<h1>Euro 2020 Fantasy Tips | When to Stick or Twist Your Captain?</h1>
<p><em>FFHub&#8217;s Deputy Editor <a href="https://twitter.com/FFH_James">@FFH_James</a> explores a predicament that many Euro 2020 fantasy managers have already faced: when should you &#8220;stick&#8221; or &#8220;twist&#8221; your team&#8217;s captain?</em></p>
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<h2>How do Captains Work in Euro 2020 Fantasy Football?</h2>
<p>If you&#8217;re anything like my Dad (and I hope, for the sake of your fantasy team, that you&#8217;re not), you&#8217;ll be confused about how captaincy works on the official UEFA fantasy game.</p>
<p>What starts off as standard-issue armband allocation quickly morphs into some sort of perverse game of fantasy blackjack.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s because in the Euro 2020 fantasy game, you&#8217;re allowed to move your captaincy each day. That means you can captain <strong>Romelu Lukaku</strong> on the Saturday and, if you fancy it, strip him of his prestigious title and move it over to <strong>Harry Kane</strong> for Sunday&#8217;s set of fixtures. It&#8217;s all a little bit much.</p>
<p>As some of us have had to learn the hard way, once the decision to move the armband has been confirmed, <strong>it cannot be reversed</strong>.</p>
<p>That would be akin to asking your blackjack dealer to show you the card you&#8217;re about to be dealt before you decide on whether or not to stick or twist. In other words,<strong> it ain&#8217;t gonna happen, sunshine.</strong></p>
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<h2>Euro 2020 Fantasy Football | What&#8217;s a &#8220;Good&#8221; Captain Score?</h2>
<p>It&#8217;s almost like the head offices at UEFA HQ are powered by the incessant brow-furrowing of fantasy managers. If indeed we are all linked up to a generator, UEFA HQ must&#8217;ve been aglow by the time the final whistle blew in Rome last Friday.</p>
<p>Not only did <strong>Lorenzo Insigne</strong> (eight points) and <strong>Ciro Immobile </strong>(nine points) both perform well, but their points totals also fell right in the sweet-spot somewhere between sleepless nights and remorseless migraines.</p>
<p>The question was simple for those Euro 2020 fantasy managers who backed one of them: <strong>would any of my players left to play beat these scores?</strong></p>
<p>With the benefit of hindsight, we know that the highly owned Romelu Lukaku succeeded in outscoring the Italian duo, though only just. Other popular options, like Harry Kane and <strong>Memphis Depay</strong>, failed to return.</p>
<p>Lukaku&#8217;s 10 point haul on Saturday was deemed an unquestionably &#8220;stickable&#8221; score by the general populace of Euro 2020 fantasy managers. Insigne and Immobile&#8217;s very reasonable tallies, however, were shrouded in far more ambiguity.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s because <strong>many expected two attacking returns from Lukaku</strong>. Whilst Immobile succeeded in notching a goal and an assist, a singular goal from Insigne failed to inspire most managers into sticking to their Plan A.</p>
<p>As such, we can deduce that <strong>a difference of just a few points can significantly alter the way a captaincy score is perceived</strong>. But there&#8217;s another variable at play here too.</p>
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<h2>Euro 2020 Fantasy Football | Does it Matter What day it is?</h2>
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<p>The issue of how many days are still left to play in the Matchday &#8211; i.e. how many cracks at the captaincy whip we have left &#8211; is an important one.</p>
<p>In an ideal world, we want to avoid a situation whereby we&#8217;re banking on a big captaincy performance on the final day of a matchday. That&#8217;s because the proverbial hands are very much tied by then: there are no more opportunities for moving the armband.</p>
<p>As such, a big &#8211; or even medium sized &#8211; captaincy score on the penultimate day of a Matchday <strong>carries far more value than it might do on the opening day of a Matchday</strong>.</p>
<p>Importantly, <strong>Matchday 2 and 3 will be one day shorter than Matchday 1</strong>, meaning your admirable attempts at armband awesomeness will be reduced too.</p>
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<h2>Euro 2020 Fantasy Football | What is a &#8220;Good&#8221; Captain Score?</h2>
<p>A good captaincy score is going to vary team-from-team, and it&#8217;s not for me to tell you what you should settle for.</p>
<p>With that caveat firmly in place, I&#8217;m going to tell you anyway. Here are the minimum number of sticking points that I&#8217;m applying to my own team:</p>
<p><strong>Day 1 &#8211; 9 points</strong></p>
<p><strong>Day 2 &#8211; 7 points</strong></p>
<p><strong>Day 3 &#8211; 5 points</strong></p>
<p>Of course, there are some important exceptions. In Matchday 2, for example, France have a great fixture against Hungary on the last day. Managers may well be inclined to take their chances on the Frenchman despite his Matchday 1 blank.</p>
<p>For me, the key variable for managers to consider when weighing up the stick or twist dilemma is their <strong>rank.</strong> Those playing catch-up should be more open to taking a chance in pursuit of a massive captaincy score, knowing that &#8220;average&#8221; probably isn&#8217;t going to suffice.</p>
<p>On the contrary, <strong>managers who are leading their league and want to maintain their rank can afford to play it safer</strong>.</p>
<p>Stick with the score that gets you to where you want to be. Don&#8217;t be greedy, but don&#8217;t settle for below-par either.</p>
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<h2>Euro 2020 Fantasy Football | A Matter of Perspective</h2>
<p>If you&#8217;ve come to this article in search of objective truth, I&#8217;m afraid you&#8217;ll leave disappointed. In fantasy, the only objective truth is that <em>there is no objective truth</em>.</p>
<p>What you <em>should</em> take from this article, however, is that whether or not to stick or twist on your Euro 2020 fantasy captain largely comes down to three key considerations:</p>
<ol>
<li>the number of days remaining in a matchday</li>
<li>the strength of the players still yet to play (e.g. Mbappe in Matchday 2)</li>
<li>your own fantasy aspirations and to what extent they need to be chased</li>
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<p>Only <strong>you</strong> can weigh these variables up. Ultimately, these judgements are what separates you from every other manager out there.</p>
<p>No pressure, then.</p>
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