MLS Fantasy Week: 6

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Or is it Week 7? o_O

Anyway, just a reminder that the 1st game of this round starts Wednesday, so address your lineups accordingly.

It's going to be interesting in that 6 teams are on a DGW (NJ, Colorado, Dallas, Portland, San Jose and SKC), so there's a lot of opportunity to pour on the points.

It's looks like it could be a double edged sword for me. When I make my moves, I'm going to have 7 or perhaps even 8 players on my roster involved in DGW matches. I could be walking away with a lot of points this week. On the other side of the coin a lot of those players are going head to head, so they just may end up feeding off each other.

Not sure exactly what moves I'm making yet. One is definitely saying goodbye to Zach Loyd. Once again he never got off the bench and cost me points. Looks like I'm going to swap him out for Coelho (SKC).

I'd like to get Mauro Diaz (FC Dallas) back in my lineup, but I'm not sure of his status. If he's a no go, I'm not sure what I'll do. Feilhaber? Swap Villa for Adi? Make a GK swap?

What say you?
 
I have 5 DGW players lined up before my moves, but one is Mustivar, whose injury was announced by the club late Thursday, reported in local papers Friday morning, but not reported by MLS until Saturday, after I added him to my team on Friday afternoon. Somehow I still had a very nice score last week. But now I have to waste a move switching him for someone healthy, and I'll have 6 DGW players at most coming up.

It's looks like it could be a double edged sword for me. When I make my moves, I'm going to have 7 or perhaps even 8 players on my roster involved in DGW matches. I could be walking away with a lot of points this week. On the other side of the coin a lot of those players are going head to head, so they just may end up feeding off each other.
That's unavoidable usually if you play for DGWs. And it matters less than you would think, even if your goalie is going against your top offensive threats.
 
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That's unavoidable usually if you play for DGWs. And it matters less than you would think, even if your goalie is going against your top offensive threats.

I pretty much came to the same conclusion while fooling around on the web site.

Definitely dumping Loyd. If I can't get any good vibes on Diaz, I'll probably swap out Ousted for Melia.
 
After a disastrous start, I struggled and got the points up a bit. Still, I pulled out the wild card this week and made major changes, rolling over 9 players. I figured it was a good time to judge who is performing well for a cheaper price - plus I get the benefit of a DGW.

I now have 8 DGWs this week - all except for Kaka, Villa and Gio. I added Valeri, who has been solid and is playing two. I also switched out a lot of the bench to add some cheap players who at least see the pitch and can provide cover for a last minute injury.
 
I think I've given up at this point lol
Well, never having done a fantasy league of any sort before I got something like 86 points in week 1 and said, "hey, this is easier than I though." This week I got 20 points. Yup, more or less how I expected I'd do.
 
I think I've given up at this point lol

Should have joined the H2H league. There's a lot more opportunity to advance in the standings by stringing a few good weeks (and wins) together.

Maybe we can open up a 2nd (and free) H2H league if there's interest as a 2nd division to our current H2H and institute promotion and relegation for next season. I did this last year and it worked great.
 
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Should have joined the H2H league. There's a lot more opportunity to advance in the standings by stringing a few good weeks (and wins) together.

Maybe we can open up a 2nd (and free) H2H league if there's interest as a 2nd division to our current H2H and institute promotion and relegation for next season. I did this last year and it worked great.
Relegating me already?
 
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id do that

Glad there's interest. We would need at least 8 to make it work. 10-12 is ideal. I'd also have both leagues compete in the mid-season cup format competition (not sure how that would work if you're not paying and others did, maybe lower division can't win money prize in the cup).

Would require one of you to start the league and share screenshots of the standings & scores with me (or post on your own), so we can track all the standings here on the forum. Otherwise, I have to be in both leagues and that would skew things. Any volunteers?

EDIT: And I think I worked it out with HoO on Sunday to set up a Champions League next season for highest finishers in the top division. Hopefully we can incorporate other leagues too.
 
Should have joined the H2H league. There's a lot more opportunity to advance in the standings by stringing a few good weeks (and wins) together.

Maybe we can open up a 2nd (and free) H2H league if there's interest as a 2nd division to our current H2H and institute promotion and relegation for next season. I did this last year and it worked great.
So would this use the same team I have in the "general" league or would it be an entirely separate team?
 
So would this use the same team I have in the "general" league or would it be an entirely separate team?

Same team. The same score would also count to the H2H league. And I would manually track the weekly scores and matchups for the Cup Competition.
 
Anyone see any update on Mauro Diaz?
 
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Used my wildcard this week. Bolstered my bench. Got rid of some injured players. Dropped Villa. Still have $2.1M in the bank.
 
Used my wildcard this week. Bolstered my bench. Got rid of some injured players. Dropped Villa. Still have $2.1M in the bank.
Cool. Villa's scoring a hat trick against Columbus. Guaranteed.
 
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Cool. Villa's scoring a hat trick against Columbus. Guaranteed.
That's a double guarantee. I dropped him too.

Just saw the site is up and running so I made my transfers and set my lineup for the week:

G = Ousted

D = Steres, Hedges, Dia, Wynne

M = Valeri, Castillo, Grella, Piatti

F = Dwyer (C), Giovinco.