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The Rate My Team Discussion

5 August 2014 2908 comments
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With so many of you seeking advice on their teams before August 16, we thought it would prudent to run a daily community article to provide a dedicated focus for “Rate My Team” (RMT) requests.

Each day ahead of the new season, we’ll select one of the  Fantasy Football Scout team and post up their own RMT request to open up discussion and encourage others to post their own. We’ll turn the comments over to you to provide a useful place for those seeking advice and highlight some of the key decisions under deliberation.

Please encourage those posting RMTs in other articles to visit this daily RMT article. Also, when posting requests, please remember to be courteous to those who take the time to help out. Equally, if you’re an experienced Fantasy manager with some views on initial lineups, take time out to dip in and contribute – the Fantasy Football Scout team will be doing their upmost to offer their feedback as the discussion develops throughout the day.

First up, I’ve decided to post my current lineup. I’ve opted for a squad that has a spread of money across the positions, with two rotating goalkeepers and a strong focus on the four to five teams I think are most likely to profit from goals and clean sheets. It also shows a strong bias towards those teams with favourable early fixtures and, hopefully, it’s set up to be flexible enough to make quick early repairs.

Guzan (Krul)

Terry Evans NTaylor (Wisdom, Duff)

Ramsey Hazard Mata Henderson (Albrighton)

Rooney Adebayor Dzeko

0.5m in the bank

My main deliberation surrounds whether to go with Diego Costa up front and and an 8.5 midfielder, probably Rahaeem Sterling, instead of my current selection of Emmanuel Adebayor and Eden Hazard. That gives me a Gameweek 2 option to possibly swap one of Jordan Henderson or Sterling for Gylfi Sigurdsson, although I’m happy to keep both those Liverpool midfielders if a transfer is urgently required elsewhere. I do feel that Hazard will be the top source of Chelsea points, however.

Alternatively, I could stick with Hazard and a 9.0 striker. Of this group, the main options seem to be Romelu Lukaku and Adebayor. This also gives me flexibility to hop on any emerging strikers who show promise for 8.5 or less. As you can see, I’m currently favouring this option.

Feel free to get stuck in with your feedback. We look forward to scanning your RMT’s throughout the day on this article.

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  1. SaintBegbie
    • 11 Years
    11 years, 4 months ago

    DDG (Gilks)

    P Jones Debuchy Caulker (Wisdom, 4.0m)

    Ramsey Mata Fabregas Coutinho (Mutch)

    Rooney Costa (Bojan)

    Plan to rotate Mutch and Bojan for a few weeks at least and reassess according to form and money available.

    Thanks!

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  2. feltpen
    • 11 Years
    11 years, 4 months ago

    A Hazard Ramsey Dzeko

    B Sterling Carzola Costa

    which is better?

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    1. stevie
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 3 months ago

      A

      Sterling is better than dzeko for 8.5
      Ramsay is better then carzola

      Im on costa rather than haz but both sould get about the same points

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  3. OzziesDream
    • 15 Years
    11 years, 3 months ago

    Think I've nailed the 'de Jong injured' problem...

    Begovic (Mannone)
    Chambers, Lovren, Jones (Bartley / Bruce)
    Fábregas, Ramsey, Mata, Sterling (Davis)
    Rooney, Diego Costa (Bojan)

    …fully expecting to WC by GW4! 🙂

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    1. stevie
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 3 months ago

      Would move the money in defence,
      Like the front though

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  4. aehii
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 3 months ago

    settled on

    krul[myhill]
    terry oshea moore [duff wisdom]
    hazard sterling ramsey mata
    bojan rooney sturridge

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    1. stevie
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 3 months ago

      Change mayhill to any other 4m keeper
      he wont play and is the highest owned to more likely to drop in price

      Missing a 5th mid,

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  5. Carroll to the rescue
    • 14 Years
    11 years, 3 months ago

    Hey lads, thoughts on my team?

    Krul Elliot
    Luis Lovren Pieters Moore Wisdom
    Siggy Lamela Fab Ramsey Young
    Rooney Jovetic Costa

    Pondering over Lovren or Debuchy or any other 5.5 defender?

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    1. stevie
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 3 months ago

      MU defence could be a shout, evens/jones/smallings all 5.5 and fixtures are good

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  6. stevie
    • 14 Years
    11 years, 3 months ago

    Green, Krul

    Jones, pvA, Chester, Kelly, Bartley

    Sanchez, Sterling, Lemela, Sig, Mutch

    Costa, Rooney, Dzeko

    +0

    Any thoughts guys?

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  7. asdfghj123
    • 11 Years
    11 years, 3 months ago

    need some help!

    this is my team, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

    De Gea (gilks)

    Ivanovic Debuchy Clyne (chester, van Aanholt)

    Fabregas, Mata, Sigurdsson, Ramsey (Marney)

    Rooney, Costa, Bojan

    any ideas?

    Thanks.

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    1. Jimmy_The_Gent
      • 11 Years
      11 years, 3 months ago

      Ivanovic isn't nailed so I would downgrade to Cahill who is a certain starter. The extra £0.5m will allow you to upgrade Marney to Arfield who scored 8 times last season and provides stronger bench cover. The rest of the team is strong, although Bojan is clearly a big gamble. However, you defence is strong enough to go 4-4-2 if required.

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  8. Cubillas
    • 14 Years
    11 years, 3 months ago

    Hi All:

    Any help would be much appreciated:

    Mannone, (Krul),
    Evans, Debuchy, Felipe Luiz, (Davies, Duff),
    Mata, Hazard, Henderson, Sigurdsson, (Waynama),
    Giroud, Rooney, Diego Costa

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    1. Jimmy_The_Gent
      • 11 Years
      11 years, 3 months ago

      You have a few players not certain of immediate game-time: Mannone, Luiz, Davies (assuming Ben not Curtis) and Giroud. Foster rotates well with Krul, while Cahill is a more secure pick than Luiz until we see how Mourinho sets out his defence in the opening weeks. To accommodate Cahill, you could downgrade Davies to Neil Taylor who has good fixtures from GW2 and is nailed. Wanyama isn't a good £4.5m bench fodder pick - there was an excellent hot topic earlier which analysed the best £4.5m mids. Dean Marney got the nod there and he's my pick too. You could gamble Giroud as I suspect you want attacking Arsenal coverage.

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      1. Cubillas
        • 14 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Great reply, Jimmy. Much appreciated!

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        1. Jimmy_The_Gent
          • 11 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          No problem 🙂 Good luck!

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  9. Cubillas
    • 14 Years
    11 years, 3 months ago

    What are the % chances that they start GW 1 & 2 . . .

    1.) Filipe Luis

    2.) Giroud

    3.) Evans

    4.) Mannone

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