With the Sky Sport Fantasy Football offering now up and running, we’ve published this piece for Fantasy managers looking for feedback on their newly-constructed starting XIs ahead of the upcoming season.
Please use this article for Sky RMTs and chat only.
Teams cannot be removed from Private Extra Leagues once added (see T&Cs page of game ;))
Really?! That's great news! Thanks!
" After any team has been entered into a Private League, it can only be removed until 30th September. Private League Chairman will have the ability to remove any team from their Private League until 30th September. Team managers will have the ability to remove only their own team until 30th September. This does not apply to Private Leagues Extra, where teams cannot be removed once added (see Private Leagues Extra section for full details). Only the game judges may remove managers from Private Leagues after the aforementioned deadline or Private League Extras at any time and they have absolute discretion to do so."
Why would you get kicked out? You shady?!
No lol. Just I didn't want to join a random persons league and then they kick me out lol.
Also, do you know how many money leagues I can join? Is there a limit?
"A team may participate in a maximum of three Private Leagues." Mate you really need to get on those t&cs
Too long to read all that lol.
It's actually 2 money leagues. (3 normal leagues)
Thoughts on Clyne? Prefer to spend minimum on DEF but Liverpool kept 14 clean sheets with a poor defence last year, Clyne scored a couple & gave a number of assists, as well as having Benteke to target this season. Is he a proper shout?
agreed on the minimum spend for defenders, i like to have one fairly decent one next to 2 cheap gems. Clyne could be a good shout..
RMT:
Pantilimon
Clyne, Azpilucueta, Cedric
Silva, Hazard, Henderson, Mane
Costa, Wilson, Giroud
Bench: Hamer, Baker, Turner, Wanyama
Guess you are talking Barclays FF, not Sky FF since you have subs.
Very strong 11; however Wanyama only real sub who will get you game time.
If your 11 always play then I like.
Quick question - we get two teams, but can we enter both into the same league?
Yes, I've done it before
Captain changes are so difficult this year, the fixtures are so awkward
Indeed! Article on that before the season starts
Thoughts then people on the Defenders break down? Any you think i have overlooked? Elphick is one i have grown to like more just due to his shear cheapness
Brilliant article really helped me out. Elphick is a great pick at only 4.1m
Yeah and Angella although its it they get get dropped or are useless it presents a problem switching
elphick to me -the watford trio-angella;prodl;holebas have poor fixtures wheras BOR are good
elphick is the uber and also happens to be a captain
Really helpful stuff. Naughton and Amavi are a couple that I'd overlooked.
Naughtons bonus stats are frightening, if Swans can get close the same cleanies and he stays fit then hes gold
Disable when you say frightening, is this a good or bad frightening lol
Avami:
Amavi, who has impressed so much in Ligue One last season that only Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s performances were ranked higher than his by http://www.whoscored.com, is of a similar mould.
He’s athletic, forward-thinking and good for a goal.
Defensively he has it all in check, too. But attacking is where he feels he excels.
10m for Villa is alot of cash!
3.9 tackles per game, plus attacking threat! Straight in my team - even if Villa don't keep that many CS, he'll be hoovering up those tackling bonuses.
He doesn't even get save points 😉
Is Elphick better than Martin of Norwich?
Struggling to pick juust 3 from Naughton, Jenko, PVA, Amavi and Elphick as the enabler.
Sterling or Walcott?
Sky? Walcott early on
Unsure on the arsenal midfielders want to go Walcott but not so sure he's going to get the game time
Does anybody have any Sky cash leagues to join? Post the password and pin here!
Sarjeant drop me an email mate too ripryan1971@yahoo.co.uk and i will you a mates Sky League to join, hope thats ok to post my email Disable?
How's this lads? TEAM A
...............................ADRIAN
................AMAVI....HAIDIRA....NAUGHTON
HAZARD...PAYET...SCNEIDERLIN...STERLING...CAZORLA
.......................COSTA....RODRIGUEZ
Need arsenal mdf
Team B
...............................ADRIAN
..........HAIDARA...MORGAN...MORGAN
HAZARD...WALCOTT...TADIC...SCHNEIDERLIN... PAYET
..................... AGUERO.... COSTA
Amavi I mean... Struggling to decide
Haidara? Will newcastle get cs? Will schneiderlin start as a utd fan not sure. Also aguero due to copa. Other than that great team.
Both look pretty solid, very strong across the board. Amavi is a definite choice for me anyway, Aston Villa have a good run apart from Utd 2nd GW.
Just a couple of players i'm waiting on like yourself. Walcott is down as a Mid so he could be a great pick if he gets the game time & position that he wants BUT will Arsene give him the chance ahead of Giroud who did have a pretty decent season, even if he does play Walcott on the wing, still a good shout considering Walcott makes those out to in runs in behind & will get Midfielder points for scoring.
Tadic - not so sure about
Schneiderlin - could possibly bag a few goals from crosses & set pieces
Payet - We'll need to see if he can handle it in the Prem, will keep an eye on him for sure.
Good info, I will tinker with it between now and then, AGUERO will be my first sub In once he's fit. HAIDARA is a strange one but he done well pre season.
in the sky game its 5 points for goal for ALL players, so no extra midfield goalscorer points..
Why did i think it was more points for a Mid or Def scoring? Did they change the point scoring.. lol confused.
Who is the best captaincy option? It's supposed to be Southampton (or Newcastle), they play on Sunday then next Saturday. But does the week change of Friday to the next Saturday change things?
Gameweeks are different this season:
Your captain change is given to you when a Game Week starts (A Game Week starts on Friday at 00.01am and runs until midnight the following Thursday).
New here btw, just made an account 🙂 but i've been reading a few posts & looking about...
See a lot of people with Abdi in their teams and i've just read on SSN that Jurado has signed for Watford, if i remember correctly he's an attacking minded mid so that would throw a bit of doubt over Abdi now. Just a heads up! 🙂
Will probably be looking to join the league as well at some point Disable, when i get my team sorted! ;p
Yeah Abdi is know a definite doubt for a starting 11 spot, also Watford have signed Britos so Angella also not looking for good for a budget defender option.
Nice, more the merrier.
Abdi is a risk now even more so because if hes not starting its 2 transfers to get rid as nobody decent is his price
Or just keep him and play with 10 solid players?
Could work but not for me - 2 low / mid prices can far outscore 1 big hitter (if you get the right ones of course)
Any1 looking to double up on arsenal midfielders like myself??
Many options Walcott/ramsey/caz. Im thinking of bringin in likes or silva/aguero for the for the watford game.
Yep 2 Arsenal mids is quite likely form me
Which defenders are nailed on for man u?
Smalling the most nailed i would say but even then not 100%
I would avoid
I think Darmian, Mike and Shaw are all pretty nailed
I have set up a private league extra which is £5 to enter all done through SkyBet and pays out the top four positions 1st 50%, 2nd 25%, 3rd 15%, 4th 10%.
In addition to this if we manage to come in the top three money leagues overall there is up to £5,000 on offer as detailed here https://fantasyfootball.skysports.com/help/prizes/
This will be split between the top five positions 1st 40%, 2nd 22%, 3rd 16%, 4th 12% and 5th 10%.
The details for joining the league are Name: D1sableFFS Pin: 8117216 Password: FFS
35 people signed up so far
Do you reckon you will make top 3?
Will the league come in the top 3? Every possibility, depends on the quality of our top 5 players. No reason to think we cant have a good go.
Yeah, that's what I meant. You should have a really quality group cos (i) they are all from here (ii) they will be taking your advice and (iii) its a paid league which increases the quality
Your only downside is sheer numbers or some of the bigger leagues - but I reckon you'll do it
Sheer numbers in a large cash league doesn't happen though. (highest cash league is different to a normal league)
FISO won last year (im in that one too this season) not sure how many they had but cant imagine it was that higher number.
Are the prize splits and prize positions for this set in stone or are they subject to change? Would be a bit disappointing to finish 4th and then be told that it'd been changed to just the top 3 recieving prize money for example.
All set to stone. Top four paid out through entry money.
Any additional prize money is top 5
Thoughts on this?
