In the first instalment of a new, weekly article for members, we conduct some in-depth statistical analysis into one of the most crucial aspects in any given Gameweek – just who we entrust with the Fantasy armband. This week the options are plentiful – Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham all feature at home, City travel to basement-dwellers Sunderland, while a couple of Belgians are also in the running as clear captain contenders. With an array of talent on show, just who is “Captain Sensible”?
Wc draft, how u like it?
Harper/Boruc
Vlaar/Rat/Michael Turner/Terry/Glen Johnson (if not fit, mb Pieters instead?)
Brady/Ramsey/Townsend/Januzaj/Silva (if not fit,then who?
Roon/Suarez/Aguero.
Thoughts?Open Controlswith Reid out, I'd get Rat out
Townsend pick is poor, you could probably get more goals with as many shots as he takes
Brady is unlikely to start until after the international breakOpen ControlsWho would you replace him with? Hammers resilience has been amazing this season, they dont attack and have good home fixtures. And hes cheap. Townsend might fire a lot of blanks, but atleast he takes a ton of shots and starts every game for a top side. Who would you replace him with? Dont need Brady to start this week anyway as he would be on my bench away to Southampton regardless.
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bench brady ,silva ,harper and pieters ! suarez 4 (C)
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Ok people if you could start again with JUST 100 MILLION,who would you get in your team with the fixtures coming up 😉 id go
Howard, Guzan
Rat,Clyne,Ivanovic,Johnson, Pieters
Oscar,Brady,Januzai,Ravel,Mirallas
Aguero,Benteke,Suarez
NOW YOURSOpen Controlstoo complicated at this hour
Open ControlsI do it every Thursday on my falling stars posts...A fictitous squad/team where every player is less than their opening GW value and collectively on or less than 100mil...So far i've beaten the average every week...sometimes by quite a decent amount...No Aguero's, no Ramsey's and co..in fact no knee jerks at all.
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Mignolet - Marshall
Williams - Coleman - M.Turner - Ivanovic - Collins
Coutinho - Ramsey - Oscar - Townsend - Ravel
Aguero - Sturridge - Benteke
What lineup do I go with this week?Open ControlsMignolet
Coleman Ivanovic AWilliams MTurner
Ramsey Oscar Coutinho
Aguero Sturridge Benteke
(c) Sturridge
(vc) Aguero
Bench order: RavMo Collins TownsendOpen Controlsmigs
williams coleman iva collins (if fit)
coutinho rambo oscar townsend
aguero sturridge benteke(c)Open Controlsno townsend*
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thanks michu, i held on with faith youd repay me as a diff, whilst others kneejerked out ...... they got lots off points and i got nada.....except the need to take him out for -8 😕
seriously this seasonOpen ControlsYou and El Berbossa (http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/profiles/snubya/) should get together for Whine & Cheese sometime.
Open Controlsdont tar me with the same brush as him..... im allowed a rant cheers
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Have Spurs suddenly become an epiphany of a great stalwart defense?
Or another Maginot Line waiting to happen? If I could forget the drubbing from a Villa B-team I may be looking to invest. Thoughts.Open ControlsThey have the best keeper in the league.
Open ControlsThey've shaken the North London Leakiness Curse big time. In fairness, a lot felt in 2012 that this would happen and whilst the stats were good last season, they had an awful habit of conceding just the one goal.
The fact FPL priced Lloris at 6 and Chesney at 5.5 says a lot for me.Open ControlsBest keeper and the second best second back in the league, a right back who is f*cking lightning and and an experienced captain. Plus Chiriches is fast and pretty solid.
Tottenham have reversed. Notoriously poorer defense than attack but it's the other way round now.Open Controls
what gaameweek does the jan wc come into play lads?
Open ControlsI have 3 player each from Sou and Hull. They will meet each other this week. Shoul i play all 3 Sou player and bench all 3 Hull player? Sou playing at Home..
Boruc Fonte Lallana
McGregor (injured) Faye BradyOpen ControlsReally having a mare with this decision.
Help?
In order of appearance on the team sheet...
Barkley Dawson Paulinho Hazard Williams
Thanks for advice.Open Controlswhat's the question? who to start? or?
Open ControlsI need to order them from best (most likely to give returns) to worst.
