FPL Optimized

As FPL managers prepare for doubles and blanks, Bas and Sertalp have a look at the period between GW24 and GW29.In this episode:- Projected point averages- Optimal WC24 team- Optimal transfers for WC team- Sensitivity analysis results- Captaincy selections from projection models Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp host Talha Nadeem, a fixture guru, to ask questions about upcoming doubles and blanks. Talha also shares his journey, gives tips, and shares his chip strategy while answering questions from the hosts and the community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp talk about GW22 and GW23 using projection data.In this episode:- Season graphs!- Fixture ticker / Projected point averages- EV Changes- Optimal WC22 team- Captaincy options- Mini-league updates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While GW21 is still going on, Bas and Sertalp is back with a Q&A episode. This time, 5 awesome people helped them answer questions from the audience: Neil Rankin, Talha Nadeem, Alastair, Chase, and Trout.In this episode:- Projection data findings- TC25/BB25 discussion- Potential chip plans- Chip usage thresholds- Brentford in GW25-29- How to play FPL analytically?- Quitting FPL Join our mini leaguehttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community Discordhttps://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp talk about the long GW: GW21.In this GW with so many players out (Salah, Son, Bowen, TAA) they cover the usual topics:- Projected point averages at team level- Gameweek Odds- Projection changes at player level- Optimal WC21 team based on FPLReview and Mikkel Tokvam models- TAA Replacements- Mini-league updates Thanks to @robtFPL for the data and visualization. Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community DiscordWe have over 1000 members now!https://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp are back this GW with an Q/A episode.They discuss a wide range of topics:- Optimization parameters- Ensemble model weights- Ideal horizon length- Differential / risk balance- Being patient vs quickly adapting- Impact of longer games on GK/DF points- Over and underperforming GKs- Ideal chip times- Salah & Son replacements- Differential options Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community DiscordWe have over 1000 members now!https://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp try their best to review their red GWs and share information about GW20.In this episode:- GW18 and GW19 review- Fixture ticker for upcoming horizon- Gameweek odds by RobTFPL- EV Changes- Optimal wildcard 20 teams- Optimal captains Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community DiscordWe have over 1000 members now!https://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp review their GW17 and talk about GW18 & GW19.In this short episode they cover:- Fixture ticker for upcoming horizon- Optimal wildcard teams for both GWs- Optimal captains Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community DiscordWe have over 1000 members now!https://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sertalp and Bas talk about- GW16 Review- Fixture Ticker (Projected Point Averages)- Gameweek Odds- EV Changes- Optimal Wildcard 17 Team- AFCON/Asian Cup Impact- Captaincy Options- Mini-league Updates Thanks to RobT for the data and analysis. Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community DiscordWe have over 1000 members now!https://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sertalp is back, and with Bas they cover the the following topics:- GW14 and GW15 reviews- Fixture Ticker (Projected Point Averages)- Gameweek Odds- EV Changes- Optimal Wildcard 16 Team- Mbeumo Replacements- Captaincy Options- Mini-league Updates Thanks to RobT for the data and analysis. Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community DiscordWe have over 1000 members now!https://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this solo performance, Bas covers the usual topics: GW13 Review, Fixture Ticker, Gameweek Odds, EV Changes, and Optimal Wildcard team. Bas is on his wildcard and hoping for a jump in ranks! Big thanks to Chase (@FPL_Chase), and RobT (@robtFPL) for their analysis and visualizations. Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community DiscordWe have over 1000 members now!https://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp review their GW12 and talk about GW13 and beyond. Bas is getting ready for using his wildcard in GW14, so he is mainly looking for single GW punts.In this episode they cover:- Projected minute accuracy (preliminary)- Fixture ticker (projected point averages)- Gameweek odds- Top EV gains and losses (who's hot, who's not)- Optimal WC13 squad and transfer plan- Top captaincy options from models- Mini-league updates Big thanks to Chase (@FPL_Chase), Neil Rankin (@NeilRankinZA), and RobT (@robtFPL) for their analysis and visualizations. Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community DiscordWe have over 1000 members now!https://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp is hosting Luke Williams, one of the hosts of the Inspected Goals podcast, and one of the well-known FPL players of the community. Luke talks about his Sky FF and FPL history, interesting things he has done, and place he has been through his journey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a really weird GW, Bas and Sertalp is back to talk about GW12 and beyond. In this information and data packed episode, they cover:- GW11 Review- Model Accuracy- Model Utility Results- Projected Point Averages (Ticker)- Gameweek Odds- Top EV Gains and Losses- Top Players by Models- Optimal Wildcard Teams- Captaincy Choices Big thanks to Chase (@FPL_Chase), Neil Rankin (@NeilRankinZA), and RobT (@robtFPL) for their analysis and visualizations. Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community DiscordWe have over 1000 members now!https://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas is scaring Sertalp for going no Haaland as it seems likely for him to get a haul. Even though Halloween is over, the fear of Haaland is not.They cover the usual topics:- Model utility measure- Fixture ticker (Projected point averages)- Top 10 players by models- Optimal WC11 teams by models- GW11 captaincy 😓 Big thanks to Neil Rankin (@NeilRankinZA) for analysis and visualizations. Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community DiscordWe have over 1000 members now!https://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp cover the usual topics with an emphasis on wildcard:- Model utility measure- Average projected points (team-level)- Fixture ticker- EV changes (player-level)- Optimal wildcard teams (ensemble/Review)- Sensitivity analysis results- Captaincy Big thanks to Chase (@FPL_Chase), Neil Rankin (@NeilRankinZA), and RobT (@robtFPL) for analysis and visualizations. Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community DiscordWe have over 1000 members now!https://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this short episode Bas and Sertalp cover the regular topics as the international break comes to an end: model utility measure, fixture ticker with projection averages, EV changes at player level, and optimal wildcard team. 🎃 Thanks to FPL_Chase (https://twitter.com/FPL_Chase) and NeilRankinZA (https://twitter.com/NeilRankinZA) for their analysis and visualizations. Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community Discordhttps://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As we enter the international break, Bas and Sertalp had the pleasure of hosting Mark McGettigan (@FPLGeneral) on the pod this week. They asked questions about how Mark is approaching to analytics, whether he thinks analytics is ruining the fun, or a threat to content creators. As a veteran of the game, Mark shares his wisdom and talks about being a content creator full-time. Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community Discordhttps://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas is out, and Sertalp hosts James (@FF_Trout) in this episode to talk about Wildcard 8. They talk about why they are wildcarding, what players are the key, go over several raw optimal drafts to justify going without Haaland might be the play! Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community Discordhttps://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp is back for Double GW7! As we approach to an exciting and interesting GW, Bas is trying his best to convince himself to buy doubling players. They cover the usual content: model accuracy, fixture ticker with projection data, data changes, optimal wildcard team, and captaincy options. Thanks to Neil Rankin (NeilRankinZA) and Chase (FPL_Chase) for the analysis and visualizations. Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community Discordhttps://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas is traveling again and our viz expert Chase (@Chase_FPL) joins Sertalp to talk about GW6 and beyond. They talk about model accuracy report, favorable fixtures between GW6-GW11, projection changes, optimal wildcard team, and captaincy. Thanks to Neil Rankin (NeilRankinZA) and FPL_Chase for the analysis and visualizations. Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community Discordhttps://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

FPL is back as the international break comes to an end. Bas and Sertalp talk about fixture difficulties for the upcoming horizon, projection data changes, optimal wildcard team, and their transfer plans. Thanks FPL_Chase (Twitter) for the analysis and visualizations. Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community Discordhttps://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this first international break of the season, Bas and Sertalp review their GW4 and answer questions they received. Thanks to NeilRankinZA (Twitter), FPL_Chase (Twitter), and pkaral (Analytics Discord) for the analysis and visualizations. Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community Discordhttps://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As usual, Bas and Sertalp talk about GW3 review, share latest model error rates, talk about fixture ticker, and Bas shares his eye test report for GW4 and beyond. Thanks to NeilRankinZA (https://twitter.com/NeilRankinZA) for the analysis and visualizations. Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community Discordhttps://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Bas and Sertalp talk about Chelsea's next two fixtures and switch to Newcastle defense by GW5. They also cover prediction model accuracies, team strengths, player prediction changes, current wildcard optimal team, and Bas' eye test report. Thanks to FPL_Chase (https://twitter.com/FPL_Chase) and NeilRankinZA (https://twitter.com/NeilRankinZA) for their analysis and visualizations. Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community Discordhttps://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp evaluate their GW1 and talk about prediction models. With only 1 GW left behind, model correlations, accuracies, team strengths, and player projection changes are the topics of this episode. Big thanks to FPL_Chase (https://twitter.com/FPL_Chase) and NeilRankinZA (https://twitter.com/NeilRankinZA) for their analysis and visualizations. Join our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla Join our FPL Analytics Community Discordhttps://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Just before we begin the season, Bas and Sertalp talk about GW1 decisions, data, optimal teams, and their drafts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas is back and Optimized podcast kicks off the season officially this time. Bas and Sertalp talk about the new pod format, team predictions, and latest drafts. Consider joining our mini league athttps://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/0jsdla And consider joining our FPL Analytics Community Discordhttps://discord.gg/HRjcXrTM54 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the last Q/A episode before GW1 planning begins, Sertalp hosts Formadillo (on Twitter) who had an extremely unlucky season despite using analytics and data. Sertalp asks Formadillo questions about his last season, and plans for the new season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Optimized pod is back for 2023/2024 season! Sertalp hosts Massive Data champion Jonny Currie while Bas is having a well-deserved vacation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp talk about their final GW and share answers to their questions from the audience about what went well, what went wrong, and plans for the next season. Have a nice break everyone. Hope to see you in the next season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp review potential picks and answer questions before the last GW of the season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp talk about GW37 picks, mainly from Manchester United and Manchester City as they double in 37 and have lots of minute uncertainty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp talk about GW36 decisions and answer questions they received on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp talk about remaining GWs, Man City options, Brighton triple, and defensive options using the projected points for the final stretch of the season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp try their best to recover from yet another Haaland disaster. Now ready for the double GW, they answer questions from Twitter and talk about optimal Free Hit team for those using their chips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp are both using their Free Hit chips in GW32, so they talk about optimal teams using various data sources, and answer questions they received on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Bas and Sertalp have the most successful FPL content creator, Let's Talk FPL Andy, as their guest. They ask Andy various questions about content creation, his journey, his approach to analytics and data, and gameplay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a great Bench Boost GW, Bas and Sertalp talk about next GW moves and answer questions from Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas is back and ready for Bench Boosting! Bas and Sertalp talk about various picks regarding GW29 and beyond, share optimal teams, and answer questions from Twitter including shaving :) Ad: You can use the code "OPTIMAL20" to receive 20% discount on Manscaped products as mentioned in the podcast! https://www.manscaped.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While Bas is away, Sertalp talks about Massive Data model and Massive Data rank of FPLReview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this shorter-than-usual episode: Bas and Sertalp are using their wildcards this GW, even though Sertalp is distracted with some recent developments 🥰 Using Alastair's notes on major decisions and splits for wildcard users, Bas and Sertalp review some of the WC28 dilemmas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp discuss their chip plans, share several optimal WC27 teams under different chip settings and answer analytics questions they received via Twitter.Ad: Also, now you can use the code "OPTIMAL20" to receive 20% discount on Manscaped products! https://www.manscaped.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp answers questions about GW26, WC now or later dilemma, possible chip strategies, and EV gains for the remaining period. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp talks about chip strategy, how to optimize for remaining time period, Liverpool picks, optimal FH and WC teams, and upcoming blanks & doubles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp talk about future GWs (24 and beyond) while we are about to enter a period of difficult decisions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As Bas overtakes Sertalp in overall rank, we enter an exciting period of doubles and blanks in FPL. People's patience for Liverpool players will be tested in 25, and we will see a rise in FH and TC usage over next few weeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Facing another tough decision whether to use the Triple Captain chip or not, Bas and Sertalp evaluate and discuss their options, and answer questions for GW22. Spoiler alert: Looks like Bas will be using it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bas and Sertalp have a guest for a special episode: Alastair (TedLassoRegen of Analytics Discord) answers questions about the probable fixtures, chip strategies, and future plans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Before entering the busy period of doubles and blanks, Bas and Sertalp review GW20 results and answers questions about GW21. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices