Rds1983 Posted December 21, 2021 Author VT Supporter Share Posted December 21, 2021 1 hour ago, BOF said: With so many dead and zombie teams in the competition, the 'average' score is pretty meaningless in a gameweek where fixtures have been cancelled, because those teams (we'll say the bottom 2 million for argument's sake) will be disproportionately affected by the cancellations as they won't have attempted to have a full playing squad, thus bringing the average way down and making it meaningless to anyone still actively competing. What's the percentage of dead teams at the moment? They'll be a lot but not that much to drag the average score down that much. If it was 2 million that would still leave roughly 75% active teams. I'd also suspect that a lot of zombie teams would be fairly template and have Salah, TAA, Cancelo, Kane etc. They'd have a lot of random dross bit they'd also have a fair few who actually returned decent points the last fortnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 21, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 21, 2021 1 hour ago, Rds1983 said: What's the percentage of dead teams at the moment? They'll be a lot but not that much to drag the average score down that much. If it was 2 million that would still leave roughly 75% active teams. I'd also suspect that a lot of zombie teams would be fairly template and have Salah, TAA, Cancelo, Kane etc. They'd have a lot of random dross bit they'd also have a fair few who actually returned decent points the last fortnight. You said you're around the 25k mark. The higher up you are, the bigger your score required to get green arrows. Getting average at 25k isn't going to get you a green arrow. You'd need considerably above the average Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted December 21, 2021 Author VT Supporter Share Posted December 21, 2021 2 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: You said you're around the 25k mark. The higher up you are, the bigger your score required to get green arrows. Getting average at 25k isn't going to get you a green arrow. You'd need considerably above the average I'm aware of how competitive the higher ranks are and I wasn't expecting green arrows, I was expecting to drop like a stone before the kick off as I was decimated. However, what I was saying above was that after seeing the scores I ended up with (which were pretty decent in the end - I was about 35% above average) I was surprised that they were actually poor scores considering the volume of very large scores in the last two weeks. Basically that I was amazed how well a lot of people did in two awful weeks. Aware I've been in the pub since noon so probably not explaining this too well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 21, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 21, 2021 9 minutes ago, Rds1983 said: I'm aware of how competitive the higher ranks are and I wasn't expecting green arrows, I was expecting to drop like a stone before the kick off as I was decimated. However, what I was saying above was that after seeing the scores I ended up with (which were pretty decent in the end - I was about 35% above average) I was surprised that they were actually poor scores considering the volume of very large scores in the last two weeks. Basically that I was amazed how well a lot of people did in two awful weeks. Aware I've been in the pub since noon so probably not explaining this too well. Ohhh sorry. I misread it. I thought you were saying you got above average (as in just above average) and were wondering why you got red arrows. My bad! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted December 22, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 22, 2021 extra free hit available from GW 20 onwards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 22, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 22, 2021 Absolute bullshit. FPL pulling a Michael Masi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM3000 Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 Yeah nonsense that is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouUnastanFren Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 What a joke. Everyone who made the mistake of wasting their free hit on a SGW is now unfairly rewarded, compounded by the fact that you can't play two free hits in the consecutive DGWs. I'll use my wildcard GW20 and just wait for them to give us another one in a few weeks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted December 22, 2021 Author VT Supporter Share Posted December 22, 2021 Not keen with the rules being changed half way through the season but it's going mental in real life and at least they're trying to help. Just need to figure out the best way to take advantage of the situation and hopefully have some more clarity on DGWs soon to help with planning (as pointless as that is this season). My initial thoughts are to play on as if nothing has changed and then to just use it as a bonus in the final week or so for one big last push. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farlz Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 I used my free hit a couple weeks ago despite being advised against it Cheers FPL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted December 22, 2021 Author VT Supporter Share Posted December 22, 2021 Wish I'd spotted the covid rumours before transferring Antonio in on my FT today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted December 22, 2021 Moderator Share Posted December 22, 2021 13 minutes ago, Rds1983 said: Wish I'd spotted the covid rumours before transferring Antonio in on my FT today. I admire the bravery of doing a transfer 4 days before the deadline in this current climate! Never mind injuries etc. Bloody fixture cancellations. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted December 22, 2021 Author VT Supporter Share Posted December 22, 2021 6 minutes ago, BOF said: I admire the bravery of doing a transfer 4 days before the deadline in this current climate! Never mind injuries etc. Bloody fixture cancellations. Either alcohol or boredom impairing the judgement. The deadline feels weeks away and I've kinda lost motivation for it all recently. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouUnastanFren Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 The extra free hit has hit my motivation. Feels like the game has been cheapened and I can already see one or more of my cash leagues falling into disagreement over the legitimacy of winning when the rules changed half way through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted December 23, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 23, 2021 i'm trying to view it as positives that those that didn't use it get one for a week where there's loads of rearranged midweek games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted December 23, 2021 Moderator Share Posted December 23, 2021 3 hours ago, tomav84 said: i'm trying to view it as positives that those that didn't use it get one for a week where there's loads of rearranged midweek games The way I see it, the fixtures already shat on me, so now people who used their free hit on the recent week, where I took the pain of not wanting to waste my free hit, they get their free hit back so I get even less benefit to holding on to my one in the first place. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted December 23, 2021 Moderator Share Posted December 23, 2021 And so it begins. Wolves v Watford is off and Liverpool v Leeds is looking off too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM3000 Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 Just scrap the lot so I can mentally prepare myself to watch the NFL instead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouUnastanFren Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 I'm sort of hoping the boxing day fixtures are hit so badly everyone has to freehit so people with only one FH left then have none but at the same time I feel like FPL towers would just then give everyone an extra one again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farlz Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 Could be an opportunity to bin Salah No game Leicester Chelsea No game No game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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