Well that's not as good a story as I was hoping for

**** that's a lot of PMs tho

I have about tree fiddy (348) in 9 years

yeah running games, sorry it's not a more interesting story

I know I picked Burnley and Southampton for #1 and #2, just can't remember which order lol. Doesn't matter anyway I know #1 is down, #2 still has a chance

There's a 50/50 chance they won't be sheep answers.

When's the first reveal? Give the people what they crave!

Not sure. It's going to be a crazy day of work & I still haven't entered the entries in. Will update when I have a better idea.

Alright, I'm at the office at 6:30 am & our server is down so I can't do the work I was planning to right now, so have gotten answers entered (although it will still take hours to group them & all that fun stuff for 30 questions, but not a today problem).

Turns out we only have 45 & I must have double-counted one of the many resubmitters. Of course, it's always possible I'm missing something, so let me know if you should be here, but aren't:

45 players:

72off
Bazingahh
Berge20
Bob Dobelina
Booker Wolfbox
ChopSueyyy
Cinarocket
DonkDonkDonkDonk
eleanor60
eyebooger
Fatal Checkraise
Giroudgeous
GregDC
IHaveThreePair
Jabonator
JMurder3
kingweed
KrazyKris
kutuz_off
Ledders
LFC_USA
loosekanen
LostOstrich
lukethefluke
mic_check12
MindFckr
mw828
NicReynolds
Paasei
PeteBlow
Planetist
PokerCrazy94
PokerCrazy94
Precept2
Rex Banner
rtspurs
S.K
sixfour
Tall Paul
teejayC
TheGramuel
TJ Eckleburg12
Vilica
vruuuuk
xander biscuits

For purposes of transparency, here's my PM to myself with my entry which I sent prior to starting this thread. I put it in spoilers in case you don't want to be spoiled about anything in the game.



As you can see, if you look at it, I'm prob not very good at this.

Dara is missing from the entries list, he entered by email. also Pokercrazy is there twice

I only got one email entry & it was from Bazingahh. Did he send it to the right place? Will fix Poker. Thx.

Ohhh please wait, he is desperate to play and has paid, I call him now, he said he mailed it

Ok, that was sorted. He forwarded the email he sent to the wrong address, so is g2g. Updated player list, still with 45:

45 players:

72off
Bazingahh
Berge20
Bob Dobelina
Booker Wolfbox
ChopSueyyy
Cinarocket
Dara
DonkDonkDonkDonk
eleanor60
eyebooger
Fatal Checkraise
Giroudgeous
GregDC
IHaveThreePair
Jabonator
JMurder3
kingweed
KrazyKris
kutuz_off
Ledders
LFC_USA
loosekanen
LostOstrich
lukethefluke
mic_check12
MindFckr
mw828
NicReynolds
Paasei
PeteBlow
Planetist
PokerCrazy94
Precept2
Rex Banner
rtspurs
S.K
sixfour
Tall Paul
teejayC
TheGramuel
TJ Eckleburg12
Vilica
vruuuuk
xander biscuits

Who do you reckon is going to be managing Mark Hughes later in the season JMurder? Could be a job for Big Sam?

Lettuce begin...

I'll be revealing the incorrects based on how far from being correct they are, & I might be soliciting some help from a new & improved friend.

The wrongest answer not only didn't lose, they also didn't tie, & didn't win by only 1 goal.



These 2 guys are confused why these other 2 guys picked against them. Perhaps they were convinced that only adding a couple players to a 100 point squad would be a legit problem.

Manchester City F.C. - 2
eyebooger
MindFckr

Lol me not formatting my own answers correctly. Teach me to try to do this in 5 minutes. Fortunately I think the players on a team caveat transfers to the coaches on a team.

This team also failed to lose & accidentally won by 2 goals (2-0).



Crystal Palace F.C. - 2
eleanor60
teejayC

I'm actually not even the only person to submit that exact same error. Someone else selected Lukaku, so I'm going to have to figure out what went wrong with that entry...

The next incorrect answer won 2-1, thus failing to lose.



Tottenham Hotspur F.C. - 2
Bazingahh
lukethefluke

Not sure why Jan Vertonghen posted that tweet with a picture of Christian Eriksen.

Our next incorrect answer certainly deserved to lose...



Unfortunately the model seems to have overcorrected & instead both of these teams failed to score any goals.

Southampton F.C. - 2
GregDC
Tall Paul

& on the flip side...



Not sure how you could pick against anyone with a leg that yolked.

Burnley F.C. - 3
72off
DonkDonkDonkDonk
PokerCrazy94

Our final incorrect answer tried to lose. They got a player red carded 40 minutes into the game, & xG says they lost 0.88 to 0.71. Richarlison & had other plans, though, twice putting them ahead as part of his 1st Premier League brace, before the teams eventually tied at 2.

No one picked the Wolves to lose their 1st game since being called up.



Everton F.C. - 2
Ledders
sixfour

it is going to be an embarrassing first few reveals

That means that there were 32 correct answers for this question & 13 incorrect answers. The fact that there were only 2 ties in the opening fixture probably helped with that.

8 teams lost, & all 8 were chosen.

Meh, sometimes it’s worth a shot.