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Manager of the Month: Apr 2024 ==> Ankit Chitnis [405 - 5] May 2024 ==> Ankit Chitnis [302 - 3] Previous Winners: Month Year ==> Winner's Name [Points - GWs] Aug 2023 ==> Rana Anshuman [189 - 3] Sep 2023 ==> Ambar B [286 - 4] Oct 2023 ==> Nikhil Naik [224 - 3] Nov 2023 ==> Ashish Rawat [165 - 3] Dec 2023 ==> Ankit Chitnis [428 - 7] Jan 2024 ==> Mrinal Rishiraj [139 - 2] Feb 2024 ==> Avishkar Srivastava [320 - 4] Mar 2024 ==> Emmanuelle Prakash [227 - 4] Manager of the Month [MOTM] ----------------------------------------------------- Final Table Update: FPL Classic : Winner = Ankit Chitnis @Mr.Copyright© FPL Medallic [Individual] : Winner = @ranaanshuman 14 Gold Medals FPL Medallic [Team] : Winners = @radicaldudeand Bharat H2H League : Winner = Ankit Chitnis H2H Fixtures -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We played EURO2024 Scoreline Prediction Contest on WhatsApp while IVG was down. EURO2024 Scoreline Prediction Contest And, Azaan Teki won it -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are currently playing Fantasy Premier League 2025, and there are 15 participants. IVG FPL 2025 If anyone interested in joining us, please let me know here.

Retired Yeh kya poochh liya bhai ... Our FIFA journey ended with the last iteration of FIFA i.e. FIFA23. I thoroughly enjoyed every season of FIFA since joining the IVG, 14 years. Danny bhai @TheDribbler used to host tourneys back then. There were a couple of seasons when we had more than 50 different FIFA players in our IVG tourneys. I still have data of all FIFA tourneys [from 2010-present] and I might calculate and make an all-time table, would be interesting to to see the number of games we have played We had a lot of active FIFA players between FIFA10 - FIFA13. Most guys were still teenagers so they had plenty of time for gaming. And, then once they started working, their gaming activity was cut down drastically. Numbers started to go down after FIFA13, I was also not around for a 2-3 years after the birth of my son, not that I was breastfeeding him but still it was hard to find time and energy for gaming. Once he grew up and I came back, I found very few active players. And, the IVG had seen a decline in general as well. I tried my best to keep the scene active to bring people back to IVG the way I could. Nothing can survive for long without reproducing and the FIFA community didn't produce enough new players. I must say that the login issues didn't help either. I started organising those prediction contests and the FPL just to give people another reason to come back (or stick) to the IVG. It's just my way of contributing towards helping the IVG grow (or sustain ). The contests/tourneys I organise here, making & updating tables, they take a lot of time, but I am happy to do it if it can help bringing even 2 people back to the IVG. I don't know many people on the IVG outside of the FIFA circle, but I love this place. I actually thought it was gone for good when it was down for 3 months. I hope it keeps floating... Here's a table from FIFA12 FIFA12 End of Season Stats There are some people I don't remember at all and then there are some I can never forget. No. 16 is our dear friend Rahul [laughordie] @RahulOfWar There are some more names I found in other tables... @Stevie G @Sanwal@rad2689@Cash @Sudhir @boltonfan Dharmin [forgot his IVG name] @MadridistaLove@KeanoAakarsh Dalmia, Sparsh Dalmia @india-skro@arjun_sasukeNavdeep [born to rule???] @Rosh@zeeman11@rockstarnetDanny bhai @Man In The Box@VanillaDuo@SchneideR @VelivolusDas Sunny dude ka IVG name bhool gya @hope @Parvinder SinghAjay [elvj???] @SarwaanM@ash_ @Angad. Angy?? @Nemo Obaid bhai, @zophar Rakesh [Dark Knight or something???] @dabba I can see @TAZ's name as well [I remember his name from Cricket World Cup] but I don't remember him participating in FIFA tourneys

