That's a wrong a assertion in my opinion, he has zero knowledge about FPL chips, fine but he knows his ball, take a look at his team over the course of the season so far and tell me that his choice of players are terrible or just random picks with no subsequent games in mind. Having your FPL chips work out for fine for your selected game week is where you can consider luck as a factor and that's how many gameweeks for a bench boost and triple captain ? For free hit and wild cards you need to know what you're doing, but luck isn't what help you stay head above waters for 21 gameweeks simply because you haven't used your any of your chips.

Not the case mate, Iga Swiatek have just been knocked out by Linda Noskova, what a twist!!! I anticipated a less than an hour game after Swiatek took to first set 6-3, but then Noskova have done the unthinkable!

So, I can officially say that it's 3 points for me this round as well!  

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Looking forward to the next round against yet another tough opponent @LTU_btc, and really, I hope I can keep this streak of mine going 

But who consistently get's lucky for 38 game weeks ? Every player in the FPL gets unlucky at some point regardless of how strategic you're, I just want point out that some decision are just riskier but doesn't make them luck oriented just like the term differentials that is often being used in the FPL, no one could convincingly predict that they'll finish in top 10,000 at beginning yes but finish there doesn't make lucky and rule every long term strategy, you could see someone who set up their team and never look back at it win manager of the week multiple times along the season, or even manager of the month (very very low chance), but you'll almost never see any manager that didn't touch their team after game week one finish in the top 100k come the end of the season, meanwhile if luck has the biggest impact on where a manager finishes then I'd suppose there should be at least 1 manager from the multimillions that would get a lineup that doesn't need any change and get within the need average point per week to finish within the overall top positions.

That have been their Achilles heel this season, they're too good a shooting team and they know it too so it hurt them a lot when they need a win and tie making shot they often give up easy play and end up with the very wrong ones like leaving layups to tie a game and passing it out for a 3 pt shot, I remember just like how they lost against Warriors about a less than month ago, where they had a 6 chances opportunities came begging but they kept going for a 3 point shot and end losing the game.

The Mozambique Goalkeeper was very awful to say the very least, just a few minutes before that goal Bebe have had one shot struck the crossbar from almost an equal distance and that didn't serve as an enough warning strike for the goalkeeper, the ball was coming straight to him and he looked completely clueless, and then there was the third goal too from a long range as well, I'd be very surprised if he remains the no. 1 choice for their final group fixture.
Not to take anything away from the wonderful strike, though, I think the third was quite better, tbh.

Yes, Carlos Sainz won the Dakar Rally, he finished 1st with 1 hour, 20 minutes ahead of his closest opponent.

Two goals from Hussein, with score at 2 Nil and I saw the name of the scorer, I said to myself maybe the Japanese team thought the dead had risen and were afraid of a possible holocaust, because for Iraq they were a 10+ Odds underdog and more than half of pool went with 2 and 4+ goals to conceded by them, so what could possibly have happened to the Japan team that didn't include adding up the name Saddam the dictator to that of goals scorer ?

WTA play a best of 3 sets in grand slams, while ATP is best of 5 Sets, you hardly find a WTA match lasting for 2 hours and a lot finishing under 1 hour and some minutes, while the least for any match in the ATP so far would have been nothing short of 3 or there about hours since a lot matches have gone to the full 5 sets length.

In women Tennis, I prefer to go with the larger success area, lol, they're so unpredictable tbh, Men Tennis is so far so good, even though it's not been a walk in the park for most of them, they all are still in, we could however see a few of them drop before Sunday, though, I probably could careless with how this turn out, I have the same answers as my opponent.

Thanks to Nigeria and Napoli I now have a two point advantage and just two questions differentials from opponent in the last five, while one of the question is the of a finest margin, he's got 3 WTA players to make it to next week while I have 0-2, he's got the edge here I'd say, but then the worse that could happen to me for this round is a draw.

Rybakina is out!

