Graeme, The Football Analyst, has capped the bounty at £400 which is fair enough. I was actually expecting the trickle of of new entries spotting the value in taking Graeme on with a close to 20 point start to be more of a flood, but then TFA did liken himself to Barcelona which may have frightened off a few Cambridges, Alfretons and Lutons:
"Putting my systems into Cassini’s friendly tipster league would be like Barcelona playing in the Bsq Prem for a season"Graeme did also suggest that as potentially the main sponsor of the FTL, he should have naming rights. It's just not a catchy name, with too many Ts and Fs. "TFA's TFL" or "The FTL sponsored by / in association with TFA"? WTF! But with up to £400 coming our way, I guess I can accommodate the proposal, so the FTL will henceforth be known as The Football Analyst Tipster League. With such large sums of money at stake, the "Friendly" went out of the window long ago anyway.
And yes Graeme, there is a minimum number of selections required - 64 for anyone joining before the end of September, and 56 for those in October. Plus no sitting on profits, with a minimum of five selections per month. With 22 entries to track already, I think I'll take Graeme's suggestion one step further and close it to new entries for this season. At this time of the year, as many of you know, much of my focus switches to the NBA which opened its 2013-14 season last night. The best sport for in-play trading by some distance.
Although my interest is mostly in the Western Conference, where 'my' Golden State Warriors (if you see a team live more than once, they are yours!) look very good to improve on last season's play-off run and win more than 47 regular season games, I will also be keeping an eye on the Brooklyn Nets in the East. Their Russian owner Mikhail Prokhorov, is bankrolling more than $102 million in player salaries, (and projected luxury tax payments totalling $86 million) a sum higher than any other team in the league. They are the Chelsea of the NBA, albeit with an untried coach (part-owner Jason Kidd) but assisted by a former Nets head-coach in Lawrence Frank. I'm not sure the Nets are at home to Mr. Failure this season, and with Derrick Rose back and looking strong for the Chicago Bulls, and a strong Indiana Pacers team, Miami Heat face some tough competition if they are to make it to their fourth consecutive Finals.
A little bit like when Mike Ashley renamed St James' Park the Sports Direct Arena, I think I will continue to call it the FTL, not that I have anything against Mr. Dand (well I do actually) but hey ho :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks Cassini. I think £400 bounty is plenty given the form of my systems this season! Whatever happens, when I have £400 left in my betting bank, I’ll forward it to you so I don’t spend it. Based on current form, that could be in the next month! :(
ReplyDeleteI do feel like I’ve maybe lost Messi, Iniesta, Xavi, Pique in the Summer and they’ve been replaced with Gavin Rae, Carlo Monti, Kyle Benedictus and Kevin McBride. Not only that, they’ve replaced Pep Guardiola with David Moyes as manager too, so I do appear to be fuc8ed this season! :)
I knew that quote would come back to bite me. After my banter with Neil in the Summer, it was heavily odds on that I would have my first poor season this season. That’s how life tends to work I find, as soon as you think you’ve got something that works like a dream, it turns into a nightmare!
Anyway, the scary thing is I have only had 20% of the bets I expect to have this season. The next 80% should be interesting. I’ll do a post on my blog soon looking at the performance of the FTL system so far as it is trailing my other systems a little this season (that’s saying something when most of the systems are shi*!)
Here’s hoping the remaining 80% of bets on the FTL system are better than the first 20% as I’ll be relegated by Christmas. I’ll be second division next season and I’ll need to sponsor that league too. :(
Cheers,
Graeme
Graeme we can hug if you want?
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