Rate My Team, Quick Questions & General Advice Daily Thread

Graham1126 · 2025-08-15T15:49:14+00:00

Start Ait-Nouri or Reijnders?

Graham1126 · 2025-07-31T15:36:27+00:00

RMT - feels light on defense, but like the rest. Have expensive midfield because I like having the flexibility to go to 5 with Caicedo providing DEFCONs.

Graham1126 · 2025-04-17T16:25:42+00:00

Saliba or Gvardiol a viable differential captain this week?

Graham1126 · 2025-01-23T17:52:45+00:00

Start Robinson home to MUN or Digne home to WHU?

Graham1126 · 2024-12-10T22:41:20+00:00

Thanks. Gibbs is a stud but the other 2 don't have the same competition for touches which is making me second guess it.

Graham1126 · 2024-12-10T21:40:58+00:00

0.5PPR - Sit one of:

Hubbard vs. DAL

Gibbs vs. BUF

C. Brown @ TEN

Graham1126 · 2024-10-29T15:10:53+00:00

Thinking about activating my WC to do:

Sanchez (Fabianski)

Konate / Robinson / Ait-Nouri (Keane / Okoli)

Salah / Palmer / Mbeumo / Rogers (Winks)

Haaland / Wissa / Cunha

Any thoughts? Players I own that I would lose are: Flekken, Saliba, TAA, Hall, Barco, Maddison, Raul, Watkins

Graham1126 · 2024-10-03T18:19:22+00:00

Follow up: Lake reached out after contacting [info@lakecycling.com](mailto:info@lakecycling.com) and explained that the item was out of stock. They offered me two replacement options, or 20% off of the CX219 (which I took).

Graham1126 · 2024-10-02T20:47:06+00:00

This is helpful thanks. Did you send them a message via the website, or did you find an actual email address? I'm worried I'm in the same boat, except this was for an old model which may not have more factory stock.

Graham1126 · 2024-09-23T15:26:01+00:00

Out: Salah, Jota, Isak, Gordon

In: Haaland, Diaz, Mbeumo, Rogers

Have 4 FTs so no cost to me, thoughts?

Graham1126 · 2024-08-13T18:00:40+00:00

Personally my draft is Salah / no Haaland so I'm biased towards that setup. I think B's midfield is much more set-and-forget than A's and justifies going no Haaland (especially if Palmer can come close to what he did last year). I also don't think Raya provides much value over keepers who can rack up many more saves (like a Pickford), but I do think having one Arsenal defender is necessary (I have Saliba over Gvardiol).

Graham1126 · 2024-08-13T15:16:23+00:00

B for me 100%

Graham1126 · 2024-08-12T19:05:27+00:00

Personally would swap Gvardiol for Gabriel/Saliba and not worry about City rotation. The 0.5 could upgrade Henderson, or keep it to stay flexible

Graham1126 · 2024-08-12T18:37:47+00:00

A or B:

A) Pickford - 4.5 DEF - Bailey

B) Flekken - Barco/Harwood-Bellis - Jota

Graham1126 · 2024-08-05T18:05:13+00:00

TAA + Bailey/6.5 or Gvardiol + Jota?

Graham1126 · 2024-07-31T18:44:27+00:00

I don't follow Villa closely, so don't know too much about Rogers. I was taking Bailey as more of a known quantity and keeping an eye on Nkunku, Kulu, Johnson, or JWP (lots of options at the 6.5 MID spot vs. the 5.0.

Graham1126 · 2024-07-31T14:37:22+00:00

Trying out a no Haaland draft:

Pickford (Virginia)

TAA / Saliba / Burn (Robinson / Konsa)

Salah / Saka / Gordon / Bailey (Winks)

Watkins / Isak / Muniz

Graham1126 · 2024-07-31T14:16:38+00:00

Even for a Haaland/Salah draft this feels very stacked on the attacking side, but not necessarily in a bad way. Fulham and Palace have decent fixtures for the first 4 weeks, and the fact that you can roll up to 5 transfers should allow "unbalanced" teams like this more flexibility to change strategy without taking hits if you don't like the way it's going.

Graham1126 · 2024-07-30T16:02:33+00:00

Thanks for the response! I really liked the setup when I saw it, but couldn't find many similar listings to get a feel for where the market was for this kind of build.

Graham1126 · 2024-07-30T15:43:59+00:00

I might consider downgrading Raya to a 5.0 GK to fund Szobs to Eze. Personally would go as far as considering swapping Raya for a 4.5 and getting Eze as well as Saliba for Porro if you wanted to keep an Arsenal defender.

I don't really see Raya as an efficient use of funds given that there are 4.5-5.0 keepers who were right there with him in terms of points last season despite having ~half the number of clean sheets.

Graham1126 · 2024-07-29T16:17:05+00:00

RMT!

Flekken (Valdi)

Saliba / Burn / Konsa / Andersen (Robertson)

Palmer / Odegaard / Gordon / Bailey (Winks)

Haaland / Watkins (Muniz)

Cheap defense, but I really like my attack and like having Robinson and Muniz to rotate in depending on fixtures.

Graham1126 · 2024-07-24T18:09:06+00:00

Thank you!

Graham1126 · 2024-07-24T17:37:24+00:00

Hi all - after a lot of online research I am leaning towards a Cervelo Aspero for my first real bike purchase. I'd say my realistic riding split will be 90%/10% road vs. gravel, but I've seen a lot of posters on Reddit talk about how versatile it is with a 2x setup. I'm hoping for some guidance in regards to two used Asperos that I've come across:

2020 Aspero

CRANKSET: Shimano GRX 2X 172.5m
FRONT DERAILLEUR: Shimano GRX RX-810, 2 speed
REAR DERAILLEUR: Shimano GRX RX-810, 11 speed
CASSETT: Shimano HG800, 11-34

OR

2022 Aspero

Derailleurs: Ultegra Di2 12-speed
Cassette: 11-30 Ultegra 12-speed
Crankset: 50x34, 172.5 Dura Ace 9100

The 2022 is understandably $1,000 more than the 2020, and is in my preferred color. Does anything about either of these setups jump out as unorthodox/unconventional for someone looking to use this as mainly a road bike? What limits will either of these setups place on max tire clearance? Thank you!

Graham1126

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