Scoutcast Episode 367 – Double Gameweek attention turns to Leeds and Saints

Pope, McCarthy
Cancelo, Stones, Mee, Dallas, Rudiger
Salah, Bruno, Grealish, Sterling, Raphinha
Adams, Watkins, Bamford

Use wildcard?

Or

Save and use 30/31?

Grealish has blanked 4 times in the last 9 weeks... here’s the teams he blanked against:

Chelsea
City
Arsenal
Brighton

4 teams with some of the best defensive stats in the league...

Good fixture run for Villa is coming so expect him to start firing again and punish sellers

Like look of this team on WC

Bb26 (also have FH for 29)

Martinez McCarthy

Dallas AWB Stones Cancelo Lowton

Rafinha Salah Bruno Gundogan Maddison

Kane Ings Bamford

IS THIS GOOD ENOUGH? YOU DECIDE!

What should I do here :

Martinez
Stones Shaw Dallas Pieters
Bruno Sterling Son Grealish Gundogan
Bamford

Steer DCL Richarlison Dunne

0.9itb 1ft got WC BB and TC left
Any ideas what to do next couple of weeks?

Lots of focus on which 3 Leeds players to get as it everyone has the FTs, the relevant strategy or assuming they are worth hits? I love the depth of the Leeds insight, but the Scoutcast was lacking a bit of oversight imo.

Personally not planning to own any Leeds this week, which may of course hurt in the very short term (one gameweek). Although, I could also get more points, both this week and in subsequent weeks, from buying Kane instead of Bamford, for example. Likewise, by investing in defenders from teams who are liekly to have higher chance of clean sheets across the next 4 or 5. Spending a FT on Dallas now might mean taking a hit, or missing out on another player, down the line. Etc, etc...

I appreciate it's not possible to cover everything, especially with such variation in chip strategies, but as a general rule, I'd find more value of comparing players to players without restricting the analyses almost entirely to [within team X], since I try to avoid biases from coverage-thinking and would like to contextualise the stats and opinions. On the other hand, perhaps other people find analyses in a bubble to be useful. I just think there are interesting and important questions to be asked, while 'which players from Leeds should I be owning?', isn't the most helpful unless you have WCs every week, and even then, isn't so high on the list, for me.

Still, the Scoutcast is useful for getting access to some of the stats and keeping up to date, so I did listen to the whole thing, and appreciate the effort. Cheers (no one will read this anyway 😀 )

Who to start?

A. Mee
B. Struijk

Any other nervous Sterling owners out there?

I’m confident he starts, but what I’d give for a double digit game...

Chances of Sterling starting tonight?

Werner, Alonso, Rudiger to be all the rage then?

They have serious fixtures from GW30 - might be no harm in dabbling earlier, particularly if you have a FH still in hand to deal w/BGW29

Wildcard this?

Martinez Forster
Stones Dias Tarkowski Digne Coufal
Salah Son Bruno Gundo! Grealish
Antonio! DCL! Wilson!

Got all chips in hand, 1 FT, several injuries and no Leeds or Southampton assets.

Thoughts?

Between now and GW29, would you rather have

A. Ings (CHE, lee, eve, tot, shu, mci, BHA) for a -8

B. Bamford (wol, SOU, AVL, whu, CHE)

It's going to be a front 3 of Torres, Mahrez and Jesus tonight, isn't it?

which option better folks?
1. DCL to Kane and one of the following:
A. Mitchel to Dallas. and play Dallas + Matheus Pereira
or
B. Matheus Pereira to Raphinha. and play Dias + Raphinha

2. Mitchel + Pereira to Dallas + Raphinha.
play both and transfer in Kane next week.
but will only have 10 DGW players plus one single gw to play (either Creswell, Bamford, Raphinha, or Dallas).

Is Soyuncu good pick? Does he have a goal threat?

After highs of the weekend it's really fizzled out thanks to Antonio, Mee & Gundo injuries

Which combo scores more between gw25 and gw26?

a) Targett and Struijk
b) Dallas (gw25)/ Targett (gw26) and Mitchell -4

For those considering Brighton defenders on a wildcard, remember that Lamptey is an outside option despite his red flag. He could return from injury this weekend and is 0.3m cheaper than Dunk. Only thing putting me off a punt is that I'm bench boosting 26 and wasting the FT on getting rid of him again would be annoying if Veltman holds the rwb place.

Man City fixtures:
We'd 24th Feb 8pm Borussia Monchengladbach
Sat 27th Feb 12.30pm West Ham(1st game DGW26)
Tues/wed 2nd/3rd march (2nd game DGW26)
Sat 6th March 3pm Manchester United.

That's 4 games in 11 days (with probably the two most important games not the DGW fixtures).I'm just trying to point out how impossible it's going to be to find Man City players playing 60 mins twice in DGW26.

What should I do here :

Martinez
Stones Shaw Dallas Pieters
Bruno Sterling Son Grealish Gundogan
Bamford

Steer DCL Richarlison Dunne

0.9itb 1ft got WC BB and TC left
Any ideas what to do next couple of weeks?
Can someone help please

Pope
Shaw Mee Alioski
Raphinha(c) Bruno Salah Gundo Sterling
Bamford(vc) Cavani

Johnstone Antonio Cancelo Coufal

1 ft., 0.9m itb.
What to do?
What's chip and transfer strategy is the best for my team (for blank 29gw, DWG 26, ...)?

Everton have a good double and chance of many other doubles, annoying that their defence is ever changing!

Any ideas on the best back 4?

I know I need to wait the announcement of the DGW 26 to decide this.. but which one is the better combo from DGW25 onwards:

A) Salah Kane Grealish
B) Salah Son Ings
C) Kane Son Grealish

This feels like little children waiting for

Is it worth using my 1FT to get Raphina in for Soucek if I am just going to remove him GW26. Should I do it or save FT and have 2FT next week?

Current team:

Martinez Forster
Stones Dias Tarkowski Digne Coufal
Salah Son Bruno Gundo! Grealish
Antonio! DCL! Wilson!

Got all chips in hand, 1 FT, several injuries and no Leeds or Southampton assets.

Which strategy is best?

A. Wildcard now, exploit lee and sou and bb/tc in 26
B. Bamford and Dallas for Coufal and Wilson -4 and TC in 26 (already have 10-11 dgw'ers in 26)
C. Something else

A - Ings + Grealish

or

B - Son + Watkins

for long term

Apparently gundo not even with the squad for tonight - souce @fplguy.

Contemplating one of these two moves for a -4, I already own Bamford and Dallas
Grealish > Raphinha
Lowton > Ayling
Thoughts?

Pope, Johnstone
Cancelo, Stones, Coufal, Digne, Lowton
Salah, Bruno, Son, Soucek, Raphinha
Richarlison, Bamford, Antonio

1FT £0.9m ITB
What to do with this team?