Crabtree Clinches FPL Crown

9 and 20 are most applicable to me this season. 🙂 Good list

Good post

Great points to have in mind come GW 1 🙂
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Excellent post.

Some good comments.

I am not sure about point 3. I see many focusing on ownership, but as it is a marathon (point 20) it is better to maximize expected points than to make worse transfers due to ownership levels.

Point 4 is also questionable. There are some good examples where form has been a good prediction of future points. Just make sure you are looking at form in actual numbers rather than FPL points.

1) Follow most bandwagons most pay off into points and if not the price rises are helpful
2) cheap rotating keepers is the one (picks/Heaton)
3) don't overthink, go with your gut more. (I transferred in Giroud last day because of stats) wanted vardy and Lallana, got coutinho and Giroud
4) AOA for GW38 next year.

As an additional point, I've been using SOT this year as a good recognition of form, and it's tended to work.. just make sure players are nailed on. Will be doing this again next year and looking at some good defence rotations.

Roll on the july launch

Nice tips, although 4 and 19 are slightly contradictory. My Bench Boost was a mess and I certainly won't be adamant next season on playing it in a Double Gameweek, I think TC is a must but BB is only 4 extra games max. Looking at the GW38 fixtures, it would probably have worked quite well there to be honest. Oh well, 3 months off now 🙂

21) Never captain Benteke
22/ Never captain Ibra

If I'd followed those snippets I wouldn't have been marooned at 1.6m at Xmas...!.

#19 form over fixtures. Not always true and has two sides to this.

One side is the Benteke (very difficult fixtures but has form) over Negredo (easy fixtures but bad form).

The opposite side is that dgw36 captained Hazard (MID) instead of Sanchez (tot, sou) since he had some blanks and Arsenal having a patchy away form. Sadly to missed out the other half portion of his points sadly.

It’s a nice list thanks fella.

I’d just like to add I think the most important thing is flexibility and it’s a lesson I’ve consistently got to relearn. I think inflexibility comes out in a number of different ways and causes us all problems.

Too often people back themselves into a corner by over stretching up front and not being able to afford an in form midfielder or going over the top on one particular team and not being able to draft in an in form player from the same team. If it's a one to one swap it’s easy to make, if you have to make 2 changes you’re going to hesitate, if you have to make surgery more often than not you’re not getting that player in and that could be the difference in your entire season.

It's most important at the start of the season - we all agonized on whether to have Aguero and Ibra in our teams this season, those that went with both were right, not just because they both had a blinding start but also if they didn’t we could easily down grade 1 to Costa, Those that maxed out their £100m without Ibra and or/ Aguero had to spend points right from the off to get them in.

My view is you should start with flexibility in mind - have a balanced team, don't fill your bench with the lowest price players (though that one 4.0 defender is probably fine) - keep some value throughout the squad ready for any player(s) to emerge to be within reach whatever team, position or value they are.

Flexibility is also required when it comes to our long thought out and best laid plans. Stubbornness can be a killer – I wont linger on this point because I think its been made many times before.

My final point is that we need to be flexible with our pre – conceptions and this is always alluded to. We are experienced so we base our plans trying to use this advantage and then we stick to them because we believe we know best as we’ve seen it all before – until we’re wondering why those part timers and ghost teams drift past us – for example thinking Costa is going to get that 5th yellow, or away teams wont score many goals on the last day of the season. We sometimes try to be too smart for our own good - I remember a period where people were favouring 3 - 5 - 2 on a basic premise that midfielders get extra points for scoring so logic dictates you have more in midfield than attack so stuck to it- that was looking for a pattern that wasn't there, the simple fact was that teams needed to be sufficiently flexible to accommodate for the fact that midfielders were outscoring and attackers and there were no mid-price forward options, but that will switch back soon - I myself spent far too long in my 3 - 4 - 3 formation because it’s just what I had known was best. If what’s done you well last season is going to pot change it up because no season is the same.

Knowledge from forums, scoutcasts and experience is great but don’t forget your basics – such as form and fixtures – and be flexible in your pre – conceptions.

21.) Unless Kane is injured, own Kane.