Gameweek 37 Match Day Thread

EA PPI not being calculated till tomorrow so no BPs till then according to the FF Scout

KevIRL wrote: »

What league is this and how does one go about getting into such a league next year? Juicy prizepool, what was the entry?

Earlier in the season, I was hosting an event in a semi-popular Dublin bar. I was talking to the manager (or owner? I'm not sure, someone "up high".) and the topic of FPL came up because they had their own league going with a €500 prize. He suggested I should join it. So I did. This was roughly in week 6-8 though, so that didn't please some people when a newbie joined and went straight to the top.

He got in touch and said a couple had complained so it'd be better for him if I dropped out, but to apologise for my troubles he emailed me a little program to download, which was actually like an FPL app that his friend made, where he kept track of a few dozen team scores. So I entered my team number, and just like that I was part of a 40-something person league with a bunch of hotel/bar owners with more money than brains. I entered about 8th in that league, so there were no complaints. That's when form kicked in and I pretty much blew all but one of them away.

TL;DR: You don't go about joining. You piss people off, get lucky, and get in for free.

As far as I know, the guy who designed it is an amateur programmer who does things like that as a hobby. So it was more for him, I guess. It automatically calculates the top weekly scores of the season, the monthly winners, and things like that; showing them all in the one very basic looking display, so it's actually pretty handy.

It also means they had full control over everything, from adding/removing people, or in one case (that I know of) including a guy who only made his team in week 3, so they added the average scores (-10) from week 1 and 2 to his score total to keep him involved.

Considering the money involved, it's been all very laid back. Like I said the other day, the one guy in competition with me is more concerned about going away on holiday this week than winning the extra €2000 (he's guarenteed at least 2nd). I can only assume most of these guys are loaded, knowing a few of them own bar/hotel chains.

He has a yellow already. Thank god I decided against taking a 4-pointer to get him in.

grohlisagod wrote: »

Rumours that Cech hasn't traveled to Liverpool. Sounds like Hilario is getting a game.

Little chance of a Terry clean sheet so.

58 with Skrtel tonight, about 45 pts down in money league, a Skrtel hat trick is the only thing that will leave me in with a shout of teh cash going into the final week (cue another OG and red card!!)

Rastapitts wrote: »

anyone got the full list of bps?

Bonus
Benayoun (2)
Van Persie (3)
Hoolahan (2)

Bonus
Clichy (2)
Silva
Yaya Toure (3)
Aguero

Bonus
Dunne (2)
Clark (3)
Adebayor


Bonus
Brunt (3)
Long
Petrov (2)


Bonus
Riise
Diarra (2)
Dembele (3)


Bonus
Onuoha (2)
Hill
Ferdinand
Cisse (3)


Bonus
Ward (3)
Stearman
Osman (2)


Bonus
Ferdinand
Young (2)
Scholes (3)


Bonus
Alcaraz (3)
McCarthy (2)
Beausejour

I think my biggest mistake towards the end of the season was not taking a 4 point hit on the first of Boltons double game weeks to get in Petrov.

another 2 bonus for him this week and his points for the last few weeks have been nice, 12, 2, 5, 10, 7

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Is Petrov worth a look in next week do you reckon?

Well he is on form it seems so even just looking at that i think he would be, like Moses was, although that did not work out, nothing is 100% in this game.

However, Bolton are playing to stay in the PL so they will be fighting all the way and with Man City up against QPR and needing a win to be sure I think he is well worth a punt.

Chelsea: Turnbull, Ferreira, Ivanovic, Terry, Bertrand, Essien, Romeu, Ramires, Sturridge, Torres Malouda

Liverpool: Reina; Johnson, Skrtel, Carragher, Agger; Maxi, Henderson, Shelvey, Downing; Suarez, Carroll

Chelsea subs: Hilario, Cole, Lampard, Mata, Lukaku, Kalou, Hutchinson.

Liverpool subs: Doni, Coates, Kelly, Spearing, Sterling, Bellamy, Kuyt

Essien og, Suarez assist

Henderson :eek: goal

Ha, yup. 3-0 now. Agger.

Agger (Carroll) 3-0 already.

Downing off the bar.

Penalty Pool. Carroll fouled

Downing missses the pen (post)

F*ck it anyway, Chelsea getting hammered means mata is probally bound to come on at some stage ... Really need him to sit this one out due to a rival !

Ramiers goal.