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Right guys, its up and running.

http://fantasy.premierleague.com/

Was a lot of fun last year. £10 extra for the main league to come in line with the euros comp. I hope the entry fees don't exclude anyone, with it being over a whole season I imagine it should be fine.

£30 for the main league, £20 for the H2H. £50 total if you wana play both. We know how the H2H works now. 8 teams qualify for the seeded quarter finals. Same payout percentages as last year, numbers dependant: http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=54343.0

1) Classic
Teams are ranked based on their total points in the game. You can join or leave a league with Classic scoring at any point during the season.

2) Head-to-Head
You play a match each gameweek against another team in the league. Once the fixtures have been generated the league is locked and teams will not be able to join or leave.

I've set up the leagues. Declare yourself IN on the thread and will pm payment details. Same crack as usual.

Only entry stipulation is that you have to have entered a previous fantasy league or have 100+ posts on blonde. To stop fantasy football bandits.

PAYOUTS

Main League (29 £30 x 29 = £870)

1st = £435
2nd = £220
3rd = £130
4th = £85

H2H League (£20 x 21 = 420)

1st = £280
2nd = £140

Classic League
Horneris PAID
ChipRich PAID
a17jax PAID
sweet potata! PAID
ForthThistle PAID
Terryaces PAID
Junior Senior PAID
dino1980 PAID
anthonyl PAID
TheDazzler PAID
c4ught PAID
Gazza PAID
ACE2M PAID
kinboshi PAID
AdamM PAID
Karabiner PAID
Linux PAID
Sheriff Fatman PAID
le kipppperrrrrr PAID
Nakor PAID
Teacake PAID
Tiger-flash PAID
George2Loose PAID
redsimon PAID
BorntoBubble PAID
Mitch PAID
Cottonbud PAID
BulldozerD PAID
Sackitoff PAID

H2H League
Horneris PAID
ChipRich PAID
a17jax PAID
sweet potata! PAID
ForthThistle PAID
Terryaces PAID
dino1980 PAID
anthonyl PAID
TheDazzler PAID
c4ught PAID
Gazza PAID
ACE2M PAID
Sheriff Fatman PAID
le kipppperrrrrr PAID
Teacake PAID
Tiger-flash PAID
George2Loose PAID
redsimon PAID
BorntoBubble PAID
Mitch PAID
Cottonbud PAID
BulldozerD PAID

WHOS WHO

Horneris    1    Real Betis Hotpot    Brent Horner    66    66
Ace2m   2    Cleverley Dunne    Thomas Kretschmer    61    61
ChipRich   3    I'veNeverSeenASalad    Rich Hare    57    57
Borntobubble   4    Back Door Draw    Callum Morgan    49    49
dino1980   5    Farmers FC    Nicholas Wright    46    46
Linux                   6    Not Famous Anymore    James moody    45    45
anthonyl           7    d3ad-mon3y    Anthony Lindfield    44    44
AdamM           7    Shiity City    Adam Mason    44    44
Junior Senior    9    Inter Yer Sister    Greg "too old to be called Junior" Hill    42    42
a17jax           9    Andys idiots    andrew jacques    42    42
Sheriff Fatman   9    KickRacismOutOfTerry    Curtis Ledger    42    42
Karabiner   12    FCk Arsene'sdoubters    Donk Quixote    38    38
Cottonbud   12    DropitLikeitsHot    James Williams    38    38
le kipppperrrrrr    12    Marshjems    Gaz O Brien    38    38
Forththistle   15    ForthThistle    David Blacklaw    37    37
sackitoff   16    Waxing Lyrically    Alexander Jobling    35    35
The Dazzler   17    The Dazzler    Tom McBennett    34    34
c4ught   18    c4ught crus4ders    Lewis Morton    33    33
sweet potata!   19    Tittsburgh Feelers    Craig O'Brien    32    32
Teacake   19    Stevies Wonders    Stephen Donnelly    32    32
Nakor   19    Chicken Dinners    Adam Downing    32    32
redsimon   22    redsimon's donkeys    Simon Lawlor    31    31
Tiger Flash   22    Tigerflash Utd    simon gordon    31    31
Gazza   24    Premier Lead    Gareth J    29    29
bulldozer   25    Midtable Certainties    Dean Pearson    28    28
georgetooloose   26    Team GB    Rupinder Bedi    26    26
kinboshi   27    Real Ale    Daniel Phillips    20    20
Terryaces   28    The Macho ManiacsAFC    El Tel McCarolan    19    19
Mitch           29    Massive Monsons    Mitchell Johnson    17    17

Couldn't be anymore In!

Will ship funds nearer the time......

Yeah thats fine, just a few people have said they wanted the thread putting up.

In.

Can we send on Stars...

Yeah I guess although Bank Transfer would be preferred from most.

Plz specify if you wana play just the main league or both.

Yeah I'm in for both!

Donating in both please.

Would like to make my annual donation to Teacake/Gazza in both leagues please.

in for both

Lost like 1k on this last year so dangerous to sign up lol

In for both tho

in for both

In for both. I'll be sending on Stars if that's ok.
I don't think the teams were seeded last year, it was just a random draw of the top 8, no?
And you only have quarter finals/semis/final if you choose the 3 knockout rounds option. If you just want it to be a straight league, you pick "0" under the KO option.

Ah ok thanks.

What does everyone prefer then? I think I like the idea of 8 qualifying then quarter finals and so on as then most people have somewhat of a chance all season.

But if the majority want to do it as a straight H2H league thats no problem...

In the main. See if I can manage to get beyond the first round without getting tilted by the league allowing everyone to change their entire squad.

Is Van Persie staying at Arsenal?

In for both still got bank details if they are the same as last year.


Prefer 8 qualifying for quarters etc myself.

When do monies need to be sent? I'm more than likely in for both.

In for the classic league.

I'll have a crack at the classic league please.

In for both.


Yea same as last year is fine by me, as you say gives more people a sweat right the way to the end.

Yup, top8 for me too.

in for everything

also accepting side bets if anyone wants a season match bet?

in, how much?

$200 again?

Would be in for $25 max as wouldn't want it to, monetarily, take precedence over main or H2H league.

Assuming that's ok what sort of season match bet?

a) standard way - total points over course of the season

b) set-up private H2H league winner of the most 'matches' wins the bet.

5 dorra per point?

option B for a change. not done my team yet, so if you sort a league and i'll join when i'm set up.

i've had some crazy pts differences in bets i've had where this could have cost me 2k or won me 2k.

That seems a bit much tbh.

$2.50 a pt?

booked.

Booked (assume bet is for $25), will set up a league before the season starts and PM you the code.

I'm up for that. Whatever you prefer, $/points or straight up.

You need to give me 100 pt head start

haha gl Dazzler

Lol, 100 points is outrageous! You could effectively mirror my team and win with ease. Plus I'm going to miss 'preseason training' and not be able to do much research as I'm away to China and North Korea for a couple of weeks this weekend and only return a couple of days before kickoff.
Hmmm, I could go to 50 points but even with that, if I get a bad start, I'm really struggling.

what was your final pts tally last year?

$50 most points over the season?

IN

2146

No joke mine was 2046, promise i didn't know that before original post.

i'll take 90.5 pts head start for $200 season match bet.

Your mirroring team thing has been tried before and failed by someone i gave 200pt head start to.

I won't do that anyway as i've already struck up a lot of bets with others and i don't roll like that.

yep, can you deposit funds or get someone to vouch for you?

I'll give you a 65.999999 point head start

not enough. last offer - 85.5 pts

Ok, let's say 75 point lead and $2.50/point? That way it shouldn't be too much of a hit, win or lose.

79.5 and i'd rather the straight $200. Needs to hurt a little bit at least.

com, I'd defo take a 65 point start.

77.5 and $3/point.

In for both please.

PM sent.

Anyone else for $20-$50 season points bet? Willing to do 3-4.

I'll do $50.

(http://www.flixya.com/files-photo/e/o/s/eoskas-2195465.jpg)

77.5 for a straight 200

Oh go on then. On.
I reckon you have the best of this bet. I honestly would have it at around 65 points.

booked

Comedy back and forth there lads!  :D

fyp

Sites has changed again then.... How do I check my points for last season anyone?

50 point head start?

I joined a public league and then clicked on my name and got the info that way.

If they are really your previous scores, you can have 75 points.

 ;carlocitrone; they are previous scores  ;surrender;

$50 with 75 point head start, booked.

