Fantasy Premier league 2014/15 Official Thread

[TheDazzler]

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Champions League Final played GW37(£50 league)


Killer River    (63)  vs    TheDazzler    (64)
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Europa League Final to be played GW38 (£10 League)

Jack Allen    vs    Nicholas Wright

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Final of the H2H League to be played GW38 (£25 League)

Real Fruitbatz   v    16b United

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In the event of a tie in the Europa League Final, we'll have to have a virtual coin toss (to be administered by MereNovice) as we have run out of gameweeks to have the replay
Best of luck all involved in this, the final week of the season

[TheFruitbat]

VICTORY    . Very close last day! Such a good sweat haha. GG to everyone involved. Bring on next season!

[degston77]

Thanks for running this, really enjoyed the challenge. I'll have to up my game for next season.  Well done all those who won. 

[George2Loose]

Thanks for running this, really enjoyed the challenge. I'll have to up my game for next season.  Well done all those who won. 

[Junior Senior]

Congrats all winners. The Dazzler outclassing us all for the 2nd season running.

Will sort out final standings and payments this week.

Looking forward to next season already!

[Mark_Porter]

WP The Dazzler, too good in the end and a deserved winner. Bring on next year!

[TheDazzler]

Cheers all.
Some good performances really pushed me hard. I won't put in as much effort next year, so I'm sure it'll be someone elses turn next year!
Hopefully a lot of people got a pay out of some sort and the interest was kept up by most for as long as possible.
Many thanks to Greg and MereNovice for their invaluable help throughout the season.
See you all here again next season!


Just to give you a quote from a guy on a Fantasy Forum I frequent. If you weren't as committed as this guy, you weren't committed enough.
It's the last 2 lines that killed me!

"It's difficult to put into words how crushed I am. My plan with my final transfer was to bring in somebody with potential to be explosive who is lowly owned and to also captain them. I initially planned on Costa but with doubts over Hazard and no Fabregas I didn't feel that he would have good enough supply and I also had a suspicion that Drogba may play being his last game.

I had at this point dismissed Benteke as an option purely because I assumed the chances of him being rested would be high.

So my attention then switched to Walcott and I was all set on doing the transfer but after much deliberation I just didn't feel that he was guaranteed enough to start to risk it. He wasn't in half of the predicted line ups I had researched and also West Brom are supposed to have a good defence. In addition, I saw some quotes from Sherwood saying he would not be resting anyone.

Well you can guess who I went for. I know how close I was to doing the Walcott (c) move which would have meant 71pts instead of 34 which would have got me 2nd in my money league and could also have bumped me up into the top 1k. To add to the tale of woe, I don't have Hazard, benched Kane and had Skrtel getting me -2.

I always find it a rather horrible moment when the curtains draw on another season. Rather similar to that anti-climax type feeling when you come back from a holiday. My dwelling on what could have been if only I had just gone with Walcott is adding to this.

If that wasn't enough today, I have been ill all today with a migraine and my wife has told me she is not happy with our relationship!

Anyway guys, hope you have a great summer and see you all here when the new season starts."

[ChipRich]

Wp all winners and Ty Dazzler for running this. Lot of effort from you this year.

Was right up there all season, but dropped away final 8-10 games and ended 6th in this. One HUGE mistake was about 2-3 weeks ago when I must have scrolled down after putting Aguero captain and it scrolled to Hazard and must have clicked confirm. Cost me like 34 points!
Wouldn't have made too much difference but was still fuming!

Still, a decent year and came first and second in private leagues for a bit of profit.  

Onto next year...can't wait.

[Junior Senior]

The Post-Season Review.

Thanks to one and all for making this season’s Blonde FPL competition a success.  I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it despite winning absolutely nothing and running terribly in the cups and H2H.  I did manage a victory in a very small side bet with a FPL reg (cheers Ralph :-)). Might actually be the 1st time I have beaten him.

It’s been a very tough field this year with a few of our cohort managing to get themselves into the coveted heady heights of the top 1000 overall (from a field of over 3.5 million teams). At one stage, we even had 1 player in the top 100.

Well done to Tom (The Dazzler) for winning overall and showing us the way all season.  He was closely ran by Mark Porter in the £10 league and Nick Wright in the £50 league.  

