FSA FPL Rate My Team Thread 2014-15

wonski

iroced wrote: »

Again Hutton has horrible fixtures coming. Unless you just plan on keeping him long term...
Why Fonte? Clyne is £0.4m cheaper and seems to offer the same guarantees than Fonte, doesn't he?
What's the thinking regarding your frontline? Afraid of injuries and you kept the cash for an upgrade from Welbeck?
What about Dyer? Will you rotate him? He's too expensive for a bench fodder role.

He is 5.6 - wouldn't call it expensive. The rest was a good advice, though.

iroced

My turn to ask for advice now.

WC team as follows.

Krul
Ivanovic - Clyne - Pieters
Fabregas - Sigurdsson - Sterling - Ramsey
Diego Costa - Aguero - Naismith

Elliot / King - Wisdom - Taylor

£0.8m in the bank.


I'm not completely satisfied.

Ivanovic is a lot of money but I'd like to give him a few weeks. Can always downgrade to another Chelsea def if needed (and hopefully I can make a £0.1m profit on him if I do sell).
Clyne will be played most weeks since Southampton have good fixtures coming. Ideally I'd like to get my £4.0m 5th def from a team rotating well with Southampton, which is not the case of Wisdom's WBA. Moore's Leicester and Duff's Burnley offer better rotation but I wonder how good they could be. Hull rotates OK too. Is McShane just replacing Bruce or is he a regular starter?
Pieters & Taylor will be rotated. I'm still debating getting Wilson to save £0.5m but feel Pieters could justify this difference.

Midfield is standard. I'm just debating whether I should ditch Ramsey or not. He's doubtful. Arsenal have a tough run. If Mata goes down tonight (I doubt it) he could be a good pick for the next couple of games.

Upfront I decided against Welbeck for the moment. Again Arsenal tough run, Arsenal not in super form and Welbeck has to fit in his new team. And Naismith is flying. I wanted to keep the funds for a direct Naismith->Welbeck move but looks like I'll have to downgrade someone (Ivanovic probably) for that. Ideally I'd get him in for GW8.

iroced

wonski wrote: »

He is 5.6 - wouldn't call it expensive. The rest was a good advice, though.

Don't forget I specifically mentionned "for a bench fodder role". As dasa29 has now said he might revert to 3-5-2 at some point and play Dyer he becomes a good option in this price bracket .

wonski

iroced wrote: »

My turn to ask for advice now.

WC team as follows.

Krul
Ivanovic - Clyne - Pieters
Fabregas - Sigurdsson - Sterling - Ramsey
Diego Costa - Aguero - Naismith

Elliot / King - Wisdom - Taylor

£0.8m in the bank.


I'm not completely satisfied.

Ivanovic is a lot of money but I'd like to give him a few weeks. Can always downgrade to another Chelsea def if needed (and hopefully I can make a £0.1m profit on him if I do sell).
Clyne will be played most weeks since Southampton have good fixtures coming. Ideally I'd like to get my £4.0m 5th def from a team rotating well with Southampton, which is not the case of Wisdom's WBA. Moore's Leicester and Burnley's Duff offer better rotation but I wonder how good they could be. Hull rotates OK too. Is McShane just replacing Bruce or is he a regular starter?
Pieters & Taylor will be rotated. I'm still debating getting Wilson to save £0.5m but feel Pieters could justify this difference.

Midfield is standard. I'm just debating whether I should ditch Ramsey or not. He's doubtful. Arsenal have a tough run. If Mata goes down tonight (I doubt it) he could be a good pick for the next couple of games.

Upfront I decided against Welbeck for the moment. Again Arsenal tough run, Arsenal not in super form and Welbeck has to fit in his new team. And Naismith is flying. I wanted to keep the funds for a direct Naismith->Welbeck move but looks like I'll have to downgrade someone (Ivanovic probably) for that. Ideally I'd get him in for GW8.

I would consider getting Courtois in for Krul and Newcastle defender in for Ivanovic. This would give you extra cash and same potential except Ivanovic goals (if any;)).

I stay away from Newcastle anyway - not in a great shape atm.

wonski

iroced wrote: »

Don't forget I specifically mentionned "for a bench fodder role". As dasa29 has now said he might revert to 3-5-2 at some point and play Dyer he becomes a good option in this price bracket .

