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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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76-73 and made it through to the next round... So excited, only 17 rounds to go :)

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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Safely through here.

Next up is yet another active team, ranked 205k. I've still not faced a dead team, but then to win the cup you have to beat the best teams! :s

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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Think I got my first active team - with a power-defence in 433;

de Gea
Rose, Cahill, Azpi, Baines

Decent attack, but no Sanchez or Kane

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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I have an active team ranked 500k.

It's actually quite a good team with Sanchez, Alli, Zlatan (same as me), Azpi for my Alonso, Walker, Lallana and 3 x Boro (they have a good game). Plus Heaton who is generally the bane of my life. :x

It's problematic because I want to captain Hazard (who he doesn't have) while he will captain Sanchez almost for sure (did last week). If I captain Hazard I may well bring the game down to Hazard v Sanchez. If I go with Sanchez and neutralise the captaincy then I will have Valencia v Walker, Baines v Gibson, Hazard v Lallana and Lukaku v Negredo all favouring my team I think.

The logical thing is to captain Sanchez but I think I will stick with Hazard; OR matters more than the Cup, right? :?

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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Ruth_NZ wrote:OR matters more than the Cup, right? :?
Indeed - Cup is a bonus-game in my view, for now at least. FWIW, my Captain has been locked on Sanchez, and I'm not going to make a late change again (changed from Kane to Sanchez 30 min before deadline last week..)

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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Good luck to those left. I have a tricky tie today. The guy is ranked about 400k but has a good team on paper which covers most of my strengths. Could really do with an Ibra haul and a blank from Lallana.

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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I'm 5 behind.
He has Hazard and Van Dijk.
I have Heaton, Alonso, Sanchez and Giroud.

I'm definitely still in this tie, but certainly not through yet.

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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I'm up 36 - 17

Both have Azpi & Iwobi so comes down to;

Courtois & Haz (c) vs. Cech, Kos & Alonso

Fairly secure, surely Alonso wont repeat last GW - Arsenal letting one in would def help just in case!

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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Scottoffee wrote:I'm up 36 - 17

Both have Azpi & Iwobi so comes down to;

Courtois & Haz (c) vs. Cech, Kos & Alonso

Fairly secure, surely Alonso wont repeat last GW - Arsenal letting one in would def help just in case!
You will also get points for Holgate coming on for Evans so plus five for that. :) I am hoping the gunners do not concede though.

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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I'm 32-8 up. We both have Sanchez (C) to come and then it is my Heaton, Alonso & Haz v Courtois, Koscielny, Azpilicueta, Van Dijk & Costa.

So I'm in a decent position but a Chelsea cs and Costa outscoring Haz and it begins to get close. He also has Fletcher, McAuley, Phillips on the bench to my Jones, Fletcher, Amat so any no shows could also be bad.

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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I am 33-32 up but it will be very close.

Me: Alonso, Hazard x2
Him: Heaton, Azpi, Sanchez, Costa

Basically I need Hazard to hit a big one if I am to go through I think.

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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Up 46-14 with my San(C)hez and Hazard to go against his Cahill, Azpi and Hazard to go. I'm feeling confident going through

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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Oxford NZ wrote:
Scottoffee wrote:I'm up 36 - 17

Both have Azpi & Iwobi so comes down to;

Courtois & Haz (c) vs. Cech, Kos & Alonso

Fairly secure, surely Alonso wont repeat last GW - Arsenal letting one in would def help just in case!
You will also get points for Holgate coming on for Evans so plus five for that. :) I am hoping the gunners do not concede though.
Genuinely cheered that Burnley pen like it was my own team!
Kos & Cech were on for 2 bonii each.

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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11 points lead with my Hazard against his Azpi, Alonso, (C)osta ...

This will be very close with me being a slight underdog?

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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Still in it thanks to Captain Alexis

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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gone... 57 points which should be good enough score for the week but my opponent had close to 70..

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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Sneaking through with 60. Probably my best cup run ever.

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Aldershot Rejects wrote:Sneaking through with 60. Probably my best cup run ever.
Same on both counts, congratulations!

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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Aldershot Rejects wrote:Sneaking through with 60. Probably my best cup run ever.
Your next opponent looks good but has made no transfers since December. Made good captain choices last few weeks though.
I pick you will go through for another week :) What team changes are you planning for the cup against him or are you just concentrating on OR?

