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carlcon

Give it to me straight, guys... is my new sig too large?

manual_man

roryc wrote: »

As part of my master plan I currently have 7.2m in the bank

And I wonder why I'm slipping down, down, down...

8.1 here...

Don't feel too bad

Jimmy Iovine

carlcon wrote: »

Give it to me straight, guys... is my new sig too large?

At first I thought it was an image that you posted. It's kind of hard to make out the line separating the end of your post and the sig.

carlcon

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

At first I thought it was an image that you posted. It's kind of hard to make out the line separating the end of your post and the sig.

Agreed. It'll stop being funny to me in about 24 hours, so it'll be gone by then.

unkymo

I'm joint top of the Boards league...for the month of April

GaaLad

Lads how many teams are there in the Irish league on FPL?

DazzlerIE

GaaLad wrote: »

Lads how many teams are there in the Irish league on FPL?

I don't think there's any way of checking

you were able to in previous years...

Jimmy Iovine

GaaLad wrote: »

Lads how many teams are there in the Irish league on FPL?

Well there's a lad in one of my leagues who is coming 2.558 millionth overall and he is around 226,000th in Ireland. For a country of our size that's a pretty hefty number. Not far off 20% of the population. Taking a wild guess and other age factors and what not into it I'd say the majority of 18-30 year old males are playing it.

That guy I mentioned above has Gyan as his captain and Heurelho Gomes as his vice captain. They've contributed a total of 6 points to his campaign so far ha.

smokingman

Anyone think it's time to bring Silva back in?

roryc

At the expense of who though? Only Valencia/Young would be worth it, the rest are on double GW's.

smokingman

roryc wrote: »

At the expense of who though? Only Valencia/Young would be worth it, the rest are on double GW's.

Already have a mid of Valencia, Walcott, Siggy, Bale and Gerrard so was thinking Gerrard. Would bring me up to 11 for next week and they do have Wolves the week after...

roryc

100% get rid of Gerrard...

smokingman

roryc wrote: »

100% get rid of Gerrard...

I know he's got a double gameweek in gw36 and he'll probably be angry after we beat him in the semi on Saturday but Silva may well outscore him through the end of the season....but....was Silvas play last night a flash in the pan? It was against West Brom but, is he worth it for the rest of the season?....decisions decisions...

keano_afc

Silva looked very lively last night, back to something like his best form.

smokingman

Just to add to the difficulty -
Silva V Norwich, then Wolves
or
Sessegnon V Wolves, then Villa

FatRat

smokingman wrote: »

Just to add to the difficulty -
Silva V Norwich, then Wolves
or
Sessegnon V Wolves, then Villa

Can I remind people of City's poor away form? Of the 5 games they have left, 3 of them are away. They have scored 5 goals in their last 10 away games. That is an absolutely useless record. Norwich aren't looking too bad and I don't think City will score much against them. As for Wolves, Wolves are Wolves and City will surely score a few but they won't destroy them. Then City have United at home and Newcastle away. Their last game is the only one looking in their favour really, besides the Wolves one. QPR at home.


I honestly can't see too many goals from City in their last 5. I could be proven wrong by them, but given the statistics, it'd be a good idea not to knee-jerk both Aguero and Silva in.

DazzlerIE

So the guy who has spent six months at the top of the table has slipped to 12th in three weeks

That must be a serious kick in the groin

Surprised it took so long considering he has Hilario and Ferguson in his team

carlcon

DazzlerIE wrote: »

So the guy who has spent six months at the top of the table has slipped to 12th in three weeks

That must be a serious kick in the groin

Surprised it took so long considering he has Hilario and Ferguson in his team

I can almost relate to that. Based on current form, there's no way I'm going to win the Boards league, which generally wouldn't cross my mind for a moment... only for being on top for practically the whole season has given be a certain "comfort" that I won't be happy to lose so late in the season.

