GW 18 match day thread

Ufpl updated shouldn't be too much longer for the main game hopefully.

manual_man wrote: »

56, including captain Giroud's stellar -4. disaster of a gameweek. still, i made it through in the cup :pac: :pac:

Also 56, but Annihilated in the cup

Rikand wrote: »

Also 56, but Annihilated in the cup

there's a reason why players like Olivier Giroud don't get captained very often

there really is :pac:

Necronomicon wrote: »

89, delighted. Captaining Sanchez over Rooney was only a 6-point swing in the end, which is a relief after the start to the QPR game.

You must have been going mad when he took the penalty!!

F1ngers wrote: »

75 is average of top 1K.

Is that before or after bonus points?

jimmii wrote: »

Lol yeah sure you could head through the what its every week! Hindsight is pretty handy in FPL! He certainly redeemed himself that's for sure!!

73 which should have been a lot more but for my head butting captain going loco but you can't win them all :-(

81 for the week. My rival got 89 after I was clawing him back the last few weeks.

The only difference was him captaining Sanchez and I captained Bony.

74 (-12) from 10 players, had i done nothing i probably would have ended up on 69, so 7 point swing, but team should be set up well going forward.

iroced wrote: »

94 !!!

A 3rd great week (top 100k GW rank) in a row should see me rise closer to my starting ambition.

But I dare say a last time (I promise :P) that I'm disappointed not to have had the time to sub in Siggy for Sakho. I would be looking at 104 points !

Transfer this week was Terry in for Wilson (who did not play despite Stoke CS) so a perfect transfer. An almost perfect week if only... no I promised .

Anyway, absolutely delighted with it . Now hopefully not to destroy it all with the next GW... Need to keep the head calm and cool not to overreact at price changes.

What's your team now? Great to see you on a good run again.

Lemlin wrote: »

What's your team now? Great to see you on a good run again.

Team is

Hart (Elliott)
Baines Terry Naylor Wisdom Yun
Sanchez Hazard Eriksen Silva Siggy
Costa Austin Sakho

My last transfer decisions have mainly worked out very well

Date | Out | In | GW
26 Dec 0:21 | Wilson | Terry | 18
20 Dec 11:26 | Ameobi | Silva | 17
13 Dec 11:27 | Krul | Hart | 16
10 Dec 1:19 | Agüero | Sakho | 16
04 Dec 23:14 | Fàbregas | Eriksen | 15
30 Nov 1:00 | Di María | Hazard | 14
30 Nov 1:00 | King | Ameobi | 14
29 Nov 11:25 | Downing | Di María | 13
29 Nov 11:25 | Clyne | Yun | 13
26 Nov 1:01 | Chadli | Sigurdsson | 13
25 Nov 1:14 | Pellè | Austin | 13

and I got my captain right 4 times out of the last 5 GWs.

GW | Captain | Points (x2) | GW points | GW average | overall positions gain
14 | Agüero | 32 | 69 (-4) | 39 | up 23k
15 | Agüero | 2 | 35 | 33 | up 10k
16 | Hazard | 28 | 75 (-4) | 47 | up 59k
17 | Austin | 34 | 80 | 47 | up 50k
18 | Sánchez | 20 | 94 | 61 | up 23k ... to... just inside 23k currently
GW 15 many got burnt by Agüero so I didn't suffer this one too badly.

Ah it's no surprise, when you're spot on transfer-wise and captain-wise you generally shoot up the rankings. Main thing is to make the most of these fastuous times (hence why I'm annoyed at the Siggy/Sakho situation) because 1) they won't last for ever and 2) it helps you go through the bad runs a lot more comfortably.

I'm not sure what to do now. My original plan was Eriksen -> Sterling to take advantage of Sterling good home fixtures and part ways with Eriksen before his tough ones.
But now I'm looking at all the wasted cash in Baines. Zab looks a certain starter after today's rest so...

72 all in. No major damage done in PL's. Escaped big time.

GW 13 i was in 375k, moved to 291k, 191k, 123, 72k and have got 83 points for this GW. My captain has got me 18, 2,28,18 and 20 points throughout this time, green arrows recently