I was not sure if Clan was going to do the Golden Boot. I think it takes 38 weeks. I will have to check the schedule. I might have to start this retroactively.
From Last Year... Here we go again . Recap of rules *Some changes from last season. First Group Stage Group A 8 teams - 1st and 2nd in all rocks leagues to draft Group B 8 teams - 3rd and 4th in all rocks leagues to draft Group C 8 teams - 5th and 6th in all rocks leagues to draft Group D 8 teams - 7th and 8th in all rocks leagues to draft. Total of 14 gameweeks to complete. Bottom two teams in each group table are eliminated from competition - total of 8 teams. Teams are also playing for position in second group stage. Second Group Stage Group A 6 teams from first group stage. Group A winner. Group B 2nd place. Group C 3rd place. Group D 4th place. Group B 5th place. Group A 6th place. Group B 6 teams from first group stage. Group B winner. Group A 2nd place. Group D 3rd place. Group C 4th place. Group A 5th place. Group B 6th place. Group C 6 teams from first group stage Group C winner. Group D 2nd place. Group A 3rd place. Group B 4th place. Group D 5th place. Group C 6th place. Group D 6 teams from first group stage. Group D winner. Group C 2nd place. Group B 3rd place. Group A 4th place. Group C 5th place. Group D 6th place. Total of 10 gameweeks to complete. Bottom two teams are eliminated from competition - total of 8 teams. Teams are also playing for position in 3rd group stage. Third group Stage Group A 4 teams from 2nd group stage. Group A winner. Group B 2nd place. Group C 3rd place. Group D 4th place. Group B 4 teams from 2nd group stage. Group B winner. Group A 2nd place. Group D 3rd place. Group C 4th place. Group C 4 teams from 2nd group stage. Group C winner. Group D 2nd place. Group A 3rd place. Group B 4th place. Group D 4 teams from second group stage. Group D winner. Group C 2nd place. Group B 3rd place. Group A 4th place. Total of 6 gameweeks to complete. Bottom 2 teams are eliminated from competition - total of 8 teams. The remaining 8 teams are the quater-finalists. Quater-final teams will be seeded. 1 v 7 Game A 3 v 5 Game B 2 v 8 Game C 4 v 6 Game D 1st seed = Best group winner record. 2nd seed = 2nd best group winner 3rd seed = 3rd best group winner 4th seed = th best group winner. 5th seed = best 2nd place finisher. 6th seed = 2nd best 2nd place finisher. 7th seed = 3rd best 2nd place finisher. 8th seed = 4th best 2nd place finisher. Tiebreakers will be used if necessary, and will be inclusive from the begining of the competition, not just the previous second group stage. Total of 2 gameweeks to complete. 4 teams eliminated from competition. Final four The final four will enter the fouth, and final group, round robin play to determine the 08/09 Golden Boot winner. Total of 6 Gameweeks to complete. Total of 38 gameweeks. The premierleague official site determines the gameweek and teams that play, no alterations will be made by me. Teams that miss weeks of play due to the various cup competitions will have to be worked around. There will be no 'off weeks' this season. There will be no 'goal difference ' this season. There wil be no 'semi-final' and 'final' per se, this season.
First group stage fixtures These fixtures will be inclusive for all groups. Numbers donate draft position. Week 1. 1 v 2 3 v 4 5 v 6 7 v 8 Week 2. 1 v 4 2 v 3 5 v 8 6 v 7 Week 3. 1 v 6 2 v 5 3 v 8 4 v 7 Week 4 1 v 8 2 v 7 4 v 5 3 v 6 Week 5 1 v 3 2 v 4 5 v 7 6 v 8 Week 6 1 v 5 2 v 6 3 v 7 4 v 8 Week 7 1 v 7 2 v 8 3 v 5 4 v 6 Week 8 2 v 1 4 v 3 6 v 5 8 v 7 Week 9 4 v 1 3 v 2 8 v 5 7 v 6 Week 10 6 v 1 5 v 2 8 v 3 7 v 4 Week 11 8 v 1 7 v 2 5 v 4 6 v 3 Week 12 3 v 1 4 v 2 7 v 5 8 v 6 Week 13 5 v 1 6 v 2 7 v 3 8 v 4 Week 14 7 v 1 8 v 2 5 v 3 6 v 4. First Group Stage complete.
Second group stage fixtures Teams will already have been sorted into the groups, in their numbered positions. Again, these fixtures will be inclusive for all groups. Week 1. 1 v 3 2 v 5 4 v 6 Week 2. 3 v 2 4 v 5 6 v 1 Week 3. 5 v 3 6 v 2 4 v 1 Week 4. 3 v 6 5 v 1 4 v 2 Week 5. 3 v 4 1 v 2 5 v 6 Week 6 3 v 1 5 v 2 6 v 4 Week 7. 2 v 3 5 v 4 1 v 6 Week 8. 3 v 5 2 v 6 1 v 4 Week 9 6 v 3 1 v 5 2 v 4 Week 10 4 v 3 2 v 1 6 v 5 Second Group Stage complete.
Third group stage fixtures. Teams will already have been sorted into the groups, in their numbered positions. Again, these fixtures will be inclusive for all groups. Week 1. 1 v 2 3 v 4 Week 2. 1 v 3 2 v 4 Week 3. 1 v 4 2 v 3 Week 4. 2 v 1 4 v 3 Week 5. 3 v 1 4 v 2 Week 6. 4 v 1 3 v 2 3rd Group stage complete.
Quater-finals 1 v 7 Game A 3 v 5 Game B 2 v 8 Game C 4 v 6 Game D 1st seed = Best group winner record. 2nd seed = 2nd best group winner 3rd seed = 3rd best group winner 4th seed = th best group winner. 5th seed = best 2nd place finisher. 6th seed = 2nd best 2nd place finisher. 7th seed = 3rd best 2nd place finisher. 8th seed = 4th best 2nd place finisher.
Final Four Week 1. 1 v 2 3 v 4 Week 2. 1 v 3 2 v 4 Week 3. 1 v 4 2 v 3 Week 4. 2 v 1 4 v 3 Week 5. 3 v 1 4 v 2 Week 6. 4 v 1 3 v 2
Memory is fuzzy on this, but I thought Clan was thinking about doing away with the round-robin at the end, with the semis being home-away and then the final a one off. If so, 35 weeks, and kickoff in GW4? This is a fun competition, but I'd wait to hear what the Master Bootster has to say.
Clan hasn't been around much, I think I've seen one post from him on the Chelsea board since the end of pre-season.
If that is the case we can go one game week and see if he surfaces. I didn't make the final round so I can't give any feedback on its success. I thought it was a great competition and did not want to see it disappear. I am also ready to retroactive Gameweeks 1 and 2 and keep it a 38 week competition. We'll see if Clan replies. I also liked the Fantasy Olympics which 1-800 did. That looks to have disappeared as well.
I do intend to get this up an running. I've been given an (unwanted) 'promotion' at work, which is both temporary and requiring massive amounts of time away from home. This is due to end the weekend of Labour day...can't come soon enough. Until such time, my travelling has prevented and negated much of my leisure time for computer use, such as setting up and posting results and updating this (and other) pastimes. Bear with me, it'll be up and running soon. Your draft positions will determine your group, the fixtures are already pre-set and the results can be found with simple mouse clicks for previous weeks' scores. As mentioned by Blech, we will be returning to the original style, although it will be from week 1, with off weeks for the league cup final, FA Cup semi-final and final itself. I will be away again all of next week, so if some kind person has the time to post the draft orders for the 4 leagus, that would help me out greatly..
Here's how I have it: Small 1 1800-UK.com 2 FC Springfield 3 blechs_dawgs 4 VegasVirgins 5 Rat Face Villains FC 6 LSG Cambridge 7 Aviators 8 Inoffthepost Very Small 1 Windsor Wanderers 2 Kopite Juniors 3 Lee's Summit Rangers 4 ColdDogSoup FC 5 Pork Soda 6 Rockville Gunners 7 Old Peculiar 8 Yellowcake Phantoms Sand 1 Bettermirror MCFD 2 FC Touchline Ban 3 Sasha Juniors 4 Pittsadelphia FC 5 Duck Butter Bandits 6 ChrisSuttonsSlippers 7 The Class Acts 8 Jogo Bonito o la la Dust 1 Dynamo Teso 2 FC Reading 09 3 Southside Saturns 4 FC Weymouth 5 Valley FC 6 Zhirkov On My Back 7 Shoreham Town Wolves 8 FC St. Pauli
Great Stuff. The Golden Boot is back. It was my obsession last year. The first round that takes 14 games weeks. It is like the Battle of the Bulge. Sold Stuff. OK, I will keep carry the Olympic Torch. I was just afraid to the gameweek too many.
The Golden Boot Emergency Congress has looked at the numbers Round 1 - 14 weeks Round 2 - 10 weeks Round 3 - 6 weeks Quarter Finals 1 week Total - 31 weeks Then there is semifinals with 4 teams that used to take 6 weeks. This will now have to end in 3 weeks. So there may have to be a review of the Quarter Finals on... But for now, fasten your seat belts, with or without Clan the competition starts this weekend.
Gameweek starts Week 1. 1 v 2 3 v 4 5 v 6 7 v 8 The rules Goals and Assists count for points. Most points win a match. 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie. Top 6 teams in each division advance. Tie goes to point differential, then goals, then assists.
The Divisions Group A 1 1800-UK.com 2 FC Springfield 3 Windsor Wanderers 4 Kopite Juniors 5 Bettermirror MCFD 6 FC Touchline Ban 7 Dynamo Teso 8 FC Reading 09 Group B 1 blechs_dawgs 2 VegasVirgins 3 Lee's Summit Rangers 4 ColdDogSoup FC 5 Sasha Juniors 6 Pittsadelphia FC 7 Southside Saturns 8 FC Weymouth Group C 1 Rat Face Villains FC 2 LSG Cambridge 3 Pork Soda 4 Rockville Gunners 5 Duck Butter Bandits 6 ChrisSuttonsSlippers 7 Valley FC 8 Zhirkov On My Back Group D 1 Aviators 2 Inoffthepost 3 Old Peculiar 4 Yellowcake Phantoms 5 The Class Acts 6 Jogo Bonito o la la 7 Shoreham Town Wolves 8 FC St. Pauli
Not to confuse things, Tarv, but Clan had indicated he was going to run this retroactively, with designated weeks having no games. Clan strikes me as a pretty reasonable guy and all, but I'd be careful about stealing another man's Cup.... Not sure what to suggest if Clan's still unreachable, but we could well end up with 2 competing Cups!
My temporary assignment (due to end Labour day) has been extended through the end of the year. In reality, due to downsizing in the higher echelons of the company, many people now have extra work, extra hours and so called 'temporary' duties to perform. All being compensated for of course. In these economic times, it's hardly in my best interests to 'not be a team' player. In the fantasy football world, this translates into less free time, and with a heavy heart I must pass on running this time consuming competition this season.
Ah, curse that real world. Thanks to you again for conceiving and creating the cup, I'm sure we all understand the demands being placed on you. Thanks to Tarv too who's taken up the cause.
Currently the new Board of the Golden Boot is putting retroactive matches under consideration in order to have more matches at the end of the competition.
I am not sure if you are supposed to hold on to records for 4 years or 8 years but in the Golden Boot headquarters they are currently going back to week one. It seems that the competition had already started but the paperwork was stuck in some back closet. We do not know who was responsible but suspect that they could be associated with whatever squad in whichever group is at the bottom of the table and at Gameweek 6 is figuring they could get a fresh start in the competition. Unfortunately for them it is not the case and for the rest of us will see the finals carried out just have they always have. Maybe this year it will not be Duck Butter doing the clobbering. As it is Gameweek 6 here are the matches Week 6 Group A 1 1800-UK.com v 5 Bettermirror MCFD 2 FC Springfield v 6 FC Touchline Ban 3 Windsor Wanderers v 7 Dynamo Teso 4 Kopite Juniors v 8 FC Reading 09 Group B 1 blechs_dawgs v 5 Sasha Juniors 2 VegasVirgins v 6 Pittsadelphia FC 3 Lee's Summit Rangers v 7 Southside Saturns 4 ColdDogSoup FC v 8 FC Weymouth Group C 1 Rat Face Villains FC v 5 Duck Butter Bandits 2 LSG Cambridge v 6 ChrisSuttonsSlippers 3 Pork Soda v 7 Valley FC 4 Rockville Gunners v 8 Zhirkov On My Back Group D 1 Aviators v 5 The Class Acts 2 Inoffthepost v 6 Jogo Bonito o la la 3 Old Peculiar v 7 Shoreham Town Wolves 4 Yellowcake Phantoms v 8 FC St. Pauli
nice job to get this up and running. and a huge task to go back 5 weeks retroactively given that scoring must be done by hand. if anyone could volunteer to help Tarv with the updating - perhaps do one gameweek or do one group - i'm sure that would be appreciated. unlike the eliminators (which only require downloading and sorting total scores), i've always been impressed by the time required to make this run. props to Tarv for taking it on given Clan's unavailability this year, and to anyone who can assist him in getting us up to date. and, not to threadjack, but a reminder that the BE-Cup kicks off in gw7, so you've got the rest of this week and next week to get squads in order.
Let's begin to look at Week 5 starting with the Group C - which might be considered at this week to be the Group of Death with the 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th and 10th place teams... Three teams have Johnson and there is a couple of Rooneys, Fabregas and Cahill also shared. Group c - Week 5 1 Rat Face Villains FC 4 (4G + 0A) . v 3 Pork Soda 6 (4 G + 2A) Rat Face 4 Goals: Agbonlahor, Adebayor, Kuyt, Faye Ab. Pork Soda 6 Goals: Benayoun 3, Kuyt. Assits: Benayoun, Fabregas 2 LSG Cambridge 4 (2G + 2A) v 4 Rockville Gunners 6 (4 G + 2A) LSG Cambridge 4 (2G + 2A) Goals: Rooney, Defoe. Assists: Johnson, Koumas Rockville Gunners 6 (4 G + 2A) Goals: Van Persie, Rooney, Taylor, Faye Ab. Assist: Johnson, Anton Ferdinand 5 Duck Butter Bandits 0 v 7 Valley FC 3 (2G+ 1A) Valley FC 2 Goals: Taylor, Wright-Phillips Assists: Wright-Phillips 6 ChrisSuttonsSlippers 4 (2 G + 2A) v 8 Zhirkov On My Back 3 (2G + 1A) ChrisSuttonsSlippers 4 Goals: Rodallega, Cahill. Assists: Annelka, Johnson Zhirkov On My Back 3 Goals: Rooney, Cahill. Assists: Fabregas
Week 5 - Group B. 1 blechs_dawgs 4 (2G + 2A) v 3 Lee's Summit Rangers 0 (0 G + 0A) blechs_dawgs 4 (2G + 2A) Goals: Bent 2 Assists: Gerrard, Ghilas Lee's Summit Rangers 0 (0 G + 0A) Goal from Kochensky and Assist from Koumas on Bench 2 VegasVirgins 3 (2G + 1A) v 4 ColdDogSoup FC 0 (0G + 0A) VegasVirgins 3 (2G + 1A) Goals: Taylor, Cahill. Assist: Anton Ferdinand 5 Sasha Juniors 5 (3G + 2A) v 7 Southside Saturns 2 (1G + 1A) Sasha Juniors 5 (3G + 2A) Goals: Taylor, Davies, Kuyt. Assists: Lampard, Baines Southside Saturns 2 (1G + 1A) Goal: Van Persie. Assist: Johnson 6 Pittsadelphia FC 1 (1G + 0A) v 8 FC Weymouth 4 (3G + 1A) Pittsadelphia FC 1 (1G + 0A) Goal: Rooney FC Weymouth 4 (3G + 1A) Goals: Benayou n3, Assist: Benayoun