Save and upload to image uploading service of your choice. Et voila one FPL team for people to look at!
Those ace wins really helped boost up the points for DRG and herO choosers, didn't realise they'd hit double digits. Hopefully Rogue, Maru and Fantasy net me more points tomorrow to shoot back up the standings. Amazing how close it is up near the top.
On March 11 2014 04:46 The_Templar wrote: Bbyong is carrying my main team Wtf, didn't expect that
SO MUCH TRADES :O
Yeah but I'm in the running for "worst trader" this round
DRG --> Fantasy was a temporary trade so that I could get the benefits of Fantasy winning more than DRG for a week before getting someone else. Sora --> Sacsri was a gamble. Fantasy --> YongHwa was me being Artosis. herO[jOin] --> Rain was along the same reasoning as DRG --> Fantasy.
Basically, all of my main team trades have involved SKT and they have all worked out badly. What does this tell me?
On March 11 2014 05:48 ggofthejungle wrote: When 2 players have the same #of pts, and their captains have the same # of points, what's the next criteria for determining the ranks?
On March 11 2014 05:48 ggofthejungle wrote: When 2 players have the same #of pts, and their captains have the same # of points, what's the next criteria for determining the ranks?
AFAIK there is none
Yeah, I think it is basically just an alphabetical listing after that
After two weeks of really sucking, I have finally ascended to mediocrity!
I'd trade creator away, but last week it was impossible since there was no one to trade him for. After the first week, I considered trading but thought "it was fluke, won't happen again".
I haven't traded much, but mostly because I don't trade unless I'm confident that the trade will net me +2 points, and so I try and be pretty selective rather than taking more of a shotgun approach to trading. I do need to dump action. He is dead, disappointing weight. Unfortunately last week I could only trade him for other people who weren't scheduled to play and I thought that he would at least get a point for KT stomping MVP... damn.
HerO played twice this week but I didnt trade him away. That's balls of steel. With that, I gained (or, didnt lose 1 points coz of trade)
Sadly I picked TY, it was wrong pick but he was doing so good last round :// Also I should have traded miso away earlier when I could get better players but now its too late I fear.
Going strong! Next week going to be the decider, as it is do or die for my Jin Air heavy hitters. On a side note, I knew I should have picked Bbyong instead of Gumiho T.T
Not bad for a first time FPL where I actually thought logically about it, but my TY -> Parting trade was bad. TY is now at 6.49 while Parting at 4.68, just from Parting losing once and TY winning once. I could've even traded TY for Byul, who won once and is now at 5.16, giving me the option to trade him for Soulkey if I must. Not to mention the +8 points or so that I would've gained from trading TY for Roro. I learned my lesson... TY, who was gonna play a TvP vs a weaker opponent (Yeah he won the ace but lost against TY. Recently buffed T/nerfed P) for Parting who had scheduled:
- 1 coin flippy PvP vs sOs, one of the best P in the world. - 1 game that had the potential of not being played after a 3-0, which is what ended up happening
Now I'm in a dilemma: Jin Air has 2 matches left in week 4 and none in week 5, while KT has 1 in week 4 and 2 in week 5. Should I trade Jin Air for KT this week? Because after week 4 I won't be able anymore, Jin Air's trade value will be 0. KT has a game vs SKT, then 2 easy games vs IM and Prime. I think KT will not mess around anymore and will only send TY, Flash, Zest, and Stats.
Rogue was finally worth it, and he only cost 5 points. Good thing I didn't trade him. Anti team losses are minimized. I am feeling good about these last 2 weeks. Stork will have to be traded away from Anti, but top 300 should be a lock no matter what now, even if I stop trading.
Very hard trading choices to make. Rogue for Cure; he plays vs DRG and Creator, and his trade value will be 0 for next week, ugh... PartinG for Terminator, plays vs Billowy and DeParture, his trade value will also be 0 next week.
Aw I came here for some trading tips but it's just rambling Guess it's time to drop sOs but at least he did good work and I have options. Solar, on the other hand... Super's actually good so my hopes aren't very high for that match.
On March 17 2014 05:30 opterown wrote: about as many people have sOs on anti but noone complains about him lol
But few were expecting Creator to do so well :\
I don't understand why you would put creator on your anti. He plays EVERY week and that alone is enough to never pick him^^ I mean ofc he will win at least some games, no? But yeah that he wins game after game, that is a little bit unfortunate ^^
On March 17 2014 05:30 opterown wrote: about as many people have sOs on anti but noone complains about him lol
But few were expecting Creator to do so well :\
I don't understand why you would put creator on your anti. He players EVERY week and that alone is enough to never pick him^^ I mean ofc he will win at least some games, no? But yeah that he wins game after game, that is a little bit unfortunate ^^
+18 in a day, madness... and looking solid for next week with my team basically being all CJ and KT and they both got two games each next week. Could be an epic final push!
