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Rules I'm sure we all know this by now, but here are the rules for the Last Man Standing League with some details on the format: - For the rest of this post, when I refer to a "Round" I'm referring to a full competition, e.g. the Premier League round or the Serie A round. When talking about individual sets of fixtures within a round, I will use the term "gameweek". - In a Last Man Standing competition, you choose one team to win in each gameweek. If your team wins, you "survive" until the next gameweek. If your team loses or draws, you are eliminated from the current round of the competition. You can not use the same team more than once, unless you achieve the impossible of surviving 20 rounds (or however many it takes) without failing to pick a winner and have therefore used every team, but LOL if that happens. - With the league format, you will receive a score each round, and they will be added to create a running total at the end of each round. Scoring is explained later on in the post. - You can obviously choose to compete in just one round if you prefer, I will include you in the league table for the full season but you will obviously score no points in the rounds that you do not take part. Scoring Having had some time to think about it and considered general feedback, I have settled on what I hope will be a very simple scoring system for the most part. I'm aiming to reward those who consistently survive a decent number of gameweeks, whilst also rewarding those who actually win or come close to winning individual rounds with some bonus points. - Basic Score - This is simply how many gameweeks you survive. If your pick lets you down in the first gameweek, you will score 0 points. If you successfully survive four gameweeks then get knocked out in the fifth gameweek, you will score 4 points. Etc. - Bonus Score - Bonus points will be rewarded to the top three finishers in each round. The actual winner of the round will receive 3 bonus points, the person or people who finish 2nd will receive 2 bonus points and the 3rd place finisher(s) will receive 1 bonus point. I'm personally not arsed about having ties for 2nd and 3rd that see more than one person receive 1 or 2 bonus points, but I do want to make sure there is a distinct "winner" in each round (it is a Last Man Standing after all), so there will be one possible instance where I might do things slightly differently. - Special Case - In a situation where all remaining players are eliminated and there is no clear winner of the round, the remaining players will enter "sudden death" to determine who gets the bonus points. Their Basic Score will be fixed at this point so that if it takes another 3-4 gameweeks to separate the winner from the rest, they will not be credited with 3-4 extra points in their Basic Score because they did not originally survive that many gameweeks. An example might be the best way to explain this: The round begins with six players, Player A, Player B, Player C, Player D, Player E and Player F. Players E and F both fail to choose a winner in Gameweek 1 - Players E and F both score 0 points. Players A, B, C and D survive this gameweek. Players C and D both fail to choose a winner in Gameweek 2 - Players C and D both score 2 points (1 from their Basic Score of surviving one gameweek, and 1 Bonus Score for being joint 3rd). Players A and B survive this gameweek. Players A and B both fail to choose a winner in Gameweek 3 - Players A and B both now have their Basic Score fixed at 2 points having survived 2 gameweeks, but must enter Sudden Death to determine who gets the 3 Bonus Points and who is left with 2 Bonus Points. Player A choose a winner in Gameweek 4 while Player B does not - Player A receives the 3 Bonus Points and finishes the round with 5 points overall. Player B receives the 2 Bonus Points and finishes the round with 4 points overall. Final Points Tally for the round: Player A = 5 points (Basic Score 2, Bonus Score 3) Player B = 4 points (Basic Score 2, Bonus Score 2) Player C = 2 points (Basic Score 1, Bonus Score 1) Player D = 2 points (Basic Score 1, Bonus Score 1) Player E = 0 points (Basic Score 0, Bonus Score 0) Player F = 0 points (Basic Score 0, Bonus Score 0) Hopefully that all makes relative sense, it should become more clear when we've played the first round. Rounds That pretty much sums it up. Please see the [Poll] topic to vote which rounds you'd like to see follow the Premier League round. I will use this thread to post updated tables after each round so keep your eyes out for that. If someone could stick this to the top of the sub-forum I'd appreciate that. Hope everyone has fun! Any questions about the scoring system are welcome.

10 years ago, Pep Guardiola took over as Barcelona coach. It changed football. @SirBalon @The Rebel CRS this is amazing to watch:

Looks like ~ is the new

I'd say Aragones more than anyone. He laid the foundation for both Xavi and Iniesta, which only worked in Pep's favor the season after Euro 2008 Rijkaard left Guardiola a Barca in bad shape. Guardiola practically changed Barca's whole identity, which took balls.

Just the right-wing being the usual paragons of free speech.

That album dedicated to dissing Dre was one of my favourites

Speaking of Eazy - E, the fuck happened to that documentary his daughter was supposed to release? Where it questioned his death? I know bone thugz still think he was murdered.

Another Wu-Banga @Teso dos Bichos

I like the idea and while I can get behind the system being capable of resetting what is more interesting is what happens when you stack choices on top of each other to balance or cleanse out issues that already exist in societies or niche-communities that have already been disrupted. It's still miles away from Black Swan event forecasting that theoretical Economists use for predicting why changes happen to societies based on trigger events but its a start in the right direction. I can see this really benefiting politicians only if the system is closed and isn't really used by any entity to shift societal distress based on a model that is the current society that people live in. The bigger issue also lies in the fact that the entities in the system will probably never really behave like people do in the real world simply because they are singular entities with a goal-set that drives towards outcomes based on how the environment treats them. As opposed to real people who can make drastic decisions based on extraneous factors that even AI can't completely comprehend and bleed into its own logic due to logic-failure and system shutdown. I can't remember where I read this but there was talk about systems designed for failure instead of success and how they were trying to bring the two together to build autonomous systems which can use these two extremities to mimic real societies but once again far far away. I wonder whether this system would have predicted that Trump would be president? Probably would have considering it had very little to work with. Great read as always @nudge

That was the greatest period of the most beautiful football ever seen in my opinion and the opinion of most football fans. Some have forgotten because of the tactics that were later used by some teams to combat that brand of football and have a chance. The great thing about that team is that the football they used under Guardiola was executed against everyone that came their way be it Real Madrid, Bayern Munich or Manchester United aside from more humble teams. You were left in awe with what was ocurring on the field of play with many times feeling that it looked impossible... There always seemed to be a way out and they'd find it with precise hyper fast passing designed to pull the opponent out of position and open up massive gaps to exploit and score. Football definitely changed with that period Guardiola purified and implemented... Football changed from an either defence minded game or a more direct approach by passing into counter attacking long spaces into a short passing dynamic movement where it looked like dancing with the ball. I've said it many times and believe it to be true... It's the best football anyone has ever seen.

Yea, because Grazie Ragazzi, or well, an attempt to communicate with your team in their language is fake. Well, maybe it is to Brits who don't even know what a foreign language is

How many more chances is Luke Shaw going to be given? Especially under Mourinho who just seems to throw him in completely at random and blast him for playing like shit even if he was only average. I don't rate the lad as if he had the drive and determination to make something of himself he'd have got out of there at the first opportunity but he'd have a much better chance under a different manager.

Found this to be a very interesting read: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/07/artificial-intelligence-religion-atheism/565076/ @Mel81x @Eco

@Happy Blue Really like this type of stuff. I know the Spanish National Team had a documentary on their Euro 08 and World Cup win, which was quality as well.

RIP Sergio Marchionne

So yea, quite a difference. Two months apart, with almost no rain and temperatures around 30 C°