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Top Tips For A Successfull Season 2019/20

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What is going on everyone my name’s Andy welcome back to another FPL video and today we’re talking fantasy many top tips these are things I’ve kind of learned over the last nine 10 years of playing FBO which help have a good season obviously there are some things you can affect sometimes you just get unlucky but this will try and narrow down the chances of that happening sure there will be some stuff I miss and I’m sure you guys have got loads of your own really good tips as well so let’s get that discussion going in the comments below.

Leave your favourite one two maybe three or four or even five tips which help you have a good season and then everyone else is maybe new at FBO wants to try and improve their rank and take a look at that and obviously if you do enjoy the video make sure to give it a like. Otherwise we’ll jump straight into it. So first up is to be flexible in a lot of people say this every single year. They’re going to go into the season and be more flexible then they’re not doing that maybe holding grudges maybe not being happy with things that went wrong and just basically sometimes you get like rage trances and things like that.

So I think be flexible but also be a bit more cautious. So if something goes wrong for you it was will happen. You’re not going to likely unless you’re going to win FBI which is really hard to do. Then you’re probably not going to make every single decision right. You want to make his means as right as possible and get that high kind of top 10 K top folk finish to get actually everything right would be pretty damn difficult. So don’t panic if you get things wrong just make sure you’re flexible in your thinking so if something goes wrong on the weekend don’t make your transfer straight away wait until the end of the week to make them they will hold grudges as well.

A lot of people hear this all the time. Explain. Didn’t do well for me when I wanted to do well with me. I’m never getting them again. Maybe there’s one or two times when you’ve brought in a player like color most and springs to mind maybe richness in what they’ve been doing really well you’ve brought them in and they’ve stopped doing well. Well they didn’t just do that on purpose. Don’t hold a grudge. If they look like very good options at the start of the season which I think both of those aforementioned players do Wilson and Richardson then there’s no reason not to bring them in.

If you think they’re going to do well so don’t hold grudges take hits when needed. Be flexible with hits. Don’t just say I’m not taking any all season. Don’t be in a situation where you’re taking one every week take them when they’re needed. For me it is needed when there’s lots of injuries you don’t really have a good squad that you want to put out when you want to make maybe one or two transfers and take a hit if it’s for the long term. So you’re just gonna to bring a player for one week then they’ve got to do really well in that week to repay the head when it gets tough to predict that every week.

You look at anywhere which does basically predictions on who’s going to be the high scores that week is very rare that a man every week. So don’t take a hit for a player you’re going to then transfer out straight away. If someone you really want to bring in for someone who’s doing awful you want to bring in a player who is maybe in a bit of a high patch and scoring really well and you’re going to want to keep it for the next four five six game weeks and definitely if you need to take the hit and do it just be flexible don’t restrict yourself to one way of playing or the other and then just trust yourself if you know if you’ve done something wrong like I said You mean to get things wrong and be flexible in changing your approach changing your plan changing your strategy just trust yourself don’t go and there’s obviously a lot of stuff you can go out and read about FBO And the irony is you’re doing that right now by watching this.

There is a lot of sauce out there but ultimately you need to trust yourself. Be flexible enough in your thinking and you’re all going to make the right decision every now and again hopefully more often than not. And just back yourself and just go with it and you’ll hear a lot of people talking about that because a lot of times people will just watch and read and listen to too much stuff and they let other people make the decision for them. Yes you should look consume FBI content at the end of the day is your choice to make and trust yourself and be flexible so everyone has a different opinion on prices and whether you should build value at the start of the season so then have a better team going forward and more money to play with.

I’m not really a fan of Chasing value if you picked the right players they’ll build value anyway for you start the season. That’s probably the only time I will make an early transfer for a price rise because of the every point one you miss at the start of the season. If a player goes up by point one million or down one point one million and that does affect your ability to buy the next player but that’s going to happen at some point you can’t go for the whole season making any transfers just to chase those point one millions and once a play it does go down or does go up point one million then it doesn’t matter if the next four do that as well it’s going to cost you an extra half a million anyway which is probably what you’ll have to make by sending a player to be able to make that purchase.

So I don’t chase value that often. I do think in the opening kind of 3 4 weeks is probably an okay time to do it. But you want to leave your decisions as late as possible because you can get extra info by the end of the week. Info from training maybe minor injuries that have been picked up possibly team news from journalists and stuff like that. So I don’t like chasing Bonnie too much even at the start of the season personally. I think if you’re going to do it that might be the best time.

Don’t let a price dictate your decision unless you’re absolutely sure that the play you what you’re thinking of bringing in is one you want to get. Don’t do it just because the price is going up or down. I just think sometimes it’s better to let fate decide if it goes up it goes up you get a different player if you’re absolutely sure that’s the one you want there’s no real other matches to play like sometimes players have cut games or European Games. The potential to get injured in something like that offers some team news to come up for.

So for example they might get injured but another player might get in your shoes. They’re going to play further forward or someone else is going to come in who might be a better option. So I don’t even price changes to the to the end of the week. Well sorry transit to the end of the week I don’t really worry about pricing too much. If you do want to make them especially again at the start of the season when maybe that’s the best time to chase valley making no price rises and falls as soon as the season comes along.

