Fantasy Football (has been suspended!) Update
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (perhaps advisable right now) you will be aware that the Premier League have suspended all fixtures until (at least) April 4th. In essence this means that we will miss GW’s 30 & 31 and resume in GW32. Whether the 32 target actually happens is a different matter but for now that is what we are being told to work towards. We just wanted to make you aware of a few key things…
FPL have released the following on Twitter;
What does the #PL postponement mean for #FPL 👇
⬛ All GW30 and GW31 fixtures are postponed and the intention is for the PL to return for GW32 on 4 April, subject to medical advice
— Fantasy Premier League (@OfficialFPL) March 13, 2020
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To pick the bones out of that, essentially what it all means is;
- GW’s 30 & 31 will still happen, albeit in a ghost fashion.
- You’ll get zero points awarded (unless you somehow still take a hit!).
- Any moves you make (be that transfers, hits, chips) will still count and be there whenever (if) we resume.
- They’ve waffled on about the FPL Cup and how it all affects H2H leagues but who really cares!
We appreciate that the above is short ‘n sweet but that is all you need to know in a nutshell. We shall update this accordingly as and when we know more.
Please feel free to continue to chat amongst yourselves as usual and add any relevant info in the comments if you see / hear anything pertinent to the above.
Should I be making any transfers? Got 2 FTs £0.2 ITB but I can’t really see any point.
What is Enda Stevens’s return date? Perhaps you can change him.
God knows for who. I think I miss football too much to start pontificating
For what it’s worth (nothing?) I did Dendoncker and Boly to Sarr and Doherty with my 2FT.
I think it’s definitely worth doing whilst we have FT’s building up which many will now simply lose. I got DDG in for McCarthy this week, not a move I’d usually make but while I can I did.
Gear’s advice the other day was sage;
+100
Hey all
I dont even know where to start with FF at the moment!!
what gameweek do I look at, who do I bring in!!
My strategy has gone out the window like most peoples!
Hammers, we don’t really know but the assumption would be to work from GW30 being where they resume from and that they’ll go from there.
Deadlines for transfers need to be adhered to though as tonight’s for 31 has passed already. Site Team missed it as I forgot it was a Friday one! Not that it matters massively as we all have about 4 or 5 weeks to play FT’s now, maybe more, maybe less. We’ll do a Site Team article next week to hopefully freshen things up a bit and remind everybody of what the deadlines are etc, etc.
Well that has buggered things really as I did no transfers as thought everything had halted.
At least I had 7 players for GW31, and already had Mane(c), salah (v) lol so suppose I am covered double lol
So I take it, we should still do transfers if we feel appropriate?????
Yep, do them if necessary, albeit a bit blindly. I’ve done 1 tonight myself, even though I thought (without thinking) the deadline was Sat. Site Team lost one tonight. But we are discussing next weeks already.
Well, as I didnt used mine.
Not sure its worth using any of mine as such, as I was originally looking to FH in gw34
By the time the games are supposedly going to start, I was going to WC!!! (gw36)
Very sage
not sure i understand…. which isnt difficult
Gear said he’s drawn up his ideal team, and he’s now using the FT every week to slowly get his current team towards his ideal team.
Init said this was sage. I agreed.
I still agree
Although I’ll add in that there are of course some stray fixtures that are still to be added once we get going again; and these will create DGW’s regardless of the new schedule. I’ll (re) collate these later and post in a better format but basically they are as follows; (teams circled are the teams, teams on the right are the vs fixture, obvs) :wink2:
ok
it was my intention, and maybe others, to WC in gw36 (assuming it still goes ahead.
If it does, is this still a viable time to WC?
Init, The six games you have highlighted will probably go back to being a full game week with the four that would have been played in that week. There is only MC v ARS and AV v SHU will will not be in a full GW and I feel that these may even end up being triples. What the FA do with the Cup is a different matter
If I am understanding what the game is suggesting, there will be a game 36 and 37 and a mega game week 38.
Anyone with triple captain, free hit, bench boost and wild card will have to lose one of them. Is that the correct interpretation of the rules.
