One of the highlighted players in Moneyball was Chad Bradford, who looks nothing like what scouts and fans imagine when they think about a pitcher. When he throws, his hand drops down so low on release that his knuckles literally scrape the floor. That unorthodox appearance meant that teams ignored him despite his impressive underlying numbers, until Billy Beane and his statistical staff looked beyond Bradford’s funky delivery, focused on the process and reaped the rewards. Today, the short, skinny thirty-something Leon Osman is Chad Bradford.
Which defender to score tomorrow, who to score an OG and who for a red card, ya know it's gonna happen:
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how does these look
Vermaleen to Vertoghen now
for GW 11
Davies to Cameron
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Really don't know how to sort this mess out as I've already used my free transfer and am unable to field 11 this week!
Jaaskelainen / Begovic
Baines / Cuellar* / Demel* / Davies / Clyne
Bale (vc) / Mata* / Ben Arfa / Michu / Guthrie*
Van Persie (c) / Tevez / Berbatov
£1.1m in the bank. Really need your help!!Open Controls
Mata injured ruins my plansi was set for a great gameweek now got to play sterlingand hba in the same team
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That is really going to massively effect your gw
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I've heard Mata may have a a problem with his hamstring.
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Likely need to ship Demel with player doubts all over the shop. What's the right play?
Nelsen, Gorkss, Wilkinson, Simpson?
Have 1.2M but not keen to spend as my back line is already expensive:
Bego/Foster
Ivan, Baines, Hanger, Cuellar, Demel
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Well people, it's time to log off FFS for tonight and possibly for large parts of the weekend. It's my birthday on Sunday and the GF has sorted out a weekend for me. I will get to watch the United v Arsenal game but I will gallantly refrain from spending too much time on the site. Good luck everyone, apart from your United players 😉 live Long and Foster!
PS I live in Manchester despite being a Gooner and regarding rumours of snow, it's cold and could be a frosty night but hardly feeling like it's going to snow down let alone a blizzard. I will also either be having the worst or best weekend to wear my Arsenal shirt in Manchester depending on how the result goes.Open ControlsHappy Birthday!
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Arsenal have scored more than 1 goal in only 1 occasion in Old Trafford since 1993 (20 matches)! That was last year. WOW! Terrible stat.
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Lovely stuff, these Mata-news!...
A) keep Mata + Bale and play Sterling
B) get Hazard + Valencia
with Bale(c), Rvp(vc) in mind..
Planned to make Bale -> Valencia next week but these news made me wonder..
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A linguistic question, all of a sudden, if anyone wants to have a go (I'm stuck with a paper): How does one represent 'the last part of the first decade of the 21 century' in a way that doesn't sound completely clunky?
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Imperialism? If your talking about the expanse of Germany, Japan and other such countries.
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You can write 'the nineties', about the 1900s. But what do you write about the first decade of this century? The 2000s?Open Controls
"The period 2006 to 2009 brought..."
"In the early stages of the century,..."Open Controls
Late 2000s.
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Late Naughties.
Possibly not quite the right tone - dependant on what the paper's on 🙂Open ControlsThis
turn of the millenium? Olympic years,Open Controls
Whats the paper for? For context, we need to know how lyrical we can be.
Open ControlsHeh, thanks guys. It's a paper presenting research plans for a masters thesis on the use of the discourse on terrorism to legitimize governmental action towards the Kurdish minority in Turkey!
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During the Jimmy Saville scandal era ....
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Anyone think Lambert will play on Monday?
Wanted to transfer him out for Ba -4, but with Ba a doubt have held fire, but with Mata (GMWK transfer in) & Demel injured and Saylor not getting picked, I'm struggling to field 11 starters.
If I knew Ba would play then the transfer would be easy!Open Controlshe tends to be a sub in away games
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Last time I'll ask... 2 FT's Lescott and Friedel out for Rafael and Begovic in (team is linked)
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Did Jol say that Berbatov's fit to play this weekend?
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Pienaar or Fellaini? I've always loved Pienaar...
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Michu. Replied on last page. Sorry, cooking shoulder chops.
Open ControlsMata to Michu frees up a lot!!!
.88p I wiggled it out of the Co-Op.Open ControlsNo, no... I meant how much for one of your cooked chops 🙂
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Fellaini.
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Pienaar, Fellaini is on 4 yellows and not as creative...gets loads of chances but only scores headers from set pieces.
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Osman 😉
Open Controlspeanuts the assist king.
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Mignolet
Hangeland Cameron Gorkks
Bale Cazorla Mata Pienaar
Rvp(c) Tevez Ba
Federici Sterling Clyne Demel
0.2 in the bank
0 FT
Considerin Sterling and Clyne may be forced off the bench.. is my team ok for the weekend? 🙁Open Controlshow does this defence look
Baines Vertonghen Cuellar Hughes Davies
then upgrade davies to cameron for GW 11 onwards ?Open ControlsNot keen on Vert. Too much expense to justify his returns. Downgrade to a uber like Nelsen.
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good assist record ?Open ControlsAgain, the returns don't justify the outlay, TC. Plus FUL don't provide many cs. As Chris Glover says, look for the cheapest route into any defence.
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how about
vermaelen to nelsen now
davies to cameron next week
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so many keeping rvp captain...
we all wud be doomed if he fails us... 🙁
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Why is Mata 25% on FPL? I just got in.
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Isn't it an idea to change this blog into a forum? Or add it somehow? Then you can just open a topic called "The Bale - Cazorla - Mata issue" and an Injuriestopic, a rate my teamtopic, etcetera. I guess this is discussed before, but I never read anything about it.
It sometimes annoys me that even 'regular' posters are asking dumb questions such as: "should I do Cazorla > Mata?" or "Does my team look good?" and then being in top 50k with RVP - Bale - Baines - Bego - Rafael - Ba in line-up ... that cannot look bad, you should see that yourself. Úgh.
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+1 on the “Does my team look good?” part
Open Controls+1 what this guy said...about what you said.
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I quite like it how it is.
If it were a forum, I wouldn't bother opening some threads which I might otherwise see.
It's a bit hit and miss, regarding what time you get on here and whether you get an answer or opinions, but I think it on the whole it works well.Open Controls
Suggested this to them last season - no response
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Here you go: http://i.imgur.com/MEIGQ.gif
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My team for week 10
DDG
Baines, Reither, McAuley
Bale, Mata, Pienaar, Nolan ( dyer )
Ba, Berba, Aguero
Used 1 FT , any suggestions if I need to take a hit.
Need to get Rvp in soon, any suggestions?Open ControlsAg + DDG -> Bego + RVP. Not sure who your other defenders are. Not expensive I hope.
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And all I really want is...
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What's the consensus on how serious Mata's injury is? I bought him at 8.8, so not an easy decision to ship him out...
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11 years, 6 months agoWho is nailed on in West Hams defense?