Hello and welcome again to The Banterbury Leagues review. We are at game-week 16 and some massive games have been played and 8 more teams have joined Bench & Potty in securing their place in the Banterbury Shield to start in GW21 (January 11th-13th). There are still 6 spots up for grabs around the leagues in the final qualification game-week, next weekend. So without further ado let’s go round the leagues and find out who are falling in to the drop-zones or who are sitting pretty at the top & everything in between. As ever we start with the premier league.
Premier
Cookie’s Monsters regains top spot and secures his place in the shield after beating Horse FC 11th 73-65. Joining him in the shield and moving up to 2nd are Arsene’s Boys who beat Gasco’s athletic 8th 82-76, ending any hopes Gasco had of qualifying. Park Bench Exports drop to 3rd after another close game for him though this time it didn’t go in his favour as he lost to Rising Phoenix 68-66 who move up to 9th. Arguably the biggest game of the week was between Where’s The Dosh? who were 4th, in that final qualification place and Reubens Rioters who were sitting 5th, with Rioters coming out on top 84-80 which also means they swap places in the league with one qualification game-week to go. This result also keeps alive the hopes of both Bocadillo Allstars 6th & Pork n Cheese United 7th, they both won beating UD Stoke who drop into the relegation places & Eddy Hitler XI respectively. So if Reubens Rioters beat Pork n Cheese United who they face next week the place will be theirs, a defeat or a draw opens up the place for Where’s The Dosh or the Allstars who both have the same number of points though The Dosh have accumulated 7 points more in the overall standings, meaning it could be a straight points shootout if both win. While Pork n Cheese United must beat Rioters by 47 points and hope the other two teams in the running lose, it’s a big ask but funnier things have happened. Meanwhile in the bottom half Kojak’s Fireball beat Buzz’s Bomb Squad 83-71, Kop Warriors (FF247 writer) won again his 3rd in a row and move to 15th, 3 places above the drop-zone. Prutsers; allemaal and Killer Instincts played out a 78-78 draw. The 6 pointer between the bottom two, TheKopKnightRISES & THE MUTTS NUTS went the way of RISES leaving Mutts 10 adrift at the foot and 13 from safety, he just can’t catch a break as his score of 73 would have beaten 5 of the teams above him, but there’s no time for him to feel sorry for himself as he has another 6 pointer Vs 3rd from bottom UD Stoke up next.
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/my-leagues/843/standings/
Championship
Gallowgators stay top and book their shield place after beating FC Tom Tomsk. James 101 beat bottom club Pathético Morbid to move 2nd and also book their place in the shield. WhoIsRonaldo drop to 3rd after defeat to a side that still has ambitions of the top 4, One Under Parr 6th, though WIR still only need a point. Elleffcee 4th last week lost to Real Morbid 103-73 and this result sees Real moving into that last qualification place while elleffcee drop to 7th after losing to 2 teams chasing a shield spot in last 2 game-weeks and will need a tiny miracle to claim 4th spot now. The other team still in the mix are Son of a Pitch 5th who are on same h2h points as Real and are only 10 overall points behind, it could all come down to who scores the most points next week to claim 4th. The two stand out games next week are James 101 2nd v WhoIsRonaldo 3rd & Gallowgators top v Real Morbid 4th, giving Son of a Pitch and One Under Parr real hope. Elsewhere, Mito’s Mercenaries move 9th after winning his 4th on the spin and ends Shylass @ the finish 8th interests in the shield, Mito must thinking that if it wasn’t for those few barren game-weeks where he captained Benteke, he’d be right up there challenging for a shield spot. There was also wins for Buzzilona & The Greatest FC moving them up to 10th & 11th in the table. At the bottom there were massive wins for The Reds moving them 3 places to 14th and Balotellibubbies moving them out of the bottom 3 to 16th, replacing them is Mrs Kirk’s Soap Powder Thieves. The Gallant Pioneers stay 19th and Mr Kirk’s Pathético Morbid 20th bottom and 8 points from safety.
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/my-leagues/9338/standings/
League 1
The Banterbury FA have been called in to investigate after a flurry of bets were placed at the start of December in Potty’s bookmakers. These bets suggested that Powerful Potty Fc would not be top come Christmas despite holding an 11 point lead at the top of league, but after a full investigation the FA are happy that no games were fixed. So toppling Potty is Monty (Caz Daz) who is one of the 4 teams to beat potty in December and are on a bit of a run, winning the last 6. In 2nd and dropping potty to 3rd are another team to have beaten him this month, CFC (Awesome). All 3 have qualified for the shield. Joining them after earning the final spot available are we love manchester who drew with Bodene’s Army, the point was enough to see them earn their place. Elsewhere Ajax Trees, Fergie’s Henchmen & Slumdog Mignolet won & all move up the table to 6th, 7th & 9th. Inittowinit*** won and despite having over 1000 points sit 13th in the league. At the bottom there was a massive win for IFM PaLmeRo 17th vs The SpecialOne 19th 79-72, despite this the bottom 5 stay the same.
