The NMA Blog Cups 2021-22

Last year we ran two cup competitions, and since people seemed to enjoy them last time, I plan to do the same again this year. I’ll run broadly the same two competitions as last year using Fantrax NMA-11 league teams and scores.

The “Blog Cup”

A weekly-rankings cup will take place between GW-6 and GW-18. In this hotly contested competition, all teams in Fantrax NMA-11 as of GW-6 will start, with a number of teams surviving each week based on that week’s scores. Progress will take place as follows:

NMA-11 Cup

Then from week 22, in January 2022, I’ll run our NMA-11 Cup, which is loosely based on the English FA Cup. This is a head to head competition; I publish the draw ahead of each round, and the higher-earning team from each pair makes it through to the next round.

In this competition, like the FA Cup, higher-tier teams enter the competition in later rounds. So the NMA-11 league positions at the conclusion of round 20 will determine who qualifies to each tier. This is how the cup qualifying will look:

Each even-numbered gameweek starting from week 22 will be a cup week, as follows:

In both competitions, in the case of a tie, the winning team will be decided as follows:

1) Team that scored more goals

2) Number of goals conceded per minute played

3) Team that was saved earlier

Tiebreaker 3 wasn’t needed last year and is just there in the unlikely event that two identical teams come up against each other. Thanks to commissioner Jeff for adding the stats that make it easy to work this all out!

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I hope you’re looking forward to the cups this year, and remember that you only need to perform well in the cup-weeks to win, so everyone has a chance! Let us know in the comments how you’re feeling about this years competition.

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