FSA FPL Rate My Team Thread 2014-15

Wildcard active, am I missing anything obvious or any suggestions?

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

I wouldn't want the headache of trying to decide which of your front 8 to bench every week. But I'm bitter because I missed Siggy's 13 pointer through that situation

Re wonski's team. Agree with this. I'd drop Hererra for a cheapie like Boyd. I don't really get Hererra as an FPL prospect anyway, certainty at his price. Use the cash so you can be flexible to upgrade one of the cheap strikers If and wwhen you need to.

Loving the double Saints defence though, that's what I did last week in my wildcard. Sadly I then benched Clyne.

Have same back 5 except I've Hutton not Pieters. If I was going again I'd consider Wisdom.

Any opinions on this lads?

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Any opinions on this lads?

Rooney -> Falcao

DDG/Heaton
Terry/Collocini/N.Taylor/PVA/Wilson
Ramsey/Fabregas/Sterling/Siggy/Henderson
Costa/Rooney/Austin

0.3 ITB and 2FT

Thinking Colo and Ramsey to Moore (Lei) and ADM. Moore would be benched but need the cash.

Good move/bad move/ more pressing issues (ie: Austin, Rooney, Henderson) ???

I'd appreciate peoples' thoughts on my transfers for this GW. I took an 8-point hit to do the following:

Rooney out, Pelle in;
Ramsey out, cheapie in;
Cheapie out, Aguero in.

However, I am considering playing my wildcard. I have attached a screenshot of my team, and I'm trying to figure out if it's worth playing the WC and removing the points hit and taking the opportunity to make further changes. I would like to get rid of Caulker, and possibly get a 'keeper who plays so I can rotate with Forster (reducing my Southampton dependency for tricky fixtures).

Does anyone think there is enough potential work to play the WC, or should I just take the 8-point hit on the chin?

Yeah, going to 3-4-3 from 3-5-2. Really don't like to take anything above a 4-point hit but I might do, there will undoubtedly be a more urgent need for the WC later.

Does anyone have any suggestions for this team:

Forster - McCarthy

Kompany - Duff - Wisdom - Moore - Wilson

Sterling - ADM - Siggy - Cesc - Boyd

Costa - Aguero - Welbeck


I have 2 FTs, and 0.5m in the bank. But not a single transfer is jumping out at me, however I don't want to waste a transfer either. Obviously there's certain players that I don't have (Pelle, Ulloa, Chadli, Hazard, etc) but I can't have everyone, and it's not immediately who should make way for any of these players.

There are 2 that I am considering:

1. Moore out, Hutton in. Villa are over the worst of their tough run, so I feel Hutton would be a definite improvement without burning through all my banked money.

2. Kompany out, Baines in. Very tempted to have Baines. He's clearly on form, and has good fixtures. But City are over their tough(ish) start which is one of the reasons I got him in 2 weeks ago in my WC. And he returned a very tidy 8 points last week.

Any opinions?! Or any other suggestions for transfers that I'm not seeing?

Just to pass the time in the international break (I fuppin hate the international breaks FPL wise) here's my current team and short term plan.

Forster / Heaton
Clyne, Chamber, Moore, Duff, Hutton
Di Maria, Fabregas, Sterling, Siggy, Boyd (aka the template)
Costa, Ulloa, Pelle.

£8.1m in the bank.
2FTs

Defence / GK
My double Southampton defence has not yielded great results yet (the one CS they got me was unexpected and I had benched Clyne) and is under scrutiny, however they have 4 incredibly favourable fixtures next so will stick for now.

The cheapie defence has returned very poorly in general the last two gameweeks but I'm not giving up just yet, but am considering one change by getting Azpilicueta in for one of the three 4m lads. HOwever after Palace their fixtures arent the best CS wise with Man U and Liverpool away - or are those the very games to bank on a 'Jose Park the Bus' Clean Sheet?

Regarding Chambers, his yellow cards are frustrating but he is a 4.5m starting Arsenal defender. I think its worth persevering for now over other 4.5m options, as Arsenal have good fixtures now for a while and he is liable to get an attacking return at some stage too.

I also have an eye on Baines if I were to make moves elsewhere which resulted in me having the funds.

Midfield
I see no urgent reason just yet to change the template midfield, certainly not just for the sake of seeking a differential. Fab and Di Maria are unsellable. Siggy returned to form at the weekend and definitely a keeper for now. And while Liverpool have struggled Sterling remains their most dangerous midfielder and will stay for now, at least till it emerges how the return of Sturridge improves the team and potentially Sterlings points potential. Boyd is 4.4m, nuff said.

