FIVE TIPS to have a SUCCESSFUL FPL DRAFT! 

I am in the midst of my first draft season and am really struggling for a very specific reason - my first three picks all played very little, but not due to being rotation risks like Mahrez or Grealish in the example in the video, but them being injury prone. The players are KDB, Isak, and Jesus. I very consciously focused on forwards due to the reasons mentioned in the video (I haven't seen the video until today) and was very happy with these three picks as all other teams struggled with forwards at the end of the draft. However, KDB was injured immediately in GW1 and the forwards had several spells out. At the moment in my league it is incredibly tight with the leader at 20-0-12 and me in the fifth place at 18-2-12, thus the spread of top five teams is 4 points, with 6 GWs remaining. However, all the other teams have much more points from the top 3 players in their squad (not necessarily top three picks, but in most cases that is the fact). I have managed to keep up the pace due to more analysis and waivers done, yet, the single strongest predictor overall of the current league table is the output of three best players in each team. Thus, based on that, nothing matters more than your three best players and my biggest lesson for next year is to pick at least 2 historically secure and non injury prone players in my first three picks.

This is all good advice. The thing I agree on the most is to get everyone in 1 room to do the draft. Draft night is the best night of the season.

I want to try this, but how do you do transfers? If there is a good player available and two players want to get the in, do you have to be the first one to get them or how does transfers work?

a tip you missed is that you shouldn’t waiver on your high picks early as it would even out later on in the season

Can u only do free agent transcations when the season starts?

Agreed with your advice on fwds That’s why I think I would be tempted to draft Jesus, Watkins early even before someone like TAA, Bruno or even Rashford What do you think?

Hey, do you have rankings/tiers that you would share? In american fantasy football it’s normally called a “cheat sheet” Thanks

Switching from Official FPL this season to Fantrax for my cash league. With a more diverse and in depth scoring system I see this draft being very interesting and hard to read coming from the simplicity of the Official FPL platform.

GK in the top 5 picks surely!

I have the 4th pick in a 12 team league this weekend. Going to see if I can steal Kane due to the Bayern hullabaloo and being the only spurs fan in the crew I hope they overlook him for their teams stars ( salah, Rashford)

can you do a video of how you set it up. once my mates are all around the table is it easy to follow or do i need to set things up?

yo joe do you mostly play fpl for fun or do you run some money league im looking to play some money league but cant find anything

Will you be doing your top 176 player in draft rank again?

What is a waiver? First time playing draft

Picking mahrez would be a huge risk 😂

if you pick Mahrez you are going to Saudi