Aleksandar Mitrovic‘s (£6.7m) excellent underlying attacking statistics finally translated into Fantasy returns but it could have been so much better for the Serbian forward’s owners at Craven Cottage on Saturday afternoon.
Mitrovic left it late to avoid a ninth blank in 11 starts but the mid-price forward converted a Ryan Sessegnon (£6.0m) through-ball in the 90th minute following a Fulham swift breakaway to register his eighth goal of the season – his first since Gameweek 13.
As usual, the former Newcastle striker dominated the penalty box touch and shot counts, with all five of his efforts (four of which were headers) coming from inside the Huddersfield area. At the time of writing, no FPL forward can match either statistic over the last six Gameweeks.
Mitrovic ought to have bagged a second goal, though, or at least had the opportunity to do so.
A handball from Chris Lowe (£4.4m) in the Huddersfield box had presented the Cottagers with a glorious chance of opening the scoring on 80 minutes, but an insistent Aboubakar Kamara (£4.4m) – who had forced the error from the German defender – refused to allow the club’s designated penalty taker, Mitrovic, to wrestle the ball from him.
Kamara’s miss from the spot only incensed Fulham fans and Mitrovic owners further, with Claudio Ranieri incandescent in his post-match press conference:
When the man thinks only of himself it’s not right. He didn’t respect me, the club, his teammates, the crowd, he take the penalty, the ball, ‘I want to shoot’. Don’t listen to reason, he wants to shoot.
It’s Mitrovic [who is the first-choice penalty taker] but he [Kamara] scored the last penalty and he thought, ‘ah I am the man’.
He doesn’t understand the reason [why people are angry]. For him, everything is fine in the match. It’s unbelievable. It’s the first time in my life.
Asked if Kamara. a popular budget forward option among Fantasy managers, could be dropped from the first-team squad as punishment, Ranieri said:
Could be, I think first of all of the club and the squad. If I think it is good for the squad he can play, if I think it’s not good for the squad I take out. Now I have to see the Arsenal match and then decide.
This was a second clean sheet in three matches for Fulham, but there will seldom be easier shut-outs than yesterday, with Huddersfield again proving they are sorely lacking a cutting edge in attack. For all their dominance in possession, the Terriers never really tested Sergio Rico (£4.4m) in the Fulham goal with any one of their five shots on target.
Fulham lined up in a 3-4-3 again but there were system changes throughout the match as Ranieri attempted to shake his troops from a fairly uninspiring display.
The Italian manager discussed his half-time substitutions, one of which was enforced as Alfie Mawson (£4.8m) picked up a knee injury, and the moving of Tom Cairney (£4.7m) from a wide role to central midfield:
I wanted to make two changes but at the end Mawson was injured. I had to wait to put Sessegnon and I put him on the last ten minutes because I can take risk.
I believe until the end because the first half was very difficult for us because we knew they pressed a lot in front because they are the third team in the league who press so high. We lost a lot of balls.
In the second half with Cairney in the centre of midfield we found the solution and we played better and we created so many chances to score goals.
Joe Bryan (£4.8m) impressed in the left wing-back role, firing over four crosses and creating a “big chance” for Mitrovic.
Calum Chambers (£4.2m), who continued “out of position” in central midfield, will be unavailable for the match against parent club Arsenal on New Year’s Day, meanwhile.
Huddersfield Town XI (3-5-1-1 ): Lossl; Jorgensen, Schindler, Kongolo; Durm, Billing, Hadergjonaj, Hogg, Lowe; Pritchard (Kachunga 65′); Mounie (Depoitre 65′).
Brighton and Hove Albion 1-0 Everton
Goal: Jurgen Locadia (£5.3m)
Assist: None
Such is FPL and football in general, an Everton team who scored five goals in their last Premier League away fixture three days earlier couldn’t find their way past a Brighton side who hadn’t kept a clean sheet in nine matches.
The Seagulls rode their luck at times with the visitors twice striking the woodwork, while there was an element of fortune about Jurgen Locadia‘s (£5.3m) winner too: the Dutchman turning in a loose ball that had bobbled into his path via an unwitting touch by Andre Gomes (£5.4m).
FPL managers now know which £4.0m-rated goalkeeper Chris Hughton prefers in the absence of Mathew Ryan (£4.5m), as David Button (£4.0m) got the nod over Jason Steele (£4.0m) between the sticks.
After a slightly shaky start, Button went on to have a fine match in goal and returned nine points to reward those gambling on his budget appeal from the off.
Richarlison (£7.0m) was desperately unlucky not to score with one effort that Button brilliantly tipped onto the post, while Button had also reacted well to keep out the Brazilian’s strike from a narrow angle in the first half.
Chris Hughton praised his stand-in custodian after full-time:
For all David Button’s experience it is not easy for a keeper to just step in. Mat Ryan has been good for us. Button was excellent today. You train as hard as he does, when you step into a match you’re going to play well.
Lewis Dunk (£4.5m) and Shane Duffy (£4.6m) were, perhaps significantly, partnered together for the first time since Gameweek 15 and Hughton highlighted how crucial their partnership is at centre-back to Brighton’s clean sheet prospects:
It’s important because they know each other very well, and that’s not taking anything away from Leon Balogun, who’s played well in the last few games for us.
But they’re a partnership that know each other very well, and they had to deal with a fair bit of pressure towards the end of the game.
The Brighton boss also heralded Locadia’s versatility:
Jurgen’s flexibility is important for us, one thing he has is a lot of scope in the way he plays.
We’ve used 4-3-3 more often of late than in the past and Jurgen is one who’s used to the system from his previous club. He can play on either flank or down the middle, we’ve always felt he was an important member of the squad.
Sometimes circumstances around the squad, such as the form of other players, can make it more difficult for him, but to us he’s always been important to the team.
Locadia has two goals in as many matches but with Brighton sitting bottom of our Season Ticker for the next three Gameweeks and the budget FPL forward effectively playing out of position wide on the left, there likely will be little interest in him for now.
Florin Andone (£5.0m), who forced a fine reflex save out of Jordan Pickford (£5.0m), continues to share pitch-time with Glenn Murray (£6.4m) and is a long way from our budget forward radar.
Lucas Digne (£5.2m) was the most-bought FPL defender of Gameweek 20 but couldn’t follow up his 17-point haul from Boxing Day, though created two chances and had as many shots on goal to keep his impressive underlying stats ticking over.
Everton sit top of our Season Ticker for the next six Gameweeks and Digne’s appeal is only set to increase as a result, though this was another match without a clean sheet (their seventh in a row) for the Toffees.
Marco Silva stuck with a 3-4-3 for this match and there must be worries about Gylfi Sigurdsson‘s (£7.3m) rotation risk if he is to persist with a wing-back system.
The Iceland international was the fall guy here and it could be that Silva continues to perm two from three of Sigurdsson, Andre Gomes (£5.4m) and Idrissa Gueye (£4.8m) in central midfield.
This defeat may force a rethink from Silva, though, and even if not, Sigurdsson could potentially be deployed in one of the front three positions anyway – Theo Walcott (£6.1m) certainly looks vulnerable based on current form.
Sigurdsson came on a substitute and almost grabbed an assist when his free-kick was headed onto the bar by Kurt Zouma (£5.0m).
With the turnaround time between Everton’s games being particularly unkind this Christmas, Silva warned of not having sufficient time to prepare for the visit of Leicester:
It is important to be strong again and ready for the next match in three days.
We don’t have time to prepare in the normal way but that is the schedule and we have to put in our players’ minds how important the next game is.
Everton XI (3-4-3): Pickford; Keane, Zouma, Mina (Sigurdsson 65′); Coleman, Gomes (Calvert-Lewin 72′), Gueye, Digne; Bernard (Niasse 80′), Walcott, Richarlison.
Leicester City 0-1 Cardiff City
Goal: Victor Camarasa (£4.6m)
Assist: Bobby Reid (£5.2m)
After successive wins over Chelsea and Manchester City, it was almost inevitable that Leicester would slip up against a team without a victory on the road in 2018/19 and who had scored fewer goals away from home than any other top-flight side going into Gameweek 20.
Claude Puel had said fatigue was a factor going into this fixture and he won’t be the last manager to use tiredness as an excuse for a defeat over the festive period.
Jamie Vardy (£8.9m) was substituted midway through the second half of this defeat and was one of the players namechecked in Puel’s post-match press conference.
The Leicester boss said:
They were tired, Marc (Albrighton) and Jamie also, in their control, with their touches.
It’s normal, we tried to find solution and to push with fresh players giving their best. It’s a normal thing to try to find the good clinical edge.
I manage my team about what I see. Jamie was in difficulty, he was tired. It’s normal. He has played almost all the last games, with full minutes.
For Jamie or for other players, they have tiredness in this busy period.
It was an underwhelming afternoon for Vardy’s owners (of which there were over 100,000 more of going into this Gameweek), with the Leicester striker being denied by Neil Etheridge (£4.5m) with his only real clear sight of goal.
The frustration was compounded when Leicester were awarded a spot-kick just seven minutes after his departure, with James Maddison (£6.8m) drawing a save from Etheridge – his third stop from 12 yards this season – and being denied a tap-in on the rebound by a last-ditch Sol Bamba (£4.5m) tackle.
It was one of those days for Maddison and his owners too, with the summer signing from Norwich missing from the spot, being denied an assist when creating that aforementioned “big chance” for Vardy and seeing a first-half free-kick parried away by Etheridge.
While Vardy had three goals and an assist in five starts before this game, the Leicester striker has a fractious relationship with his manager and the Foxes’ patient, possession-based approach under Puel doesn’t seem to get the best out of his abilities.
Vardy had indeed previously mentioned that Puel’s style of play doesn’t suit him and it was no surprise that he was more of a threat against Manchester City and Chelsea, given that the Foxes adopted a more direct, counter-attacking approach against the “big six” sides.
This was a second successive clean sheet for Cardiff and in truth, Etheridge’s seven saves were fairly comfortable in nature.
Bamba and Greg Cunningham (£4.2m) were particularly impressive at the back and owners of Spurs assets might be slightly concerned going into the New Year’s Day meeting with the Bluebirds given their mini-resurgence at the back.
Warnock was asked what his side’s defensive improvement had been down to and said:
I think we’re better organised really.
West Ham would have been a different story if the penalty had gone in. I think we were a bit too negative against Watford.
And then when we changed the system at Palace it worked well and today it was great to get a clean sheet against a team like Leicester that have done so late.
As a manager you live and die by your decisions, and we needed fresh legs because they gave me everything at Palace.
It was just who to leave out and who to bring in. All credit to the lads, I thought today we deserved to win. I thought it was our best performance because we were playing a team who were flying, with the last two results they had.
To compete with them and limit them, and if we’d been more precise in the final third we could have scored two or three.
For the owners of Harry Kane (£12.6m), Son Heung-min (£8.8m) et al, though, it should be said that Cardiff have conceded more attempts on goal and shots in the box than any Premier League team over the last two Gameweeks, despite their successive shut-outs.
How much energy two rearguard efforts in four days has sapped also remains to be seen.
Victor Camarasa (£4.6m) demonstrated the problem with his bench fodder status with his third attacking return in four Gameweeks; just under 66% of his owners benched the Cardiff midfielder this weekend.
Camarasa’s superb strike from distance won the game for Cardiff late in the match and the classy Spaniard had three attempts on goal in all, lining up again as a “number ten” behind the fit-again Callum Paterson (£5.1m).
Camarasa has corner-taking duties at Cardiff and is on penalties, too, with Warnock saying that he is encouraging the on-loan playmaker to chance his arm more:
Víctor needed to come to a club like ours. He needed to be loved and welcomed, and he’s such a super boy.
He does that regularly, but his free-kick was poor today and he shot into the stands just before. I keep telling him: ‘Keep shooting – I’ll never shout at you.’
Assists: Gerard Deulofeu (£5.5m) | Matt Ritchie (£5.8m)
Javi Gracia defended his decision to make six changes for the visit of Newcastle on Saturday, with the Hornets having to rely on a late header from substitute Abdoulaye Doucoure (£5.9m) to spare their blushes.
The Watford boss said:
I have to choose different players in this moment because we are playing every three or four days. I have to give the chances for all of my players. I have said many times that all my players deserve the chance to play as they work very well.
We are a good squad – not only a good team. If I don’t do it in this moment, when can I do it? It was the moment to change the players as some of them needed a rest. I have to prepare for all the games. Now you see the result you can say that [I should not have made the changes], but I don’t agree.
Doucoure, Jose Holebas (£4.8m) and Troy Deeney (£5.8m) – three of the six most-owned Watford assets in FPL – were among the players to drop out of the Watford starting XI, with Isaac Success (£4.6m) recalled alongside Gerard Deulofeu (£5.5m) in attack.
