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Re: FPL cup

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I'm out.

His Costa (C) vs my Kane (C) made all the difference.

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Amazingly (probably for both of us) I beat my newly wild-carded opponent in a low scoring match. I didn't have Costa (C) but at least I still had him, whereas my opponent wild-carded him out, and I won by just 3.
Can't be many Costa-less teams left in after a week like that...

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Re: FPL cup

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Got knocked out due to Downing. Unless Lescott shows his Everton-type scoring form and manages a clean sheet.

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Re: FPL cup

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Won by a single point. Was all but out until his Aguero (c) picked up a yellow card.

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Re: FPL cup

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Not surprisingly, I'm out

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Re: FPL cup

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I need 27 points from Wisdom tonight, or I'm out...

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gunnersaurus wrote:Not surprisingly, I'm out
One bad weekend doesn't make a season mate. Had a shocker in GW12 and guess who was captain :wink:.

I think I've won my cash league cup with 3 other managers so the money gets split up between us so it's not all doom and gloom.

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Re: FPL cup

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I'm a gonner. Bottling captaining Baines is going to come and haunt me, i just know it. Downing is going to be enough for him now as we both have Baines.

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I'm a goner, Captain Costa killed me. Unable to repeat last seasons feat.

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Re: FPL cup

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KevIRL wrote:69-69 with my wisdom vs his berahino. Advantage him.
Through 75-71 in a high scoring thriller

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Re: FPL cup

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Out by two points: 51-53. Needed 8+ points from Baines today :evil:

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Re: FPL cup

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Through despite a 4pt captain yet again. My inverse nostradamus captain instinct will have to be reversed if I'm to progress any further me thinks.

wk22 clod hoppers 62-52 Thia FC
wk21 clod hoppers 71-67 rebel devils FC
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Mr Clarinet
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Re: FPL cup

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Next up for me - a team that hasn't used either wild-card yet, but has made 36 transfers so far. Not surprising then that they have a pretty good line-up - they had Terry benched vs Swansea! My best hope is that they hold off the wild-card another week but make 3 or 4 transfers to tune up for the cup-tie anyway...

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Re: FPL cup

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Same here but my guy has only used 24 transfers

Playing my January wild card and I guess he will be too

How many team are left? Under 500,000?

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Re: FPL cup

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jimwinn wrote:Same here but my guy has only used 24 transfers

Playing my January wild card and I guess he will be too

How many team are left? Under 500,000?
I would've thought they were down to about 125,000 by now, so I'm officially out of my depth!

One of the commentators on R5L for the last FA Cup round had some potential giant-killing act to talk about and said "The chance of an upset is very small" and I thought, well, if the chance wasn't very small, it wouldn't be an upset, would it? :)

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You are about right Mr Clarinet, there will have been about that many in the cup in the week just gone.

The final is in game week 38 I'm assuming, and we're about to play game week 23. So that's 16 rounds including the final left. So there will be 2^16 teams left or 65536. At the start of the cup there were 2^21, hence why the top 2097152 from the previous game week qualified.

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Re: FPL cup

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Hhmmm....
It would be nice if FPL Discovery could post some stats about FPL Cup too...
(regardless I got out 1st round)

maybe it could be proposed on that site board :)

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Re: FPL cup

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Up against a guy ranked 737k but still active each week

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Re: FPL cup

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Hey, what do you mean "but still"?
My best rank was 778k GW21, and only twice I've left a GW pass without making at least 1 transfer (and because I was saving it to have 2FT the GW after)
:mrgreen:

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...or do you think that any team above 100k is so lame that it MUST be a dead team??? :o :roll: :P :wink:

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Re: FPL cup

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MoSe wrote:Hhmmm....
It would be nice if FPL Discovery could post some stats about FPL Cup too...
(regardless I got out 1st round)

maybe it could be proposed on that site board :)
I agree, even just knowing how many of the top 10k were left in after each round would be kinda interesting.
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Re: FPL cup

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Carlos Kickaball wrote:You are about right Mr Clarinet, there will have been about that many in the cup in the week just gone.

The final is in game week 38 I'm assuming, and we're about to play game week 23. So that's 16 rounds including the final left. So there will be 2^16 teams left or 65536. At the start of the cup there were 2^21, hence why the top 2097152 from the previous game week qualified.
Ok, rule of thumb: 2^10 is approximately equal to 10^3 (=1000) (to save working in powers of 2)
So at the start of 21 rounds there's approximately 1000 x 1000 x 2 =2 million teams (i.e., it's not a bad approximation)
With 10 rounds left there will be approximately 1000 teams, and that number is reached via a halving of the number each week, so approximately 2000 (11 wks left), 4000 (12), 8000 (13), 16000 (14), 32000 (15), 64000 (16, where we are now). If you're interested...

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Re: FPL cup

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2^(10y) = (1.024^y)(10^(3y)). :lol:

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Re: FPL cup

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FPL = Fermat-provided Lols? Image

2^16 = 2^(10+6) = 2^10 * 2^6 = 1k * 64 = 64k teams left before GW23

8-)
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EDIT: with 64k I intend the "informatics quantity" as in "64kbytes", that is exactly 65536. NOT 64000
thanks to CK for pointing it out to me :)

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Re: FPL cup

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Well, my next opponent has activated his wildcard this morning, so I doubt I will be going through to the round of 2^15.

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Re: FPL cup

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I only share one starter with my opponent, thats Kane. Opponent has him capt though so he's still a differential. Interesting tie anyway

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Re: FPL cup

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KevIRL wrote:I only share one starter with my opponent, thats Kane. Opponent has him capt though so he's still a differential. Interesting tie anyway
1 point behind as things stand. Opponent has 1 point to come off the bench also while I most likely have 2 from.Boyd which should even things up.

Then its his mertesacker v my giroud (c) and pelle

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Re: FPL cup

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Safely through

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Re: FPL cup

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Well done!
I crashed out, as I thought.
Good luck...

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Re: FPL cup

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Through, this has got to be the furthest I've ever been. Exciting times. :D

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Re: FPL cup

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7 points behind going into tomorrow. He has janmaat and downing, I have Foster and Jones. Out barring a miracle.

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