FPL GW1: Preview, update and review (Deadline: 11:30 16Aug)

[Pista]

Wow!
Early standings are quite close going into today & tomorrow.

[markfiend]

Meh. Only 14 points yesterday. But most of my team are playing today.

[eastmidswhizzkid]

Wow!
Early standings are quite close going into today & tomorrow.

you wouldn't say that if you were joint bottom! i'm 35 pts behind Spiritwalkers. which reminds me, can we have some sort of identifier as to which gothic legend we are playing for the glory of?
i don't know everyone by their real names and a quick visual reference would be handy.

even a permanent list for each side would do.

[Pista]

Johnny & I put a team list together. You can see it here with usernames as a reference & national flags

[Pista]

My scousehampton boys are doing me proud today

[Johnny Rev 7.0]

For those of you new to the game:

1. Go to your POINTS page and scroll down to the scores in the matches.

2. Click on the score, i.e., 1-2 for MUN vs SWA and a new window opens detailing who did what.

3. If you then click on Detailed stats (bottom left corner) another window will open that gives you, umm... more detailed stats.

4. The key number here is the BPS (Bonus Points System) which is explained in more detail under HELP---> RULES---> Scoring.

Basically, the top three BPS performances are rewarded with FPL 'Bonus' points which are visible in #2.

[markfiend]

Aha! Thanks for the heads up.

As the league doesn't seem to have updated, shall we have the scores on the doors? I'm on 34 with Terry to pplay tomorrow...

[emilystrange]

can you explain the diff between GW points and Total points? can't find anything in the rules about it.

[Pista]

can you explain the diff between GW points and Total points? can't find anything in the rules about it.

Me neither. I scoured the help section but got hee haw.

Need some Nigel input on that one methinks

[emilystrange]

yup. right now i have respectable in one column and pants in the other.

[eastmidswhizzkid]

i should imagine GW points are the points scored in that Game Week and that the Total Points is errm, the total points you have.

[eastmidswhizzkid]

anyway, i'm now on 28 pts with Ivanovich to play tomorrow. which puts me at no.14, above 3 HLers (including our own Team Coach!! ) and 4 imaginary boys. i can live with that for a start.

**thanks for the list link Steve.

[emilystrange]

ah, it's changed now. the columns are the same.
2 players on tomorrow.

[Pista]

I have two up tomorrow.
& since the league update I moved up a whole ONE place

[markfiend]

Still points to come in from the Burnley/Chelsea match don't forget. The table may change substantially after that

[laperouse]

Still points to come in from the Burnley/Chelsea match don't forget. The table may change substantially after that

Exactly, and I hope that Fabregas and Schürrle will give me some additional lift off today and lead after first match day for 11 Imaginary Boys.

Interesting to see how optimism is so wide spread here around Heartland regarding the prospects for this season... Not bad for a bunch waiting for new album since 1990..

But it will not save you in the end.

[emilystrange]

hope springs eternal, lad, that's why we're still here :p
i've got terry and schürrle in tonight. bring it on...

[Pista]

Fabregas & Hazard for me

[Johnny Rev 7.0]

Just to clarify the 'my points don't add up' discussion:

1. Points on your POINTS page are updated in real time (or as fast as the FPL web-monkeys can input the data) during matches. F5 is your friend.

2. At the end of the last game in each MD, within a GW, FPL spend the next 60mins rechecking the data. When all is confirmed they award the Bonus Points. Again, F5 is your friend.

3. Then they begin the update. It can take between 60-90mins but at the end of it all the numbers will match up, and points/rankings are official.

4. There's two ways to check that the update has been completed:

a) Go to bed and have a look the next day.

b) Go to PICK TEAM. To the left of the GW2 tab you'll see the GW1 tab, currently showing a status of "In progress". Once that changes to "Completed", GW1 is done and dusted and locked.

Again, F5 is your friend, but probably only an option for the night owls. And Lee.

[Johnny Rev 7.0]

Still points to come in from the Burnley/Chelsea match don't forget. The table may change substantially after that

You're learning Young Grasshopper:

"He who sees with an open eye,
Is no longer blind."

Should have stuck some shit about cherry blossom and rivers running, in there as well, but ran out of time. Sorry!

I hope that Fabregas and Schürrle will give me some additional lift off today.

Don't think Schürrle will even be in the squad as he's just come back from his "I won the World Cup" holiday and only resumed training last week.

But welcome, laperouse and thank you!

[Pista]

Lineups for this evening

Chelsea XI: Courtois, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Azpilicueta, Fabregas, Matic, Schurrle, Oscar, Hazard, Costa.

Burnley XI: Heaton, Trippier, Duff, Shackell, Mee, Taylor, Marney, Jones, Arfield, Ings, Jutkiewicz.

Bit surprised at Courtois starting, but he is a damn fine keeper.

[Mav787]

Don't think Schürrle will even be in the squad as he's just come back from his "I won the World Cup" holiday and only resumed training last week.

And this is why it is so hard to select Chelsea players for your FF team with any confidence.

[Johnny Rev 7.0]

So I guess we're lining up as a 4-2-3-1:

Courtois
Ivanovic - Cahill - Terry - Azpilicueta
Fabregas - Matic
Schürrle - Oscar - Hazard
Costa.

[Johnny Rev 7.0]

And this is why it is so hard to select <snip> players for your FF team with any confidence.

But not so hard for both of us to make the identical early transfer in FPL.

[emilystrange]

it wasn't so much the 'completed' thing, johnny - i could see it saying that. it was the GW points given as 36 and total as 10 - was trying to work out if there was another, obscure, layer of scoring i hadn't found! but it updated that too, eventually.