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Stats or the Eye Test – Which is better for FPL?

Throughout history, there have been many examples of intense division; Roundheads versus Cavaliers, North versus South, Beatles versus Stones, Leave versus Remain, Laurel versus Yanny, the list goes on.

But few subjects will have inspired the kind of fierce debate than the question of which is better for making FPL decisions; Stats or the Eye Test.

Proponents of the Eye Test; the idea that you need to actually watch football to do well in FPL, or at least that it is beneficial, often view Stats aficionados as nerds and somewhat artificial football fans who would probably be playing Fantasy K-Pop as long as it involved a pivot table.

They are often heard saying things like “Do you even watch football?” in a pejorative tone towards huddles of Stats fans, nervously and nasally talking ‘xG’ in what they believed to be an FPL safe space. 

Supporters of Stats; the opinion that underlying statistical information provides as good if not better view of football for the purposes of making FPL decisions, view proponents of the Eye Test as knuckle-dragging luddites who probably own a Greggs rewards card and reminisce for the ‘glory days’ when watching Saint and Greavsie on a Sunday afternoon was enough FPL research to give you ‘that edge’.

Okay, so all of this is maybe a little hyperbolic for the purposes of creating dramatic tension and, in reality, we all probably sit at least a little across both camps, but the question does remain as to which is better for making FPL decisions; Stats or the Eye Test and this is the question I’m going to try and address here.

The Eye Test

You would think that watching football would be an obvious benefit when it comes to playing a game that involves making football-related decisions and, indeed, many of the best FPL players out there, and several FPL champions no less, credit their success to the amount of football they consume.

It’s true that watching football can offer a lot to your FPL game as it provides the viewer with a broader understanding of football tactics and strategy and how these function, interact or conflict in order to increase or decrease a player’s chances of scoring FPL points.

Much of this is often difficult to pick up in stats alone, an example perhaps being Leicester’s Jamie Vardy (£9.7m) and his famous goal-scoring runs of the past, which occurred despite him seemingly taking barely any shots on goal. 

The manner in which Leicester played, and Vardy’s own style of play, combined to create a scenario where heconsistently overperformed against his stats. Now, you could argue that Vardy is now regressing but, it remains true that, had you been going by underlying stats alone even this season, you mighthave missed out on a run of 14 goals in 12 games.

These statistical anomalies occur at both ends of the pitch. For example, in the past six Gameweeks, Liverpool have allowed more shots than Chelsea and Manchester City, yet they have conceded only a fraction of the goals. Indeed Liverpool have made more defensive errors than all but three other Premier League teams this season and yet they have by far the best defensive record. The fewest defensive errors conceded? Watford.

So, you might surmise from this that you can’t believe stats and you can only really trust your own eyes. But can you actually trust your own eyes? The inherent cognitive biases that can influence an FPL manager’s perspective have been discussed on this site before and they will, in all likelihood, distort our visual perceptions of a player’s performance.

For example, when sitting down to scout a player in a football match, ‘confirmation bias’, or our tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms our existing views or expectations, will almost inevitably come into play. 

If you’ve decided that you want a player, you will probably pay greater attention to the good things that the player does. If you’ve decided you don’t want a player, or it’s difficult for you to get them, you’ll probably focus more on the bad things, or dismiss the good things (like a hat-trick) as ‘unsustainable’.

Then there’s the question of the sample size for the Eye Test and ‘belief in the law of small numbers’ which is the biased belief that a small sample will be accurately representative of the larger picture.

Concluding that a player offers attacking threat and thus “passess the eye test” could, in fact, be credited to as little as one or two memorable instances in the match a person just watched, not to mention that it is just one match and that we have yet to factor in the opposition.

Anyone who has watched a football match and thought “Ooh, Luke Shaw is getting forward a lot…” and brought him in on that basis can probably attest to how misleading our perception can be.

The key problem with the Eye Test is the general uncertainty as to what is actually being tested and, even moreso, what it even takes to pass the test. It has no objective standard and, by any scientific measure, the ‘eye test’ would be considered about as reliable as the average office printer.

