🏆 EPICBET 🏆 FPL Challenge ⚽ Discussion Thread

I didn't expect 6 goals between Villa-Loserpool, but I took a chance with Szoboszlai and luckily he had 2 assists today.. Too bad it didn't happen last round when we had assist bonus😁 I think this round will be a good round (as I always believe) 😁

Quote from: Slissy on May 15, 2026, 09:59:14 PM

I thought I had Virgil Van Dijk in my draft to honest, I was looking to pick some from Liverpool and I thought it VVD, but apparently I changed it and decided that I might return him once the lineup are available only for me to forget completely until halftime.

There aren’t many players to easily chase points from so your Szoboszlai pick is already a good one.

Picking Gakpo is hurting me right now, in fact he did have a chance to score but it was ruled offside so my tune would've been different, but man I didn't even have him initially shit happens as usual, as far as GK's are concerned I can only say I'm glad I didn't go with my risky pick cause it would've been shit in the first 25 mins in case you're wondering I would've gone with Leno. But I did notice that the Wolves have only scored a goal one time in a few games but that one goal was at home so I changed my GK glad I did. Grin

I just checked how Bruno played and of course he had two assists today. In the previous game week, when those two assists would have brought me 20 points, he didn't have any assists. I hope that Pickford will have some saves. I was thinking whether I should go with him or Raya and decided to go with Pickford.

Man Thiago is one useless forward every time I pick this guy its always mediocre well only one more game week to go and I'll avoid him for sure plus they tied up with Crystal Palace on top of it smh ah well. Grin

Quote from: slackovic on May 17, 2026, 02:40:30 PM

We all had Bruno in the one with assists so it would probably not have helped you 1%. Only if you captained him, but not many did due to City having a DGW.

Good that I didn't go with Pickford - but most of my picks have been terrible so far. Raya has to do something for me, I'm not expecting much from Haaland.

Well shit! 13 points with only two more players to play, and that's not including a goalie. I'm sure that Raya will get CS tomorrow just because I didn't put him in my team. After such a great start of the event, everything went down the hill...

Quote from: Jinetics1111 on May 17, 2026, 03:58:17 PM

Thiago was indeed a complete let down, but I’m not to agree because other alternatives I could come up with didn’t do nothing either.

It’s a terribly low scoring round so far, whoever manages to get their hand Darlow might easily run away with this round.

Quote from: Harkorede on May 17, 2026, 05:35:22 PM

Quote from: Jinetics1111 on May 17, 2026, 03:58:17 PM

Yeah my other alternatives wouldn't have been that great either, although I did consider picking Osula but couldn't pull the trigger, and as far as Leeds goes I would've never looked their way for a defender or GK much less so whoever did cap'n Darlow is pure genius but on the flipside there is still Raya too and maybe even City GK as well, but overall shitty round for me. Grin

Quote from: Jinetics1111 on May 17, 2026, 03:58:17 PM

I also picked Thiago every time with mediocre results, but this time I didn't pick him but unfortunately, Osula was originally in the player lineup and then I got rid of it by replacing it with Haaland, while my hunch is that Haaland will not get many points like him.
I hope that the remaining 2 players (attackers) can get more points, especially Haaland as captain, and Virgil gets the points he deserves.

Quote from: Jinetics1111 on May 17, 2026, 03:58:17 PM

I had Thiago and I changed him at the last minute. finally I did something right maybe😂 He has disappointed me every time I pick him so it's best that I keep him far away from my team😁

I think most people had fernandes, I had him as C but I changed my mind.. He doesn't want to score goals, he's just looking to have a lot of assists now😁

Quote from: BABY SHOES on May 17, 2026, 09:29:51 PM

Quote from: Jinetics1111 on May 17, 2026, 03:58:17 PM

It is not surprising that Thiago has disappointed in terms of performance since high expectations are not usually reflected in performance on the field. The fact that Haaland was selected in order to become the captain makes statistical sense, although the sign of nagging feeling about Osula can still be present. There are never any definite things in football, but there is the most appealing option of involving Virgil and Haaland in the last weeks as the most likely bonus win.

Man......and to think I wasn't gonna go with Raya this week wtf was I thinking? In the end I came to my senses and made the proper choice it was a no brainer cause of Arsenal's bore you death brand of football and in the end it worked out afterall, although with all of that extra injury time and what not I was nervous as hell but let's go!!! Grin

Quote from: Jinetics1111 on May 18, 2026, 09:01:26 PM

Yup, sometimes it really pays to go the 'boring' way. I did expect a much better offensive performance from Arsenal though.
I'm still ahead of you going into the last round, and I have Haaland left to play. Harkorede has 2 more players - so it will be a fight between us for the big prize.

The final one will be fun - it will be tough to predict winners when most games won't matter.

Not a bad round for me! And as expected, many people took Raya as C.. I think that was the easiest choice in this round.. I still have 2 players left for this round and I'm considering taking a little risk to hunt some more points or play safe 😁 but I'm still unsure so I'm waiting until I see the lineup first.

Quote from: Slissy on May 18, 2026, 11:00:49 PM

That makes two of us, I'm sure both of my picks are pretty much template, but depending on the lineup that both coaches decides start with, I might make some major changes.

I can't complain much about where I'm at considering how awful all the overhyped players for this round, like Ndiaye, Wilson, and KDH have been, a goal and assist each from my remaining 2 players should do the trick.

Quote from: cryptofrka on May 18, 2026, 09:34:08 PM

Quote from: Jinetics1111 on May 18, 2026, 09:01:26 PM

Yup you will be ahead but to me finishing in the top 3 to end the season in this event is good cause I never imagined even doing well in FPL to begin with, but kudos to us for grinding out some good picks and with a little luck of course making it to the summit if ya'll are going to be doing this again next season with this format I might be inclined to join again as I had major fun with this. Grin

Quote from: Slissy on May 18, 2026, 11:00:49 PM

Pretty much most of us picked Raya so it was not some advantage, as I counted it wouldn't be. But the disappointment was that I picked Wilson and Thiago for the round. However, the players that were second on my mind were even worse, so all in all, I will count this for now as a win. Still one player to pick and play—maybe it will be a last-second change. I will also wait for the lineups to see if it is worth it

Thiago has been so bad at one point he didn't even have any shots on target from what I remember and I said to myself why? Another bad pick was Tarkowski as I had someone else in mine and went with him thinking I would get some type of "edge" that worked perfectly(sarcasm). Only highlight for me was Watkins he was fire but other than that not good. Grin

Quote from: paco92x on Today at 12:12:07 PM

I tried to be smart and went with Pickford which turned out to be such a bad decision. As if Everton losing the game 3-1 wasn't enough, Pickford didn't have one single save and I ended up getting only 2 points from him (he got 1 point, but I captained him so I got 2 points). All in all, a very big disaster for me. I have one more player left to play today, but I don't expect to gain much from one player. This is probably the last time I tried to outsmart everyone else.