There are some 12 million of us Fantasy Premier League (FPL) managers, the game which takes over our weekends for 38 weeks from August to May every year. Some of us make a team and forget after a few weeks, and some of us play with pure dedication, analysing the stats and results, always keeping an eye on the next player who's going to score goals.
We use words like "differential", "blank", and "haul" that to outsiders must make absolutely no sense. If you see someone in the pub celebrate when his team scores but slowly sink down afterwards, he's probably an FPL manager whose defender has lost his clean sheet bonus.
The game, for those of us who are sad enough to take it seriously, can really make or break our weekends and, like many, has broken me this season! Last year I finished with an Overall Rank of ~800,000 (out of 12+ million), not too bad for the first season that I played it properly. This season I'm currently ranked ~2.7 million so far.
While there is time to turn the season around, time is running out with just 12 gameweeks to go...
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