Round 24 available points:
Arsenal v Cardiff
Pick Arsenal win: 1 point
Pick exact score 2-1: 5 points
Arsenal MOM: Lacazette (8.1): 3 points
Arsenal player points: Aubameyang 2 (goal, assist), Lacazette 1 (goal)
Pick Chelsea loss: 3 points
Pick Liverpool draw: 2 points
Oh noes Brumbys, you didnt select any players!
I would have picked Auba & Laca I swear ;-)
What a clusterfudge.
Forgot that I can now add the points for Arsenal's finishing round of the FA Cup:
10) Arsenal finishing round for League Cup
11) Arsenal finishing round for FA Cup
12) Arsenal finishing round for Europa League
13) Liverpool finishing round for the Champions League
14) R19 and R38 Arsenal position in the EPL - PICK 5TH AT R19: 5 POINTS
15) R19 and R38 Liverpool position in the EPL - PICK 1ST AT R19: 5 POINTS
19) Chelsea finishing round for Europa League
Sorry guys still haven't got to the updates, should get there today! In the meantime, Round 25 picks, we have a special round...
Man City v Arsenal (Monday morn):
Pick HT and FT scores, 3 Arsenal players, and 3 Man City players.
I thought we should do Man City players as well because there's a pretty strong chance that Arsenal players won't clock up many points... not to be pessimistic of course! Hahahaha. I won't do head to heads this time.
Pick results only:
Chelsea v Huddersfield (Sunday morn)
Westham v Liverpool (Tuesday morn)
Here's my picks, structure yours like this:
Man City (1) 2 Arsenal (0) 3
Auba, Laca, Torreira
Aguero, Sterling, Sane
Chelsea: win
Liverpool: draw
Ronniemac's picks:
Man City (2) 4 Arsenal (0) 1
Auba, Guendouzi, Torreira
Aguero, Sterling, Sane
Chelsea: win
Liverpool: Win , its February now, time to get back on track
Man City (3) 4 Arsenal (0) 1
Auba, Lacazette, Ramsey
Aguero, Silva, Sane
Chelsea: Win
Liverpool: Win
Man City (2) 3 Arsenal (0) 1
Auba, Lacazette, Iwobi
Aguero, Silva, Sane
Chelsea: Draw
Liverpool: Win
Chelsea: win
Liverpool: Win
Man City (2) 2 Arsenal (0) 0
Auba, AMN, Xhaka
Aguero, Silva, Ederson
Man City 3 (1) - 2 (1) Arsenal
Aguero, Sane, Sterling
Laca, Auba, Iwobi
Chelsea Win
Liverpool Win
Ok lads I'm a bit behind in here, haven't quite finished the last round of tallying up. Working through it where time permits today, will get it all updated asap.
Forgot that I can now add the points for Arsenal's finishing round of the FA Cup:
10) Arsenal finishing round for League Cup
11) Arsenal finishing round for FA Cup
12) Arsenal finishing round for Europa League
13) Liverpool finishing round for the Champions League
14) R19 and R38 Arsenal position in the EPL - PICK 5TH AT R19: 5 POINTS
15) R19 and R38 Liverpool position in the EPL - PICK 1ST AT R19: 5 POINTS
19) Chelsea finishing round for Europa League
I'm going to get super tricky and put this in ahead of the latest round score updates, and then update those, stand by...
So just doing this bit now. The result was that Arsenal exited the FA Cup in the 4th Round, 5 points awarded for any that picked that correctly.
