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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I have no idea what to do this week with only 0.1 ITB :scratch_one-s_head:
My only option is to get rid of Neuer for a cheaper GK and use the cash to beef up the midfield :blink:
:punish:
I’m not playing FBL, but I assume in this kind of format instead of having 3 ultra cheap bench players, you might have 5 cheap players with the hope that you can sub in the one who happens to return that week? So actually you can have more cheapo players in your squad as long as they play for different teams and you can rotate in the one who actually does something?
There are several ways to play it, but what you are saying is a strategy that is widely used with a little variation here and there. I prefer for all my players to get minutes and yes there has to be 4 to 5 that you have because they are cheap, but don’t expect a ton from, just hoping that one or two get respectable points. Not sure if you play UCL fantasy but it has a lot of similarity to that, except in this one you can change a bit more often it is between fixtures not days.
I have created and messed up my squad for this weekend Bundesliga matches.
I auto filled my team for quickness then wrongly assumed that I could use as many free transfers until this weekend’s deadline.
But no, I could only use three transfers to fix my auto filled team.
Not to worry, as I don’t know most of the players.
Nice to have some meaningful football to cheer on this weekend.
Jamie
Can’t you do a Reset? There is a reset button below Transfer box.
GM, I don’t think you can after pressing the confirm button.
I did a small f**k up myself earlier. While downgrading Neuer, went for Luthe who is playing in the same game with my other GK Schubert. Still have 2 FT and will need just one, my as well use up the third and rectify the mistake.
OK, Neuer has gone. Quite happy with my mids actually. The defence is crap, so it has to be one of them.
Hakimi or Pavard??
I wish there was a fixtures tracker like for the FPL
You have Excel and you have the fixtures….. Send it over when it’s ready and I’ll happily create a space / article for it :wink2:
Thanks init, too lazy for that :smoke:
There are only 7 rounds left, it shouldn’t be difficult to figure out at a quick glance. Will get on that next season if we decide to carry on with it 😉
Wow !! FPL, FMLS, FBL, FUCL…. at least not FEL. …and if cricket to consider by some then, FIPL.
Additionally, next year FCOPA and then in 2022 FWC.
OK, init. Change of plan. I am half way doing the tracker and will email it to you in an hour or so
Brill, thanks Ivan! 😎
My Jedi-like powers of persuasion seem to know no bounds when it comes to fantasy football :aikido: :rofl:
I’ll start thinking about how / where we utilise that. Maybe a fresh article so that we can contain the FBL chat in that too?
In the meantime can you post it in the comments please? It’ll be tomorrow night now before I get to action it properly.
Done and emailed
GM, don’t forget Euro 2020(21) 😎
Mito, what were those 2 sites you look at for predicted line ups ? Ta.
There you go Elle
https://bulinews.com/news/5211/predicted-line-ups-bundesliga-matchday-27
Cheers Ivan. Mitos had 2 predicted line-ups.
Page 24, comment 131 onwards.
Cheers Init. Quick question, i’ve got the usual front 3, Lewy, Haaland and Werner, would you bin Werner ?
I have Werner and was considering the same, but damn those fixtures look good. Need to make decision also.
Cheers Mito, think i’ll keep. I’ll get rid of Hamit and Nkunku to fund Kai. Whats your thoughts on Thommy ?
That he is a punt. He plays high if I remember correctly possibly even up top. Can’t remember if he is deployed up top or on the left as a wingback. He has some set piece duty so there is always a chance there and for his price point he is good value. The reason I say punt is because Duss has 2 good games coming up but after that you probably don’t want to own him. My one concern with him is that he plays for a team that couldn’t score vs Paddy having said that, he was unlucky to not get an assist last game as ball he passed had his mate hit the post from a very good position to score.
Conclusion: A good punt for about 2 games
Cheers Mito.
Good morning – Bundesliga fantasy day!
Right *rubs hands* What I miss?? :help:
Ivan has very kindly done us all a fixture tracker which will be fashioned into an article tonight. Sneak preview in the meantime…
Thanks Ivan (and Init).
Just been dumped with work so I’ll take a better look this afternoon.
Thanks Ivan, very helpful to see all the fixtures like this.