As agreed in PM booked.

Click on 'view gameweek history'.

Will do 2 dorrar point with 92 point start you beat me by over 100 last year.

Quote tO confirm.

in both

Nice one but I cant see it, I assume it's because I havent picked a team name yet, all I've done is logged into to my account, I'm still pondering my team name!

In for both please!

both please.

Sorry didn't see this post originally, my bad!

Anyone want to organise £25/30 winner takes all monthly points?

Sent entry info out this morn via pm.

Teacake yet to enter, perhaps he is giving everyone else a chance for once :dontask:

In the classic please

Yeah in for both. Gazza is the man to beat though.

I'm going to be in a festival in the middle of Wales for the opening weekend. Internet access likely to be sporadic at best. I think I should get a head start actually. ;D

I'm open to side bets for anyone who fancies it.

Started updating the lists with whose paid.

IN for both.


Also, is anyone interested in this Championship Fantasy Football? http://fantasy.football-league.co.uk/Index.aspx

If can get enough interest i'll make a thread and get it going. Have never done it before and it could be good if we can get quite a few involved...

in

Hi brent, Ive just found this,
Please put me in for both again, i still have your bank details from last season so i will put £50 in if thats ok, let me know first mate  ;)

Hi buddy, yeah thats fine, everything still the same.

Starts on the 18th, will send you the codes as soon as money received.

Cheers mate, will do by end of the week  :)up

Already made 47 substitutions pre season got my strat locked and loaded

I am sensing this is my year.


P.s. not an invitation for bum hunting side bets please :-)

47!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, at least 25. Just banged a team in to get started then played about with it til happy. Probably change it again before we kick off.

C'mon guys, not many paid up and entered, only a week and a half to go!

Dont worry mate, i will defo by sat  ;)

Just shipped for both leagues.

How much you want to do?

;shark;


i'm up for something to teacake

a17jax is in both

In for both

Sent for both.

Right, now that this Olympic nonsense is over ;D, time to get back to reality and get stuck into this fantasy comp, lets be avin yis, roll up, roll up.

You need to take me off the head to head list Brent.

I am nitting up for the main deal only

Done, ty

in for both pm bank please

Money sent can you send the codes.

Think I sent the codes out to Red, George and Teacake. Post again if I didn't.

Received and registered

Haven't got mine

Thanks, sent when I was at work and thought I'd forgotten someone.

Sent now.

like to join this if possible?

presumably rules and scoring are as per website?

thanks

yes mate, everything the same as always on the website.

We have 2 leagues, a £30 main normal league with 3 paid and a £20 head to head league where you play someone every week then the top 8 in the league qualify for the quarter finals with 3 weeks left and the winner and finalist get paid.

Will pm you the payment details.

With this site you can enter the same team into multiple leagues at no extra cost right? If you can I'm in for both if you can pm me bank details I will ship over tomrrow!

yeman

Well when you say no extra cost technically there is no cost in the first place it's free to enter.

I see George named his team 'Team GB' I hope for your sake you didn't go the whole hog and name a fully British squad! I can't imagine it would do well!

Going to shark the thread for some much needed support of this comp

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=58654.0

Get involved b4 the weekend!

:) just thought it was apt. Team George Bedi!

In.....

Sorry for leaving it late mate as i dont get paid till the 18th and had to watch my funds lol.
Anyway, now paid in full and should go into your account in a few hours so send me the codes when you are ready mate  ;)

In the ME, money sent.

How do I join?

Declare interest, I PM you, send money, receive codes  :)

Sign up and register with the official premier league fantasy thingy if you haven't already.

fantasy.premierleague.com

ME payment sent

i've tinkered that many times now its bordering obsessive!

I hope you've taken into account the distances travelled this week and who played how long.

If not you could be giving us all a start. ;)

just one factor in the selection formula

If anyone else wants to play like Pleno or Horseplayer gets your entries in today!

Will post prizes and stuff on Saturday morning. The big day, football is backkk.

Go on, in for both. Pm me some bank details plz
Cheers

Could I have the code for the main event please?

Don't forget to sort your teams by tonight. There was all that trouble with the site crashing last year if you remember.

yeah sorry mate, thought I'd already sent you them on twitter

Could you put me down for the main league please.

Will ship £30 on stars if thats ok

Yeah no worries, send to horneris (Leeds) on stars please.

will pm you the code.

 Site is a joke again this season. Can see a bonus transfer being awarded again

PAYOUTS

Main League (29 £30 x 29 = £870)

1st = £435
2nd = £220
3rd = £130
4th = £85

H2H League (£20 x 21 = 420)

1st = £280
2nd = £140

Extra place paid this year as more runners and it falls in that band, hope that is ok.

Will post a list of whos who tonight or tomorrow, off to the Leeds game now, cmon!

Good work Brent getting so many in.

Just ship the 435 now fella.
Thanks

Me the wooden spoon?   ;shame;

who's who?

I'm 'Cleverly Dunne'

Tittsburgh Feelers here!

I saw a good name but I couldn't as a Liverpool fan use it............ similar to the cleverley dunne name, play on words with names......EvraForlanNdlovu?

KickRacismOutOfTerry

For several years, whilst they were 1st and 2nd choices for England, I had "Do Girls Prefer Flowers to Seaman?" as a team name.  It's a pity it became outdated (and they limit you to only 20 characters on Prem site).

FCk Wenger'sdoubters.

WHOS WHO

Horneris    1    Real Betis Hotpot    Brent Horner    66    66
Ace2m   2    Cleverley Dunne    Thomas Kretschmer    61    61
ChipRich   3    I'veNeverSeenASalad    Rich Hare    57    57
Borntobubble   4    Back Door Draw    Callum Morgan    49    49
dino1980   5    Farmers FC    Nicholas Wright    46    46
Linux                   6    Not Famous Anymore    James moody    45    45
anthonyl           7    d3ad-mon3y    Anthony Lindfield    44    44
AdamM           7    Shiity City    Adam Mason    44    44
Junior Senior    9    Inter Yer Sister    Greg "too old to be called Junior" Hill    42    42
a17jax           9    Andys idiots    andrew jacques    42    42
Sheriff Fatman   9    KickRacismOutOfTerry    Curtis Ledger    42    42
Karabiner   12    FCk Arsene'sdoubters    Donk Quixote    38    38
Cottonbud   12    DropitLikeitsHot    James Williams    38    38
le kipppperrrrrr    12    Marshjems    Gaz O Brien    38    38
Forththistle   15    ForthThistle    David Blacklaw    37    37
sackitoff   16    Waxing Lyrically    Alexander Jobling    35    35
The Dazzler   17    The Dazzler    Tom McBennett    34    34
c4ught   18    c4ught crus4ders    Lewis Morton    33    33
sweet potata!   19    Tittsburgh Feelers    Craig O'Brien    32    32
Teacake   19    Stevies Wonders    Stephen Donnelly    32    32
Nakor   19    Chicken Dinners    Adam Downing    32    32
redsimon   22    redsimon's donkeys    Simon Lawlor    31    31
Tiger Flash   22    Tigerflash Utd    simon gordon    31    31
Gazza   24    Premier Lead    Gareth J    29    29
bulldozer   25    Midtable Certainties    Dean Pearson    28    28
georgetooloose   26    Team GB    Rupinder Bedi    26    26
kinboshi   27    Real Ale    Daniel Phillips    20    20
Terryaces   28    The Macho ManiacsAFC    El Tel McCarolan    19    19
Mitch           29    Massive Monsons    Mitchell Johnson    17    17

Can I join this now?  Send payment deets if so.

Nah sorry mate but the prizepools have been decided and you wouldn't be able to get in the H2H anyway as the draw has been done and first matches played so wouldn't be able to add anyone else.

No probs.

It's not over. Game tonight and Chelsea and reading on a double game week. Go Torres!!!!!!!!!

Fantasy NFL still available though Stu!

School boy error missing the Celsea double in week 1.
Come On Reading.

I was leading Saturday :)
dropped when Chelsea / City played yesterday.
Looking for a big debut from RVP

Too early for a wilcard?

Played mine in GW 3 last year

Another great start Brent!
Dont capitulate like last season mate

lol

I thought ivanovic would be suspended due to sending off in charity shield so snap subbed him.

FML evey fucking season

Im just hoping Chelsea signed Moses to play him every week

mmmm, ive got moses and 3 other chelsea players, what happens now?

