Post questions, teams, any news related to fpl here :)
I'll kick us off.
Bale worth 12 mill?
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 24, 2013, 10:40:53 PM
Official FPL FF Leagues
Okay Guys and Gals,
Two Leaues created and the League codes. I have limited the Head to Head League to 38 at this point. If we get those numbers then everyone plays each other once. If more show up to join we can make a call to either increase the size of this League to unlimited in which case not everyone will play each other, or create a Second Division; maybe with a view to some promotion/relegation next year?
FanFooty El CLassico (CLassic League) - League Code: 61032-114725
FFH2H (Head to Head League) - League Code: 61032-114769
Spread the word!
Quote from: elephants on July 17, 2013, 02:32:26 PM
Post questions, teams, any news related to fpl here :)
I'll kick us off.
Bale worth 12 mill?
Cheers LE,
Just came in to set up a new 'official' thread.
My thoughts on Bale after one nights thinking about it. I won't give a conclusive answer, because much will change between now and the beginning of the season. I'm also going to include RVP in my thoughts, because one of the big questions is going to be, do you start one, or both..
When I first looked and saw RVP at 14.0 I was a little shocked, but not surprised. When I later saw 12.0 on Bale I was stunned! I didn't expect that price at all; it is very high!
That said, we have seen in the past the absolute midfield guns start at this price... Gerrard, Ronaldo, and Lampard have all started the season at similair prices as midfielders. Some years they were worth it at that price, some years they were worth waiting for. In one case, (from memory), Ronaldo started at 15.0 - He still ended up worth the price tag from the beginning! :o
Bale is an exceptional talent no doubt about it, and will be easily the best midfielder come seasons end.
Having both in your team is going to draw 26.0 from your 100.0 budget immediately. That is a lot of $$ for less than 20% of your team. To be assured value for money, you will want to be scoring at least 30 between them from the get-go, including the assumption you have one of them captain. Unfortunately both of them are on the same side of the draw (By this I mean they both play at home, and both play away the same weeks) until Gameweek 7, and then they are only on opposite sides of the draw for a couple of weeks. So there is no advantage in having both and putting the 'C' the one that has the home game.
The Draw:RVP Fixtures until Gameweek 7 - Swansea (A), Chelsea, Liverpool (A), C Palace, Man City (A) West Brom.
Bale Fixtures until Gameweek 7 - C Palace (A) Swansea, Arsenal (A), Norwich, Cardiff (A), Chelsea.
For me the points go to Bale for a slightly softer draw to start.
I am yet to check the past history, but if my memory is correct Bale has taken a month or so to get going each season. Of course he was younger then and still becoming an 'elite' fantasy player, last year finally making it but it is worth mentioning. (I will let lou know later if the stats call me a liar! ;D ) This is not a concern with RVP.
Do you need to start BOTH of RVP and Bale?.... probably not, because both provide you with a perma-captain of quality which is what you are really looking for from these two players, IMO, RVP is the better option as shown last year with only four games where he did not provide an assist or goal. Effectively he scored 6 points every week as a minimum which leaves you being able to focus on other things in your team rather than worrying about who should be captain each week. He has history on his side.
Ownership:Early days as teams are only just beginning to be built (Although it is probably more the pros that have begun selecting teams, so will be a good guide IMO), but Bale is in 50% of teams, and RVP is in 33.6%. How does this help? If Bale starts with a higher ownership %, there is only one way he can go.... down in price!(I'm looking at the Swansea and Arsenal games) Bear in mind that FPL is based on net transfers, if Bale has a couple of bad games a lot of people will jump quickly, especially if RVP scores well those weeks. Anyone that started Bale over RVP will look to correct their selection quickly. The most he can drop in any one gameweek is 0.3, but with such a solid ownership base early on there is every chance this can happen. Two bad weeks, and thats a .6 drop to 11.4, which is much more attractive.
To answer the question directly, Bale
WILL be worth 12.0.
Does he present better value than RVP at 14.0?.... I think that is a 50/50 proposition.
Start both??..... Do everything you can to start both, but be wary of comprimising the balance of your team.
Would an early team analysis be an acceptable request?
And heres the price calculator as promised, which was 'refreshed' today with this years data... on the front page for everyone. It's a slightly different format from last year, but should give you the same information, and help with trade timing.
If anyone has questions about how to use it feel free to ask away....
Obviously, it is of no use until about 9PM Saturday 17th August. ;)
http://www.fiso.co.uk/crackthecode.php
Quote from: NigeyS on July 17, 2013, 06:03:44 PM
Would an early team analysis be an acceptable request?
Go for it... It helps to see what everyone elses line of thought is. :)
Gone the ol' 4-4-2. Never (and by never I mean always...) fails me. ;)
GK: Cech (Tremmel)
D: Luiz, Garrido, Agger, Baines (Riether)
M: Mata, Michu, Sessegnon, Pilkington (Jarvis)
F: Van Wolfswinkel, Deulofeu (Anelka)
I'm happy with it tbh. Big fan of Wolf and Deu. My love for Luiz, The Juan and Michu is too high not to include them, and I've always been a fan of both Sessegnon and Pilkington. As for Agger and Baines, well, they're probably two of my favourite defenders in the EPL. Oh and... WHO BETTER THE PETR? ;)
Thoughts/Hate/Worship/Constructive Criticism?
Quote from: NigeyS on July 17, 2013, 06:36:18 PM
Gone the ol' 4-4-2. Never (and by never I mean always...) fails me. ;)
GK: Cech (Tremmel)
D: Luiz, Garrido, Agger, Baines (Riether)
M: Mata, Michu, Sessegnon, Pilkington (Jarvis)
F: Van Wolfswinkel, Deulofeu (Anelka)
I'm happy with it tbh. Big fan of Wolf and Deu. My love for Luiz, The Juan and Michu is too high not to include them, and I've always been a fan of both Sessegnon and Pilkington. As for Agger and Baines, well, they're probably two of my favourite defenders in the EPL. Oh and... WHO BETTER THE PETR? ;)
Thoughts/Hate/Worship/Constructive Criticism?
Really strong first-up effort Nigey!
Your FWD line is the obvious weakness for mine. Have considered Van Wolfwinkel myself (coz i love the name! ) but really need to do some research there. Same goes for Deulofeu, but all reports I've heard are positive.
Anelka is wait and see for me. We occasionaly see older big name players return to struggling clubs, and rarely do they light the world on fire. Couple this with his with 3 goals from 22 apearences in the Chinese Super-League last year doesn't fill me with confidence. Especially with the step up in class that the PL will be.
Murray from C Palace could be a good option for that price. Third highest goal scorer in Europe last year taking into account top two divisions of the top five leagues... Only behind Messi and Ronaldo!! 8) I don't think he will have quite the impact Lambert did last year though.
You need at least one perma-captain (RVP or Bale). Mata is solid, but can have form losses for a few weeks at a time. He's just not quite in the same class as these two.
I'd be looking at these two things, which is obviously going to be a rob Peter to pay Paul scenario from your defesive players.
Cheers VSA (love your name by the way haha! 8))!
Totally forgot about Murray, solid back-up for the price. I use Deulofeu on FIFA and have seen him play, Everton will be nuts not to play him. Wolf is great and should score regularly enough for Norwich.
I'm happy to captain Mata, I have faith. I just don't know whether I'm willing to pay so much for RVP or Bale, even though they're great players.
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 17, 2013, 05:59:03 PM
Quote from: elephants on July 17, 2013, 02:32:26 PM
Post questions, teams, any news related to fpl here :)
I'll kick us off.
Bale worth 12 mill?
Cheers LE,
Just came in to set up a new 'official' thread.
My thoughts on Bale after one nights thinking about it. I won't give a conclusive answer, because much will change between now and the beginning of the season. I'm also going to include RVP in my thoughts, because one of the big questions is going to be, do you start one, or both..
When I first looked and saw RVP at 14.0 I was a little shocked, but not surprised. When I later saw 12.0 on Bale I was stunned! I didn't expect that price at all; it is very high!
That said, we have seen in the past the absolute midfield guns start at this price... Gerrard, Ronaldo, and Lampard have all started the season at similair prices as midfielders. Some years they were worth it at that price, some years they were worth waiting for. In one case, (from memory), Ronaldo started at 15.0 - He still ended up worth the price tag from the beginning! :o
Bale is an exceptional talent no doubt about it, and will be easily the best midfielder come seasons end.
Having both in your team is going to draw 26.0 from your 100.0 budget immediately. That is a lot of $$ for less than 20% of your team. To be assured value for money, you will want to be scoring at least 30 between them from the get-go, including the assumption you have one of them captain. Unfortunately both of them are on the same side of the draw (By this I mean they both play at home, and both play away the same weeks) until Gameweek 7, and then they are only on opposite sides of the draw for a couple of weeks. So there is no advantage in having both and putting the 'C' the one that has the home game.
The Draw:
RVP Fixtures until Gameweek 7 - Swansea (A), Chelsea, Liverpool (A), C Palace, Man City (A) West Brom.
Bale Fixtures until Gameweek 7 - C Palace (A) Swansea, Arsenal (A), Norwich, Cardiff (A), Chelsea.
For me the points go to Bale for a slightly softer draw to start.
I am yet to check the past history, but if my memory is correct Bale has taken a month or so to get going each season. Of course he was younger then and still becoming an 'elite' fantasy player, last year finally making it but it is worth mentioning. (I will let lou know later if the stats call me a liar! ;D ) This is not a concern with RVP.
Do you need to start BOTH of RVP and Bale?.... probably not, because both provide you with a perma-captain of quality which is what you are really looking for from these two players, IMO, RVP is the better option as shown last year with only four games where he did not provide an assist or goal. Effectively he scored 6 points every week as a minimum which leaves you being able to focus on other things in your team rather than worrying about who should be captain each week. He has history on his side.
Ownership:
Early days as teams are only just beginning to be built (Although it is probably more the pros that have begun selecting teams, so will be a good guide IMO), but Bale is in 50% of teams, and RVP is in 33.6%. How does this help? If Bale starts with a higher ownership %, there is only one way he can go.... down in price!(I'm looking at the Swansea and Arsenal games) Bear in mind that FPL is based on net transfers, if Bale has a couple of bad games a lot of people will jump quickly, especially if RVP scores well those weeks. Anyone that started Bale over RVP will look to correct their selection quickly. The most he can drop in any one gameweek is 0.3, but with such a solid ownership base early on there is every chance this can happen. Two bad weeks, and thats a .6 drop to 11.4, which is much more attractive.
To answer the question directly, Bale WILL be worth 12.0.
Does he present better value than RVP at 14.0?.... I think that is a 50/50 proposition.
Start both??..... Do everything you can to start both, but be wary of comprimising the balance of your team.
Amazing reply! Thanks legend!
Currently will be starting Bale and leaving RvP but am very very wary of the ownership point you made that I bolded ^ :)
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 17, 2013, 06:05:38 PM
And heres the price calculator as promised, which was 'refreshed' today with this years data... on the front page for everyone. It's a slightly different format from last year, but should give you the same information, and help with trade timing.
If anyone has questions about how to use it feel free to ask away....
Obviously, it is of no use until about 9PM Saturday 17th August. ;)
http://www.fiso.co.uk/crackthecode.php
Wicked! Will need to have a play before August 17 8)
Quote from: NigeyS on July 17, 2013, 06:36:18 PM
Gone the ol' 4-4-2. Never (and by never I mean always...) fails me. ;)
GK: Cech (Tremmel)
D: Luiz, Garrido, Agger, Baines (Riether)
M: Mata, Michu, Sessegnon, Pilkington (Jarvis)
F: Van Wolfswinkel, Deulofeu (Anelka)
I'm happy with it tbh. Big fan of Wolf and Deu. My love for Luiz, The Juan and Michu is too high not to include them, and I've always been a fan of both Sessegnon and Pilkington. As for Agger and Baines, well, they're probably two of my favourite defenders in the EPL. Oh and... WHO BETTER THE PETR? ;)
Thoughts/Hate/Worship/Constructive Criticism?
I reckon you've gone a little strong in defence Nigey. Downgrade someone and inject money into the mids and fwds imo :)
More of a question for yourself here VSA.
Is Mingolet Liverpools new number 1? He looks pretty tasty @ 5.5 mill if he can beat out Reina, especially considering Pool's early fixture and their clean sheet likelihood.
Cheers champ!
A Liverpool keeper? I could never! ;)
I probably will ditch someone from defense, probably Agger. Then I'll turn one of Sessegnon or Pilkington into a better mid, maybe a Man City lad?
Stekkers and Guzan all the way
Well, now that it seems my supercoach team has been taken up the top paddock and put to sleep...... :'( It's EPL all the way! perfect timing really. ;D
I am not really sure on the GKP situation at Pool LE.
You have to assume we got Mignolet in for a reason, but we're a sentimental bunch at Anfield; we wouldn't just chuck Pepe out with Tuesday nights rubbish. ;)
I suspect Pepe will be given a chance first up, with Mignolet getting his chance here and there. If Pepe genuinely slips up though....He will be one testimonial from retiring to whatever sun drenched part of the world takes his fancy. ;D
Don't forget Aussie Brad either, but he's obviously not really in the picture if they went and got a new keeper of Mignolet' quality.
I would be hesitant to select either until we know who the first choice keeper is. Keepers are something I try to put little work into during the year.
I'll be 'keeping' 8) tabs on the pre-season games though, and will let you know if any patterns point to a conclusive answer.
Quote from: NigeyS on July 17, 2013, 10:41:08 PM
Cheers VSA (love your name by the way haha! 8))!
Totally forgot about Murray, solid back-up for the price. I use Deulofeu on FIFA and have seen him play, Everton will be nuts not to play him. Wolf is great and should score regularly enough for Norwich.
I'm happy to captain Mata, I have faith. I just don't know whether I'm willing to pay so much for RVP or Bale, even though they're great players.
Scrap Murray Nigey! :'(
http://www.caughtoffside.com/2013/06/23/crystal-palace-line-up-bid-for-norwich-city-striker-grant-holt-as-cover-for-glenn-murray/
Keep looking!
Holt went to Wigan...
Are there any Fulham fans around that may be able to shed light on Kacanaklic' chances of playing regular first team football?
Quote from: Jukes on July 18, 2013, 08:09:29 PM
Holt went to Wigan...
I wouldn't be picking him up from either team I think... Not this year anyway.
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 18, 2013, 08:12:58 PM
Are there any Fulham fans around that may be able to shed light on Kacanaklic' chances of playing regular first team football?
stew42 is a Fulham fan. May shoot him a PM or bring this thread to his attention or the question at the very least. :)
Hey guys, first time EPL fantasy player and have done a few hours worth of solid research to come up with a team. Most players I have only heard of in a talent sense rather than fantasy, so will be interesting to hear your thoughts on my team.
Szczesny, (Boruc)
Reither, Rat, Coleman, (Collins, Clyne)
Bale(C), Hazard, Silva, Snodgrass, (Kacaniklic)
Bony, Torres, Van Wolfswinkel.
Obviously defence is ridiculously cheap but I know in this game from just looking at the scoring, as soon as the opposition scores a goal there goes the points, so you may as well go cheap there with the inconsistency. Mids and fwds look strong, but I'm cautious choosing both Bony and Wolf as we don't know how they will adapt to the EPL.
But anyways, I mostly just talk researched crap so let me know whether my team is any stock at all!
My biggest problem with that team is Torres, as a Cheslea supporter, I'm not confident.
Torres hahahhahaha
I'd struggle to pick him if he cost 6.0
Quote from: Jukes on July 19, 2013, 12:13:38 AM
Torres hahahhahaha
I'd struggle to pick him if he cost 6.0
I'd hardly go near him at 4.0
And I've always been a fan...
Quote from: Jukes on July 18, 2013, 12:48:49 PM
Stekkers and Guzan all the way
You mean the GK's for the teams that kept the least number of clean sheets last season with Guzan allowing through 65 goals?
Hm, your choice.
Quote from: NigeyS on July 18, 2013, 11:38:51 AM
A Liverpool keeper? I could never! ;)
They were great defensively under Rodgers ;)
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 18, 2013, 06:50:39 PM
Well, now that it seems my supercoach team has been taken up the top paddock and put to sleep...... :'( It's EPL all the way! perfect timing really. ;D
I am not really sure on the GKP situation at Pool LE.
You have to assume we got Mignolet in for a reason, but we're a sentimental bunch at Anfield; we wouldn't just chuck Pepe out with Tuesday nights rubbish. ;)
I suspect Pepe will be given a chance first up, with Mignolet getting his chance here and there. If Pepe genuinely slips up though....He will be one testimonial from retiring to whatever sun drenched part of the world takes his fancy. ;D
Don't forget Aussie Brad either, but he's obviously not really in the picture if they went and got a new keeper of Mignolet' quality.
I would be hesitant to select either until we know who the first choice keeper is. Keepers are something I try to put little work into during the year.
I'll be 'keeping' 8) tabs on the pre-season games though, and will let you know if any patterns point to a conclusive answer.
Hahaha same goes with the DT :P Ranked 2500 (exactly) but meh, moving on haha.
Thanks man, aprreciate it. I like him as a keeper and I like Liverpools defence. It's a wait and see, not keen on spending 5.5 mill on a dude who only plays half the time!
Quote from: NigeyS on July 18, 2013, 11:18:11 PM
My biggest problem with that team is Torres, as a Cheslea supporter, I'm not confident.
Surely not Nige, come on man!
Lukaku > Torres 8)
Quote from: elephants on July 19, 2013, 12:44:33 AM
Quote from: Jukes on July 18, 2013, 12:48:49 PM
Stekkers and Guzan all the way
They cost 5.0 each and are clear best at their clubs which won't go down.
VSA is a bloody legend on the EPL Fantasy threads. Love your work mate keep it up!
Quote from: Tominator on July 19, 2013, 12:53:31 AM
VSA is a bloody legend on the EPL Fantasy threads. Love your work mate keep it up!
Haha he is a beast, absolute champion 8)
I still don't think I could bring myself to pick Mignolet now that he's a Liverpudlian. :P
Lukaku > Torres. Indeed. ;D
I might shy away from Cech for Stekkers or someone else, we'll see.
I'm leaning towards downgrading Dagger and maybe getting in Bale for Sessegnon.
I'll play around with my side after I take care of the AFL fantasy problemos.
Just out of interest VSA what was your final ranking for last season?
I'll start offering some of my own advice when we get closer to the start of the season for those that are interested in hearing it :)
Quote from: CrowsFan on July 19, 2013, 01:45:18 PM
Just out of interest VSA what was your final ranking for last season?
I'll start offering some of my own advice when we get closer to the start of the season for those that are interested in hearing it :)
I'd love to! 8)
Ok boys clearly it seems Torres wasn't the way to go but no need to laugh at me, as i said I'm brand new to this. I have got in Lambert for him who seems a solid option?
Quote from: Popey99 on July 19, 2013, 05:42:36 PM
Ok boys clearly it seems Torres wasn't the way to go but no need to laugh at me, as i said I'm brand new to this. I have got in Lambert for him who seems a solid option?
Not laughing at you at all mate, Lambert's not a bad option at all.
Quote from: Popey99 on July 19, 2013, 05:42:36 PM
Ok boys clearly it seems Torres wasn't the way to go but no need to laugh at me, as i said I'm brand new to this. I have got in Lambert for him who seems a solid option?
Ignore Jukes mate, he's what we like to call... 'Special' ;)
Quote from: elephants on July 19, 2013, 06:21:53 PM
Quote from: Popey99 on July 19, 2013, 05:42:36 PM
Ok boys clearly it seems Torres wasn't the way to go but no need to laugh at me, as i said I'm brand new to this. I have got in Lambert for him who seems a solid option?
Ignore Jukes mate, he's what we like to call... 'Special' ;)
And sometimes just a bit silly. :P
Cheers for the kind words lads... Whatever you do don't let me sell you up the river with player selctions though! ;D
Quote from: Popey99 on July 18, 2013, 10:01:47 PM
Hey guys, first time EPL fantasy player and have done a few hours worth of solid research to come up with a team. Most players I have only heard of in a talent sense rather than fantasy, so will be interesting to hear your thoughts on my team.
Szczesny, (Boruc)
Reither, Rat, Coleman, (Collins, Clyne)
Bale(C), Hazard, Silva, Snodgrass, (Kacaniklic)
Bony, Torres, Van Wolfswinkel.
Obviously defence is ridiculously cheap but I know in this game from just looking at the scoring, as soon as the opposition scores a goal there goes the points, so you may as well go cheap there with the inconsistency. Mids and fwds look strong, but I'm cautious choosing both Bony and Wolf as we don't know how they will adapt to the EPL.
But anyways, I mostly just talk researched crap so let me know whether my team is any stock at all!
Hey Popey,
Firstly, you have nailed the best formation on the head straight up. 3-4-3 usually scores best as a rule. 3-5-2 is also productive for points. You will find at points during the year 3-5-2 will be best due to a lot of out-of-form strikers. Thinking back to last season a midfield of Mata, Bale, Michu, Fellaini, Walcott was a must for quite a while and worked well with the only two real strikers in form being RVP and Suarez.
Your also correct, cheap as you dare with defence early on. If any cheap defenders show form early in the season jump on as quickly as possible to take advantage of price rises and points before the scoring dries up. Slowly build up your defence until you can field strong premiums such as Baines, Ivanovic, Zabaletta etc... Same goes for goalies as well....Szczesny is not someone I would entertain. Thats just me.. I'm not much chop on Arsenals defence at all. Even Vermaelen isn't the fantasy scorer he was a couple of years ago.
Your midfield is really strong, Snodgrass will be the key, and whether or not he (and by extension Norwich) can play at the same level they did last year. Kacanaklic as you will see above is very much in my sights; We just need to know he's going to play 90 minutes regularly and he will be in, at least to sit on the bench.
As for your forwards there is no issue there. Just do your research on Wolf and Bony, but I hear positive anecdotal reports on both. Don't worry about Torres ;) His highs and lows are so far apart it is not funny, but there is much to play out before the end of the transfer period. Chelsea for one may end up with a double gameweek week one in which he will be in my team albeit briefly. Then, you have the possibility of Rooney moving. I honestly think Man U would accept the offer Chelsea gave them if Rooney hands in that piece of paper!
Quote from: CrowsFan on July 19, 2013, 01:45:18 PM
Just out of interest VSA what was your final ranking for last season?
I'll start offering some of my own advice when we get closer to the start of the season for those that are interested in hearing it :)
Definitely interested in your advice CF! You had a great season last year. did you see it through to the end, or let it wane as SC took over?
I ended up about 125,000. Not great, but a couple of years ago I set myself to learn how to make money in this game, the year before played around with formations. Last year was my first time putting all of my learnings together.
What was really pleasing was the back end of the year for me. From GW18-38 I averaged a tick under 70 8) which is the pace you need from the start. Just got to do everything I did last year, but from GW1.
Thanks guys, especially VSA with the in depth analysis. I love Snodgrass and how much of an effing bargain he seems. At the moment I have gone through youtube having a little look at every player in my team. Yeah Torres is now gone and my team is pretty different.
How do players rise in price? Playing around with formations etc won't be a problem for me as I'm an experienced A-League fantasy player so get the base of the game, but the price changes are really what interest me...
Anyways, I have also decided Anelka is a ridiculous bargain and must have, at least for my bench. I have gone with a few safer options in defence rather than 50/50 blokes. Still like West Ham cheap DEF's.
Current Team:
Mignolet, (Boruc)
Luiz, Metersacker, Collins, (Rat, Clyne)
Bale (C), Hazard, Silva, Snodgrass, (Kacaniklic)
Bony, Van Wolf, Anelka.
This also leaves me with 1.5m and I can always downgrade Luiz back down to gain a bit more. FWD maybe a bit weak but all have awesome upside.
Quote from: elephants on July 19, 2013, 06:21:53 PM
Quote from: Popey99 on July 19, 2013, 05:42:36 PM
Ok boys clearly it seems Torres wasn't the way to go but no need to laugh at me, as i said I'm brand new to this. I have got in Lambert for him who seems a solid option?
Ignore Jukes mate, he's what we like to call... 'Special' ;)
and you're what I like to call inbred hick scum who should get lynched
Quote from: Jukes on July 19, 2013, 08:40:52 PM
Quote from: elephants on July 19, 2013, 06:21:53 PM
Quote from: Popey99 on July 19, 2013, 05:42:36 PM
Ok boys clearly it seems Torres wasn't the way to go but no need to laugh at me, as i said I'm brand new to this. I have got in Lambert for him who seems a solid option?
Ignore Jukes mate, he's what we like to call... 'Special' ;)
and you're what I like to call inbred hick scum who should get lynched
Play nice. :P
Quote from: Popey99 on July 19, 2013, 08:34:13 PM
Anyways, I have also decided Anelka is a ridiculous bargain and must have, at least for my bench.
I'm wait and see on Anelka. He scored 3 from 22 appearances in the Chinese Super-league last year. Not great form, but I'm not sure of the fine detail. There will be plenty of opportunity to jump on him early if he starts scoring well. :)
Quote from: Popey99 on July 19, 2013, 08:34:13 PM
How do players rise in price? Playing around with formations etc won't be a problem for me as I'm an experienced A-League fantasy player so get the base of the game, but the price changes are really what interest me...
It's complicated until you get used to it so I'm going to be a little lazy answering this one! ;D
Here's a link. Everything you need to know is in this write-up.
http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/making-millions-in-the-fantasy-premier-league-game/
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 19, 2013, 09:11:42 PM
Quote from: Popey99 on July 19, 2013, 08:34:13 PM
How do players rise in price? Playing around with formations etc won't be a problem for me as I'm an experienced A-League fantasy player so get the base of the game, but the price changes are really what interest me...
It's complicated until you get used to it so I'm going to be a little lazy answering this one! ;D
Here's a link. Everything you need to know is in this write-up.
http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/making-millions-in-the-fantasy-premier-league-game/
Cheers mate.
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 19, 2013, 08:17:06 PM
Quote from: CrowsFan on July 19, 2013, 01:45:18 PM
Just out of interest VSA what was your final ranking for last season?
I'll start offering some of my own advice when we get closer to the start of the season for those that are interested in hearing it :)
Definitely interested in your advice CF! You had a great season last year. did you see it through to the end, or let it wane as SC took over?
I ended up about 125,000. Not great, but a couple of years ago I set myself to learn how to make money in this game, the year before played around with formations. Last year was my first time putting all of my learnings together.
What was really pleasing was the back end of the year for me. From GW18-38 I averaged a tick under 70 8) which is the pace you need from the start. Just got to do everything I did last year, but from GW1.
Ah nice effort finishing there, considering there are around 3 million people or something who play the game it's a great effort!
Yeah I had a pretty good season myself last year, but didn't really see it through to the end. I mean I would check on it, but never really did any more trades, I think I did only 1 or 2 trades in the last 10 rounds. Because of this it saw my ranking slip from around 5000 (high point of 2000 something) down to finishing at 20,382nd (you can check your exact rank by clicking on gameweek history if using same email). Starting with players like Michu definitely helped me get such a high ranking as no one knew who he was until a couple rounds in, so that gave me a leg up :) Averaging just under 70 is a great way to finish! For the entire year I averaged 57, which I was pretty happy with :)
Hopefully I'll have time to do some proper research before the season starts, but looking at the promoted teams there isn't really many players standing out as must pick players... :-\
Quote from: CrowsFan on July 19, 2013, 11:16:29 PM
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 19, 2013, 08:17:06 PM
Quote from: CrowsFan on July 19, 2013, 01:45:18 PM
Just out of interest VSA what was your final ranking for last season?
I'll start offering some of my own advice when we get closer to the start of the season for those that are interested in hearing it :)
Definitely interested in your advice CF! You had a great season last year. did you see it through to the end, or let it wane as SC took over?
I ended up about 125,000. Not great, but a couple of years ago I set myself to learn how to make money in this game, the year before played around with formations. Last year was my first time putting all of my learnings together.
What was really pleasing was the back end of the year for me. From GW18-38 I averaged a tick under 70 8) which is the pace you need from the start. Just got to do everything I did last year, but from GW1.
Ah nice effort finishing there, considering there are around 3 million people or something who play the game it's a great effort!
Yeah I had a pretty good season myself last year, but didn't really see it through to the end. I mean I would check on it, but never really did any more trades, I think I did only 1 or 2 trades in the last 10 rounds. Because of this it saw my ranking slip from around 5000 (high point of 2000 something) down to finishing at 20,382nd (you can check your exact rank by clicking on gameweek history if using same email). Starting with players like Michu definitely helped me get such a high ranking as no one knew who he was until a couple rounds in, so that gave me a leg up :) Averaging just under 70 is a great way to finish! For the entire year I averaged 57, which I was pretty happy with :)
Hopefully I'll have time to do some proper research before the season starts, but looking at the promoted teams there isn't really many players standing out as must pick players... :-\
Not much to cheer coming up at all. :o I have only realy looked at Cardiff defence, and C Palace attack, being respectively they were the best of the promoted teams. Murray is out for most of the season and he was most of Palace' attack. I'll probably only look at the Cardiff defence for some value now.
Quote from: Jukes on July 19, 2013, 08:40:52 PM
Quote from: elephants on July 19, 2013, 06:21:53 PM
Quote from: Popey99 on July 19, 2013, 05:42:36 PM
Ok boys clearly it seems Torres wasn't the way to go but no need to laugh at me, as i said I'm brand new to this. I have got in Lambert for him who seems a solid option?
Ignore Jukes mate, he's what we like to call... 'Special' ;)
and you're what I like to call inbred hick scum who should get lynched
Hahahaha, you're an angry sad little boy.
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 19, 2013, 09:11:42 PM
Quote from: Popey99 on July 19, 2013, 08:34:13 PM
How do players rise in price? Playing around with formations etc won't be a problem for me as I'm an experienced A-League fantasy player so get the base of the game, but the price changes are really what interest me...
It's complicated until you get used to it so I'm going to be a little lazy answering this one! ;D
Here's a link. Everything you need to know is in this write-up.
http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/making-millions-in-the-fantasy-premier-league-game/
Ooo yeah VSA, getting around this one 8)
Quote from: elephants on July 17, 2013, 02:32:26 PM
More of a question for yourself here VSA.
Is Mingolet Liverpools new number 1? He looks pretty tasty @ 5.5 mill if he can beat out Reina, especially considering Pool's early fixture and their clean sheet likelihood.
Cheers champ!
Watch this space LE... Rafa wants Pepe!
http://www.goal.com/en-au/news/4019/transfer-zone/2013/07/20/4128792/napoli-target-reina-after-giving-cesar-24-hour-ultimatum?ICID=OP
I really hope he goes! Been playing with the team for the last 15 minutes and I am much happier with the Mingolet-Coleman combo than I am with the Foster-Agger one :P
Reina was a great servant for me last APL season though ;)
Really struggling to pick reliable forwards as well :-\ Anyone else having the same problem?
Anyone here do sportal premier league?
If so, flick me your league codes :)
Quote from: elephants on July 20, 2013, 02:25:10 AM
I really hope he goes! Been playing with the team for the last 15 minutes and I am much happier with the Mingolet-Coleman combo than I am with the Foster-Agger one :P
Reina was a great servant for me last APL season though ;)
Really struggling to pick reliable forwards as well :-\ Anyone else having the same problem?
And he's gone! Season long loan deal, Pepe to Napoli with a view to a permenant move. Mignolet is the new #1 keeper at Pool.
VSA you really know your stuff... who are some bargains in each position?
Is there gonna be another Lambert this year?
Thanks mate
FIRST UP TEAM:
GK: Mignolet (Mannone)
DEF: Vertonghen, Glen Johnson, Bassong (Reither, Baker)
MID: Bale, Hazard, Silva, Snodgrass (Kacaniklic)
FWD: Deulofeu/Anelka (which one??), Van Wolfswinkel, Bony
No money left in the bank either.
Thoughts on this team are much appreciated!!! :)
Deulofeu for sure.
Quote from: Tominator on July 20, 2013, 02:29:05 PM
FIRST UP TEAM:
GK: Mignolet (Mannone)
DEF: Vertonghen, Glen Johnson, Bassong (Reither, Baker)
MID: Bale, Hazard, Silva, Snodgrass (Kacaniklic)
FWD: Deulofeu/Anelka (which one??), Van Wolfswinkel, Bony
No money left in the bank either.
Thoughts on this team are much appreciated!!! :)
Hey Tom,
Hmmmm I was about to dismiss the Mannone pick, but now need to look at that myself (Thanks for bringing him to my attention ;) ). He could provide great value! He will get plenty of save opportunities, (Those little 1 point gains for 3 saves in FPL add up - See Jusi and Mignolet last year for proof) Sunderland haven't really recruited to strengthen their defence over the summer. His save rates were a tick under Mignolet last year so all things being equal he could present similair value. I also like Mignolet now that Pepe is off to Napoli. The only suggestion I would have for you is to find two goalies on opposite sides of the draw e.g. When Mannone/Mignolet is playing away, you can bench them and play a goalie who is at home. It's a tactic I will be looking at this year and extending into my defence.
Your defence is very strong with good picks. Riether and Baker are showing up everywhere including my team, but yet to lock them in myself. The main question mark I have here is the spend. Vertonghen is a great pick but very pricey at 7.0. He really needs to average at least 5 per game from the start for you to get value for money. Spurs first three games will be difficult to keep clean sheets, an energetic, revved up C Palace to start, then Swansea, then away to Arsenal. After that their draw softens, so if you do have an eye on getting him in have another look a few rounds in.
Love the mids! 8) Snodgrass is the only iffy one for me. He is a very good player, but I'm just not sure yet if he will be value for money. That said Norwich do have a soft draw early and he will be relied upon to get thier campaign off to a good start with Holt having departed! I am thinking of running Kacanaklic on the field; just need to know he will play regular 90 mins before I commit.
The forwards for me are risky. All three are new to the PL, and Anelka wasn't convincing in China last year. VW certainly looks the goods and will be strongly considered in my final team. He has a great strike rate over the last three years, in Europe as well as domestic!
Overall I would look for more value in defence, and the lower end mids, and pump that cash into those forwards.
Who is the new Lambert? I don't think there will be a player that will take the PL by the scruff of the neck this year like he did. Murray would have been the most likely but he will be out for a while, and even then I didn't think he would quite stack up to Lambert' numbers. The best prospects seem to be coming from outside England, but they are priced accordingly and then we run the gauntlet of who will be able to adapt to the English style of play quickly.
Someone will bob up, we just need to be quick to jump on early! :D
Ok boys, so the DT has gone down the drain this week. FPL focus increased by 200% haha.
I'll try get around to throwing some advice at the teams posted in here later in the week when I get a day off :) Don't expect anything as amazing and comprehensive as VSA is dishing out! :P
Quote from: elephants on July 21, 2013, 08:16:15 PM
Ok boys, so the DT has gone down the drain this week. FPL focus increased by 200% haha.
I'll try get around to throwing some advice at the teams posted in here later in the week when I get a day off :) Don't expect anything as amazing and comprehensive as VSA is dishing out! :P
Looking forward to it nonetheless. 8)
Thoughts on Bony and Mirallas? Is bony worth 8M?
Quote from: timmyparso on July 21, 2013, 08:56:47 PM
Thoughts on Bony and Mirallas? Is bony worth 8M?
Bony's probably worth it, but I wouldn't go near Mirallas.
Quote from: timmyparso on July 21, 2013, 08:56:47 PM
Thoughts on Bony and Mirallas? Is bony worth 8M?
if he provides some of this he will be
Wilfried Bony 2012/13 highlights - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_r486KLjqA
Victor Wanyama is 5.0 ..... seems like a bargain doesn't he ? for my M5 spot.. him or Kacaniklic?
And is Mertesacker good value at 5.5 given Arsenal's easy run? Considering dumping Vertonghen cos 7.0 seems a bit pricey
Considering he is a defensive midfielder I would say he's not really a bargain. Won't score that much in my opinion...
Victor is cheap as chips, rumours are he will play in the double pivot for Southampton but we'll see. I'm almost tempted to get in Jerome Thomas as well as Victor and take advantage of their good rotation :)
Quote from: CrowsFan on July 22, 2013, 02:58:07 PM
Considering he is a defensive midfielder I would say he's not really a bargain. Won't score that much in my opinion...
but won't he have great JS? and if he is a bench mid then you can always rely on him to get minimum 2 or 3 points every week
any Celtic fans might be able to give a bit of advice on Wanyama
Quote from: CrowsFan on July 22, 2013, 02:58:07 PM
Considering he is a defensive midfielder I would say he's not really a bargain. Won't score that much in my opinion...
Changes to the Bonus Point awarding system benefits defensive players, I could see Victor racking a few up.
Wanyama still scored a goal every 6 or so games for Celtic so he knows how to find the net!
Luigi is coming!
We got a league set up?
Coz i am so going to improve on my about 5th or so placed out of 30 of us last season.
Just found out I have two more weeks of holidays ;D
Will post up my team tonight and post my thought on others with it :)
UPDATED TEAM
GK: Mignolet (Mannone)
DEF: Luiz, Johnson, Bassong (Williams*, Baker)
MID: Bale, Hazard, Walcott, Fer**, Wanyama***
FWD: van Wolfswinkel, Bony (Deulofeu)
0.5 left
* Williams or Reither?
** Fer or Snodgrass?
*** Wanyama or Kacaniklic?
and then I can get one of Berbatov/ van Wolfswinkel/Lambert, and one of Deulofeu/Anelka
so many decisions ::)
Quote from: timmyparso on July 21, 2013, 08:56:47 PM
Thoughts on Bony and Mirallas? Is bony worth 8M?
I'm not really sure on Mirallas, will be worth a look - Thanks for bringing him to my attention ;) At a glance seems a little pricey though.
As for Bony, yes he will quite likely be worth $8M. I have looked at Bony vs. VW and for me VW will get the nod first up. Bony plays in a better team and his time will come, but Swansalona have a tough draw first up, which gets much sexier Gameweek 6 onwards.
VW and Norwich have the better draw to begin, and he's cheaper. All going well he may make you enough cash to straight swap for Bony come Gameweek 6.
Another few points in Bony' favour with regard to his value for money are the plethora of Dutch League players that have come before him into the PL and settled quickly.
It's a bit of a who's who with Bergkamp, van Nistelrooy, Kuyt, Suarez.
Thats a sweet list! 8)
Quote from: Tominator on July 22, 2013, 02:50:58 PM
Victor Wanyama is 5.0 ..... seems like a bargain doesn't he ? for my M5 spot.. him or Kacaniklic?
And is Mertesacker good value at 5.5 given Arsenal's easy run? Considering dumping Vertonghen cos 7.0 seems a bit pricey
Kaca over Wanyama for mine Tom. Im waiting to hear back from Stew42, but if it looks like Kaca will play regular 90 mins he will be hard to keep out of my team.
Mertesacker represents great value at 5.5 with a softish draw... Just watch that GW 3 game against 'Tottenham HotBale'
Quote from: Tominator on July 22, 2013, 03:03:04 PM
Quote from: CrowsFan on July 22, 2013, 02:58:07 PM
Considering he is a defensive midfielder I would say he's not really a bargain. Won't score that much in my opinion...
but won't he have great JS? and if he is a bench mid then you can always rely on him to get minimum 2 or 3 points every week
any Celtic fans might be able to give a bit of advice on Wanyama
If that's what your after, it's difficult to go past Britton at 4.5.
Although 2 pts would be the minimum, 3 maximum. ::)
My first up effort!
Still a long way to go, and to be honest the defenders have all just been slotted in for now. My plan is to spend 4.5 across the board in defence except for Mignolet, who now appears to be of irresistible value! I started with a lot of 4.0 defenders last year and I found that noone tends to jump on them en-masse so their prices barely move. If one appears to buck that trend early I can always move one of the defenders I have on, and bank 0.5 in the kitty.
Bearing the 4.5+Mignolet rule for defenders/keepers in mind, you can go nuts on the fwds and mids. Also if you can offer up any 4.5 Def gems you may have hidden away that would be great! ;)
GKP: Mignolet (Marshall)
Def: Cuellar, Collins, Garrido (Taylor, Clyne)
Mid: Routledge, Bale, Santi Cazorla, Kacanaklic (Sissoko)
Fwd: Van Wolfswinkel, RVP, Dzeko
0.5 left over.
Quote from: Luigi197 on July 22, 2013, 05:55:31 PM
Luigi is coming!
We got a league set up?
Coz i am so going to improve on my about 5th or so placed out of 30 of us last season.
Did we want to do a classic league, or a Head to Head League?
I can set one up
Quote from: timmyparso on July 21, 2013, 08:56:47 PM
Thoughts on Bony and Mirallas? Is bony worth 8M?
Maybe and maybe!
Bony can score, we all know that! Is he worth 8 mill? Unsure. Swansea have a bit tougher draw early on this year. I'm keen to wait and see on him.
Mirallas could be an amazing OOP. He plays off the centre-forward and he can/will score and assist. Only problem is the number of strikers and attacking mids Everton have atm...
Watch them both closely though mate ;)
Quote from: Tominator on July 22, 2013, 07:44:29 PM
UPDATED TEAM
GK: Mignolet (Mannone)
DEF: Luiz, Johnson, Bassong (Williams*, Baker)
MID: Bale, Hazard, Walcott, Fer**, Wanyama***
FWD: van Wolfswinkel, Bony (Deulofeu)
0.5 left
* Williams or Reither?
** Fer or Snodgrass?
*** Wanyama or Kacaniklic?
and then I can get one of Berbatov/ van Wolfswinkel/Lambert, and one of Deulofeu/Anelka
so many decisions ::)
*Reither
**Snoddy
***Kac for now, watch this space though. Will be interesting to see if he gets the TOG he needs to score well! JS vs Scoring imo.
Lambert and Deulofeu ;)
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 22, 2013, 09:16:26 PM
My first up effort!
Still a long way to go, and to be honest the defenders have all just been slotted in for now. My plan is to spend 4.5 across the board in defence except for Mignolet, who now appears to be of irresistible value! I started with a lot of 4.0 defenders last year and I found that noone tends to jump on them en-masse so their prices barely move. If one appears to buck that trend early I can always move one of the defenders I have on, and bank 0.5 in the kitty.
Bearing the 4.5+Mignolet rule for defenders/keepers in mind, you can go nuts on the fwds and mids. Also if you can offer up any 4.5 Def gems you may have hidden away that would be great! ;)
GKP: Mignolet (Marshall)
Def: Cuellar, Collins, Garrido (Taylor, Clyne)
Mid: Routledge, Bale, Santi Cazorla, Kacanaklic (Sissoko)
Fwd: Van Wolfswinkel, RVP, Dzeko
0.5 left over.
Top first up attempt mate! Cheap in defence is 100% the way to go!
I believe that Boruc rotates with Mingolet better than Marshall :)
Not too sure on where Routledge stands at Swansea, they've made a few signing in their attacking third which makes me think rotation may be a danger for him. I read somewhere that Sissoko wants to play in the hole, if thats the case his scoring will be very impressive! Another I will keep tabs on, thanks ;)
Not sold on Dzeko, I assume he is just a place filler for now. Negredo, Jovetic, Aguero are world class strikers and are seemingly ahead of Dzeko for now.
