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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Hi all. Hope you’re all having a good summer so far. This is my latest draft and like everyone struggling with the Salah no Salah…
What do you think of these two?
Salah, Richarlison and Joao Pedro or
Odegaard, Maddison and Watkins
Here is the other draft
Think I prefer no Salah but very little in it, think this is a case of just flip a coin. Both strategies have their pluses!
Thanks. The no Salah draft leaves me with 1 mil in the bank as well…
I think you just need to decide if you want him or not. I’ll have him for GW2 then look at it again
What does everyone think of this team?
a couple of nice differentials in Gvardiol and Havertz…if Gvardiol doesn’t play then in comes Chilwell…Nice!
Like those diff picks!
Does this team feel balanced enough folks?
Strong team. It’s basically what I’d do if I had to get Salah in there.
Ok. Dropped Watkins for Mbumeo, based on fixtures.
Benching James for this week too
Have I totally lost the plot?
No but I think I would play pedro over Jackson this week
Thanks. I’ve not been paying attention to Brighton. Is Pedro definitely the man over Welbeck and Ferguson?
I agree btw based on fixtures. Although I have no idea what sort of team Lutron will be. (I assume, a bad one!)
Could be genius or madness… Liverpool will surely score so benching James makes sense.
It’s the fine line that I like to walk SpecialK!! 😉
That bench is stacked
Why is everyone seeming to be dropping Salah? this is mine with Salah.
For me, it’s a cost and fixtures issue, plus the amount of newness in the Liverpool team.
I like that
Last minute question…
1) Gvardiol & Richarlison
2) Stones & Mitoma
Thanks!
Stones & Mitoma for me.
+1.
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