GK selection

Right.

Everything's in the thread's title. How do you choose your goalkeepers?

A bit of personal background

Over the 4 years I've played the game I tried different options:

1. An expensive keeper from a top team (ekfatt) (e.g. Cech, Szczesny) that I was playing every weeks coupled with a £4.0m keeper who was not guaranteed a game ;
2. Partial rotation between an "ekfatt" and a cheapie who was guaranteed a game e.g. Mignolet / Boruc at the beginning of last year ;
3. Rotating 2 cheap keepers from 2 teams which rotate the best possible and offer CS potential e.g. Marshall / Mannone & Mannone / Adrián last year.

I can't say I've ever been really satisfied. When using a big gun I've been left with disappointing late goals while his team was flying ahead and while using the rotation I've been burnt by my own method (basically my away keeper was doing better than my home one). I've also been pretty badly inspired when dilemma happened (is it better away to a bad team or home to a top one ?).


Last year I kept track of my GK choices over the whole season.

1. I started with Mignolet / Boruc for the first 13 GWs.
2. Then I swapped Boruc for Marshall until GW20 included.
3. From that point I decided to rotate 2 cheapies:
   1. to save cash for the strikeforce,
   2. because the big guns were not doing that much better.

It's hard to know if I'd done better or worse with different solutions since my whole team would have been different. But the facts are the facts. I got 156 pts out of my playing keeper and my benched keeper got 139 pts. I only started to make consistently better decisions from GW26. Overall I made the right choice 45% of the time for 40% of bad decisions (the remaining 15% seeing both my keepers score the same amount of pts). Clearly it's not a good enough ratio. I had a great season, finished just shy of the top 1.5k and I know that a simple 5-10% shift of better decisions would have landed me in the top 1k.

This season choice.

So how do you guys do?

I made a poll based by coupling the options listed in this great article (=> http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2014/07/17/fantasy-premier-league-player-list-analysis-goalkeepers-2/) with the best rotations listed in this other great article (=> http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2014/06/24/premier-league-201415-home-and-away-rotation/).

One of the questions I'm wondering about is: DeGea + Myhill (£9.5m) to take advantage of United starting fixtures or Krul + Mannone (£9.0m) for rotation sake (though with Pantillimon's arrival Mannone may not be a clear number 1...) ?

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OK, just added the poll. I realise it's quite "thick". Ah well I tried to summarise the pros and cons of each combo from the 2 articles aforementioned. You'll probably find other combinations (New/Swa ; New/WBA ; Sun/Sto etc...) but I have to go now so couldn't complete the 25 maximum possibilities of the poll.