Wildcard Thread 2016/2017

shineon23

Seen a lot of talk of wildcards on other threads, thought it might be time start up this year's Wildcard thread .

Chesty08

Wildcard activated.

Heaton / Jaku

Valencia Shaw McAuley Amat Walker

Hazard Barkley Lallana Lamela Capoue

Ibra Aguero Diomande

2.4m ITB

Not sure of how il actually finish but for certain:

GK 8.5m budget

Def Utd, Spurs, WBA cover 4.5 & 4.0 defender

Mid Hazard Capoue Lamela ? ?

Forwards Aguero Ibra ?

That should leave me with 21.5m for the 3 attacking positions.

alchemist33

Will wait until at least the transfer window spams shut. Nothing worse than putting in those two cheapies who unexpectedly got to start the first two games, to then find they're replaced by new players meaning there are now no cheapies and you have to tear up your team week by week.

Chesty08

alchemist33 wrote: »

Will wait until at least the transfer window spams shut. Nothing worse than putting in those two cheapies who unexpectedly got to start the first two games, to then find they're replaced by new players meaning there are now no cheapies and you have to tear up your team week by week.

Capoue is certain from a cheapie attacking point.

Jaku is certain from a goalie point if opted for that route.

Just defence which won't mean drastic surgery.

shineon23

I'm considering a wildcard purely for the fact that I could get the team I'm aiming for in a few weeks immediately.

I'm not concerned with overall rank just beating rivals in private leagues so I took a hit last week and I'm looking at another hit this week. I can afford these minus 4s given my standing in private leagues.

My issues are; I started with a very premium defence that I planned on downgrading with my wildcard in the first 6 weeks. These premiums are not getting clean sheets whereas midtable teams are.

I have Courtois and Jako, so doubt I'll ever start Jako means missing out on a GK rotation

Have Darren Fletcher as bench fodder who'll play 90mins-again he was a stop gap until my wildcard.

Townsend isn't delivering but Palace have a nice run so no problem sticking with him

I'm lining out as follows
(with -4)
Costa to Ibrahimovic
and
Sanchez to Hazard
Already done

0.4 in the bank

Courtois-Jako

Baines-Shaw-Stones-Amat-Lenihan

Hazard-Coutinho-Townsend-Redmond-Fletcher

Aguero-Negredo-Ibrahimovic

Any value in wildcarding?;

Everton-Chelsea-Man City aren't inspiring me with confidence defensively
Lenihan was a 4.0 gamble at the start
could use 3-4 transfers on defence

Fletcher would go in MF

Strikers unchanged for now.

So could do 7 or 8 transfers or stay as I am with 2 done basically.

Lack of Spurs, West ham and Arsenal cover is worrying me a bit

PARlance

Had originally planned an early WC but I'm 2 transfers off being quite happy with my squad.

FHFC

PARlance wrote: »

Had originally planned an early WC but I'm 2 transfers off being quite happy with my squad.

Same as. My team has very good looking fixtures for next week too (9 from 11 at home plus Ibra at Hull), bar maybe one def spot where I'd have to play Friend at WBA.

I'll still most likely be going next week. The pattern of price changes is suiting me at present, most of my team are on the rise, none bar Townsend at risk of dropping. Not many players I want long term are on the rise, bar maybe Shaw/Valencia.

But by next week there will be different bandwagons in and out which will probably prompt me to pull the trigger. Anything looking like a 0.5m+ saving/gain and I'm gone.

ElTel

shineon23 wrote: »

I'm considering a wildcard purely for the fact that I could get the team I'm aiming for in a few weeks immediately.

I'm not concerned with overall rank just beating rivals in private leagues so I took a hit last week and I'm looking at another hit this week. I can afford these minus 4s given my standing in private leagues.

My issues are; I started with a very premium defence that I planned on downgrading with my wildcard in the first 6 weeks. These premiums are not getting clean sheets whereas midtable teams are.

I have Courtois and Jako, so doubt I'll ever start Jako means missing out on a GK rotation

Have Darren Fletcher as bench fodder who'll play 90mins-again he was a stop gap until my wildcard.

Townsend isn't delivering but Palace have a nice run so no problem sticking with him

I'm lining out as follows
(with -4)
Costa to Ibrahimovic
and
Sanchez to Hazard
Already done

0.4 in the bank

Courtois-Jako

Baines-Shaw-Stones-Amat-Lenihan

Hazard-Coutinho-Townsend-Redmond-Fletcher

Aguero-Negredo-Ibrahimovic

Any value in wildcarding?;

Everton-Chelsea-Man City aren't inspiring me with confidence defensively
Lenihan was a 4.0 gamble at the start
could use 3-4 transfers on defence

Fletcher would go in MF

Strikers unchanged for now.

So could do 7 or 8 transfers or stay as I am with 2 done basically.

Lack of Spurs, West ham and Arsenal cover is worrying me a bit

I think your set.

shineon23

ElTel wrote:

I think your set.

Set to stay as I am or pull the trigger on the wildcard?

ElTel

shineon23 wrote: »

Set to stay as I am or pull the trigger on the wildcard?

Stay. Stick at -4.

shineon23

ElTel wrote: »

Stay. Stick at -4.

Cheers it was a case of setting my plans down in writing.

I keep remembering having to make 5 transfers during last season's international break, after being crippled by injuries and having used my WC early on.

I think plodding along with 1 tor 2 transfers a week is the most sensible option for now.

Bleating Lamb

Decided to WC last night,hadn't made a disastrous start but had a few positions that needed sorting,brought in a few lads last night that I think might just get double rises for the week,Hazard,Capoue,Negredo and Walker.

Chesty08

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Decided to WC last night,hadn't made a disastrous start but had a few positions that needed sorting,brought in a few lads last night that I think might just get double rises for the week,Hazard,Capoue,Negredo and Walker.

Brought in a few I'm hoping for rises out of

Diomande, Snodgrass, Barkley, Shaw, Walker, McAuley

I really should of got on Negredo last night before his rise because he will go up again before Saturday 11:30. Diomande rose 0.1 for me but doesn't look like he'll rise again


Others players I have and I'm 100% keeping

Heaton/Jako

Valencia/Amat

Hazard/Lamela/Capoue

Aguero/Ibra

There should be a few rises out of those but hopefully I can pick up some on the others.

What shape/template is your wildcard team?

Bleating Lamb

Chesty08 wrote: »

Brought in a few I'm hoping for rises out of

Diomande, Snodgrass, Barkley, Shaw, Walker, McAuley

Others players I have and I'm 100% keeping

Heaton/Jako

Valencia/Amat

Hazard/Lamela/Capoue

Aguero/Ibra

There should be a few rises out of those but hopefully I can pick up some on the others.

What shape/template is your wildcard team?

Apologies...had Hazard,brought in Barkley.Main weakness in my start was no Ibra,brought him in straight after Saints game.Will be 343 but price changes will ultimately decide my final WC team as hope is to make a few pound during the week to form a team then for the next GW.

Chesty08

Chesty08 wrote: »

Brought in a few I'm hoping for rises out of

Diomande, Snodgrass, Barkley, Shaw, Walker, McAuley

I really should of got on Negredo last night before his rise because he will go up again before Saturday 11:30. Diomande rose 0.1 for me but doesn't look like he'll rise again


Others players I have and I'm 100% keeping

Heaton/Jako

Valencia/Amat

Hazard/Lamela/Capoue

Aguero/Ibra

There should be a few rises out of those but hopefully I can pick up some on the others.

What shape/template is your wildcard team?

Looks like some of the blanks have filled & now at

Heaton/Jako

Valencia/Amat/Shaw/McAuley ?

Hazard/Lamela/Capoue/Barkley ?

Aguero/Ibra ?

The 3 ? Leaves me with 18.4 ITB and I'm currently swaying with

Holgate (4.5m)
Mane/Noliti (9.0m)
Stuani (4.9m)

Stuani appears to be a streaky player looking at his goals last year, however the one worry is that if he is off form I'll need a reshuffle to get someone else in ... I.e 1.6m to get a 6.5mil striker

Any thoughts?

skippy15

Are some people thinking of activating wc now this week or holding of a week or two
Had planned from the start to do it during gw3 over the break but having second thoughts now.