I'm doing a City! :pac:

manual_man

DazzlerIE wrote: »

So the guy who has spent six months at the top of the table has slipped to 12th in three weeks

That must be a serious kick in the groin

Surprised it took so long considering he has Hilario and Ferguson in his team

Only 23 behind 3rd! And 47 behind 1st! Go on the Dazzler!

DazzlerIE

I'll just be happy closing out my money league at this stage, but I seem to be making steady progress towards the top while I'm at it, can't complain really

If I get the DGW spot on, then who knows

roryc

Surely the rest of your leagues are over if your 14th!

manual_man

DazzlerIE wrote: »

I'll just be happy closing out my money league at this stage, but I seem to be making steady progress towards the top while I'm at it, can't complain really

If I get the DGW spot on, then who knows

are you keeping Cisse or gonna gamble on someone like Bendtner for gw34??

DazzlerIE

roryc wrote: »

Surely the rest of your leagues are over if your 14th!

Main rival is 70ish points behind me, 407 in the world

Pretty high standard in our cash league this year!

Get through GW 34 without him eating into my lead and then I'll call it as over

DazzlerIE

manual_man wrote: »

are you keeping Cisse or gonna gamble on someone like Bendtner for gw34??

Keeping Cisse, brought in Vermaelen to give me the full 11

Going to ignore the double in 35 (no value there imo) then focus everything on setting myself up right for 36

willing to take a four point hit, so should have seven players playing twice

roryc

DazzlerIE wrote: »

Main rival is 70ish points behind me, 407 in the world

Pretty high standard in our cash league this year!

Get through GW 34 without him eating into my lead and then I'll call it as over

Surely it's 36 you should be worrying about? And 70 is borderline uncatchable now...

DazzlerIE

roryc wrote: »

Surely it's 36 you should be worrying about? And 70 is borderline uncatchable now...

He has most of the same players as me

So unless he takes a raft of points hits there's no way he can set his team up vastly different to mine

dublinhead

Looking forward to the next gameweek, Team picks its self dont have to worry about selecting subs!

keano_afc

Yep, me too. Just finalised my team there, brought in Turner for O'Shea, Sunderland have some ok fixtures coming up. I'm going 4-4-2 this week, first time in a while!

Vorm

Evans Caulker Turner Vermaelen

Silva Valencia Siggy McLean

RVP Rooney

james123

Surely it would be a good idea to get a city player in for this gameweek no ? id say they will pull out all the stops now

FutureGuy

I've seen some clever team names, but this just takes things to a whole new level...


SiggySongOxSessDemps

smokingman

Anyone know why exactly Rooney was taken off in the Wigan game?
Was it because he was partly at fault for the goal or is he having a bit of an argie-bargie with Fergie lately?

Cantona's Collars

smokingman wrote: »

Anyone know why exactly Rooney was taken off in the Wigan game?
Was it because he was partly at fault for the goal or is he having a bit of an argie-bargie with Fergie lately?

He was poor,ended up dropping into midfield to try & help out.More of a tactical error by Fergie than anything else.He'll be up front against Villa & Scholes will be back in the team.I expect Rooney to get a couple against Villa after what happened the other night.

shangri la

keano_afc wrote: »

Yep, me too. Just finalised my team there, brought in Turner for O'Shea, Sunderland have some ok fixtures coming up. I'm going 4-4-2 this week, first time in a while!

Vorm

Evans Caulker Turner Vermaelen

Silva Valencia Siggy McLean

RVP Rooney

have 9 of those. Mid table mediocraty.

manual_man

have 11 for this week after taking an 8 pt hit. hoping my City players can gain me some ground if not this week then next week definitely against Wolves!

Al Habsi Caulker Kompany Evans Valencia Siggy Silva McClean Graham Aguero RVP, Sub Walcott

GetWithIt

^^
8 point hit and Walcott on the bench? Why not 4 and play him?

Whoever you got rid of presumably would have had a double in 36?

manual_man

GetWithIt wrote: »

^^
8 point hit and Walcott on the bench? Why not 4 and play him?