Bench fodder or not you still want him to play, especially when injuries pop up like this week. 5.6 is little price to pay to have some points to come off the bench.

iroced

wonski wrote: »

Bench fodder or not you still want him to play, especially when injuries pop up like this week. 5.6 is little price to pay to have some points to come off the bench.

Yeah I see your point but the way I see it is that you could spend this £1.1m somewhere else (upfront or at the back).
I generally only expect my bench fodder to be a regular starter so that the points I'd be potentially missing (compared to a more expensive/better player) when I'd actually need him to come in would be much smaller to all the potentially wasted points on my bench every "normal" GW when he'd only wear up his bench fodder jersey...

wonski wrote: »

I would consider getting Courtois in for Krul and Newcastle defender in for Ivanovic. This would give you extra cash and same potential except Ivanovic goals (if any).

I stay away from Newcastle anyway - not in a great shape atm.

Yeah I thought about it... Ivanovic is mainly here for that. Will decide after a good night sleep now. Thanks for the feedbacks .

FHFC

wonski wrote: »

Bench fodder or not you still want him to play, especially when injuries pop up like this week. 5.6 is little price to pay to have some points to come off the bench.

If you want a 5th mid who plays and can come in in a injury emergency you can get one for 4.4m. Most players would consider 5.6 very expensive for that role.

If playing 352 as stated thats different.

pollocks

Any thoughts ??
Loris
Van Aanholt Shaw Clichy

Siggy. Sterling. Ramsey. Fabregas.

Falcao. Naismith. Costa

Subs: Gilks, Chester, Cattermole and Moore

Chesty08

dasa29 wrote: »

WC played Here is the team

krul
ivanovic Fonte Wilson
Sterling Ramsey Sigurdsson Fabregas
Naismith Costa Welbeck

Subs Guzan Dyer Duff Hutton

Team Value 96.6m
in the bank 4.7m

Had something similar this morning & now arrived at..

Forster

Ivanovic Manquillo Evans Wilson

Sterling Fabregas Tadic

Aguero Costa Welbeck

Subs: Siggy Duff Boyd

Re-jigged my defence & goalie a wee bit.

Took out Naismith Ramsey & Di Maria

Went with Aguero Tadic & Boyd

Kinda regretting it now no Ramsey & no Utd coverage

Dearg81

iroced wrote: »

My turn to ask for advice now.

WC team as follows.

Krul
Ivanovic - Clyne - Pieters
Fabregas - Sigurdsson - Sterling - Ramsey
Diego Costa - Aguero - Naismith

Elliot / King - Wisdom - Taylor

£0.8m in the bank.

You have nearly the same team as me so obviously I like it. I'd get Duff instead of Wisdom personally and McCarthy instead of Elliot as I think he'll be QPR number 1 soon but I can see the reasoning behind getting the sub keeper.

irish son

pollocks wrote: »

Any thoughts ??
Loris
Van Aanholt Shaw Clichy

Siggy. Sterling. Ramsey. Fabregas.

Falcao. Naismith. Costa

Subs: Gilks, Chester, Cattermole and Moore

Decent team but I'd change Shaw and Clichy, Clichy will be rotated almost every second match with Kolarov and we don't know how Shaw will fit in to United team yet so not worth the risk.

Jimmy Iovine

This is what I have at the moment.

Just took out Welbeck and Falcao for Aguero and Naismith.

Good or bad move? I'm hesitant about taking a punt on two new signings, especially with Costa as the other player.

I'm on a wildcard, btw.

Copper_pipe

0.6m in the back

8-10

Copper_pipe wrote: »

0.6m in the back

Just enough for Rooney -> Falcao

I've got the same

auldgranny

Wildcarding to

Begovic McGregor

Clyne Dier Peters Moreno Dummett

Siggy Sterling Fabregas Ramsey Puncheon

Pelle Wellbeck Costa

Southampton stoke and pool good fixtures

0.4 in bank


Anyone suggestions??

dahat

auldgranny wrote: »

Wildcarding to

Begovic McGregor

Clyne Dier Peters Moreno Dummett

Siggy Sterling Fabregas Ramsey Puncheon

Pelle Wellbeck Costa

Southampton stoke and pool good fixtures

0.4 in bank


Anyone suggestions??

Yeah stop posting in multiple threads, you auld granny.

auldgranny

dahat wrote: »

Yeah stop posting in multiple threads, you auld granny.

It's damn near impossible get an answer in any at this stage so that's why.
Suggestion on team or hold off on wildcard random stranger?

