Middle Earth Fantasy Football World Cup

[The Saucepan Man]

Ooh, I love fantasy football competitons, me. I used to run the fantasy league in my previous job. This one looks particularly promising by virtue of the fact that I can pick myself ...

A few questions about the rules for picking a team:

Are we able to pick the same players as other people participating?

Do trades simply consist of swapping one player for another? Do the players have to play in the same position, or can we change formations by making trades?

Originally Posted by Sleepy

Well, we've asigned each team a real-life counterpart which would be relevant to the strength of the area and team members of each part of Middle-Earth in the competition.

I would love to know which player is my real-life counterpart. Since the Barrow Downs are the World Champions, I'm thinking that it might be Ronaldo ...

[Sleepy Ranger]

Are we able to pick the same players as other people participating?

Yes, your team selection is completely independent of anybody else's.

Do trades simply consist of swapping one player for another? Do the players have to play in the same position, or can we change formations by making trades?

Yes, a trade is a simple player for player swap. No, the players need not play in the same position and the trade is valid as long as it keeps your team in one of the legal formations.

For example, say you've selected a 3-4-3 then you may swap a midfielder for a defender to change to a 4-3-3 or you may swap a forward for a midfielder to make it 3-5-2. However you may not swap a defender for any other position since that would decrease the total number of defenders to 2 and there is no legal formation with just 2 defenders.

Hope that helps clear it up.

For the sake of fair play we can't go about telling you which team is which though I reckon once the screenshots start coming up you'll figure it out anyway. On that note, no, you're not Ronaldo. Your counterparts name starts with 'A' actually. Not that I'm confirming a team or anything...