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How did #FPL derive from one bloke’s hobby to over 11 million players?

From Tony Blair’s school initiative to sports cars as prizes, welcome to the crazy, corrupt and often comical growth of online fantasy football... Image
From 1991 to 1994, Andrew Wainstein's "Fantasy League" rapidly progressed from 500 initial users to partnering with the Daily Telegraph and being promoted on the “Fantasy Football League” TV show presented by Baddiel & Skinner.

The less said about that show the better... Image
The first winner of the Telegraph’s (newspaper based) competition was actually a 14-year-old boy, who won two tickets to a match of his choice.

Forget Burnley vs Fulham: this lad picked the World Cup final in the US. Brazil won. Image
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#UCLFantasy Semi Final is here🥳

Not sure who to transfer in? Don’t worry, we got you🙌

We have put together a short thread to get your UCL juices flowing where we look at:

- Players to Target
- Captaincy

#UCL Image
• Players to Target:

1) Goalkeepers🧤:

- Ederson €6m vs Real Madrid

- Andre Onana €5m vs Milan
2) Defenders🛡️:

- Theo Hernandez €5.9m vs Inter

- John Stones €5.1m vs Real Madrid

- Dimarco €4.6m vs Milan
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For #UCLFantasy managers curious about Man City ahead of R16 Leg 2 (against Leipzig), here are my thoughts...
Up front, I'd be very surprised to see anything other than Grealish-Haaland-Mahrez

No explanation needed on Haaland

On the wings, Pep will want control in this match against a very potent, transition-based Leipzig side - playing in transition will be to City's detriment, imo
Grealish is next to undroppable atm anyways, though he's still not a great fantasy asset due to the role he's playing and his lack of end product

Mahrez is our UCL king, he fits the tactical bill, and Foden's ankle issue just flared up again
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A lot of talk about content creators getting abused. There isn’t much true abuse, but it is a tough gig sometimes.

My main advice: the mute and block buttons are your friends, use them.

That being said, 95% of the time it’s a genuine pleasure, wouldn’t change it for the world. Image
It’s mostly unfair criticism/negativity rather than abuse which is part of the job, but it still doesn’t mean you have to listen to it, that’s the best thing about Twitter.

That being said, sadly there are a select few who are abusive and vile, don’t be that person.
You don’t realise the effect your words can have on someone’s mental health, especially if they are already in a low place. Think before you send that message, do you really need to send it? The answer is always no. Choose to be kind, it isn’t difficult.
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As you've probably noticed, the #WorldCupFantasy rules are not written great at all...

Some things are uncertain and we may be in for a couple of surprises 😬😅

Issue Nr.01 - The Captain ©️ 🔽
Usually (in #UCLFantasy) we are able to make a captain change each day.

The rules here suggest only 1 change may be possible. I'm not entirely sure this is the case though.

Could we be able to change the 2nd ©️ "once more" as well 🤔
Issue Nr.02 - Substitutions

Able to sub "a player". Does this mean we can only sub 1 player? 🤔

If so, a good bench would make less sense for sure.

Like in #UCLFantasy, I'm thinking we can sub in the whole bench though, or at least that's what I'm hoping for 😅
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Hello #UCL Managers around the 🌎

So excited to start #uclfantasy

Just around the corner, next

Tuesday!

Personally the challenge is to improve #450 ucl ranking

Let's climb on!
To start with my usual

🅿️ower
®️anking

#md1

All positions you ll 👀 those items

✔️ Total Points ➖️ all those items added to determine the ranking

✔️ Value ➖️ the total points divided by the price

✔️ 💰 ➖️ Price of the player

✔️ Own % ➖️ Ownership of all assets
✔️ MD1 FDR ➖️ important to say that I ll just consider the difficulty of the fixture of MD1, cause I am gonna LWC in #2 and 🚾 in 3/4

To measure the FDR level I researched with 10 ucl influencers
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Before I'll have a scan through the most promising #UCLFantasy forwards, I'll now have a look at chip strategies.

The way the fixtures have fallen, there's no obvious best strategy, making things quite interesting.

#FPLCommunity #UCL #FPL
1. LWC2, WC3

Probably the most common strategy.

The big pro with this one is we can field a strong MD1 team without having to plan for MD2 etc.
WC3 is very powerful as well as MD3+4 consists of the same (very easy in some cases) set of fixtures.
WC3 seems especially good for the teams here, who have a good run from MD3-MD6. Triple Real, Trent, Salah, Haaland, Spurs, PSG fwd... all could do the trick here.
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Up next, the most promising #UCLFantasy picks...

