Even Liverpool fans wouldn’t want to win the title in this manner - they would be known as the Corona Kings
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March 18, 2020, 07:15:53 AM
I’m sure no one in football wants the season to finish like this . The EPL, FA, players, sponsors and fans would be in uproar.
Even Liverpool fans wouldn’t want to win the title in this manner - they would be known as the Corona Kings
Even Liverpool fans wouldn’t want to win the title in this manner - they would be known as the Corona Kings
March 18, 2020, 06:09:50 AM
I get what you mean, it's just when I put a 'has to finish' and 'can be forfeit' list next to each other, the first one gives clear and concise answers to all questions/doubts while the other one comes down to pure speculation. If the league is cancelled, it is a lot more fair to a club like Aston Villa than it is to a club like Leicester for example. I can assume there would be lawsuits too.
It would even be fairer to start from current positions in August than to cancel the season. And I'm not saying that as a Liverpool fan, for me the title is won and even if they don't award us one I'll forever boast with it and count it
It would even be fairer to start from current positions in August than to cancel the season. And I'm not saying that as a Liverpool fan, for me the title is won and even if they don't award us one I'll forever boast with it and count it
March 18, 2020, 03:39:35 AM
I wouldn't be so sure. Just because they've postponed the EUROs doesn't necessarily mean the Premier League games will go ahead in that time. The way everyone is panicking over here I don't think it's something that is going to be resolved within a few months unless it becomes clear within a month or two that it's been blown out or proportion and they then decide to play them.
Well, it has to finish, no? I do not know when, but legally it would be too many issues if they do not finish the season.
If the situation with the virus does not improve by then, I fully expect the season to continue behind closed doors. By then the quarantined players will recover and would be ready to continue playing.
Well I don't know what has to happen, but there's certainly been talk of voiding the league but that could just be speculation or just plain fud. I don't know legally what would happen if they did that but I suspect there'd be lawsuits and I think the top few clubs of the Championship have already voiced their concerns about that. Of course the most sensible thing to do would be to play the games at some point and I'm sure that's what they're aiming for but if everyone is in lockdown for months I don't see how that will work. I guess things will become more clear over the next couple of months depending on how the disease/panic spreads.
March 18, 2020, 02:06:13 AM
I wouldn't be so sure. Just because they've postponed the EUROs doesn't necessarily mean the Premier League games will go ahead in that time. The way everyone is panicking over here I don't think it's something that is going to be resolved within a few months unless it becomes clear within a month or two that it's been blown out or proportion and they then decide to play them.
Well, it has to finish, no? I do not know when, but legally it would be too many issues if they do not finish the season.
If the situation with the virus does not improve by then, I fully expect the season to continue behind closed doors. By then the quarantined players will recover and would be ready to continue playing.
March 17, 2020, 02:23:07 PM
I'm really hoping this whole coronabullshit blows over and the games just get rescheduled. Imagine if they null and void the entire leagues and Liverpool lose out on the title and teams like Leeds don't get promoted. What a pisstake.
That would really suck. I'm looking forward to see Bielsa manage at the EPL. And it would def suck for Liverpool, Klopp (who worked sooo hard) and esp. the fans if the season was scrapped.
Yeah. He'll probably leave if he doesn't get them up this season. Did you watch the documentary they did for the previous one? I hope they're doing a second season for this one.
Euro 2020 has been suspended & will now take place in the summer of 2021. UEFA made this decision to enable all the domestic leagues time to finish. I think it’s the best decision for everybody.
We can expect the leagues to reschedule now and seasons to end normally. This was a good call in my opinion, Euro would be risky anyway - riskier than league games.
I wouldn't be so sure. Just because they've postponed the EUROs doesn't necessarily mean the Premier League games will go ahead in that time. The way everyone is panicking over here I don't think it's something that is going to be resolved within a few months unless it becomes clear within a month or two that it's been blown out or proportion and they then decide to play them.
March 17, 2020, 01:57:34 PM
Euro 2020 has been suspended & will now take place in the summer of 2021. UEFA made this decision to enable all the domestic leagues time to finish. I think it’s the best decision for everybody.
