14. MID-WEEK MAYHEM

5 Dec:

Our first mid-week match week, if that makes sense, is over and it brings some interesting results.

R	M	HOME		AWAY	H	A	RES
14	1	Man Utd	v	Stoke	2	1	H
	2	C Palace	v	Aston Villa	0	1	A
	3	Arsenal	v	Southampton	1	0	H
	4	Chelsea	v	Tottenham	3	0	H
	5	W Syd W	v	Brisbane Roar	0	1	A
	6	R Vallecano	v	Valencia	1	2	A
	7	O Lyonnais	v	Reims	2	1	H

Lots of scores and lots of draws.

@MattGoss_	4	-	5	@Ethan_Meldrum
@TheTipsGuru	4	-	4	@Harri_Chas_17
@NaylorMichael	3	-	5	@J_Foreigner
@Sjhross	5	-	5	@LaurenceRosen
@Andrewm_81	4	-	4	@Hardsy05
@SgtButane	5	-	3	@Amul82
@Hcdc93	5	-	3	@Wal13Freo
@BenCuzzupe	5	-	6	@BrotherAmos
@TheMattBungard	5	-	5	@Footy_Maths
@DemP_9	4	-	4	@ASpeedingCar

BrotherAmos, fresh after smashing a perfect 7 this week gets another 6 from 7. Ripping form!

In the Belt Game, its a solid win to J_F, so he retains, and will defend in match week 15 against another former holder and future Cup tie opponent.

@J_Foreigner

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@BenCuzzupe

PS, current belt holder sitting in 3rd place overall.

FMICL CHALLENGE BELT
1	@NaylorMichael	4
2	@Andrewm_81	4
3	@J_Foreigner	2
4	@Hardsy05	1
5	@BenCuzzupe	1

Over now to the full table...

CHAMPIONSHIP TABLE
	TEAM	P	W	D	L	F	A	SD	PT
1	@SgtButane	14	8	3	3	52	44	8	27
2	@Hardsy05	14	7	4	3	50	45	5	25
3	@DemP_9	14	7	2	5	43	39	4	23
4	@J_Foreigner	14	5	7	2	46	38	8	22
5	@hcdc93	14	5	7	2	44	40	4	22
6	@NaylorMichael	14	6	4	4	45	42	3	22
7	@Harri_Chas_17	14	5	6	3	43	39	4	21
8	@ASpeedingCar	14	6	3	5	37	39	-2	21
9	@Footy_Maths	14	5	5	4	48	43	5	20
10	@BenCuzzupe	14	5	5	4	47	46	1	20
11	@BrotherAmos	14	6	2	6	48	50	-2	20
12	@Sjhross	14	5	4	5	43	44	-1	19
13	@Amul82	14	5	3	6	40	42	-2	18
14	@Ethan_Meldrum	14	5	3	6	37	43	-6	18
15	@Wal13Freo	14	5	1	8	42	43	-1	16
16	@Andrewm_81	14	3	6	5	44	44	0	15
17	@TheMattBungard	14	3	4	7	44	47	-3	13
18	@TheTipsGuru	14	2	6	6	34	46	-12	12
19	@LaurenceRosen	14	1	8	5	48	53	-5	11
20	@MattGoss_	14	2	5	7	42	50	-8	11

Rosen the new DrawKing, and off the bottom!
Sarge clear away on top, Dem into 3rd.

3 Dec:

Thanks to the support of good people like you, my little error of missing our first mid-week 'match week' has been overcome and all tips were lodged before midnight.

It all came about as I was looking at compiling the Cup random draw for the round of 16 and noticed there was no cup games for week 14... "thats odd" I thought, "why miss a week?".
And the answer was that it was not a weekend of tipping, but a mid-week set of games.

The reduced play mid-week means there is not enough stock for 10 more games to select for the Cup. It also makes it hard to select games for normal play as well...

Which is evidenced by the variety (or lack of it) in your tips this week... It is, in the 14 weeks of play to date, the most uniformly selected set of data for the season.
Most head-to head contests boil down to one or two games differently picked, and we also have our second guaranteed draw... I really need to work harder at picking difficult games.

So, with some games approaching full time, here are your tips.

