Fantasy Premier League - Your Season Review - 2015/2016

But feck it may as well sure!

Final Overall Ranking: TBC

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank): 103.9

Total Transfers: 42

Your Best Transfer(s): GW8 brought KDB and Hangeland in who brought home 21 points.

Your Worst Transfer(s): pretty much every change made in gw32 wc.

Highlight of the Season: FSA league 2 form & in GW8 got 246 between the two games. Why can't every week be GW8?

Lowlight of the Season: Overall form.

What Have You Learned from this Season: Everyone else is wrong and I'm just unlucky.

Aims and Expectations for 2016/2017: stop being unlucky.

jimmii wrote: »

Highlight of the Season: FSA league 2 form & in GW8 got 246 between the two games. Why can't every week be GW8?

Typo? If not, fair dues to you!!!

Final Overall Ranking: 69,359

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank): 105.8

Total Transfers: 43

Your Best Transfer(s): Hopping on the Mahrez and Payet trains very early was great, but bringing in Ighalo for his 4 double digit scores in 7 GWs was probably the stand out.

Your Worst Transfer(s): I'm going to cheat here a bit as its more a transfer I didn't make. One of the reasons I did so well in 2014/15 was going with Fabregas over Hazard for the first half of the season and then swapping back to Hazard at the right time. This season I went with Ozil over Sanchez, which for 30 GWs was the correct call. I had the opportunity with my WC in GW32 to go with Sanchez, but stuck with Ozil. It cost me my ML and about 45-50k in OR.

Highlight of the Season: Probably the Smalling OG which sums up my season! Finishing 2nd rather than 3rd in my ML is worth an extra €100 to me and it also helped me (possibly) avoid my worst ever OR in 8 years of playing. Others were Aguero (c) 5 goals and Payets 16 pointer in GW5 when I was struggling to keep my head above water after a disastrous start to my season.

Lowlight of the Season: GW32 WC. Absolutely destroyed my season. I was OR 32k at the time and I did it to give me the option of TC Lukaku in GW33 (luckily I didn't compound my mistake by going ahead with it!). Those that waited until GW34 to WC scored 70-80 points higher in that week alone (partially due to Sanchez admittedly)

What Have You Learned from this Season: Stick to my guns. I've always been a form over fixtures player, but my 2nd WC was based on (number of) fixtures over form. Also, don't be afraid to go with the 'explosive' player in the last few weeks. Ozil outscored Sanchez over the season, but not when it mattered most.

Aims and Expectations for 2016/2017: Try get back in the top 10k. In 8 years I've had a top 1k, a top 2k 2 top 10k and a top 15k finish. For the amount of time I put into this game, 70k is a poor finish.

Final Overall Ranking: 49,343

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank): £103.1 + £1.3

Total Transfers: 48

Your Best Transfer(s):
- Hard to know to be honest, nothing jumping out from early in the season at all. I bought in KDB as soon as he became available which worked out pretty well overall.
- Getting Morgan in for the last 5 GW and PVA for the last 3 proved very lucrative also.
- And my last minute hit to take in Valencia for GW 38 paid off….eventually 

Your Worst Transfer(s):
- A total noob this year so lots of candidates here….special mention to my first XI which featured Benteke (C) and Lambert.
- The DGW 33 Everton and Palace signings were also a total flop.
- And Bony when Aguero was injured…uggghh

Highlight of the Season:
- I captained Mahrez in GW 9 (?) but he was benched and didn’t come on……VC was Aguero so luckily got his 5 goal haul against Newcastle.
- Spacecraft’s goal a couple of weeks back – a huge differential, actually cheered out loud in the kitchen when I heard it on the radio.
- PVA’s goal last week – put me in a very strong position in my work league which I won by a point in the end.
- Finishing inside the Top 50 of the Boards Free League as well was a nice bonus

