Fantasy Premier League 23/24 is GO!! ** SPOILERS**

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Shaoxter said:

48k said:

Arteta saying Saka is fit to play. Too late for me I've pressed the wildcard button already.

But if you've pressed the button then it's not too late to do anything? Including getting him back in?

Sorry - my point badly made was that Saka being injured was the tipping point for me to WC, and sort out my Pickford + Fernandes + Rashford + Saka + Baldock + Osula issue. Had Saka not been injured I wanted to try and hold out until the international break and maybe consider a WC in GW9.

I pressed WC during the week and set up a team. Have a different team now, no room for Saka. Plus prices have moved on too.

[48k]

38 points and lots of green arrows is a good start.
5 players still to play, including captain Salah. Really need him to outscore Haaland. As a Spurs fan it was obvious not to captain Son against Luton , that decision has gone well so far let's see what happens today.

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Countdown said:

MiniMan64 said:

Maddison worked out okay as long as Haaland does score a hat-trick

The “problem “ is that everybody captains Haaland so his score rarely matters.

There is a sequence of fixtures coming up (including the current round) where there are better captaincy choices than Haaland, so we could see some differentials kicking in.

[48k]

Shaoxter said:

48k said:

As a Spurs fan it was obvious not to captain Son against Luton , that decision has gone well so far let's see what happens today.

Why was it obvious out of interest? Curious as someone who brought him in and captained him this week...

He's carrying an injury, has been brought off early a few games running and was touch and go for a start this week , plus Spurs never do well against teams that play a low block so it was never going to be a goal fest.

[48k]

48k said:

Countdown said:

MiniMan64 said:

Maddison worked out okay as long as Haaland does score a hat-trick

The “problem “ is that everybody captains Haaland so his score rarely matters.

There is a sequence of fixtures coming up (including the current round) where there are better captaincy choices than Haaland, so we could see some differentials kicking in.

And so it came to pass !

[48k]

76 now the bonus points are in. Captaining Salah instead of Son or Haaland paid off.

[48k]

The Hypno-Toad said:

33.

Major re-think after the international break methinks. Have the opposition worked out how to play Harland out of the game? Is he worth it anymore?

Haalands stats have been better at home than away since he joined the league I wouldn't worry that he has suddenly become a liability. He's still the best asset to have unless his ownership drops like a stone. Just make sure you have a second captaincy option available too.

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MissChief said:

Captain Salah, Haaland, Trips, Nunez, Palmer and Neto all doing great for me today and I'm on 66.. No one playing tomorrow but Son & Udogie on Monday, Hopefully another 10+ points.

Terrific haul, nice one.
I went safe and put the captains armband on Haaland instead of Salah and have woken up to a swathe of red arrows. Only 50 points but still have 5 players to play so hoping that will rescue my week.

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Gargamel said:

Finished on 89 for the week.

Was worried when I ditched Harland, Mbuema, Longstaff and all of the scored.

Watkins did the business yesterday and is my capt, Son and Maddy weighed in.

Not sure what to do with Odegard and Martinelli. I have both but whenever I only have one, the other one scores…

Nice one. 89 points here too. Having Porro instead of Udogie paid off due to Udogie going off on 55 mins so missing out on the clean sheet points which has helped jump me up the rankings

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cerb4.5lee said:

I ended up on 97 points in the end, and that has to be right up there as my best score without using a chip I reckon. I just wish that I could find room for Son in my team though now.

that's a terrific haul, nice one. What's your team ?

[48k]

18 points from the Friday night game is a good start to the weekend. Very annoyed about the Palace goal - for me that was hand ball all day long and robbed my three Spurs players of clean sheet points.

Got to see how the gamble to back against Haaland pans out now...

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Countdown said:

Radec said:

Of course I had to change captain for the first time this season for the most in form striker in Watkins instead of Haaland as Luton should have been easy points.

Haaland with 2 goals and an assist so far and Watkins didn't do jack.

Similar here - i thought Salah at NFO would do better than Haaland at Utd.....

I've lost count of how many bad decisions I've made this week.

Same here, thought Salah would do better against Forest at home than Haaland would do against utd away. Ho hum.

[48k]

15 points with 6 to play here. Like others I was excited by the Man City score line until I saw the scorers. Hoping Salah doesn't get a hat full now as he is my VC and although the points would be welcome it would be annoying to have captained the wrong player.

[48k]

20 points with 2 to play. Absolute shocker!

27 points is the average score which is the lowest average score so far this season, by 17 points!

Just one of those weeks where you have to avoid hindsight management, not feel too gutted, and remind yourself that you made the right choices based on the data available, but that fundamentally you can't predict the future. And that football is a funny old game.

Onwards and (hopefully) upwards.

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MiniMan64 said:

Injuries.

Injuries everywhere.

Same here. I only have three fit defenders as it stands. Big Dan Burn is out long term now. Matty Cash has a yellow icon for his shoulder so will be interesting to see if he plays in Europe this week. Maddison went off injured but was walking around at the end of the Spurs game and did half a lap to thank the crowd so I'm hoping he will be fit by Saturday. Haaland played 61 minutes last night so should get some minutes at the weekend too but I think I'm going to move the captains armband to Salah with Son as VC just to be safe.

So my team looks bad but hopefully I just need to sort the defensive cover and the rest will be fine. I have 1.5m in the bank, which gives me 6.1 if I sell Burn so either need Schar if I want to keep some Newcastle defence, or maybe consider a second Palace defender. Fantasy Football Hub price change predictions say Burn is not likely to drop in price this week so I don't need to rush a decision.

[48k]

MiniMan64 said:

48k said:

MiniMan64 said:

Injuries.

Injuries everywhere.

Same here. I only have three fit defenders as it stands. Big Dan Burn is out long term now. Matty Cash has a yellow icon for his shoulder so will be interesting to see if he plays in Europe this week. Maddison went off injured but was walking around at the end of the Spurs game and did half a lap to thank the crowd so I'm hoping he will be fit by Saturday. Haaland played 61 minutes last night so should get some minutes at the weekend too but I think I'm going to move the captains armband to Salah with Son as VC just to be safe.

So my team looks bad but hopefully I just need to sort the defensive cover and the rest will be fine. I have 1.5m in the bank, which gives me 6.1 if I sell Burn so either need Schar if I want to keep some Newcastle defence, or maybe consider a second Palace defender. Fantasy Football Hub price change predictions say Burn is not likely to drop in price this week so I don't need to rush a decision.

Neto, Udogie, Burn, Cash, Haaland, Maddison

Edited by MiniMan64 on Wednesday 8th November 22:31

Still, you could have had a worse week.

[48k]

With Maddison confirmed out long term I've bitten the bullet and take a -4 to make 2 subs. Everyone is offloading him so he's forecast to drop in price tonight.

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i4got said:

Would I be mad to triple captain Son this week?

Its a gamble.

On the positive side, at home, Wolves are 7th for XGc, 3rd in actual Gc and have not kept a clean sheet so far this season. Son is top for xG and goal involvements away from home and in 6 away games has scored 6 goals.

On the negative side, obviously Wolves are therefore over (under?) performing their XGc (ie. they've actually conceded more goals than average for the type of chances created against them so the law of averages says that will swing back the other way at some point). Spurs will be without Maddison and have a few other injuries so it's not clear who will come in and how effective the supply to Son will be.

Haaland and Salah are the top captaincy choices this week but if you have neither of those then Son is arguably the next best choice, but if it were me I would be saving the TC chip for a double game week in the second half of the season.

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i4got said:

GloverMart said:

5 players played, ten points.

Sigh.

7 and 13.

3 and 3

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48k said:

i4got said:

GloverMart said:

5 players played, ten points.

Sigh.

7 and 13.

3 and 3

3 to 87 and climbing 300k places up the ranks, happy with that.
Haaland and Salah got identical scores so Salah captaincy was not the differentiator I was hoping for, but can't be disappointed with the score.
Hopefully the international break passes off without injuries.

Edited by 48k on Monday 13th November 15:14