Best of all possible Der Spiel teams
by Herr Mark
G - Switzerland: 30
D - Portugal: 20
D - Ghana: 16
D - England: 20
M - Ecuador: 38
M - Brazil: 36
M - France: 35
M - Ukraine: 31.5
F - Italy: 60
F - Argentina: 55
F - Germany: 55
Overall: 396.5
World Cup Hippo ran its very own fantasy football game this summer called Der Spiel. This game had a unique format and participants were asked to allocate nations, rather than individual players, to on-pitch positions. Well done to ‘the predators’ managed by Neville, and ‘Sonderangebot11′ managed by Calico: they finished joint first on 316.5 points.
The above graphic shows the best possible team that could have been chosen. The nations in Der Spiel were seeded into three groups and less fancied teams received more points for goals and cleansheets. Of the above teams, Switzerland and Ukraine were in Pool 2, Ghana and Ecuador were in Pool 3 - the rest were in Pool 1. If you’d been shrewd enough to pick this team you would have won by 80 points!
July 11th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
Coincidentally that’s also Bolton Wanderer’s new line-up.
July 11th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
I think my main error was not choosing enough teams that wear yellow.
July 11th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
So that’s where i went wrong… I knew i should have chosen a decent team…
July 11th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
I see England only just scraped in with the joint second lowest points total. Frankly, I’m surprised they could manage that.
July 11th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
Herr Mark, what was the worst (or should I say wurst) possible team?
July 11th, 2006 at 7:12 pm
Worst team:
G - Ivory Coast: -3
D - Australia: 4.5
D - Saudi Arabia: 4
D - Czech Republic: 3
D - USA: 0
D - Serbia & Montenegro: -2
M - Iran: 12
M - Angola: 10
M - Poland: 9
M - Togo: 6
F - Trinidad & Tobago: 0
Overall: 43.5
Six teams from Pool 3; four from Pool 2; one from Pool 1.
July 12th, 2006 at 10:24 am
I can’t believe Poland are in there. They had a fantastic World Cup.
July 12th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
Serbia should apologise to everyone who selected them!
July 13th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
Only two years till the next major tournament. Just enough time to get a BTEC lip reading qualification.
July 14th, 2006 at 10:30 am
All the matches in the 2008 European Championship are radio only.