That's the best decision to take, I'd say, saving the current season which has been underway for a tournament which has commenced yet, Let's now hope, the Covid-19 outbreak can be brought under control within a good time frame for the season to complete normally, if not then pushing the Euro 2020 further away by 12 months would be all for nothing.
March 17, 2020, 11:53:48 AM
Euro 2020 has been suspended & will now take place in the summer of 2021. UEFA made this decision to enable all the domestic leagues time to finish. I think it’s the best decision for everybody.
We can expect the leagues to reschedule now and seasons to end normally. This was a good call in my opinion, Euro would be risky anyway - riskier than league games.
Also - Italy is a host nation which would not be possible this season for sure.
March 17, 2020, 09:54:11 AM
Euro 2020 has been suspended & will now take place in the summer of 2021. UEFA made this decision to enable all the domestic leagues time to finish. I think it’s the best decision for everybody.
March 17, 2020, 09:35:30 AM
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If they do cancel the season though the best thing to do would just be to pay out the winners as the table is now.
You are talking about the premier league table? I do not see that will be a big problem coz we already had 29 rounds out of 38 which means more than 2/3 matches were played. Most of all, the season winner is Liverpool of course.You do realise I'm not the chairman of the FA?
I received an email from Superbru, you probably all got it. I see no reason why we not to adhere to them, we have enough points for that.
That's easy for you to say, Mr Fourth Place
. I do agree with you though. If the league is cancelled we'll just go with the current standings. I'm joint fifth but technically sixth on the table. I wonder how they work out the ties, because I have 123 exact results and hahay has only 99, but he has more "close" results at 109.5 to my 85.5, but surely exact results should count for more. We both have the exact same number of results and also slam points as well so not sure how that works out. Does anyone know if there's an explanation of it anywhere? I'm really hoping this whole coronabullshit blows over and the games just get rescheduled. Imagine if they null and void the entire leagues and Liverpool lose out on the title and teams like Leeds don't get promoted. What a pisstake.
That would really suck. I'm looking forward to see Bielsa manage at the EPL. And it would def suck for Liverpool, Klopp (who worked sooo hard) and esp. the fans if the season was scrapped.
And it would suck for me.
March 17, 2020, 08:57:40 AM
I'm pretty sure Superbru works out ties by doing head-to-head on global scores. That is, how many times you've done better than the other guy. I'm actually not sure that's correct but I do recall reading it.
I personally think exact scores should be rewarded more than 3 points but that's probably because I have a relatively high exact score by picking risky lines heh.
I'm not sure what's going to happen but if EURO 2020 is really postponed to next year, that gives Europe a chance to play out the leagues.
Here's a lovely story for the day friends. I love Firmino a lot and his smile... turns out it really is what he's been doing all his life: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/51815586
I personally think exact scores should be rewarded more than 3 points but that's probably because I have a relatively high exact score by picking risky lines heh.
I'm not sure what's going to happen but if EURO 2020 is really postponed to next year, that gives Europe a chance to play out the leagues.
Here's a lovely story for the day friends. I love Firmino a lot and his smile... turns out it really is what he's been doing all his life: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/51815586
March 17, 2020, 07:25:31 AM
I'm really hoping this whole coronabullshit blows over and the games just get rescheduled. Imagine if they null and void the entire leagues and Liverpool lose out on the title and teams like Leeds don't get promoted. What a pisstake.
Rescheduling the matches after this corona bullshit blows over is only completely fair solution. Move the EURO as far as needed and finish the leagues.
In case this corona stuff really stops the world for a longer period of time and leagues have to be cancelled I believe that the solution will be to award European spots/ titles as per current standing. Nobody gets relegated and 2 teams get promoted for next season. That seems like the most fair solution with smallest amount of clubs which will feel screwed over.
Well I think rescheduling the games should be what they do and that's also likely what they'll want to do, but if the conroavirus thing is going to go on for months or even possibly years then there's no time for that and pretty much nothing they can do about it. The trouble is teams will still complain about what teams get promoted. Take the Championship for example. There's no guarantees that Leeds and West Brom will stay in the automatic promotion spots and then there's the play-off places. If no teams get relegated from the Premier League then there's going to be three extra teams in the league and I think that's why if they don't reschedule games they might void the league entirely out of fairness, unless there's some play off games for the relegation teams and Euro places or something. What a farce. I'm hoping in a months time it just turns out that we blew this out of proportion.
