Everything is partially luck based, but I'm speaking about the decisions I made that were choice-based and were terrible - those are the ones I hopefully won't be repeating next year.
It takes some experience to make the logical choices across 38 GW's.

Of course that nothing will help you if you make the wrong choices player-wise, but there's probably 100 points per year riding on experience alone (when to change, use wildcards etc). And 100 points make a huge difference.

Hahah, only women's tennis can have such bizarre turns and changes and have them so often and in succession.
I did not think that Rybakina will struggle so much today, this tiebreak was insane. For those not following, she lost 22-20.

I thought Pegula would be eliminated, and 1 out of the remaining 4 is a good assumption based on the fact that it's women's tennis

Now all of the remaining ones just have to go through, which will probably be 50-50. Happy it's gone this way, casperBGD's already wrong here.

To mi i je plan ako me itko ikada krene maltretirati za tako nešto.
Napravit ću NFT kolekciju, sam sebi prodati NFT za 50 ETH-a, naći nekog visokopozicioniranog poreznog obveznika kojem bilo tko u obitelji ima bilo kakav wallet i airdroppati mu 500 komada.

Look at you misquoting me, naughty naughty. Continue like this and we'll take the badge off of ya.
Not sure whose quote this is, but ain't mine - I root for my partner this year so I have an easier Div1 experience.

Sainz is still in the lead in the Dakar race, but Loeb is cutting the difference. The answer here's the same for me and casperBGD but I enjoy tracking it - I really hope Carlos gets it.

True, you used loopholes. Not so brilliantly though, you have 40 mediocre players on 8-year bloated contracts so good luck with that going forward.


I didn't say the smaller clubs were targeted, I said they are being used as examples - which is wrong on so many levels.
City is showing huge sponsorship incomes because that's how they pump money into the club - so of course they don't have financial deficit. It still is breaking the rules, and should be punished more severely than Everton's deficit, which happened during the Covid years where budgeting was basically impossible.

I always feel like the price will drop by 0,5 mil if he's not ready to play. Then again, his price has barely moved throughout the season - which shows how wrong I still am with such things.
Most this year's mistakes I did for 2 reasons - thinking price moves way faster and forgetting that I can make more than 1 transfer (by using -4 points penalties).

Next year I'm gonna win this shit.

Tako su znali sprdati ljude - naprave token, prodaju sami sebi 0.0001 za 5$ i onda svima airdroppaju po 1000 komada. Odjednom dobiš milijunsku 'vrijednost' nečeg za što uopće nema likvidnost.
Ista stvar je kasnije ponavljana s NFT-ovima i jasno je ko dan da se ne radi o stečenoj imovini - a teoretski bi se tako obračunavala.

It's amazing how I keep losing in BSFL.
We had everything, 2-goal advantage going into the last quarter, won another sprint, we needed 1-2 goals in the whole quarter for smooth sailing.

We rushed it, made silly mistakes, and Spain's got too much quality for that. The winning goal is pure class.

Shame about the gold medal - it's tough to lose it like this. But I feel everybody would have taken silver before the start of the tournament.

Germany is losing by 3, so I can only hope it's a blowout there. My BSFL round does not look good at all.

Oh, sheriff, what have you done? You gave easy points to Trofo, your nemesis.

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casperBGD - a lot of different answers between us, especially at the beginning. Today will be big for our duel.


Thanks, but you come too late hahah. This is exactly what I needed, I didn't have a lot of time to search for it.

Damn, submitting tennis is.. hard. Will they play 2 matches or 3, a lot depends on it - and it is impossible to calculate it.

I just sat down to submit and it feels like it will take me at least 15 minutes to properly investigate. I can't allow myself to make any mistakes here.

It's really disgusting what they're doing to Everton. With Chelsea, City and the like destroying the competitiveness of the league, they are punishing Everton and Forest.
I hope both teams challenge these decisions, Everton was deducted 10 points for 20 mil deficit in 3 years' time. Portsmouth had the biggest fine before that, 9 points, for fully going into administration.

What is the new deduction about? No toilet paper in the bathrooms?

Then he should have missed that penalty, eh?

