FSA FPL Rate My Team Thread 2014-15

OneColdHand

auldgranny wrote: »

Thinking of wildcarding be grateful for any imput


Krul Forster


Chambers Bertrand Janmaat Cresswell Gibbs


Siggy Wanyama Chadli Walters Sanchez


Costa Aguero Ayoze

Far too much spent on defence, at the expense of your midfield. I'd downgrade a keeper and at least 2 defenders and spend the extra money on upgrading a midfielder. If you could upgrade Walters to a premium mid that would be a big improvement.

auldgranny

OneColdHand wrote: »

Far too much spent on defence, at the expense of your midfield. I'd downgrade a keeper and at least 2 defenders and spend the extra money on upgrading a midfielder. If you could upgrade Walters to a premium mid that would be a big improvement.

Thank you so much

Draft 2 0.7 in bank

Forster Krul


Chambers Bertrand Trippier Taylor Dummett


Siggy Wanyama Sterling Chadli Sanchez


Aguero Costa Ayoze

OneColdHand

auldgranny wrote: »

Thank you so much

Draft 2 0.7 in bank

Forster Krul


Chambers Bertrand Trippier Taylor Dummett


Siggy Wanyama Sterling Chadli Sanchez


Aguero Costa Ayoze

I don't think I'd go for Sterling. Liverpool have been poor without Sturridge, and he's out for longer now. Personally I'd be looking to get a Chelsea midfielder in, Hazard, if you can. I think you could downgrade Forster (has tough fixtures coming up) to someone like Guzan. And Trippier to Duff will give you essentially the same thing for 0.6 less. These might allow you to upgrade Sterling to Hazard.

Iused2likebusts

auldgranny wrote: »

Thank you so much

Draft 2 0.7 in bank

Forster Krul


Chambers Bertrand Trippier Taylor Dummett


Siggy Wanyama Sterling Chadli Sanchez


Aguero Costa Ayoze

I'd go Forster to pantimilon you already have southampton coverage their fixtures aren't great and krul and pantimilon rotate. Bertrand to alderweld. I think trippier is a good shout for the next 5 gws I'd expect a couple of clean sheets and maybe some attacking points. Ayoze to Austin maybe and sterling to Chelsea mid.

Nerdlingr

auldgranny wrote: »

Thinking of wildcarding be grateful for any imput


Krul Elliott


Chambers Bertrand Taylor Cresswell Yun


Siggy Oscar Chadli Boyd Sanchez


Costa Aguero Austin

Ya could go with something like this depending on the money... 3-4-3. Oscar a bit of a wildcard choice, everyone else has either Fabregas or Hazard. Oscar is the sneaky one that could make a few points with chelsea's fixture list the way it is. He's only 9 pts behind hazard with 200minutes less played but is nearly 2m cheaper.

Lemlin

Nerdlingr wrote: »

Ya could go with something like this depending on the money... 3-4-3. Oscar a bit of a wildcard choice, everyone else has either Fabregas or Hazard. Oscar is the sneaky one that could make a few points with chelsea's fixture list the way it is. He's only 9 pts behind hazard with 200minutes less played but is nearly 2m cheaper.

Alot of the FFS lads were going for him over Hazard to replace Fabregas earlier in the week. I actually had Oscar for the early part of last season until he got injured and he was outscoring Hazard until Hazard hit his purple patch.

jimmii

Oscar is definitely good value as long as he continues to get starts I think you have to be prepared to move quickly if it looks like he falls out of favour whereas you don't really have that worry with Fab & Hazard. Tempted to switch to him to save a bit myself if you have Costa you are unlikely to ever want to captain Hazard and thats not ideal for a 10m player.

OneColdHand

Lemlin wrote: »

Alot of the FFS lads were going for him over Hazard to replace Fabregas earlier in the week. I actually had Oscar for the early part of last season until he got injured and he was outscoring Hazard until Hazard hit his purple patch.

