No analysis - just a right to posture, boast and brag that you have made it into the top 1.3% (ish). Maybe when it gets to the sharp end of the table a bit of anaylsis would be useful - but for now, if you are on this list you are permitted to post on this thread... if you are not then go away and try harder!

There are a few new names as well that appear in the FISO league but I don't recognise them among the regular posters... any new or lurking FISO TFFOers are welcome here, so make yourself known.


Position Manager Team Name Points
1 Matt Buchanan Dreikaiserbund 554
2 Chris Lay Mindvampire6 552 MindVampire
3 Roger Jeffery Deckchair 551 UPS
4 Robert Cowell Robs Ringers 544
5 andrew sheppard shepstars11 539
6 Nick Child Sweet FC 528 nickchild
7 Graham Batchelor Cold Pigeon 527
8 Paul Machell Prem Crack Squad 526
8 Alex Abel westhamabel 526
10 Kieron Perrin Players FC 525
11 Cathy Taylor The Allotmenteers 520
12 Aidan Walker Elliotts Team 519
12 Kevin Duff tso leagues 4 519 TSO
14 Lloyd Garner TBC 517
15 Terence Doyle Hemingway 513
16 Allan Macdonald 67MACDONALDO 510
16 Simon Kelsey Kels 510
16 Kevin Mentel Back of the Net 510
19 Ryan Goodman Who Wants A Magners 509
19 Kieran Coleman Liverpool Bears 509
19 Mandhir Sidhu SuperXstyle 509 Fusebawler?
22 Stuart Doyle Stuperstars 3 508
23 Derek Blackford Real Subbuteo 507
23 Andy Summers The Spartans 507
25 Martin Englishby Fantasyfaz 18 506 FazandDaz
26 Nik Cooke Broken records 505 C00kie
27 Karl Eastbury Stour Stunners 504 ??
27 Russell Moulding Kellys Eye 504
27 Chris Cocker CCs Phal Guys 504
30 Chris Thorpe blarmy 503
30 Guy Markham Jacques Straps 503
32 Miss Iain Bruce Doomsday 502 Razorback
32 Paul Walker Numer 19 502
32 Richard Eve FRAGS THE DADDY 502
35 Stephen Buckley MeanMachine 501
35 Neil Murray No Chance In SPL 501 ??
37 Vinny Goodfield Vinnys Vandals 500
37 Steven Everett The E team 500
37 David Young dave3 500
40 Craig Rees Money Men 499
40 John Connolly Golden Showers 499
40 Craig Morris Real Ale Madrid 499
43 Glenn Siddall AlgarveReds09 498
43 Paul Hooper Superhoops2 498
45 Terry Doyle Toccoa Titans 497
45 Steve Legg stegg1 497 Stegg??
45 O Falana BlxcSlab 497
45 Ken Hannah whatmidfield 497
45 Keith Clarke Eleanors Team 497 kcboing
45 Matthew Childs Chelsea Green Snobs 497
51 Keith Clarke Baggie Boys 496 kcboing
51 Andy Cooper CDOTMAN1 496
53 Martin Daw The Devine Wind 495
53 Paul Hooper Superhoops1 495
53 Jakob Smusin LA Mafia 495
53 Tim Miller King Rocha 495 Chocs
57 Michael Richards Micky Redknapp 494
57 James Withers Choke City 494
57 Jonathan Sparrow La La 5 494 BigJonS
57 Paul Gordon Fourth Little Pig 494 Papa Giddy
57 Stuart Doyle Stuperstars 4 494
57 Stuart Doyle Stuperstars 8 494
63 Stephen Buckley SimplytheBest 493
63 Jason Williams Chaff Sniffers 493
63 Ben Ashe BD Athletic 493
66 Andy Howie Lets Be Avin You 492
66 Jack Deth ByeByeXabi 492
66 Andrew Luckhurst 6 492 12345678
66 Panos Conti lukatuswin 492
70 Ian Kemlo CLAYHEADS 491
70 Paul Macey Maceys Magic 491
70 John Allen CFR Clunj 491
70 Paul Duffield sideburn city 491
74 David Long 4-1 v ManUFact 490
74 Andy Stevens Stanley Park FC 490
74 Jonathan Sparrow Bongo 4 490 BigJonS
74 David WILDE Benchwarmers 490
74 Phil Randell Sleeping-Giants 490
74 Colin Kirk Relegation Fodder 490
74 Mark Linsell Basingstoke Fire 490
81 Philip HOWARD Team Meerkat 489
81 Simon Harrington HarrysXI 489
81 Andy Poyiadzis 1keysersoze 489
84 Mark Telford The Wobboid Mumps 488 ??
85 julian Prime Suffolk n close 486
85 Andrew Heasman Olivers Army 486
85 Ian Harper The NWRA 486
85 Jerome Meakin The Kemlo Beaters 486
89 Darren Bird we hate newcastle 485
89 Karen Tilney Tilneys Talent 485
89 Darren Bird goals goals goals 485
89 Bruce Baer Rachel Aldana 485 Bear
89 Harry Anoyrkatis bla bla bla 485
89 James Temple Picked In A Rush 485
95 Brian Owens Jobeys Boys 484
95 Brian Craig Loisville United 484
95 Andrew Luckhurst 4 484 12345678
98 Andrew Jordan trotters allstars 483
98 james modos modos magic 483
98 Peter Gatenby Beama 1 483


Everyone else = 79
Fiso = 21

But the real challenge this year is the battle of the animals.
So far it is: -

Everyone else = 4
Oddsman = 0

Afraid to say that's not me

I have a namesake who's been around FISO for a year or so I believe, by the username of Stegg. Unfortunately it seems he's doing better than me in a number of games this season - he's absolutely dominating the Metro FISO league for example!

You'll be able to tell who's who cos I think he calls all his teams "stegg".

Unfortunately my best team's now down in 297th, it seems you had to get about 100 points to hold your position this week

2 Steve Leggs... with the small numbers of players that participate in the game that's a real surprise. There are 2 Terry Bullens (?) also which makes it tricky to tell the El Tel's from the other. Wonder of there are any others???

People with the same name should be banned!

Opening post amended.

Very funny PG. Interestingly enough I am currently in a very similar overall position as last season (see below) and we all know how that finished. So dont expect me to be pushing the panic button just yet

Here is the The Animals leaderboard. (after week 6 last season)
Pos Overall Manager Team Tot Pts
1 99 Mr Jeffery Cole Donkey 349
2 245 Mr Jeffery Cole Cheetah 334
2 246 Mr Jeffery Cole Elephant 334
4 294 Mr Jeffery Cole Armadillo 331
5 489 Mr Jeffery Cole Gorilla 320
6 573 Mr Jeffery Cole Hedgehog 316
7 1175 Mr Jeffery Cole Fish 295
8 1279 Mr Jeffery Cole Badger 292
8 1280 Mr Jeffery Cole Iguana 292
Your league is placed 9 out of 385 with an average score of 334.

Here is the final The Animals leaderboard. (by the end of last season)
Pos Overall Manager Team Tot Pts
1 1 Mr Jeffery Cole Fish 88 2623
2 2 Mr Jeffery Cole Hedgehog 94 2606
3 4 Mr Jeffery Cole Donkey 97 2506
4 6 Mr Jeffery Cole Cheetah 77 2484
5 89 Mr Jeffery Cole Iguana 63 2343
6 112 Mr Jeffery Cole Armadillo 71 2332
7 121 Mr Jeffery Cole Gorilla 54 2327
8 356 Mr Jeffery Cole Elephant 67 2248
9 5420 Mr Jeffery Cole Badger 22 1320
Your league is placed 1 out of 392 with an average score of 2512.

I shouldn't really be posting here, but surely Nick Child is nickchild, the author of the brilliant greasemonkey script for Firefox that highlights who you should have in each flange?

Oy! get off this thread!



I don't doubt that you'll be in the mix Mr C by the end of the month never mind the end of the season!

Edit - great point Bram. I'll amend the opening thread after my next meeting.

Guilty as charged!

Roger Jeffery Deckchair 551 ??


hey....thats me

This post made me chuckle... so I’m here PG he he

Just a thought looking at the leaderboard... the scores seem quite high for week 6!
Looking back at last year, it appears that it took until about week 7/8 for the top scores to be in the 500s like this…

The Man of the match points can’t account for the difference... I suppose the combination of that and the good start by some of the big guns may be enough to account for it (then again we are quite low on Big 4 clean sheets to counter that)... Anyway I thought it was interesting to note LOL

have you only got 9 animals this year oddsman.

i have 6 teams.

i hear tffo pay out much quicker than tff

all the best,

andy

I have a winning system Andy

number of Oddsman Animals entered = 6 + (number of TFFO titles X 3)

Saw no reason, this season, to change the winning formula

Sorry PG, just given myself a damn good thrashing for posting on a thread that I am not invited

same here try to win at least one new game every year .

glad only tffo wins count in the entries system or could be very cumbersome

andy

My teams are in 45th and 51st. Got 97 and 100 this week and both went down. Got one other team at 1200ish.

aye, thatd be me.

first season, so not a regular poster on the TFFO board. you'll usually find me lurking somewhere on the FPL forums......!

26th. Broken Records, - tis me

p.s Broken Records have just released their debut album "Until the Earth begins to part" and I'd like to give them a mention and they can be viewed on you tube.

No ...no that ain't me ...my team took a slight tumble, however still in top 50.. tryna not jinx myself...with so many eyes watching.

about 65 today due to defensive nightmare......fingers crosses RVP can do the business in second half

good timing

how do you tell how many people are playing the game?

not sure....estimation of about 5000?

(I'm not here)

4952 teams (you can get there or anywhere by tweaking the link for the league showing your team - just knock 2 digits off the position you are interested in, e.g. 12 = 1200th)

http://tffo.telegraph.co.uk/leaderboards/OVERALL/50

Wow, not even 5000 teams. That's low even for this game. I thought there were at least 10000 last year.

Think the final figure last year was 9,100 or so. Not surprising the entry has dropped so much when the website was completely inaccessible for three days before the seaon stared. I had to stay up until 4.45am on the Saturday morning just to enter my seven squads

Quite a few of the regular posters are banned from this thread (not that that’s stopped them posting!) so I thought I’d update the top 100 going into the international break. These are actually the top 105 teams as I thought it only fair to include all the teams in joint 100th (and not only because one of these is mine ).

A great start for MindVampire who's sitting pretty at the top of the pile. No doubt one or two of us will be going over the ISO thread to see if we can pick up any tips, but you can't argue with MV's galacticos strategy so far this season.

It's also good to see the early ISO pacesetters Northernmonkey and LooneyToons joining the top 100. Good work.

Some of new entries look familiar, including a few teams that are in the FISO league, and I apologise if I've missed anyone out. Please speak up and claim your place.

