FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW35 Free Hit Special
Welcome to the FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW35 Free Hit Special. We’ve taken a slightly different approach to our usually formulaic Site Team article this week, and this is why… Rather than deluge you with all sorts of different Tips and Captain Picks this week we thought it may be wiser to (almost) let the elongated DGW34 play out to its natural conclusion and then come in with a (relatively) simple look at GW35. Just in case you’ve been under a rock or something GW35 is also known as Blank GW35 as there are only 6 fixtures this week. Just to be completely prescriptive then the 6 fixtures, or 12 teams involved, are as follows –
If this comes as some sort of a surprise to you… then said rock may be your best friend, go back and give him another hug. If however you’ve planned accordingly then there’s a fair to middling chance that you are playing your Free Hit Chip this week. If you have then this is certainly a relevant article for you as we are playing ours too and will show you it below, along with an alternative (emergency) one. We shall explain the emergency one also! If you aren’t playing it this week then hopefully you can still ascertain from ours the key players we would be bringing in on normal transfers and we shall also explain our Captain Pick. Basically, it’s a bit of an all in one job, you just need to read between the lines to pick the bits you need.
Before we show you our actual picks there a few key points which you may like to consider –
- Liverpool and Arsenal may screw us all over! Both have decent GW35 fixtures but both also have European semi-finals in the midweek following it and may well prioritise those and choose to rest their key players accordingly.
- Aubameyang is your best bet from Arsenal as he is ineligible to play in Europe for them.
- The Liverpool line-up for GW35 will most likely be released prior to the deadline. And will most likely dictate how you play your FH Chip! We shall endeavour to retweet this and post it in the comments, if and when it happens. It’s usually spot on too so we would have an ’emergency’ FH team ready if the worst was to be reported with the likes of Mane, Firmino and Salah possibly rested.
- Man City have now won the league and so literally have nothing to play for. That smacks of rotation and maybe blooding some youngsters. The next (actual) meaningful match for the majority of their players will probably be a World Cup Group game in June!
And so onto the team itself…
We actually have 3 teams and 3 scenarios! As we have said above picking a team this week may all depend upon us seeing that Liverpool line-up. As such we are leaving no stone unturned. We won’t go into the player specifics on each and that’s simply because we have seen so many teams this week and in having done so, and in all honesty, outside of having a raft of Man City and (hopefully!) Liverpool assets along with Aubameyang it’s a bit of a lottery with the rest!
Scenario 1
This is our A Team. This is what we would pick if no other scenarios existed. And also what we will go in with if it is revealed ahead of time that Liverpool are indeed going full strength. It’s full on Liverpool attack against the bottom club and the only regret really is that we couldn’t also afford a 3rd Man City attacker. It’s a mixed bag in defence but as we say it’s a bit of a lottery back there this week anyway.
Our Captain is this scenario will be Mo Salah
Salah picks himself in this scenario. The leader of the Golden Boot, 30 goals already this season, 11 assists, on target for a record FPL score of any player ever, playing the bottom team. We’ll ignore the fact that West Brom held Liverpool to a 0-0 in GW17 or indeed that the won 1-0 at Old Trafford last week. Salah is on fire and he’ll be the popular captain this week, if he plays. And rightly so. Vice captain will be Jesus.
Scenario 2
This is our middle of the road team. This is what we will go with if there is NO leakage of information from said Liverpool camp and we are all left to go in blind. It’s kind of a half and half job on Liverpool. We will go with Salah, because you know ‘just in case’! And it’s a bit more of a full and rounded squad, for obvious reasons. What it does allow us is 3 City attackers, so it may be a blessing in disguise in all honesty as even if Mane and Salah were somehow allowed to start what’s the chance they will actually be allowed to go the full 90?!
Our Captain in scenario 2 will be Jesus
With no leaking of the Liverpool side, there will be panic, uproar and utter confusion – not a situation where you want to be gambling on your captain. In that regard, Jesus will have the armband – with Kun ruled out for weeks at least, Jesus looks like a shoe-in to play up front. The Brazilian has scored and/or assisted in each of his last three starts and looked lively at Spurs last weekend. The Swans come to the Etihad this weekend and they look ripe for City to dismantle them with no pressure on Pep’s men with the title won. Raheem Sterling will be our vice-captain.
Scenario 3
This is our scenario if the Liverpool team is indeed leaked and there won’t be any fancy pictures for this one! This is because if the other two were indeed hypothetical then this one would be stretching that boundary a bit too far as we would have to actually see that Liverpool team before we could even begin to tinker. It could be a second string in which case we may just turn our Liverpool assets from Scenario 1 into some of the replacements that are in place in Scenario 2. It could be a hybrid with say Mane in and Salah out and in which case we would probably just take our Scenario 2 team and do likewise ourselves!
