BC.Game 🦁 Fantasy Premier League Pool ⚽ Discussion Thread

[cryptofrka]

In the end Walker and Van Dijk were my best DGW players and ones that propelled me up the ranks.

Insane when you think about it retroactively.
I'm still sure that picking defenders from Liverpool and City in DGW is a terrible choice, no matter that you're certain they will play for 90 minutes.

I wildcarded a week ago and have like 5 injured players, that means going -12 is a necessity. Fun times..

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[NotATether]

Well I'm glad this is just my first season and there is leeway for experimentation here, because this is how I learn that taking -50 hit points in order to chase a double is never a good idea.

Anyway who do we think is finishing first in the ML? I place my (fake, tinpot, virtual, not real) bets on Trofo. Seems to never drop points at all even during bad GWs.

[Trofo]

I wildcarded a week ago and have like 5 injured players, that means going -12 is a necessity. Fun times..

Who? Keep in mind you don't need bench every week.
Thinking about most owned players, Diogo Jota is a must sell, Salah and Darwin can go to bench without problems but I would still change Darwin for -4 to Watkins/Solanke. And you bench Salah, Palmer and whoever else you got that isn't playing this week.

I am very concerned about Estupinan and Walker minutes this week but that does not mean I am gonna use transfers on them. Even if I have only 10 players this week not a big a deal.

GW 25 winner is Brahim012 with monster 117 points. Congrats on 1 mBTC free bet and I believe this is the result that puts you in the lead for overall highest week score as well. Will double check that when season ends but according to my personal files, current holder was Kanapka with 110 and you are now on the top.

[buwaytress]

GW 25 winner is Brahim012 with monster 117 points. Congrats on 1 mBTC free bet and I believe this is the result that puts you in the lead for overall highest week score as well. Will double check that when season ends but according to my personal files, current holder was Kanapka with 110 and you are now on the top.

That is a monster score, even with DGW, you'd have to have picked some smart players. Well done (who's Brahim012 on the forum?).

For me, a damned waste of DGW to be honest, barely made it above the average, and now contending with the blanks of Liverpool. Suppose it gives Nunez some time to recover (if they don't use him in the EFL final).

Pascal G back in my squad to temporarily relieve Palmer of his duties, but that's all I'm able to think of doing.

[Trofo]

Seems to never drop points at all even during bad GWs.

That is the point of picking balanced squad and not chasing the points. Top players that play 90 minutes every week and have penalties are always good picks. They will get points sooner rather than later. I am talking about players like Watkins (doesn't have pens), Saka, Solanke, Haaland, Palmer, Salah.... You put them in your team and just forget about them, they will deliver. Then you just tweak the remaining ones when necessary. I am always looking for those season keepers.

I still consider GW25 as bad result but it was so much worse for many players so it is a net win. Nobody could have predicted Jota and Darwin getting injured and playing just one half time in DGW. Foden not getting a return and Haaland getting only one is also quite a bad luck. De Bruyne flopping was maybe predictable as well as clean sheets wipe outs.

[Harkorede]

I wildcarded a week ago and have like 5 injured players, that means going -12 is a necessity. Fun times..

It's called the wildcard curse mate welcome to the club...

As Trofo have said, it is only worth taking points hit when you have less than the required 11 players that'd be needed, however, sometimes once take a little bit of risk to take hits because of certain fixture difficulties, sometimes it pays off, most times it doesn't, -12 isn't a necessity just walk your way through the bench gradually, if you take 12 points hits and have 2-3 eligible players on the bench then it's not logical, more so for a blank week.

EDIT:
I wanted to take a sneak peek at your team and I can't seem to understand why you'd be in need of -12 points hit, but for me I just discovered that I'm in a very deep shit myself, now I've gotta call in chip to clear this whole message, because it turns out that I'm not as astute as I thought was about this game week earlier during the week.

Hojlund, being the most transferred in player for the GW is now out for at least 3 weeks, damn!

[CLS63]

I assume that I was in a hurry to buy Kevin De Bruyne for my team. As I understood from Guardiola's statements today he is in a situation to play for 30 minutes the most against Bournemouth away.

I'm thinking about who I need to transfer in Jota's place. 3 names come to my mind for now: Ødegaard,Gross,Hee-chan. Is there anyone who has another recommendation?

[cryptofrka]

EDIT:
I wanted to take a sneak peek at your team and I can't seem to understand why you'd be in need of -12 points hit, but for me I just discovered that I'm in a very deep shit myself, now I've gotta call in chip to clear this whole message, because it turns out that I'm not as astute as I thought was about this game week earlier during the week.

Well, Nunez and Jota are injured and KDB is a doubt. I have Palmer and Bell that have a blank GW, so I barely assembled 11 players with -4 penalty but have nobody from the bench to replace KDB in case he does not play.
I planned everything perfectly, this double GW with Salah as triple captain should have netted me 150 points. It will be a struggle now to make this a functional team yet again with so many injuries and without a WC.

[Trofo]

Hojlund, being the most transferred in player for the GW is now out for at least 3 weeks, damn!

I will never get why people make some transfers. This week among top 4 transferred in players Hojlund and Salah. Both will not play a single minute this week, and while it is new injury to Hojlund we know that Salah does not have a fixture for about two weeks.

Early transfers are always a risk. I felt bad when I took Solanke for Darwin just now. I did it to save 0.1M but I would still feel better if I could have waited till the deadline.

[Harkorede]

Hojlund, being the most transferred in player for the GW is now out for at least 3 weeks, damn!

I will never get why people make some transfers. This week among top 4 transferred in players Hojlund and Salah. Both will not play a single minute this week, and while it is new injury to Hojlund we know that Salah does not have a fixture for about two weeks.

Early transfers are always a risk. I felt bad when I took Solanke for Darwin just now. I did it to save 0.1M but I would still feel better if I could have waited till the deadline.

Yeah, I'm people! I don't have Salah and don't intend for a while more, but I got Hojlund in very early for Nunez, because I would be losing on both ends of the budget, If didn't early enough. In my opinion, most of those who brought back Salah might have two free transfers and need to be rid of premium or mid priced forward into order to bring Salah and some other player and leave Salah on the bench since he's back, I'm only part of the bandwagon that brought in Hojlund early too, for early transfer is usually for things, the beat price (not often my reason for it) or secondly so as not to forget before the deadline, after checking my final result for game week, I often do arrange my in team for next game week in advance, especially captaincy and substitution order of priorities, I tend to leave the transfer for a bit late into the week if I'm still second guessing myself, but If I'm sure that I'll be rid of a certain player who is likely to have an high transfer out for a player that would be heavily transferred, I tend to do that quickly so as not to lose price on former, and at the same pay higher for the new one, sometime you get to save 0.2m that way.

[nelson4lov]

I will never get why people make some transfers. This week among top 4 transferred in players Hojlund and Salah. Both will not play a single minute this week, and while it is new injury to Hojlund we know that Salah does not have a fixture for about two weeks.

Early transfers are always a risk. I felt bad when I took Solanke for Darwin just now. I did it to save 0.1M but I would still feel better if I could have waited till the deadline.

I used to make silly mistakes like this. After a terrible ganeweek,   I would allow my emotions get the best of me and hurriedly make transfers on a Sunday. 95% of the time, those transfers end up being bad decisions. One time, I spent 28 points trying to remedy rushed transfers amd got thumped  hard that week with even fewer points return. It's my first season and I have made plenty of mistakes already.  Now I just accumulate free transfers and use it only when necessary.



Since KDB is becoming a doubt, I might have to sell him for Haaland in the coming weeks since Haaland is already getting back to good form.

[Smartvirus]

In the end Walker and Van Dijk were my best DGW players and ones that propelled me up the ranks.

Insane when you think about it retroactively.
I'm still sure that picking defenders from Liverpool and City in DGW is a terrible choice, no matter that you're certain they will play for 90 minutes.

When I saw Trofo make that comment, I had to jump on his team and those guys were counting in their 20s. Although, their price isn’t what I would have liked to spend on defenders but, they did there bid in this round, for Trofo though.

With the bonus haven’t duly distributed, the points are way above 73 for an average and am below that. How is that not bad now. The catch up game just got longer and yeah Trofo, your surely settling it on the ladder, lol…

Well, Nunez and Jota are injured and KDB is a doubt. I have Palmer and Bell that have a blank GW, so I barely assembled 11 players with -4 penalty but have nobody from the bench to replace KDB in case he does not play.
I planned everything perfectly, this double GW with Salah as triple captain should have netted me 150 points. It will be a struggle now to make this a functional team yet again with so many injuries and without a WC.

More bad news for Nunez, I really shouldn’t have gone with my guts and rely on my skepticism for Nunez. The DGW pressure weighed so much. Would have been better with a good defense and Solanke having his spot.

[Harkorede]

Phew! Finally I'm forced to give up on my team's tweaking over and over again by the deadline, I've spent nothing less than 3-4 hours literally just transfer in players in an out, I've tried nothing less than over 20 different formations and options because my Free Hit was in play that's the only way to get rid of the points hits I have incurred already. I was going to go all in on Crystal Palace defence  to keep a clean sheet against Burnley, so I had 3 defenders from them, but I switched at the very last minute before the deadline and go all Arsenal at the back, meaning I'm still without Saka, and since it's a free hit I tried to go for as many differentials as I possible could, I hope it does pay off 🤞

[cryptofrka]

Why is Estupinan not playing? He's benched again today.
I kinda expected that because he was a late substitute in their last game but don't quite understand it.

This round will be extremely painful, I'm playing with 9 players.

[Woodie]

Hojlund, being the most transferred in player for the GW is now out for at least 3 weeks, damn!

I will never get why people make some transfers. This week among top 4 transferred in players Hojlund and Salah. Both will not play a single minute this week, and while it is new injury to Hojlund we know that Salah does not have a fixture for about two weeks.

I guess these people make their teams based on the most recent game played, which is not a bad approach tbh but unfortunately for this GW they are guaranteed to blank for not being in the know
Other reason is they don't follow football news to get ahead of the competition as required...


First goal of the EPL weekend, mahn this Watkins guy is some pure talent , unfortunately no room for him in my team with the likes of Halaad out there to get some big goals

[Harkorede]

It really doesn't get better, does it, I have Douglas Luiz on the bench for Pascal Gross, after spending multiple hours, I still left him on the bench, I knew Alvarez or Foden wouldn't start the game, I just don't know which of them, now I can only hope Alvarez doesn't get any minute off the bench to get Douglas Luiz as my auto substituted player.

I was going to go all in on Crystal Palace defence  to keep a clean sheet against Burnley, so I had 3 defenders from them, but I switched at the very last minute before the deadline and go all Arsenal at the back

I just should have trusted my instinct, that's 18 points + 2 bonus points for Richards and 15 more for Douglas Luiz whom I left on the bench

Arsenal had better come up with a plan to render Newcastle harmless, or my game week will be in complete jeopardy.

[cryptofrka]

Considering that Estupinan, KDB and Alvarez did not start and ended up with 2 points combined, I actually have a decent return.
Captaining Watkins will give me ~10 points differential against most of you that went with Haaland and that should compensate a bit.

This is the worst team I'll ever put (nobody on the bench), next GW should already be a lot better.

[casperBGD]

last minute goal by Brighton diminished my returns on FPL, but also took 2 points from Everton
had also exact score in Superbru on 0:1
it is a good thing that I don't bet on Everton, since I was pretty sure we are going to win this one with clean sheet today

hope to see at least clean sheet from Arsenal, to provide a bit for my FPL team

[ralle14]

Captaining Watkins will give me ~10 points differential against most of you that went with Haaland and that should compensate a bit.

I did the same with Watkins and it feels great to climb a few spots after continuously going down the ranks these past few rounds.

I was also forced to use my free hit because of the postponed match between Chelsea and Spurs, but I failed to take advantage of it, as I only gained a few points.

I just should have trusted my instinct, that's 18 points + 2 bonus points for Richards and 15 more for Douglas Luiz whom I left on the bench

Andersen and Johnstone as well for a combined 30 points, that's a ton of bench points to miss out on. 

[Rruchi man]

hope to see at least clean sheet from Arsenal, to provide a bit for my FPL team

Arsenal were close to a perfect win, a clean sheet, but just had to concede, I am sure the defenders lost concentration briefly.

Liverpool's injury list is growing, and concerns rising too. Klopp and Liverpool were lucky to still win the game against clown Chelsh*t with some unknown players who most us have never heard of. If their problems continue like this, the injuries I mean, they could loose their position on the top of the table to teams like Manchester City and Arsenal who are hunting behind.