Jonty Joins As Community Manager

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Fellaini and Anichebe the new CB pairing

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So funny 😀

Fantastic!

Whoa, young Arsene looks very similar to Mike Gordon of Phish.

that's disgusting leave Turner alone 😉

I hear he's gunna be 4.6...damn

I think he made some good points. No doubt this site and good management will help you to win but chances are you'll need to be lucky. I think the top 50 will have all had a lot of luck throughout the season. Better management increases your chance of getting lucky nevertheless.

The sheer number of players just makes it very difficult to win. Getting a high rank is skill, winning will usually be a combination but lucky seems to be crucial.

The more time put in on sites like this and looking at player potential the lower the impact luck will have on your overall season. I don't think anyone is saying its the same as having a 2.6m player flipping contest.

You missed the whole the whole point of his post. He explicitly said that skill and knowledge increases your chances hugely but can give no guarantee.

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How many permutations were there on the Derren Brown accumulators? How much did he stake in total?

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Is homecrowd going to sort the getting lot on end of page thing out?

+1 I wouldn't mind being a mod.

the most subtle approach so far 😉

100.5 total cost 😀 Back to the drawing board TurdBird.

I've taken a screen shot of this team to look at in August. It has made me realise I need to be more patient with good players. For example, does this show that we should have hung on to Cazorla all season and not got fed up with his dry spells?

Would've been stung in GW1 with Chelsea DGW 😉

That isn't the optimal one, GB. He just suggested this as one that did pretty well. Ryan's optimal team had 2300+ points, comfortably winning FPL.

It's hugely important you get the right bargains though. That's the tough part.

Jack Butland if he returns to Stoke...

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Brendan Rodgers the 6th longest 😯

wow thats pretty crazy!

Definitely feels like a new era. I don't like it.

Moyes currently 200-1 with one bookie to be the next Stoke manager. Martin Johnson & Warren Gatland are 5,000-1 (no joke).

*with the same team

thats crazy

wow I would have expected a green arrow for you there for sure. I got 59 and went from 10,357 to 9,524. 10,400 is still a very respectable finishing position.

You've been on your holiday for a long time !!! I am jealous

Parmtree and Milanista did that last year, I think China Mag made the 3 way one.

Fixtures are out 19 June, reckon it'll be at least one more day before they have done all the calculations

why?

Thomas?

The worlds gone crazy, who going to come and better what he's been doing with that team? There built around his style and I don't believe anyone stoke can aim for can do the job better than him when it comes to hoofing the ball and tackling hard... Not only that I don't think stokes players are versatile enough to change style

"Walters plays a sublime one two before bursting into space dancing around players left an right before delicately placing the ball in the bottom right hand corner"

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AB?

No

depends on the natural disaster and whether it was likely to happen again or if it was even possible to still live there.

Depends if I have the resources to protect my new home or not

Sad story 🙁 This song for all the victims in OK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxiLoXntRMU

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50147264n

Very touching admist all the death and destruction

That's awesome. Thanks Chelsea Harbour

This is SO helpful. Thanks a ton!

awesome table! 😛

but what should the table be used for?
predicting the trend for next year?

Incredible, it even goes back a few seasons. Nice one CH 😀

Good work

Nice one!

Confirms what I was thinking, that midfielders are generally priced better than forwards.

Get Ginkapo on the case

Comes down to that "if the universe is infinite, everything that can happen,must happen. Infinite numbers of times."
I like to believe it even if its not true. Gives everything a sense of perspective.

Infinite? Then of course yes.

Based on the principle that it just requires the monkey to randomly press the correct keys in the correct order only once its entirely plausible. What this theory doesnt say is that the monkey will not realise what he has done or run a succesful marketing campaign.

The number is finite so mathematically your right however I am going to agree with him, the statistical chance of it happening, including spaces a grammar mean that I don't believe it would happen, ever.

They say that but instead of the Bible the entire works of Shakespeare.

Of course it can. A monkey with unlimited time will type every possible combination of characters on the keyboard at some point.

So if I spend eternity trying to walk through a brick wall, there's a possibility that it could happen?

In an infinite time then yes, but they would also reproduce this forum. Even ronh.

I think the maths sorts out that it is virtually a certainty. Important to note that it isnt a certainty though, it could get no where near it for eternity.

Monkeys don't live that long 😉

It would be quite complex with a lot of advanced maths, and programming skill. If I have time I might give it a go this summer. But it looks like I've almost got a graduate job at a large train signalling company so I probably won't have the time.

I'm thinking a m by 38 matrx where m is the player population size. And then get matlab/other to select the best 11 every week with only one change.

Probably bloody difficult to do, but how much benefit would you derive from doing this, given that next season's optimal team won't look much like the optimal team for the season just ended?

I'd certainly love to see an optimal team.

The search space is absolutely enormous. You could use heuristics to chop it down and get to good solutions but you could never guarantee you'd found the optimal one.

The amount of work going into it would be unreal! Imagine trying to calculate every single perfect transfer including all the price fluctuations! You would need some serious computer genius to be able to do it. Would be amazing to see it happen. Maybe we could start a fund get people to put in £10 each and see if we can raise enough to make it worth someones time!

No place for Paul?

West Ham tactics 🙂

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Not an Arsenal fan but I think he's class. In a more attack minded team/league he'll flourish imo.

People are blinded by his first season and believe this one was just a blip... Maybe it reflects what on offer in the market at the moment aka:not a lot

Must be a struggle leading the line for Fiorentina in a strong defensive league such as Serie A. I think he would do really well in the PL.

From what I've seen - he's much more a number 10 than a goal scoring number 9 (which we still need)

He's got bags of potential. Strong, pacey, skilful... and he must have something special about him on the training ground etc. Captain of Partizan at age 18. Captain of Fiorentia currently. (Club captain old and not first teamer)

I thought the fallout was a joke but seriously?

I'm only 16 but even i wouldn't go on like this.

Haha that is genius. This guy has serious problems. How many times do you want to mess that up.

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Classic!

😆 white boy got owned. The ground slap in total silence is hilarious.

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Beast mode.

That is massively impressive, considering the 15 sub apps.

Wow, it'll be a shame if he stays at Chelsea next season, it would kill him as a FPL prospect.

😯 Lukaku Legend.

How did Fowler have 42 starts?

i dont want chelsea to destroy him!!!

Minutes played would also be interesting.

The guy who will remove all your posts

i've decided next season i'll create a second team and do 2 transfers each wk,get all the bandwagons and see what that leads to...

Interesting! Going to look now.

look for *monkey on the loose* sign!!! 😛

See if you can find one of those deals where you get a typewriter thrown in with every monkey purchased

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lol
what a legend!

Superb, worth a re-post on the next page...