I've gotta say, all these people who are no longer playing are doing wonders for me table position :)
ROUND 37 (Jul 19/22/23)
Norwich 0 Burnley 2
Cantwell, Krl
Aston Villa 0 Arsenal 4
Saka, Auba
ManU 1 West ham1
Rashford, Pogba
Liverpool 2 Chelsea 1
Salah, TAA
Giroud, Willian
Norwich 0- 2 Burnley
Buendia Cantwell
Aston Villa 1- 2 Arsenal
Auba Laca
Man Utd 1-0 West Ham
Rashford Martial
Liverpool 1-1 Chelsea (double points derby)
Sane Mane Giroud Willian
If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid
Round 37 available points:
Norwich 0 Burnley 2
Pick Norwich to score 0 goals: 2 points
Pick Burnley to score 2 goals: 2 points
Pick margin Burnley +2: 3 points
Player points available:
Krul 3 (MOM)
https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/1376196/Live/England-Premier-League-2019-2020-Norwich-Burnley
Aston Villa 1 Arsenal 0
Pick Aston Villa to score 1 goal: 2 points
Pick Arsenal to score 0 goals: 2 points
Pick margin Aston Villa +1: 3 points
Player points available:
Kolasinac 3 (MOM)
https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/1376186/Live/England-Premier-League-2019-2020-Aston-Villa-Arsenal
ManU 1 West Ham 1
Pick ManU to score 1 goal: 2 points
Pick West Ham to score 1 goal: 2 points
Pick margin 0: 3 points
Player points available:
Greenwood 4 (MOM, goal), Martial 1 (assist)
Liverpool 5 Chelsea 3 (double points derby)
Pick Liverpool to score 5 goals: 4 points
Pick Chelsea to score 3 goals: 4 points
Pick margin Liverpool +2: 6 points
Player points available:
Alexander-Arnold 10 (MOM, goal, assist), Firmino 2 (goal), Wijnaldum 2 (goal), Keita 2 (goal), Oxlade-Chamberlain 2 (goal), Salah 2 (assist), Robertson 2 (assist)
Pulisic 10 (MOM, goal, assist), Giroud 2 (goal), Abraham 2 (goal), Hudson-Odoi 2 (assist)
https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/1376192/Live/England-Premier-League-2019-2020-Liverpool-Chelsea
Round 37 available points:
Norwich 0 Burnley 2
Pick Norwich to score 0 goals: 2 points
Pick Burnley to score 2 goals: 2 points
Pick margin Burnley +2: 3 points
Player points available:
Krul 3 (MOM)
https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/1376196/Live/England-Premier-League-2019-2020-Norwich-Burnley
Aston Villa vs Aston Villa
TBA
ManU vs West Ham
TBA
Liverpool vs Chelsea (double points derby)
TBA
I guess the Aston Villa v Aston Villa game will give them a chance of staying up. :)
If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid
Arsenal 3 - Aston Villa 1
Nelson, Lacazette
Man U 2 - west Ham 1
Martial, Fernandez
Chelsea 2 - liverpool 1
Giroud, willain
Salah, firmino
Arsenal 2 - Aston Villa 0
Auba, Lacazette
Man U 2 - west Ham 0
Martial, Fernandez
Chelsea 2 - liverpool 2
Giroud, willain
Salah, firmino
Queenslander 3x a year.
Aston Villa 0 vs 3 Arsenal
Auba, Laka
ManU 1 vs 1 West Ham
Fernades, Greenwood
Liverpool vs Chelsea (double points derby)
Mane, Salah
Giroud, Alonso
You forgot the scores :)
If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid
Aston Villa 0 vs 3 Arsenal
Auba, Laka
ManU 1 vs 1 West Ham
Fernades, Greenwood
Liverpool vs Chelsea (double points derby)
Mane, Salah
Giroud, Alonso
You forgot the scores :)
ka pai. Thanks for that.
The most interesting thing right now is that two people who are not really in contention to win the individual competition, are actually the key players when it comes to the team standings.
