As per the other teams, the players were selected using an optimisation program based on the input criteria. I've set aside £10m budget for goalies and the first 10 outfield players were determined seperately to the 3 bench players, who were given a £13m chunk of the budget.
Setup
Budget: £10m reserved for GK, £13m for 3 bench players. £83m on 10 first team players.
Formation: Any
This team is based on a flat 10 week points projection without any transfers in or out or rotation. Chris Glover at PremierLeagueFantasyBlog wrote a great article recently about how to use your wildcard to line yourself up some transfers in the coming weeks to further optimise your selections. Go Read! :)
Comments:
- One major suprise on the previous teams - Distin, who is a solid but not spectacular choice ahead of the slightly more pricey mainstay of my other WC teams in Gibbs. Distin gives this team just enough money to squeeze Michu in to make up the famous five.
- The next best alternative see's Fletcher join the team and Michu downgraded to a bench option allowing Distin to be upgraded to Gibbs and actually leaving £0.9m of the budget unspent.
- If you've followed this site all season you'll not be suprised to see Berbatov in the team!
- If you want to upgrade Berbatov to Ba or Suarez, say, then you could sacrifce one of your midfielders for Puncheon and perhaps have some money left over.
Following on from these teams I will take a look at a couple of alternative setups. One with a low overall ownership, and one with a couple of players that are realy punts due to uncertain gametime or have had the shots just not the points.
In doing these teams I have received quite a few comments that I feel deserve answers to in full and are worth sharing so if you have an outstanding question in the comments look out for a Wildcard Q&A post tomorrow (Thurs). Some of the topics covered are listed below. If you have any more specificquestions then let me know in the comments and I will attempt to address them in tomorrow's post.
- Why Gibbs but not Sagna?
- Ba or No Ba?
- No love for Michu?
- What if you own players at a cheaper price than currently lsited?
"If you want to upgrade Berbatov to Ba or Suarez, say, then you could sacrifce one of your midfielders for Puncheon and perhaps have some money left over."
ReplyDeletei.e. doing the exact same thing I am doing with a few defenders switched around.
How much offensive potential do you see in Luiz? I am not as keen as others. He simply doesn't get into the box enough for me. To wit, over the last four, he has 13 shots but only one in the box. At that rate, I can't seem him scoring more than a couple over the remainder of the season.
He does have potential, but I see it a bit below Johnson and Enrqiue and closer to Zabaletta.
My team isn't far off this;
ReplyDeleteBegovic / Bunn
Distin / Gibbs / Shawcross / Zabeleta / Luis
Bale / Mata / Fellani / Snodgrass / Walcott
Ba/ Berbatov / Lambert
Plan will be Back for Podolski next week, then asses Aguero, Rooney and Suarez.
Luis may well make way for Johnson or a Spurs defender I'd we get some clarity on that front.
Thoughts?
Any chance you could downgrade at MID to get a bigger FWD? Not sure you can make it work without Suarez, Aguero (when healthy) and Rooney/RVP.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think about a player like Papiss Cisse, who has been really underwhelming all year, but will surely get more opportunities with Demba Ba gone? Or Carlos Tevez, if hypothetically, Aguero is out for a month?
ReplyDeleteI like Tevez quite a bit. In fact, if not for DGWs I would have him in my lineup right now. No idea why he keeps falling.
ReplyDeleteNot sure about Cisse mainly because of his price. Might prefer a flyer on Lukaku rather than spend that much on Cisse.
I certainly aim to have Aguero, Rooney or Suarez in by week 26 at the latest (depending on injuries) I am only going with Ba for the DGW this week and Podolski (maybe) for the following. I will likely downgrade Walcott to a Pienaar, Walters or Nolan.
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