Gazza's United

Over 2.5 goals - 25 point treble please.
Barnsley 1.70
Accrington 1.91
Raith 1.53
 

Treble for 20 pts. 
All FA Cup
Blackburn 1.33
Swansea 1.33
Leeds 1.57

It seems in life that four things are certain...
1. Death.
2. Taxes.
3. Joey Barton saying something completely idiotic. 
4. @Gray306 sitting at the top of the Punters Lounge Fantasy Football League this season.
Yes, the big man has retained his top spot which is particularly impressive considering he did so after only earning 36 points this week. To be fair, it was a low-scoring week with midweek fixtures always throwing a spanner in the works with player availability and squad rotation. However, the fact that none of Graham Haynes' immediate rivals could take advantage of that poor total suggests he's hit that habit of still doing what needs to be done even when his players aren't playing well. That's title material right there! 
Anyway, the upshot (for the majority) of this poor week is that it's allowing others to sneak up from the peloton (or whatever the football league table equivalent is!). The likes of @skyblues88 might have slipped down a bit (have the wheels come off?!) but who's that coming over the hill? It's only @Gazza's United and he wants his title credentials back! Ooh, you get the feeling it's all starting to hot up a bit now, don't you!
Congratulations to George Callaghan's sw1 sweet for taking home the Manager of the Week accolade with 77 points. A decent return considering the round average was just 35 points. Callaghan can credit the Liverpool duo for that performance with Trent Alexander-Arnold's 24 points and Virgil Van Dijk's 14 points making up nearly half his team's total!
Now, we have a bit of a problem for the Name of Shame. We actually have a Punters Lounge Fantasy Football League first. It's not something anybody should be proud of but I feel it's certainly a case where if we don't laugh, we'll cry. This week we not only have a multiple winners situation but we enter new territory. Yes, we don't have just two recipients... we don't have three... we don't even have four. Yes, that's correct. We have FIVE Name of Shame recipients this week! Somebody pass me the brandy!
So if I could kindly ask Tara Rezodoust's TaraNATION, @lukekindelan1985's Medical Express City (not a good couple of weeks for the Kindelan brood!), Mark Marshall's Location Location, @yossa6133's The Roosters, and John Goode's JG698 to enter the stocks. Not sure we have any players available to actually throw rotten vegetables at you. You're all in the stocks by the looks of it! Anyway, shame on you all. 21 points... not the worst score we've ever had but still not great. Must. Do. Better! 
It's another quick turnaround this week with the deadline for Game Week 16 transfers being 11am UK time on Saturday 9th December. Best of luck to you all! 

£10 treble please
Man United 1.65
Everton 1.91
Blackburn 2.37

Yes please.

Palmers Allstars 👑
Gareth Palmer

Thank you, @MinellaWorksop! Glad you enjoyed it. Will be looking to make things even better next season and, as always, we welcome any suggestions for you all as to how we do that. This is a competition we organise for you so keen to encourage you all to share any ideas you have to take things to the next level. 

Well done to the winners. An outstanding effort to consistently score high through what is definitely a marathon not a sprint.
Big thanks as well to @StevieDay1983  for organising and for his highly entertaining weekly writeups.  Hopefully next season I can feature more in the top manager mentions rather than the name of shame for the week for which I featured twice I think lol.

£6 treble please.
Everton 9.00
Cheltenham 2.45
RB Leipzig 1.85

The Punters Lounge Fantasy Football League still has @Gazza's United leading the way but the chasing pack on the prowl. It was an obscenely high-scoring week with a lot of teams playing double games. Unsurprisingly, this saw a lot of managers resort to using their triple captain or bench boost. The highest team score for the week in the entire world was Mohamed Beddai whose cR7 side notched up a dizzy 173 points in total.
Teams in our league weren't too far off that height though with Jon Bramall's FC Bucket Hat winning the Manager of the Week award by picking up a mesmerising 161 points thanks to his use of the bench boost. As a good friend of mine, I'm delighted for Jon but there I was thinking my 99 points haul was decent. Silly me!
In a high-scoring week, there's still the name of shame that needs to be addressed. We've had some stinking scores lately and I'm pleased to say that we're not sinking to the depths we have of previous weeks. In fact, the lowest score of the week goes to Ivan Milosevic's FK Metalac GM who could only tally up 30 points this week. An injured Philippe Coutinho and reliance on Liverpool players in the defensive positions didn't help his cause!
The deadline for the next round of the competition is 11am BST on Saturday 8th April, 2023.

