| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Raya Martin | ARS | B, Vs |
| No Change |  Donnarumma | MCI | B |
| Up |  Henderson | CRY | C |
| No Change |  Pickford | EVE | C |
| No Change |  Verbruggen | BHA | B |
| No Change |  Darlow | LEE | B, Vs, £ |
| Down |  Roefs | SUN | B |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Gabriel Magalhães | ARS | B, Vs |
| No Change |  O’Reilly | MCI | A |
| Up |  Lacroix | CRY | A |
| No Change |  Keane | EVE | C |
| Up |  van Hecke | BHA | B |
| Up |  Struijk | LEE | B, Vs, £ |
| Up |  Hill | BOU | C, £ |
| Down |  Ballard | SUN | C |
| Down |  van Dijk | LIV | A |
| No Change |  Thiaw | NEW | C |
| No Change |  Cash | AVL | C |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Bruno Fernandes | MUN | A |
| Up |  Cherki | MCI | A |
| Up |  Saka | ARS | C, Vs |
| No Change |  Wilson | FUL | B |
| No Change |  Ismaila Sarr | CRY | C, Rest |
| No Change |  Rogers | AVL | B |
| No Change |  Gibbs-White | NFO | A |
| No Change |  Dewsbury-Hall | EVE | A, £ |
| No Change |  Palmer | CHE | C |
| Down |  Szoboszlai | LIV | C |
| No Change |  Tavernier | BOU | C, £ |
| No Change |  Hinshelwood | BHA | B, £ |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Haaland | MCI | B |
| No Change |  Thiago | BRE | B |
| No Change |  Bowen | WHU | A |
| No Change |  Watkins | AVL | A |
| No Change |  Welbeck | BHA | B |
| No Change |  Calvert-Lewin | LEE | C, Vs |
| No Change |  João Pedro | CHE | C |
| Up |  Isak | LIV | B |
Mark Our end of season awards polls come to an end with the voting in the forwards category. The poll is now live on the frontpage and visitors can now cast two votes for the strikers who had the biggest influence on our Fantasy seasons.
Voting will close on this in a couple of days with our team of the season review articles following very soon.
The season review:
I was just outside 17k for the season, beating my previous best by a few hundred places. So I done ok in the end, poor captain choices letting me down though.
I will be aiming for a 10k finish next season.
Won my mates mini-league though, so bragging rights are mine again for another year, which is what it's all about.
Mrs Snid however came in the 2,100's - a blinder of a season really considering the last time she played it she finished 500,000th....
Luck had a fair amount to do with it - had K Davies in for his 16 pointer, Wellbeck when he hit form, Drogba and Malouda when they both got 22 each (44 with Drogs captained) when she played her 2nd Wildcard along with Jones from Stoke. Worst thing I ever did was tell her to get Bardsley in.....
So all in all, a very pleasing, if not frustrating FPL season.
Luck? She stuffed you fair and square!
All the best for next time out.
Was hoping to beat last seasons rank of 7500. My problem this season was that I held on to drogba too long when he hit his bad form and I should have got rid. Ah well!! Also missed out on nasri's hail before Xmas opting for arshavin instead. However I picked berba as captain for gw24? when he got the monster score. Ended up with 148 points that gw which was a record for me so a mixed season. Roll on next season. Aiming for a top 10 k finish.
*haul
Brad Friedel will re-join Liverpool after rejecting offers from West Bromwich Albion and Aston Villa to remain in the Midlands.
The veteran keeper has agreed a two-year deal with Kenny Dalglish to be Pepe Reina's understudy.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1390175/Brad-Friedel-join-Liverpool.html?ITO=1490
What a waste of a good 'keeper.
"Villa offered Friedel, 40, a deal on less money but with a greater bonus for appearances."
That will be the few appearances he gets in the Carling Cup then...
dumb dumb dumb, he's 40 yrs old! there goes that fantasy option next season.
Surely it could be to replace Reina if the rumours about him leaving were true???
that's the only reason i can think of for this move honestly. i would be surprised though after all that talk about being committed to the club from him after kenny took over.
Not even if he's possibly in the top 5 of keepers in the league?
Huh.
I suspect the reason he's leaving Villa has more to do with events there over the last year ...
I scored 189 points less this season than I did last, yet I finished 3,000 places higher and in the top 1,000 to boot! Strange season. I should have done a lot better but kept making poor captaincy choices. I think I only captained my highest scoring player about five times.
Ha. #26 is just epic.
How did the fella that won FPL last year get on this year?
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/M/entryhist.mc?id=27989
Check for yourself, though i think he gave up early on this season.
