Synopsis
Assisting FPL managers since 2017
Episodes
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WGTA S4 E10 – Should We Zombify Our FPL Teams?
27/10/2020 Duration: 01h14minThis week we ask the vexed question: should we zombify our FPL teams? Of course, our answer is no. But why? What things can maybe point to us, as managers, having a positive impact on how our teams positively progress through the season in the context of continual disasterclasses? We draw on things like contrasting […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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WGTA S4 E9 – Which ‘Supporting Cast’ Players Are Worth Considering?
20/10/2020 Duration: 01h27minThis episode, the spotlight turns from the Kane and Salah-type premiums of the FPL world onto the ‘Supporting Cast’ as we discuss which cheap defenders, midfielders and forwards are worthy of consideration for our Fantasy Football teams. Additionally, there’s an analysis of explosiveness in captaincy picks in our Correspondence section plus a wide ranging Q+A […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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WGTA S4 Bonus Episode – Introducing Anthony / FPL Stag
14/10/2020 Duration: 58minThis episode is a departure from our normal service as we take the time to introduce the newest WGTA co-host Anthony, aka FPL Stag on twitter. In the pod, we hear about Anthony’s entry into the FPL world, alongside discussing the general motivations, likes and dislikes in a state of the nation chat about how […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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WGTA S4 E8 – What Can We Tell After 4 FPL Gameweeks?
06/10/2020 Duration: 01h29minOn this week’s episode, we dip our toes into the stats to look at a few ways to understand the 4 topsy-turvy Fantasy Football matchdays we’ve observed… so far. We look at: Best Team (so far) Best Players (so far) Star man (so far) Surprise (so far) Flop (so far) To try to see if […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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WGTA S4 E7 – How do we make sense of the FPL madness?
29/09/2020 Duration: 01h22minThis week’s episode evaluates 3 main ways FPL managers can assess the volatile start to the season to help make sense of the unpredictability. We undertake a penalty analysis redux in depth, look at how we deal with the experience of a bad fantasy premier league gamewek, and ask – is anyone any good at […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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WGTA S4 E6 – What do we look for in an FPL player?
23/09/2020 Duration: 01h25minOn the pod this week, we’re joined by LateRiser12 – otherwise known as Pranil Sheth, the No1 FPL Manager in India in 2019/20 – to look into the criteria we use to judge what we look for in an FPL player – whether we captain or buy them in! After the market forces, it’s a […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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WGTA S4 E5 – How important are penalties in FPL?
15/09/2020 Duration: 01h10minOn the pod this week, we discuss the opening Gameweek of the Fantasy Premier League and the discuss the salient issue impacting FPL managers as the season starts: how important are penalties in FPL? Our analysis covers historic data as well as the implementation of the new FIFA rules, as well as addressing in the […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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WGTA S4 E4 – Which early season strategy are we adopting?
08/09/2020 Duration: 01h29minOn the pod this week, Nick’s back to join Stag and Tom to talk about early season strategies in fantasy football with Man Utd, Man City, Burnley and Aston Villa missing Gameweek 1 to create a novel conundrum: which strategy are we adopting? In this episode, we look at the ways in which fpl managers […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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WGTA S4 E3 – How much do we believe these Unwritten Rules of FPL? (with FPL Family)
01/09/2020 Duration: 01h14minThis week we’re joined by our friends Lee and Sam – otherwise known as FPL Family – to dissect 5 Unwritten Rules and discuss how much we agree with them as advice touchpoints for fantasy football managers. These rules are: Form Over fixtures Captain obvious Target the whipping boys Information is more important than 0.1m […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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WGTA S4 E2 – How do the fixtures change our view of the prices?
25/08/2020 Duration: 01h42minBuckle up this week as it’s a slightly longer serving of fantasy premier league goodness because it’s time for our yearly overview of the player price list, now that the added essential ingredient of fixtures can be added to the mix. This means we can ask the central question: how do the fixtures change our […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Pod 116 – 2019-20 Finale
28/07/2020 Duration: 01h31minHere we are at our final podcast of the 2019/20 fantasy premier league season. It’s a relief, having recorded 51 episodes in an elongated season (including the Sunderland Til I Die editions), so we’re very glad to be off on a break after this! However, we’re here for a really enjoyable final season pod musing […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Pod 115 – Final Week Deliberations
23/07/2020 Duration: 01h28minAs the penultimate gameweek of the fantasy football season huffs and puffs to its close, we’re here to detail one week punts and Free Hit formations in the final round of fixtures. Alongside this, it’s our questions and transfers and captains. Back on Monday for the final pod of the season! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Pod 114 – This Year’s Market
17/07/2020 Duration: 01h17minAn underwhelming week in FPL ends with a regulation 2-0 victory for United seeing the market react, and this week it’s all about how the market has developed this year. It’s a “now for something completely different” type podcast where we meditate on something – WGTA style – to give you something different in terms […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Pod 113 – Outcome Bias and Hindsight in FPL
14/07/2020 Duration: 01h11minIn one of the harshest binaries between the have and have nots in Fantasy Premier League Gameweek history, we get psychological. This week, we go big on a throwback to our behavioural science heartlands as we look at the salient impacts of outcome bias and hindsight in FPL and how we should recognise and factor […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Pod 112 – How are we spending our money?
10/07/2020 Duration: 01h12minAnother midweek set of fixtures in the Premier League restart comes to the end with Tom in a good mood after an 100+ point outcome to his bench boost! This week, with Anthony under the weather, Tom and Nick go oldschool with a vintage 2-man pod looking at how Fantasy Premier League managers have historically […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Pod 109 – Forward Focus
26/06/2020 Duration: 01h10minThe second Gameweek of FPL’s return concludes with Liverpool’s crowning at 2019/20 Premier League Champions! Reflecting market forces, this week delves into the key issues thrown to the fore by the data as fantasy football managers look to purchase in shiny new options in their forward line as strikers come under the microscope as money […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Pod 108 – Restart (Re)Evaluations
23/06/2020 Duration: 01h06minWe restart the fantasy football season with a tumultuous double gameweek with a quick turnaround podcast. Unfortunately, Nick can’t make it this week but we use his wildcard as a way to assess what might be on FPL managers’ minds after that (re)opening week heading into a quickly imminent next gameweek. The pod covers discussions […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Pod 107 – Focused Player Chat
16/06/2020 Duration: 01h25minAs the FPL restart draws near, we spend time analysing key men to own for the upcoming final furlong. We highlight those important players who fit the profile for our interest ahead of the restart in a whistlestop, non-exhaustive tour of players by position that fantasy football managers may wish to consider as the season […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Pod 106 – Resumption Strategies
08/06/2020 Duration: 55minWith FPL officially reopening, we pick over the strategies that are emerging to tackle the challenge of the football resuming. We discuss our situations and how we’re countering them, from which we hope managers will be able to reflect and optimise their own approaches ahead of the (re)kick-off of the season into the final 9 […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Pod 105 – 3 Things To Think About As FPL Returns
02/06/2020 Duration: 01h11minFPL returns – ish. We’re in the run-up to the reactivation of the FPL season with things scheduled to kick off again on 17th June! With this in mind, we’re back to discuss 3 key things to watch out for as Fantasy Football comes back as the Premier League itself returns. In this pod, Nick, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices