BGW and DGW 20/21 Discussion thread

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https://twitter.com/premierleague/status/1349438966454509572?s=19

Confirmed.

Lemlin

From BBC:
BREAKINGPost update
Southampton's Premier League game with Leeds next Wednesday is postponed.
That is because Southampton are playing Shrewsbury in a rearranged FA Cup tie the previous day.


I have 3 Leeds & 3 Saints. Fook!

Happy4all

they really should have scrapped the FA cup this year.

Shedite27

Probably won't BB now, pity, still have a solid 11 (for now).

Mendy (ful, lei)

Robbo (MUN BUR)
Cancelo (CRY AVL)
Castagne (SOU CHE)
Coufal (BUR WBA)
Bednarek (lei)

Salah (MUN BUR)
Bruno (liv ful)
Son (shu)
Soucek (BUR WBA)

Bamford (BHA)

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Meslier (BHA)
Grealish (EVE? mci)
DCL (avl?) - injured?
Adams (lei)

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Might use my FT to do Adams - Antonio to get another DGW player and bench Bednarek

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Athletic saying Villa v Everton set to be postponed.

ShaneU

This season is impossible, just pot luck at this stage

redarmy

Villa vs Everton is set to be postponed in GW19.

Ace2007

shmeee wrote: »

Same, you couldn't have asked for better fixtures for 4 of the "big teams" this GW against Brighton, Fulham, Burnley and Palace. Like seriously!

When FHing you are going into the best possible players with the best possible fixtures and the FPL god's have delivered with this GW18.

Don't beat around the bush lads!

Ace2007 wrote: »

I dunno - it's not has if the big players at these teams are returning and scoring goals like they should be for their prices.

Fulham pre covid weren't as bad as people are making out here - they had 2 CS out of their last 3 games and Kane hasn't really set the world on light recently, if you take his penalties away he only has 7 goals in 17 games. He's supposed to be their main man and at 11m is he worth it? Son on the other hand has 12 goals.

KdB has 1 goal from open play this season - and that was when Sterling took a shot their hit the bar and fell to him. Sterling is actually in better form - but very few will go with him over KdB.

Auba - I don't think anything is really needed to be said about him. I have Lacazette and he is the form striker in the league atm, but there is no guarantee he'll start. In which case for being a "big team" who would you pick??

Everyone will probably have KdB - but he's just as likely to blank as he's done for most of the season.

The flip side of all this is instead maybe of looking at the big guns, would 5 at the back me a better option, with attacking minded defenders, for example, Cancelo, Tierney?

If you took Kane out for instance you could probably get a very solid set up playing a 5-4-1.

3 of the "big teams" down, and defenders have definitely shown more value than the big guns. If Fulham won that game no one could have said it was lucky - they are a different team than at the start of the season.

joeyboy11

Any bench boosters out there with plans down the drain thinking of triple captaining Salah for gw 19.
Two home games and he’ll hardly blank 5 in a row.

One thing that spooks me is their second game is last of the gw and who knows if football will still be on then!

I know the sensible thing would be to not do it and I probably won’t in the end but curious if it’s crossing anyone else’s minds...

joeyboy11

Ace2007 wrote: »

3 of the "big teams" down, and defenders have definitely shown more value than the big guns. If Fulham won that game no one could have said it was lucky - they are a different team than at the start of the season.

I think it was a good decision to FH for a lot of teams that were down to 5ish players. If KDB takes that pen and son scores even 1 then you’re looking at decent 60+ score with a very low average.
Didn’t work out the best in the end with the big hitters blanking though. You non FHs must be happy!

siblers

Also talks of Villa v Newcastle being added to GW19. Would be brilliant if it was

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-9144511/amp/Premier-League-hope-rearrange-Aston-Villa-vs-Newcastle-FA-Cup-fourth-round-weekend.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490&__twitter_impression=true

Porthallian

Have to make a decision on a DCL replacement tonight with him dropping. I'll be priced out of Watkins.

Son/DCL to KdB/6.1m fw. If I wait I'll only have 6m and be forced to go with Adams.

patmac

siblers wrote: »

Also talks of Villa v Newcastle being added to GW19. Would be brilliant if it was

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-9144511/amp/Premier-League-hope-rearrange-Aston-Villa-vs-Newcastle-FA-Cup-fourth-round-weekend.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490&__twitter_impression=true

Lol pot luck at this stage. From BB to possible -12 no idea what to do.

Ace2007

joeyboy11 wrote: »

I think it was a good decision to FH for a lot of teams that were down to 5ish players. If KDB takes that pen and son scores even 1 then you’re looking at decent 60+ score with a very low average.
Didn’t work out the best in the end with the big hitters blanking though. You non FHs must be happy!

Obv teams had to FH.

Was more than yes "Big" teams were playing poor teams, but big team players weren't really scoring big points, like KDB, Kane, - they aren't exactly banging into 2/3 goals a game or playing in teams that are for instance.

Hence given how poor the teams they were playing against the 5-4-1 formation would provide more value with attach minded defences.

The FH chip is very hard to quantify as been successful or not - teams with out 5, were never going to not play it - therefore you kinda have to compare it with an alternative team or strategy/formation that you were going to pick but chose not to. Some teams went double united and city defence for instance.

Ace2007

siblers wrote: »

Also talks of Villa v Newcastle being added to GW19. Would be brilliant if it was

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-9144511/amp/Premier-League-hope-rearrange-Aston-Villa-vs-Newcastle-FA-Cup-fourth-round-weekend.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490&__twitter_impression=true

Is there are rule in the PL that games have to be announced before a deadline so to speak, or could they just announce this after the Saturday deadline?

CSF

I think if Villa v Newcastle was scheduled by Saturday morning, I would reconsider my idea to Free Hit this week.

I find it surprising that they would be. Villa v Newcastle is gonna have no shortage of slots, neither will Villa v Everton. Neither in Europe.

Those games wouldn’t be competing for Spurs for slots either. The only way that would be the case is if Spurs went out early from the Europa League, in which case Spurs don’t have a fixture problem anyway.

CSF

Ace2007 wrote: »

Is there are rule in the PL that games have to be announced before a deadline so to speak, or could they just announce this after the Saturday deadline?

I don’t think there’s a rule. They cancelled a game and rescheduled it within the same gameweek recently. Was it Liverpool or Man City v West Ham?

patmac

joeyboy11 wrote: »

Any bench boosters out there with plans down the drain thinking of triple captaining Salah for gw 19.
Two home games and he’ll hardly blank 5 in a row.

One thing that spooks me is their second game is last of the gw and who knows if football will still be on then!

I know the sensible thing would be to not do it and I probably won’t in the end but curious if it’s crossing anyone else’s minds...

Considering it, but don’t let that influence you, I TC’d Andy Carroll one year and Auba last year before the COVID break. 1 point for both.

patmac

Shedite27 wrote: »

Probably won't BB now, pity, still have a solid 11 (for now).

Mendy (ful, lei)

Robbo (MUN BUR)
Cancelo (CRY AVL)
Castagne (SOU CHE)
Coufal (BUR WBA)
Bednarek (lei)

Salah (MUN BUR)
Bruno (liv ful)
Son (shu)
Soucek (BUR WBA)

Bamford (BHA)

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Meslier (BHA)
Grealish (EVE? mci)
DCL (avl?) - injured?
Adams (lei)

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Might use my FT to do Adams - Antonio to get another DGW player and bench Bednarek

Chelsea have a COVID outbreak in their youth set up.

joeyboy11

patmac wrote: »

Considering it, but don’t let that influence you, I TC’d Andy Carroll one year and Auba last year before the COVID break. 1 point for both.

Ha your due a haul from TC so! Another thing with this mad season is I’m wondering could there be a triple gw!

c.p.w.g.w

joeyboy11 wrote: »

Ha your due a haul from TC so! Another thing with this mad season is I’m wondering could there be a triple gw!

Villa triple gw, could be very interesting, TC grealish

TimesArrow

So I’m not sure whether to play the BB for next game week. Leeds postponement has scuppered plans. I still have 2nd wildcard so could activate that before the weekend. Any thoughts? Number of games in brackets

Martinez (2)
Justin (2)
Robertson ( 2)
Chilwell (2)
ESR ( 1)
Soucek ( 2)
Fernandez ( 2)
Salah (2)
Son (1)
Vardy 2
Bamford (1)

McCarthy ( 1)
Adams ( 1)
KWP ( 1)
Dallas ( 1)

IrishLad90

Sterling really could have saved it for me tonight if he could, as a professional footballer, put the ball in the net

Have a
One free transfer for the next GW and with DCL in my lineup it will be wasted switching him. Nut to who? with so many DGW

GGMU - humble in celebration

FHFC

Half a million green arrow and I'm still inordinately pissed off at Reguilon nicking that bonus point off Kane (c).

FPL first world problems.

shmeee

My BB does not look anyway appealing anymore



Poor Balbuena needs to go also along with a few others (aka McTominay) so don't know what to do.

TC on Salah could be an answer.... Hmmmm!

wanderer100

TimesArrow wrote: »

So I’m not sure whether to play the BB for next game week. Leeds postponement has scuppered plans. I still have 2nd wildcard so could activate that before the weekend. Any thoughts? Number of games in brackets

Martinez (2)
Justin (2)
Robertson ( 2)
Chilwell (2)
ESR ( 1)
Soucek ( 2)
Fernandez ( 2)
Salah (2)
Son (1)
Vardy 2
Bamford (1)

McCarthy ( 1)
Adams ( 1)
KWP ( 1)
Dallas ( 1)

I’ve got the exact same bench as you and I’ve also got 8 players in my starting lineup with 2 games. Personally I’m going to save my BB.

Hard to predict how Leicester v Southampton will go but it doesn’t seem like a good enough fixture to risk a BB on 3 Saints players. If only Southampton had a DGW, then I probably would chance it

CSF

I think a point worth a mention is that the Villa v Newcastle news has only so far been reported by the Daily Mail.

ThunbergsAreGo

shmeee wrote: »

My BB does not look anyway appealing anymore



Poor Balbuena needs to go also along with a few others (aka McTominay) so don't know what to do.

TC on Salah could be an answer.... Hmmmm!

The thing is on a non DGW a home game with Brighton would be one of the better BB.

I was initially thinking of going without BB, but if the Villa Newcastle game is on, I might just go ahead and do it. Would have McCarthy, Dallas, Bamford, Watkins - which is as good as I can have outside of a DGW.

Also it means I can downgrade my bench for the rest of the year and focus money on the first 11/12

Shedite27

ShaneU wrote: »

This season is impossible, just pot luck at this stage

It's definitely more than that. There's an obvious strategy to help your cause this year:
1. Be adaptable in your plans
2. No early transfers
3. Have a full bench
4. Don't have more than 2 players on any given team
5. Don't have Captain and Vice playing in the same game
6. Try to avoid having 4+ players in the one match

We've been dealing with cancellations for 10 gameweeks now, I've no sympathy for people still getting caught out with triples from a team and Martin, Mitchell, Kilman and Brewster on their bench

NabyLadistheman

CSF wrote: »

I think a point worth a mention is that the Villa v Newcastle news has only so far been reported by the Daily Mail.

In fairness Ben Crelin has mentioned it as well. Some of the FPL people I follow are on the ball with these fixture re-arrangements. (They called the possibility of Fulham Spurs match being moved to this week , last week) So if they can see an opportunity for this to be looked at surely the game schedulers can too. Interesting to see how it plays out.

I was looking at selling Grealish to free up funds. Need to get KDB in. Don't want to lose one of Kane/Son now either with the possibility of Spurs having a double, as remote chance as it may be. Hopefully we get some news before the deadline