Here’s our FPL team tips GW3 article where the 3rd group of the FFGeek contributors show their teams for GW3. In this part there’s Chris Tucker, Keith Spencer, Kev in Canada and Prakhar Patel.
FPL team tips GW3 – FFGeek contributor’s teams part 3
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This is part 3 of the FPL managers who contribute to the FFGeek site with good histories who show their teams each week. This will give people a feel for what other managers are doing. It’s a fairly informal thing with no obligation on anyone and these teams may change at anytime before the deadline without further notice. In the future it also wont cover early transfers. It’s just to give an idea of the trends for the week no more.
See the part 1 contributors and part 2 contributors article
Chris Tucker
Chris’s last 2 seasons overall rank were 17k and 1k
GW2 points: 56 (average 41) Total points 141 Gameweek rank 567k, Overall Rank: 192k, green arrow 401k, Team Value: £100.1m
It’s always pleasing when a transfer immediately pays off, and Pukki certainly saved my gameweek, making up for my captain failure. As I said last week, Norwich look like they will score goals, and Pukki is often involved when they do. He might not score week in, week out, but he still looks fantastic value to me.
This week, I made the early transfer of Fraser to Martial. Often playing in a central forward position, at just 7.6 Martial offered too much value to ignore. I’m also being punished in my main mini-league for a lack of United cover.
I am reasonably happy with my team at the moment. The Liverpool double up in defence stays. I do believe that in the near future they will punish those that haven’t shown patience. But I will reassess come my likely GW5 wildcard.
My main issue at the moment is that I can’t find a way of getting KDB in without taking significant hits. I really want him, but it will almost certainly have to wait until my early wildcard. At that point, there is a good chance that Ryan, Zinchenko and Perez will say their goodbyes. I just hope KDB doesn’t inflict too much damage in the meantime!
Captain this week is Sterling. He’s in incredible form at the moment, although I can see Salah being in the points against Arsenal. Again, I do wonder if too many people are writing him off too soon, on the back of one poor performance. Remember that patience with him was a key learning point from last season.
Best of luck to you all!
Transfer summary: Fraser out to Martial
Keith Spencer
Keith’s last 3 seasons overall ranks were 44k, 3k and an incredible 325th overall
GW2 points: 51 (average 41) Total points 142 Gameweek rank 1,012k, Overall Rank: 159k, green arrow 94k, Team Value: £100.2m
Transfers Wilson and Chambers out Barnes and Lundstram in
You can follow Keith on twitter here
Keith also appeared on this GW3 Patreon Podcast to talk about his FPL strategy and team
Kev in Canada
Kev finished in 6k last season and 195k in 18/19
GW2 points: 49 (average 41) Total points 127 Gameweek rank 1,361k, Overall Rank: 792k, green arrow 438k, Team Value: £100.3m
GW1 Recap
☆ Keeper
The best way into the City D only got me only 2 points but I can still sleep at night owning him. It deals with the City D coverage and as a quality of life, stress hedge. Does Zinchenko’s cramp mean rest? Is Cancelo going to debut any game now? Will Fernandinho play CB some matches? Mendy is training? Have fun with Pep’s bulls**t roulette.
☆ Defenders
I wasn’t planning on Holebas entering the lineup but Barkley didn’t play. Not my favourite memory from last weekend. However, Holebas has good matches so I will eat his price drop to play him. He has taken 9 corners if your glass is half full. Dunk almost kept a clean but it is not a big deal that he didn’t. He got me a bp. The other two are template players. Digne scored big and seems to have avoided an injury. Being template makes him less interesting though. My defence is being kept as boring as possible with the main focus being to hedge pain away and still get me core points.
☆ Midfielders
Salah/Sterling are still my favourite premiums in a two premium side. I captained Salah and I would do it again. Barkley is my own fault. I will own it. He is gone now. I wont get sucked into Mount, as I now feel it is unfortunately still too early to read Chelsea. Dilva on the bench sucks but hopefully that means he gets next game. He was bizarrely the furthest forward player when he came on based on my eye test. As much as Barkley was a bad gamble, Martial was a home run. Very happy with how my 89th minute preseason change of Siggy/Zinchenko to Martial/Digne has worked out.
☆ Forwards
Wilson with another phantom FPL assist. Not a bad parting gift. I like Ings. Even when he started on the bench I had this odd feeling he would still return. What a fluke, although he should have had another after so let’s call it even.
Upcoming GW3
☆ Musical Chairs
I am looking to get what I perceive as ‘breakout value players’ at as low a cost as possible right now. Not so much to ‘fit in’ KDB, Kane, etc. I don’t want to blow up my team or take hits to swap premiums around. Pretty much all the premiums look elite to me. I want 2018 Jimenez.. I made two transfers: Barkley to Cantwell at 6m-4.5m and Wilson to Pukki 8m-6.7m. I could have got Pukki cheaper but wanted to wait on matches to all be played and wanted to research his underlying stats more. Let’s just say they are good so far.
I currently have 2.8m in the bank. I am not going to spend it for another hit. I like how my matchups look. Based on the frenzy of activity at this point in the season I think I value the money itb to capitalise on next week’s Pukki type of performance player. Maybe, maybe not. I may just go Ings to Rasford, Dilva to KDB, Holebas to Shaw or Maquire, etc. instead. We will see.
☆ Captain
Sterling on form.
☆ Substitute decisions
Straightforward this week. Cantwell, Greenwood, Rico.
Good luck.
transfer summary: Barkley to Cantwell and Wilson to Pukki
You can follow Kev on twitter
Prakhar Patel
Prakhar finished with a rank of 17k last season and an incredible 17th overall in 17/18
GW2 points: 43 (average 41) Total points 138 Gameweek rank 2,413k, Overall Rank: 257k, red arrow 127k, Team Value: £100.1m
Transfers:Robertson and Pérez out for AWB and Martial.
Good luck everyone!
You can follow Prakhar on twitter here
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