We roll out the final instalment of our three-part series of Big Numbers articles, focusing on players by position over the last four Gameweeks. Having assessed the Defenders and Midfielders, it’s now time to analyse the options up front, with Leicester, Tottenham, Arsenal and Liverpool’s strikers all turning in some impressive numbers.
This, I must, apologise for
Euros seeding pots:
After the first two play-offs, Hungary go into pot 3 and Ireland go into pot 4.
The winner of Sweden-Denmark will go into pot 3.
The Czech Republic and Turkey positions depend on the winner of Ukraine-Slovenia.
Pot 1: France, Spain, Germany, England, Portugal, Belgium.
Pot 2: Italy, Russia, Switzerland, Austria, Croatia, [Ukraine].
Pot 2 or 3: Czech Republic.
Pot 3: [Sweden or Denmark], Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary.
Pot 3 or 4: Turkey.
Pot 4: Ireland, [Slovenia], Iceland, Wales, Albania, Northern Ireland.And how does the tournament work with 24 teams?
i assume best 3rd places will go to next round
Its a bit of a clusterf*ck.
"The 24 teams will be drawn into groups of four, with the six group winners, six group runners-up and the four best third-placed teams advancing to the round of 16 when it becomes a knockout competition."Basically get 4 points and you *should* be through.
4 pts will be automatic qualification
4 points generally means the group has either gone
● 9
● 4
● 4
● 3
or
● 6
● 4
● 4
● 3
where the second team on 4 goes out due to GD/GF
And if the third placed teams draw on points
points difference or play off?
1.Higher number of points obtained;
2.Superior goal difference;
3.Higher number of goals scored;
4.Fair play conduct;
5.Position in the UEFA national team coefficient ranking system.Cheers Jarvish 🙂
Tie-breakers:
Points, goal difference, goals for, "fair play conduct in the final tournament as defined in Annex C.5.1;"*size of brown envelope
"5.C.1 Red and yellow cards
Deduction from a maximum of 10 points:
● Yellow card: 1 point
● Red card: 3 points
If a player who has been cautioned with a yellow card commits another offence which would normally be punishable with a yellow card, but who must be sent off for this second offence (combined yellow and red card), only the red card counts, i.e. total of 3 points to be deducted.
If, however, a player who has been cautioned with a yellow card commits anotheroffence for which the punishment is dismissal, a total of 4 points (1+3) must bededucted.
Red and yellow cards is the only item which may take a negative value."
Lots of teams that finish 3rd in their group progress to the last 16.
36 Group games played to remove just 6 teams. Smh.€€€€€€€€€
Bye bye Woy?
8 teams
Ukraine will be in Pot 2 if they qualify tomorrow, with Czech Republic in Pot 3 and Turkey in Pot 4
Czech Republic will be in Pot 2 if Slovenia qualify tomorrow, with Turkey in Pot 3 and Slovenia in Pot 4Hope we avoid England. We only perform well vs good teams...
Payet dropping tonight?
Travesty that Shane Long is dropping tonight after just qualifying for the Euros.
I'd give Long 😉 odds of that happening
He wasn't fit but his goal V Germany gave us the euro qualification platform tonight.
Massive, massive credit due to the whole squad and the management team.
Thank you #Dreams.
Cheers pal
Getting close on Fplstats and FFF thinks tomorrow
For this GW
O) Hold Bony or
I) Bony to Kane or
IO) Bony + KDB to Aguero + Silva/Sterling?
(Pending conclusion of internationals)OI!
Kane for now. I'd wait on Kun and Silva until they play 90.
I'm on 'I', right now.
Belgium vs Spain cancelled
Dial up?
Just came on here, so no.
Sorry I just said that cos your on team Ecuador
Aah yes, the BIG game this weekend 🙂
2fts. What to do?
Stek hennesey
Kompany huth evans francis jones
Sanchez kdb payet mane mahrez
Vardy pele bony
El Mercurio [Chile] is reporting that Alexis Sanchez is a doubt for the WC qualifier with Uruguay tomorrow because of a calf problem #AFC
this worries me slightly
Just sold him for Carles Gil.
Seems like a swimmingly successful transfer there....
Can I grab a little advice please gents?
Looking at losing bony and payet and have 3 options on mind...
A. Giroud and cabaye
B. Kone and ozil
C. Lose mane too and get ozil, giroud and cabaye for -8.
Already have Sanchez. Which way would you go?