Overall a top effort mate, RVP in that team adds an immense amount :P
Standby lads.. ;)
Gonna chop and change my team again tonight or tomorrow (probably tomorrow considering I have nothing to do... maybe tonight, idek). The more I think about it, the more I want to include Bale. Switching to the 3-4-3 might be the go.
The RVP AND Bale Team
Mingolet (Boruc)
Coleman, Turner, Collins (Clyne, Chester)
Bale, Hazard, Kagawa, Ramirez (Thomas)
RVP, Giroud, Anelka
Nothing in the bank.
The RVP Team
Mingolet (Boruc)
Coleman, Turner, Collins (Clyne, Yanga-Mbiwa)
Hazard, Walcott, Kagawa, Paulinho/Arteta (Thomas)
RVP, Sturridge, Anelka
Nothing in the bank.
The Bale Team
Mingolet (Boruc)
Coleman, Turner, Collins (Clyne, Yanga-Mbiwa)
Bale, Hazard, Walcott, Kagawa (Wanyama)
Sturridge, Giroud, Anelka
Nothing in the bank.
Bale-less, RVP-less Team
Mingolet (Boruc)
Agger, Coleman, Collins (Turner, Clyne)
Hazard, Walcott, Yaya Toure, Kagawa (Kacaniklic)
Sturridge, Giroud, Lambert
Nothing in the bank.
Thoughts lads? Got a preference? Obviously all teams could be tinkered with but what does everyone like?
The last one looks the best to me.
I'd probs stay away from Giroud at 8.5
Arsenal likely to sign another striker so yeah I'd probably look elsewhere, Bony at 8.0 or Lambert at 7.5 are both good options
as for what team is best well they are very hard to split but probably the third one for mine, I reckon you gotta have at least one of Bale/RVP
Yeah Tom but at this stage Giroud has scored 5 goals in 2 games and Arsenal haven't got another striker :P
Thing is, I just watched the EPL 2012/13 season review today on foxtel. RVP was everywhere and amongst everything be it goals or assists.
Pretty much whenever United score he's likely to be involved at some point..
I'm leaning toward the Bale team though as I plan on using my wildcard quite early to get on this years Michu and Lambert. With a couple of tricky games early, I think I'll leave RVP. If he kills it I'll get him in the week I use my wildcard.
If not he *should* slide in price.
Also... United wings...
Nani, Valencia, Young and Zaha.
All cheap but who will start?
Quote from: elephants on July 23, 2013, 12:13:57 AM
Also... United wings...
Nani, Valencia, Young and Zaha.
All cheap but who will start?
Staying away from them all because they might get rotated a bit.
OK, here is my team as currently stands, thoughts please:
GK: Mignolet (Boruc)
DEF: Mertesacker, Coleman, Garrido (Baker, Amorebieta)
MID: Bale, Hazard, Arteta, Mirallas, Colback
FWD: RVP, van Wolfswinkel (Gayle)
Nil cash left
Quote from: NigeyS on July 23, 2013, 09:23:33 AM
Quote from: elephants on July 23, 2013, 12:13:57 AM
Also... United wings...
Nani, Valencia, Young and Zaha.
All cheap but who will start?
Staying away from them all because they might get rotated a bit.
Yeah agree, if any could nail down a regular role @ 7.5 mill though they'd be steals!
Quote from: timmyparso on July 23, 2013, 01:11:39 PM
OK, here is my team as currently stands, thoughts please:
GK: Mignolet (Boruc)
DEF: Mertesacker, Coleman, Garrido (Baker, Amorebieta)
MID: Bale, Hazard, Arteta, Mirallas, Colback
FWD: RVP, van Wolfswinkel (Gayle)
Nil cash left
Yeah not a bad first up effort at all. Gone the RVP AND Bale route, interesting. I think because of this some of your fringe players suffer (Gayle?) and guys like Arteta are there instead of a truer premo.
In saying that, I like this team. Really can't criticize it heavily at all. Not sure who Gayle is and would rather Collins over Baker but it looks nice man, good work!
Thanks elephants, RVP/Bale combo really drains the rest of the team. My alternate team is this by dropping RVP:
GK: Mignolet (Boruc)
DEF: Mertesacker, Coleman, Garrido (Baker, Amorebieta)
MID: Bale, Hazard, Walcott, Mirallas (Colback)
FWD: Sturridge, van Wolfswinkel, Lambert
Nil cash left
Yeah its a tough balance, you want the stars in there but you want a well balanced team as well!
Personally going Bale and leaving RVP for when I use my early wildcard ;)
I'm wondering if I can get away with not getting RVP at all, at any point in the season. If I can somehow make a team that can beat teams with RVP, it could help. Of course, to do this, I'm gonna need to have Bale.
You'd need to have an amazing team considering RvP scored or assisted 48% of United's goals last season :P
I managed to get away it last season in Yahoo EPL Fantasy for about half the season before I forgot about and stopped checking my team. ;D :P
Hahaha well I hope its do-able because I dont think I'l start him :p
The Kewlest Cats - Take 2.
GK: Mignolet, Mannone
D: Luiz, Garrido, Baines, Reither, Reid
M: Bale, Mata, Michu, Fer, Wanyama
F: Wolf, Deulofeu, Wickham
Be nice. :(
Jose just said Mata, Torres and Azpi won't be back from Spain duty early enough to play against Hull Nige :(
Quote from: elephants on July 23, 2013, 02:52:10 PM
Jose just said Mata, Torres and Azpi won't be back from Spain duty early enough to play against Hull Nige :(
Balls. >:(
Special One, y u do dis...
Whelp, I guess that means Caz comes in!
Quote from: NigeyS on July 23, 2013, 02:54:29 PM
Quote from: elephants on July 23, 2013, 02:52:10 PM
Jose just said Mata, Torres and Azpi won't be back from Spain duty early enough to play against Hull Nige :(
Balls. >:(
Special One, y u do dis...
Whelp, I guess that means Caz comes in!
More like, Spain y u schedule international friendly against Ecuador 24 hours out from the opening day >:(
Quote from: elephants on July 23, 2013, 03:13:31 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on July 23, 2013, 02:54:29 PM
Quote from: elephants on July 23, 2013, 02:52:10 PM
Jose just said Mata, Torres and Azpi won't be back from Spain duty early enough to play against Hull Nige :(
Balls. >:(
Vicente, y u do dis...
Whelp, I guess that means Caz comes in!
More like, Spain y u schedule international friendly against Ecuador 24 hours out from the opening day >:(
That's what I meant.
;)
How long is suarez suspended for? Surely he's hungry for another bite this season.
Not sold on sturridge at 9M, would prefer suarez at 11M if I don't get RVP
Quote from: timmyparso on July 23, 2013, 06:28:20 PM
How long is suarez suspended for? Surely he's hungry for another bite this season
haha very good ;) I'm sure he just wants something to sink his teeth into :P
6 weeks is his suspension.
Quote from: NigeyS on July 23, 2013, 03:35:21 PM
Quote from: elephants on July 23, 2013, 03:13:31 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on July 23, 2013, 02:54:29 PM
Quote from: elephants on July 23, 2013, 02:52:10 PM
Jose just said Mata, Torres and Azpi won't be back from Spain duty early enough to play against Hull Nige :(
Balls. >:(
Vicente, y u do dis...
Whelp, I guess that means Caz comes in!
More like, Spain y u schedule international friendly against Ecuador 24 hours out from the opening day >:(
That's what I meant.
;)
Ahh sweet ;)
Quote from: elephants on July 23, 2013, 06:29:38 PM
Quote from: timmyparso on July 23, 2013, 06:28:20 PM
How long is suarez suspended for? Surely he's hungry for another bite this season
haha very good ;) I'm sure he just wants something to sink his teeth into :P
6 weeks is his suspension.
Quote from: NigeyS on July 23, 2013, 03:35:21 PM
Quote from: elephants on July 23, 2013, 03:13:31 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on July 23, 2013, 02:54:29 PM
Quote from: elephants on July 23, 2013, 02:52:10 PM
Jose just said Mata, Torres and Azpi won't be back from Spain duty early enough to play against Hull Nige :(
Balls. >:(
Vicente, y u do dis...
Whelp, I guess that means Caz comes in!
More like, Spain y u schedule international friendly against Ecuador 24 hours out from the opening day >:(
That's what I meant.
;)
Ahh sweet ;)
Suarez still has 3 more weeks then?
Latest team boys, I have settled on this for 2 days and haven't wanted to do anything to it, which is really strange...
Mignolet, (Boruc)
Mertesacker, Coleman, Reid, (Collins, Clyne)
Bale (C), Hazard, Silva, Snodgrass, (Thomas)
Benteke, Bony, Van Wolfsfinkel.
Thoughts? Every single player in my team + about 15-20 other have got the youtube treatment and I like what most of these guys offer. I feel much more confident than I did when I first started.
A couple of important things I learnt today...
Kacanaklic:
Fulham are pursuing Bakary Sako from Wolves, who plays the same position as Kaca. $3 million pound for someone who hasn't played in the Premiership is somewhat of a punt. From what I read they MAY be targeting him as a tall option to play in behind Ruiz. Will keep my eye out for confirmation that a deal has been done! Then we can work from there on how it will effect Kaca.
Chelsea - Spaniards
Spain play an international friendly in Ecuador on August 14. There is suggestion from The Special one that his Spanish players (Torres, Mata, Azipilicueta) MAY not play Gameweek 1 against Hull City.
However....
The Chelsea game against Aston Villa which is still to be given a date is still likely for Gameweek 1 at this point.
Quote from: Tominator on July 22, 2013, 07:44:29 PM
UPDATED TEAM
* Williams or Reither?
** Fer or Snodgrass?
*** Wanyama or Kacaniklic?
and then I can get one of Berbatov/ van Wolfswinkel/Lambert, and one of Deulofeu/Anelka
so many decisions ::)
Hey Tom,
* Reither - On a side note I have heard that Arsenal are linked to Williams (I assume you mean Ashley). That said they will probably put in an offer just after he has been signed by someone else the way they are going. ::)
** Not sure on that one. That's a toughie!
***Kaca - dependent on what comes of my last post ;)
GKP: Mignolet (Marshall)
Def: Cuellar, Collins, Garrido (Taylor, Clyne)
Mid: Routledge, Bale, Santi Cazorla, Kacanaklic (Sissoko)
Fwd: Van Wolfswinkel, RVP, Dzeko
0.5 left over.
[/quote]
Top first up attempt mate! Cheap in defence is 100% the way to go!
I believe that Boruc rotates with Mingolet better than Marshall :)
Not too sure on where Routledge stands at Swansea, they've made a few signing in their attacking third which makes me think rotation may be a danger for him. I read somewhere that Sissoko wants to play in the hole, if thats the case his scoring will be very impressive! Another I will keep tabs on, thanks ;)
Not sold on Dzeko, I assume he is just a place filler for now. Negredo, Jovetic, Aguero are world class strikers and are seemingly ahead of Dzeko for now.
Overall a top effort mate, RVP in that team adds an immense amount :P[/b]
Cheers LE,
Your right, on reflection Dzeko needs a rethink.
With Sissoko, I have read he is pretty keen to get a spot where he can showcase his talents for a Brazil call-up. Something else to consider when selecting players on the fringe of their national teams.
I will have another play around with Routledge - For me he is one of those guys if I have him, he does nothing, if I leave him out I watch him score highly game after game! ::)
Quote from: elephants on July 22, 2013, 10:46:38 PM
The RVP Team
Mingolet (Boruc)
Coleman, Turner, Collins (Clyne, Yanga-Mbiwa)
Hazard, Walcott, Kagawa, Paulinho/Arteta (Thomas)
RVP, Sturridge, Anelka
Nothing in the bank.
Thoughts lads? Got a preference? Obviously all teams could be tinkered with but what does everyone like?
This one LE,
Walcott should do just as good a job as Giroud. RVP whilst expensive seems to be impossible to overlook, if for nothing else early on than to not have to think about a captain each week!
Quote from: elephants on July 23, 2013, 02:52:10 PM
Jose just said Mata, Torres and Azpi won't be back from Spain duty early enough to play against Hull Nige :(
Oh! Your all ready all over this! 8)
Quote from: NigeyS on July 23, 2013, 02:50:31 PM
The Kewlest Cats - Take 2.
GK: Mignolet, Mannone
D: Luiz, Garrido, Baines, Reither, Reid
M: Bale, Cazorla, Michu, Fer, Wanyama
F: Wolf, Deulofeu, Wickham
Be nice. :(
After ele's post about the Chelsea Spaniards, I went Mata -> Caz.
Quote from: NigeyS on July 23, 2013, 09:23:44 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on July 23, 2013, 02:50:31 PM
The Kewlest Cats - Take 2.
GK: Mignolet, Mannone
D: Luiz, Garrido, Baines, Reither, Reid
M: Bale, Cazorla, Michu, Fer, Wanyama
F: Wolf, Deulofeu, Wickham
Be nice. :(
After ele's post about the Chelsea Spaniards, I went Mata -> Caz.
Caz is Spanish as well. Not sure what Arsene thinks though. ;)
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 23, 2013, 09:35:33 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on July 23, 2013, 09:23:44 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on July 23, 2013, 02:50:31 PM
The Kewlest Cats - Take 2.
GK: Mignolet, Mannone
D: Luiz, Garrido, Baines, Reither, Reid
M: Bale, Cazorla, Michu, Fer, Wanyama
F: Wolf, Deulofeu, Wickham
Be nice. :(
After ele's post about the Chelsea Spaniards, I went Mata -> Caz.
Caz is Spanish as well. Not sure what Arsene thinks though. ;)
What the bloody hell is wrong with me? Haha, God damn.
Provided he doesn't go to Inter as rumoured, would Gaston Ramirez be worth it? Gun player, nice price. Not sure whether having both Wanyama and Ramirez would work.
Gareth Bale has apparently signed with Real Madrid, don't hold me to it, but just my info!
http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/223995.html#
This is the best I can find, but no real source in there other than a Spanish paper...
Whilst it will solve one of our fantasy issues, I for one would like to see him stay in the PL. Hopefully Spurs fight like hell to keep him for at least one more year, maybe up his salary and put a release clause if they do not make CL this year?
Quote from: NigeyS on July 23, 2013, 09:41:36 PM
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 23, 2013, 09:35:33 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on July 23, 2013, 09:23:44 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on July 23, 2013, 02:50:31 PM
The Kewlest Cats - Take 2.
GK: Mignolet, Mannone
D: Luiz, Garrido, Baines, Reither, Reid
M: Bale, Cazorla, Michu, Fer, Wanyama
F: Wolf, Deulofeu, Wickham
Be nice. :(
After ele's post about the Chelsea Spaniards, I went Mata -> Caz.
Caz is Spanish as well. Not sure what Arsene thinks though. ;)
What the bloody hell is wrong with me? Haha, God damn.
Provided he doesn't go to Inter as rumoured, would Gaston Ramirez be worth it? Gun player, nice price. Not sure whether having both Wanyama and Ramirez would work.
No love for Hazard? Belgium have a friendly the same day as Spain but at least its in Europe! ;D
First up efforts, please give me your thoughts/critcism.
Mignolet (Price)
Agger, Coleman, Reid (Cuellar, Toure)
Bale, Pienaar, Snodgrass, Arteta (Kacanikic)
RVP, Bony, Cornelius
IS there a league?
Quote from: KoopKicka on July 23, 2013, 10:33:58 PM
First up efforts, please give me your thoughts/critcism.
Mignolet (Price)
Agger, Coleman, Reid (Cuellar, Toure)
Bale, Pienaar, Snodgrass, Arteta (Kacanikic)
RVP, Bony, Cornelius
Hanley the last straw for you as well Koop? ;) you set such a fast pace early on in Copper too!
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 23, 2013, 10:55:03 PM
Quote from: KoopKicka on July 23, 2013, 10:33:58 PM
First up efforts, please give me your thoughts/critcism.
Mignolet (Price)
Agger, Coleman, Reid (Cuellar, Toure)
Bale, Pienaar, Snodgrass, Arteta (Kacanikic)
RVP, Bony, Cornelius
Hanley the last straw for you as well Koop? ;) you set such a fast pace early on in Copper too!
yeah :(
Quote from: KoopKicka on July 23, 2013, 10:58:46 PM
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 23, 2013, 10:55:03 PM
Quote from: KoopKicka on July 23, 2013, 10:33:58 PM
First up efforts, please give me your thoughts/critcism.
Mignolet (Price)
Agger, Coleman, Reid (Cuellar, Toure)
Bale, Pienaar, Snodgrass, Arteta (Kacanikic)
RVP, Bony, Cornelius
Hanley the last straw for you as well Koop? ;) you set such a fast pace early on in Copper too!
yeah :(
Koops is still 3rd in Copper, season not dead yet
Stevie!!! Stevie Gerrard, Gerrard! ;D
Quote from: timmyparso on July 24, 2013, 10:47:16 AM
Quote from: KoopKicka on July 23, 2013, 10:58:46 PM
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 23, 2013, 10:55:03 PM
Quote from: KoopKicka on July 23, 2013, 10:33:58 PM
First up efforts, please give me your thoughts/critcism.
Mignolet (Price)
Agger, Coleman, Reid (Cuellar, Toure)
Bale, Pienaar, Snodgrass, Arteta (Kacanikic)
RVP, Bony, Cornelius
Hanley the last straw for you as well Koop? ;) you set such a fast pace early on in Copper too!
yeah :(
Koops is still 3rd in Copper, season not dead yet
I'm sitting top, hoping to take the minor premiership, coz all my wheels are falling off as we we speak! ::)
JBS this week and he looks to have the team to beat.
Stevie Gerrard showing he can still find the back of the net.... what do people think of him in fantasy relevance?
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 24, 2013, 09:05:47 PM
Quote from: timmyparso on July 24, 2013, 10:47:16 AM
Quote from: KoopKicka on July 23, 2013, 10:58:46 PM
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 23, 2013, 10:55:03 PM
Quote from: KoopKicka on July 23, 2013, 10:33:58 PM
First up efforts, please give me your thoughts/critcism.
Mignolet (Price)
Agger, Coleman, Reid (Cuellar, Toure)
Bale, Pienaar, Snodgrass, Arteta (Kacanikic)
RVP, Bony, Cornelius
Hanley the last straw for you as well Koop? ;) you set such a fast pace early on in Copper too!
yeah :(
Koops is still 3rd in Copper, season not dead yet
I'm sitting top, hoping to take the minor premiership, coz all my wheels are falling off as we we speak! ::)
JBS this week and he looks to have the team to beat.
Are you Brad's Boys? I'm sitting 7th in copper atm
Quote from: timmyparso on July 24, 2013, 09:20:46 PM
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 24, 2013, 09:05:47 PM
Quote from: timmyparso on July 24, 2013, 10:47:16 AM
Quote from: KoopKicka on July 23, 2013, 10:58:46 PM
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 23, 2013, 10:55:03 PM
Quote from: KoopKicka on July 23, 2013, 10:33:58 PM
First up efforts, please give me your thoughts/critcism.
Mignolet (Price)
Agger, Coleman, Reid (Cuellar, Toure)
Bale, Pienaar, Snodgrass, Arteta (Kacanikic)
RVP, Bony, Cornelius
Hanley the last straw for you as well Koop? ;) you set such a fast pace early on in Copper too!
yeah :(
Koops is still 3rd in Copper, season not dead yet
I'm sitting top, hoping to take the minor premiership, coz all my wheels are falling off as we we speak! ::)
JBS this week and he looks to have the team to beat.
Are you Brad's Boys? I'm sitting 7th in copper atm
I'm The Whip... No Brad's boys in FF Copper :o
Quote from: Tominator on July 24, 2013, 09:07:31 PM
Stevie Gerrard showing he can still find the back of the net.... what do people think of him in fantasy relevance?
When we find ourselves in times of trouble
Stevie G runs past me
Playing the game with wisdom, Stevie G
And in my home, the Spion Kop
We watch him jog, right in front of me
Spreading balls with wisdom, Stevie G
Let it be, let it be, let it be, Stevie G
The local lad turned hero, Stevie G
And when the jubilant Kopite people
All living in The Park agree
That we all know the answer, Stevie G
And although we may all be fooled,
There is still a chance that we will see
The footballing phenomenon, Stevie G
Let it be, let it be, let it be, Stevie G
Spreading balls with wisdom, Stevie G
And when the night is cloudy
There is still a man that we all see
A young, committed Kopite, Stevie G
Playing to the sound of music
Stevie G runs past me
Playing the game with wisdom, Stevie G
Let it be, let it be, let it be, Stevie G
For we all know the answer, his name is Stevie G
Definitely still relevant, just need to pick when you have him and when you don't these days.
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 24, 2013, 09:31:41 PM
Are you Brad's Boys? I'm sitting 7th in copper atm
I'm The Whip... No Brad's boys in FF Copper :o
[/quote]
You must be FF Copper in Supercoach, I'm in DT
Quote from: timmyparso on July 24, 2013, 09:40:30 PM
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 24, 2013, 09:31:41 PM
Are you Brad's Boys? I'm sitting 7th in copper atm
I'm The Whip... No Brad's boys in FF Copper :o
You must be FF Copper in Supercoach, I'm in DT
[/quote]
Ahhhhh!! I thought I was going nuts! ;)
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 24, 2013, 09:46:57 PM
Quote from: timmyparso on July 24, 2013, 09:40:30 PM
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 24, 2013, 09:31:41 PM
Are you Brad's Boys? I'm sitting 7th in copper atm
I'm The Whip... No Brad's boys in FF Copper :o
You must be FF Copper in Supercoach, I'm in DT
Ahhhhh!! I thought I was going nuts! ;)
[/quote]
Good thing Im doing alright in Copper, currently sitting 8th in Elxam Gunz and currently clinging onto that spot for dear life. :o
Official FPL FF Leagues
Okay Guys and Gals,
Two Leaues created and the League codes. I have limited the Head to Head League to 38 at this point. If we get those numbers then everyone plays each other once. If more show up to join we can make a call to either increase the size of this League to unlimited in which case not everyone will play each other, or create a Second Division; maybe with a view to some promotion/relegation next year?
FanFooty El CLassico (CLassic League) - League Code: 61032-114725FFH2H (Head to Head League) - League Code: 61032-114769Spread the word!
Quote from: Tominator on July 24, 2013, 09:07:31 PM
Stevie Gerrard showing he can still find the back of the net.... what do people think of him in fantasy relevance?
Given Liverpool's kind early fixture and the fact Gerrard has corners, free-kicks and penalties pretty well wrapped up with Suarez almost certainly heading out... I'm very interested ;)
Only issue might be resting/subbing as Pool look to manage him through his 2 year contract..
Quote from: KoopKicka on July 23, 2013, 10:33:58 PM
First up efforts, please give me your thoughts/critcism.
Mignolet (Price)
Agger, Coleman, Reid (Cuellar, Toure)
Bale, Pienaar, Snodgrass, Arteta (Kacanikic)
RVP, Bony, Cornelius
Nice well rounded team Koop. I like that you've gone with both RVP and Bale, it's what I am trying to achieve. If you can make a decent team, then Bale leaves the EPL, it's going to feel good reinvesting that extra cash into the lineup :)
I wouldn't consider Price myself. C Palace come up into the Premiership with the worst defence of the new trio. There are better options around at that price.
Your defence is great value for money. I would be inclined to funnel some of those funds forward, but you have a good skeleton. Agger would be the one I suggest is slightly overpriced, but I will say that about any defender 6.0 or over to start the season with. Defenders like Baines are definitely worth their price tag, but I would prefer to make the money and bring them in later in the season. Keep an eye on Toure, I'm not sure how he will fit into our defence. I suspect he is there to add a bit of depth to cover injuries/suspensions.
Mids and Fwds are solid. If you do funnel those funds forward I would be looking at other options for Cornelius/Pienaar/Arteta. I don't know a lot about Cornelius, but will have a look at him now :) Pienaar - Fellaini? Arteta should be okay early on with Arsenal' fixture, so for me, would be the most likely of that trio to hold a spot. The more I look at Snoddy, the more I think he presents great value! The only thing worrying me about him is Noriwch backing up on last years effort. If they stumble, he will stumble as well.
The Kewlest Cats are in and ready to go! 8)
Bale missed tonight's game with injury. Cause for concern? Or just a knock?
Quote from: elephants on July 25, 2013, 01:03:00 AM
Bale missed tonight's game with injury. Cause for concern? Or just a knock?
or visiting Spain :-\
Quote from: elephants on July 25, 2013, 01:03:00 AM
Bale missed tonight's game with injury. Cause for concern? Or just a knock?
I think it's more important to note that Sunderland got up! ;D
How is my side looking? Haven't put that much into it yet.
Stekelenburg (Vorm)
Mertesacker, Luiz, Baines (Garrido, Baker)
Snodgrass, Mata, Wanyama, Coutinho (Colback)
van Wolfswinkel, RVP, Anelka
Quote from: Jukes on July 25, 2013, 08:04:36 PM
How is my side looking? Haven't put that much into it yet.
Stekelenburg (Vorm)
Mertesacker, Luiz, Baines (Garrido, Baker)
Snodgrass, Mata, Wanyama, Coutinho (Colback)
van Wolfswinkel, RVP, Anelka
Starting Anelka, brave man.
Quote from: NigeyS on July 25, 2013, 08:14:02 PM
Quote from: Jukes on July 25, 2013, 08:04:36 PM
How is my side looking? Haven't put that much into it yet.
Stekelenburg (Vorm)
Mertesacker, Luiz, Baines (Garrido, Baker)
Snodgrass, Mata, Wanyama, Coutinho (Colback)
van Wolfswinkel, RVP, Anelka
Starting Anelka, brave man.
#YOLO
Quote from: Jukes on July 25, 2013, 08:15:57 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on July 25, 2013, 08:14:02 PM
Quote from: Jukes on July 25, 2013, 08:04:36 PM
How is my side looking? Haven't put that much into it yet.
Stekelenburg (Vorm)
Mertesacker, Luiz, Baines (Garrido, Baker)
Snodgrass, Mata, Wanyama, Coutinho (Colback)
van Wolfswinkel, RVP, Anelka
Starting Anelka, brave man.
#YOLO
Can't believe you actually said that, but because it's your birthday, I'll let it slide. :P
One name who I haven't seen mentioned at all, but someone I will almost certainly be starting with (before I do my research in to incoming players) is Adam Johnson. Relatively cheap and scores goals and gets assists, but haven't seen any of you mention him once...
Quote from: CrowsFan on July 25, 2013, 09:52:34 PM
One name who I haven't seen mentioned at all, but someone I will almost certainly be starting with (before I do my research in to incoming players) is Adam Johnson. Relatively cheap and scores goals and gets assists, but haven't seen any of you mention him once...
Hmmmmm...
I would have to get over my inherent mistrust of Sunderland in general to perform consistently, but they do have a great early fixture CF!
One guy I might put in my team is Modibo Diakite from Sunderland.
Johnson has a brutal early draw..
Chelsea and Aston Villa have double game week for week 1.
With Villa up against Chelsea and Arsenal, is it even worth chasing Villa players just for the double gameweek?
Benteke for the first GW?
Chelsea and Arsenal might be hard to score against
Quote from: Tominator on July 26, 2013, 11:05:42 AM
Benteke for the first GW?
Chelsea and Arsenal might be hard to score against
I had all ready planned for this 8)
Bent eke is the only option worth considering from Villa for mine.
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 26, 2013, 01:01:56 PM
Quote from: Tominator on July 26, 2013, 11:05:42 AM
Benteke for the first GW?
Chelsea and Arsenal might be hard to score against
I had all ready planned for this 8)
Bent eke is the only option worth considering from Villa for mine.
is he better than van wolf or Bony?
And will Van Wolf suffer with Gary Hooper at Norwich?
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 26, 2013, 01:01:56 PM
I had all ready planned for this 8)
Bent eke is the only option worth considering from Villa for mine.
Not really sure if Benteke is a viable option even if he is the obvious Villa choice. 3 games against Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool before Villa have GW3 off. Tough start!!
I think I'll be taking my chances on 3 Chelsea players to hopefully ensure a fast start. Going with 3 Chelsea + Benteke makes it a little too hard to get an effective GW3 team unless 4 point hits are taken or WC is used.
I'd say Hazard is a lock for most teams, I'll certainly be putting the C on him because he is the most likely of who I'm looking at starting to play both games. Cech will probably be considered by most because he's nailed, but I like Hart in goals with City's great early season fixtures.
Lukaku is in great preseason form and is likely to start at least the Hull game, with Torres away on Spanish duty prior to the season kicking off. He's a bargain at 8m.
Terry is the other Chelsea player I'd like to start, just to combat those going with Cech, but also having the opportunity to maybe snag a goal too.
It's going to be a gamble running 3 because of all the options Mourinho has at his disposal, hopefully he gives away a bit of his plans over the rest of the friendly games.
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 26, 2013, 01:01:56 PM
Quote from: Tominator on July 26, 2013, 11:05:42 AM
Benteke for the first GW?
Chelsea and Arsenal might be hard to score against
I had all ready planned for this 8)
Bent eke is the only option worth considering from Villa for mine.
Benteke against his 2 opponents in week 1 may not even score. I think many coach's wlil pick him anyway then dump him before week 3 when he has no game, this will cause him to drop in price, especially if coach's get annoyed if he doesn't perform.
Does anyone know how he's been playing in the friendly's?
Not touching any Villa players haha. Makes my Chelsea boys + Rooney (;)) appeal more though!
Quote from: elephants on July 26, 2013, 01:55:04 PM
Not touching any Villa players haha. Makes my Chelsea boys + Rooney (;)) appeal more though!
That's one thing I have been thinking of doing too.
Hypothetically Rooney goes to Chelsea?
How do you go about it though? I gather you can't make any changes to your team because I'd imagine being told that you've picked too many players from the one team (once Rooney's team changes from ManU > Chelsea). Would changing a captain have the same effect?
Just have to be careful that you have decided on your completed team for this to be a nice bonus if you were going to pick 3
and Rooney. Obviously the first transfer a team in this situation would be looking to make would be a Chelsea transfer anyway so being forced to do it doesn't matter ;D
if Rooney goes to Chelsea I am jumping on
Already got Luiz and Hazard, considering Mata for that first week too but new manager makes me a bit unsure, Schurrle is also in my considerations
Torres has been ruled out of GW1 along with Mata and Azpilicueta Tom :P DOn't get Mata.
Lukaku slotted two goals and won a pen last night so he's in form!
Quote from: Mr. Smith on July 26, 2013, 02:08:16 PM
Quote from: elephants on July 26, 2013, 01:55:04 PM
Not touching any Villa players haha. Makes my Chelsea boys + Rooney (;)) appeal more though!
That's one thing I have been thinking of doing too.
Hypothetically Rooney goes to Chelsea?
How do you go about it though? I gather you can't make any changes to your team because I'd imagine being told that you've picked too many players from the one team (once Rooney's team changes from ManU > Chelsea). Would changing a captain have the same effect?
Just have to be careful that you have decided on your completed team for this to be a nice bonus if you were going to pick 3 and Rooney. Obviously the first transfer a team in this situation would be looking to make would be a Chelsea transfer anyway so being forced to do it doesn't matter ;D
It would be a neat trick if you could pull it off!
Yes you do get to keep Rooney if he moved, BUT, if it happened before Gameweek 1 you wouldn't be able to do any more changes to your team to keep him.
Whats the code? Might sign up given i missed last season.
Aepl on this year?
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 24, 2013, 10:40:53 PM
Official FPL FF Leagues
Okay Guys and Gals,
Two Leaues created and the League codes. I have limited the Head to Head League to 38 at this point. If we get those numbers then everyone plays each other once. If more show up to join we can make a call to either increase the size of this League to unlimited in which case not everyone will play each other, or create a Second Division; maybe with a view to some promotion/relegation next year?
FanFooty El CLassico (CLassic League) - League Code: 61032-114725
FFH2H (Head to Head League) - League Code: 61032-114769
Spread the word!
Here you go Andy. :)
Quote from: Mr. Smith on July 26, 2013, 01:46:50 PM
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 26, 2013, 01:01:56 PM
I had all ready planned for this 8)
Bent eke is the only option worth considering from Villa for mine.
Not really sure if Benteke is a viable option even if he is the obvious Villa choice. 3 games against Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool before Villa have GW3 off. Tough start!!
Benteke Hattrick overnight against Crewe ;)
Cheers mateyoo
My team is
GK: De Gea, Stockdale
Def: Evans, Koscielny, Williams, O'Shea, Baker
Mid: Bale, Mata, Hazard, Santi Cazorla, Colback
Fwd: Giroud, Anelka, Proschwitz
Prob gna get someone instead of mata for game 1 though
Quote from: Andy3737 on July 27, 2013, 06:05:05 AM
Aepl on this year?
Sadly I won't be running it this season as I am far too busy. Happy for someone else to pick up the slack though :)
UPDATED TEAM
Cash left - 0.0
GK: Mignolet, Davis
DEF: Luiz, Mertesacker, Bassong, Clyne, Baker
MID: Bale, Hazard, Walcott, Snodgrass, Wanyama
FWD: Benteke, Lukaku, Anelka
Thoughts on the team? Luiz or Ivanovic?
Is anyone following the Gareth Bale wanting a transfer to Real Madrid? will hit most Fantasy Teams
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/tottenham-hotspur/10210103/Gareth-Bale-tells-Tottenham-Hotspur-he-wants-to-hold-talks-with-Real-Madrid-over-85m-transfer.html
Quote from: timmyparso on July 30, 2013, 04:12:13 PM
Is anyone following the Gareth Bale wanting a transfer to Real Madrid? will hit most Fantasy Teams
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/tottenham-hotspur/10210103/Gareth-Bale-tells-Tottenham-Hotspur-he-wants-to-hold-talks-with-Real-Madrid-over-85m-transfer.html
I'm going to be sad if he does go. :(
Also timmy, get that avatar off of this family friendly forum. :o :P Just kidding, loving it. ;D
(http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l566/Cicjose/Untitled_zpsa45d5226.png)
I'm assuming Bale will leave
Quote from: Cicjose on July 30, 2013, 06:00:18 PM
(http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l566/Cicjose/Untitled_zpsa45d5226.png)
I'm assuming Bale will leave
Thats a pimping team Cicjose!
You have the same four double gameweek players as me. The only one I worry about is Lukaku. Will be a sure bet for the first game, but will he play both? Torres should be fine to play the second game.
I can't fault a player from the perspective of scoring potential. The only question mark I see is no RVP? Unless your comfortable throwing your Captains armband around, with Bale gone he will be a must have for mine.
Gutted! :'(
http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/news/1161656/Kacaniklic-hit-with-injury-blow
Quote from: Andy3737 on July 27, 2013, 07:49:14 PM
My team is
GK: De Gea, Stockdale
Def: Evans, Koscielny, Williams, O'Shea, Baker
Mid: Bale, Mata, Hazard, Santi Cazorla, Colback
Fwd: Giroud, Anelka, Proschwitz
Prob gna get someone instead of mata for game 1 though
Hi Andy,
Solid looking team through the midfield; all great picks! Biggest worry for me is the Fwd line. (I'm not convinced Anelka will be value for money (I will probably end up HAVING to jump on at some point now I've said that ;)
Proschwitz would get quite limited game time as well. Freeing up some cash from your defence to bulk up your forwards would be ideal. One place to start may be Williams. He is currently subject to a lot of interest from Arsenal. I think he will only be a suitable option in fantasy terms if Arsenal have a run of defensive injuries. I suspect he will be back-up only to begin with. (This all assumes that Arsenal ACTUALLY make a move for a player... any player!! ::)
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 30, 2013, 09:05:23 PM
Gutted! :'(
http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/news/1161656/Kacaniklic-hit-with-injury-blow
Dammit :(
Quote from: elephants on July 30, 2013, 09:45:20 PM
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 30, 2013, 09:05:23 PM
Gutted! :'(
http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/news/1161656/Kacaniklic-hit-with-injury-blow
Dammit :(
I'll grab Wanyama then for first few weeks anyway, or is there another 5.0 MID I can get?
Wanyama may have low scoring potential but they spent 12 million on him so he should play most weeks, and I can always get Kaca when he comes back
Quote from: Tominator on July 30, 2013, 09:51:31 PM
Quote from: elephants on July 30, 2013, 09:45:20 PM
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 30, 2013, 09:05:23 PM
Gutted! :'(
http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/news/1161656/Kacaniklic-hit-with-injury-blow
Dammit :(
I'll grab Wanyama then for first few weeks anyway, or is there another 5.0 MID I can get?
Wanyama may have low scoring potential but they spent 12 million on him so he should play most weeks, and I can always get Kaca when he comes back
Jermoe Thomas @ 4.5mill is another option but Wanyama hasn't left my team yet so he looks a good bet ;)
have joined the Classic League, kind of over doing head to head leagues for this I'm only doing 3 H2H's this season. :)
squad at the moment is
Mignolet~(Mannone)
K Toure~R Taylor~A Cole~Zabaleta~(Figueroa)
Silva~Coutinho~Cazorla~Hazard c~(Noble)
Bony~Lambert~(D Gayle)
fearing Silva may get rotated for Navas in GW1 due to the international's
750526-195632 H2H 18 teams only so you play every one twice and 1 person 3 time with 3 round knock out at the end
Team Mitchypool
Cech ~ (harper)
Alcaraz - Jose Enrique - Zabaleta - Evra ~ (S. Taylor)
Hazard - Sessegnon - Coutinho - Silva ~ (Cabaye)
Lukaku - Podolski ~ (Wilbraham)
Quote from: Tominator on July 30, 2013, 09:51:31 PM
Quote from: elephants on July 30, 2013, 09:45:20 PM
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 30, 2013, 09:05:23 PM
Gutted! :'(
http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/news/1161656/Kacaniklic-hit-with-injury-blow
Dammit :(
I'll grab Wanyama then for first few weeks anyway, or is there another 5.0 MID I can get?
Wanyama may have low scoring potential but they spent 12 million on him so he should play most weeks, and I can always get Kaca when he comes back
Colback at 4.5 from sunderland, they have an ok starting draw too
Hey guys, given my first team a crack:
Mignolet (Krul)
Ivanovic - Mertersacker - Riether (Chester - Hudson)
Bale - Hazard - Snodgrass - Whittingham - Elmohamady
RVP - Berbatov (Phillips)
Anyone considering Paulinho? Fairly cheap, scores goals, gets assists, is all over the park so sure to pick up bonus points. Haven't seen anyone mention him though. Him and Adam Johnson are 2 I'm seriously considering starting as I think they are both underpriced for what they can achieve :)
Also just joined both leagues, team name is Senile Felines, feel free to read that forwards or backwards ;)
Paulinho plays a little too deep for fantasy footy imo
Quote from: CrowsFan on August 02, 2013, 11:31:24 PM
Anyone considering Paulinho? Fairly cheap, scores goals, gets assists, is all over the park so sure to pick up bonus points. Haven't seen anyone mention him though. Him and Adam Johnson are 2 I'm seriously considering starting as I think they are both underpriced for what they can achieve :)
Also just joined both leagues, team name is Senile Felines, feel free to read that forwards or backwards ;)
I love a good palindrome! :o 8)
Quote from: Andy3737 on August 03, 2013, 03:17:49 AM
Paulinho plays a little too deep for fantasy footy imo
That's what everyone thought about Sissoko when he joined Newcasle on January, but he picked up 3 goals and 3 assists in 12 games playing for a struggling side. Paulinho is better than Sissoko and plays for a much better side. I know he plays defensive but he gets all over the ground so will be doing his fare share of attacking, similar to Yaya in my opinion.
Why would anyone say that about sissoko. He plays cm/am more than a dm. He played very advanced for toulouse.. Even on the right wing sometimes
I'm in, guys! Not that happy with my forward line tbh, even though it does look strong on paper. The rest of my squad looks really solid though so I'm a bit hesitant to change anything around.
(http://i39.tinypic.com/2lsz21x.jpg)
Mignloet, Guzan
Mertersacker, G.Johnson, Shawcross, O'Brien, O'Shea
Snodgrass, Couthino, Lampard, Morrison, Wanyama
RVP, Wilbraham, Benteke
Any good? I'm a bit of a n00b to this thing but want to beat all the soccerheads at school, because there's alot of them that think they know heaps about the game :P
Not bad, but Lampard is risky as he won't play every game, and will be rotated a lot. For 1.0 less you can get the likes of Arteta who should play most games for Arsenal, plus he takes set pieces and most likely penalties. You could even gamble on someone like Wilshere who is only worth 6.5, but you would think he would be pretty close to a starter most weeks. Also in his price range are the likes of Nolan, Lennon, Pienaar and Walters. You could use the extra cash to upgrade Wilbraham to someone like Anelka who, despite his age, should still have some goals in him, plus he would only be your sub anyway, or you could use it to upgrade Coutinho to a full "premium" in Santi Cazorla or Hazard. Not a bad first start though!
Roberto Soldado has just joined Tottenham
Some people going nuts about it, saying he will be a PL star, over on the Summer Transfer Window Rumours thread - http://forum.fanfooty.com.au/index.php/topic,79983.0.html
Will be priced at 9.5 apparently
Who is gonna take a punt on him?
He's already in the game tom, at 9.5. Undecided at the moment, not sure how quickly he will adapt to the far more physical defenses of England compared to spain. Basically a similar player to Defoe, but much better. I reckon he could be a player you don't start with, but keep some cash to upgrade to him really quickly if he hits the ground running.
Quote from: CrowsFan on August 06, 2013, 10:06:14 PM
He's already in the game tom, at 9.5. Undecided at the moment, not sure how quickly he will adapt to the far more physical defenses of England compared to spain. Basically a similar player to Defoe, but much better. I reckon he could be a player you don't start with, but keep some cash to upgrade to him really quickly if he hits the ground running.
Agree with all of this, would be nice to see him play a bit of English football before backing him to tear up, has a nice early draw though.
Thanks Chelks, had a look at those, and following the advice. Last season i just leeched off everyone elses teams, and therefore started well, but dropped off :P
Does this mean less game time for Defoe with Soldado there?
Thoughts on Schurrle? Will he play alot for Chelsea?
Soldado in my team already. He's Spurs' record signing so he's going to play and Tottenham have been crying out for a striker of his class for ages. He'll be in the top 3-5 scorers this season, easily. Big early call, I know, but I'm sticking with it!
Quote from: PowerBug on August 06, 2013, 10:37:59 PM
Thoughts on Schurrle? Will he play alot for Chelsea?
Should get game time, the trouble is he could either start as a sub or be subbed off due to the fact we have so many of that type of player. KDB, Oscar, Mata, Hazard and Moses can all play where he plays, and they can't all start at the same time.
Quote from: Chelskiman on August 06, 2013, 10:44:04 PM
Quote from: PowerBug on August 06, 2013, 10:37:59 PM
Thoughts on Schurrle? Will he play alot for Chelsea?
Should get game time, the trouble is he could either start as a sub or be subbed off due to the fact we have so many of that type of player. KDB, Oscar, Mata, Hazard and Moses can all play where he plays, and they can't all start at the same time.
Agree with this, can see him being heavily rotated early on especially.
IMO we will roll out Haz, Mata, KdB as the attacking three come GW1. I read somewhere that Mata might not be ready to go but we'll see how he's tracking. I feel thats the best three based on quality and form atm.
Thoughts Chelski?
Based on form I'd almost say Haz, KDB and Moses. I watched our game against AC Milan and he was amazing. He would still have to work hard to keep his spot, but he's had a ripping pre-season so far. He's more likely to be used as an impact player off the bench, but against Hull on the opening day I wouldn't be surprised if he got a start. Over the course of the year you would expect Haz, Mata and KDB/Oscar to be first choice though.
Quote from: Chelskiman on August 06, 2013, 11:20:11 PM
Based on form I'd almost say Haz, KDB and Moses. I watched our game against AC Milan and he was amazing. He would still have to work hard to keep his spot, but he's had a ripping pre-season so far. He's more likely to be used as an impact player off the bench, but against Hull on the opening day I wouldn't be surprised if he got a start. Over the course of the year you would expect Haz, Mata and KDB/Oscar to be first choice though.
When Danny Sturridge left Chelsea I adopted Moses as my new boy. It would make me so happy to see him get a regular gig. He's the perfect sub though :-\ Saw some highlights of him vs AC and from all reports he was really good, might just be realising how competitive it will be for spots at Chelsea this season!
We actually have depth! What is this magic? :o
Essien has been beasting it too, so keen to see him <3
I agree though, if Mata isn't getting up against Hull then Moses would be a fair chance over Schurrle and Oscar I reckon.
If you look at Chelsea's MIDs.... Lampard, Mikel, Essien... Then look how young the others are!
Mata, Oscar, Hazard, Schurrle, De Bruyne, Van Ginkel, Moses, even Lucas Piazon
not to mention Lukaku up front
Marin on loan too, quite frightening how much potential such a young group has
lads, do we have a league?
Quote from: Luigi197 on August 07, 2013, 05:11:10 PM
lads, do we have a league?
Yep, codes are on page 4 of this thread (or something like that).
Just a suggestion, but LE should edit the original post so the codes are there for easy finding :)
Your wish is my command *bows* ;)
Oscar is almost a lock in starter.
Quote from: Andy3737 on August 07, 2013, 07:57:51 PM
Oscar is almost a lock in starter.
I disagree, KdB has shown a lot this pre-season and it'd be wrong to not give him an opportunity early.
You guys are kidding right?
Oscar>kdb ainec. So what if kdb has been playing well in pre season. He will get his chance when mata isnout for the first 2 games.
Oscar is great, don't get me wrong, but he is far from a walk-up start.
I'm a very strong believer in "You're only as good as your last performance". Oscar has been mediocre his pre-season and even late last season when he began to tire.
He was awesome in the confed and pre season doesnt really mean that much. Schurrle>kdb too. Only good thing going for kdb is that he can play centre mid. He is more flexible than schurrle and oscar.
i joined up guys
so at least now you will have someone easy to beat...lol
I think you're under-rating pre-season. Obviously teams are not going all out but KdB has dominated some good sides!
Regardless of how important you see pre-season, KdB is in ripping form giving it his all. Oscar/Schurrle have been mediocre (though Schurrle's volley against AC Milan was delicious) and honestly if they don't realise they have some serious competition yet then they should.
All I'm saying is KdB 100% deserves a game in GW1 given the effort/performances he's put in over the pre-season matches.
I thing you are over rating pre season big time. Tom cleverley played for a united pre season game vs balencia about 4/5 years ago.he onlybroke out last year. Milan lalkovic played a pre season game for chelsea 3 years ago, hasnt started a game since.
Quote from: Andy3737 on August 08, 2013, 07:52:56 PM
I thing you are over rating pre season big time. Tom cleverley played for a united pre season game vs balencia about 4/5 years ago.he onlybroke out last year. Milan lalkovic played a pre season game for chelsea 3 years ago, hasnt started a game since.
Clearly I disagree and those two cases are completely different to this one. Cleverly/Lalkovic were simply making up numbers and getting some rotation through them. KdB is a legit shot at GW1. He came on at HT for Oscar this morning vs Real Madrid and was wayyyyy better.
If KdB doesn't start vs Hull I'll slit my nutsack.
Quote from: elephants on August 08, 2013, 08:49:38 PM
Quote from: Andy3737 on August 08, 2013, 07:52:56 PM
I thing you are over rating pre season big time. Tom cleverley played for a united pre season game vs balencia about 4/5 years ago.he onlybroke out last year. Milan lalkovic played a pre season game for chelsea 3 years ago, hasnt started a game since.
Clearly I disagree and those two cases are completely different to this one. Cleverly/Lalkovic were simply making up numbers and getting some rotation through them. KdB is a legit shot at GW1. He came on at HT for Oscar this morning vs Real Madrid and was wayyyyy better.
If KdB doesn't start vs Hull I'll slit my nutsack.
You know I don\'t usually want to see others harmed, but I'm really hoping KdB doesn't start now! :P
Quote from: CrowsFan on August 08, 2013, 09:00:12 PM
Quote from: elephants on August 08, 2013, 08:49:38 PM
Quote from: Andy3737 on August 08, 2013, 07:52:56 PM
I thing you are over rating pre season big time. Tom cleverley played for a united pre season game vs balencia about 4/5 years ago.he onlybroke out last year. Milan lalkovic played a pre season game for chelsea 3 years ago, hasnt started a game since.
Clearly I disagree and those two cases are completely different to this one. Cleverly/Lalkovic were simply making up numbers and getting some rotation through them. KdB is a legit shot at GW1. He came on at HT for Oscar this morning vs Real Madrid and was wayyyyy better.
If KdB doesn't start vs Hull I'll slit my nutsack.
You know I don\'t usually want to see others harmed, but I'm really hoping KdB doesn't start now! :P
Hahaha big risk but one I'm willing to take haha ;)
Thoughts on my team guys ?
Mignolet DAVIS
Zabbleta Collins Mertesacker. WARD WHITAKER
Hazard Fallaini Snodgrass Coutinho. COLBACK
RVP Benteke Anelka
Italian Stallions Gameweek 1:
GK: Mignolet,
DEF: Baines, Zabaleta, Mertesacker
MID: Bale (V), Hazard (C), Coutinho, Snodgrass*
FWD: Sturridge, Berbatov, Anelka
(Davis, Baker*, Colback, Whittaker)
*Baker and Snodgrass to swap for just Week 1 as AVL double gameweek.
Thoughts anyone please? :)
Kewlest Cats - Take 3 or 4 (I don't remember... :P)
GK: Mignolet (Mannone)
D: Luiz, Garrido, Baines (Reid, Riether)
M: Jedinak, Michu, Wanyama, Bale (Koren)
F: Soldado, Wolf, Deulofeu
I'm happy with it, but opinions/feedback would be great. 8)
He will prob start due to Mata being out.... He won't be a consistent starter for Chelsea this year with Oscar/Schurlle healthy.
My team atm, how is it?
Mignolet (Vorm)
Baines, Mertesacker, Cole, Luiz (Baker)
Walcott, Hazard, Wanyama, Coutinho (Colback)
Lambert, Benteke (Anelka)
RVP and Bale too ridiculously expensive :/
Quote from: Jukes on August 10, 2013, 11:12:11 PM
My team atm, how is it?
Mignolet (Vorm)
Baines, Mertesacker, Cole, Luiz (Baker)
Walcott, Hazard, Wanyama, Coutinho (Colback)
Lambert, Benteke (Anelka)
RVP and Bale too ridiculously expensive :/
defence is probably too strong IMO, I'd upgrade one of Wanyama/Colback by downgrading Cole (after the double GW) and Vorm - you don't need 2 quality keepers with a midfield like that
imo you need two good keepers as you'd want you'll be swapping them around a lot to get the easiest opponent
If that makes sense
Quote from: Jukes on August 11, 2013, 12:04:57 AM
imo you need two good keepers as you'd want you'll be swapping them around a lot to get the easiest opponent
If that makes sense
Never thought of that, not a bad idea
Fellas some advice would be nice :)
Mignolet Davis
Ivanovic Agger Mertesacker
Lampard Coutinho Walcott Hazard Snodgrass
Benteke Giroud. Moore
Your def is too expensive. Lampard is meh.
Also where are your other 2 defenders?
Quote from: Andrew3737 on August 11, 2013, 08:31:08 PM
Your def is too expensive. Lampard is meh.
Quote from: CrowsFan on August 11, 2013, 08:32:43 PM
Also where are your other 2 defenders?
Thans for the feedback ! What would you suggest ? And sorry Ward and Whittaker. First time doing this
alright lads, I gotta be honest I have no real idea what I am doing hahaha ... i put about 25 minutes of work into this googled a site to help me and this is what I have come up with ... Have a new mate who is english and told him I am ranked 12th in afle supercoach and he said mate u have to get involved in FPL .... here is my first ever attempt at this... what are your thoughts
Oh btw I support Chelsea :)
Mignolet (Boruc)
Baines Zabaleta Koscielny (hudson shaw)
Hazard Walcott Mirallas Snodgrass (Gunnarsson)
Lambert Lukaku Bony
This could be absolute rubbish and I wouldnt know the difference so any help would be great
... any must haves please let me know and any bargain based players that I havent got please help me out :) gotta beat these blokes haha
Quote from: eaglesman on August 11, 2013, 09:40:50 PM
alright lads, I gotta be honest I have no real idea what I am doing hahaha ... i put about 25 minutes of work into this googled a site to help me and this is what I have come up with ... Have a new mate who is english and told him I am ranked 12th in afle supercoach and he said mate u have to get involved in FPL .... here is my first ever attempt at this... what are your thoughts
Oh btw I support Chelsea :)
Mignolet (Boruc)
Baines Zabaleta Koscielny (hudson shaw)
Hazard Walcott Mirallas Snodgrass (Gunnarsson)
Lambert Lukaku Bony
This could be absolute rubbish and I wouldnt know the difference so any help would be great
... any must haves please let me know and any bargain based players that I havent got please help me out :) gotta beat these blokes haha
First year for me too ! Pretty good I think !
Maybe
Baines - Ivanavic
Kosc - Mertesacker
Lukaku - Benteke
Haha same here, have no clue but doing it anyway. 8)
Google is pretty handy though. :P
Quote from: vinny on August 11, 2013, 10:03:55 PM
Haha same here, have no clue but doing it anyway. 8)
Google is pretty handy though. :P
i just went bony to benteke?
I think everyone has locked Benteke mate so yes.
Okay with a bit of a research and help from a friend, here it is. Don't be too mean, I don't know anything about EPL. :P
Mignolet (Davis)
Baines Mertesacker Ivanovic (Baker Garrido)
Walcott Hazard Coutinho Wanyama (Colback)
Benteke Lambert Lukaku
Thoughts ? :)
Gary Hooper got stretchered off, not sure how serious it is, but something to be mindful of a week out from the start
Norwich interested in signing Ola Toivonen as well, would be a very very good get to add to Redmond, Fer, van Wolfswinkel and Hooper
Really like it Vinny!
Thanks mate! :)
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 24, 2013, 10:40:53 PM
Official FPL FF Leagues
Okay Guys and Gals,
Two Leaues created and the League codes. I have limited the Head to Head League to 38 at this point. If we get those numbers then everyone plays each other once. If more show up to join we can make a call to either increase the size of this League to unlimited in which case not everyone will play each other, or create a Second Division; maybe with a view to some promotion/relegation next year?
FanFooty El CLassico (CLassic League) - League Code: 61032-114725
FFH2H (Head to Head League) - League Code: 61032-114769
Spread the word!
Hi Everyone,
Apologies for the absence.. I've been working on the vestiges that is my SC team ::)
Anyway, just bumping this to the front (back?) of the thread. We are up to 31 contenders in each of the leagues now.
Note - H2H League For whatever unknown reason the limit of teams that can be entered into H2H League is 38. Firstly it means that everyone will play ONE other team twice. Not sure who at FPL didn't do the math, but that's the situation. Secondly, it is close to full so......
I will keep tabs on it as the week progresses and create a second 'FF H2H 'Championship' League for latecomers when the need arises if required.
So please share to those who would want to be in the main League as spots are drying up, and the more competition we have the better.
With regard to a possible promotion / relegation scenario between the two Leagues, I am thinking we have 6 up and 6 down due to the number of teams,.....
OR next year we do FPL' work for them and split the top League into two divisons based on final standings with 20 teams in each so everyone plays the other teams twice.
Does anyone else have any thoughts on the best way forward?
Quote from: m-ry on August 01, 2013, 04:24:15 AM
750526-195632 H2H 18 teams only so you play every one twice and 1 person 3 time with 3 round knock out at the end
Joined :)
Spain International Friendly Squad
EPL participants who are still part of the Spanish squad to travel to Ecuador, likely meaning they will miss GW1.
Azpilicueta (Chelsea)
Santi Cazorla (Arsenal)
Navas (Manchester City)
Silva (Manchester City)
Negredo (Manchester City)
Mata 8) and Torres ::) look like they will be available for normal EPL duties GW1.
Quote from: Tominator on August 12, 2013, 10:00:56 AM
Gary Hooper got stretchered off, not sure how serious it is, but something to be mindful of a week out from the start
Norwich interested in signing Ola Toivonen as well, would be a very very good get to add to Redmond, Fer, van Wolfswinkel and Hooper
Really like it Vinny!
Jukes is going into hibernation
The Bony - Kony - Wolfswinkel combo has to be the one that all n00bs go with. :P Doesn't get much better. ;D
Quote from: vinny on August 11, 2013, 11:08:20 PM
I think everyone has locked Benteke mate so yes.
Okay with a bit of a research and help from a friend, here it is. Don't be too mean, I don't know anything about EPL. :P
Mignolet (Davis)
Baines Mertesacker Ivanovic (Baker Garrido)
Walcott Hazard Coutinho Wanyama (Colback)
Benteke Lambert Lukaku
Thoughts ? :)
Hi Vinny,
And welcome to FPL.
Good looking team first up. Be mindful you will need to get those Villa/Chelsea players out before GW3, or at least relegated to the bench but then you will need really good cover. Four players out in three weeks will mean a -8 point hit if you try to get all of them out. (In case your not aware - In EPL the first trade for the week is free, every subsequnt trade deducts 4 points from your total except.... If you don't trade one week, you can have two trades the next week for free before taking any points hits)
Lukaku was originally a lock for me, but now doing a little research to see how The Special One lines up his strikers seen as though Torres is likely to be available.
All your players are good picks, and you've hit the best formation squarely on the head! 3-5-2 is the other which attracts the best scores 'normally'. Every now and then you get a GW with a whole heap of clean sheets meaning 4 or 5 Defenders is the go, but this probably only happens half a dozen times a season.
No RVP or Bale is the biggest thing I've noticed. They are great perma-captains. RVP didn't supply at least a goal or assist in only 4 games last year from memory, and they were against teams headed for relagetion :o RVP is pretty much good for 6 pts per week x2 as captain = 12. Bale a little less consistent, but ususally gets the 3 bonus points along with his goal when he scores, which pushes him up past 10 points every time he scores.
Quote from: eaglesman on August 11, 2013, 09:40:50 PM
alright lads, I gotta be honest I have no real idea what I am doing hahaha ... i put about 25 minutes of work into this googled a site to help me and this is what I have come up with ... Have a new mate who is english and told him I am ranked 12th in afle supercoach and he said mate u have to get involved in FPL .... here is my first ever attempt at this... what are your thoughts
Oh btw I support Chelsea :)
Mignolet (Boruc)
Baines Zabaleta Koscielny (hudson shaw)
Hazard Walcott Mirallas Snodgrass (Gunnarsson)
Lambert Lukaku Bony
This could be absolute rubbish and I wouldnt know the difference so any help would be great
... any must haves please let me know and any bargain based players that I havent got please help me out :) gotta beat these blokes haha
Welcome to FPL Eaglesman,
First up congrats on a top SC season! Looks like scores are closing up again at the top with the end nigh. I too hope to be stressing at the pointy end one day :D
I would be inclined to look at finding some better value for money defenders and pumping some $$ forward to get RVP, or Bale that you can captain each week just for some piece of mind. Unless you are captaining one of the Chelsea players GW1; in which case you can plan to bring either of RVP/Bale in at the end of GW1 as part of your plan to get those players out of your team
Formation is good, and all picks are FPL relevant. Boruc / Mignolet is an excellent GKP combination. With double GW1 matches for Villa and Chelsea I would be thinking about Mata and Benteke as well. Great options to have in your team, but you will have to get them out for GW3.
The biggest difference you will find between SC FPL is the pricing mechanisms. FPL is dynamic in the sense that prices can change every day. Prices are based on net trades for the week.
Here is the best run-through of price changes I have found. It will give you a little insight.
http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/making-millions-in-the-fantasy-premier-league-game/
Trade timing can make a real difference to your year, and while it may be counterintuitive to SC you are better off in most cases trading earlier in the week. You run a risk that a player doesn't front on Saturday but can also be a .2-.5 difference in your cashflow if you make the trade early.
Bargain basement player?? - Anelka is one I dismissed a few weeks back based on his record last year in the Chinese Super League,
however, he is getting harder and harder to ignore based on pre-season form.
Cheers for the help VSA ! :)
I am not taking this too seriously just a bit of fun as mates are doing it and keeps me busy during AFL off-season.
Good idea, I was just put off by his price as its extremely high. How do you suggest I get RVP in ?
Maybe move Lukaku on. As I said I don't know much so research is key haha.
Thanks again mate.
Quote from: Jukes on August 11, 2013, 12:04:57 AM
imo you need two good keepers as you'd want you'll be swapping them around a lot to get the easiest opponent
If that makes sense
That's a common tactic that one. I used Begovic and Vorm last season as my two keepers and rotated them around when either one had the better draw.
Quote from: vinny on August 12, 2013, 07:02:06 PM
Cheers for the help VSA ! :)
I am not taking this too seriously just a bit of fun as mates are doing it and keeps me busy during AFL off-season.
Good idea, I was just put off by his price as its extremely high. How do you suggest I get RVP in ?
Maybe move Lukaku on. As I said I don't know much so research is key haha.
Thanks again mate.
I'd be looking at Baines, Mertesacker, and Coutinho as the fall guys to upgrade Lambert to RVP. Ivanovic will be fine with a duble gameweek to start.
Take those three out, make Lambert RVP, then shop around for value to fill the remaining three spots.
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 12, 2013, 07:45:28 PM
Quote from: vinny on August 12, 2013, 07:02:06 PM
Cheers for the help VSA ! :)
I am not taking this too seriously just a bit of fun as mates are doing it and keeps me busy during AFL off-season.
Good idea, I was just put off by his price as its extremely high. How do you suggest I get RVP in ?
Maybe move Lukaku on. As I said I don't know much so research is key haha.
Thanks again mate.
I'd be looking at Baines, Mertesacker, and Coutinho as the fall guys to upgrade Lambert to RVP. Ivanovic will be fine with a duble gameweek to start.
Take those three out, make Lambert RVP, then shop around for value to fill the remaining three spots.
Thanks man. Is starting Anelka far too risky ?
Quote from: vinny on August 12, 2013, 07:51:41 PM
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 12, 2013, 07:45:28 PM
Quote from: vinny on August 12, 2013, 07:02:06 PM
Cheers for the help VSA ! :)
I am not taking this too seriously just a bit of fun as mates are doing it and keeps me busy during AFL off-season.
Good idea, I was just put off by his price as its extremely high. How do you suggest I get RVP in ?
Maybe move Lukaku on. As I said I don't know much so research is key haha.
Thanks again mate.
I'd be looking at Baines, Mertesacker, and Coutinho as the fall guys to upgrade Lambert to RVP. Ivanovic will be fine with a duble gameweek to start.
Take those three out, make Lambert RVP, then shop around for value to fill the remaining three spots.
Thanks man. Is starting Anelka far too risky ?
Three weeks ago I was saying no, my opinion is changing rapidly on the back of his pre-season form. He may well be a must have at his price.
I made these moves.
Out ( Baines Lukaku Lambert ) In ( Whittaker RVP Anelka )
What do you reckon ?
Mignolet (Davis)
Whittaker Mertesacker Ivanovic (Baker Garrido)
Walcott Hazard Coutinho Wanyama (Colback)
Benteke RVP Anelka
Look pretty good imo
How does this look:
Gk: Mignolet (Mannone)
Def: Ivanovic, Zabaleta, Coleman (Garrido, Amorebieta)
Mid: Hazard, Walcott, Mirallas, Nolan, Sessegnon
Fwd: Soldado, Giroud (Gayle)
First trade after DGW will be Ivanovic to Mertesaker
Okay,
After many, many changes take a look at let me know what you think.
This is a GW1 team only. I will be playing my wildcard at the end of GW1 in a cash grab to pad out my budget a bit.
GKP: Mignolet (Bunn)
Def: Collins, Cuellar, Clark (Baker, Whittaker)
Mid: Mata (C), Bale, Walcott, Hazard (VC) (Colback)
Fwd: Benteke, Lukaku, Anelka
The players on the bench are just there to make up the numbers in this case and not important for now. They will change dramatically after GW1
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 12, 2013, 10:07:04 PM
Okay,
After many, many changes take a look at let me know what you think.
This is a GW1 team only. I will be playing my wildcard at the end of GW1 in a cash grab to pad out my budget a bit.
GKP: Mignolet (Bunn)
Def: Collins, Cuellar, Clark (Baker, Whittaker)
Mid: Mata (C), Bale, Walcott, Hazard (VC) (Colback)
Fwd: Benteke, Lukaku, Anelka
The players on the bench are just there to make up the numbers in this case and not important for now. They will change dramatically after GW1
are you sure you want to do this?
I mean, not only do i disagree in you splashing out everything for this week with 2 teams with a double gameweek, only to use the wildcard later, but i also disagree with your timing.
there will be weeks later on when you have multiple teams such as Man U, Man City and Chelsea, ALL with a double gameweek. plus you never know if you need that wildcard for later.
guys can i get some advice on some good cheap defenders?
so far i have
Rat, mertesacker, Garrido (baker, Diakite) (doesn't look like Diakite will be playng but read some good things on him as sunderland just bought him in....same with Rat but rat has been playing pre season well for west ham)
any help would be much appreciated
Quote from: DazBurg on August 13, 2013, 10:33:19 AM
guys can i get some advice on some good cheap defenders?
so far i have
Rat, mertesacker, Garrido (baker, Diakite) (doesn't look like Diakite will be playng but read some good things on him as sunderland just bought him in....same with Rat but rat has been playing pre season well for west ham)
any help would be much appreciated
Turner from Norwich for 4.5 is said to be pretty decent value. Also Clyne and Shaw from Southampton are also good buys :)
Hey Guys
T Dog going around again..any suggestions please
GKP: Mignolet (Vorm)
Def: Ivanovic, Shawcross, Mertesacker (Turner, Clyne)
Mid: Santi Corzola, Hazard , Valencia , Colback (Thomas)
Fwd: Dzeko, RVP, Anelka
Have made a Sportal league
FF EPL League
invite code: 300871
Anyone interested?
ignore the fact that Villa have a Double GW in GW 1
Which combo is better?
Bale, Bassong, Wanyama, Benteke
OR
RVP, Shawcross, Paulinho, Colback
Quote from: Tominator on August 13, 2013, 01:45:07 PM
ignore the fact that Villa have a Double GW in GW 1
Which combo is better?
Bale, Bassong, Wanyama, Benteke
OR
RVP, Shawcross, Paulinho, Colback
Would go with the second one, Bale is injured so even if he does stay at Tottenham he will likely sit out GW1.
Quote from: T Dog on August 13, 2013, 01:04:06 PM
Hey Guys
T Dog going around again..any suggestions please
GKP: Mignolet (Vorm)
Def: Ivanovic, Shawcross, Mertesacker (Turner, Clyne)
Mid: Santi Corzola, Hazard , Valencia , Colback (Thomas)
Fwd: Dzeko, RVP, Anelka
I think Santi will have Spain dutys so will be in doubt for GW1, maybe replace with Walcott. I'm not sure on Dzeko's JS as Man City have made some big off season recruits so will be rotated heavily.
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 12, 2013, 10:07:04 PM
Okay,
After many, many changes take a look at let me know what you think.
This is a GW1 team only. I will be playing my wildcard at the end of GW1 in a cash grab to pad out my budget a bit.
GKP: Mignolet (Bunn)
Def: Collins, Cuellar, Clark (Baker, Whittaker)
Mid: Mata (C), Bale, Walcott, Hazard (VC) (Colback)
Fwd: Benteke, Lukaku, Anelka
The players on the bench are just there to make up the numbers in this case and not important for now. They will change dramatically after GW1
I'm not in favour of the early Wildcard use.
Villla's DGW is very tough so not convinced that even Benteke would be worth selecting. I'd also expect Lukaku to be sharing the striker role with Ba and even Torres so may only get 1 full game although he has had a good off season.
Bale is injured and unlikely to play even if he does stay at Tottenham.
Clark in defence is unlikely to give any benifit with the DGW against Cheslea and Arsenal, extremely unlikely for a clean sheet and may conceed too many goals for even 2 points per game.
I'm actually not going near Villa players for now, may look at Benteke or Baker when their draw softens up.
Quote from: antonc on August 13, 2013, 01:33:36 PM
Have made a Sportal league
FF EPL League
invite code: 300871
Anyone interested?
Sure, I'm in. May want to create a new thread for it though.
If Bale's injury makes him miss the first GW, is it worth benching him or starting with somebody else and bringing him in GW2?
Quote from: NigeyS on August 13, 2013, 02:37:59 PM
If Bale's injury makes him miss the first GW, is it worth benching him or starting with somebody else and bringing him in GW2?
Start with somebody else. You can afford anyone so having all that money on the bench is a waste.
Quote from: NigeyS on August 13, 2013, 02:37:59 PM
If Bale's injury makes him miss the first GW, is it worth benching him or starting with somebody else and bringing him in GW2?
Start with someone else and wait and see what happens with the Real Madrid transfer offer, Bale really wants to go to Real Madrid but ManU are reportedly interested too.
Bale hasn't trained properly for 3-4 weeks so unsure when he'll be available play if he stays in the EPL (Tottenham or ManU).
Cheers lads, that was the plan. Thinking Mata.
First timer here lads, thoughts?
Cech (Harper)
Baker, Whittaker, Williams (Cuellar, Garrido)
Mata, Hazard, Snodgrass, Colback, Wanyama
RvP, Soldado (Anelka)
Here is another go at my team, thoughts?
Mignolet (Steklenberg)
Baines - Ivanovic - Mertersacker (Clyne - Hudson)
Hazard - Gerrard - Fellaini - Arteta - Whittingham
Soldado - Lukaku (Phillips)
Quote from: benjy251090 on August 13, 2013, 09:16:57 PM
Here is another go at my team, thoughts?
Mignolet (Steklenberg)
Baines - Ivanovic - Mertersacker (Clyne - Hudson)
Hazard - Gerrard - Fellaini - Arteta - Whittingham
Soldado - Lukaku (Phillips)
Crazy good team here mate ' mine is similar
Baines Ivan Mert. Whittaker Ward
Hazard Nolan Snodgrass Coutinho Silva
Soldado Lukaku. Moore
Appreciate thoughts
I have had absolutely no time to look at this the last few weeks. My team is going to be rubbish this year :(
Looking like this is the team ill take into GW1
Mignolet (Harper)
Ivanovic, Coleman, Demel (Amorebieta, Toure)
Hazard, Mata, Mirallas, Ben Arfa (Koren)
Saldado, Bony, Vydra (when he is added to the game)
Goalies: Pretty stock standard here. Mignolet will be in most starting teams. Jaask is the only other one that Im considering due to the soft draw after GW1
Defence: Ivanovic is there purely for the DGW, going straight to Mertestacker after GW1. Coleman is playing OOP on a wing and attacking so hopefully he nets a few. Demel has a knack of finding the back too. Toure and Amorebieta are both just cover.
Midfield: Hazard and Mata are in for the DGW, not sure about after that but tbh theres not many proven high-scoring midfielders this year. Im waiting for the likes of Paulinho, Walcott etc to prove themselves before I jump on. Mirallas is one of the most exciting players in the game and just edged out my favourite EPL player Pienaar. Ben Arfa is my balls-of-steel risk. His draw after GW1 is incredibly soft and I think he has the potenial to go absolutely bang. Koren is Hull's spotkicker. So he is good bench cover.
Forwards: Soldado is a deadset lock, no questions asked. Still have concerns on Bony and how he and Michu are going to relate. Vydra is my POD and I think he will take Lukaku's role and score very well. He scored at more than a goal every 2 games last season and was the Championship player of the Year.
In the first GW I am planning a 4-3-3 formation with Toure joining the field for Ben Arfa, both should swap places in GW2.
*= I need Vydra to come in at 6.5mil or less.
Thoughts?
Ill get around to reviewing a few teams soon too.
Cheers.
Mignolet
Zabaleta, Baines, Mertersacker
Snodgrass, Mata, Hazard, Coutinho
Anelka, Soldado, Berbatov
(Davis, Baker, Colback, Mcnaughton)
Quote from: Luigi197 on August 12, 2013, 10:22:47 PM
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 12, 2013, 10:07:04 PM
Okay,
After many, many changes take a look at let me know what you think.
This is a GW1 team only. I will be playing my wildcard at the end of GW1 in a cash grab to pad out my budget a bit.
GKP: Mignolet (Bunn)
Def: Collins, Cuellar, Clark (Baker, Whittaker)
Mid: Mata (C), Bale, Walcott, Hazard (VC) (Colback)
Fwd: Benteke, Lukaku, Anelka
The players on the bench are just there to make up the numbers in this case and not important for now. They will change dramatically after GW1
are you sure you want to do this?
I mean, not only do i disagree in you splashing out everything for this week with 2 teams with a double gameweek, only to use the wildcard later, but i also disagree with your timing.
there will be weeks later on when you have multiple teams such as Man U, Man City and Chelsea, ALL with a double gameweek. plus you never know if you need that wildcard for later.
Absolutely I am going to play it Luigi...
I have played the Wildcard at many times of the season except early, and to be honest I have found that it doesn't really make a huge difference scoring wise, so I am looking to use it for the purposes of increasing my bankroll. If it is being used late in the season surely you would have half of the team you want in the first place making it a bit of a waste. Last year I used it Round 13, and using the Price Change tool which I pasted a link to somewhere in this thread, I was able to make about 1.8 for that gameweek.
I think people place too much emphasis in the double gameweeks. Think about it, in reality there arent that many of them... last year we had approx 6-7 DGW from memory. Lets break them down, and the reason DGW occur.
DGW occur for two main reasons:Fixturing clashes with other competitions.
External issues beyond our control.
Last year's DGW, and the reasons they occured
Early December - Tottenham vs. Villa? (Riot) ::)
Mid January - Chelsea vs. ......... (World Club Challenge)
Mid January - Arsenal vs. West Ham? (Metro transport strike Boxing day)
There were 3-4 in Feb/March/April/May due to CL/FA Cup
PL teams don't enter the FA Cup or League Cup until around December, so there will be no DGW under normal circumstances before then. Looking at last year the first legitimate DGW was Mid January with Chelsea, when you have a January Wildcard in any case. For mine leaving it until GW30-odd which is when the other DGW occur is too late. Yes you will get a scoring spike, but you will all ready be behind and just making up ground.
The year before, whilst I can't recall bugger all of that was very similair.
The year before that was an out and out exception. During December there was absolute chaos as games were cancelled left right and centre due to frozen pitches. Once again this is something out of our control, and we can't / shouldn't set our teams up to deal with that until it occurs.
In summary, under normal circumstances you won't see DGW's until January when you have a Wildcard to use any way, and when most of the DGW occur in Feb-May, for mine that is too late (There were 3 or 4, and you only get one wildcard so you still have to pick ONE).
I might as well make some use of it and pocket myself some cold hard cash early. ;D
Quote from: timmyparso on August 13, 2013, 02:14:48 PM
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 12, 2013, 10:07:04 PM
Okay,
After many, many changes take a look at let me know what you think.
This is a GW1 team only. I will be playing my wildcard at the end of GW1 in a cash grab to pad out my budget a bit.
GKP: Mignolet (Bunn)
Def: Collins, Cuellar, Clark (Baker, Whittaker)
Mid: Mata (C), Bale, Walcott, Hazard (VC) (Colback)
Fwd: Benteke, Lukaku, Anelka
The players on the bench are just there to make up the numbers in this case and not important for now. They will change dramatically after GW1
I'm not in favour of the early Wildcard use.
Villla's DGW is very tough so not convinced that even Benteke would be worth selecting. I'd also expect Lukaku to be sharing the striker role with Ba and even Torres so may only get 1 full game although he has had a good off season.
Bale is injured and unlikely to play even if he does stay at Tottenham.
Clark in defence is unlikely to give any benifit with the DGW against Cheslea and Arsenal, extremely unlikely for a clean sheet and may conceed too many goals for even 2 points per game.
I'm actually not going near Villa players for now, may look at Benteke or Baker when their draw softens up.
Cheers Timmy,
Yeah, Clark will probably go but Benteke has convinced me he deserves a spot for GW1. I completely forgot about Bale' injury, but his icon is yellow now so will be changed. I just felt he was better for GW1 than RVP :)
And Lukaku is now a head scratcher. He was locked, but now that Nando doesn't look to be going to Ecuador it really complicates that pick. Do you think maybe Mata, Hazard, Chelsea defender instead?
Are you going for overall by any chance VSA?
Quote from: Luigi197 on August 14, 2013, 10:10:11 PM
Are you going for overall by any chance VSA?
Always ;)
Honestly, my aim is top 10,000.
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 14, 2013, 10:15:19 PM
Quote from: Luigi197 on August 14, 2013, 10:10:11 PM
Are you going for overall by any chance VSA?
Always ;)
Honestly, my aim is top 10,000.
I am going to try this aswell, probably have no chance considering first season of this ! What is your team like VSA?
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 14, 2013, 09:45:24 PM
Quote from: timmyparso on August 13, 2013, 02:14:48 PM
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 12, 2013, 10:07:04 PM
Okay,
After many, many changes take a look at let me know what you think.
This is a GW1 team only. I will be playing my wildcard at the end of GW1 in a cash grab to pad out my budget a bit.
GKP: Mignolet (Bunn)
Def: Collins, Cuellar, Clark (Baker, Whittaker)
Mid: Mata (C), Bale, Walcott, Hazard (VC) (Colback)
Fwd: Benteke, Lukaku, Anelka
The players on the bench are just there to make up the numbers in this case and not important for now. They will change dramatically after GW1
I'm not in favour of the early Wildcard use.
Villla's DGW is very tough so not convinced that even Benteke would be worth selecting. I'd also expect Lukaku to be sharing the striker role with Ba and even Torres so may only get 1 full game although he has had a good off season.
Bale is injured and unlikely to play even if he does stay at Tottenham.
Clark in defence is unlikely to give any benifit with the DGW against Cheslea and Arsenal, extremely unlikely for a clean sheet and may conceed too many goals for even 2 points per game.
I'm actually not going near Villa players for now, may look at Benteke or Baker when their draw softens up.
Cheers Timmy,
Yeah, Clark will probably go but Benteke has convinced me he deserves a spot for GW1. I completely forgot about Bale' injury, but his icon is yellow now so will be changed. I just felt he was better for GW1 than RVP :)
And Lukaku is now a head scratcher. He was locked, but now that Nando doesn't look to be going to Ecuador it really complicates that pick. Do you think maybe Mata, Hazard, Chelsea defender instead?
Looks like you already have Hazard and Mata so Chelsea defender against 2 weak opponent may be the way to go, Benteke is the only one likely to score on Chelsea, so you'd expect at least 1 clean sheet. I've got Ivanovic in my defence but Cole may be an option or even Oscar in mids.
You you know what is happening with Spain this week? aren't they playing a game which may take Mata away for one of the games? I noticed you have the big "C" on Mata, I'd put it on Hazard as he'd give you 2 full games.
TEAM 1
GK - Mignolet (Harper)
DEF - Ivanovic, Mertesacker, Bassong (Baker, Garrido)
MID - Bale, Hazard, Walcott, Snodgrass (Wanyama)
FWD - Anelka, Benteke, Lukaku
TEAM 2
GK - Mignolet (Harper)
DEF - Ivanovic, Mertesacker, Bassong (Baker, Garrido)
MID - Hazard, Mata, Walcott, Snodgrass (Wanyama)
FWD - Benteke, Soldado, Anelka
TEAM 3
GK - Mignolet (Harper)
DEF - Johnson, Mertesacker, Bassong (Whittaker, Baker)
MID - Hazard, Coutinho, Walcott, Snodgrass (Colback)
FWD - RVP, Lambert, Anelka
TEAM 4
GK - Mannone (Harper)
DEF - Ivanovic, Mertesacker, Garrido (Whittaker, Baker)
MID - Coutinho, Hazard, Walcott, Mirallas (Colback)
FWD - RVP, Lambert, Anelka
I note that Sessegnon is not in many teams, Sunderland have a good run of games early and he had a strong second half season last year.
Am I missing something, thought he'd be a good pick at 7M
Tominator, I like Team 2 best but not sold on Anelka but I have no sound reasoning to not like him.
Quote from: timmyparso on August 13, 2013, 02:04:14 PM
Quote from: T Dog on August 13, 2013, 01:04:06 PM
Hey Guys
T Dog going around again..any suggestions please
GKP: Mignolet (Vorm)
Def: Ivanovic, Shawcross, Mertesacker (Turner, Clyne)
Mid: Santi Corzola, Hazard , Valencia , Colback (Thomas)
Fwd: Dzeko, RVP, Anelka
I think Santi will have Spain dutys so will be in doubt for GW1, maybe replace with Walcott. I'm not sure on Dzeko's JS as Man City have made some big off season recruits so will be rotated heavily.
Thanks TP
I have settled on this team for week 1 now
GKP: Mignolet (Davis )
Def: Ivanovic, Evra, Mertesacker, Baker (Garrido)
Mid: Walcott, Hazard (C) , Michu , Fellaini (Colback)
Fwd: Soldado, Lambert (Anelka)
Fielding Baker over Anelka this week for his double game points...is this too risky?
Baker is up against Chelsea and Arsenal and may lose points conceeding goals, I don't expect a clean sheet either. Do you have a spare Mil to upgrade Baker to someone like Rat? Fellini to Mirallas will help. Apparently Mirallas will be playing out of position and play more forward than Fellini at Everton.
Thanks again TP.. :D
This is what I'm rolling with atm. I only have Crouch as had 6.0 left over so I picked the person who had the most points, and it was him, lol. Going with 3-52 at the moment but might go with 4-5-1 as my forwards aren't that strong. Thoughts?
(http://i44.tinypic.com/15y5he.jpg)
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 12, 2013, 06:51:23 PM
Quote from: eaglesman on August 11, 2013, 09:40:50 PM
alright lads, I gotta be honest I have no real idea what I am doing hahaha ... i put about 25 minutes of work into this googled a site to help me and this is what I have come up with ... Have a new mate who is english and told him I am ranked 12th in afle supercoach and he said mate u have to get involved in FPL .... here is my first ever attempt at this... what are your thoughts
Oh btw I support Chelsea :)
Mignolet (Boruc)
Baines Zabaleta Koscielny (hudson shaw)
Hazard Walcott Mirallas Snodgrass (Gunnarsson)
Lambert Lukaku Bony
This could be absolute rubbish and I wouldnt know the difference so any help would be great
... any must haves please let me know and any bargain based players that I havent got please help me out :) gotta beat these blokes haha
Welcome to FPL Eaglesman,
First up congrats on a top SC season! Looks like scores are closing up again at the top with the end nigh. I too hope to be stressing at the pointy end one day :D
I would be inclined to look at finding some better value for money defenders and pumping some $$ forward to get RVP, or Bale that you can captain each week just for some piece of mind. Unless you are captaining one of the Chelsea players GW1; in which case you can plan to bring either of RVP/Bale in at the end of GW1 as part of your plan to get those players out of your team
Formation is good, and all picks are FPL relevant. Boruc / Mignolet is an excellent GKP combination. With double GW1 matches for Villa and Chelsea I would be thinking about Mata and Benteke as well. Great options to have in your team, but you will have to get them out for GW3.
The biggest difference you will find between SC FPL is the pricing mechanisms. FPL is dynamic in the sense that prices can change every day. Prices are based on net trades for the week.
Here is the best run-through of price changes I have found. It will give you a little insight.
http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/making-millions-in-the-fantasy-premier-league-game/
Trade timing can make a real difference to your year, and while it may be counterintuitive to SC you are better off in most cases trading earlier in the week. You run a risk that a player doesn't front on Saturday but can also be a .2-.5 difference in your cashflow if you make the trade early.
Bargain basement player?? - Anelka is one I dismissed a few weeks back based on his record last year in the Chinese Super League, however, he is getting harder and harder to ignore based on pre-season form.
Thanks so much for the reply
My team as of now is
Mignolet
Ivanovic Baines Zabaleta
Hazard Coutinho Snodgrass Mirallas
Soldado Anelka Benteke
(boruc hudson Britton shaw)
thoughts???
Ok so I am just trying to make sure I am understanding this right .. I roll with this team to start game week one and unless there is an injury I roll with it game week 2 ??? meaning i save my free transfer? ... then in gameweek 3 i look to transfer ivanovic to say mertesacker and benteke/hazard to someone? ... what would be the strategy here?
just read about these wildcards .. wouldnt it make sense to load up on chelsea and villa players? and then just wildcard the hell out of them? or is it better to save the wildcard for later?
My SC theory is to maximise points asap dont worry about all this saving trades business, points in the bag early seems to work i think
Played for the first time last year and came about 50th in Australia and about 3-4000th in the world although I think it was a bit of a fluke :P
Current team is:
Mignolet
Mertesacker, Ivanovic, Coleman
Coutinho, Hazard, Mirallas, Nolan
Anelka, Van Persie, Altidore
(Mannone, Routledge, Whittaker, Baker)
To be honest I don't like how weak the rest of my team becomes when having Van Persie and I'm not sold whether Van Persie will be worth the 14m whilst playing in a potentially struggling Man Utd but having either him or Bale seems necessary and Bale is in doubt for GW1 apparently.
Not sure on going for Coutinho who has been ripping up pre-season and the end of last year or one of Oscar and Schurrle on double gameweek. I reckon Schurrle will do well under Mourinho.
Also, are there any other leagues I should know about apart from the ones in the first post of the thread?
Man Utd won't struggle lol.
Quote from: lolrocket on August 15, 2013, 08:19:54 PM
To be honest I don't like how weak the rest of my team becomes when having Van Persie and I'm not sold whether Van Persie will be worth the 14m whilst playing in a potentially struggling Man Utd but having either him or Bale seems necessary and Bale is in doubt for GW1 apparently.
I don't think either are must haves. Both could go big again, but you get a much more balanced side if you don't pick either of them. I'd rather have the possibility to score decent every week than hope Van Perise scores every week, which he will basically have to do to justify his massive price.
Quote from: Chelskiman on August 15, 2013, 09:25:37 PMI don't think either are must haves. Both could go big again, but you get a much more balanced side if you don't pick either of them. I'd rather have the possibility to score decent every week than hope Van Perise scores every week, which he will basically have to do to justify his massive price.
You've helped to convince me that Soldado, Benteke and Lukaku are a much better forward line
Quote from: lolrocket on August 15, 2013, 09:56:22 PM
Quote from: Chelskiman on August 15, 2013, 09:25:37 PMI don't think either are must haves. Both could go big again, but you get a much more balanced side if you don't pick either of them. I'd rather have the possibility to score decent every week than hope Van Perise scores every week, which he will basically have to do to justify his massive price.
You've helped to convince me that Soldado, Benteke and Lukaku are a much better forward line
Yep, and that's a much better forward line then Van Perise, Anelka and Altidore. You could even downgrade Lukaku to a someone like Lambert, or even keep one of Altidore or Anelka, and use the extra cash to really strengthen your team (that's if you're not planning on using three strikers).
Quote from: Chelskiman on August 15, 2013, 10:14:21 PM
Quote from: lolrocket on August 15, 2013, 09:56:22 PM
Quote from: Chelskiman on August 15, 2013, 09:25:37 PMI don't think either are must haves. Both could go big again, but you get a much more balanced side if you don't pick either of them. I'd rather have the possibility to score decent every week than hope Van Perise scores every week, which he will basically have to do to justify his massive price.
You've helped to convince me that Soldado, Benteke and Lukaku are a much better forward line
Yep, and that's a much better forward line then Van Perise, Anelka and Altidore. You could even downgrade Lukaku to a someone like Lambert, or even keep one of Altidore or Anelka, and use the extra cash to really strengthen your team (that's if you're not planning on using three strikers).
i just got van persie in :/ ... fiddling with my defense ... currently have mertesacker distin williams (hudson clyne) rate defense?
Hooper @ 6.5 screams bargain to me.
Thoughts?
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 14, 2013, 02:09:17 PM
Looking like this is the team ill take into GW1
Mignolet (Harper)
Ivanovic, Coleman, Demel (Amorebieta, Toure)
Hazard, Mata, Mirallas, Ben Arfa (Koren)
Saldado, Bony, Vydra (when he is added to the game)
Goalies: Pretty stock standard here. Mignolet will be in most starting teams. Jaask is the only other one that Im considering due to the soft draw after GW1
Defence: Ivanovic is there purely for the DGW, going straight to Mertestacker after GW1. Coleman is playing OOP on a wing and attacking so hopefully he nets a few. Demel has a knack of finding the back too. Toure and Amorebieta are both just cover.
Midfield: Hazard and Mata are in for the DGW, not sure about after that but tbh theres not many proven high-scoring midfielders this year. Im waiting for the likes of Paulinho, Walcott etc to prove themselves before I jump on. Mirallas is one of the most exciting players in the game and just edged out my favourite EPL player Pienaar. Ben Arfa is my balls-of-steel risk. His draw after GW1 is incredibly soft and I think he has the potenial to go absolutely bang. Koren is Hull's spotkicker. So he is good bench cover.
Forwards: Soldado is a deadset lock, no questions asked. Still have concerns on Bony and how he and Michu are going to relate. Vydra is my POD and I think he will take Lukaku's role and score very well. He scored at more than a goal every 2 games last season and was the Championship player of the Year.
In the first GW I am planning a 4-3-3 formation with Toure joining the field for Ben Arfa, both should swap places in GW2.
*= I need Vydra to come in at 6.5mil or less.
Thoughts?
Ill get around to reviewing a few teams soon too.
Cheers.
Hey Koop,
Mignolet is obviously a lock, but Hull will run with McGregor as their first choice Gkp. It doesn't look like there will be a Gkp at 4.0 as first choice this year, so hopefully you have .5 somewhere to sink into that position for a Mannone/Boruc type.
Ivanovic is obviously a good choice. Scores well, and works with a defence that SHOULD keep at least one clean sheet for the DGW. I also like the move to Mertesacker. I had him for a lot of last year and he served me well. Not prolific, but seemed to provide points when I needed them. Demel and Coleman are both good choices, but I would rather have seen them at 4.5. 5.0 is one step away from requiring them to be a regular contributor to your score. You will need to be confident that both Everton and West Ham are going to improve on last years performance as a unit.
Hazard and Mata are clearly locks for GW1. For me the only choice after these two for the DGW becomes Chelsea Fwd vs. Chelsea Def. Mirallas is a really good unique choice as long as he is playing 90 minutes week in and week out. Are you a Everton fan out of interest? Seems you know something there ;) As for Ben Arfa back him in and go for it. If he's going to score heavy it will be early on.
Bony I am quite the advocate for; as I mentioned quite a while ago the Dutch seem to take to the English game well. Look at the list that have come and taken the EPL by storm. Soldado is obviously a gun, but because your backing in Ben Arfa I suggest looking for a proven EPL striker first, just as an insurance policy. The razors edge here is that he has C Palace first up and if he has no issues adapting he is just as likely to carve them up. Vydra is still a no-show in the game by the looks.
Quote from: elephants on August 15, 2013, 10:23:15 PM
Hooper @ 6.5 screams bargain to me.
Thoughts?
If he is over his injury scare then yes, should be good value. Apparently he is 'in contention' to play against Everton.
Quote from: elephants on August 15, 2013, 10:23:15 PM
Hooper @ 6.5 screams bargain to me.
Thoughts?
Norwich are real smokies this year with Van Wolfswinkel up front as well. Hooper could be this year's Lambert.
my team now
cech (marshall)
baines mertesacker coleman (collins ramage)
Hazard(C) Coutinho Walcott Mirallas(britton)
Anelka Soldado Dzeko(VC)
what are everyones thought on my very likely team for game week one :)
Vydra priced at 5.5, he's going straight into my team, even with Anelka also on my bench.
Quote from: Chelskiman on August 16, 2013, 12:11:49 AM
Vydra priced at 5.5, he's going straight into my team, even with Anelka also on my bench.
You better hope Long doesn't score all of West Brom's goals then
Anelka and Vydra are both 5.5
Should I get one or both? Which one is better for FPL?
Could do:
RVP - Vydra - Anelka
OR
Soldado - Benteke - Vydra/Anelka
He's only going to be back up anyway. I had another play around just now and came up with this. I think it has some nice balance to it.
(http://i42.tinypic.com/x6h65w.jpg)
GK: Mignolet
DEF: Evans, Koscielny, Williams
MID: Hazard, Mata, Koren, Tonev
FWD: Giroud, RVP, Soldado
Gareth Bale confirmed out of first 3 weeks.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/15/gareth-bale-tottenham-crystal-palace
Quote from: timmyparso on August 15, 2013, 12:48:12 PM
I note that Sessegnon is not in many teams, Sunderland have a good run of games early and he had a strong second half season last year.
Am I missing something, thought he'd be a good pick at 7M
Had him originally, swapped him for my man Jedinak. 8)
Okay, so I've had another play around with my team this morning.
It now looks like:
Mignolet (Mannone)
Luiz, Garrido, Baines (Reid, Riether)
Jedinak, Michu, Sessegnon, Mata (Wanyama)
Wolf, Soldado, Deulofeu
Thoughts?
TEAM FOR GW1
GK - Mignolet (LIV)
DEF - Mertesacker (ARS), Ivanovic (CHE), Garrido (NOR)
MID - Hazard (CHE), Paulinho (TOT), Coutinho (LIV), Mirallas (EVE)
ATT - Soldado (TOT), Benteke (AVL), Lukaku (CHE)
BENCH - Harper (HUL), Snodgrass (NOR), Whittaker (NOR), Baker (AVL)
Cash left 0.0
Thoughts?
De Guzan (Mignolet)
Mertersacker, Johnson, Ivanovic, Luiz (O'Brien)
Sessengon, Arteta, Hazard (c), Morrison (Snodgrass)
Benteke, Sturridge (Vydra)
$100.0mil
There is no-one called De Guzan (Its DeGuzman or Guzan haha) and Arteta is missing the first 6 weeks with a thigh injury ;)
Hey guys I only just stumbled across this part of the forum.
I'm a super enthusiastic Fantasy Premier League player and this season I'm running a cool competition using your FPL scores called the Fantasy Phantoms Premier League
We are still looking for more players in this comp so I thought I'd post here and see if anyone was keen.
Instructions and details for the competition are here: http://fantasyphantoms.com/fantasy-phantoms-epl/
Basically all you have to do is join the league and nominate which team you'd like to represent.
I reckon this is what I will take into the first week. :)
Mignolet (Davis)
Mertesacker Ivanovic Baines (Baker Garrido)
Hazard Nolan Coutinho Wanyama (Colback)
Benteke Soldado Lukaku
Any thoughts ?
Chelsea taken there Memph :'(
Quote from: elephants on August 16, 2013, 06:21:13 PM
Chelsea taken there Memph :'(
Sorry mate but you are welcome to represent someone else. Maybe have a good at guiding one of the lesser teams to the FPL title - Hull/Cardiff.
Size of your club don't matter in this one it's the skill of the FPL player (and their team-mate).
Quote from: Memphistopheles on August 16, 2013, 06:28:25 PM
Quote from: elephants on August 16, 2013, 06:21:13 PM
Chelsea taken there Memph :'(
Sorry mate but you are welcome to represent someone else. Maybe have a good at guiding one of the lesser teams to the FPL title - Hull/Cardiff.
Size of your club don't matter in this one it's the skill of the FPL player (and their team-mate).
Haha yeah of course, I'll have a better look tomorrow champ 8)
VSA we need your analysis!! hahaha
I am going to use my wildcard after week 1.
Ill start with
Jaaskelainen.
Baker Zabletta Garrido
Hazard Nolan Oscar Silva
RVP Dzeko Lukaku
I will change my team and have no Chelsea or Villa after GW1
Thanks for advice lads
Guys, can someone tell me what is a
Solid score / Like a supercoach 100
Crappy score
Woeful score
Brilliant score
Crappy score is 2 (what you get for playing a match) or less.
5 or 6, which is 2 for playing + either a clean sheet, assist, goal is reasonable.
getting double figures is pretty brilliant.
averaging 55-60 for the season would give you a very good ranking. :)
getting double figures in FPL is like topping 140 in DT - doesn't happen THAT often but generally happens at least once or twice a week
The amount someone can score varies a lot more than DT. A normal game where a player does nothing much they will get 2 and the average of the better players would be about 5-6. I think Cazorla got nearly 30 one game last year though :P
And to the person planning on using their Wildcard after the first week I would really recommend that you don't do this. It's best to use it about week 5-10 when you have a fairly good idea of who will be good where. After the first week you only have 1 game for most people to decide whether they are going to be one of the best players for the year and it isn't worth it to make only 2-3 changes. It's not such a bad thing to take the 4 or 8 point hit from making extra transfers if you have to. Better than using your wildcard straight away.
I have doubts about picking Baker. I know he is only a back-up but you might as well pick someone who is going to play and I doubt Baker will be in Villa's team that often. He would be behind Vlaar, Clark and Okore in the pecking order. Whittaker is much better and there are quite a few players in the newbies at 4m who will be getting gametime every week.
50-70 seems the general.
I've never cracked 100 before. Best I've ever done is an 87 which I got on the opening day of the 2006/2007 season. It was all down hill from there though, haha.
I remember getting over 100. I had Arshavin (c) vs Liverpool, Drogba, Rooney and Ronaldo.
Hey guys, this is worth a read. This guy finished 2nd overall last year and he reveals this years team!
http://www.fantasyfootballcheat.co.uk/2013/08/15/gameweek-1-last-seasons-fpl-world-number-2-reveals-his-gameweek-1-team/
Hey so I finally got around to making a team. What do you think? A few selection surprises I'm sure...
Mignolet (Jones)
Coleman, Mertesacker, Baker (Garrido, McNaughton)
Hazard, Coutinho, Paulinho, Johnson, Bellamy
Van Persie, Soldado (Graham)
Happy EPL/FPL season opening day! ;D
YNWA!!
Quote from: Jackross10 on August 16, 2013, 11:09:38 PM
Guys, can someone tell me what is a
Solid score / Like a supercoach 100
Crappy score
Woeful score
Brilliant score
1. An average of about 70 points per week is what you need to take it out. Anything above 55 is good.
2. Below 50 as a general rule, but some weeks 40-45 can be a good score. Anything below 40 will usually cause you problems.
3. Below 30.
4. 85+
Finally making a team now haha
Join this league!
its H2H the othr one was full
2335812-480148
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 12, 2013, 11:28:36 AM
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 24, 2013, 10:40:53 PM
Official FPL FF Leagues
Okay Guys and Gals,
Two Leaues created and the League codes. I have limited the Head to Head League to 38 at this point. If we get those numbers then everyone plays each other once. If more show up to join we can make a call to either increase the size of this League to unlimited in which case not everyone will play each other, or create a Second Division; maybe with a view to some promotion/relegation next year?
FanFooty El CLassico (CLassic League) - League Code: 61032-114725
FFH2H (Head to Head League) - League Code: 61032-114769
Spread the word!
Hi Everyone,
Apologies for the absence.. I've been working on the vestiges that is my SC team ::)
Anyway, just bumping this to the front (back?) of the thread. We are up to 31 contenders in each of the leagues now.
Note - H2H League For whatever unknown reason the limit of teams that can be entered into H2H League is 38. Firstly it means that everyone will play ONE other team twice. Not sure who at FPL didn't do the math, but that's the situation. Secondly, it is close to full so......
I will keep tabs on it as the week progresses and create a second 'FF H2H 'Championship' League for latecomers when the need arises if required.
So please share to those who would want to be in the main League as spots are drying up, and the more competition we have the better.
With regard to a possible promotion / relegation scenario between the two Leagues, I am thinking we have 6 up and 6 down due to the number of teams,..... OR next year we do FPL' work for them and split the top League into two divisons based on final standings with 20 teams in each so everyone plays the other teams twice.
Does anyone else have any thoughts on the best way forward?
Bumped!
The FF H2H Premiership League now has a full compliment of 38. Thanks everyone for joining! It's going to be a great season :)
If there are latecomers wanting to join a H2H league, I have created a new League; details below.
FF H2H League Championship - League Code 61032 - 480232
Could someone who is willing to administer the league (There isn't actually any work to do) could let me know when they have joined. I will change the administrator over to the willing person and get you to 'ban' me from the league. It's the only way I can be removed unfortunately so I'm not playing in both leagues.
Don't forget FF El Classico has unlimited teams, so you can continue to join this one.
Cheers guys and good luck!
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 17, 2013, 01:53:20 PM
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 12, 2013, 11:28:36 AM
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on July 24, 2013, 10:40:53 PM
Official FPL FF Leagues
Okay Guys and Gals,
Two Leaues created and the League codes. I have limited the Head to Head League to 38 at this point. If we get those numbers then everyone plays each other once. If more show up to join we can make a call to either increase the size of this League to unlimited in which case not everyone will play each other, or create a Second Division; maybe with a view to some promotion/relegation next year?
FanFooty El CLassico (CLassic League) - League Code: 61032-114725
FFH2H (Head to Head League) - League Code: 61032-114769
Spread the word!
Hi Everyone,
Apologies for the absence.. I've been working on the vestiges that is my SC team ::)
Anyway, just bumping this to the front (back?) of the thread. We are up to 31 contenders in each of the leagues now.
Note - H2H League For whatever unknown reason the limit of teams that can be entered into H2H League is 38. Firstly it means that everyone will play ONE other team twice. Not sure who at FPL didn't do the math, but that's the situation. Secondly, it is close to full so......
I will keep tabs on it as the week progresses and create a second 'FF H2H 'Championship' League for latecomers when the need arises if required.
So please share to those who would want to be in the main League as spots are drying up, and the more competition we have the better.
With regard to a possible promotion / relegation scenario between the two Leagues, I am thinking we have 6 up and 6 down due to the number of teams,..... OR next year we do FPL' work for them and split the top League into two divisons based on final standings with 20 teams in each so everyone plays the other teams twice.
Does anyone else have any thoughts on the best way forward?
Bumped!
The FF H2H Premiership League now has a full compliment of 38. Thanks everyone for joining! It's going to be a great season :)
If there are latecomers wanting to join a H2H league, I have created a new League; details below.
FF H2H League Championship - League Code 61032 - 480232
Could someone who is willing to administer the league (There isn't actually any work to do) could let me know when they have joined. I will change the administrator over to the willing person and get you to 'ban' me from the league. It's the only way I can be removed unfortunately so I'm not playing in both leagues.
Don't forget FF El Classico has unlimited teams, so you can continue to join this one.
Cheers guys and good luck!
didnt work mate
just get peeps to join mine and people can double upi dont mind need people in my league haha
No worries Hawka,
Can you change the name on yours to FF H2H League Championship'.
I have OCD :o lol
I'll delete the one I created.
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 17, 2013, 02:03:09 PM
No worries Hawka,
Can you change the name on yours to FF H2H League Championship'.
I have OCD :o lol
I'll delete the one I created.
done mate
Okee dokee.
I now have to go and get ready for a wedding, so this is my last and final attempt..... really... it is!
It will be pretty much locked from hereon-in.
Gkp: Mignolet (Davis)
Def: Ivanovic, Mertesacker, Reid W (Jenkinson, Baker)
Mid: Hazard (C), Mata (VC), Ya Ya, Coutinho (Ramsey)
Fwd: Benteke, Dzeko, Anelka
Subs are in order Ramsey, Jenkinson, Baker
Anyway of seeing live scores ?
anyone got any sportal fantasy EPL codes? much much better format than the standard EPL one, basically identicle to supercoach
joined all the EPL leagues, cant wait for 9.45pm!
Quote from: Jackross10 on August 17, 2013, 05:39:51 PM
Anyway of seeing live scores ?
The scores are live on your actual team.
Just so everyone knows we have until 8:30 EST to adjust teams.
Lukaku is giving me a headache :P
Quote from: antonc on August 13, 2013, 01:33:36 PM
Have made a Sportal league
FF EPL League
invite code: 300871
Anyone interested?
9 spots left anyone else interested?
^
Join the Sportal League, guys!
New team
GK: Begovic
DEF: Terry, Coleman, Koscielny
MID: Miralles, Sessegnon, Hazard, Tonev
FWD: Soldaldo, Giroud, RVP
AND WE ARE OFF YNWA
So, on 26 with Mata, Hazard, Soldado and Cech to come. I think. Should be interesting.
31 points (+ expecting 8 bonus - 3 Mignolet, 3 Benteke, 1-2 Reid)
With Ivanovic x2, Hazard x4, Mata x2, Yaya, Dzeko and Benteke to come. :)
You think Benteke will get 3 bonus? Don't think he was MotM.
On 33 with Soldaldo, Hazard(c), Terry. Tonev didn't play :(
Quote from: Andrew3737 on August 18, 2013, 04:38:33 AM
You think Benteke will get 3 bonus? Don't think he was MotM.
On 33 with Soldaldo, Hazard(c), Terry. Tonev didn't play :(
He should do. He got the highest BPS for the game. (Not sure how it works exactly as its a new system, but he's got the highest)
49 with Hazard (C), Soldado, Paulinho, and Baker to play :)
flowering koiscielny.. also begovic should've got the 2 bonus for that performance.
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 18, 2013, 04:15:48 AM
31 points (+ expecting 8 bonus - 3 Mignolet, 3 Benteke, 1-2 Reid)
With Ivanovic x2, Hazard x4, Mata x2, Yaya, Dzeko and Benteke to come. :)
Does you vc get double and captain 4x?
Chelsea play twice.
Oh yes sorry !
66 with Benteke, Hazard x4, Ivanovic x2, and Soldado to come.
37 with Hazard x4, Lukaku x2, Ivanovic x2, Zabaleta and Soldado.
44 with Hazard x4, Lukaku x2, Ivanovic x2 and Soldado.
27... :-[
Mignolet 15 (Mannone 0)
Luiz*, Garrido 1, Baines 1 (Riether 6, Reid 7 ::))
Jedinak*, Michu 2, Sessegnon 2, Mata* (C) (Wanyama 3)
Soldado* (V), Wolf 6, Deulofeu 0
Deulofeu's going out and I'm reverting to 4-4-2 I think...
So 27 with Luiz x2, Jedinak, Mata x4 and Soldado.
I'm stuffed unless Jedinak gets like 10. :(
Bit of a mixed start for me as Snodgrass and Kagawa didn't play, and my two Arsenal lads combined for 2 points. On the flip side, Mig got 15, Coleman got 13 and Nolan got 11. I still have Hazard (C), A. Cole, Yaya Toure and Soldado to come.
On a side note, I'm playing 3-5-2, so because Kagawa and Snodgrass didn't play will Vydra and Garrido come in to make my formation a 3-4-3?
I quit already haha
Coleman from Everton, is my EM 3. Scored 13 points... Even with Cuellar not playing, he won't come onto my field because i have Garrido as EM1 and he scored 1 point. :( 12 points lost.
So with that i'm 25 off 6 players. And 10 to play (8 from Chelsea)
On 45..with Hazard as Capt, and Soldado to come. Best Mig, Lovren 9 and Lambert 7.
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 18, 2013, 10:00:36 AM
66 with Benteke, Hazard x4, Ivanovic x2, and Soldado to come.
That's a great start Koop!
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 18, 2013, 10:00:36 AM
66 with Benteke, Hazard x4, Ivanovic x2, and Soldado to come.
massive
had Whittaker on the bench :(
Mignolet and Benteke were great choices, very happy with them
53 with captain hazard and ivanovic for a double and soldado to play. Mignolet, colman and nolan cracking double figures.
Quote from: Andrew3737 on August 18, 2013, 07:20:32 PM
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 18, 2013, 10:00:36 AM
66 with Benteke, Hazard x4, Ivanovic x2, and Soldado to come.
massive
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 18, 2013, 03:39:39 PM
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 18, 2013, 10:00:36 AM
66 with Benteke, Hazard x4, Ivanovic x2, and Soldado to come.
That's a great start Koop!
haha cheers guys, Lambert, Nolan, Benteke, Mignolet and Coleman were all very good picks. 8)
Quote from: elephants on August 08, 2013, 10:42:06 PM
Quote from: CrowsFan on August 08, 2013, 09:00:12 PM
Quote from: elephants on August 08, 2013, 08:49:38 PM
Quote from: Andy3737 on August 08, 2013, 07:52:56 PM
I thing you are over rating pre season big time. Tom cleverley played for a united pre season game vs balencia about 4/5 years ago.he onlybroke out last year. Milan lalkovic played a pre season game for chelsea 3 years ago, hasnt started a game since.
Clearly I disagree and those two cases are completely different to this one. Cleverly/Lalkovic were simply making up numbers and getting some rotation through them. KdB is a legit shot at GW1. He came on at HT for Oscar this morning vs Real Madrid and was wayyyyy better.
If KdB doesn't start vs Hull I'll slit my nutsack.
You know I don\'t usually want to see others harmed, but I'm really hoping KdB doesn't start now! :P
Hahaha big risk but one I'm willing to take haha ;)
Bugger :(
:P
How is this score guys? First timer don't think it's great..
52 with Dzeko, Hazard x2, Terry,
Why did David Luiz not play? Whatever he's done I hope he's out for the next match too so i get Coleman's 13 :P
45 with Hazard x2, Ivanovic, Luiz/13, Dzeko.
7th is ok I guess.
Very happy with the FanFooty El Classico table at the moment ;D
I don't think I'll last long at the top for long though
Quote from: PowerBug on August 19, 2013, 08:27:37 AM
Why did David Luiz not play? Whatever he's done I hope he's out for the next match too so i get Coleman's 13 :P
45 with Hazard x2, Ivanovic, Luiz/13, Dzeko.
:( If he doesn't play, I get Riether's 6, He's my first sub while Reid who got 7 is my 3rd. :(
37 with Mata and Luiz to play again (I don't even know if they will...)
I give up already.
If I trade Lukaku to Lambert....
is it better to trade Garrido (4.5), or Baker (4.0), or even Mertesacker (5.5) to Luke Shaw (4.5)?
Considering playing the Wildcard but not sure yet... think I'll do it after next week
When is the best time to use the wildcard?
87 with Benteke, Hazard (c) and Ivanovic to come. FPL has yet to add Colemans 13 from the bench as Rat didnt play. So FPL only has me on 74.
My score (87) means Im currently 16th in Aus and in the top 700 overall. Think Im getting a nosebleed.......
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 19, 2013, 11:44:23 AM
87 with Benteke, Hazard (c) and Ivanovic to come. FPL has yet to add Colemans 13 from the bench as Rat didnt play. So FPL only has me on 74.
My score (87) means Im currently 16th in Aus and in the top 700 overall. Think Im getting a nosebleed.......
Do you know why Rat didn't play? I had his too
Quote from: timmyparso on August 19, 2013, 12:35:14 PM
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 19, 2013, 11:44:23 AM
87 with Benteke, Hazard (c) and Ivanovic to come. FPL has yet to add Colemans 13 from the bench as Rat didnt play. So FPL only has me on 74.
My score (87) means Im currently 16th in Aus and in the top 700 overall. Think Im getting a nosebleed.......
Do you know why Rat didn't play? I had his too
He probably doesn't care about Rat at the moment TP ;D
David Luiz has a hammy injury and as had all pre-season!? Where were you people? haha
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 19, 2013, 01:42:59 PM
Quote from: timmyparso on August 19, 2013, 12:35:14 PM
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 19, 2013, 11:44:23 AM
87 with Benteke, Hazard (c) and Ivanovic to come. FPL has yet to add Colemans 13 from the bench as Rat didnt play. So FPL only has me on 74.
My score (87) means Im currently 16th in Aus and in the top 700 overall. Think Im getting a nosebleed.......
Do you know why Rat didn't play? I had his too
He probably doesn't care about Rat at the moment TP ;D
haha nope ;D
Quote from: elephants on August 19, 2013, 01:52:36 PM
David Luiz has a hammy injury and as had all pre-season!? Where were you people? haha
Worrying about my AFL fantasy side. :P :-[
Quote from: NigeyS on August 19, 2013, 02:05:08 PM
Quote from: elephants on August 19, 2013, 01:52:36 PM
David Luiz has a hammy injury and as had all pre-season!? Where were you people? haha
Worrying about my AFL fantasy side. :P :-[
Well my Chelsea supporting friend at school told me to get him, so i did >:( So does this mean he won't play the next game? ;D (btw he got him too so wasn't a prank either)
Gotta love that Yaya Toure magic! Seriously, he's been a starter for me in each of the last three seasons. The guy is a full on machine, and he has the uncanny ability to pick up a fair amount of bonus points. He reminds me so much of Patrick Vieira and even though I hated him and Arsenal, he was still a very classy player.
Vieira was a cow though.
You can be a cow and a good player.
Quote from: Andrew3737 on August 20, 2013, 12:25:14 PM
Vieira was a cow though.
Yeah, he was a prick. I was watching all the season reviews last week before the EPL started, and I forgot how much he bossed Arsenal's unbeaten streak. The guy was unreal in terms of his ability.
I hated him so much though, especially because Chelsea went through that stage that no matter what we did we just couldn't beat Arsenal. That Kanu hattrick still gives me nightmares. :(
Whenever Arsenal make me sad, I watch this to make me happy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9DhnG37mrc
There a like a million videos but this was the best quality. Lost the commentary/crowd noise which adds so much but oh well.
I remember watching that game live. I let out the biggest "WOAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" of all time, haha. He hit it so sweetly, and he knew it because he was already running off to celebrate before the ball had even hit the back of the net.
I love this too. I missed the bus for school that morning to watch it, but obviously I didn't care, haha.
http://vimeo.com/28660720
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L68E2lQa_X0
with some sort of commentary
In my opinion his goal agianst Barca was better, even though I want to forget that game forever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRlfBMY1ANI
Getting Luke Shaw - who is better to chop? Mertesacker or Garrido?
Do most people trade each week? Or save them?
Quote from: Jackross10 on August 20, 2013, 06:09:22 PM
Do most people trade each week? Or save them?
You get 1 "free transfer" every week. After that you lose four points per extra transfer.
The most amount of FTs you can get a week is two, and you only get that if you don't make any trades the week before.
So if I made no transfers this week, I'd get two FTs next week. If I didn't make any trades next week either, I'd still only get 2 for GW 3. Any transfers after that would cost me 4 points per transfer (unless you use your wildcard)
Hope that clears it up
And depends on how good or bad your team is and how many transfers you need to make
Quote from: Tominator on August 20, 2013, 05:49:54 PM
Getting Luke Shaw - who is better to chop? Mertesacker or Garrido?
Garrido
Well done Koops!! Scored 114!! I only managed 94
Got the average, 50. :(
Quote from: timmyparso on August 22, 2013, 09:22:45 AM
Well done Koops!! Scored 114!! I only managed 94
Cheers man! If I had captained Benteke over Hazard Id be winning the whole thing. :( But still cant complain whatsoever. ;D
Got this off FPL Addicts, thought I'd start it here too haha
Score:
Lords:
Losers:
Captain:
Trades this week:
Vent/Brag/Whatever:
Other Comments:
Score: 114
Lords: Benteke, Ivanovic, Soldado, Mignolet, Nolan, Coleman, Lambert
Losers: Mirallas, Coutinho
Captain: Hazard >:(
Trades this week: Amorebieta to Shaw
Vent/Brag/Whatever: Doind pretty well ;D
Other Comments:
Score:
85
Lords:
Mignolet (15), Ivanovic (15), BENTEKE (18), Soldado (9)
Losers:
Garrido (1), Mertesacker (1), LUKAKU(2)
Captain:
Hazard (8)
Trades this week:
Mertesacker ----> Luke Shaw
Want to drop Lukaku but not sure if its worth the -4 points
Vent/Brag/Whatever:
Mids were very disappointing - Mirallas, Paulinho and Coutinho failing to score or assist. Hazard's assist in the Villa game was a welcome boost. And Lukaku is giant pain in the arse ::)
Other Comments:
Good start, in top 4 of all my leagues but having Whittaker get 11 on my bench sucked a lot!
Had Ivanovic captain and Hazard vice but swapped just before lockout :(
Score: 70
Lords: Lovren, Soldado, Hazard
Losers: Caulker, Mertesacker, Giaccherini
Captain: Hazard
Trades this week: Wait for a double free trade next week.
Vent/Brag/Whatever: No idea what I am doing
Other Comments: Comfortably sitting at 33rd in the FF El Classico league, ready to pounce on the leaders.
Score: 76
Lords: RVP, Coleman, Hazard
Losers: Koiscielny, Tonev, Miralles
Captain: Hazard
Trades this week: Koiscielny > Shaw, Miralles > Silva
Vent/Brag/Whatever: Ghey, still got 76 with a -2 and a non starter.
Other Comments:
Score: 94
Lords: Mignolet, Ivanovic, Coleman, Nolan, Giroud, Soldado
Losers: Walcott, Garrido, Mirallas, Sessegnon
Captain: Hazard
Trades this week: Amorebieta to Whittiker, Mirallas to Barkley (taking 4 point hit to catch price rises)
Vent/Brag/Whatever: Happy with 3 players making Dreamteam and this is my highest score in EPL
Other Comments: Now back to AFL Dreamteam Prelim Finals
Score- 94
Lords- Mingolet Ivanovic Nolan
Losers- Mertesacker and Lukaku
Captain- Hazard, wish I went Benteke.
Trades this week- Not sure who to trade.
Vent- Happy for a first time!
Comments-
Who should I trade? Mertesacker > Shaw or Lukaku > ???
Using my wildcard right before GW3 by the way.
Cheers ;)
Yep, i hate H2H. Nigey scores a mediocre 50 and wins his match, I score 82 and lose. "Get Chamakhed" scored 90 and lost! Not happy. :P Really want to use the wildcard this week, undecided whether to hold off yet or not. If i don't use it this week i definitely will next.
Quote from: PowerBug on August 22, 2013, 08:16:21 PM
Yep, i hate H2H. Nigey scores a mediocre 50 and wins his match, I score 82 and lose. "Get Chamakhed" scored 90 and lost! Not happy. :P Really want to use the wildcard this week, undecided whether to hold off yet or not. If i don't use it this week i definitely will next.
Get Chamakhed obviously played a quality opponent ;D
How I won with 50 is beyond me haha. :-X :o
Second worst (iirc) score of the round in the league. Lady Luck, I owe you.
Who would you bring in, Coleman or Shaw? :)
Quote from: timmyparso on August 22, 2013, 08:35:05 PM
Quote from: PowerBug on August 22, 2013, 08:16:21 PM
Yep, i hate H2H. Nigey scores a mediocre 50 and wins his match, I score 82 and lose. "Get Chamakhed" scored 90 and lost! Not happy. :P Really want to use the wildcard this week, undecided whether to hold off yet or not. If i don't use it this week i definitely will next.
Get Chamakhed obviously played a quality opponent ;D
4 measly points... :P
Quote from: vinny on August 22, 2013, 10:37:48 PM
Who would you bring in, Coleman or Shaw? :)
I went for Shaw because I know more about him (and he is cheaper), but if you want Coleman then go for him
Quote from: vinny on August 22, 2013, 06:02:05 PM
Score- 94
Lords- Mingolet Ivanovic Nolan
Losers- Mertesacker and Lukaku
Captain- Hazard, wish I went Benteke.
Trades this week- Not sure who to trade.
Vent- Happy for a first time!
Comments-
Who should I trade? Mertesacker > Shaw or Lukaku > ???
Using my wildcard right before GW3 by the way.
Cheers ;)
I've gone Mertesacker to Shaw, but I wanna drop Lukaku too. Will chop him as soon as the next lockout comes
Thanks Tommy! :)
Soldado scored 2 for Tottenham in their 5-0 Europa League qualifier and Bony scored 1 for Swansea in their 5-1 Europa League qualifier for those who care. 8)
Quote from: NigeyS on August 23, 2013, 10:15:39 AM
Soldado scored 2 for Tottenham in their 5-0 Europa League qualifier and Bony scored 1 for Swansea in their 5-1 Europa League qualifier for those who care. 8)
Thanks Nige..have them both on field.. :-\
Scott Sinclair ha signed for West Brom. Fantasy relevant again?
Anelka on indefinite leave :-\ Thinking more and more now I should play my wildcard :-\
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 23, 2013, 12:19:35 PM
Scott Sinclair ha signed for West Brom. Fantasy relevant again?
I swear he just needs to pick a club and stay there.
Quote from: NigeyS on August 23, 2013, 04:55:40 PM
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 23, 2013, 12:19:35 PM
Scott Sinclair ha signed for West Brom. Fantasy relevant again?
I swear he just needs to pick a club and stay there.
What do you mean by that? Played at Swansea for a couple of years, showed he had great talent so moved to a bigger club. Unfortunately that club was Man City where he was never going to get a game, so he has made the right choice to move clubs. Do you think he should have stayed at City? Because that would just be stupid!
Okay, just did Mertesacker to Shaw :P Now watch him score 1.
Quote from: CrowsFan on August 23, 2013, 05:43:29 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on August 23, 2013, 04:55:40 PM
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 23, 2013, 12:19:35 PM
Scott Sinclair ha signed for West Brom. Fantasy relevant again?
I swear he just needs to pick a club and stay there.
What do you mean by that? Played at Swansea for a couple of years, showed he had great talent so moved to a bigger club. Unfortunately that club was Man City where he was never going to get a game, so he has made the right choice to move clubs. Do you think he should have stayed at City? Because that would just be stupid!
I mean he should have stayed at Swansea. :P I like him as a player and Swansea's probably my second favourite club in the EPL, I wasn't happy when he originally left Swansea for Man City.
Quote from: NigeyS on August 23, 2013, 10:15:39 AM
Soldado scored 2 for Tottenham in their 5-0 Europa League qualifier and Bony scored 1 for Swansea in their 5-1 Europa League qualifier for those who care. 8)
Only concern from that is that Soldado might be rested. The fact it's against Swansea makes it less likely but it has me worried now :P
Quote from: lolrocket on August 23, 2013, 07:07:50 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on August 23, 2013, 10:15:39 AM
Soldado scored 2 for Tottenham in their 5-0 Europa League qualifier and Bony scored 1 for Swansea in their 5-1 Europa League qualifier for those who care. 8)
Only concern from that is that Soldado might be rested. The fact it's against Swansea makes it less likely but it has me worried now :P
Honestly can't see why, they played a random Georgian team, if they were ever gonna rest him, you'd think they would have done it against a team they wouldn't need him to beat. :P
Quote from: NigeyS on August 23, 2013, 07:11:20 PM
Quote from: lolrocket on August 23, 2013, 07:07:50 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on August 23, 2013, 10:15:39 AM
Soldado scored 2 for Tottenham in their 5-0 Europa League qualifier and Bony scored 1 for Swansea in their 5-1 Europa League qualifier for those who care. 8)
Only concern from that is that Soldado might be rested. The fact it's against Swansea makes it less likely but it has me worried now :P
Honestly can't see why, they played a random Georgian team, if they were ever gonna rest him, you'd think they would have done it against a team they wouldn't need him to beat. :P
nah I can see the logic. Gives him match practice and better understanding with teammates and how to play the Tottenham way
Quote from: Tominator on August 23, 2013, 07:59:17 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on August 23, 2013, 07:11:20 PM
Quote from: lolrocket on August 23, 2013, 07:07:50 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on August 23, 2013, 10:15:39 AM
Soldado scored 2 for Tottenham in their 5-0 Europa League qualifier and Bony scored 1 for Swansea in their 5-1 Europa League qualifier for those who care. 8)
Only concern from that is that Soldado might be rested. The fact it's against Swansea makes it less likely but it has me worried now :P
Honestly can't see why, they played a random Georgian team, if they were ever gonna rest him, you'd think they would have done it against a team they wouldn't need him to beat. :P
nah I can see the logic. Gives him match practice and better understanding with teammates and how to play the Tottenham way
Yeah, I know that. I was saying that if they were going to rest him, it would make sense to do it against a no-name team rather than a team they could potentially lose to in Swansea this week. But yeah, he's new to the team, so you would think they want to get him familiar with their game.
http://www.news.com.au/sport/football/french-striker-nicolas-anelka-walks-out-on-west-brom-expected-to-quit-football-altogether/story-fndkzvnd-1226703082831
crap not good for my fantasy team
Quote from: NigeyS on August 23, 2013, 06:11:24 PM
Quote from: CrowsFan on August 23, 2013, 05:43:29 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on August 23, 2013, 04:55:40 PM
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 23, 2013, 12:19:35 PM
Scott Sinclair ha signed for West Brom. Fantasy relevant again?
I swear he just needs to pick a club and stay there.
What do you mean by that? Played at Swansea for a couple of years, showed he had great talent so moved to a bigger club. Unfortunately that club was Man City where he was never going to get a game, so he has made the right choice to move clubs. Do you think he should have stayed at City? Because that would just be stupid!
I mean he should have stayed at Swansea. :P I like him as a player and Swansea's probably my second favourite club in the EPL, I wasn't happy when he originally left Swansea for Man City.
Well yeah he shouldn't have left, but he's made the right choice to leave City. Will get him back in the England scene :)
I'm really struggling for ideas for who to put as captain. Problem when half your team is Chelsea playing Man U and you don't have Bale, Mata or Van Persie...
Accidently played my wildcard :P Hope this comes off haha!
Not sure who for captain ? SOLDADO? DZEKO? HAZARD? WALCOTT?
I've gone Walcott. Hoping Wegner has ripped into them this week and they come out and destroy Fulham. :-\
Going silva i think
I'm going Wolf as captain, I bet I'm going to regret it.
You guys think it is worth taking the -4 for Hazard - Silva.
I always find the -4 penalty a massive risk because of the unpredictable nature of fantasy EPL.
Going Theo captain as well, Giroud vice. Can see Arsenal coming out and mauling Fulham!
Quote from: elephants on August 24, 2013, 02:41:48 PM
Going Theo captain as well, Giroud vice. Can see Arsenal coming out and mauling Fulham!
Stekelenburg. ;)
Soldado or Benteke captain? Or even Coutinho? Decisions, decisions....
Yeah tossing up between Soldado and Benteke now! Hmmm.
Quote from: NigeyS on August 24, 2013, 02:46:28 PM
Quote from: elephants on August 24, 2013, 02:41:48 PM
Going Theo captain as well, Giroud vice. Can see Arsenal coming out and mauling Fulham!
Stekelenburg. ;)
Theo ;)
Quote from: NigeyS on August 24, 2013, 02:46:28 PM
Quote from: elephants on August 24, 2013, 02:41:48 PM
Going Theo captain as well, Giroud vice. Can see Arsenal coming out and mauling Fulham!
Stekelenburg. ;)
Injured :'(
Do you guys think Arsenal will kill Fulham? Walcott to score?
I'm going Yaya Toure as captain. Anyway, still haven't used my trade mainly because I have no idea who to trade out. There's Amorebieta who is injured, though I'm playing 3-5-2 and Garrido is my sub before him, so I could wait on that. There's also the Arsenal duo in Mertersacker and Podolski. I could trade Podolski to Benteke, but I'm just not sure. There's also Kagawa who didn't play in the first game, so having a player that costs that much doing nothing is a bit of a concern. I have 1.0 in the bank. What do you guys think? I know we're all in a league so you don't really wanna be helping your opponents, but any suggestions would be great!
(http://i42.tinypic.com/16ber28.jpg)
Quote from: Chelskiman on August 24, 2013, 06:37:55 PM
I'm going Yaya Toure as captain. Anyway, still haven't used my trade mainly because I have no idea who to trade out. There's Amorebieta who is injured, though I'm playing 3-5-2 and Garrido is my sub before him, so I could wait on that. There's also the Arsenal duo in Mertersacker and Podolski. I could trade Podolski to Benteke, but I'm just not sure. There's also Kagawa who didn't play in the first game, so having a player that costs that much doing nothing is a bit of a concern. I have 1.0 in the bank. What do you guys think? I know we're all in a league so you don't really wanna be helping your opponents, but any suggestions would be great!
(http://i42.tinypic.com/16ber28.jpg)
Hey mate, I would maybe go Amorebieta - Shaw. Scored well first game ! Good luck. Yaya captain should score well. What did you score first rd ?
Should I play Turner or Terry?
Quote from: Jackross10 on August 24, 2013, 06:41:02 PM
Quote from: Chelskiman on August 24, 2013, 06:37:55 PM
I'm going Yaya Toure as captain. Anyway, still haven't used my trade mainly because I have no idea who to trade out. There's Amorebieta who is injured, though I'm playing 3-5-2 and Garrido is my sub before him, so I could wait on that. There's also the Arsenal duo in Mertersacker and Podolski. I could trade Podolski to Benteke, but I'm just not sure. There's also Kagawa who didn't play in the first game, so having a player that costs that much doing nothing is a bit of a concern. I have 1.0 in the bank. What do you guys think? I know we're all in a league so you don't really wanna be helping your opponents, but any suggestions would be great!
(http://i42.tinypic.com/16ber28.jpg)
I did Amorebieta to Shaw sunday morning, great decision so far. ;) Id definitely do it.
My GW2 lineup.
Boruc
Ivanovic - Shaw - Coleman
Nolan - Mirallas (vc) - Coutinho - Hazard
Benteke - Soldado (c) - Lambert
Mignolet
Toure
Koren
Rat
Hey mate, I would maybe go Amorebieta - Shaw. Scored well first game ! Good luck. Yaya captain should score well. What did you score first rd ?
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 24, 2013, 06:51:45 PM
Hey mate, I would maybe go Amorebieta - Shaw. Scored well first game ! Good luck. Yaya captain should score well. What did you score first rd ?
I scored 88 in the first round, so a pretty decent start. Amorebieta > Shaw is probably the sensible trade, but even though I scored well in the first week some of my "premiums" were less than impressive.
thought about Aguerro as a keeper?
I'm quite happy right now, team is valued at 99.2 mil and i have 1.2mil in the bank, and i feel like i've got a team full of players that can perform (note: wildcard used)
Mignolet
Mertersacker, Coleman, Zabaleta
Coutinho, Yaya (vc), Mirallas, Walcott (c)
Dzeko, Welbeck, Soldado
Marshall, Whitakker, Kim, Moxey
Thoughts on my team for gw2? I don't think I need to use wildcard?
Vorm
Collins Coleman Terry
Walcott (C) Mirallas (VC) Hazard Coutinho
Soldado Sturridge Dzeko
Kim Turner Ramage Marshall.
Went Anelka - Sturridge
Quote from: PowerBug on August 24, 2013, 07:51:10 PM
I'm quite happy right now, team is valued at 99.2 mil and i have 1.2mil in the bank, and i feel like i've got a team full of players that can perform (note: wildcard used)
Mignolet
Mertersacker, Coleman, Zabaleta
Coutinho, Yaya (vc), Mirallas, Walcott (c)
Dzeko, Welbeck, Soldado
Marshall, Whitakker, Kim, Moxey
Very good team mate ! Should score well. I'm going Walcott C aswell
Can see this week being a fairly barren week
Gone for Benteke as captain
Yeah nicely done Jackross, similar side, but you still have your wildcard. :P
Quote from: PowerBug on August 24, 2013, 08:42:51 PM
Yeah nicely done Jackross, similar side, but you still have your wildcard. :P
Yeah I still have it mate ! First year, scored 68 pretty crap :(
Quote from: Jackross10 on August 24, 2013, 08:38:22 PM
Thoughts on my team for gw2? I don't think I need to use wildcard?
Vorm
Collins Coleman Terry
Walcott (C) Mirallas (VC) Hazard Coutinho
Soldado Sturridge Dzeko
Kim Turner Ramage Marshall.
Went Anelka - Sturridge
Should I leave this for the weekend ?
Deciding to keep + starting Podolski = 8)
Walcott been great ! But doesn't get any points ! He is my captain :(
Walcott get assist points for that second Arsenal goal anyone? Seems from the commentary like his shot was saved and Podloski got on the follow-up. Does that usually count?
Quote from: elephants on August 24, 2013, 11:10:11 PM
Walcott get assist points for that second Arsenal goal anyone? Seems from the commentary like his shot was saved and Podloski got on the follow-up. Does that usually count?
Another PODOLSKIIII goal. Walcott get points for this ? I hope so
Podolski you beast! :D I'd have deleted my team had I traded him out like I was thinking of doing.
Quote from: T Dog on August 24, 2013, 07:49:19 PM
thought about Aguerro as a keeper?
I'd rather him as a forward
On struggle street. 14/4 :/
5/26 + bonus points to Walcott/Giroud/Coleman/BenArfa? hopefully!
Hurts a bit having a 1 from Clyne on field while Collins scored 6 on your bench :( That was an accidental move as well!
Podolski would surely get some bonus points for scoring two.
When do bonus points come through ?
31/6 + C :-\ Dzeko, Yaya, Zabaleta, Welbeck, Soldado to come.
31/8 with OhHeyThereNiceToMichu, Goaldado and The Juan to come.
Genuinely considering two transfers next week. Sessegnon to someone better and Deulofeu to Dwight Gayle. Then reverting to 3-4-3 and benching Garrido and starting Gayle.
Podolski with the bonus points puts me on 32/6. Still have Yaya Toure (C), A. Cole, Hazard, Kagawa and Soldado to come.
51 with Valencia, Hazard and Soldado.
29 with Hazard, Lukaku, Ivanovic and Soldado. :'(
26 with Caulker, Hazard (c), Michu, Bony and Soldado to come ???
21 with Hazard, Ivanovic, Paulinho and Soldado to come. Not happy.
I see the benteke teams suck now lel.
is now the right time to use the wildcard?
I'm tempted
Quote from: Tominator on August 26, 2013, 12:48:24 PM
is now the right time to use the wildcard?
I'm tempted
No, hold out for now.
Save it for another 5 weeks (at least) and assess how your team is performing and also gives you a chance to assess all other players against a variety of different opponents. Only use it if your team is turning to rubbish. Most teams this week are scoring much lower than round 1 so don't waste the wildcard on a kneejerk reaction to low round 2 scores.
Quote from: timmyparso on August 26, 2013, 01:09:45 PM
Quote from: Tominator on August 26, 2013, 12:48:24 PM
is now the right time to use the wildcard?
I'm tempted
No, hold out for now.
Save it for another 5 weeks (at least) and assess how your team is performing and also gives you a chance to assess all other players against a variety of different opponents. Only use it if your team is turning to rubbish. Most teams this week are scoring much lower than round 1 so don't waste the wildcard on a kneejerk reaction to low round 2 scores.
Take a minus 4 point hit then? I have 5 Chelsea/Villa players...
BUT
I can trade
Lukaku ---> Sturridge and
Hazard ---> SilvaTeam this week would be (with 0.0 left)
Mignolet (Harper)
Garrido, Shaw, Whittaker (Ivanovic, Baker)
Silva, Paulinho, Snodgrass, Coutinho, Mirallas
Sturridge, Soldado (Benteke)
Quote from: Tominator on August 26, 2013, 01:12:22 PM
Quote from: timmyparso on August 26, 2013, 01:09:45 PM
Quote from: Tominator on August 26, 2013, 12:48:24 PM
is now the right time to use the wildcard?
I'm tempted
No, hold out for now.
Save it for another 5 weeks (at least) and assess how your team is performing and also gives you a chance to assess all other players against a variety of different opponents. Only use it if your team is turning to rubbish. Most teams this week are scoring much lower than round 1 so don't waste the wildcard on a kneejerk reaction to low round 2 scores.
Take a minus 4 point hit then? I have 5 Chelsea/Villa players...
BUT
I can trade Lukaku ---> Sturridge and Hazard ---> Silva
Team this week would be (with 0.0 left)
Mignolet (Harper)
Garrido, Shaw, Whittaker (Ivanovic, Baker)
Silva, Paulinho, Snodgrass, Coutinho, Mirallas
Sturridge, Soldado (Benteke)
ouch!! didn't know you had 5 bye players. I think a 4 point hit is best. I'd be tempted to keep Hazard and trade Ivanovic to Zabaletta instead though.
This is certainly the week I'm WC'ing.
Jumped the gun and did it last week, missed out on 0.2mil by not going a day earlier (Zabaleta and Whittaker both went up) So now i have 0 players missing next week, and i have a healthy 49 points with Welbeck to play. :)
Only 1 goal/assist and 1 clean sheet in my entire team with Ivanovic and Hazard to come who a majority have anyway. :'(
i duno what is good or not haha ... all i am hapy about is i am beating my english mate haha ... this week i am on 47 with cech ezra and hazard to come
58 with Haz and Valencia to come 8)
when is the best time to use WC?
Now or later?
VSA I'm looking for you .... ;)
Think VSA used it last week?
looking for him to give me advice, he seems like a wise one ::)
Stupid United. 51 my final score.
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 26, 2013, 02:47:51 PM
This is certainly the week I'm WC'ing.
flushing a toilet?
Score:
40
Lords:
Mignolet (7), Soldado (7), Ivanovic (6)
Losers:
Everybody else ::)
Captain:
Benteke (2)
Trades this week:
Lukaku ----> Sturridge
Hazard ----> Silva
Vent/Brag/Whatever:
Disappointing week to follow up my bright start. Benteke as captain backfired but not enough for me to trade him out... and not enough goalscorers/assisters in the mids is annoying
Other Comments:
Wildcard is tempting this week... REALLY tempting
Using my wildcard now! Getting rid of Villa and Chelsea players.
Score: 57
Lords: Mignolet (7), Soldado (14 as Capt), Ivanovic (6), Giroud ( 8), Coleman (6)
Losers: Sessegnon
Captain: Soldado
Trades this week: Anelka to Sturridge
Vent/Brag/Whatever: OK score for a week with not many high scoring games. A keeper and 2 defenders with clean sheets helps
Other Comments: Only use your Wildcard if you are desparate guys.
Thought I had a crap week going down 4k spots, didnt realise the -4 point hits hadnt been factored in and ended up going up 8 places overall to 1,069 :D
Score: 64
Lords: Almost everyone scored above 2 :P
Losers: Clyne (and me for starting Clyne over Collins :P)
Captain: Theoooo
Trades this week: Not sure, have 1 mill in the bank, will probably hold the transfer I think.
65 for me in the end ... will be trading hazard .. and moving cech to bench boruc on
Alright so I used my wildcard and changed things around a little.
Mignolet
Coleman, Baines, Jose-Enrique.
Nolan, Silva, Wanyama, Yaya Toure.
Soldado, Giroud and Sturridge.
(Davis, Whittaker, Colback, Shawcross.)
Anything at all you would change? Trying to get as high of a rank as possible. Remember got unlimited transfers. :)
Quote from: vinny on August 27, 2013, 06:27:52 PM
Alright so I used my wildcard and changed things around a little.
Mignolet
Coleman, Baines, Jose-Enrique.
Nolan, Silva, Wanyama, Yaya Toure.
Soldado, Giroud and Sturridge.
(Davis, Whittaker, Colback, Shawcross.)
Anything at all you would change? Trying to get as high of a rank as possible. Remember got unlimited transfers. :)
midfielders generally have a higher chance of having a score involvement than forwards. i would suggest downgrading Giroud and using the money to upgrade Wamyama/Nolan.
2 everton defenders?? o.O
then the double up of Mignolet and Enrique? i usually avoid that for the same reason as having two defenders from the same team. of course there are advantages and disadvantages of each; but results change from each week to week.
Shawcross is good money on the bench.
Quote from: Luigi197 on August 27, 2013, 06:33:34 PM
Quote from: vinny on August 27, 2013, 06:27:52 PM
Alright so I used my wildcard and changed things around a little.
Mignolet
Coleman, Baines, Jose-Enrique.
Nolan, Silva, Wanyama, Yaya Toure.
Soldado, Giroud and Sturridge.
(Davis, Whittaker, Colback, Shawcross.)
Anything at all you would change? Trying to get as high of a rank as possible. Remember got unlimited transfers. :)
midfielders generally have a higher chance of having a score involvement than forwards. i would suggest downgrading Giroud and using the money to upgrade Wamyama/Nolan.
2 everton defenders?? o.O
then the double up of Mignolet and Enrique? i usually avoid that for the same reason as having two defenders from the same team. of course there are advantages and disadvantages of each; but results change from each week to week.
Shawcross is good money on the bench.
Thanks mate! :)
Instead of Erique and Coleman/Bains, which two do you suggest I get as a defender?
Yeah that's true. Might get Collins instead of Shawcross.
Is this too weak of a team to be fielding in GW3? currently on the cusp of 1k and dont want to go down too much this week if I can avoid it. Raher have my wildcard intact at the end of this round too.
Mignolet
Coleman - Toure - Shaw - Collins
Nolan - Coutinho - Mirallas - Koren
Soldado - Lambert
Boruc
Hazard
Ivanovic
Benteke
FT this week I used to go Rat - Collins
thoughts? or should I use the WC?
It's a weak tean for sure KK, I'm assuming you haven't made any trasnfers yet? Might be worth getting rid of one of those players on the bench, probably Hazard who doesn't done much.
Maybe get in Zabaleta Jackross? :) For Terry that is.
Don't trade Hazard! Whatever you do, do not trade Hazard!
Someone please tell me that trading Deulofeu for Sturridge was a good move...
Is it okay to play Shawcross?
Jose Enrique thoughts? Can't afford zab
Tempted... to use.... wildcard....
Must.... resist.... urge....
Quote from: Tominator on August 28, 2013, 12:40:01 PM
Tempted... to use.... wildcard....
Must.... resist.... urge....
Nah ..relax..go for it....go on you know you want to.... ;D
Begovic (Marshall)
Ivanovic, Mertesacker, Zabaleta(VC) (Chambers, Turner)
Mirallas, Michu, Snodgrass, Hazard(C) (Kim)
Soldado, Benteke, Berbatov
Thoughts on what double trade to do this week? Doing Hazard to Barkley but not sure what other trade to do to accompany it.
Nothing wrong with trading hazard in gw3
Best Defender under 6.0? And is it worth taking -4 to go hazard - YaYa. Or just play Kim vs Everton
If you are trading Hazard, make sure you have a plan to get him back asap!
Quote from: Jackross10 on August 29, 2013, 07:50:15 AM
Best Defender under 6.0? And is it worth taking -4 to go hazard - YaYa. Or just play Kim vs Everton
Coleman is good, starting at 5.0 has already risen in price to 5.3 and has a goal and an assist to his name already. However after this week Mertesacker is also a good option at 5.5 with Arsenal expected to keep a few clean sheets.
What are your thoughts? Get rid of both haz and terry. I am going for highest possible ranking. 222k at the moment hahah !
Collins Coleman TERRY. Ramage Turner
HAZARD Walcott Coutinho Mirallas. Kim
Sturridge Dzeko Soldado
Thanks !
Quote from: Jackross10 on August 29, 2013, 10:30:17 AM
What are your thoughts? Get rid of both haz and terry. I am going for highest possible ranking. 222k at the moment hahah !
Collins Coleman TERRY. Ramage Turner
HAZARD Walcott Coutinho Mirallas. Kim
Sturridge Dzeko Soldado
Thanks !
Terry to Whittaker/Mertesacker, bench Hazard and play either Turner and Kim, no need to take a 4 point hit
Quote from: timmyparso on August 29, 2013, 10:47:48 AM
Quote from: Jackross10 on August 29, 2013, 10:30:17 AM
What are your thoughts? Get rid of both haz and terry. I am going for highest possible ranking. 222k at the moment hahah !
Collins Coleman TERRY. Ramage Turner
HAZARD Walcott Coutinho Mirallas. Kim
Sturridge Dzeko Soldado
Thanks !
Terry to Whittaker/Mertesacker, bench Hazard and play either Turner and Kim, no need to take a 4 point hit
I got Mert
Ive had to take a 4 point hit to get 11 on the park.
Rat - Reid
Hazard - Silva
makes it
Mignolet (Boruc)
Coleman - Reid - Shaw (Ivanovic - Kolo Toure)
Silva - Nolan - Mirallas - Coutinho - Koren
Soldado - Lambert (Benteke)
Currently 1,069 hopefully I wont drop below 10k so I can use my wildcard and shoot back up.
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 29, 2013, 12:45:50 PM
Ive had to take a 4 point hit to get 11 on the park.
Rat - Reid
Hazard - Silva
makes it
Mignolet (Boruc)
Coleman - Reid - Shaw (Ivanovic - Kolo Toure)
Silva - Nolan - Mirallas - Coutinho - Koren
Soldado - Lambert (Benteke)
Currently 1,069 hopefully I wont drop below 10k so I can use my wildcard and shoot back up.
Congrats on the ranking ! If I am like 220k, do I have any chance at all catching you? Haha. Really like your team. Trades sound good. Myself I think I might also double trade. Terry - Mertesacker and Hazard - Silva or YAYA.
Well done
Krul
Baker Sagna Jagielka (Ivanovic Toure)
Silva Hazard De Guzman Jedinak Nolan
Soldado Sturridge (Deulofeu)
So in this gameweek ive already gone Bale to Silva and Steklenburg to Krul
is it worth going
Baker to Coleman which will give me two everton defenders
and Deulofeu to Frazier Campbell or someone better?
This would leave me with $208,000
I also feel that De Guzman needs to be changed
this will leave me facing a -6 points though or should i use my only wildcard?
this is for foxsports btw as thats what all my friends play
KoopKicka when are you using your wildcard ? ::)
Quote from: Jackross10 on August 29, 2013, 07:01:44 PM
KoopKicka when are you using your wildcard ? ::)
Next week after the International games so I know injuries etc. Then Im restocking, reloading and going again.
Quoteauthor=chrisuzz link=topic=84500.msg1195000#msg1195000 date=1377765367]
Krul
Baker Sagna Jagielka (Ivanovic Toure)
Silva Hazard De Guzman Jedinak Nolan
Soldado Sturridge (Deulofeu)
So in this gameweek ive already gone Bale to Silva and Steklenburg to Krul
is it worth going
Baker to Coleman which will give me two everton defenders
and Deulofeu to Frazier Campbell or someone better?
This would leave me with $208,000
I also feel that De Guzman needs to be changed
this will leave me facing a -6 points though or should i use my only wildcard?
this is for foxsports btw as thats what all my friends play
Campbell is an impulse buy, Cornelius is nearing full fintess and should take points off him and then some. Two everton defenders is also overloaded.
Id use the wildcard after the Internationals, best time to do it is either GW2 or between 3 and 4. Im taking the latter option.
As to whether you can catch me, the beauty of EPL is that things can change rapidly from week to week. Id say anyone is still in with a realistic shot definitely. But by the cup time (Gw18) you really want to be in the top 25k or so.
When are the international matches ?
Im currently facing a 0 with Toure and Ivanovic out as im not sure whether Baker will play
Quote from: chrisuzz on August 29, 2013, 07:37:46 PM
Im currently facing a 0 with Toure and Ivanovic out as im not sure whether Baker will play
Thats an interesting one, youre banking that your player will outscore the penalty. Are you confiedent of that?
Quote from: Jackross10 on August 29, 2013, 07:28:30 PM
When are the international matches ?
Theres no EPL next weekend its International matches :)
DZEKO captain this week? Thoughts?
Hey guys,
Apologies for not being around the last week or so...
Chasing some tail and Fantasy Sports don't mix! ;)
Anyway, something I've learnt this year, and will now plan in for next year is DO NOT use your WC Round 1... there you go! lol
I saw up the chain that Koop is using it after Round 3. This is starting to look like the go. That said I have a nice healthy team value and am making profit all over the place, so I will continue down the strategy path that I planned for this year. ( I like to pick a strategy at the beginning of the year, and see it though to the end - That way I know exactly where and when, why and how it goes wrong, then apply those learnings the next year) I will be taking point hits (You don't really want to know, it will make you sick) BUT, I am basically starting a strategy process from the start of the year this year as opposed to last year when I started it around Round 11 last year.
So I am hopefull that my team will be what I want by Round 10 this year, leaving me 28 gameweeks to smash it home. Thats the plan anyway. To give you my example from last year, I started trading heavily from Round 11 until I had the balanced team I wanted by Round 18. In Round 18 I was ranked about 950,000. Between Rounds 18-38 I averaged 70 points per week, and rose to 125,000. So my theory is start the process earlier and smash it home for longer :)
Its not for the faint hearted though!
How am I faring so far...
Gamweek 1. 93 Points - Week Rank 70,570 8)
Gamewek 2. 39 Points - Week Rank 1,988,090 ::) - Overall Rank 238,109
My Team value is now 101.8, and looks like it will be close to 102.5 by the end of this week. :)
I am planning quite a number of trades this week to keep building my bank balance, but honestly, it will make you sick to your stomach when you see who and what trades I'm doing lol
Quote from: Jackross10 on August 29, 2013, 08:07:08 PM
DZEKO captain this week? Thoughts?
I'm going Aguero Jackross, I think either will be a good option.
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 29, 2013, 09:08:14 PM
Hey guys,
Apologies for not being around the last week or so...
Chasing some tail and Fantasy Sports don't mix! ;)
Anyway, something I've learnt this year, and will now plan in for next year is DO NOT use your WC Round 1... there you go! lol
I saw up the chain that Koop is using it after Round 3. This is starting to look like the go. That said I have a nice healthy team value and am making profit all over the place, so I will continue down the strategy path that I planned for this year. ( I like to pick a strategy at the beginning of the year, and see it though to the end - That way I know exactly where and when, why and how it goes wrong, then apply those learnings the next year) I will be taking point hits (You don't really want to know, it will make you sick) BUT, I am basically starting a strategy process from the start of the year this year as opposed to last year when I started it around Round 11 last year.
So I am hopefull that my team will be what I want by Round 10 this year, leaving me 28 gameweeks to smash it home. Thats the plan anyway. To give you my example from last year, I started trading heavily from Round 11 until I had the balanced team I wanted by Round 18. In Round 18 I was ranked about 950,000. Between Rounds 18-38 I averaged 70 points per week, and rose to 125,000. So my theory is start the process earlier and smash it home for longer :)
Its not for the faint hearted though!
How am I faring so far...
Gamweek 1. 93 Points - Week Rank 70,570 8)
Gamewek 2. 39 Points - Week Rank 1,988,090 ::) - Overall Rank 238,109
My Team value is now 101.8, and looks like it will be close to 102.5 by the end of this week. :)
I am planning quite a number of trades this week to keep building my bank balance, but honestly, it will make you sick to your stomach when you see who and what trades I'm doing lol
Sounds good VSA. What is your team like and what transfers
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 29, 2013, 12:45:50 PM
Ive had to take a 4 point hit to get 11 on the park.
Rat - Reid
Hazard - Silva
makes it
Mignolet (Boruc)
Coleman - Reid - Shaw (Ivanovic - Kolo Toure)
Silva - Nolan - Mirallas - Coutinho - Koren
Soldado - Lambert (Benteke)
Currently 1,069 hopefully I wont drop below 10k so I can use my wildcard and shoot back up.
Your teams in great shape Koop!
Kolo is out 4-6 weeks. If you want to trade him to Reid you can wait until Saturday to be sure... Even if Toure drops 0.1 you won't loose any profit because he is only up 0.1, so no profit made there.
Current NTI figures for the two of them...
Name Position Team Price NTI NTI Target NTI today Target %
Winston Reid Defender West Ham 5.0 6886 68,000 341 10.1
Kolo Toure Defender Liverpool 8.6 33,097 68,000 -1784 48.7
Hey guys,
Used my wildcard and have 2 million left over with this team so unlimited trades.
Mignolet.
Coleman, Ivanovic, Zabaleta.
Wanyama, Silva, Nolan, Yaya Toure.
Soldado, Giroud, Sturridge.
(Davis, Whittaker, Barkley, Collins.)
Playing Collins for the week. Any changes you would make with the 2million? :)
Quote from: Jackross10 on August 29, 2013, 09:11:05 PM
Sounds good VSA. What is your team like and what transfers
Okay, I'll take you through it, but a disclaimer.... go get any heart medication ready if you require it ;)
Current Team:
Mignolet, De Gea
Vertnoghen, O'Brien, Shaw, Hangeland, Zabaleta
Barkley, Kasami, Yaya, Nolan, Oscar
Aguero, Benteke, Welbeck
Planned trades for this week are...
Out:Kasami, Toure, O'Brien, Hangeland, Shaw, Zabalaetta, De Gea
In: Adam, Brady, Fonte, Ivanovic, Reid, Vidic, Foster...
Now.... Go get that medication into ya! :o
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 29, 2013, 09:29:30 PM
Quote from: Jackross10 on August 29, 2013, 09:11:05 PM
Sounds good VSA. What is your team like and what transfers
Okay, I'll take you through it, but a disclaimer.... go get any heart medication ready if you require it ;)
Current Team:
Mignolet, De Gea
Vertnoghen, O'Brien, Shaw, Hangeland, Zabaleta
Barkley, Kasami, Yaya, Nolan, Oscar
Aguero, Benteke, Welbeck
Planned trades for this week are...
Out:Kasami, Toure, O'Brien, Hangeland, Shaw, Zabalaetta, De Gea
In: Adam, Brady, Fonte, Ivanovic, Reid, Vidic, Foster...
Now.... Go get that medication into ya! :o
Jesus. That will lose heaps of points
waiting one more week then pouncing on the wildcard... I'll probably activate it on Saturday night
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 29, 2013, 09:29:30 PM
Planned trades for this week are...
Out:Kasami, Toure, O'Brien, Hangeland, Shaw, Zabalaetta, De Gea
In: Adam, Brady, Fonte, Ivanovic, Reid, Vidic, Foster...
Now.... Go get that medication into ya! :o
Ben Foster is out for 12 weeks by the way....
Quote from: Tominator on August 29, 2013, 10:08:31 PM
waiting one more week then pouncing on the wildcard... I'll probably activate it on Saturday night
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 29, 2013, 09:29:30 PM
Planned trades for this week are...
Out:Kasami, Toure, O'Brien, Hangeland, Shaw, Zabalaetta, De Gea
In: Adam, Brady, Fonte, Ivanovic, Reid, Vidic, Foster...
Now.... Go get that medication into ya! :o
Ben Foster is out for 12 weeks by the way....
Cheers Tom,
I didn't realise it was confirmed as that bad!
My opinion is that your EPL wildcard is the SC equivalent of trades - resist your primal urge to use it!
Guys,
Start Kim vs Everton at home or Turner vs Southampton at home
Thinking of taking an 8 point hit for these trades this week...talk me out of it?
Caulker to Coleman
Lugano to Fonte
Hazard to Yaya Toure
Bony to Sturridge
Team will be :
Mignolet
Coleman, Lovren, Fonte
Gerrard, YaYa (C), Michu (VC), Giaccherini
Sturridge, Soldado, Lambert
Begovic - Mertesacker - Garrido - Colbeck
Quote from: T Dog on August 30, 2013, 11:14:50 AM
Thinking of taking an 8 point hit for these trades this week...talk me out of it?
Caulker to Coleman
Lugano to Fonte
Hazard to Yaya Toure
Bony to Sturridge
Team will be :
Mignolet
Coleman, Lovren, Fonte
Gerrard, YaYa (C), Michu (VC), Giaccherini
Sturridge, Soldado, Lambert
Begovic - Mertesacker - Garrido - Colbeck
Not a bad squad at all
But I'd probably do three transfers this week, and one next week to even it out
Quote from: vinny on August 29, 2013, 09:21:48 PM
Hey guys,
Used my wildcard and have 2 million left over with this team so unlimited trades.
Mignolet.
Coleman, Ivanovic, Zabaleta.
Wanyama, Silva, Nolan, Yaya Toure.
Soldado, Giroud, Sturridge.
(Davis, Whittaker, Barkley, Collins.)
Playing Collins for the week. Any changes you would make with the 2million? :)
Id go Wanyama - someone better tbh.
Quote from: Tominator on August 30, 2013, 12:35:35 PM
Quote from: T Dog on August 30, 2013, 11:14:50 AM
Thinking of taking an 8 point hit for these trades this week...talk me out of it?
Caulker to Coleman
Lugano to Fonte
Hazard to Yaya Toure
Bony to Sturridge
Team will be :
Mignolet
Coleman, Lovren, Fonte
Gerrard, YaYa (C), Michu (VC), Giaccherini
Sturridge, Soldado, Lambert
Begovic - Mertesacker - Garrido - Colbeck
Not a bad squad at all
But I'd probably do three transfers this week, and one next week to even it out
Thanks Big Tom...will have a look...was keen to go bring in Barkley next week. Like the look of Hulls Robbie Brady as another roughy if Lambert doesn't fire up... :D
Quote from: Jackross10 on August 30, 2013, 08:37:11 AM
Guys,
Start Kim vs Everton at home or Turner vs Southampton at home
Anyone ?
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 30, 2013, 01:02:42 PM
Quote from: vinny on August 29, 2013, 09:21:48 PM
Hey guys,
Used my wildcard and have 2 million left over with this team so unlimited trades.
Mignolet.
Coleman, Ivanovic, Zabaleta.
Wanyama, Silva, Nolan, Yaya Toure.
Soldado, Giroud, Sturridge.
(Davis, Whittaker, Barkley, Collins.)
Playing Collins for the week. Any changes you would make with the 2million? :)
Id go Wanyama - someone better tbh.
Cheers Koop, who do you reckon I should get?
Toure out!? :o
Vorm vs WBA or Marshall vs Everton
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 30, 2013, 06:00:08 PM
Quote from: Jackross10 on August 30, 2013, 05:46:51 PM
Vorm vs WBA or Marshall vs Everton
Definitely Vorm
Thanks Koop and Ehat are your thoughts on my captain ?
Dzeko, Walcott, Sturridge, Soldado ? The last few Spurs, Arsenal matches have been very high scoring, 31 in last 5.
Quote from: elephants on August 30, 2013, 02:53:18 PM
Toure out!? :o
Is ths real? ..I have him as Capt.. :-\
AAAArrrr...I am an idiot... :-[
Who is everyone putting C?
Quote from: Jackross10 on August 30, 2013, 06:10:46 PM
Quote from: KoopKicka on August 30, 2013, 06:00:08 PM
Quote from: Jackross10 on August 30, 2013, 05:46:51 PM
Vorm vs WBA or Marshall vs Everton
Definitely Vorm
Thanks Koop and Ehat are your thoughts on my captain ?
Dzeko, Walcott, Sturridge, Soldado ? The last few Spurs, Arsenal matches have been very high scoring, 31 in last 5.
Personally Ive locked in David Silva with Nolan vice. Out of those options its hard. Dzeko's no starting guarantee. But if he does start you're gonna be very happy.
Is it worth the risk of him being sub ?
Hi All,
Just something I've picked up on. The new Bonus Points System is distributing Bonus Points heavily towards defenders. (It is around 50% of all BP going to defenders so far.
It may be worth consideration moving away from a traditional 3-4-3 this year, towards a 4-3-3 by turning a mid priced Mid into a quality defender, obviously from a team with a high likelihood of keeping clean sheets.
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 31, 2013, 08:18:23 AM
Hi All,
Just something I've picked up on. The new Bonus Points System is distributing Bonus Points heavily towards defenders. (It is around 50% of all BP going to defenders so far.
It may be worth consideration moving away from a traditional 3-4-3 this year, towards a 4-3-3 by turning a mid priced Mid into a quality defender, obviously from a team with a high likelihood of keeping clean sheets.
I have seen this, I am using my wildcard next week. Have 14 days to play with it. Might look at 4-4-2 or 5-3-2.
Using wc tonight for the next gameweek. Thoughts on.
Mignolet.
Zabletta, Ivan, Coleman, Collins.
Coutinho, Silva, Yaya.
Sturridge, Benteke, Soldado.
Davis, Barkley, Kasami, Whittaker
Quote from: Jackross10 on August 31, 2013, 10:17:06 AM
Using wc tonight for the next gameweek. Thoughts on.
Mignolet.
Zabletta, Ivan, Coleman, Collins.
Coutinho, Silva, Yaya.
Sturridge, Benteke, Soldado.
Davis, Barkley, Kasami, Whittaker
The only thing I would suggest is looking at picking one of Yaya/Silva, and one if Sturridge/Coutinho. Only because of one of those teams have a bad week, your eggs are in the one basket, and especially the Man City boys, because you have Zabaleta up back as well.
Also Whittaker is likely I be pushed out, if not this gameweek, probably the next. It's not an urgent thing, but use that position to make some dosh by jumping on whoever the market likes after tonight's games in the 4.0-4.5 bracket, and should get regular game time.
Otherwise I'd say its a solid looking side JR.
Quote from: Vicious Sandwhich Attack on August 31, 2013, 11:13:05 AM
Quote from: Jackross10 on August 31, 2013, 10:17:06 AM
Using wc tonight for the next gameweek. Thoughts on.
Mignolet.
Zabletta, Ivan, Coleman, Collins.
Coutinho, Silva, Yaya.
Sturridge, Benteke, Soldado.
Davis, Barkley, Kasami, Whittaker
The only thing I would suggest is looking at picking one of Yaya/Silva, and one if Sturridge/Coutinho. Only because of one of those teams have a bad week, your eggs are in the one basket, and especially the Man City boys, because you have Zabaleta up back as well.
Also Whittaker is likely I be pushed out, if not this gameweek, probably the next. It's not an urgent thing, but use that position to make some dosh by jumping on whoever the market likes after tonight's games in the 4.0-4.5 bracket, and should get regular game time.
Otherwise I'd say its a solid looking side JR.
Thanks VSA :)
Was just about to rage about Toure being my third failed captain in a row. :) Thankyou sir, you make up for Dzeko's fails.
Those who know the price change stuff, Dzeko is at 7.8mil, how many ins does he need to go to 7.9? If he gets there this week I'll trade him out because he is now useless. :P
I made a whole bunch of changes and I thought I confirmed them... I mustn't have though because Mata's still on my field, Wolf's captain instead of Soldado and Sturridge is on my bench as the third sub. ::)
Damn Nolan, Reid and Collins. Was going good, all had clean sheets and I was like yes!
Then they conceded ::)
@Nigey: That happened to me about 5 times last year. Double check everything, because It probably wasn't your fault.
Quote from: PowerBug on September 01, 2013, 12:26:20 PM
@Nigey: That happened to me about 5 times last year. Double check everything, because It probably wasn't your fault.
Happened to me in Ashes Fantasy as well. ::) :P :(
Ladsy effort from the Pool boys!
Mignolet and Sturridge should get bonus while Kolo is covered by a 6 off the bench :D
I like this game now :D 73 points :D But noone ask me for avice though, because I still don't know what I'm doing. :P
Quote from: PowerBug on September 02, 2013, 08:23:29 AM
I like this game now :D 73 points :D But noone ask me for avice though, because I still don't know what I'm doing. :P
(http://jjperezaguinaga.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/i_have_no_idea_what_i_m_doing.jpg)
I dropped 70,00 places. This is why this game showers me. Only 10 on the park. Captain scores 1x2. Bloody hell
Wildcard used, lets do dis.
I think I've been consistent, scored a 51 this week. Got the ol' 4-3-3 since Mata, Sessegnon and Shaw didn't play. Still annoyed though.
I managed 64 so thats solid! Very very surprised that Theo didnt get bonus points :/
Quote from: NigeyS on September 02, 2013, 09:44:28 AM
I think I've been consistent, scored a 51 this week. Got the ol' 4-3-3 since Mata, Sessegnon and Shaw didn't play. Still annoyed though.
Very nice score Nige!
Team after the wildcard, about 4 mil left, where to spend it?
Mignolet
Enrique, Walker, Ivanovic, Coleman, Zabaleta
Silva, Ramsey, Nolan
Giroud, Sturridge
Boruc
Bent
Brady
Gunarrson
Pulled off 57 with Nolan Captain only scoring 4 (2 plus Capt bonus) and Sessegnon with a doughnut, Sessegnon's gone this week.
66 with Silva captain! Moved up heaps in the rankings :)
Very happy but Yaya as C would have been nice.
Anyone been to 'The Forum'? ;)
Who needs the Wildcard. pft.
Mignolet 7, Zabaleta 12, Baines 8, Mertesacker 8, Whittacker 6, Yaya Toure 11, Silva 3x2, and then the rest meh..
but 67 ;D
Guys which transfer is the best?
Soldado > Benteke
Yaya > Lampard/Oscar/Hazard
Silva > Lampard/Oscar/Hazard
Nolan > Lampard/Oscar/Hazard
Cheers ;)
Got a 62 this week with YaYa as capt. Lost 10 by having Mertesacker and Garrido on the bench. :-\
Head to head league table looks pretty good ;D
Doubt I'll stay top for long though
Will Moses affect Coutinho's play time? #n00b His scores of 3,3,3 aren't enough for a guy priced 9mil, but I'll keep the faith if Livershower continue to not concede.
Few tasty transfers before deadline:
Fellaini to ManU
Lukaku to Everton (loan)
Sessegnon to West Brom
Ozil to Arsenal (more ball feed to Giroud!!)
Everton play Chelsea next game so Lukaku will sit out of that, could drop in price further and be a cheap forward for week 5
Will Ozil affect Cazorla/Walcott?
Quote from: elephants on September 03, 2013, 10:24:57 AM
Will Ozil affect Cazorla/Walcott?
Yes.
Hazard, Oscar, Mata
Ozil, Walcott, Cazorla
Navas, Nasri, Silva
You tell me.
Already have Sessegnon, time to keep him. 8)
It is doing my head in deciding which one to keep out of Nolan, Yaya and Silva and who to get out of anyone!
Leaning towards Nolan although having two City guys can be an issue.
Used the wildcard this week
Coutinho ---> Yaya Toure
Paulinho ----> Ben Arfa
Mirallas ----> McCarthy
Soldado ----> Giroud (then Sturridge to Soldado in a few weeks time once Suarez returns and limits Sturridge's output)
Ozil priced at 10.0, I am getting on!! Maybe for Yaya when he rises
Used the wildcard.
Mignolet
Ivanovic, Enrique, Walker, Coleman, Reid
Ozil, Silva, Nolan
Giroud, Benteke
Boruc
Hernandez
Bent
Brady
thoughts?
Soldado, Sturridge and Benteke are my front three
Who should I cut for Giroud? Leaning toward Soldado
Quote from: Tominator on September 03, 2013, 11:13:25 PM
Soldado, Sturridge and Benteke are my front three
Who should I cut for Giroud? Leaning toward Soldado
Yeah I would probably go Soldado too. I am in a similar situation, I have to cut one of Soldado, Giroud and Sturridge for Benteke. Going Solado but probably doing it next week.
Quote from: KoopKicka on September 03, 2013, 10:46:09 PM
Used the wildcard.
Mignolet
Ivanovic, Enrique, Walker, Coleman, Reid
Ozil, Silva, Nolan
Giroud, Benteke
Boruc
Hernandez
Bent
Brady
thoughts?
Looking good Koop! Hope the 5-3-2 doesn't back fire but doesn't look like happening right now haha.
Not thinking of cutting Nolan?
Ozil at 10! Wonder how many will jump on!
Not many RvP fans here?
Soldado to Giroud - done today on the expectation he'd go up in price... he doesn't ::)
Ozil will surely go up tomorrow?
Plenty of time for Giroud Tominator, surely tomorrow he will. I'm sorta annoyed that I'm short of doing Dzeko --> Giroud, would've been nice. :(
Ozil already traded in by 87k people which is 5th most of anyone this round. Surely you can't justify the 10m when he hasn't even trained with Arsenal yet and won't for another week.
Yeah but it's an easy risk if you have the FT and the money. If he plays and doesn't do well, everyone will jump off, however I'd rather be in that position than not have him and watch him score double figures. ;)
For me I had two FT and used one by going Walcott -> Ozil, and I still have 0.7 left over now if i need to use it, so no risk for me.
Ozil is under the Price Protection rule which protects a player's price from rising for 8-10 days or something I think.
So he won't go up before his first game, even though so many people are jumping on... I am probably gonna be one of them though ::)
Same applies for Erik Lamela, James McCarthy, etc... but not players like Romelu Lukaku and Stephane Sessegnon cos they were already in the FPL System - the Price Protection only applies to players NEW to the Premier League
Already brought him in Tom! :)
Guys, is Benteke in for Soldado worth the 4 point hit?
If I get Benteke I will give him the C if not Giroud.
So
Benteke x2 & Giroud. VS. Giroud x2 & Soldado.
Will the first option beat the second by more than 4?
Hazard & Oscar out for 2-3 weeks :(
Quote from: elephants on September 07, 2013, 11:49:41 AM
Hazard & Oscar out for 2-3 weeks :(
:(
Don't have either in fantasy though.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/liverpools-glen-johnson-set-miss-2259934
my team sucked so decided to use the wildcard. what do people think of my team.
Mignolet (Kelvin Daivs)
Evra Terry Coleman Fonte (Whitaker)
Lampard Ozil YayaToure (colback, barkley)
Benteke Giroud Soldado
Looks good Holz.
Sturridge instead of Soldado, Suarez isn't coming back in the near future is he?
Not interested in Ivanovic or Zabaleta?
Mignolet for goalkeeper, which you forgot.
Quote from: vinny on September 09, 2013, 05:30:27 PM
Sturridge instead of Soldado, Suarez isn't coming back in the near future is he?
Two games from memory actually ;)
Quote from: chrisuzz on September 09, 2013, 05:46:39 PM
Quote from: vinny on September 09, 2013, 05:30:27 PM
Sturridge instead of Soldado, Suarez isn't coming back in the near future is he?
Two games from memory actually ;)
Haha didn't know :P
Still Sturridge over Soldado for now IMO. Was going to actually trade Soldado out for Benteke but think I'll hold till next week.
Quote from: vinny on September 09, 2013, 05:30:27 PM
Looks good Holz.
Sturridge instead of Soldado, Suarez isn't coming back in the near future is he?
Not interested in Ivanovic or Zabaleta?
Mignolet for goalkeeper, which you forgot.
I didnt have the cash for Ivanovic or Zabaleta who I wanted so bringing in Sturridge lets me do this
Mignolet (Kelvin Daivs)
Ivanovic Zabaleta Coleman Fonte (Whitaker)
Lampard Ozil YayaToure (colback, barkley)
Benteke Giroud Sturridg
Looks awesome now!
Just joined the FF Classic League. Bit late so my score is going to look shocking and I will be last, haha. :P
Mignolet
Ivanovic Zabletta Mertesacker Fonte
Hernandez Lampard Yaya
RVP C Benteke VC Giroud.
Davis Chester WardProwse Colback.
My WC team. Liking it I guess. Think RVP will hit some form and score a ha trick this GW. Well I can only hope. What would you change ?
how does my team look?
GK - Mignolet (Boruc)
DEF - Ivanovic, Zabaleta, Shaw (Collins, Whittaker)
MID - Silva, Yaya Toure, Ben Arfa, Hernandez (Brady)
ATT - Benteke, Giroud, Sturridge
1.0 in the bank, WC active this week
Probably going to upgrade Yaya to Walcott or Ozil, and maybe downgrade Ivanovic to Mertesacker in defence. Any other changes I should make?
Is Ward-Prowse a better option than Brady?
Is there a price freeze on every player at the moment? Giroud has 177000 transfers in this GW but only gone up 0.1!!!!! And that was last monday. Sturridge is the same with 130000 transfers in
Yes for some reason, none of the price are changing. Not sure why either man.
Which one to play?
Coleman vs Chelsea at Home.
Collins vs Southampton Away.
Wanyama vs West Ham at Home.
I thought only new signings were price protected?? Weird?
Oh well, will be looking at this again on Friday :D
Sorry to spam you..... Which team is the best one???
[/hr]
TEAM 1 (current team) - 1.1 in the bank
GK - Mignolet (Boruc)
DEF - Ivanovic, Zabaleta, Shaw (Collins, Whittaker)
MID - Yaya Toure, Silva, Hernandez, Ben Arfa (Gunnarrsson)
ATT - Benteke, Sturridge, Giroud
TEAM 2 - 0.0 in the bank
GK - Mignolet (Boruc)
DEF - Ivanovic, Zabaleta, Shaw (Collins, Whittaker)
MID - Ozil, Coutinho, Hernandez, Ben Arfa (Brady)
ATT - Benteke, Sturridge, Giroud
TEAM 3 - 0.0 in the bank
GK - Mignolet (Boruc)
DEF - Mertesacker, Zabaleta, Shaw (Collins, Whittaker)
MID - Yaya Toure, Coutinho, Silva, Hernandez (Brady)
ATT - Benteke, Sturridge, Giroud
TEAM 4 - 0.0 in the bank
GK - Mignolet (Boruc)
DEF - Zabaleta, Mertesacker, Sakho (Shaw, Whittaker)
MID - Ozil, Coutinho, Hernandez, Ben Arfa (Brady)
ATT - Benteke, Sturridge, Giroud
TEAM 5 - RVP - 0.1 in the bank
GK - Mignolet (Boruc)
DEF - Zabaleta, Mertesacker, Shaw (Whittaker, Kelly)
MID - Walcott, Nolan, Hernandez, Ben Arfa (Brady)
ATT - RVP, Lukaku, Giroud
Who will get first run at Liverpool for Glen Johnson? Andre Wisdom or Martin Kelly?
Johnson apparently out for 10 games..? But with Liverpools large amount of defenders its tough to know in my opinion
EDIT: Just realised you meant as a replacement, anyways id suspect kelly mainly due to the fact that if Johnson did get injured Wisdom was going to be sent on loan
Mirallas has become the first player in my team to have dropped in price since getting them. :( Those that traded him out will rue it, mark my words. :P #n00b #howamidoingwell
Whats everyones thought on Ozil? 10mil is juicy i mean surely hes better than Hazard etc?
Quote from: chrisuzz on September 12, 2013, 10:06:19 PM
Whats everyones thought on Ozil? 10mil is juicy i mean surely hes better than Hazard etc?
I brought him :P Hope he goes well, he should.
Reckon hell start this weekend though? i mean he only just started training with them the other day
Not gonna touch him until I see how he settles into the premier league.
settled on my post-WC team ... 0.5 in the bank too
GK - Mignolet (Boruc)
DEF - Zabaleta, Mertesacker, Shaw (Collins, Whittaker)
MID - Ozil, Hernandez, Ben Arfa, Brady (Ward-Prowse)
ATT - van Persie, Giroud, Sturridge
And in a couple of weeks I might go Sturridge and Ben Arfa to Coutinho and Lukaku but we'll see haha
Flexible formation too, can play a 4-3-3 or 3-4-3
Quote from: Tominator on September 14, 2013, 09:38:26 AM
settled on my post-WC team ... 0.5 in the bank too
GK - Mignolet (Boruc)
DEF - Zabaleta, Mertesacker, Shaw (Collins, Whittaker)
MID - Ozil, Hernandez, Ben Arfa, Brady (Ward-Prowse)
ATT - van Persie, Giroud, Sturridge
And in a couple of weeks I might go Sturridge and Ben Arfa to Coutinho and Lukaku but we'll see haha
Flexible formation too, can play a 4-3-3 or 3-4-3
Very nice Tom but I think if you have RVP 4-3-3 is the best formation.
Have any thoughts on mine?
Mignolet (Marshall)
Ivanovic Fonte Mertesacker Vidic (Chester)
Walcott Lampard Brady (WardProwse, Colback)
RVP C, Giroud, Benteke VC
Let me know what you think ! Thanks man
I like the team Tom! Looks pretty strong even with RVP and Ozil. Think I prefer 4-3-3 but depending on fixture you can decide that.
Who for C and VC fellas?
Thinking Giroud and Ozil.
By the way, IS STURRIDGE PLAYING? :-\
Quote from: Jackross10 on September 14, 2013, 10:00:09 AM
Quote from: Tominator on September 14, 2013, 09:38:26 AM
settled on my post-WC team ... 0.5 in the bank too
GK - Mignolet (Boruc)
DEF - Zabaleta, Mertesacker, Shaw (Collins, Whittaker)
MID - Ozil, Hernandez, Ben Arfa, Brady (Ward-Prowse)
ATT - van Persie, Giroud, Sturridge
And in a couple of weeks I might go Sturridge and Ben Arfa to Coutinho and Lukaku but we'll see haha
Flexible formation too, can play a 4-3-3 or 3-4-3
Very nice Tom but I think if you have RVP 4-3-3 is the best formation.
Have any thoughts on mine?
Mignolet (Marshall)
Ivanovic Fonte Mertesacker Vidic (Chester)
Walcott Lampard Brady (WardProwse, Colback)
RVP C, Giroud, Benteke VC
Let me know what you think ! Thanks man
Like it a lot.... Thoughts on Sturridge to Benteke?
Quote from: vinny on September 14, 2013, 10:00:58 AM
I like the team Tom! Looks pretty strong even with RVP and Ozil. Think I prefer 4-3-3 but depending on fixture you can decide that.
Who for C and VC fellas?
Thinking Giroud and Ozil.
By the way, IS STURRIDGE PLAYING? :-\
RVP captain and Giroud vice
I HAVE NO IDEA!!!!!!
Guys.... Ozil and Mertesacker are listed as "doubtful" through illness.........
Quote from: Tominator on September 14, 2013, 10:22:14 AM
Guys.... Ozil and Mertesacker are listed as "doubtful" through illness.........
Yeah well in all the photos I have seen they have been together haha !
I went
Vidic - Cahill
Mertesacker - Ferdinand
Ivan - Zab
Quote from: Tominator on September 14, 2013, 10:22:14 AM
Guys.... Ozil and Mertesacker are listed as "doubtful" through illness.........
Flower. Ozil is in for me already and I have no WC :'(
Play Collins or Coleman? ( Coleman has Everton )
Quote from: vinny on September 14, 2013, 11:28:13 AM
Quote from: Tominator on September 14, 2013, 10:22:14 AM
Guys.... Ozil and Mertesacker are listed as "doubtful" through illness.........
Flower. Ozil is in for me already and I have no WC :'(
Play Collins or Coleman? ( Coleman has Everton )
I think you might find that Seamus Coleman actually plays for Everton. ;)
Haha my bad, meant Chelsea :P
Collins vs Southampton Vin ;)
Quote from: elephants on September 14, 2013, 01:39:25 PM
Collins vs Southampton Vin ;)
Thanks man, thought so too. Just needed someone's confirmation :)
If Sturridge doesn't play, I get 2 from Soldado and then have to hope Migs as C keep a clean sheet.
Haha should have played Coleman, hope Collins keeps a clean sheet!
41 with Mignolet, Reid, Collins, Nolan and Sturridge to come. Hoping for 70+
I'm only on 15... Hacks everywhere.
47 with 4 to play, oh how much better off I wouldve been if I had stuck with my gut and kept Ramsey over Lampard :'(
Walcott Skipper ::) Giroud vice with Ben Arfa also lurking ::)
41 with three to come. Kinda hope Collins or Clyne dont play so I can have Coleman's score from the bench.
Theo is legit going to cost me all my leagues :(
28 with two to play.... bye bye top 20k ranking. :'(
27 / 4 ... Ben Arfa, YaYa (C), Coleman and Soldado...still 7 to play.. :o
54 with Mignolet. Is this an average score ?
62 with Mignolet, Hernandez and Luke Shaw to come
16 mil, 2 forwards. Who do i go with?
Giroud and Lukaku is a tad over 16 mil (16.4 combined I think?), but if you can free up some cash somewhere then they would be your best best
Hmmm, turning Dzeko to Lukaku for sure, and then I think I'll keep Welbeck for another week. :\
Quote from: PowerBug on September 15, 2013, 10:19:36 PM
Hmmm, turning Dzeko to Lukaku for sure, and then I think I'll keep Welbeck for another week. :\
if your budget is tight I'd get Giroud as soon as you can. He'll go up in price very soon, maybe even tomorrow
Is it worth a 4 point hit going Welbeck to Giroud and then make another transfer? I could go Soldado to Giroud and save the 4 points though. :\
:D
http://www.sport24.co.za/Soccer/EnglishPremiership/Sturridge-fit-and-ready-20130915
Quote from: PowerBug on September 15, 2013, 10:39:51 PM
Is it worth a 4 point hit going Welbeck to Giroud and then make another transfer? I could go Soldado to Giroud and save the 4 points though. :\
Soldado to Giroud, Welbeck to Lukaku maybe?
Who is your other striker?
Considering I've already got Toure, what can I do with 9.3 mil for a midfielder? Don't seem to be too many good options without taking a massive downgrade
Brought in Eriksen as Villa Boas said he was 'Very likely to get his debut' against Norwhich and that worked well for me :) Who thinks hell start again?
And im thinking of going:
Soldado to Lukaku
Nolan to Ozil
Sounds beastly to me?
Will probably go either-
Nolan to Ben Arfa
or
Soldado to Benteke
Is it worth doing both and taking -4 :o
Quote from: Tominator on September 15, 2013, 11:46:50 PM
Quote from: PowerBug on September 15, 2013, 10:39:51 PM
Is it worth a 4 point hit going Welbeck to Giroud and then make another transfer? I could go Soldado to Giroud and save the 4 points though. :\
Soldado to Giroud, Welbeck to Lukaku maybe?
Who is your other striker?
Welbeck, Soldado, Dezko were my three. I've already made Dezko to Lukaku. Wuestion is where to spend the other trade. Giroud seems like too good to pass up, but being an Arsenal fan, I don't want to be biased haha I feel like getting Gayle or Campbell and keeping the cash for an upgrade in the midfield. :\
Giroud seems like a 100% must mate!
Solid draw too. :)
Soldado to Giroud. Stuff this game, I'm doing that. :P
Similar to me but Soldado to Benteke!
Evra to Coleman. Done.
Why is everyone making their transfers so quickly? Is it because of rises in price or? :P
Quote from: vinny on September 16, 2013, 07:25:23 PM
Why is everyone making their transfers so quickly? Is it because of rises in price or? :P
Yeah pretty much
Need to free up coin to get Ozil, that's why I did Evra -> Coleman.
Vinny is ranked pretty well. 7,000 at the moment
Haha fair enough!
What is priority?
Nolan to Arfa
or
Soldado to Benteke
Quote from: vinny on September 16, 2013, 07:31:05 PM
Haha fair enough!
What is priority?
Nolan to Arfa
or
Soldado to Benteke
.i honestly wouldn't get on Benteke. He had a great first 3 weeks but I don't think villa have the team to get it to him enough
Quote from: Jackross10 on September 16, 2013, 07:30:10 PM
Vinny is ranked pretty well. 7,000 at the moment
:D
Dont worry, I will start dropping soon!
Quote from: Jackross10 on September 16, 2013, 07:34:26 PM
Quote from: vinny on September 16, 2013, 07:31:05 PM
Haha fair enough!
What is priority?
Nolan to Arfa
or
Soldado to Benteke
.i honestly wouldn't get on Benteke. He had a great first 3 weeks but I don't think villa have the team to get it to him enough
It's arguably even a slightly better Villa team than the one that provided him with all of his goals in the 2nd half of last season and these first weeks
go wildcard had a 70 point week, basically autopicked a team to start the year.
have gone lampard to ben arfa.
Thoughts on my team post wildcard? 0.1 in bank.
Mignolet (Boruc)
Mertesacker, Coleman, Zabaleta (Chester, Collins)
Michu, Barkley, Yaya Toure, Walcott (Ward-Prowse)
Sturridge (C), Giroud, Benteke (VC)
Who are the must haves on the bench?
Can you afford.
Mertesacker - Wilson.
Barkley - Moses
Quote from: bomberboy0618 on September 18, 2013, 04:03:06 PM
Thoughts on my team post wildcard? 0.1 in bank.
Mignolet (Boruc)
Mertesacker, Coleman, Zabaleta (Chester, Collins)
Michu, Barkley, Yaya Toure, Walcott (Ward-Prowse)
Sturridge (C), Giroud, Benteke (VC)
Who are the must haves on the bench?
I'd get Jose Enrique in def instead of mertesacker, liverpool have a dream run of games with clean sheets expected. Walcott to Ben Afra will fund this, walcott not doing much lately
Thoughts on my team? Currently 0.0 in the bank
Mignolet (Boruc)
Evra, Zabaleta, Collins (Shaw, Whittaker)
Walcott, Hernandez, Ben Arfa, Brady (Ward-Prowse)
van Persie, Giroud, Benteke
For my trades, I can do (all of these would cop a -4 hit):
1) Evra to Coleman, Walcott to Ozil
2) Evra to Walker/Enrique, Hernandez to Ramsey
3) Hernandez to Ramsey, Walcott to Ozil
4) Evra to Coleman, Hernandez to Ramsey
5) Other suggestions?
Quote from: Tominator on September 19, 2013, 12:13:31 AM
Thoughts on my team? Currently 0.0 in the bank
Mignolet (Boruc)
Evra, Zabaleta, Collins (Shaw, Whittaker)
Walcott, Hernandez, Ben Arfa, Brady (Ward-Prowse)
van Persie, Giroud, Benteke
For my trades, I can do (all of these would cop a -4 hit):
1) Evra to Coleman, Walcott to Ozil
2) Evra to Walker/Enrique, Hernandez to Ramsey
3) Hernandez to Ramsey, Walcott to Ozil
4) Evra to Coleman, Hernandez to Ramsey
5) Other suggestions?
Evra to Enrique as a single trade, not sold on Ramsey for a 4 point hit.
I caved fellas and finally used my wildcard.
Mignolet (McGregor)
Dawson, Zabaleta, Mertesacker, Baines (Gabbidon)
Ramsey, Yaya Toure, Ozil, Eriksen (Colback)
Soldado, Benteke (Chamakh)
0.9 In the bank.
Thoughts please?
*I don't like doubling up having two people of the same team within GK/DEF.
*Baines to Coleman does cash but I am just such a fan of Baines, especially when he starts nailing penalties and free kicks.
*I could consider Ramsey to Moses, esp. with Coutinho injured now.
*Eriksen is a smoky; worth the punt?
*Benteke or Giroud or Sturridge.
Quote from: Luigi197 on September 19, 2013, 10:29:26 PM
I caved fellas and finally used my wildcard.
Mignolet (McGregor)
Dawson, Zabaleta, Mertesacker, Baines (Gabbidon)
Ramsey, Yaya Toure, Ozil, Eriksen (Colback)
Soldado, Benteke (Chamakh)
0.9 In the bank.
Thoughts please?
*I don't like doubling up having two people of the same team within GK/DEF.
*Baines to Coleman does cash but I am just such a fan of Baines, especially when he starts nailing penalties and free kicks.
*I could consider Ramsey to Moses, esp. with Coutinho injured now.
*Eriksen is a smoky; worth the punt?
*Benteke or Giroud or Sturridge.
Nice mate, I would get Moses in for Ramsey. I think you need to get a or some united players. RVP, Rooney, ferd, Evra. I have RVP as captain all season so I don't have to worry. Just a thoughts, get rid of Soldado - Giroud
Who for C ?
RVP MOSES OR LAMPARD
Quote from: Jackross10 on September 20, 2013, 08:04:35 AM
Who for C ?
RVP MOSES OR LAMPARD
I thought you had RVP captain all season :P
Mignolet.
Zabeleta, Ivanovic, Coleman, Reid.
Ozil, Yaya Toure, Ben Arfa.
Giroud, Soldado, Sturridge.
Soldado > ???
Would be taking -4, or should I wait one more week?
Thanks :)
I still haven't used my wildcard...
Should I be cutting my losses with Wolf or Soldado before it's too late and be bringing in somebody else (Giroud? ???)? I've got the two aforementioned and Sturridge.
Another option I thought of was trading one of those two down to somebody (Dwight Gayle maybe?) and then trading both Mata and Sessegnon and also bringing in Ivanovic.
I could use my wildcard to do all of that, yeah? :P
Using WC this week..team now looks like this...is bench too strong apart from the Goal Keeper?
Am trying to set up some cash growth and limit trading in for a while.. :-\
Mignolet
Zabaleta, Coleman, Enrique, Fonte
Sigurdsson, YaYa, Michu, Ben Arfa
Sturridge (C) , Giroud
McGregor, Abgonlahor, Ramsey, Ferdinand
Moses or Ramsey?
Am trading Hernandez for a -4 hit ... JWP is not a reliable sub, especially with Shaw injured too!
Quote from: Tominator on September 20, 2013, 12:58:30 PM
Moses or Ramsey?
Am trading Hernandez for a -4 hit ... JWP is not a reliable sub, especially with Shaw injured too!
MOSES
Quote from: Jackross10 on September 20, 2013, 01:03:27 PM
Quote from: Tominator on September 20, 2013, 12:58:30 PM
Moses or Ramsey?
Am trading Hernandez for a -4 hit ... JWP is not a reliable sub, especially with Shaw injured too!
MOSES
is it a good trade though?
Ended up using my wildcard.
My team was:
Mignolet (Mannone)
Reid, Shaw, Riether, Baines (Garrido)
Gunnarsson, Sessegnon, Mata, Michu (Jedinak)
Sturridge, Wolf (Soldado)
It is now:
Mignolet (McGregor)
Reid, Shaw, Baines, Enrique (Riether)
Gunnarsson, Ben Arfa, Michu, Ramsey (Jedinak)
Sturridge, Giroud, (Wolf)
I think that's an improvement... :-X
Nice work there Nige 8)
Playing WC this week and Toure -> Michu is tempting me with Swansea playing Palace. Worth it?
Thoughts on the Liverpool back 4 this weekend?
Injuries galore... Not sure if it is worth taking the punt on Sakho starting, forking out the moolah for Enrique or going stingy and backing Newcastle/Colocinni to keep a clean sheet at home against Hull...
I grabbed Enrique while using my wildcard, I reckon it'll be worth it.
Coloccini seems to now be a reasonable choice. Seen a few sites recommend him as a guy to bring in this week.
Soldado to Benteke is killing me.
If I do it will backfire, but if I don't do it, Benteke will fire.
Tempted to take a -8 point hit to get rid of Welbeck and Coutinho and bring in Sturridge + a mid under 8.5
captain dilemma:
Walcott, RVP, Benteke, Giroud or Ben Arfa?
No Ozil there? :o Of those I'd go Ben Arfa. :)
My team now, 1.1mil left over.
Mignolet
Coleman, Zabaleta, Mertersacker
Ben Arfa, Yaya Toure, Mirallas, Ozil (c)
Lukaku (vc), Giroud, Sturridge
(Marshall, Whittaker, Kim, Moxey)
I'll be starting on -8 this weekend, but should be worth it.
Quote from: PowerBug on September 21, 2013, 06:41:35 PM
No Ozil there? :o Of those I'd go Ben Arfa. :)
My team now, 1.1mil left over.
Mignolet
Coleman, Zabaleta, Mertersacker
Ben Arfa, Yaya Toure, Mirallas, Ozil (c)
Lukaku (vc), Giroud, Sturridge
(Marshall, Whittaker, Kim, Moxey)
I'll be starting on -8 this weekend, but should be worth it.
Don't have Ozil ::)
Yeah that's what I'm referring to. :o Why not? Any plans to get him in next week?
I am going either Ben Arfa or Ozil as C but I have no clue which one!
Quote from: PowerBug on September 21, 2013, 07:08:28 PM
Yeah that's what I'm referring to. :o Why not? Any plans to get him in next week?
Giving Walcott one more week
I know it will probably cost me 0.2 more than it would have last week, but Walcott should have got a hattrick last week and if he did everybody then Walcott would be 9.8 by now :-\
If Walcott doesn't do anything tonight then I'll probably just go Walcott to Ozil next week
fair enough. I jumped ship from Walcott to Ozil as soon as he was entered in the game, felt the risk with him was less than the risk without him. :\
Looking forward to what has become my usual Saturday ritual of Everton at 11:30pm. :) Wish there was no daylight savings. :(
My boy Ben Arfa! :D everyone is on him now haha!
Captained Walcott every week this season so he better deliver!
Current on-field scorers
Mignolet - 4
Enrique - 1
Coleman - 1
Ivanovic - 6
Nolan - 5
Lampard - 1
Benteke - 1
Lambert - 2
= 21
Bench:
Boruc - 9
Brady - 12
Reid - 1
= 23
FML :/
Ouch Koop! :(
I am 23 with Giroud x2 & Zabaleta & Ozil & Soldado & Yaya Toure.
Hoping for at least 60.. :-\
Clyne and Boruc also killed it on my bench ::) and Enrique only played 34 mins!
No-one scored above 2.
13 with Captain Theo, Valencia, Giroud and Soldado to play. Goodbye top 20k :'(
At this rate, would people say par will be between 40-60 ?
LEIGHTON BAINESSSSSSSS! :-*
Scored half my points so far. ;D
On 32 with Gunnarsson, Ramsey, Michu and Giroud (C) to come.
Hopefully a nice score is on the way.
Sessegnon scored though... so now I'm keen to see how Ramsey goes. :-X
What the flowering flower. :P
Baines! Haha.
I got rid of him when I used my WC to free cash elsewhere.
ROBBIE BRADY !!!!!!!!
Ok Ozil, time to show why you are gun. :) I'm on 13, after my -8 deduction. :( Won't be too fussed if Ozil (c) and Giroud both score doubles as Arsenal win 4-0 :) Also have Merterscaker, Zabaleta and Yaya too.
22 with RVP, Zabaleta, Giroud and Walcott to come
Hopefully Arsenal get up by a few tonight and that Manchester derby is high-scoring (more chance of Zab getting a goal or assist)
That decision to keep Walcott has hurt there Tom :\
Ozil perma skip now. >:D Singlehandedly made me happy with my team again.
RVP not named. Wowwwww...
Captain Walcott again sucking shower ::) I quit ahaha
Haha I luckily don't have Walcott, RVP or Benteke 8)
Giroud C hurt though.
Hoping to rise some more, come on Soldado.
Got Paulinho 2 weeks ago, just paid off, nice looking goal too.
Early traded Walcott to Ramsey this morning, maybe a week late but now have cash in the bank.
56 points with Giroud as Captain.
52 with Giroud C.
Dropped to 9900 :(
Suarez anyone??
Suarez or Rooney??
you know that "confirm your team" button ..used Wild Card but didn't use the button
Had Ramsay, Rooney, Ferdinand on my bench ... for a 43... :'(
Quote from: T Dog on September 23, 2013, 10:36:47 AM
you know that "confirm your team" button ..used Wild Card but didn't use the button
Had Ramsay, Rooney, Ferdinand on my bench ... for a 43... :'(
Man, that sucks! :( Gotta double check hey!
Mesut Ozil IN
Theo Walcott OUT
Waiting for diagnosis on RVP and Benteke before making my next move - either Lukaku or Ramsey will come in
Scored 21 ::) still topping my leagues!
Quote from: elephants on September 23, 2013, 12:08:50 PM
Scored 21 ::) still topping my leagues!
Are you in the FF ones? ???
decided not to take the 4 point hit of ivanovic to baines, big big mistake.
Which option:
1) Sturridge for Suarez
2) Coleman for Baines
3) BenArfa to Michu
:)
Had Baines and Michu from the start. ;D
Haha lucky. Had Baines but got rid of him because of price.
How will Sturridge be effected with Suarez back? Less goals? No Goals?
Quote from: vinny on September 23, 2013, 12:16:58 PM
Which option:
1) Sturridge for Suarez
2) Coleman for Baines
3) BenArfa to Michu
:)
Suarez!!
Just buckled and activated the Wildcard!!! Hoping I don't regret this latter
Post Wildcard team:
GK: Mignolet (Boruc)
DEF: Baines, Zabaletta, Coleman, Fonte (Wilson)
MID: Ozil, Ramsey, Yaya, Paulinho (Barkley)
FWD: Suarez, Giroud (Aluko)
Cash: 0.1M in bank
Slight structure change, dumped Soldado for a 2 man forward line to beef up defence. Hoping Suarez isn't eased in and plays 90 mins.
I like it mate. The two Everton boys up back could be a worry but Baines seems unstoppable right now.
Interesting you went with the 4-4-2 but it looks pretty solid. :)
Benteke to Lukaku (once I find out the extent of his injury)
OR
Moses to Ramsey
Was originally gonna trade Moses to Ramsey this morning but wasn't prepared to trade out Moses before I knew the extent of Benteke's injury
Quote from: Tominator on September 23, 2013, 02:35:08 PM
Benteke to Lukaku (once I find out the extent of his injury)
OR
Moses to Ramsey
Was originally gonna trade Moses to Ramsey this morning but wasn't prepared to trade out Moses before I knew the extent of Benteke's injury
Ramsey, he's already gone up 0.1 this week too
In:
Zabaleta
Giroud
Out:
Sagna
Sturridge
I feel like I should be trading out Sturridge this week... but to who?
Suarez! 8)
I'll never ever have Suarez in my team. :P
Why?! ???
Quote from: vinny on September 23, 2013, 04:27:20 PM
Why?! ???
Because, even as talented as he is and amazing on his day, he's a major flog. :P
TEAM:
Mignolet (Boruc)
Zabaleta, Coleman, Shaw, Collins (Whittaker)
Ozil, HBA, Moses, Brady (Ward-Prowse)
Giroud, RVP (Lukaku)
Ward-Prowse to Ramsey for a -8 this week?
OR
Ward-Prowse to Michu
RVP to Rooney (for a -4 next week)
Bench Lukaku for Brady and just play 4-3-3 :)
Went Gunnarsson to Barkley, I feel that was the right decision. :-X
I went Soldado to Lukaku.
Next week: BenArfa to Michu :)
Or maybe Sturridge to Suarez.
Keep Ben Arfa...vinny..imo
Quote from: T Dog on September 24, 2013, 07:22:30 PM
Keep Ben Arfa...vinny..imo
Hmm you reckon? He seems very on and off and I hear Michu is going to take his game to the next plus, he has a very very friendly draw from GW7. This is Ben Arfa's draw.
Everton
Cardiff City
Liverpool
Sunderland
Chelsea
Tottenham
Get both over a couple of weeks then.... ;D
Haha :P
Nah...really..i have them both with YaYa and Ramsay.. ::)
Haha good effort.
Wild Cards are the go... ;D
Show us your team dude
Mignolet
Zabaletta ; Coleman ; Fonte
Ramsay ; YaYa ; BenArfa ; Michu
Rooney ; Sturridge ; Giroud
McGregor..Sidwell ; Ferdinand ; Wilson
Thanks to Tominator for a few clues... 8)
Nice mate! :)
Only thing you are missing really is
Not jumping on the Ramsey bandwagon.... not sure why but just not ::)
Planned trades next week are Ward-Prowse to Michu and RVP to Rooney/Aguero/Suarez
Team then will look like this:
Mignolet (Boruc)
Zabaleta, Coleman, Shaw (Collins, Whittaker)
Ozil, Michu, Ben Arfa, Moses (Brady)
Giroud, Lukaku, Aguero/Rooney/Suarez
And now everyone has the same teams. :P Glad I started well, because it'd be very very tough to catch up.
How essential is Baines? using wildcard but can't fit him in. ManU have easy run coming so gone Evra instead. Davies and Michu have dream run after this week too so couldn't ignore them. Would love Evra and Baines but would have to sacrifice Michu and perhaps use Paulinho instead.
Swansea from GW7 to GW12 play Sou(a), sun(h), westham(h), Cardiff(a), stoke(h) and Fulham(a)!!!!! Surely Michu is a must at the expense of Baines!!
GK: Mignolet (Boruc)
DEF: Evra, Coleman, Fonte (Davies, Wilson)
MID: Ozil, Ramsey, Yaya, Michu, Barkley
FWD: Suarez, Giroud (Aluko)
Cash left 0.5M
Baines isn't a must, but he's worth having if you can get him.
Quote from: NigeyS on September 27, 2013, 12:59:23 PM
Baines isn't a must, but he's worth having if you can get him.
Are you saying he isn't a must because your my opponent in FFH2H Premiership this week? ;)
Quote from: timmyparso on September 27, 2013, 01:07:14 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on September 27, 2013, 12:59:23 PM
Baines isn't a must, but he's worth having if you can get him.
Are you saying he isn't a must because your my opponent in FFH2H Premiership this week? ;)
I hadn't even check that haha. :P
In that case, yes... I am saying it for that reason. ;)
TEAM THIS WEEK - 2.0 in the bank:
GK - Mignolet (vs SUN)
DEF - Zabaleta (vs AVL), Coleman (vs NEW), Shaw (vs CRY), Collins (vs HULL)
MID - Ozil (vs SWA), Ben Arfa (vs EVE), Moses (vs SUN)
ATT - Giroud (vs SWA), van Persie (vs WBA), Lukaku (vs NEW)
Bench - Boruc (vs CRY), Brady (vs WHM), Ward-Prowse (vs CRY), Whittaker (vs STK)
Next week I could spend that 2.0 going Coleman to Baines, but I think I'll do RVP to Rooney/Suarez/Aguero and Ward-Prowse to Michu
Thoughts on the team?
Should I start Brady or Collins? Mignolet or Boruc?
Quote from: Tominator on September 27, 2013, 02:49:31 PM
TEAM THIS WEEK - 2.0 in the bank:
GK - Mignolet (vs SUN)
DEF - Zabaleta (vs AVL), Coleman (vs NEW), Shaw (vs CRY), Collins (vs HULL)
MID - Ozil (vs SWA), Ben Arfa (vs EVE), Moses (vs SUN)
ATT - Giroud (vs SWA), van Persie (vs WBA), Lukaku (vs NEW)
Bench - Boruc (vs CRY), Brady (vs WHM), Ward-Prowse (vs CRY), Whittaker (vs STK)
Next week I could spend that 2.0 going Coleman to Baines, but I think I'll do RVP to Rooney/Suarez/Aguero and Ward-Prowse to Michu
Thoughts on the team?
Should I start Brady or Collins? Mignolet or Boruc?
Looks good, start brady over collins though, hull will score over west ham so I can't see collins scoring that well, brady may do some damage
I cannot, for the life of me, seem to get the players on the field vs on the bench right. My midfield this week is a great example of this:
On-field:
Ozil 2
Nolan 1
Arnautovic TBA
Bench:
Sigurdsson: 9
Robbie Brady: 12
why the flower does this keep happening to me? :(
21 off 5 + C......
This is torture.
34 from 5 with C.
I tell ya... This Aaron Ramsey bloke ain't bad. If you don't have him... you're missing out!
Hoping Migs can keep a clean sheet, McGregor's whipped out a 9 on my bench. :o
Quote from: timmyparso on September 27, 2013, 10:53:06 PM
Quote from: Tominator on September 27, 2013, 02:49:31 PM
TEAM THIS WEEK - 2.0 in the bank:
GK - Mignolet (vs SUN)
DEF - Zabaleta (vs AVL), Coleman (vs NEW), Shaw (vs CRY), Collins (vs HULL)
MID - Ozil (vs SWA), Ben Arfa (vs EVE), Moses (vs SUN)
ATT - Giroud (vs SWA), van Persie (vs WBA), Lukaku (vs NEW)
Bench - Boruc (vs CRY), Brady (vs WHM), Ward-Prowse (vs CRY), Whittaker (vs STK)
Next week I could spend that 2.0 going Coleman to Baines, but I think I'll do RVP to Rooney/Suarez/Aguero and Ward-Prowse to Michu
Thoughts on the team?
Should I start Brady or Collins? Mignolet or Boruc?
Looks good, start brady over collins though, hull will score over west ham so I can't see collins scoring that well, brady may do some damage
you were right !!
so bloody happy. Forgot to put Brady on my field and left Collins on there - Brady gets 11, Collins doesn't play!!!
Forgot my trades :(
Sitting on 3/13 atm which isn't terrible but bloody Hazard coming in as skipper (with Walcott scoring 0 as my C of course) and doing nothing with my Southampton boys killing it on the bench!
Clyne scored 6 as my 3rd sub so I wont be devastated if someone pulls out tonight! Jedinak and Turner already coming on ::)
Shocking week, will be using the trades brutally!!
Traded in Evra who did not play and had Davies as third bench for 8 points = FAIL!!!!
come on Mignolet, clean sheet would be good from you!
Especially after I left Boruc on my bench
Yes come on Mignolet!
My backline:
Ivanovic 1 - Wilson 1 - Zab - 1 and Everton will probably concede so Coleman 1.
Ozil C = 2x2
Goodbye Top 10k
Quote from: Tominator on September 30, 2013, 12:32:05 AM
come on Mignolet, clean sheet would be good from you!
Especially after I left Boruc on my bench
i have Fonte on bench as well
Sturridge!! 8)
On 8 with a goal and and assist to his name at HT.
No clean sheet for Migs, but Danny Sturridge! ;D
53 with Baines, Barkley and Ben Arfa to come. 8)
Nice score Nige!
I am 38 with Coleman, Lukaku and Ben Arfa. :(
This sucks cause I want Ben Arfa to score but I want a Coleman CS. :(
Best scoring week so far for me..70 with Coleman and Ben Arfa to play.....will cancel each other out probably.. :-\
Yeah, similar debacle here. If Everton can't keep a clean sheet, I'm hoping Baines can score. So maybe a 2-2 draw with goals from all 3 of my players? :P ;)
Nice T! Yeah I got the same problem :-\
I really want Ramsey now...form is so hard to ignore but is Ozil and Ramsey in the same team an issue?
It's not like Arsenal are losing.. :P
Quote from: vinny on September 30, 2013, 11:20:36 AM
Nice T! Yeah I got the same problem :-\
I really want Ramsey now...form is so hard to ignore but is Ozil and Ramsey in the same team an issue?
It's not like Arsenal are losing.. :P
At this point in time, Ramsey > Ozil.
Mmm, but when will Ramseys form end? Will it end?! :o
Quote from: vinny on September 30, 2013, 11:23:36 AM
Mmm, but when will Ramseys form end? Will it end?! :o
After studying his form pattern, reading the tea leaves, consulting my futuristic oracle ..i can almost, sort of, take a stab and with no confidence categorically say his form will end the same round as you bring him into your team... 8)
Hahaha as always.
46 with Ben Arfa and Coleman to come.
Happy with this score, should see me over the line I'm the league I care about!
Quote from: elephants on September 30, 2013, 11:36:55 AM
should see me over the line I'm the league I care about!
Ouch. :(
I am thinking going:
Ben Arfa --> Ramsey
Wanyama ---> Sigurdsson
Leaves me this team with 2 million in the bank.
Mignolet
Ivanovic Zabaleta Coleman
Ozil YayaToure Ramsey Sigurdsson
Giroud Sturridge Lukaku
Then with Wilson & Collins on the bench I can rotate with my other defenders each week based on fixtures. :)
Thoughts?
Quote from: vinny on September 30, 2013, 11:45:29 AM
I am thinking going:
Ben Arfa --> Ramsey
Wanyama ---> Sigurdsson
Leaves me this team with 2 million in the bank.
Mignolet
Ivanovic Zabaleta Coleman
Ozil YayaToure Ramsey Sigurdsson
Giroud Sturridge Lukaku
Then with Wilson & Collins on the bench I can rotate with my other defenders each week based on fixtures. :)
Thoughts?
Whats with the cash in the bank?..have a planned move coming up or just in case?..
I traded RVP to Rooney last night, because Rooney was about to rise.
Nek minnit
Suarez scores a double...........
Quote from: T Dog on September 30, 2013, 12:05:15 PM
Quote from: vinny on September 30, 2013, 11:45:29 AM
I am thinking going:
Ben Arfa --> Ramsey
Wanyama ---> Sigurdsson
Leaves me this team with 2 million in the bank.
Mignolet
Ivanovic Zabaleta Coleman
Ozil YayaToure Ramsey Sigurdsson
Giroud Sturridge Lukaku
Then with Wilson & Collins on the bench I can rotate with my other defenders each week based on fixtures. :)
Thoughts?
Whats with the cash in the bank?..have a planned move coming up or just in case?..
Not really I guess. Before those two moves I have 2.9 in the bank. :)
Quote from: elephants on September 30, 2013, 12:15:02 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on September 30, 2013, 11:41:25 AM
Quote from: elephants on September 30, 2013, 11:36:55 AM
should see me over the line I'm the league I care about!
Ouch. :(
I forgot to join the FF one mate ;)
Yet you created this thread and even put VSA's league codes in the OP. :P
Thanks for staying out of it so that your good mate Nige can win. ;) ;D
Quote from: NigeyS on September 30, 2013, 12:46:43 PM
Quote from: elephants on September 30, 2013, 12:15:02 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on September 30, 2013, 11:41:25 AM
Quote from: elephants on September 30, 2013, 11:36:55 AM
should see me over the line I'm the league I care about!
Ouch. :(
I forgot to join the FF one mate ;)
Yet you created this thread and even put VSA's league codes in the OP. :P
Thanks for staying out of it so that your good mate Nige can win. ;) ;D
I know aha, poor form by me :P
67 points so far, Captained SUAREZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8)
Pissed that Evra was rested >:(
Coleman and Barkley to come, hoping to remain undefeated.
Will bank his weeks trades but recommend all look at Swansea's and ManU's draw for upcoming weeks before you trade. I have Michu and Davies from Swansea and Evra from ManU.
SUAREZ!!!!!!!!!!!! (sorry, had to repeat that bit) ;D
Quote from: timmyparso on September 30, 2013, 02:18:23 PM
67 points so far, Captained SUAREZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8)
Pissed that Evra was rested >:(
Coleman and Barkley to come, hoping to remain undefeated.
Will bank his weeks trades but recommend all look at Swansea's and ManU's draw for upcoming weeks before you trade. I have Michu and Davies from Swansea and Evra from ManU.
SUAREZ!!!!!!!!!!!! (sorry, had to repeat that bit) ;D
>:( Need HBA and Sir Leighton to kill now if I'm to win in H2H.
If only I captained Ramsey or Sturridge over Giroud. :(
My captain has scored 2 points all season ::)
Quote from: elephants on September 30, 2013, 02:23:39 PM
My captain has scored 2 points all season ::)
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/81b18b308ca41ebc74b726171fc1db04/tumblr_mpz3chpRqT1sytgpro1_400.gif)
Quote from: NigeyS on September 30, 2013, 02:29:48 PM
Quote from: elephants on September 30, 2013, 02:23:39 PM
My captain has scored 2 points all season ::)
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/81b18b308ca41ebc74b726171fc1db04/tumblr_mpz3chpRqT1sytgpro1_400.gif)
I lol'd ;D
Hahaha ^ ;D
Hahahahha ^^
The laughs and reactions to my gif are too kind.
(http://media.tumblr.com/c53ab97da04051396fb604a8dd474032/tumblr_inline_mpmijvEq7n1qc9lhz.gif)
Quote from: NigeyS on September 30, 2013, 05:16:56 PM
The laughs and reactions to my gif are too kind.
(http://media.tumblr.com/c53ab97da04051396fb604a8dd474032/tumblr_inline_mpmijvEq7n1qc9lhz.gif)
I do... ;D
Quote from: T Dog on September 30, 2013, 06:09:41 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on September 30, 2013, 05:16:56 PM
The laughs and reactions to my gif are too kind.
(http://media.tumblr.com/c53ab97da04051396fb604a8dd474032/tumblr_inline_mpmijvEq7n1qc9lhz.gif)
I do... ;D
You wish you did. ;)
Haha is that a young Andy Roddick?
Quote from: elephants on September 30, 2013, 09:13:37 PM
Haha is that a young Andy Roddick?
Nope, it's Andrew Garfield. Plays Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man. 8)
Haha really Ele, really? :P
Quote from: T Dog on September 30, 2013, 11:13:07 AM
Best scoring week so far for me..70 with Coleman and Ben Arfa to play.....will cancel each other out probably.. :-\
I can tell the future... :'( :'( :'(
Haha was always gonna happen man..great score though! :)
I finished on 58. Lukaku 16 8)
Hatem Ben Arfa. >:(
Also got a donut from Baines after his yellow and conceding a goal. ::)
So yeah, 10 points were added and finished on 63. :(
HBA is gaaaaaawn.
Yeah he has a shower draw anyway so I am trading him out and I think I am going to have to play Barkley from now and I am going back to 3-4-3. Have 2.9 million to upgrade Ben Arfa. Ramsey is so tempting.
Got the 3-4-3 going now after I took the -4 hit.
HBA -> Brady
Wolf -> Rooney
Have 2 free trades this week...think I will move on Zabaleta and Sidwell but keep HBA... :-\
I'd get rid of Pablo and HBA, TeeDawg.
Quote from: NigeyS on October 01, 2013, 11:12:58 AM
I'd get rid of Pablo and HBA, TeeDawg.
Thanks Nige...checking out my options....was actually looking at HBA as Bench spot No1 and still bring in Terry and Brady for The Zabman and Sidwell. Just seems a lot of cash on the bench...dunnoo... ???
I find that it's best to have players that are serviceable on the bench, HBA is that... but his draw's rough.
hey guys, going overseas tomorrow for two weeks, this team look OK for 2 GW's?
Mignolet (Boruc)
Ivanovic, Walker, Enrique (Coleman, Reid)
Ozil (C), Ramsey, Robbie Brady, Sigurdsson (Arnautovic)
Giroud, Sturridge (VC), Lambert
See you all in 2 weeks!
Quote from: KoopKicka on October 01, 2013, 11:49:32 AM
hey guys, going overseas tomorrow for two weeks, this team look OK for 2 GW's?
Mignolet (Boruc)
Ivanovic, Walker, Enrique (Coleman, Reid)
Ozil (C), Ramsey, Robbie Brady, Sigurdsson (Arnautovic)
Giroud, Sturridge (VC), Lambert
See you all in 2 weeks!
Looks good mate!
Maybe upgrade Arnautovic and downgrade a defender
seriously... want... Ramsey.......... must.... resist.... urge.......
thoughts on this team?
2 FTs used
Mignolet (Boruc)
Zabaleta, Coleman, Shaw (Collins, Whittaker)
Ozil, Michu, Brady, Moses (Ben Arfa)
Rooney, Giroud, Lukaku
Could go Ben Arfa to Ramsey, or Collins to Fonte, for a -8, to cash in on price rises
Quote from: Tominator on October 01, 2013, 12:14:27 PM
seriously... want... Ramsey.......... must.... resist.... urge.......
This.
Quote from: Tominator on October 01, 2013, 12:14:27 PM
seriously... want... Ramsey.......... must.... resist.... urge.......
Go on...you know you want too.... ;D
Quote from: Tominator on October 01, 2013, 12:29:25 PM
thoughts on this team?
2 FTs used
Mignolet (Boruc)
Zabaleta, Coleman, Shaw (Collins, Whittaker)
Ozil, Michu, Brady, Moses (Ben Arfa)
Rooney, Giroud, Lukaku
Could go Ben Arfa to Ramsey, or Collins to Fonte, for a -8, to cash in on price rises
just watch spending / using points to have a player on your bench there Big Tom.. :)
for next gameweek....
Mignolet v Crystal Palace
Boruc v Swansea
Mignolet.
is that because you think Mignolet will make more saves?
Quote from: Tominator on October 01, 2013, 12:14:27 PM
seriously... want... Ramsey.......... must.... resist.... urge.......
give in and get him, he is the highest points scoreer now and at 6.3M is still a bargain.
DO IT!!!
78 points this week after using Wildcard, moved me up to an overall ranking of 6,500!! Better than my AFL Dreamteam!!
Quote from: timmyparso on October 01, 2013, 01:47:51 PM
78 points this week after using Wildcard, moved me up to an overall ranking of 6,500!! Better than my AFL Dreamteam!!
GG Timmy, well played my friend.
Quote from: timmyparso on October 01, 2013, 01:44:27 PM
Quote from: Tominator on October 01, 2013, 12:14:27 PM
seriously... want... Ramsey.......... must.... resist.... urge.......
give in and get him, he is the highest points scoreer now and at 6.3M is still a bargain.
DO IT!!!
Sorry Tommy, he just went up to 6.4M, still bargain though
Quote from: NigeyS on October 01, 2013, 01:48:37 PM
Quote from: timmyparso on October 01, 2013, 01:47:51 PM
78 points this week after using Wildcard, moved me up to an overall ranking of 6,500!! Better than my AFL Dreamteam!!
GG Timmy, well played my friend.
thanks Nigey :)
Quote from: timmyparso on October 01, 2013, 01:47:51 PM
78 points this week after using Wildcard, moved me up to an overall ranking of 6,500!! Better than my AFL Dreamteam!!
Seriously good work there TP... 8)
Quote from: vinny on October 01, 2013, 10:44:20 AM
Haha was always gonna happen man..great score though! :)
I finished on 58. Lukaku 16 8)
wanted to pull a trade so went Lukaku to Suarez this week. That 16 was nice kind of which i could reverse trade now.
Ouch! I brought him in for Soldado :)
I also just went Ben Arfa to Ramsey.
Is Ben Arfa injured? I swear Mirallas is not far from going huge. Scores this season have been 2, 3, 3, 3, 5, 4. He's gonna score eventually, and now that he's dropped to 7.2 no point getting rid of him.
Thinking Whittaker to Dawson this week, so I have 4 defenders from top clubs. (Zabaleta, Mertersacker and Coleman being the others)
Quote from: PowerBug on October 02, 2013, 07:40:32 PM
Is Ben Arfa injured? I swear Mirallas is not far from going huge. Scores this season have been 2, 3, 3, 3, 5, 4. He's gonna score eventually, and now that he's dropped to 7.2 no point getting rid of him.
Thinking Whittaker to Dawson this week, so I have 4 defenders from top clubs. (Zabaleta, Mertersacker and Coleman being the others)
Why not Davies instead? Swansea have an easy 6 weeks ahead
Ben Arfa to Ramsey worth a -8??
Or should I take -4 this week and -4 next week?
Quote from: Tominator on October 04, 2013, 11:55:06 PM
Ben Arfa to Ramsey worth a -8??
Or should I take -4 this week and -4 next week?
Ramsey asap, he'll cost more next week and other issues will pop up next week, guaranteed
Hey guys, terrible start for the season. On 296 points so far and took a 4 point bit to get Brady IN this week over the next 2 GW would you like these transfers?
Rooney to Lukaku next week before Lukaku plays Hull at Home.
Then Moses to Michu.
Leaving me with
Mignolet
Ivan Dawson Shaw
Ozil Oscar Michu Brady
Suarez Giroud Lukaku
( Mcgregor Moses Wilson Chester)
Quote from: Tominator on October 04, 2013, 11:55:06 PM
Ben Arfa to Ramsey worth a -8??
Or should I take -4 this week and -4 next week?
Hope you did it Tom, don't think HBA is named.. :o
----------
LUKAKU AND YAYA TOURE :D COME ON ZABALETA AND BARKLEY :(
OF COURSE I BROUGHT IN BRADY THE WEEK HE DOES HIS HERNIA INSTEAD OF YAYA TOURE. >:(
Also, they were updating the site when I tried to login and couldn't edit my team. :(
I have 3.9 million but I have no clue what to do! :P
What transfer/s should I make?
Mignolet (Daniels)
Zabaleta, Ivanovic, Coleman (Wilson, Collins)
Ozil, YayaToure, Ramsey, Barkley (Wanyama)
Lukaku, Giroud, Sturridge.
Thanks for any advice :)
Quote from: vinny on October 06, 2013, 11:57:09 AM
I have 3.9 million but I have no clue what to do! :P
What transfer/s should I make?
Mignolet (Daniels)
Zabaleta, Ivanovic, Coleman (Wilson, Collins)
Ozil, YayaToure, Ramsey, Barkley (Wanyama)
Lukaku, Giroud, Sturridge.
Thanks for any advice :)
Ivanovic to evra, manu have a good run and evra just bagged an assist last night. I bought evra 2 weeks ago for his draw
Thanks Timmy!
Is it better to trade Zabaleta because City are conceding heaps. :-\
Quote from: vinny on October 06, 2013, 09:01:11 PM
Thanks Timmy!
Is it better to trade Zabaleta because City are conceding heaps. :-\
You could flip a coin really but I think zaba has more potential for goals and assists which is why I'd trade out ivanovic
Already went Zabaleta but instead of Evra I decided to go Davies! He has a great fixture coming up :)
Now I have 5 million to do whatever in the next few weeks.
Quote from: vinny on October 06, 2013, 09:20:46 PM
Already went Zabaleta but instead of Evra I decided to go Davies! He has a great fixture coming up :)
Now I have 5 million to do whatever in the next few weeks.
Nice, I have both davies and evra
Sweeet! What moves you make? :)
Quote from: vinny on October 06, 2013, 10:21:06 PM
Sweeet! What moves you make? :)
Have no idea about trades for next game week, have 2 free trades this week but am happy with team as is. Used my wildcard too well 2 weeks back based on fixures. Suarez to sturidge is tempting for cash but suarez is too good to trade out. Trading wilson out is another option but there is noone that stands out to trade in without loading on Southampton players which I don't want to do.
I'll wait until the international games are played before trading so not caught out by injuries.
Quote from: timmyparso on October 05, 2013, 09:56:45 AM
Quote from: Tominator on October 04, 2013, 11:55:06 PM
Ben Arfa to Ramsey worth a -8??
Or should I take -4 this week and -4 next week?
Ramsey asap, he'll cost more next week and other issues will pop up next week, guaranteed
I gave Ben Arfa one more chance, and he failed miserably....
Did Barfa to Ramsey this morning, before Ramsey went up... again
Low scoring round this week :o
Quote from: timmyparso on October 07, 2013, 08:14:20 AM
Low scoring round this week :o
You're telling me! I only scored 30 points, and that was thanks to Sturridge as captain getting 18. The rest of the squad I had three people score 2, six people score 1, and one player score 0!!
Thank god I gave Sturridge captaincy :o
Think I got to 44, thank you Winston Reid!
Had McGregor and Riether on my bench. :(
A shocker... >:(
absimal start to the season...
FPL is every bit as cruel as DT....
Scored a weekly rank of 47 in Sportal Epl this week...work that out.. :o
When I saw the results over the weekend I thought I did terrible. My score of 37 justified that, but everyone did worse. :P Ozil captain too. :(
No transfers this week, Mirallas and Ben Arfa go next week.
Two days ago I traded HBA out for Ramsey (I know, so late on that bandwagon)
After the international games I'm taking a -4 hit to dump Collins for Clyne or maybe I'll splash the cash to get Fonte - it's necessary given that my benchies (Collins, Whittaker and Brady) are all injured/dropped
The reason I'm waiting is just in case one of my players gets injured playing for country... touch wood it doesn't >:(
If only I could play two keepers, then I'd have Mignolet and Boruc each week ::)
Quote from: Tominator on October 09, 2013, 12:20:39 PM
If only I could play two keepers, then I'd have Mignolet and Boruc each week ::)
::) same problem
Is it worth going Rooney to Remy then Barkly to Oscar for a -4 hit this week?
Quote from: T Dog on October 17, 2013, 09:19:41 AM
Is it worth going Rooney to Remy then Barkly to Oscar for a -4 hit this week?
Don't know about the second one, Darron Gibson got stretchered off in his first game back from injury, that could mean even more game time for Barkley
Thanks Big Tom...may hold off on anything this week and have 2 free trades next week... ;D
He took his time, but Mirallas!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOO Waited so long for him to be useful, and he was one week away from being transfered, but 13 points this week means I'll keep him. :D
The only bad thing for me, I decided for the first time since he signed for Arsenal, not to put Ozil as captain... cya 13 points, Lukaku got 2 compared to Ozils 15. :(
I scored 56 for the week :'( No one left.
Just above average... flower.
59 with 3 to play
46..Lallani on bench... :'( :-[
Flowering Davies could not play 15 damn minutes earlier and flowering Chelsea just had to concede one goal, same goes for flowering Liverpool.
Giroud, Ozil & Ramsey saved my ass :)
67 points brings me to 500 points!! 8)
Does anyone know if hernandez will return for Swansea next gameweek?
Quote from: vinny on October 20, 2013, 07:15:16 PM
Quote from: timmyparso on October 20, 2013, 07:13:24 PM
67 points brings me to 500 points!! 8)
476 :'(
Your still sitting 3rd in El Classico, your doing good still
Quote from: timmyparso on October 20, 2013, 08:54:09 PM
Quote from: vinny on October 20, 2013, 07:15:16 PM
Quote from: timmyparso on October 20, 2013, 07:13:24 PM
67 points brings me to 500 points!! 8)
476 :'(
Your still sitting 3rd in El Classico, your doing good still
Thanks man, but I will drop cause I have no one left to play. :-\
If Fulham can keep a clean sheet and Riether does something wonderful, that'd be great. I'd like over 50 for the week. 26 in El Classico isn't good enough. >:(
Quote from: vinny on October 20, 2013, 05:41:47 PM
Flowering Davies could not play 15 damn minutes earlier and flowering Chelsea just had to concede one goal, same goes for flowering Liverpool.
Giroud, Ozil & Ramsey saved my ass :)
Davies out for at least 2 weeks too :(
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2013/10/20/4346315/injured-ben-davies-to-miss-at-least-two-swansea-games (http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2013/10/20/4346315/injured-ben-davies-to-miss-at-least-two-swansea-games)
OHHHHHHHH OZILLLLLLLL AND RAMMMMMSEYYYYYYYYYY !!!!
Got a lazy 66 thanks to them.
Ramsey was a brilliant trade-in this week. Changed my captain from Michu to Ozil at about 8:30 on Saturday night!
Stupidly traded out Soldada for Remy this week ::)
i did find it funny in a conversation i had with mates that they didnt think Ozil was the best midfielder in the EPL
because of the fact he came from La Liga previously
60 points, not bad. Thinking Zabaleta and Ben Arfa to Lovren and Lallana for my two free transfers. Southampton's easy run continues for a little while yet. :)
52... Lame.
I am going:
Barkley > Hazard
Davies/Wilson > Lovren
thoughts on Michu to Hazard?
The big Spaniard just hasn't been firing of late. I still think he overachieved in the first season, he tends to go missing from games a bit too often but when he finds form he can be deadly. I just think that Swansea have a greater spread of goalscoring options this season than they did last
Also did Moses to Lallana
Quote from: Tominator on October 22, 2013, 12:43:49 PM
thoughts on Michu to Hazard?
The big Spaniard just hasn't been firing of late. I still think he overachieved in the first season, he tends to go missing from games a bit too often but when he finds form he can be deadly. I just think that Swansea have a greater spread of goalscoring options this season than they did last
Also did Moses to Lallana
I'm wondering about Michu too, has a good run but didn't score or assist against Sunderland last week has me worried.
Not sure on Hazard, he's been a bit hit and miss and Chelsea rotate their players a lot.
I'm worried that if I trade Michu that he will score well after trading him but my trigger finger is ready to pull if a suitable candidate pops up, I'm eyeing off his team mate in Hernandez, much cheaper and should return this week for a good run of easier games.
6 of my guys combined for 8 points
However
Giroud, Stutridge, Suarez, Ramsey, Ozill.
unfortunately had the C on stutrdige but 54 from 5 players not bad.
total of 62.
Quote from: timmyparso on October 22, 2013, 12:55:41 PM
Quote from: Tominator on October 22, 2013, 12:43:49 PM
thoughts on Michu to Hazard?
The big Spaniard just hasn't been firing of late. I still think he overachieved in the first season, he tends to go missing from games a bit too often but when he finds form he can be deadly. I just think that Swansea have a greater spread of goalscoring options this season than they did last
Also did Moses to Lallana
I'm wondering about Michu too, has a good run but didn't score or assist against Sunderland last week has me worried.
Not sure on Hazard, he's been a bit hit and miss and Chelsea rotate their players a lot.
I'm worried that if I trade Michu that he will score well after trading him but my trigger finger is ready to pull if a suitable candidate pops up, I'm eyeing off his team mate in Hernandez, much cheaper and should return this week for a good run of easier games.
Tommy, are you Unreal Madrid? If so you may be better doing something with Whiticker or Collins to give you coverage down back. Lovren or Fonte are affordable if you don't mind 2 Southampton defenders (they are having a good season so far) or Reid or even one of the Swansea defenders as they have a good run (not Davies as he may be out for 2 weeks)
Quote from: timmyparso on October 22, 2013, 04:51:45 PM
Quote from: timmyparso on October 22, 2013, 12:55:41 PM
Quote from: Tominator on October 22, 2013, 12:43:49 PM
thoughts on Michu to Hazard?
The big Spaniard just hasn't been firing of late. I still think he overachieved in the first season, he tends to go missing from games a bit too often but when he finds form he can be deadly. I just think that Swansea have a greater spread of goalscoring options this season than they did last
Also did Moses to Lallana
I'm wondering about Michu too, has a good run but didn't score or assist against Sunderland last week has me worried.
Not sure on Hazard, he's been a bit hit and miss and Chelsea rotate their players a lot.
I'm worried that if I trade Michu that he will score well after trading him but my trigger finger is ready to pull if a suitable candidate pops up, I'm eyeing off his team mate in Hernandez, much cheaper and should return this week for a good run of easier games.
Tommy, are you Unreal Madrid? If so you may be better doing something with Whiticker or Collins to give you coverage down back. Lovren or Fonte are affordable if you don't mind 2 Southampton defenders (they are having a good season so far) or Reid or even one of the Swansea defenders as they have a good run (not Davies as he may be out for 2 weeks)
Yeah I am haha
Collins to Fonte is very tempting
Problem is, I can only have 3 Southampton players. I already have Boruc and Shaw - do I get Collins to Fonte, or Moses to Lallana?
Is Ashley Williams back this week?
Lallana seems like a great buy but so does Fonte. Pablo Hernandez is another I am considering but I might wait another week before taking the plunge. Andros Townsend is another potential trade-in for Moses.
Not sure of Collins return date but I'd trade out Moses mate.
Hazard or Lallana?
i would get Lallana
but should i play Aguero and drop Ivanovic?
I think you should, Ivanovic is unlikely to have a CS this week.
Wilson to which defender? :)
3 options right here!
1. Ramsay, Ozil and Sturridge
2. Lallana, Ozil and Giroud
3. Lallana, Ramsay and Sturridge or Giroud
Ramsey, Ozil and Sturridge.
Southamptons draw goes to absolute shower in three weeks.
Quote from: vinny on October 24, 2013, 08:35:21 PM
Ramsey, Ozil and Sturridge.
Southamptons draw goes to absolute shower in three weeks.
Yeh that's true, it just looks funny having two Arsenal players in my midfield :-\ Not sure who i want more out of Ramsay, Ozil and Giroud
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZfmY9-VS3cw/UjZRH75jPqI/AAAAAAAAAN4/95cQ_RJG6mg/s1600/Untitled.png)
Quote from: chrisuzz on October 24, 2013, 08:42:10 PM
Quote from: vinny on October 24, 2013, 08:35:21 PM
Ramsey, Ozil and Sturridge.
Southamptons draw goes to absolute shower in three weeks.
Yeh that's true, it just looks funny having two Arsenal players in my midfield :-\ Not sure who i want more out of Ramsay, Ozil and Giroud
Haha I have all three. Dont be worried. Last week they totalled for 34 points 8)
Cicjose's picture shows he is world class. Ozil is a must.
Well this looks good, didnt realies i could get Suarez, so now its Suarez, Ozil and Ramsay :D
Awesomeeee!
Can't really say their draw goes to crap since they drew to United away, and they beat Liverpool away. Why can't they do the same against Arsenal or Totenham or City? ;) I picked up Lallana and Lovren before they both went up. :D Quite happy with my setup right now:
Mignolet
Lovren, Dawson, Mertersacker
Ozil, Yaya Toure, Lallana, Mirallas
Giroud, Sturridge, Lukaku
(Marshall, Coleman, Colback, Moxey)
Value: $101.5
Left over: $2.5
Not sure what the next step shhould be, I have no Chelsea or United players, maybe I should look there?
Hahaha maybe, that's a nice side. Maybe Mignolet has to go now? Liverpool are conceding alot. I am considering it.
Never really thought of Mignolet, but yeah Livershower are living up to their name lately. :P I could just move Marshall ($4.5) if I wanted too since I have the coinage. Mirallas is the other P.O.D. that needs to keep performing otherwise he goes. :)
Captain is easy this week, Ozil vs Palace, assists galore. :D
Yeah I am moving on my bench keeper too. Mignolet did his job for my team, time to bench him. Yeah Ozil easy! Expecting a huge score from the Arsenal players.
Arsenal 5-0
Ozil 1 goal & 4 assists
Giroud 2 goals.
Ramsey 2 goals & assist.
:D
look to torres.... yeah schalke's problem is defence and he did score a brace but this will bring him into calculations
Quote from: PowerBug on October 24, 2013, 09:28:37 PM
Can't really say their draw goes to crap since they drew to United away, and they beat Liverpool away. Why can't they do the same against Arsenal or Totenham or City? ;) I picked up Lallana and Lovren before they both went up. :D Quite happy with my setup right now:
Mignolet
Lovren, Dawson, Mertersacker
Ozil, Yaya Toure, Lallana, Mirallas
Giroud, Sturridge, Lukaku
(Marshall, Coleman, Colback, Moxey)
Value: $101.5
Left over: $2.5
Not sure what the next step shhould be, I have no Chelsea or United players, maybe I should look there?
I'd go Mirallas to Lallana or Ramsey I reckon.
UNREAL MADRID - Gameweek 9
GK: Boruc
DEF: Coleman, Zabaleta, Shaw
MID: Ozil, Ramsey, Michu, Lallana
FWD: Giroud, Rooney, Lukaku
SUBS: Mignolet, Brady, Whittaker, Collins*
* Collins will be traded next week, but a -4 to ditch him now is unnecessary
Taking a massive punt in starting Boruc over Mignolet, but I think it could definitely be worthwhile given Southampton have only conceded 3 goals in 8 games, and they have Fulham this week too compared with Liverpool who have West Brom, who can score against big clubs
That's a nice side Tom, I'd consider moving on Zabaleta. Maybe a Swansea defender? They have got a solid draw ahead.
Is Suarez in for Sturridge a waste?
Quote from: Tominator on October 26, 2013, 09:28:58 PM
Taking a massive punt in starting Boruc over Mignolet, but I think it could definitely be worthwhile given Southampton have only conceded 3 goals in 8 games, and they have Fulham this week too compared with Liverpool who have West Brom, who can score against big clubs
The punt paid off !!
The other punt of picking Ozil as captain did not...
Bloody Marshall from Cardiff got 12 points! :o On my bench though, cya later 10 extra points. :(
52 with two to play, not happy. Mirallas goes this week.
is there any reason at all to keep Michu at 9.0M? No returns from past 2 games against Sunderland and West ham
Quote from: timmyparso on October 28, 2013, 11:29:39 AM
is there any reason at all to keep Michu at 9.0M? No returns from past 2 games against Sunderland and West ham
I had two free transfers this week, and I was so close to trading him out (even though I love him :-*), but his output's not good enough. Brought in Lovren and Vertonghen - quality. Quite proud of that. But yeah, Michu's getting the Ax.
Quote from: NigeyS on October 28, 2013, 11:46:18 AM
Quote from: timmyparso on October 28, 2013, 11:29:39 AM
is there any reason at all to keep Michu at 9.0M? No returns from past 2 games against Sunderland and West ham
I had two free transfers this week, and I was so close to trading him out (even though I love him :-*), but his output's not good enough. Brought in Lovren and Vertonghen - quality. Quite proud of that. But yeah, Michu's getting the Ax.
Thoughts on Michu to Hazard? Who are some other options? Have 10.3 to spend
Already have Ozil.
Captain Mata and Siggy on the bench :(
Fun fact: my captain has never scored more than 2 points this season.
Still pumped 62 so not devastated!
Quote from: elephants on October 28, 2013, 02:40:28 PM
Fun fact: my captain has never scored more than 2 points this season.
Hahahaha whaaat?! Trying to be too unique with the choices or? ???
Quote from: NigeyS on October 28, 2013, 02:43:57 PM
Quote from: elephants on October 28, 2013, 02:40:28 PM
Fun fact: my captain has never scored more than 2 points this season.
Hahahaha whaaat?! Trying to be too unique with the choices or? ???
Preeeetty much! And I'm bias haha. Swapped between Hazard and Theo/Mata all season so far ::) :(
I'm strongly considering Mirallas -> Hazard. Also tossing up whether a -4 hit is worth getting either Aguero or John Terry.
Quote from: PowerBug on October 28, 2013, 06:39:01 PM
I'm strongly considering Mirallas -> Hazard. Also tossing up whether a -4 hit is worth getting either Aguero or John Terry.
Aguero not worth -4, not atvthe expense of lukaku, giroud or sturidge (I checked your team)
I am shipping out Mignolet I think :-X
Gearing up for a Benteke onslaught in the next few weeks 8)
Out goes (this is hard for me to say...) Michu... but in comes who? ???
Quote from: NigeyS on October 31, 2013, 03:21:09 PM
Out goes (this is hard for me to say...) Michu... but in comes who? ???
Robbie Brady plays Sunderland this week, if you don't have him already. He plays Southampton then Crystal Palace after that too.
Got Brady already. 8)
My mids are Brady, Ramsey, Michu, Barkley, Jedinak.
Got 0.3 in the bank.
sit quietly?
should i make changes?
(http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l566/Cicjose/fantasy_zps15353419.png)
That is a very strong side mate, how much cash? Also what is your rank, if you don't mind saying.
my rank is terrible :P
10,893 Australia down
323,841 Gameweek 1 down
324,257 Overall - down
0.7 in the kitty
Haha fair enough.
Hmmmmm maybe..
Trade out one of Fonte or Lovren, for a Swansea defender. Rangel?
Arsenal do have some pretty terrible opponents, maybe Lukaku or Benteke who has a great run.
any of the top teams defenses worth looking at for replacing one of Lovren or Fonte?
need a little bit of luck obviously but the only upgrades i see i need is an expensive mid like an Ozil....
but Ivanovic is annoying me since he is one of the best defenders in the league
Hmm I don't think there is too many options, teams are conceding from top and bottom of the table. Just looks abit heavy with Fonte, Lovren and Boruc. Yeah I know how you feel, I wanna get rid of Ivanovic only thing stopping me is his draw. I reckon your bench is too expensive. Downgrade that I think.
so downgrade one of the Everton players to the cheapest player, then upgrade Brady after the soft sector of draw?
I'd try and squeeze in Ozil if you can, but Yaya is in cracking form
MAYBE upgrade Coleman to Terry or somebody, but it isn't a massive priority
Very good team though mate
Quote from: Cicjose on October 31, 2013, 09:49:15 PM
any of the top teams defenses worth looking at for replacing one of Lovren or Fonte?
need a little bit of luck obviously but the only upgrades i see i need is an expensive mid like an Ozil....
but Ivanovic is annoying me since he is one of the best defenders in the league
ManU have soft draw, Evra would be worth looking at as he has a couple assists to his name from last few weeks too, the clean sheets should start coming as well
I have utilised the pointless 5th defender option aswell, just tried to find someone that could play every week that is priced at 4 mil. Dean Moxey from Crystal Palace is the guy I have, plays right back some weeks, so who knows, maybe one week he'll get an assist. ;)
@ Cic, like the team, very strong all round. Got to aim to get Ozil in, however leave the Southhampton trio for a bit longer, still got some good games to come and have already kept a clean sheet vs Liverpool this season anyway. ;)
Quote from: NigeyS on October 31, 2013, 04:56:26 PM
Got Brady already. 8)
My mids are Brady, Ramsey, Michu, Barkley, Jedinak.
Got 0.3 in the bank.
now Brady is listed at 50% with a hernia >:(
Quote from: timmyparso on November 01, 2013, 09:48:37 AM
Quote from: NigeyS on October 31, 2013, 04:56:26 PM
Got Brady already. 8)
My mids are Brady, Ramsey, Michu, Barkley, Jedinak.
Got 0.3 in the bank.
now Brady is listed at 50% with a hernia >:(
He's giving me the showers with his injury.
That's why I have Barkley and Jedinak though. I can trade out Michu (and replace him with whoever I bring in) and then play Brady (in case he does play) and then just have Barkley as first sub.
I want to bring Suarez in for Sturridge is it worth doing it this week? Or would you guys advise against it?
i would rather have both tbh
Quote from: chrisuzz on November 01, 2013, 05:41:41 PM
I want to bring Suarez in for Sturridge is it worth doing it this week? Or would you guys advise against it?
that's like saying "should I swap the Lamborghini for a Ferrari"
They're both jets
Quote from: Tominator on November 01, 2013, 06:54:57 PM
Quote from: chrisuzz on November 01, 2013, 05:41:41 PM
I want to bring Suarez in for Sturridge is it worth doing it this week? Or would you guys advise against it?
that's like saying "should I swap the Lamborghini for a Ferrari"
They're both jets
No they're not, they're cars. :P
Quote from: elephants on November 01, 2013, 09:00:41 PM
Quote from: Tominator on November 01, 2013, 06:54:57 PM
Quote from: chrisuzz on November 01, 2013, 05:41:41 PM
I want to bring Suarez in for Sturridge is it worth doing it this week? Or would you guys advise against it?
that's like saying "should I swap the Lamborghini for a Ferrari"
They're both jets
No they're not, they're cars. :P
ba dum tsss :P
Quote from: KoopKicka on November 01, 2013, 09:32:44 PM
Quote from: elephants on November 01, 2013, 09:00:41 PM
Quote from: Tominator on November 01, 2013, 06:54:57 PM
Quote from: chrisuzz on November 01, 2013, 05:41:41 PM
I want to bring Suarez in for Sturridge is it worth doing it this week? Or would you guys advise against it?
that's like saying "should I swap the Lamborghini for a Ferrari"
They're both jets
No they're not, they're cars. :P
ba dum tsss :P
ha-de-haa-haa
Terrible weekend, 39 with just Chico to play :(
Undefeated run is over :(
53 with Coleman and Michu to play. Capt Rooney.. ;D
68 with Rangel, Lukaku & Coleman to come! Aguero 38 :D
Um, dafuq happened? :o
Weird as round... I'm doing terrible. Giroud 4 as captain. Only saviours have been a Shrek Rooney and Rambo Ramsey.
Well if you think about it unless you had Aguero C, literally no way you could have done amazing.
Cheslea boys, Oscar and Hazard no score. Ivanovic, Terry no CS.
Suarez & Sturridge no score. Mignolet no CS.
Benteke no score.
Giroud no score.
Fonte, Lovren, Shaw, Boruc all no CS.
Pretty much means if you have these guys, you got a good side but you were just unlucky.
Only good players I guess that people may have are Silva, Toure, Ozil, Ramsey, RVP, Rooney & Aguero.
39 with Dawson, Lukaku, Marshall to come. Traded in Hazard and decided against a -4 hit to turn Giroud to Aguero.... :\
Quote from: PowerBug on November 03, 2013, 10:41:06 AM
Decided against a -4 hit to turn Giroud to Aguero.... :\
Was gonna do this but with Sturridge...
Boruc (2)
Shaw (2), Zabaleta (5), Williams (YTP - yet to play)
Ramsey (10), Ozil (6), Lallana (2), Michu (YTP)
Giroud (2), Rooney (24, as C), Lukaku (YTP)
So with Lukaku, Michu and Williams to come, I'm on a decent 53 points! Hope for a 3-0 Swansea win tonight and for Lukaku to bag a goal or two
Quote from: vinny on November 03, 2013, 09:20:34 AM
68 with Rangel, Lukaku & Coleman to come! Aguero 38 :D
Slow down vinny!!!!! I've only just climbed to no 1 in classic league and you're already poised to take it from me.
Hahaha, I am praying for a Swansea CS & Everton CS with Lukaku to kick a couple!
I have hit the top 522 of Cardiff City followers!
Lofty heights indeed. ;D
Quote from: vinny on November 03, 2013, 09:37:19 PM
Hahaha, I am praying for a Swansea CS & Everton CS with Lukaku to kick a couple!
+1
And for Michu to fire for once ::)
Just crashed from a ranking of 6,700 down to 29,800!!!!!!!! :-[
Quote from: Tominator on November 03, 2013, 11:41:21 PM
Quote from: vinny on November 03, 2013, 09:37:19 PM
Hahaha, I am praying for a Swansea CS & Everton CS with Lukaku to kick a couple!
+1
And for Michu to fire for once ::)
NEK MINNIT
INJURED
Who should I get? Hazard, Silva, Toure? Someone else?
The love affair with Miguel Michu. Get flowered you spudly one season wonder. >:(
Floweeeeerrrr! Got 77 but didn't manage to overtake you Timmy! Flowering 3 points in it. :'(
Quote from: vinny on November 04, 2013, 10:40:27 AM
Floweeeeerrrr! Got 77 but didn't manage to overtake you Timmy! Flowering 3 points in it. :'(
;D
Inb4 my good score last week counts for nothing and I've plummeted down the league rankings.
Barkley has to GO!!
Quote from: timmyparso on November 04, 2013, 11:24:56 AM
Barkley has to GO!!
Already gone Michu -> Lallana and Giroud -> Aguero.
Lallana draw gets tough very soon.
Quote from: vinny on November 04, 2013, 12:06:32 PM
Lallana draw gets tough very soon.
Cheap-ish and serviceable.
Needed a bit of cash to turn Giroud into Aguero.
(http://s3.amazonaws.com/br-cdn/temp_images/2013/11/02/Begovic1.gif)
Up until Begovic's goal, I thought that stuff only happened on FIFA. :o
Begovic joins Peter Schmeichel, Paul Robinson, Brad Friedel and Tim Howard
as the only goalkeepers to score goals in Premier League history.
Tim Howard (everton) did it 2 seasons ago
(http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Tim-Howard.gif)
Rooney Aguero or Suarez hmmmmm
Rooney with struggling Man U and there is just something i dont like about him
Aguero with Man City though Man City do have to position where they may rest him
or Suarez who would also be positioned up front with Sturridge in my side which makes me wary
Who in for Michu?
Silva? Toure? Hazard? Somebody else?
I reckon Silva or Toure. I have YayaToure but either should have solid return. :)
Quote from: Tominator on November 05, 2013, 11:44:43 AM
Who in for Michu?
Silva? Toure? Hazard? Somebody else?
Toure or Steven Gerrard.
Liverpool's next 4 are Fulham (H), Everton (A), Hull (A) and Norwich (H) so Gerrard may be usefull.
Is Guzan a good replacement for Mignolet, they have a pretty solid draw. I would get Vorm but he flowering got himself red carded.
Quote from: vinny on November 05, 2013, 01:03:48 PM
Is Guzan a good replacement for Mignolet, they have a pretty solid draw. I would get Vorm but he flowering got himself red carded.
who is your back up keeper? if you have a good back up then may not be worth the trade, Villa do have a good run of games though but Villa havn't had may clean sheets either
Daniels :(
Unless I make another trade and save some cash I can't swap Daniels cause I am 0.1 short.
Mignolet (Daniels)
Ivanovic, Rangel, Coleman. (Davies, Collins)
Ozil, YayaToure, Lallana, Ramsey. (Wanyama)
Lukaku, Aguero, Sturridge.
0.9 in the bank.
What you reckon? :)
Quote from: vinny on November 05, 2013, 01:37:48 PM
Daniels :(
Unless I make another trade and save some cash I can't swap Daniels cause I am 0.1 short.
Mignolet (Daniels)
Ivanovic, Rangel, Coleman. (Davies, Collins)
Ozil, YayaToure, Lallana, Ramsey. (Wanyama)
Lukaku, Aguero, Sturridge.
0.9 in the bank.
What you reckon? :)
I'm thinking Mignolet plays Fulham at home so I'd hang onto him.
Your 2 benched defenders are injured, the trade may be better spent here, maybe Collins to Reid?
Thanks man.
Hmmm, I think Reid is too expensive. I might go Rat at 4.5 million.
So: Collins to Rat
Next week maybe: Mignolet > Guzan
Lallana is the other one I'd like to deal with before the draw gets shower.
I'm tempted to risk everything, go Giroud > Torres, captain him, and watch me either love myself for a while when he scores a double, or start crying when he gets subbed off in the 59th minute after doing nothing.
What percentage of people do you think have used their wildcard in the Barclay's league?
I'll start 0% of me has.
100% of me has.
But overall, I'd say about 60% have used their WC by now
All of you! :o. :)
I have used my first one! 8)
Used it in like the third week, haha.
Quote from: Tominator on November 05, 2013, 11:19:21 PM
100% of me has.
But overall, I'd say about 60% have used their WC by now
i am in the 60% who have 100% used their WC...that means 160% of me has used 100% compared to 60% of the total teams who arent in the 40% who still may..tho 20% may still not and i am 99% sure they may or just may not... 8)
Quote from: T Dog on November 06, 2013, 08:57:12 PM
Quote from: Tominator on November 05, 2013, 11:19:21 PM
100% of me has.
But overall, I'd say about 60% have used their WC by now
i am in the 60% who have 100% used their WC...that means 160% of me has used 100% compared to 60% of the total teams who arent in the 40% who still may..tho 20% may still not and i am 99% sure they may or just may not... 8)
my mind has been well and truly flowered .... ::)
Quote from: Tominator on November 06, 2013, 11:29:45 PM
Quote from: T Dog on November 06, 2013, 08:57:12 PM
Quote from: Tominator on November 05, 2013, 11:19:21 PM
100% of me has.
But overall, I'd say about 60% have used their WC by now
i am in the 60% who have 100% used their WC...that means 160% of me has used 100% compared to 60% of the total teams who arent in the 40% who still may..tho 20% may still not and i am 99% sure they may or just may not... 8)
my mind has been well and truly flowered .... ::)
Its nice to noticed... ;D ;D ;D
47 with 4 to play. :) Hazard and Lallana were awesome, captain Sturridge not so. Got three Gunners in my team, so require clean sheet for Per and then Ozil and Giroud to combine a couple of times. :) And Ramsey to be subbed off in the 59th minute. :P
30 with Aguero x2, Ramsey, Ozil, Rangel, YayaToure to come.
I must beat Timmy, hahaha.
26 with Rooney (C), Ozil, Ramsey, Giroud, Williams and Zabaleta to come
Hoping for a high-scoring United-Arsenal game; I need Rooney to fire
Quote from: vinny on November 10, 2013, 12:36:08 PM
30 with Aguero x2, Ramsey, Ozil, Rangel, YayaToure to come.
I must beat Timmy, hahaha.
Good luck vinny!!! On 46 with Ozil, Ramesy, Yaya, Januzaj, Giroud and Chico to go.
Flower, hahaha.
Ramsey, Ozil & Yaya cancel out aswell Chico and Davies.
So:
Aguero x2
VS
16 + Giroud + Januzaj
:'(
Would need a Aguero double and a 2 from each of your players. :P
On 39 / 6..Sturridge capt, :'(....Coleman, Gerrard and Lallana... ;D
Still Davies, YaYa, Ramsay, Giroud and Rooney to come.
Heres hoping... 8)
Quote from: T Dog on November 10, 2013, 05:51:21 PM
On 39 / 6..Sturridge capt, :'(....Coleman, Gerrard and Lallana... ;D
Still Davies, YaYa, Ramsay, Giroud and Rooney to come.
Heres hoping... 8)
Yep ...a massive combined total of 11 from the 5 of them... >:( :'(
Traded in and captained Aguero. ::)
TRADES
OUT: Giroud and Michu
IN: Suarez and Morrison
TEAM NOW
Boruc
Zabaleta - Shaw - Williams - Coleman
Lallana - Ramsey - Ozil
Rooney - Suarez - Lukaku
Mignolet - Brady - Morrison - Whittaker
Zabaleta also on the chopping block. Had 2 FTs this week so yet to lose any points
62 thanks to Suarez
Quote from: Tominator on November 11, 2013, 12:20:12 PM
TRADES
OUT: Giroud and Michu
IN: Suarez and Morrison
TEAM NOW
Boruc
Zabaleta - Shaw - Williams - Coleman
Lallana - Ramsey - Ozil
Rooney - Suarez - Lukaku
Mignolet - Brady - Morrison - Whittaker
Zabaleta also on the chopping block. Had 2 FTs this week so yet to lose any points
Looks good Tom, hold fire on Zaba for now and wait until after the International matces before looking at more trades.
Haha shower I forgot about EPL DT this week :-\
Ramsey, Ozil, Yaya Toure, Davies & Aguero x2
No one did jack.
Just yoloed it with Per > Baker (3.9) and Giroud to Rooney.
Hahaha I am tempted to do something like that free up cash PB. Was looking at Chester at 3.9!
But I wanna take an 8 and go.
Ozil > Hazard
Mignolet > Guzan
Sturridge > Suarez
Thoughts? :)
Just did Sturridge to Suarez and Paulinho to Morrison. Paulinho unfortunately hasn't performed as I had hoped he would (which means he now will since I've traded him), and Suarez just can't pass up at the moment
Quote from: CrowsFan on November 11, 2013, 07:31:51 PM
Just did Sturridge to Suarez and Paulinho to Morrison. Paulinho unfortunately hasn't performed as I had hoped he would (which means he now will since I've traded him), and Suarez just can't pass up at the moment
hope you did it before the price rises this morning !
Nope :(
Brady to Morrison. Sick of Brady's hernia
Quote from: timmyparso on November 12, 2013, 01:09:32 PM
Brady to Morrison. Sick of Brady's hernia
Just did trade then find out Wiston Reid is out for 10 weeks!!!!!!! >:(
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2501588/Winston-Reid-Andy-Carroll-miss-rest-2013-West-Ham-United.html?ico=sport%5Eheadlines (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2501588/Winston-Reid-Andy-Carroll-miss-rest-2013-West-Ham-United.html?ico=sport%5Eheadlines)
Suarez is firming as perma-captain material.
He has been C for me every week since his return and only let me down last week. Helped me to 73 points this week (-4 for a hit).
When he's on he scores crazy amounts of points and if not he still seems to get in the action.
This season the scores are fluctuating all the time. It's almost worth taking hits every week and trading players on a run of form.
PS - If Ramsey scores again I won't be happy. He's killing me - only guy I have thought 'his form won't last'.
Yeah I agree, I am doing anything to get Suarez, even taking an 8 point hit. I am sure he will cover it in a game 8)
Which defender for 5.2 guys? I got Rat, Rangel, Davies, Coleman.
Really stuck on this one :-[
coleman 8)
Already got Coleman mate, how about one of these guys?
Haha actually flower it as I was looking for the details on two guys I just got Vlaar from Villa :P
Quote from: vinny on November 12, 2013, 08:10:37 PM
Already got Coleman mate, how about one of these guys?
Haha actually flower it as I was looking for the details on two guys I just got Vlaar from Villa :P
Sorry Vinny...my bad..misread... :-[
Haha all good man. :)
Quote from: vinny on November 12, 2013, 08:10:37 PM
Already got Coleman mate, how about one of these guys?
Haha actually flower it as I was looking for the details on two guys I just got Vlaar from Villa :P
Same here, so already taking a 4 point hit, hope the internationals don't cause me any headaches :-[
Just on the FPL Statistics page looking at the price change predictor and notices that Gareth Bale still has ownership of 45,668 :o
Quote from: timmyparso on November 13, 2013, 10:19:57 AM
Just on the FPL Statistics page looking at the price change predictor and notices that Gareth Bale still has ownership of 45,668 :o
Just shows you how good he is..... ;D
Tempted to take another hit and go Lukaku > Remy. Am I crazy, haha?
yes you are crazy. But that move isn't. :)
Hahaha, it would be a -12 altogether. Suarez and Remy should make it up in a week or two.
that is a big hit to be taking however. :o
Not if Suarez scores a double and Remy bags one too. :)
Quote from: vinny on November 14, 2013, 10:46:41 PM
Not if Suarez scores a double and Remy bags one too. :)
Do it ;D I can extend my leed ;D
Haha what moves did you do this week?
Quote from: vinny on November 15, 2013, 11:35:26 AM
Haha what moves did you do this week?
Reid to Vlaar and Brady to Morrison (-4 point hit).
I'm eying of Hazard in next game week, Chelsea have a soft draw (excl Southampton in GW13), rotations are concerning though as there is only a few days between GW13 and GW14 then GW14 and GW15.
Yeah I'll either be going:
Lukaku > Remy
OR
Ozil > Hazard
OR
Rangel > Someone
Why trade Ozil??
Well I have two Arsenal midfielders already and Ozil seems to be having solid games just not FPL wise, plus they have a shower draw. Chelsea midfielder would be good because I need coverage, they have a good draw. :)
Arsenal vs Southhampton game....woweee.... ;D
TEAM FOR GW 12
Mignolet
Shaw - Zabaleta - Williams
Ramsey - Lallana - Ozil - Brady
Remy - Suarez - Rooney (C)
Boruc - Coleman - Morrison - Whittaker
So I obviously got rid of Giroud this week..... Rooney better do something. :P
traded Giroud and Lukaku and they both get 13
Having said that, Remy and Suarez got 9 each, so I'll still take it ::)
Zabaleta needs ot keep a CS and Rooney as captain better fire, I'm only on 33, putrid!!
Thankfully I kept Lukaku. :P hmmm, not ideal is that score :( I have 38 with Baker, Dawson, Yaya, Rooney (c) to come, so still can get a reasonable total.
Totally forgot about my team this week... :-X
40 with Guzan, Vlaar, Rat, Aguero and Yaya to come. :(
Hoping for 70 at least!
Quote from: PowerBug on November 24, 2013, 11:06:25 AM
Thankfully I kept Lukaku. :P hmmm, not ideal is that score :( I have 38 with Baker, Dawson, Yaya, Rooney (c) to come, so still can get a reasonable total.
I need Benteke to play a big game to knock you off PowerBug, Rooney came through for you.
Ooooo, and you're top :o That'd be a nice scalp to take. :D Need Baker to not play so that Moxey can come on with his 6 points. :P That'll take me to 70 all up. :)
My defensive 5 (4 defenders and keeper) contributed 2 points between them this week! :o
Thank god I had Rooney, Remy and Suarez up front and Oscar in the middle otherwise my team would have been humiliated! Finished on 59 points this week...
Flower this. :(
My defenders scored -1 between them. :o
Midfielders combined for 5.
