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yeah, as one my friend says, "read the manual man, read the manual"
we both learned that lesson on a hard way

still thinking what to do on this game week, not that I have much chances to end-up in top5, which was my goal after world cup, but want to try
and learn something in the process, these are important know-how for next season


why not keep Haaland in the team, just in case he show up, and you would have someone on the bench to replace him eventually?

I also have an idea of what my team would look like until around Game Week  36, but I would have to take some point hits and this is due to the transfers I lost, I'm still waiting for each team's press conference later today before making the final decision.

I will probably need to ship Haaland out temporarily if he's not going to be available for the match against Liverpool, because I have an alternative I really could use for that third man forward option for.

I've been working on my team the last week or so and i think i'm ready with my transfers until GW37.    Lol

Bench Boosting this week but undecided on the captaincy, slightly in favor of a Brighton mid over Rashford though, can't overlook that BOU fixture.

Will only have 10 in BGW32 but other than that my team looks solid. 8 or 9 doublers in DGW34 plus double Newcastle defense (vs SOU at home). 5 or 6 doublers in GW36 (if NEW/BHA is on). Will have all the popular names for DGW37, and all that without taking any hits. Well, at least that's the plan...i'm sure we will have injuries/suspensions and whatnot to deal with but it's good to draw a blueprint for what you want to do long-term.

It cost both my wild cards and Free Hit to learn two different lessons this season, first is losing 2 transfers to the Wild card, and these are transfers that would have been of better use the previous week, at least to some minor advantage. Secondly, I was trying to play smarter when using my free hit, I first made 2 transfers using my free transfer and then later another that cost 4 points and after all these transfers went successfully, I saved my team and used my free hit later with the hope that my team would revert to the one I had just before I activated the FH, but instead It reverted back to the initial team and two transfers were lost yet again 😒

isn't Rashford still under question for a weekend?

didn't checked my team for ten days now, so will be a challenge to see what to change, definitely will try to use players from teams that play two matches, although Arsenal has one match, but could end-up with goals

used Free-Hit and lost two free transfers, learning by doing wrong, thought that those two free transfers will remain for next game week, but that didn't happen

I have Salah, and I can't think of any other Liverpool option right now. Darwin can't be trusted, Jota's minutes aren't guaranteed, and Diaz can't be trusted after his long injury, so I'm stuck with Salah.

For the second time this season, I have no Manchester United assets; instead, I'm focusing on the Brighton and Aston Villa double game week. Mitoma scored on international duty; he will continue to be my captain; he wasn't as good as expected last DGW, but his double assist was enough for me.

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Mbeumo (DGW ) to Kane? Sounds good?

I have some funds left in the bank to accommodate a frontline of Watkins, Toney and Kane!

Halaand not spotted in training - mind game?

Brave choice considering Liverpool has the thougest possible double with City and Chelsea both away. At least Salah is playing 90 minutes every game and has that extra way to get points trough penalties.

This will be a huge GW, I am thinkin score of 150 will be achieved by a lot of teams. My main points should come from United and Brighton. Thinking of giving March captain band but will probably stick with Rashford in the end.

Took 2 penalties with this week's roster. Still actually have bench players with 1 game, and I feel like I need to keep Saka on anyway, hot form needs to be taken advantage of.

Salah back in my squad, but sold Haaland so it was a relatively easy transfer even with some money to spare. So yeap, banking on Liverpool winning big in 2 games, to cover the penalties.

Let see how these double weeks will turnout, funny enough, I've barely had a success when playing with a double game week in mind with my transfer 3 weeks earlier or there or even taking points it.

I think I'll be fine with those blanks, I've navigated all the blanks, and I should have 9-11 players playing except perhaps 5-6 players missing out, but then there will be injuries as usual and suspensions and whatnot.

I never lasted long in the cup, even in the seasons where I was top 200k I always got eliminated in round 1 or 2. I have worst luck there, there was one season where I was doing really well and even had a score of about 20 points more than GW average and still lost in the cup against guy who did not touch his team from GW1. He had some keeper as captain, I think Henderson who was conceding all the time and then he keeps a clean sheet, saves a penalty and ends up on 20+ against some top team.

Anyway interesting times coming up. We have a double GW29, double GW34 and double GW37 with one hellish blank in GW32 to screw with many managers plans. Looking forward to this, saved free hit just for that one since the moment it was announced. This is the time for me to attack the rankings and hopefully put some pressure on the guys in front of me.

Despite using my Free Hit I was barely able to win the round, Thanks to Chelsea's stunning defense 🙄 and My self for having Jensen a 10 pointer as my third option in the bench, despite two players actually not playing, Almiron and Cuccurella, all that came in for them were just Eric Dier and some other defender from Arsenal, I really don't know how I messed having Jensen as the first Substitute option knowing he's nit defender and at least I wasn't expecting Arsenal to keep a clean sheet, the worse case scenario would have been me having him as second option.


EDIT: A question what asking though is there still anyone in the General Cup ? and secondly too, I didn't check at first or maybe I missed it somehow the pool cup is starting in week 34, I think there should have been a slight prize or something set aside for that, it would have been fun.

Can't believe I actually won GW 10, don't even remember it.

But hey, my persistence continues and my captain Saka took my entire team up with his brace + assist... I had all my bench not playing, and 3 players on field also not playing, so I have to say I'm pretty chuffed still managed to get 50+ points from Arsenal + Havertz haha.

I really should have paid attention to FPL much longer, feels nice to be climbing up slowly when I actually make transfers (then again, when you're bottom, going up should be easy, right?).

2nd chance league is better indicator of how I'm doing, which is shitty

I was secretly hoping Fulham would knock United out of the FA Cup so that Chelsea/United fixture in round 32 would not be blank. Welp, Mitro had other plans.  

32 is going to be a major pain in the ass because those who blank will almost certainly have a double in 34 (maybe 37). People who have their FH chips available are in a very good position!

Anyways, the last couple of game weeks have been rather good for me (four green arrows in five weeks), finally broke into the top 100k, looking to continue my push for top 50k after the international break.

please do well and tag me too so i don't miss out--- i cant remember but i know too well that i won a round within those GWs. thanks.

Call me a mad man, but I'm going to use it to wager on Chelsea to win both the Premier League and the Champions League this season. I'll be there no matter what.




I'm glad I only took -8 because I knew it would be a bloody hell of a week. I only had 8 players available for the GW after taking -8, but the return wasn't as bad as I had anticipated.

I got Ledger Nano, as a reward from first GW after WC, not sure what exact round that was
nevertheless, it arrived yesterday, will post photos in this post when I unpack it, but overall thanks to icopress and betnomi for organizing the competition, and I sure do think that I will use this Nano

regarding GW, it seems that my team is sinking, but Dyche has put new energy into Everton, and one more point from the road is collected against Chelsea

Yes, I kept records until week 22 so I'll have to check who won in rounds 23-28.

The rest of the winners were awarded free bets (those who answered me).

Yeah, thanks I didn't know that's how the free hit works, I felt if had already done a transfer with my free transfer, it wouldn't be part of the reversion after using the free hit, Since I made the transfer prior before, using the chip later, It's all about your team going exactly what it was before the game week., but then I feel FPL should allow keep our usual one free transfer whenever we use the wildcard and free hit, but we still get charged of the free transfer for that week, despite claiming all transfer as free, probably the terms should the first transfer cost us our free transfer for that week and every other transfers are the once we get for free.

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I don't think I'll be having any issue with the blanks for game week 32; the fixtures confirmed so far are;

Liverpool v Nottingham Forest
Brentford v Aston Villa
Crystal Palace v Everton
Leicester v Wolves
Newcastle v Spurs
Arsenal v Southampton
Bournemouth v West Ham

After the double games week, I'm not sure I'll tripple on any team, so I have decent time to make provisions to get at least 7-8 players from the fixtures above, I didn't count but I think, I currently have just Haaland from City, 2 from Man United and 2 more from Brighton, I should be fine for that week, this was my best shot based on our my team is projected, but I understand your point and it does make perfect sense too.

GW 32 is small blank but very though to navigate for most teams, there will probably be no fixtures for United, City, Brighton and Chelsea and I will have 6 and possibly even 8 players from those 4 clubs. Defiantly the week to free hit for me.

Did not understand what you wrote about free hit but it works in following way. You get new team for just one match day and afterwards you get your initial team back. All transfers you made before pulling free hit are voided, you will not pay -4 for them but you will also not keep those players.

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Edit:
How do you know you are too deep into Fantasy PL? I know I am, I was just reading a tweet which says that Chilwell is doubtful and making a fun of us that transferred him in. One account replies, I did not, his npgi is just 0.3.

I am going what the fuck is npgi and even before I finished that thought, other part of my brain supplies and I go of course, the number is right on point for that as well  

I literally planned on saving my Free Hit for gameweek 32, but as things currently stands, there is likely to be only just two 2 possible fixtures to be postponed and rescheduled, so I'm better off with it for just this week, but something strange literally happened to, I didn't want to waste my free transfer for the game week, so I first transferred out a couple of players and took a 4 point hit, and that was intentional ahead of the next game week, so the next day I then used my free hit with the hope that my team would return to the squad I had before the free hit, but I guess the freehit rules wasn't very clear to me before, so my team would return to how it was before the at start of the game, and not after I used chip.

Shouldn't bee too hard too survive this week, not so great games and teams so while I am glad I have all 11 playing I am not expecting to make some great score. Playing in 5-2-3 is definitely a new experience for me

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@icopress Wasn't there some free bets for round winners in this pool? No hurry, just please tag me if/when you are awarding it so that I don't miss it.