MLS Fantasy: Round 20
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It is best to wait late before the round starts, but I have such little patience and self-control, I end up making my transfers as soon as they open on Monday morning.
I'm rocking:
Seitz
Zimmerman - Sjoberg - Steres
Harrison - Piatti - Diaz - Azira
Villa - Giovinco - Adi
This week I did get myself into trouble by making my transfers too early and not paying attention to yellow card accumulation, as I know have Alonso ($9.2) sitting on my bench.
Last year I started out doing it as soon as the transfer window opened every Monday, but got burned enough I began waiting. Then I missed a couple of weeks here and there because I forgot and missed the deadline. So far this year I've managed to wait until day of at least and haven't missed one yet, although you can still get burned by missing very late announcements. That's separate from the secret knocks that are not public until lineups are released and all the fantasy players are left in agony. BTW I found it helps to play with the transfer page on Monday and make notes of what you plan to do to get it out of your system. Then on deadline day if nothing changed you just need to implement, and if it has changed you get the benefit of waiting.
My line up:
Seitz
Zimmerman, Sjoberg, Morrow
Diaz, Piatti, Valeri, Kljestan, Harrison
Villa, Giovinco (C)
I also had Alonso in my starting line up, but I transferred him out........couldn't resist bringing in Jack.
I also have it set up that Campbell will be the 1st guy auto-subbed in. I just read an article somewhere stating Dallas just might sit Diaz out this week.
Seitz
Zimmerman, Sjoberg, Morrow
Diaz, Piatti, Valeri, Kljestan, Harrison
Villa, Giovinco (C)
I also had Alonso in my starting line up, but I transferred him out........couldn't resist bringing in Jack.
I also have it set up that Campbell will be the 1st guy auto-subbed in. I just read an article somewhere stating Dallas just might sit Diaz out this week.
I have been making the transfers monday because the EPL fantasy gives you a benefit for being an early mover, but it seems that MLS fantasy moves the prices of players before they unlock transfers for the week and then they stay steady all week. Seems like there is absolutely zero benefit from early transfers.
That's actually not true about the EPL. The prices fluctuate constantly depending on transfers in/out. The only way you may benefit, and it's a risk depending on the players performance that week & possible injuries, is to transfer immediately after the window is locked for games and before the games are played. You have the chance to "trade" before the market adjusts per the games' results and the imminent bandwagon pickups.
To further this point, on the fluctuation, for the week that you use the Wildcard to make unlimited transfers, you have the opportunity to be a commodities broker all week by transferring in/out players as their prices rise/fall with other member picking them up or jettisoning them. Again, big risk if prices either don't move or move too much and you're stuck with players you weren't intending to end up with.
Edit - just to be clear, my posts were focused on the EPL fantasy league that Rimil mentioned. Not the MLS league.
uh, yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking. If you buy early in EPL you will benefit from the week's move, where as in the MLS the move is determined before the transfers are unlocked (as far as i've noticed, i could be wrong). You won't benefit from going early in mls where as you may in EPL. So in EPL you can see the transfers in/out and if you join the wave you may gain/avoid losing cash.
The way I understand the EPL, depending on how many transfers the player will raise .1 or fall .1, but that is the max it will move in a day. The max a player can move in a week is .3 up or down. So if aguero isn't owned and then monday everyone in the game buys ageuro, he goes up .1 and doesn't move the rest of the week cause no one left will be able to buy him. But if say monday 1/4 of the league buy aguero he moves up .1, if 1/4 buy tuesday he goes up another .1 and the same if 1/4 buy on wednesday. But if on thursday the last 1/4 buy him he won't go up anymore. and then friday he twists his ankle in practice and is rules out, everyone sells and he only drops .1. So poping your wildcard will let you transfer your entire team to try and get every slot to pop $0.1 but intraday trading doesnt matter because it only counts if you hold it over the server resets.
I played EPL fantasy all of last season and never realized the price movements were different from MLS and based on transfers and not some obscure scoring formula. There are other rule differences I know of but I missed that one. To be fair, I put more effort into my MLS fantasy but I'm still shocked I never noticed. Thanks for going a bit OT in the MLS thread to school me about some PL stuff.
I probably should keep this competitive advantage to myself, but there are numerous websites out there that do a very good job of forecasting FPL price changes. My favorite is: http://www.fplstatistics.co.uk/
