I'm experimenting with a new contest/competition: Rank 4 - Holiday Edition. The contest will run for 6 gameweeks, from GW13 to GW18 (i.e., first week's entries will be due by the deadline this coming Tuesday and then it will continue until mid-January). Each gameweek there will be FOUR rocks teams nominated, and your task, should you participate, is to rank the FOUR teams in the order in which you believe they will finish that week. Note: Triple captain and bench boost points will NOT count in determining the actual order. Once the games are played, we'll look at the final scores (manually subtracting TC or BB points if applicable), any ties be broken by the eliminator tiebreakers so that we have 1, 2, 3, & 4, and then all timely submitted entries will be scored against what actually happened. Ambiguous, incomplete, or untimely entries won't be counted. Scoring: You will get 2 points for placing 1 team in the correct spot (with a bonus 1 point if your one correct ranking is the highest scoring team), 5 points for placing 2 teams correctly (with a bonus 1 point if one of the two correct rankings is the highest scoring team), and 12 points for placing all 4 teams correctly (perfect score). As examples, if you get the last team correctly but miss the others, you get 2 points; if you place the top team correctly and miss the rest, you'll get 3 points; if you get 2 and 3 correct but miss 1 and 3, you'll get 5 points; getting 1 and 3 correct will get you 6 points; and getting the perfect score will get you 12 points. Each Rocks team has been placed in only one of the six gameweeks, so each team will get to be ranked once. I ran a random generator to select the teams for each gameweek (and then I made one manual swap so that each Rocks division has at least one participant each gameweek). I added a note next to each team -- Sm (Small), VS (Very Small), or Sa (Sand) -- to identify which league the team is in, and you can find every team in the All Rocks League on FPL if you want to look at their latest roster when doing your rankings. GW13 Aviators - Sa Virgil Reality - Sa Morning Glory - VS Top Shelf - Sm GW14 Bigger Boat - VS Journeyman - Sm Lokomotiv - Sa Soccer Steve - VS GW15 Sasha Juniors - Sm blechs_dawgs - VS Glorydaze - Sm Kopite Jrs - Sa GW16 FC St. Pauli - VS ColdDogSoup FC - Sm Hakuna Arteta - Sa Bunch of Muppets - VS GW17 Kicking & Screaming - Sa Keysersoze Wanderers - VS ChrisSuttonsSlippers - Sm Parraraiders - Sa GW18 Tangers FC - Sm FC Epikoinis - VS Stormin Gunners - Sa Real Newark - Sm Your selection for each week is due by the deadline for that week. For now, the plan is all entries will be made by posting your rankings for each gameweek in this thread. Clearly identify (a) what week the picks are for and (b) the order that you are predicting for the four teams for that week, listing projected highest scoring first, then second, third, and last. I've posted the teams for each week above, so you can submit early if you won't be around, but it may be harder to evaluate weeks in advance and, of course, rosters may change as the weeks go by and you won't have that information. If you want to change your entry, just submit a completely NEW entry and only the last entry prior to the deadline from you will be scored. You can participate even if you miss a week, but since non-monetary awards (value = $0.00) will be given to the top three participants based on total points, missing weeks will put you at a disadvantage. And, I suppose no reason that a non-Rocks owners can't participate if so inclined, although they would need to get a link to get to the league table to be able to look at rosters. And, yes, in the week that your team is one of the four, you can still participate. If there are any questions, fire away. I'll post in a moment to set up a practice run this weekend in GW12 to make sure everyone understands and to work out any kinks before we start for "real" in GW13. Good luck.
AGAIN, Rank 4 - Holiday Edition does NOT start this GW, as I didn't want anyone excluded because it went up so late. It will start with the GW13 games, with the deadline on Tuesday. As mentioned, I thought we could do a practice run this weekend in GW12 to test it out. I've picked FOUR teams: GW12 - PRACTICE RANK 4 Virgil Reality-Sa Sasha Juniors-Sm Bigger Boat-VS Aviators-Sa I've picked these 4 for a reason -- unless I missed someone or unless there were or are transfers this week, I didn't see any Leeds or West Ham players, so they have no (or certainly few) players in the Friday game. As a result, the deadline for this practice week is 2 hours before Saturday's first game to submit your rankings for this practice week. Submit your entries below and it will be a chance to see how it all works and to work out any potential kinks in the process or the scoring. Again, put them in the order you think they'll finish the gameweek, listing first the team that you think will score highest. You can add insight if you want to explain your picks, but that isn't necessary and won't help (or hurt) your scoring.
