If you read my previous article, you’ll know that I didn’t have the best year in 2020/21, not by anyone’s standards really but, by my own standards, it was my worst-ever Fantasy Premier League (FPL) finish.
Of course, the first rule of this season is that we don’t talk about last season so I won’t drag it up too much other than to allow it to provide some context for my strategy going into 2021/22.
In that article, I borrowed the phrase ‘irrational exuberance’ to describe the precipitous mindset I brought to last season’s overly optimistic team selection but that wasn’t the whole story. Keen followers of this column (should they exist) might remember me discussing the ‘house money effect’; our tendency to take greater risks if we feel we are in profit.
The year before ‘the season that we don’t talk about’, I secured a 5k finish, which was more than enough to make me feel like I was ‘in profit’. Consequently, I approached last season with the mindset that I could afford to have some fun and shoot from the hip a bit with my Gameweek 1 selection. It could have paid off, but it didn’t.
That is not the theme going into this campaign. This is not a ‘fun’ selection. This is a cold, hard, gritty, no-nonsense, get-the-job-done team selection. I hope you enjoy it.
TEAM REVEAL
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Sanchez
TAA, Shaw, Tsimikas
Salah, Fernandes, Greenwood, Barnes
Ings, Antonio, Toney
(Foster, White, Veltman, Brownhill)
A) Stick and plan Greenwood -> Gundogan GW2
B) Barnes & Veltman -> Gundogan & Amartey
C) Barnes & Veltman -> Ziyech & Amartey (plan Ziyech -> Gundogan GW2 and keep hold of Greenwood)
D) A and also Veltman & White -> Coufal & Amartey
Cheers.