To anyone panicking about their rank: last season, I was sitting at 1.8 million in GW8 before using my wildcard. It's a long season with plenty to play for. This year, I’m in a better spot, and the journey to back-to-back Top 1k finishes starts now 🫡
Ranked at exactly 1.5k, I'm having a strong season with lots of positive variance. Will write up my thought process each gw as we enter the final stretch of the szn. Hoping for my first ever top 1k 😁😁😁
GW4💀
1.5m → 1.7m 📉
Was having a great week until (another) jammy Arsenal clean sheet with Gabriel, Raya & Saka collectively nuking my rank 🫠
Special shoutout to Joao Pedro and Danny Ings 🙃
Long season ahead, gotta stay positive 🫡
Halfway through the double gameweek 🧊
Thank you ETH for saying Bruno trained, the sooner that mug leaves my ball club the better 💀
Top 100 dream is still alive 🤏
Another week needing to extend my screenshot to show my bench jam 😭
Gameweek 36 → 107 points ✅
334th → 274th 🌎
Bench boost on its way, with some tricky transfer paths to explore 💫💫💫
Here’s my team for GW30. For context in GW28, I transferred Watkins for Semenyo, allowing me to upgrade my 5th mid to Salah. I jumped early on Salah before his price rose with only 0.2 itb. Potentially greedy, but I was transferring in Salah regardless of Liverpool doubling.
Successful bench boost 😅
Gameweek 37 → 144points ✅
274th → 166th 🌎
9 points off top 100 means it’s probably a touch out of reach, so will look to maintain rank in GW38 🥶
So here’s how I’m looking for BB37 🕊️
I’m pretty set on Maguire ~ Gabriel ✅
If Bruno is out I’m leaning towards Saka, but Richarlison is seriously tempting 🥶
I can’t begin to explain how bad United are right now, if Arsenal want 6 they can get it with ease ☠️☠️☠️
Gameweek 1 - 62points ✅
🌎3.1m
Happy with my start and to have avoided the Quansah and Barco fires 😅
Will be monitoring ESR, Nkunku & Hall 🤔
Obviously rolling, see ya for GW2 🫡
74 points for an 8 place red arrow to 661st in the world 🌎😅
Another week of skilled benched jam😭😭😭
Semenyo and Braithwaite picking up injuries before the double isn’t ideal, but we move 🎻🎻🎻
Everton’s upcoming fixtures are too good to be ignored 🍬
#FPL
Top 3 assets:
🥇 DCL (£5.9m) - nailed, talisman, on penalties
🥈 McNeil (£5.4m) - 90 mins, set pieces, most chances + big chances created in the league
🥉 Mykolenko (£4.4m) - the cheapest nailed Everton defender
Really enjoyed an analytics focussed chat with James aka
@FF_Trout
on
@TheFPLWire
. If you are analytics curious, love analytics or even hate analytics - check it out.
My captains vs Sheff U:
Haaland (A): 4 points (missed pen)
Salah (A): 3 points
Watkins (H): 2 points
Solanke (H): 0 (missed pen)
Salah (H): 1 points
I think i'm owed some points so let's go Palmer 🧊🧊🧊
This international break has been filled with great content, and this podcast being another example 🤩
Key takeaway for me is that football can change quicker than analytics can adjust and sacrificing EV for change is an extremely viable (albeit challenging) approach 🫡
⚽️NEW EPISODE⚽️
Haaland to Break All Records w/
@Jon_Mackenzie
We talk about the big man and Pep plus…
-Liverpool and Man Utd are similar
-Why Semenyo will score >160 pts this season.
Sharing appreciated ♻️
Podcast supported by
@CryptoBlockDan
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#FPL
#FPLCommunity
@FPL_Gundo
@FPL__Raptor
It was extremely team dependent. If you had a strong team in 26 and wanted to save your wc rather than ripping up your team for BGW 29. Also your risk appetite for a WC30 + 37BB vs a WC35 + 37 BB. Obviously 35 is better with more information. How much so, no one knows
Like many others this week, I have 2FTs and a great team on paper, but dead ending to 34. I imagine one of Foden/Haaland will be benched and I’ll move them to Diaz/Darwin. If both are out who knows 😆
Would be nice if one of my keepers play otherwise I’m cooked 🤣😭
The troops for DGW34 with 2FTs to use before wildcard. Currently leaning towards keeping and playing Foden instead using my transfers on Son and Semenyo.
Eze and Mateta my preferred route atm with Darwin seemingly off the boil, but will depend on the European fixs this week
@CazzaFPL
@dis_fpl
@FF_Trout
@FplHedgehog
There’s no denying he has the elite physical attributes and adds value to Liverpool. But it’s also quite obvious that he isn’t at the required level to win serious trophies at the top level currently. Building your team around him? Absolutely no chance lol
'A lot of leaks incorrect!' | Pep Guardiola say Phil Foden was never meant to start against Luton
#pepguardiola
#mancity
#guardiola
Full embargoed press conference:
🔴⚪️🇦🇷 Sevilla have reached verbal agreement with Brighton to sign Valentín ‘Colo’ Barco on loan deal.
NO buy option, as expected. One year loan and then back to
#BHAFC
. Barco said yes to Sevilla’s project.
@aboveaveragefpl
He didn't win the ball as he doesn't have control of possession after. He got a touch on the ball, but also took down Jesus after sooo
@PlanetFPLPod
A great recent rank history who balances eye test and data, while not being over-reliant on others' opinions or tools.
An understanding of football tactics and how it shapes data interpretation, with the ability to quickly adapt to injuries, tactical switches and form changes
@FPL_Gundo
@FPL__Raptor
I don’t think think judging the results of FH29 and FH34 in isolation is how to judge the strategies. Using your overall points gains through 26-38 to analyse the entire macro strategies for both is a better approach
I've had three red arrows since GW14:
GW17: Where Solanke's goal was chalked off and Watkins scored in the 85th minute after Ben Mee got sent off
GW21: Where Saka's assist to Gabriel was chalked off by Opta
GW26: BGW where TAA, Jota and Darwin got injured
How have you got on?
This was an incredibly insightful and informative podcast. As someone who doesn’t solely look to maximise EV it’s interesting listening to those who are masters at it.
Captaining players with high EV and low EO is definitely going to be meta moving forward
Episode 88 is out!
In this special episode, we hosted 3 analytics managers (
@FF_Trout
@FPL_Spaceman
@FplPresident
) and talked about risk/variance in FPL: how it is measured and how it is applied.
Tonight Bruno or Saka are making way for Salah.
BF better fixtures, but playing for a far worse attack + going down in value so I’ll have to tank another price drop 🥶
Saka can drop and it won’t affect my SP, but if he stays the same it saves 0.1 on re-buying him in 6 🤔🤔
GW3✅
2.5m → 1.5m🧊
A green arrow, but once again Salah nuked my FPL rank and United 🙃
I’ll be using my 2FTs this week (and catching price rises)
Isak → Joao Pedro
Saka → Salah
Two homes for two aways and a GW5 captain. Could certainly backfire 😅
@FPL_Cheese
1) you can’t captain both
2) knowing which cheap enablers are the best is a minefield for pre seasons with international tournaments
3) Liverpool were going through a massive manager change
The strategy is only viable if they both bang + cheap enablers work out (high risk)