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Fantasy League 2019/20

Started by Lordofthefiles, July 14, 2019, 05:33:59 PM

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Lost Oliver

I'm thinking about triple captaining TAA this week. I look forward to him collecting one point tonight in a 2-1 win a yellow card for Trent and then for him to be rested next week. Bought Firminho who i'm sure will be dropped for Origi.

The Culture Bunker

I had a spate of good luck that led me to the top of the work's table, but only by a point and with Rashford crocked for ages and Leicester looking like their season is over, I'm glad I have my wild card on standby.

Have also considered making Alexander-Arnold captain, but elected to go with Martial, which is doubtless cursing United to a dreary 0-1 defeat against Dyche's pie and lard mob.

bgmnts

Quote from: Lost Oliver on January 21, 2020, 02:07:32 PM
I'm thinking about triple captaining TAA this week. I look forward to him collecting one point tonight in a 2-1 win a yellow card for Trent and then for him to be rested next week. Bought Firminho who i'm sure will be dropped for Origi.

Liverpool are on Thursday against Wolves. Highly doubt Firmi o will be dropped when the next game is Shrewsbury on Saturday. Think Origi would start then. You should be fine.

Lost Oliver

Good shout. Fingers crossed. I've gone with TAAx3. I see it as he's essentially a midfielder so more likely to get an assist even if he doesn't get a clean sheet.

bgmnts

Yeah I foolishly persisted with Roberston because he links up with Mane exceptionally so thought he'd get more assists.

Sticking with him out of spite now.

I foolishly used my triple captain a while ago when someone told me that you had a limited time to use it and I couldn't be arsed reading the rules. If I still had it (S)alah would be my main man this week as I've finally changed from Mane to him in midfield.

holyzombiejesus

What If machine. Tells you how you would have done if you'd never changed your team.

https://www.game-change.co.uk/2017/08/28/fantasy-football-what-if-machine/

Find your team id by My Team and hovering mouse over View Gameweek history.

My 25 transfers have gained me a grand total of 115 points. At least I don't have Ross Barkley in my team still though.

bgmnts

QuoteYour current actual points are 1243 , and you've made 10 transfers. So your transfer activity and captaincy choices have been worth a total of 69 points!

YES.

Some utter duffers in my original team, Joe Hart and Glen Murray stand out.

weekender

Interesting link jesus, thanks for posting it.

QuoteYour current actual points are 1320, and you've made 34 transfers. So your transfer activity and captaincy choices have been worth a total of 83 points!

That's about the same as someone makes in one week when they decide to triple captain Salah/Sterling/Du Bruyne/Vardy/Tarkowski and get lucky with it.

The Culture Bunker

QuoteYour current actual points are 1431 , and you've made 26 transfers. So your transfer activity and captaincy choices have been worth a total of 264 points!
Not too bad, I guess.

Lordofthefiles

Everyone has a free Wildcard this week.

Go nuts, make some terrible decisions that seem like a great ideas right up to the moment of kick off.


bgmnts

Lundstram, Baldock and Grealish on the bench, 14 points missed.

Thank fuck Dunk scored.

The Culture Bunker

Quote from: bgmnts on June 20, 2020, 04:40:41 PM
Lundstram, Baldock and Grealish on the bench, 14 points missed.

Thank fuck Dunk scored.
You think you arsed up, I benched van Aarnholt, Ayew and Chilwell in favour of Rashford, Martial and Deeney. Basically hoping Fleck and Mount don't play so I can claw some of those points back.

phes

Good return for me. Bench boost played (18 with one left to play), 91 points with 11 players potentially to play.

Too little too fucking late mate. 260,000

bgmnts

Quote from: The Culture Bunker on June 20, 2020, 10:30:00 PM
You think you arsed up, I benched van Aarnholt, Ayew and Chilwell in favour of Rashford, Martial and Deeney. Basically hoping Fleck and Mount don't play so I can claw some of those points back.

Thats bad.

But I had Patricio on the bench too. 20 points into the ether, plus I have Nick Pope against City.

Shiiiiit

bgmnts

What factor dictates which sub will replace a non played player? I have Lundstram and Grealish on the bench and Salah didn't play so who will replace him at end of game week?

phes

The first player who can be fielded in any one available formation will be subbed. So unless you are already playing 5 at the back, that's Lundstram (if he's first)

bgmnts

Quote from: phes on June 22, 2020, 07:17:41 PM
The first player who can be fielded in any one available formation will be subbed. So unless you are already playing 5 at the back, that's Lundstram

Aye but Robertson didn't play so Baldock will come in too right?

phes

If you're currently playing with 3 or 4 at the back and Lundstram and Baldock are subs 1 and 2 then yes. Subbed in players are based on 1. Bench order and 2. An available berths on the field.

bgmnts

Shit, fucking Grealish then.

Cheers much for the info.

The Culture Bunker

I was holding onto the hope Sterling would play tonight and nab a couple. But, alas, he's benched along with Walker - unlike Aguero, who is captain in one of my rival's teams.

How is it that the actual Magnus Carlsen is no. 1 overall?

Don't tell me, there are some chess-like tricks and feats to this game, aren't there? I always thought it was about taking educated guesses, budgeting well, and not picking Villa players.

phes

It's him alright. It's been a talking point in the FPL community all season. He's been hovering about the top ten all season and tbf it will be an extraordinary story if he finishes anywhere in top few places. Winners typically agree that top, top finishes require skill and luck, but presumably if he does win there will be much discussion about how Magnus has managed luck

Ferris

There's definitely skill to it, I had a shonky spreadsheet tracking invented sabermetric stats and determining value per player (and who would give the best value total, and who would be best value per pound spent).

That was years ago when I had to sit in front of spreadsheets all day and didn't have a small child. Haven't even had the time to make wild guesses this season.

bgmnts

Quote from: His Name Is Death on June 26, 2020, 03:33:04 AM
How is it that the actual Magnus Carlsen is no. 1 overall?

Don't tell me, there are some chess-like tricks and feats to this game, aren't there? I always thought it was about taking educated guesses, budgeting well, and not picking Villa players.

He's a fucking chess grandmaster, makes sense.

phes

#115
It's got much more complicated than budgeting and player selection as fpl has developed. As well as working with an unfeasibly large amount of player and team data you have

Formation
Pricing Structure
Bench (players, value, order, number of playing players)
Transfers
Price changes
Chips
Hits
Double game weeks
Blank game weeks
Effect of concurrent competitions
Season concluding early for some teams

Almost all these variables have multiple sub-variables and have to be weighed alongside several other variables to estimate and compare their influence or value. Planning decisions have to be made about when to begin preparing for events or phases. Decisions have to be made about to what degree you protect yourself from the influence of luck (e.g do you follow a pricing structure based on maximising flexibility and options, or not). It is a mind boggling number of considerations that appears quite chaotic

The Culture Bunker

All that aside, I'm quite chuffed having Martial in my team finally paid off, especially as I'd made him captain for the last round.

Ferris

Quote from: phes on June 26, 2020, 06:02:00 PM
It's got much more complicated than budgeting and player selection as fpl has developed. As well as working with an unfeasibly large amount of player and team data you have

Formation
Pricing Structure
Bench (players, value, order, number of playing players)
Transfers
Price changes
Chips
Hits
Double game weeks
Blank game weeks
Effect of concurrent competitions
Season concluding early for some teams

Almost all these variables have multiple sub-variables and have to be weighed alongside several other variables to estimate and compare their influence or value. Planning decisions have to be made about when to begin preparing for events or phases. Decisions have to be made about to what degree you protect yourself from the influence of luck (e.g do you follow a pricing structure based on maximising flexibility and options, or not). It is a mind boggling number of considerations that appears quite chaotic

Well that's why even when I was putting loads of time into it I was never much past "quite good".

There's also the imperfection of the data because of the small sample size of games, and the convoluted ways players contribute value - you see [ferris bangs on about baseball for 4 paragraphs]

I'm around the top 10k at the moment and this will definitely be my highest finish ever. There's been no skill involved, I just copied someone's team from a much more knowledgeable football forum at the start and made lucky adjustments and captain choices all the way through.

Nearly 40 points clear in the C&B league now. Which is nice




holyzombiejesus

Was going to post my final position but looks like they're preparing for next season.

Anyway, this is a bit of an odd one...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-53740931

QuoteFantasy Premier League new winner after disqualification

An Oxford University mathematician has been declared champion of this year's Fantasy Premier League after the original winner was disqualified.

Joshua Bull, 29, said he was ecstatic to have been unexpectedly told he had beaten more than seven million fellow football strategists to the title.

The Premier League said original winner Aleksandar Antonov was stripped of his crown for "a breach of our terms".

Mr Antonov congratulated Mr Bull but denied he had cheated.

The free-to-enter competition has become the world's biggest fantasy football contest and involves competitors being awarded points depending on how well the players they choose fare in matches.

Mr Antonov said on his YouTube channel that he was removed from the competition because of a private message he sent to friends which was "taken out of context" after being forwarded to the Premier League.

A Premier League spokesman said it would not be commenting further.

Mr Bull, who is an academic specialising in applying mathematics to cancer research, said he learned about Mr Antonov's disqualification in an email from the Premier League on Tuesday morning.

He said it was not "the way I would have wanted to win" but he was still looking forward to celebrating.

Mr Bull, who said this was the first year he had taken the competition seriously, will receive prizes including a seven-night break in the UK and two VIP tickets to matches in next season's Premier League.

However, he said the "real victory" for him was knowing he had beaten his friends and family, particularly his sister Rachel.

A statement from the Premier League confirmed Mr Bull had been declared champion, and added: "The team formerly occupying the No 1 position has been removed from FPL due to a breach of our terms."

The Mail says he was disqualified for making racist Facebook comments about Rahim Sterling.

However, 'Mr' Antonov has stated...



so that's ok.