The first members’ article of the week arrives this evening as we delve into the data from Gameweek 6. We check in on Chelsea and West Brom’s new attackers, assess Everton and Southampton’s lone strikers, and cast an eye over Liverpool’s main performers in light of Brendan Rodgers’ move to a 3-4-1-2 formation at home to Norwich.
v nice team. not many have WBA just yet. love the double coverage! i'm not a fan of yaya at the moment so yes, i'd side with him to payet. i wouldn't even look at the following wk as we all know about sturridge's injury rate but all things going well then go for it
Thanks man. I had to take my first hit to get double WBA when Gomez was dropped and Gabriel was sent off but I'm not fussed about it and I'm glad I did it. McCarthy and Huth haven't gotten me a single clean sheet. Now I have Gabriel back too!
I'm a huth owner from the start myself. Stone useless so he his
Anyone watch Liverpool's last game? What was Sturridge like?
Repost just interested in everyones opinion! Got a tough one lads.. Costa's suspension has bit me right in the arse and I've gotta take a hit! Already used my FT to bring martial in (and already have 1.8itb)
So
A) Costa --> Ighalo (leaves me 7.7m itb so can switch to a 3-5-2 and do wanyama to haz/sanchez next week) -4 points
B) Costa/Wanayma --> Ighalo/(sanchez/hazard) -8 points
C) Costa --> pelle (and stick to a 3-4-3) -4 points
D) Other
Thanks lads!
I think I would do A.
Ighalo looked great plus he has a Sunday game 😉
There is no need to use a -8 to switch to 3-5-2 just yet.
Play 3-4-3 this week with Ighalo.Good shout mate! That's what I was leaning towards, gives my the flexibility to bring in Sanchez/Haz depending on who hits form 🙂
Exactly, wait and see.
Whoever sparks, just jump on them as quick as you can 🙂
A, and watch the games over the weekend to decide what to do with your cash windfall
Yeah I think this is the most logical choice! I can't lie I am temped by pelle also!
I said C, but seems he has been yellow flagged as 75% to play with a foot injury now. Not sure how bad the injury is.
Yeah I saw that! made me think twice about him! Think I'm heading down the Igahlo route- his stats are unreal!!!
Simples
A) Huth to Evans
B Gomez to Dawon*Dawson
B
Cheers
C) Gomez to Evans
Will consider it, cheers.
Good morning DZ!
Thoughts on this team?
Ruddy
Cedric Dawson Kolarov
Alexis Pedro Payet Mahrez
Aguero Diouf Wilson
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Rudd Redmond Francis Browning
Nothing itb.
Thanks.Begovic
Azpi/Kolarov/Cresswell/Bertrand/Janmaat
How does that sound in two weeks time?
Problems?
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Expensive though.Yeah... but I seem to be awash in money even with Aguero and KDB in the team... and I still have my WC for December to reshuffle.
Cheers Balders.Wildcard in hand always makes stuff like this more appealing. From there, how many transfers is it to get Hazard alongside Aguero and KdB?
Hazard will require a WC or a front line of Aguero Wilson Ighalo (which might not be a bad shout the way things are going, but I expect the way things are going to change)
That front line could repay you faith. Is the WC plan as late as possible?
Yes. Always late with my WC s
Playing 4 at the back?
Occasionally... got 89 points playing 5 at the back one week last season.
But mostly 3-4-3... just want to maximize my chances of getting attacking points from my defenders this season.
Expensive backline but strong. Janmaat won't often provide attacking returns & can't see Newcastle keeping many cs's
Fair points but disagree on Newcastle clean sheets. They're a schizophrenic team. They look terrible for a while then become world beaters for a while, rinse and repeat. Their fixtures weeks 9 to 17 look like a world beater phase is coming.
Have a good friend who is a Newcastle fan... so have paid attention to this phenomenon for several years. It is very strange and particular.
