General FPL Chat 2014/15 MOD WARNING POST 1839

Lemlin wrote: »

Number 1 in the FFS hall of fame Ville Ronka:

http://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/366766/history/

2008/09 2078 4266
2009/10 2466 569
2010/11 2225 362
2011/12 2243 1631
2012/13 2248 4668
2013/14 2534 90

He finished at 227 this year.

He is unreal it just doesn't seem like it should be possible to do that.

busts, i'm picturing you with the dirty overcoat over the pyjamas pulling the drip behind you as you "check yourself out"

busts and Lemlin showing excellent consistency there barring the one blot on busts copybook due to what must have been very severe medical reasons:p
It'll be years before I can compare my results with those. Anybody else care to share/compete?

Mine :cool:.

# | Points | Rank
2010/11 | 1591 | 1428913
2011/12 | 2143 | 19111
2012/13 | 2188 | 16044
2013/14 | 2460 | 1663
2014/15 | 2201 | 9152
| | |
average | 2248 | 11492.5

I deliberately don't include my first season since I started it on GW11 (finished 7th in the GW11 league).
As I said several times lately, I'm particularly proud to have made the top10k this year. I feel it was a season where I could (should?) easily have finished 50k ± 10k.
Obviously I'd now like to get consistent top10k finishes and make my average a 4 digits number ..

Swiper the fox wrote: »

busts and Lemlin showing excellent consistency there barring the one blot on busts copybook due to what must have been very severe medical reasons:p
It'll be years before I can compare my results with those. Anybody else care to share/compete?

It was my main aim this year to achieve a final rank at least nearly as good as my first year. I started that year with ZERO knowledge about the game so I wanted to see this year if finishing 8k was a fluke. I'm happy to have bettered it this year and being a bit of a perfectionist I'd like to keep my history nice and neat with hopefully no blow out 6 figure season.

Btw, Busts 50k with a burst appendix is not half bad I reckon!! Nowadays a decent mobile app avoids that problem. Thanks to Differential FPL I managed to make one of my worst transfers of this season in a field in Roscommon with one bar of 3G!!

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Id an old Nokia back then no Internet and couldn't get out of the bed for 10 days. I was in A and E on Stephens day and my main concern was I forget to change my captain before I left the house.

Horrific!

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Id an old Nokia back then no Internet and couldn't get out of the bed for 10 days. I was in A and E on Stephens day and my main concern was I forget to change my captain before I left the house.

As the broadband was so bad here in Cavan,I used to have a friend I'd text to do my transfers for me when needed!

Shedite27 wrote: »

Admittedly I gave up early most years once out of contention in money leagues, but definitely a marked improvement once I found this forum last Christmas '13

Season Rank
2006/07 553,800
2007/08 300,285
2008/09 468,649
2009/10 570,564
2010/11 635,584
2011/12 1,576,763
2012/13 324,491
2013/14 237,413
2014/15 49,946

This year in particular, you would see it the most. Top 20k has to be the aim for you.

I've been taking the game seriously for 3 years now and have gotten 3 top 20ks in that time (one top 5k). I think that's consistent enough. Would love to have one season that really sticks out though and hit the top 1k. That's my aim for next year, lofty as it might be.

Paully D wrote: »

Any idea when the 2015/2016 game will be live lads? Generally around mid-July isn't it, no?

Only 2 weeks tomorrow until the fixture list is out! :eek:

earlier start and finish to season due to Euros!

Cheers lads. Aye, 8th of August we kick off this year. Only a week earlier but it feels much more than that.

Looking ahead to next season:

Goalkeeper: Tony Pulis will have a full pre-season with West Brom and to me, that screams clean sheets. Just thinking out loud now but I think I'll be going Foster/Myhill (or if he doesn't get a new contract, whoever the 2nd choice is) as my goalkeeping combination, hopefully coming in at £8.5m though I could see them pushing Foster up to £5m. Even at £9m that's value IMO.

Defense: A Chelsea defender is going to be the #1 priority here anyway (say Terry at £7m). I'm thinking a double up on West Brom here with the GK (£5m max). van Aanholt is probably going to be value again for his attacking returns at £4.5m and if Sunderland get in a defensively minded manager then especially so. A cheap rotating pair (£9m) would be ideal to round off the defence at £26.5m, possibly £26m.

That gives a goalkeeper partnership and defense at £35m, so £65m to work with for midfield/strikers.

Midfield: Meh, no real need to think this one out. I'd be a bit worried about his Copa America exploits but midfield needs to contain a big 3 of Sanchez, Hazard and Silva. I'm thinking we're probably looking at £11.5m, £11m and £10m respectively there for a total of £32.5m. Take what you think is the best £4.5m prospect to sit on the bench, probably someone from one of the promoted sides plus say, Sigurdsson at £6.5m? That gives a midfield total of £43.5m.

Strikers: Aguero plus 2 more. At a guess he'll come in at £13m.

Just a mess around anyway and I know I'm over budget/not feasible with only £9m left for 2 striker spots. Copa America could be a bit of worry for the likes of Sanchez and Aguero at the start of the season too, so you could even downgrade Sanchez to a Cazorla (probably £8.5m) for a while, cheap out completely on defence either, there's a few ways around it.

I think you can already plan a solid-ish base.

Lemlin wrote: »

Mourinho has already said that Cuadrado, Willian and Filipe Luis will miss the start of next season due to the Copa. It doesn't bear well for others.

Final is July 4th. That's only a month before the season kicks off. Not sure how long players normally get as a break (ie, if they aren't playing in a tournament) but would have assumed it's at least a month. Plus how long for pre-season - a month? So you could see how some players will miss at least a few weeks, especially if they get to the semis/final.

Rumours abound that Costa hasn't settled and wants to move back to Madrid.

km79 wrote: »

and that aguero is Madrid's prime Galactico target....

But he's told friends!

Lemlin wrote: »

I've thought all season they'd go for him in the Summer to be honest. With Barca having Messi and Suarez, you're looking at Aguero as the next viable Galactico alongside Ronnie.

If they sin aguero I can see Ronaldo being sold
Will he be a mid or striker in fantasy

Walcott will be on my radar next season finished the last 2 games very well