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/my-leagues/9479/standings/
League 2
4th Place Trophy stay top and are the only team from this league to so far qualify for the shield. With so many teams still in the mix with only one game-week left, I’m not going to go through all the permutations, just name the teams and wish them well! I’m sure GW17 is going to be a roller coaster for the following teams, Norfulk-in-chance 2nd, ChorleyRocks 3rd, White Boys Day 4th, Busby Babes 5th, Wavey Squad 6th & Owls Rule 7th. Also in with a massive outside chance are ChelseaFTW 8th but they would need all of the aforementioned teams to lose. Finally I would like to give a shout out to (no hits) Prata who with 5 wins on the bounce have moved from the bottom to 13th in the league, Bring on ze Trumpets, I think you upset him! What was your bet again?
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/my-leagues/9698/standings/
Qualification Leagues
Firstly some good news, from next season I hope to run 4 h2h qualification leagues of 20 with the winners from each league earning an invite into the main league. There will also be an opportunity to qualify for the Banterbury Cup, so everyone who registers will get a chance to play some of us so called experts in a one off tie and the chance to become a fantasy football legend. Details will follow later in the season, but to register your interest please e-mail banterburyleagues@gmail.com
Secondly, well done to Norfolk n’ Chance & The Cape Bulls for cracking the 1000 points mark in the classic league, it’s also 4 from 4 for What’s the story FC & FC Sanchez in the H2H that was created to celebrate the opening of FF247. Those in the H2H qualification don’t forget you’re playing an expert in FF247 writer Flingy, haha no pressure now Sean!!
This article was written by Bench@banterburyleagues
Anyone that transferred in Negredo this week feeling uneasy that Dzeko scored twice tonight? 😉
Not overly, they can play up front together, it will all be fine.
Nope – resting easy that negredo will be fresh for the weekend. Dzeko was given his chance at the start of the season and showed he is an impact sub for city….. imo anyway; he’ll probably make me eat my words now
Contemplating a -4 hit for Sessegnon -> Hazard the GW of cup selections..
Milk – yeah mate, my view is if you’re contemplating hits, do it now. I’m taking the Cup pretty seriously, and took an 8 point hit for it this week!
Ha, wow I’ve only taken a -4 once this season so far. So we shall see. I’ll see where the -4 drops me in the OR and decide closer to the weekend. Chelsea looked poor this evening.
Milk your doing well with your non hit policy so far I would stick with it mate.
Fair point herewegoagain, but Sessegnon has been beyond poor and Clarke was just fired.. might be a sinking ship.
Depends on your plans next week I suppose can you wait one more week to make the transfer, will Hazard score 4pts more this week v Arsenal away?
With the form he is in, probably not. Haha I shall look into it tomorrow, bed calls. Goodnight mate
The cup is always a bit of a lottery – nothing shows class more than the league
I agree its all about OR rather than cup ranking as was stated last night you can lose against a ghost team.
A lot of u Double up on Everton defence Last Game Week are u guys going to double up again away to Swansea ?
Don’t remind me about doubling up on defences. I doubled up on Liverpool (Mignolet-Flanagan) for 4 weeks, and not a CS. I promptly upgraded Flanagan to Distin last week, and well you all know what happened…
Still seething…
That’s tough Blue – this game can be incredibly frustrating
Almost as bad as me persisting with Benteke for 6 weeks, and when I dropped Mirallas for Cazorla ahead of Mirallas’ massive haul against Liverpool. Gotta love FF!
Haha yep I only just dodged the Tekkers bullet this year – he was on short list a number of weeks in a row…
What about a punt on kolarov ?
Seriously contemplating it – he’s been matching Zaba down the other side in terms of attacking potential and work rate. I want to see Pellegrini’s next one or two teams first though
My starting 11 for next week. Starting to look very weak upfront after a hit, but i think Lukaku has good fixtures and Remy is good for a couple of GWs.
McGregor
Dawson – Chico – Coleman
Ozil – Hazard – Silva – Ramsey
Suarez – Lukaku – Remy
Nah. Lots of attacking threats there mate.
Could maybe use a little ogre…
Talking about Shrek mate?
