The Chili Bowl regular season has reached its third week and some teams are well on course for a place in the knockout stages. Sadly though, others have not been so lucky so far.
Fortunately, there is still plenty of time to turn it around. Let’s take a look at the key events from round two and where that leaves those teams taking part.
Conference A
After last week’s slightly sluggish start the teams in Conference A managed a more respectable combined tally of 1833 points. The New Orleans Contes crushed the San Antonio Ravers in the opening fixture, with Trigg amassing a superb 77 points crucial for the victors.
Zasa and Jossy also chipped in with impressive scores as the Contes won in convincing fashion. However, the margin of victory could have been less significant as AZ benched former FPL winner Tom Fenley, who managed the highest score of the entire round with a whopping 88 points.
The Los Angeles Vipers ground out a narrow win over the Boston Hawks. It proved to be a low scoring affair with Sid07 producing the standout performance with 66 points. The Washington Presidents continued their march to the play-offs with a blowout victory over the Miami Magicians. Balders was the highest scorer with 74 points, which secured him a place in the team of the week.
It should be an intriguing clash between the Boston Hawks and the Miami Magicians next week as both sides desperately need a victory to keep their hopes of qualification alive.
Conference B
The Philadelphia Sentrymen dominated the Mississippi Hillbillies with Teddy and The Pep Revolution starring with 74 and 72 points respectively. The slack jawed yokels even managed to bench their highest scoring player in another humiliating defeat.
The Cleveland Steamers secured a narrow victory over Phoenix Philistines. Zan Keroski played a pivotal role with 66 points. Elsewhere in Conference B, Austin Powers got the better of the Chicago Bull Sitters by 14 points, with Hooky earning a place in the team of the week with a colossal 77 points.
The Hillbillies and the Philistines face each other next in a make or break game with both sides needing a win in order to have any hope of making the knockouts.
Conference C
The Seattle Salad Dodgers recorded a comfortable 30 point victory over the San Diego Casuals. The nonchalant Californians put in a solid performance, however, the green leaf haters’ experience told as their veteran players Demi, Evs and Athletic Timbo ensured victory with three impressive tallies.
A heroic effort from SidL carried the New York Tommy Guns to a narrow victory over the Las Vegas Lemmings. He was the highest scoring active player and made the team of the week with 82 points. KoL put in a captain’s performance with 72 points for the Lemmings, but it was ultimately in vain.
Finally, a charging Rhino led the San Francisco Bulls Deep to an impressive 51 point win over Spectrum’s San Jose Holebas with 69 points. Rhino is also leading the MVP race for the whole competition.
The Las Vegas Lemmings prop up the table with zero wins so far. They desperately need victory against the San Diego Casuals next week in order to stay in contention.
Conference D
The Jacksonville Jamaicans eased to a 36 point victory over the Utah Polygamists. Tommy Tour’s 68 points helped the Caribbean outfit to victory and was unlucky not to make the team of the week.
Morph’s 68 points contributed to the Indianapolis House of Pancakes’ 26 point victory over the Waikiki Beach Raiders. Wolves_simmo will clearly be disappointed after scoring 68 points and still ending up on the losing side.
Denver Does Dallas recorded a 40 point victory over Albuquerque Shaolin. Tony Hibbert and Nidge’s colourful antics clearly affected their performances in opposing ways as Hibbert led the team to victory with 66 points, while Nidge perhaps should have been left on the bench in hindsight with a meagre 22 points to show for his efforts.
The winless Utah Polygamists are currently bottom of Conference D and will need to whisk, toss and flatten the Indianapolis House of Pancakes next week in order to have a chance to make the knockouts.
TEAM AND MANAGER OF THE WEEK
Sidl (NY) 82
Hooky (CHI) 77
Teddy (PHI) 76
Balders (WAS) 74
Trigg (NOC) 73
The PEP Revolution (PHI) 72
Alternates:
Tom Fenley (SA) 88
Park the Bus (SD) 66
The presser award for last week goes to JonnyLeeds from Austin Powers for his left-field series of innuendo-filled ramblings.
A full run down of the All Star Points and captains award positions can be found here along with the rules.
The Manager of the week award goes to Laterriser12 from the Jacksonville Jamaicans, who was the only captain who managed to bench the two lowest scoring players this week.
THE SQUADS AND THE FIXTURE LISTS
Please see this spreadsheet for details of all the squads (with links to each players FPL history) and fixtures.
The FCB Differentials Spreadsheet allows teams to identify which players will be key in this week’s scoring. The instructions for using it are:
1. First, make a personal copy using the ‘File’ menu options (this will enable you to edit the cells)
2. Enter the GW no. in the blue-coloured cell on top.
3. Enter the FPL IDs of your six team members and the six IDs of the opponents’.
4. The sheet picks up the live FPL points of the players on each refresh, and the total for the team is displayed in green.
The FCB Next GW Scouting Spreadsheet will allow teams to pull in the previous week’s FPL teams for all eight of the opposing teams players to allow scouting of the squads. The instructions for using this spreadsheet are as above except the fpl points are no longer valid.
SIDE ORDERS
Further previews and nuggets of information will be posted within the comments throughout the week, but the important things to know are as follows:
· Captains must email the FCB mailbox (fantasychilibowl@gmail.com) with their decision on which two players they are benching this week before the deadline of 11:59pm UK time on Friday night. 11:59pm UK time on the night before the FPL deadline will be the deadline each week.
· Remember this is a FFS community competition and we expect all teams to have some presence within the comments on these articles. If we see some teams not participating on this front, we will start enforcing rules to ensure this does happen.
- The full rules can be found here - this includes details of the all-star game, other awards, and the latest all-star and captain’s award standings.
If you have any further queries, feel free to ask below in the comments or email us at: fantasychilibowl@gmail.com
As a final request, please do try and keep the FCB chat to the comment sections of our articles.
On behalf of the FCB committee (Jarvish, BabyB, Ziro, Adam West and Cheese)
7 years, 4 months agoROAD TRIP
After a week of exotic fugue states, dodgy calisthenic mayhem, and a fog of confusion leading to the wrong Austin being man-marked, the Bull Sitters needed to regroup for their first road trip.
With the Club Lear Jet was now a distant memory, courtesy of the owner's over-investment in Liverpool futures, the Bull Sitters were set for a long trek in a battered Greyhound, with one chemical loo to serve a squad-full of hyperactive plumbing. Mr CALM knew it was time for another inspirational team-talk.
'Right you bunch of bloated overpaid prima donnas' said Mr CALM, showing his sensitive side 'its time to get serious.'
'first its high time we returned Dixie Normous - even Jonnyleeds must have missed her by now - so we need a stopover in Cleveland. We can also do a spot of advance scouting, so give Trap 1 at the back of the bus a wide berth, and save your deposits for the Steam Room in Steamer Stadium.'
'There's also been a clamp-down on security. Spectrum will be on the gate in Philly checking credentials, so have you Passport, Visa, Birth Certificate and inside leg measurements ready for inspection; and watch out for girlfights. Apparently the FCB organisers also expect presents. I don't know if this on top of the usual kick-back, but we can't afford any more deductions, so be ready to divvy up.'
'Now I know we are playing in the city of Liberty and brotherly love, but its time to give Dave and the other Sentrymen the real BS treatment. Keep an eye out for Rocky, and remember: quitters don't win and winners don't quit; so let's get an early lead and quit while we're ahead.'
Cheese-steaks for eveyone!