Fantasy Premier League 2025/26 Season Preview
Hey friends,
After disappearing for three years, I am back!
For my subscribers who are out of the loop, Fantasy Premier League is a game where you create your own team of real life English Premier League players who score points based on their performances in actual soccer matches. Simply put, strikers score points when they score goals, and defenders earn points when they keep a clean sheet (concede no goals).
Our Badminton (Baddy) League in coming into its third season and it’s time to double our audience from four to eight. Oh yeah, we’re in the big leagues now.
Here’s an official recap of the Baddy League:
2023/24: Keven’s XOXO from Mitoma sets the tone in our debut season.
2024/25: Sandra’s SZ storms home in the second season, the first with an actual prize!
Without further ado, let’s introduce our competitors for the 2025/26 season.
The Winning Manager: Sandra’s SZ
Sandra vaulted herself into Baddy League folklore winning the first season (2024/25) with a prize on the line.
A well esteemed prize for a well esteemed FPL manager, and you can be sure the rest of the league will be chasing this high more than before. We’ve collectively decided that this season’s prize will be a mystery of my choosing, so look forward to that over the coming year!
Sandra departed her position as manager in real life during the 2024/25 season. Some may say she did so to focus her attention on becoming a full time FPL manager.
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Take my Energy ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ : Derek’s Cole Fired Power
Let’s rank Cole/Coal Fired Power compared to Solar Power and Wind Power…
Availability
1. Coal – Cole Palmer started 36 out of 38 matches last season.
2. Solar – Premier league matches typically start at 11pm AEST when the sun is down.
3. Wind – Gets generated when Cole Palmer blows you away with a 92.3% penalty conversion rate, or in other words, only exists through coal.
Electricity Generation
1. Coal at 128k gigawatt-hours (GWh)
2. Solar at 42k GWh
3. Wind at 31k GWh
Just look at the energy Cole Palmer is generating for us in Australia, he’s so electric!
Source: https://www.energy.gov.au/publications/australian-energy-update-2024
Sun Sets on Son: Brian’s The Liabilities
No more solar power at Spurs, and no more solar power in Brian’s camp. Fortunately for him, coal power is a viable alternative.
It won’t be the same without the Korean mascot on Brian’s team, but maybe it’s for the best?
Sun Sets on Richarlison: Keven’s The Assets
Many thanks to Brian for inspiring my team name this year. A simple equation: my assets minus his liabilities will result in the remaining equity. Just a pre-emptive warning, I’m most definitely going to overuse this joke over the course of the season. Sorry, not sorry.
Richarlison is still at Spurs, but I’m making the hard decision to close that chapter of my life and pick up some higher performing assets. Can’t let liabilities be greater than assets, can we?
United as Man: Duy’s Duzor
I couldn’t confirm it in the archives, but it feels like Duy starts every season with triple Man United, and it looks like it’ll be a promising season for him to do so again.
A loyalist to his club, but with Man United’s tough fixtures to start the season (Arsenal, Man City and Chelsea in the first five games), how many Man United players can he possibly dare to go?
New Season New Man: Vu’s Laser
This season we’re introducing a sixth to the league, and It’s going to be a complete wildcard as to how Vu will perform. I’m sure he’ll (laser) tag in quite nicely.
New season, new Manchester United. Someone to accompany Duy in their success to the top.
Keep well and stay swell~
Keven