⚽️🅰️ Midfielders

🇪🇬 Salah €11.0m - Tricky to afford with all the pricey picks up front, but a kind group for the #FPL legend.
🇨🇴 Diaz €9.0m - The cheaper alternative, but more rotation risk once Jota is back.

#FPLCommunity
🇧🇪 de Bruyne €10.5m - A great start to the season for KDB & City, but a tricky trip to Sevilla. Should do really well in this group though.

🇰🇷 Son €10.5m - No goals so far this season, but #UCL MD1 sounds like a good opportunity to change that. Differential captain option.
🇸🇪 Kulusevski €7.5m - The cheaper Spurs pick who has already delivered in #FPL GW1. Might be a better fit considering the team structure.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sterling €9.5m - 3 goals in the last 2 matches. Could be a fantastic differential against Zagreb + Salzburg on MD1+2.

#UCLFantasy #UCL
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Let's now have a look at the most promising #UCLFantasy...

🛡 Defenders

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 TAA €6.5m - Already a #FPL legend, he comes in at a premium price. Even though Liverpool look leaky atm, his attacking potential may well be worth it once again.

#FPLCommunity #UCL
🇵🇹 Cancelo €6.5m - An away trip to Sevilla may not be an ideal start, but the City defence is quite likely to deliver again. He also was the top scoring defender of the past #UCLFantasy season.

🇳🇱 Ake €4.5m (rotation) or 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Walker €5.5m could offer cheaper alternatives here.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Tavernier €6.0m - Definitely a bit more pricey than expected for but the Rangers penalty taker got a huge amount of attacking returns over the last few seasons. #UCL may be a tougher task though.

🇭🇷 Perisic €6.0m - Goal, assist and CS potential v Marseille. Rotation risk?!
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I'll now have a scan through the best looking #UCLFantasy picks/position, starting with...

🛡🛡 Goalkeepers

🇧🇪 Courtois €6.0m - I'm not a fan of expensive keepers, but he has great fixtures throughout the group stage.

#FPLCommunity #UCL #FPL
🇸🇳 Mendy €6.0m - Another premium keeper but also a set and forget option.

🇸🇮 Oblak €5.5m - Comes in at a slightly cheaper price and also looks good from MD1 to MD6.

🇫🇷 Lloris €5.5m - A good looking opening game v Marseille and a kind draw for the Spurs keeper.

#UCLFantasy
Sadly the cheaper picks don't look too convincing this season...

🇩🇪 Trapp €5.0m - Europa League winners Frankfurt start with a home tie v Sporting... maybe with a CS chance.

🇨🇭 Kobel €5.0m - A nice home match v Copenhagen but Guerreiro is even cheaper + has attacking threat.
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#UCLFantasy penalty takers!

🇳🇱 Ajax - Tadic
🇪🇸 Atletico - Carrasco/Felix/Morata?
🇪🇸 Barcelona - Lewandowski
🇩🇪 Bayern - Mane
🇵🇹 Benfica - J.Mario
🇧🇪 Brugge - Lang/Vanaken
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Celtic - Juranovic?
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chelsea - Jorginho
🇩🇰 Copenhagen - Biel

#FPLCommunity #UCL #FPL
🇭🇷 Dinamo Zagreb - Petkovic/Orsic
🇺🇦 Donetsk - ?
🇩🇪 Dortmund - Guerreiro/Reus?
🇩🇪 Frankfurt - Borre
🇮🇹 Inter - Lukaku/Martinez
🇮🇹 Juventus - Vlahovic
🇩🇪 Leipzig - Nkunku/Forsberg
🇩🇪 Leverkusen - Schick/Diaby/Demirbay
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Liverpool - Salah
🇮🇱 Maccabi Haifa - Atzili/Haziza
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Man City - Mahrez/Haaland
🇫🇷 Marseille - Payet?
🇮🇹 Milan - T.Hernandez
🇮🇹 Napoli - Zielinski?
🇫🇷 Paris - Messi/Neymar/Mbappe
🇨🇿 Plzeň - Chory
🇵🇹 Porto - Taremi
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Rangers - Tavernier
🇪🇸 Real - Benzema
🇦🇹 Salzburg - Fernando
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A bit of breathing space from FPL after a hectic few days

Here's my first #UCLfantasy draft

Early thoughts below ⬇️ Image
WC in MD3 looks ideal given BAY, JUV, LIV, MCI, PSG, RMA, TOT fixtures
MIDs: Lots of good picks here; gone with WC

GKs: prefer a 5.5 + 4.0 or 4.5 + 4.5 combo; going with Trubin/Lopez who play on alternate days and have decent fixtures in MD1+2
DEFs: Cancelo my one premium at the moment, Guerreiro and Reinildo look to be great value, Tavares + Marcano as two nailed 4.0 picks

Ideally I'll get more money into defense but I don't see many budget options elsewhere yet
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Hello Guys!