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Oxford NZ wrote:
Aldershot Rejects wrote:Sneaking through with 60. Probably my best cup run ever.
Your next opponent looks good but has made no transfers since December. Made good captain choices last few weeks though.
I pick you will go through for another week :) What team changes are you planning for the cup against him or are you just concentrating on OR?
It's a decent draw. I thought initially he was a semi-dead team given the lack of transfers but as you say he keeps changing his captain and has made good choices over the past few weeks. I'm mainly concentrating on OR but on marginal decisions I might think about the cup. I suspect he'll captain Ibra this week whereas I was going with Sanchez so I might rethink that given that it is fairly marginal anyway. I think my squad is stronger so his two chances are that one of his players gets a large haul or his captain does far better than mine.
What about you? Your opponent has been on a decent run and has a team with potential to score well.

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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Aldershot Rejects wrote:
Oxford NZ wrote:
Aldershot Rejects wrote:Sneaking through with 60. Probably my best cup run ever.
Your next opponent looks good but has made no transfers since December. Made good captain choices last few weeks though.
I pick you will go through for another week :) What team changes are you planning for the cup against him or are you just concentrating on OR?
It's a decent draw. I thought initially he was a semi-dead team given the lack of transfers but as you say he keeps changing his captain and has made good choices over the past few weeks. I'm mainly concentrating on OR but on marginal decisions I might think about the cup. I suspect he'll captain Ibra this week whereas I was going with Sanchez so I might rethink that given that it is fairly marginal anyway. I think my squad is stronger so his two chances are that one of his players gets a large haul or his captain does far better than mine.
What about you? Your opponent has been on a decent run and has a team with potential to score well.
Well done both, I got done by McAuley's points basically. :(

I think this may help you on OR too, AR. I reckon Zlatan's the better choice next week. :)

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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Ruth_NZ wrote: Well done both, I got done by McAuley's points basically. :(

I think this may help you on OR too, AR. I reckon Zlatan's the better choice next week. :)
It's tough when you get stuffed by a defender scoring 10+ points.

I will need to think about Zlatan. I am trying to pick my captains in blocks of 3 weeks to try and cut out some of the variance when you base the choice on one week only and this would be third of the Sanchez block - he's done OK in the last 2 weeks. Having said that I could probably now go on a 3 week run with Zlatan. It's a difficult one - I trust Hull more than Watford defensively at the moment but as you say Utd are due a haul and Hull are haemorrhaging midfielders.

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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My next guy's active but not very good - OR 1.4m ish to my 18k ish.

Major threat is Sanchez and maybe Giroud / Phillips.

I could do with Ibra (prob C) / Lukaku / Lallana doing well.

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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I think I will go out this week :) as I am not making changes to combat my opponent. He has a similar line up and a few stronger players. I am following Ruth NZ 's advice with Captain Ibra rather than Sanchez. No transfers this week as I do not want to take a hit and save FT for next week.
Good luck to those still in the cup :P

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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I'm down 21 - 36 at the moment but reckon I should be coming out on top...

I've got Baines, Holgate, Valencia, A. Carroll, Lukaku & Ibra (c) to go.

He only has Coleman & Pieters.

Glad that Sanchez didn't do more - he Triple Captained him!

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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Down 26 to 29 ATM but my opponent will only get 2 points for an automatic transfer taking him to 31, so I only need 5 points with Captain Ibra and crouch (if he plays) still to come. This will be my lowest GW since joining in GW2 I think.

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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My 25 plays 23. Both have Holgate.

Me - Pieters, Zlat, Aguero, Carroll
Opp - DDG, TDav, Zlat (c)

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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Winning 30-17. I've got Baines, Jones & Zlatan to come; he's got Pieters, Stones, Pogba, Sterling & Zlatan (c). It could easily go either way but as a pessimist I'm preparing myself for defeat.

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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My Barkley, Lukaku and 6 points vs his Grant and Ibra.

Got a chance.

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Re: FPL Cup '16-'17

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kingcurtley wrote:My 25 plays 23. Both have Holgate.

Me - Pieters, Zlat, Aguero, Carroll
Opp - DDG, TDav, Zlat (c)
Drab. Out.

Good luck those left.

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