Fantasy Chili Bowl – The Semi-Finals

With the post-Christmas diets, dry January and FA cup week testing even the most patient of Fantasy managers, the Fantasy Chili Bowl returned to boost everyone’s mood with the competition reaching the knockout stages in  Gameweek 21. Here we take look at key events and also reveal the semi-finalists. 

Quarter Finals Round UP

1.      Philadelphia Sentrymen (458)        v San Francisco Bulls Deep (473)

2.      Washington DC Presidents (495)    v Cleveland Steamers (501)

3.      San Diego Casuals (441)        v Indianapolis House of Pancakes (441)

4.      Waikiki Beach Raiders (485)        v San Antonio Ravers (479)

Match 1

The tournament’s top scoring qualifiers San Francisco Bulls Deep were up against the Philadelphia Sentrymen, who provided the two highest scoring players in the tie in Yash and Narcos. However, San Francisco maintained their good form with consistently good scores across their side. This was enough to win the tie with a total of 473 to 458 and progress to the semi-finals.

Match 2

The Cleveland Steamers may have entered the knockout stages with the lowest points total but they have found their form and ended this week as the tournament’s top scorers on 501pts. Their score was helped by the ‘rage’ wildcard of RH7 who was this week’s joint top scorer with 110pts. It was a cruel result on the Washington DC Presidents as they found themselves losing by just 6 pts with the second highest points total of the week.

Match 3

The closest tie of the tournament was between the San Diego Casuals and Indianapolis House of Pancakes that ended in a draw. Both sides scored a total of 441 pts which was the lowest total from any of the teams. Due to the tie, the winner was decided by the captain’s scores and thanks to Pirlo’s Pen, it was enough for Indianapolis to scrape into the next round.  It must be a horrible way to lose a tie but as San Diego are so casual, they probably haven’t even noticed yet.

Match 4

The final matchup saw Waikiki Beach Raiders come up against the San Antonio Ravers. The FFScout moderator heavy Ravers posted an excellent score of 479 that saw gro1994 as joint top scorer with 110pts. However, Waikiki secured the win with a consistent team effort of 485pts. This means that Waikiki are the only group runners up to make it through to the semi-finals.

SEMI FINAL DRAW

The semi-finals are shaping up nicely where the Cleveland v San Francisco tie will see the highest scoring qualifiers up against this week’s highest scoring side. Waikiki and Indianapolis will face off once again having been in the same qualifying group where Waikiki will hope to avenge their group stage defeat.

Match A: Cleveland Steamers @ San Francisco Bulls Deep

Match B: Waikiki Beach Raiders @ Indianapolis House of Pancakes

The semi-finals will occur in gw 22. The winners will then play each other in gw 24 (avoiding the midweek fixtures).

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

·         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.

·         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

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On behalf of the FCB committee (Jarvish, BabyB, Ziro, Adam West and Cheese)