| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Raya Martin | ARS | B |
| Up |  Sanchez | CHE | B, Vs |
| No Change |  Pickford | EVE | A |
| No Change |  Roefs | SUN | C |
| No Change |  Henderson | CRY | C, Vs |
| No Change |  Verbruggen | BHA | C, Vs |
| No Change |  Dubravka | BUR | C, £ |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Gabriel Magalhães | ARS | A |
| No Change |  Chalobah | CHE | B, Vs |
| No Change |  Mukiele | SUN | A, £ |
| No Change |  Lacroix | CRY | C, Vs |
| No Change |  Tarkowski | EVE | A |
| No Change |  Cash | AVL | B, Vs |
| No Change |  van Hecke | BHA | B, Vs |
| No Change |  Senesi | BOU | C |
| No Change |  van Dijk | LIV | B |
| No Change |  Andersen | FUL | C |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up |  Bruno Fernandes | MUN | A |
| Down |  Saka | ARS | B |
| No Change |  Fernández | CHE | A, Vs |
| No Change |  Rogers | AVL | C, Vs |
| No Change |  Semenyo | MCI | B |
| No Change |  Bruno Guimarães | NEW | A, Inj |
| No Change |  Wirtz | LIV | A |
| No Change |  Wilson | FUL | B |
| Up |  Ndiaye | EVE | C |
| No Change |  Anderson | NFO | B, £ |
| Down |  Mitoma | BHA | B, Vs |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Haaland | MCI | C |
| No Change |  Watkins | AVL | B, Vs |
| No Change |  Thiago | BRE | A |
| Down |  Ekitiké | LIV | C |
| No Change |  Calvert-Lewin | LEE | B, VsX |
| No Change |  Bowen | WHU | C |
Mark A superb response from Arsenal in the North London derby saw Robin Van Persie once again feature amongst our top ten ICT Index performers in the Gameweek. He still trailed City pair Mario Balotelli and Aleksandar Kolarov, however, with West Brom’s James Morrison also enjoying another superb Gameweek tally.
Here’s our post-Gameweek breakdown of the key player stats, together with our view on destination of the Fantasy Premier League bonus points.
Can anyone boast a WORSE combo of keepers and defenders from their January WC. I really want to wait until i can list the entire nightmare in detail, i cannot access the FPL site, but just as a sneak preview...
GK:
Lindegaard- injured a week after i brought him in and im not sure if i even ever played him.
Sorensen- no CS with him, dropped today and stoke get a CS, guess that means he stays dropped.
DEF:
Richards: No CS with him-i think, missed CS when he didnt start, hasnt started two straight.
Vermaelen: No CS (expected), no attacking points, now hes injured.
Huth: No CS, Red Card, 3 match ban, no attacking points, had to transfer out and brought in....
Evans: No CS, nice Yellow Card yesterday
Senderos: No CS, injured, on bench this weekend, Fulham CS, may mean he's not a starter now.
Santon: My best defender, 1 CS, on bench.
If you add up all the points from the 3 defenders and 1 keeper ive started every week since the wc, ive averaged about 1 point per player for 4 positions every single week. Had i just picked 2 random keepers and 5 random defenders, allowing to fit the same budget and knowing they were healthy and normal starters at the time i played the WC, it is almost IMPOSSIBLE to have done worse.
Throw in the D Cisse red card, and picking the wrong captain all but one of the gws since the WC, and i, Fuzzy Warbles, have managed to shit the bed in a fashion never thought possible.
This IS rock bottom. Time to dig deep and come up with a plan.
Well, the only thing I can say is that it's always darkest before dawn.
30 Days of Night at Shakhtar Donetsk. ðŸ™
No but I used my 2 transfers before the Spurs DGW on Assou Ekotto in, Assou Ekotto out (for Walker).
Thought I'd bring in Benoit for the double, then the football fan inside me changed my mind as I hate Benoit.
Does that top it?
im afraid not.
What about taking Rooney out for a 4pt hit before he got 2 double figure game weeks?
I'm trying here.
only if you brought in a striker who got a red card in his first game.