Panti
Jenkinson Naughton Amavi
Hazard Walcott Mane Milner Abdi
Aguero Rooney
Question mark over Abdi I realise at this stage.
Very close to mine so i love it
Jenkinson had no attaching threat or bonus last season but that was under Big Sam so who knows, plus their fixtures are great so i understand it.
Adbi you know about
Cant fault any other player
Great effort!
Thanks Disable for the quick response and analysis.
Ok may have another look at Jenkinson and could go slightly cheaper on him.
Will be a sham if Abdi isnt nailed on as not a huge amount around that cheap price. Atsu at 4.9 could be the next best? You got your eye on any other super cheap midfielders?
Atsu is my current thinking but again at sure if nailed at this stage
mids article should be out around 10pm tonight i think
Ok brilliant. Look forward to it. Have the Gk and DEF one bookmarked.
May need to have a look at team structure if cant find a cheap nailed MID.
Have joined your cash league by the way.
Sweet
Jenko will miss two games as well, guaranteed, not ideal for this game.
After many hours of tinkering here is the first draft, what do you think?
Panti
Elphick Van Aanholt Holebas
Depay Hazard Cazorla Silva Arnautovic
Rooney Wilson
I have a plan to get Aguero in GW3 by transferring Silva/Wilson OUT Aguero/Payet IN. Is this worth doing do you think? Or is it a waste of transfers?
I am also in two minds over Elphick?! Once again I have a contingency. Elphick/Depay OUT Ward/Siggy IN. Your thoughts would be great.
Cheers
about head to work but will feedback after 10pm, many other great players on here though so hopefully they can give you some feedback too
Elphick id keep due to price
Wilson out
Depay give him time to adapt to the league
Payets price is too gd to refuse imo. (Look at his stats season)
Have done SS before but my first time as a member on here so looking forward to the responses and contributing myself.
2 teams:
Hennessey (Assuming he goes to WBA)
Elphick Jenko PVA
Silva Depay Hazard Milner Abdi
Aguero Benteke
2nd team has 3 changes. Fabregas, Cazorla and Hendo in for Silva Depay and Milner.
Benteke is just there for captain use in GW2 and will be coming out for either Kane or Rooney to start GW3. Have enough mitb that that position will end up as Costa or Sanchez in the long run.
Even if Hennessey goes to WBA is he nailed on with Myhill there?
Abdi no longer likely to start due to Jurado signing for them.
Im not convinced with depay just yet want to see if he adapts to the prem.
I have money to upgrade Hennessey to another lower table keeper if he either doesn't move or we get the impression Myhill will start. If Abdi doesn't look like playing then a serious re-jig is in order. He's played at CDM and CAM in pre-season though so I'm hoping his game time won't be compromised by the new signings given his adaptability.
Depay I need for captaincy in GW4 as I'm really not convinced about Rooney.
Seen a lot of people go for Rooney. Is he really essential? Hasn't scored over 20 league goals in the last 3 years and hasn't scored yet in pre-season. They're back in the CL too and he ain't getting any younger. Not saying he'll ever be rested but I have serious doubts about him being capable of scoring 20+ anymore. For 0.1 more you can have Sanchez or 0.2 more Costa. Arsenal and Chelsea should both comfortably outscore Man U this season IMO.
Rooney last few seasons hasnt been playing uptop. The last 2 seasons he has hes scored 20+ goals.hes got fixtures on side
ok so i am now a (new) fully paid member.
q1 how do i get a picture ?!
q2 is RMT really a laborious manual process ?
thanks!
Thoughts on Walcott? He gonna get much game time up front? And if not is he guaranteed to start in the attacking 3 behind the CF? He's generously priced compared to previous years but unless he's guaranteed to start I'm not sure I can go with him. Too much risk of being subbed off and rotated I fear.
I would say he's guaranteed for the first few weeks with Sanchez missing at least the first game.
Avami, pva, naughton order of pick???
PVA, Naughton, Amavi.
All 3 should be good choices this year though. If that's your back 3 you won't need to worry about you defence for large parts of he season.
