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Welcome to our FantasyFootball 247 mid-month Leagues round up for January!
Writing this from the side of a rooftop pool in southern central India, I am brought to mind the words of Mahatma Gandhi “Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth”. So hold fast to your convictions ladies and gents, and stay your course, as you fight your way up the league rankings.
The Season League
The festive season is now but a distant memory, though the dark winter nights remain – perhaps more for some managers than others… Wildcards have been played, some profitably, others with more than a few retrospective regrets, and even the occasional cry of “Why Always Me?!” So where has this merry dance left us?
Well, as reliable as Stevie G’s returns, Barntons Bashers hold on to their lead at the top of the league, with 1,486 points, moving a further 9 places forward in the main game to a fantastic number 53 in the overall rankings! What’s interesting is that B-Bash has just played his wildcard (active this week), so we are wondering what that will do to his position over the coming game weeks. In second spot, James101 continues to work his way up the global rankings, moving to 628 overall, up from the mid-900’s last time round. FF247 have recently published interviews with both these managers, to gain what insight we can from their differing approaches.
The knights of ni have moved up two to third spot, with a very impressive 1,435 points, pushing our own Cookie back one place to fourth – a mere 2 points separate these two now, so we will watch developments with interest. Herewegoagain move two places up to fifth spot, on 1,420, followed closely behind by Peps Packers, also up two. Catch me if you Kun are another riser, in at seventh, with all these risers pushing Robin Van Pricey down from fourth to eighth. New entrant Dhula United storm into the top ten with an excellent 70 points for the week, with JTFC moving up one spot from eleventh to tenth, edging out last month’s number 6, Shane-PAIN FC, by just 3 points. In short, it remains pretty close!
The Monthly League
A new month, and a new Monthly League leader, with The Expendables returning an excellent 209 points for the first 3 game weeks; 84 points in this game week alone, a score with a weekly global ranking of 4,000, well done! A single point behind (after hits are factored in), Bocadillo Allstars are in second spot on 208 points for the month and it looks like being a real tussle between those two over the next couple of game weeks. That said, our joint third placed teams, fc sanchez and fc tom tomsk are both easily within fighting distance, on 200 points. Serendipity United (last month’s 5th ranked team) and cola toure hold joint fifth at this stage, 3 points back on 197.
The wonderfully named (if you like your movies) White Boys Day move into seventh spot this week, sharing it ominously with Barntons Bashers, our winner last month. One point further back in ninth are inter ma’nan, who placed tenth last month. Making up our top ten are two teams; creative name team and underdogs, both on 193 points. So the spread between the top ten teams is a mere 16 points, nothing really over a game week, let alone more. Everything still to play for in our opinion!
Many thanks as always to elleffcee for verifying the monthly table – you may notice a slight difference in a couple of the rankings, this is because the monthly charts that are automatically generated do not take all hits into account – clearly these should be factored in to show who’s really performing best.
This article was written by James101
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Thanks for the great new article James, especially given that you are on holiday, ahem, sorry I mean on a work trip…… of course 😉
Ha. For Queen and country, old man.
The table shows Bocadillo Allstars leading the monthly on 212.
Yep. That’s the “live table”. It doesn’t factor in the -4 hit taken. Elleffcee checks / verifies it for those, as we feel they should be factored in to reflect the true leader. (Given I take hits it often catches me too!). Boc is having a great month. On 208 so far. (The expendables didn’t take a hit so 209)
bundeena the lads assure me that the last paragraph explains this discrepancy and it will always be so given how it is calculated on the official site.
Nice write up James! But I think you missed my team, I should be on 210 when you take into account the moves I wanted to make instead of the ones I actually made.
: )
Somewhere out there, there’s a parallel universe where you dominate.
And Schrödinger’s cat roams free…
Cheers james101 and hat’s off to those leading!
ATF, i haven’t got a hat. :big-lol:
Hey guys! Here’s my latest wildcard team.
Szczesny (Mannone)
Gabbidon Coleman Kolarov (Davies) (Shaw)
Ramsey Cabaye Hazard Mata (Mutch)
Aguero Adebayor Suarez.
0.0 in the bank. So the problems I can see are: Kolarov vs Adebayor, Cabaye possibly going to PSG, Ramsey doubt, Coleman doubt, Mata may not start, Sunderland have a new keeper so Mannone’s spot under threat. What do you think?
I guess everybody’s still asleep?
Veer, nope just busy mate. :tick-tock:
Veer, why worry about ade v kol ? You have goofy v coleman, next week haz v kol, ramsey v gabbidon, you will always have players against each other, i think mata will play, hes needed, put cab in, if he goes get johnson, mannone will keep his place, ramsey will play some part + poss bench coleman for 1 week.
Like this team Veer. Good defensive cover and adequate attackers.
Id say go for this team. If Cabaye leaves (I took a hit to bring him in, hope he doesnt leave) then get Johnson/Lallana.
Mutch>Noone might free up some pennies, have seen Noone being a greater attacking threat recently too.
Thanks guys!
Hi Veer.
I wouldn’t really worry about the match up’s.
Cabaye is unlikely to leave in Jan (no reason for saying that, just opinion)
I wouldn’t pick Swansea defender at the moment – Villa/United have nice fixtures.
If you haven’t kept Ramsey while injured id hold off on having him just yet.
Mannone in too good form to be dropped.
I would steer clear of Cardiff players for now. Perhaps Puncheon of Palace is a better option.
Morning all, great write up jimbo, considering your working soooooo hard, by the pool, glad to be of help, safe journey home mate. :dance: