🇳🇱 Fantasy Premier League Champion 2016-17 (OR of 55), 98th in FFS' Hall of Fame, 171st in FPLResearch’ Ratings, part of Elite 1k.
Fantasy Sports addict.
Frank Lampard zijnde nog zeuren over slechts vier minuten blessuretijd na alles wat je vanavond cadeau hebt gehad. Dan ben je niet helemaal lekker bij je paasei.
#CHEAJA
#ChampionsLeague
Today, I made a life-changing decision to chase the one biggest dream in my football career. In a week’s time I will be flying to Melbourne, Australia. 🤩🤩🤩 One-way ticket. FPL is gonna have to step aside for a moment.
Player played 67 mins and has an extremely good backup.
Player plays Man City, Liverpool and Brighton next.
Player plays UCL in midweek starting from GW5.
Player is the first to rise in price.
Probably a bit of an unpopular take, but the fact that so many people are on a FH this week shows to me that
@OfficialFPL
giving everyone a second FH was really unnecessary.
Timo Werner casually racked up 2.5 npxG against Southampton:
• higher than any player in a single game this season (Jota 2.0 v SOU & Kane 1.9 v LIV closest)
• higher than Man United created in 29 of their 31 games
• 10 teams haven’t had a single game with a higher npxG
Delighted to announce that this has led to the desired outcome and that I signed for the reigning NPL Victoria champions, Bentleigh Greens. 🇦🇺
After almost two years, I’ll finally be ready to rumble again and I’m very much looking forward to the start of the season next week. ⚽️
Today, I made a life-changing decision to chase the one biggest dream in my football career. In a week’s time I will be flying to Melbourne, Australia. 🤩🤩🤩 One-way ticket. FPL is gonna have to step aside for a moment.
Ivan Toney is like a new cryptocurrency.
People get all excited because of historical results. It gets recommended because of its ‘potential’. Its value rises because of its ‘demand’.
But in the end, everyone knows it’s based on thin air. And it will collapse. It must collapse.
Fulham scored 5 goals. Leicester scored 3 goals and received two pens. Everton scored 5 goals. Forest scored 4 goals and received a pen.
Highest xG?
Brighton.
Bumped into Ronaldo the other day, asked him for an autograph. He said: “Do you have a pen?” I said: “Hang on.” So I threw myself on the floor, rolled over theatrically and started yelling. He said: “How is that supposed to get you a pen?” I said: “That’s how you fucking do it.”
FIXTURES, AN EVER IMPORTANT FEATURE?
[A thread, 1/34]
Identifying flat-track bullies: how do premium midfielders and mid-priced strikers perform against rated quality of defence and how do they fare against each other?
Hacker Thread
So last night we’ve been talking directly to this FFHub hacker, who seems to be from Hungary. A regular FISO member had his post edited in the RMT-section and the entire script from the hacker was put out (two examples). I didn’t know about the hacker at the time…
Watchlist post GW1 - A thread
After each gameweek I will write down some players who I have on my watchlist, either because of last gameweek or because of earlier performances and their fixtures turning.
Notes:
- These are players I don’t own myself.
- Stats taken from FBref.
Vandaag heb ik met
@Telstar1963NV
overeenstemming bereikt over een contract voor één seizoen met een optie voor nog een tweede seizoen. Enorm verheugd om op 24-jarige leeftijd mijn eerste échte kans in het profvoetbal te krijgen.
#ADreamComingTrue
Hi
@OfficialFPL
- there seems to be something wrong with the price changes last night. Ivan Toney is still priced at £6.7m this morning, but he blanked this GW so surely he was set for a price rise. Would you mind checking?
Cheers,
A concerned FPL manager
*realizes he needs a United asset*
*checks if Salah’s xGI/90 allows to sell for a hit*
“Hmm, perhaps not. Son then?”
*checks Son’s xGI/90*
“Ok, Kane.”
*checks Kane’s xGI/90*
“Gulp.”
*closes FPL screen*
Watchlist post GW3 - A thread
After each gameweek I will write down some players who I have on my watchlist, either because of last gameweek or because of earlier performances and their fixtures turning.
“Scandinavian edition part 1, a Christensen special”
• Non-owner for the Kane assist
• Owner for the Ederson non-assist
• Owner for the Mitrović ‘missed’ pen
• Owner for the Saka non-assist
• Owner for the Trent non-assist
• Owner for the March non-goal
If you got all six then you definitely got a bingo.
Michail Antonio averaging 2.5 points a week over the last 10 gameweeks (GW4-13) and still being the second highest scoring forward tells you all you need to know about this year’s PL strikers.
