Nor-Cal Villan Posted September 7 Share Posted September 7 Not an exceptional read by any measure but hey, still got a week of the infernal international break to kill https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/sep/07/how-to-become-best-fantasy-premier-league-manager-in-world? Quote One Saturday afternoon last February, a letting agent from Slough called Sundeep Jaswal sat down to watch Sheffield United play Aston Villa on TV. A lifelong Liverpool fan in his mid-50s, Jaswal had no interest in rooting for either team; but he did want one player, Villa’s Ollie Watkins, to perform as well as possible. Every year since the late 2000s, Jaswal had entered the Premier League’s annual points-gathering competition, Fantasy Premier League, or FPL, which runs concurrently with the top-flight English season and rewards armchair managers such as Jaswal for their foresight when it comes to anticipating which professional footballers will play well from week to week. For many football fans, the fantasy has come to assume as much importance as the reality. Jaswal was one FPL manager among 10,904,158 registered as entrants in last season’s competition. He had backed Watkins, that February afternoon, and when the striker scored a goal and set up two more, Jaswal climbed up the global ranks to become the top fantasy manager in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuwabatake Sanjuro Posted Saturday at 14:38 Share Posted Saturday at 14:38 Tried to differentiate by not captaining Haaland, not working unless Morgan Rogers does something special this evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nor-Cal Villan Posted Saturday at 16:20 Share Posted Saturday at 16:20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted Saturday at 22:48 VT Supporter Share Posted Saturday at 22:48 funny old game isn't it. my 2 keepers are sels away to liverpool and muric away to brighton...20 points between them. shame about the rest of my team (except ollie) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a-k Posted yesterday at 08:48 Share Posted yesterday at 08:48 9 hours ago, tomav84 said: funny old game isn't it. my 2 keepers are sels away to liverpool and muric away to brighton...20 points between them. shame about the rest of my team (except ollie) I was hoping for Sanchez to fall ill so I could get Muric off my bench. Funny old game... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted yesterday at 11:50 Moderator Share Posted yesterday at 11:50 57 points with absolutely no-one to play Think I need Newcastle to lose without scoring and the NLD to be 1-1 with obscure scorers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted yesterday at 17:31 VT Supporter Share Posted yesterday at 17:31 44 points all out. poor. feels like i should be ranked lower than 2 million so i'll actually take it. 1 more week to suffer through before i wildcard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farlz Posted yesterday at 18:09 Share Posted yesterday at 18:09 Big Gabriel return ended up putting me on 62 ntb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nor-Cal Villan Posted yesterday at 18:15 Share Posted yesterday at 18:15 42 minutes ago, tomav84 said: 44 points all out. poor. feels like i should be ranked lower than 2 million so i'll actually take it. 1 more week to suffer through before i wildcard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted yesterday at 18:18 Share Posted yesterday at 18:18 (edited) I’m all done on 66. Onana saving the pen was a nice “win”. Dalot also picked up 11 Edited yesterday at 18:18 by Genie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nor-Cal Villan Posted yesterday at 18:21 Share Posted yesterday at 18:21 It’s believed that John McKay never actually said this but it’s a legendary quote and it 100% applies to my FPL team 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a-k Posted 11 hours ago Share Posted 11 hours ago (edited) 0.1 short of being able to bring in Ollie for Isak...looks like I'll need to go for a third 4.0 DEF Edited 11 hours ago by a-k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted 11 hours ago VT Supporter Share Posted 11 hours ago (edited) WC'ing; haven't had any awful start but really need to fix some holes and get Ollie/Palmer/Salah in Edited 11 hours ago by StefanAVFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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