UKFF FPLs 2022-23

[TildeGuy~!]

Week 23 fixtures 

FA Challenge Cup Third Round proper

Blackpool 0-2 Nottingham Forest
Boreham Wood 1-2 Accrington Stanley
Chesterfield 0-2 West Bromwich Albion
Fleetwood Town 1-2 Queen's Park Rangers
Hull City 1-2 Fulham
Ipswich Town 1-1 Rotherham United
Middlesbrough 0-2 Brighton & Hove Albion
Shrewsbury Town 1-2 Sunderland
Brentford 1-2 West Ham United (17:30)
Grimsby Town 2-1 Burton Albion (17:30)
Sheffield Wednesday 0-2 Newcastle United (18:00)
Liverpool 2-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers (20:00)
Cardiff City 1-2 Leeds United (Sunday 14:00)
Hartlepool United 0-2 Stoke City (Sunday 14:00)
Manchester City 2-0 Chelsea (Sunday 16:30)

Scottish Women's Cup Round 4
Falkirk 0-2 Celtic (Sun 12:30)

French Cup Round of 64
Le Puy 0-3 Nice (17:00)
Girondins de Bordeaux 0-2 Stade Rennais (19:45)
Lannion 0-2 Toulouse (Sunday 17:00)

[Fog Dude]

Two matches left in the Fantasy League gameweek (both involving Chelsea), so no full update on that yet, but suffice to say it hasn't gone well so far. Again. 

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FA Cup Third Round

Blackpool 0-1 Nottingham Forest
Boreham Wood 1-2 Accrington Stanley
Chesterfield 2-3 West Bromwich Albion
Fleetwood Town 1-3 QPR
Hull City 2-1 Fulham
Ipswich Town 3-1 Rotherham United
Middlesbrough 0-2 Brighton & Hove Albion
Shrewsbury Town 3-2 Sunderland
Brentford 2-0 West Ham United 
Grimsby Town 1-0 Burton Albion 
Sheffield Wednesday 0-1 Newcastle United 
Liverpool 3-1 Wolves
Cardiff City 1-2 Leeds United 
Hartlepool United 2-3 Stoke City
Manchester City 2-1 Chelsea 

Scottish Women's Cup Round 4
Falkirk 0-3 Celtic 

French Cup Ninth Round
Le Puy 0-2 OGC Nice 
Bordeaux 1-0 Rennes
Lannion 1-3 Toulouse 

[Vegeta]

Week 23 fixtures 

FA Challenge Cup Third Round proper

Blackpool 0-2 Nottingham Forest
Boreham Wood 0-2 Accrington Stanley
Chesterfield 1-2 West Bromwich Albion
Fleetwood Town 0-2 Queen's Park Rangers
Hull City 1-2 Fulham
Ipswich Town 1-2 Rotherham United
Middlesbrough 1-2 Brighton & Hove Albion
Shrewsbury Town 0-2 Sunderland
Brentford 1-2 West Ham United (17:30)
Grimsby Town 1-2 Burton Albion (17:30)
Sheffield Wednesday 1-3 Newcastle United (18:00)
Liverpool 2-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers (20:00)
Cardiff City 1-3 Leeds United (Sunday 14:00)
Hartlepool United 0-3 Stoke City (Sunday 14:00)
Manchester City 2-1 Chelsea (Sunday 16:30)

Scottish Women's Cup Round 4
Falkirk 0-2 Celtic (Sun 12:30)

French Cup Round of 64
Le Puy 0-3 Nice (17:00)
Girondins de Bordeaux 2-0 Stade Rennais (19:45)
Lannion 0-2 Toulouse (Sunday 17:00)

All games take place on Saturday and kick off at 15:00 unless stated. Start times are listed in GMT. 