GW12 Entry (practice round): 1.Bigger Boat 2.Virgil Reality 3.Aviators 4.Sasha Juniors Flipping the table this weekend....
well obviously ..... 1. Me 2. Sasha Jnrs 3. Aviators 4. Virgil Reality -sorry mate don't know who you are lol .. and I know the other 2 old buggers
1.Bigger Boat 2.Aviators 3.Virgil Reality 4.Sasha Juniors Wanna curse the top fella and torpedo that overflated dinghy of his , lol
As for the main comp please can I have the order they were drawn , yes bring lazy Muppet but also believe it's a fate thing.
1. Sasha 2. frog droppings 3. Virgil 4. Aviators Where is the poll answer for I am but our State's hoity-toity has closed the outdoors so what the heck
Cool to see 5 entries so far for the practice week. There is still time for those that haven't submitted yet. Note: I missed that Sasha J actually has a Leeds player (and, Klich put up a nice score of 8 today, saved by VAR and permitted to take a second whack at the PK that was more successful than the first woeful effort). The Rank 4 deadline for this practice week remains 2 hours before the first Saturday game (Wolves-Villa) -- so I think that puts the deadline at 10+ hours away. So, if you haven't submitted an entry, you've still got time. And, if you already submitted an entry but want to change it now that you know that Sasha Jrs starts with 8 from Klich or for any other reason, feel free to submit again. As stated in the rules, if you submit two (or more) entries, I'll use the latest one prior to the deadline.
GW12 Entry (practice round):-- Updated Ranking 1.Bigger Boat 2.Sasha Juniors 3.Virgil Reality 4.Aviators Klich's points bump Tarv up to #2 in my rankings, but Mane(c) is still enough for me to keep the Boat at the top.
For the GW12 practice week, we have the following entries using : blech - BB, SJ, VR, AV biggerboat - BB, SJ, AV, VR Sonabert - BB, AV, VR, SJ tarvinodos - BB, AV, SJ, VR kopiteinkc - AV, BB, VR, SJ lobomojo - SJ, BB, VR, AV glorydaze - SJ, VR, AV, BB Let me know if I messed any up. No duplicates. Bigger Boat gets 4 of 7 votes for top ranking, along with 2 2nd, and one 4th.
For GW13, you have until the FPL Tuesday deadline to submit your entries. @Sonabert has already submitted using his lazy/fate-based strategy, although can still make changes. It wasn't planned this way, but we have two teams returning from the practice week. No promises that I'll do this every week, but in addition to the weekly reminder about the four teams we're ranking this GW, here are the squads that they played LAST gameweek. These won't include any trades that get made this week, managers can obviously change their captaincy decisions and their subs for this gameweek, and you'll need to sort for yourselves who has good and bad matchups, but it will give a snapshot of each team: GW13 - Predict the final rank this GW for these four teams (AV, VR, MG, & TS)........ Aviators - Sand Schmeichel; Keane, Dias, Vestergaard, Gabriel, Semedo; De Bruyne(C), Jota(V), Rodriguez; Watkins, Adams Subs: Mendy, Bale, Ayew, Ziyech Virgil Reality - Sand Leno; Walker, James, Fofana, Walker-Peters; Son(C), Barnes, Walcott; Aguero, Wilson(V), Firmino Subs: Martinez, Havertz, Trossard, Telles Morning Glory - VSR McCarthy; Telles, Coady, Thiago Silva, Cash; Trezeguet(V), Klich, Mount, Greenwood; Lacazette, Kane(C) Subs: Pope, Abraham, Maddison, Lascelles Top Shelf - Small Leno; Basham, Kilman, David Luiz; Lookman, Willian(V), Maddison, De Bruyne, Pulisic; Bamford(C), Firmino Subs: Lloris, Wan-Bissaka, Maguire, Antonio Submit entries by posting in this thread. You can make and resubmit later if you want to put in a placeholder just in case you don't make it back. Please note that the entry is for GW13, and you can use the two-letter abbreviations above or write them all out (or continue as some did with descriptions other than their actual team name, although do so at your peril if I decide that I can't figure out who was selected). We'll continue for now with public posting posting of rankings, but let me know your thoughts on whether entries should be submitted privately and only posted after the lock. Since it's just for fun, I'm inclined to leave it public and invite everyone to include commentary, analysis, questions, etc. with their rankings, but I can see reasons to hold off on disclosing until after everyone has submitted their picks.
