Fantasy Premier League 2016/2017

[Smiffy]

.....

[Magic]

:D

Crisis averted. 11 points with 3 to play, so shove that mrgreen up your arsehole.

[Adamski]

Crisis averted. 11 points with 3 to play, so shove that mrgreen up your arsehole.

52 with 6 to play for me.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

61 for me.

[Adamski]

84. Should put me top.

[Magic]

23. :)

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

23. :)

Stunning.

[niko_cee]

It's been a poor week (46) compounded by the fact that I've majorly borked my sums to Aguero back into my side. So that'll take a few weeks to correct.

:face:

[Weaver]

A good game from Townsend (13) with an assist for Ibrahimovic, a goal for Captain Costa and a clean sheet for van Dijk puts me in the fifties... nothing too groundbreaking this week, but steady enough.

An Arsenal clean sheet would've been an excellent week.

[Mazuuurk]

Wildcarded. Had 2 transfers saved up - will that mean I'll still have 2 next week?

Shuffling around a bit and dropping Negredo and Hazard, and basicallly fucking defence off entirely, to get Aguero back in.

So now will have midfield:
Lallana - De Bruyne - Sanchez - Capoue - Barry

And on top:
Ibra - Aguero

That leaves me with 2.1M to do something with. Either I'll use it on improving two defenders, or on replacing Barry with someone like Iwobi (Arsenals fixtures look good but I'm worried about Iwobis rotation).

I'm a little interested how City will line up next game. It seems harsh to drop Iheanacho now, but likewise with Sterling and De Bruyne - and I don't quite see Pep playing Aguero in a number 10 role behind Iheanacho - although that's probably what I would have done...

[niko_cee]

No, the wildcard fucks up your carried over transfers, which is annoying.

[Adamski]

Wildcarded. Had 2 transfers saved up - will that mean I'll still have 2 next week?

Shuffling around a bit and dropping Negredo and Hazard, and basicallly fucking defence off entirely, to get Aguero back in.

So now will have midfield:
Lallana - De Bruyne - Sanchez - Capoue - Barry

And on top:
Ibra - Aguero

That leaves me with 2.1M to do something with. Either I'll use it on improving two defenders, or on replacing Barry with someone like Iwobi (Arsenals fixtures look good but I'm worried about Iwobis rotation).

I'm a little interested how City will line up next game. It seems harsh to drop Iheanacho now, but likewise with Sterling and De Bruyne - and I don't quite see Pep playing Aguero in a number 10 role behind Iheanacho - although that's probably what I would have done...

It'll be a straight swap for Iheanacho.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

17 Sep 22:55 Capoue Pereyra GW6
17 Sep 22:55 Sterling Sánchez GW6
17 Sep 22:55 Agüero Negredo GW6

[-james-]

Shit weekend, wildcard played.

Out: Konstantopoulos, Adrian, Van Dijk, Wollscheid, Wijnaldum, Fer, Martial, Negredo

In: Jakupovic, Forster, Evans, Baines, Coutinho, Romeu, Sterling, Lukaku

[Weaver]

Brought Bailly in for Shaw - Shaw is doubtful for tomorrow and Mourinho chewed him up a bit after Watford last week, so for the same price, I thought it was worth the trade.

Cech; Bailly, Baines, Koné; Townsend, Eriksen, Ibe, Cazorla; Negredo, Ibrahimovic (C), Costa.

[Baz]

Karius in. :nod:

[Pen]

I booted Zlatan for Aguero as United have a relatively hard run of games coming up and I need to have different players in a few leagues than the others to make ground after a shambolic start.

[Magic]

I've given up already.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

De Gea; McAuley, Holgate, Bailly; Antonio, Payet, Capoue, Sterling; Slimani, Ibrahimovic, Aguero (C).

Subs: Jakupovic, Hojbjerg, Amat, Kingsley.

On paper it's fucking brilliant which means I'm set to score about 30 points at best this weekend.

Almost triple captained Aguero but I pussied out so bet on him scoring a hattrick.

