I saw that coming, of course! but then Denver Nuggets lost every single quarter of the game, so it was a complete disaster for them, even if Jokic wasn't available for the game, Nuggets should at least be competitive, they looked very lost from the 1st Quarter, I understand there isn't much to lose for Denver Nuggets but that was an utter shit show from them, so much for me staying up late to watch the game.

Boston Celtics also blew out the Milwaukee Bucks tonight.

Ironically, it was Celtics losing to the Washington wizards awfully yesterday, and Milwaukee Bucks running rampage against Indiana Pacers and all their starters did really good numbers, Giannis with a triple double and Jrue Holiday with whooping 50+ points, but today they were humbled and brought back to earth with an efficient defense. Both the Bucks and Denver Nuggets loss tonight were the worse either team have succumbed to so far this entire season.

I also have an idea of what my team would look like until around Game Week  36, but I would have to take some point hits and this is due to the transfers I lost, I'm still waiting for each team's press conference later today before making the final decision.

I will probably need to ship Haaland out temporarily if he's not going to be available for the match against Liverpool, because I have an alternative I really could use for that third man forward option for.

Looking at the line up, Marcus Smart performance have dipped a lot imo over the past two months or thereabout, and Celtics might need to rely a bit on their bench players contribution which Derrick white and Malcom Brogdon have contributed a lot to their form this season, but hopefully we'll get the DPOY performance tonight or he's saved it for the post season.

Nuggets vs Pelicans too; I'm not tossing any money either way, but there is speculation of Jokic not suiting up for tonight, that void can't be filled and as such, I might lean a bit more towards New Orleans Pelicans.

I really don't the match against Indiana Pacers should be a metric of what should be expected here, I'd really fancy the Milwaukee Bucks too, but we all know how twisted this match can be, it often deviates away from the major expectation and it's sometimes always dependent about how the Celtics defense is setup to limit Giannis and neutralize Jrue, that's a daunting tasks but the Celtics are team have had a couple success doing, and the Celtics getting out by washington wizards would be form of wake up call for them too, I guess.

I'm taking the -3 on Bucks too, but I'm interested in the match itself because I don't much on the line for the match.

I would have supported notblox1's idea too, without think about how it affects the league at large, but after reading the last part of your post it makes perfect sense, and I could only further suggest that if someone's opponent didn't participate in a around specific round, given the significance that the points difference (points for - points against) could make in the leaderboard, wouldn't be better to award such user a default win 3 points for the win but 0 for points difference, while their answers would still count towards the weekly freebet and any other brought forward h2h, but they just wouldn't get the points difference, it might seem quite unfair if they for instance get all 10 questions correctly, it will be more unfair to the rest of the players for someone to get 10 unopposed point difference.

Liverpool would probably score this weekend, and that's solely because they're facing Man City, If they were playing a different team, I would have been less bothered. Liverpool midfield is shambles, but they'd not be needing the midfield to catch Man City on the break, because City's defence have been porous and inconsistent, but then City win should be an easy call against Loserpool ✌🏾

It cost both my wild cards and Free Hit to learn two different lessons this season, first is losing 2 transfers to the Wild card, and these are transfers that would have been of better use the previous week, at least to some minor advantage. Secondly, I was trying to play smarter when using my free hit, I first made 2 transfers using my free transfer and then later another that cost 4 points and after all these transfers went successfully, I saved my team and used my free hit later with the hope that my team would revert to the one I had just before I activated the FH, but instead It reverted back to the initial team and two transfers were lost yet again 😒

And inconsistencies is at all time high right now, even for the over/under choices that I used to prefer aren't what they used to be, I didn't expect Houston Rockets vs Brooklyn Nets to much of an issue for the Nets to win convincingly, but it was a very close game until the final quarter, and significant lead changes, Teams with relatively nothing left to lose from the season are now doing pretty much better, some tipped regular season conference winners and potential championship candidates finding it hard to see off teams already eliminated from the playoffs berth places, though times for bettors.

I've always had several of those Sportsbet shirts too, and a couple of those Watford scarfs, which were my favorite, but for these ones listed, you can call me a little princess all you like but my favorite would be the Arsenal's pink shirt.



And the irony is that it's always matter of time too! The cycle usually returns, and that's why Ancellotti is currently is having is second spell at Real Madrid, while Zidane have also done the same, how many spell have Mourinho also had at Chelsea ?

At the end of the day, there are so such thing a terrible manager, just a terrible spell, but these terrible spells just tend to last longer than each other.

Tuchel that won the UCL for Chelsea without a transfer budget and couple of so-called-mediocre players "assembled" by Lampard, all of sudden has blank cheque but couldn't put a team together ?

Guardiola is considered as one of the greatest Barcelona coaches, and probably the best of the Modern Era Barcelona as he was said to have brought about a revolutional squad, but the team probably wouldn't have reached its peak If there wasn't a supposed one of the biggest transfer blunder of all time, which was the sale of Samuel Eto'o + €45 million for Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Inter Milan went on to win the treble that season with Barcelona losing to Mourinho's Inter Milan in the UCL Semi final that season.

Ibrahimovic spent just one season at Barcelona, from being loaned to a permanent sale, I'm sure that must have been one of what prompted Real Madrid to move on him, but then what Mourinho's fate under Real Madrid vs Guardiola's Barcelona, I'm sure the numbers must be surreal.

Oh, alright..

