“Of course Luis wants to work and play at the top level. But unless something drastic happens, he will be staying here.” – Brendan Rodgers on Suarez transfer saga
For those of you so focused on your Gameweek 9 preparations that you managed to miss the height of excitement that was the Pundits Playoff Player Draft, I can announce that the teams are now set.
The highlights of the draft excitement were Az (£153m), CptCrunch (£36m), cylus11 (£35m), Wolverine (£250m) & Krul Intentions (£153m) all at the centre of bidding wars, with 6 or more teams fighting for their services. Cylus11 even had one team bid £1000m for him, sadly the team didn’t have enough funds to cover the amount and were saved from liquidation by the organising committee. Best bidding performance by a team manager has to be Tets Mcgee who used up every penny of his £1250m budget.
The teams, in alphabetical order, are:
“15” Musketeers
Team Manager: KIRAFPL
Players: adastidar, Badgevilla, BillyBigSpuds, BrendanBone, Collie01, ConteClub, DaHodgeman, FanDoc, Ole Trafford, rascalthebear, Roticanai, shotgunnufc, Ste-Rex and Tigerjames
A Whole Lawro B*llocks
Team Manager: Lawro
Players: Chaballer, cylus11, Darth_Krid, Delhidynamo, Gillesdegoult, Greyhead, Keyser_Soze, Milvus, Recoba, Sonny the Hitman, TheFantasyFreak, TopMarx, Werkself and Wongy_fc
Back to Square Owen
Team Manager: The_Socca_Philosopha
Players: Ckeulen, danny2310, Eddie, Firetog, geordienufc1, Grand Thibauto, gro1994, Kabayan, mckanata, nivz 32, Rohirrims, Schliegs, Schnuggi and Veezeeboy
Blame it on Rio
Team Manager: Geevious
Players: CAPTAIN KAKAROTO, FP Elephant, Lord., Mir, ODDJOBLEFF, proudmoore, Riddermorten, Slasher, Spatburgunder, STEP ROVERS, Steve, The Overthinker, The Tinkerman and Waldo666
Brazil Nuts
Team Manager: Speedyboyz
Players: BC1, Bend It Like Bennett, DD, Doosra, FCLACKLESS, Green Dragon, ItsAKnockaert, Karan14, Kryten, Nikolasw81, shri1211, True Deadzoner, What’s The Mata and Zygaenid
BSC Small Boys (in the park) FC
Team Manager: Tets Mcgee
Players: Ameenkw, Az, Cheltnamshire LaLaLa, Colonel shoe, Jake Donahue, Jigger and Pony, JohnnyRev7, Jubilanus, Krul Intentions, Park The Bus – When ‘Arry met Sarri, Rasping Drive, sk42ers, Suarezista and Wally banter
Holly’s Hamsters
Team Manager: Toblerone52
Players: A Manager Has No Name, Andy Wedlake, BENETTI777, Boris Bodega, Costa The Chosen One, FPL JJ, Holmes, Mr. Hindsight, Neenyg, Rjcv177, Swanmoretime, TorresLove, Vobinho In Wengerland and Who Ate All Depays?
Nirvana Scott Talent
Team Manager: Jarvish
Players: AA33, Babyb, CptCrunch, Desertbug, Gloria Kanchelskis, Gnu, Klopptomist, Potatoace, Pras United, Professor Bear, Skull And Gnomes 9, Slouch87, Yankee Toffee and Zan Keroski
Slaven’s Ball-itch
Team Manager: The Fantastic Mr Fox
Players: Bidur Aryal, Doctor Strange, Hishamkmr, Jacks Contradiction, jaravind, kg7, Never Captain Harry Kane.!, Past Forward, Pundit of Punts, samjadam, Sanchit, SidL, Somnath Dey and Torreira Thierry
The Keane Fifteen
Team Manager: Kadhai Paneer FC
Players: AriseSirGiggsy, Dog God It, Dream Killers 2.0, Haven’t a Kalou, mrmojorisin8, Rihanovic, rozzer, sharath, sreethe1, TotalJustice, Trust John, Tsparkes10, Urchin and vibhormbic91
Unbelievable Jeff FC
Team Manager: Pirlo’s Pen
Players: annie, Bragazeti, COK3Y5MURF, goktugerce, Haggis, Hasselbaink Forever, JK – Cønt, kelvinpang78, Morph, Mr.Grv, PHIL DAGGER, PKWrona, The Boot and Wolverine
WhenTheOWENgetsTough
Team Manager: Narcos
Players: B0OGEYMAN, Belalugozi78, Devo-McDuff, Do the Van Gaal-lem Shake, FPL_SMR, GaGa_over_Gazzaniga, Look It’s A Ghost, Lord Tachanka, LosBlancos, MJM, Rakshit, Rude Reviewer, Teddy and VinDaBlue
If any of the above players are still to get in touch with their managers please do so ASAP, every player should have received an email from punditsplayoff@gmail.com confirming their place. Please either comment below or email the organisers at this email if you are struggling to do so.
Vote for best Avatar
Each team were challenged to come up with a team name, motto and avatar based on their favourite football pundit, and the results were quite brilliant. But who’s is the best? We shall leave that to you all to decide, go to this poll to vote for your favourite(s) – here. The winners will be announced in the next article after match week one, and on that note….
Matchweek one fixtures
And so it begins, here are the first matches –
- WhenTheOWENgetsTough vs Nirvana Scott Talent
- The Keane Fifteen vs BSC Small Boys (in the park) FC
- “15” Musketeers vs Back to Square Owen
- Brazil Nuts vs A Whole Lawro B*llocks
- Blame it on Rio vs Holly’s Hamsters
- Slaven’s Ball-itch vs Unbelievable Jeff FC
Each team must now nominate three players for each of the H2H matches to earn bonus points, and two players to grace their team bench who’s scores will not count. A brief reminder of how the scores work in each match –
Team with best combined score of their starting 13 will earn 9 points. In the case of a draw both teams get 3 points. A losing team gets 0 points.
Winner of H2H A will earn their team an extra 3 bonus points.
Winner of H2H B will earn their team an extra 2 bonus points.
Winner of H2H C will earn their team an extra 1 bonus point.
Any drawn H2H’s will share the bonus points for that H2H.
IMPORTANT: teams that fail to nominate their three H2H and sub players will forfeit any bonus points, so team managers make sure you get these done on time.
MW 1 DEADLINE FOR TEAM NOMINATIONS IS 10:30AM SATURDAY 19TH OCTOBER
Scoring on match days will be shown here.
Everyone can input their own scores, managers are responsible for checking their opposition scores. A reminder that Wildcard and Free Hit scores are allowed, but scores with Triple Captain or Bench Boost used should be adjusted to keep things fair.
That’s all, and may the best team win!
4 years, 6 months ago
Superb! Huge thank you to you Boris and team for organising this, you've done an amazing, amazing job.
Good luck to all the teams!