Before yesterday's game I felt great with the week - but then all hell broke loose and basically all City and Chelsea players that people are having scored a lot of points.
Chelsea might be recovering a bit - I will start looking at their team as well.

This GW will be hard (City vs Liverpool, Tottenham vs Villa), but after that my team will have its first big overhaul. I'm losing way too many points due to fantasy inexperience.

First of all, it’s a pleasure to welcome Hhampuz to BSFL! He’ll start in Division 3B, Trofo explained how his fixture list will look like.

Without further ado, the questions for Round 5 are here!

The deadline is the usual one, Tuesday November 14th, 18:00 GMT.

We have mostly Euro and World Cup qualifiers, but also some cricket, tennis and snooker.

Once again – please submit on time. The first 2 seasons with our tags were perfect in that regard, lower divisions tend to forget this season without us babysitting. Remember that we can change the rules based on what we feel the competition needs, if we see that the current version of Division 3 isn’t working, we’ll simply reduce it to single Division 3 next season and fill it with people who are submitting on time.
Nothing personal fellas, but show must go on and we must do what’s best for SB – so please help us keep the same format we’re having simply by submitting the answers until the deadline.

We lost Bonta last round, this round we say farewell to DireWolfM14 - who's got 3 negative submissions as well.
Brahim012, Kanapka and Rikafip are the ones in danger, with all of them having 2 negative points already. Kanapka - you're in Division 2 - getting there isn't easy so maybe keep your spot.

If somebody new joins before the deadline, we'll slot him in the same way as Hhampuz - but after that submissions for this season are closed - there's simply no time to complete all the games.

We also have some freebets to award for Round 4. The winners are:

Division 1 – mv1986 (40$ freebet)
Division 2 – Strongkored (30$ freebet)
Division 3A - Imarios (10$ freebet)
Division 3B - Omikfuse (10$ freebet)

Omikfuse is a bit bizarre occurrence - he lost 3-0 due to his game being already played before (and he failed to submit in that round) - but he can still play for the freebet - which he did.



Sorry for the doubletag - I accidentally posted in the wrong thread initially

EDIT: sorry fellas, was preparing a post in a random thread, then accidentally posted it in it

Damn, fair play. You went for the outsider and won the round.
I've never even heard of these teams before, players on them even less, I simply went with what bookies considered better so it's actually fair that I lost.
I definitely need to regroup, 1 win and 3 losses is a horrible start.

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I rated LOL question, please doublecheck it. Trofo will be able to check it later in the afternoon.

We'll have the questions for Round 5 ready after the Chelsea - City game.

Liverpool - Brentford looks like 7+ goals according to the lineups. Not sure where Konate and Gomez are - I've heard nothing about them being doubtful for the game.
I really hope offensively we'll have enough to win the game - survive this and then it's the international break.

To be fair to Brentford - they will be missing a few important players as well. Over 6,5 goals offers odds of 12 - I'm actually tempted to throw a few bucks at it.

Dosta ih kreće bez kako bi privukle korisnike. Evo ja trenutno koristim neki bingx i funkcionira skroz okej, kad postanu popularni i krenu s KYC-om samo ću se prebaciti na nešto drugo.
Imam prihvatljivu politiku oko CEX-ova, donio sam pravilo da mi u bilo kojem trenutku na jednom CEX-u može biti 5% ukupnog portfolija i da koristim max 3 CEX-a paralelno.

Čak i da sva 3 puknu isti dan, to je opet 15%. Puno je i dalje, al daleko sam pametniji nego onih dana kada je sve stajalo na Binanceu.

Guirassy is actually a perfect hook to throw at Chelsea. If I was his agent, I'd be calling them every day selling stuff like 'you need experience, proven players, leaders..'
Your team is 1 Guirassy short of a title challenge, and he's yours on a knockdown fee for only 400k a week.

Not fancy enough, agreed, but I actually watched a few games and the guy does look good. I don't see him hitting 20+ per season until the rest of his career though.

Stuttgart was one of the clear picks for me this round - they actually hammered Dortmund and the scoreline should have been bigger.
Dortmund had a midweek CL game, and was playing away to an in-form team - I expected a lot more people to go with them.

@cls63, I pulled one back. Do you feel the pressure?

White with a knock today, I did not even know about that one.
So, my defence is White, Estupinan, Stones (all injured), Tsimikas (probably won't start) and Coufal. Brilliant.

At least Saka played - but looks like a terrible round in the making for me.

My team really looks like shit for this GW.

Maddison, Estupinan and Stones injured, Saka doubtful for the game. Tsimikas doubtful to start.
It's possible I'll play with 9 players, from which one will be Semenyo.

I have some construction going on in my apartment and no option to sit down in peace and use a wildcard. Should have done it ages ago though.

Jep, slažem se. Realno - FTX je i bio super burza što se user interfacea tiče.

Mene je jedino spasilo to što nisu imali USDT/USDC parove nego se sve konvertiralo u nekakav USD, to mi je bilo sumnjivo s porezne strane (izgledalo mi je ko izlazak u FIAT prilikom svakog tradea) pa nisam trejdao tamo.
Inače, generalno gledano, FTX-u sam vjerovao kao i Binanceu - mislio sam da nema šanse da im se išta dogodi.

Stvarno sam sretno prošao, besplatno iskustvo koje su drugi platili puno skuplje. Jednom i zauvijek - not your wallet, not your coins.

Bih li trejdao na novom FTX-u? A bi, zašto ne - koja je razlika toga i nekog Bitgeta?

Now that you speak of it - there's actually been a small change to the rules..


Nothing really relevant for most of you though..

I don't mind this approach at all. It's actually more hectic which is also quite fun, because there's no way somebody would go all in on Shakhtar with real money.
I'm all for competitions in which you play for something until the end, and a pool like this always gives you an outside shot to climb 30 places in 1 week against all the odds.

I would like to see the other one as well though - it would be a better gauge of a bettor's form and knowledge, the results in this one will be a bit skewed - especially towards the end of the group stage when risk will be at max levels.

Seemed minor, but I am positive he won't be playing this weekend.
I also have him in my team but have benched him already - won't be replacing him due to an easy schedule that's coming to Brighton.

They had 3 injuries yesterday - but I feel that almost nobody has Dunk or Milner so I guess it's not that important to mention.

Shame I didn't bet on Toulouse, I kinda expected Liverpool to struggle. The odds were attractive enough, at least 1x.
I knew in BSFL it was too risky, so I went with the safe choice and lost another point.

With 3 different answers left and a 2-0 deficit, it seems that I'll mark another loss. Definitely not the start the fans have expected after back-to-back promotions.

Hey there, on average it's 70% football and 30% other sports. Cricket questions appear maybe 2-3 times per season, which is maybe 2-3% of total questions.


No multiple winners, there will be a decider in the last round in case there's a tie.


What does this mean? All questions on the promo earn you points, and the most points win prizes.

Quite happy overall, 2nd in Pot B (Hhampuz is the only one ahead due to his crazy 95 points).
I'm looking forward to this battle, he'll have to defend it now with safer picks. Still a lot of time for me to catch up.

I don't remember such a good result like mv1986's 28 points so far in Pot A. Congrats, man.

Anybody got Copenhagen?
I feel there will be a lot of people with a lot of points in this round. I got over 25, which I consider to be a great feat, and I still believe I'll drop some places.

I really like the dynamics of the Pot B system. I'd like it to be a bit more realistic though in the future instances, in real betting you can try to dig yourself out of the hole by hunting 5+ odds - but you still risk something (your money). There's no downside in throwing Hail Marys here, and somebody's bound to hit them eventually.

Kinda like playing poker without stakes, where most people just go all in on whatever they've got. Would be a great system if we were kinda staking our bets with additional BTC.

I don't know why I still occasionally believe in this United team.
Maybe because it's a billion dollar club playing against Copenhagen and you expect them to do well even if they are in a rough patch domestically?

It's incredible how they have fallen since the SAF times. Enjoyable to watch I must say, would have been even more if I wasn't betting on them.

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I finally calculated the points for the Newcastle promo as well. Sorry for the long wait, I just couldn't force myself to do it on my laptop.
Now I'm set up properly on my desktop PC again so I promise better performances

The spreadsheet with your answers and total points calculations can be seen here.

The players within 3 points are:

Kanapka - 12
goodpunt - 11
Woodie - 11
Jinetics1111 - 10
Trofo - 9
vd309 - 9
cryptofrka - 9
Dittoup - 9
Omikifuse - 9

Considering your forum status, you would have been a sure Division 1 pick at inception.
Now you'll have to pass through the purgatory, but really glad to have you here.

Good luck, agreed that it's better that we fill the league up and that you start from next round.
Just please sign up in this thread as well.

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Another slow start from my team, with not a lot of different answers between me and cls63 it's going to be hard to catch up.
Leipzig had 11 blocked shots and 9 shots off target, yet managed to put only 4 on target. Not something I expected at all.