Basically it’s just too complicated until we know either way to commit to a Scenario 3 team. What we do know is that we will be on red alert all the way up until the deadline and we will be armed and ready to react accordingly with all our different scenarios. There’s a good chance that we may end up with none of the above depending on what happens!
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Final averages are in.
6 points from 6 players tonight.
13 points from bench boost.
Did anyone do well off their BB this GW?
The lad 3rd in my ML did ok with his, 25 from it and all non DGW’ers! He gained 18 on me this week as a result.
Don’t know what you’d say a good score from it is? I always set my weekly target as 63 so essentially that’s 5.7 per player. That’d be lower on a BB as they are invariably cheaper and therefore probably lower scoring players. So maybe 4 a player? Which would be 32 if all 4 played twice. Apropos nothing
I got 26 points from 3 players from my bench this week. Van Der Hoorn didn’t play. I’ll take it.
Then bench it’s self pushed me over the 100 mark, only got 14 off it though
My 2nd team did well (surprise superise) 28 points from the bench ( When Barnes bonus is added) and only 11 points behind you once points are updated!
I know 2nd teams are frowned upon but I might put mine to good use. Thinking of doing a post season analysis between both my teams and see what went right /wrong and why over the season. I’ll post up my findings if anyone’s interested. Jumped from 1200 to 300ish so a decent GW despite some players not playing tonight. My normal team did canny but nothing to write home about in the grand scheme of things!
This is where fix have my final rank, not sure how accurate it is
Not a very high scoring DGW when the top team only hit 145
Nice work Rosco!!!
Cheers, if only it were my ‘proper’ team!
You’ve completely smashed it this GW. Well played Rosco indeed!!
When you use WC/BB as a combo it doesn’t really matter how many points you get from the 4 players that eventually end up on the bench. It’s all about the XV really.
That said, the poor lads that sat on mine got me 18 and the whole lot got me 96(-4) which is horrible when you use such combo, as I did. The FA cup semis obviously took its toll (hardly a surprise) and so this has been the worst WC/BB combo ever!
79pts…
Dropped cca 4k places…
Current OR should be around 38,5k…
All in all – not too bad (considering the amount of BB-ers this gw)…
TC & BB still to be used…
Use them wisely mate, what’s the plan then?! Not many left with that particular combo.
Will try to stick to my initial plan,mate…
DGW34-> FH
BGW35-> TC (I can field 10 if LIV doesn’t play with youngsters)
DGW37-> BB (will need to do a Mitro here with a few hits but it’s ok)…
Finished on 107 by the looks of things so very happy with the BB, But am absolutely disgusted Mahrez only got 5 points over 2 games :/
I am on a fc for 35 with the tc for 37. Started this week 50 odd points behind my ML leader. It’s dropped to less then 20 now :8
So here’s hoping I can jump ahead next week. Sorry for the long rent, just want to tank everyone for the 100s of questions I ask haha
Nice shooting Gavy hope you can pass your ML leader. Time to take out the big guns! :biggun:
Brilliant work mate. Sounds like it’s more than doable now! Nothing better than a successful ML comeback.
He’s used the fc and tc to I should add.
decent gameweek. wish i had played the BB instead of TC. would have been 20 points better off and reduce the gap behind my leader to 31 points. Instead i am trailing 51 points behind
Load up for 37 then and hope for the best.
will try innit. not much transfers would be possible to do with 2 GW after the free hit but will try to get the best ones in.
For all you guys chasing in your ML’s, I have gone from a 30 point lead to a 70 point deficit in one of my ML’s in 4 weeks – anything is possible.
Your scores haven’t even been bad! Your overall-rank progression tells the real story.
I checked and saw I had 97 earlier tonight, but 1 bonus point for each of McCarthy / Chilwell / Barnes has taken me to the century, result! That makes up for Schmeichel’s injury.
Ended up with 91 points but played the B.B. Honestly – am slightly disappointed that i didnt get a greater haul. Super disappointed with Mahrez as i captained him…well then again i invited the pain when i decided to use him as a differential.
Closed the gap from my ML from 70 to 50 but he is going to play his B.B in DGW 37 while i will be using my TC.
Hoping for a better GW 36.
It could have been worse. You could have played the TC on him this week… If he doesn’t have the WC to use on 36, your TC may be enough, assuming we don’t see more rotation malarkey!
Hahaha..thanks for your comforting words DMC!
I am usually a cheery person..but for some obtuse reasons…these past 2 weeks have made me feeling the blues lol!
But yes..it could have been worse…
Now for the next GW!