28. PROMO-RELEGATION

May 22:

Last nights footy-athon with the last rounds of the major European leagues has seen the last game of the 2016-17 FMICL season played and done.

Results.

W	M	HOME		AWAY	H	A	RES
27	1	Arsenal	v	Everton	3	1	H
	2	Watford	v	Man City	0	5	A
	3	Leicester	v	Bournemouth	1	1	D
	4	Hamburger SV	v	Wolfsburg	2	1	H
	5	Valencia	v	Villareal	1	3	A
	6	O Lyonnais	v	Nice	3	3	D
	7	Atlanta U	v	Houston D	4	1	H
	8	Kashiwa A	v	Kawasaki F	0	3	A
	9	Lazio	v	Internazionale	1	3	A
	10	Genoa	v	Torino	2	1	H
	11	A Madrid	v	Athletic Club	3	1	H
	12	Toulose	v	Dijon	0	0	D

On the aggregate score from the 12 games, the relegation promotion fixture finishes as.

@DemP_9

5

,

@RudiEdsall

7

PS... even if played over the standard 7 games, its still a Rudi win by 5-3.

So thanks to Rudi and DemP

ALSO THANKS TO ALL YOU PLAYERS for another season... all games run done and won or lost for 2016-17.

If everyone is still interested in three months time, we could do it all again.

May 19:

Here we go - Promotion / Relegation game is ON.

13 May	RELEGATION / PROMOTION
@DemP_9		,	@RudiEdsall

Tips lodged as

HOME	AWAY	DemP	Rudi
Arsenal	Everton	H	H
Watford	Man Cit	A	A
Leicest	Bournem	H	H
Hamburg	Wolfsbu	D	H
Valenci	Villare	A	A
O Lyonn	Nice	H	D
Atlanta	Houston	D	D
Kashiwa	Kawasak	H	H
Lazio	Interna	A	H
Genoa	Torino	D	A
A Madri	Athleti	H	H
Toulose	Dijon	H	D
Difference Indicator		5

Once again:

-   The better score from the results of all 12 will be the winner.
-   If players cant be separated over the 12 games, then the best score from the initial 7 will be the winner.
- If there is still no splitting of players, then, in order, the results of the 8th game through to the 12 game will be used. First player to pick a winner and gain a point advantage sequentially in those games, is the winner.

May 17:

If I remember rightly, last years promotion relegation games descended to near farce when both players picked so similar that additional games were needed.

To avoid this, I will set up more games initially, as well as set a rule to help break a deadlock.

First, lets choose 12 games,
The better score from the results of all 12 will be the winner.

If there is no score difference, the the best score from the initial 7 will be the winner.

If there is still no splitting of players, then, in order, the results of the 8th game through to the 12 game will be used. First player to pick a winner sequentially in those games, is the winner.

Example, if Rudi gets the 8th game right and Dem doesn't, then that is the deciding outcome. The 9th game and onward are no longer in play.

Got it?

Right here we go...

W	M	HOME		AWAY	H	A	RES
27	1	Arsenal	v	Everton
	2	Watford	v	Man City
	3	Leicester	v	Bournemouth
	4	Hamburger SV	v	Wolfsburg
	5	Valencia	v	Villareal
	6	O Lyonnais	v	Nice
	7	Atlanta U	v	Houston D
	8	Kashiwa A	v	Kawasaki F
	9	Lazio	v	Internazionale
	10	Genoa	v	Torino
	11	A Madrid	v	Athletic Club
	12	Toulose	v	Dijon

OK Rudi & Dem

Off you go, tips through here - deadline is Friday 10pm Melbourne.

27. TRYING AGAIN

May 17:

The final weekend of play for all players has been run and won, and almost wraps up season 2016-17.
The games played yielded these results.

