Thread by @FplBhaiya, I decided to analyze my season and learn from my mistakes. Sharing [...]

I decided to analyze my season and learn from my mistakes. Sharing this hoping it will benefit at least one person! (THREAD 1)

Team: Kaam Bhaari
Manager: Advait Garg
Twitter – FPL Wale Bhaiya - @FplBhaiya - https://twitter.com/FplBhaiya
Overall Rank – 1,379
Overall Points – 2416

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Good Moves

1) Mane & Salah: My best move this season was to rotate between the Liverpool stars this season. I had no doubt in my mind that the two clinical midfielders would justify their price tags. I started the season with Salah for 4 GWs & then switched to Mane on my (1/24)

wildcard in GW5. I kept Mane till GW12 and then I had both for GW13-GW18. After GW18, I kept only Mane until DGW24 when I brought in Salah and Triple Captained him.
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Looking at the numbers (without captaincy):
Only Salah (full season) – 233
Only Mane (full season) – 221
Ideal switch between Salah and Mane – 332
My points from Salah and Mane this season (only the highest returner when I owned both) – 280

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The ideal switch would be the most beneficial, but a lot of transfers are wasted in that case. I was extremely happy with the strategy I used with Salah & Mane.

2) Jamie Vardy: One of my standout picks. I remember jumping onto the “Vardy Party” bandwagon just before the (4/24)

9-0 hammering and a 20-point haul against The Saints. After that game, he was not leaving my team for a while. I also noticed a positive trend in my OR as soon as I brought Jamie to my team. Vardy’s extremely good run of form between GW10 and GW18 (88 points in 9 GWs)... (5/24)

helped push my rank into the top 10k. My rank jumped from 4,57,564 in GW9 to 7297 in GW18 as my team averaged 69.55 points per GW in that period. Ridiculous jump and I would like to credit Jamie for it. (6/24)

3)2020 has been one crazy year. We saw players scoring goals in the Premier League in the month of July, making Willian the only player to score in the league in every month of the year. We also saw the players and the FPL managers adapting to this format of the (7/24)

league and game. I believe that using the unlimited free transfers along with Bench Boost and my Wildcard right after was a beneficial move for my season. An ideal situation for Bench Boost with a DGW and unlimited transfers. It was a very popular strategy in the (8/24)

FPL community, but those who had used their chips earlier could not afford to do the same. This also tells me that there is value in holding chips for the end of the season as there is a clearer picture of how the table is likely to look closer to the end.

Bad Moves
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1)Goalkeeper switch: I started the season with Nick Pope as my GK from GW1-GW14. I switched to Henderson the following GW and held him for the restart and my Bench Boost. The third keeper I switched to was Patricio due to Wolves’ easy fixtures post restart and the (10/24)

amazing defensive underlying stats they displayed as a unit. I wouldn’t say that my keepers didn’t contribute enough to my season, but I realized that there is less value in switching goalkeepers as it eats up transfers and does not maximize returns for that position. (11/24)

We can see below, it would’ve been better for me to set and forget a goalkeeper instead of attempting to maximize returns by switching between keepers with favorable fixtures.

Points this season;
Pope - 170
Henderson - 160
Patricio - 153
My keepers’ combination – 135
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Fun Fact – 8 goalkeepers got more points than my combination of goalkeepers this season.

2)Underestimated Trent Alexander-Arnold: I started the season with very high expectations from the Liverpool defense and decided to go double at the back with TAA and Robbo. (13/24)

To my surprise, they failed to deliver and justify their price tags in the first 4 GWs. I made a blunder when I decided to save funds and get rid of the Liverpool defenders on my Wildcard. From GW5 to GW21, I watched every Liverpool game hoping for TAA to blank. (14/24)

He continued to deliver in the odd match here and there, but I wasn’t feeling the impact of the damage until his 24-point haul against Leicester in GW20. In hindsight, I would also hold TAA for the whole season. His attacking returns from set-pieces and... (15/24)

Liverpool’s style of play (in which the full backs play an essential role) makes him a very important player even at a potential 8million price point. Holding him through GWs 5-21 could’ve essentially been the difference between OR 1379 and breaking into the top 1k.

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3)Raul Jimenez: I jumped on this train in GW11. I held him only for 9 GWs till GW 19. I regret removing Jimenez even though he got me around 60 points in 9 games (6.67 points/game). I tried to play his variance and get rid of him before he decided to start blanking, (17/24)

but he proved me wrong. He continued to perform consistently as I switched between attackers who were “hit or miss”. I did something similar and got rid of him post lockdown for the last 3 GWs of the season and he continued to return again. If I could go back and (18/24)

hold Jimenez for the rest of the season from GW20, I would do it in a heartbeat. This taught me the importance of the eye test. I understood that we must have patience with a player who’s a talisman for a team and is consistently passing the eye test.

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Captaincy

My most popular captain was Mo Salah (12 times) with Sterling as a close 2nd (11 times). Salah averaged 19.3 points as captain for me and Sterling averaged 12.4 points as captain. I only captained KDB 3 times this whole season and he averaged 18.7 points (20/24)

as captain for me. Surprisingly, I realized that I did not captain Mane much (3 times) even when I was without Salah in my team. I preferred to go for a City asset when Salah was missing from my team. Captaining the front 3 is extremely exciting for me as (21/24)

I believe they have a higher ceiling than players who tend to play deeper. I noticed that I stuck to captaining only premium forwards and midfielders through the course of the season. The only non-premium captain I went for this whole season was Phil Foden post-restart. (22/24)

A regret I have when it comes to captaincy is not captaining Jamie Vardy more times than I did. I captained Vardy only 2 times and he averaged 17 points for me as captain. Another reason for this was my mini league. Vardy was not a differential in my mini-league and (23/24)

captaining him did not give my team the differential captain it needed to gain ground. In hindsight, Jamie looks like a great captaincy option week in and week out when he hit form and continued delivering almost every GW.

Continued in the next thread

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