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Quote from: icopress on January 20, 2022, 04:21:21 PM

Well, I try not to sell players that I bought for less than their current value (I think I'm doing the right thing, although judging by my points you can't tell). The current value of my team is 102/5 million and those defenders that I have been completely satisfied with for a long time (Rüdiger, Cancelo, Dias).

A couple of times I was tempted to trade one of them for Alexander-Arnold, but paying 8.4 million for a defender after the 20th round seems like overkill to me. As for Bernardo... I'm talking about the upcoming week, given that I don't have Free Transfers and have to build on what I have, and as I said about the inflated cost, I feel sorry for selling Salah or Son, so until February 10 they will simply occupy the reserve slots, in fact I have only 29million at my disposal.

Not sure you should be giving so much thought to player prices. They are not really important and they are just a consequence of good/bad moves. It is always prudent to get on bandwagons early and that gets you more money for future transfers as well. I have almost 105M in the game now and I am taking players that I expect will do well no matter the cost.

For instance few players I am looking at just now:
Elanga - very cheep and I feel like he will play more minutes than Rashford/Sancho
Edouard - best striker in the game at the moment, what Dennis was last couple of months
Olise - in form player for C. Pallace and I can't believe more people did not take him already

Trent/Cancelo/Bowen - essential, I can't imagine any team without them

De Bruyne/Ronaldo - Good options for 2 weeks and perfect place holders for Salah/Kane later on

Get rid of all Chelsea players guys, they have one game in next month only due to world club championship.

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Well, I try not to sell players that I bought for less than their current value (I think I'm doing the right thing, although judging by my points you can't tell). The current value of my team is 102/5 million and those defenders that I have been completely satisfied with for a long time (Rüdiger, Cancelo, Dias).

A couple of times I was tempted to trade one of them for Alexander-Arnold, but paying 8.4 million for a defender after the 20th round seems like overkill to me. As for Bernardo... I'm talking about the upcoming week, given that I don't have Free Transfers and have to build on what I have, and as I said about the inflated cost, I feel sorry for selling Salah or Son, so until February 10 they will simply occupy the reserve slots, in fact I have only 29million at my disposal.

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Quote from: icopress on January 20, 2022, 01:56:37 PM

My peak this week: Dennis, Saint-Maximin, Toney, Jota, Tielemans, Bernardo

But it seems to me that only Bernardo is suitable for the role of captain, since he has not scored for a long time. + I don't pick forwards as captains + Leicester vs Brighton (who are known to be good defensively), that's whyI ruled out the Tielemans as a possible candidate.

Bernardo Silva is not a captain pick for me, not even an option at all. His time has passed with return of De Bruyne, that totally destroyed him as fantasy asset. Now he is playing much closer to his own goal and taking more defensive duties. Also De Bruyne is main play maker so he lost that as well. He will get some points here and there but I am quite sure a lot of City players will outscore him regularly. Mahrez is also coming back from AFCON promptly so even more competition.
My City picks in order of importance:
Cancello - essential could not imagine my team without him
De Bruyne - by far the best attacking option at the moment, but I did not find way to get him in my team yet

Everything else is prone to rotations but I like Foden most from the rest of the pack.

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Quote from: Trofo on January 20, 2022, 01:34:42 PM

I am in striking distance for sure, less then 100 points, with almost all chips still to use. 3rd place and 2000 EUR reward is quite near so that is my goal for now and we will see how far I'll manage to get. This was a bad week for me, as it was for all of us without Fernandez. But if I had to make the decision again I would still choose Ronaldo/Madison over Kane/Fernadez.

It's really cool... besides picking the right moment and the right player along with activating the triple captain can give you a lot of points (keep me posted, then I'll also take the time to analyze to tell you the best option). By the way, I didn't choose Fernandez as captain, but he and Kane gave me 44 points out of 66.

