Welcome to Fantasy Rugger – the statistical approach to rugby.
For the World Cup, you will need to pick a team of 25 guys that you think you can manage through the Group Stages. You have a budget of £1.25 million to do this so make sure you use it wisely.
From this squad of 25, you will then pick a team of 15 for each Round. You will only receive points for the players in your starting lineup – unless one of your starters doesn’t play in that round, in which case you will receive points for your substitute. If he didn’t play either – you will get no points for that position.
Before the World Cup kicks off you can make unlimited changes to your squad. Once the World Cup kicks off, you will be able to make 3 changes to your squad of 25. If you want to make more changes outside this, you can, but each change will cost you 20 points.
And then it's Knock out rugby.
Come the quarter finals, you will pick a new XV each week. You have the option to make unlimited changes each week - but you have to stay within the weekly £800,000 salary cap.
Yay! Tell me how to do this! Also, I have no idea about rugby. I've tried to watch it, rules in hand, and it still baffles me. But I'm in, if you want to play.
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He'd have told me to join him, and I would. - still true!
Really wish I followed the rugby. I'm not brave enough to go in and play blind. I'd make a huge mess of it.
Plus it's not clear, are you joining his team or playing against him?
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My understanding of it whimsy is that each team would be competing against Damien but that anyone joining through his link would all be in the same league. I'm not sure if that is any clearer ?
papillon... pamplemousse... bibliothèque... un baiser A lilt in his voice. Every sentence like music... #kisskisskiss A terrible beauty is born. Love me some #Jacksass
Fantastic! I don't watch sports or follow rugby though so, not for me. But I think it's nice that he's doing this and interacting.
My thoughts exactly....interaction!
TJ - you don't need to know anything about the rules of the game, you just pick a team and play manager - and you get points according to how well each individual performs in RL..... it would be more useful to know the players (which I don't!)
He loves the BFI and goes to the London Film Festival every year. I remember him tweeting about some of his favorite films in years past. I wonder what he'll mention this year?
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He'd have told me to join him, and I would. - still true!
So, I made a team for the fantasy rugger. I don't know the game, but I wanted to play along as he seems to be keen on having fans join in the fun and will offer prizes. And there are only 13 teams so far in Damien's league. If anyone is on the fence I suggest you just do it, because the more the merrier! Deadline is 8pm 18th Sept. (which I'm assuming is UK time)
There is an autofill function, or if you look at the Fantasy Rugger twitter acct they've tweeted what some of the pros have picked. Or like me, you can make your life harder by researching, agonizing over choices, playing musical trading-off when you use up all your budget and still have subs to fill... then still manage to not know what the hell you're doing nor pick anyone the pros picked. LOL But anyway, it's Damo & Damo fans twitter time, so should be fun!
Wonder if we should start a topic for it?
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papillon... pamplemousse... bibliothèque... un baiser A lilt in his voice. Every sentence like music... #kisskisskiss A terrible beauty is born. Love me some #Jacksass
I've entered a team, but I have to confess I didn't pick the players. Rugby used to be my fella's thing....he played in youth teams at county level, did a Sports Studies degree.... He doesn't really watch it, apart from the six nations, and when I suggested he entered a team he said he didn't know who's playing....but then last night - out of the blue - he offered to put together a team for me to enter. I just came up with the team name! I suspect he didn't want to take responsibility.....for all I know he's totally set me up with a crap team! We shall see.....
So...much to my husband's dismay his carefully selected team have been replaced by players who are largely likely to go out in the first round! My guess is that I accidentally hit 'autofill' on my touch screen before I entered it (it did seem to take a long time to load!) Oh well....
Good idea whimsy, go for it!
I don't really follow the rugby so entering personally would be a disaster.. but TJ suggested making a forum team if anyone is interested?
Damien has shown his support for The Pound Project on his official Twitter page!
So excited about @_pound_project, for lovers of writing and reading. Pledge a pound, read a new short story every month. Or write one. A fantastic, original idea that promotes new writing. Can't wait to read the first one... https://t.co/8dIaYsZ3x6