The Big Numbers- Gameweek Twenty Eight

FPL GW23 Scout Picks - Final Selection

Sanchez

Gabriel Magalhães
Marc Guehi
Collins

Wilson
Saka
Wirtz
Fernández
Semenyo

Haaland
Thiago

Darlow
Alderete
van de Ven
Kroupi

GW24 Captain Poll

Price Change Predictions

Risers

Fallers

Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
B.Fernandes	MUN	9.4m	110.3%	Very Likely
Szoboszlai	LIV	6.6m	98.1%	Likely
Chalobah	CHE	5.6m	89.6%	Likely
Gabriel	ARS	6.9m	88.9%	Maybe
Mané	WOL	4.5m	89.6%	Unlikely
Brobbey	SUN	5.5m	89.0%	Unlikely
E.Le Fée	SUN	4.9m	91.0%	Unlikely
Rice	ARS	7.4m	81.6%	Unlikely
Garner	EVE	5.2m	83.9%	Unlikely
Wilson	FUL	6.0m	74.9%	Unlikely
Evanilson	BOU	7.0m	72.2%	Unlikely
Kroupi.Jr	BOU	4.6m	73.0%	Unlikely
Ødegaard	ARS	7.8m	75.5%	Unlikely
Pickford	EVE	5.6m	70.2%	Unlikely
J.Timber	ARS	6.3m	70.2%	Unlikely
Mbeumo	MUN	8.3m	52.7%	Unlikely
Aaronson	LEE	5.4m	61.2%	Unlikely
Collins	BRE	5.0m	60.8%	Unlikely
Hall	NEW	5.3m	58.8%	Unlikely
João Pedro	CHE	7.2m	41.4%	Unlikely
Thiaw	NEW	5.1m	50.2%	Unlikely
Barry	EVE	5.7m	45.3%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	47.1%	Unlikely
A.Becker	LIV	5.4m	47.2%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	45.5%	Unlikely
Barnes	NEW	6.1m	43.9%	Unlikely
Martinez	MUN	4.8m	42.9%	Unlikely
Estêvão	CHE	6.4m	37.9%	Unlikely
Cash	AVL	4.8m	39.2%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	40.3%	Unlikely
Enzo	CHE	6.7m	31.0%	Unlikely
Tielemans	AVL	5.9m	40.7%	Unlikely
Alderete	SUN	4.1m	38.9%	Unlikely
Wissa	NEW	7.3m	39.0%	Unlikely
Nallo	LIV	3.7m	37.7%	Unlikely
Romero	TOT	5.0m	35.6%	Unlikely
Kayode	BRE	4.5m	36.3%	Unlikely
Igor Jesus	NFO	5.8m	34.9%	Unlikely
Mykolenko	EVE	4.9m	35.2%	Unlikely
Mukiele	SUN	4.5m	28.8%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Brierley	BUR	4.5m	64.8%	Likely
Foden	MCI	8.5m	102.7%	Very Likely
Saka	ARS	10.1m	101.8%	Very Likely
O'Reilly	MCI	5.1m	97.6%	Likely
Richarlison	TOT	6.4m	101.2%	Very Likely
Haaland	MCI	15.1m	93.3%	Likely
Rúben	MCI	5.6m	99.2%	Likely
Arthur	BRE	3.9m	95.3%	Maybe
Reijnders	MCI	5.2m	93.4%	Maybe
Alleyne	MCI	4.4m	86.4%	Unlikely
Ward-Prowse	WHU	5.6m	93.6%	Unlikely
Anthony	BUR	5.1m	93.4%	Unlikely
Fletcher	MUN	4.5m	82.3%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	5.0m	92.8%	Unlikely
G.Rodriguez	WHU	4.8m	94.9%	Unlikely
Kamara	AVL	4.9m	93.5%	Unlikely
Gomez	BHA	4.9m	93.4%	Unlikely
Phillips	MCI	4.8m	94.3%	Unlikely
Stach	LEE	4.9m	92.7%	Unlikely
Okafor	LEE	5.5m	92.1%	Unlikely
Mount	MUN	5.9m	91.9%	Unlikely
Donnarumma	MCI	5.7m	90.3%	Unlikely
Eze	ARS	7.3m	88.5%	Unlikely
Kovačić	MCI	5.9m	88.4%	Unlikely
Minteh	BHA	5.8m	85.7%	Unlikely
Møller Wolfe	WOL	4.3m	87.7%	Unlikely
Meslier	LEE	4.2m	86.3%	Unlikely
Roberts	BUR	4.4m	86.0%	Unlikely
Nichols	ARS	3.8m	84.5%	Unlikely
Mamardashvili	LIV	4.2m	83.8%	Unlikely
Poveda	SUN	4.8m	84.4%	Unlikely
Benitez	CRY	4.0m	83.2%	Unlikely
Neil	SUN	4.8m	79.7%	Unlikely
Wood	NFO	7.2m	79.2%	Unlikely
Casemiro	MUN	5.5m	80.2%	Unlikely
Ebere	EVE	4.4m	73.5%	Unlikely
Bajcetic	LIV	4.3m	77.1%	Unlikely
Burrowes	AVL	4.4m	75.8%	Unlikely
Grealish	EVE	6.4m	72.1%	Unlikely
D.Leon	MUN	4.2m	74.4%	Unlikely

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FPL Fixture Ticker

Watchlists

	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, £

Last updated: 24 Jan, 2026 12:46am

	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

Last updated: 24 Jan, 2026 1:04am

	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

Last updated: 24 Jan, 2026 1:05am

	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

Last updated: 24 Jan, 2026 1:03am

GW24 Chip Poll

Members

11 March 2012 2305 comments

Mark

It’s not been the greatest of gameweeks so far, has it? With a couple of clashes still to go, many of us will be keeping a keen eye on tomorrow night’s events at the Emirates, with the hopes of many a Fantasy manager pinned firmly on the shoulders of Robin Van Persie.

For now, though, our members can now pick through all the statistics from the Gameweek and, once again, we’ve picked out some eye-catching numbers to digest. As usual, we’ve also included our prediction of where the Fantasy Premier League bonus will go…

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Crouch Potato!
13 years, 10 months ago
😉
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1. Parm
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Why not 😉 rather than 😉
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  1. FPL Daniel
    13 years, 10 months ago
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Smilies
    
    Thank me later
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    1. Henry Hill
      13 years, 10 months ago
      smile 🙂 🙂 🙂 lol 😆
      biggrin 😀 😀 😀 redface 😳
      sad 🙁 🙁 🙁 cry 😥
      surprised 😮 😮 😮 evil 👿
      eek 😯 😯 😯 twisted 😈
      confused 😕 😕 😕 rolleyes 🙄
      cool 8) 😎 😎 exclaim ❗
      mad 😡 😡 😡 question ❓
      razz 😛 😛 😛 idea 💡
      neutral 😐 😐 😐 arrow ➡
      wink 😉 😉 😉 mrgreen
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      1. Crouch Potato!
        13 years, 10 months ago
        Holy shit!
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        Crouch Potato!
        13 years, 10 months ago
        🙁
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        Crouch Potato!
        13 years, 10 months ago
        ;lol
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    2. Crouch Potato!
      13 years, 10 months ago
      Nice one cheers 🙂
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      1. FPL Daniel
        13 years, 10 months ago
        now back 2 fantasy
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halnone
13 years, 10 months ago
Cahill > Skrtl
Moses > Miyaichi.

Not the best transfers I could have made.
Hopefully Skrtl can still repay me.
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1. Parm
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Since to see our rivals beaten by a Welsh team 😉
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  1. Parm
    13 years, 10 months ago
    **Nice**
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asyrafdanial
13 years, 10 months ago
Glad to see Aguero & Pilky get 1 point, as my ML leader has Williams & Moses on the bench 🙂
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1. Crouch Potato!
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Nice one 😉
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  1. asyrafdanial
    13 years, 10 months ago
    will chasing 65 points more atm~haha
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Ryan
13 years, 10 months ago
Me: RVP(c)
Opponents: Suarez(c) +2pts

Who will win?
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1. The Japanager: Roberto Newm…
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Go get him. It's a clincher.
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2. Parm
  13 years, 10 months ago
  You need 6 from RVP as Suarez will score either 2pts or 4pts depending on if he's hungry/angry or not.
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  1. Ryan
    13 years, 10 months ago
    Just one goal then 😉
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    1. TorresMagic™
      13 years, 10 months ago
      He meant 6 or 8 total. one assist is enough.
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3. TorresMagic™
  13 years, 10 months ago
  You should win.
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TorresMagic™
13 years, 10 months ago
FPL Open Update

325 entered, last qualifying spot @ 1400 points for GW2 onwards.
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1. FPL Daniel
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Do I qualify?
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  1. TorresMagic™
    13 years, 10 months ago
    In the last update you are 52nd. Top 256. You shouldn't have a problem, all depends on new entries.
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    1. FPL Daniel
      13 years, 10 months ago
      I think I am all set for FPL open 2012. Thanks TM
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      1. TorresMagic™
        13 years, 10 months ago
        Got your GW30 team ready then? That's when the 1st round occurs.
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        FPL Daniel
        13 years, 10 months ago
        I don't believe that there will be that much new entries above my ranking
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        TorresMagic™
        13 years, 10 months ago
        You will qualify. I mean you need a good GW30 team as that's the 1st round. If your team is weak for GW30 then you probably won't pass Round 1.
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        FPL Daniel
        13 years, 10 months ago
        u bet ya i am ready for gw 30. I need only Bad K to be fit
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2. halnone
  13 years, 10 months ago
  I think i've qualified
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  1. halnone
    13 years, 10 months ago
    actually I think it might be close
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    1. TorresMagic™
      13 years, 10 months ago
      Need over 100 teams better than yours to enter or a bad GW29.
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FPL Daniel
13 years, 10 months ago
Ok lads final thought and I am going to bed. Can't believe but very soon I will have 3 high profile differentials: Sess, Komp and Ba.

Sess more than 300K out, Komp (to some extent) more than 60K, and Ba around 110K. They were all the time in the dream team this season, they could all explode and all those lads who sold them are actually active players. Sess negative NTI are wow. And I don't see defender/mid/forward that exploded in mean time in there price range. Something being patient pays off, especially when u build high team value in the first part of the season.

If I add Siggy, Morrison and Hart probably (differentials wise) I like my team and chances for greens in the ranking. We don't have the Power 5 in the midfield anymore and I am loving it 🙂

Good luck to all, cheers,
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1. Ryan
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Will be looking to bring in Sess and Valencia in the next couple of weeks. Once they are back into their respective sides it would be a good time to buy and gain value on them once more whilst not having had to lose value or points by keeping them.
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  1. FPL Daniel
    13 years, 10 months ago
    But u r wasting 2 transfers 10GW's till the end. The value of FT must be considered here. And all of them are both cheaper in my team
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    1. Ryan
      13 years, 10 months ago
      True about the FT's. Consider the replacement players though. At least they are able to get points
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    2. Ryan
      13 years, 10 months ago
      Also its not a waste if you keep the replacement players and sell the likes of Silva or Bale
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2. FPL Daniel
  13 years, 10 months ago
  * Sometimes being patient
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  1. Legendary!
    13 years, 10 months ago
    Daniel, what do you think abt taking out Ba? For Rooney or Odem... (yeah I still dont have Rooney!) I have just lost patience with him! but he's served me well this season tho...
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    1. FPL Daniel
      13 years, 10 months ago
      http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2012/03/11/the-big-numbers-gameweek-twenty-eight/comment-page-10/#comment-2853460
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  2. Twelve years a slave
    13 years, 10 months ago
    Think there is a good reason why people have been shipping out Sess , Ba , Kompany and Silva
    
    Ba clearly not the same since Cisse turned up
    
    Sess possibly the best of them , although their fixtures not great , and there are plenty of other decent mids at a similar price
    
    Kompany , will keep putting in a shift , but at current price appears overvalued , teams such as Liverpool , Tottenham and man u all have much easier fixtures
    Which also applies to Silva
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    1. FPL Daniel
      13 years, 10 months ago
      Komp overated? City are predicted to concede fewest goals till the end. He is nailed on, good shout for BP and recently a goal threat. I think still value in Ba, before I got Ade probably. And I would love that goal and assist combo for Sess at home against QPR. That is why I am saying they are differentials. I have different opinion from all those sellers
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      1. FPL Daniel
        13 years, 10 months ago
        http://premierleaguefantasy.blogspot.com/p/strength-of-schedule.html
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hooi1983
13 years, 10 months ago
any advice to my team?

Kompany, Dyer & Sess cannot play.
should i change 1 of RVP, Ba & Suarez to Rooney?

thanks.
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1. TorresMagic™
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Get Rooney, I'd sell Suarez if it was my team. Kompany may be back next game. I'd sell Sess so you aren't forced into 433 with no reserves.
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2. asyrafdanial
  13 years, 10 months ago
  i will get rid Sess first
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3. FPL Daniel
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Dyer to Surman maybe?
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4. hooi1983
  13 years, 10 months ago
  thanks to all.
  maybe Sess to Morrison for this week.
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Always (C)ane
13 years, 10 months ago
Krul
Raylor Kelly Enrique
Bale Dempsey Bale Siggy
RVP Ba Suarez

Mignolet Sess Caulker Shotton

3.2 in the bank and 1 FT

keep Sess and get rid of Suarez for Rooney, good idea?
any suggestions?
thanks
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1. FPL Daniel
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Definitely
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Churchill
13 years, 10 months ago
Hi all,

Looking for those elusive (sensible) differentials. Team - 40824.

Thoughts on Bale out Ryo in?
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1. FPL Daniel
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Prediction on the Ars game? I say no to Bale out
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  1. Churchill
    13 years, 10 months ago
    Something like 4-2. Need to do something with Bale, his form is terrible.
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2. Henry Hill
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Can't understand Ryo bandwagon, getting an assist when marked by the last ill-advised bandwagon Taiwo is hardly impressive
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  1. The Japanager: Roberto Newm…
    13 years, 10 months ago
    To be fair, Taiwo only played 10 minutes.
    
    I bought him, and I can honestly say the only reason why is because he is reasonably threatening and he has 8 good fixtures left this year.
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  2. Churchill
    13 years, 10 months ago
    It's the underlying potential. That & a need to look outside the core group of players most have.
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3. TorresMagic™
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Ryo is overrated on the site. Keep Bale for now.
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  1. Churchill
    13 years, 10 months ago
    What happened to your misfiring logo?
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    1. TorresMagic™
      13 years, 10 months ago
      FFS Champions League.
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  2. Twelve years a slave
    13 years, 10 months ago
    I consider Bale a keeper for several reasons
    
    1) Hes all class
    2) Much easier fixtures coming up
    3) At some point Spurs have a double gameweek , you ill only end up buying him back
    
    Ryo is good , but really only for easy games , i miight even bench him next week , away to villa.
    Bale at home to Stoke , will carve them up
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    1. Churchill
      13 years, 10 months ago
      Hmmmmm. Yeah I know you're all right . . . .
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FPL Daniel
13 years, 10 months ago
WOW the RVP vs Rooney captain will be huge in the next weeks. Make or break decisions. Maybe it is wiser to just pick one and stick to him. Then u have the probability to catch all the massive scores
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1. The Japanager: Roberto Newm…
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Or miss them all.
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2. Ryan
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Yep. Looks like I got it wrong this week 🙁
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3. asyrafdanial
  13 years, 10 months ago
  how about Dempsey ?
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asyrafdanial
13 years, 10 months ago
Play Siggy or McClean for nextweek ?
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1. Always (C)ane
  13 years, 10 months ago
  McClean
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2. asyrafdanial
  13 years, 10 months ago
  thanks~hope he can do better than Siggy~
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TorresMagic™
13 years, 10 months ago
Back to work, last qualifying spot went up by 3 to 1403 with just 1 new entry. 😈
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1. asyrafdanial
  13 years, 10 months ago
  deadzone TM
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2. Parm
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Eeeek if 55 with better ranks enter i'm done for 🙁
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3. legendkiller
  13 years, 10 months ago
  When you say 'entry closes GW29', does that mean only scores till GW 28 are considered? Or will the GW 29 score be counted too?
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doncastro
13 years, 10 months ago
Taking a punt on no RVP for next 2-3 weeks. I feel like I'm naked.
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1. Kirby
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Very brave / insane.
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2. Churchill
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Stay away from the class A.
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3. The Finnisher
  13 years, 10 months ago
  NEW eve AVL qpr are his next 4!
  Considering you got rid for Spurs and Liverpool (where he scored 21 points btw) I'd think it'd be mental not to have him especially with his fixtures.
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Jinswick
13 years, 10 months ago
So, I've had Moses for 16 out of 28 GWs this season, and I've missed out on all his medium - big scores. Damn you Moses.
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1. asyrafdanial
  13 years, 10 months ago
  nice red team 😛
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2. bmb100
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Sounds like my record with Adebeyor!
  
  He's only scored 2/11 goals for me this season had him for 12/26 weeks in total that he's been in the game.
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asyrafdanial
13 years, 10 months ago
R.Taylor with 35.8% ownership..keep or get rid ?
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1. Churchill
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Keep.
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  1. asyrafdanial
    13 years, 10 months ago
    with Skrtel, Bae, Caulker & Evans. Should I bench him nextweek?
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2. Always (C)ane
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Keep!
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jguti14
13 years, 10 months ago
I need rvp and theo to come huge tomorrow
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The Finnisher
13 years, 10 months ago
Reply from last page to Newman.
I don't think anybody "needs" Silva, he hasn't been great for a while now, in fact, you might be surprised about this stat with your favourite boy Mata;
Since GW3 (when Mata joined Chelsea)
Silva - 129 Points
Mata - 120 points
Since GW10;
Silva - 96 points
Mata - 94 points
Last 10 GW's;
Silva - 42
Mata - 40
Last 5;
Silva - 16
Mata - 27
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1. Elniñorules
  13 years, 10 months ago
  I've given up with the two of them. Decided early in the season I'd have only one of the two assist machines. But always seemed to catch the wrong player at the right period.
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2. The Japanager: Roberto Newm…
  13 years, 10 months ago
  That is very interesting. Two points as to why I still prefer Silva.
  
  First, He is in a more attacking side. Chelsea offense is so bad, its officially worse than their defense. Silva is just more likely to be involved with goals, since his teams actually know how to score them. (today, of course, being the exception.)
  
  Second, I bought Silva for 9.5, and all things considered, as close as they are, Mata hasn't even outdone him until recently, and if you subtract those first two games, as you did there Mata would have more minutes than Silva, too. They are contemporaries, in my mind, in terms of price bracket, since I bought Silva for 9.5.
  
  Point taken though. They are certainly much closer than I thought originally.
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  1. The Finnisher
    13 years, 10 months ago
    That's true re minutes, but really, that's the risk with Silva, like almost every City player he will be rotated, and with that ankle problem he had he could be seeing more regular rest.
    After all he was taken off with 5 minutes left when they were one nil behind in what was perhaps the most important match for the title race so far.
    And there is always the argument that Mata is no good away, but of the last 8 away games, City have scored 4 goals.
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3. applebonkers
  13 years, 10 months ago
  they're both worth about 8mil right now
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  1. FPL Daniel
    13 years, 10 months ago
    as ap said
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4. Phaze 1
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Silva served me well but his time was up on saturday. I think most will latch on due to getting him at 9.5 but I just feel his output has gone str to hell and with rotaion and his ankle injury I don't feel the value is there anymore. I'd rather most kept him actually lol.
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Always (C)ane
13 years, 10 months ago
A. Krul Raylor

B. Mignolet Raylor

C. Krul Caulker

which one to play for GW29 ?
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1. asyrafdanial
  13 years, 10 months ago
  B~
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2. Phaze 1
  13 years, 10 months ago
  B
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Jinswick
13 years, 10 months ago
Nani owners - is it time to jump ship to Young, or sit tight and wait for Nani to unleash?.....
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1. Phaze 1
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Better to wait till after hursday to make this decision.
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Elniñorules
13 years, 10 months ago
What a myth around these parts about Swans' CS.

Look at the home games coming up:
EVE NEW BLA WOL LIV

As good as it gets, imo. God knows why sold SuperVorm.
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1. The Japanager: Roberto Newm…
  13 years, 10 months ago
  I'll tell you why: Jafa told you how amazing Mignolet/Krul would be, that's why.
  
  If only I had gone with Schwarzer/Vorm and Evans, which was my original plan. I might actualy be in the top 1k if I had.
  
  Lindegaard screwed me over so much.
  
  So glad I kept Vorm.
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  1. Elniñorules
    13 years, 10 months ago
    Haha he had nothing to do it, Newman.
    
    Krul/Mig was still awesome, tho its hard to predict which games they'd do well in. Had I started Mig in all the games, I'd get way more points. GK rotation is a pain.
    
    Anyways come WC, I'm going Mig - Bog & start Mig on most weeks. Dirt cheap combo 😉
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  2. Phaze 1
    13 years, 10 months ago
    I actually sold Vorm on saturday and I'm still not sure I made the right decision. The fixtures didn't seem great and I thought the superVorm train was over. Hope the Mig/Schwarzer rotation works out it will go down on a very long list of shocking decisions I've made this season.
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2. FPL Daniel
  13 years, 10 months ago
  U were influenced by the masses. I wasn't. I think I am gonna swap Simpson or Senderos for Caulker. Ther weren't lucky with the CS's, they are actually good side and playing good football especially at home. I've learnt my lesson the hard way. U don't play the fixtures with your 4.0 dream team keeper (Schwazer, Hart, Sorensen, Foster in the past), your 5th defender too and sometimes the 5th mid
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  1. Elniñorules
    13 years, 10 months ago
    Nah mate. Vorm had 1 CS in 8-9 games when I WC-ed in gw24 & Newcastle were pretty strong defensively. That swung it for me but I still got Cocky to be safe. Now I realize GK rotation is so much of a pain. Mig is awesome & Krul has been a waste of space & money.
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3. applebonkers
  13 years, 10 months ago
  it's not really a myth, they had weaker fixtures and kept 1 clean sheet in 10 games as a result. last 2 weeks they've recovered well
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  1. Elniñorules
    13 years, 10 months ago
    The "weaker fixtures" part - was a myth.
    
    from GW24:
    NOR sto wig MCI ful EVE tot NEW qpr BLA bol WOL mun LIV
    
    The home games are delicious.
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    1. applebonkers
      13 years, 10 months ago
      only 3 of them are imo.
      i think deep down people were surprised with a vorm clean sheet this week, the stats are all coming out in hindsight, half the teams i've seen with him playing are default choices, either the result of having sorensenlindegaard or having krul at the emirates.
      i sold vorm to buy caulker and banked the 0.7mil, only people who've probably lost out are those who bought risks like sorensen and lindegaard when selling vorm
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      1. Elniñorules
        13 years, 10 months ago
        Fair enough. I guess when we look at things in hindsight, our views seem to alter so much. I haven't lost out much YET thanks to Cocky, but here's hoping Swans don't make me repent it with those fixtures.
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    2. The Finnisher
      13 years, 10 months ago
      I wouldn't have called those home games delicious, especially at the time of WC;
      - Swansea clean sheets were drying up.
      - Norwich, Blackburn and Wolves were/are known for their CS destroying.
      - Newcastle were on fire and just outside the top 4.
      - City were on top and beating everyone
      - Everton and Liverpool were the 2 teams in poor attacking form.
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      1. Elniñorules
        13 years, 10 months ago
        True. Hindsight is wonderful.
        
        Guess people who WC-ed really early prolly got lucky with holding onto Vorm
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adziom
13 years, 10 months ago
Santon & Silva > Sagna & Valencia

Thoughts?
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1. Phaze 1
  13 years, 10 months ago
  NO, NO NO. Don't bring in players on the injury list. Least wait till you see him on a Man U bench then pull the trigger imo.
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  1. adziom
    13 years, 10 months ago
    I wasn't necessarily thinking of doing it this week, just pondering on how I can use the funds freed up by dumping Silva to spruce up my squad
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Phaze 1
13 years, 10 months ago
GW29 team, Got 1FT and the obv move is to get rid of the bucktooth racist but against QPR I might have to give him 1 more chance. Anyone set this up different?

Schwarzer

Enrique, Skrtel, BAE, Evans

Dempsey(VC), Bale, Young

Suarez, Rooney(C), RVP

Mignolet, Miyaichi, Sigurdsson, Caulker
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bmb100
13 years, 10 months ago
Praying RVP and Ba do nothing tomorrow, if so, then I'm looking at a very realistic shot of catching my leader who was 120 points ahead of me 7 GWs ago.

Will have Suarez captain to go, and if he scores will have halved that deficit with 10 GWs still to go. Had it not been for one disaster week then it would be even closer.

I gave up the fight a while ago but now momentum is with me, I'm catching him every week and with Rooney as a differential, amongst others, I'm starting to feel a bit of confidence.

Very tempted to do Silva to Young as a further differential, can't see Silva hurting me with a big score, but with Young's fixtures and potential to explode he could help me close the gap even quicker.
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1. adziom
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Young is definitely worth a shout over Silva. I'm undecided who to bring into the midfield just now though.
  
  I was going to do Pogrebnyak to Adebayor in a few weeks, downgrading either Bale or Dempsey, but now it looks like Silva's the man for the chop. He just hasn't delivered lately.
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  1. bmb100
    13 years, 10 months ago
    This ankle talk worries me too,and the fears of being rested. Plus City look like bottling it if you ask me, awful fantasy prospects away from home recently and not easy home games.
    
    Thinking of Suarez to Ade in a few weeks but need to see Spurs pick it up a bit first!
    
    Can't ignore triple United coverage for the next 6 though IMO.
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    1. adziom
      13 years, 10 months ago
      Indeed, I've only got Rooney at the moment but trying to guess which of the three wingers to bring in is a nightmare!
      
      Evans is looking a good pick in defence right now but I'm quite happy to hang on to Heitinga, Glen Johnson and probably Bardsley for the rest of the season barring injuries and bans. Which leaves Senderos and Santon on the out list, and Sagna has been looking tempting lately.
      
      That would leave me with a defence of Bardsley - Heitinga - GJ - Sagna - Evans. That'd be a selection headache every week for sure
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      1. bmb100
        13 years, 10 months ago
        I'm going for Young because he's the only one without any injury worries and by far the form player, Fergie would be mad to drop him. When all are fit I still think he's the most nailed on, he's definitely first choice LW ahead of Nani, with him and Valencia in main competition for the right.
        
        Sagna looks good going forward but still wouldn't trust the Arsenal defence, would make Evans the priority with their fixtures and form. United and a few of their players have managed to find the fantasy holy grail and have form and fixtures simultaneously.
        
        Plus my mini league rival has no United coverage whatsoever 😀
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2. applebonkers
  13 years, 10 months ago
  this young stuff at the moment seems worryingly similar to gw4 after the arsenal game where he was a massive bandwagon that didn't really go anywhere and anyone who sold nani for him lost a lot of points. that was even before valencia was in the picture. i don't know, he looked a real threat v west brom but young, nani and valencia into 2 spots is messy, nani is one hell of a player to keep on the bench
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  1. bmb100
    13 years, 10 months ago
    I'm not a big fan of Young in the past, but this seems very different to post Arsenal.
    
    The Arsenal game was a flash in the pan, this run has seen 3 assists and 2 goals in his last 3 league games as well as goals both internationally and in Europe.
    
    Young was the best player for United vs Spurs and the second best after Rooney today. If Nani has picked up and injury, you'd expect Young to be nailed on for at least 3 weeks as Valencia and Nani share the spot on the right for a while after injury. At the end of the day Fergie isn't going to drop the form player, when Nani has been useless recently and Valencia isn't match fit.
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    1. Ryan
      13 years, 10 months ago
      +1000
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    2. applebonkers
      13 years, 10 months ago
      seems almost identical to me, tottenham was his arsenal 8-2, he got assists either side of that 8-2 then nani's class eventually showed as young went quiet, then young got injured, then nani went a bit poo himself.
      i was expecting valencia and nani in contention for wolves next gw from early whispers, will have to wait for fergie's press conferences.
      i've seen a lot of this talk about nani's 'useless' form lately and it seems very OTT. to me he looked like a player who was out for a month and simply wasn't great for his own very high standards. he's barely played for 6 weeks and if anything i think it highlights what a prospect he is that his only 2 games lately in this slightly resuty state have been a 6 and a 7.
      i agree young has surely secured a spot for next game at least, is it sustainable though? from a non-FPL view i think nani and valencia are a class above young, compare young and nani when he's on the left and yeah i think young has a better shout. it will always be 3 guys for 2 spots and i really don't see young's form as sustained enough to have secured a spot for any more than next week. a quiet game in midweek for young and suddenly his 2 good league games are diluted by these two performances v bilbao.
      i guess the return leg v bilbao will provide some answers on the injury situation of nani and valencia as well as a chance for young to make his stake stronger.
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      1. applebonkers
        13 years, 10 months ago
        *rusty state
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        FPL Daniel
        13 years, 10 months ago
        Nice thinking AP. I am not going in the same trap again.
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Ryan
13 years, 10 months ago
Will need two FT's next week so my patience in Silva better pay off. This is only because I can't get Young as I will need to sell Linde first (3 United players). Last chance Silva!
Wise plan or foolish?
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1. iLA
  13 years, 10 months ago
  He will deliver against Chelsea like he normally does in big games then we'd all chickened out from dumping him again 😀
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  1. Ryan
    13 years, 10 months ago
    Cheers for the confidence boost. Surely he can't get another 2 pointer 😕
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adziom
13 years, 10 months ago
If RVP gets a decent haul tomorrow, and Heitinga and GJohnson both steer clear of any red cards and OGs on Tuesday, I think I'll have my first back to back green arrows since GW15.

Kind of puts my shocking season into perspective!
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1. FPL Daniel
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Goal and assist for RPV IMO
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2. Phaze 1
  13 years, 10 months ago
  lol shocking how I'm right there with you. If I avoid disaster I'll be on just my 2nd green arrow since GW17. Around that time I had lofty goals but now I'm just hoping not to fall off the cliff again.
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  1. adziom
    13 years, 10 months ago
    I've given up on any targets. The rest of the season is going to be all about captaincies.
    
    This would be my 4th green arrow since GW15, bad run. I screwed up by keeping VDV over Bale week on week
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    1. Phaze 1
      13 years, 10 months ago
      Yeah I think holding onto players with the notion that they will eventually come good is one of the major pitfalls of this game. I wasn't really into FF last year but this year seems like Kneejerking has been mostly beneficial.
      
      When I can be bother I'll go back and add up how many points my highest scoring player recieved each week and then how often I gave him the armband. Those at the very top will prob have the highest rate of success.
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FPL Daniel
13 years, 10 months ago
Anders Lindegaard went down in price to 4.2m. Speaking of bargain. Play him all the time and when he is rotated Vorm steps in. Not bad, not bad at all. I have theory that goalkeeper rotations doesn't work. U just pick one and play him all the time. The overall leaders has Hilario and Vorm. I will do the analysis end of the season or I hope the scouts will do, but looks like Goalkeeper rotation is overrated IMO. Last year I stopped rotating and went with Foster all the time. Previously I was playing Schwarzer all the time. U just realized who is the value keeper and play him all season. Note to myself for the next season.
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1. Elniñorules
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Yeah but getting Hilario-us is dumb, when you can get a playing keeper for an extra 0.1 (Bog).
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2. applebonkers
  13 years, 10 months ago
  have wondered the same, seems for every one time it works there's another with points on the bench. imo it's not a popular approach as it's admitting defeat, people at least want to try and profit from rotating 2 keepers
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  1. FPL Daniel
    13 years, 10 months ago
    Well if u played Vorm or Krul whole season you would have been on more points than rotating both of them. I can bet on it. Any Vorm/ Krul owner to deny me?
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    1. applebonkers
      13 years, 10 months ago
      vorm and schwarzer worked well until schwarzer got injured, then i just played vorm and it was horrible, 3s and 2s every week.
      would be interesting to see stats
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    2. bmb100
      13 years, 10 months ago
      As a Schwarzer/Vorm rotater for the entire season, bar the month or so for the injury, I would 100% agree.
      
      I would estimate I've missed about 60-75% of clean sheets by rotating, discounting weeks where either neither or both have kept a CS.
      
      Basically when one or the other has kept a CS I've had the wrong one on the pitch much more often than not and certainly would have benefited from playing one every game.
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      1. FPL Daniel
        13 years, 10 months ago
        reply to bmb try schwarz and stockdale whole year. its definitely better than schwarz vorm combo
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        applebonkers
        13 years, 10 months ago
        sorry but there's no way this is true, and if it is you're picking your keeper badly each week
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        bmb100
        13 years, 10 months ago
        Probably true for me to an extent. It just got to the point where rotation was becoming such a stress and I'd continually make the wrong choice. Then by making the wrong choice I'd get even more stressed about it next week which would pressure me into making another poor choice, and it was just depressing and I got to a point where I was at a loss who to pick.
        
        I can see the argument where no rotation avoids this fact completely and can easily turn out for the better, it avoids the stress of selection and would have improved my keeper returns this season.
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        applebonkers
        13 years, 10 months ago
        schwzrzer got injured gw15. vorm/schwarzer got me 87 points gw1-15 vorm on his own after gw15 had 76 and he was the top scoring keeper.
        only 11 points but hey, it beat the best keeper in the league by 11.
        then played vorm every week whilst schwarzer was out.
        since schwarzer has come back it's been a success every week until this one thanks to that stoppage time weimann goal
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        applebonkers
        13 years, 10 months ago
        i think in general you could be onto something though daniel, it won't make you points, but you wont lose out badly either. i think it's the equivalent of owning silva for the season 😛 i said to someone earlier silva's name is perfect because with him you'll never win gold; but you'll do enough to beat bronze. i think this keeper approach is the same, i got lucky with vorm and schwarzer, in past seasons had less success
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        bmb100
        13 years, 10 months ago
        Just went and had a in depth look back at every choice, and it turns out I only benched 4 clean sheets in total. Maybe that very disheartening spell of 4/5 has created a view in my mind that rotation went a lot worse than it actually did.
        
        So in the end only lost out on about 16 points on rotation, which still makes me better off than playing one every week.
        
        Think my rotation problems were in my head, I guess I've at least struck even this way if not done better.
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        FPL Daniel
        13 years, 10 months ago
        Schwarzer and Stockdale 82 + 30 = 112 pts Friedel is on 114pts.
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        The Finnisher
        13 years, 10 months ago
        Again, no it isn't...
        Stockdale/Schwarzer = 112
        Schwarzer/Vorm (home/away) = 142
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        FPL Daniel
        13 years, 10 months ago
        And how many times u've picked the wrong keeper? The big away hauls were missed too
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      2. applebonkers
        13 years, 10 months ago
        seriously? i had that pair until gw24 and only missed 2 clean sheets.
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        bmb100
        13 years, 10 months ago
        I think I was just sh*t at choosing. I got to a point where I missed a couple in a row and started over thinking each choice in relation to what went wrong the previous weeks.
        
        Would bench the home player with the harder fixture one week and he'd keep a CS, so next week would play the home player and he'd not keep a CS and I really over analysed and over compensated and I think I missed 4/5 in a row just before Schwarzer's injury.
        
        Summed up the awful first half of the season I had though. Have done better recently until this week, which was unfortunate with the late Villa goal.
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        applebonkers
        13 years, 10 months ago
        that's harsh, put the hard work in to find the best 2 keepers then muck it up a bit 😉
        at the time of his injury schwarzer was 2nd top scoring keeper behind vorm, was just about the only thing that went well 1st half of the season
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        bmb100
        13 years, 10 months ago
        See my post above, maybe it wasn't bad as I thought it was in my head 😉
        
        Got my tinted spectacles on when looking back at anything this season pre GW22.
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    3. adziom
      13 years, 10 months ago
      I think it'd be close, but I don't doubt that having a Vorm/Bogdan or Vorm/Tremmel combination would have been better value.
      
      Newcastle have been infuriating to rotate. Since I played my GW21 wildcard I can think of plenty more occasions where I've had Krul and Santon benched than when either of them have got me a cleanie. They'll keep clean sheets against Man Utd and Blackburn but concede 3 against Liverpool and one against Everton.
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    4. Willis.
      13 years, 10 months ago
      simple matsh will prove u wrong. it is fair to assume that if vorm and krul are rotated, then they will play half the matches each. therefore, playing krul all season would give 108 points, but rotating krul and vorm will roughly give 115.5 points.
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      1. FPL Daniel
        13 years, 10 months ago
        7 pts 😆 Well done
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    5. The Finnisher
      13 years, 10 months ago
      If you rotated Vorm and Krul purely home and away you would have between 137-142 points depending on who you played when they were both at home/away. More than both Krul (108) and Vorm (123)
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      1. Ryan
        13 years, 10 months ago
        Good to hear rotation works. I shall continue to persevere with the strategy.
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      2. applebonkers
        13 years, 10 months ago
        jackoff ftw.
        i think rotation works for sure but you have to find one of the few that work, then it's not just play the home keeper for example you'd play a keeper at wigan over one hosting man utd
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    6. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius�…
      13 years, 10 months ago
      Yes. Me. I had them until my January wild card, and they worked fine.
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3. Ryan
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Lindegaard + Hart might be the best Keeper combo at the moment. They even rotate well
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4. applebonkers
  13 years, 10 months ago
  thinking back i had schwarzer too, had zuberbuhler (their sub keeper) as 2nd keeper, was 2 or 3 seasons ago and it was nice to relax every week not caring which keeper to play. it was actually in reaction to benching points a lot.
  since then without knowing stats i think rotating has worked, not by a lot, but worked.
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Jinswick
13 years, 10 months ago
Early morning teaser, cause I know you loves it... 😉

a) Save the transfer
b) Skrtel -> Kaboul (generates enough cash to do Walcott/Suarez -> Bale/Ade in GW31)
c) Suarez -> Adebayor
d) Suarez -> Ba
e) Nani -> Young

Mignolet, (Bogdan)
JEvans, Skrtel, Enrique, (Caulker), (Shotton)
Nani, Dempsey, Walcott, Sigurdsson, (Surman)
RVP, Rooney, Suarez

Bank 0.0m, 1 freebie
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1. bmb100
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Tricky one for sure.
  
  Reckon Suarez is worth keeping for the next two, can see him scoring at least once in those two games. Also seems fruitless to ditch a pool defender for a Spurs one until after the QPR and Wigan games.
  
  Therefore I'd say wait until we get news of Nani's availability, but potentially go for e.
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  1. Jinswick
    13 years, 10 months ago
    I think I'm between a) and b) at the moment. b) means I can afford to get Bale & Ade in for GW31 when Spurs' fixtures get really good, which is appealing. It also means not doubling up on LIV defence and still being able to play JEvans (wol), Enrique (qpr), Kaboul (STO) in GW29 and JEvans (FUL), Enrique (WIG) and Caulker (EVE) in GW30...
    
    If Nani is out of the wol game this week then e) is very likely...
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    1. bmb100
      13 years, 10 months ago
      B isn't a bad option I guess, you've got a solid defense either way, but doing the transfer avoids doubling. You will definitely want Bale but not sold on getting Ade yet, would need to see his form improve.
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rohan
13 years, 10 months ago
Verm >> Raylor for an 8 pointer???
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1. iLA
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Seriously?
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  1. rohan
    13 years, 10 months ago
    considering it... dont want to do it for an 8 pointer but realised the guy above me in my ML has'nt got him
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    1. GunsnRoses
      13 years, 10 months ago
      in sab se kuch nahi banega 😛
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2. GunsnRoses
  13 years, 10 months ago
  😐
  Get rid of Verm but don't take hits
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3. Phaze 1
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Sleep it off sir.
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GunsnRoses
13 years, 10 months ago
Opponent 42 , pre-bonuses with Rooney(C)+Song,RVP,Gutiarez,Simps to play.
I 23, pre-bonuses and none will get a bonus :P, with RVP(C),Ba,Raylor,Skrtel to play

Hmm, Song and Gutiarez clashing with each other. sent off. Simpson coming into play and again sent off.

A 3-2 score with braces from each Ba & RVP and one from Raylor.

Possible ... 😐
Bring it on \m/
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yanky
13 years, 10 months ago
why didnt nani play this gwk? I was thinking mata > nani as I dont have rooney

team as of now for next gwk, 2.6m in bank! everyone in league has rooney so i kind of want a differential but think shipping out silva/mata is more important than touching my strikeforce this gwk

Mignolet
SKelly Santon Enrique (Caulker, Shotton)
Mata Silva Moses Dempsey (Walters)
RVP Ba Suarez
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1. Ryan
  13 years, 10 months ago
  Had a minor knock apparently. Should be back for the next game
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