Just looking at my team, if I was to switch Hazard to Oscar, then I could switch Pelle to Costa. So I can see the attraction in going for Oscar over Hazard.

menoscemo

OneColdHand wrote: »

Just looking at my team, if I was to switch Hazard to Oscar, then I could switch Pelle to Costa. So I can see the attraction in going for Oscar over Hazard.

It's always been my plan to go Fab-Oscar and Pelle-Costa next week. I would do it this week but Fab and Costa and pelle are on the brink of suspensions so I don't want to get Costa in now only for him to be suspended next week (and likely cheaper).

If there is any word of fab not playing tomorrow though I will do Fab to Oscar today for -4pths hit.

Gooners

Wilcarding using some of the advice given above.


Krul Guzan

Chambers Janmaat Trippier Alderwiereld Yun

Sigurdsson Wanyama Chadli Sanchez Hazard


Costa Aguero Ayoze Perez



Any thoughts or suggestions?
Should I change Oscar for Hazard and upgrade Perez and defence?

tom_k

Gooners wrote: »

Wilcarding using some of the advice given above.


Krul Guzan

Chambers Janmaat Trippier Alderwiereld Yun

Sigurdsson Wanyama Chadli Sanchez Hazard


Costa Aguero Ayoze Perez



Any thoughts or suggestions?
Should I change Oscar for Hazard and upgrade Perez and defence?

I dont think so. That team looks good IMO.

Swapping Janmaat out for Dummett would give you flexibility to upgrade Alderweireld to Clyne or Bertrand though who offer better attacking potential.

Bleating Lamb

Like a lot of people in a bit of pickle with suspensions and injuries,am doing reasonably( by my low standards)... In top 250k.
Current Team.
De Gea. Krul (inj)
Dummett Azpil Chambers (susp). Clyne Duff (inj)
Chadli. Fabregas (susp) Sanchez. Siggy. Amoebi
Aguero (inj). Bony. Austin

Have Team value 101.9m. 4.2m in the bank. And a resale value of 103.3m.

Overall haven't a bad squad I don't think, and haven't bad resale value.
My question is in looking forward to Christmas period of busy schedule who would ye ditch between now and say 3 Gameweeks time?
Have one FT at mo.
Will hold Kun if it's not bad injury.....don't see Chadli,Clyne,Duff ,Krul.as Longterm keepers.How could I use my money in the bank well?....no huge interest in Costa.
Would ye burn some money and take a few hits to shape team up a bit better?,
All advice appreciated.

tom_k

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Like a lot of people in a bit of pickle with suspensions and injuries,am doing reasonably( by my low standards)... In top 250k.
Current Team.
De Gea. Krul (inj)
Dummett Azpil Chambers (susp). Clyne Duff (inj)
Chadli. Fabregas (susp) Sanchez. Siggy. Amoebi
Aguero (inj). Bony. Austin

Have Team value 101.9m. 4.2m in the bank. And a resale value of 103.3m.

Overall haven't a bad squad I don't think, and haven't bad resale value.
My question is in looking forward to Christmas period of busy schedule who would ye ditch between now and say 3 Gameweeks time?
Have one FT at mo.
Will hold Kun if it's not bad injury.....don't see Chadli,Clyne,Duff ,Krul.as Longterm keepers.How could I use my money in the bank well?....no huge interest in Costa.
Would ye burn some money and take a few hits to shape team up a bit better?,
All advice appreciated.

Like many of us up until today it wasn't a bad looking squad.

GK - I'd hold onto De Gea as fixtures are OK-ish for December, Krul will likely drop to 4.5 tonight but that's not a pressing issue.

DEF - Chambers ongoing disciplinary issues mean I'm looking at getting him out ASAP. The possible rotation of Azpi with Felipe Luis is also a concern especially over Christmas. Clyne plays Burnley next week so I'd hold him. Ongoing injury for Duff, I'd suggest replacing with Yun (QPR)

MID - Chadli's lack of gametime means he should be high priority for replacement, consider Downing. I'd hold Fab due to his reliability.

