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NMA Blog Cup 2022: Round 3 Results

We’re already down to 65 qualifying teams - Are you there?

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If you’d picked these 5 players that would have earned you 72.5 points and got you most of the way to cup qualification for this round.
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Fortunately for the cup competition, GW-7 was the cancelled week, so with GW-8 we went straight back into the cup, with the 90 qualifying teams fighting to be in the top 65 in order to progress to round four. There were only seven matches this week, so those fantasy teams not being actively managed were likely to suffer, although simply picking playing players isn’t enough, you also need them to score some points!

The week was actually quite high-scoring, with 82 teams overall scoring 100 points or more, with a top score for the week of 156.5 (which we will come back to later!). I expect there are many managers out there who scored around 100 points or less who have convinced themselves that they’re failed to make the cut-off for this round, who I think will be pleasantly surprised to find that the cut-off is lower than they expected. Remember that there are now more teams in the league who’ve been knocked out than there are teams remaining!

Ony one player scored over 30 points this week, and up to half-time, you’d have been kicking yourself for picking him. Fortunately for the few who did, Son Heung-Min’s second-half hat-trick performance earned him 35 points.

Six players scored between 20 and 40 points, including three who were in almost no teams - Rodrigo Bentancur from Spurs with 27.5, bargain-basement priced Asmir Begovic who deputized for the injured Jordan Pickford to the tune of 23.5 points, and Philip Billing from Bournemouth who defied the unappealing matchup at Newcastle to the tune of 22 points. The others, who did make it into some teams, were James Maddison who defied a poor matchup at Spurs for 24 points, the expensive but highly productive James Tarkowski who continued his impressive scoring run with 21.5 points, and Newcastle’s new forward Alexander Isak who ran up 20.5 points at his low price of around $5.30.

As ever, keepers were boom or bust, with Nick Pope disappointing with only 2.5 points at home to Bournemouth, and the still popular Dean Henderson only returning one point. On the other hand, Ederson returned 16 points, Hugo Lloris 15.5 (despite conceding a goal) - the same amount as Emiliano Martinez (who didn’t) and Aaron Ramsdale who racked-up 15 points.

Here are the results in full:

