All Time Premier League Fantasy Draft: QF - Gio vs bleezy | Penalties

With players at peaks in the teams indicated, who will win?

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From the same article, if you had gerrard in a wide left role(ala hargreaves in the wide right here) I could have bought it but here I dont think tevez will have the same impact. This could be due to my lack of familiarity with petrescu who I dont think will own a flank like evra did in his prime.

In your side, I just feel the play will be too congested and through the middle and love bleezy's attacking trident.
 
MJJ said:
From the same article, if you had gerrard in a wide left role(ala hargreaves in the wide right here) I could have bought it but here I dont think tevez will have the same impact. This could be due to my lack of familiarity with petrescu who I dont think will own a flank like evra did in his prime.

In your side, I just feel the play will be too congested and through the middle and love bleezy's attacking trident.
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I wasn't looking to recreate the team in its entirety by any means. But the point stands that Tevez is well proven in a fluid front three, complementing the individuality of Ronaldo/Robben.

As for Petrescu he is as good a man as any to dominate a flank. He played much of his Chelsea time as a wing-back in a 3-5-2 (after firstly being part of a 4-3-3). To be honest he's probably the best wing-back in the pool. After all, how many conventional right-backs would pop in the inside-left channel to grab a last-minute winner in a crucial World Cup match? His stats at Chelsea were exceptional really - 33 assists.
 
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Aldo said:
I'd like to remind you that there used to be a time when a tie was decided by a common voter's opinion, this is a decent enough method, let's not get greedy. :D
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The point isn't improving penalties but the relevance of goalies.
 
Gio said:
Easy enough to sort out. Get a draft committee up and running and then agree keeper rankings once the 16 have been chosen.
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That's the easy part, with three tiers, it shouldn't be too hard. The difficult part is preserving the luck side (each manager would still submit their choices) and adding the skew of keeper value.

I know how I would do it, but it takes some admin work (minimal once you "get it").
 
antohan said:
That's the easy part, with three tiers, it shouldn't be too hard. The difficult part is preserving the luck side (each manager would still submit their choices) and adding the skew of keeper value.

I know how I would do it, but it takes some admin work (minimal once you "get it").
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Yup. 3 options for the penalties is a bit thin given about 80% of them are scored. But getting the balance between accuracy and simplicity is the key here.
 
Gio said:
As for Petrescu he is as good a man as any to dominate a flank. He played much of his Chelsea time as a wing-back in a 3-5-2 (after firstly being part of a 4-3-3). To be honest he's probably the best wing-back in the pool. After all, how many conventional right-backs would pop in the inside-left channel to grab a last-minute winner in a crucial World Cup match? His stats at Chelsea were exceptional really - 33 assists.
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I actually think he is the best rightback for owning a flank in this draft. There are better ones defensively, but not going forward.
 
Carlos Tevez steps up first for Gio. Looking confident as he starts his winding run up...

and Schmeichel is bamboozled as Tevez tucks it in the far right corner

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And Gio nudges ahead 1-0
 
Sergio Aguero starts his walk from the center circle. Van Der Sar waiting on the penalty spot for him. Aguero takes the ball off him...staring him down as VDS walks back to his line. Aguero begins his run up...hits it firmly...

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and smashes it in to the top right corner. VDS could do nothing about that one. We are all tied up at one each.
 
Patrick Vieira walks past Aguero on his way to the penalty spot...murmuring something under his breath about seeing him on the training ground one day. He picks up the ball, places it on the spot, and strikes it firmly

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Schmeichel is left rooted to the spot as Vieira nestles it in the bottom left corner. A fist pump in the crowds direction as he turns and jogs back. 2-1 Gio
 
Gio said:
Yup. 3 options for the penalties is a bit thin given about 80% of them are scored. But getting the balance between accuracy and simplicity is the key here.
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I've always thought it should be five options, for starters (top right, top left, bottom right, bottom left, centre) but there's a case for three options to tie-break inside five penos.

The way I was thinking was:

1) Each manager submits, as currently

2) The peno admin run two sets of 15 choices ( 5 x RLC ) through a randomiser, one for each keeper.

3) If it's a WTF? keeper it's irrelevant

4) If it's an awesome keeper, for every peno he has two values: what the manager said and what the keeper's instinct tells him. If the manager got it right, fine, if he got it wrong the randomised keeper instinct kicks in and may make the save.

5) What I'm not sure about is whether to make it so that it can kick in twice for awesome and once for solid regardless of result, or if it should kick in every time until there's two saves resulting from it for awesome or one save for solid.
 
Eden Hazard is already on the edge of the box waiting as VDS is arguing with the ref about the placement of the ball. The ref waves him away and tells him to get back on his line. Hazard stares down VDS, runs up to the ball...hits it with power to the left corner..

but VDS palms it away with an outstretched hand!! The mind games work. 2-1 Gio after two penalties each.
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Dan Petrescu is next to try his luck against the Great Dane. He refuses to look up from the ball as he can feel Schmeichel glaring at him. He starts his run up..

and finds the side netting as Schmeichel can do nothing to stop it. Gio takes a commanding 3-1 lead as the pressure starts to mount
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Rafael Van Der Vaart takes a deep breath as he waits for the whistle. He knows the pressure is on and he can't afford to miss. He's looked confident all game, pinging the ball about, and this is his moment to prove his worth to the team after some harsh criticism.

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OR MAYBE THEY WERE RIGHT! VDS dives to his right and pushes his effort away. It's all going wrong now! Still 3-1 Gio.
 
Adebayor. Emmanuel Adebayor. Hated by many. Loved by...maybe his mother. Never one to really care what people think, has a chance to be a hero if he can score here. Gio promised him a new contract before the match. Now he's promised him another deal on top of that if he just doesn't feck things up here. Surely he won't feck it up here...will he?

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NO HE WONT! A back heeled paneka penalty into the top right corner, done only as the man from Togo could. Gio wins 4-1 on the back of two saves from VDS
 
Good game @Gio. I'll admit I thought it'd be a cricket score when I looked at the quality in your team, so I'm pleased it was such a tight contest.
 
antohan said:
I've always thought it should be five options, for starters (top right, top left, bottom right, bottom left, centre) but there's a case for three options to tie-break inside five penos.
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Reminds me of the shoot-outs on International Superstar Soccer on the SNES. You had six options where to put it: the four corners and high or low down the middle. The odds seemed about right.
 
Penalties for @bleezy

Aguero - right
Hazard - left
Van Der Vaart - left
Sanchez - center
Fabregas - right

Keeper
Center
Center
Center
Center
Center

Penalties for @Gio

Tevez - right
Vieira - left
Petrescu - right
Adebayor - right
Gerrard - right

Keeper
Center
Right
Right
Right
Right
 
I've just spent 5 minutes trying to consider the logistics of a back heel panenka!!
 
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