FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GWX
Oh b*llocks, is it?!
Welcome to FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GWX. No, this isn’t an April Fools Day joke, we are actually publishing a Site Team article! Why? Well, because we meant to do one two weeks ago, and then again last week also, but we didn’t, for reasons which we shall expand on later. Perhaps also it is because we are a bit bored, and simply not used to having a break. But also it is to remind you of a few key FPL related things, which may have slipped your mind, understandably.
We shall however begin with an update of our GW29 performance, at least for some semblence of normality, if nothing else. Looking back at it, into what seems like a lifetime ago now, we evidently got a bit shafted with the DGW postponment having brought in Saka and Aubameyang (as captain) specifically for it, and having held onto KDB too. We’ll spare you the horror story of the rest but other than Salah getting a goal we didn’t have a single other player score above 3 points. And we had some good players, with decent fixtures. When your luck is out and all that… It looks like it meant quite a fall in the rankings too, in fact we managed to double our rank from about 82k to 164,492nd.
Onto the two article titles then..
GWX
No, this wasn’t a typo. It’s more because we have no idea when the season will restart, of course, but also less of an idea how. The fact that FPL Towers decided that we could keep making transfers throughout this ‘hiatus’ seemed to be because they presumed it would restart at a later GW. Which now looks less than likely. What is perhaps now more probable is that (if anything) there will be some sort of crammed in mini-tournament style period of about 6 weeks where they will attempt to finish the season. Re-starting at the GW30 cut-off seems the most likely scenario. How FPL deals with that is another matter, given their above stance. Will they simply reset us and ask us to forget all the interim transfers? Anything is possible. But for now we have been asked to crack on regardless, and so we have…
‘Oh, bollocks’, etc
This is a reference to our lack of a recent article. The reality is that we did intend to do one prior to GW31 and we did indeed have a meeting to discuss our phantomtransfers. Only for someone to point out in the midst of said meeting that the deadline had already passed as it was a Friday night one, and not as we all assumed a normal Saturday one! So that was one transfer down the drain. Not that we feel this will matter particularly, as it looks like we will have more than we can possibly use before proceedings get back under way.
And so we sat down in the middle of last week for another meeting… only to discover half way through that one that it was indeed an International Break, as such, and that there was no planned deadline for another week! Pay more attention, we must. Reinstante the Countdown Timer, we have…
Our GW32 Transfer(s)
Crack on regardles, we do. And we have formulated something of a mini-plan. So we thought we would share this with you, for a lack of anything else to actually say at this moment in time!
Bruno Fernandes seems to be our main missing jigsaw piece right now and so we have decided to prioritise him, along with a whole other raft of minor surgeries which we hope shall put our squad in better shape, should this be required as and when To accommodate Bruno this week we have decided to do away with our double Liverpool defence, an idea that was beginning to be in vogue around about GW29…
Beyond this we are looking at something like Saka to Mount and possibly Ings to DCL, but we shall see.
To confirm then we have SOLD Andy Robertson & James Maddison and BOUGHT Aaron Wan-Bissaka & Bruno Fernandes
Captain – Boris Johnson
Our GWX team in full…
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Yeah got Kimmich, decision to make as you say.
This Bundesliga Fantasy is really good.
Although one of my players injured in the warm up and another has a goal ruled out by VAR in injury time.
Agreed Geeps, its brill, until i forget to change things, then it’ll be naff. :big-lol:
That’s why I’m not playing Elle
Kop, if our fantasy was like this we’d never hear from you again.
I’d have done a NIN a long time ago!!
Never to be seen again.
Are you able to look at other people’s teams now the gw has started ?
Nope, think only until the last game starts can you have a look, could be the end of all games, but I think it is the former. It is going to be funny if 4 or 5 of you go into the last game with very close scores as you will all be left wondering who has who.
Thanks. Also a little advice if I may beg from the more experienced members. What is the par score for your star players?
I currently have : Werner 9(+5) Nkunku 8(+4) and Akanji 8(+4). Would you change these to Muller, Thiago (then Havertz on Monday) and Wendell ?
I’ll change Werner + Nkunku to Gnabry + Lewy. Think i’ll leave Akanji as i.
No idea on the individual player scores but Mito’s season average is 121.4 per week and I’d expect he’s ranked quite high, or at least in the top 5/10% anyway.
On the basis of that his average star player would probably get an average of about 14.33, assuming 3 of them and the other 8 somewhere in the region of 9.7. Could be massively skewed though and be more like 20 odd and south of 8.
I’m sure he’ll answer more accurately though.
I didn’t play for a lot of weeks, so my averages are not a good tell.
On knowing when to switch or not. It depends on the position and the players left.
So a 14 by a mid or a forward is average for a good player. I have Werner and Nkuku as captain and I will definitely move it on from then.
On defenders I am usually willing to take any score of 14 or above, unless I have players like Kimmich, Hakimi or top line defenders left, as I think they can at least match that with a possibility of outscoring the captain being decent. Fixtures also matter, obviously.
Defenders 14-16 is the point where you consider keeping it, unless you have a top defender left or the ability two have 2-3 more cracks at the captaincy because you have a several defenders left with different kickoff times.
Mids 16-18 ……..see above, to be honest though, I always tell myself that I take a 16-18, but I am usually willing to change it unless I get a 20 early on.
Forwards 16-18 see above, I would have definitely taken the Haaland captaincy if I had made that choice, no way I am changing out a 20 something score.
Lewy averages 14.6 (337 in 23) if you captain him that is 21 points. That is the best player in the game.
Havertz who is a very good player averages a shade under 10 points, which is 15. Which means we probably should take a 15 to 16 pointer from a good mid and I would if I don’t trust the players I have left to really outdo him, but if I have 2-3 more cracks at it, I usually take my chances.
Part of this though is up to your playing style. Conservative or risky or a mix of in between.
I see Gladtobeback were 1-0 up after 37 seconds, 2-0 now.
Köln v Mainz
Aha Katterbach is on, thanks Init.
Horn, Katterbach and Kainz are the important starters.
Don’t think Jakobs is on the bench.
He’s not. Out due to…. a virus 😯
So, no Jacob. Moved the star from Baumgartner to Kainz for -5, let’s see if he can get them back. Have the feelings that Uth could outscore Haaland but not risking it.
Hi Ivan, Do you think Jakobs will be back next week?
Hi bees. No idea to tbh. We need to follow the news and hopefully find out. The next round starts on Friday.
Thanks!
Nice one Init, thank you.
On comes Katterbach…
Dropped 7 points to start this game. Angelino dropped from the XI and Nkuku captaincy changed to Kainz. C’mon Koln!!
Dropped 9 myself. Quaison now Star Fwd and Noah Star Def.
Do you have Lewan?
Would be helpful if we all posted our actual teams if they’re not going to let us peek on the site. Mine;
I have Lewy
Here is my side
So, I guess Lewa will be you captain later on.
I still can’t decide, should I gamble 8 points and change from Haaland to him :wacko:
That’s a tough one, I did the average on Lewy yesterday and 15 (which is what Haaland got) is basically what he averages a game. So it is tricky, they play one of the worse teams in the league and although away, with no fans Union won’t have any sort of advantage.I figure at worst Lewy gets 8-10 points and that’s if he only gets an assist or so.
Think I will take a gamble with him. After all it’s only a test or kind of exercise for next season when we start properly :yes:
@Init, going to be tough if Quaison doesn’t have a good game to hold off Lewy managers. Davies and Gnabry do offer you a shield, but guessing there will be people with one in each position also, plus my guess is you are keeping the star on Brandt so Gnabry owners who captain him will still cut into your lead.
I be surprised if you held on. If this was fpl there be a much better chance.
On a separate note, I believe we are allowed to own more than 3 players from a team, it is either 4 or as many as you like, I really can’t remember. Think it use to be 4 last season, they may have gone unlimited this season, but it is not like we can just afford 11 from Bayern, so for the most part we would only own 3-4 from one team anyway.
He was just a mid-priced punt as he can be explosive, but not particularly consistent. Although right now I’m calling him something similar
Yes I reckon I’ll be keeping the Capo on Brandt.