[Stinky Dad]

Week 23 fixtures 

FA Challenge Cup Third Round proper

Blackpool 1 v 2 Nottingham Forest
Boreham Wood 1 v 1 Accrington Stanley
Chesterfield 1 v 2 West Bromwich Albion
Fleetwood Town 0 v 3 Queen's Park Rangers
Hull City 0 v 2 Fulham
Ipswich Town 1 v 0 Rotherham United
Middlesbrough 0 v 2 Brighton & Hove Albion
Shrewsbury Town 0 v 1 Sunderland
Brentford v West Ham United (17:30)
Grimsby Town 2 v 1 Burton Albion (17:30)
Sheffield Wednesday 0 v 3 Newcastle United (18:00)
Liverpool 2 v 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers (20:00)
Cardiff City 0 v 2 Leeds United (Sunday 14:00)
Hartlepool United 0 v 1 Stoke City (Sunday 14:00)
Manchester City 2 v 1 Chelsea (Sunday 16:30)

Scottish Women's Cup Round 4
Falkirk 0 v 3 Celtic (Sun 12:30)

French Cup Round of 64
Le Puy 0 v 2 Nice (17:00)
Girondins de Bordeaux 2 v 1 Stade Rennais (19:45)
Lannion 1 v 2 Toulouse (Sunday 17:00)

[ultimo the great]

Week 23 fixtures 

FA Challenge Cup Third Round proper

Blackpool 0-2 Nottingham Forest
Boreham Wood 0-2 Accrington Stanley
Chesterfield 1-2 West Bromwich Albion
Fleetwood Town 0-3 Queen's Park Rangers
Hull City 1-2 Fulham
Ipswich Town 2-1 Rotherham United
Middlesbrough 1-3 Brighton & Hove Albion
Shrewsbury Town 0-1 Sunderland
Brentford 2-0 West Ham United (17:30)
Grimsby Town 1-0 Burton Albion (17:30)
Sheffield Wednesday 0-2 Newcastle United (18:00)
Liverpool 2-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers (20:00)
Cardiff City 0-1 Leeds United (Sunday 14:00)
Hartlepool United 0-2 Stoke City (Sunday 14:00)
Manchester City 2-1 Chelsea (Sunday 16:30)

Scottish Women's Cup Round 4
Falkirk 0-3 Celtic (Sun 12:30)

French Cup Round of 64
Le Puy 0-4 Nice (17:00)
Girondins de Bordeaux 0-2 Stade Rennais (19:45)
Lannion 1-3 Toulouse (Sunday 17:00)

[seph]

Week 23 fixtures 

FA Challenge Cup Third Round proper

Blackpool 1-2 Nottingham Forest
Boreham Wood 0-2 Accrington Stanley
Chesterfield 0-3 West Bromwich Albion
Fleetwood Town 0-2 Queen's Park Rangers
Hull City 0-3 Fulham
Ipswich Town 2-1 Rotherham United
Middlesbrough 1-1 Brighton & Hove Albion
Shrewsbury Town 1-2 Sunderland
Brentford 2-1 West Ham United (17:30)
Grimsby Town 0-2 Burton Albion (17:30)
Sheffield Wednesday 0-3 Newcastle United (18:00)
Liverpool 3-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers (20:00)
Cardiff City 2-2 Leeds United (Sunday 14:00)
Hartlepool United 2-1 Stoke City (Sunday 14:00)
Manchester City 3-2 Chelsea (Sunday 16:30)

Scottish Women's Cup Round 4
Falkirk 0-3 Celtic (Sun 12:30)

French Cup Round of 64
Le Puy 0-4 Nice (17:00)
Girondins de Bordeaux 0-2 Stade Rennais (19:45)
Lannion 0-3 Toulouse (Sunday 17:00)

[MVP RULZ]

Week 23 fixtures 

FA Challenge Cup Third Round proper

Blackpool 1-2 Nottingham Forest
Boreham Wood 0-2 Accrington Stanley
Chesterfield 1-4 West Bromwich Albion
Fleetwood Town 1-3 Queen's Park Rangers
Hull City 1-2 Fulham
Ipswich Town 1-1 Rotherham United
Middlesbrough 1-2 Brighton & Hove Albion
Shrewsbury Town 1-2 Sunderland
Brentford 2-1 West Ham United (17:30)
Grimsby Town 2-3 Burton Albion (17:30)
Sheffield Wednesday 0-0 Newcastle United (18:00)
Liverpool 2-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers (20:00)
Cardiff City 0-1 Leeds United (Sunday 14:00)
Hartlepool United 1-4 Stoke City (Sunday 14:00)
Manchester City 3-1 Chelsea (Sunday 16:30)

Scottish Women's Cup Round 4
Falkirk 0-4 Celtic (Sun 12:30)

French Cup Round of 64
Le Puy 0-3 Nice (17:00)
Girondins de Bordeaux 1-0 Stade Rennais (19:45)
Lannion 0-3 Toulouse (Sunday 17:00)

[RoryFice]

Week 23 fixtures 

FA Challenge Cup Third Round proper

Blackpool 2-1 Nottingham Forest
Boreham Wood 1-1 Accrington Stanley
Chesterfield 1-2 West Bromwich Albion
Fleetwood Town 0-1 Queen's Park Rangers
Hull City 2-1 Fulham
Ipswich Town 2-1 Rotherham United
Middlesbrough 2-1 Brighton & Hove Albion
Shrewsbury Town 1-1 Sunderland
Brentford 2-2 West Ham United (17:30)
Grimsby Town 1-2 Burton Albion (17:30)
Sheffield Wednesday 0-2 Newcastle United (18:00)
Liverpool 3-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers (20:00)
Cardiff City 2-1 Leeds United (Sunday 14:00)
Hartlepool United 0-4 Stoke City (Sunday 14:00)
Manchester City 2-1 Chelsea (Sunday 16:30)

Scottish Women's Cup Round 4
Falkirk 0-2 Celtic (Sun 12:30)

French Cup Round of 64
Le Puy 0-3 Nice (17:00)
Girondins de Bordeaux 2-1 Stade Rennais (19:45)
Lannion 0-1 Toulouse (Sunday 17:00)

[Fatty Facesitter]

FPL
Made the right call to captain Mitrovic for this gameweek instead of Haaland, even though Big Mito is suspended for the second of his double GW fixtures. Fingers crossed for some additional points from his colleague Andreas along with the Chelsea contingent I have in my time. The majority of my team are performing well even if not all of them are picking up points at the same time, so slightly frustrating but hopefully that will even out across the season. 

Predictions
Week 23 fixtures 

FA Challenge Cup Third Round proper

Blackpool 1-2 Nottingham Forest
Boreham Wood 0-1 Accrington Stanley
Chesterfield 1-2 West Bromwich Albion
Fleetwood Town 1-0 Queen's Park Rangers
Hull City 1-2 Fulham
Ipswich Town 2-0 Rotherham United
Middlesbrough 0-1 Brighton & Hove Albion
Shrewsbury Town 0-2 Sunderland
Brentford 3-0 West Ham United (17:30)
Grimsby Town 1-0 Burton Albion (17:30)
Sheffield Wednesday 1-3 Newcastle United (18:00)
Liverpool 4-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers (20:00)
Cardiff City 2-1 Leeds United (Sunday 14:00)
Hartlepool United 1-0 Stoke City (Sunday 14:00)
Manchester City 2-1 Chelsea (Sunday 16:30)

Scottish Women's Cup Round 4
Falkirk 0-3 Celtic (Sun 12:30)

French Cup Round of 64
Le Puy 0-4 Nice (17:00)
Girondins de Bordeaux 2-1 Stade Rennais (19:45)
Lannion 0-3 Toulouse (Sunday 17:00)

[I Bent My Wookie]

Week 23 fixtures 

 

FA Challenge Cup Third Round proper

 

Blackpool 1-2 Nottingham Forest

Boreham Wood 0-2 Accrington Stanley

Chesterfield 1-0 West Bromwich Albion

Fleetwood Town 1-2 Queen's Park Rangers

Hull City 1-1 Fulham

Ipswich Town 1-0 Rotherham United

Middlesbrough 0-2 Brighton & Hove Albion

Shrewsbury Town 1-2 Sunderland

Brentford 0-1 West Ham United (17:30)

