This evening, we roll out the seventh round draw of the Fantasy Football Scout Cup XI, as sponsored by Paddy Power, as well as the seventh round draw for the Fantasy Football Scout Members Cup.
Fuml_akimbo is the Paddy Power Cup’s highest ranked remaining manager. Ryan has the unenviable task of taking on the 64th placed manager in the final 16.
Mark is the second highest placed remaining manager, with a rank of 177, and faces Eedee over Gameweek 35.
The manager with the highest score in round six was faux_C, whose score of 94 points earns him £25 worth of free bets with Paddy Power.
In the Members Cup, Hasselbaink Forever is the top placed remaining manager, with an overall FPL rank of 339. He takes on 2145th placed Tdubb05 in round seven. The next highest ranked manager is The Glory Hunters, who faces Alwilb, who has a rank of 7065.
The full seventh round draw for the FFS Paddy Power Cup XI can be found here, while the seventh round draw for the Members Scout Cup V can be found here.
Good luck to those involved in the weekend’s action. In the meantime, though, if you’re looking for more information on the Scout Cup schedule and prizes available, click this link for a more thorough rundown.
9 years, 1 month agoDouble Post apology: Typically posted on a dead topic:
I've been agonising over this all week. Excuse the long post. It's somewhat therapeutic to get it out on paper
After laying out my thoughts that you'll find below, a TL;DR:
A.
35)Myhill -> Mignolet (short sighted I think, but good chance of clean sheet and damage limitation against trailing opponent who has LIV GK & Def )
36 & 37) ????
B.
35) Murray --> Vardy
36) Save FT. 5 players involved in Liverpool (2 mid) Chelsea (2 def, 1 mid). Keep Aguero for QPR(H)
37) Aguero & Sterling -> Giroud & Sanchez (or equivalent)
C.
35) Save FT. Murray possibly stinking the place up against Chelsea.
36) Aguero & Sterling -> Giroud & Sanchez (or equivalent) for Swansea (H). No Aguero for QPR(H)
37) Re-assess
D)Take a hit somewhere to try and get the best of all worlds.
I'm leaning to B.
Any other suggestions based on my team are welcome too!
My team:
------------------Guzan
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Clyne - Ivanovic - Terry - Jagielka
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Henderson - Sterling - Hazard
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Kane - Aguero - Murray
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Bench: Myhill, Boyd, Ki, Wilson (of Swansea)
Bank: 2.3
1 FT
I'm 20 or so points ahead of an opponent in a ML who's been slightly gaining on me recently, after getting back in the game with a monster score a few weeks ago in which he clawed back about 60 points on me (even more annoying as I had already squandered about the some amount when I had no internet access abroad). I used my wildcard already to revitalise my team after that, which was quite off the boil, and to neutralize him. Not neutralized enough unfortunately, seeing as I'm now only 20 ahead and was in the 40s a few weeks ago.
Enough of the background though:
Myhill --> Mignolet for easy clean sheet.
My initial thought was to try and make a grab for likely easy clean sheet points by transferring out Myhill for Mignolet -- Liverpool have the 2nd shortest odds on keeping a clean sheet and my opponent owns him and Skrtel (so a bit of damage limitation if they get their clean sheet). However, this is 0.9 in cost, uses my 1 FT, I don't fancy Liverpool defensively after this fixture and doesn't help me with the upcoming DGW. Short-term move with no real prospect of extending my lead, just minimizing loss.
Murray --> Vardy - Off-form striker against Chelsea vs on-form striker against leaky Newcastle. I would do this except it stops me from:
Saving a Free Transfer so I can offload a) a striker and b) a Liverpool player for their match against Chelsea. With this I could then definitely by next week get Giroud and a midfielder (possibly another Arsenal), for their game against Swansea and double game week. At current prices, I couldn't swap out Kane for Giroud if I got Vardy in place of Murray. Aguero is tying up a lot of my funds
I could almost get what I want and do Week 35: Murray --> Vardy. Week 36: Do nothing. (tense) Week 37: Aguero & Sterling --> Giroud and Sanchez (or equivalent) on week 37, which would leave 2.2 in the bank with one game remaining and 1 FT. This unfortunately leaves 5 players in one match on Week 36 (Liverpool vs Chelsea) and misses decent fixtures for the Arsenal players.
I can't seem to make any points hits work in my head, and they don't seem worth the risk, given that it's 20% of my lead over my ML rival.
On the captain front: I'm leading my ML by 20, so Hazard or Aguero? Which is safer? Rules of thumb suggest Hazard in general but I anticipate my ML opponent captaining Aguero as a differential and him scoring three or something, when I could neutralize (and we've both been burnt in the DGW by captaining Hazard). Chelsea rarely have a goal glut. Still, I think Hazard is the safe move although my initial gut feeling was to captain Aguero who has been on-form and Spurs leaky. MCI's away form however, is shaky.
If anyone ever read this far about my personal conundrum, thanks! Although I do imagine I'm not the only one who's left with this after trying to capitalise on the Liverpool DGW.