JakeBell

skippy15 wrote: »

Are some people thinking of activating wc now this week or holding of a week or two
Had planned from the start to do it during gw3 over the break but having second thoughts now.

Doing it at this stage of the week would be poor practice. You need to get on it early in the week and try get a couple of double risers.

Pedalare Pedalare!

Succumbed to the wild card despite not being in *too* bad shape. Thoughts?

PARlance

Pedalare Pedalare! wrote: »

Succumbed to the wild card despite not being in *too* bad shape. Thoughts?

Two SOU mids are probably overkill. I would swap one out for EVE.

*Says himself with two EVE mids.

alchemist33

skippy15 wrote: »

Are some people thinking of activating wc now this week or holding of a week or two
Had planned from the start to do it during gw3 over the break but having second thoughts now.

I've had my best ever start but will still probably do it on Saturday. I can avoid price drops for the two weeks and get my team in shape post-transfer window.

Mike Ehrmantraut

Pedalare Pedalare! wrote: »

Succumbed to the wild card despite not being in *too* bad shape. Thoughts?

I'd drop one of the Southampton midfielders and one of the Swansea defenders.

Trimm Trabb

I am surprised about the amount of people playing WC to make relatively minor changes. Unless you are facing multiple drops or are missing someone like Ibra I don't see any reason to play WC now.

I appreciate that playing WC early has been correct decision in last couple of seasons but every season is different. There is no way I would trust Negredo or Redmond for my WC based on what they have done so far. Whereas it was plain to see that the likes of Mahrez were on another level last year. Aguero, Ibra, Shaw and Capoue are only 4 players who I have seen this year that I would have 100% in WC team - other than that you are for example swapping Barkley for Tadic or vice versa just for changes sake.

In my opinion if your team is mostly in good shape now it is better practice to hold it for later and see what the season brings.

Trimm Trabb

alchemist33 wrote: »

I've had my best ever start but will still probably do it on Saturday. I can avoid price drops for the two weeks and get my team in shape post-transfer window.

Sorry meant to quote you in my reply above. What's your thinking for playing WC if you've made a good start? What type of changes will you make?

I'm pretty conservative - I usually want to keep my WC 'just in case' which cost me last year as I was too slow to pull the trigger but I think in most other years an obvious opportunity to play it has just emerged and I've been happy to have held it back.

Chesty08

Trimm Trabb wrote: »

alchemist33 wrote: »

I've had my best ever start but will still probably do it on Saturday. I can avoid price drops for the two weeks and get my team in shape post-transfer window.

Sorry meant to quote you in my reply above. What's your thinking for playing WC if you've made a good start? What type of changes will you make?

I'm pretty conservative - I usually want to keep my WC 'just in case' which cost me last year as I was too slow to pull the trigger but I think in most other years an obvious opportunity to play it has just emerged and I've been happy to have held it back.

I am currently ~300k OR and activated my wildcard last week because

a) I took a punt on Vardy over Ibra for first 3 GW's - needed to make that change
b) I had about 4 players price dropping this week.

My pre team was

Heaton, Jako
Valencia, Fuchs, Amat, Nsue , B.Smith
Firmino, Tadic, Hazard, Lamela, Capoue
Kun, Vardy, Gray


My WC tea, is

Heaton, Jako
Valencia, Shaw, Amat, Walker , McAuley
Redmond, Barkley, Hazard, Lamela, Capoue
Kun, Ibra, Negredo

I have made 7 changes of which 6 will play regularly with the other being rotated. The only thing itching me is having Redmond - i really wnat Tadic before Redmond but I dont have the required funds.

alchemist33

Trimm Trabb wrote: »

Sorry meant to quote you in my reply above. What's your thinking for playing WC if you've made a good start? What type of changes will you make?

I'm pretty conservative - I usually want to keep my WC 'just in case' which cost me last year as I was too slow to pull the trigger but I think in most other years an obvious opportunity to play it has just emerged and I've been happy to have held it back.

