FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW18
Welcome to FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW18.
Lies, damned lies and statistics
61 points in GW17 saw us beat the average by 5pts but fall further down the rankings. We now stand at 76,701st – not the worst but we need to stop the rot before it sets in as that is now a run of four consecutive red arrows. Our 61 points were nicely shared throughout the team – rare clean sheets for Pope and TAA were a pleasant surprise, while assists for Mane, Vardy and Jimenez have become the norm. A Monday night late goal for Zaha helped us recover somewhat, but like many, the star of the show was again Lord Lundstram with a clean sheet, assist and 2bps. Praise the Lord!
Our GW17 Result…
Let’s go see what was decided…
Our GW18 Transfer(s)
Going into GW18 we had just the one free transfer but a bumper balance of £5.4m. Funny that, the correlation between our increasing war chest and our decline in ran…
As a good many of you are finding out this week it’s a tough one to call with any degree of confidence. We discussed letting one of our Liverpool assets go, simply because if we didn’t we would probably be looking at have zero back up on our bench. This was put to bed quickly though as one sleuth dug out the interesting notion that the midweek of GW24 was being slated for Liverpool’s rearranged game with West Ham, which is sooner than you think (Jan 28th – 30th), and so we decided to keep hold of them.
We next turned out attentions to someone who we have been eyeing up for a good while now, in the shape of KDB (chasing points much?). We were however a bit short on that one as we wanted to keep McGinn for his healthy run of fixtures and it was Cantwell who had been earmarked as the one to leave. Eventually we settled on a compromise of bringing in Son. This week’s game could yield plenty of goals and then Spurs have a decent looking Christmas schedule, and we all know how much Son enjoys this time of year.
To confirm then we have SOLD Todd Cantwell and BOUGHT Heung-Min Son
Captain – Dele Alli
This is where it got really interesting as we had a fairly well split camp with Alli, Son and Jimenez all grabbing votes. And a statistical campaign to derail the Alli supporters was started in earnest, but was quickly countered with even more outlandish claims from the Alli camp itself. Let’s just say that we had things ranging from him having never scored against Chelsea in his life; to having scored something like 23 in his last 4 games against them! We suspect that the truth is somewhere in-between…
As a compromise the Son supporter flipped and so Alli gets to wear our armband this week.
Our GW18 team in full…
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Hi lads! I’m thinking Abraham to Jimenez.
Who should I captain considering I’m leading my mini-league?
I am keeping Tammy but I see he’s being massively dropped. I had Jimenez when he did nothing. Annoying bloke. Cap is currently on Rash but feels dangerous…
Yep, United are not that good against weak opposition.
I think that transfer might be a downgrade…
Why, Allan? Chelsea have been terrible lately while Jimenez has been consistent. I drooped Jimenez to get Rash last week and it was a mistake.
Maybe it’s just my gut feeling. This might not make sense, but no player is consistent all the time so if tammy’s been bad and Jimenez good, then stick by tammy or you might miss the next train also….
Hehe, stupid, i know! 😉
I really can’t decide between Rashford, Vardy, Alli or KDB for captain! :wacko:
It’s stressing me out big time.
Same here Beno
Was on Rashford but I think I may switch to Alli/Son
Yeah I’m Son or Alli I think. I think Son has the higher ceiling but Alli has this good record vs Chelsea
Same thoughts Beno.
I think I’m gonna go Son.
I’m on Jimenez
But couldn’t really decide so it was basically a dice roll.
Hard one this week Frenchie
Was on rash but just changed to vardy…
Son cappo done. Rashford vc
So I’ve got £3.2 ITB saved for getting Salah back but I still can’t see the obvious way to get him in. Don’t think I want to lose KDB and Alli leaves me £0.2 short. Any ideas?
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Cantwell to a 4.4 midfielder (Dendocker, Stephens or Hayden).
Cheers that was obvious now I think about it.
You can even get Tettey at 4.5 but not sure about his game time.
How much do we think history vs opposition counts?
Pretty much, I guess.
A little. Some players are conscious of good or bad records vs a team or at a particular ground or indeed when up against a certain defender.
But ultimately it means for little in the grand scheme of things.
Alli vs Son…
Son
Hi Guys,
Which two do you prefer
Maddison + Dendonker
or
Pulisic + Cantwell?
Thanks!
I would say the first pair
Thanks, just noticed Pulisic on the bench today for Chelsea.