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ess the league table again after some weeks probably after the busy december schedule even with the eye catching ross barkley performance last night the international break is still as awful as ever news that key fpl assets could be out for extended periods doesn t make for pretty reading though a section of chelsea fans appeared pleased to hear about branislav ivanovic s injury during the same period not that he was in our teams anyway thousands of managers will be keeping their fingers crossed that the remaining players come back unscathed the player markets over the next week will be interesting to watch and in all honesty the next few gws will present a battle for supremacy that will make the fpl feeling better than ever there s so much time for things to change plus the over 6000 managers who own danny welbeck might have gotten their man back to fitness by then a few lessons will have been learnt even for the most experienced of us before the premier league returns next week we will have had ample time to look back and reflect on what went wrong and best of all plan for what s ahead as always i m wishing you good luck with your fpl planning it s for the greater good supporter ownership the future of football august 18 2015 september 21 2015 leave a comment harrydunford wordpress the game of football has transformed beyond recognition in the 21 st century the formation of the premier league in 1992 and sky sports live televising of games has completely changed the way football is consumed when considering the standard of football that is played at the top level in england now of course it has improved vastly since the formation of the premier league however within the new premier league era supporters have repeatedly been impacted negatively by issues such as increasing ticket prices and in many cases extremely poor governance of football clubs football supporters are the lifeblood of the game the reality is that there is a constant cycle of supporters at every club the loyalty of football supporters to their club is the reason football is often called the beautiful game yet the continuous disregard of football supporters is creating a game that is far less view original post 445 more words mini league preview gw1 august 8 2015 october 17 2021 1 comment hello all and good morning to you from whichever part of the world you hail we re all gathered here because of one thing the love of football the first gameweek of the epl and fpl is finally here and boy are we anxious to hear the whistle indicating kickoff the coffee is ready the sky will be clear in a little while the template teams are out and i presume the last minute changes are all done now without delving too much into pointless small talk i ll get straight into the details i m pleased to see a fair number of teams having registered for our loyal to the game fpl mini league looks like we have more entries this season than the last and of course this promises to be better than ever so having had this league running for a number of seasons it s time to make things more exciting why not add a personal touch to it the folks at pitch impression hq came up with an algorithm to rank the regulars as well as new members in order of their team s likelihood to win the league and such the results were interesting therefore as a follow up to that i decided i ll start a small part series to cover the league as the season goes on i believe that will definitely spice things up and maybe in a way make it more competitive we re aiming to attract even more high quality players and we hope to include prizes soon as at the moment there are at least 35 confirmed entries i put the algorithm to test last night and came up with a list determined by a team s average league position and one or two other factors here are the results based on the odds the early favourite is team dish_an_ski managed by dishan this manager is not a stranger to winning ways having won this league twice before including last season he also boasts an impressive overall position in previous seasons and subsequently comes up first in the rankings he remains a strong favourite to retain the title at 5 1 close second in the rankings is resident manager ljay m myself steering the fraternity hoping for league glory this is the only team in the league to ever have finished within the top 3000 of the fpl overall charts even though it was some years back the manager has struggled to replicate previous success and will be looking to please the supporters with a trophy this season they can be backed at 17 2 in third position we have stretfordendarising by stretford end arising a firm manchester united supported from salford and long time member who is always close to it but just not close enough could this be the season where he finally wins the league he can be backed at a tasty 15 1 dennis kalemba all the way from london represents twinckles winning 11 one time he could be in the top 100000 other times he could be in the top 1000000 it s all dependent on how well the team trains one gets the fleeting feeling however that if they get their act together they could just challenge this time 25 1 is a fair price for those wishing to board that train messymagic fcnojokes managed by dansinoni hatari vxs all the way from kenya comes at 5th while we re thankful he ll not be able to select lionel messi as his team name suggests we ll be interested at looking at his captaincy picks he has a history of not following anything that s conventional one time he had the armband on titus bramble away sometimes the odd surprise pops up other times it doesn t go too well we are eagerly looking forward to more of that magic this season for those sufficiently convinced by his management style you can back him at 29 1 a fairly familiar name in soap mctavish is gaffer of the game mata s nice little pun there of course the home support will be hoping the manager s man management skills will be as good as his wordplay skills somehow they are always ranked between 250000 700000 making them a decent side top half to be accurate but they will need a quality signing or two to be able to break into the top four it can be noted that towards the end of last season they did put up a spirited fight but made a few costly mistakes that might have cost them pretty much the same case with reps up managed by massive drake fan drizzy moray they did lead the league last season not on one or two gameweeks but at least five and somehow they ended up finishing 7th there seems to be a bit of value here and both these two teams can be backed at 36 1 all other teams in the league are available at 50 1 of course nothing s guaranteed and surprises do happen stay with us for reports on how the league season is progressing you can follow every team using the following link league standings checking my watch it s less than two hours to kick off let the season begin it was it is and it will be fpl madness it can only get better august 5 2015 september 21 2015 leave a comment i was close to tears when the summer started and no it s not that i had failed in france that s another story the copa america just wasn t living up to the hype we expected apart from the vidal show and there just didn t seem to be any hope for a return to football time was moving extremely slowly like per mertesacker in an early afternoon fixture and it almost looked like some days were stuck on repeat we were officially doomed