Grab, Avoid or Bore Off! – Fantasy Premier League 2018-19
Oh yeah, with FPL back that also means ‘Bore off’ returns. I have went back to that old well and gathered the 3 amigos up for you to get their thoughts on some of the questions that we all want answered as the season draws closer.
For those that don’t know them or don’t know them well, let me introduce you to them.
Init is one of our site owners, he enjoys being a disciplinarian, hates typos and those with a lack of attention to detail. He also would prefer to not take walks on the beach and is not fond of puppies. Other than that, he is a great guy.
Cookie is also a site owner. He lives in Monaco, enjoys laying on the beach and taking pictures while he drinks his wine. He doesn’t like to hear about the details and enjoys typos.
Kop also a site owner and overall grouch, might be last on this list, but he is certainly not least, in particular in the grumpy category. If you ever need a pick me up, look somewhere else!!
Ok, enough of the heartfelt intros, let’s get it on!
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It’s been a busy summer already with Arsenal, Everton, West Ham and Chelsea appointing new managers, Manchester City adding to their already dominant squad, Man Utd continuing to splash the cash and Liverpool trying to protect Karius by beefing up their midfield. Spurs may even have a new home soon.
And FPL wise, this is the place to discuss strategy, learn about the promoted teams and their players while in the days and weeks to come we’ll have plenty of articles, interviews, player analysis, Bore Offs, Tips, etc, etc.
So be sure to get involved in the discussions, the RMTs and the banter as we look forward to another season of Fantasy fun!
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Thanks for reading Fantasy Premier League Intro 2018/19. This article was written by Mito21
To rotate keepers or not to rotate keepers?
For many years I’ve gone with 2 rotating 4.5m goalkeepers (allows more money to spend on the outfield players etc). However, I’m considering a premium GK+a 4m GK.
Is there any data/research to support either tactic? It’s much more fun rotating GKs but would like to see some proper stats before I set my heart on it (if anyone knows where I could find them).
Just seen this on twitter, see if it sways you in anyway. https://premierleaguescience.wordpress.com/2018/07/18/is-it-worth-it-to-rotate-goalkeepers/
There is also this
Looks like all 3 of us on the article are going for a premium. I’ve always ran with two rotating previously but found you just ended up with two from lesser teams and a headache every week as well as a wrong decision on which one. I decided last season to simply go premium with the intention of playing him more or less every week. I found that worked a lot better for me.
We’ll all have Schmeichel if he goes to Chelsea!
I just did a spot of desultory research and the Leicester Echo reckons Ward is just there to stiffen up the squad. And who am I to gainsay the Echo?
I’m planning on Ederson this season, nice starting price, no rotation angst and hopefully a steady drip-feed of points.
Fab is appealing as well in terms of those terrible West Ham fixtures = save points and if there are a couple of clean sheets in there I can see him getting a lot of points.
But it seems safer to go for Ed.
Ederson is where I am leaning. Although if for some reason the echo are wrong and Schmeichel is sold to Chelsea, that be hard to pass up for 5.0
Yeah, definitely.
In a side with Salah every .5 gained is a precious .5.
Apparently Roma are also interested in Schmeichel.
Will probably go Ederson myself if Schmeichel doesn’t go to Chelsea.
The issue I have with goalie rotation is that cheap goalies often rank-up points in the difficult fixtures due to saves and penalty blocks. So if you take the average numbers on a total season, it might sound reasonable, but often you will have your bench keeper over perform and then you will be pulling your hair. One premium usually means aprox. 1M more, but it is well worth the investment.
Thanks for your comments re goalkeeper rotation, folks! I’m leaning towards DDG/Ederson/Schmeichel. If the latter moves to Chelsea then he’ll be right in there (and Azpi will make way for another premium defender!)
If the news that Liverpool are selling ward to Leicester is true dies anyone else think schmeical might be off somewhere as I can’t see them spending that on a sub keeper.
Fingers crossed it’s Chelsea to replace courtois as i quite fancy Chelsea defensive cover for 5.0
I’d say that’s pretty much the exact merry go round we are looking at.
