Fantasy Football Captain Picks

FPL Captain Picks GW26 Welcome to FPL Captain Picks GW26! After what feels like a decade-long hiatus (okay, maybe not that long), I’m finally back to help guide you through the weekly FPL captaincy dilemma. Life had other plans, but like any good manager, I’m here to make up for lost time. And let’s be honest, some of us could use a bit of redemption after those questionable decisions earlier in the season. I’m at peace with the terrible luck that I had the first half of the campaign and, sure, these days, 800k as a rank is the same as 80k a few years ago isn’t it? Right? Riiiight?! While I’ll be the first to admit it’s been longer than it should have been since I last contributed to FF247, just like your FPL team, I’m hoping to come back stronger than ever. So, let’s dive into this week’s...[Read More]

Fantasy FPL Captain Picks GW23 Hello, how are ya getting on?! Welcome to the captain’s article, where I’ll be trying to guide you to the kind of points hauls that give you nice big juicy green arrows, rather than looking at your team with the kind of disgust you would if you saw yourself on that work do where you had too many drinks and may have said some regrettable things before making a nasty mess. This week is one of those where you would have to have some gumption, put on your big boy – or girl, of course – pants and move that armband away from Salah. Home to Ipswich? Of course you’d captain him. But, wait, carry on reading! Come back, settle down. Well anyway, I’m rambling enough already and, let’s face it, you haven’t come onto the read the introduction of man who is sat in an...[Read More]

FPL Captain Picks GW17 Welcome to FPL Captain Picks GW17 The festive fixtures officially begin this weekend in GW17. In a period where self-restraint is often in short supply, it’s not just food, drink and overspending that we’ll get to overindulge in. Football is on the menu, lots of football. The games are heaped on with all the wild abandon of a Christmas dinner, 4 game weeks squeezed into just 16 days. Brilliant. For some FPL managers, this can prove to be a challenging time. Missed deadlines, drunken midnight 8pt hits. We’ve all been there. But this is no time to take your eyes off the prize. Get your game face on, and make sure you set some time aside to manage your team, the mince pies can wait. FPL has been fun in recent weeks, this is largely thanks to the demise...[Read More]

FPL Captain Picks GW16 Welcome to FPL Captain Picks GW16 For a while there it seemed like our weekly Captain article had become all but redundant. FPL had become a little dull, captain Haaland come rain or shine, it was difficult to make gains. Oh, how things can change so quickly. Haaland has been ticking along, but ticking along won’t cut it when you cost £15m+ (he’s now dropped to £14.9m), and as managers sold him in their droves, they were forced to look elsewhere for their precious captain’s armband. So here we are, we have 3 powerful contenders in Saka, Palmer and Salah for this week’s captaincy (and some bloke who plays up top for Man City). Salah has himself been pushing his claim for the ‘perma-captain’ mantle with 10/14 double-digit returns tha...[Read More]

FPL Captain Picks GW13 Welcome to FPL Captain Picks GW13 Salah’s on fire, Haaland’s owners are terrified!!! (to the tune of the new football anthem Freed from Desire). Congratulations to those managers who had the foresight to include both Salah and Haaland in your team from the start of the season. A massive congratulations to those managers who had the bravery to transfer out the short-circuiting Robot for the Egyptian King. Commiserations to those managers (me, Jamie, included) who have persevered with Haaland and hoped that Salah would not continue his multi weeks point hauls. With Liverpool playing Manchester City this weekend then there is no doubt that those managers who own Salah will be keeping the captain’s armband on him and those managers who own Haaland keeping the captain’s a...[Read More]

FPL Captain Picks GW12 Welcome to FPL Captain Picks GW12 Is the robot broken? That seems to be the question on many a managers lips this international break, and over the last few weeks. He has really let the side down lately and has seen many people want to move not only the armband off him but move him out of their teams altogether! I know I have sold him this week on my Wildcard. That should really end the article and debate right there as we all know my luck will mean Haaland scores 5 this weekend against Spurs, but alas I live in eternal hope that my decisions are correct. Below we have 3 men who have written about 3 other men that we all will let dictate our moods over the weekend! I might just light a fire, pour a drink and sit in ignorance! Let’s see what has been said…...[Read More]

