I can afford Max/FER/RB... but going to hold off 1 more race at least. I think you can build more budget using a Sainz or Leclerc with Stroll, might be worth scraficing a few points to more budget in the long term. It is tempting to switch to Max though
Exactly this. I posted above also. LEC STR FER RED will get a lot of value. STR should climb up in value considerably until he reaches $15m because he is banded with all the budget drivers when it comes to price changes.
You certainly could. But -10s are not absolute must use for wildcard. I think there may be another template shift later in the season (think McLaren upgrades) that would be more valuable to use
I am able to bring up Max Verstappen without a -10 as I have 3 free transfers. My current team is the same as you do, but I have 105.5M of budget. I was thinking to wait one more week with a no Verstappen build, even maybe “downgrading” my Leclerc for Sainz (in hopes of a bigger price change) and having this build: Sainz (or Leclerc) X2, Stroll, KMgag, Tsunoda, Hulk, Ferrari, Red Bull But at the same time, it is very tempting to go with Max as he is the best X2 That lineup would look like this: Max X2, KMag, Albon, Sargent, Bottas, Ferrari, Red Bull Would you prioritize a possibly bigger price change before going for the Verstappen build for the sprint, or go right away with the Max build? As always thanks for the videos, and hopefully the overtakes situation is solved as soon as possible, as it is very annoying as a fantasy player.
Opinion on having McLaren for Japan (alongside Max and Ferrari)? I really think this will be one of, if not their strongest track all year due to the abundance of high speed corners. If I go this route I will likely look to swap them out after this race in favour of more red bull/Ferrari picks.
Thanks as always Rob and yes lets hope they get their act together next weekend on the calculations. The somewhat perfunctory answer they sent you didn't fill be with hope. Let's see though. With all the chatter of maybe waiting one more week to build more budget before you take on Max again. I'm just not sure it's worth the risk even though a lot of folk seem to think they will be safe in waiting, but maybe that information from fantasy tools will help. I just don't want to miss the boat. i think you made that point pretty well. 👊🏻
Cheers Mike! I think the acknowledgment from them was encouraging, but hopefully we see more tangible changes soon! I’m definitely hoping budget building, based on the fantasy tools news, rewards those that can’t get to max immediately. Will have to break those prices down a little bit more
I feel like bringing in Max isn’t going to be contributing as much as the Ferrari’s reducing the risk with the cheap line up and going for value add is probably a better play
I felt your pain, Rob ... that was an infuriating wait for the final results. Interesting that they didn't seem to give a reason for the huge delay. I ran exactly the same team as you and the $3M+ budget increase has put me into the exclusive RBR+FER+MAX club (along with a whole bunch of other people at this point it seems!). You must be gutted to be just $0.2M short ... bad luck, mate. I'm hoping that last race was a minor blip in Max's results. I'm currently sitting at #24 in your league and looking to crack the top 20! 😁
Thanks Glenn! A great weekend for us both. I’m not too disappointed if I can’t get to Max right now, I think there is a lot of opportunity to continue to build budget with assets like Ferrari, stroll and haas
Now we have a clear picture on how price changes work we know even if Max wins in Japan he will only go up .2M. I’m thinking of holding off on buying him for one more week in the hope the rest of my team’s budget increases so for China i can have a better line up alongside Max than both Williams and both Kick drivers...
I'm definitely leaning one more race of budget building even though I can afford Max/RB/FER. Also trying to roll a transfer into China. That being said, do you replace Albon or Zhou (Zhou has Albon beat in the last two races in Japan), and who do you replace them with? Even though Haas has looked better is Yuki the better bet in his home race? I have the same team as you but with Sainz.
F1 fantasy does take a long time to update, but it is not far off the mark with MotoGP (which offers a far superior fantasy experience, in my opinion). Thanks for the video.
I am (apparently similar) to many others, unsure if I should switch to the Max team immediately, or stick with LEC/SAI + STR to try to build more Budget still. What would you do Rob?
I think that if the Ferrari upgrades for Suzuka look good, I could move from PER to LEC/SAI as my 2x Drs driver, keeping RED - FER of course. I think the 1M increases from LEC/SAI and the 0.5M increases from MAG/HUL should be good for big budget gains. Then in Miami, I will bring in VER with something like MAG - HUL - ALB - ZHO as my other drivers. That said, if the Red Bulls are the heavy favourites in practice, I will keep PER, roll a transfer, and likely move to VER with those junky budget drivers for the upcoming sprints.