The #UCL knockout stage is around the corner and I want to share my power ranking

Bellow you see a ranking based in

✔ UCL points 🔢 per game in Group Stage

✔ All Season ranking, only clubs

✔ Form in 2022, clubs too

✔ Pts for CSs % deliveries and % of⚽️🅰️
✔ Average of Balls Recovered in UCL for Defenders and Midfielders

✔ Average of Saves in UCL for Goallies

Have a close 👀

#UCLfantasy
#FPLCommunity
🥅 Goalkeepers 🥅

✔ The 🔝 is the owner of the best ucl average, Donnarumma. In 22, 3 🔒CSs in 4 matches. The risk is his shadow, Navas. Also faces tough Madri in 🗼

✔ One of fav is Ulreich 🇵🇱, Neuer is gonna be out. Only costs 4.5, anyway in 2 games this year conceded 6 ⚽️
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Here's my look at some of the most promising #UCLFantasy options ahead of MD4!

🛡️🛡️ Goalkeepers

🇪🇸 Adan €4.5m - A comfortable away win in MD3 against the same opponent, Besiktas.

🇷🇴 Tatarusanu €4.5m - Milan's staring keeper in Maignan's absence.

#FPLCommunity #FPL #UCL
🇧🇪 Courtois €6.1m - Not a fan of expensive keepers, but he has nice remaining fixtures.

🇦🇷 Rulli €4.5m - Probably the standout this week with a home tie v Young Boys.

🇲🇦 Bounou €5.1m - Good remaining fixtures.

🛡️ Defenders

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Man City def. - Dias/Cancelo/Walker should...
...do well against Brugge.

🇲🇦 Hakimi €6.6m - Expensive but 3 goals and 2 assists already in Ligue 1.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 TAA €6.5m - Atletico at home, but #FPL managers know what he can do.

🇫🇷 T.Hernandez €5.5m - Scored 7 goals last season.

🇪🇸 Porro €4.5m - Attacking Sporting full-back.
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#UCLFantasy team news ahead of MD4!

🇫🇷 Paris
Mbappe missed out v Lille through illness, but is likely to be available v Leipzig.
Messi got subbed at HT but should be fine as well.
Hakimi wasn't involved after recieving a RC 🟥 v Marseille the week before.

#FPLCommunity #UCL
🇪🇸 Barcelona
F. de Jong, Pedri and Araujo are all injured 🚑
Pique & Agüero both got subbed and look unlikely to feature as well.
Fati missed out with knee problems.

🇪🇸 Villarreal
Foyth & G.Moreno were not involved this weekend (rest?!)

#UCLFantasy #FPLCommunity #UCL #FPL
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Man Utd
Varane back in the XI after returning from injury.
Tactical switch from 4-2-3-1 to a 3-5-2 wingback.

🇫🇷 Lille
Botman is going to miss a couple of games 🚑

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chelsea
Mount missed out with illness after scoring 3 ⚽️ the week before. Lukaku & Werner still out inj.🚑
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#UCLFantasy

Thread on the group stage before MD1:

Group E: BAYERN

A bit unlucky to lose Lewa in the QF last year, still one of the heavier favorites for the CL title. Lead Bundesliga in xG and xGC despite having already played Gladbach and Leipzig away.
New Trainer Nagelsmann is as good as advertised. I personally thought he'd implement a 3atb but so far it's been the same old 4231. With Upamecano on board and a stronger emphasis on controlling transitions, Bayern have been a bit more solid in defense thus far.
While the attack is still devastating, as Musiala reaches another level in his development. There are plenty of fantasy options on offer here: Neuer (G, 6.0) is a good set-and-forget while rotating well with the budget-friendly Destanoglu (G, 4.0).
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Hello #ucl managers

Tomorrow is the Kickoff!

Let's introduce my

🅿️ower ®️anking

Made of 2 planners

1st PLAYERs STATs
🔸Players
🔸His team
🔸Price💲
🔸Last season UCL Points per game (included Man of the Match points), blank if he hasn't played
🔸Saves 🧤 per match of this season. Collected from @fotmob
🔸Or RBs Recovered Balls for DEFs and MIDs, from last season UCL, if hasn't played I collected from @fotmob app
🔸Form 🔥 of this season, points per game, based in a scoring system similar to UCL. 🎁MOTM from @sofascore
🔸Form of last season, also ppg using my scoring system
🔸% ⚽/🅰️ of last season + this season. For Defs and Mids don't count to Power Ranking, only FWDs
🔸MD1 and MD2 opposing teams

All items above highlighted in colours to define tiers of 🔝 🟢, average 🟠 and worst 🔴
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And as usual, here's my look at the most promising #UCLFantasy options ahead of the 1/2 finals!

