Here’s our fantasy football tips GW22 article where Stephen Troop reviews progress for his FPL, TFF and Sun teams as well as his plans for GW22 in these formats
fantasy football tips GW23 – Stephen Troop reviews progress and previews GW23 for his FPL, TFF and Sun teams
See also Andrew Ferguson’s teams in these formats. Andrew finished top 1k in TFF, Sky and FPL plus 15k in Sun in 17/18.
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Stephen finished last season at around 1k overall rank
TFF – weekly points 55, overall rank 24,999
A miserable 36 points. The only consolation is I was at a tournament on Sunday and was too late to check the Spurs United lineup and switch to Kane (which would have been 2 points and a wasted transfer). I originally planned to keep Lukaku until this weekend as part of a 3-1 over Kane but if I had seen he wasn’t starting then I’d have got Kane back then (although perhaps Rashford should have been considered).
I also resisted the Jesus transfer. I wasn’t sure if he’d start next weekend but he probably would start in the cup if not so in hindsight was a good opportunity. I wanted a City defender too but it’d have been Laporte who probably won’t play in the cup so the additional games over Liverpool are more limited. High City coverage elsewhere meant I fell back a fair bit in the ranks by 7.5k.
The plan now is to hope for a sub appearance from Lukaku this weekend and a switch to Aubameyang. He has a tougher FA cup game after this weekend so is more likely to play. It will then be planning around FA cup games and the blank for city and Chelsea/Spurs when the league cup final takes place. Will be plenty of opportunities to get additional fixtures so hopefully some gains to be made.
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Stephen finished with an OR of 52k last season
weekly points 63, overall rank 243,270
It was a week where I wasn’t expecting too much so was pleasantly surprised to make some ranking gains. Salah captain delivered (albeit via a penalty) The United duo helped and I had a pleasant 9 points from Fabianski when I debated getting rid of him. The downside is I swapped Digne for TAA who in addition to getting injured, only got 6 points to Digne’s 12. I wasn’t keen on removing Digne but I felt Alonso had been clean sheet prospects and I wanted Liverpool defensive coverage.
Richarlison blanked again but with his fixtures and overall performances I think he is worth being patient with for now. Similarly for Alonso who still looked dangerous throughout the match. With 2 big injuries and 2 transfers I will have to focus on them. I feel quite good about this as I’ve seen a lot of people needing hits to resolve this issue and even a lot of early transfers for TAA.
TAA will become Robertson (written before TAA’s miracle recovery) and Kane will become Aubameyang. Saturday aside, Aubameyang’s stats have been good. I considered taking a -4 and switching to 5 in midfield and bringing in Sterling but I just feel a -4 isn’t worth it despite 2 tough fixtures in 3 for the Arsenal man. After those 3 his fixtures are good and will be a good captaincy option in blank GW27 when Man City won’t have an FPL fixture.
Sun Dream Team
weekly points 38, overall rank 76,971
A pretty miserable week here too with only 38 points and around a 20k ranking drop. The Kane injury gives me the opportunity to improve my keeper so transfers this week are Kane>Rashford who looks ridiculous value now and Hart to either Ederson or Allison. I will save my final monthly transfer
See also Andrew Ferguson’s teams in these formats. Andrew finished top 1k in TFF, Sky and FPL plus 15k in Sun in 17/18.
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