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Its back!

Please post here if you are interested in playing the Blonde Poker Fantasy Premier Leagues for the new season.  Last season was very popular with circa 60 unique teams across the 4 leagues and a total of £2700 in prizes. All organised impeccably, added money (thanks Dazzler :-)) and all prize winners paid up and weighed in within a week of the season ending.

In discussions with The Dazzler, we are suggesting a few tweaks this season by having 6 leagues in total. Everyone will be entered into the Free Blonde Bragging Rights league and we are hoping to allocate any added money to that league and pay out the highest placed person who hasn't already won a league or cup prize.

We will have 4 paid leagues, but you can ONLY ENTER 2 OF THEM. We want as many people as possible to win prizes and to avoid a clean sweep across all leagues. The entry fees will be set at £10, £25, £50 and £100. You can elect to just enter the free league, if you wish. Everyone is welcome, provided they meet the qualification criteria.

We will then have 1 head to head league available to all with a £20 entry fee.

There are many new features in this season's game with the invention of 'chips' that can be played in any one gameweek. You have 3 in total; 'all out attack' where you can play a 2-5-3 formation, 'bench boost' where your subs also score points and 'triple captain' where your captain scores triple points in that gameweek.

It should be awesome and make it more exciting and swingy, rewarding the brave and bold.

Tom (TheDazzler), and I will draw up full entry requirements and rules in the coming weeks, but it will be pretty much as last season. We retain the right to refuse entry to non active forum members that we feel are just using us for FPL gain, so with that in mind all entrants must have at least 50 posts and have been a member for 6 months.

Cheers,
Greg

in

in for the £10 league i think

in the head to head league what happens with the chips?

bit of a bummer if you find you against a chip week in week out

in..funny enough just picked my opening team....will chop and change..but started the process

if we pick out teams now can we make unlimited subs between now and start of season?

The chips play as normal. If you are up against a man playing a chip then its just unlucky. Thats the variance of the head to head league.

Yes.

The 'rules' tab on the website has loads of faq's which are very comprehensive.

Can you use a chip every week, or do you get the 3 for the season and when they're gone that's it?

In for the £10 I think.

3 chips. Use once each only. Have to be used in different gameweeks.

In

In. Down for the £10 and head to head league.

Count me in for the ten pound league please

Go on then.

In.

Any appetite for an Ultimate FPL league this year? I have never played it before but looks fun, well suited for those that like to be hands on.

http://ultimate.premierleague.com/a/rules

I think I remember The Dazzler saying he played it last year, anyone else? Interested to hear what they thought.

43 posts in over 3 years.......I think not my friend.

why not?

50 post restriction on the entry rules, see first post

and in please. free and £10

trying and give it the time to be more competitive this year

Ok so he needs 7 more posts, I know he has taken part in this before and took time out to thank organisers last year, not everyone the reads and takes part in community activities are going to post 14-15 posts a year doesn't seem bad to me
 And it's not like he is a fantasy football beast coming to take all the money.

Degston played last year by special exemption. The rules were if you had entered previously you could play again, so we let him in just to the £10 league. I also have money on account from him for last year.  To be honest I hadn't realized he had so few posts. Post more Degston :-)

The 'spirit' of the rule is to really stop guys hunting us down, signing up  and insta entering the £50 and the £100 and clearing up.

Degston only wants to play the £10 league. He's in!

Thanks

Good decision imho well played greg

Do people bum hunt fantasy football comps?  :)

yes a lot

haha. not bum hunting fantasy football and was way off the pace anyway last year. will up my game this season.

thanks. and yes i will try and post more.

It's been known.

This is a local shop for local people

In, thanks for organising again.  

Good idea to segregate the leagues too. That, combined with increased variance from the three new "chips" means we might get a chance to win a league off the Dazzler :)

Will certianly give the free one ago not sure about the others

In for this again, great organization skills last year from tom and greg. This year should even be better with the introduction of the 3 chips you can play, that should mix it up a bit.

do i have to commit to which league i want to play now? i said in for the £10 league thinking not many would play it but might switch to the £25 as most people are playing the £10

In!

In for the £50 and the £100 (if there's enough interest) and if not then the £25 instead.

Thanks for running this again Greg/Tom. Thoughts on charging a 'rake' of £1 and that goes into a pot for whichever team achieves the best individual gameweek rank of the season. They do something similar in the NFL game on Blonde and from reading that thread it helps keep interest going for everyone throughout the season.

I played this last year and will enter again this year. After the initial squad selection/transfer window closes it actually ends up being less work than the original game as you can't make transfers (well apart from loans). The key is remembering to change your team before the first kick off on Sunday, hurts a bit if you forget.

Don't want to derail this thread, but if neither Greg/Tom enter UFPL and there's enough interest I'd happily set up a league.

I'm going to play the £50/£100 if people want to know what leagues to avoid (or hunt me down in!).
I haven't played UFPL and don't think I will this year.
As regards a highest individual gameweek score prize, we'll see where we get on entries first.

In for the £25

I'll do the free one and the £10 one.  

No. Decide when you pay. All joining instructions will be sent in the coming weeks.

In please.  Probably would go for the £10 and £25 leagues, plus the H2H.

potentially in for the cheap leagues pending approval of the admin.

I'm short on posts but have been meaning to post more - maybe this will motivate me!

no worries if you don't want me in

Paul

Join date of 2009? If you've been planning the long con this long, you deserve to pull it off!
You're in :)

in for £10

Haha thanks mate

A new entrant!

That's the spirit.

In for £10 and the free 'un.

Now, where do I find the players to pick etc?

Who do I ship the £10 to?

Cheers!

http://fantasy.premierleague.com/

£10 and £25 please, thanks for organising.

Spread the word chaps.

I got a lot of interest from fence sitters and pure punters alike last year at Dtd for the Sky or UKPIT ( cant remember) but probably won't be at DTD again until September time, so if anyone can drum up interest whilst there from Blondes that want to play but dont post much or have forgotten about our leagues, please spread the word.

Cheers

Daz pretty much admitted to bum hunting the QPR first team last week :)

In please

All those that have shown an interest in the thread have now been sent a PM.
Once i get into the full admin of this I will also be spamming those that have played before.

any questions, please post itt, or PM me.

cheers

In

Just the £10 league for me please.  Someone has the money on credit for me but I'm not sure who. 

Thanks

Yes, I have so consider yoursel paid up.
Cheers

Mr Kendall has entered

Atletico Aqueducts are in the free league

Is Harry Kane still value at £9.5 million?

As expected, a significant hike on last year’s price. Now sits firmly in the premium bracket alongside Giroud, Benteke and just behind Aguero and Costa.

21 league goals last year and didn’t get a start until November. Involved in the Euro u21’s this Summer, barely back in training yet so may be a little jaded early doors. Spurs opening 6 fixtures look OK, not particularly inviting but, ignoring United on opening day, not particular tough either.

Quite the conundrum – feels tough to fit Kane alongside Aguero without sacrificing elsewhere so it’s one or the other for me I think. Hmmm.

Excellent.  Just another 500 odd transfers and i should be sorted.

In for £25

Shipping details please??

Thanks to those that have already sent their entry fees. I will be confirming back to people in due course that I have received and sending out league codes.

Cheers

Could I have bank details please?

I just lurk here for the most part but would like to play also :) np if I've not got enough posts though.

Have registered for the free league.....will enter the £10 league this week.

Team: Brigate Gialloblu

Liking the idea of the 3 chips thing.  Could be some monster scoring weeks when they are played.

Pretty sure everyone that posted itt before Friday has had a pm but quite possible I missed you off. Will do a 2nd run through later and send

In. Pm Please

Yeah in send me a PM - prob £25 and £50 but will confirm

In for freebie league please.

Ok,

I am publishing the free Blonde Poker Bragging Rights league code here.

60781-82359

This competition is open to ANYONE registered on Blonde Poker.  You can even sign up to Blonde NOW and post just the once and you can enter.  There might be a small prixe but its really just for the fun of it.  I hope this may encourage a few new sign-ups and a bit of extra banter.

If you like it here, then post more and join in the fun.  Most of us are alright, some of us are a bit highly strung and some just love an argument, but its all meant in good spirit.

Cheers


The PAID leagues remain invite only and open to those that have good lenght of tenure with Blonde, have over (or close to :-) 50 posts.)

Hey!

thanks for joining in.  You can enter the free league and 2 paid leagues only.

If we find out you have been playing the long con since 2007 and wipe the floor with us then we'll take a dim view :-)

Right,
I think I am up to date now.
All those that have posted should have a PM with instructions and payment details.
All those that have paid me should have their respective codes.
There are some notable absentees from last year that haven't yet contacted me - don't be strangers!

£10 sent just now mate.....you have a PM.

Edit.......code received...entered, thanks mate.

C'mon the Brigate Gialloblu

I will get in the £10 one if yis will have me... Not quite 50 posts but a member since 2007, I'm just really shy! :D

Thanks for letting me in :)
I'm actually a different person to OHCARRION..
I guess the fpl league has brought a few lurkers out of the woodwork.

will send my entry money this week.
Thanks,
Paul

£10 paid

Hi,

I havent received bank details via PM as of yet?

Sent £35 for entry into the £10 & £25 Leagues to the account number provided
Reference P Foulder FPL Blonde

Hi, I'd like to join the £25 and £50 leagues if possible! PM me details please.

Hi I think I sent to everybody (!!!) ((if I didn't pls pm me today and I'll send today) that I lost to last year. I get progressively worse every year if anybody wants to bet with the handicaps being point differences from last year then pm me. Just want a fair bet, no sharks starting at even points etc.

Cheers, league codes sent.

I am sure i have sent them mate.
Let me try again!

Done.

I think I am up to date, but i have been pretty busy of late, so am a little slow. Sorry.

what you score last year?
can do small beer bet based on difference between us last year me -15 points at evens if you want

i am say me -15 as last year was a learning experience and i hope i am much better this year

dont want to do much 10/20 quid is enough to keep me keen

Joined :)

dear greg,

have you got a list of who has join which league so we cheats can work out where the best chance of finishing close to the money is?

No, sorry.
Just pick your leagues at your price bracket and enjoy.

Where do the sharks sit in the poker room, £1/£2 or £10/£20?
Same principle :)

If anyone wants to discuss players, tactics, formations, etc, etc here, please do.
I shall do my best to explain, guide, advise.

in for £100 and £50

My dad has spotted that I am in the £10 league and has asked to join.

He is far from a shark, he has never ranked inside the top 20K but has been in the top 100K in the last 3 years. He is just looking for a sweat.

Can he join?

In thanks! Gl all!

Blonde poker people only, sorry.
Get him to register on Blonde, join the free league and he can play next season

Had a couple of requests like this and have consistently said no.

OK, no worries.

i normally look at who is sat on which table then work out where the best seat is then work out if i can afford to sit at the table before going to the bar and crying into my beer

claypole has entered.

If people were not tempted by added money or could not be sure of the value this competition represented, I am sure there are no doubts now.

Just realised the season starts a week earlier than i thought and in my emails i put the wrong deadline. Please note the first gameweek ends at 11:45am on Saturday 8th August.

The deadline for entries is 6pm on Friday 7th August.

I'm in for the £10 one Greg :)up

Pm details please.

£10 paid by bank transfer from GrahamC

Is this the Sky Fantasy football?

Wash your mouth out :)
No, it's FPL

Ok, question and decision time folks...

The £100 league only has 4 runners so far. We may get a few late entrants and take it up to 6 or more, so we can pay 2 prizes. With 4 runners, it will be winner takes all.

Dazzler and I have had requests to join the £100 league from some non blondes but so far we have not allowed it. What are the thoughts on making the £100 an open event? A couple of people from 2+2 should join if we allow it.

We could cancel the £100 and allow those players already entered to select a new league.

If you know people that are dithering on entering and they will want into the £100 then please chivvy them along.

Thoughts please...

 ;ashamed;

Okay I'm in for whatever gets more than 10 runners.

Never played fantasy football before but am going to be doing it this season cos my two boys want to do it (we're going to do a league between the 3 of us). What site are you using please? Site we are going to use is www.fantasy.premierleague.com. If it is the same as yours then I will enter the £10 league too.

Yes. Its awesome fun and very addictive.
Pm coming.

In for £10 and £25

think the 4 of you in the £100 league should chat amongst yourself if you want to accept 2+2 and others
i would have no problem with that, wouldnt be keen on them entering the fun league or the smaller leagues where
the fun managers are playing

£10 & £25 plz

Fwiw I'm totally in favour of making the £100 an Open event, otherwise we're not going to get the numbers.

In for the £10 if someone can send me bank details.

Prob just enter the freebie one for fun but could be tempted to donate a tenner...

Ok, I'll donate to the £10 game.

Put me in for the £25 league please, not decided which of the 10 or 50 I'll play yet

Pm's sent to all those posted recently.

On the £100, Nig Dawg said he would enter that one and have pm'd bank details to him, so that would make 5.

sent £95 on stars from Mt.Spewmore for £50 + £25 classic leagues and H2H league

Do we have a rough number how many people in leagues without me counting myself ha, gonna enter one or two this week depending

There is 10 in the £50, 4 (soon to be 5) in the £100.

If any of the players in the £100 have a problem with making it an Open event, can they let me know as soon as possible please? I'm going onto 2+2 to drum up numbers.

I'm interested in the £10 & £25 league.

Could you pm me the details if I'm eligible (Very much a lurker these days...)

the more the merrier

Sent £35 from chumpster124 for the £10 and £25 leagues.

One more entry for the hundred today. Thats 5 now!

I have also sent pm's to those that have sent monies today.

Its a steady trickle, which is good. But please please do not give me last minute admin headaches. I would really appreciate funds as soon as possible if you do want to enter. If i have sent your codes out then be sure to get entered into the league before kick off at 11:30am on Saturday 8th May.

Cheers,

Greg

i'll sort out money next time I go online banking if I can find that wee calculator thingymajig

If the hundred is an open league does that mean we can still enter 2 of remaining 3 classic leagues? If yes, I'll go for the £25. If not, I'll drop out of £100 league and just enter the 25 & 50 if that's ok?

Cheers

Ok, quick decision made on this.

The £100 league is now 'open'. We need to boost numbers and we do reserve the right to refuse entry though under certain circumstances.  The Dazzler has got a couple of punters from 2+2 to enter to boost numbers. They are poker players and gamblers, NOT fpl sharks.

This means that anyone that has entered the £100, can choose to enter 1 further league, upon payment of their entry, if they want to.  The Dazzler has said he will just stay in the 2 leagues though (50 & 100).

Anyone who is not happy with that decision, please let me know and I would be happy to send back their entry or allow them to move leagues.

I imagine most people will just stay where they are and can't imagine many of the 5 X £100 pool will want to join further leagues.

Thanks for the reply. Don't want this to come across as angling or anything - just really didn't think about field size when I joined, with likely 'winner takes all'. So if option is there for 1 extra league, I'd be happy to keep donating to The Dazzler in the £100.

Anyway - I know you've now said it's cool but I'll leave it a while before I join the £25 to see if any objections here first.

In for the £25, £50 and H2H. Sent via bank transfer.

can steve warburton join this? he doesn't have blonde account but is a poker player

Only the £100 as that is open to punters. The other leagues are blondes only.

If you get him to send to me for the £100 on Stars then fine.

I'm one of the punters from 2+2 brought in for the £100 open league.

Just thought I would register and say Hi, I know a few people from the forum already, gl

Welcome THEGOATIAN from 2+2.
It's a nice community here, you might like it :)

yeh sorry that's the one i meant

Even though im not baller enough i do think having an open £100 is a good idea for the forum, this competition is run so well and if it can add a few member's that may stick around and punt in some of the other competitions it all add's to the fun.

Just don't enter if then met

i was going to PM the dazzler but i will ask here

what resources are best to use to analyse value players/strategies etc etc?

maybe people don't want to share, but is there a fantasy analysis industry developing in the UK as there is in the US?

Fantasy Football Scout is the best site out there;
http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/
You can just use the free stuff site but if you pay £12.50, you get all the stats. And there is a huge amount of them.
There was some Australian guy who wrote and article on there last year about how he finished in the top 1K players (out of 3 milion) without ever having watched a football match in his life. He didn't know who the players were or even the teams names when he started. He just followed the numbers.

This is also this blog by the 2nd ranked player in the World Hall of Fame, Nick Cummings, aka Triggerlips;
https://www.triggerlips.com/

Also if anybody wants to ask any questions on any players here, I'll give my opinion.
Of course people never do. At the start of every season, people hide their team from others in the mistaken belief that it's awesome, when it's most probably utterly terrible.

Here's one tip.
If you don't have Rooney, your team is terrible.
Seriously. He's the 1st player every decent player has in his team this season. It's universally accepted.
Start with him and build from there.

ok will ask some stupid questions

you are paying £7m for a top defender from say Arsenal/Chelsea that in previous years would be 150-175 points worth if they stay fit

by having one of these, if not two, you are compromising quality point scoring somewhere else in the team

do people tend to over-pick these top defenders when they don't need to? you can player select by spotting parsimonious defences (southampton last year), pick £5m defenders and save yourself a few million for the front seven?

is there any work yet on the correct statategies and weeks to play all your subs? extra captain points etc?

how do you deal with squad rotation in the top six teams?

would you apply a tiebreaker when considering two similar players towarda a team that is not in europe compared to a team in europe come october?

Welcome Christianu.

Tell us about yourself. Poker, football, otherwise.

Good luck this season. The Dazzler has been the man to beat the last two years.


Cheers

Another hero has just sent me £100 for the big league. I think that's 8 now with promises of more.

Like most poker questions, it depends.
Who are you talking about?
In general, don't pick players that get rotated. Ivanovic/Terry/Hazard played every minute of every game. Rooney will play every game, more or less. Most players from lesser teams/promoted teams won't be rotated.
Virtually all Man City players will be risky, rotation wise. Someone like Oscar is in and out. Walcott and Giroud are playing for 1 place. I'm not saying never have these players, but be wary and don't have too many.


The Triple Captain + Play Alll your Bench will be best used in a double gameweek somewhere late in the season. I guess they are worth 10-15 points each. All decent players will play it at the same time on the same players. The captain one will be played on Aguero in a DGW or Hazard in a DGW. It'll be irrelevant.
The Alll OUt Attack, meh. I'd value this chip at ~2 points. It could actually cost you points! I'd use it some week when you have injuries suspensions in defence. I may never use it and not care!


If you knew before the season that Terry @ £7m would score 177 points and play every game, like he did last season, you'd put him in without another thought.
In general you don't want to be wasting transfers on defenders. If you can get a 'fire and forget' defender you can play every week, that's great. Whether you want two x £7m defenders is a asset distribution question.
It depends!

ok

as i am only in the free league you can critically appraise please?

Schmeichel       Goalkeeper    0.0    0    83    SUN (H)

Ivanovic       Defender    0.0    0    179    SWA (H)
Mertesacker       Defender    0.0    0    121    WHU (H)
Huth       Defender    0.0    0    55    SUN (H)

Ritchie       Midfielder    0.0    0    0    AVL (H)
Henderson       Midfielder    0.0    0    162    STK (A)
Hazard    Vice-captain    Midfielder    0.0    0    233    SWA (H)
Depay       Midfielder    0.0    0    0    TOT (H)

benteke       Forward    0.0    0    127    STK (A)
Berahino       Forward    0.0    0    148    MCI (H)
Rooney    Captain    Forward    0.0    0    132    TOT (H)

Butland       Goalkeeper    0.0    0    15    LIV (H)
Schneiderlin    Midfielder    0.0    0    90    TOT (H)
Fonte       Defender    0.0    0    139    NEW (A)
Ward       Defender    0.0    0    90    NOR (A)

Garbage :)
Ah not really. But there is way too much strength in depth there.
You need to be picking a strong XI and then base price sub keeper and outfield subs. Get your money on the pitch. You don't want to be rotating yourself, you'll leave too much money on the bench.
So rather than have Schneiderlin @ £5.5m as a 1st sub, you should have his former partner Wanyama @ £4.5m. They are both defensive midfielders and aren't going to score too heavy but you can re-invest that extra £1m.
Stuff like that.

thanks thats useful

Actually yeah, apart from that Schneids one, it's a decent effort.
You do want base price subs, £4m defenders and £4.5m mids but you want them all playing.
And FPL have been clever with the pricing this year and it's hard to find playing £4m defenders. Hopefully some will emerge as the season progresses.
Wanyama and Fletcher are both nailed on as £4.5m mids, there will be others too.

In for the tenner if there's still space

yep i have been scouring some local articles

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-player-enjoyed-most-9787916

i was wondering why nathan baker had been picked by lots of managers and alighted on the linked article.

people like micah richards, ciaran clark etc look better for bench fillers? hutton is a walking disciplinary record unfortunately

can do that for west brom etc.

Of course. Pm coming

grrr i am in 2 minds with rooney he was first guy on my list last year but he was terrible
and got dropped obviously later than i should of and by that time the costa aguero ships had sailed

i have rooney in my line up though

i have spent 99 million but could swap kane in for benteke for the 1 million

on bench i have
krul 4.5 million
barry 4.5 million
lescott 5 million
morgan 4.5 million


should/could i save more on bench and the million i havent spent should i spend on the bench if i like the players in my starting line up?

On about draft 200.

 Currently rocking a Kane, Roo, Bentekkers front line.

KING KANE.

Never been out of my team.

Dazzler - thoughts on the school of thought this season that suggests breaking the mould and spending more money on defence as that is where the value is? 4.5 defenders are so last year. My defence currently reads:-

Cedric
Azpi
Koscielny
Jones
Rose

Play 442 most weeks, rotating two cheaper strikers around Kane and a stellar midfield 4.

I currently do not have Rooney and he is 80-90% not going to make my team. Would mean a complete change of plans. Dreading the anti-sweat already mind you.

It depends!
This year I think it's going to be very difficult, probably impossible, to get a £4m goalkeeper, 2 x £4m defenders and a £4.5m mid that all play regularly.
That's ideally what you want so you can get all your money on the pitch in your first XI.
In the absence of that, you'll need to spend a little extra on your bench but the principle remains, you want that figure to be as low as possible.
You're £2m over already. That's not terrible but I wouldn't want to be making that £3m.
I'd probably look to invest the £1m in the starting XI.
There is a lot of merit in holding maybe £0.5m back in case you want to do a like for like transfer, say Ozil (£8.5m) -> Depay (£8.5m) but you can't coz the one you want to buy has gone up by £0.1m or yours has dropped £0.1m.
The extra cash in the bank means you can negate that problem.  
Who is your other keeper? Are you rotating 2 x £4.5m?
I guess the reason you have Barry as your £4.5m mid instead of Wanyama is coz you already have the max Southampton players? :)

Front line too big = midfield and defence too weak.
Too hot, put in more cold water. Too cold, put in more hot water. Too hot, put in more.......etc, etc :)

King Kane has never been in my team. Too expensive and regression imminent. Best of luck with him though!
My thoughts on defence being where the value is?
Defence is always where the value is. The top defenders and keepers always get more than 20 points/£1m spent. And that drops as you move into midfield and drops further when you move up front.
Value is one thing, an important thing. But points is another, a more important thing.
The most points come from forwards, next is mids, next is defenders, next is keepers. In direct contrast to where the value is.
The same as every season.
Every single season the best formation has been 3-4-3. This season will be no different.
There might be a couple of weeks where playing 4-3-3 or 5-4-1 or whatever might be best. But 3-4-3 will be king. Always!

I actually started last year with a 3-5-2.
I soon reverted back to 3-4-3.

Already changed it.

Team is more balanced now.

Reckon i am settled now.

Going 3-4-3 with very budget defence.


On your budget challenge, i have hennessy, baker, Wanyama as perm bench warmers and will rotate two 4.5m defs. Thats about as good as you can do. Need to see if any budget defenders start regularly and bring them in.

Have now spent 26m on front line

yeah plan is to play that goalie from Leicester what he loses in goals he makes up for with saves
yeah I am hoping for a lot of goals from saints so going to use my 3 on there creatives and goals
rather than there defence which isn't going to be as strong this year wanyama will be scoring bonus points but wont be getting the point assist
other saints will get and those guys are in my starting I think barry will be a regular starter this season

27 million for me at present with option for another 1 million if I bring kane in

Atually I mentioned Triggerlips before.
He is the 2nd ranked player in the Fantasy Football Scout Hall of Fame and he's basically one of the best players in the world.
Anyway he wrote an article on team balance. He's a 3-4-3 advocate. He also pre allocates his budget to the positions.

https://www.triggerlips.com/index.php/team-structure/
  
  9m on keepers
  24m on defenders
  37.5m on midfielders
  29.5m on strikers

If you stick to that or close to it, you should be okay.

Hi Guys,

Have you got any updated numbers on how many runners in each section?

I will be entering - just waiting on numbers.

Cheers and thanks for running it

lost my little calc I need for bank transfers but just read I can pokerstars transfer just going to send £30 on that as soon as I install it
should be in your account in next 10-15 minutes


edit funds shipped through pokerstars

What's up guys, I've also crossed over from the 2+2 leagues. Thanks for having me and best of luck! :)

This is Curryboy from 2+2, I take it?
Welcome.
Tell us about yourself! :)
And feel free to partake in our FPL discussion. You've a decent record yourself so your input would be valued.

10 in hundred
25 in 10
20 in h2h
15 in 25
12 in 50

Loads more to come tho.

Good luck!

And there is £10 added to the Free league. For the highest placed finisher that doesn't win a cash prize elsewhere.
£25 added to the £25 league. That'll be used in the Cup.
And £50 added to the £50 league. That'll be used in the Cup.

what do people think or schnederlin for 5.5 million

he could be huge or he could be a flop but the price seems very reasonable if he has a good run in team

Don't buy defensive midfielders. I know he can get forward but nah.
I think he may get rested/rotated a little with Schweinie, Carrick and Blind.
You just can't stop buying Southampton players. He's gone Iron, let it go.

Not for me, Clive.

its ok I dropped lescott and brought in a 4.5 defender with the 1 million I had left in bank dropping morgan gives
me the choise of 3 7 million mids I like the look of

Targett the only viable £4 million defender atm (maybe only first couple of games)?

Expecting to see Hazard, Hendo, Silva in lots of teams?

I like target but really is a short term option will start less than 50% of are games all season if ryan stays fit

Will everyone stop talking up the players I have already selected please.

Think Bertrand is meant to be back sooner than expected too, as The Dazzler said earlier, avoiding the 4m defenders is he best option until any emerge. Even bench warmers need to play.

I've got the first two in my current team but haven't considered Silva at all due to fixtures and I also think Sterling at 1m less might well prove the better pick. It's interesting that the main reason people are citing to play their wildcard in GW4 or 5 is to get Aguero in. That should be doable with two free transfers I think. If I play mine then it'll be with the intention to get two city attacking players in as they're the best attacking team in the league and their fixtures warrant it it my opinion.

Hi saw the post on 2+2 but long time blonde member here (although dont post much).

Know Ironside very well, he has nearly driven me to chop my own ears off over the years with his singing :)

I would like to play the £100 league please if its still open.  Would like to send via stars could I get a PM on the details can I ask is it rake free?

hey there stranger you still playing at the G? i hope to get back as soon as i can stay awake long enough to drive hme after

gk 9.0
def 26.0
mid 38
att 27


think mine is pretty close

Pm sent

Yup, go the Aqueducts.

I'm busy researching my team right now.

Nearly forgot about this, funds sent on Stars.

would you consider alex oxlade-chamberlain as a 4th midfielder at £6m

could have a big season and can almost play as a second striker, but whether he plays consistently is the issue?

Too much of a rotation risk. You really need minutes on the pitch. However, if walcott picks up another injury and two of cazorla, ozil, welbeck or ramsay does, he will get additional game time but he will be limited.

I think walcott has a big season ahead. Looks to be fit now, had a season off and wenger loves him, so i do see he could be playing most weeks, either wide and behind giroud or through the middle. He will be certainly ahead of welbeck and the ox.

Sent £10 via Bank Transfer.

Well there is certainly a rotation risk.
Ox is an interesting one. I'm pretty sure I looked at him last year and he had played a part in every prem game until he got injured. And I think he was the only Arsenal player that had at that point.
Of course Walcott wasn't fit at that point and that might be why Ox got all the gametime but it's possible Ox is first choice on the right. Giroud seems 1st choice up front (plus another striker might be on the way) and Ozil is 1st choice behind the striker.
So it's possible Walcott is 2nd choice for 3 positions.
Walcott is certainly explosive when he plays but I can't see guaranteed playing time.
They are both a no from me.

Just posting to say hi. Joined the £100 league after seeing Dazzler's 2p2 post. Good luck all!

Run for the hills lads, this fella finished 7th in the world last year! :)

Sent PM and Stars money this afternoon for entry into £100 and £10 leagues, just awaiting the codes now.  Anyone got the prize breakdown?

Greg will send you the codes when he confirms receipt.
The prizes will depend on the final prize pool and entries are still coming in.

Meh, the guy who won it two seasons ago 'played' his wildcard last season and forgot to activate it, costing himself dozens of points.

If anybody is looking to join any other free leagues, there is this one;

2755-151067

The prize fund is;
1st place: £550 GUKPT seat
2nd place: £220 25/25 seat
3rd place: £120 Goliath seat
4th place: £55 GUKPT satellite token
5th place: £22 25/25 satellite token
6th place: £22 25/25 satellite token
7th place: £22 25/25 satellite token
8th place: £11 GUKPT satellite token
9th place: £11 GUKPT satellite token
10th place: £11 GUKPT satellite token

Q1 winner: £55 GUKPT satellite token
Q2 winner: £55 GUKPT satellite token
Q3 winner: £55 GUKPT satellite token

I'll join that mate, who is running it and do we have to register our team names somewhere (in case we bink a prize to claim it)

The following is all in the forum once you enter the league. I don't know anything about it, I'm just finding free entry leagues for a cheapskate mate of mine!


*All players must have a Grosvenor Poker account to qualify for these prizes. Please email support@grosvenorcasinos.com to collect your prize, giving your poker username.
*Anyone found having multiple teams will be kicked out.
1. This Promotion is valid for existing Grosvenor Casinos poker customers only
2. There is no cash or other alternative to the stated or awarded prizes in whole or in part. The prizes are not transferable
3. By participating in this Promotion you agree to a) being contacted by the Promoter in relation to the Promotion and b) the Promoter publicizing details of the win together with the winner’s name and location to the media (including social media) and/or making the winner’s name and location available on request
4. This offer is limited to over 18s only
5. The Promoter is the sole arbiter of this Promotion and its decision is final and binding. No correspondence will be entered into. The Promoter is Rank Digital Gaming (Alderney), c/o 4C Leisure Island Business Centre, Ocean Village, Gibraltar
6. Players must hold an active Grosvenor Poker account to claim any prize
7. Players may only enter one team in the league. Any player found with multiple teams will be removed from the league
Good luck!

Yes very very good find!  I don't have a G poker account so I wont bother but top quality searching.  Does seem a little open to abuse that promo.

IRONSIDE want a who finishes higher in the free league side bet lets say £20?  I need repayment for years of abuse on my ears.

Cheers Daz!

Complete noob but will flick in a tenner.

In for the £25, send me bank details please

Been a ridiculous day today so massively behind.
I think all those that have paid will have codes and those interested have the details.

24 hours to go until this closes so get your money to me and teams in and registered ASAP to avoid dissapointment

Now registered in the £100, the £10 and the freebie one.

Team name Bank Of Sterling

Good luck all (well no don't really mean that do I)

Some free to enter leagues for you guys that have empty league spaces (you can enter 15 leagues).
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If you set your club to Chelsea they are apparently giving out some decent prizes.

Fine if youre not a fan of anyone else in PL.

http://www.chelseafc.com/content/cfc...-football.html
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Some of these might only be open to Iriish residents as I got them from an Irish site.

Here is the Stoke City team league.
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/my-leagues/178715/standings/

How much is the blonde league? Where do I send money?

Pm sent.

Sent £95 on Stars for £50/£20/£20 H2H leagues, don't think I can pm cos of post count.

Greg will send you the codes in the morning (or when he's back on).
Best of luck :)

Superjez £20 quid match bet on

I wish the season would start so that I can stop tinkering with my team.

Until I use my wildcard in gameweek three that is..

Will send codes later after 7 for monies sent today.

I seem to change my team every time Sky Sports News runs a story!

in for the £10 league, just burning the money but happy to play along

in for h2h and £25

will flick in the H2H

sent 30

I've gone far to strong in midfield.  I don't think i can drop anybody though, i've fallen in love with my hand.

Stick it up, we'll have a look.

same here. on fixtures alone im happy.  But if it goes wrong I'll be using a wildcard within the first 6 weeks

If anyone is playing Ultimate FPL and wants a £10/£20 match bet then let me know. Preferably not the new £100 sharks.

I have never played it before so don't really know what to expect.

I'm in the same boat as you, never played ultimate before, up for a £10 or £20 bet, your choice.

i was thinking about the ultimate but left it too late i think as i am off out tonight
if i get time to look at it before i goto bed i will post details on here for a match bet of £10

In for the £10 league.

i want to join 50/25/20 leagues, who do i send money to on stars and can somebody pm me the league codes?

£20 booked. Join the league so can keep an eye on your team please.

Ultimate FPL league here code 693-2342. All welcome, just for japes.

Pm sent.

Can you pm me aswell please.

sen 95 to thecharge

Karaoke?

Guys, i havent responded since 2pm.
Crisis at home. Gotta to deal with it!

Dazzler will hopefully take over until later tonight.

I think everyone who has already sent money until 6:30pm tonight has their codes.

If you need a code ask the dazzler or post itt.

You must have sent money though before KO at 11:30am tomorrow.

Got cash from pleno 95 and 10 from slowhands on stars.

45 received from FENKRARARA

POST WHO YOU ARE

Yeah, I got them.
I'll send the names to you now.

pls send codes dazzler, got to go out

Sent.
GL!

none dad dad dancing tonight

I've joined that league too, hope that's ok. Played last year, didn't pull up any trees (annoyingly doesn't show where I finished on Gameweek History) happy to do a £10 or £20 bet against both if interested.

anybody want to do hu bets with last years points as handicaps? last chance!

I'm one of the new £100 players and not looking for any action, but have joined the league above since it's just for fun. Team name The Silkworms. I played it last year and came around 200th I think, but not sure exactly as like you say season history doesn't appear. I think the reason for this might be that they explicitly allow multiple entries per player in their terms and conditions, and if you get people with multiple accounts, I guess season history linked to a certain account becomes a bit meaningless, whereas obviously it's a lot more meaningful in regular FPL where each player is only allowed one account.

After seeing the rule about multiple entries, I did consider entering more than one account this year to increase my chances of a £25k bink, but ultimately I'm sure it's still a massively -EV proposition when you compare number of entrants to overall prize money. I wish they had a bit more of a sensible prize structure, rather than £25k for first and nothing for second.

By the way, if anyone does want to join an Ultimate FPL money league, there's a $50 one over on 2p2. Has ten runners so far including myself. I've no idea how strong it is - quite a few new-ish posters so could well be filled with sharks.

Edit: just noticed a couple of you are already in it :)

Right, back in the room!

A real flurry of last minute larry's today

I will be tinkering with my team until about 11:30pm then golfing from 8am so anymore entries will need to post itt and hope dazzler is around to send codes or pm him.

I had wanted to close this off tonight at midnight please.

Anyone sending money after that runs the risk of missing out.

Good luck all.

Cool, I've joined the league.  £20 booked against both.

Yup £20 booked.

Switched to a 352. My bench cost the absolute minimum. 4.0, 4.0' 4.0', 4.5.

A tactic a few people tried last year was to go for the monthly £1k prize my entering a new team every month and just setting it up for a four week run. I didn't even realise that was possible!

Sheer folly. :)

Sounds pretty risky alright.
I think Targett + S Taylor might play a couple of games @£4m but will be out soon. Hennessy might be starting as a £4m keeper. And I don't know if there is any £4.5m striker?
So it's great keeping the cost of the bench down but if none of them play, you're going to be in serious trouble sooner or later.

My first eleven are pretty nailed on.

4m defenders rotate well, striker is a dead rubber and dont need him

Keeper is a stick on starter

Junior Senior, the code you sent me for £10 game doesn't seem to be working. Might be me.

It was me.

That's an interesting idea which hadn't crossed my mind. Will definitely give it a go in the big double gameweek months late in the season.

In a bit late for free league as not even picked a team yet! Don't worry, doubt i'll even look at it again though :)

Made 6 transfers in the last half hour, tinker, tinker.

Resisting the urge.  I have Sakho up front and Hoolahan on the bench, considering swapping them and going for a 3-5-2 this week purely as I can't see WH scoring against the Mighty Arsenal but I'm not sure.  Also think Norwich will do better than WH but I just don't know....

Change made and I'm ready for the new season. 

Right, pens down. Hand up your sheets.

IT BEGINS!

I assume we are locked in now as I am locked out the site

yes,  deadline was 1145

Rooney made it. Good luck all.

u pick any saints I took pellets mane and cedric in the end

MAHREZ

Congrats to anyone who picked him. He was in a few of my late drafts but opted for four more expensive midfielders instead.

I'll take some solace in the fact that I picked him for my Ultimate FPL team :)

i have no idea who mahrez is apart from he scored 2 goals

Thank goodness I made a late decision to dump Courtois from my team ;)

A lot of ppl seem to have taken him as well, which is nice.

Looks like a bad start however for everyone who plumped for the very safe option of captaining Hazard, like I did :/

Could still change I guess.

pelle will prove to be a wish choice in captain i am positive

Did you get three wishes or just the one?

i hate the new spell check on this win 10 google browser

Can we get the prize breakdowns for the leagues please

Yup, should have them soon. They will be posted in the forum of each of the leagues as well as on here.

bugger i need sterling to get sent off tomorrow to win my H2H match
though i had a chance untill pelle's booking cost me 4 points (i think)

i am surprised sterling is the only city player many people have gone for

There will be a slight delay as the admin will be trickier this season with having more leagues. Also, unfortunately one of our league codes was accidentally shared with people outside of our paying punters so there are one or two rogues in that need to be discounted. It was a genuine mistake by someone that was running other leagues and he got his codes muddled.

I will be tallying up payments against entrants this week. I will do what i can to do it quickly but got a lot on this week.

Thanks.

I have Sterling as my only City player. Would prefer Silva but needed the extra £1m. The fact that they have Chelsea in their second fixture probably put some people off too (although if Chelsea's performance yesterday is anything to go by...)

Lol, why do people do that?
Do they seriously think we won't notice?
I'm sure there is no real rush on it Greg, take your time mate.


I'd prefer Sterling over Silva, even at the same price. Silva is a lovely player to watch but I can see Sterling having a big season.

dazzler i think in this case the guy sending out the codes got it mixed up and the guys joining thought they were entering a different league

The error was a genuine mistake, nothing more. The chap probably hasnt realised he is in some random league he has no idea about. I have administered him out now anyway. I think from a quick glance he was only in the free league and all other paid entrants seem present and correct.

wont be that big after his -4 points for red tomorrow and then the 3 game ban
he will have to earn his place back in the team

You get 1 point for playing and you get -3 for a red card so the worst score a midfielder can get is -2 points (a defender could get worse).

Pelles booking cost you 6 points if you captained him. (-1 x 2) for the yellow and (-2 x 2) for the bonus points he was on, that he then lost.
 

yeah though he was on 1 bonus point so only cost me 4 points 6 points is annoying lol

i thought it was more for a red card can you lose points for con seeding a penalty

-2 points for sterling is enough to get me the win though my 38 points would of been enough to
beat most people this week in the H2H but thems the luck of the draw in H2H

No, you don't lose points for conceding a penalty.
But my mistake, you can get lower than -2.
You lose -2 points if you miss a penalty. And you lose -2 if you score an own goal.
Jon Walters missed a penalty and scored 2 own goals a couple of years ago so a total -4 score. That's the lowest FPL score ever to date so Sterling could do that I guess :)

I am awaiting Ironside using his triple captain chip and  that player missing a penalty, scoring an own goal then getting so pissed off he punches somebody and gets sent off.

In case you thought you had a tough one,someone out there used their Triple Captain option on Courtois

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMCsSIlWsAE29km.jpg)

Anyone who used a chip first week is a fish anyway lets face it, at least they got a lol out of that one.

any sign of sterling getting sent off yet?

 

This guy isn't a fish and he used his All Out Attack. A pretty useless chip though.
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/5281/history/


No but he missed a sitter coz he's a headless chicken in front of goal.

One of the reasons I prefer Silva:)

My H2H opponent on 2p2 seems to have used the bench boost chip which I don't understand. Could either be a misclick or some bug I guess. I should hold on for the win unless Lescott scores in the second half...

Yeah saw that but thought it was limited to iOS app. When I view my own team on the iOS app I see bench boost. My opponent's team is the only one I've seen with it on the main website. Looking like it shouldn't matter either way (cue Lescott consolation goal).

Joe Gomez saved me this week, even though he looked really shaky all game.

Dear Geniuses,

Rate my team!

Structural deficiencies? Areas for quick wins? Would you trade one player for another similar one because reasons?

Any help appreciated:

(http://i.imgur.com/ij8HI3j.jpg)

Regardless of what his previous scores have been (and they are impressive) that move, was a fish move.

It's not bad! (IMO)  Most of them are in my squad or very close to it though, so I would say that. The only problem is that none of them got off to a flyer, so you may find them losing some value in the first few gameweeks unless they hit form pretty quickly.

But at least they're playing. The fact that you only had one player that didn't start, and he was a GK(!), means you don't need to spank your WC early-doors either.

I disagree. The AOA chip isn't going to be worth much. I can see myself using it for either a defensive injury crisis or not bothering to use it at all. This guy has decided to build a team specifically designed for it (i.e. 8 decent attacking options and a very cheap defence), and he'll adjust it this week. Sure, it didn't work out as the players disappointed, but all 8 of them could have conceivably scored well. Given that the chip isn't worth much, I think the only time it would definitely be a mistake to use it would be when you are actually benching a decent defensive option as a result, or doing something stupid like playing your 4.5m defensive mid as your 8th attacker.

Using any other chip in GW1 was definitely a huge mistake though.

Mulhuzz,

You spent a lot on your front line and not enough on hour midfield. You probably need to balance that up. Defence is ok, although you could free up some cash by downgrading mertsacker for a 4.5m defender and use the cash in midfield.

Its not bad really.

+1 to team looking perfectly fine. I'd just hold the transfer and re-evaluate next week with more information. I definitely wouldn't wildcard. Both GKs played though right? It's defender Taylor who didn't.

If you do make a transfer this week, you could do Giroud to Sakho, who has two very nice fixtures coming up. This would free up some cash for Rooney -> Aguero next week if you decide that's what you want.

Yep. you're right about the GKs.

One thing that doesn't show, and is a common mistake in people's initial teams, is that they don't have any £ in the bank to trade up one of their sh!tters (in one transfer) if required. Most people are so obsessed with spending every penny that they don't appreciate that spotting/buying in the bargains is a crucial element in this game.

But how can it be a good tactic to play it when you've little idea who is going to start and zero idea who is in form (pre-season friendlies/europa league seems to count for 0)?

How can he possibly justify playing it when he has nearly 40 more gameweeks in which he could have used it more advantageously...?

