Final Position,Team Value and No of Transfers for the season.

Rank: 11,072
Team value: £105.1m
Transfers: 36


Was in the top 1k at one point during the season but neglected my team for a few weeks which cost me big time. Fell to 22k but managed 3 green arrows to finish the season so that's something to be pleased about I suppose even if a top 10k finish was well within reach.

Overall Points 2060
Overall Rank 96774
Total transfers 38
Team value £107.2

Final Overall Ranking: 955th

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank): 103.7m

Total Transfers: 39 (4 hits)

Your Best Transfer(s): Aguero in for Spurs (H) - a 38 point captain. Also starting with Fabregas and flipping to Hazard at the right time.

Your Worst Transfer(s): Debuchy or Naughton, both injured in their 1st game after being 'signed'

Highlight of the Season: Winning my 2 main MLs but most importantly finishing in the top 1k for the 1st time

Lowlight of the Season: Post Christmas. I was 214th at the end of GW17. 5 consecutive red arrows later I was 4,148th. I know its not much of a lowlight, but I did feel that the wheels were coming off at that point.

What Have You Learned from this Season: Not really learned, just confirmed the importance of patience. NEVER make transfers on a saturday or sunday night. Emotions are too high and bad decisions are made.

Aims and Expectations for 2015/2016: Baby No2 due to arrive early season so I think a big step back will be made. A top 50k finish would be good.

3567th
39 transfers (24 pts hit)
TV £107.0m

Final Overall Ranking: 1649

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank): 106

Total Transfers: 44

Your Best Transfer(s): Di maria to sanchez when di maria was in form and sanchez had yet to take off

Your Worst Transfer(s): wildcarding for gw 3 and taking out costa

Highlight of the Season: signing walcott yesterday and him being key for winning me a grand

Lowlight of the Season: not signing ings ahead of stoke away when he scored 2 goals despite bigging him up on here. Nearly broke my foot kicking a chair when he scored 2 goals in the first 15 mins.

What Have You Learned from this Season: Try and do transfers every 2nd week. Bank a transfer and then make 2.

Aims and Expectations for 2015/2016: Try and make the top 1k. Ive finished top 11k the last 4 years with 2 top 2k finishes so top 1k is the goal. Id also like to be able to just get the results at 5 o clock on a sat instead of checking my phone every 2 mins.

I tend to keep track of my moves throughout the year (sad I know!) so here are a few stats I came up with. All fairly meaningless I know but thought I'd stick it up anyway:

Total players used: 58 (8GK, 20DEF, 18MID, 12FOR)
Points per position:
GK - 156. Highest individual scorer was Heaton with 36 (I rotate keepers)
DEF - 457 HS was Bertrand with 62
MID - 773 + 21 Capt points = 794 HS was Sanchez (123 + 10 Capt points)
FOR - 641 + 263 Capt points = 904 HS was Aguero (178 + 113 Capt points)
Hits - 16

I captained 33 forwards and 5 midfielders. Captained Aguero 14 times.

I played 3-4-3 32 times, 3-5-2 3 times, 4-4-2 twice and 4-3-3 once.

Final Overall Ranking:
7,473
Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank):
105.9 (.5)
Total Transfers:
43

Your Best Transfer(s):
Getting in Walters the week of his hat-trick was the biggest single week one, he did very little for the few weeks after that mind. Silva was probably the best differential for my private league over the past 10 weeks or so, I reckon his returns almost won it for me single-handedly and kick started a nice finishing run where i saw green arrows for 13 of the subsequent 16 gameweeks.

I'll also always have a lot of time for Charlie Austin now too, great little player.

Your Worst Transfer(s):
Many of these, Getting in both Gibson and Naughton only to have them both ruled out for the rest of the season that week was an annoying one.
Falcao and Jovetic was a terrible punts early one, I'd consider both Pelle and Tadic to be pure failures for me too but it served me right for getting them in a bandwagony way after the Sunderland rout.

If i had to choose one I'd probably go for Falcao due to his price and potential.

(edit: taking sanchez out accidently and spending 4 points to immediately get him back in again was also a pretty bad transfer!)

Highlight of the Season:
Walters' hat-trick was nice, finishing in the top 10k after being very, very far away from it at the midpoint of the season was a nice plus.


Lowlight of the Season:
First wildcard was a mess, I'd hoped to get some value in my team but at that stage none of the sites had remotely accurate predictions. I wound up keeping numerous players who i had no intention of keeping purely out of wanting to benefit from their potential rises the subsequent week. I plumetted the subsequent weeks until i hit the low of around the 500k mark, it took a while to get a good run going where i felt the balance was right in the team.


What Have You Learned from this Season:
Sometimes you'll pick the wrong player for a position in the right team (ivan vs terry, bruce vs mcshane etc.) It happens and you just have to get over it and be aware that you picked the right team.

Goalkeeping rotation is tricky, getting it right is definitely worth more than having just the one good keeper but it's f**king frustrating when you get it wrong and perhaps not worth the stress! My heaton-panti combo really worked out for the past few weeks though.


Aims and Expectations for 2015/2016:
Top 10k again, it should always be my minimum expectation I feel even though the game has gotten a lot more competitive I feel.Maybe enter a couple more pay leagues to make the stress worth it.
After the high of getting to the 1k mark last year it was always going to be hard to do better. Maybe holding off such an early wildcard would be smart, waiting for the second two week break instead of the first would be a start!

Final Overall Ranking: 9152

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank): £107.5m (£106.4m + £1.1m)

Total Transfers: 44 (36 pts hit: 5x4 + 2x8)

Your Best Transfer(s): Silva & Terry before Christmas ; Cazorla during Jan WC and for my only great (GW23) captain call of the season. Also Fabregas early and switching to Hazard at the right time. I also managed pretty well my GKs this year: I limited the wasted pts on the bench and my overall approach and patience got rewarded.

Your Worst Transfer(s): The fantastic 4: Baines, Zab, Jones, Bertrand each successively and respectively for their crapest FPL period in their entire life.
To a lesser extent, Ramsey for DGW37 and his GW38 cameo could have ruined my end of season push of 7 green arrows in a row and denied me a hardly acquired 4 digits finish. Fortunately he "only" could have...

Highlight of the Season: To make the top10k after such a tough tough season where I never seemed to make the right choices at the right time (bar my final push).

Lowlight of the Season: Ignoring DGW31 & overall my consistent captain failures (though Agüero 4 times out of the last 6 GWs - the other 2 being the most popular DGW choice - salvaged it all by himself).

What Have You Learned from this Season: There's no right or wrong strategies, at times playing it safe will work, at other times taking hits e.g. to rearrange your team will pay too. But always keep a cool head and never forget this is a marathon not a sprint.
My season could actually be a pedagogical tutorial for a rookie : there's the overall achievement of fighting it out till the end and succeeding to reach the objective but there's also several examples of what not to do .

Aims and Expectations for 2015/2016: 4th finish in a row in top 20k. 2nd in a row in top 10k. Next year top 1k will be my start of season aim with a secondary top 5k target.

redarmy wrote: »

Overall Points2,099 Overall Rank54,623 Total transfers 45 Team value£101.8m happy enough:)

Ah balls, I was hoping to win a prize for lowest team value:(:P

Points: 2298
Rank: 854
Transfers: 48
Team value: 102.9

Final Overall Ranking: 854

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank): 102.9

Total Transfers: 48

Your Best Transfer(s): It has to be Benteke for the DGW, massive move made that week due to that transfer, I also appear to have gotten the Baines moves perfect, had him for 5 weeks with an average approaching 12 points.

Your Worst Transfer(s): Nugent came in for the DGW and didn't play a minute for me while Vardy and Ulloa did some damage.
I am/was also far too supportive of Steven Caulker,

Highlight of the Season: I genuinely favour Heatons penalty save and subsequent clean sheet over the huge captaincy hauls from Benteke and Aguero

Lowlight of the Season: Every time Fabregas did something it was like a little dagger in my skin, similarly Silva towards the end of the year.
Probably blowing a huge lead in the FSA Premier league

What Have You Learned from this Season: I don't know if I've learned anything. I realise that I could achieve higher team value by following more bandwagons but that would involve me making some moves that I am not comfortable with. I found that by waiting until Friday night or Saturday morning to make moves did cost me further team value but I think it balanced itself by ensuring I had a strong 11 each week. I was never caught out by an injury until Nugent pulled up in the warm up.

Aims and Expectations for 2015/2016: Expectations would be top 5k. Aim would be top 100 and dare I say it overall champion:D (somebody has to win it)

Final Overall Ranking: - 1994

Final Team Value (Value + Money In The Bank): £106.2m

Total Transfers: - 39

Your Best Transfer(s): Probably Silva as he was bizarrely a differential.

Your Worst Transfer(s): - Giroud for the last 5/6 games and all the Liverpool players. Awful

Highlight of the Season: Captaining Austin for their DGW and winning the Harps Cup was nice.

Lowlight of the Season: None really apart from Walcott ruining my chances of finishing 2nd in the Harps league!

What Have You Learned from this Season: Don't make transfers on a Saturday morning and many of my punts never worked.

Aims and Expectations for 2015/2016: Enter a couple more money leagues and aim to kick on. Easier said than done but delighted with this season as I've only really taken the game seriously the past 2 seasons.

Big shout out to the FSA crew as well. Been a great resource.

Final Overall Ranking:

7,828

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

106.2 0 in the bank

Total Transfers:

Far too many - 56

Your Best Transfer(s):

Benteke and Phillips for the DGW, they along with Silva won me my mini league

Your Worst Transfer(s):

Girdoud, it was around Christmas, I brought him in and gave him the arm band and he was sent off after 20 minutes or so if I remember correctly

Highlight (s) of the Season:

I added an (s) to that. First is breaking the 100 points barrier, second is consistently improving my rank throughout the season, whether it was breaking into top 100k, top 50k, top 20k, top 10k, once I did it I never slipped back in my OR rank. Lastly, I ran really well with a few players, I brought in Downing at just the right moment and ditched him right when he hit poor form, same for Baines.


Lowlight of the Season:

When there was a case of mistaken identity and my player was wrongly sent off (I had Gibbs wrongly sent off last season too!). Though this was made up for when Dawson got away with the same thing and dodged a red card.

What Have You Learned from this Season:

Stop taking so many points hits!

Aims and Expectations for 2015/2016:

Improve my overall rank, focus more on form rather than fixtures and template teams, in short be a little more adventurous with my team selection. Also cut out the headaches, don't put myself in a position where I have agonising selection headaches each week.