Team Value

Can someone explain why the powers-that-be keep a discrepancy between current market value and resale value?

Dempsey wrote: »

Team Value of 104.7 but real value of 102.2

Pretty average but I'll suffer in the 2nd half of the season I think if I dont get another million or 2 into the team.

What websites are accurate for price rises these days?

Fantasy Football Fix and FPL stats are getting close to full accuracy.

Fiso is not too bad but their price drops predictions are very messy since they have tons of players hanging there for ages and never dropping. But the ones who actually drop are generally predicted too.

The only one to forget about is totalfpl.

Personally I mainly check FFF and when I want to be sure I crosscheck with fpls and fiso. But if you're afraid of being caught by a precious £0.1m I'm afraid this year you have to go for it and forget about the predictions sites since there's everyweek a player who drops/rises without even being close to it...

FHFC wrote: »

How are we looking coming into wildcard?

108.2
Resale 105.3

Remains to be seen if it's of any significant advantage with so many cheap strikers.

Still about £1m shier than you :P

£107.2m
Resale £104.4m


It does offer a significant advantage at least by giving you more flexibility regarding your transfer options. For example you were able to get RVP in your team without depleting it elsewhere (personally I would have been shy a couple of £0.1m to get him in and be happy with my team overall). In the end this whole team value thing is all about a couple of £0.1m which can make a huge difference (e.g. sorry G1032 to rub salt but you know what I'm talking about :P).

If I take my own example my high team value allowed me to get Aguero immediately back in my team last year when he was rushed back (for the Cardiff game). Granted he quickly got injured (their next PL game at White Hart Lane) but the day he came back [though it was for a late 30 min cameo) he scored and assisted, combining both times with Yaya whom I was owning too. A ~20 pts gain (a ~10 pts gain over the Yaya owner). I won my cash league by 7 pts last year. Was one of the only one who could afford Aguero at that time. None of my rivals went the Dzeko route back then (we all took it later). I know many counterexamples are valid too. But I particularly remember that story because I gained significantly on my rivals from it last year. And the bottom line is my higher flexibility towards transfers last year was one of the main reason I won my league :cool:.

Coming back to your team. Your extra £1.0m resale should play in your favour one way or the other in the coming months. We're just at the season HT. Admittedly cheap strikers are doing the job. But City & Chelsea defences racked up the points in the last month. It's just up to you to make the good calls now :P. Elementary, my dear Watson! :pac:.

I think I'm going to ignore price changes now unless I have the exact cash to make a move. For example, after this GW I would have done Yaya and Bony out straight away so as not to lose resale value. But there's a 10 day gap between GWs so I wouldn't want to risk any injuries.

My team value is 104.8, resale 102.9.

It's crazy low but I haven't made a single transfer all year for value, nor have I moved early in the week all too often. We'll see how it affects me in the 2nd half but I'd say I've lost around 1.0 in actual value due to letting players I own drop.

I think my good performance so far has had a lot to do with it, as in I feel as if it's ok to let them drop while I'm doing well.

CSF wrote: »

I assume that's resell value?

No offence mate but you mustn't have well thought it over . £105.7m resale value is absolutely huge. I mean no one in here (not even FHFC) reaches that. So for that to be an average (even for top 1k) you'd have to expect players with a resale team value above £107m (I'm sure many here don't even reach that with their total value).

FHFC wrote: »

I'm surprised the overall average is soooo low! I said from the start that despite slower price rises, more drops etc that while people watching their team value would not gain as high a figure as before their advantage of the average player would still be as big as, if not even bigger than, last year in relative terms.

I'm at around 108.4 overall so thats more than 7m more than the overall average above. Resale is 105.6 now. OR 745.

I think you can chase value without compromising your teams performance, in fact if your team is going well one follows the other, its then just a matter of watching the prices and where necessary risking early transfers. Like bringing in Kane this week early, I knew last week he was my likely transfer this week, and as I do care about value it would just kill me to leave it and pay 0.3 more for him on Friday! If something goes badly wrong injury wise I can live with ending up with a hit the odd time as a result of an early transfer.

I fully agree with your last paragraph but still don't fully with your first (the bold part in particular). Last year for GW21, I was at £111.1m total value and £106.9m resale. This year £107.5m TV and £104.6m resale. I doubt the overall average was £2m higher last year since casuals and dead teams don't really follow (if at all) price changes and would have only benefitted from Ramsey & Yaya overall. Most of the other big hitters started to perform when dead teams have already become dead.

That said, if slightly to mildly reduced, team value will play its part in the coming 3 months and particularly when Aguero & Sturridge will be back. Afterwards it's generally becoming less of an issue (unless there's a late DGW involving all the big guns with all of them on fire -- loads of "ifs" here though...).