Sky Sports Fantasy Football thread - 2019/20 Winner is Donegal1234

2nd Row Donkey

Not a great start for me.

Only had 1 Liverpool player on Friday night - Gomez. So I was 20-30 points behind everyone right from the off.

Kane (c) Saturday and sterling. Can't complain there.

Only 1 player on Sunday - Barkley (c) Good Lord.

Ah well. Plenty of time to catch up.

county

I got 70 points in the first week,thought that was ok until I looked at our league table! The pressure is on all ready lol.

Donegal1234

Just seen i am top of the table , can’t see myself staying their for long.

DJIMI TRARORE

92 for the week,2/3 c success, Salah fail,Stevens and Neves good,just inside top 15k
The ultimate game mustn't be going to be played weekly

manual_man

First couple of transfers made. Grealish and Coleman out for Mount and AWB in.

manual_man

1.4k rank overall. 3rd in the Boards league - standard is good

Trimm Trabb

'The first Overhaul period will begin following the completion of game week 4. It will then run throughout game week 5 and up until the first kick off of game week 6.'

Am I reading this wrong or..

For gameweek 5 could you have 11 Saturday players for the 7 games, 11 Sunday players for the two games, 11 MNF players and then pick your actual overhaul team before gamweek 6 without using any transfers??

Game doesn't seem to be that well run so I'm guessing its a misprint in the rules??

manual_man

Trimm Trabb wrote: »

'The first Overhaul period will begin following the completion of game week 4. It will then run throughout game week 5 and up until the first kick off of game week 6.'

Am I reading this wrong or..

For gameweek 5 could you have 11 Saturday players for the 7 games, 11 Sunday players for the two games, 11 MNF players and then pick your actual overhaul team before gamweek 6 without using any transfers??

Game doesn't seem to be that well run so I'm guessing its a misprint in the rules??

Gameweek 5 is blank

manual_man

So where are we at with our overhaul teams? I've been tinkering - like most i'm sure - and i'm now on a Hollywood front 3 of Salah-Aguero-Sterling:

Pope
Zinchenko TAA Soyuncu
KdB McGinn Mount Wilson
Salah Aguero Sterling

0.1 left over gives me the option of Sterling to Auba if i so wish (will want an Arsenal attacker for sure at some stage - probably from gw7 onwards)

Dearg81

manual_man wrote: »

So where are we at with our overhaul teams? I've been tinkering - like most i'm sure - and i'm now on a Hollywood front 3 of Salah-Aguero-Sterling:

Pope
Zinchenko TAA Soyuncu
KdB McGinn Mount Wilson
Salah Aguero Sterling

0.1 left over gives me the option of Sterling to Auba if i so wish (will want an Arsenal attacker for sure at some stage - probably from gw7 onwards)

I have 7 of those players. My only different players are Otamendi, Guilbert, Pepe and Haller vs Soyuncu, McGinn, Mount and Sterling. I've tried to cover captains over the next couple of weeks so that's why Haller and Pepe are in there.

manual_man

Settling on this i think:

Pope
Otamendi TAA Soyuncu Zinchenko
KdB Wilson Pepe
Aguero Sterling Haller

Going heavy on City. 0.2 itb for a little flexibility - e.g. Zinchenko to Ceballos, Sterling to Auba, Haller to Abraham, Aguero to Salah, etc.

Good luck all

2nd Row Donkey

Sterling and Salah listed as forwards means my midfield is a motley crew of James Wilson and Mount alongside KDB

Final team is

Pickford

Digne Zinko Pieters

KDB Mount James Wilson

Salah Sterling Aguero

extra gravy

Pope
Digne TAA Soyuncu
KDB Pepe Maddison Wilson
Aguero Sterling Haller

Good luck all

2nd Row Donkey

Only actually looked at the boards fsa league fir the first time this morning and there's a team called Second row Donkeys and it's not my team!

manual_man

First place in our league is lighting it up with 540 points :eek:

Trimm Trabb

manual_man wrote: »

First place in our league is lighting it up with 540 points :eek:

Yeah have had a scoring captain pretty much every single day! Yet there are still people 100 points ahead.

Was looking at entering the cash leagues run through the sky website - I’m right in saying you can join public cash leave up until the end of September?

Seems an odd system given that we’ll be almost a fifth of the way through the season after the weekend.

manual_man

Yeah you can enter the cash leagues late - can’t remember the exact cutoff date. You may as well enter if you’ve gotten off to such a good start(I’d wager the majority ahead of you have used more transfers)

Trimm Trabb

manual_man wrote: »

Yeah you can enter the cash leagues late - can’t remember the exact cutoff date. You may as well enter if you’ve gotten off to such a good start(I’d wager the majority ahead of you have used more transfers)

Yeah thats what I was thinking - be wrong to pass up the chance to enter while I have an edge.

First year playing the game and really liking it (not just cause I've started well!) but the format of it means you have to put lots of thought into transfers/strategy/captains. Plus another avenue for interest in games live on TV if you've got a captain for each day.

Trimm Trabb

manual_man wrote: »

Yeah you can enter the cash leagues late - can’t remember the exact cutoff date. You may as well enter if you’ve gotten off to such a good start(I’d wager the majority ahead of you have used more transfers)

Hadn’t used skybet account in years and had set a deposit limit of €25 so could enter two leagues - probably for the best in some ways as I was planning on some heavy investment.

Keep on hitting the jackpot in this game all the same - had Ricardo Pereira as captain yesterday and got 34 points out of him.

manual_man

Otamendi Aguero and Rodri my 3 City players today LOL(transferred them all out). Had to dump Zinchenko last week. Had no Leicester attackers yesterday but trusty Soyuncu(C) chipped in with points. Sterling(C) today

siblers

Mendy looks slow and out of shape

manual_man

Just shy of the tonne this week with 96pts. Soyuncu(c) today worked out very nicely indeed. 29/40 transfers remaining. Up to 1.7k overall

Dearg81

Is it worth bringing in Pukki for Friday if you have nobody playing? I preumse the answer is yes. I'd be taking out Kane who was a stupid transfer on Sunday before I knew he wasn't playing. I have 27 transfers left.

extra gravy

Dearg81 wrote: »

Is it worth bringing in Pukki for Friday if you have nobody playing? I preumse the answer is yes. I'd be taking out Kane who was a stupid transfer on Sunday before I knew he wasn't playing. I have 27 transfers left.

I don't think I'll bother with Pukki, it will cost another transfer to get rid of him then. Trying not to bother too much with these type of games where I don't want a player from either team long term, you're just wasting precious transfers

manual_man

extra gravy wrote: »

I don't think I'll bother with Pukki, it will cost another transfer to get rid of him then. Trying not to bother too much with these type of games where I don't want a player from either team long term, you're just wasting precious transfers

I got in Krul for Henderson. I'll captain him for that match as well as getting one extra game out of him before transferring Henderson back in next gw and captaining him(against Man U)

DJIMI TRARORE

The league is competitive this year, 60 odd points covering the top 6/7,hanging in there with Maddy and Sane c this week, pefering it to the main one tbh

Dearg81

DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »

The league is competitive this year, 60 odd points covering the top 6/7,hanging in there with Maddy and Sane c this week, pefering it to the main one tbh

Yea it's a good battle. I had a good week and jumped up to 2nd. Sane captain must be killing you :-)

DJIMI TRARORE

Not contributing much alright, Mane I meant to type😀

manual_man

Haven't posted in here in a while. How are we gettin' on? Boards league is nice and competitive at the top - in 3rd myself, and 3171st overall with 17/40 transfers left.

Donegal1234

manual_man wrote: »

Haven't posted in here in a while. How are we gettin' on? Boards league is nice and competitive at the top - in 3rd myself, and 3171st overall with 17/40 transfers left.

i gave up of the team in my the boards league. But my other team I have is in 155 place overall and 19 transfers left.

manual_man

Donegal1234 wrote: »

i gave up of the team in my the boards league. But my other team I have is in 155 place overall and 19 transfers left.

Shít the bed that's really good. Do you expect to make any other transfers before the overhaul?

Donegal1234

manual_man wrote: »

Shít the bed that's really good. Do you expect to make any other transfers before the overhaul?

will make 2/3 so will have 17/16 left .The Dan burn Injury is a bummer will just keep him until the overhaul.

aim is to make top 10 this year. Was in top 100 in 13/14 and 16/17

Donegal1234

manual_man wrote: »

Shít the bed that's really good. Do you expect to make any other transfers before the overhaul?

Actually 132

manual_man

Donegal1234 wrote: »

Actually 132

Class. Over 300pts between your two teams! Have you played Sky FF previously? *Edit silly me, just saw your above response. Well at least you have previous experience, don't rule yourself out. What's the points gap to the leader?

Donegal1234

manual_man wrote: »

Class. Over 300pts between your two teams! Have you played Sky FF previously?

Roughly 120 points but most of the top 10 have used all their transfers. I tend to go by the ffscout league which Is for players who know what they are doing and I’m 5 in that so doing well .

Dearg81

I'm at 2k and winning that boards league. First season for me and making a good few mistakes like forgetting to pick captain and transferring players out before the game week instead of waiting for them to play but still enjoying it.

I tend to pick players who are doing well in FPL which is working out for me so far. I put about 5 mins into my team each week tbh so I'm surprised I'm doing so well.

When is the next overhaul? I still have 18 transfers left so doing ok there too.

manual_man

Dearg81 wrote: »

I'm at 2k and winning that boards league. First season for me and making a good few mistakes like forgetting to pick captain and transferring players out before the game week instead of waiting for them to play but still enjoying it.

I tend to pick players who are doing well in FPL which is working out for me so far. I put about 5 mins into my team each week tbh so I'm surprised I'm doing so well.

When is the next overhaul? I still have 18 transfers left so doing ok there too.

Between the 2nd and 8th of February

Dearg81

manual_man wrote: »

Between the 2nd and 8th of February

After the Liverpool double game week. I guess we should just use our transfers on Liverpool now so?

Donegal1234

Dearg81 wrote: »

After the Liverpool double game week. I guess we should just use our transfers on Liverpool now so?

Correct the optimal time to bring in Liverpool players was last night I made two transfers

Dearg81

Donegal1234 wrote: »

Correct the optimal time to bring in Liverpool players was last night I made two transfers

How have you fared in FPL out of interest and do spend more time looking into the Sky game?

Donegal1234

Dearg81 wrote: »

How have you fared in FPL out of interest and do spend more time looking into the Sky game?

I’m like 700k average really. The lure of sky is the passing tackle and shots bonus makes games more interesting and also makes defensive mids more attractive.

Dearg81

Donegal1234 wrote: »

I’m like 700k average really. The lure of sky is the passing tackle and shots bonus makes games more interesting and also makes defensive mids more attractive.

I haven't really noticed the defensive mids doing too well, just had a quick look and Moutinho and Rodri are doing quite well. I need to get Van Dijk into my team fast looking at the defenders!

Donegal1234

Dearg81 wrote: »

I haven't really noticed the defensive mids doing too well, just had a quick look and Moutinho and Rodri are doing quite well. I need to get Van Dijk into my team fast looking at the defenders!

Xhaka couple of years ago and fernadinho where like 5 points guaranteed every game with passing bonus. I would bring vvd in when they play man united. Prob won’t get clean sheet away at Spurs

manual_man

Dearg81 wrote: »

After the Liverpool double game week. I guess we should just use our transfers on Liverpool now so?

Depends on your setup. I already have 3 Liverpool so I think I'm content with that. Could possibly get VVD in to make it 4, but otherwise to get Salah would mean using 2 transfers which I'm not sure is worth it

manual_man

Just noticed there's an option to enter a 3rd team now(by Jan 10th) and to set up or join half season leagues. Might be an idea for anyone who wants to try the game out, and for the rest of us we can add another team - it gives you the full 40 transfers as well so good opportunity to have a better shot at the monthly prize on offer each calendar month

manual_man

Came up with this for a 3rd team:

Alisson
TAA Robbo VVD Soyuncu Sidibé
Grealish Traore Richarlison
Vardy Sterling

Sterling and Vardy can become Manè and Firmino after a game or 2 make hay with the extra games for Liverpool hopefully, then we have the Overhaul early February so can reset things then anyway

Dearg81

manual_man wrote: »

Came up with this for a 3rd team:

Alisson
TAA Robbo VVD Soyuncu Sidibé
Grealish Traore Richarlison
Vardy Sterling

Sterling and Vardy can become Manè and Firmino after a game or 2 make hay with the extra games for Liverpool hopefully, then we have the Overhaul early February so can reset things then anyway

Nice team. Is there a max number of Liverpool players you can pick?

manual_man

Dearg81 wrote: »

Nice team. Is there a max number of Liverpool players you can pick?

No max from any team

manual_man

BTW I set up a league for the 2nd half of the season called 'Mid-term Exam' it can be found under public leagues just check the half season option for anyone who's setting up a new team and fancies joining

manual_man

Think i'm gonna go a bit nuts with Liverpool players - i can bring in VVD Henderson and Firmino to add to TAA Robertson and Mané. Will then have 13 transfers for the rest of the season