I think you're OK if you end up with 4 as the result of a 'real-life' transfer.  If you sub anyone out though, you won't be able to go back and will have to comply with the normal rules.

GW3 will be great for you

basically played with 9 men this week! Terry and Riise late sick notes, Pogrebniak cancelled game and Aguero crocked and Lescott was inexplicably left out. 

FML every week!

was robbed by the late westbrom goal, would have been a 70+ point week other than that.... wonder how many people will leave chelsea players in for next week.... hope everyone has hazard as captain

lol, it cant get any worse as ive got that Reading forward too and im bottom of the league  ;shame;

Awesome.

Can somebody update us all with the latest table. (Don't know how too) Thanks.

   #   Team   Manager   GW   TOT
   1   Cleverley Dunne   Thomas Kretschmer   65   158
   2   Real Betis Hotpot   Brent Horner   60   150
   3   Not Famous Anymore   James moody   68   149
   4   DropitLikeitsHot   James Williams   66   133
   5   Premier Lead   Gareth J   69   128
   6   KickRacismOutOfTerry   Curtis Ledger   62   124
   7   FCk Arsene'sdoubters   Donk Quixote   70   123
   8   Team GB   Rupinder Bedi   69   122
   9   Farmers FC   Nicholas Wright   48   119
   10   Stevies Wonders   Stephen Donnelly   65   117
   11   c4ught crus4ders   Lewis Morton   52   116
   12   ForthThistle   David Blacklaw   52   115
   13   I'veNeverSeenASalad   Rich Hare   36   115
   14   Back Door Draw   Callum Morgan   40   112
   15   Chicken Dinners   Adam Downing   55   111
   16   Tittsburgh Feelers   Craig O'Brien   58   109
   17   Inter Yer Sister   Greg "too old to be called Junior" Hill   44   109
   18   The Dazzler   Tom McBennett   51   108
   19   Shiity City   Adam Mason   57   107
   20   Marshjems   Gaz O Brien   43   105
   21   Midtable Certainties   Dean Pearson   56   104
   22   d3ad-mon3y   Anthony Lindfield   35   102
   23   Tigerflash Utd   simon gordon   39   93
   24   Andys idiots   andrew jacques   43   92
   25   Waxing Lyrically   Alexander Jobling   46   90
   26   atoadaso   El Tel McCarolan   43   86
   27   redsimon's donkeys   Simon Lawlor   36   80
   28   Real Ale   Daniel Phillips   40   72
   29   Massive Monsons   Mitchell Johnson   40   71

Wildcard played, you lot are bang in trouble now!

Just call me Mr Consistency in this game.

Week 1: 62 points
Week 2: 62 points
Week 3: 66 points, but a 4 point deduction for making 2 substitutions.  Oh look, 62 points!

Hi there Mr C, do you mind if I call you Mr C?

Good week for me. I am gaining

helps when you miss your tranfers and you already have a bad team doh!!

So many luckboxes in our league. The race is on although i am already feeling a gamble coming on.. Might have to commence operation differential

lol you may say luckboxes but I look at it like there are so many sharks in our league!

i had twwo bad weeks in september were in the one week i forgot my transfers then had to catch up! shame as mabye could have had 30 extra points and be up there with the front runners!!!

making a strong charge now! shouold have caught up by end of the season :P

back to back bad weeks for me , I'm in freefall.

oi oi chance of getting the midfield clean sweep this week with Sterling and Nolan scoring and Noble coming off the bench with a brace. Just need Pienaar tomorrow now.

Yup, I ran into a Horneris juggernaut in the h2h this week, I fancied myself pre flop too!

I bokked myself, the ***** got sent off!

Its coz he cut off his flowing locks, with it went all his skills, hes gone for me.

Premier Lead..... Dunno If you were following our h2h match but all I can say is please lube up before you bugger me in future, facking hell!

The challenge of horneris has been batted away after his cheeky topping of the table last week.

keep my seat warm mate

The good news for the chasing pack is I believe both Ace and Horneris have previous for choking and chucking away big leads. ;snoopy'sguns;

haha sigh we do, and the seasons not even a quarter of the way through yet anyway.

Still got my wildy this season at least.

How much to buy out of our bet?

Ha ha. I'll assume you're joking. Only a qtr of the season gone.

You've had some start, inside the top 1000 after 9 weeks!

To think you tried to get 130 odd points off me, I need bloody snookers as it is!

I was joking. Kinda. I think. Hmmmmmm, I'm not sure.
Impressive scoring so far anyway. Stay in the top 1000 and I'd probably need top 100 or even top 50 to beat you.

Its certainly tight barring the top two. Its a long old race though.

Was pleased with my boys this week, a few minor tweaks planned in the coming weeks and ill be happy

What does the points table look like? Just wondering how I would be doing in the blonde league, I have 467 so far, guess I'd be struggling against you pros!

You'd be in 16th.

So its pretty competitive. What do the leaders have?

Acey has 570ish.

Although it's still possible to be top of the Head-to-Head league with 'only' 464 points  ;)

Link to the league table maybe?

http://fantasy.premierleague.com/my-leagues/74071/standings/

I've not been able to log in for a couple of days now anyone else having problems?

Working fine for me!

I cannot access, since Tuesday morning

Unfortunately I can access, no problem. God, I'm hating this season.

Working fine for me.

I managed to figure it out, I'm a bit of a dolt sometimes... :blonde:

i am getting a weird page, i can access it but its like the site isnt working properly.....

Yes that's what I get but I discovered that once I scroll down from there it's as it was.

I'd still like that page removing though, hopefully it's just a temporary glitch.

Acey's gone all quiet.

rotten 2 weeks in a row. long way to go.

4th to 10th in one fell swoop.  Pretty tight in the chasing pack at the moment.

Yes its tight and collectively we have pulled in the top two. Should be a good race!

God I love Luis Suarez

Not a bad player

Clyne coming off the bench to give me a h2h win and my first captain to score double digits in 4 weeks, good week.

Rage transfers from Acey this week.
Seven transfers..............................................so far.
Fingers crossed for you buddy there is no injuries midweek :)

Good spot Dazzler........... wtf are you doing Ace?  :o

Blimey, he's got 2 free right enough so 20 point hit.

I'm leaving a ridiculous amount of points on the bench this season, 11 for Sterling and 9 for Cuellar this week alone!

results oriented tiiiiilt ;)

Decisive action. Served me well early season but i started playing safe. Hated the look of my team for a while.

Fair play, we shall all look on with relish to see if you have pulled a masterstroke !

Lets not forget horner fucked up a big lead last season... Fingers crossed for the double :-)

Lol at the league this week. Top 10 all score within 6 points of each other.

4 players in my team didnt play this week, possibly cost me a slim chance of a draw in the H2H vs top!

One guy left a lot of points on the bench this week with routledge. Unlucky that

guilty ^^^^^^  >:(

Leader is doing an Acey.
5 transfers so far.
Nice of the top 2 to give back all these points :)

I had 2 frees but yeah I've spent -12 which I'm not happy at all about but I didn't want to use my wildcard and am extremely happy with my team for the next 6 or 7 gameweeks now. Sucks most for the H2H league.

Yea, they're sound lads.

You chumps clutching at straws, only reason me and horner can do these points hits is because we are so good and already got loads of points :)

If I lose in the H2H match now then I may have to shoot myself!

Interesting decision not to use the wildcard, especially with the window one still to come.  It's an interesting feature of the game, and there must be tonnes of theories out there on this (now awaiting TheDazzler's reply on this!)

Im trying to save mine two wait till the end of the season where key points can be gained! Although i need a bit of a restructure had a good october bad november now time for a good december!

Can you rollover the wildcard? I.e save it up or does it expire before window ends?

fuck off Michu

Pretty certain that you get one wildcard that can be used at any stage of the season and one that has to be used between Jan 1st and Jan 31st.

I think there's merits to both using your wildcard early and saving it, off the top of my head.

Early - bandwagons are bigger at the start of the season as more casual players still playing, more people have their wildcard to use and players emerge as fantasy prospects from nowhere. Therefore if you want to you can take advantage of big price rises in the popular players and add value to your team. Dazzler made a post last season about each extra 1m in team value being worth 10 points IIRC.

Later - Can take advantage of double game weeks, of course you have to clean the mess up later! And if chasing a lead in a mini league can tailor your team to this end.

I left him on the bench, couldn't decide between him and Nolan. That's me left Dyer on the bench  for 15 points  and Michu this week for 16. And that little rodent Suarez can fuck right off, I held off for weeks bringing him in because he was on a suspension but felt I had to bring him in this week and captained him.

Raging with myself.

+1 to the Suarez rage, I got him in for Rooney. Marv.

I did the same thing myself this week with Suarez after resisting for ages even paying -4 for the privilege and giving up on Torres, obviously Torres scores points and rodent-features picks up a ban. Just to malke things worse the spuds missing link goes and gets injured too.

 :'(

Lifted off the site

You can play 2 wildcards a season.One wildcard can be played at any time. The January Wildcard can only be used after Gameweek 21 starts (1 Jan 11:30) until Gameweek 24 ends (2 Feb 11:30).

Wildcards are played on the transfers page but aren't active until you have confirmed the transfers.

Well it's an interesting one for sure whether he should have used the wildcard or not.
He didn't use it and the transfers made cost him 12 points. So the question is, is a wildcard worth more than 12 points? There are a huge amount of variables involved in the answer to that, so the boring answer is, it depends.
A wildcard is clearly worth more to a team that is a really unbalanced, generally poor side than a good side, as you can make more improvements. A wildcard is worth more played early than late if your team EV increases by a couple of points per week which accumalates and stacks up over time. And a wildcard may be detrimental to your score in the short term but positive in the longterm or vice versa due to the variance in the game.
If he had used his wildcard his 'saved' 2 free transfers would have been lost to him next week so that would have sucked. All in all, if I had to pull a figure out of my ass, I would guestimate a wildcard to be worth 20-25 points so I think he was right not to use it.

As for Junior Seniors comment on me saying £1m in team value being worth 10 points, I was referring to it being worth that midway thru the season. At the start of the season each £1m is roughly worth 20 points. A lot of variables in that too but it's a good benchmark figure.

Interesting stuff, thanks.

My attitude on the wildcard has changed over the seasons.  In the early years, I avoided using it for too long, to the point where I questioned whether I was getting enough benefit from it (this was before they added the 2nd one in the transfer window).

Nowadays, I kind of feel it's wasted if I don't utilise it in the first half of the season, although I don't go out of my way to do this unless a major change is needed.  It's a 'nice to have' late in the season if you're in contention down the line and it could be the difference maker at that stage (and to be fair to Horneris, this is a position he's generally in so his mindset might be totally different to mine), but I'm not as protective of it as I used to be.  That's why I found Brent's decision this week so intriguing, as I'd either be using it on a 5 transfer week or trying to figure out ways to avoid doing 5 transfers in a week where I could make two for free.

The general point was though, was that there doesn't seem to be an obvious consensus opinion from the 'serious players/studiers' on what timing maximises the utility of the wildcard.  Obviously the key to it is still to hope that your players don't get injured/suspended immediately after you've played it!

It's like most things it depends on the situation you find yourself in.

Ideally you want to hold on to it as long as possible. If your team is doing well from the start then a tinker here and there is the way to go but if you start badly its hard to resist jumping on the early season bandwagons and adding value to your squad.I certainly wouldn't be using my first one between now and the transfer window one kicking in. There are specific weeks that are more beneficial to use the wild cards than others.

For what it's worth I have never had mine after week 7 and its usually used before week 4 but I always start shit and come like a train at the end.

Brent said a wildcard is worth 50 points (lol) any more views on this?

I'm sure thats what The Dazzler said last season at some point!

Did I? Maybe I did.
It's at the high end alright but it's possible it's worth that to a really bad team.
If your team is in the absolute crapper, suspensions, injuries, players not 1st choice anymore and you basically need to make 14 transfers then that is (13 x 4) = 52 points. So to a really bad team it could be worth 50 points.
I just had a quick look at your team Horneris and no offence but I find it horrific. :)
If I had your team, I would be immediately wildcarding and would be looking to do 11 transfers, so it would be worth 40 points to me.
But if you decided to wildcard, you might quite like the look of your team and only change 6 players and therefore the same wildcard for the same team is only worth 20 points to you.
Opinions, eh.

Edit: I should probably note that if I find your team 'horrific' and it's 81 points in front of me, I don't even know how I could describe my own team. Mind-boggingly poor, perhaps.

lol nice try

I have usually used my wildcard by week three. Iirc used it week two this season

I'm not trying to get you to use your wildcard. I'm just saying what I would do if I was in your situation and illustrating the point that a wildcard could be of different value to different people, even if they had identical teams.
But you said you were happy with team, so in that case I would not advise you to use it.


On this point, I have in the past couple of years used my wildcard in the 1st international window. This season, that was the end of GW3 going into GW4.
In a vacuum, I think this is probably the best time to use it (I decided to hold onto it this year which probably didn't work out well for me).
You have 2 weeks between the gameweeks, due to the internationals, and a lot of people are re-organising their teams, using wildcards, getting on the hottest bandwagons. It is probably the biggest single gameweek for transfer activity of the season and the ups and downs of transfer values is at its highest.
If you simply buy all the players that are going up in value for the first 13 days of the gameweek, then sell all the players you don't want (and bank the profit) and then buy the actual team you want the night before GW4 starts, your team value should have increased significantly and £ = points.

I don't believe you. Why else would you call my team horrific?

Without wanting to give all my secrets away with a full article whilst I'm watching the NFL lets just say I couldn't be any happier with the match ups for the majority of my players for the next 6 or 7 gameweeks. Granted, my transfers were made before Arsenal lost at home this weekend and Liverpool continued to flatter to deceive, but I, unlike you apparently (and taking unto account your anti Liverpool posts on Tips for Tikay), still have a lot of faith in these 2 sides production going forwards.

Too much strat in the thread. Youre going to put me off donating next season!

Lol, too funny. I'm not trying to get you to use your wildcard!!
If you think your team is great then using your wildcard would be pointless as you'd only buy the players you already have!
If I had your team and a wildcard, I would use it as I would change almost the entire team. You on the other hand, really like your team and wouldn't change it. So don't. Don't use your wildcard.

Why would I call your team horrific? Well, cos I disagree with your view that your team is great. I am of the belief that it is, in fact, horrific. Well obviously using 'horrific' is clearly for rubs, I actually think the phrase 'sub standard' would be more correct.
I'm not using any level 6, reverse double bluff mind games. That's what I think. You have your opinion and I have mine. We can agree to differ.
But you are 81 points in front of me. And, let's not forget, you beat me last year too. So go with what you're doing as it's working pretty well.

If I don't win it, then I hope you win it all. Honestly.

Thankyou mate. Thats nice of you.

I don't think my team is great, especially after Bale's knock and Cisse not playing despite "an engaging performance where he looked back to his best" in the previous game away at Sunderland. I just think its quite decent.

One of the reasons I am wary of using my wildcard is that Gareth J/Premier Lead (last years champion I think) still has his and iirc last season he waited and waited till near the end of the season and waited for the ultimate double gameweek (due to weather postponements in Jan/Feb), he pounced, used it, scored about 120 points and shot to the top.

With regards to DGW obv you know this but they're not all created equal! Last year IIRC  the one you're referring to involved Spurs, Chelsea and another decent side, forget who. So if you loaded your team with DGW players then they were still viable assets in the following weeks. In fact I think a number of teams only put 9/10 players out the GW before so as to load their teams with CHE/SPU and to not take hits.

But the one I remember from the year before had Blackpool/Birmingham in it so wasn't quite the goldmine being stuck with D.J Campbell and Zigic! Having said that harsher winters so increased chance of postponements (due to conditions near the grounds, not frozen pitches) and potential for replays in FA Cup means they'll be a DGW at somepoint. So, holding onto your wildcard for it isn't the risk. It's which teams end up in it that is the gamble.

Fuck this game.

I have the inverse midas touch at the minute.

Made a great move with the 3 liverpool players and its just amazing how many chances they missed between them over 3 games - they are famed for it i suppose and i always mock people for getting liverpool players in, serves me right.

I have an injury crisis now to.

I need Collocini to score a double hat-trick tonight to get me out on the week.

