Gameweek 7 Matchday thread.

Lemlin

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Welcome back like you wildcarded early and we had much the same team bar me going for silva, sturridge to your aguero, sterling. That decision cost me team value,points hits and about 30 pts. I also waited a week longer than you to get costa back in.

We both know this game is very punishing and margins are tight. That GW we wildcarded Costa was only looking at five until he managed that second against Everton to make it 12!

You've been unlucky but I still reckon you'll be top 10k come the season end.

Lemlin

km79 wrote: »

if you had falcao (Costa wellbeck) would you find the funds to upgrade to aguero?
i had planned on doing this OR getting baines in with my 2 free transfers.
Falcao looked very very good today....as good as aguero looked yday but cheaper and already in my team and no champ league BUT some stinky fixtures on horizon and I also have ADM
can't decide which way to go

I'd hang on for now and see how you go. For me Aguero is essential but he's not quite firing on all cyclinders yet. City aren't either.

wonski

62 points and 9k places up to 38k.

I really need to sort my defenders now - 3 x 1 point is not good enough. Keepers did just a little better - 2 points each.

extra gravy

wonski wrote: »

62 points and 9k places up to 38k.

I really need to sort my defenders now - 3 x 1 point is not good enough. Keepers did just a little better - 2 points each.

I'm in the same boat, happy with my front 7 but defenders aren't cutting it. Have over 2m in the bank so think I will invest it all in upgrading 1 or 2.

wonski

extra gravy wrote: »

I'm in the same boat, happy with my front 7 but defenders aren't cutting it. Have over 2m in the bank so think I will invest it all in upgrading 1 or 2.

I have 0.2m:D

IsMiseMyself

Up to 45k. Grand. Green arrows are nice.

Second place in my league is catching me slowly but surely. He's gained a solid couple of points every gameweek for the last four or five. Gotta stop that! Usually by sheer luck: last week it was Rooney being sent off and this week it was DDG saving the penalty. All those 2 or 3 points gains add up fast.

FutureGuy

Lemlin wrote: »

I'd hang on for now and see how you go. For me Aguero is essential but he's not quite firing on all cyclinders yet. City aren't either.

It's funny, I made the point to a friend today that, apart from Costa in one gameweek, no one major has gone ballistic in any given gameweek and he wasn't even a safe bet that week due to injury doubts. All the main captain choices recently have scored pretty comparably.

Everyone is plodding away with the odd goal and assist here and there and my money leagues are very tight because of it.

But there will be a gameweek where Aguero will change that. I want him in for GW8 but need him to get through internationals first. It means sacrificing Ivan for a 4.5 million player, but I think it'll be worth it.

What's the current team btw?

km79

FutureGuy wrote: »

It's funny, I made the point to a friend today that, apart from Costa in one gameweek, no one major has gone ballistic in any given gameweek and he wasn't even a safe bet that week due to injury doubts. All the main captain choices recently have scored pretty comparably.

Everyone is plodding away with the odd goal and assist here and there and my money leagues are very tight because of it.

But there will be a gameweek where Aguero will change that. I want him in for GW8 but need him to get through internationals first. It means sacrificing Ivan for a 4.5 million player, but I think it'll be worth it.

What's the current team btw?

not sure if its me if lemlin you asked but here it is anyway
courtois McCarthy
PVA moreno Taylor Wilson Moore
ADM siggy sterling fabregas Boyd
Costa falcao welbeck
0.5 ml in bank and 2 free transfers
I had 3 things in mind depending on how falcao went today
1. keep him ignore aguero and do courtois to forster and moreno to baines but turns out I'm .1 short anyway
2. courtois to Forster falcao to aguero have enough to absorb .1 rise or fall
3. falcao to pelle AND moreno to Baines ....courtois may be still injured though....
ive also now looked at the intriguing possibility of working towards having Costa aguero AND falcao within 2\3 weeks but that's a whole other story
hopefully aguero just goes and gets injured for Argentina

Western Pomise

62 pts....my best week in a while.

SantryRed

62 points sees me go from 10k to 9k. Still another green arrow though! Captained Costa over Aguero which didn't work out but still happy enough.

Lemlin

FutureGuy wrote: »

It's funny, I made the point to a friend today that, apart from Costa in one gameweek, no one major has gone ballistic in any given gameweek and he wasn't even a safe bet that week due to injury doubts. All the main captain choices recently have scored pretty comparably.

Everyone is plodding away with the odd goal and assist here and there and my money leagues are very tight because of it.

But there will be a gameweek where Aguero will change that. I want him in for GW8 but need him to get through internationals first. It means sacrificing Ivan for a 4.5 million player, but I think it'll be worth it.

What's the current team btw?

Krul
Moore PvA Taylor Duff Wisdom
Fabregas Siggy Sterling Di Maria Marney
Costa Aguero Pelle

2.6 million banked. Watching the highlights from Saturday, Aguero looked sharp and City themselves didn't play particularly well.

For example, he would have had a goal first half but for a pass that was a slight bit heavy by Silva. He almost scored from a header then too and hit the post when he should have scored.

The key thing though was that he was playing on the shoulder of the last defender and getting into those positions.

People worry about his playing time but he was left on the pitch because Ciry needed a goal. He will only be pulled off in games where City are winning comfortably and hopefully he'll have done the damage in those games when he is.

Dubliner28

62 pts with Ulloa as captain rrrrgh . Still happy enough. Risk didnt pay off .
Anyway onwards and upwards , Roll on GW 8

AdMMM

Nice even 60 sees me scrape into the top 300k in 299,690th. My team value has sky rocketed lately too, so if a few players begin to stutter, I have lots of options .

FHFC

Welcome back Lemlin!

Surfacing after a long day yesterday, and nothing to cheer me up in the FPL world.

Another poor enough score 55, another red arrow, down to 425k.

Narrow margins as somebody said, its been mostly about captain choices for me, not hit the nail on the head with one yet, far too many 2 pointers. Thankfully Fabregas held his own for me this week.

I'm going to be getting Aguero after the internationals, and then may use the rest of my 8.1m bank balance on my defence. Chelsea may be worth investing in again at this stage.

iroced

FHFC wrote: »

Narrow margins as somebody said, its been mostly about captain choices for me,

The difference between a good, average and bad ranking is almost only down to whether you captained, owned or didn't own Diego Costa for his big points haul. Those 17 (potentially doubled) points are the margin.

Cypher_sounds

Ended with 70 points, happy with my FT contribution (Vardy) considering he is 3rd choice striker, went with 3-4-3. I should have stuck with Henderson that bit longer though he is always starting for pool and as a 5th midfielder i shouldn't have taken him out so quickly. Still though 12k place so far so good.

8-10

iroced wrote: »

The difference between a good, average and bad ranking is almost only down to whether you captained, owned or didn't own Diego Costa for his big points haul. Those 17 (potentially doubled) points are the margin.

I'm definitely seeing that in my leagues, very narrow. The other margin is luck in defence. This week it was the people with Robertson, last week Bertrand and Jagielka, before it was Dier. People hitting the players at the back when they score is helping increase the margin but to me that's down to luck really, swings and roundabouts and you can already see now that Robertson owners have a tough schedule, Dier owners missed out on a clean sheet by 1 min of playing time....defence is really pot luck this season with no real strong team at the back: Stoke, Everton, Crystal Palace are 3 teams who were strong at the back yet with affordable players, but this season there's not too much value there (yet anyway). Add in United's defensive problems, Liverpool's, even City, and there's not too many nailed on options.

Neoulous

David De Gea my hero of the week. Glad I didn't ship him out for Forster or Fabianski. It's still a short term plan but happy I resisted the 4 pts hit for that. Was also right in not getting in Moore for a 4 pts hit.

65 pts which bring me inside top 40k. Happy with that.

CorkyLFC

Ended this week with 68 pts. Happy with it seeming that me defence of Duff, Clyne and Caulker only got me 4 pts. Di Maria is a must have for any player. Has got me 43 pts since I brought him in.

Aguero and Costa in the side will stay that way I say. Aguero will only get stronger I feel.

A new defender is my target for GW 8 but will wait till internationals are done and dusted 1st

Mint Sauce

Finished on 70 in the end. Had my highest weekly ranking, and after a bad few weeks moved back up about 300k places.

62 points leaves me on 420 pts overall, 43 behind the leader of the entire thing. My captain choices are letting me down big time, costing me 20 odd pts the last two gws alone.

Still, placed in top 2.5k overall, and have my first choice front 7. Not sure what to do from here, though, the good thing about doing badly is it's easy to know what to fix!

Menas

Deleted User wrote: »

62 points leaves me on 420 pts overall, 43 behind the leader of the entire thing. My captain choices are letting me down big time, costing me 20 odd pts the last two gws alone.

Still, placed in top 2.5k overall, and have my first choice front 7. Not sure what to do from here, though, the good thing about doing badly is it's easy to know what to fix!

FPL is a very different game when you are doing well.
Your gameplay should reflect this.

Dont gamble- play safe.
Dont take points hits.
If your 15 players are all playing then focus your transfers on the next 5 matches. Who has a tough run of matches coming up? Can he be replaced with someone who is likely to give a higher yield.
Is one of your 15 slipping in form and could be replaced by someone whos form and fixtures look good?
You need to be more strategic in your planning too!

Let those chasing you make all the rash moves.

Just my thoughts!

larchielads

This goes totally against the previous poster. I gotta make changes to my team. Thinkin of gettin aguero and chadli in for welbeck and mata. That'll be a hit of minus 4. But my mid field would be fab siggy di maria chadli cattermole and a forward line of costa aguero and pelle. City have spurs west ham and utd next 3 games and i def fancy aguero to score against any of them.
Spurs have city newcastle villa stoke in the next 4 so bar the city game i fancy chadli to keep his good form.

Thoughts please

LeaveitOff

Trigger Happy wrote: »

FPL is a very different game when you are doing well.
Your gameplay should reflect this.

Dont gamble- play safe.
Dont take points hits.
If your 15 players are all playing then focus your transfers on the next 5 matches. Who has a tough run of matches coming up? Can he be replaced with someone who is likely to give a higher yield.
Is one of your 15 slipping in form and could be replaced by someone whos form and fixtures look good?
You need to be more strategic in your planning too!

Let those chasing you make all the rash moves.

Just my thoughts!

This is exactly the strategy people should be looking at. FantasyFootballScout do great free articles, especially on teams that have 6 good and bad upcoming fixtures. A 10 minute read before making your transfer will make a big difference.

I'd also say not to value chase either. Concentrate on players with the best fixtures and value will look after itself. Points are more important. Also, when making transfers, try and have a plan of how you want to change your team over a 3-4 week period; freeing up funds by downgrading to a cheap player with good fixtures one week so you have funds to make decent changes over the next couple of weeks etc. Avoid point hits at all possible - they'll make the difference between finishing first and finishing in the top 3-4 in your league, as i found out last year.

As pointed out above, having a bench that play 90mins every week is very important to avoiding point hits.

I've been sticking to this strategy this year and it's reaping the rewards. 139th place, 21pts off top.

Lemlin

Just had a look at some of the GW threads from last year to compare my position.

After GW6 I was at 399k.GW7 saw me fall to 670k. GW8 saw me back up at 370k.

I finished the season at 1557 in the world after being up inside the top 500 for a while.

This season I'm currently at 61k so flying in comparison.

Shows there is absolutely no need for anyone to panic yet. Also shows how teams can change. In GW7 we all thought Palace and Sunderland would definitely by relegated!

There's hope for Burnley yet. Just get Tony Pulis!

8-10

Lemlin wrote: »

Just had a look at some of the GW threads from last year to compare my position.

