And there is always this wild card curse most because you project your team for a potential 5-10 games weeks ahead, and just after the first or second game week things often goes south, and there some players that just pick irresistible form that you might need to change your team shape for, or an injury, at least that's often the case with me, my wild card are often a waste of chip, except when I'm chasing a blank week or towards a double fixture, it just never work for a long term plan for me.

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Arsenal vs Sheffield United, what other fixture could be worth a triple Arsenal assets, bar the lack of fitness of a couple of them and Jesus Gabriel could miss out too, but one can't possible go awfully wrong with some Arsenal defense and Martinelli / Saka or Odegaard, while their next run of fixtures aren't so bad either.

Quote for reference, I've seen several mafia boss will beg for mercy when the get nabbed often movies and sometimes in reality too

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Still nothing different between myself and @slackovic, I didn't notice earlier that there is nothing much else to look out for in our match until the final two games, I only need one of the remaining last 2 questions to keep my 100% record start to this season going, New Zealand vs South Africa sure would be a tough one for me, I however, have a bit of hope to bag the final Dota 2 question.

Thanks for the reminder, I thought I submitted my picks over the weekend already.

I guess I just mistake it for the UCL predictions I made and I probably would have reviewed my picks at some point tomorrow, but the reminder still helped, thanks.

Frankfurt vs Dortmund would be my go to game, If I'd be streaming any of this round matches, that should be an interesting match.

Last night was the worse day to go for player props' as I couldn't figure which players are the new starters or bench and role players for majority of the teams, I believe it will take a few more games to be able to finally know which players what coaches have decide as their starting 5 for the season all things being equal.

There were also a lot of anomalies with line spread and over/under, I guess that's a normal phenomenon when there are 12 games for the night, it's very tough to get every spread the right way.

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Today's fixture looks rather more straight forward with the two games, Lakers against Suns, and Milwaukee Bucks vs 76ers, I think I'll be backing the favorites in both fixtures.

I think we all just over estimated them and had them by the standards of their performance against PSG, but If we considered their very first game in the group against AC Milan we'll remember that they were very mediocre, however, Newcastle were quite unlucky against Dortmund, they deserve at least one point from the game, it wasn't just their day to be, the hit crossbars a couple of times, Dortmund handled the pressure quite better, I must say and were still pushing to get one more goal whenever they catch Newcastle on the break.



AFAIK, 2buwaytress would reach out to you for that, or you can just send it to him.

Congratulations 

I couldn't have been any happier when I saw that goal went in, Milan were completely dominated today, I expected a very marginal scoreline knowing how wasteful PSG have been, and how uncreative Milan can be too.

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The game were I expected tons of goals from that group's fixture is Newcastle vs Borussia Dortmund which ended with just one goal, Newcastle were extremely unlucky, they easily should got a couple goals especially after half way into the 2nd half, Dortmund kept their composure for the rest of the while Newcastle were throwing in all form of attacking questions. I guess we can expect another thriller in Signal Iduna Park in 2 weeks for the return fixture, craziest group indeed!

Congratulations to you as well, once buwaytress posted the Odds, I had just about 3 to 4 possibility in my mind, that being Napoli, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Arsenal, I couldn't settle for Napoli or Bayern Munich because I felt their respective opponents too are tough ones and Galatasaray particularly have some really experience players, while Napoli I think there is still trouble in paradise concerning their in-house and and inter-players relationships, leaving me with either Real Madrid or Arsenal, Arsenal became the best choices in terms of risk-rewards ratio, so, I was very fine with put all my chips in, glad that it paid off, and I don't have to keep looking over my shoulder for today's matches. I'll just use the period to navigate the reverse fixtures which will be the games fixtures for the game week 4, and see if they're big teams playing away from home then that could probably have their odds increased or potential upset worth tailing, Group B and Group F are my most likely targets for now.

I couldn't find a perfect few upsets to put a few stake points across, so I opted for an all in on Arsenal against Sevilla, I would say at some point I was starting to regret my choice, but I knew Sevilla were really bad recently and their only decent performance being against Real Madrid during the weekend.

Even though it was quite tough to watch Arsenal after Sevilla had pulled a goal back, and Gabriel Jesus being forced to be substituted for Eddie Nketiah, and Sevilla were overwhelming the Arsenal's defense and I thought we might just have another game like the one against Lens. I'm glad to have earned 18.5 points with my chips for this week 

The never ending wait is finally over and we have something to cheer up for everyday yet again as far as the NBA is concerned, we have the Lakers vs Denver Nuggets which just tipped off a few seconds ago, I have the game on Over 225.5. as well as a couple of players props.

