2021/22 €50 Draft H2H league

Xander10 · 06-02-2022 7:12pm

Wins for the top two

Dearg81 · 07-02-2022 1:14pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118591444#Comment_118591444

A loss for me, 6 points off Sands81 again but playing him this week so need to win it or I'm out of the running.

CSF · 07-02-2022 5:49pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118594540#Comment_118594540

There is alot of gameweeks left. You're definitely not out of the running even if both me and Sands81 win. You'll just need to win a game more of the remainder than before.

Dearg81 · 08-02-2022 12:44pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118596237#Comment_118596237

True but it is a classic 6 pointer. I could be within 3 points of both of you rather than 9 points behind Sands81 if I win.

CSF · 08-02-2022 2:08pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118599367#Comment_118599367

Yeah, it’s a biggie for sure

Xander10 · 11-02-2022 10:47am

top two pull further away.

Xander10 · 16-02-2022 11:02am

I think I've been last since week 1. Up to 6th .... Woohoo!

Dearg back in with a shout.

Dearg81 · 28-02-2022 11:58pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118639360#Comment_118639360

I'm hanging in there. Looks like I've beaten CSF this week barring a miracle.

Sands81 · 01-03-2022 10:18am

I think it is still all to play for between the top 3. I got a last minute assist last week to beat klopparama. I play CSF next week. I think Dearg81 has the best squad.

Dearg81 · 01-03-2022 6:05pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118712418#Comment_118712418

I've been chopping and changing the squad a lot lately with all these double game weeks. It's tough to look further than 1 week ahead at the moment but there's so many doubles coming up which makes it a bit more of a lottery.

Xander10 · 02-03-2022 2:06pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118715141#Comment_118715141

you will be looking for 2nd to beat 1st this week. My team in rag order at the moment, so you should pick up 3 pts against me.

Nobody outside the top 3 really got into this year.

Dearg81 · 02-03-2022 4:24pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118719436#Comment_118719436

Yea I should be big favourite to beat you this week. Not sure what happened this season but a lot of people don't seem bothered, this thread is a lot quiter than previous seasons. It might just be the new boards that turned away though.

CSF · 11-03-2022 5:21pm

Bruno hitting waivers was eh unexpected

Xander10 · 11-03-2022 7:06pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118769127#Comment_118769127

Ha Ha !

When I looked at my team on Sunday, I could see no Bruno and thought I must have him on the bench and then as panic set in I saw I somehow transferred him out. I actually thought my account had been hacked! since I never looked to intentionally transfer him out.

I had only 2nd pick today and was prepared for the permanent loss of Bruno but somehow the first player didn't take up the chance.

Just shows, you need to double, treble check and don't do things in a hurry last minute.

Dearg81 · 11-03-2022 7:24pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118769616#Comment_118769616

Haha brilliant, I was wondering what was going on there. Remoteboy missed his chance!

remoteboy · 12-03-2022 9:50am

Typical 😂

Been swamped with work lately and haven’t been on top of this. Mind you he’d probably be as much use to me as Ronaldo has been.

Xander10 · 12-03-2022 10:04am

Team News:

Bruno will return to the starting line up for clash with league leaders Sands81.

Brought in a couple of new players, so hopefully can put up a bit of a fight this week!

Xander10 · 12-03-2022 11:40pm

I think this Bruno lad is taking the piss now, with me.

remoteboy · 13-03-2022 10:17am

Must slag off Ronaldo more often

Sands81 · 11-04-2022 5:02pm

3 narrow wins in a row has finally opened up a gap for me. 2 or 3 more wins should see it out, on the other side 2 or 3 defeats in a row would make it very interesting.

Xander10 · 11-04-2022 5:11pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118912106#Comment_118912106

Yeah looking good for you. a few crucial narrow wins. I beat CSF which helped also. I've had a strange season, an occasional win against a front runner and beaten by everyone else.

Bruno who was to be my star man as returned sweet f a. I might dump him yet, intentionally, at this rate.

Dearg81 · 12-04-2022 4:27pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118912106#Comment_118912106

Yea you've done well, don't bottle it now ;-)

Is it winner takes all for the prize money?

Xander10 · 22-04-2022 8:24pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118917110#Comment_118917110

reading back , it's winner takes all. Sands grinds out another win and edges closer to winning. You're probably the last one left with an outside chance of challenging.

Dearg81 · 30-04-2022 9:34am

I've stumbled upon a strong team too late in the season I think, getting in Jesus, Alonso and Nkietah to go with Salah, Sterling, Saka and Barnes. If there was 10 weeks left I'd fancy my chances.

Xander10 · 30-04-2022 9:30pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118996483#Comment_118996483

That is a very strong team. A chance of cutting the gap to 5 pts. And the final game of the season might be winner takes all.

Dearg81 · 02-05-2022 1:06am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118999381#Comment_118999381

Yea hopefully Eriksen has a quiet game tomorrow and the lead is down to 5 points.

Xander10 · 06-05-2022 1:03pm

my Man U players turned up for the first time all season and pipped Dearg by a point. It looks a done deal now for sure, Sands at most only needs 1 draw from 3 at most.

Dearg81 · 07-05-2022 3:14pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119023274#Comment_119023274

Yea I was very surprised to see I lost this week, I've has a few 1 point defeats lately but this one is a killer.

Dearg81 · 13-05-2022 3:35pm

Well done @Sands81 - the title is yours now. Shame it didn't go down to the last week (for me) :-)

Trimm Trabb · 13-05-2022 3:45pm

Congrats Sands, great season.

I’ll be interested again next year - maybe a GW4 start to allow for all the transfers to go through?

Sands81 · 13-05-2022 4:07pm

Thankfully I got the win needed before the last round of games. A strong opening half of the season set me up well. A bit of luck involved so hopefully I can keep that luck next season.

14-05-2022 1:00am

Well done Sands.

We tried to make it more competitive this year by going with a H2H league.

Not sure that really worked either as Sands seemed to have it won for a long time now.

I still think H2H is more competitive than the traditional league format but maybe we should increase the number of league entrants ?

Maybe 10 or 12 ?

I agree with Trimm re start date. The transfer window should be closed before we start the draft.

I won’t set up the thread for next season as I don’t collect the money so hopefully one of you guys set it up nice and early as we do struggle to fill it

My only request for, for next season, would be to continue the 10.30pm start time for the draft as we have done that for the last 3 years and hopefully it still suits everyone.

The transfer window closes on the 1st of September.

remoteboy · 14-05-2022 9:23am

Congrats Sands. We’ll deserved.

It’s a really interesting format but I struggled to dedicate the time to both it and regular FPL. I had a fair few weeks where I completely missed the deadline.

Felt like the H2H format made it difficult to make up any ground too. Was fairly obvious before Christmas who was going to be in the final shakeup. When you’re playing everyone five times a season every game is a six pointer.

Xander10 · 14-05-2022 9:54am

Well deserved Sands.

My first time playing Draft. Can't say I particularly enjoyed the format. I enjoy the regular game and like Remoteboy, missed some deadlines a bit like the Sky Comp I tried to play. I'm probably one of those players best suited to one format, multi task failure. so won't be for me next season

Dearg81 · 22-05-2022 11:53pm

I'll play again next season and yea it would be nice to get it up to 10 players.

CSF · 24-05-2022 10:17pm

I had no problems with the format this year. My only problem was that I was a bit sh*t this year and was blessed to finish as high as I did. Would happily go with exactly as it was, but I've no problem with most of the changes mentioned either. I felt like people made too much of a big deal out of the transfer deadline stuff.

07-07-2022 10:48pm

Anyone fancy starting this up and collecting the monies ?

CSF · 07-07-2022 10:52pm

I can do it again. We will need to figure out format given some of the issues raised last year. I'm not completely opposed to going with the same as last year but I also am open to doing it differently, assuming the suggestions are not completely silly.

08-07-2022 7:50am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119306557#Comment_119306557

I thought we’d keep it same as last year re scoring.

It was just the start date and amount of league entrants we talked about iirc

So we’ll do the draft once the window closes (and all the newly transferred players are available) and we’ll cap the league at ten managers ?

CSF · 08-07-2022 8:10am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119307178#Comment_119307178

I’m grand with this yeah

Trimm Trabb · 08-07-2022 8:26am

I’ll be in. I was one of people looking to wait until after the transfer deadline to play draft but that would be after 5 gameweeks this year so that’s probably too much of the season to miss?

Sands81 · 08-07-2022 2:48pm

I will join again. I agree that 5 game weeks might be too much of the season to miss so I would go for the same format as last season.

08-07-2022 2:57pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119309224#Comment_119309224

Who are you agreeing with re missing 5 weeks being too much ?

I thought we were suggesting that we do the drafts AFTER the transfer window shuts and the players are available for the draft at their correct teams ?

Dearg81 · 08-07-2022 3:21pm

I'll play again. I'd be leaning towards waiting 5 weeks too, I didn't like the luck factor of new arrivals coming in last season after the draft.

Trimm Trabb · 08-07-2022 4:24pm

I’ll be in either way - there’s pros and cons to starting in GW1 or GW6

Sands81 · 08-07-2022 6:45pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119309309#Comment_119309309

Trimm Trabb had mentioned the 5 game weeks missed might be too much in the previous post to mine.

Trimm Trabb · 08-07-2022 8:22pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119310354#Comment_119310354

We could make a rule that whoever gets last pick in the draft would get first dibs on any Lukaku/Ronaldo that joins the game during August regardless of where they are in the table and everyone else would ignore that player that week? If they use this call then the second last draft pick would be in line to make a call on the next desirable player who joins the league and so until end of August?

I think most of the big moves are done now except Utd signing a new striker so might not be as much of a problem this season..

Sands81 · 26-07-2022 3:31pm

What is the general consensus of whether to start in GW1 or after transfer deadline. If we are to start for GW1 we would need to have the draft next week.

Trimm Trabb · 26-07-2022 3:37pm

My preference is to do it before GW1 - but will do later too.

26-07-2022 5:18pm

Ultimately I’m easy either way but it’s potentially a huge advantage to lose your first couple of H2H’s if there are big marquee type signings, by any club, before the window closes.

2021/22 €50 Draft H2H league

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