KPI Analysis – Forwards, Last Four Gameweeks

I'm with you there. It is quite funny because sometimes I'll give my two cents and then check their rank and my thought is "well, I shouldn't really be giving advice..." just because their rank is so much better than mine.

I'll be dishing out so much BS now that I've been validated 😉

I agree. Although I have a high rank and nobody listens to me. 🙁

I know that feeling, I'm currently 1,500,000 in the world and I can't move for people asking for my advice, completely inundated by it. Give me space guys, not everyone can be top 1.5mil good, it takes a real gift.

Good stuff Ballinasloe.

I've been on here 5 years. Being polite is the starting point. Every thing else pales into insignificance.

I have… seen things you people wouldn't believe… Baines on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate ( or a Kolarov assist) . All those… moments… will be lost in time, like [small cough] tears… in… rain. Time… to die… or transfer in Zamora for the DGW and captain him.

Nice one BSloebadger. 🙂

Very very well said Bsloe 🙂

🙂

Solid post there badger, interesting & honest.
It's all about knowing who to listen to, whether they have a certain bias, if their rooting for their own players, etc

Curious as to what people think of my rank 😯

precisely..this is just a game..and i m sure that all of us are knowledgeable to differentiate which poster talks sense..besides that, some1 who does not speak the advice that u want to hear does not mean he's giving bad advice too, as long as it is logical.

see people who judge others by your display picture and link..thus i have none

listen to others and make your own decisions. the fun element is to see whether ur own decision works, and not to merely just follow the crowd to get a meaningless rank that does not belong to you

Well said Badger.

If people give me advice I don't even bother checking their rank, I appreciate anyone who gives me their opinion on a transfer dilemma or something similar. At the end of the day none of us can perfectly predict which of A or B will score you more points or whether your team is an 8/10 or 9/10. We're all just fantasy addicts trying to help our fellow fantasy addicts out 🙂

You're the man 🙂

Agree. Also think about people's incentives when they comment. If they are lining up to by a player next week, of course they're going to advise you to sell them if you ask about it (so they can get that player cheaper after a potential price drop after the mass sales-hysteria brought on by people like that!).

This. I'm much more likely I give advice to the gents than anyone else.

I don't often seek advice on my team (probably only 3 or 4 times a season) but when I do it doesn't occur to me for a moment to check someone's current rank/history when they offer their opinion. If I know them from the boards and have a feel for how they play then I'll factor that in but generally I just look for a consensus and if possible a justification for any advice given.

Upvoted. So very right.

Not to mention, some of us are more thoughtful with the advice we give than with how we manage our own teams 😉

I remember that 'don't trust my words, trust my rank guy', I just remember thinking what a c u next Tuesday. wouldn't want to take advice from that tool anyway.

lol love the title whoever chose it 😆

IMO you get a mixed bag on here. I find there are the established FFS guys - some of these will take the time to involve you where others tend to stay in their cliques somewhat. Others are a long way up themselves or take the whole thing so seriously (particularly during and just after match days) that it is hilarious. Go to a kids hospital or watch the war tributes and grow up I say...

I tend to dip in and out the site - reading all I can from EVERYONE as sometimes you pick up a little tit-bit of info that you would never have thought of. If I am on for a bit I try and answer the RMTs or player choices as I would personally go for. I've no interest in following the crowd parrot-fashion - as that is pointless - but you do get a feel that your selections are the best options if many people bring up the same names. Let's face it there are probably a pool of around 50-100 players that are obvious FPL choices - if you can pick the odd guy at the right time away from this pool then it can be very satisfying.

What a star. +42. 🙂

Can't believe you were all talking about how nice I am and nobody told me
Shucks

Great post.

I saw that guy with the tagline, "gag inducing" is a good term for it!

People overall history is more important than their current rank, especially 10 weeks in...there's probably a couple of ghost teams in the top 1k! 😛

Couldn't agree more.

My rank is presently 400 but I have no idea how, and am fairly convinced I have no idea what I'm doing....

Really enjoyed this post. People do need a dose of reality/common sense on occasion! Bravo.

There are also people who can give good advice but make the wrong choice themselves, I class myself in this bracket! It's easy to see the picture when you're not considering exterior factors, mini leagues, bias for your own team etc. I for one can be completely impartial in this regard.

My good advice this week: Captain Aguero & Utd Arsenal will end 3-2 to Arsenal, Walcott & Di Maria both score. It's going to be a high scoring gameweek, Hazard/Lukaku/Fletcher/Bony/Sterling will be in the points ha.

well said sir

I once said to someone that with their rank in comparison to mine my help wasn't worth much to them.

Their response was that their rank was only as high as it was because of the advice they get from people like me.

So true! I've got a sort of flukishly good rank (compared to last few seasons) right now but I'd consider myself to be a novice at this compared to most of you guys - if I started saying my opinion was worth more because of basically 10 games of success/(luck!) I'd be a knob haha. I would realistically be waaaay further down without the advice of this site!

The advice is very welcome on here and often you can probably infer an answer to your query by reading some of the other posts to see what others are thinking and planning.

I would say though, that without some reasoning behind the advice (if it's an open Q rather than a multi choice) I would look at the rank history and if someone hasn't managed to get inside, say, the top 100k then I would discount their advice. Having said that, the effort is always appreciated.

Good post bsloe. Politeness costs nothing and everyone is entitled to an opinion even if some people's are more likely to be right than others.

What I would say is rank history is very important imo.

There are some posters on here who give consistently chronic advice and never achieve a decent rank. I would posit the reason for their inconsistent/poor history is the way they play the game tactically and also their poor understanding of football and football tactics at times.

I think the best thing to do with any advice on here is to listen to it all and if some people are saying something that is the complete opposite of your gut feeling then have a look at their rank history to see how good they are at the game.

One last thing re it being easier to give advice advice on others teams, I would say the reason for this is because there are no repercussions and after you have given the advice you don't get to see the move crash and burn like if it was for your own team. Too many people give unconsidered advice which can be detrimental to the long term health of the intended beneficiaries team imo