We delve into the members data this evening after the Gameweek came to its conclusion last night. Stoke, Southampton and Watford’s forwards all come under analysis, whilst Sergio Aguero and Alexis Sanchez make a strong claim for immediate investment on the back of their weekend showings.
I have taken price drops on - Wally sterling fabregas Ritchie 🙁
-0.5? Ouch.
as a Walcott Sterling Coates Wilson Mings Adrian Hennessey owner.. I was worried about TV and used my WC 🙁
For me i cant justify having Gomis in my team, he is too much of a short term option, therefore im pondering between Benteke and Pelle.
A front line of Kun - Gomis - Ighalo, looks too weak for my liking.
I must be pushing the 40th-50th WC draft now?
McCarthy - Schmeichel
Shaw - Kolarov - Williams - Alderweireld - Taylor
Silva - Sanchez - Mahrez - Fab - Fletcher
Kun - Ighalo - Pelle
Someone tell me everything will be ok!!!
Whys he only short term? Best long term option for that price.
I can't see him keeping up this goalscoring form, flash in the pan, good start thats about it!
Disagree.
He finished last season very well too.
Is on pens and has a good supy line. His finishing isn't always the best but he'll get chances and will score goals imoAgree. Well summarized.
Cheers chap. It's easy to forget that he barely got on the pitch before Bony left. By then in think it took him a little time to get going but I don't think he's taken a backwards step since
i wildcarded gomis in and am questioning it.
Wildcard him in, ride the price wave and the pleasant fixture then consider long term tekkers
Fwiw, I sold Pelle for Gomis earlier this week.
Gomis: hot, team is hot, team is talented, fixtures decent, price rising
Pelle: Good, team floundering, fixtures very good.
I went aggressive (it is early) for the cheaper, hotter player on the team that is clearly playing better. Time will tell. Food for thought for you .... I made my move a few days ago.
Graveyard Shift GW2 Results:
Manager of the week: Blue Lion (56)
Flop of the week: Tott Starrs (25)
Match of the Week: Champ 54 - 52 Billy Gilmore
And the current league leader is... Zan Keroski!oh poor Billy
With 28 points, you can count me a flop too 😆
27 here.. get out 😀
Seriously? No wonder we're both dropping like stone lol
GW1 - 50
GW2 - 27
GW3 - WC 🙂GW1 - 31
GW2 - 28
GW3 - 85 😉
31st place with nil points B)
Cheers Innsie!
The next week will be a bit weird... there will be many wildcard teams going up against one another.the new template vs the old template
exciting times
You see an identical WC template team = draw!
I only just managed to miss the "flop of the week" award!
Yeah there were a few in the 20s 😛
Looking forward to our game now. Is that the same league?
'Tis indeed!
WC v WC. 😉 it will probably just be two or three different players deciding the game
Yeah it should be close!
Who is Three-peat is coming? My opponent this week.
Good team value he has but think i can nick this one 😀'QPR expects... Glory'... Check the league forum for FFS/team names.
roger that
Haven't seem my opponent for the upcoming week on here yet and also haven't seen Slamdog since the Sunday pivotal games in our matchup last week. I think he has some crow to eat.
Oh Desertbug,
it was well deserved mateCheers and good luck this coming week!
Managed to knock you off 😉
It's good to see I get a mention!
This topic was all over the place last week and I just wanted to add something to it.
They removed the place where you can see easily if an opponent is on his Wild Card and everybody had been saying that now you can only tell if they played it once the play has started.
Actually, you can tell, but you have to be watching closely. You have to know how much money ITB the opponent has at the end of the prior week. During the week they have their Wild Card active, you will see that their money ITB may change from day to day, but that it still shows them as having made zero transactions for the week. The Team Value can always go up or down with risers/fallers, but the ITB only changes with transactions. They blinded the part where it said Wild Card active, but they didn't blind/blank the changes in the ITB
Now you really have to be kind of obsessively monitoring the other teams in your ML in order to know this, but I just wanted to let people know that it is indeed possible, if you really want to know that info.i dont even know how much money ive got
Lol, I just know what everyone in the league I run is doing because I keep a spreadsheet on people's teams. It makes it easier when I'm writing up my weekly league wrap-ups
Never really understood why it might be valuable to know when someone is wildcarding but I've been around long enough to understand that some people are pretty obsessive about this kind of thing.
Haha! That is a very fair summary
People seem to bring up the desire to know when they are in a tight finish near the end of the season or when they are in H2H knockout tournaments for money. Trying to save theirs for as late in the tournament as possible.