The top spot in the Punters Lounge Fantasy Football League changed hands once again as the chaotic season of rollercoaster emotions continued with @Gazza's United's Palmers Allstars storming into first place and actually creating some breathing space for himself. His 97 point haul whilst already in 2nd position was largely down to the combined 47 points accrued by his strike partnership of Erling Haaland and Eddie Nketiah.
It was a decent knock by the new league leader but it still wasn't enough to win Manager of the Week. That accolade once again went to someone whose team accumulated over the 100-point mark. @Team Sagga's Team Sagga managed to earn 104 points to take the week's highest team score. Haaland and Nketiah also delivered the goods for Ivan's men but his decision to include the Brighton duo of Kaoru Mitoma and Pervis Estupinan also paid off. A special tip of the hat to @Alley Cat Glover's Alley Cats who also hit the 100-point mark.
In what was a relatively high-scoring week, the lowest score was a rather harsh 24 points earned by Roger Harris and is, ironically-named, Invest in Quality squad. When your two best players are out injured and 6 players in your starting XI fail to notch up more than a single point then you're always going to be struggling. Here's to hoping he has a better week next time around!
The next deadline is at 6:30pm GMT on Friday 3rd February due to the FA Cup 4th Round matches taking place this weekend. The drama goes on! 

15 points treble please
West Brom 2.10
Derby 2.20
Plymouth 2.20

Welcome back missed the proper football
West Brom 1.75
Derby 2.15
Sutton Utd 2.30
15 point win treble please

12 point win treble please.
Accrington 1.85
Northampton 1.85
Salford 1.91

£10 Treble please.
Norwich 1.75
Ipswich 1.91
Stevenage 2.45

Lets get the party started.
Sheff Utd @ 1.73
Peterboro @ 1.83
Gillingham @ 2.37
£10 treble.
 

Manager Gareth Palmer
Team name Visualised Vengeance

20 point treble please.
Brest 1.95
Nantes 2.60
Troyes 3.30
Thank you Avongirl for all your efforts over the season.

20 point treble please.
Brest 1.95
Nantes 2.60
Troyes 3.30
Thank you Avongirl for all your efforts over the season.

5 point win treble please
Rennes (France) 2.00
M'Gladbach (Germany) 2.05
Newcastle 4.20
 

10 point treble please.
Notts Forest 1.80
Tranmere 2.70
West Ham 1.80

Phenomenal effort avongirl!
Thank you!
Great competition - well run!
 

The results are in!  A final week of ups and downs and changes at the top of many of the Divisions and also at the top of the overall.
We had 22 winners this week which is pretty good for a final week when many will go for long price glory.   Also 6 of our 8 Divisions made a profit this week with the other 2 only making a small loss.  Over the whole 8 weeks Divisions 2, 5 and 6 have an overall profit total
Bet of the week goes to the phenominal half bank 13/1 treble of @Soi Bongkot producing a 4-figure P/L result meaning his finishing total is over 15 times the start bank.   Certainly the biggest total of the last 2 years that I have been admin.  Runner up bet goes to @Xcout with a more modest half bank total but excellent 10/1 treble return.
So top of the overall league is @Soi Bongkot, which is the second time in the 2021/22 year that he has finished at the very top.   4 of last week's top 5 hold on to podium places with @Power900 in 2nd spot after keeping a clean sheet of 5 winning weeks and no losses (3 no show weeks).
Many thanks to all who have played over the last 8 weeks.  We've had a dozen drop outs creating some space for new players to join in next season, which will start this coming weekend and run for another 8 weeks.  Everyone who completed will be allocated a new Division based on your overall finishing position.    New players will be split between Divs 7 and 8.
Winners, I'll tag you later on with how to claim your prizes.
 

Spurs to win 1.70
Salford to win 1.55
Carlisle to win 3.20
30 point treble

Spurs to win 1.70
Salford to win 1.55
Carlisle to win 3.20
30 point treble