W	M	HOME		AWAY	H	A	RES
26	1	C Palace	v	Hull City	4	0	H
	2	Sunderland	v	Swansea	0	2	A
	3	Tottenham	v	Man Utd	2	1	H
	4	Reading	v	Fulham	1	1	D
	5	Huddersfield	v	Sheffield W	0	0	D
	6	W Bremen	v	Hoffenheim	3	5	A
	7	Bordeaux	v	Marseilles	1	1	D

Working through the weekend by division...

All the Div 1 head to head match-ups finished as per here.

@Hardsy05	3	,	@BenCuzzupe	2
@Andrewm_81	3	,	@NaylorMichael	4
@DemP_9	4	,	@Ambiguous_Andy	1
@CapitalCityCody	3	,	@Sjhross	5
@Amul82	2	,	@J_Foreigner	2
@Ethan_Meldrum	3	,	@The_FMI	2
@Supermercado99		,	-BYE-

Heading into the weekend, we knew the Division 1 winner, so final confirmation of the Div 1 and FMICL Champion can now be officially called.
Congratulations to

@Andrewm_81

A well tipped season where he finished 7 points clear of second place.

Also before the final week, we also knew the two division 1 players who were for automatic relegation. Going down next season are

				@Amul82
				@The_FMI

The full Div 1 table is as per here which also highlights the divisions relegation / promotion playoff candidate.

DIVISION ONE
	TEAM	P	W	D	L	F	A	SD	PT	PP
1	@Andrewm_81	24	13	8	3	78	66	12	47	65
2	@Supermercado99	24	11	7	6	69	59	10	40	56
3	@Ethan_Meldrum	24	11	5	8	66	67	-1	38	53
4	@CapitalCityCody	24	10	7	7	78	72	6	37	51
5	@NaylorMichael	24	8	10	6	73	67	6	34	47
6	@J_Foreigner	24	9	6	9	77	76	1	33	46
7	@Hardsy05	24	8	8	8	65	67	-2	32	44
8	@Ambiguous_Andy	24	8	7	9	74	72	2	31	43
9	@Sjhross	24	7	9	8	80	88	-8	30	42
10	@BenCuzzupe	24	8	6	10	66	70	-4	30	42
11	@DemP_9	24	5	12	7	70	67	3	27	38
12	@Amul82	24	4	8	12	62	77	-15	20	28
13	@The_FMI	24	4	7	13	66	76	-10	19	26

DemP, despite winning his last game,needed Rosso to lose to avoid the drop, but Rosso also won. Dem will  play a special one off matchup this weekend.


In Division 2, the title race and promotion spots were still up for grabs in a hotly contested race. There were SIX players vying for the three promotion spots heading tn the weekend, and in order they were:

1	@RudiEdsall	38
2	@MattGoss_	37
3	@kosifantutti	36
4	@melatonii	36
5	@ASpeedingCar	35
6	@BrotherAmos	35

The results of the Div 2 final round were:

@GlennValencich	5	,	@cmrnmnning	5
@RudiEdsall	3	,	@kosifantutti	3
@BrotherAmos	0	,	@MattGoss_	2
@Lucrious	3	,	@TheTipsGuru	2
@NickTheStatsGuy	1	,	@melatonii	4
@Smithj_43	3	,	@ASpeedingCar	4
@LaurenceRosen		,	-BYE-

Rudi and Kosi's draw,meant that Matt's win sent him to the top. Melatonii also won so he jumped over Rudi as well. The Speeding Car also won to further shuffle the players at the top.

The final Table for Div 2 is.

DIVISION TWO
	TEAM	P	W	D	L	F	A	SD	PT	PP
1	@MattGoss_	24	11	7	6	65	58	7	40	56
2	@melatonii	24	11	6	7	76	66	10	39	54
3	@RudiEdsall	24	10	9	5	75	66	9	39	54
4	@ASpeedingCar	24	11	5	8	74	70	4	38	53
5	@kosifantutti	24	10	7	7	78	71	7	37	51
6	@Lucrious	24	9	8	7	73	68	5	35	49
7	@BrotherAmos	24	10	5	9	69	70	-1	35	49
8	@GlennValencich	24	10	3	11	77	77	0	33	46
9	@TheTipsGuru	24	9	5	10	76	72	4	32	44
10	@cmrnmnning	24	7	6	11	69	74	-5	27	38
11	@NickTheStatsGuy	24	8	3	13	58	76	-18	27	38
12	@Smithj_43	24	8	2	14	64	69	-5	26	36
13	@LaurenceRosen	24	8	2	14	58	75	-17	26	36

So our division 2 winner is

@MattGoss_

and he will be promoted with 

@melatonii

Well played both on a great season.

