General FPL Chat 2014/15 MOD WARNING POST 1839

Danger781 · 21-09-2014 08:52PM

wonski wrote: »

Are you trying to be funny? What is so funny in someone being banned btw.

Surprised he wasn't infracted for it! Considering people have been infracted for the use of "lol". Seriously.

Swiper the fox · 21-09-2014 08:58PM

Danger781 wrote: »

Surprised he wasn't infracted for it! Considering people have been infracted for the use of "lol". Seriously.

Rubbish, nobody here has a problem with LOL, the problem is idiots who (I'll take today as an example) contribute nothing to a thread except lol at Naismith captainers, lol at Zabaleta owners etc, etc, etc. There's a good few sites where you can go if that's what floats your boat. You can even post goals that haven't happened for poor idiots who are relying on the forums to keep up to date with the games.

FutureGuy · 21-09-2014 09:18PM

Danger781 wrote: »

Ah here I can see no need for that whatsoever. He merely responded to something I said. You'd swear he directed a personal insult at you..

Warning for going against FSA charter. If you have a problem with my moderating, please feel free to contact a cMod.

GillespieRoad · 21-09-2014 09:25PM

jive · 21-09-2014 09:35PM

wonski wrote: »

Are you trying to be funny? What is so funny in someone being banned btw.

The thing about it is you have to actually have a sense of humour to find any of the above funny, m8. It's a fantasy sports forum, and one of the few good ones, so lighten up

km79 · 21-09-2014 09:38PM

play it safe and go with Costa captain next week. he may be rested but everyone else will have him captained so........
or risk going with Falcao.....

jive · 21-09-2014 09:44PM

km79 wrote: »

play it safe and go with Costa captain next week. he may be rested but everyone else will have him captained so........
or risk going with Falcao.....

Definitely Costa

FutureGuy · 21-09-2014 09:46PM

OK, that's the end of the discussion pertaining to moderating decisions. If you have a problem, PM me. If you post below this warning regarding the moderation of the forum, I will be handing out cards.

RoryC received a month's ban. I do not hand out any sort of ban lightly on here. I have no intention of justifying any piece of moderating. He was banned for 2 weeks a fortnight ago and the decision was upheld by a category moderator and an admin.

Now he is banned for a month.

What I will say is that a number of people are making judgements based on one side of a dispute. I cannot get involved in a dispute and I cannot have my say. If I could, then people may have a different understanding.

The fact is that RoryC can dispute the ban as per the Dispute Resolution instructions, and if the ban is found to be unjust, it can be overturned.

I do not care how good a poster someone is, that does not give them any priveledges when it comes to FPL.

wonski · 21-09-2014 09:57PM

jive wrote: »

It is funny though...

Danger781 wrote: »

We can agree to disagree on that one.

jive wrote: »

Agree with me or else you too will have a month in the sin bin my friend

wonski wrote: »

Are you trying to be funny? What is so funny in someone being banned btw.

jive wrote: »

The thing about it is you have to actually have a sense of humour to find any of the above funny, m8. It's a fantasy sports forum, and one of the few good ones, so lighten up

It is a fantasy sports forum indeed.

That is why I don't find it funny to make a fun of the fact that someone was banned.

It is not about a sense of humour, or lack thereof. It is about what is funny and what is not funny at all.

jive · 21-09-2014 10:00PM

ok, cool

Danger781 · 22-09-2014 12:07AM

Well I reckon that's the end of my time here then, at least for the foreseeable future. I imagine rory and Lemlin won't be contributing much any more either. I have more I want to say but won't for fear of landing myself in further trouble. Good night folks.

FutureGuy · 22-09-2014 07:34AM

Danger781 wrote: »

Well I reckon that's the end of my time here then, at least for the foreseeable future. I imagine rory and Lemlin won't be contributing much any more either. I have more I want to say but won't for fear of landing myself in further trouble. Good night folks.

If you don't want to post here because you are reading one half of a story, then absolutely no problem.

Suffice it to day that Rory is in the position he is in because of his behavior on this forum over the last few years. Not because of me, another mod, the category mods, the admins or any other poster, including Lemlin. Because of himself.

Rory is an excellent contributor (one of the best IMO) to this forum but he is not above the thread or site rules. Another top poster is also on a site ban but that's life.

