Predicted Line-ups and FPL Team News Gameweek 2
Hello and welcome to Predicted Line-ups and FPL Team News Gameweek 2.
We hope you enjoyed the return of our predicted line-ups last week and we have the absolute pleasure of offering you the excellent information provided by our good friends at Drafthound once more. For the benefit of the late-comers or those at the back not listening properly, here is the history of this old ‘teatime on a Friday’ favourite.
If you can’t do something properly don’t bother doing it at all…
The above title is a bit of a motto of FF247. And it sort of explains why we used to do this article but then suddenly stopped. The truth of the matter is that it simply became too much work for the team. Following every word of every press conference and then analysing that info and translating it into a line-up… twenty times, was quite frankly a bit too time consuming. The knock on effect was that it also pulled some key personnel away from the site on a Thursday and Friday. So we got into a situation whereby we had RMT’s stacking up and nobody to answer them! Would you rather the likes of Smash, GP and Init be stuck behind a computer waiting to report on information that you could simply Google or see on Twitter for yourself or would you prefer them to be on site answering your very own specific FPL question? In some cases it would be the former but hey ho….
However… it seems that this was always our most viewed article each week. Yep, we’d send our team out each week to research and write thousands of words and it turns out that people would rather just look at a picture of a team sheet with their FPL player of choice on it! Don’t worry, we get it, we do it ourselves.
As such we always wanted to bring it back… but without the hassle. Over the past 18 months we have had offers from other websites to share their info but we never landed on one that we trusted had done their due diligence. We would never present something to you that we didn’t trust in. During the Euros though we found a common ground amongst the team who were all using, and somewhat trusting, Drafthound with their line-ups. Turns out they do FPL ones too! Having researched their accuracy Init & Mito both declared them to be over 95% accurate, which is bloody good in that particularly precarious game of managerial mind games, subterfuge and downright lies.
To make something of a mockery of our above statement of doing stuff yourself we are therefore delighted to delegate all responsibilty to our new partners in the weekly game of Guess Who – Drafthound!
Quite how this article will look in a few weeks is anybody’s guess but we are starting it out as simple as possible with just the line-ups as predicted by Drafthound and as ever we shall take it from there and it will no doubt evolve over time so just bear with us on that journey.
Two things to bear in mind;
- We trust Drafthound. They will have done their research into all this, especially given what they do, just as we used to, but these things are a ‘best guess’ exercise at best. Usual leeway should be accounted for, etc.
- Given their time and effort in providing this content for us it would be rude not to occasionally click on the Drafthound link and check out their own fabulous content as there are FPL articles aplenty on there too.
This article was last updated on: Friday 20th August @ 18:45 GMT.
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All,
Team for GW2; good to go?
Tsimikas before Toney is my gut feeling, could go either way of course
Cheers – I was thinking Tsimikas instead of shaw!
Martinez or Sanchez?
Keep Shaw where he is!
. I think you’ve got it right with your keepers.
Martinez I think
This is the problem Mitro, which keeper to play, get 1 playing keeper and forget. If like me, you usually pick the wrong one. Play Matinez.
Looks good Mitro.
Sanchez or Martinez is a coin toss honestly.
Martinez.
I’d definitely start Tsimikas over Toney. In fact, I have.
Play Digne (Leeds away) or Smith Rowe (Chelsea home) this GW?
Smith Rowe for me but close one. Sort of expecting 2 points from both really
Digne. I reckon he’s more likely to get attacking returns as Everton are half decent. Arsenal are in a bit of a rough patch and face a very dominant Chelsea side.
But they have Ramsdale now, one shouldn’t worry too much…
Digne mate.
Digne
I have 13 of my 15 players predicted to start.
Foster sub goalie and Brownhill third sub predicted to miss out.
No transfer for me this week with the armband on Mo (Oh how I hate the early kick off).
Good luck everyone, may your arrows be green.
Jamie
Does anyone know, or can best guess, if there are traditionally more or less clean sheets at the start of a season?
I just have a feeling the opening rounds are usually low scoring affairs and plenty of CS…. Or is it the other way around? Details I’m not good at remembering, but I know someone in this community would know.
Just looking at last year, first 4 rounds was a goal feast
Don’t discount the home fans/advantage this season.
I remember seeing something on this previously somewhere…
For the first eight games there’s one-two more goals scored per gameweek for the last three seasons, as I recall. So there’s maybe some truth to that.
Crap.
Just realized I cannot do Ings -> DCL straight swap anymore.
Thinking about after gw3…
Did he drop already?
Ah nvm… Yes that is annoying, maybe Bamford can have a good run instead
DCL price went up
Prob not much difference between the two really over the season I reckon
Start Digne or Barnes?
Probably Barnes, would expect Leeds to score although digne could still get attacking returns. Can’t you start both?