With Libertynz dropping out, Norwich are in freefall, and Liverpool are very close to pipping them at the post.
Obviously ronniemac is the key driver of that, but actually it's pukkiparty and leighbo who are the most important players.
Pukkiparty is keeping Norwich's freefall from being too steep, and Leighbo continuing to pick means Liverpool are the only team still trending upwards(ish). Their individual scores for the final two rounds will likely determine the team comp winners.
Obviously, as usual, the great unknown of our pre-season predictions might change everything, in both the individual and team standings... I've not looked at the stats leaders for a while, last time I did right before lockdown I was leading the way on pre-season predictions. It's probably changed a lot but personally the gap is too large for me to win anyway. At a total guess I would say maybe the top 3 are all still in contention for individual victory at this point...
Aston Villa 0 vs Arsenal 3
Auba, Xhaka
ManU 2 vs West Ham 0
Bruno, Greenwood
Liverpool 3 vs Chelsea 1 (double points derby)
Salah, Mane
"...sure beats doin' stuff."
Aston Villa 0 vs Arsenal 3
Auba, Xhaka
ManU 2 vs West Ham 0
Bruno, Greenwood
Liverpool 3 vs Chelsea 1 (double points derby)
Salah, Mane
Two Chelsea players as well.
Cheers for the heads up - added below
Aston Villa 0 vs Arsenal 3
Auba, Xhaka
ManU 2 vs West Ham 0
Bruno, Greenwood
Liverpool 3 vs Chelsea 1 (double points derby)
Salah, Mane
Mount, Pulisic
Two Chelsea players as well.
"...sure beats doin' stuff."
Ok, we have an odd situation where TheProf, Leighbo and Kwlap all made their Round 37 picks early, then came back and made their picks again, after the Norwich vs Burnley game had been played.
The rule I've always followed when people pick more than once is to take their most recent picks.
So I used their latest picks that they made, but then I also added the points for the Burnley vs Norwich games from their first round of picks.
This is consistent with all previous scoring in these situations, for example after lockdown when some had picked Round 31 back in March, and again when we resumed, so hopefully everyone is fine with that...
Ok, we have an odd situation where TheProf, Leighbo and Kwlap all made their Round 37 picks early, then came back and made their picks again, after the Norwich vs Burnley game had been played.
The rule I've always followed when people pick more than once is to take their most recent picks.
So I used their latest picks that they made, but then I also added the points for the Burnley vs Norwich games from their first round of picks.
This is consistent with all previous scoring in these situations, for example after lockdown when some had picked Round 31 back in March, and again when we resumed, so hopefully everyone is fine with that...
all good, sorry for the confusion.
Queenslander 3x a year.
Individual Standings after Round 37:
Team Standings after Round 37:
The most interesting thing right now is that two people who are not really in contention to win the individual competition, are actually the key players when it comes to the team standings.
With Libertynz dropping out, Norwich are in freefall, and Liverpool are very close to pipping them at the post.
Obviously ronniemac is the key driver of that, but actually it's pukkiparty and leighbo who are the most important players.
Pukkiparty is keeping Norwich's freefall from being too steep, and Leighbo continuing to pick means Liverpool are the only team still trending upwards(ish). Their individual scores for the final two rounds will likely determine the team comp winners.
Well the team standings just got bloody interesting! Leighbo with a stunning 25, Pukkiparty with a poor 11, and now just 0.01 separates the top 2!!!!
I think that might well come down to the pre-season predictions. I will essentially treat those as a 39th round in terms of the average score , so Libertynz will become a factor there again. Liverpool may well have an edge now, unless Pukkiparty has a huge final round.
Should also be noted that Arsenal climbed off the bottom in Round 34, for the first time this season...
Who else thinks that their preseason picks will be laughable at best?
Just had a look back at mine and I've not done especially well with them.
Just had a look at mine, and same! Yuck.
I've not got any of the relegation candidates, and most likely none of the top 6 in the right order.
