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FFS Head to Head leagues 2019-2020 – Update Part 2

Further to my article on the 15th August, please see a further update on the FFS Head to Head Leagues below.

Unfortunately we haven’t been able to release the leagues and fixtures by GW 2 as early we had hoped, but as I’m sure you can appreciate there have been a couple of teething problems. With just under 6000 entries there is a lot of data to process and condense to show correctly on the site!

There is one important change since the last update and that is the naming of the leagues: we have swapped the wording of Divisions and Leagues around, so the top league is called League 1 rather than Division 1 and the next tier down is now called League 2 Division 1 and Division 2 rather than Division 2 League 1 and 2.

So the structure is now as follows;

League 1 – 1 Division

League 2 – 2 Divisions

League 3 – 4 Divisions

League 4 – 8 Divisions

League 5 – 16 Divisions

League 6 – 32 Divisions

League 7 – 64 Divisions

League 8 – 173 Divisions

Some of the issues currently being worked on are as follows:

1. Geoff is busy working to get the landing page sorted so that everyone can view the data.

2. Soon each team will have a link to their gameweek history.

3. At present all 38 fixtures for all 300 leagues are shown in one document but behind the scenes we are working on getting these filtered, so they show per league.

4. At some point in the season we will be looking to obtain each teams FFS username. This information isn’t needed to show the leagues or fixtures but is something that will be needed to a) help identify the team for the FFS community and b) makes it a lot easier for me to administer the promotion and relegation for next season.

As advised all the leagues and fixtures have been created and are updated to reflect the GW1 scores. If any of you wish to know your league and GW1 result I’m happy to advise but you’ll need to direct message me on Twitter – @sparkymir.

For now, we really appreciate your positive feedback and patience. We would have ideally got everything out on site before the GW2 deadline, however we are committed to having everything showing correctly before we release it.

Hopefully we’ll be able to reveal more this afternoon.

* If I’m unable to make significant visual improvements I’ll still release the URLs so people can check in. The bulk of the work is done and we know it’ll work, now we need to make it easy for managers to use and understand! – Geoff

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  1. Geoff
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    • 11 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Hopefully we'll have some further updates on this later today 🙂

    1. Fitzy.
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Great work all of you!
      When do you need us to start linking our FFS names with our teams - or will there be a call for that later?

      1. Geoff
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
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        • 11 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Yeah, that's not necessary right now. Once we get the other things worked out we can go for that

  2. Now I'm Panicking
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks for the update!

    Are we safe to remove ourselves from the ML we needed to join to enter this now?

    1. Geoff
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
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      • 11 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      There are two answers to this really but yes, the first is that you can leave it.

      The second is that the mini-league will stay open as that's how managers will sign up for next year. The mini-league will be renewed next year (with everyone in it auto-signed up again) and anyone who has left it will need to join again, for GW1, to get their spot back.

      This will be to avoid having a bunch of managers who are uninterested, not following the league, or unaware they're still in it from taking up spots.

      So everyone can leave the league but just a reminder that for next season you'll need to remember to sign up again to keep your league position.

      1. Now I'm Panicking
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Cool - thanks 🙂

  3. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    This is absolutely fantastic!!! Has anyone had a nervous breakdown, yet? 😀

    But thank you so much, for this monumental work!!!

    1. Geoff
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
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      • 11 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      A few, each 😀

      1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Christ, I really empathise. I only had 7 H2H leagues, tacked on to the main league, and it nearly did my head in! But this ... 🙂

    2. mir
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      The fact that Matt has still been in contact about it whilst sitting on a beach says it all!

  4. The Overthinker
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Appreciate the work you guys are doing. Huge task this, with lot of excitement around. Here's me wishing you best of health !!

    Can't wait to get started

    1. Geoff
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
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      • 11 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Cheers! Wish I could have changed the ranks so I was in the top League but unfortunately I'm in League 2!

      1. The Overthinker
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        If you are placed in League 2, I wonder where will I be ? Somewhere down in League 7-8? 😀

        1. mir
          • 14 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Let me know your ID number and i'll let you know.