Forwards
Ulloa to Aguero after the internationals is a done deal. The question I remain with is whether to go with Pelle or Welbeck medium term. Pelle had his first blank in 4 games v Spurs, but has three home in the next four (Sunderland, Stoke and Leicester) along with Hull (a). Welbeck has goals in him (as he showed in Europe) but has only 1 big FPL haul among 5 blanks so consistency wise so far way below Pelle.

A final consideration is that there is no obvious value option in the Arsenal midfield if I want Arsenal attacking coverage for their upcoming fixtures, while as suggested by 'Busts elsewhere Tadic (or Mane) are looking good attacking options for Saints good fixtures.

Decisions
So after Ulloa to Aguero I'll have 1.7m in the bank. If I was going Pelle to Welbeck it would be advisable to do it before Hull (h) and two more decent fixtures in Sunderland (a) and Burnley (h). So that is option A for the second FT and would leave me with 2.1m to spend on defence. (If I then went ahead in future weeks to get Tadic or Mane for say Sterling I'd have even more and could move to a mid price defence rather than a cheapie one if that was looking the way to go)

Option B is to look at my defence who after two bad weeks have pretty awful options for next GW too Chambers is out, Moore away to Newcastle, Hutton away to Everton. Duff at home to West Ham not overly appealing either. I could use my second FT to do Hutton to Azpil (Palace a) and leave Welbeck and Pelle another week to audition.

If Welbeck does well for England and starts to bandwagon in price that would also be a consideration, and for -4 I could do all three moves.

Finally if I downgraded Sterling to a Southampton midfielder I could actually afford Clyne to Baines meaning my cheap defence would be not so cheap with Azpil, Baines and Chambers. Too much?

If nothing else this will remind me in a weeks time what I was thinking, and may cover some questions other people are also considering (certainly seems to be based on the General thread). Any thoughts are welcome if any of ye are needing something to occupy the FPL brain cells at the moment!

harpstilidie wrote: »

What's people's opinions on this team? Have played my WC to sort out my team during the international break. Started off well but team has declined recently.

Begovic Mannone


Bertrand Taylor Duff Chambers Wisdom



Fabregas Siggy Di Maria Sterling Jedinak



Costa Aguero Jelavic


Have 0.2 in the bank. I could possibly downgrade Taylor to Moore, Jedinak to Boyd and Mannone to a 4m Keeper which would generate funds to switch Jelavic with Wellbeck. Or bring in Tadic for Sterling? Some help would be greatly appreciated.

You could do Bego to Foster, Wisdom to Moore and Jedinak to Boyd. I think Begovic is a good option but he's definitely not essential and Foster is probably the second best option behind Mannone for his price. These changes should allow you to upgrade Jelavic to D Welbz.

wonski wrote: »

How about a Chelsea defender instead of Baines?
Wouldn't touch the front tbh. Looks just fine.

Well I see a Chelsea defender as very similar to Kompany. In fact, I brought Kompany in for Cahill in the WC. And they have both score 10 points in the 2 weeks since that transfer!

Baines I see as something different - ie, attacking potential.

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

Cisse is a little bit like Turner to me and he seems to have hit the ground running. We know what he can do with a bit of form. For 5.9 it's not totally crazy. Trusting Newcastle I'll readily admit is a little alright :pac:

The defence is a little cheap. However Clyne and Rose would play most weeks for pretty good teams and capable of keeping clean sheets whilst rotating the other 3 for best fit. The Burnley keepers would be the biggest worry there I'll admit.

That midfield is badass though, am I right? Along with Costa and Aguero up front. It's not template, it is a little bit of fun and a little testing the waters with normal people :pac: I don't see why it shouldn't do well though?

Sanchez is a gamble but the kind of one that might be worth it while Walcott/Ramsey get back on their feet. He should see a lot more consistent gametime too and be a bit more settled. Hazard could be set to take off, at the very least I'd expect him to keep par with Fab. No matter whether I play it safe and template or I follow my crazy nose I like to have firepower in my team and don't mind skimping on defenders.

But yeah I'm mainly plugging myself in for a check up on the crazy scale

The way i see it is that you can spend your money just a little bit wiser.
Hazard is a good shout but Sanchez at 10.3 isn't worth it (yet).

Your midfield might be badass but it is at the expence of the defenders.
I liked cheap and cheerful until i was awarded 1-2 points for each of them.

I am too lazy to tell you what that team would have scored last week(s), but i am pretty sure it wasn't great.

The midfield / forwards combo might work depending on your formation.

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

Ah yeah I agree for the most part an extra 1.5 would go a long way at the back. The Sanchez thing is risk and reward alright.

The team could score 0 points last week but its about what it'll score for the weeks to come.

Mr.P - we can't wait to see how the GW8 works out for you.

You know we are all here to give you hugs and everything.