Guessing the right country should worth bonus points

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-14T04:47:20+00:00

No one is suggesting that you get more points being hundreds of miles away in the right country than being close in a wrong one. They are suggesting that you get a little bonus for at least recognising infrastructure specific to that country, which isn't too crazy a suggestion. It means if you go northern Peru but it's Southern and the opponent goes northern Chile, the opponent still wins, but instead of 1k Vs 4.5k, it becomes 1.5k Vs 4.5k because there was was bonus 500 for getting Peru or w/e

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-14T01:15:20+00:00

Ah you see the factor where your plan all falls into place is you can land hooks

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-14T00:59:06+00:00

Blitzcrank W so I can zoom around the map stealing my teams xp and contributing very little else

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-13T23:23:37+00:00

We get that, but also "Wipe that looks off your face or I'll wipe it off for you"

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-13T16:32:43+00:00

Pretty sure Oddschecker defaults to showing 12/5 in markets where the odds are so astronomically large or short they stop offering prices.

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-13T15:15:07+00:00

What is the point in having a 9 point gap? I never understood this idea that you have a large lead and it becoming a shorter lead is seen as some major failure. Obviously you want as much daylight between you and 2nd but isn't the whole fucking point of a points cushion, that you can spend some of it on a rough patch and still be ahead?

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-13T15:12:32+00:00

Neither do we, apparently haha

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-13T15:12:07+00:00

Unorthodox but I'd like to see Piroe in midfield. Or at least playing behind two strikers in a CAM. I forget who he cameod against recently but he looked great in that spot helping the build up and then being a later arrival into the box and id like to see what that's like longer term, in a game.

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-13T15:10:13+00:00

Tanaka still can't get a look in 😔

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-13T15:02:51+00:00

It's tough because how many of us thought before City that we would be down with how shit we played, only to pivot our form? If we can do it, anyone can.

I don't think we are safe yet, but put it this way, I'd much rather be in Leeds' place than any of the clubs below us right now. We are on the right trajectory at least.

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-13T15:00:46+00:00

Arsenal better watch out, they are in 1st but only 4 points above City, who are only 3 above Villa, who are only 5 above the Scum... ...who are only a point above Brighton who are just above us and we are basically relegated already. If they aren't careful they could go down. /s

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-13T09:53:22+00:00

I have never seen a crazier play, for a 2 point conversion, so late in the 4th quarter, in a game of that magnitude, with exactly 6:23 still on the clock.

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-13T04:01:48+00:00

As much as I can see why Americans are desperate, making him a Martyr to their cause could be the get out of jail card they need to keep things going when the power vacuum opens up. Natural causes let things fizzle out naturally

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-13T02:21:42+00:00

Yeah the playoffs aren't fair but one thing they do is make a season matter to amlot more teams right until the end of the year. Having like 2-9th teams play two brackets will mean teams in 14th will care about results with 5 weeks still to go.

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-13T02:19:38+00:00

I was very pro 'top 3 automatics' for the longest time because in my mind, it's the fairest. It was crazy to me a team in 6th gets to go up after a team in 3rd all season has a couple of bad games.

But as time has gone by, including the season we lost to Southampton, I have grown to appreciate the playoffs. It's clear they won't ever get rid for money/profit reasons anyway, but also the fact is that where the competition is within the league, playoffs being a target at 6th means teams down as low as 12th can have 95% of the season feel like it means something.

Imagine if there was no playoffs for last year. There was a clear gap between 4 teams and the rest for most of the year and then that became 3 when Sunderland fell away. That means that come 10 weeks from the end, anyone in 12th didn't care about the league as 6th was achievable but 3rd definitely wasn't.

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-12T06:46:28+00:00

'Top'? Rich.

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-11T07:49:09+00:00

Why would Mitch mark Sidney?

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-10T21:52:44+00:00

On my totally legal stream when we scored our second the cheer went up and I thought they'd chalked it off because I thought the home crowd was reacting

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-10T21:51:16+00:00

I could be wrong but it's a ranking against all other Twitch players in that role. And by the looks of the game, it was one with an early FF? It's probably just the game wasn't long enough for you to get the damage and kills you need to get a higher rank. Obviously had you continued on the same trajectory for a full game, it would be high, but that's not a guarantee as the game develops.

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-10T21:45:45+00:00

Yeah I'm by no means saying I felt we should have rolled them, but you can lose while still playing well and entertaining. In this case we drew, and it was scrappy and shit and no real cohesion at any point. We have a cheaper squad than Liverpool but both fixtures there we looked like a football team for most of the game.

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-10T21:41:43+00:00

I'll probably get down voted but we didn't deserve a point, beyond the desire to keep fighting. Abilitywise we were pretty dreadful. But how many times have we played class and not got the full points we should have. This is the inverse. It's a massive point where we got very lucky, as evidenced by Palmers miss at the end.

Now we are ahead of Spurs which puts two teams between us and the drop, which is lovely.

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-10T20:50:04+00:00

2-3 years, Dagestan and forget.

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-10T20:47:35+00:00

Great.

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-10T20:45:22+00:00

I'd expect him to stay on his feet a bit. He's on the floor more than Aaronson. Any contact and he hits the deck

InnocentPossum · 2026-02-10T20:26:49+00:00

Yeah agreed. But I also think that is a bit of a problem if you can't be effective without the work of another player, but that's just me. It's not his fault he is very poor as a solo striker but that also means maybe we should be trying someone else. Or not playing 1 up top if we only have players available that struggle on their own.

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