Mikey’s Millions 2024

No further transfers announced overnight and Transfermarkt haven’t changed any valuations, so I will officially declare @Iftikhar the first winner of the Michael Edwards Trophy:

Congratulations to him and thank you to everyone who entered. I hope to run this competition again next summer, although we’ll probably need another name if the rumours of Mikey’s departure are to be believed…

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Well done @Iftikhar :clap:

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Congratulations to @Iftikhar. :confetti_ball: :trophy: :confetti_ball:

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So @Iftikhar is replacing Mikey? How do we send the list of what we want or he’ll himself go through the ‘Who would you buy’ thread?

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If I could make a suggestion for the next incarnation, are there any sites that quote the full value of a transfer?

It was quite frustrating at times to be close to the pin on a transfer, only for transfermarkt to only record the up-front portion of the fee and so lose out.

We’re basing our guesstimates on what we think is fair market value for a player, not on what we think a buying club will commit to initially.

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Oh shit, it’s real

Special thanks goes to @cynicaloldgit for making this happen.

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I’d be more than willing to accept another source, if everyone can agree on one. :+1:

As stated originally, this is the first attempt at this particular competition so improvements and refinements can always be made.

All suggestions are welcome. :sunglasses:

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I don’t know if there is a way to dock points for all the transfers people pick that don’t happen. I didn’t pick 10 because I thought business would be slow, but that was wrong approach lol. Might be a hard one to do.

I do think it would be fair to penalize people for wrong picks - that would make us work to accurately predict who would actually leave. Scoring would be something like 1 point for every correct pick minus 1 point for every incorrect pick. So then if I pick 6 players to go, and only for of them leave, my score would be 4 - 2 = 2.

Sounds like more work for me…

Therefore, it’s a no. :joy:

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More cynical less lazy please, old git. :wink:

I thought I won this twat weeks ago?

Speaking of which, has anyone seen @Scott.Jones lately?

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I don’t think anyone got more correct departures than me, did they? Damn those who went on loan rather than permanent deals.

Congratulations Iftikhar. Stellar work.

I still can’t believe we didn’t sell Origi and Phillips and add another forward. Oh well, onwards and upwards.

20 and 7 here we come.

Incredible… I finish third, I’m on the podium! I’m usually so shite at these games that I didn’t see that coming… :laughing:

Good work @cynicaloldgit and congrats to @Iftikhar and also to @Mascot , who to be fair, finished very near to the top. :+1:t2:

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You mean season :thinking:

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January window?

So, Everton lost the transfer window trophy to Liverpool this year. :grin:

Fair enough! I do greatly appreciate your efforts to put this fun little competition together

I’m just trying to figure out how to gerrymander the rules so I perform better next year.