Fantasy Football FF247 Team Game-week 37
42pts! 42 lousy points! That’s not bad you say? Well it could have been so much better, but we’ll get to that shortly. 42pts minus the 4pts for the hit we took last week left us bang on the average of 38pts and gave us another red arrow dropping us to 139,998. Our hopes of a top 100k finish have taken something of a knock in the last two game-weeks and this in turn has placed extra pressure on us as we enter the penultimate game-week of the season.
So where did those 42pts come from? As you can see we picked up 2pts from David de Gea but this really should have been 15pts from Karl! You probably won’t believe us but at approximately 8:30pm last Friday night a vote was held as to which of our keepers we would play and Darlow came out on top by three votes to two and yet we played de Gea! Imagine our surprise when we realised we’d left 15pts on the bench! An inquest has been held and we know who is to blame but Floydeth has decided the culprit shall remain nameless! At the back the star of the show was Nacho Monreal who picked up a clean sheet and maximum bonus points. In midfield our captain Alexis Sanchez was a massive flop. Our new additions last week had contrasting fortunes with Dimitri Payet picking up his 11th assist of the season while Cesc Fabregas blanked for the 27th time this season! Things didn’t get much better up top with Harry Kane the only one to register a return.
Transfer decision for GW37 – Sold – Mamadou Sakho, Joel Ward & Harry Kane; Bought – Chris Smalling, Patrick van Aanholt & Andy Carroll
GW37 and we’re set to take our first 8pt of the season. Now we realise for some of you an 8pt hit is as common as LvG saying something daft but for us it is unchartered territory. However, needs must. As things stood we only had five players for the double and if we’re to have any chance of finishing inside the top 100k we need to go for it.
On first glance it might seem stupid that two of the players involved in our 8pt hit are defenders but one is not going to play again this season and the other plays for Palace, so ditching the two of these was a no brainer particularly when the players we are replacing them play twice in GW37. Not only do United & Sunderland play twice but both have something to play for, albeit at opposite ends of the table. We realise United’s form away from Old Trafford isn’t great but surely they can pick up a clean sheet against Norwich? Plus that leaves us with 2 Man United and 2 Arsenal in our back four next week when they play Bournemouth and Villa respectively. Capiche?! Anything gained from the game against West Ham is then a bonus. Unfortunately PvA hasn’t of late been quite as prolific in front of the opposition goal as he was back in January but Sunderland have of late discovered the art of defending and with home games against Chelsea & Everton we feel there’s a good chance PvA will justify his inclusion.
Given his recent form, six goals and an assist in his last six appearances, it was a unanimous decision to bring in Andy Carroll! Although we’re not alone as close to 60k other managers have done likewise this week. Great minds and all that. Once we’d decided on the big man we obviously had to decide as to whether it was Kane or Kun we would push out. Had Spurs still been battling for the league it would have been a difficult choice but with them having nothing left to play for it was an easy decision to keep Kun especially considering he has Swansea next week, sans their best defender in Ashley Williams.
The team in full
Triple Captain – Andy Carroll
While it was a unanimous decision to bring in Carroll it was very much a split decision to captain him. When Payet picked up the first two votes he appeared to be a shoe in but big Andy came up on the rails to win the vote 3-2. However given his recent form the decision to make him captain is not that outrageous. Looking at his ownership levels of 6.8% he represents a significant differential and should he pick up returns in both games we are likely to see a massive rise in our rankings. Despite how much senses it’s starting to make it is still somewhat difficult to believe that we are triple captaining Andy Carroll!! Not quite where we imagined that particular chip would end up when they announced them back in July! He who dares…
Our Vice-captain is Dimitri Payet
Good luck for this week from the FF247 Team Committee.
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Good team bitches, but what to do with mine? I don’t like the Pool coverage in my team. FIrst I figured I would sell Kane but now I am actually leaning towards Sturridge! Am I crazy? Considering an 8 or 12 point hit. I will probably get Cresswell, Carroll and maybe Hazard or Willian.
What about Sturridge to Carroll, Alli to Hazard and Bellerin to Cresswell?
