damn..top of the page. It's gonna get weird, isn't it?

Sleep

Help me with my team. Have 1 ft and 0.1m itb

courtois
shaw kola morgan
ozil Montero yaya mahrez payet
kun costa

McCarthy ighalo Gomez whitaker

Read my blog if you're bored (see profile for link). 🙂

Finish on Tuesday, I think

Don't know about qualifiers but see Demi's hot topic for all player-wise matches: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2015/09/02/the-watchlist-updated-gameweek-5-the-midfield/?hc_page=2#hc_comment_11157785

Thanks for making me feel old.

Have fun 😀

Does splitting the site make it better? Plenty of members spam RMTs.

Dump non performing players early in the season, even for occasional hits, as the transfer activity is much higher every year at the start of the season and naturally falls happen too
Its not that hard, i didn't own Walcott but he would have been out GW1 for me after his initial no show, Yaya was .5 cheaper!

i think youll find a lot of members are just as bad

Q. If it's so simple then why hasn't it been done yet?

A. Because it's actually not so simple.

what did i miss?

Not sure of the comments referred to but even though I detest and have been vocal on rmts, I don't agree with a split. Many non members make huge contributions whilst some members, myself included, offer little other than a sarky remark.
One thing that should be done though is a ban on the word "casual" in the caste-like way it is used on here.

If only it was that simple....

Crap idea.

I am a member and while I don't post RMTs, I don't post many insightful posts (top of the page, sigh) as well while compared to many non-members.

Having said that, I won't mind an ongoing forum for members - something like a tool, as it will allow us to discuss some exclusive things. For example - data from the tables.

And yeah, I had walcott and I dumped his sorry a$$ as soon as possible. Good riddance, everyone should have done the same as well.

You have to first accept that there is a problem. If Theo is the best example, I'm not convinced this is anything more than an early season price adjustment to reflect the fact that people sell a non-playing (and expensive) midfielder. You don't need advice here to tell you to sell him. Those who weren't caught up in the rush to buy, avoided the problem. If the environment of the game has changed subtly, that's something we all have to deal with and the better players will deal with it better.

As Jesus said, "the poor FPL players will always be with you"

🙁

awful idea

Just to clarify, I wasn't saying that members couldn't also access the main forums, just that a private member forum also existed.

Don't think we should split to have a members and non-members.

One thing that can be done is perhaps every post has a mandatory dropdown box that indicates what kind of post this is. A few categories could include

1. RMT
2. Starting 11 selection/Benching order
3. Captaincy-related
4. General

Mods can then monitor if any users are abusing the system and well, moderate.

Users of the site can then filter posts according to these categories, much like they do with stickies.

Just a thought

Holland lost again.

Dead zone

sshhh some of us are trying to sleep

Got a long way to be a legend.

Never heard of him.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/sep/07/jarryd-hayne-isnt-your-average-australian-done-good-in-the-us

I'm not really surprised tbh. Rugby/League players are alot more athletic then NFL players. His highlight package hasn't really impressed me, I mean he does amazing runs week in week out in the NRL. Don't understand why people are so surprised he is doing it in the NFL.

It is always the same, first two international breaks.

Quite slow in this season. No double rise / fall yet.

myhill lindegaard

depends who plays for palace for the rest of the year.

I'm a fan of having Rudd n Ruddy or Schmeichel n Schwartzer

no matter what, don't go Pants + 4.0

Its good.

a

Targett

A

Hope we hear about Bertrand / Targett from the saint before the deadline then.

First 4 vs last 4 ?

Don't understand what the trade is.

dont think youd last 10 mins. im thinking grey room, grey walls, grey door.

id spend the 10 mins shouting buy a f***ing striker buy a f***ing striker buy a f***ing striker

You'll find lots of unused money.

🙂 Oh Dear

For me, Wenger is absolutely right in his transfer dealings. He has an awesome squad of players and there are not many out there who would go to Arsenal and are better than what he has. Apart from upsetting his current squad it is a big gamble when buying anyone.
There maybe a few strikers better than Giroud, a few DMF's than Coq but not many.
For me who has been educated in disliking London clubs, Arsen Wenger is the best all round manager the EPL has ever had (including Fergie)
He may not have the silverware of Man U and Chelsea over recent years but there is a fantastic base for the future with a new stadium, money ITB and a squad that is not far off the best in England.
Patience all Arsenal fans! It has been a long time but you are getting there.

Very handy. Thanks

Got to love Soccernet! they now have Friday evening articles about predictions and fantasy picks for each game 😆

Their Opinion articles are getting pretty good these days I must say. Very on the ball with injuries now too, more so than before.

http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/11166214

get your coffee

ha, that was good timing with my question.

I am interested in this too

New player price protection I think

It's the protection period for new players. Often thought to be from 8-10 days, and then the player has an initial ownership figure, and the transfers start counting. So I believe the first 10 days of transfer activity hasn't counted and he's still awaiting his first rise.

It's not the protection period. That's well and truly ceased (28/8). The issue is, the vast majority of his transfers were made before the protection ended. Then, the vast majority of subsequent transfers have been made on Wildcards (and therefore haven't affected the net transfers figure that is used to assess when his value should raise. Essentially, there have not been enough non-WC transfers of Pedro yet, post-protection, to warrant a price rise.

New players are "protected" for a period, during which transfers do not affect their price.

This was written at the start of the season, before we knew exactly how the price change mechanism would work this year, but it's mostly turned out as expected: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2015/08/12/fantasy-premier-league-transfer-market-guide/

Two notes to add: Wildcard transfers do appear to count for little or nothing, and there is a suspicion (albeit unproven) that Pedro's price lock on joining the game may not have been removed yet.

Then nobody would get their team rated as often as they do on the main article. I rated loads of teams in August but I'd never go to an RMT exclusive article.

far too much work for the mods. I dont really see the issue, i cant stand rmts but just ignore them, bit of effort and you find the good stuff easily enough

A separate thread worked well at the beginning of last season, and should be a permanent fixture then. I think it's only really relevant to have some sort of separation at season start - the volume tends to go down to manageable levels once a few GWs have been and gone.

RMTs are no problem. dont know why people keep talking about this and try to make things complicated when they're not

Also we then go into the semantics of 'what is a RMT'?

If i post my team and ask for an out of 10 score? Yes
If i post my team and ask for general input? Not sure
If i post my team and then give an a/b/c option list of moves Dont think so.

Its just preseason that its mental but i just ignore. The one downside is that you cant get a decent chat going but things soon slow up a few weeks into the season

Ignorance not excused.

Thanks for the responses everyone, I personally don't hate RMTs but I do tend to ignore some of them. Just wanted to bounce around an idea

Just have a separate thread for RMTs. In fact there should be a number of different 'threads', the site is quite archaic in it's structure of discussions with 1 thread covering everything that can be raised

What members forum!?

Jag

Jags

Jags

C and save

how the hell are you gonna enforce that rule?
Ruth is a he