⚽️ Goalkeepers
There are only 4 starters left at this stage, with Chelsea's 🇸🇳 Mendy being the cheapest one for €5.5m, so I would most likely just go with him.

#FPLCommunity
⚽️ Defenders

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chelsea defenders - Azpilicueta, Chilwell (€5.4m each) and Rüdiger (€4.9m) are all certain starters.

🇫🇷 Varane €5.8m - The most secure Real defender once Ramos returns.

🇪🇸 Nacho €5.0m - Also an option, but slightly at risk for future matches.

#UCLFantasy
🇵🇹 Dias €5.8m - The nailed on Man City starter. Cancelo (€6.1m) gets rotated regularly while Stones (€5.2m) & Walker (€5.9m) start most games as well.

🇧🇷 Marquinhos (€6.0m) & Kimpembe (€5.4m) are the most secure PSG options.

#UCLFantasy #FPLCommunity #FPL #UCL
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Here's a look at some of my prefered #UCLFantasy options ahead of MD7.

⚽️ Goalkeepers

🇧🇷 Ederson €6.0m - Part of a great defence and free of rotation which always is a worry with City players. And who knows, he might even take a penalty soon 😅

#FPLCommunity #UCL
🇵🇱 Szczesny €5.5m - A bit cheaper than most of the other top clubs keepers and with Porto coming up twice, he should at least get one CS.

🇩🇪 Hitz €4.1m - Dortmund not in great shape and he has produced a couple of errors in the last weeks. Should start if Bürki 🚑 remains out.
⚽️ Defenders

🇩🇪 Kimmich €6.6m - Expensive, but most likely worth it. 4 assists in his last 3 games 🅰️ 🔥

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Man. City defence - Take your 🔵 pick here. Cancelo currently is the most attacking one with Stones/Dias also providing some goal threat. Rotation the usual caveat.
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Further #UCLFantasy news on teams that have now finished their games this weekend.

Barcelona 🇪🇸
Appear to be in much better shape than at the start of the season and are now unbeaten in 11 La Liga games (9 wins, 2 draws) 🔥 Griezmann looks like one of their in form assets atm.
Araujo (€3.8m) missed the last game through injury 🚑 but returned to training and might start v PSG.

Porto 🇵🇹
Rested a few players (Diaz, Mbemba, Uribe).
Oliveira (€6.7m mid) and Taremi (€6.6m fwd) who already looked like their best options scored the goals in a 2-2 draw ⚽️
Real 🇪🇸
Lots of injured 🚑 players already + Carvajal got subbed after 28 mins. Vazquez (€7.5m mid) may now start at RB instead if he is out while on the wings, Asensio and Vinicius (€7.9m each) look pretty nailed on 🔒

#UCLFantasy #FPLCommunity
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Some #UCLFantasy news about teams that already have played this weekend.

PSG 🇫🇷
di Maria = ruled out for the Barcelona game.
Neymar 🚑 also out for a month.
Navas back in goal = Rico not an option anymore.
Sevilla 🇪🇸
Rested a lot of players (En-Nesyri etc.) for the #UCL game but also got some injuries 🚑 (Acuna/Navas/Ocampos).

Atletico 🇪🇸
Lots of players still out with Covid + Gimenez got injured (~3 weeks) as well. Means Felipe+Hermoso (€4.2m) should both start. Llorente ⚽️+🅰️
Dortmund 🇩🇪
Still not in great shape and conceded twice again (now 11 conceded in the last 5). Bürki is still out (shoulder inj.) but his replacement Hitz (€4.1m) again made errors. Haaland & Sancho with the goals ⚽️

Juventus 🇮🇹
Something I noticed here: They currently play...
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#UCLfantasy

Thread on the 32 teams in the group stage:

Group A: BAYERN

Top 2 teams in the competition, so their assets are priced as such. They also play Atleti the first game so I am tempted to avoid in the first Matchday.
Bayern though have an incredible attack. Lewandowski (12m) is on pens and sneakily gets assists, Muller (10m) is so good and his place is so secure, Gnabry (10m) a shout for a hattrick every game. Sane (9.5m) same thing but he will have a shorter leash than others.
No matter what, Kimmich (6.5m) will play at midfield and now with the addition of Roca, might even be able to get forward and chip in goals, in addition to his set-pieces and trade-mark crossing from wide. Very very good option at DEF.
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