Fantasy Premier League: Pre-Season Thread

FatRat

I take it this forum will probably be dead from now until FPL starts up again. But the good news is....... FPL is set to start in or around 2 weeks from now, it could even be earlier.


We'll use this thread to discuss potentially good players and team/transfer news before FPL re-opens and also to discuss our starting teams/gameplans and maybe even new features/rule changes to the FPL site (if there are any).

BKC

Looking forward to this after a good performance in the Euros FF.

FutureGuy

The ff website looks borked this morning so thats a good sign they are working on things lol.

I took a break from all things Fantasy Football and am raring to go

token56

Very much looking forward to this starting again. Didn't start well last season and need to make sure that doesn't happen again if I can. Still a lot to happen on the transfer market also so it will be interesting to see what goes on between now and the start of the season.

FatRat

token56 wrote: »

Very much looking forward to this starting again. Didn't start well last season and need to make sure that doesn't happen again if I can. Still a lot to happen on the transfer market also so it will be interesting to see what goes on between now and the start of the season.

Same with me. It was my first year last year and I didn't understand the concept of it at all. What I did last year was I got equal valued players all around instead of spreading my cash. I remember I "didn't want to buy into Rooney or Aguero because they cost 11 and 12 million when I could spend the cash better". :pac: If I were to give advice to myself last year..... jump on all the bandwagons at the start then gradually make changes once you see the form of certain players increase or decrease. If we have a repeat of last year.... Rooney should be in everyone's starting team.


Two big players already worth looking out for from the transfers side of things are Hazard for Chelsea and Kagawa for Man U. I reckon Hazard will be 9-10 million while Kagawa will be 8-9. I can't see Kagawa starting from the beginning of the season though.

token56

Unfortunately I can't claim it as my first year last year, just had a bad year. The mistake I think I made last year starting off was trying to predict and picking less common players who I thought were going to start off well rather than going with more established ones. So I think this year I'll start off with a team the majority of which will be established and I know should be consistent, then its just a matter of jumping on the right bandwagons at the right time. This probably means avoiding, hazard et all at start but I think its the right choice.

Thanos

So Sigurdsson to Spurs, could be one to look out for, wonder will he start straight away or come off the bench for the first few games.....

T-b0n3

Looking forward to this!

It's always good fun picking your original team and it always changes about a million times!

shadowcomplex

Thanos wrote: »

So Sigurdsson to Spurs, could be one to look out for, wonder will he start straight away or come off the bench for the first few games.....

I reckon hes vdv's replacement

FutureGuy

shadowcomplex wrote: »

I reckon hes vdv's replacement

I dont think initially but as the season progresses he will be fighting for a place. If he comes in at sub-8m, I'll have him on my radar.

Eathrin

Does anybody have a clue when fpl starts again?

FatRat

2 weeks or less from now. Nearly certain of that. the 20th is the latest it will open. From what I'm gathering it will be open in 7-10 days. The sky sports fantasy football game is open already though. Nothing very interesting on it though. It's basically the best players last year are highest priced. Silva is highest midfielder at 9 million, Kompany highest defender at 8 and VP highest striker at 10. The spread of cash is different in the sky sports game though. Hazard is 7.7 on the SS game and Kagawa is 7.6. Podolski is 8.5, Lambert 6.8 and Vaz Te is 6.2. these prices are nothing to goo by for the FPL game though. The pricing is messed up. Just think that VP is 10 million and compare the other prices to that.

Formation

Whats the story with Adebayor and Tevez?

Bale the best spurs ff option?

are you planning on having any utd players (bar rooney) in your first gw squad? Who?

Who will be the surprise early points hauler in the first few weeks ala raylor/demba ba?

best chelsea option? Mata due to a rejuvinated torres? Punt on hazard? T-Dog himself?

Swansea/newcastle aside, where are the cheap defenders coming from?

who will be your biggest gamble? You thinking of getting in your man vaz te "because nobody has heard of him" like holt last season?

if van persie leaves arsenal will that basically mean the rest of the arsenal players become an overpriced swansea?

lets start with... Who are your front 3?

grohlisagod

I'm pretty sure Chelsea and Reading have a double gameweek in the very first week.

Formation

Aguero, Van the man, Adebayor if everyone stays put.

I wont be having many clean sh1ts this year just like don giovanni.

carlcon

Arsenal will almost certainly be cashing in on RVP now. I'm not so sure it's as simple as him moving to City. Bound to be interest from Spain and Italy too.

In FF terms, I hope he moves abroad, it'll make the game more interesting than captaining him every week up front for City.

If Wenger spends well and bulks up defence and midfield with the cash he makes, I'll be looking at Podolski. In a working Wenger team, he could be brilliant.

