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Fantasy Football GW33: Bonus Points!
Gameweek 33 has been interesting so far, that much is for sure!
Hands up if you had a midfield four of Arteta, Gibson, Adam Johnson and N’Zogbia…
What nobody?? 😉
The first half of the double gameweek has passed, with four games to go there is still plenty of points to play for. The average score as we stand on Sunday evening is a paltry 24 points and with that many hopes are left with the remaining fixtures.
Looking at the players involved in the Double Gameweek, Carroll came out of the first fixture with Maximum bonus points with Giroud, Van Persie and Anichebe taking 2pts each to round up a good first game for the DGW strikers on show.
Elsewhere owners of Michael Carrick were rewarded with a goal, CS and 3 welcome bonus points in the Sunday game.
1 major talking point this gameweek has to be one of the goalkeeping performances of the season from Alex Mc Carthy for Reading against Liverpool. How this keeper has came away with this game with only 1 Bonus Point is a complete mystery. Carlsberg don’t do bonus points, but if they did they would have given him 4!
I think the bonus points awarding system has to change. It is a travesty in my opinion that McCarthy didn’t claim maximum bonus yesterday, he was without a doubt the man of the match and without whom Liverpool would have taken 3 points.
Lets hear your thoughts on the Bonus system – Do you agree? Do you disagree ? What would you change?
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Fantasy Football: GW32 Stats Round Up
Gameweek 33 will be pivotal to many FPL managers with 5 teams having 2 Games.
Here are the stats from GW32 to help you make your mind up.
Many thanks as always to @Shots_on_Target.
GW32 Match Centre
#FYCUP Round 3 Details!
If you were lucky enough to make it through Round 2 of the #FYCUP your team name will be listed below.
Each of the remaining 64 teams has been given a number between 1-64. The draw for Round 3 is complete.
Only fixtures announced on FantasyYIRMA.com are valid. The fixtures on the PL.com mini-league site relate to a H2H league over 8 weeks which with 256 original players obviously would not work! 🙂
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
The generous folks from @AdvertisingWeek have been in contact and offered to add £50 to the prize pot!!
To try and keep it fair I have decided to split the £50 with £25 going to the overall winner and £25 going to the Bonus prize winner (In Addition to the already great prize pot in place from our #FYCUP sponsors @StanJames !!!
ROUND 3 FIXTURES IN FULL…
Fantasy Football GW33 Preview: Arsenal pair can offer double delight
The business end of the season has already both approached and made its presence felt, and as if that wasn’t ramping up the pressure enough this Gameweek has an added element of complications about it.
Whilst some teams such as Tottenham and Swansea will go through Gameweek 33 without a fixture, others – five others to be exact – are playing twice.
For Arsenal, Manchester United, Everton, Fulham and West Ham a double Gameweek lies in store, and of those sides it is arguably the Champions League-chasing Gunners who offer the best chance for Fantasy points.
Home matches against Norwich and Everton over the next week will go a long way towards confirming whether or not Arsenal will finish in the top four come the end of this season, and two of Arsene Wenger’s men in particular could end up having a huge say in whether or not that becomes a reality.
Both Santi Cazorla (£10.0m) and Olivier Giroud (£7.6m) have impressed at various points over their first season in English football; the Spaniard no doubt more often that the Frenchman admittedly, although both can shine over the next few days.
Four of Cazorla’s last five Gunners league goals have come at the Emirates Stadium, whilst a staggering nine out of Giroud’s 10 Premier League goals this season have come on his home turf.
Both men clearly like their home comforts, and with these back-to-back matches in North London offering them the chance to further improve their records in front of their own fans, then the pair should really be backed to do well for both Arsene Wenger and for you too.
Elsewhere across a Gameweek which has been affected by the FA Cup semi-finals, Manchester United will be seeking to recover from their loss to rivals Manchester City with back-to-back games which could help them seal the title.
Sir Alex Ferguson’s men face tough contests though, firstly at a Stoke City side who are fighting for their lives at the bottom before a trip to West Ham in midweek.
With both matches looking to be on the tight, uncompromising side then it could pay to back United’s defensive players as opposed to their more famous attackers.