Currently I have Diamande as my third striker. This was a downgrade to get Ibra in so I want to put someone better there, most likely Benteke, so i need to cut elsewhere. I have Foster and Heaton. I'll probably get a 4.0 keeper instead of Heaton, and downgrade Phillips to a cheapie midfielder. Firmino, Lamela and Redmond are all under review and I'll get Amat in if he looks like he'll keep his place. About five changes, I can take account of the transfer window, and prevent loss of value.
To put a little more context on it, I picked a team for three weeks and played BB in week one, expecting to WC early. I can get some Arsenal in now if they start to improve.

Bleating Lamb

Busy at work so might not get to 'finish' wildcard team till tomorrow morning.
Everton fans out there.....


Currently have Barkley in....is Mirallas a better choice at less money would people think?

He is rising tonight so would need to bring him in asap.

beaver111

done my wildcard what do use think

foster jakupovic
shaw collins love mcauley almat
capoue hazard redmond barkley martial
ageuro negredo ibrahimovic

alchemist33

beaver111 wrote: »

done my wildcard what do use think

foster jakupovic
shaw collins love mcauley almat
capoue hazard redmond barkley martial
ageuro negredo ibrahimovic

Martial's form hasn't been great so might get rotated. Love's position may be under threat with their new signing. I'm not sure about West Ham's squad but will Collins be a regular?

Shanotheslayer

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Busy at work so might not get to 'finish' wildcard team till tomorrow morning.
Everton fans out there.....


Currently have Barkley in....is Mirallas a better choice at less money would people think?

He is rising tonight so would need to bring him in asap.

Barkley more likely to start more games.

Chesty08

beaver111 wrote: »

done my wildcard what do use think

foster jakupovic
shaw collins love mcauley almat
capoue hazard redmond barkley martial
ageuro negredo ibrahimovic

I would prefer a double city attacking coverage over a double utd attacking coverage. Go with Nolito, Silva, or Sterling before Martial

Kankan14

Due to doubts over Evans,Friend and Coutinho I wild carded a team that needed a little fixing as it was.

Now looking at

De Gea Heaton

Shaw Haines Amat McCauley Azpi

Firmino Nolito Redmond Wanyama Phillips

IBRA Kun Valencia.

100.1m
0.3 itb.

Anybody see a better use of Wanyama/Valencia? Total cost is 10.1m so hard to find cheaper it also gives me coverage of west ham and spurs. Valencia def playing due to injuries even if zaza was to sign today.

JakeBell

Trimm Trabb wrote: »

I am surprised about the amount of people playing WC to make relatively minor changes. Unless you are facing multiple drops or are missing someone like Ibra I don't see any reason to play WC now.

I appreciate that playing WC early has been correct decision in last couple of seasons but every season is different. There is no way I would trust Negredo or Redmond for my WC based on what they have done so far. Whereas it was plain to see that the likes of Mahrez were on another level last year. Aguero, Ibra, Shaw and Capoue are only 4 players who I have seen this year that I would have 100% in WC team - other than that you are for example swapping Barkley for Tadic or vice versa just for changes sake.

In my opinion if your team is mostly in good shape now it is better practice to hold it for later and see what the season brings.

The early stages have more players active than any other time and more people making transfers/wildcards than at any other time. You're right about Negredo or Redmond of course but that's not the real point of it. There are more risers and fallers than at any other time in the game so it's a great time to make some extra cash.

I haven't been paying as much attention as others but this week I'll make .3m in transfer rises. Plus one of the players I want in long term has dropped .1 so I was able to take him out and will bring him back at the lower price. There are one or two other cheap players who have been rising that I'll keep for the time being (mostly on the bench). These have risen .1 but if they have another good week they'll rise a lot more.

The wildcard is probably worth .5m to me, a bit more with a bit of luck. This is what makes all the difference.
I pick players and a bench I'm confident will start and score well over time so I don't see any period before January where I'll need to make a large number of sudden changes. The second wild card will be used strategically with a DGW in the later half of the season.


Anyone activating their wildcard today has made a hash of it.

dahat

Biggest incoming lads for me were Ibra & Mane. I alse decided to go with Tadic & Mirallis as opposed to Barkley & Redmond.

SantryRed

My team is looking like:

GK: Foster, Jakupovic
DF: Amat, Marc Wilson, Shaw, Funes Mori, Souaré
MF: Hazard, Capoue, Redmond, Barkley, Mané
FW: Ibra, Aguero, Negredo

However, it leaves me with 0.2m in the bank. Which is exactly enough to go with Tadic/Mirallas instead of Redmond/Barkley. Can't make my mind up on which combo I prefer more!

dahat

SantryRed wrote: »

My team is looking like:

GK: Foster, Jakupovic
DF: Amat, Marc Wilson, Shaw, Funes Mori, Souaré
MF: Hazard, Capoue, Redmond, Barkley, Mané
FW: Ibra, Aguero, Negredo

However, it leaves me with 0.2m in the bank. Which is exactly enough to go with Tadic/Mirallas instead of Redmond/Barkley. Can't make my mind up on which combo I prefer more!

Similar and the exact same midfield dilemma but I went the other way to you.

SantryRed

dahat wrote: »

Similar and the exact same midfield dilemma but I went the other way to you.

I'm going Barkley/Redmond purely because Everton's fixtures are better in the next five, therefore more potential of penalties. That's all the logic I got :pac:

dahat

SantryRed wrote: »

I'm going Barkley/Redmond purely because Everton's fixtures are better in the next five, therefore more potential of penalties. That's all the logic I got :pac:

As good as reason as any reallly. Mine is getting Tadic at 7.4 after selling at 7.5!!!

Paully D

I was all set to wildcard ahead of GW4 but I'm actually very happy with my team aside from a couple of things. I did Sigurdsson to Mirallas earlier this week.

I've been extremely unlucky with Tadic suffering a drop as statistically he has been one of the better midfielders in the league so far but has somehow blanked in both games. Whereas I hold my hands up on the striker decision, I took the wrong option in going with Long over Gray or Negredo who were under serious consideration.

GK: Foster/Jakupovic
DEF's: Shaw/Stones/Terry/Friend/Amat
MID's: Hazard/Tadic/Townsend/Mirallas/Capoue
FOR's: Aguero/Ibrahimovic/Long

This gameweek will tell a lot as all my midfielders are at home with Townsend at home Bournemouth very interesting and Long has a home game to a woeful Sunderland side. However, as I did build for the first 3 GW's, the fixtures start to turn nasty for some players so that needs to be looked at too. I'm quite happy with my midfield yet they are not really giving me a return as of yet, it's a strange position to be in. :pac:

If I was given free reign on the above I'd probably only change Jakupovic to Pickford, Friend to a different £4.5m pending his injury news, and Long to Gray or Negredo. As I said, this gameweek will tell a lot as if Townsend and Tadic blank again it's probably time to reshuffle the midfield, but it looks like I might just take a -4 at the moment instead of sticking with my wildcard plan which was forged from the outset.

Who_8_Paul?

Is Amat going to be under threat from Mawson just signed from Barnsley and Jakupovic will presumably lose his place if Marshall signs for Hull - 4m enablers could be down to Wilson (will he start?)

F1ngers

Pre wildcard:

Foster(Jakupovic)
Friend,Amat,PvA(Francis,Mee)
Firmino,Sanchez,Redmond,Deulofeu(Fletcher)
Aguero,Costa,Vardy

Post wildcard:

Foster(Heaton)
Valencia, Holgate, McAuley,Collins,PvA
Barkley,Hazard,Redmond,Townsend,Capoue
Aguero,Ibrahimvic,Negredo.

I've decided to drop my 4.0 million players as they would be impossible to replace later without using two transfers.
I did have Nolito in my team but downgraded to Barkley to upgrade Amat and Jakupovic

Players in bold are carry overs from original team.

GK:
Foster and Heaton rotate perfectly for the season, points will be left on the bench no doubt, but c'est la vie.

DEF:
Valencia will be the mainstay.
Holgate is a cheap way into the Everton defense who have a decent run of fixtures(STO,sun,MID,bou,CRY).
Pva will play a lot and McAuley to double up on WBA.
Collins has nice fixtures after MCI tomorrow.

MID:
Hazard, seems to be back on form.
Barkley, - wanted Nolito, but needed money to upgrade defense. Fixtures are nice(see above).
Redmond, midfielder playing as a striker.
Townsend, decent player, decent fixtures.
Capoue, 4.5 bench fodder who will increase in value. May rotate with Townsend.

STR:
Aguero,Ibrahimvic - off to great starts. Auto captain Aguero with an odd switch to Ibrahimovic.
Negredo, on form but I have enough funds to get Benteke in if he shows a bit of form.

dasa29

I wildcarded earlier in the week and this is my team for this gameweek

GK: Foster,
DF: Amat, Smith, mcAuley
MF: Hazard, coutinho, lamela, mirallas
FW: Ibra, Aguero, Negredo
subs, Jakupovic, Capoue, friend, collins

99.1m
2.5m itb.

Paully D

Paully D wrote: »

I was all set to wildcard ahead of GW4 but I'm actually very happy with my team aside from a couple of things. I did Sigurdsson to Mirallas earlier this week.

I've been extremely unlucky with Tadic suffering a drop as statistically he has been one of the better midfielders in the league so far but has somehow blanked in both games. Whereas I hold my hands up on the striker decision, I took the wrong option in going with Long over Gray or Negredo who were under serious consideration.

GK: Foster/Jakupovic
DEF's: Shaw/Stones/Terry/Friend/Amat
MID's: Hazard/Tadic/Townsend/Mirallas/Capoue
FOR's: Aguero/Ibrahimovic/Long

This gameweek will tell a lot as all my midfielders are at home with Townsend at home Bournemouth very interesting and Long has a home game to a woeful Sunderland side. However, as I did build for the first 3 GW's, the fixtures start to turn nasty for some players so that needs to be looked at too. I'm quite happy with my midfield yet they are not really giving me a return as of yet, it's a strange position to be in. :pac:

If I was given free reign on the above I'd probably only change Jakupovic to Pickford, Friend to a different £4.5m pending his injury news, and Long to Gray or Negredo. As I said, this gameweek will tell a lot as if Townsend and Tadic blank again it's probably time to reshuffle the midfield, but it looks like I might just take a -4 at the moment instead of sticking with my wildcard plan which was forged from the outset.

Well, that didn't work out. :pac:

Time to wildcard I think as I need to get rid of my entire midfield except Hazard and Capoue and also need to move Long on.

Benimar

2.59pm - team looks good, no need to WC.

4.50pm - WC time!

Paully D

https://twitter.com/FPLPriceChanges/status/769615803805212672?lang=en

dsmythy

Paully D wrote: »

https://twitter.com/FPLPriceChanges/status/769615803805212672?lang=en

No Sanchez? I own three of them. Maybe wildcard not so must have for me depending on how the week goes.

caviardreams

Think it's time to wildcard. Need to ship out Townsend, Hojberg (OK but better options), Firminho and Gray. Can see them leaking value also.

Need Arsenal coverage badly and will take some surgery to get in Sanchez.

Ziegler1988

Paully D wrote: »

https://twitter.com/FPLPriceChanges/status/769615803805212672?lang=en

I highly doubt Holgate and Fer double rise. FHFC will be along shortly to tell us how price rises during international breaks are no different

KevIRL

Wring thread

Chesty08

KevIRL wrote: »

Wring thread

Didn't the winner last year have no more than 20 transfers throughout the season?

Chesty08

I'm so glad I wildcarded last week. Although there was no points differential I wouldn't know where to start with drafting up a Wildcard team during IB. So many options out there now

ElTel

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

I highly doubt Holgate and Fer double rise. FHFC will be along shortly to tell us how price rises during international breaks are no different

GW5 is a Friday night kick-off.
I think that looks a better time for my WC notwithstanding the Manchester Derby this week.