Success and Deulofeu registered seven attempts on goal between them but it was the introduction of Deeney and Doucoure early in the second half that provided the physical presence and drive so badly lacking before then: a one-on-one chance for Deulofeu that Martin Dubravka (£5.0m) got a leg to was the only clear opportunity that the Hornets had.
Deulofeu switched to the wing upon Deeney taking to the field and it was his cross that was met by Doucoure’s head on 81 minutes to level the scores up.
It was another classic Newcastle away-day performance after their hammering at Anfield, with the Magpies content to soak up a lot of pressure in their 3-4-2-1/5-2-2-1 and hit their hosts on the break.
Salomon Rondon (£5.8m) was restored to the Newcastle starting XI after his rest on Merseyside and was a real handful for the Watford backline, nodding in a Matt Ritchie (£5.8m) cross to give United the lead and having two efforts chalked off for offside.
Benitez said of his Venezuelan striker:
He’s doing well so we have to think he will be OK.
For us, every player is important because you have to make substitutions in different games. You need fresh legs and you need the quality of everyone.
I think if we make passes and crosses we will score some goals so hopefully we can do the same for him and for the other strikers.
Kenedy (£4.8m) was omitted from the match-day squad after some poor displays, with his manager confirming there wasn’t an injury:
It’s a technical decision. I think the other players were training well and I wanted to give them a chance.
Federico Fernandez (£4.4m) picked up a hip injury and had to be substituted at half-time, meanwhile.
After the December review in a previous page, how is everyone's overall season going so far? Post your highest, lowest, and current ranks along with your biggest takeaway(s) so far. I'll start.
A template-ish team was quite useful getting a good rank after a horrid low in GW3. One of my biggest takeaways is actually from this week too, and that is to trust your gut in terms of captain decisions. Common consensus on here was that Pogba(c) was too risky (or so I was told), and Kane was the safest option (maybe true in theory). But nonetheless I went Pogba captained and it saved my week.
That is an extremely impressive climb. From 837k to 3.5k in 6 gws is outstanding. Regarding the captaincy this week, I had a similar experience. I had the captaincy on Kane the entire time because of the captaincy poll, but switched it to Salah after reading a comment in the hot topic. Really saved my week. At the end of the day, taking in all the information and going with your gut is the best thing you can do.
It was. Still, got to learn from these episodes. Know your limts and all that. Ain't no fudging about with the Indians, they'll swell that sphincter quicker than you can say yoghurt.
A good start to the season which turned a bit stale in the autumn and led to me gambling more in December. That began horribly but has now seen me recover some places.
My biggest takeaway is that the bench is practically pointless, so plan accordingly and don't worry too much about carrynig dead weight for a couple weeks if they aren't too expensive (actually that's not the biggest takeaway, but they first thing I thought of). Also deviating wildly from the template hasn't been disasterous for my rank. Rather, it helped achieve that 5k rank in double quick-time, and helped me swing massively back into the top 100k this gameweek. The important thing is that your players score points, and I don't believe any notion of a template is useful (perhaps the opposite: get out of my head ownership, you're confusing me! 😀 )
That is certainly an interesting approach. I've always stuck with the template with a few differentials. But at the end of the day, you get the players you think will get you the highest scores. That being said, I do not dare deviate wildly from the template, not even occasionally.
It's been a pretty mellow season for me. I don't think I've had any major strokes of genius but I've also avoided any major mistakes/low points.
A small irony is that going into the season I was sure that Kane/Salah were overpriced and that I wouldn't own both for major portions of the season. I've had Salah all year long and have had Kane since Aguero got hurt. I still think having both is suboptimal but I haven't seen the right opportunity to shed one.
Well, part of it is that we have had so many excellent budget options in all positions, making it easy (relatively speaking) to own both Kane and Salah. We are at a point where owning 3 of Kane, Aguero, Salah, Hazard, and Auba is optimal.
It's true, but it does seem to me that having only one of Kane/Salah at a time is slightly better. That extra 1-2 million over the other 3 can go a long way. Of course, here I am with Kane/Salah and no plans to change for another week or two.
Agreed. But that 1-2 million can be the difference between excellence and frustration. Owning both is the safer option. Owning one and investing the extra cash is the ballsy option.
Not having Aguero in Gameweek 2 ruined my season and forced me into wildcarding early. Sold Salah just before his Bournmouth hattrick along with Hazard and have been punished.