Stats

So are stats better? Stats do have some advantages over the Eye Test, in particular that they offer a scalable means of interpreting football matches. Stats can distill hours upon hours of football into easily-digestible and objective data, offering a consistent platform for making decisions.

Stats can offer insights that are effectively invisible to the naked eye and help FPL managers to identify undervalued assets, predict form and, indeed, over-performance in a consistent manner. Stats can boil seemingly impossible questions such as; ‘who is the better Liverpool asset; Sadio Mané (£12.2m) or Mohamed Salah (£12.8m)?’ into objective stats, and they can do it in seconds.

Of course, certain stats are better than others. I’ve spoken before in this column about the significance of opportunity over ability for predicting goal scoring form and others have highlighted the strong correlations between stats such as ‘big chances’ and ‘shots in the box’ and goal scoring returns.

Stats such as xG and xGC, while not quite perfect, offer an instructive basis for making predictions and, with the introduction of things such as player heat maps, stats are offering an ever more complete view of a football match.

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Stats are also accessible. You don’t need to know your Lindeberg from your Lyapunov or your chi-squared from your psi-squared to make good use of statistical data. This site itself collects, distils and refines stats into many easily-usable forms and offers things like the Rate My Team tool which allows managers to just plug players in and let an algorithm do the rest. Stats in FPL have never been so plentiful, accessible or user-friendly as they currently are.

So, stats are better then? Well, not necessarily as many of the aforementioned challenges that problematise the Eye Test also apply here too. Anyone who has ever run two players through the Comparison Tool has probably experienced the tendency to cherry pick the stats that support the player who, deep down, they really wanted to get in the first place (confirmation bias again). 

Indeed, the value of stats are highly conditional; you need to be looking at the right stats, in the right volume and in the right context. For an example of how misleading stats can be, just look at any early season bandwagon and how they came to be thus. Typically they involve people making judgements on a player based on one or two matches with little consideration given to factors such as to the opposition, the player’s level of motivation, the possibility that they are an unknown quantity and thus harder to mark and, broadly, the conditions for sustainability of the form that they demonstrate.

Stats are also very easy to skew. Players who have exceptional games, sendings off, injuries, all these things and many more can disproportionately influence how player or team stats might appear. Despite the developments in xG, I’ve yet to see any stat that can reliably distinguish between a striker having an off day and a goalkeeper having a worldie as well as the Eye Test can, so we’re still some way, I think, to being able to fully and reliably ‘watch’ a match purely in the form of numbers, Matrix-style.

Football, I’d argue, is a much more challenging game to quantify statistically when compared to more linear, turn-based sports such as baseball (which has practically had its genome mapped it is so statistically rich) given the number of variables at play and, while it might seem like there are ‘too many’ stats in FPL, the lack of depth in those stats is actually a pretty big challenge to their utility. In FPL, we are almost always looking to make judgements on sample sizes that would be too small for any valid statistical test. In fact, it’s probably only when we get to this stage of the season where stats offer anything approaching reliability. So, when we talk about stats in FPL, we are really only ever talking about something that is directional and probably never conclusive.

Conclusion

A combination of both the Eye Test and Stats is the right way to go

Inevitably, there are advantages and disadvantages to both Stats and the Eye Test and both rely enormously on how we use them and the extent to which we can control the influence of our biases while doing so. Because neither the Eye Test nor Stats can tell the entire story individually, we have to conclude that it is the combination of both that is ideal. 

Having said that, I do think that it is significantly easier to remain objective when looking at stats versus a football match because stats tend to provoke far less emotion than the act of watching football does. I also think that we are moving towards a point of sophistication in stats where the marginal benefit of watching football versus just using stats will probably be quite small, possibly to the point where it may even be detrimental from an FPL-perspective.

What do I mean by this? Something people tend to find interesting about my FPL-winning season is that it came despite me watching almost no football at all that year (out of circumstance I stress, not because I don’t like watching football!).

