GL Fantasy Football 20/21

oh ffs these sneaky friday night fixtures

held off on getting rid of 'Auba this week as I thought surely he could get me some points still against Burnley at home at least

FML

Its onwards and upwards for me now, need to get back into my 3rd place throne

RealGunner wrote:oh ffs these sneaky friday night fixtures

reminder that we have a mid week fixture

Baldiola playing Russian Roulette with his CBs

Pedram wrote:Imagine buying defenders from Citeh.

Impossible to have any players from City except De Bruyne

Pep just can't be trusted

I'm just going to keep Aubameyang

surely, at SOME POINT he's got to start scoring again?!?!

Pedram wrote:

Hapless_Hans wrote:I'm just going to keep Aubameyang

surely, at SOME POINT he's got to start scoring again?!?!

Do you realize you're losing value by keeping him?

I've already lost it. And there's no value in the market anyway.

Pedram wrote:Imagine buying defenders from Citeh.

vagi

Can't even get rid of him now

Hapless_Hans wrote:I'm just going to keep Aubameyang

surely, at SOME POINT he's got to start scoring again?!?!

The sunk cost fallacy. Cut your ties and move on

Reminds me of when I bought JetBlue stock, I kept it for years at a loss hoping to break even, then I finally did, the pandemic hit and airline stocks took a literally 50% cut

BarrileteCosmico wrote:

Hapless_Hans wrote:I'm just going to keep Aubameyang

surely, at SOME POINT he's got to start scoring again?!?!

The sunk cost fallacy. Cut your ties and move on

Reminds me of when I bought JetBlue stock, I kept it for years at a loss hoping to break even, then I finally did, the pandemic hit and airline stocks took a literally 50% cut

Difference to Jet Blue or any other stock is that I like Aubameyang, and also I'm not losing actual money. That's why I'm going to keep him.

And there are no convincing alternatives, really. Havertz, James? Flops.
And don't come to me with Grealish or such, I only sign midfielders with Bundesliga or similar (Swiss, Austria, Dutch) experience.
Yes, I'd free money for a more expensive striker, but who? Calvert-Lewin, who went on a veritable scoring spree after I badmouthed him, will not score at a similar rate going forward. Ings, Southampton have become less reliant on him. Werner, Abraham, flops. Jesus? Will be benched by Pep the moment I buy him. Spurs players, I don't do Spurs players, sorry.

Don't think more money would significantly improve my all star striking duo of Bamford and Ollie Watkins.

So I'll just keep Auba in the hope he starts scoring again, which he will, and then his goals will give me LOTS OF POINTS

I just beat AVERAGE 43-42 too so I must be doing something right

BarrileteCosmico wrote:

Hapless_Hans wrote:I'm just going to keep Aubameyang

surely, at SOME POINT he's got to start scoring again?!?!

The sunk cost fallacy. Cut your ties and move on

Reminds me of when I bought JetBlue stock, I kept it for years at a loss hoping to break even, then I finally did, the pandemic hit and airline stocks took a literally 50% cut

but it's also a great time to buy...

Stocks, maybe, FPL players? Auba is still hugely overvalued for his returns and his form doesn't look like it will improve any time soon

Hapless_Hans wrote:

BarrileteCosmico wrote:

Hapless_Hans wrote:I'm just going to keep Aubameyang

surely, at SOME POINT he's got to start scoring again?!?!

The sunk cost fallacy. Cut your ties and move on

Reminds me of when I bought JetBlue stock, I kept it for years at a loss hoping to break even, then I finally did, the pandemic hit and airline stocks took a literally 50% cut

Difference to Jet Blue or any other stock is that I like Aubameyang, and also I'm not losing actual money. That's why I'm going to keep him.

And there are no convincing alternatives, really. Havertz, James? Flops.
And don't come to me with Grealish or such, I only sign midfielders with Bundesliga or similar (Swiss, Austria, Dutch) experience.
Yes, I'd free money for a more expensive striker, but who? Calvert-Lewin, who went on a veritable scoring spree after I badmouthed him, will not score at a similar rate going forward. Ings, Southampton have become less reliant on him. Werner, Abraham, flops. Jesus? Will be benched by Pep the moment I buy him. Spurs players, I don't do Spurs players, sorry.

Don't think more money would significantly improve my all star striking duo of Bamford and Ollie Watkins.

So I'll just keep Auba in the hope he starts scoring again, which he will, and then his goals will give me LOTS OF POINTS

I just beat AVERAGE 43-42 too so I must be doing something right

Bruh get out of here with your logic, it almost sounds like you're playing FPL to have fun and not to win

ps perhaps Vardy?

Vardy yeah, I don't know.
It feels like in all these (3) years of participating in this I've never had Vardy and he was also scoring loads, if I get him now I think it would be his least prolific season since years and it would feel like a personal defeat, I have my pride. I'll just have stick to my guns, even if Vardy will probably get the golden boot.

Also, with Vardy, I feel insecure, because if I picture it, if I had to hang around with him, let alone man manage him, I don't know if I could deal with his intensity, he'd surely be making very good, part jovial, but also rather forward jokes at my expense while staring straight in my face, and I'd feel I could only come up with weak, unfunny, inadequate responses, and too slowly at that, and then there'd be the whole issue of wondering if saying the wrong thing would mean I'd get banged.
Not sure how he feels about Germans either.

Don't know man, I think I'm not going to get Vardy in my team, don't feel up to it.

I'll give Auba one more chance. Two more chances. If he doesn't score another goal for two games, he's out. Even if then, SURELY, he'd start scoring in the third game? Think I'm just going to keep him no matter what.

De Bruyne

will rip So'ton a new one

Pedram wrote:Without a doubt this is the hardest week for picking a captain, Salah, Kane, Bruno and Son could all haul this week.

Bruno vs Leeds at home is tempting, but I might end up going Salah

United are often bad at home compared to away.

Kane looked really tired on the last match fwiw