Grimsby Town 2-0 Burton Albion (17:30)

Sheffield Wednesday 1-2 Newcastle United (18:00)

Liverpool 2-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers (20:00)

Cardiff City 2-1 Leeds United (Sunday 14:00)

Hartlepool United 0-0 Stoke City (Sunday 14:00)

Manchester City 2-1 Chelsea (Sunday 16:30)

 

Scottish Women's Cup Round 4

Falkirk 0-5 Celtic (Sun 12:30)

 

French Cup Round of 64

Le Puy 0-3 Nice (17:00)

Girondins de Bordeaux 2-1 Stade Rennais (19:45)

Lannion 0-1 Toulouse (Sunday 17:00)

[Fog Dude]

Still gonna wait until after the west London derby to make a full Fantasy League update, but in the meantime, a tip for those of you who might not have noticed a very recent bit of rescheduling: by mid-afternoon on Saturday we already knew Man Utd were through without the need of a replay and Palace were out. The former are the only English team who have to play in Europe twice next month, whilst the Eagles are one of a handful of sides who had two games called off in September.

So, their first league meeting of the season has been hastily arranged for next week, and it'll count to towards the next round. That means if you've got at least one free transfer then you might want to use it on a player from one of those teams since they've got a good chance of earning points from two separate matches. 

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The Predictions League, meanwhile, continues apace. The results went into the initial post on Sunday evening and the table was updated soon after that. With no bonuses available this time out, scoring was out of 57 across the board, and given that, it was a little on the low side. In fact there were just 5 points between the best and worst performance for the round.

Top scorer Stinky is now firmly ensconced in the chasing pack, which could be important as we now have a bit of a title race once more with MVP RULZ' lead cut down to 5 points. In the bottom half, Shy Dad again leapfrogs Rory, but even more incredibly, we're over halfway through the season and Nicko and Vegeta are joint last with identical records. Usually absolute ties in the standings are gone by about Week 3 or 4.

If it ended like that I'd probably invite them to guess the Champions League final result as a kind of play-off to avoid the wooden spoon rather than have it decided on alphabetical order. But it surely won't come to that... ?

Anyway, plenty of shocks do help to explain the low scoring this time. Forest, Rotherham, QPR, Burton and (memorably, live on prime time Saturday night BBC1) Newcastle all succumbed to the classic Third Round weekend narrative – the first two of those by an alarmingly hefty margin which basically kills any chance of three-pointers.

Speaking of which, nobody foresaw things would go quite so smoothly for Man City on Sunday either. Incredibly, Nice also fell at the earliest possible hurdle in France which produced a dud outcome. Progress on the road for West Ham and Rennes proved tough to guess beforehand too.

On the other hand, teams with tricky-looking banana skin ties such as Fulham, Brighton, Sunderland and Stoke did avoid embarrassment after all, and in the case of the clashes at The Riverside and nearby Victoria Park, emphatically so. Those caught a few people out.

Even though pickers expected them to win, nobody got the exact score from Celtic or Toulouse's overwhelming victories. I think you need scorelines like that to remind you just how unlikely upsets sometimes actually are, mind.

Replays are back, but I've got accustomed to not betting on any draws for Cup ties in recent years. So, as exciting as the score draws at massive underdogs Boreham Wood, Cardiff, Chesterfield and Liverpool might have been, they weren't of much use to me or most other participants. Obviously the favourites will coast the rematch in all 4 cases.

Right, back to normal next time. It's an EPL-dominated set of 10 for the first time since late October. And, since I mentioned we're now into the second half of the season and it's still ages until the FPL Cup quarter-finals, it's time to get on with some second-choice D2Ds to keep things interesting. That'll go live at the top of the thread shortly. 

[TildeGuy~!]

