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General FPL Chat 2015/16
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So you were lying awake thinking about it as well!?!?
Yeah, I was thinking along those lines. If you tie up big bucks in three premium defenders youeffectively need to tie up another 8-9m on your bench as well.
You also have to sit through periods where the top guys are conceding silly goals and you're getting 2 points for your 6-7m.
Whereas if you rotate cheaper defenders you can hopefully get a similar points per game for the games you play them by getting a higher chance of clean sheets based on the fixtures.
Another point is that the average ppg season long is not what its about in this game. You have transfers etc so you can "surf" on the form players and strong fixtures. As an example, if Ivans ppg was 4.9 last year what would take you from an average rank to an elite rank would be owning him when he was averaging 6-7ppg (because he was on form or had easy fixtures) and not owning him when he was getting 1-2ppg (when he was getting all those yellow cards for example).
The follow on is having 27, 28m tied up in 5 defs gives you far less flexibility to "surf" the waves of form/fixtures for the big attackers. I.e. if Hazard, Sanchez and Aguero were all in good runs you'd be struggling to accomodate them.
I think we are on the same page with this one:D.
Here is my thoughts on it hopefully it doesnt turn out as complicated as my points hit theory:eek:
For the sake of keeping this relatively simple Im going to assume the 6 million defenders get 16 c.s per season and you play them every week and that the 4.5 defs get 9 c.s per season and you rotate them. Im also assuming we will play 3 at the back.
Option 1
kos azpil smalling and two 4.5 defs 27 million
Option 2
five 4.5 defenders 22.5 million
With option 1 you get 48 c.s the 3 big hitters get 16 each.
With option 2 there are 45 c.s up for grabs as you are rotating the 5 players(5x9). If you nail this rotation and leave no c.s on the bench you will get 45 c.s or an average of 15 c.s per def selected even though each def only got 9 c.s in isolation. Obviously you are going to leave c.s on the bench but it would be quite attainable to get 36 c.s an average of 12 c.s per def selected.
I think the mistake people would make here is compare the big hitter c.s of 16 to the cheapie c.s of 9 and think their back 3 would bring in 48 c.s (16 x 3 )instead of 27 c.s (9 x 3) an extra 21 c.s when the reality would be in and around 10 maximum imo. With option 2 you also have an extra 4.5 to spend which means you can have hazard instead of hendo.0 -
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Re the def strategy and CS analysis.
Again, whatever option you go for, the most important thing is to adapt quicker than most and not always try to outsmart everyone. e.g. it quicky became obvious last year that at least 1 Saints defenders was "necessary". Just before Christmas it also became obvious that a Chelsea def Terry
was "needed". Associated with these 2, many 3-way cheapies rotations gave excellent returns.
I'd say the key at the start of the season could be to keep a bit of flexibility, maybe more this year than the previous ones since Copa America last year favourites will start the season later and you may need the cash at some point and obviously want to avoid a big pts hit or a premature WC. Whether you keep some cash from a very cheap defense or store some cash in defence is as valid an option as another. I'm not set up on any options yet but the big teams don't start very well CS wise as someone mentioned earlier in this thread so that's a start... Will have to confront that with the fixtures list...0 -
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Don't do it to yourself. Sunderland will be the lowest scores in the league this season unless they sign a creative central player and new striker before the window closes.
But....their fixtures are just so good.... :P
Ah, I know. It is risky. Not sure if I'll commit to it just yet. My current draft is quite cautious and I'm not taking many risks...Defoe is the only one so far
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