• Fantasy Scout - Chat thread, January 2023

    From milivella@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 10 06:48:33 2023
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    Hugo Lloris retires from the French national team.

    Most capped keeper in World Cups. Most caps for France. Most capped French captain. World Cup and Nations League winner.

    This is likely the end of MH's 1st cycle, as (if I'm not wrong) Lloris is the only player of his who has scored points after 2019. MH is actually 2nd, and should be able to keep his place on the podium.

    MH shouldn't be sad, though, as Lloris' heir is Maignan, picked by MH himself in the 6th cycle. Let's hope that after Maignan it will be Meslier's turn (or Areola's...), and not Lafont's!

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  • From MH@21:1/5 to milivella on Tue Jan 10 08:12:52 2023
    On 2023-01-10 07:48, milivella wrote:
    [The rules of this thread are simple: write what you want, reply if you
    want, ignore if you have to.]

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    Hugo Lloris retires from the French national team.

    Most capped keeper in World Cups. Most caps for France. Most capped French captain. World Cup and Nations League winner.

    This is likely the end of MH's 1st cycle,

    Almost certainly. Only remote possibility left would be Muniain, who is
    only 30 (just turned 30 in December), but is in and out of the Athletic
    lineup in spite of being captain.


    as (if I'm not wrong) Lloris is the only player of his who has scored
    points after 2019. MH is actually 2nd, and should be able to keep his
    place on the podium.

    MH shouldn't be sad, though, as Lloris' heir is Maignan,

    yeah but he missed the WC through injury.


    picked by MH himself in the 6th cycle. Let's hope that after Maignan it
    will be Meslier's turn (or Areola's...), and not Lafont's!

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    milivella

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  • From milivella@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 31 02:45:10 2023
    New temporary predictions (after the WC, compared to September):
    Cycle 1: Sid Debgupta from 96% to 99%
    [cycle 2 to 4 were and are settled according to the algo]
    Cycle 5: Jackson from 78% to 89%
    Cycle 6: Jackson from 74% to 92%
    Cycle 7: Jackson from 42% to 54%, Leon from 42% to 18%

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    milivella

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  • From milivella@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 2 04:30:58 2023
    New temporary predictions (after the WC, compared to September):

    Varane: current score 98, predicted final score 125.

    What the algorithm cannot know:
    "Équipe de France : Raphaël Varane va arrêter sa carrière internationale" https://www.leparisien.fr/sports/football/equipe-de-france-raphael-varane-va-arreter-sa-carriere-internationale-02-02-2023-CYTO7H4XYRCLVC4JDYDR2ANONM.php?xtor=AD-366

    This means that I will lose the 2nd place in the 2nd cycle to Binder. I must now hope that neither Tom nor anyone lese manages to get me, or I will also lose the podium.

    But what I really really really hope is that, if I have to lose the podium, I won't lose it to Him-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named!

    [checks the scores at the WC, has a stroke]

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    milivella

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  • From Futbolmetrix@21:1/5 to milivella on Thu Feb 2 07:27:03 2023
    On Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 7:31:01 AM UTC-5, milivella wrote:

    But what I really really really hope is that, if I have to lose the podium, I won't lose it to Him-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named!

    [checks the scores at the WC, has a stroke]

    Admittedly that would be nice, but unfortunately Walker is on his way out; and while it's true that Casemiro is an absolute stud who has singlehandedly turned Manchester United's fortunes around, he would need to score 70 more points for me to catch up.
    Not going to happen :-(

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  • From MH@21:1/5 to milivella on Thu Feb 2 14:44:24 2023
    On 2023-02-02 05:30, milivella wrote:
    New temporary predictions (after the WC, compared to September):

    Varane: current score 98, predicted final score 125.

    What the algorithm cannot know:
    "Équipe de France : Raphaël Varane va arrêter sa carrière internationale" https://www.leparisien.fr/sports/football/equipe-de-france-raphael-varane-va-arreter-sa-carriere-internationale-02-02-2023-CYTO7H4XYRCLVC4JDYDR2ANONM.php?xtor=AD-366

    This means that I will lose the 2nd place in the 2nd cycle to Binder. I must now hope that neither Tom nor anyone lese manages to get me, or I will also lose the podium.

    But what I really really really hope is that, if I have to lose the podium, I won't lose it to Him-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named!

    [checks the scores at the WC, has a stroke]

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    Cheers
    milivella

    I finally got around to sending in new picks for cycle 8 a few weeks
    back, but when I checked admittedly a few days back, they were not in
    there yet.

