bluegrass superliga

By: Kenneth Fletcher

To be the overall winner of this game a player must average right around 63.85 per gameweek throughout the season. Not a good start for any of us to be fair. Our highest scorer didn’t even bother to pick a team of starting players or naming it. 54 points is a respectable score for week 1 though it may be time for them to wildcard. To be fair it wasn’t the worst assembled side I saw. I’d say at least two of the league noobs picked their team by selecting the old faithful “auto-complete” button, as this is the only logical reason anyone would have for putting Dzeko in their side, as he plays for Roma.

So fear not fellow veterans, unless your name is Pat Cain, you can bet on not being so unlucky for an entire season.

Best Noob Team Assembled – Car Ramrod

I’m not naming this the best team based soley on the fact that they beat me, but the team has coverage from all the big teams and requires the least amount of surgery going forward.

Best selection: Wijnaldum

I’m just going to assume this guy is a huge PSV fan as he paired this selection with Memphis.

Worst selection Jagielka

Everton are no longer a defensive powerhouse, coupled with a very difficult opening fixture list, in addition to Jags having an overinflated goal tally last year, makes me think this was a blind cost/points selection. Easily remedied and I didn’t mind their opening fixture as a one week rental.

Worst Noob Team Assembled – Raise your hand if you have Dzeko

Best Selection – Rooney and Pelle

One of these horrendous teams at least managed to get one player right. Rooney should serve most teams well during the first 3 weeks that Aguero will try to get match fit. Rooney’s playing the lone striker role for the first time since the hair plugs. Maybe he can find the back of the net this week on his own without defensive assistance.

The other’s most expensive (and only starting striker) is Pelle. They must have read into Pelle’s previous hot starts in and out of the PL and thought lighting would strike again, as he showed his form throughout the preseason. They obviously looked 6 weeks into the fixtures and thought Pelle could easily bag 5 from 6 with the likes of Newcastle, Watford, Norwich, West Brom on the schedule. OR they thought that Graziano was actually Pele.

Worst Selections – Dzeko, Schweinsteiger, Ings, Schneiderlin, Young, and double Coleman.

Is this the result of Auto-Complete sides, or just not knowing how the game works?

Best Vet Team – Could it b MagicJack

Pat does it again, mixing flair with budget sensibility. Albrighton dropping 15 off boosted his score, but his team assembled with such balance he’s able to have Sakho come of the bench for him this week.

Best Selection – Albrighton/Worst Selection – None

Worst Vet Team – I guess myself

A lot of the vet teams behind Pat have similar makeup, which is no surprise, as they’ve all asked me my advice and I told them to get everyone they have sans LOLarov.

Best Selection – LOLarov

Sure fire week one cleanie, 3 shots on target (most for any defender), and took the lionshare of fks. With Clichy injured, he has little worry of rotation and was my top scorer of the week.

Worst Selection –Walcott (Captain)

Decided to go against the grain of our leagues apparent only Hazard/Rooney agreement and paid the ultimate price. I could have captained anyone else on my squad (sans Ivan) and survived the week.

GW 2 Matchup of the Week Prediction – Haters v Manchesthair

I’ll give the slight edge to Manchesthair this week, with his current keeper advantage, but this game will Boyle down to Haters front 3 vs United’s expensive midfield. An epic 4 differential battle, that’s usually reserved for matches post x-mas. Starting the season with 2 of your season allotment of 10 losses used up, will really hurt your bracelet chances this year gentlemen. Saddle up.

Fletchermetric Lines (Pre-Transfers)

Fletchermetic Predictions

Team of the Week – MagicJack and Poop O/U 52.5

Worst Team of the Week – Muchados O/U 43.5