He’s too expensive, and if i had got him, i would have to give up City coverage altogether, which would be harsh give City’s upcoming delightful fixtures.
Agree, if that’s your option.
Yep. I have silva and yaya.
Considering maybe dropping lukaku for wally in future.
Play a power 5.
Unsure as yet.
Yeah, we are now definitely seeing some consistent midfielders and im sure some teams will shape up like that sooner or later.
With wally back and scoring it could easily be soon.
We will see.
The B – A little light but it’s still good,team as a whole is nice!
Jimbo – A few of us were talking about 5 man mid’s there a short while ago,i think it’s on the previous page if you’re interested in reading it mate.I’m strongly considering it to be honest.
Yep. I was speaking about it on here with somebody a few days back.
As wally bacame more realistic. And ozil too.
Thanks. Ill go read some more opinions.
James – Shit,i missed that,Walcott&Ramsey are what is leaning me this way..and the freakishness of Suarez.
Well wally is listed on arsenals website as a forward for a reason…
My front 7 preference:
Haz Wally Yaya Silva Ramsey
Rooney Suarez
Defence being Everton plus arsenal.
anyway. Kicking ideas around still.z
James – Yep,i’m about 80% sure i’m doing the system change,it needs more mulling over though.
James101 – they probably put that he would ‘officially’ be a striker in his contract to get him to sign up again last year! Little did he know it just meant a meaningless categorisation on the website!
Just read through that myself. I’ve always played 3-5-2 in the past simply because mids are normally cheaper, 5pts for goals and a little bonus for CS. I went 4-3-3 regularly this year for first time because that is the points were. This has been strikers’ season so far – and I don’t see it changing
When kun returns.
But beyond Suarez I’m a little dispassionate about options.
Lukaku. Rooney. Others.
But wally is a forward who gets midfield point allocations…
I’m going negredo, Suarez Rooney with hazard, Wally, Ramsey + a cheap 4th mid.
Titleastic – That’s the worry,how far can we go with two big strikers,the midfield James just posted there is the balls though haha,unfortunately i couldn’t afford it though,if it,or even the lesser one that i’m able to achieve stays fit and healthy i think it’s more than enough to beat a ‘top heavy’ team over time,more pondering needs to be done though, flingy mentioned something about a stats article based on formations and effectiveness of,i’d imagine it would be a bastard to do the research for it though,a lot of work involved i’d say but it would be very cool if it happened..
Many will have something along those lines Title. Nothing dumb there.
Nin.
I’m only missing wally now. And am golfing lukaku and cash.
Maybe next week for a hit. Or the week after for free.
It’s not original is it! I’ve learnt opt chase differentials too hard. Like I say though 3.5.2 is my default setting – as soon as I see a team that looks stronger that way than 3 power house strikers then I will flip back to it. Only problem with all these premier teams having amazing midfield squads is that the points get shared around too much. I liked the days of Fabregas Lamps and Gerrard bossing it week in week out – you knew where you stood then!
James – Yeah i’ve just noticed that,very nice,i forgot you had the two City boys already.. I’m glad to have Walcott for the Chelsea game,they concede so much these days it’s actually shocking,stalling until the West Ham game is okay too though i think,he could be in for a whopper score from that game
Agreed Nin. Though he’s going up in price if he keeps his performances up…
Yeah that’s true,if he scores even one against Chelsea he’ll hit his cap in no time,at least there’s not long between the next games so getting him this weekend isn’t as risky as it would normally be,i’m calling it a night now mate,take it handy lads yeah.
Hi
Here’s my team that finished last week;
Myhill (Marshall)
Turner (Car)’ Chester; Zab (Gabbidon, Clyne)
Hazard, Ramsey, Oezil, Morrison (Brady)
Lukaku, Suarez, Aguero
I have 2 FT and £0,2m in the bank
I know one of these will have to go on Aguero, who is the smart money on to replace him with?
And where would my other transfer be usefully used?
Thanks guys.
I would go zab / Aguero to negredo / Kolarov. Next week Ozil to Wally, week after upgrade Morrison. Or to go safer buy Mertesacker not kolarov
Thanks for this Titleastic.
You reckon Negredo is a better choice than Shrek then?
Go for Rooney for United coverage good fixtures coming up
Well I reckon City coverage is definitely needed and you don’t have any now. My two transfers this week were Lukaku and Aguero out and Roo-dog and Negredo in. Lots of people would say that wasn’t a good idea but it felt right at the time..
redmecca
Just a heads up. Foster got some action in the reserves team and Myhill’s glory in League will only live for short now.
Strictly based on fixtures:
Aguero > Hooper/Remy
Brady > YYT/Silva