Week 24 fixtures 

Premier League

Brighton & Hove Albion 1-2 Liverpool
Everton 1-1 Southampton
Nottingham Forest 1-2 Leicester City
Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-1 West Ham United

Brentford 2-1 Bournemouth (17:30)
Tottenham Hotspur 2-2 Arsenal (Sunday 16:30)

FA Trophy Fourth Round
Solihull Moors 1-2 Barnet w/TildeGuy~!

Scottish League Cup semi-final
Aberdeen 0-2 Rangers (Sunday, at Hampden Park)

Serie A
Roma 2-1 Fiorentina (Sunday 19:45)

Primeira Liga
Benfica 2-0 Sporting Lisbon (Sunday 18:00)

[Vegeta]

Premier League

Brighton & Hove Albion 1-2 Liverpool
Everton 2-1 Southampton
Nottingham Forest 0-2 Leicester City
Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-2 West Ham United

Brentford 0-1 Bournemouth (17:30)
Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Arsenal (Sunday 16:30)

FA Trophy Fourth Round
Solihull Moors 2-1 Barnet w/TildeGuy~!

Scottish League Cup semi-final
Aberdeen 0-2 Rangers (Sunday, at Hampden Park)

Serie A
Roma 2-1 Fiorentina (Sunday 19:45)

Primeira Liga
Benfica 2-1 Sporting Lisbon (Sunday 18:00)

All games take place on Saturday and kick off at 15:00 unless stated. Start times are listed in GMT. 

[Fog Dude]

Premier League

Brighton & Hove Albion 3-1 Liverpool
Everton 0-1 Southampton
Nottingham Forest 1-1 Leicester City
Wolves 2-1 West Ham United

Brentford 2-0 Bournemouth 
Tottenham Hotspur 0-0 Arsenal 

FA Trophy Fourth Round
Solihull Moors 3-0 Barnet w/Tilde

Scottish League Cup semi-final
Aberdeen 0-3 Rangers (@ Hampden)

Serie A
Roma 1-0 Fiorentina 

Primeira Liga
Benfica 2-2 Sporting Lisbon

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I'm up to 51 points for the round in the Fantasy League, which is still showing up as above average but that could change overnight. Don't think any of my players will be getting bonuses added on. Andreas and Mitrović both scored 5, the first of which doubles up to 10 since he had the armband. The two Chelsea defenders only scored 6 points between them from 360 combined minutes.

I definitely made the right decision to stick Leno in goal and should've captained him as it turned out, what with him getting a whopping 14 from 2 matches. From my Arsenal trio, however, only Saliba stood out from the pack on 7 points. Worst of all, my vice-captain Jorginho didn't play against Man City and didn't start tonight... but then he came on for 34 ineffectual minutes at the end, which means I didn't get the 16 points from Kane whom I'd left on the bench. 

All of that leaves me below the magic 1,000-point mark with half the season officially gone. Somehow still in the top half of players overall, but down in most private leagues, static in two and up in none.

For the next Gameweek, which starts tomorrow night, I've sacked off two Chelsea players and nabbed Andersen from Palace plus Spurs' Højbjerg instead. Both have got a double round coming up, albeit with two tough-looking fixtures each. For that same reason, Lloris (freshly retired from international football) is restored despite Leno's great performance last time.

In the outfield, the Fulham duo plus Leeds' Struijk have outlived their usefulness for the moment and therefore drop to the bench. Rumours are the latter would've had a double round this coming week if they hadn't ended up with a replay against Cardiff. Kane comes back in as captain, alongside Cancelo and Gündoğan, the former of which is vice-captain this time.

[seph]

Premier League

Brighton & Hove Albion 1-3 Liverpool
Everton 0-3 Southampton
Nottingham Forest 1-2 Leicester City
Wolves 2-2 West Ham United

Brentford 2-1 Bournemouth 
Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 Arsenal 

FA Trophy Fourth Round
Solihull Moors 2-0 Barnet w/Tilde

Scottish League Cup semi-final
Aberdeen 0-3 Rangers (@ Hampden)

Serie A
Roma 2-0 Fiorentina 

Primeira Liga
Benfica 1-2 Sporting Lisbon