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Wildcard Thread 2016/2017
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Hmmm...
Capoue is the highest scoring player in the game so far. He had an horrible run of fixtures for the start of the season with Watford (away to Saints, home to Chelsea & Arsenal, away to West Ham & home to United). I'm pretty sure if any of you had bet pre-season (despite his good form then which is why I got him in thanks to FFS pre-season reports) you'd have predicted 5 2 pointers from him.
So, can he be a viable mid to long term 4th mid option? 'Cause with a sub £4.5m 5th mid bench fodder, a premium strikeforce + 2 premium mids (Sanchez & KDB for example) becomes affordable. I believe it alos provides flexibility since there's lots of money tied upfront.
I think I'll be happy enough to have a maximum of £32.5m spent in defense (Foster-Jaku ; Valencia-Baines-McAuley-Amat and then either I keep Friend or find a better £4.5m alternative) so with Capoue and a second £4.5m mid it leaves £58.5m for my sextet strikeforce.
Only thing is I feel there may be better value in midfield long-term (e.g. right now Sanchez, City mid, 'Pool mid & WH mid). So Diomandé could replace the 5th mid bench fodder as a 3rd striker bench fodder losing out just £0.1-0.2m in the process). Shame Snodgrass isn't a striker
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So, can he be a viable mid to long term 4th mid option? 'Cause with a sub £4.5m 5th mid bench fodder, a premium strikeforce + 2 premium mids (Sanchez & KDB for example) becomes affordable. I believe it alos provides flexibility since there's lots of money tied upfront.
Only thing is I feel there may be better value in midfield long-term (e.g. right now Sanchez, City mid, 'Pool mid & WH mid). So Diomandé could replace the 5th mid bench fodder as a 3rd striker bench fodder losing out just £0.1-0.2m in the process). Shame Snodgrass isn't a striker..
Opinions?
We'll have to see on Capoue. He has 4 goals from 5 shots on target, which obviously isn't sustainable but even a goal every three matches with him would be great for a 4th mid. He's good in the bonus so it usually means 10 pointer.
I'd still rather a 4.4m mid like De Roon as fodder. My 3rd striker slot has delivered me 5 blanks so far though....0 -
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Etienne Capoue is not an attacking mid anyway. He even played as a def when in Toulouse. He had one great last season where he scored 7 goals IMSMR (but 7 out of 30+ games) before leaving L1. He's on fire at the moment and his form is ununderstandable. But as of now and because I'm tired of having 15-20 pointers on my bench every single GW, I'm just wondering if I should just not play him like a premium mid. And when the spell will inevitably breaks, I'll move him out or back to his fodder role. Why not applying the form over fixtures statement with him too?TBH I'm not entirely convinced by Capoue. He's on a crazy run of form but has not got any kind of stats to back it up. Before today he had 3 goals from 4 shots on target.
He's not even the most attacking of their midfield 3. It's great that he can come off your bench with decent scores at 4.5m and I'd consider him in a rotation but not as a play every week 4th mid even yet.
No way I'd have started him against United.
So this week, fortunately I played him ahead of both Negredo & Barkley. Would have been a second disaster in a row had I not...
About rotations, I've now abandonned this tactic. It just does not work for me (I never managed to at least - and I had my best seasons without it ; only exception being the rotation at the back). Just leads to the frustration of the points on my bench. But this year, I'm not even sure I'll do it much at the back. Haven't looked yet at the potential 3-way rotations but I don't remember being particularly rewarded for it in the previous seasons despite the great look on paper it had while planning ahead. I'm actually pretty sure doubling up for a team that has both good defensive form and a nice run of fixtures works as well without the hassle.
By the way, where do you get all these shooting stats?
That was my original idea. But, for example, the great, on paper, Snodgrass-Capoue rotation did not really work over these 5 first GWs. When would you have played Capoue? They only had tough games. You'd probably have played Snodgrass over him every single GW, missing out Capoue GW2 big haul and getting less pts in the last 2 GWs. So far it's OK 'cause Snodgrass did perform too and you'd have cashed in £0.2m on Capoue (and maybe at least an extra £0.1m in the coming GWs) but long-term you're heading for a headache every single GW to decide who to play. I mean currently choosing between Capoue & Snodgrass is like choosing between Sanchez & KDB? No one in his right mind would ever do that rightI think he's making a case for a rotating 4th mid slot with someone like Snodgrass.?!
So yeah I'm wondering if Capoue is not worth more than just his fodder role. That would free a lot of money for elsewhere. I'm not yet decided. But I do consider it. While even up to last GW I was still thinking Capoue was just another Georgie Boyd. But so far he's the best scorer in the game and Watford had the toughest run in the league. It deserves debate.0 -
Etienne Capoue is not an attacking mid anyway. He even played as a def when in Toulouse. He had one great last season where he scored 7 goals IMSMR (but 7 out of 30+ games) before leaving L1. He's on fire at the moment and his form is ununderstandable. But as of now and because I'm tired of having 15-20 pointers on my bench every single GW, I'm just wondering if I should just not play him like a premium mid. And when the spell will inevitably breaks, I'll move him out or back to his fodder role. Why not applying the form over fixtures statement with him too?
So this week, fortunately I played him ahead of both Negredo & Barkley. Would have been a second disaster in a row had I not...
About rotations, I've now abandonned this tactic. It just does not work for me (I never managed to at least - and I had my best seasons without it ; only exception being the rotation at the back). Just leads to the frustration of the points on my bench. But this year, I'm not even sure I'll do it much at the back. Haven't looked yet at the potential 3-way rotations but I don't remember being particularly rewarded for it in the previous seasons despite the great look on paper it had while planning ahead. I'm actually pretty sure doubling up for a team that has both good defensive form and a nice run of fixtures works as well without the hassle.
By the way, where do you get all these shooting stats?
That was my original idea. But, for example, the great, on paper, Snodgrass-Capoue rotation did not really work over these 5 first GWs. When would you have played Capoue? They only had tough games. You'd probably have played Snodgrass over him every single GW, missing out Capoue GW2 big haul and getting less pts in the last 2 GWs. So far it's OK 'cause Snodgrass did perform too and you'd have cashed in £0.2m on Capoue (and maybe at least an extra £0.1m in the coming GWs) but long-term you're heading for a headache every single GW to decide who to play. I mean currently choosing between Capoue & Snodgrass is like choosing between Sanchez & KDB? No one in his right mind would ever do that right?!
So yeah I'm wondering if Capoue is not worth more than just his fodder role. That would free a lot of money for elsewhere. I'm not yet decided. But I do consider it. While even up to last GW I was still thinking Capoue was just another Georgie Boyd. But so far he's the best scorer in the game and Watford had the toughest run in the league. It deserves debate.
Personally, I'd rather a headache every week in trying to choose between 2 performing cheap mids over having someone entirely useless that I'd never want to play there.0 -
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Etienne Capoue is not an attacking mid anyway. He even played as a def when in Toulouse. He had one great last season where he scored 7 goals IMSMR (but 7 out of 30+ games) before leaving L1. He's on fire at the moment and his form is ununderstandable. But as of now and because I'm tired of having 15-20 pointers on my bench every single GW, I'm just wondering if I should just not play him like a premium mid. And when the spell will inevitably breaks, I'll move him out or back to his fodder role. Why not applying the form over fixtures statement with him too?
So this week, fortunately I played him ahead of both Negredo & Barkley. Would have been a second disaster in a row had I not...
About rotations, I've now abandonned this tactic. It just does not work for me (I never managed to at least - and I had my best seasons without it ; only exception being the rotation at the back). Just leads to the frustration of the points on my bench. But this year, I'm not even sure I'll do it much at the back. Haven't looked yet at the potential 3-way rotations but I don't remember being particularly rewarded for it in the previous seasons despite the great look on paper it had while planning ahead. I'm actually pretty sure doubling up for a team that has both good defensive form and a nice run of fixtures works as well without the hassle.
By the way, where do you get all these shooting stats?
That was my original idea. But, for example, the great, on paper, Snodgrass-Capoue rotation did not really work over these 5 first GWs. When would you have played Capoue? They only had tough games. You'd probably have played Snodgrass over him every single GW, missing out Capoue GW2 big haul and getting less pts in the last 2 GWs. So far it's OK 'cause Snodgrass did perform too and you'd have cashed in £0.2m on Capoue (and maybe at least an extra £0.1m in the coming GWs) but long-term you're heading for a headache every single GW to decide who to play. I mean currently choosing between Capoue & Snodgrass is like choosing between Sanchez & KDB? No one in his right mind would ever do that right?!
So yeah I'm wondering if Capoue is not worth more than just his fodder role. That would free a lot of money for elsewhere. I'm not yet decided. But I do consider it. While even up to last GW I was still thinking Capoue was just another Georgie Boyd. But so far he's the best scorer in the game and Watford had the toughest run in the league. It deserves debate.
Yep, form over fixtures. It's a common error we make in here is that we spend a lot of time figuring out the best players to get in based on fixtures while the casuals just get in the current on form players.
This was particularly true last year. Casuals just bandwagoning and shooting up the rankings while a lot of us on here struggled to get going.0 -
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