Whoever you got rid of presumably would have had a double in 36?

I'm gambling on Silva making me back those 4 points. I don't fancy Walcott against Wigan, hence the bench

edit I got rid of Dempsey, who does have a double, but to be honest I don't fancy him for that double, excellent rapper though he is

DazzlerIE

Was talking to one of my mates last night and he was asking me why I think I did better this year in FF than in previous years. I came up with the theory that actually not getting to watch a lot of games is helping me, because I'm avoiding knee jerking players in based on one performance

Have to just rely on the stats

Wonder what Carlcon thinks about this? You live in California don't you?

carlcon

DazzlerIE wrote: »

Was talking to one of my mates last night and he was asking me why I think I did better this year in FF than in previous years. I came up with the theory that actually not getting to watch a lot of games is helping me, because I'm avoiding knee jerking players in based on one performance

Have to just rely on the stats

Wonder what Carlcon thinks about this? You live in California don't you?

You know what... this exact thing came to mind when the guy currently behind me in the Boards league made a post yesterday or the day before, and I noticed his location is set to "USA". That's 3 of the current top players in Boards all in North America. I was trying to figure out if that had any relevance.

My explanation for my own relative success was accepting that stats and professional opinion trumps my opinion tenfold. I relied heavily on BBC Radio5Live commentary during the first half of the season, where I was getting constant stats, facts, and up to date opinion from ex players and managers before, during, and after games. Didn't matter what games I saw, or who I thought played well... I went with them.

It's no coincidence that I've mostly sucked over the last few months, as I've been watching more games as opposed to getting more info.

So yeah... I think there's definitely something to your theory.

DazzlerIE

I just remember in previous years a guy would score a cracker and I'd have him transferred in before the end of the game, it's madness

avoiding knee jerk decisions is the single biggest factor to doing well, that and a bit of luck of course (I've had no injuries all season)

DazzlerIE

Also - We should do some sort of FPL awards at the end of the season

categories like - Worst value FPL player, best value FPL player, best team, most surprising team, favourite FPL player, most disappointing player, player who will absolutely be in your starting XI next year, best team name you've seen etc

could be a good idea

KevIRL

DazzlerIE wrote: »

Also - We should do some sort of FPL awards at the end of the season

categories like - Worst value FPL player, best value FPL player, best team, most surprising team, favourite FPL player, most disappointing player, player who will absolutely be in your starting XI next year, best team name you've seen etc

could be a good idea

Not a bad idea. Also a category for most retarded rant/argument on the forum. There has been a few tbf

KevIRL

DazzlerIE wrote: »

Was talking to one of my mates last night and he was asking me why I think I did better this year in FF than in previous years. I came up with the theory that actually not getting to watch a lot of games is helping me, because I'm avoiding knee jerking players in based on one performance

Have to just rely on the stats

Wonder what Carlcon thinks about this? You live in California don't you?

carlcon wrote: »

You know what... this exact thing came to mind when the guy currently behind me in the Boards league made a post yesterday or the day before, and I noticed his location is set to "USA". That's 3 of the current top players in Boards all in North America. I was trying to figure out if that had any relevance.

My explanation for my own relative success was accepting that stats and professional opinion trumps my opinion tenfold. I relied heavily on BBC Radio5Live commentary during the first half of the season, where I was getting constant stats, facts, and up to date opinion from ex players and managers before, during, and after games. Didn't matter what games I saw, or who I thought played well... I went with them.

It's no coincidence that I've mostly sucked over the last few months, as I've been watching more games as opposed to getting more info.

So yeah... I think there's definitely something to your theory.

Regardless of watching matches or not, kneejerking a player in is rarely a good idea. I actually think too much importance is given to players rising in price and would rarely make a transfer before Friday of a gameweek. Granted if I knew the player I wanted would go up by 0.1 and that would mean I couldnt afford him then I might, but overall while its useful to keep an eye on crackthecode and price risers/fallers its not the be all and end all. Far more important to take some time to consider your transfer imo.

Also, too many people give up waaaay too easily and start taking point hits, and making gambles based on hunches. It's probably the biggest FF cliché but the game really is a marathon not a sprint. Keeping the head and not going nuts after a few bad GW's in a row is really important to decent finish.

Finally, transfer point hits. Avoid avoid avoid avoid. The minimum possible over the season.

carlcon

DazzlerIE wrote: »

Also - We should do some sort of FPL awards at the end of the season

categories like - Worst value FPL player, best value FPL player, best team, most surprising team, favourite FPL player, most disappointing player, player who will absolutely be in your starting XI next year, best team name you've seen etc

could be a good idea

Absoultely. I mentioned it a few weeks back, asking for ideas. A few good ones came up (along with the obvious)...

Best player
Best bargain
Biggest flop
Best GK/Def/Mid/Fwd
Best individual performance
Worst single event of the season (like a red card that effected lots, or conceding a last minute goal when you have a keeper and 2 defenders on a clean sheet).

KevIRL wrote: »

Not a bad idea. Also a category for most retarded rant/argument on the forum. There has been a few tbf

Can't complain about retarded arguments if you're going to suggest starting one like that.

Jimmy Iovine

KevIRL wrote: »

Finally, transfer point hits. Avoid avoid avoid avoid. The minimum possible over the season.

That's huge. I've taken none and I'm doing my best ever. My friend has nearly taken 100 points at this stage and I'm leading him by that score.

Also the fact I've nothing to do all day helps big time. I can spend ages looking up players or watching games. Won't have any time next year or the year after really so I'm not expecting to do well at all.

Dempsey

I've watched more games than I ever had and this is by far my best season. My worst season was when I was living in Australia and saw few matches and struggled for internet access and waning interest.

I think the main reason for my improvement is that this is the first season I've used the FISO and contributed to the FPL thread & forum on boards.ie this season. I've been more aware of injuries, DGW's, players coming into form from people regularly contributing and discussing the pros and cons of players.

Biggest knee jerk I made this season was getting in RVP 5 minutes after that chelsea game, should have knee jerked him in sooner!

dublinhead

DazzlerIE wrote: »

Was talking to one of my mates last night and he was asking me why I think I did better this year in FF than in previous years. I came up with the theory that actually not getting to watch a lot of games is helping me, because I'm avoiding knee jerking players in based on one performance

Have to just rely on the stats

Wonder what Carlcon thinks about this? You live in California don't you?

I am based in the states and I agree with your theory that not watching games is helping you do well. I have watched about 5 games the whole season. I do my selections based on stats, form and using http://www.fiso.co.uk. Being away from the skysports hype and reading sports sections from the papers probably also helps. Luck has alot to do with it!
I am 221 in the world and having my best season yet.

kevthegaff

what ye think of making bendner captain, im 80 pts off the leader. i also have 11 inc yaya. would ye take a 4pt hit to bring in silva or walcott for yaya. thanks

manual_man

kevthegaff wrote: »

what ye think of making bendner captain, im 80 pts off the leader. i also have 11 inc yaya. would ye take a 4pt hit to bring in silva or walcott for yaya. thanks

no yaya should play against Norwich keep him, Bendtner seems like a good bet for captain

S.M.B.

DazzlerIE wrote: »

Was talking to one of my mates last night and he was asking me why I think I did better this year in FF than in previous years. I came up with the theory that actually not getting to watch a lot of games is helping me, because I'm avoiding knee jerking players in based on one performance

Have to just rely on the stats

Wonder what Carlcon thinks about this? You live in California don't you?

I'm thinking momentum has had a massive influence on how well you've done this season.

Relying on stats v live games surely couldn't have that much of an effect.

Mr Moon

I went against my spreadsheet and brought in a player to make it 9 for this week, will take a 4 point hit next week now!!