Round 3 results

League position Cup position Team Round score Total score
League position Cup position Team Round score Total score
18 1 The Motley Crewe 156.5 845.5
11 2 Team KenM 148.5 862.5
6 3 Smoke & Mirrors 146.5 878.5
7 4 DISCO ARGYLE 143.5 876
24 5 Team durotrulo 140.5 836.5
27 6 [TyF] Nunezbian 136 833.5
1 7 ching 135.5 906
95 8 PPQ 132 739
8 9 Goat Messi 131 875
55 10 Paphos Toffees 130.5 799.5
20 11 Ano's team 2022/23 130 844
4 11 Team JBautista125 130 881.5
62 13 Team mmdan112 128.5 790
74 14 [TyF] SAROMAGDEN84 127 773.5
62 14 FC Hothouses 127 790
18 16 Shock The Monkey 126.5 845.5
47 17 Jfdi 125.5 809.5
5 18 [TyF] CutThroatPiranhas 124 880.5
27 18 Sparta FC 124 833.5
17 20 Kostas Hotspurs 121 851
49 20 Team MIFFY_FC 121 805.5
32 22 Kavedas 120 829
57 23 Team BlueBloodedx 119 794.5
58 23 Whithy Dragons 119 793.5
64 25 Team saxo 118.5 788.5
39 26 Hooligans United 118 821
3 26 Team Enadiz2015 118 892
49 26 THKSFIGHT 118 805.5
66 29 Aletico JP 116.5 787.5
10 30 EPL GALACTICOS 115.5 865.5
58 31 Fight to the Last Ukrainian 115 793.5
15 32 Fantastic XI 114 856.5
118 32 Le Titans 11 114 697.5
23 34 1Arsenal 113.5 838.5
76 34 AKC 113.5 772
2 36 Team stallexpress 111.5 893
34 37 Team Chris_Manfredi 110.5 827
9 38 Team Rockdelux 109 874
51 39 Team stormtrooper84 108.5 804.5
123 39 West Spam United 108.5 693.5
42 41 [TyF] Ozdal City 107.5 819
25 41 Alehouse WAGs 107.5 836
169 41 Paris Saint-James Mann 107.5 534.5
73 44 [TyF] KOBRADOVICH 106.5 774.5
22 45 Cikupa Fantasy 106 839
108 45 Liverpool1 106 711.5
29 47 183168 105.5 831.5
40 48 cincyman 105 820.5
88 48 Team Captaingerrard 105 745.5
35 50 Haalandaise 102.5 825.5
98 50 Ngolo Ngolo Kante 102.5 729
53 50 Team msneezie31 102.5 802.5
41 53 Team paulys_dreamteam 102 820
11 54 OGZ Hall Of Fame 100.5 862.5
33 54 Sir Boy United FC 100.5 827.5
91 56 [TyF] London_FC 100 743
13 57 Team buitre 99.5 860.5
82 58 Team OGL1 99 754.5
72 58 Team Stijnen 99 775
44 60 AREIRTE HELLAS 96 817
31 60 Team AddisBuna 96 830
35 62 GREEK SUNSEEKER 94 825.5
26 63 Real Madrid 93 835.5
56 64 [TyF] Ragasaki 87.5 798
129 64 OOMUNGA 87.5 672.5
--- qualification cut-off ---
37 66 MKH 87 823.5
85 67 Lua Lua 86.5 746.5
115 68 Ledang LFC 86 703
110 68 teamanjewood 86 709
14 68 Vicenza Calcio 86 858
77 71 Team CathalDonnelly 85.5 767
80 72 Team sean_mck23 82 757
21 73 Wednesday23 81 842
29 74 Leo Messy 80 831.5
136 75 CeleryFC 73.5 658
92 76 HardasChuck 72 741
89 77 Bottlers 71.5 743.5
70 78 Team 1998jjb 69 782
61 79 Young Lions FA 67.5 793
85 80 Team taquito 67 746.5
124 81 XMEN1892 66.5 686
97 82 Team StuB 64.5 730.5
84 83 Bilbao Baggins 63.5 749.5
111 84 SIMPLY THE BEST 62 705.5
102 85 Christian Soldiers 56 722
131 86 Lowmer 55.5 667.5
127 87 ivan4eg 49 680.5
78 88 LatchKeyKid 48.5 765.5
155 88 Onana_Whatshisname 48.5 601
146 90 Joeyis 45.5 622

So, a score of 87.5 points was enough to make it through to the next round - despite 87.5 being 104th overall in the league this week. In other words, there were 40 teams who are already eliminated who bettered that score this week.

I’m obviously delighted to highlight the top score this week which was 156.5 points scored by The Motley Crewe, which is my own team. I have to remind myself that this counts for nothing, since all 65 qualifiers have an equal chance in the next round. It was a very pleasing week for me though, with ten players scoring in double-digits, and only James Ward-Prowse disappointing with 4.5 points. I was so close to going with James Maddinson instead of him, and did consider trying to get Son in too, although that seemed too much of a gamble (I really did not seriously consider the fact that the opposition was Leicester).

For the second round running, the second-best team of the round was Team KenM, who similarly had excellent scoring players throughout (but not Son either), and also James Ward-Prowse. Ken is on a bit of a roll, up to 11th place in the league, so we should all take note of his tips!

Among the most consistent cup teams over the three rounds is current league leader ching, who has been 29th, 14th and 7th in the three rounds, ominously improving as the competition goes on. Also showing good cup form is Jfdi who has finished 22nd, 23rd and 17th, although their overall league position is well below this in 47th. Perhaps someone who is prioritizing the cup?

Several more high-ranked teams have fallen this round, with both Vicenza Calcio and Wednesday23 not only dropping out of the cup, but out of the league top-ten.

With the international break now on us, there’s a pause in the schedule, so the next cup week is GW-10 which takes place between October 8th and 10th. At present all 20 teams are due to play once, but keep an eye out because things have not been going to plan recently! I’ve just noticed that there is no early game either, so unless that changes, we should see line-ups for the four games that are due to kick-off at 3.00pm: Manchester City v Southampton, Bournemouth v Leicester, Chelsea v Wolves and Newcastle v Brentford. That could be a very busy half hour or so!

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How did you do? Are you safely through? If not, then which players let you down? If you already crashed out of the competition in an earlier round, would you have done better this time around — Perhaps you can claim the ‘I would have passed if I hadn’t lost already’ ribbon. Please let us know in the comments!

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