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Gameweek 30 Matchday Thread

G1032

Good morning

Potential for a high scoring Gameweek with Spurs v Leicester, a possible City backlash v West Brom, Villa and Benteke finding form and Austin at home v a probably tired Everton.

I've made a triple transfer in a last ditch attempt to give my season a bit of a boost
Sturridge, Yaya and PVA out for Benteke, Mane and Ivanovic

Good luck all!

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Copper_pipe

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Bad form Copper,;) I guarantee that you will win, you have a **** hot team, loads of money and a 13 point lead, you should have stuck to your guns, you'll regret that

Im sorry for letting ye all down

Swiper the fox

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Era, twill work out @ €145 each if either of us win. Im looking to save up money for getting on the road too so I'm happy enough. The Learners permit arrived in the post today :cool:

Bad form Copper,;) I guarantee that you will win, you have a **** hot team, loads of money and a 13 point lead, you should have stuck to your guns, you'll regret that

Copper_pipe

Chesty08 wrote: »

Don't like this carry on!

Era, twill work out @ €145 each if either of us win. Im looking to save up money for getting on the road too so I'm happy enough. The Learners permit arrived in the post today :cool:

shano_88

Ace2007 wrote: »

at least your good start guarantees you the 50 quid off me:)

Ha. I wouldn't even be counting on that the way I've been caught in other leagues! What is it about 80 points?

Ace2007

shano_88 wrote: »

Well that couldnt have gone much worse. I managed 70 points for the week and dropped 3k places to 15k. But more importantly, one of my rivals had basically a perfect week with a score of 114 and a gameweek ranking of 187. He has eaten up and spat out my 34 point lead and some to leave me now 10 points behind him now. I think I was nearly 70 points ahead of him 2 gameweeks ago and have been top of the league since November. Things can change fast!

at least your good start guarantees you the 50 quid off me:)

Arbitrary

77 all in, green arrows in Ireland and red arrows overall. :pac:

Down to 17k and now 56 points behind in my main league. I should have banked my transfer, in a world of pain now with Foster out, Dawson showing up as suspended and Benteke and Ozil down as doubts, though thankfully the latter two should be fine with the international break.

I'll probably have to take a points hit but i'm holding off on any transfers for now.

Some team surgery will be required at the back.

Chesty08

Doubled up on Soton defence this week - Forster & Alder. Was considering Berty and Myhill so I'm not doubled up on & will have a Pulis defensive cover going forward. Totally backfired with now having to use another transfer and my players scoring considerably less.

Two other 1 pointers in defence!

Ozil (my premium midfielder) didn't play & I didn't captain Kane!

How I scored 60+ I don't know!

Have been in freefall the last number of weeks and can't stop the slide after such a promising campaign! Everything going wrong

Don't know where to start on rebuilding - really considering a massive minus overtake and hoping it outweighs my current team!

FHFC

SlickRic wrote: »

it was such a fantastic week for some, and fair play to them.

if you have Clyne/Bertrand, Silva, Giroud, Hazard, Costa and Kane captained you were golden. And that's not an unlikely scenario. All of those players are conceivably in a lot of teams, and not only in a lot of teams, but in a lot of very good teams.

the problem for many was the alternatives like Aguero and Sanchez did nothing, and many with Aguero captained him too.

It happens.

The challenge for those who lost out is to judge who of their team will perform in the next week or 2 and who won't, and to try to keep knee-jerking to a minimum, which is extremely hard to do when you've lost out by over 40 points in a week. the natural reaction is to think your team is absolutely shíte, whereas it's not necessarily the case.

Wise words.

Also some people had Chelsea defenders or Bellerin getting 1 pointers, while people with "Clyne/Bertrand, Silva, Giroud, Hazard, Costa and Kane captained" could easily have had Cresswell, Naughton or a Soton double with Alder to complete their dream week.

I was somewhere in the middle with two 1 point defenders and no Silva or Giroud from your list.

Lemlin

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Spot on there is only 3 or 4 of these type gws a season. Unfortunately I was on the wrong end of this one but no need to panic. I was only a capt choice and Sunderland hanging on for 2 more mins away from a great score

The Sunderland thing is really annoying me. Small calls from officials like that have really hit me this season. It was a clear foul outside the box and if PVA had gotten nine, instead of two, I would have hit a ton for the week.

Iused2likebusts

SlickRic wrote: »

it was such a fantastic week for some, and fair play to them.

if you have Clyne/Bertrand, Silva, Giroud, Hazard, Costa and Kane captained you were golden. And that's not an unlikely scenario. All of those players are conceivably in a lot of teams, and not only in a lot of teams, but in a lot of very good teams.

the problem for many was the alternatives like Aguero and Sanchez did nothing, and many with Aguero captained him too.

It happens.

The challenge for those who lost out is to judge who of their team will perform in the next week or 2 and who won't, and to try to keep knee-jerking to a minimum, which is extremely hard to do when you've lost out by over 40 points in a week. the natural reaction is to think your team is absolutely shíte, whereas it's not necessarily the case.

Spot on there is only 3 or 4 of these type gws a season. Unfortunately I was on the wrong end of this one but no need to panic. I was only a capt choice and Sunderland hanging on for 2 more mins away from a great score

Chesty08

Copper_pipe wrote: »

70 all in for me. Had Aguero captain

Lead in my pay league is down to 13 points, it was 40

My closest rival and myself have made an arrangement in that if either of us win, we'll split the pot :L

Don't like this carry on!

SlickRic

shano_88 wrote: »

Well that couldnt have gone much worse. I managed 70 points for the week and dropped 3k places to 15k. But more importantly, one of my rivals had basically a perfect week with a score of 114 and a gameweek ranking of 187. He has eaten up and spat out my 34 point lead and some to leave me now 10 points behind him now. I think I was nearly 70 points ahead of him 2 gameweeks ago and have been top of the league since November. Things can change fast!

it was such a fantastic week for some, and fair play to them.

if you have Clyne/Bertrand, Silva, Giroud, Hazard, Costa and Kane captained you were golden. And that's not an unlikely scenario. All of those players are conceivably in a lot of teams, and not only in a lot of teams, but in a lot of very good teams.

the problem for many was the alternatives like Aguero and Sanchez did nothing, and many with Aguero captained him too.

It happens.

The challenge for those who lost out is to judge who of their team will perform in the next week or 2 and who won't, and to try to keep knee-jerking to a minimum, which is extremely hard to do when you've lost out by over 40 points in a week. the natural reaction is to think your team is absolutely shíte, whereas it's not necessarily the case.

shano_88

shano_88 wrote: »

Both my main rivals have Kane captain. I have Aguero. This could be a crucial week.
Myhill
Bertrand Wooly Terry
Sanchez Silva Eriksen Hazard
Aguero(c) Kane Austin

Well that couldnt have gone much worse. I managed 70 points for the week and dropped 3k places to 15k. But more importantly, one of my rivals had basically a perfect week with a score of 114 and a gameweek ranking of 187. He has eaten up and spat out my 34 point lead and some to leave me now 10 points behind him now. I think I was nearly 70 points ahead of him 2 gameweeks ago and have been top of the league since November. Things can change fast!

OneColdHand

Another bad week. That's 8 red arrows in a row. Down to 9.4k now. Assuming this momentum continues, I'll be well outside the top 10k next GW.

71 points. Augero captain was the only difference between a large fall and a slight gain. I feel it's a harsh punishment for what wasn't far off a 50/50 decision, but they're the breaks.

Might try and bank the transfer this week ahead of the upcoming double.

Copper_pipe

70 all in for me. Had Aguero captain

Lead in my pay league is down to 13 points, it was 40

My closest rival and myself have made an arrangement in that if either of us win, we'll split the pot :L

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72, happy enough with Aguero captained, though I dropped nearly 2k.

Necronomicon

SlickRic wrote: »

So similar here.

63 point lead down to 12 thanks to rival's 111 point haul.

Don't worry. One week can kickstart it all again. I just need Aguero to fire, to get a captain choice correct, and the gap will start to grow again.

The break is indeed welcome though.

More similar than you realise! Mine was a 69 point lead down to 11 now, having also captained Aguero. Oh well. Just have to saddle up the horse and go again next weekend. This game turns on a dime.

Edit - above figure actually accounts for last 2 GWs.

SlickRic

Necronomicon wrote: »

I fear this could be the GW I look back as a season definer for the wrong reasons. I end on 61 points which sees me drop nearly 10k places to 22k. My lead in my main private league has been obliterated because 2nd place got a monster 102 points. I rarely welcome international breaks but I'm making an exception this time around.

So similar here.

63 point lead down to 12 thanks to rival's 111 point haul.

Don't worry. One week can kickstart it all again. I just need Aguero to fire, to get a captain choice correct, and the gap will start to grow again.

The break is indeed welcome though.

Necronomicon

I fear this could be the GW I look back as a season definer for the wrong reasons. I end on 61 points which sees me drop nearly 10k places to 22k. My lead in my main private league has been obliterated because 2nd place got a monster 102 points. I rarely welcome international breaks but I'm making an exception this time around.

AdMMM

93 all in. Bellerin's one minute cameo cost me 5 points with Cresswell sitting pretty as first sub, but I'm not going to complain at my highest score of the season.

I've risen from 31k to 21k, but considering I was at 23k before last week's disaster, it's essentially only a 2k gain over that period.

I'm 29 points behind 10k, that's going to be my target for the end of season. Not bad considering I would have thought a top 100k finish would have been a good result at the start of the season!

dasa29

I am very happy with my 89

shineon23

71

fairly happy having captained Aguero, could have been a disaster altogether

SlickRic

IsMiseMyself wrote: »

Not having Costa took a bit of a chunk out of my rankings, but still can't not be happy with 86! Hoping to properly break back into the 50ks next gameweek.

Not bring in Costa over Sturridge this week was a massive oversight for me this week. Used one of my transfers on getting Puncheon out assuming he was injured and regret not just benching him, playing Phillips, and using a FT to get in Costa.

IsMiseMyself

Not having Costa took a bit of a chunk out of my rankings, but still can't not be happy with 86! Hoping to properly break back into the 50ks next gameweek.

SlickRic

When I got Aguero in a few weeks ago ahead of this run of fixtures, and saw my rivals ignore him ahead of Giroud, never would i have thought it be a decision that potentially costs me a couple of my private leagues - it along with captaining Kun instead of Kane this weekend.

it's what makes this game both brilliant and infuriating in equal measure. At the end of the day, while there is much skill and planning involved, there is always that little bit of luck involved that makes it all fascinating.

Lemlin

93 points sees me rise from 24k to 16k. We had a thread last season about GW swings. Last GW my score was 3.3 million in the world. This week it's 93k!

extra gravy

Finish on 64 which has fatal consequences for my ml hopes. Glad of the break now and looking forward to the end.

iroced

73 pts see me drop 3k down to 24k. The 15 pts loss between my (C) & (VC) may be the straw that broke the camel back though

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sheroman01

Delighted with my 80pts. So happy with my decision to captain Kane and bringing in Naughton gave my a nice 6pts. Regained my lead in my league albeit only by 5pts. Only jumped 13k places overall though, up to 161k, thought I would've climbed higher!

Iused2likebusts

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

63 points this week. Now at 45k.

I'm actually impressed at how badly wrong I can get things, I'm not sure how I go about fixing things either. It's all gone to utter sh!t since I played my WC at the end of November :pac:

that was some saga the will he wont he play his wildcard seemed to go on forever.