HOME	AWAY	Matt	Etha	TheT	Harr	Nayl	J_Fo	Sjhr	Laur	Andr	Hard
Man Utd	Stoke	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H
C Palac	Aston V	H	H	D	D	H	D	H	H	H	H
Arsenal	Southam	D	H	H	H	D	H	H	H	H	H
Chelsea	Tottenh	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H
W Syd W	Brisban	D	H	H	D	D	H	H	H	H	H
R Valle	Valenci	A	A	A	H	A	A	A	A	A	D
O Lyonn	Reims	H	H	A	H	D	H	H	H	A	H
Difference Indicator		2		3		4		0		2

HOME	AWAY	SgtB	Amul	Hcdc	Wal1	BenC	Brot	TheM	Foot	DemP	ASpe
Man Utd	Stoke	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H
C Palac	Aston V	H	H	D	D	H	A	H	H	H	H
Arsenal	Southam	H	A	H	D	H	H	H	H	D	A
Chelsea	Tottenh	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H
W Syd W	Brisban	H	H	H	H	D	A	D	H	D	D
R Valle	Valenci	A	A	A	D	A	A	A	A	A	A
O Lyonn	Reims	H	D	H	H	H	A	H	H	H	H
Difference Indicator		2		2		3		1		1

The voting suggests I should have avoided Man U and Chelsea like the plague (which I do IRL, but that's about 80% of the population too), and instead chosen something else.

HOME	AWAY		H	D	A		KEY
Man Utd	Stoke		20	0	0		16>
C Palac	Aston V		14	5	1
Arsenal	Southam		14	4	2		13-16
Chelsea	Tottenh		20	0	0
W Syd W	Brisban		12	7	1		4-7
R Valle	Valenci		1	2	17
O Lyonn	Reims		15	2	3		<4

But really... would  Swansea - Rangers or West Brom. - West Ham have delivered anything other than mass votes for one team... I doubt it.

Anyway... it is done, and lessons learned for next time.

2 Dec: 

Welcome to the FMICL December / New Year period.
Hopefully you are all over twitter and the internet in this time as the December schedule looks like this.

