Here’s part 2 of our fantasy premier league team tips GW6 articles where 4 FFGeek Contributors show their teams for GW6. There’s Rob Reid, Keith Spencer, Kris O and Sergio Torija. Between them they have 18 top 1% finishes in the last 6 competitive seasons.
Fantasy Premier League Team Tips GW6 – 4 FFGeek Contributors Teams Part 2
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Keith Spencer
Keith’s last 6 seasons overall ranks are 163k, 27k, 44k, 3k, 325th and 9k
GW5 Points: 71 (FPL average 55) Total points: 392, Overall Rank: 33k, green arrow: 39k Team Value: £100.7m
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transfer summary: Torres out and Gray in
Here’s the team with transfer completed
Rob Reid
Rob’s last 6 seasons overall ranks were 12k, 148k, 94k, 22k, 4k and 7k
GW5 Points: 75 on WC (FPL average 55) Total points: 356, Overall Rank: 461k, green arrow: 394k Team Value: £100.6m
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GW5 review
A week that kind of drifted along from a returns point of view, but with the last kick of the weekend went from an OK Wildcard start to a great one. Thank you Antonio Rudiger!
I’d played my Wildcard to put out a number of growing fires in my team and although there was a little bit of trepidation regarding going 3 weeks earlier than intended, I was comfortable that it was the right thing to do for my team. In the end, Toney and Benrahma trolled me somewhat but I went the right way on some 50/50 decisions with Ramsdale, Raphinha and Rudiger in particular giving me notable differential boosts up the ranking to mitigate losing 2 players who scored double digit hauls.
When I’ve totted up, I reckon my Wildcard team has outscored my old team by 15 points when I take into account transfers and points hits so I can’t complain. This week also provided one of these key handy rank-halving gameweeks – hopefully there’s a few more of these to come!
GW6 Team
1 free transfer, no cash in the bank.
My post-Wildcard strategy has planned to leave me a spare transfer which I can either use this week or carry to GW7 and use then. The glaring hole in this week’s team has been my decision to ditch all my West Ham assets and Antonio is the one player I really fear this week. He’s started the season in great form and The Hammers face a Leeds defence that was absolutely diabolical against Newcastle on Friday and may now also be missing Luke Ayling, only making matters worse.
I could therefore use my free transfer this week to try and counteract this somewhat. It will depend a bit on the fitness of Raphinha – he’s yellow-flagged having been removed from the action after 60 odd minutes after a Friday afternoon saga of will-he or won’t-he. If he’s fit, I think I’ll just suck it up, roll the transfer and hide behind the sofa during the West Ham game, but if he’s injured, I’d be tempted to replace him with Fornals to cover West Ham somewhat. The other player who appeals is Sarr after a fine display versus Norwich and 2 more nice fixtures on the horizon – I’ll have a think on it through the week.
Looking further forward, I’m pretty comfortable with my ‘Threemium’ strategy for the next few weeks at least (sorry for the bad portmanteau!) Alex, John and I debate this a lot on this week’s Pod and there are some very good arguments against it. Personally though, I like not having to try and play Tetris with hopping on and off these high-value players. This allows me to use my transfers around them and knowing that I’m probably covering the main Captain option each week without having to rearrange the rest of my team to quickly bring someone in. I also like the fact I’m on them now from the Team Value point of view. I’ve already picked up 4 price rises on the 3 of them combined, so if other managers decide they need to go Threemium then they’re tighter for funds than me and will have more compromises to make elsewhere.
In terms of future transfers, if I roll this week – I’ll then use one of my frees in GW7 and carry the other into GW8 before likely selling Jiminez for a cheaper option (Armstrong, Edouard and even a return for Toney would all be options here) and then re-invest the funds this generates back into a 3rd premium defender with a second Chelsea player or a City defender the likely players coming in.
For this week’s team, the budget trio of Duffy, McArthur and Omobamidele are likely to be my bench with the Captaincy on Ronaldo at present. Salah I think will also be a popular Captain choice, but Liverpool’s visit to the Brentford Community Stadium I think is trickier than it looks on paper. The Bees look well organised and I can see it being tricky for Klopp’s men to break them down, while Ronaldo posted some more eye-watering stats on Sunday and faces a Villa defence who I think were fortunate to keep a clean sheet against Everton last weekend.
On a final note – congratulations to Geek on the 100th Podcast for the site this week. It was an absolute honour to be invited on and great fun to share it with another long-term contributor and friend of the site Alex Ball. It’s been so much fun interacting with you guys and sharing our mutual love of the game over the last few seasons – long may it continue!
Good luck everyone and I hope you enjoy this week’s matches. I’ll confirm my team on twitter before the deadline
transfer summary: Carry over the free transfer if Raphinha is fit but if not likely Raphinha out for Fornals
Here’s the team prior to any transfer being made
Sergio Torija
Sergio’s last 5 seasons overall ranks were 262k 2k, 596k, 17k and 21k
GW5 Points: 66 on WC (FPL average 55) Total points: 361, Overall Rank: 354k, green arrow: 103k Team Value: £100.8m
It’s the week after playing my wildcard, so hopefully a good setup for everything to come before GW30ish second wildcard time. GW5 wasn’t amazing, but decent with a healthy green arrow which you want to see when playing the wildcard. The latest rejig of the wildcard was to accommodate Jota, who blanked, so he was the biggest disappointment of the week. Pleased with the returns of Ramsdale, Raphinha and Pukki which were the other differential players I selected.
Moving onto GW6, the plan is to save the transfer, unless we hear that Raphinha or Alexander Arnold (both flagged) are going to miss a few games, which doesn’t looks like it. Then GW7 would probably be a double move of Jota out to someone around £6.0m to upgrade someone in my defence to a Chelsea defender.
As for captain, pretty close between Ronaldo and Salah, I’ve got Ronaldo as captain for now.
good luck all
transfer summary: Likely to carry over the free transfer
Here’s the team assuming no transfer is made
Kris O
Kris’s last 7 seasons ORs were 19k, 39k, 44k, 46k, 23k, 12k and 19k
GW5 Points: 66 -4 (FPL average 55) Total points: 379, Overall Rank: 110k, red arrow: 5k Team Value: £101.0m
Another poor gameweek, despite Sarr’s excellent 15.
My Ronaldo captain call backfired, though on a different day he could have got at least three goals!
My plan this week is to roll my transfer. Trent Alexander Arnold is flagged for his illness but expect him to recover and I want to keep him long term. Bamford now flagged with ankle injury, unless serious I will keep him too as I plan to use 2/3 transfers for GW7.
Captain Ronaldo.
Good luck all
Transfer summary: likely to carry over the free transfer
Here’s the team assuming no transfer is made
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