Paid Members Fatty Facesitter Posted April 4, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted April 4, 2023 Apologies @Fog Dude - appreciate the effort you go to run the thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fog Dude Posted April 4, 2023 Author Share Posted April 4, 2023 9 hours ago, Fatty Facesitter said: Apologies @Fog Dude - appreciate the effort you go to run the thread. Cheers. Thought I might've been a tad harsh there. It's a relief to see you accepting your fate with good grace. Of course, your other legacy is that I've been trying to juggle Fantasy League updates as well as Predictions League ones all campaign long. I'm going to persevere with boring the pants off of people for the remainder of the season with my own ups and downs in that competition, but I'm thinking that next year it might be wise to split up the threads again since it hasn't really worked out. Do feel free to add how you got on in that once the 2022/23 EPL is over too. In other news, time for a mea cupla: I noted down one of the scorelines wrong on Sunday night (but not the result), which affected two people's number of points scored. The initial post has been amended accordingly. I've also corrected the spreadsheet on my hard drive and backed it up, so the slight changes will be reflected in the next update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinky Dad Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 Saturday Premier League (Saturday) Brentford 1 v 2 Newcastle United Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 v 1 Chelsea Southampton 0 v 3 Manchester City (17:30) Championship Blackburn Rovers 1 v 1 Norwich City League One Forest Green Rovers 1 v 2 Derby County Oxford United 0 v 1 Sheffield Wednesday League Two Crawley Town 1 v 1 Bradford City Harrogate Town 1 v 1 Wimbledon Scottish Premiership Celtic 2 v 1 Rangers (Saturday 12:30) A Primeira Liga Benfica 1 v 1 Porto (Friday 18:00)Week 36B fixtures – Easter Day and Easter Monday Premier League (Sunday) Leeds United 1 v 1 Crystal Palace (14:00) Liverpool 1 v 2 Arsenal (16:30) Championship Cardiff City 0 v 0 Sunderland Coventry City 1 v 0 Watford Hull City 2 v 1 Millwall Wigan Athletic 0 v 2 Swansea City League One Cheltenham Town 1 v 2 Ipswich Town League Two Tranmere Rovers 0 v 1 Swindon Town National League North Southport 1 v 2 Chester National League South Weymouth 1 v 2 Bath City Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegeta Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 Week 36A fixtures – Good Friday and Holy Saturday Premier League (Saturday) Brentford 1-3 Newcastle United Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-1 Chelsea Southampton 0-4 Manchester City (17:30) Championship Blackburn Rovers 1-2 Norwich City League One Forest Green Rovers 0-2 Derby County Oxford United 1-2 Sheffield Wednesday League Two Crawley Town 0-2 Bradford City Harrogate Town 1-2 Wimbledon Scottish Premiership Celtic 3-2 Rangers (Saturday 12:30) A Primeira Liga Benfica 2-1 Porto (18:00)Week 36B fixtures – Easter Day and Easter Monday Premier League (Sunday) Leeds United 1-1 Crystal Palace (14:00) Liverpool 1-3 Arsenal (16:30) Championship Cardiff City 2-1 Sunderland Coventry City 1-2 Watford Hull City 2-0 Millwall Wigan Athletic 0-2 Swansea City League One Cheltenham Town 1-2 Ipswich Town League Two Tranmere Rovers 1-2 Swindon Town National League North Southport 2-1 Chester National League South Weymouth 1-2 Bath City All games take place on Friday or Monday and kick off at 15:00 unless stated. Start times are listed in BST. === Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoryFice Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 Premier League (Saturday) Brentford 1-1 Newcastle United Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-2 Chelsea Southampton 0-2 Manchester City (17:30) Championship Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Norwich City League One Forest Green Rovers 0-1 Derby County Oxford United 1-2 Sheffield Wednesday League Two Crawley Town 1-1 Bradford City Harrogate Town 1-1 Wimbledon Scottish Premiership Celtic 3-0 Rangers (Saturday 12:30) A Primeira Liga Benfica 1-0 Porto (18:00)Week 36B fixtures – Easter Day and Easter Monday Premier League (Sunday) Leeds United 1-0 Crystal Palace (14:00) Liverpool 2-1 Arsenal (16:30) Championship Cardiff City 3-2 Sunderland Coventry City 1-1 Watford Hull City 2-0 Millwall Wigan Athletic 2-2 Swansea City League One Cheltenham Town 1-2 Ipswich Town League Two Tranmere Rovers 0-0 Swindon Town National League North Southport 1-1 Chester National League South Weymouth 1-1 Bath City Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MVP RULZ Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 Week 36A fixtures – Good Friday and Holy Saturday Premier League (Saturday) Brentford 1-1 Newcastle United Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-2 Chelsea Southampton 0-3 Manchester City (17:30) Championship Blackburn Rovers 2-2 Norwich City League One Forest Green Rovers 1-2 Derby County Oxford United 1-1 Sheffield Wednesday League Two Crawley Town 1-3 Bradford City Harrogate Town 1-2 Wimbledon Scottish Premiership Celtic 2-0 Rangers (Saturday 12:30) A Primeira Liga Benfica 2-1 Porto (18:00)Week 36B fixtures – Easter Day and Easter Monday Premier League (Sunday) Leeds United 1-2 Crystal Palace (14:00) Liverpool 1-1 Arsenal (16:30) Championship Cardiff City 1-2 Sunderland Coventry City 2-2 Watford Hull City 1-2 Millwall Wigan Athletic 0-2 Swansea City League One Cheltenham Town 1-3 Ipswich Town League Two Tranmere Rovers 1-3 Swindon Town National League North Southport 0-2 Chester National League South Weymouth 1-3 Bath City Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members seph Posted April 6, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted April 6, 2023 Week 36A fixtures – Good Friday and Holy Saturday Premier League (Saturday) Brentford 1-3 Newcastle United Wolverhampton Wanderers 2-1 Chelsea Southampton 0-5 Manchester City (17:30) Championship Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Norwich City League One Forest Green Rovers 0-2 Derby County Oxford United 0-3 Sheffield Wednesday League Two Crawley Town 1-2 Bradford City Harrogate Town 2-2 Wimbledon Scottish Premiership Celtic 4-1 Rangers (Saturday 12:30) A Primeira Liga Benfica 3-2 Porto (18:00)Week 36B fixtures – Easter Day and Easter Monday Premier League (Sunday) Leeds United 1-1 Crystal Palace (14:00) Liverpool 0-3 Arsenal (16:30) Championship Cardiff City 0-3 Sunderland Coventry City 2-2 Watford Hull City 0-2 Millwall Wigan Athletic 0-4 Swansea City League One Cheltenham Town 2-1 Ipswich Town League Two Tranmere Rovers 1-2 Swindon Town National League North Southport 1-2 Chester National League South Weymouth 1-2 Bath City Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fog Dude Posted April 6, 2023 Author Share Posted April 6, 2023 Ugh, what a waste of my Free Hit. I finished on 88 points, just about above average but for using that chip in a double round you really need to be getting into treble figures. My positions are looking more settled in the Private Leagues at this late stage now, but I'm up in one and down in another – which is one of the UKFF leagues, naturally. It was that man Gündoğan again who got more points from one match than 3 people did from two, was level with 4 more and managed only one point fewer than a further 3 double-duty players. So of course I'd left him in the position of last sub, meaning there was no way I was getting his points. Solly March's 8 points doubled up to 16 for me, but Newcastle defenders Kieran Trippier and Fabian Schär or even Dominic Solanke would've all been better options. The worst selection decision was undoubtedly Virgil van Dijk starting ahead of second-choice sub Ollie Watkins at the back. The latter scored zero as Liverpool shipped 4 on Saturday, then stayed on the bench at Stamford Bridge in midweek. Meaning that nought doesn't get swapped out for anyone else. Watkins, meanwhile, soared to a haul of 17 points, behind only Callum Wilson in the Team of the Week. And I can't even say I now have him in my squad since it was part of a one-time deal. Oh well. At least I chose the higher-scoring of my two keepers. Spaffing that chip up the wall means I'm back with old, rubbish squad and just one free transfer. Two players are listed as definitely injured and two more as doubtful. Of the first duo, Saliba doesn't seem to have a return date so is probably out for the season. I've already maxed out on Magpies so I've brought in Watkins' Villa teammate Tyrone Mings to shore up the defence. He goes straight in as vice-captain with Kane once more getting the nod for the armband. Raya again favoured over Alisson in goal. Both are at home but with difficult-looking fixtures. === Week 36A Premier League Brentford 2-2 Newcastle United Wolves 1-0 Chelsea Southampton 0-3 Manchester City Championship Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Norwich City League One Forest Green Rovers 2-1 Derby County Oxford United 3-0 Sheffield Wednesday League Two Crawley Town 3-1 Bradford City Harrogate Town 0-0 Wimbledon Scottish Premiership Celtic 2-0 Rangers A Primeira Liga Benfica 1-2 Porto Week 36B Premier League Leeds United 2-2 Crystal Palace Liverpool 1-0 Arsenal Championship Cardiff City 1-1 Sunderland Coventry City 0-3 Watford Hull City 2-2 Millwall Wigan Athletic 0-1 Swansea City League One Cheltenham Town 3-1 Ipswich Town League Two Tranmere Rovers 1-2 Swindon Town National League North Southport 0-0 Chester National League South Weymouth 2-1 Bath City I think now I've played that leaves @ultimo the great as the only one of the remaining players yet to make their picks this week. With all these pings, don't let it be said that I didn't try to stop his annual act of self-sabotage! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultimo the great Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 59 minutes ago, Fog Dude said: I think now I've played that leaves @ultimo the great as the only one of the remaining players yet to make their picks this week. With all these pings, don't let it be said that I didn't try to stop his annual act of self-sabotage! Week 36A fixtures – Good Friday and Holy Saturday Premier League (Saturday) Brentford 1-1 Newcastle United Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 Chelsea Southampton 0-3 Manchester City (17:30) Championship Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Norwich City League One Forest Green Rovers 1-2 Derby County Oxford United 0-2 Sheffield Wednesday League Two Crawley Town 1-1 Bradford City Harrogate Town 1-0 Wimbledon Scottish Premiership Celtic 2-0 Rangers (Saturday 12:30) A Primeira Liga Benfica 2-1 Porto (18:00)Week 36B fixtures – Easter Day and Easter Monday Premier League (Sunday) Leeds United 1-0 Crystal Palace (14:00) Liverpool 1-2 Arsenal (16:30) Championship Cardiff City 2-2 Sunderland Coventry City 1-0 Watford Hull City 0-1 Millwall Wigan Athletic 0-0 Swansea City League One Cheltenham Town 0-2 Ipswich Town League Two Tranmere Rovers 0-0 Swindon Town National League North Southport 1-3 Chester National League South Weymouth 0-1 Bath City Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Fatty Facesitter Posted April 8, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted April 8, 2023 Going to respectfully tap out at this stage in the season folks and concede overall defeat and claim the wooden spoon. Thanks again to Fog Dude for running the thread 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fog Dude Posted April 12, 2023 Author Share Posted April 12, 2023 On 4/8/2023 at 1:20 PM, Fatty Facesitter said: Going to respectfully tap out at this stage in the season folks and concede overall defeat and claim the wooden spoon. Thanks again to Fog Dude for running the thread 👍 Aye, that's what I gathered from your last post. Plus you and Shy Dad would have been thrown out this week anyway for skipping 3 on the bounce. You might be able to tell from the timing of this post that my sleeping pattern has been shot to pieces lately as well. Anyway, when I saw you'd replied again I thought maybe you'd honoured us with a Fantasy League update so as I said, do feel free to bring us up to speed on how that's going if it ever again takes your fancy. Speaking of which, over the weekend I finished on 67 points, so above average. Biggest blunder was probably selecting Raya over Alisson in goal with the former ending on zero due to one of Newcastle's strikes technically counting as an own goal off of him. No surprises, then, that my next lowest scorer and the only other weak link in my starting XI was his teammate Ben Mee. The other mistakes were again related to the captaincy. Kane's goal meant his 9 points doubled up nicely to 18, but the only reason I didn't stick the armband on Haaland is that he was marked down as doubtful to start and then he went and bagged himself a dozen points. I'm not making that error again for this coming round! A smarter choice than either of those, though, would've been Martinelli who went one better than even the Norwegian boy wonder. As expected, Che Adams didn't play and has no return date listed, so Dan Burn came off the bench to cause a change of formation and add another solid 2 points to the total. Perhaps unwisely I've replaced Adams by maxing out on Brentford players, bringing in a back-on-form Ivan Toney. Cue the inevitable gambling suspension in 3, 2, 1... With our own knockout competition very much approaching its business end, I'm reminded that the first of my private leagues started its Cup recently. I got a bye through the first round (I think I'm right in saying that's based on league position and not just random?) but was knocked out the following week when I had to face an actual opponent. === Cue the seamless transition back to Predictions League talk: the results went into the opening post on Monday night. I've put the Cup group stage standings on the latest table update so you can see that we've ended up with the people who won and were runners-up in each group going out, meaning the semis will be contested by players who finished third and fourth. Scoring was about what you'd expect for a double round, the equivalent of a 6.57 average