Your Season Review - 2017/2018

Final Overall Ranking: Somewhere around 300k

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank): 101.9 + 0.3 = 102.2

Total Transfers: 42

What Have You Learned from this Season: When you change job to one that is far busier you may lose focus on Fantasy Football

Aims and Expectations for 2018/2019: Good chance I won't play as I can't give the time to it

I changed job as the season started and I'm way busier and just generally less interested in FF. Was in the old job for 4 years and finished with fairly decent overall ranks but this year it just went to pot.

Didn't research weeks in advance - didn't even know there was a skinny gameweek so thankfully the FH got me out of a hole there

I enjoyed not getting worked up if Burnely conceded or if Glenn Murray scored but I missed doing well!

Hope everyone in here had a good season

Final Overall Ranking: 57,766

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank): £105.7

Total Transfers: 58

Chips - 1) when did you play them (incl. wildcards) and 2) how did they go?: WC1 gw3 WC2 gw22 FH gw10 TC gw37 BB gw38. I was happy with both wildcards, and FH. TC bombed, and BB was meh.

Your Best Transfer(s): Arnautovic, on both occasions i bought him

Your Worst Transfer(s): definitely transferring Zaha out for Son in gw36

Highlight of the Season: making it through it though finishing off the season with my highest rank of the season was nice

Lowlight of the Season: gw37

What Have You Learned from this Season: FPL be mad

Aims and Expectations for 2018/2019: win it

One thing in FPL that you would change for next season (an improvement etc): just go back to the price algorithm that was used for 2016/17

Final Overall Ranking: . 268th

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank): £104.9

Total Transfers: 48

Chips - 1) when did you play them (incl. wildcards) and 2) how did they go?:

WC1 = GW7
FH = GW10
WC2 = GW32
BB = GW34
TC = 37

WC1 I had a monster score of 95 immediately after best GW comparatively in the season (4,500th best that week). Dipped a little right after and inadvertently left myself with no bench. Also took out a couple of players who were performing well and continued to do so after (Mee and de Gea spring to mind).

FH went okay - my team was in tatters so I made about 17 points on it. Sanchez captain scoring would've made it good. If you had asked me a few weeks I would've said it was a big disappointment as I felt I was missing it for GW 35, but as I managed to negotiate that week without FH I'd say it was overall decent.

WC2 went very well and was the basis for my strong end of season. Lots of time and planning went into making the most of the doubles while keeping a strong team for GW35. Cartman's spreadsheet was very helpful.

BB went pretty well considering I didn't max out the GW with doublers. I can't exactly remember but I think it made me about 20 points so I would say a success.

TC was a disaster blanking on double Jesus.


Your Best Transfer(s):

Other than Salah, I'd say that Otamendi for 5.5 early on was a stellar performer and very reliable.

Honourable mention to Son too on the Spurs DGW and after.

And a final mention to Arnautovic who really helped navigate the end of season.

Your Worst Transfer(s):

Suttner, Mbemba and King as my budget bench in my first WC caused me weeks of headaches and hits in the early-middle part of the season and forced me into an early FH, as they all were non-players. I felt hard done by with Suttner as he'd started every game up to then and I could have got Dunk instead (but maybe a bit more research about Bong and his return might have helped me here).

Highlight of the Season:

GW7 was my best week, 95 points on a so-so week. I think BGW 35 where I hit 64 points without any FH (better than many who used it) was the highlight, as it was probably the week where all the DGW planning paid off.

Lowlight of the Season:

GW12 -14 was very poor for me, I think I was really struggling with injuries, suspensions and a dud bench.

FH felt like a big disappointment at the time, Jesus too for TC. Choosing the wrong captains for these important chips was disappointing.

What Have You Learned from this Season:

- Taking a big hit to resolve a big problem that will likely bother you for weeks is worth considering (feel like a -12 to sort out my bench earlier might have helped)

- FH likely best to be kept for the end of season (although it worked out okay in the end)

- Even if you think you are obsessive about the game, you can still miss out from lack of research (going Suttner over Dunk in WC1 cost me - a bit more research and I might have learned about Bong who was injured)

- Fan input can be very valuable (Reddit good for this for smaller clubs)

- Salah is most certainly a big hitter and a viable captain option (feel like I learned this too late)

Aims and Expectations for 2018/2019:

Will be hard to reproduce this season but top 10k OR is a realistic aim, I usually hover close to that.

Winning the ML with my mates is always my main aim and even if there's no money on it there's a lot of pride so any OR is good with me if I end up first in that!

I also aim to remember to enter the usual money league I enter which I forgot this season costing me probably at least 500 quid or so

Final Overall Ranking: 208,075

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank): 104.1

Total Transfers: 57

Chips - 1) when did you play them (incl. wildcards) and 2) how did they go?:

WC1 - GW6. Was happy with this at the time, but looking at it now, it had very little overall impact.

FH - GW10. One of many big mistakes. Wanted to capitalise on Liverpool and City having great fixtures, but it backfired hugely with players like Wijnaldum, Sturridge (!) and Fernandinho getting the points. Ultimately a complete waste of the chip, and a net loss of points.

TC - GW22. Kane, away to Swansea and home to West Ham. Looked great on paper, but he was coming back from illness and only played 20 minutes of the first game. Total haul of 9 points. Disaster.

WC2 - GW32. Scored 72 points the week I played it and was delighted, as I was mainly setting up for DGW34. Followed it up with 27 points the following week to bring me crashing back down to earth...

BB - DGW34. Scored 23 points from the bench here, so a definite success.

Your Best Transfer(s): Phil Jones from GW1. Absolute hero for the first half of the season. Special mention for Robertson who I got in for a hit on the last day of the season. 18 points all by himself.

Your Worst Transfer(s): Many worthy nominations here, but I think getting Sánchez for the run-in takes the crown.

EDIT: Just remembered I had Kolasinac for ages who was absolutely useless. The low point of our relationship was when I swapped him out on my Free Hit to free up some funds, and he grabbed a goal and assist against Swansea. Then he picked up where he left off the following week and continued blanking.

Highlight of the Season: Probably GW20, when I captained Kane for his hat-trick. GW38 was bittersweet, when a few unlikely heroes went nuts and I scored 95 (-4) and ended up with my highest GW rank of the season. Too little, too late for any of my leagues though!

Lowlight of the Season: There were many, but scoring 58 (-4) in DGW37 when I had 21 potential players was pretty spectacularly bad, and resulted in my elimination from the short season last man standing league.

What Have You Learned from this Season: Missed out on loads of hauls from the likes of Sané, Richarlison, Milivojevic, Gross, PVA because I felt they couldn't sustain their level of points-scoring. Just get the damn players in when they're going through a purple patch.

Conversely, I held on to some players for way too long after their form dropped off a cliff - Sánchez, Ritchie, Alonso, etc.

Apart from BB, my chip-playing was pretty awful this season. Need to be more careful in future.

Also, while I had the sense to get Salah in reasonably early, it took me ages to cop on and actually start captaining him.

Aims and Expectations for 2018/2019: After finishing 11k in 2016/2017, I thought I was a shoe-in for top 10k this season. Going to aim for a far more realistic top 100k next season.

One thing in FPL that you would change for next season (an improvement etc): The technical side of the game is a mess. No idea why it takes so long for teams/leagues to be updated at the start and end of each gameweek, bonus points to be calculated and auto-subs to be made etc. I'd really like to see some proper investment here, because it's very poor in its current state. Fair enough, it's free to play, but the PL gains an awful lot from fantasy football in terms of exposure. I wouldn't be watching the likes of Stoke vs Burnley off my own back!

Also, the PL app (on iOS at least) needs a major overhaul. Really clunky, and in its current guise was almost unusable at times during the season.

Happy enough with FPL in terms of the game itself though, and will definitely be playing next season.

Final Overall Ranking: 21,159

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank): €104.1

Total Transfers: 37

Chips - 1) when did you play them (incl. wildcards) and 2) how did they go?:



Wildcard 1 - Week 6 - 73 Points, brought in the top performers, Green Arrows Green Arrows
Free Hit - GW31 - 96 Points, Green Arrows
Triple Captain - GW34 - Lukaku TC, he got one goal after coming on in the second half. Almost a disaster, the rest of my team performed well. Top 200K in GW. Green Arrows
Wildcard 2 Week 35 - Gearing up for the next DGW in 37. Salah, Jesus, Sterling, Lacazette, Monreal and Tomkins produced. Top 20K but suffered in GW37 because of this WC. Green Arrows
Bench Boost - GW37 - A mere 9 extra points from Bench boost. 6 players blanked. 1 didn't play over 2 games. Got 9 points off my bench. Took a hit to bring in Tadic for Shaquiri and would have much better off staying put. Red Arrows


Your Best Transfer(s):
Milivojevic: Cheap and Scores and many left him rotting on the bench for more expensive player.

Your Worst Transfer(s):
Alonso: Fine for the start but from GW24 onwards he kept blanking, held onto him until GW34 or so. €7.2m rotting away when it could have been distributed better across the backline.

Highlight of the Season:
Gameweek 19: 100 Points, ranked in top 40K in the GW. Sterling, Gross, Salah, Kane and Aguero all get +13 pts with other good performances from Otamedi and Loftus.

Lowlight of the Season:
Gameweek 30: A mere 24 points from a full squad. 1 point from Captain Kane and -2 from my other striker. 20 Points below the average. Major setback

What Have You Learned from this Season:
Have Salah, Make him Captain, Keep him Captain regardless of fixture. Often people move their armbands from top players when they have a tough away fixture but I find that's when these guys come to the fore and produce.

Aims and Expectations for 2018/2019:
I won't be able to commit as much as we've a baby on the way. My Friday night transfer will be swift and compulsive and i'll be caught out then with a skinny gameweek arises in March/April.

One thing in FPL that you would change for next season (an improvement etc):
An alert app that would notify me about anything Fantasy related during a game. Yellow cards, Assists, Bonuses. The "Park the Bus" chip sounds interesting.

Final Overall Ranking: 536,182

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank): 103.7 + 0.3 = 104.0

Total Transfers: 75

Chips - 1) when did you play them (incl. wildcards) and 2) how did they go?:
WC1 – GW4. An unmitigated disaster with only 35 points. Had Mane who got sent off against City. I had Ben Davies with 14 points. The less said of the rest of the team the better. Did untold damage to my season.
WC2 – GW22. Only got 65 points but it set my team up for a few good weeks after it so I was happy enough with it.
FH – GW10. 57 points from it. Used it cos the team was a mess for that particular week. Would liked to have had the option to have it for Week 22.
TC – GW37. Jesus. Doesn't need any further explanation
BB – GW36. Got 12 points from it which isn't great. Only Hennessey delivered from my bench.

Your Best Transfer(s): Arnautovic, Shaqiri when he was chipping with useful points between GW11-15.

Your Worst Transfer(s): Alonso, Eriksen, Jesus, too many to mention. Always put them in at the wrong time only for them to do well when I take them out. Alonso I had for months in the 2nd half of the season and he did very little. Infuriating.

Highlight of the Season: GW35-36 - had set up my team for 11 players in the small GW35 and it carried over to GW36. Glad I didn't have my free hit for GW35.

Lowlight of the Season: WC1.

What Have You Learned from this Season: Made far too many transfers at the start of the season trying to correct mistakes only to make it worse. Just never got it together for the 1st half this season. Also persisting with players for too long, Alonso being the main culprit.

Aims and Expectations for 2018/2019: Hope to finish at least in the top 100k next year. I always finish well, but never start great. The one year I did really well (last season) I finished just outside the top 2k because I had a reasonable start.

One thing in FPL that you would change for next season (an improvement etc): I agree with the bonus points situation. How Salah got so few considering his achievements is ridiculous.

