ESPN FC Manager MLS Segment Two Begins Tomorrow

by Dave Clark on May 24, 2011 1:49 PM PDT in Sounders: MLS Regular Season

ESPN's Major League Soccer fantasy league is broken into segments, and the first of those is over. Your rosters in our league are BLANK. Go adjust them, but not until you read the rest of this post. Because there are some things that segment one should have taught you, and some traps that segment two has for you. There's also an update on how the readers of this fair site have compared to the rest of ESPN FC Manager's MLS competition.

Lessons

Your Captain should always have a double
Use transfers to accent doubles
Don't hang onto a favorite player
If health is in doubt use a formation that will auto sub

Segment Two Traps

Gold Cup Rosters
Copa America Rosters
Injury returns - some segment one players will lose time
Silly friendlies could lead to injuries
CCL and Open Cup will effect time
Transfers will effect playing time late in segment

San Diego Zoo FC won segment one with 635 total points just edging out Leggy Mountbatten with 627. Both were at 100%, and SDZ FC was good for 10th in the world at the competition. That isn't it for reader highlights though. In the Mensa range (that's top 2%) were 16 members of our group, within the top 10% a whopping 53, and within the top 50% were 165 of the 209 that played in Segment one. Which reminds me, more can join the largest private group at ESPN, and they'd be eligible for segment two and three prizes. San Diego Zoo FC will need to contact me for one.

Group Name: Sounder at Heart Readers
Password: in somniis

How smart are the readers? This comment is from the message board at ESPN

When picking new rosters, check how many games the player has this segment. Some teams like Colorado, Sporks, and NYRB have 13 matches, while Chicago only has 10. Sounders have 12. That's not an exhaustive list, but just the ones I noticed.

How dumb is your host? He stuck with his favorite player, who didn't really play in that segment. Here's to hoping for more Mike Fucito time during the summer. It was good for 86% overall and 71st in our group. SBN's soccer managers had a group, where Jeremiah was good for 5th to my 8th.

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i'm quite excited

after I finished building my team, I realized I have 0 Sounders starting and 3 Dallas players starting. Bad omen?

by Aasenb on May 24, 2011 2:41 PM PDT reply actions

No Montero?

Points in 5 of his last 6 and a week 1 double make him a steal at 6.8. Though you’d be forgiven for pessimism given that his double is against the two best defenses in the league currently.

by Tohoya on May 25, 2011 10:34 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions

I've been convinced to try it out.

I hope I’m setting everything up correctly.

by wyte_lightning on May 24, 2011 3:11 PM PDT reply actions

I was tempted to keep Zakuani on my roster...

Lets hope Montero starts getting some goals against Dallas and RSL.

Nos audietis in somniis, Nos audietis in altum: You will hear us!

by chrisso on May 24, 2011 3:36 PM PDT reply actions

squeaked my way into the top 15

well, 15th place exactly. after some pretty weak showings, week nine really propelled up up the table thanks to my decision to make landon donovan my captain. i doubt i’ll catch sdzfc, but i hope to finish in the top ten in the sounder at heart group.

the gold cup should make things interesting this segment…

by murmur000 on May 24, 2011 3:54 PM PDT reply actions

lets hope RSL actually gets some matches in

Saborio killed me.

by Sam in P-Town on May 24, 2011 4:27 PM PDT reply actions

Number of Matches

13 = CLR, KAN, NWY
12 = CHV, CLB, DAL, RSL, SAN, TOR, VAN
11 = HOU, NWE, SEA*
10 = CHI, DCU, LAG, PHI*, POR

= ESPN hasn’t updated its system with rescheduled match

anybody know of any other reschedule matches?

by hormd on May 24, 2011 5:09 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

These are the doubles for the first few weeks:

Gameweek 1 (Wednesday, May 25 at 8:00pm): Colorado, Dallas, Houston, LA, NY, Seattle
Gameweek 2 (Wednesday, June 1 at 5:00pm): Chivas, Vancouver
Gameweek 3 (Wednesday, June 8 at 5:00pm): Chicago, Columbus, RSL, KC

by Tohoya on May 24, 2011 5:37 PM PDT up reply actions

Technical difficulties =(

Somehow the game didn’t register when I attempted to set Landon Donovan as captain ahead of his three-goal week awhile back. Cost me around 16 points =(

Going all-in on the doubles this time. 10 of my starting 11 for the first week have doubles, and of the other 4 on my roster, 1 has a double in week 2 and 4 have doubles in week 3.

by Tohoya on May 24, 2011 5:34 PM PDT reply actions

Squeaked my way into the top 100

So I’m happy.

by Cornchops on May 24, 2011 9:56 PM PDT reply actions

So glad segment 1 is over...

just because I’m dumb. Didn’t realize we only had unlimited transfers BEFORE the segment begins. Transferred out all my national teamers when they were called up and next thing I know I’m screwed… couldn’t even replace my injured players. Was doing great until that point. Here’s to a better 2nd.

by SoundersRiot on May 25, 2011 10:03 AM PDT reply actions

Luke Rodgers miscategorization

The FC Manager system has classified Luke Rodgers as a midfielder rather than a forward. His goals will count for more and he’ll get shut-out points. Just thought I’d point it out for the sake of fairness…I fully intend to use the mistake. ;-)

by Dizzo on May 25, 2011 11:52 AM PDT reply actions

Did the same for Rosales

Or the opposite; he’s listed as a forward.

With his production and A week 1 double, Rodgers really is a steal at 6.7.

by Tohoya on May 25, 2011 12:16 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions

Yeap...that was a bummer

I was hoping to take the #trialist as my Sounders midfielder. I ended up taking Evans instead so I could have Montero. Another steal is Conor Casey at $5. I’m really not a Casey fan, but it’s hard to argue with a striker of Casey’s caliber at that price.

by Dizzo on May 25, 2011 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions

I was hoping to keep Jaqua at $3.9. That would have been a damn good steal.

by agtk on May 25, 2011 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions

Casey at 5.0 is indeed ridiculous

Hell, 5.0 for someone who will play 90 minutes most games with no production is a little ridiculous; I usually aim for 5.5 or so on my backups. 5.0 for someone who will probably score double-digit goals and who will play pretty much every minute they’re available to is crazy. The 3 doubles (including week 1) is just icing on the cake.

by Tohoya on May 25, 2011 3:56 PM PDT up reply actions