Welcome to The FPL Fan web site. This web site will be all about FPL (Fantasy Premier League). Hopefully you will find some interesting and useful posts/articles.

I have been playing some form of fantasy football since I was about 16 ish. This was well before you could play fantasy football online.

To play, you had to check the scores of each player in a newspaper – I think it was the Telegraph newspaper?? Every single player was listed and it showed the points scored that gameweek.

I think it was just played between friends and the person in charge bought the newspaper and was in charge of adding up the scores. I think I did pretty well – maybe finishing in top 3 once?? Although I think total number of players was about 20 people??

This would have been in the mid-1990s so around that time, United were winning lots and you had legends of the game like Eric Cantona, Alan Shearer, it was when teams like Wimbledon and QPR were in the Premier League!

I have been playing FPL (Fantasy Premier League) since the 2006/07 season. This was when it was not as popular and far fewer players – about 1.2m players. Nowadays its almost 8m players (teams) – its really grown a lot the last 4 years or so. End of 2015/16 season, there were 3.7m players, and this season looks on track for 8m players. In particular I think last 2-3 years and now there is so much information from web sites, podcasts, streams, videos.

Now you would think after all this time playing FPL/fantasy football, I would be really good. That is not really the case!! LOL. My best rank was 77k back in 2011/12 but that was when there were a lot fewer players than now. My best season (percentile wise) was 2018/19 with a rank of 84,922 – top 1.2%.

Here is history of my ranks –

The population figure is number of players – it looks like up to 2011/12 season, the figures are only approximate. You can see that since 2016/17, I have started taking things more serious and getting better – last season could have been better but it went really downhill last few weeks. I’ll blame COVID! To find out your own career history, go to the Game Change web site and also check out their other FPL tools such as how you have done compared to others and what if you made no transfers. More useful towards end of the season!

So FPL at your own risk, take my advice at your own risk! Someones I will get things right, sometimes not. But its just fun at the end of the day!

Outside of FPL, I am a freelance web designer based (Citrus Cube Design) in Manchester, UK. (And before someone mentions, this web site is just using a theme. At some point I will design it myself but I just wanted to get something online quickly – before the season starts and now that the game is live).

(I also have another web site/blog where I post stuff now and then about things like movies, food and also some football related stuff. Its called Squaremonitor.com).