Fantasy Premier League

Blog Roundtable

Tue Jan 22 04:11PM by Jeremy

Radek Cerny, Tottenham

Our "weekly" roundtable discussion picking up on some of the themes from the MMM and Barn(es) Door Watch. 

Session Start (Jeremy Spitzberg:Neal Thurman): Mon Jan 21 08:31:42 2008
[08:31] Jeremy Spitzberg: hmmm....
[08:31] Jeremy Spitzberg: qemm? [ed note: quien es muy macho?]
[08:32] Jeremy Spitzberg: mpet/nelsen or duff/taylor?
[08:32] Neal Thurman: interesting
[08:32] Jeremy Spitzberg: duff can't get worse, can he?
[08:32] Neal Thurman: don't NUFC play at Ars?
[08:32] Jeremy Spitzberg: y
[08:32] Neal Thurman: seems unlikely to be the key to unlocking his form
[08:32] Jeremy Spitzberg: nelsen @ast though
[08:32] Jeremy Spitzberg: which could be ugly
[08:33] Jeremy Spitzberg: esp with villa on a high after beating liv to nil
[08:33] Neal Thurman: lol
[08:33] Jeremy Spitzberg: what? ;-)
[08:34] Neal Thurman: just so long as Torres gets 5 SOTs and a few CWs along the way...
[08:34] Jeremy Spitzberg: lol
[08:34] Neal Thurman: I'm not greedy
[08:34] Jeremy Spitzberg: no
[08:34] Jeremy Spitzberg: just a jerk
[08:34] Neal Thurman: heh
[08:35] Jeremy Spitzberg: 50% of teams have torres
[08:35] Jeremy Spitzberg: bit stunned by that
[08:35] Jeremy Spitzberg: just a bit
[08:35] Jeremy Spitzberg: but still
[08:35] Neal Thurman: yeah, I would have guessed something more like 30%
[08:35] Neal Thurman: but he's exactly the type of player likely to be over-bought
[08:35] Neal Thurman: big club
[08:35] Neal Thurman: high flying reputation
[08:35] Neal Thurman: lots of goals
[08:35] Jeremy Spitzberg: big xfer
[08:36] Jeremy Spitzberg: lot of teams buy in week 1 and forget
[08:36] Neal Thurman: only serious fantasy managers are likely to pay attention beyond all of that - just imagine how over subscribed he'd be if Rafa hadn't rotated him for six weeks
[08:36] Jeremy Spitzberg: lol
[08:36] Jeremy Spitzberg: i'd have him
[08:36] Jeremy Spitzberg: so 50% plus 1
[08:37] Neal Thurman: lol
[08:58] Jeremy Spitzberg: well, probably not due to people buying and then ignoring their teams...
[08:58] Jeremy Spitzberg: malouda only on about 11% of teams
[08:59] Jeremy Spitzberg: and i would argue that he was the other big name/big club transfer
[08:59] Neal Thurman: right
[08:59] Neal Thurman: although 11% for someone who has produced squadoosh speaks to a certain amount of inertia
[08:59] Jeremy Spitzberg: but he never produced like torres after week 1
[08:59] Jeremy Spitzberg: right, but now we've established the inertial ceiling
[08:59] Jeremy Spitzberg: so to speak
[08:59] Neal Thurman: right
[09:00] Neal Thurman: probably more sicko LIV fans in the game than CHE
[09:00] Neal Thurman: (call that another 10%)
[09:00] Jeremy Spitzberg: then 30% for performance
[09:00] Jeremy Spitzberg: fair enough
[09:00] Neal Thurman: that's what I was thinking
[09:00] Neal Thurman: bummed about KRich...
[09:01] Jeremy Spitzberg: i am too
[09:01] Jeremy Spitzberg: but glad that you all have to spend 2 more bucks for a middie
[09:01] Jeremy Spitzberg: besides, having krich and cerny in my team...
[09:02] Jeremy Spitzberg: again...
[09:02] Jeremy Spitzberg: would have caused some temporal issues
[09:02] Jeremy Spitzberg: no telling what might have happened
[09:03] Neal Thurman: lol
[09:03] Neal Thurman: you sticking w/ Cerny?
[09:04] Jeremy Spitzberg: who knows
[09:04] Jeremy Spitzberg: still spurs
[09:04] Jeremy Spitzberg: but on the up
[09:04] Jeremy Spitzberg: not a great upcoming sched, iirc
[09:05] Neal Thurman: @EVE this coming weekend
[09:05] Jeremy Spitzberg: @eve, manu, @der
[09:05] Jeremy Spitzberg: yikes!
[09:05] Jeremy Spitzberg: sell! sell!
[09:05] Neal Thurman: :-)
[09:06] Jeremy Spitzberg: but for whom?
[09:06] Neal Thurman: I've got mine staked out :-)
[09:06] Jeremy Spitzberg: ?
[09:06] Neal Thurman: may the Schwartz be with you ;-)
[09:06] Jeremy Spitzberg: niemi @bol, ast, @boro, whu before manu
[09:07] Jeremy Spitzberg: schwarz still cheap thanks to derbyshire
[09:07] Neal Thurman: yup
[09:07] Neal Thurman: and home with WIG
[09:07] Jeremy Spitzberg: wig, @nuf, ful
[09:07] Neal Thurman: looks like a winner to me ;-)
[09:07] Jeremy Spitzberg: then @liv, red, @ast, @ars
[09:08] Jeremy Spitzberg: interesting ;-)
[09:08] Neal Thurman: at least through January
[09:08] Jeremy Spitzberg: and a precious $0.50 cheaper than cerny
[09:09] Neal Thurman: I think my squad is set for right now with the possible exception of Torres maybe getting subbed out...currently at Faddy, Torres, Elk, CRon, Malouda, BFDB, Bullard, Moko, Nelsen, Senderos, Schwartz
[09:09] Jeremy Spitzberg: my barn door put me at tevez, eds, elk, cron, floma, mpet, nolan, mok, nelsen, sagna, cerny
[09:27] Jeremy Spitzberg: btw... bfdb? bfsdb
[09:27] Jeremy Spitzberg: big f'ing stud
[09:27] Jeremy Spitzberg: he must really be looking forward to the capello era
[10:06] Neal Thurman: btw, nice to see that there is only one match on Super Bowl Sunday
[10:06] Neal Thurman: (and that its Ful/Villa)
[10:07] Jeremy Spitzberg: and those players are too poor/too exspensive to really worry about
[10:08] Neal Thurman: with the possible exception of Bullard :-)
[10:12] Jeremy Spitzberg: and/or villa's new right-back
[10:12] Jeremy Spitzberg: if they get one
[10:12] Jeremy Spitzberg: or marlon king
[10:12] Neal Thurman: would be nice - not sure how they missed out on Johnny Evans
[10:12] Neal Thurman: Marlon King and his gimpy knee?
[10:12] Jeremy Spitzberg: isn't evans a center back?
[10:12] Neal Thurman: nope
[10:12] Neal Thurman: right back
[10:13] Neal Thurman: or at least that's what he's been doing at ManYoo and SUN
[10:13] Jeremy Spitzberg: i guess i wan't paying close enough attention
[10:13] Jeremy Spitzberg: thought collins and mcshane were left and right full backs
[10:13] Neal Thurman: I happened to see his SUN debut :-)
[10:13] Jeremy Spitzberg: mcshane sucks, btw
[10:13] Jeremy Spitzberg: as does bianchi
[10:14] Neal Thurman: Bianchi = EdS? poacher but not much else?
[10:14] Jeremy Spitzberg: maybe
[10:14] Neal Thurman: just not getting much service
[10:14] Jeremy Spitzberg: they keep forcing eds wide though
[10:14] Jeremy Spitzberg: :-(
[10:14] Jeremy Spitzberg: trying to make a middie out of him
[10:14] Jeremy Spitzberg: wenger out-smarting himself?
[10:14] Jeremy Spitzberg: and killing my fantasy season in the process?
[10:14] Neal Thurman: they really should make a bid to get Bentley back at ARS
[10:15] Neal Thurman: admit that Hleb is only good when playing centrally
[10:15] Jeremy Spitzberg: and that eboue isn't going to cut it
[10:17] Neal Thurman: and that walcott isn't ready yet at either position

