FPL team tips GW7 – FFGeek contributor’s teams part 3

Here’s our FPL team tips GW7 article where the 3rd group of the FFGeek contributors show their teams for GW7. In this part there’s Kris O, Rob Reid, Mikael Danielsen, Keith Spencer, Yaniv Salomon, and a Joseph Crilley wildcard update

FPL team tips GW7 – FFGeek contributor’s teams part 3

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 See also Andrew Whitfields wildcard, new Contributor Andrew Pratt and Joseph Crilleys original wildcard article

 Yaniv Salomon

Yaniv finished with an overall rank of 4k last season and 8k in 17/18

GW6 points: 73 (average 52) Total points 360 Gameweek rank 514k, Overall Rank: 408k, green arrow 537k, Team Value: £101.2m

Hi, so 2 consecutive green arrow with almost 1m rank climbing. Took an early -4 for “mini WC” bringing in Soyuncu, Tomori and Abraham for Zinchenko Van Dijk and Greenwood, so getting 3 starting players for 1.5 starting players (I hope Tomori can keep his place), and hope Chelsea will have a good run as I have 3 of their assets now. My captain decision is not final yet, as I can’t really decide between Mane, Raheem Sterling,  De Bruyne and even Abraham, good luck all!

transfer summary;  Soyuncu, Tomori and Abraham IN for Zinchenko Van Dijk and Greenwood OUT

Prakhar Patel

Prakhar finished with a rank of 17k last season and an incredible 17th overall in 17/18

GW6 points: 67 (average 52) Total points 349 Gameweek rank 1,027k, Overall Rank: 735k, green arrow 465k, Team Value: £100.4m

Digne and Barnes out for Söyüncü and Abraham!  Salah(c)

you can follow Prakhar on twitter here

Keith Spencer

Keith’s last 3 seasons overall ranks were 44k, 3k and an incredible 325th overall

GW6 points: 56 (average 52) Total points 337 Gameweek rank 2,568k, Overall Rank: 1,284k, green arrow 1k, Team Value: £100.6m

transfer summary:  Aguero, Douglas Luiz, Digne OUT and Abraham, De Bruyne and Pieters IN

you can follow keith on twitter here

Rob Reid

Rob’s last 5 seasons overall rank were 148k, 94k, 22k, 4k and 7k

GW6 points: 61 (average 52) Total points 371 Gameweek rank 1,901k, Overall Rank: 197k, red arrow 15k, Team Value: £101.5m

GW6 review

A strange old gameweek. 2pm on Saturday had arrived, I had 11 players still to play and the Man City team news broke. No Sterling. No Zinchenko. A number of choice swear words were said about a certain Pep Guardiola and I resigned myself to watching City right royally batter Watford whilst Chaos Theory mostly missed out on the butchery. Thankfully there was a bit of a silver lining – I still had De Bruyne (even though I’d put my VC on Salah), Lundstram produced another tasty cameo from my bench and Matt Ryan got his first clean sheet since GW1, netting all the bonus points as well for my 3rd double figure haul of the day.

Sadly my Sunday stand-in captain Mo Salah couldn’t notch a 4th sizable return of the GW, though his cheap assist was better than a slap in the chops and doubled his score to 10. So all in all it felt like a GW where I kind of got away with one. Sure, it could have been better if I’d picked the right VC, but if you’d offered me a 15k red arrow at 2pm on Saturday I’d have taken in. The downside of course is that it’s a 3rd red arrow in a row, hopefully I can reverse this trend in GW7.

GW7 Team

The first thing I did when looking at this week was think long and hard once more about using my Wildcard. I messed around on Sunday night with a few drafts and decided that none of them were dramatically better than what I could put together with my current squad and my 1FT, so I’ve put that idea on the back burner and I’m now looking at GW9 for Wildcard 1 deployment.

My team still has several issues though. Ryan, one of the heroes of GW6 now has 2 shocking fixtures – I’m expecting a grand total of around 1 point from him over the next 2 weeks combined so he’s high on my transfers out list. Then there’s Zinchenko – weirdly in absentia from The Citizens demolition of the hapless Hornets and also from the Carabao squad that traveled the short distance to Preston on Tuesday. Otamendi is the obvious like for like replacement, but Mendy is now back in the picture and if it looks like he’s going to get regular gametime I’ll be on him like one of my dogs after a tennis ball. Next there’s Lucas Digne – great player, lots of potential playing for a side who are woefully out of form and face Man City this week. Great – can’t see much more that a 1 pointer there.

Finally there’s Tammy Abraham who’s been on my radar for a few weeks now – he’s a high priority on my buy list. I already own Mason Mount, but I’ve been impressed with the young Chelsea striker and The Blues now have this remarkable fixture run until they face Man City in what looks like an unlucky GW13 for them. Both Abraham and Mount have fairly high ownership stats so individually they won’t jump you too much up the rankings if they return. However I like the idea of pairing them together as I can see Chelsea scoring quite a few goals over the next 6 weeks and if these guys are heavily involved then together they could be very useful for some gains.

So I’d originally planned on a dullard move this week by simply swapping keepers – Pope for Ryan. I’ve had my eye on prices however and if I do this move, I suspect I won’t be able to buy Abraham next week for Haller as the Chelsea striker’s price is rising pretty quickly. So I’ve decided to throw caution to the wind and pretty much write off keeper returns for this week (and possibly next) and I bought Abraham in for Haller after the Carabao games finished on Wednesday. A bit harsh on the Hammers frontman maybe, but at 5.4% ownership he’s less of a threat to OR than Abraham. Welcome to Chaos Theory Tammy.

The downside with this is that it leaves me with what is worryingly a fairly template team. 10 of my squad would be classified as high ownership, with my differentials being Zinchenko, Guilbert, Ryan and Ayew. None are players who have a great points ceiling at the moment so it may be that I have to look now at another area which I seem to have got very wrong so far this season – my captain. I’m sitting on a 33% hit rate for the right captain choice this season so I need to start getting this right and I’ll be honest I’m not sure what to do this week either!

So here’s my team for the week – Cantwell, Digne and Lundy will be my bench and I’m sitting on Salah for this week’s captain at the moment. I’ll be interested to see this week’s polls and I’ll probably make a final call on this on Saturday morning – I’ll Tweet if I change my mind.

Best of luck this week everyone – hope you enjoy the games.

Transfer summary:  Haller out for Abraham in

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Also see Rob’s GW7 player picks article

Mikael l Danielsen

Mikael’s last 3 seasons overall rank were 12k, 100k and 5k

GW6 points: 71 -4 (average 52) Total points 346 Gameweek rank 724k, Overall Rank: 874k, green arrow 529k, Team Value: £101.5m

My transfers for GW7 is:
Digne and Lanzini out
Otamendi and Abraham in

Still building TV, so I took another -4 hit.

Abraham (C)

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Kris O

Kris’s last 3 seasons overall rank were 44k, 46k and 23k

GW6 points: 63 (average 52) Total points 353 Gameweek rank 1,585k, Overall Rank: 613k, green arrow 184k, Team Value: £101.3m

A mixed gw6 notably McGinn and Ryan getting 10 points versus only having 10 players and Femenia -3 off the bench. I’m left with a feeling of what could have been, especially the captain choice. Though with a green arrow I can’t be too disappointed.

Onto GW7 and my team has a number of issues, especially in defence: Zinchenko no longer nailed, Hanley potentially lost place to a midfielder and Femenia playing for Watford. Further afield Iwobi was a bad choice and Greenwood still struggling for minutes. I’m hoping Greenwood gets more minutes now Rashford is out and Martial still coming back from injury and anyway Iwobi has more value to upgrade. Coupled with Chelski fixtures looking good my ideal is Iwobi to Mount but I’m 0.4m (was 0.3m on Weds!) short. Zinchenko has the most cash tied up so downgrading to Tomori at 4.5m seems a good way to get the cash I need. Alternatives would have been Femenia to Rico, though when Mount jumped to 6.6 that went out the window and Rico might lose his place soon. I’d have liked to keep Zinchenko for this game week but on balance seems the best move. Hopefully Femenia/Watford can find something in next two weeks as wolves away and Sheffield united home are good fixtures. Salah captain.

Good luck all!

transfer summary: Zinchenko to Tomori and Iwobi to Mount (-4)

Joseph Crilley

Joseph’s last 3 seasons OR were 28k, 7k and 13k

GW6 points: 68 (average 52) Total points 358 Gameweek rank 1,007k, Overall Rank: 455k, green arrow 315k, Team Value: £101.5m

This is an update to Joe’s wildcard article