How he won it is beyond me, some of his choices this season were ludicrous!
Ha. In his defence, he's probably one of the few on here who didn't fall into the boselli trap!
Ah give Jon a break, maybe he had his life & family to be getting on with. Etc. He quit coz he started so badly, if he'd carried on looking like he was trying & still doing hopelessly, his success would have appeared a fluke. Congrats to McGurn. Must be so nice when your history says '1'. We can all dream...
Tbh Demi, people who do well at the game, finishin first overall, first in their country etc, end up on radio stations givin advice after their successful season, but there are many posters on this site who've consistently finished in the top 3k over several campaigns. They are the real successes to me & I'd listen to their advice/opinions before anyone else.
Yeah i agree with ya. Tbh I'd listen to everyone's and take little tit-bits from it.
You must have listened to Katie when you did those transfers. 😆
One day... one day.
He posted here in regards to his team this year. http://www.fiso.co.uk/forum/last-years-champion-where-is-he-now-t81585.html
Imo though he was proper trying early in the season and got the shiits with it not going so well. A poor ranking is harder to take when you were #1 last season.
My two major disappointments this season are:
1) Not breaking the magical 100-point barrier!
2) After reaching rank 252, following it up with 7 red arrows in 8 gameweeks.
Positives:
1) Wildcard number 1 played well
2) Made some good decisions during all the postponed games!
3) Not to mention highest ever ranking and mini league in the bag!
when does the fantasy premier league let you pick a team for next season?? I can wait just wondering!!
13th august it all begins again, maybe july time?
its like a kid at christmas logging on to have a quick look to find you can pick your team!
First year of FPL, 2039pts. 43,992. Could have been better, but for first year I am happy. Anyone grease up my team to get those captain and bench stats?
anyone know where i can stream the fa youth cup final replay?
Yeah, first half already on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZezSjBz_9g&feature=player_embedded
Andy Murray couldn't manager top 50k....
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/M/eventhist.mc?id=1292184
probably an arsenal fan...
To finish in top 100k is easy.
To finish in top 10k needs some discipline.
To finish is top 1k needs strategy, discipline and some luck.
To finish in top 100 needs strategy, discipline, forward thinking and lots of luck.
It was a long and tough season. I love the double game weeks caused by the snow. Good luck for the next one
umm.. i'm not sure if i could say i love the double game weeks as it requires a lot of thinking.
bad selection can turn a good season different way..
+4
hello bhargi, tend to agree on your pts .... no doubt need a lot of analysis, punt, review to read up etc etc and of course luck too IF to do well, i'm always NOT good in selecting captain so just follow majority lol, sometimes you get right and sometime you get wrong haha ....
nevertheless it's fun and interesting to play fpl indeed !!
Hmm, be interesting to see what happens with Villa and keepers... guess they might go for Ben Foster!
As for Reina, he's said many, many times that he doesn't want to leave and I can't see him doing so. Which must mean that Friedel is just going there for a pay-check, which seems immensely shirt sited on Dalglish's part.
I believe that it was already agreed that if Birmingham went down Villa would buy Foster.
That would make sense and explain why they no longer need Freidl.
Would make Foster a more expensive keeper next season though.
I think I'll probably be looking elsewhere for my keeper next season as Foster will probably start near the £6m mark.
Do you think Foster will cost 6 mil? Surely not?
Everyone will be on Begovic wagon.
Why wouldn't his price shoot up?
If he joined Villa he'd be potentially in a top 6 team.
If he can come 3rd overall in a side that got relegated then his value has to go up considerably if he joins a much better team.
I reckon Paddy Kenny will be one of my keepers next season.QPR had the best defensive record in all four divisions last season and he's a shot stopper.
Think Kenny might be one of the gems next season.
Not surprised if he comes at 6.0 mil. But I hope to see him at 5.5 mil at the same starting price of Gomes and Howard in this season. It'd be easy to fit him in the starting team.
You prob right hey, only realised after looking that Reina/Cech all started off at 6.5 mill with Friedel and Hart at 6 mill. So Foster should be 6 mill as well.He won't make my team though.
Thks for info on Kenny. As a Saffer i know very little about the new teams.
I know it's early days, but you going for a cheap defence net year or a mix? Baines did well this year and Vidic/Lescott they years prior to that.
There always seems to be a defender that scores 170+ a season. Who next?
I think that my defence will be built around Baines as my one expensive def and stick 4 cheap to mid price options around him.
Lescott is still subject to rotation especially once Kolo Toure returns. Plus City are going to rotate more for the Champions League.
City players generally will probably be the most risky ones to have next season.
