Moneyball – Pavel Pogrebnyak
Filed under: Members - Posted by: Chris Glover
Spending money on your bench is a tricky proposition: you need to balance the cost of leaving cash on the sidelines every week versus the risk of having insufficient talent to take up the slack when your first team players are injured or suspended. You might be able to squeeze in the odd 6.0 player to ride the bench but you simply can’t afford to have 20.0+ of talent on there, generating zero points each week; trade-offs have to be made.
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October 26 at 5:51 pm
Mucky Little Tiger says:
The midlands is an awful place isn’t it.
October 26 at 5:52 pm
waltzingmatildas says:
Hey guys,
Would you go for lallana or walters?
October 26 at 5:52 pm
Requiem for a Dream says:
Current team is
Begovic
Iva, Gorkss, Baines
Arfa, Santi, Michu,Gerrard
Jelavic, Torres, Giroud
Subs:Foster, Demel, Guthrie, Jenko
Thoughts on the team guys ?
I was thinking about Stevie G > Bale and Demel > Wilson
any better suggestions. Appreciated
October 26 at 6:05 pm
rdpx says:
Stevie G out for sure Bale sounds good or Mata… Demel also looks good but if it were me I would drop Giroud, because Arsenal are playing like goats.
October 26 at 5:53 pm
Nibbsy says:
Simpson or Santon?
October 26 at 5:53 pm
tippman says:
Contemplating Dzeko as he will come on to the pitch at some time against Swansea because he is the SuperSub if City need a goal he will be on & if Aguero/Tevez need a break he will be on .He does better coming off bench than starting any thoughts ,anybody ……..anyone ……….is there anyone out there ??????????????????????????
October 26 at 6:01 pm
rdpx says:
City just too much rotation really, don’t you think?
I have had Tevez since GW1 but now Aguero is fit again I worry every week he will just come on for 5 minutes at the end…..
October 26 at 5:53 pm
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October 26 at 5:56 pm
Cahill says:
Hey guys…
Michu – Walters
or
Fletcher – Crouch??
October 26 at 6:01 pm
rdpx says:
latter
October 26 at 6:02 pm
RenNy says:
Difficult but I`d do Fletcher -> Crouch
October 26 at 5:59 pm
rdpx says:
I have 2FT and am considering dropping 2 or 3 of :-
Michu*
Routledge
Sahin*
RVP
Vermaelen*
Vermaelen too expensive/bad returns
RVP expensive….
Thinking of bringing in poss:-
Caulker*
Wilson
Berbatov
Holt
Walters*
Bale
Mata*
The asterisks show what I have up on screen right this second for -4…
Any thoughts?
October 26 at 6:13 pm
one time Benzema says:
People who have michu ?
A- swith to benafa
B- switch to lennon
C- keep him
D- chance to another?
October 27 at 1:36 am
Cjandrews82 says:
I was considering a change of Gibbs & Podolski > Baines & Crouch,
but having read this article I’m now thinking of taking a 4pt hit and going for
Gibbs, Gutierrez, Podolski > Huth, Bale and Pavel,
any thoughts?