02 Feb 6:59 Helguson Cisse 24
29 Jan 14:04 Rooney Dzeko 23
22 Jan 4:27 Torres Helguson 23
Helguson didn't play of course, he got injured in a game later that week (I made my transfers early). Rooney was the 4pt hit that week, and I brought in Cisse the week after for Helguson
So I guess in a way, I did take a 4 point hit to bring in Cisse.
i appreciate the effort, i dont want to give the impression that i think im the only one who gets smacked with a disaster. But i managed to destroy an entire team.
btw pre WC, i had kelly instead of senderos, and kompany instead of richards. OOPS.
Continuation...
I have to say I'm sick of Assou Ekottos performances. He's popped up for 2 goals and everyone thinks hes God or something. Defensively he is all over the place and far too careless. As I see it, if he didn't make that stupid clearance to Robin's feet at 2-1 for the equaliser the game could have gone differently, with a half-time lead.
In saying that, I've always disliked him. Harry seems to love him so there's no point arguing, but I'd like to see Danny Rose grab a start at LB.
It's maybe no consolation, but I just lost my lead to my rival, despite him having Vorm, BAE, Evans and Richards, with *all* his subs benched for the entire 90.
How? He brought in Liuz, of all people... and gave him the armband! WTF?!
My season just ain't as liberally sprinkled with magic pixie dust as that, m'afraid ðŸ™
¨WTF¨ is right sir, our condolences.
Bah, minor problems compared to my misery!
GK
Krul - 5 shipped past him last weekend for 0 pts, 1 pt this weekend having come on as an auto-sub for...
Sorenson - whose story you know well!
Defence
Clark - injured and out for a month
Taiwo - off injured this weekend and likely out for a while
Evans - you know this one too
Senderos - you know his this goes too
Santon - See Krul for details
Throw in Valencia being injured midweek in ECL then compound that misery with Rooney who gets the arm band and promptly doesn't play.
Well as a Tottenham fan and a fantasy manager I have to say I have had an abysmal weekend.
1 Bonus point to Aguero will significantly ease the pain - I've dropped off 1st in my ML, trailing by 1 point before BAPS, hes got no one but Silva who could get any on me.
Equal first would be far nicer
Try being in the top 9k after GW17, then 9 straight red arrows in a row which now sees me outside the top 100k.
I too have Micah Richards staring back at me, along with Taiwo, Cisse and his red card losing value every damn day now, it seems.
Had Gerrard too for Wolves game, naturally he gets rested. Gambled on Vdv instead of Bale on wildcard, and 1 point and 20 mins later off he hobbled only for Bale to score twice. I believe that was the same week I benched McClean and his 11 points too.
Get Bale back, along comes Saha and bye bye Bale points.
Got Ba in for Dzeko this week and gave him armband. Should have guessed at that point that Ba would do nothing and Dzeko would come off the bench late on and score.
Final act of the weekend? Last minute change of first sub from Kelly to Rangel. The one defender who outscored the rest of my defence combined stays on bench.
And on top of that, any suggested transfers for me?
Team is linked.
Considering Miyaichi/James Morrison in for McClean.
Or should I hold the transfer?
Both of them obviously have poor fixtures this coming week.
Considering a keeper transfer, a keeper who will play in GW29 and rotate with Mignolet. Any ideas?
Lads,
Care to indulge in some BP speculation?
What's your take in the Man City VS Blackburn game BP allocation?
Silva 3, Aguero 2, Super Mario 1?
Kolarov 3 Balotelli 2 Aguero/Silva 1
anyone have an insight as to why vorm didn't play today? thx!
Krul|Mignolet
Simpson|Evans|Kompany|Caulker|BAE
Silva|Bale|Siggy|Demps|Sess
RVP|Ba|Graham
in bank: 3.5m
-starting to doubt having Siggy in my mids. any thoughts are appreciated.
Stick with Siggy, if all else fails he atleast plays in GW29
my team okay for gw27? have 1 ft.
save transfer
Nothing really jumps out at me as urgent. I'd start Kompany Caulker Simpson in your defence this week.
Not sure whether doubling up on Swansea away from home is a wise idea. They've scored something like just 10 goals away this season... but hey it's against Wigan anything can happen.
I'd begin plans for GW29 - working on the basis that Chelsea progress, you've got BAE, Kompany, Bale, Silva, RVP and Sess all out.
Depending on what value you got them at, I'd rate RVP and Bale as indispensable, as well as potentially Silva and Komps. I'd sort something out with the others.
Despite what I just said, it wouldn't be such a bad idea to have only 10 people or so play that week, else it'll be a fuss cramming players from Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, City and Liverpool back into the team after. Maybe ditch BAE and Sess in the coming weeks.
In saying this, don't jump into any transfers now. Wait till further news on GW29 fixtures if you can.
I wouldn't jump into anything before more information is available.
Krul (Mignolet)
Kompany, Kolarov,
Dempsey, Bale, Siggy
Aguero, Ba, RVP
anyone can help me pick 2 for start gw27 from Kelly, Raylor, Sess, Caulker, Valencia?
0.1 in the bank and 1 FT
save transfer is good choice?
Taking my usual guess as to who will get a Surprise BAPS from nowhere:
Rosicky- 3
Jarvis-3
not really a surprise for them to get baps imo.
Can't seem to catch a break at the moment. Richards fail, Newcastle WC defense fail, Rooney over Aguero fail, Famous 5 fail, Ba fail (having not had him pre WC). It will be even worse if Linde doesn't regain his place. I take it many on here are in the same boat.
Hey guys, in order to play Syggi vs Wigan this weekend i need to drop one of the following:
Sessegnon, Mata, Bale, Silva, Ba, Aguero, RVP.
Which one?!
I was thinking Mata given his awful away form, but just wanted people's opinions.
Thanks 🙂
Sess. Mata might not have a good track record away but he's involved in everything Chelsea do. Wouldn't risk him on the bench if I had him. Sunderland on the other hand are playing away and against a normally resolute home defence.
resolute home defence????
Wolves scored 2 past them..
Must I reiterate that I used the word 'normally'. They've kept 7-8 clean sheets this term. There is generally a reason as to why you will find a Newcastle defender in every fantasy team, YOURS included. If you would like me to spell it out, it is because they offer budget players into a solid back line. If you don't think they are a resolute defence why are you playing one of their defenders?
In addition to this, Wolves are playing under a new manager and as we seem time and time again teams under new managers initially perform well. They strive to earn their starting role and prove their place in the team.
Finally, to conclude, and to be a dick, 'Wolves scored 2 past them' is grammatically incorrect.
Any idea why my EA Sports online pass wouldn't work? I just bought Fifa 12 & it says "The code is no longer valid or does not exist" 😕
I'm going to ask the obvious question in saying, are you using the code which is on the back of the FIFA Street advert?
Yup. So?
Help bro 🙂
Your psn account is of a different country and the game you bought is of a different country so you'll need to make a new account of the country in which you bought the game in and then redeem the online pass after which you can switch back to your old account, minor but an inconvenience.
Well I did try that. Created a new PSN account in UK and changed my region in my EA account to UK as well. That should work right? But it doesn't ðŸ™
Or should I create a new EA account altogether?
Wait, you bought you Fifa 12 from UK? Or singapore?
Yeah but they told me to change everything to UK since its Code 2 or something at the back of the CD. Jeez why does it have to be so complex!
who will score more pts in next xupple of GWs?
silva or mata?
i got mata at this moment but plan to trasnfer him out and get silva as city atacking coverage since i will trasnsfer aguero for Rooney later on
4 point home advantage, what a stupid rule 🙄
Rule of thumb: always capt sir robin van persie. "never let me down again"
Richards>Kolarov.
Kenny>Schwazer.
All ok??
Thnx 🙂
Kolarov is still a rotation risk?
Charlie Adam's penalty finally landed http://i41.tinypic.com/2wrmdcl.gif
omg chances of me progessing into cup
Iam on 47 hes on 49
My team
Sorensen
Santon Evans Cahill
Silva Bale Walters Dempsey
Ba Aguero(C) RVP
His team
Hart
Simpson BAE Lescott
McClean Silva(C) Sess Bale
RVP Graham Ba
if its a tie then who would win
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enr how long til you can change your grav? or have you become fond of it and decided to keep it?
You mean this one? It was a bet with Fuzzy (which I lost obviously) which states this grav to stay until the 24th when Chelsea give Spurs another thrashing. I should stop taking up bets. 😕
yupp i mean that one. what was the initial bet? ohh wow so another month still, didn't think you'd be punished for quite that long. haha yeahh probably :P. what happens if he loses?
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Are you sure you want to lose 6-0? 😉 how about a match right now?
Bring it on! Can you add me? I'm confused how this works.
We'll have to add each other as friends on psn first, send me a friend request, my user id is uditvidhan.
Argh another average week. Can't get a captain choice right for toffee at the moment!
I have this nagging feeling I must have something terribly wrong with my team. Ordinary scores of late are testament to that. However when I look at my team I think it looks pretty good 'on paper'.
RMT
Krul (Linde)
Richards, Rangel, Kelly, (Santon, Evans)
Silva, Bale, Dempsey, Sess, (Surman)
RVP, Rooney, Ba
yeah i'd concur it looks pretty good. last two gw's have been a bit unexpected and unlucky for most though. i'd bring in mig for linde if i were you.
Similar team, similar problem. Sit tight I think ...
I have the same front 8. Not a good week for me.. 43 points 🙠However I think I will stay calm and save my transfer.
Who to captain next week?
Yeah I will save mine too. I am thinking of backing Dempsey at home to wolves. Just got a feeling, and I'm not a fan of captaining someone playing away
Might be a good shout. I've been getting blanks 3 times in row from my captains.. Ba this time.
Morning folks, turns out RVP (c) would have been the best bet after all but Ba vs. Wolves was far too tempting! You live and learn.
I'm seriously considering moving Sess this week for someone like Morrison, Taraabt or Siggy. They all look good on paper but I Taraabt and Morrison's future potential could be damaged by the returning Brunt and Cisse.
Thoughts?
Saturday morning I asked, which one
a) lindy => schwarzer
b) lindy => krul
Why didn't you aswer me, I chose Krul even when I tought that Schwarzer fix for next is better and I'm happy to play sorensen in gw26.
I really could have been lucky bastard there when sorensen didn't play.
No luck for me this season ðŸ™
Can't top Fuzzy, but I've really messed up with my two wc's this season! Actually bad luck messed them tbh, injuries and red card's you know.
Can't wait this season to be over.
Monday morning misery.
Simpson assist added???
Yup
Silva may get some.
Caulker Evans Enrique Simpson Kelly...
First thoughts have me benching Evans and Enrique 😕
Now if this seasons track record is anything to go by, I'm apparently wrong...
Feels so wrong to be benching my two most expensive defenders too...
What say you please...?
Gentlemen,
I don't wish to be a show-off, but check out who's top of the After Xmas League!!! 😀
It won't last, I'm sure, but hopefully I'll still be top after the BP's are put on.
You also lead the Millionaire Club. You took a hit in GW18 when the league started so it wasn't included in the score so you could say you are 2nd. 😉
Enter the FPL Open & Elite 63. With the improvement you are making, qualifying for both will be easy.
Am I right in saying that whenever anyone scores outside the top 1 million, then they're ejected from the competition? And you're hoping that in the final GW there is just 1 left, otherwise the winner is the one with the highest score? But the problem there is that no-one will know who the winner is, surely? And they'll just be top of a league of one person.
I'm owed a bad GW anyway, so don't imagine I'll be in long!
I assume this is all your hard work though - so well done on it - nice little website and ideas.
http://torresmagic.webs.com/millionaireclub.htm
That explains penalties for hits also. Last season 18 people survived the season from memory but this season has been more random so the chances of that are alot harder. At the moment only 9 would survive out of the 19 left before baps.