Chesty08

auldgranny wrote: »

It's damn near impossible get an answer in any at this stage so that's why.
Suggestion on team or hold off on wildcard random stranger?

Are you happy with your original team?

If so, don't wildcard

NoviGlitzko

Chesty08 wrote: »

Are you happy with your original team?

If so, don't wildcard

Exactly, and wildcarding takes more than 15 minutes to fully consider your perfect team.

PARlance

auldgranny wrote: »

It's damn near impossible get an answer in any at this stage so that's why.
Suggestion on team or hold off on wildcard random stranger?

It's a lot more possible to get an answer if you don't leave it till 11am to decide to wildcard

LeaveitOff

auldgranny wrote: »

Wildcarding to

Begovic McGregor

Clyne Dier Peters Moreno Dummett

Siggy Sterling Fabregas Ramsey Puncheon

Pelle Wellbeck Costa

Southampton stoke and pool good fixtures

0.4 in bank


Anyone suggestions??

I went for a similar strategy. I like the fixtures of Stoke, Pool and Southampton. I have Pelle and Welbeck but went with rooney for this week to upgrade to falcaonext week.

I took the plunge and dropped ramsey for Mirallas to free up funds.

begovic
evans - wilson - moreno
mirallas - sterling - di maria (c) - hazard
welbeck - pelle - rooney

subs myhill - siggy - wisdom - duff

Sgt Pepper 64

iroced wrote: »

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Again Hutton has horrible fixtures coming. Can't you upgrade to Taylor? Maybe Pieters could make you save cash over Shawcross...
Will you ever play Rodwell? If not he's too expensive for his bench fodder role. Get a £4.5m instead.

About the lack of an Arsenal player, how much have you got in bank? Can you upgrade Naismith to Welbeck without too many hits if needed? Or you can always get Ramsey for one of your big 3 MF.

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Thanks for that. Yep I changed to taylor but left hutton as he could be useful in later games
Changed rodwell to Quinn (cheaper)

so all my subs are actually now playing subs which is important, so I should always get points even 1!


Ive no cash left so I'll just rely on normal transfers if things need changing

auldgranny

I was happy enough with team but they are just not doing it for some reason.
Anyway thank you all for your advice. Plug pulled on wildcard and got Naismith ang wellbeck for Jovetic and Bojan. Cost me a hit but was going to get nothing with other 2 anyway. Will look for wildcard advice during the week. Thanks to those who did reply.

km79

well this is what I ended up with after 2 weeks of tinkering!
courtois McCarthy
moreno pieters PVA Taylor Moore
di maria sterling fabregas siggy Boyd
falcao wellbeck balotelli
.8 in bank to get Costa back in couple of weeks
seen as I took so many risks I decided to go all out and captain balotelli!

Pipjam

km79 wrote: »

.8 in bank to get Costa back in couple of weeks

Ouch.

IsMiseMyself

km79 wrote: »

well this is what I ended up with after 2 weeks of tinkering!
courtois McCarthy
moreno pieters PVA Taylor Moore
di maria sterling fabregas siggy Boyd
falcao wellbeck balotelli
.8 in bank to get Costa back in couple of weeks
seen as I took so many risks I decided to go all out and captain balotelli!

Oh dear. Think you might be in need of a wonder showing from Falcao and Di Maria to salvage something.

km79

IsMiseMyself wrote: »

Oh dear. Think you might be in need of a wonder showing from Falcao and Di Maria to salvage something.

worst.day.ever

auldgranny

auldgranny wrote: »

Wildcarding to

Begovic McGregor

Clyne Dier Peters Moreno Dummett

Siggy Sterling Fabregas Ramsey Puncheon

Pelle Wellbeck Costa

Southampton stoke and pool good fixtures

0.4 in bank


Anyone suggestions??

Why didn't I do it:mad::mad::mad:

JR6

Wildcard activated!

Mannone
Taylor Wilson Robertson
Ramsey Fabregas Siggy Di Maria Sterling
Costa Aguero

Subs. mccarthy, duff, Moore, jutkiezicz

Gone very cheap at the back. Will rotate based on fixtures. All subs play bar mccarthy but I think he will soon take Rob greens place. 0.1 in the bank.

Thoughts?

Pipjam

JR6 wrote: »

Wildcard activated!