So as I said, if you want to make a decision based on what you perceive to be the full wet of facts, go right ahead.

Danger781 · 22-09-2014 08:04AM

This isn't because of a single incident - A number of incidents since the start of the season have been building up to this. I'll say no more as I'm dragging this thread off topic and it will only land me in further trouble. For now at least, I'm done.

FutureGuy · 22-09-2014 08:23AM

Danger781 wrote: »

This isn't because of a single incident - A number of incidents since the start of the season have been building up to this. I'll say no more as I'm dragging this thread off topic and it will only land me in further trouble. For now at least, I'm done.

No problem. Back on topic now guys. I've given this issue enough page space. .

Shedite27 · 22-09-2014 09:21AM

Anyone else finding the defending this season being very hard to predict? Last season there were a number of teams who were solid and could be relied upon for CS's, not many this year.

I play 3 at the back, plus a GK is 20 players over the first 5 weeks - managed a total of 3 CS's.

In the league so far, 29 of 100 appearances have been CS's, they seem to be much harder to predict than in previous years. Maybe it will settle down eventually.

Thanos · 22-09-2014 09:22AM

Right, onto much more pressing matters........ Was going to do Naismith to Welbeck but did Naismith to Ulloa instead. Now I can afford to get Di Maria in but should I wait it out or take the 4 point hit and do it now...?

extra gravy · 22-09-2014 09:23AM

Thanos wrote: »

Right, onto much more pressing matters........ Was going to do Naismith to Welbeck but did Naismith to Ulloa instead. Now I can afford to get Di Maria in but should I wait it out or take the 4 point hit and do it now...?

Depends how much cash you have...he went up again last night and will probably go up again before next weekend.

Thanos · 22-09-2014 09:25AM

Shedite27 wrote: »

Anyone else finding the defending this season being very hard to predict? Last season there were a number of teams who were solid and could be relied upon for CS's, not many this year.

I play 3 at the back, plus a GK is 20 players over the first 5 weeks - managed a total of 3 CS's.

In the league so far, 29 of 100 appearances have been CS's, they seem to be much harder to predict than in previous years. Maybe it will settle down eventually.

Cannot seem to count on anyone these days, had thought Cahill would keep a clean sheet yesterday but again he failed (5 games and only 1 clean sheet

) makes me wonder if i should go all cheap in defense.......

FutureGuy · 22-09-2014 09:28AM

Shedite27 wrote: »

Anyone else finding the defending this season being very hard to predict? Last season there were a number of teams who were solid and could be relied upon for CS's, not many this year.

I play 3 at the back, plus a GK is 20 players over the first 5 weeks - managed a total of 3 CS's.

In the league so far, 29 of 100 appearances have been CS's, they seem to be much harder to predict than in previous years. Maybe it will settle down eventually.

My gk has been poor but my defenders have done very well attacking wise to make up for clean sheets. I have 6 cs in total but Ivan, Clyne, Debuchy and Caulker have all scored attacking points.

jive · 22-09-2014 01:28PM

Shedite27 wrote: »

Anyone else finding the defending this season being very hard to predict? Last season there were a number of teams who were solid and could be relied upon for CS's, not many this year.

I play 3 at the back, plus a GK is 20 players over the first 5 weeks - managed a total of 3 CS's.

In the league so far, 29 of 100 appearances have been CS's, they seem to be much harder to predict than in previous years. Maybe it will settle down eventually.

Yeah I had Azpi @ £6.0m for the first few weeks thinking 'Chelsea at home, 7 out of their last 8 have been clean sheets at home' but nah. Short term variance though, we're only 5 weeks in and I'm sure at the end of the year we'll see the usual teams with the most clean sheets. Hopefully Pulis gets a job at a crap club so we can get some cheap clean sheets

Dr. Bre · 22-09-2014 09:10PM

ah one of my fav fantasy players returns soon - http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/29314861

Swiper the fox · 22-09-2014 09:17PM

Dr. Bre wrote: »

ah one of my fav fantasy players returns soon - http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/29314861

The best FPL player that there is IMO, he'll be straight into my team, interesting to see how Wenger sees his full squad line out though

