#1276555 - Sun Nov 01 2020 07:13 AM
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The FA Cup is the world's oldest football knock-out competition (started in 1872). The 2021 comp will be the 140th edition. The preliminary qualifying rounds started in September (rather than the usual mid-August). To ease fixture congestion there are no replays for the 2021 FA Cup. The Football Association has accepted entries from 737 teams for this season's FA Cup, comprising 645 non-league teams plus the 92 league teams. The all-time record field is 763 teams, which was set in 2012. The 92 league teams are the 44 in the FAPL (20) and FLC (24), plus the 48 teams in League One and League Two (24 each).- the 4th and last qualifying round for the 645 non-league teams
was played last weekend Saturday 25th October.
- the 32 survivors from the qualifiers progress to the First Round
where they join the 48 teams in L1 and L2 (equals 80 teams). - the 20 survivors from the Second Round will join the FAPL and
FLC teams in the Third Round (equals 64 teams). - from there it's a straight knock-out through to the final in May.
This year's tipping comp will run for a bit over 6˝ months over 10 rounds from Saturday 7th Nov 2020 until Saturday 15th May 2021 (First Round through to the FA Cup Final). Although there are 10 rounds in the tipping comp, we only lodge picks on 8 occasions, as follows: - the First Round of 40 games will be split into two rounds of 16 games each by ignoring 8 games.
- the Second Round has 20 games .. 4 games are ignored.
- the Third Round of 32 games is be split into two rounds of 16 games each.
- that's 5 tipping rounds which, with the remaining 5 rounds, gives us 10 tipping rounds.
- we also have advance picks thrown in so that all 10 rounds are worth 16 pts each.
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The rules for the FA Cup tipping comp are simple (they're the same as last year): points default upsets perfect picks other bonus pts dead-heats | one point for each correct pick .. home win, draw, away win. In other words, it's always at 90 minutes; penalty-shootout lotteries are ignored. if you forget to pick, you will receive the wooden spoon score (this includes advance picks). you score a bonus point if you pick a game solo .. or one of two players if we have 10+ runners; or one of three if we have 18 or more runners. one bonus point for 10+/16; 13/16 or higher receives a further bonus point (plus a knighthood from HM). no one picks win, whoever picks a draw; no one picks draw, whoever picks the upset win. weekly wins vs. wooden spoon countback determine podium finishes; if they are identical, bonus pts will be used. |
This year's comp is the 19th edition of the FA Cup tipping comp. Last season's comp was won by ozzz2002. With his win in 2019, N-Bomb became the second player to win this comp three times ... srini701 was the first to win this three times (2015). Between them, ozzz2002 and N-Bomb have won the last five comps from 2016 to 2020! . | Previous winners & medallists: | . | 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020. | silverginger halfbakedangi Sypher halfbakedangi PaulE LeoDaVinci srini701 srini701 KrivoyRog superhooppete PaulE KrivoyRog srini701 N-Bomb ozzz2002 N-Bomb N-Bomb ozzz2002 | gtho4 manvinder01 treble99 Sypher Howie72 gtho4 LeoDaVinci paper_aero triviapaul trev1 George95 dg_dave dg_dave Sypher Howie72 Sypher Howie72 Dizart | Dazzy_D Sypher ElfTwinkle PaulE gtho4 Howie72 PaulE Howie72 BxBarracuda illiniman14 illiniman14 PaulE paper_aero paper_aero N-Bomb ozzz2002 LeoDaVinci paper_aero | . |
The draw for the First Round took place last week on Monday night 26th October. The tipping thread for the First Round will be posted later today. If you'd like to have a go at this year's comp, please sign-in and ... have a go!
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#1276556 - Sun Nov 01 2020 07:13 AM
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#1276564 - Sun Nov 01 2020 08:44 AM
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#1276574 - Sun Nov 01 2020 10:52 AM
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#1277000 - Sun Nov 08 2020 12:48 AM
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Football Association Challenge Cup. | Saturday 7th November 1st Round 14 of 14 players lodged tips
| | correct picks | 9-2-20 6-0-70 8-1-40 10-3-00 3-4-60 8-4-10 9-4-00 11-0-20 13-0-00 3-3-70 10-2-10 8-4-10 6-3-40 4-4-50 12-1-00 4-3-60 | 1-2 2-3 2-2 3-3 0-0 0-2 0-1 3-1 1-1 3-1 3-2 2-0 2-2 1-2 6-2 1-2 | 2 7 1 3 4 1 0 11 0 3 10 8 3 5 12 6 | SL v IL L2 v L1 L2 v L1 NL v L2 NN v IL NL v NL L2 v L1 L1 v L1 L2 v NP L2 v NP NL v L2 L2 v NN L1 v NL L1 v L1 L1 v L1 L2 v L2 L1 v L2 L1 v L1 | Banbury United v Canvey Island Barrow v AFC Wimbledon Bolton Wanderers v Crewe Alexandra Boreham Wood v Southend United Brackley Town v Bishop's Stortford Bromley v Yeovil Town Cambridge Utd v Shrewsbury Town Charlton Athletic v Plymouth Argyle Cheltenham Town v South Shields Colchester United v Marine Dagenham & Redbridge v Grimsby T Exeter City v AFC Fylde Gillingham v Woking Hull City v Fleetwood Town Ipswich Town v Portsmouth Leyton Orient v Newport County Lincoln City v Forest Green Rovers Oxford United v Peterborough United | Dizart dg_dave wwe84 srini701 Llynfi LeoDaVinci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N-Bomb srini701 Lynfi Howie72 Sypher wwe84 dg_dave srini701 Llynfi Howie72 srini701 George95 ozzz2002 wwe84 Llynfi paper_aero Howie72 . | | 76 | as the Barrow v Wimbledon was postponed, it was replaced by Lincoln City v Forest Green Rovers and Exeter City v AFC Fylde was b/f to 12:30pm Saturday, replaced by Oxford United v Peterborough United |
Round 1a . |
position points ----- ----- ---------- TW LW hi-lo LW TW bp ----- ----- ----------hf ws 1 1-1 paper_aero 0 8 8 1 1 1-1 Dizart s 0 7 8 1 1 1-1 Llynfi w 0 7 8 1 1 1-1 N-Bomb s 0 7 8 1 5 5-5 wwe84 s 0 6 7 1 5 5-5 Howie72 w 0 6 7 1 5 5-5 Sypher 0 5 7 8 8-8 dg_dave s 0 5 6 1 8 8-8 srini701 w 0 5 6 1 8 8-8 George95 0 6 6 8 8-8 gtho4 0 6 6 12 12-12 LeoDaVinci 0 5 5 13 13-13 ozzz2002 0 3 3 1 late starters 4 76 1 1 7 home 0 5 5 draw 0 5 5 away 0 6 6 wooden spoon 0 3 3 best picks 0 8 8 perfect 0 16 16 bonus pts 0 7 7 b = bonus point for picking 10/16 or better. x = perfect picks or near miss 13+/16. s = bonus pt for picking result solo, or one of two. w = bonus for picking a draw, no one picked winner. o = no one picked draw. Bonus for picking upset win. bp = total bonus points for the year. default is WS score ineligible for bonus pts if picks are all home or all bar one (or all bar two for R1 to R4). | . | 1a +1 Dizart Llynfi N-Bomb paper_aero 1b 2. 3a 3b 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
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H-x-A avge bp 1a 5-4-6 49.1% 7 8/16 paper_aero 3/16 ozzz2002 1b . 2 . 3a . 3b . 4 . 5 6 7 8 7 1 1 |
| Two years ago the FA Cup comp had a field of 14 runners. Last year we again had 14 runners (we lost ElfTwinkle but we gained Llynfi). This year we lost PaulE, which gives us 13 runners who returned for another dose.
A truckload of upsets saw 4 of 16 games picked by no-one (or one or two). Zero games were picked by everyone. Only three games reached double digits for correct picks.
Cambridge United (L2) lost at home to Shrewsbury Town (L1). N-Bomb jagged this upset and scored a bonus pt. The second upset was Boreham Wood (NL) holding Southend Utd (L2) to a draw .. wwe84 picked this. The third upset was the drawn game Banbury United (SL) v Canvey Island (IL), picked by Dizart and dg_dave.
As was the case last year in Round 1, paper_aero starts as the R1 winner; ditto ozzz2002, who started last year's comp with a wooden spoon. It's a four-way tie out front as paper_aero and his 50% strike rate 8/16 is joined by three payers who scored 7/16 plus a bonus point. Behind them we have a two-way tie, 1 pt in arrears, and another four-way tie, two points in arrears. |
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#1277275 - Sun Nov 15 2020 10:28 PM
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Round 1b results not posted yet??
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#1277290 - Mon Nov 16 2020 03:18 PM
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Football Association Challenge Cup. | Saturday 7th November 1st Round 14 of 14 players lodged tips
| | correct picks | 13-0-00 11-1-10 3-2-70 1-5-70 0-1-12 11-2-00 2-2-90 0-0-13 0-3-10 10-3-00 0-1-12 1-1-11 2-6-50 13-0-00 0-0-13 1-2-10 | 0-1 1-2 2-1 1-2 1-5 2-3 1-0 0-0 2-3 1-0 0-0 0-1 3-3 2-2 0-3 2-1 | 0 1 3 7 12 0 2 0 10 10 1 11 6 0 13 1 | L1 v L2 L1 v NN L2 v L1 L2 v L1 NP v L1 L2 v NL NL v L1 NL v L1 NS v L2 NS v IL SL v L2 IL v L2 NL v L2 L1 v NN NS v L1 NS v L1 | Sunderland v Mansfield Town Swindon Town v Darlington Tranmere Rov v Accrington Stanley Walsall v Bristol Rovers FC Utd of Manch v Doncaster Rov Scunthorpe United v Solihull Moors Barnet v Burton Albion Eastleigh v Milton Keynes Dons Hampton & Richmnd v Oldham Ath Havant & W'ville v C Valley P Mills Hayes & Yeading v Carlisle United Maldon & Tiptree v Morecambe Torquay United v Crawley Town Wigan Athletic v Chorley Eastbourne Borough v Blackpool Oxford City v Northampton Town | ozzz2002 Howie72 dg_dave N-Bomb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . wwe84 Howie72 gtho4 Llynfi wwe84 Llynfi wwe84 Howie72 Llynfi wwe84 dg_dave Llynfi wwe84 dg_dave ozzz2002 . | | 77 | George95 didn't lodge a pick for Tranmere Rovers v Accrington Stanley Oxford City v Northampton Town was played Monday night |
Round 1b . |
position points ----- ----- ---------- TW LW hi-lo LW TW bp ----- ----- ----------hf ws 1 1 1-1 Llynfi ss 8 7 17 3 2 1 1-2 N-Bomb 8 7 15 1 3 1 1-3 paper_aero 8 6 14 1 3 5 3-5 Howie72 w 7 6 14 2 3 1 1-3 Dizart 8 6 14 1 6 13 6-13 ozzz2002 ss 3 8 13 1 1 2 6 8 6-8 gtho4 w 6 6 13 1 6 5 5-6 Sypher 7 6 13 9 8 8-9 srini701 6 6 12 1 10 12 10-12 LeoDaVinci 5 6 11 10 8 8-10 dg_dave 6 5 11 1 10 8 8-10 George95 6 5 11 10 5 5-10 wwe84 s 7 3 11 1 2 late starters 11 77 2 2 14 home 5 4 9 draw 5 4 9 away 6 8 14 wooden spoon 3 3 6 best picks 8 8 16 perfect 16 16 32 bonus pts 7 7 14 b = bonus point for picking 10/16 or better. x = perfect picks or near miss 13+/16. s = bonus pt for picking result solo, or one of two. w = bonus for picking a draw, no one picked winner. o = no one picked draw. Bonus for picking upset win. bp = total bonus points for the year. default is WS score ineligible for bonus pts if picks are all home or all bar one (or all bar two for R1 to R4). | . | 1a +1 Llynfi Dizart N-Bomb paper_aero 1b +2 Llynfi 2. 3a 3b 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
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H-x-A avge bp 1a 5-4-6 36.5% 7 8/16 paper_aero 3/16 ozzz2002 1b 4-4-8 37.0% 7 8/16 ozzz2002 3/16 wwe84 2 . 3a . 3b . 4 . 5 6 7 8 14 2 2 |
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#1278035 - Mon Nov 30 2020 09:38 PM
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Football Association Challenge Cup. | Saturday 28th November 2nd Round 11 of 13 players lodged tips
| | correct picks | 0-0-11 4-4-30 2-2-70 3-1-70 8-1-20 0-0-11 8-1-20 5-3-30 7-3-10 10-1-00 0-0-11 4-3-40 11-0-00 11-0-00 10-0-10 0-4-70 | 0-1 1-2 1-2 1-1 2-3 0-4 1-1 3-0 2-0 6-1 1-1 2-2 1-2 6-0 0-0 0-0 | 11 3 7 1 2 11 1 5 7 10 0 3 0 11 0 4 | NL v L1 L2 v L2 L2 v L1 L2 v L1 L1 v L2 L2 v L1 L2 v NL L2 v L2 L1 v L1 L1 v NL L2 v L1 NL v NL L1 v NN L1 v NN L1 v NS NP v NS | Barnet v Milton Keynes Dons Bradford City v Oldham Athletic Carlisle United v Doncaster Rovers Cheltenham Town v Crewe Alexandra Gillingham v Exeter City Harrogate Town v Blackpool Mansfield T v Dagenham & Redbridge Newport County v Salford City Plymouth Argyle v Lincoln City Portsmouth v Kings Lynn Town Stevenage v Hull City Stockport County v Yeovil Town Peterborough United v Chorley Bristol Rovers v Darlington Shrewsbury Town v Oxford City Marine v Havant & Waterlooville | dg_dave srini701 LeoDaVinci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . wwe84 dg_dave srini701 Llynfi wwe84 Llynfi paper_aero Howie72 srini701 . | | 76 | extra time and shootout lotteries are ignored all match results are the score at full time |
Round 2 . |
position points ----- ----- ---------- TW LW hi-lo LW TW bp ----- ----- ----------hf ws 1 1 1-1 Llynfi s 17 8 26 1 4 2 9 2-9 srini701 os 12 8 22 1 3 2 2 1-2 N-Bomb 15 7 22 1 4 3 1-4 paper_aero 14 7 21 1 4 3 3-5 Howie72 14 7 21 2 6 10 6-10 dg_dave s 11 8 20 1 2 7 6 6-8 gtho4 13 6 19 1 7 6 5-7 Sypher 13 6 19 7 10 5-10 wwe84 s 11 7 19 1 3 7 3 1-7 Dizart 14 5 19 1 1 11 6 6-13 ozzz2002 13 18 1 1 2 11 10 10-12 LeoDaVinci 11 7 18 13 10 8-13 George95 11 16 late starters 18 76 5 3 19 home 9 4 13 draw 9 6 15 away 14 6 20 wooden spoon 6 5 11 best picks 16 8 24 perfect 32 16 48 bonus pts 14 5 19 b = bonus point for picking 10/16 or better. x = perfect picks or near miss 13+/16. s = bonus pt for picking result solo, or one of two. w = bonus for picking a draw, no one picked winner. o = no one picked draw. Bonus for picking upset win. bp = total bonus points for the year. default is WS score ineligible for bonus pts if picks are all home or all bar one (or all bar two for R1 to R4). | . | 1a +1 Llynfi Dizart N-Bomb paper_aero 1b +2 Llynfi 2. +4 Llynfi 3a 3b 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
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H-x-A avge bp 1a 5-4-6 36.5% 7 8/16 paper_aero 3/16 ozzz2002 1b 4-4-8 37.0% 7 8/16 ozzz2002 3/16 wwe84 2 4-6-6 43.2% 5 8/16 dg_dave Llynfi srini701 5/16 Dizart 3a . 3b . 4 . 5 6 7 8 19 5 3 |
| Llynfi has been leader since day dot .. and has increased his lead each round. His margin out front is now out to 4 pts. The remainder of the field (except for the tail ender) are covered by the next 4 pts!
Every round so far has seen 8/16 as the winner aka, no-one has reached double digits in three rounds of tipping.
Picks for 6 of the 16 games were unanimous and, in accordance with the law of averages, it came out as an even 50/50 split: we hit pay dirt with three and struck out with the other three.
New high: srini701, dg_dave New low : paper_aero, Dizart, Sypher, George95
The next round is on Saturday 9th January 2021. If the FA stick to what they've done in previous rounds, there will probably be a game or two b/f to Friday night. |
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#1280965 - Sun Jan 10 2021 04:11 AM
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Football Association Challenge Cup. | Saturday 9th January 3rd Round 11 of 13 players lodged tips
| | correct picks | 0-1-10 8-1-20 0-0-11 11-0-00 4-5-20 8-2-10 5-3-30 1-0-10 9-2-00 2-2-70 3-0-80 11-0-00 3-4-40 0-1-10 5-1-50 0-0-11 | 1-4 1-0 0-2 1-1 1-0 2-0 1-0 2-0 0-1 2-2 2-3 1-1 0-2 1-4 0-0 0-2 | 10 8 11 0 4 8 5 1 0 2 8 0 4 10 1 11 | FAPL v FAPL FAPL v FAPL NL v FLC FAPL v FLC FLC v FLC FLC v FLC FLC v FLC NN v FLC FLC v L1 L1 v FAPL L1 v FAPL FAPL v L1 L2 v FLC L2 v FLC FLC v FAPL L2 v FLC | Aston Villa v Liverpool Wolv Wanderers v Crystal Palace Boreham Wood v Millwall Everton v Rotherham United Luton Town v Reading Norwich City v Coventry City Nottingham Forest v Cardiff City Chorley v Derby County Blackbn Rov v Doncaster Rovers Blackpool v West Bromwich Albion Bristol Rovers v Sheffield United Burnley v Milton Keynes Dons Exeter C v Sheffield Wednesday Oldham Athletic v Bournemouth Queens Park Rangers v Fulham Stevenage v Swansea City | srini701 paper_aero wwe84 Sypher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ozzz2002 wwe84 Llynfi N-Bomb srini701 wwe84 srini701 Howie72 srini701 Sypher Llynfi ozzz2002 paper_aero . | | 83 | all match results are the score at full time - extra time and shootout lotteries are ignored the first two games, at Villa and Wolves, were played on Friday night |
Round 3a . |
position points ----- ----- ---------- TW LW hi-lo LW TW bp ----- ----- ----------hf ws 1 2 1-2 N-Bomb bs 22 10 34 1 3 2 1 1-2 Llynfi 26 6 32 1 1 4 3 2 2-9 srini701 ws 22 7 31 1 5 4 4 3-5 Howie72 s 21 8 30 3 5 4 1-5 paper_aero s 21 7 29 1 1 6 7 6-8 gtho4 19 8 27 1 6 7 5-7 Sypher 19 8 27 6 7 5-10 wwe84 w 19 7 27 1 4 6 7 1-7 Dizart 19 8 27 1 1 10 6 6-10 dg_dave 20 26 1 2 11 11 6-13 ozzz2002 18 7 25 1 1 2 11 11 10-12 LeoDaVinci 18 7 25 13 13 8-13 George95 16 22 late starters 24 83 6 4 26 home 13 5 18 draw 15 4 19 away 20 7 27 wooden spoon 11 6 17 best picks 24 10 34 perfect 48 16 64 bonus pts 19 7 26 b = bonus point for picking 10/16 or better. x = perfect picks or near miss 13+/16. s = bonus pt for picking result solo, or one of two. w = bonus for picking a draw, no one picked winner. o = no one picked draw. Bonus for picking upset win. bp = total bonus points for the year. default is WS score ineligible for bonus pts if picks are all home or all bar one (or all bar two for R1 to R4). | . | 1a +1 Llynfi N-Bomb Dizart paper_aero 1b +2 Llynfi 2. +4 Llynfi 3a +2 N-Bomb 3b 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
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H-x-A avge bp 1a 5-4-6 36.5% 7 8/16 paper_aero 3/16 ozzz2002 1b 4-4-8 37.0% 7 8/16 ozzz2002 3/16 wwe84 2 4-6-6 43.2% 5 8/16 dg_dave Llynfi srini701 5/16 Dizart 3a 5-4-7 47.1% 7 10/16 N-Bomb 6/16 Llynfi 3b . 4 . 5 6 7 8 26 6 4 |
| A 4pt margin out front wasn't enough. Llynfi collects the wooden spoon and surrenders the lead to N-Bomb, who's the first player, since day dot, to reach double digits with correct picks. N-Bomb converted a 4 pt deficit into a 2 pt lead.
Picks for 4 of the 16 games were unanimous and, in accordance with the law of averages, it was once again an even 50/50 split: we hit pay dirt with two and struck out with the other two. Last week we had six unanimous and hit pay dirt with three.
New high: --- New low : paper_aero (again), Llynfi
Next update: Round 3b wil be completed on Monday night local time. Results will be posted on Tuesday or Wednesday. |
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#1281081 - Mon Jan 11 2021 10:43 PM
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Football Association Challenge Cup. | Saturday 9th January 3rd Round 11 of 13 players lodged tips
| | correct picks | 0-0-11 1-3-70 11-1-00 5-3-30 9-1-10 11-0-00 11-0-00 8-3-00 4-3-40 11-0-00 5-6-00 0-2-90 10-0-10 0-0-11 2-1-80 0-1-10 | 0-4 4-1 0-0 2-1 2-3 1-0 2-0 2-1 4-0 1-1 3-0 3-0 0-5 1-1 0-1 | 11 1 1 5 1 11 11 8 4 11 6 0 10 11 1 10 | FLC v FAPL FLC v FLC FAPL v FAPL FLC v FLC FLC v L1 FAPL v FLC FAPL v L1 FLC v L2 FLC v L1 FAPL v L2 L2 v NL L2 v FAPL FAPL v FLC NP v FAPL L2 v FAPL NL v FAPL | Stoke City v Leicester City Wycombe Wanderers v Preston N End Arsenal v Newcastle United Brentford v Middlesbrough Huddersfield Town v Plymouth Argyle Manchester United v Watford Southampton v Shrewsbury Town Barnsley v Tranmere Rovers Bristol City v Portsmouth Chelsea v Morecambe Cheltenham Town v Mansfield Town Crawley Town v Leeds United Manchester City v Birmingham City Marine v Tottenham Hotspur Newport County v Brighton & Hove Alb Stockport County v West Ham United | wwe84 Llynfi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Llynfi wwe84 ozzz2002 Sypher Llynfi paper_aero Dizart N-Bomb wwe84 paper_aero wwe84 Howie72 LeoDaVinci . | | 102 | all match results are the score at full time - extra time and shootout lotteries are ignored postponed Southampton v Shrewsbury Town game is a gimme for everyone |
Round 3b . |
position points ----- ----- ---------- TW LW hi-lo LW TW bp ----- ----- ----------hf ws 1 2 1-2 Llynfi xbss 32 13 49 2 1 8 2 1 1-2 N-Bomb 34 9 43 1 3 3 4 3-5 Howie72 bs 30 11 43 5 4 5 1-5 paper_aero bw 29 11 42 1 3 5 3 2-9 srini701 31 8 39 1 5 6 6 1-7 Dizart b 27 10 38 1 2 7 6 6-8 gtho4 27 9 36 1 7 6 5-10 wwe84 ws 27 7 36 2 6 9 6 5-9 Sypher 27 8 35 10 10 6-10 dg_dave 26 33 1 2 10 11 6-13 ozzz2002 25 8 33 1 1 2 10 11 10-12 LeoDaVinci 25 8 33 13 13 8-13 George95 22 29 late starters 32 102 7 5 37 home 18 9 27 draw 19 3 22 away 27 4 31 wooden spoon 17 7 24 best picks 34 13 47 perfect 64 16 80 bonus pts 26 11 37 b = bonus point for picking 10/16 or better. x = perfect picks or near miss 13+/16. s = bonus pt for picking result solo, or one of two. w = bonus for picking a draw, no one picked winner. o = no one picked draw. Bonus for picking upset win. bp = total bonus points for the year. default is WS score ineligible for bonus pts if picks are all home or all bar one (or all bar two for R1 to R4). | . | 1a +1 Llynfi N-Bomb Dizart paper_aero 1b +2 Llynfi 2. +4 Llynfi 3a +2 N-Bomb 3b +6 Llynfi 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
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H-x-A avge bp 1a 5-4-6 36.5% 7 8/16 paper_aero 3/16 ozzz2002 1b 4-4-8 37.0% 7 8/16 ozzz2002 3/16 wwe84 2 4-6-6 43.2% 5 8/16 dg_dave Llynfi srini701 5/16 Dizart 3a 5-4-7 47.1% 7 10/16 N-Bomb 6/16 Llynfi 3b 9-3-4 57.9% 11 13/16 Llynfi 7/16 wwe84 4 . 5 6 7 8 37 7 5 |
| Llynfi is this week's winner with some outrageous picks, which all bore fruit .. two of them were solo picks! He scores 13/16 and jumps back into the lead by a margin of 6 pts.
Two weeks ago he was leading by 4 pts, last week he dropped to second some 2 points in arrears; and this week he returns to the lead with a 6 pt margin. Is that how we spell fluctuations ..
Picks for 5 of the 16 games were unanimous and this week we ignored the law of averages .. we hit pay dirt with the lot!
New high: --- New low : Sypher
The next round is on Saturday week. The draw was announced last night: FA Cup - 4th Round - Sat 23 Jan.
We're at the half-way mark .. 5 of 10 tipping rounds have been completed (80 pts). The next five rounds are also worth 80 pts (5 x 16 each).
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#1281995 - Thu Jan 28 2021 08:54 AM
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Football Association Challenge Cup. | Saturday 23rd January 4th Round 12 of 13 players lodged tips
| | correct picks | 3-2-70 10-1-10 1-0-11 11-1-00 12-0-00 0-0-12 0-1-11 12-0-00 5-4-30 4-3-50 7-4-10 12-0-00 2-3-70 10-2-00 12-0-00 0-0-12 | 1-0 2-1 1-3 2-1 3-1 1-3 0-1 3-0 0-3 3-2 0-3 2-1 1-0 5-1 4-0 1-4 | 3 10 11 11 12 12 11 12 3 4 1 12 2 10 12 12 | FLC v FLC FLC v L2_ _FLC v FAPL FAPL v L1__ FAPL v FLC_ __L2 v FAPL __NN v FAPL FAPL v FLC_ FAPL v FAPL FAPL v FAPL FLC v L1_ FAPL v L1__ FAPL v FAPL FLC v FLC FAPL v L1__ _FLC v FAPL | Barnsley v Norwich City Bournemouth v Crawley Town Brentford v Leicester City Brighton & Hove Albion v Blackpool Chelsea v Luton Town Cheltenham Town v Manchester City Chorley v Wolverhamptn Wanderers Everton v Sheffield Wednesday Fulham v Burnley Manchester United v Liverpool Millwall v Bristol City Sheffield United v Plymouth Argyle Southampton v Arsenal Swansea City v Nottingham Forest West Ham United v Doncaster Rovers Wycombe Wdrs v Tottenham Hotspur | ozzz2002 wwe84 dg_dave paper_aero Sypher Howie72 Llynfi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . paper_aero Howie72 Sypher dg_dave George95 Sypher ozzz2002 srini701 Dizart Dizart Howie72 George95 Sypher . | | 138 | all match results are the score at full time - extra time and shootout lotteries are ignored Chorley v Wolves was played on Friday night and Wycombe v Spurs on Monday night |
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position points ----- ----- ---------- TW LW hi-lo LW TW bp ----- ----- ----------hf ws 1 1 1-2 Llynfi b 49 10 60 2 1 9 2 3 2-5 Howie72 sb 43 12 57 7 3 2 1-3 N-Bomb b 43 11 55 1 4 3 6 1-7 Dizart ssxb 38 13 55 1 1 6 5 5 2-9 srini701 b 39 12 52 1 6 6 4 1-6 paper_aero 42 9 51 1 1 3 7 7 5-10 wwe84 b 36 12 49 2 7 8 10 6-10 dg_dave xb 33 13 48 2 4 8 10 6-13 ozzz2002 xb 33 13 48 2 1 4 8 7 6-8 gtho4 b 36 11 48 2 11 9 5-11 Sypher b 35 11 47 1 12 10 10-12 LeoDaVinci 33 42 13 13 8-13 George95 b 29 11 41 1 late starters 43 138 10 6 54 home 27 10 37 draw 22 - 22 away 31 6 37 wooden spoon 24 9 33 best picks 47 13 60 perfect 80 16 96 bonus pts 37 17 54 b = bonus point for picking 10/16 or better. x = perfect picks or near miss 13+/16. s = bonus pt for picking result solo, or one of two. w = bonus for picking a draw, no one picked winner. o = no one picked draw. Bonus for picking upset win. bp = total bonus points for the year. default is WS score ineligible for bonus pts if picks are all home or all bar one (or all bar two for R1 to R4). | . | 1a +1 Llynfi N-Bomb Dizart paper_aero 1b +2 Llynfi 2. +4 Llynfi 3a +2 N-Bomb 3b +6 Llynfi 4. +3 Llynfi 5. 6. 7. 8.
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H-x-A avge bp 1a 5-4-6 36.5% 7 8/16 paper_aero 3/16 ozzz2002 1b 4-4-8 37.0% 7 8/16 ozzz2002 3/16 wwe84 2 4-6-6 43.2% 5 8/16 Llynfi dg_dave srini701 5/16 Dizart 3a 5-4-7 47.1% 7 10/16 N-Bomb 6/16 Llynfi 3b 9-3-4 57.9% 11 13/16 Llynfi 7/16 wwe84 4 10- -6 71.9% 17 13/16 Dizart dg_dave ozzz2002 9/16 paper_aero 5 6 7 8 54 10 6 |
| In the last round, picks for 5 of the 16 games were unanimous and we hit pay dirt with the lot. In this round we had unanimous picks for 6 of the 16 games and, once gain, we hit pay dirt with the lot!
This gave us a average strike rate of 71.9% and three winners with 13/16 correct picks: dg_dave, Dizart and ozzz2002.
Each winner received two bonus pts, one for scoring 10+/16 and another for a perfect pick/ near miss at 13+/16. Dizart collected another two bonus points for solo picks, enough to slingshot him into equal 3rd place.
New high: Howie72 New low : N-Bomb, paper_aero, Sypher
The next round is mid-week in a fortnight's time : FA Cup - 5th Round - Tue 9 Feb.
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#1282972 - Wed Feb 10 2021 07:03 AM
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Advance Picks : Semi-Finalists x4 lodged in Round 4 |--------- -------- ------- ------ ------- ------- --------| dg_dave | Man City Tott H Liverp Leic C | Dizart | Chelsea Man City Tott H Liverp | George95 | Chelsea Man City Man Utd Wolves | gtho4 | Man City Arsenal Liverp Leic C | Howie72 | Man City Tott H Liverp Southmp | LeoDaVinci | | Llynfi | Chelsea Man City Tott H Liverp | N-Bomb | Chelsea Man City Arsenal Tott H | ozzz2002 | Chelsea Man City Tott H Leic C | paper_aero | Chelsea Man City Tott H Liverp | srini701 | Arsenal Tott H Man Utd Leic C | Sypher | Man City Arsenal Tott H Man Utd | wwe84 | Chelsea Man City Liverp WHU | |--------- -------- ------- ------ ------- ------- --------| 48 | 7 11 4 9 7+3 4 1+1+1 |
Semi-Finalists x4 picks x1 pt each addded into Round 7 (2nd last round) | Semi-Finalists
Manchester City 11 Tottenham Hotspur 9 Liverpool 7 Chelsea 7 Leicester City 4 Arsenal 4 Manchester United 3 West Ham United 1 Wolver Wanderers 1 Southampton 1
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Advance Picks : Quarter-Finalists x8 lodged in Round 4
------- -------- ------- ------- ------ ------ ------- -------- ---- ------- ------- ------- dg_dave Man City Arsenal Tott H Liverp Leic C Burnley WHU Wolves Dizart Chelsea Man City Southmp Tott H Liverp Leic C Fulham Sheff U George95 Chelsea Man City Tott H Liverp Leic C BHA Everton Wolves gtho4 Chelsea Man City Arsenal Liverp Leic C Fulham Everton Sheff U Howie72 Man City Southmp Tott H Liverp Leic C Burnley WHU Everton LeoDaVinci Llynfi Chelsea Man City Arsenal Tott H Liverp Leic C Everton Wolves N-Bomb Chelsea Man City Arsenal Tott H Liverp BHA Wolves Sheff U ozzz2002 Chelsea Man City Arsenal Tott H Liverp Leic C Fulham Everton paper_aero Chelsea Man City Arsenal Tott H Liverp Leic C Everton Wolves srini701 Man City Arsenal Man Utd Tott H Leic C Burnley WHU Wolves Sypher Chelsea Man City Arsenal Man Utd Tott H Leic C WHU Everton wwe84 Chelsea Man City Arsenal Liverp Leic C WHU Wolves Sheff U ------- -------- ------- ------- ------ ------ ------- -------- ---- ------- ------- ------- 96 9 12 9 2+2 10 10 11 3+3 5+2 7 7 4
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Quarter-Finalists Manchester City 12 Leicester City 11 Liverpool 10 Tottenham Hotspur 10 Arsenal 9 Chelsea 9 Wolverh Wanderers 7 Everton 7 West Ham United 5 Sheffield United 4 Burnley 3 Fulham 3 Brighton & Hove Alb 2 Southampton 2 Manchester United 2 96
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| . . | Finalists x2 plus Winner lodged in Round 5
| ------- --------- ------ ---------- | --------- ---------- | dg_dave | | | Dizart | Chelsea Manch City | Manch City | George95 | Wolves Manch City | Manch City | gtho4 | Manch Utd Manch City | Manch City | Howie72 | Leic C Manch City | Manch City | LeoDaVinci | Manch Utd Manch City | Manch Utd | Llynfi | Manch Utd Tott H | Manch Utd | N-Bomb | Chelsea Manch City | Manch City | ozzz2002 | Chelsea Manch Utd | Manch Utd | paper_aero | Chelsea Manch City | Manch City | srini701 | Chelsea Manch City | Manch City | Sypher | Tott H Manch City | Tott H | wwe84 | Leic C Manch City | Manch City | | ------- --------- ------- ---------- | --------- ---------- | 36 | 5+2 4 2+1 10 | 3+1 8 |
Finalists x2 picks x2 pts each added into Round 8 (last round) Winner x 6 pts also added into Round 8 .. being 6 pts points if they win the final, 3 pts if they're the losing finalist, 2 pts if they lost their semi-final, and 1 pt if they lost their quarter-final.
