General FPL Chat 2018/19

F1ngers

Fixture list is out 2 weeks tomorrow. https://www.premierleague.com/news/660944

Fabinho has signed for Liverpool. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/44284792

I think it's time for a new General Chat thread.

Rikand

And so it begins...

COH

Free Hit activated

ScummyMan

And so the battle begins for the lowest team ID :P

I had 392 last year which I'm both proud and embarrassed of.

Shanotheslayer

ScummyMan wrote: »

And so the battle begins for the lowest team ID :P

I had 392 last year which I'm both proud and embarrassed of.

If I don't get a team ID 69 or 6969 or 696969 etc I'm not playing.

ScummyMan

Mahrez looks like he is off to City as per the BBC.

If we thought Peps wheel of rotation was bad this season....

jimmii

ScummyMan wrote: »

And so the battle begins for the lowest team ID :P

I had 392 last year which I'm both proud and embarrassed of.

I had back to back season of double digit ID's I was so proud!

KevIRL

Apparently first weekend fixtures are

Fulham v Newcastle
Leicster v Watford
Wolves v Chelsea
Arsenal v Brighton
Man city v everton
Burnley v spurs
Liverpool v west ham
Bournemouth v Cardiff
Huddersfield v palace
Southampton v man utd

Not fantastic for a GW1 BB and early WC

Wilberto

KevIRL wrote: »

Apparently first weekend fixtures are

Fulham v Newcastle
Leicster v Watford
Wolves v Chelsea
Arsenal v Brighton
Man city v everton
Burnley v spurs
Liverpool v west ham
Bournemouth v Cardiff
Huddersfield v palace
Southampton v man utd

Not fantastic for a GW1 BB and early WC

Yeah, but you have carried forward a few BBs from previous seasons, right?

KevIRL

Wilberto wrote: »

Yeah, but you have carried forward a few BBs from previous seasons, right?

Waiting to see what new chips might be issued before i commit to one

NoviGlitzko

COH wrote: »

Free Hit activated

Madness

elefant

Wilberto wrote: »

Yeah, but you have carried forward a few BBs from previous seasons, right?

If I use FH in gw1, do I keep my carried over BB?

98q76e12hrflnk

elefant wrote: »

If I use FH in gw1, do I keep my carried over BB?

you get two extra BB

Scorpion Sting

Leicester have signed Jonny Evans. They also signed Ricardo Pereira from Porto earlier in the window.

ArmaniJeanss

A game week in February 2020 will be staggered over two weekends to give every team a weekend off.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/44414487

Heartache as my 2nd weekend players pick up injuries and I've no chance to change them.
Or perhaps heartache as despite an extra week to get injured and allow a highscoring bench player to sub in they all remain annoyingly healthy.

But heartache definitely.

ShaneU

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

A game week in February 2020 will be staggered over two weekends to give every team a weekend off.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/44414487

Heartache as my 2nd weekend players pick up injuries and I've no chance to change them.
Or perhaps heartache as despite an extra week to get injured and allow a highscoring bench player to sub in they all remain annoyingly healthy.

But heartache definitely.

Pretty sure it'll be split into two different gameweeks. Will take a good bit of planning ahead

jimmii

ShaneU wrote: »

Pretty sure it'll be split into two different gameweeks. Will take a good bit of planning ahead

I would imagine it'll just be one. Making it two would almost be making it a 39 Gameweek season.

You just know we're going to end up with two great captain options and they play on different weekends just to make the pain last even longer those weeks!

Paully D

Fixtures out tomorrow!

Remember this time last year when Southampton players looked essential due to their start :pac:

I think I even went with 3 of them in my team at the beginning :rolleyes:

KevIRL

Paully D wrote: »

Fixtures out tomorrow!

Remember this time last year when Southampton players looked essential due to their start :pac:

I think I even went with 3 of them in my team at the beginning :rolleyes:

Arsenal v Man City on opening weekend. Followed by chelsea away for Arsenal

Liverpool with v decent first 4 fixtures

Opening weekend

A.F.C. Bournemouth v Cardiff City

Arsenal v Manchester City

Fulham v Crystal Palace

Huddersfield Town v Chelsea

Liverpool v West Ham United

Manchester United v Leicester City

Newcastle United v Tottenham Hotspur

Southampton v Burnley

Watford v Brighton

Wolverhampton v Everton

Paully D

FF Scout:

Southampton and Everton assets might be among those to consider in the opening months of the season: they are the only two clubs not to play any of last season’s top six sides in the first five Gameweeks.

Not this again. :pac:

Paully D

City and Liverpool look worth loading up on at the start.

City: ars, HUD, wlv, NEW, FUL, car, BRI

Liverpool: WHU, cpl, BRI, lei, tot, SOU

:eek:

Cartman78

If someone can point me towards an Excel version of the fixtures I can have a go at creating a squad planner like the infamous/amazing/horrifying one I did for DGW planning towards the end of last season.

Have changed jobs recently so slightly less time for faffing about with FPL :-)

Shanotheslayer

Cartman78 wrote: »

Have changed jobs recently so slightly less time for faffing about with FPL :-)

How dare you not consult us in this decision! Are we just a piece on the side for you? Do our needs not matter? :pac:


Congrats on job mate!

Iused2likebusts

Bournemouth v Cardiff, Watford v Brighton, wolves v Everton, Southampton v Burnley, Fulham v palace. A good set of fixtures for a gw 1 BB.

patmac

Paully D wrote: »

City and Liverpool look worth loading up on at the start.

City: ars, HUD, wlv, NEW, FUL, car, BRI

Liverpool: WHU, cpl, BRI, lei, tot, SOU

:eek:

City to have the league won by September?