Goalkeeper David de Gea (£5.8m) had kept six clean sheets in a row prior to the City loss, whilst Rafael (£6.2m) completed 90 minutes for the first time in three games in the same fixture.
It could be a former United player who enjoys his double Gameweek a little more though.
Dimitar Berbatov (£7.3m) has scored five in his last five, and with the Bulgarian facing matches against a leaky Aston Villa defence and then a tired Chelsea he could just be the man to make the difference for Martin Jol’s men.
The forward has also scored four in his last four Craven Cottage appearances, and so it might be the Chelsea game which really sees him catch fire following Fulham’s visit to Villa Park.
Of the other clubs who are playing two matches this Gameweek, the return of Andy Carroll (£8.2m) to the West Ham side and of both Marouane Fellaini (£7.4m) and Steven Pienaar (£6.6m) at Everton should be noted, although the Blues’ other Belgian Kevin Mirallas (£6.8m) has been the man to watch following three goals in his last four games. Sadly he’s listed as a forward.
Elsewhere, Liverpool’s Luis Suarez (£11.2m) will be backed to cause damage to a frequently creaky Reading defence at the Madejski Stadium, whilst Newcastle’s Papiss Cisse (£8.8m) has rediscovered a scoring touch recently and will be looking to score for the fourth St James’s Park appearance running in Sunday’s Tyne-Wear derby against Paolo Di Canio’s Sunderland.
In midweek, Manchester City will hope to keep up their momentum following the win at Old Trafford, and Sergio Aguero (£10.9m) should start against Wigan following his Manchester derby heroics.
If he does, there could be more goals in the horizon.
Follow @FantasyYIRMA on twitter for updates and chat during the games. Shoot us your FPL questions and queries on twitter or in the comments below. Best of luck this GW!
#FYCUP ROUND 2: THE RESULTS
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Well done to the winners from round 2 of the #FYCUP !!
Difficult week with points hard to come by this week.
Well done to team “Jingle Bale” with the highest weekly score of 58. You have won a free FPL app courtesy of @FFMiphone. Contact me at FantasyYIRMA@hotmail.com or @FantasyYIRMA on twitter to claim your prize.
The draw for round 3 will be made on Thursday 10th April in time for GW32.
ONLY FIXTURES LISTED ON FantasyYIRMA.com ARE VALID FOR THE CUP!!!
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Fantasy Football GW32: Nothing but Bonus Points!
Well GW32 was a high scoring week…eh?? #Tumbleweed….
Actually, no – not at all – Very low scoring week all round!
Here’s a breakdown of the Bonus points from this weekend and including the Manchester Derby.
Rodriguez deservedly picked up the maximum bonus for a strong performance for Southampton this week. He has now averaged a massive 10 pts per GW from 30-32 (9-9-12) Fantastic return from a budget priced striker who is available at the minute for 5.2m. With less than 2% ownership he has been a huge differential in recent weeks as tipped in our recent preview.
Elsewhere Benteke continues to impress picking up a goal and 2 bonus points in Villa’s 3-1 win over Stoke. He has been steadily consistent in recent weeks.
Rosicky and Gervinho for Arsenal may not be thought of by many as the key attackers at the best of time. Rosicky being unfortunate with injuries and Gervinho’s form being sparadic at the best of times but both performed well against WBA and while Rosicky scored 2 and took maximum bonus points Gervinho has now 2 goals 3 assists and a 9pt average from his last 3 games… Arsenal have a DGW33 coming up. Could this run continue?
Defenders came up tops for West Ham, Everton and Chelsea with Collins, Jagielka and Ivanovic getting the Maximum bonus points on offer against Liverpool, Spurs and Sunderland respectively.
Maloney’s last gasp equaliser for Wigan saw him walk away with an important point for his club and 3 bonus points also.
A fantastic strike from Aguero on as a second half Sub was enough for 2 bonus points with Milner taking the maximum in the Manchester Derby.
What do you make of the Bonus points this week? Did they get them right? Tweet us @FantasyYIRMA with your thoughts!
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Southampton |
| 06 Apr 15:00 | Norwich | |
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| 07 Apr 13:30 | Liverpool | |
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| 07 Apr 15:00 | Chelsea | |
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Sunderland |
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| 07 Apr 16:10 | QPR | |
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Wigan |
| 08 Apr 20:00 | Man Utd | |
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#FYCUP Round 2 details
If you were lucky enough to make it through Round 1 of the #FYCUP your team name will be listed below.
Each of the remaining 128 teams has been given a number between 1-128. The draw for Round 2 is complete.
Only fixtures announced on FantasyYIRMA.com are valid. The fixtures on the PL.com mini-league site relate to a H2H league over 8 weeks which with 256 original players obviously would not work! 🙂
ROUND 2 FIXTURES IN FULL
Gameweek 32 preview: Time to switch the Hazard lights back on?
As Fantasy Premier League introductions go, it will be hard for anyone to ever beat the one made by Eden Hazard (£9.5m).
A staggering six assists and one goal in his first three games saw the Belgian explode onto the English football scene, but it also meant that the seven goals and seven assists he registered over Chelsea’s next 27 league games were made to look a little disappointing.
The Blues face a busy end of season schedule featuring matches in both the FA Cup and Europa League, and although that means that Rafael Benitez is sure to rotate his squad across those competitions surely he can trust Hazard to deliver when he needs him too.
Four goals in his last seven appearances for club and country show that the Belgian might just be finishing his first season in England on a high note, and ahead of Chelsea’s game with Paolo Di Canio’s Sunderland at Stamford Bridge on Sunday he could be just the man to trust.
Staying with Chelsea, an injury to Ashley Cole in the FA Cup win over Manchester United also means that Ryan Bertrand (£3.9m) could be a useful cheap addition to your squad ahead of the meeting with Sunderland, who have struggled to score goals all season and are now without the injured Steven Fletcher.
Elsewhere, another full-back could be worth keeping an eye on.
Glen Johnson (£6.5m) has scored three of his last four Premier League goals against his old club West Ham, and with the Hammers making the trip to Anfield on Sunday without the ineligible Andy Carroll then the right back will be confident that he can play a part in what would be a seventh home clean sheet in the last 10 for Liverpool, as well as getting forward and looking to improve on hitting the post against Aston Villa last week.
Speaking of Villa, they go to Stoke in a huge game for their hopes of avoiding relegation, and after Christian Benteke (£7.2m) scored again last weekend then he could be the man to back there.
Gareth Bale (£10.9m) and Robin van Persie (£13.6m) have been men to back for the majority of the season, and after both became the first men to pass 200 points for the season last weekend they both have big games in which they’ll be hoping to increase their tally this time around.
Bale and Tottenham face Everton at White Hart Lane, and given that the visitors will be without Marouane Fellaini and Steven Pienaar for a second successive week then they could find goals hard to come by. There aren’t many better in the division than Spurs’ Jan Vertonghen (£6.5m) at keeping out the opposition at one end whilst providing a goal threat at the other.
For van Persie, Monday night brings a Manchester derby which has been spoiled slightly by Manchester United’s dominance at the top of the table – but should still be watchable nonetheless.
The Dutchman didn’t get credited with the goal at Sunderland last weekend after we’d given him our big build-up, but perhaps he can make up for that at Old Trafford as United seek to take yet another step towards the title.
At the other end, QPR and Reading face must-win home games in their battles against the drop, and with Southampton and Wigan both capable of capitalising on the nervousness that is likely to be all around Loftus Road and Madejski Stadium respectively, then Rickie Lambert (£7.1m) and Arouna Kone (£6.6m) could take advantage. Southampton’s Jay Rodriguez (£5.1m) has also scored in his last two games.
Santi Cazorla (£9.6m) has only scored in his last one, but he could be the man to watch ahead of Arsenal’s trip to West Brom, where the Gunners will be looking for a seventh win in nine.
What do you think? Who is in your team and who is your captain choice?? Drop a comment below or tweet us at @FantasyYIRMA
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GW31 Match Centre: STAT-TASTIC!
GW31 Match Centre
Many thanks as usual to @Shots_on_target for their weekly stat round up from the Premier League.
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