I was just reading lordbills request for help about catching up a 50 point gap in his mini league and I thought I would share my thoughts on the subject of DT transfers with TW3 coming up.

I wanted to share a tale of 2 moves I made at TW2 one worked the other didn’t, and there is a lesson to be learned from the 2.

At TW2 I was 262nd overall I had Yaya Toure and Dzeko in my team, no Aguero, no RVP and yet I was 13 points from the top 100.

My 1st move was to keep Dzeko in my team even though over 100,000 teams had taken him out it was a bold move I could end up looking ridiculous and left behind if I don’t take him out and swap him for Aguero.
My 2nd move was to take YaYa Toure out of my team and swap him for David Silva. I took him out because I thought if I don’t put Silva in I could end up looking ridiculous and left behind if I don’t take Toure out and swap him for Silva.

The point of this little tale is if you are going to win the Sun Dream team or any other game for that matter you have to do something different and be prepared to be wrong. I did it in 2004 by picking Nikopolidis and Dellas for Greece right from the start in Euro 2004 and won £180.

I did it in the Telegraph Champions league game in 2005. I won my works league and bagged £50 by having Dudek and all Liverpool back 4 all the way through the tournament. People laughed at me when we started, They called me a jammy B******d when the game had finished, but if that’s the price for success in this game so be it.

Good luck everyone, TW3 is on its way. Be prepared to be wrong.

Spot on, the way I see it is, if you put in the same players as most other people, you won't win whether those players do well or bad. If you put in different players and they do bad you won't win, but if you put in different players and they do well, you could win.

So eventually you have to differentiate to have any chance. Though with my best team just outside the top 100 I'll be keeping the familiar faces at this window with a view to staying in contention till TW5 at which point I'll gamble and go for broke. Wouldnt want to take the risk now and destroy any interest I have in the game this early in the season

With the new format of this game you have to consider two things when contemplating your transfers.

1). Am I in a close enough position to win the overall 1st prize, or make the Top 7, and if I make some risky transfers I could have a chance. Then again I might blow my chance of a top 100 finish ?

2). Am I in a close enough position to get my team into the top 100 to guarantee myself £250 if I make the sensible transfers ?

Life's a bitch

1st - £100,000
2nd - £40,000
3rd - £20,000
4th - £10,000
5th - £5,000
6th - £1,000
7th - £750
8th to 100th £250

That was the exact reason I picked Toure right at the start. I knew people would go for Silva and I knew Yaya was capable of matching and bettering Silva if things went his way. Thats the frustrating thing, I spot these players that can do well that not many pick but it's having the guts to take the risk of either bringing them in or keeping them when I have them.

The whole team was built on a strategy that not many would go for and my starting 11 would be on 774 and my current 11 are on 810 after making 4 transfers, and I know some of the cause of that is from doing what everyone else does when it comes to transfers.

(edited original team would be on 774 not 818 as I first posted)

I thought the prize for top 100 was only £100, but £250 sounds much better

i agree i personally took rooney out of my best team as i thought the introduction on the little p would see his points decrease and i thought his form would dip due to the personal issue going on at the time , and i moved into 33rd . and hopefully after this week into the top 15.

didnt sleuth do this and unfortunly it failed for him putting in a spurs block