ultimo the great Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Week 8 fixtures UEFA Nations League Northern Ireland 1-0 Kosovo (17:00) Slovenia 0-2 Norway (17:00) Cyprus 0-2 Greece Czechia 1-2 Portugal Serbia 1-1 Sweden Scotland 2-0 Ireland Austria 2-2 Croatia (Sunday) Denmark 1-3 France (Sunday) Netherlands 2-1 Belgium (Sunday) Wales 1-1 Poland (Sunday) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MVP RULZ Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Week 8 fixtures UEFA Nations League Northern Ireland 1-0 Kosovo (17:00) Slovenia 1-3 Norway (17:00) Cyprus 0-1 Greece Czechia 0-2 Portugal Serbia 2-1 Sweden Scotland 1-0 Ireland Austria 1-2 Croatia (Sunday) Denmark 1-1 France (Sunday) Netherlands 1-1 Belgium (Sunday) Wales 1-3 Poland (Sunday) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Fatty Facesitter Posted September 23, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted September 23, 2022 Don’t want to brag but I actually got a DJ for correct score last week. I’m kind of a big deal. @Fog Dude How does the FPL cup work for the uninitiated? @RoryFice You come at the King then you best not miss. Week 8 fixtures UEFA Nations League Northern Ireland 1-0 Kosovo (17:00) Slovenia 1-3 Norway (17:00) Cyprus 1-1 Greece Czechia 0-3 Portugal Serbia 3-0 Sweden Scotland 2-1 Ireland Austria 1-2 Croatia (Sunday) Denmark 1-2 France (Sunday) Netherlands 2-2 Belgium (Sunday) Wales 1-0 Poland (Sunday) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fog Dude Posted September 23, 2022 Author Share Posted September 23, 2022 2 hours ago, Fatty Facesitter said: Don’t want to brag but I actually got a DJ for correct score last week. I’m kind of a big deal. @Fog Dude How does the FPL cup work for the uninitiated? @RoryFice You come at the King then you best not miss. Well for starters, one rule I've never considered adding is bonus points for trash talk! I borrowed the idea of a Cup competition from the Fantasy League, but one thing that I didn't carry over was the idea of only starting it with a few rounds to go. It's always been spread out across the season. Cup ties are not played during double or 'bumper' rounds, and there's no D2D in Cup weeks either. This is partly because it's more work for me, partly because it would make it seem more complicated for everyone else, and partly so that the same number of points is up for grabs in every Cup round, making things fairer. It soon became clear that national teams weren't popular as D2D picks, so we ended up mostly putting the FPL Cup in international break slots as it was an easy way of keeping them apart. It also encourages people not to forget to pick during the internationals since it's easy to zone out, especially as the Fantasy League isn't running on those weekends. It started as a straight knockout tournament with byes if necessary, but after a couple of years we introduced a group stage. You get 3 points within the group if you beat your opponent and one if you draw, as you'd expect. There are various countbacks to settle ties where people end up on the same number of points. As I mentioned, this year there's very little jeopardy since 4 of the 5 people in each group will go through to March's quarter-finals. It does mean that after this week you'll have to wait until the 19th of November for matchday 2, mind. Hope that covers everything. Best of luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoryFice Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 UEFA Nations League Northern Ireland 1-0 Kosovo (17:00) Slovenia 1-1 Norway (17:00) Cyprus 1-1 Greece Czechia 0-1 Portugal Serbia 3-2 Sweden Scotland 2-0 Ireland Austria 1-1 Croatia (Sunday) Denmark 1-2 France (Sunday) Netherlands 1-2 Belgium (Sunday) Wales 0-3 Poland (Sunday) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members I Bent My Wookie Posted September 24, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted September 24, 2022 UEFA Nations League Northern Ireland 1-2 Kosovo (17:00) Slovenia 1-2 Norway (17:00) Cyprus 0-1 Greece Czechia 0-1 Portugal Serbia 1-2 Sweden Scotland 2-0 Ireland Austria 1-2 Croatia (Sunday) Denmark 0-2 France (Sunday) Netherlands 0-2 Belgium (Sunday) Wales 0-0 Poland (Sunday) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Fatty Facesitter Posted September 26, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted September 26, 2022 Right, time to start more wildcard planning for FPL's return this weekend. This is how I got on last week playing a Free Hit