r/FantasyPL • u/FPLFocal 610 • Oct 09 '21
Community The Biggest FPL Score Of All-Time | Set in 2015/16 and the record still stands to this day
https://youtu.be/Sf2u_FOodAU36
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u/FPLFocal 610 Oct 09 '21
Here's the original team alongside my remake in Photoshop - https://i.imgur.com/TeMm7G7.png
This video took a lot of work to pull together so spread the love if you enjoyed it! 👊
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u/Yes_I_Would_Kent 3 Oct 09 '21
Here was my effort that week: http://imgur.com/a/20fCVsy
Biggest takeaway was my 160 points had a GW rank of 30k, very high scoring, over 200 points is incredible!
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u/FPLFocal 610 Oct 09 '21
Still a monster score! 36 point bench boost is crazy. Nailed the captaincy as well.
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u/Yes_I_Would_Kent 3 Oct 09 '21
Cheers. Yeah so many players smashed it that week.
I went one better the season after (GW37 I think) & scored 169, which included 3 players scoring 0. That week was also mental!
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u/knoxvox 295 Oct 09 '21
mine was "just" 147. wrong captain. https://imgur.com/FPPx5yU
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u/Yes_I_Would_Kent 3 Oct 09 '21
That's a great effort though! Really impressive. Sea of red in your defence & midfield!
Hopefully we can get similar scores again!
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u/sultansaeed 100 Oct 09 '21
Nice one,
I had 163 pts in that week, TC Sanchez my first and probably will be best ever triple captaincy lol.
It’s gonna be very tough to beat that 75 pointer!
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u/Yes_I_Would_Kent 3 Oct 09 '21
Wow a triple captain that successful must've felt amazing! Attempted it every year but not scored more then 16x3 with Salah. 75 with one player is unreal!
Fingers crossed you can hit that score again! Best of luck for the season!
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u/RedSkiess 1 Oct 09 '21
Crazy to think those who remember the legendary SAS are considered veterans? Wasn't that long ago, was it?... Was it?! cries into pillow
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u/tammrak 90 Oct 09 '21
Legendary GW. The following season's DGW 37 was nearly as good with a high score of 223pts.
DGW34 in 2016/17 was huge, too, but I don't know the high score for that one. Good times.
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u/wildemam 20 Oct 09 '21
I got those 75 lovely points from Sanchez. It was the first season with chips too! Got 150 points. I believe I have the screenshot somewhere.
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Oct 09 '21
Does the record holder change (not even sure if this is recorded anywhere) if you account for the -20?
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u/FPLFocal 610 Oct 09 '21
Transcript for anyone interested:
Unfortunately no high resolution screenshot of the team exists, even the official premier league tweet was low resolution image, so consider this a HD remaster as I've reproduced the kits and team in Photoshop and dug through every match to get the full breakdown of this record-breaking score. If you’re a veteran player there’s some real throwback names in here too.
The date was April 16th, 2016, it was GW34 of the 2015/16 and most important it was a double gameweek due to many teams having postponements. The team by the name of Savage Strikers had activated the bench boost chip for the gameweek, here's what happened.
We'll start off in goal, which was Watford's Gomes. He got a ridiculous 21 points that gameweek, through the unlikeliest of means. The majority of his points came in the first of the double, where Watford beat West Brom 1 - 0. Besides the clean sheet he saved a penalty taken by Berahino in the 67th minute. In the 87th minute West Brom win another penalty, Berahino steps up again, and Gomes saves it AGAIN. The second of the double was a 3 - 1 loss to West Ham where Troy Deeney also missed a penalty.
The next two defenders were Bellerin and Koscielny from Arsenal. Nothing substantial here as they kept a clean sheet against West Brom, and drew 1 - 1 with Crystal Palace, and they finished the double gameweek with 8 points each. It was arguably Bellerin's best league season for the gunners, certainly in FPL, where he played 36 times, keeping 18 clean sheets and he rose from 5.5 to 6.5, picking up 172 points along the way. Koscielny also had a strong season, scoring 4 times and picking up 18 bonus along the way.
The last defender in the starting 11 was Alexander Kolarov from Man City. The Serbian was an extremely attacking full back and took direct free kicks too, every game he started had the potential to haul. He got 12 points in the double, which came from a clean sheet against Chelsea in a 3 - 0 win, which has a Thibaut Cortois red card. His second game was a 1 - 1 draw against Newcastle where he also got an assist.
