Here’s our FPL Wildcards GW9 article where Scott Taylor shows his wildcard team and Costas Chari updates his. Scott finished with an overall rank of 1k last season and 12k in 17/18. Costas’s last 3 seasons overall ranks were 84k, 29k and 27k
FPL Wildcards GW9 – Scott Taylor’s wildcard team and Costas Chari updates his wildcard
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Costa’s GW8 team and points
Here’s the link to Costa’s previous article on his wildcard team
GW8 points: 33-4 (average 36) Total points 465 Gameweek rank 4,346k, Overall Rank: 185k, red arrow 102k, Team Value: £100.8m
Costas’s updated draft wildcard team
Getting there…
My wildcard team consists of Arsenal, Chelsea, Leicester and Man City players mostly. No Liverpool players in the team (shocking)
I have a nice rotation of 2 cheap 4.4 GKs. Trying to find a way to get Haller in the team and waiting until De Bruyne’s fitness confirmation that could change the entire team to be honest.
With Kante injured I might even downgrade Tomori and have Rico and Lundstram rotation. With the funds saved I can upgrade Saka who I think wont get a lot of gametime once Lacazette is back.
I have also left enough in the bank to transfer Son out for De Bruyne in GW10 although I wouldnt want to have 3 man city midfielders as there is a minimal chance that all 3 will start (Pep roulette)
I leave you with this for now! Opinions in the comments below will be appreciated
Scott Taylor
Scott’s GW8 team and points
GW8 points: 32 (average 36) Total points 430 Gameweek rank 4,401k, Overall Rank: 1,110k, red arrow 240k, Team Value: £101.1m
Scott’s draft wildcard team
Reasoning behind the activation
Like many other people this game week, I’ve hit the WC button.
There were 3 main reasons I went for it this week:
1. Fed up with my below par performances. I’ve only beaten the average score 3 times so far and have only had 2 green arrows. Whilst I’d obviously like it to be higher, my OR isn’t bad at 1.1 million (especially given the Geek highlighting how volatile OR is). However, I’m not enjoying the game at the moment so it’s time to change things.
2. There are 5 players I want to get in and whilst I could do it organically using FTs and hits, that will take longer than I’d like and I may miss out on significant points. I also suspected they’d go up in price and I may end up not being able to afford them (my team value has already increased by 0.8 million after the WC transfers having ‘lost’ 0.4 million from the players transferred out).
3. Fixture swing for a few teams.
In addition, the international break is a good time to do it as it gives a bit of reflection time although my team hasn’t changed since I put it together on Sunday 6th.
Players I wanted
So, the players I wanted were TAA, Mount, Maddison, Vardy and Tammy. Chelsea and Leicester have great fixtures and are performing well. TAA is bubbling along nicely in the last few weeks. Bringing Allison back in should hopefully add CS back into TAA’s armoury. That fact also brought Robbo into my thinking so he’s in too. Yes, Liverpool’s fixtures aren’t great on paper for the next few weeks but the current form of United and Spurs should hopefully temper that so that only really leaves City. There’s the GW18 blank too but that’s quite a way away yet and my bench all have decent fixtures that week so I may be able to cover it with them or by using 1 or 2 FTs.
Features of the wildcard team
The 3 big things about my current wildcard team is:
1. No Salah or Sterling. A big move and one I’m not totally comfortable with. Mane will hopefully make up for Salah. But there’s no hiding from the risk of no Sterling. But to get him in means sacrificing two of my other choices which I don’t think is worth it.
2. Only 1 City. I’ve thought about Mane to Sterling. This would be funded by Maddison to, say, McGinn with a view to Vardy to Firmino in GW 13 but I’m not convinced those moves are worth it to get Sterling and still have Liverpool attacking coverage. I just hope KDB is fit and carries on firing so that I have at least some City cover.
3. Mane apart, a lack of premium captain options. I obviously considered Aguero and Auba but budget wouldn’t allow me to get them in for much the same reasons as Sterling above. Plus there’s so much value in the forwards at the 7-9 million price point. Between Mane, KDB, Wilson, Tammy and Vardy, hopefully I’ll start picking the right captain soon (8 out of 8 failures so far!).
So that’s my thinking on my WC team. Barring new injuries or injury updates, I’m pretty sure my team will stay as it is…
Scott’s draft wildcard team
Transfer summary
7 players transferred out
Van Dijk out Alexander Arnold in
Digne out Robertson in
Salah out Mane in
Sterling out Mount in
D Silva out Maddison in
Pukki out Abraham in
Greenwood out Vardy in
Players staying put: Pope, McGovern, Lundstram, Rico, Cantwell, C Wilson, De Bruyne, Soyuncu
Other posts
You can also see Rob Reid’s wildcard article as well as Keith and Costas’s , also Kris O’s wildcard drafts and Ben and Kev’s wildcard drafts
Also Rick Porters cutting through the FPL noise
Early thoughts on the FFGeek team
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