FPL and EPL 2017/18 thread

[elephants]

75 with Pascal Gross to come!

My midfield just delivers every single week <3

[Koop]

81 this week and now sitting on the cusp (2 points) of the top 10k. Peaked way too early but I'll enjoy it while it lasts.  ;D

Finally had enough of Alli and rage-traded him out the other night to the returning Pogba, only for news 24hrs later that Pulis had been sacked, and the god-awful Megson is in charge for this weekend.  :-[

Also went Carroll to RLC to try and give me a fully playing 15 for the upcoming madness period.

Still yet to use my WC, or any chip, but will save it for a rainy day.

Current team for GW13 looks like;

Pope
Alonso // Kolasinac // Daniels
Salah (vc) // Pogba // Richarlison // Gross // Loftus-Cheek
Kane (c) // Lukaku

Elliot // Ward // Abraham // Femenia


am toying with the idea of downgrading Lukaku & upgrading Gross to Hazard in the coming weeks, but we'll see.

and to think I was 50/50 on starting the season with Salah & Gross....

[Mongoose528]

81 this week and now sitting on the cusp (2 points) of the top 10k. Peaked way too early but I'll enjoy it while it lasts.  ;D

Finally had enough of Alli and rage-traded him out the other night to the returning Pogba, only for news 24hrs later that Pulis had been sacked, and the god-awful Megson is in charge for this weekend.  :-[

Also went Carroll to RLC to try and give me a fully playing 15 for the upcoming madness period.

Still yet to use my WC, or any chip, but will save it for a rainy day.

Current team for GW13 looks like;

Pope
Alonso // Kolasinac // Daniels
Salah (vc) // Pogba // Richarlison // Gross // Loftus-Cheek
Kane (c) // Lukaku

Elliot // Ward // Abraham // Femenia


am toying with the idea of downgrading Lukaku & upgrading Gross to Hazard in the coming weeks, but we'll see.

and to think I was 50/50 on starting the season with Salah & Gross....

Nice one, I've got to catch up to you!

Hopefully I can during this hectic Xmas period.

[Mongoose528]

I'm on 47 with Sane + double Burnley to come.

Kane finally scoring!

Hopefully Burnley can keep a clean sheet.

[PowerBug]

Being an Arsenal fan, I obviously wanted a victory. But being so madly in love with Burnley and how they play (I love the gameplan and the discipline Dyche has going there), I didn't want Burnley to lose pace with the top 4.

I eventually settled on either a 0-0 or a 0-1 with a dodgy Arsenal goal, that way I feel like Burnley still performed and are good enough to finish 7th (or higher!). I got what I wanted :o

Shame about losing Ward's CS but Sterling, Sane and Otamendi made up for it. (By me having Sterling and not having the other 2 :P)

I ended with a very solid 64. Not sure where to use my transfer this week so I might just hold it

[elephants]

Awful 47, bench killed it while I had big guns drawing blanks across the board ::)

Still won my league h2h though by 3 points and now only one win off top spot!

[PowerBug]

Ashley Young, $4.9mil midfielder. 10 straight starts, 48 points in that time including 29 in the last 3 with 2 goals 2 assists. Owned by under 50,000 managers. Just saying :P

[elephants]

Ashley Young, $4.9mil midfielder. 10 straight starts, 48 points in that time including 29 in the last 3 with 2 goals 2 assists. Owned by under 50,000 managers. Just saying :P

Innnnnnsane. I still think he is a woeful player but he's in good form and could be hard to ignore

[Spite]

I’d finally made ground from 1.5m to 700k in 3 weeks but my haz and azpi in for a -8 this week couldn’t have been worse. Azpi didn’t start for the first time in 75 PL matches! Back down a little but hopefully can keep on charging up the ranks. It’s hard to be on top of it whilst travelling and I’ll have no internet for the entire 3 gameweek Xmas period so that’ll be interesting!!

[PowerBug]

I’d finally made ground from 1.5m to 700k in 3 weeks but my haz and azpi in for a -8 this week couldn’t have been worse. Azpi didn’t start for the first time in 75 PL matches! Back down a little but hopefully can keep on charging up the ranks. It’s hard to be on top of it whilst travelling and I’ll have no internet for the entire 3 gameweek Xmas period so that’ll be interesting!!

Yeah very unfortunate for Azpi not starting but I'd be interested to hearing your reason behind taking a hit for a defender?

[PowerBug]

I hate picking Arsenal players because I feel like I jinx them or they just don't perform as well as they can when in my team. But Aaron Ramsey at 7.1 is sooooooo tempting...

6 straight starts
2 goals, 5 assists in that time.
46 FPL points
Nailed in our midfield 2. And won't play the midweek Europa league game so there's his rest.
Only priced at $7.1mil! (So good it's worth mentioning again)

By going Vardy -> Niasse I have 9.2 mil to pick a midfielder. And I'm having such a tough time working out who I want (Sane, Silva, Ramsey, Pogba) that instead of taking a hit to get one of them I might just wait a week and take 2 FT into the next week. Plus I can see if Niasse will get his spot back or whether I just go with Calvert-Lewin or even Crouch.

[Spite]

I’d finally made ground from 1.5m to 700k in 3 weeks but my haz and azpi in for a -8 this week couldn’t have been worse. Azpi didn’t start for the first time in 75 PL matches! Back down a little but hopefully can keep on charging up the ranks. It’s hard to be on top of it whilst travelling and I’ll have no internet for the entire 3 gameweek Xmas period so that’ll be interesting!!

Yeah very unfortunate for Azpi not starting but I'd be interested to hearing your reason behind taking a hit for a defender?

Holding Jones as I started with him so have too much value in him to trade away. Also have Niasse, so was copping a zero regardless so a hit for a defender is justifiable since they usually get 2 points for playing anyway and I chose a Chelsea defender with a high chance of CS against Swans. I got him for Mbemba (ironically who played) but he hasn’t for like 2 months...

[Koop]

Holding this week, Ramsey & Pogba both super tempting but don't have the funds to upgrade Gross. Gross still going strong anyway. Hopefully can keep moving up. 5k at the moment.

[PowerBug]

Decision to not get Niasse this week was good. Decision to get Christensen was okay. Means I have double Chelsea defence and Morata, so no way of getting Hazard in, but I don't have the funds to get Hazard in anyway when I make my midfield upgrade so I'm not too fussed. Will do Vardy -> DCL and Chalobah -> Ramsey this week, for a -4 I think.

[PowerBug]

Decision to not get Niasse this week was good. Decision to get Christensen was okay. Means I have double Chelsea defence and Morata, so no way of getting Hazard in, but I don't have the funds to get Hazard in anyway when I make my midfield upgrade so I'm not too fussed. Will do Vardy -> DCL and Chalobah -> Ramsey this week, for a -4 I think.

And then Ramsey got injured the first week I had him so it was Daniels -> Kenny and Ramsey -> David Silva for a -4, which paid off spectacularly with a Kenny CS and Silva brace :D

Scored 66 with a big green arrow. Can't be much happier with that week after about 4 weeks of being really stagnate.