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Lucien Sanchez
02-22-2010, 06:27 PM
Right so here’s the final teams and the final leagues, feel free to change your name whenever certain people (<_<).

EWB league
Team Cheesecake (MPH)
Team Razzle Dazzle (LCS)
Team JCS (IzzyX)
Team IMPACT (Tits McGee)
Team Outlaws (9 to 5)

GDS League
Team Ham Fist (SRN)
Straight Edge Superstars (Eddie AWG)
Corporal Punishment (Zack)
Jomsvikings (The Kenwyne)
Elite Top Team (Smithy)

The General Rules
1 – We get the ten sign ups that I want and divide everyone into the two leagues.

2 – The ten sign ups then draft a team of ten fighters, two for each UFC weight class.

3 – Everyone in the EWB league will fight each other once in a season; everyone in the GDS league will fight each other once a season. Four teams will fight on a card, giving one team a rest period. For example if Team A fights Team B and Team C fights Team D, Team E sits that round out.

4 – There are five fights a card, one from each weight class. Winning a fight by a stoppage (TKO, submission etc.) gets a team three points. Winning a fight by decision nets 2, while losing a decision grabs your team one point. Losing by stoppage is a big fat nothing and a draw is two each. The team with the most wins gets a bonus five points at the end.

5 – These points make up the league and the team with the most points at the end of it all is the winner and will face the winner of the opposing league at the season finale. Awards and such follow.

6 – We then have another, smaller draft at the end of the season in which teams can draft in a free agent to replace existing fighters to beef up their team for the new season.

7 – We then repeat for Season 2 and so on, possibly adding more teams or divisions if there’s demand.

Drafting a Team
1 – The good bit. Assuming there are ten people signed up, everyone needs ten fighters on their team, two for each weight class. You have a main fighter for each weight class, and then a reserve fighter for each weight class who steps in if the main man is unable to make the event due to recovery times or injuries.

2 – First up, we decide a random draft order to see who picks first, then everyone makes a list of ten fighters in the heavyweight division they want and PM’s me them. This list might look something like this:

1. Fedor Emelianenko
2. Brock Lesnar
3. Frank Mir
4. Shane Carwin
5. Cain Velasquez
6. Antonio Nogueira
7. Junior dos Santos
8. Andrei Arlovski
9. Mirko Cro Cop
10. Josh Barnett

I’ll then pick who’s got who from their list and we’ll do the same for Light Heavyweight, Middleweight, Welterweight and Lightweight.

3 – We then do the same for every divisions reserve pick, only this time the picking order is reversed. So those who drafted first in main picks, go last in the reserves and vice versa.

4 – Once all ten fighters are picked we’re good to go with the first card. Teams are locked until the next draft period barring a freak injury incident or retirement.

5 – At the end of the season, teams can exchange fighters or drop other fighters for new fighters. I’ll be keeping everyone up to date with news reports so they know who’s hot and who’s not in the game world.

6 – Anyone, ANYONE is eligible to picked, they don’t have to be a UFC fighter, so Fedor and Aoki can be picked etc. This gives the people who just watch UFC a disadvantage, as they won't know some of the other options out there, particularly the Japanese guys.

7 – Certain fighters can be picked to fight in certain divisions. These are; Randy Couture (LHW & HW), Dan Henderson (MW & LHW), Anderson Silva (MW & LHW), Rich Franklin (MW & LHW) and BJ Penn (LW & WW). However they can only fight in one division per season and are locked into it.

8 – Seeing as we aren’t using Featherweight or below, fighters such as Miguel Torres, Jose Aldo, Urijah Faber and Mike Brown are eligible for draft to the lightweight division.

This should provide some interesting tactics as you could either go for two superstars in every division and risk ending up with no-one you really want, or two old fighters who’ll have to be replaced after one or two seasons. Or you could go for one superstar and one promising reserve fighter, building him up to take over your main guy after a few seasons. Or you could have two youngsters and face a lot of pain early on in return of great success in the future.

You could also either concentrate on two or three divisions to get you points, or try and build up contenders in every class.

And that’s it. Time to pick your main fighters for every weight class. So I need five top ten draft lists sending to me via PM as soon as possible. That’s a top ten for heavyweight, light heavyweight, middleweight, welterweight and lightweight. Then we’re almost done. :)

IF PEOPLE DONT WANT TO DO TOP TENS YOU CAN DO LESS, BUT IF YOU'RE GUYS GET TAKEN BEFORE YOU CAN PICK THEM, I'LL EITHER CHASE YOU UP FOR ANOTHER PICK OR THEY COULD END UP BEING PICKED FOR YOU

Lucien Sanchez
02-22-2010, 06:46 PM
Just to answer a possible question that someone on EWB just pointed out, this is for present day data. I've updated TOS to 2010 up to UFC 110. Just so you know who you've got to work with in your draft.

Lucien Sanchez
02-23-2010, 09:47 AM
I just need Smithy and The Kenwyne to send me their picks then we're pretty much done on the GDS side of the main draft. Then we can do the alternate draft and then finally begin.

If anyone else wants in PM me a team name and draft picks and when I get back home in a few hours, if I havent received the drafts I'm waiting on, you could get their place.

Also if there's a lot of demand, we might have a reserve lower league and introduce relegation or promotion.

Lucien Sanchez
02-23-2010, 05:14 PM
Right so we’re nearly done, ready to go and this will be the last draft post hopefully for a long time. Basically now everyone has their main squads, now you just need to create five more top tens for your alternates. I know a couple of people had trouble compiling their first top tens, so here’s a few guys below who got left out last time round and might be worth looking at now. Don’t forget that this guy isn’t going to fight as much as your main man, so it might be worth investing in a younger fighter who can develop over time.

Heavyweight
Shane Carwin
Andrei Arlovski
Antonio Silva
Mirko Cro Cop
Kimbo Slice
Todd Duffee
Ken Shamrock
Cheick Kongo
Stefan Struve
Roy Nelson
Ben Rothwell
Brett Rogers
Gabriel Gonzaga
Pat Barry
Jeff Monson
Roger Gracie
Fabricio Werdum

Light Heavyweight
Brandon Vera
Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
Tito Ortiz
Chuck Liddell
Luiz Cane
Keith Jardine
Ryan Bader
Thiago Silva
Renato Sobral
Jon Jones
Stephan Bonnar
Kyle Kingsbury
Matt Hamill
Alexander Gustaffson
Mark Coleman
Darryl Schoonover
Kevin Randleman
Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou
Vladimir Matyushenko

Middleweight
Yoshihiro Akiyama
Ronaldo Jacare Souza
Demian Maia
Yushin Okami
Dan Miller
Aaron Simpson
Kendall Grove
Ed Herman
Travis Lutter
Frank Shamrock
Murilo Rua
Melvin Manhoef
Matt Lindland
Zelg Galesic
Kazushi Sakuraba
Jason Miller
Paulo Filho
Mamed Khalidov
Jorge Santiago
Patrick Cote
Scott Smith

Welterweight
Anthony Johnson
Matt Hughes
James Wilks
Damarques Johnson
Paulo Thiago
Mike Swick
Carlos Condit
Dan Hornbuckle
Karo Parysian
Jay Hieron
Dustin Hazelett
Tyron Woodley
Amir Sadollah
Joe Riggs
Phil Baroni
Marius Zaromskis
Jake Ellenberger
Brad Blackburn


Lightweight
Urijah Faber
Miguel Torres
Brian Bowles
Josh Thomson
Kenny Florian
Roger Huerta
Sean Sherk
Jim Miller
Ross Pearson
Tyson Griffin
Evan Dunham
Jens Pulver
Nate Diaz
Joe Stevenson
Efrain Escudero
Jorge Gurgel
Gray Maynard
Tatsuya Kawajiri
Javier Vazquez
Antonio McKee
Joe Warren
Lyle Beerbohm
Takanori Gomi
Ben Henderson
Donald Cerrone
Jamie Varner
George Sotiropoulos
Ross Pearson
Andre Winner

If they can come back as soon as possible that’d be cool so we can move on.

EddieFnG
02-23-2010, 06:30 PM
Is it possible to just use people from my initial draft that weren't drafted by anyone else?

Lucien Sanchez
02-23-2010, 06:39 PM
Is it possible to just use people from my initial draft that weren't drafted by anyone else?
Yeah but the only problem with that is that say five of your heavyweight picks are gone. That leaves five and there'll be ten people picking which could leave us short if they pick yours before you can. Picking ten per division guarantees that everyone gets a fighter off their list.

Unless of course you just meant can you keep those guys and replace the five that got picked with new picks. In which case that's fine. :)

CanadianFreak
02-23-2010, 08:32 PM
If there is a slot left for a team please PM.

Team Name: The Nightmares