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This season I’m building a FPL forecasting + optimisation engine with the help of AI - just to test a more systematic way of playing and share the process with others interested in FPL/data.
It goes from xG/xA + xMinutes → xPts → legal GW1–6 squad optimisation. #FPL #Analytics
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The UK taxpayer has footed the bill due to government mismanagement.
Over 10 years here are some of the worst cases: 🧵
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We have taken down our paywall for 48 hours - for you to enjoy some of our reporting about Manchester City.
First up - The men behind Manchester City: The dark side
By Nick McGeehan
josimarfootball.com/2018/08/…
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🚨 Tony Cascarino on Arsenal demanding answers over the Sunderland penalty:
🗣️“Arsenal won the game 2-0, the penalty was saved, and they still want a meeting about it.
If this is how Arsenal are going to behave every time a referee makes a decision they dislike, then we might as well stop playing football and let Arteta referee his own matches.
They want every decision explained when it goes against them, but when decisions go their way, suddenly it’s ‘part of football.’
You cannot spend an entire season talking about referees and then expect people to take you seriously when you call yourselves title contenders.”
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Just wear Arsenal jersey and you can do everything on the pitch 😂😂😂 nitter.gq/chapelmarketafc/status…
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Absolutely brilliant from Enzo Fernandez! 👏 nitter.gq/MediaForNOT/status/209…
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Reece (CAPTAIN) James: "If you’ve got to persuade them to help carry the bricks, they aren’t the ones to build with” 👊
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🚨 John Terry on Enzo Fernández pushing to leave Chelsea:
🎙️ “I’m sorry, but I’m struggling with this one. A vice-captain agitating for the exit and asking not to be included in squad against certain teams is not leadership. That’s the opposite.
“I understand players have ambitions. City are interested, fine. But as VC you calm the dressing room, you don’t stir it. In our day, miss the Champions League and the wages dropped. Bonuses gone. Nobody liked it. You still trained, still played, still dragged the club back. You didn’t pick and choose fixtures.
“This sets a rotten example. Young lads are watching. If he stays and I’m Alonso, that armband comes off. You don’t unsettle the group and keep the privilege. The question’s simple: how is that a vice-captain?”
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Any Chelsea fan saying yes to Martinez clearly doesn’t know what they’re asking for or doesn’t watch him. You want to bin Sanchez for his bozo moments (rightfully so) then advocate for Martinez, who’s just as much of a bozo
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Turning natural sentences into FPL solver constraints was a big challenge (and making it cover almost anything you'd want to say was the harder part) but we finally have it.
Very proud of this one! Now you can test your plans and beliefs, directly with the solver:🤟
- price points
- ownership
- projected minutes
- team stacks
- formations
- transfers and hits
- free transfers and itb
- chip timing
Live for pro members.
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The free model is now live!
app.fplreview.com/free
This acts as a useful, freely accessible reference and gives everyone a chance to play around with the planning tools. This season the ability to blend team strengths from the default free model to the @elevenify numbers is also available to free access users
You can connect via Patreon (without a paid subscription) to save drafts & inputs. Non-logged in guest drafts & inputs only persist for the session.
Please note, the free model projections differ from the Massive Data Model
Of the 120 players with zero PL mins:
• 50 foreign senior transfers
• 39 promoted seniors
• 11 GK/reserves
• 8 returning from non-PL
• 7 domestic non-PL transfers
• 4 academy/youth
• 1 little/no senior history
#FPL #Analytics
The low-data group is much larger than I expected:
• 120 players: 0 PL minutes
• 71: 1–299 mins
• 44: 300–899 mins
• 61: 900–1,799 mins
So 235/581 players have fewer than 900 PL minutes in the 3-season window. #FPL
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One issue to quantify before trusting the model too much: how much Premier League history do current FPL players actually have?
Across the current 581-player pool, only 285 (49.1%) have 1,800+ PL minutes in the last 3 seasons. #FPL #Analytics