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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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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.

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