| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Raya Martin | ARS | C |
| No Change |  Alisson | LIV | C |
| No Change |  Donnarumma | MCI | C, Sus |
| Up |  Kelleher | BRE | C, Vs |
| Down |  Ramsdale | NEW | C |
| No Change |  Dubravka | BUR | C, £ |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  van Dijk | LIV | C |
| No Change |  Jurriën Timber | ARS | C, Inj |
| No Change |  O’Reilly | MCI | C |
| Up |  Andersen | FUL | C |
| Up |  Marc Guehi | CRY | A |
| Up |  van den Berg | BRE | C, Vs |
| No Change |  Thiaw | NEW | A |
| No Change |  Milenkovic | NFO | C |
| No Change |  van Hecke | BHA | A |
| No Change |  Mukiele | SUN | C, £ |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Saka | ARS | B |
| No Change |  Bruno Fernandes | MUN | A |
| No Change |  Foden | MCI | A |
| No Change |  Semenyo | BOU | C |
| Up |  Szoboszlai | LIV | C |
| No Change |  Minteh | BHA | B |
| No Change |  Bruno Guimarães | NEW | A |
| No Change |  Schade | BRE | C, Vs, Sus |
| No Change |  Anderson | NFO | B, £ |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Haaland | MCI | B |
| No Change |  Thiago | BRE | A, Vs |
| No Change |  Mateta | CRY | C |
| Up |  Ekitiké | LIV | B |
| Down |  Welbeck | BHA | C, Rest |
| Down |  Woltemade | NEW | B |
Paul Carlos Tevez takes a break. Cesc Fabregas is fit and may feature in Arsenal’s weekend friendly. Steve Kean finally signs a striker, though may see his skipper depart for North London. Alan Pardew is determined to freeze out Joey Barton and Joe Cole’s name blinks on the QPR radar. Here’s this morning’s Scribbles, folks:
Now then scouts, I've got the following midfield and up to £8million to spend on my 5th midfielder, but who should I spend it on?
Malouda, Silva, Moses, Taarabt, ????.
I don't need to spend all £8m. Thanks...
Should have said that I've got Given and Bent already so not fussed by trippling up on Villans. Cheers
downing is a must have though he's 8.5m. He got so many points last season under the radar. He's playing for a better team and he can score. He's a workhorse too.
Leon Osman?
N'zog
Villa's fixtures are good, he is likely to be central to their attack
I imagine he will be fit for the start of the season as Mcleish will be under pressure to make a good start as many of the fans will be on his back
only just seen your last post - scrap nzog 🙂
My first team Im feeling good about(unless some transfers happen)
DeGea, De Vres
Kompany, Gibbs, Luiz,Simpson, Gabbidon
Moses, Taarbt, Watson, Sessegnon, Benayoun
Rooney, Balotelli, RVP
I know Luiz, Benayoun and Balotelli are risks. But if all would play out well, I think its a nice team with big 4 offensive and defensive cover with some cheap punts mixed in.
If there are some things somebody thinks I dot totally got wrong please let me know.
what does everyone think about torres this season? Will he be a flop again?
guys, if -hypothetically- nzog is not fit, will Villa have enough power left in their midfield to give Bent enough balls to work with? IS bent worth his 10 if Nzog is out?
What is the thinking on Kuyt? Looks to score well under the new BP system and consistently does very well. How does he fit under the Liverpool structure, likely to be same as last year or more rotation risk?
If Kuyt rather than Adam takes penalties then he is a good pick.
thing about kuyt is that he really doesn't have any competition for his place on the field...liverpool don't really have any viable options on the right side besides him if they were to play a 4-4-2 with carroll and suarez up top.
the key to his scoring imo is whether kenny sets them out in a 4-4-2 or a 4-3-3, with suarez on the left, carroll in the middle and kuyt on the right. if 4-4-2, i think kuyt's returns will be limited, as he's not quick enough to really create much on the wing starting from midfield. in a 4-3-3, however, he'll be picking up the ball in more advanced positions and his slower pace will be compensated for by his instincts in getting the ball around defenders. we saw this at the end of last season, with his most prolific periods coming when carroll was on the bench and kuyt was playing up front with suarez. now that carroll and suarez will both be playing most games, kuyt will have to settle for a less attacking role, but the 4-3-3 will benefit him (and his FPL owners) more than the 4-4-2.
