Fantasy Football 2012-3-10

Game week 28

barcaRONAN’s last game week Score – 66

Average Score on site – 47

Highest Haul: 24 – Suarez (He was my captain, so that was 12 points doubled)

Lowest Haul: Huth – 2 points – (deep breath) Ba, O’Hara, Bale, Walters & Dempsey

Average Score Per Player 6

Accrued Score – 1237

Place in my own fecking league – 73, up 3 places

Points Off the top – 351, pulled 18 points closer to the top.

Admission

- Okay last week was hectic as I wrote a monster blog but only was able to post it on Monday evening. I away for weekend in Newcastle, so I wrote my novel on the train up from London and was ready to upload it, pure happy like…. Who doesn’t know their own wi-fi code, in ainm on dia!

This week has been a tad crazy and unexpectedly I have to pick up the heir to my throne a few hours earlier than I had planned, so I’ve just had to rush my end. Between last week and this week, it averages out as my normal workload!

State Of Play

Second weekend in a row that I did nearly 20 points than the average, but more importantly only 3 in the top 10 of the back of the net boy league did better than my team so it feels like a bit of balm on the wound that comes with having a terrible season.

Vindication

Picked a good captain, that’s about it, and to be fair Suarez was picked by about 20% of the teams this week and I’ll assume a hefty chunk of those managers had be as the skipper.

D’oh

6 of my team got three points or less, awful.

Did I get the Keeper right?

Yes, Reina got 8, but once again played twice. Krul got 4 for playing one game.

Subs in general?

Well there’s a juicy 9 point Williams sitting on this week’s screenshot, but realistically I’d have put him on the bench every time when facing the threat that was a head of them.

Screenshot of my team from last game week.

Questions / Hunch  / Trends / Dramatic Narrative this game week before Sky have spotted it.

Will Chelsea continue this momentum? I bet a wiley Scot is hoping they do, but they must be tired after their exertions on Wednesday.

Will Crouch return to White Hart Lane against the out of form Spurs and put another dent in their chances of 3rd place? I’m hoping yes, as he’s in my squad!

What’s this? A new bit of blog?

Player Per Club, a tip, a hunch, trying to not always pick the obvious contendahs

After debuting this section last week, it is now on a temporary hiatus for a week, sorry

Transfers

Going to save my transfer and do two next week.

Theory/Selection

This week is rushed, O’Hara is in orange (well he is in all the home games badumtish), and all my defenders are annoying me, going to put Cahill and Richards as sub number 1 and 2, as I don’t anticipate a clean sheet by either team. And O’Hara as 3rd choice, the fans were horrible to him last week, Wolves are awful and they are playing against a Man Utd side, who far from being the machine they used to be they still know how to operate in this, the much vaunted “Business End of The Season”

My Captain, My Captain.

It’s possibly too simplified but will have Ba as captain as he is at home against a team who aren’t in the top 6. This season has been brilliant in many ways, and Norwich’s performances would be on that highlight list but I gotta have a Captain somewhere, sorry Canaries. Vice will be Dempsey at Swansea, even though I have an opposing defender in my back three.

My Team this week

Keeping An Eye On

Nowt this week. Move on.

Captain's Corner

[NB Back Of The Net Boy is not responsible for Captain’s Corner spelling, grammar and basic text layout]

The most popular picks last week RVP, Rooney and Suarez all rewarded captaincy armbands and all three look like decent bets again this weekend.

Man United@Wolves - Rooney is back to his free scoring form and will be heavily picked this weekend against a Wolves side in disarray. Young is showing some form too and will have cemented a starting spot leaving Valencia and Nani, both injury doubts, to fight it out for the right side spot.

Arsenal@Everton - RVP as usual is a great pick and given the majority will be captaining Rooney, is a kind of differential with the armband. Keep a close eye on Walcott and Rosicky, these could be great picks for the end of season to help you make up some ground in your leagues.

Spurs@home to Stoke - Perfect match to bounce back and Bale seems like he's ready to start scoring again.

Fulham@home to Swansea - Despite Swansea’s impressive clean sheets in the last few games Fulham's home form is irresistible; Dempsey and Pog are solid picks.

Gamble picks - How about Tevez to jump in in the second half against Chelsea to get the winner in a 0-0 game and grab the three points? Gerrard and Suarez against QPR too. Pogrebnyak away to Villa.