with the postponements - Pope Slightly annoying that Newcastle have become draw specialists all of a sudden. But moving forward I'll be going with a Pope/Sanchez rotation. Perisic I can't see me keeping him in my plans long term - current evidence he's going to be rotated too much. @air_raidlet me know if you think that's bollocks. Think he's still an excellent player mind. Cancelo Excellent week for him following on from an assist in the Champions League a few days prior. Remains as essential as anyone for your FPL defences and wider teams in general. Trippier No clean sheet but another assist - a bargain at his price for the attacking returns he's providing thus far. Martinelli I've seen a lot of chatter about his ownership dropping. I think this is foolish - he's looked a threat in every single game he's played to date even if there has been an occasional week without returns - like the Man United game for example where he had a goal ruled out. Still picked up an additional point here for a clean sheet. Bailey Clean sheet point but I should have benched him for Saliba. In my current wildcard draft purely as an enabler. De Brunye KDB is the main man moving forward over Salah. I thought about experimenting with a draft where it would be possible to retain both, but even if Salah goes on a scoring spree I can bring him back in at a later date. KDB is just different gravy. Hojberg Cheeky assist against an out of sorts Leicester. Another good budget enabler. Haaland The most highly-sought commodity in the game and for good reason. The top captaincy option - even with the visit of Man United to the Etihad, I think a player of his quality is essentially fixture-proof. Scored again for Norway during the internationals. Kane Enjoying a bit of a purple patch at the moment. Currently *not* in my wildcard draft to free up funds in other areas, but I'm still going to try and squeeze him in before the window shuts. Mitrovic A rare duff week for the big man despite a good result for Fulham against Forest. Scored a hat-trick for Serbia last night. Up to this point has been fixture-proof. I love him - a lot of owners have been dropping him for Toney but I remain convinced that the big man causes more problems for opposition defenders. Subs Ward is the worst 'keeper in the league. Gutted I didn't start Saliba. Andreas and Williams are purely budget enablers at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted September 26, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted September 26, 2022 1 hour ago, Fatty Facesitter said: Perisic I can't see me keeping him in my plans long term - current evidence he's going to be rotated too much. @air_raidlet me know if you think that's bollocks. Think he's still an excellent player mind. Up until the Leicester game I might have agreed, but he decided to drop Emerson and play Perisic at RWB instead of choosing between him and Sessegnon at LWB. Ryan played well and Perisic provided a goal from a corner so there’s a chance he might stick with it. Emerson can be a liability at times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fog Dude Posted September 27, 2022 Author Share Posted September 27, 2022 (edited) I'll have more of a think about the Fantasy League in a day or two. If this past week is anything to go by, then actual discussion will likely grind to a halt here during the World Cup. Anyway, the results went into the initial post on Sunday night as usual. The table's been updated, complete with embyonic FPL Cup group stage standings. You won't see those again until November now. Which I'm sure we'll feel like it comes round before you can blink. International rounds normally used to be high-scoring, back when it used to feature one-sided scorelines from all across the world. Since we've become gradually more and more reduced to just Nations League games that involve European sides who are supposed to be evenly matched, it's become like any other week in terms of points accrued. Nevertheless, despite a low average and small spread between best and worst performers, two remarkable things happened: lots of movement in the main classification, and no draws at all in the opening 5 FPL Cup clashes. Joint top scorer MVP RULZ retakes the lead, Stinky is up into third spot, seph has once again overtaken Shy Dad to move back into the top half, whilst TildeGuy drops below Nicko. Vegeta is looking surprisingly stranded, lying as he does 6 points adrift of Rory at the foot of the ladder. So, to