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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We are almost there with the Premier League :drinks:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52699654
Kop, et al. Next ones are available from tomorrow.
Love that show.
Greatest athlete / competitor ever IMHO. Sometimes you get brands that hype the player (Beckham, for e.g) but he’s just about the opposite of that.
I never knew / didn’t realise he grew up in your ‘neighbourhood’.
He was born in Brooklyn and that would be very close to where I grew up.
As far as where he was raised, Wilmington is like a 4 hour drive away from where I am at. Same state, but almost on completely different ends.
I wasn’t attempting to give you credit for raising him, I was just saying
I have to say that I really enjoyed that first Fantasy Bundesliga (no players playing tonight).
I’m a bit annoyed with myself for dismissing it earlier in the season without proper research on it but I’ll play it from now on.
Love the point scoring, star man and flexibility in substitutions in the game and that’s despite VAR having a hand in ruining a goal scoring defender for me!
Shows that the software is there for this game to be lifted and transferred into FPL too. Suppose the only question would be the difference in game users and whether that would have an effect. But can you imagine the whinges and moans in the FPL community if this was the set up? :rofl:
Yeah I’m quite enjoying it as well, need to get on top of that ‘mid gameweek tinkering’ situation though :-/ You’re right about the moaning, I certainly prefer the FPL scoring system. Having said that, I am not adapting begrudgingly
I have Marco Friedl from Bremen who is starting, but it will be a huge gamble to play him. Bremen are second last while Leverkusen are up there fighting for top 4
What does Friedl play?
Football, hopefully.
You never know, Everton use to field a puppy.
He is a defender Mito.
Bremen have only 4 wins to the season. Mind you, two of them away with clean sheet in both
Are you dropping points to field him?
Well, they are fighting for survival, that might push them to do better. We’ve seen it here in the PL many times.
Geez Ivan!! hippo
No, I have Kenny who is on 0 points, but looking at the stats, he has a mixed bag. There are a couple of scores like 9 even 13 points generated by passes and assists, at the same time there are quite a few negative ones with minus points.
I could take a chance and hope he brings a point or two, or equal the 0 but Leverkusen are too good.
At worst one would think you might lose a point or two if things go tits up.
Considering that, I probably play him and take the chance, you never know.
Having said that, I hope Leverkusen scores 10. hippo
Well, a few points will take me over GM, -2 will drag me down below Init and VanDan.
What the heck… I am going for it :yes:
By the way, just found out. Back in October in the revers fixture Bremen drew as visitors. I am going for it
Bremen were a good side last season. They finished a couple points out of a CL spot. Rashica was a popular player last season and really early this season, before we all realised Bremen was not the Bremen of last season.
Bremen v Leverkusen
Havertz time, going to make him captain. :bravo:
Means dropping 13 points, 8 from Nkuku to be subbed out and losing 5 from captain Gnabry.
Do we have more than 3 FTs for a hit? Or, is it fixed 3?
Just a fixed 3 as far as I can remember.
GM, always 3 FT. No hits are allowed and you can’t curry over a FT if not used.