Example... Would you put Williams before Dawson on the list?
Sorry for confusion, thought I was making it simpler. 🙂Open ControlsDawson
Hazard
Barkley
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Migs ( Lewis)
Ivanovic, Vlaar, Coleman, (Dawson, Rosenior)
Ozil, Hazard, Coutinho, Ravel, ( JWP)
Lukaku, Aguero, Suarez
Think I'm heading along the Aguero road for captaincy.
Might side switch Ivanovic for Terry in the future as his crossing was woeful tonight. Don't get me wrong, plenty of it....just poor.
Obviously I'm missing Ramsey. For now I'm sticking to that as it will cost double move in order to free up funds.
Thoughts on the team overall?
I've had too many red arrows after starting quite brightly.Open Controlsnice name
I'd start Dawson ahead of Vlaar
might ditch Hazard
would ditch Coutinho, but understand the sentimentOpen ControlsNewcastle are a bit of a wilcard at the moment, I never know if they are going to turn up and so I trust Cardiff to not score more than I trust Remy / Cabaye.
Hazard could be altered....but I'm hoping to catch the odd double figure with him. (still to happen btw 🙂 )Open Controls
Morning all
Never mind Hazard or Oscar, is Jose likely to see the light and dump Luiz for Cahill?Open Controlsit's on the cards for sure.
warning with oscar, benched after the last 2 international breaks. it's the only thing stopping me getting him tonightOpen ControlsThe international break is still after this week though. Depends how much time he plays, still for the Cardiff clash he came on and scored and the previous international break he at least came on too, so the same should happen.
Plus West Ham without their rock Reid for that game, boosting Chelsea attackers.Open Controls
good call Billy
Open ControlsCahill's played 5 league games so far: W4 D1 ( at OT ). 3 clean sheets.
Luiz's played 5 league games so far: W2 D1 L2. No clean sheets.
I wouldn't bother with either Oscar or Hazard, to be honest. Oscar may well be rested after the international break and Hazard's wildly inconsistent, never mind what the stats say.Open Controls
Applebonker, judging by your dilemma, you're still not a Silva belieber? May as well get Ramsey and be done with it. OT or not, the risk is too much.
Open Controlsmichu falling to 8.8 has left me 0.1 short of silva. i'm not really a belieber though no, just doesn't do it for me in FPL yet, needs a couple more multiple return games to convince me fully. for example in the 3 games he's scored in man city have scored 14 goals, harsh but i want more coverage than that.
will be getting ramsey for mirallas regardless after this gw anyway, will be able to afford ramsey even if he triple rises before then.
oscar is the issue, i like him this gw but dont want to spend 9.0 on a guy i dont think will start in gw12 (brazil have matches in florida and then canada)Open Controlsagree with all of that. Tbh it may be a blessing in disguise as Oscar is not cheap and just by the way Chelsea are playing, I'm not convinced he's worth it.
Open Controlsfixtures are a bit annoying this gw, lots of teams with great fixtures just don't have appealing fpl mids, villa, spurs, southampton, swansea etc. coutinho has the best fixture but it's banking on a guy still covered in rust
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so yeah ramsey this week or a 2 gw walcott place holder for up to 9.3mil
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Who would you bench out of Nolan (nor), Barkley (cry) and Whittingham (avl)?
Open ControlsHazard ar Oscar niye post dekhe matha betha kortese.... 🙁
Open Controlsslim pickings
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Sturridge and Ozil
Or
Coutinho and Agueroc?
🙂Open Controlsthe latter
Open ControlsCoutinho and Aguero
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Open ControlsCoutinho will need a game or so to get the sharpness back. Aguero is roaring.
Get All four 🙂Open ControlsI also have Saurez, Rooney, Yaya and Ramsey - and they are all staying 🙂
Open Controls....and I have ozil and Sturridge currently...just weighing up if Aguero and Coutinho was worth it - but I reckon Sturridge will keep apace with Aguero, and much cheaper....and I feel Ozil will bag more pts than Coutinho....so I am prob going to stick with what I have....
Ozil - Ramsey - Barkley / Brady - Yaya
Saurez - Rooney - SturridgeOpen ControlsAguero is hitting form similar to his first season.
