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I'm avoiding RVP with the hope that it pays off not blowing all that money on him and he ends up injured for most of the season (which we all know is likely :p )
 
I'm resisting the urge to go for RVP, its unlikely that he will increase in price too much, given that he will already have been selected by a lot of people already, so buying him now or later won't be hugely consequential on the bank balance.

Instead I have tried to go for a more balanced team, front to back.

I'm relatively happy with my team and got a fairly good points haul of 65 last week with my bench entirely composed of Chelsea players, so I don't think there is a need for drastic changes (those came at the end of GW2 when I used my wildcard).

The BIG question is, do I get Berbatov. He is going dead cheap and I have the perfect opportunity to get ahead of the curve, given the Tevez-RVP-Torres lineups at the moment. Its just a question of how well he will do at Fulham. He's a quality player, its just a huge risk at the moment.
 
physichull said:
I'm resisting the urge to go for RVP, its unlikely that he will increase in price too much, given that he will already have been selected by a lot of people already, so buying him now or later won't be hugely consequential on the bank balance.
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He's already gone up .1mil since I selected him on Sunday and he's only selected by 29.5% of players, 13% of those transferring him in since the game started (causing a .4mil increase overall).

Tevez by comparison is selected by 47.6% with a price increase of .8mil since the start of the season caused by 28% of people transferring him in.

The bus certainly hasn't left yet, and I can certainly see him getting to 13.5mil in this GW alone what with the two week break. My guesstimations say you need ~3% (or 70k for mid to high priced players) of people to transfer in to cause a +.1mil price change.
 
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Russinating said:
He's already gone up .1mil since I selected him on Sunday and he's only selected by 29.5% of players, 13% of those transferring him in since the game started (causing a .4mil increase overall).

Tevez by comparison is selected by 47.6% with a price increase of .8mil since the start of the season caused by 28% of people transferring him in.

The bus certainly hasn't left yet, and I can certainly see him getting to 13.5mil in this GW alone what with the two week break. My guesstimations say you need ~3% (or 70k for mid to high priced players) of people to transfer in to cause a +.1mil price change.
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Fair points.

I guess it comes down to the strategy that players wish to make. A lot of people focus on having a strong "go-forward", whereas my preference is to have a balanced team in as many positions as possible.
 
^ Same. I tend to wait till Friday evenings when I've checked latest injury news, and take any slightly increased price on the chin. These internationals carry a lot of risk usually.
 
No1newts said:
Why is everyone using wildcard before the national games, injuries and you might be knackered again straight away :p
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Because prices will have increased by then, and the wildcard lasts up until the transfer deadline so you can always transfer players back out the Saturday morning before kick off if need be, or indeed in if somebody performs particularly well in the meantime.

Two of the players I bought in have already increased in cost and it's only been 3 days since the last match.
 
physichull said:
The BIG question is, do I get Berbatov. He is going dead cheap and I have the perfect opportunity to get ahead of the curve, given the Tevez-RVP-Torres lineups at the moment. Its just a question of how well he will do at Fulham. He's a quality player, its just a huge risk at the moment.
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Personally I would play the statistic and play safe.

RVP and Tevez tend to score regularly, their average goal per game is higher than Berbatov. When Berbatov got the golden boot in 2010/11 season, it was only because one game he had 5 goals and he had a couple of more hat tricks. All at came at Old Traffod I believe. If you haven't selected him as captain at those games then you wouldn't have got the full effect of him being in your team. The rest of the season he was rather pedestrian. I remember getting him in after one of the hat trick and he did nothing for 5 games so I got rid of him, only for him to score 5 that week!

Berbatov is a risk for points, he is too inconsistent.
RVP and Tevez is a safer bet.
 
No1newts said:
Why is everyone using wildcard before the national games, injuries and you might be knackered again straight away :p
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DB_SamX said:
^ Same. I tend to wait till Friday evenings when I've checked latest injury news, and take any slightly increased price on the chin. These internationals carry a lot of risk usually.
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You do realise you have until Saturday 15th September to make as many changes as you want!!!

lol
 
Raymond Lin said:
Berbatov is a risk for points, he is too inconsistent.
RVP and Tevez is a safer bet.
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A part of that could be down to the fact that he was always used as a sub. Would it be more likely he would start for Fulham. I suppose he isn't a bad option, for his price. There aren't too many strikers like him at that price around. Its a tough one.
 
I can't believe im in 2nd place. Think this will be a season high so am making the most of it :)

I don't think I'm going to put RVP in as it would compromise my midfield

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Though admittedly I am loosing patience with Bale
 
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