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The Fantasy Premier League (FPL) deadline has passed: now attention turns to SPITCH, where you effectively have a Free Hit chip to play every week and are only judged on your best five matchdays!
So one week of accidentally forgetting to play won’t be problematic – even starting in April still gives you a chance of winning prizes.
There are two season-long options for the 2022/23 campaign, one of which is free and has a £2,500 prize pool.
SPITCH is a platform where managers can use their football knowledge to defeat others and win money prizes.
As with FPL, managers commit to a formation and have a budget to buy players for their line-up, in the quest to score points and win prizes.
But unlike FPL, managers can actually go under or over their budget – this will determine how many positive or negative points they begin the round with.
Each week of ‘Season’ mode requires a new line-up with no captains. Managers are allowed up to nine players from the same club and can alter teams mid-matchday. ‘Safety Net’ automatically replaces non-starters, whilst a sophisticated scoring system rewards defensive actions in a way that FPL does not.
These were the top-scoring players of the weekend matches.
Meanwhile, 19 players finished with a negative score, headlined by Anthony Gordon (-52), Brennan Johnson (-46) and James Milner (-30).
The selection for Matchday 1 totalled 2,635 points, which ranked at 586th. Whether this is good enough to be included in the end-of-season ‘best five’ collection remains to be seen.
Only Pedro Neto (353) ranked amongst the top scorers, despite blanking in FPL. By having three shots on target, he tallied 195 which was supplemented by eight successful tackles (+120) and 25 passes (+50).
Mohamed Salah‘s goal and assist brought in 300 of his 310, whilst Rodri (291 points) made the weekend’s third-most successful passes.
Sticking with 4-2-4, this week’s line-up includes cheap Newcastle duo Matt Targett (₵42) and Joelinton (₵56) for their Saturday trip to Brighton and Hove Albion, with ₵3 left over meaning we start on three points.
Last season’s top scorer in SPITCH was Joao Cancelo (₵175), due to taking the most shots of defenders and making the second-most successful passes. He gets the nod here against Bournemouth (H). As does forward Erling Haaland (₵280), fresh from two debut goals.
Another backed to successfully follow-up a brace is Aleksandar Mitrovic (₵80). Alongside his 320 goal points (the penalty was 120), he racked up a further 255 because of 17 successful tackles. He comes up against Wolves defender Max Kilman (₵87) at Molineux.
Darwin Nunez (₵180) and Ivan Toney (₵100) were also on the scoresheet, with the former making quite an impact after coming off Liverpool’s bench.
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FPLMarc88 Newcastle fan that spends far too much time thinking about FPL.”
It’s either a WC or Bailey > Trossard and inshallah
Waste of a transfer
Unreal fixtures and I like him
Go for it
I will have 2 x FTs and at the moment not sure I can see a move I would want to make – any ideas? I guess maybe an injury this week may impact that…
Ederson (Ward)
TAA Robertson Cancelo James Gabriel
Salah(c) Martinelli Pereira (Neto Dasilva)
Haaland Jesus (Archer)
0.5 ITB, 2FTs
Wait for the games to end bruh
Get Aaronson for one of those three cheap midfielders.
Watch the Arsenal game and depending on performances perhaps consider Gabriel to Saliba to catch price rise and free up 0.5m for future transfer
Poor Bailey owners..
Last week it was poor Darwin owners
*Kane owners
We're not poor, we'll have 4.9m to spend tomorrow
More than capable of scoring if he comes off the bench.
It's not a criticism but do FPL managers who play very template actually enjoy the game anymore. Over the season odds are you'll end up with more points but don't you miss the excitement when your 1.5% differential punt hauls or when your leftfield captain scores more than Salah/Haaland when almost everyone else has captained them?
I actually have no idea why I play anymore ?
No one does.
Shall we all make a pact to quit together?
You delete your team first? ?
Lol, maybe turning to the non-template dark side is the way!
Might try that…
Yes the game is less fun since I started focussing on OR
I wouldn't play if I constantly picked a team based on ownership, EO and protecting rank; super lame – I usually get GW ranks of 200,000 or 3m as a result, three great GWs in a row and I'm smashing everyone
Think it comes back to basic economic theory of utility.
The absolute utility of one of your picks coming off is lower than the absolute utility of seeing one of the template picks haul when you don't own them.
In the same way that if you lose £50, the magnitude of the downside feeling of losing £50 is way bigger than the magnitude of the upside feeling of finding £50. Same amount of money, but losing elicits a much stronger feeling.
What about stealing $50, where does that fit in? Apart from my pocket…
Agree. I have more admiration for a manager that has finished in the top 2,000 say a couple of times in five years and been over a million the other seasons., than someone who has been in the top 50,000 all years.
We are not here for fun, we are here to serve the template and service is its own reward.
Let's be honest. The game is gone. EO was the final nail in the coffin.
We have always known that having highly owned players scoring doesn't help as much as lowly owned. No news.
Gerrard was jizzing over Bailey in his conference ffs.
Keeping him happy
you've gotta build them up to knock them down
Poor Bailey, that's workplace harrasment
?
That seems a bit extreme….
Must've had post nut clarity after the conference
Bailey cracked under all that load!
Ahhhhhh the Hills Have Eyes, run!
Can we list the next 5.0 midflielder traps please!
You know who they are. LIterally everyone of them.
Let's go!
Boring
Can’t believe I have a grey arrow. So not 1 player in top 311 353 took a hit?
Nice humble brag. Very subtle…
1.5 million drop for me before a ball is kicked.
The cost of a -8
Cant believe Im only 365 ranked in HOF
The thing with the five subs is that any attacker on the bench is 80% likely to play now, usually for ten minutes and one point.
Not sure how you address that when picking.
Increased budget & manual subs would have sorted this out
Choose nailed players or accept the volatility.
WC activated
Every single one of my players at home today. A sure-fire recipe for massive expectations and equally massive disappointment….
Bailey to 4.5 Neco to many viable 4.5 defenders now we have more info… sorted
Right now managers are upset a 5.0m mid isnt playing. By the end of the weekend they will be upset that they didnt triple cap salah.
Crazy aint it
Did you triple captain Salah?
Link or it didn't happen.
Relevance? Me captaining Salah wont take away your pain
He can't troll if he links his team
Lol
But can Lampard and Gerrard manage in the same match?
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https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2022/08/13/aston-villa-v-everton-team-news-bailey-out-watkins-in/
*gives a sugar cube*
Gnom gnom
Watkins and Anthony over 1.5 SOT 20/1
Was too good to turn down
Bailey to KDH & Neto to fornals any good?
Bailey, Jamaican and used to the heat. Will only need 15 minutes for a brace against the exhausted brits in Everton defence.
Nice theory about being used to the heat but he’s been in Europe since the age of 13
Every year people pick Digne. When can we all consign him to the troll heap and be done with him?
There is absolutely no way Maguire should ne starting for England. Way too clumsy and reckless with his body, not enough pace, agility or skill with the ball.
I said it in one of the pages before, there’s no way United will transition successfully with that line-up.
Ward
TAA Cancelo Zinch Trip
Salah Diaz Mount Mart
Haaland Jesus
(Iverson/Neco/Andreas/Archer)
2FT 0.0ITB
What do? Only pressing issues are GKs and Trip's tough fixtures, keeping Mount for a couple more GWs as fixtures look nice.
A) Trip > Cucu
B) Trip > Mee + 0.5 (Opens up Iverson > Sanchez next week)
C) Something Else?
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