Gameweek 15: Redemption
byI take back everything I said about FPL last week. It’s the greatest. My methods are finally paying off. I love guessing at sports!
Friday Night Plight
Gameweek 14: Justifications
byFPL used to feel like playing chess while needing to refer to the rulebook after each turn, but now it feels like sitting in a seedy Vegas sportsbook, watching the odds fluctuate for reasons beyond my imagining.
Gameweek 10: Double Transfer
byWho’s setting all these fake salaries, anyway? Do you think the actual players ever look at them and get annoyed? Do you think they get used by agents when negotiating new contracts?
Gameweek 9: Disappointments
byIt’s so easy to be rude to a little phone screen filled with tiny shirts. The cab lurches up McGuinness Boulevard and I set my team without another thought. Only thirty joyful weeks to go.
Gameweek 8: Differentials
bySouthampton is a team that I have never understood. Are they good? I never know. They are striped. That’s all.
Friday Night Plight: Week 7
byMy approach to FPL could be an intro course to behavioral economics. Step right up, undergrads! Every week, a real-life demonstration on sunk cost fallacy and a reminder that markets are not rational, because people are not rational.
Friday Night Plight: Week 6
bySome people are good at Fantasy Premier League: they listen to podcasts, read analysis, remember to trade people right away when they get suspended before they lose value, and understand how bonus points are awarded. Me,…
Friday Night Plight: Week 5
bySome people are good at Fantasy Premier League: they listen to podcasts, read analysis, and understand how bonus points are awarded. Me, I set my team on Friday night—exhausted from work, often slightly drunk, informed by twenty minutes of wild research, fueled by irrational notions.