General Chat 2019/20

Taxuser1

Some freakishly fanatical fantasisers on boards. My scores and positions are too embarrassing to put up.

Green&Red

Looking at it I realise that I don’t filter enough, I should be screen shoting these scores to see who to listen to again
You kinda come on here and treat everyone as equal, when they’re clearly not


Waiting on SlickRic to come on and blow my 105th outta the water

dsmythy

2009/10 2124 - 167613
2010/11 1892 - 313160
2011/12 2118 - 30468
2012/13 1794 - 1023307
2013/14 1627 - 2236503
2014/15 1978 - 274237
2015/16 2032 - 486187
2016/17 2183 - 86262
2017/18 2345 - 3920
2018/19 2324 - 37599

Can relate to the having kids factor but what are your wives doing to you? Mine's my biggest cheerleader with the game!

extra gravy

https://lovindublin.com/entertainment/a-dublin-bar-manager-is-currently-second-in-the-world-on-fantasy-premier-league

"A Dublin bar manager is currently second in the world on Fantasy Premier League."

Shedite27

Green&Red wrote: »

Looking at it I realise that I don’t filter enough, I should be screen shoting these scores to see who to listen to again
You kinda come on here and treat everyone as equal, when they’re clearly not


Waiting on SlickRic to come on and blow my 105th outta the water

Some of the FPL accounts on Twitter are atrocious for this. Lads with thousands of followers dishing out advice sitting at 2m

I threw it out there a few years back that every one of our posts should have our current OR, to give people an idea of who they were listening to. Got shot down fairly emphatically

Markx

dahat wrote: »

Safe to assume you have a twitter account for fpl?

Have a Twitter and just tweet my team to keep a record really. Doesn't have 'fpl' in the handle or anything. Would like to do a podcast but never got round to it.

Wrote a couple of articles a few years back. One titled 'How Not to Hate FPL' is certainly my best contribution to FPL .

Markx

km79 wrote: »

Jaysus
You should be giving us all the advice

Thanks but the advice I gave myself this week cost 15 points!!

km79

Markx wrote: »

Have a Twitter and just tweet my team to keep a record really. Doesn't have 'fpl' in the handle or anything. Would like to do a podcast but never got round to it.

Wrote a couple of articles a few years back. One titled 'How Not to Hate FPL' is certainly my best contribution to FPL .

I am happy to be your first guest and discuss how sadly FPL affects my weekends now more than real life soccer
Of course as a united supporter it is also my only source of hope that I may get some enjoyment some weekend

km79

Shedite27 wrote: »

Some of the FPL accounts on Twitter are atrocious for this. Lads with thousands of followers dishing out advice sitting at 2m

I threw it out there a few years back that every one of our posts should have our current OR, to give people an idea of who they were listening to. Got shot down fairly emphatically

I still completely disagree with that
At this stage it is obvious who is around a good bit handing out sound advice and who is only in after a good score etc

“Good “ players can have bad seasons . It doesn’t mean they don’t have good advice to give out . In fact it can often be a case that they just don’t follow their own advice ! I enjoy getting other people’s opinions no matter their OR

Honestly if this place goes I don’t think I’d get anywhere near the enjoyment out of FPL. I might even end up stopping playing
It is obviously a source of advice and opinions but the best part is Matchday thread . I try to watch one match and look to the the thread for the rest


Long live Boards FPL
A great bunch of lads........and one girl I think !

Shedite27

FitzShane wrote: »

I wonder what price Minamino will be? 7.5m or 8.0m midfielder?

Minamino added at 6.5m. Shaqiri price basically

manual_man

Henderson and Wijnaldum are pretty nailed. Fabinho also, for whenever he returns from injury. In the meantime I'd say Minamino could share some game time with Keita and even Lallana. Class looking player from the CL games I saw him in though.

Fitz*

Cheaper than I thought. Then again, how much game time will he get straight away. If he is starting, he could be very cheap, especially if paying in the front 3. The suggestion so far is that he will play in midfield in the FA Cup game.

