Gameweek 38 of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) offers managers one last chance to boost their rank and make up ground in mini-leagues – but where are the genuine differentials to be found?
At this point of the season, ‘ghost teams’ are common, so to get a truer gauge of how popular a player is among active Fantasy managers, we turn to LiveFPL.
We’ve used the top 10,000 as the benchmark for this feature.
We’ll go fixture by fixture, handpicking a few lesser-owned players from the matchups while avoiding anyone with an ownership rate that exceeds 15%.
The obvious caveat is that these ownership figures are from Gameweek 37, so they won’t reflect transfers in this week.
With that in mind, we’ve noted if they rank in the top 50 for overall Gameweek 38 ‘transfers in’.
It’s also worth noting not all of these players are nailed-on to start.
How can having a lower points tally be grounds for being less legitimate? Liverpool have more points than any other team meaning Liverpool are Champions. Isn't that how things work?
The history books tell you Liverpool won the league this season.
It doesn’t care about how good or bad the competition was, or whatever other mitigating circumstances you might think aided them to win it.
All history cares about is whether they finished the season with more points than anyone else.
They did, so champions they are.
I’m not going to tell you what to do or think, but coming up with asterisks to try and invalidate a clubs achievements isn’t healthy and doesn’t make a jot of difference to how history will remember them.
NFL fans did the same thing to Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the Patriots during their 2 decades of dominance, but whenever you look at the sports almanacs there they still are winners of all those championships that fans begrudged them winning.
Alan Wells won the 100m Olympic Golf Medal in 1980.
It’s universally agreed he doesn’t win that race if the USA had sent a team to that Olympiad instead of withdrawing out of protest against Russia.
But look in any history book or watch that race on YouTube a million times and you’re going to see the same end result every time, forever etched in immortality.
You're really going to have to work on your jokes if you're going to make it as a troll Ruinenlust. This sad bitter little man persona is a right downer
It’s like the golden man United sides, they win the title most years with 4/5 games to go and ended up dropping points all over to not get a impressive points total by end of season
Anyone replying to this is kind of wasting their time unless they point out it's inaccurate, if Liverpool win on Sunday then the stat belongs to Citeh and the Chelsea
Just a word on the supposed Astrix for the COVID title. Might the Astrix state that Liverpool didn't actually need to win anymore points after lockdown to win the league....in other words lockdown was not a factor.
This season Liverpool have won similar and more points than a number of Fergies Man Utd title winning teams!
I don't think you can secure a 10 point lead as such. Just takes a differential captain shout. I would just play your own game, get who you think scores best and play it. Hopefully it then pays off for you
Need to try and box off their biggest threat. I don't think you can guess what they will do, so try and narrow it done to what they definitely won't, which is take out someone who is a differential to you.
so for example, is they have Wissa and you don't, you know they won't take them out so someone like that could be good to box off!
It's such a slim lead that you could argue just go for whoever you think will score biggest i.e. if you fancy saka this week, get him. However you want to put the onus on them to outscore you, boxing off one of their differentials (i'd be tempted to do a -4 and take 2 out from them) so depends if you are feeling shield or sword!
If I were involved in recruitment for a top 10 teams in the Premier League I'd try to get both Wissa and Mbeumo on board, potentially Schade too and do a clean sweep of the front 3.
I'm currently 13 points ahead in my ML with a big prize on the line. See both of our teams below. How would you suggest I use my final FT? I have plenty ITB. Currently thinking to bring in Saka (to block him) or Bowen for Sarr and benching Eze or Gvardiol. Any thoughts?
My team:
Raya Gvardiol - Kerkez - Kiwior - Livra Salah - Mbuemo - KDB - Eze Evanilson - Watkins
GK - Munoz - Beto - Sarr
His team:
Henderson Gvardiol - Konsa - Burn Salah - Mbuemo - Saka - Eze Marmoush - Watkins - Wood
Gotta agree with Virg here. This is a pointless article if it doesn't actually do anything other than dump transferred in stats at you. It doesn't really tell me much.
I'll revisit it later. I'm fully on the beach. Will spend probably Thursday and Friday doing my FH draft and then on Sunday before deadline I'll have a quick search for leaks and that'll be it for me.
If you have a ML lead of 15-20 points and only one realistic rival, would you use FTs to try and match their team or maximise what you think are the best pick.
Rival has 1 FT and I have 2 and we both wildcarded in 35 to VERY similar squads:
Marmoush and KDB to Palmer and Cunha and bench Mbeumo could get that differences down to 2-3 players max but I’m not sure if it’s optimal
Benching Mbeumo makes no sense at all, although it's difficult to make suggestions without seeing your team.
Marmoush to Watkins/Evanilson/Wissa makes sense. The other can be used on Isak if he's not fit, or if not, I would get Bowen or a Bou mid if you don't already own them.
I might not have asked my question well. I’m not really asking what are the optimal picks in isolation. I’m asking would you make sub optimal picks in order to match a chaser
Can you actually know what the chaser might do? Have they told you? For all you know they could sell some of those sub optimal picks and then you'd have them because you tried to second guess what they'd do, even though you don't want them. Play your own game, you probably didnt get here trying to copy those behind you.
10 points separate the top 4 in my ml, which I lead by 4 points. All have salah except for me, all have isak except me. None have bowen, one has kluivert, two have haaland. I'm thinking of bringing in bowen solely on form with my 1ft. But.............something is telling me that the palace vs pool game will be high scoring, surely salahs luck must change?
Just watched those 2 beauts Charragher and Neville picking their teams of the season on sky. These two clowns need sacking. Embarrassing
Every season we have this issue whereby players are being crowbarred into positions they don't play just because they want to include them. It has to be the best players for the positions!!
Bowen and Mbuemo have had fantastic seasons but they aren't the best players in their position because Salah is so therefore they can't make the team but here we are yet again with Neville putting Mbuemo in the left forward position. HE DOESN'T PLAY THERE GARY YOU MORON! Gibbs White also doesn't play in that position either. Absolute joke..
The inclusion of Munoz has also not been thought through. He has indeed had a great season so lets recognise that. However for that right back position, I'm sorry but his stats don't match up to Trent. Munoz has 4 goals to Trent's 3 but Trent wins every other stat. From playing significantly less minutes he has more clean sheets, more assists and a higher xGi. Not to mention the small matter of him winning the league!
I would also have Wissa as the centre forward. He competes with only Wood and Isak. He has scored 19 goals all from open play, no penalties. Wood has scored only 1 more but also takes pens and plays for a better team. Isak has 4 more goals but again is on pens and also plays in a better team.