As sites like FPL statistics don’t curve the UK which will monitor price rises and we’ll give you an indication of when a play is going to rise or fall in price down they’re not necessary 100 percent accurate or high they get better as the season goes on they give you a good indication but I wouldn’t let him make the decision for you because suddenly you see a play is about to rise and then don’t you bring them in and they might get injured or you might get some teen years which affects or would’ve affected that decision and then you might regret it.

So that’s my personal opinion on a lot of people. I’ve got different opinions and I’m sure they’ll leave a comment below let me know. So yeah let me know what you think. But for me I don’t really worry about price rises too much especially after the cut in the first few game weeks so I can’t believe I’ve made a separate video about chipset because they are something I could talk about for ages so I’ll try and keep this brief and basic give you my opinion on when I will probably look to use the chips not exact game weeks but kind of a particular strategy that I have of you don’t have to agree with this is my my opinion.

Wildcard Tips

So while cons you get two you get one in the first half of the season and one in the second half of the season for the second wildcard. So for the second half of the season I will save it around blanks and double game. So this should be a round game with twenty eight to thirty five double game weeks is basically when a team has missed out in a blank game weeks and maybe they’ve had a European fixture or a cup semi-final or whatever it might be because they couldn’t play their Premier League game and it is rearranged.

 They don’t play in that week and then it gets moved to a different game week where they’ll play twice so that’s a double game. So they can be quite hard to manage and they can also be quite profitable for points especially in this double game. So I save my wildcard around that time for the first wildcard. I think there’s a couple of ways you can play it. I don’t think there’s any harm doing after three or four game we should get a lot of info in these in those opening game weeks maybe players performing better than expected worse than expected.

Maybe as a planet star that we weren’t expecting and just general form and stuff like that formations and you do get some of that in preseason and not necessarily all of it. So once you know that much you know what mistakes you’ve made in your opening squad you could change in the first three or four game weeks but if you do well I don’t see any harm in saving and after that point you basically use it when you need it when you’ve got kind of four or five players that may be injured not doing well.

There’s other players coming into form that you don’t have any if you need to make a whole bunch of changes. It’s pretty bad sturdy Walcott especially if it’s early on. So that’s what I tend to use it free hit is basically like the wild card you can completely switch your team as long as it’s within budget you’re only get it for that one game week. So if you’re in game okay and you hit your free hit bond for game week nine you’ll get a different team. But then for game we tend to revert back to the game with eight teams.

So again I tend to save this for around the blank double game weeks is a little bit boring having to wait that long to use it but they really help manage those blank double game weeks. Bench Press you basically want to use after a wild card or maybe even in game week one you want to be able to set up your bench for the best fixtures you’re probably in reality is only worth 16 to 20 points so I wouldn’t completely overhaul your squad just to make the most of it. I tend to use it towards the end of the season again for those wildcards because we’ve built up a bit of team value when we can have better benches.

I don’t see an issue of using it in game week one if you’ve got a decent enough bench if you like me and you put in all your money in the first eleven you’ve got bench players that might not even play then it’s obviously not worth it. If you’re going for a different strategy then you absolutely can then triple current and I think it’s fine on a single or double game. I will save it for the double game because I want my high of trying to hit that big big Captain score but it doesn’t always work like that.

I’ve never had more than nine points and I’m absolutely rubbish. There are people that are captain the likes of McGuire Sanchez and Kane who have hit 25 points which is seventy five in total so the triple cuts basic gives you one extra Captain score over your normal cards and before players inform their they’re playing a weak. It’s a single game. There is no harm in doing that either. Patience is so important an Afghan I’ve kind of already touched. I think not make you rage Transformers is almost a skill in a transfer would basically be when a player doesn’t do too well for you at the weekend.

Maybe they miss a glorious chance a blank for the second week in a row and you really want to transfer them out on Saturday even though you’ve got the whole week to get more information. So I tend to try and be as patient as possible players will not always score when you want. Obviously you want to bring them in against the weaker teams and the better fixtures would those score but it doesn’t always happen in the first game with the second game we can generally when you bring a player in you want to do it for some when you want to keep the kind of four to six game weeks and really then it’s what do they score over all those game weeks rather than what do they score in the opening game.

 Yes it is much more fun and much easier if they do score in the first game we could get an assist or a clean sheet or whatever it might be but it doesn’t always happen. Don’t make drastic changes if you have got a plan. Then of course be flexible. But if you’re completely going against what you originally thought about just because of one one thing that happened or a couple of things that happened that didn’t quite go to plan. They’re making drastic changes is probably something you should kind of basically just rest on.

Just think about it for a few days come back and see if you still want to make the same decision. Generally if you’re annoyed at FBO the next day it won’t quite feel so bad so try and not make any drastic changes straight away. I’d like to make final decisions late again I’ve already kind of touched on this by the end of the week. Basically if you can wait till Saturday you’ve pretty much got all the information you’re going to get and there will be times when an injury won’t be spoken about or manager has a press conference.

Then they have a training session and a player picks up an injury. You don’t hear about it and that is frustrating and you’re trying to give yourself the best chance. I always try to make wise decisions on a Friday or Saturday have an idea of what you want to do but wait so you’ve got all the info to do it. And just remember that you made that choice for a reason. If you build your game with one score and it doesn’t do very well in the opening game we just remember you pick those players for more than just the opening game.

