Sky Sports Fantasy Football thread - 2019/20 Winner is Donegal1234

manual_man · 03-02-2020 5:22pm

Have we picked an overhaul team? I think i've settled on one, though i'm gonna keep it secret. I've got a good spread of players from different teams, with a few lower owned players that hopefully might act as a nice differential. Only 11 transfers left after so i have to be very strategic.

Dearg81 · 04-02-2020 1:20pm

I've done a quick one but not happy with it as it doesn't have a captain for Sunday. It's easy enough to pick one until you look at the annoying fixture schedule!

manual_man · 04-02-2020 2:22pm

Dearg81 wrote: »

I've done a quick one but not happy with it as it doesn't have a captain for Sunday. It's easy enough to pick one until you look at the annoying fixture schedule!

It's a tough auld run with so many different days for captains. Realistically you're not going to cover every single one.

Dearg81 · 05-02-2020 12:52am

manual_man wrote: »

It's a tough auld run with so many different days for captains. Realistically you're not going to cover every single one.

Looking at the fixtures one Leicester player is a must and at least 1 United or Everton player is handy too. This team covers captains for the next 6 game weeks and I don't see much rotation happening in the near future:

Henderson
VVD TAA Robertson Baldock
Grealish Barnes Richarlison Fernandes
Ings Salah

The only problems I see are no De Bruyne or Aguero vs West Ham and the 2 Sheffield United lads have no game in 30.

manual_man · 05-02-2020 1:12am

Dearg81 wrote: »

Looking at the fixtures one Leicester player is a must and at least 1 United or Everton player is handy too. This team covers captains for the next 6 game weeks and I don't see much rotation happening in the near future:

Henderson
VVD TAA Robertson Baldock
Grealish Barnes Richarlison Fernandes
Ings Salah

The only problems I see are no De Bruyne or Aguero vs West Ham and the 2 Sheffield United lads have no game in 30.

Yeah i don't feel like i can go without De Bruyne. He covers some good captain options and he tends to perform pretty well against better opposition. Though i can see the temptation to go without him, given his price and just to go down the differential route to try and gain ground.

Dearg81 · 05-02-2020 11:58am

manual_man wrote: »

Yeah i don't feel like i can go without De Bruyne. He covers some good captain options and he tends to perform pretty well against better opposition. Though i can see the temptation to go without him, given his price and just to go down the differential route to try and gain ground.

I can switch Robertson for de Bruyne but its a tough one.

manual_man · 05-02-2020 2:07pm

I've settled on my team. 3 immediate transfers planned. A possible 7 more going forward. Leaving me 1 for the final day of the season LOL. A single injury could mess that obviously. But ya gotta dream big

Dearg81 · 07-02-2020 5:03pm

I've changed my mind and decided to keep with my tactic of stacking Liverpool players as it worked out really over the past 3 weeks. This will be my final team:

Henderson
VVD TAA Robbertson Baldock
De Bruyne Traore Grealish Henderson
Salah Ings

No captain tomorrow is the only downside. I'll switch De Bruyne for Fernandes next week and Baldock for Periera in a couple of weeks so I should get away with this team for 6 weeks using only 2 transfers.

manual_man · 07-02-2020 5:11pm

Dearg81 wrote: »

I've changed my mind and decided to keep with my tactic of stacking Liverpool players as it worked out really over the past 3 weeks. This will be my final team:

Henderson
VVD TAA Robbertson Baldock
De Bruyne Traore Grealish Henderson
Salah Ings

No captain tomorrow is the only downside. I'll switch De Bruyne for Fernandes next week and Baldock for Periera in a couple of weeks so I should get away with this team for 6 weeks using only 2 transfers.

Very nice team. I’m going without Sheff Utd. Risky differential. I’ll post my team tomorrow.

manual_man · 08-02-2020 1:41pm

Here we have it so

Alisson
TAA Pereira Dunk(!)
Traore KdB Henderson Fernandes
Ings Aubameyang Pukki(!)

£0.6m i.t.b.

A little bit different. No Sheff Utd my differential as I said. Dunk and Pukki very lowly owned too!

Tentative first 3 transfers will be
Auba to Salah (2 games for Auba first, incl nice captain option vs Newcastle)
Fernandes to Robertson (2 games again probably, captain against Chelsea and possibly Watford too)
Dunk to Grealish(handy captain for today. Will play 4 games to Grealishes 2 before I make that swap)

Have ideas for transfers after that to capitalise on dgws later on - it's handy to have players like Alisson, Robertson and Salah who are easy to swap to Ederson, Laporte and Aguero. But let's cross that bridge a little closer to the time.