Rob Moss took the H2H league, stopping The Dazzler taking the grand slam. Congrats Rob!

Tom actually added £130 of his own cash this season to allow for additional cup and play-off prizes, which is very good of him in deed. He must have known he was getting it back! .

Here are the final honours:

£50 League

1st £660 – The Dazzler (Tom McBennett) (TheDazzler)
2nd £330 – Bobbins FC (Nick Wright) (dino1980)
3rd £200 – Killer River (Marc Carnie) (Killer River)
4th £135 – Premier Lead (Gareth Johns) (Gazza)

FA Cup winner £50 - Bobbins FC (Nick Wright) (dino1980)
FA Cup runner up £25 - Killer River (Marc Carnie) (Killer River)
Champions League, winner £100 - The Dazzler (Tom McBennett) (TheDazzler)
Champions League, runner up £50 - Killer River (Marc Carnie) (Killer River)

£10 League

1st £200 - The Dazzler (Tom McBennett) (TheDazzler)
2nd £100 – Mark’s Magicians (Mark Porter) (Mark_Porter)
3rd £60 - Bobbins FC (Nick Wright) (dino1980)
4th £40 - Killer River (Marc Carnie) (Killer River)
5th £20 - Premier Lead (Gareth Johns) (Gazza)

League Cup, winner £20 – Morgan’s Marvel’s (Callum Morgan) (BorntoBubble)
League Cup, runner up £10 - Killer River (Marc Carnie) (Killer River)
Europa League winner £20 - Real Fruitbatz (Jack Allen) (The Fruitbat)
Europa League, Runner up £10 - Bobbins FC (Nick Wright) (dino1980)

£25 Head-to-Head League

1st £325 – 16b United (Rob Moss) (RobM)
2nd £160 – The Dazzler (Tom McBennett) (TheDazzler)
3rd £100 – Fruitbatz (Jack Allen) (The Fruitbat)
4th £65 – Bobbins FC (Nick Wright) (dino1980)

Playoff winner £50 – Real Fruitbatz (Jack Allen) (The Fruitbat)
Playoff runner up £25- 16b United (Rob Moss) (RobM)

Free League (£10 added)

Highest placed player, not to have won any other prize £10 – AC Dead People (Rich Hare) (Chip Rich)


Attention Prize Winners...... Please PM me your bank details and I will transfer the money ASAP

[dino1980]

Thanks to Tom, Greg and Mere for all the hard work this season in running the leagues and cups, which were a great addition. Roll on next season, only 23 days to next season's fixtures are announced!

Well played Jack in the Europa League Cup final, no cup double for Bobbins FC and well played again Tom (and Mark) in the league and Marc who had me sweating big time at half time yesterday as the gap was down to about 4 points!

In the spirit of the added money Dazzler has put into the league I'd like to offer my League Cup runners-up prize of £10 to the manager who has achieved the best individual gameweek rank of the season. This is only open to players who haven't cashed in any of the leagues/cups. If you don't know where to find this info, go to your Points tab and then on the right hand side widget click 'View Gameweek History' and look under the column titled GR.

I'm not going to look through 50 teams so to win just post your Team Name and GW rank in here or PM me, I'll keep it open until the end of May and can ship by bank/stars/£10 bet of your choosing.

Thanks again for running this guys.

[TightEnd]

thanks for running this fellas

impeccable admin, great detail

exactly the sort of thread that really helps the forum

[RobM]

Yep awesome comp guys. Action from start to finish. V well done to all prize winners and better luck next season to everyone else.

Which big signings will we deliberate over? Who will be the early differentials?

It'll be back before we know it and I can't wait

[Gazza]

Thanks for running it this season guys, you put a load of effort in and it is appreciated it.  Until next year...

[Sheriff Fatman]

Thanks to all the guys who helped run this.

Had my best season ever, rankings wise, and still won absolutely nothing but the admin on this was impeccable with all the extra competitions.

Bring on next season.

[Killer River]

Thanks again tom and greg for organising this great comp, this has got to be one of the best fantasy leagues out there with all the cups and effort put in.

congrats to all the winners its been a very tight race and there has always been something to play for.

It's just a shame there is no more football for a while, i will end up getting withdrawals 

Hopefully this will be back next year with even more people, have a good summer all.

marc