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Is it time to invest in defence of Season Ticker high-fliers Brighton?

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Brighton and Hove Albion’s budget defensive options could attract some long-term Fantasy Premier League attention very soon.

The Seagulls recently recorded their first clean sheet of 2018/19 in Gameweek 8, which was well-timed with them ascending to second place for defence on our Season Ticker over the next 13 matches.

We’ve decided to look into the numbers to see if Chris Hughton’s men can be trusted with what, on the surface, looks like an extended run of favourable fixtures.

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  1. Eze Really?
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Does Senegal have another game? Played Sudan last night.

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    1. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Playing sudan again on 16th

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    2. Differential C (Mark)
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      They're playing Sudan again on Wednesday

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    3. Eze Really?
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Cheers guys.

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  2. Klein
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Whats the position of alonso in the last 4 gws? Is he advancing and taking shots like he used to? Fixtures has not be unkind in those weeks too.

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    1. Eze Really?
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Playing as a back 4 he seems to be given instructions not to advance so far. the heat map will clarify

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      1. Klein
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        Yeah. I am not worried about a couple of games without attacking returns but if he is staying back more often probably best to look elsewhere? Specially since i am on wc

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    2. Eze Really?
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Checked it out. Heratmap identical ist 4 compared to second 4

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      1. Klein
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        So he is still advancing. Probably best to keep

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    3. Hotdogs for Tea
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Only game he sat back in was Liverpool, which expected really ... otherwise his positional play is unchanged

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    4. Klein
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Thanks alot guys

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  3. Botman
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Worth a WC or stay patient?
    Fab, Foster
    Trippier, Robertson, Tomkins, Doherty, WB
    Mane, Haz, Maddison, Walcott, Neves
    Aguero, Vardy, King

    Feel with the fixture swing I should be shipping out my crystal boys and bringing in brighton and west ham players.

    Most likely would do Trippier for Mendy if I was making the single change this week.

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    1. 007 [RoboKlopp]
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Wc imo, ship Tomkins, Wally one of GK and Neves.

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    2. Klein
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      I wouldnt wc. Walcott to rich and access next week.

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    3. Differential C (Mark)
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Im not sure thats too bad. Is King->Arnie not available?

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    4. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Think that team can survive for 2 more weeks...

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    5. Hotdogs for Tea
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      2 palace defenders, no Mendy or Alonso, no City mid, Walcott, Neves ....

      What are you actually waiting for ?

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      1. Pacer.
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        Lol

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  4. 007 [RoboKlopp]
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Hi, who is better for long term?
    A. Mendy
    B. Maddison
    Ta.

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    1. Botman
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Mendy, basing that off the team rather than the player. Man City are safer bet than Leicester.

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    2. Klein
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Mendy if he is not rotated. But both are awesome long term.

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    3. Differential C (Mark)
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Mendy imo

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    4. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      B as of now

      A later on if he looks nailed

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    5. Hotdogs for Tea
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      A

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  5. Klein
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    On wc
    A) murray + sterling
    B) jiminez + sterling + itb (for potential sterling to salah if he fires)

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    1. Botman
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Murray + Sterling

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    2. 007 [RoboKlopp]
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      A imo

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    3. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      A

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    4. Klein
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Thanks guys

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    5. Eze Really?
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      I don't see the Brighton love.
      A lot of away games to come and they are very poor away.

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      1. J ⚒ Gimme ur Mané
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        Agreed, they are going to be fighting against relegation this year.

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    6. ClassiX
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Who are your other forwards? Assuming you've got 2 nailed on forwards then B) for me - Jiminez and Murray will score very similarly and the cash ITB can be really useful

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  6. villian-ty
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Neves, Kane -> Sterling, Wilson - 4

    Yes or no?

    Foster Patrico
    Shaw Mee Trippier AWB TAA
    Mane Hazard Richarlison Cainey Neves
    Aguero Kane Ings

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    1. The Cherry Picker
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Bit sideways for me.