As a cheapo striker would you go for Rodallega or Zamora?
In the Rooney vs RVP debate are people assuming RVP will start the first two PL games with the CL qualifiers between?
f he's fit he plays. End.
RVP will be injurred during international duty next week
Can I have the lotto numbers please?
It wouldn't be much of a debate if that wasn't the assunption.
Touché. It'd be pretty one-sided though.
Cech or Hart ? Btw already have kompany in defence
You'd wanna get your Hart Ceched
A: Rooney - Suarez
VDV - Silva
B: Rooney - RVP
N'Zogbia - Silva
C: Rooney - RVP
Albrighton - Malouda
the rest of my midfield is made up of Sessegnon, Taarabt, Moses.
i think vdv is injured?
Think ive done it.
Given, Al Habsi,
Ivanovic, Huth, Bardsley, De Laet, Kompany
Van Der Vart, De Silva, Moses, Sinclair, NZogbia
Rooney, Holt, Zamora
I suppose my main worry is fitness of VDV and Nzogbia
What do you think.
Who is "De Silva"? Will bardsley be assured of starts this season?
Jeez, Bolton are not exactly lucky at the moment...
How does this team seem?
Given Al-Habsi
Hangeland Luiz Kompany Orr Simpson
Silva Nzog Taraabt Tchoyi Moses
RVP Bent Zamora
0.5M left in bank
Was going to get Aguero in instead of RVP, but it'd be hard getting in RVP or Rooney, if I needed to change, so starting with RVP. Got Bent in until Suarez definitely comes back into the team. Having Silva makes it relatively easy to get in a 10M mid (VDV, Young, Nani, Nasri, Kuyt, etc.), if I needed to change. Only thing I don't like about this team is a lack of attacking Chelsea coverage, although I could do Bent to Suarez and Silva to Malouda, if necessary.
Seems like you have rated your team very well yourself. Hangeland is expensive for what he offers in my opinion
Cheers.
Yea, Hangeland isn't the bargain he was last season. But outside of the Top 5 teams, Fulham are one of the better defensive teams in the Prem. Plus he had a good scoring season last year and looks a threat on corners and set-plays. On top of that, Fulham have very favourable opening fixtures. Might change him to Huth when Stoke's fixtures get better and I need to free up 0.5M.
RMT
Given(ruddy)
Cole Kompany Hughes O'shea Wilkinson
Silva Nzog Sessegnon Taraabt Moses
Rooney Torres Holt
fair dos mate, although I think he will start as AVB will feel he has to give him a chance to prove he deserves a place in the team.
Feeling vulnerable as I have neither Lampard or VdV.. 🙁
Neither do I and I feel ok....
VdV is injured and has bad fixtures.
I'm definitely thinking of Drogba too for GW1.
I'm tempted to captain Drogba, but I'll have to give it to Van Persie I suppose. Play the percentages and all thaty.
Yeah me too. Lamps is just too damn expensive, with all players generally going up in price, it's really hard fitting Lamps in. Will get VDV in if fit though.
Why are you worried about no VDV? Spurs don't have great fixtures to start with and until they get there attacking dilemma sorted there is a degree of uncertainty.
VdV always seems to capitalise in the periods when Tottenham have 'bad fixtures'. Thinking back to Man U away last season I think..
Too early to go for the DVD player, wait until spurs come out of the poor fixture tunnel.
Silva is better option (or t cahill) around this price bracket until then...
Revamped team for next week!
Al Habsi
Jagielka Kompany Ivanovic
Malouda Silva Nani Sessegnon
RVP Holt A Johnson
Given) (Ephraim)(Wilkinson)(Simpson)
Bit worried bout the strikeforce but wouldn't know where to take £ from as very happy with the midfield.
Scott Sinclair from Swansea or Mauro Formica from Blackburn?
i worry for formica not because he lacks talent but steve kean doesn't seem the kind of manager to give flair a chance. he'll stick MGP and kalinic on the bench and happily watch jason roberts every week
I don't think that is fair at all. Kean was the one who bought Formica and we certainly play a more open and attacking style than we have in previous seasons. MGP is not a player i would consider to have 'flair' and Kalinic certainly isn't.
maybe the wrong word then. basically not jason roberts
The depressing truth is that Roberts is the best we have at playing a lone front role. Kalinic has had numerous opportunities and is just not up to it. There is no doubt he's a better finisher than JR (who isn't?) but Kean very rarely plays 2 out and out strikers. Judging by pre season we will again play some variation on 4-3-3/4-5-1 with Roberts up top surrounded by the likes of Hoilett, Rochina, Formica and Dunny
p.s by chance i mean an extended run in the side
So Sinclair is more of a guaranteed start, but Formica has the potential to do more damage with his "flair" if Kean starts him?
