SlickRic wrote: » 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.
G1032 wrote: » SlickRic said the following in the GW30 Matchday thread. I have a question or two now that I'm trying to find an answer to....... I'm looking at my own team and trying to find out what I could have done differently over the last 4 weeks to prevent a slide from 24,000 to 70,000 place with a team I would not have considered shíte. How could I have predicted that I needed to sell both Aguero and Sturridge for Giroud and Costa? Being a week or two late to the party can destroy a season. What prompted people to sell Sanchez weeks and weeks ago and why did many of us hold on to him?? I held on to him simply because I could. I didn't need to sell him to free up cash when he was injured. Did people sell because they needed cash or because they thought his best days were behind him (because selling him weeks ago meant you'd probably not be able to buy him back again) There are some 50:50 decisions that don't go your way like bringing in Azpil instead of Terry earlier this season which cost probably 40 points, an incorrect captain choice (that Sanchez mega haul + Aguero mega haul which people can get on the wrong side of) and these decisions can affect your season but these are the bad luck calls I think that you can do little about. But it's not all luck and I've made bad decisions. Can someone tell me how they decide the correct time to sell a player, a highly owned player like Sanchez or Aguero or Costa, when by doing so they run the risk of being on the wrong side of a big haul from them?? How long is too long too long to hold on to the likes of these? In other words, how long before your good team becomes shíte??!!
Chesty08 wrote: » I sold Sanchez because his performance levels were dropping, there were far too many potential scorers in the Arsenal team, he wasn't gonna be played for full 90mins now that the others were back and needed game time (and he needed resting). Much better to sell and get Ozil who was 2m + cheaper who started to show what he was capable of - others opted for Santi has he guarantees assists and was on penalties
Copper_pipe wrote: » In UL library here and I can see someone across the way from me on their fantasy team Anyone here no? :L
G1032 wrote: » And were you not afraid that he'd hit a big score or two and being so highly owned put a real dent into your season? I guess that's why I held on to both him and Aguero? The fear of their potential.
G1032 wrote: » But it's not all luck and I've made bad decisions. Can someone tell me how they decide the correct time to sell a player, a highly owned player like Sanchez or Aguero or Costa, when by doing so they run the risk of being on the wrong side of a big haul from them?? How long is too long too long to hold on to the likes of these? In other words, how long before your good team becomes shíte??!!
G1032 wrote: » I have a question or two now that I'm trying to find an answer to....... I'm looking at my own team and trying to find out what I could have done differently over the last 4 weeks to prevent a slide from 24,000 to 70,000 place with a team I would not have considered shíte. How could I have predicted that I needed to sell both Aguero and Sturridge for Giroud and Costa? Being a week or two late to the party can destroy a season. What prompted people to sell Sanchez weeks and weeks ago and why did many of us hold on to him?? I held on to him simply because I could. I didn't need to sell him to free up cash when he was injured. Did people sell because they needed cash or because they thought his best days were behind him (because selling him weeks ago meant you'd probably not be able to buy him back again) There are some 50:50 decisions that don't go your way like bringing in Azpil instead of Terry earlier this season which cost probably 40 points, an incorrect captain choice (that Sanchez mega haul + Aguero mega haul which people can get on the wrong side of) and these decisions can affect your season but these are the bad luck calls I think that you can do little about. But it's not all luck and I've made bad decisions. Can someone tell me how they decide the correct time to sell a player, a highly owned player like Sanchez or Aguero or Costa, when by doing so they run the risk of being on the wrong side of a big haul from them?? How long is too long too long to hold on to the likes of these? In other words, how long before your good team becomes shíte??!!
iroced wrote: » That's a very interesting matter. You mentioned Agüero, Sturridge & Sanchez. Out of these 3 I'd put the blame on Sturridge for your free fall in the rankings lately. Purely because he's a differential (considering his ownership) and a differential that doesn't work means disaster in the overall rankings. Now, what'd be interesting is to analyse your whole squad. A single differential can't singlehandedly destroy your team. I think you "gambled" on Yaya too. And I guess if you had Silva instead you'd be a good 20 pts (at least) better. --- One thing I'd be very curious to know (if many boardsies agree we could actually gather the "data" in a table (*)) is some kind of ratio between your overall rankings and your captain returns. Like overall rankings, overall points, captain pts, vice captain points. Actually the "Possible Total Points if you Always Captained Highest Scorer out of (C) and (VC)" from http://anewpla.net/fpl/ is very interesting. If I have a look at my own example, I'm stagnating around 20k for 8 GWs in a row now and I've been oscillating between 46k and 19k since GW17 which represents about half the season so far. Last year from GW13 onwards I've never been outside 14k and from GW22 onwards never outside 5k. After 30 GWs I scored this year 366 (C) pts which is 21.6% of my overall pts. Last year at the same stage I was on 454 (C) pts that represented 30% of my overall pts. I can search for all my mistakes but in my opinion the main difference lies here. (*) Something like this (using http://anewpla.net/fpl/) with each poster adding its own "data line" and so on and on...boardsie | overall pts | (C) pts | (C) % | (VC) pts | best of (C)/(VC) pts | | bench pts iroced | 1691 | 366 | 21.64 | 424 | 1782 || 133Boards username Total Points for the above Gameweeks Total Captain Points Total Captain Points as % of Overall Score Possible Captain Points if you Always used your Vice-Captain instead Possible Total Points if you Always Captained Highest Scorer out of (C) and (VC) Total Benched Points for the above Gameweeks
dahat wrote: » Most people eye up women but a fanstay football team, that's a first!