This is the longest tie break I've ever witnessed in WTA tennis, 22-20 for Blinkova Holy smoke!!! Both players keep tossing the match point towards each and failing to take, Rybakina with ranking had the up hand even during the tie break she had way too many match on serve, it was even on 2 serves at a point, but she just couldn't find the break through, who is the next line to exited ? Coco, Iga or Sabalenka, I'd vote Sabalenka  

Welcome to the WTA where rankings often is nothing but a number and form is almost everything, Rybakina have restored parity and the game is heading towards a deciding set, but it's still anyone's game even though the odds are in favour of Rybakina.

I'll for the line up before calling my shot on the Super Eagles, but I doubt I'll be able to take a stance because of allegiance and bias, my perception will likely be skewed.

Iga Swiatek was able to overcome the early setback from the second set, but here we go with Pegula!!

Jessica Pegula just got booted out of Australian Open by Burel in straight freaking set, I watched the game from beginning to the end, Pegula had an early to begin the game, but end up losing 6-4, 6-2, unbefreakinglievable, but that's by the way, now I need the double fault queen (Sabalenka and one other top 5 to drop before sunday   )


If we had been asked to answer the WTA just like ATP, I most definitely would have had Pegula on a No, too bad Ons Jabeur is out of the top 5, she would have made my answer much more easier since she got eliminated in a similar fashion too.

That's some really bold shade on our fellas man!

However, I couldn't help but agree more given how much of big talker Frka was before the beginning of dinning with big dawgs, but here we are, and his twin also needed a freebie in this round from the Sheriff to stay quite head above waters 

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I don't know what to expect from the Cote d'Ivore vs Nigeria today in AFCON, I didn't watch the first game so I can't make too much of conclusion, but I sure wouldn't be missing a minute of the thriller today, I have my arse on the line for the match 

This is a very logical pick to follow and go all in on, other than the fact that I'm not much of a Blocks/Steals guy, especially with how the NBA call or determines which one is what.

That said, this Toronto team is literally a Scottie Barnes team right now and almost everything will be centered around him for the foreseeable future, I however don't see this team being able challenge or go very deep into the post season with this roster, I'm hope I could be proved wrong, though!

Is it safe to say Croatia just aren't built for Gold Medals on the grandest of stages ?

I was confident going with Spain knowing they lost one of their group games and I almost had them in the previous week question to not qualify, but seeing how they turn things around, it's was only logical that I give them benefit of the doubt to triumph here, which they did, so regardless of the result, if feels good to have started from where I left last week 2 of 2 so far for this round.

This is literally the headline for the next BSFL article, I can't believe the Sheriff fell asleep on duty, especially with the villains around town, what excuse could he possibly have ?

I really didn't calculate that much or how many games they will play, because unforeseen circumstances like rain could come into play, but if you just search on Google or tennis explorer, there is a schedule for each round, for example in the WTA, the 2nd round will begin tomorrow and will continue on Thursday, while you the most they have for either Friday and Saturday is the 3rd round, so each player would play at least 4 matches before the supposed week ends.

Below is a proper infographic that explains it better;

https://i.imgur.com/nNLrPaM.png
Img source: https://ausopen.com/ticket-info

It's such heart wreaking news, I saw a blogpost about it and I was like what the hell ? If lives are at stake even by minute of chances, I think such a sport or at least locations with such risks should be curb at the very least or extreme safety measures should be put in place, it's already so tough a world that we are losing lives over meaningless wars and conflicts or some new virus and shits!, Sports being one of the very few social activities that unites everyone should never be another cause of losing lives   


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I had my answers saved since Sunday, and ready for submission but somehow my opponent's mojo was about to work on me because I literally forgot that I was yet to submit, it took checking the spreadsheet to see If I have submitted to find out that my name wasn't on the list, a lucky escape for me.

There is saying that there is no champion forever, that's the why the relegation battle is between guys that are usually fight the 1st position.

I'm also facing a though opponent as well, in mitchr4 who is currently 4th placed, and that was my spot for both season 1 and season 2, a win here should make that goal a more realistic feat to attain this season again.

Jazz have been very good lately having got all their injured players back, and they're one of the teams playing beyond expectation recently, and the streak should continue against the Pacer, I'd agree!

-7.5 for Utah Jazz sound pretty cool, so I'll be tailing you on that!

I've also got Oklahoma City Thunder -1.5 against the Lakers @ 1.89

GL!