Rollbit.com 🦁 Fantasy Premier League ⚽ Discussion Thread

[buwaytress]

Fuck man, this man is a complete non sense. i dont have him and without him is almost impossible if he still in this path. Is carrying everybodys fantasys teams, two round in a row.

Haaland is single handedly rendering every team without him clueless, it’s him versus the entire team of those who don’t have him (like myself), 6 goals in two games, how is anyone suppose to keep up without him ?

Perhaps it’s time to press the panic button and get him in at all cost.

Look guys. Learn from my past 2 seasons. I refused to have Haaland, and got nowhere. Now I have him in my squad. I still want him to do badly, so this horror spectacle of must-have Haaland can end.

I even took him off captaincy today, thinking Salah is hungry and energetic, but even regular Haaland is simply a robot as Trofo says, and must be in your squad at all costs. I must still hope Salah will go crazy tomorrow and redeem the captaincy.

It's a big shame, FPL is broken, but if we want to play, we play by those broken rules.

[Harkorede]

Fuck man, this man is a complete non sense. i dont have him and without him is almost impossible if he still in this path. Is carrying everybodys fantasys teams, two round in a row.

Haaland is single handedly rendering every team without him clueless, it’s him versus the entire team of those who don’t have him (like myself), 6 goals in two games, how is anyone suppose to keep up without him ?

Perhaps it’s time to press the panic button and get him in at all cost.

Look guys. Learn from my past 2 seasons. I refused to have Haaland, and got nowhere. Now I have him in my squad. I still want him to do badly, so this horror spectacle of must-have Haaland can end.

I even took him off captaincy today, thinking Salah is hungry and energetic, but even regular Haaland is simply a robot as Trofo says, and must be in your squad at all costs. I must still hope Salah will go crazy tomorrow and redeem the captaincy.

It's a big shame, FPL is broken, but if we want to play, we play by those broken rules.

Yeah, Trofo was actually right about the thought process that brought about not going with Haaland to start, no because I expected him to not do well, but we all would agree that this is beyond normalcy to begin with. I chose to not start with Haaland but plan on having him the rest of the way from when I plan to WC’d and why is because other than Ipswich, Man City’s fixture on paper shouldn’t have had Haaland on 7 goals in 3 games, I just felt teams like Arsenal and Liverpool who seemingly have better fixtures and more players to target, for every goal Liverpool scores without Salah’s involvement you could expect a Jota/Diaz involvement and the same thing goes for Arsenal with Saka, where Havertz could come to the rescue but for City and Guardiola’s style Haaland is the only feasible attacking player with guaranteed minutes. If City’s first game of the season were to be against another team aside Chelsea, I sure wouldn’t have started without Haaland.

[Smartvirus]

I’ve made such a terrible mistake with my team selection in this early halve of the season. I mean, how did i not see this to be a terrible choice from the on set, not having either M. Salah or Haaland on my team and these guys are just bagging points that worths the bill on them. Watkins has just been flopping this season, not coming up with any wonders and so has Isak. Need to pull off an early wildcard magic before all goes to shit. Starting from the bottom!

[Rruchi man]

15M is a lot but Norwegian robot is worth it.

He doesn't need so many touches on the ball before he can score a goal and that is what makes him very unique as a striker in this Manchester City side and a must-have for anyone with plans to do well in the FPL. Luckily for me, I left the captain armband on him for this GW, I wasn't expecting a hattrick again today, but it is what it is.

Two consecutive hattrick for Halaand and my TC chip is still intact, I'm so mad at myself right now. GW9 we go then......

Someone in the pool used the TC chip this week; it was a big risk, but it paid off.

[Trofo]

It's a big shame, FPL is broken, but if we want to play, we play by those broken rules.

I think FPL rules are as good as possible. Also this season maybe has the best pricing in last few. Finally we have that feeling of you can't have them all that is crucial to the game.

Haaland, Salah, Palmer, Saka, Son - you can't have more than 3 for sure and others will hurt you. You just have to pick those that frighten you most when you don't have them in the team. Haaland scores goals for fun but they get him only 4 points, he also doesn't get assists ever. All the other guys on that list get 5 points for a goal and a lot of assist. Haaland on 15M is perfect and far from broken. He is doing more damage to our heads than actual FPL damage. But that is also important factor and I don't want to watch City without him in my squad.

Just think about last season when Palmer was 5M and Saka 8M. That is broken, but somehow nobody complained since it was easy to have them in our squads.

[Harkorede]

I’ve made such a terrible mistake with my team selection in this early halve of the season. I mean, how did i not see this to be a terrible choice from the on set, not having either M. Salah or Haaland on my team and these guys are just bagging points that worths the bill on them. Watkins has just been flopping this season, not coming up with any wonders and so has Isak. Need to pull off an early wildcard magic before all goes to shit. Starting from the bottom!

I thought the FPL is tough to play without having Haaland, but here is someone playing with neither Haaland nor Salah, wow!

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All Eze on me, finally he gets to kickoff his season's potential haul with quite a beautiful goal, I was so look for alternatives already btw, and the price drop made rethink since there isn't anyone with spectacular fixture within his price bracket that interest me.

[Rruchi man]

All Eze on me, finally he gets to kickoff his season's potential haul with quite a beautiful goal,

Jackson and Palmer, who should have had decent points from this game since they had full minutes and with the assist and goal, have both picked up a yellow card. I have Eze, and luckily he scores.

I should be smiling right now, but that's Burn's own goal is a hiccup.

Focus now on Liverpool assets and Salah, who has scored the most goals against Manchester United, I am sure he will be on the scoresheet again today.

[NotATether]

Well, I have pulled the trigger on the Wildcard chip. Too many transfers needed to replace Nkunku, Hall, BBD, backup for Quansah and it requires me to sell Solanke to free up funds.

Right now I'm being carried by Haaland (C), Saka, and Palmer, but that isn't going to get me any closer to the top.

At least there's an international break now.

[buwaytress]

Well, well, well. If things go my way, captaining Salah instead of Haaland could make me look like I actually know what I'm doing. Hope they keep Casemiro on, he looks haunted in his eyes.

I just felt teams like Arsenal and Liverpool who seemingly have better fixtures and more players to target, for every goal Liverpool scores without Salah’s involvement you could expect a Jota/Diaz involvement and the same thing goes for Arsenal with Saka, where Havertz could come to the rescue but for City and Guardiola’s style Haaland is the only feasible attacking player with guaranteed minutes. If City’s first game of the season were to be against another team aside Chelsea, I sure wouldn’t have started without Haaland.

And that was true the past couple of seasons actually with Salah -- he performs well on a cost-to-point ratio, but the discrepancy in points earned from FPL scoring method still means if you Captain Haaland, he's going to outscore any other actually more valuable (cost-to-point) player over the course of a season. It's simply the way he's built and the way City build around him.

P.S. I switched captain to Salah because I thought West Ham would not be idiots and at least try to mark Haaland. They left him free, they are idiots.

P.P.S. I'm probably also whining because I'm old and old people whine a lot.

It's a big shame, FPL is broken, but if we want to play, we play by those broken rules.

I think FPL rules are as good as possible. Also this season maybe has the best pricing in last few. Finally we have that feeling of you can't have them all that is crucial to the game.

Haaland, Salah, Palmer, Saka, Son - you can't have more than 3 for sure and others will hurt you. You just have to pick those that frighten you most when you don't have them in the team. Haaland scores goals for fun but they get him only 4 points, he also doesn't get assists ever. All the other guys on that list get 5 points for a goal and a lot of assist. Haaland on 15M is perfect and far from broken. He is doing more damage to our heads than actual FPL damage. But that is also important factor and I don't want to watch City without him in my squad.

Just think about last season when Palmer was 5M and Saka 8M. That is broken, but somehow nobody complained since it was easy to have them in our squads.

Oh I've been wanting a weighted scoring for FPL for a long time -- I always, always, prefer weighted scoring systems that rewards value as cost-per-point, and rewards outlier picks, and does comparative scoring with overall contributions on team vs team.

The system looks geared for it. It calculates opponent difficulty, and it already calculates player interventions and involvements, so why not make that part of a weighted score? As in, scoring, clean sheets, dribbles, etc. against a tougher opponent should be worth more. Books use the same systems, but apply odds as a reflection of difficulty and risk-reward, only the money pouring in and the juice skews the odds so we don't see a clean picture. I always envisioned a pure Fantasy weighted system to be where true risk-reward is pictured.

It's been my complaint of 2 decades playing football whether Winning Eleven or Football Manager, you match up with a guy and it's a team full of superstars you're just facing variations of the same thing it got so boring. But don't blame the players, blame the game, it only rewards that kind of pattern and it discourages risk-taking and completely ignores real-world economic factors.

But you're probably right in that the pricing finally looks like it means something now. I couldn't really compare properly as I havent' always been paying attention but it does feel like my squad should have been able to keep my beloved Saka, but couldn't. I want to say it's Haaland's fault though

[Harkorede]

Impressive game from Salah to say the least, If only TAA first goal had stood that would have been 3 assists and 1 goal for Salah, while TAA would have also had an attacking return, only then could I have said I was able to make up (to some extent) for not having Haaland, but at least the captaincy battle wasn’t a lost one… Isak to Jackson ended up being a waste of transfer and 2 points lost 🤥

[icopress]

Lol. I woke up this morning thinking that everything would be fine (considering I wasn't Haaland's captain).

But I didn't expect my captain to score 20 more points than Haaland (surpassing Haaland's hattrick). 17 

Moreover, I just saw that the Brazilian league team I bet a decent amount on won (scoring a goal in the 94th and 96th minutes). LOL.

It seems like the perfect way to end the weekend.

I especially want to congratulate buwaytress! At this very second you are simply having a heroic peak.

[Rruchi man]

Lol. I woke up this morning thinking that everything would be fine (considering I wasn't Haaland's captain).

But I didn't expect my captain to score 20 more points than Haaland (surpassing Haaland's hattrick). 17 

I cannot say I regret Haaland's captaincy; I never expected Manchester United to be that poor against Liverpool, especially with all the new additions to the team by Erik Ten Hag and then the home advantage. Luckily, I got some vice captain points from Salah.

Ten Hag's decision to keep playing Rashford is forcing Garnacho to the right wing, were he is not very effective. Garnacho playing from the left is always likely to score. If Ten Hag had started Amad, the game would have been different for Manchester United, their attack would have been more effective.

[icopress]

Well, I have pulled the trigger on the Wildcard chip.

Here's a short story about my Wildcard

I used free transfer in gameweek 1 to remove Quansah. In gameweek 2 I activated WC to avoid price drops Nkunku, Murphy, Rashford (+ Barco). I also bought Palmer, Rogers, João Pedro, Smith Rowe before the price increase and I bought Eze at a discount. I am currently rated 87k and my team value is 100.8m + 0.1 The presence of a mini balance makes me happy, since it often happens that 0.1 is missing to buy a player.

Was WC worth it? Absolutely.

Flekken/Sánchez - great rotating goalkeepers
Konsa/TAA/Robinson + Faes/Keane - I think the perfect defense with great rotation for 10 weeks.
Palmer/Rogers/Salah/Smith Rowe/Eze
Haaland/João Pedro/Wissa

Code:

GW4 Bench: Wissa/Faes/Keane/Flekken
GW5 Bench: Wissa/Robinson/Keane/Flekken
GW6 Bench: João Pedro/Faes/Keane/Sánchez
GW7 Bench: Smith Rowe/Faes/Keane/Sánchez
[...]

Basically this could go on for weeks... the idea is to save up 5 free transfers and spend them as needed (but trying to have all 5 in stock in the future).