A. U gonna be wanting Aguero?
Not yet but eventually.
Kane, vardy and giroud looks good on fixturesGood point. U thinking Giroud out further down the line once Theo's back & to see if Aguero Jamie's can last?
*hammies
Aye. As soon as wally returns Gru can bugger off 😀
Is it too much for me to try squeeze KDB, Sanch & Aguero in? Will effect my Payet transfer
I'd you can do it I'd be all over that. Kdb and aguero will be a match made in heaven
Get in there!!!!!!!
Ok, I'm in. What now?
Lol @ Jack Grealish btw!
#badlyadvisedteenageprat.See the paddy power tweet?
No, link please?
Cheers, personally he will never make the English squad, struggling to make the Villa squad right now, team Irekand looks after their players,
What was he, his father thinking?
Anyway - what do I know, he's still probably a decent lad.
Good evening. Couldn't sleep so here I am.
Who is the secret footballer. Ponder that to help you drift off again...
(Dave kitson or klaxon)Erm. Dave K is a footballer isn't he? Was it a secret?
Have you read his Guardian articles and the books?
Really good, interesting readsI actually have no idea what you are talking about. A secret footballer you say? I will google him
There's an anonymous article writer/author who is a pro footballer that has written reveal all stuff about his time in the premier league.
Mental stuff
My friend(22) text me last night saying last one awake wins, I didn't sleep last night... But I'm mature
Last one awake (so whoever sleeps longest) or last one awake (so whoever stays awake longest)?
The latter, hence I got no sleep
How would you know you won though?
bae stops texting you, you assume you won
Sounds like it's a Brighton best mate...
Skype maybe
Send an approval text every 15
Wow...just, wow.
I would be really good at that
It's on, you G.M.T?
I am not doing it. I have stuff to do in the morning but years of switching between dayshift ad nightshift allows me to be pretty good at that.
I had to get up at 8 the next morning 😆
Isn't this generally what the DZ is? "Ah feck everyone's asleep I might as well go too now Jinswick's arrived with his RMTs"
No its mainly people from different time zones
@ Balders might buy Giroud
@ Giroud might buy Balders
I would happily be his bitch
looks a good stop gap if Aguero aint ready.
anyone suffering from this condition this season anatidaephobia?
No. I think I am being watched by several ducks. It is a completely unrelated condition
Are all your ducks in a row?
Yeah and they are holding shotguns
You've got a problem man, that is some serious stuff you have going on.
Only, all the time. I've never seen Daffy in the same light since.
I don't know what's funnier the word 'anatidaephobia' or its meaning 🙂
Pretty random alright, got to love it
Apparently the only people qualified to cure the condition are quacks!
Anyone with good geography knowledge want to have some fun and try to guess
which FPL country leagues have the lowest number of participants? 😉Antigua and Barbuda?
340 participants, 110th place out of 254 country leagues
* correction: 110th from the bottom
Antartica?
578 teams, 125 th place 😉
Or anyone who watches Pointless 🙂
I love that show
I got an interview to go on it once
Really?, why not?
They never called me. Boo Hoo! I had gone 24 hours without sleep proceeding it before hand and may have been a little lairy because of it.
Now that's how you announce a comeback, how you doing WR
Nothing personal, couldn't resist you teeing up my my fave gif 🙂
I'm just delighted to see you 🙂
Hey WR... 😀
Thanks for your earlier support, still not decided on long term, so much has changed 🙁
I am glad to see you as well
Good to see you back WR. I have been supporting you, big time, in your stance.
Many many e mails have gone back and forth
South Sudan?
Damn you that was going to be my second choice, obviously too popular 😉
Try regular Sudan
St vincent and the grenadines
Tuvalu?
The Seychelles?
Syria?
Montserrat
20th from the bottom
Guinea-Bissau
closest guess so far, 63 teams, 14th from the bottom
Gambia
Regular Sudan?
Does Greenland count?
yep, 123 teams, 50 th from the bottom
Maldive Islands
The Vatican 😉
Tibet...
Grenada
St Kilda?
Niue
Burnley.
Nauru
147 teams
Last guess for a bit,
KyrgyzstanNorth Korea?
Palau
Is that not a type of rice ?
You're just naming rices now
78 teams, 23rd from the bottom
Egg fried
F**k u
Naboo?
Death Star?
Egg fried
Dial up?
Vanuatu
Well, guinea-Bissau is the closest guess so far, but it's only 14th from the bottom, everything else not so close
Fiji
Easter Island? Christmas Island? And Shrove Tuesday Island?