March 17, 2020, 07:08:02 AM
I'm really hoping this whole coronabullshit blows over and the games just get rescheduled. Imagine if they null and void the entire leagues and Liverpool lose out on the title and teams like Leeds don't get promoted. What a pisstake.
Rescheduling the matches after this corona bullshit blows over is only completely fair solution. Move the EURO as far as needed and finish the leagues.
In case this corona stuff really stops the world for a longer period of time and leagues have to be cancelled I believe that the solution will be to award European spots/ titles as per current standing. Nobody gets relegated and 2 teams get promoted for next season. That seems like the most fair solution with smallest amount of clubs which will feel screwed over.
March 17, 2020, 06:53:15 AM
That's easy for you to say, Mr Fourth Place
. I do agree with you though. If the league is cancelled we'll just go with the current standings. I'm joint fifth but technically sixth on the table. I wonder how they work out the ties, because I have 123 exact results and hahay has only 99, but he has more "close" results at 109.5 to my 85.5, but surely exact results should count for more. We both have the exact same number of results and also slam points as well so not sure how that works out. Does anyone know if there's an explanation of it anywhere? I think the user who has less wrong results have an advantage. I see this on global rank when more than one user has 5 exact scores and the user with less wrong predict to get the award. it seemed logical to me then, I guess you think that is not right, there is competition for the exact score, but it can be important if someone predicts a winner but do not predict a lot of goals rather than someone who picks on the wrong horse.
March 17, 2020, 06:36:49 AM
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If they do cancel the season though the best thing to do would just be to pay out the winners as the table is now.
You are talking about the premier league table? I do not see that will be a big problem coz we already had 29 rounds out of 38 which means more than 2/3 matches were played. Most of all, the season winner is Liverpool of course.You do realise I'm not the chairman of the FA?
I received an email from Superbru, you probably all got it. I see no reason why we not to adhere to them, we have enough points for that.
That's easy for you to say, Mr Fourth Place
. I do agree with you though. If the league is cancelled we'll just go with the current standings. I'm joint fifth but technically sixth on the table. I wonder how they work out the ties, because I have 123 exact results and hahay has only 99, but he has more "close" results at 109.5 to my 85.5, but surely exact results should count for more. We both have the exact same number of results and also slam points as well so not sure how that works out. Does anyone know if there's an explanation of it anywhere? I'm really hoping this whole coronabullshit blows over and the games just get rescheduled. Imagine if they null and void the entire leagues and Liverpool lose out on the title and teams like Leeds don't get promoted. What a pisstake.
March 17, 2020, 04:44:50 AM
I am a little bit more pessimistic. I don't think that anything will be resumed before May, even that is questionable. It is based on the Chinese fight against the virus and how long it took.
I received an email from Superbru, you probably all got it. I see no reason why we not to adhere to them, we have enough points for that.
I received an email from Superbru, you probably all got it. I see no reason why we not to adhere to them, we have enough points for that.
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How we deal with it
All of our fixtures will be updated to reflect any date/time changes or marked as 'postponed' as soon as any official announcements are received. The situation is of course ever-changing and rescheduled dates for postponed matches are not always immediately known. As a result, you may see some funny fixture times such as some football rounds being pushed back a few months on Superbru with visible fixture dates not being legitimate. Such cases are merely our way of removing the matches from your dashboard so that you aren't receiving reminders etc. and so that they can be rescheduled for their valid dates as and when they are known.
Equally, if any tournaments end up being completely cancelled due to the outbreak and a lack of time to fulfil fixtures, said tournaments will also be closed on Superbru once official. In the majority of cases, the current pool standings would be taken as final in the event of a cancellation. However, if a tournament is cancelled in its very early stages and not enough of the event has been completed to provide valid standings at Superbru (such as the recent Players championship), we will cancel the tournament and consider it null and void.