Yeah i guess so but IMO you should just get Duff. He's £0.5m more than Sinclair and is in a different class
Eh, there's the problem. Wish I had a free £0.5m to spend. Where would I make the switch on this roster?
G: Given (Ruddy)
D: Luiz, Kompany, O'Shea, Hughes (Simpson)
M: Downing, Toure, N'Zogbia, Sinclair (Moses)
F: Rooney, Bent (Odemwingie)
I used to have Taraabt and Tiote instead of Moses and Sinclair, but Newcastle is imploding so I booted Tiote and made the switch.
Can't decide between N'Zog or Bent, any advice?
Bent
Please RMT!!!!! Any help is much appreciated!!!!!
Given Al-Habsi
Kompany Samba Hughes Gibbs Simpson
Malouda Taarabt Sinclair Sessegnon O'Hara
Van Persie Bent Rodallega
thoughts on ramsey? a good cheap option at 6.5?
currently in my squad, but not 100% about him yet.
Reckon he would be a bargain if he plays - may depend on if Fabregas goes or not!!!
If he plays then he would be, but not convinced he will atm.
even w/fabs leaving?
Likey, but he's in my team as a gamble, i.e. I have a starting 11 without needing him, but he'll be in the initial 11. Seems the correct approach to me. Be a bit sh*t though if he gets 10 mins at the end.
how much was dj campbell last season, and what would he be likey to be now at qpr?
cheers
to any chelsea supporters or anyone who has been following them closely enough...yossi's chances of starting?
Hi doosra
Just wondering about your spreadsheet...
It's interesting reading. Could you tell me the purpose of comparing last year's ea rankings to bonus points because I still don't quite understand.
Thanks! (and no I'm not being dismissive... genuinely curious)
The point of it is to strip players of their bonus points from last season and then see how they ranked first of all without BPs (on the right).
Then you can see their total points from the EA index to see how they performed in that sense (on the left) and try and judge if they will be rewarded with more BPs or not this season.
But those averages are taken from the total season score, right?
Just not sure how they tell us who would've been the top 3 ea ranked in individual premier league games (I.e. how many bonus points they would've got)
Seems as though you could have the top ea average ranking without getting many bonus points... If, say, you were a consistently top 6 performer but rarely top 3
Thank you, Impressive T - that is exactly correct! 🙂
It isn't much use without the individual ea weekly breakdowns. As people have said before, a player could amass loads of ea points by playing every minute and consistently being about the 5th or 6th best ea player every match. This would result in 0 bps though as only the top 3 get bonus points
get out of my head 😉
I believe that view to be mistaken.
ok well here's my take on it... let's imagine for clarity that ea points are marked out of ten...
Yes dms and defenders get points for their defensive work. I'd say this means they're likely to get a solid score of, say, 7 or 8/10.
Strikers and midfielders would probably get much lower scores when they don't score or assist... maybe as low as 4/10.
However, when they grab a goal and or assist, and make some key passes, they get 9/10... the times a striker or midfielder really excels are quite rare per player. But per match there are usually one or two key high performers who get 9/10.
This means their average scores are lower than defenders but still it is these key players who will mop up the bonus points for excelling in a game.
The exceptions, imo, are likely to be low scoring games.
So I'd say these stats are great for companyong defenders so you know which defender will get bps in a low scoring game... but they're not all that useful for comparing defensive players to attacking players.
Do you disagree?
Now I've got a handle on it - yes. I think you need to look at the six rating categories again:
1. Winning Performance - Players receive points for time on the pitch in a successful team. Players will receive more points if they play the full 90 minutes in a winning team. This index shares league points won by a team between the players according to the minutes they are on the pitch. Only time on the pitch and points scored are taken into account in this first index.
2. Player's Performance per match - Players receive points for positive influences on a winning performance (shots, tackles, clearances, saves etc). Players have points taken away from their score for negative actions such as shots off target and yellow/red cards.