          1. The Overthinker
            • 7 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            5979

            No hurry. Let me know when you have spare time

            1. mir
              • 14 Years
              4 years, 7 months ago

              League 6 - Division 15.
              3 points after GW1

              1. The Overthinker
                • 7 Years
                4 years, 7 months ago

                League 6 ... Not bad 🙂

                And yaay. Won the first match.

                Hope fully it is 2/2 after gw2

                Cheers MIR.

              2. Fitzy.
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 12 Years
                4 years, 7 months ago

                Hey Mir, in the previous update you mentioned you were in League 3, Division 1 with a HOF rank of 547. Does that mean only about 70 odd of those ranked above you have entered these leagues?

                1. Now I'm Panicking
                  • 9 Years
                  4 years, 7 months ago

                  Sorry to interject, but my maths says there must be between 60 and 139 ahead of him, as he must be ranked between 61st and 140th of the entrants to be in League 3.

                  1. Fitzy.
                    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                    • 12 Years
                    4 years, 7 months ago

                    Well, he’s in Division 1 of League 3, so that leaves the 60 in Leagues 1 and 2, as well as possibly some of the others in his league that are ranked higher in the HOF? Or are the divisions within each league random and not rank based?

                    1. Fitzy.
                      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                      • 12 Years
                      4 years, 7 months ago

                      *some of the others in his division

                    2. Now I'm Panicking
                      • 9 Years
                      4 years, 7 months ago

                      The divisions within the leagues are of equal strength I believe, so I think the strength of League 3 Division 1 is the same as League 3 Division 4.

                      1. Fitzy.
                        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                        • 12 Years
                        4 years, 7 months ago

                        Yeah, I understand that for relegation & promotion the divisions within a league are equally weighted, but thought that HOF rank would be used for the initial placements.

                      2. Now I'm Panicking
                        • 9 Years
                        4 years, 7 months ago

                        They probably did something like rank 61 goes in L3 D1, rank 62 goes in L3 D2, rank 63 goes in L3 D3, rank 64 goes in L3 D4, rank 65 goes in L3 D1, rank 66 goes in L3 D2, etc etc, though with 6000 people to sort out they may have had to do it a simpler way!

                      3. mir
                        • 14 Years
                        4 years, 7 months ago

                        Correct Jarvish, this is exactly how we did it.

                      4. Fitzy.
                        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                        • 12 Years
                        4 years, 7 months ago

                        You’re making good sense as usual...

                  2. mir
                    • 14 Years
                    4 years, 7 months ago

                    Again spot on Jarvish

                2. mir
                  • 14 Years
                  4 years, 7 months ago

                  Let me know your ID and i'll let you know your league and Division

                  1. Fitzy.
                    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                    • 12 Years
                    4 years, 7 months ago

                    38750

                    1. mir
                      • 14 Years
                      4 years, 7 months ago

                      Fitzy - League 2 Division 2. 3 points from GW1

                      1. Fitzy.
                        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                        • 12 Years
                        4 years, 7 months ago

                        And 0 points from GW2 for sure! Thanks...

          2. Ajaxeeding
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 5 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            25595.

            Thanks!

            1. Ajaxeeding
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 5 Years
              4 years, 7 months ago

              Sorry meant 20595

              1. mir
                • 14 Years
                4 years, 7 months ago

                League 7. Divison 61. Won first game so after GW you're on 3 points

                1. wayne50
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 9 Years
                  4 years, 7 months ago

                  Great effort by you and everybody working on these Leagues. My id is 3838, can you please let me know what League I am in and how I done so far. Thanks.

                  1. wayne50
                    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                    • 9 Years
                    4 years, 7 months ago

                    Sorry my id is 3858.

                2. Ajaxeeding
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 5 Years
                  4 years, 7 months ago

                  Thank you good sir!

                  1. mir
                    • 14 Years
                    4 years, 7 months ago

                    League 5. Divison 8. 3 points from GW1

          3. Zladan
            • 6 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            Hi Mir,

            My ID is 54, which league am I in and how am I getting on?