I did a transfer prior to the deadline tonight as I had two free transfers.
Transferred out harry wilson of Bournemouth and brought in Mason mount.
I only have bench boots and wild card left so will be wild carding in game week 37 and bench boost in game week 38.
Stay safe everyone.
Jamie
Oops boost instead of boots; damn predictive text.
Jamie
Honestly not sure what they’ll do with it Jamie. It’d make more sense from a ‘game’ POV to either revert back to GW30 and crack on from there or re-classify each one or start at 36 and have a 39, a 40, a 41 etc.
Otherwise GW38 will be ridiculous. I could be wrong here as it’s a bit early but I reckon from looking at the fixture tracker that there are roughly 84 scheduled games left plus the other 8 previously unscheduled, so 92. That’d mean GW38 would have 72 games 😀
Can’t see that happening!
A 72 game GW38 bench Boost could be interesting. I think I would prefer the ridiculous scenario rather than adding more GW. Just would be a fun way to end a difficult period for all.
It would indeed. But in reality they won’t.
FPL have made a statement that GW 32 – 35 deadlines will stay at the same times so Jamie is right. We can now at the best only have DGW 36, DGW 37, and mega 38. Although one of 36/37 could even be a treble. So BB 38 is a certainty for me. Whether I WC 37 and FH 36 or vice versa will depend on the fixtures.
Since we have no fantasy running, may be it is time for bragging rights.
What was your highest ever GW score during your fantasy reign?
Mine was 137 last season, GW34 with bench boost.
Come on, everyone
I’ve had a 200 + and I know a good few on here have too but I’d have to dig through a lot of old pics to prove it!
It was a DGW obviously and ended on a Wednesday. Got a feeling it involved Sakho scoring for Liverpool. Which should narrow it down. One for later when I have time but I’ll try and find it for sure since you’ve piqued my nostalgic interest.
init, the biggest DGW I can remember is when Suarez and Sturridge were leading the line for Liverpool and Sanchez played for Arsenal. DGW 34 or something in the 13/14 season? Scores of 200+ were normal in that DGW.
I got 162pts in DGW34 2015/16, That was with Sanchez TC 72pts, also had Aguero in that team who got 26pts, That was my golden year, i ended up 19th overall
182 I believe in a dgw. No pics on the cell phone but I suspect it to be on the same double as init’s so I’m going to make a tactical move (that is, be lazy) and wait for him to find out which was it!! :smoke:
Nah. Too much work to find that out.
Got 397 points in the last 3 gw’s in 16/17. Alexis sanchez was my 3xC Got me like 13 and 11 in two games. So like 72 after 3xC. Don’t remember exactly but somronr here might remember…
There was a 200+ week in one of those 3 gw’s
Found this!
No mega scores for me. However I did have a cracking run last year of ~20 GW in a row with scores of 60+. It was an insanely lucky run where every transfer / captain pick paid of.
guys, no need for pictures, we believe you for sure.
. I’ve posted mine as it was in hand by chance.
*still looking**
**just started looking
:wink2:
I can’t remember my highest scoring GW, but my favourite GW was GW38 a couple of years ago where I managed to win the only ML I care about, on the last day of the season. It’s the only FPL screenshot I’ve kept!
It’s the fact that I won it by 1 point which makes it so sweet 😎
indeed
They’re more memorable than a high score tbf. My best FPL memory is similar with Perez scoring a completely unexpected brace vs Newcastle and basically clinching my main ML on a last rollercoaster day, whilst I was (literally) at Alton Towers.
194 points was my highest!!
So, 2ft and nothing itb…
Not sure on what to do here. But with 2 ft’s i might as well do something. This delay might be enough for tammy to get fit again so not so sure about giroud anymore…
Allan, you know you’ve missed this weeks deadline don’t you? I made that mistake last night.
No, i got 2 ft’s now, got the second one last night…
Giroud —> DCL and you’re sorted :good:
I hope everyone is doing ok.
My set-up for GW36.
:good: