2015 - 2016 Football Thread - Page 21

After holding the 1st place in our league for about 18 hours last spring I had awful 2-3 months to end the season almost as low as Pande. My dreams got crushed. So after trying to prepare enough to secure a better spot than Pande this season I noticed a few things I dislike about fpl.

1. Hazard/Aguero (captaincy)
More than 50% of all teams own Hazard at the moment. The easy way out is to get him yourself and captain him every week. Lots of people will do so but while you won't make big jumps forward you prevent yourself to drop a lot when he has a 25+(50+ as captain) points gameweek. The thing with Hazard and Aguero is that together they already cost 25% of your budget. Sure captaincy allows you to gamble every now and then and improve doing so but it takes away quite some choice if you want to be competetive. You might be super lucky and rotate captaincy between Siggy, Özil, Sterling, Depay, Chadli and score loads but the safe way out is to have one of the big hitters. I dislike that.

2. Defenders
The likes of Ivanovic outscore midfielders of the same cost by a good margin. But there aren't too many Ivanovics which creates a situation in that a 3man defense is almost always favoured. I think about dropping huge money into my defense and try to go 5-3-2 as my formation just to see how that goes. .... Most likely gameweek 4 will see a wildcard because Pande's already too far ahead and I need loads of strikers to repair the damage.

3. Budget too high?
I had a look at a German fantasy league last year and the prices there didn't allow for a lot of stars to be owned. That felt shitty. On the other hand in fpl you can be somewhat successful having a midfield/attack of Hazard, Özil, Siggy, Chadli, Ritchie, Rooney, Benteke, Sakho. That in comparison feels like a lot of star power and only leaves you with 2-3 spots per starting 11 that might be filled with guys from the smaller clubs.

tldr.: i hate captaincy. everything else is okay.