Manager of the Month: Mar 2024 ==> Emmanuelle Prakash [227 - 4] Previous Winners: Month Year ==> Winner's Name [Points - GWs] Aug 2023 ==> Rana Anshuman [189 - 3] Sep 2023 ==> Ambar B [286 - 4] Oct 2023 ==> Nikhil Naik [224 - 3] Nov 2023 ==> Ashish Rawat [165 - 3] Dec 2023 ==> Ankit Chitnis [428 - 7] Jan 2024 ==> Mrinal Rishiraj [139 - 2] Feb 2024 ==> Avishkar Srivastava [320 - 4] Manager of the Month [MOTM] ----------------------------------------------------- Table Update: GW27-GW30 FPL Classic FPL Medallic H2H Fixtures --------------------------------------------------------------- FPL Medallic: GW27-GW30 @ranaanshuman = 3 Golds @Big Boss, @Man In The Box, @xzaanxand Bharat = 1 Gold each

Manager of the Month: Feb 2024 ==> Avishkar Srivastava [320 - 4] Previous Winners: Month Year ==> Winner's Name [Points - GWs] Aug 2023 ==> Rana Anshuman [189 - 3] Sep 2023 ==> Ambar B [286 - 4] Oct 2023 ==> Nikhil Naik [224 - 3] Nov 2023 ==> Ashish Rawat [165 - 3] Dec 2023 ==> Ankit Chitnis [428 - 7] Jan 2024 ==> Mrinal Rishiraj [139 - 2] Manager of the Month [MOTM] ----------------------------------------------------- Table Update: GW23-GW26 FPL Classic FPL Medallic H2H Fixtures --------------------------------------------------------------- FPL Medallic: GW23-GW26 @ashish24rawat = 3 Golds @Mr.Copyright© @Banz @MadridistaLove @SarwaanM = 2 Golds each @Man In The Box @xzaanx Bharat Kumar @North @SchneideR @radicaldude = 1 Gold each

Manager of the Month: Jan 2024 ==> Mrinal Rishiraj [139 - 2] Previous Winners: Month Year ==> Winner's Name [Points - GWs] Aug 2023 ==> Rana Anshuman [189 - 3] Sep 2023 ==> Ambar B [286 - 4] Oct 2023 ==> Nikhil Naik [224 - 3] Nov 2023 ==> Ashish Rawat [165 - 3] Dec 2023 ==> Ankit Chitnis [428 - 7] Manager of the Month [MOTM] ----------------------------------------------------- Table Update: GW21-GW22 FPL Classic FPL Medallic H2H Fixtures --------------------------------------------------------------- FPL Medallic: GW21-GW22 @MadridistaLove = 2 Golds @SarwaanM @Sanwal @North @radicaldude @Mr.Copyright© = 1 Gold each

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Manager of the Month: Dec 2023 ==> Ankit Chitnis [428 - 7] Previous Winners: Month Year ==> Winner's Name [Points - GWs] Aug 2023 ==> Rana Anshuman [189 - 3] Sep 2023 ==> Ambar B [286 - 4] Oct 2023 ==> Nikhil Naik [224 - 3] Nov 2023 ==> Ashish Rawat [165 - 3] Manager of the Month [MOTM] ----------------------------------------------------- Table Update: GW14-GW20 FPL Classic FPL Medallic H2H Fixtures --------------------------------------------------------------- FPL Medallic: GW14-GW20 @Mr.Copyright© and @radicaldude = 4 Golds each @North = 3 Golds @Big Boss, @Banz, @ranaanshuman and @SarwaanM = 2 Golds each @ashish24rawat, @Man In The Box, Bharat Kumar, @MadridistaLove, @SchneideR and @Sanwal= 1 Gold each

Everyone enjoyed and played actively, so no complaints about workload Everyone want to see their updated rankings after completion of a Matchday. So, I tried to update tables as soon as I could You won both football and cricket world cup contests, you must be cheating

Manager of the Month: Nov 2023 ==> Ashish Rawat [165 - 3 GWs] @ashish24rawat Previous Winners: Month Year ==> Winner's Name [Points - GWs] Aug 2023 ==> Rana Anshuman [189 - 3] Sep 2023 ==> Ambar B [286 - 4] Oct 2023 ==> Nikhil Naik [224 - 3] Manager of the Month [MOTM] ----------------------------------------------------- Table Update: GW11-GW13 FPL Classic FPL Medallic H2H Fixtures --------------------------------------------------------------- FPL Medallic: GW11-GW13 5 managers won gold medals: @Banz @Man In The Box @radicaldude @Mr.Copyright© and Bharat Kumar