29 points on the bench from my 3 outfield players :D

Thats a bad beat story

On the back of a terrible week I now have a injury/suspension crisis on my hands, I have 2 reds,2yellows and 1 orange! >:(

There are gonna be a lot of teams with missing players this week. Suarez and Bale out and they have high percentage ownership

To be fair I didn't start it but it is quite impressive it's more than you were scoring with your starting 11 at the end of last season  :P

I went on tilt last season and only picked players with a Z in their name so some weeks only had 9 men. It would be easier this season as influx of players with z in their name like hazard and cazorla and even some defenders to choose from like azcueulepta who is new. I even cheated and brought in zat knight as there were only 4 defenders in the whole game with a z in

ok I'm not in the blonde league, but have been going reasonably well all season (by my prior standards)


Help me out here


this weekend I have to perm 4 from 5 in midfield (play 3-4-3)

Michu at home to Man U

Nolan at home to Everton

Pienaar away to West Ham

Sterling home to Fulham

Hazard home to Villa


Who would you leave out and why?

ty

Pienaar!!!

Michu & Hazard you can't leave out.

Liverpool playing at home they should create a few chances and Sterling is usually involved.

It came down to Pienaar or Nolan. My understanding is that Nolan plays just off the striker and from what I have read performs well at home meant I would go for him over Pienaar.

Considered a Fellaini ---> Pienaar transfer but I am just not sure.

Sterling because Liverpool are at home.

I would say it's a coin toss between Nolan and Pienaar and would probably do the latter because if I've got Nolan in my squad he's there to play in games like this, and it's slightly easier to 'justify' benching a player away from home. However Rich do you have any other West Ham or Everton players in your provisional starting 11 for the gameweek? Or conversely if you had, say three Liverpool players in your team e.g Johnson, Sterling, Suarez, I'd be tempted to bench Sterling instead.

Reasons for the above:

- Nolan on a poor run of form - no returns in the last six (although he's had goals unfairly ruled out during this period). West Ham not firing on all cylinders either
- Everton without Fellaini will be less of a threat going forward, but the South African has returns in his last two games and the Baines/Pienaar axis is a big part of Everton's attacking threat.
- Three Liverpool players in a starting line-up, very high variance given their ability to blow hot/cold at home. FWIW I am playing Puncheon ahead of Sterling precisely because I have two other Pool players in my team.
- You simple have to play the other two (and Sterling if you have no other Liverpool coverage)

FWIW the 'projections' say on average Nolan will score 3.3 points and Pienaar 3.2

Pienaar easy

thank you, great advice.

thought it was a genuinely tough one this week

Sterling is my only Liverpool player, so as you say he has to be in

Nolan over Pienaar, I suppose it comes down to

Nolan was pretty good earlier on, less so recently

Slight word of caution regards Sterling, there was a lot of talk that he was gonna be rested for the Villa game but ended up playing, then after that game BR spoke about players needing rests and mentioned Allen and Sterling, so there MIGHT be a chance he's on the bench this week.

really? considering they got battered by villa can't see it this weekend. But possibly over busy xmas schedule.

Pienaar and its not even a tough decision.

In the absence of any further information, I think it should be Sterling you leave out. He is going to get rested at some point over the next few games.
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11661/8338678/Liverpool-manager-Brendan-Rodgers-to-rest-teenager-Raheem-Sterling

I would keep an eye out for what the bib theory suggests this week. It did suggest that he wouldn't start last week (he did start) so it isn't infallible but it is pretty accurate. Maybe when he rests him , he'll leave him out of the squad altogether but if he doesn't and he brings him on with 10 mins to go, it'd suck.

If it looks like Sterling will play, I'd drop Pienaar, as Nolan just has more goal threat.

The advice you have received so far is based on limited information ie we don't know what your defence and forward line look like so the right answer may actually be to bench neither or both.

FWIW it's not the strongest midfield and I would probably only have 2 from Sterling, Nolan and Pienaar

Its close between pienaar and sterling. Like someone already said if he benches sterling then drop him but need to be sure in advance. Pienaar aint ever gonna be benched so on the balance of all that i bench sterling out of that lot. Get yourself in the blonde league next season.

Confirmed bench

and pienaar scores. Hope you played it the right way...

Very shrewd Dazzler, cheers for the info, kind of you.

I JUST CAN'T SEEM TO GET ENOUGH, SUAREZ!

Couldn't hold off ayy? ;)

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN7LW0Y00kE

Loves me some double gameweeks.

rofl, the weather looks ok this year.

Plus I had about 4 players fit and firing that I thought would start 3 games over the next 7 days (3 gameweeks). Could have been tragic.

Now my midfield currently contains Silva, Bale, Mata and Michu. What a joy. Could yet change it tho.

My cunning plan to bok the spuds by making the missing link captain seems to have backfired.

Bitter-sweet.

Glad arsene decided to use the tube strike to get his much wanted winter break. Made me bring bale in for santi cazorla... Think i will keep him.

Got defensive issues for saturday now. Need to get to work in the transfer market

thank you to Dazzler for the steer on Sterling, was the right call

Michu tomorrow, has an ankle from Boxing day

Leave out or risk it? (I would be playing Pienaar, Sterling, Hazard, Nolan) so in effect its a Michu/Sterling decision

(hoping Hazard isn't goingto be rotated too often!)

Michu won't play until Jan 1st at the earliest according to the site. He may be out for longer, maybe even sold according to some sources.

If you've had him for a long while you prob can't afford to sell him so play Sterling and sit tight.

What is your full side? that midfield is a bit lightweight, good pounds for pts ratio though.

Yes just seen the Michu news, ty

I have 1015 points with Van Persie, Defoe, Benteke and Baines, J Enrique, McAuley in the "first choice" team as well as the midfield, and cash in the bank.

Obv have plans for the wildcard during the transfer window

You must have a fair chunk in the bank.

Solid team, benteke is inspired if you got him before he started scoring all the pts.

I had him early yes. Was looking inspired for Liverpool away, obviously far less so since

More pleased I managed not to flog Michu, as he went on a huge run just after I decided to keep him

Pure luck on my part

I need some exposure to Man C, and another big hitter in midfield, so we'll see what the wildcard brings

FFFFFS!!!

So i buy a defender which costs me 4 points, he gets benched. My captain gets benched and my vice gets 1 point. My 2nd striker?..... Benched.  I can feel a FPL tilt coming

ha ha.

weird week this, loads of goals but really low scores.

Was hovering over the transfer button on Walcott at 11:29 and didn't do it so he's pretty much gtd a hat trick later - get on.


Having some great tussles in the bets i've got running - to and fro with Dino every week, dead level with gazza.

Really don't want Suarez or Sterling to do anything or it turns into a really shit week i think.

I am relying on sterling, enrique and suarez to get me out of it tomorrow.

FFS FMFL

only 23 pts and a hat trick i didn't bet on....

Will probs be 26 when the bonus gets added. Some twat will have captained him too

Also seething, was all ready to get Walcott in for Michu then my Arsenal fan mate was like "ooo I think Giroud will start this one up top and Walcott will revert to the wing"

then another friend was like "omg have you seen Kev Nolans next 4 games, with Carroll out hes guaranteed a hatful."

So one gets 23 points and one gets 1 and is suspended for the next game.

Massive sigh, could have done with that.

One's heart bleeds for you.

 Amazed how many people have Walcott as captain at top of maineague. To say only 4% ownership overall. I reckon people are hacking the system and after timing their captains pick. I might just tilt again and pick 15 Z's or only players with 4 letters in their surname.

Glad you didn't hit that transfer button  ;)

Loving our bet (H2H bets in general tbh), 10-10 is about right, given our total scores, but either one of us could be 9 or so points clear in the H2H given how close some of the weeks have been. Definitely makes me think a lot more before taking hits.

Me too.  Allowed me to squeak another win in the H2H league!

Fuck off Benitez you great big nob!

FOL's, Brent do you ever have a bad week?

Seconded, rest all your best payers in the same week, what a fucking moron.

Arggggghhhhhh I am so fucking angry. So close to tilting the season off now.

I'm gonna score 80 odd points in the H2H and still lose to him. Zabaleta and Evra scoring 25 between them is sickening.

Overall Breti's Hotpot are doing well so gonna be tough to be anywhere near him. Could be highest scorin season so far. I had pulled back a 100 point defeceit at one point now ifeel crushed again.

 

We're only just over half way through the season, loads of time left, leading from the front is difficult you end up being a target for the chasing pack.

Yeah, what he said ^. I don't have much money in the kitty either. I'm a lot clearer in my other money leagues tho so all is good. Some tough competition here.

Anyone seen Suarez points for this gameweek: (http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9003/81585895.jpg)

hahahahaha

Sterling has 1303 too!  not a bad week!

Pah, only 1,633 points!  Clearly you weren't trying!

sick!