[Waffdon]

https://i.imgur.com/8rz6Kkx.png
Doubt Gundogan does much but he's cheap as fuck and gives me money in the bank to make two transfers next week

[P_3]

Out: Hazard, C. Wilson
In: Lallana, Aguero (C)

Let's do this. :flex:

[Trancemeister]

bought in Aguero and forgot to change the captain and now captain Coutinho missed a sitter :moop:

[Magic]

Total shit. Not got a fucking clue about this game now.

[Gray Fox]

Feeling good about bringing in Aguero and Lallana now.

[Magic]

I transferred Defoe who has just scored for Iianacho or however the fuck you say it who isn't playing. :harold:

[Trancemeister]

Never mind. Coutinho 1+2 so far :cool:

[Magic]

Two 4-1s and both of the most attacking players in each game have done fuck all.

[Magic]

I transferred Defoe who has just scored for Iianacho or however the fuck you say it who isn't playing. :harold:

Scored 2. :harold:

[Trancemeister]

60 points. I think that's the highest I've had this season. Still got 4 players to play.

[Magic]

Crisis averted. 11 points with 3 to play, so shove that mrgreen up your arsehole.

13 with 3 to play. Improvement.

[Trancemeister]

Hazard is getting sold unless he does something today.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

42 with 4 left.

[Magic]

Just made 4 transfers. Bet I don't score more than 30 again. And I'll need to dock -8 off it anyway.

[Mazuuurk]

It never seems like a good strategy to do many transfers for -x points. I know it can occasionally pay off, but it just seems over a whole season those few occasions will almost always be fewer than the times it didn't pay off, and then it's better to just sit still in the boat and keep calm, I reckon.


I slightly prematurely traded out KdB for Walcott (rather than Sterling, not sure about that...) today - didn't realize there are a bunch of Champions League games today (and yesterday) so I'm hoping Walcott & Sanchez are rested. And Aguero. Though I doubt it .

[P_3]

Ibra for captain? Or has Aguero got a good record against Spurs?

[Mazuuurk]

Aguero is generally a fixture-proof player so I'd just say go for Aguero. Thats what I'll do anyway.

[Pen]

I think he scored 4 last season against Spurs in one of the games and once or twice in the other.

edit: sorry, apparently he scored 4 against Spurs in 2014-2015 season when City won 4-1.

Aguero is averaging 1.25 goals-per-game against Spurs, a strike-rate none of the other 12 players to have hit at least seven against Tottenham can better. That's from Sky.

[P_3]

I've got a small lead so I've gambled on Ibra.

[Adamski]

I've got a small lead so I've gambled on Ibra.

I'm aiming to overtake you hopefully!

[Magic]

Lol -12 on transfers. Can't risk another 30 pointer though.

[Adamski]

Who did you bring in?

[Magic]

Boruc
Walker
Son
Defoe

[Pen]

That's a bit of a shit return to make up for -12 points.

[Magic]

I know. I have no idea what I'm doing. They probably won't even give me more than 8.

[Magic]

24 minus 12 for transfers.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fucking hell.

What is wrong with you?

[Magic]

45 somehow.

[John Arne]

Quite possibly worst week ever for me. 25pts. Fark.

[Trancemeister]

Cant wait to see if some bastard has triple captained Stekelenburg

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Aguero as my captain :face:

[Adamski]

Terrible week all round. A measly 37 points.

[Mazuuurk]

Zlatan had to go now :(

Lukaku in.

I have plenty in the bank now so I could maybe sacrifice 4 points to get De Bruyne for Capoue or Costa for Diomande. Not sure which is best, but inclined to go for De Bruyne with Citys fixtures. Reckon they will bounce back straight away from their loss this weekend.

[Magic]

Exactly same. Lukaku captain.

[Trancemeister]

Heaton & Gundogan on the bench :moop;

[Gray Fox]

Heaton, Sanchez and Aguero combining for more points than I got total last week.

I went for the risky captain of Lukaku instead of Aguero. I may be regretting it now.

[Andy]

Another shit week. Doing my head in at the moment.

[-james-]

http://i.imgur.com/ULmWWHE.png


Rondon vs Jakupovic
Costa vs Vertonghen
Lukaku vs Van Dijk

:face:

[Samadini]

Made my first bad decision for a while this week. Was going to use all out attack as only two of my defenders had a non shit match coming up, but pussied out of it as I thought Willian would be taking Pedro's place today, but the cunt is starting. I also took captaincy off Costa and gave it to Sanchez last minute. Hoping it's just a 1-0 win for them now.

