Boards.ie Fantasy Football 2009/2010 (MOD NOTE - POST #2151)

BaZmO*

PH4T wrote: »

You need to decide who you think will be the highest scorer in the league this season and then make them your captain.

Well not really. You normally just pick whichever player is on form or if they have an "easy" game coming up and change it each week accordingly.

I suppose if you're lazy you could just leave it with one player for the whole season but up until this year that wasn't possible because some weeks they'd be rested and you'd lose out on double points.

Eire-Dearg

Who To Pick Issue #2 is up!

PH4T

BaZmO* wrote: »

Well not really. You normally just pick whichever player is on form or if they have an "easy" game coming up and change it each week accordingly.

I suppose if you're lazy you could just leave it with one player for the whole season but up until this year that wasn't possible because some weeks they'd be rested and you'd lose out on double points.

It is more likely that you will maximise your points by sticking with the most consistent high scoring players rather than trying to be clever and switching every week.

Form is of debatable value for picking your Captain. You usually just miss every good game week when you do that as it is a backwards looking statistic and does not take into account the opposition or other factors.

Selecting your Captain based on upcoming fixtures makes more sense and is another approach.

BaZmO*

Well I've been doing FF for 5 years now and imo and ime Form is the most important factor when choosing players or choosing captains. But as always, each to their own!

Lemlin

BaZmO* wrote: »

Well I've been doing FF for 5 years now and imo and ime Form is the most important factor when choosing players or choosing captains. But as always, each to their own!

Just because you've been doing it for five years doesn't mean you've been doing it well for five years

I tend to go on who a team are playing. For example, United are home to Brum in the first game so I'm going with Rooney.

BaZmO*

Lemlin wrote: »

Just because you've been doing it for five years doesn't mean you've been doing it well for five years

Well I've either won or came second in my private leagues each year (except for Boards which has a ridiculous amount of players!) and finished 23,466 overall last year so I kinda have a bit of an idea of how to play it.

Biggest mistake I made last year was sticking with Ronaldo week in week out despite the fact that he wasn't in great form compared to the previous season.

Lemlin wrote: »

I tend to go on who a team are playing. For example, United are home to Brum in the first game so I'm going with Rooney.

Well this is the first week so you could hardly go with form.

Eire-Dearg

BaZmO* wrote: »

and finished 23,466 overall last year so I kinda have a bit of an idea of how to play it.

I'll take my questions to whoever came 23,465th.

Stacksey

Team is done and dusted and i think its actually not bad

Foster

Cahill
Evans
Insua

Lampard
Kuyt
Arshavin
Modric
Jimenez

Rooney
Ebanks-Blake

speedboatchase

Stacksey wrote: »

Team is done and dusted and i think its actually not bad

Foster

Cahill
Evans
Insua

Lampard
Kuyt
Arshavin
Modric
Jimenez

Rooney
Ebanks-Blake

Yep not a bad team at all, very similar to what I have at the moment, although I'm now running Bent, Cole and Blake together upfront instead and Gerrard instead of Arshavin

Lemlin

BaZmO* wrote: »

Well I've either won or came second in my private leagues each year (except for Boards which has a ridiculous amount of players!) and finished 23,466 overall last year so I kinda have a bit of an idea of how to play it.

I won the Boards league in 2006 and have never been beaten in a private league. Including winning my workplace league that had over a hundred people in it in 2008. I also won the Off The Ball Newstalk league in 2006.

So I'd imagine I have a better idea than you how to play it.

There's alot to be said for form but if Rooney was banging in goals and United were playing a decent team like Everton, and Burnley are losing every game six nil and Liverpool are playing them, I'd go with Torres.

I do agree with you that each gameweek has to be taken on its own merits (rather than just have a captain for the season) but I still think who a team are playing should come into account more than who is in form. It stands to reason that you should have form players in your team all over the pitch. Otherwise there's a problem.

thewools

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

I'll take my questions to whoever came 23,465th.

I have improved every year so expecting better this year again

Year----Score---Rank
2006/07 1895 38,491
2007/08 2128 37,659
2008/09 2072 4,895

Not going to be easy!!!

Having headaches already - plus I joined that TOP 4 LESS boards league too - double the trouble!!

Peyton Manning

Put aside half an hour to meddle with my team today, currently decided on:

Ben Foster

Ashley Cole
Johnny Evans
Curtis Davies
Aaron Hughes

Frank Lampard
Dirk Kuyt
Andrey Arshavin
Steven Pienaar

Dimitar Berbatov
Kevin Doyle


Guys whats the password for the Top 4-less league?

BaZmO*

Lemlin wrote: »

I won the Boards league in 2006 and have never been beaten in a private league. Including winning my workplace league that had over a hundred people in it in 2008. I also won the Off The Ball Newstalk league in 2006.

So I'd imagine I have a better idea than you how to play it.

Sounds like you just had a lucky year in '06

Did you ever get your money?

Lemlin wrote: »

There's alot to be said for form but if Rooney was banging in goals and United were playing a decent team like Everton, and Burnley are losing every game six nil and Liverpool are playing them, I'd go with Torres.

But that would mean that Burnley had bad form so you'd obviously go with a player that had a good chance to put some past them.

Look, I'm not saying that you have to stick to Form regardless of everything else. It's like when the Top 4 are playing, I'd rarely put the likes of Lampard or Gerrard captain for a Chelsea/Pool game and likewise Ronaldo or Adebayor for a Utd./Arsenal game.

Lemlin

BaZmO* wrote: »

Sounds like you just had a lucky year in '06

Did you ever get your money?



But that would mean that Burnley had bad form so you'd obviously go with a player that had a good chance to put some past them.

Look, I'm not saying that you have to stick to Form regardless of everything else. It's like when the Top 4 are playing, I'd rarely put the likes of Lampard or Gerrard captain for a Chelsea/Pool game and likewise Ronaldo or Adebayor for a Utd./Arsenal game.

So when did you ever have a lucky year in five years of playing? :rolleyes:

Tbh, I don't think the captain is a as big as some people make it out to be. The people who do really well are the people who have the 'surprise packages'. Example - Stephen Ireland last year. He started off being very cheap but had a superb season and rose throughout the year.

Lampard, Torres etc. don't make that much difference as most people have them and transfer them in. If you've a player like Ireland last year or Pedersen in '06 (who I had) that is very cheap but gets around the same points as a Lampard or Gerrard, that's when you are flying.

I have Gerrard, Arshavin, Torres and Rooney in my team but its the players like Larsson from Brum that I'm hoping will make the difference.

BaZmO*

Lemlin wrote: »

So when did you ever have a lucky year in five years of playing? :rolleyes:

Not really. Just continued improvement each year as I've gotten used to playing the game.

Lemlin wrote: »

Tbh, I don't think the captain is a as big as some people make it out to be. The people who do really well are the people who have the 'surprise packages'. Example - Stephen Ireland last year. He started off being very cheap but had a superb season and rose throughout the year.

Yeah exactly. I had him along with Geovanni (before he lost his form), Schwarzer too. Plus, players like Lescott who's price has increased by 1m each year. He was only 5m in 06/07 he's now 7m. You just need to be quick to get the edge.

There's no one thing that makes you instantly good at this game but I still hold the view that the difference is knowing when to buy and sell players by studying their.........yeah you guessed it, Form.

Tony_Montana

How does this team look?

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Cech

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Clichy

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Dunne

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Evans

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Cole

Kuyt

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Fletcher

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Barry

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Lennon

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Berbatov

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Anelka

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Eire-Dearg

Not bad at all, but obviously you are without either Lampard, Gerrard or Arshavin.

Evans will only start for Utd for a short while before Vidic is back, and it's not clear Dunne will play at all at City.

Mr. Incognito

Wow- people are shortsighted- the best approach is take each 5 week spell on it's own- In their first five Arsenal have no game in week two and United in week 4- stay off ardshavin until week 6 or that.
Opponent
1: Schwarzer 175 - - Portsmouth (A)

2: Evra 106 - - Birmingham (H)
3: Cole A 141 - - Hull City (H)
4: Carragher 161 - - Tottenham (A)
5: Terry 141 - - Hull City (H)
6: Hangeland 147 - - Portsmouth (A)

7: Gerrard 216 - - Tottenham (A)
8: Lampard (C) 226 - - Hull City (H)

9: Cole 127 - - Wolves (A)
10: Beattie 80 - - Burnley (H)
11: Ebanks-Blake - - - West Ham (H)

_______________________________________________
12: Hart 75 - - Man Utd (A)
13: Mendy 75 - - Chelsea (A)
14: Henry - - - West Ham (H)
15: Muamba 71 - - Sunderland (H)

Is my team- I have a full squad for week 2 and favourable fixtures for the first 6 games. Finished in top 300 last year- here's hoping the breaks go my way this year. Good luck to all.

Jugs82

Archimedes wrote: »

Guys whats the password for the Top 4-less league?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055616182

The code for the league and how to pay the entry fee are in the thread above

NabyLadistheman

Foster

Johnston

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Cole

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Ferdinand

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Steinnsston

Lampard

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A Young----Geovanni----Lawerance

Torres

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Ebanks Blake


Nzogbia
Zayatte
Akinbiyi!