In other news... where's the Olympic FF? :P

FatRat

They badly need to fix their defence, Arsenal. That was their weak point last season, not only in FF but in the actual game aswell. I think if they get a defensive midfielder (M'villa maybe) and another good full-back they'll look a much better option for defenders this season. I don't know about everyone else but I'm really excited to have Ian Harte in my team Not because he's Irish but because he'll probably start at around 4-6 million (6 is very very tops I'd say, 4-5 is more realistic), he has a DGW to start off with and he is a machine for the goals and assists (for a defender). The new Leighton Baines I reckon but without the hefty price tag. Definitely one to watch, I have a lot expected of him. :pac:


As for the others... I think it'll be a Man United/Man City show again this year with Chelsea tagging along behind them... Arsenal and Spurs behind them then challenging for 4th. and I'm not just saying this because I support them..... but I can't wait to see Everton in action again, they're a good prospect especially since they finished ahead of Liverpool last season. They finished the league in better form than any other team last season, if they can keep that up, they're worth a look.

manual_man

carlcon wrote: »

Arsenal will almost certainly be cashing in on RVP now. I'm not so sure it's as simple as him moving to City. Bound to be interest from Spain and Italy too.

In FF terms, I hope he moves abroad, it'll make the game more interesting than captaining him every week up front for City.

If Wenger spends well and bulks up defence and midfield with the cash he makes, I'll be looking at Podolski. In a working Wenger team, he could be brilliant.

In other news... where's the Olympic FF? :P

Where's the Olympics fbv(fantasy beach volleyball):pac:

grohlisagod

FatRat wrote: »

As for the others... I think it'll be a Man United/Man City show again this year with Chelsea tagging along behind them... Arsenal and Spurs behind them then challenging for 4th. and I'm not just saying this because I support them..... but I can't wait to see Everton in action again, they're a good prospect especially since they finished ahead of Liverpool last season. They finished the league in better form than any other team last season, if they can keep that up, they're worth a look.

I don't know why but Everton never ever start well so I'll probably be staying away from them until December.

swoody

Sky Sports 2012/13 Fantasy Game has been open since the 5th so it wont be long till others follow............

Formation

Wonder would rvp move to russia/china/uae for £400k/week

BKC

Formation wrote: »

Wonder would rvp move to russia/china/uae for £400k/week

I doubt it. He can play at the highest level for another few years before making the move to somewhere for massive money, like Drogba.

manual_man

Now, when logging in, it says 'this game has now finished.'. i think we could be online soon...

Formation

Looking forward to this season. Kept the head last year and didnt take too many point hits, have a better idea what im doing this season. Could be the last time i put in the effort so hope to get 2200+.

swoody

Formation wrote: »

Looking forward to this season. Kept the head last year and didnt take too many point hits, have a better idea what im doing this season. Could be the last time i put in the effort so hope to get 2200+.

you'll need an average score of about 60 points a week.
managed 2000+ points myself in all my seasons except 1

this my 6th year now (5th on the account i'm using)....how time flies!

DazzlerIE

Checking back in for the season ahead

Haven't posted since last day of the season, ready to go now, can't wait for the new season to launch

Formation

So are we going to copy carlcons team and clean out our mates?

swoody

since preseason starts on the 14th (smaller teams) here are some preseason matches to look out for from the top 6........



July 14: Arsenal v Markus Liebherr Cup
July 24: Arsenal v Malaysia XI
July 27: Arsenal v Manchester City
July 28: Arsenal XI v Stevenage
July 29: Arsenal v Kitchee FC



18th July – Chelsea vs Seattle Sounders
22nd July – Chelsea vs Paris Saint-Germain
25th July – Chelsea vs MLS All-Stars
28th July – Chelsea vs AC Milan



18 Jul Man.United vs AmaZulu FC
21 Jul Man.United vs Ajax Cape Town
25 Jul Man.United vs Shanghai Shenhua
05 Aug Man.United vs Valerenga
08 Aug Man.United vs FC Barcelona
11 Aug Man.United vs Hannover 96



July 27: Arsenal v Manchester City
July 30: Malaysia XI v Manchester City



July 21st – Liverpool v Toronto
July 25th – Liverpool v Roma
July 28th – Liverpool v Tottenham



July 24th – Tottenham v LA Galaxy
July 28th – Tottenham v Liverpool
July 31st – Tottenham v New York Red Bulls

carlcon

Formation wrote: »

So are we going to copy carlcons team and clean out our mates?

Haha, this season I'll be just floating in and out of the game. No more Friday nights sweating over stats and manager comments for me! So I wouldn't advise it!

beglee

EDIT: posted that in slightly wrong thread.

It does seem as though the game will be opening any day now. I wont get a tap of work done once it does

FatRat

The website is "Temporarily unavailable" while they perform maintenance on it. That's the message you get after logging in. It could be open as early as tomorrow me thinks

WoollyRedHat

Can't wait for this to start up again!