The assumption is, generally, that this would be a huge disadvantage, however, I’ve come to believe that it may actually have been a big advantage. Because I wasn’t watching football, I was able to make all sorts of decisions that I’d normally struggle to make. I never worried about picking players playing against the team I support, I never picked a player because I wanted to feel more invested in a game I was watching and I never conflated what I wanted to happen with what was objectively more likely to happen.

Because I wasn’t watching, none of this really mattered.

Not watching football stripped much of the emotion and many of the biases from my decision process, leaving just the cold hard facts. I wouldn’t want to live like that forever, but I can’t deny that it probably helped that season.

It’s unlikely that many managers will stop watching football for the sake of their FPL team but we can become more conscious of the emotions and biases that might affect our use of the Eye Test, and indeed Stats, for making FPL decisions and seek to manage or compartmentalise these things.

If you use Stats, make sure you’re remaining objective and that you’re looking at the right stats, in a large enough quantity and in context. If you are an Eye Test aficionado, mentally separating the football that you watch for entertainment or team loyalty and the football you watch for research may improve your game. And if you are an Eye Test ‘purist’ who eschews stats entirely, you might want to consider giving them a shot or risk handing an ever growing and ever more accessible advantage to your opponents.

1,279 Comments Post a Comment
  1. HAMMERTIME107
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Do we know when and how many double game weeks there will be?

    1. Miguel Sanchez
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Likely 34 and 37

      1. TaiwanHC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Is GW34 really a potential DGW?

  2. sglancelot
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Who do you think will score more in GW 27?

    A) Stephens + Aguero
    B) Mane + Jimenez (-4)

    1. Miguel Sanchez
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      A

    2. goOnrobbo
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Mane + Jimenez

    3. Botman and Robben
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      B

    4. JBG
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      B

  3. goOnrobbo
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Bench Calvert-Lewin or Grealish for GW27?

    1. Miguel Sanchez
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      DCL

    2. DA Minnion (Former great)
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Cal

  4. Miguel Sanchez
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Good to save FT here? 1FT 0.4 ITB

    McCarthy
    TAA Robbo Doherty
    Salah(c) KDB Mahrez Fleck
    Aguero Jimenez Ings

    B.Williams Webster Hayden

    Cheers

    1. Make United Great Again
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Mahrez too rotation prone. But likely to start this week. Good to save yep

    2. Fulchester's New Centr…
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Yes. Bench is a bit iffy maybe, but first XI "should" all play so save FT and GTG.

      1. Miguel Sanchez
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Will sort bench with Aguero funds next GW with 2FTs

  5. JBG
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Webster + Kdb to C.Taylor + Mane for -4?

    I'm taking out Kdb anyways (and bringing him back in afterwards).

    1. Fulchester's New Centr…
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      If you are already committed to leaving Kevin then yes, of course.

      1. JBG
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Thanks!

    2. JBG
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      If I leave Kdb in this week, I'm still taking a -4 hit gw28 to bring in Mane and Mccarthy.

    3. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Good move

      1. JBG
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Thanks!

  6. yer old da
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    How’s she looking ladies?

    McCarthy
    TAA, VVD, Lascelles
    Salah(c), KDB, Mahrez, Grealish
    Vardy, Jimenez, Ings

    Bench: Martin, Dendoncker, Soyuncu, Rico

    1. Fulchester's New Centr…
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Nobody has called me a lady in a long time.
      GTG.

    2. JBG
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      GTG indeed.

  7. kamdaraji
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Anyone know who takes corners for Everton if Sigurdsson and Digne are both on the pitch or do they interchange or is someone else on them too?

    1. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Digne on one side and Sigurdsson in other

    2. Fulchester's New Centr…
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      This very site reckons Baines, Bernard next in line after those two.