at least the transfer business kept our heads above the water even though the perennial rumours still came up but in the back of our minds we were secretly formulating the recipe of success for the upcoming fantasy premier league season the hope kept us alive then the fpl doors were finally opened the wait was over or was it of course there was roughly a month to the first game of the 2015 16 english premier league season manchester united entertaining tottenham at old trafford but still you wouldn t have wanted to be thrown into the fray without your tools so as much as we wished for an immediate return to league football the period before it was necessary to prepare ourselves we had watched almost all the pre season games read the match reports seen every post match presser we had even gone to the extent of going through multiple sites and reading every piece of news and information there is to read out there fast forward to the beginning of august your head is probably full by now you ve taken in so much information you ve bookmarked so many articles your goal is to feed from them all and at this point with a little guidance from an accomplished news editor you could probably come up with a good piece for a decent website like whoscored com before you realize it it s just three days to the deadline three days can you imagine your browser history reflects the four hundred and fifty six times you ve been on the fpl website with half the number of those visits done to change your team about 10 11 transfers each time every new piece of information or opinion seems to drive you to the upper echelons of insanity and it seems you always have to make one more change to your team with every new rmt rate my team this is usually a request by a fellow fantasy manager to rate their team in which they post a list of their players and you give your opinion you seem to change your mind and it gets to a point where you agree to stick to a certain team selection you close your browser and go to sleep only for you to start all over again the next day you re nervous probably worried you ll do poorly this coming season everyone else s team looks better than yours and it goes on and on and on christ relax there is hope for you that s the good news however before we go on treat yourself to this fantastic zlatan ibrahimovic goal feeling better now good now let s take it again from the top i know some of you might be new to fpl all the non casuals please skip to the next paragraph so a fine welcome would be in order tea and biscuits will be served at the far corner thank you it s important to know your way around basically know how to use the website know how to make transfers and such all of that is covered here join a few leagues and you re ready to go after that it s important to know a few tactics to help you keep afloat something like knowing which team is having a difficult fixture and who is having an easy ride how about a handy chart from fourfourtwo to guide you on this which team has got the toughest start to the new premier league season courtesy fourfourtwo com i don t want to take all of your time by adding into the statistics you re supposed to be collecting but here s a rather good article you can read to help you through your planning perhaps you also need consolation in the fact that no one truly knows how gameweek 1 will turn out no one has a guaranteed better team than you do at the moment everything will be clearer on tuesday morning then the real battle will begin the closer the deadline the more the intensity and pressure the madness will not stop it can only get better as always we re hoping for an ever better season even better competition and a higher finishing position i wish you the best of luck in your fantasy premier league season so what s exactly the problem with borussia dortmund february 6 2015 leave a comment records are meant to be broken it s been the case since time immemorial and while most times the record breaking event comes as a shock at other times it is safe to say expected as absurd as the statement seems borussia dortmund at the moment lie at the bottom of the german bundesliga with just 15 games to go a textbook football manager challenge only that this time it is a real life club and a real life manager involved their latest loss a 1 0 reverse at home to top four club augsburg was the latest inclusion to a pile of misery that the fans have been heaped on with this season no disrespect to augsburg but if someone were to time travel to the future from the aftermath of dortmund s champions league final appearance against bayern munich a couple of seasons ago given this particular fixture our time traveller would have put his house on a crushing dortmund win this is because in their entire history borussia dortmund have never lost to augsburg never most people thought the first home game after the winter break at their 81 264 capacity ground would be marked with a change of fortunes as even evidenced by their odds to win the game but some weren t entirely convinced by the team s performance in their previous outing even though it was a somewhat creditable draw at bayer leverkusen and after 90 minutes one more record had been broken the horror anguish and devastation by the fans was clearly evident as much as it was acceptable somebody had to talk about the elephant in the room the bigger picture is quite grim after a bright start to the 2014 2015 season a 2 0 win over rivals bayern in the german super cup then following that with winning 4 out of 5 games league and cup including a 2 0 victory over arsenal they went on a poor run of collecting just 10 points in 16 league games while they are still in the champions league knockout stages and with a mathematical chance to make things better in the league one cannot help but notice that time is actually running out for them unless they go on to win it the chances of them participating in europe s elite competition next season are slim or next to zero someone might ask how did one of europe s football powerhouses with such a massive support great history and attractive brand of football find itself in such a precarious situation no one really knows that s the answer everyone can only try speculate frequent injuries to key players have certainly not helped their cause new signings have failed to match the standards of the club ciro immobile either isn t getting into the right scoring positions or isn t shooting accurately neither is aubameyang scoring enough goals for a forward of his calibre and kevin kampl was another big signing that has failed to make an impact their defending is a big book of mistakes after watching most of their leagues games one quickly notices that they don t exactly have a problem making shots but rather that they are not clinical enough this handy analysis courtesy of colin trainor of statsbomb com helps look at that area of play lately they also tend to lose possession a lot due to a tad too many misplaced passes the cohesive unit that was so effective at one point is no more further research shows that teams in the bundesliga seem to have figured out the dortmund counter attacking playing style star player marco reus hasn t seemed himself lately perhaps it s due to all the transfer talk surrounding him it certainly looks like an exit is looming as most big clubs are prepared to meet his release clause in the summer captain mats hummels has also been 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