WC in 33
Not TC Kun/Sanchez
TC a donkey

Had very few Mahrez double digit hauls. Had Mane instead.

Not getting on Mahrez earlier.

Never quite got owning Ozil and Sanchez right - always had them at the wrong times and still don't have Sanchez in now.

Not being brave enough to captain Mahrez more often.

Had Mahrez from the start then dropped him after gw 9 when his form dropped off and he was rotated for a few weeks. Didn't get him back for 8 weeks and missed out on 60+ pts. Season never recovered.

Wrong captain decisions-if thats 1 thing

No Tottenham defender all season
Selling Kane and Alli GW33

Worst one with regards to my
Mini leagues was captaining Aguero over Kane when Kane got two goals and an assist against BOU

Making exactly the same mistake with Alli as I did Kane last year. Got him really early, before most had cottoned on, but tried to be clever and dropped him at his earliest dip in form, only to get severely punished for weeks.

And of course, Toby > Coleman and Kane > Lukaku for a hit in 33.

I chose Vertonghen over Toby in the early weeks of the season because my ML rival had him and I didn't want to adopt blocking tactics.

ML rival benefitted from a pile of Toby points, whilst not adhering to any sort of code of "honour" and putting in players from my team week by week - at one point we only had the 3 defenders as differentials, allowing him to build a sizable lead (only the DGWs allowed me to break his hold on the league)

Guess others would be astonishingly not benefitting from a single Vardy / Alli haul, but tbh that sort of thing happens every season, and Toby is the one that really stands out to me.

Considering I was ranked 3 million plus after gameweek 2, my regret would be the poor scouting and misjudgement of pre-season form. Putting faith in the likes of Hazard and Kane to continue 2014/5 form badly misfired.

Lukaku TC in GW33 :'(

If I'd stuck with my original TC thought of Payet in 37, I'd be in the top 150OR - and the top-placed Villa fan!

Dier over Toby in GW8 WC costed me around 40 points over the season.

Playing TC on Rooney in the first match vs Spurs. I thought we could use it every week. Least I got 15 points out of it.

I ignored Barkley for his long run. He was too boring a choice even for me. But his high ownership was crippling. Every goal meant a red arrow for non owners.

Benching Mahrez for his hattrick away at Swansea.
TC Lukaku in GW33.
Putting too much emphasis on DGW players.
Relying too heavily on the RMT tool
Not spending enough time on FFS (New job means I'm sitting at a computer MUCH less)

You?

Having own them this season but missed their points:

Butland, Ighalo, Mane, Arnie.

How about another HT 'Things you've learned' Jonty? So much to think about over the DGWs, I think even the hardcore players were given pause for thought on a lot of 'tried and tested' tactics this season.

Late on Leicester. Toby and Butland were my problems

Being far to stubborn and ignoring

Butland
Toby
Bellerin
Alli
Ozil
Vardy
Payet (Pre Christmas)

Not putting Sinclair as 1st sub earlier this season when he scored 2 goals and Ozil didn't play. He was my 3rd sub. 🙁

My biggest regrets were (are) stubbornness and overthinking.

Took out Sanchez the week before his hat trick, also took out Calum Wilson the week before his - I guess I'm annoyed I jumped the gun on shipping players out too early, but you never know who's going to explode and when!

Had too much faith for too long in Chelsea, Hazard was 'bound to score eventually'. Also a little late to the Vardy party. Sold a team that had brought me a lot of green arrows in the weeks before GW 33 and bought lots of uncertainty ( 3 Liverpool, 3 Everton blegh).

Sticking with Albrighton and Mane instead of Mahrez and Ozil.

Those previous season affinities really do get the better of you...

1.Not trusting my own judgement more. For example bringing Mahrez in pre gw1.
2. Carroll TC

Despite tough season I might reach my all time high OR so pretty satisfied in overall.

Easy. Benching Mahrez for his hattrick despite owning him all season. That week I captained Mané and started Barkley ahead of him. I dropped from 30k to 90k odd. Absolute disaster. Slowly battled my way back though

Pre-Christmas. Just couldn't get my head round it.

Chelsea was obviously a major blow, but I blame Mourinho and the complete absence of professionalism at the club, not myself. 🙂

Funnily enough, I don't regret Agüero, and would do the same again, as that timing during those two weeks just did not work for my team.

Enjoyed the Season hugely, obviously - the best in my memory since our Cup win in 1980, and better than '85/6 for me. FPL is fine, but will never compare to the real thing. 🙂

Sticking with Sanchez instead of Ozil early on. Have both now, hopefully they both do well in the last game

Having 6 Merseyside players after gw33 WC (Coleman Barkley Lukaku Sakho Milner Coutinho)

Biggest regret is coming to this site and podcast only at week 28, rank rose from 800k to current 300k

Thanks everyone!

Other than that, wijnaldum (c) was a poor choice

Focusing too much on performance in previous seasons, only having Alli for one game all season. Not being brave enough to take riskier captain picks, especially when Aguero was blanking.

Biggest regret is not believing in Kun and not capping Ozil (when he exploded) thanks to the rumours here!!!

(CCC)arroll is easy.

But a huge shout-out to my last minute transfer before the GW1 deadline also worked out badly: Butland (4.5) & Mahrez (5.5) > Schwarzer (4.0) & Ashley Young (6.0). Because I believed that Young (he did play LW last season!) was well worth having over Mahrez. Also Schwarzer have me triple Leicester, so I couldn't get Mahrez in until a wildcard. Doh!