Final Overall Ranking:
58,526. Disappointing drop from 18k last year, but as my highest OR since GW15 I'll take it.

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank):
£102.2. More on this to come.

Total Transfers:
44

Chips - 1) when did you play them (incl. wildcards) and 2) how did they go?:

WC1 : GW11
Quite happy with this, team was moving along nicely in the 150k range, this brought me down as low as 40k within a couple of weeks.

TC : GW22
3x3 = 9. Screw you Harry Kane.

WC2: GW24
Monster immediate return of 75 points, this halted a dramatic Christmas slide. Happy with this also.

FH : GW35
Returned a huge 71, good enough for a GW rank of 28k. Really propelled my end of season, and keeping this for a skinny GW is a tactic I will look to bring forward to next season, especially if I can avoid it hurting my team too much either side in terms of hits.

BB : GW37
Funny GW this, got an excellent return of 30 points off the bench, but an overall score of 96 was meh considering a potential of 26 games. Still a good result, and I will probably still play this in a DGW next year.

Your Best Transfer(s):
Aaron Mooy was a nice bandwagon I caught onto right at the start, Zaha and Arnie also served me well throughout the season.

Your Worst Transfer(s):
Maybe recency bias, but I don't think I've ever got a return from Willian.

Highlight of the Season:
Free Hit 35 was enjoyable. Also captain Aguero getting 4 goals against Leicester, at a point where I was considering throwing in the towel.

Lowlight of the Season:
Kane triple captain was a grim week or so.

What Have You Learned from this Season:
Pep. Don't believe his lies. Also I need to pay more attention to Team Value, I was severely handicapped on my second wildcard compared to most.

Aims and Expectations for 2018/2019:
Back to the top 20k hopefully.

One thing in FPL that you would change for next season (an improvement etc):
Get rid of the draft game, and pump the money and server space into getting the game updated quicker. Embarrassing really how long it takes compared to its counterparts in NFL etc.

I started filling out the template but then decided that this would sum it up better:

Final Overall Ranking: 22,716

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank): 103M with 0.1m itb

Total Transfers: 60

Chips - 1) when did you play them (incl. wildcards) and 2) how did they go?:

- WC1 GW 10, It took a few weeks to kick in but I was 50k at the end of gw 13 from 325k. Success.
- FH GW 34, small green
- WC2 GW 36,
- BB GW 37, 110 points and a 65k gw rank when all my mini league rivals flopped with their TC.
- TC GW 38, Easy decision to TC Salah and I really should have scored more than my 33points.

I went from 75k at the end of gw34 to 22k so I was satisfied with my strategy and I ended up pegging back a 40 point deficit to win my mini league. I had my best rank of the season after GW38 so that was also nice.

Your Best Transfer(s): Otamendi and Jones early on. Dubrovka and Sane for the final few GW's.

Your Worst Transfer(s): Depoitre was a terrible one, Pogba and Wilson( I should have got him at the time I went for Depoitre). Eriksen was very disappointing in the last 4 games(1 measly assist, 0bp)

Highlight of the Season: Very few I can think of, was more a grind. Sane's treble assist in GW37, Son double and assist when I was thinking of taking him out was nice. Winning my ML.

Lowlight of the Season: Everton's 97th minute equaliser versus Southampton in GW37, cost me 12 points and I felt sick. I genuinely thought it cost me my mini league.
January and February were tough and I could get nothing going, bringing in Pogba and D.Silva as a differential midfield backfired and cost me. Also not taking a hit to bring in Aguero before the Newcastle or Leicester games. His hat-trick and 4 goal hauls hurt my OR.

What Have You Learned from this Season: Don't pick players unless they're nailed. Punt a little less.

Aims and Expectations for 2018/2019: Aim for top 10k and win my mini league.

One thing in FPL that you would change for next season (an improvement etc): Tweak the bps, defenders get way to much for passing side to side. Maybe bring back the WC by the end of January rule for the 2nd WC.

Final Overall Ranking: 204,374

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank): 100.0 + 0.3

Total Transfers: 47

Chips - 1) when did you play them (incl. wildcards) and 2) how did they go?:

WC1 - Used in GW14 when I was 787k and after an initial rise to 666k (yup I know) I was down to my second lowest rank of 1.017M by GW17.

TC - Used in GW22 - The unfit Harry Kane 2 games in 3 games extravaganza. 9 points in total. Considering he'd just gone on a run to do the 2017 record, it was probably unwise to expect him to keep that up. Especially after about 749 matches over December. I panicked after my traditionally God awful Winter months which was exacerbated by an even worse start.

FH - GW34 - 79 points. Served as a good way to cover the DGW and kept the WC intact. Had a great GW35 skinny week considering it was a late change of plan to not WC in 34 and then FH in 35. It was the start of my late season rally.

WC2 - GW36 - Setting up DGW37 but rose significantly at the same time.

BB - GW37 - 101 Points. I always bench the players I wouldn't start if I could only field 11 in a BB for reasons like this. I had 35 points on my bench. Although PVA was on my bench and maybe I'd have started him ahead of Naughton who got me 2. It's an example of BB working in a DGW after a WC the week before.

Your Best Transfer(s): Patrick Van Aanholt. In his last 10 games he scored 5 goals, got 1 assist and 4 clean sheets. Took him out for his 1 pointer in the FH of GW34 too. How everyone doesn't own him all the time is the one thing I don't understand, the points potential is mind blowing.

I enjoyed owning Rondon too :pac: Think he'd be a perfect bench player for a top 6 team in actual football.

Your Worst Transfer(s): I've blanked most of the season from memory. I really don't know, and I'm not inclined to go back and figure it out. I was slow to get Salah, sticking with Mane longer than I should have but I didn't do a Mr.P and ignore him. Until the last few weeks when I made a conscious decision to go without and try and chase. Apart from GW38 it proved wise.

Perhaps Jese instead of Richarlison very early in the season. I think it was an either/or but I rectified that a few weeks later, while he was still hot property. Possibly held onto him too long then too.

Highlight of the Season: PVA's late glut. It's the only thing I'm confident I got right this season, and that was all part of the old Mr. P coming out again, after a year and a half of playing by the numbers

Lowlight of the Season: Everything up to GW34.

Oh and relegation from League 1 when I'd have stayed up if Jesus hadn't scored that 94th minute winner on the final day. Instead of possibly finishing 16th I ended 19th. That hurts. Hoping to stay up by default or I'll be gutted.

What Have You Learned from this Season: Not a lot. Apart from losing interest for a while mid-season due to getting so much wrong, I really don't know how I did quite so badly. Probably an over-reliance on Kane as captain.

Actually I know that was the case. While Salah was getting a goal a game, Kane held that mystique of a hat-trick every week.

Last year I finished at 5k playing it by the books. This year I was at 500k in what I thought was playing it safe and only by free-wheeling it did I get back down to 200k.

Which way will I play it next season? I've got no idea. Learn to trust my instinct more again. After the final run of games I feel like I've got a bit of mojo back though and looking forward to next season after enjoying the world cup

Aims and Expectations for 2018/2019: Aim is to win it. I expect to do a lot better than this omnishambles of a season

One thing in FPL that you would change for next season (an improvement etc):

I enjoy the chips. But I'd get rid.

Also I'd like to see FPL clamp down on teams that set up new accounts every week to try and get the weekly scores. It distorts the GW ranking. Perhaps it's simply a reflection of my horror show by I had 0 weeks where I had a GW rank in 5 figures, let alone 4. Usually there's always at least one or two.

It's more in reflection for rewarding players who adhere to the rules and reward them for managing to set up for a week so well, or get lucky.

KevIRL wrote: »

$hit. Worst season ever.

