H2H Divisionals - Season Two

[gallus]

Gallus - this is a decent guide that was written at the start of the season: https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/ ... t-leagues/

Yeah I mean I know that, but deciding which players to pick seems totally impossible. Like, when do I pick Lukaku? He's not scoring right now, but maybe he will start? Is he a first round pick? Second round? Third round? What about Alli? Arnie is playing better right now, do I pick Arnie over Alli? And what about Mane and Sanchez? They are not scoring many points but they are capable of being top scorers from now on. And who is Chelsea's first choice striker? In a way removing the price restriction makes the game harder.

All I have is a top 7 list. After that it's a crapshot if you ask me.

[bspittles]

And the other main difference from FPL is there's no such thing as a value player. Everyone is worth the same.

[wonkypenguin]

We've got a full house in div 3... good luck all!

[dino1980]

Gallus - this is a decent guide that was written at the start of the season: https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/ ... t-leagues/

Yeah I mean I know that, but deciding which players to pick seems totally impossible. Like, when do I pick Lukaku? He's not scoring right now, but maybe he will start? Is he a first round pick? Second round? Third round? What about Alli? Arnie is playing better right now, do I pick Arnie over Alli? And what about Mane and Sanchez? They are not scoring many points but they are capable of being top scorers from now on. And who is Chelsea's first choice striker? In a way removing the price restriction makes the game harder.

All I have is a top 7 list. After that it's a crapshot if you ask me.

That's the beauty of draft A top seven list is good, although extending it to a top 20 list is probably wise. As for your other questions, the answer is, it depends. With the top picks you're picking for 10 weeks (or at least the first eight), with the later rounds (say 4th/5th defender and 5th mid) you can focus on the short-term.

An example, say I get the second spot in the draft and take Kane. By the time it gets back to me the choice between best available forward and best available midfielder is Vardy or Lukaku or Eriksen or Alli. If number 1 in the draft has taken Salah (quite likely) he/she will probably look to draft two forwards with picks two and three. So, even if I thought Eriksen/Alli were better picks than Vardy/Lukaku I should take a striker as it's quite likely neither will be on the table when it gets back to me and the 'best' available will be Wilson, whereas one of Eriksen/Alli should still be available and if they aren't someone like Mahrez, Mkhi, Pogba etc will be. You can have the best-laid plans, but will also have to wing it during the draft as it progresses.

So you need to be aware what your opponents are likely to do as well as the drop off in talent remaining in each position. With decisions like Chelsea's first choice striker, it depends on how much risk you want to take on. If we knew Giroud or Morata were the nailed on first choice they'd go in round two to three, as we don't know it's up to your judgement to decide at what point a Chelsea striker playing 65% of the available minutes (or whatever) is better than a Watford/Everton/Bournemouth striker who'll play 85%+ of the minutes. With draft you can always get five playing defenders and five playing mids so, if you miss out on the bigger nailed on strikers you can often take a risk with your third slot as you'll have bench cover.

For the first five to six rounds I'm really only interested in forwards/mids. Once they're out the way I'll look at the shape of my squad and what's left on the board and decide what to do next. It may be that taking De Gea or a top GK is a bigger priority than a fourth mid, or a top-tier defender is necessary because a few have already been taken. When it comes to defences, aside from outliers like Alonso, I tend to rank the big six in order of who I really want a defender from (form, fixtures, attacking ability the usual stuff) and figure out how many nailed defenders there are from each and go from there.

Anyway, that's quite rambly and might be of no help at all but that's the sort of factors I think about during draft.

[Tacalabala]

Relatively happy with that - got my Chelsea block and strong-ish mid.

[bspittles]

Apart from Ayew, happy with mine

29 minutes for Division Two!

[wonkypenguin]

Apparently 38 for Div 3

[MoSe]

Well, it wasnt a race

[gallus]

I wouldn't say I'm particulary happy with my team, but the rest are not much better so who knows. There were no useful strikers available at the 6th pick so I went full 3-5-2.

[MoSe]

Id say there were no useful strikers available at the 3rd pick

[wonkypenguin]

Any divisions where Salah + Kane weren't first two?

[gallus]

Id say there were no useful strikers available at the 3rd pick

My shortlist was:

1. Salah
2. Kane
3. Aguero
4. Hazard
5. Firmino
6. Sterling
7. KDB

I picked 6th and 7th and got Hazard and Sterling, which is good, but then Aubameyang, Vardy and Lukaku went before my next pick! So I just picked Mane.

[dino1980]

Any divisions where Salah + Kane weren't first two?

They went one and two in Div 2. Then Firmino, Mane, Aguero, Lukaku in round one, Vardy, Aubameyang, Hazard, KDB, Sterling and Sánchez in round two and Eriksen, Jesus, Alli, Walcott, Mahrez and Giroud in round three.

[MoSe]

I'm sure bs will provide them in the topic proper (or is it this one laready?)

you need to use the league code (the 2nd part of your join code)
in Mav's Draft summary tool

Div 1: https://ratemyteam.uk/Fiso/DraftLeague/
Div 2: https://ratemyteam.uk/Fiso/DraftLeague/249202
Div 3: https://ratemyteam.uk/Fiso/DraftLeague/249231
Div 4: https://ratemyteam.uk/Fiso/DraftLeague/

where you can see picks in draft order, (which you can also see in your own Draft Room selecting Drafted)
and full drafted teams at a glance (whcih you can see individually selecting them from the Drafted Teams droplist, always in your Draft Room)
  (the Team IDs displayed in the standings table are puzzlingly incorrect.
  The ones in the links are correct, they don't work yet because there was no event 27 for these leagues)
you'll be able to see your opponents teams from the League page, once the league has started
you can't see other leagues or their teams if you're not in them (afaik) if not with Mav's tool

you can copypaste the above table appending your league code, if you want

the above of course is just a summary and heads-up for those new to FPL Draft, all you experts knew that already

[bspittles]

Thanks MoSe, always useful to know

[MoSe]

PS: if you had set up a Watch List to replace or guide you in the draft, it has now disappeared from the Draft Room ( Watchlist(0) ) but you can find it intact in the Transactions page (Watchist (XX) with the number of entries you had put in it)

mine went
Salah, Kane, KDB, Firmino, Sterling, Hazard with Kun 7th and Auba 11th,
as I had no time I entered verbatim the FFS points projections for GW 28-37
although I know they have strong prejudices for or against some players/teams whose projections are regularly and constantly pretty off the mark

did 0 work to rearrange the list, then ditched it completely during the Draft
as I had a gut feeling that a lot of VORP was in the top fwds whilst some decent mids could be still found in 3rd/4th round too,
I went for 2 fwds with first 2 picks

I hope I won't regret it, as my Mids are indeed a bit lukewarm
and having gone Firmino over Kun
if it all goes pear shaped, I know it will be the bad karma for having picked Walcott
I also picked Pickford as 2nd gk despite Chech and Courotins being long available, because he'll have a GW31 fixture to cover for Ederson
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if you want to correct your Draft before our leagues start, there will be a round of Waivers in reverse Draft order (thus gallus first in Div 3),
you can see its deadline reminded atop your Transaction page, that's friday, 24h hours before the GW deadline

there's a "Show Available" checkbox to help you filter those you can submit
I see for instanvce a Robertson no one wanted
you can file as many Waivers as you see fit
they'll be automatically processed in reverse draft order of precedence (then in reverse league standings once it had started)
after the waivers got processed you still have a 24h window where you can immediately pick all who's left, on a first come first served basis

[gallus]

I'm starting to think Sterling at 7 was a mistake. Lukaku+Arnie surely beats Sterling+Wilson

[Mav3rick]

Division 4 draft took place this evening, here's the draft:

https://ratemyteam.uk/Fiso/DraftLeague/249215

[snakzz]

Man so many mistakes in the heat of the moment

[bspittles]

Man so many mistakes in the heat of the moment

[Talkie Toaster]

Division 1 Draft completed.

Here's all the links in one place:

Div 1: https://ratemyteam.uk/Fiso/DraftLeague/249207
Div 2: https://ratemyteam.uk/Fiso/DraftLeague/249202
Div 3: https://ratemyteam.uk/Fiso/DraftLeague/249231
Div 4: https://ratemyteam.uk/Fiso/DraftLeague/249215

[Mav3rick]

Division 1 Jok-ying for position:



Division 2 has Wahine playing finders/keepers:



Division 3 it's just BlueFire lighting the touchpaper:



Division 4 sees GreggsEggs cracking open some waivers:

[bspittles]

Are they the managers who couldn't attend their drafts?

[bspittles]

Left Can on the bench. Start as I mean to go on

[bspittles]

Scores so far in Week One...

Division One
H2H Feb 36 - 39 WouldULikeSomeToast?
H2H Feb (please change your team name to include your Fiso username!) has 5 to come off the bench, so has beaten Toastie, who only has 1 additional point. Neither has a player in Thursday's game.

Mobots 30 - 29 Ardrageen DIV1 S2
Mobots still has five to play, so should overcome Argrageen who has two. Although one of those is Aguero...

thebillfella's div1 23 - 31 DulltaForce-H2H-S2D1
Bill has 1 to come off the bench plus four to play. Dultaforce has two to play on Thursday. This could be close!

Division Two
Dino1980 Fiso Div2 34 - 22 bspittles S02D2
Dino has three Arsenal players (including two defenders) still to play. I have Aguero and Aubameyang (with 13 point Can on the bench should either not play). i haven't given up hope yet.

Robot season 2 36 - 28 Un-Tacing-Believable
Walker and Bellerin to come for Robot, Taca has B Silva.

TVT FisoS2 49 - 15 wahine-2/3
Still two to play for TVT, three Man City players for wahine.

Division Three
Blue Fire 36 - 19 wonkypenguin
5 points from the bench, plus two still to play for Blue Fire. Four players in action on Thursday for wonkypenguin.

S_sutton87 D3 H2H 34 - 23 Gallus United
Three still to play for S_sutton, including Aguero. Just one point off the bench for Gallus, with Sterling still to play.

MoSe FISO H2H S2Div3 26 - 42 morganb H2H-D3
One extra point for MoSe, plus Aubameyang. Three still to play for morganb.

Division Four
GregsEggs 31 - 30 Mav3rick Divisional
Just D Silva to play for Greg; Mkhitaryam and KdB for Mav3rick.

Albert_in a draft 31 - 42 Win Draft? NoWayJose
Albert has Sterling and Aguero to play; Jose has 2 to come from the bench. Could be another close one!

Cornelis Elander 29 - 33 Average
Cornelis (please change your team name to include your Fiso username!) has Ozil and Aubameyang to play - can they score enough to overhaul the mighty Averages?

[bspittles]

Due to the snow, I can't get to work to post my usual post-GameWeek nonsense

[No Way Jose]

No way Jose is gonna lose to average thanks to Matip coming off the actual bench for a 1 pointer blocking kings 8 off my imaginary bench

[bspittles]

Sorry, I'm on a training course this week. I hope to do a round up on Thursday lunchtime.

[bspittles]

WEEK EIGHT

Divison One

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Transactions
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thebillfella's div1:
Aymeric Laporte -> Vincent Kompany
Eric Bailly -> Andreas Christensen
Juan Mata -> Manuel Lanzini
Jürgen Locadia -> Glenn Murray

Ardrageen DIV1 S2:
Toby Alderweireld -> James Milner

H2H Feb:
Lewis Dunk -> Ryan Bertrand
Nathan Aké -> José Holebas
Anthony Martial -> Richarlison de Andrade

Results and table
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WouldULikeSomeToast?  45 - 51  thebillfella's div1 	
DulltaForce-H2H-S2D1  45 - 50  Mobots 	
Ardrageen DIV1 S2     41 - 44  H2H Feb

Team                 Pts  F
Mobots                6  98
H2H Feb               6  85
DulltaForce-H2H-S2D1  3  99
thebillfella's div1   3  87
WouldULikeSomeToast?  0  85
Ardrageen DIV1 S2     0  76

Divison Two

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Transactions
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bspittles S02D2:
Gerard Deulofeu -> Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

TVT FisoS2:
Jan Vertonghen -> Serge Aurier
Craig Dawson -> Joel Matip
Ben Foster -> Jordan Pickford
Pascal Groß -> Richarlison de Andrade

wahine-2/3:
Luka Milivojevic -> Willian Borges Da Silva
Kyle Naughton -> Ahmed El-Sayed Hegazi


Results and table
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bspittles S02D2       44 - 56  TVT FisoS2 	
wahine-2/3            35 - 47  Robot season 2 	
Un-Tacing-Believable  42 - 60  Dino1980 Fiso Div2

Team                 Pts  F
TVT FisoS2            6	 110
Robot season 2        6  109
Dino1980 Fiso Div2    6   97
Un-Tacing-Believable  0   78
bspittles S02D2       0   71
wahine-2/3            0   61

Divison Three

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Transactions
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wonkypenguin:
Luka Milivojevic -> Emre Can

morganb H2H-D3:
Nacho Monreal -> Trent Alexander-Arnold
Salomón Rondón -> Steve Mounie

Gallus United:
Antonio Rüdiger -> Serge Aurier

Results and table
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wonkypenguin    34 - 53  MoSe FISO H2H S2Div3 	
morganb H2H-D3  59 - 36  S_sutton87 D3 H2H 	
Gallus United   51 - 54  Blue Fire

Team                 Pts  F
morganb H2H-D3        6  121
Blue Fire             6   98
S_sutton87 D3 H2H     3   93
MoSe FISO H2H S2Div3  3   80
Gallus United         0   77
wonkypenguin          0   67

Divison Four

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Transactions
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Mav3rick Divisional:
Christian Benteke -> Gabriel Fernando de Jesus
Ben Mee -> Serge Aurier

Win Draft? NoWayJose:
Chris Smalling -> Kieran Trippier
Olivier Giroud -> Steve Mounie
Gerard Deulofeu -> Leroy Sané
Dejan Lovren -> Chris Smalling
Nacho Monreal -> Sead Kolasinac

Snakzz Elander:
Islam Slimani -> Álvaro Morata

GregsEggs:
Guido Carrillo -> Sam Vokes
Victor Moses -> Laurent Koscielny

Results and table
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Mav3rick Divisional   46 - 48  Albert_in a draft 	
Snakzz Elander        46 - 54  GregsEggs
Win Draft? NoWayJose  42 - 47  Average

Team                 Pts  F
GregsEggs             6  93
Win Draft? NoWayJose  3  86
Albert_in a draft     3  86
Mav3rick Divisional   0  81
Snakzz Elander        0  77

[MoSe]

Darn I picked a waiver but then forgot to change the starting XI