BullBlackNova

That's a decent price but he would still represent a huge gamble IMO.

A fully fit Liverpool squad will usually have at least two of Henderson, Wijnaldum and Fabinho in the midfield, and then you've to factor in Shaqiri, Oxlade Chamberlain, Keita, Lallana and Milner for the other spot.

Minamimo might get opportunities up top too but lots of competition there too. Just have to see how often Origi is involved for that.

With the current injuries, I wouldn't be surprised to see a bit of Minamimo in the next few weeks but his time might dwindle after people start to return.

ThunbergsAreGo

BullBlackNova wrote: »

That's a decent price but he would still represent a huge gamble IMO.

A fully fit Liverpool squad will usually have at least two of Henderson, Wijnaldum and Fabinho in the midfield, and then you've to factor in Shaqiri, Oxlade Chamberlain, Keita, Lallana and Milner for the other spot.

Minamimo might get opportunities up top too but lots of competition there too. Just have to see how often Origi is involved for that.

With the current injuries, I wouldn't be surprised to see a bit of Minamimo in the next few weeks but his time might dwindle after people start to return.

Pretty much spot on. It's a clever price from FPL can see it tempting loads!

One to get in on a draft game maybe

Shanotheslayer

I do like the idea of having to post your OR after each advice post as it then gives the idea that this year they've had it spot on.

Sorry to use this as an example but Slick couldn't get a thing wrong last year. Everything went his way & this year I think it's the complete opposite for him?

But the context is as KM said that a few folk have been around a long time so they already know who to take advice from most likely. I'm only posting here the last 3 years or so, I'm definitely a noob to some

I always knew busts had a good record but that's seriously much better than I thought.

MarkX also incredible record.

manual_man

2010/11 2123 7367
2011/12 1967 236912
2012/13 2202 12429
2013/14 2228 217938
2014/15 2077 76414
2015/16 2018 555238
2016/17 2181 89103
2017/18 2242 57766
2018/19 2367 15438

6/9 top 100k finishes is altogether decent, still a bit annoying that my 1st season is still my best :pac: :pac: 2015/16 the only real blip, but I certainly wasn’t the only one who suffered during that season :pac: current rank 434k haven’t really been able to get a break this season, though after gw18 I was 931k so at least I’m moving in the right direction. I usually finish the season stronger

extra gravy

2009/10 1700498
2010/11 403927
2011/12 11945
2012/13 215564
2013/14 19463
2014/15 1221
2015/16 1570
2016/17 37184
2017/18 52004
2018/19 6564

Have no recollection of that first season! Life got in the way in 2011 and 2014, have been taking it pretty seriously since then. Top 1k finish has alluded me so far, that's the target every year now. Doubt I'll see it this season so aiming for top 10k again.

Trimm Trabb

2007/08 2143 29350
2008/09 1868 142375
2009/10 2311 15850
2010/11 2110 10112
2011/12 1948 285245
2012/13 2271 2682
2013/14 2369 21332
2014/15 2211 7461
2015/16 2145 114698
2016/17 2290 14215
2017/18 2249 49724
2018/19 2317 43315

In 12 seasons inside top 50k 9 times but only in top 10k twice. Was 112 outside 10k one year and 3/4 more finishes around 15-20k on top of that. Consistently quite decent but only 2012/13 stands out as a great season.

Would happily take top 50k this year I reckon - just broke 450k last week.

Benimar

2008/09 14,119
2009/10 77,577
2010/11 9,985
2011/12 8,127
2012/13 1,675
2013/14 57,397
2014/15 955
2015/16 69,359
2016/17 6,418
2017/18 5,453
2018/19 17,757
2019/20 As of Jan 4th 1,887

Kids born during the 13/14 and 15/16 seasons so they are getting the blame for those seasons!