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    2. Pacer.
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      It's not sideways because neves is useless so purposes changes give 2 options

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    3. Pieterke30
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Yes

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    4. jia you
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Def not sideways, Neves playing far too deep to be an FPL asset! Decent moves but Bou's fixtures take a horrible turn soon!

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    5. The 12th Man
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Nice moves

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  7. The Cherry Picker
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Ok, decision point.

    Current team:

    Ryan
    TAA, Trippier, Doherty, Mendy
    Hazard, Salah, Moura
    Aguero, Wilson, Mitro

    Hamer, Maddison, AWB, Stephens
    0FT, 0.7 ITB

    Proposed WC team:

    Patricio
    Mendy, Alonso, Robertson, Doherty
    Hazard, Mane, Richarlison
    Wilson, Lacazette, Aguero

    Fabianski, Brooks, Højberg, AWB
    0.0 ITB
    Is it worth pulling the trigger or is the team up top GTG?

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    1. LD
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Team up top looks fine

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    2. ClassiX
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Team on top is fine for at least two more weeks - I think you'll get at least 60-70 points out of that team (and don't believe the Salah injury BS - he is absolutely going to play next week). For GW10 you can swop Moura and Maddison. You will probably want to re-look the WC in GW11 to swop out the Bournemouth (eg Wilson to Arnie) and possibly Spurs players

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    3. The Cherry Picker
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Lads, awesome advice. I’ll take it all on board. Thanks for taking the time!

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  8. jia you
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Newcastle have great fixtures on paper but are an even greater trap, avoid like the plague for me! BHA not far behind that statement either imo!

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    1. Hotdogs for Tea
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Loving the ‘fixture swing’ angle to get in underperforming players from poor teams that will be playing all their rivals that also consider the fixture as easier on one to target for a win 🙂

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      1. jia you
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        exactly, not biting myself!

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  9. jia you
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Newcastle have great fixtures on paper but are an even greater trap, avoid like the plague for me! BHA not far behind that statement either imo! *

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    1. The 12th Man
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      vvvvReply fail vvvv

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      1. jia you
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        Such a valid statement seems worthy of the repost 😉

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  10. The 12th Man
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    The only players I would consider from those two teams are Ryan and Duffy.
    There’s just too many options ahead of Murray to consider him.

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    1. Hotdogs for Tea
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Great bench options though generally, but wouldn’t want to rely on too many of the players from those teams in your staying 11

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    2. jia you
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Fair enough, one of those two might not be the worst idea but prefer to avoid myself atm.

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  11. ClassiX
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    FPL Rule Change: so a few weeks ago someone asked the question about what change would you want to bring to see in FPL. So, this idea popped into my head last night while I was looking at how many points I've had on my bench in first 8 GW's: how about a rule where you have a choice to sacrifice your FT by being able to substitute one of your bench players for a starting player during the GW? In other words, each week you either get a free hit OR a free substitute... ?

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    1. Fitzy.
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      How would that work? You can't make any changes to your team after a GW starts, or are you suggesting that you make a decision prior to lockout that you'll sacrifice that week's FT for an automatic substitution from your bench?

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      1. ClassiX
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        Got to be honest, Fitzy - more thought given to the concept than to the mechanics of it. In my midn it was more a cse of at the end of the GW you could choose between making a free substitute on that GW's results OR choose to use a FT for the following GW. But the prior decision idea might also be really interesting...

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        1. Fitzy.
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          5 years, 6 months ago

          Yeah, like your highest scoring bench player gets swapped for your lowest scoring starter.

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          1. ClassiX
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 5 Years
            5 years, 6 months ago

            Exactly - but then you don't get a FT for that week. The free substitute looks backwards at the GW that has just completed and FT looks forward at the coming GW. Decisions, decisions.... 🙂

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            1. TorresMagic™
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • Has Moderation Rights
              • 14 Years
              5 years, 6 months ago

              Only need to get 5 points more to make the swap a no brainer.

