That’s it! FPL is all finished for another season. The English Premier League exceeded expectations, bringing us some of the best moments in football.
There was final day drama in the Premier League with Liverpool fans being dealt the cruellest false hope by an early Brighton goal before Man City reasserted their dominance and successfully defended their title.
I’m sure there was plenty of drama in FPL mini-leagues across the land, although The Top Flight mini-league had no such drama as Rodney McCain’s team Rod’s Red Devils had already wrapped up the title long ago, with an impressive 2413 points, leaving him at 4,799 OR!
I took a desperate punt on Jamie Vardy in the final week, handing him the armband in the hope Leicester would have fun against a tired Chelsea. It was not to be and instead I should have followed my advice and picked up Zaha, van Aanholt or Rondon!
Often as FPL managers, we have a tendency to pick players that are more expensive and use up our budget as much as possible even if the alternative cheaper options are probably better for our prospects. It’s a lesson worth remembering that more expensive doesn’t always mean better.
In the coming weeks, I’ll do some FPL analysis on specific areas of the game (chip strategy, transfer strategy etc), but now it’s always good to look at the FPL Dream Team and see what we can learn.
I don’t mean the one released by FPL Towers as they seem more than happy to ignore their own rules and pick a Dream Team that contains 6 Liverpool players and would have cost a LOT more than the £100m we’re given at the start of the season.
Instead, here’s the squad you could have picked at the start of the season to give you the most points at the end if you had done nothing to it all year (note, I’m just assuming a 4.0m GK, 2x 4.0m DEF and a 4.5m MID who are left to rot on the bench).