Surprised wrote:Going to be trickier than i thought
I had planned to run the 1st round in GW 25 and 26
FPL GW 25 is 1st and and 2nd Feb which, as you say next Tuesday and Wednesday.
FPL GW 26 is the 5th and 6th which are Saturday and Sunday.
That should be workable as I can get the updated TFF weekly scores on the Thursday in GW 25 and the FPL GW25 scores which then cover the 1st leg. 2nd leg is FPL GW 26 and the weekend scores for TFF. It's a simple calculation to get these.
GW 27 however is a huge week and goes from 12 Feb to 23rd Feb which is very tricky as it covers 3 TFF weeks. I may postpone the last 16 until GW28.
All ideas welcome.
The only way to do it sensibly is, as you've said you will, to go by FPL gameweeks, in order to ensure scores are captured each week after FPL supersubs have gone through. TFF updates every day so it should be fine (unless there's a quick gameweek turnaround as you mention between GWs 25 and 26, and you don't have time to capture the tables in that gap). Although if you're running a 2-legged cup match over GWs 25 and 26 there's not even an absolute necessity to get an update in between the weeks (unless you were needing to judge an 'away goals rule' between the two legs in case of a tie).
Only thing to watch out for is FA Cup ties, some of the time it should be easy as they'll fall in the middle of an FPL GW (eg the 5th round on 19 Feb which just sits in the middle of the long GW27), but for example the cup this weekend comes after GW24 has ended but before GW25. For the season-long comp it won't matter as it will all get added up in the end, but for a cup you'd just have to decide exactly how to split the weeks (and when you want to do updates) - eg either say "GW 25 covers only games on Feb 1 & 2" or "games from 29 Jan to 2 Feb".
Oh, and cheers for running this by the way!!
Interesting draw... good luck J!