            Thanks.

          4. Chachi
            • 7 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            Hi Mir.

            My ID is 155581.

            Cheers

      2. Epic Fail
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        If you're already at the top then you can't improve. being in league 1 is for losers with no ambition.

        Unless I'm in league 1 then of course it's the division to be in.

        1. The Overthinker
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          😀

  5. Eytexi
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Cheers for the update! 🙂

    Sounds like a huge project to execute but fantastic efforts from many people are making it happen. Hopefully it all comes together soon and the hard work pays off!

  6. Hochoki
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    but i can't send DM to u in twitter 🙁

    1. mir
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Sorry you should be able too now. You if you provide your I.D number here I'll let you know.

      1. Lord.
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Can you advise me too please? My ID is 278999.

        1. mir
          • 14 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Lord - League 4 - Div 6. Zero points from GW1

          1. Lord.
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 9 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            Many thanks. I think it will be the same in GW2!

    2. Klein
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      She gave you the wrong id buddy. Don't worry find another.

  7. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Wildcards are tempting but my team is just too good to ditch:
    Heaton
    Lundstram - Holebas - VVD
    Cantwell - salah - Sterling - Trossard
    Pukki - Wilson - vardy
    So many of them at home as well

    1. Klein
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      If you team is too good just don't think about wc. There will be fire down the line. International breaks will hit hard.

    2. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Personally i would with that team but that’s just me 🙂

  8. Jonty Rhodes
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Hi there, is it too late to enter for it or is my team already included in the competition?

    1. mir
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Did you enter the entry league before GW1?

      1. Jonty Rhodes
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Cant recall whether I did or not

        1. mir
          • 14 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          What's your I.D and i'll check.

          1. Klein
            • 8 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            @MIR
            Cam you check mine too
            Id is 88511
            Was there a seperate entry for this? Might have missed it.

            1. mir
              • 14 Years
              4 years, 7 months ago

              Yes sorry that I.D is not showing. You had to enter an entry league prior to GW1 deadline. We used this league to collect the data needed. Hope to see you in it next year.

              1. Jonty Rhodes
                • 8 Years
                4 years, 7 months ago

                Hay MIR, here you go: 165640. Sorry for late reply

                If I have missed it, is there any other competition I can enter at this stage? I am already in the scout league for past many years

                1. mir
                  • 14 Years
                  4 years, 7 months ago

                  You did enter. League 7. Divison 51. Zero points after GW1.

                  1. BATISTUTA ®
                    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                    • 7 Years
                    4 years, 7 months ago

                    Hey Mir,
                    when you have some time can you check my ID out, 773753
                    Thank you in advance!

                    1. mir
                      • 14 Years
                      4 years, 7 months ago

                      League 7. Divison 23. You lost your GW1 match

                      1. BATISTUTA ®
                        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                        • 7 Years
                        4 years, 7 months ago

                        Thank you for everything, keep up the good work 🙂 !!

  9. Visionaries
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Best option for the final spot? Have 5.0 to spend

    Pope, Button
    AWB, Soyuncu, ???? (Kelly, Lundstrom)
    Martial, Sterling, KDB, Mcginn, Mane
    Kane, Pukki, (Wickham)

    A Montoya
    B Pieters
    C Zouma
    D KWP

  10. GreenWindmill
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Mindboggling what you've done here, kudos to all involved.

  11. BrutalLogiC
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    great job, what league is 220958?

    1. mir
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      League 6. Division 6. Sorry you lost your GW1 match so you're on zero at the minute. GW2 is currently being updated.

      1. BrutalLogiC
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Superb thanks

  12. FplBerg
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks for your work on this - sounds great. Can you let me know which league 37879 is in?

    1. mir
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      League 4. Divison 2. You won your match in GW1 so you're on 3 points.

      1. FplBerg
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Thanks

  13. AddyK
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks for all your work bruv. If you could help me find out which league Im in - 1652174

    1. mir
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      League 6. Divison 7. You won your GW1 match so are on 3 points.

