r/FantasyPL Weekly Wildcard: GW15 Review

The r/FantasyPL Weekly Wildcard mini-league challenges you to create a new team week on week, run by u/stanleymanly3 and u/StacyVD. The league code and rules can be found here. To view the league standings, click here.

GW13 Review

GW14 Review

The Scouts

The Official FPL Scout got a score of 61 with their selection. 4-3-3: Fabianski (9); TAA (2), Keane (0), Duffy (-2), Rose (2); Sterling (0) (V), Richarlison (10), Salah (4); Arnie (0), Kane (24) (C), Wilson (12)

Fantasy Football Scout got a score of 55 with their selection. 4-3-3: Lloris (3); Laporte (1), TAA (2), Duffy (-2), Digne (2); Salah (4), Sane (7), Sigurdsson (2); Kane (24) (C), Arnie (0), Wilson (12) (V)

Note: since FFS doesn’t pick a captain and vice-captain, I gave the armband to the mid/forward with the most top picks by the scouts. There was no scout picks article this week, so I gave the armband to the mid/forward with the most picks in our league.

Did you beat the scouts this week?

Top Teams for GW13:

• u/alisonmc97 (85 points)
• u/tommijim (81)
• u/Trustme_I_lie (81)
• u/ladsandlasses (81)
• u/cptnwillow (78)

Team of the week:

u/alisonmc97 takes the league’s top score this week. A good mix of reliable picks as well as shrewd punts saw alison rack up 85 points. In a week where almost all of us were hit with rotation or injuries, alison somehow managed to get some minutes in all their starting players, with Laporte’s (1) late substitution the only blip. alison went for the reliability of VVD’s (5) starting security ahead of a cheaper Liverpool player, and their faith was rewarded with an assist. Elsewhere, a punt on Murray (7) paid off — alison was one of only three players in the league to pick him. They also tripled up on this week’s 2nd-best scorers, with Fraser, Wilson and captain Kane making big contributions to the team. An impressive selection for sure.

Their team was: 3-4-3: Fabianski (9); VVD (5), Digne (2), Laporte (1); Sane (7), Anderson (2), Fraser (12), Salah (4); Kane (24) (C), Wilson (12) (V), Murray (7)

Bench: Hamer (0), Dunk (2), Billing (1), Peltier (0)

The unlucky team of the week:

u/rasun_ decided to go all in on premium assets this week. Unfortunately, this was definitely not the right week to go all-in on premium assets. Salah and Lukaku were their captain and vice-captain, and both were unfortunately benched and subbed on late in the game. Salah still picked up an assist at least, but he and Kane were the only ones to muster some sort of returns for rasun. They ended up with a score of 35, the lowest in the league among those who made at least one transfer.

Their team was: 3-4-3: Pickford (3); Luiz (0), TAA (2), AWB (1); March (2), Anderson (2), Camarasa (2), Salah (8) (C); Lukaku (1) (V), Kane (12), Aubameyang (2)

Bench: Hamer (0), McDonald (0), Schelotto (0), Suttner (0)

Top picks of the week:

• The most popular pick was Kane at 74% ownership. He contributed a goal, an assist and 3 bonus points to finish with a haul of 12 points.
• The most popular midfielder pick was Anderson at 62% ownership. A refreshing differential with only 11% overall ownership — but he blanked with 2 points.
• The most popular defender pick was TAA at 58% ownership. He also blanked with 2 points, and it could have been worse if he wasn’t subbed on early.
• The most popular starting goalkeeper pick was Fabianski at 26%. He delivered with a penalty save and a bonus point, totalling 9 points.
• The biggest differential this week was Maddison (3 owners). Maddison scored a goal and picked up 3 bonus points, returning with a 10 point haul. The players who picked him were u/catsaremybane, u/arjundevatha7 and u/JustMadeThisForTips. The first two should count themselves lucky though — they planted him first on the bench and he had to be autosubbed on!

Most popular picks of GW13:

Player / Picks / Points

• Kane / 37 / 12
• Wilson / 33 / 12
• Anderson / 31 / 2
• TAA / 29 / 2
• Salah / 28 / 4
• Arnautovic / 25 / 0

Housekeeping:

Please take note: a -56 hit is 15 transfers, not 14 because the first transfer is free!

The following players have a team value of more than 100m. Please take an additional -8 hit, which means a total of -64 for most of you, unless your name appears elsewhere in this section.

• u/arjundevatha7
• u/PoohBearing
• u/Stanleymgee
• u/GigglestheSphee
• u/MajorBabyFace
• u/everity01

The following players made 0 transfers:

• u/andthentherewastwo
• u/Stanleymgee
• u/420noscopelel
• u/GigglestheSphee
• u/MajorBabyface
• u/videoleader

Owing to the short time between the deadlines, I will not remove these guys for now. However, if you continue to make no transfers you will be removed. For most of you, please take a -112 hit next gameweek, -120 if your name was mentioned in the team value section, or otherwise stated in the following sections.

Did not take a -56:

• u/boostie17 (-32). Take a -80 hit next week.
• u/HortenWho229 (-48). Take a -64 hit.
• u/TavlaTiny (-52). Take a -60 hit.
• u/eramit2010 (-52). Take a -60 hit.
• u/Kabukisen (-52). Take a -60 hit.

The following players took an incorrect number of hits following an incorrect hit previously.

• u/andthentherewastwo (0). Take a -124 hit next week.
• u/Stanleymgee (0). Take a -128 hit, including the team value hit.
• u/everity01 (-56). Take a -72 hit, including the team value hit.
• u/420noscopelel (0). Take a -128 hit, including the team value hit.
• u/ladsandlasses (-56). Take a -64 hit.

The following player has been removed due to not having their Reddit username as their team name:

• Wildcard Everyday

From now on, if you join the league without your Reddit username as your team name, you will be removed without prior notice. I think this rule has been made clear enough by now.

Remember to take a -56 (or -64) hit and check your team value! Feel free to discuss how you did in this thread. Do let me know if there are any mistakes as this was done manually. See you next week!