Taxuser1

Fell out of love with all things football. I took up cycling betting and then took racing back up in 2014 after years away from it and fantasy football suffered big time since then. Think this year is my first year really engaging again after Christmas

ThunbergsAreGo

2010/11 1802 622259
2011/12 1951 275340
2012/13 2088 76952
2013/14 2158 427242
2014/15 1971 298160
2015/16 2244 15001
2016/17 2136 159715
2017/18 2283 22536
2018/19 2318 42566

Some serious players on here!!

CSF

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

I do like the idea of having to post your OR after each advice post as it then gives the idea that this year they've had it spot on.

Sorry to use this as an example but Slick couldn't get a thing wrong last year. Everything went his way & this year I think it's the complete opposite for him?

But the context is as KM said that a few folk have been around a long time so they already know who to take advice from most likely. I'm only posting here the last 3 years or so, I'm definitely a noob to some

I always knew busts had a good record but that's seriously much better than I thought.

MarkX also incredible record.

I don’t agree with this. I’ve a good record this year (approx 30k) and have been averaging around this for close to a decade now.

However, if I looked at every post with reference to current OR I might be in danger of losing sight of the fact that there would be plenty in that 30k above me this year, that I’m consistently better than, and even more in those millions behind me who are consistently better than me.

Shanotheslayer

Taxuser1 wrote: »

Fell out of love with all things football. I took up cycling betting and then took racing back up in 2014 after years away from it and fantasy football suffered big time since then. Think this year is my first year really engaging again after Christmas

Slightly off topic but the betting you took up was serious betting or casual betting? I assume serious as it takes it up so much time. I know from experience.

Scorpion Sting

2011/12 -- 2730342
2012/13 -- 6292
2013/14 -- 80746
2014/15 -- 11072
2015/16 -- 8102
2016/17 -- 12792
2017/18 -- 41799
2018/19 -- 44136


That first season I only joined in February. My first full season is still my best so am aiming to get top 5k at some stage in the future.

Would obviously love a top 1k finish but that task gets tougher and tougher the more people play the game. Nearly 7.5 million players this season which is mind boggling.

jimmii

CSF wrote: »

I don’t agree with this. I’ve a good record this year (approx 30k) and have been averaging around this for close to a decade now.

However, if I looked at every post with reference to current OR I might be in danger of losing sight of the fact that there would be plenty in that 30k above me this year, that I’m consistently better than, and even more in those millions behind me who are consistently better than me.

Going by the current season would be pretty rubbish alright. FFS HOF would probably be as good an indicator as any. That or maybe 5 year average or number of top 10k/50k finishes but the ffs hof basically takes that into account already.

skippy15

I think the difference on here is, everyone gives genuine good advice and tries to justify the reason why- its up to you how you use it, even all the top players want and need advice

Pete_Cavan

Yeah, people offer different options and points of view, it's up to each individual to decide what they do with those. You can get good advice from a bad player or bad advice from a good player. Posts from contributors here are just another source of information which people can take into account, or not, when making their own decision.

Seaba

On FPL affecting your weekends/life etc, a friend of mine who has been living in Australia for the past 8 years had to give up fantasy football. He said the first 5 minutes of waking up on Sunday morning over there and checking his fantasy football score, determined what kind of mood he was going to be in for the day. If it went well, great, but if it didn't, his Sunday was ruined. I think we can all relate to that in someway.

After years of trying I have just about learned to put it in perspective but am still reluctant to captain someone in a Friday or early kick off on Saturday game, in case they blank and I am fuming for the rest of the weekend!!

Shedite27

I went through a period a few years back when I had to know about scores as they happened, would always have score alerts on my phone, checking the scorer/assist all weekend. Have completly ditched that now unless I'm sitting at home for an afternoon on my own anyway. Like you said, think most people have some perspective on where it sits in life. Don't want to be out with friends/family thinking about how Callum Wilson is getting on against Watford.

Dr. Bre

I once paid for the WiFi on a plane cos I needed to know the latest scores in the 3pm kick offs. Proper addictive!