Yes. If after two or three weeks they’re still up for maybe you could while caused transferring some of them out but have some patience. Lastly and I know some people hate this they’ll say it’s boring but have a safe captaincy option one or two for me. For example party start the season with Salah and Sterling that’s why Salah is on the screen. Reliability is key. They can make a bad week okay and a good week. Great. Simply by holding. Maybe if they score 10 points they get 20.

Thanks to a hat trick that’s maybe 30 points plus I think go for safe captaincy is the best way. If you want to go for differentials and punts this stuff that you can do that with other players. I just think if you’re maybe putting on the play you’re not sure is gonna do well. Maybe you’re hoping they’ll do well they’ve got a really good fixture. For example Lucas Moore in Game 1 if he plays Aston Villa a home is a great fixture but he’s already a pump because you’re not sure exactly how they’re going to line up since then captained them as well as an even bigger punt.

You’re kind of relying on him not only do him well even when you’re not too sure but then to also get a for captaincy. So players like Salah and Sterling came even maybe a Guerra they score points reliably and I think as much as we want those big holes there is kind of 15 plus points holes get anything from your captain from kind of seven or eight points and above is great. And these kind of players like Salah like Stern and do that more often or not. So I think over the course of the seasons it’s really good.

I need to go for safe captaincy. Of course if you’re chasing towards the end of the season you might want to go a bit different from the off. I’d definitely like to play it safe so that’s my top tips. I’m sure you’ve got loads more. Like I said at the start of the video if you do you make sure you leave a comment below. If you enjoyed or if this helped out in any way let me know and give the video a thumbs up. Always appreciate subscribe finisher around here get very close to the start of the season now there’s loads over content if you want to watch it already and there’s loads more to come in the run up to game 1 and beyond throughout the entire season so hit subscribe and hit the notification about.

Otherwise I’ll leave it there. Like come on chefs describe all that good stuff and I’ll catch you next time. Chisel.

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FPL Fantasy Premier League 2019/20 First Picks

What’s up guys and welcome to FPL today. I’m the man in the know, JNO. Welcome to my first draft for FPL 2019-20. That’s right, the Fantasy Premier League game has dropped, so go to the website, build your team right now. Let’s start talking about Fantasy Premier League again, not that I ever stopped. Guys, today is a look at my initial first team, also with some stats from last year to back up some of my choices.

Now, there will be a lot of change over the next month or so, when I get to start seeing players during preseason, I get to figure out who’s going to be a starter, and also more transfers taking place. This is my first initial go at picking a team. Let me know your thoughts on it in the comments down below. Before we get to that, just a quick word from my sponsor, thank you so much to Fantasy Football Fix for partnering with this channel, helping me create more and more content, and better content for you guys.

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Anyway, let’s start with the video, and we start off with the goalkeepers, and I’m not going to go into too much detail here because, to be honest, I was looking for a 4.5 million goalkeeper and a four million backup because I wanted to spend as little in goal as possible. This year it seems that they price goalkeepers slightly higher than before. As most of the people that were 4.5 million last year are now 5 million, so it looks very difficult to go and get you that £4.5 million option with a good backup on the bench. There are some for the promoted sides, but the only one I could find from the teams that didn’t get promoted was Ryan and Button from Brighton.

Now, what I may be forced to do is to go for a £5 million goalkeeper with a £4 million bench option behind him, but at the moment we have started off with Ryan and Button to give me the most amount of funds to spend elsewhere. We then go to the defense, and we start off with the two big boys in defense. We got Lucas Digne and Trent Alexander-Arnold, six million for Digne, seven million for Trent Alexander-Arnold.

I believe that you’re going to have to spend some money in defense this year, and I’m committing to spending more in midfield than usual. This is the start of me spending more in defense than I usually do. Seven million option right off the bat, also with the six million pound option. I would like Laporte in there as well, but the problem with that is, he is also quite expensive. I’m not sure I’m ready to commit to three really heavy hitters in defense until I can at least figure out if there’s some four million pound options to go on the bench.

Trent Alexander-Arnold last year got 185 points, he didn’t outscore Van Dyke or Robertson, however, he got seven less clean sheets than Robertson, but had one more goal and one more assist than Robertson did from less games. If he does nail down that starting spot as the right back for Liverpool, I do think he can potentially outscore Robertson this season. I’ve gone with Trent Alexander Arnold, but of course, it would be very easy to move to Robertson if I do need to do so. Then with Lucas Digne, it’s six million, Everton’s defense looked a lot better in the second half or the late periods of last season.

I’m hoping that Everton continue to improve as a side and that Digne can get more clean sheets, he got 12 anyway, but if he can get more clean sheets, and potentially more goals and assists, he could have a stellar season this year. He actually underperformed on assists, he actually had expected assists of 7.2 for last season and only got five and got four goals when his expected goals was a 1.7. He’s definitely got an eye for goal, especially from distance, maybe on some set pieces, from the free kicks as well.

However, I will be looking into penalty takers, depending on how VAR affects the Premier League this season. If there are defenders that take penalties, they could come into the side, if they’re around the Digne budget area, they might come in for Digne. Then we have three 4.5 million defenders who I plan to rotate around the fixtures for the first four to six game weeks. We have Charlie Taylor, Joel Ward, and Mathieu Targett. Now, Joel Ward and Taylor literally are just so they can rotate with Targett, Targett is the one that I have some hope in. He only got 36 points last year, and no clean sheets.

However, he did get one goal and three assists, and there’s rumors that Bertrand could potentially be looking to leave Southampton, which would open the door for Targett to be more consistently in the first 11 at Southampton. I’m hoping for big things from Targett, but of course, I’ll be keeping an eye on other 4.5 million pound defender options. Now we move on to the big hitters as we bring in Mohamed Salah for 12.5 million, 0.5 million cheaper than he was last season at the start of game, and sterling now at 12 million. Now, these two were the highest point scorers from last season.

I believe that midfielders, especially midfielders that can score and get assists at the rate that these two do, unless I can find other options that will do similar, are must-haves for your side. Midfielders generally, last year and in season before, have outscored forwards which will explain to you why my forward line is a lot weaker than you’ve probably seen me pick before.

Mohamed Salah, 259 points last season, 22 goals, 12 assists, 136 shots on goal, 31 more than the next-highest midfielder, which was Paul Pogba, 95 shots from inside the box, 22 more than the next-highest midfielder, 64 shots on-target, 14 more than the next-highest midfielder, with 30 big chances which was 6 more than the next-highest midfielder. Expected goals of 23.7, so he underperformed his expected goals, and he created 68 chances with 45 of them resulting in a shot on target, with expected assist of 11.9 which means he just outperformed his expected assists. Salah, especially at 0.5 million cheaper, was coming straight into my side.

Then we have Sterling, 12 million, 234 points from 17 goals and 15 assists last year, 77 shots on goal, 62 from inside the box, 39 on target, 20 big chances with 64 chances created and 44 of those chances resulting in a shot on target. I needed these two boys in the side. Now, what I will say about the rest of my team is I do feel Man City light, which will be something I need to rectify as I look at this team, but at the moment Sterling and Salah had to come in. There is, of course, the option of bringing in Kevin de Bruyne who is cheaper, and if he has a season where he isn’t plagued by injuries, we know what kind of player he can be.

There’s a chance for me to bring in de Bruyne for Sterling, which would give me more money to spend elsewhere, but at the moment I’m going with Salah and Sterling. We then move on to Gylfi Sigurdsson at 8 million, he was the best scoring midfielder under 10 million pounds last year. That is why he’s come in with 180 points from 13 goals and six assists, and I also have high hopes for that Everton side to keep improving, so hopefully, Sigurdsson can keep getting those points for my FPL side.

Then we’ve also got Milivojevic, which I’m hoping he gets a lots of penalties thanks to VAR coming in this season, and with 166 points last year he was no slouch anyway. Of course, this could be changed if Zaha does leave Crystal Palace because he was the one winning a lot of the penalties that Milivojevic put away, so we’ll have to wait and see with Milivojevic. I could also change Milivojevic to Zaha, so that’s the wait and see with what is happening at Crystal Palace at the moment.

Then, as for Neves, again, someone on a set piece duty, takes penalties as well, so hopefully, at 5.5 million he can improve on what he did last season and get me some points, again, hopefully, thanks to the interference of VAR. Then finally we have the front three, we’ve got Callum Wilson at 8 million, Jota at 6.5 and Long at 5 million. Now, that looks a lot weaker from the forward lines I usually pick.

However, I’m believing that the value is in midfield and defense this year, so I’m going with that in my first draft. Now, Wilson at 8 million, there’s potential he could go, he could stay at Bournemouth, but Wilson was quite explosive last season. Now, Jimenez does come in at 0.5 million cheaper, I could potentially look at him, but having brought in Jota, I’ve gone with Wilson as the other man.

Now, if Wilson moves, depending on what is happening with that situation in the move, I could always downgrade to Joshua King in that Bournemouth side. Wilson got 168 points last year from 14 goals and 12 assists, 65 shots on goal, 62 of them are from inside the box, 30 on target, he had 29 big chances, so he definitely gets the chances, it’s just how many of them he can put away, his expected goals of 17.3 so he actually underperformed what he was expected to get.

Hopefully, Callum Wilson can have a good 19/20 season. Then we got Jota, 139 points from nine goals, eight assists. However, in the second half of the season, especially near the tail end, again, he seemed to be on form, and I’m hoping he can carry that form into this new season, so, hopefully, Jota will be an astute pick that is a million pounds cheaper than Jimenez. Then we got Shane long at five million now, only 66 points last year. Long it is pretty much bench fodder, but he does play, he can get goals at times, and, hopefully, when I do need him to come off of the bench, he can get the job done for me.

Of course, if I can find another cheap forward option I could be considering them instead. That is my team, so, at the moment, I’m not going to lie, I look at it and whilst I agree with some of my picks full-heartedly and believe that I’m picking players I need in my side, I look at that team and I’m not over the moon. It will have some tinkering, so what we’re going to do is once a week we will come back to this and revisit the side that I currently have as we get closer and closer to the start of the season. We will also cover transfers and such in these videos, so you know the reasons why I have made the moves I have made.

Feel free in the comments down below to have your say on my sight. With all that being said, thank you so much for tuning in to the official drop of the game and my first team draft. I hope you have enjoyed it, I hope you like the new graphics. If you want to support the channel in any way, check out the various links in the description down below including our sponsor Fantasy Football Fix where all the stats came from in this video. Also, please do subscribe and hit that like button to support the video and also hit that notification bell so you know when my videos go Live. I’ve been JNO, this has been FPL Today and remember it’s all about the game.

