MLS Fantasy Round 12

Gene

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Had a lot on my plate this week, and Fantasy completely slipped my mind.

DGW this round for Orlando and Philly.

GK: Blake

D: Steres, Coelho, Campbell

MF: Kljestan, Valeri, Piatti, Pontius

F: Villa, Larin (C), Giovinco.

I still have my 1st Wild Card, so I'm going to worry about all those teams having the bye next week.
 
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Sapong, Villa, Gio (C)
Alonso, Piatti, Fagundez, Felipe
Steres, Coelho, Sjoberg
Blake
 
I can imagine that there is a really large percentage of folks who captained Sapong on the double. Here's to hoping he rests next game :)
 
I can imagine that there is a really large percentage of folks who captained Sapong on the double. Here's to hoping he rests next game :)
Didn't go so far as captaining him, but had high hopes from adding him recently for sure.
 
Didn't go so far as captaining him, but had high hopes from adding him recently for sure.
He's a great pick with the double this week, playing next week, and another double coming up. I decided to bet against the trend which most likely will backfire :)
 
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I gave the C to Larin this round. Quite honestly because he seems to own us. His goal last night was a bonus.
 
Another week where I made my trades and set my lineup but forgot to set my captain. So it's Villa, who didn't work out last week, and you're all obligated to root for me.
 
Since we usually post our bad luck stories here's a good luck one:
  • Coming off the prior round I have to use 2 transfers on Matarrita and Jones who are off for international duty.
  • This means I can't get rid of Feilhaber who has been a dog recently, and limits any other creative moves.
  • I make my moves, set my lineup, and forget to change my captain from Villa, who had a disappointing DGW last round, to Gio.
  • Benny plays 45 minutes and gets one point.
  • My replacement for Jones is Kaka who has a DGW but gets called up himself after 6 points in Game 1.
  • My replacement for Mata gets 2 points.
  • Gio gets 1 point coming out after 21 minutes.
  • Going into the last game I'm traling my H2H with only my accidental Captain left. Same is true for my opponent, but Villa is not his captain. My error in forgetting to switch the C from Villa to Gio won my matchup.
 
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I decided to bet against trend this week and dropped Seba for the other Gio which ended up working out, having won by a point. Though I was very nervous that it would backfire. In addition to his recent rut, I saw some very interesting statistics of Seba with and without Altidore demonstrating that he performs surprisingly poorly when JA is out. I love a quirky stat nugget and couldn't resist. Too bad he got hurt though.
 
I decided to bet against trend this week and dropped Seba for the other Gio which ended up working out, having won by a point. Though I was very nervous that it would backfire. In addition to his recent rut, I saw some very interesting statistics of Seba with and without Altidore demonstrating that he performs surprisingly poorly when JA is out. I love a quirky stat nugget and couldn't resist. Too bad he got hurt though.

Didn't work out for all of us ;)
 
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I had a weird week in that in both my H2H matches my opponents and I shared 8 starters. It was going to come down to whose 3 were going to outscore the other guys 3. That's the 1st time that's ever happened to me.