In general I figure that if you focus on your own team, you'll do better than if you try to manage it with an eye to the others. The only time that comes into play in my mind is at the end of the season when you are trying to close out a ML victory
i guess to drop subtle nuggets of misinformation into your rival's consciousness 😀
There you go! There's some next-level gamesmanship!
' oh yeah, naismith seven goals in five games against bournemouth'
Wait! I gotta have me some of THAT!!!!!
😆
Ha, I'd love to think I have rivals who occupy themselves with these kind of tactics whilst I'm completely oblivious just focusing on my own team 🙂
Yeah, not sure that it adds much info for me, or that it has ever affected my decisions, but it sure did seem to be causing a bit of a fuss when people realized it was gone. I just wanted to let people know that if they REALLY care about such stuff, they just have to watch the ITB figure
Sure, not trying to detract from your point; I know some people are desperate to keep track of what their rivals are up to, I'm just not smart enough to make use of the info I guess 🙂
Oh, it's absolutely obsessional, but then again, to be honest, we are on a pretty obsessional website.
This website is built almost entirely upon disproportionate hunger for information, regardless of how useful it is 🙂 Witness the clamour for the team sheets at 2pm on a Saturday when you'd be forgiven for thinking every second counts but actually the decisions were made hours ago. What's the rush? Logic doesn't apply!
Word.
Secretly checks Greenwindmill's team value.
I already checked. It's in my top secret DeadZone SpreadSheet (all rights reserved). I'm watching you.....
🙂No need to sneak about - I activated my wildcard yesterday :). Had a hilariously bad start and then been completely out of the loop on GW2 goings on due to a last minute work trip to the US. Managed to check in for 5 minutes, saw the results and the fuss on the site and thought I should join in the WC bandwagon, still don't know if it was a good idea! I probably won't be back on an even keel until GW 5.
Oh man, this is like spying on someone and them waving back at you.
Haha, I'm terrible at espionage, it's like I'm too stupid to understand the game so I don't hide my secrets in the first place!
Like my seven year old when he was younger and used to sneak around the sofa and say "Don't watch me... I'm spying on you."
😀 my 3 year old daughter does similar things - "Look away, I'm going to sneak up on you" Perhaps it runs in the family 😉
Awesome!
Seems like there's a lot of that going on. I'm glad I'm not quite in that boat. Losing a bit of value on some defenders, but my front eight is in good shape, so I can take a bit of time to square things.
My players still seemed ok in theory but the practice is somewhat different, would be classic behaviour to find my new team out scored by my old team next week though!
Good luck!
Cheers, I'm traditionally a wildcard hoarder so I feel exposed having spent it. Best of luck to you - hope it serves you well later on 🙂
Thanks!
when you're on a wildcard just keep an ear open for some completely outlandish stats and such. maybe this is a thing that happens which i didn't just totally make up
I've tried telling the mrs to captain Wanyama but she won't have it!
😀
Oh him? Absolutely due for a blinder, and if you check this members only table that I compiled, you'll see that his record over his last ten trips to Watford is just delicious.
Hmmm. I am on a wildcard...
DELICIOUS!, I tell you...
(actually no clue)He's probably never been there. Lol
Armband.
*crosses fingers for clean sheet point*
lolol yup. wanyama has the attacking instincts of a rhinoceros on bath salts :p
Wait, I thought that was Rooney's new nickname.
A question for those of you on a wildcard this week:
Do you think you would have activated your wildcard this week if last season's wildcard rules were still in place (i.e. you could carry the first wildcard into the second half of the season)?
i probably wouldnt have done it early as i like to have it saved for dgw options
Thanks, same here.
Personally yes, the rules did not affect my decision.
Multiple price drops, an awful score, Sterling only man C involvement, Rooney being gash, Sanchez and Aguero being up to speed quickly, Chelsea looking sluggish, having a Sunderland defender, having Betaleb, Maherz looking like a 4th mid, Sothampton looking so so poor These many reasons were why i did it!this
A very good set of reasons to wildcard I think!
Indeed! See below if you have time mate
no.. old rules wouldn't have affected my decision..
There are moments when there are just too many problems and you have to use it.
exactly..
I would still have taken it methinks ... stinking team and needed to catch some risers. It's a regular strategy though, and I'm not upset I had to take it this week!
Yes, playing it in the early gameweeks was a popular strategy last year too - half of all the season-available wildcards played last year were activated in the first four weeks.
Ooh, good question.
My guess is that I would have kept the wildcard intact. I managed to keep my wc until the second half last year, although I can't say that I used it all that well. I've proved to myself that I can play the patient, disciplined game when needed.
Plus, the wc will be valuable with the chip gimmicks in the second half of the season.I think I would have kept to, the bonus for holding it into the second half of the season (if that were still an option) would have been enhanced by having the chips. Having got used to holding my wildcard for the second half of the season, I was not totally sure what to do with it in the first 19 weeks!
*kept too
It's hard to say, it would certainly be a factor I would weigh up
so i can shoe horn sanchez in with silva and kun... but it means downgrading Barkley to Obertan and Cedric to Yoshida
worth it?
Schmeichel - Fabianski
Darmian - Azpilicueta - Martin - Yoshida - Gomez
Mahrez - Sánchez - Silva - Obertan - Payet
Agüero - Gomis - SakhoI'd lose Azpi. Chelsea messed up. Get when they revert to form. Just one opinion though.
no chelsea cover... i just dont know if i can do that
Yeah. It is quite weird after last year, but judging by their form, and fixtures over the next 7 or so games, hard to justify. I've sold my 2, hazard (last gw for Alexis), and Ivan (for kolarov), take.
I would pick a more certain starter than Yoshida if you're going to do that.
like who? 4.5m
plus southampton rotate with norwich and ive got Martin
Assuming you're playing with 3 at the back, I'm guessing you're going to play Darmian and Azpi most weeks, which leaves you with one gap. I also guess you'll fill that gap with Gomez unless Liverpool has a stinking fixture for as long as he keeps his place. So do you need a pure rotation on the fourth and fifth defenders?
I like Francis, who may soon be 4.4m. I've transferred him out on my wildcard this week as a precaution against the possible price fall, but will probably bring him back in before the deadline. I can't recall how Bournemouth rotate with Norwich though, but what really matters is whether one or the other or both can cover when your principal defenders have really nasty fixtures.
QUICK POLL:
1. Hazard, Ashley Williams, Gomez, Richards; or
2. Silva, Azpilicueta, 5.5 def (Shaw/Mert/Bellerin), Ward; or
3. Fabregas/Ozil, Azpi, Kolarov, 5.5 def (Shaw/Mert/Bellerin)3 with Ozil and Bellerin
maybe 3. if you go with Ozil rather than fab
how nailed on is obertan? is he a better bet than westwood?
Will score more points in spurts since he is more attacking. I worry for his minutes as they are signing Thauvin Florin today.
Not very, that position is very uncertain in he Newcastle lineup. Also, despite his apparent attacking style his actual output is incredibly infrequent. I'd rather go for Westwood's security of starts and set piece assist threat.
5.5 midfielders worth investing in?
Kolarov, found, cresswell....just going from memory. Look at stats and fixtures.
mids mate..
Jayzus. Sorry! Two bourbons in, but "trust me, I'm knowledgeable" (yeah, right...).
What folks already said. Sorry if you missed mahrez train. I was lucky to draft. Redmond, Shelvey.
Found equals, dang autocorrect, NOT Fonte....soton out of sorts. Clyne (not sure how that came out as found). Skrtel another option. Ashley Williams amcheaper and equally viable option.
Disregard, natch.
redmond perhaps
Shelvey. Playing very well at the moment.
Another good one is Albrighton. You're welcome for the .5m break.cheers guys.. Mahrez owner from GW1.. having Westwood on bench looks odd.. planning to have a good alternative..
Help:
I'm addicted to team value
Good day,
sorry.. but a noob fantasy manager here.. just wondering.. if we Wildcarded.. will our Team Value revert to 100m?no
you will in your WC.. and from next GW you will get over the addiction..
WC DRAFT.... plz help guys..
Fab-rudd
cameron-shaw-francis-targett-huth
hazard-sanchez/ozil-westwood-montero/ayew/yyt-mahrez
Gomis/sakho-benteke-kun
Who do you bench?
Downgrade a mid or forward and upgrade a defender. The defense is awful imo.from mid, i am thinking of benchin westwood....
Any gud sugestion for defence?this. go back to the drawing board
made few changes to my team:
McCarthy-Butlan
Williams-darmian-francis-huth-richards
haz-ozil-yyt-mahrez-westwood
Benteke-gomis-kun
Bit of WC feedback appreciated
Gk 4.5/ 4.0
Darmian/ Williams/ Richards/ Tagett/ Gomiz
Hazard/ Yaya/ Sanchez/ Maherz/ Westwood
Gomis/ Aguero/ Sakho
0.2 ITB
A- GKs. was on Ruddy and Rudd. Currently Ruddy and Mccarthy. Any better?
B- Darmian or Kolrov? Currently Darmian due to certainty of starts
C The big one. Stick with Haz or downgrade him and then Silva over yaya, upgrade Gomis.
D- Any other
Really appreciate it.Darmian over Kolarov.
Get Sanchez and upgrade a keeper/defender. Gomis is the best striker next to Aguero currently.Thanks
Careful with Darmian. You'd be climbing on a train that has well left the station and may come down sooner than you'd like, forcing another move. I'd try and get the next train. Kolarov is defo earlier than Darmian as of right now.
Ruddy Rudd. I have both
Darmian although I just bought Kolarov
no, stick.Thanks. Think Ruddy and Rudd was selected initially by me for a good reason, will prob revert.
Cheers matenp mate
I have similar nice team. Schmeichel/Butland is good.
Thanks
Is haz worth the 11.5m when will u captain him over Sanchez n ageuro
This is the question!
I still firmly believe that Haz will be in the top 5 scoring points players but if i dont C him is he worth it cash wise? Think im taking the safety blanket route by keeping him. Cheers for input
A. Nothing to add
B. Darmian
C. I like what you have, although you will face a dilemma if a more expensive forward option like Benteke or Kane starts firing.
D. I'm not sure about Targett in there. Isn't Bertrand due back soon?Cheers mate.
I guess Sanchez to Ozil and Gomis upgrade would be route to higher price forward if one was on fire. Would be happy to go Sakho to Deeny later if funds really needed later.
Targett. Think i may get a few weeks out of him. Well hope! If team value gets up a bit he would be where i spent some making him a 4.5
Thanks for inputHaving said Darmian, I should add that Kolarov would be a flair pick. 🙂
It would but im dull, Darmian at home to NEW and no other Man U making me lean that way.
I have the exact mid and forward!!
I dont know for you if that is a good or bad thing!!!!!
Good luck with itMcCarthy-Butlan
Williams-darmian-francis-huth-richards
haz-ozil-yyt-mahrez-westwood
Benteke-gomis-kun
or
fab-mccarthy
Williams-Darmian-francis-huth-richards
haz-sanchez-yyt-mahrez-westwood
gomis-kun-sakho
plz help...
Hello DZ. One question for tonight after Memphis' display.
Hazard and Mahrez
Or
Yaya and Memphis?Y & D are good differentials..
Silva & Mahrez for me..*good differentials in those 4 players
Oh thats a close one for me.
The big boy balls out move is the yaya one. I would be afraid and go HazA.
I never look at UCL form.
Last year Welbeck scored in UCL and trolled the fantasy players.same with Lukaku scoring in EL last season..
Brugge had injuries and the goals he scored looked like amateur hour from the defenders. Not taking anything away from the strikes but UCL is a diff kettle of fish
Yaya, and someone else? Not sure if Bruges a valid referent.
Williams or Azpi? Next few GW.
Williams for me, can you make good use of the spare cash?
Not immediately. Diouf or Wilson I guess.
Can you push to 6.1? Kompany looks good. Unless you have already!
Kolarov ideally.
If i had the cash i would personally go Komp over Kolorov. Couldnt deal with the worry of rotation over a 5.5 defender. Kolorov more explosive for sure!
Always go for form. i can assure you when Kolorov is replaced, it is when MCI's defence has gone jittery. I would not want 6.x Kompany then either.
Fair enough, i prob play too cautious. Good luck with it
I can see the appeal of a SWA defender with their cs record last year and form so far this year. Fixtures ain't as easy after this GW though. Would choose him over Azpi though
Willy
Williams. Baps machine on a solid and hot team.
is Courtois/McCarthy getting more pts for the season than 2 - 4.5m GK?
Probably not.
Historically, there is very little correlation between keepers' price an their points scored. Especially with save points (keepers on bad teams tend to get more) and the enhanced bonus for saves this year, the expensive keepers may not be worth it.
@ innsie
Surely Adrian being banned will have negative effect on whom cs chances
I prefer swans as better defense unit
Whom not as tight as they use to be under Sam
Morning all, Firmino or Barkley in a draft league?
Bark - more nailed on imo
Cheers Nabil. I was thinking the same thing but Everton being Everton and also Firmino probably coming into first team action, I'm not so sure. I was actually offered Barkley for Firmino, so I think there's a trap there. 😆
NEW signing Florian Thauvin. Any Ligue 1 followers know anything about him?
unconsistent
Does anyone else find it very strange no PL team has picked up Ron Vlaar on a Free transfer yet?
I believe he had surgery and will be out until Xmas, or thereabouts.
Oh I see, would have been very strange if he was available
who do you think will get more pts for the season??
A. Courtois / McCarthy
B. Butland / RuddyI don't know for the season, but I would go B out of those if I had the option.
This^
Is it fair to say that Depay is more suited for Cl than Pl
Small sample size. No conclusions possible as of yet.
True....anyhow it was against Club Brugge
I don't think it's fair to say anything yet.
the new sebastian veron
that's ADM
Good evening everyone. What are everyone's thoughts on Shaqiri?
I am tempted to bring him in.I have him. Considering how the new imports(Ayew and Payet) are performing , I am taking a punt after 2 weeks of misery
I love him. Looking at a way to bring him in ASAP.
Walsh,
I think he heard about the magnitude of your love for him and I heard he was trying to get a restraining order.I'll still find him 🙂
I'd wait. A lot of good options already starting to prove themselves at that price point. Cabaye, ayew, payet....
Sanchez and Kone or Barkley and Lukaku?
I would go the latter just because I don't see Kone being nailed on.
Former by some margin!
Also two Everton options when from memory they have a very difficult set of upcoming fixtures
That's what I figured. I was going to play a 3-5-2 and bench Kone until the fixtures get better and re-evaluate. Thanks all.
I think I am going to WC. Totally independent of price changes.
Form players at every position are getting too hard to ignore...
Darmain/Shaw, Kolarov, Williams
Payet Silva/YYT Sanchez Mahrez
Aguero Gomis etc...Is my exact team
Someone please talk me out of it!
I'm not your guy!
My exact team as well. Silva over YYT. Aguero is back and YYT struggles with him on the field. Silva thrives with Aguero on the field. Darmian over Shaw. Looks like he'll get more bonus points.
Roll the dice. Are you getting killed in your league? I sure as hell am!
Won every H2H but my team has zero goals to date. 🙂
Seriously though I rarely see as many as 8 players who I think will upgrade my team. Now may be the time to pull the trigger.
If it's not for price changes, it's not worth doing it. Form is temporary. After couple of GWs, you'll want to WC again to bring in new form players.
But the core is almost formed. A hit or two each week will carry me to December.
If this game is about forming the template team then I'd probably won't play it and won't break top 10k.
francis going to drop this week? think i'll put him in if he does.
Me 2 (for Coates)
All the wildcards flying about make it difficult to tell his true position. He was predicted to fall tonight, but he didn't.
i'll put a placeholder in see tomorrow.
Possibly before Friday but don't know when
Drops are harder to predict especially around wc silly season
Say there is 8 people set to rise, 3-4 might rise so it seems it's similar pattern for the drops but a bigger scale
So is playing a low cost keeper a good strategy or is it necessary to have a keeper that play for one of the top teams. Im thinking about going with guzan. Thoughts?
get two cheap ones that rotate home/away or good fixtures. theres lots of articles in the members section
Hey I appreciate it!
For me, no. Keep them cheap and it's been a while since I've had 2 working keepers. I just use one 4.5 keeper all season usually.
Reason being is I'd rather have the top defenders than keeper, and usually if the better teams concede, the keeper has less saves in general... The cheaper keepers may concede but the baps and saves could still be good. Along with the odd cs thrown in that may not have been expected, thus resulting in more baps
Just my 2c
Sometimes it's ok to start off with a big gun keeper then swap to a cheapie
How is this for a wc draft?? plz help guys
McCarthy-Butland
Williams-darmian-francis-huth-richards
haz-ozil/san-yyt-mahrez-westwood
Benteke/sakhi-gomis-kunGood. Sanchez over Ozil. Silva over YYT. Sakho over Benteke. Can you afford?
hmm.. thanks for the feedback..
its either ozil to sanchez
or yyt to silva..
Any thoughts on Kane ? I want to bring him in but not sure yet. Currently have Aguero, Benteke, Gomis up front. Not feeling Benteke right now plus Kane has good fixtures coming up.
Great differential. May have a run like last year hopefully.
Butland or Ruddy to start?
Feel like Stoke is more solid defensively.
Anyone leaving chelsea completely out of their defense?
Yes. Don't look good at the moment and still not the best fixtures ahead.
