Fantasy Soccer - Week 30

So, I got my feet wet with the Fantasy Soccer thing this past week. Finished with 60 points, good for 46th among the 125 players who joined this round on mlssoccer.com. Not great, but not horrible. And hey, overall I'm in 31,789th place. Nowhere to go but up! Here's a look at my roster:

STARTERS (60)

GK - Nick Rimando - Real Salt Lake - 9 pts
DEF - Nick Hagglund - Toronto FC - 3 pts
DEF - Zach Loyd - FC Dallas - 2 pts
DEF - Lawrence Olum - Sporting KC - 7 pts
DEF - Heath Pearce - Chivas USA - 8 pts
MID - Landon Donovan (C) - LA Galaxy - 14 pts
MID - Lee Nguyen - New England Revs - 6 pts
MID - Gyasi Zardes - LA Galaxy - 3 pts
FWD - Quincy Amarikwa - Chicago Fire - 5 pts
FWD - Dom Dwyer - Sporting KC - 1 pt
FWD - Joao Plata - Real Salt Lake - 2 pts


BENCH (28)

GK - Stefan Frei - Seattle Sounders - 5 pts
DEF - Rauwshan McKenzie - Portland Timbers - 0 pts
DEF - Dylan Remick - Seattle Sounders - 0 pts
MID - Stefan Ishizaki - LA Galaxy - 1 pt
MID - Ethan Finlay - Columbus Crew - 8 pts
MID - Lamar Neagle - Seattle Sounders - 7 pts
FWD - Harry Shipp - Chicago Fire - 7 pts

OPTIMUM LINEUP (79)

GK - Nick Rimando (C) - Real Salt Lake - 18 pts
DEF - Lawrence Olum - Sporting KC - 7 pts
DEF - Heath Pearce - Chivas USA - 8 pts
DEF - Nick Hagglund - Toronto FC - 3 pts
MID - Landon Donovan - LA Galaxy - 7 pts
MID - Lee Nguyen - New England Revs - 6 pts
MID - Ethan Finlay - Columbus Crew - 8 pts
MID - Lamar Neagle - Seattle Sounders - 7 pts
MID - Gyasi Zardes - LA Galaxy - 3 pts
FWD - Quincy Amarikwa - Chicago Fire - 5 pts
FWD - Harry Shipp - Chicago Fire - 7 pts

BEST LINEUP POSSIBLE (136)

GK - Sean Johnson - Chicago Fire - 10 pts
DEF - A.J. DeLaGarza - LA Galaxy - 10 pts
DEF - Bakary Soumare - Chicago Fire - 10 pts
DEF - Matt Besler - Sporting KC - 10 pts
MID - Rodney Wallace (C) - Portland Timbers - 26 pts
MID - Sebastian Fernandez - Portland Timbers - 13 pts
MID - Marcelo Sarvas - LA Galaxy - 11 pts
MID - Mauro Rosales - Vancouver Whitecaps - 11 pts
MID - Marco Pappa - Seattle Sounders - 11 pts
FWD - Robbie Keane - LA Galaxy - 12 pts
FWD - Obafemi Martins - Seattle Sounders - 12 pts

UPDATE (10/10/14): They took a point away from Heath Pearce so I only got 59 points! Doh!