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Not the best of starts for me, but AFCON is the one I'm always shitty at. I mostly pick the favorites and they often disappoint - which was the case again.
Might go with a bit more risk in the next rounds, but I don't really follow these teams so it's hard to go against the bookies.

Metamask te pita što dozvoljavaš kad se spajaš. Obično je to ono klasično see address, balance and suggest transactions.
Vjerojatno pri tom koraku ima i nekih 'give all approvals' opcija, koje onda drainaju cijeli wallet.

Ja see and suggest dam svakakvim stranicama koje u najmanju ruku izgledaju sumnjivo i samo taj approval mi nikad nije uzrokovao probleme.
Imam naviku odspojiti Metamask sa svake stranice kojoj sam pristupio - čak i sa ovih skroz sigurnih.

He'll join me in Div 1, don't worry.

Probably cup after this league round, yeah. We need to complete Div 3B in order to start the playoffs on time, and we can't put all Hhampuz's games in 1 week.
He has a double round this week and then it's the plan that in the next one he plays both the Cup and the league.

Cup semifinals and finals will be 10 questions each, so will be happening in 2 separate weeks.


Not really possible - we already spoke about it in Season 1. You have too many variables to account for - what if the player already qualifies through the lower league, what if the cup winner's about to get relegated, too many 'what ifs' to navigate through.
We do feel that Division 3 should be easier to get out of, that's the main reason for this big playoff we're having. If you're in the top half, you have a chance of promotion.

My Haaland story is fascinating. I was without him for 15 GW's, then took him too early in GW19 (Everton), which made me have a 14 mil player for 3 GW's without him playing 1 minute.
Now I took him off the team again and replaced him with Alvarez, so expect him to make a miraculous recovery and score a hattrick against Burnley.

Whatever I do, I just hope I'll remain near the top 5 until Salah and Son return - I need to wildcard as soon as possible.

Well, even though it's the first GS of the year - pretty much the usual suspects.
In the men's draw it's between Alcaraz, Đoković, Sinner and Medvedev and in women's side Swiatek, Rybakina, Sabalenka and eventually Gauff.

I hope Sinner takes it, I've enjoyed his end of season performances.

Yup, one of my worst rounds. And extremely unlucky - but that's how my whoel season's been.
Then again, if I didn't use VAR, I would have lost the match - so a point is better than 0.

I'm lucky that all players below me drew or lost (except buwaytress), so I'm still outside of the relegation zone. The next game away to casperBGD will be crucial.

Maybe an intervention from my mafia partners will be needed here..

Wow, after Norrie's withdrawal, 2 goals in extra time (Egypt and Cape Verde) take the much needed win away from me. Well, slaman29, this was a really exciting round and none of us will be happy with a point.

We have calculated freebet winners as well, so that they can be paid out tomorrow.

We really hurried with this, so please doublecheck everything - we'll od it for the results tomorrow. Please let us know if some mistakes are found.

The freebet winners are:

Division 1 – Harkorede (40$ freebet)
Division 2 – notblox1 (30$ freebet)
Division 3A - kokee22  - or is it kokee44? (10$ freebet) - please let us know the exact username
Division 3B - goodpunt (10$ freebet)

As already said, snooker will take a while and there's still an hour of AFCON left, so we'll update the tables and announce Round 11's freebet winners by tomorrow afternoon.

We continue with the league and we're entering Round 12. The first 2 divisions continue normally, while in Divisions 3A and 3B we have only a few delayed games to play.
Hhampuz is the victim (latest addition) so he'll play a double round this week, and you can all still participate for the freebets.

Questions for the Round 12 are here!

The deadline is January 16th, 18:00 GMT.

Again we have waterpolo, handball and Australian Open, but there's a new sport again - the Dakar race. I really hope nothing out of the ordinary happens tomorrow that would jeopardize the question.
Remember, even if it does, we won't be voiding it so you'll have to track it and use VAR if needed.

6 players are in danger of elimination, so be sure to submit the answers.

It's best to 10 in the final - still a lot to be played.
I can still somehow see myself winning this one, another goal or 2 from Egypt would be nice. Real is the bookies favorite in the Cup final, and is overall in better form. Who knows, maybe I get lucky.

Questions will be posted in an hour or 2, and you'll probably wait for the results/updated tables until tomorrow. Snooker will probably last for a while more.