Jin Air lost and made -1 point, but I still rise from rank 33 to rank 5. MADNESS
There is bug in detailed team. I had Hydra in my team previously then I traded him to Trap (+8) and before this week I traded Rogue to Hydra (+3). Scoring breakdown only shows points that Hydra did first time when he was in my team. It's missing totaly my new time with Hydra
Well, I'm gonna keep posting in here as opposed to the other thread to keep it consistent. Week 4 conclusion
The bad... Jin Air got 0-3'd and Cure lost both his games. Should've traded Rogue for someone else, that maybe plays in week5. Now I'm stuck with Cure. I got on the Cure bandwagon too late.
The good MKP giving me 7 points in Week 4, wow! Keeping me in top 300.
Zest, as always, great captain, giving me 4 points. Terminator gave me 4 points although I'm now stuck with him for week 5. At least one of my trades was OK this week.
But I can't help but write a new rule for next round: No more high pointers (7pts or 8pts) from SKT or IM players in my main! A 6 pointer from these teams that doesn't play in week 1 is great for for an anti pick in week 1, like soo.. But players like Rain, Soulkey, Parting? Just not worth it to have them on your team, unless they play every week - but look at Soulkey, even he didn't play last week. SKT and IM are just TOO STACKED and their players will not play enough games to make it worth their point values (which are usually 6, 7 or 8 pts). I got burned by having Rain as my captain last round, this time I got burned by doubting TY and trading him for Parting... why oh why did I doubt TY? Plays every week and yes, lost a little more when he was on my team, but the moment I trade him away, he goes on a winning streak. It's like Murphy's law here... same thing happened to Cure: gets 3 wins and looks impressive, but when I get him on my team, loses twice.
I was 8th before yesterday's matches, now I'm 21st. Not entirely how that happened given Maru did really well. I guess the people rolling with Jin Air got a ton of points or something O-o
Whelp, my only trade I'm doing this week is Fantasy for Rain. Rain plays, Fantasy doesn't. Rain also has a big chance to be Ace if it gets that far.
If Flash plays well this week I could shoot up the ranks. (Nobody above me in ranks has Flash! Mmmmm) Also, hoping CJ entus just crushes since I have them as a team, come on both 3-0 wins to give me tons of points! haha. He'll, I'd be tied for 2nd/3rd if I didn't trade DRG for Solar back at the beginning of the season. >.< Ughhhh. Damn you Solar!
I was actually starting to get hopeful for challenging for the win, after being pretty high often and even 1st a few days, but I kinda just realized that was riding a lot on JinAir and sOs, who were really front loaded in their points (bad week 4 and no games at all week 5). I might have still pulled it through but Fantasy falling off and trading for the surprisingly sucky HerO and Solar really hurt me too. I just hope I stay in the top ten (5th atm).
Also I never really noticed this before but it looks like pros are pretty good at this, 4 in the top 50 alone.
On March 21 2014 19:30 jubil wrote: I was actually starting to get hopeful for challenging for the win, after being pretty high often and even 1st a few days, but I kinda just realized that was riding a lot on JinAir and sOs, who were really front loaded in their points (bad week 4 and no games at all week 5). I might have still pulled it through but Fantasy falling off and trading for the surprisingly sucky HerO and Solar really hurt me too. I just hope I stay in the top ten (5th atm).
Also I never really noticed this before but it looks like pros are pretty good at this, 4 in the top 50 alone.
On March 21 2014 19:30 jubil wrote: I was actually starting to get hopeful for challenging for the win, after being pretty high often and even 1st a few days, but I kinda just realized that was riding a lot on JinAir and sOs, who were really front loaded in their points (bad week 4 and no games at all week 5). I might have still pulled it through but Fantasy falling off and trading for the surprisingly sucky HerO and Solar really hurt me too. I just hope I stay in the top ten (5th atm).
Also I never really noticed this before but it looks like pros are pretty good at this, 4 in the top 50 alone.
Hehe, same here I didn't check all the teams, but whoever holds KT players will pull over last week. I'm still super sad, that I didn't trade JinAir for MVP last week. I even recommended this trade in another forum.... And then lacked the balls to do it myself, would have gained already 6 points + potentially a few more this week. With it, I would have hopes for the crown, but as it is... There will be guys behind us taking the win :/
You can't see anyone's team until after team selection is closed. Unless TT1 posts it in the thread. But then he can change it. You also can't see what trades people make.
I'm not keeping stork on my anti-team after last weeks disaster and the fact that he's playing against a prime b-teamer. Based on the matchup's this week I have decided to trade him for bbyong, the highest rated player by Trade value...
Looks like i'm playing with fire, but it might pay off.
EPT
Bbyong
herO[jOin]
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CJ Entus
sOs will crush a lot of hopes here 
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