Happy new year! Tom & Sam kick off WGTA 2026, returning after a couple of gameweeks within which Gabriel's return shook the #fantasyfootball template as we passed the halfway point in the season 🤯 This week, we're still in quick turnaround mode - catching up with all of the #fantasyfootball goings on we missed during our week off, picking out key men in Form Vs Fixtures to consider as we get out of the busy festive period, catching up on our one week punts, plus captaincy for the midweek gameweek 21 fixture list. And, one of us has been naughty and moved early - who's the traitor? Find out as we talk through our teams. If you love our show and haven't yet, or you're new and loved what you saw, please like and subscribe to us 🙏🏻 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's the final WGTA of 2025, coming to you on a Saturday night with Tom and Sam in the midst of a hectic #fantasypremierleague - and real life! - schedule 🤯🗓️ This week, we look ahead at the next two quick turnaround weeks and figure out how the template might move, if #fantasyfootball transfer targets coming into good fixtures like Man Utd and Newcastle assets are still worth it, and reiterate our tips on how to survive the rest of 2025 😅 Plus, a double helping of best captaincy and one week punts, as well as our planned machinations in our teams for the next little while 🔧 Happy new year from us! 🎆🎇 We'll be back on SUNDAY 4TH JANUARY. If you enjoyed the show, give us a belated Christmas present and subscribe to our channel and give a 5* review. We'll forgive you for tardiness 🎁🙏🏻 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After an eventful weekend of triple captaincy successes (not ours), an emerging Christmas saviour in Ekitike aka Palindrome and a big injury for Bruno Fernandes, Tom & Sam once more don our Christmas jumpers to try assess the fallout in our penultimate pod of 2025 ☃️ It's teams in red and players who might be in the red zone in focus this week, as we tackle both #fantasyfootball managers' conundrums: how to replace one player and buy another? And what will minutes look like for the teams over the mad period? 🔴 Plus the usual features as we figure out what our own transfers are going to be 🤯 We'll be back next SATURDAY for our final WGTA of 2025 due to holiday availability. See you then! 🎄 In the meantime, give us a Christmas present please #fantasypremierleague managers! 🙏🏻 and leave a 5* review subscribing to our feed 🎁 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sam & Tom are joined by FPL General to preview both #fantasyfootball GW17 and the upcoming late December calendar in our annual festive edition! We discuss the mad schedule in the most wonderful time of year for #fantasyfootball managers, identify the kind of player we'd like Santa Claus to leave us in our stocking, talk player photos on previews, go through the Christmas shopping list in Form Vs Fixtures, talk Haaland driving our sleigh, and finally look at where our teams are for this week. If you're new and enjoyed the show and for whatever reason are reading this, subscribe to the podcast 🫵🏻❣️! We'll be back next MONDAY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Off the back of Bruno Fernandes magicking them a #fantasyfootball green arrow out of what was looking like a disaster, Sam and Tom are buoyed and in high spirits as we get given our 5FTs due to Afcon and wonder how to spend them 🤔 This episode, we take a look through the popular ins and outs in #fantasypremierleague transfers (e.g.g Bruno in, Mateta out) and analyse if they're moves with merit - and if we'll make them ourselves. Plus even more players in form Vs fixtures, a one week punt update and is this finally the week we go against Haaland for ©? If you like what you hear, please subscribe to us and, if you REALLY like what you hear, a 5* review goes a long way! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tom & Sam reconvene midway through a #fantasyfootball gameweek to bring you another quick dip into the world of #fantasypremierleague as yet another deadline approaches. This time, we focus on potential uses for managers’ FT(s) as we encounter a fairly unique “use it or lose it” situation with them as we reach the feted Afcon Free Transfer refresh, putting managers all up to 5FTs simultaneously. Do you take a short term punt, or grab someone for the longer term? Plus best captains, a one week punt update and our team plans for GW15. If you like what you hear, please drop us a subscribe and a 5* review! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After an eventful weekend in #fantasyfootball, involving a triple captaincy mishap and Free Hit seemingly ruling the roost, Sam & Tom are in for a pared down show previewing the midweek set of fixtures. Including a word on the unique situation we're in with transfers, form Vs fixtures, captaincy call and our own dilemmas due to a suspension or two, we'll tell you everything you might need to know as the Tuesday #fantasypremierleague deadline approaches fast! If you enjoyed this, leave a 5-star review, say something nice if you’d like, and do subscribe to our feed – we really appreciate it, and it helps us so much! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After rather successful weeks for once, Tom and Sam look ahead to GW13 with plenty of chips being played by #fantasypremierleague managers. We look at free hits on the table and try to figure out balance vs. aggression, check out wildcards and discuss the merits of TCing the #fantasyfootball robot. Plus lots of short and long term picks in form Vs fixtures, one week punt and what we're doing with our teams. If you enjoyed this, leave a 5-star review, say something nice if you’d like, and do subscribe to our feed – we really appreciate it, and it helps us so much! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's time once more to think about #fantasypremierleague as the final international break of 2025 ends with a few notable players now in doubt for GW12! Sam & Tom look over the news from the break and ask if and how #fantasyfootball managers should react, especially as, ironically, a couple of those flagged in Semenyo and Gabriel form core parts of this year's template. Then form Vs fixture looks at picks for the congested period on the horizon, it's getting closer in the one week punts and could it finally be the week to go against perma-captain Haaland? Plus if our thinking around our sides has changed from last week's initial first thoughts. Like and subscribe to the show 🫵🏻❤️ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sam and Tom are in during the interlull (sorry we're a day late!) for a zoomed out pod diving into how the #fpl template is fitting together this campaign: is it actually as weak as we've been thinking? and might anyone break through? Plus, a look at our initial plans for #fantasypremierleague gameweek 12, with Sam especially scratching his head with 4FT to use If you enjoyed this, leave a 5-star review, say something nice if you’d like, and do subscribe to our feed – we really appreciate it, and it helps us so much! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With the 5 Free Transfers we get in GW16 on the horizon, Sam & Tom ask if it's time for #fantasypremierleague managers to be more aggressive and go shorter term with their picks 🥊 Plus a lot of faces in form Vs fixtures suiting that idea, one week punt updates and a look at best © this week when the Man City Vs Liverpool game may mean we look elsewhere...? 🤖🆚❓ And then in our teams, does Sam deploy his #fantasyfootball bench boost this week and is Tom really buying João Pedro *back? If you enjoyed this, leave a 5-star review, say something nice if you’d like, and do subscribe to our feed – we really appreciate it, and it helps us so much! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Patience Vs Proactivity | #FPL GW10 Tom and Sam discuss the value of holding onto your faltering #fantasypremierleague assets versus acting to remove them this week, as the season reaches double figures. Plus a lot of new assets added to the form Vs fixtures grid, one week punts and the best #fantasyfootball captain this weekend! And the main topic feeds into our teams, with some stick or twist dilemmas we're both trying to grapple with. If you enjoyed this, leave a 5-star review, say something nice if you’d like, and do subscribe to our feed – we really appreciate it, and it helps us so much! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As FPL returned after international break, we’re here to assess the fallout as Haaland rolls on, Mateta bags a hattie (and could’ve had more) but others falter – and Ange is shown the door after just 39 days. First we give a mention of the dawning Dyche era at Forest and its possible fantasy football ramifications, and then it’s on to our main topic this week: has the midfield actually disappointed as some are suggesting, or is it just that Semenyo’s ridiculous performance has distorted our perception? And then in form vs fixtures, a focus on forwards and defenders – in particularly Palace and Chelsea assets, plus Big Nick Woltemade. Plus finally one week punts, a best captain chat and perhaps a quiet week for our teams with Sam having just wildcarded and Tom desperately attempting to keep his knee in check. If you enjoyed this, leave a 5-star review, say something nice if you’d like, and do subscribe to our feed – we really appreciate it, and it helps us so much! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Normal service resumes as FPL returns this weekend! Following our in-depth look at analytics and this season last week with Si Analytic (do go check that out ICYMI!), today Tom & Sam go into the Gameweek 8 preview. We cover any news during a quiet international break and any potential ramifications for managers been. And then it’s onto form vs fixtures, with several picks under the microscope including big Nick Woltemade and those from swing teams Chelsea, West Ham and Leeds, a one week punt update and a cursory nod to any captaincy debate. But really, we’re all just here because Sam’s on his wildcard and we want to see what he’s cooked up, so we spend much more time on that at the end! If you enjoyed this, leave a 5-star review, say something nice if you’d like, and do subscribe to our feed – we really appreciate it, and it helps us so much! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Analytick Boxes | FPL IB 2 with Simon FPL Analytic Continuing our series of international break guest episodes, this time Simon is back to join Sam & Tom to cast his analytical lens over a few areas topping FPL managers’ agendas this season. Covering thoughts some key men’s rise and fall, defcons, the next bloc of 4 games and Sam’s now active wildcard, it’s a nice relaxed international break chat as we enter a weekend without fantasy football. Back again next Tuesday for our GW8 preview. If you enjoyed this, drop the feed a subscribe and the show a like – we really appreciate it, and it helps us so much! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Come join us for some celebration as Sam’s TC goes gangbusters, and some (now customary) schadenfreude as Tom manages to bench a 13 point haul from his man Gabriel. Then stay for a discussion on fixture swings in #fantasypremierleague, as we identify 3 kinds of swing – mini, midi, maxi – and how all of these feed into managerial strategies as we try to achieve success as this game. Plus in form versus fixtures, more unusual names are bothering the data nerds, in one week punt it’s a quiet one all round, and for best captaincy perhaps it’s more clear than it could’ve been on paper. And finally, our teams for the week ahead – is Sam pushing any buttons, or muddling through? And how can Tom screw it up this time? If you enjoyed this, leave a 5-star review and subscribe to our feed – we really appreciate it, and it helps us so much! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tom’s pressed the button after a all-time bad start, and Sam’s probably triple captaining Haaland. So it’s an interesting week for us on the pod, with our #fantasyfootball futures in the balance as we play around with our chips and – especially in one of our cases – try to start again. We look through all the options for chips, and explain why we’re taking the paths we’ve chosen: will it work for you? Check out the show and see. Plus a real mix of unusual characters in form vs fixtures, reflecting the unorthodox assets thrown up by the start of the season, our one week punt picks for gameweek 6 and also a (non?) discussion on captaincy. And Tom’s wildcard team revealed. If you enjoyed this, leave a 5-star review and subscribe to our feed – we really appreciate it, and it helps us so much! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join Tom & Sam to discuss if the tectonic plates of #fantasypremierleague have shifted. Is Haaland the new king? Do we fade Mo? Are Villa and Forest now villains? And is DefCon fuelled big at the back sustainable? Plus many players under the microscope in form Vs fixtures, one week punt update and perhaps a shorter captaincy calls chat this round. Whether you’re new to us or returning this year, please leave a 5-star review and subscribe to our feed! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As a return to Premier League action gallops into view, Sam’s back on the pod to assist Tom in this week’s preview of Gameweek 4. And it’s an interesting one, with transfer window deals potentially shaking things up, injuries and managerial changes around the place, and, for some fantasy football managers, buttons being pressed when it comes to Wildcards and Free Hits. We’ll discuss all of that, as well as running through a few key players in form vs fixtures catching the eye, provide a one week punt update and discuss best captains before revealing our setups for this week – have either of us pressed a button? Whether you’re new to us or returning this year, please leave a 5-star review and subscribe to our feed! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We’re in for a Sunday night edition this week and this time – as we’re in international break, Sam’s on holiday and Tom’s about to go too – Tom take the opportunity to catch up with the very first WGTA cohost, Nick! We haven’t got much of an agenda in this fireside chat which mostly covers discussion on how FPL has evolved in the 9+ years since we founded WGTA, how our games have changed (especially with the advent of algorithmic, analytical FPL) and observations about how the game may continue to grow. Plus a bit of chatter about how we’re doing this season. Normal service is resumed Tuesday 9th. Whether you’re new to us or returning this year, please leave a 5-star review and subscribe to our feed! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices