Fantasy Football 2012-3-23

Game week 30

barcaRONAN’s last game week Score – 42

Average Score on site – 39

Highest Haul: 13 – Evans

Lowest Haul: Enrique – 1 point

Average Score Per Player 3.8

Accrued Score – 1279

Place in my own fecking league – 72, up 1 place

Points Off the top – 367, dropped 17 points further from the top.

State Of Play

Yo Yo Yo BOTNBers, last weekend’s games went off the radar for me and for many others with the thankfully-not-tragic event during the Bolton/Spurs game. Once again this is a rushed blog of no real note, I’m sorry.

Vindication

I got nothing to feel remotely proud about this year, Evans and Krul did okay, (13 & 7 respectively) but, I’ll put it this way, that pair got me 49% of my points.

D’oh

8 of my team got two points or less, awful.

Did I get the Keeper right?

Yes! Krul got 7 versus Reina’s 1.

Subs in general?

Not at all, Cahill got 7 points without breaking a sweat at the Ro Camp.

Screenshot of my team from last game week.

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

I got nothing of note this week. I’m intrigued to what’s gonna happen to Stoke at moment, they seem to be at the stage where they don’t want the Europa League against next year, I’d never suggest a team managed by Pulis would happily capitulate but do they have a fire in their belly.

Also fair fucks to Blackburn, they’ve really done well in a subtle way.

Transfers

One is an easy reactionary one, O’Hara is out for a month and I simply brought in transfer-de-jour Gylfi Sigurdsson, and also gained me .2 million! And I’ve just called in two other big hitters, Rooney (Suarez out) and Valencia (Bale out). Man Utd have both momentum and favourable fixtures, the former will surely play every game, and the latter the majority of them.

Theory/Selection

Playing my 3 strikers, and the four defenders playing at home, same process of selection between Reina and Krul and midfielders too.

My Captain, My Captain.

It’s gotta be Rooney, with the Valencia to be the Riker to his Picard.

My Team this week

Keeping An Eye On

In the same way that I’ve reinvented the wheel with bringing in Rooney and Valencia, I’m mainly looking at Hoilett to maybe come in next week, all depends on Stoke’s form as I referred to earlier.

Captain's Corner

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

The masses will be captaining two men this weekend - Rooney and of course RVP. But there are some other more unorthodox choices, which we'll take a look at as well.

Rooney@home to Fulham. Rooney will have frustrated many last weekend in the "gimme fixture" at Wolves, returning a single assist despite the 5-0 score line. This week they're at home against Fulham who have been pretty awful away from home and have been showing a dip in form in general. Valencia returned to cause more annoyance to those holding Young, he should be starting again and if so is a great pick, but you just never know with Ferguson.

RVP@home to Villa. RVP at home is safe choice against any opposition. Villa have been keeping it pretty tight recently though, with 2 clean sheets in the last four games and only 2 goals conceded, so I wouldn't be expecting a goal fest. But Arsenal should get at least 1 here, and it's very probable that it'll be RVP. Paddy Power have him at 4/9 anytime, slightly longer than Rooney, who's 2/5.

Suarez@home to Wigan - Suarez just isn't scoring well this season for reasons we won't get into here, but this is nonetheless a tasty home fixture. People will be slightly worried by the challenge faced by big teams against relegation battlers like Wigan, but I reckon these teams fighting for survival will be concentrating on getting one more goal than the opposition rather than shutting up shop at the back (like the remarkable comeback from QPR last weekend).

Blackburn@home to Bolton - Potential for a goal fest here as two teams fight to stay safe. Yakubu is a great shout here. Difficult to pick someone from Bolton, N'Gog seems to be the preferred striker option, with Klasnic a really potent impact sub. away to Villa.