General chat 23/24

Remarkable. However, last season he had 20 goals in 14 games.

Thoughts on Dubravka (3.9) now that pope is long term gone?

Wonder what kind of effort we’ll see from the Sheffield United players now they have a new manager.

Liverpool may not fill their boots, as assumed, but you’d still expect it.

Wow. Grand I was only awake but from the small article I read it definitely looked like he was gone and already replaced by Wilder.

This isn't a question about FPL but I suspect that there is a cross-over between people who play that and those who play in Last Man Standing competitions.

I run a LMS with some friends. There are are two different games in parallel right now. Unfortunately in both games someone picked Bournemouth this weekend. We do have a rule for this scenario, that was created a few years ago but hasn't need to be used before - namely that if the match is not replayed or resumed before the next game week that it counts the same as Bournemouth not winning. One of the two players who faces elimination is annoyed about this and has threatened to quit playing entirely. (That's neither here nor there - the rules are the rules. I just include this detail to show that the scenario has left a bad taste in the mouth for some people).

Anyway the reason I am posting is I am wondering how other LMS competitions are dealing with this scenario. There doesn't appear to be an easy answer. The only alternative I can think of, for future scenarios like this, is that the people get a bye into the next round. Although if you're team were losing at the time then you'd be getting quite lucky. Probably better than the alternative. What do people reckon?

There's 2 I am in.

1 is settling people that picked Bournemouth as through to the next round and can't be picked again. Nobody has Luton picked.

The other competition state the above within the rules, but have yet to apply their rule as I have picked Bournemouth and I'm showing as eliminated at the moment.

Why does boards not allow links from Twitter now ?

Manually change the "x" to "twitter" instead.

I think the game will be rearranged for a date later in the calendar that will be a DGW for both teams and the FPL points scored on Saturday will be wiped from the game and autosubs will come in for Luton and Bournemouth players.

Can’t see logic in any other decision and I’m assuming that’s what most people think will happen.

I'm running a small LMS game and I don't have a rule in place for this; if the game is played before the weekend, the result will stand but if it's postponed until later, I'll probably get anyone who picked Bournemouth to pick two teams in the next gameweek

I am in one where anyone who had Bournemouth goes to the team next alphabetically. Good news for those who had Arsenal/Villa left, not so for Brentford.

One I'm in has a specific rule. Those on Bournemouth advance to the next round but must pick two teams to win next week and can no longer pick Bournemouth. Seems very fair to me