Dugout Discussion – Chelsea vs Man City

Sims?

I think I'm still in the first stage.

For example? 😉

Poor Alonso14 didn't get a chance to evolve as he was taken round the back sharpish and put down after that Spurs teamsheet release

Welcome to the internet.

does it work the other way?

No

Waxys could never get to Stage 4

Examples of current posters in each bracket?

He's alright, but I wouldn't blame people for selling. He's just invisible in some games, doesn't take enough shots and gets subbed a lot

Fixtures. Plus Sterling and Silva are tempting

Mkhitaryan has played Two good games. Gw1 and Gw2 since then he has reverted to last seasons version.
Owners have had a few lucky, undeserved points since then, but he has been poor

he is crappy

Fixtures, eye test

Better options at City for that price, and since most of the people have Lukaku, there is no reason to keep two Utd attackers for their upcoming run of fixtures

Selling only for the tough fixtures. May get him back.

If we stick with value and don't play to the fixtures, we will lose out on points. Options everywhere.

Why not Fellaini?

I'm keeping for Bournemouth at least. They are garbage away from home.

But the team linked only has 15?!

Beats 10

How do you link your team and how do you view others linked teams?

buying the most highly owned players in the game

Getting highly owned players to minimize the risk of overall rank loss basically.

Yeah something like that.

Breadbin. Missed but never forgotten...

RBJ was original on here

Attilla ,legend

How did you do? Played mine too - have 60 with Laca, Ramsey and Monreal to play.

did too and currently on 80 and laca ramsey and monreal to go

Tells you on the front page of FPL if you are logged in.

http://www.howmanywcshavebeenplayedsofarforthewholeseason.com

https://fpldiscovery.wordpress.com/2017/09/30/1718-gw7-team-selection-and-stats/

27.1% have. About 50% of the ones that haven't are dead teams

that's good, marginally better at 56 with Salah and Brady left, shame Lukaku didn't repay the faith to the extent we were hoping for but I still wouldn't have passed up Lukaku vs Palace if given the chance to make the decision again

Kane always outdoes his expected goal total by quite some margin every season

Forget xG for a second, Kane's stats per 90 for total shots, shots in the box, chances created/key passes > Lukaku's stats per 90

dark side of probability

I'm on 23 pts and another injury looms. Stop moaning.

Its been around a while.

Like every stat take it with a pinch of salt and realise what its based on, how its worked etc. to truly understand it.

Basically in this case though Kane is in beast mode and therefore will break the stats models.

Moral of the story - read the Pre-amble after deadline.

Small sample size means take all projections with a fist of salt but Trust the process.

Jonty's goals imminent table clearly still the MVP

Sometimes stats just don't work out as expected

Thankfully we are not robots that can only process 0s and 1s. No number of stats can substitute for watching some football and seeing that Kane is a superior and more complete centre forward than Lukaku. That, dear virgin, is a fact.

Kane is better at shooting? what a surprise

Laptop manager.

xG is an indication of how many goals the average player should score. The top strikers normally score more than their xG because they're better finishers than the average player.

It doesn't indicate regression, imo.

It indicates that Kane has been in extraordinary form (either that or fortunate but we know from watching him that it's the former) whereas Lukaku has been more or less ordinary/average. Kane and Lukaku both outscored their xG last season comfortably, indicating that they were in extraordinary form. They didn't regress.

So Kane looks to be in better form, although it could all change in the next game, so I wouldn't conclude anything.

Jaysus Virg you love a good auld moan dont you 😉 hehe

I'm annoyed that I kept him and didn't dobtgat this week

Chelsea have some of the best fixtures coming up

Now good fixtures and Alonso a midfielder with freekick for a very good team.
Cant you have both?

That is tricky. Depends how long Morata is out. But yes, basically.

KDB and Ota until he got his YC

Hard to single out a player IMO. They worked very efficiently as a team. Even Ederson was effective as a sweeper keeper.

They were but can't help thinking the second Morata got injured and was replaced with Willian the game was as good as dead as far as Chelsea getting anything from it..

De Bruyne ran the show

Very measly all round with the baps this week. Think I got 17 last week. 4 this week. Makes such a difference

Weird

He cost me 120 the fecker.

Utd, west brom, West ham. Disgusted

And how did Davies only get 1 Baps? Very weird decisions this week.

Bit annoying but he did give up the ball a lot. Still happy with 10 points though

great score

67 with salah firmino and mee. Similar 🙂

Conte hates him

Probably not. He is not a very good football player

not after Conte brought on Willian today

He's injured

Might play Haz up front.

A

Jesus I think, looking at the way they are playing and the fixtures they should score twice as many as Chelsea.
Can always swap to Morata after a few weeks

Had planned my WC around getting morata. So A

If Morata is fit I'm keeping him and doubling on city mids

A

The goal stopped it being a complete fail.

Not the player he was last season. Attacking returns in only 1 game and 2 clean sheets.

Conte also said it wasn't serious

Hehe the state

He'll probably only miss 1 GW

Annoying isn't it. Morata was the much better option after this week

Hope he does. No offence.

Set I think.

Actually that's a very good question, I'm guessing its fixed.

Its amazing though how I try to avoid being mesmerised by the colours but still fall for them.

Set

Make up your own mind on those. There's all sorts of permutations. To attribute and simple 1, 2, 3 to a fixture is pointless.

It gets updated every week. Everton away used to be 4, now it's 3. Huddersfield home used to be 1, now it's 2, etc.

Set. It's a waste of time because it's team-based. Be better if it had points potential per player against each opposition.

It does get updated. Everton away was 4, now 3

You know it's gone tits up when you're relying on big points from a promoted team

Well with that crowd behind them and Dejan Lovren infront of them i wouldn't rule it out

I can see them scoring. It is Liverpool after all! Maybe 2-1 Pool?

I wouldn't wc.. just use your FT's.

Otamendi

He's still rising.

My thoughts exactly, looked so sharp before the injury, 2 weeks to recover also

Kane captain ?

Not really, luck of the draw - playing the percentages, Morata/Jesus was the logical pick, and would work out most of the time.

Well yeah, in hindsight. Have had all 3 injuries.