How To Play Fantasy Premier League

How To Play Fantasy Premier League

A Beginners Guide By FPL TV

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Hello there, and thanks for tuning in to FPL TV. The number one destination for creative and informative Fantasy Premier League content. Now, if you’re not one of FPL TV’s existing subscribers, then let me guess, you’re here because, a, you have a genuine interest in playing the Fantasy Premier League this year or, b, your colleagues in work won’t stop banging on about it. You’ve been pressured into joining what they are calling a mini league and now in some pitiful attempt at fitting in, you’ve ended up here. The good news is if you fit into either of these categories, you’ve come to the right place.

All you have to do now is hit subscribe, stay tuned to FPL TV’s videos, and prepare to learn some tips and principles to genuinely improve your FPL rankings. Let’s start with the very basics and get on with our five-minute crash course in how to play the Fantasy Premier League. Warning; playing FPL is highly addictive, it may cause stress, a loss of free time, a resentment towards friends or colleagues and a dislike to football in general, please, FPL responsibly. If you are new to FPL, you’re probably thinking “What the hell is it?” The FPL or Fantasy Premier League in full is the official and by far most popular fantasy football game of the English Premier League.

Home to over 4.5 million managers last season alone. To sign up, all you have to do is head over to fantasy.premierleague.com, hit sign up, and follow the on-screen instructions, which will simply involve putting in some of your details such as your email, your name, your password, and then responding to a confirmation email. Great. Now that you’re signed up, we move on to the most important part, your team selection. In FPL you must select a squad of 15 players in total from all players currently participating in the Barclays Premier League. You can’t just select any/all player though, you are limited to two goalkeepers, five Defenders, five midfielders and three forwards.

You can only select a maximum of just three players per club. You’re also limited to a fantasy transfer budget of a £100 million. However, the better the player the more they’re going to cost you. You’ve got to be thrifty with your spending. Each player has their own individual price based on FPL potential and past season performances. A high caliber player, for example, Harry Kane is going to cost you a lot more than a striker from a recently promoted clubs. Player prices will change as the season progresses with values moving up or down depending on their performances and popularity. Again, you’ve got to remain vigilant with your spending budget and keep an eye on those transfer values.

Once you’re happy with how your team is looking, hit submit, and now comes another big decision. Your team name. Now, you must be informed that having a good team name is engraved into FPL folklore and a bad one can lose you some serious brownie points with friends and colleagues alike. Get creative, avoid anything cringy and you’ll be on to a winner. Team names are changeable throughout the season though, so don’t panic too much if you can’t decide right away, just make sure to make it a good one. You’ve picked your team. Now, how do you score points? All the points within FPL will be based on your player’s real-life performances.

If your striker scores in real life, he’ll get you points in the game. Perhaps your midfielder gets an assist, he’ll get you points, or maybe your defender or goalkeeper keeps a clean sheet, he doesn’t concede any goals, then he’ll get you points as well. A breakdown of all points players can pick up from each position can be found under the rule section of the official FPL website. Each game week you must select 11 players from your original 50-man squad to actively score you points for that particular week. The players that you place on your bench won’t score you points for that week unless someone else in your team doesn’t play and then they’ll automatically be substituted in.

During every game week, you’ll also have to select your team captain. This is a hugely important decision for FPL managers because your captain will earn double the points for that week. Your team is submitted, but some of your players are underperforming and you want to make some transfers. Well, on FPL you’re permitted to make as many transfers as you like from week to week. However, there’s a catch, only one transfer per week is free, each and every other additional change will take minus four points from your overall score. The more transfers you make within a game week the more points you lose and therefore the bigger risk you take.

If you choose not to use your free transfer for one game week it will carry over to the next but you can only ever have a maximum of two free transfers per game week. It won’t ever increase to any more than two. Lastly for the basics of our FPL crash course is your chips. FPL chips are essentially power-ups that can be utilized at any point during the season. These chips or power-ups are the Bench Boost where for one week your bench players all become active in your point scoring. The Triple Captain where for one week your team captain will get his points multiplied by three rather than two and the Free Hit chip, which is a brand-new chip for this season.

This allows you to completely change your team for one week only. Selecting any place that you like within your budget before then switching back to your original squad the following week. Finally, the Wild Card which allows you to completely overhaul your squad permanently permitting you to unlimited transfers for a game week at no cost to your points. All the chips can only be used once per season except for the Wild Card which can be played twice once before December the 31st and once after. Of course, all of this information can be found more in detail on the official website.

Be sure to stay tuned and subscribe to FPL TV for future videos on how best to utilize these chips. That concludes our five-minute crash course on how to play the Fantasy Premier League. If that’s the only information you came here for, then I guess our time together is done. I wish you all the best of luck this season and a like would be greatly appreciated on this video. However, if you liked what you saw and want to see more then be sure to support my channel. Hit the subscribe button and stay tuned for lots more FPL videos throughout the season; including tips, advice, transfers, team selection, a bit of comedy and satire here and there and much much more.

If you do have any further questions, then please feel free to leave a comment below. Take care and remember, FPL responsibly.

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How To Win At Fantasy Premier League (FPL)

How To Win At Fantasy Premier League (FPL)

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What’s up everyone. Welcome to this video in which we’re going to be looking at how you can win a Fantasy Premier League. First things first, why should you even listen to me? A couple of years ago, I actually created a Fantasy Premier League beginner’s guide. It was an article with an infographic and it got quite a lot of attention, got shared on a few websites around the world.

Over the last couple of years, I’ve been gradually improving it, changing the format a bit and now it’s been viewed by I think over 17,000 people on the Beating Betting website alone, that’s my website. If you want to check it out and learn about that, you can do so, there’s a link in the description below. It’s not just been viewed on this website, the infographic has been shared on various other websites around the world, newspapers, football forums fantasy football forums.

It’s been viewed thousands and thousands of times on Reddit as well. I’m pretty confident in the fact that the guide is pretty good. It also tends to get really good feedback. I originally created it to be a beginner guide to what is beginner friendly. A lot of people told me that they’ve been playing the game for years and they still find the guide useful, they still find tips that they can use to improve their game.

You should find this video helpful if it’s your first season playing or even if you’re an experienced player that doesn’t quite finish as high up in the rankings as they want to. It’s also worth noting that everything I say in this video is typically regarded as best practice. That doesn’t mean that you can’t deviate away from the strategies I talk about, it doesn’t mean that it’s going to be the best thing to do week in week out or season in season out.

However, over the course of 10, 15 years that Fantasy Premier League’s been running, these strategies are what helped people win. There may be some things that I say which you disagree with, and that’s fine, you can jump on them in the comments below. However, please take everything I say with a pinch of salt. As I say it’s general best practice advice and you’re more than welcome to try different things if you want.

If you’re interested in winning your mini-leagues and obtaining a high overall ranking, watch this video through to the end, hit that like button if you find anything useful and subscribe to the channel if you’re interested in more football, fantasy football and betting related videos going forward.

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The first thing that we’re going to talk about is how you should be spending your initial budget and the breakdown between goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders, and forwards and how much money you should typically be spending on each position. First up, we’ve got goalkeepers and I recommend that you should be spending between 9 and 10 million on your goalkeepers.

This means you could have a 4.5 and a 4.5 rotation option, you can have a 5.0 and a 4.5, you can have two 5.0s if you want, although this isn’t really advised, that’s probably not going to be the most profitable strategy because you’re tying up quite a lot money on the bench there. You’re going to have to bench at least half a million’s worth of player every single week. That’s probably not the best strategy.

You could go for two 4.5s, a 5.0 and a 4.5, you could go for a 5.5 and a 4.5. Again, that’s a little bit expensive but it could be done. My line of thinking is if you’re spending 5.5 on a goalkeeper, then you should really be playing them every single week. That includes 6.0 goalkeepers as well. You should probably be taking the risk and pairing them with a 4.0 goalkeeper.

Even if they don’t play, you can’t invest in 10.5 in your goalkeepers, in my opinion. I just think that’s way too much money to be tying up in the least profitable position on the pitch.

Defenders

Moving on to defenders now. I typically recommend that you spend between 23.5 and 26 million on your defenders. What kind of breakdown would you get from this?

Well, you could have two premium defenders this is 5.5 to 6.5 range, you could combine those with three 4.5 or even 4.0 defenders if you find some that are playing. That typically is a good balance in your defense or you could go with the three lower premium brackets. These are the 5.0 to 5.5 range and pair those with cheaper defenders as well as your backups. It’s a common beginner mistake to overinvest in your defense.

Remember that over the course of however many years, Fantasy Premier League has been running three at the back formations have almost always been the most profitable if not every single year. That’s why you don’t want to overinvest, but you don’t want to be playing four or five defenders every single week. Yes, there are going to be times when playing more than three defenders is the most valuable strategy.

Over the long term, this has been proven to be not the best strategy. With regards to the types of defenders you’re picking, you’re going to want to look to those that keep a large amount of clean sheets and those that get forward, those that take set pieces, those that make aggressive runs regularly and get crosses in or those that are center backs and they go for set pieces and they get their head on a lot of crosses. The general advice there is those that keep clean sheets and those that could potentially get attacking returns as well.

Midfielders

Let’s move on to midfielders now. In the midfield, you could probably have two or three premium midfielders and the premium prices in the midfield range of 8.5 to 13 million. You’re then going to want to pair these with one or two lower value midfielders that are still reasonably priced usually. Remember, price doesn’t always dictate performance, but it’s all about balance and best practice.

You’re then going to want one or two midfielders less often this six to eight range, maybe 5.8 to eight range and you’re going to want a backup midfielder at 4.5, that is if you’re going to be playing a four in midfield formation which is three up front, which is 3-4-3 pars, traditionally being the best formation that you could possibly play. However, you don’t have to have a 4.5 backup, you could have 3-5-2 formation where your backup is in the forwards, but we’ll move on to that shortly.

A top tip for this section is another mistake that people make is they have something that is called a strong front eight. What I mean by having a strong front eight is that you’ve got eight players where you’ve invested the funds spread out between them all evenly. That is not a good strategy because you’re going to be leaving to much money on the bench and therefore you’re not going to be earning these points in your team.

This is why it’s good to always make sure you’ve got a backup option that you know is going to be your bench option each week and you want to make sure that this player is someone that plays 90 minutes every week. If you do get an injury or a random rotation in your team, you want to make sure that this 4.5 or backup midfielder does fill the role into two or three points at the minimum.

With regards to the types of midfielder you need, you generally want to look to the most selfish players possible. Now, whilst selfish players aren’t perhaps the greatest in real life football teams, they are perfect for your fantasy football team because they’re going to get a lot of shots, therefore they’re going to pick up a lot of goals, hopefully, they might pick up a lot of assists from rebounds.

If they do manage to get a couple of goals that likely going to be in the bonus points as well. You also want to try to look towards set-piece takers corners, free kicks, penalties as well, especially penalties you want to try and avoid defensive midfielders, they might be very good in real life but they are not good at fantasy at all.

Forwards

Moving on to the forwards now. Most people will have two premium forwards at least, sometimes people will have three, but generally, this isn’t the best play. You want to look between two premium forwards as in the 9 to 13 price range and a backup which is in the 6 to 8.5 range, or if you are going to just play two upfront and have five in the midfield, then you can look towards a 4.5 or perhaps a 5.0 upfront, although again a 5.0 would tie upfronts on your bench. You could be using that half a million in your team elsewhere.

An important point to make that is if you are bringing in an 11 million player or more of them in your team, that’s throughout the midfielders and the forwards, you need to be captaining them almost all the time to make that a good decision. If you’re looking to have three players in your team that cost 11 million or more, probably better off spending some of those funds elsewhere and having just the one or two.

Think of it like this, if you’ve got 16 million to spend and you pair it between an 11 million player and a five million player or you look at two eight million players, those two eight million players are probably going to outscore the 11 million and the five million when you’re not captaining any of those players. This is because it’s very, very hard to find a good five million point scorer, but it’s not that hard to find good point scorers in the eight range.

When it comes to picking your best players, make sure that you can captain them regularly. If you’re spending 13 million on a certain player, you’re going to want to make sure that you captain almost every single week. The types of forwards that you want to look at, you want to make sure that they’re nailed on, they’re guaranteed to start every single game, they’re selfish again, they’re hopefully on penalties.

You also want to look to teams that play one upfront a lot of the time. This isn’t always the case, but you want to make sure they’re the focal point of the attack, you don’t want them to be sharing returns ideally unless they’re very, very cheap. Let’s move on from the team structure now and talk about some of the other things. I want to stick on the topic of choosing your players, first of all, and I want to talk about the myth of owning unique players or differentials.

Now the myth is the owning differentials and the key to rising up the leaderboard rapidly. These differential players that are typically owned by less than 10% of the game or maybe even less than 5% of the game. The main reason that this isn’t a good idea is because of the risk-reward scenario. If 25% of the game own one player and you think you’re being smart by picking another player, the risk is if the player does well that you don’t own, you’re going to be behind so many people and playing catch up won’t be that easy.

The secret to Fantasy Football success is actually playing incredibly boring most of the time. You want to cover the players that most people own unless you know they’re a terrible option. I’m going to name Cante in this. A lot of people always select Cante but he’s a terrible Fantasy Premier League option.

Generally speaking, covering the highly owned, highly performing players is by far the best option you can do. You want to play it safe wherever possible, keep yourself in the game until the end. If you need to catch up, if you need to make a charge for the win or a charge up the overall rankings then the last four to five weeks or maybe even a less than that, maybe even the last two to three weeks, they’re your best time to be looking towards differentials.

Don’t try and take punts. Be smart all through the season because you just won’t be victorious doing this, I can assure you. Fantasy Premier League is a marathon and not a sprint.

Transfers

Let’s talk about transfers and wildcard now. In Fantasy Premier League you get one free transfer every week and if you don’t use it, it rolls over to the next week, but you can only have a maximum of two.

There are three important transfer rules that I want you to try and follow. First of those is that using two free transfers in one go is significantly better than using one free transfer two weeks running. This is because it gives you flexibility to change your team structure around. You can swap a midfielder and a forward out and you could go for a premium option in one and swap them around, so you’ve now got a premium option in the other position.

Flexibility, you don’t have if you only have one free transfer. It also gives you a safety net if something goes wrong. What if you don’t really need to make a change in your team then suddenly the next week you’ve got a transfer you want to make and you pick up an injury or a suspension? It just gives you that safety blanket that can keep you comfortable in some potentially difficult times.

The second tip, and this one is hotly debated, but I do emphasize it, do not take unnecessary point sets. Every additional transfer that you want to take that isn’t a free one, it will cost you four points. Now, a lot of people will say actually taking four point hits is profitable, but you can gain team value and gaining team value is very important, but that isn’t really the point I’m making. The point I’m making is not to take unnecessary ones. If you’re looking to build some team value here or if you really need to take a minus four, then take it only if it’s necessary to your overall game strategy.

Most of the time minus fours, won’t be profitable, especially if you’re taking them regularly because it means you’re not giving the players enough time to actually earn a profit on the transfer. The overall winner of the game will almost always have taken hardly any point sets. You can argue that they do this because they’ve already got a good team, they’re already winning and they don’t need to.