All of our fixtures will be updated to reflect any date/time changes or marked as 'postponed' as soon as any official announcements are received. The situation is of course ever-changing and rescheduled dates for postponed matches are not always immediately known. As a result, you may see some funny fixture times such as some football rounds being pushed back a few months on Superbru with visible fixture dates not being legitimate. Such cases are merely our way of removing the matches from your dashboard so that you aren't receiving reminders etc. and so that they can be rescheduled for their valid dates as and when they are known.
Equally, if any tournaments end up being completely cancelled due to the outbreak and a lack of time to fulfil fixtures, said tournaments will also be closed on Superbru once official. In the majority of cases, the current pool standings would be taken as final in the event of a cancellation. However, if a tournament is cancelled in its very early stages and not enough of the event has been completed to provide valid standings at Superbru (such as the recent Players championship), we will cancel the tournament and consider it null and void.
March 17, 2020, 04:25:53 AM
Sorry guys, had a minor surgery so am kinda catching up.
If the season continues, well, no harm done to the pool. If it ends - even if that option really does not suit me I feel a fairer option would be to pay out the winners based on current standings.
Ultimately, it's a decision for the pool owner - just giving my 2 cents.
Hopefully the season continues soon so we don't have these issues at all
If the season continues, well, no harm done to the pool. If it ends - even if that option really does not suit me I feel a fairer option would be to pay out the winners based on current standings.
Ultimately, it's a decision for the pool owner - just giving my 2 cents.
Hopefully the season continues soon so we don't have these issues at all
March 14, 2020, 02:57:21 PM
This is not about Premier League its about our pool.
I see. But I would not mind if we consider the current positions of the table if we really need to. I still believe that everything will become normal in a week or two and from the 3rd April we will have regular matches. Surely we all have busy time.Without football it's really boring.
March 14, 2020, 02:55:09 PM
I really doubt they will cancel the season altogether. The worst that will likely happen is they'll just reschedule the games. Personally I think it's overkill. They could play games behind closed doors but unless everyone in the country is going to stay at home then the disease is still going to spread and it'll end up doing ridiculous damage to the economy as it already has to bitcoin and the stock market. It's probably not much more of a threat than the flu to a fit and young professional athlete anyway.
They will just reschedule the games and that is it. But yes this will give the player a very busy time however I think this people are professional and trained so we would not see much difference. May be we will see few matches with surprising results which we already are seeing in regular times.
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If they do cancel the season though the best thing to do would just be to pay out the winners as the table is now.
You are talking about the premier league table? I do not see that will be a big problem coz we already had 29 rounds out of 38 which means more than 2/3 matches were played. Most of all, the season winner is Liverpool of course. March 14, 2020, 02:49:24 PM
I really doubt they will cancel the season altogether. The worst that will likely happen is they'll just reschedule the games. Personally I think it's overkill. They could play games behind closed doors but unless everyone in the country is going to stay at home then the disease is still going to spread and it'll end up doing ridiculous damage to the economy as it already has to bitcoin and the stock market. It's probably not much more of a threat than the flu to a fit and young professional athlete anyway.
They will just reschedule the games and that is it. But yes this will give the player a very busy time however I think this people are professional and trained so we would not see much difference. May be we will see few matches with surprising results which we already are seeing in regular times.
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If they do cancel the season though the best thing to do would just be to pay out the winners as the table is now.
You are talking about the premier league table? I do not see that will be a big problem coz we already had 29 rounds out of 38 which means more than 2/3 matches were played. Most of all, the season winner is Liverpool of course. 
March 14, 2020, 10:24:35 AM
I really doubt they will cancel the season altogether. The worst that will likely happen is they'll just reschedule the games. Personally I think it's overkill. They could play games behind closed doors but unless everyone in the country is going to stay at home then the disease is still going to spread and it'll end up doing ridiculous damage to the economy as it already has to bitcoin and the stock market. It's probably not much more of a threat than the flu to a fit and young professional athlete anyway. If they do cancel the season though the best thing to do would just be to pay out the winners as the table is now.
Playing games behind closed doors isn't possible because there is already some players and Arsenal manager Arteta infected. Now some teams are closed in quarantine. Offcourse, playing games later is most likely scenario, but first we need to stop spread of virus in Europe. There is some positive signs in China - number of infected people stoped to grow. While Japan already renew their basketball league. Jump to: