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Do you need to swap out McCarthy before you Bench Boost?

If Stones plays & Son is fit, it'll probably beat my BB from DGW (15 points).

You could wait for a DGW, but I'd probably just play it now to be honest

McCarthy and Bale could very easily be no shows.

There is a fair chance that one of Stones or Dias doesn't play, McCarthy and Bale are benching risks and Son is a doubt. I wouldn't personally bench boost

BB after int’l break is risky in given you don’t know who has picked up an issue. Still a double game week to go.

He's a great option pretty much every week.

But, if you look at his home form v's his away form over a very long period, you'll find he's perhaps not THE best option this week.

That would be Kane by the way 🙂

I agree. Think you can almost ignore fixture rating for City.

For City players, it's not that any particular fixture is too hard for them or anything like that.

It's more of a case that the league is nigh on wrapped up already and their 'B Team' can beat almost anyone in the league.

So no need for Pep to play the likes of KDB, Gundy etc... in the remaining league games. (They will play some of the games of course - but I guess there will plenty of no-shows around the CL fixtures)

Well replied, plum

Pep's words are about as significant as a fart in a hurricane

Pep speaks with forked tongue.

Think if u in one of their leagues it counts...not sure tho'

It's for everyone in either the FFS Open mini-league or the FFS Members mini-league (currently 56,363 managers).

I wouldn't pick him on WC that's for sure.

I mean the funny thing about KDB is that he's been (relatively) poor all season long. He's scored less goals than Soucek. Even JWP is above him in the mids overall table. And, on top of that, he's gunna be rotated possibly fairly heavily for the cup games now.

I would keep Gundy though as he is such good value and as long as you have a bench, I can't see it being a big problem if he's rotated

I’m personally staying away and will just accept he’ll get his usual occasional 14 point returns from here on out. Just can’t see myself having a near 12m player that I won’t be brave enough to captain in my side and risk coming on for cameos, would rather go with Mahrez or even Gundo/Foden. Especially if City wrap up the league ASAP as well

Will you captain Auba against Sheffield next week? If so keep him in if not I don’t see the point in keeping so may as well bring in Bruno

Son's points dried up even before the injury, plus I think you are right about there being more competition in midfield than up front

A valid point but with Son a doubt to play next GW, people will naturally, albeit recency bias, pick fit players moving forward and not risk a 9.5 mil bencher.

It may be simply because he's not on the FPL stage at the moment. Therefore out of sight; out of mind. I'm sure that a lot of FH'ers like me are still holding Kane & Son. There are so many on-form mid-price/budget midfielders that many WC's would probably go Lingard or Jota with fixtures rather than a more expensive Spurs option with the likelihood of similar returns.

They've also left out Emi this time 🙂

Only 3 confirmed fit players who have returned better this season. Fulham poor fixture?

A bit like on the playground putting the weakest player in goal!

If you think Bruno goes so much better than Auba. It is a punt but why not if chips don't help you later. What i mean is, if you WC in 31 you are really looking at a 1 game punt. I will usually only take a hit looking at 3+ future fixtures.

no

Yay

Yay

So Truuuue. Don't you think many improved, avoiding the lottery of the Covid fixture reshuffle when games were postponed in an instant?

Similar here, although a bit of work to do.

OR: 2.4m in GW12
OR: 400k now.

But back in GW3 I was OR: 4.4m, GW8: 3.5m etc.

That's fantastic!
Fingers crossed.

GW7 5mil
Now 650k

Nice

How poor was your WC3? Mine sent me down to 4,750,000 🙂

Was almsot identical in GW12. Then took another wretched WC in 24 which I've spent the last 5/6 weeks undoing. 🙁

100k from where you are is very doable.

Great post! I'm delighted for you. There can sometimes be too many negative posts on here that it's really good to see one that is positive and gives a some lessons to be learned.

How many points between you & 100k?

GW11 : 1.3M
Current : 5K

You have scored 983 points since the start of GW17, rising from 2.14m to 165k.
If you were in the January to May League, you would be in seventh position.
It's not too late to join now if you want to - the league code is h62bh1.

Dunno

Think the whole equation becomes much easier if you at least hold the runaway pick and perhaps a couple of the other leading candidates. Then you're down by just one Kane and not two if he hauls.

That said I pay almost zero attention to the poll or what other people do - I simply use it to judge what are thought to be good picks something that is normally fairly self-evident anyway. My normal reasoning is that if my captain returns healthily I move up no matter what other people do. I've certainly had a number of green arrows when I've gone against the popular pick.

I don't see any problem with a defender pick - I started the season with the assumption that TAA/Robbo were perfectly feasible captain picks. Their 6 pointers plus baps likely matching a single return from a mid and a high probability of an attacking return that made them de facto mids.

Both Alonso and Dallas could fit the model this week. If they both start I'd have both as very solid 6 pointers anyway and have good chances of attacking returns. The principal difference I see is that neither is much of an assister so are more likely to be outpaced by a mid/forward from their teams or put another way a fairly low assist rate limits your chances of a double return. And when I look at my captain I'm generally looking for the most likely double return.

And Wolverhampton while Im at it...

Well setd for this gw so save transfer

I'd save.

That's really tough.

I'd probably go for Dias on the bench (very reluctantly) as he has the smallest points ceiling I would think...

Have those three and playing Gundo, think he's easily the best option of the three.

It would be a pretty decent BB i feel. The fixtures are good-ish for those guys and I'm sure you'll beat my 15points BB disaster during DGW.

But, on the other hand, can't help but feel that with WC in pocket, you could attack one of the remaining DGW's down the line and get an even bigger score.

So, save for another week perhaps?

Two yes's from me (though to be honest, without a crystal ball, it's pretty hard to decide who to bench and captain from those, as they are all good options)

Yes and yes. Bale sucks and won't even start

Yes

I'm benching Watkins and we share many of the same players

Yes

Watkins for me. No goals in last 6, Fulham defence putting up better numbers, and Auba on pens

play Jesse

Personally would never have 2 x £5m+ keepers, think budget can be better spent elsewhere.

If worried about Villa’s fixtures just swap for Mendy, who can keep cos against anyone

I wouldn't get Leno, he rarely keeps clean sheets, it's roughly about 1 every 4 games in his Arsenal career. Plus if you seen the way Arsenal defended in the first 30 minutes vs West Ham you would stay well clear. Rotation in the defence due to Europa league priority won't help clean sheets either.

I'd probably just leave it.

But if I really wanted Son I'd probably rather lose KDB than Gundy. Purely because of Gundys price... he's benchable and if he doesn't play then you just make sure you have a decent bench player to replace him (like Raph or Soucek)

Yes.

I expect Son to do well and Gundo is now a rotation risk....so yes

Cheers.

I prefer to hold KDB over gundo so leaning towards making the move. Both KDB and gundo rotation risks now but more upside with kdb I feel.

Interesting. You been doing some detective work at the top I see.

I genuinely think there's so much help out there these days - FFS, FPL & a million YT channels. You could start the game in any given season for the first time and be pretty much up to speed with a bit of reading and video watching.

The top 10 likely avoided the FFS/Twitter template early in the season (#1 certainly did) and went for players like Bamford, Kane, Justin from the start. Then those players became template and the top 10 stuck with them, preventing others from gaining much ground on them. Since they had picked the right team from the start, they didn't have to waste their first WC early, and could use it when they needed it.

I think part of this is related to fixtures not playing as large a part this year. So many teams are not too far above or below average, so there aren't too many great or terrible fixtures. Thus if you're ahead, you can just stick with players who have done well from the start, and not run too much risk of losing ground to other managers who select low owned premiums with better fixtures.

It's an anomaly season. One hit wonder rankings for a lot of casuals this year. I expect most of them will never grace the top 10k for the remainder of their fpl career

Look back over the last 10 GW's at who the top 5 points scorers have been in every almost every single week over that period and you will see it is completely dominated by DFers.

And, at the same time, the so called big players (Salah, Bruno, Mane, Son etc...) have done next to nothing.

Not sure your analysis is particularly accurate or helpful to be honest

4 x 9 = 36pts = difference between 200k rank and 100k rank

Doubt their are more than "4 best attacking" assets anyway, you can get them, set and forget till end.

Those games are cancelled to accommodate the Cup Final between Spurs & City I believe.
Not sure when they will be re-arranged for as haven't really followed Crellin or anything

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Pretty sure you can get both Bruno and Azpi 😉

I think your analysis of why there's been a lot of clean sheets is lacking in substance to be honest. There's been pretty much constant footy since GW9 I think...
There will still be plenty of cleanies to be had between now and the end of the season.

People like Shaw, Rudi/Azpi and even City DFers like Dias/Stones are fantastic signings and will score a lot of points going forward. I wouldn't warn people away from them with some flimsy argument that doesn't really stand up to any scrutiny at all.

The attacking players are the ones who are letting people down. Probably best to just hold the ones who you are backing to do well and just set and forget.

Probably his lack of minutes recently counting against him all do he did start the last 2 games. Chelsea are also not exactly free-scoring, just 4 goals in their last 5 league games. This looks like a match Chelsea might win 1 or 2 nil so I think there are much better options to back for the captaincy this week.

Because people skew towards players they own and he isn't highly owned.

I might buy him this week for Auba...

But you can't kid yourself that he's a top captain option. It's punt, pure and simple.

You are punting that the fixture + a change in position will equal a big score.
But, there's very little to go off that says it will come to fruition.

I'll be happy to just punt on owning him (if that's what I decide to do). I won't captain him for sure

I think what’s more surprising is how far Kane is ahead of the others... Leeds, Chelsea, Man United also have a very good fixture for captaincy this week and yet Kane is just miles ahead... group think plays a huge part in these polls.

Suspect no fewer than 8 City attackers reduces the spots elsewhere 🙂

Agree that Havertz deserves a place somewhere. All those City options looks a little odd given the text of the article says that City may not be that good an option.

Ask yourself why did you get Auba in the first place?

Alonso?