T-b0n3

Twitter: Premier League ‏@premierleague

Here are today's three player values: Eden Hazard (CHE) £9.5m, Pavel Pogrebnyak (RDG) £5m and Park Ji-Sung (QPR) £6m. #fpl

manual_man

T-b0n3 wrote: »

Twitter: Premier League ‏@premierleague

Here are today's three player values: Eden Hazard (CHE) £9.5m, Pavel Pogrebnyak (RDG) £5m and Park Ji-Sung (QPR) £6m. #fpl

Pog for 5m seems absurdly good value. Linkin Park Ji-Sung for 6m could be good too - you'll imagine he'll be a guaranteed starter at QPR. Not so sure on Hazard - i'm more thinking of the style of play at Chelsea under Di Matteo, not the player

slingerz

Pog is a good value option up front if your not going with 3 top price tag players.

I think Rooney to start with and possibly Torres. Torres has to be due a run of form. Depending on transfers Suarez may be a points demon under Rodgers and should have a relatively low fee also after last years campaign

swoody

carlcon

Pog for only 5m seems strange to me, but I won't complain.

Even at that cheap price though, with strikers being such important players, I think I'll be looking elsewhere to start off.

grohlisagod

slingerz wrote: »

Pog is a good value option up front if your not going with 3 top price tag players.

I think Rooney to start with and possibly Torres. Torres has to be due a run of form. Depending on transfers Suarez may be a points demon under Rodgers and should have a relatively low fee also after last years campaign

No such phenomenon exists much as we all persist to believe in it!

Jimmy Iovine

Kagawa and Sigurdsson are getting valued tomorrow. I'm not expecting cheap prices for either of them but I'm definitely looking out for them. If Siggy is cheap-ish and manages to nail a spot some time during the season then I may well have to bring him in.

Formation

Is it after the 3rd gw again this year for the international break?

swoody

Formation wrote: »

Is it after the 3rd gw again this year for the international break?

World Cup Qualifiers start on the 7th of September, that will be 4 weeks into the new season, so week 4 in the epl is on the 15/16/17 instead, 8 weeks into the new season and there's another international break for World Cup Qualifiers so week 8 is on the 20/21 instead.......

FatRat

From the Premier League twitter page:

Here are today's three player values: Gylfi Sigurdsson (TOT) £9m, Shinji Kagawa (MUN) £8.5m and Papiss Cisse (NEW) £9.5m. ‪#fpl‬

Sh*t they're expensive. Especially Siggy. He'll hardly be starting imo.

Jimmy Iovine

FatRat wrote: »

From the Premier League twitter page:

Sh*t they're expensive. Especially Siggy. He'll hardly be starting imo.

I think I'll be looking more at Kagawa. Could be a good option and 8.5 isn't really that expensive for a midfielder from United.

RB100

manual_man wrote: »

Pog for 5m seems absurdly good value. Linkin Park Ji-Sung for 6m could be good too - you'll imagine he'll be a guaranteed starter at QPR. Not so sure on Hazard - i'm more thinking of the style of play at Chelsea under Di Matteo, not the player

I think the reason he is so cheap is because Reading don't score many goals. but if he is the lone striker maybe he could do what he done at fulham when he first came cus if he does he is very good value.

As for Hazard, if he can keep a starting place I think he will produce the goods but he is expensive

slingerz

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

I think I'll be looking more at Kagawa. Could be a good option and 8.5 isn't really that expensive for a midfielder from United.

Siggurdson doesnt look like value at that price

Jimmy Iovine

slingerz wrote: »

Siggurdson doesnt look like value at that price

I never said he looked like good value .

slingerz

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

I never said he looked like good value .

I wasnt suggesting that you did just my opinion that he isnt value.

any interest in putting together some fantasy premier league codes that people should join, leagues like the Last Word and such?

carlcon

Wow, I need to start catching up on transfer news. I had no idea Pog made the very strange move to Reading. NOW I understand his cheapness.

Jimmy Iovine

slingerz wrote: »

I wasnt suggesting that you did just my opinion that he isnt value.

Right. I was thinking of him but I doubt I'll go for him now. Can't see him breaking into the team unless VDV leaves.

If Siggy stayed with Swansea then I'd have gone for him. He's probably be about 2 mill less as well.

slingerz wrote: »

any interest in putting together some fantasy premier league codes that people should join, leagues like the Last Word and such?

I'd be interested. I joined the Coppers one last year. Came 4th I think. Not a word from them though.

Came 4/5th in one for Beat 102/103 in the South East. Not a word from them either.

Most of the radio stations set up one and like the majority they lose interest after September.

FutureGuy

Kagawa at 8.5 is going to be an absolute steal. Rediculous that Siggy priced higher!

Cisse is pretty spot on.

Kagawa to be 10m before Christmas. Starting 2013/2014 season at 11.5m

Bairds bhoys

Lads I'm getting exicted!!!
Tried logging into fantasy football and the website is temporarily unavailable.
Hopefully they are updating. Im looking forward to selecting my team.