the outcomes then. Wins for Norn Iron and Croatia proved the most fruitful, with a triumph for Portugal also turning out generally good for one-pointers. Away reverses for Norway, Greece and France plus a heavy defeat for Sweden ended up tougher to foresee. A reverse for Wales was also difficult to guess beforehand, especially for those of us feeling more optimistic last week. Narrow home successes in international 'derbies' for Scotland and Holland produced more of a mixed bag of picks. Mercifully, we're back to normal football again next week. The new card, with a nice lower-division D2D, will appear at the top of the thread shortly. Edited September 27, 2022 by Fog Dude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TildeGuy~! Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 Week 9 fixtures Premier League Bournemouth 1-2 Brentford Crystal Palace 0-2 Chelsea Fulham 1-2 Newcastle United Southampton 1-1 Everton West Ham United 2-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers (17:30) Manchester City 2-0 Manchester United (Sunday 14:00) Leeds United 1-1 Aston Villa (Sunday 16:30) League One Ipswich Town 2-1 Portsmouth Port Vale 1-2 Sheffield Wednesday w/MVP RULZ Serie A Internazionale 1-1 Roma (17:00) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegeta Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Week 9 fixtures Premier League Bournemouth 2-1 Brentford Crystal Palace 0-2 Chelsea Fulham 1-2 Newcastle United Southampton 2-1 Everton West Ham United 2-2 Wolverhampton Wanderers (17:30) Manchester City 3-0 Manchester United (Sunday 14:00) Leeds United 2-1 Aston Villa (Sunday 16:30) League One Ipswich Town 2-0 Portsmouth Port Vale 0-2 Sheffield Wednesday w/MVP RULZ Serie A Internazionale 2-1 Roma (17:00) All games take place on Saturday and kick off at 19:45 unless stated. Start times are listed in BST Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fog Dude Posted September 29, 2022 Author Share Posted September 29, 2022 On the Fantasy League front, I've swapped out Pontus Jansson for Wolves' Jonny but then left him on the bench anyway. Same price, with the former player having more than twice as many points so far. Coady and Mac Allister are also benched due to difficult-looking fixtures. Alisson is preferred over Lloris, who's an injury risk as I mentioned and has a tougher game in the form of the North London derby even if he does play. Lingard starts but he's in the last chance saloon now. I've ummed and ahhed over the armband and ended up giving it to Ward-Prowse this week, with Jesus as his vice-captain. === Onto Predictions League matters: Premier League Bournemouth 1-0 Brentford Crystal Palace 1-1 Chelsea Fulham 2-2 Newcastle United Southampton 0-0 Everton West Ham United 2-0 Wolves Manchester City 3-1 Manchester United Leeds United 2-1 Aston Villa League One Ipswich Town 1-0 Portsmouth Port Vale 1-1 Sheffield Wednesday w/MVP RULZ Serie A Inter Milan 2-0 Roma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MVP RULZ Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 Premier League Bournemouth 1-2 Brentford Crystal Palace 1-2 Chelsea Fulham 1-2 Newcastle United Southampton 1-1 Everton West Ham United 2-0 Wolves Manchester City 3-1 Manchester United Leeds United 2-2 Aston Villa League One Ipswich Town 2-1 Portsmouth Port Vale 1-3 Sheffield Wednesday w/MVP RULZ Serie A Inter Milan 2-1 Roma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinky Dad Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 Premier League Bournemouth 1 v 2 Brentford Crystal Palace 1 v 2 Chelsea Fulham 1 v 1 Newcastle United Southampton 1 v 1 Everton West Ham United 1 v 0 Wolverhampton Wanderers (17:30) Manchester City 2 v 1 Manchester United (Sunday 14:00) Leeds United 1 v 1 Aston Villa (Sunday 16:30) League One Ipswich Town 1 v 0 Portsmouth Port Vale 1 v 1 Sheffield Wednesday w/MVP RULZ Serie A Internazionale 1 v 2 Roma (17:00) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members seph Posted September 30, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted September 30, 2022 Premier League Bournemouth 0-2 Brentford Crystal Palace 1-2 Chelsea Fulham 2-1 Newcastle United Southampton 1-0 Everton West Ham United 2-0 Wolves Manchester City 4-2 Manchester United Leeds United 2-0 Aston Villa League One Ipswich Town 1-1 Portsmouth Port Vale 1-0 Sheffield Wednesday w/MVP RULZ Serie A Inter Milan 1-2 Roma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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