Does darmain-->cresswell & Alderweireld-->dawson with 2 fts seem like a good idea to you? Won't make the moves til gw7 is over of course.
Begovic mccarthy
Darmain Oxford kolarov Alderweireld Francis
Hazard sanchez payet mahrez Westwood
Aguero gomis Wilson
1.1 itb
CheersHold Alderweireld... they're playing well
Not sure now's the time to get Cresswell as has some lumpy fixtures ahead (I already own him though, so happy if you transfer him and add value)
No.
I'm off, goodnight everyone. Thanks for all the book suggestions on page 7!
Anybody looking for a good read, head here:http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/11334884Night Balders
Please tell me why I still haven't done Benteke to Martial for free?
I don't trust Martial yet, but I'm not sure if I should trust Benteke under BR either.Fixtures, underlying stats, etc... & leaked Pool sheets on Friday makes it worth the 0.1m , imo.
You think I should go for it?
Not imo Nabil, not yet at least with those fixtures.
Hey Nabil,
Pelle maybe?
Shoot me an email (victor.paraschiv@cogeco.ca) to talk a little bit about the Basketball Fantasy. I'm pretty close to clueless in regards to that 🙂The saddest thing is that I did Pelle to Benteke last week, just to avoid the price drop. And to captain the Belgian who's supposed to go riot against NOR. How cruel it turned out to be.
Unlucky to be honest.
I got rid of Pelle last week as well (mind you, in a WC) and semi-regret doing that, although Ighalo did the job right 🙂Aah, that's not so bad. Brave pick and well rewarded. And I'm sure your captained brought some extra points - well done for that.
Will email you later. Not that I'm really familiar with it and I'm still learning especially the trading & Free Agency pick-up rules - but I can assure you it'll be an interesting ride.Yep, awesome stuff.
Going to read some rules on the website as well.
Leo told me you won as a first timer… 🙂 Hope for me 😉Have fun.
Is it? Can't remember well. It's the playoffs that matter, and I still haven't got that one right. 🙂 I hope not 😛
Just one parting piece of food for thought. I know its a small sample size, but KdBs baseline BAPs on tab 3:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WN7wHzk8VeoCdPEZM40uFi0UVUVM81RU9dNl5R1GlBc/pubhtml#
Just caught some of the reading chat Balders. A Season in Verona. Excellent read
Cheers Sab
wow
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his BPS look good
Sorry! Mis-read who that was replied to. Its early here!
no worries 😉
If baseline means "Goals/Assists Excluded" note that KDB has actually scored (so 15 of those BAPs are from that goal) and his baseline BAPs are therefore a bit lower than that suggests, though still quite good.
Apologies if I've misunderstood of course!No you're right, for some reason the spreadsheet hadn't updated the goals tally from before this weekend, its now edited but KdB still looks good if not as impressive.
Cheers Balders - yeah, he looks especially good for an attacking midfielder too, considering baseline baps generally favour the defensive mids. I don't normally take hits, but I might next week to swap Toure out for him...
Who am I kidding, there will be a different bandwagon by then
wow..there's a guy with a TV of 105.3 and a rank of 5k
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/1644173/event-history/6/
Who else is sticking with Kun captain?
Its confidently on Martial right now. Will chicken out and go Kun on Saturday morning i am sue
50/50
me.
me
Kun c regardless of fixture until sanchez starts firing.
what happened to gomis? was set to drop and now is only -0.1 on fplstats?
he did drop
Already dropped 🙁
It still says 7.4 on mine?
Exactly. was 7.5 before
oh ok, i guess because i bought him a 7.4 i didn't notice for some reason. Think he will go down again soon?
Maybe not by Saturday, but could go down on Sunday especially if Pelle/Martial do well.
yeah right on that one i still have no idea who i would swap him for at this stage. Thanks mate.
Realistically, what rank do you need to be around at this point to have a chance of winning fpl?