FINAL ROUND
ROUND 38 (Jul 27)
Newcastle vs Liverpool
Pick FT score + 2 Liverpool players
Man City vs Norwich
Pick FT score + 2 Norwich players
Leicester vs ManU
Pick FT score + 2 ManU players
Chelsea vs Wolves
Pick FT score + 2 Chelsea players
Arsenal vs Watford
Pick FT score + 2 Arsenal players
Ronniemacs picks
Newcastle 2 vs 3 Liverpool -Are Liverpool still in party mode after the trophy presentation?
Salah, Kieta
Man City 5 vs 0 Norwich – Like an exhibition match, free-flowing vs free-fall
Krull, Cantwell
Leicester 1 vs 2 ManU – what a game to finish the season!
Fernandes, Martial
Chelsea 2 vs 1 Wolves
Pulisic, Giroud
Arsenal 3 vs 0 Watford
Lacazette, Saka
Firstly, thank you Paul once again - I've run lots of things like this and they can be quite the chore sometimes. Well done!
FINAL ROUND
ROUND 38 (Jul 27)
Newcastle 2 vs Liverpool 4
Curtis Jones, Salah
Man City 3 vs Norwich 1
Pukki, Cantwell
Leicester 2 vs ManU 2
Martial, Bruno
Chelsea 2 vs Wolves 2
Pulisic, Mount
Arsenal 3 vs Watford 1
Auba, Pepe
"...sure beats doin' stuff."
Yea the lockdown really put a dampener on things, I'm honestly gutted about that. I fully understand people not coming back, it was a real spanner in the works and really took the wind out of it.
After I put up the results etc next week, I'll gauge interest for next season, and possible changes. I feel like I need to change up the scoring system to make it a bit more engaging, and less "lucky", which it is at times. The conversation with Leggy about picking the result correctly made me think a lot about that. If sometime picks team A to win 1-0, and someone else picks them to lose 2-0, and then the result is say 2-1 to team B, the person who picked team A to win actually gets more points, which just isn't quite right on reflection.
Newcastle 0 Liverpool 2
Mane, Alexander-Arnold
Man City 3 Norwich 0
Krul, Cantwell
Leicester 1 ManU 2
Fernandes, Martial
Chelsea 2 vs 1 Wolves
Pulisic, Willian
Arsenal 2 Watford 0
Auba, Nelson
Queenslander 3x a year.
Newcastle 0 Liverpool 3
Salah, VVD
Man City 5 Norwich 1
Krul, Cantwell
Leicester 1 ManU 1
Fernandes, Greenwood
Chelsea 1 vs 1 Wolves
Pulisic, Giroud
Arsenal 4 Watford 1
Auba, Saka
Newcastle 0 Liverpool 2
Salah, mane
Man City 3 Norwich 1
Krul, Cantwell
Leicester 1 ManU 1
Martial Greenwood
Chelsea 3 vs 0Wolves
Pulisic, Giroud
Arsenal 2 Watford 1
Auba, Saka
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Newcastle 0 Liverpool 3
Salah, Mane
Man City 3 Norwich 0
Pukki, Cantwell
Leicester 1 ManU 1
Fernandes, Greenwood
Chelsea 2 Wolves 0
Pulisic, Willian
Arsenal 1 Watford 1
Auba, Pepe
Newcastle 0 -- 2 Liverpool
Salah Mane
Man City 3-- 0 Norwich
Pukki Cantwell
Leicester 0-- Man Utd 1
Martial Rashford
Chelsea 2- 1 Wolves
Pulisic Willian
Arsenal 2-0 Watford
Auba Laca
If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid
Norwich 3 - ManC 2
Pukki
Cantwell
Arsenal 2 - Watford 1
Auba
Peoe
Wolves 3 - Chelsea 2
Pulisic
Abraham
ManU 2 - Leicester 1
Martial
Fernandes
Liverpool 3 - Newcastle 1
Salah
Mane
Alrighty lads, final games have been played, now all with me for calculation and final standings. I have a bit to work through so please bear with me. And I want to do the post for each player thing so events will slowly drip through in this thread, probably over the next 48 hours.
Round 38 available points:
Arsenal 3 Watford 2
Pick Arsenal to score 3 goals: 2 points
Pick Watford to score 2 goals: 2 points
Pick margin Arsenal +1: 3 points
Player points available:
Aubameyang 6 (MOM, 2 goals, 1 assist), Tierney 2 (goal, assist)
https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/1376156/Live/Eng...
Chelsea 2 Wolves 0
Pick Chelsea to score 2 goals: 2 points
Pick Wolves to score 0 goals: 2 points
Pick margin Chelsea +2: 3 points
Player points available:
Mount 5 (MOM, goal, assist), Alonso 2 (clean sheet), James 2 (clean sheet), Rudiger 2 (clean sheet), Zouma 2 (clean sheet), Azpuilicueta 2 (clean sheet), Caballero 2 (clean sheet), Giroud 1 (goal)
https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/1376162/Live/Eng...
Leicester 0 ManU 2
Pick Leicester to score 0 goals: 2 points
Pick ManU to score 2 goals: 2 points
Pick margin ManU +2: 3 points
Player points available:
Williams 5 (MOM, clean sheet), Maguire 2 (clean sheet), Lindelof 2 (clean sheet), Wan-bissaka 2 (clean sheet), de Gea 2 (clean sheet), Fernandes 1 (goal), Lingard 1 (goal(!?!?!?!))
https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/1376171/Live/Eng...
Man City 5 Norwich 0
Pick Man City to score 5 goals: 2 points
Pick Norwich to score 0 goals: 2 points
Pick margin Man City +5: 3 points
Player points available:
Aarons 3 (MOM)
https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/1376174/Live/Eng...
Newcastle 1 Liverpool 3
Pick Newcastle to score 1 goal: 2 points
Pick Liverpool to score 3 goals: 2 points
Pick margin Liverpool +2: 3 points
Player points available:
van Dijk 4 (MOM, goal), Mane 1 (goal), Origi 1 (goal), Firmino 1 (assist), Robertson 1 (assist), Oxlade-Chamberlain 1 (assist)
Quick update... have done all the calculations now, so will start posting results tonight!
I will start from bottom position and make a post for each player, all the way up to 1st. And then a brief wrap of the team comp.
Unlikely to get through all that tonight but will start the posts and see how far I get.
16th: Buffon
Total Points: 380
Preseason Predictions: 25
Never recovered from a poor start, ended only having picked 19 of 38 rounds, was unfortunately never a chance. Seen better days in years gone by, will be looking to rebuild in the off season.
15th: Brumbys
Total Points: 460
Preaseason Predictions: 35
Unable to recapture the form of his phenomenal 2017/18 season. Hovered up and down midtable before a couple of missed rounds prompted a descent into the abyss.
A decent preseason prediction score showed what could've been.
14th: Youngheart
Total Points: 463
Preseason Predictions: 25
A bright start, hanging in the top 4 for several rounds before settling in midtable for an extended period. Always seemed to be just hanging on to the pack, and then the missed rounds started to take their toll.
One of many not to return after the lockdown, resulting in a further slide to the murky depths of the table.
13th: Legend20
Total Points: 512
Preseason Predictions: 40
Found life tough in the top flight. Had to scrap for every point but hung in there for a long time trying to keep pace. Steadied the ship for a period and briefly threatened the top half of the table, before a series of poor efforts condemned him to the depths.
Preseason predictions painted a different picture, with a stunning equal first effort - successfully picked the top scorers for each of the five teams.
12th: Surge
Points: 529
Preseason Predictions: 25
An experienced campaigner, he started strongly, before settling into a long midtable scrap. Mostly had the better of that, spending a lot of the time around the lower european spots, but never looked like he had the energy to go again.
Another post-lockdown absentee, would've been disappointed with his preaseason predictions.