Cooper return sees Struijk drop to Leeds bench for Yorkshire derby

I am getting some Arsenal and I think you should too

Looks decent, I'm thinking of something similar

Oh and Bruno

Gundo is your best chance

With Gundogan possible

Gundogan your only hope

6. Lucky luck - everything you pick turns to gold aka Chucky or Fudgy

I wouldn’t really call it skill rather than decent, consistent decision making and timing

Other way around. 75% skill.

7. Lucky Luciano

More interesting piece would be about reducing bad luck for your team

Pick non international players
Pick captains
Pick penalty takings
Pick keepers with best history of saving pens
Always have 2 on bench that play each week

Good luck in getting it published.

I agree it's 75% luck, 25% skill in any given week. But over 38 gameweeks it's almost 100% skill. All the variance in the luck cancels itself out, leaving only skill as a determinant of rank. The only place luck really comes in is the difference between a top 1K finish, and winning the thing.

If it was 75% luck it means 3 players could completely randomly select a starting 11 players based on nothing but picking names out of a hat and they'd beat the final 1 player out of a group of 4.

That obviously isn't the case. 1 player choosing obviously good FPL picks will do better than 3 players picking an 11 out of a hat.

You need to have the initial decision making to make sense. The final part of your "good on paper" team actually playing 90 minutes of real football is where the luck enters.

It isn't 75/25 luck. It's closer to 60/40 decision making/luck

Most of those are incidental and affect marginally one Gameweek score.

W/C luck I don't buy into and 50/50 luck is down as much to good instincts and judgment calls that will balance out

No-look luck... when the ball pings off your unsuspecting player and into the opponents net.

Get a grip

It was always like this, looks like dog s***

Same. Can’t even see the bottom of the pitch

Get a grip

Dias, Son, Kane, Cresswell, Gundo

Alonso if you have bench
Dias if you are cash rich and can navigate 33
Raph
Cresswell

Martinez if you got him cheap

Like a player who gets his big money move next transfer window

Good, be surprised if he ends with just an assist

Would love to see him playing for City

Like a former Leeds player.

Might be worth saving for the possible DGW35 out of no where bonanza.

Tottenham DNA woven into every blade.

Felt bad cause he hurt himself

Looking good for more goals Hazz?

No card is absurd there

He started off well, very attacking, hit the post from a direct free kick but once Chelsea went down to 10 men he became somewhat of a liability

Tbh without that red card Alonso would have hauled. Had another goal denied by the post.

Could have been gold

WBA were much better than most expected. Game was comparatively even before red card imo - Chelsea led but they weren't dominating really

Yeah, Alonso was pretty poor after a decent start.

Jorginho had a horror match. Zouma was sloppy. Silva was sloppy. Mendy was off it too.

Tuchel will have them playing tighter than a ducks arse now.

Nah. There are 19 other teams in the league.

The defenders were crap. I think Mendy and Rudiger for me if I WC

Osborn.

Lovely

but wait my Raph CS point 😮