Grab, Avoid or Bore off!
Welcome to another installment of Grab, Avoid or Bore off for the 2015-16 season. As always we will tackle some of the most important questions in FPL, like is your spouse worth having if Pelle was available? After we tackle some of those hard hitting questions we might get silly and answer questions about Ozil, Aguero and others and it how it relates to FPL, time permitting. As I gathered the 3 Amigos this week, I noticed an air of grumpiness in the lads. Well, Kop was grumpy, the other two were their usual self. Come to think of it, grumpy is Kop’s modus-operandi so I guess everything was as expected. Init is forever optimistic, but always willing to lay into someone, Cookie is as always waiting for the other shoe to drop as he is eternally pessimistic about his FPL team and Kop was…well you know. Well enough about them three and how they were feeling and onto something that matters even less, their opinions on FPL…
NIN
Ha! I was hoping there would be one of these in the pipeline. Nice work lads, great stuff as always.
The B
Okay, turns out Vardy has a knock and won’t play against Spain.
Mane also down with an ankle injury.
Silvers
I’m slowly thinking anyone for 5 a side ?
Colriles
Silvers – right before I played my WC I had 9 flags!! So this feels like a breeze… :rant:
Silvers
Oh what I would give for a WC. :smiling:
Colriles
Seems like FPL site is sitting on a goldmine. WCs for cold hard cash.
inittowinit
Evening all. Many thanks to Mito for sorting this and to Kop and Cookie for their answers. Someone did point out on twitter that they’ve yet to come across a live corpse and they may have a point!
Mito21 @TheLegendMito21
What a stiff.
inittowinit
He’s dead to me.
Mito21 @TheLegendMito21
He’s Gomis to me.
Pancho
Friends, here’s a little chart I’ve put together as a tool as we look at transfers. It’s helped me process a Payet replacement and begin thinking about who to bring in as a Kun make-weight. I posted it last night under the differentials article but I thought I’d throw it on here too. Hopefully it’s helpful. Cheers!
Mito21 @TheLegendMito21
Thanks for sharing it Pancho.
Pancho
No prob Mito. It’s great to have same names in your article that I didn’t even look at in my assessment!
Pancho
on second though, wrong guy :/ Cookie wrote that article. whoops :cuckoo:
Cookie
You see how Mito just took the compliment?
inittowinit
Neither of them wrote the best bit! #michu 😉
Cookie
Surprised you didn’t ask NIN to do it :hippo:
inittowinit
My helper stuck around, where’s yours gone. Again. Pay peanuts…
Facepalm
Get Texans?
Cookie
On sabbatical. Think it’s a Texas thing.
Colriles
Thanks Pancho, great stuff. Can you explain the ‘form’ figure? Is that based on recent FPL points?
Pancho
I just used the FPL site. I went to transfers and sorted each position by form & then by team selection %. Just compiled it all together from there. Form is basically points-per-game for their club in the last 30 days. Thus, someone like Wijnaldum may be skewed by a random 20+ point haul, but his form will change dramatically in a week or so when that GW is no longer in the last 30 days. That’s also why I put Walcott and Kun as “NA” in that category.
inittowinit
Such a rare and outstanding performance (Wiji) does skew averages a bit but he still achieved it so it’s relevant albeit with a half hearted asterix!
Colriles
A ha, gotcha. Cheers.
Silvers
Great stuff Pancho useful chart thanks again mate.
Pancho
No problem Silvers! I needed something to do while watching Netflix
Cookie
Cheers Pancho, great stuff – that would of looked great on the differentials article 😉
Mito21 @TheLegendMito21
I would have included it in there…
inittowinit
Had it nor arrived 2 days after the article went live. Keep up Mito
Mito21 @TheLegendMito21
I read it, I had to alter bore off because of it. :finger:
I had a differential segment instead of one word association. #bastards
EBC
Glad to see I’m not the only one with a system…
inittowinit
Impressive EBC! Despite us being all things techy on here and twitter etc I’m still a pen and paper man when it comes to planning! Just feels better for some reason.
Pancho
Looks like a great system EBC! I have found this year as I take FPL seriously for the first time it really helps to have a plan.
inittowinit
Man on fire…
Mito21 @TheLegendMito21
Interesting, Williams scored.
NIN
Yikes, he really is turning the screw these days eh?
Pancho
With 2 free transfers over the break I decided to make one early and not lose anything on Payet so I did him for Deulofeu right away. I was impressed about 3 weeks ago when he had 2 assists to Lukaku but I didn’t pull the trigger. Glad to have him in now!