GW38 Points: 92PTS! Team Value: £107.4m! 2016-17 FPL season review! Did we make the top 1-2%? Plus, GW38 recap and our summer plans revealed! Thanks everyone for your support. 👍
FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE TEAM 2016-17 TIPS
FPL GW38 Review
GW38: 92PTS! (AVG: 58PTS). Team Value: £107.4m! A wild end to the Fantasy Premier League season! Did we make it into the top 100k?
Upper 90 Studios Overall Rank 127,930 to 119,767! Top 2.6% out of 4.5 million! 🙂
Finish line.
Our highest Overall Rank this season! But the real accomplishment was doing something we were afraid others wouldn’t agree with. Back in January, as we drowned around 1.28 million in the overall rank, we decided to make drastic changes not only to the team using the Wildcard, but in our approach to the game itself. Muting noisy FPL accounts on social media and having the freedom to choose when to share our full team on the blog released all our Fantasy constraints. This type of test is far more difficult than an FPL rank.
⚽️ Don’t fear other people’s judgement of you, especially if you failed to achieve your personal goals. Failure is just a road bump. Accept the setbacks and start fresh with more knowledge.
The Good.
Harry Kane (34PTS, captain). GOLDEN BOOT! How do you follow a four-goal performance? Hat-trick! Despite selling Diego Costa (4PTS) who registered an assist, our replacement Harry Kane rewarded us with another phenomenal return. Three goals and maximum points for our captain! ⚽⚽⚽ Spurs finished the season with a bang, smashing in 13 goals against Leicester and Hull, but it wasn’t easy for Kane. He deserves full praise for finishing as top scorer after missing eight games through injury. 💪
⚽️ Kane has now scored 71 goals in his last 91 Premier League games for Spurs.
Gabriel Jesus (11PTS). After watching the players we sold put up big numbers last week, we needed them to deliver on the final day. Jesus came through with another goal and an assist, eleven points in back to back games. His teammate Kevin De Bruyne (9PTS) and rival Mesut Ozil (5PTS) contributed a few assists which we are thankful for. Will Jesus lead Manchester City to the title next year?
⚽️ Jesus has never blanked for Man City, scoring 7 goals and 4 assists in 7 games.
Philippe Coutinho (10PTS). GOLAÇO! Another nervous game to watch as Liverpool battled for Champions League football. All that is needed from Coutinho is one moment of magic and he provided it, whipping in a brilliant free kick that earned him two bonus points! Is Barcelona in his future?
⚽️ Coutinho has scored 15 Premier League goals from outside the box, the most since 2012/13.
Other Standouts: Willy Caballero (6PTS), Kevin De Bruyne (9PTS), Alexis Sanchez (9PTS)
The Bad.
Josh King (injured). A Team Value of £107.4m allowed us to wait until closer to deadline before making our planned transfers – Coutinho and Kane. With only minutes to go, we refreshed all the social media accounts and clicked “confirm.”
Another refresh and bang! Josh King (0PTS) posted on his Instagram account that he would miss the final game with injury! 😡
We quickly moved in for Wilfried Zaha (2PTS) for a few reasons:
- Mourinho said he would field a team with kids
- Zaha had extra motivation against his old club
- Crystal Palace’s final league position affects prize money
Another reason for taking a late risk was our bench. Barnes didn’t start and Everton defenders faced Arsenal on the final day, losing 3-1. Our emergency transfer didn’t work out as Zaha blanked. 🙁
Fantasy Premier League 2016/17
Total Points: 2,159
Overall Rank: 119,767
Highest Rank: 119,767
Highest Team Value: £107.7m
Total Transfers: 67
Just missed out on top 100k overall, but we pushed hard until the end. After struggling at 1.28 million overall in January, we fought back to a top 2.6% finish out of 4.5 million. This season has been the toughest yet. When we can’t trust form, it’s more difficult to make accurate predictions. But we admit our mistakes and move on. Looking forward to 2017/18!
We’d love to hear about your season below. 👍
Thank You!
Thank you everyone for your support! This season has been difficult, but your inspirational words have been a big lift. We’ve met great friends and can’t wait to have you all back next season! Please stay in touch! Thanks!!! 🙂
-Bruno
U90 mini league.
| Rank | Team & Manager | GW | TOT |
|---|---|---|---|
1  |
CheCheese LC Anuwat Vaewraveewong |
104 | 2399 |
| 2 |
KDBinho Adnan Hajrulahovič |
102 | 2350 |
| 3 |
Best in world David Nicholson |
83 | 2329 |
| 4 |
slap me, slap me Ustaz Kedir |
94 | 2296 |
5  |
Welsh Xavi Simon Yu |
101 | 2294 |
| 6 |
Il Magnifico Vintage Dirac |
85 | 2286 |
| 7 |
MourMoney MourProbs! Paul Jones |
92 | 2281 |
| 8 |
Kejriwal ke namune The One |
112 | 2280 |
| 9 |
Fer Fuchs Ake Lee Groenewald |
90 | 2278 |
| 10 |
Allen Nation Alexandros Konstantaras |
89 | 2274 |
*CONGRATS CheCheese LC – Anuwat Vaewraveewong!
Reach out to us to collect your $100 PRIZE! >>>>> CONTACT
Thanks everyone for joining U90 mini-league! Excellent effort if you’ve made the Top-10. Good luck next season with an even bigger prize…
2017-18 U90 mini league.
Ready to battle it out against top Fantasy managers? Join U90 mini league for a chance to become this season’s $100 prize winner! It’s free to enter, simply click the link below. 🙂
Code to join manually
53353-238112
Auto-join link
https://fantasy.premierleague.com?autojoin-code=53353-238112
*NOTE!*
U90 mini league will be closed to new entries after GW1. It doesn’t seem fair for those who joined from the start to lose out to someone who entered late on.
SUMMER PLANS
2017 International Champions Cup.
Upper 90 Studios is grateful to cover some of the top tournaments this summer! Stay up-to-date by following us on social media. We’ll give you a sneak peek at new player signings and a behind-the-scenes look at all the action. El Clásico and the Manchester Derby for the first time in the US!
ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME! 🙌 International Champions Cup is back!
✔ #ElClasico
✔ #ManchesterDerby
🇺🇸 2017 ICC TICKETS: http://www.internationalchampionscup.com
Fantasy Premier League strategy.
For the past 9 years, our team has finished in the top 1-2% of all players. 2014-15 was our best finish ever: Overall rank 13,126, top 0.4%. Our strategy is risky. We start slow and build team value by making 1-3 transfers each week. We save on goalkeepers and defenders and load up with expensive midfielders and forwards. By January, we can stack the full team with the most valuable players and come from behind to pull into the top 1-2% of all managers. See our previous finishes HERE.
Stay ahead of your competitors! Don’t forget to subscribe to our email list at the top right of the page. We’ll send you our weekly team prediction and best tips which you can use to tweak your team. Stay up-to-date with our last-minute transfers and captain choice on Twitter or Facebook.
2016-17 FPL Season Review! What was your final Overall Rank? We’d love to hear about your season struggles and successes, so please share below. Thanks.
See you this summer and don’t forget to celebrate your wins!
-Bruno
Ale
21/05/17
It was a bad season, ov pts 2181 ov rank 88697 about italy 134, can t wait for next season! Ciao bruno have a nice summer holiday
Upper 90 Studios
22/05/17
That’s more than respectable in the top 100k, but know what you mean. High standards. 👍
Ciao, enjoy your summer and will see you next season!
Q
22/05/17
Hello Bruno,
Congrats on another good week, nice way to end the season off.
Looks like transferring Kane in worked out well, incredible by the spurs, was like watching a fifa game.
Unlucky on just missing out on the top 100k, but seeing the circumstances of where you were at midseason, I wouldn’t consider it to be a negative.
Finished 60,083 OR with a Gameweek score of 102. Triple captained Kane. 🙂 🙂
Somewhat pleased with the overall rank, reaching 2208p, 1.3%, but there was always room for improvements.
Highest OR came from 3 consecutive wins at the start of the season (27,088)
Lowest OR was 627,273
Total Trasnfers: 56
Ended up winning my head-to-head league even though I was the 4th seed, but that was probably thanks to you. Just like to thank you for the continuous and great content throughout the season, looking forward to next season and what youll be covering over the summer.
Upper 90 Studios
22/05/17
Hello. Thanks! If you offered me a 119k OR midseason, I would’ve taken it in a heartbeat!
What a finish for you, TC Kane was massive! Spurs were ridiculously good at the end. Wonder what will happen playing at Wembley next season. Good to see your stats and winning your H2H league! 102pts, 60k OR and top 1.3% is impressive. 🙂
Know what you mean with room for improvement. Got caught up with negative distractions which led to some mistakes. 👍
Might be covering Man United vs. Barcelona in the summer and can’t wait to hear from everyone again next season.
Thanks for the positive comment. 🙂
Kurt
22/05/17
Heck of a season. A wild ride all the way to the end.
Week 38 – 99pts
Total – 2263pts
Overall Rank – 23890
USA – 911
Can’t wait for next season!