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  • (1)

    you guys need to get lives.

    Posted by: jon_wolfsthal on Tue Jan 22 04:28PM | Report abuse
  • (2)

    this is our life. and you're beating us. so just shut it!

    Posted by: jspitzberg on Tue Jan 22 04:36PM | Report abuse
  • (3)

    BRILLIANT.....!!! What a conversation. It reminds me of Newton and Einst...

    Posted by: c444si on Tue Jan 22 04:42PM | Report abuse
  • (4)

    Any ideas guys on what to do regarding the loop-hole in this week's lockdown? I was thinking we might able to change players in the last few minutes of BLA-AST game to players who will get good points. Get those points Saturday night/Sunday & then transfer them out to the midweek games players Monday before the Tuesday lock down ???

    Posted by: gingerlouiemac on Tue Jan 22 05:04PM | Report abuse
  • (5)

    I signed Torres, dropped him for a few weeks in Sept/Oct and then brought him back for $8 in Nov... I'm a happy man. Only issue now is that him and Tevez are undroppable (if that's a word) due to their value rocketing, MPet the same.

    Posted by: peterransom on Tue Jan 22 05:20PM | Report abuse
  • (6)

    i have torres @+5, elk,tevez @+2, which should i drop to get bfdb, or should i stick? apart from cron, my most expensie middie is hleb, and im tryin to find a way to get bfdb into the side. i need 10, and i am also looking for a defender for under 5, which would mean i need about 13. any suggestions?

    Posted by: matt.chizzy@btinternet.com on Tue Jan 22 05:27PM | Report abuse
  • (7)

    or should i drop cron@+5to get bentley, as their production is very similar?

    Posted by: matt.chizzy@btinternet.com on Tue Jan 22 05:29PM | Report abuse
  • (8)

    gingerlouiemac - If you find a way to edit a lineup that has already been locked down (such as Week 20), be sure to let the rest of us know how you do it. As it currently stands, everyone's current Week 20 lineup includes the 26 January AST-BLA match, and players from those two teams are essentially double-game players for Week 20 and 0-game players for Week 21. Yahoo made a similar error in the Spanish fantasy league and it became a farce - managers were able to pick players who had already played ...

    Posted by: reverendike on Tue Jan 22 05:49PM | Report abuse
  • (9)

    why are you still holding onto mokoena?

    Posted by: biggerp2002 on Tue Jan 22 05:49PM | Report abuse
  • (10)

    Looks like it's sorted now - deadline has been changed to 26 January ...

    Posted by: reverendike on Tue Jan 22 05:51PM | Report abuse