The Community Round Up

The community rallies round to help Mark begin one of the most dramatic comebacks Fantasy Premier League (FPL) has ever seen. Liverpool’s key assets come under the microscope and we also take a look at some potential ‘season keepers’. Meanwhile, there’s the community leagues to catch up on and we find out why a Russian-themed team have plenty to smile about…

Hottest Topics

After spending years giving out Fantasy Football advice the community decided to help Mark out with his ailing team in one of our busiest hot topics this week. Among those to offer advice were Fysh who would like to see him swap Hatem Ben Arfa and Christian Eriksen for an Arsenal and Chelsea midfield pairing. Jafalad highlights that Romelu Lukaku, Aaron Ramsey, Mesut Özil and Luis Suarez could be the key men to see him climb up the rankings. While Alberto Tomba also gives Mark the ‘Full Jonty’ treatment assessing where it went wrong for his team. Mark also chips in with his current transfer plans and how his hopes are pinned firmly to a strong performance from Manchester City’s assets.

Another to think Suarez is key to FPL performance is Floydy Floyd who believes he is currently the best player in the Premier League. Among those to agree were Chu Young Ping Pong while Gooner of Oz was among those to back Özil for that accolade.

In a similar vein The Parmtree asked which players could be classed as ‘season keepers’. Pundit of Punts backs Artur Boruc, Suarez, John Terry and Ravel Morrison to stay in his team for the whole season, while  Alberto Tomba believes Olivier Giroud will be a season keeper, assuming Arsenal do not sign any more strikers.

Other players being considered this week include the now cut price Glen Johnson. The Liverpool defender looks an outstanding out of position prospect if Liverpool stick with their 3-5-2 formation, but Zepinho remains sceptical. His research found that in the last two years he has returned just two goals and only six assists, a record that compares poorly to the likes of Leighton Baines, Patrice Evra and Terry.

You Must Be Jokin Ere has been taking a stock check of the bonus point allocation so far in FPL. Turns out that after an initial dominance from defenders, the midfielders are at last fighting back and taking a bigger slice of the bonus cake.

Community Leagues

HeelsOverHead’s Worst To First  – 2 Million+ Club, for teams with an overall rank below  two million in the first five game weeks, sees BarboaII hang on to his lead with an overall score of 441 and rank of 207,63. Five teams are in the top 500,000 and of the 23 teams that entered 13 are now in the top one million.

In Thomas and Peppie&Felix’s Friends Life competition Daniel, Beric and and Al Pacino are the league leaders.

The leaders of In Tommy We Trust’s All Things leagues are La Roja, Chilin_Dude, Larn Dart, Crouch Potato and Binji, who is top of both the All Things Michu and the All Things Kolarov leagues.

The teams to emerge victorious from the pre-tournament friendlies in FFS UEFA’s  Beach Soccer World Cup tournament were Iran, Senegoal, Spain, Paraguay, Netherlands, Spurgentina, Russia and Solomon Islands. As part of Russia’s victory over Ukraine I was contractually obliged to post this hot topic. Listen out for further contractual obligations on this week’s podcast.