Let’s go United, need a Europa trophy!
ChitChadli
22/05/17
mine is 2216 points; 53,381 overall ranking. ill take it cause its my first time playing this. Thank You upper90studios for all the tips and suggestion
Upper 90 Studios
22/05/17
@ChitChadli 53k overall ranking is normally impressive, but with the way this season has been and it’s your first time playing?
That’s really unbelievable! Nice moves. 🙂
Upper 90 Studios
22/05/17
Wow, those are huge stats! 99pts on the final day, 23k OR and pushing to 900 in the U.S. Congrats! 👍
We might be covering Man United this summer in the International Champions Cup! Good luck in the Europa League and see you next season.
Alex
22/05/17
Hi bruno Got 102 point last game week.. and finish at top 90 K in the world.. thanks for your advice for Kane ! See u next season
Upper 90 Studios
22/05/17
Hi. Happy to hear that Kane worked out for you. 102pts is massive in a single Gameweek and finishing in the top 90k OR in the world is not an easy achievement. Well done! 👍
Appreciate the comment and see you next season.
-Bruno
Kaset
22/05/17
Hi Bruno,
I topped my mini league and won some prizes…and i am really thankful for ur help and suggestions…looking for the same in the next FPL.
Thank you
Upper 90 Studios
22/05/17
Hi. YES! That’s amazing to hear you won your mini-league and some prizes as well! 🙂
Glad to help out. Can’t wait to have you back again in a few months.
-Bruno
Si
22/05/17
Hi Bruno
Just wanted to say a word of thanks for all the valuable advice you have given us. I finished 5th in your league (the Welsh Xavi) and achieved 12,974 rank.
I hope you have a nice break and we go again next season.
Take care!
Si
Upper 90 Studios
22/05/17
Hi. Welsh Xavi, yes! That’s incredible to finish 5th in U90 mini-league with an unbelievable 12k OR. 🙂
Will catch up again next season, have a great summer.
-Bruno
Mc
22/05/17
Thanks bruno
Upper 90 Studios
22/05/17
No problem. 👍
McQueen
22/05/17
Hi guys, first of all thanks for the great blog and invaluable info throughout the whole season, so hat’s off to you guys. Nothing but respect.
Second of all, congrats to CheCheese LC – Anuwat VaeWraveewong for winning Upper 90 ML with ease. I was second in this ML with 3.5k OR and had no chance at all. So good job, mate! This is how you win it.
And lastly, hoping for you guys to keep doing what you’re doing and enjoy the summer with no FPL in mind, it was a tough season for all of us and we could all use some rest. Hoping you get back to your standards next year and smash it from the beginning until the end. You certainly belong there in the top.
And to all of the Upper 90 studios community, no matter how the season went, we’ll come back stronger next season. 😉
So good luck, wish you all a great summer and take care. 😉
Upper 90 Studios
22/05/17
Hi. It’s awesome to hear those compliments. Thank you. 👍
Yes, already spoken to Anuwat and seems a fantastic person. Huge CONGRATS to you for pushing until the end. 2nd place in u90 mini-league is a tremendous achievement and 3.5k OR is incredible, well done.
The funny thing about the summer for us is that just as the top leagues end, summer tournaments begin here in the U.S. like the International Champions Cup. We’re fortunate to be able to cover some games like Man United, Man City, Real Madrid.
Fell behind a bit in the first half of the season with too many distracting FPL accounts. Although there are quite a few helpful ones that we appreciate as well. Just happy to have finished on a high note and will hit the ground running next season.
Best of luck to you with an even better finish in 2017/18!
Krish
22/05/17
Hi Bruno and the jolly lot, It was a fantastic year interacting with you all and reading your analysis and thoughts. Bruno, your suggestions for my RMT post was very helpful. I made massive jumps in rankings and finished ranked 92 in India and 2062 overall with a total of 2370 and gw points 103!! Crazy year this. Thanks to you.
Looking forward to next season. May the force be with us all.
Upper 90 Studios
22/05/17
Hi. Ranked 92 in India? Speechless! That’s awesome to hear about your boost in the rankings to a last day score of 103pts. 2370pts and pushing into the top 2k overall is unreal, congrats! 🙂
Can’t wait to have you back again in a few months. Thanks!
-Bruno
ChitChadli
22/05/17
mine is 2216 points; 53,381 overall ranking. ill take it cause its my first time playing this. Thank You upper90studios for all the tips and suggestion
Upper 90 Studios
22/05/17
Always happy to offer thoughts and suggestions. Again, 53k OR is phenomenal in such a tough season and it being your first time in FPL makes it even more impressive. Congrats. 👏