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  • From milivella@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 8 02:54:34 2023
    Futbolmetrix:

    On Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 7:31:01 AM UTC-5, milivella wrote:

    But what I really really really hope is that, if I have to lose the podium, I won't lose it to Him-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named!

    [checks the scores at the WC, has a stroke]

    Admittedly that would be nice, but unfortunately Walker is on his way out; and while it's true that Casemiro is an absolute stud who has singlehandedly turned Manchester United's fortunes around

    Let's assume Manchester United is better this season. The reason would
    be that they offloaded Pogba!

    he would need to score 70 more points for me to catch up. Not going to happen :-(

    Casemiro is 30. He can play at international level until 35, so for 5
    more years. National teams play around 15 matches a year.

    5 * 15 = 75

    I'm screwed.

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    milivella

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  • From milivella@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 8 02:49:09 2023
    MH:

    I finally got around to sending in new picks for cycle 8 a few weeks
    back, but when I checked admittedly a few days back, they were not in
    there yet.

    I updated the site on February 5, circa 2:00 AM UTC.

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    milivella

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  • From milivella@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 20 23:40:51 2023
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  • From Futbolmetrix@21:1/5 to milivella on Thu Mar 23 15:09:58 2023
    On Monday, March 20, 2023 at 6:40:55 PM UTC-4, milivella wrote:
    milivella:
    MH shouldn't be sad, though, as Lloris' heir is Maignan, picked by MH himself in the 6th cycle.
    "Obviously".


    Kane becomes the all-time leading scorer for England.
    Argentinian born and raised Mateo Retegui scores on his debut for Italy.
    Bojan Krkic (who must have been one of the very first FS picks) announces his retirement.

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  • From MH@21:1/5 to Futbolmetrix on Fri Mar 24 15:56:30 2023
    On 2023-03-23 16:09, Futbolmetrix wrote:
    On Monday, March 20, 2023 at 6:40:55 PM UTC-4, milivella wrote:
    milivella:
    MH shouldn't be sad, though, as Lloris' heir is Maignan, picked by MH himself in the 6th cycle.
    "Obviously".


    Kane becomes the all-time leading scorer for England.
    Argentinian born and raised Mateo Retegui scores on his debut for Italy. Bojan Krkic (who must have been one of the very first FS picks) announces his retirement.

    Two Thurams on the bench for France. I wonder what the maximum number
    of totals caps from members of the same family is (grandparents,
    parents, offspring combined). Might not even come to as many as C.
    Ronaldo by himself.

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  • From MH@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 24 17:09:48 2023
    On 2023-03-24 15:56, MH wrote:
    On 2023-03-23 16:09, Futbolmetrix wrote:
    On Monday, March 20, 2023 at 6:40:55 PM UTC-4, milivella wrote:
    milivella:
    MH shouldn't be sad, though, as Lloris' heir is Maignan, picked by
    MH himself in the 6th cycle.
    "Obviously".


    Kane becomes the all-time leading scorer for England.
    Argentinian born and raised Mateo Retegui scores on his debut for Italy.
    Bojan Krkic (who must have been one of the very first FS picks)
    announces his retirement.

    Two Thurams on the bench for France.  I wonder what the maximum number
    of totals caps from members of the same family is (grandparents,
    parents, offspring combined).   Might not even come to as many as C. Ronaldo by himself.


    Hmm I get 209 total for the Laudrups. 19 for Finn, 104 for Michael, 86
    for Brian.

    And the Schmeichels, father and son, come to 211

    But it would be hard to beat the family of Abedi Pelé (73) and his
    three Ayew sons, André (113), Jordan (87), and Ibrahim (7)

    (speaking only of men's caps at this point). Combined Men's/WOmen's
    might be another story altogether.

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  • From milivella@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 7 23:44:34 2023
    milivella:

    Hugo Lloris retires from the French national team.

    Most capped keeper in World Cups. Most caps for France. Most capped French captain. World Cup and Nations League winner.

    This is likely the end of MH's 1st cycle, as (if I'm not wrong) Lloris is the only player of his who has scored points after 2019. MH is actually 2nd, and should be able to keep his place on the podium.

    MH shouldn't be sad, though, as Lloris' heir is Maignan, picked by MH himself in the 6th cycle. Let's hope that after Maignan it will be Meslier's turn (or Areola's...), and not Lafont's!

    What is Lloris' heir is... Giroud?! https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/172gim8/olivier_giroud_as_goalkeeper_great_save_against/

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    milivella

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