Sturridge won't keep pace with aguero. The reason you have sturridge is to bring in another big hitting mid I guess. However the mids are not firing. Time to get agueroOpen Controls
I miss the search comments feature 🙁
And yes, I know we have hot topics, and can sort by discussion rating.Open ControlsThe only two 2 PL matches Oscar did not start for Chelsea are:
GW4 @Everton: came on as sub, only played 34 mins (after starting for Brazil four days prior and starting against Bayern in the Super Cup before that)
GW8 @Cardiff: came on as sub, only played 32 mins, scored (after starting for Brazil against Zambia four days prior)
in the other midweek matches:
rested for Cap One Cup against Swindon Town,
started GW6 against Spurs four days later, played 82 min
started against Steaua Bucuresti, played 79 min, assist,
started GW7 against Norwich five days later, played full 90 min and scoredOpen ControlsChances of an RvP hatrick this weekend?
If it is going to happen it has to be against his old club.Open Controlsarsenal just went through SAS, Lewandowski, now it's time to stop R&R
Open ControlsDon't forget Nani.
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50/1. koscielny is in beast mode in the big games lately
Open ControlsDon't say that. RMT Tool has him down as 3rd sub...
...just like last week 🙁Open Controls
50/1
Open ControlsRed card for Arsenal, RVP puts in a shift against his old team. I've seen crazier things..
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Do you think walcott will go straight into starting XI after the internationals when he's back from injury?
Open ControlsDoubt it
Open Controlseased back in me thinks.. one or 2 games off the bench before he nails down his spot again
Open ControlsUsed to be a heavy emphasis with him gunning down the RW, now with Santi/Ozil/Rosicky swapping about there's more of a balance.
Think he'll be eased back in, but could do some damage with the midfield behind him against some weaker opponents.
9.0 area for Walcott will be tasty.Open Controls
Good news for Murner owners I spose that Hammers only goal threat is injured.
Open ControlsRavMo is their only goal threat
Good news is Murner can score on that defense with Reid out 😉Open Controlswas thinking of a cheeky pilkington punt as a result but then realised he'll be up against the mighty demel.
Open ControlsI'd fancy a quid each on Bassong, Murner and Martin fo sho
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any news about silva?
Open ControlsI've finished my exams. Absolutely solid!
Any news from tonight? Injuries/worries?
ThanksOpen ControlsHazard a slight concern. Nothing major I'd imagine.
Open ControlsDang. What's he done?
Open ControlsMissed a training session for some reason. Not injured according to Jose though.
Personally, wouldn't be surprised to see him benched. That's the way Jose rolls.Open ControlsUrgh. Easy swap to Silva I guess. If it is benching time..
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Just brought in Ramsey this week. Knowing my luck in FPL this week will be the end of him 😉
Open Controlsride that wave. never seen anything like this in 5+ years of FPL, it's becoming a tsunami, will join you this gw or next
Open Controlsramsey benched will be funny soon just to see peoples reactions. Mass exodus I assume.
Open ControlsAll I wish for is to at least get a taste of the point returns the people who've had him for longer than me have had. As long as he can manage another goal or assist this week I'll be fine 🙂
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+Googol
Almost reaching "I was there" territory.Open Controls
in 35 minutes
Vertonghen & Oscar rise
Evra fallsOpen ControlsAfter that solid performance last night, is there a better centre-back partnership in the Premiership other than Mertesacker and Koscielny?
Open Controlsquite a few
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Open Controlskompany nastasic vidic ferdinand dawson vertonghen cahill terry
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Centre-back - probably not.
Defence - several.Open Controlsalthough credit where its due keeping out a dortmund team that had scored in 59 of their previous 60 home games was no mean feat
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Whats wrong with this wc draft? Some complaints on Rat and Townsend, who would you replace with?
Harper/Boruc
Vlaar/Rat/Michael Turner/Terry/Glen Johnson (if not fit, mb Pieters instead?)
Brady/Ramsey/Townsend/Januzaj/Silva (if not fit,then who?
Roon/Suarez/Aguero.Open Controlsdo u have to wc
Open ControlsRat/Turner > Hull defender IMO (check those home stats).
And I'd prefer Ravel over Townsend.Open Controls
Anyone ACA qualified?
Just sat my finals...urgh.Open Controls

