Fantasy Premier League 20/21

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

It leaves you vulnerable to as many things as it solves though.

Everton and Villa doubles yet to be arranged
Talk of a big double game week 35/36

City if they get kocked out of Europe suddenly become key to back again as well.

All a game of decisions though!

Ahuh. I thought about odd DGW but carefully looked at remaining fixture difficulty as with just 8 games left, wanted players that I could (if needed) hold for the run in and avoid too many swaps/-4s.

I'm not interested in any Everton player and Villa sans Grealish looked poor () and the runs for the teams like Wolves (cheap), Liverpool, Arsenal, etc (who I had none of) made me look at my team and think I only wanted to keep Bruno and Kane, so WC made sense in my position and with 8 to go, didn't want to hold as certain that the teams around me in my ML would WC... all bar one team in our top.15 have used it.

You'll have the benefit of considering post League Cup Final/CL games

 

[Sandikan]

Ahuh. I thought about odd DGW but carefully looked at remaining fixture difficulty as with just 8 games left, wanted players that I could (if needed) hold for the run in and avoid too many swaps/-4s.

I'm not interested in any Everton player and Villa sans Grealish looked poor () and the runs for the teams like Wolves (cheap), Liverpool, Arsenal, etc (who I had none of) made me look at my team and think I only wanted to keep Bruno and Kane, so WC made sense in my position and with 8 to go, didn't want to hold as certain that the teams around me in my ML would WC... all bar one team in our top.15 have used it.

You'll have the benefit of considering post League Cup Final/CL games

I'm also factoring in against rivals in my league. The one with the BB and wildcard is very dangerous, as if there is that big double, and he plays a wc the week before using a BB in a double I need something to counter balance it.

Everton if they have a double mean you have to cover DCL for one.

 

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

Anyone with Son in your FF teams... I hope he scores 6 OGs and gets sent off

 

[Dan_F]

Anyone with Son in your FF teams... I hope he scores 6 OGs and gets sent off

Don’t worry, he’ll definitely be flagged for next week. Broken eyelash.

 

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

Don’t worry, he’ll definitely be flagged for next week. Broken eyelash.

I'm amazed he was able to score. After that vicious elbow in his eye socket, I thought he'd need hospitalising.

The cheating twat.

 

[2mufc0]

Fecking Lingard.

 

[Sandikan]

Glad Kane put in his standard performance against us so a rival who took 30+ points off me blanks for him as captain.

Roll on Richarlison doing something tomorrow. Not confident though.

 

[Swiss_Red89]

Feck it after a few pints and todays performance i just brought in Deano for Martinez.
Deano was vital for me last season so welcome back lad

 

[anant]

Kelechi and Son on bench.

Last second was thinking between Philips + Vardy or Laca and TAA, chose the former option. Feck this game

 

[Patchbeard]

Auba saving my GW. Means Dallas comes on from 2nd on the bench

 

[Leonzo1]

82 points. Went from 60k to 20k. Wildcard paying off. Brought in TAA, Laca, Inhenacho, Lingard and Coady.

 

[Paul_Scholes18]

Can't make it up.
Held Dier on my bench for weeks, and finally shipped him this week, as he'd not played in about 6 or 7.
Now he's suddenly back in from nowhere, just before their double!

Was still not ideal having 6 Tottenham/City before their blank though, so in a way it still made sense.

Just shows how quickly fantasy footy can change though.

Yeah it is a crazy season.

These injuries are just killing me though. Cresswell injury ruins all my potential plans really.

I will have to keep Dias for longer or take a -8.

Selling Dallas mess things up not cause I would have got his points, but since he could at least play and be used as bench cover for the next weeks. I sold him cause I thought I could do Dias out next.

 

[Sandikan]

Yeah it is a crazy season.

These injuries are just killing me though. Cresswell injury ruins all my potential plans really.

I will have to keep Dias for longer or take a -8.

Selling Dallas mess things up not cause I would have got his points, but since he could at least play and be used as bench cover for the next weeks. I sold him cause I thought I could do Dias out next.

I've had a few too many weeks just hoping to get through with the same margins as rivals.
Will have to go more aggressive soon, or i'll be losing places.

Best to wait until last thing in the week again though.
See how Europe goes, to see if that makes any decisions easier than they look at the moment.

 

[Bygone Sounds]

Oh, got lucky with subs. 85p all out. Moved from 3k till 800 and top of the redcafe league(s)!

 

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

I'm also factoring in against rivals in my league. The one with the BB and wildcard is very dangerous, as if there is that big double, and he plays a wc the week before using a BB in a double I need something to counter balance it.

Everton if they have a double mean you have to cover DCL for one.

All in all, I think WC worked well for me but (1) had to put Liverpool players in and (2) how jammy is the Iheanacho sub?

Think that'll be 77.

 

[Paul_Scholes18]

I've had a few too many weeks just hoping to get through with the same margins as rivals.
Will have to go more aggressive soon, or i'll be losing places.

Best to wait until last thing in the week again though.
See how Europe goes, to see if that makes any decisions easier than they look at the moment.

I play too aggressive I think. It has worked fairly well this season, but sometimes end up going in strange ways to get players back.

Like I sold Bruno for Salah for a hit earlier this season after having done the reverse move when Salah got covid. Then wanted Bruno too so had to force things to make it work with additional hits.

Now I did plan to get Bruno back which is hard, but Lingards form make me want to get him instead so my moves to free up money for Bruno do not make much sense. Both is impossible without selling the guys I want to keep.

 

[Ajr]

Anyone who has not wc yet, what is your plan with it?

 

[Sandikan]

All in all, I think WC worked well for me but (1) had to put Liverpool players in and (2) how jammy is the Iheanacho sub?

Think that'll be 77.

Well over double my score.
Just time will tell if you wish you had that wildcard if there's doubles and stuff up later. Good to bank that this week though as I expect the average will be dreadful.

 

[Sandikan]

I play too aggressive I think. It has worked fairly well this season, but sometimes end up going in strange ways to get players back.

Like I sold Bruno for Salah for a hit earlier this season after having done the reverse move when Salah got covid. Then wanted Bruno too so had to force things to make it work with additional hits.

Now I did plan to get Bruno back which is hard, but Lingards form make me want to get him instead so my moves to free up money for Bruno do not make much sense. Both is impossible without selling the guys I want to keep.

I'm just annoyed I had the flexibility of 2 freebies and in Jota and Phillips they've basically achieved jack all.
Should have played percentages and brought Lingard in as more people have him. However, if it had gone the other way, could say the opposite, and Jota was the highest brought in player this week. I think he missed at least 2 good chances too - so those are the fine margins.

See if Richarlison does anything tomorrow, then we go again with 7 weeks to go.

 

[Paul_Scholes18]

I'm just annoyed I had the flexibility of 2 freebies and in Jota and Phillips they've basically achieved jack all.
Should have played percentages and brought Lingard in as more people have him. However, if it had gone the other way, could say the opposite, and Jota was the highest brought in player this week. I think he missed at least 2 good chances too - so those are the fine margins.

See if Richarlison does anything tomorrow, then we go again with 7 weeks to go.

Yeah Lingards form is pretty insane. He pass the eye test in terms of his movement and confidence. You just feel he will score if given a chance.

I thought I could wait with getting him since Leicester and Chelsea are hard games and he only had Newcastle as easier game, but he is not slowing down.

Although right now a hattrick vs Chelsea feels more likely than a blank and Chelsea have started to concede since I got Azpi.

 

[Sandikan]

Yeah Lingards form is pretty insane. He pass the eye test in terms of his movement and confidence. You just feel he will score if given a chance.

I thought I could wait with getting him since Leicester and Chelsea are hard games and he only had Newcastle as easier game, but he is not slowing down.

Although right now a hattrick vs Chelsea feels more likely than a blank and Chelsea have started to concede since I got Azpi.

Rice and Antonio out too. So it didn't look an immediate job.

But I might weigh a -4 up of Salah and Gundo to Son and Lingard. And nip that right in the bud. We'll see.

 

[Paul_Scholes18]

Rice and Antonio out too. So it didn't look an immediate job.

But I might weigh a -4 up of Salah and Gundo to Son and Lingard. And nip that right in the bud. We'll see.

I think it can be a good time to play your wildcard soon and now load up on Spurs.

Although I do not trust them to get clean sheets.

I have been thinking Lloris since both my keepers got hard fixtures, but not sure he is worth a -4.

 

[Andycoleno9]

Hate this game. Now true story;
Last two rounds i am on 40 points. My wife (who doesn't know shit about football) wanted to have her team too when league started. She selected team randomly with only two rules; "Do i like player's name and did i ever heard for him". (btw, she knows 20 players max).
Since gw1 she didn't touched the team. And in last two rounds she has 70 points. Ffs!! And her captain is PETER Pogba! Her gk is Martinez. Bought while he was in Arsenal!!

 

[RedDevil@84]

69 pts with a WC is just a so so score. Could have captained Lingard, but then he would have blanked.
Bruno, Kane, Azpi, Shaw, Mendy blanking was bad, but thanks to Ihenacho for stepping up.

Vydra and Leno points lost on bench. If I had taken Dias for Shaw as initially planned, I would have got the Vydra points. But alas.

 

[Sarni]

32 points this week, absolutely ridiculous luck with Cresswell and Neto coming off with injuries too. I've basically lost both my minileagues already barring a miracle. I only scored from Mount's and Bamford's assists and Watkins goal this week...

I wanted to take -8 to bring Kelechi and TAA in but decided it wasn't worth it. I'm doing a -8 at least for next week, at least I'll have some fun.

 

[CassiusClaymore]

69 pts with a WC is just a so so score. Could have captained Lingard, but then he would have blanked.
Bruno, Kane, Azpi, Shaw, Mendy blanking was bad, but thanks to Ihenacho for stepping up.

Vydra and Leno points lost on bench. If I had taken Dias for Shaw as initially planned, I would have got the Vydra points. But alas.

so so score my arse. Unless you have a crystal ball then anything above the average is a good score and that's well above.

I'm more than happy with my 54(-4) with DCL, Digne and JWP to play.

If Cresswell is out for a while then I'll probably go Cresswell > Reguillon to have a Spurs triple up for their double. FH in 33, roll a transfer in 34 to save 2 for the potential double in 35. Team looks in good shape for the finish.

Planning on bringing in Salah in 36.

 

[Dirty Schwein]

Ended on 70 all out. Happy enough but annoying to see Coady, Vydra and potentially Forster on the bench. Can't believe Chelsea conceded that useless goal.

 

[Withnail]

All of my choices have gone against me over the past few weeks and I'm plumetting down my leagues from being near top spot for most of the season.

Selling Dallas for Shaw before the City game, bringing in KDB and Jota recently and being late to the Lingard train.

Everyone else seems to have brought in Kane over the past while aswell.

Thinking of swapping out KDB/Jota for Salah/Pogba.

 

[Xaviesta]

If Ben White keeps a clean sheet and scores a brace, I might end up with an acceptable score this week.

 

[Nickosaur]

56 all out. Should see green arrows, so have to be happy, but can't help but be a little disappointed with Shaw coming off the bench with 1 when I also have Son and Coady on the bench. And once again bottled the captaincy (had it on Lingard and TAA during the week, but switched to Kane minutes before the deadline).
Will have to check the rankings after tonight's games - currently 8k OR but with many having Everton/Brighton players and automatic subs happening, I'm hoping to still be in the top 10k for the first time this season.

 

[RedDevil@84]

so so score my arse. Unless you have a crystal ball then anything above the average is a good score and that's well above.

For weeks, I used to get 40s and 50s and used to come here and see people saying they had an ok-ish week with 80 pts and all.

 

[RedDevil@84]

Need Pereira to either play a blinder against Sou'ton or sit out the game so that Vydra would come off the bench.

 

[RedDevil@84]

Need Pereira to either play a blinder against Sou'ton or sit out the game so that Vydra would come off the bench.

Its a good week it seems
Disappointed he did not have any role in the second goal. But hope for more today.

 

[Schneiderman]

Pereira looks like he could be a shout for the rest of the season, though the fixtures aren't great. Praying for one of my Everton players to completely sit out tonight.

 

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

For weeks, I used to get 40s and 50s and used to come here and see people saying they had an ok-ish week with 80 pts and all.

They were talking shite.

If I was one, I was too

 

[Paul_Scholes18]

No DCL. Rival gets Dallas from the bench. Bloody freaking hell.

I am still ahead though, but it is getting closer.

His bench was Son, Bamford and Dalllas and he gets the lot in.

 

[Neo_Mufc]

WOW!!!

It's a miracle. No DCL and I'm getting Dallas 17 pointer!!!!!!!!!! GET IN!

 

[Poch]

WOW!!!

It's a miracle. No DCL and I'm getting Dallas 17 pointer!!!!!!!!!! GET IN!

Snap, it feels good decent it? I stay top of my work league with those Dallas points, happy days.

 

[Dirty Schwein]

DCL missing means a rival gets the Dallas points. I'm still 100 ahead though so should win but that kind of shit is annoying, especially as he has Dallas third on the bench!

 

[Paul_Scholes18]

How is everyone having Dallas so high on the bench? I would have had him last personally.