I don't think there are many teams against which Bucks will be considered as a -4.5 when Giannis, Middleton and even their biggest facilitator in Jrue Holiday are not playing, I think the bookies played us perfectly into this trap, so it's just one of those where the bookies have the edge of bettor because of one information or the other.

Going forward, there are tons of games to pick from today, starting with New York Knicks vs Phoenix Suns in an early tip off.

I tailed both of your bets, but I wasn't expecting Giannis not to play the game, I really wouldn't have considered Milwaukee Bucks as the favorites, let alone a -4.5 point favorite when they're playing this Washington Wizards team with both Giannis and Khris Middleton out injured, but there weren't many games to pick from to begin with so, there isn't much options I could have had.

Memphis Grizzlies getting me even for the night still makes it very fair imo, thanks.

Fantasy for a weekly prize could be 95% luck and 5% decision making but luck would mostly never get you the grand prizes for the 38 weeks runs, so it's more like 70% decision making and 20% risk taken chances, and finally 10% luck as far the entire 38 week is concerned, look at who is 1st placed in our pool currently check his entire history from GW1 - till now, and tell me a single week where you think he only got lucky, I don't remember him being in the top 5 for the first week right, but the slow and steady progress is more of a factor decision strategy and almost zero luck.

I wasn't banking on any of Tottenham players and I wouldn't have Perisic in too If I knew he wasn't going to be deployed well upfront where he is very effective, Son seemed to be inhibit his performance on that flank and vice versa, and Conte doesn't seem to have an idea about how he wants his squad to look or play.

I'll be getting rid of Darwin soon and probably Trossard, I just feel bad to have lost some 0.2m for hoarding him for two match day weeks

Is it safe to assume that Pep actually kept these players for their next run of fixtures ? or Need to give more playing time to those that haven't been getting before so as to have them ready for the time when the needs will arise for them ? Because none of their next 7 fixture in the league is going to be by any means be an easy, and it's hard to know how or what Guardiola thinks, which is why I ask if he could be trying to have all his assets on the same page while giving Grealish and the likes more playing time now for the supposedly to be easy fixtures, but he paid a heavy priced, which is duly deserved for being an overthinker.

Congratulations, that was very close game and despite the Chicago Bulls losing the game, they were still able to keep the within the point spread and you won your bet.

I had a small bet on the Miami Heat to win, but that was such as a game to see, it was intense as well, and Utah Jazz just weren't going to give up until the final moments, thanks to the Tyler Herro buzz beater, if not the game would have headed to OT, and that could have been anybody's game. I literally enjoyed every game I streamed today, it was worth every kilobytes of the data I spent.

I watched the game from the tipoff to the buzzer beater 3 pointer from Paul George, and I must say it was a pretty much an interesting game, honestly. So many guys stepped up from both teams, Haliburton, PG13, Kawhi and even an unexpected Myles Turner put up well over 30 points.

Either team could have won it in the end, but Pacers despite having a 14 point advantage into the 2nd quarter had to stay locked in for the entire game, if not, Clippers could have stolen the W with relative ease. GG!

For value per points, I would go with Saka, I've been sleeping on him for too long, and I feel terrible for not having any Arsenal midfielder right now, I've always preferred Martinelli over either Odegaard or Saka, but I will likely be switching to Saka too very soon especially due to the set piece duties too.

Kevin De Bruyne have been having a not so good return to FPL, especially due to the extreme changes Guardiola have deployed around him, and their next 3-4 fixtures doesn't look any much better either and I don't expect him to be overworked for every of those fixtures, so I'm never going anywhere near him for the time been.

With no Guardiola only Haaland is worth having for now, and that's what I'll using as my tactical motivation going forward, I'm very glad to have shaw available to replace him, while Shaw is bound to have 9 points, I would have be very angry if Guardiola had brought him in the dying just like he did in the last match, and he's done today again when Foden holders only get to have one points since he brought him in and most of them would have had better option coming in as their auto sub.

Mitrovic panic buyers, how are you all doing ? 

He's been a very active person, and would have made a post if he was busy or on some sort of holidays, I really do hope he's safe and just taking another needed break, but I've never noticed him to be inactive for this long except for the about a month long break he took before the world began, and seemed to very interested in the world cup, but he left abruptly too.

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I missed all my predictions for today too except the last one, with the Real Madrid 2-0, and at least I made decent profit on Real Madrid ML and both teams to score in the Celta Vigo vs Sevilla.

David Luiz 2.0, and they look very much alike with their hair style.

That was the final straw for Darwin Nunez for me, despite getting an assist point, I have two transfers to use now and It can be used to a better team transformation, I'll likely be going for a medium-priced forward and probably a premium forward, that is not from Liverpool, there is an extreme lack of fluidity in the Liverpool midfield and until that's sorted, I'm done with doubling down on them, it's just Salah for now.

We share the same fate, the Odds have been extremely tempting and worth chasing imo, and most of them are also traps, you don't know who's fit enough to play and who isn't.

I think the NBA is just set up for this festive season to favor the bookies, over punters, or it's  simply just me having a bad run.

Arsenal looks pretty solid to me, but then I'd have been more confident if were to be Chelsea or Liverpool in that form and position than Arsenal, and that's coming from place them letting us down over and over again after having our hopes up several time.

My team is ready, and I'm not going to be make any drastic changes this game week, I'll just go with the flow.

The Indiana Pacers have pulled off some really stunning victories in the last one month, I didn't place any bet on them tonight, however I would have been upset with the lost because the Cavaliers were able take as many as 7 points lead early into the 4th Quarter, It's only natural to expect them to be able to bank on that advantage but they couldn't so the Pacers saw an opportunity with those sloppy possession from the Cavs and consecutive TO's, the 9-0 run in the final 2 minutes was the nail in the coffin.

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I had a bit of money on the Memphis Grizzlies -3.5 against Toronto Raptors, although I was skeptical about the bet with Memphis Grizzlies not being very convincing in the last 5 games, where they lost 4 of them, but they were a very different team tonight and Ja Morant doing almost all the damage despite being not among the top 3 scorers, however his career-high 17 assists came in very handy.

I might have exaggerated the reality with my statement honestly, but that's only because of how close I knew the players below me are, I expected that some of them would have gotten a number of points with those first two results, and Atletico Madrid was seeming to be another wrong pick but they later gave me an exact score with their 2-0 win, and when I check the rankings most users have just 6 points so far, so maybe it's  not been a bad start for me anyways.

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Real Madrid facing Valladolid later today along with some other fixtures, with an injury-free squad, I think Real Madrid at 1.5+ Odds is an actual steal, I might just go for Real Madrid to win and BTTS in Sevilla vs Celta Vigo where I expected goals at both ends, on a single betslip.

I don't think I'm ready for the resumption of the league yet, I literally just put in picks so as not to leave them empty but It's been of no use whatsoever so far, I'm still yet to get a single point in this round 😒

Only a couple of exact score in the remaining fixtures can save me from dropping beyond imagination in the leaderboard.

I'll be keeping Darwin on team without second at least for a few weeks more until I have a suitable substitution that isn't at a risk of a 5th yellow, that's having Kane and Mitrovic in mind, or until I feel Darwin position in Liverpool squad is being threatened. I'm already thinking of getting Mitrovic the band ahead of their double game week, but then It's still a decision to be reconsidered over the next two match days.

I'm also getting bothered as to when Pep will start an heavy-Haaland rotation, when Alvarez returns ?? but I'm sure until he gets rotated the first time most users are going to stick with him, and so would, there is no way I'm letting the entire pool get the Haaland captainship advantage over me again  

Okay now, that's funny! I'm not gonna, and I don't want to be in your shoes, but it would have been worse if you hadn't manage to scoop the couple of prizes that was up for grab for this week.

I tried to make my team very flex and kept a lot of cheap options, but I would have been glad if Guardiola had not bothered to bring in Cancelo in yesterday as Shaw would have been his automatic replacement.

Going into the new GW, I'm faced with a couple of multiple tough choices to make, and the toughest of them is to pick just one of the following players;

Trossard vs Arsenal,
Shaw vs Wolverhampton
or
Andreas vs Southampton.

while I'm pretty sure one of these options would yield some valid points of at least 7, I really can't bring myself to settle for just one, and using the bench boost isn't an option yet for me rn.

It could have turned out worse, but It didn't so I'm glad to have gotten maximum point from my prediction, but the only trigger was the heavy and perhaps unnecessary rotation from Guardiola, I really don't know why he to keep those players on the bench, and I don't want presume it's already because of a very hectic January schedule for the team, isn't taking a considerable lead and resting your best players early suppose to be the normal routine, but it often gets completely otherwise with Guardiola in-charge.

I just changed my prediction from 3-0, to 3-1, I really don't want Guardiola is hoping to achieve with his starting xi, having both explosive fullbacks on the bench, then benching Phil Foden and Bernardo Silva as well, you just never know with this guy.

I'd like Leeds to draw first blood, at least just for the fun of it and to make the match rather more interesting.