Sark
Sint Maarten?
4th from bottom! 28 teams
29 😎
The Galapagos Islands?
not available, I'm afraid
Comoros
10th from bottom, 53 teams
Mayotte
Lesotho
Reunion
Svalbard and Jan Mayen?
I didn't even know they existed, but there are 322 teams there 😉
Laos
Oz?
England?
Boom.
last from bottom, but very close
😎
Tokelau?
176 teams
Great question BTW
Norfolk Island
South Georgia and the south sandwich islands?
far too long and cool sounding
True. Is Vatican city an option? Or Niue?
Holy See is an option.
I tried Nieu, Vatican would be highly selected anyway
no to both, I think Saint Martin is the least famous among bottom 10, one country was actually mentioned in FFS twitter yesterday I think, 3 African countries, some from Oceania...
Congo?
Tonga? Samoa? Kiribati? Guam? Solomon Islands?
Samoa is 9th from bottom, 50 teams!
How about the American part?
much bigger, 264 teams
Tasty
South sandwich islands....what the hell...Where is that ?
East of the Falklands
You get there by taking the Subway
come on, sandwich islands can't be an unpopular league choice 🙂 396 teams out there 🙂
Pitcairn Islands?
Roy Hogsons 4th chin
Saint Pierre and Miquelon?
someone from my school league is in there!
just checked, he's 26th out of 109 😛
Pitcairn Islands
Saint Barthelemy
Marshall Islands
Genovia
Federated states of Micronesia?
115 teams, 44th from bottom
Akrotiri and Dhekelia
Nicaragua
Curaçao
96 teams, 35th from bottom
monaco
Mayotte
116 teams...
San Marino
french southern territories
Madagascar
Sierra Leone
Lesotho
Wow, just looking at the replies. Mine was so fifteen minutes ago.
chad
equatorial guinea
sao tome & principe
They'd be my African guessesKiribati
liechtenstein
Kiribati
Cayman Islands
Bonaire?
Cook Islands?
Mayotte
Cape VerdTristan da Cunha
New Caledonia!
correct, 7 th from bottom 43 teams
?
New Caledonia
Well it's definitely an island.
Pitcairn
Surely deserves more than a plus three. The ratio of replies to upvotes is staggering.
benin
nauru
Turkmenistan
The Arctic?
Montserrat
AnguillaAlready got Montserrat near the top, 20th from bottom.
Burundi?
12th from bottom, 61 teams
Out of the bottom 10, 4 countries have been named: Comoros, Samoa and Saint Martin and New Caledonia. The very bottom 2 are hard to guess as these leagues are unavailable for entry but still exist. 3 African countries and one island country are rather well known though.
The Island from Lost is one of the "unavailable but still exist" spots, right?
Solomon Islands
Mongolia
Holy SeeMwali?
is this a country? very close though 😉
Mali
yep
malawi
western sahara
Isle of Pines
Or Kwênyii?
Central African Republic
Western Sahara
Rockall (not sure if that's allowed!)Comoros
Matt Holland?
niger
djiboutiMali
SwazilandMali is amazingly one of them, 8th from bottom only 46 teams
I guessed it first, just saying
Bikini Atoll?
Interesting point on that. There's a theory that Spongebob Squarepants and co are a result of mutations caused by atomic weapons testing on Bikini Atoll which affected the sea life living below it (Bikini Bottom).
Hence why I guessed it below
Ah so I see!
Benteke
Malawi?
Bikini bottom
Wallis & Futuna Islands
Norfolk Isle?French Guiana
yes! 3rd from bottom, probably the lowest one which can be guessed, 23 teams
so you're saying the actual lowest placed team can't be guessed
this makes me so happy I got Sint Maarten from a guess at 4th from bottom so early on
Netherlands Antilles
hehe, yep, the bottom one, 0 teams but exists
Finally!
Sint Eustatius to be the other one then?
Palau
Guam
MonserratUnited Kingdom
You're cheating 😉
OK, the bottom 20 country leagues:
# / Country / Number of teams / League ID
20 Montserrat 74 164
19 Togo 71 234
18 Benin 68 43
17 Suriname 68 223
16 Niger 67 176
15 Tonga 67 236
14 Guinea-Bissau 63 110
13 Solomon Islands 63 216
12 Burundi 61 56
11 Martinique 58 155
10 Comoros 53 69
9 Samoa 50 205
8 Mali 46 152
7 New Caledonia 43 173
6 Liberia 42 141
5 Guinea 41 109
4 Saint Martin 28 270
3 French Guiana 23 94
2 United Kingdom 6 247
1 Netherlands Antilles 0 171Using my smarts 😉
I got Sint Maarten with a nice guess early doors though 🙂It was my mistake to accept that Saint Martin and Sint Maarten are actually two different leagues 🙂
gah!
There are somehow 6 teams in the United Kingdom league 🙂
I guess it was an old option which has since been removed, but those who previously selected this before it was removed have stayed on it by default?
all of them have played one season before, 2011/2012, prior to this. it seems that UK has been an option back then and they haven't had to change details when registering for this season
Netherlands Antilles hasn't existed since 2010, which...ahem...possibly threw people a little
Tajikistan
Burkina fasoSeychelles
Christmas ilse.
North Korea , there can't be many of them playing
Greenland229 teams in North Korean league, very few of them have Korean names though 😉
kim jong un has won FPL the last 6 years.... allegedly!
Hey guys - any late night suggestions would be much appreciated 🙂
Myhill
Kolarov Bellerin VVD
KDB Mahrez Sanchez Ozil
Kane Vardy Pelle
McCarthy Albrighton Dawson Francis
1.8m 1FT
Also - not sure if I'm getting Kun just yet, might wait 1-3 weeks till he's fully fit before deciding..Looks good. Wait on VVD news, if he's out I'd probably ditch Dawson for a Spurs defender
Oi
Payet looks safe from dropping tonight
Baines likely to play against Villa? Was planning on bringing him in as a punt before I WC in December
Wouldn't bank on it. More likely to be worked back in given his injury.
Coleman for now then?
Yh.
Didn't catch Lingard last week - Chances of him starting / getting a run in the side...?
Give him a couple of weeks he he'll be on the bench again a la Januzaj.
Likely to start this week. Don't know how long it will last
Morning all
Draft league question.
Play 2 of
A) benteke (mcy)
B) lingard (wat)
C) Dembele (WHM)
D) Son (WHU)Son.
Thanks parm
What about the other one?Benteke.
(This was a great chance for you to reply with: Dad, is that you?)
One of those missed opportunities I will take to my grave
RIP
Son, & Tekkers.
Dembele and Benteke.
Thanks FAS
Thanks El Capitan
Chances of payet dropping in price?
Fairly good...
That's what I wanna know too! Looks like he'll avoid the drop today tho
Is Payet dropping in price today, and have you guys sold him yet? Cheers
I hope not. I will keep until tomorrow's matches and will sell for Errzil
He's in the "unreliable zone"...so anybody who gives a yes or no answer doesn't really know...
So maybe...or maybe not.yeah it's hard to tell but I think he'll escape the drop today...will keep until tomorrow and maybe get Delefeu in, seems like a decent punt with those fixtures
Probably not, but he is in the zone of possibility.
Evening. What are we supposed to do if we did our transfers a week ago?
Sit tight and pray that there are no further injuries to your players 😕
Fingers crossed.
Any Sanchez captainers this week?
chat sh1t get banged
1 v 1 me bruh
You f*ckin scrub, gg no re b*tch.
https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/sv7.gif
Might buy and sell Payet again for -8 just to see if his price will drop.
Might create loads of new teams just to make sure it goes up.
10 minutes til price drops people, ditch your Shane Longs now!
How would you feel if you lost a fantasy matchup by 0.7pts despite scoring the second most points in a 14 team league?
Because i'm so pissed right now.
If you HAD to downgrade one of Bellerin, VDV and Sagna to a 4.5 which one of the three would you replace?
Sagna
Sagna
vdv
Sagna imo
Lets have a late night quick-fire poll to what are people thinking (C)aptain wise at the moment:
GO GO GOWho does GO play for? 🙂
Kane
Kane I reckon.
vardy or kane for me
Risers: Dann, Gomes
Fallers: Bony, Long, Payet, Ramsey
Tuesday 17/11/2015, 01:12:34 AMBONY YOU MOTHERFECKER
5.2m Palace defender, oh dear.
Payet. Boom!
Payet - scenes!
Glad I shifted him 30 minutes ago. 😀
Payet you bish! Nooooooooooooooo 🙁
No SV lost on Payet 😎
Ramsey yes 🙂
Opens up my transfers
Nooooooooo!!! Payet 😡
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