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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:
Blog Cup 2022 Schedule
Week number | Who takes part? | Who qualifies? |
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Week number | Who takes part? | Who qualifies? |
Week 4 | All teams | top 130 teams |
Week 6 | 130 qualifiers | top 90 teams |
Week 8 | 90 qualifiers | top 65 teams |
Week 10 | 65 qualifiers | top 48 teams |
Week 12 | 48 qualifiers | top 32 teams |
Week 14 | 32 qualifiers | top 20 teams |
Week 16 | 20 qualifiers | 1 winner |
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:
NMA-11 Cup qualifying
Week 20 positions | Equivalent league | Entry gameweek |
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Week 20 positions | Equivalent league | Entry gameweek |
Top 20 teams | Premier League | 28 |
Positions 21-44 | Championship | 28 |
Positions 45-68 | League 1 | 24 |
Positions 69-92 | League 2 | 24 |
Positions 93-156 | Non-league | 22 |
Each even-numbered gameweek starting from week 22 will be a cup week, as follows:
NMA-11 Cup schedule
Gameweek | Cup Round | Number of teams |
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Gameweek | Cup Round | Number of teams |
22 | Qualifying | 64 |
24 | Round 1 | 80 |
26 | Round 2 | 40 |
28 | Round 3 | 64 |
30 | Round 4 | 32 |
32 | Round 5 | 16 |
34 | Quarter-finals | 8 |
36 | Semi-finals | 4 |
38 | Final | 2 |
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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