Updated with another link for 1975-2023

Winner = Big Boss (again) -------------------------------------- Now, the postmortem report of the contest... MATCH PREDICTIONS:- Most number of Correct Match Results: 34 = Bharat Kumar 33 = KnackChap, Nikhil Naik, Rushab Oswal and TAZ 32 = Big Boss Most number of Incorrect Match Results: 17 = Sanwal Memon and Sarwaan Memon 16 = nitinveer and Vamos 15 = Nikhil Naik and Rushab Oswal Most number of consecutive Correct Match Results: 9 = Nikhil Naik 8 = Bharat Kumar, Big Boss and nitinveer 7 = TAZ Most number of consecutive Incorrect Match Results: 3 = nitinveer Highest accuracy (Match Predictions): 73.33% = TAZ 72.73% = Big Boss 72.34% = Bharat Kumar 71.74% = KnackChap Lowest accuracy (Match Predictions): 62.22% = Sanwal Memon 63.04% = Sarwaan Memon 64.00% = Aditya Bakshi 65.96% = nitinveer and Vamos Highest points per prediction: 5.68 = Big Boss 5.06 = Bharat Kumar and Nikhil Naik 4.98 = Rushab Oswal Lowest points per prediction: 2.80 = Aditya Bakshi 4.45 = Vamos 4.46 = Sarwaan Memon ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 50s PREDICTIONS:- Most number of Exact 50s Scorelines: 7 = Big Boss 6 = Nikhil Naik 5 = Rushab Osawal and Sanwal Memon Least number of Exact 50s Scorelines: 1 = Aditya Bakshi 2 = Vamos 3 = TAZ Most number of Correct 50s Outcomes: 19 = Big Boss and Vamos 18 = Rushab Oswal and Bharat Kumar 17 = Nikhil Naik, Sanwal Memon and Sarwaan Memon Least number of Correct 50s Outcomes: 5 = Aditya Bakshi 13 = TAZ 15 = nitinveer and KnackChap Most number of consecutive Exact 50s Scorelines: 2 = Big Boss (twice), Rushab Oswal, Sanwal Memon and TAZ Most number of consecutive Correct 50s Outcomes: 6 = Sanwal Memon 5 = Big Boss 4 = Big Boss, nitinveer, Sanwal Memon, Nikhil Naik and TAZ Highest accuracy (Correct 50s Outcome): 43.18% = Big Boss 40.43% = Vamos 38.30% = Bharat Kumar Lowest accuracy (Correct 50s Outcome): 20.00% = Aditya Bakshi 28.89% = TAZ 31.91% = nitinveer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Final Table Update: Leaderboard Predictions Fixtures/Results ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A big thank you to all the participants @Purana Khiladi @Big Boss @KnackChap @SchneideR @nitinveer @rushab oswal @Sanwal @SarwaanM @TAZ @Vamos

Match Day 42, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Sunday, November 19 Australia vs India Match = 0-1 50s = 2-3

My top 5 Bowling Units [WC1975 - WC2019]: 1. Australia 2003 2. Australia 2007 3. South Africa 2011 4. Australia 2015 5. India 2015 I will update this list after the WC final and see if any sides from this WC can join or topple these bowling units.

Table Update: Matches 41-47 Leaderboard Predictions Fixtures/Results @SchneideR and @rushab oswal have all hit 2 "eFs" each. Congrats! @KnackChap @Big Boss and @SarwaanM have hit 1 "eFs" each. Well done! I lost 8 points yesterday Along with a -1 point penalty for missing a prediction Correct format for the final match: Match Day 42, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Sunday, November 19 Australia vs India Match = 50s =

Missed the deadline today, my prediction wouldn't count but I'll still post it, just for fun Match Day 41, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Thursday, November 16 Australia vs South Africa Match = 1-0 [missed deadline] 50s = 2-2 [missed deadline]

Match Day 40, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Wednesday, November 15 India vs New Zealand Match = 1-0 50s = 2-2 ------------------------------------------------------

Not entirely on-topic post: India's bowling unit has been playing very well so far in this world cup and I hope the trend continues in the next couple of games as well. I was chatting with my cousins in a WhatsApp group. I asked the question "Which team in their opinion has been the best performing in a CWC ever?". Most people mentioned teams like AUS2007, AUS2003 and PAK1999. And, I was just wondering if it (IND2023) can be compared with one of the best performing bowling lineups in the entire history of the world cup. So, I collected some stats and made a table of the best performing bowling units in a CWC (up to CWC2019). While I had made the tables for them, I thought I might as well share them here also because you've all been playing prediction game very actively. And, I am very grateful for that. Since there are potentially 2 more matches left to play for IND2023 (and some people might complain I will jinx them), so I have not included this group or any other team from the current WC. The work I am gonna post below just considers the numbers (it has got nothing to do with the success of that team), I have not ranked these bowling units in overall terms. I will leave it to the readers to decide what criteria they wanna use while picking a team which they think performed the best. I am also aware of the fact that winning the trophy is what matters most in a WC. However, I just wanted to see the numbers. The teams which may come out on top in this work are not necessarily the greatest bowling lineups because some of them may not have won the trophy. Okay, the introduction is over now. Next hurdle I faced was how to compare teams from different eras. Since cricket is a sport that has evolved with time. For example, run-scoring rate has seen dramatic rise if we compare CWC1975 (3.67 RPO) and CWC2019 (5.49 RPO). It would be stupid and pointless to compare stats directly from these 2 WCs. So, I believe the best way to analyse would be to compare a team's performance with its contemporaries and not with the teams from other eras. Like, West Indies 1975 team's performance should be compared with what was happening in the same year's WC i.e. WC1975. To achieve that, I extracted the average values (of some of the most important aspects of bowling numbers in cricket) from each CWC. IMO, these aspects are: 1. Bowling Average = Number of runs conceded per wicket 2. Economy / Run Rate = Number of runs conceded per over 3. Bowling Strike Rate = Number of balls bowled per wicket 4. W/M = Number of wickets taken in a match Eligibility: Minimum matches: 5 Minimum overs: 250 Minimum wickets: 40 Best Performing Bowling Units 1975-2019 Best Performing Bowling Units 1975-2023 If someone bothers to analyse all 4 aspects , please share your top 5 in rank order.

Match Day 38, prediction deadline at 10:30AM Saturday, November 11 Australia v Bangladesh Match = 1-0 50s = 3-2 England v Pakistan: 2:00PM Match = 1-0 50s = 2-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 39, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Sunday, November 12 India v Netherlands Match = 1-0 50s = 2-0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Match Day 37, prediction deadline at 1:00PM Friday, November 10 Afghanistan v South Africa Match = 0-1 50s = 2-2

Table Update: Matches 38-40 Leaderboard Predictions Fixtures/Results @Sanwal is the only guy to hit an eFs, congrats ------------------------------------------------------------ Match Day 36, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Thursday, November 09 New Zealand v Sri Lanka Match = 1-0 50s = 2-1 You can change your prediction before deadline, and you lost few points here Maxwell and Cummins hit you in the face with 2 of the greatest ODI innings ever played Considering you are right at the bottom and about 100 points behind the guy above you, your prediction's been considered

Table Update: Matches 31-37 Leaderboard Predictions Fixtures/Results @Big Boss @Sanwal and @TAZ have all hit 2 "eFs" each. Congrats! @KnackChap @SchneideR @SarwaanM and I have hit 1 "eFs" each. Well done! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 33, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Monday, November 06 Bangladesh v Sri Lanka Match = 0-1 50s = 2-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 34, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Tuesday, November 07 Afghanistan v Australia Match = 0-1 50s = 1-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 35, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Wednesday, November 08 England v Netherlands Match = 1-0 50s = 3-1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Match Day 31, prediction deadline at 10:30AM Saturday, November 04 New Zealand v Pakistan Match = 1-0 50s = 3-3 Australia v England: 2:00PM Match = 1-0 50s = 3-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 32, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Sunday, November 05 India v South Africa Match = 1-0 50s = 3-2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Match Day 30, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Friday, November 03 Afghanistan v Netherlands Match = 1-0 50s = 2-1 ----------------------------------------------- And, we are all thankful to you for doing that

Match Day 29, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Thursday, November 02 India v Sri Lanka Match = 1-0 50s = 3-1