Fantasy Football Live Match Chat and FF247 Site Team Gameweek 38+
Welcome to Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Gameweek and FF247 Site Team 38+.
What could possibly go wrong………………………………?
GW38+ Deadline; Sunday 26th July 3pm GMT
We’ve finally come to the end of what was ultimately a bizarre yet memorable season. Possibly for all the wrong reasons but it is what it is. Or was what it was, hopefully.
We can’t let it go without handing out more than a few ‘thanks’ though. We feel like we do this every season, and we do, but that doesn’t mean any of it is less heartfelt. Let’s go view everybody’s end of year school (FF247) report…
The Writing Team
Outstanding. We have a team of about 15 writers all told, give or take. And each and every one is a pleasure to work with. Whenever you have ’employees’ that is probably box 1 ticked. Box 2 is whether they are actually up to the job. And our writers certainly are. Their body of work speaks for itself. It is consistently brilliant, and we can’t thank them all enough for it.
IT
Much maligned and forever blamed. For everything. But our IT team is to ‘blame’ for us even having a website in the first place, maintaining it, improving it (whenever Init shouts), and generally keeping us online. It’s a thankless task which goes unnoticed most of the time. And for that we thank them. We think…
Social Media
Masks off, Swirly posts our articles and a few other choice bits on Twitter, anything you see on there that is somewhat approaching controversial will be from Mito. Init oversees the lot filling in the gaps and dealing with the fallout from Mito’s posts!
Matt ‘runs’ Facebook, although we think he may have forgotten that he does…
Site Members
By this we mean those who comment regularly. The main reason we do the work we do is you guys. We see other fantsay football sites who have little or no interaction in their comments and we wonder why they continue or where their motivation comes from as a result. You are our motivation. And we thank you all. Each and every comment keeps our pecker up and is appreciated.
Readers
To those who simply read we say thank you too. We know you are out there as we see the stats and they are staggeringly good so we know you read even if you don’t interact with us. And that’s fine too. Thank you.
As for GW38+ itself all the games begin at 4pm on Sunday and we shall not bother you with any needless waffle about them, they are as follows:
The games in full…
Keep track of all the action, the goals, the talking points, right here at FF247 Live Match Chat, an interactive chat which encourages you to keep involved and share your thoughts and emotions as the matches take place.
What Next?
Plenty, as it happens, so don’t go away for too long.
We intend to pick up where the Champions League left off and that one begins again on August 7th so look out for our preview prior to that with a reminder about where we left it in terms of the Regs League, what the craic is going forward with transfers and the new look layout for it in terms of the fixture schedule.
GP has made a gallant attempt to get us to play Fantasy Football Scotland so if you wish to do that check out his post here . We are lead to believe there will also be articles on it. Can’t wait.
Beyond that the plan for the 2020/21 season seems to be to resume on the 12th September so no doubt we shall gallop from the CL straight into our usual pre-season articles with info on the newly promoted teams and the like.
For now though enjoy GW38, and we shall see you soon!
FF247 Site Team GW38+
Our GW37+ Result…
Saturday began with an inevitable clean sheet for Pope. Sunday brought us an unexpected one from Aurier. That was after Ings had both delighted and disappointed in equal measure.
We then had to wait until Tuesday for our next involvement. Which was predominantly the City lot and new signing Auba. And what a bunch of flops the lot were! Granted, Foden got us a welcome goal but Dilva was a no show and Auba may as well have been too.
Wednesday needed to be better or we would be staring down the barrel of a huge red gun arrow. TAA did his best for us, Greenwood brought a goal and Salah an assist but Wan-B not starting was a blow and our Captain Bruno just looked spent. Pulisic was probably our surprise highlight / bonus given that he he didn’t even start!
All in all we landed on 65 points which despite being 12 above the average still saw us take home a small red’un, stumbling down 2k to 41,931st.
GW38+ TRANSFER
We have (n’t yet) SOLD Auba and (have not yet) BOUGHT Kane
Confused?
Basically this is a proposal. In a bold move we have decided to wait until the last minute for once, in the hope of some early Man City team news. In the absence of any we shall proceed with the Kane move.
The alternatives are Salah to Sterling or KDB to Sterling. Or anyone else to Sterling… Essentially we are waiting on Mr St. Tropez.
So what could possibly go wrong… well, we have left our IT department (Floydeth) in charge of executing this transfer as he was the only one who put his hand up as being ‘definitely available’ for the task. Gulp.
GW38+ CAPTAIN
Our Captain for GW38+ wil be DAVID SILVA
Our Vice-Captain will (may) be HARRY KANE
Our intention is to captain David Silva and that probably won’t alter unless we hear he is unexpectantly benched, which he almost certainly won’t be.