Sounds good Raz. Cant that be for ward or fosu instead of Bellerin? You’ll want him for 38
Might do Ward to Gabs the week after. Just hope Bellerin doesn’t assist or score versus Villa. 😉
Like them moves Raz but as DMC says, Bellerin could be big in GW38. Would try a different angle is possible? Happy to keep Kun?
City playing for CL survival. They have to deliver. So Kun seems a must, yeah. Also, now they are out of the real CL, they will have 100 percent focus on EPL!
Other way, for a 16 point hit. LMAO! I am considering it, bitches. :p
Sanchez to Hazard, Alli to Willian, Sturridge to ummmm Carroll, Ward to Cresswell and ummm Simpson to Azpi. How is that for yall bitches?
Hi all, really not sure what to do this week.
Got £0.4m in the bank and 1FT (and will be bench boosting).
The Liverpool punt doesn’t look like it will pay off, are they my priority? WHo would you bring in/get rid of?
Thanks in advance
Ummm Sanchez cappo? I don’t know what the fuck will happen with Pool, look at post above. *sighs*
Team is looking good.
Just haven’t changed it yet – will likely be Carroll unless I replace a striker.
Evening all. Been away all week, just got to get through the articles and now need to sort my team out for this big DGW.
Thoughts on Sakho, Morgan, Mahrez & Kun to Cresswell, Azpi, Hazard & Carroll for a -8? Morgan to Azpi isn’t required for others to work but I like his fixtures as well as GW38 game and think Leicester might be a bit off the ball for the rest of the season.
Other question is who to TC? Payet, Hazard or Carroll?
Would appreciate any insights, bit behind on the week!
Just post your freaking team so we know the complete picture. Just because you have a picture of Stallone, doesn’t mean you have to act like him. 😉
Bench will be Mig; Sanchez, Bellerin & Gabriel
Team looks awesome man. Have a look at mine. I am having a headache. :*(
Nice team folks. Gone a bit nuts, -12 point hit to offload my Liverpool coverage, but loaded up on DGWers, so let’s roll the dice and see what happens! Good luck to all tomorrow
Leighton Baines is an interesting one.. I didn’t even think about that Pippin…
Are you bench boosting? Team is looking awesome.
FFS, I still have 2 Pool players and I am fucking hating it. Don’t know what the fuck Klopp will do!
Hi everybody. Thanks to the staff for all your hard work this season. It’s helped me out immensely over these dire months that are gone from my life forever. All that aside, there’s a match or two tomorrow.. i’m chasing in my ML.. currently 3rd and about 80 points off top. took an 8 pointer to the gullet to field this tomorrow… my biggest question is whether to play De Bruyne or Sanchez? any other advices always welcomed.. (Moreno bugs me too) Thank you all.. see ya in August..
I would play Sanchez over kdb. Just think Sanchez hasn’t had cl midweek. Good luck banging team
Not sure how this went down but I’ve managed to get 11 dgw players with just 3 hits since gw35. Liverpool players are a risk I know but there’s decent bench cover if any of them doesn’t feature. Worst case is if they play a 2 pointer In one of the games but I cant justify hits for defenders. Should I play Sanchez ahead of Firmino ? I’m being lured for those two games below the players name. Cant have a dgw Firmino or Lanzini on the bench can I!
I really don’t like the Pool coverage. I am having a nightmare with both Sturridge and Firminho. I HATE EUROPA LEAGUE, FUCKING HATE IT!
agreed with Raziel.. that’s a lot of Liverpool for this week.. If Klopp is saying there’s going to be changes, I’m guessing we’re all going to learn a few new names this weekend. I’m scared and I only have Moreno.. Lanzini you leave in for sure… Firmino, I’m not so sure.. I’d roll the dice on him before Moreno though.
Thx guys. What can I say, I think all 3 will play at least one game. And if that’s the watford game they may even go big on CS/goals. The arsenal boys are unlikely to keep a CS no? So it’s either Sanchez for Firmino to lower my pool exposure or it’s hits for other dgw defenders. And I just dont see any good shouts out there.
Dmc I hear ya mate and I personally have ditched Liverpool completely butttttt I still think firmino will play 1 game out of the 2 but it’s a gamble I’m not taking. Because you have him I would leave him in and hope for the best. Like you say don’t see many
Other good replacements.