Above Average FPL

FPL pod, talking nonsense and navigating our way through the ranks.

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Oct 17, 2021 · 1 hr 44 min
GW8 Review with Tom (GOAT) Stephenson / Fantasy Premier League 2021/22 / FPL
YouTube nightmare, but the pod is out! Join us as we discuss Fantasy Premier League (FPL) GW8 with FFScout Hall of Famer Tom Stephenson (currently ranked 2nd HoF). As a Colchester United fan the lack of bias is clearly correlated with his performance season after season and as such we delved in to the games and almost forgot to come up for air at the end. It's our longest pod to date! Thanks again to all our new listeners, hopefully we give you some entertainment and we can keep getting you back to the pod in the future. Look out for us as we appear on Twitter Spaces throughout the week, look forward to chatting with you all there soon! Rough time stamps (but you wouldn’t want to skip surely 😂) Intro and Meet Tom 7mins Our weeks 15mins Wat v Liv 23mins Bre v Che 32mins Salah v Lukaku 41mins Lei v Man Utd 55mins Wolves v Villa 1hr 1 City v Bur 1hr 9 Nor v BHA 1hr 16 Armstrong and Broja 1hr 22 Antonio 1hr 26 Son and Kane Last 10 Questions to Tom ==================================================================== Hope you enjoy the podcast whether you are a new listener or a returning listener, if you haven't yet subscribed please do so. Good luck for GW9! All our podcasts are on Apple and Spotify, you can find them all at Just Above The Average FPL Podcast (jatafpl.carrd.co) Finally - come and join our mini league - the code is 75yytg - see you there!!! Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 10, 2021 · 1 hr 33 min
International Break Chat II
International break is well underway and whilst Baker was tinkering with his team, CY has been tinkering with OBS and YouTube, so if you want to watch rather than listen then the link is below. Just Above The Average - YouTube Quite a lot of chart about wildcard and with the upcoming fixtures there are so many different options across all positions, and you probably don't even need to spend all of your money ITB to do it. Interesting... Excuse any references to the video, we've tried to make it work across both platforms. We of course welcome any feedback you do have! Thanks again to all our new listeners, hopefully we give you some entertainment and we can keep getting you back to the pod in the future. Look out for us as we appear on Twitter Spaces throughout the week, look forward to chatting with you all there soon! ==================================================================== Hope you enjoy the podcast whether you are a new listener or a returning listener, if you haven't yet subscribed please do so. Good luck for GW8! All our podcasts are on Apple and Spotify, you can find them all at Just Above The Average FPL Podcast (jatafpl.carrd.co) Finally - come and join our mini league - the code is 75yytg - see you there!!! Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 3, 2021 · 1 hr 38 min
GW7 - Wildcard Played - Wildcard Active
32 points the average. Thirty two. THIRTY TWO. So Chelsea clean sheet wiped out, Lukaku with no returns, Ronaldo on the bench. Salah being Salah. It was an eventful week even if the scores perhaps did not reflect it. We take a look at the gameweek in review, it appears the wildcarders did not get back to back victories this week bar a few punts on Chilwell and Azpi, maybe Jimenez (although Hwang stole the show). CY hit wildcard at 10.30am on Saturday for a 2 point gain, Baker is now on Wildcard for the IB. Lots to talk about there. This is where the season really starts, planning for 20+ GW's - bring it on. Thanks again to all our new listeners, hopefully we give you some entertainment and we can keep getting you back to the pod in the future. Look out for us as we appear on Twitter Spaces throughout the week, look forward to chatting with you all there soon! ==================================================================== Hope you enjoy the podcast whether you are a new listener or a returning listener, if you haven't yet subscribed please do so. Good luck for GW6! All our podcasts are on Apple and Spotify, you can find them all at Just Above The Average FPL Podcast (jatafpl.carrd.co) Finally - come and join our mini league - the code is 75yytg - see you there!!! Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 26, 2021 · 1 hr 23 min
GW6 - A Red Weekend All Round
