The key underlying statistics I consider when picking my new FPL squad

I'm debating Ryan too.

Means I can have kwp who could be one of the best nailed long term 4.5m defenders.

Don't want to double up on Mccarthy and kwp

So you're trusting hypothetical Ben White and Veltman improvements and Hojbjerg losses over lockdown stats?

That's a hard no from me and couple with the fact that Southampton have better fixtures, and I think it's a mistake.

Ryan here too

It’s not a set or forget for me. I’m going McCarthy but happy to switch him out if SOU defence look ropey

Nice

close to my current team
just playing 352 with ASM instead of Adams 😉

Nice! Very close to one of my drafts (top of next page) but I’m going Ings over Adams

Pulisic yes, Ziyech should be fine

What time frame? Robbo I short term but VVD should prove better value long term

VVD. That extra 0.5 could be useful

Robbo for me, generally more attacking potential and looked good post-lockdown

Going with A ... flair players are always fun to own

A - you are more likely to get a full appearance with ASM than the other two.

B

B if all are starters.

a

Saka will have the combo of minutes and playing for a decent team

Rashford, Greenwood and Auba all played as wing forwards last season so like Salah and Mané they were classified as mids

Apparently the young striker Greenwood is a winger now just cuz he played winger at times in his debut season, ridiculous

B

B

B

B

B

Its basically a coin toss right now between Ings & Jimmy.
For me, Ings edges it.

Traore & Arms is anyone's guess. Not sure both will start or play for at least 60 minutes. I'd rather wait out a couple of games to see the set up.

How about ASM + 1.0?

Can you not do Ings and Armstrong?

Definitely an option at some point. Feels terrible as a WH fan - huge mistake if they let him go

KWP

KWP definitely but not the best option. I feel like 4.5 def is an trade that you can sideways easily.

i think you'll regret the Dier pick. can't see how he's a viable fantasy option. would much prefer Davies or find the 1m for Doherty
I like Armstrong at 5.5m

I have almost the same team, little lighter in the def with Kane and Werner in attack and Saka as the 4th mid. Dier is a 4.0.

Think with Eze’s introduction it could improve Ayew’s output. Perhaps not immediately, though.

You worried about Benteke taking his place at all? Not quite sure what the deal is there.

I think its more to do with Firmino being overpriced at 9.5 tbh

Firmino should have dropped to 8.5m, think Werner is probably right price (for now)

With Chelsea having changed almost 50% of the starting line up and had hardly any pre-season they might take time to gel. I'm still going with Werner though...

Imho is quite small sampleto draw conclusions about teams and individual players imho. For example some teams had significantly better fixtures than others after the restart.

Sterlings finishing is jinxed after that awful miss in the cl

KDB is definitely the best ticket in Pep Roulette IMO

Nope - May go both at some point though

Me

Messi?

Son -> Alli, and 4.5 mid to Armstrong 🙂

B.

Definitely a rotation risk.

The only 7.5 for GW1 would be Bergwijn, so it's either 0.5 less or 0.5 more.

At 7 I likes Barnes, and 8 I go Alli.

Alli or Ziyech

expected goal involvement

Expected goal involvement... goals and assists

I think it's just xG + xA. Which is a bit crap tbh. A better solution would be:

Defs: 6xG + 3xA
Mids: 5xG + 3xA
Fids: 4xG + 3xA

This is why I just ignore xGI whenever it's mentioned. It assumes goals and assists have equal weighting, which they don't...

Upside or assurity ..... which turns you on the most ?

For me, Foden is a bit of "wait and see". I will not own any City players the first 2 GWs anyway.

one of many interesting 5,5 options ... looking forward to some insight regarding Podence 😉

Hard to imagine him being a starter

That profile pictures brings back memories...

In project restart, Podence appeared 6 or 7 times for 1 goal, 1 assist from memory.
Been researching him myself.
My 5.5 mid choice.

Not a wolves fan but moutinho and neves take 2 mid spaces. With wolves playing 5 at the back and jota, jimi and traore as the front 3 he’s looking at coming on rather than starting. On the watchlist I think

Tbh I'm more tempted to buy in the 5.5 mid because of this potential route. Someone at that price has to come good....don't they?

Bunch of clowns some of them

AMN and Tierney?

If Arteta is smart (and he is), he'll use the quality of Tierney left of 3 at the back with AMN plus 1 as wing backs.

Probably the last one - actually quite rate Soucek

How about no Liverpool double up?

I did that last season and by GW3 I did VvD > Soyuncu to fund some bandwagons.

Dier

Totally 50/50
Spurs have a lot of defensive assets & reason to rotate them.
..... and Tierney is stuck with Arsenal