General FPL Chat Season 2013/14

manual_man wrote: »

definition of slow but steady progress

(after an awful start to the season):

Invincible wrote: »

Are you doing any better on Tagged?!

Weetabix wrote: »

Just looking at my ranking for each quarter:

Q1 891k
Q2 133k
Q3 94k
Q4 20k
Overall 48k

I have made slow and steady progress each quarter and am currently on a run of only 3 red arrows in the last 18 weeks rising from 350k to 48k. My season low point was after GW5 when I was ranked 1.2m!

Dearg81 wrote: »

How do you check your ranking for each quarter?

Dearg81 wrote: »

218 is pretty damn good!

I've steadily improved over the season, up to 5k overall now. I always make too many transfers in the first half of the season every season(31 this season over the first 19 weeks) but it seems to work out in the end:

Q1 - 237k
Q2 - 93k
Q3 - 19k
Q4 - 17K

FHFC wrote: »

Again it's all learning for me in my first time playing but I am finding points hits to be worthwhile quite a lot of the time provided your overall decision making on players is right more often than not. Especially in the last quarter where I've also taken more hits as I find with less games left there is less value in being patient with poor form or players with tough fixtures.

I've taken hits in 6 of the last ten weeks (-32 in total) and apart from doing a silly early move last week (done in frustration) to get silva I'd say they have pretty much all been worthwhile or at least broken even over a few game weeks while keeping my team in better shape for the run in and DGWs.

Interestingly the current overall leader has taken a points hit in 8 of the past ten gameweeks including one -8 and seven -4s so -36 points in total. He has made 54 transfers, one more than me, and I'd say I'm a bit above the average on this forum.

Also, I remember posting a link to this team earlier in the season who was in the top few in the team value league having taken a load of hits including -36 in GW2, but who was still reasonably competitive in at around 250k in the rankings. Checking back in on him and he has eased off on the hits since but still has 61 transfers and is ranked at 13k. He is well above me and a lot of us on here!! There are a lot of ways to play this game it seems.

I made a few mistakes and did silly hits due to inexperience early in the season and was therefore wary of them, but recently I've been regretting not taking the hit a lot more often than regretting taking it, talked myself out of a hit for Lallana to Ramsey last week for example which would have gained me 9 points.

I'd say with injuries there will be an above average number of hits this week, and I am considering -12 for the first time myself.

Lemlin wrote: »

How can I get my stats lads? I went to a league and sorted by quarter 1 but that was only giving my stats for that league.