Who Got The Assist? FPL Podcast

Tom and Anthony are joined by Surya from AllAboutFPL this week for an in-depth look at the defence - where do we invest, and what players catch our eye at this stage of the season? Additionally, the correspondence calls out the 4.5s (DUFFY!!) as well as listener questions on things like midfield malaise, if we're still going to sell Ronaldo as early as telegraphed and goalkeeper transfers. Enjoy,...

The international snoozefest is over, meaning Tom and Anthony are back to look over the new fashion for a "threemium" set up with 3 premium players in FPL. Is this a long term trend? Or is it a flash in the pan after a weekend where the stars aligned for expensive players but the mid priced assets going forward has a gameweek to forget? Elsewhere, the Correspondence features chat about Man City pl...

This week, Anthony and Tom are joined by a debutant to podding in James Queralt (@FPL_JQ on twitter) to examine the impact CR7 will have on how we look at FPL this season. Following on from last pod's chat about an aggressive, premium hopping strategy, we turn our focus to look at the players who will enable that - the long term picks in the mid-price range that you'll want to set and forget in de...

The second Gameweek of the season ends with knees jerking all over the place. As that happens, Anthony and Tom look over how this season's profile is emerging and ask if a more aggressive strategy could open itself up to FPL managers looking to get ahead as the campaign unfolds. Elsewhere, there's correspondence on how much data we need to make decisions, as well as listener questions on things as...

The opening Gameweek has been and gone and we're back - with Nick! - to discuss what we can take from this year's opener with a lot of things to talk about as one of the most explosive first Gameweeks of the season takes place. Elsewhere, in the Correspondence we talk about how the punt picks can make a difference, and among a myriad of listener questions we take on the challenge of seeing what we...

It's the end of preseason! Join Anthony and Tom on a look into whether there are more goals scored on the opening Gameweek than usual as Tom analyses past first weekends to find the truth,Also, via our correspondence, we give analysis about our sides and how things are currently shaping up as another season dawns. GOOD LUCK AHEAD OF GAMEWEEK ONE!We'll be back next week to pick over the wreckage th...

With two weeks to go before GW 2021-2, normal service resumes with Anthony and Tom delving into the player list for our annual pricing pod. It's a lengthier edition than our usual fare, packed full of info as it is, which may require a couple of trips! This year, we use the twemplate (twitter + template =) to frame our discussion, looking at the herd picks versus other alternatives, highlighting a...

Following on from last week's pod on Fandom and the kick-off with Behavioural Science this week's pod continues our Summer Specials as we probe at the relationship between Analytics and FPL as we round off our trilogy. Join Tom, Anthony and top guests Simon (aka Analytic FPL) and Jamie (aka Wee Rogue) from the Corridor of Uncertainty Podcast on a journey through the myriad ways data, stats, analyt...

Following on from last week's pod on Behavioural Science, this week's pod continues our Summer Specials with an analysis of the relationship between Fandom and FPL. Join Tom, Anthony and top guests Lucy Highnett and Adam Pritchard on a cruise through the ways in which club biases can help, hinder or downright destroy fantasy football objectivity - either when reading  advice from others or in maki...

This summer, we’re offering something different. Here at WGTA, we’ve recorded a trilogy of podcasts – Summer Specials – looking into a specific theme that impacts FPL in depth with well placed guests to provide a unique way of looking all that surrounds fantasy football. The first pod is Behavioural Science and FPL. Join Tom, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello so WE’RE BACK for another season! In this first pod of the 2021/22 season – the fifth year of WGTA! – we have a lot to talk about as we throw off the bit of rust that may have accumulated after an actual summer break. The first half is all about who we are, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s the end of yet another season, and we’re here for a final pod this term to look over the campaign just gone. We begin with our season reviews, our mini league reviews and,  a bit of an announcement with regards to next year. There’s also an extensive analysis of what made 2020/21 so unique, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, Tom and Anthony look ahead to Gameweek 38 by reviewing how prior Last Days have gone to give an understanding of how this might look from an FPL perspective – will there be goals galore? We also pick out 5 last day punts each! We take a final correspondence question on FPL manager […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, Tom and Anthony look ahead to Gameweek 37 after BGW36 as the FPL season draws to an end. After the usual Gameweek Reviews, Market Forces and an update on the ML, this quick turnaround edition is listener centric. We take a correspondence question on fandom – with this summer’s plans lain bare – […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, Anthony and Tom are joined by the punner extraordinaire Adam Pritchard (find him @threefivewho on twitter) to do some navel gazing surrounding next year’s pricing structure. Obviously not an exhaustive look at every single player and team, but a breeze through many of the key men in all positions to just speculate on […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoic...

This week, Anthony, Nick and Tom are joined by the brilliant Lucy Highnett (find her @lucyhighnett on twitter) to discuss the 200 club. We analyse the elite band of players scoring over 200 points per season past and present and assess their performance this season, as well as projecting their performance going forward. Also the […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoi...

The band’s back together this week as Tom, Nick and Anthony use this pod as a time to pick through the avalanche of correspondents emails we’ve been asked to talk over some key questions that arise in FPL, from captaincy, hit taking to, erm, singing an FPL related adaptation of Spice Girls’ 2 Become 1. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week’s quick turnaround pod is a speedy edition featuring Anthony and Tom after what happened in DGW32. Starting with a correspondence on how to deal with the blank in 33 from Ollie Aasht, we then moved on to the key questions growing out of how we deal with things going forward – Liverpool, Leicester […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode, on a week when many are feeling the affects of bad outcomes meaning a lot of “I Quit” pronouncements on social channels, it feels an apt time to remember why we play the game in the first place as ask: why do we enjoy playing FPL anyway? We look at how the downsides […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week’s pod, Tom and Nick indulge in a leisurely chat without many notes in the international break about the final 8 Gameweeks in terms of how to handle the home straight. This covers looking at a couple of the big budget teams in City and Liverpool and our position on their players, and […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week’s pod, we’re joined by the Scoutcast’s Seb Wassell (find him @SebWassell on twitter!), an excellent guest, to talk all things blank gameweek 29. In this pod, Nick, Tom and Seb talk over frisk the fixtures via looking at each team with a semblance of depth, identifying their virtues and, by extension, their […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week’s quick turnaround pod is just Nick and Tom – an OG pod – covering the key questions growing out of mini DGW 26! Listener Q+A such as how to rank climb, if strikers are off the menu and what we do with City players are on the agenda as we move into the […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week’s quick turnaround pod covers the key questions among FPL managers coming out of Double Gameweek 26 via our Q+A. Alongside that, it’s the market forces, the mini league ranking and then the questions. This week’s questions give our view on the key questions on the week, such as premium sell-offs, how to manage […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, it’s our annual look at fantasy football manager risk profiles. We utilise hits taken by managers to try to categorise you all into categorise and talk about what that tells about about differing manager strategies going forward. The questions focus in on the big issue of the double gameweek – who do we […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week’s quick turnaround pod covers Nick and Tom’s decisions to wildcard (alongside Anthony’s reticence!) – what are we doing with our wildcard? Who are picking and why? Lots of discussions ensue about key wrinkles around the players we’d be buying, our motivations to do so and what we’re aiming to do with it. The […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices