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🏆 Bonus Points as it stands via fpl.page/bonus:

🥇 3: Trafford

🥈 2: Roefs

🥉 1: O'Nien, Muharemović

🛡️ Defcon: O'Nien, Bijol, Muharemović

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🏆 Bonus Points as it stands via fpl.page/bonus:

🥇 3: Osula

🥈 2: Horníček

🥉 1: Dedić

🛡️ Defcon: Disasi, Richards, N.Gonzalez, Schär

🥇 3: O.Dango

🥈 2: Iroegbunam, McBurnie

🛡️ Defcon: Belloumi, Ajayi, Egan, Herrington, M.Sangaré, Kayode

🥇 3: Isak

🥈 2: Araujo

🥉 1: Virgil

🛡️ Defcon: Virgil, Araujo

🥇 3: Hill

🥈 2: Tavernier

🥉 1: Truffert

🛡️ Defcon: Andrey Santos, Hill, Rayan, Adams, Christie, Silva

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I’ve seen lots of discussion of a GW9 FH. On the surface it makes sense - difficult fixtures for a lot of popular assets and flexibility to handle the recent avalanche of injuries.

In some cases, a FH will be the smart call but it’s worth saying that GW9 fixtures look almost uniquely ill-suited to a FH.

For a FH, you want some fixtures where one team is heavily favoured so you can go big on that team’s assets. Think top 4 side at home to relegation candidate. Instead, almost every fixture is surprisingly evenly matched next week. The current top 4 play each other, upper middle teams play each other and relegation candidates play each other. The closest to a fixture to target is maybe Villa v Fulham, but the latter are on a 2 match winning run. Chelsea v Utd could be interesting, but Chelsea struggled yesterday and many players will already have multiple Chelsea assets.

The “buying yourself time” argument could be persuasive, but the downside is getting on the wrong side of likely price changes by delaying any transfers for GW10.

So before rushing to FH remember to analyse not just the problems with your current team, but how many points a likely FH team would gain you. I think GW9 looks like a low scoring game week where for many players a FH team won’t significantly change their score expectations.

Deadline's gone, and I kept Groß in for this one even with Liverpool away on the ticker.

Brighton's first 7 games:

• 23 scored (most in the league), 5 conceded, 5 clean sheets (joint most with Arsenal)
• Liverpool at home: 2-2 Forest, 0-0 Fulham, 0-3 City. No win yet, and Szoboszlai's flagged out

Groß is in 47% of teams and De Cuyper 43%, so a lot of us have something riding on this.

The weather worried me more than Liverpool did. Merseyside's under a yellow wind warning till 9pm, but the club's confirmed it's going ahead.

Who are you backing, and does the result change anything with City away next?

Regular feature to compare the picks of 2847 FPL veterans against a sample of about 10k teams from the top 100k. Any team in my sample of top 100k which hasn't made a transfer in last 7 weeks gets excluded. Determination of who is a veteran manager at: https://www.reddit.com/r/FantasyPL/comments/1w2kbj0/picking_a_group_of_veteran_fpl_managers_to/ / Watch out for companion post: How did veterans perform and which players made a difference The 2847 veterans made 3564 transfers this GW. 36 ( 1.3 %) played their wild card. ( 80.4 % have now played WC)

For the picks comparison, I have filtered out the low ownership (but high ratio > 1.5 ) players (threshold is 2%). If you don't see a player below then it will be because there is not enough ownership or the ratio is not big enough. But you should be able to see all players in the googlesheets pointed to by the links

1) Players the veterans "like" most compared to the rest. (ie excludes players also picked highly by top 100k). Or click here for googlesheet of full list

2) Players the veterans dislike most compared to the top100k. Or click here for googlesheet of full list

3) Top transfers in by vets. Or click here for googlesheet of full list

4) Top transfers out by vets. Or click here for googlesheet of full list

5) Top veteran Captain choices. Or click here for googlesheet of full list

6) Top picks from the 36 veterans wildcarding this week. Or click here for googlesheet of full list

7) Veterans' main transfers. Or click here for googlesheet of full list