Round 25 points available:
Pick Chelsea win: 1 point
Pick Liverpool draw: 2 points
Man City v Arsenal:
Pick HT result of Man City ahead: 3 points
Pick exact HT score 2-1: 5 points
Pick FT result Man City win: 3 points
Pick exact FT score 3-1: 5 points
Pick Arsenal MOM: Leno (7.8): 3 points
Pick Man City MOM: Aguero (9.6): 3 points
Arsenal player points available: Koscielny 1 (goal), Monreal 1 (assist)
Man City player points available: Aguero 3 (3 goals), Sterling 1(assist), Laporte 1 (assist)
Round 26, SPECIAL ROUND
Saturday:
Huddersfield v Arsenal (Pick FT score + 2 Arsenal players)
Liverpool v Bournemouth (Result only)
Sunday:
Man City v Chelsea (Pick FT score + 2 Chelsea players)
**BONUS EUROPA WEEK**
Next Thursday:
Bate v Arsenal (Pick FT score + 2 Arsenal players)
Malmo v Chelsea (Pick FT score + 2 Chelsea players)
My picks:
Round 26:
Huddersfield 1 Arsenal 3
Auba, Laca
Liverpool: win
Man City 3 Chelsea 1
Kepa, Hazard
Bonus Europa Week:
Bate 1 Arsenal 5
Laca, Iwobi
Malmo 0 Chelsea 3
Hudson-Odoi, Giroud
Round 26:
Huddersfield 2 Arsenal 4
Laca, Saurez
Liverpool: win
Man City 3 Chelsea 0
Hazard, Kante
Bonus Europa Week:
Bate 1 Arsenal 3
Auba, Cech
Malmo 0 Chelsea 2
Giroud, Barkley
Round 26, SPECIAL ROUND
Saturday:
Huddersfield 1 v Arsenal 3 - Aubamayang Mustafi
Liverpool win
Sunday:
Man City 2 v Chelsea 0 Gonzalo Higgers & Hazard
**BONUS EUROPA WEEK**
Next Thursday:
Bate 1 v Arsenal 2 Lacazette, Ozil
Malmo 0 v Chelsea 3 Giroud, Kante
Huddersfield 1 Arsenal 2
Aubameyang, Kolasinac
Liverpool: Win
Man City 2 Chelsea 1
Higuain, Hazard
Bonus Europa Week:
Bate 1 Arsenal 2
Laca, Torreira
Malmo 0 Chelsea 3
Hazard, Giroud
Round 26, SPECIAL ROUND
Saturday:
Huddersfield 1-3 Arsenal
Ramsay, Auba
Liverpool Win
Sunday:
Man City 0-1 Chelsea
Hazard, Kante
**BONUS EUROPA WEEK**
Next Thursday:
Bate 0-2 Arsenal
Laca, Torreira
Malmo 0-2 Chelsea
Hudson-Odoi, Willian
Round 26, SPECIAL ROUND
Saturday:
Huddersfield 1 v Arsenal 4 - PEA Laca
Liverpool draw
Sunday:
Man City 3 v Chelsea 1 Higuain & Hazard
**BONUS EUROPA WEEK**
Next Thursday:
Bate 1 v Arsenal 3 Ozil, Iwobi
Malmo 0 v Chelsea 3 Hazard, Giroud
RonnieMac's picks:
Huddersfield v Arsenal (Pick FT score + 2 Arsenal players)
Huddersfield 0 Arsenal 4
Auba, Laca – safe picks
Liverpool v Bournemouth (Result only)
Liverpool Win – I can’t handle more dropped points
Man City v Chelsea (Pick FT score + 2 Chelsea players)
City 2 Chelsea 0
Kante, Jorginho
Bate v Arsenal (Pick FT score + 2 Arsenal players)
(Master) Bate 2 Arsenal 4
Iwobi, Auba
Malmo v Chelsea (Pick FT score + 2 Chelsea players)
Malmo 1 Chelsea 3
Hazard, Higain
Round 26 available points:
Pick Liverpool win: 1 point
Huddersfield vs Arsenal
Pick Arsenal win: 1 point
Pick FT score 1-2: 5 points
Pick Arsenal MOM: Maitland-Niles (8.0): 3 points
Player points available: Maitland-Niles 1 (assist), Kolasinac 1 (assist), Iwobi 1 (goal), Lacazette 1 (goal)
Man City vs Chelsea
Pick Chelsea loss: 3 points
Pick FT score 6-0: 5 points
Pick Chelsea MOM: Hazard (6.6): 3 points
Player points available: ........... **tumbleweed** ...........
How the f*ck did Maitland-Niles give the ball away that much and get MOTM? Far too much weight on one assist!
Updated Table after Round 26 (this week's score in brackets):
Downey26 175 (5)
Brumbys 175 (8)
Paulm 161 (9)
RonnieMac 160 (6)
Ajc28 154 (14)
Surge 148 (8)
Kwlap 142 (9)
Brumbys joins Downey at the top... perhaps should be ahead on alphabetical order but I gave Downey the honour, as the long time incumbent...
