FTL2024 FINAL OVERALL RESULTS

Massive kuddos goes out to our Overall Winner - Elin (Grylla's goldens).  She accumulated an incredible 16168.22 points for the season, and won the overall by 430 points!  Not only did she win the overall, but she also won 2 Months and a GameWeek!  Safe to say, she had one of the best seasons in FTL history!

Elin may have won the overall by 400+ points, but for most of the season it felt like it was anyones game. In fact, after the 22nd GameWeek (the Olympics), Elin was sitting in 3rd place (70 points behind).  Elin was one of the few managers that didn't go all in for the Olympics (she ensured that she had plenty of coverage for both the Olympics and the North American swing), as she realized that there was going be both a physical and mental struggle by the players to move from the clay courts in Paris to the hard courts in North America.  Sadly, almost every other manager in the top 10 went the other way and paid dearly for it over the next few weeks.   Once the North American swing was over, Elin was the overall leader, and then she proceeded to win both the week after the US Open and the month of September!!  Month 10 is full of semi-blind draws for the lockouts so anything can happen, but she was able to extend her lead even further (had a 350+ point lead) and by the time the final 2 weeks came to play, all she had to do was not miss the lockout and the victory was hers!

 

Tricia (Prepare for CzechMate) finished 2nd AGAIN (for the 3rd straight season).  There's discussion as to whether or not she should change her team name to "Forever a Bridesmaid and Never a Bride" lol. She'll be honest with you, unless something crazy happened, she was out of contention for the top prize by the time the North American swing was over.  I'm sure that she'll take some solace out of the fact that she won a Month, and 2 Game Weeks.

Anthony (Alcarazian Domination) finished 3rd, just 18 points behind Tricia.  Nothing quite went right for Anthony this season as he didn't win a single GameWeek or Month and was actually sitting in 2nd place going into the final week of the season and paid for his decision to make Alcaraz his captain!

Our Defending Champion, Aoun (Fedex Superstars), finished 33 points behind Anthony and finished 4th.  Amazingly enough, he was sitting in 2nd place going into the 2nd last week of the season, and due to salary cap issues, he was unable to trade in Coco Gauff.  Sadly, her victory at the WTA Finals dropped him to 4th, and there wasn't much he could to make up the lost ground in the final week!  He should take some solace that his 4th place finish is the best result ever by a defending Champion

Myself (💔 Asian Swing Withdrawals 💔) finished 25 points behind Aoun and finished 5th.  My final team name speaks to how much trouble I had with players signing up for events for the Asian Swing and then deciding to take time off instead lol.   My team got into trouble with trades before the US Open and with all of those withdrawals, I was put into a spot where you felt like you are on a boat that's full of bullet holes as you are trying to somehow get it to shore lol

I'd like to offer a shoutout to the rest of our top 10: 

6th - Mohaib (Dr. peRFect)

7th - Taylor (Stripes VII)

8th - Mateusz (<>< v3.)

9th - Mikhail (Roger That)

10th - Jamie (The Umpire Strikes Back)

GW35 - The Tour Finals

 GW35 - The Tour Finals

Its arrived folks. The final game week of the season.

The Tour Finals in Turin start tomorrow so remember to pick your team in time.

Will you be able to field all 8 players, maybe you have an extra trade or two to include the reserves :D

Its not likely to be a game week where anyone makes up much ground at the top of the leaderboard. I liken it the the final stage of the Tour de France which has the procession into Paris. The overall winner has very much been decided :)

Having said that, player placement may make all the difference when it comes to potentially winning a game week and possibly making up one or two spots in the overall table.

Game Week 33 results

 

           

Four events in Game Week 33

ATP Paris 1000 -    Alexander Zverev defeated Ugo Humbert

WTA 250 Jiujiang - Viktorija Golubic defeated Rebecca Sramkova

WTA 250 Merida - Zeynep Sonmez defeated Ann Li

WTA 250 Hong Kong - Diana Shnaider defeated Katie Boulter

Here are the final standings for the game week

Congratulations to Just Married (Antonela) who took the honours in this game week with an impressive score of 533.   

Only two other teams broke the 500 barrier in this game week.  Swing Kings (Kevin) finished 2nd on 515 points with <>< v 3 (Mateusz) finishing 3rd on 504 points.   

Spotec24 (Martin) and Mirzini sinovi (Samir) make up the top 5.

Here is the head to head between the top two.

No doubt who the MVP for Antonela was -  Diana Shnaider scoring an impressive 131 points as Captain.  Antonela also had Paris winner Zverev and Jiangxi Open runner up Sramkova.    

Kevin also had Shnaider and Zverev in his team as well as Paris runner up Humbert so ultimately it was the captaincy pick that made the difference with Kevin losing any captaincy premium with Sinner withdrawing only to be replaced by 1st round loser Berrettini.

Congrats to Antonela and Kevin on a great week.

Game Week 32 results

 

There were four events in Game Week 32.

ATP 500 Vienna -   Jack Draper defeated Karen Khachanov

ATP 500 Basel - Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard defeated Ben Shelton

WTA 500 Tokyo  - Qinwen Zheng defeated Sofia Kenin

WTA 250 Guangzhou - Olga Danilovic defeated Caroline Dolehide

Here is the FTL standings for Game Week 32

Congrats to Abdi Pasha (Augusto Mauriello) who topped the weekly table by 28 points.

 AceCream (Sonja) was the closest challenger with Chip and Charge (Andy) Sex Bob-ombs (Jonny) and Blinkova Nigh (Hon) making up the top 5.

Lets have a look at the head to head between the top two.

Augusto had two winners in the shame of Qinwen Zheng and Jack Draper both in KP slots as well as Vienna runner up Khachanov.    Sonja had Draper in a captain's slot which proved to be an inspired choice as well as Basel runner up Ben Shelton.  She also had decent returns from Fils and Siniakova.

GAMEWEEK 34 - EARLY LOCKOUT!!

GameWeek 34 will have an early start, as it was announced earlier today that the first match of the WTA Finals will take place on Saturday, November 2nd.

 

The Lockout in your Team Page displays this fact. 

Sadly, there's a high likelihood that neither Main Draw from Metz or Belgrade will be available before the first ball is played in Riyadh (WTA Finals)

Game Week 31 results

 

There were five events in Game Week 31

Daria Kasatkina defeated Mirra Andreeva in the WTA 500 event in Ningbo.

Tommy Paul defeated Grigor Dimitrov in the ATP 250 event in Stockholm

Roberto Bautista Agut defeated Jiri Lehecka in the ATP 250 event in Antwerp

Karen Khachanov defeated Gabrial Diallo in the ATP 250 event in Almaty

Suzan Lamens defeated Kimberley Birrrell in the WTA 250 event in Osaka.

Here is the final FTL Table for the Game Week

Congratulations to Tricia (Prepare for Czech mate) who was way ahead of the pack this week. Her total of 380 points was 35 points ahead of her nearest challenger - Robyn (Thanks But no Shanks)

Lukas (Smash Bros), Cam (Tennis Talk)  and Mike (No AO, No Problem) make up the top 5.

Here is the head to head between the two top teams.

Tricia's arranged her team almost perfectly for this week with a Champion Tommy Paul  and two runners up in Andreeva and Lehecka occupying the KP spots.  Her captain Muchova also had another good run to the semi finals this week.    Robyn had two high scorers in runners up Dimitrov and Andreeva and also had Muchova in the Captain slot.

GW32 DRAWS AND DARK HORSE BREAKDOWN

 

I have attached The Paris Masters Main Draw (FTL Version) and the Dark Horse Breakdown.  I've also attached the 3 WTA250 level events in Jiujiang, Hong Kong, and Merida .  Plz note that the Qualifiers and Lucky Losers have been placed for every event except the one in Merida.

 

If you want a copy, click on the link, GW32 DRAWS  Once you do so, click on FILE, and scroll to MAKE A COPY, and call it whatever you want

Good Luck :)