F1ngers

Cartman78 wrote: »

If someone can point me towards an Excel version of the fixtures I can have a go at creating a squad planner like the infamous/amazing/horrifying one I did for DGW planning towards the end of last season.

Have changed jobs recently so slightly less time for faffing about with FPL :-)

Am on a month of nights, not making any promises though.

Iused2likebusts

The way the fixtures have fallen its gonna be BGW 31, DGW 32, BGW 33 and DGW 35.

kilburn

Crelin has his spreadsheet on twitter

Cartman78

kilburn wrote: »

Crelin has his spreadsheet on twitter

Dammit - foiled again 
Found a workable fixture list format just now - will tip away at it over the next couple of days and post up here when it's finished.
Any favoured abbreviations for the promoted teams? I'm going with WOL, CAR and FUL for the minute

km79

Greg Cunningham signed for Cardiff btw

Who_8_Paul?

Has anyone else seen this:

https://www.stats.com/careers/

Check out the soccer data collection agent jobs in Limerick

Closest thing I've seen to making this obsession a career...

* author is in no way affiliated to Stats

callaway92

Who_8_Paul? wrote: »

Has anyone else seen this:

https://www.stats.com/careers/

Check out the soccer data collection agent jobs in Limerick

Closest thing I've seen to making this obsession a career...

* author is in no way affiliated to Stats

I work there if anyone wants any info on the jobs we have available.

A data collection agent does nothing that would make you a better fantasy football player, just an fyi

Who_8_Paul?

callaway92 wrote: »

I work there if anyone wants any info on the jobs we have available.

A data collection agent does nothing that would make you a better fantasy football player, just an fyi

You're a real life Moneyballer!? I'm actually a statistician myself in a very different sector but thought it was worth giving the heads up on here, might be a few interested. These are obviously data collection roles, not really analysis roles.

callaway92

Who_8_Paul? wrote: »

You're a real life Moneyballer!? I'm actually a statistician myself in a very different sector but thought it was worth giving the heads up on here, might be a few interested. These are obviously data collection roles, not really analysis roles.

Yup - guy that founded Stats was the Moneyball guy himself! All started in Baseball.

They are good roles for students or people only lookin for part time work really.

Who_8_Paul?

callaway92 wrote: »

Yup - guy that founded Stats was the Moneyball guy himself! All started in Baseball.

They are good roles for students or people only lookin for part time work really.

Yeah, it's all evening and weekend work (when matches are on), beats the jobs I had to do during college!

km79

Who_8_Paul? wrote: »

callaway92 wrote: »

Yup - guy that founded Stats was the Moneyball guy himself! All started in Baseball.

They are good roles for students or people only lookin for part time work really.

Yeah, it's all evening and weekend work (when matches are on), beats the jobs I had to do during college!

My eldest is starting college in 12 months time
This would be ideal
So I hope whomever gets it gets fired in a year

Rikand

km79 wrote: »

My eldest is starting college in 12 months time
This would be ideal
So I hope whomever gets it gets fired in a year

Or promoted

Cartman78

As promised, here's the latest headwrecker/squad planning sheet.

I've put a column in for player value - at the minute this will be manual but I'll have a look at automating something if I get time and, more importantly, access to a player database.

I've added the European games as well which might be useful I think - not 100% sure if I've got them in between the right gameweeks so let me know if there's anything incorrect and I'll update.

Just to note as well - as with the previous sheet, the 3 letter team name (ARS, CHE etc) is the main driver for the formulas so player name isn't critical at the minute so you can fire away with KDB, Bavies etc. This might change if I manage to get my hands on the pricing information.

Wilberto

^^^

We all dream of a team of Mo Salahs,
A team of Mo Salahs
A team of Mo Salahs!


:pac:



((Excellent work though, as ever ))

kilburn

Cartman78 wrote:

Dammit - foiled again Found a workable fixture list format just now - will tip away at it over the next couple of days and post up here when it's finished. Any favoured abbreviations for the promoted teams? I'm going with WOL, CAR and FUL for the minute

As a Villa fan can we go with C**** for Fulham ?

Mr_Man2121

Do u have any spaces?

km79

Rui Patricio (Portuguese keeper ) has signed for Jorge Mendes FC

Gaillimh1976

Any idea what date the site will go live this year ?

NoviGlitzko

Gaillimh1976 wrote: »

Any idea what date the site will go live this year ?

NoviGlitzko

Gaillimh1976 wrote: »

Any idea what date the site will go live this year ?

For real though you're looking at the 15th of July kinda ball park.

Scorpion Sting

Gaillimh1976 wrote: »

Any idea what date the site will go live this year ?

A few days either side of the World Cup final I reckon. So anywhere between 13-17 July I'd say.

jimmii

Do we have dates it's gone live in years of a major tourney? I seem to recall they normally wait until after.

Scorpion Sting

jimmii wrote: »

Do we have dates it's gone live in years of a major tourney? I seem to recall they normally wait until after.

The start dates since 2006 are available on Fiso.

McBain11

Has there much more chatter about the likes of Salah being classified as a forward next season? I only ask as everytime I listened to the English media during the world cup, they spoke of him as if he was a centre forward, which obviously he's not. It would turn the game upside down if they start classing wide forwards or high wingers as forward options in the game. Especially if Salah became one while others weren't reclassified.

Dr. Bre

Be wary of throwing Kane in at the start if england go far. Also he doesn’t score in August lol...

Wilberto

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Be wary of throwing Kane in at the start if england go far. Also he doesn’t score in August lol...

I think it could be the opposite. I reckon the further England go in the World Cup the more likely it is for Kane to score in August.


He clearly takes his time in getting up to speed after the summer break, but with no real break in this summer compared to others, he could already be up to speed come the start of the season.





Of course, come the end of the season he could become more fatigued, but that's the case with most of the World Cup players that will play in the latter stages.