Fantrax NMA Blog Cup Round 3 results

Week 28 saw the round 3 NMA cup matches played, and what a week it was! Many managers suffered badly from rotation, especially by Manchester City, while others benefited hugely from Leicester City’s demolition of Sheffield United. As a result, scores diverged widely, but being a head to head competition, scoring well or badly was not a guarantee of success or failure. The scores of the competing teams ranged from 34.5 to 132. 15 of the 64 competitors managed a score of 80 or more, yet 3 of those lost their pairings. Interestingly, although this round saw nearly all of the teams ranked highest in the league taking part, only two of the six scores of over 100 came from teams still in the competition.

Pigs PC can consider themselves fortunate, scraping by with the lowest winning score in a 54.5 : 50.5 win over Gyimah. On the other hand Buitre were rather unfortunate, losing 83.5 : 90.5 against high-flying Team Colecole. Congratulations to cup specialists Team stallexpress who posted the highest score among the competitors, comprehensively beating Aletico JP 132 : 41.5. The league leaders 183168 continued their dominance, with a 91.5 : 80.5 win over Team redstoglory.

In the much heralded (and much commented upon) match up between prolific posters, Ken’s Team Ken M and blog editor Jeff’s Alehouse WAGs, it was Ken’s team who prevailed 82 : 70.5. Of course, Jeff is also league commish, so by the time this piece has been edited, it is possible that the result will have changed! Just to demonstrate the even-handedness of the competition, my own team The Motley Crewe fell at its first hurdle, an in-form Paphos Toffees, losing 79.5 : 101, even though goals scored by the team went 3:1 in my favor. How did I manage to arrange the draw so that I came up against one of only two teams to break 100?!

Looking at the rankings of the teams still involved, there is now one ‘non league’ team left, Smokey’s Dogs of War who defeated ‘Premier League’ opponent Team Captaingerrard by 87 : 60.5. Well done to them, and can they keep the run going?

Here are the results in full:

I’ll post the round 4 draw nearer to week 30 when the games will take place.

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How did you do? Did you suffer from rotation/injuries that cost you a win, or did you make an inspired choice to take you through to round 4? Did you crash out earlier — but would have cruised through this round? Please share your observations in the comments!

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