You can now bet on the highest scoring player in each gameweek in Fantasy Premier League. Rofl's

http://sports.ladbrokes.com/en-gb/football/fantasy-football/top-fantasy-premier-league-scorer---week-22-e216710730

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Stoke City have their own FPL league, perhaps Crouchy would also be a decent manager (as well as a virgin) if he wasn't a professional footballer. He's top of the league and would be second in the Blonde Poker one.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2259063/Stoke-City-Premier-League-fantasy-football-league.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Alot of us have got virtually the same team! Might have to gamble to catch up.

How the fuck did Bale get 3 bonus points, he was awful, didn't touch the ball!

You're golden just now, 3 bonus for Fellaini too and nothing for RVP.

Nice work getting into the top 500.

Cheers. RVP is overrated.

I was gutted on Saturday night to see all of the chasing pack with Mata as captain aswell, every single one, I had no idea most of youse even had him.

Wildcards FTW

Just looked at your transfer history for the wildcard week! Some quality mind changing going on over that period!!

Went round in circles! Fair to say it bordered on obsession.

Fuck off snow!

Likelihood of any prem games being off anyone? Haven't heard anything concrete yet.

Baggies villa got to be in doubt as mist swansea stoke. Reckon theyll get the london games on

Right that is it. I FUCKING HATE BENITEZ. Just refusing now to have anything to do with him and his teams. He is such a *****!

oh my, I love my new players, every single one of them produced.

Except I don't love Maloney, he got me fantasy points but I had money on Southampton.

Mbn

You are having an unreal season! In the top 100 overall is just incredible. I am on tilt now this season

Some of the bonus point allocations are just seemingly random! How did RVP get 3 in a 1-0 where he didnt score??!

Yea that was a nice surprise!

I thought Sturridge was nailed on for the 3 pointer today but he got zip.

They are a joke, apart from the headers off the line RVP spent most of his time parked out wide doing little

and even tho I hate Sturridge, he was awesome today.

They are supposed to be based on performance stats so most of the time those who score points for other things also get the bonus. Last two weeks they seems to have been a bit random in parts.

Interesting, I'm trying to get in the mind of BH, you came on the Liverpool thread saying wtf were we doing spunking £12m on Sturridge, but was that purely a football opinion, the above bolded bit seems to throw an element of doubt over how unbiased your opinion may have been? If it was a footballing opinion then at the moment (early days) he must be changing your mind a bit?

The EA Index has been a farce since it was introduced but it is what it is and we're all in the same boat. Personally I'd rather they did away with bonus points altogether.

but then you wouldn't get to stoof someone by 1 point after some dodgy points awardation to one of your defenders.

Sorry. I did mean hate him as a player, although I have questioned his attitude and application at some points in the past (hopefully behind him now playing at a deece club).

I watched him so many times for Chelsea and when he got the ball he shot about 60% of the time from hopeless positions and gave the ball away the other 40%.

But he has always shown glimpses and he has just the right players around him (Stevie, Suarez etc) and manager behind him (someone who gives the players long runs of 90 minute football when fit) to help him develop the potential he clearly has. Obv it helps massively that he is playing central, something which he certainly wasn't given the oppourtunity to do at Chelsea. So yeah, I guess he is starting to change my mind and I kind of hope he does as I like Liverpool and love Suarez.

There was many question marks about the lads attitude and application alright, it has been exemplary so far though!

He's talking up Liverpool constantly, that goes down well with the fans, he seems to be reveling in the fact he's been treated as one of the main men at the club.

Also, I had him down as a flashy,blingy basically thick type, I didn't know he was a bible basher! He actually seems down to earth.

With regards his play, he has been getting his head up and picking passes, even sprayed a few lovely cross field balls against City, good pace, hammer of a shot! Holds it up nicely

Started brilliantly, I just hope he won't get lazy once he has got his feet under the table and doesn't feel like a newbie anymore.

Really love liverpool. Finally Henderson getting the recognition he deserves.

Henderson <3
Suso <33333
Shelvey <3
Sturridge <3

Such a sick team, really like them.

What happened to the fantasy football thread did it get merged with the liverpoo one?

Never a pen, but sigh Stevie G. Up to an 18 point swing with that missed pen for anyone who captained him (like me) or min 6 point swing for those with Suarez.

He missed it because I captained him. Fact

grrrrr bs that they let Sturridge take the 2nd pen just to get him in on the goals

A mild recovery this week after some wank scoring. Still feel tilty about this season

Nah, he missed it because I had him and had Suarez on the assist as my Capt.

Still, they made up for it today I guess.

Before tonight's game kicks off just wanted to say congrats Brent for getting into the overall Top 50. Unbelievable Tekkers!

I reckon he must have crystal balls.

whereas i have a curse! 3 players in the squad tonight.  1 doesnt play for only the 3rd time this season, one gets injured after 20 mins, the 3rd every fucker has got!

Thanks a lot, probs be like 200th after Bale's exploits tonight though. Not bothered tho as what a player he is!

Have started a league for the remaining games of the season, for a bit of added interest.

£10 in, winner takes all.

code to enter - 618399-581755

In

Guess who sold Kagawa this week?

:(

fkin love Luis, had him captain so many weeks this season and he has nearly always produced the goods.

You can have your RVPs

Losing interest now to be honest. Good luck in the overall Brent.

35th in the world. Come on Brent, take the mother down.

Shame the prizes are shite but still incred to be on the front page at this stage.

How many prizes in our tin pot league? Can't remember what we agreed?

It's on the first page of the thread.

There're some lazy buggers about..

It's always the old fellas that bite!

Horrif week for Inter Yer Sister. I now need to use my transfer to buy a keeper next week. Sigh...

BH what are you willing to accept as a pay off now £434?

It's all over bar the shouting, getting 60 odd points this week when most scrapped to 30 pts says it all, well played!

lol cheers, I wish I'd entered more leagues, but I've never won one before

Brent, i have to say that to be 12th in England and 24th in the overall standings is BLOODY GOOD GOING!!!!!
Well done mate and the benchmark for next season will be very high again, very tough league this but most fun  ;tightend;

I've learnt alot this season studying strategy and reading forums etc. reckon i will improve next season but probably so will everyone else. Funking for Betis Hotpot to win the overall job lot.

I wouldn't be pining your hopes on that, hasn't worked out well for Dazzler the last 2 years and I'm sure he could write a book on it!

Thankyou but tbh if in a comfortable enough position with a few weeks left I might look at doing something which costs me points but increases my chances in the H2H.

As much as I hate to admit it the Man Utd players in my team have been crucial to my success since the turn of the year. De Gea & Evra have like 8 clean sheets from 10 matches and Rooney has been outscoring RVP comfortably since his return to the fold.

if i were you i'd push on to get as high as possible in the overall. imagine the bragging rights and celeb status that would come from binking 1st out of 2.8 million runners!!

you would be my absolute hero... and i dont say that lightly

The standard in this league is certainly much higher this season. I could pretty much guarantee a fair chunk of the holiday spending money from the cash leagues and side bets but its much tougher now, more people appear to be putting the work  in that only a few of us were doing in past years.

Well I haven't put any work into it over the last couple of years and that lack of effort is costing me. No complaints.
It seems like every 50/50 has gone against me but that old adage 'the more I practice, the luckier I get' is kinda true. If you put the effort in, you see that all the 50/50s aren't really 50/50s but 60/40s and you make the right choices more often.

Like Teacake, I could always guarantee myself a decent finish and payday from knowing the mechanics of the game better than others and just putting in the minimum of effort. Nowadays, with all the fantasy football sites out there, it's like in poker with training sites, the standard has gotten much higher, as well as the playing field getting levelled through various rule changes.
Now way more people understand basic techniques, team structures, value for money/moneyball concepts. And even if they don't, just reading and following the advice of the fantasy sites pushes the standard way up.
So years ago everyone played terrible and it was easier to stand out. Now so many more people play 'correctly' that it makes it quite hard.
Which makes Brents current performance so impressive. He plays very non standard. I don't think he's taking tips from the sites. You could almost say he plays 'incorrectly' (which is what I alluded to way earlier in the season). But he just laughs at that. He does it Pele style........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTguTnoE680
I would echo the thoughts of Junior. Screw the H2H, nobody is going to remember who won that in a couple of years. But you'll never have this chance again. Win the world, my son. THE WORLD!

I've said it a few pages ago, funking for you to take it down so much. Any conversation i have about FPL with anyone for the last couple of months always involves me telling them i vaguely know someone who's in the top 50 or so and everyone is proper impressed.

