Beckyboro 5 Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 No way, maybe this year ill try win it! :) Yeh all the lads at work pointed out my rank today! Pretty good going for just doing it for fun!! Maybe i should take up a managerial career :) Link to post Share on other sites
bugrit 31 Posted September 22, 2015 Author Share Posted September 22, 2015 You certainly seem to have a flair for it. :) Have you got a team in the Sky competition? They offer a much wider range of weekly and monthly prizes than the BPL do and there's lots of cash to be won. You're too late to stand any sort of chance in the seasonal prizes but entering late actually puts you at an advantage for the weekly and monthly ones. That's because you'll be creating your squad(s) knowing already who is on/off form and which new recruits hit the ground running. There are no wild cards in the Sky comp and you get limited transfers so it's a valuable advantage to have. I do believe I've just persuaded myself to have a go! :D Link to post Share on other sites
Beckyboro 5 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 No im not in the sky one but think you have just managed to persuade me to have a look into joining it also :) Link to post Share on other sites
Borodane 6,301 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Argh. Didn't realise the wildcard option. Think I'll soon make a complete overhaul of my incredibly poor team. Link to post Share on other sites
bugrit 31 Posted September 23, 2015 Author Share Posted September 23, 2015 If you didn't know about wild cards, you might not have realised that player transfer fees rise and fall in response to transfer market forces. Consequently it's good policy to get in early when you want to recruit successful newcomers or sack newly banned or injured players. Having said that, this particular aspect seems to be less important this time round than it has been in previous seasons because so many of the "surprise packages" started out at exceptionally low prices in the first place. For example, Mahrez, who started out at £5.5m is now £6.4m, is still the best value player in the competition! Astonishingly, less than half of BPL managers have him in their squads. The BPL site is very helpful when it comes to analysing the transfer market. I used two of the choices on the "Sorted by" drop-down list to discover that Mahrez is the competition's best value player and that he is in less than half of all squads. There are nearly thirty alternative ways to sort the player list so take advantage of it when picking your squad. Hmm... this has got me wondering whether I should start a second mini-league for you and the other newbies to pit your wits against one another whilst you are learning the ropes. You could bring current scores with you (or not) and you could stay in the main mini-league (or not) so what do you and the other first-timers think? Link to post Share on other sites
London_Student 2 Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 To follow on from Bugrit, http://www.fplstatistics.co.uk is fairly accurate (not 100%) at predicting when a player will rise/drop in price. This can be useful when you want to know whether or not you can afford to wait until the end of the week before buying/selling a player. eg Kompany will likely drop tonight, Mata and De Bruyne may rise tonight or tomorrow. Link to post Share on other sites
bugrit 31 Posted October 2, 2015 Author Share Posted October 2, 2015 Sorry for being so late with this but I was having trouble totting up all those goals! After five weeks of seeing goal-counts in the low twenties, we were presented with no fewer than 41 goals over the weekend, along with the lowest clean sheet count of the season so far, just two! So how did these dramatic events affect our managers? Surprisingly, the average score went up by only 5 and, although 48.63 points is the highest average score this season, it's still below the half-century mark. That's not what we would usually see in a week when Sanchez scored a hat-trick and Vardy, Sturridge, Gestede and Lukaku all netted twice. cowman4boro's midfielders and forwards found 9 of those goals and contributed an average of 15.6 points apiece towards his top-scoring 85 points. It was the week's second highest scorer RandySandwich who made the most progress in the table, however, up 16 places to 8th, courtesy of his handsome 76 points. boro-unger and DanFromDownSouth both progressed out of the table's lowest reaches with scores in the 70s, while Smogster tumbled 14 places from 6th to 20th as his fine-looking squad under-performed miserably. Their 21 points won him the week's wooden spoon award although there were another four of us in contention with scores in the 20s. It's not just tough at the top, the whole table seems to be feeling the strain at present! Yeah, I know, tell it to Jose Mourinho. :D Link to post Share on other sites
"KM" 1,656 Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 Toure and Wilson out, De Bruyne and Ighalo in. De Bruyne or Sanchez captain, tough choice. Going to use the wildcard over the I/B Link to post Share on other sites
p_mards 1,365 Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 Imagine if you had Aguero in your team but forgot to set him as your captain..... I did :( It's still Martial from last week. Link to post Share on other sites
Essuuaitch 330 Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 Imagine if you had Aguero in your team but forgot to set him as your captain..... I did :( It's still Martial from last week. haha ....i made him captain today AND played my triple captain score :D :D :D Link to post Share on other sites
London_Student 2 Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 I capped him, and I've very happy to see plenty of people above me don't own him at all, should be moving up the table this week I think! Although LM I think you may leapfrog us all with the triple cap! Link to post Share on other sites
CurtisFleming 86 Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 Imagine if you had Aguero in your team but forgot to set him as your captain..... I did :( It's still Martial from last week. Ha me too I've not changed my captain and I'm bottom, really can't be ***d with all the faffing in this league and keep forgetting to do it anyway Link to post Share on other sites
OldManGravz 1,350 Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 One of my mates in a different league transferred him out of his team this week! Don't worry, he's getting all the stick he deserves Link to post Share on other sites
bugrit 31 Posted October 3, 2015 Author Share Posted October 3, 2015 Triple captaincy for Aguero is worth 75 points and would have sent a certain tail-end Charlie scooting up the table and in with a chanve of winning his own mini-league. Pity he can't be ***d, though. :D Link to post Share on other sites
CurtisFleming 86 Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 I know, the bell Think I've still got Calum Wilson in my team too, he dead isn't he? :D Going to have to start trying can't be coming bottom and that Link to post Share on other sites
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