Cant afford all 3 unfortunately
Boruc
Naughton / Matthews / Amavi
Hazard / Milner / Ramsey / Clasie / Payet
Costa / Rooney
Boruc for save bonuses
Clasie looks a steal
Not sure on Payet but stays in there for now.
Thoughts? Where can I improve?
Defence, you have 3 players who may not play.
Boruc save bonuses will be good but I could see Bournmouth taking a few chinnings.
Well at first Matthews was definitely going in there cause of his Celtic link ;). So who you reckon i changed him for? As well as the defenders
I'm fairly certain all 3 of your defenders are fine. All 3 of heir position rivals (Rangel, Billy Jones and Cissokho) are all vastly inferior.
Billie jones has been ahead of mathews preseason. They both could also rotate so unsure on either
RMT Please
Pantillimon
Jenkinson / Elphick / PVA
Hazard / Cazorla / Mane / Bolasie / Koyate
Rooney / Giroud
Gone for Elphick and Koyate over Abdi / Naughton for security of starts early on will re-evaluate during first international break. Bolasie and Mane are a major part of my captaincy plan early on. Before swapping Rooney for Aguero GW3 ready for everton (a) and Watford (H) the following week.
Thoughts on the team and are you guys sticking to a captain plan for the first few weeks?
Cheers
Kouyate is a bit iffy but apart from that it looks good. Giroud could perhaps be upgraded to a heavier hitting striker if you could find he funds somewhere. Giroud may be under threat from Walcott at CF and to upgrade him to Costa/Sanchez/Rooney after a few weeks would prob cos you 2 transfers.
Newbie question but what score should be aimed for each week? Obviously the higher the better but are we looking at over 100 each week or 60 average like in fpl?
Thanks
It ranges, but if you average 70-80 per week you wont be too far away.
I think the winner got 2477 points last year which when divided by 38 is 65.
I'm generally happy with anything 50+ in a single GW and anything 100+ in a double GW.
here's my current team
Panti
Elphick / Martin / PVA
Hazard / Ozil / Milner / mane / albrighton
Rooney / Costa
Any feedback would be great.
Albrighton is a risk given Ranieri's reputation for rotation. Out of all the positions in football that are most liable to rotation it's wingers.
Aguero is fantasy football dynamite. If you've got mitb to upgrade one of your strikers to him when he's up to speed then grreat but if not you could be missing out.
Regular fantasy premier player doing sky sports this year new to this any advice on team be great
Panti
Dawson/Amavi/naughton
Hazard/ramsey/payet/atsu
Rooney/bentake/deeney
Got rooney to Aguero money in bank
Is kasper a option over panti?
All advice be great
Team looks great tbh. Kasper is an option if you have a plan to invest the 0.2m elsewhere to upgrade. If not then stick with Panti.
I've never been a fan of newly promoted strikers but both Ings and Austin racked up the points last year so it can go both ways.Only trouble is if they get off to a 1 in 6 start you have to make 2 transfers to uprade them to a premium mid/str given they're so cheap.
So it looks like Aguero is definitely out of GW 1. Do you put him in your sky team from the start of save enough in the bank to get him later?
I'm going rooney put 0.4 in bank
Play Rooney TOT/villa/NEW
Sat night after newcastle swap 2 aguero for his sunday game v everton
Something along the lines of this.
Even if Aguero does play against WBA Pulis will prob park the bus and it's Chelsea the following week where there'll no doubt be another bus waiting.
Keep the money for him. Bring him in
Who do Southampton rotate well with?
I have set up a private league extra which is £5 to enter all done through SkyBet and pays out the top four positions 1st 50%, 2nd 25%, 3rd 15%, 4th 10%.
In addition to this if we manage to come in the top three money leagues overall there is up to £5,000 on offer as detailed here https://fantasyfootball.skysports.com/help/prizes/
This will be split between the top five positions 1st 40%, 2nd 22%, 3rd 16%, 4th 12% and 5th 10%.
The details for joining the league are Name: D1sableFFS Pin: 8117216 Password: FFS
50 people signed up so far
I'm in, good luck everyone 🙂
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If I join someone's money league who I've seen on Sky's FF Facebook page, can they kick me out or not?