GW 17 - Matchday Thread 🎅

Ace2007 · 28-12-2022 10:32pm

Grealish off, Foden on, let's hope that Foden can show Grealish how to score

Ace2007 · 28-12-2022 10:32pm

Strujk (Greenwood)

gammygils · 28-12-2022 10:33pm

Cancelo on for the cameo FS

It was destined to happen Shaw points stay on bench Grrrrr

Fitz* · 28-12-2022 10:35pm

I did think Leeds were going to get one, they were attacking enough. As a non City defender owner, that's a great goal for me, especially with Cancelo's cameo.

Fitz* · 28-12-2022 10:38pm

Haaland should have got his hat trick there

extra gravy · 28-12-2022 10:39pm

Very nearly a Leeds second...

crushproof · 28-12-2022 10:46pm

Hate this game. Captain Bruno was outstanding last night but no rewards and KDB the same tonight. Yet no rewards. Cancelo comes and they concede.

And of course all my rivals captained Haaland and also got 9 points for Kepa. Eurgh.

shmeee · 28-12-2022 10:48pm

Should be hitting the 100 club tonight, 110 live score. When this game goes good, its very good but when it's bad - it's beyond misery.

Ace2007 · 28-12-2022 10:49pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120042172#Comment_120042172

To be fair captaining anyone but Haaland is asking for trouble, especially city playing a very open Leeds team, if anything your lucky that Haaland only has 2 goals - he could have had 4. I also didn't think Bruno was that good last night?

skippy15 · 28-12-2022 10:54pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120042131#Comment_120042131

Ye same, ffs would have broken the100 points too

Benimar · 28-12-2022 11:00pm

89 points. If I hadn’t tinkered in Stephen’s morning it would have been 108.

[Deleted User] · 28-12-2022 11:16pm

95 points I think in the end with 3 1 pointers from cancelo,foden and James.

Happy from a fairly panicked wildcard or whatever it's called but have plenty to think about

wanderer100 · 28-12-2022 11:25pm

99 pts , nice green arrow from 112k to 63k

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 28-12-2022 11:28pm

86 and a big fat red arrow down to 186k OR.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 28-12-2022 11:30pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120042172#Comment_120042172

Captaining Bruno is absolutely suicide over haaland 99 times in 100. Poor decision.

crushproof · 28-12-2022 11:32pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120042341#Comment_120042341

Poor attempt at trying to get a differenial and catch up on rivals.

[Deleted User] · 28-12-2022 11:33pm

Big ewww here.

70 points and it looks like that'll be below or around average.

Fitz* · 28-12-2022 11:44pm

92 all out. Benching Trippier the big regret. KDB over Salah is a miss at the first attempt.

Green arrow though.

Cartman78 · 29-12-2022 12:01am

Despite my stupidity of picking James and Wilson, looks like I'll end up on 92...should see me break inside the magic 2M OR barrier 🙄

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 29-12-2022 3:43am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120042349#Comment_120042349

You ain't catching up with anyone making decisions like that.

highgiant1985 · 29-12-2022 4:11am

103 points in total this round and I'm currently ranked 653 overall. James was my only disappointment.

I'm doing so well so far that I'm caught in two minds going forward between wanting to (i) Differentiate and go with Salah as captain choice to try and break in to top 100 or (ii) protect my current position by sticking with Haaland as captain choice.

claw · 29-12-2022 8:02am

108 points thanks to Mitrovic subbing in for Martinez. Big jump of over 500k places up to around 630k.

Luxembourgo · 29-12-2022 10:35am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120042085#Comment_120042085

It's honestly ruining some of my enjoyment this year. Haaland is a big problem for FPL.

Different captains was arguably the most fun part. But this year going against Haaland is idiotic

Ace2007 · 29-12-2022 12:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120043012#Comment_120043012

I actually think somewhat the opposite, it's now in theory a fairer game as your not getting lucky or crucified by a 50/50 captain choice. Was it a couple of seasons ago where we saw City with a DGW and some TC Sterling/Sane, who ended up getting 20 mins over two games, while Aguero got like 80+ points for those the TC him. A simple decision effectively ended some players seasons - and given the form of Sterling/Sane at the time it was understandable picking them. Granted it was fun for those that got it right. But one captain choice shouldn't make/break someone's season.

Now it's how good are you at picking 10 other players and a bench. I even liked the way we got the unlimited transfers - the second chance league - with all the information from the first half of the season, there are so many good cheap options this year returning.

munster87 · 29-12-2022 12:26pm

The second chance league is only there for one reason, trying to revive the 7 or 8 million dead teams for a few weeks!

macraignil · 29-12-2022 12:45pm

Only Darwin, Cancelo and Saliba blank and miss out on Robertson 8points on my bench but 97 all out and HEWT. Up to 650,000OR from 917,000 at start of game week.

Gusser09 · 29-12-2022 12:51pm

78. Not happy with that at all. The differentials are killing me.Frustrating game if were honest. I'll triple cap Haaland for evertons visit to the eithad this weekend.

Luxembourgo · 29-12-2022 2:14pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120043225#Comment_120043225

I don't wholly disagree, but essentially not having a captain makes it way harder to chase down people.

Maybe it's just me being cranky, but I think the game has got less enjoyable over the last few years.

Ace2007 · 29-12-2022 2:30pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120043568#Comment_120043568

yes and no, I would hazard a guess that Haaland has been auto captain for the last 12 games maybe when he's been fit? So if someone has a big lead, is that because of their skills of picking players, you can get lucky of course, but if it's not your captain, it's probably going to be no more than 12 points. Now if someone is 50 points ahead of you already, that's about 3 points each GW - there is still plenty of time for you to turn that around as big a gap as that may seem. If you get to 5 weeks out and your still chasing that far behind - sure gamble of a different captain, but otherwise try picking players that you think will be better than what your opponent has.

Flip argument could be it's harder to run away from people without a captain either.

Gusser09 · 29-12-2022 2:51pm

Correct re Halaand making the game a little boring this year. The differentials are also so tiny every week that I can't see myself catching some people in my league that are only 40 points ahead of me. It's amazing. Last year that could have been done with 1 good week and the right captain.

GW 17 - Matchday Thread 🎅

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