Competition Report - 07/11/2023

Scorecast

There are still 4 games to go before the Scorecast totals for Round 7 are finalised; these are Dortmund v Newcastle and Man City v Young Boys (tonight), and København v Man Utd and Arsenal v Sevilla tomorrow. As such, this report is just for the Tablecast and Fantasy League, which are entirely reliant on Premier League fixtures. I'll do a brief Scorecast report on its own at some point this weekend but, in the meantime, I'll try to keep the Scorecast table up to date by inputting the scores as they happen. You can always see the Scorecast's status quo here:

Scorecast

You can also use that button to enter your scores for Round 8, the deadline for which is 25/11/2023 at 3pm.

Tablecast

The Tablecast competition has moved around quite a bit, partly due to everyone who picked Man City as champions suddenly getting a point boost as soon as the confirmation of Spurs' defeat was ratified.

My missus is back at the bottom of the table and has been joined by my cousin! I'm up 10 places to 58th. At the top of the table, Julie Roseblade and David Osguthorpe have swapped places (David now top, Julie 11th) and, besides that, another 6 have kept their top-10 status. Joining them are Lee Miller, now in 2nd and up from 43rd, Freddie Rouse from 40th to 8th, and John Thompson from 45th to 10th. Conversely Jordan McKeown, Lee Lowther and Matthew Pike have all dropped out of the top 10, the latter now all the way down to 40th. Biggest climber was Colin Wesbroom, up 42 places to 18th. Meanwhile, furthest faller was Ron Patterson who's fallen 54 places to 80th.

Fantasy League

Here are the results from GW11, which included Game #10 of 22 in each division.

Low scores all round for the most part; 53 was the highest in all divisions by Sue Kinghorn, who beat Andrew Young despite him having a respectable score (in terms of this round, anyway) of 33. Average was, in fact, 32.5, less than half the average of the previous GW and the lowest we've had so far, below the next lowest by just over 11 points. Elsewhere in the Prem, John and Kay Waters have each dropped a place thanks to Sue Kinghorn's bonus point. Despite Kay's two Manager of the Week bonuses AND Manager of the Month for October, she remains below John by a point.

In my division, Liam Frost remains in 2nd place having won with a score of 26 which, believe it or not, isn't even the lowest winning score of the GW. I've beaten Fantasy League co-admin Michael Hannard 32-31, which I'm particularly pleased about as I hadn't won since GW4. Jamie Sheppard's win over Dean Hadfield sees him climb two places at the expense of Ibrahim Halawi in Ross Macdonald; that's the only movement in the division.

In League One, Simon Morton has reclaimed top-spot from Bob Douglass after they swapped last week. David Morton remains at the bottom, making the rest of the league some sort of Morton sandwich filler. Top-of-League-Two Ashley Birchall was only able to hold Roy Parkinson to a rare draw; Ashley stays top, though, and Roy drops to 11th. Steve Beggs' second win of the season (and in a row) sees Finn Nilsson drop outside of the top 2 for the first time since GW2.

National League One caught TWO rare draws; Greg Surtees v Jonathan Adamson finished 39-39 (or "Bruno all") and Andrew Barcs v Neil Wilson, 11th v 12th, also saw them share points with 41 each. Ciaran O'Toole wins with 23 points, the equal lowest winning score in the entire league system. NL2 sees Mike Waters off the bottom after a 39-32 win over Callum Wink, who's now bottom of the league. Sam Benton's defeat to the hands of Adam Close doesn't knock him off the top of NL3; Ben Harper is overtaken by Graham Testo who has the equal third-highest points difference in all eight divisions. And, finally, in NL4, PK Currie equals the lowest winning score of the round with 23 against league leader Matthew Pike's 20; that's two defeats on the bounce for Matthew but he's still top of the league by 5 points.

I'm going through a remodel of the Fantasy League page(s) and most of it is now working... just haven't got to the Cup and Tournament pages yet but everything else should work as long as you're on Desktop Mode; mobile device friendly versions of these pages will take some time. If you'd like to look at the tables, form, playoffs as it stands, awards, and fixture schedule, you can now do all of this at toontalk.uk/fantasy-league (or by clicking this button).

Fantasy League

The next league fixtures will take place in GW13, which is following the 25th November deadline. Here are those fixtures:

As for this coming weekend, it's Round 3 of the Cup, and Round 2 of the Tournament. Here are the relevant portions of the Cup tree:

... and the Round 2 draw, as it came out when I did it live a few days ago. You can see the live draw video here:

Tournament Round 2 Draw Video

... and the result of the draw. The number in white is the "ball" number when the teams were drawn. 1-24 are group winners, 25-48 are runners-up, and 49-64 are 3rd-placed finishers.

As with the Cup, I'm still working on a website version of the Tournament information but, for the meantime, if anyone wants to see the full tree/schedule for either competition, you can view the Spreadsheet itself:

Fantasy League Spreadsheet

... or, if you just want to see when the next Cup and Tournament fixtures are coming up, you can do this on the Schedule page at toontalk.uk/fantasy-league or by pressing THIS button:

Fantasy League Schedule

That's all for now folks... now there's just the Dortmund game to worry about :D

TTFN

Rob