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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Decided to WC as well, a couple of changes to the site team though, I am not sure about playing Jackson or Haarland though.
I have £600k ITB.
This is better.
Exactly the same question from me posted before. I really have no confidence in Jackson but at some stage he has to come good given the number of chances he gets.
With Haaland back in training it makes it less straightforward to bench him. I can’t help you make that choice as I’m stuck myself too
I have dropped Jackson for Højlund! solves this GW but still has DGW.
Good shout
Hi all.
Have been avidly reading all your comments and all I can say is ‘Good luck’! Unto each his/her own!
Personally I thought I was being original and had come up with a super variation of the WC team, but upon reading the site team post, I have discovered it’s exactly the same as them!!! The only exception being that I have Benny White instead of Van der Ven! Talk about template! Didn’t even realise I had fallen into it. Oh well, we’ll see how we finish the season.
Cheerio and thanks for all the chat (I felt like I was sitting in the corner just listening and not participating in the conversation).
Kindest regards, AJW 😉
Morning all,
Thanks for the article
Question: Would it be daft to BB in the last GW?
I have WC, TC & BB left and wanted to TC in 37 … think the games look better for TC Palmer that week instead of this.
Now I’m thinking maybe just TC this GW. WC next and BB 37.
Thought? Thanks!!
CC
TEAM FOR THIS GW – didn’t think warranted WC.
BB not ideal for GW38. We all know what happens that week and it’s often difficult enough to find 11 that play, never mind 15.
Thanks init — you’re right.
Best TC today then!
CC
Here my team for this week. No chips left and used my FT.
I haven’t had the best season and at this point care more about my ML then rank.
Everyone is going to be captain plamer this week so going to try mine on.
Isak, son or Bruno?
And 2nd start Darwin or B.B Diaz
Team
Captain Isak could well pay off. Less convinced about BB Diaz. Good luck to ya
My current WC team with 3.9ITB tempted to leave Haaland out for the rest of the season, would you make any change changes and is my starting 11 gtg? Or would you chnage that too?
Tough to leave Mateta on the bench but it’s one of those weeks where there are too many good options to play them all
Currently have a bit of a benching headache. Who would you bench in this team? I’m on Saka but it feels wrong!
I’m playing Saka over Garnacho if that helps … but I’m not sure either!
CC
I played Garnacho in the end…home vs Burnley swung it for me. North London derby can be pretty unpredictable. Thanks! Good luck!!
Looks like you’re in luck with Foden not playing
CC
Wow me too! I get saka points!
Nice one Reg!