Fantasy Chili Bowl – Week 4

The fourth round of the Chili Bowl competition is upon us, and we are getting down to the nitty-gritty of deciding who is going to Trump into the next stage and who will fade into obscurity, Hillary Clinton-style.

Some classic encounters took place in Week 3, with some monster scores and excitement aplenty.  Let’s have a recap of the events and look ahead to this weekend’s ties. 

Conference A

Week 3 Review

The Washington DC Presidents and New Orleans Contes both lost their 100% records as Conference A tightens up at the top. This is now the only conference without a triple victor so far.

The Presidents were particularly unlucky as they would have beaten every other team in Conference A this week apart from their conquerors – the Spencer-inspired San Antonio Ravers – who ran out 440-418 winners.

Captain Goldman was the star of the show for the Los Angeles Vipers, amassing 106 points as New Orleans slumped to a 380-405 defeat. Their loss came despite their captain Jazz! Accumulating an impressive 93 point haul.

The other match featured two teams going into the week looking for their first win, the Boston Hawks and Miami Magicians. In this make-or-break encounter, the Boston side were ultimately victorious, 386-350,  to keep their play-off hopes still alive.  Sanchit was the top scorer for the Hawks.

Standings

WAS 2-1

NO 2-1

SA 2-1

LA 2-1

BOS 1-2

MIA 0-3

Week 4 schedule

WAS v NO

MIA v LA

BOS v SA

Conference B

Week 3 Review

The Cleveland Steamers maintained their perfect start to the season as Conference B witnessed three tight encounters

Just five points separated the undefeated Steamers from their unlucky opponents Austin Powers in a 397-392 nail-biter.  Jester112358 was the hero for Cleveland with a fabulous 94 points, more than 20 more than any of his teammates.

The Philadelphia Sentrymen were less fortunate as they suffered their first loss in a 454-443 classic at the hands of the Chicago Bull Sitters, despite Philadelphia’s captain Narcos’ stunning 112 point gameweek.  It was a real team effort from Chicago, with four of their six starters scoring in the 80s.

Elsewhere, the Phoenix Philistines claimed their first victory of the campaign with a 445-417 defeat of luckless (and winless) Mississippi Hillbillies.  Meerlight of the Hillbillies was the top scorer in the match with 95 points, but it wasn’t enough to keep his side out of the basement and staring at what appears to be an early elimination.

Standings

CLE 3-0

PHI 2-1

CHI 2-1

PHX 1-2

AUS 1-2

MIS 0-3

Week 4 schedule

MIS v CHI

AUS v PHX

PHI v CLE

Conference C

Week 3 Review

No question what the match of the week in Conference C was this week, as San Francisco Bulls Deep defeated their west-coast rivals the Seattle Salad Dodgers in an epic shoot-out 481-453.

The Bulls Deep were on top form with Rocco10 leading the way with 97 points.  The undefeated Californians even got away with benching BB-8’s 94 point haul as Seattle now slump to a 1-2 record, despite being one of only four teams in the entire competition to have amassed over 1000 points so far.

In the other matches this week, the New York Tommy Guns and the San Diego Casuals both secured their second victories, over the San Jose Holebas and Las Vegas Lemmings, 419-377 and 401-384 respectively.  Phoenix87 top scored for New York with 90 points, while MVP hopeful, Park The Bus, headed the scoring for the Casuals with 88 points.

Standings

SF 3-0

SD 2-1

NY 2-1

SEA 1-2

SJ 1-2

LV 0-3

Week 4 schedule

SD v SF

LV v SJ

SEA v NY

Conference D

The form book was followed in Conference D as the rampant Indianapolis House of Pancakes made it three wins from three, against a stunned Utah Polygamists.

IHOP’s 498 point total was the highest of any side this week, with skipper Pirlo’s Pen gathering 94 points and Haggis 90 points against a winless Utah outfit who played very well themselves but again just came up against the wrong team on the wrong day.

DelhiDynamo was the individual star of the week though.  His unbelievable 123 point total helped his Waikiki Beach Raiders to their second victory as they blew away the Albuquerque Shaolin 419-326.

In the other match, the Jacksonville Jamaicans benched their two lowest scorers for the second week in a row, but it wasn’t enough to overcome Denver DoesDallas, who ran out 391-353 winners, despite Kingnidge’s 85 points being left on the bench for Denver.

Standings

IND 3-0

WB 2-1

DEN 2-1

JAX 1-2

ALB 1-2

UTA 0-3

Week 4 schedule

DEN v UTA

ALB v IND

WB v JAX

TEAM AND MANAGER OF THE WEEK

DelhiDynamo (WB) 123

Narcos (PH) 112

Goldman (LA) 106

Spencer (SA) 98

Rocco10 (SF) 97

Meerlight (MIS) 95

Alternates:

Teddy Steddington (UTA) 95

Bb-8 (SF) 94

The Manager of the week award goes to cylus11 from the Waikiki Beach Raiders, who was one of three captains to bench their two lowest scorers this week, but the only one whose team won their match.

Remember, the all-star game takes place in GW16 with the participants finalised after this week’s round of games.  A full run down of the current All Star Points standings, as well as the current captains award positions and the competition rules can be found here.

The current all-star rosters (with one week to go) look like this……..

Conference A/B:

Narcos (PHI)

Jazz! (NO)

Spencer (SA)

Licious Lizard (AUS)

Diva (WAS)

Sid07 (BOS)

Conference C/D:

Rhinos (SF)

Park The Bus (SD)

SidL (NY)

DelhiDynamo (WB)

KingNidge (DEN)

Gussy (UTA)

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

In some team news, due to one of their players no longer being eligible for the competition, the Washington DC Presidents have called up Pochecinno to their roster as a replacement, in line with the competition rules.

And some regular reminders………

·         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.

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)