Annoying, as I'm 0.3 short of doing Cunha to Isak
Fantasy Premier League 2024/25
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I debated for ages who to drop between him and Wood for Isak (dropped Wood)
I then watched MOTD and saw him blind side elbowing old men and removing his spectacles
Strange decision to award Palmer a bonus point - he didn’t score or assist in a game with 3 goals.FPL Towers making minor adjustments late on. Pitchforks out on social media.
First they gave Maddison a belated assist for Son's goal. Maddison messaged them to say his cross was intended for him. They've now gone back and reversed that, taking it off him again.
Meanwhile Mbeumo loses a bonus point going from 3 to 2, Jackson gains one (2 to 3) and so does Palmer (0 to 1).
I think Fabianski should’ve got bonus points considering he kept West Ham in that game last night - the bonus points are too skewed towards attacking players
It's an extra point for me with Palmer and at this stage I'll take what I can get
Is Cunha officially banned or is there a chance he plays this week?
That's what I'm still trying to work out. He's got til Thursday to respond to the charge so if he has anything to say for himself that's probably as soon as we'd know. If he does provide something for them to investigate he might well play but who knows?
Can't see Cunha getting away with a ban for racing around like a madman at the end and lashing out at a few twats.
What are the bloody odds that the 2 Wolves players anyone has are the 2 having meltdowns?
It's the sillest bad luck since the days my work played Telegraph fantasy footy and going for the title on the last day I had Lampard and Alex for Chelsea as my 2 huge points of difference and both were rested for the FA cup final
Had weighed up Haaland to Isak, but instead might have to do Cunha to Raul - Fulham have a great run starting with Southampton H next up (bar the game after).
What are the bloody odds that the 2 Wolves players anyone has are the 2 having meltdowns?
It's the sillest bad luck since the days my work played Telegraph fantasy footy and going for the title on the last day I had Lampard and Alex for Chelsea as my 2 huge points of difference and both were rested for the FA cup final
Had weighed up Haaland to Isak, but instead might have to do Cunha to Raul - Fulham have a great run starting with Southampton H next up (bar the game after).
Luckily I can hold off on a Cunha decision, bought him at 6.6 for a sale value of 6.8. That sale value stays the same even if he drops from 7.1 to 7.0 before we find out if he's banned this weekend.
Like a lot of people was going to sell him either after this week or next anyway due to fixtures but he's still a very silly boy. Annoyingly so.
If he pleads guilty I guess the ban can be implemented immediately, but if he requests a hearing it could be dragged out.
Raul was and still is my most likely candidate. Minutes a bit of a worry with him in case Muniz eats into his playing time as a negative though. Plum fixture for Fulham v Southampton this week and pretty good ones in the near future. If he starts (would think he would) he should be on pens as Andreas is suspended. Might be on them anyway, but I don't think they've been awarded one when both have been on the pitch yet.
Like a lot of people was going to sell him either after this week or next anyway due to fixtures but he's still a very silly boy. Annoyingly so.
If he pleads guilty I guess the ban can be implemented immediately, but if he requests a hearing it could be dragged out.
Raul was and still is my most likely candidate. Minutes a bit of a worry with him in case Muniz eats into his playing time as a negative though. Plum fixture for Fulham v Southampton this week and pretty good ones in the near future. If he starts (would think he would) he should be on pens as Andreas is suspended. Might be on them anyway, but I don't think they've been awarded one when both have been on the pitch yet.
Looks like Amad is the most brought in player this week. Incoming blank against Bournemouth this weekend
He's not likely to drop by looks of it so I'll wait and see what happens tomorrow. It'd be -4 for me and I don't really want to do that with the fixture he's got if there's any chance of him playing. Will have £9.3m in the bank as well so can get anyone I want really.
I'm starting to think he'll play against Leicester. When Forest and Brighton had handbags back in September it took the FA a full month to sort out all the sanctions and nobody appealed in that instance. Forest, MGW, and NES did all ask for more time to respond to their charges and ended up admitting to everything anyway. They also took about a month to sort out Kudus pushing two people in the face after that. Going back a bit, Mitrovic pushing a ref against us took about 5 weeks to sort.
