GW31 Matchday Thread

Lemlin · 07-04-2015 06:51AM

Ace2007 wrote: »

You do come across a bit bitter saying there are all these sites etc, that your work colleagues are on.

Lets say the previous season where they weren't on them, do you think it's a level playing field you having access to boards and discussing moves with folk on here?

Maybe they just got lucky this year, but there is no need to throw the toys out of the pram.

A lot of them read Boards but don't post tbh. I think we've a lot more lurkers than we realise. I would also say I give alot more advice than I ask for on here. I already have decided my transfer for next week without input from others.

I don't think I'm throwing my toys out of the pram tbh either. I just think, as I said earlier in the season, that the game has now got to the stage where you don't even need to watch matches or highlights to be good at it.

All the information is readily available on the various sites.

And it's not like I'm saying I'll quit the game. I'll just be reviewing the time and effort I put in. If anything, as I said, the extra knowledge and overthinking has cost me this year. I've given a number of examples of that in my initial post and could give more.

I don't see how any of that can be classed as having a tantrum.

Edit: I'm actually at 26k so far from a terrible season with 7 weeks left.

G1032 · 07-04-2015 08:36AM

Lemlin wrote: »

I said the same thing earlier in the season tbh. I've always refused to pay the sub price to FFS and barely even read the main site anymore but every person I chat to in work has it.

It's a great resource but with all the sites now and Twitter feeds there's just too much info available easily.

I posted a couple of weeks ago with similar complaints to your but I also realise that over the last couple of seasons I've not been good enough in PL's where for a numbers of years the spoils were shared between myself and another guy.

I'd say you're right about all the 3rd party sites making the game too easy but your comment about refusing to pay the subscription to FFS is the comment that caught my eye.......
I too have refused to pay those sites but is that now proving unwise?? There is money to be made in out ML's so a little investment should help us reap rewards
Or, and it's a big or, if everyone is paying those sites for information does it all then come down to luck???

Iused2likebusts · 07-04-2015 08:57AM

G1032 wrote: »

I posted a couple of weeks ago with similar complaints to your but I also realise that over the last couple of seasons I've not been good enough in PL's where for a numbers of years the spoils were shared between myself and another guy.

I'd say you're right about all the 3rd party sites making the game too easy but your comment about refusing to pay the subscription to FFS is the comment that caught my eye.......
I too have refused to pay those sites but is that now proving unwise?? There is money to be made in out ML's so a little investment should help us reap rewards
Or, and it's a big or, if everyone is paying those sites for information does it all then come down to luck???

I paid the subscription to FFS this year I'm not so sure I would again it's a good service but tbh I rarely use it. I still think your best bet is to watch as much football as you can. For example aguero had great stats in a game against burnley recently but I watched that game and it wasn't what the stats would have you believe. To get an edge in the game I think you need to be prepared to go with your gut and take the odd risk something I'm finding myself doing less of as with all these sites you start worrying about who everyone else has.

Paddy_Irishman · 07-04-2015 09:06AM

FHFC wrote: »

sense

Have to say that was honest and made alot of sense.

I read alot on here and post seldom. Lemlin ur coming across terrible. Who do u think u are? U go on about "causals" beating u or getting big scores to finish, what are u an elite pro? It's a free to play "fantasy " game that is quite open to educated guessing. Sometimes u get it right n other times it comes out backwards. Just like when u take a punt on a player n it pays off. It was just that, a guess.

U also tried making a point that u heard winger say sanchez was tired n u knew taking him out was the correct course of action but when he turned out not be to the cas, the ppl who left him must be idiots. It was a possibility he was on the edge of burn out then n everybody could see it, hence why the press asked wenger did he think sanchez was tired especially in a world cup year n first year in premiership Xmas madness period of matches. Of course he said yes n that he'd get rested soon. Didn't actually make it happen. I don't think ppl are idiots or got it wrong for ignoring that, they took a chance n were lucky. Same with ur Kane comment.

Everything looks different from the future. Throwing the toys out the pram now makes u seem conceited and so does saying how u basically give advice here, not receive it. Saying that ur so confident about ur transfer n that u don't need other ppls opinions is tit-ish to me, perhaps u didn't mean it like that.

GLaDOS · 07-04-2015 09:12AM

48 points from me this week, pretty woeful. Captaining Hazard was my only saving grace, as my only other player to score over 3 points was Pantillimon.

G1032 · 07-04-2015 09:14AM

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

I paid the subscription to FFS this year I'm not so sure I would again it's a good service but tbh I rarely use it. I still think your best bet is to watch as much football as you can. For example aguero had great stats in a game against burnley recently but I watched that game and it wasn't what the stats would have you believe. To get an edge in the game I think you need to be prepared to go with your gut and take the odd risk something I'm finding myself doing less of as with all these sites you start worrying about who everyone else has.

That makes sense too. I've been far too easily swayed by what I've seen on here. The information here is incredible but I've not filtered it correctly over the last two seasons.
I've not gone with my gut enough either and I've been paying far too much attention to price rises. I've also been watching much less football over the last two or three seasons and if I get a chance to watch the Arsenal game it's about as much as I'll see all weekend bar the very odd night I'll see MOTD.

Iused2likebusts · 07-04-2015 09:24AM

G1032 wrote: »

That makes sense too. I've been far too easily swayed by what I've seen on here. The information here is incredible but I've not filtered it correctly over the last two seasons.
I've not gone with my gut enough either and I've been paying far too much attention to price rises. I've also been watching much less football over the last two or three seasons and if I get a chance to watch the Arsenal game it's about as much as I'll see all weekend bar the very odd night I'll see MOTD.

I don't get to see much live football with 2 young kids but will always tape MotD and that's generally enough. On the price rises I haven't paid any attention to them since the jan wildcard the likes of Kane austin and cheap def options means team value isn't important.

G1032 · 07-04-2015 09:35AM

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

I don't get to see much live football with 2 young kids but will always tape MotD and that's generally enough. On the price rises I haven't paid any attention to them since the jan wildcard the likes of Kane austin and cheap def options means team value isn't important.

It's such fine margins though. I did a quick calculation last week and getting Yaya over Silva and selling Giroud for Sturridge cost be between 50 and 60 points. Also the Terry/Azpil debacle earlier in the year cost me another 40+

That's basically 100 points difference before taking any bad captain picks or any bad luck etc etc. Small margins and 50:50 decisions that go for you some years and don't on others. It just makes for a very very long season when they don't go your way!

jimmii · 07-04-2015 09:44AM

Games get harder its the nature of games as more people play and have access to more information.

G1032 · 07-04-2015 09:51AM

jimmii wrote: »

Games get harder its the nature of games as more people play and have access to more information.

Very much time for the likes of me to step up to the mark now!!

jimmii · 07-04-2015 09:57AM

G1032 wrote: »

Very much time for the likes of me to step up to the mark now!!

Wait until there is 5 million teams and then go win it!

stephenl15 · 07-04-2015 10:22AM

Hindsight is a great thing

Benched Panti an PVA in favour of Myhill, Fonte, Terry and Naughton. Not too annoyed as at the time it was the right thing to do in my opinion

jimmii · 07-04-2015 10:36AM

stephenl15 wrote: »

Hindsight is a great thing Benched Panti an PVA in favour of Myhill, Fonte, Terry and Naughton. Not too annoyed as at the time it was the right thing to do in my opinion

As long as you think its the right thing to do with the information you have at the time then it was still the right thing now. Being results orientated is one of the reasons the game drives people crazy I think!

stephenl15 · 07-04-2015 10:54AM

jimmii wrote: »

As long as you think its the right thing to do with the information you have at the time then it was still the right thing now. Being results orientated is one of the reasons the game drives people crazy I think!

I'd probably be a lot more pissed off if I hadn't captained Chaz Austin haha

FutureGuy · 07-04-2015 11:32AM

Wow. What a gameweek. Surrendered a 30+ point lead in my main league and trail by 4.

Heavily punished for making good moves and good substitutions this week. But that's FPL.

Every casual player in my FPL league had Austin as captain, and everyone I have seen as a rival over the years had Kane so I'm happy with my c choice even though it didn't work. I've read a number of comments on FFS etc saying captaining Austin over Kane was braindead/easy/simple decision. Newsflash, no it was not. It was very difficult. I could spend 30 mins writing out my deliberations but I couldn't be bothered today. I actually felt in the end that Kane and Austin would score within 3 points of each other. But QPR go away and score 4 at WBA. Someone please tell me the odds of that. :rolleyes:

FutureGuy · 07-04-2015 11:33AM

Rikand wrote: »

all the info in the world will never beat gut instinct and that's what'll always separate the men from the boys!

No. No it won't.

jimmii · 07-04-2015 11:36AM

stephenl15 wrote: »

I'd probably be a lot more pissed off if I hadn't captained Chaz Austin haha

Yeh certainly helps when your captain gets a haul!

Lemlin · 07-04-2015 11:39AM

Paddy_Irishman wrote: »

Have to say that was honest and made alot of sense.

I read alot on here and post seldom. Lemlin ur coming across terrible. Who do u think u are? U go on about "causals" beating u or getting big scores to finish, what are u an elite pro? It's a free to play "fantasy " game that is quite open to educated guessing. Sometimes u get it right n other times it comes out backwards. Just like when u take a punt on a player n it pays off. It was just that, a guess.

U also tried making a point that u heard winger say sanchez was tired n u knew taking him out was the correct course of action but when he turned out not be to the cas, the ppl who left him must be idiots. It was a possibility he was on the edge of burn out then n everybody could see it, hence why the press asked wenger did he think sanchez was tired especially in a world cup year n first year in premiership Xmas madness period of matches. Of course he said yes n that he'd get rested soon. Didn't actually make it happen. I don't think ppl are idiots or got it wrong for ignoring that, they took a chance n were lucky. Same with ur Kane comment.

Everything looks different from the future. Throwing the toys out the pram now makes u seem conceited and so does saying how u basically give advice here, not receive it. Saying that ur so confident about ur transfer n that u don't need other ppls opinions is tit-ish to me, perhaps u didn't mean it like that.

I doubt I'm coming across as badly as trying to comprehend your post to be honest.

Can you point me to any post where I have called people "idiots"? You've also misunderstood most of my post. I didn't take Sanchez out after the comments. I just didn't captain him. My point was that, if I hadn't researched the info I did, I would have just left him captain as most people did who weren't doing extra research. Therefore my point is that over thinking and analysing is effecting my score so I'm going to stop it.

Again, I'd question where I am "throwing the toys out the pram"? Re making my own decisions, a poster stated that I use the opinions of others here and that gives an unfair advantage. My response was that I rarely go with the opinion of others on here. I'll discuss the merits of moves and then make a decision.

Copper_pipe · 07-04-2015 11:40AM

FutureGuy wrote: »

Wow. What a gameweek. Surrendered a 30+ point lead in my main league and trail by 4.

Heavily punished for making good moves and good substitutions this week. But that's FPL.

Every casual player in my FPL league had Austin as captain, and everyone I have seen as a rival over the years had Kane so I'm happy with my c choice even though it didn't work. I've read a number of comments on FFS etc saying captaining Austin over Kane was braindead/easy/simple decision. Newsflash, no it was not. It was very difficult. I could spend 30 mins writing out my deliberations but I couldn't be bothered today. I actually felt in the end that Kane and Austin would score within 3 points of each other. But QPR go away and score 4 at WBA. Someone please tell me the odds of that. :rolleyes:

QPR to win 4-1 was 125-1 ...

jimmii · 07-04-2015 11:42AM

FutureGuy wrote: »

Wow. What a gameweek. Surrendered a 30+ point lead in my main league and trail by 4.

Heavily punished for making good moves and good substitutions this week. But that's FPL.

Every casual player in my FPL league had Austin as captain, and everyone I have seen as a rival over the years had Kane so I'm happy with my c choice even though it didn't work. I've read a number of comments on FFS etc saying captaining Austin over Kane was braindead/easy/simple decision. Newsflash, no it was not. It was very difficult. I could spend 30 mins writing out my deliberations but I couldn't be bothered today. I actually felt in the end that Kane and Austin would score within 3 points of each other. But QPR go away and score 4 at WBA. Someone please tell me the odds of that. :rolleyes:

Sure the kids like their bragging over there thats for sure! Every week the captain choices are fairly marginal this week I figured the difference was the extra 2 points Austin would get for playing not much more in it than that. The variance is high in FPL people just have to learn to embrace that and not feel too hard done by when they are on the wrong end of it.

jimmii · 07-04-2015 11:42AM

Copper_pipe wrote: »

QPR to win 4-1 was 125-1 ...

That seems super scabby!!

jimmii · 07-04-2015 11:45AM

Biggest price on 4-1 was 225/1 that seems pretty scabby too!

For those that are interested in getting odds for past matches there is a handy site called Odds Portal that has them going back years.

stephenl15 · 07-04-2015 11:47AM

FutureGuy wrote: »

Wow. What a gameweek. Surrendered a 30+ point lead in my main league and trail by 4.

Heavily punished for making good moves and good substitutions this week. But that's FPL.

Every casual player in my FPL league had Austin as captain, and everyone I have seen as a rival over the years had Kane so I'm happy with my c choice even though it didn't work. I've read a number of comments on FFS etc saying captaining Austin over Kane was braindead/easy/simple decision. Newsflash, no it was not. It was very difficult. I could spend 30 mins writing out my deliberations but I couldn't be bothered today. I actually felt in the end that Kane and Austin would score within 3 points of each other. But QPR go away and score 4 at WBA. Someone please tell me the odds of that. :rolleyes:

I see hwy you would have captained Kane over Austin, but for me it's always a no brainer . If a player has two matches in a week and is a decent pick, as Austin is, I will always captain him. People who went Aguero over Kane during Spurs DGW were heavily punished. They are rare enough so you need to take advantage when they do come along.

07-04-2015 11:48AM

FutureGuy wrote: »

Wow. What a gameweek. Surrendered a 30+ point lead in my main league and trail by 4.

Heavily punished for making good moves and good substitutions this week. But that's FPL.

Every casual player in my FPL league had Austin as captain, and everyone I have seen as a rival over the years had Kane so I'm happy with my c choice even though it didn't work. I've read a number of comments on FFS etc saying captaining Austin over Kane was braindead/easy/simple decision. Newsflash, no it was not. It was very difficult. I could spend 30 mins writing out my deliberations but I couldn't be bothered today. I actually felt in the end that Kane and Austin would score within 3 points of each other. But QPR go away and score 4 at WBA. Someone please tell me the odds of that. :rolleyes:

He scored 3 against them in their previous encounter.

And for those that don't have him...

He scored twice against Villa in the previous game

FutureGuy · 07-04-2015 11:49AM

jimmii wrote: »

Sure the kids like their bragging over there thats for sure! Every week the captain choices are fairly marginal this week I figured the difference was the extra 2 points Austin would get for playing not much more in it than that. The variance is high in FPL people just have to learn to embrace that and not feel too hard done by when they are on the wrong end of it.

The greatest thing I learned about FPL is to not care about the weekly scores and focus long term. I mean look at my GW...

Everyone has weeks like this when EVERYTHING goes wrong. You can't have the excellent weeks without weeks like this. Look at mine...

Captained Kane over Austin (then QPR score 4!)
Sold Sanchez (then Arsenal score 4!)
Benched Bellerin (who scores)
Bought Naughton (who suffers a season-ending injury)
Silva and Aguero blank (against a Palace sice with 1 cs in 11/12 games)
Mane on bench

It was even the timing of things...last minute assists for Austin, Sanchez and Siggy and goal for Giroud (rival differentials). Just to twist the daggers.

What can you do? Feck all! It's part of the game.

FutureGuy · 07-04-2015 11:50AM

Deleted User wrote: »

He scored 3 against them in their previous encounter.

And for those that don't have him...

He scored twice against Villa in the previous game

Yep that correct, and I factored that in. However I wouldn't base my captaincy choice on something so trivial. It was part of a much larger deliberation. The fortunes of all three teams have completely changed since then.

jimmii · 07-04-2015 12:00PM

FutureGuy wrote: »

The greatest thing I learned about FPL is to not care about the weekly scores and focus long term. I mean look at my GW...

Everyone has weeks like this when EVERYTHING goes wrong. You can't have the excellent weeks without weeks like this. Look at mine...

Captained Kane over Austin (then QPR score 4!)
Sold Sanchez (then Arsenal score 4!)
Benched Bellerin (who scores)
Bought Naughton (who suffers a season-ending injury)
Silva and Aguero blank (against a Palace sice with 1 cs in 11/12 games)
Mane on bench

What can you do? Feck all! It's part of the game.

Yeh you just have to take comfort in the fact that you felt you made the right decisions at the time given the information you had. In the long run the more good decisions you make the better you are going to do. Its not coincidence you see the same names doing well each season.

dahat · 07-04-2015 12:07PM

Just to sum it all up in one sentence.

It could get a whole lot worse yet folks!!!!

Swiper the fox · 07-04-2015 12:24PM

Trigger Happy wrote: »

No doublers in my team. Not too worried about that.

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Keep telling yourself that and you might even believe it. Until Tuesday that is:P I chickened out last night and brought in two, it was very hard to press the button to confirm Defoe out but it had to be done:o

dahat wrote: »

Just to sum it all up in one sentence.

It could get a whole lot worse yet folks!!!!

It could indeed, my post was from before 9 o clock on Saturday morning,:P boy am I glad I have some involvement tonight, go Benteke and Phillips:pac:

Iused2likebusts · 07-04-2015 12:29PM

On the Kane austin debate I think people underestimate burnley and saw it as a much easier fixture for spurs than it was. Utd city spurs liverpool chelsea and southampton have between them scored 4 goals in those 6 games at turf moor. The big teams don't like going there the crowds on top of you the pitch is small the facilities are 3rd world compared to every other ground in the league. Also burnley bar ings had nobody away on international duty whereas most the spurs team was away for 10 days. Burnley have conceded lots of goals but most of these have been away or at home to lower to midtable teams when they have to go for it more. Personally I think costa hazard rooney mata of the single gw players were better options than Kane. Austins pt haul against wba was totally unexpected but his 2 games were better options than Kanes 1.

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