Fantasy Football

Tom84 · 6 Jul 2007 at 12:15

The official premier league game for the upcoming season went live earlier today I'm guessing someone on this forum set one up for last season? If not is anyone interested in doing it this season?

Tom84 · 6 Jul 2007 at 13:37

Chrisss said:
I've signed up and created a league called overclockers, the code to join is 7866-3097

I'm in. I found this season was a lot harder than last, not so many obvious bargains to be had still pretty happy with my team though

Tom84 · 6 Jul 2007 at 18:49

Chrisss said:
I wonder if Tevez's price will rise if he joins Manu.

His price wont go up but what would be interesting is if you put him in along with 3 man utd players and see what happens when the transfer goes through :confused:

Tom84 · 6 Jul 2007 at 19:39

lee32uk said:
im in...my team:

---------------------Niemi----------------------

Christanvaal-----Pearce------Taylor------Bramble

Mullins--------Gerrard-------Carsley------Ronaldo

--------------Drogba--------Rooney-------------

Subs:

Kirkland
Berbatov
Osman
Henchoz

How on earth have you offeded all of Rooney, Drogba, Ronaldo and Gerrard? :eek:

Ah I see you've got Bramble in your team

BaZ87 said:
No we don't. I got Reina, he'll score just as many points (if not more) and is cheaper.

You got me excited then, alas Cech and Reina are the same price :rolleyes:

Tom84 · 7 Jul 2007 at 00:27

Ripper said:
Everyone should have Niemi, no excuses. Cheapest keeper and he's first choice, very rare you'll get that so snap him up, just as a sub

For the second season running I've got Kirkland

Tom84 · 7 Jul 2007 at 01:11

BaZ87 said:
Ripper, regarding the keepers: Roughly how many saves on average would James (or similar) make? Trying to work out if its better to have a keeper who makes few saves but keeps a clean sheet or one that makes loads but concedes a couple of goals.

I remember last season that a clean sheet for your keeper and defender automatically bagged you 6 points

Tom84 · 8 Jul 2007 at 14:02

I've already made 1 or 2 changes to my original team and I'll proberly make 2 or 3 more before the season starts :rolleyes:

Hopefully Barca do me a favour and buy Lampard so I can use my money more wisely

Tom84 · 9 Jul 2007 at 15:13

Raymond Lin said:
Wow all your money on basically 3/4 players, Lampard, Rooney and Ronaldo, that could be really good or really bad for the week. But good team thou, tempted to copy it... Here is mine at the moment, might get Shorely instead of Lescott. I've found last season it's better to have an attacking midfielder who score goals or get 5 defender or 3 strikers instead. Thou a friend of mine last season played 4-4-2 and finished in the top 1000 players in the end, he was averaging about 70 points a week, a few times he had over 100 !

Well since posting that team I've changed it around a bit, I was faced with going with Rooney out of loyalty or using the money more wisely on 2 strikers that combined would proberly get me more points that Wazza. It was a wrench to take him out but I think my team as a whole has benefited from it.

There's still plenty of time left before the season starts if I cant face leaving Rooney out

Tom84 · 9 Jul 2007 at 15:53

LukeT said:
Ahhhh how do i change my formation?? Dragging doesnt seem to work

Once you've made all your signings under my team just swap say a midfielder for a striker and the game will change the formation from say 4-4-2 to 4-3-3

Tom84 · 9 Jul 2007 at 23:40

Linoge said:
Second rule of fantasy football: Do not buy Makelele.

Third rule of fantasy football: DO NOT BUY MAKELELE

Sorry I couldn't resist

Tom84 · 10 Jul 2007 at 20:50

weringo said:
Ok you've squeezed it out of me

Ashton for 7.0

Ashton was one of the first bargain players I looked at but in the end thought against it as I haven't even heard if he's going to be fit for the start of the season and even then he'll proberly take some time to get going after his long lay off. Not to mention given West Ham losing most of their best players there's no guarantee West Ham will do well next season.

I think Earnshaw is a good buy at 5.5 - Guaranteed starter and during his last spell in the Premiership scored his fair share of goals when Robbo played him. Good option for the bench IMO.

Raymond Lin said:
Nolan has been a disappointment last season, Defoe isn't a certain start for spurs, Keane and Bergatov is in front of him and unless he comes off the bench and scores he won't get the points for playing. And 2 Everton midfield is risky, Arteta is a good buy because he takes freekicks, corners and penalties so chances of assists is quite high. With Cahill he would have to score to make an impact.

Arteta is a right rip off this season, I'd much rather save some money and get someone like Pederson or at the same price someone like Giggs who although wont play every week will get plenty of points when he does play. Personally I think Cahill is a bargain for a regular goal scoring midfielder.

Tom84 · 10 Jul 2007 at 20:54

I'm waiting to see how much Nuggent will be when he moves to Pompy, he might be a good buy if the price is right

Tom84 · 13 Jul 2007 at 13:25

Didn't think you could go with 2 at the back? You couldn't last season :confused:

Tom84 · 18 Jul 2007 at 19:45

Raymond Lin said:
Nothing decent, strikers that gets picked starts at more than 5mil. Lita (Reading) is the best of the cheap bunch at 6.5mil.

Earnshaw might not be a bad signing, he'll start for Derby and did fairly ok in the Premiership with West Brom a couple of years back. He's 5.5 though, same with Copra who might be another to keep an eye on.

Tom84 · 21 Jul 2007 at 20:08

I wondering whether there's anyone who hasn't got Ronaldo in their team?

I'd definitely take Hargreaves out of your team seeing as midfielders get their points from assists and goals, Hargo is unlikely to get many/any of either. Same goes for the likes of Makelele and Mascherano.

Tom84 · 21 Jul 2007 at 22:58

Docaroo said:
yeah but who in his place who is cheap enough ?

Personally I think Pompy's Muntari will be a surprise hit this season, he's the same price as Hargreaves. Malbranque could be another option especially if Spurs fail to sign a left sided player.

Of course if you can save some money elsewhere (or if you've got any left) there's a whole wealth of talent available for 7.0 - Matty Taylor & Bentley being the most obvious ones.

Regarding Tevez it might be worth keeping an eye on his situation as he might not be playing for anyone at the start of the season......

Tom84 · 24 Jul 2007 at 00:13

Ok so I've been giving my team some thinking recently and wondering whether it's better having a core of players that will stay the same but then go to making one change a week according to who might get the most points that week.

So what do we think? Get your team together with a long term view or go from week to week making a change where appropriate?

Tom84 · 25 Jul 2007 at 18:45

You're taking a chance putting Nani in your team, it's highly unlikely that he'll start many games to begin with. For the same money Pederson is a much better option

Tom84 · 28 Jul 2007 at 12:55

Chrisss said:
Is Zamora likekly to start many games for West Ham?

Are there any better strikers in the same price range?

Lita at 6.5 :cool:

Tom84 · 28 Jul 2007 at 20:37

B@Th*nG said:
*snip*

Running a little low on funds much