Mannone
Taylor Wilson Robertson
Ramsey Fabregas Siggy Di Maria Sterling
Costa Aguero

Subs. mccarthy, duff, Moore, jutkiezicz

Gone very cheap at the back. Will rotate based on fixtures. All subs play bar mccarthy but I think he will soon take Rob greens place. 0.1 in the bank.

Thoughts?

As strong a 3-5-2 team as I can see anyone getting. The front seven is immense.

Robertson at Hull I wouldn't be sure about keeping his place. Maybe you could put that extra 0.1 into Hutton before he goes up. I know Villa have tough fixtures but they started the first of them with a clean sheet.

JR6

Robertson is 4.5 so I can do that no problem. Ya I'm thinking about Hutton. Just fixtures putting me off. They look good this year tho so far!

Pipjam

JR6 wrote: »

Robertson is 4.5 so I can do that no problem. Ya I'm thinking about Hutton. Just fixtures putting me off. They look good this year tho so far!

Hull have Man City, Arsenal and Liverpool in their next five so they don't have it much better!

LostArt

Bit of help needed here please

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Guzan
Terry Chambers Duff
Cesc Ramsey Siggy Di Maria
Aguero - Ulloa - Costa

Mannone, Hutton, Moore, King/Cork

Nerdlingr

LostArt wrote: »

Bit of help needed here please

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Guzan
Terry Chambers Duff
Cesc Ramsey Siggy Di Maria
Aguero - Ulloa - Costa

Mannone, Hutton, Moore, King/Cork

Downgrade Terry to a Southampron defender? Clyne/Bertrand/Alderweld ? Frees up 1.5m to be spent elsewhere.
Chambers...good way into the arsenal defence, but they havent kept a clean sheet all season...Hutton or Moore a better option to start?

LostArt

Nerdlingr wrote: »

Downgrade Terry to a Southampron defender? Clyne/Bertrand/Alderweld ? Frees up 1.5m to be spent elsewhere.
Chambers...good way into the arsenal defence, but they havent kept a clean sheet all season...Hutton or Moore a better option to start?

I'm just a bit tempted to hang onto Terry and Chambers because I think they'll both tighten up, in Chelseas case probably very soon

Nerdlingr

LostArt wrote: »

I'm just a bit tempted to hang onto Terry and Chambers because I think they'll both tighten up, in Chelseas case probably very soon

I know what you mean, I've Courtois in my team so hoping they'll get their act together soon enough as well...but besides downgrading Terry I cant see where else you can make a change.

F1fan

Long time lurker, first time poster...
Here's my team as is, I still have my wildcard, and also one transfer this week.
Don't know should I go all out and wildcard, or just make the one change, maybe in defence. Am thinking around in circles. Happy with midfield though.
Can anyone give me their thoughts/suggestions please?

alchemist33

F1fan wrote: »

Long time lurker, first time poster...
Here's my team as is, I still have my wildcard, and also one transfer this week.
Don't know should I go all out and wildcard, or just make the one change, maybe in defence. Am thinking around in circles. Happy with midfield though.
Can anyone give me their thoughts/suggestions please?

Issues I see:

Colocinni - NUFC are woeful at the moment, especially in defence
PVA - Sunderland aren't much better
Dier - Spurs fans tell us he'll lose his place soon
Terry - nuff said. I have him and will hold on for a little while longer but my patience is wearing thin
Isgrove - not playing much (injured too?)
Fletcher - not pulling up any trees

I'd suggest three better cheap/cheapish defenders e.g. Clyne, Duff, Taylor, Bertrand (Hutton if this all takes weeks and Villa's fixtures are better)
Isgrove to Boyd, Marney, King
Fletcher to anyone e.g. Ulloa, naismith, or if you free up funds, any of the good 7-ish strikers


Edit: re wildcarding, maybe it depends on how you are in your leagues. Can you afford to make the changes one per week, or will you drop far behind?

F1fan

alchemist33 wrote: »

Issues I see:

Colocinni - NUFC are woeful at the moment, especially in defence
PVA - Sunderland aren't much better
Dier - Spurs fans tell us he'll lose his place soon
Terry - nuff said. I have him and will hold on for a little while longer but my patience is wearing thin
Isgrove - not playing much (injured too?)
Fletcher - not pulling up any trees

I'd suggest three better cheap/cheapish defenders e.g. Clyne, Duff, Taylor, Bertrand (Hutton if this all takes weeks and Villa's fixtures are better)
Isgrove to Boyd, Marney, King
Fletcher to anyone e.g. Ulloa, naismith, or if you free up funds, any of the good 7-ish strikers


Edit: re wildcarding, maybe it depends on how you are in your leagues. Can you afford to make the changes one per week, or will you drop far behind?

Thanks Alchemist33,
Good suggestions re defence, thought PVA was a good choice, but Terry had me cursing last week. Like you though I'm not sure if he should get the axe just yet. Reckon I would have to go wildcard, last week used my 2 transfers to get rid of Mata and Rooney, which obviously left me crying over Match of the Day! Knocked me down the leagues too, so I have a bit of catching up to do.

sheroman01

Wildcard played! Mainly to get in Fabergas, Di Maria, Duff and Ulloa before their price jump....which happened so happy out!

What do ye make of this?

Manone

Taylor - Duff - Wilson

Ramsey - Fabergas - Di Maria - Chadli - Sigurdsson

Rooney - Costa

Bench:

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Heaton
Robertson
Hutton
Ulloa

Ace2007

sheroman01 wrote: »

Wildcard played! Mainly to get in Fabergas, Di Maria, Duff and Ulloa before their price jump....which happened so happy out!

What do ye make of this?

Manone

Taylor - Duff - Wilson

Ramsey - Fabergas - Di Maria - Chadli - Sigurdsson

Rooney - Costa

Bench:

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Heaton
Robertson
Hutton
Ulloa

No liverpoor or Man City attacking players would be my only concern with this team,

SpaceCowb0y

Team for the week

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Krul

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Pieters

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Duff

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Taylor

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Fabregas--Ramsey--Sterling--Sigurdsson

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Costa---Adebayor---Aguero

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Happy enough, Adebayor out for Pelle is likely my next move and also depending on his performance this weekend look to get Di Maria in too before his price rises out of my reach.

Any opinions? haven't posted a team since the start so all feedback welcome good and bad.

Currently on 223 overall sitting at circa 300k

Hackers

After playing the wildcard this where I am at:

Begovic (McCarthy)
Chambers – Moreno – Bertrand (Duff, Moore)
Fabregas – Di Maria – Sterling –Schneiderlin –Sigursson (Boyd)
Costa – Aguero ( Jutkiewicz)

No Arsenal attacking coverage is a small concern but willing to go without it as they are not exactly setting the world alight at the moment.

9 playing away from home this week since I am benching Duff & Moore but feel my back 3 could provide some attacking return.

0.0 in the bank!!

Scorpion Sting

Hackers wrote: »

After playing the wildcard this where I am at:

Begovic (McCarthy)
Chambers – Moreno – Bertrand (Duff, Moore)
Fabregas – Di Maria – Sterling –Schneiderlin –Sigursson (Boyd)
Costa – Aguero ( Jutkiewicz)

No Arsenal attacking coverage is a small concern but willing to go without it as they are not exactly setting the world alight at the moment.

9 playing away from home this week since I am benching Duff & Moore but feel my back 3 could provide some attacking return.

0.0 in the bank!!

6 midfielders, you are well set up for the weekend anyway!

Hackers

Ha, I see what you mean now!! Boyd was going to be bench fodder in an earlier version and he was still in my head when typing!!

jebforever wrote: »

6 midfielders, you are well set up for the weekend anyway!

greedygoblin

Hackers wrote: »

Ha, I see what you mean now!! Boyd was going to be bench fodder in an earlier version!!

Ninja edit there Hackers!

Hackers

Yes, would have looked an even bigger dope if I hadn't done that !!

greedygoblin wrote: »

Ninja edit there Hackers!

kronsington

I know it's not Pick your Team thread, but any thoughts on this lot for the weekend- will do either 433 343

Krul
Duff Alderwiriild Manquillo
Sterling Ram Fab Siggy
Costa (c) Aguero Welbeck

Azpil, Moore, Boyd,

Scorpion Sting

kronsington wrote: »

I know it's not Pick your Team thread, but any thoughts on this lot for the weekend- will do either 433 343

Krul
Duff Alderwiriild Manquillo
Sterling Ram Fab Siggy
Costa (c) Aguero Welbeck

Azpil, Moore, Boyd,

Team looks good to go.

wonski

Any opinions on this?

Don't know how to fit Aguero there - could downgrade Pelle to Ulloa but the 3 upfront look strong enough for now. Herrera is there to catch some price rises only. It is going to be Silva most likely in his spot.