I'm in agreement with Silk. It's virtually worthless that chip.
I would guess it's worth possibly 2 points? It could possibly cost you points when you play it.
It was a decent use of it, quite clever actually. Certainly not a fish move. Like Silk says, I have no plans for that chip and may never use it. At least he planned something for it and it was a fairly aggressive move.
How can he justify it? Coz as Silk said, he specifically planned to play it and will immediately readjust his team.
Basically the best time to use it is when your team is set up for it or when you have a defensive crisis.
You may never have a defensive crisis that this chip specifically addresses.
You will however have 2 wildcards where you can set up the team with 8 attacking players which is perfect for this chip. The other time that is akin to a wildcard is GW1. This is what he chose.



It is a valid option leaving money in the bank for the purpose you have described.
But I certainly wouldn't consider it a mistake not doing it. Most of the top players do not do it.

Sorry, I'm not picking an argument, I just don't agree with you on either point :(

Thanks for the posts Dazzler (especially the one above).  On reflection I see your (and silkworms) point and what you mean about GW 1 for this chip.  Cheers for that I learned a bit from your post.

Hi Everyone,

A record breaking year this year for the Blonde FPL. Across the paid leagues we had a total of 56 entries, which is a few up on last year and we smashed the amount collected!

There is a total of £3,465 in prizes to be paid out across all leagues and with us having more leagues this year, it should see a larger variety of prize winners.

We will publish the prizes for each league soon, as The Dazzler and I are just working it out before publishing.  Tom will also publish details of the Cup formats this year for the added money.

If anyone has any last minute thoughts on prize distribution, please post but its likely there will be roughly 10-15% of each league field paid out. We could go flatter and get closer to 20% which will probably give an extra place in each league but reduce the size of the top prize.

Good luck for the rest of the season!

Greg

I would prefer more places paid, it gives more people a sweat. That being said I wouldn't go to 20%,  about 15% sounds good to me.

Yeah we are in that ball park. Seems fair.

Hey no worries Dazzler, didn't come across that way anyway. All views/opinions are welcome!

I'd prefer a flatter payout TBH.

Sorry for the delay on this lads.
I think this is all correct regards payouts. Cup details still to come.
These figures aren't cast in stone. If I've got my maths wrong anywhere, or if anybody thinks there should be tweaks anywhere, let us know.

Free League: £10 added.
1) £10 to highest placed team that does not win a cash prize elsewhere.


£10 league: £340 (£10 x 34)
1) £120
2) £85
3) £50
4) £30
5) £25
Cup Winner: £20, runnerup £10

£20 H2H: £500 (£20 x 25)
1) £140
2) £120
3) £80
4) £60
Playoff winner £60, runnerup £40

£25 league: £675 (£25 x 26) + £25 added
1) £230
2) £170
3) £120
4) £80
Europa League winner £50, runner up £25

£50 league: £900 (£50 x 17) + £50 added
1) £375
2) £225
3) £150
Champions League winner £100, runnerup £50

£100 league: £1100 (£100 x 11)
1) £650
2) £350
3) £100

there are 26 teams in the £20 H2H i think

Can we make the £100 league just two prizes?  You are paying 27% of the field with three.  Also just money back is no fun and its the premier competition!

Well that one was right on the cut off. At 10 runners, it would be 2 places, at 11, I thought in the interest of flatter payouts all round, we'd give the money back spot.
Happy to put it to a vote?
I vote 3 spots, Jez votes 2.



The 26th player is just the 'average' score to get an even number of players. It would be interesting if 'he' made the money!

ah got you now

I'd probably rather just pay top three, seems a bit too flat that in my opinion.

I have no strong preference between 2 or 3 paid in the £100 league.

Ah here, you can't do that. It's 11 people, we can't have abstentions! :)

Hi guys, some advice needed. I am in process of making two transfers for this week. However, when I click confirm transfer I get this warning message popping up:

(http://s8.postimg.org/p4d9e8ptx/transfers.png)

It seems to be saying that if I make these transfers then I will be deducted 4 points. Yet I thought you got two free transfers per week? Have I misunderstood something?

Ignore the above... did not realise you only get one free transfer per week. My bad.

Money back for 3rd gets my vote, probably best I can hope for after my start!

I like the play of using the all out attack chip week 1, it's pretty unlikely it will be of any use to me as I always end up with a base price midfielder after an early wildcard.  However it's still early but I could see there being lots of value in the 7-8.5 million range in midfield this year and not so much in the 9 mill + strikers (aguero aside) so it could be possible to have a strong attacking squad.

how many people are going to get caught out with the friday kick off and the line ups having to be confirmed tonight rather than tomorrow morning

those last minute injuries and team news might cause some people problems

been studying quite hard and it feels like close to gto is having 4m spare a lot of the time :O


this year v different to almost any i think

Study harder

well you need to leave money (without doing transfers) for when chelsea/city are at home, but lots of weeks it seems having those city/chelsea players will be way worse than say having barkley/montero/payet etc

Sample size is a little small for making them assumptions. I think having Aguero/Hazard over 38 gameweeks will be better than trying to cherry pick them especially with player price changes. I do believe having some money in the bank is good but not as much as 4mil

Wildcard activated.  Am i the first?

Just about avoiding it.

Rooney to Aguero
Mane to Albrighton

Will have to do those tonight before the Aguero price increase. Watching briefs for Hazard and Kane for now.

Need a Benteke blank tonight or it has been a very poor start.

How often to price values of players move around?

This helps - http://www.fplstatistics.co.uk/

When a player reaches +100 - his price will rise by 0.1 at midnight that night.

When a player reaches -100 - his price will fall by 0.1 at midnight that night/

Price rises and falls are dictated by transfers in and out.

It is not an exact science as the algorithms behind price fluctuations are tweaked every year but this site tends to be accurate. Team value is a massive part of the game.

i need a benteke to hit headlines tonight

i have planned to swap aguero in for rooney
but was thinking of letting hazard go for an arsenal midfielder instead of the Leicester duo

Activated mine yesterday, I was going to lose too much value with Rooney, Walcott, Sinclair and Coates and miss the bandwagons.

Nightmare week for me.  I plan on overreacting and using my wildcard to change the team completely.

Done it too. Having Walcott in at the start was an absolute shocker

I've never seen such panic early season in all my years of playing this game.

just need aguero to pick up a little hammy strain for the next 8 days and the bandwagon will end.

Rooney and Memphis will destoy Newcastle... i hope.

Using my WC this week. Here is my provisional squad, I have not confirmed it yet. Any comments/suggestions to help a FF first-timer before I take the plunge?

(http://s21.postimg.org/5ol4fnxlj/FF_planning.png)

Just had friend tell me I am making a huge mistake playing WC early, and it should be saved till later to crush double game weeks. Is he correct in this, or is early WC use a valid strategy?

In previous seasons he'd've been right but this year one wildcard has to be used in first half of the season, the other in the second half unlike before where one lasted the whole season and one was only for the january transfer window. Basically there aren't going to be any double gameweeks in the first half of the season so you can't save it for them. Use it whenever you think it will benefit your team the most although it's worth remembering the transfer window hasn't shut yet!

The team looks pretty good btw though I'd be wary you only have one legitimate captain choice in Aguero, also looks like you've chased last weeks points a bit however those are the players that will be rising in price, can't buy people who are falling when on a wildcard!

Agree with both of nuros' posts. A lot of very good FPL players are wildcarding right now, and you will still have a late season wildcard, so ignore what your friend said.

As for the team itself, I agree that you need to squeeze an extra premium player in. Can you find the money for Cazorla to Sanchez somewhere? Your 8th most expensive attacking player is 5.8m, which is a lot of money to be benching every week. Your 7th most expensive is 7.1m, which is a huge amount for a player you might sometimes bench. Either get a base price player who you will bench every week and invest the money elsewhere, or if you prefer to rotate, it still needs to be a cheaper rotation than 7.1/5.8 imo.

Hey nuros and silkworm, thanks for advice! Really appreciated.

As regards the captain issue and premium player issue... I could replace replace Depay with a midfielder up to 6.6m and use excess money to have Rooney as a forward (Rooney is in my team now before the WC use). This gives me two potential captains and two premium players. It also keeps ManU represented in my squad (since they play my team NUFC tomorrow this seems necessary!). Then I would be rotating 5.8m and 6.6m players which is a little better, right?

There are not that many decent midfielders for 6.6m or less though. Barkley, Cabaye, Navas, Montero, Kouyate, Albrighton are all possible options - and some of these are substantially less than 6.6m which would give me a little spare in the bank for wiggle room in the future. What you reckon? All options seem to have issues (e.g. bad fixtures coming up, or over-representing one team in my squad, or may not play regularly, or not very good but just had good start to season etc).

You want as much budget as possible to be in your starting XI without having a bench that doesn't play. Your defense is perfectly set up like that with rotation between 4 cheap guys. At the minute though your attack isn';t set up for roation because it will always involve leaving too much money on the bench. If you want to rotate you need either 1 forward + 1 midfielder both at around 5.5m or two midfielders around the same price, who have complimentary fixtures. Alternatively you want 7 mid price or higher attackers and one 4.5m (or max 5m) player(who actually plays) just to warm the bench. Personally i'd use the extra funds to do cazorla to sanchez and downgrade one of ayew/payet/depay to a 4.5m mid, probably ayew as you have gomis aswell. OR alternatively gomis to a 5m forward who you'd be benching most weeks which would give you a tiny bit of squad flexibitlity regarding fixtures tho would take up an extra 0.5m, and involve having a striker on the bench most weeks which is usually not ideal. If you still have cash left could then consider upgrading one of your 4.5 defenders to a 5/5.5m player you'd play the vast majority of weeks alongside azpi.

New version, very different... tried to take your advice (and that of others) into account:

(http://s8.postimg.org/l9zoxff1h/FF_planning_3.png)

Remodelled defence, removing Azpi. Going for a two 'premium' and three cheap rotaters strategy in defence with Sagna and Shaw always starting and then choose one of the other three cheapies. Sagna gonna be a reg for next month due to Zabaletta being injured, so chose him over Kolarov to save a bit of money (even though Kolarov has been looking good getting forward so far).

Albrighton is my bench player (although he is gonna start I assume so still a decent sub if needed) and he is only 5.1m... so not TOO much money on the bench?

No Southampton representation. I could choose to have Mane instead of Depay, have Rooney up front instead of Sakho or Gomez, and replace Sanchez with a cheaper midfielder. This would mean I have both Southampton and ManU represented in my squad and have two premium forwards. But on other hand, I might have sacrificed my midfield too much to accommodate Rooney?

Atm I have two Swansea players. Ayew seems to play as a second striker but is ofc classed as a midfielder which I assume is a good thing? Don't know if it is good to have two attacking guys from same team, bit of a gamble?

I like it, a little light upfront maybe in that it will be hard for you to switch to another premium striker if necessary later on without 1 or more points hits and you definitely won't want to keep 2 west ham and 2 swansea players for the whole season but the fixtures, at least for this week, are good for both teams so could easily pay off! I'm also leaning towards Depay as manu coverage (if any) as he's very selfish and greedy which whilst being annoying to watch is v good for fantasy league! The price difference between him and rooney considering rooney's very underwhelming form is a massive factor too, gonna be horrible not having him home v Newcastle tho! At the same time everyone's getting rid of him for aguero so you can't put him in your team on wildcard, maybe in the future once/if his form improves and hopefully he'll be a few 100k cheaper by then!

ffs cant believe i didnt read about the wc having to be used in 1st half of season

guess there goes my plan of saving it

shall i use tonight or not

Yeah as regards the two players from West Ham and Swansea issue... my provisional plan is to replace either Sakho/Gomis with Diouf after this week. Pinnacle of a pretty impressive looking Stoke attack, especially with the Shaqiri signing... and a good fixture next GW. Seem a reasonable plan? And also, is it okay strategy to be making WC choices with next week's transfer plan in mind, or is that fishy thinking?

Yeah as long as you're not hampering your team to make the trade it's definitely not a problem, shouldn't need to save the transfer afterall given you've played your wildcard and, barring injuries, won't be forced into transfers for a couple weeks.

Wouldn't use your wildcard now iron it's too close to the end of the gameweek to make much use of it, better to have a whole week for players to rise/fall and make/save you some money - there's an international break after GW4 so wildcard will be active for two weeks then, unless your team really needs it might be worth waiting till then (also the transfer window closes in that period).

Wait... what? So I should not be using my WC now either?

If you haven't already activated it I probably wouldn't unless you think your team really needs it, a secondary purpose of a wildcar dis to gain additional team value (buy players who are rising at the sart of the week, hope they go up 0.2 so you can sell them and make 0.1 before making your final selections), and you can't do that with only 1 day left before the gameweek ends (price rises happen once per night at circa 2.30am i believe). However this is just a secondary purpose the main reason is obviously to improve your team so if you really need to do that then fire away, also many players you might want will have risen in price by next week(likewise players you own falling in price) so if it means you'll lose alot of value by not wildcarding then it's probably best to use it. Again though this has more of an effect if wildcarding at the start of a gameweek as a player can only rise or fall once per day, though granted the majority of price changes/transfers happen on the eve of a gameweek.

Okay cool, ty for clarifying. My team as it stands is crap (I have never done FF before and picked my team when I was completely clueless as opposed to just almost completely clueless), so I am just going to go ahead with using the WC now I think.

BTW, this FF is really addictive isn't it? I am only in a couple of leagues and have no money at all on them. Yet I am already spending ages thinking about it! With my inclination to get obsessed with things, perhaps it might have been a good idea not to have got into this...

Yeah it's good:) fwiw my start was bad too and I'm also on wildcard:)

its nearly as additive as the NFL one i played them both for the first time last year and NFL one just pips the EPL one but i am always tinkering in both which isnt good

Redmond/Darmian or Tadic/Whittaker?

Not Tadic.

He isn't much of a goal threat, offers very little chance of scoring and seems to struggle with fitness so rarely plays the full 90. He has started poorly as well so always the chance of rotation.

Lots of better options in that price bracket - Chadli, Ritchie, Milner, Shaqiri etc.

He's got great numbers when he does play but yeah coming off after 45 doesn't bode well. Don't understand why milner is popular at all.

Mahrez still saving my bacon.  Very glad Aguero blanked today as well

i have gone and used my wildcard put all my eggs into attacking the goals 32.5million for the front 3 with option to bring in lukaku 1/4 way into season when everton's fixtures ease

midfield i still managed 2 of the top 10 price wise along with marhrez morrison and westwood floating around

thought i would struggle in defence but still able to keep Azpilicueta and mertasaker and added richards for my 3 starting defenders all 5 have started and will likely start each week

lets see if i can hit some goals

My bench scored 29 points got to be some sort of record - rest of team scored 38

So what was the final outcome for the decision on prizes in the £100 blonde league?

I think the final outcome was that no one was really bothered. I wanted as flat a payout as possible to get as many punters paid but I guess 3/11 is too high.
We'll go first 2 in that one, I guess. I think all the others were okay?
Junior hasn't been around and I just want to double check everything with him first but that's pretty much it I think.


Free League: £10 added.
1) £10 to highest placed team that does not win a cash prize elsewhere.


£10 league: £340 (£10 x 34)
1) £120
2) £85
3) £50
4) £30
5) £25
Cup Winner: £20, runnerup £10

£20 H2H: £500 (£20 x 25)
1) £140
2) £120
3) £80
4) £60
Playoff winner £60, runnerup £40

£25 league: £675 (£25 x 26) + £25 added
1) £230
2) £170
3) £120
4) £80
Europa League winner £50, runner up £25

£50 league: £900 (£50 x 17) + £50 added
1) £375
2) £225
3) £150
Champions League winner £100, runnerup £50

£100 league: £1100 (£100 x 11)
1) £700
2) £400

Thanks Dazzler, looks good to me.

Looks good.
Cheers.
Lets confirm the structure as above.

Good luck all. Been a weird start tothe season so far.

rooney hatrick in europe now do i go for him or costa at the weekend?

Thought you were dropping rooney for aguero bud?  I've done that for one.

yeah dropped rooney got aguero in but also got costa in so can swap costa out and bring rooney back in (using wildcard this week)

Ahh yeah got you.  I would take Costa out of those two for what its worth.

rooney is a streaky player though he will go long time scoring then just as long not scoring

2 of my players scored hat tricks in mid week but that was against Exeter and Notts county.

Think about the opponents they score against. Rooney has been woeful in the prem so far

bruge would be on the level with a mid table EPL team IMHO not a team i would be wanting to face in the europa league (if they take it serious)

Wild card played, team lacking balance and losing cash hand over fist

Looks a good week for all out attack, lot of home bankers, although can't play when you have done wildcard :(

all 15 players played for me already and 1 assist and 0 goals between them

Pretty much terrible for me as well

Utter shocker, wild card wasted! Ended up with 3 injuries despite picking team at 1030am Saturday

cant remember how often i haven't had pelle in my team think it might have only been once last season

played wildcard this week and pelle got dropped so i could play augero. benteke and costa
and he now decides to score while the 3 top strikers all draw blanks

Scored below average for the whole site this weekend and feeling owned.

Fantasy football pros I am your fish.  Must learn more for next year :/

costa drawing a blank and aguero getting taken off early how many dream teams ruined this week

Thought I'd dropped one making Giroud captain but the FF gods were kind.

Having such a shite season. This may be my last!

I think you over-achieved last season.

Now you've poked the lion in the eye! You just wrote my pre match team talk for next week :-)

Jesus Ralph, what have you done? What have you done?
You've awoken the slumbering giant.

Boom!
great week for me. Shot up to 3rd in both leagues I'm in, and that was with Shaw still in the side.

Know what you mean.  I don't think I've ever put so much work in to a team pre-season and I don't think I've ever had such a bad start! Abs shocking.

+1

This season feels very different to just about any season I can remember, almost none of the big hitters are contributing and there is massive value around not just from 1 or 2 players but 3 or 4 in each position so hopefully it will take a bit longer for the templates to become established. The secret will be knowing when to jump on and off the value form players and just about everyone seems to be making the wrong captain choices.

There's also a lot of dross at the top of the rankings and it doesn't take much to move up the rankings, I've gone up 1.4m places in 2 weeks with an OK week then a good week.

Yes, I would say that a lot of us have had a bad start so I wouldn't let the head drop too soon. A couple of good weeks and you're right back up there!

And if you needed anymore encouragement to climb the ranks, we're starting the cups!
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£10 League.
Okay, so we've got 34 runners in this cup. This will be played as a straight up FA Cup style knock out. We need to get from 34 teams to 32 teams
So the bottom 4 teams at the end of GW 8 will playoff for the remaining 2 places. That playoff will take place in GW9.
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£25 League.
We've got 26 teams in this cup. This will be played like an old school UEFA Cup competition (for you youngsters, that's when football was football and men were men :) ). We've got to get from 26 to 16 teams.
So the top 6 teams at the end of GW8 will all get a bye to the next round. The remaining 20 teams will be drawn against each other for the remaining 10 places.
That playoff will take place on GW9/GW10. All ties will be over 2 legs.
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£50 League.
We've got 17 teams in this cup. This will be played in a Champions League format, with 4 groups of 4 teams in a round robin. We've first got to get from 17 to 16 teams.
So the bottom 2 teams at the end of GW8 will play a 2 leg playoff to secure the last place in the group stages. That playoff will take place on GW9/GW10.
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The most important thing to take away from this is, get up the bloody table in the next 2 weeks!

finally i get the right captain, but i am guessing most people have although its been reported 275k people captained mahrez but how many of them will have aguero as the vice captain

445000 people captained aguero.

not as many as i thought then about 1 team in 8 i am guessing most of the top teams in the blonde league will have but the FPL site is not loading for me

Yeah, Aguero broke FPL :P

yeh doesn't load for me either.

what % of people have augero

Have a terrible feeling I swapped my captaincy to Sahko :(  Need to log in to check.  It could be worse, I'm not 100% sure I didn't swap him out for someone else.

445000 people out of ~3.5 million

Think I'm the only person in the world to not have Sergio in my side. Might have to stick him in to fend of the challengers.

Everyone smashing in 70 point averages, reeet laugh

I am in a Southampton fans Facebook groups league I think the highest place team before today with aguero in the team was about 15th and he wasn't captain that was 17th before someone captained him

32.5% Ownership for Aguero and of course not all of them will have put the band on but in the money leagues, 98% did.  Was probably the clearest captain choice yet.

I have him and captained him but had a bad week so far overall.  It's coming down to the others this week.  Regretting not getting De Bruyne.  

Still it was funny last week when everyone bandwagon captained Martial and he didn't score  ;D

Ah, the romance of the Cup.
Let's get to it!
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£10 League. The FA Cup.
Okay, so we've got 34 runners in this cup. This will be played as a straight up FA Cup style knock out. We need to get from 34 teams to 32 teams
So the bottom 4 teams at the end of GW 8 will playoff for the remaining 2 places.
Those bottom 4 players have been drawn together by my lovely assistant, MereNovice and are as follows;

1. Real Ale    Daniel Phillips   v       Soliders    Graham Codd
2. CheapAsChips    Simon Lawlor   v       Christophers Team    Chris Vickers

This playoff will be played over 1 leg and will take place in GW9.
Please note that transfer hits (-4) scores will be deducted from total scores in all cup competitions.
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£25 League. The UEFA Cup.
We've got 26 teams in this cup. This will be played like an old school UEFA Cup competition (for you youngsters, that's when football was football and men were men :) ). We've got to get from 26 to 16 teams.
So the top 6 teams at the end of GW8 will all get a bye to the next round. The remaining 20 teams will be drawn against each other for the remaining 10 places.
Those 20 teams are as follows;

1. DungCollectors    James Hart   v      lolteke    Tom Langley
2. Valar Dohaeris FC    Curtis Ledger   v       Bluffallo Bantams    Paul Foulder
3. Premier Lead    Gareth J   v      Thereallrentboysmate    jon Slater
4. TheYellowBrickRoad    Greg Hill   v      Bayern Bru    Chris Roberts
5. Degensville    Rupinder Bedi   v       Plastic Geordies XI    Shaun Conning
6. The_Gambler    David Barrie   v       Degeneration X    Rehman Kassam
7. The Mutts Nutts    Lewis Morton   v       Ings of the North    Andy Lade
8. RUN BETTER    Patrick Leonard   v       Deeney Mata to Mee    Robert Moss
9. Stevies Wonders    Stephen Donnelly   v       Monson Magic    Mitchell Johnson
10. Morgan's Masterclass    Callum Morgan   v       AC Dead People    Rich Hare

This playoff will take place over 2 legs in GW9/GW10.
Please note that transfer hits (-4) scores will be deducted from total scores in all cup competitions.
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£50 League. The Champions League.
We've got 17 teams in this cup. This will be played in a Champions League format, with 4 groups of 4 teams in a round robin. We've first got to get from 17 to 16 teams.
So the bottom 2 teams at the end of GW8 will play a 2 leg playoff to secure the last place in the group stages.
Those 2 teams are as follows;

1. Degensville    Rupinder Bedi   v    Morgan's Masterclass    Callum Morgan


This playoff will take place over 2 legs on GW9/GW10.
Please note that transfer hits (-4) scores will be deducted from total scores in all cup competitions.
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really happy that my team get to play in the prelims, its the main reason we tried to get lower down the table.  Best of luck simon

Cheers Tom, great organisation skills.

Really need to make something happen soon as i am fast getting fed up!

Absolute nightmare with injuries. Taken a -4 hit this week already and still will not have a bench come Saturday.

£10 League. The FA Cup.
The preliminary knockout round played GW9.

1. Real Ale    Daniel Phillips   (39)  v       Soliders    Graham Codd  (19)-----------------------------------------------------------------------Real Ale    Daniel Phillips wins.
2. CheapAsChips    Simon Lawlor   (32)  v       Christophers Team    Chris Vickers  (37)----------------------------------------------------Christophers Team    Chris Vickers wins.


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£25 League. The UEFA Cup.
The 1st round playoff.

1. DungCollectors    James Hart   (82)  v      lolteke    Tom Langley  (48)
2. Valar Dohaeris FC    Curtis Ledger   (52)  v       Bluffallo Bantams    Paul Foulder  (46)
3. Premier Lead    Gareth J   (61)  v      Thereallrentboysmate    jon Slater  (68)
4. TheYellowBrickRoad    Greg Hill   (63)  v      Bayern Bru    Chris Roberts  (38)
5. Degensville    Rupinder Bedi   (29)  v       Plastic Geordies XI    Shaun Conning  (61)
6. The_Gambler    David Barrie   (75)  v       Degeneration X    Rehman Kassam  (60)
7. The Mutts Nutts    Lewis Morton   (59)  v       Ings of the North    Andy Lade  (62)
8. RUN BETTER    Patrick Leonard   (66)  v       Deeney Mata to Mee    Robert Moss  (91)
9. Stevies Wonders    Stephen Donnelly   (46)  v       Monson Magic    Mitchell Johnson  (67)
10. Morgan's Masterclass    Callum Morgan   (44)  v       AC Dead People    Rich Hare  (72)

The 2nd leg will take place in GW10. The highest total aggregate score in each tie will progress.
Please note that transfer hits (-4) scores will be deducted from total scores in all cup competitions.
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£50 League. The Champions League.
The preliminary knockout.

1. Degensville    Rupinder Bedi   (29)  v    Morgan's Masterclass    Callum Morgan  (44)


The 2nd leg will take place on GW10. The highest total aggregate score in each tie will progress.
Please note that transfer hits (-4) scores will be deducted from total scores in all cup competitions.
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https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/fantasy-football-manager-written-letter-premier-league-just-084914996--spt.html

Only thing that's tragic there is the journalism imo.

51 points

The total earned by the 1,315 FPL managers that triple-captained Kane in GW10.

did anyone triple aguero when he scored 5?

I don't think anyone did in our leagues although a couple of lads in work had him.

Cup results and redraws coming soon.

£10 League. The FA Cup.
We are down to 32 runners and here is the draw as administered by my lovely assistant MereNovice :)
FA Cup 1st Round
1.  Shiity City   Adam Mason   v   Bank of Sterling   Duke OfHazard
2.  Tigerflash Utd   simon gordon   v   Ings of the North   Andy Lade
3.  The_Gambler   David Barrie   v   McG's McMuffins   Kevin Green
4.  Ironside's Hopefulls   Iron Side   v   Sporting Heehaw   Scott Campbell
5.  Plastic Geordies XI   Shaun Conning   v   Bring the Swain FC!   Todd Swain
6.  Real Ale   Daniel Phillips   v   theornsarestayingup   Greg Cooper
7.  Le Saux Solid Crew   Mark Porter   v   The Mutts Nutts   Lewis Morton
8.  FCkTheKnockers   Arsene Knows   v   Stevies Wonders   Stephen Donnelly
9.  So Long Stevie   Phillip Marsh   v   RAM?   Simon Sharples
10. Killer River   marc carnie   v   Brigate Gialloblu   Matthew Allen
11. Could do better   Adam Downing   v   Klopptomaniacs   Craig O'Brien
12. DungCollectors   James Hart   v   Walking in Memphis   Gaz O Brien
13. Bluffallo Bantams   Paul Foulder   v   TheYellowBrickRoad   Greg Hill
14. Bayern Bru   Chris Roberts   v   Christophers Team   Chris Vickers
15. Valar Dohaeris FC   Curtis Ledger   v   AC Dead People   Rich Hare
16. aaaaa   James moody   v   Horner's Hotshots   Brent Horner

These ties will be 1 leg and shall be played in GW12
Please note that transfer hits (-4) scores will be deducted from total scores in all cup competitions.
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£25 League. The UEFA Cup.
The 1st round playoff results played GW9 + GW10

1. DungCollectors   James Hart   (82) +  (42)  = 124   v   lolteke   Tom Langley   (48) + (37) = 85------------------------------------------------DungCollectors   James Hart wins
2. Valar Dohaeris FC   Curtis Ledger (52) + (43) = 95   v   Bluffallo Bantams   Paul Foulder (46) + (47) = 93------------------------------------Valar Dohaeris FC   Curtis Ledger wins
3. Premier Lead   Gareth J (61) + (39) = 100   v   Thereallrentboysmate   jon Slater (68) + (41) = 109------------------------------------------Thereallrentboysmate   jon Slater wins
4. TheYellowBrickRoad   Greg Hill (63) + (34) =   97   v   Bayern Bru   Chris Roberts (38) + (41) = 79--------------------------------------------TheYellowBrickRoad   Greg Hill wins
5. Degensville   Rupinder Bedi (29) + (33) =   62   v   Plastic Geordies XI   Shaun Conning (61) +   (32) = 93------------------------------------Plastic Geordies XI   Shaun Conning wins
6. The_Gambler   David Barrie (75)   + (40) = 115   v   Degeneration X   Rehman Kassam (60) + (45) = 105------------------------------------The_Gambler   David Barrie wins
7. The Mutts Nutts   Lewis Morton (59) + (52) = 111   v   Ings of the North   Andy Lade (62) + (44) = 106---------------------------------------The Mutts Nutts   Lewis Morton wins
8. RUN BETTER   Patrick Leonard (66) +   (45) = 111    v   Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss (91) + (47) = 138-------------------------------Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss wins
9. Stevies Wonders   Stephen Donnelly (46) + (43) = 89   v   Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson (67) + (50) = 117-------------------------------Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson wins
10. Morgan's Masterclass   Callum Morgan (44) + (56) = 100   v   AC Dead People   Rich Hare (72) +   (37) = 109------------------------------AC Dead People    Rich Hare wins

2nd Round
1.  Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson   v   standard   Tom Camp
2.  Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss   v   Plastic Geordies XI   Shaun Conning
3.  Thereallrentboysmate   jon Slater   v   Bring the Swain FC!   Todd Swain
4.  AC Dead People   Rich Hare   v   The Mutts Nutts   Lewis Morton
5.  The_Gambler   David Barrie   v   ZEfruitbatzzzz   Jack Allen
6.  TheYellowBrickRoad   Greg Hill   v   Le Saux Solid Crew   Mark Porter
7.  DungCollectors   James Hart   v   Bells to the End   Ty Akram
8.  Valar Dohaeris FC   Curtis Ledger   v   Athletico Kofty   Ryan Greatrick

2 leg ties to be played GW13 + GW14
Please note that transfer hits (-4) scores will be deducted from total scores in all cup competitions.
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£50 League. The Champions League.

The preliminary knockout played GW9 + GW10
1. Degensville   Rupinder Bedi (29) + (33) =   62   v   Morgan's Masterclass   Callum Morgan (44) + (56) = 100--------------------------------Morgan's Masterclass   Callum Morgan wins and progresses to group stage
        
Group A
1.  ZEfruitbatzzzz   Jack Allen
2.  Two Sisters Probably   Christopher Brammer
3.  RUN BETTER   Patrick Leonard
4.  Morgan's Masterclass   Callum Morgan

Group B
1.  TheDazzler   Tom McBennett
2.  standard   Tom Camp
3.  So Long Stevie   Phillip Marsh
4.  Premier Lead   Gareth J

Group C
1.  Thereallrentboysmate   jon Slater
2.  Killer River   marc carnie
3.  Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson
4.  Athletico Kofty   Ryan Greatrick

Group D
1.  Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss
2.  lolteke   Tom Langley
3.  Bobbins FC   Nicholas Wright
4.  ItEndedOnAnOilyPitch   Danny McEachen

Games will be played on the following format.
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1 v 2
3 v 4
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1 v 3
2 v 4
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1 v 4
2 v 3
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The first round robin games will take place on GW15 + GW16 + GW17
Please note that transfer hits (-4) scores will be deducted from total scores in all cup competitions.
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Dunno how many people triple captained aguero one guy did in one of my leagues. I did however read that 13 people triple captained wijnaldum for his 4 goal haul, including (at least) 1 guy who triple captained Sturridge only for him to not play and therefore give him triple vice captain wijnaldum! Nice to see the cups starting, ty for the work dazzler and gl all!

Thanks for organising the cups, they look great.

When are the double game weeks? I assumed best strategy was to keep triple captain etc until then.

Double game weeks are around the 5th 6th round of the cup

Yeah once Champions League/Europa League/FA Cup/League Cup fixtures pile up, you can get DGWs. Also if weather postpones matches, they can happen.
Sometime after GW25 generally.
The best strategy for triple captain is when Aguero scores 5 goals :) Failing that, DGWs are when most people will be playing them and seem the sensible option.

Joint top point scorer this week in blonde leagues happy with that

Hands up if you thought the £10 cup first round proper started last weekend instead of this coming game week ;whistle;

i wish, i will likely go out with lowest score of week this week

Me too, it'll be hard to top last weekend.

It won't be hard for some of us. 3 weeks of utter pain.
I'm in 3 H2H cash leagues and lost all 9 matches over the last 3 weeks.
This week, I'm unleashing the All Out Attack chip.

You're doing pretty good this year Ironside. You've learned well from your rookie year :)

thanks but i keep dropping players only for them to start scoring again then picking them up for them to dry up again lol

the 88 last weekend really helped me out

More FPL managers have played their All Out Attack chip in Gameweek 12 than in any other GW.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CTNi7TXWoAA4Fej.jpg)

Any idea why?
I am planning on using mine in a double game week or when my defence is hit with injuries

Bellerin's injury and 20% ownership could limit some people's defensive choices.

Coz so many, like me, benched Mahrez last week!
Clear rage chip usage.

Mahrez was started in the hole behind vardy again today, despite it not working whenever used so far this season

after an ineffective half an hour he was on the right wing again with schlupp playing in the 10 role (and a left back in FPL)

Trying to fit all three of scvhlupp, mahrez and albrighton into the same team

Lots of people still have Aguero money going spare & have upgraded their cheapest mid/att using that money so have a benching dilemma every week.

That coupled with the pretty much every team with popular attacking assets having at least an ok fixture this week has seen the spike as well as the Bellerin injury.

Yeah I have 5.5 million splashing around for aguero upgrade

£10 League. The FA Cup.
FA Cup 1st Round results GW12

1.  Shiity City   Adam Mason   (51)   v   Bank of Sterling   Duke OfHazard   (43)----------------------------------------------------------Shiity City   Adam Mason wins
2.  Tigerflash Utd   simon gordon   (51)   v   Ings of the North   Andy Lade   (35)--------------------------------------------------------Tigerflash Utd   simon gordon wins
3.  The_Gambler   David Barrie      (35)     v   McG's McMuffins   Kevin Green   (70)-----------------------------------------------------McG's McMuffins   Kevin Green wins
4.  Ironside's Hopefulls   Iron Side   (56)   v   Sporting Heehaw   Scott Campbell   (35)-------------------------------------------------Ironside's Hopefulls   Iron Side wins
5.  Plastic Geordies XI   Shaun Conning   (49)   v   Bring the Swain FC!   Todd Swain   (45)--------------------------------------------Plastic Geordies XI   Shaun Conning wins
6.  Real Ale   Daniel Phillips   (41)   v   theornsarestayingup   Greg Cooper   (31)--------------------------------------------------------Real Ale   Daniel Phillips wins
7.  Le Saux Solid Crew   Mark Porter     (34)     v   The Mutts Nutts   Lewis Morton   (58)-----------------------------------------------The Mutts Nutts   Lewis Morton wins
8.  FCkTheKnockers   Arsene Knows   (48)   v   Stevies Wonders   Stephen Donnelly   (46)---------------------------------------------FCkTheKnockers   Arsene Knows wins
9.  So Long Stevie   Phillip Marsh   (50)   v   RAM?   Simon Sharples   (63)---------------------------------------------------------------RAM?   Simon Sharples wins
10. Killer River   marc carnie     (56)     v   Brigate Gialloblu   Matthew Allen   (48)-------------------------------------------------------Killer River   marc carnie wins
11. Could do better   Adam Downing   (41)   v   Klopptomaniacs   Craig O'Brien   (45)---------------------------------------------------Klopptomaniacs   Craig O'Brien wins
12. DungCollectors   James Hart     (41)   v   Walking in Memphis   Gaz O Brien      (47)------------------------------------------------Walking in Memphis   Gaz O Brien wins
13. Bluffallo Bantams   Paul Foulder   (53)     v   TheYellowBrickRoad   Greg Hill   (37)--------------------------------------------------Bluffallo Bantams   Paul Foulder wins
14. Bayern Bru   Chris Roberts   (42)   v   Christophers Team   Chris Vickers   (50)-----------------------------------------------------Christophers Team   Chris Vickers wins
15. Valar Dohaeris FC   Curtis Ledger   (41)     v   AC Dead People   Rich Hare   (48)---------------------------------------------------AC Dead People   Rich Hare wins
16. aaaaa   James moody   (31)     v   Horner's Hotshots   Brent Horner   (55)-----------------------------------------------------------Horner's Hotshots   Brent Horner wins

The 2nd round of the FA Cup will take place on GW18 and the draw will be administered by MereNovice.
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£25 League. The UEFA Cup.

2nd Round
1.  Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson   v   standard   Tom Camp
2.  Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss   v   Plastic Geordies XI   Shaun Conning
3.  Thereallrentboysmate   jon Slater   v   Bring the Swain FC!   Todd Swain
4.  AC Dead People   Rich Hare   v   The Mutts Nutts   Lewis Morton
5.  The_Gambler   David Barrie   v   ZEfruitbatzzzz   Jack Allen
6.  TheYellowBrickRoad   Greg Hill   v   Le Saux Solid Crew   Mark Porter
7.  DungCollectors   James Hart   v   Bells to the End   Ty Akram
8.  Valar Dohaeris FC   Curtis Ledger   v   Athletico Kofty   Ryan Greatrick

2 leg ties to be played GW13 + GW14
Please note that transfer hits (-4) scores will be deducted from total scores in all cup competitions.

wow close at the top end of the £10 league

£25 League. The UEFA Cup.
2nd Round 1st leg scores

1.  Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson   (98)      v   standard   Tom Camp    (66)   
2.  Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss   (60)      v   Plastic Geordies XI   Shaun Conning   (66)   
3.  Thereallrentboysmate   jon Slater   (55)      v   Bring the Swain FC!   Todd Swain   (72)   
4.  AC Dead People   Rich Hare   (56)      v   The Mutts Nutts   Lewis Morton   (82)   
5.  The_Gambler   David Barrie      (39)      v   ZEfruitbatzzzz   Jack Allen   (69)   
6.  TheYellowBrickRoad   Greg Hill   (57)      v   Le Saux Solid Crew   Mark Porter  (47)   
7.  DungCollectors   James Hart     (25)      v   Bells to the End   Ty Akram   (91)   
8.  Valar Dohaeris FC   Curtis Ledger   (73)      v   Athletico Kofty   Ryan Greatrick   (59)   

2nd leg ties to be played GW14
Please note that transfer hits (-4) scores will be deducted from total scores in all cup competitions.

Have we set aside a prize fund for the cups?

Yep, they should be in the forum of the league you're playing in under 'Payouts'.
The Champions League (£50 league) is £100 to the winner, £50 to runner up.
The cups prizes are quite small as we don't want to take too much out of the league prize fund and they are just a fun addition really.
Greg is admining the £10 and £25 leagues so I think the payouts are in those forums.

Thanks.

£25 League. The UEFA Cup.
2nd Round 2nd leg scores

1.  Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson   (98)   +  (61)  =  (159)   v   standard   Tom Camp    (66)    +  (70)  =  (136)------------------------------------------------------Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson wins
2.  Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss   (60)   +  (82)  =  (142)     v   Plastic Geordies XI   Shaun Conning   (66)   +  (76)  =  (142)-----------------------------------DRAW. REPLAY.
3.  Thereallrentboysmate   jon Slater   (55)   +  (64)  =  (119)   v   Bring the Swain FC!   Todd Swain   (72)   +  (67)  =  (139)----------------------------------------Bring the Swain FC!   Todd Swain wins
4.  AC Dead People   Rich Hare   (56)   +  (62)  =  (118)   v   The Mutts Nutts   Lewis Morton   (82)   +  (65)  =  (147)--------------------------------------------------The Mutts Nutts   Lewis Morton wins
5.  The_Gambler   David Barrie      (39)  +  (69)  =  (108)      v   ZEfruitbatzzzz   Jack Allen   (69)   +  (69)  =  (138)----------------------------------------------------ZEfruitbatzzzz   Jack Allen wins
6.  TheYellowBrickRoad   Greg Hill   (57)   +  (63)  =  (120)   v   Le Saux Solid Crew   Mark Porter  (47)     +  (61)  =  (108)-------------------------------------------TheYellowBrickRoad   Greg Hill wins
7.  DungCollectors   James Hart     (25)  +  (67)  =  (92)   v   Bells to the End   Ty Akram   (91)   +  (65)  =  (156)------------------------------------------------------Bells to the End   Ty Akram wins
8.  Valar Dohaeris FC   Curtis Ledger   (73)   +  (58)  =  (131)   v   Athletico Kofty   Ryan Greatrick   (59)   +  (50)  =  (104)-------------------------------------------Valar Dohaeris FC   Curtis Ledger wins


Please note that transfer hits (-4) scores will be deducted from total scores in all cup competitions.

The tie (Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss)  VS   (Plastic Geordies XI   Shaun Conning) will be replayed next week in GW15.

looks like we have one guy running away with the £10 league with a 71 point lead

there are 19 teams within 71 points of 2nd

suppose it just takes one lucky break and those points can be clawed back though

The £100 league is insanely close, going to be a good sweat after Christmas.  Still plan on taking that £20 off you bud, even though your ahead of me atm :P

Evening lads. Crazy season so far!

Just wondering if the above went ahead as about to go into week 16 and usually see an update Before and after.

Good luck to all and may your Captains score hattricks. Thanks also to the admins for sorting again this year.

Yup, been mad busy in work this week. Coming now..............

£25 League. The UEFA Cup.
2nd Round 2nd leg scores

1.  Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson   (98)   +  (61)  =  (159)   v   standard   Tom Camp    (66)    +  (70)  =  (136)------------------------------------------------------Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson wins
2.  Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss   (60)   +  (82)  =  (142)     v   Plastic Geordies XI   Shaun Conning   (66)   +  (76)  =  (142)-----------------------------------DRAW. REPLAY.
3.  Thereallrentboysmate   jon Slater   (55)   +  (64)  =  (119)   v   Bring the Swain FC!   Todd Swain   (72)   +  (67)  =  (139)----------------------------------------Bring the Swain FC!   Todd Swain wins
4.  AC Dead People   Rich Hare   (56)   +  (62)  =  (118)   v   The Mutts Nutts   Lewis Morton   (82)   +  (65)  =  (147)--------------------------------------------------The Mutts Nutts   Lewis Morton wins
5.  The_Gambler   David Barrie      (39)  +  (69)  =  (108)      v   ZEfruitbatzzzz   Jack Allen   (69)   +  (69)  =  (138)----------------------------------------------------ZEfruitbatzzzz   Jack Allen wins
6.  TheYellowBrickRoad   Greg Hill   (57)   +  (63)  =  (120)   v   Le Saux Solid Crew   Mark Porter  (47)     +  (61)  =  (108)-------------------------------------------TheYellowBrickRoad   Greg Hill wins
7.  DungCollectors   James Hart     (25)  +  (67)  =  (92)   v   Bells to the End   Ty Akram   (91)   +  (65)  =  (156)------------------------------------------------------Bells to the End   Ty Akram wins
8.  Valar Dohaeris FC   Curtis Ledger   (73)   +  (58)  =  (131)   v   Athletico Kofty   Ryan Greatrick   (59)   +  (50)  =  (104)-------------------------------------------Valar Dohaeris FC   Curtis Ledger wins


Please note that transfer hits (-4) scores will be deducted from total scores in all cup competitions.

The tie (Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss)  VS   (Plastic Geordies XI   Shaun Conning) will be replayed next week in GW15.


The replayed tie 2 in GW15;                   
Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss  (71)         v   Plastic Geordies XI   Shaun Conning   (41)--------------------------------------------------------Deeney Mata to Mee    Robert Moss wins   

The 3rd round will be drawn in due course by MereNovice and will resume in the New Year.

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£50 League. The Champions League.

1st round of games played GW15
        
Group A                                                                    P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  Morgan's Masterclass   Callum Morgan                     1        1       0       0       3      (64)
2.  Two Sisters Probably   Christopher Brammer            1        1       0       0       3      (62)
3.  ZEfruitbatzzzz        Jack Allen                                  1        0       0       1       0      (55)
4.  RUN BETTER        Patrick Leonard                            1        0       0       1       0      (41)

ZEfruitbatzzzz    (55)         Two Sisters Probably   (62)   
RUN BETTER    (41)         Morgan's Masterclass   (64)   
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Group B                                                     P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.   So Long Stevie   Phillip Marsh                 1        1       0       0       3      (69)
2.  TheDazzler   Tom McBennett                   1        1       0       0       3      (60)
3.  Premier Lead   Gareth J                          1        0       0       1       0      (68)
4.  standard   Tom Camp                             1        0       0       1       0      (43)

TheDazzler        (60)      standard   (43)   
So Long Stevie   (69)      Premier Lead   (68)   
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Group C                                                     P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  Thereallrentboysmate   jon Slater            1        1       0       0       3      (61)
2.  Athletico Kofty   Ryan Greatrick                1        0       1       0       1      (62)
3.  Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson              1        0       1       0       1      (62)
4.  Killer River   marc carnie                         1        0       0       1       0      (54)
 
Thereallrentboysmate   (61)         Killer River   (54)
Monson Magic   (62)         Athletico Kofty   (62)
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Group D                                                      P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss            1        1       0       0       3      (71)
2.  ItEndedOnAnOilyPitch   Danny McEachen     1        1       0       0       3      (69)
3.  Bobbins FC   Nicholas Wright                     1        0       0       1       0      (62)
4.  lolteke   Tom Langley                                1        0       0       1       0      (48)

Deeney Mata to Mee   (71)      lolteke   (48)   
Bobbins FC     (62)      ItEndedOnAnOilyPitch   (69)   
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The first round robin games will take place on GW15 + GW16 + GW17
Please note that transfer hits (-4) scores will be deducted from total scores in all cup competitions.
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GW16 fixtures
Group A
ZEfruitbatzzzz      vs      RUN BETTER
Two Sisters Probably      vs      Morgan's Masterclass
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Group B
TheDazzler      vs      So Long Stevie
standard      vs      Premier Lead
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Group C
Thereallrentboysmate      vs      Monson Magic
Killer River      vs      Athletico Kofty
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Group D
Deeney Mata to Mee      vs      Bobbins FC
lolteke      vs      ItEndedOnAnOilyPitch
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Sorry for the delay!

No problems superb updates as always!

+1 great job

Kudos to Stuart Wright in the Blonde Ultimate Fantasy Premier League table.

Went number 1 in the world over the weekend (23K runners). 3rd in the world today. £25K for first.

dunno who you are Stuart but well played.

The boy has form!
He finished 7th overall in the main FPL last year.
He's the Silkworm. He's in the Blonde £100 Open.

Thanks all - going to have to think through my January transfer window plans very carefully indeed :)

you obviously know better than me but will it not be better waiting till later in the season to use the 2nd transfer wildcard when cup games and 2 game weeks come into play?

forget that you talking about the ultimate game which is totally different and i have no idea what i am on about as per norm

i officially hate Leicester, last season i didnt pick on ulloa till his goals ran out then kept him too long
this season i havent picked up vardy as i know as soon as i do his goals will run dry and to tell you the truth i like them challenging the big boys

but every man and his dog has vardy in there team so i am playing at a disadvantage every week

any man u or arsenal fan that wants me to transfer in vardy so his goals stop i am open to bribes

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£50 League. The Champions League.

2nd round of games played GW16
        
Group A                                                                    P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  Morgan's Masterclass   Callum Morgan                     2        2       0       0       6      (117)
2.  Two Sisters Probably   Christopher Brammer            2        1       0       1       3      (114)
3.  ZEfruitbatzzzz        Jack Allen                                  2        1       0       1       3      (104)
4.  RUN BETTER        Patrick Leonard                            2        0       0       2       0      (88)

ZEfruitbatzzzz   (49)      RUN BETTER   (47)
Two Sisters Probably   (52)      Morgan's Masterclass   (53)   
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Group B                                                     P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  TheDazzler   Tom McBennett                   2        2       0       0       6      (127)
2.  Premier Lead   Gareth J                           2        1       0       1       3      (136)
3.  So Long Stevie   Phillip Marsh                  2        1       0       1       3      (132)
4.  standard   Tom Camp                             2        0       0       2       0      (96)

TheDazzler   (67)      So Long Stevie   (63)
standard   (53)      Premier Lead   (68)   
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Group C                                                     P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  Thereallrentboysmate   jon Slater            2        2       0       0       6      (129)
2.  Athletico Kofty   Ryan Greatrick                2        1       1       0       4      (120)
3.  Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson              2        0       1       1       1      (119)
4.  Killer River   marc carnie                         2        0       0       2       0      (103)
 
Thereallrentboysmate   (68)      Monson Magic   (57)
Killer River   (49)      Athletico Kofty   (58)
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Group D                                                      P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss            2        2       0       0       6      (133)
2.  ItEndedOnAnOilyPitch   Danny McEachen     2        2       0       0       6      (128)
3.  Bobbins FC   Nicholas Wright                     2        0       0       2       0      (118)
4.  lolteke   Tom Langley                                2        0       0       2       0      (103)

Deeney Mata to Mee   (62)      Bobbins FC      (56)
lolteke   (55)   ItEndedOnAnOilyPitch     (59)   
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The first round robin games will take place on GW15 + GW16 + GW17
Please note that transfer hits (-4) scores will be deducted from total scores in all cup competitions.
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GW17 fixtures
Group A
ZEfruitbatzzzz      vs      Morgan's Masterclass
Two Sisters Probably      vs      RUN BETTER
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Group B
TheDazzler      vs         Premier Lead
standard      vs      So Long Stevie
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Group C
Thereallrentboysmate      vs      Athletico Kofty
Killer River      vs      Monson Magic
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Group D
Deeney Mata to Mee      vs      ItEndedOnAnOilyPitch
lolteke      vs      Bobbins FC
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Left bundles on the bench this week, Alli 1st reserve too :(

Mr. Dazzler is currently unavailable so he has asked me to provide updates for the next two weeks.


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£50 League. The Champions League.

3rd round of games played GW17
        
Group A                                                                    P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  Morgan's Masterclass   Callum Morgan                     3        3       0       0       9      (180)
2.  Two Sisters Probably   Christopher Brammer            3       2       0       1       6      (189)
3.  ZEfruitbatzzzz        Jack Allen                                  3       1       0       2       3      (166)
4.  RUN BETTER        Patrick Leonard                            3        0       0       3       0      (130)

ZEfruitbatzzzz   (62)         Morgan's Masterclass   (63)   
Two Sisters Probably   (75)         RUN BETTER   (42)   
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Group B                                                     P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  So Long Stevie   Phillip Marsh                  3        2       0       1       6      (214)
2.  Premier Lead   Gareth J                           3        2       0       1       6      (204)
3.  TheDazzler   Tom McBennett                   3        2       0       1       6      (189)
4.  standard   Tom Camp                             3        0       0       3       0      (156)

TheDazzler   (62)         Premier Lead   (68)
standard   (60)         So Long Stevie   (82)
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Group C                                                     P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  Athletico Kofty   Ryan Greatrick                3        2       1       0       7      (182)
2.  Thereallrentboysmate   jon Slater            3        2       0       1       6      (183)
3.  Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson              3        1       1       1       4      (186)
4.  Killer River   marc carnie                         3        0       0       3       0      (159)
 
Thereallrentboysmate   (54)         Athletico Kofty   (62)
Killer River   (56)         Monson Magic   (67)
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Group D                                                      P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss            3        3      0       0       9      (213)
2.  ItEndedOnAnOilyPitch   Danny McEachen     3        2       0       1       6      (195)
3.  lolteke   Tom Langley                                3        1       0       2       3      (170)
4.  Bobbins FC   Nicholas Wright                     3        0       0       3       0      (174)

Deeney Mata to Mee   (80)         ItEndedOnAnOilyPitch   (67)
lolteke   (67)         Bobbins FC   (56)
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The reverse fixture robin games will take place on GW19 + GW20 + GW21

Please note that transfer hits (-4) scores will be deducted from total scores in all cup competitions.
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GW19 fixtures

Group A
ZEfruitbatzzzz   vs      Two Sisters Probably
RUN BETTER   vs      Morgan's Masterclass
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Group B
TheDazzler   vs      standard
So Long Stevie   vs      Premier Lead
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Group C
Thereallrentboysmate   vs      Killer River
Monson Magic   vs      Athletico Kofty
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Group D
Deeney Mata to Mee   vs      lolteke
Bobbins FC   vs      ItEndedOnAnOilyPitch
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A reminder that the next round of the FA Cup takes place in GW18.

The fixtures are:

Plastic Geordies XI   Shaun Conning      vs   Horner's Hotshots   Brent Horner
Bluffallo Bantams   Paul Foulder      vs   Real Ale   Daniel Phillips
AC Dead People   Rich Hare      vs   Killer River   marc carnie
McG's McMuffins   Kevin Green      vs   The Mutts Nutts   Lewis Morton
FCkTheKnockers   Arsene Knows      vs   Shiity City   Adam Mason
Tigerflash Utd   simon gordon      vs   Klopptomaniacs   Craig O'Brien
RAM?   Simon Sharples      vs   Walking in Memphis   Gaz O Brien
Ironside's Hopefulls   Iron Side      vs   Christophers Team   Chris Vickers

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My captain is benched oops please don't bring him on for last 2 minutes

if aguero comes on now i might feel like jumping off a bridge

my vice captain is de bruyne

15 mins at the end just to get him a bit more match fit, surely Mr Pellegrini?

you and i both know it

Bony missed a pen. Now's the time to give Aguero a run out.

Nevermind Kompany the sub is off and Demechelis on. City have no more subs left.

phew

bbc sport page and the fantasy prem page are about 30 minutes behind

there's a problem with the source feed for info so all videprinters etc are up the spout

think its working again now but been working 30 minutes behind from start of play should of put on sky

btw tighty will you tell your team to score i am up against liverpool defenders

The cup results are as follows:

Plastic Geordies XI   Shaun Conning   65   vs   Horner's Hotshots   Brent Horner   57
Bluffallo Bantams   Paul Foulder   51              vs   Real Ale   Daniel Phillips   55
AC Dead People   Rich Hare   61                   vs   Killer River   marc carnie   63
McG's McMuffins   Kevin Green   75          vs   The Mutts Nutts   Lewis Morton   63
FCkTheKnockers   Arsene Knows   79     vs   Shiity City   Adam Mason   47
Tigerflash Utd   simon gordon   59               vs   Klopptomaniacs   Craig O'Brien   73
RAM?   Simon Sharples   71                   vs   Walking in Memphis   Gaz O Brien   68
Ironside's Hopefulls   Iron Side   80          vs   Christophers Team   Chris Vickers   46


The winners are in bold.

The draw for the next round of the cup is as follows:

Plastic Geordies XI   Shaun Conning      vs   Klopptomaniacs   Craig O'Brien
McG's McMuffins   Kevin Green      vs   Ironside's Hopefulls   Iron Side
RAM?   Simon Sharples      vs   Real Ale   Daniel Phillips
FCkTheKnockers   Arsene Knows      vs   Killer River   marc carnie


Fixtures will be played on a week to be determined by Mr. Dazzler.

Thanks Vince, I hope you are keeping well, unlike your FF team ;)

Vince just entered dummy teams so he could access the information for the database. It would be interesting if he actually made the money places though!
Many thanks to Vince for covering in my absence. I shall be flying back from Las Vegas in a couple of hours so I can take over the reins again.
The trip was....................expensive :)

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£50 League. The Champions League.

4th round of games played GW19
        
Group A                                                                    P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  Morgan's Masterclass   Callum Morgan                     4        4       0       0       12     (254)
2.  Two Sisters Probably   Christopher Brammer            4        2       0       2       6      (259)
3.  ZEfruitbatzzzz        Jack Allen                                  4        2       0       2       6      (237)
4.  RUN BETTER        Patrick Leonard                           4         0       0       4       0      (191)

Two Sisters Probably   (70)      ZEfruitbatzzzz   (71)   
Morgan's Masterclass   (74)      RUN BETTER   (61)      
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Group B                                                     P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  So Long Stevie   Phillip Marsh                  4        3       0       1       9      (299)
2.  TheDazzler   Tom McBennett                   4        3       0       1       9      (271)
3.  Premier Lead   Gareth J                          4        2       0       2       6      (281)
4.  standard   Tom Camp                             4        0       0       4       0      (228)

standard   (72)      TheDazzler   (82)   
Premier Lead   (77)      So Long Stevie   (85)   
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Group C                                                     P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  Athletico Kofty   Ryan Greatrick                4        3       1       0       10     (257)
2.  Thereallrentboysmate   jon Slater            4        3       0       1       9      (255)
3.  Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson              4        1       1       2       4      (255)
4.  Killer River   marc carnie                         4        0       0       4       0      (205)
 
Killer River   (46)      Thereallrentboysmate   (72)   
Athletico Kofty   (75)      Monson Magic   (69)   
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Group D                                                      P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss            4        4      0       0       12      (299)
2.  ItEndedOnAnOilyPitch   Danny McEachen     4        3       0       1       9      (272)
3.  lolteke   Tom Langley                                4        1       0       3       3      (229)
4.  Bobbins FC   Nicholas Wright                     4        0       0       4       0      (245)

lolteke   (59)      Deeney Mata to Mee   (86)   
ItEndedOnAnOilyPitch   (77)      Bobbins FC   (71)
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The remaining games will take place on GW20 + GW21

Please note that transfer hits (-4) scores will be deducted from total scores in all cup competitions.
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GW20 fixtures

Group A
RUN BETTER      vs      ZEfruitbatzzzz
Morgan's Masterclass      vs      Two Sisters Probably
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Group B
So Long Stevie      vs      TheDazzler
Premier Lead      vs      standard
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Group C
Monson Magic      vs      Thereallrentboysmate
Athletico Kofty      vs      Killer River
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Group D
Bobbins FC      vs      Deeney Mata to Mee
ItEndedOnAnOilyPitch      vs      lolteke
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When is the next fa cup week

Planning ahead already, eh? Good man :)

The Champions League group stages will play out on GW20 + GW21.
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We'll then take a 1 week break from cup competition.
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The Uefa Cup quarter finals will play on GW23 + GW24
1. Valar Dohaeris FC   Curtis Ledger      v   ZEfruitbatzzzz   Jack Allen
2. Bells to the End   Ty Akram      v   Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson
3. Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss      v   Bring the Swain FC!   Todd Swain
4. The Mutts Nutts   Lewis Morton      v   TheYellowBrickRoad   Greg Hill
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The FA cup quarter finals will play on GW 25
1. Plastic Geordies XI   Shaun Conning      vs   Klopptomaniacs   Craig O'Brien
2. McG's McMuffins   Kevin Green      vs   Ironside's Hopefulls   Iron Side
3. RAM?   Simon Sharples      vs   Real Ale   Daniel Phillips
4. FCkTheKnockers   Arsene Knows      vs   Killer River   marc carnie
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The Champions League quarter finals will play on GW 26 + GW27
Yet to be finalised.
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The Uefa Cup semi finals will play on GW28 + GW29
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The FA Cup semi finals will play on GW30
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The Champions League semi finals will play on GW31 + GW32
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We'll take a further 1 week break in GW33.
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The Uefa Cup final will be played GW34 + GW35
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The FA Cup final will be played GW36
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The Champions League Final will be played GW37
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If there is any GW that ends up with 5 or more games being postponed due to weather or any other reason, we'll roll over the Cup games till the next week. So a minimum of 6 matches must be played in a GW for the Cup to play.

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£50 League. The Champions League.

5th round of games played GW20
        
Group A                                                                    P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  Morgan's Masterclass   Callum Morgan                     5        5       0       0       15     (291)
2.  Two Sisters Probably   Christopher Brammer            5        2       0       3       6      (289)
3.  ZEfruitbatzzzz        Jack Allen                                  5        2       0       3       6      (273)
4.  RUN BETTER        Patrick Leonard                           5         1       0       4       3      (242)

RUN BETTER   (51)      ZEfruitbatzzzz   (36)
Morgan's Masterclass   (37)      Two Sisters Probably   (30)      
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Group B                                                     P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  So Long Stevie   Phillip Marsh                  5        3       1       1       10     (338)
2.  TheDazzler   Tom McBennett                   5        3       1       1       10     (310)
3.  Premier Lead   Gareth J                          5        2       0       3       6      (310)
4.  standard   Tom Camp                             5        1       0       4       0      (277)

So Long Stevie   (39)      TheDazzler   (39)
Premier Lead   (30)      standard   (49)   
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Group C                                                     P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  Athletico Kofty   Ryan Greatrick                5        3       1       1       10     (291)
2.  Thereallrentboysmate   jon Slater            5        3       0       2       9      (295)
3.  Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson              5        2       1       2       7      (308)
4.  Killer River   marc carnie                         5        1       0       4       3      (242)
 
Monson Magic   (53)      Thereallrentboysmate   (40)
Athletico Kofty   (34)      Killer River   (37)   
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Group D                                                      P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss            5        5       0       0       15      (342)
2.  ItEndedOnAnOilyPitch   Danny McEachen     5        3       1       1       10     (309)
3.  lolteke   Tom Langley                                5        1       1       3       4      (266)
4.  Bobbins FC   Nicholas Wright                     5        0       0       5       0      (281)

Bobbins FC   (36)      Deeney Mata to Mee   (43)
ItEndedOnAnOilyPitch   (37)      lolteke   (37)
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The final group games will take place on GW21

Please note that transfer hits (-4) scores will be deducted from total scores in all cup competitions.
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GW21 fixtures

Group A
Morgan's Masterclass      vs      ZEfruitbatzzzz
RUN BETTER         vs   Two Sisters Probably
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Group B
Premier Lead      vs      TheDazzler
So Long Stevie      vs      standard
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Group C
Athletico Kofty      vs      Thereallrentboysmate
Monson Magic      vs      Killer River
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Group D
ItEndedOnAnOilyPitch      vs      Deeney Mata to Mee
Bobbins FC         vs   lolteke
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It should be noted that we are following the Champions League format in deciding tiebreaks. If teams are tied, then the 2 results between those 2 teams is the initial tiebreak. If still tied, 'away goals' count. If still tied, goal difference will be used.
In light of that;
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In Group A Two Sisters Probably has the better head to head record against ZEfruitbatzzzz and ZEfruitbatzzzz must therefore better Two Sisters Probably's result in the final game.
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In Group B, TheDazzler and So Long Stevie have both qualified but TheDazzler has the better head to head record so So Long Stevie must better TheDazzler's result in the final game to win the group.
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In Group C, Athletico Kofty has qualified, as due to his head to head record, he cannot be overtaken by Monson Magic. Monson Magic can still qualify if he beats or finishes level with Thereallrentboysmate due to his superior head to head.
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In Group D, the winner and runner up are already decided.   
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Anyone else already transferred Aguero in this GW and sweating a potential injury tonight?

Yup!

Worst GW ever (unless you had Payet - I did not).

My GW Rank, 3.44m :(

Probably my worst ever GW ranking too at 3.259m but I'm not that disappointed as I didn't lose that much ground.
You're always going to have bad GWs, it's best to have them in low scoring average weeks.

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£50 League. The Champions League.

6th round of games played GW21
        
Group A                                                                    P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  Morgan's Masterclass   Callum Morgan                     6        6       0       0       18     (318)
2.  Two Sisters Probably   Christopher Brammer            6        2       0       4       6      (314)
3.  RUN BETTER        Patrick Leonard                            6        2       0       4       6      (271)
4.  ZEfruitbatzzzz        Jack Allen                                  6        2       0       4       6      (299)

Morgan's Masterclass   (27)      ZEfruitbatzzzz   (26)
RUN BETTER   (29)      Two Sisters Probably   (25)      
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Group B                                                     P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  So Long Stevie   Phillip Marsh                  6        3       2       1       11     (374)
2.  TheDazzler   Tom McBennett                   6        3       1       2       10     (334)
3.  Premier Lead   Gareth J                          6        3       0       3       9      (339)
4.  standard   Tom Camp                             6        1       1       4       4      (313)

Premier Lead   (28)      TheDazzler   (24)
So Long Stevie   (36)      standard   (36)   
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Group C                                                     P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  Athletico Kofty   Ryan Greatrick                6        4       1       1       13     (330)
2.  Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson              6        3       1       2       10     (348)
3.  Thereallrentboysmate   jon Slater            6        3       0       3       9      (316)
4.  Killer River   marc carnie                         6        1       0       5       3      (268)
 
Athletico Kofty   (39)      Thereallrentboysmate   (21)
Monson Magic   (40)      Killer River   (26)   
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Group D                                                      P       W       D       L      Pts     GD
1.  Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss            6        6       0       0       18      (380)
2.  ItEndedOnAnOilyPitch   Danny McEachen     6        3       1       2       10     (333)
3.  lolteke   Tom Langley                                6        2       1       3       7      (304)
4.  Bobbins FC   Nicholas Wright                     6        0       0       6       0      (308)

ItEndedOnAnOilyPitch   (24)      Deeney Mata to Mee   (38)
Bobbins FC   (27)      lolteke   (38)
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Please note that transfer hits (-4) scores will be deducted from total scores in all cup competitions.
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In Group A, Two Sisters Probably qualifies due to having a better H2H record against both of the other managers who finished on level points.
So our 8 quarter finals are decided and the draw will be made in due course by MereNovice when the 4 Group winners will be drawn against the 4 runners up.
Those ties will be played on GW26/27.
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We'll now take a 1 week break and we'll recommence with the Uefa Cup quarters in GW23/24.

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The Uefa Cup quarter finals will play on GW23 + GW24
1. Valar Dohaeris FC   Curtis Ledger      v   ZEfruitbatzzzz   Jack Allen
2. Bells to the End   Ty Akram      v   Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson
3. Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss      v   Bring the Swain FC!   Todd Swain
4. The Mutts Nutts   Lewis Morton      v   TheYellowBrickRoad   Greg Hill
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The FA cup quarter finals will play on GW 25
1. Plastic Geordies XI   Shaun Conning      vs   Klopptomaniacs   Craig O'Brien
2. McG's McMuffins   Kevin Green      vs   Ironside's Hopefulls   Iron Side
3. RAM?   Simon Sharples      vs   Real Ale   Daniel Phillips
4. FCkTheKnockers   Arsene Knows      vs   Killer River   marc carnie
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The Champions League quarter finals will play on GW 26 + GW27
1. Morgan's Masterclass   Callum Morgan   vs      TheDazzler   Tom McBennett
2. So Long Stevie   Phillip Marsh   vs   Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson
3. Athletico Kofty   Ryan Greatrick   vs   ItEndedOnAnOilyPitch   Danny McEachen
4. Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss   vs   Two Sisters Probably   Christopher Brammer
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The Uefa Cup semi finals will play on GW28 + GW29
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The FA Cup semi finals will play on GW30
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The Champions League semi finals will play on GW31 + GW32
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We'll take a 1 week break in GW33.
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The Uefa Cup final will be played GW34 + GW35
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The FA Cup final will be played GW36
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The Champions League Final will be played GW37
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If there is any GW that ends up with 5 or more games being postponed due to weather or any other reason, we'll roll over the Cup games till the next week. So a minimum of 6 matches must be played in a GW for the Cup to play.
Many thanks to MereNovice for doing all the draws for us!

i am starting to get frustrated at this fantasy malarky

ozil not playing today guess most people are in same boat there

but obviously i went for wrong captain again

i am doing so much better than last season but nearly every week i have a coin flip and make make wrong call

^^^

I know how you feel iron.

I neglected to make Charlie Daniels captain myself this week.

What do you think of young Targetts chances of keeping his place Iron?
An absolute bargain if he does, particularly playing so advanced.

if we keep a back 5 then i cant see him being dropped

but its hard to see us keeping a 5 at the back with tadic,pelle,austin all to come into the team koeman has to drop someone

but i like it when we go with youngsters we have more fight in the team than when we play the "stars"

I transferred in Darmian this week after not feeling confident that Borthwick-Jackson would A) Start or B) Play regularly. My main rival in another league plumps for B-J. Darmian gets injured 30 seconds before collecting 5 extra points then B-J gets subbed off later, 30 seconds before Soton score.

Also, my keeper Myhill doesn't play at home vs a shite Villa   ;grr;

Firminho (c) finally :D:D

What's he highest people have came in game week histories before? Is 400th especially good or not even close?

Top 1000 playing properly is v good for anyone, considering the amount of people who do 14 transfers a week to try and get the top score.

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The Uefa Cup quarter finals 1st leg GW23
1. Valar Dohaeris FC   Curtis Ledger   (60)   v   ZEfruitbatzzzz   Jack Allen   (39)
2. Bells to the End   Ty Akram   (42)   v   Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson   (39)
3. Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss   (58)   v   Bring the Swain FC!   Todd Swain   (64)
4. The Mutts Nutts   Lewis Morton   (44)   v   TheYellowBrickRoad   Greg Hill   (51)
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The 2nd leg will play next week GW24.
Please note that transfer hits (-4) scores will be deducted from total scores in all cup competitions.

Can this wildcard be played until the end of the season or the end of the month?

Until the end of the season.

save it for weeks when teams play twice

baines on the everton bench please dont come on tonight tyvm

much rather have the 8 points from my bench than just the 1 point i will get from baines trotting out for the last 10 minutes

Iron, do you realise there's now 20 odd people rooting for Baines to come off the bench ;)

Only 20

Think there is a 90% chance he will get a run out as he regains full fitness so thought I would get my moan in early cause ilike a good moan

To be fair it doesn't really come across that way at all..


Aye. No me though. I'm funking for you to use up all your run good this week n no the next.

Oh cup next week I will have to check your team out later, most teams are very similar now although with de bryune getting injury a few different routes have been taken

unlucky with baines not playing again this weekend the 2 goals from huth came into play again

if only i could pick a captain who scored some point i could be in the running

Well played. You'd of won by an even bigger margin if you'd started and captained Huth ;)

He will come into play instead of baines,  I rarely get captain right

For the record, Ironside studied my team and knows we both captained Kane this week.

only outfield  player in my team not to score atleast 3 points so obviously i captained him

The Uefa Cup quarter finals 1st + 2nd leg results GW23/24. All winners in bold.
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1. Valar Dohaeris FC   Curtis Ledger   (60)   +  (69)  =   (129)    v   ZEfruitbatzzzz   Jack Allen   (39)  +  (67)  =   (106)
2. Bells to the End   Ty Akram   (42)  +  (63)  =  (105)   v   Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson   (39)  +  (71)  =  (110)
3. Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss   (58)  +  (40)  =  (98)   v   Bring the Swain FC!   Todd Swain  (64)  +  (75)  =  (139)
4. The Mutts Nutts   Lewis Morton  (44)  +  (56)  =  (100)   v   TheYellowBrickRoad   Greg Hill  (51)  +  (67)  =  (118)
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The FA cup quarter finals played in GW 25
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1. Plastic Geordies XI   Shaun Conning   (67)   vs   Klopptomaniacs   Craig O'Brien   (46)
2. McG's McMuffins   Kevin Green   (56)   vs   Ironside's Hopefulls   Iron Side   (82)
3. RAM?   Simon Sharples   (33)   vs   Real Ale   Daniel Phillips   (40)
4. FCkTheKnockers   Arsene Knows   (64)   vs   Killer River   marc carnie     (62)
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The draws for the semi finals of both competitions will be made in due course.
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The Champions League quarter finals to be played on GW 26 + GW27
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1. Morgan's Masterclass   Callum Morgan   vs      TheDazzler   Tom McBennett
2. So Long Stevie   Phillip Marsh   vs   Monson Magic   Mitchell Johnson
3. Athletico Kofty   Ryan Greatrick   vs   ItEndedOnAnOilyPitch   Danny McEachen
4. Deeney Mata to Mee   Robert Moss   vs   Two Sisters Probably   Christopher Brammer
 
Please note that transfer hits (-4) scores will be deducted from total scores in all cup competitions.