Topic: Premier League Fantasy (Read 793 times)

Since we now have Fantasy Premier League pool and I expect most if not all of us here to sign up, I will lock this thread. No point in having two threads on the forum for something as niche as fantasy. Even if you don't sign up, we can still shift all Fantasy conversations to that thread.

This thread more than served its purpose, now we have pool even for the fantasy

Friends welcome to Premier Fantasy League 2022/2023! 

• https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/betnomicom-fpl-football-pool-discussion-thread-5406159

Stake had 3 leagues last season. VIP league where you have to send 5 $ tip to enter, free league without any conditions and Watford league which was free but you had to have a Watford player. You sure that you were checking Watford league and not one of the others?

I am playing with 1 keeper so I don't have any problem with that rule if the team in question has a 4M reserve keeper.

I did not like the requirement to have player/s from a specific team locked into your squad for the entire season. Watford had no relevant fantasy players, so it was a pain in the ass to choose between flops. I'm quite sure i lost 10-20 points just from transfers while juggling between Foster, Sissoko, and King/Dennis. It's a bad concept, and imo, they should just write that rule off from future leagues. The winner of Sportsbet's Clubhouse league won Stake's main league, and i'm pretty positive he didn't have any Watford players in the last 10 game weeks or so, as i was actively monitoring everyone in the top 10.


I still have Haaland in my draft but am contemplating the idea of having a Man U mid based on those 45mins against Liverpool...

Last season it was Watford player in your team. I had second keeper @4.0 mil from Watford first half of the season and then when I saw i have no chance in that league I moved on. Really high average score in that league. A bit surprising for me, when I take into account how well I did in other leagues I competed in.

So much for my locked players, Haaland is probably out of my plans and same goes for James/Chilwell. Perišić is also on a limb since he is still recovering from injury. At the moment Kane and Robertson look like better choices and that means exchanging Dias with Foden/Mahrez

this one with Everton player during whole season is for me
joke aside, did not enter my squad yet, but Haaland will be central player probably, not sure still dough, have to see Tottenham squad as well

having all said, last year I was down in the beginning due to many Everton/Arsenal players, and Vardy in the team, but this season would go more with players that are within other squads as well, consistency brings good result, not picking players that could make wonders one round, and be quiet for several rounds afterwards, it is really picky to find that one when they shine

Never understood that drama about catching low ID. Couldn't care less what my ID number ends to be That being said I already entered my squad as well, so I will at least have a number in low millions.

My locked in players are probably: Haaland, Dias, Arnold, Perišić and James/Chilwell. Some Arsenal coverage for beginning will be in for sure.

I'll try and make Steve organize something official on their site. Last year it was by far my most profitable league. Stake will have 2 leagues for sure, one paid and one free, probably even a third one where you have to have Everton player during whole season.

I'm in. Although I will look into this thread much less often than before.

Also, guys, please give a link to all the pools in which you participate (especially sportsbet).

FPL 2022/23 is now live, the website was updated a few hours ago. We can actually start making drafts now that player prices have been adjusted. Haaland at 11.5 mil looks nice, he is a lock for me to start the season.

I was able to scoop a reasonably low ID this year, around 31k...as opposed to my seven-digit ID last year lol...not that it matters, but it looks better that way.


Anything on that front?  I'm down if we get 5 to 10 people, don't matter if the league has a sponsor or not.

Glad to hear from you at least.

I was close to top 10 in Sportsbet but not good enough in the end but I managed to clinch one monthly award and couple of weekly awards while they were still dishing them. Also I managed to get into top 10 in Stake league so that is another free 50$ which always come handy.

I am a bit afraid Sportsbet will not have Fantasy league next season but I already started pulling strings and offering some help to see if we can organize something. I love Fantasy and I play in several leagues every season. The more the better.

Haha crap yeah, I think I was actually doing well in first few game weeks, but wasn't yet in the gear to properly make picks, and then gave up some time after that, even though found myself still ahead without changing teams for a while.

Used to play Fantasy in office with some friends but that time seemed easy breasy, we all made picks, as I recall, together on Friday back when social media wasn't really on anyone's plate.

