I have some updates to announce/change. Last year all of the results from the thread were posted here directly. I found that formatting all of the different excel charts/tables to make them work on this site was one of the most time consuming parts of doing this game. So this year everything you need to play the game will be left here in the thread (current rankings and free agents). Other things that I consider to be extra (detailed player match ups, predictions, maybe a few other things later) will be posted here on this site. I hope it doesn't bother anybody that I have done it like that, but it is much easier for me because I can just save the spreadsheet and the website will automatically update. It also keeps this thread from being too cluttered and slow.

Also, I'm trying to make sure I have everybody's lineup correct for their week 1 matches. I know there are some people who have changed their bonus game, but I'm not sure I have kept up with all of them. So please look at the list here and make sure I have your bonus game correct. That list will be updated when people make free agent changes to their teams (on that note the 4th post in this thread has been changed and I would like you to quote it when doing free agent changes).

Michael-5 (and maybe somebody else?) requested doing predictions again this year. I'm trying to not bite off more than I can chew this year as far as a time commitment so predictions will be handled by filling out a form weekly on the website. Week 1 predictions can be done here. I plan on continuing to highlight certain matches here in the thread to keep discussion going during the week.

Well it's not the American launch you have to worry about :P

Whoah EPIC cool! Really did a great job this year.

However, how do I check what individual predictions I made? Are we making a game for predictions like last year, or is it just a pie chart?

As far as I've checked release dates I will only be going up against PES' american launch, while someone else will battle it's EU and Japan launches in an other week.

Wow you got lucky!

Thanks, I'll be working on improving it further in the next days. There will be a game, after the 1st week's results I'll start a ranking table for the prediction league part as well.

Yeah that looks pretty slick :). I entered my predictions

Reminding everyone that today is the last day to make predictions for the week 1 matches.

Do you get extra points for doing that?

Is there a way to view people's predictions without having to complete the form? (Already completed it, but I want to see the pie charts again)