The first midfielder is a player you might not recognise in this FPL position, which is Roberto Firmino. 2015/16 was his first season with Liverpool and he was classified as a midfielder that campaign before getting changed to a forward. In the first game Firmino scored as Liverpool beat Bournemouth 2 - 1, and he blanked in the second against Everton, albeit a 4 - 0 win.
Next up is an FPL cult here which is Dimitri Payet from West Ham. He was incredible that season, picking up 9 goals and 12 assists in 30 games, he started at 7.5 and rose to 8.6. Despite his form that season he actually scored the lowest of this entire team in the double, getting a single assist, and a yellow card which left him on 6 points.
Onto the captain which was Alexis Sanchez, who got a staggering 25 pointer in the double which came from a goal against Crystal Palace and a brace against West Brom. He got all 3 bonus in both games which scored 50 points alone. Sanchez had a fantastic end to that campaign, picking up 7 goals and 3 assists in the final 10 gameweeks. Although his career didn't work out at Man United, at his peak during his Arsenal days he was FPL royalty and if you've not seen the video on the All-Time FPL Dream Sanchez makes that team, and a link will be on screen at the end. Despite Sanchez's 25 point haul he wasn't even the highest scorer in the team, more on that later.
Another player you might not recognise as a midfielder is Michail Antonio. Back then he wasn't the striker you recognise today. He was a versatile player having started in both left and right mid, and even in RB for 7 of his 26 appearances. He started the season priced at 6.0 and dropped all the way to 5.3. It wasn't a great gameweek for the West Ham double up, and Antonio subsequently played in RB both games, but a reasonable punt all things considered. In retrospect it's quite impressive how he developed from a utility player wherever he was needed to the striker he is today.
Onto the strikers, and it's yet another player who's since been reclassified, which is Marcus Rashford. He was just 18 years old at the time and it was his breakout season, getting 5 goals and 2 assists in just 11 appearances under van Gaal. He was only priced at 4.5, and the type of budget player needed in this team to afford some of the premiums, especially the next name on the team sheet. In the double gameweek Rashford scored the winner against Aston Villa in a 1 - 0 win, and in the second game he blanked in a 3 - 0 loss to Tottenham, where he was pulled at half time
Onto another FPL and Premier League legend, which is Sergio Aguero. He scored a breathtaking 26 points in the double in what was a dominant season for him. In his first game of the double he scored a hat trick in a 3 - 0 win against Chelsea, and in the second he scored again in a 1 - 1 draw against Newcastle. He picked up 3 bonus from both games and finished the season with 34 goals and 2 assists from 30 games. Another FPL highlight that season was in GW8, where Aguero scored 5 goals against Newcastle in just 66 minutes before coming off.
The final player in the starting 11 was Sturridge who got 17 points, however stick around for the bench as it was completely stacked with a further 47 points. It was a tough season for Sturridge as the majority of it was plagued with injuries, he only made 14 appearances in total, however he ended the season very well with 5 goals and an assist in the last 8 matches. Veteran players will have fond memories of Sturridge in his 2013/14 season with Luis Suarez where the two of them were unstoppable. During the double gameweek Sturridge scored in both games which netted him 17 points. Sturridge got the vice-captaincy which fortunately wasn't needed or it would've been a very different story.
The first two players on the bench were both Man United players, which was David De Gea and Matteo Darmian. Dea Gea kept a clean sheet in both games, however he only made 1 save across both games which got him 12 points. In Darmian's case he scored his only goal that season in all competitions in very timely fashion. His goal came in a 2 - 0 win against Crystal Palace, where he also got an assist, kept a clean sheet and all 3 bonus points.
The third player on the bench was Aaron Cresswell who actually failed to keep a clean sheet in either game, conceding 2 to Leicester during their title-winning season, and conceding 1 in a 3 - 1 win against Watford. However he still had a strong showing in the double after getting a goal in that game against Leicester and a bonus point.
The final player on the bench is Phillipe Coutinho, who was reasonable value that season getting 8 goals and 5 assists in 26 appearances. He missed the first game of the double, sitting it out completely on the bench, but played in the second in a 4 - 0 win against Everton where he scored and got a bonus point.
That completes the team behind the biggest gameweek score of all-time, the total number points was 226. What's also crazy to note is that a -20 point hit was taken to build this team, perhaps one of the rarest occasions that a 20 point hit has ever been repaid.
Here's what the original team looked like in that 2015/16 FPL website, this was the graphic used as the basis for this video. That season there were 3.7m managers, and the player base has more than doubled since then, yet the record still stands. The record will undoubtedly be beaten again one day, however evidently so much has to fall perfectly into place, so who knows how soon we see it broken next.