And, most importantly, Merry Christmas all. Hope Father Christmas brings plenty of EV, posvar and high real mins ranks to everyone with the same team as me

GW18: Bruno & Guiu to Le Fee & Ekitike. Gives a more robust squad for the silly season (had only 1 playing bench player this GW) without sacrificing too much EV or flexibility down the path. (C) and final starting birth not finalised. Will see how spicy I feel after a few Xmas 🍻

GW17: Red arrow to 12k from 8.5k seems fine considering how the GW went. Don’t have tier data to hand but a lot of good managers used TC or FH which raises the safety score too. 2FTs & will likely move tonight due to price changes, off to make the solver suggest the moves I want

GW17: Minteh to Cherki. Settled on this as feel relatively OK about his mins in the next 4. Chose to take Foden on rather than drop Saka down to him. Prefer the ease this path gets to Palmer eventually & am gobbling up more immediate EV if (it’s a big if) Cherki’s mins are there

GW16: 12% green to 8.6k. Starting O’Reilly over Minteh worked out, captaincy didn’t quite and, apparently, playing without Foden is cranking the difficulty up to All Madden on steroids

GW16: Using 4FTs wasn’t the plan at the start of the week but price changes, a fragile squad and some hidden EV revealing itself means here we land. Wolt, Enzo, Tarko and Mukiele to Thiago, Szobo, Hincapie and Andersen. Just call me a grassy casual and be done with it

GW15: Small green arrow at 10k. Bruno the 🐐 doing some heavy lifting. Somehow got a red arrow in Analytics Elite 64 & Skill Issues leagues, could the nerds be back?

Felt cute, new profile pic time

The problem with models in FPL is that they result in everyone in the entire game having the same team which was especially an issue this GW when models suggested a variety of different players for (c) instead of telling people to do what the vast majority did and go Haaland (c)

GW14: Red arrow to just under 10k. We don’t talk about Bruno.

Bruno Fernandes has arrived with the squad.

GW13: GWs like this is why we play the game. Le Fee Hit coming up huge - 96% green with some tasty bench jam. Great week to have great luck. Real team could well be a shambles for 14 but will cross that bridge after enjoying this one for a bit.

Enzo Le Feenomenon

GW11: 27% Green arrow & 2FTs to use over the IB. Banned Paq will be gone but need to assess who for. Would ideally like to wait until the end of the break to decide moves in case any other issues arise or using both FTs becomes optimal (silly price changes may not allow this 😢)

GW11: Rolling to 2FTs. Analytics cheating again by starting the GW with 5 points for Bruno

GW10: Solid green arrow. All went fairly well. Paq first on the bench but once I felt confident that Andersen was fit I never really considered starting him. Barring mid week issues plan is to roll next week

GW10: 🐐& DCL to Saka & Mateta. Initial plan was to roll but increasingly those paths lost EV compared to this route as Mateta’s mins have 📈 & price changes impacted ability to make other +EV moves down the path. AFCON FTs also a factor, they allow slightly more aggressive play

GW9: A decent week (32% green) that was going to be a very good one until VDV went nuclear (was just outside 100k before Spurs game). Captaincy call and Rodon the two big pluses for the week. 2FTs next week, not solved yet whether I make moves likely depends on Andersen’s fitness

GW9: Rolling as would rather some more info on Gab and Andersen before making moves. Leeds top on for the DCL hat trick tonight. Nothing else noteworthy about the team. GL everyone with the exact same team as me

Morning playlist sorted