FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW2
DODGED A BULLET
All that tinkering and furore ahead of GW1 and we didn’t even select the most obvious player. But we had our reasons and we felt justified, although watching Salah open up with a hat-trick was a tad galling for us and no doubt all of the other non-owners out there. In retrospect we probably got away with it better than most as we scored 59pts vs an average of 50. Captain Aubameyang opened up with a rare goal on his travels and 7pts (doubled) is acceptable and far from a failure. Mitrović on the other hand was a complete shocker as he couldn’t even claim a start and got just 27mins off the bench.
Our secret weapon Tyrick Mitchell was a definite win though as he bagged a clean sheet vs Saints, while Van Dijk at least combined his comical defending with a goal. We won’t mention TAA. Or Havertz. Or Saint Maximim. We were chuffed with the selections of Vardy and Wilson who delivered 21pts between them and look good assets for the foreseeable. Well for this weekend at least.
Ranks mean nothing at this stage, but for the record we go into GW2 with a position of 1,737,686.
Our GW1 result…
Let’s go see what was decided…
Our GW2 transfer(s)
None! We decided that we were so happy with not having Salah the first week that we would do it again. Fool me once shame on thee; fool me twice, delete the team. Funny thing is, Salah didn’t even come up, no one seemed too worried about not having him. It was one of the fastest votes ever. I mean there was one committee member that suggested we wildcard, but that was quickly dismissed by (all) the others rather emphatically.
Sorry, back to the team now, hate you had to see that. The idea with having Bruno from the go was so we could possibly save a transfer this GW and get a little more time to evaluate players before we start bringing them in. So in the end this is us just sticking to our guns and seeing this mini plan through. Well, seeing that we have made no transfers, let’s just get to the captaincy decision.
Captain – Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Unanimous again, what is going on? One right after the other voted to give Auba another go at the armband. In part, because he plays West Ham who as a club will probably be too busy fighting each other to worry about marking Auba. If for some reason Auba doesn’t make his match we have the penalty king Bruno Fernandes waiting in the wings as our vice captain.
Our GW2 team in full…
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Thanks Team for giving me some confidence to not totally change my team to get Salah in. Unfortunately I did not dodge the bullet as well as you with only 48points last week – still it could have been worse. Good luck for GW2!
Indeed, Seren. Salah won’t get two pens every week! Maybe one, but not two 😉
I’ll take one pen every week for Salah :wink2:
Rolling the transfer with the likelihood of taking a hit increased next gameweek after Son’s price went down! Dammit!
Hot to trot for this week, at least?
Yeah it is Swirly.
Get yourself through this week and you could have a mini wildcard next week for -4 if you need it.
GTG Swirly
Cheers guys!
Hi guys.
What do you think is worse?
-4 hit or a -0.1 drop?
Consider both scenarios:
-WC next week
-Normal 1FT next week.
Thoughts please?
Need a lot more detail to make a call on your scenario but generally I don’t like taking -4 to solely avoid losing money.
This is how bad it is.
I would just play your best team this week (442) and then wildcard next if that’s what you want to do.
Taking a -4 to save 0.1mln the week before a wildcard seems unnecessary.
You’ll be able to save some cash if for example, you took out PEA for KDB or Bruno. Money will be there.
Depends on your use case. Typically a -4 is taken when you predict that the bought player(s) will outscore the sold players(s) over a say, 3 (or more) week period by at least 4 points. Thus, early in the season it might be a viable strategy as you have a longer horizon.
If you are WC’ing next week, you are not giving the chance to absorb that 4 point hit.
E.g. last 4-5 seasons, I have taken 14-15 hits on an average (mostly in first half of the season).. and most of the times it paid off. I do not take just 1 week punt for -4 unless there is a concrete reason (like in the very last week if you have to catch your ML leader or so).
I’ve taken a -4 this week, which is unlike me, but I reckon the player coming in could very well repay that immediately today and almost certainly will over the few 3 weeks. For context it’s Richarlison for Antonio.
That is unlike you Init but it makes perfect sense.
I bought his ammo so figured I may as well get the actual assassin too. Or some such analogy.
Decided to have a bit more fun with it this season and in reality the only games I ever get to watch in full these days are ours so I may as well have a vested interest too.
Thanks man. I picked up some valuable points from this. Cheers. And I did not take a hit. I thought it was the better way forward since I’m anyway WCing next week.
I don’t mind a -4 but not just to save 0.1m. If you can see the long term benefit for points over 2-4 GW’s then I would take the hit.
It’s when you’re doing them every week it becomes unsustainable.
Team for GW2; good to go?
:yes:
Have I benched the right players? Good luck to everyone in this GW.
McCarthy
TAA Justin Lamptey
Salah Auba(C) Bruno ASM
Werner Wilson Mitro
Nyland Bissouma KWP Mitchell
Yep, good luck.
Good side
Guys am I good to go here, I’ll be hiding behind a sofa when arsenal play.
Hope it’s a big one :wink2:
Team looks good other than ‘him’.
I sold him and Ings for kdb and martial, thinking the prices were going to rise, I could have waited another week, anyway, who knows, it may work out.