Baines will have none of those issues, plus he'll be on pens again too.
I think Baines will be sold during the summer
Moyes seems to be able to hold on to his players(unless they realy want to sod off like Pienaar)
Has Baines made any noises about going somewhere?
Hopefully Kompany will be a defender next year too. Access to a reliable starter in the City defence would be useful.
my 2nd season in fpl, great overall season achievement so far with 5k+ position way way better than previous season of 595k+ lol only downfall i would said for last 3GW with poor captain selection (8-4-2) pts and players on bench especially hangeland 🙁
so in next season have to play smart on wild card hehe to minimize taking pts hit .....
cheers.
Link your team next year.
How did everyone do the last 6 weeks? I had a stormer!
88, 98, 57, 59, 90, 55
Helped me to win my H2H league 😀
If I scored that in my last 6 ganeweeks I would have been in the top 100
😯
It'll be interesting to see what they do with the prices next year. Since Henry and Ronaldo left and Lampard started to wane, there's nearly too much money.
So has anyone emailed fpl towers regarding possible changes next year?
I just came accross an email I sent last year re emergency capt rule...obviously my email was dumped in a bin!
If the 2nd WC falls away i wonder how strategies will change. Will people hold it back or still play it early to maximize price increases during international breaks and jumping on bandwagons.
i agree...i didnt struggle for money this season. could always afford who i wanted.
I see lots of expensive defences next year
Just finished first season and started off with the "cheapest bench" option. Not a good idea. Once i'd shaped up didn't have too bad a season thanks in the main to finding this site.
Been a great help.
First names in my team next season:
Taarabt: 19 goals and 16 assists this season
Holt: 21 goals and 14 assists this season
Fox (defender) 9 assists this season
Fox as in Danny Fox? I wouldnt go anywheer near him mate, I seen him for celtic he can whip in a decent cross but I ont think he'l be able to cope with the PL standard.
Agree with Taarabt though.
Its David Fox i think
thats allright then....
long as its not ruel fox or danny fox 😉
was danny fox at burnley in the prem?
Yeahhh, dont think he done too much.
He was. I had him in my FPL team. Massive error.
he scored in consecutive games. i bought him then he did nothing...
i also had Bikey on and off...
Or Micheal j Fox...
In regards to that betclic offer. I got my £30 stake back after losing the berb/tevez bet. You have to send a pic of passport/driving l. took second to do so its a good offer!
Really? Blimey, first name on my sheet will be RVP. Quickly followed by Suarez at a guess.
i do it the other way around and get my (hopefully) bargain players and then see what i have to play with for the big boys.
Lets not forget the SEB bandwagon two seasons ago. 25 or so goals in the Championship, and about 2 or 3 all season in the Prem.
I usually get a few promoted players at the start, but I may leave them alone this year. See how they start off first.
i missed carrolls hatrick against villa because of doing that 🙁
wathc out as players coming from the championship are very unpredictable
the start of this season was all about adam and dorrans, while caroll was a distant third, so look what happened with dorrans.
also remember the fuzz couple of years ago about ebanks blake when wolves were promoted.
wouldnt advise you more than 1 promoted player to start with, while keeping an eye on the others.
i also think a fulham keeper/defender will be decent option next season
Yep, Schwarzer will be my keeper almost definitely.
Has there been any news if it's Fulham or Blackpool who will get the fair play spot?
If Fulham aren't in the Europa League I'm thinking of doubling on their defence, and doubling on a team that rotate well with them. Fixtures and price depending etc etc.
Where is all the fulham love coming from suddenly?
they look a team that is hard to beat (esp at home) under hughes.
also keepin my eye on bobby z seeing as he can take freekicks and pens.
They've ended the season quite well, so that's probably clouding a few of our minds. But they're pretty good at home, so I just think if they rotate with another team who are pretty defensively solid too it'll be quite a good defensive set up.
Go for it hillbillypete, but be warned that at least one or two of those will be big Premiership flops. There are always promoted players who have absolutely killed the Championship who do nothing next season.
dont get me wrong...i will be careful and only have 1 cheap striker, mid, and def. I almost always use my wildcard in the first 10 weeks too.
Shane Long also did well. I must admit i don't like Reading at all. Hope they don't make it.
I started of with cheap strikers this season and it backfired. Won't go near any cheap strikers from promoted sides until they perform, like Carrol dit this year.
I will rather pay more for someone like Odemwingy.
RVP/Valencia/Baines/Taarabt/Kelly(if fit) and maybe Ohara(if he stays with Wolves) will be first on my teamsheet.
You know it's the off-season when you return 10-hours later and your posts are still on the lastest page. Sigh...
That was meant to say latest. I don't think lastest is a word... honest.
Berbatov confirming he'll stay at United - that's great news for them. Willingness to sit on the bench even when you're a good player is a great great thing for the team, one that I often overlook. Hernandez will inevitably have form slumps at his age too (and in his tough second season where he will be much more targeted).
i think no team in the world is willing to match his salary, him and his agent know it.
thats why they will try to save the honors
remember that welbeck will be back, and possibly macheda (although macheda ddnt impress at fiorentina) so his playing time will be even more limited
His wages are apparently big but he would easily be sold if he/utd wanted to. Top scorer in what many think is the best league in the world after all.
Oh, and Macheda is garbage
if manunited want him out, he still have to agree a contract with the new team.
and everyone knows that he's best scorer only because he plays at manu
he dsnt have the ability to lift a team and he has zero work rate.
He has qualities that few other players in top football have. The point about that he only won it because he's at United is valid but it's also the case with almost every top scorer. It's bloody hard to win it at a lesser team. He's proven himself at Tottenham and Leverkusen too already. I think he'd easily be picked up if he or United wanted him to go.
?!
"so much fail in one post"
Where exactly? The importance of quality players who are happy to sit on the bench? Berbatov certainly filled this role in the latter third of the season. Ji Sung Park is another perfect example. No 'fail' there so far.
As for the second part, it is inevitable that at some stage Hernandez will suffer a dip in form, every single player in the world does. What makes them a great player is how they drag themselves out of the slump. No 'fail' there either.
Oh and of course opposition defences will be targeting him after his brilliant first season. So no 'fail' there either.
All in all absolutely no fail in Gargamel's post, but a little bit in yours. 😛
I WAS REPLYING TO BIG OAK...SO U FAILED 😆
p.s.i am one of berba fans so i was agreeing with garg...
😆 😆 😆 😆
Ooops. Fair enough carry on.
Ps
I had a late night at a gig so that's my excuse.
Errrr, I think the reply was to big oak. 😀
I don't know what Berba's wages are, but as Garg said, if he were to leave United there would be host of clubs waiting in the wings, so he probably could match his wages.
Also, to seriously suggest Macheda & Welbeck will threaten Berbas place in the team is simply ridiculous!
So the 3 man defence rules this year. Somewhat tempted by the Baines + decent cheapies next year. One advantage is that you have one fixed defender for the season and can rotate 2/4 cheapies with the fixtures.
Still not sure the expensive defender is worth it though. At 4 ppg, I can think of better ways to splash the cash. 😉
baines is on my list altho i can see him being at least 7.5
But see my point above about the cash. Most of us had wads of it and it paid to get a Dawson and Lescott in. Half the posts for the last month were from people stuck with generic FFS defenders who had been dropped.
The generic defences came about through the second w/c which spoilt the game somewhat.
Must admit, prior to the Citeh dgw, Lescott made the most appeal despite low attacking returns. You did very well out of him and trusted your gut instinct.
Dawson was a little more riskier given that Spuds were falling away near the end of the season.
I sort of agree, 1 big players in each position though is a must in my book, it makes transfers easier. But all the talk of who will depend on the fixture list. This season I started with Cole for 10 games, then switched to Vidic. It all went wrong for me with bad captain choices and a couple of errors in transfers
Feel a bit bereft now.
You guys offering any counselling services over the summer?
Nah, just fantasy euro U21's!!
On another thought, was thinking all this time and effort deserves a bigger gain. Which are the best pay ff games??
This will cheer you nerds up
http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/712890/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3-gameplay-trailer/
ps
I'm not judging nerdisms, I'm feckin excited about this game too. 😉
Looks great doesn't it? Few cracking games due to be released in November, this and Skyrim are definitely on my list.
Gonna get La Noire today. 🙂
Looks alright too! My priority list
Skyrim
MW3
Battlefield3
Any truth in the A Young to ManU rumour?
AP? Johnny U?
No truth but it has been a rumour going around for a while. Sometimes these rumours are true 😉
Hopefully the Modric one is more likely though!
Not sure he's needed at all at United. Nani and Valencia are class, and with Park stepping in now and again and Cleverley back from Wigan you're well covered there IMO.
You need a world class centre mid badly though.
That would be a pisser for United fans, after Nani FINALLY looks like a player who can deliver instead of a diving nance he leaves. Where would he go? Inter or somewhere?
£30m ish or more?
I can't see him wanting to go this season but I can see him going in the next few years if he keeps up this seasons standards, Ronaldo-esque.
Or if Fergie tells him to leave...
