HFBoards' 2017 Fantasy Football Draft Discussion Thread II

[Pavel Buchnevich]

I feel like a traitor for taking all these Schalke players, but I also don't want to pass up on good players.

 

[YNWA14]

I'm definitely down for specialized drafts. Also very happy with my team.

Mertens
Promes - Firmino - Robben
Strootman - Kante
Emerson - Koulibaly - Martinez - Meunier
de Gea

Dzeko
Wijnaldum - Demirbay - Kluivert
Xhaka - Ceballos
Augustinsson - Kimpembe - de Vrij - Passlack
Didillon​

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Didn't we agree on some type of judging for this draft? I feel like this was discussed on one of the early pages.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

-------------Ronaldo------Dolberg----------------
Eriksen--------------------------------------Pulisic
--------Gagliardini--------Goretzka--------------
Rose--------Godin------Ramos----------Henrichs

-------------------Buerki--------------------------


Bench:

Fahrmann: GK
Caldara:CB
Klostermann: RB/LB/CB
Davies: DM/CM
Kagawa: CAM/CM
Gnabry: LW/RW/CF
Stindl: SS/CAM/CF

Reserves:

Plizzari: GK
Kehrer: CB/LB/CDM
McKennie: DM/CM
Vazquez: LW/RW

 

[Ajacied]

Still can't believe I ended up with this squad during the previous 14 team deep draft:

-------- Diego Costa ------
Hazard ----------- Robben
----------- Eriksen -----------
---- Pogba -- Dembele ----
Rose ------------------ Lahm
---- Kompany - Ramos ----
----------- De Gea ---------

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

-------------------Kane--------------------
-Hazard------------------- Dembele-
-----------Sanson-Hererra-----------
------------------Pereira------------------
Alonso-Umtiti-Sokratis-Walker
-------------------Lloris--------------------

Subs: Asenjo, M. Fernandes, Cahill, Perrin, Bernat, Mascherano, Kondogbia, Bonaventura, Suso, Carrasco, Modeste.

Mascherano and Pereira are solid enough to be a part of a back three, so deploying this as a 3-4-2-1 would be no issue either.

 

[YNWA14]

I'm pretty keen on there being a rosters/judging topic, with maybe some tactical explanation for the clubs.

 

[Savant]

I'm pretty keen on there being a rosters/judging topic, with maybe some tactical explanation for the clubs.

Cgf basically explained my tactics for me on page 2

 

[cgf]

Looking at Magic Bean's squad I'm not sure if a 4-2-3-1, a 4-3-1-2, or a 3-4-1-2 is your best bet. Feels like you're missing a different piece for each shape.

 

[Yoshidas Island]

Looking at Magic Bean's squad I'm not sure if a 4-2-3-1, a 4-3-1-2, or a 3-4-1-2 is your best bet. Feels like you're missing a different piece for each shape.

My plan was 4312

What piece do you think is missing?

 

[cgf]

My plan was 4312

What piece do you think is missing?

I'm not enamored with Romeu or your other options for the 6 behind Dembele and Ninja.

 

[Yoshidas Island]

I'm not enamored with Romeu or your other options for the 6 behind Dembele and Ninja.

From my POV, Romeu (very biased), N'Zonzi, or Gonalons were capable of playing deeper in the midfield.
Mind you I'm not the most knowledgeable when it comes to these type of things... So I may be wrong in my assessment.

 

[cgf]

No they can play there; I'm just not a big fan of any of those players.

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

No they can play there; I'm just not a big fan of any of those players.

All three would be a solid sub option, but they are definitely a serious weak link in an XI.

 

[cgf]

All three would be a solid sub option, but they are definitely a serious weak link in an XI.

Basically. I know some will feel this way about Zielinski or Soyuncu/Musacchio in my lineups; but with those kids I thinks it's just a question of exposure at the top level, whereas with Romeu n co. I just don't think they have that caliber of talent...at a position that I view as hugely important unless you have WC 8s; and though dembele and ninja are high quality, Modric-Kroos they ain't.

 

[YNWA14]

I think N'Zonzi is quite good; he's probably just as good as Dembele.

 

[Yoshidas Island]

Basically. I know some will feel this way about Zielinski or Soyuncu/Musacchio in my lineups; but with those kids I thinks it's just a question of exposure at the top level, whereas with Romeu n co. I just don't think they have that caliber of talent...at a position that I view as hugely important unless you have WC 8s; and though dembele and ninja are high quality, Modric-Kroos they ain't.

N'Zonzi just had (from the limited time I've seen of him + the reports) a solid year.

And for Romeu... Maybe when it comes to Europe he'll get exposed, but at the England level, I feel like he could be in the Top 5 discussion for the DM position.
Don't forget he's only 25, there's still room to grow. He was definitely Southampton's best player this year (save Van Dijk), and he has improved a lot compared to last year. He also would have had more clean sheets if it wasn't for Forster's dreadful year.

And just as a cheeky side note...
There were some links of Romeu back to Barcelona this offseason. (Not saying the reports were true but that's quite an impressive link if you ask me)

I think N'Zonzi is quite good; he's probably just as good as Dembele.

My plan would be to start him, and the Oriol Romeu as the main sub.

Gonalons was just a depth piece.

 

[YNWA14]

Can't think of any reason to start Dolberg over Stindl (or Gnabry).

Too bad we can't get some more participation out of the end of this.

 

[cgf]

I'm surprised Darida didn't get picked.

Anyway what's the plan now? Should we set up a poll to rank the teams? After that we could either just end it; or we could split the teams up into different groups based on those rankings before running a poll-competition?...if we don't wanna get some judges involved...

 

[YNWA14]

I think a few people had volunteered to judge, but not sure. I'm down with whatever.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Vitolo to Atleti is done. Will be on loan to las palmas, until January.

Even with the ban, Atleti have had a better window than Barca. Lol

 

[cgf]

I think a few people had volunteered to judge, but not sure. I'm down with whatever.

I'm pretty easy myself; but it would be fun to do something a little more intricate with these squads. As the versatility to tweak my lineup based on the opposition was a big part of my squad building philosophy; so getting to play through the tweaks I'd make in those hypothetical matchups would be fun to do before work gets crazy again...and I start actually acting like I'm single again

 

[YNWA14]

Well part of the problem is that people aren't even taking the time to post their full squads in the squad thread. There doesn't seem to be a lot of interest post-draft; I wouldn't mind seeing who would be interested in doing like a 'voting tournament' if we can get like at least 8 of the teams that were drafted to be interested.

Random draw of these 8 teams, post line-ups and tactics for each specific match-up and have votes maybe of the other 6 members with a brief write-up or something, with an 'impartial' 7th member to judge (such as Plato or something).

 

[Live in the Now]

I posted my squad in this thread and did a write-up, as well as manage the whole draft thread for one month with help from only one other person. No reason to post it twice.

On top of that, I'm burned out after updating the draft board each time there was a trade or pick.

 

[Savant]

What is we do a league specific and the teams that we draft go into a fantasy league somehow?