How the f*ck did Maitland-Niles give the ball away that much and get MOTM? Far too much weight on one assist!
Here's a brief explanation of how they do it:
https://www.whoscored.com/Explanations
They update live, every 30 seconds, with 200 different actions taken into account that can affect the score. When the assist was made, Maitland-Niles rating went up by 0.74. That was the biggest jump in his rating in the game, but he trended upward right throughout, so must have been doing a lot of things right. Not arguing against you at all brumbys, just trying to make sense of it all, looks like there is a lot to the algorithm.
I would love to read into the algorithm detail properly but don't have the time right now, maybe at some point!
Brumbys joins Downey at the top... perhaps should be ahead on alphabetical order but I gave Downey the honour, as the long time incumbent...
I support this logic.
You know Brumbys I really have to question what this whoscored algorithm is doing. Yes we lost to BATE this morn, but look at these stats:
Arsenal are in blue. The only stat BATE bettered us on is tackles, but that's obviously because we had 76% possession (!).
To then see the player ratings blows my mind. BATE literally out-score us in player ratings man-for-man, in every single position. Yes they won, I get that, and yes we didn't score, so our attackers were a bit off, but I can't understand how a midfield can be so dominated, and yet out-score their rivals. Their fullbacks got done like a dinner all night long, the number of balls in from wide areas was massive, and yet their fullbacks out-score ours (Kolasinac was our highest rated player, but still outscored significantly by his opposite).
So I guess the result, and a clean sheet, means a hell of a lot to these ratings.
Bonus Europa Week available points:
Bate v Arsenal
Pick Arsenal loss: 3 points
Pick FT score 1-0: 5 points
Arsenal MOM: Kolasinac (7.2): 3 points
Arsenal player points: ... ... ... ... yikes
Malmo v Chelsea
Pick Chelsea win: 1 point
Pick FT score 1-2: 5 points
Chelsea MOM: Ross Barkley (8.2): 3 points
Chelsea player points: Giroud 1 (goal), Barkley 1 (goal), Willain 1 (assist), Pedro 1 (assist)
Updated Table after Bonus Europa Week:
Downey26 177 (2)
Brumbys 177 (2)
Paulm 163 (2)
RonnieMac 161 (1)
Ajc28 156 (2)
Surge 150 (2)
Kwlap 148 (6)
Ok, we have FA Cup this weekend, Chelsea play ManU, but Liverpool and Arsenal are both out. No EPL matches on.
After this weekend we have european ties next week - Liverpool play Bayern, and Arsenal/Chelsea play their 2nd legs from this morn. So lets do a bonus round for all that eh...
SUPER CUPS BONUS ROUND:
Chelsea v ManU
Pick full time score + 2 Chelsea players
Liverpool v Bayern
Pick full time score + 2 Liverpool players
Arsenal v BATE
Pick full time score + 2 Arsenal players
Chelsea v Malmo
Pick full time score + 2 Chelsea players
Chelsea 2 v ManU 2 - Higuian, Hazard
Liverpool 2 v Bayern 1 - Firmin, Salah
Arsenal 3 v BATE 0 - Aubamayang, Kolasinac
Chelsea 1 v Malmo 0 - Giroud, Hudson-Odoi
RonnieMacs picks
Chelsea v ManU
Chelsea 1 ManU 0
Harzard, Willian
Liverpool v Bayern
2-0
Not confident in this..
Salah, Mane
Arsenal v BATE
4-0
Auba, Miki
Chelsea v Malmo
3-0
Willian, Pedro
SUPER CUPS BONUS ROUND:
Chelsea 2-1 ManU
Hazard, Kante
Liverpool 2-1 Bayern
Firminho, Mane
Arsenal 3-0 BATE
Auba, Laca
Chelsea 2-1 Malmo
Giroud, CHO
Whats the prob Surge?
Get in and make your picks! First game of these picks tonight...
I actually didn't consider the possibility that some people may not visit the thread until next week, assuming there would be no games this weekend. Hopefully everyone sees it!
Chelsea 1 v ManU 0 - Hazard, Willian
Liverpool 2 v Bayern 0 - Mane, Alisson
Arsenal 3 v BATE 1 - Aubamayang, Ozil
Chelsea 2 v Malmo 0 - Barkley, Giroud
