Fantasy Football 247 Site Team News Gameweek 1
Our 2022/23 Overall Rank and Recent History
Now last season did not go entirely how we would have hoped. There were more postponements, double gameweeks and players with well over 11 million playing the game so we will put our rank down to those issues. Unfortunately we ended up with a rank of 297,085 which is our worst rank in the nine seasons this team has been running.
For that reason the big bosses have decided to bring me (MattX) in as they obviously need some help! Or more likely a scapegoat for whenever things go wrong.
Initial set up
To start things off we did a very basic add on the most obvious players of Haaland, Trent, Saka. Sprinkle in some more Arsenal in the forms of Jesus and Gabriel, toss in the template 6.5s M&Ms (Mitoma and Mbuemo) then fill in the gaps.
We didn’t do any tinkering with the draft over the preseason friendlies and instead took a back seat to focus on our own teams. That proved to be a solid idea as when we looked back at the inital draft there were a litany of problems; Jesus was injured, Mbuemo is flagged, Trent and co. can’t defend so we did a fire sale and changed up quite a few. The M&Ms got split, Jesus stays in his cave with no resurrection in sight and instead we’ve gone with not one, but two blonde Norwegians!
Here is the final product! (I didn’t quite work my differential magic just yet, need to lull them into a false sense of security. They need to think I actually know what I’m doing first!)
We have squeezed every last drop out of the transfer budget this year but we feel it is warrented as there are nice picks all over the pitch.
The Line-Up
We have gone for 2 cheap picks in Mubama and Bell who will largely keep our bench warm the majority of weeks. The one bench player we did go for is 4.5 defender Botman who offers brilliant value for money at that price hopefully Newcastle can stay as one of the best defences in the league. Everywhere else picks itself. Mbuemo may be flagged but it’s believed he will make GW1. Our biggest debate was the keeper Johnstone vs Pickford with Johnstone winning out
Captain – Haaland
Fairly straightforward. It’s Haaland. Enough said.
Saka will take over if for some reason Haaland doesn’t make an appearance.
Our Gameweek 1 team in full
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I think the site team should be looking at it differently! You had your second best season in all the years you’ve been doing it in terms of overall points! That shows improvement!
Well in Matt
Interesting?
And as an outsider looking in I believe it’s a risk with so much Arsenal cover this early?
Good luck
I’m ready to roll also so what do we think everyone?
Potty
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Forest, Fulham and Palace in the first three are pretty nice fixtures. Can easily be dropped down or swapped out if needed.
1+ runners up last season and all the big bitters scored 14+ goals.
Don’t mean to sound passive aggressive but Mudryk and Garnacho seem much riskier.
Nice team. The “Mbuemo position” is an interesting differential in the template, with many opting for Mitoma, Eze, even Maddison or Richarlison in there with a bit of budgetary tweaking. Could make or break the gameweek.
I have something very similar, but presently gone for Jackson (CHE) instead of Watkins. Have Mitoma as 5th mid for now, could also get one of the above mentioned options and axe Jackson for Pedro. Have had triple BRI at various points which feels somewhat overkill.
With Frank saying Mbeumo will start we are going to take the risk. He has some great fixtures and should be main scoring outlet with Toney gone.
I do feel Triple Brighton is overkill as there should be a max exodus come GW3
Yeah I’m tempted myself! Just got burned by him a few times last season…
Oh me too. He’s not in my draft anymore because until FPL start giving points for hitting the post I’ll avoid.
With Ruben rumours of not having travelled….
Do I keep him and use the bench?
Swap him to Stones?
Downgrade to Gvardiol?
Downgrade to a 4.5 (Udogie) and cash the money?
Downgrade to gvardiol
Thank you
I’d go with stones. Scored in preseason moving in to midfield, if Ruben didn’t travel he’ll 100% start. I like Akanji at .5 less too
Hey guys, how’s everyone doing?
Here we go again.
Could ye please have a look at my team, thanks. And would u stay Garnacho or Pedro?
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Pedro. I don’t like the Garnacho pick to be honest.
Ok, thanks, who would u suggest for 5m?
Not the nicest picks at 5.0 but I actually like Ouattara or Kluivert at Bournemouth.
You could be better dropping to a 4.5 and saving the 0.5
Thanks bud.
Thanks for another great article. Its there still a round the grounds latest news/ predicted line ups coming?
Unfortunately not as they cannot provide the widgets for their new format. It is however here –
https://www.drafthound.com/fpl/predicted-lineups