Infographic – Head to Head – Ozil vs Eriksen

My rank is 650k, anyone else doing similar or worse?

Migs
Dawson, Vidic, Ivan, Kos
Walcott, Lampard, Barfa
Benteke, Soldado, Giroud

Brady, Chester, Ward-Prowse

Who to captain?

Great article! Also great news FPL wise that Rooney will be playing up front.

Dear Hazard owners... Let us make a pact! No one sells prior to the Fulham game. Bought him at 9.5 and can't handle seeing him drop again. But seriously, what are people doing with him? Keep one more week or ditch if he starts against Basel?

Any Saints fans around? Would like to know whats The situation on Clyne is right now. 8 pts 1st sub..

I haven't been following the prices much do far. Who is more accurate, tfpl or fiso?

With all the talk about how diving in football should be punished I think ive come up with the perfect solution....Public humiliation!!
Anyone who gets booked for diving must be made to dive head first off a 10 metre diving board....in speedos....live on sky sports 🙂
That'll teach'em!!

Who should I bench?

A - Collins
B - Yaya
C - Whittaker

When do people think Lamela will get a start? Went for him on my WC over Eriksen, because longer term I reckon he's a better prospect, and was prepared for him to be benched this week. But Siggys brace has made me wonder if he might be warming the timber for some time to come, in which case I'd be better switching until he starts.

I know you should always go with your instinct when it comes to captain choices, but my instinct is telling me to captain Ramsey o_O, should I just go for the sensible option in Giroud instead?

Ben Arfa or Hernandez for GW5 and beyond..or perhaps both for a hit??

cheers.

🙂

Will's wonderful graphic as a side-by-side

http://imgur.com/XVi29eU

Quick head to head poll.

Me) Coutinho + 9pts

Op) Sturridge + Mignolet

Who wins?

I feel ozil, Walcott, soldado, rvp and the rest of the international regulars can be excused this week. They played a lot of football and travel a lot. Were probably tired. I have a feeling well see their best football in gw5. This makes the Manchester derby even more exciting.

Anyone looking to bring Rooney in?

Before GW4 my captain picks had been good, before Soldado this week. Was between him and Tekkers but ultimately picked the wrong one.

Just a general question- I guess the easiest way to ask is what do people consider the minimum return for a good captain pick? Don't necessarily mean in terms of points, but is it 1 assist? 1 goal?

Pretty annoying that our GW ranks will probably significantly drop tonight, for 2 reasons:

A - auto-subs
B - people that deliberately play non-playing players & bench their playing players

Boooooooooo

For the foreseeable future.

Giroud - Benteke - Rooney and Suarez FT from week to week.

Should work a treat with the fixtures coming up.

Ozil is obviously awesome but the stats assume he will be playing a team like that every week.

Sunderland gave him a ridiculous amount of freedom- Stoke will not.

What about this GW6 WC team?
I know its early but just thinking through some options..

Boruc(Lewis)
Vida,Mert,Collins,Wilson,Chester
Wally,Barfa,Lamp,Siggy,Ravel
Ronney,Giroud,Suarez

1,1mil in the bank..could have Eriksen instead of Siggy or upgrade deffence

Turner out tonight before price drop, who would you suggest as a replacement?

A: Koscielny / Mert.
B: Walker .. good fixtures and some attacking threat
C: Terry .. rotation?
D: Ivanovic .. most expensive, but most attacking threat

Migs - Boruc
Coleman - K.Toure - Chester - Ward - £6.8mil

Suarez or Rooney GW6 onwards?

I'm a fan of infographics when they work. Glad you and Will are trying them, so don't be put off by feedback. Just use the feedback to improve the next one.

The essence of an infographic is to use graphics to make information (usually numerical) easier to understand. With a simple comparison between two people, as in this case, you need to have each pair of figures side by side (as many have said).

Also, figures don't have to be delivered as figures. You could rework this as a series of pie charts, for instance, with the winner getting a bigger slice of the pie. Place the actual numbers on the slices of pie, so people can dig deeper into it, after getting the overall information at first glance.

Also, the fact that Özil played for maybe 13% longer than Eriksen significantly distorts many of the per-game figures (number of passes, etc), and makes direct comparisons tricky. If you WERE doing pie charts, you could divide each figure into the number of minutes the player played, and visualise that instead, so the comparisons were fairer.

On a statistical note: the data sets here are incredibly small -- less than one game each! -- and there are massive hidden variables not accounted for. They played very different opponents; Spurs were playing home, Arsenal playing away; Özil was sick that morning; etc, so these stats are highly unreliable no matter how you visualise them!

Keep going though, it's an interesting experiment.

WC active and going with non-RVP team (probs in 3-4-3) so will have a nice warchest to upgrade defence.

If money no object who are the essential 'heavyweight' picks you would go for if you could start from scratch?

My first thought was Evra, Ivanovic, Vertonghen/Walker? Or should I be looking a Liverpooll/City too? (don't have Migs so no 'Pool cover; not having Zab has hurt me so far in my mini-league)

Now that the season's shaping up, what are all your aims this season fpl-wise?

Last season, i started GW5 and finished 600k.

This season, reasonable start, sitting at 258k. finish in top 10k a reasonable target? or am i underestimating how hard that is?

What rank are you aiming for? Any more general aims for the season? to get a century or to go the whole season without RVP for example?

Love this article, great idea. As threeleftfeet suggests, might as well take this idea to its logical conclusion. I'd suggest visualizing the numbers as bar charts for Ozil v Eriksen. Maybe divide the infographic into two halves. One half has Ozil and the other half has Eriksen, and the bars are adjacent to each other but obviously on the corresponding sides.

No joke, I'd been thinking the other day if you visualized that goldmine of OPTA stats in the members area, you could make it work at a whole new level.

Keep up the good work.

Fonte or Collins?

http://fantasy.premierleague.com/transfers/

Was on wildcard last week and changed team to the above leaving 1.9 mill to get Sturridge back following the highly successful Danny Welbeck 1 week punt I had last week. Now Moyes has decided that Rooney is a striker again my plan is in turmoil.
I really want Sturridge for the weekend and would want Rooney/Soldado/Sturridge long term but price is against me so it looks like Soldado will have to go instead.

Should I do Welbeck>Sturridge this week and Soldado>Rooney + Rio>5 mill centre half (eg Hangeland) 4 point hit next week

Or Welbeck>Sturridge this week then Giroud>Rooney + either Rio>4 mill or lose £1.2 mill from downgrading a midfielder and if so who?

Or do i just stick to my original plan and just hope I get by without Man United cover and maybe change Ben Afra if Valencia or Young cement a space in future.

P.S i hope you get a right bad dose o the shits this week Moyes!!!!

Just scouting for me tonight.. Got Coutinho and Michu in my sights. Hope both look very lively and dangerous and dont get points.. can get one of the 2 at a price drop hopefully

I have Sturridge, Soldado, Benteke

I surely have to give Soldado one more chance to get some points before I ditch him for Giroud.

Anyone considering going for Giroud now? Bloody knee's