Football Europe Prediction Game (FEPG) - Season 30

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Football Europe Prediction Game (FEPG) - Season 30

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General Rules

1. Any kassiesa.net Forum member is allowed to take part. 

2. Each week, the game-list consists of 10 matches picked from around European leagues, mainly including teams with recent European participation or holding top league positions at that time. Two additional bonus games will be posted each week and will be used as possible replacement games in case one or two regular games are canceled/postponed. 

3. Predictions are made on games taking place on weekends (Saturday & Sunday) + Monday. 
In a very special case, Friday games may also be included (players will be informed in time). 
The deadline is the last second before the game starts. Sometimes start time of games is changed after the game list is published, so be careful not to miss a possible new deadline, even announced wrongly.  

4. The games are picked by the game administrator. 
However, any player may recommend a game & his/her suggestion would be certainly considered. 

5. Points are awarded according to the official (final) result of each game. 
If on Sunday night a game is under investigation for any reason (cancellation – postponement – interruption – rescheduled, etc.) then we wait until Monday night. If yet, there is no official result, then that game is not taken into account, and the result of the bonus game is used. No matter it was the 1st minute or last minute, no matter if it is 3-0 or 0-3, it does not count. 

6. Predicting the correct outcome of a match is rewarded with 2 points. Predicting the exact score is awarded one additional point. 

7. In all competitions, the player's score is equal to the points obtained during the week. 

8. Players are allowed to predict via private messages (PM). Players are recommended to announce it each time they send a PM. 

9. Shuffling the game order is prohibited.

10. Copying predictions of an opponent is prohibited & punishable by the cancellation of predictions. 

11. All predictions must be sent in one single post. In the case of a double post latest one counts, and predictions for games already started are canceled. 

12. Changing predictions after the deadline is prohibited & punished with the cancellation of whole matchday predictions. 

13. If someone is unable to predict on a certain week, but really wants to, the player can inform the administrator & request for the list of all possible games to predict in advance.
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Competitions 

1. General Ranking 

Format: General Ranking runs the whole season. The points of a player are the sum of points from all the weeks. The one with the most points is declared overall FEPG champion.

Tie-breakers:
- most times MVP of the week 
- more 2nd places, 3rd places etc. 

Start: week 1 

Entry: No restrictions. Once you've posted predictions, you get automatically enrolled.
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2. Leagues (general rules)

General format: Players are classified into different league levels, according to their last season finish. The number of leagues depends on the number of players participating in the game. 

Point system: 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss. 

Tie-breakers (league):
- head-to-head games (points) 
- goals for 
- general ranking 
- all time ranking 

Tie-breakers (play-offs):
- league position

Start: week 2 

Entry: Players' enrollment depends on the league performance during previous season. New players are enrolled in the lowest tier.

Missing players: If a player fails to predict 3 times during the league season, he/she is excluded from the league and relegated to the last level, thereby the number of relegated players is reduced by one (with the missing player being already relegated to nowhere) and the number of players in divisions is fixed with shifts. Though, his/her results are not erased but remain as they are.

Every time a player misses an MD, he/she is substituted virtually by a player whose score is the average score of the MD minus 1,125 and rounded. So no player is guaranteed a win against a zero-opponent.
However, if a player is excluded in off-season time, his place is covered by another player according to the leagues' priority list.


Premier League

Format: 14 players play a total of 13 MDs. Last 3 are relegated to Second Division.


Second Division

Format: All remaining players are enrolled in the Second Division. 3 players are promoted to Premier League. The actual league format and promotion rules depend on the number of enrolled participants.


Nations League

Format: Players are grouped into 3-person teams, formed by their choice or by a decision of the game administrator (nationality is taken as the first criteria). All teams play one league match against all other teams.

