Value Hunting?..,

Always do couple of years review before pricing to have in mind a figure of perceived value. Partly algo, with manual adjustments.
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This year’s pick from each team:

ARS - Bellerin. -0.5 Any of Arsenal’s starting defence really. He’s just preference based on 2 seasons back numbers.

BOU - King. -0.5. Also had Charlie Daniels and Stanislas as value. Slo I start and reverse OOP but King didn’t have a season justifying a price drop. As good as the 7.0 options.

BRI - Ryan 0.0. He was the price I hoped and thought but he does represent value at that price. 150pts compared to Dunk and Duffy’s 100pts in the same defence

BUR - Wood 0.0 I wasn’t planning on starting with him and predicted 6.5 but did think he would be value at that price. Expected they might have overpriced him but only their defence copped it

CAR - Ralls -1.0 usually top player on the set pieces from promoted club comes in at 5.5-6.5 range. Under the radar this one.

CHE - Morata -0.5 a 1.5 mil YoY drop was an overreaction.

CPL - Nil. Zaha would have been half mil of value but copped a positional change to offset. Still might own him but not for value reasons.

EVE - Coleman -0.5 just edges out Walcott. His price is 1.5 of value just a few seasons ago. Getting a rare injury affecting discount

FUL - Cairney -1.0 similar reasons to Ralls. They got sessegnon price wrong imo when looking at Cairneys

HUD - Pritchard -0.5 the 5m definitely my fave price bracket For mids this year. Nice price this

LEI - Gray -0.5 they missed a trick here not anticipating Mahrez inevitable departure.

LIV - Lovren -0.5 surprised he wasn’t priced at Arsenal starter type price. They didn’t take any stand with the right backs throwing them all on 5, but thought Lovren is the pick of the 5s for BPs and nailedness

MCI - Mendy -0.5 another injury related discount. Wasn’t entitled to drop half yet. Good pickup

MUN - Bailley -0.5 half mil drop feels a bit premature. Definitely had him whatever smacking was priced

NEW - Nil. Didn’t have any of the defenders being worth above 4.5 so not surprised of what we got.

SOT - Cedric -0.5 has held his own at 5 the last 3 years so was one of first picked when I saw he’d been dropped

TOT - Nil. An entire rotation heavy backline all coming in at 6.0 is frankly a joke

WAT - Hughes 0.0 both he and pereyra came in at the price predicted but think they are both very interesting at their price. Lean Hughes way for 1mil less

WHU - Fabianski -0.5 obv should have been in the 5mil keeper pool. Along with Cedric for a set and forget at those odds. Yarmolenko could be as much as 1.5mil undervalued. If big 6 signed he comes in absolute minimum 7.5mil and as high as 9.0

WOL - Costa -0.5 seems we were gifted an interesting 5mil in each promoted team. Will take it

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I will definitely be going with 2x 5.0
Mids and rotating them. Choosing which 2 is the hard part!!

Reading Modric's comments today on England's media arrogance I must say I completely agree with him.

As a neutral, England were one of the teams I was initially cheering for, in addition to Peru, Iceland, Argentina and Senegal. But after the Panama win (one of the worst sides to reach the World cup in the modern era) the ironic "It's coming home, we're going to win it etc" seemed to fade away and people, especially the media actually started to believe it... plotting their best route to the final, when the best team they had beaten was Tunisia, and that win was a close call By the time they played Colombia I found myself firmly rooting against England.

It's a bit of a shame. Southgate, Kane and co. all seem a likeable bunch but the level of arrogance from outside the squad does the England team no favours and makes it impossible for non-English people to be on their side. I think Southgate is a decent skin, but he also failed to adapt his system against one of the strongest midfields in the tournament - Lingard, Ali and Henderson alone against the likes of Modric and Rakitic? England need a quality midfielder or two that isn't afraid of actually getting on the ball in hard games when their team needs some control.