Ian Nacho gamble didn't pay off, but I can deal with that. Pedro scoring a hattrick will piss me right off though.

[Smiffy]

Joined although will no doubt forget after the first week, as per.

Courtois

Bailey - Evans - Koscielny - Baines

Coutinho - Firminho - Mane - Kante

Carroll - Lukaku.

Bench - Hennessey - Monreal - Hojbjerg - Batshuayi.

Hopefully Lukaku joins Chelsea but then I think I'll have to let one of them go as you can only have three from one club?

Anyone know what my username is?

[Smiffy]

Sack that. :D I'm top? WTF.

[Andy]

Thats ridiculous, you picked an almost perfect starting squad there. Costa is the top scoring player in the game so perfect as captain every week, the three Liverpool mids have all been brilliant, Fer has had a great goal scoring run, Lukaku has scored well and you have got a few points from the defence.

If you know your password logon and play your wildcard to get rid of Kante and Coutinho, can also sort the defence out a bit.

Fair play though, 25,000th out of 4.2m without any transfer or changes is pretty special.

[CJay]

Are 'good' defenders worth it in this? Obviously the Chelsea boys on their clean sheet run were great to have, but there's a 1m+ difference between Walker and McAuley / Daniels for about an extra 10 points over the season so far. Is that 1m better spent on midfielders and attackers? That's my approach now - I've packed hazard, ozil, mane ; lukaku, costa, benteke in to my team now. Looking to squeeze one more top quality player in if I can manage it.

[Mazuuurk]

From what I can tell since the PL has become so competititive that there are no "safe" fixtures anymore (almost at least) - there isn't much value in defence. Best you can do is try to go for consistent goalscorers or passers. Bellerin is good as such, since he might also get a clean sheet now and then (though Arsenal are great att making a 3-0 win turn into 3-1 instead).

So all in all, there doesn't seem to be much value in defence IMO.

[Chris]

Had Zaha on my bench the last 4 gameweeks, he's got 35 points in that time :moop:

[Samadini]

Are 'good' defenders worth it in this? Obviously the Chelsea boys on their clean sheet run were great to have, but there's a 1m+ difference between Walker and McAuley / Daniels for about an extra 10 points over the season so far. Is that 1m better spent on midfielders and attackers? That's my approach now - I've packed hazard, ozil, mane ; lukaku, costa, benteke in to my team now. Looking to squeeze one more top quality player in if I can manage it.

It's definitely been the way, as you say it's only really been Chelsea consistently keeping clean sheets and you surely want both Hazard and Costa in your team, so there's only a space for one of their defenders anyway and I'd agree the money is better spent elsewhere. My midtable defenders pick up enough points every now and then to be worthwhile and it's meant I can go ridiculously top heavy.


https://s30.postimg.org/62viqw8bl/teeeem.png


:cool:

[CJay]

You've nailed it. That's the kind of team I'm building towards. Shame I wasted my wildcard already. :moop:

[Magic]

2 gameweeks in a row I've forgotten to change my team. FFS.

[Smiffy]

Thats ridiculous, you picked an almost perfect starting squad there. Costa is the top scoring player in the game so perfect as captain every week, the three Liverpool mids have all been brilliant, Fer has had a great goal scoring run, Lukaku has scored well and you have got a few points from the defence.

If you know your password logon and play your wildcard to get rid of Kante and Coutinho, can also sort the defence out a bit.

Fair play though, 25,000th out of 4.2m without any transfer or changes is pretty special.

Cheers Andy. I didn't take Kante out (although he's going now) but I did swap Coutinho for.....vice captain Lallana. :cool: Just swapped Kante for Kouyate and Benteke for Carroll.

10,824th.

[Weaver]

I had 2 points from Cech and Monreal on Tuesday, but Rondon's 17, Eriksen's 19, Clyne's 10 and van Dijk's 9 has helped to boost me to 70.

The guy with the top points score this week got 154 points - he used the bench boost chip to gain an extra 40 points, he had Chris Brunt as Captain and all but three of his players got bonus points. Didn't even make any transfers this week to make it happen, either.