It's going to be hard for me to make it a habit with such an increasing amount of shitty things to take up my time, but I'll definitely make a stab at joining if I remember (well done morvillz!).

Trofo, I'm sorry but the last few months I haven't been up to football. Yes, I am from Ukraine and from those places where for some time it was quite tense. By the way, I'm sorry that you did not manage to get into the top 10, although I really hoped that you would be on horseback this season. Next season (if everything goes well) I will also take part and will not make those mistakes that we have discussed with you for the last half a year.

I only found this thread a few days ago but didn't want to post here till the final gameweek was complete. I had a position to defend and didn't want to jinx myself...lol

How did everyone's year go, what is your overall rank, and did you guys win your mini-leagues?

This was my first time playing FPL, and i must say i quite enjoyed it, OR 31k (2576 points), which isn't bad considering everything. Going triple Chelsea for -8 in GW34 was one of my worst decisions all season, forcing me to sell Son, and preventing me from getting Maddison. They both hauled like crazy after that, 100+ point swing based on one lousy move. There is a lot of room for improvement for me next season, starting with taking less hits and not making kneejerk early transfers. 

I finished third in Sportsbet's Clubhouse League, and i was wondering if anyone else from the forum made the TOP 10 (paid positions)? I think i recognized buwaytress and Steve's accounts, but they both give up on playing after only a few gameweeks.

We should absolutely make a forum mini-league next season!

I am also on bench boost and was perfectly happy, green arrowing up the tables until DeBruyne show yesterday. I am gonna hazard a guess and conclude that you have DeBruyne in your team and probably even as captain.

I am on 100 points without him in the team, so as good as it could be.

I played my Bench Boost chip this DGW36 and I got 121 points,
I’m currently leading my mini leagues.

Anybody still playing this except for me? This is a thoug week, only 4 games so I activated free hit. So far so good, I had three wolves players and managed to end up with -2 points What is worse that actually ended up ok for me since some players got it even worse.

@icopress
Just saw your personal text. So are you really from ukraine or just giving support? Hope you and your family are fine man, can't even imagine how it is in Ukraine right now.

I sympathize that three of your players never played a single minute, in my team only Fabio remained out of the game, (I guess while there is a possibility, Klopp decided to give a rest to some players before the next match). Nevertheless, you are in an acceptable position as you have the possibility of replacing four players, + free transfer + 1 paid transfer. If I were you, I would think about taking one of the attacking Southampton, Aston Villa, Newcastle in the future, since all these three teams have a chance to win in the upcoming round, moreover, immediately after that these teams have double game weeks.

I didn’t have a single chip left for this until the end of the season, I will slowly either go down in the ranking or go up (by the way, the first part of the round brought me 57 points, but six players still have one match to play). This is what my team will look like next game week + 3 Liverpool players in reserve.

Bump

Big double game week in front of us, should be plethora of points. Best games for Liverpool and Arsenal but be careful both of them are not playing next week so you have to have a plan in place, you can just bench 4 of them. No matter I went with 3xArsenal and 3x Liverpool and then I will decide weather to free hit or not next week.

If you still have tipple captain chip this is the week to use it on Salah. There has never been a better double in history of PL - Norwich and Leeds - both at home. Can't get better than that. I don't think there will be a serius team without captaining Salah and having Arnold. Third Liverpool place is up for grabs and I took Robertson, Van Dijk is maybe more nailed but less potential and Jota is a slight injury concern.

Dennis is probably more nailed but my pick is Edouard. Have them both at the moment. Pallace is playing much more attacking football and Watford has decided to go the route of parking the bus. Their new manager, Roy Hodgson, opted for defensive approach so I am looking to remove Dennis from my squad soon. It could open up some picks in Watford defense though, and they are dirty cheap.

Bernardo Silva stopped being an option the moment De Bruyne got back. He is playing more deep and he lost big deal of his offensive duties. I am expecting him to continue getting 2-3 points per game for the rest of the season.

So... there are about 400 points of difference between me and the first place, but I'm not upset because it was my first gaming experience.

