EPL Fantasy 2014/15 Thread.

[Spite]

Howard
Dier, Lovren, Blackett (Hutton, Wisdom)
Fabregas, Ramsay, Sterling, Eriksen, Sigurdsson
Costa, Dzeko (Naismith)

Team Value: 99
Bank: 2.2
thoughts?

When Blackett loses his spot shortly you'll be having to play a 4.0 defender against good teams :(

Eriksen hadn't shown too much. Your team has some holes :(

Thanks mate, what would you suggest? With 2.2 in the bank, i do have some flexibility. What's the most pressing issue? Upgrading Blackett, Wisdom or Hutton? Or fixing the form of Eriksen, Dzeko or Howard?

Wouldn't worry about Howard, he has a tough opening fixture until round 7 so just hold and hope for the best.

Well I guess you better start with the players most likely to drop in price. Hutton and wisdom won't fall so you can take care of that next week. This week probably get rid of both Eriksen and dzeko (maybe dzeko to super Mario)

Early reports are saying Costa is injured and if it's true, you honestly may need to wildcard since you'll have 7 players needing to be traded out out of your starting 11

[Luigi197]

Howard
Dier, Lovren, Blackett (Hutton, Wisdom)
Fabregas, Ramsay, Sterling, Eriksen, Sigurdsson
Costa, Dzeko (Naismith)

Team Value: 99
Bank: 2.2
thoughts?

When Blackett loses his spot shortly you'll be having to play a 4.0 defender against good teams :(

Eriksen hadn't shown too much. Your team has some holes :(

Thanks mate, what would you suggest? With 2.2 in the bank, i do have some flexibility. What's the most pressing issue? Upgrading Blackett, Wisdom or Hutton? Or fixing the form of Eriksen, Dzeko or Howard?

Wouldn't worry about Howard, he has a tough opening fixture until round 7 so just hold and hope for the best.

Well I guess you better start with the players most likely to drop in price. Hutton and wisdom won't fall so you can take care of that next week. This week probably get rid of both Eriksen and dzeko (maybe dzeko to super Mario)

Early reports are saying Costa is injured and if it's true, you honestly may need to wildcard since you'll have 7 players needing to be traded out out of your starting 11

Surely i don't need to use my wildcard yet  :o  :-\

Eriksen has an easier fixture, but has gone down by 0.1 already.
Dzeko has a slightly tougher fixture, and there is that uncertainty about the whole Man City fwd line..

replacements for Eriksen don't look really promising, even with the cash (max 10.1)... Hazard, Di Maria, Dyer, Gerrard.
replacements for Dzeko look a bit better (max 10.7)... Rooney, Balotelli, Adebayor, Weimann, Jovetic

i might hold off a week regarding my defence, worse comes to worse, Naismith comes off the bench for a Blackett doghnut.

[Spite]

If dier is indeed injured and Blackett doesn't play, you don't get a Naismith donut (you need to play a minimum of 3 defenders) so you'd have to play Hutton and wisdom with their bad fixtures. Naismith could cover dzeko if he doesn't start or Costa if he is injured otherwise another donut there :/

[timmyparso]

If dier is indeed injured and Blackett doesn't play, you don't get a Naismith donut (you need to play a minimum of 3 defenders) so you'd have to play Hutton and wisdom with their bad fixtures. Naismith could cover dzeko if he doesn't start or Costa if he is injured otherwise another donut there :/

there is still a whole week for these "niggles" to sort themselves.  Remember what happened after Diegos "6 week" injury?

[Keeper27]

If dier is indeed injured and Blackett doesn't play, you don't get a Naismith donut (you need to play a minimum of 3 defenders) so you'd have to play Hutton and wisdom with their bad fixtures. Naismith could cover dzeko if he doesn't start or Costa if he is injured otherwise another donut there :/

there is still a whole week for these "niggles" to sort themselves.  Remember what happened after Diegos "6 week" injury?

agreed, just gonna hold tight for now. no trades as of yet.
i still wanna do Rooney/Silva to Balotelli (with Sturridge possibly out) & Di Maria.

[Luigi197]

Correct me if i'm wrong; but could i make it work if

I start 3 defenders. one of them doesn't play at all. so my first sub comes on, which just happens to be a striker?

[Jackross10]

Correct me if i'm wrong; but could i make it work if

I start 3 defenders. one of them doesn't play at all. so my first sub comes on, which just happens to be a striker?

Defender will come on, it needs to be eligible formation.

343 352 532 442 433 523.

[timmyparso]

If dier is indeed injured and Blackett doesn't play, you don't get a Naismith donut (you need to play a minimum of 3 defenders) so you'd have to play Hutton and wisdom with their bad fixtures. Naismith could cover dzeko if he doesn't start or Costa if he is injured otherwise another donut there :/

there is still a whole week for these "niggles" to sort themselves.  Remember what happened after Diegos "6 week" injury?

agreed, just gonna hold tight for now. no trades as of yet.
i still wanna do Rooney/Silva to Balotelli (with Sturridge possibly out) & Di Maria.

except now de Jong is confirmed out until after Christmas. Have to trade now

[Keeper27]

I don't have De Jong.  ???
Nothing definitive on Costa's injury as of yet.

[timmyparso]

I don't have De Jong.  ???
Nothing definitive on Costa's injury as of yet.

but I do

[Keeper27]

I don't have De Jong.  ???
Nothing definitive on Costa's injury as of yet.

but I do

Fair enough. Had high hopes for him in the  preseason.
An attacking  mid that'll  play fwd. What's not to love.

Silva on team mate Costa

[Keeper27]

Reading a few people using their Wild Cards.
Got this from another site.

How to build your wc team:

Step 1 - essentials

After much consideration and deliberation I have reached the conclusion that there are only two absolute essential players in FPL now:

Costa
Siggy

That's it.

Step 2 - one of each

Now you start adding people by groups:

You can have one of fab/haz
You can have one of Ramsey/welbeck/Sanchez
You can have one of sterling/Sturridge/baloteli
You can have one or two of Ivan/debuchy/Moreno
You can have one of Rooney/falcao/ADM
You can have one of collochini/krul/jammat
You can have cone of clyne/Bertrand/ forester
You can even have a differential between tadic/lamella/mirallas

Step 2 - cheap defenders

Choose 2 to 3 more good cheap defenders from this group:

PVA Chester collo naylor duff Ferdinand

Step 4 choose your cheap attacking players according to money left -

One of Naismith, zaha, boyd etc.
Oh, and don't forget a second gk.

Step 5

Al done. Enjoy

Also from the same site.
Some research on Falcao first few games at new clubs.

First seasons in the league at...

Porto
7 goals in first 7 games

Atletico
5 goals in first 3 games

Monaco
7 goals in first 7 games

[PowerBug]

How to build your wc team:

Step 1 - essentials

After much consideration and deliberation I have reached the conclusion that there are only two absolute essential players in FPL now:

Costa
Siggy

That's it.

Step 2 - one of each

Now you start adding people by groups:

You can have one of fab/haz
You can have one of Ramsey/welbeck/Sanchez
You can have one of sterling/Sturridge/baloteli
You can have one or two of Ivan/debuchy/Moreno
You can have one of Rooney/falcao/ADM
You can have one of collochini/krul/jammat
You can have one of clyne/Bertrand/ forester
You can even have a differential between tadic/lamella/mirallas

Step 2 - cheap defenders
Choose 2 to 3 more good cheap defenders from this group:
PVA Chester collo naylor duff Ferdinand

Step 4 choose your cheap attacking players according to money left -
One of Naismith, zaha, boyd etc.
Oh, and don't forget a second gk. (Begovic)

My Pre wildcard team. I think I'm pretty set for now. I don't have Ivanovic but have Terry. Also Phil Jones should provide some clean sheets in the next couple of weeks too. :)

No WC for me yet. :D

[Keeper27]

My Pre wildcard team. I think I'm pretty set for now. I don't have Ivanovic but have Terry. Also Phil Jones should provide some clean sheets in the next couple of weeks too. :)

No WC for me yet. :D

LOL same here. very Similar

How to build your wc team:

Step 1 - essentials

After much consideration and deliberation I have reached the conclusion that there are only two absolute essential players in FPL now:

Costa
Siggy

That's it.

Step 2 - one of each

Now you start adding people by groups:

You can have one of fab/haz
You can have one of Ramsey/welbeck/Sanchez
You can have one of sterling/Sturridge/baloteli
You can have one or two of Ivan/debuchy/Moreno
You can have one of Rooney/falcao/ADM
You can have one of collochini/krul/jammat
You can have cone of clyne/Bertrand/ forester
You can even have a differential between tadic/lamella/mirallas

Step 2 - cheap defenders

Choose 2 to 3 more good cheap defenders from this group:

PVA Chester collo naylor duff Ferdinand

Step 4 choose your cheap attacking players according to money left -

One of Naismith, zaha, boyd etc.
Oh, and don't forget a second gk.

Step 5

Al done. Enjoy

personally if i was to use the WC i'd go hard in the front 7.
but it limits your flexibility. You'd be forced to play 343



you could even downgrade Aguero/Balotelli to a Welbeck/Naismith
upgrade King to Punchy/Chadli/Larsson/Hendo/Downing
Upgrade Hutton/Duff to Ivanovic/Moreno


you'd get more flexibility you can go from 343 to 352

[PowerBug]

I really want to get Welbeck in my team, I know he is going to be a star. I think when Rooney's run of good matches ends I'll make the big downgrade, or if he fails to score against QPR (Fantasy score that is), then I'll make the move right away.