The only thing is, everyone involved in those incidents had already been sent off, so there may have been less urgency in arriving at a decision. If they take a month to suspend Cunha, that's potentially up to 6 matches for which he'd be available before serving a ban, which doesn't look great.
Jimenez could be a good choice with his fixtures but he's looked a bit shit to me recently and I can't help but think Silva has been waiting for the right moment to bring Muniz back in as a starter. Just scoring off the bench at Anfield would make for a pretty good one. I'm probably leaning towards Wissa or Wood to replace Cunha, myself.
Was listening to some random FPL content earlier, The FPL Wire, think the guys are Indian. One of them was talking about Semenyo saying how he doesn't like that he's not penalties or any set pieces.
Kind of inspired to put together a hypothetical FPL team - Penalty FC.
Allison
Gabriel Timber Milenkovic
Palmer (C) Saka Son Fernandes Mbeumo
Isak Wood
Fabianski, Joao Pedro, 4.5, 4.0
100m at starting prices.
No Salah or Haaland from the start which was the big debate at one point because we're trying to pack as many penalty takers into the squad as possible here. Add in the 2 Arsenal defenders I have which are obvious picks anyway + a top 'keeper in Allison.
A simple formula. Assume we brought in Kellher when Allison was out so we have his points too. Perma cap Palmer. The Milenkovic pick the only thing requiring inspiration.
1049 points so far without any of the sub points at all. I'm on 1051 and really happy with that as it's not far off top 10k. I've used my TC though, and obviously have my sub points. Would have been better off with that team.
The importance of penalty takers! Might research if it's a similar story year on year - Penalty FC could be a template plan. That's even with Son who nobody really wanted this season.
Edit: I started the season with Robinson so could always have had him instead of Milenkovic for only a 4 point drop off. Porro actually has more points than Timber, I had him at the start as well. Could easy end up on a team like that with the sole focus on pens.
Kind of inspired to put together a hypothetical FPL team - Penalty FC.
Allison
Gabriel Timber Milenkovic
Palmer (C) Saka Son Fernandes Mbeumo
Isak Wood
Fabianski, Joao Pedro, 4.5, 4.0
100m at starting prices.
No Salah or Haaland from the start which was the big debate at one point because we're trying to pack as many penalty takers into the squad as possible here. Add in the 2 Arsenal defenders I have which are obvious picks anyway + a top 'keeper in Allison.
A simple formula. Assume we brought in Kellher when Allison was out so we have his points too. Perma cap Palmer. The Milenkovic pick the only thing requiring inspiration.
1049 points so far without any of the sub points at all. I'm on 1051 and really happy with that as it's not far off top 10k. I've used my TC though, and obviously have my sub points. Would have been better off with that team.
The importance of penalty takers! Might research if it's a similar story year on year - Penalty FC could be a template plan. That's even with Son who nobody really wanted this season.
Edit: I started the season with Robinson so could always have had him instead of Milenkovic for only a 4 point drop off. Porro actually has more points than Timber, I had him at the start as well. Could easy end up on a team like that with the sole focus on pens.
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Not the worst idea. You gotta consider that Haaland was on fire in the beginning of the season and you'd want him for captain when City's firing.
So that makes it a bit harder conundrum if he had continued and you'd captain him and missed out on maybe 2 other premiums. Could be that you just see a good idea in hindsight that wont work next year when Mbeumo and maybe Isak go up. Joao Pedro was always undervalued imo.
£9.3m?
Have you just sold Haaland?
no. Cunha's £7.1m plus the £2.2m I've already got in the bank (mainly from swapping Johnson to Amad).Yeah, could just be a total freak occurrence like you say. Definitely would require further research, I know there's some archive sites out there listing all the points from the previous years.
Will be interesting to see if sticking to that would have produced competitve teams. Will have a look when I have some spare time and report back my findings at some point.
Cheers, always good fun to nerd around with alternative strategies. I'd even consider doing one main-team for your mini-leagues and then 9 others with different really alternative all-in strategies and just see which goes the furthest and continue with that team if you wanted to do it all just for the rank. Considering no 1 this year started out with a bang by using the bench boost chip in gw1, free hit or wildcard in GW2 and I even think it was free hit in GW3. The game is about luck and alternatives strategies if you really want an outlier season.
