{"id":1270484,"date":"2022-08-01T13:46:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T12:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1270484"},"modified":"2022-08-03T17:48:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T16:48:24","slug":"fpl-2022-23-premier-league-fantasy-football-challenges","status":"publish","type":"gaming","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/gaming\/fpl-2022-23-premier-league-fantasy-football-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League fantasy football: The best FPL challenges for the 2022\/23 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re less than one week away from the start of the 2022\/23 Premier League season which means one thing. It’s FPL time!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who doesn’t love adding to the excitement of the Premier League by getting involved in fantasy football? You can get bragging rights over your friends, aim to be the best in your country, the top supporter of your club and, of course, the best in the world.<\/p>\n

There’s a science to picking the right FPL team and some of the best players no doubt choose their squads after hours of research and spreadsheet compilations.<\/p>\n

But some people play FPL for fun, with their own rules. There’s the FPL draft mode which gives you more restrictions but others like to play with rules such as only doing transfers in the actual transfer window, or maybe even picking one team at the start of the draft, and sticking with it.<\/p>\n

It’s those types of challenges we’re looking at in this piece, putting together a variety of unique FPL teams that could give you an interesting ride across the 2022\/23 campaign. All while keeping within the \u00a3100m budget, naturally.<\/p>\n

Set Piece Specialists<\/h2>\n

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We start with a stats-based team, picked on the biggest threats from set-pieces. We’re not just talking about the players who take penalties and free-kicks, we’re also looking at corner takers and defenders who like to score – using xG and xA from set plays in 2021\/22. Remarkably, both of our goalkeeper picks Nick Pope and Jordan Pickford had xASP (set-play expected assists) of 0.03 and 0.02 respectively last season.<\/p>\n

The top scorer for xGSP across the Premier League and Championship (in the case of the newly-promoted clubs) was Aleksandar Mitrovic with 6.15 and for xASP it was unsurprisingly James Ward-Prowse (4). And this team can be achieved without any issues, such as too many players from one club.<\/p>\n

All My Single Ladies<\/h2>\n

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For those who want to pick a team capable of challenging their mates but still want to work with a bit of a restriction, how about a team built exclusively from players who cost less than \u00a310m? For goalkeeper and defence that’s not a problem, but it does mean no Mohamed Salah, Son Heung-min, Kevin De Bruyne, Raheem Sterling, Bruno Fernandes, Cristiano Ronaldo or Erling Haaland. For this team, we’ve mixed budget options with some of our positional picks and a few favourites.<\/p>\n

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