[cryptofrka]

I thought you made a mistake with Salah captaincy. Liverpool usually doesn't play so well at Old Trafford and Salah was involved in everything this time.
I needed something from Jota there to make my decent round a bit better, but he wasn't even near any contributions yesterday.

Wildcarding early always carries risks - you can get 3 injured players after the national teams break. Still - it was a decent move and congrats on your top position. Still early though..

[Trofo]

Can't belive what I am writing here vut GW3 winner is buwaytress. Not gonna analyse this one since I would probably loose the will to carry on playing FPL 

Kidding aside, good work man. Hope you win something with free bets.

[darbitmobilerecovery]

What we can say..... even a failed clock give the correct hour two times a day 


Haaland i have a plan for you, go play with Norway and get injured ok? We need this not for me we need this for the health of the competition.

What a boring week is gonna be without normal football.

[Joca97]

What we can say..... even a failed clock give the correct hour two times a day 


Haaland i have a plan for you, go play with Norway and get injured ok? We need this not for me we need this for the health of the competition.

What a boring week is gonna be without normal football.

Haha yeah if you dont have Haaland or Salah you lose a lot of points and make the game really boring. I made a big mistake with putting Palmer for captain this week instead of Haaland and costed me 20 points… dont know if i should cheer for him to score or not haha

[Harkorede]

Can't belive what I am writing here vut GW3 winner is buwaytress.

The system is rigged!

I guess this is why he's been performing woefully in the BSFL, someone seemed to be fully locked in on FPL this season well, well!

Congratulations man!!

[Igebotz]

Can't belive what I am writing here vut GW3 winner is buwaytress. Not gonna analyse this one since I would probably loose the will to carry on playing FPL 

Kidding aside, good work man. Hope you win something with free bets.

Congratulations Padi, you saved Rollbits from paying another multiple winners GW ( I and 3 others) 

Bad for him he didn't put anything on the line ( sidebet) against me this season. Finally took off Nunez to save yourself. Keep pushing, seeing you above me, gives me enough motivation to keep pushing too.

Quansah to Lewis was the best move I ever made this season- he's never getting into that Liverpool backline.

[buwaytress]

Long live Ten Hag!

I especially want to congratulate buwaytress! At this very second you are simply having a heroic peak.

Thank you! First time in my life counting manually all the points Salah was getting play by play! I captained him instead of Haaland, so it was so important he scored 17, same as the Norwegian machine My best week ever in FPL history, I know you guys probably know the feeling already but it's new to me haha.

Can't belive what I am writing here vut GW3 winner is buwaytress. Not gonna analyse this one since I would probably loose the will to carry on playing FPL 

Kidding aside, good work man. Hope you win something with free bets.

Luck man. Semenyo scoring to start a comeback and Eze scoring against rampant Chelski are outliers. I'll put my freebets on special markets I never tried before in the same spirit =D

The system is rigged!

I guess this is why he's been performing woefully in the BSFL, someone seemed to be fully locked in on FPL this season well, well!

Congratulations man!!

Thank you! I always perform badly in BSFL, not bad enough for relegation but very Everton-like in Div1. I don't know what to do about it honestly. It's not like I can do visible improvements =D

Congratulations Padi, you saved Rollbits from paying another multiple winners GW ( I and 3 others) 

Bad for him he didn't put anything on the line ( sidebet) against me this season. Finally took off Nunez to save yourself. Keep pushing, seeing you above me, gives me enough motivation to keep pushing too.

Quansah to Lewis was the best move I ever made this season- he's never getting into that Liverpool backline.

Can scarcely believe it myself. Lucky for Rollbit

I built out the squad from the front, and the back was just full of cheap ass defenders, but more importantly, yes I gave up on Nunez and did what the majority of players did: take Haaland/Salah. I ended up taking both, and that has been a lucky streak thanks to easy fixtures. Not sure how I can hold this when real games happen. I really miss TAA and Saka... but Nkunku for Semenyo was best move for me. Sticking with Isak, Pedro, and Eze were also unexpected bonuses.

So no, I didn't put money on myself because this is still experimental for me.