Not having Ighalo, Spurs defence, Barkley ever.
Being late on Kane.
Persisting with both of Mané and Pellè for about 8 weeks for only 1 assist and many YCs.
Not TCing my beloved Kun, not about the points, but for doubting him. 🙁

My captaincy decisions!
Went payet captain over aguero in GW 8
Similarly, should've TC Sanchez in GW 34 though payet TC went okayish
If I'd done these 2 things, I'd be comfortably in 10k, now I'm 9 points off it

Enough regrets to fill a page this season - but biggest regret was not believing in Leicester. That being said, had Mahrez for the whole season, but got Vardy and later Fuchs in way too late.

Other failures this season were:
- Sticking too long with Mane and Pelle following their good pre-season
- Never getting a decent goalkeeper. Have learnt that there's a limit too how cheap one should go even for goalies.
- Bailing out on TC Sanchez in GW34, going instead with Carroll in GW37.

The glaring errors in retrospect all were done before Christmas, have had a slow climb to get into OR 100k in second half of season

Waited too long on Mahrez.
Keeping Lukaku instead of Kane on my Christmas (1st) WC.

Following on yesterday, I think the BB and TC chips are a failure as those who benefitted most from those on average all used them in weeks 34 and 37.

If you could only use those chips in weeks that no team has a DGW, that would be different. As it is, those who thought about it a bit longer crushed those who blew chips early.

Captained Hazard in GW8.

Also, having both Gomes and Butland and playing the wrong one more often than the right one. Would have been better off with Gomes + Schwarzer.

Having Hazard twice and selling Mahrez twice. And I sold Ozil after GW 7 because of his mediocre returns.

andy carroll TC

Benched Mahrez far too often. Took me too long to relaise that he wasn't me '5th Mid' but actually a cpatain contender. Cost me a huge number of points!!

Non, je ne regrette rien.

If I had a time machine would be to captain Mahrez more, and the low scoring Captain choices in General

Not bench the Mahrez certain weeks also

Players missed - Ighalo

1. getting chips wrong
2. keeping Hazard too long
3. sunday captains 5 times - not one scored more than 4 pts.
4. trying to squeeze in too many DGWers for the sake of it. particularly GW34 which led to a mess in 35 & 36.
5. Despite all this and a weekly GW average rank of over a million still managing a OR of 4k

Never owning Firmino or a Spurs defender. Not getting Sanchez on WC33. Captaining Ozil GW34. TCing Caroll GW 37. Other than that, I've got on most fruitful wagons on the right time.

Three key things:
1. Wildcarded in GW5 over the international break. There was (sort of, on paper) a fixture swing, and I thought I'd be able to snap up some value with price rises to set me up nicely. In the end though, I got next to no value out of it, should have done it long before GW5 (or left it until well after!), and meant I stubbornly ignored key assets in the meantime (see point 2 for the notable example). I'd never wildcarded early before (always kept it for GW30+ DGWs) but the 2 wildcard split this season provoked me to be foolish.
2. Got Mahrez in after GW3, which was already 2 weeks later than I should have - mainly because of the GW5 wildcard hanging over me and thinking "he'll drop off, Leicester can't keep that up for long". They did; he did.
3. Triple Captain Calamity Carroll in GW37. Enough said. Trying to be smart, and the sad part is I really think given the chance I'd do it again...

I've owned Walcott, Ramsey, Sanchez and Iwobi, but never Ozil.

Not owning Harry Kane until 3 GWs ago

GW33 WC and getting Martial instead of Carroll for GW34 and putting the armband on him.

Had I just got Carroll, would've captained Sanchez as well. Lost about 35 points there and had more repercussions in the following GWs as well. Lost the lead in my main ML and all the hard work building upto that point of the season went down the drain.

I didn't own Vardy during his record breaking goal spell. Convinced it wouldn't last and then eventually gave in and he stopped scoring.

Also not triple captaining Aguero for his 4 goal haul. My finger hovered over the button and then i took it away. Idiot.

1. starting the season with Rooney
2. selling Mahrez with my GW9 WC (I owned him from GW1)
3. buying Hazard in GW15
4. not being able to sort out my DEF for the first 1/2 of the season

Carroll TC dud.
Some too speculative -8-ers GWs mid-season.

Taking Ozil out in GW1

First wildcard in GW4/5, went for price risers over decent players. Vardy -> Gomis in my transfer history looks particularly poor with hindsight, the fact I kept him for six blanks in a row even worse. Signed Pedro who was projected to rise for two weeks but never did as someone at FPL Towers forget to turn to flick the switch to allow it and then no price rises on the final Friday night topped it off.

OWning and even TCing Lukaku towards the end of the season

WC in GW32 so didn't get Sanchez, TC Lukaku in GW33 to justify WC then my successful bench boost in GW34 largely being negated by ML rivals simply TC Sanchez.

Compounded by some unsuccessful punts since then to try and gain ground on ML leader. Plan on being a dullard with minimal hits next year.

No regrets - I never look back. Also, unless something goes terribly wrong on Sunday, I'll finish with my second highest score in 8 FPL seasons, with a little help from the advice and statistics at FFS.