1 Chris Lay Mindvampire6 753 MindVampire
2 Matt Buchanan Dreikaiserbund 752
3 Chris Cocker CCs Phal Guys 718
4 Robert Cowell Robs Ringers 714
5 Roger Jeffery Deckchair 711 UPS
6 Ryan Goodman Keep Your Eye On Me 705
7 Paul Walker Numer 19 694
7 Nick Child Sweet FC 694 nickchild
9 Lloyd Garner TBC 692
10 Kevin Duff tso leagues 4 691 TSO
10 andrew sheppard shepstars11 691
12 John Allen CFR Clunj 690
13 Neil Murray No Chance In SPL 687
14 Justin Merritt Ayala 685 Rust
14 Ryan Goodman On The Bit n Cruisin 685
14 Chris Thorpe blarmy 685
17 Craig Morris Real Ale Madrid 684
18 Ryan Goodman Who Wants A Magners 681
19 Jakob Smusin LA Mafia 679
20 Ian Sykes Iguana 678
21 Darren Bird goals goals goals 677
22 Aidan Walker Elliotts Team 674
22 Darren Bird no english 674
22 Graham Batchelor Cold Pigeon 674
25 Martin Daw The Devine Wind 673
25 Kieron Perrin Players FC 673
27 James Withers Choke City 672
28 Aaron Thomas JTs Ma 670
29 Kevin Mentel Back of the Net 666
30 Jason Williams Chaff Sniffers 665
30 Keith Clarke Eleanors Team 665 kcboing
30 Colin Kirk Relegation Fodder 665
33 Derek Blackford Real Subbuteo 663
33 Kieran Coleman Liverpool Bears 663
35 Cliff Wild HateManUandCitytoo 660
36 Steve Legg stegg1 659
36 Grahame Ivey Real Cockfosters 659
38 Neil Carrington Monte Carlo 658 FrankieFrog
38 Mandhir Sidhu SuperXstyle 658
40 Jonathan Sparrow La La 9 657 BigJonS
40 Andy Summers The Spartans 657
42 Allan Macdonald 67MACDONALDO 656
42 Richard Eve FRAGS THE DADDY 656
42 Chris Mcleod Northstar XI 656
42 Ken Hannah whatmidfield 656
42 Mohammed Shabban ALS TEAM 656
47 Ian Kemlo CLAYHEADS 655
47 Vinny Goodfield Vinnys Vandals 655
47 Stuart Doyle Stuperstars 4 655
50 Alex Abel westhamabel 653
51 Ian Harper The NWRA 652
51 Paul Edwin KFC 652
53 Paul Machell Prem Crack Squad 651
53 Jonny Goodall ISO Northernmonkey 651 Northernmonkey
55 Jonathan Sparrow Bongo 7 650 BigJonS
56 David WILDE Benchwarmers 649
57 Leslie Unsworth topshots 648
58 Glenn Siddall AlgarveReds09 647
58 Stuart Doyle ZOD Arrow 647
60 Guy Markham Jacques Straps 646
60 Neil Carrington BossCat 646 FrankieFrog
60 Neil Carrington Mortgage12 646 FrankieFrog
63 Tim Miller King Rocha 645 Chocs
64 Stephen Buckley SimplytheBest 643
64 simon richards mywifescunthorpe 643
66 Martin Englishby Fantasyfaz 18 642 FazandDaz
66 Mark Miller Millenium Falcon 642
66 Tim Miller Koumas Carew Young 642 Chocs
66 Jerome Meakin The Kemlo Beaters 642
66 Christopher Tarr AC Dead People 642
71 Terence Doyle Hemingway 641
71 Mark Ellis Trumptonshire 641 Marke192
71 Brian Owens Jobeys Boys 641
74 Richard Stirland Rich Pickings 640 Art Vandelay
74 Neil Carrington Usual Suspects 640 FrankieFrog
74 Andy Gilson VXRangers 640
77 Andrew Jordan trotters allstars 639
77 Andy Howie Lets Be Avin You 639
77 David Spacey Leads Untied 639
77 Paul Macey Maceys Magic 639
77 Jonathan Sparrow Bongo 4 639 BigJonS
77 Scott Webb North Bank Glory 639
77 Neil Carrington Mortgage5 639 FrankieFrog
77 Stuart Doyle Stuperstars 3 639
85 Jonathan Sparrow Bongo 1 638 BigJonS
85 David Shiels DAS2 638
87 Sarah Thomas saz is keane4success 637
87 Andy Summers The Cupid Stunts 637
87 Keith Inman MAKEMILOFIT XI 637
87 valentina perez Charlies Devils 637
91 Philip Street murtles cancles 636
91 Emma Hamer rafas red rockets 636
91 Chris Wright Wrightys Royals 636
91 Andrew Geldart Chickity China 636 bodgit
91 Patrick Waits A Geordies Dream 636
96 Darren Bird we hate newcastle 635
96 Tim Clear ISO LooneyToons 635 LooneyToons
96 David Leveridge norfolk reds 1 635
96 Benjamin Grose Mumbo Jumbo 635
100 Chris Rees thisseasonswinners 634
100 Nick Johns the T36s 634
100 Cathy Taylor The Allotmenteers 634
100 Michael Copping Eaton EmpireStrikesBallack 634
100 Tim Miller Park Leiva 634 Chocs
100 John Connolly Golden Showers 634

Are we allowed to post on this thread if we were in the top 100 ...

I'm in 14th

and the highest new entry I reckon.

Glad to have finally made it in! Let's hope my other teams can follow in after the international break! Well done to all Fiso'ers who have made the good start!

Good old Fabregas.