On one of my teams I can afford the Verstappen Red Bull Ferrari so I’ve gone for that with a wildcard, on my main team I really messed up by going Aston Mercedes in Saudi after Mercedes Ferrari in Bahrain, then Aston Ferrari in Australia with Max DRS a constant, points aren’t great now and I can’t afford Max Red Bull and Ferrari on my main team, but it does open me up to a Mclaren Ferrari build with stronger secondary drivers vs the Red Bull Ferrari teams, and with Perez already looking weak it could be a blessing in disguise imo
Currently i have the budget for Redbull, Ferrari, Max, Hulk, K Mag, Logan and Bottas. I think though that there is more value with Redbull, Ferrari, Leclerc, Stroll, Hulk, K mag, Yuki. It's Yuki's home race, his form has been good. I don't think Logan and Bottas will do well - they might lose me points which Max cannot make up for. And in any case I can always change to max in shanghai
I am in the exact same situation as you. I think I might go with the Leclerc build, but I am even considering going with Sainz instead of him, as I have 3 free transfers, and I think Sainz can have a bigger price increase.
What is your opinion on My Team [Ferrari,Aston Martin| Leclerc, sainz, Hulkenburg, magnussen, Ocon]. I was thinking of changing One Ferrari driver for a mclaren driver but Ferrari Performens is really good and i dont Like that i have to haas drivers whats your opinion? My Budget is 101.8 PS. i have a league with a friend of mine and we have One rule: no redbull
@@f1fantasyhub i can do do [Ferrari, mc laren| ocon hulkenberg, magnussen, stroll and Leclerc or sainz wich One should i choose] and do you think Double haas is ok or should i try to change that too
Look I mean I totally understand that having a long wait for points and ur right. If you are a huge company like F1 you should have stuff done in a timely manner but I mean I can’t see this destroying the player base especially when more often than not the next race is 2 weeks away giving plenty of strategy time in between. Even with races the next week this is fine. Again I totally agree it can be aggravating to wait so so long and I definitely try and keep refreshing my browser for updated stats on the site. However I just don’t see that issue changing the player base super drastically.
It is frustrating though, that most other fantasy sports only need a couple of hours to do this, yet F1 take more time to update their score than a Sauber pit stop. I've seen a lot of players in the community in the last couple of years leave the game over less, so I wouldn't be surprised if this drives away others next season if not fixed
@@f1fantasyhub lmaoooo I guess that’s fair I’m sure there are people leaving because of it but hey more places to gain for me lol. NFL fantasy has been out for a while and I remember doing it very early and the app we used had a ton of problems but of course there are so many of them. I’m sure F1 will fix that issue especially publicly acknowledging it. Hopes are high.
Pit stops are tricky. A driver can gain/ lose position while neither being passed nor pass. Not sure about official point results delay grumbling, setting your team until last hours to lockout negates any rush. Imagine Yuki starts P20, gains P10 on track, has horrible Pitstop, renters P20, and finishes P10. Calculating that without access to the sector timers, could be tedious.
I have settled on going budget builder mode for now. I think my best team for next week is probably RBR FER LEC STR MAG HUL TSU with BOT SAR turning into HUL TSU. With Haas clearly being good, and Tsunoda gradually improving plus home race. Switching LEC out to PER or SAI would be a decision I could also make depending on practice data but I hope I don’t have to do it. The next 3 races will be about building budget to have the most dominant team from Imola onwards.
Yeah definitely agree Leaps. Once the upgrades come in for the euro races and we have enough budget, I think it will separate those that have higher team values and can afford more premium assets. These next few races will be key
Actualy im 2'7 mill away from max red bull and ferrari (wild idea incoming) would you think it could be wortb to sack red bull constructor, and with that money get hass constructor(they have been increasing their price each race but idk when are teams doing upgrades) and with the extra money get sainz and max as premium drivers and to fill both hass drivers and sunoda. I know it is a huge gamble but i need to get 2 mil before the sprint race or ill get insanely behind and with 2 premium drivers and (idk where i did read thid) ferrari shiping an upgrade for this race may not get too behind on points What are you thoughts???
Great video again. I'm able to get Ver, Red Bull, Ferrari & the 4 lowest budget drivers w/.9 budget left, so some room to pick different budget drivers or go with Sainz & Alonso or Russell with Red bull & Ferrari. If Ver wins do we think he'll get his .7 ++ back? I'm still focused on increasing budget.
@@mususonytv just saw on Twitter that the budget increase formula was cracked, which I think makes Max less desirable considering we are very early in the season
My current line up is RED + FER + LEC + STR + OCON + ALB + ZHOU. I am torn between using only one transfer to change OCON/ALB for K-MAG (then I have three transfers for the next sprint and a possible big budget increase) and using my wildcard to change my team to RED + FER + VER + K-MAG + HULK + BOT + SAR so i can be ahead of the rest in the Max + Fer + Red Bull combo (my cost cap right now is 105.8M). What would you do?
