TFF Championship Chit Chat 18th and 19th August

[morganb]

As we don't get many people posting on the Championship edition of the chit chat thread, I thought I'd try something different this week. I may just post the fixture every week then a summary like this on a monthly basis...

Fixtures - Numbers before home team and after away team are their league positions

FRIDAY 18TH AUGUST

24 Burton 19:45 Birmingham 12

SATURDAY 19TH AUGUST

18 Sheff Utd 12:15 Barnsley 17

23 Aston Villa 15:00 Norwich 10
19 Bolton 15:00 Derby 15
9 Bristol City15:00 Millwall 22
16 Fulham15:00 Sheff Wed 20
3 Ipswich 15:00 Brentford 21
5 Nottm Forest 15:00 Middlesbrough 4
13 Preston 15:00 Reading 14
11 QPR 15:00 Hull 8
2 Wolves 15:00 Cardiff 1

6 Sunderland 17:30 Leeds 7

League Table

Team P W D L GD Pts
1 Cardiff 3 3 0 0 6 9
2 Wolves 3 3 0 0 4 9
3 Ipswich 3 3 0 0 3 9
4 Middlesbrough 3 2 0 1 2 6
5 Nottm Forest 3 2 0 1 1 6
6 Sunderland 3 1 2 0 2 5
7 Leeds 3 1 2 0 1 5
8 Hull 3 1 1 1 2 4
9 Bristol City 3 1 1 1 1 4
10 Norwich 3 1 1 1 0 4
11 QPR 3 1 1 1 0 4
12 Birmingham 3 1 1 1 0 4
13 Preston 3 1 1 1 0 4
14 Reading 3 1 1 1 -1 4
15 Derby 3 1 1 1 -1 4
16 Fulham 3 0 3 0 0 3
17 Barnsley 3 1 0 2 -2 3
18 Sheff Utd 3 1 0 2 -2 3
19 Bolton 3 0 2 1 -1 2
20 Sheff Wed 3 0 2 1 -1 2
21 Brentford 3 0 1 2 -2 1
22 Millwall 3 0 1 2 -2 1
23 Aston Villa 3 0 1 2 -4 1
24 Burton 3 0 0 3 -6 0

Top players - taken from Bram's site http://bramernic.com/fsports/tffch2017-2018/points.php#

Pos Name Club Val Tot

Keeper C Maxwell Pre 3.2 14
Keeper J Ruddy Wol 3.3 14
Keeper N Etheridge Car 3.1 14

Def B Douglas Wol 3.3 19
Def J Knudsen Ips 3.8 14
Def D Fisher Pre 2.8 14
Def W Boly Wol 2.9 14
Def S Morrison Car 4.3 14
Def L Peltier Car 3.1 14
Def T Spurr Pre 2.7 14
Def S Bamba Car 3.8 14
Def P Huntington Pre 3.4 14
Def M Doherty Wol 4.1 14
Def J Bennett Car 3.7 14
Def G Cunningham Pre 3.5 13
Def R Miranda Wol 3.1 13

Mid B Reid BC 3.6 22
Mid K Phillips Lee 3.8 14
Mid N Mendez-Laing Car 3.0 13
Mid B McKay NF 2.9 12

Striker A Hernandez Hul 6.5 19 (INJURED)
Striker L Grabban Sun 5.6 16
Striker C Washington QP 4.5 14
Striker C Wood Lee 6.9 12
Striker K Zohore Car 5.1 12

Injuries -

This site, found via Google, looks fairly comprehensive: http://annabet.com/en/soccerstats/serie ... nship.html

However, it does also include Brighton, Huddersfield, Leicester (!), Newcastle, etc... but I'm hoping it includes all of the existing Championship sides as that is what we are interested in

(Sorry, the formatting goes a little askew as tabs appear to get stripped out)

[SamD]

Thanks, morganb.

Here's further source of injury info: as usual, reader needs to judge its accuracy:

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/champion ... bewerb/GB2

[Maldini]

Chris Wood not playing today.



Leeds

[Bill Ferny]

I'm assuming that there are second KCs in the Championship also?

Has anyone been taking any notice?

Clear second assist for the Wolves goal against Cardiff ( Diego Jota )?

[murf]

Can't say I'd noticed before but T&Cs say an "assist" is 3pts. No mention of KCs at all, let alone 2 of them.

[Bill Ferny]

Can't say I'd noticed before but T&Cs say an "assist" is 3pts. No mention of KCs at all, let alone 2 of them.

Thanks Murf.

Appears to be a clear distinction between the two formats then.

[murf]

Yep. Think they are just putting less effort into this game and taking the easy option of using OPTA data.

[morganb]

Yep. Think they are just putting less effort into this game and taking the easy option of using OPTA data.

Had some correspondence with TFF regarding KCs and assists and their reply was

The assists for the Championship game are solely awarded by OPTA and their decision is final I'm afraid.