| | Finalists Manchester City 10 Chelsea 5 Manchester United 4 Tottenham Hotspur 2 Leicester City 2 Wolverh Wanderers 1 24
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#1283165 - Fri Feb 12 2021 06:23 PM
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Football Association Challenge Cup. | Tuesday 9th February 5th Round 12 of 13 players lodged tips
| | correct picks | 0-1-11 0-0-12 210-00 6-4-20 2-5-50 3-2-70 5-7-00 12-0-00 6-5-10 10-2-00 4-7-10 9-3-00 0-1-11 1-0-11 3-9-00 8-1-30 | 0-0 0-1 0-1 0-2 3-2 4-4 0-0 1-0 -0- 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-1 1-3 0-0 0-2 | 1 12 0 2 2 2 7 12 5 2 7 9 11 11 9 3 | _FLC v FAPL
FAPL v FLC_
FAPL v FAPL
FAPL v FAPL
FAPL v FAPL
FAPL v L1__
_FLC v FAPL
FAPL v FAPL | HT : Barnsley v Chelsea FT : Barnsley v Chelsea HT : Burnley v Bournemouth FT : Burnley v Bournemouth HT : Everton v Tottenham Hotspur FT : Everton v Tottenham Hotspur HT : Leicester City v Brighton & Hove Albion FT : Leicester City v Brighton & Hove Alb HT : Manchester United v West Ham United FT : Manchester United v West Ham United HT : Sheffield United v Bristol City FT : Sheffield United v Bristol City HT : Swansea City v Manchester City FT : Swansea City v Manchester City HT : Wolverh Wanderers v Southampton FT : Wolverh Wanderers v Southampton | wwe84 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . everyone except wwe84 and ozzz2002 paper_aero wwe84 LeoDaVinci Howie72 paper_aero srini701 paper_aero Howie72 Llynfi George95 LeoDaVinci Llynfi Llynfi Llynfi Sypher wwe84 paper_aero Dizart ozzz2002 . | | 95 | all match results are the score at full time - extra time and shootout lotteries are ignored Barnsley v Chelsea and Wolves v Southampton were played on Thursday night Manch Utd won 1-0 aet and Everton won 5-4 aet |
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position points ----- ----- ---------- TW LW hi-lo LW TW bp ----- ----- ----------hf ws 1 6 1-6 paper_aerobxsssw 51 13 70 2 1 9 2 2 2-5 Howie72 ssw 57 9 69 10 3 1 1-3 Llynfi w 60 5 66 2 2 10 4 3 1-4 N-Bomb w 55 8 64 1 5 4 3 1-7 Dizart w 55 8 64 1 1 7 6 5 2-9 srini701 sw 52 8 62 1 8 7 7 5-10 wwe84 ss 49 8 59 2 9 8 8 6-13 ozzz2002 48 8 56 2 1 4 9 8 6-9 gtho4 w 48 6 55 3 9 11 5-11 Sypher w 47 7 55 2 11 8 6-11 dg_dave 48 53 2 4 12 12 10-12 LeoDaVinci sw 42 8 52 2 13 13 8-13 George95 w 41 7 49 2 late starters 53 95 11 7 75 home 37 3 40 draw 22 7 29 away 37 6 43 wooden spoon 33 5 38 best picks 60 13 73 perfect 96 16 112 bonus pts 54 21 75 b = bonus point for picking 10/16 or better. x = perfect picks or near miss 13+/16. s = bonus pt for picking result solo, or one of two. w = bonus for picking a draw, no one picked winner. o = no one picked draw. Bonus for picking upset win. bp = total bonus points for the year. default is WS score ineligible for bonus pts if picks are all home or all bar one (or all bar two for R1 to R4). | . | 1a +1 Llynfi N-Bomb paper_aero Dizart 1b +2 Llynfi 2. +4 Llynfi 3a +2 N-Bomb 3b +6 Llynfi 4. +3 Llynfi 5. +1 paper_aero 6. 7. 8.
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H-x-A avge bp 1a 5-4-6 36.5% 7 8/16 paper_aero 3/16 ozzz2002 1b 4-4-8 37.0% 7 8/16 ozzz2002 3/16 wwe84 2 4-6-6 43.2% 5 8/16 Llynfi dg_dave srini701 5/16 Dizart 3a 5-4-7 47.1% 7 10/16 N-Bomb 6/16 Llynfi 3b 9-3-4 57.9% 11 13/16 Llynfi 7/16 wwe84 4 10- -6 71.9% 17 13/16 Dizart dg_dave ozzz2002 9/16 paper_aero 5 3-7-6 49.5% 21 13/16 paper_aero 5/16 Llynfi 6 7 8 75 11 7 |
| Llynfi scores 5/16 and collects the wooden spoon .. and his reign at the top of the pile is over .. paper_aero, last round's wooden spooner, is this round's winner with 13/16.
This, together with *six* bonus pts, gave a 13 pt turnaround .. a 9 pt deficit behind Llynfi turned into a 4 pt margin. Howie72 was next best with 9/16 .. he moves up into 2nd place, which pushes Llynfi down to 3rd.
LeoDaVinci collected his first bonus pts for the season, which fills the last blank in that column.
New high: -- New low : Llynfi, N-Bomb (again), dg_dave, gtho4
The next round, R6 quarter-finals, is over a month away: FA Cup - 6th Round - Sat 20 Mar. Eight balls were drawn out of a barrel at FA headquarters to give these four match-ups:
Bournemouth v Southampton Chelsea v Sheffield United Everton v Manchester City Leicester City v Manchester United
Our advance picks for the quarters, semis, final and winner are summarised in the post above this one.
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