After assessing the Defenders, our series of members articles analysing the opening month of fixtures continues with a look at some of the stand-out statistics in midfield. Summer signings from Swansea, Crystal Palace, Man City, Chelsea and Norwich come under focus, whilst Arsenal’s premium big hitter offers many reasons for optimism.
AOA chip is so easy to overthink.
Next week i have 2 hammers at City, Kolarov, Huth at Stoke and Cedric playing Man U, hard to see 2 let alone 3 clean sheets there. Could do Wanyama to Ritche (Sunderland) and use it but no guarantee he outscores Cedric
wow i'm confused
ill let you off its sunday morning. Play kol and cedric and 8 attackers
Cedric is at WBA
In fact all your fixtures are wrong 😛
😆 lol: im thinking a week ahead
At least they're awake!
I think all the chips incl the 2 WC should be banned.
Fpl should try mimic the real game more, if that allows a jan WC so be it.
Cedric not playing Manu tho
where is epic fail when you need him
for next week read gw6 and it makes more sense
I think epic fail is right here for now ^
Ah you're a week ahead. Anyway, I don't rate the AOA chip at all! How often does your 5th mid actually outscore your third def anyway...
yeah thats my point, all the planning for it and your benched defender could easiy get more points, maybe best strategy is to wait till you have injuries
Yeah, it's nice to have as a back-up. Might not even use it.
That's why I played it GW1. played mahrez, benched cedric. got away with it, and moved on -- benched mahrez in gw2, but benching in gw1 and 2 may have been too much for me 🙂
Played mine gw1 as figured it was a bit pointless
if i had played mine in GW1, i would be 15 better off
Save it for when the defenseless is decimated through injury, suspension or they're playing in a cup game
Courtois
Darmian kolarov ogbonna
Silva Sanchez mahrez payet
Aguero (c) gomis Wilson
McCarthy Richards Westwood Gomez
1FT 1.3ITB
Anything pressing? Or save
Save
Thanks
No injuries so far of note?
Ibra
and Robben is out for a month
himavich?
himovic yes, who else
I banged my knee on the table earlier.
Yellow or red box?
What were you doing at all?
Having lunch. 50% chance of playing.
I'll wait for the team news
Oh right I thought you were just knocking about 😉
Knee jerk transfer? 😀
Just rooneys form still...
Gloria you won't understand what I'm about to say but just know, the books are opening soon. You are a friend of mine. Time will tell if you are a friend of ours. Be ready brother.
You're right - I don't understand 😆
Good to save here lads?
Schmeichel
Kolarov, Cedric, Prodl
Sanchez, Pedro, Yaya Toure, Mahrez
Kun, Benteke, Wilson
Butland, Francis, Anya, Gomez 0.1mYea
Cheers man
Hells yeah.
Btw I think your mate Ruth has finally cracked itCheers Champ, even in a season like this your flying mate!
Lol, have been away for a while, what have i missed?? I just find it's one complaint after another with the bloke.Haha don't have the links but yeah 🙂
Kolarov, Azpil, Targett (wba), Richards (lei), Ward (MANC) Sinclair 5th mid.
Probably as good a week as I'll get to try AOAYeah go for it
maybe but theres bound to be a week you cant field 3 defenders due to injury or suspension, id wait unless your 8th attacker has a fixture too juicy to resist
I can see loads of goals in Leic v Villa while I see nothing for Targett
go for it then, v unlikely to be a massive points differenial either way, thats why its like lidl fries, an underwhelming chip
interesting
i see it 3-0 to leic
tiny tim will play plan A-Z =gungo and the old tinker will pickem off
leic defence too savvy for AV lightweight forwards(sinclair included)Even Sunderland put two past them and they have no cs yet.
fair
i just see them doing a number on av
Rover- believe in Sinclair, you brought him in for a reason and yes that lest a def stat gives more reasons to believe
Yeh stick with your AOA plan
I am with: Kolarov, Shaw, Targett (wba), Gomez (mun), Ward (MANC) Sinclair 5th mid
Why is Benteke flagged when he was confirmed 100% fit by the Belgium coach?
Offside again
😀
nice-born offside,and still disputing it
overhyped and over here-another brodgers special
Fpl Towers on holidays in Ibiza!
probably chilling at cafe del mar
RMT if you would be so kind!
Romero McCarthy
Targett Kolarov Richards Azpilicueta Gomez
Pedro YYT Mahrez Ayew Westwood
Benteke Wilson Aguero
No FT 3.1 ITB
Probably move Romero out after this week.
I like it....9/10
thanks
Looks good- DDG might force your hand for a GK transfer like you said, but you should be OK for now
Thanks
Good, Romero and Tekkers have ? Marks.
Agreed. Tekkers will stay for the next 3 matches given the fixtures but after that its questionable if he isn't scoring.
Targett needs to go soon
I have Gomis up front. Is Payet to Ayew a bit knee jerky with Payets nice fixtures coming?
yes but i do like Ayew 🙂
Probably, Pedro/Ayew/Payet may be profitable in the next few-hard to call and you can't have em all.
Stick with Payet for now and see how he does in this next fixture (easy on paper) with the new team in place. If he looks uninvolved then get rid imo
Thanks all
Wait this week at least
I think fpl should give us the salad option, dont use any chips and get a 5% rank boost
Wcs included?
no, need that badboy
Then I would pick the salad option anyway
Need more than 5% OR improvement. I can get 10-20 points easily from those chips.
5% by the end of the season is a significant bump. It may not be now when you've able to leap 500k - 1M with one good week, but that's not the case in the latter stages of the season.
...so what happens for players like me, who are often in the top 5%, but not quite as close as I'd like to the top, I win!?
Has Ddg played for Spain?
No to answer my own Q.
Casillas played the 90.Bench. Cassilas played
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
Is Bennett the next transfer Targett?
After all they share the same number of charecters and both end in ett
Alan?
No, Smith is.
Probable Starters Update https://goo.gl/zn1Wyp
Aha, great name. Kudos!
Any thoughts on Rondon? WBA have good fixtures and so far he's impressed points wise.
good pick probably but i just cant get excited bout a Pulis attacker, especially as they only put 1 past a nine man team
Good player but he'll be feeding on scraps at times. If they get ahead Pulis instinct is to preserve what they have and that just is t good for one of those three coveted striker spots. They fixtures are pretty ripe but in not quite convinced
Hard to look beyond Kun, Gomis and Vardy at present.
would you play Prodl Away to Swans. Or Shaqiri home to Arse
Thanks guys and galsare you in a parallel universe?
Haha.
Got the two mixed up.
Prod Home to Swans or Shaq away to Arse
The one you were in 10 minutes ago
actually I exploited a gap in the time space continuum and am now a week ahead of everyone.
Lol @Aguero captainersCan you confirm another two pointer for Costa?
Red card for headbutting Stones
Did I transfer out in time?
And tell us which players scored 10+ so we can captain them?
sorry off to meet marty mcfly
Leaning towards Prodl.
id go prodl too
Shaq. That's the honest Huth 😉
Westwood as 5th midfielder or Sinclair for an extra 0.4?
Westwood. If you want to go down the fifth mid route don't spend more tan 4.5.
Mainly to save the 0.4, even though he could sometimes be rotated with Mahrez/Wilson?
Depends what you mean by, "go down the fifth mid route", because everyone has to buy a fifth mid!
If you feel bad about your team/ rank just remember the world number 1 played his triple (c) chip this week and benched two clean sheets
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/1717621/event-history/4/
There is much hope aheadif anything it should make me feel worse, shows the ultimate futility of the game
He played Gomes over Howard, ok...
That GW2 was unbeleivable.. Everything that could go right did go right.
AOA and play Hoolahan (BOU) over Huth (AVL) ?
no
Where do you see who's gonna rise\drop in price?
i used this site earlier http://development.totalfpl.com/pricechanges , but dunno if its reliable ?
I've been using FPLstatistics. There's also fantasyfootballfix
Problem at the moment is there's quite a few wildcards being used and it's early in the season so none of them are completely accurate. That should change as the season goes on.thank you!
Might change later in the season when we have more team value (although I tend to stick to 4.5m bench fodder even then) but I just can't see why I'd use the AOA chip unless I had injuries....
Long way to go but I reckon there's a high chance I finish the season without using it.AOA for me is to be played purely when fixtures mean your 3 man defence are odds on for
Even then it's likely that my defender is a better option than my bench fodder
Dgw?
Depends how many there are but triple captain and bench boost will be used before AOA.
Even in a double it would depend on that 5th midfielder I have, likely that I'll still just want to play my defender.dunno whether to gamble with it on a juicy fixture week for my 5th mid (eg Ritchie v Sunderland gw6) or leave it till get injuries
Yeah it's a weird one alright. Will probably be this time next season that we'll know how to play it 🙂
Week before wildcard you can use your transfer to boost the front 8 maybe
Best idea I've heard for it.
You would likely need two free transfers otherwise you would be buying another cheap mid. Also you would need three of your defs to have bad fixtures
its what im doing i think, wanyama to ritchie
Yes - you'd need two transfers or cash in the bank to make it work. Don't know about you, but I often have 3 defenders with bad fixtures, so I don't see this part as much of a problem.
Do we really know when we are WC'ing a week in advance? Unless we leave it till the last possible week
More likely the opposite - blanks week
I'm of a similar view. I expect the AOA chip would lose points.
I'm playing it this week as I expect Sinclair to outscore Ward, Richards and Targett. It will a gamble whenever you play it unless you can't put out three defs
It's a GW38 topic for Jonty to run. We might get a big enough sample to see if it was useful or not.
Sounds like a good idea to moi
Those samples tend to be self-selecting. An FPL discovery-like data trawl would be more reliable.
Maybe. It would have to make a guess on which defender would have played, though. There's no real way for a script to know that.
AOA is more appealing to those with the likes of Sinclair or Albrighton as fifth mid than to those with a 4.5m
Definitely - good luck with it this week
Thanks, another reason for me to play it this week as Sinclair is less likely to be benched this week than usual
It's between Huth(AVL) and Sinclair+chip for me.. I reckon there's a better chance of a Huth CS than attacking returns from Sinclair.. Or at least good enough chance to not warrant using the AOA.
Here's a happy thought - we're closer to GW5 than GW4.
Is that one of Lewes FC's new sponsors? 🙂
Quite possibly!
Schmeichel
Kos Prodl Kolarov
Sanchez Chadli Yaya Mahrez
Aguero Gomis Wilson
But,and Wanyama Williams Francis
Need to shift Wanyama, he's already dropped in price and may do again
A Ayew - benching headache?
B Sako - same as above
C 4.5 - Westwood
D Leave
1 FT, 0.2 itb
Any transfers needed or save?
Schmeicel
Cedric Francis Kolarov
Hazard Sanchez(c) Yaya Mahrez
Aguero (vc) Diouf Wilson
subs:Butland Westwood Gomez SaylorLooks decent
As good a time as any to save FT.
looks good, save
I'm hoping for an FPL relevant international injury or two to mix things up a bit
More likely to make teams even more template than to mix it up imo
True. Although, I don't necessarily mind that
Why do you prefer the idea of template teams? Less to think / stress about? :/
More FPL options makes for a more interesting journey !
To Kun or not to Kun?
Butland / Schmichel Butland / Schmichel
Ward / Shaw / Sagna / Bellerin / Targett Kolarov / Shaw / Sagna / Bellerin / Cedric
Ayew / Pedro / Silva / Mahrez / Sanchez Ayew / Pedro / Silva / Mahrez / Sanchez
4,7 / Kun / Wilson Gomis / Lukaku / Wilson
One more week to overthinki honestly think Aguero is going to explode soon, and regularly score 6+ points a week. It's a tough call, for me the stats are enough to invest sooner rather than later.
And ppl say the same about Hazard, but the stats dont really back it up.Thats what im afraid of also... Going the Kun way. Thnx
Kun. Possibly the biggest no brainer there has ever been.
Thnx. Sorry to agree 🙂
Kun
Sadly so, thnx
If Montero is ruled out who is the best replacement?
A. Shelvey
B. Redmond
C. Kouyate
D. WestwoodIs it your non-playing emergency sub?
I have ighalo as the third striker. So either save ft and play ighalo or get in one of the above.
I would be more interested in replacing Ighalo unless Montero is out long term
What about Sinclair? Or Shelvey out of the aboveYup Sinclair also a good shout. Probably between him and Shelvey. Cheers mate
Play Ighalo
Wales to get the win tonight?
With Gareth Bale they can do anything 🙂
I hope they get it.They should, a win makes them a top 2-4 team in the Fifa rankings 😯
Should motivate themWales for the cup!
Mings -------> _________ ???
A.) Sagna
B.) Naylor
C.) Jevans
Not many other options available in my 8 team draft league :/B
A
B
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