[Samadini]

I always go out in the cup to the sort of person who has Brunt as captain, but I never have the balls to do something like that myself.

Went with Kane. Can't be often Spurs score 3 goals and he has nothing to do with any of them.

[niko_cee]

I've persisted with Negredo since the start of the season.

Dropped him this week.

Seriously?

[phonics]

http://i.imgur.com/YyFYFMI.png

Well, that's annoying.

[Samadini]

Stinker for me as well. Changed captain last minute from Kane to Hazard. Kane is an absolute banker this week and had him set as captain ready for it, but 2 minutes before the deadline felt compelled to do some tinkering.

[phonics]

I'm just annoyed because a bench boost would have taken me above a mate who takes it way too seriously. His entire twitter timeline is dedicated to the stuff and he's always on forums finding the most efficient players etc.

Was ready for him to come to the flat and I'd be like
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dAlv2LqyOHI/TL2xPdFB7oI/AAAAAAAAEAM/82ojBxE3Qdo/s1600/shit-eating-grin.jpg

[Smiffy]

I'm left with Arsenal and Liverpool running rampant to do much this week. I thought Bailly was back from injury now?

[Samadini]

My old flatmates used to seethe at the fact that I worked for Opta and would waste a lot of time and energy trying to prove they knew more about football than I did, even though I would never claim to be a know it all and working for Opta definitely doesn't mean that you are one. We had a fantasy league on the go and they would take it extremely seriously, like your mate and absolutely LOVE IT when they took an early lead over me. Clawed it back over the weeks and went top, as soon as that happened, they stopped playing and acted like they never cared about it, so I never got to use that face either. I got donned.

[Smiffy]

I've used my wildcard to make changes with Mane and Zaha both leaving for the AFCON.

Mignolet - (Hennessey)

Cahill - Jones - Monreal (Vertonghen - Smith)

Traore - Hazard - Firmino - Lallana - Xhaka

Aguero - Costa (Sinclair)

[niko_cee]

The other day some Bournemouth defender twat I have (Smith?) went off after 15 minutes and the fuckers kept a clean sheet and today Barragan does the same for Boro? What in the actual fuck?

I well and truly cursed Origi when I brought him in a few weeks ago as well. Apologies Divock.

[Smiffy]

:moop: So it would appear taking Mane, Lukaku and Baines out the side was a bit of a blooper.

FML.

[P_3]

Bringing in Traore, Xhaka and Sinclair was strange. As was using two wild cards one after the other.

[Smiffy]

Xhaka was decent I thought and I expect him to feature more now. Traore and Sinclair were cheap.

I'm not sure what the wild card business is but it meant transfers cost me no points init. Anyways yeah, fecked it.

[Pen]

Now that Verthongen is probably out for weeks, who's taking his place? Is it going to be Wimmer or Davies? Wimmer seems like the more obvious choice, but he's played about two minutes so far in the league this season.

[Waffdon]

I'd assume Davies as he plays there as the third centre half for Wales.

[Smiffy]

Boy did I need today's total.

Just four points separate the top four now.

[Magic]

I had a great week last week, forgot to change my team (one signing wouldn't have made a difference though) and it's been shit.

[niko_cee]

Heavily relying on Costa outperforming Sanchez today to maintain the gains I've made. Can already see that next week is going to be an absolute horror unless Liverpool and Chelsea roll back the years and play out another 4-4 classic. Goalless shitfest ahoy.

[Baz]

Captain Gabriel Jesus was as moronic move as ever by me.

[Waffdon]

I also had an incredible week last.

This week not so much. Replacing costa has destroyed my front line.

[Waffdon]

Or not^

Lukaku, the son. Shame I accidentally left Sanchez as captain.

[Magic]

Triple captain Lukaku. :drool:

[ScousePig]

I've gone from 5th to the summit.

Tight at the top.

[Waffdon]

Two Arsenal players getting bonus points over Costa/Alonso is a joke.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Monreal and Giroud got bonus points? Fucking lol.

Bonus point system was probably designed by Mantralux.

[Waffdon]

Think Chamberlain got the points for some utterly bizarre reason.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://i.imgur.com/6mSZyLV.png

It's genuinely broken.

Costa got 8 in the bonus point system. EIGHT.