Fantasy Football 247 Site Team News Gameweek 35
All White (with an orange hue) on the night
Welcome to FF247 Site Team DGW35
DGW34 was a game week filled with high variance. Some teams reaped the rewards (with 219pts the highest recorded) and some teams suffered badly. We landed somewhere in the middle. Despite 95pts being some 19pts over the weekly average (76pts) we still suffered our 4th red arrow on the bounce.
Managers playing the Free Hit chip were the ultimate winners, and whilst that success still hinged on which players they chose, for many, players like Mateta, White and Odegarad delivered huge double-digit scores that saw seismic shifts across mini-leagues and overall rankings. Throw in injuries to key single-game week players like Palmer and Haaland and things just seemed to go the way of those managers who ditched them in favour of more risky picks with the upside of 2 fixtures.
Our transfers of Henderson and Eze looked good on paper, Pickford would have been the better pick of the keepers but who would have predicted a double-clean sheet when their double included the visit of Liverpool?
Our double Arsenal clean sheet was nice, but when you have Ben White matching their combined scores on his own its easy to feel deflated. We were lucky to get Zabarnyi’s 7pts off the bench, Konsa’s 2pts, not so much.
In the end, our rank drop from 4119 to 8075 could have been worse. Prior to the Brighton v Man City game, we were down to 18k. Thankfully Foden turned up with a 16-pointer and that saved our blushes and bumped us back into the top 10k.
Our Gameweek 34 Result
We made our moves before seeing how much we had in the bank… we did have 1 free transfer to use ahead of DGW35. Let’s go see what was decided….
Our DGW35 Transfer(s)
We’d always pencilled in our WC for DGW35 and so it shall be.
We’re going for an all-in approach to the doubles with Gabriel our only single-game week 37 player to retain his place. All our moves were put to the vote and the final 15 are those whose names you now see in our squad.
I’ll not get into every individual spot; most picks speak for themselves. It’s a pretty template WC and we’re happy as ever to go with the crowd.
It’s felt a lot less painful selling the likes of Saka and Salah given their recent returns. Son and Bruno are the replacements of the two, given that Bruno has better form than both, and throw in the fact that between them, our new boys have 11 fixtures between them vs 8 for the departing duo and we’re betting on quantity regardless of quality.
It was painful to quit on our double-Arsenal defence, but again, budget and fixture volume won out in the end. There were other notable debates, do we keep Watkins or go for Jackson? In the end, quantity most definitely won over quality in that particular debate!
With no concrete news on Haaland we’ve decided to keep him and simply stick him on our bench, hopefully, that one doesn’t come to haunt us! Palmer sounds like he’ll be well enough to play and he takes the armband.
Hopefully, DGW35 and 37 are as fortuitous for us as DGW34 was for others. Come what may, we’ve had a great season and whatever happens from here through to GW38 is as always largely out of our control.
Good luck this game week, may your arrows be green!
To confirm we have played our Wildcard
Captain – Palmer
Our DGW35 team in full…
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Any guesses whether Areola or Neto play this week. My best guess is they actually both play?
Go Neto, i’m hoping we can score lots v WHU.
Watch Mo get a hatty now that everyones sold him.
Yes that would be typical
As site team doing well this year, I decided to copy it. All same except I can afford Dalot for Maguire. Would be nice to have White instead of Gabriel, but not enough unfortunately.
Should have started copying from round 2
Is anyone considering dropping Haaland? Lot of money tied up in an injured player.
Honestly I have and I may just do that. I can get him back before the City double if need be. His form has been off this year. Sophomore slump I suppose.
Is he though?!
Looks pretty healthy there Innit, thanks for the info. I thought he was still sidelined.
Not a good news for the almost half of a million who ditched him this week
I sold him last gw for mateta who got me 29 pts.
I ll get haaland back before the double. No need to take a hit to get him back now as everyone gonna c palmer or son anyways.
Although I am not sure for who. I’m on a WC and have already created a benching headache for GW35/36. Sort of planning towards a BB in the DGW37 so I have a bunch of folks that play two then that you would otherwise never bench.
Triple captain is out. Palmer or Son?
Palmer for me
Doing the same
Take a look guys
I have TC BB & WC available
I’m thinking:
WC GW35
TC GW 37
Not sure when to use BB
This is my team. What do you think?
A fair few are BB in gw37, so you may need to wildcard this week or next,.
Whichever you do, you should TC the other week.
I am TC’ing this week, WC next week and BB in gw36
I switched from Son to Palmer (probably regret it as 3rd in ML is going Son, and is only 5 points behind me)
If you’re WC this week then it has to be to set up a full 15 DGW players in GW37. That really only leaves TC in GW36 or 38.
Thats why i TC this week.
Easier to work out next week
Makes sense
TC this week and WC next week
Setting it up for a big BB on week 37.
Thanks guys
Good suggestions
I’m really struggling to allow myself to play Jackson even with a DGW. Can anyone make a case for him over this 7?
If u have jackson in ur team, u surely have to play him. Of these probably bench haaland. If u don’t have jackson then no need to buy him.
I’m doing the same SAF, He’s only in my WC team for the BB 37,I’ve gone one better and benched Silva as well, been mugged too many times by playing DGW players over SGW players and this looks like another one of those situations