Rudi has another chance to gain promotion as the opponent to DemP this weekend.

At the foot of the table, Cam's draw and Smithy's loss sees the latter finish second last, with Laurence on the bye unable to improve on his last place finish.

There will be a special blog post for the promotion / relegation playoff game between Dem and Rudi out soon.

This weekend also had the FMICL Cup Final as well between Cody and Rudi.

Those results ended as

CW	M		HOME		AWAY		SCORE		RES	MRG		Capi	Rudi
Final	1	[+]	Man City	vs	Leicester	[-]	2	1	H	1		2	2
	2	[+]	Bournemouth	vs	Burnley	[-]	2	1	H	1		1	0
	3	[+]	Stoke	vs	Arsenal	[-]	1	4	A	-3		-1	0
	4	[+]	R Madrid	vs	Sevilla	[-]	4	1	H	3		2	3
	5	[+]	Atalanta	vs	Milan	[-]	1	1	D	0		1	1

CUP FINAL
@CapitalCityCody	5		,	@RudiEdsall	3

With an exact and 4 other correct tips, the 2016-17 FMICL Cup Winner is:

@CapitalCityCody

Cody also was the Cup's Golden Boot with 35 correct tips (etc) over the course of the Cup campaign, a full 8 more than any other player.

Commiserations to Rudi who missed a Cup / Division title double this past weekend.

May 14:

And tips are in...

Cup Final!!

CW

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HOME

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SCORE

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MRG

Capi

Rudi

Final

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Man City

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Last round of the League...

Beautiful diversity

HOME

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Hard

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Difference Indicator

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May 8:

OK, lets wind up this season properly.

First, I would like to run the Cup final this week, as scheduled.

The Cup Final is between

CUP FINAL
@CapitalCityCody			,	@RudiEdsall

Matches to tip are:

CW	M		HOME		AWAY
Final	1	[+]	Man City	vs	Leicester	[-]
	2	[+]	Bournemouth	vs	Burnley	[-]
	3	[+]	Stoke	vs	Arsenal	[-]
	4	[+]	R Madrid	vs	Sevilla	[-]
	5	[+]	Atalanta	vs	Milan	[-]

Enter the margins here please Cody and Rudi.

Now lets re-run the League final round - and as before, there are some important pending-promotion games here.

6 May			MATCH WEEK		26
@Hardsy05		,	@BenCuzzupe			@GlennValencich		,	@cmrnmnning
@Andrewm_81		,	@NaylorMichael			@RudiEdsall		,	@kosifantutti
@DemP_9		,	@Ambiguous_Andy			@BrotherAmos		,	@MattGoss_
@CapitalCityCody		,	@Sjhross			@Lucrious		,	@TheTipsGuru
@Amul82		,	@J_Foreigner			@NickTheStatsGuy		,	@melatonii
@Ethan_Meldrum		,	@The_FMI			@Smithj_43		,	@ASpeedingCar
@Supermercado99		,	-BYE-			@LaurenceRosen		,	-BYE-

Tipping these please.

W	M	HOME		AWAY
26	1	C Palace	v	Hull City
	2	Sunderland	v	Swansea
	3	Tottenham	v	Man Utd
	4	Reading	v	Fulham
	5	Huddersfield	v	Sheffield W
	6	W Bremen	v	Hoffenheim
	7	Bordeaux	v	Marseilles

Link to the tips.

The single promotion/relegation play-off match will be played next week.