2nd. In my minileague. Only thing that matters haha
Haha true
I don't know good question
Depends on how much of a lucky maverick you are i guess top 250k is my guess
Chasing a 9 point lead. Is it worth a -4 to get in Payet for Cabaye and start Payet > Ayew this weekend? Thanks!
*He has Payet
Not much in it really but payet has better fixtutes
Whats everyone's opinion on this:
Butland (hennesy)
Kolarov // Cedric // Dawson (Saylor, Oxford)
Mahrez // YYT // Payet // Ayew (wanyama)
Martial // Aguero // Costa
Im going to strengthen my bench next week, but for the meantime i'm need a replacement for costa.. thoughts??Currently thinking ighalo, leaves me 7.7 itb to bring in either haz or sanchez (depending on who hits form :))
Costa to Wilson/Ighalo/Sakho then use money to upgrade Saylor and Oxford imo
Was considering wilson.. but if haz hits form against newcastle I'll only have 11.2 :/ Currently thinking ighalo (considering his form/stats/fixtures) allows me a bit of freedom!
Ighalo would be my pick. Others are considering Pelle as well.
Cheers! thats that im thinking.. his stats are unreaaaal!! good fixtures coming up too!
Would love some advice for possible transfers… captains… Bench order… Chip uses etc.
Thanks in advance 🙂
Butland
Bellerín Fonte Kolarov
Payet Barkley Sánchez Yaya Mahrez
Ighalo Agüero{C}
McCarthy… Gomis Francis Prödl
0.1 ITB 1 FT
Play Bench Boost? All out Attack?
Bench Mahrez and play Gomis?
Any ideas on what to use my transfer on?
Gomis over fonte (aoa) or prodl over fonte
don't bench mahrez please
save imo
Do we have any news on Cedric and his prospects of playing over the next few weeks?
So Martial or Hazard should be the captain choice this wknd, no?
Martial for sure. Sanchez? Il be going aguero he's due
is blindly playing defenders who has home game against defenders who has away game pays off in the long run?
Dunno, would you bench Kolarov for an away game?
there are few exceptional like him since City are in great form both home and away. Apart from City no team has looked solid at back..
I think it is best to have defenders who have a decent chance of some attacking returns is home or away
Very hard to pick out a clean sheet
Sticking with Mane has been one of my better choices this season. Starting with Bassong and Coates was a disaster though. What have been some of your better/worse decisions?
Went for Yaya, Sterling, and Agüero rather than a City defender. Also waited until this week to get WBA coverage at the back. Otherwise, anything that went wrong for me could have just as easily went right and I think the logic for my decisions was good.
Best decisions have to be captaining Mahrez this week and having faith in Hazard. Also had Wilson for his hat-trick, still do.
Playing Ighalo over Payet GW6.
Worst has been to keep Hazard/Pelle and sell them right when they score double figures 😐Honestly, Wildcard in gameweek 3 was my best. Changed 12 players. Around a 440k rank but team value up almost all the players i got rid of are doing poorly.
Worst, the players i originally picked. Not getting on Myhill. All my captain choices. Getting in a Lpool attackerGood: Keeping Francis on wildcard when people said he would drop in price
Bad: Captain picks, selling Mata on the same wildcardWildcard gw1. 33k rank after shocking start. Touch wood haven't put a foot wrong yet
Sticking with Hazard is definitely one of the best.
Ditching Mane and Pelle before they explode are my new lows.Having Mahrez and Kolarov from the beginning. Also sticking with Mane despite being tempted to sell and price falls. No knee-jerk wildcard.
Worst decision was not using a single one of my two transfers last week, which meant a wasted transfer. I was considering Defoe-Ighalo, didn't do it and benched Sakho so Defoe could start. Rectified that immediately and have done Defoe-Ighalo
I am biased as hes been a mate since we were kids but love this weekly football cartoon
http://www.theguardian.com/football/picture/2015/sep/22/david-squires-on-the-dark-arts-of-diego-costa
Costa this weekYeah, that's a good one, I love the panel with him whispering conspiracy theories 😀
Would really appreciate some feedback on my squad as I seem to be struggling... ranked 312,686. Any transfer advice would be very welcome.
Butland, Adrian
Darmian (bought at 5.5), Kolarov (bought at 5.9), Naughton, Evans (bought at 4.8), Gomez (bought at 4.5)
Payet (bought at 7.5), Morrison (bought at 4.9), Chadli, Yaya (bought at 8.6), Shaqiri
Sakho, Aguero (bought at 13.1), Martial (bought at 8)
Figured I'd throw in the price that I purchased people so people can work out sell-on prices etc. Thanks in advance!I have 2m in the bank btw!
Making Chadli into Pedro would be my move, will need to find some more funds?
Not sure how much? Butland to a 4.0 or one of your defenders downgrade, maybe Darmian after this week?Thank you! In that case how does Darmian -> Francis and Chadli -> Pedro sound for a -4 next week?
Good to me
Sell Gomez. Rest looks ok for now.
Maybe look at some Chelsea assets for the near future.
Chelsea always loses at SJP.
Plus NEW losing 1 goal to ARS and 0-0 against MAN. They seem defensively solid when they park the bus.
Any thoughts on Hazard (c)?I dont want o give any definitive advice on (c) choice this year. I would just say this. Hazards goal was lucky and even if his stats were up it was 45mins vs 10 men.
Hey it could work out but i think next week would be better.Considering it highly but will probably go Kun (c) after all
If aguero, sanchez & hazard all score big this gw there's gonna be alot of hits taken & wildcards played based on the rmt's posted here this week.
FPL Stats or FFF better for falls?
Night DudeZooers 🙂
Moment of Zen - http://i.imgur.com/0ScWfEN.gifNight for you man
Just bored. Any advice? Longer term. Think im set on this team for this week-
Butland
Williams/ Gomez/ Kolorov
Pedro/ Maherez/ Yaya/ Sanchez
Aguero (vc)/ Martial(c)/ Wilson
McCarthy/ Tagett/ Westwood/Richards
0FT 1.7ITB
Thinking longer term
Gomez to Dason
Butland to Begovic
Anything more important or inspiring?
Note- Happy to let Targett rot until team value up if hes lost the place, Richards is movable, Sanchez is testing my pateince
ThanksYeah you're team is very gtg this week. Unless you're not already fed up with Sanchez, I wouldn't mind doubling up CHE attack with Haz.
Pedro or Yaya can become Payet at later stage and imo it's not kneejerky.Thanks, hate not owning Payet. Missed out on points and price rises while holding chuffing Sanchez.
Get rid of Gomez
Thanks, would be for a hit this week so will leave him in the 11, Targett 1st sub. Then when Targett gets no minutes Richards comes on. God thats an awful bench. Gomez out next week
Lol, yeah defence never worth a hit
What's the chances of Benteke playing this weekend? Is it really 75%?
Also, do we think Marital is going to rise again before the deadline?Ttoal guess/ estimate
Betekke 60/40 no
Martia- yesIf Martial rise again, I will have just enough money to do Gomez & Benteke -> Martial and Evans (-4). Difficult days.
I'd be shot of Benteke if I were you
Martial will probably rise againhey Nabil
it's 50/50 i think...we have Ings & Studge so won't risk him imo
martial yesHey man.
Frustrating to know.
Thanks all of you.
I asked this earlier:
Ozil and Cech to Hazard and Myhill for -4 worth it?You are taking a bath with Hazard mate
Pedro is much better value and will out score Hazzard this session imo
Get Pedro and get your keeper next weekdecent transfers but not sure if you should do it for a hit. Follow your guts. If you think it'll be worth it short/long term, just do it.
Don't go Hazard this week, Newcastle away has been a tough fixture for Chelsea for quite some time.