Our vice is up for grabs but Kane will get it, if he gets to grace our team. Only time (or IT) wil tell…
Good luck to absolutely everyone for Gameweek 38+ from all at FF247!
Our team in full, in theory…
We shall post on site tomorrow to confirm either way.
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Thank you so much for all the insight and hard work this season.
My final OR is 39k. Not as good as I had hoped but still happy overall. Still haven’t managed to break into the top 10k in all these years!! Oh well there’s always next season!
That’s a great rank Sarri, especially given how many play these days!
Indeed, next season is but weeks away, time to push for that 10k!!
Great rank well played
Great stuff. And you will.
One of the worst season in last 4-5 years for me with 123k. Checked the above sites, my luck rank is 30% only whereas median is 50% and top 1k has 58%. Means at least my overall team selection were not bad, but it did not go well especially the (C) selection.
I got only 504 pts. from (C) and that is average = 504/77 = 6.5 (1G only in a match, very mediocre).
It all sounds very complicated GM!! I think luck is a funny old thing, they argue back and forth over on Twitter if FPL is more Luck than skill. There is, of course, no definitive answer, I’m sure many will call it bad luck when something goes wrong and skill when something goes right!!
123K is an impressive rank all the same, as I said to Sarri above, so many people play the game now, not to mention the overwhelming amount of information that is now available. Many of the best managers have a blip season now and then, best thing to do is forget it all for a few weeks, come back recharged and ready to go again! Enjoy the (small) break mate and don’t be too hard on yourself.
The skill luck thing is interesting. However when you are behind you often will consciously take risks in an attempt to make up ground, which may or may not work. I guess what I’m saying is the risk taking will push ranks to an extreme bad or good.
I had Pope, at least!
If only it were so simple.
So… when do we expect FPL to open again for the next season? :big-lol:
Pope
TAA – Digne – Tierney
KDB – Bruno – Salah – Martial
Kane – Aubameyang – Vardy
Thoughts on my initial draft for next season? :rabbi:
If you want to be taken seriously at least post your subs :scratch_one-s_head:
Can’t afford any subs with that team!
Not sure you could even afford that team now :big-lol: let alone with the increases coming
Oh well, I salute your efforts. I don’t suppose your crystal ball has the fixtures?
Let’s wait and see, eh.
Bwahah, cheers guys! I have a feeling I have really nailed it with this draft :smoke:
Maybe if they increase the budget by 20 mil :laugh2:
Martial might be a forward next season.
Lord Lundstram probably a midfielder.
Fernandes is expected to be 9.5-10m.
KDB will go up to 11.5-12m….in same bracket as Sterling, Salah, Mane etc.
Kane might go down a bit.
City mids also will go up.
……..looks like we have to make choices, can’t fit most in 100m. Anyway, lets see when it opens up…expecting in a month.
Same as every season, can’t have everyone.
I just hope the Premier League don’t keep the 5 substitute thing going next season.
I think 5 subs has already been approved for next season.
Say it isn’t so 😯
:slaphead:
Yeah I think it has
Not yet.
Premier League still have to vote on it – each league does – but ifab have allowed it at each body’s own discretion.
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/premier-league-substitutes-2020-21-ifab-number-five-three-rule-a9620716.html
4 clubs voted against it for the season just gone so it’s not universally supported.
I’m expecting Fernandes to be higher. KDB as well around 11. Sterling 11 too. Kane might go down. They can’t stick everyone’s prices up so there will be some decreases too
Yes I think your prices are about right and the position changes. Fernandes could even be 10.5, we’ll see. It will be hard to have Salah, KDB and Fernandes, although I think I may have to go that route. Probably Pulisic to, for a monster midfield. Severe economy elsewhere may be needed.
Yeah my gut is you won’t be able to have KDB, Fernandes, Salah and TAA. Pulisic price will be interesting I think as with all the Chelsea, Arsenal and Spurs players
True, their defenders should be nothing but 4’s and 4.5’s :laugh2: :sarcastic_hand:
And I’m expecting Pope to be really expensive
There are usually a couple of handy enablers if one sniffs around a bit. For some reason I always seem to gravitate towards Crystal Palace. But one of the reasons the Liverpool full-backs are so popular is that they’re much more attractive than similarly priced – or even more expensive – midfielders.
Fixtures usually determine where the compromises take place.
Last couple of seasons I have loaded up with Liverpool and City players to start with and have juggled things a bit after things settle down. Worked ok two seasons ago but City’s erratic form at the start of this season didn’t work out too well, fantasy-wise.
Thank you all the writers and regulars for insight and advice this year.
Thanks ODT.
Hope you were happy with your rank.