The 2018-19 r/FantasyPL Team

Hello everyone and welcome to the 2018-19 edition of r/FantasyPL's hive mind team. This is an idea which has been tried before and involves members of this sub controlling an FPL team. u/rohit12oclock and I hope to keep this team up to date with input from all of you until the season ends. &nsbp;

Decisions will be made by majority vote in the form of polls but may also be decided by top voted comments on posts for things like transfer suggestions, which will then be collated into a poll. We are heavily borrowing from u/Mel0n_Collie, who ran with this idea last season.

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In the next few days you can expect to see some posts on which players you would like in the team. Last time around, there were 4 days used to allocate the budget before picking players. As we do not have the luxury of time and that particular method was called into question; we are planning to go through the positions without allocating the budget. It seems that when allocating the budget it can be a bit of a guessing game as you can't really know how much to spend and where until some choices have been made.  

We are proposing to jump straight in and have you choose (or reject) a premium midfielder, followed by a premium forward and finally a premium defender. After that we would run through the positions again in the same order (with mid-range and budget options depending on what people want) and at that point we would have 6 players. This will provide a good foundation to build on and from there we could fill in some of the "cheap" bench options and 1st GK position so we can see how much money is left over. We can then come in with formation preferences before the remaining positions are finalised.  

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Actions Needed  

• Decide on team name. Reply to my comment below with your suggestions and we will take the top 5 or so most upvoted ones and put them into a poll tomorrow. The previous name was FC Hive Mind and we would be happy to go with this again but we thought we would offer you the choice instead, seeing as it is your team!  

Please keep in mind that as there is not long to go until the season starts, we are going to have to rush through this so there will be posts daily until the team is complete. Although we would like to go ahead with the plan above, if there is another way that is preferred and can be implemented in a short time, we will definitely consider it. So, feel free to share your thoughts below.