Hopefully. However there are rumours tonight that he is going to replace Allison at Roma
Right there with you Hammers.
Done
3rd draft. To Salah or not is the greatest dilemma. With almost 50% ownership, if he starts scoring it will be almost impossible to buy him them.
It won’t be impossible, it will just take a hit.
Nice team that, really like that midfield. United has been the best defence 3 years running in terms of clean sheets, City was second last season, so someone from their team in the back would help. However, I no longer see LFC as an inferior side defensively, they have made some outstanding additions, so Robertson should be able to match any Manchester defensive player. To afford those mids and Auba sacrifices have to be made. I like the side
1st time playing
My team
Foster/Ederson
Daniels/ Davies/ Robertson/ Tomkins/ Mee
Lamela/ Sigurdsson/ Sane/ Salah/ Lallana
Zaha/ Tosun/ Woods
Hi 2PS
I think you need to strengthen your strikers there. I would try to upgrade Tosun to Firmino.
I would drop Lallana ego are best will only play every now and again. He’s too risky to start with I think. Lamela is the same but I see him perhaps starting the season due to Tottenham’s World Cup involvement. Sigurdsson may also be a fine inclusion.
I would try to save a little money here and there Foster could become a 4.0 goalkeeper for example assuming you’ll play a Ederson every week. You could look at replacing Mee with a 4.5 defender from one of the promoted sides ego rotates week with Daniels and a Tomkins.
That’s on the assumption you play three in defence.
@ Zorro
Luvin your silly league idea.
Entered mine which consists of just English players,
It’s Not too shabby
Couldn’t afford Alli & Sterling, so it’ll be one or the other?
Tougher than I thought, this.
Anyone im missing?
Great, welcome aboard the daft bandwagon
Yes Bigpopz, great and very popular choice :thumbup:
Just make sure there are all born in England. A couple of years ago MidnightJonah who is Welsh and always enters a non English team went with Dier thinking that he was French. We still can’t stop laughing 😆
Cool
Erm.. my teams English players only…can still have Sterling ?
Not sure but heard somewhere he was born in Jamaica?
Has English papers now so you can have him.
Only Zorro can decide on that. He is specialised on all nationality, geographical, migration matters. After the debate if Watford is a London team few years ago I am not getting involved 🙂
Just to clarify for everyone; if you say English players then you can have Sterling – if you say born in England, then you can’t. Best example is Diego Costa, last season we had manager(s) who had him in their teams as Brazilian born and others had him as Spanish International. Both are accurate…
Haha …should put Zorro in charge of immigration lol
Put me in charge of Immigration and all Vulgarians get deported first LMFAO
Hey Ivan, we’ll have lots of My Rules ‘virgins’ this season & I’d prefer to avoid the points deductions , just advise and request they sort their teams out. Next season we’ll bring it back. Any piss takers we can just delete amigo.
Absolutely Zorro. We had lengthy discussions if Watford is in London or not but than we decided that it is. Even if some still think it is not 😉
It’s on the tube, ergo, it’s London
Don’t you start with the immigration. I will be on the phone to Li Keqiang asking him to check the status of all Scots in China :big-lol:
Hey SZ, jokes aside. My Rules league will be fine. I will get GoalMachine to give us a hand and go through the teams. He is good at that.
Hey Ivan – I may just hop in on your silly teams league…. as soon as I think of one not as boring as “English players only”
Is there a code or invite I’ve missed? Cheers.
I can confirm Watford is in London. Their local rivals are Luton who play near to London Luton airport
Yes Colriles, the code is 42458-16279.
Plenty of time to think of something 🙂
That is correct Horse. Their next rival will be Stansted and in few years time Brighton could be another suburb of London. More fun for all of us :p
Corilies, need to use your site name & ur rule in your team name please.
Morning
How is everyone?
Had another tinker, what do you reckon? Should I keep kun or downgrade to firmino and then upgrade one of my midfielders or keeper?
I would keep Kun and move Auba out for Firmino. He can come back in easily enough. With that bounty then the likes of Robertson become affordble.