Yeah, I don't think there should be any punishment for those who submit right before the deadline, so far it's even just a second before the deadline, neither should there be a reward for submitting a early the essence of the 48 hours is do proper research and submitting early might eliminate a lot of information which in the end basically just gives some free point/advantage that is not so different from submitting late as well.

I believe it's best not to overcomplicate things and just go with usual rule of deadlines as it works in all the sports betting we are accustomed too, you don't get any advantage for submitted your predictions early and even in FPL making a transfer way too early could even be detrimental to your team.

After waiting for the line up, I settled for a 3-players props parlay, Caleb Martin Over 14.5 Points + Kyle Lowry Over 3.5 Assists and Nikola Jokic Over 13.5 Rebounds at 7.08

https://prnt.sc/59jQsViFaZKW

Caleb Martin have been red hot for the Heat from their conference and I expect the confidence shouldn't drop tonight, Kyle Lowry off the bench have been very inspirational for Heat too and his experience in the finals would need for Heat here, 4 dimes shouldn't be more off an issue, Jokic have been very dominated off the board in the playoffs and if Miami Heat have let guys like Tatum afford double digits rebound almost all the 7 games of the conference finals, 14 board should be an easy reach for the Joker.

GL everyone.

Looks like Serie A or Lega Calcio has decided to deprive us of the full final game day drama, like Bundesliga and the EPL did last weekend, I know there are are quite a number slots and position stil not decided yet, and the most fun part of the day to be watching a getting all results simultaneously, from being nervous to being very hope and how the standings in the pool could fluctuate from kickoff to the final whistle is some kind feeling that doesn't come by so often, so I really would have preferred all the games being played at the same time.

I don't completely agree with you about Newcastle, the main narrative most people had was that they have rich owners and a blank cheque, but we were still looking to them to make those huge signings before they can be this good, but they made a couple of transfers but those transfers didn't bring them here because Isak for instance after his first game when he was signed for the got injured and played for just the latter part of the season iirc, I believe that most people, at least myself was expecting the transition to happen over a period or 2-3 years, but Eddie Howe did a pretty solid job and I can agree money is the part of the motivation for the players in general too.

Left to me, I would say HSV would have to try again next season, or at least overcome an almost impossible 3 goals deficit over Stuttgart in the second leg of the tie, coming in to this game, Stuttgart were the favorites but a 3-0 advantage isn't what they'll have expected but since it's come their way, one thing I'm sure about is that regardless where the second leg would take place, the advantage is not going to be thrown away.


That said, I hate this archaic Bundesliga style of 3 placed relegation team playing against 3 best team in the Bundesliga 2 to decide who gets promoted or who retains their spot in the top flight division, finish 3ed to last position is enough reason to get the team relegated not being giving a second chance against a lower tier that obviously would have have less revenue or spending capacity than the team in top flight, I'd rather the 3rd and 4th team in the Bundesliga 2 battle it out, than give a second chance to a team that have performed woefully all season long.

The last edition was near perfect for me, but as the saying goes there is always room for improvement, my only observation would have been proper wording of each question, but as I've noticed sometimes that decoding the question itself is part of the answer so, I'm good with that and given the penalty for those late submission is another good implementation imo, I've seen potential several sports that are likely to be added, from the conversations here so far, but there haven't been much or any talk about eSports like CS:GO, I know for a fact here some of us from the forum do switch to those eSport during off season of football and I remember having Dota2 question during one of those weeks, can we expect some of the same in these periods too ?

I'll pass on the game one ML, If I'll have to bet on the Heat, it will be based on the odds not what I'm expecting of the Heat, the first game is usually where to draw a decent conclusion about certain match ups and other stuffs about players and how each team/players would approach the series.

That said, there are a lot of easy props for the Miami Heat players, especially in terms of the assist, the lines are very low and worth a gamble over and over again.

I'm glad that Sevilla won the Europa League and it was well deserved for a team that eliminated Juventus and Man United in a single season in the QF and SF respectively, and I'm much more glad that the Mourinho has never lost an Europeans final, as though winning those finals were down to him being a tactical genius especially with his awful style of play, and he showed it today again, no tactically smart manager would have had Dybala being subbed of first in that team today, he was Roma's best player in terms of chance created and passes when on the ball, but that was the player he subbed off first for Wijnaldum who I can't remember if he actually touched the ball at any point of the game.

Tactically outclassed, but I'm sure when the next press interview comes, he'd have quite a lot to cry about, as usual as the referee will never be fair enough whenever his side losses a match, a final for that matter.

It's just a typical Mourinho final in my opinion, scores a goal and hoping to ride on that luck on game long, since it's not working so far today he's become his usual cry baby over any call whatsoever, I mean for as little a call as a throw in from the middle of the pitch, to potential offside, request for cards for what isn't even a simulation but would have been a soft penalty to give, even though there was contact.

Now both teams cannot be separated at halftime so, the game is headed to extra time as expected, but the match has not been boring at all, as you would have expected of Mourinho's team in a final.

You really just buttress my stance on the finals, Miami Heat is quite better collectively as a team imo, Boston Celtics failure was eventually down to the inefficiency of their go to guys in game 7, I mean Tatum with an ankle sprain from the very first possession of the game, and the coach couldn't even cut him some slack and trust his other guys to fill his boots, perhaps they can't perfectly but at least for some 15-20 decent minutes, there are several other options the Celtics could have gone with that would leave Tatum on the bench for down the stretch in the second half, I mean the fatigue was already there for him and Brown (who was already having a terrible series) and they turned the ball over twice in as many possession for a 7-0 Miami Heat run to begin the 4th quarter, upon the already 10 points deficit from the 3rd quarter, and that took the game away from them totally, I mean the coach could have left JB and JT on the bench for a little longer and go with guys that he had to count on all season long like Mike Muscala who also a very good shoot from behind the arc, and then there is also Payton Pritchard, and the likes that are also very locked in players, if you can't count on these guys, I wonder what the essence of considering the Boston Celtics a team with a very deep roster was to begin with. If these guys aren't getting any minutes in the most important game of the series, the major success of the Denver Nuggets in this playoff is the impact the 2nd and 3rd unit make during the non Jokic and Murray minutes, of which they have been very decent even when they don't outscore their opponents they don't drop points drastically which makes the Jokic and Murray minutes highly effective, as both players get to rest during the game without much pressure, in a game 7 you'd expect Jimmy Butler to be the do it all guy, but he couldn't even hit the points spread of the player props he's expected to reach, and he was the 5th ranked player of the Miami Heat in terms of the +/- rating, and there you have guys like Caleb Martin and Gabe Vincent turn up the heat, when Butler was heavily guarded he had guys to bail him out, but Mazzulla wouldn't trust guys deep in his roster to be capable of making an impact.

Yeah, I understand how terrifying Jokic and Jamal Murray pick and roll can be when at it's optimal level, Denver Nugget swept the Miami Heat in the regular season by the way, but this is the playoffs and it's easier said than done, because the Heat defense could be very suffocating for the Nuggets and them become the ones forced to take tough shots. Miami Heat path to the finals have been the toughest of the two sides imo, defeating the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics in the playoffs enroute to the finals indeed isn't just a fluke.

Denver Nuggets have arguably been the best team in this playoffs, but the 8th seeded Miami Heat aren't just going to concede defeat either, The Nuggets will be facing their toughest opponent of the series so far, and it will be an entirely the different ball game compared to what the Nuggets faced against Lakers, they sure aren't going have it any easy this time around.

I wonder what the odds would have been for the likes of Brighton, Aston Villa, Newcastle and Man United to finish well above both teams that we picked, who could have seen that coming huh ?

I literally should have back Arsenal, but I didn't see Chelsea sacking Thomas Tuchel that early into the season, so it's all good, let's look forward to next season.

I would prefer a Denver Nuggets vs Boston Celtics NBA finals than Denver vs Heat finals, That said, Game 6 was really a close one as the final suggest imo, Boston Celtics led all the way and Miami Heat had their first lead after about 4-5 minutes into game in the 4th Quarter and Boston Celtics had double digit lead for majority of the night, The Heat were just rather able to crawl their way back into the game and almost stole the show right there before that moment of magic by Derrick White.

Boston Celtics should be able to get this done quite easily but playoffs Jimmy Bucket might something else in store for us, he's been off maximum efficiency recently so let's see if he can find his rhythm tonight.

1)  Man City
2)  Under
3)  Under
4)  Over
5)  No
6)  2nd
7)  Yes
8}  No
9)   No
10) Yes
11)  No
12)  No
13)  No
14)  No
15)  Tiebreaker:  25th minute.

I'll only be backing the Heat ML based on the odds, but I'm not expecting the Heat to pull off an upset here just after letting 3 elimination games slip through their hands, it's going to be tougher going to Boston Celtics' TD Garden to win a game 7, not especially when the team will be full of energy and all the momentum of the home crowd, but at the same time we've seeing crazier scenarios unfold in the NBA, whichever team wins today, it's still going to be an upset regardless, one might just going down as the first time in the entire NBA history.

Was the points deduction a major blow to Juventus ? Yes it was! but they still had every chance to have qualified for Champions League, all they just needed to do was to win their final 3 matches, of which they themselves threw away the opportunity, first by losing awfully to Empoli and now AC Milan too, so thus gone is their CL participation hope for next season, the best they can get now is to settle for a spot in the Europa League, and should they fail to live up to their expectation in next which is the final game of the season, the only participation they'll be having in Europe would be the Conference League.

I really get the luck part where we agree that Boston Celtics's Derrick White was just able release the ball just before the clock expired, I'm sure if you watch that sequence you'd recall that it was just 2.1 seconds left on the clock but the referee reviewed and made it 3 seconds, if the clock had been left at 2.1, there was no way White would have been able to put up that shot right ? but at the same time, Boston Celtics were already in confident lead during the game by more than double digit but somehow let it slip, and why I really don't want buy the Boston Celtics were lucky card is simply because, it takes more than just luck come back from 3-0 down in series to even things up, I'd err on the side that they did their home work and it paid off in the end, than they were just being lucky.

I really don't know how our paths gets entangled so often, but it's normalcy given the niche we found ourselves.

There is no prize for the cup winner AFAIK, but I would say it should be up for consideration in the next edition next season if there happen to be another FPL competition.

I'm also having a small prized-positioned chase on Igehhhh, I'm not going to say I'm very optimistic, however, Ironically we both still have a tie to settle as we both reached the cup finals, but I'm sure it's going to be an entertaining match-up as it has always been between myself and igehhh.

Less I forget, is there anyone else following the cup competition ? I don't mean the global one, but rather the cup for this specific competition. as for the Global cup my major is concern it takes only just few weeks to get one eliminated.