1. Top shelf 2. Morning glory 3. Aviators 4. Virgil reality Hedged myself low so i can be happy if I do get a dud score, although given the matchups: chelsea v wolves; liverpool v spurs; leicester v everton, effecting almost everyone, have to look at who has the easiest fixture buildup. If aguero starts finally for me i could blow in a huge score when he faces wba, if that doesnt happen ill be facing elimination potentially.
Players in this competition should note that I, Manager of Aviators, made 3 changes to my 15 man squad for GW13. Out: Bale, Jota, and Ayew IN: McGinn, Soucek, and Benteke Here's my submission for the order of finish among the selected teams for GW13. Week One of this competition. 1. Aviators 2. Top Shelf 3. Morning Glory 4. Virgil Reality
Final scores for GW12 have the 4 teams ranked as follows: Bigger Boat - 53 Aviators - 46 Sasha Jrs - 43 Virgil Reality - 41 Actually, reasonably competitive, and a point here or there could have shuffled thing pretty quickly. Despite the slow start, Bigger Boat rides in on the Vardy-wave in the final game to jump to the top, while Sasha Jrs. only avoided landing at the bottom as a result of that early jump from Klich. Rank 4 scoring for this week is: tarvinodos - 12 - BB*, AV*, SJ*, VR* DrHeckle --- 6 - BB*, SJ, AV, VR* Sonabert --- 6 - BB*, AV*, VR, SJ blech -------- 3 - BB*, SJ, VR, AV kopiteinkc -- 0 - AV, BB, VR, SJ lobomojo --- 0 - SJ, BB, VR, AV glorydaze -- 0 - SJ, VR, AV, BB Tarv nails it for the perfect score, and wants to know why there is a practice round. Interestingly, all of the teams scoring had Bigger Boat at #1 (no doubt, DrH will tell us how obvious that was....), so everyone has the +1 bonus in this practice round and we don't have any 2s or 5s. Honorable mention in failure to kopite, who correctly separated the top two and the bottom two, but inverted both pairs. No points for 2, 1, 4, 3! SCORING CHANGE: I'll invite everyone's comments, but I'm inclined to change the scoring to reduce the "perfect" score from 12 to 9. Setting aside the 1 point bonus/deduction re the top team, if you think about it as 3 points for each correct answer, tarv really just got one more answer correct than DrH and Sonabert, but he got credit for two rather than just one because the last two picks operate as a pair. Looking at tarv and Sonabert for example, they both had BB and AV, but then tarv went with SJ 3rd while Sonabert went with VR 3rd. tarv was right and Sonabert wasn't, but there isn't really a selection to be made for the 4th spot as it is the only spot left. So, treating it as two separate correct responses is essentially a bonus to tarv for the perfect slate, and there is nothing wrong with that, but I think overall this change will make it more competitive over the course of 6 gameweeks. Barring an uproar and a further announcement, this scoring system is changed. It's 2 or 3 for one correct, 5 or 6 for two correct, and 9 for perfect score. Please post to everyone or send me a DM if there are any questions about the rules or if you have comments on the scoring issue or any other ideas for how anything might be tweaked. Looks like we've picked up a few more who didn't participate in the practice round. As a reminder, you have until the FPL Tuesday deadline to post your GW13 rank 4 entries.
Yea, I thought you said you were going to curse him. I thought you were talking about some kind of black magic. I see now you were just talking about the language you would use... He'll be back up for ranking soon in GW14, and is listed first if you stick with order drawn. You'll have to decide if you want to try a new strategy.........