Well, that does sound like a series of unfortunate decisions. Still, not a bad rank to have at this point in the season by any means. And plenty of time to go much higher.
This season I started badly with no Mane and pretty late on some bandwagons, but my biggest mistake is losing some 'season keepers' like Robbo, Mendy and Salah with my WC/FT for no real reason.
Still think I have to time to get into top 10k at least by season end
Jumping early on bandwagons is never easy. Hindsight is 20/20. And yes, you have plenty of time to get into top 10k. Just look at stories above of people making huge climbs in short amount of time.
season feels like last year, good start, rolling between 50k and 100k every week and in the end finished with a rank outside top 50k. Probably an average manager I guess, playing style is not good enough for decent rank 😛
Going without Liv defence has hurt at times and too many captaincy fails with unnecessary punts on the likes of King, Jimenez and Lacazette (have had 9 or 10 different captains!). On the positive getting on the likes of Hazard, Alonso & Fraser early (GW3 WC) did my team wonders after a torrid GW3 was out of the way.
Cheers, yeah, loads of red arrows but the majority were small ones! A welcome green this week thanks to Pogba(C) to stop the slide, hopefully can kick on a bit early in the new year!
sorry for the noob question but where can i see how many green and red arrows i have? I went to points and then clicked to go back every week to see each week's points but it doesn't show me the green or red arrow for the week.
8 green, 11 red - still trying to figure out this game but my last two gameweeks i went big with the hits and got really high scores so think i might keep that tactic up!
Keep going and good luck. Little tip for you, you’re only supposed to reply if you’re doing well. It’s whats known as a subtle brag thread. See above for details 😉
Well, that wasn't my original intention. Although that is what happened in the end, and unsurprisingly at that. I've put this question here every season I've played, and it always always turns into a platform for a subtle brag. But the idea is that those doing well can share what they have done correctly and those struggling can figure out what they need to work on.
That makes sense. First season is always about learning. Don't worry too much and just have fun, while making incremental improvements. Little tip for you from me too, link your team to your profile (In case you did not know, click on Account on the top right corner > My profile > Website, and paste the link for your gameweek history page, which has the format of https://fantasy.premierleague.com/a/entry/XXXXXX/history). That way, if you have post a question here, the person answering can check your full team before answering.
Biggest takeaway was how important picking "the right" team is from the outset. I think got lucky with bringing in a few players as they caught form along the way. Never yet owned Salah this season (had him from GW1 last season) and did okay without. Recent complete lack of Liverpool coverage has certainly taken its toll. I've never had a season like this and it's no coincidence that I never really wanted to use that first WC. Got lucky with the right XV from day one.
Biggest lesson learnt was being too slow to react to shifts in form, such as cities dipping and uniteds resurgence. And taking a few too many hits trying to get back on track
A bad start makes it tough, you've done very well to be where you are considering your OR in GW2! Last season was horrible for me, little went right and I was 1.7m in OR at this stage last year! Then got in some good differentials such as Son before the crowd and had a good second half of season clawing back some ground! GL!
Cheers and yes the bad start killed me. Same happens to me every season, last year 1.4 mill around this time I think, and finished 35k
Hopefully I can manage my team well from now onwards and get a decent rank, just my second hit this coming GW21 so I have tended to plan carefully rather than knee-jerk
Loads of time, a couple of season ago when I had a good (top 5k) finish it was mainly down to scoring very strongly in the last couple of months of the season so plenty of time to make some good moves and play the doubles and blanks well! GL
My biggest takeaway so far this season is not to do knee-jerky transfers on short-term punts like Walcott, Barkley, Martial and Kane (for that Cardiff game). It has cost me a lot! Stick to my guns and not try anything too flashy too often.
Best: 30 Worst: Not sure right now but around 100,000+ in GW4 before playing wildcard. Current: 30
Biggest takeaway: Something I feel passionate about and can’t quite believe it is not embraced by more managers - Hokey Cokey premium assets around form and fixtures, and don’t be afraid to take a hit to get the few big hitters that seem optimal for the next 2-3 gameweeks, especially to cover the main captaincy options every GW. This has been the basis of whole strategy and season so far. Hits are not the enemy - poor decisions are the enemy. Get the players in who could explode over the short term and don’t be afraid to pay 4 points for it. There’s far too much safe play going on in this game I find.
Also, team value is virtually meaningless. So many options. The key is delaying your transfers until as late as possible to gather information. I haven’t bothered with building value at all and it’s now a healthy 105.6 just by having players scoring points, not trying to catch price rises.
It really amazes me how reluctant many managers are to make transfers and try to create the template, not follow it. Don’t wait to see if Son gets rotated, just get an in form Son and deal with the rest later etc. I’ve been ditching and buying attacking assets all over the place, while leaving my template defence to tick along. Virtually every week I have at least the captain poll winner, and usually the top two choices. But you have to be prepared to mix it up. In short, my advice is the opposite to most experts - I advocate not being patient at all.
I'm playing more patiently than you...have taken 0 hits. But this is more due to heavy planning. I still 100% agree with your main strategy...almost always have the best captain options in a GW. If you don't have them, you're going to get wrecked, it's as simple as that. For example, I sold Salah quite a few weeks ago but made sure to bring him back for Newcastle and Arsenal at home. Hauled in both.
And you're spot on about the early transfers. They should almost always be avoided as maximum information at the end of week is so important.
Agree with all of that. Nothing wrong with taking no hits if you have planned that well with the same theory about premium assets and captaincy. I make similar plans but often I change my mind on deadline day - the key being that I have maximum info to ensure smart transfers that can bring immediate rewards. I’m not interested in good good fixtures in 4-6 gameweeks really. I want them now!
Started well without taking hits and slowly slid down by carrying out panic transfers. Reading below I’m definitely taking on board the points minus four has made. Very interesting but makes complete sense.
Hennessey was on the bench today. It appears Guaita is number 1. If he loses his place, at least I have Button on the bench who is starting until Ryan is back from Asia Cup
I dig it. I'm higher on Ings than Jimenez personally, but I've certainly been wrong before. I think in the long run you're a little top heavy but you can also sell the heavy hitter who's not firing and reinvest later.
Yep A & C... Sal could score v Utd, but Jonny has points potential at both ends of the pitch. Hard to see TAA getting much, if he does it’ll, be against the odds
Just in terms of my ego it has to be Pogba in week 16. I thought Mourhino would put him back in the team and he would do what he's doing now. I immediately wildcarded him out and am feeling very bitter about his current explosion.
Is Sigurdsson nailed on anymore? Everton have switched from the 4231 to a 343. Gueye has to be first choice in the middle as he is their ball winner then Siggy has competition with Andre Gomes. In the 3 attacking spots, they have plenty of options...Richarlison, Bernard, Walcott, Calvert-Lewin, Lookman, Tosun etc....and Digne has been doing quite well on set pieces.
Button only regained his place in the bench last week. It was promising he got the nod this week, but he might only be one poor performance away from being dropped. Guaita kept his place this week, despite Hennessey finally being fit, but, again, how secure is that on the evidence of one game?
It may work out for you, but you may also find yourself looking for a new keeper within a couple of Gameweeks. As someone who has owned Button for months, I'm happy to take a risk on one but not two risky picks.
Guaita and Hennessey in competition for the starting spot. Button likely to drop to #2 when Ryan is back. If you lose both, it will likely take you two transfers to install a playing keeper.
I've had 6 blanks which is too many I guess! Captain scores for each gameweek : 4, 40, 4, 12, 12, 16, 16, 28, 12, 30, 26, 6, 4, 12, 24, 2, 10, 4, 12, 36,
Hey guys! Will be using WC soon if not in a few weeks and my question is would you invest more so in the mids instead of big hitters forwards? Auba and Kane are the only forwards id go for in that price range but i feel like midfielders is where the points are. Any help would be muchly appreciated.
Possible WC team:
Button - Patricio Doherty - Digne - Kola - Robbo - Holebas Hazard - Salah - Sterling - Richa - Maddison Kamara - Jim - Rash.
Haha yeah, he reacted very classy to the who episode! As for that big lump Kamara, what a clown to put pressure on himself like that especially as he's such a mediocre player!
5 years, 4 months ago
After the December review in a previous page, how is everyone's overall season going so far? Post your highest, lowest, and current ranks along with your biggest takeaway(s) so far. I'll start.
Best: GW3 - 4,896
Worst: GW1 - 122,510
Current: GW20 - 7,564
11 green arrow, 8 red arrows
My biggest takeaway is that sticking with the template as closely as possible has done wonders for my rank.