Tie-breakers (group stage):
- head-to-head games (points)
- goals for
- best player's score over NL weeks

Start: week 7/8/9  (based on number of formed teams)

Missing players: If a player misses the first matchday, he/she will be substituted with one of the players not included in any of the teams, ordered by eternal ranking position (if such player exists at all). Substitution is not allowed after the first matchday.
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3. Champions League

Format: There will be formed 4 groups of 4 players coming from 4 pots according to the seeding list (based on results from the last 5 seasons). Top 2 from each group advance to quarterfinals, where group winners meet runner-ups. Knockout matches are played over 2 legs, except for the final.
Winners of last season's competitions take a free ticket to the group stage. The remaining players will play a qualification round(s).
Draws are based on the seedings list. Group stage draw will mimic draw for AFCON 2017 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Afri ... of_Nations) – title-holder will take host's place, all other players will take place of one of the national teams based on seedings list. Knockout stages draw will be based on CL 2000/01 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%8 ... ons_League).

Tie-breaker (qualification rounds): seedings list

Tie-breaker (group stage):
- head-to-head games (points)
- goals for
- general ranking
- all time ranking

Tie-breaker (final stages):
- total points over all CL weeks (excluding QRs)
- seedings list

Start: week 5/6/7 (based on number of participants)

Missing players: If a player misses the first group stage matchday, he/she is replaced by the best non-qualified player from the last qualification round (determined by the number of points in that round, then followed by general ranking position). If a player misses group stage MD2 or MD3, he/she is excluded from the group and his/her results are canceled.

Group stage:
General Ranking: KDz
Premier League: ralfinho
Second Division: nunoalexfcporto
Champions League: bbi
FA Cup: Ricardo
Nations Cup: Friesland, ralfinho, Ricardo
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4. Cups

FA Cup 

Format: The competition is a knockout tournament with pairings for each round based on actual FA Cup from season 2018/19 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_FA_Cup). All players qualified for the certain round will be sorted by current general ranking position and will be assigned one actual FA Cup team (they will be sorted by their final league position). This will be used from the round of 16 – draws for preliminary rounds will be random. Matches between same league opponents playing the same week will be avoided as far as it is possible (league protection).
Each tie is played as a single leg. 

Tie-breakers:
- general ranking 
- all time ranking 

Start: week 10/11 (based on number of participants)

Entry: Based on the number of participants, a certain number of best-ranked players will gain direct entry to the round of 16. Others have to qualify through the preliminary round. Best ranked players are determined by the General Ranking table before the week competition is scheduled to start.


Super Cup 

Format: Consists of one game played between previous season's PL champion & FA Cup holder. 

Tie-breaker: Previous season ranking. 

Start: week 1 
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League's priority list:

1. ralfinho – PL champion
2. og2002gr
3. SimonB
4. levski.bg
5. Kaiser
6. KDz
7. bbi
8. UCL_Lover
9. Vidibreovo
10. Francisco
11. fabiomh
12. nunoalexfcporto - SD champion
13. Ricardo
14. nikolapfc89
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15. lemar
16. KRB
17. matt
18. Affo
19. shineB4
20. drvasko98
21. Friesland

If you plan not to participate this season, please inform me here or via PM. Also, new/returning players can announce their participation in the same manner.
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Seeding coefficients for Champions League

31 – bbiCL champion
61 – nunoalexfcporto
55 – KDz
54 – Kaiser
53 – Ricardo
49 – og2002gr
49 – ralfinho
47 – matt
36 – Francisco
36 – lemar
35.5 – Vidibreovo
32 – UCL_Lover
27 – KRB
25.5 – SimonB
23.5 – shineB4
22 – Affo
21.5 – nikolapfc89
16 – levski.bg
16 – Eratosthenes
15 – Friesland
14 – ignjat63
12 – drvasko98
12 – PnavE_81
8 – erdinc
5 – ELECTRIC
2 – fabiomh
1.5 – ToffeeDan
1 – Jua Ferreira
1 – nikosextra
0 – MTC


Direct entrants to group stage in blue. Players that weren't participating in the last season are in italic.

Points clarification:
win – 2 pts (1 pt for qualification rounds)
draw – 1 pt (0.5 pt for qualification rounds)
group stage qualification – 3 pts
quarter-finals, semi-finals, final qualification – 1 pt
competition winner – 1 pt
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Welcome back. Here we go!!
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Premier League - Schedule

MATCHDAY 1
fabiomh - Kaiser
ralfinho - Francisco
nunoalexfcporto - og2002gr
bbi - levski.bg
UCL_Lover - KDz
nikolapfc89 - Ricardo
Vidibreovo - SimonB

MATCHDAY 2
Francisco - fabiomh
og2002gr - Kaiser
levski.bg - ralfinho
KDz - nunoalexfcporto
Ricardo - bbi
Vidibreovo - UCL_Lover
SimonB - nikolapfc89

MATCHDAY 3
fabiomh - og2002gr
Francisco - levski.bg
Kaiser - KDz
ralfinho - Ricardo
nunoalexfcporto - Vidibreovo
bbi - SimonB
nikolapfc89 - UCL_Lover

MATCHDAY 4
levski.bg - fabiomh
KDz - og2002gr
Ricardo - Francisco
Vidibreovo - Kaiser
SimonB - ralfinho
nikolapfc89 - nunoalexfcporto
UCL_Lover - bbi

MATCHDAY 5
fabiomh - KDz
levski.bg - Ricardo
og2002gr - Vidibreovo
Francisco - SimonB
Kaiser - nikolapfc89
ralfinho - UCL_Lover
nunoalexfcporto - bbi

MATCHDAY 6
Ricardo - fabiomh
Vidibreovo - KDz
SimonB - levski.bg
nikolapfc89 - og2002gr
UCL_Lover - Francisco
bbi - Kaiser
nunoalexfcporto - ralfinho

MATCHDAY 7
fabiomh - Vidibreovo
Ricardo - SimonB
KDz - nikolapfc89
levski.bg - UCL_Lover
og2002gr - bbi
Francisco - nunoalexfcporto
Kaiser - ralfinho

MATCHDAY 8
SimonB - fabiomh
nikolapfc89 - Vidibreovo
UCL_Lover - Ricardo
bbi - KDz
nunoalexfcporto - levski.bg
ralfinho - og2002gr
Kaiser - Francisco

MATCHDAY 9
fabiomh - nikolapfc89
SimonB - UCL_Lover
Vidibreovo - bbi
Ricardo - nunoalexfcporto
KDz - ralfinho
levski.bg - Kaiser
og2002gr - Francisco

MATCHDAY 10
UCL_Lover - fabiomh
bbi - nikolapfc89
nunoalexfcporto - SimonB
ralfinho - Vidibreovo
Kaiser - Ricardo
Francisco - KDz
og2002gr - levski.bg

MATCHDAY 11
fabiomh - bbi
UCL_Lover - nunoalexfcporto
nikolapfc89 - ralfinho
SimonB - Kaiser
Vidibreovo - Francisco
Ricardo - og2002gr
KDz - levski.bg

MATCHDAY 12
nunoalexfcporto - fabiomh
ralfinho - bbi
Kaiser - UCL_Lover
Francisco - nikolapfc89
og2002gr - SimonB
levski.bg - Vidibreovo
KDz - Ricardo

MATCHDAY 13
fabiomh - ralfinho
Kaiser - nunoalexfcporto
bbi - Francisco
UCL_Lover - og2002gr
nikolapfc89 - levski.bg
SimonB - KDz
Vidibreovo - Ricardo
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Champions League - Group Stage draw

Group A

1. bbi
2. ralfinho
3. Francisco
4. fabiomh

Group B

1. Kaiser
2. Ricardo
3. Vidibreovo
4. Friesland

Group C

1. nunoalexfcporto
2. matt
3. UCL_Lover
4. SimonB

Group D

1. KDz
2. og2002gr
3. KRB
4. shineB4


The draw was done per AFCON 2017 draw (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Afri ... of_Nations), so you can check it yourself if you want.


The schedule will be (unless the same opponents have a PL/SD game on the same week):
MD1: 1vs4 and 2vs3
MD2: 1vs3 and 2vs4
MD3: 1vs2 and 3vs4
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Group A

