Game week 5 Match day Thread.

Ace2007 wrote: »

this being the bit that worries folks

It happens every season I wouldn't worry.

Ace2007 wrote: »

I see the guy who got the highest points so far this GW (95), using his bench booster chip, has 5.1m in the bank, has triple city defence, and has William and Matic in MF - he's up to 10k in the world. mind boggling at times.

http://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/2523432/event-history/5/

Meh, I wouldn't worry. Even though it's been a mad start. The big players will come good in the end.

Ace2007 wrote: »

this being the bit that worries folks

Well, see that's the thing really isn't it? I say normality should resume but I don't even really know what normality is other than Hazard, Aguero and Sanchez being very reliable. If they don't become great choices again then it's just going to become a matter of who can make the 'correct choices' with all that extra money we save on not having those players instead.

CSF wrote: »

Well, see that's the thing really isn't it? I say normality should resume but I don't even really know what normality is other than Hazard, Aguero and Sanchez being very reliable. If they don't become great choices again then it's just going to become a matter of who can make the 'correct choices' with all that extra money we save on not having those players instead.

All we can do is pick the best value players. Some players emerge every season whose points expectation clearly exceeds their price (EG Kane last year) what we need to pick up on is who is exceeding their value and who is scoring over expectation. If we keep on doing the right thing it will come good.....Hopefully!

km79 wrote: »

just back from old Trafford
35 from 9 including 7 from Nyom who I know nothing about !
mahrez and sahko to go
no idea if its good or bad and I don't care tonight

Nyom Nyom Nyom mmmm points. Thats about all you need to know right!

EDIT: 35 is pretty much the average so treading water this week but 2 to go probably puts you a little ahead of the crowd.

jamesbere wrote: »

Exactly. Big difference this year aswell are the boosts alot are using them early and getting lucky. I'd imagine most regular/serious players will wait until double gameweeks for let's say tc and maybe bench boost

Yeh it has a huge effect early on as the slap and dash players looking to go high early are able to unload even more so than normal. The OR is looking very lopsided due to the amount of people who have fired off 4 chips and are naturally doing a lot better than the mean. They're playing a good 4GW game but a very bad 38GW game.

ScienceNerd wrote: »

47 points with Gomez to sub in with 1 and Payet still to play. Gives me a GW ranking of 110k, easily my best of the year.

Wes Hoolahan the unlikely hero of my team.

Nice score! 110k is an awesome GW rank. If I have 8-10 of those this year I'll be delighted!

jimmii wrote: »

Yeh I was thinking I was set for a decent Saturday until United gave Pool a break!

green arrows
up to 640k from 820k......sahko goals be nice monday night

Ace2007 wrote: »

I don't think there has been any season like this tbf.

In 5 GW's, i've had 2 assists and 4 goals (2 of which are from Defoe), I understand variance, and get that Costa might go a few games without scoring, but when you have costa, Aguero, fab, hazard, Sanchez all blanking constantly, has that ever happened before?

It may be a little extreme but its the same every season. Its the natural pattern of any high variance position people ride that SD wave but it will only take you so far. If you like variance Isil is sitting with Sauce, JayP & Ike at 2/4 at 3 tables right now!

Nib wrote: »

I'm on 230 at 151k. You're not far away. There's a lot of zombies and casual players still ahead of you. Things will go back to normal soon, it's just taking longer this season due to the weird start.

The big hitters Sanchez, Aguero, Hazard, etc will find form eventually.

Jaysus 30 is a lot at this stage. To be honest I don't really care about rank so much any more I just want to enjoy the game a bit more. I've been a rank zombie for the last few years and its more fun when its not something you worry about so much. I say that now knowing I expect the game to bring points to us sensible players maybe if I have a 7 fig rank in January I won't feel the same!

jimmii wrote: »

Crawled back in myself this week! Bang on 200 points now! 414k is my highest GW rank to date things have to get better surely!!

Your less than 30pts. behind me after my first red arrow of the season.
Lost 100k but just inside top 200k.
Vardy Mahrez and Alderwereld will reverse that.