3. Appearances - Players receive points for minutes on the pitch. The number of points won by ALL teams in the league are divided amongst the players according to the number of minutes they have played. This is similar to the first Index but this does not take into account the result of a match, it awards points purely for playing time.
4. Goals scored - Players are awarded points for scoring goals. These points are only given to the goal scorer.
5. Assists - Players awarded points for assists. These points are only awarded to players that make the assist.
6. Clean sheets - Allocates points for clean sheets to the whole team. The proportionate split of the points is weighted according to the player's position. Therefore a goalkeeper will be awarded a greater proportion of the points for keeping a clean sheet than a striker. The points are also awarded proportionately to the time spent on the pitch.
The grey area here is No. 2. If this particular index is very important, it would explain why Neville and de Jong have appeared from nowhere. So if you use a number divisible by six instead of ten ... 18, for instance, 3 of those points will always go to the busiest player in the winning team. Now if that match is anything worse than 2 - 2, the player receiving those points has every chance of matching or surpassing the goal scorers, and or the assisters, and thereby hoovering up the maximum bonus on offer for the purpose of the fantasy score ... that is how I'm seeing it at the present ...
Ok wo put it this way...
If 2 players got the same number of ea points in a season, who would get the most bonus points?
Imo it is the player with the most erratic scoring (higher peaks and lower troughs) because they'll have more top 3 performances (and more terrible performances too)
I'd bet my bottom dollar attackers have more erratic scoring throughout a season.
I would say you are right. However, the number of attacking midfielders is lower in the Ea Ratings, 35 to 43; and the number of strikers is also lower, 15 to 16. Moreover, the type of striker is different, Berbatov appears to do better than either Drogba or Tevez, and the biggest gainers are Campbell and Torres ...
There is interesting analysis of this up on the community articles of totalfpl if you have not read it scored. Works out the EA on a per game basis and does comparisons of players within teams.
How did they get the per game scores?
They divided the total score by how many games they played. Starting and subbing on (it says).
So thats not per game it's average per game.
So what I'm saying is it doesn't take into account the differences between these 2 types of players:
A: 10, 2, 10, 2, 10, 2...
B: 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6
These 2 players got the same ea ranking per game, but player A got a lot more fpl bonus points.
No it doesn't. That information isn't available.
What it does do is compare players within clubs, so for Arsenal RVP was top then Nasri then Fabregas.
Even if you score isn't consistent by the end of the season it will level out so this would give a fair idea of which players will be the bonus darlings of their clubs.
I still disagree because having the highest average score doesn't make you a bonus darling.
Having the highest number of exceptional scores (top 3) makes you the bonus darling.
I think what we can say this season is some players will get fewer bonus points than last season if he
I still disagree because having the highest average score doesn't make you a bonus darling.
Having the highest number of exceptional scores (top 3) makes you the bonus darling.
I think what we can say this season is some players will get fewer bonus points than last season if these points were due to opinion or popularity rather than true statistical play (modric, bale, etc) and maybe a couple of these 'lost' points will go to DMs, but not enough to justify picking them.
We can also have a better idea about which defenders will get bps in the event of a 0-0
That's exactly what I'm not doing. I have stripped out the bonus points, and ordered all the players according to their nett scores. I have compared this result with the EA estimates, which appear to include their own bonus points, to see what differences there are. Overall, it seems clear to me that sheer goals are a much less important factor than almost everybody else assumes, and that assists are slightly more important. The area of "Playing Points" is far from clear, but seems to me to be nearly as significant as assists. That is the only viable explanation I can currently give for the surge up the EA rankings of the defensive midfielders, and of certain types of defenders ...
Ok, that makes more sense...
so can you show me where ea reveal the bonus points from last season?
Of course not - and I have never ever said that I could. The whole point of this exercise is to try and divine in which players they might be lurking. My point is, that there are indeed anomalies, and I will try and play to those ...
Other ants will often eat ants.
An example of this are the Fire Ants (Solenopsis spp). Some species of Pheidole have even developed specialized responses to Fire Ant raids. The Pheidole will go all-out to kill the Fire Ant scouts, and if that fails, abandon their nests along with their brood before the Fire Ants can steal the brood.
Apart from Kompany who is the best defender for 6 million or under?????
Anyone remember what Gera was last season (in terms of FPL price)?
5.0 or 5.5 i think, had im for gw1 last season