MATCH WEEK 14			01/12/2014		MATCH WEEK 19			27 Dec
14	@MattGoss_	v	@Ethan_Meldrum		19	@MattGoss_	v	@J_Foreigner
14	@TheTipsGuru	v	@Harri_Chas_17		19	@Harri_Chas_17	v	@LaurenceRosen
14	@NaylorMichael	v	@J_Foreigner		19	@Ethan_Meldrum	v	@Hardsy05
14	@Sjhross	v	@LaurenceRosen		19	@TheTipsGuru	v	@Amul82
14	@Andrewm_81	v	@Hardsy05		19	@NaylorMichael	v	@Wal13Freo
14	@SgtButane	v	@Amul82		19	@Sjhross	v	@BrotherAmos
14	@hcdc93	v	@Wal13Freo		19	@Andrewm_81	v	@Footy_Maths
14	@BenCuzzupe	v	@BrotherAmos		19	@SgtButane	v	@ASpeedingCar
14	@TheMattBungard	v	@Footy_Maths		19	@hcdc93	v	@DemP_9
14	@DemP_9	v	@ASpeedingCar		19	@BenCuzzupe	v	@TheMattBungard
MATCH WEEK 15			5 Dec		MATCH WEEK 20			31 Dec
15	@MattGoss_	v	@BrotherAmos		20	@BrotherAmos	v	@MattGoss_
15	@Wal13Freo	v	@Footy_Maths		20	@Footy_Maths	v	@Wal13Freo
15	@Amul82	v	@ASpeedingCar		20	@ASpeedingCar	v	@Amul82
15	@Hardsy05	v	@DemP_9		20	@DemP_9	v	@Hardsy05
15	@LaurenceRosen	v	@TheMattBungard		20	@TheMattBungard	v	@LaurenceRosen
15	@J_Foreigner	v	@BenCuzzupe		20	@BenCuzzupe	v	@J_Foreigner
15	@Harri_Chas_17	v	@hcdc93		20	@hcdc93	v	@Harri_Chas_17
15	@Ethan_Meldrum	v	@SgtButane		20	@SgtButane	v	@Ethan_Meldrum
15	@TheTipsGuru	v	@Andrewm_81		20	@Andrewm_81	v	@TheTipsGuru
15	@NaylorMichael	v	@Sjhross		20	@Sjhross	v	@NaylorMichael
MATCH WEEK 16			12 Dec		MATCH WEEK 21			6 Jan
16	@MattGoss_	v	@TheMattBungard		21	@TheTipsGuru	v	@MattGoss_
16	@DemP_9	v	@BenCuzzupe		21	@Ethan_Meldrum	v	@NaylorMichael
16	@ASpeedingCar	v	@hcdc93		21	@Harri_Chas_17	v	@Sjhross
16	@Footy_Maths	v	@SgtButane		21	@J_Foreigner	v	@Andrewm_81
16	@BrotherAmos	v	@Andrewm_81		21	@LaurenceRosen	v	@SgtButane
16	@Wal13Freo	v	@Sjhross		21	@Hardsy05	v	@hcdc93
16	@Amul82	v	@NaylorMichael		21	@Amul82	v	@BenCuzzupe
16	@Hardsy05	v	@TheTipsGuru		21	@Wal13Freo	v	@TheMattBungard
16	@LaurenceRosen	v	@Ethan_Meldrum		21	@BrotherAmos	v	@DemP_9
16	@J_Foreigner	v	@Harri_Chas_17		21	@Footy_Maths	v	@ASpeedingCar
MATCH WEEK 17			19 Dec		MATCH WEEK 22			9 Jan
17	@MattGoss_	v	@Amul82		22	@Wal13Freo	v	@MattGoss_
17	@Hardsy05	v	@Wal13Freo		22	@BrotherAmos	v	@Amul82
17	@LaurenceRosen	v	@BrotherAmos		22	@Footy_Maths	v	@Hardsy05
17	@J_Foreigner	v	@Footy_Maths		22	@ASpeedingCar	v	@LaurenceRosen
17	@Harri_Chas_17	v	@ASpeedingCar		22	@DemP_9	v	@J_Foreigner
17	@Ethan_Meldrum	v	@DemP_9		22	@TheMattBungard	v	@Harri_Chas_17
17	@TheTipsGuru	v	@TheMattBungard		22	@BenCuzzupe	v	@Ethan_Meldrum
17	@NaylorMichael	v	@BenCuzzupe		22	@hcdc93	v	@TheTipsGuru
17	@Sjhross	v	@hcdc93		22	@SgtButane	v	@NaylorMichael
17	@Andrewm_81	v	@SgtButane		22	@Andrewm_81	v	@Sjhross
MATCH WEEK 18			24 Dec
18	@MattGoss_	v	@Harri_Chas_17
18	@Ethan_Meldrum	v	@J_Foreigner
18	@TheTipsGuru	v	@LaurenceRosen
18	@NaylorMichael	v	@Hardsy05
18	@Sjhross	v	@Amul82
18	@Andrewm_81	v	@Wal13Freo
18	@SgtButane	v	@BrotherAmos
18	@hcdc93	v	@Footy_Maths
18	@BenCuzzupe	v	@ASpeedingCar
18	@TheMattBungard	v	@DemP_9

THATS RIGHT... the footballing silly season is here...

AND YOU WILL NEED TO TIP  QUICKLY and I will need to blog just as quickly.

We have many a mid-week game coming up - first and formost THIS WEEK.

TIPS BY WEDNESDAY 5pm Please.
Late tippers will not be tolerated.


This weeks games to tip...

R	M	HOME		AWAY
14	1	Man Utd	v	Stoke
	2	C Palace	v	Aston Villa
	3	Arsenal	v	Southampton
	4	Chelsea	v	Tottenham
	5	W Sydney W	v	Brisbane R
	6	Rayo Vallecano	v	Valencia
	7	O Lyonnais	v	Reims

Enter tips here or via DM...
Crack on, Lad!


Match-ups...

@MattGoss_		-		@Ethan_Meldrum
@TheTipsGuru		-		@Harri_Chas_17
@NaylorMichael		-		@J_Foreigner
@Sjhross		-		@LaurenceRosen
@Andrewm_81		-		@Hardsy05
@SgtButane		-		@Amul82
@Hcdc93		-		@Wal13Freo
@BenCuzzupe		-		@BrotherAmos
@TheMattBungard		-		@Footy_Maths
@DemP_9		-		@ASpeedingCar

Belt game

@NaylorMichael

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@J_Foreigner

Former belt holder Mick gets another crack as (joint) DrawKing Jonny defends

Good Tipping one and all.