The rest of the points came from Mig (4 iirc) and my forwards - Rooney, Sturridge and Aguero (c) :P
^And they gave you like 60 right? :P
My 3 backs gave me 1, and my worst one of the 5, Moxey, was sitting in D3 like he has all season, and his last two games have been 8 and 6... :(
Started season with 9 straight wins, now lost 2 in last 3, cracks in my team are getting bigger. Well done PowerBug
Quote from: PowerBug on November 26, 2013, 09:23:52 AM
^And they gave you like 60 right? :P
My 3 backs gave me 1, and my worst one of the 5, Moxey, was sitting in D3 like he has all season, and his last two games have been 8 and 6... :(
60? My team only got 55. :P
Quote from: timmyparso on November 26, 2013, 09:53:04 AM
Started season with 9 straight wins, now lost 2 in last 3, cracks in my team are getting bigger. Well done PowerBug
Cheers man, got lucky with Rooney. :P Woulda scored more if I didn't transfer out Per and Giroud but anyway.. :P Now need to find a way to fit Aguero in... :\
62 for me this week..defenders = 2 in total..1,1,0... :-[
63 :(
Only player to get points were Lukaku, Aguero, Suarez and Yaya.
Not sure whether to get rid of Lukaku or Remy for Aguero :-/
Quote from: chrisuzz on November 26, 2013, 02:27:56 PM
Not sure whether to get rid of Lukaku or Remy for Aguero :-/
neither, both are good value for money at the moment. If you had to, I'd get rid of Lukaku based on Evertons tougher run of fixtures
Haven't posted here for a while. What do ya'll think of my team?
Mignolet
Dawson, Distin, Fonte
Hazard, Yaya Toure, Ozil, Ramsay, Lallana
Suarez, Giroud
(Harper, Rosenoir, Berahino, Gabbidon)
Quote from: Luigi197 on November 26, 2013, 05:59:24 PM
Haven't posted here for a while. What do ya'll think of my team?
Mignolet
Dawson, Distin, Fonte
Hazard, Yaya Toure, Ozil, Ramsay, Lallana
Suarez, Giroud
(Harper, Rosenoir, Berahino, Gabbidon)
I like it! Having said that though, the strikers are performing way better than midfielders at the moment. You might be better off downgrading Toure/Ozil/Hazard - as for which one, I'll leave to you - to a cheap mid (e.g. Ravel Morrison, and just bench him) and upgrading Berahino to a good striker :)
Current side needs a back change...any suggestions who to get in?
Mignolet
Coleman, Davies, Fonte
YaYa, Gerrard, Ramsey, Lallana
Rooney, Suarez, Giroud
Boruc, Barkley, Wilson, Faye
Trade out Boruc, for Guzan or another keeper with a good draw. Trade Fonte too. Southhampton will concede from now I think.
This week I say goodbye to Ozil, at 10.5M he just isn't scoring as he should, welcome back Hazard!!
This move will likely backfire and Ozil will score a double and Hazard get rested. Fingers crossed
Quote from: vinny on November 28, 2013, 12:22:12 PM
Trade out Boruc, for Guzan or another keeper with a good draw. Trade Fonte too. Southhampton will concede from now I think.
Thanks Vin meister.. ;D
Quote from: timmyparso on November 28, 2013, 12:56:29 PM
This week I say goodbye to Ozil, at 10.5M he just isn't scoring as he should, welcome back Hazard!!
This move will likely backfire and Ozil will score a double and Hazard get rested. Fingers crossed
Hahaha I did the exact same move.
Why not get both? :D
I am poor :( After spending a showertt load of money on the forward line of Suarez and Aguero.
Brought in Mertesacker and Gabbidon for Fonte and Wilson. Keeper #2 upgrade next week I hope.. :P
Traded Ozil out for Gerrard this week. Don't think I have had Gerrard in my fantasy team for a couple of seasons now, but seems to be in some form again and has got a good run of fixtures coming up. Plus all he has to do is pass the ball to Suarez and he gets an assist :)
So traded out ozil for him to get 2 assists and 2 BP, I hope dumping Benteke won't backfire next week
So happy with my start, every single player got a CS, goal or an assist. :D
62 with Lallana, Aguero (C), Yaya Toure & Suarez to come. :D
I am coming Timmy. ;)
Forgot about my team again. ::)
Quote from: timmyparso on December 01, 2013, 08:41:13 AM
So traded out ozil for him to get 2 assists and 2 BP, I hope dumping Benteke won't backfire next week
Did the same thing trading Ozil :(
Currently on 37 from 4 (Ramsey, Coleman, Remy and Morrison). Got Suarez (C), Rooney, Oscar, Gerrard, Walker, Fonte and Boruc to play :)
Currently on 36 from 4 (Ramsey, Coleman, Giroud and Mertesecker). Got Suarez (C), Rooney, Lallana, Gerrard, YaYa, Davies and Mignolet to play
On 41 with Suarez (C), hazard, yaya, evra and mignolet to come
Quote from: timmyparso on November 28, 2013, 12:56:29 PM
This week I say goodbye to Ozil, at 10.5M he just isn't scoring as he should, welcome back Hazard!!
This move will likely backfire and Ozil will score a double and Hazard get rested. Fingers crossed
I got one thing right, it DID backfire!!!!!!!! Ozil 11 points vs Hazard 2!!!!
Does anyone know where the "Reverse Changes" button is located??
Don't forget there is a midweek Gameweek this week, starting Wednesday night.
79 points this week, pretty happy! Got 2 FTs up my sleeve but not sure what I should do :-\
Boruc out may be one trade I do
Mignolet (Boruc)
Zabaleta - Shaw - Coleman (Williams, Whittaker)
Ozil - Ramsey - Lallana - Morrison (Brady)
Rooney - Suarez - Remy
1.7 in the bank
Id do either:
Shaw > Vlaar
or
Boruc >Rat
Quote from: vinny on December 02, 2013, 04:13:56 PM
Id do either:
Shaw > Vlaar
or
Boruc >Rat
shaw >vlaar, not sure you you can trade a keeper for a defender
Quote from: Tominator on December 02, 2013, 03:50:28 PM
79 points this week, pretty happy! Got 2 FTs up my sleeve but not sure what I should do :-\
Boruc out may be one trade I do
Mignolet (Boruc)
Zabaleta - Shaw - Coleman (Williams, Whittaker)
Ozil - Ramsey - Lallana - Morrison (Brady)
Rooney - Suarez - Remy
1.7 in the bank
nice looking team Tommy, with Boruc out for 6 weeks he would be the obvious trade out. Everton have a sweet run of games soon so Howard may be the pick, tough next 2 week though but good after that.
Whittaker would surely be on thin ice too but not an essensial trade, Williams would be a handy D4 with Swanseas draw.
Forgetting about my team means I'll have some FTs. ;D
Quote from: timmyparso on December 02, 2013, 04:26:01 PM
Quote from: vinny on December 02, 2013, 04:13:56 PM
Id do either:
Shaw > Vlaar
or
Boruc >Rat
shaw >vlaar, not sure you you can trade a keeper for a defender
Sorru meant Guzan
Looks like some big scores this week.
Suarez 4 goals - so far!
I have him as Capt.... ;D
105 POINTS!!!!! high scoring round this week!!
Suarez Captain ;D ;D ;D
Hazard finally pays off too :D He out scored Ozil so I don't feel as bad for last week trade
Fonte should have stayed on the bench, cost me 7 points with Chico's clean sheet on the bench.
SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
My team has turned to shower.
I got 105 :D :D :D
Quote from: timmyparso on December 05, 2013, 12:16:42 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on December 05, 2013, 11:53:33 AM
My team has turned to shower.
no suarez??
I have this massive underlying hatred of the man that I can't get past. :P
up to 6th in the FF league. :) I suppose I'll settle for 87 points, captain Hazard was nice. :D Rooney suspended, flower. :(
Baines and Sturridge injured, Vertonghen doubtful and Rooney suspended.
See you all next season. :(
Had 2 Fts I didn't get to make >:(
traded Whittaker to Moxey
Two FTs next week, one of which will be Remy to Lukaku!
So... I forgot again.
My team's up shower creek without a paddle now.
Quote from: Tominator on December 08, 2013, 12:50:46 AM
traded Whittaker to Moxey
Two FTs next week, one of which will be Remy to Lukaku!
Moxey! Clearly my best ever transfer, when I traded him in after Gameweek 1! :D
Who to trade, Vlaar or Rat?
Gone migs to howard
Quote from: timmyparso on December 08, 2013, 03:13:03 PM
Gone migs to howard
I swear we think of the exact same moves each week except my case it's Guzan.
Quote from: vinny on December 08, 2013, 03:30:15 PM
Quote from: timmyparso on December 08, 2013, 03:13:03 PM
Gone migs to howard
I swear we think of the exact same moves each week except my case it's Guzan.
Hahaha you can't beat me if you copy me hahahah
I've gone Howard for Evertons draw coming up, and he's the current number 1 keeper, migs is conceeding too much
Hahah got rid of Migs ages ago mate, keep up!
I am fixing up my bench now. :)
Quote from: PowerBug on December 08, 2013, 11:39:46 AM
Quote from: Tominator on December 08, 2013, 12:50:46 AM
traded Whittaker to Moxey
Two FTs next week, one of which will be Remy to Lukaku!
Moxey! Clearly my best ever transfer, when I traded him in after Gameweek 1! :D
Wow, Moxey plays 90 minutes in every game this season
First week I have him, he plays 24 and Palace keep a CS :(
yeah what BS that was! He was gonna come on for Rooney too! >:(
Thats why you get Gabbidon boys. 0.1 more!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My empire has fallen, Vinny has taken the lead...........
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice work Vinny
So I trade out Ozil and the first scores without him in my team are 11, 11, 10 ::)
Quote from: CrowsFan on December 09, 2013, 10:27:29 AM
So I trade out Ozil and the first scores without him in my team are 11, 11, 10 ::)
I did the same thing, went to Hazard 3 weeks ago and Hazard has only had a good return in 1 of those 3 games >:(
Quote from: timmyparso on December 09, 2013, 10:33:38 AM
Quote from: CrowsFan on December 09, 2013, 10:27:29 AM
So I trade out Ozil and the first scores without him in my team are 11, 11, 10 ::)
I did the same thing, went to Hazard 3 weeks ago and Hazard has only had a good return in 1 of those 3 games >:(
So you're down 11 points over the 3 weeks. I went to Gerrard who has been alright, but am still down 15 points :(
Quote from: CrowsFan on December 09, 2013, 10:36:20 AM
Quote from: timmyparso on December 09, 2013, 10:33:38 AM
Quote from: CrowsFan on December 09, 2013, 10:27:29 AM
So I trade out Ozil and the first scores without him in my team are 11, 11, 10 ::)
I did the same thing, went to Hazard 3 weeks ago and Hazard has only had a good return in 1 of those 3 games >:(
So you're down 11 points over the 3 weeks. I went to Gerrard who has been alright, but am still down 15 points :(
I cost me top spot on FF El Classico League :'(
Aaaaaaand I kept Ozil. <3
Quote from: timmyparso on December 09, 2013, 09:53:43 AM
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My empire has fallen, Vinny has taken the lead...........
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice work Vinny
Hahaha thanks man! But plenty of weeks to go ;)
Took a -4 :P
Not sure who to get rid of out of Vlaar or Rat, wanna bring in Distin!
as soon as i bring in hazard.. only gets 2 points..
at least my genius move of RVP to Suarez back when he was at his lowest price is paying dividends
Quote from: vinny on December 09, 2013, 11:55:54 AM
Quote from: timmyparso on December 09, 2013, 09:53:43 AM
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My empire has fallen, Vinny has taken the lead...........
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice work Vinny
Hahaha thanks man! But plenty of weeks to go ;)
only 2 points in it :D
Flowering Chico :P
I have no idea what to do with my team. Any advice? :)
Howard (Daniels)
Mertesacker, Davies, Coleman. (Gabbidon, Vlaar)
Ozil, YayaToure, Ramsey, Lallana. (Johnson)
Aguero, Suarez, Lukaku.
0.8 in the bank.
Thanks,
Anyone seen this?
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11669/9068425/liverpool-forward-luis-suarez-has-been-awarded-an-extra-goal-against-west-ham (http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11669/9068425/liverpool-forward-luis-suarez-has-been-awarded-an-extra-goal-against-west-ham)
Suarez awarded another goal!! Points not modified in Fantasy terms yet.
Quote from: vinny on December 12, 2013, 01:03:39 PM
I have no idea what to do with my team. Any advice? :)
Howard (Daniels)
Mertesacker, Davies, Coleman. (Gabbidon, Vlaar)
Ozil, YayaToure, Ramsey, Lallana. (Johnson)
Aguero, Suarez, Lukaku.
0.8 in the bank.
Thanks,
Bank your trade mate
Whose balls are big enough to not Captain Suarez (those that have him anyway)? Hazard and Lukaku are very tempting this week
Quote from: timmyparso on December 12, 2013, 01:11:59 PM
Anyone seen this?
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11669/9068425/liverpool-forward-luis-suarez-has-been-awarded-an-extra-goal-against-west-ham (http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11669/9068425/liverpool-forward-luis-suarez-has-been-awarded-an-extra-goal-against-west-ham)
Suarez awarded another goal!! Points not modified in Fantasy terms yet.
Wait so they are going to give another goal?! Which means 12 points if you had him C! 8)
Quote from: timmyparso on December 12, 2013, 01:21:08 PM
Whose balls are big enough to not Captain Suarez (those that have him anyway)? Hazard and Lukaku are very tempting this week
Gotta Captain him.
Quote from: timmyparso on December 12, 2013, 01:15:27 PM
Quote from: vinny on December 12, 2013, 01:03:39 PM
I have no idea what to do with my team. Any advice? :)
Howard (Daniels)
Mertesacker, Davies, Coleman. (Gabbidon, Vlaar)
Ozil, YayaToure, Ramsey, Lallana. (Johnson)
Aguero, Suarez, Lukaku.
0.8 in the bank.
Thanks,
Bank your trade mate
Yeah I think I might, thanks
Quote from: vinny on December 12, 2013, 01:23:12 PM
Wait so they are going to give another goal?! Which means 12 points if you had him C! 8)
No, he was already credited with the assist, so the difference between a goal and assist for a forward is only 1 point, 2 if he's your captain.
Quote from: vinny on December 12, 2013, 01:23:12 PM
Quote from: timmyparso on Today at 12:21:08 PM
Whose balls are big enough to not Captain Suarez (those that have him anyway)? Hazard and Lukaku are very tempting this week
Gotta Captain him.
This may be what separates us after this week end, Lukaku is very tempting against Fulham.
Oh okay, two points is good enough.
Haha yeah, I am now undecided. Go with POD or try beat you or hope my other players beat yours.
Hazard captain for me this week
Am insanely stuck on whether i want to trade out Rat or Vlaar..
Quote from: chrisuzz on December 12, 2013, 04:50:11 PM
Am insanely stuck on whether i want to trade out Rat or Vlaar..
I trade Rat cause his little square info button is a dark shade which means he is less likely to play. :P
Quote from: vinny on December 12, 2013, 04:51:41 PM
Quote from: chrisuzz on December 12, 2013, 04:50:11 PM
Am insanely stuck on whether i want to trade out Rat or Vlaar..
I trade Rat cause his little square info button is a dark shade which means he is less likely to play. :P
Went Rat to Turner, who has got a fairly decent run of games so can hopefully pick up a few clean sheets, then brought in Coleman, who can hopefully pinch a goal or an assist is his good run of games coming up!
Quote from: chrisuzz on December 12, 2013, 04:58:51 PM
Quote from: vinny on December 12, 2013, 04:51:41 PM
Quote from: chrisuzz on December 12, 2013, 04:50:11 PM
Am insanely stuck on whether i want to trade out Rat or Vlaar..
I trade Rat cause his little square info button is a dark shade which means he is less likely to play. :P
Went Rat to Turner, who has got a fairly decent run of games so can hopefully pick up a few clean sheets, then brought in Coleman, who can hopefully pinch a goal or an assist is his good run of games coming up!
Everton's draw for the next month.. OH YESSS
Howard, Coleman & Lukaku 8)
Haha, what moves you made this week man?
Quote from: vinny on December 12, 2013, 08:51:45 PM
Haha, what moves you made this week man?
Migs to Howard, have to try to keep up with you now ;)
Hahaha not gonna happen. No stopping me from now ;) I hope. :P
Surprisingly considering I'm an Everton fan, I only have Coleman and Lukaku..
Would really like to jump onto Howard but have to fix my team in other areas first..
Bought in Chamakh LEL
TEAM
Mignolet (McGregor)
Shaw - Zabaleta - Williams - Coleman (Moxey)
Ozil - Ramsey - Lallana (Morrison, Brady)
Rooney - Suarez - Lukaku
Have 1.8 in the bank and 1 FT which I'll carry into next week. United have some good fixtures coming up so backing Rooney in to do well - but Aguero is very tempting ......
Yeah so prior to last gameweek I was deciding about whether to trade Rooney to Suarez as my FT, as Rooney was missing last game. But I decided to hold and let Moxey come on and for some reason I said to myself I'll do the trade next week.
So by not trading, I missed out on like 30 points, 0.3 mil, and had to use another transfer (Lallana > Shelvey) so I could bring in Suarez for Rooney, which is probably not even worth it now anyway....
My whole season fell to pieces right there.........
had 2 ft this week. Out goes Giroud, Lallana and Gerrard and in comes Ozil, Hazard and Chamakh for a - 4 hit.
Team now:
Mignolet (Mannone)
Zabaleta - Mertesacker - Coleman (Gabbidon, Faye )
Ozil - Ramsey - YaYa - Hazard - Barkley
Rooney - Suarez ( Chamakh )
Hoping only fielding 2 forwards goes well.... :-\
Amazingly, zero $ in the bank...not a cracker...team value is $107.1 but no buffer left.
I would have probably would have went Giroud, Lallana & Gerrad to Lukaku, Cheapie & Hazard but still good move.
Still don't know who to C. Suarez or Lukaku.
Suarez can go nuts and kick 4. Lukaku normally an assist and a goal or two goals.
Thanks Arsenal.... Lost 9 points by playing Szczesny (-2) over Marshall (7). On 34 with Dawson, Shelvey (c) and Suarez to play.
Time to rage trade.
Might as well let my team go ghostship. :(
Quote from: PowerBug on December 15, 2013, 10:24:45 AM
Thanks Arsenal.... Lost 9 points by playing Szczesny (-2) over Marshall (7). On 34 with Dawson, Shelvey (c) and Suarez to play.
Time to rage trade.
Shelvey captain ?!??! ???
Yeah he is idek how that happened. I just traded him in this week, for Lallana. Suarez vice. I think I liked the Norwich factor that's why lol. :P
(nek minnit either scores 1 or gets hattrick)
Chico suspended, evra and vlaar rated 50%, fonte did not play!!!! Great defence this week!!!!! Add to that Lampard didn't play!!! Risked Lukaku as capt over suarez, somehow on 44 with suarez and evra (if playing) to go.
I want my January wildcard!!!
Captaining Lukaku over Suarez proves to be a fatal move, never again will that happen >:(
Suarez as C brought my score to 91 :D Thank you very much Luis.
Quote from: timmyparso on December 16, 2013, 09:16:57 AM
Captaining Lukaku over Suarez proves to be a fatal move, never again will that happen >:(
Why would you captain someone else when Suarez has scored 39 points from his last 2 gameweeks? Only twice this season has he not managed to score or get an assist, scoring 10 or more 60% of the time before last night. Instead you give it to a guy who has scored 10 or more just 15% of the time when he is on the field.
This is the same as SC. Just give the captaincy to Suarez (GAJ) and take the scores. No need to go looking for extra points elsewhere because more often than not you will be disappointed.
My reasoning for captaining Suarez was:
Lukaku never scores more than two goals. They never destroy teams. 2-0 at most. So I could only see Lukaku getting goal and assist.
Suarez can go nuts, against anyone. He can kick 4 goals. I couldn't risk Suarez going nuts by going Lukaku.
Suarez is most likely to match Lukaku if not go better.
Suarez is averaging 12.4 points per game. Enough said!
Plus No Sturridge seems to be doing him good.
Quote from: CrowsFan on December 16, 2013, 02:05:26 PM
Suarez is averaging 12.4 points per game. Enough said!
lesson learnt :(
Lukaku vs Fulham was a high risk move I know, was hoping to get an advantage in my classic leagues. I over estimated Totenhams defencive ability, thought they would do a better job against Liverpool.
god damn hazard.. going up against crystal palace and can only get an assist
Traded Aguero :(
Quote from: vinny on December 17, 2013, 01:29:55 PM
Traded Aguero :(
the standard Aguero to Rooney trade?
I noticed that Rooney was played in midfield last game, not sure if that will continue but it worked well for ManU but it meant Rooney wasn't scoring all the goals.
Yeah he was!
I got Negredo :)
Rooney showing as 75% chance of playing with a groin.... :'(
I made three trades on Tuesday ...
Williams ---> Distin
Because Williams has very hard fixtures and Distin has easy fixtures.
Brady ---> Delph
Because I needed a 5th mid who would play 90 minutes and didn't have a farked hernia. But Brady will probably score and assist this weekend ::)
Lallana ---> Nasri
Because Lallana has scored once in his last 7. Like a cash cow in DT, he had peaked in price and was right for the cull.
It's also noteworthy that 2 of those were FTs, so I'm only losing four points. But in the 48 hours following those trades, Rooney and Zabaleta both got injured, adding to Moxey on my injury list. Contemplating a Rooney ---> Negredo trade but not sure yet.
Quote from: Tominator on December 20, 2013, 07:30:54 PM
I made three trades on Tuesday ...
Williams ---> Distin
Because Williams has very hard fixtures and Distin has easy fixtures.
Brady ---> Delph
Because I needed a 5th mid who would play 90 minutes and didn't have a farked hernia. But Brady will probably score and assist this weekend ::)
Lallana ---> Nasri
Because Lallana has scored once in his last 7. Like a cash cow in DT, he had peaked in price and was right for the cull.
It's also noteworthy that 2 of those were FTs, so I'm only losing four points. But in the 48 hours following those trades, Rooney and Zabaleta both got injured, adding to Moxey on my injury list. Contemplating a Rooney ---> Negredo trade but not sure yet.
3 trades enough I think and risk rooney, as long as you have 11 fit players. Not worth too many hits this close to the January's wildcard
I took a 4 and got Zab, next at injured hammy. ::)
For a moment I thought I hadn't made Suarez my captain this week... phew. :P
Suarez is just too good. If he gets 3 BP for tonight's game (which he should) his points tally will be for the season:
13 - 6 - 10 - 17 - 2 - 16 - 9 - 2 - 24 - 15 - 22 - 16
unless you picked Tim Krul to start this week as your goalkeeper
you wont have a goalkeeper with a win and clean sheet so far
On 59 with 7 to play thanks to Suarez, Yaya, Cabaye and Evra.
44/3 + C
Newcastle win 3-0 but Remy does nothing, time to trade then. >:(
Forgot again...
I have Lukaku, Coleman and Distin from Everton ... but I'm a Swansea fan so I'm very mixed about tonight's game hahahah
but for my Fantasy prospects a 2-0 Everton win would be nice 8)
Ozil out, Walcott in.
Ramsey out, Cabaye or Lallana in - which one??
Hoping Silva doesn't rise before lockout so I can get him in for Nasri without going -8
TEAM:
Mignolet (McGregor)
Distin, Coleman, Shaw (Moxey, Zabaleta)
Walcott, Nasri, Ramsey, Januzaj (Delph)
Suarez, Rooney, Lukaku
Traded in Rodriguez yesterday.
#ragetrade
#16pointstyvm
Also traded in Ramsey... he's straight back out lol. Also turned Lukaku to Rooney. :)
Quote from: Tominator on December 27, 2013, 01:22:03 PM
Ozil out, Walcott in.
Ramsey out, Cabaye or Lallana in - which one??
Hoping Silva doesn't rise before lockout so I can get him in for Nasri without going -8
TEAM:
Mignolet (McGregor)
Distin, Coleman, Shaw (Moxey, Zabaleta)
Walcott, Nasri, Ramsey, Januzaj (Delph)
Suarez, Rooney, Lukaku
I'd hold ramsey, depending when you bought him but you could potentially be throwing away 1 million bucks over a 2 week injury. Bench him for now and play Zaba who plays Crystal Palace at home.
Ozil out for Walcott ??......benching Ramsay
Does anyone know Arsenals plans for Podolski? Will they start him as sub for first few games like they did with Walcott?
Thinking of going Giroud to Podolski.
Got Wally and Cabaye
Maybe Podolski later. Giroud will play less now I yhink
Went for a -8 this year. Screw it ::)
Ramsey ---> Cabaye
Ozil ---> Walcott
Nasri ---> Silva
I'm keeping Ramsey, only meant to be missing 2 (possibly 3) games, and if I trade him out I won't be able to afford to bring him back in...
Quote from: CrowsFan on December 28, 2013, 10:12:58 PM
I'm keeping Ramsey, only meant to be missing 2 (possibly 3) games, and if I trade him out I won't be able to afford to bring him back in...
He was worth 7.0 for me. Will probably be worth 7.0 by the time I get him back, therefore it is a necessary trade for me
Quote from: Tominator on December 28, 2013, 10:31:09 PM
Quote from: CrowsFan on December 28, 2013, 10:12:58 PM
I'm keeping Ramsey, only meant to be missing 2 (possibly 3) games, and if I trade him out I won't be able to afford to bring him back in...
He was worth 7.0 for me. Will probably be worth 7.0 by the time I get him back, therefore it is a necessary trade for me
Yeah fair enough. Was only worth 6.5 for me since I got on him right away. Not worth trading at that price.
Quote from: CrowsFan on December 28, 2013, 10:36:14 PM
Quote from: Tominator on December 28, 2013, 10:31:09 PM
Quote from: CrowsFan on December 28, 2013, 10:12:58 PM
I'm keeping Ramsey, only meant to be missing 2 (possibly 3) games, and if I trade him out I won't be able to afford to bring him back in...
He was worth 7.0 for me. Will probably be worth 7.0 by the time I get him back, therefore it is a necessary trade for me
Yeah fair enough. Was only worth 6.5 for me since I got on him right away. Not worth trading at that price.
Lucky you reaping the rewards for getting him early haha, makes sense for you to hold then
Rooney doesn't play, guy on my bench scores a goal. :P The games says I'm on -4 from 3 players (Myhill, Toure, Rooney) but after substitutions (Marshall 3, Colback 6, Baker 2) that makes it 7 from 3 players. :)
Zab Rooney and Yaya didn't play ...
fuccckk me
I think everyone is just waiting and praying for Jan 1st to come along so we can use the wildcard. :P
Quote from: PowerBug on December 29, 2013, 10:38:29 AM
I think everyone is just waiting and praying for Jan 1st to come along so we can use the wildcard. :P
Not even a wildcard can fix the rabble that is my team. :P
Quote from: NigeyS on December 29, 2013, 10:47:07 AM
Quote from: PowerBug on December 29, 2013, 10:38:29 AM
I think everyone is just waiting and praying for Jan 1st to come along so we can use the wildcard. :P
Not even a wildcard can fix the rabble that is my team. :P
You should try trading Nige ;D
Quote from: vinny on December 29, 2013, 10:34:22 AM
Zab Rooney and Yaya didn't play ...
fuccckk me
I believe Rooney also didn't play either ;D
2......just got around to checking the scores...2....thought the epl site hadn't updated...2.......unbelievable...sadly.. :-[ :'(
Quote from: NigeyS on December 29, 2013, 10:47:07 AM
Quote from: PowerBug on December 29, 2013, 10:38:29 AM
I think everyone is just waiting and praying for Jan 1st to come along so we can use the wildcard. :P
Not even a wildcard can fix the rabble that is my team. :P
C'mon Big Nige...perhaps open a thread for suggestions....its quiet ... ;D
Quote from: timmyparso on December 29, 2013, 03:47:14 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on December 29, 2013, 10:47:07 AM
Quote from: PowerBug on December 29, 2013, 10:38:29 AM
I think everyone is just waiting and praying for Jan 1st to come along so we can use the wildcard. :P
Not even a wildcard can fix the rabble that is my team. :P
You should try trading Nige ;D
Quote from: T Dog on December 29, 2013, 04:47:54 PM
Quote from: NigeyS on December 29, 2013, 10:47:07 AM
Quote from: PowerBug on December 29, 2013, 10:38:29 AM
I think everyone is just waiting and praying for Jan 1st to come along so we can use the wildcard. :P
Not even a wildcard can fix the rabble that is my team. :P
C'mon Big Nige...perhaps open a thread for suggestions....its quiet ... ;D
I'm that far behind the 8-ball, I'm not so sure. Forgotten to manage my team for a month's worth of GWs.
New Years Day refresh...out go Ozil and Chamakh..in come Welbeck and Henderson. Leaves $1.7m for next game unless I go Gabbidon to Koscieiny for a - 4 hit this arvo. :-\
Any thoughts on Kosci..is he worth a - 4 hit this week?
Got through to round 4 of "the cup" ...only 18 more rounds to get through.. ;D
Rooney out, Walcott out for 4.
Cabaye huge doubts.
Fuccck this.
Quote from: vinny on January 06, 2014, 12:03:26 PM
Rooney out, Walcott out for 4.
Cabaye huge doubts.
Fuccck this.
Wildcard now or later?
Quote from: Tominator on January 06, 2014, 12:05:53 PM
Quote from: vinny on January 06, 2014, 12:03:26 PM
Rooney out, Walcott out for 4.
Cabaye huge doubts.
Fuccck this.
Wildcard now or later?
resist the urge, see what the January Transfer window provides first
Yep, do not use WC. The team you get if you do WC this week could be one you regret when players move clubs.
I took a 4 already and might take an 8 for Rooney.
"Theres bad news about Theos injury... unfortunately he has been ruled out for at least six months"
Quote from: PowerBug on January 07, 2014, 12:45:07 PM
"Theres bad news about Theos injury... unfortunately he has been ruled out for at least six months"
Yep :(
Got Hazard.
yes! means Ramsey needs to step up
Quote from: Cicjose on January 07, 2014, 12:56:51 PM
yes! means Ramsey needs to step up
yeah that's what I was thinking, I will get on Ramsey next week. I don't like the Achilles injury on Cabaye.
Plus Aguero is back too next week I believe.
Rooney out? injury or transfer Vinny?
Quote from: T Dog on January 07, 2014, 02:31:22 PM
Rooney out? injury or transfer Vinny?
I might trade him, he didnt play in the FA cup vs Swansea but he may play on the weekend not sure. Wait and see!
bring in debuchy.. gets a red :(
Crystal Palace are stalking Demba Ba for a loan deal from Chelsea, hmmmmm, anyone keen on a 7.5M Crystal Palace forward for you teams?
Taking an 8! WC's suck.
Not traded yet but may have to go Cabaye to Lallana though
I have kept Ramsey and now Ya Ya and Rooney showing as doubtful this week.....could be a strong looking bench.. :-\
So tempted to WC.
when is the best time to WC? Now or end of January?
Quote from: Tominator on January 13, 2014, 12:20:14 PM
when is the best time to WC? Now or end of January?
depends on the state of your team, its best to hold until end of Jan just to see the Jan transfers
Getting an itchy Wildcard finger...can make 5 trades, 6 if I move out Speroni for Boruc.
The itch comes from bringing in...
Evra and Terry for Zabaletta and Koscieny down back.
Lallana and Sung Yeng in for Eriksen and Henderson in the mids
Sturridge in for Berbatov up forward.
Otherwise its just Lallana in for Henderson and hold off on the others for a week.
Any suggestions?
Tempting moves there TDog.
I will WC to I think.
My man Yaya might be injured too.
I did it :-X
Quote from: vinny on January 14, 2014, 11:08:24 AM
Tempting moves there TDog.
I will WC to I think.
My man Yaya might be injured too.
Thanks Vinmeister.
YaYa will mean I have him and Ramsey on the bench. Keen to keep both at this stage.
Haha I need to catch Timmy, I took an 8 last week though :P
Now WC.
But I covered all of my hits.
Done..gone the WC..no cash left ..again
Team is:
Boruc ( Mannone)
Terry, Evra, Coleman, Mertesacker ( Bardsley)
Lallana, Ya Ya, Hazard ( Ramsey, Sung - Yeung )
Suarez, Sturridge, Welbeck
Be nice when they are all on the park and firing.. ;D
Strong team T.
I really want Welbeck but I am worried for when RVP is back.
Mertesacker > Sagna maybe.
Aguero fan?
Won my knockout match 64-62 :)
How is everyone else going?
Quote from: vinny on January 14, 2014, 11:47:23 AM
Strong team T.
I really want Welbeck but I am worried for when RVP is back.
Mertesacker > Sagna maybe.
Aguero fan?
was hoping to get Rooney back in for Welbeck and a back downgrade but Sturridge really caught my interest...so may take 3 trades and a hit when he is firing again >:( Still Ramsay back soon so Mertesacker will be benched or gone. Thanks for the heads up on Sagna..will have a good look... on a side issue..RVP coming back...now theres a fallen premium this year..better get on to him too... ::)
Quote from: Honey Badger on January 14, 2014, 12:15:50 PM
Won my knockout match 64-62 :)
How is everyone else going?
Still alive HB..with a massive 68 - 66 win this week :)
i lost last round :(
Quote from: T Dog on January 14, 2014, 12:39:31 PM
Quote from: Honey Badger on January 14, 2014, 12:15:50 PM
Won my knockout match 64-62 :)
How is everyone else going?
Still alive HB..with a massive 68 - 66 win this week :)
I died in the first round, had a shocker :(
Quote from: vinny on January 14, 2014, 11:27:35 AM
Haha I need to catch Timmy, I took an 8 last week though :P
Now WC.
But I covered all of my hits.
;D
Wildcard............... ACTIVE!!!!
Looking more and more likely I am going out of the Cup this round. Got a 4 point lead, but he has 2 players left to play that I don't have, namely Lukaku and Ridgewell. Need them to score 3 points or less between them since if it's a tie he will win according to the rules...
Quite annoyed since I had to decide who to field out of Caulker (vs City), Chester (vs Norwich) or Ward (vs Stoke) as my final defender. Obviously Caulker wasn't an option, and so went with Chester. He gets injured after 14 minutes and gives me 1 point. Ward gets a clean sheet and gets 6. So there was 5 more points I could have had! >:(
Wilshere and Johnson. Getting on! Taking risks.
Gonna wait a week before using my wildcard. Will most likely bring in Ade too, he is killing it at the moment!
Toying with this a WC team, thinking going unique with no Aguero, kind of gives a more balanced team with no budget forward or mid and allows rotation based on draw. If Cabaye stays at Newcastle (rumoured to be going to Paris!!), he will be included at expense of Erikson. Ramsey better be back soon, I've held him this long.
(http://i40.tinypic.com/11gj59u.jpg)
I really like eriksen ATM.. Had him during the bloody AVB games when he barely played. Now I want him back but no space
I wildcarded last week and got 61, reasonably happy with it! Getting Aguero would have wrecked the team balance so I went for stronger overall; risk I am willing to take
(This was a screenshot from last week too)
This is my WC team. 0.1 in the bank!
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/v/t34/1533542_704828192890364_2031204099_n.jpg?oh=91b20bb8bdb41c48e30a486c9d2c04e7&oe=52E174B5&__gda__=1390499578_aa3910228aa4a42622e069471536d6d3)
Honestly don't like having Sturridge and Saurez in the same team. What happens if Liverpool get held goalless?
Quote from: Honey Badger on January 22, 2014, 03:36:48 PM
Honestly don't like having Sturridge and Saurez in the same team. What happens if Liverpool get held goalless?
It's a risk I am willing to take
Quote from: Tominator on January 22, 2014, 05:22:19 PM
Quote from: Honey Badger on January 22, 2014, 03:36:48 PM
Honestly don't like having Sturridge and Saurez in the same team. What happens if Liverpool get held goalless?
It's a risk I am willing to take
Yeah fair enough then. I just prefer not having 2 players from the same team on the same line. Did you consider Adebayor at all?
I am getting on Adebayor. Keeping Sturridge.
Quote from: Honey Badger on January 22, 2014, 05:27:01 PM
Quote from: Tominator on January 22, 2014, 05:22:19 PM
Quote from: Honey Badger on January 22, 2014, 03:36:48 PM
Honestly don't like having Sturridge and Saurez in the same team. What happens if Liverpool get held goalless?
It's a risk I am willing to take
Yeah fair enough then. I just prefer not having 2 players from the same team on the same line. Did you consider Adebayor at all?
I have considered Adebayor, definitely. I just feel that while the wheels of the SAS juggernaut are in motion, and I don't have Aguero, Sturridge was a necessary pick-up.
But also, I can downgrade Sturridge or Giroud to Adebayor. If I went with Adebayor instead of Sturridge/Giroud, I wouldn't be able to upgrade because I probably would have spent my money elsewhere.
Welcome to my team Juan Mata 8)
Quote from: timmyparso on January 28, 2014, 09:36:54 AM
Welcome to my team Juan Mata 8)
you Juan him and you got him.
So since I'm planning on using my wildcard after tonights round I decided to do some trades with the sole purpose of this round and then trading them back out. So traded out Negredo since apparently he is injured and brought in Eto'o, then with the extra cash traded out some cheapo back for Ashley Cole, with the sole reason that they are playing West Ham so should keep a clean sheet and score some goals... Will then trade them out after :)
I had Cabaye, Ramsay and Remy; so with the Free Wildcard expiring soon; jiggled my team up a bit.
Mignolet, (K Davis)
Dawson, Distin, Fonte, (Gabbidon, R Bennett)
Hazard, Y Toure, Lallana, Mirallas, (Shelvey)
Suarez, Giroud, Sturridge.
Overall Points: 1,239
Overall Rank: 786,479
Whats with the Ramsay injury? Still having on the bench.. :-\
Quote from: T Dog on January 31, 2014, 01:15:54 PM
Whats with the Ramsay injury? Still having on the bench.. :-\
i saw somewhere the expected return date is unknown, and therefore could potentially be a while. using the free wc i ditched him before his value goes down anymore; and if he comes back at a later date; i'll trade him back in.
Ramsey was due to come back mid-week ... then sustained a knock on Tuesday which will most likely keep him out for 4-6 weeks apparently!!
classic ramsay.. if he isnt killing people with goals hes injured.
Thanks everyone...out he goes.... >:(
So what moves have you guys made this week?
Fonte in, colman and koseleny on bench.
Quote from: timmyparso on February 08, 2014, 08:41:25 PM
Fonte in, colman and koseleny on bench.
Koscielny on the bench has worked well, I did the same
My trade for the round was Santon out, Zabaletta in. Very happy with that trade :)
I worry the lead Timmy has is too much for me to catch up. :'(
Quote from: Vinny on February 09, 2014, 06:39:16 PM
I worry the lead Timmy has is too much for me to catch up. :'(
Still a long way to go Vinny, a few guys made a lot of ground this week with Hazard as captain, one week is all it takes. Wish I'd captained hazard though.
Having said that I'm doing terrible in the head 2 head league. Started with 9 straight wins but can barely win anything since even though I have more overall points :o
Head 2 head is a minefield
Quote from: Tominator on February 09, 2014, 06:05:53 PM
Quote from: timmyparso on February 08, 2014, 08:41:25 PM
Fonte in, colman and koseleny on bench.
Koscielny on the bench has worked well, I did the same
Hope coleman works the same, not expecting 90mins due to return from injury. Had bardsley and fonte on field for only 1 point each though. At least cahill seems solid with Chelseas water tight defence.
Quote from: timmyparso on February 09, 2014, 08:13:18 PM
Quote from: Vinny on February 09, 2014, 06:39:16 PM
I worry the lead Timmy has is too much for me to catch up. :'(
Still a long way to go Vinny, a few guys made a lot of ground this week with Hazard as captain, one week is all it takes. Wish I'd captained hazard though.
Having said that I'm doing terrible in the head 2 head league. Started with 9 straight wins but can barely win anything since even though I have more overall points :o
Head 2 head is a minefield
Haha yeah you are right man but you have a nice lead!
If you went Hazard captain, I'd be done, hahah.
I'm not in the FF H2H. Coming third in my school one though.
I went Dzeko captain who scored a whopping 1 + 1 = 2 ::)
Brought in Chamberlain for Young for a +3 points benefit. So whoop whoop big deal I hear you say?..won my Cup round by 2 points... ;D
Was I the only one to muckup game dates and hadn't fixed my side this week?.. :-[
That sucks T :(
Went Sturridge captain and brought in Gerrard, good week :)
What's the deal with our city players and stuff who didn't have a game?
No score.....games must even up sometime..got a draw in the cup as well...not sure who wins.. :-\
Yep, both games rescheduled, some interesting gameweeks coming, starting with gameweek 28 where another 2 games are rescheduled and gameweek 29 expected to have a few games rescheduled due to FA Cup round 6.
Bank what trades you can, a double free trade will be a massive bonus in these weeks.
Going to be some low scores - or lots of points sacrificed with transfers - this week.
traded in some man u players since they play this week and will also play twice later (in 2 GW i think)
EPL Fantasy seems to have become a ghost town since AFL Fantasy openned up
a poor couple of rounds of fixturing didnt help....but the next two....watch out.. ;D
Rooney as Captain saved my team last week carrying 3 doughnuts, somehow ended up ranked 1795 overall!!!!
Quote from: timmyparso on March 13, 2014, 05:15:22 PM
Rooney as Captain saved my team last week carrying 3 doughnuts, somehow ended up ranked 1795 overall!!!!
great effort TP...go home hard and get the prize.. ;D
I've been getting wrecked lately, Timmy killed it man, nice work.
Multi ball round.... ;D
My defence is on 0 but a suarez yaya bomb took me to 101 before the second games, currently inside top 1000!!!! Holy shower!!!! Rooney, hazard and snodgrass helping too
keep going man....top 50 next week?
Traded OUT Eriksen this week :'(
Quote from: T Dog on March 24, 2014, 10:20:33 AM
keep going man....top 50 next week?
Yep come on Timmy, sick effort.
Koscielny out, Demichelis in. Can't afford Zab but as a CB Demi tends to get BPs a bit more anyway
Team is looking good, 0.0 left in the bank
Boruc (Mannone)
Coleman, Demichelis, Azpilicueta (Shaw, Chester)
Hazard, Nasri, Gerrard, Lallana (Delph)
Suarez (C), Sturridge, Dzeko
Nice team there big Tom.
Boruc over Mannone? i have gone opposite. Am i missing somethimg?
I have 0.1 in the bank... ;D
Mannone (Boruc)
Coleman, Terry, Rosenior (Mertsacker, Fonte)
Lallana, Oscar, YaYa, Barkley, Hazard
Suarez (C), Sturridge (Naismith)
Quote from: T Dog on March 28, 2014, 11:45:49 AM
Nice team there big Tom.
Boruc over Mannone? i have gone opposite. Am i missing somethimg?
it's changes week to week. Will probably go Boruc this week