I always say I'm going to do this at the start of every season and then never bother. I think if you were going to do it you'd have to find a way to turn Son into Salah as well. Spurs are just far too flaky for me. Would never trust the arm band on Son whereas you can leave it on Salah and sleep soundly at night.
I wonder if Jackson gets benched in the middle fixture of these next 3?
Sun 22 Dec 14:00 17 Everton (A)
Thu 26 Dec 15:00 18 Fulham (H)
Mon 30 Dec 19:45 19 Ipswich (A)
Might be worth waiting until 19 in that case as he'd be clear of suspension as well by then.
Sun 22 Dec 14:00 17 Everton (A)
Thu 26 Dec 15:00 18 Fulham (H)
Mon 30 Dec 19:45 19 Ipswich (A)
Might be worth waiting until 19 in that case as he'd be clear of suspension as well by then.
Beginning to think the same. Even if the the ban was given out instantly should he not contest the charge or request a personal hearing I think Wolves would be better of playing this one cynically.
Contest it so everything is delayed which makes him available for Leicester. It's such a big fixture for them, they can't afford to fall 8 points behind Leicester at all.
Same on Jimenez, or at least that he'll be rotated at some point over Christmas even if it's not this weekend. Can say the same about lots of players and I'm already fearing what Maresca does. It's not now or never for Jimenez, it's just that the Southampton fixture is so nice looking. Chelsea away after that isn't the best before there's better ones again.
If forced to take out Cunha the same week Jimenez was playing Chelsea then it would put me off moving for him quite a bit with the feeling that best fixture of all is gone. That's not even getting into the rotation possibilites/Muniz maybe being preferred at some point.
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Makes sense, was thinking you were just sitting there with all that money ITB, not spending it.I'm chasing so taking the chance. All great fixtures even when coming off the bench. But who knows - the fecker might want Christmas off so getting a yellow against Everton
Obviously if you're wanting to bring him in, the suspension cloud is a bit frustrating, but I don't really mind him missing that game. Fulham are strong defensively and Chelsea score a lot more goals away anyhow. The other two games make him worth having for me. Guess it depends on if you have someone else with a good boxing day fixture to come in, so maybe a Brighton or West Ham player on your bench. Or Amad.
Figured it out and it's even better.
Bruno > Kluivert, Son > Salah
Perma cap Salah instead of Palmer and that team would now have 1140 points, tied for 21st place in the world as things stand. That's before any sub points too, no chips used and 99.5m spent to begin with.
Surely, being true to the idea, you'd be forced to put Ederson in goal at the start of the season since he's probably the stand-in taker for City when there's no Haaland and maybe KDB? Also thinking about this, there's a real dearth of defenders taking penalties - feels like there used to be more.
I'm not going that deep!
First choice only.Must have been a good while since a defender last took them regularly in the Premier League, none come to mind since Leighton Baines.
Yeah. How much would Steve Bruce cost in FPL? More than Trent I reckon.
That's exactly who I thought of first, before realising he's been retired half a decade. You'd think that since defenders want to do rabona clearances and Cruyff turns these days there'd be more penalty takers rather than less!I'm not going that deep!
Must have been a good while since a defender last took them regularly in the Premier League, none come to mind since Leighton Baines.
A defender scoring 19 goals? We'd have all started the season deciding between him and Haaland, and going from there
23/24 Penalty FC showing some promise although not as spectactular. Quite difficult to say exactly where it would have finished.
Areola
Walker Gabriel Porro
Palmer Saka(C) Salah Son
Haaland Isak Solanke
4.0, Douglas Luiz, 4.5, 4.0
Huge caveat is that picking Palmer from the start is highly unlikely.
2356 points = around 600k OR. No chips used, no subs used including Haaland being out for 5-6 weeks at one point, Son in the Asian Cup, Salah at AFCON. Perma capped Saka rather than the best asset in Palmer to intentionally hobble it a bit. Didn't optimise the defence, but those picks seem reasonable. Lots of us had Areola in goal.
I finished top 500k on 18 points more, feel it would have beaten that, perhaps by a lot. Depends on when Palmer was brought in, everyone would have at some point.
Areola
Walker Gabriel Porro
Palmer Saka(C) Salah Son
Haaland Isak Solanke
4.0, Douglas Luiz, 4.5, 4.0
Huge caveat is that picking Palmer from the start is highly unlikely.
2356 points = around 600k OR. No chips used, no subs used including Haaland being out for 5-6 weeks at one point, Son in the Asian Cup, Salah at AFCON. Perma capped Saka rather than the best asset in Palmer to intentionally hobble it a bit. Didn't optimise the defence, but those picks seem reasonable. Lots of us had Areola in goal.
I finished top 500k on 18 points more, feel it would have beaten that, perhaps by a lot. Depends on when Palmer was brought in, everyone would have at some point.
Cheers for digging into it, but would that really be possible to afford all those at the same time though? You'd have to take out one premium at least, no? (4 premiums if we don't count Palmer who was underpriced)
I guess it's nitpicking that Bruno isn't selected. I think there was doubts over whether Palmer would take penalties, or maybe it was just this season. (Just saying, that if you were to practically implement it - you'd have to be quite good at guessing who were the best penalty takers - no one going into that season had any hopes for Solanke)
Yes, Palmer being so cheap would have allowed all that from the beginning. Bang on 100m.
4.0 Areola
5.0 x 3 starting defenders
5.0 Palmer, 8.5 Saka, 12.5 Salah, 9.0 Son
14.0 Haaland, 7.5 Isak, 6.5 Solanke
4.0 GK (Turner?), 4.0 + 4.5 defenders, 5.5 Douglas Luiz
I don't think people would have got Palmer right away, not just because of whether he was on pens or not, more that he was a relatively unknown player.
Still, until we buy Palmer in this fictional world you have your choice of these starters, including final points totals.
8.5 Bruno - 166
6.5 Mbeumo - 127
6.0 Gibbs-White -142
6.0 Paqueta - 100
5.5 Douglas Luiz - 148
5.5 Willian - 94
5.0 Sarabia - 99
6.0 Calvert-Lewin - 101
5.5 Morris - 146
5.5 Joao Pedro - 104
5.5 McBurnie - 66
5.0 Mateta - 165
Palmer would end up on 244. We lose a chunk of that no doubt, but we also gain from our chips and actually fielding 11 players every week instead of 0 every time someone is missing.
Interesting. Also worth noting Saka was merely 8.5 compared to what you'd pay for a "prime"-penalty taker now. (Bruno would be that guy this season actually?)
Given that every "major" player from top teams will cost a fortune now, maybe the strategy would then be to pick a penalty taker or two from lesser teams i.e. Gibbs-White, Pereira, Paqueta or similar and then swap them to ride their fixtures. (Now that you have 5 transfers in the bank, this is a bit more possible)
Not bad! Might be worth looking into next season.
Anyone's ML doing a Christmas bonus? I've just found out mine is and now I'm sorely tempted to free hit
3 options:
1. Get rid of Semenyo for Diallo or Enzo
2. Get rid of Solanke for Jimenez (can't afford Jackson)
3. Roll transfer.
Option 1 is appealing because Semenyo has been a massive troll but his numbers are good so feels like I should stick with him.
Option 2 don't feel right. As useless as Solanke has been, Jiminez never plays a full game and will definitely get rotated.
Option 3 is tempting but I feel like I need to be aggressive to have a chance at climbing rank.
Any ideas anyone?
1. Get rid of Semenyo for Diallo or Enzo
2. Get rid of Solanke for Jimenez (can't afford Jackson)
3. Roll transfer.
Option 1 is appealing because Semenyo has been a massive troll but his numbers are good so feels like I should stick with him.
Option 2 don't feel right. As useless as Solanke has been, Jiminez never plays a full game and will definitely get rotated.
Option 3 is tempting but I feel like I need to be aggressive to have a chance at climbing rank.
Any ideas anyone?
There might be a halfway point between 1&2 somewhere. Iwobi has the fixtures of Jimenez and none of the rotation risk, if you want Semenyo out. Low ownership too If you're chasing. If you want Solanke out, Wissa has scored in every home fixture he's played in and is at home against Forest at the weekend.
Thanks. I think I prefer Wissa to Iwobi but both are interesting choices. It'll probably come down to which one of Semenyo or Solanke I want rid of first.
Oh look! Solanke that twat scores now.
Genuinely thought of you.