Thoughts?

manual_man · 08-02-2020 3:58pm

Hmmmm big score for Richarlison(44% top 1k ownership). Not ideal, though i do have him in my B team. What's to be said for a Lewis Dunk goal and CS?

claw · 08-02-2020 4:04pm

6th in the Boards League, and around 22K overall, not having Salah the last few weeks killed me. 11 transfers to go and my team is now:

Henderson
Baldock Egan TAA Van Dijk
De Bruyne Traore Richarlison Barnes
Aguero Vardy.

Will fiddle around with the transfers to play around with the strikers. any kind of improvement and I will be happy. A good start today!

manual_man · 08-02-2020 4:25pm

claw wrote: »

6th in the Boards League, and around 22K overall, not having Salah the last few weeks killed me. 11 transfers to go and my team is now:

Henderson
Baldock Egan TAA Van Dijk
De Bruyne Traore Richarlison Barnes
Aguero Vardy.

Will fiddle around with the transfers to play around with the strikers. any kind of improvement and I will be happy. A good start today!

That's a nice looking team. Good start with Ricky, and you'll make good ground if Sheff Utd defense does well in upcoming games. Just 11 transfers like myself!

Dearg81 · 08-02-2020 6:57pm

manual_man wrote: »

Hmmmm big score for Richarlison(44% top 1k ownership). Not ideal, though i do have him in my B team. What's to be said for a Lewis Dunk goal and CS?

Bad start for us. I'd say that kills off my chances of winning it although that was always a long shot.

claw · 08-02-2020 7:17pm

manual_man wrote: »

That's a nice looking team. Good start with Ricky, and you'll make good ground if Sheff Utd defense does well in upcoming games. Just 11 transfers like myself!

The only match coming up I plan to ignore is Chelsea vs Man Utd. Bad enough having players from either team in my FPL team during the season without wasting a transfer and captaining one of them for that!

manual_man · 08-02-2020 8:46pm

Dearg81 wrote: »

Bad start for us. I'd say that kills off my chances of winning it although that was always a long shot.

It really doesn’t say. Ricky could go on a barren run and - say Robertson - could score very well. It’s one game day. Dunk got the tier 2 passing bonus at least to give me 10 points.

extra gravy · 09-02-2020 1:06pm

Baldock captain now after that Aguero news...

2nd Row Donkey · 09-02-2020 2:09pm

extra gravy wrote:

Baldock captain now after that Aguero news...

Same here. Words I never thought I'd be saying.

manual_man · 09-02-2020 2:17pm

Nightmare. I really need Sheff Utd to concede now. Should have made my B team my A team!

manual_man · 09-02-2020 4:58pm

I’ll take that

Dearg81 · 09-02-2020 5:29pm

manual_man wrote: »

I’ll take that

What a ****e day all round. I'm on 6 fecking points :-(

claw · 09-02-2020 8:59pm

Only the 8 points from the 3 Sheffield United players, very disappointed with that.
Callum Wilson strikes again

extra gravy · 09-02-2020 10:00pm

Aguero missing out is so annoying, was planning on transferring him to Salah after captaining him today. A waste of a precious transfer now.

Dearg81 · 09-02-2020 10:32pm

extra gravy wrote: »

Aguero missing out is so annoying, was planning on transferring him to Salah after captaining him today. A waste of a precious transfer now.

The annoying thing is not knowing the rearranged fixture date. I hope we hear something before the weekend. On the plus side I somehow won my cup match 6-2.

manual_man · 09-02-2020 10:36pm

Dearg81 wrote: »

The annoying thing is not knowing the rearranged fixture date. I hope we hear something before the weekend. On the plus side I somehow won my cup match 6-2.

Yeah I’m out of the cup, stuffed 52-10 LOL

manual_man · 13-02-2020 3:50pm

Whenabouts will the tv schedule for April be announced?

Scorpion Sting · 13-02-2020 4:01pm

manual_man wrote: »

Whenabouts will the tv schedule for April be announced?

21 February as per: https://www.premierleague.com/news/1242110

manual_man · 16-02-2020 10:34pm

How we gettin' on? I'm on 72 pts this gameweek, 317th overall. Down slightly since the overhaul but no transfers used and I have captains Fernandes and KDB to go so pretty happy.

extra gravy · 16-02-2020 10:45pm

Good day yesterday with triple Pool defence. Debating whether to do Ricky to Fernandes so I can have a captain tomorrow night. Have 16 transfers left so think I'll do it. Aguero cap then on Wednesday.

manual_man · 16-02-2020 11:00pm

extra gravy wrote: »

Good day yesterday with triple Pool defence. Debating whether to do Ricky to Fernandes so I can have a captain tomorrow night. Have 16 transfers left so think I'll do it. Aguero cap then on Wednesday.

What's your rank?

extra gravy · 16-02-2020 11:03pm

manual_man wrote: »

What's your rank?

Just outside 5k so not as good as ye high flyers here! It's my first season taking it seriously, though I lapsed a bit mid season, so I'd be happy finishing in the top 5k.

manual_man · 16-02-2020 11:09pm

extra gravy wrote: »

Just outside 5k so not as good as ye high flyers here! It's my first season taking it seriously, though I lapsed a bit mid season, so I'd be happy finishing in the top 5k.

You're doin' pretty well. You'll have more transfers than most, if you nail a few captains, you could soon close in on the top 1k.

Dearg81 · 17-02-2020 11:58am

The postponed match has blocked me from my planned transfer of De Bruyne to Fernandes. I might do Robertson instead so that I have a captain tonight. I've dropped down back to 127 now.

manual_man · 19-02-2020 10:25pm

120pts for the gw assuming KDB gets man of the match. HEWT!

Dearg81 · 20-02-2020 12:01am

manual_man wrote: »

120pts for the gw assuming KDB gets man of the match. HEWT!

Yea he saved my ass this week too. What's your rank now?

manual_man · 20-02-2020 12:46am

Dearg81 wrote: »

Yea he saved my ass this week too. What's your rank now?

183rd. Getting closer to the money spots in the cash leagues as well

I see you inside the top 100

Dearg81 · 20-02-2020 12:51am

manual_man wrote: »

183rd. Getting closer to the money spots in the cash leagues as well

I see you inside the top 100

Yea back on track after tonight. It will be a close race to see who gets highest rank on here.

manual_man · 20-02-2020 4:03pm

I wonder how donegal1234 is getting on?

Dearg81 · 20-02-2020 8:29pm

manual_man wrote: »

I wonder how donegal1234 is getting on?

I think that he's 38th.

manual_man · 23-02-2020 7:20pm

Fernandes(C) and Auba today returning nicely. Neither too highly owned in top 1k so hopefully will see a nice little bump in the rankings. Have to decide now to keep Auba or not. Had in mind to get in one of the Liverpool lads tomorrow for him.

Dearg81 · 23-02-2020 10:54pm

manual_man wrote: »

Fernandes(C) and Auba today returning nicely. Neither too highly owned in top 1k so hopefully will see a nice little bump in the rankings. Have to decide now to keep Auba or not. Had in mind to get in one of the Liverpool lads tomorrow for him.

Nice score. I'm having a mare this week, I really should have brought in Fernandes too like I planned.

manual_man · 23-02-2020 11:18pm

Dearg81 wrote: »

Nice score. I'm having a mare this week, I really should have brought in Fernandes too like I planned.

You’re pretty well stocked up on ‘Pool for tomorrow. I think one thing that’s obvious is things can change very quickly in this game. I’m contemplating an Auba and Henderson to Manè and Gomez double transfer tomorrow. Would be my first transfers since overhaul. 11 remaining as stands.

Dearg81 · 23-02-2020 11:35pm

manual_man wrote: »

You’re pretty well stocked up on ‘Pool for tomorrow. I think one thing that’s obvious is things can change very quickly in this game. I’m contemplating an Auba and Henderson to Manè and Gomez double transfer tomorrow. Would be my first transfers since overhaul. 11 remaining as stands.

I should claw back some ground tomorrow for sure but I picked a bad overhaul team. 4 players blanking next week was careless. I'll probably sell Grealish though probably for Jota.

manual_man · 24-02-2020 9:00pm

Went ahead with the double transfer. Manè captain.

Dearg81 · 01-03-2020 5:25pm

I lost patience with my overhaul team and brought in Jota and Fernandes. Down to 7 transfers but got some much needed points today.

Donegal1234 · 01-03-2020 5:27pm

Dearg81 wrote: »

I lost patience with my overhaul team and brought in Jota and Fernandes. Down to 7 transfers but got some much needed points today.

Nice one just seen both got motm award aswell

Dearg81 · 01-03-2020 5:36pm

Donegal1234 wrote: »

Nice one just seen both got motm award aswell

Did you have any of them? You're still doing really well I see.

manual_man · 01-03-2020 6:30pm

Dearg81 wrote: »

I lost patience with my overhaul team and brought in Jota and Fernandes. Down to 7 transfers but got some much needed points today.

Nip and tuck at the top of FSA league :P Yeah great transfers there. I may have to look at getting Jota in!

Donegal1234 · 01-03-2020 6:32pm

manual_man wrote: »

Nip and tuck at the top of FSA league :P Yeah great transfers there. I may have to look at getting Jota in!

Use are lucky I didn’t enter my second team in that league . I’m 26th overall and 10+ transfers left. Saving transfers for dgw

manual_man · 01-03-2020 6:48pm

Donegal1234 wrote: »

Use are lucky I didn’t enter my second team in that league . I’m 26th overall and 10+ transfers left. Saving transfers for dgw

Don't get too cocky now you could be caught :P

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