no more bedhead

Since it's World Cup time (yay!), I guess I should report on how Blue Albatross FC did this fantasy season.  If you'll recall the last time I reported on the status of the team's performance in the English Premier League, we were (temporarily) in first place.  True to form, we dropped back to third (gasp!) the following week.  There we sat for the next couple of weeks, although we managed to climb up into second place going into the final week of competition.  Surprise of all surprises, we pulled out of the week scrabbling up into the number one position, and that's where we finished this year's EPL campaign!
Now, as for the Champions League, and the Europa League, well, we didn't fare as well there.  Finished 6/23 in the Champions League (although only 13 points separated 4th and 7th places), and finished 2/7 in the Europa League.  I consider those to be pretty good, as I really don't have a good handle on who the decent players are in those leagues (especially the Europa League).  And, for the record, these rankings are for the leagues in which I was participating.  Overall, I finished thusly:

English Premier League: 491,826 out of 2,322,686 with 1,975 points
Champions League: 44,015 out of 349,293 with 543 points
Europa League: 1,232 out of 52,013 with 593 points

It was a good campaign, and I look forward to signing up again in the fall.

And, yes, Blue Albatross FC is represented in the FIFA World Cup Fantasy League.  Wish us well!!

Gameweek 8 is about to begin in the English Premier League.  Hopefully I will do better this week than last.  I got creamed in Gameweek 7.  The average score was 52 and I scored 30.  I'm a little Chelsea heavy, and not only did they lose, but Petr Cech (GK) got red carded.  That hurt.  When your Goalkeeper has a -1 point total for the week, you know it's going to be a bad week.  The other players didn't have a spectacular week either.  Drogba was my best scoring player with 6 points.  My current rank is 1,934,446 out of 2,052,351.  (My disclaimer/rationalization is that I didn't start until GW5 so I'm already behind.  But still...)  I also dropped to 11th (out of 20) in my league.  I had been at 5 after GW6 (which is when the league formed).

So I made one transfer for the week.  I transferred out Upson, and replaced him with Dunne.  I also sat Cech, since he is suspended, bringing in Foster (ManUtd) off the bench. We'll see what happens. Here's my lineup for the weekend:



My team in the ESPN Premier League didn't do well either, but it was my first Gameweek for the ESPN league, so we'll see what happens.

However.....
The Champions League and the Europa League both competed this week.

In the Champions League, I rocked.  The average score was 51, and I scored 73.  That shot me up to 37,587 out of 273,855. And I jumped up to 4 in my league (Galaxy Two), out of 21 teams.  Having Christiano Ronaldo scoring 14 points and being my captain (doubling his points to 28) certainly helped!

My favorite stat is that for Matchweek 1 my rank was 152,678.  For Matchweek 2 my rank was 11,231. I improved 141,447 places.

In the Europa League (where I have absolutely no idea who any of these players are), I scored 53 points, with 42 being the average.  I rank 966/29,741.  In my league I am #1 out of 7.  But I'm only up by 13 points over #2.

All of this will probably change, so I am hoping for the best on the EPL front today and gloating over UCL/Europa for the next couple of weeks.

AAAAAAAAAAAAL-batross!