The AM Blog Team

As I mentioned., unfortunately my main team can only be in the first 3 leagues as I'm already in my own private league + Jeremy & Neal's private league, which = 5 (maximum). The 5 blog leagues that follow will be on my 2nd Yahoo ID.

The team I'll be running on the 2nd ID in leagues 4 to 8 will be AM Blog Team [AM.Blog], which is the team I want us to pick as a group each week. I have decided the best way to begin this is to run a poll each week to allow readers to vote for their top pick in each position. I will then work with a couple of the regulars (Mike B & Hans India) to take the poll results and fit as many of the players into this team as possible. We'll be limited by the £100m to spend so not all of the top 11 voted players will make it in each week, but we'll do our best to find a balance.

There will be no barndooring and we will be starting with a blank squad each week, so most weeks we will be buying 11 players at full price (unless we are picking the same player for consecutive weeks, in which it would make no sense to clear out a player if we hold him at discount).

Myself, Mike & Hans will be in the chatroom on Friday nights/Saturday mornings so we can discuss this with other blog regulars and settle on a team each week. This is very experimental so I expect we'll need to make changes to the process as we go along, but I feel we have a good starting point.

So without further ado, here is the link to vote in the Week 1 Player Picks Poll:  http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/496496

It could all go horribly wrong, but let's see what happens!

Cheers,
AM