Yes, that is a good point, but look at the people that finish in the top 10K on the top 20K, very rarely they’ll take two points with a hit. They’ll always be outliers, there will always be people in those top rankings that have them so, but a safer strategy is usually the way to go. The final rule regarding transfers is try to leave them as late as possible. This is another one that’s hotly debated same with the minus four thing.

Again, it’s try to leave them as late as possible. If you can’t leave it any later than the Monday, with the games on a Saturday, then make it then, this could be because you’re going to lose 0.2 million in transfers. Personally, I don’t really mind losing 0.2 every now and again. If you can’t wait any longer, if you actually can’t wait perhaps you won’t be able to afford the players any longer, make the transfer, but leave it as late as you possibly can.

If you’ve already got half a million in the bank and you’re going to make transfer, wait until the Friday night or the Saturday morning. Don’t take unnecessary risks what if that player or another one of your players gets injured in training throughout the week or perhaps they’ve got cup games in the week. This is very, very important as always FA Cup, League Cup, Champions League, Europa League taking place in the middle of the week, you want to try and make sure you make the transfers after those games wherever possible.

Wildcards

Wildcards, I’m not going to go into too much detail around wildcards. However, generally speaking, I think it’s best to not plan to use your wildcard. A lot of people plan to use an early one and this is fine. You can often pick up early value from an early wildcard, increase your team value. I don’t like to plan to use it.

What I like to think is yes, I will probably look to use it early, but I don’t want to. I don’t want to have to do that. I want to give myself the flexibility to carry on long term if I want. This means in my game week one team, I’m not going to pick loads of players I know are going to be rested or rotated out of the squad in a couple of weeks time. I might pick one or two players at most that I know what we dropped sometime after the first few weeks.

However, I want to make sure that that wildcard can be a backup option if I need it. You’re going to need to use that first one before the end of December and usually I’ll use it sometime between game week three or four at the earliest and probably game week 10 or 11 at the latest. You don’t always have to use it if you’re doing really well. You don’t even have to use it.

The truth is there’s no real best time to use this first wildcard, but it definitely is a best time to use that second one that comes after January in the second half of the year. Do not use this second wildcard at a time when it’s not a double game week coming up. Double game week is when teams get to playing more than once in the same game week. I know that sounds very obvious and self-explanatory, but it’s within the same game week, so that they actually earn twice as many points potentially as they would normally.

You want to use your wildcard around these time periods, so you can get as many double game week players in as possible and captain them and earn as many points as you possibly can. I know I said avoid taking point sets a little earlier, but honestly, if you’ve got two or three injuries in your team and it’s February time, and you’re thinking I need to use my wildcard, don’t do it.

Either use your bench options that’s what they’re there for, take a week or two of lower scores because you will earn a significant amount of points by timing your second wildcard correctly or just take a small point set. Do not use that wildcard and do not use the next trip that we’re going to look up either the free hit.

Free Hit

Free hit is incredibly valuable, but it’s best used in a blank game week. Blank game week is when teams miss out. Those with a double game week have to have a blank game week at some point, otherwise they would have too many games in the fixture list and that wouldn’t work out properly. What you want to do is you want to have that wildcard to bring in the double game weak players.

Be then want to be able to use the free hit to bring in blank game week players. These players will only play for one week and then the free hit expires and your old team returns i.e. that double game week team that you’ve already built. Save your free hit for blank game weeks. Trust me. Triple captain. You also want to use this triple captain in a double game where possible.

Many many players have been burned over the years by waiting for these double game weeks. It’s just variants it’s a short-term bad luck, the EV or the expected value of using your triple captain in a double game which is significantly higher than a single game week, there’s always going to be a good player with good expected value in a week.

People will say, “Oh, I’d rather have a good player playing at home against a rotation candidate than playing two half-decent fixtures in a double game week in which they’re probably gonna get rotated in one.” I’d rather have a player playing for 135, 140 minutes minimum across two games than that player playing for 90 minutes in one.

Something that’s often overlooked is that when they are playing a lower or weaker team, they could be rested themselves in that game or they could start to do well they could be two or three nil up and then gets subbed off and save for a more important match. That’s always an important factor to remember as well. Expected value of a triple captain in a double game week is incredibly high compared to a single game week, almost always.

Bench Boost

The bench boost, that’s pretty similar as well hopefully there’s two or three decent game weeks in a season. You can use the bench boost in one. The general strategy is something like this. Yes, it’s going to vary. You’re going to want to use your wildcard before a double game week, a week before. You’ve then going to want to triple captain or bench boost in the first double game week, you will then usually have a blank so you will free hit.

Then after that one you will hopefully have another double game week within one or two weeks where you can use either the triple captain or the bench boost, the one that you didn’t already use. It’s worth noting if that wasn’t already clear, then you can only use one chip each week and that includes your wildcard as well.

Conclusion - Get Winning At Fantasy Football

What do you think of the tips that have been given in this video? I’d love to hear it from you. Let me know if you think they’re good or bad if you agree or disagree with certain parts. Make sure you drop a comment down below. If you have found this video useful, hit that like button and share it with your friends as well. It’s always better to have a competitive mini league.

You don’t let your friends give up after a few weeks. Make sure they know these tips and that you can keep it competitive until the end of the year. Hopefully, you can use this to win your mini league. You are interested in more fantasy football or betting related content, hit that subscribe button as well. I look forward to seeing you again in another video and until next time, have a great day.