Sky Sports fantasy football 22/23

Haven't looked at it yet but I don't mind Salah and Son as midfielders. It means we will have a lot more variance in teams, at least in midfield and attack anyway and if KDB and Bruno start off well we won't be able to have everyone. I kept an eye on twitter last season for a change and there was a lot of moaning about template teams, particularly from the "experts". No excuses this season.

Think they have made the game easier with 50 transfers and 1 overhaul.

Think I am going to stick to what I normally do and veer between 4-4-2 and 5-3-2 if possible. I didn't have much luck with my midfielders in the 2nd half of last season, I can see it being with the strikers this season now Son and Salah are midfielders. Think I will be putting in Haaland anyway at the start as his ownership is already through the roof!

Whoop whoop 😁

I would rather they had kept MOTM to be honest. It's just that some of the awards last season were ridiculous. Pope seemed to get one every match!

As it stands I have 2 premium defenders and I can switch between 2 premium midfielders/attackers. I imagine everyone will end up with 4 in the end.

Hopefully we get a Covid free season. I think that has been a contributor to the template situation we got last season. We ended up with so many matches rearranged, we were kind of forced to get players in for matches we wouldn't normally had to cover single captaincy days. And we all seemed to go for the same player most of the time!

Which enablers are you on? I have gibbs-white in at the moment at 6.6

Also considering dasilva and yates as other options

Original plan was to stick with one of Kane/Son instead of Haaland for the first few gameweeks (have Cancelo) but with the extra transfers this season I thinks it’s worthwhile going with the Kane-Haaland switchers for the first month.

For me it’s more the fear of getting left behind if both Kane and Haaland bang on their respective game days

Yeah I think I’m avoiding him despite his apparent good value. I’m just sticking with guaranteed regular starters

I've done Bazunu, Collins, Sancho, Guimares to Ward, Saliba, Son and Saint-Max so it looks better now with Son as captain on day 2.

For any newcomers,pick a captain for Fri, Sat,+,Sun,it usually makes a big difference to have every match day covered

That is my plan too. We have a bit more flexibility to do 4 for 2's and 3 for 1's this season. I would have loved another 10 transfers last season rather than the overhaul. Worth nothing that City have a 2 for 0 over Liverpool aswell at the start.

Good start for my 2nd team on 93 points, up there with the usual suspects. Great start from Hackers on 114.

Thrilled with that, 2 transfers used though. Trent + Salah to Cancelo + KDB. City play day before Liverpool next weekend so may go KDB back to Salah after City play. I found last season in this it was very hard to make up ground once you fell behind so trying a bit more of an aggressive policy on the transfers this season and see how it goes

I think with the extra transfers this season you can be a bit more aggressive. You wouldn't make 10 changes if we had two overhauls instead of one which is effectively what we have with 10 extra transfers. You are right about the start, the game gets very templatey after a while which suits the people who make the good starts. Last season was very static for about 5 months last season with not much movement at the top part of the leaderboard.

I am doing the hokey-cokey with them at the moment. The fixtures are perfect for them.

There is no easy way of doing it. You are taking out an expensive defender to do it and still skimping on other parts of your team. There aren't really that many enablers either. I don't see a Dennis or Ramsey so far.

Mitrovic seems relatively cheap at 7.7m given the start he's made. Not Dennis level in terms of price but still a good enabler.

Jayzis. I forgot to join the boards one. Just applied now.

87 with my first team and a poor 63 with my second team and 1 sub used already.

I felt I was too conservative last year and didn't use enough transfers in the first half of the season ,by April and May I was bringing lads in for the sake of using them and transferring them back out again with no real plan behind it. So this year I'm going going to adopt a relatively aggressive approach with my 2nd team and see how that pans out.

I did the move anyway and it paid off just about. Assuming he gets the credit for the goal that is 14 plus whatever he gets on Saturday against Wolves. Easily worth the transfer now!

If you don't have any Forest coverage I would pick Henderson. They have 4 potential captaincy days coming up between now and the end of October. There might be a better player to get in nearer the time but he played well yesterday.

Always wait till the teams are announced if you can. A lot of options around the 8 million mark, Romero, Dunk, Ake. Try to get someone in that you will get a few matches out of. Not sure if Phillips holds on to his place going forward.

Probably going the other way and putting Haaland back in after Saturday. Much rather have Haaland at home to Forest than Kane away to West Ham in the midweek. Looking at better coverage for the Tuesday midweek too. Not sure what I am doing with that yet.