I agree with everybody, this league is tough as a 2 dollar steak! Alot of shrewd folk around so it's to be expected.

I relish it to be honest, I have the ego of Kevin Pieterson with regards to my own ability, so I would say bring it on biatches!

Todays stat of the day brought to you by 'Chorley FM, where the listener comes first'

BH is 175 points clear at the top

There is 67 points between 2nd-10th

Source : Opta Stats

 ;grr; ;grr; ;grr;

Does the offside rule not apply to this guy?

BH, with all due respect did your team get a fantasy football style fraping with your captain and Vice captain picks?

No?

I felt I needed solid points in a week where my strikers faced Arsenal, Spurs and Chelsea.

Scum had 7 clean sheets in 9 and I rated them about a 4/9 shot to get another vs shitty Villa and also upfield Evra has contributed with 4 goals and 7 assists so wasn't a huge price to secure more points that way.

I'm sure you had your own logic behind it, but personally I would never ever captain a defender! Of course I'm not the one that's running away with the title, it just caught my attention when I saw your team that's all

You're still very shrewd in my eyes!  :)up

Fuck this season! It can kiss my arse

lol Bale's feather touch has been given as an assist in the Wigan game, meaning he not only gets the 3pts for the assist but also elevates him to two bonus points.  Nice 10 point swing for those of us who captained him, not enough to catch Brent but will be handy in a couple of other mini leagues ;)

 ;technophobe;

Oh ;shame; gives me a win in the H2H!

You were in anyway! This is the last round of matches before the KO rounds.

Looks like The Dazzler will squeeze my brother out of the top 8!

Preliminary Line Up is .....

1.KickRacismOutOfTerry    
2. Tittsburgh Feelers    
3. Cleverley Dunne
4. d3ad-mon3y    
5. c4ught crus4ders    
6. Premier Lead    
7. Real Betis Hotpot    
8. Marshjems
9. The Dazzler


IIRC the draw is random, so it won't be 1 v 8 etc....


Edit in light of recent events the line up has changed with BH looking like missing out in sick fashion.

omg die, that bs has knocked me out of the top 8 in the H2H.

Way to ruin a great season, cheers for the slowroll fantasy premier league.

Oh bollox, didn't even see that, apologies, no rub down or anything of that ilk was intended, I blame my bro for not telling me about his other potential out.

My season was ruined when I realised there was a knockout element to this comp in the first place!

No worries not your fault, just so tilting, all weekend was sweating my match and was so relieved yesterday

Now I'm going to get another draw and lose out by a point

So many weeks even when I was doing really well I would be against the only person who did better than me in the H2H, can't believe it

At least my profile pic is relevant again

When did you cop this on!?!

First time I looked closely at it, I always thought it was some bird on a mic with a flower on the back of her head!

hahahaha you dolt

Lol, and the even sicker thing is, I don't even care. I haven't even paying any attention to this league, I just thought I was dead in every league.
Lost every side bet (here and elsewhere) in a massacre.
Worst season ever :)

A few weeks ago when I was working out how many more wins would guarantee me the title, and I noticed that the fixtures ended at week 35!

Whoops!

You must not have made the business end last season because it was the same format, I think there was even discussion at the start of this thread as to whether we would do the same again, the main concensus was that this would give more people a sweat.

Yes, it wasn't a factor for me last season :) and I didn't spot all the early discussion on the thread until I went back afterwards.  I just signed up for both games once I'd sorted out my teams.

It is what it is, and it's all clear in the thread, so I'm not complaining about it.  Just more of a FML comment and Sod's law that this happens to be the season I run away with the league!

FWIW, in future seasons I'd suggest giving 3rd place money to the league winner (which I'll likely never be again!), rather than a losing semi-finalist but that's a choice for another day.

Format works great for the NFL (where it belongs) by the way so I'll just have to dodge bullets Hellmuth-style now to the end!

only finalists get paid mate

How does this H2H league work? Im 4th but miles off top, winner takes all?

Horneris, have you ever had RVP in your team at all this season?

Top 8 go into quarter finals, top 2 get paid 280/140, so you have to win 2 matches to win money in next 2 gameweeks.

No I haven't ever, but maybe I should have added him a few weeks ago to mask the peoples teams that I was 175 points ahead of, now less than 100 ahead and starting to look over my shoulder a touch, couldn't even convert that Zabaleta clean sheet on Sat which would have made all the difference in the H2H.

Fair enough. Pretty sick how you've ended up there in H2H when smashed the league. Think I lost my first 3 games in that and 4th now, and won this week too.

I guess you'll have to copy everyone else next week with Kone as captain to protect that lead!

Ha, feel your pain, I had two Citeh defenders who lost cleanies and then had QPR/Stoke keep clean sheets when my defenders didn't play, although Samba not playing was possibly the cause of the first and I knew Wilson  probably wouldn't play.

H2H has been a disaster this season (although I got in 8/8 last season due to a fortuitous bonus point so variance etc) I've got a 16/1/17 record in the Blonde Leaugue whereas (to use an example) ACE2M has a 21/1/12 record and in our H2H league i'm 21-14 to the good against him.

That must have been at my expense I remember finishing 9th last year and feeling like I took a bad beat!

Just had a look back at last season's thread and you're right...

Farmers FC , Count your lucky stars that you made it in the last 8 you absolute lucksack!

Stephen Warnock, Stephen fooking Warnock, sigh

Also last year's final table just for reference...FWIW I think it's going to take more points to finish in the top four this year than Gazza won the league with last season. Although I can't remember if they've tweaked the scoring system at all this year? And, in actual real terms, Brent finished ~16,000 in the world last year, whilst to finish in the money this season you're going to need a top 10k finish for sure.

FINAL STANDINGS

   1    Premier Lead    Gareth J    67    2,224
   2    Higgys_Heroes    Stephen Donnelly    55    2,214
   3    Horners Hotshots Jrs    Brent Horner    67    2,150
   4    The Dazzler    Tom McBennett    46    2,146
   5    Farmers FC    Nicholas Wright    52    2,091
   6    Creme De La Milk    Craig O'Brien    40    2,078
   7    Shrewdies Superstars    Rich Hare    40    2,070
   8    Rio is on De Gea    Thomas Kretschmer    48    2,051
   9    One Time Jebus!    Gaz O Brien    39    2,050
   10    FCk Barcelona    Harry's GottaTwitch    51    2,013
   11    Taxi 4 Girgy    Daniel Girdlestone    68    2,007
   12    Not famous anymore    James moody    46    1,984
   13    BikiniBottomBadBoys    Terry McCarolan    36    1,972
   14    Gibraltartho    Patrick Leonard    48    1,969
   15    Riffman's Flops    Curtis Ledger    47    1,966
   16    Tit For Tat Pats    Larry Hagman    45    1,953
   17    Tigerflash Utd    simon gordon    43    1,909
   18    South West Beeston    Chris Vickers    30    1,899
   19    Mr P    wayne parker    52    1,895
   20    The Mutts Nuts    Lewis Morton    48    1,861
   21    Gerbil's Giants    Kev Smith    53    1,831
   22    Showboats    Mitchell Johnson    42    1,830
   23    SwainygonnaSwain    Todd Swain    50    1,791
   24    Pie and Chips    Graham Codd    34    1,784
   25    15 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,s    Greg Hill    24    1,760
   26    Burrrrrr    Alexander Jobling    41    1,720
   27    gg $500    Paul Foltyn    37    1,700
   28    Real Ale    Daniel Phillips    35    1,680
   29    Binks FC    david milligan    22    1,572
   30    Triggers Tools    RICHARD TRIGG    20    1,427

Haha nice that I called you a lucksack.

I don't recall why I was cussing Warnock, I presume he must have fluked you some random points, I have not carried a grudge against the lad anyway!

Anyone any idea when the H2H draw is done, no sign of it on the site from what I can see?

Tittsburgh Feelers   v    d3ad-mon3y
KickRacismOutOfTerry   v    Marshjems
Cleverley Dunne   v    The Dazzler
Premier Lead   v    c4ught crus4ders

Game on Boys! Looks like it was done 1v8, 2v7 etc....

bonus pts awards are a fookin joke. Gerrard clearly was the best player on the pitch and no pts, walcott scores the winner 3 pts bonus, bale scores the winner 3 pts bonus, mata scores late winner = fuck all. ridic.

