The Numbers Game – 2015/16 Review – Crystal Palace

prices today i reckon

Last year it opened 30 days before the season started. With that logic it might open on Thursday.

Spill the beans TM, tell us what you know...

I want to tinker.

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There will be a big site update before the season starts to address a lot of issues.

How are these predictions still a thing?

A couple of transfers gets rid. 10 is probably the max unless you have a great start.

Might be 3 wildcards this year!

Wildcard as soon as you need to I guess, Ville took only 3 weeks or so to use it last year.

Thanks for your advice guys (L)

Porridge with Soy milk for a healthy and balanced diet! 🙂

Need to see the rest of your team really.

8/10

B

A. Blueberry pancakes with Nutella is amazing

Heart says A
Head says B

Thats a shame after you put the effort in. Would you liek any ideas for the future. I like cooking

Yes I do 12 hour shifts

I do 8 hour shifts with a 1 hour break...seems too little

I think that's when the shift starts

No launch was ever done at 4 a.m. before. I am starting to think today, 12 July, is highly unlikely. Realistically, Wednesday, 13 July I'd say that's when they are aiming - either that or there have been multiple delays.

I still can't believe it's not butter

As a Chelsea fan, it's got to be his solo goal v Man U. Absolutely rinsed them.

"YOU CAN START THE PARTY NOW! BECAUSE THIS IS GENIUS!"

Gotta be that chest volley for England

When you mentioned Joe Cole I straight away recall that praise/compliment from Hernan Crespo..

http://www.rediff.com/sports/2005/nov/13eng.htm

That guy must be blinded..

No butter?

It is amazing how much some teams are able to pay players right now

Can't blame him. He's thinking long-term financially for himself and his family.

Hey Cheese, how are you? Long time.

o/

Nobody has mentioned it yet.

How's tricks?

what game? 😉

Makes sense that it would start around 9am when us UK folk tend to start work

Maybe you've pulled

Always remember though, fixtures can bring about form!

There needs to be something to back up the recent goal(s).

For example, Mahrez and Vardy looked to be very good prospects in 2014/15 but Pearson played neither of them regularly. Mahrez had also been very good in pre-season. Once it became clear that they were 1st choice players for Ranieri they became great value picks.

Another example is underlying stats - shots on target, chances created and so on. You can often get a read from those whether a player's performances over a game or two are a flash in the pan or something more likely to sustain.

A third example is the player who has just arrived in the PL from abroad. Payet had a great record at Marseille but that doesn't always transfer to PL success (Cabella). Once he showed himself to be suited to the PL then he became great value at 7.5m. But he could equally well have done a Depay.

That's too many IMO. Try keeping it to a a max of 50

A little high IMO but I always look at the points gained over 3 matches in terms of who I took out. Injury and selection an a player not usually consigned to my bench influences hit choices. Then again I am impulsive and wasted a few tfrs by looking at DGW's or my mini league position.

I took around 36 points in hits. Hoping to reduce that this season.

WAY to high, and I'm terrible for overdoing my transfers.

I'm gonna try and keep it well below 50

47 for me..and 45 the previous season.

Made 40 transfers last year.

dont get me wrong it has paid off before now got more points for the player i took a hit on than the player i would have left in but it has also massively backfired getting less points than the hit i will make a note next season to see if it was worth it overall

Also while accessing the site in mobile, we have an option to view the hot topics not just from the home page but from any article...maybe we have this option right now, couldn't figure it out

I'm with you on the season ticker thing, also on the iPhone if you click anywhere below it slides the dates across. Really frustrating. Much prefer when it was on the main page too.

HI mate!

Good luck for the new season yourself.

Canny wait to get tinkering....

You're right, Fitzy - certainly not as user friendly as before. The drag functionality is infinitely better than selecting a team and then clicking on the arrow to move one place up or down.

Don't like it at all either.

Why you would change something from a simple drag system to making you click 60 times moving the cursor a little bit each time I have no idea just to put 5 teams in the order you want. Then having to do it another 60 times to try something different makes no sense to me. It may be optimised to mobile fine but we have a separate mobile site so surely the main site could still have the drag system and everyone could be happy.

Was thinking xactly the same. Good luck to you too and happy waiting 🙂

Everton look a good shout this year under Koeman esp their defenders.

Whammers and Palace look like they will go well.

SWN and STH could be anything but I fancy they might struggle.

I'll be interested to see how STK shape up with the view to using Butland as my gk.

Of the new teams, Middlesborough look good for defenders when at home. Have a great season! 🙂

WBA a good example of a solid defensive team that conceded fewer goals away than at home.
http://www.soccerstats.com/homeaway.asp?league=england

That link gives a rough indication, and goes back several seasons

If you are looking at defenders, the main thing is that the long-term average is 3 home clean sheets to 2 away clean sheets.

Over the last 3 seasons the ratio has been creeping closer but only by a little.

As TL says, there is divergence with different teams in any one season. But even that tends to even itself out over a longer timespan.

Statistically a home clean sheet is at least 40% more likely than an away one before taking fixture difficulty into account.

He deserves to play in BPL.

One badly controlled turn and shot has done wonders for his career. 🙂

How can I bring them back lol ? .. Wish I could do that in real life !

* Ctrl-R it is

As much as it was innovative I am not sure the chips thing worked. It distorted league positions right up to the last GW and if one is looking for money in mini leagues I think it was an added headache. I expect something to change there.

The number of players being active for longer increased last season due to the chips so maybe they'll add one or two more? I wouldn't be surprised if they changed the second WC back to January only though as I don't think they anticipated the advantage serious players would have by combining it with DGW and other chips.

If they've been listening to us then they'll have ditched the AOA chip. I'm expecting one or two more chips, but I hope they don't introduce multiple captain changes within a given week. My own captaincy choices were truly dreadful last year, but that was my fault.

I like the chips. Didn't necessarily make things easier but it gives us a chance to make points in the second half of the season where ranks change slowly.

I wouldn't like manual subs. That would kill the challenge.

I'm not sure we're going to see many changes. Think the majority liked the chips, except for maybe AoA - wildcard change worked out okay too.

Some good points. The changes I would really like to see are ones I know won't happen. I do have a problem with the current bonus point distribution. I don't think things already rewarded (goals, assist etc.) should be included in the bonus scoring. Plus I don't think bonus points should be limited to 3 players per game (as standard). I'd prefer a bonus point system more like the Sky game.

Or maybe he doesn't know for sure yet 🙂