Lowlight of the Season:
- Loads of candidates here but seem to remember Stoke conceding an awful of late consolation goals which were usually damaging as I had Butland and Woolscheid.
- Captain Firminio only returning 1 assist against Villa
- Cheering Ighalo goals against my beloved Liverpool……the moment I realised I was an FPL addict for the first time 
- Andy Carroll TC fail

What Have You Learned from this Season:

- As mentioned above, this was my noob season so it’s been a steep learning curve all the way
- Felt I was late to a lot of parties – always seemed to miss out on good form periods for the likes of Lukaku & Kane
- My Liverpool loyalty (and inherent anti Man Utd bias) probably cost me at times….will have to be more cold-hearted next season.
- (Not quite ninja edit) this is by some distance the soundest forum on Boards. Not that active anymore elsewhere tbh due to the high levels of douchebaggery on show esp. the Athletics and Soccer forums.Everyone on here seems more than willing to give advice and answer all the stupid, reptitive noob questions even though we are all technically competing against each other.

Aims and Expectations for 2016/2017:
- Will hit the ground running next year (wasted about 6 or 7 GW’s this year faffing about before I discovered this forum and FFIX etc) so would hope to maybe finish Top 20k or higher
- Wouldn’t mind getting involved in a few more competitive leagues; the work league I won only had about 5 people taking it halfways seriously

Final Overall Ranking: 44k

Final Team Value: 107.0

Total Transfers: 52

Your Best Transfer(s): bringing in Kane just before he hit his first vein of form; had him in the team ever since. Getting Alli in at the right time too. Charlie Daniels should also get a mention.

Your Worst Transfer(s): Getting Payet far too late. Never getting Vardy at the right time. Never having Leicester defensive coverage.
In terms of actual transfers; having Rooney at the start, then having him for too long (i thought he'd be a must have for the season). I got Iwobi in at the wrong time for Firmino, and suffered. I remember transferring KDB out before a big haul too.

Highlight of the Season: Sanchez (c) in the DGW. Basically going from 700k in GW30 to 44k by the end of the season. Didn't want the season to end.

Lowlight of the Season: Everything before GW30 basically.

What Have You Learned from this Season: Don't be afraid of bandwagons, and don't be afraid to take a hit to get your team right. -4 for the right player is tiny in the grand scheme of things.

Aims and Expectations for 2016/2017: win the Money League in work, and get in the top 10k again. It was my first year in that money leagie, and I can't believe some of the decisions made by some of those who beat me (TC in a non-DGW, wildcarding in the final GW).

Worst season EVER!!!

Final Overall Ranking: 74,939

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank): £107.3m

Total Transfers: 47

Your Best Transfer(s): Brought in Sanchez GW 31 and captained him. Danny Simpson was my best bargain buy.

Your Worst Transfer(s): Transferred KDB out GW 14, scored 16 points and I brought him straight back the next week

Highlight of the Season: GW rank of 3,348 in GW 31

Lowlight of the Season: Preparing my team for Double GW 34 only for this to happen http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=99423327&postcount=908

Honourable mention goes to Everton scoring 6 and Barkley getting 2 points in GW 11.

What Have You Learned from this Season: Pick goalkeepers and defenders with easy fixtures, pick midfielders and strikers with form.

Aims and Expectations for 2016/2017: Finish higher than this season!

ShaneU wrote: »

Your Worst Transfer(s): Transferred KDB out GW 14, scored 16 points and I brought him straight back the next week

Oh yeah that too.

Final Overall Ranking: 22,282

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank): 106.7m

Total Transfers: 41

Your Best Transfer(s): WC GW6, went from OR 2m to under 20k within 6 GW's on the strength of it.

Your Worst Transfer(s): Getting in 3 Liverpool Players in GW34

Highlight of the Season: GW34, 172 points

Lowlight of the Season: Losing my Money League by 10 points

What Have You Learned from this Season: Nothing! :pac:

Aims and Expectations for 2016/2017: Retire from playing the game I think. After Xmas my motivation was very low for playing the game

FHFC wrote: »

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2. I've always been partial to a points hit but I've learned this year that they are an integral part of the game, and I think have also got better at spotting the right one. I can't recall many that didn't work out. I can recall several I didn't pull the trigger on that I should have.
People have an irrational aversion to taking hits sometimes even if its blindingly obvious they are needed. If they reshape your team and gain 4 points back over the next couple of weeks then they equated to an extra free transfer. And how priceless would we all see an extra FT.

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So much this, I wish I did this at the end of gw33 and just did a -12 to fix my absolute mess of a team although I did still take hits in the remaining game weeks, I was forced into keeping players like Ozil and Delaney when I wanted to sell them, whereas I should have just axed them after 33 and just taken the points damage there and then.

siblers wrote: »

So much this, I wish I did this at the end of gw33 and just did a -12 to fix my absolute mess of a team although I did still take hits in the remaining game weeks, I was forced into keeping players like Ozil and Delaney when I wanted to sell them, whereas I should have just axed them after 33 and just taken the points damage there and then.

If I'd taken the -8 I had planned at the start of GW37 I'd have been 20 pts or so better off, woulda won a couple of leagues I came second in and be up maybe €500 or so.

I'll be having a closer look at all the hits I took to see how the success rate actually was. Took some silly ones last season but think I'm better tuned into how and when to take them this year.

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Final Overall Ranking: - 6,238

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank): - £107.1m

Total Transfers: - 60

Your Best Transfer(s): - Having Mahrez and Bellerin from the get-go was good

Your Worst Transfer(s): - Feel like i struggled with Keepers all season

Highlight of the Season: - reeling in a 62 deficit to win my ML by 88 points

Lowlight of the Season: - Being my first year I was pretty green re rules and strategies and didn't appreciate being in the top 25k by GW 9. I played foolishly and dropped to 519k by GW 21.

What Have You Learned from this Season: - The basics. Also no doubt whatsoever that the more football I watched the better my transfers were. Don't F*ck about making needless transfers. Also, don't be afraid to buy players you don't necessarily rate. I was pig headed about Ozil and I didn't see enough of Ali to convince myself to get him in earlier. I hated buying players just because they were doing the business.

Aims and Expectations for 2016/2017: - To take it much more seriously. I feel I have a great knowledge of the premiership and I approached FF as 'just a game' until I got hooked.

I've already created a short list of players for next season.

Helluva good debut season. And a useful contributor here also.

Final Overall Ranking:

Somewhere in the depths of he'll, circa 540k

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank):

Haven't a rashers

Total Transfers:

See above

Your Best Transfer(s):

Can't think of anything notable other than I had Alli, Mahrez and Payet in my draft and right throughout the season.


Your Worst Transfer(s):

Too subborn to get in on the Leicester defense or Vardy until it was too late


Highlight of the Season:

Pfft



Lowlight of the Season:

The final kick of the season from Smalling cost me 1st place on the boards sky sports FF


What Have You Learned from this Season:
Be prepared to pick players in FF that you don't rate in real life


Aims and Expectations for 2016/17 season

Enter every money league going. Then copy ElTels 2016/17 team, sit back and wait for the dough to roll in.

Looking forward to El Tel's contribution, not many where the first category will be in single figures. The hits situation is very interesting my opponent whom I clawed back nearly 150 points in 12 weeks only took 1 hit all year and that was in week 3, a bit like Busts 7 transfer guy( I wonder where he finished?).

Final Overall Ranking: 19,324

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank): 108M

Total Transfers: 42

Your Best Transfer(s): Got Mahrez and Alli in early enough.

Your Worst Transfer(s): Lukaku

Highlight of the Season: First top 20K finish

Lowlight of the Season: 21 points on bench in GW23 !!! (Mostly Alli)

What Have You Learned from this Season: Pay attention to this forum !!

Aims and Expectations for 2016/2017:Get out of the unbelievably tough FSA Qualifying League