    3. JT11fc
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Digne from the left, Siggy from the right

      1. kamdaraji
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        cheers guys

  8. ZeBestee
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Keep or ditch Kun?

    1. Fulchester's New Centr…
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Keep. He owes you after Wednesday.

      1. ZeBestee
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Will he start though?

        1. Fulchester's New Centr…
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 1 month ago

          Maybe an hour, maybe 20 mins. Who knows? Who would you bring in?

  9. ChickenTikkaMoSalah
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Morning all, am I GTG?
    McCarthy
    TAA,Robbo,O’Connell
    Salah(C),KDB,Grealish,Traore
    Auba,Ings,Jiminez

    Dubravka, Fleck,Stephens,Lascelles

    1. Our Man Charlie
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Looks good CTM , plans for GW28 blanks ?

      1. ChickenTikkaMoSalah
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Have 2 free transfers,even if I just do Grealish to Barnes I’ll have 10 players starting which I’m happy with

  10. Our Man Charlie
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Morning FFS 🙂
    GW27, normal service as resumed at last 🙂
    Just a quickie - who to play ?
    1. Lund (BHA)
    2.Aurier (chel)

    A.Perez (MCI)
    B. Traore (NCH)
    I'm going 1A at the moment Cheers

    1. JT11fc
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      1 B for me

      1. Our Man Charlie
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Cheers JT

    2. JBG
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      1 B yeah.

    3. Eddie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      2B for me

      1. Our Man Charlie
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        cheers Eddie , tempting for sure as not sure on Lund start and managed minutes i guess ,

  11. Dannywaz
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Big Raul Jimenez injured ??

    1. kamdaraji
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Where did you hear such rubbish?

    2. Weasel Boy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Hope not

    3. BNMC
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      He came off early and seemed a bit tired but I doubt there's an injury concern over him.

    4. Fulchester's New Centr…
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      They say he is a machine.

    5. Our Man Charlie
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      I guess wait for pressers later

      1. teneighty
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Don't think Nuno will have a presser before the deadline.

    6. Dannywaz
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Just reading comments from last page

  12. BNMC
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    I open my team and I see Danny Ings staring at me, telling me to captain him. It just seems tough to look past Salah this week though...

    1. Miguel Sanchez
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      It sucks having a player like Salah in your team and wanting him to blank cause of captaincy numbers

      1. JBG
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Yeah... I feel the same. But Salah at home is just a different beast.

    2. Fulchester's New Centr…
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Just keep it simple

      1. Do I Not Like Orange
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        This. Don't overthink it when you have a near 13M forward at home to one of the worst teams in the league.

    3. Pipermaru
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Southampton's home form is a worry though.

  13. JT11fc
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Anything for a hit?
    2.6itb

    Pope
    Digne Trent Lascelles
    Mane (c) Salah Grealish Richarlison KDB
    Ings Long

    Button Dunk Maupay Kelly

    Next gw Maupay - Jimi

    1. Fulchester's New Centr…
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Rogue captain choice.
      Hope Everton and Soton results come in for you.

      1. JT11fc
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Thanks. Hope so

  14. Weasel Boy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Should I play Lunns or Williams (utd)?
    Currently playing Lunns.

    1. Fulchester's New Centr…
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Didn't see it, but Williams supposedly looked shattered last night - doesn't mean OGS won't run him into the ground though.

      1. Weasel Boy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Ok thanks.
        Will risk Lunnstrum I think.

  15. shirtless
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Anyone bringing in Utd defenders bear in mind there are now eight fit players on the roster, two for each position. Maguire and Wan Bisaka are pretty much locks, but who knows if OGS will keep the back three or go to a four. I think he will go to a four v Watford, which means Williams or Shaw will drop out. Baily may return, or Lindelöf, at CB.

    1. BNMC
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      I wouldn't even think of bringing a Utd defender until at least 32. The fixture run is really good from there till the end (and a DGW is likely) but right now I don't see too many clean sheets.

      1. shirtless
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Agreed.

  16. Henning
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    As there is not so many Good options in the midfield, is VvD and Son to Boly and Mane a goog option?

    1. BNMC
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Go for it.

    2. JT11fc
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Yup. More exciting

    3. Fulchester's New Centr…
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Very goog

  17. Stormbringer22
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Pick one to be transferred OUT this week

    A) Lundy
    B) Holgate

    Ta!

    1. Fulchester's New Centr…
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Lund

  18. dunas_dog
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Son to

    A Traoré
    B Martial
    C Mané ( and Firmino to DCL) -4 or
    D Play Stephens and carry

    Pope
    TAA Stevens Boly
    Salah KDB ***** Barnes
    Firmino Ings Jiménez

    Henderson Stephens Mooy Fernández

    1. Rinseboy
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      C and bench Barnes

    2. Our Man Charlie
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      I made the C move this week , Mo & Mane combo delight

  19. fpork
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Play Maddison (MCI) or Cantwell (WOL)?

    1. Stormbringer22
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Maddi

  20. tim
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Morning!

    You think Kun will start this week?

    Kun to Jimi
    Greenwood to Ings -4 ?

    Cheers!

    1. the dom 1
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Thinking the same with Kun > Jiménez myself.

      1. tim
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Just got him last week and Im sure if I get rid now, he will obs. score this week!

    2. Weasel Boy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      I ditched him for Jimi.

      Kun brace incoming.

  21. FirMinaMiMo
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Here's my line up ...

    Mc carthy
    Gomez Boly Bailly
    Salah Mane Bruno Kdb
    Dcl Ings Vardy

    Subs:- 4.0 Traore lund gibson

    1) Traore
    2) Vardy
    3) Dcl

    Select any two to start? 🙂

    1. the dom 1
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      1 & 2

      1. FirMinaMiMo
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Thank yu buddy

  22. the dom 1
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Kun > Jiménez for free a good idea??

    Yes or No?

    I have Traore and KDB already.

    Cheers

    1. Fulchester's New Centr…
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      If 2 FT probably, if only 1 I'd wait 'till next week. Wolves seldom rip teams to pieces, but Kun "could" do that that to Leicester even with limited minutes.

  23. Stimps
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    How's she cooking? 1FT, 0.6 Itb

    Henderson
    TAA VVD Stevens
    Salah (c) KDB Grealish Traore
    Auba Jiminez Ings

    Pope Barnes Stephens Lascelles

    1. Fulchester's New Centr…
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Thumbs up from me.

  24. GW27 Breakout Players
    Geoff
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Who do you think will find form and step up to score big this GW, and why?

    Maybe someone who hasn't had a double digit score in a while, has a series of no attacking returns, or has very low ownership.

    Have you seen something in someone's play or in their stats to make you think they could be ready for a breakout GW?

    1. ‘Tis the Season
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Ings double figures

      1. Pieterke30
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Dont see it, Mings is back.

    2. Stormbringer22
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Bruno may make a statement this week with a goal and an assist and max BPS.

      1. Gunners in Haaland
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Bruno

    3. NOMONEY
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      have a feeling will be one of the new boys - ighalo, fernandes or bergwijn

    4. BNMC
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Pepe had his "breakout" week last week but I hope he gets another good return this week. He's one I'm looking at bringing in after the Arsenal blank.

      1. ‘Tis the Season
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Watching him closely tbh

    5. IRBOX ⚽
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Bruno Fernandes. He has been passing the eye test and loves a shot. His numbers for Sporting are a testament to his quality and with the monopoly of set pieces at United I fancy him to carry on scoring. Likely on pens as well. A great differential and much prefer him to Martial

      1. Dr. Mantis Toboggan
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Hope he holds off on the breakout a little longer, fixtures from GW32 on make him a strong WC pick but I don't want him yet

    6. BNMC
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      But out of the players I own, I say Alli. He has a good record against Chelsea and I think he'll be up for it in wake of the comments Mourinho made towards him after the Leipzig game.

    7. jia you
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Tammy back from injury with a hattie to pile more misery on Jose

    8. teneighty
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Doherty back to last seasons heroics.

      1. Dr. Mantis Toboggan
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Hopefully this. Attacking stats look great, Boly back boosts their defence.
        Probably bringing him in so I can bench one of Stephens or Maddison

    9. Miguel Sanchez
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Mahrez to haunt his former club. Likely to start as he didn't play midweek and probably won't start in Madrid. Long overdue haul incoming?

    10. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Pukki

    11. Dr. Mantis Toboggan
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Five consecutive single-digit scores would constitute "a while" for Trent, he's my VC and if not for the small risk of rotation around CL I'd maybe stick it on him.

      Agree with the above about Fernandes and Doherty

    12. tricky80
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Az and Joe will be going for this too... Mac Allister at 5.5 will be a steal. He is going to be some player.

    13. jennmenn
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Allan Saint-Maximin

    14. Pieterke30
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Bruno with his first double digit haul.

      Grealish to outscore Ings.

    15. Jakedmat01
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Think Armstrong could be in for a haul, also Harvey Barnes looks good Man City defence (if without Laporte) is still bad

    16. Axle11
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Alexis Mac Allister would be my guess.

    17. zinaks
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      merely a feeling..... but Aguero

      1. zinaks
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        see!!! told ya

    18. Lord Heskey
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Armstrong & Moutinho
      May be one of them hit double figure

    19. FirminoIsBetterThanYou
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      With Hendo out, Naby Keita to bag a double digit haul.

    20. Bushman
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Jota???

    21. thepuntmaster
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Willian against poor Spurs

  25. Andrew
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Is this WC time, alternatively I have 1 FT and £0.2 ITB

    Ryan (Button)
    VVD Soyuncu Stephens (Lundstram Kelly)
    Salah KDB Grealish Maddison (Dendoncker)
    Aguero Vardy Ings

    1. Saka Rice
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Don't like Aguero, Vardy and Maddison. They haven't proven much in the last few gameweeks. And Aguero is too risky considering he's not a guaranteed started, risky captain choice, over £11, tough fixtures (even though he's "fixture proof"), and Champions League will take priority

      1. Andrew
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Thinking Aguero > Jimenez

    2. Fulchester's New Centr…
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      That'll do for this week. Can you get Boly or playing SHU defender for Lund?

  26. La vida FPL
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Vardy > Jiménez this week?

    Leicesters fixtures improve a lot after this week...

    1. Le Bluff
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Nah, not for me.

      Love Jimenez but I need to think about getting an XI out for GW 28. Vardy plays Norwich next week, so taking him out feels like an unnecessary transfer.

    2. JBG
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      No other way to bring in Jimenez?

  27. torshov_bulls
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Diego Jota with a hattrick in Europa League. He is a streaky player, could be the start of a goalscoring run.

    1. BNMC
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      He hasn't really been the same since Traore came into the team...

    2. JBG
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      He's doing good, with goals, in the EL. But in the PL he's a different player it seems, struggling.

      1. JBG
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        A bit like, Mkhitaryan for Utd when they won the EL.

    3. torshov_bulls
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Should have followed my own advice..

  28. Atimis
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Is Boly the best option in his price bracket?

    1. Miguel Sanchez
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      For me he is

    2. shirtless
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      I think so. Brought him in for Kelly.

  29. Saka Rice
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Seriously what do I do?

    I have 2FT, 0.3ITB. Suggestions much appreciated

    Pope/McCarthy
    VVD TAA Lascelles Egan Stephens
    Salah KDB Martial Traore Hayden
    Aubameyang Ings Jimenez

    PS I already used my WC

    1. Fulchester's New Centr…
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Not much on other than sideways moves. Hayden might have lost his place, Fernandez better than Lasc, Wolves defence has got good at same time as Soton has dropped so Stephens to Boly?

  30. torshov_bulls
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    What to do with Aguero this week? Likely Jesus gets the start against Leicester, and the keep Aguero fresh for the Real Madrid-game?

    1. JBG
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      After what Jesus showed against WH, he should never start again. But never know with Pep.