For the 2026/27 season, I've decided to give fantasy football another go.
Yes, again.
Every season, I convince myself that this will be the year I take fantasy football seriously. I pick a team, make a few questionable transfers, forget to check my bench at some point and then quietly lose interest a few months later.
So naturally, this year I've made the sensible decision to play two fantasy games.
One I've played before. One is completely new. And somehow, I'm expecting the second one to go better.
FPL
The usual problem.
The Premier League, a £100m budget and absolutely no guarantee that I know what I'm doing.
WSL
Surely I'm good at this?
I spend far too much time watching women's football, so surely some of that knowledge has to be useful.
There's the usual Fantasy Premier League , which I've played on and off for years and still haven't really figured out.
Then there's the new WSL Fantasy game.
I've spent years following women's football, talking about it and building content around it, so an official fantasy game feels like a pretty good excuse to follow the leagues in a completely different way.
It also means I now have twice as many opportunities to make terrible decisions, which feels like progress.
Think you can beat me?
Honestly, probably. Join either league and see how far above me you can finish.
The plan.
The theory is simple:
- 01 Pick some players.
- 02 Try to score some points.
- 03 Make questionable transfers.
- 04 Blame the fixtures.
- 05 Repeat.
I'm not going to pretend this is a serious fantasy football analysis site.
I'm not a fantasy expert, and I'm certainly not about to start pretending that I've discovered some secret formula for finding the perfect captain.
Pick players you like. Overthink everything. Regret nothing.
Except the captain.
This is where the experiment comes in.
The challenge isn't really to become some fantasy football expert or suddenly start making brilliant decisions every single Gameweek.
The challenge is much simpler: can I actually stick with it?
There'll be teams, transfers, Gameweeks, captain choices, occasional good decisions and quite a lot of “why the hell did I do that?”
At some point, I will almost certainly captain Lauren James purely because she's Lauren James. That is not analysis. That is a lifestyle choice.
And if I disappear...
If I disappear halfway through the season, please assume one of two things has happened: I've forgotten to set my team for three consecutive Gameweeks, or I've quietly lost interest again.
Either way, that answers the question.
Well...