The Numbers Game – 2015/16 Review – Klopp’s Liverpool

haha if they manage to keep mahrez n kante what stops them from getting a top 6 position this season?

Arsenal always qualify for champs league.. its what they do best.

Yup. Gotta love English player prices eh.
Tbf I think he will become a quality player and they will sell him on for a profit eventually

So far it's cost us about 15m net to bring in karius matip grujic and mane 😎

It's been open for a while.

It's been open before the Euros ended. Too bad it isn't available in Asia so I don't really know what it's like. But the original FPL is said to be opening on Monday (Says that on the website).

I opened an account last year. So they aren't asking for the location now. Dont know how I hacked it last time out. Also its totally not worth the time.

Or maybe, just maybe, FPL is opening on July 18th 😮

It's not. Go back to sleep.

No worries, it's not McD's.

I'd say it's my most anticipated season because of the top-tier managers & players coming in. Probably why I'm more eager than the past two seasons to start tinkering/scouting.

Did anyone get this page ?

It's fake

I had a similar season a few years ago. 250k I think.

You learn a lot from these disasters. Makes you take a step back and work out what you were doing wrong. I realised I was focussing too much on fixtures at that stage but I'm sure it is different for everyone.

Sometimes a bad start can snowball into a catastrophe especially if you start chasing. Just remember what got you all the top 5k finishes and jump back on the wagon.

When the wagon actually arrives 🙁

Well done for getting back on the horse Chrissy, good luck for the new season Chrissy 🙂

Tell me about Everton's prospects this season.

About Everton...

Maybe you are setting too much store by Koeman?

At Southampton he took over Pocchettino's team that had already done very well the previous season. He may find Everton a harder nut to crack.

In addition, his supposed "pulling power" isn't that great, he had a poor record at Valencia apart from the one cup win and was sacked with them in 15th place in La Liga. His record with Feyenoord was also very patchy, he never got them as far as the CL group stage, never won the Eredivisie and they often failed to make even the EL group stage. For Feyenoord that is pretty awful (although they had financial problems when he first took over, which moderated expectations). In fact, Koeman's managerial record is pretty poor overall.

I don't think he's the saviour that many Everton fans expect and I don't think the prospects of Everton players for FPL purposes will be much improved by his being there. With the one exception that they will probably keep more clean sheets under Koeman than under Martinez. But that isn't exactly saying much. 😕

He's been politcally busy.

About time 🙂

Hot Topics.

Thanks for this. At least I can do other things than refreshing the FPL page all the time and fuming at Mark Rogers. 🙂

We could still get a teaser, player prices, rule changes etc

Looks like a "page overlay" to me.

This

I'm ok with that. It was the sort of traffic that wasn't particularly useful anyway.

The craze will start again on Monday morning.

I'll throw a bone to triggerlips's site. Regular here which have some good stuff

A lot of people here are proven to be good FPL managers to be fair.

I'm not a proven player but I'll offer some 'take them or leave them' thoughts.

The key thing is to decide in advance when you will use the first wildcard. For me, that almost certainly means prior to GW4. That means my initial team is for 3 weeks only.

As a result of that I can do things initially that I wouldn't do later. Meaning I can build my initial team without worrying about squad structure, having 2 playing GKs and so on. I can ignore players late back to pre-season after the Euros or Copa, or those that have had injuries during pre-season. It makes the whole matter simpler.

Keeping your options open is key – if you are looking to do x at y date, make sure you are in a position to do z if you need/have to. Key example of this was when to WC at the end of last season – most were forced into the GW33 WC as they hadn’t forward planned enough and then only had one real option, whereas those who planned had the option to either WC in 33 or 36 – the difference between the two tactics looked to be about equal, but because such a small percentage had the ability to wait until GW36, it turned out to be a massive differential and ended up paying dividends with how the DGWs panned out.

Not necessarily. They could have a new page with a different name that holds that information.

Recycle bin?

Did you install the game via Steam?

Next week, probably tue, wen.

In 5 days time 😉

Head away mate, it'll be here for you when you get back, 'patience my little one'

18th according to PL website Ts&Cs.

My money is on Tuesday.

That Mark Rogers guy might have a few angry F5ers after him. 😆

Pogba would have been 10m if we hadn't seen him at the Euros 😉

Ya reckon up to 6 now?

I hope Rupert doesn't mind me being a bit of a stalker, but...

https://scotchegghunt.wordpress.com/

Hi Dazzy, still seems strange to see Zlat in that jersey-How you see him doing/You buying?

haha

Its that thing to do until you find that next thing to do. We're a bunch of losers in our own bubble here.

Like a bullet wound, girls love it.

Great question

I read that at first as IQ... Thank God I read again before replying.

Easy to remember when trying to link your team and sign up for tournaments

As always its a complete lottery early doors. I'd tell you to just focus on flexibility and very early fixtures, but you know what ya doing 😉

Can Zlatan still do it week in week out in the physicality of the premier league at 34? Remains to be seen.
JMs centre forwards have to get through a lot of work. I'm expecting rotation there

With Utd's fixtures I'm having one of those to start with, plus a defender (probably Shaw).

My thinking is never plan to get players in, as other issues always pop up.

I'd say yes. I think both from Day 1 is overkill. Yes - they have the potential to be superb acquisitions but they also carry a high risk. With inflated initial ownership if they don't perform they will be shipped out in droves and we'll be forced to make a negative transfer to avoid the dreaded price drops.

Miki a must for me. Zlatan or Kun. 4 mids to play around with thereafter and 2 forwards.

Nice in theory but you'll find that as you tinker you'll be agonisingly close to getting an attacker that you want. And then guess where you'll end up cutting costs to afford him?

Try two premium defenders that you can play week in week out and a three way rotation of the 4.5 defenders.

Defence is a lot of times about luck, there's often 4.0 and 4.5 players leading the way after 5-6 matches
Would say you need to make your own luck by only going for players you aware sure will start tho - you can always downgrade later

For what it is worth, I see a lot of possible 0 0 draws the 1st GW.

I'm picking a team for the first two GW's, then WC'ing at start of GW3, to pick up the inform budget options and gain TV. It worked well when I was forced to do it, by a bad start last year.

That is something I noticed last season. One, perhaps two, of premium defenders like Alder and Bellerin are well worth it.

So I am aiming at a start of:
Cheap keeper rotation 8.5 - 9.0
1/2 Premium Def
2 Premium Mid
2 Premium Fwd

All depending on pricing of course. A starting cheap backline has killed me the last two seasons.

A 6.0 / 7.0 Defender completely outscores a 6.0 / 7.0 Mid - imho