Fantasy Premiership

ishidaogo

I see that Magnus Carlsen is joint 1st on the Wolves Fans League with 903 points and in the top 50 overall.

cdeb

I'm not sure which is more remarkable - his feat (and it is him; he's top of a GM league with Maze, Vachier-Legrave and others), or the fact that you found it!

ishidaogo

cdeb wrote: »

I'm not sure which is more remarkable - his feat (and it is him; he's top of a GM league with Maze, Vachier-Legrave and others), or the fact that you found it!

Well I must confess that Leonard Barden reported it in his weekly Guardian column. What I found remarkable is that, like me, he is a Wolves fan,

cdeb

Overall leader by 20 points now!

Remarkable stuff.

ishidaogo

cdeb wrote: »

Overall leader by 20 points now!

Remarkable stuff.

Poor week for MC, 26 points and down to 9th.

Joedryan

Christmas period is very difficult to predict

ishidaogo

Yesterday MC regained first place in FPL and became the first to score 2000 points this season.
However this evening he has been overtaken

RooksPawn

Congratulations to LIverpool for winning the REAL PL

sodacat11

ishidaogo wrote: »

Well I must confess that Leonard Barden reported it in his weekly Guardian column. What I found remarkable is that, like me, he is a Wolves fan,

Nice to see people supporting other teams instead of jumping on the Man U (yes Joe) Liverpool bandwagons just because they were winning things. Wolves have always been my second favourite team after Chelsea who I've followed through thick and thin since 1967 when they lost the F.A Cup final.
Dave Salter is another avid Chelsea fan and so is Kevin O'Shea, dunno any other Wolves fans apart from my dog Jethro who says he was some wolf ancestors.

Retd.LoyolaCpt

MC in 4th place with one round to go, he could do this... this year is not getting any less weird

sodacat11

Retd.LoyolaCpt wrote: »

MC in 4th place with one round to go, he could do this... this year is not getting any less weird

I wonder how he would do in the Irish Ch tipping competition? , a much tougher proposition than his fantasy football one.

sodacat11

Slightly off topic but has anyone else noticed the similarity in looks between Ian Nepomniachtchi and a younger Killian Delaney? https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=4168119 They have similar blitz ratings too!!

flipsake

Any interest out there for an ICU Fantasy Football league this year? With MC’s performance last season, it certainly highlights a connection between chess and FPL. I reckon there’s a few of ye out there who’d be up for it.

sodacat11

ishidaogo wrote: »

I see that Magnus Carlsen is joint 1st on the Wolves Fans League with 903 points and in the top 50 overall.

I've already entered two teams in the Sky fantasy football and I also do the Sky super 6 every week.

FutureCM

flipsake wrote: »

Any interest out there for an ICU Fantasy Football league this year? With MC’s performance last season, it certainly highlights a connection between chess and FPL. I reckon there’s a few of ye out there who’d be up for it.

I’d do it ye

sodacat11

flipsake wrote: »

Any interest out there for an ICU Fantasy Football league this year? With MC’s performance last season, it certainly highlights a connection between chess and FPL. I reckon there’s a few of ye out there who’d be up for it.

Which fantasy league was Carlsen in? Was it the Sky one?

FutureCM

sodacat11 wrote: »

Which fantasy league was Carlsen in? Was it the Sky one?

The official Premier League one, the best one by far.

flipsake

FutureCM wrote: »

The official Premier League one, the best one by far.

Agreed. With the sky one I think you have to change captain every day there’s matches on.
If there’s enough interest, say 6 or more players, I’ll set up a league and send out the code.

cdeb

I tend to enter a team, although I don't pay much attention to it or the Premier League over the season. But if it helps make up the numbers, I'd join in.

Winner gets an invite to next year's Irish Championships, yeah?

rapidrook181

I'd play

sodacat11

Ok count me in

prey20

hi suggest run this like a tournament on the icu website
time short, starts Sat
have an entry fee, list of players etc
winner takes the loot and bragging rights next May
something to do with very little OTB chess

Sharkey47

I'd play as well

FutureCM

Few quid on it?

flipsake

That’s great. 6/7 entries so far. Spread the word amongst chess buddies.
Good idea Prey about ICU website.
Happy to put a small few quid on it Future CM if everyone else is.

sodacat11

I've entered a team but I don't see anywhere in the site how points are scored? How about 10 euro per player , winner gets 2/3 of the pot runner up gets 1/3? Will ICU let us use their site to collect the money?

sodacat11

flipsake wrote: »

Agreed. With the sky one I think you have to change captain every day there’s matches on.
If there’s enough interest, say 6 or more players, I’ll set up a league and send out the code.

The SKY fantasy football has much better prizes, is easier to use and you do not have to change captain for every match. Anyway, I've entered the official Premiership one now with my Sodacat11 team.

FutureCM

sodacat11 wrote: »

I've entered a team but I don't see anywhere in the site how points are scored? How about 10 euro per player , winner gets 2/3 of the pot runner up gets 1/3? Will ICU let us use their site to collect the money?

https://fantasy.premierleague.com/help/rules

Rathminor

I’ll have a go - is there a code we need to enter to be part of the league??

Sodacat- make sure you pick Kepa and some Chelsea defenders!! Lol!!

flipsake

League set up https://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/mf04xc

FutureCM

https://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/8jiu36 That should bring you to an ICU league.

FutureCM

https://www.icu.ie/events/1413

ishidaogo

I have created it.
The code is 46vzj5
Name Irish Chess Union
Spread the word and good luck all.

sodacat11

Rathminor wrote: »

I’ll have a go - is there a code we need to enter to be part of the league??

Sodacat- make sure you pick Kepa and some Chelsea defenders!! Lol!!

You wish!!

sodacat11

14 people entered so far. I notice that Man U fans like Joe Ryan and Stephen Brady haven't entered, probably a sensible decision as the best that Man U can hope for is fourth and that will only be if they get 24 penalties like they did last season.

cdeb

ishidaogo wrote: »

I have created it.
The code is 46vzj5
Name Irish Chess Union
Spread the word and good luck all.

I joined that league, but it seems ICU League is the actual one. But I don't see the code to join the ICU League - where do I get that? (I've paid my tenner online!)

sodacat11

If you sell (transfer)a player after a few weeks do you lose whatever points that player had accumulated?

cdeb

No.

A player's value can go up and down though, so you might gain or lose money in the bank.

I think a general tactic is to look out for undervalued players at the start of the season as you can build up maybe 2-3m in extra transfer fees by mid-season, which can help on the run-in.

sodacat11

cdeb wrote: »

No.

A player's value can go up and down though, so you might gain or lose money in the bank.

I think a general tactic is to look out for undervalued players at the start of the season as you can build up maybe 2-3m in extra transfer fees by mid-season, which can help on the run-in.

Thanks. Anyone who had Mo Salah did well today but hopefully they had the Liverpool keeper too.