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Help SBI pick an Fantasy EPL site

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With the English Premier League season set to kick off in eight days, it is time to start thinking about fantasy EPL.

For the third straight year SBI will host a fantasy EPL league, and for the first time we will definitely have some prizes for the winners of the league. First thing's first, we need to settle on a website to run the league on.

Send in your suggestions for fantasy EPL websites and I will take the most popular suggestions and put it up to a vote later today. On Monday I will send out the information on joining the league.

Fire your suggestions our way.

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  2. yahoo is great if you like updates FIVE DAYS AFTER the games end.

    fantasy.premierleague.com has the quickest game-time updates, quickest roster updates and simple game play.

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  9. @Phil

    Thanks for the heads up on the draft league. My friends and I were going to just draft offline and enter our picks into a salary cap league, but this might end up being a better option.

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  11. The premier league fantasy is mostly spit.
    First of all, the interface is so 1995. Secondly, there’s not much interaction between managers. No inline player news. Also, scouting, buying and selling is the thrilling aspect of managing a club and it isn’t represented at all.

    PROS: The data is up-to-date.

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  12. i’ve been on fantasy.premierleague.com for three years now and I am very pleased with the setup and scoring. There are a lot of other things that are cool about it and that includes a public league where you go head to head, plus halfway through the season they have the fantasy cup which essentially pits you against someone else until you lose. Its a really fun site and I didn’t like espn too much.

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  19. For my money, the Guardian has the best EPL fantasy football site, which for some reason they haven’t relaunched for the new season just yet.

    BTW this year’s EPL kits are perhaps the most atrocious I’ve ever seen. Black and pink, chevrons everywhere, gangly collars–man, you name it.

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  21. I’m not saying that Playthegame would be good for this, due to the amount of teams, I am just saying it is a far better/more enjoyable game.

    I do pretty well in salary cap leagues, but they are BS. For example on Yahoo, if you get Torres the year he comes to the EPL, he is underpriced all season and thus on every single competitive team. This is a fact.

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  27. I’ve played every one mentioned here, Yahoo is far and away the best, most polished, etc.

    Anyone who says they hate salary cap leagues because everyone “has the same players” is full of crap, and probably got destroyed in a salary cap league.

    And how the heck could we do a draft-style league when we are going to have hundreds of people who want to join? Get real.

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  28. Ives, when the corporate suits (and overall dbags) at ESPN find out that you’re not going company-line on this one…

    Better go ESPN or your job may be in jeopardy.

    BTW, I heard on the radio that you guys aren’t allowed to tweet/blog anymore. New ESPN policy. Any truth to that, and how is it going to affect SBI?

    (SBI-I’m not a full-time ESPN employee so everything you just wrote doesn’t apply.)

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  29. The Times Playthegame is like American fantasy sports without the stupid salary cap – draft where every player is only one one team. It is awesome. This is my second year and a bunch of friends did a 12 team league. The pickings got pretty slim at the end of the bench, but its all in good fun.

    Salary cap leagues suck. everyone has pretty much the same players.

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  35. Are there any that you can get to where the word “fantasy” doesn’t appear in the site name? My office blocks out fantasy sports sites, it’d be nice to be able to do that when I’m bored

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  37. Skysports.com has a good one, I just made my team yesterday. They make it nice to be able to pick good players from all teams, and your allowed only 2 players per team. The best part of it is that its free, with a cash prize if you win.

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  39. fantasy premier league is the best one i’ve tried

    Posted by: japan | August 07, 2009 at 12:23 PM

    +1

    Used it for 7 years. Improves every year.

    Ives, prizes should be fav shirts from EPL teams. Can’t wait for my Arshavin #23 jersey.

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  40. Ed – I don’t know about that. With only 20 teams in the EPL you would lose out on quality “fantasy” players pretty quickly I would think. At least in NFL and others you have 30+ teams to choose from.

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  42. Do any of the sites have a closed league setup where only one team in your league can have a particular player? So you don’t all end up with 9 of 11 starters being the same on every team…

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  43. I’m giving fantasy.premierleague.com a try this year. Seems cool so far.

    Posted by: Mark

    I’ve done that one for the past few years. It’s pretty solid. I’ve liked that better than any other site.

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  48. lol, i just asked about this on the previous thread…

    I’m on Yahoo or ESPN, but I’ll also join whichever SBI joins and start. I want to compete against like-minded players….

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