FPL Captain Picks GW6 Welcome to FPL Captain Picks GW6. FOMO – Fear Of Missing Out!!! With his ten goals in the opening five game weeks of the season, I know that we will all be captaining the Norwegian Robot. With over 70% ownership if he hauls then we are all quids in, good moods all around and off to a nice start to the game week. If he blanks then we are mostly in with the masses, so no great damage done to our mini league / overall rankings. But for those managers who do not have him (I am looking at you Guy, Rich & Swirly) or those managers who hate their game week ruined by a Saturday lunchtime captain fail then who else should you consider captaining? Nicholas Jackson v Brighton (H) I present for your consideration Chelsea’s Nicholas Jackson (£7.7m). Jackson seems to have ceme...[Read More]

FPL Captain Picks GW5 Welcome to FPL Captain Picks GW5 We don’t get many opportunities to go against Haaland, especially given the form he’s in this season. However, with Arsenal the visiting team to the Etihad, it could be the opportunity to look for your gains elsewhere this week. Our writers are on hand to offer up alternatives and of course, fear not, we’re not going to totally overlook the big man regardless of the opposition. Let’s see what they have to say! Rosco — Palmer v West Ham (A) Haaland and Salah have been the go-to captains this season and for good reason. With Haaland up against the best defence in the league, most managers will turn to the Egyptian king, because a home game for Liverpool is a sure thing, right? Well, we all know how that turned out last game week. In all ...[Read More]

FPL Captain Picks GW4 Welcome to Fantasy Football FPL Captain Picks GW4 There once was a striker, Haaland by name, Whose goals brought him fortune and fame. With a powerful stride, And defenders denied, He’d score and just add to his claim. There you go, that’s as much about Erling Haaland as I’ll be mentioning in this article. And no, I didn’t even write that limerick either – it’s amazing what ChatGPT can do, isn’t it?! Rest assured, there’s no more AI to this article, and it will become abundantly clear that it’s a very bitter FPL manager who has written this on account of the fact that he… I… whoever, still doesn’t have Haaland in his team and has ridden the seven goals the Norwegian has so far scored this season like a ...[Read More]

FPL Captain Picks GW3 And the winner last week was of course… anybody who chanced the Triple Captain chip on Erling. 51 points if you did so, and you can happily chalk that off as a successful use of that particular chip for the season. After all, enough of us remember such DGW disasters as Kane with an assist, etc. The (only) downside there was that nearly everyone else captained him too, so just a 17 point jump start there. Whilst GW2 looked fairly obvious in the armband respect, GW3 looks less so. As such we have wheeled our team out to purvey the options for you. Off we go… Loud Atlas — Bukayo Saka v Brighton & Hove Albion No spoilers or anything, and sorry to disappoint, but Saka is going to be my vice captain this week. Yes, I can’t even persuade myself to look ...[Read More]

FPL Captain Picks Gameweek 1 Welcome to FPL Captain Picks Gameweek 1 After what seems like a blink and you’ll miss it summer, the Euros have ended, the Olypmics is finished and the new Premier League season is upon us! All your hard work, research, number crunching and hair pulling has come down to this moment. And while you can’t win the league during these initial rounds, you can make it a lot harder on yourself, which is why a positive start is what we all want. So, for the first time in 2024/25, here are your captaincy picks for the first gameweek… Rosco — Alexander Isak v Southampton (H) I feel like for as long as I can remember I’ve captained Salah in GW1, perhaps last year was the exception with Haaland taking the armband (if my terrible memory serves me). So this ...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 38 Welcome to Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 38 Sort of… Under the guise of doing so, we bring you our now traditional GW38 article, which is essentially just a chance to invite the whole team to have a say on whatever they like. And then tell you they will be picking Haaland as captain. We make no excuses that this is not edited, redacted or indeed ran past the legal team. We have no idea what they will say So, like a curtain call at a cheap panto, here they all are, in all their glory…. Init — Haaland I’ll get this one rolling then, but only because I want to say a massive thank you to the team below. Be it writing, IT, designing, running leagues, making the tea, whatever, the website does not run or exist without them al...[Read More]