ZHO to HUL is the move I would say. You don’t want KCK drivers with their pit stops. Wildcard to be used when you can afford MAX FER RED + another Tier 2 driver ($15m - $24.9m).
Given the info we now have about price changes, tiers & thresholds, LEC/PER/SAI + RED + FER + STR (until he is $15m) is an absolute lock. The only thing we need to decide upon is the remaining tier 3 assets. You could simply pick HAA/VRB to make up the rest, which is probably the meta. AVOID KCK. WIL are kind of whatever - ALB might do well. ALP need upgrades, but GAS will be great when they get them.
Assuming you’re talking about the recent news what was announced by F1 Fantasy Tools. I am inclined to agree, but I need to review the analysis in more detail and will aim to include in my video next week
@@f1fantasyhub I am indeed. At this stage of the season it’s very much about maximising value to get ahead of the pack. The way FER are going, you simply need the RED FER double up. I then think it’s worth gaining value for a strong second driver before committing to Max.
My team is going to get -30 points with these changes, but here they are and I’d like to know your thoughts, Constructors: Ferrari and Red Bull Drivers: Max, Nico, Valtteri, Logan, and Alex
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I can afford Max/FER/RB... but going to hold off 1 more race at least. I think you can build more budget using a Sainz or Leclerc with Stroll, might be worth scraficing a few points to more budget in the long term. It is tempting to switch to Max though
Exactly this. I posted above also. LEC STR FER RED will get a lot of value. STR should climb up in value considerably until he reaches $15m because he is banded with all the budget drivers when it comes to price changes.
Great video, as always!
Why aren't you proposing people use wildcard and therefore not have to take a -10?
You certainly could. But -10s are not absolute must use for wildcard. I think there may be another template shift later in the season (think McLaren upgrades) that would be more valuable to use
Am in that boat that can get Verstappen/RB/Ferrari and -10. Debating to do it…
I am able to bring up Max Verstappen without a -10 as I have 3 free transfers. My current team is the same as you do, but I have 105.5M of budget. I was thinking to wait one more week with a no Verstappen build, even maybe “downgrading” my Leclerc for Sainz (in hopes of a bigger price change) and having this build:
Sainz (or Leclerc) X2, Stroll, KMgag, Tsunoda, Hulk, Ferrari, Red Bull
But at the same time, it is very tempting to go with Max as he is the best X2
That lineup would look like this:
Max X2, KMag, Albon, Sargent, Bottas, Ferrari, Red Bull
Would you prioritize a possibly bigger price change before going for the Verstappen build for the sprint, or go right away with the Max build?
As always thanks for the videos, and hopefully the overtakes situation is solved as soon as possible, as it is very annoying as a fantasy player.
Leclerc and Sainz will go up the same if they have a similar result - I will cover that in my video going out this weekend
Opinion on having McLaren for Japan (alongside Max and Ferrari)? I really think this will be one of, if not their strongest track all year due to the abundance of high speed corners. If I go this route I will likely look to swap them out after this race in favour of more red bull/Ferrari picks.
McLaren could be a pick for sure, but will see how they go in practice!
Thanks as always Rob and yes lets hope they get their act together next weekend on the calculations. The somewhat perfunctory answer they sent you didn't fill be with hope. Let's see though. With all the chatter of maybe waiting one more week to build more budget before you take on Max again. I'm just not sure it's worth the risk even though a lot of folk seem to think they will be safe in waiting, but maybe that information from fantasy tools will help. I just don't want to miss the boat. i think you made that point pretty well. 👊🏻
Cheers Mike! I think the acknowledgment from them was encouraging, but hopefully we see more tangible changes soon! I’m definitely hoping budget building, based on the fantasy tools news, rewards those that can’t get to max immediately. Will have to break those prices down a little bit more
I feel like bringing in Max isn’t going to be contributing as much as the Ferrari’s reducing the risk with the cheap line up and going for value add is probably a better play
I felt your pain, Rob ... that was an infuriating wait for the final results. Interesting that they didn't seem to give a reason for the huge delay.
I ran exactly the same team as you and the $3M+ budget increase has put me into the exclusive RBR+FER+MAX club (along with a whole bunch of other people at this point it seems!). You must be gutted to be just $0.2M short ... bad luck, mate.
I'm hoping that last race was a minor blip in Max's results. I'm currently sitting at #24 in your league and looking to crack the top 20! 😁
Thanks Glenn! A great weekend for us both. I’m not too disappointed if I can’t get to Max right now, I think there is a lot of opportunity to continue to build budget with assets like Ferrari, stroll and haas
Now we have a clear picture on how price changes work we know even if Max wins in Japan he will only go up .2M. I’m thinking of holding off on buying him for one more week in the hope the rest of my team’s budget increases so for China i can have a better line up alongside Max than both Williams and both Kick drivers...
I'm definitely leaning one more race of budget building even though I can afford Max/RB/FER. Also trying to roll a transfer into China. That being said, do you replace Albon or Zhou (Zhou has Albon beat in the last two races in Japan), and who do you replace them with? Even though Haas has looked better is Yuki the better bet in his home race? I have the same team as you but with Sainz.
That was a long 32 hours 😅
I got 3 free transfers by not using one last GP. You should discuss that as part of the strat. Cheers
I've covered it in other videos and will address again in my race preview
F1 fantasy does take a long time to update, but it is not far off the mark with MotoGP (which offers a far superior fantasy experience, in my opinion). Thanks for the video.
I am (apparently similar) to many others, unsure if I should switch to the Max team immediately, or stick with LEC/SAI + STR to try to build more Budget still. What would you do Rob?
I think holding off Max until the sprint weekends is probably a good idea to build a bit more budget
I think that if the Ferrari upgrades for Suzuka look good, I could move from PER to LEC/SAI as my 2x Drs driver, keeping RED - FER of course. I think the 1M increases from LEC/SAI and the 0.5M increases from MAG/HUL should be good for big budget gains. Then in Miami, I will bring in VER with something like MAG - HUL - ALB - ZHO as my other drivers. That said, if the Red Bulls are the heavy favourites in practice, I will keep PER, roll a transfer, and likely move to VER with those junky budget drivers for the upcoming sprints.
STR is on for 0.5m - 1m increases every week he doesn’t DNF.
@@DB-rl9cj Agreed, I already had STR in Aus.
Love the approach. I think Ferrari and stroll, and probably haas, have some room to grow in price still
@@f1fantasyhub With the budget code cracked by the legends at F1 Fantasy Tools, I now feel comforted that if I don't get Max, he won't run away.
On one of my teams I can afford the Verstappen Red Bull Ferrari so I’ve gone for that with a wildcard, on my main team I really messed up by going Aston Mercedes in Saudi after Mercedes Ferrari in Bahrain, then Aston Ferrari in Australia with Max DRS a constant, points aren’t great now and I can’t afford Max Red Bull and Ferrari on my main team, but it does open me up to a Mclaren Ferrari build with stronger secondary drivers vs the Red Bull Ferrari teams, and with Perez already looking weak it could be a blessing in disguise imo
Currently i have the budget for Redbull, Ferrari, Max, Hulk, K Mag, Logan and Bottas. I think though that there is more value with Redbull, Ferrari, Leclerc, Stroll, Hulk, K mag, Yuki. It's Yuki's home race, his form has been good. I don't think Logan and Bottas will do well - they might lose me points which Max cannot make up for. And in any case I can always change to max in shanghai
I am in the exact same situation as you. I think I might go with the Leclerc build, but I am even considering going with Sainz instead of him, as I have 3 free transfers, and I think Sainz can have a bigger price increase.
My team is the same as Rob, but with 105.5M of budget
What is your opinion on My Team [Ferrari,Aston Martin| Leclerc, sainz, Hulkenburg, magnussen, Ocon]. I was thinking of changing One Ferrari driver for a mclaren driver but Ferrari Performens is really good and i dont Like that i have to haas drivers whats your opinion? My Budget is 101.8 PS. i have a league with a friend of mine and we have One rule: no redbull
Oooo i love that rule! McLaren and Ferrari constructor with one Ferrari driver is my gut thought? Could you make that work?
@@f1fantasyhub i can do do [Ferrari, mc laren| ocon hulkenberg, magnussen, stroll and Leclerc or sainz wich One should i choose] and do you think Double haas is ok or should i try to change that too
Look I mean I totally understand that having a long wait for points and ur right. If you are a huge company like F1 you should have stuff done in a timely manner but I mean I can’t see this destroying the player base especially when more often than not the next race is 2 weeks away giving plenty of strategy time in between. Even with races the next week this is fine. Again I totally agree it can be aggravating to wait so so long and I definitely try and keep refreshing my browser for updated stats on the site. However I just don’t see that issue changing the player base super drastically.
It is frustrating though, that most other fantasy sports only need a couple of hours to do this, yet F1 take more time to update their score than a Sauber pit stop. I've seen a lot of players in the community in the last couple of years leave the game over less, so I wouldn't be surprised if this drives away others next season if not fixed
@@f1fantasyhub lmaoooo I guess that’s fair I’m sure there are people leaving because of it but hey more places to gain for me lol. NFL fantasy has been out for a while and I remember doing it very early and the app we used had a ton of problems but of course there are so many of them. I’m sure F1 will fix that issue especially publicly acknowledging it. Hopes are high.
Pit stops are tricky. A driver can gain/ lose position while neither being passed nor pass. Not sure about official point results delay grumbling, setting your team until last hours to lockout negates any rush. Imagine Yuki starts P20, gains P10 on track, has horrible Pitstop, renters P20, and finishes P10. Calculating that without access to the sector timers, could be tedious.
Pitstops take some time, but these are calculated on DHL about 2-3 hours after the race, so I have to think its overtakes that cause the delay more so
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I have settled on going budget builder mode for now. I think my best team for next week is probably RBR FER LEC STR MAG HUL TSU with BOT SAR turning into HUL TSU. With Haas clearly being good, and Tsunoda gradually improving plus home race. Switching LEC out to PER or SAI would be a decision I could also make depending on practice data but I hope I don’t have to do it. The next 3 races will be about building budget to have the most dominant team from Imola onwards.
Yeah definitely agree Leaps. Once the upgrades come in for the euro races and we have enough budget, I think it will separate those that have higher team values and can afford more premium assets. These next few races will be key
so what's their definition of an overtake in the f1 fantasy point system?
Actualy im 2'7 mill away from max red bull and ferrari (wild idea incoming) would you think it could be wortb to sack red bull constructor, and with that money get hass constructor(they have been increasing their price each race but idk when are teams doing upgrades) and with the extra money get sainz and max as premium drivers and to fill both hass drivers and sunoda.
I know it is a huge gamble but i need to get 2 mil before the sprint race or ill get insanely behind and with 2 premium drivers and (idk where i did read thid) ferrari shiping an upgrade for this race may not get too behind on points
What are you thoughts???
If you're looking to build budget in Japan, check out my latest video - Ferrari, Aston Martin and Haas drivers are my picks
Great video again. I'm able to get Ver, Red Bull, Ferrari & the 4 lowest budget drivers w/.9 budget left, so some room to pick different budget drivers or go with Sainz & Alonso or Russell with Red bull & Ferrari. If Ver wins do we think he'll get his .7 ++ back? I'm still focused on increasing budget.
I think that with a Verstappen win he could go up maybe 0.3M
He can go up maximum by 0.2
@@mususonytv just saw on Twitter that the budget increase formula was cracked, which I think makes Max less desirable considering we are very early in the season
My current line up is RED + FER + LEC + STR + OCON + ALB + ZHOU. I am torn between using only one transfer to change OCON/ALB for K-MAG (then I have three transfers for the next sprint and a possible big budget increase) and using my wildcard to change my team to RED + FER + VER + K-MAG + HULK + BOT + SAR so i can be ahead of the rest in the Max + Fer + Red Bull combo (my cost cap right now is 105.8M). What would you do?
ZHO to HUL is the move I would say. You don’t want KCK drivers with their pit stops. Wildcard to be used when you can afford MAX FER RED + another Tier 2 driver ($15m - $24.9m).
That seems like a really good plan, thanks!
I had RedBull and K-bag and changed it to Ferrari and Alonso, your thougts?
I’d aim to get Ferrari and Red Bull as your two constructors and whatever drivers you can add around those two assets
@@f1fantasyhub that would be possible after Japan due to lack of transfers as now i have to stick with Max and Aston
Wildcard over a -10?
You could for sure
Given the info we now have about price changes, tiers & thresholds, LEC/PER/SAI + RED + FER + STR (until he is $15m) is an absolute lock.
The only thing we need to decide upon is the remaining tier 3 assets.
You could simply pick HAA/VRB to make up the rest, which is probably the meta. AVOID KCK. WIL are kind of whatever - ALB might do well. ALP need upgrades, but GAS will be great when they get them.
Assuming you’re talking about the recent news what was announced by F1 Fantasy Tools. I am inclined to agree, but I need to review the analysis in more detail and will aim to include in my video next week
@@f1fantasyhub I am indeed. At this stage of the season it’s very much about maximising value to get ahead of the pack. The way FER are going, you simply need the RED FER double up. I then think it’s worth gaining value for a strong second driver before committing to Max.
My team is going to get -30 points with these changes, but here they are and I’d like to know your thoughts,
Constructors: Ferrari and Red Bull
Drivers: Max, Nico, Valtteri, Logan, and Alex
Looks great - use the wildcard if you’re taking a -30 to get to that though!
@@f1fantasyhub Thanks!