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/7400000/Old-Man-Yells-At-Cloud-the-simpsons-7414384-265-199.gif

:)

Agreed Ace, Maloney played like Messi, 2 assists and nothing.

Would of loved a Maloney and Mata bonus :(

Not captaining Mr Bale the last two weeks is backfiring on me  ;frustrated;

I feel like I have been kicked square in the nuts, too much bs went down for me to mention things individually, but fck me I'm poxed  ;grr;

Mata didn't even get credited with the goal, they only gave him an assist it went down as an og which seems mega harsh.

I'd rather they did away with the bonus points but we're all in the same boat and we've all had both sides of it good and bad.

WTF, Tevez tears them apart for a half, sets up numerous chances, hits the post, makes the winner and gets no bonus. joke.

Well done mate, you nicked our H2H by a point.

Looks like Bale's booking in the 86th minute did for you, now that is tight!

As is the top of table, the top three in the world are separated by just five points. This week the top five in the world scored (respectively) 78,80,79,81 and 79!

I thought i was doomed after first fixtures. Bale yellow card was handy, not sure who would have won on the tie breaker had he not got that.

According to the site,
If a cup match is drawn, then the following tie-breaks will be applied until a winner is found:

1.    Most goals scored in the Gameweek
2.    Fewest goals conceded in the Gameweek
3.    Virtual coin toss

Virtual coin toss would have been awesome. We'd NEVER hear the end of it if you lost that!

I might be wrong, but wouldn't The Dazzler have won had Bale not got booked, he'd captained him which meant the yellow card cost him 2 points?

Regardless, best of luck in the semi-final.

i had bale to so would have got 1 pt more.

Fair play to that left foot it has come alive in the last 10 minutes these past few weeks.

Made it a fun final day of the season been in the hunt.

H2H final comes down to a bonus point sweat, with my team leading Gareth J by a single point so far.

I dropped Lukaku today and he left Nolan on the bench, so we're about equal in D'ohcisions.

On the subject of H2H, next season should have a prize for the winner of the H2H league?

I dropped Lukaku too after I got the Heads Up he wouldn't start so I think thats fair enough.

But leaving Nolan on the bench at home to Reading, ouch, must've been a close decision between him and Toure Yaya.

Whatever the majority want mate

Some serious bunfight for the money slots after BH, may I be the first to say congrats, well played to the champion Real Betis Hotpot!

it was, chose wrong obv. he'd been out of form, but still a bad decision even without hindsight. got pipped in the h2h but sneaked out 2nd in the main, not all bad. was fun as always, looking forward to next year.


PS, agree with a smallish prize for 1st in the he h2h.

would it be possible to screen print the final league table when it updates?

i'm interested to see the outcome although i didnt donate this year due to my fantasy football ineptitude.

I'm captain of a 5 a side team game on the fantasy football forum FISO.
I finished bottom of our 5 players but the top fella did quite well. He's only gone and won the WORLD! (If you click on my team and under league 'Fiso 5AS Bareassalona', the top fella obviously). It might be still updating but he has won it.
So even though I had a crap season, at least the best player in the world calls me gaffer!

Well done to the winners in our leagues, particularly Brent. Top bombing mate!

Final Standings

    1    Real Betis Hotpot    Brent Horner    61    2,331
   2    Premier Lead    Gareth J    54    2,230
   3    Farmers FC    Nicholas Wright    54    2,227
   4    Tittsburgh Feelers    Craig O'Brien    54    2,221
   5    c4ught crus4ders    Lewis Morton    44    2,218
   6    Stevies Wonders    Stephen Donnelly    42    2,185
   7    d3ad-mon3y    Anthony Lindfield    46    2,151
   8    Inter Yer Sister    Greg Hill    60    2,140
   9    Cleverley Dunne    Thomas Kretschmer    56    2,140
   10    FCk Arsene'sDoubters    Donk Quixote    47    2,131
   11    KickRacismOutOfTerry    Curtis Ledger    55    2,129
   12    The Dazzler    Tom McBennett    45    2,077
   13    Marshjems    Gaz O Brien    41    2,023
   14    Back Door Draw    Callum Morgan    46    1,973
   15    Not Famous Anymore    James moody    17    1,972
   16    ForthThistle    David Blacklaw    34    1,960
   17    I'veNeverSeenASalad    Rich Hare    66    1,956
   18    Team GB    Rupinder Bedi    44    1,942
   19    DropitLikeitsHot    James Williams    59    1,927
   20    Andys idiots    andrew jacques    48    1,926
   21    Tigerflash Utd    simon gordon    45    1,909
   22    Shiity City    Adam Mason    34    1,868
   23    redsimon's donkeys    Simon Lawlor    46    1,858
   24    Massive Monsons    Mitchell Johnson    63    1,829
   25    Midtable Certainties    Dean Pearson    26    1,822
   26    Chicken Dinners    Adam Downing    38    1,808
   27    turd sandwich    El Tel McCarolan    38    1,804
   28    Waxing Lyrically    Alexander Jobling    32    1,679
   29    Real Ale    Daniel Phillips    48    1,522

H2H Comp

KickRacismOutOfTerry   55 - 54   Premier Lead

Winners

Brent Horner (Horneris) £435
Gareth J (Gazza) £220
Nicholas Wright (Dino 1980) £130
Craig O'Brien (sweet potata!) £85

KickRacismOutOfTerry (Curtis Ledger) £280
Gareth J (Gazza) £140

Winners plz pm me payment info, away on a conference today but will sort it all tomorrow.

Thanks for the congrats, had a really enjoyable and lucky season. Was nice to build up a 195? point gap at one point so I could take my foot off the gas a bit towards the end of the season and only look at my team once a week instead of every day. I'm sure I'll never be able to do that again.

A word for Gareth J, after his top 2 finish last season (I always forget who won coz they chopped it) he came 2nd in the main and H2H leagues this time round, superbly consistent stuff.

Roll on 2013/14

Congrats all.

Will pm people about bets won/lost.

Congrats to Brent for bossing the main league and thanks for organising.  Well done too to Gareth J for his Mr Consistency act!

It's been a fun season in an incredibly competitive league!

I chopped the cash league and H2H with Gazza last season, he's the best FF player on here imo, top 2 finishes in both comps 2 years running is great going.

This is the first year I've lost money on FF the pack have caught up on here but I really need to stop picking absolute shite starting squads.

I handicapped myself this year by stubbornly refusing to pick the traitor RVP.

Well done indeed to Brent who was actually challenging for the overall lead at one point.

How Curtis managed to win the H2H with a mid-table score I'm not sure but he's a good bloke so I guess karma must have played it's part.

I'm looking forward to next season and already formulating a new strategy.

This! The last 2 seasons I've been forced to play my wildcard very early to remedy picking a bad squad,lt would be nice to just fly out of the traps and save the WC til later!

Ha! I used to do that by never picking manure players but eventually you gotta say business is business, it was a major leak in my game I'm sure!

Not sure if it was mentioned at the start of the thread but it was absolute horsesh1t that Chelsea had a double gameweek in GW1,it  forced people to pick Chelsea players and shape their team that way even though I wouldn't have normally and left alot of squads very samey.

I hope there  is no repeat of that next season.

Congrats to Brent for bossing and running the league and all the other winners. Been good fun and good banter. Bring on next season.

Sadly think there might be as Chelsea won the Europa League so will be involved in the European Super Cup again which is what caused the DGW in GW1 for them and Reading. Think I started with Federici and Pog!

Everyone been paid, cept Sweet Potata! who has a dodgy Irish bank

Me and Dazzler are having a similar issue with a sidebet maybe we can work something out between the 4 of us?

Argh FFS!!!!

BH, what's happening are they looking for a fee to ship to me yea?

Yeah happy to go along with whatever works for people.
I owe Teacake £108, I have Irish bank account and I have FTP and Stars accounts. I only have money in the FTP account but I think I can transfer to my Stars account from my FTP account? I never play Stars so unsure?

You wana send Sweet Potata £85 to his Irish bank and the other £23 to me on tilt (RHareISBusto) and ill send  the £108 to Teacake? If thts ok ill be on to do it tonight, in meetings all day. Thanks guys.

That'd suit me nicely, I trust you will pass on bank details to Dazzler if he's agreeable!

Yeah that works for me too.

Yeah, that's cool. Send me deets.

Edit: I sent $35/£23 to Brent on tilt (RHareISBusto) so I just need Sweet Potatas bank details to do the rest.