2018 Forum H2H League & Pigeon Cup

PIGEON CUP 2018 STARTS ON FRIDAY

Groups and seedings based on league standings after Week 9

Group A

Berget's BadAss Beard
Benedico Pluvias
Ariaga II
Choo Choo Hat FC

Group B

3 Piece Suit Ultras
NYCFC Forums
SoupInNYC
Ditmas FC

Group C (Group of Death)

Malinska FC
Welcome to the Zungul
Really Quite Pleased
Funky Cold Jesus Medina

Week 1 Matchups

Berget's v Ariaga
Benedico v Choo Choo

3 Piece Suit v Soup
NYCFC Forums v Ditmas

Malinska v Really
Zungul v FC Medina

Round Robin Schedule attached. We will do 2 rounds. First round is the next 3 weeks. Second round is fall season after the WC. Top 2 from each group and 2 best 3rd place finishers move on to knockout round. Tiebreaker is points scored. Good luck everyone.

Is there a way to see the values of the other squads in the league?

joe said:

Is there a way to see the values of the other squads in the league?

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Not that I have figured out other than looking at the value of each player from their last weeks team and adding them all together -- I have been curious about other teams value but not enough to do all that.

It’s 1:04 and I can still edit the Montreal game players...... wtf happened last week. No mention of why from the game devs, nothing. How can they give monetary prizes to a glitched out game and not give a difinitive ruling on what happened.

If a starting 11 player does not play, it will auto sub in the bench player with the most points as long as that consists of a viable formation.

Pigeon Cup Round 1 Results and Standings

Group A

mgarbowski Benedico Pluvius was the top overall player in Week 1 and takes the #1 spot while Berget's Beard takes a Cup win while having an 8 week H2H win streak snapped

Benedico 3pts 122
Berget 3pts 105
Ariaga 0pts 82
Choo Choo 0pts 71

This week it is group leaders Benedico Pluvias against Berget's Beard while Ariaga and Choo Choo Hat battle for their first points of the Cup.

Group B

SoupInNYC knocked off new season leader 3 Piece Suit Ultras 111-101 while Ditmas continues a history of strong Cup performances with a 88-67 win over NYCFC Forums.

SoupInNYC 3pts 111
Ditmas FC 3pts 88
3Piece Suit 0pts 101
NYCFC Forums 0pts 67

This week features 3 Piece Suit Ultras facing off against NYCFC Forums while group leaders Ditmas FC and SoupInNYC each try for a massive 6 points after 2 rounds.

Group C

In the closest match of the 1st round of the Pigeon Cup Malinska FC eked out a 108-105 win over Really Quite Pleased while Welcome to the Zungul, the top scorer in our league this season, continued strong play with a comfortable win over Funky Cold Jesus Medina.

Welcome 3pts 120
Malinska 3pts 108
Really 0pts 105
Funky 0pts 80

This week's matchup features top 2 Malinska FC v Welcome to the Zungul while Funky Cold Jesus Medina and Really Quite Pleased battle for 3 points.

Week 11/Round 2 of the Pigeon Cup starts Wednesday with a massive number of DGWs. Make sure to set your lineups.

Sabo said:

Group C

In the closest match of the 1st round of the Pigeon Cup Malinska FC eked out a 108-105 win over Really Quite Pleased while Welcome to the Zungul, the top scorer in our league this season, continued strong play with a comfortable win over Funky Cold Jesus Medina.

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oh what? I goofed. I had completely forgot about this. Had I know I 100% would not have put plata in for yotun. I was chasing points in the regular match-up hoping for a small chance for an RSL smack down vs my opponents last ORL defender (who of course scored on a corner, typical). Glad I didn't botch this too.

I’ve become so bad at this the last couple years. Can I fire myself as manager?

adam said:

I’ve become so bad at this the last couple years. Can I fire myself as manager?

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Not if I fire me first.

The Pigeon Cup is complete bullshit. Is it really fair to set it up so that the team with less points "loses"? So you're telling me just because my team had a lower score than the team I'm playing that I "lose"? It's all semantics.

If someone had made that clearer before this started, I probably would have scored much higher.

FredMertz said:

Not if I fire me first.

The Pigeon Cup is complete bullshit. Is it really fair to set it up so that the team with less points "loses"? So you're telling me just because my team had a lower score than the team I'm playing that I "lose"? It's all semantics.

If someone had made that clearer before this started, I probably would have scored much higher.

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That's such a negative attitude. All 12 of us are winners, its just that some winners finished the 1st round with 3 points and other winners finished the round with 0 points.

Everything rational says go with LAFC offense this week. But I hate splitting my loyalties that way.

Also, all the DGWs makes playing the bench/starter game tricky, and near impossible really.

Ughhh so annoying. I left higiuan in cause I went for after work drinks in the first time in like 3 years and forgot to check the lineup.... ok fine no biggie but then I did it again with cabrera. Ya big dummy. I would have had a chance to downside his position (cause he’s a damn expensive defender) and pick up bush for the cheap gk sub move..... I felt pretty smart putting bono on the bench even though I fully intended on playing him.... why give away a free option right? Now I feel like a turd.

On the upside it’s refreshing that I am basically locked on all my positions and so are my opponents. No checking and rechecking if anything changes..... oldschool fantasy mls. Nice.

2018 Pigeon Cup Round 2 Results and Standings

Group A

mgarbowski is owning the Pigeon Cup this year. For the 2nd week in a row he was the top scorer demolishing my Berget's Beard squad 156 to 132 in the highest scoring match of the week. In the other Group A match Ariaga beat Choo Choo Hat 129-115.

Benedico 6pts 278
Berget 3pts 237
Ariaga 3pts 211
Choo Choo 0pts 186

In the final match of the Pigeon Cup before the World Cup break, Berget's Beard will try to solidify 2nd place against Choo Choo while Benedico Pluvias looks to stay as the number 1 overall seed against Ariaga.

Group B

Top seeded 3 Piece Suit Ultras fell to NYCFC Forums 132-125 while DitmasFC stayed unbeaten with a narrow 140-135 win over SoupInNYC and took over the 1st place spot in the group.

Ditmas FC 6pts 228
SoupInNYC 3pts 246
NYCFC Forums 3pts 199
3Piece Suit 0pts 226

This week 3 Piece Suit Ultras look to open their scoring account against group leader Ditmas while SoupInNYC and NYCFC Forums battle to move up in the standings.

Group C

The group of death lived up to its billing this week as Welcome to the Zungul stayed in first place while cruising to a 139-118 win over Malinska while the closest match of the week saw Quite Really Pleased squeak out a 141-137 win over Funky Cold Jesus and move into second place in the standings.

Welcome 6pts 259
Quite Really 3pts 246
Malinska 3pts 226
Funky 0pts 217

This week Malinska FC and Funky Cold Jesus meet to try to move up the standings while the top two Welcome to the Zungul and Quite Really Pleased battle for first place in the group.

This week the first game is Wednesday so start setting your lineups the next couple of days. Good luck in Round 3.

Double game weeks for San Jose and Vancouver. Urgh.

mgarbowski said:

Double game weeks for San Jose and Vancouver. Urgh.

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Brek Shea now has 2 different games now to finish those tap-ins in style!!!

I have $8.7M in unspent funds this week.

mgarbowski said:

I have $8.7M in unspent funds this week.

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$8.6m for me... and it feels like I'm doing something incorrect