FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW35
Welcome to FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW35.
It’s all in the math(s).
Like many others we played our wildcard last week and like many others we had an absolute SHOCKER! With no representatives in the Friday night game our game-week kicked off at lunchtime on Saturday. The writing was on the wall when our captain, Son, was benched. A certain member of the management was rather smug about this. Son eventually climbed off of the bench and almost immediately picked up an assist to go with Eriksen’s assist and Loris’ clean sheet. 20pts from our Spurs trio left us feeling good about our wildcard. Little did we know that they would account for approximately 60% of our total score. We were lucky that Messer’s Duffy & Dunk didn’t score minus points as Brighton conceded 5. Matt Doherty also returned zero points. The only other player who delivered for us over the weekend was Mo Salah. Onto Monday night and things got even worse. Fresh from setting light to the Notre Dame cathedral Troy Deeney went and got himself sent off at Arsenal. Our game-week came to a conclusion on Tuesday night as Brighton were beaten 2-0 at home by Cardiff which meant the Double D’s picked up 1pt each over their two games. Losers! We finished the game-week on 33pts and a red arrow of 5k to leave us in 11,785th position. It’s time to dust ourselves down and attack DGW35 with vengeance.
Last weeks disaster in glorious technicolor;
This week’s transfer – we have held our Free Transfer, cancelled Bench Boost and have activated our Triple Captain
Duffy, Dunk, Deeney. That’s our outfield bench for this week’s planned Bench Boost. The original plan was to sell Dunk for a Saint. However, Deeney’s moment of stupidity meant a hit for the Saint and we felt that wasn’t really worth it.
Which would have left us with a bench of Foster/Lloris, Dunk, Duffy & a Deeney replacement (likely Wilson).
It was a long meeting and akin to Brexit we entered it not really knowing where we were going or what we were hoping to achieve.
The DGW maths equation was ‘applied’ but argued over. Were we starting with a base of 14pts (7 matches x 2 appearance points) or were Dunk & Duffy likely to record next to nothing once again? Much really depended on Wilson.
We had one member actively pushing to delay BB (we’ll call him Theresa) another wanting to push the button (we’ll call him Nigel) while the remaining two members were seemingly stuck sat on the fence, chewing the fat, smoking a couple of cigarettes, putting the world to rights, understanding both sides of the argument but ultimately getting nowhere and going round in FPL circles (we’ll call these two the Fencers).
We also had two members (Theresa & Fencer 1) suggesting using TC this week.
Nigel appeared shouting ‘Bench Boost means Bench Boost’ then disappeared.
Like any forward thinking and inspirational Brexit negotiator would do, a compromise was suggested. Fencer 2 (who was loosely advocating delaying BB and using TC in GW36) suggested he would agree to the TC in 35 with a view to a longer delay in BB, possibly until GW38 or whenever a majority vote could be passed.
Saints home to Huddersfield in GW38 does present a potentially better opportunity for BB though we’d need to be lucky with team sheets.
Ultimately we have done what we have done due to the weakness of our outfield bench. We would have been happy to have continued with our plan of Dunk to a Saint but Deeney scuppered that and meant that no real solution is ideal.
We are not advocating not BBing – every team is different and you all have your different aims and mini-league situations.
Our Triple Captain is Aguero
All should be clear from the above. Our sudden liking for Kun comes from City now being 100% focused on the league and the general feeling that they will need to beat both Spurs & Manchester United if they are to win the league. Pep plays his big players in the big matches and this is a huge week for City. Just in case, our vice captain is Son. Who plays Brighton. Can’t fail!
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Am I good to go? On bench boost at the moment. Can’t decide to take a -4 to get rid of duffy. In theory could do Duffy to a 5.3 and make my bench boost a bit stronger? Or alternatively cancel BB and TC Aguero. Any thoughts?
MrMajeka
Duffy to Janmaat and Bench Boost for me.
I’d use BB here. Duffy out for a hit is your call, I’ve decided to keep him as I feel it’s not worth a hit to remove him for a defender as CS prospects this week don’t look good
Late change – KDB (c)
Very bold. You’ve got ~32 minutes to bottle that now… 😉 he looked possessed on Wednesday night!
I’m not changing it now. I’ll bask in my boldness for the next half an hour until he’s benched
He’s looking very good at an important time for City.
Good luck AT.
Good luck GP. All set?
I like it. I really hope it pays off.
I had KDB as my capo all week, but changed to Sterling last night. My thinking was that I’m leading my ML by around 40pts and already owning KDB since last week appears to be enough of a differential without needing to captain him too. I think Sterling is more widely owned in my ML, so is more likely to be captained, so I’m hopefully going with the flow (good or bad) with captain Sterling.
Although, saying that, I also have Kun and he is also highly owned in my ML, so most likely he’ll get all the spoils and my rivals will all capo him 😀
Makes sense Chip. I’m one point behind in my ML. always between me and him and he’s bench boosting a naff bench so feel like I’ve got a bit of wiggle room today
Sounds like a perfect reason for a differential captain. Good luck mate!
Luke Schofield: what an absolute bastard.
Is it 5 and 5 to him in your overall FPL history? You’ve gotta get him this year.
Haha, something like that mate. Used to frequent these boards but doesn’t anymore.
Morning all.
Busy half hour ahead.
I’m in the sunshine with a coffee. Let’s talk…
What about this then?
Not looked at it in a while.
Cathcart and Patricio’s arrivals look solid. I’m quite jealous of Salah in there too. You’re set. Good luck!
Looks like you don’t need to change anything, GP.
Answer: I think you’re set GP
Hey Gp. It looks good. I’d like another City midfielder in there but can’t have them all.
Like the Doucoure punt there GP. Planning to get him in for Ozil for a hit myself.
Nice team overall as well
Thanks everyone.
Roll on deadline
Is it worth -4 to go Eriksen to Sterling? :S
I did. Whether it’s worth it is up to u. For me, the risk of rotation exists for Eriksen now even if that’s reduced mins if job is done.Also might be playing deeper given their injury problems.
I wouldn’t personally, but if it was a -4 to replace a SGW player with Sterling then I might
Hello everyone… can I have some opinion on this bunch? I’m planning to TC but who to captain?
I’ve taken a hit.
You can’t go wrong with most attackers there. Sterling and Agüero look like the prime candidates.
Yes. Can’t pick between them. Sterling or Aguero? ☹️
This is the dilemma for a lot of teams this week. I’ve gone Sterling.
I’m thinking about Sterling too. BuAguero looks safer. But Sterling is stronger. Darn
I would play Fab over Etheridge, otherwise looks great for non-BB team.
TC make your pick between Aguero, Sterling and Jimenez
Yes yes. I’ve just made that change
. This is an old screenshot. Still messed up over the TC though. Got 15 minutes left!
More confusion. Now Jimenez is looking good too!
Help guys, which is preferred of the below 2:
Deeney and Duffy to Ings and Yoshida
Or
Deeney and Duffy to Gray and Cathcart?
Only prob is to get Salah, I might have to take an extra -4 if I go via 2nd option
The second option is better IMO.
I prefer the latter. Even with -4 factored in afterwards. Watford’s fixtures are simply too good.