FWD - Aguero's injury is likely to mean 3-4 weeks sidelined minimum given his history, I'm looking at replacing him with Rooney depending on how he looks on Monday. Don't know yet how to handle Austin.

In short, I think you can afford to wait til at least tomorrow before making any changes but likely candidates for ejection seem to be Chambers, Duff, Chadli and Aguero. There's also midweek champions league games that may cause further woes in addition to what we've seen today and what we may see tomorrow but overall you're not much worse off than most of us. You're in the fortunate position of having considerable funds to cover most purchases too.

Benimar

I think the worrying about Azpilicuetas game time is a bit overblown to be honest. Jose loves him and he's the number 1 LB.

Yesterday's change was purely tactical, a goal down to a team parking the bus, Jose threw on the more attacking full back, it's a fairly obvious change to make. And not one that will happen every week.

Dave was suspended for 3 games and got straight back in the team, no way Jose is dropping him.

Iused2likebusts

Benimar wrote: »

I think the worrying about Azpilicuetas game time is a bit overblown to be honest. Jose loves him and he's the number 1 LB.

Yesterday's change was purely tactical, a goal down to a team parking the bus, Jose threw on the more attacking full back, it's a fairly obvious change to make. And not one that will happen every week.

Dave was suspended for 3 games and got straight back in the team, no way Jose is dropping him.

I dont think he will be rotated apart from 1 of the games over xmas. Azpil being taken off for luis can be a good thing going forward. For example chelsea are drawing 0 0 and azpil gets subbed off after 60 with a CS as mourinho wants a more attacking fb. Azpil going off early yesterday meant he got 2 pts instead off 1 also:).
Having said all that Id prefer JT over azpil.

Bleating Lamb

tom_k wrote: »

Like many of us up until today it wasn't a bad looking squad.

GK - I'd hold onto De Gea as fixtures are OK-ish for December, Krul will likely drop to 4.5 tonight but that's not a pressing issue.

DEF - Chambers ongoing disciplinary issues mean I'm looking at getting him out ASAP. The possible rotation of Azpi with Felipe Luis is also a concern especially over Christmas. Clyne plays Burnley next week so I'd hold him. Ongoing injury for Duff, I'd suggest replacing with Yun (QPR)

MID - Chadli's lack of gametime means he should be high priority for replacement, consider Downing. I'd hold Fab due to his reliability.

FWD - Aguero's injury is likely to mean 3-4 weeks sidelined minimum given his history, I'm looking at replacing him with Rooney depending on how he looks on Monday. Don't know yet how to handle Austin.

In short, I think you can afford to wait til at least tomorrow before making any changes but likely candidates for ejection seem to be Chambers, Duff, Chadli and Aguero. There's also midweek champions league games that may cause further woes in addition to what we've seen today and what we may see tomorrow but overall you're not much worse off than most of us. You're in the fortunate position of having considerable funds to cover most purchases too.

Thanks for a v good reply,sorry only getting back now,
yday I transferred out Chambers
for Smalling of Utd....they don't have too bad of a run coming up,
Liverpool in terrible shape at mo and Smalling has been playing well.
Will see how Rooney does tonight...will bring him or Lukaku in for Aguero.

wonski

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Thanks for a v good reply,sorry only getting back now,
yday I transferred out Chambers
for Smalling of Utd....they don't have too bad of a run coming up,
Liverpool in terrible shape at mo and Smalling has been playing well.
Will see how Rooney does tonight...will bring him or Lukaku in for Aguero.

Just a bit of advice here;)

It doesn't matter how well Smalling did in last game. What does matter is how well the whole defence played.

For the players like Aguero / Costa / Sanchez you don't have to worry too much about the rest of their team ( well, you do but they still can score anytime and anywhere).

When it comes to defenders you want them all play well. Just a thought.

Are you a Manchester United fan? Don't let it influence your squad;)

Ziegler1988

Can't wait for the wildcard on Thursday. This is a first draft I came up with



Big decisions to be made in midfield since I've had Downing since 5.7m. I'm favoring a power 5 with two of Sterling/Eriksen/Cazorla with the other three slots pretty much set. Up front, ManU have good fixtures and then RvP to Aguero is an easy swap. Barnes seems nailed on and has nice fixtures in Jan which will cause selection dilemmas, but oh well (ninja edit: Ah, forgot about Sam Vokes coming back, crap). Spurs have great fixtures and Kane looks amazing for that price. Defence will be chopped and changed a lot for me; only certainty is Terry.

wreckless if true

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

Can't wait for the wildcard on Thursday. This is a first draft I came up with



Big decisions to be made in midfield since I've had Downing since 5.7m. I'm favoring a power 5 with two of Sterling/Eriksen/Cazorla with the other three slots pretty much set. Up front, ManU have good fixtures and then RvP to Aguero is an easy swap. Barnes seems nailed on and has nice fixtures in Jan which will cause selection dilemmas, but oh well (ninja edit: Ah, forgot about Sam Vokes coming back, crap). Spurs have great fixtures and Kane looks amazing for that price. Defence will be chopped and changed a lot for me; only certainty is Terry.

wow, mad looking team but very interesting! I realise you are unbelievable at the game, top of my qualifying league but are you sure you think its a good move going that bare up front?

Ziegler1988

wreckless if true wrote: »

wow, mad looking team but very interesting! I realise you are unbelievable at the game, top of my qualifying league but are you sure you think its a good move going that bare up front?

Ha, I'm far from unbelievable. Been having a great season thus far, but I don't have the history of a Lemlin in FPL.
Barnes being dropped for Vokes could change the plans back to Boyd as my bench warmer. Austin and Costa are the popular strikers, but I'd be at max Chelsea already and Austin has 4 out of 6 away from home next. Plenty of time to tinker

FrClintPower

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

Can't wait for the wildcard on Thursday. This is a first draft I came up with



Big decisions to be made in midfield since I've had Downing since 5.7m. I'm favoring a power 5 with two of Sterling/Eriksen/Cazorla with the other three slots pretty much set. Up front, ManU have good fixtures and then RvP to Aguero is an easy swap. Barnes seems nailed on and has nice fixtures in Jan which will cause selection dilemmas, but oh well (ninja edit: Ah, forgot about Sam Vokes coming back, crap). Spurs have great fixtures and Kane looks amazing for that price. Defence will be chopped and changed a lot for me; only certainty is Terry.

Why Fernandez rather than Naylor? I know its only 0.1m....

Lemlin

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

Can't wait for the wildcard on Thursday. This is a first draft I came up with



Big decisions to be made in midfield since I've had Downing since 5.7m. I'm favoring a power 5 with two of Sterling/Eriksen/Cazorla with the other three slots pretty much set. Up front, ManU have good fixtures and then RvP to Aguero is an easy swap. Barnes seems nailed on and has nice fixtures in Jan which will cause selection dilemmas, but oh well (ninja edit: Ah, forgot about Sam Vokes coming back, crap). Spurs have great fixtures and Kane looks amazing for that price. Defence will be chopped and changed a lot for me; only certainty is Terry.

Too bare up front for me. I think you should go with one of Eriksen/Kane and not both. Spurs are too unreliable and have Europa League.

You could maybe go with Mirallas ahead of Eriksen.

I'd worry about any team without Costa. I know it's went well for you so far but your hands are tied if he goes on another run like the start of the season, and his ownership is so high it'd kill you.

For me, at least two big hitters up front is a necessity. Also, why plan to go without the best value forward in the game in Charlie Austin? Madness for me.

Too much spent on defence. You plan to field three each week so most weeks it'll be Terry, Jones and a cheapie, so why have two players 4.9 and 4.5? I'd be going for as cheap as you can get.

8-10

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

Austin has 4 out of 6 away from home next. Plenty of time to tinker

QPR have been awful away from home, one of the worst in the history of the league, Played 9, Lost 9 so far!

Austin does have 3 of his 12 goals away from home, however if they keep losing it reduces his chances of BP's, only 1 in away games this year for him, he has 13 total.

And what worries me is that while QPR have been decent at home, ALL of their remaining home games are against teams currently in the Top 10 in the league, except for Everton who will probably end up being a top 10 team.

Remaining home games in order:

Swansea
Man United
Southampton
Tottenham Hotspur
Arsenal
Everton
Chelsea
West Ham
Newcastle

Ziegler1988

Lemlin wrote: »

Too bare up front for me. I think you should go with one of Eriksen/Kane and not both. Spurs are too unreliable and have Europa League.

You could maybe go with Mirallas ahead of Eriksen.

I'd worry about any team without Costa. I know it's went well for you so far but your hands are tied if he goes on another run like the start of the season, and his ownership is so high it'd kill you.

For me, at least two big hitters up front is a necessity. Also, why plan to go without the best value forward in the game in Charlie Austin? Madness for me.

Too much spent on defence. You plan to field three each week so most weeks it'll be Terry, Jones and a cheapie, so why have two players 4.9 and 4.5? I'd be going for as cheap as you can get.

Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of the Spurs double up but they have been delivering the points recently. I might just stick with Downing and play around with the extra money.
Would you drop Terry or Cesc to accommodate Costa? On current form I just don't think Costa is worth 11.2m; the three Chelsea attacker approach would also leave me heavily reliant on them scoring enough goals as they tighten up. I'm wary of finding the right balance of playing a bit defensive to cover myself while also continuing to pick or ignore the players I believe in.

FrClintPower wrote: »

Why Fernandez rather than Naylor? I know its only 0.1m....

Naylor has 7 yellows so far. Fernandez is also usually good in the baps; from the Boxing Day matches: "Swansea's backline registered similar numbers, but Fernandez here was 2 passes short of making the 30 passes needed for pass % - With those 2 passes Fernandez would have beaten Williams on BPS. Either way, both are great going forward and early Wildcarders are more than welcome to pick them up."

Lemlin

I'd probably drop Cesc of the three Chelsea. He has given good returns in recent games where he played at ten but that'll end once Xmas rotation is over.

In regard to Fernandez, I still think you have too many expensive defenders. Each week you are going to be leaving two players worth 4.5, 4.3 or 4.9 on the bench.

That's why I go for one expensive (Terry), one mid priced (Naylor) and then three cheapies (Dummett, Wisdom and Hutton). Naylor and Terry play every week and then one of the other three. Means I'm leaving a minimum amount on the bench.

Ziegler1988

Problem is that there's not a lot in the ultra cheapie defence bracket anymore (I'm so stupid for choosing to cash in the 0.1m on Hutton in my GW6 WC and keeping Moore). I'll avoid Wasilewski at 3.9m since Leicester are crap, Saylor isn't fully nailed, and Yun is injured/has a propensity for knocks. I'm considering Cameron at 4.2m and will probably end up spending less overall to get rotating keepers.

Iused2likebusts

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

Can't wait for the wildcard on Thursday. This is a first draft I came up with



Big decisions to be made in midfield since I've had Downing since 5.7m. I'm favoring a power 5 with two of Sterling/Eriksen/Cazorla with the other three slots pretty much set. Up front, ManU have good fixtures and then RvP to Aguero is an easy swap. Barnes seems nailed on and has nice fixtures in Jan which will cause selection dilemmas, but oh well (ninja edit: Ah, forgot about Sam Vokes coming back, crap). Spurs have great fixtures and Kane looks amazing for that price. Defence will be chopped and changed a lot for me; only certainty is Terry.

I'd advise you to keep playing the game you play don't have players in your team for fear of their ownership. Things constantly change in this game. Austin for example is in great form but it's going to stop otherwise he is going to hit 30 goals this season it's about getting away from him before its too late. West ham downing are getting great returns is their top 4 output going to continue in the second half of the season i dont think so.One of the reasons you are were you are is because you backed your gut instinct and sold costa. I personally wouldn't have costa in the top 3 Chelsea assets so I think it's perfectly logical to go without him if need be. I'd agree with Lemlin about the layout of your defence you can spend wiser. I can see myself going Aguero and 2 cheapish forwards and a very strong midfield like yourself. Apart from Aguero the best captain options are sanchez and Hazard.

Lemlin

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

I'd advise you to keep playing the game you play don't have players in your team for fear of their ownership. Things constantly change in this game. Austin for example is in great form but it's going to stop otherwise he is going to hit 30 goals this season it's about getting away from him before its too late. West ham downing are getting great returns is their top 4 output going to continue in the second half of the season i dont think so.One of the reasons you are were you are is because you backed your gut instinct and sold costa. I personally wouldn't have costa in the top 3 Chelsea assets so I think it's perfectly logical to go without him if need be. I'd agree with Lemlin about the layout of your defence you can spend wiser. I can see myself going Aguero and 2 cheapish forwards and a very strong midfield like yourself. Apart from Aguero the best captain options are sanchez and Hazard.

I agree re Downing but disagree with a few other points.... But sure that's the joy of this forum.

Austin has 12 goals in 16 games. I don't see any reason why he can't get another 8 to 12 and finish on 20-24 goals.

QPR are a decent side with good attacking players. Their problem is defence and I can see that being strengthened come January and Harry doing some wheeling and dealing.

I still think Costa is a premium striker playing for the best team in the league. He will return points. He easily could have had a double against Stoke as well as his haul on Stephens Day.

I've found season after season that 3-4-3 is the way to go. Forwards are on the field to score. My expectation is that I'll be going Aguero, Costa and Austin as I had earlier in the season.

I'll then be hoping to have Silva, Hazard, Eriksen and Sanchez in midfield and Terry in defence. The rest of the team I worry little about.

Whether I'll be able to fit all of those in I don't know. I'm not starting toying around because I'm adamant I'll be keeping my wildcard as late as possible. That has worked well for me every season.

Iused2likebusts

Lemlin wrote: »

I agree re Downing but disagree with a few other points.... But sure that's the joy of this forum.

Austin has 12 goals in 16 games. I don't see any reason why he can't get another 8 to 12 and finish on 20-24 goals.

QPR are a decent side with good attacking players. Their problem is defence and I can see that being strengthened come January and Harry doing some wheeling and dealing.

I still think Costa is a premium striker playing for the best team in the league. He will return points. He easily could have had a double against Stoke as well as his haul on Stephens Day.

I've found season after season that 3-4-3 is the way to go. Forwards are on the field to score. My expectation is that I'll be going Aguero, Costa and Austin as I had earlier in the season.

I'll then be hoping to have Silva, Hazard, Eriksen and Sanchez in midfield and Terry in defence. The rest of the team I worry little about.

Whether I'll be able to fit all of those in I don't know. I'm not starting toying around because I'm adamant I'll be keeping my wildcard as late as possible. That has worked well for me every season.

I'm in no rush to sell austin but can see why Ziegler would.
I could certainly see austin get another 8 goals but I'm not sure that will keep people happy. If he blanks for a couple of games there will be an exodus much quicker than there was from costa. My problem with Costa is I'd captain Hazard over him and id expect fab and Haz to create most of his goals. I'd also be shocked if he didn't get a 2 game ban by March.

FHFC

Haven't really put thought into my wildcard team, but I'm more in the Lemlin camp re 343. I'm only playing a year and a half but I never like the look of my team unless I've a big hitter front 3. Two premium and one mid price at least. Last year in Jan WC I built a team with Aguero, RVP and Suarez, which worked great for 45 mins till Aguero got injured again vs Spurs.

On the other hand, going with Bony over Austin in place of Aguero has proved a mistake this year, although it looked promising initially. Also had I gone Austin I'd have had the cash to get Silva in before this week.

I'll be having a look at a big front three again, with the Costa, Falcao, Aguero type of line up being considered.

My resale value cleared 105m his week, so hopefully will have more than most to play with.