Watchlist post GW2 - A thread
After each gameweek I will write down some players who I have on my watchlist, either because of last gameweek or because of earlier performances and their fixtures turning.
Notes:
- These are players I don’t own myself.
- Stats taken from FBref.
I’d like to finish by saying that it has probably been obvious that I’m going to use the FH in GW 18 myself. Some comments could have been a bit subjective; the hard numbers can’t be ignored though!
I wish everyone happy holidays and a big thank you for going through this thread
If Lallana is out for >1 month still, then Mac Allister deserves as much attention as Mitoma. As a no.10 he’s been posting great numbers and he’s obviously the one on pens.
Blanked away to Palace despite taking 7 shots (more than all Palace players combined) worth of 1.4 xG. 👀
Largest increments in xGI 21-22 to 22-23 (550+ minutes played):
Almirón 0.14 to 0.46
Wilson 0.37 to 0.98 (392 mins played)
Xhaka 0.14 to 0.29
Trippier 0.12 to 0.23
Rodrigo 0.35 to 0.60 (514 mins played)
Zaha 0.29 to 0.48
Rashford 0.32 to 0.50
Eze 0.21 to 0.32
Surely there has never been a player in FPL with a bigger standard deviation than Reece James this season. The connection between his underlying numbers, actual output, appearances made, injuries, points scored, all of it, absolutely nuts.
I am convinced that if you put all the Spurs players in the Chelsea team and all the Chelsea players in the Spurs team that Chelsea would still come out on top.
It’s just such a Chelsea fixture no matter who plays or who’s in charge
Toney took 6 shots against Chelsea, his most in a single Premier League game this season. He also equalled his most shot-creating actions in a single game with 4.
If it weren’t for DGWs, dare I say it, he might have been a good buy.
There are 39 midfielders with more attacking returns than Bryan Mbeumo, yet he ranks 6th for expected attacking returns across all midfielders, behind Salah, Mané, Jota, Fernandes and Grealish. These numbers include penalties, which he does not have. Selected by 0.8%…
05/09: Brazil want UK-based Argentinian players banned for travelling to Brazil.
08/09: Brazil want UK-based Brazilian players banned for not travelling to Brazil.
City’s run from GW8 is actually ridiculous:
Arsenal (a)
Brighton (H)
Man United (a)
Bournemouth (H)
Chelsea (a)
Liverpool (H)
Tottenham (H)
Aston Villa (a)
Six teams from last season’s top 8 plus Chelsea…
Largest drop-offs in xGI 21-22 to 22-23 (550+ minutes played):
Trent 0.44 to 0.17
Cancelo 0.26 to 0.11
Coutinho 0.47 to 0.20 (439 mins)
Havertz 0.58 to 0.33
Mount 0.56 to 0.37
Son 0.73 to 0.53
Sooo my sister gave birth to a beautiful baby boy two days ago and thus I became an uncle, talk about timing! 💙😍 I’m off now, Helsinki first. See you guys soon.
If Chelsea get a couple of new CBs and Tuchel sticks to the five at the back, then that rules out Mendy for me.
James and Chilwell would probably be incredible value at £6.0m and I would always want to keep a MF or FW slot open for the likes of Mount, Sterling and Havertz.
Don’t have defenders? Try this: Stones/Cancelo benched, Saïss injury which no one knew of, Saka injury which no one knew of, Mané injury which no one knew of after having brought him in for a hit, Martínez 10-pointer benched who should’ve conceded.
Hey guys, don’t mind me. Just here to pop in and say that if you love football and have a day off, watch the entire first half of Ajax - Dortmund. I’d highly recommend. Bye.
• Benrahma and Fornals started the season at 6.0m.
• Both have done similar on expected metrics (1.4 xG and ~0.9-1.0 xA).
• Benrahma’s actual output is +1G and +1A compared to Fornals.
Benrahma just had his sixth price rise and Fornals is still 6.0m. Actual points misleading?
@Teamnewsandtix
What you should take from this is that getting pissed on a night out gives you a 50% chance of starting in a European final a few years later. You were just unlucky.
First nine gameweeks excl. United (h):
• Antonio: 33 shots, 4.4 np xG, 2.4 xA
• Bowen: 16 shots, 1.5 np xG, 1.5 xA
Last five gameweeks excl. City (a):
• Antonio: 7 shots, 0.5 np xG, 0.7 xA
• Bowen: 13 shots, 2.2 np xG, 0.6 xA
A change of talisman for the Hammers?