MD1:
bbi - fabiomh
ralfinho - Francisco

MD2:
Francisco - bbi
fabiomh - ralfinho

MD3:
bbi - ralfinho
Francisco - fabiomh


Group B

MD1:
Kaiser - Friesland
Ricardo - Vidibreovo

MD2:
Vidibreovo - Kaiser
Friesland - Ricardo

MD3:
Kaiser - Ricardo
Vidibreovo - Friesland


Group C

MD1:
nunoalexfcporto - SimonB
matt - UCL_Lover

MD2:
matt - nunoalexfcporto
SimonB - UCL_Lover

MD3:
nunoalexfcporto - UCL_Lover
matt - SimonB


Group D

MD1:
KDz - shineB4
og2002gr - KRB

MD2:
KRB - KDz
shineB4 - og2002gr

MD3:
KDz - og2002gr
KRB - shineB4

(only change was in Group C due to UCL_Lover/SimonB match in PL)
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"Strongest" group (by coefficients):
165.5 - Group C (nunoalexfcporto - matt - UCL_Lover - SimonB)
157.5 - Group B (Kaiser - Ricardo - Vidibreovo - Friesland)
154.5 - Group D (KDz - og2002gr - KRB - shineB4)
118.0 - Group A (bbi - ralfinho - Francisco - fabiomh)

"Top form" group (by general ranking points):
304 - Group A (bbi - ralfinho - Francisco - fabiomh)
293 - Group B (Kaiser - Ricardo - Vidibreovo - Friesland)
266 - Group D (KDz - og2002gr - KRB - shineB4)
257 - Group C (nunoalexfcporto - matt - UCL_Lover - SimonB)

"Most experienced" group (by number of group stage participations):
55 - Group B (Kaiser - Ricardo - Vidibreovo - Friesland)
53 - Group D (KDz - og2002gr - KRB - shineB4)
48 - Group C (nunoalexfcporto - matt - UCL_Lover - SimonB)
45 - Group A (bbi - ralfinho - Francisco - fabiomh)

"Most successful" group (by number of qualifications to knockout stages):
28 - Group A (bbi - ralfinho - Francisco - fabiomh)
25 - Group B (Kaiser - Ricardo - Vidibreovo - Friesland)
21 - Group C (nunoalexfcporto - matt - UCL_Lover - SimonB)
21 - Group D (KDz - og2002gr - KRB - shineB4)
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The new season of the Nations League will start on MD11
Rules are the same as last season - teams of 3 players will play a plain round-robin league. We have 19 players, so 6 teams. Unfortunately, one player will need to miss this season's competition.

This is the list of participants, according to their nationality. Please form your teams in the next period and inform me here. Then I will group any players left (if any):
BUL - drvasko98
BUL - levski.bg
CYP - KRB
ENG - SimonB
FRO/POR - shineB4
GER - ralfinho
GRE - og2002gr
GRE - UCL_Lover
ITA - fabiomh
ITA - matt
NED - Friesland
NED - Ricardo
POR - Francisco
POR - nunoalexfcporto
ROM - bbi
RUS/ENG - Kaiser
SRB - KDz
SRB - nikolapfc89
SRB - Vidibreovo

Last season's final table:
1. Dutchies (Friesland – ralfinho – Ricardo)
2. Serbia (KDz – nikolapfc89 – Vidibreovo)
3. BulPol (drvasko98 – lemar – levski.bg)
4. England (Affo – Kaiser – SimonB)
5. Hellas (KRB – og2002gr – UCL_Lover)
6. Portugal (Francisco - nunoalexfcporto – shineB4)
7. Roman (bbi - fabiomh – matt)

PS1: choose a name for your team (ex. Portugal, Easterns, Aegean, etc)
PS2: please respect your team-mates and don't miss any week, since this will ruin the team effort.
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In comparison with last season, if I am not wrong the 2 players that are absent are:
- lemar, so BulPol have 1 member less
- Affo, so England have also 1 member less

:arrow: My suggestion is:
a. If anybody of all other teams does not want to compete, then problem solved, 18 participants.

b. If anybody from old BulPol or England wants to make a break, then we also have a solution. Ideal 18 left to play, the 3 from those old teams will form a new one and they can decide the name.

c. We can have all 4 members of old teams who lost a player (drvasko98, levski.bg, Kaiser and SimonB) in one team. Variants:
  • c1) We add all four scores and then take the 75% (3/4) to make the team's score. Supposing that scores would be 11, 7, 12, 9 the sum would be 39, which would make an average of 9,75 thus a score of 10.
  • c2) Have randomly (or alphabetically or in some other way) one member selected as exempt, so team will play with specific trio on each MD, that will be set before the competion starts. Eg. drvasko98 exempt on MD1, levski.bg exempt on MD2, etc.
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C2 variant
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