After GW6 I was at 399k.GW7 saw me fall to 670k. GW8 saw me back up at 370k.

I finished the season at 1557 in the world after being up inside the top 500 for a while.

This season I'm currently at 61k so flying in comparison.

Me too took a look back there - was outside top 2m for first couple of weeks, still outside 1.2m after GW8 and broke into top 1m for the first time in GW9. 700K after GW12.

Ended up at 20K last year, and currently just outside that after 7 weeks this season. I'm notorious for slow starts and last year was an extreme example but all going to plan so far this one!

Iused2likebusts

Lemlin wrote: »

Just had a look at some of the GW threads from last year to compare my position.

After GW6 I was at 399k.GW7 saw me fall to 670k. GW8 saw me back up at 370k.

I finished the season at 1557 in the world after being up inside the top 500 for a while.

This season I'm currently at 61k so flying in comparison.

Shows there is absolutely no need for anyone to panic yet. Also shows how teams can change. In GW7 we all thought Palace and Sunderland would definitely by relegated!

There's hope for Burnley yet. Just get Tony Pulis!

I had a glance at that thread there. I was actually 100k this time last year which was actualy a good start as most people on here got off to a poor start.This year is the total opposite. I ended up having a shocker in november/december before going on my annual good run after xmas. While agreeing with you that there is no need to panic yet almost everyone on here has made a good start and most posters have atleast 50 pts on me. Of all the regular posters I think myself and CSF seem to be the ones that are really struggling. In my two main paid leagues in one my main rival is 80 pts ahead of me and the other league 60 pts ahead of me. This time last year the majority on here were struggling due to a strange start to the season this season the majority are off to a flyer. It will be harder to climb the rankings this year as its easier to catch people that dont really know what they are doing whereas this year I feel the people in the know have started well. It is only gw 7 so need to consider its only 2 pts a week I need to make up and its inevitable that the people above me have a bad run. I cant afford another 5 week period like Ive had if Im to get top 10k.

FHFC

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

I had a glance at that thread there. I was actually 100k this time last year which was actualy a good start as most people on here got off to a poor start.This year is the total opposite. I ended up having a shocker in november/december before going on my annual good run after xmas. While agreeing with you that there is no need to panic yet almost everyone on here has made a good start and most posters have atleast 50 pts on me. Of all the regular posters I think myself and CSF seem to be the ones that are really struggling. In my two main paid leagues in one my main rival is 80 pts ahead of me and the other league 60 pts ahead of me. This time last year the majority on here were struggling due to a strange start to the season this season the majority are off to a flyer. It will be harder to climb the rankings this year as its easier to catch people that dont really know what they are doing whereas this year I feel the people in the know have started well. It is only gw 7 so need to consider its only 2 pts a week I need to make up and its inevitable that the people above me have a bad run. I cant afford another 5 week period like Ive had if Im to get top 10k.

Not going so well here either. While I'm still only a one season wonder, I've only 20 points on you at present.

sheroman01

First time in a while I've been doing quite well. A cheap back line, rotating keepers and rotating between 5th and 3rd choice striker is the obvious but sucesful method for me. Keeping it going will be tough alright but the "playing it safe, don't gamble" route is what I'll be doing.

I'm gonna keep faith in Ulloa. Jesus people need to relax over him, only 2 bad games! he has very nice fixtures coming up!! For his tough fixtures, I'll bring in chadli.

I've also realised Stoke are actually quite poor at the back. So looking at dropping Wilson and bringing in Chambers. I feel arsenal will start keeping clean sheets!

Nichololas

There's some good advice in this thread about keeping your cool and playing it safe when doing well. 50 points clear at the top of my ow n league, 30000's overall. Managed to haul a very respectable 63 this week, despite taking a 4 point hit to drop Coloccini for Moore and Naismith for Ulloa (hind-sight, yada yada). I then compounded this error by taking a punt at making Ulloa the captain, losing the extra 7 I would have gotten for Aguero (wasn't looking at Di Maria in fairness). Oh well!