Have to admit I was expecting the following;

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Chips - 1) when did you play them (incl. wildcards) and 2) how did they go?:
GW . 1 : Free Hit
GW . 2 : Free Hit
GW . 3 : Free Hit
GW . 4 : Free Hit
GW . 5 : Free Hit
GW . 6 : Free Hit
GW . 7 : Free Hit
GW . 8 : Free Hit
GW . 9 : Free Hit
GW . 10 : Free Hit
GW . 11 : Free Hit
GW . 12 : Free Hit
GW . 13 : Free Hit
GW . 14 : Free Hit
GW . 15 : Free Hit
GW . 16 : Free Hit
GW . 17 : Free Hit
GW . 18 : Free Hit
GW . 19 : Free Hit
GW . 20 : Free Hit
GW . 21 : Free Hit
GW . 22 : Free Hit
GW . 23 : Free Hit
GW . 24 : Free Hit
GW . 25 : Free Hit
GW . 26 : Free Hit
GW . 27 : Free Hit
GW . 28 : Free Hit
GW . 29 : Free Hit
GW . 30 : Free Hit
GW . 31 : Free Hit
GW . 32 : Free Hit
GW . 33 : Free Hit
GW . 34 : Free Hit
GW . 35 : Free Hit
GW . 36 : Free Hit
GW . 37 : Free Hit
GW . 38 : Free Hit

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Overall rank[B70492[/B]

Team value103.6

Total transfers50

ChipsWildcard 1. I played it after Gw7 when I was 124K and it went well initially. I jumped to 43k for gw8 my season high. One of my moves on wildcard was to get in hazard more on that later.
Wildcard 2 A huge success. I played this in gw 22 the spurs/Wh DGW so start of Jan.I had a mothly rank of 1.5k for Jan and won a few monthly prizes. I went from 430K to 75k in 4 gws. I never believe in the hold onto wildcard at all costs strategy.
FH DGW 34 This was a horror show. 59 pts and a gw rank of 3.5 million. Basically anything that could have went wrong went wrong. I wouldnt rule out going with this strategy again I just was on all the wrong players and got hit by a lot of bad luck. My pre FH team that would have had 7 less players ended up outscoring my FH team. Most people gained on FH atleast 20 pts I lost 10 so a fairly big swing. I dropped from 90K to 140K in this week which shouldnt happen when you play a FH.
BB Gw 36 This got me 20 pts which was a great return for a sgw. Slightly lucky that ryan got 10pts against burnley. I was hopeful of a CS but not 10 pts. Offset a bit by kenedy hitting the post which would have given me a nice return for him.
TC Jesus 4pts. Dissappointing return but no problem with that he started both games and I think he was a great option.
Overall I think I played my chips well although may have to consider FH in a BGW next season as you are sort of guaranteed a boost that way

Best transferKarius I got in for the last 8 or 9 games he outscored DDG in that time which was good. I also got wilson in over xmas time before his run of scoring and alli before a 26 pt haul in 2 gws when he was previously on a poor run:

Worst transferHazard:mad::

Season highlightI won manager of the month in august in that elite 64 league and was top for a while. It all went downhill after that. Beating my 8 yr old son on the final day by 3 pts. He had been leading me for most of the season due to him captaining salah every gw. Sometimes it can help to play FF with your heart over your head

Season lowlightEden hazard. Destroyed my season well I did by getting him in. I made a great start this year much better than usual and was very well placed early. I got in hazard on gw7 wildcard he got me 21 pts in 4 gws which was fine. I then sold him between gw 12-15 and he got 41 pts in those 4 gws. For gw 16 I got him back but sold sterling and alonso to fund it. Over the next 6 gws Hazard got 17 pts. Alonso got 46 pts and sterling got 48 pts. Getting hazard in meant I didnt captain the previous planned salah who of course got a double digit score. My rank went from 128K to 440K in 4 weeks. I couldnt have picked a worse time to make all the moves I did with hazard in and out and selling sterling and alonso just as they went on their biggest purple patch of the season.

What have I learnedDont buy hazard. Possibly BB in Gw 1. Consider the FH in gw 38. The FH can cost you points the week after you play it. It haapened in gw 22 when the west ham and spurs lads scored well in 23 and FH lads didnt have and happened in 36 with city as FH35 lads didnt have

Aims and expectationsTop 10K

Final Overall Ranking:

41k


Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank)

No idea and not really interested.


Total Transfers: 49


Chips - 1) when did you play them (incl. wildcards) and 2) how did they go?:

WC1.

Played it in gw5. Im a devil for playing it in gw2-3 so this year I promised myself id wait until at least gw5. I was 6k OR and has absolutely no need to pay it but I did and it made little difference in the short - med term.

WC2

Gw32 with the DGW in mind, it went well had been in a slump of 50-70k and got back up to 27k with it.

BB, dgw34. OK. 16 points with a fodder non playing Gk.

TC, dgw 37 Kane. Could have been worse (i.e. Salah or jesus)

FH, sgw 36. okay. 74 points and rose 4k to 23k OR

Your Best Transfer(s)

Bavies and DDG in the early weeks, also held on Kane in August and Brought him in from Sept onwards.

Arnie towards the end and Son during his purple spell.


Your Worst Transfer(s):

Brought in Jones and kept him too long while injured


Highlight of the Season:

387th in the world in gw4, staying in top 10K for about 15 weeks

Lowlight of the Season:

Terrible final day, limped over the line in a few ML but dropped from 26k to 41k OR


What Have You Learned from this Season:

Don't buy Kane until he starts scoring.

Only invest in tried and tested players for gw 1-4 - don't try to be too clever with gambles on guys who've never played in the the EPL before or who are lighting up in pre season friendlies. Instead just stick with boring but proven players.

In the final weeks concentrate on fielding a team with players who have something to actually play for and don't be afraid of bringing in players from teams fighting relegation.


Aims and Expectations for 2018/2019:

Top 5k OR


One thing in FPL that you would change for next season (an improvement etc):

More chips, like a vc chip where you get double points for your vc one week.

More points for defenders

Reward non attacking midfielders with a better Bps system.

Final Overall Ranking: 576,084

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank): £103.4
Total Transfers: 60

Chips - 1) when did you play them (incl. wildcards) and 2) how did they go?:
WC1: GW4
Not great droped Salah ,still made alot of changes after and really messed up this half of the season.

FH: GW31 Went really well, double game week I crushed but the following game week Spurs went on a run again and I was without those players.



WC2: GW23
Went very well,I turned the season around somewhat but the damage was done,espically when I missed a Friday deadline where both Aguero and Kane got massive points and I had Lukaku who got nothing.


BB: GW38
Useless had to take a -12 for a hail mary.

TC: GW34
Put it on Lukaku,the lost at home to West Brom and then he didnt even play for most of the second game but scored one goal ,a full blown disaster


Your Best Transfer(s):
When I got Arnie in ,I was happy to have him when he got 2 and no one had him.Also when Aguero got 4 and had him captain.

Your Worst Transfer(s):
I rolled the dice so much on Hazard.I had him in and captained him and he was doing nothing.He is such a great player I couldn't believe how he wasn't scoring.I didn't have Alonso but brought him in on the 2nd WC and he was ok for for about 2 weeks and rest of the season he done nothing and didn't even play sometimes.VVD was a bad one aswell never got any bonus points never scored or assisted and was worth 5.5 while the likes of Roberson and Trent where destroying him and far cheaper.
Highlight of the Season:
Aguero getting 4 goals.

Lowlight of the Season:
First half of the season,everything I done seem to back fire.

What Have You Learned from this Season:
Need some sort of Bench espically a defender,If De Gea is there next season,he will be my only keeper,None of this rotation stuff.
Aims and Expectations for 2018/2019:
Top 10/20k

Def the bonus points system.I remeber one game week Gross didnt score any points and there was goal scorers in the game and he got the full 3 points.Updating of the game aswell its so slow.And as someone else pointed out points for defenders for each half theirs a clean sheet.Clarity what makes a striker a striker and a mid fielders mid fielder,there seems to be uncertainty what position they actually are.