Mr.Prodston · 22-09-2014 09:22PM

Swiper the fox wrote: »

The best FPL player that there is IMO, he'll be straight into my team, interesting to see how Wenger sees his full squad line out though

Woah, now lets not totally lose the run of ourselves. The greatest FPL player ever will return next season (hopefulyl), and no I'm not talking about Ronaldo :pac:

Lets just say I've been keeping a much closer eye on the Championship this season

PARlance · 22-09-2014 09:25PM

Swiper the fox wrote: »

The best FPL player that there is IMO, he'll be straight into my team, interesting to see how Wenger sees his full squad line out though

Is that not a contradiction in a sense.
I wouldn't throw Walcott straight in, I've no arsenal attacking cover at all, with Welbeck the only one that is tempting.

Sanchez, Ozil, Ramsey, Santi, Walcott plus a few more potential scorers or assisters in any given game.
For a team that doesn't score as much as some other big guns (only averaging 2 a game last season) they have too many players to spread it over... There's not enough points to go around for me*

*barring Welbeck, he is looking extremely underpriced.

8-10 · 22-09-2014 09:32PM

Swiper the fox wrote: »

The best FPL player that there is IMO, he'll be straight into my team, interesting to see how Wenger sees his full squad line out though

I gambled on adding Walcott to my Ultimate team as you can't make changes until January (though can get a loan), big fan of his and figure he'll be a good differential (1% ownership)

8-10 · 22-09-2014 10:11PM

The official app isn't great this year, limited in what you can view, for instance rival's team value and whether they've made transfers. Also, you can't manage your Ultimate team on it (can't find any app that can), which is more annoying because a) you're actually paying to play that version, and b) you have more of a need to update your team on the move as you make manager substitutions during the gameweek

Ace2007 · 22-09-2014 10:17PM

Shedite27 wrote: »

Anyone else finding the defending this season being very hard to predict? Last season there were a number of teams who were solid and could be relied upon for CS's, not many this year.

I play 3 at the back, plus a GK is 20 players over the first 5 weeks - managed a total of 3 CS's.

In the league so far, 29 of 100 appearances have been CS's, they seem to be much harder to predict than in previous years. Maybe it will settle down eventually.

Played 433 last GW and doubled up on Burnely defence (keeper and defender) last GW, was very long 90 mins, also had westbrom cover, but I think the day of expensive players in defence is not worth it and too many top teams leaking goals, Baines might be a good option if Everton were to keep 2/3 cleansheets in a row.

Antibac · 23-09-2014 04:20PM

kmcattack wrote: »

Yep I'll be uploading the ad free version this week also, I use this model on iOS and 90% of the downloads come from the free version and little or no revenue comes from the paid version. That pop up ad on login is the only full screen ad you'll get until you logout and/or close the app

Quick question re the IOS one. It's lists the generic leagues(man Utd,overall etc) but not the one that I am in at work. Would there be any reason for this?

Dr. Bre · 23-09-2014 08:40PM

hate to see my fantasy players playing league cup!

AdMMM · 24-09-2014 03:08PM

Shedite27 wrote: »

Anyone else finding the defending this season being very hard to predict? Last season there were a number of teams who were solid and could be relied upon for CS's, not many this year.

I play 3 at the back, plus a GK is 20 players over the first 5 weeks - managed a total of 3 CS's.

In the league so far, 29 of 100 appearances have been CS's, they seem to be much harder to predict than in previous years. Maybe it will settle down eventually.

My own view on this is that the premier league is becoming a more attacking league with teams more likely to commit numbers going forward. While the number of goals in the Premier League has been on a downward trend over the past 3 years, this year's current run rate is 1088 goals... 31 more than last season.

You could put this down to some dodgy defenses at the beginning of the season, but I also think that most teams' transfer policies were heavily weighted towards bringing in talent to add options going forward instead of at the back. This is my own personal view, but you only need to look at West Ham United playing beautiful football as of late for some anecdotal evidence of how the league's philosophy has shifted this season.

It's for this reason that all my defenders are full backs, who can pose a threat going forward with assists even if they concede a goal. While there's no doubt that the Colemans, Baines and Ivanovics of this world will score well this year, I made the decision to save there and concentrate on my midfield and strikers this season.

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