Most of these boys available for GW 2 as well. Hopefully should be ok

Mint Sauce

was considering doing some further changes in light of the possible Stephen Hunt move to hull, no confirmation yet on any of the news sites or the premierleauge site, but according to wiki, he is now a hull player

Stephen Patrick Hunt (born 1 August 1981 in Portlaoise, County Laois) is an Irish footballer. His position is left midfield, although he can also play at left-back and in centre midfield and he plays professionally for Hull City. He previously played for Brentford and Crystal Palace and Reading. He is sponsered by Puma. His younger brother, Noel Hunt, is also a footballer, and joined Reading in 2008.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hunt_(footballer_born_1981)

This page was last modified on 11 August 2009 at 15:12.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hunt_(footballer_born_1981)

anyone else have any info, or when would the fantasy football list be updated after a transfer

Red Alert

Just joined there now (Patter United)!

Eire-Dearg

irish-stew, the clubs have only agreed fees he hasn't signed officially there yet.

Mint Sauce

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

irish-stew, the clubs have only agreed fees he hasn't signed officially there yet.

thats what i thought, every news/sports site i reed was indicated that fact, maybe some should tell wiki

KevIRL

Current version of my team. Any thoughts appreciated

Foster

Carvalho
O Shea
Halford

Lampard (c)
Gerrard
Valencia
Modric
Richardson

Bent
Beattie

Subs : Ebanks-Blake, Bardsley, Espinoza

Bounty Hunter

Okay this will be the last time i change my team before the big kick off*

......................Cech

....Warnock...Hangeland...Evra

Arshavin..Neville..Carrick..Barry..Young

...............Bent.....Van Persie

Subs: Bassong, L.Young, Zamora

*This probably wont be true

KittyeeTrix

Well, finally had enough time to pick a team.....name: Great year '74

Let me know what ye think


Given

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Schwarzer

Baines

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Hangelaand

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Cahill

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Toure

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Carragher

Ireland

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Davies

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N'zogbia

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Gerrard

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Modric

Agbonlahor----Jerome

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Doyle

Would really love some feedback

Jugs82

Approx. the 10th change I've made, done with G2 and the next 3-4 weeks in mind.

Foster

Cole
Evans
Upson

Lampard
Gerrard
Lucas
Essien
Kuyt

Ebanks Blakes
Beattie

Subs:

Hart
Scharner
Ferdinand (Sunderland)
Fletcher

Headshot

dodgy having foster in goal

Jugs82

Headshot wrote: »

dodgy having foster in goal

I was thinking that but Unt have 3 very handy games first up and I think Ferguson ill keep faith with Foster

jesus_thats_gre

Is Gerrard going to be fit for this weekend?

Vampireskiss

Opinions of this please

Game weeks 1 and 2 only

Foster or Kuschack

evans
A.cole
carragher
corluka
bassong

lampard
gerard
flecther

agbonleher
keane

Then after Game week 2 use wild card and the pick the following

sorenson

lescott
carragher
terry
corluka

Arshavin
ireland
barry
modric
arteta

bent

Eire-Dearg

jesus_thats_gre wrote: »

Is Gerrard going to be fit for this weekend?

I'd say he will, but re-check some stage before GW1 comes around just to make sure.

jesus_thats_gre

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

I'd say he will, but re-check some stage before GW1 comes around just to make sure.

KittyeeTrix

Any thoughts on this team guys


Given

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Schwarzer

Baines

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Hangelaand

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Cahill

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Toure

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Carragher

Ireland

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Davies

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N'zogbia

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Gerrard

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Modric

Agbonlahor----Jerome

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Doyle

Would appreciate any comments, good or bad:)

Eire-Dearg

Seven players are missing in gameweek 2.

KittyeeTrix

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

Seven players are missing in gameweek 2.

Thanks
For real, feck, my head is wrecked tryna sort the damned thing out.

Is the best thing to do is to use the wildcard and change after GW2???

Eire-Dearg

You've a headache?

I've 14 players all fighting for a place in my team this weekend, and only two will be missing for GW 2.

Mr.Nice Guy

Vampireskiss wrote: »

Opinions of this please

Game weeks 1 and 2 only

Foster or Kuschack

evans
A.cole
carragher
corluka
bassong

lampard
gerard
flecther

agbonleher
keane

Then after Game week 2 use wild card and the pick the following

sorenson

lescott
carragher
terry
corluka

Arshavin
ireland
barry
modric
arteta

bent

Very brave to go with 2 Spurs defenders against Liverpool. I wouldn't risk it personally.

fluffyorganic1 wrote:

Thanks
For real, feck, my head is wrecked tryna sort the damned thing out.

Is the best thing to do is to use the wildcard and change after GW2???

It's an option a lot of people will go for I'm sure. I'm currently trying to work out a team that will get me through a few weeks before I switch to my "main team".

KittyeeTrix

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

You've a headache?

I've 14 players all fighting for a place in my team this weekend, and only two will be missing for GW 2.

Wish I had that problem:)

I must be going blind look at the page on FF.
Where do you see the GW 2 info???

Eire-Dearg

fluffyorganic1 wrote: »

Wish I had that problem:)

I must be going blind look at the page on FF.
Where do you see the GW 2 info???

It's mentioned at the bottom here, plus Fulham and Blackburn whose game was postponed recently.

Vampireskiss

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Very brave to go with 2 Spurs defenders against Liverpool. I wouldn't risk it personally.

Well spurs are at home

Eire-Dearg

Vampireskiss wrote: »

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Very brave to go with 2 Spurs defenders against Liverpool. I wouldn't risk it personally.

Well spurs are at home

But it's against Liverpool

Mr.Nice Guy

Vampireskiss wrote: »

Well spurs are at home

They are at home and normally at home they are very good defensively but this situation is a bit different. Going into this game they have no Dawson, no King, no Woodgate and no Bale and they will also be handing Bassong an immediate debut. All of this to deal with against the team who were top scorers in the league last season!

I wouldn't go near Spurs defenders myself but each to their own.

Panthro

would vanelcia be a guaranteed starter for united now?
i think he came on in place of nani the other day, and nani is out injured isnt he, so would valencia be the most likely replacement?

Eire-Dearg

For those asking, Stephen Hunt completed his move to Hull so expect him to appear on Thursday or so.

tok9

tok9 wrote: »

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Schwarzer

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-Pantsil

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Warnock

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Zhirkov

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Figueroa

-Behrami

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Gerrard

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Arteta

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Arshavin

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Doyle

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Torres

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12: Sorensen
13: Shawcross
14: Lawrence
15: Jerome

After days of tinkering and taking gameweek 2 into account the team is

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Foster

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----Figueroa

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Bassong

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Da Silva

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Zhirkov---

-Noble

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Gerrard

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Lucas

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Arshavin

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Lennon--

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Torres

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12: Sorensen
13: McFadden
14: Piquionne
15: Shawcross

So in G2 I'll sell Arshavin and get in Lampard ( I've 1.0 in the bank)

What do eh think?

I honestly think Lucas at 5.0 is a steal for someone who will play at least 90% of the matches till Aquaman is at least fit. Impressed me enough in pre season.. plenty of forward runs

Mezcita

tok9 wrote: »

After days of tinkering and taking gameweek 2 into account the team is

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Foster

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----Figueroa

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Bassong

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Da Silva

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Zhirkov---

-Noble

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Gerrard

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Lucas

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Arshavin

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Lennon--

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Torres

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12: Sorensen
13: McFadden
14: Piquionne
15: Shawcross

So in G2 I'll sell Arshavin and get in Lampard ( I've 1.0 in the bank)

What do eh think?

I honestly think Lucas at 5.0 is a steal for someone who will play at least 90% of the matches till Aquaman is at least fit. Impressed me enough in pre season.. plenty of forward runs

Gone for Foster and Sorenson as well. At least if Foster does not play, Sorenson has a decent chance of scoring some points.

Bassong will be lining out in a weakened Spurs defence (see a few posts above from Mr. Nice Guy). Da Silva may not start. Think Evans has a better chance.

Not sure about Lucas. He's cheap and Benitez rates him highly but surely Mascherano will start ahead of him?

ronbyrne2005

Can people please suggest their best value buys. I mean those that will score most points per million spent on them.

tok9

Mezcita wrote: »

Gone for Foster and Sorenson as well. At least if Foster does not play, Sorenson has a decent chance of scoring some points.

Bassong will be lining out in a weakened Spurs defence (see a few posts above from Mr. Nice Guy). Da Silva may not start. Think Evans has a better chance.

Not sure about Lucas. He's cheap and Benitez rates him highly but surely Mascherano will start ahead of him?

I haven't decided on Bassong yet.. it's between himself and shawcross. I'm taking a chance on da silva ( Bruce seems to always find a gem) but thats a good point about evans... never thought about him.

It will be masch and Lucas in midfield i think... He will be a lot more advanced than masch too....