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.
Looking for a silver lining to all the doom and gloom about the PL…
The National League, NL North and NL South are still going. The local clubs could do with the support with PL out of action.
Yeah but larger crowds may not be the best thing just now!
They should be cancelled right away. The locals should start petitions and get them postponed at least!!!
I’ve set my team up for this week. RMT?
I think the ‘Pool boys deserve a rest given the devastating news they’re not gonna win the league any time soon.
Well set up Ben, i’d play my bench boost. :big-lol:
No way I (or Ivan) would put Salah ahead of Mane on the bench… Otherwise I like it!
Zed, spot on. Bench for me-Mane/TAA/Salah. If I have to be honest, salad would be further down on my list, reserves more likely :wink2:
Dendo as (VC)?
Many thanks for the helpful advice guys. I’ve made all your suggested changes. Obviously I’ll be back on here at the weekend to blame you if those changes don’t work out.
Fingers crossed. I can’t quite decide on Button as captain.
Transfer in CHO to show moral support to the lad.
I’m set for GW32.
I could be dead by gw 32. :big-lol:
You’ll have to let us know if you do die though as someone will have to take over the league duties.
In ghostly fashion?
Jimmy captain cause Auba might be a now show because of self isolation.
Thanks for still putting an article up guys! Great to see everyone chatting away still too.
I mean this really doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things but is it a no brainer doing Pereira to Doherty/Alonso?
Looking forward to just not thinking about FPL for a bit tbh although I do love football in general.
Hope everyone and their families are well btw!!
I think it’s good to have a break but yeah it’s great to still see everyone around and chatting.
That said I’ve just sat down outside with my book for the first time I can remember in a long while (outside of a holiday) and boy does it feel good! Feet up, no worrying about who’s writing what next week, when I have to do certain jobs by. You may struggle to pull me back from this! If I smoked cigars or had one… :smoke: 😎
Office building is locked down from today and home-office will be on from Monday till further notice. Went to Supermarket, there is not a single disinfection in any of the shops. Masks are long gone and so are the gloves. All kind of tissue papers are almost all gone. A lady in front of me emptied the entire bread rack and took at least 20 bread loaves. Same is true for milk, dry food items, noodles, pastas, tomato sauce etc stuff. I was clueless what to buy and am not sure which direction its going, but today almost 900+ new cases registered. Its accelerating and I can only hope everyone stays safe.
This is the situation when count in city is 15 (fingers crossed for it to go down) out of 750k population.
Which country you from mate as in here as well it’s the same case. Emergency buying just as the first 2 patients were reported. Crazy times.
In all these chaos, I now realized that we are going to have 2 FT after tomorrow’s Gw30 deadline and will have the liberty to use 1 before Gw31 deadline so that 2 FT stays before Gw32 deadline. Is that correct?
Rosco clarified this very succinctly in Comment 3 and sub-Comment 3.3
Basically, the answer to your question is “Yes, but it depends on how many FTs you have right now” but I’d encourage you to read Rosco’s comments.
Yes