How To Join Bbc Sport's Fpl League

The Premier League kicks disconnected connected Friday, 15 August and truthful does imagination football.

You tin subordinate nan BBC Sport League connected nan charismatic Fantasy Premier League crippled utilizing nan codification bbcfpl - aliases by clicking this link., external

Alistair Bruce-Ball, Statman Dave and Chris Sutton from nan FPL Podcast from BBC Sport will beryllium among nan BBC experts taking portion - tin you hit them?

Last year's winner, Max Littleproud, did - and he bettered astir of nan FPL world excessively arsenic he vanished 5th overall. Incredible!

Max Littleproud, a 28-year-old maths coach from Manchester, vanished 5th successful nan world past season, storming to nan title successful nan BBC Sport FPL convention and winning nan celebrated Fantasy 606 trophy.

He reached first successful nan world successful nan 2nd week of January, spent 22 weeks successful nan apical 15, 18 weeks successful apical 10, and 3 arsenic first successful world.

"Towards Christmas I realised it was going to beryllium a typical play but I was waiting for it to each travel tumbling down," says Max.

"I took a two-week vacation to Japan, pinch 3am deadlines, and I was getting a spot excessively stressed retired truthful I told myself, 'I'm not willing successful this while I'm connected holiday, this is wherever my tally ends'.

"But I ended up watching footy connected nan level over! In nan extremity it sewage truthful nerve-wracking I had to delete X from my telephone towards nan extremity of nan season."

Unlike galore FPL managers, Max avoided a batch of FPL contented and focused connected "making my ain choices".

"Everything I did past play was purely gut instinct," he adds. "I tried to beryllium mindful of doing my ain point and not being swayed by various sources - I avoided YouTube and wasn't connected X for astir of nan season.

"Even though I'm a maths coach I stayed distant from statistics, you tin get bogged down successful stats and complete analyse.

"Luckily things fell my way, though you've sewage to put yourself successful a position to beryllium lucky. I sewage distant pinch a fewer rogue decisions. I picked Everton's Ashley Young for six weeks erstwhile cipher other had him and he sewage maine much than 60 points successful those weeks!"