5AF Fantasy Premier League

Post by **Kraftster** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 12:11 pm

Set up the league on Fantasy Premier League today. Hopefully we can get a few more people this year.

League code: 1285956-306576
League Name: 5AF Fantasy Premier League

Note: it's fantasy.premierleague.com ..... not fantasypremierleague.com.

Post by **Freddy Rumsen** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 12:52 pm

Signed up

Post by **Avyran** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 4:04 pm

I'll join in sometime this weekend. Should be fun.

Post by **large garlic** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 6:41 pm

OK, I put my team in.

Post by **Pavement** » Mon Aug 03, 2015 6:02 pm

I'm in, should be fun.

Post by **slappybrown** » Wed Aug 05, 2015 1:55 pm

in, and immediately trolling the kraft family

Post by **Kraftster** » Thu Aug 06, 2015 8:47 am

lol, that is odd how they display names like that.

Post by **Kraftster** » Wed Aug 12, 2015 11:48 am

Welp, burnt my wildcard already.

Post by **large garlic** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 7:40 pm

I forgot Man U played this afternoon and checked my points to see if Depay did anything (he did not

) and saw that the top team so far for the week already had 45 points, which seemed pretty crazy for just one 1-0 game being played. So, I looked at the guy's roster, and he had played some triple captain card with Mata as his captain. There were also these bench boost and all-out attack cards you could play. Are these new, or have I been missing these the past couple years?

Post by **large garlic** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 7:47 pm

Kraftster wrote:Welp, burnt my wildcard already.

These first couple weeks are tough as far as roster decisions go. Lots of starting 11s are different than anticipated, or guys who looked to get a lot of playing time are displaced by last-minute transfers. I think it's better to burn a wildcard than carry guys who aren't playing for a couple weeks until you can transfer them out.

Post by **Kraftster** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 8:00 pm

large garlic wrote:
Kraftster wrote:Welp, burnt my wildcard already.
These first couple weeks are tough as far as roster decisions go. Lots of starting 11s are different than anticipated, or guys who looked to get a lot of playing time are displaced by last-minute transfers. I think it's better to burn a wildcard than carry guys who aren't playing for a couple weeks until you can transfer them out.

That was my thought too. Baines injury and not realizing that the bonus point system changed meant that I had 4 or 5 poor choices. And yeah, I expected Ayoze to play a good bit for Newcastle--thought he was really impressive last year--and its sounding like he's not going to get much anytime soon.

Post by **Pavement** » Sat Aug 15, 2015 7:41 am

I played my Captain card last week thinking Rooney would get off to a flier.

Post by **Pavement** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 10:38 am

Anyone making any big transfers before the resumption of the league this week? I'm hoping Rooney can take his goal scoring form into the game at the weekend.

Post by **Kraftster** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 10:49 am

I'm done with Rooney. Can't wait to get him off my team.

Post by **Kraftster** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 10:59 am

I could have sworn that last year when you sold players that had dropped in price you didn't actually suffer that loss to your total budget. As I look at it this year, you do retain those losses.

For example, Cazorla has droped to $8.3. I bought him at $8.5. Last year, I could have sworn that when you sold the player you received $8.5 to spend. This year, you only get $8.3 to spend, so you've lost that $.2 permanently unless you make it up with another sale. That really changes the dynamic. I like this better, but I wish I had known that it was the case. Maybe I'm wrong about last year, though.

Post by **Kraftster** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 11:04 am

Wait, so reading over the rules, you can lose money on a player, but you cannot make money on a player. How the hell does that make sense?

So if a player drops in price while on your team, you can only get his current price out of the player in a sale. On the flip side, if a player's price increases while on your team, you can only get what you paid out of him.

Post by **Kraftster** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 11:07 am

OK, so, you keep 1/2 of the profit on any player sale, but you suffer all of the losses. Good to know--wish I'd known this sooner.

Post by **Pavement** » Thu Sep 10, 2015 2:31 pm

Yeah, I should have read the rules as well.

Post by **Pavement** » Fri Mar 04, 2016 4:31 pm

Are you guys still doing this? I've been keeping an eye on mine and and sitting 2nd in the league. Sitting first in my old job league.

And @slappybrown sucks at this game!