I could not pick a side because Jokic have been off anything basketball after the NBA finals, so I'm just going to enjoy the feeling of having NBA back going more into the mode from tomorrow, hopefully.

1. Ngannou
2. 7
3. 2

No one is asking you for charity here mate, and the later part of your statement is technically wrong this wasn't always a paid service, as you didn't at any point made payment necessity known before providing the service and neither did you specify any amount until you were done (or almost) with it and you also decided to specify a payment deadline at the very same instance (if you don't think that's unprofessional, that's fine.), that of course I literally had no issue whatsoever with, and I told you I'd ask Trofo to pay you over the weekend and I honestly forgot to inform him, and then I asked for your TRC20 address which you sent ~24 hours ago, but here you are with this antics.

NB: Payment has been sent to address you provided to me via pm, do confirm it, please.
Good luck with your service and see you around  

The bragging rights is a major flex and nothing beats that, you see how quite Igebotz have been while plying his trade in the 2nd Division 

I just discovered that you're my my opponent for this second round of fixture, and there also some big names too playing against each other, it's pretty much going to be an interesting round I believe, we have mv1986 vs casperBGD, buwaytress vs cls63 and jeremypwr vs LTU_btc all in a single round 

Does that mean you're trying to have a reserve scenario for the new season, I feel bad for losing out on the basis of the new first submission policy, because I've never submitted late.

I understand the need of the rules, and in total agreement with it!

Congratulations on getting the first one this time mate!

I think Man United would be a good team to invest in, but I don't think it will be from an attacking stand point for this season, I'll leaning towards them defensively when get most of their backlines back, and hopefully Andre Onana's price would have dropped by a few more 100 grand, and hopefully Dalot too!

Fu**ing Posteglu or whatever the h*ll his name is deprived me of extra 5 points for Destiny Udogie, and all I need was just for him to be on the pitch for only 4 minutes more to hit the minimum 60 minutes required to earn a clean sheet point and the an extra 1 point 

Given the state of my team, I would say it's a really good week for me to say the least, and for the fact that I didn't need to make any adjustment in terms of transfer.

@Igebotz, I won't be transfering Botman out just yet, he'll be on the bench for those games weeks, there are no defenders with tempting returns that I'd rather trade him for, If I had the extra bank roll, Botman for Trippier would have been the call for me, so I'll likely just wait it out.

I also submitted my answers as well, I did at the very first go there wasn't much to deliberate on here, it's in God's hands now!

I don't believe there should be any form of late submission whatsoever for this round because there isn't any game that's needed to be waited upon, @Trofo and Cryptofrka, I still can't find out who my opponent for the round is.

Yes, I used wild card a couple of weeks ago, just two after I had to take more than a significant double digits points hit, but I'm actually not owrried about my bench I have two free transfers at the moment I'll be using only just one, my starting xi is as perfect as I would want, so I only need one more slightly above mid player, and my bench as solely full of defenders so I barely bothered, I however will be using just one Free transfer this week just so it doesn't go to waste.

Onana getting 3 points against rock bottom Sheffield United isn't worthy of any praise If you ask me, but an extra 2 points is very valuable if you didn't have to take a -4 points hit.

It's obviously my best round so far too, why having Son, Maddison, and Destiny Udogie yet to play and I've been able to accumulate 71 points already.

This might be it for AC Milan, Locatelli have just put Juventus ahead with a great stunner, although influenced by an heavy deflection. I really don't how AC Milan would respond to being one man down and now trailing by a goal, but to be fair before conceding the goal AC Milan seemed pretty much like the team with advantage and were on the front foot, it's left to be seen if this goal will be enough to break their strong will.


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The new round is another interesting one at that, especially with the fact the questions are mixed heavily across several sporting events, I haven't checked who my opponent is yet, I'd rather have my first answers draft saved so that who my opponent is doesn't influence how I think about the answers. 

GL everyone!

This has got to be one of the closest round, If not the closest round so far in this competition, lowest point being 11 and highest is 19 points with vast majority of the others lying between 13-18 points, I think this is even the closest round ever, and it's not even up for discussion.

I was a victim of marginal goal differences and that ended up hurting my chances of closing in on pack leaders, being able to maintain my spot, while not losing significant point difference from the leader is something I can live with for this week.