KPI Analysis – Defenders, Last Four Gameweeks

good work Paul. Love these articles and being a member!!!

An article about the choice of defenders. No mention of CS chances.

Wilson Tadic Baines, are they ok or any a real doubt ?

Hi Dean Marney - welcome to my world!
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Can't decide whether to bring in Dummett or Yun? I need to act today due to Dummett's price rise! Already have Krul.

I think I'm doing Bertrand -> Terry this GW. There's always something satisfying getting a "big" player in at a season-low price.

If Tommy J is still about, I just replied some extra info on your previous post re using bets at short odds to cash out a win.

You need to check your Terms as most betting companies do NOT include the free bet stake in any returns which renders placing any free bets at very short odds absolutely pointless.

Wow, so Sakho takes my total flagged to 7!

Hey guys, with all the talk about which Chelsea defender to get, I've gone and worked out the up-to-date baseline BPS/min for their back 4.

Azpilicueta = 0.190
Terry = 0.163
Ivanovic = 0.151
Cahill = 0.148

Very little has changed - Azpi is still the BPS magnet he was earlier in the season. He has received bonus points in every match this season where Chelsea have kept a clean sheet - that's a real eye-opening statistic imo and this data just highlights his value. He's clearly the boring pick but sometimes boring is the right pick, and this looks like one of those occasions.

Sadio Mané starts on the bench for #AFCON2015-bound Senegal, as they round off qualifying against Botswana.

What do you prefer this weekend?

A. Azpi + Austin - 4
B. Chambers + Pelle

Who would you lose for Costa. Pelle or Welbeck?

Ben Dinnery on Baines

"99% certain #Baines is OUT #Wilson was originally ruled out for three weeks"

A) Costa and crap midfielder
B) Hazard and ok cheap striker?

More value for money up front.

Held off the Di Maria & Pellè > Sanchez & Sahko up until now. No point in making that change now is there?

Sanchez should still be gotten, him and Ayoze?

Will Moore start for Leicester this weekend?

Who would you prefer between these?

Hazard or Fabregas

Moore or Hutton

opting to avoid the austin bandwagon (trap? I mean seriously qpr striker lol) and loking at the following options to replace welbeck with
A) coleman, funded by welbz to kane
B) bony, funded by clyne to yun

Which is stronger?

Krul/guzan
Baines COLEMAN azpi (chambers wisdom)
Sanchez haz sig downing (boyd)
Aguero costa KANE

Or

Krul/guzan
Baines azpi chambers (YUN wisdom)
Sanchez haz sig downing (boyd)
Aguero costa BONY

Funnily enough chambers rotates perfectly with kane and yun in both cases

would you rather have

A. Fabianski + Azpi + Kun + Pelle + 0.9
B. Krul + 4.5 def + Kun + Costa

Help! 2FTs, 0.0m in the bank. Should I wildcard with all of the doubts in my team?

Forster - Foster
Baines - Chambers - PvA - Wisdom - Saylor
Fabregas - Sterling - Tadic - Siggy - Marney
Aguero - Costa - Pelle

Seen a fair few asking if Courtois is a good option. At 6m he's on a par with Azpil and is unlikely to be rotated, so what's not to like? Beyond the baps, assists issue, there's some additional points to consider:

1) You can't have a non-playing Chelsea keeper alongside Courtois. Unlike Krul and Elliot, valued at 8.5m, Courtois and Cech come in at a whopping 11.6m AND use up 2 Chelsea places. Therefore, in case of injury, you must have a playing keeper from another team. This costs a minimum of 10.5m, which is not money well spent as I'll show next.

2) The back-up keeper won't be selected ahead of Courtois. Chelsea have, on paper, already played most of their tougher fixtures this season (ManC, Liv and ManU away) so when, if ever, would you play a 4.5m keeper ahead of Courtois? I'd wager unlikely, which means your second keeper is essentially 4.5m perma-benched. Would you rather have a 4m or 4.5m defender in your squad, if you were unlikely to ever play them? 4m surely! With Azpil you can have the likes of Yun, Duff etc as perma-benched defenders, which saves upto 0.6m

Hope this makes sense 🙂

2FT

a) Clyne + Tadic > Azpilcueta + Hazard

b) Tadic + Pelle > Hazard + Austin

c) Clyne + Tadic + Pelle > Ivanovic + Oscar + Austin (-4)

d) Clyne + Tadic + Pelle > Azpilcueta + Hazard + Austin (-4)

Oscar + Ivan + Lovren VS. Sterling + Azpil + Terry?

That Sakho news is a kick in the balls.

May end up fielding 10 this week.

Want to take out schneiderlan but for who is best option
I have 2mill in bank and not afraid to spend it....tempted by siggy or chadli??
Help guys and thanks in advance

Full-time in Dakar, where Senegal have beaten Botswana 3-0. #SaintsFC's Sadio Mané came on for the final quarter-hour.

Worth using a FT on a defender this week:

Currently got Baines, Chambers, Clyne, Moore and NTaylor

Liam Moore. I need you this weekend. Just one poxy weekend. Please play.

I'll never understand why people opt for expensive keepers.

Last season:
Cech: 3060 mins, 16 CS, 82 saves -> 146 points
Mannone: 2568 mins, 11 CS, 131 saves -> 134 points

Pointe per 90 minutes:
Cech = 4.29
Mannone = 4.70

I know Mannone was quite an extreme case as he made a huge amount of saves but he had a higher points/90m than Cech and also came in at 1.5m (or was it 2m?) cheaper. Save points really add up...