Update: The Season is Live With Sane Pricing and Cleared Out Rosters...

For all those of you who rushed to create a team of Galaticos for under 60.00 yesterday, I hope you enjoyed it while it lasted.  Yahoo! reset everyone's rosters at the same time they re-adjusted prices to better reflect reality from last season.  As you confront this new reality and start piecing a roster together that doesn't include Rooney, Gerrard, Lamps, Cesc, EvdS, Bale, RvP, Elk, and whichever other defenders you filled in the rest of the places with I'll give you my first few observations...

The new guys will obviously be important in getting you to a few premium proven commodities: Koscielny, Chamakh and Silva are the only three obvious ones who are in the system so far but I'm sure Citeh will contribute one or two more options before the season starts.  All we have to do is figure out who Citeh will start in central defence - Toure? Lescott? Boateng? Onuoha? Richards? (I'd assume Toure and Boateng but who knows really).



Here are some other interesting notes from my first pass through the prices:

• MPet was the first guy on my team sheet - not sure how he and MTay will work together but Coyle will find a way and MPet will be a bargain at just over 9
• Joe Cole is pretty cheap and while I still don't like the move for LIV if he can replicate or improve upon Maxi's production from late last season (not unrealistic) and stay healthy, he's a solid investment because Woy will be motivated to start him from the beginning of the season;
• ManYoo have a pretty soft schedule in the first few weeks so I'm looking for ways to clear budget for Rooney and EvdS for sure and maybe one or two others; 
• Based on pre-season performances, I'm REALLY hoping that Cleverly from ManYoo gets loaned out somewhere that he'll start regularly - potential-wise I see him as an O'Hara-like fantasy prospect if he's playing regularly;
• If ACole gets injured and/or gets his transfer to Real Madrid then everyone should take note that Yahoo! has (rightly) listed Zhirkov as a defender this year (and he's cheap, also rightly); 
• Spurs win the award for most over-priced roster - combine that with their opening match vs. Citeh and you can probably ignore them altogether for your opening day roster unless they bring someone big in - Keane, PVC, and Sea-Bass are the only players that COULD represent value and none of them are guaranteed starters;

That's about it for the first run through, you'll likely see some of this in a re-posted AIM transcript from Jeremy later but I had a few minutes while waiting for a meeting to start so I figured I'd put some random thoughts out there for your consumption.

Cheers - Neal