That means Medvedev still have 2 chances, one in the quarter-finals and the semi-finals he had better not let me down  


That makes two of us, I wasn't even really in onto this international fixtures, If anyone had even asked me McTomminay's nationality, I wouldn't have remembered he's Scottish, and that's if even had any idea to begin with, but I know what the squad's options are with Sabitzer out and Eriksen barely an option, and Garnacho can't be an option either.

I really can't guess Erik Ten Haag thought process, but I don't think he'll want to risk Varane this soon, so I went with Maguire since, Maguire played in the international matches so it gives better chances of being match fit, of course, I know ETH doesn't like Maguire, but with Man United playing twice in 3 days and the other match is supposedly a home fixture against Brentford, I want to believe Brentford and Newcastle looks to be of equal threat or form right now and Varane wouldn't be rushed to play. I couldn't pick another to pair with Fred and McTominay, so I went with Bruno, while having Rashford, Sancho and Anthony all upfront, also because I couldn't settle for just one of Sancho and Anthony for Werghost, because Rashford is also still a doubt for the game, and if he doesn't play that leaves room for both Sancho and Anthony to start, I guessed Rashford would be favourite pick so if he doesn't play, I have little to lose and If he does and then I'm sure I'd also have one of Anthony or Sancho right, perhaps as have been the case recently, so deciding between Sancho or Anthony for Werghost doesn't seem necessary to me.


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Just few hours after my previous post here, Tsitsi-pass decided to pass on ATP Miami tournament 😒; Just a question if both opponents picks do not make tennis finals, does the player that advances the most in the tournament gets the advantage in the H2H question?

I haven't checked the spreadsheet yet, but I feel bad the my opponent didn't deem it fit to give me a couple of head start, I would have appreciated a 2-3 nil head start, so why you gotta do me like that, huh ?

Best of luck anyways mate.

I didn't even bother check if either of the tennis finalists I picked were supposed to have a match before the end of the deadline, lol, that'd be some blow and disadvantage if one of them is out already.

Despite not being a tennis fanatic nor place bet on it often, I'd say I prefer it to having to guess Man Utd starting XI for Sunday game week versus Newcastle, and I think I'd have done pretty well in the previous questions, if they had counted especially the one including the semi-finalists.

That said, it took me way longer than I expected to come to a conclusion on certain amount of questions, and that's with knowing my opponent, the toughest question had to the Man United XI, knowing what I know about the current players available, and my perceived Ten Haag's preference as a coach too literally didn't help matters.

The women UCL 2nd leg fixtures is another crazy one, that was just a coin flip versus settling for a wider margin or just pure guessing living it at the hands of fate, if there is anything as such.

NBA prediction is still easier for me to choose from imo, less than 70% sure on that, but then I'd fancy my chances.

1.  Joshua
2.  Round 5
3.  2

Game 1:  37, 23'
Game 2:  37, 23'

I would say it's been come all along, after Luka Doncic had what would have been is 16th Technical Foul of the season and kept out of the was rescinded, It knew it was going to be a walk in the park for the Dallas Mavericks who had obviously struggled in their last 4 matches, Luka Doncic complain to the referee tip-off to the final buzzer usually doesn't help his case, and that's where most of his Ts had stem from more so deservedly, but it would have cost his a great ordeal had the decision stood, although I had no idea why he got T'd in that game, I watched every minute of the game, he could gotten in other instance, but he hadn't made any gesture to have warranted the T, hence why the league had to take another look into it.

I don't know what the bookies expected of a Pacers team, with Haliburton, Buddy Hield or Myles Turner to have overrated them that much, perhaps it due to the Mavericks recent struggles, rather than how difficult the Pacer were expected to be.

buwaytress vs Harkorede

After my infamous victory in the last round, I really want to feel confident going into this round, but then I can't afford to get complacent for any reason, knowing what I know about my opponent and then there's an H2H duel the person, hand me my a** a few rounds ago, but then finally there is a NBA question, so the term all inclusive sport for the competition seems to very appropriate imo now.

So many question with no logical way to pick an answer, and my opponent is often quite illogical, I really don't know where that leaves me, a pathetic overthinker  

If that really is the Bayern Munich's decision, despite not being a terrible team in Bundesliga and still a terrific team Europe given their current squad, which in my opinion only have a few players that can be considered world class, a few more prospective world class potentials, and much more of them are just barely above/below average in my candid opinion, so by that threshold I strongly believe Bayern Munich are doing pretty well so far this season, and that made me come to a conclusion that Nagelsmann wasn't meant to be a long term fix for them to begin with, they probably already their long term priority list and decide to scoop the one that's available right now, as you'd expect more coaches getting sacked and replaced towards the end of the season and ahead of the coming one.

Let see how these double weeks will turnout, funny enough, I've barely had a success when playing with a double game week in mind with my transfer 3 weeks earlier or there or even taking points it.

I think I'll be fine with those blanks, I've navigated all the blanks, and I should have 9-11 players playing except perhaps 5-6 players missing out, but then there will be injuries as usual and suspensions and whatnot.

This isn't me celebrating just so you know, If you're a NBA bettor, you'd know every single second of a game matter, who would have expected the Netherlands to concede a penalty in such a horrid at the final, or Memphis Depay throwing both chances down the drain, and then after comes the Croatian drama, If there is anything to take away from this round, it's as though, not all that's good, ends well.

Almost every game so far have went the exact opposite of what it was meant to be from about 40 minutes to the end of the game, From England being overly dominant in the first, you'd not have anticipated such a twist in the second half.

Croatia also should have been at least 2-3 goals up before the 80th minute, the only match that started fairly and ended as such were Chelsea vs Lyon and France vs the Netherlands.