Miguel Sanchez Posted December 28, 2022 Author Share Posted December 28, 2022 39 entries so far, and I'm up to date. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
microdave Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Team submitted. Four changes from last year. Two enforced (because they died) and two dropped which could mean certain death in 2023. For the first time ever I've even got subs as Pele and Pope Benedict might not make it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted December 29, 2022 Author Share Posted December 29, 2022 If anybody else is planning on picking Andy Taylor from Duran Duran, please specify this. There are several Andy Taylors. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuctifano Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 In- always try and have at least one Scottish football personality to make it relevant to P&B. It's a much higher standard over these past few years, I had 5 hits including captain this year and just scraping top 20. Pretty sure three hits used to give you a good chance of winning it (when it was 10 picks tbf). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted December 29, 2022 Author Share Posted December 29, 2022 24 minutes ago, Fuctifano said: In- always try and have at least one Scottish football personality to make it relevant to P&B. It's a much higher standard over these past few years, I had 5 hits including captain this year and just scraping top 20. Pretty sure three hits used to give you a good chance of winning it (when it was 10 picks tbf). The 2014 competition being won by Peaches Geldof and Phillip Seymour Hoffman remains a high point. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 I’m gonna get mine sent through tomorrow or 31 st I’ve made a shortlist. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alta-pete Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 I think there’s some fairly obvious low hanging fruit that’ll be picked for multiple teams. Do you stay with the crowd for obvious hits and stay with the pack or go curve ball oddities? Curve ball oddities for me in 2021 yielded nowt… 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim Here Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 16 minutes ago, alta-pete said: I think there’s some fairly obvious low hanging fruit that’ll be picked for multiple teams. Do you stay with the crowd for obvious hits and stay with the pack or go curve ball oddities? Curve ball oddities for me in 2021 yielded nowt… It's a great dilemma. Those 50 juicy bonus points means that even if you're only half as good as the great unwashed at picking moribund slebs, it's a good strategy. Just as long as you can avoid picking what the crowd picks, you double your score (give or take). Easy, right? The beauty of the scoring system is that on average, contrarian P&Bers are only about 1/3 as good as the herd-following sheeple at picking winners. It's an attractive plan to people who think they're smarter than average, but usually they're really not as clever as they think they are. A glorious trap to illustrate the perils of hubris. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilMARKnock Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Gonna give it a bash for the first time, another table to prop up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qos_75 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 The full time whistle has blown on Pele. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilMARKnock Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 1st sub used already 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 1 minute ago, kilMARKnock said: 1st sub used already Yep…Sub, Ref!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qos_75 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Same here. I might have to bring on a third sub before Saturday night too. Very disappointing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moomintroll Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 15 minutes ago, TxRover said: Yep…Sub, Ref!!! Just coming on to say the same. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted December 29, 2022 Author Share Posted December 29, 2022 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 He'll be Tostao soon 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Had to make my first ever sub in this game today. f**k’s sake Pele. Do you have no consideration for any of us, let alone Miguel Sanchez? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alta-pete Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Aim Here said: The beauty of the scoring system is that on average, contrarian P&Bers are only about 1/3 as good as the herd-following sheeple at picking winners. It's an attractive plan to people who think they're smarter than average, but usually they're really not as clever as they think they are. A glorious trap to illustrate the perils of hubris. Edited December 29, 2022 by alta-pete 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted December 29, 2022 Author Share Posted December 29, 2022 I have PM'd everyone who picked Pele, either to put in one of their subs or ask for a replacement. @blackislekillie, @gkneil, @Karpaty Lviv and @The Hologram are the only ones left. If Benedict dies at some point in the next two and a half days, Aim Here is in charge. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HI HAT Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Betty White last year now Pele this year, there's always one to screw up your team. Nominated sub put in the team before the competition even starts, hope he manages to get to the 1st of January. Good luck to everybody for 2023. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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