My peak this week: Dennis, Saint-Maximin, Toney, Jota, Tielemans, Bernardo

But it seems to me that only Bernardo is suitable for the role of captain, since he has not scored for a long time. + I don't pick forwards as captains + Leicester vs Brighton (who are known to be good defensively), that's whyI ruled out the Tielemans as a possible candidate.

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Quote from: icopress on January 20, 2022, 12:45:56 PM

Btw, are you way behind 1st place? ^{[I don't insist on exact numbers]} Roll Eyes

I am in striking distance for sure, less then 100 points, with almost all chips still to use. 3rd place and 2000 EUR reward is quite near so that is my goal for now and we will see how far I'll manage to get. This was a bad week for me, as it was for all of us without Fernandez. But if I had to make the decision again I would still choose Ronaldo/Madison over Kane/Fernadez.

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Quote from: Trofo on January 15, 2022, 01:51:45 PM

This week will be bloodbath, I am very happy I did not pull free hit. [...]

Here's what I got this round...

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All in all, 5 out of 11 players played only one match...although I really hoped that I would earn more than 100 points. I understand that I am hopelessly behind the leader, but I continue only for the sake of pleasure (yes, in principle, there are not so many rounds left).

Btw, are you way behind 1st place? ^{[I don't insist on exact numbers]} Roll Eyes

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Quote from: icopress on January 15, 2022, 01:36:51 PM

Quote from: Trofo on January 10, 2022, 02:05:51 PM

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Do you want me to tell you a funny joke?

I took your advice about Lucas Moura and took the Tielemans, so I had three Leicester players on my first team (Maddison, Lookman, Tielemans) ... but damn it, the Burnley match was cancelled. As for Chelsea, the Rüdiger - Alonso duo did not upset me (although Chelsea lost by a narrow margin). I am of the opinion that Alonso will soon prove himself with a goal or two, given that statistically Chelsea defenders have scored more goals than attackers (not to mention that Alonso, although listed in the FPL as a defender, actually plays an important role in attack).

In general, summing up, I can say that this is my karma, especially since even my captain is a Leicester player. Cheesy

To be fair, Spurs vs. Arsenal is cancelled as well so you did not make that bad decision.

This week will be bloodbath, I am very happy I did not pull free hit. This way I still have good single game players and it paid off with Cancello today.

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Quote from: Trofo on January 10, 2022, 02:05:51 PM

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Do you want me to tell you a funny joke?

I took your advice about Lucas Moura and took the Tielemans, so I had three Leicester players on my first team (Maddison, Lookman, Tielemans) ... but damn it, the Burnley match was cancelled. As for Chelsea, the Rüdiger - Alonso duo did not upset me (although Chelsea lost by a narrow margin). I am of the opinion that Alonso will soon prove himself with a goal or two, given that statistically Chelsea defenders have scored more goals than attackers (not to mention that Alonso, although listed in the FPL as a defender, actually plays an important role in attack).

In general, summing up, I can say that this is my karma, especially since even my captain is a Leicester player. Cheesy

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Quote from: icopress on January 10, 2022, 01:52:13 PM

I finally decided to use one of my chips, and I confess I'm a little confused because I want to add Tielemans to the main roster, but I don't know with whom to change it,

Who is your first keeper, De Gea? If affirmative, I would probably not have Varane in the team as well, I would rather play Cucurella in his position. Sort of spread your eggs to different basket case

I would ditch Lucas Moura, Spurs don't look good to me and my choices from Spurs would be as follows:
Son, unfortunately injured
Kane
some defender, probably Davies, since I feel Regullion and Royal will not play both games.

So you can change Tielmans for Moura, but I would probably take my chances with Lookman, I sort of think he will play the striker in the absence of regular strikers.

Also double Chelsea defense? One game is against City so I would rather keep Trent in the squad, Liverpool is against Brentford at home. Should be an easy fixture and I will keep Trent and Jota in my team for sure.

Of course not doing anything until last half an hour to get max info. Previous game week is still not over and I have several players to play yet. Who knows what can happen.

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That's it, I'm here again ... I'm already done with the New Years celebration! Cheesy

I finally decided to use one of my chips, and I confess I'm a little confused because I want to add Tielemans to the main roster, but I don't know with whom to change it, (as you can see, all the players of the main squad will play twice in the coming week). I also thought about putting into operation Lukaku, but no matter how I save on reserve players, I can't choose three expensive players at the same time. With Ronaldo, everything seems obvious to me, with Kane too (since Son is out of the game), the same is the case with Maddison (Vardy/Daka is not available), + King (since Dennis is on sick leave).

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Quote from: icopress on December 31, 2021, 02:35:48 AM

The Leicester & Norwich match is canceled ... and I'm not particularly surprised considering that I picked three Leicester players.

Have a great weekend everyone, see you next year! Cheesy

What about our talk that you need to do transfers in the last 10 minutes to avoid stuff like that happening

I am waiting for last minute and then I'll probably get a bit too drunk tonight during celebration and sleep trough the deadline.

What players did you take from Leicester? I was considering only Maddison.

See you next year!

Edit: We have our first team with 2 fixtures this week. West Ham players here I come, Bowen and Antonio in my sights.

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The Leicester & Norwich match is canceled ... and I'm not particularly surprised considering that I picked three Leicester players.

Have a great weekend everyone, see you next year! Cheesy

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Quote from: icopress on December 27, 2021, 12:14:18 PM

+ I also found the schedule table to understand when hypothetically there will be double game weeks.

I don't understand shit from that pictures you posted

This is my go to guy for Premier League Fantasy (@BenCrellin from twitter) double/blank game weeks prediction as well as general fixtures
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17-T1IPj0qUNWHdCBvgDGB9XhKnZhLnZZIw6eQUCcanY/edit#gid=755386637

It is totally unbelievable how much time & effort some individuals put into Fantasy, just browse trough those tabs on the provided link. I am using maybe 2-5% of data he puts out.

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Quote from: Trofo on December 23, 2021, 10:39:55 AM

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Yesterday I was in the same position as you, it's good that Antonio was at least available, although in the beginning he was on the bench. In general, 40 points, this is all that I managed to survive from my team, since the sale of any of my players would entail financial costs, (each of them is now several 0.4 m more expensive than when I bought them). Btw. Let me know when you decide to use your hit chip, then I'll jump the train with you. Cheesy

+ I also found the schedule table to understand when hypothetically there will be double game weeks.

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+ This is a link for my personal use, to know where to look for information if I need it in the future (in Ru). ^{[The original title is provided below if needed]}.

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Toby Margetts, Gianni Buttice. Fantasy Premier League: Unlocking the Secrets to a Top 1% Finish. – 2019.

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@icopress
good news for you, everybody got one extra free hit chip due to all postponements, never happened before, I guess PL Fantasy has to mellow a bit to accommodate all the new players

Will be hard to keep that chip, Liverpoll - Leeds game postponed and that means almost all of us are missing at least 3 top players. To make things even worse Watford game also postponed to kill our bench fillers. Sold Salah for Son and that is enough to fill out first 11 for now. Before you all attack me how I could sell Sallah, here me out:
This match is postponed, then Salah has Chelsea and Leicester and then he is away for AFCON. So I am only a bit afraid of Leicester fixture since Chelsea one will be though even if it goes according to plan and I am thinking it could get postponed as well.

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Quote from: Trofo on December 21, 2021, 10:21:24 AM

How deep into the minus points you went? 75 points is great if you kept it at -4, but if you are -12 or more then it is not a good result. Are you still live in the cup competition?

Triple game for Spurs is not confirmed but I am thinking it should happen, double game week will be on for sure for all these teams that missed at least one game. I barely scrapped a full team and then Foden and Grealish go to a party and Pep decides to throw them out from the squad. It is so difficult to get a City asset that you can rely on. Cancelo is great but everybody else just ends up out of the squad as soon as I take them.

I made 6 substitutions, total - 5 points, as Tomiyasu, Odegaard and Wilson brought me 15 points (1 free, and 5 unexpected substitutions, including the replacement of Wilson). As for Guardiola's choice, I'm not surprised because if you look at past matches against those who are clearly weaker than them, you will see that Pep always puts up minor players in such games (for example Sterling, Zinchenko, Mahrez).

And by the way, I completely agree with your last statement, therefore, Cancelo and Dias + Rüdiger remain my permanent defenders. Cool

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Quote from: icopress on December 20, 2021, 04:08:29 PM

As a matter of fact, it turned out as you predicted, since in the end only 4 matches were played and I again had to unexpectedly change Watkins to another player. But the fact is that the round ended for me not very badly, because taking into account the replacements and those stationary players that I had at my disposal, I scored 75 points. As for the triple game week of Tottenham, then I will probably slowly be preparing for this by adding one player per week. Tongue

How deep into the minus points you went? 75 points is great if you kept it at -4, but if you are -12 or more then it is not a good result. Are you still live in the cup competition?

Triple game for Spurs is not confirmed but I am thinking it should happen, double game week will be on for sure for all these teams that missed at least one game. I barely scrapped a full team and then Foden and Grealish go to a party and Pep decides to throw them out from the squad. It is so difficult to get a City asset that you can rely on. Cancelo is great but everybody else just ends up out of the squad as soon as I take them.

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As a matter of fact, it turned out as you predicted, since in the end only 4 matches were played and I again had to unexpectedly change Watkins to another player. But the fact is that the round ended for me not very badly, because taking into account the replacements and those stationary players that I had at my disposal, I scored 75 points. As for the triple game week of Tottenham, then I will probably slowly be preparing for this by adding one player per week. Tongue

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Quote from: icopress on December 17, 2021, 09:36:47 AM

The problem is I'm not sure if sacrificing points is worth it, as it is likely that the new trio will not recoup those costs in the next round.

Look on it from bright side, everybody has problems this game week and we are not even sure that the 5 games we have will be played. How stupid would be to go down -12 and then another game or games get cancelled and your new acquisitions don't even play? I have 10 players at the moment available to start and I will probably make 2 transfers (-4) so that I have at least one sub.

I have free hit but I will not use it this week, there will be even tougher game weeks out there and that is very valuable chip. Probably better used when Spurs have 3 games in one week to bring Kane, Son and Regulion. All these postponed games will get crammed somewhere and we will have even more postponements due to cup fixtures. Fantasy is a marathon not a sprint and you always have to look at the big picture.

Top advice for this week: do all transfers 10 minutes before deadline, that way you can at least be sure Villa - Burnley will be played. I am bringing in Watkins.

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Quote from: Trofo on December 16, 2021, 12:04:03 PM

You don't get back those points, they are lost. That is why it is very important to have strong bench at the moment and then you get auto sub and hopefully at least some points. Still not enough to get full 11 playing probably but better than nothing.

There will be lots of double and maybe even tipple game weeks this season. Meaning there will be a week when some team will maybe play even 3 games. Perfect opportunity to use bench boost or triple captain chips and score some enormous points.

Well, out of four slots on the bench, I had two slots to save money and two slots with players which I cannot sell due to price increases but which are suspended or on sick leave, (Cancelo, Toney). So I now have 4 players who will not participate in the next round, and even if I add Cancelo to the main team, I still need to spend at least 12 points to stay in the saddle.

The problem is I'm not sure if sacrificing points is worth it, as it is likely that the new trio will not recoup those costs in the next round.

Quote from: Trofo on September 25, 2021, 05:04:02 PM

That means you already used all your chips which is very bad from strategic point of view. Now you are stuck with changing one player every week or paying 4 points per transfer. You will get another wildcard chip in second part of the season but those other chips are gone for good. Too bad since bench boost and triple captain chips should always be used on double game weeks. They will happen towards the end of the season and there will be game week where half of the teams will play 2 games. That means more points and better usage of the chips. This is your first season so now is the time to learn and then conquer in the next one

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