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Moneyball – Pavel Pogrebnyak

Spending money on your bench is a tricky proposition: you need to balance the cost of leaving cash on the sidelines every week versus the risk of having insufficient talent to take up the slack when your first team players are injured or suspended. You might be able to squeeze in the odd 6.0 player to ride the bench but you simply can’t afford to have 20.0+ of talent on there, generating zero points each week; trade-offs have to be made.

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  1. Babytigrrr
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    The midlands is an awful place isn't it.

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  2. waltzingmatildas
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    Hey guys,
    Would you go for lallana or walters?

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  3. SneakyPete
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    Current team is

    Begovic
    Iva, Gorkss, Baines
    Arfa, Santi, Michu,Gerrard
    Jelavic, Torres, Giroud

    Subs:Foster, Demel, Guthrie, Jenko

    Thoughts on the team guys ?

    I was thinking about Stevie G > Bale and Demel > Wilson

    any better suggestions. Appreciated

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    1. rdpx
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      Stevie G out for sure Bale sounds good or Mata... Demel also looks good but if it were me I would drop Giroud, because Arsenal are playing like goats.

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  4. Nibbsy
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    Simpson or Santon?

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  5. tippman
    • 14 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    Contemplating Dzeko as he will come on to the pitch at some time against Swansea because he is the SuperSub if City need a goal he will be on & if Aguero/Tevez need a break he will be on .He does better coming off bench than starting any thoughts ,anybody ........anyone ..........is there anyone out there ??????????????????????????

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    1. rdpx
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      City just too much rotation really, don't you think?
      I have had Tevez since GW1 but now Aguero is fit again I worry every week he will just come on for 5 minutes at the end.....

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  6. Cahill
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    Hey guys...

    Michu - Walters

    or

    Fletcher - Crouch??

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    1. rdpx
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      latter

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    2. RenNy
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 5 months ago

      Difficult but I`d do Fletcher -> Crouch

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  7. rdpx
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    I have 2FT and am considering dropping 2 or 3 of :-

    Michu*
    Routledge
    Sahin*
    RVP
    Vermaelen*

    Vermaelen too expensive/bad returns
    RVP expensive....

    Thinking of bringing in poss:-

    Caulker*
    Wilson
    Berbatov
    Holt
    Walters*
    Bale
    Mata*

    The asterisks show what I have up on screen right this second for -4...

    Any thoughts?

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  8. wagner is king
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    People who have michu ?

    A- swith to benafa
    B- switch to lennon
    C- keep him
    D- chance to another?

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  9. Cjandrews82
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 5 months ago

    I was considering a change of Gibbs & Podolski > Baines & Crouch,

    but having read this article I'm now thinking of taking a 4pt hit and going for

    Gibbs, Gutierrez, Podolski > Huth, Bale and Pavel,
    any thoughts?

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