With some renewed interest in this years competition after finding out about my Week 6 win (although have no idea when I will get my winnings) here I am starting the WDT 9 thread.........


Everton v Man Utd
Chelsea v Arsenal
Man City v Wolverhampton
Norwich v Blackburn
Sunderland v Aston Villa
Swansea v Bolton
Wigan v Fulham
West Brom v Liverpool
Tottenham v QPR

While you have renewed interst Footy, it appears many have lost interest. Here's the popular picks from this week. Lots of 0%s in there. A few entries thrown out may contribute to that as well.

Defenders

1 DEF V Kompany MCY £5.5m 2%
2 DEF M Richards MCY £4.5m 1%
3 DEF J Lescott MCY £4.5m 1%
4 DEF B Hangeland FUL £4.0m 1%
5 DEF K Walker TOT £3.0m 0%
6 DEF J Terry CHE £7.0m 0%
7 DEF P Jones MAN £3.5m 0%
8 DEF N Vidic MAN £7.5m 0%
9 DEF A Cole CHE £7.0m 0%
10 DEF D Luiz CHE £6.0m 0%

Midfielders

1 MID D Silva MCY £5.5m 2%
2 MID R van der Vaart TOT £6.0m 2%
3 MID S Gerrard LIV £6.5m 1%
4 MID F Lampard CHE £7.5m 1%
5 MID J Milner MCY £4.0m 0%
6 MID Nani MAN £6.0m 0%
7 MID S Nasri MCY £6.0m 0%
8 MID J Mata CHE £3.5m 0%
9 MID C Dempsey FUL £4.0m 0%
10 MID A Young MAN £5.5m 0%

Strikers

1 STR M Balotelli MCY £4.5m 2%
2 STR S Aguero MCY £5.5m 2%
3 STR R van Persie ARS £7.5m 1%
4 STR W Rooney MAN £8.0m 1%
5 STR E Dzeko MCY £4.0m 1%
6 STR F Torres CHE £7.0m 1%
7 STR E Adebayor TOT £4.5m 1%
8 STR L Suarez LIV £5.5m 1%
9 STR J Defoe TOT £4.5m 0%
10 STR J Hernandez MAN £6.0m 0%

[quote="chrismar"]While you have renewed interst Footy, it appears many have lost interest. Here's the popular picks from this week. Lots of 0%s in there. A few entries thrown out may contribute to that as well.

Those percentages are clearly all wrong, another technical F'up by Dream Team.

Van Persie is the Star Man to have by the looks of things, only put him in 1 team but Suarez is the star man so need him to at least get a double.

I think they are percentages of the total teams (about 1.25 million) hence being so small.

I didn't star RVP in any of my 61 teams this week but he is my most picked striker so not all bad.

Just the one starred RVP for me but that was in an Arsenal semi-block so slim chance of a top 100 to be honest. I think an Adebayor or VDV hat-trick tomorrow could throw the cat amongst the pigeons

Well I was gutted until I came on here.

I have RvP in the majority of my teams, but I didn't star him in any this week. I just didn't expect 2 or 3 goals from him today. But at least I'm not the only one.

So from WDT point of view, I'm gutted, but long term - I'm over the moon.

I have VdV starred in quite a few, so I'm hoping for a Hat-trick from him tommorrow.

Do you think anyone without RvP starred can be in top 100 this weekend Maybe...

Oh, and looking at Jag's post above me - I have Adebayor starred in a fair few too - fingers crossed with you mate

I went for a few Adebayors and VDV stars in my 6 teams, but don't have VP in any of them.

I did have some hope...of a top 100 finish until Kompany screwed it up for me. Hoping Suarez doesn't score more than 2 in the current match at Albion. Had City block + Dempsey + Silva + VP + Suarez starred.

Only 2 teams with clean sheets so far, Fulham and Man Utd, so a block and VP starred would do well.

Schwarzer
Hangeland
Riise
Santos
Olsson
Silva
Lampard
Nani
Dzeko
Hernandez*
RVP
Baird
Toure
Aguero

Maybe, but I doubt it

my best effort at the moment is

de gea
p.jones
gibbs
smalling
vermalen....not pleased he made a cameo

young
mata
silva
cleverly

dzeko
rvp starred

added

vidic
VDV
rooney

so best i have so far, a good 4-0 win to spurs tomm will change that though

don't think you'll have a hope in hell of top 100 without rvp starred as it stands

Hmm have RVP starred in a team with Schwarzer, Enrique and Dempsey but the rest of the team is so bad I'm not that hopeful.

Adebayor Kaboul and Walker still to come though

My best

D De Gea
C Smalling
B Hangeland
P Evra
P Jones
A Ramsey
J Mata
Anderson
B Zamora
S Aguero
W Rooney

N Vidic
A Young
R Van Persie*****

Smalling has broken his toe and is out for a month and didn't play today. Still looks better than mine, which looks better than Dan's on potential ratings pre VDV.

ah right i thought he broke it in the game today!

oh well

12,000 people picked VP, how many starred him is the question, I will guess at least 6000.

….but how many had him in their starting line up?

Loads, although a lot of people would have got on the Rooney, Suarez, Dzeko, Aguero bandwagon at the last transfer window.

But the question is how many people put him as Star Man, as a general way of picking star men 80-90% of the time I select a star man from my 3 extra players I will assume that is generally how people pick theirs.

50% have Suarez, 49% Rooney and 39% Aguero and less than 20% RVP. I star players in my first XI about 50% of the time i'd say. There were a lot more appealing options than RVP this weekend so he may not be starred by many but as he was added by so many, 6000 probably isn't far off.

Pretty pointless speculating but I'd be really surprised if he's in as many as 6,000.

I starred him in 1 of my 61 teams depite the fact I have him in 23 of 61. I rate him hugely but just didn't see this coming away to Chelsea. With the Man City players and possibly Suarez having looked standouts for this weekend I cant see it being 6,000 maybe 2,000

Still hoping Adebayor or VDV have a goal bonanza today

If Bale get a third - it'll be interesting.

he should be on all freekicks now and pens

I got a fulham block with rvp * plus bale
Which is nice

How many people pick Suarez week in week out, I prefer to pick outsiders, gives a better chance of winning.

Got a team on 99 prior to ratings (making the assumption that RVP is star man)

Had a team with Bale starred , RVP in it with Schwarzer Enrique Phil Jones Dempsey and Hernandez.

To say I was cheering on Bale for a hat trick would be a small understatement

No prizes for me this week, probably top 500 ish at best

Good luck to those in with a shout, hope the starmen work out for you

No prizes for me this week, probably top 500 ish at best


Don't mean with that team by the way, have one RVP starred team but not a lot to go with him

still my best, might sneak into the top 100 I'd hope, depends on ratings assuming rvp gets star dog, also hopefull vidic will also and maybe dzeko?

best team on 115 according to my calculations....hopefull of a top 100 finish

121 I think

I only star outsiders if my team is crap. eg is had Gyan in from TW1-TW2 so for those teams I starred Bendtner or someone else as crap (if that is possible). Same applies if defence is playing on a Monday.