The Homeless SZS fantasy league thread

[Jofrey]

what will an everton team in the same form as last weekend do to sunderland and palace?

Palace will probably keep it tight....would go for a Mirallas or Naismith goal to get that one.

the Sunderland game should be total carnage....relegation doom....Everton to romp it home.

[Jimmy McNulty]

Yeah, have to be disappointed with all of this.

[Jofrey]

Lukaku, Baines, Coleman, Mirallas, Barkley, Dzeko, Yaya, Silva, Puncheon, Speroni all likely to go up by the full 0.3 by deadline.

[cyrille]

am I right in thinking gerrard's suspension threat is lifted if he makes it through this gameweek without a card?

[Jofrey]

^yes....i'm not so confident of him lasting the 90 without yellow. will be a real battle in midfield.

[NickA]

real tussle for 16th place now

it's a 3 way battle between me, ken and fred dagg (bruce?)

let's get ready to rummmmmmbbbbblllllleeeee!

[Jofrey]

a 3 way battle between me, ken and fred dagg (bruce?)

as long as you beat the kiwi lass you'll have had a successful season.

[Jofrey]

Looking at the top 6 teams with a focus on TV/Banked and DGW players...

ciz - 112/2 - 5 dgw players

noon - 105.3/5 - 6 dgw players

gareth - 95.6/9.1 - 3 dgw players

ladyboys - 102.4/1.4 - 4 dgw players

aaron - 107.7/3.7 - 6 dgw players (not counting extra keeper)

jebus - 111.2/1.9 - 7 dgw players

[cyrille]

Finally some stats that make you look good, jof.

And just after you sneak 100k ahead of me.

[Jimmy McNulty]

What does the cumulative value of your team matter when you don't have a wildcard?

[Bruce Bayliss]

it's a 3 way battle between me, ken and fred dagg

Dream on son...I am way ahead of you but have been removed from the league

[cyrille]

What does the cumulative value of your team matter when you don't have a wildcard?

If my team is worth 105 million and yours is worth 110 then I have to buy, say, Shelvey and you can go and buy Silva.

Hazard has just limped off after 10 minutes or so.

[Jofrey]

Low team value = lots of donkeys

High team value = quality players.


Lots of hits needed for the bin babies if dgw carnage is to be avoided.

[Jimmy McNulty]

Yes, of course, you're going to have more valuable players in your team at that point in time but it's all a bit more nuanced than that isn't it. How about players that have dropped in value due to injury, weeks without a game, a bad run of fixtures etc. and how about Re, also ahead of you, Joffers, who focused on his first eleven and defence all season just about and his team's value reflects that.

While your team went up in value, mine went down. In the past 6 weeks, the difference between yours and mine grew from 4m to 8m. But in all those weeks save the DGW I scored more points than you with cumulatively +23 over the entire period.

Cue Jofrey talking about how that 23 points will be wiped out this DGW, but there's still the other 58 points to claw back as well which has been accumulated with a lower value team. Again, without taking a lot of points hits, I don't see that the cumulative value makes much of a difference without a wildcard.

Jofrey's mind games.

[cyrille]

Well the difference between me and noon over the last three weeks has been solely team value.

I had the money to get Silva whose been doing what he does when not either injured or coming back from injury: getting at least one assist or goal every game.

Noon got in sissoko because that was what he could afford. He scored 2 in a couple of games, and then shelvey who I think scored one last week.

The difference hasn't been massive, but outside of double game week luck it gets to be fine lines at this stage of the season when the better sides have so easily identifiably the best players.

For sure it's not the be all and end all, but it's definitely something that most managers at the upper end cultivate throughout the season.

[Jimmy McNulty]

Well, naturally, and it's obviously helpful, but I think that it should and does run in tandem with picking fixtures, formations, and captains. By Jofrey's reckoning, Re must have had a shit team all season.

[Jimmy McNulty]

See how I'm asking questions, testing my understanding? I'm going to destroy Noon and Jofrey next season. Abject destruction.

[cyrille]

Yes team value certainly got a lot more exposure here when heebie jeebus temporarily edged a hundred k above me.

[Jofrey]

Re must have had a shit team all season.

Re has just had Suarez on perma-captain all season....coupled with the strong 5 at the back he's done very well.

if things were a bit more unsettled....like if Suarez got injured...things would be far more interesting.

Again, without taking a lot of points hits, I don't see that the cumulative value makes much of a difference without a wildcard.

don't take any hits and play it safe. keep the 9m in reserve to pay for a new hamstring for aguero and a new toe for roonpig.





the night is young ladies.

[Jofrey]

Ramsey looks good for Hazard.

Arse have great fixtures and fourth spot to fight for.

[Jofrey]

jeebus temporarily edged a hundred k above me.

that was before your latest hit i take it?

[Jofrey]

it's definitely something that most managers at the upper end cultivate throughout the season.

top 10 in the world...combined tv + bank

10 - 116.4
9 - 111.7
8 - 113.8
7 - 111.6
6 - 115
5 - 115.8
4 - 112.8
3 - 110.1
2 - 112.5
1 - 112.8

[cyrille]

your latest hit

no hits for me yet this week, jof.

i've only taken two hits in the last sixteen weeks, as it happens.

another barometer of success, but one you might not be making a table of.

[Jofrey]

barometer of success

a very nice choice of phrase.

one not accustomed to the wba faithful

if you wish to make a table of hits for the past 16 weeks feel free ciz. it's a lot quicker to view tv and transfers...as i/you know.

[cyrille]

No no, fuck that bollocks.

Just tell me who you reckon noon's got in.

Pretty certain he's swapped studger for djeko, as his money in the bank rose by the appropriate amount.