Conrats on making the big league Mr JJ and kammu, hope it's an enjoyable season for you despite the fact you're (probably) gonna lose a whole lot more than you've been used to...If not, hopefully Murdoch and Mahoney get some success with the England u21 side either way.
On the one hand you've fallen into the tougher conference (I'd quite like to not have to play LIDL and Tide of Fire twice a season..) but on the other the fact both of you and Kapsukas all landed in the same one might give the 3 of you a better chance of finishing above the other 2.
Sabre and Donny are probably the two stronger promoted teams (at least the experienced ones EBBL-wise) which should make the Red side more competitive this season.
Shame we haven't got the poll in the OP. I'm gonna back Vecx again, but then I always do (I was wrong last year). He might/does need a new signing or two to replace the aging bigs...LIDL has a good starting 5 but might lack depth / could have his own aging issue with Osman? I came 3rd last year and am hoping this version of my team is better (3 out of my old starting 5, 3 new ones in) but we'll see...Lions keeps telling me he's planning to tank but buying a 260k Centre is a strange way of doing it ;)
On the other side Galaxy are a constantly changing/evolving team, always hard to beat though. Lemon's trainees are a year older so could he be favourite? Gauson should be with his salary but always seems to underperform it. Erks (possibly surprisingly?) got the 2nd seed last year but look a player short (and having a 37y old over 100k salary would scare me). Sabre and Donny should fancy their chances of staying up over CWA (always liked a tank) and Keepmugs looked like they belonged last season, sort've the anti-Gauson (over-performing the salary instead) but another who might want a player.
I was going to post the below and let someone else do a season preview coz I figured I should be doing u21 stuff, but then I kinda did one, ha. Have some salary / DMI info in an unfortunately messy format:
TEAM SAL DMI
LIDL 727.9 3688.4
R. Lions 633.4 2810.7+
Ashington 577.3 2612.5
B. Drunkers 564.7 2775.9
Kapsukas 561.3 3148.5
Arsenal 560.3 2626.2
Tide of Fire 496.3 2573.8
M. Wombats 423.7 1892.3
Gauson 711.1 3815.1
Stinklemons 641.1 2974.4
Galaxy W 612.5 2843.4
Sabre 521.9 2737.5
Donny H 506.4 2158.2
CWA Fury 485.4 2348.9
B G Erks 488.8 2293.2
Keepmugs 427.6 2192.8
Last edited by Bergkamp at 01/06/2018 09:29:59