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              1. ClassiX
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 5 Years
                5 years, 6 months ago

                Plus whatever you might lose the next GW by not getting Sterling in for, say, an injured Salah...

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    2. J ⚒ Gimme ur Mané
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      I like that rule !

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    3. The 5% Team
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Nice one. In my Dutch Fantasy League we have something that's called the Pinchhitter: whenever a player comes off the bench and scores/assists, he gets double the points.

      Kinda like that one, being nailed makes this a bit less important.

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      1. ClassiX
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        That's a neat concept - it would make players like Sturridge and most the ManCity mids more appealing and interesting!

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      2. Sir Edo
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        Then you always keep red marked player in starting 11.. bad rule!

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        1. Konig Luther
          • 11 Years
          5 years, 6 months ago

          probably any chip is a bad rule, if we are trying to be the best managing.

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    4. Old Man
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      That would be a decision post match, surely? The game is entirely predictive with no retrospective aspects so I cannot see that being allowed.

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      1. The 5% Team
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        well, the pinchhitter is not a chip.

        For example, if you had Ramsey in your starting XI in the Fulham match, he would have got you 10 x 2 = 20 points, because he came off the bench. If he was on your fantasy bench, you got no points of course.

        So you have to make the decision before the games: start a player who plays 90 mins, or start a player who might come off the bench and maybe gives you double points.

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      2. ClassiX
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        Exactly my point - at the moment the entire mechanics are predictive, in the absence of perfect information about team selection, injuries etc. etc. Introducing a retroactive game mechanic, albeit one that forces your to sacrifice a forward looking opportunity might be interesting?

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        1. Old Man
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          5 years, 6 months ago

          True - it would certainly spice life up with the double points aspect but I still doubt whether they'll wear it. Interesting idea , but let's see if the FPL Ivory Towers adopt it.

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  12. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Mendy(C)?
    Anyone with me?

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    1. LD
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Too risky imo. Maybe if you have a good vc

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      1. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        Other options are Hazard, Kane, Mane or else could do Kane to Aguero with FT but I plan to use the FT for Tomkins to TAA

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        1. LD
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 6 months ago

          Yeah use it on tomkins to taa. I’d be looking at Haz or mane

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          1. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 6 months ago

            Cheers mate
            I'm benching Tomkins anyway so that move would allow me to bench Wally which the Kane move wouldn't

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  13. pstokes2010
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Hey all I’ve used my transfer. Do you think I have my team arranged properly?

    Ederson

    Bennett Van Dijk Mendy Alonso

    Hazard Mane Fraser Richarlison

    Kane Mitrovic

    Speroni Arnautovic Knockaert Duffy

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    1. LD
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Swap Bennett for Arnie

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      1. pstokes2010
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        Cheers.

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    2. Beatle
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Criminal waste of money on your bench

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  14. Beatle
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    On a WC

    A: Robertson & Fraser
    B: TAA & Richarlison

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    1. LD
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Tough one, maybe A for the sake of it being long term and more security of starts. But both good options

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  15. Cojones of Destiny
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    got a feeling salah will miss next gw
    salah -> mane or sterling and get him back after we here more news ?

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    1. LD
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      More news will probably come closer to the deadline so I’d wait until then before making a decision

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    2. Hotdogs for Tea
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Only for a hit 🙂

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    3. ClassiX
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      O% chance on Salah not playing (unless he get injured while traini.....er.....I mean....getting treatment at Liverpool)

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  16. New Post
    Fitzy.
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    NEW ARTICLE POSTED!

    https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2018/10/14/is-harry-kanes-fpl-value-damaged-by-his-tendency-to-drop-deep/

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  17. Lukaku91
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    is this really what you get from members articles??

    Bruno..?!?! are you guys serious?

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