Fantasy Football

nikebee · 10 Aug 2007 at 14:21

VonClinkerhofen said:
Is Richards injured? If so..how seriously? I have him

Nope, I'm just toying with the idea of putting Campbell in at the moment.

It's a toss up between the two :-/

dafloppyone · 10 Aug 2007 at 14:23

no I didnt miss it ..,.im doing the one on times online

just asking if it alright team as I dont know the premiership that well

weringo · 10 Aug 2007 at 14:26

Tevez is listed under Man Utd now, as expected the price hasn't changed.

@if ®afiq · 10 Aug 2007 at 14:29

I'm being really thick here - I'm unable to move my players about. Can someone tell what to do in stoopid-man terms?

davestar_delux · 10 Aug 2007 at 14:35

dafloppyone said:
no I didnt miss it ..,.im doing the one on times online

just asking if it alright team as I dont know the premiership that well

No mate, it's pretty rubbish i'm afraid

Good players but many of them aren't likely to play that often, Hyppia and Crouch at Liverpool, Heinze is out of favour at Man Utd, Sidwell is backup to Lampard who hasn't missed a Premiership game in about 3 years.

davestar_delux · 10 Aug 2007 at 14:39

@if ®afiq said:
I'm being really thick here - I'm unable to move my players about. Can someone tell what to do in stoopid-man terms?

Do you mean change the formation? If you go to the My Team page then click the wee box under a player to remove, for instance, a midfielder and then do the same with a substitute defender he should move into the defence thus changing your formation.

If you just mean putting a midfielder to the wing rather than the centre or something, I don't know how to do that either. Not sure it's possible.

Ripper · 10 Aug 2007 at 14:42

davestar_delux said:
If you just mean putting a midfielder to the wing rather than the centre or something, I don't know how to do that either. Not sure it's possible.

Don't worry about that, there are no wingers, a midfielder is a midfielder.

@if ®afiq · 10 Aug 2007 at 14:45

davestar_delux said:
If you just mean putting a midfielder to the wing rather than the centre or something, I don't know how to do that either. Not sure it's possible.

This is what I meant, but looks like it's not possible - thanks

nikebee · 10 Aug 2007 at 14:45

Changed my squad again

Formation: 3:4:3

Niemi
Mellberg, Lescott, Shorey
Ronaldo (c), Pederson, Arteta, Taylor
Zamora, Rooney, Berbatov

Subs:
Hahneman, Boyce, Baines, Teale

Hahneman would normally be my first choice, but I'm banking on Reading having a poor game against Man Utd.
Dropped Taarabt in favour of Teale, Sol Campbell has gone and I managed to pick up Lescott from the money saved!

Ripper · 10 Aug 2007 at 18:44

Been making more changes :mad:

Put Evra in for Ferdinand, Evra's more likely to grab an assist/goal and he *should* play all the time with Heinze being a Judas.

Don't know what to do about Tevez though, been reading the rules on player values and there's every chance as soon as the deadline passes tomorrow, Tevez's value could go up due to the fact that a high number of players have him in their squad. So I can either grab him now and take a hit this weekend, or keep Anelka in, grab some points this weekend and hope to god Tevez's value stays the same.

lemonkettaz · 10 Aug 2007 at 18:51

when it comes to dream teams i work on the fact i get the glory from my midfield... i always bung midfielders in who i know are going to get a bag of points..

Id rather get cheaper strikers tbh, i think the strikers are too much and if they dont score they end up not really getting many points.

and there is always a cheap striker that does really well anyways.

thats my theory.....whatever

edit: P.S. and it seems generally its midfielders that get more points even when they dont score, by solid performances etc.. even though strikers can get the same points without scoring.. its "generally" less chance than the midfielders.

red11 · 10 Aug 2007 at 18:58

Ok lads, is there any last minute injuries that we should be made aware of, any doubtful players who as of yet have not been picked up and shown as injured in the ff league? For instance, Van Persie, I've read that he is carrying a knock but he doesn't appear injured in the ff league. I'm about to go through Man Utd's players and I'll post any doubtfuls or injured players here.

Ripper · 10 Aug 2007 at 19:33

I've avoided Arsenal and Liverpool players for now as they miss a gameweek next week. Although if you have subs who can come in then no worries.

weringo · 10 Aug 2007 at 19:44

Also Liverpool are playing Chelsea for their 2nd game so probably not a good idea to getting LFC players till gameweek 4.

red11 · 10 Aug 2007 at 19:57

This is my squad so far, I'm deciding who to replace Tevez with, Keane, Berbatov or Viduka? Fingers crossed Edwards is fit for the Sunderland game. Up until 5 minutes ago I had Fabregas for Arteta and Van Persie for McCarthy.

weringo · 10 Aug 2007 at 20:05

I would go with Berbatov myself, although my worry is I'm not sure if he's guaranteed to start with Defoe, Bent and Keane there as well.

davestar_delux · 10 Aug 2007 at 22:20

lemonkettaz said:
when it comes to dream teams i work on the fact i get the glory from my midfield... i always bung midfielders in who i know are going to get a bag of points..

Id rather get cheaper strikers tbh, i think the strikers are too much and if they dont score they end up not really getting many points.

and there is always a cheap striker that does really well anyways.

thats my theory.....whatever

edit: P.S. and it seems generally its midfielders that get more points even when they dont score, by solid performances etc.. even though strikers can get the same points without scoring.. its "generally" less chance than the midfielders.

Well actually because I'm such a geek I made a spreadsheet with all the players from this and their points per million of cost and defenders came out best followed by midfielders and then strikers were worst and I double-checked taking just the top 5 players from each as it could be possible the very top strikers or midfielders score more but the same held true, defenders always make more points per million.

So on that evidence I should have went with a back 5, 4 in the middle and 1 up front but I couldn't curb myself like that - everyone likes buying strikers.

Andybtsn · 10 Aug 2007 at 22:24

weringo said:
I would go with Berbatov myself, although my worry is I'm not sure if he's guaranteed to start with Defoe, Bent and Keane there as well.

All those players can play off Berbatov though, they're all not really suited to each other, the Defoe Kane partnership confirms it.

Berbatov will be first on team sheet in most games unless a rest is needed.

Ripper · 10 Aug 2007 at 23:16

Gordon is 4m, swapped Niemi for him. Good option to have for when Portsmouth have a tough game, can just sub Gordon in. More chance of his value going up compared to Niemi as well I reckon.

lemonkettaz · 10 Aug 2007 at 23:54

davestar_delux said:
Well actually because I'm such a geek I made a spreadsheet with all the players from this and their points per million of cost and defenders came out best followed by midfielders and then strikers were worst and I double-checked taking just the top 5 players from each as it could be possible the very top strikers or midfielders score more but the same held true, defenders always make more points per million.

So on that evidence I should have went with a back 5, 4 in the middle and 1 up front but I couldn't curb myself like that - everyone likes buying strikers.

Hmm well, i was nearly right... with any spreadsheet

I did it for a test a couple of seasons ago... i went for a mint team and cheap strikerforce... did better than my team with a good strikeforce..

but who knows ..