The Premier League Returns… and so does FF247!
Welcome to The Premier League Returns… and so does FF247!
Guess who’s back, back again… with fresh hair cuts and strippers galore!
Yep, we’re back, we hope we are anyway…. Unless any more players test positive between now and June 17th, because… you know, they just absolutely had to get their hair cut. Or party with some strippers. Like we are sure we all have in lockdown….
Anyway, we just wanted to give you an update on both the key points from an FPL perspective but also from ours in terms of what to expect from us over the next few weeks.
FPL Changes
The main one here is that those of you who have been diligently (let’s face it boredly) making transfers each week to get your teams in the best possible shape for the return may find it was a fool’s errand as we all now have UNLIMITED transfers prior to the next deadline. Which is WEDNESDAY JUNE 17TH AT 5PM.
Rather than waffle on needlessly, here is what the Premier League state on their own site:
FF247 ARTICLES
What to expect.. not a lot in all honesty! But why? Here’s why…
FPL Fixtures
Other than the addition of an initial DGW the rest looks like it will pan out exectly as originally planned. At least for now. That is apart from GW31+ being reinstated in full, as opposed to it being a ‘blank’ ish one, as it was originally scheduled to be.
That initial DGW sees the addition of Aston Villa vs Sheffield United and Man City vs Arsenal as they begin the new regime on the Wednesday before the rest start over the following weekend. Our Fixture Tracker has been ammended accordingly but we would probably take our usual colour ranking with a pinch of salt right now as it is based on normal conditions and does definitely take into consideration some sort of home / away bias, and if the Bundesliga is anything to go by then that particular advantage is out the window. Especially as some of these games look like beieng played at neutral venues. Can’t even begin to imagine why. At least not without insulting most of Liverpool or Manchester…..
We may do an initial Fixtures article but beyond that the opportunity to provide any articles between GW’s will be tight, and limited at best.
FIXTURE TRACKER
This has been updated accordingly and now looks like this:
FIXTURE TRACKER LINK
Player Tips?
See the above, basically. Probably the best we can do here is to promise that your usual protagonists will be around in the comment section to help and advise where possible.
CAPOS
We intend to do one of these prior to ‘GW30+’, in fact it is already in hand. Beyond that though we can’t promise anything, again for the reasons stated above; literally no time.
FF247 Site Team
We shall continue to do our transfers and we will post those and our weekly Captain Picks in our Live Match Chat article as detailed below.
Live Match Chat
This will be posted prior to GW30+ and will have the usual stuff on it such as the deadline and the weekly fixtures picture, as well as the new addition of the FF247 Site Team info.
We don’t intend to post a new one prior to each GW, instead we shall do what we have done with Bundesliga and simply update the article each time a deadline passes with new info. Given that it will contain the aforementioned FF247 Site Team info it will be updated earlier than usual.
The games for GW30+in full…
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IT’S GOOD TO BE BACK!!! :good:
Alright mate hows tricks!?
Areet Rosco. Yeah everything’s spot on mate; currently on furlough but my garden’s never looked better!
U keeping well?
Awesome! Bring it on! :biggun:
It’ alive!
IT’S ALIIIIIVEEEEE!!!! MOUHAHAHAHA!!!
Sorry….
So, what’s your plan now? How will you use this extra wildcard?
Got a feeling that we will see alot of wierd line ups in these final gameweeks….
I’m bench boosting. Will then either free hit or wildcard the following week.
BB right away might be my move too…
Glad FPL is back not happy with the unlimited transfers though!!
Why? If you are happy with your team, then just FH. This will give you better flexibility. If you have a second WC, you do not need to use it immediately.
Otherwise, you will setup for a Dgw30 with City and Ars and then you have to keep selling players from Gw31 or wildcard in Gw31 to setup for last 8 weeks.
GoalMachine,
Another variation on 2.3. Do I get to keep the team I’ve built if I do not transfer for GW30+, but have the option to FH (with my nongameweek 38 team coming back for GW31+)?
Hi All, me too excited it’s back. Not happy for unlimited transfer as I used WC for 29.
I think for me best strategy is now fix team for 31 and use FH for 30.
I can do TC same time as FH I assume! Is anyone else in similar situation?
1 chip at the time…
The GWs are gonna come fast and furious as well, need to plan well now! So is anyone thinking BB immediately for GW30+ and using WC to get rid of the DGW players right after?
No need to get rid of DGW-players since there are no blank gw’s?
True, I just meant if you only want them because of the double, but not normally
I have to see which one suits better – not decided yet.
Option 1: FH in Gw30 and go on normal. Use WC, BB, TC later. We probably won’t get another DGW for BB.
Option 2: Load DGWers and use BB in 30. Then WC in 31 and go on for last 8 weeks. Problem is that you don’t know concretely who will play and how. So, BB might not yield a Dgw benefit.
Option 3: Do nothing. Keep all chips for later and use WC 1 week before BB (perhaps WC in 34, BB in 35 and then FH in 36-38).
TC in 30 probably is better I guess – a gamble though. Anyway, i don’t have TC, so one headache less.
By Gw29 above, I mean the last team that you have at the end of old Gw38.
Yep, those are the options, I’m currently leaning towards option 2
Yeah that’s my plan. I’m bench boosting immediately. Will want rid of some of them straight away after.
Same here!
FH for me, guess there are two ways to play it depending on your team and chips!
FH for me also. I will bring in key DGWers but will also try for balance holding some of the high ownership players. Form is a lottery and for instance we could all be bemoaning a high scoring Merseyside derby having shipped them all out!
You can do both though, with cheap double gameweek players on a BB… Plus I think although there’s gonna be rotation with 5 subs might be less rotation now than towards the end when/if faiths have been sealed…
Definitely! Think I’m currently leaning towards BB chip for GW30+ because there are quite many cheap options in those double gameweek teams, don’t know whether that’s a good reason or not though
What week would you target for BB Rosco?