Fantasy Football FF247 Team Game-week 22
With that game-week done, that is one less we have to worry about embarrassing ourselves in. Another pathetic showing from the FF247 XI, good thing FPL doesn’t have relegation, otherwise we drop from the Premier straight into the Sunday leagues. However, no matter how bad we perform you can never say we are not pretty predictable. That makes it red arrows in 9 of the last 11 weeks and nothing in our recent past points to a turn in our luck. We managed 30 this GW, which was 5 below the average, but about 5 more than you should expect. We now sit in 1.2 million and we find that the teams around our ranking usually are ran by people who colour coordinate their teams or only have players with names that start with the letter R. Never mind, the managers with the letter R (Rooney, Ramsey) now sit way higher than us.
We should caveat this with a credential check though! Just so you all know that we aren’t a bunch of idiot chancers. Normally, anyway! This committee, individually at least, are no mugs. We boast at least three recent top 500 finishes, one of whom came close to winning the bloody thing a few short years back and another managed to occupy two of the top ten places in the final MLS standings last season! It’s not a bad CV all told and the same guys steered it to a respectable top 6k finish last season. It has however been laughably unlucky in just about every aspect so far this season! Not a weekend goes by now without a laugh out loud moment behind the scenes as every single decision we make takes a turn for the worse, be it an own goal, a red card or just plain not even starting (see Rangel below!). So yeah, we know what we are doing but collectively we are just doing it dreadfully this year!
GW21 in summary
We think we will choose to remember this game-week as the one when we finally starting picking our captains somewhat right, sort of. Hold on, let us explain… technically we didn’t select wrong. Our capo was our second highest scorer on the team. Problem was, he only scored three points. Considering how the season has went though, we will count that as a win. On defence, we had what looked like our least reliable defender Dijk, pick up the most points with 8. Hennessey gave away a goal, Rangel didn’t start, but luckily came in and helped Swansea concede 3 goals and our prized pupil Bellerin was part of a defence that conceded 3 goals to a combination of Firmino and the Welsh Xavi Joe Allen. Our illustrious midfield combined for a total of 10 points and not to be outdone our trio of star forwards combined for 6 points. So basically the seven of them got outscored by a Fossil (Defoe) by one point, 17-16. Splendid, can’t wait for the 2016-17 season.
Transfer/s decision for GW22 – we have sold Harry Kane and bought Sergio Aguero…
As decided last time we have bought Kun, hoping that his explosiveness will reappear and propel us up the rankings. We don’t feel the need to justify Kun, although we admit that watching the Spurs game vs Sunderland may produce some nervous moments and knowing our luck some behind-the-scenes arguments, despite everyone agreeing the move! Here’s hoping Kun’s Wednesday night blank was him just waiting for us to get on board and that Kane doesn’t punish us too severely!
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Our team in full…
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Captain – Sergio Aguero
Home to Palace who have failed to score in four matches, we are banking on City having plenty of the ball and creating chance after chance for the goal-hungry Aguero, who will slot away another five-goal haul. Desperate? Optimistic? Confident? Well, we’re certainly two of the above – and given our ranking we feel it’s perfectly understandable.
Our vice-captain is Riyad Mahrez
If Kun gets lost on his way to the ground and tears his hamstring in the warm up, Mahrez will take the armband.
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Hi Guys,
Few real bad GW have seen me slip a little in the rankings, team for this week below, no FT’s left and 1.5 left ITB. Any recommendations?
Butland
Toby A Kolarov Creswell
Alli Mahrez (C) Ozil Payet De Bruyne
Aguaro (VC) Ighalo
Subs: Lukaku, Evans, Dann
Mark90
Looks set :thumbup:
Afternoon all!
How is everyone’s plans coming along for GW 22?
This is my team, good to go?
Mitro, thats a good team. I also have 8 of them so it got to be good. 😉 I would play Lukaku buddy. Alli may be the first sub
brave man benching lukaku, but its a tough choice whichever one you go for.
I have a similar problem with my front 8 too
Zouma lasted a long time then !!
Lol! Yep he didn’t deliver so he’s been moved on mate
Heyho guys and gals.
Is Kun really necessity? If so Ill have to do Lukaku –> Kun and Walcott –> 5.2 mid (whos the best for that range?)
Or you think Walcott –> Payet is the better option?
Not for your team,no..Do wally to Payet ASAP
+1
Walcott to Payet yeah
Did walcott to payet earlier in the week.
Theo has had his chance for 3 games & done nothing. Sanchez is back soon so he’ll be in trouble
Hello guys, should I get Giroud for Vardy for a hit? Also, is my team good to go or you suggest any changes?have 0 Ft and 2.8m itb
Vardy is playing Villa.
Constantine
It may not be a bad move but not this week (with Vardy playing Villa) and not for a hit.
I’d look again at it next week.
OK.. Thanks GP and Initt. I know, but, villa seem to have strengthened at the back. and vardy seems out of form lately. but, who knows.. I’ll still give him a chance. cheers
Hey guys, how’s it going? Site team looks good, I’ve actually got the same (C) and (VC) and we’ve got almost the same starting front 7- so you may want to rethink things!!
Not really sure what to do with this team, had a really shitty past 2 weeks but I can’t see anything obviously wrong other than getting Payet in at some point. I have 1 FT and 1.8 ITB. Are there any moves you’d suggest or should I hold the FT and see what the landscape looks like after the weekend? Thanks as always and good luck this weekend!
Hey Red! How’s everything going, mate? I’m contemplating getting rid of De Gea for Lloris, Courtois or Cech (as I’m ok w/ doubling up and have done so pretty successfully in past seasons). I’d also like to get Payet in but can’t figure out who to bin cuz I like my midfield 5 of Ozil / KdB / Willian / Mahrez / Arnautivic. Maybe Arny? Seems like you are in a similar boat. Kolarov might play this weekend but City rotation is another problem (I’ve got Kolarov too)!
Hey Sanchez, nice to see you in the boards man. Things are good here in VT, hope all is well with you too!
So yeah, DDG, Van Dijk, Kolarov and probably Myhill are all players I’d be happy to ship, just haven’t wanted/needed to use a FT on them yet. I think I’m in ok shape for this week so I’ll probably hold the ft. Did you make any moves this week?
Things are great here in PA! We got dumped a bunch of that ‘snow’ stuff a few days ago but it disappeared rather quickly with the temperature back in the 40s today. Actually going out for some pick up footy later today!
Anyway, rolling over the transfer might be the smart move as you have no real/immediate problems. I might do Arny–> Payet but still on the fence. Or switch keepers but don’t know which one to bring in. So might roll over the transfer and reassess next week!
Ah, sorry. I see you haven’t actually made a transfer yet. Trying to read and post on my phone while feeding/watching/changing the baby and I haven’t mastered it yet, ha!
No worries, man! You reckon spending less time on FPL and not overthinking it is helping you in terms of points?
Hmm, I’m not too sure if that’s helped or hurt me. I was chugging right along with decent scores, winning most of my h2h matches and hanging in under 200k ranking. But I’ve had 2 crap weeks in a row and need to turn things around!
It’s been a tough season so far though and I feel like I can end up ok if I can get on a good run! Anyway, have a great time playing pick up today and best of luck this weekend man, hope you score some big points!
I’m in the same boat too! Good luck to you as well!
Afternoon all,
My front 8 is as follows:-
Ozil, Payet, Mahrez, KDB, Ali
Lukaku, Ighalo, Kun
Cant decide who to bench this week. Currently have Ali sitting there but not sure about it.
Thoughts anyone
I would definitely bench out of those 8.. the other 7 are very explosive..
Hey Hammers,
That is an incredibly tough decision there mate, if it’s possible I would be tempted in playing the AOA chip on this front 8, if not then for me it’s between Alli and Lukaku strangely enough. Sunderland are crap at the back so Alli should get an assist at the very least hopefully and Lukaku is in a rich vain of form which is surprising but he is against a Chelsea team that seem to be gaining back some confidence. It’s really just how you feel mate.
Unfortunately i’ve used the AOA.
Think Rom will have something to prove v chelsea so might have to stick with Ali
Ah pity then yeah I agree Alli on the bench over Lukaku