in a regular 10-match week. Only Rory failed to make it into double figures and contrived not to manage a single exact scoreline. In contrast, seph leapfrogged ultimo into the top 4 with a great performance – half the outcomes correct and nearly half of them three-pointers. (Incidentally, his old rule about giving everybody else an extra bonus point when somebody gets 4 or more exact scores has been modified since he was in charge and besides, it's suspended during double and 'bumper' rounds anyhow for obvious reasons.) At the summit, we've got a proper title race on our hands for the run-in. Last week's leader TildeGuy drops to third, whilst MVP RULZ remains in second spot despite also getting 10 results right. One point separates the top 3, with Stinky ahead on countbacks for the moment, but the prospect is a five-match play-off on men's Champions League final weekend is drawing tantalisingly near. On the other hand, with this season already turning into the longest slog ever, perhaps it would be best for that to wait at least another year to happen. The bottom half were strangely much better at helping themselves to bonuses this time out. The first 'wildcard' fixture was match #2, Wolves' single-goal win over a Chelsea side in disarray, which ultimo and I both got spot on. The next was match #15 (or match #5 of the second half, if you're the sort of person who says a goal was scored "in the 20th minute of the second half" instead of "in the 65th minute") which was another 1-0 home victory, this time at The Circle* where three participants picked the winner but not the score. Elsewhere, success for Man City, Derby, Celtic, Sunderland, Swansea, Derby and Chester generally proved fruitful, whilst the scale of Palace's triumph at Elland Road caught everyone out. Rest was a mixed bag of guesses again, really. An ordinary set of 10, plus a reminder of the two FPL Cup semi-final ties, will be up in the original post shortly. *That's what tiger_rick always called it on here. Google says it's currently known as the MKM Stadium, but sod that for a lark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TildeGuy~! Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 Week 37 fixtures Premier League Everton 2-1 Fulham Southampton 0-1 Crystal Palace Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-1 Brentford West Ham United 1-2 Arsenal (Sunday 14:00) Nottingham Forest 0-2 Manchester United (Sunday 16:30) FA Women's Cup semi-finals Brighton & Hove Albion 0-2 Manchester United (17:15, in Leigh) Aston Villa 0-2 Chelsea (Sunday 14:15, at Walsall) Scottish Premiership Motherwell 2-1 Dundee United A-League Wellington Phoenix 1-2 Brisbane Roar (Sunday 04:00) Sydney 1-1 Perth Glory (Sunday 06:00) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegeta Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 Week 37 fixtures Premier League Everton 1-2 Fulham Southampton 1-2 Crystal Palace Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-2 Brentford West Ham United 1-3 Arsenal (Sunday 14:00) Nottingham Forest 0-2 Manchester United (Sunday 16:30) FA Women's Cup semi-finals Brighton & Hove Albion 1-2 Manchester United (17:15, in Leigh) Aston Villa 1-2 Chelsea (Sunday 14:15, at Walsall) Scottish Premiership Motherwell 2-1 Dundee United A-League Wellington Phoenix 0-2 Brisbane Roar (Sunday 04:00) Sydney 0-2 Perth Glory (Sunday 06:00) All games take place on Saturday and kick off at 15:00 unless stated. Start times are listed in BST. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members seph Posted April 13, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted April 13, 2023 Week 37 fixtures Premier League Everton 2-0 Fulham Southampton 1-3 Crystal Palace Wolverhampton Wanderers 0-2 Brentford West Ham United 0-3 Arsenal (Sunday 14:00) Nottingham Forest 1-2 Manchester United (Sunday 16:30) FA Women's Cup semi-finals Brighton & Hove Albion 0-2 Manchester United (17:15, in Leigh) Aston Villa 1-3 Chelsea (Sunday 14:15, at Walsall) Scottish Premiership Motherwell 1-2 Dundee United A-League Wellington Phoenix 1-3 Brisbane Roar (Sunday 04:00) Sydney 1-1 Perth Glory (Sunday 06:00) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fog Dude Posted April 13, 2023 Author Share Posted April 13, 2023 Premier League Everton 1-0 Fulham Southampton 1-3 Crystal Palace Wolves 2-1 Brentford West Ham United 0-3 Arsenal Nottingham Forest 2-2 Manchester United Women's FA Cup Semi-finals Brighton & Hove Albion 0-2 Manchester United (@ Leigh Sports Village) Aston Villa 1-2 Chelsea (@ Walsall men's FC) Scottish Premiership Motherwell 0-0 Dundee United A-League Wellington Phoenix 0-1 Brisbane Roar Sydney 1-1 Perth Glory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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