Preparing for the upcoming games, I still leave Bernardo captaining as he hasn't scored in a while and Manchester City have some pretty easy games ahead of them. (unfortunately I can't afford De Bruyne, because seeing that MU had a double game week, I preferred Ronaldo). I also got rid of the Arsenal goalkeeper by replacing him with Sánchez (for at least 4-5 weeks). So most of the players on my team are playing twice this week and next, the only thing I'm not sure is who to replace Maupé after the weekend (I think Dennis or Edouard as both will play twice).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Here's what I got this round...


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]} 

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.

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.  

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.

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

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).

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.

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! 

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.

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. 

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


+ 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]}.

@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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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.

Of course I do but so does everybody else

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.

Trofo, Do you have in the team the players of those teams whose matches did not take place?

I'm just wondering how you can get back the points that I lost this week and last week due to canceled matches, and how this will be implemented in the FPL.

You can't really compare defenders which cost 6M or more with defenders that cost 4M, first group are premium defenders which must play every game, while second group are enablers which sit on your bench and hopefully get you some points when they get into the team do to unforeseen circumstances. Lamptey was injured until recently and that is why he was not playing, he was playing every game last season but on right back position. This season he plays right winger and has a price of right back from small club, that is value. He should play at least every second game which is good enough for me.

I am expecting Lukaku to get 30 minutes today and then start all other matches. Jota is much easier to incorporate into the team.

I'm not sure who to take, for the next rounds ... rested Lukaku or inexpensive Jota (both teams have not very difficult opponents in the upcoming rounds, but to take Lukaku I will have to sacrifice one of the expensive forwards, since I am missing 2 million). Although hypothetically, Lukaku will sit on the bench for a couple of more games as it was with Pulisic. As for the defenders, so far my trio from Rüdiger, Cancelo and Dias suits me, because looking at Lamptey's statistics a little, I see that he has played in only 6 matches and has never been included in the main team, (I hope to finally go beyond 100 points with this line-up). 

Bump, new games start today.

I screwed my decisons last week since Jota scored a lot of points and Kane got his game postponed. Ah well you can't predict all those stuff that will hapen in Premier League during holiday season. Lot's of games and big bench is more important than ever. That goes both for the teams playing and our Fantasy squads.

I rectified my mistake and brought in Jota. My next target is Lamptey, he is playing out of position and could be one of the best picks. You don't see often that someone classified as defender plays winger.

In the end I brought in Kane and left Jota for another week, not worked great for me I still think it was the right decision since Arsenal was solid for some time now while Leeds conceded about 60% of the goals trough the middle. Sounded like perfect storm for the Kane, great international form, new manager under whom Kane types strikers thrive and Leeds vulnerability down the center.

Good thing Steve is not so tough to beat so at least those 0.25 mBTC free bets keep coming every week  

OK guilty again, I forgot to make my team selections before internationals and promised to do it... and forgot again, or like Trofo I'd have switched Jota into my team. So I was 29th and now 35th, probably far too late to do anything useful but I don't mind trying to beat Steve every week.

Pickford being in my team of course didn't help heh. They just lost to City and that reminded me he's in my team ouch.

Anyway swapped out 2 injured players and brought Vardy into my team. He's not having it good but sense some goals popping back in for him.

Why man, why? That guy is total shit for fantasy

I want Kane so bad for next 4 games and i have no way to take him into the team. I also want Jota since Firmihno is injured so he should get some playing time. Now to accomplish that and get enough money I will need to make 4 transfers and I have just one free transfer so -12. To pull the trigger or not? I know I should not but I want those in my team promptly.

I took Toney in the last round, but I did not sell Antonio because there was no one to replace him, (not to mention the fact that I would have lost a little money on this deal, because in the next round his transfer value would rise). And I also decided to experiment with the players of Southampton (they don't have as many hardcore matches ahead of them as other teams). I took Adam Armstronag as judging by the last season of the Championship, he was one of the most effective forwards scoring about 30 goals, (frankly speaking, if Stuart Armstrong and Adam Armstrong were brothers, then I would take both).  

p.s. But, most importantly, I took Pulisic and made him captain! 

This is not like the pools we have so there was no entry fee. I opened a topic this season since Sportsbet and Stake started sponsored promotions for Premier League Fantasy so I judged there will be some interest here. You are too late to get end of season rewards (too much points passed) but both have weekly rewards as well.

Here is a link for Sportsbet one:
https://sportsbet.io/promotions/fun-fast-fair-fantasy

On Stake it is a bit more complicated and much harder to actually get rewards. While on Sportsbet you just have to beat Steve to get something

I am personally playing Fantasy for 6-7 seasons and I am playing for money with my local mates. Give it a try this season for free and maybe grab some free bets and then we can think of creating our own bitcointalk league next season.

Missed this one but just curious...  How many of you guys are playing and who’s playing?  I think it was hilarious who started a free one a couple of years ago but nobody showed up except for two people.  Him and me.    Fantasy EPL could pick up in the forum tho, with lots of guys in here who are fans of football.

How much was the entry fee?

Hey guys, free tip for those of you having free transfers and wanting some cheep options.

Load up on Brentford players. They are starting unbelievable run of good fixtures from this weekend onward and they have two very good options. Toney in attack, and Mbuemo who is classified as mid but plays as striker. Both are cheap and can be used for quite some time. I just switched Antonio to Toney, was heartbroken to let go of Antonio since i have a lot of money invested in him but WestHam started a terrible run of fixtures so I pulled a trigger. That also gave me enough money to upgrade defense back to TAA.

Damn it ... bad news for me, as I had to make more than three substitutions in this transfer window.

Just before the start of week 9, I added Vardy to the main lineup ^{[I also made him a captain, lol]}, but he did not bring any points and, moreover, was injured. As a result, I deleted him, and of course I deleted Pogba and Dennis. But the irony is that after I got rid of him, he will definitely play against Arsenal. Now some of my points accumulated this week will go towards paying transfer debts. 

Great points and thanks, yeah Daka will be playing as a sub for sure, but I had to make quick transfers and I could be guilty of playing into the Daka hype but sometimes you get the fire going and it's like buying DOGE on the temporary way up haha.
 
Jimenez yeah I think is a wasted talent at Wolves (as Jota was). Not sure where they're going but I'll play around.
 
First time trying Premier League fantasy, so thanks for letting me know not to trust their injury percents. 50% seemed so high for me I believed them.

But who could have known about Mount? This were his first goals of the season everyone who wanted to bring in Chelsea mid and had money went for Havertz, only logical choice with Lukaku and Werner out. I don't think Daka will get many minutes in PL, it is only Vardy or nobody for me in Leicester.

Jimenez is great choice since he is playing 90 minutes every week. He started assisting more and scoring less this season which dropped his point a bit.

Never trust those injury percents inside Fantasy game. I lost so many point over the years benching players that were playing in the end.

I did really well in the first two rounds, actually, was in the top 5 or something, and then well, just got lazy. Salah being my captain probably kept me alive all that while, scoring every damned game and assisting. I guess I'm just not so inclined to do fantasy so much, so I'll try to keep it active but I suspect I'll drop off again for a while at some other point.

Mount would have been a great transfer for me but as I had to replace 2 forwards I opted for new Foxes boy Daka... and Jimenez, who I feel must be getting close to his pre-injury form.

Funny thing though I transferred out Richarlison as they said 50% chance not playing... and he scored heh.

How the hell is that possible?  

Before each round, I look through the news to decide who to choose in the main squad, and I look a few rounds ahead of who will play with whom, but still I stay far behind in the table. Nevertheless, you, with a bunch of injured players, are in the TOP20, in general, I'm at a loss! ^{[Damn, Alonso is letting me down again].}

Of course, I laughed a little less, but the joke is really sophisticated!

Just read a great tweet for FPL enthusiasts. It went something like "You think you got problems? There is 2000 FPL managers who just transfered Lukaku into their team"

I was laughing for a good minute. If you don't find it funny you will after a couple of seasons full of disappointments and Pep roulette.

Hey buddy, sorry! I get so many tags I miss some, and yes, I played the EPL fantasy for the first 2 weeks, and then got really really lazy and didn't make changes for a while. I just saw my team and I actually had Richarlison and Bamford still there, and even Firmino who was injured for a while. Surprised I'm actually still 20th position after all that (in the SB pool) and I see you right behind me

Finally transferred out the injured guys -- I actually still haven't explored the Prem League fantasy so need to spend some time, but I don't mind just keeping my team mostly as is.

Yes I dropped him for Vardy just now. Too bad since Lukaku was my most nailed pick for next couple of games. Chelsea has some great fixtures and I wanted 3 Chelsea players in my team and now i have just Alonso who is rotation risk. Hopefully he will play against Norwich since Chilwell got full 90 in last 2 games. Havertz should be golden for next game but I am not taking Chelsea mid, too much rotation there.

Have you changed Lukaku yet?

I had to use an unscheduled transfer today ... Chelsea won the CL round but lost two of their forwards, which is very sad since they have some pretty easy games ahead of them that could have earned a lot of points. I took Vardy and Armstrong and I will hope that Alonso and Rudiger will not miss the next matches.

I attempted this some years back but, really didn't pick up with the vibe to keep it up but, its quite an interesting and enticing way to take up sports and gambling. Using actual football records and transfer statistics to assemble a team, place them on the pitch and predict results or anticipate there performance, get scores and then a rating of rating of sort. I see no reason why it's not suited for a discussion discussion the gambling board. As tips could be collected for those who fantasies on the game amongst others. It's a nice one @Trofo, good thinking.

@buwaytress
Tagging you here since I know you are playing, so I guess you missed the thread and it could use some love Congrats on same great points in last game week but that one was easy for you with Liverpool winning 5:0

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Lukaku just got subbed in minute 20 due to injury in CL match. There goes my plan for the next game week since my captain and most expensive player (apart from Salah) just got hit. And I was doing so well before the wildcard. Better to not have chips sometimes.

It may be worth doing some "experiments" and start switching players and styles. I am not sure of the underlying logic, but there has to be a factor of penalty on repeating too often. This strategy would require preparing a team that has some wildcard players that may be less effective for an specific task, but can in exchange be adapted to the opponent better.

I took a break from Fantasy during international break. There is no point in looking at players when they can get injured playing for their countries. Just what happened with Rudiger threw a spanner in my works. Had to change him to another premium defender and use extra transfer (-4) to make the money for Dias. Just hope City keeps a clean sheet against Burnley.

I feel it will be hard for me to catch up with the leader of the table in the first season ... at the moment the difference between me and the top 1 is 225 points.

• GW6 - 194
• GW7 - 225

I looked for your name in the list but did not find it, I came across Marko but it was hardly you since he turned out to be a Latvian.  

I can't keep up with your answers ... it feels like you're here around the clock.  

And I see that you picked the Wolverhampton striker and from what I saw it is a great choice as the team is gaining momentum. Speaking of "saw" I meant what I saw and noticed that the guys from the top 10 chose three players from this club at once. In any case, I'm torn because I can only make one choice before the coming game week. ^{[Okay, it's time for me to rest, have a great weekend and some more points!]}

He is useful as a player who saves you a lot of money but Livramento was even cheaper when I exchanged Tsimikas (4.3M, now back to 4) for him and Livramento (4.1M, now 4.2) plays 90 minutes every game for Southampton. Much better option for me.

If you need money savers you also have Brownhil from Burnley, only 90 min playing midfielder for 4.4M. But I prefer to pay a bit more and get somebody more creative

I made a reservation, honestly speaking, I meant three defenders .... although, by and large, there is no difference, since three defenders still provide an extended opportunity in the attack. As for Bamford, as far as I know, he will be active next week. By the way, speaking of unforeseen circumstances, each of us has 3 reserve players, so even if you don't put Tsimikas on, he is still very useful as a player who saves you a lot of money. Or am I wrong?

Here is what I ended up with:


I screwed big time with Alonso, I actually realized my mistake yesterday but both Alonso and Azpilicueta went up in price for 0.1 and I did not have spare money to exchange them. I am happy with the rest of the team for a long time. Probably will have to do something with Alonso immediately.

I am playing with 3 forwards almost always. Bamford is on my shortlist since Leeds has great fixtures but he is injured. I am not considering Vardy since he is way to expensive for what he brings. Antonio is cheapest fixture proof attacking player in the game. I am ok with playing him against any opponent and I am sure he will bring some points. Almost on the level of Salah, Lukaku and Ronaldo but significantly cheaper. Also he is now worth 8.0M and I took him when he was just 7.5, meaning if I took him out I would not have money to bring him in again. He is staying there until season ends unless he gets lengthy injury.

I like to have squad where every player plays 90 minutes every single game, including bench players - you can see how this week Duffy will enter for Alonso and get me points. In case Cancelo gets rested Livramento will enter and give me more points. Tsimikas will play maybe one game in 5 and probably in Europe unless Robertson gets injured so no points in case of unexpected. Believe me unexpected happens quite often in FPL, who thought Ronaldo will start from the bench today?

Okay, what if you play with three forwards in the future? At the same time, take Tsimikas as a permanent reserve player, because he really seems to me to be a good defender on whom you can save money. I also have no doubt that Antonio is an excellent striker and a good candidate for the captain's position, but he is unlikely to keep that pace for a long time. In addition, today I turned my eyes to the standings, I see that some teams that did not start the season as well as we would like, sooner or later will start winning, (we will still see a long streak of victories from Leeds or Leicester, so I'm thinking of taking Vardy and Bamford).

Tsimikas is a trap, I had him from week one and sold him for Liveramento immediately after Robertson recovered. He is great player but he will not get minutes while Robertson is healthy. That is good example of staying ahead of the curve and casual players.

I also had Benhrama from week 1 but got rid of him when they bought Vlasic. I feel like he has enough competition on his spot to start losing minutes. Antonio is also on penalties which is always great and he is much better captain option since he always plays 90 minutes.

Cash is legit option and he could end in my squad. I am just not sure if I want any player from villa. Don't like them this season.

How about the ratio of price to minutes played? Thinking about how I can save a little, I stumbled upon a Liverpool defender who is surprisingly often on the field and earns a lot of points while costing only 4m. To that I would add Cash, Aston Villa's defender who is surprisingly consistent in his high scores, (and of course a couple of Chelsea defenders).


As for the midfielders ... I would think about changing Antonio to Benrahma as he has the same potential as Antonio (in this case you will make room for either Vardy or another top striker). In this case, hypothetically, in attack, you will receive points from Liverpool, West Ham, Leicester, Leeds, Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester City (if you choose Jesus).

Definitely good choice to cancel bench boost, there will be much better opportunities.

I would change Maguire for another top defender like Rudiger for -4 without regrets. United has awful fixtures and I would not like to keep their defenders.

Arnold is another story and I would keep him without problems until he gets better. Origi is dead weight and I would change him first chance I get for some cheap 90 min player.

I am on wildcard this week and still not set on final squad. I know my 2 big hitters are Lukaku and Salah, Ramsdale on goal and Raphina in first 11. Rest is still up to change but I will probably take 2x Chelsea defense, Saka and Antonio. I want some City exposure but I am afraid of Pep Roulette.

Tomorrow starts a new game week, but the temptation is so great to change a couple of players to the detriment of points. In general, this week will pass unchanged for me, I also canceled the activation of the function "bench boost". After all, it is unlikely that Manchester United will not score a single goal against Everton, Origi is one of those substitutes who never enter the field, and Alexander-A and Maguire are injured and will return to duty in at least two weeks.

Wildcard is the chip that gives you unlimited free transfers and they stay for the rest of the season. Never crossed my mind you could use free hit. It is fairly new chip, introduced just last season and the least useful one for me. I used it in last game week in previous season just to change 3 players instead of 1

You used free hit in this game week. You also already used your wildcard in game week 3 and you used your triple captain in game week 1. I guess you activated your bench boost chip for next game week but that I can only see from your screen shot. I can check only past game weeks in actual game, would not be fair otherwise.

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

Thank you for explaining, your answer has put everything in its place. For some reason I thought that the use of "unlimited transfers" implies a change in the composition of the team for all subsequent rounds. As for the "bench boost", I've already figured it out, but as they say, you won't know until you check it.  

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But I confess what you said came as a surprise to me because when you explained that it is worth choosing players for the next 5-6 rounds, I definitely thought that "unlimited transfers" was intended for this (change of the entire team).

@icopress
It is difficult for me to properly check your screen shots while I am on mobile but even without that it sounds like you used free hit chip.

Free hit means that you have unlimited transfers, but your new squad is only available for one game week. After that it goes back to what you had before using the chip.

But on the last screen I see that you have bench boost active which is another chip that gives you points from players on the bench.

Don't know if you are using your real name in FPL but if that is not a security risk for you, let me know your team name and position in Sportsbet league and I'll check what you have done and explain properly. You can do it over PM if that has less impact on your security.

Trofo I will answer you a little later ... after I have dealt with one incomprehensible situation. The fact is that on the "Point GW6" tab I see one thing, and on the other tabs "transfers and pick team" I see something completely different. It is not entirely clear to me what is happening, because at the beginning of the week I completely changed the composition of my team and at the end of today's matches I got 35 points. But at the same time, it seems that everything has rolled back, since the erroneous tabs show the composition of my team, which I chose the week before last. I will be very grateful if you explain what the matter is.
 

So what is your strategy guys for this week and future, made my research and I agree with most FPL "experts" that for next 2 weeks Sarr is excellent option and that Antonio is essential. I made just one transfer Torres -> Sarr since Torres played in the cup and City is against Chelsea. That should be enough to get me trough this week and then I am planing on wildcarding and getting at least 2 Chelsea players maybe even 3. Lukaku and Alonso are must have for me after City game. I am also looking to ditch Coufal, Jota, Greenwood, Jimenez and Toney. Grey looks like great option to cover Everton attack at the moment but it will have to wait for that wild card or next free transfer.

Here is my team, as it stands at the moment. Maybe I'll give the band to Antonio, still brainstorming on that one. Leeds is without whole defense, Bamford and Raphinha. This one could be walk in the park for Hammers. That will be my main bet this week as well.

This game would have been much easier with unlimited transfers Unfortunately you only have 1 free transfer between game weeks. Yes you can make more, but each additional transfer means you are loosing 4 points. There is nothing like "best time" to activate first wildcard, yes it is better to save it for later but I had great seasons when wildcarding in 2nd week and one bad one when I used it just before it expired. It all depends on how good your initial draft was.

Fantasy is all about value per point and getting on those budget players that have great seasons on time. If you already activated your wildcard you can continue to make transfers until deadline for free. My advice is that you choose players for at least 5 game weeks in mind, and plan transfers ahead of time. For instance, if I had Ronaldo I would probably swap him for Lukaku next week and tried to capitalize on Chelsea fixtures. Some other budget friendly teams that have great fixtures are Leeds and Southampton. Too bad Raphina is injured he would be my hands down best pick for next 5 game weeks.

Wolves and Norwich also have great fixtures but they are so bad that I am afraid to pick their players. Maybe somebody like Semedo or Marcal could find way to my team. Jimenez for sure if he starts scoring again.

Well, after the fourth week I didn't make such a mistake anymore, without looking at the counter I lost 16 points, (from now on, I make transfers of players when I see the inscription "unlimited"). But if I understood you correctly, then it turns out that I activated this function too early? Although it seemed to me that after the end of each game week, you can make as many transfers as you like, (but I do not regret that I took it because I changed almost the entire team). Anyway, knowing this, before starting the games this week, I will think again what placement of players will be effective until January.

How many transfers did you make? Are you on wildcard?

You know there is only one free transfer granted to you every week? Every additional transfer is costing you -4 points. All those minus points are removed from your weekly score. And you only have one wildcard (unlimited free transfers) per half of the season.

I am contemplating wildcarding this week, but I'll probably wait for next week and Chelsea fixture swing.

So guys ... as far as I understand, the best thing you can win is 5mBTC, and  need to try very hard to get the highest weekly ball among 150 people. For week 6, I chose Antonio as the captain (since he returns after disqualification, and Salah made the vice captain). In the PL pool, I bet on Manchester City to win, so in fantasy I made the opposite choice with Christensen and Lukaku. I also really count on the victory of Tottenham, so I also made the opposite choice in case something goes wrong (taking Tierney and Ödegaard). And finally, took Willock, Ronaldo and Gray in attack and Pereira, Livramento and Duffy in defense.


What do you think, will I score at least 75 points with this line-up?

You can change your captain only between gameweeks, same time when you can make subs or transfers. Captain choice is maybe most important decision you will make any gameweek since that player points are doubled. Just to show you how big difference it can make:
Last week - my choice Antonio got red card and finished with -1 point, he was my captain which doubled the points so I got -2
This week - my choice Salah got 10 points and he will get another 2 bonus points, so double that and I get 24 just from him

This page is was great source of info for me in the past, I find myself using it less and less since more articles are written just for members but it should help you anyway:
https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/
You can find some real gems in comments bellow and get the feel of fantasy mindset

When you have trouble with something ask here and we will help.

I haven't quite adapted to the fantasy interface yet, so I would be very grateful if you could point out where you can read about it and learn more. I would also like to know about the captain's points, is it possible to change the captain from match to match? Let's say the captain Lukaku, but after the Chelsea game, the game of Liverpool follows and it would be wise to transfer the powers of the captain to Salah. Or is it not foreseen?

That was my keeper strategy in all the past seasons. This year I just took Sanches and Foster, together 8.5M. I must say I am very happy with my decision. Don't know how it works for you but rotating 2 x 4.5 keepers often leaves me with more points on the bench. Save points and especially penalty save points have a way of screwing my choice. Just one game when keeper who plays against strong team and manages to keep clean sheet eats up all those good choices since that usually means a couple of save points plus 3 bonus points.

I git foster since I need Watford player to participate in one of the Stake sponsored leagues.
This year I was around 200k before last week and now around 500k, Antonio captain 

Been playing FPL for 7years this is my 8th
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Last year was my strongest finish I was in top 90k and concure whith Trofo advices.
Having two goalkeepers regular that worth 4.5m is advised as you can rotate them one when have a difficult match and the points for goalkeepers have been always close to each other so no need to buy a 6m keeper not going to give you a lot benefit better use it in Midfield.

Or just one premium that is no more then 5.5m.
Last year I rarely had a defender that is worth more then 5m most of them were 4.5m that helped since a lot of cheap defenders delivered on points.
As for City I  only got KDB last year and sold him for Gundogan when he was injured and when he got back I belleive I didn't had any City player after a game when Pep benched both Gundogan and KDB.
This year I'm not planning on buying any of Man City players.
Also best way to use chips are on double gameweeks try not to use them on regular gameweeks or using free hit on a gameweek that have 5 matches is not recommended just play with what you got and use the free hit to bring players that play double games in one gameweek.

I'm still booking a place so that notifications will come in the future ... I will answer a little later.

After the close of the 5th game week, I will take your advice and change my goalkeepers to free up 1.5m.

These two played in today's match, but a similar situation happened to Alexander-Arnold ... he was absent from today's match after the Champions League games. Most likely I'll just pick the defenders who spend the most minutes on the field, (I think it would be wise).

I know this is not exactly gambling but since lots of these leagues are sponsored by bookies... I am a member of Sportsbet and Stake leagues this season and some of the private leagues are also paid to enter I guess it qualifys. I decided to make dedicated topic since there is some interest in the forum and then we are always writing in the wrong threads. Hopefully we will have a nice discussion here.

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@icopress
That is even worse, it means you have what 10.5M tied up in keepers? My pair costs 8.5M and I am sure we have about the same points from them. As I said it is more feasible to save on keepers and spend money somewhere else. There is always great value in cheap keepers.

Of course you must have full squad per fantasy rules. I just wanted to point out that your bench should not be expensive. Maybe something like 4M keeper, 5-6M rotation player, 4.5M player who will play 90 min every week, 4M bench fodder who will never play.


City players are great until schedule becomes congested and all of them end up on the bench. All three of your players played in CL during week. If this was end of the season I would take you on a bet that at least 2 of them will not play tomorrow. Since it is beginning of the season and players are still fresh maybe you are in still in luck.
I'll hazard a guess and say:
Cancelo not playing - Walker in, maybe Cancelo has a chance for LB but he is much better on right side
Diaz - should play
Grealish - 50/50 for me, started all the games will be rested soon