Fantasy Premier League

[seeya555]

Who else here is playing the Barclay's Fantasy Premier League? For those of you who are not familiar with it: Basically you have a starting salary of 100m pounds that you have to spend on a complete team with players from the Premier League (two Goalkeepers, five defenders, five midfielders and five attackers). Out of your rooster you create a team, which will be rated based on each week's performance of it's real-life counterpart. The players compete against each other in leagues of up to twenty people and you can even win prizes like trips to London to watch a game if you are very high ranked. The points are seperated as followed :

• Every player gets one point for each 45 minutes he plays. You can assign one player as captain who gets double the points. If a player gets a yellow card, he loses one point, for a red card he loses two.
• For the Goalkeeper: A clean sheet is worth 4 points, three saves are worth 1 point. For every two conceded goals, he loses one points. For a saved penalty, 4 points are added.
• For the Defenders: A clean sheet is worth 4 points as well. A goal gets a defender 6 points. And just like for the goal keeper, for every two conceded goals the defender loses 1 point. Additionally, an assist gives the defender three points.
• For the Midfielders: A clean sheet is worth 1 point. For each goal scored, a midfielder gets 5 points. An assist is worth 3 points.
• For the Attackers: A goal scored is worth 4 points. Per assist, an attacker gets 3 points.

Anybody out here playing? Any secret tips on players to get, or just general tips? Also post your team, I want to know who everybody else is playing.

My Team: GK: Mignolet (SUN) DEF: Shawcross (STK) Cameron (STK) O'Brien (WHU) MID: Johnson (NOR) Townsend (QPR) Bale (TOT) Carzola (ARS) ATT: Weimann (AVL) Suarez (LIV) Lambert (SOU)

Looking forward to your replies!

 

[Creaky]

Never really been one for fantasy leagues, got friends that play and they are always trying to get me to join. Resisted the temptation so far though

 

[alfpt]

I do play in the Fantasy Premier League. I don't have any secret tips, or maybe I have, I have Suarez as captain and Michu as vice captain, so that has made me get quite a few points extra. It would be fun if we could set up fantasy league for this forum next season.

Here is my team for this week:
GK: Vorm (SWA)
DF: Ridgewell (WBA); Figueroa (WIG); Shawcross (STK); Riise (FUL)
MF: Bale (TOT); Michu (SWA); Hernandez (SWA); Kagawa (MUN)
ATT: Rodriguez (SOU); Suarez (LIV)

 

[seeya555]

I do play in the Fantasy Premier League. I don't have any secret tips, or maybe I have, I have Suarez as captain and Michu as vice captain, so that has made me get quite a few points extra. It would be fun if we could set up fantasy league for this forum next season.

Here is my team for this week:
GK: Vorm (SWA)
DF: Ridgewell (WBA); Figueroa (WIG); Shawcross (STK); Riise (FUL)
MF: Bale (TOT); Michu (SWA); Hernandez (SWA); Kagawa (MUN)
ATT: Rodriguez (SOU); Suarez (LIV)

A really good looking team mate! Yes I think a league for this forum next season would be quite the fun and hopefully we can create one.

I also had Michu for a very long time in my team, also as a vice captain, but recently he hasn't been able to neither score nor assist so I removed him until..well until he gets better I guess.

 

[alfpt]

A really good looking team mate! Yes I think a league for this forum next season would be quite the fun and hopefully we can create one.

I also had Michu for a very long time in my team, also as a vice captain, but recently he hasn't been able to neither score nor assist so I removed him until..well until he gets better I guess.

In the bench I also have Boruc (SOU), R Martin (NOR), Johnson (SUN) and Dzeko (MCI). If we were a real team, I think we could aim at the first half of the league, but the defense would be our weakest link. Yes, Michu has not been playing so well now, but he's a player I just simply adore to watch play, he became one of my favourite players quite quick, only two years ago I didn't even know he existed, so I keep him as vice-captain because I have faith in him. I actually changed him as vice-captain for Bale one or two weeks ago, but Bale did a horrble game, so I changed right away.