What a rubbish weekend... AJ mud, Golf mud, Spurs mud, FPL just tinkering on mud. The only saving grace was that 4 goals in the NLD meant Macmillan received £20 from us, which can only be a good thing. So, back to the subject at hand. We tried to cover the GW as objectively as possible. Are the early wildcarders now starting to see their fresh tyres yield them an advantage? Usual ramble through the GW and looked ahead to a very difficult set of fixtures this week coming. Thanks to all our new listeners, hopefully we give you some entertainment and we can keep getting you back to the pod in the future. ==================================================================== Hope you enjoy the podcast whether you are a new listener or a returning listener, if you haven't yet subscribed please do so. Good luck for GW6! All our podcasts are on Apple and Spotify, you can find them all at www.justabovetheaveragefpl.co.uk Finally - come and join our mini league - the code is 75yytg - see you there!!! Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 19, 2021 · 1 hr 31 min
GW5 - Drama, Drama, Drama
Trent ill, Son rising from the unknown, Tsimikas, Benrahma injured? All part of the drama that preceded GW5 but we got through with limited damage. We talk primarily about the GW as always, as well as the above with respect to press conferences and when they may not be the most useful. We touch on talismen from lesser/promoted teams and compare them to the rotation risks at the 7m-8m price point in midfield for the premium teams. Close off with some key talking points and a couple of questions from Twitter. Overall Ranks CY - 68k Baker - 14k Hope you enjoy the podcast whether you are a new listener or a returning listener, if you haven't yet subscribed please do so. Good luck for GW6! All our podcasts are on Apple and Spotify, you can find them all at www.justabovetheaveragefpl.co.uk Finally - come and join our mini league - the code is 75yytg - see you there!!! Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 13, 2021 · 1 hr 7 min
GW4 - SIUUUUUUUU Many Headaches Going Forward
SIUUUUUUUUUU How was your Gameweek? We're still rocking around the top 50k and with a lot of carnage we discuss Ronaldo, Lukaku, Liverpool Baselines, the red card and a good discussion over the gameweek gone by. A few fires now to potentially put out as we put our focus on the next 2 GW's before Wildcard, that's if one of us can hold out that long... Hope you enjoy the podcast whether you are a new listener or a returning listener, if you haven't yet subscribed please do so. Good luck for GW5! All our podcasts are on Apple and Spotify, you can find them all at www.justabovetheaveragefpl.co.uk - website will be updated soon . Finally - come and join our mini league - the code is 75yytg - see you there!!! Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 6, 2021 · 1 hr 23 min
The People's Pod v1
Hope everyone is enjoying the IB, certainly a lot of things happening impacting our decisions for GW4 not least with CR7 being released early after (purposely?) getting booked following becoming the all time leading International Goalscorer despite missing a penalty! WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?!? Anyway. We've mixed it up this week with a People's Podcast inviting three guys for a chat, two of which are relatively new to the community themselves to get some different viewpoints on how they play the game. It's great getting the big accounts on from time to time but we wanted to do something different, and we're glad we did! The usual topics came up re: Wildcard with 2/5 of us basically on it and 3 of us holding firm with transfers in hand. Lukaku, CR7, fixture swings etc. Was a good chat. Thanks to @FPL_Aravind (Aravind), @FPLShark (Garf) and @TFFfan_ryan (Ryan) for joining us. Go give them a follow on Twitter :-) Hope you enjoy the podcast whether you are a new listener or a returning listener, if you haven't yet subscribed please do so. Good luck for GW4! All our podcasts are on Apple and Spotify, you can find them all at www.justabovetheaveragefpl.co.uk - website will be updated soon . Finally - come and join our mini league - the code is 75yytg - see you there!!! Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 30, 2021 · 1 hr 16 min
GW3 - Wildcard Time? RonalDO or RonalDO-NT?
Gameweek Three is done and we are maintaining rank nicely between us despite having two very different team setups and captains. The main question as we enter the IB....is it time to Wildcard and are we looking at this just for the purpose of getting in the likes of Ronaldo and Lukaku? Do we need to rush in to it or is our team structure at a point where we can observe for a few weeks? Some other takeaways from GW3 and more about GW4 next week when we debut our People's Pod. In terms of the Pod League Jason Schwabe leads the way and takes August Manager of the Month and FPLReuser smashed us in the Predictor (tweet will show that quite clearly), we've got some work to do. Hope you enjoy the podcast whether you are a new listener or a returning listener, if you haven't yet subscribed please do so. All our podcasts are on Apple and Spotify, you can find them all at www.justabovetheaveragefpl.co.uk - website will be updated soon . Finally - come and join our mini league - the code is 75yytg - see you there!!! Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 23, 2021 · 1 hr 12 min
GW2 - Everybody Blanks, Sometimes...
Gameweek Two is done and we are flying high...despite both having a captain blank. Few thoughts for this week include:- - Lukaku, when do we move? - Do we need to make considerable changes and what would a wildcard look like? Plenty of other stuff that you'll just have to listen to in order to find out. Rakesh Divya breaks 200 points and leads the way in the pod league and Toxteth O Grady keeps the FPL Community flag flying high in the predictor winning for the "bad" guys again. Hope you enjoy the podcast whether you are a new listener or a returning listener, if you haven't yet subscribed please do so. All our podcasts are on Apple and Spotify, you can find them all at www.justabovetheaveragefpl.co.uk - website will be updated soon with our teams once GW1 is up and running. Finally - come and join our mini league - the code is 75yytg - see you there!!! Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 16, 2021 · 1 hr 22 min
GW1 - Tons Up All Round
Gameweek One is in the bank and it was like no other seen before, hundreds everywhere. We go through the week in detail looking at each fixture picking out some potential moves for GW2 and also some that maybe we should just wait and see on. Shoutout to Stuart Beed topping the Podcast Mini League on GW1 with 119pts, shoutout to XCasualFPL for leading the charge in the Premier League Predictor we're running with and thanks to the guys over at Fantasy Football Fix for providing the Elite XI which we are attempting to beat this season. Hope you enjoy the podcast whether you are a new listener or a returning listener, if you haven't yet subscribed please do so. All our podcasts are on Apple and Spotify, you can find them all at www.justabovetheaveragefpl.co.uk - website will be updated soon with our teams once GW1 is up and running. Finally - come and join our mini league - the code is 75yytg - see you there!!! Time stamps! Not that you’d want to skip anything anyway… 0-6mins Intro, pod league and predictor 7-12mins Our gameweek 12-18mins Brentford v Arsenal 18-27mins United v Leeds 27-30mins Burnley v Brighton 30-36mins Chelsea v Palace 36-40mins Everton v Soton 40-44mins Leicester v Wolves 44-48mins Watford v Villa 48-53mins Norwich v Liverpool 53-59mins Newcastle v West Ham 59mins-67mins Spurs v City 67mins-80 mins On to GW2 Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 11, 2021 · 1 hr 8 min
Final Thoughts with XCasualFPL1
Welcome back to Just Above The Average FPL Podcast, your weekly off the cuff chat between two mates, basically as if it was down the pub. We had John come back to share with us his first experience of an FPL Twitter pre season and how his thought process had changed a bit from previous seasons. Absorbing as much information as possible to try and get a similar start to last year. CY in full Ranieri mode and Baker basically set, we're almost there L&G, we're almost there. Good luck for GW1 - it all starts now. Hope you enjoy the podcast whether you are a new listener or a returning listener, if you haven't yet subscribed please do so. All our podcasts are on Apple and Spotify, you can find them all at www.justabovetheaveragefpl.co.uk - website will be updated soon with our teams once GW1 is up and running. Finally - come and join our mini league - the code is 75yytg - see you there!!! Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 9, 2021 · 45 min
Tinker Tinker - 4 Days To Go
Welcome back to Just Above The Average FPL Podcast, your weekly off the cuff chat between two mates, basically as if it was down the pub. Exactly what it says on the tin this week, we talk about our tinkering ahead of a busy week for TPL. So much content, so much analysis, players dropping like flies and only 4 days to go. Hope you enjoy the podcast whether you are a new listener or a returning listener, if you haven't yet subscribed please do so. All our podcasts are on Apple and Spotify, you can find them all at www.justabovetheaveragefpl.co.uk - website will be updated soon with our teams. Finally - come and join our mini league - the code is 75yytg - see you there!!! Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 4, 2021 · 1 hr 15 min
FPL Corf
Welcome back to Just Above The Average FPL Podcast, your weekly off the cuff chat between two mates, basically as if it was down the pub. We welcome FPL Corf to the pod this week with his creative mindset and how he applied that to FPL, particularly referencing Maslow's Hierachy of Needs (see tweet). https://twitter.com/CORF_FPL/status/1421095146087763976?s=20 Some more interesting discussion on the impact of Referees announcement today, will that give us less penalties? Less offsides? Will less offsides mean more penalties? Who knows... Hope you enjoy the podcast whether you are a new listener or a returning listener, if you haven't yet subscribed please do so. All our podcasts are on Apple and Spotify, you can find them all at www.justabovetheaveragefpl.co.uk - website will be updated soon with our teams. Finally - come and join our mini league - the code is 75yytg - see you there!!! Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 28, 2021 · 1 hr 10 min
Just Above The Algo
Welcome back to Just Above The Average FPL Podcast, your weekly off the cuff chat between two mates, basically as if it was down the pub. We dive in to a number of subjects this week looking at home vs away, some Twitter updates (don't be a dick...) and talk about about Algo's and their positives / negatives for individuals and the games. Still plenty of time before the deadline bell rings so whether you're doing your best Claudio Ranieri (tinkerman) or just chilling for a few more days hopefully we've given you a couple of things to think about. Hope you enjoy the podcast whether you are a new listener or a returning listener, if you haven't yet subscribed please do so. All our podcasts are on Apple and Spotify, you can find them all at www.justabovetheaveragefpl.co.uk - website will be updated soon with our teams. Finally - come and join our mini league - the code is 75yytg - see you there!!! Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 14, 2021 · 55 min
Season 2 - Here We Go Again...
We are back! Welcome back to Just Above The Average FPL Podcast, your weekly off the cuff chat between two mates, basically as if it was down the pub. After promising content throughout the summer Baker and I (CY) talk about our summer off (sorry about that) and just some really vague early thoughts for next season. It feels good to get back in to the swing of things. Hope you enjoy the podcast whether you are a new listener or a returning listener, if you haven't yet subscribed please do so. All our podcasts are on Apple and Spotify, you can find them all at www.justabovetheaveragefpl.co.uk - website will be updated soon with our teams. Finally - come and join our mini league - the code is 75yytg - see you there!!! Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 31, 2021 · 1 hr 24 min
What We Learned - 20/21 Season
It's all over. Our debut season as content creators for FPL has come to an end and we talk about how it's affected our choices throughout the season. Also a few interesting stats at each position, some referee stuff (Baker loves it), end of season for vs fast starters and captaincy chat. All in all a mix of what we've learned, and what we are looking towards when the new season comes. As always, just a really good chat between two mates who love FPL. H2H Baker 19-18-1 CY OR Baker 28k - 470k CY Thanks for listening and please subscribe. Hit us up on Twitter @aboveaveragefpl/@bakerfpl343 and please leave a review for the podcast (5 stars preferable...not mandatory) In your review chuck your favourite FPL moment and we'll read a few out (if we get any..) Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 20, 2021 · 48 min
Home Straight
And just like that - 40 podcasts later we are finally there. Quick chat about GW38, some interesting stats and basically revealing our teams for the final week. Check out the website www.justabovetheaveragefpl.co.uk and we will be looking to add more content as we go. A short break of 10-14 days and then we'll be heading over to FanTeam to get our fix of summer Fantasy Football starting with the Euros and also looking at how we can learn the system and attack the big prizes from next year. We'll do a podcast in due course on that. But for now, as Baker says "win those mini leagues boys (and girls)". Good luck for the last one! Latest H2H Baker 19-17-1 CY - Game Over OR Baker 29k - 541k CY Thanks for listening and please subscribe. Hit us up on Twitter @aboveaveragefpl/@bakerfpl343 and please leave a review for the podcast (5 stars preferable...not mandatory) In your review chuck your favourite FPL moment and we'll read a few out (if we get any..) Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 17, 2021 · 1 hr 12 min
The Penultimate Gameweek Approaches
We take a look at our normal review of the gameweek as well as:- - Some thoughts about next week with Jota replacements - Captain picks And some normal ramble from subject to subject as we prepare to say good riddance to this up and down season. Good luck for the next one! Latest H2H Baker 19-16-1 CY - Game Over OR Baker 29k - 576k CY Thanks for listening and please subscribe. Hit us up on Twitter @aboveaveragefpl/@bakerfpl343 and please leave a review for the podcast (5 stars preferable...not mandatory) In your review chuck your favourite FPL moment and we'll read a few out (if we get any..) Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 12, 2021 · 1 hr 33 min
Just FPL and Beers
No synopsis here...there were beers and there was FPL chat. With FPLMode, FPLBhuna and Lateriser12. Just listen... Good luck for the next one! Latest H2H Baker 19-15 CY (unconfirmed for GW35) OR Baker 22k - 553k CY (at time of publishing) Thanks for listening and please subscribe. Hit us up on Twitter @aboveaveragefpl/@bakerfpl343 and please leave a review for the podcast (5 stars preferable...not mandatory) In your review chuck your favourite FPL moment and we'll read a few out (if we get any..) Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 4, 2021 · 1 hr 20 min
More Chaos, More Mud
It's the season that keeps on giving. Full mud in so many places unless you punted on Bale, even more so as captain. We run through the last GW, talk fixtures upcoming, the protests gone by and those upcoming potentially too. Confirmed guests for next weeks pod and more. Good luck for the next one! Latest H2H Baker 19-15 CY (dormi...) OR Baker 23k - 640k CY Thanks for listening and please subscribe. Hit us up on Twitter @aboveaveragefpl/@bakerfpl343 and please leave a review for the podcast (5 stars preferable...not mandatory) In your review chuck your favourite FPL moment and we'll read a few out (if we get any..) Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices