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For Fuch's Sake

h0llywood

By h0llywood,
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1 minute ago, h0llywood said:

Also, don't know if this has been posted as I couldn't find anything in the search but it appears this "football" club has backed our football club earlier this year.

http://www.lcfc.com/news/article/leicester-city-backing-for-carolina-panthers-2903244.aspx

They are also one of the craziest underdog stories in sports history. The fact that they are likely to win the Premier League is insane.

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14 minutes ago, Cracka McNasty said:

What is the story? I've heard something about it but nothing in detail. 

Exactly 1 year ago, Leicester City was in last place in the Premier League and 7 points out of safety from being relegated to the next division below. The last 3 teams in the league get relegated every year and 3 teams from a lower division get promoted. They probably shouldn't even be in the Premier League this year. Now they are in 1st place in the Premier League by 7 points with 6 games to go and an easy schedule remaining. They barely stayed in the Premier League for this season and now they are heavy favorites to be champions. They were 5000-1 to win the league before the season started.

The Premier League is also nothing like the NFL where there a tons of competitive balances put in place like the draft and the salary cap. There is no salary cap and the primary method of obtaining players is by buying them with huge sums of money. Leicester City is an extremely small market team with very little money in comparison to the top teams so they are at a huge competitive disadvantage. Simply put, teams like Leicester City do not win league titles in Europe. All the top European leagues are extremely top heavy and are dominated by the richest teams because they buy all the best players. There are no underdog stories because the gulf in financial buying power between the top teams and the rest of the pack is so great. The only way to break into the group of top teams is by having billionaires buy the club and invest huge sums of their own money into buying players which is what Manchester City have done in recent years. Leicester City is not like that. They are taking their budget team and beating everyone. It's ridiculous that this is actually occurring. It would be one thing for them to make a cinderella run through a single elimination format tournament, that's feasible, but they are doing this over the course of the entire season which has a full home and home schedule of 38 games.

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4 minutes ago, Bartin said:

Exactly 1 year ago, Leicester City was in last place in the Premier League and 7 points out of safety from being relegated to the next division below. The last 3 teams in the league get relegated every year and 3 teams from a lower division get promoted. They probably shouldn't even be in the Premier League this year. Now they are in 1st place in the Premier League by 7 points with 6 games to go and an easy schedule remaining. They barely stayed in the Premier League for this season and now they are heavy favorites to be champions. They were 5000-1 to win the league before the season started.

The Premier League is also nothing like the NFL where there a tons of competitive balances put in place like the draft and the salary cap. There is no salary cap and the primary method of obtaining players is by buying them with huge sums of money. Leicester City is an extremely small market team with very little money in comparison to the top teams so they are at a huge competitive disadvantage. Simply put, teams like Leicester City do not win league titles in Europe. All the top European leagues are extremely top heavy and are dominated by the richest teams because they buy all the best players. There are no underdog stories because the gulf in financial buying power between the top teams and the rest of the pack is so great. The only way to break into the group of top teams is by having billionaires buy the club and invest huge sums of their own money into buying players which is what Manchester City have done in recent years. Leicester City is not like that. They are taking their budget team and beating everyone. It's ridiculous that this is actually occurring. It would be one thing for them to make a cinderella run through a single elimination format tournament, that's feasible, but they are doing this over the course of the entire season which has a full home and home schedule of 38 games.

So it's like moneyball when the A's started stomping the Majors in the early 2000s?

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1 minute ago, Cracka McNasty said:

So it's like moneyball when the A's started stomping the Majors in the early 2000s?

Yes, that's a pretty decent example but with an even wider financial gap and no advantage of having advanced metrics. It's also mostly the same team that sucked last year. They didn't bring in a bunch of cheap guys that are blowing up. Their existing roster of average to below average players from last year has turned into a team superstars this year.

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1 hour ago, Bartin said:

Yes, that's a pretty decent example but with an even wider financial gap and no advantage of having advanced metrics. It's also mostly the same team that sucked last year. They didn't bring in a bunch of cheap guys that are blowing up. Their existing roster of average to below average players from last year has turned into a team superstars this year.

How? are they all on roids this year or something?

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Just now, Cracka McNasty said:

How? are they all on roids this year or something?

Magic? I seriously have no idea. Nothing about their run really makes any sense. They have a new coach, but it's not like he is some tactical genius running a system no one has ever seen before. He's an above average retread that's been around since the 80's. This is his 9th team in the last 15 years and I don't think he has ever won a championship before.

They do have one young guy who has turned from a promising young player into a great player, but he alone doesn't explain it.

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2 hours ago, Cracka McNasty said:

How? are they all on roids this year or something?

They're piecing together attacks much better this year and finishing in the final third at a higher rate. They've also improved significantly at defending in their third, so they aren't surrendering many goals. 

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21 hours ago, h0llywood said:

Sign this guy! Leicester's Christian Fuchs

http://www.espnfc.com/leicester-city/story/2843508/leicesters-christian-fuchs-i-want-to-be-nfl-kicker

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So.....were there 7 huge guys standing in front of you with their hands in the air? It's not just kicking a ball 65 yards. It's kicking a ball 65 yards with a 9 foot tall wall 6 yards in front of you. Hate how everyone thinks they can trip and fall into an NFL kicking job. 

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