  14. potatoace
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    This is fantastic work.
    I'm so annoyed with myself on missing out on entering.

    I suppose if you choose to run it next year I would start in the bottom league... is that how it works?

    1. mir
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Yes anyone that joins next year will join in the bottom league regardless of rank. Hope to see you nexy season.

  15. Schmarn
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Hi

    My ID is 18405. Can you let me know what league I’m in. Definitely lost week 1!

    1. mir
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      His ID is not showing. Did you enter thr entry league beofe GW1 deadline?

    2. mir
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Sorry found it now... league 3. Divison 1. (Same league as me). You lost GW1 so you're on zero points.

  16. The_Socca_Philosopha
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    I suppose it's too late to join in the fun? Back after a hiatus from fantasy football, but it seems I missed the launch of this feature

    1. mir
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Sorry yes, if you didn't enter the entry league prior to the GW1 deadline you missed it. Hope to see you next season.

  17. Rostah
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks for all the hard work, very excited for this

  18. Swagat
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Great work, can u check mine? 125826

    1. mir
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      League 8. Divison 145. You won your GW1 match so you're on 3 points.

      1. St Pauli Walnuts
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        This is such a cool idea, thanks for all your efforts.

        Could you please check 150630?

        Ta

        1. mir
          • 14 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          League 7. Divison 8. You lost your GW1 head to head.

  19. FPL National
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Great works lads. Can you check what league I'm in when you get a chance? 9497

    1. mir
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      League 3. Divison 3. You lost GW1 so you're on zero points.

      1. wayne50
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Great work done by you and your team. Can you please let me know what League I am in and my results if possible. My id is 3858.

  20. Robben Mee Blind
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Tremendous stuff guys- really looking forward to this!

  21. Annie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    @ Mir, please could you check what league I'm in? 22962

    1. mir
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      League 4. Divison 7. You lost GW1.

      1. Annie
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Thanks for looking it up

  22. Messiah Hazard
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Can you please check which league I am in. My ID is 37433.

    1. mir
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      League 6. Divison 9. You won your GW1 match.

      1. Messiah Hazard
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Thanks Mir

  23. wayne50
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    @ Mir, please could you check what league I'm in and my results.I'm in 3858. Thanks.

    1. mir
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      League 5. Divison 8. You won your GW1 match

      1. wayne50
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Thanks MIR and good luck with setting up the FFS head leagues.

  24. Tacalabala
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Some here may recognise my username from 'another place' as responsible for running a head-to-head competition there. I have to applaud your efforts to get this off the ground, and I very much look forward to see the results.

  25. Fork handles
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    18091 when you get a moment please Mir

    1. mir
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      League 6. Divison 14. You lost in GW1 and you also lost in GW2 by 1 point. Zero points after two games.

      1. Fork handles
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Strong start then

  26. Wild Rover
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    When will we be able to see the leagues we are in?

    1. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      And upcoming fixtures? Cheers

    2. mir
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Hopefully very soon and before GW3 deadline. Geoff is busy right now working on it.

      1. Chaballer
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Any chance you could tell me what League I’m placed in and how I got on in first couple games?ID = 70605

        1. mir
          • 14 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          League 3. Divison 3. You've won one and lost one. 3 points after 2 games.

          1. Chaballer
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 10 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            Thanks mate

  27. Baps hunter
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    If you have all the data on one spreadsheet and it can be transferred to MS Excel, it should be possible to write a macro that solves the filtering issue (3rd point) and creates database needed for every id. After that a simply query with team id would show future opponents.

    I know this isn't perfect fix, but should give everyone the main info for time being?

  28. Ronnies
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Does Mount seemed nailed ?

    Or

    Is McGinn a "safer" pick

    Thanks guys.

  29. Stevig
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    I realise that this was an absurd account of work. Just wondered if I'd missed any more announcements about it.
    Hoping i made it in. I think i did everything right.
    Team ID 141758

    Thanks

    1. Wet Knee Houston
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      I keep checking this as well 🙂 Let's hope it will be up and running soon, i know they're working on it