Swiper the fox wrote: » boardsie overall pts (C) pts (C) % (VC) pts best of (C)/(VC) pts bench pts Swiper 1767 406 22.98% 320 1827 196 Edit: that didn't really work did it:pac: Looked fine when I was putting it together:o
AdMMM wrote: » Either I don't pay enough attention to my VC choice, or I've been nailing my choice each week!boardsie | overall pts | (C) pts | (C) % | (VC) pts | best of (C)/(VC) pts | | bench pts iroced | 1691 | 366 | 21.64 | 424 | 1782 || 133 Swiper | 1767 | 406 | 22.98 | 320 | 1827 | | 196 Ziegler1988 | 1792 | 426 | 23.77 | 410 | 1873 || 146 AdMMM | 1695 | 372 | 21.95 | 157 | 1743 || 206
iroced wrote: » That's a very interesting matter. You mentioned Agüero, Sturridge & Sanchez. Out of these 3 I'd put the blame on Sturridge for your free fall in the rankings lately. Purely because he's a differential (considering his ownership) and a differential that doesn't work means disaster in the overall rankings. Now, what'd be interesting is to analyse your whole squad. A single differential can't singlehandedly destroy your team. I think you "gambled" on Yaya too. And I guess if you had Silva instead you'd be a good 20 pts (at least) better. ---
The Unusual Alpaca wrote: » Long time reader but new time poster. I've had a disaster of a season in FPL this year, Got my girlfriend who doesn't really like the sport to participate and she's probably going to beat me. New low. Lost momentum around Christmas and could never win it back. Had too much faith in big name players.
G1032 wrote: » boardsie | overall pts | (C) pts | (C) % | (VC) pts | best of (C)/(VC) pts | bench pts iroced | 1691 | 366 | 21.64 | 424 | 1782 | 133 Swiper | 1767 | 406 | 22.98 | 320 | 1827 | 196 Ziegler1988 | 1792 | 426 | 23.77 | 410 | 1873 | 146 AdMMM | 1695 | 372 | 21.95 | 157 | 1743 | 206 CrabieCrawford | 1795 | 440 | 24.51 | 266 | 1828 | 145 G1032 | 1644 | 372 | 22.63 | 372 | 1716 | 151 Suarezistheman | 1686 | 426 | 25.27 | 177 | 1736 | 108
Invincible wrote: » Any chance you'd stick Bust's and my figures from above in table too??
Swiper the fox wrote: » This has confirmed busts lamentable captain choices anyway, his captain points % is absolutely miles behind the rest of us. Remember that you will need to double your vc's total for the purposes of this list, a few haven't by the looks of it.
spock. wrote: » boardsie | overall pts | (C) pts | (C) % | (VC) pts | best of (C)/(VC) pts | bench pts iroced | 1691 | 366 | 21.64 | 424 | 1782 | 133 Swiper | 1767 | 406 | 22.98 | 320 | 1827 | 196 Ziegler1988 | 1792 | 426 | 23.77 | 410 | 1873 | 146 AdMMM | 1695 | 372 | 21.95 | 157 | 1743 | 206 CrabieCrawford | 1795 | 440 | 24.51 | 266 | 1828 | 145 G1032 | 1644 | 372 | 22.63 | 372 | 1716 | 151 Suarezistheman | 1686 | 426 | 25.27 | 177 | 1736 | 108 Iused2likebusts | 1752 | 324 | 18.49 | 380 | 1837 | 138 Invincible | 1687 | 368 | 21.81 | 159 | 1734 | 122 spock | 1627 | 342 | 21.02 | 372 | 1713 | 206 Chesty08| 1748 | 350 | 20.02 | 232 | 2150 | 104
